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Eritrea's top diplomat in Ethiopia for historic talks
Ethiopia rolled out the red carpet and hosted a dinner for Eritrea's top diplomat on Tuesday as the two nations took the next step in a historic initiative aimed at ending decades of conflict and hostility. The thaw between the foes who fought a bitter border war 20 years ago comes after an olive branch was dramatically offered by new Ethiopian prime minister, Abiy Ahmed. Eritrea's top diplomat Osman Saleh and presidential adviser Yemane Gebreab exchanged smiles and conversation with Abiy at a dinner in Addis Ababa's National Palace before the prime minister gave a speech lauding the economic benefits rapprochement would bring to the Horn of Africa. "Like you, we have the same feeling in (the Eritrean capital) Asmara," Yemane replied, to applause from a crowd of political elites. The Eritreans had arrived earlier in the day at the capital's airport, where Abiy greeted them and led them past a brass band and along a red carpet lined with culture and sports personalities, among them legendary long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie. Abiy then held talks with the Eritrean delegation, his chief of staff Fitsum Arega said in a tweet. The meeting comes just three days after a blast at a rally attended by Abiy -- a sign, analysts say, of the risks the 42-year-old prime minister has taken with a programme that embraces the biggest reforms, at home and abroad, in a generation. Earlier this month, Abiy said he would abide by a 2002 ruling, issued by a United Nations-backed commission, and withdraw from contested territory, including Badme, a town claimed by both sides. Last week, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki responded, saying he would dispatch a delegation "to gauge current developments directly and in depth as well as to chart out a plan for continuous future action." He stopped short of calling it a peace delegation but an official visit alone marks a dramatic shift in relations long mired in suspicion and bloody hostility. The last time Ethiopian and Eritrean troops fought head-on was two years ago, with each side claiming victory in response to what they said was the other's aggression. - Deadly war, risky peace - A former province, Eritrea voted for separation from its much larger neighbour in 1993 following a three-decade independence war. But just five years later, a new border war erupted between the two countries, killing around 80,000 people before it ended in stalemate in 2000. Ethiopia ignored the subsequent ruling that it should withdraw from territory awarded to Eritrea. Since then, a tense standoff has persisted with both maintaining a war footing, shots occasionally fired and with each side backing the other's rebels. The apparent detente in recent weeks has raised hopes of a normalisation of relations that might boost regional trade and ease tensions. Their long cold war has stymied economic development, frozen political relations and helped justify domestic repression. - Change in the mood - But on Tuesday, signs of an abrupt mood change were evident, with Eritrean and Ethiopian flags lining the main road to the airport alongside banners reading "Welcome" in Amharic and Tigrinya, the languages of the two countries. "The relationship between Ethiopia and Eritrea is about more than the border. When we make peace, it will benefit all of east Africa," Ethiopia's foreign affairs spokesman Meles Alem told journalists after the Eritrean officials arrived. For both Abiy and Isaias, the potential reconciliation contains risks. A grenade exploded at a rally addressed by Abiy on Saturday, a rare event in tightly-controlled Ethiopia. The motive for the attack remains unknown but the pace of Abiy's reforms -- including the border concession to Eritrea -- is a likely source of anger among some hardliners in the ruling class and security services, say observers. "The key thing to watch out for is Abiy's ability to rise over the inevitable disappointment or sense of betrayal ... over the Eritrea decision," Christopher Clapham of Britain's Cambridge University said earlier this month, after Abiy's surprise overture. For his part, Isaias has long justified his restrictive rule, punishing military conscription and the jailing of dissidents as necessary to defend Eritrea against Ethiopian aggression. His authoritarian leadership has left his country diplomatically isolated and burdened by sanctions, triggering an exodus of Eritreans, many of them taking the dangerous route to Europe. However, his own position is largely unchallenged.


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Miria and Integritie sign strategic partnership delivering Cloud based Accounts Payable Service
Published August 2014
Comprehensive Accounts Payable solution available in the cloud
Miria Systems, a provider of industry-leading Accounts Payable cloud products has signed a strategic partnership and co-marketing agreement with Integritie. The partnership enables Miria and Integritie to jointly sell Miria's leading Accounts Payable and Financial applications. In turn, Miria will deliver Active Pay applications from the Integritie KC Online Content Management cloud directly to their clients utilizing Integritie's global KC Online cloud infrastructure.
In January, Miria announced the availability of the Miria Active Finance application suites in the cloud. The partnership with Integritie enables Miria to leverage the extensive global infrastructure of the Integritie KC Online cloud to speed customer deployment and to ultimately reduce the customer's cost.
Marty Michael, Miria CEO, said, "One year ago, it would have taken 12 to 16 weeks to deploy our Accounts Payable applications in a customer's on premise environment. By leveraging the Integritie KC Online cloud platform, we can now reduce deployment times to around 4 weeks."
Michael went on to elaborate that the reduced time line reduces the customer's integration costs by up to 75%, enabling the greatest ROI benefits. Many of Miria's customers are in the retail, restaurant and retail banking industries. They often have regional locations ranging between 500 and 5,000 stores. Miria's Active Pay software automates the business processing between the corporate locations and the remote offices to provide streamlined processing of invoices, expenses and other financial documents. Miria's solutions enable companies to remove paper from the process, eliminating expensive data entry and ensuring that the information is managed and available for reporting and compliance.
Michael Veenswyk, CEO of Integritie, added, "We are extremely excited about being able to provide the comprehensive Accounts Payable applications to our customers around the world. Miria's applications enable Integritie to target customers who are looking for complete financial business applications that can be deployed and integrated quickly."
Both Miria and Integritie are IBM Partners who have developed IBM FileNet Cloud Content Technologies to serve their customers.
About Miria
Miria empowers operationally dispersed but centrally managed companies to work smarter for less cost, delivering powerful tools to automate the management of traditionally paper-driven accounting, finance, and HR business processes. Through its highly configurable software platform, ActiveOps, the company is able to deploy robust applications for the intelligent capture and management of unstructured content with unprecedented speed – enabling unmatched time to value, accelerated ROI, and rapid scalability to support continued growth.
About Integritie
Integritie is a content management solutions provider of both Cloud and OnPremise solutions, focused in the areas of Image, eMail and Social Media capture and content management information life cycle control and compliance. Integritie differentiates in the areas of:
Image and Social Media Content Management Cloud and OnPremise Service
Image, eMail and Social Media capture and automated index information extraction
Content Management 'pre-built business applications', including Accounts Payable, Human Resources, Complaints
Merger and consolidation of business information into a single secure shared service
Image capture shared services and digital mail rooms
Integritie solutions include information and image capture, data migration, document management, records management, e-Mail compliance and archive, and storage solutions. Integritie provide end to end solutions that Improves customer service, Provides risk mitigation management, Reduces business costs, and Provides data compliance, legal and audit readiness.
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We can choose change. Even after we make a bad choice, we don't have to live with it forever. Recently, God taught me a very valuable lesson about choices and consequences using two very different kinds of face cream.
Bad Choices Are Often Made in Haste
It all started when I decided that I needed some moisturizer. I was at a discount store, and as I scanned the shelves and all the tons and tons of choices, it wasn't long before my eye stopped on the small pink bottle. It was the kind my grandmother always used when I was growing up. I still remember her making the joke that it was "Oil of Old Lady." The price was fairly cheap, and I was in a hurry, so, I grabbed it and went.
The next morning when I was getting ready for work, I put a little dollop in my hands. As I proceeded to rub it on my face, I just could not believe how bad it smelled. I grimaced as I finished rubbing it in. I hoped the smell would go away fast so I could breathe the rest of the day. Thankfully it did, so the next day, I used it again.
The smell was just as bad or worse the next day. But, I had paid good money for it, and it would be a waste to throw it away. After four or five days of using it, I noticed that my face was broken out in pimples in several areas, and I was honestly starting to dread putting it on. But, I had made my choice, so I was going to have to live with it. For over a week, I kept using that terrible face cream. Finally, one day it occurred to me that God is a very good provider. I'm not rich by any means, but I was not so broke that I couldn't afford another bottle of lotion if I needed it. I pitched it, hard, into the trash and went to work.
But We Can Choose Change
Later when I went to the store, I pulled out my phone and looked up the brands with the best reviews. Narrowing it down to a few, I lifted lids and checked out scents before I decided on a bottle of oil-free Neutrogena. It was about five dollars more than my first purchase. The next day when I put on my new lotion and smelled that deliciously clean smell, I felt so very thankful to God – not just for the fresh new scent, but because I didn't have to endure the old one anymore.
For about three days, it was seriously a spiritual thing as I felt a giant rush and overflow of love for God each time I used that new lotion. My skin felt great, and the pimples were clearing up, but it was actually a little bewildering how strongly grateful I felt for such a little thing as face cream. On the fourth day as I was getting ready for church, I put on that moisturizer again. Again, I felt that spiritual rush of love and gratitude to God, and it hit me why I had such a strong reaction. He was teaching me a lesson.
See, in life we often make bad choices. Sometimes we pick things because that's the way it has always been done in our families. Sometimes we choose because things are cheaper or easier or because they seem like they will solve our problems. And when we make those choices, even the ones that hurt us, even the ones that are uncomfortable, we think to ourselves that we made our beds, so now we have to lie in them.
The Lesson For Us All
But God was showing me that just because we made one bad choice doesn't mean we have to keep choosing it forever. He makes a way for us in Him so that we can get out of any bad situation. With His help, we can choose change. Maybe it will cost us some money. Maybe it will cost us time and effort to research our options, but whatever the cost, it will be better than continuing to live with the consequences of our bad choices when God enables us to live a better way.
Psalm 145:18 tells us that "The Lord is near to all who call upon Him, to all who call upon Him in truth." God cares about even the little things and wants to help us live the lives He has called us to live. We all make bad choices sometimes, but we don't have to keep choosing them. God is with us in every situation. With His help, we can feel better and be happier when we make the choice to choose change.
If you like analogies, try It's Not the Machine That Makes Us Clean. In it, we see how Christians are only saved by being exposed to the Water. Or, try The Waves of God's Judgement and the Child of God. The closer we are to God, the more protected we will be in times of trouble. Please sign up to receive my blog in your email inbox. You can find that at the upper right of your screen (or at the bottom on a phone). Also, check out my YouTube Channel where I read the blogs out loud.


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Layoff notices have been handed out to hundreds of workers at the General Motors transmission-making factory in St. Catharines, Ont., as effects spread from a strike that started Sunday at GM's CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont.
At least 255 of the 350 union workers at the St. Catharines plant will be laid off starting Monday, said Unifor 199 chairman Tim McKinnon.
"We supply about 90 per cent of (CAMI's) transmissions, so it's related to that," he said.
"Even though they were down, we ran all week ... We have a lot of transmissions stockpiled now because we didn't know if they were going to resolve it this week or not. It doesn't look like they're going to."
He said even if the strike at the plant that makes Chevrolet Equinox vehicles is resolved over the weekend, the St. Catharines workers will be out for at least a week. He added his union supports the CAMI workers' strike despite the layoffs.
GM Canada, meanwhile, said in an update posted Thursday on its website that it has made "production adjustments" at St. Catharines and at two American engine plants in Spring Hill, Tenn., and Flint, Mich., as a result of the strike.
A spokeswoman said in an email no further details would be available.
On Wednesday, parts maker Magna International (TSX:MG) announced it would stop supplying parts to the CAMI plant, a decision it said would affect output at a few of its facilities in Ontario, without being specific.
Unifor Local 88, the union representing the 2,500 striking workers at CAMI, said Thursday it has invited management to get talks rolling again in hopes of reaching a settlement.
But local president Dan Borthwick said its demand that the plant be designated the lead producer of the Equinox to ensure production and jobs aren't shifted to Mexico hasn't changed.
"We're just trying to be responsible and see if there's any way we can bring a quick resolution to the work stoppage and minimize the effects on our members and the suppliers and the surrounding community," he said.
"With that said, the company has to understand our goals, the lead producer letter, our economics and our contract language are still outstanding issues that need to be resolved."
When asked if GM would meet with the union, the spokeswoman sent a copy of GM's statement posted last Sunday which expressed disappointment that talks had broken down and encouraged Unifor to resume negotiations. She wouldn't say if any meetings have been scheduled with the union.
Job security has become more of an issue for the union since GM shifted production of its Terrain SUV from the CAMI plant to Mexico earlier this year at a loss of more than 400 jobs.
Dan Healing, The Canadian Press


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St Genesius of Rome
Actor and Martyr
According to an ancient Roman tradition, St Genesius was an actor of some renown who was martyred for the Christian faith. A seventh century document claiming to be the Acts of his martyrdom, relates that Genesius lived in Rome at the turn of the 3rd/4th centuries, and died in the persecution of the Emperor Diocletian around the year 303 AD. Diocletians persecution was the most severe in the Roman period and claimed the lives of many Christians men, women and children; while many of these are now honoured as saints, most remain unknown.
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The Conversion of St Genesius
According to the Acts, Genesius was a gifted actor, comedian and playwright and the leader of a troupe of actors. Despite his talents, his position within Roman society would not have been distinguished. Acting at that time was not considered to be a very respectable occupation and it is most likely that he was not a Roman citizen, even if he had been born in the city: at that time actors were classed as slaves or labourers at best. Theatre in this period had declined and those who worked in the profession would rarely have performed the great dramas of the Greek and Roman playwrights. Mimes and pantomimes were the fare at the theatre and these tended to be boisterous and at times risqué in the extreme.
When Diocletian initiated his great persecution, Genesius, who was a pagan, hatched a grand scheme to construct a play parodying the Christian faith. Diocletian was due in Rome in the summer of 303 to celebrate his twenty years as emperor (it would be his only visit to the city during his reign he hated the politicking and squalor of Rome) and various civic and cultural events were being organised for the visit. Given the emperors hatred of Christians, a farce mocking Christianity performed during the jubilee celebrations would not only amuse the emperor, but might also win Genesius favour at the Imperial court and could prove quite lucrative. Genesius was an ambitious man and perhaps he had his sights set on a position in the Imperial palace in Nicomedia. But first of all he had to do his research.
Approaching members of the Christian community Genesius managed to persuade them that he wanted to convert. It is a credit to his acting skills that he managed to convince the Christian leaders who at this time would have been very wary of infiltration by spies. Genesius was accepted, enrolled as a catechumen, and he began the period of instruction which would eventually lead to baptism. Given that Christians were now living in fear of their lives, Genesius scheme was risky if caught in a raid his plan could cost him his life. He was particularly interested in baptism the concept of water washing away sinfulness and the old way of life fascinated the Romans whose love of water and bathing led them to be open to its spiritual significance. Discussing the sacrament at great length with his teachers, Genesius decided that this would form the theme of his comedy. When he had done enough research he abandoned the catechumenate. Gathering his troupe of actors he explained the scenario of his farce, and together they composed the comedy: Roman mimes and pantomimes were mostly improvised. The Acts tell us that as he was directing the troupe what he had learned from the Christians was occupying his mind and he found himself struggling to resist believing in Christ.
As he had hoped the emperor was present at the performance and Genesius himself led his troupe of actors in the farce: he was playing the role of a sick man confined to bed who was crying out for baptism. As the play grew more outrageous to the delight of the emperor, an actor playing a priest came on stage to baptize the ailing catechumen. As the actor poured the water over his head, Genesius was suddenly struck by the grace of God: he saw the truth of Christianity and began to profess his faith in Jesus Christ. It soon became clear to the emperor and the audience that he was no longer acting.
According to the Acts, Genesius addressed the emperor himself and called on him to embrace Christianity:
I came here today to please an earthly Emperor but what I have done is to please a heavenly King. I came here to give you laughter, but what I have done is to give joy to God and his angels. From this moment on, believe me, I will never mock these great mysteries again. I now know that the Lord Jesus Christ is the true God, the Light, the Truth and the Mercy of all who have received his gift of baptism. O great Emperor, believe in these mysteries! I will teach you, and you will know the Lord Jesus Christ is the true God.
The performance was stopped and Genesius and his troupe were arrested. While his colleagues were released having convinced the emperor they had nothing to do with Christianity, possibly offering sacrifices to the gods to convince the paranoid emperor, Genesius continued to profess the Christian faith. When persuasion failed, he was handed over to the prefect of the praetorium, Plautian, who tortured him in an effort to make him recant and offer sacrifice to the Roman gods. This torture was horrific: he was beaten with rods, racked, lacerated with iron hooks and burned with torches his insult to the emperor required a definitive recantation, yet Genesius remained steadfast. After much suffering he was finally condemned to death and was beheaded. According to the Acts, his last words are believed to have been:
Our Lord Jesus Christ is God and we shall have life in his name
. While Genesius mock baptism was not valid since the intention of his fellow actor was not to baptise, through his martyrdom he is considered to have been baptized by blood.
Hearing of his death, the Christians realised that Genesius had been converted and put to death for the faith. They managed to secure his body and buried him in the Cemetery of St Hippolytus on the Via Tiburtina with other Christian martyrs. When the persecution ended and following the Christianisation of Rome, his remains were exhumed and later solemnly enshrined in the Church of San Giovanni della Pigna near the Pantheon in Rome. Pope Gregory III honoured him in 741 by beautifying his tomb and the Church. In 1591 his relics were transferred to a tomb in the Church of Santa Susanna where they lie to this day. Since early times Genesius has been considered the patron saint of actors, actresses, comedians and those who work in the theatrical arts; with the advent of cinema, he is also regarded as its patron. He has also been adopted as a patron of epilepsy. His feast day is celebrated on the 25th August.
Given that little is known of the life of St Genesius, in recent years some historians have cast doubt over his very existence, as they have with St Christopher, St Catherine of Alexandria and St Philomena. It has been suggested that he is a Roman version of St Genesius of Arles (Southern France), a notary who also died in the persecution of Diocletian. This St Genesius (or St Genès) was a catechumen who worked for the Roman governor. When asked to record the decrees of Emperors Maximian and Diocletian initiating the persecution of Christians in Gaul (France) he refused. He fled and went into hiding but was later captured and put to death on the banks of the Rhône river. While both martyrs bear the same name and died during the same persecution, one cannot immediately assume that they are the same person.
There is, however, evidence of devotion to St Genesius the actor-martyr in Rome from as early as the fourth century just decades after his death and in the lifetime of people who would have either known him or known of him. Both the existence of his tomb and a tradition of his burial in Rome also seem to argue in favour of the authenticity of the tradition. While the Acts of his martyrdom were written quite late, this is not unique: the acts of many martyrs were also written quite late. St Genesius Acts are also notable for their simplicity, devoid of many of the miraculous events which fanciful writers tended to embellish the Acts of many martyrs: this simplicity is also an indication of veracity. The renowned historian, Louis-Sébastien Tillemont, known for his accuracy, detail and conscientiousness, accepted the authenticity of the Acts in his work
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IV s. v. Genesius).
While devotion to Genesius has not been very strong for some time, in recent years it has been growing again. Numerous theatrical groups recognise him as their patron and some even bear his name not all of them Catholic. Recent publications on the saints now feature the story of his life, accepting the veracity of the tradition and the Acts.
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Regulated Power Supply 12 Volt 1.25 AmpPWR12
Clean Power is EssentialGood clean power essential for the operation of the board. For the switching of the relays and more importantly powering the firmware that processes the commands. Without it, the board can become unreliable.
Regulated Power Supply 12 Volt 1.25 AmpPWR12
PWR12 at a Glance
- WS New Switch-Mode Topology
- 25% More Efficient
- 50% Smaller
- 70% Lighter
- 120VAC to 12VDC 1.25A 60Hz
- Plugs into the Barrel Connector on the Board
- 2.1mm I.D. x 5.5mm O.D. x 9.5mm R/A Barrel Connector
- Input Voltage rating: 100-240VAC, 50-60Hz
- Input Voltage range: 90-264VAC
- Input current: <0.5A(RMS) @ 115VAC
- Max Inrush Current: <80A peak @ 115VAC (Cold start)
- Output Cord: 22 AWG, 6 Ft. Long Nom
- Average Efficiency: ≥85.00%
  - Meets Minimum Level VI Efficiency
PWR12 Power SupplyApplying Good clean power to the board in essential for the operation of the board. Not only for the switching of the relays but the firmware that processes the commands. Without good steady clean power from a regulated power supply the board simply will not function correctly. More that one troubleshooting question has turned out to be from someone who says they are using a power supply that they had "just laying around" and it was not sufficient enough to provide the power needed to operate the board. We also carry an international power supply with interchangeable adapters for international customers.
Triad Quality & ReliabilityThe WSs surface mount construction with automated assembly delivers higher quality and reliability. The result is a dependable power supply offering longer life at a lower cost of ownership. The WS series also offers class B EMI certification with excellent power isolation, filtering out noise and providing common mode signal rejection.
Power RequirementsAll boards on the site require 12 VDC power. The PWR12 US power supply is a 120VAC to 12VDC 1.25A 60Hz regulated power supply and it plugs into the barrel connector on the board. The output connector is a 2.1mm I.D. x 5.5mm O.D. x 9.5mm R/A barrel connector.
RoHS CompliantThis power supply is led free and RoHS Compliant. If your requirements are for RoHS compliant parts this power supply is manufactured with RoHS compliant led free parts and solder.
Sharing Power Supplies w/Inductive LoadsThis power supply should not be shared with the board and inductive loads. For instance, you should never use a single power supply to power a board and a 12V DC Motor. Doing so will introduce extremely high-voltage spikes that will damage the logic and power regulation portions of the board, in many cases it will not be repairable and void the warranty. Induction spikes that do not damage the board can interfere with the logic on the board so the firmware cannot process the commands requiring power cycling the board to restore functions.
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- Warranty: 5 Years
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In yet another expansion of its news operation, WGN-Channel 9 is about to add an hour of news at 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.
Robert Jordan and Jackie Bange, who've been co-anchors of the 9 p.m. weekend newscasts on the Tribune Broadcasting station since 1995, will front the new 5 p.m. newscasts, starting July 12. Also featured will be Jim Ramsey on weather and Rich King on sports.
"Over the past year we've seen more and more major newsworthy events happening on weekends from serious weather to major construction projects," interim news director Jennifer Lyons told staffers in a memo Monday. "It will be a good thing to be in the Saturday and Sunday afternoon time slot."
The move comes just five weeks after WGN announced plans to add an hour news to its Monday-through-Friday schedule at 4 p.m., starting this fall. Combined with the new weekend hours, the station will be producing a total of 61 hours of local news each week.
A WGN spokeswoman said the new weekend newscast will replace repeats of such local programming as "Living Healthy" and "Chicago's Best" on Saturdays, and movies on Sundays ("which we will work around"). The newscast occasionally will be peempted by live sporting events, she added.


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Director: Joe Murphy Stars: John Boyega Age: 16+ 15th May -24 June
Previews from Saturday 13 May 2017- The multi-award winning Jack Thorne breathes new life into Woyzeck, one of the most extraordinary plays ever written.
It's 1980s Berlin. The Cold War rages and the world sits at a crossroads between Capitalism and Communism. On the border between East and West, a young soldier and the love of his life are desperately trying to build a better future for their child.
But the cost of escaping poverty is high, and its tragic consequences unfold in this searing tale of the people society leaves behind. Book: http://www.oldvictheatre.com/whats-on/2017/woyzeck/
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Image credit: John Boyega in Woyzeck at The Old Vic. Photo by AKSE P19 Pentagram


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Gaudi's latest CD, Magnetic, arrived in the mail this week and I've been thoroughly enjoying it. Another album of his, Dub Qawwali, has been recommended to me so I'm streaming it now.
The first CD from the duo of Eraldo Bernocchi and Netherworld, Himuro, also arrived this week. You can stream it online before purchasing, which I recommend you do if you're a fan of ambient music.
And I'm still waiting for the arrival of David Kollar's latest, Notes from the Underground. A second track has been released for you to preview, Thirst of Life.
Finally, here's a teaser video for Marco Minneman's new album, Borrego.
For Steve Hackett and Genesis fans who can get to Australia, the former will be performing a special show on 06 August in Melbourne featuring songs from the classic Genesis album Wind and Wuthering. (Having written that, I may have to put that CD into the player tomorrow.)
|Juno. source (including hi-res image)
The Greatest Sales Deck I've Ever Seen (who still calls a presentation a "slide deck?") is actually not bad. It's a good framework for your story.
Five ways to educate your customers through content. #4 Teach them a practical skill.
|The periodic table of SEO success factors.
A brief article about Mark Bradford at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. And if you're in Denver before 16 July, I highly recommend a visit to the Denver Art Museum to see Shade: Clyfford Still/Mark Bradford.
|Where the Russians will nuke us? This map and article are a bit simplistic IMO. And they ignore the really fund part - fallout.
Lot's of data on marketing here with the concluding statement "The future of marketing is having more science in our art and more art in our science."
You can book a flight with ZERO-G to experience weightlessness (as in NASA's "Vomit Comet").
A video about how to speak so people want to listen. (Yes, it's a TED Talk but don't pre-judge.)
|The Walt Disney Family Museum is currently exhibiting Awakening Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle.
A Fifth Element remix.
Neill Blomkamp is posting videos from his Oats Studios of works in progress including a film called Rakka.
And a "making of" video about Blade Runner 2049.
Flags of Valor is a veteran-owned and operated company that makes nice looking U.S. flags crafted from wood.
Sleep with someone who snores? Maybe you should consider Nora, a device that listens for snoring and when detected it gently moves the snorer's pillow so they stop.
Remember when putt-putt golf was competitive and televised? Vimeo does and they've got the videos to prove it.
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More science in art - or in this case, cellular automata in architecture.
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This article originally appeared in issue 399 of Rugby League World magazine. Issue 400 is currently in production and will be on sale from July 11. Click here to find out more about the magazine and to browse back issues click this link…
Back at the start of 2013, Elliott Whitehead looked well set for a long career at his hometown club Bradford.
Having signed a new five-year contract with the Bulls less than a year previously, it seemed like the highly-rated Whitehead, who had made his debut in 2009, would be a mainstay in the Bulls line up for many years to come. The Bulls were attempting to bounce back from financial uncertainty, while Whitehead looked to build on his England Knights call-ups in 2011 and 2012.
"Quite honestly, 18 months ago I thought I'd be at Bradford for the rest of my life. But things change. I made the decision I did for my career and I feel like I have made the right choice."
Fast forward 18 months and things couldn't be much different for the 25-year-old second rower. He left Bradford under a cloud last June after handing in a shock transfer request, and was immediately placed on indefinite leave by Bulls coach Francis Cummins. He never pulled on the red, amber and black jersey again and opted for a move to Catalans Dragons, making his debut against London Broncos five weeks after playing his final game for the Bulls.
Salford were also interested in Whitehead's services and had even agreed a substantial transfer fee for him. But he decided a move away from the North of England would be best for him both on a professional and personal level.
The rest, as they say, is history.
"It has been quite a year," Whitehead told Rugby League World.
"Quite honestly, 18 months ago I thought I'd be at Bradford for the rest of my life. But things change. I made the decision I did for my career and I feel like I have made the right choice.
"I have experienced a lot since I've been in France and I have learnt a lot over the last 12 months. I feel I have improved as a player and hopefully that can continue.
"I have really benefitted this year from having a pre-season with the Dragons because it was pretty tough when I first joined. When I wasn't training with Bradford I was doing my own fitness work and kept myself in reasonable shape, but when I got over here and came on as a sub in my first game against London, it was about 35 degrees and I thought 'what have I signed myself up to here?'
"I hadn't played for about a month and it was red hot so I was out of breath and thinking it was going to be a long six months until the end of the season. But I soon got used to the conditions so there are definitely no regrets about the move.
"Perhaps at the time of leaving Bradford some things got said that shouldn't have been, but I have moved on from that now and I am happy here. I don't dwell on anything that has happened in the past and I know I made the right choice."
Now, almost 1,000 miles away from his West Yorkshire roots, Whitehead is settling into life in the Mediterranean and his game certainly appears to be benefitting. Aside from an ankle injury that put him out of action for two games, Whitehead has been in outstanding form, almost acting as an extra outside back and threatening the line whenever he had the ball in hand.
Out of the comfort zone
He has been playing some of the best rugby of his career and he was quick to put that down to his teammates and the change of environment he now finds himself in.
"I can see in myself that I have improved a lot since I moved here," Whitehead said.
"At start of year, as a club, we weren't playing that well but over the last few months we have started improving as a unit and that has made it easier for me to do my job, as we were going forward a lot easier which has been really beneficial to my own form.
"In my last two years at Bradford I felt like I was one of the older players there even though I was only in my early 20s. There wasn't really anyone else in my position that I could really look up to and learn from and I also had even younger guys like John Bateman looking up to me. I was having to try and pass on what I knew while still wanting to and having to learn myself, so it was a very strange situation.
"Before moving out here I had never lived on my own and it has made me realise how hard it must have been for my mum to look after me for all those years. I have had to learn how to use the washing machine and cook for myself but it has been good. My mum came out to see me recently and I think she was impressed with what she saw."
"I was always wanting to play well and train hard but with no one to look up to it felt, at times, that I just wasn't learning anything. But I have come to Catalans and have got some experienced second rowers ahead of me. I have been able to learn a lot from people like Louis Anderson and Zeb Taia as well as Kevin Larroyer and Steve Menzies, who were here last year. They are all experienced players and taking things from all of them has really improved my game.
"Having been at Bradford for so long I'd got into my comfort zone a little bit but by coming here I knew I would be the new guy who would have to prove myself to everyone all over again. I knew I couldn't expect to go straight into the side and I worked hard for a regular spot in the team.
"I had to prove myself then and I knew I had to do the same coming back from this injury if I wanted to be back in side."
No injury is ideal for a player, but Whitehead's ankle injury couldn't have come at a worst time – at the home of his former employer during the Dragons' 33-20 Challenge Cup fifth round defeat at the Bulls.
It was initially feared that he has sustained a fracture but, after being taken to hospital when he left the field, x-rays showed it was minor ligament damage, meaning his time on the sidelines would be minimal.
"I have played back at Bradford a few times now and I never get a good reception there," Whitehead explained.
"But I always knew I wouldn't when I left so I just get on with it. I play for Catalans now so have to go there and do a job for them.
"But as soon as I injured my ankle against Bradford I was just thinking, 'Not here, please not here'. I got off and tried to run it off because I really didn't want to get injured there of all places, but I couldn't so I had to come off and go off to hospital.
"We have good physios out here and I was working hard with them twice a day after the injury and they looked after me well and got me back on the field."
French lessons
After finally representing England Knights against Samoa in 2013, Whitehead now harbours hopes of going one step further and breaking into the full senior squad and showing what he can do on a world stage.
So having returned to the Dragons team to face London Broncos in the opening Magic Weekend fixture, he is now fully focused on returning to his best form and giving England coach Steve McNamara a reason to take him down under this Autumn. And he quickly did that, bagging himself two tries in the Manchester fixture.
"I am targeting England. Every player wants to represent their country but that is something that won't be happening until the end of the season so for now I need to focus on getting back to full fitness and to where I was form wise.
"I will go out there and do my job now and if Steve thinks it's good enough then I may get selected. If not I'll keep pushing on and trying my hardest to make it next time."
While loving life in the South of France, it has not all been plain sailing for Whitehead, as he has had to get used to a new found independence as well dealing with the language barrier. One of these changes has been easier to deal with than the other.
"Life is great down here, it's nice weather most of the time and I haven't seen snow this year which makes a change from England," Whitehead said.
"Before moving out here I had never lived on my own and it has made me realise how hard it must have been for my mum to look after me for all those years. I have had to learn how to use the washing machine and cook for myself but it has been good. My mum came out to see me recently and I think she was impressed with what she saw.
"Of course I miss going out and having some drinks with my friends back home in Bradford. We do go out as a team over here which is always good, but it's not something I am doing every weekend now like I used to.
"Those changes and having more responsibility at home have meant I have matured a lot as a person and that is showing on the field as well.
"The language barrier is something I am getting used to now. I think I only knew 'bonjour' before moving out here but I am learning as I go along
"It's not too bad at training because most of the lads speak some English and I can now speak a little bit of French but every day lifestyle things like going to the shops are still a bit of a struggle sometimes. I've got quite good at charades now when trying to asking for what I want!
"I am getting there though and give it another six months and I'll be a lot better with the French language."
"I have experienced a lot since I've been in France and I have learnt a lot over the last 12 months. I feel I have improved as a player and hopefully that can continue."
Having initially signed a two-and-a-half year deal with the Dragons, Whitehead remains contracted to them until the end of 2015 and although he would be happy to stay, he is content to live in the moment and not look too far into the future.
"I have got another year here after this one and I do like it if France and am happy here so would like to stay, but we will just have to wait and see.
"As the last couple of years has shown me, a lot could happen between now and then."


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I'm choosing to post my favorites in alpha order from A-Z again this year. You'll probably find some records that everyone and their fifth cousin raved about, but I hope you'll also find a few records that might be new to you, and that you'll fall in love with them as much as I have.
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When: August 2019
Where: Copper Mouth Records
Why: Oakland's Dye has a real soft spot for the '90s, what with Psychic Data sounding like the kind of thing many of us would happily have played on our low frequency college radio stations in that very decade. This album-ish EP is a thick tangle of chunky guitars, 'gaze-ing washes of fuzz, and high intensity moments. Psychic Data is a musical magpie, a collection of constantly-transforming songs that never sticks with one sound for long. Maybe not everyone's cup of tea, but for those of us with fond remembrances of a certain moment in time, this can really hit the spot.
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One river, 18,000 feet, 1,500 miles. In the fall of 2013, photographer and videographer Pete McBride, along with professional climbers Jake Norton and Dave Morton, followed the Ganges River from snow to sea. All this week, Proof takes you on their 45-day journey—by foot, boat, bike, aircraft, rickshaw, bus, train, and even elephant—as they track every mile of this sacred river.
October 7-12, 2013
When you step off a wooden boat onto the banks of the burning ghat in the oldest of India's cities and you weave through a maze of funeral pyres hissing, steaming, and spitting orange embers into an inky night and you feel the metronome clang of bells vibrating inside your chest and a wave of furnace-like heat consuming everything in its reach, you realize how removed you truly are from the ritual of death.
I've traveled through international hot spots where life is cheap. I've also lost my fair share of friends and family. I don't feel sheltered from the bony hand of death. But when I stepped on Varanasi's famous cremation ghat, which runs 24/7, burning hundreds of bodies a day in plain sight, it dawned on me how physically distant most of us are from the departed. In the West, the dead are typically hidden—taken away—either to be beautified for a funeral or to be cremated, depending on beliefs. Either way, bodies are rarely seen again. Some might argue it is civilized, cleaner, or perhaps just emotionally easier. Or maybe it is the modern world's subtle way of hiding from the inevitable.
Funeral practices vary worldwide. Of those I've witnessed, few are as transparent and raw as the Hindu ritual on the banks of the Ganges River. The Hindu believe that if a deceased's ashes are laid in the Ganges at Varanasi, their soul will be transported to heaven and escape the cycle of rebirth. In a culture that believes in reincarnation, this concept called moksha is profound. The holier the place, the better the chances you achieve moksha and avoid returning to Earth as a cow or a cricket in your next life.
Since many believe Varanasi has been inhabited for 5,000 years (which would make it one of the world's oldest cities), it is considered to be the most sacred of cities on the banks of the Ganges River. People come from all over to pray, collect sacred water, bathe, and yes, attend to their dead. Some even come to die.
Thanks to the peaceful manner of our translator/fixer Madhav, a Hindu monk, our team was given access to document this sacred ritual. Within minutes of arriving, sweat streamed down my face. Teammates Dave Morton and Ashley Mosher filmed next to me. They struggled to breathe in the blasting heat. I could barely even see through my cameras.
At first, something seemed wrong about us being there. I didn't feel entirely comfortable documenting such private moments. I wanted to ensure we were being respectful as we documented this foreign tradition in a foreign land. Something compelled me to keep looking, to keep shooting. Perhaps it was the simple commonality in it. No matter what we do or believe, none of us gets out alive.
I asked our guide, Raj, who has worked his entire life on the burning ghat, if he ever gets used to the heat.
"What heat?" he joked. "Yes, we do. We help those make the passage at the end. It is beautiful, no? Now let's go. It is time."
Raj ushered us back to our boat, past a body shrouded in white cloth and immersed in leaping flames. Between the ring of bells still clanging in my head, I could hear the body hissing. We motored upstream, into the dark of the night, past the Hindu prayer services taking place a hundred yards upstream. I kept sweating the entire boat ride back.
At 4:30 a.m. the next morning, we returned. A blood red sun was rising across the river. Only one pyre was burning. The bells had stopped. Smoke and ash were everywhere and workers meticulously collected human ash and bone fragments to dump into the river. Goats and dogs roamed freely and steam rose from the ground.
As I photographed, a teenage boy started shadowing me. After a few minutes he asked, "Want to see my auntie?" I looked at him confused. He explained that his family was about to cremate his aunt. I looked down on the lower burning deck and saw the boy's relatives surrounding a body draped in flowers, saying goodbye and offering final prayers. The boy proudly listed off the oils, herbs, flowers, and trinkets that they brought to help his aunt on her journey. He preferred to watch from afar. I told him I was sorry for his loss.
"Thank you but apology not needed," he said. "She had a good life with much love and she is blessed to reach moksha."
As I watched the family light the funeral pyre, I thought of our guide Raj's comments. There was something beautiful about the process unfolding before me—the rawness, the simplicity, the completeness.
Like most things in India, though, there is a parallel story. The demand for wood, particularly hard wood, taxes Himalayan forests. Burning one large body can require up to 1,100 pounds of logs. In turn 50 to 60 million trees are consumed annually in India alone. Electric or gas-fired crematoriums have been built but both depend on unreliable energy sources and so most still prefer traditional methods. As the sun continued to rise, I noticed three boats towering with timber coming downstream. Raj pointed out one electrical crematorium nearby. It was closed.
Not everyone can afford the cost of funeral pyres either. Even the cheapest wood is beyond the reach for much of the poor. Many bodies are discarded into the Ganges partially cremated or not at all. Estimates say 100,000 bodies of various cremation levels are tossed into the Ganges each year.
It is not uncommon to see partially decomposed bodies floating downstream. I saw one in the foothills upstream and it stopped me in my tracks. My immediate, naïve response was to contact the police.
By 9 a.m., the Indian sun blazed above the Ganges. Three fires were now burning. My hair was covered in ash and I was pouring sweat again. As I walked through the wood-splitting area, an old woman suddenly emerged from the shadows and held out her hand, the international request for money.
Raj, guiding us out, casually said, "She lives here. Her family left her. She has come to die and needs money for cremation. Want to donate some rupees for her wood?"
Next: Kissing the Bay of Bengal: Celebration, Reverence, and Mystery
The Ganges River expedition was made possible with funding from Microsoft, Eddie Bauer, National Geographic Society's Expeditions Council, Ambuja Cement India, and Hach Hyrdolab. The full expedition team includes photographer and videographer Pete McBride, videographers and professional climbers Jake Norton and Dave Morton, and second camera Ashley Mosher.


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16 May 1912
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Louis "Studs" Terkel (16 May 1912 – 31 October 2008)[1] was an American author, historian, actor, and broadcaster. He received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1985 for The Good War, and is best remembered for his oral histories of common Americans, and for hosting a long-running radio show in Chicago.
Terkel was born to a Russian Jewish tailor, Samuel Terkel, and Anna Finkelin in New York City, New York.[2] At the age of eight he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, where he spent most of his life. He had two brothers, Ben (1907–1965) and Meyer (1905–1958).
From 1926 to 1936, his parents ran a rooming house that was a collecting point for people of all types. Terkel credited his knowledge of the world to the tenants who gathered in the lobby of the hotel and the people who congregated in nearby Bughouse Square. In 1939, he married Ida Goldberg (1912–1999) and they had one son, Dan. Terkel received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1934, but he said that instead of practicing law, he wanted to be a concierge at a hotel and he soon joined a theater group.[3]
Terkel joined the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project, working in radio, doing work that varied from voicing soap opera productions and announcing news and sports, to presenting shows of recorded music and writing radio scripts and advertisements. His well-known radio program, titled The Studs Terkel Program, aired on 98.7 WFMT Chicago between 1952 and 1997.[4] The one-hour program was broadcast each weekday during those forty-five years. On this program, he interviewed guests as diverse as Bob Dylan, Leonard Bernstein, and Alexander Frey. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Terkel was also the central character of Studs' Place, an unscripted television drama about the owner of a greasy-spoon diner in Chicago through which many famous people and interesting characters passed. This show, along with Marlin Perkins's Zoo Parade and the children's show Kukla, Fran, and Ollie, are widely considered canonical examples of the Chicago School of Television.
Terkel published his first book, Giants of Jazz, in 1956. He followed it with a number of other books, most focusing on the history of the United States people, relying substantially on oral history. He also served as a distinguished scholar-in-residence at the Chicago History Museum. He appeared in the film Eight Men Out, based on the Black Sox Scandal, in which he played newspaper reporter Hugh Fullerton, who tries to uncover the White Sox players' plans to throw the 1919 World Series.
Terkel received his nickname while he was acting in a play with another person named Louis. To keep the two straight, the director of the production gave Terkel the nickname Studs after the fictional character about whom Terkel was reading at the time–Studs Lonigan, of James T. Farrell's trilogy.
Terkel was acclaimed for his efforts to preserve American oral history. His 1985 book "The Good War": An Oral History of World War Two, which detailed ordinary peoples' accounts of the country's involvement in World War II, won the Pulitzer Prize. For Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression, Terkel assembled recollections of the Great Depression that spanned the socioeconomic spectrum, from Okies, through prison inmates, to the wealthy. His 1974 book, Working, in which (as reflected by its subtitle) People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do, also was highly acclaimed. Working was made into a short-lived Broadway show in 1978 and was telecast on PBS in 1982. In 1997, Terkel was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Two years later, he received the George Polk Career Award in 1999.
In 2004, Terkel received the Elijah Parish Lovejoy Award as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Colby College. In August 2005, Terkel underwent successful open-heart surgery. At the age of ninety-three, he was one of the oldest people to undergo this form of surgery and doctors reported his recovery to be remarkable for someone of that advanced age.
On May 22, 2006, Terkel, along with other plaintiffs, filed a suit in federal district court against AT&T, to stop the telecommunications carrier from giving customer telephone records to the National Security Agency without a court order.[5]
|Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
The lawsuit was dismissed by Judge Matthew F. Kennelly on July 26, 2006. Judge Kennelly cited a "state secrets privilege" designed to protect national security from being harmed by lawsuits.[6]
In 2006, Terkel received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize's first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award.[7]
Terkel completed a new personal memoir entitled, Touch and Go, published in the fall of 2007.[8]
Terkel was a self-described agnostic,[9] which he jokingly defined as "a cowardly atheist" during a 2004 interview with Krista Tippett on NPR's Speaking of Faith. Movie critic Roger Ebert claimed that Terkel was an atheist.[10][11]
One of his last interviews was for the documentary Soul of a People on Smithsonian Channel. He spoke about his participation in the Works Progress Administration.
At his last public appearance, in 2007, Terkel said he was "still in touch–but ready to go".[11] He gave one of his last interviews on the BBC Hardtalk program on February 4, 2008.[12] He spoke of the imminent election of Barack Obama as President of the United States, and offered him some advice, in October, 2008.[13]
Terkel died in his Chicago home on Friday, October 31, 2008 at the age of ninety-six. He had been suffering ever since a fall in his home earlier in October 2008.[14]
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Peter Matthiessen's classic The Snow Leopard includes a lesson for all who walk in wild places: Expect nothing.
When we shed our expectations and preconceptions and enter nature as infinite and mysterious, a whole world, a new world opens before us in those landscapes we thought we knew. We may not travel the the farthest ends of the Himalaya like Matthiessen, but we can find nature as mysterious and wild close to home.
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Title: Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar to David Noggle, 22 July 1869
Date: July 22, 1869
Whitman Archive ID: nar.00955
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July 22, 1869.
Hon. David Noggle,
Chief Justice, Idaho Terr.
Dear Sir:
The power of the President to remove the Judges of Territories has been questioned, as I was aware—but the practice has been uniform, and long-continued,— and we acted upon it as an established rule. As an original question, I should have had grave doubts upon it; but I did not think it my duty to suggest scruples in the face of the action of so many preceding administrations, especially when so many of our friends were so pressing in their applications for the exercise of the power.
You will of course be recognized as Chief Justice of Idaho by the Executive branch of the government notwithstanding any action of Mr. Bowers, until he procures some authoritative judicial decision against your right—which it does not seem to me probable he can do.
In regard to the various other questions contained in your letter of the 12th instant, which reached me this morning, as they do not relate to any matter which officially concerns me, I must beg you to excuse me from attempting to reply.
Very Respectfully,
E. R. Hoar,
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Gold gets most of the attention, but when precious metals and the relevant exchange traded products rallied earlier this year, funds such as the ETFS Physical Platinum Shares (NYSEArca: PPLT), iShares Silver Trust (NYSEArca: SLV) and ETFS Physical Silver Shares (NYSEArca: SIVR) displayed noticeable leadership traits.
Earlier this year, as gold soared, platinum metals got in on that act, too. However, platinum and PPLT recently experienced a lengthy pullback. A strengthening dollar is also weighing on platinum and PPLT. The same holds true for SLV and SIVR, which have recently rallied off their October lows and are each up more than 3% over the past week.
Although platinum is not as heavily traded as gold or silver, it is the third-most traded precious metal in the world and it is more scarce than its more popular rivals. Industry observers also believe that platinum companies have overextended operations during the commodities boom in prior years and have suffered from an oversupplied market as a result.
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Year-to-date, silver has mirrored the surge in gold in response to ongoing market volatility. Silver has exhibited a correlation of over 80% to gold and typically moves in the same direction as the yellow metal but in larger movements.
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2½ tablespoons olive oil, divided
2½ tablespoons lime juice, divided
1 garlic clove, minced
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 pound cod (mahi-mahi and tilapia also work well)
1 large avocado, cut in half, pit removed
6 tablespoons nonfat plain Greek yogurt
3-4 cups broccoli slaw
½ jalapeno pepper, finely chopped
¼ cup cilantro, finely chopped
8 corn tortillas
- Preheat grill or heat grill pan on medium heat.
- In a large plastic bag, mix 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1 tablespoon lime juice, garlic, chili powder, and cumin. Add cod and mix until fish is coated.
- Grill fish about 3 minutes per side, or until cooked thoroughly.
- Mix ½ tablespoon olive oil and 1 teaspoon lemon juice in a small bowl. Rub onto avocado halves and place halves face down on the grill. Grill for about 2-3 minutes. Remove and cut into slices.
- In a medium bowl, combine remaining oil, lime juice, and yogurt. Mix well. Add broccoli slaw, jalapeno, and cilantro and combine until coated with yogurt-lime sauce.
- Top corn tortillas with grilled fish, slaw mixture and avocado slices.
Recipe and photo courtesy of Dish on Fish.
NutritionCalories: 380
Total Fat: 18g
Saturated Fat: 2.5g
Sodium: 110mg
Cholesterol: 50mg
Carbohydrates: 30g
Fiber: 8g
Sugars: 2g
Protein: 28g


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On April 26, 2018, New York State's highest court – the Court of Appeals – unanimously ruled in a case that had created significant uncertainty for owners and tenants of many multifamily buildings in New York City since 2014. In Altman v. 285 West Fourth LLC, tenant Richard Altman asserted that his apartment had been illegally removed from rent stabilization. The core of Altman's argument was that the rent had to pass the destabilization threshold1 during the prior tenant's occupancy in order for the apartment to be deregulated. In a ruling written by Chief Judge Janet DiFiore, the Court of Appeals, New York State's highest court, ruled against this argument and in favor of the building owner. In order to understand the implications of this ruling, Holm & O'Hara LLP spoke with Michelle Maratto Itkowitz, Esq., Partner in Itkowitz PLLC, a real estate litigation firm that represents both landlords and tenants and has a core practice in rent regulation issues.
What does Altman mean for building owners?
Altman has a couple of key benefits for owners of buildings that are – or were – subject to rent stabilization. First of all, owners no longer have to worry that a large group of tenants might sue them for illegally deregulating their apartments between their occupancy and the prior tenants'. Around 150,000 tenants are believed to be in situations similar to Altman – that is, that their rents passed the threshold for destabilization during their own tenancies and they met certain other conditions. Any of them could have brought suit, so it's a huge relief for owners not to have that hanging over them. Second, the final ruling in Altman frees owners up to resume their normal course of business. During the nearly four years that the case was making its way through the courts, owners had to act very carefully and treat tenants who were in a position like Altman's as if they were entitled to the protections of rent regulations. This ruling provides both clarity and freedom for owners to move forward with plans for their properties.
Is there any upside for tenants in Altman?
Uncertainty has the potential to be as expensive for tenants as for landlords, so tenants benefit from clarity. They won't be spending time and money bringing legal actions that won't yield the results they want. Additionally, I think we will be seeing more buy-out offers now that landlords can be certain that they are actually going to get possession of the units. That could be highly beneficial to people whose life circumstances might make them open to moving.
Should Altman encourage landlords to try to clear out their tenants?
Transitioning any multi-family dwelling to the next stage of its lifecycle is a process that should not be undertaken lightly. Sometimes there are perfectly good financial and strategic reasons to leave a property in the rent regulation system. Building owners – or prospective owners – should evaluate this carefully with their full team of legal, financial and property advisors. If the owners decide to try transitioning out of the rent regulation system, they need to plan it strategically and put the right advance team on the ground to both stay in compliance with the law and take advantage of opportunities to get to know tenants and their needs. Emptying a whole building is both an art and a science and no case is the same. Altman certainly creates some opportunities that were not present before, but it doesn't change the essential ground rules that govern landlord-tenant interactions.
What's the most important piece of advice you have for owners of buildings with rent regulated units?
Try to find a win-win path; you have priorities and your tenants have priorities. If you treat them as people and take the time to discover what might motivate them to stay in a particular unit or move, you can often uncover some surprising options that will work well for both sides – and it's not always about money. Attempting to harass or strong-arm a tenant into moving is illegal.
Should prospective buyers avoid buildings with rent regulated units?
There is no single answer to that. It depends on the investor's goals and needs, as well as on the property. Above all, though, prospective buyers should be proactive about due diligence. That means getting as much detailed information as they can up front, including leases, DHCR (Department of Housing and Community Renewal) documents and tenant files. Just as buyers will typically hire an engineer to make sure the building is stable, they really should consider hiring a landlord and tenant litigator to assess the tenancies and the ability of those tenancies to create or to stymie revenue generation.
Further reading
Check out these booklets by Michelle Itkowitz for further useful information for owners and prospective owners of property with rent regulated units:
|Rent Stabilization Due Diligence For Multi-Family Acquisitions
|Illegally Deregulated
Rent Stabilized
Apartments in
New York City: Identification,
Risk Analysis, and Solutions
|Tenant Buyouts:
For The Next Generation
[1] (currently $2,733.75 and adjusted every year following the increase approved by the Rent Guidelines Board for a one year lease)
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Released with the integrated plan and the multi-year budget framework in early March, the capital plan attempts to tackle the university's growing deferred maintenance issue – necessary upgrades that have been put off, sometimes for years. It is not a new problem, Bryan Bilokreli explained, but it is time for a new approach.
"Some of our buildings are 100 years old," said Bilokreli, director of institutional capital planning in the Institutional Planning and Assessment office, "but many were built in the '50s and '60s. Their infrastructure, things like mechanical and electrical systems, has aged and needs to be replaced because we need appropriate academic, research and student facilities." Using the approach called RenewUS, revitalizing buildings over the university's third planning cycle will go hand-in-hand with revitalizing academic programs that meet current and future needs, he said.
The buildings with the most significant maintenance issues are biology, arts, physics and the Murray Buildings, "and three of the four are occupied by the College of Arts and Science," he said. There has already been one preliminary discussion with that college about capital needs and plans for academic renewal over the next four years, "and how we might incorporate the two."
By prioritizing capital investments in conjunction with the plans of college and unit, the RenewUS program "will make sure we're addressing academic needs," Bilokreli said.
The original price tag for RenewUS was $265 million over five years, he said, "so the strategy is to look at a variety of funding sources – internal funds, government funding, donors and partners and potential student fees – realizing that we can't do this on our own."
In addition to RenewUS, the new capital plan details 19 capital projects already underway that will be completed during the current planning cycle, including student residences and the Gordon Oakes-Red Bear Student Centre. The capital plan also points out critical utility replacements – two chillers, one boiler and two transformers. "There's no point in renewing our facilities if we can't provide heat, cooling or electricity," said Bilokreli.
In the category of emerging projects, the plan lists the expansion of childcare facilities, the Clarion project, an amenities building for the College Quarter, the Southern Saskatchewan Academic Health Sciences Hub in Regina for health science programs, and a complex to address the space needs of the College of Engineering that will also house natural sciences initiatives. Each of these projects, describe in the capital plan as "critical to the ongoing success of the university," has been identified in the university's funding requests to the provincial government.
The capital plan also commits the university to a comprehensive assessment of overall capital needs, which Bilokreli said includes space, equipment, information technology like computers and multi-media equipment, and even land. It is a complex undertaking, he added, that ideally will be done in time for the fourth planning cycle to "provide guidance and direction for the next capital plan."
Capital planning for an institution like the U of S is a comprehensive and integrated process that must take into account boiler replacement, enrolment planning, and everything in between. But Bilokreli is encouraged by the alignment that has emerged from the college and unit plans. "Most talk about building infrastructure renewal and equipment and technology renewal," he said. "That verifies the thinking within the university that we're on the right track."


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Andrea Di Stefano was the lead game designer and producer at Fishing Cactus until late January 2014, and was also one of the lead developers of Creatures Online. Since his leaving the game's development has been overseen by Fishing Cactus CEO Bruno Urbain.
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The X-Men movie series by Fox studios is probably the superhero franchise with the most mixed reviews. With gems such as X-Men: Days of Future Past and trash such as X-Men Origins: Wolverine, it is quite evident that Fox doesn't always know what it's doing with their Marvel character rights. With that in mind, I entered the theatre with hesitancy, as the last X-Men movie I saw, X-Men: Apocalypse, was sub-par and forgettable at best and a CGI test that happened to have characters I was familiar with at worst. Despite this, Logan is the best film of Fox's X-Men franchise, and it only needed to focus on one member of the legendary X-Men team to achieve this — Logan, or as we know him, Wolverine.
Logan takes place during the nearly-modern year of 2029, and follows the Events of X-Men: Days of Future Past. The birth of new mutants has stopped and the old ones are dying out, leaving only Logan (Hugh Jackman) and the now half-senile Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) left, trying to live the rest of their lives quietly and away from the sight of whatever government wants a superweapon next. This quiet life is stomped on when a young girl by the name of Laura (Dafne Keen) arrives at their secluded doorstep with a band of military-grade mercenaries on her tail for allegedly being a mutant. The audience and Logan himself soon learn that Laura is the genetic daughter of Logan, having been grown in a lab where these mercenaries tried to raise their own artificial mutants as weapons. Laura, Logan, and Charles Xavier then set out on a journey to find a place known as Eden, a supposed safehaven for mutants, so that Laura can be reunited with her fellow mutants who had escaped the facility.
With the plot out of the way, I can tell you right now that this is not your typical tongue and cheek humor superhero movie. In fact it is much the opposite, with a grim and almost nihilistic tone that shows the gravity of the story and the mercilessness of this world as a whole. Every aspect of this movie feels real in a cruel sense. The fights are brutal, well choreographed, and don't shy away from gore. If that wasn't enough, the emotional parts of the movie are even more gut-wrenching, making you truly hate the villains. There is a reason why Logan is rated R, and it's not for bad language. The movie is only funny when it wants to be, and that strict emotional control over the audience makes Logan stand out. Logan doesn't put the heroes on a level higher than the common person. In fact, every character has weakness both in and out of combat. It can be seen in the way Logan walks and how he takes being shot, signalling to the viewer that no matter how super these heroes once were, Logan is at the tail end of his life. This is a very vulnerable time for anyone, mutant or not, and it makes you understand the characters through action as opposed to dialogue. The only time I found myself laughing when I wasn't supposed to was during the first fight scene in which Laura uses her claws. Admittedly it's cool and all, but it is hard to not chuckle when an 11 year old girl is brutally cleaving fully grown men to bits.
There isn't else much to say about Logan without spoiling key parts of the plot, so I will end with this final message: Logan is not only a great Marvel movie, it's a great movie in general. The balance of brutal action and a tear-inducing story that Logan offers is something that up until now we have not seen in a marvel movie to this magnitude. My final verdict for this movie is an 8.5/10. Although this movie is not as perfect as Deadpool or other legends, Logan offers a new, darker interpretation of comic-book based movies. This unique action film has the potential to change the superhero movie industry, and Hugh Jackman's last time playing Wolverine certainly ended on a powerful note. That's all folks.


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text: [Newbie help] out-of-character in-character ooc ic Our official policy is that we always stay in character on SK, except to help newbies learn how to play the game. For example: "tell newb ooc Welcome to SK! Check out "help newbie", and feel free to "reply" to me with any questions." "tell newb ooc OOC = Out of Character. We do our best to stay in character (IC) on SK." Another traditional use of OOC has been to explain circumstances on your end of the wire which may be affecting your char's behavior. We strongly encourage you to spin these circumstances using IC explanations. For example: You went afk because your daughter woke up crying. "gt Sorry, my mind wandered there for a moment." "gt Whoa! I think I was possessed by a demon. Any priests around?" You just fireballed a party member whose name starts with "Sw". "gt The elements are proving difficult to command this day. Apologies." "gt Watch yourself, Sw***! Those fireballs are hot." There may be some other rare occasions where OOC is acceptable, but long OOC conversations about where you went to school or who you used to date or how you feel about certain other players are really not. So please police yourself, and make the game more enjoyable for yourself and for players who really enjoy the RP aspect of our SK cocktail. Metagaming is any strategy, action or method used in a game which transcends a prescribed rule set, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game. Another definition refers to the game universe outside of the game itself. In simple terms, it is the use of out-of-game information or resources to affect one's in-game decisions. Please leave your blatantly OOC RL slang outside of Pyrathia. It detracts from the environment of the game to see people exclaiming "oh schnap," asking if they "can has a cookie," talking "for reals," and "[having] your back like butt crack." Logging off of the game does not constitute "poofing out," and while bawling is perfectly acceptable, "ballin'" is not. Regardless of your character's situation, these are not acceptable phrases for the fantasy setting of SK. Further, characters witnessed or reported for using modern-day terms (in and out of character) that are offensive on the basis of race, gender, creed, religion or sexuality will be punished. We have an open game with a diverse, global player base: Be nice. However, in case you can't police yourself, we will reluctantly accept prayers and logs of players going OOC and spoiling the experience. If we confirm OOCness which is outside the scope of helpfulness to newbies or brief explanation for actions which are inexplicably OOC, the culprits may find themselves on the receiving end of stern words or more serious punishment at our discretion, particularly in the case of chronic offenders. See also: communication conduct roleplay


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In this assignment, you'll need to decide whether Paula Plaintiff has any legal claims arising from a series of unfortunate events. After reading the scenario, answer the questions that follow, making sure to fully explain the basis of your decision.
Paula Plaintiff is shopping at her favorite store, Cash Mart. She is looking for a new laptop, but she can't find one she likes. Then, realizing that she is going to be late for an appointment, she attempts to leave the store, walking very fast. However, before she can leave, she is stopped by a security guard who accuses her of shoplifting. Paula, who has taken nothing, denies any wrong doing. The officer insists and takes Paula to a small room in the back of the store. The guard tells Paula that if she attempts to leave the room she will be arrested and sent to jail. At this point, the guard leaves the room. Paula is scared and waits in the room for over an hour until the manager comes in and apologizes and tells Paula that she is free to go.
About this same time, Geoffrey Golfer is hitting golf balls in his backyard. Geoffrey decides to break out his new driver and hits a golf ball out of his backyard into the Cash Mart parking lot. The golf ball hits Paula Plaintiff on the head and knocks her unconscious just as she is leaving the store.
In a 6–10 paragraph paper, answer the following questions:
What types of legal claims could Paula make against Cash Mart and Geoffrey? Consider the following:
What are the possible tort claims that Paula can make against Cash Mart? Discuss the elements of the claim and how those elements relate to the facts in the scenario.
Was Geoffrey negligent when he hit the golf ball that injured Paula? Discuss the elements of negligence and use facts from the scenario to support your decision.
If Paula files a negligence claim against Geoffrey will she file in civil court or criminal court? Explain the difference between civil court and criminal court.
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