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"We saw an advert for Sabella in our local Parish Magazine and decided to ring and make an appointment. Joanna proved to be a very delightful, competent person and quickly knew what we wanted to create. We are thrilled with the colour schemes and she came up with ideas we wouldn't have thought of ourselves. She took away a lot of the hassle that is always involved in these schemes. We would have no hesitation in recommending Sabella."
We didn't have a clue where to start when we decided our house needed redecorating to make it our home. I was so pleased we asked Sabella to help. Working with Joanna was a pleasure, she was quickly able to assess our requirements, personality, style and taste and incorporate them into a fabulous design for each room while keeping our budget in mind.
The contractors used by Sabella to implement Joanna's vision were all extremely professional in their approach and we felt very comfortable to leave them in our home unaccompanied.
We are proud of our home and would not hesitate to recommend Sabella Interiors.
The days Joanna joined us to host our members' events were informative and enjoyable and very well organised by her and her team. Our members gave wonderful feedback about Joanna – 'She was so personable', 'Relaxed and interesting' – and we would certainly agree with them all. It was a pleasure to work with her and we look forward to further events in the future.
"Our experience of Sabella has been very positive; the colour, design and fabric chosen by Sabella have come together to create a wonderful timeless look which fits perfectly with a busy room, yet remaining a calm and relaxed space. The quality of work undertaken and the attention to detail has been to a very high standard."
Joanna and her team are organised and professional and at the same time, provide a very personal service. Joanna has a quiet and charming determination to open your mind to many different ideas, while still respecting your individual taste. She worked tirelessly to find options for me and her guidance was invaluable, particularly the fabric boards and visit to fabric houses.
The quality of Sabella Interior's work and attention to detail is exceptional. Delivery is timely and Joanna's patience with my indecisions incredible! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend Sabella.
What started as an initial commission to help redesign our master bedroom has now, one year later, given us a transformed home. From lighting to flooring to a complete redecoration, Joanna has held our hand throughout the whole process. We have been so impressed with her talent and dedication, and are absolutely thrilled with how our home now looks.
Joanna quickly got to know us and when it came to the curtains and soft furnishings in our family room, her first presentation to us was quickly accepted, as the fabric and colours were just 'us'.
I am a very happy customer! Sabella has worked with me over the last two years to dress every window in my new home. Joanna has been incredibly patient, invaluable in her advice and variety of options, and meticulous in quality and detail. I love every fabric, finish and accessory. Joanna gives an amazing service and as important, is fun to work with. Please don't hesitate to work with Sabella.
Joanna is an extremely gifted young lady who can enter a room, immediately see what needs doing and know exactly how to put things right. She will listen to your needs and suggest slight (or in my case, big) alterations and it's uncanny how Joanna always knows what is right for you. I am so pleased that, with her help and advice, my house is now a home that I can relax in and enjoy.
We employed Joanna Harvey of Sabella Interiors to assist us with a pair of curtains to dress a set of bi-fold doors. This was a challenging brief due to the size required and Mrs Harvey was very professional and assisted us in creating a window dressing that provides the finishing touch to our extension. She worked within our budget and sourced appropriate fittings to hang the curtains, which had unusual dimensions. We are very pleased with the result.
We bought our house in 2000, while we were living in Tokyo. When we returned in 2005, we had big plans for it. We engaged architects, submitted plans and started work in 2007. Then in true Grand Designs style, I became pregnant just as we moved into the finished extension.
I lost all interest in the house and realised I needed someone to hold my hand and guide me. Joanna rekindled all the excitement I'd lost and helped reinstate my vision for a beautiful house. She's given me back my confidence and the completed dining room looks stunning. Joanna is consummately professional and can work with people on all levels. She's an incredibly kind, generous lady, and I cannot recommend her enough.
When we got stuck trying to decide what to do with our lounge and lobby, Joanna came to the rescue. Taking the time to get to know our tastes and preferences, she came up with a plan, brought us samples and took us to visit designers. Joanna provided us with a unique and personal service.
Considering decoration, curtains, lighting, pictures, furniture and accessories, Joanna has an uncanny eye for colour, texture and how things will work together. She is also very diplomatic and caring and will lead you through a range of alternative ideas. With heaps of patience and great attention to detail, Joanna will help turn your house into a beautiful home. She is also great at keeping a project moving and ensuring everything is completed. We have ended up with a home we are delighted with but would never have created without Joanna's help!
"We contacted Joanna and her team to seek advice on some interior design solutions for our home. Joanna listened carefully to what we hoped to achieve and in return delivered practical and workable suggestions. We were extremely impressed with her attention to detail, impeccable time keeping and delivering on time – so rare in today's world."
"It is with great pleasure that we recommend Joanna Harvey of Sabella Interiors. She is a most friendly and delightful lady, very creative, but always listening to our own ideas.
She is a great communicator and had tremendous patience with us, as we seemed to constantly change our minds. She provided invaluable guidance in choosing colour schemes, fabrics, lighting choices and accessories. She was also painstaking in her approach to organising the hanging of paintings and positioning of ornaments."
We are totally happy with the results Joanna achieved and cannot recommend her highly enough. She was a delight to work with".


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Number of scholarships and financial assistance as detailed below are given by various agencies to students of the following categories:
|Scholarships for SC/ST/RBA/OBC students
|State Govt.
|Scholarships for low income group students
|State Govt.
|National Loan Scholarships
|Govt. of India
|National Merit Scholarships
|Govt. of India
|Sahara Scholarship for NCC
|Sahara Group of Industries
In addition to the above-mentioned scholarships, Financial Assistance is given to the deserving poor students by the college out of the students, Aid Fund. However, the criteria for the concerned committee decides the financial assistance to the deserving students appointed for the purpose on the basis of guidelines issued by the Govt. Apart from this there is Sahara Scholarship for NCC cadets.
Students are required to apply for various Scholarships or Financial Assistance on the prescribed application form. The scholarships and financial assistance are however to deserving students subject to the following conditions:

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Report on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying financial statements of NOVAGOLD PETRO RESOURCES LTD ("the company"), which comprise the Balance Sheet as at 31 March 2015, the Statement of Profit and Loss and Cash Flow Statement for the year then ended, and a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory information.
Management's Responsibility for the Financial Statements
The Companys Board of Directors is responsible for the matters stated in section 134(5) of the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") with respect to the preparation of these financial statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position and financial performance of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014. This responsibility also includes the maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provision of the Act for safeguarding of the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting the frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial control, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
Auditor's Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.
We have taken into account the provisions of the Act, the accounting and auditing standards and matters which are required to be included in the audit report under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing specified under section 143(10) of the Act. Those Standards require that we comply with ethical requirements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The procedures selected depend on the auditors judgment, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal financial control relevant to the Companys preparation of the financial statements that give true and fair view, in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on whether the Company has in place an adequate internal financial controls system over financial reporting and operating effectiveness of such controls. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of the accounting estimates made by Companys Directors, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the financial statements.
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, the aforesaid financial statements give the information required by the Act in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the accounting principles generally accepted in India of the state of affairs of the Company as at 31st March 2015, and its loss and its cash flow for the year ended on that date.
Report on other Legal and Regulatory Requirements
1. As required by the Companies (Auditors Report) Order, 2015 ("the Order") issued by the Central Government of India in terms of sub-section (11) of section 143 of the Act, we give in the Annexure a statement on the matters Specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
2. As required by section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
b) In our opinion proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books.
c) the Balance Sheet and the Statement of Profit and Loss, and Cash Flow Statement dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
d) In our opinion, the aforesaid financial statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Rule 7 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014.
e) On the basis of written representations received from the directors as on 31 March, 2015, taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors is disqualified as on 31 March, 2015, from being appointed as a director in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
f) In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, we report as under with respect to other matters to be included in the Auditors Report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014:
i. The Company does not have any pending litigations which would impact its financial position.
ii. The Company did not have any long-term contracts including derivatives contracts for which there were any material foreseeable losses.
iii. There were no amounts which required to be transferred by the Company to the Investor Education and Protection Fund.
For C.B.MEHTA&CO,
Chartered Accountants
(Firm Registration No.: 133653W)
Place: VADODARA
Date: 28/08/2015
(Referred to in paragraph 1 under 'Report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements' section
of our report of even date)
1. a) The company has maintained requisite records showing required particulars including quantitative details and situation of its fixed assets.
b) According to the information and explanation given to us by the management of the company, most of the fixed assets of the company have been physically verified by the management during the year and the intervals of such verification had also been reasonable.
2. The provisions of Clause 2(a), 2(b) & 2(c) are not applicable since there is no activity and inventory during the year.
3. The Company has not granted any loans, secured or unsecured, to companies, firms or other parties covered in the Register maintained under Section 189 of the Act.
4. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, there are adequate internal control procedures commensurate with the size of the company and its nature of business. During our course of audit, no major weakness was noticed by us in the existing internal control system in procedure.
5. In our opinion and according to the information and explanations given to us, the Company has not accepted deposits during the year and does not have any unclaimed deposits. Therefore, the provisions of the clause 3 (v) of the Order are not applicable to the Company.
6. The provisions of clause 3 (vi) of the Order are not applicable to the Company as the Company is not covered by the Companies (Cost Records and Audit) Rules, 2014.
7. a) According to the books and records as produced and examined by us in accordance with Generally Accepted Auditing Practices in India and also based on management representations, undisputed statutory dues in respect of provident fund, employee state insurance, income tax, wealth tax, service tax, sales tax, value added tax, excise duty, cess and other material statutory dues have generally been regularly deposited by the company during the year with the appropriate authorities in India.
b) According to information and explanations given to us, no undisputed amounts payable in respect of income tax, service tax and excise duty were outstanding as on 31st March, 2015 for a period more than six months from the date the same became payable.
c) According to the information and explanations given to us the amounts which were required to be transferred to the investor education and protection fund in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956) and rules there under has been transferred to such fund within time.
8. The Company does not have accumulated losses at the end of the financial years but has incurred cash losses during the financial year covered by our audit but not in the immediately preceding financial year.
9. As observed by us and as per the information and explanations given by the management, we are of the opinion that the company has not defaulted in repayment of dues to its financial institution or bank during the year under audit.
10. As per the information and explanations given to us, the company has not given any guarantee for loans taken by others from any bank or financial institutions. Hence, reporting on terms and conditions of any such guarantee is irrelevant to our reporting.
11. According to the information and explanations given to us, the Company did not avail any term loan during the year
12. Based upon the audit procedures performed and information and explanations given by the management, we report that no fraud on or by the Company has been noticed or reported during the year under audit and even upto the date of our audit.
For C.B.MEHTA&CO,
Chartered Accountants
(Firm Registration No.: 133653W)
Place: VADODARA
Date: 28/08/2015
Gold/NCD/NBFC/Insurance and NPS
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Medical Calculators are always useful in the wards, whether you're trying to calculate the Parkland formula or an Anion Gap. This free app contains tons of formulas and a great search feature.
Medical Spanish (1.2) [App Review ]
We have an updated review of this application highlighting it's new features. The review can be found here.
Medical Spanish is an app that helps you communicate with Spanish speaking patients in a health care setting. The app has a very detailed description in the App store, so I won't get into the "nitty gritty", but instead I'll focus on the usefulness of the app. I'll touch on this later, but you can use this app even if you do not know a single word of Spanish.
Speed Muscles MD (1.1) [App Review]
This app is similar to the Speed Bones MD app we've reviewed, except it deals with only muscles, as the name implies. A great source for learning your gross anatomy muscles.
ReachMD CME (1.0) [App Review]
This app is now outdated. We recommend you try another ReachMD app, Medical Radio. We featured Medical Radio in one of our previous posts. We recommend their new Medical Radio app, which is also free, and significantly more useful.
Diagnosaurus DDx (1.3) [App Review]
This is definitely one of our favorite apps. It allows you to come up with a quick differential diagnosis based on the symptoms present. Extremely useful on early morning rounds or in the clinic setting.


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As the use of RPM and telemedicine soars, Smart Meter continues to innovate and deliver solutions to enhance patient care through unmatched data reliability, easy-to-use cellular devices, and advanced technology platforms
Smart Meter, the leader in cellular-enabled remote patient monitoring (RPM) data and devices, announced today the launch of iScale, a cellular-connected body weight scale. This addition further expands its suite of healthcare products, which include iGlucose® for diabetes monitoring and iBloodPressure™ for hypertension management, to enhance traditional chronic condition management.
To address the growing number of patients with obesity, pre-diabetes, congestive heart failure, hypertension, and post-acute care management needs, Smart Meter is expanding its product offerings for healthcare providers by allowing them to track a key metric that is often associated with these health issues – body weight. Obesity, hypertension, and diabetes are estimated to affect 200 million lives, over 60% of the US population, and the costs to manage these conditions are expected to hit $490 billion by 2024, making innovative interventions critical. Patients with one of these conditions often face multiple co-morbidities, making it even more imperative to track data and manage daily. By delivering cellular-connected products with real-time data transmission, Smart Meter is now a one-stop shop for enabling remote patient monitoring, population management, telehealth, and home care.
"Due to COVID-19, the healthcare industry now recognizes that remote patient monitoring is improving physician practice efficiency and patient care," said Casey Pittock, CEO, Smart Meter. "As more providers and patients seek solutions to keep them on track and adhere more closely to their doctors' recommendations, we are thrilled to launch iScale. This simple, yet effective device is another tool to help physicians have real-time data to intervene in patient care between visits. They can now see a bigger picture of their patients' health."
Smart Meter's iScale offers distinctive built-in features, making it an advanced method for tracking body weight while providing a positive user experience.
According to Matt Ethington, CEO, ChronicCareIQ, "ChronicCareIQ's clients responded well to the medical grade size and quality of the iScale. A large health system immediately added hundreds to their order. It's size makes it attractive in avoiding fall risk for CHF and frail patients while feeling sturdy and robust for those under weight management. We see everything. This is better. Our experience with the company and its other devices is that the data is reliably transmitted and service has been excellent."
Unlike complicated and unreliable Bluetooth® technology, which requires apps, uploads, and synching, Smart Meter's use of cellular-connected devices ensures healthcare providers and partners receive accurate, real-time, and dependable data, with no extra steps necessary. This is imperative for better patient engagement, ease of use and reliability of data transmission.
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Trump is threatening the ACA which covers tens of thousands of New Mexicans. The Health Security Act provides a NM remedy. Also included today: Saturday Action at the Roundhouse to lobby for gun control and recreational marijuana; our act of solidarity with our Muslim neighbors today; updated thoughts on Santa Fe's early childhood proposal, a moving Keith Olbermann apology, and how to use twitter to advocate for justice.
Health Security Act.Bill #: HB 101 (Roberto "Bobby" J. Gonzales, Deborah A. Armstrong) SB 172 (Howie C. Morales, Carlos R. Cisneros). The NM version of single payer health plan, the Health Security Act would establish universal healthcare coverage for all New Mexicans, regardless of age, income, employment, or health status. The NM Health Security Plan will be funded by combining existing public monies (including funding for Medicaid and Medicare) with employer contributions and individual premiums (with caps) which depend on income. Why it is important: It will provide healthcare access to every New Mexican. It's estimated to save the state $800,000,000+ within five years. For a thorough summary of the bill and its benefits, click: Health Security Act Brief nme-20161028-healthcareaccess. For a tremendous one-page fact sheet on the bill, click: health-security-act-1-pager, print it out and bring it with you to the next committee hearing. To sign up for alerts, contact Josette HaddadCommunications Coordinator. The Health Security for New Mexicans Campaign at firstname.lastname@example.com or 505-771-8763. The next hearing on this bill will be: House Health & Human Services Committee, Monday, February 6, 2017 – 8:30 a.m. – Room 315. As of this morning there are no Senate Committee hearings scheduled for this bill. Click here to find out scheduled hearings on all bills for the next week. Be warned, times change quickly and often.
CORRECTION FROM ORIGINAL POST: Early Childhood Land Grant Bills. HJR1 (sponsors Antonio Maestas, Javier Martinez, and Migual Garcia–all Democrats in Bernalillo) proposes a constitutional amendment which asks voter to authorize that an additional 1% of the income from the Land Grant Permanent Fund be used for quality early childhood education programs to be administered by the Public Education Department. The resolution is now in the House Local Government, Elections, Land Grants & Cultural Affairs Committee (HLELC). No hearing scheduled yet. It passed the House Education Committee by one vote. SJR3 (sponsor Michael Padilla, D, Bernalillo) is similar to HJR1 and slated to go to the Senate Rules Committee, but not scheduled yet. According to knowledgeable sources, the house resolution could pass by mid-February. These sources say that John Arthur Smith (Chairperson of Senate Finance Committee) could kill the Senate resolution. Advocates are strongly suggesting that we contact Senator Wirth and ask that SJR 3 not be sent to the Senate Finance Committee and Senator Smith.
Do NOT be confused by a bill introduced by Mary Pappen, SB 182, which is erroneously entitled Early Childhood Land Grant Fund. This bill would sell off 6.6 million acres of public land and enable our Governor and Audrey Dunn to sell this land to the fossil fuel industry. This is shameless and we will not soon forget Pappen's sponsorship of this bill.
Twitter Advocacy. After attending the Social Media training about 40 folks attending created Twitter 'handles.' From the training, we learned that the power of Twitter is in the number of people who follow you. If you 'tweet' a legislator and have 20 followers, they will dismiss you. If you have 2,000 followers, they take you more seriously. We are new at this but we want to be taken seriously. So to jump start our effort, if you have a Twitter account, please go and follow @PaulgRetake. I will then follow you. If enough of you do this, when we 'tweet' Peter Wirth and encourage him to push Sen. Smith to advance a bill to use a 1% draw on the Land Grant funds to expand early childhood, he is more likely to pay attention if there are many of us doing so and we are doing so with large numbers following us. Whether you were at the training or not, if you have a twitter account, log on and follow me at @PGibsonRetake. I will follow you and together we will build a 'following' that can have an impact. But let's start here.
Roundhouse Advocacy This Saturday 10am-Noon. Main House Chamber. Originally four bills were being discussed on Saturday, but now the committee will hear only 2 bills beginning at 10 am in the order below. How about a bunch of us plan to be at the Roundhouse at 10am and track these bills? Many of us have never been to a Roundhouse Committee meeting, including me. This will be a great start. Bring a few friends, go out for breakfast or coffee and then have a Roundhouse experience. Likely you can take in both committee hearings and be back in the sun by noon. Click here to RSVP just so we know how many may be coming.
- HB 37 Born Alive Infant Protection (Dropped from this Committee Hearing, so only 2 on Sat.)
- HB 50 Background Checks on Gun Transfers. HB 50 would create a new section of Chapter 30, Article 7 NMSA requiring an unlicensed person to use a firearm dealer when transferring a firearm to another unlicensed person. A person who violates the provisions of the bill would be guilty of a misdemeanor for a first offense and guilty of a fourth degree felony for a second or subsequent offense. Currently, no background check is required if a private gun owner sells or gives his gun(s) to someone else.
- HB 72 Reinstate Death Penalty [Dropped from this Committee Hearing, so only 2 on Sat.]
- HB 89 Cannabis Revenue & Freedom Act. Would legalize marijuana for recreational use and the production of industrial hemp. Passage would not only legalize marijuana and hemp in the Land of Enchantment, but would also take a big step toward nullifying federal cannabis prohibition in practice in the state.
Opportunities and Actions
Fri., Feb, 3, 1pm-2pm. Masjid Al Rahma Mosque, 418 W San Mateo Rd, Santa Fe, NM 87505. We are all welcome to join or observe the prayer service this Friday, as Mosque leadership looks forward to having more people from the community understand their faith. We need to arrive at the Mosque by 1 p.m. The service begins promptly at 1:15. It is very common for Santa Feans to arrive late for meetings. It is disrespectful to arrive late for these services and we are guests, so if you find yourself running late DO NOT enter after 1:10. The service will conclude at 2 pm. Click here to RSVP. Many of our supporters are not consistent in RSVPing and just show up for meetings or trainings. This is generally inconsiderate, but here it is disrespectful. Please RSVP and please arrive a bit early to greet our Muslim neighbors as they arrive at their services. Click here for guidelines for dress, physical contact, and other cultural mores that should be respected. The mosque has a large parking lot in the back, so parking should not be a problem even though it's in a residential neighborhood. After services the mosque board members will meet with anyone who has questions and is interested in learning more. We will be provided with an English translation of the salient points of the service. Again, click here to RSVP.
Retake Our Democracy Radio Show Launches Sat., Feb 4, 11am. Listen in as I interview Allegra Love and Marcela Diaz about how the Santa Fe Dreamers Project and Somos Un Pueblo Unido are working to protect our immigrant neighbors, what the new expanded Sanctuary resolution is and how it can improve our City's capacity to protect our immigrant neighbors. The show will be weekly and available via podcast. I will post podcast links regularly. The following week I will be interviewing two Dreamers to get a more personal perspective on the importance of expanding our Sanctuary program and to hear how the current national climate is impacting Dreamers.
Early Childhood Education Expansion. I was the chief consultant and evaluator for Oakland Unified School District's Early Childhood Education programs for four years. I am passionate about the need for expanding early childhood education and would like to see this occur in Santa Fe. But I am conflicted by the current verbiage to the proposed Soda Tax. I spent some time yesterday reviewing the report that frames the City's approach and was impressed with many aspects of their review of the research. The report documents clearly the benefits from early childhood programs both from a fiscal and from a human perspective. Click the following link santafeprekunmetneedreport to read the report on unmet need. The report also describes fiscal projections that support how projected increases in our population will supplant most of the losses in revenue due to reduced consumption of soda due to the increased costs. Click here economicanalysis-december2016 for a report on the soda tax revenue plan. But while these reports are quite comprehensive there are still gaps in this proposal and its analysis. And as we learned above with Pappen's SB 182 Early Childhood Land Grant bill, you need to dig a bit deeper than a bill title. Specific concerns include:
A soda tax will hit low-income families hardest because they consume more soda than to upper income populations, But what guarantees are there that low-income communities and families will access these new slots? And in what proportion? What kinds of provisions will help struggling early childhood centers serving low-income communities build higher quality programs and expand their capacity? My guess is that South Side families will pay a disproportionate share of the Soda Tax, so South Side should derive a disproportionate share of the benefits. But what specific provisions are there in the proposal that addresses this? . I would like someone to step forward as a researcher who could work with me to fully vet this initiative so that we can either strongly endorse it or work with the City to find ways to amend it. This is an urgent need, so if you have a few hours, write to me at email@example.com.
Upcoming Town Halls and City Council Meetings related to Early Childhood Education Expansion:
- Sat., Feb 4, 10am | Early Childhood Education Town Hall, Genoveva Chavez Community Center |
- Weds., Feb 8, 7pm | City Council Meeting, City Hall | (get there early!)
- Weds., Mar 8, 7pm | City Council Meeting, City Hall – PUBLIC HEARING & VOTE (get there early!)
Tues. Feb 7, 5:30-7pm, Outreach Action Team Planning Mtg., 1420 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe. Join us to plan the launch of our Community Conversations Canvassing campaign and to discuss organizing panels and trainings, expanding alliances with other organizations, developing an outreach and organizing strategy in other NM communities, finalizing a plan for our Moral Monday event on Feb 20, and organizing a range of other events and outreach activities.
Thurs., Feb 9, 6pm-7:30pm. Showing Up Racial Justice (SURJ) Call-in Training in Creating Powerful Advocacy Research. This call will dig into concrete tools to research targets for actions and organizing campaigns. Join the Public Accountability Initiative to learn how you can deepen your chapters research capacity to develop powerful campaigns, and learn more about the launch of SURJ's research working group. This call will build on the research call in January, but it's not required that you participated in the first call to join this one. This is a tremendous national organization. Retake Our Democracy is forming an alliance with the Northern NM Chapter. I recommend this call-in to all members of our Research Action Team and to others who want to better understand how to use information to move people. Click here to RSVP and for more details. To request closed captioning, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Sat. Feb 11, 3:30-5:30pm, Retake Our Democracy Town Hall Meeting,1420 Cerrillos Rd, Santa Fe. Join us for presentations, breakout discussions, and action planning. Santa Fe City Council MemberRenee Villareal .
1 Billion Rising. Valentine's Day, Tue. February 14, 2017.11am. 1 Billion Rising. New Mexico State Capitol "The Roundhouse", 490 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe. 1 Billion Rising is organizing marches in over 70 countries and hundreds, if not thousands of US cities, including Santa Fe. The protest is in solidarity with all peoples threatened by the xenophobia, racism, and sexism that has erupted in our country. Click here for more information about the scope and purpose of this event. Click here to RSVP. Given the international scope of this event, there are very few RSVPs on this site. But I found a second FB site with another event page with over 100 RSVPs. Click here for that site.
Keith Olbermann Apologizes for America in a very moving statement. Worth a listen.
Categories: Actions, early childhood, Healthcare coverage, Immigrant Rights, Marijuana, Muslim, Roundhouse Lobbying


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Original Game Codex TextAlthough individuals from many planets and species live in the Corellian Sector, it's humans of Corellian descent who made the area what it is today: a pro-Republic criminal's paradise. There is no cargo that can't be offloaded here and no job so dirty that someone won't take it. The families of migrant workers live alongside grizzled Republic veterans who settled on Nar Shaddaa to retire in style, happily turning a blind eye to the darker activities around them.Over the past decade, the gangs and pirates of the Corellian Sector have become overshadowed by the presence of the Exchange. Once a group mentioned primarily in HoloNet information crime reports, the Exchange crime syndicate has found an army of able recruits on Nar Shaddaa willing to back its slicers and spice-refiners with muscle–much to the dismay of the Hutt Cartel.
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Faction: Empire
Level: 21
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For many, the first snowfall of the year is a beautiful sight, for others, some serious consideration may go into packing up and moving down to sunny, warm Mexico. Either way, no matter how you feel about winter, it's much more enjoyable when your home is ready to take on the freezing cold temperatures.
Here are my Top 7 ways you can winterize your home so you can better enjoy the colder, winter weather.
1. Check Your Fireplace
Take the time to sweep the ashes and dust out of your fireplace. If it's been or more since your last chimney inspection, call a professional to take a look. A buildup of creosote in your chimney is a really big fire hazard so it needs to be cleaned out yearly.
2. Direction of Your Ceiling Fan
If you're lucky enough to have a ceiling fan, be sure to change the direction of the blades so they turn clockwise. The clockwise movement works to push the warm air downwards into your living space.
3. Weather Stripping???
Look around the edges of your doors and windows carefully, if you notice gaps and can feel a draft with your fingers, install weather stripping to fill in those areas. This easy improvement can make a huge difference when the winter winds start to blow and temperatures really drop.
4. Prep Your Pipes
I'm not talking about your biceps, I'm speaking about proper insulation around the water pipes in your home - wrapping insulation around them can prevent them from freezing.
5. Prepare Your Outdoor Faucets
If you haven't already, be sure to remove the garden hose from your outdoor faucet so the water inside won't freeze - causing it to back up into your house! Place an outdoor faucet cover over the spigot to provide it with further protection from the elements.
6. Clean the Gutters
Be sure to clean your gutters before it snows, so when the snow melts the water can travel through them and away from your home.
7. Check Your Garage Door
Ensure your garage door is operating properly, if it's making strange noises, hesitating on its way up or down or there are any other issues, arrange for a garage door technician to inspect it. If you notice a gap beneath your closed garage door, check it to see if the bottom weather seal needs to be replaced.


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"No bended knee for me" – Who Does the Patriot Fight For?
"No bended knee for me"
Who Does the Patriot Fight For?
Gary Hunt
Outpost of Freedom
June 15, 2015
Almost every patriot I have met, when asked, "What are you willing to fight for?", will answer, my family – my children and grandchildren. The Founders chose the word "Posterity" to explain their objective in both fighting and establishing a new government comprised of member States. What they did, they did for us, their posterity.
So, what happened when that government established upon those principles, as well as others, becomes the enemy of that very protection that they were, and we are, willing to fight for?
In 1997, Jennifer McVeigh was threatened with a charge of treason and the possibility of the death penalty (McVeigh's Sister Tells Why She Aided U.S. Case Against Him) if she refused to testify against her brother. As tough at is it was, she opted to testify against her sibling.
Robert Beecher recently faced a similar situation. His daughter, Jessica, had owned two .22 caliber rifles that were found on the property that Beecher lived on, and one of which was included in the Indictment. She had also bought her father a .30-30 rifle for his birthday. This, too, was included in the Indictment and a picture of Robert holding the 30-30, pasted in Facebook, was instrumental in the government filing a Criminal Complaint, and securing search and arrest warrants for the property and Beecher.
During the initial interrogation of Beecher, FBI Special Agent Slater, having already ascertained that Jessica had purchased the firearms, suggested, "Maybe we should arrest her, instead". Though the applicability of federal law is, and ought to be, questioned, 18 U. S. Code §922 (d)(1) does make it criminal to transfer a weapon to a know felon, regardless of state law (See "Felon in Possession of a Firearm" is Not Legal or Lawful).
With the possibility of Jessica serving ten years in prison for giving a birthday present, Robert had the unfortunate necessity of making one of the most difficult decisions of his life. It was whether he, or Jessica, or both, would spend ten years in prison.
The only decision that could be more severe than what Robert faced would be whether he would give his life for her. Now the latter decision, I think we all would agree, has only one proper answer. So, we must consider that the former also has only one answer.
Some questions arise as to whether the threat to go after Jessica would be carried out. Would it have gotten Robert off on his charges? Would the government even stoop so low as to make such a threat — to coerce someone into pleading guilty to what should not even be a crime, unless there was criminal intent in the activity?
We have been taught that we are a nation of laws, not a nation of men. So, just what laws are we a nation of?
In 1982, the Justice Department tried to determine how many federal criminal laws there were. Their answer was that there were over 3,000 criminal laws (however, many of those laws have multiple conditions that may be met, increasing the actual crimes to considerably more) contained within the 23,000 (currently 27,000) pages of U. S. Code.
When there are that many laws, we are not a nation of law; rather, we are a nation subject to the will of the men that administer those laws.
This brings to mind a quote from James Madison in Federalist #63:
It poisons the blessing of liberty itself. It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?
In Robert's first letter to me, he said, "No bended knee for me". Against what Robert was faced with, he stood firm to the principles that guide true patriots. He refused to bend a knee, though the force was overwhelming, and he had no choice but to succumb to that force. He was willing to sacrifice a portion of his life — for his Posterity.
His plea agreement, which he entered into to protect his family, especially his daughter, Jessica, committed him to 10 years in prison and 5 years supervised release. The government has promised (if any weight can be attributed to a government promise) to file for a sentence reduction within 360 days. Only time will tell if, and what, that will be.
In the meantime, we must all understand that those who speak out will find that the government will pull out all of the stops to put us in prison, if they can find just one violation of those 3,000 laws. This will continue to be true UNTIL such time as we find the need to replace the government that has deviated so far from what the Founders intended.


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Kan ou-kan Trinidad and Tobago
澁川一流柔術 Shibukawa Ichi Ryu Jujutsu
無雙神傳英信流抜刀兵法 Muso Shinden Eishin Ryu Iai Heiho
大石神影流剣術 Oishi Shinkage Ryu Kenjutsu
Kan ou-kan Trinidad and Tobago classes are being held at the Trinidad and Tobago Budokai dojo at the St James Youth Center, George Cabral Circ. - St. James
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SMPT Port 465 and Port 587: What's the Difference?David Blum
Port 587 vs. port 465—what's the difference which should you use?
This is a pretty common question that comes up when sending emails. Below, we'll walk you through everything you need to know about port 587 and port 465. But first—let's get into a little necessary background information.
What is SMTP?
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and is basically "the way" to send email over the internet. It was initially proposed in August of 1982 in RFC 821. You can find a more detailed explanation on our blog here.
How are ports and services managed on the internet?
There are two governing bodies that oversee certain technologies and assignments.
First, the Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) is responsible for 3 primary concerns of internet regulation: domain names, number resources, and protocol assignments. It also maintains a list of service protocols and ports, which is particularly important for our research today. Anyone can register a new service as long as the port is still open, however, this registration with IANA does not in any way guarantee that the traffic to/from this port is "good" traffic.
Second, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) publishes standards that are used to make the internet run better. The IEFT uses RFCs (Request for Comments) to propose new changes or improvements.
For the purpose of our research, we are mainly interested in the RFCs around SMTP, ports 465 and 587.
What are TLS and StartTLS?
Finally, let's go over a little technical verbiage: TLS (Transport Layer Security) and StartTLS.
TLS is referred to as Implicit TLS, meaning that the initial connection is started with a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) or Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate. This requires a little bit more work for the client, but is a valid approach since the connection is encrypted from the start.
StartTLS is the protocol command that begins the conversation in plaintext, and if possible, upgrades to TLS. This is the preferred method as one port can handle both plaintext and TLS.
Port 465: Message submission over TLS protocol
Tl;dr Port 465 is used for implicit TLS, however, port 587 and startTLS are preferred.
Port 465 has an interesting history. In early 1997, the proposal for a new standard to submit SMTP messages with encryption was published. To that end, port 465 was registered with the IANA with the service description of smtps. However, because this was only registered via IANA and not submitted as an RFC to the IETF, it was never fully blessed as an encrypted port for SMTP. During the same year, the IETF standardized StartTLS on port 587 as the encryption protocol for SMTP message submission.
In an effort to simplify the process of encrypting SMTP messages, port 465 and smtps, were removed from the IANA registry. This led to a reasonable amount of confusion as port 465 and implicit TLS had gained a good amount of traction. To remedy this, the IETF issued a one-time amendment to reinstate port 465 for message submission over TLS protocol.
Today, port 465 is still listed on the IANA registry as the service port for message submission and URL Rendezvous Directory for SSM, URD for short. However, both of these services listed for port 465 adds to the confusion around the port, because URD has nothing to do with SMTP.
Port 587: Message submission
Tl;dr Port 587 is the default port for SMTP message submission.
Port 587 has always been the default port for message submission. The confusion around port 465 and port 587 stems back to 1997 when a standard for encrypted transit was being discussed. Ultimately, StartTLS was the protocol chosen. This enables a user to send with plaintext, or upgrade their connection to TLS using the same port. For this reason, this is the preferred approach.
Bonus, what is port 2525?
Often during the port 465 vs. 587 question, we see a lot of references to port 2525. What is this port, and what is it used for? Fortunately for us, this is a pretty quick and easy answer. A lot of ISPs will block port 25 in an effort to prevent home enthusiasts from running their own mail servers. In an effort to alleviate the issue around this blockage, many ESPs support port 2525 as an alternative.
Should you use port 587 or port 465?
Tl;dr Use port 587 if you can, 465 if you can't, and 25 if you must.
Port 587 is technically correct, the best kind of correct. However, many ESPs have adopted implicit TLS on port 465. While you can send email over port 25 and 2525, it's much more secure to have the messages encrypted. This makes port 587 the preferred option for sending, with port 465 as a close second.
Here's a quick overview:
- Port 587: This port is typically used for email submission by mail clients (e.g., Outlook, Thunderbird) to a mail server. It is part of the standards defined in the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) for email transmission. Port 587 usually requires authentication and encryption, providing a secure connection for sending emails. It is commonly used for the submission of outgoing mail.
- Port 465: This port was previously used for Secure SMTP (SMTPS). It has now been deprecated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), and its use is not recommended. However, some legacy email systems may still use Port 465 for SMTP with SSL/TLS encryption.
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Have U.S. schools become more racially segregated in the past two decades? It should seem a simple question to answer, based on the racial composition of schools then and now. But it's a raging debate among academics, journalists and policy advocates. It turns out that there are different ways to measure segregation or racial diversity and the different measures can sometimes point in opposite directions.
Consider the city of Providence, R.I. In 2000, just over a third, or 36 percent of the district's 55 public schools were at least 90 percent minority — black, Hispanic or Asian. Fifteen years later, almost three quarters, or 74 percent, of the schools were 90 percent or more non-white. At first glance, that might look like a dramatic resegregation. It was the biggest jump in non-white schools of any district in the nation, according to Meredith Richards, an expert in school segregation at Southern Methodist University, who calculated these figures for The Hechinger Report.
However, when Richards looked at how evenly the students of different races and ethnicities were spread throughout the city's schools, she found an improvement in student diversity. An index of how evenly all the city's races were distributed throughout the schools improved by 28 percent. Integration between black and white students improved by 27 percent. That is, the percentage of black, Hispanic, Asian and white students in each school better reflected the diversity of the school age population within Providence.
How can this be? How can you have more non-white schools, where blacks and Hispanics are less likely to interact with whites, while simultaneously have a better distribution of races throughout the schools?
Related: Nearly 750 charter schools are whiter than the nearby district schools
The answer to the riddle has to do with demographic shifts: who moved in and out of Providence between 2000 and 2015. Among the school-age population, Hispanics increased to 64 percent from 50 percent. Meanwhile, both the black and the white populations declined. The white population fell to less than 10 percent of the school district from almost 18 percent. If all the white students were evenly distributed among the schools, every single school in the city should have been designated 90 percent or more minority.
"People believe that measuring racial isolation captures the student experience," said Richards. "But I don't like measures that penalize diversity. We should be celebrating diversity. Increases in the proportion of non-whites — calling that segregation — I don't like that."
As the share of Hispanics or blacks rise but whites fall in many communities, it's not uncommon to simultaneously create more non-white schools and yet improve the distribution of students across the schools. Richards highlighted several other school districts where these segregation indicators moved in opposite directions between 2000 and 2015: Waco, Texas; Jackson, Miss.; East Baton Rouge, La.; and Trenton, N.J.
Each city has its own quirks and they affect these measurements too. In Providence, the school-age population fell by 9 percent and the city closed 13 schools during these 15 years. Merging two schools that leaned toward white increases the percentage of non-white schools. Jackson schools also lost population.
Related: Data show segregation by income (not race) is what's getting worse in schools
Academic experts tend to point to the evenness measure as a superior indicator of segregation because it can adjust for shifts in the population. But it's harder to measure and grasp.
The best analogy I've come up with is pizza. It's rather easy to count the number of all-mushroom or all-sausage pizzas and note how those numbers have gone up or down over time. Historically, the number of all-minority, racially isolated schools decreased from the 1960s to the 1980s but has increased steadily since. (It's noteworthy that you only see this increased racial isolation when you group all minorities together. The number of solely black schools has declined and solely Hispanic schools has remained stable. For example, 23 percent of black students attended a school that was 90 percent or more black in 2000. Fewer than 15 percent of black kids attended an all-black school 15 years later in 2015. Roughly 17 percent of Hispanics attend an all-Hispanic school, a share that hasn't changed since 2000.)
It's harder to look at all the toppings in your fridge and calculate if you've evenly placed them on all the pizzas you're making for a party. The math problem becomes more complicated if the amount of each topping in your fridge keep changing. Sociologists and political scientists often use Theil's index, which can be used to compare a district's residential population with the student population in each school, and puts each district on a 0 to 1 scale. Zero (0) means no segregation: all students go to a school that exactly mirrors the composition of the district. One (1) means complete segregation. Imagine a town that's half white and half black with only two schools, and one school is all white and the other is all black. That's a 1.
When you do this analysis for each school district in the United States, there was a dramatic redistribution of students from the 1960s through the 1980s, spreading blacks and whites more evenly in schools. Schools resegregated slightly in the 1990s and there have been very small improvements in racial integration since the 1990s.
Related: Are schools more segregated than in the 50s?
That's on average. In many districts, the sausage and mushrooms aren't being spread across the pizzas together like they used to. For example, Richards found that white and non-white students, who used to attend the same schools in 2000, were more likely to attend separate schools in 2015 in these schools districts: Charlotte-Mecklenberg, N.C., Indianapolis; Hawaii; Sacramento, Calif.; Milwaukee and Detroit. For these districts, the number of non-white schools also increased. By either measure of evenness or racial isolation, it's getting more segregated in these towns and regions.
However, the segregation indicators can also move in the opposite direction here, too. There are districts were the students are less evenly distributed among the schools, and yet there are now fewer all-minority schools. These cities include San Francisco, Richmond, Va., Laredo, Texas, and Seattle. Again, this can happen because of demographic shifts, such as an influx of white families into the district. A black or Hispanic child might be more likely to attend a school with white children in 2015 but the races are even more clustered into separate schools than they were in 2000.
There are also districts where both segregation indicators are improving. Students are more evenly distributed and the number of racially isolated schools is decreasing. That happened in Hartford, Conn.; Washington D.C.; Pittsburgh; Newark, N.J., and Cleveland. In some cases, such as in Hartford, a court-ordered integration plan reassigned students. In other cases, such as Washington, D.C., there were large population shifts with more whites and Hispanics pouring into the district and blacks exiting, combined with new school choice policies that made it easier for students to attend schools outside of their neighborhood.
The main limitation of this district-by-district analysis is that it only looks at integration or segregation within school districts. Researchers have found increasing segregation across school district lines. Consider a suburban school district with predominantly white families that abuts an urban school district with mostly black and Hispanic families. Within each district, the students might be more equitably distributed. But the urban district might have gained more Hispanics, and reduced its share of white families, so that racial contrast between the two districts has grown starker.
Related: Behind the Latino college degree gap
Integrating across district lines is difficult. School leaders don't have the authority to assign students to schools outside their district borders. And state politicians are wary of busing students far from their homes.
"Schools alone can't fix this," said Sheneka Williams, an expert in school desegregation history at the University of Georgia. "Housing is a place to start. There has to be a federal incentive with housing. If the nation is interested in integrating schools, you have to incentivize people to live together."
This story about segregation was written by Jill Barshay and produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.


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11 TV Characters That Need A Spinoff ASAP
TV spinoffs are strange beasts, as they can center on anything from different cities' crime scene investigation units to one-off characters branching out in a new setting through a backdoor pilot. But since we'd prefer to stick with established characters over new ones, our favorite spinoffs tend to revolve around beloved people doing the things that made us like them in the first place. (Sorry, Joey, but you don't count.)
With news that the Bud Bundy-centered Married…With Children spinoff is rolling along ever so slowly, we decided to look back at 11 other TV standouts whose lives we'd love to catch up with, mostly with the original actors taking on the roles of course. Better Call Saul proved that quality doesn't have to suffer from one iteration to the next, and we're pretty sure every one of these would make the fall TV season a better one.
Cristina Yang (Grey's Anatomy)
As one of the Grey's Anatomy characters who remained interesting and non-forced throughout the ten years that she was on the show, Cristina Yang killed some series momentum when she decided to move to Zurich to head a hospital there. It would be interesting to have an entire series dedicated to her that also shined some kind of light on how the medical profession works in Switzerland. And if she still has Gaius Charles' Dr. Shane Ross working under her, it's all the better. Of course, Sandra Oh is the one who decided to leave the show, so she might not be up for a spinoff, but we'll remain Oh-peful.
Phyllis Lapin-Vance (The Office)
Even though The Office as a whole got long in the paper tooth after nine seasons on NBC, the killer ensemble of actors managed to keep their characters both relevant and enjoyable. Phyllis Smith's kind-hearted and slightly sassy Phyllis Lapin-Vance is just such a character, and her overall arc is a perfect fit for a follow-up. She got married to Bob Vance (of Vance Refrigeration), which created what will forever be one of TV's most lovable couples, and she's one of the characters who didn't get very many side stories within the show beyond mentions of a long-lost daughter. Let's see what kinds of non-havoc Phyllis and Bob are causing these days, perhaps far away from cubicled settings.
Claire Fisher (Six Feet Under)
It's not all that often a TV show will host a spinoff for a character whom audiences watched die within the flagship series, but since Six Feet Under famously depicted everyone's deaths in its heartbreaking finale, this can be an easy exception. Claire lived to the ripe old age of 101 and spent her life as an award-winning photographer and photography teacher in New York. As the youngest of the Fisher siblings, Claire had the most growing and maturing to do, which seemed to kick off when she started dating lawyer Ted. I would love to see how adult Claire balances her emotion-fueled idealism with the drive to become successful doing what she loves. Cameos from Michael C. Hall and Matthew St. Patrick wouldn't hurt, either.
Woody Boyd (Cheers)
Rarely does a major TV character get replaced by someone just as engaging and memorable, but that definitely happened when Woody Harrelson joined the cast of Cheers following Nicholas "Coach" Calasanto passed away. Woody seemed like the biggest goofball in the bar, but he was interestingly as mentally competent (if not more so) than everyone around him. By the end of the series, he was on the Boston City Council and was expecting a kid with his wife Kelly. I can't imagine where Woody would be 23 years later, or how much fatherhood and his career would have changed him, but I will watch literally anything with Harrelson in it. Maybe he opened up his own bar…
Sookie St. James (Gilmore Girls)
Everybody likes to talk about how much they want a Gilmore Girls reunion to happen, but I'm personally not that invested in Rory and Lorelai's stories anymore. What my life needs is more Sookie, the culinary queen played by Melissa McCarthy, an actress whose level of fame has eclipsed her Gilmore Girls years several times over, making this spinoff idea arguably the biggest longshot on this list. A standard sitcom with Sookie, Jackson and their three kids would probably be a little too much like her current show Mike and Molly, so my hopes would be that Amy Sherman-Palladino would bring her and Jackson back in a food-related scenario. Bandanas included.
Leon Black (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
It's no small feat to enter a comedian-filled show like Curb your Enthusiasm and immediately become one of the most engaging characters onscreen. But that's exactly what J.B. Smoove did when he entered the show during Season 6 as Hurricane Edna refugee Leon Black, who moved in with Larry and kind of changed the curmudgeon's life forever with his signature outlook on life and the world around him. We may never get Larry David back for Season 9 of Curb, but spending more time with Leon (and possibly the rest of the Black family) would be a perfect kind of silver lining. HBO needs to get in that ass for a Leon spinoff.
Vince Masuka (Dexter)
Now that everyone has largely stopped giving a shit about Dexter Morgan's fate following Dexter's dreadful finale, we can focus all of our attention to C.S. Lee's sex-adoring forensic science investigator Vince Masuka. As one of the main forms of comic relief on a series that dealt with death and serial killers, Masuka also managed to imbue a certain amount of heart and kindness that doesn't often come from characters who speak predominantly in double entendres. I would totally be down for a Hello Ladies-ish series where audiences follow the sexual foibles of the brainy tech as he develops his relationship with his daughter.
Paul Pfeiffer (The Wonder Years)
We're never going to get a proper Wonder Years reunion, which is fine, since that show's approach and impact was largely tied to the time period, the Arnold family and the voiceover work. However, there's nothing wrong with a show dedicated entirely to best friend Paul and where his life is now – and I'm assuming "now" would be in the 1990s. Of course, Josh Saviano quit acting after The Wonder Years ended and focused on a law career, returning for guest spots on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit in 2014 and 2015. But I'm perfectly fine with Paul being a lawyer in this fictional future, perhaps starting up a firm with the "real" Josh Saviano. Double up!
Paulie Walnuts (The Sopranos)
While we usually want to see where characters end up after a series is over, nothing sounds better than a prequelized spinoff centered on The Sopranos' Paulie Gualtieri, better known as Paulie Walnuts. We want to see Paulie's early years in the criminal underworld as a vicious debt collector, where he and a crew of low-level mobsters spend each week using their verbal and physical skills to try and collect arrears from different people from a variety of backgrounds. We realize that it's near-blasphemy to get someone besides Tony Sirico to play Paulie, but maybe the show could have a wraparound where present-day Paulie is telling someone else about the old days. We'll leave the specifics to David Chase.
Bill Haverchuck (Freaks and Geeks)
Even though it could be assumed that Martin Starr's character on Silicon Valley is a grown-up version of his Freaks and Geeks character Bill Haverchuck, I like to think that Bill wouldn't have become such an angst-mongering tool later in life. Arguably the biggest geek in the show, Bill also felt the most genuine, balancing his wide-eyed semi-innocence with a sense of humor that was beyond his years, and I would hope that his ascent to adulthood would find him in a similar state of mind. Maybe he's roommates with Samm Levine's Neal Schweiber as the duo try to market a role-playing board game that they created.
Zapp Brannigan (Futurama)
I would gladly take a spinoff series from any Futurama character, as well as several new seasons of the show itself. But I've always been interested in seeing the intergalactic trials and tribulations of the womanizing Zapp Brannigan, and I would love to either watch the character's rise up the military ranks to becoming a 25-star General, or just catching up with him in the modern day for a non-serialized series of over-the-top space missions, during which he is shunned by the female sex and eventually saved from his own stupidity by his right-hand alien Kif. The only necessities here are voice actor Billy West and really short costumes.
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Long Day Sampler
Their most popular varieties – Walla Walla, Red Burgermaster, and Ringmaster. A wonderful mixed assortment (appx. 5 doz.) that allows gardeners with limited space or who want to try some new varieties with an economical option. This combination is a unique offering from Dixondale Farms.
This open pollinated yellow onion is the pride of the Northwest and the sweetest of all the long-day varieties. A retired French soldier introduced the seed to Washington State in the late 1800s from Corsica. Fastest-growing of long-day onions. Open pollinated, stores approximately one month, matures in 90 days, semi-flat, yellow.
Red Burgermaster
This is the most expensive onion seed we buy but it is worth every cent. Seed was very limited this year but we were able to buy all the seed that was available. The sharpness of the red bulbs and the sweetness of its interior make this red onion the most popular red onion among northern gardeners. This onion has just the right flavor to accent your burger or your favorite salad. Hybrid, stores approximately 3-4 months, matures in 105 days, globe-shaped, red.
This is an improved strain of the White Sweet Spanish. It produces larger bulbs with firm, mild flesh. It is the favorite for onion rings since it has single centers and large, crisp rings. With its large, dark green tops, it also is a favorite for green onions. Open pollinated, stores approximately 4-5 months, matures in 105 days, globe-shaped, white.
We also ordered three other kinds.
First Edition
This is the first storage onion we made available and it is still a popular storage onion variety. It uniformly produces medium size bulbs that are great for cooking and freezing. Its thin neck allows no air to get to the bulb for sprouting during the storage season. Hybrid, stores approximately 10-12 months, matures in 110 days, globe-shaped, yellow. Performs well in northern portions of intermediate day areas as well.
Big DaddyThese extra-large, yellow bulbs produce a more tender flesh suitable for eating raw. Big Daddy grows well in most areas of the country because it is the earliest maturing storage onion that we have available. It will not store as long as the First Edition or Copra, but is by far the largest onion of the storage types. Hybrid, stores approximately 8-10 months, matures in 110 days, globe-shaped, yellow.
Red Zeppelin
What a name! What an onion! When grown from transplants, it will produce jumbo and colossal bulbs. Based on customer feedback, we have replaced the Red Bull with this more widely adaptable red onion. We are sure Red Zeppelin will please more of our customers! Hybrid. Stores approximately 8 months. Matures in 110 days. Globe-shaped, dark red.
We are also starting some from seed.
Onion Hybrid Granex Yellow PRR
One of the sweetest onions available. Large, thick, flat bulb shape with very mild flesh. Stays firm, crisp and sweet when stir fried. Unfortunately, a short-day onion, so it won't do well here.
Cipolla Dorata di Parma
An Italian onion with large, top-shaped bulb, flattened at the poles, numerous external tunics with a beautiful golden yellow color and great flavor. (Gilded Parma Onion)
Cipolla Valenciana tardia
A medium late globe-shaped onion, very large, with a dark yellow coat and sweet, white flesh.
|The first part of the summer was
quite dry, and D had to water the onions frequently. Not an easy
task, since it meant carrying buckets of water from the hand pump to
the garden.
It was worth it, though.
This is the potato and onion garden, and beans and flowers will be growing on the fences later in the season. Each garden must be fenced. Between the deer, the woodchucks, the rabbits, and the cats, it is a battle to beat them to the produce.
The harvest was excellent.
It is a real joy to feel free to eat onions and scallions to our hearts content, plus have a lot put by for the winter.
We made many jars of bread and butter pickles, our favorite. Plus tomato sauce. And salsa.
We followed a suggestion we read to put the onions in pantiehose - we tried it, but probably won't again.
We then hung them from a clothes rack - which broke during the night and scared the liver out of us.
I think that D will make wire racks for them for next year.
We have received the Dixondale Farms catalog and are looking forward to ordering.
If you want to join me in an order, let me know - there are price breaks for ordering in quantity.
We have enjoyed the fruits of D's labor!


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Spiced Lamb Shanks
4 lamb shanks
Flour (for gluten free version use tapioca flour)
Olive oil for sautéing
1 large onion coarsely chopped
6 cloves garlic coarsely chopped
2 carrots chopped into 1 inch pieces
2 stalks celery
½ cup brown lentils
1 28oz can petite diced tomatoes
1 cup water
2 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp curry
½ tsp cayenne pepper (adjust to taste)
2 bay leaves
1 tablespoon finely grated lemon peel.
1 cinnamon stick
Lightly dust your lamb shanks in flour or, if preparing gluten-free, tapioca flour. Use a 10" or 12" Dutch oven and lightly the brown lamb shanks in 3 tablespoons olive oil. Remove and set aside the lamb shanks. Add a little more olive oil if necessary then add the onion, garlic, carrots and celery into the Dutch oven and cook for 3 minutes. Add remaining ingredients and cook for an additional 2 minutes. Place lamb shanks on top of vegetable mixture and cover with a round of parchment paper. Place the lid on your Dutch oven and cook at 300° for 2 ½ to 3 hours or until lamb has reached desired temperature on meat thermometer, 160° to 170°.
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by Shirley Jackson
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is fairly tasty, more or less satisfying aesthethically and yet still puzzlingly popular fare--the reading equivalent of being promised an old school hearty meal along the lines of a juicy steak and a Caesar salad and then having to settle for a high end chicken pot pie "with an incredibly flaky crust" and no salad whatsoever. Whatever, why I'm not bummed that I read the book: 1) Mary Katherine "Merricat" Blackwood, the 18-year old narrator who spends much of her time fantasizing about taking her loved ones on a ride to the moon, is an undeniably fascinating creation: at once adorable--you may even want to protect her--a bit of a kook, and a sick puppy. For example, a revenge-minded line like "I wished they were all dead and I was walking on their bodies" (429) might seem like typical teenage sass when taken out of context except that Merricat has already confided that "I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in my family is dead" (421) and "I always thought about rot when I came toward the row of stores; I thought about burning black painful rot that ate away from inside, hurting dreadfully. I wished it on the village" (426). Get the picture? 2) For a dark fable that can be read as a somewhat cynical anti-bullying but pro-poisoning attack on our notions about the nuclear family, conformity, and the idea of small town community, the loving relationships between Merricat, her older sister Constance, their sickly Uncle Julian, and even Merricat's pet cat Jonas are warmly and not at all cynically observed. Humorously, too: crazy old Uncle Julian's loaded remark to Constance--"You have been a good niece to me, although there are grounds for supposing you an undutiful daughter" (465)--is exactly the sort of thing I would have wanted to hear from the eccentric uncle who survived the arsenic poisoning that killed off most of the rest of his family and for which his niece was accused but acquitted of committing. Why the book isn't anywhere near as big a deal as its legions of admirers maintain: 1) Cousin Charles Blackwood, the money-hungry (and would-be romantic) threat to the Blackwood sisters' family dynamics, and almost all of the town villagers are mostly caricaturish types as villains. 2) In a novel in which the narrator's fairy tale-like interior life requires more than the usual amount of suspension of disbelief from the reader but offers such extravagant joys in return, how disappointingly ironic that the act of "realistic" violence that turns the Blackwood home into a castle in ruins near the end of the novel is so totally unconvincing and lacking and pedestrian from a storytelling standpoint. It completely breaks the narrative spell. Why so many bloggers are willing to bestow their highest Zagat ratings on books that have little more than an incredibly flaky crust to offer: you tell me, comfort food readers! Chicken pot pie for the soul? Yes, that must certainly be the answer to the We Have Always Lived in the Castle popularity question for, as one emo Amazon reviewer has so earnestly put it, "Anyone who reads this novel and is not deeply affected emotionally is simply not human."


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I have a new paper coming out in the journal Law and Philosophy. This one looks at originalist theories of constitutional interpretation through the lens of speech act theory. In particular, it critiques approaches to originalism that assume there is a linguistic and factual core to the doctrine.
Here is the abstract, along with links to pre-publication versions of the paper. I will add a link to the published version as soon as it is online:
Title: The Normativity of Linguistic Originalism: A Speech Act Analysis
Journal: Law and Philosophy
Abstract: The debate over the merits of originalism has advanced considerably in recent years, both in terms of its intellectual sophistication and its practical significance. In the process, some prominent originalists — Lawrence Solum and Jeffrey Goldsworthy being the two discussed here — have been at pains to separate out the linguistic and normative components of the theory. For these authors, while it is true that judges and other legal decision-makers ought to be originalists, it is also true that the communicated content of the constitution is its original meaning. That is to say: the meaning is what it is, not what it should be. Accordingly, there is no sense in which the communicated content of the constitution is determined by reference to moral desiderata; linguistic desiderata do all the work. In this article I beg to differ. In advancing their arguments for linguistic originalism, both authors rely upon the notion of successful communications conditions. In doing so they implicitly open up the door for moral desiderata to play a role in determining the original communicated content. This undercuts their claim and changes considerably the dialectical role of linguistic originalism in the debate over constitutional interpretation.
Pre-publication versions: available here and here.