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On Air with WIDR FM Live Show & Interview
Thank you WIDR and Western Michigan University for sharing the air waves with us!
In-Studio Performance at WIDR FM's Radio Station
September 29th we will be performing live on Western Michigan College's radio station, WIDR FM. Tune in for our in-studio concert and interview!
Alice (LIVE) - PBS TV Show
Thirty Steps to Forward was recently on television!
Come fall down the rabbit hole with us as we perform our original song Alice after Lewis Carroll's protagonist.
Live Broadcast of Thirty Steps to Forward on PBS
Very excited to announce that Thirty Steps to Forward will be performing on the live television program, Hometown Pickin'!
The length of the show will run 60 minutes. We'll be performing songs off our album Hinterland, as well as our debut album The Bird and The Fool.
We'll be posting the archived show as soon as it is available for those of you not able to view it live.
"Hinterland" gets reviewied by Listen to the Mitten
Our latest work titled "Hinterland" has just been reviewed by Michigan's own Listen to the Mitten.
"...It's the dusk in fall of albums. The sort of thing you want to listen to on your headphones while you drink coffee in your back yard on a fall evening, watching the fireflies twinkle in the grass."
The full review can be found here.
Something Else Reviews of "Hinterland"
A huge thanks to Something Else Reviews for all of their kind words about our album. They're a great site dedicated to spreading the word about music, and we're very pleased to be a part of it by their review of Hinterland.
"...Here on the duo's second album, Hinterland, we're serenaded to a stream of lovely and lilting lullaby-like songs..."
Dive into the full review here!
"Hinterland" Review by ProgNaut
Reading this review was such an honor to us and a nice surprise! It made our day to hear it sounded like it could be coming from a boxcar making its way down the rails..
"...Seth and Gretchen Powers are old souls inhabiting young bodies, producing the type of timeless music that's easy to imagine coming from either a boxcar heading down the rails or on the front porch of a tattered farmhouse in Kansas during the Dust Bowl of the 30s'. It's the music of an impromptu Hootenanny in a San Francisco coffee house in the 60s'. And just as at home on a makeshift stage in the corner of a contemporary bookstore/coffee shop in Chicago, Illinois..."
Read the whole review here!
Thanks guys!
Jam Records
Both of our albums are now available for purchase from the great people of
Jam Records!
We hope that you will visit their site and browse the selection of other very talented artists! They are really doing a great of making good music available and introducing you to a vast array of music.
Jam Records is passionate about the music they carry and their musicians.
Please stop by their page, say hello and help support them so they can continue doing what they do!
Review of Hinterland
We're pleased to share a link to Hinterland's recent review by The Indie Blender. A shout out of thanks to Marc for describing his experience of Hinterland so vividly.
Hop on over, give it a read, and be sure to show some love to these great folks!
The new album Hinterland is officially available now!
Our latest full-length album Hinterland is a collection of twelve songs revolving around the tangled wilderness of human frailty.
You can grab yourself a copy (digital or physical) here.
A New Home(page) for Thirty Steps to Forward
In honor of our new album Hinterland, we have updated our website to match the the feel of our latest endeavor. We hope you feel at home here, and take time to browse around, we're still in the process of adding goodies for you so check back often!
Foundry Hall Benefit Show Coverage
The Foundry Hall Benefit Concert we're performing at on March 22nd has also received coverage in Recoil Magazine's March pages. Thanks guys! You can view the story on page 26 here!
Concert to Benefit Foundry Hall
The March issue of REVUE Magazine has an article covering the Foundry Hall benefit concert we're putting on. You can check it out on page 13! And we're officially sending a big thanks out to them (you know who you are)!
"Fact: Music venues have a hard time staying in business. That's not a fate Foundry Hall, or its supporters, are willing to accept. The cozy South Haven performance venue has been going strong with a steady diet of local and national acts. All the while, the building had been up for sale, and one local band is making sure it becomes the venue's permanent home. "We always felt that [Foundry Hall] brings a lot of local acts the opportunity to perform, and even national acts," says Gretchen Powers, half of the folk duo Thirty Steps to Forward. "We read in the paper they were looking to purchase the building. We thought we could do something." That something is coming in the form of a benefit show on March 22 at 7:30 p.m. Powers and her brother will appear with The Alabama Spanking Machines and Chicago-based Rebecca Rego. Admission is $7 and all the proceeds go to the cause." -REVUE MAGAZINE
Hinterland album art preview
Here's a little sneak peek at our new album Hinterland's cover art.
The release date for Hinterland is set for March 7th, so mark your calendars!
Our new album Hinterland
It's official! After a lot of hard work, we've finally finished up our new album Hinterland. We are so pleased with it! It just got sent off, and soon we will be holding it in our eager hands.
The Bird and the Fool - Official Video
We're thrilled to share the music video for our title-track The Bird and The Fool with all of you. Filled with feathers, masks, birds, trees, and two folk musicians - this music video was a lot of fun to film. Seth enjoyed filming all day in the out-of-doors and Gretchen got to play guitar with feathers on her arms. An indie music video has been born. Here it is.
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I expected to feel a little out of place at the swanky university event for bioethics. My wife, a professor with expertise in the field, had invited me. But when I introduced myself as a software engineer to the attendees, many wanted to talk about one thing -- artificial intelligence (AI). How would it affect society? What are the goods and the bads?
Artificial intelligence has been popping up everywhere. At a recent family holiday event, a relative held a long conversation with my brother and I about how our companies --- Google and Agolo --- were destroying jobs by automating human tasks.
Artificial intelligence has entered the national conversation on a broad scale. 2017 could be the year that we start to see AI becoming part of our lives and causing some disruptive change.
Before we speculate on the potential downsides of increased automation due to AI, let's consider some of the positives:
The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates that self-driving technology could save up to 94% of the 35,000 yearly vehicle deaths caused by human error. That number is more than the number of U.S. military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, and victims of domestic terrorism.
New consumer products that utilize AI can make us more efficient and enable us to potentially have more impact. Services such as a personal assistant or research assistant, which previously were only available to people in higher positions, are now available for a small price due to AI-powered services (see: X.ai and agolo.com).
AI may be able to shed light into problems that have been unsolvable - cancer treatment, virus control, how to optimize education, etc. An anecdote from the Go match between Fen Hui and Google's AlphaGo engine illustrates this.
After playing a close match, AlphaGo played a move that surprised many of the people in attendance, including Fen Hui. "It's not a human move. So beautiful."
In the case of the game of Go, the machine is given a simple goal; win the match. But what about when AI faces complex decisions and trade-offs? That brings us to some of the concerns about AI - that despite the complexity of the algorithms, the biases and short-sightedness of the engineers can cause unforeseen ramifications.
If we look over the past year, we can see a few examples of this. Microsoft released an AI-powered chat bot, "Tay." However, within a few hours Twitter users had figured out how to get the bot to repeat Nazi propaganda and images. It seems that the engineers hadn't considered this "edge-case," and the bot wasn't prepared for the malicious attack.
Tesla released their autonomous driving technology, insisting that it was not meant to be fully autonomous. However, the reliance of the technology on light images may have caused the death of a driver in a fatal accident. Newer models are relying on radar technology as well as light images.
Besides the engineering errors that can seep through AI technology, there are also human concerns. What about the jobs that AI will replace? The self-driving truck startup Otto threatens to disrupt the jobs of 10's of 1000's. What will these people do from now on?
Every technical disruption has a darker side. The industrial revolution improved manufacturing efficiency 50-fold, but it also created an oversupply of workers, causing many to lose their livelihood. That's actually where the term "luddite" comes from - Luddites were textile workers who revolted against the new technology.
Many have begun proposing solutions to the eventual automation onslaught caused by AI. Anti-technologists would like to prevent autonomous technologies from being adopted in order to protect jobs. Some technologists like Elon Musk have said that governments might have to establish a universal basic income to support displaced workers.
Just like complex problems faced by AI, our national attitude towards AI involves trade-offs. If we accept the technological progress, we also have to confront the job losses and need for re-training. If we shut out AI, we risk dropping behind as a leader in innovation and industry. The trick will be getting AI to play for us, not against us.
This article by Tom Goldenberg is part of the LinkedIn Top Voices list, a collection of the must-read writers of the year.

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I have made no secret in past articles that I am a big fan of companies that have shown they can pay growing dividends through time and even weather recessions without cutting their dividends. I recently had to make a decision on which stock I wanted to add to my retirement portfolio, Exxon (NYSE:XOM) or Chevron (NYSE:CVX).
Both of these companies have a great history of increasing their dividends in nearly every year since they began paying dividends. Incredibly, during the recession of 2007-2009 Exxon increased their dividend by 20% while Chevron managed to increase their dividend by 30%. In the end I decided that both companies deserved a place in my portfolio. I want to go through part of the analysis I used when I came to my decision.
When looking to build a long-term portfolio of stocks that pay high dividends, investors usually come up with a mix of stocks that either have high dividend yields or high dividend growth rates. It is difficult to find good companies that have both. This means that there is often a choice to be made. All else equal, should one invest in the company that has that enticing high dividend yield, but a low dividend growth rate, or does one exude patience and invest in the company with a relatively low yield, but a high dividend growth rate? Let's take a look at some of the characteristics of Exxon and Chevron.
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You can see that Chevron has a slightly higher dividend yield than Exxon, but Exxon has a higher one year dividend growth rate. This presents a good case study in which company will give the investor a greater return due to dividends over time. More specifically, I want to measure the Yield on Cost (YOC) and how it changes over time as well as the compounded annual return due to dividends. The YOC simply measures the annual dividend divided by the original investment in the company's stock.
For this example I will assume that Exxon's dividend grows at an annual rate of 12% and Chevron's dividend grows at 10%. I ran the following results in our free calculator called Dividend Yield And Growth.
It takes 8 years for the YOC for Exxon to break even with the YOC for Chevron. Of course, due to compounding we see the YOC for Exxon explode upward eventually. But this assumes that the company can continue its relatively high rate of dividend growth going forward.
Interestingly, although the yield on cost breaks even after 8 years, the compounded returns take 16 years to break even. It is also important to note that I do not consider any price appreciation in these calculations and compounded returns are due solely to dividends.
Another interesting way to look at this is, what does Exxon's dividend growth rate have to be in order for the returns to break even after 10 years? I kept Chevron's dividend growth rate set at 10%. It turns out that Exxon's dividend must grow at a 12.5% annual rate in order for the returns to break even after 10 years. In order for the compounded returns to break even after 5 years, Exxon's dividend growth rate must be 18%.
Both of these stocks are wonderful additions to retirement portfolios. With a very solid history of increased dividends through time, low payout ratios, and evidence of weathering recessions, these two stocks can provide the stability of dividend income that many are looking for in retirement.
Lastly, I have found by plugging in various dividend yields into our Retirement Planner that finding dividend payers who can return just 2% more than bonds or other dividend payers can increase the time that funds last in retirement by more than a decade. The key is finding companies who will either pay a strong dividend or have serious dividend growth and have shown a culture of not cutting dividends when times get tough.
Disclosure: I am long XOM, CVX. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.


text: Kosmor :: View topic - Declaration of War Imprint Search Log in Legal Memberlist Profile Declaration of War Kosmor Forum Index -> Kosmor RPG View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message AgnarGuest Posted: Fri Mar 03, 2006 05:44 Post subject: Declaration of War We have been in support of our allies in their conflict against the Memorial consortium, but now Agnari hereby declare themselves in a state of war with the Memorial/Arabia consortium. We honour our enemies, as they have shown themselves to be very capable warriors, but we must honour our commitment to the alliance treaty, and we simply cannot ignore the many requests for help that we have had from imperators who have suffered at their hands. May it be a good fight. (edited for typo) Back to top BucanGuest Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 05:06 Post subject: Dear Lord Agnari, with sadness i am reading this declaration..... But i have to honor your declaration... Because the NOoT chickens are not man's enough to do something like that... ^^ And they even not *simply said* so intelligent to win such a figth... ^^ And that is the funny point : The Nummber 1 house can not defeat a single player ^^ rofl Back to top michimikeGuest Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 07:46 Post subject: *michimike bows low and takes his hat off to Bucan* Glory to him, who successfully resits against the house number 1. Bucan, good luck against two large houses at the same time! Back to top AlteronGuest Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 09:21 Post subject: As any honorable imperator, I respect my opponents, and honour the outcomes of a fair fight. Bucan is my neighbour, and we have had a long, peaceful relationship. Until recently, that is. His last series of betrayals and back-stabbings have been too much for me to find bearable. At this point I only long for the day when Bucan's empire crumbles. That decire stated; I also hope that the fight remains honorable. Back to top MicaRGuest Posted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 15:53 Post subject: MicaR was puzzled. He stood at the bridge and looked onto the latest public messages. "I wonder, who the chicken is... Who is fleeing all the time, cowardly sticking his head up his arse? Guess who? Buttcan or something like that... Anyway, open a channel to Agnar. Tell him I am looking forward to fight this battle side by side. We will crush these cowards, even if they flee like young chickens... Over and out. M" Back to top michimikeGuest Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 06:16 Post subject: Quote: Galactic news of the day 36/3502 Member of the House One-of-Many (house Agnari) conquered a solar system from Councilor of the House michimike (house AustrianAlliance) (destroyed combat power: 12). Seems, that Agnari wants war with more than only one enemy. I regard this as a declaration of war to my house, although I never got a written declartation of war from Agnar. Agnar. Are you to cowardly to write a declaration to my house in here? Or do you think my house is too weak to be be worth a declaration of war? I'm really disappointed of Agnaris behaviour. I was in negotiations with Agnar about this planet and they weren't finished yet, but he conquered it back-stabbing. I thought he was a man of honour but now I know: he is not. His messages were just full of lies and nothing else. I learned that it is a big mistake to trust his word. From my point of view it seems that they just think they are strong enough to beat everyone; that they could conquer everything without resistance and don't need honour anymore. Attention, Alliance! I hope you are not bedazzled of their behaviour, although they attack just your enemies now... but if they go on like this an alliance is no barricade for their urge of expansion. Back to top michimikeGuest Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 09:48 Post subject: Maybe some of my reproaches were wrong. I got the following answer of Agnar: Agnar wrote: *censored* Although I got a message of an anonymous player not to trust Agnari, I'll do once more. But I announce: next time when they conquer a planet of my own without my accordance, I have to count this as a declaration of war and I have to join the war on Bucan's side EDIT: I censored the IGM of Agnar. Sorry, I didn't know that it's not allowed to post IGMs.Last edited by michimike on Mon Mar 06, 2006 08:07; edited 1 time in total Back to top AgnarGuest Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 06:28 Post subject: Hmm, i am dissapointed by this dispaly Mitchiemike. We were negotiating a deal for a few of these planets. You wanted a cople of ours in return. I had spoken to the relevant parties in my house, and they agreed to your deal. I set a mission for those planets. You took one of the planets that you wanted. Unfortunately, the imperator that owned both of those planets left us (i dont know why, after he agreed the deal), and so i sent a message to those who weere moving towards your planets to wait until we could re-negotiate something. One of them stopped immeadiately. The other (one-of-many) did not. These things happen sometimes in the kosmor universe, as communication is not instant. I am sure we have all had simialr situations. I have had no responce from one-of-many, so i can only assume that he set course before my message and has been away or something. Usually he is very responsive. You mis-quote me, as i said i would drop one-of-many if he continues to go against the house wishes. I have every confidence that he will not. He is normally a valuable of co-operative team member for our house. Besides, you break the rules of the forum by posting any part of my messages here at all! The rules clearly state that IGMs should not be posted. I will not use my power as a mod to delete the reference, as it might show abuse of the power, but one of the other mods might. Besides, the damage has been done with you slander and mis-quote anyway... We did not want war with you, but if that is what you want then we will be ready. As for our allies, we have our relations with them, and they know us. The experrience *you* have of us starts from when you waltz into our lands early on in our house history and demand many planets from us by force. Where was your honour then? If we are quick to defned what we feel is ours, then it is actions like you did back then, against a small and forming house, that make us so. I am confident that our actions with our alliles will maintain a good relationship, and your slander will not damage that. Back to top michimikeGuest Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2006 08:15 Post subject: Sorry, I edited my post and deleted your IGM. I'll never post IGMs again disaccording to the writer. Agnar, please show me the Galactic News, where I conquered so "many" planets. I only wanted to give a chance to one player to leave your house, without beeing ripped off by you. And I did never walk into your land! You just demonstrate that you don't avoid to lie. You ask me where my honour was? You said no, so I didn't attack you or anyone of your house and no Agnari ever was integrated into my house. 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Distilbène, Mediator, Isomeride: they are all drugs once sold legally in Europe but now believed to have provoked serious side effects including hundreds of deaths. An urgent review of medicine monitoring systems in the EU is essential according to MEPs who voted in favour of a report on this by MEP Linda McAvan on 11 September.
About the agreement
An agreement on a revision of the legislation was negotiated after talks between the Parliament, the Council and the Danish presidency. MEPs voted on it during the September 2012 plenary session in Strasbourg. The aim of the agreement is to better detect potentially unsafe medicines and speed up action to take them off the market.
The changes proposed in the agreement include:
If a company decides not to renew a marketing licence due to safety reasons, this will automatically trigger an emergency evaluation at EU level
When companies voluntarily withdraw a drug, they must specifically declare if it due to a safety concern
All drugs subject to a post-authorisation safety study will be labelled, so patients are aware of what they are taking
Why a revision of current legislation is needed
The Parliament and the Council agreed to revise pharmacovigilance legislation in order to improve the safety of medicines in the EU, after the Mediator case in France revealed serious loopholes.
Produced by the French company Servier, Mediator was a medicine to treat diabetes, but was later accused of having caused heart valve disorders. It was widely prescribed in Europe and particularly in France and removed from the French market in November 2009. This medicine is believed to have provoked the deaths of at least 500 people in France.
Mediator's main active ingredient was benfluorex. According to British Social-Democrat Linda McAvan, who is responsible for steering the proposal through Parliament, concerns about Mediator and its active ingredient benfluorex were discussed by regulators at various meetings at European level as early as 1999.
In 2003, Servier decided for commercial reasons not to reapply for a licence for benfluorex in Spain and Italy. The company claimed the withdrawal was for commercial reasons, which under the current rules does not trigger investigatory action, underlined Ms McAvan in a report.
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There seems to be quite a bit of misinformation in this thread. Forgive the length of this post but I wanted to reiterate the proper method of rev matching during a downshift as it was taught to me.
Some general tips about downshifting and rev matching. This has been stated before in previous posts buried in the thread.
The entire point of downshifting to a lower gear (in day to day driving) when slowing down is to keep the car constantly in a gear and under power. Or going into a lower gear in order to exert more power from your vehicle (passing a car on the highway etc, impromptu stop light granprix's).
You want to do this for the simple fact of being able to apply throttle to avoid any emergencies that may happen. That 1 second it takes to shift from neutral into a gear can be the difference between an accident and being able to apply throttle and avoid something behind or in front of you. Of course this is only when applying the brakes isn't the most logical thing to do in an emergency situation.
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reason to double clutch a manual transmission that uses syncro's (i.e. any modern trans).
The logic behind rev matching is to sync your flywheel (by bliping the throttle) to your tranny speed, in order to downshift into a lower gear and stay under throttle through a turn or to use the engine to brake.
Simply put you want to match the flywheel RPM to what the RPM of the transmission would be in the gear you select. So for example:
You are in 4th gear going 40mph at 2500 rpm (hypothetical numbers)
Hypothetically 3rd gear at 40mph would cause the RPM's to sit at 3500rpm. So logically when you shift into 3rd gear you'll want the flywheel to be spinning at 3500rpm so that when you let go of the clutch pedal your engine speed will be spinning at the same rpm as the transmission in 3rd gear.
So it's as simple as
1, depress clutch
2, blip throttle so RPM's are a tad above targeted RPM (3500rpm in this case) while shifting into 3rd gear
3, engage clutch
4, feel like a boss
Putting the RPM's above slightly what you intend is done to compensate for the drop in RPM's while you shift/engage the clutch.
It's really as simple as that, but it's a learned technique. No one can tell you the correct RPM's for every gear at every speed. It's something that varies drastically from car to car, mods, wheel sizes etc. It can only be learned with practice.
This leads into a more advanced technique that I'm sure many have heard about called heel/toe. The purpose of the heel/toe technique is simply to be able to apply the brake while performing a proper rev matched downshift.
It just involves all the steps mentioned above but using your right foot to apply the brake and blip the throttle at the same time. This one however can be dangerous when practiced in traffic for the first time. But can make driving very fun even in ho hum every day traffic.
For fun, here's a you tube video of Walter Rohrl an amazing group B rally driver from way back in the day. You can see his pedal work using heel/toe, left foot/trail braking and some amazing speed.
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Fly Tying: "An Endless, Weird Journey"
Chester Allen (who sadly will be leaving the The Olympian in January, a victim of the downturn in newspapers) explains as well as anyone how fly tying is like wood carving and traces his obsession over many decades. "For years, I had boxes of trout flies that never got wet - until I started fly fishing in warmwater lakes and ponds. I discovered that crappie, bluegill, yellow perch and even bass will eat ugly, poorly tied trout flies. Eventually I reached the most dangerous point in fly tying - or lure making. That's when you stay up late listening to jazz on public radio stations and tie weirdo flies."


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Traditional U.S. exports included material goods like tobacco, wheat, and steel. Then American technology and information spread around the globe. But an even more profound export has been America's brash culture itself -- from superstar entertainers and clothing styles to fast food and uncensored exchanges on the Internet.
Almost two centuries ago, the French visitor Alexis de Toqueville pointed out that American culture is dynamic, insistent or even rude, unpredictable and entertaining, attuned to what markets want, and, even back then, fascinated by celebrity. As this culture has spread abroad, American movies, fashion, and standards of behavior have created both a demand for things American and protests against them. Ironically, such exports as American popular music were themselves the product of imports from Africa, Ireland, Jamaica, and elsewhere.
Critics fear that a result of the globalization of American culture will be a worldwide uniformity of what is acceptable and popular. But Charles Mann, a contributing editor to the Atlantic Monthly magazine, has written that while peoples of the world take things from other cultures, they make them their own: a Mongolian child drawing Mickey Mouse with Asian features, for example, or Bolivians setting up Internet chat rooms in the jungle, using Finnish computer programming.
So the global definition of culture is no longer just society's greatest works or the things it's most proud of. As U.S. motion picture association executive Bonnie Richardson has pointed out, in the 21st century, culture is also what she calls the everyday reflection of who we are, what we like, and what we find funny.


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Last week, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) cautioned states about allowing cars featuring self-driving technologies on public roads. The federal agency recommending that licenses for such vehicles be limited to prototypes operated by specially-trained test drivers, at least for the next few years.
Funny thing is, on the same day that announcement came out I was in a car that was cruising down the road with no input from the person in the driver seat, controlling its speed and steering all by itself. Starting next month, you'll be able to buy one for yourself.
Guess that cat's out of the bag.
The 2014 Acura MDX looks about as much like the car of the future as the old MDX did, which it resembles quite a bit. But the updated luxury crossover is packing some impressive new driver assist technology under its familiarly-styled skin.
First, there's its optional adaptive cruise control system, which uses a radar to maintain a set distance to the vehicle you are following, even as its speed varies. A lot of cars on the road today have something like this, but Acura's includes a Low Speed Follow function that can bring the MDX to a complete stop and return to the original cruising speed with a tap of the Resume button on the steering wheel when traffic starts moving again.
Meanwhile, a camera mounted at the top of the windshield scans the road ahead looking for potential obstacles, and the MDX will fire off an audible and visual warning, or trigger the brakes autonomously if it sees trouble ahead. But it's that camera's second function that really drives the MDX into Tomorrowland.
By keeping its eye on the lane markers, it enables both a Lane Departure Warning and Lane Keeping Assist System that uses the electric power steering to keep the car between the lines. As with the cruise control, several other automakers, including Lincoln, offer similar systems, but the one on the MDX is so aggressive that you may wonder why you've even bothered to sit in the driver seat.
On a very windy road along the Hudson River Valley, my partner on a recent test drive was shocked when it engaged, taking his hands off the wheel as we sat there, amazed at how effectively the MDX was managing itself at speeds over 50 mph through a series of tight-radius curves that you wouldn't want to take any faster if you were in control.
Granted, the system is only as good as the lines on the road are visible – it won't pick them up if they're too faded or covered in dirt – and some turns were simply too sharp for it to handle, but combined with the cruise control, on a relatively straight, well-kept highway, it seems that you could easily sit back, relax and enjoy the trip a good portion of the time; something one of the Acura representatives on hand said is exactly what he's been doing his morning commute these past few weeks in the also-new RLX sedan that shares the technology.
He didn't say it too loudly, though, and you won't see Acura advertising the vehicles as "hands and feet free." Lawyers, they're still not comfortable with this sort of thing, and as good as it is, it's still not perfect enough that you don't need to keep an eye on things. But in a segment where technology is quickly becoming a key selling point, someone from Acura should be on a roof somewhere shouting about it.
If they won't, I will, and look forward to happily surrendering to our electronic overlords. At least during my next boring commute.
At other times, the MDX is quite good to drive, especially for a minivan in disguise. The suspension features two-mode shocks that eat up the little bumps, but offer excellent body control; the sport mode on the six-speed transmission is plenty sharp; the steering is quick and nicely weighted, at least if you keep it out of comfort mode, which was added because some customers apparently need their steering so light that they can use one finger on the wheel; and you'll hear no complaints about the 290 hp V6.
Front-wheel-drive is now available for Sun Belters, and good for 28 mpg highway, but Acura's excellently-named Super Handling All-Wheel-Drive will make up the bulk of sales for just 1 mpg less. Fitted with a few more driver aids, like torque vectoring and something called
Compared to the outgoing MDX, there's additional legroom throughout and significantly more cargo space behind the third row. The design of the dashboard is standard issue Acura: quiet, handsome, but slightly underwhelming for a $43,185 car that can be optioned up into the $60,000 neighborhood.
The centerpiece of it is a touchscreen display that takes the place of 32 physical buttons on the control panel, leaving just 9. Unfortunately, it could use a few more. Functions as simple as turning up the fan or adjusting the volume now require navigating several screens. I'd have to spend a lot more time with the MDX to tell you if it gets better the more you use it, but it is infuriating and distracting at first try.
Good thing the MDX can take care of some of the driving while you figure it out.
Just don't tell NHTSA.
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McGraw-Hill Companies said Monday it plans to split into two companies, including one built around capital markets and featuring its Standard & Poor's ratings business.
S&P will become a part of McGraw-Hill Markets, once the split is completed.
The other McGraw-Hill business will be built around digital learning as well as teaching services and will be known as McGraw-Hill Education.
The firm has been under pressure from investors to unlock value in its holdings. The company sold its flagship BusinessWeek publication to the Bloomberg financial data and services firm, two years ago, as it began to re-evaluate its long-term structure.
As part of this restructuring, the firm also is looking to find $1 billion of cuts in corporate, administration and technology expenses, companywide.
The firm also plans to repurchase $1 billion of shares in 2011. In the third quarter to date, McGraw-Hill has repurchased 6.4 million shares for $240 million. Year-to-date, the Company has repurchased 14.1 million shares for $540.6 million.
The creation of the two companies will enhance McGraw Hill's "strategic and financial flexibility and establish two attractive equity currencies, the company said.
"Because both companies will be sharply defined, they will create two pure-play investment opportunities and present a more transparent capital markets profile, enabling investors to better assess their value, performance and potential,'' said Harold (Terry) McGraw III, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer.
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McGraw-Hill Markets: Will be led by McGraw as Chairman, President and CEO. Will leverage proprietary data and analytics platforms to provide customers with information, market insights and integrated approaches to inform decision-making on trillions of dollars of assets. Will include Standard & Poor's, the provider of credit ratings; S&P Indices, the world's leading index business; S&P Capital IQ, a global provider of multi-asset class data, research, benchmarks and analytics; and Platts, the leading global provider of information and indices in energy, petrochemicals and metals. Also included witll be J.D. Power and Associates, a global market research and services company, and leading franchises in the construction and aerospace industries.
McGraw-Hill Markets serves customers in more than 150 countries and expects 2011 revenues of approximately $4 billion with close to 40% from international markets.
McGraw-Hill Education: Will become an independent business operating in K-12, higher education and professional education markets. Will offer educational materials online and in print for K-12, supplemental digital services to the elementary and high-school markets, and post-secondary educational resources and digital learning systems to universities and other higher education and professional institutions and organizations worldwide.
McGraw-Hill Education expects revenues of approximately $2.4 billion in 2011. A search is underway to recruit a CEO. Robert Bahash, currently President of the Education segment, will continue as president until the new CEO has been appointed.
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It is a great honor that the school not only carries the name and respect of the architect of this great enterprise, but he continues to patronize the School, the UAE's Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
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Home video taken of the Niagara Falls helicopter tour. The tour flies over the majestic Falls of Niagara, Historical landmarks and Niagara's renowned wine country in a way unimaginable from the ground. This particular tour is done by Niagara Helicopters which is located just a few minutes from Niagara-on-the-Lake town center. If you are from Toronto and wish to take the helicopter tour there are many tour companies offering this helicopter tours as a package. Check out eTours.to, NiagaraTours.ca and TorontoTours.ca. All these tour companies have the Heli Tour option.
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On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 from 5:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., Baskin Robbins will host its third annual 31¢ Scoop Night in support of the Canadian Fallen Firefighters Foundation (CFFF). The national, charitable event invites the public to enjoy a scoop of their favourite ice cream or Soft Serve, in a cup or cone, for only 31¢. Donations will also be accepted in-store. To learn more, visit www.baskinrobbins.ca/cfff
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Easter Weekend at Niagara Parks Easter Egg Hunt at the Butterfly Conservatory
April 22 – 25, 2011
The Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory is pleased to announce a fun new Easter Egg
Hunt for families over the long weekend April 22 – 25, 2011. This event includes a word-scramble activity where children will look for letters hidden throughout the Conservatory to spell a secret phrase for a chance to win a grand prize gift basket donated by Pop & Lolly's Candy Shop. Thanks to generous donations from Nestle, Mars and Hershey, each child will also receive one complimentary treat (while supplies last) after their visit.
Families are encouraged to download and print a special Niagara Parks colouring page in advance of their visit and NPC staff will be pleased to post the artwork on site.
The fully accessible Niagara Parks Butterfly Conservatory is located on the grounds of the world-renowned Niagara Parks Botanical Gardens & School of Horticulture, 9 kilometres (5.6 miles) north of the Falls at 2565 Niagara Parkway. Admission is $12.25 for adults (ages 13+), $7.95 for children (6 – 12 years), and children five and under are admitted FREE (prices in Cdn. plus tax). Parking is free.
The Butterfly Conservatory will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. from Friday – Sunday and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Easter Monday, with the last visitors admitted 30 minutes before closing. Please call (905) 356-8119 for details.
Annual Easter Show at Niagara Parks Floral Showhouse
Another Niagara Easter tradition for over 60 years is a visit to the Annual Easter Show at Niagara Parks Floral Showhouse.
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Welcome to the bumpy ride that is regional tourism.
A new body meant to co-ordinate provincial tourism funding for all of Niagara is just getting off the ground. But the fledgling Regional Tourism Organization has already stumbled into a controversy over an untendered marketing contract.
Meanwhile, the much-maligned Niagara Economic Development Corp., the regional government-funded agency that runs a separate Tourism Niagara website, is paralyzed by a political debate over its future.
When the dust settles, Niagara is supposed to have a co-operative, industry-led organization designed to cut through the clutter of competing marketing efforts and help co-ordinate an effective, regional tourism strategy.
But right now, some industry members feel "it's hard to do our job," said Susan Morin, community economic development manager for Venture Niagara.
Tourism marketing is still happening, of course. St. Catharines is still promoting the Garden City; Niagara Falls is still a well-oiled marketing machine. Regional co-ordination, however, isn't as visible.
"It's tough, trying to understand who is the leader here, who is doing what right at this moment," said Morin, who is helping organize a meeting next week for concerned tourism industry members. "With all the changes, it's a little bit like the perfect storm."
Morin, who is also involved with Tourisme Franco-Niagara, said businesses at the April 6 session will talk about ways to replace a tourism marketing committee formerly run by NEDC.
Those brainstorming committee meetings disappeared following regional council's recent decision to lop off the tourism arm of the economic development agency. Other agency tourism services no longer receiving regional cash include marketing literature for cycling tourism, the Welland Canal recreational trail and a winter and wine campaign, according to interim NEDC head Alan Teichroeb.
Regional councillors re asoned the new Regional Tourism Organization would be coordinating regional marketing efforts from now on. But it's unclear what will happen to the remaining NEDC services, like the regional tourism website and the Gateway Niagara information centre.
"Some people think with the (Regional Tourism Organization), the calvary is coming," Morin said. "But whether it is or not, we can't afford to wait."
Morin said if the meeting goes well, attending businesses could form a "tourism network" to help plug the gap left by the exit of the regional agency.
But there are more holes to fill, Grimsby and District Chamber of Commerce president John Dunstall said. more…
Niagara Canoe Adventures Inc. is please to announce that they have received regulatory approval to operate a Canoe rentals business in the Niagara River and near the base of Niagara Falls. Operations will begin May 15th and run through the Summer.
The Canoe rides are sure to be a hit this summer! "There is no better way to see Niagara Falls than through a glass bottom canoe" says Tim Brants
The kayak-canoe hybrid is made of the same durable material found in the cockpit canopies of supersonic fighter jets. It's transparent hull offers paddlers an underwater view of beautiful Niagara aquatic wildlife and scenery.
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The Nia 52 Moves are the basic building blocks of all Nia routines. Drawing from disciplines of the martial arts, dance arts and healing arts, the Nia 52 Moves correspond with the main areas of the body: the base, the core and the upper extremities. From Front Kicks to Upward Blocks to Cha-Cha-Chas to Hip Bumps, these moves cultivate strength, flexibility, mobility, agility and stability while freeing you to be expressive and creative.
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I'd like to give a big ol' shout out to El Niño for giving us the screwiest winter that I can remember. It's still dark when I leave for work and when I'm on my way back home, but the temps have been skewing from the low 60s to the low 80s here in New Orleans. I literally never know what to wear. Ugh.
It's messing with my makeup, too, because some days are so warm that I need to wear the sweat-proof makeup I normally use in summer, and some days are so cold that all I want to do is cuddle up in three blankets and throw on something a little more vampy.
So, in the spirit of complaining about winter, I would like to share with you my favorite one-wash eye shadows. These are the shadows I've been reaching for when I'm too lazy and too confused about the weather to use more than one while I'm quickly getting ready for work.
On the odd day that it's been really warm, I've been reaching for H&M Colour Essence Eye Cream in Countess. This cream eyeshadow cannot be beat. I've tried creamy shadow formulas up and down the price spectrum and this is quite possibly the best.
This shadow barely creases on my oily lids and only fades a little bit through a long day. Plus it's squishy, so that's fun, too.
Countess is a slightly icy shade of pink, which suits itself to winter even when it isn't unseasonably warm.
My favorite shadow out of this bunch is MAC Eye Shadow in Woodwinked. This shadow is my usual go-to for fall or when this winter has ended up feeling fall-like. Worn without a primer it will crease on me, but with any primer it's pretty much budge-proof.
I'm a total sucker for any product that promises to make my life easier or my routine faster, so I picked this shadow because it's basically a base and crease shadow all in one. This shadow is a duochrome that lends itself to this cool effect where you can pack it on for an antiqued gold color, and blend it out into a rusty brown.
When the temperatures are finally starting to dip down, I like to turn to darker eyeshadows. The tricky thing about using a darker color all over with no other colors is that it can look very heavy. To combat this I like to apply the shadow heavier around the lash line and blend up instead of packing a darker color all over my mobile lid.
My intermediate dark color for cozy, not cold days is Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Cocoa Bear.
Cocoa Bear is the absolute warmest brown I've ever come across. It's awesome. The matte formulas from Makeup Geek are excellent for the little $6 price tag. Most low-price matte shadows I've used make you work hard to get the product out of the pan and even harder to blend it once you finally have it on your eye. Not with these guys. Seriously, Makeup Geek is amazing.
Last but not least, for when it actually feels like winter, I've been turning to Makeup Geek Eyeshadow in Burlesque. It's another winner of a formula from Makeup Geek, so I'll save the fawning because you literally just had to read through that whole soppy thing with Coca Bear.
I like to think that this red-toned purple brings out the green in my eyes, but I think my green backdrop helps a lot, too. This color is the only one I would be hesitant about wearing into my conservative office, but it gets playtime on the weekends and at night. This is a great big-impact look for the little effort of just patting it on and blending it out.


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Director: Raman Hui
Runtime: 111 min.
Genre: Fantasy, Struggle, Comedy
Year: 2015
Country: China
Actors: Xue Bai, Eric Tsang, Jing Bozhanov, Wallace Chung, Sandra Ng, No Yan
Many centuries ago, the world prevailed a completely different way: the representatives of the human race and the members of the race of monsters live in the same world. They peacefully and amicably as long as humanity has not once zaslepila greed for power. People desired to be the sole ruler of the world, so they began to wage a fierce war against the monsters. As a result, the real battle of the worlds was banished race of monsters, and people became the sole inhabitants of the real world. So lasted several tens of centuries, but eventually the greed of people resurfaced, and they wanted to work the world of monsters, so nov began to wage against them a bloody fierce struggle. One of the representatives of humanity, Yin Tian was insidious way tempted beautiful demoness, as a result of their relationship was born poludemon poluchelovek Van Huba, who was destined to once and for all put an end to a bloody struggle between the monsters and humans. Here are neither man nor monster, did not want to Van Huba stopped their opposition and became the sole ruler, so him started a real hunt. Now Yin Tian and his wife had to find a secluded place where they could live in peace with his family. With the help of this site you can download Monster Hunt full movie in HDrip.


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LOS ANGELES --The U.S. government is launching a new online database featuring complaints from people against any bank that issues credit cards.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's database also allows you to search complaints by zip code and shows you how banks responded to the complaints.
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Services available to members of the Local 32BJ Service Employees International Union include aid in contract negotiations to obtain employer-sponsored health insurance, access to legal aid services to aid in family or financial law and help paying for the costs of the immigration process. The union also offers members access to retirement savings plans and training for different aspects of the jobs it covers.Continue Reading
Local 32BJ Service Employees International Union allows employees in roles such as building maintenance technicians, food service workers, security officers, cleaners and factory workers to obtain collective bargaining power to secure property benefits from employers. The most significant aspect of this is access to health care protection through the employer, with some employers covering the full cost of enrolling individual members into a plan. The union also bargains on behalf of employees during other contract negotiations to ensure proper compensation for work as well as the preservation of existing benefits if the employer attempts to terminate them to cut operating costs.
Members of the union also receive access to free legal aid in exchange for paying dues, with the legal team helping with mattes ranging from filing for divorce or initiating an adoption to establishing a will or purchasing a home. Union members attempting to complete the immigration process are also able to receive financial aid to cover the costs of submitting the appropriate paperwork. Many members may also enroll in employer-sponsored retirement plans, depending on the terms of the contract.Learn more about Business Resources


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The Exposome & Metabolic Health: What's Getting Under Your Skin?
September 21, 2018
Join leading University of California researchers as they discuss how our social, psychological and physical environments impact our metabolic health and shape our future. In this symposium, co-sponsored by PRHE's Environmental Health Initiative, learn about how toxics from our food, air, and social environments are having unseen effects and how we can respond.
Going Public: The Risks and Responsibilities of Sharing your Impactful Science
March 3, 2017
What does it mean to share our science outside of the lab and professional journals in public settings? What happens when our conclusions based on the scientific method enter political discourse? Watch the symposium below to hear from faculty on how they have overcome these challenges and unabashedly taken on the responsibility and commitment to share what they know. The symposium included opening remarks by Congresswoman Jackie Speier, 14th Congressional District; moderation by Tracey Woodruff, PhD, Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, and Diana Laird, PhD, Department of Obestetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences; panel presentations by Stanton Glantz, PhD, UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, Cristin Kearns, DDS, MBA, UCSF Post-doctoral fellow studying the sugar industry, Mike McCune, MD, PhD, UCSF Division of Experimental Medicine, Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH, Center for Climate Change and Health, Public Health Institute, Barbara French, UCSF Vice Chancellor for Strategic Communications & University Relations, and Greta Schnetzler, JD, UCSF Chief Campus Counsel.
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Late Lessons from Early Warnings: A Seminar with David Gee
May 9, 2016
David Gee, PhD, Past Senior Advisor on Science, Policy, and Emerging Issues for the European Environment Agency, presented "Late Lessons from Early Warnings", based on a series of publications addressing the health costs of action and inaction on threats to environmental health. "Late Lessons from Early Warnings", published by the European Environment Agency, grapples with the health costs of such decision-making head on using historical hazards, such as the Minamata mercury poisoning and leaded gas, as well as emerging issues, such as radiation from mobile phones and neonicotinoid pesticides. The lecture resonates with contemporary decision-making, i.e., lead poisoning in Flint, Michigan, and toxic chemicals in consumer products and our food supply, and offers a pathway forward for taking action on what we know now to prevent harm to human health now and for future generations.
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The Stanley Foundation seeks a program associate to join its Policy Programming Department to contribute energy, creativity, and analytical skill to the design and implementation of programming on technology and nuclear policy.
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The Spring 2018 issue of Courier highlights the issues facing Cambodian fishermen as their lakes are affected by climate change. It includes a tribute to Dick and Mary Jo Stanley, a look at UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' attempts at UN reform, and a peek at our Iowa Student Global Leadership conference.
The issue also focuses on how artificial intelligence is being integrated into military systems around the world, how sustainable farming practices can impact carbon emissions, and the cyber vulnerabilities of the world's most dangerous weapons. Spring 2018 PDF. (1,151K) Subscribe for FREE.
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The Earth Awareness Portable Classroom is an initiative of our Community Partnership-Global Education program. From inside the classroom, the earth can be seen in its entirety for the first time. Continents are viewed in their true relationship to one another, not distorted as flat maps portray.
Foundation staff give Earth Balloon presentations in Iowa and the immediate Quad Cities area. These presentations offer students the chance to experience geography in a new way and focus on the asects of each continent as well as reinforcing general map skills. Find out more.


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An office for lobbying, grant searching and municipal relations was created Tuesday by the Palm Beach County Commission -- a move that will eliminate the county`s outside lobbying team after the current legislative session.
To be known as the ``Office of Intergovernmental Affairs,`` the duties of the new county employees will also incorporate those held by the assistant to the county`s Legislative Delegation, according to County Administrator John Sansbury.
``I recommended it back in January, and I still think it`s appropriate,`` Sansbury said in seeking commission approval for the office, which would have an initial annual budget estimated at $93,000.
While the outside lobbying team would be replaced, ``This office would (not) go beyond lobbying in Tallahassee,`` Sansbury said.
The office would also work with matters involving the county`s 37 municipalities, and federal officials in addition to developing an annual program for the legislative session.
The office would consist of a director, an intergovernmental affairs specialist and a secretary. Annual startup costs would be $93,000 for salaries, travel and other costs.
The county pays the West Palm Beach law firm of Haygood and Williams about $35,000 to represent it full time during the legislative session.
The assistant to the delegation, who primarily works under the delegation chairman, and costs associated with her, run roughly $34,500, said Sansbury.
Commissioner Dorothy Wilken said she supported the proposal, especially because of the potential for the office to ``provide a conduit between us and other levels of government.``


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Open Thread: Everything You're Reading, Watching, Listening To and Looking At
This is your place to talk about the TV, movies, music, books and art that are thoroughly entertaining you.
My favorite comment in this post about how xoJane.com is hiring (I know, I know you guys – it makes my heart skip with excitement and I already friggin' work here!) are the comments in (duh) the comments section about how dreams can come true -- it's true, they can!
'Cause that's SOOO what happened to me this weekend! Remember how just two weeks ago I wrote about my childhood obsession with "Saved By The Bell" –- particularly with one Mark-Paul Gosselaar, a.k.a. Zack (Zach?) Morris?
WELL. I woke up one morning not too long after that to an email from one of my favorite publicists in the biz, Rachael from Kiehl's (which is obviously one of my top 3 favorite beauty brands of all time).
The email announced that the Kiehl's/AMFAR (a wonderful charity that raises money for AIDS research) event/motorcyclist extravagranza LIFERIDE (more on that in a second) I was attending in at the brand's flagship store the next day was going to have a bunch of celebrity guests.
Amongst them?
Dudes, I almost melted down into a greasy body-oil-and-self-tanner-heavy puddle of joy right there on my dirty-per-usual studio apartment floor. I almost friggin' DIED. Oh, and then I read that Tiffani-Amber Thiessen was going to be there -- and she was! I didn't get a chance to interview her, but I did meet her and she was lovely.
Before we get to the video, let me tell you that Kiehl's is nothing if not only one of THE consistently to-die-for wonderful, coolest and most creative (have you seen any of their artist collaborations? I LOVE) beauty brands that exists in the world -- but also one of the most committed to charity causes.
To raise 100k for AIDS Research, Kiehl's teamed up with, AMFAR to put together an AWESOME six-day motorcycle cross-country expedition with like a zillion bikers, who roared across the finish line in front of the store on 3rd Avenue in the East Village of Manhattan (the 'hood I call home as well!).
It was sick! Here's me with some of the bikers:
Kiehl's is all about the biker stuff! In fact, I just visited their WILDLY glam spa on the Upper East Side, which just opened last month:
The more lady-friendly treatments take place in the two treatment rooms, one of which is muraled in artwork by glamorama-photog David LaChapelle:
Anyway, the more manly treatments take place in these cool barber chairs that are customized with real motorcycle parts! It's hot.
And guess what else is hot? THE MARK-PAUL GOSSELAAR 2011 EDITION. I have never met someone so legitimately hunky. The video below is completely humiliating, because you can literally see me squirming with excitement and, I guess, full-blown lust for him (though I wasn't consciously flirting with him, I swear). You can also see me:
1) reading questions scrawled in ballpoint pen off my forearm
2) tackily scratching myself as though infested thoroughly with scabies
3) also tackily pulling on bra
4) also VERY tackily picking a wedgie
5) ALSO very tackily chewing on a piece of my hair! and flashing my gross orange self-tanner hands (what kind of beauty editor AM I?!) to the camera
6) generally acting a fool!
And so on. You get the idea -- I'm ridic.
There is also a product to go along with this awesome project, Kiehl's Since 1851 Limited Edition Ultra Face Cream:
Like any Kiehl's product in your bathroom or boudoir or wherever, you will obviously be obsessed with it and cherish every g-damn drop. It is a super-dewifying moisturizer that plumps up and softens your skin, too. Kiehl's makes you glow: I just report the facts.
I, too, was glowing thoughout my interview with Mark-Paul. Watch the video -- but here's the transcription since the audio sucks. I'm not exactly working with a camera crew; what can I say:
(me rambling incoherently for a second ... then ...)
CAT: OK! Can I just say that when I was growing up --
MARK-PAUL: (gesturing at my arm) Are those the questions?
C: Yeah! I remember them! OK, when I was growing up -- and I just wrote about this -- that when I was growing up, my entire wall was wallpapered with you! I can't even handle it. You're so hunky it's insane!
M-P: Thanks.
C: Okay! What pills do you take every day, Mark-Paul? Can I call you Mark-Paul?
M-P: Is this recording? Is this going on a website?
C: Yeah!
M-P: OK, cool. Pills that I take every day? Vitamin D.
C: Vitamin B!
M-P: No, D.
C: D! D like, Dreamy, like ... YOU.
M-P: Yeah. D.
C: What's the most played song on your iPod?
M-P: Currently, or of all time? Currently, it's "A Million Years" by Alexander.
C: What is the closest you've ever been to being arrested?
M-P: Um, the first time, it was filming "Saved By The Bell" outside a Special K in Arizona. I had to urinate and I went to the establishment and asked if I could use the restroom and he said no, not even for a paying customer, no. So I went behind a dumpster to go pee and I got popped by a cop.
C: Amazing. Have you ever faked an orgasm? Wooooo!
M-P: Um...yes. With ... myself.
C: Who's on your celebs to make out with list?
M-P: Breckin Meyer. But I might have to go through Ryan Phillipe to get to Breckin Meyer, because Ryan Phillipe is the first guy to kiss Breckin Meyer. And I say guy.
C: Sexy! What's your favorite episode of "Saved By The Bell"? I like the movie theater/mall one. [I am sooo lame, there are so many of these! -C]
M-P: Seriously, I don't remember a lot of them. [...] But I enjoy when fans come up to me and say, "Oh, my favorite moment was such-and-such." I think my favorite moment [...] because it's so ridiculous, it's so far out there, was Becky The Duck. [...] And Running Zack. [...] We [the cast] had the most fun when we got to go on vacation.
C: Like to Hawaii!
M-P: Yeah.
C: OK, your favorite Kiehl's product is the Facial Fuel Lip Balm, right?
M-P: Yeah! The Facial Fuel Lip Balm.
C: OK! Thanks! We love you! I mean, everybody loves you! [awkward trail-off]
And there you have it! What's YOUR favorite "Saved By The Bell" episode? And what about your favorite Kiehl's product? And do you think I should never be allowed to do video again? Comments section – GO!


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Madonna braved the pain of a recent ankle injury to lead a workout class during the launch of her latest gym brand in Canada on Tuesday (11Feb14).
The pop superstar opened her latest Hard Candy outlet in Toronto and celebrated the launch by leading around 50 members of the gym in an exercise masterclass.
She attended the opening event wearing a bandage on her ankle after bruising a bone during a skiing holiday in Switzerland last month (Jan14), and she braved the pain to lead the workout along with her personal trainer Nicole Winhoffer.
After the event, Madonna shared her agony with fans by posting a picture on Instagram.com showing her putting ice on the ankle injury, adding in a caption, "Harder is better! Post work out! Foot in the ice bath. A girl has to make a living. Hard Candy Toronto. Addicted to sweat."
The 55-year-old singer has previously opened Hard Candy gyms in cities across the world, including Sydney, Australia and Moscow in Russia.


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Rhoda Grant : To ask the Scottish Government when it will complete the full business case review on a new hospital to replace St Brendan's Hospital in Barra.
Shona Robison: NHS Western Isles are in the process of finalising the outline business case and will shortly meet with Scottish Government to discuss the proposal. Once the business case is finalised, then it will be submitted to the NHS Capital Investment Group for review.


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TRIBUTE: Michael Feeney, a popular Ridgewood Police "Chief for the Day" who became an honorary chief for life, lost his battle with cancer Friday. He was 10 years old.
A full police funeral is scheduled for Tuesday morning in Ridgewood. School district officials have also made arrangements for attendance by students and staff at the wake and funeral.
Ridgewood Police Chief John Ward, in conjunction with Schools Superintendent Dr. Daniel Fishbein, told CLIFFVIEW PILOT today that the village's first-ever Community Policing Youth Ambassador Program will be named for Michael.
Being promoted to honorary chief meant the world to Michael, according to his family.
Ward had given the fun-loving fifth-grader his own badge for the special "Chief for a Day" event sponsored by Bergen County Sheriff Michaul Saudino in June.
But Michael gave it back, telling the chief in serious tones that he needed it.
So Ward had a special honorary police shield made that the brave youngster's family said he carried everywhere. He and Fishbein also involved Michael heavily in the creation of one of the youngster's dreams, the junior police academy.
Michael — who had agreed to light the village Christmas tree later this week — was 6 when he contracted Ewing's sarcoma, an extremely rare, aggressive and often fatal bone cancer that ordinarily develops in children and young adults. Chemotherapy and radiation failed, as did alternative treatments begun this year.
He nonetheless remained bubbly and bright, despite shoulder replacement and the ravages of his disease. He lost his hair, and often had headaches from the treatments, but he kept up his weight — and his grades Hawes Elementary School.
Michael also played his favorite sports — soccer, lacrosse and basketball — and rooted hard for his beloved Giants and Yankees.
"He recently told me that he wasn't worried about himself but about how his family was dealing with it all," Ward told CLIFFVIEW PILOT . "It's the very definition of courage."
"Michael demonstrated the traits of a true leader, inspiring others with his courage, his compassion for others and his desire to make a positive difference for his community and for young people," Ward said in an official statement.
The wake and funeral will be held at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church (1 Passaic Street, Ridgewood, NJ).
The wake is tomorrow from 4 to 8 p.m.
The full police funeral is at 10 a.m. Tuesday, with burial in Valleau Cemetery on East Glen Avenue, Ridgewood.
Large crowds are expected for both.
RELATED: Ridgewood police chief, school official sparking young leaders in 'ambassador' program
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Since the change became public last week (it was already known about locally), I've been asking lots of people what changes they think will come about as a result. Is it, overall, a positive or negative move?
When asking people their opinions, I did not ask whether they would be happy for me to share them publicly, so I will have to keep this anonymous. But I will try to give some indication of the kind of person expressing particular views. And it is certainly not a random sample, though I did try to talk to as many different people as possible, and not just those here in Njombe town.
Overall, it was very clear that opinion is divided. Many people I spoke to said that creating Njoluma region would benefit the area, while others said that the cost and disruption involved were not worthwhile.
The usual first response was to talk about the "heshima" (respect) or the increased status of Njombe becoming a region - that by increasing the profile of Njombe nationally, this would somehow benefit the area. Though when I pressed people about what benefits this would bring, nobody had any very clear or confident answers.
A more specific reason for supporting the chance came from almost all the private business owners I spoke to. Constructing new offices, staffing them, supplying them, etc. will provide them with a lot of business and increase employment locally. They felt that creating a regional administration would benefit them personally and financially.
And some people said that bringing the regional administration closer to the remote parts of Iringa region, such as Ludewa district) would benefit those areas. I probed on this as well, and no-one had any specific examples of services provided by regional government that people in remote areas needed.
On the negative side, there were a lot of people (the clear majority of people I spoke to, though it was not a random sample) who were worried about the cost and disruption of new buildings, new staff, etc. The difficult recent experience of Njombe district being split just last year into Njombe town and district seems to have led to a feeling (including among some government officials) that establishing new physical and administrative structures takes a long time, a lot of money, and distracts officials from doing their real jobs.
"Hakuna kazi zinazoendelea wakati wa kugawa wilaya" (no work goes on while the district is being divided) - statement from a district official
"Itachukua miaka mingi hadi tuone faida yeyote" (it will take many years before we see any benefit) - statement from a local teacherSome people saw this as a minor problem, a short term issue that would eventually be overcome. But others said this alone was enough reason not to support the change.
Another concern in Njombe town was that bringing in a lot of new people would increase the cost of living substantially. Rent and food prices will go up, which will benefit some people but hurt others, particularly the poor.
A few people argued that bringing another level of government into the area would just increase bureaucracy and/or would take power away from the district officials (which are accountable to elected councils) and put it into the hands of regional officials (who are accountable to national government). One person even said that Njombe had benefited from being far away from the regional centre, which "just gets in the way".
And when I asked why the change was being made, a lot of people were quite cynical, saying that this was just politicians doing what politicians do - creating more power for themselves (more government positions to appoint) and doing things that will make them popular rather than things that will benefit the people.
So a wide range of views, some in support and some against. Please don't forget that this was not a formal piece of research and not a random sample of respondents. But I think it gives a taste of the discussions taking place around Njombe at the moment. Here at Daraja we will continue to watch the changes with interest, and we will look into public opinions on this more closely when our local newspaper gets going.