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A Little Taste of Mexico
A family adventure of taste and travel in the Yukatan peninsula area Mexico. Read more
A family adventure of taste and travel in the Yukatan peninsula area Mexico. Read more
As I sit and sip my spicy sweet ginger tea, having just had one of the most sensational massages of my life, my foodwriter brain is working out if they will share the recipe and my rational side realises there … Read more
Ever felt a teensy bit guilty about the sea, sand and palm tree holiday that you are luxuriating in and how little of your spending is going back into the local community? If so, you will be happy to … Read more
With a balmy tropical climate, endless coconut palms, juicy sweet pineapples and water teaming with fish, Fiji is truly the destination for discovering fine ingredients and great food. Increasingly restaurants and resorts are actively seeking to source ingredients from within … Read more
South Australians love their food and wine and it is not only in the hills and valleys surrounding Adelaide where this is apparent but also in the city itself. This big little city is bursting with some of the best … Read more
The crunchy spinach pakora, although fried, are still green enough for me to convince myself they are actually not too unhealthy (ha), the glass of rosẽ is well chilled, the air is not and I am so happily engrossed in … Read more
How many variations of green are even possible? Cycling along a country path surrounded by rice paddies, I am overwhelmed by a landscape filled with every conceivable shade of green and marvel at how green, green can be. The strands … Read more
Sitting here eating fresh from the ocean delicate tuna sashimi it is easy to shut my eyes and imagine I am somewhere fancy in Tokyo, whereas in fact I am here in Niue, the Pacific island only a … Read more
The tomatoes are like nothing I have ever seen before, their colour densely red and full of rich flavoured juice. Maybe this has something to do with a summer of brilliant hot days, no rain at all, yet enough underground … Read more
Now that the kids are back to school and calm is restored, it is the perfect time to consider where you might head to next holidays or even for a long weekend away to break up the school term. … Read more
Kai Niue Food Festival is 19-22 September 2014 This event is designed to showcase our extraordinary local foods to the world and to learn from culinary experts' new ways to prepare, cook and present our food. Running for 4 days … Read more
Niue offers a holiday menu experience like no other. "You won't find this on many – or any – menus anyplace else in the world," smiles Kaiika Restaurant owner, Avi Rubin, as he proudly places a sharing platter of … Read more
South Australia has everything a food lover could ever possibly wish for; incredible wine, fabulous local produce, a plethora of artisan bakers, cheese makers and numerous dairies (the milk/yoghurt product sort not the corner sort), making South Australia arguably the … Read more
We all need something to look forward to and with summer holidays quickly becoming a distant memory, it is time to fill the calendar year with treats to savour. Having visited Noosa Food & Wine Festival in May 2013, … Read more


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Granada, Spanien
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ICIQ3 will bring together a variety of perspectives on interpreting quality, with a focus on interdisciplinarity. Professionals, trainers and researchers from different domains will engage in fruitful dialogue. The conference will address a number of topics, including quality criteria in different interpreting settings, user expectations and needs, quality perception and quality measurement, quality assurance in the interpreting process and method transfer across disciplines.
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#1838 – Masticateon August 5, 2013 at 12:00 am
Ugh, chewing is so time consuming. Who has time for that? Besides, I need my hands for other important things like twitter and punching the rabid turtles that have infested our island. Why did we move here in the first place?


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Filed under: Detroit Auto Show, Truck, Videos, Ford
Despite having to share Ford's Detroit Auto Show stand with the hot new 2015 Mustang, the brand-new F-150 was arguably an even more important debut. Why? Ford moved some 700,000 examples of its F-Series truck in 2012, making it not only the best-selling pickup truck, but the top-selling vehicle in the US, by a long-shot.
The 2015 F-150 raises the bar for pickup trucks in a big way, with big-time use of aluminum. Because of this, roughly 700 pounds have been removed from the truck's overall weight, making it even more efficient than before, while still offering all of the capability that pickup owners expect. And with a host of engines under the hood, including a new 2.7-liter EcoBoost V6, the 2015 F-150 will surely offer something for everyone.
During the Detroit Auto Show, west coast editor Michael Harley took a closer look at the new F-150, talking to some of the truck's engineers. Have a look at the full video, below.
Continue reading A closer look at the 2015 Ford F-150
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Following its worst monthly performance in three years, gold enjoyed a successful attempt at starting the new one off on the right foot this morning. In various gold-oriented forums the "all-clear" signal has already been sounded and the declaration that the bottom (and a "V" shaped one, at that) has been put into place is plainly visible and audible. However, reflecting the recent, four-week-long meltdown in prices, UBS analysts reduced their spot gold projected prices for the 3 and the 1-month average by 7.1% and 9% respectively.
The UBS-projected one-month gold price average is now expected to remain near $1,775 the ounce. For silver, the reduction in expected prices is much larger; 30.4% off the previous estimate and a $32 average price. Managed money slashed its net-long positions in gold futures and options by 19% in the CFTC reporting week that concluded on the 27th of September.
Friday evening EW analysis tendered the opinion that "The trip back to the bottom of the trend channel and the target line at $1,038 will probably be a fast one. The wave four of (five) low near $1,300 may be a first stop. A rise above the $1,669.70 high may constitute some further jockeying with the upper trend channel line before the sell-off commences full force. It's not uncommon for these lines to be re-examined [revisited] before prices reverse full bore. But $1,688-$1,743 should serve as resistance to any further upside."
Spot metals dealings opened October's first trading session with gains in gold and in silver but with declines in platinum and palladium. The yellow metal picked up $36.50 on the open and it traded at the $1,661 mark per ounce on the bid-side. Opening gains turned more moderate in the first hour of action and bullion traded nearer the $1,650 area while silver halved its $1.30 starting advance.
Despite fervent PR attempts to minimize the overall situation in metals, the reality is that both gold and PGM oriented ETFs did witness net outflows in the month that just passed. And, despite equally fervent efforts to spin certain regional gold sales trends, the reality is that – Indian festival season coming up notwithstanding – at least the UAE region has some problems with selling gold like it once used to.
The World Gold Council shuttered its UAE office earlier this year, in a 'review of operations.' Local and London traders on the other hand, have attributed the closure to the difficulties gold producers have encountered in selling baubles to folks in an area that normally comprises as much as 17% of the world's bullion trade and as much as 5% of its global demand.
The culprit appears to be…$1,900 gold, and not much else. The region's jewelers have been advised to "catch up with changes in the market." One might as well read that as turning to lower carat offerings, hollowing out decorative pieces, using cheaper alloys in their designs, and so on. Would-be gold customers in Abu Dhabi and in Dubai have been seen switching to 'poor man's gold' in the wake of stratospheric gold price tags.
The white metal had opened $1.30 per ounce higher this morning, quoted at $31.27 the ounce. At 9:10 New York time the gain was 53 cents and the quoted bid was $30.50 per ounce. Silver suffered its worst cave-in since 1980 by shedding 28% in value on the Comex. Copper got clobbered to the tune of 14% and finished the month with a 'performance' not seen since October of 2008. Let's not mention crude oil.


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NJ Tax E-News 05/27/11
The Division of Taxation will be mailing applications for the 2010 homestead benefit shortly. Applications will be mailed over the next three weeks to all eligible homeowners, both seniors (age 65 or older on December 31, 2010) and nonseniors. The deadline for filing these applications is October 31, 2011.
Camden, Hudson, Hunterdon, Salem, Somerset - June 4
Bergen, Burlington, Cumberland, Warren - June 7
Gloucester, Mercer, Middlesex, Passaic - June 9
Cape May, Union - June 11
Atlantic, Essex, Monmouth, Sussex - June 14
Morris, Ocean - June 16
Because this year's proposed State Budget limits eligibility for senior/disabled homeowners to those with New Jersey gross income of $150,000 or less, and for nonsenior/nondisabled homeowners to those with New Jersey gross income of $75,000 or less, many homeowners will not receive applications.
Eligible homeowners will receive their homestead benefits for 2010 as credits on their 2012 property tax bills.
With very few exceptions, homeowner benefit applications must be filed over the Internet or by phone. The answers to most questions can be found in the application packet. Homeowners who receive a packet should read it carefully, and if they meet the eligibility requirements, complete the worksheet in the packet prior to filing.
View information on the 2010 homestead benefit.
The homeowner benefit Internet filing application on the Division of Taxation Web site and automated telephone filing system (1-877-658-2972) will be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week during the filing period. Homeowners who have questions or need help filing their applications can call the Homestead Benefit Hotline at 1-888-238-1233. Representatives are available from 8:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.
The deadline for filing 2010 Senior Freeze (Property Tax Reimbursement) Program applications has been extended to October 31, 2011. The current deadline is June 1. The Senior Freeze (Property Tax Reimbursement) Program is different from the Homestead Benefit Program. They are two distinct property tax relief programs with different eligibility requirements and separate applications.
For information about the Senior Freeze Program, or to obtain an application, contact the Property Tax Reimbursement Hotline at 1-800-882-6597 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Information is also available on the Division of Taxation's Web site.
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I found this effective meme on Facebook today.
Especially appropriate considering the Left is trying to co-op the "Never Again" slogan to use for a school shooting by a madman who sent scores of threats that the police, sheriff's office, FBI, school, and mental health agencies all ignored.
Meme was created by Wilkowmajority.com.
Pecan Corner
"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." ~John Burroughs
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
In Texas, "every single Taxpayer Champion is returning to the Legislature"
Locally, our Republican primary was the critical one. We had a stealth Democrat, Jim Langford, trying to unseat our new fantastic State Representative Mike Lang. Voters chose wisely and Lang won all eight of the counties in our District. WoooHOOO! We are very happy. We had a big 3x5 sign in our yard for him. Our candidate for County Judge also won out over a too-long-term incumbent, so we are looking forward to better management at the County level.
Statewide, most candidates we supported won, too. We voted Patterson over George P Bush for Land Commissioner - mainly because we do not want to "reimagine" the Alamo. It has not been a contentious race, and we are ok with Bush continuing, so long as he doesn't let Phil Collins' collection of artifacts get away from us.
For what it is worth, we are hearing that Trump's endorsement – and Bush's persistent support of Trump – are the two big factors that motivated people to vote for him. So that bodes VERY WELL for our President's picks to win as this election season moves along.
The group "Empower Texans" has rapidly become an important source of information for "normal" Texans about the state of politics in our "whole other country". Here is their take on last night's primary elections:
For what it is worth, we are hearing that Trump's endorsement – and Bush's persistent support of Trump – are the two big factors that motivated people to vote for him. So that bodes VERY WELL for our President's picks to win as this election season moves along.
The group "Empower Texans" has rapidly become an important source of information for "normal" Texans about the state of politics in our "whole other country". Here is their take on last night's primary elections:
"Looking at last night's election results: Wins!
Can we be frustrated by the pace of winning? Yes. But let's be encouraged by the fact that we aren't tired of winning yet! Any disappointments from last night should spur us all to work harder and smarter in the months and years ahead. ....
Think about this. The top target of the liberal school administrators was Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. Everyone was quaking in their boots about the perceived power of superintendents to re-write Texas politics the way they re-write textbooks.
Voters – including classroom teachers – had none of it. As a result, Dan Patrick earned 75% of the vote.
Despite unprecedented efforts by the Austin lobby to dislodge them, every single Taxpayer Champion is returning to the Legislature. One even got a promotion to the Senate.
Meanwhile, establishment Republicans were defeated outright in one Senate and two House districts. One do-nothing House member is in a run-off, while five House seats formerly held by Austin cronies are headed for a second round.
And yet again, not a single sycophant of the Austin crony class has escaped the House chamber for the Senate or statewide office. (As my friend Jim Graham of Texas Right to Life likes to say, "The RINOs have been kept in the House pen.")
Make no mistake: the House and Senate have moved right. "
There's more... head over and read it... and bookmark Empower Texans to keep up as we move forward.
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
17th Amendment: Why State-appointed Senators Were Better For America Than Elected Ones
The Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution changed the method by which Senators were selected. Bill Quick provides the simplest, best explanation for why the Founders' original method of populating the Senate was the wisest:
"There is no leash on the Senate. Originally, it was really supposed to represent the interests of the individual states, but the Wilsonian progressives managed to destroy that aspect of the body so, in fact, it doesn't represent much of anybody. Senators serve longer terms than members of any other branch. Originally, this was intended to make the states, which appointed Senators, the most powerful force in the federal governance. America, after all, started out to be a union of states, not of people. And the self-interest of individual states worked to assure that the Senate wouldn't go too far off the rails, because state pols were much less susceptible to political demagoguery than were individual voters. Piss off your governor and your statehouse, and you weren't long for your cushy federal senate sinecure. All that is gone now. "~ From his post "History Rhymes".
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Book Review: "Life Unworthy" by Christopher Taylor
In the old days, when authors used agents and got publishing contracts, Christopher Taylor's books would have been published by Ace Books or Ballantine, and would have been in bookshops across the country. Today's publishing climate is both easier and harder for writers who aren't celebrities, and so Taylor is an independent author and "Life Unworthy" is a contract-worthy book available on Amazon for Kindle and in Trade Paperback. I bought the hard copy.
It's a good werewolf tale, keeping us on pins and needles all the way through, true to its genre, and a solid mystery story as well. But for those looking for more depth than monsters, "Life Unworthy" is rich historical fiction, replete with accurate detail that gives us a genuine sense of life-on-the-ground in 1943 Poland, occupied by the Nazis and terrorized by ancient curses.
Meticulous research includes many tiny details true to the era that might not be consciously appreciated by a casual reader. I love the way everyone smokes *everywhere*. Young people won't recognize that bit of "atmosphere" from a time when up to 80% of adults smoked and didn't die from it, but it is just one of the myriad ways Taylor paints us into a realistic picture. The ubiquitous cigarettes, the constant reference to "the Great War", are not essential to the story, but serve to rattle us into thinking a little deeper, immersing us into the time and place.
The psychic hold "the Great War" has on the soldiers in this novel is particularly effective, and has been seldom covered in war writing - whether fiction or fact, most WWII writing is colored by later knowledge that this was indeed "the second world war", whereas in the early years, it was still seen even by those in it as a more hopeful war: the Nazis were buoyed by recovering what they had lost in the catastrophic brutality of the Great War, Poland had not yet been betrayed, and so even the Poles and Gypsies in Life Unworthy desperately clung to belief that it would end with freedom.
Great characters are fleshed out well, and believable. It is crazy to see how almost likable some of the Nazis can be, and it jars when we realize the jobs they are doing, how much "routine" funnels them into the soul-killing deeds they do in response to orderly commands.
Almost an allegory, the werewolf's struggle to control the beast is an opposite, a mirror image of these Nazis' efforts to rationalize within themselves the evil they are promoting. This is a subtle juxtaposition all through the book that slowly dawns on the reader as we go.
Look carefully to catch the clues woven throughout the novel. They are difficult to spot, seamlessly inserted into the prose. And the whispered hints are even more difficult to unravel. I found myself stopping along the way to look up a reference, a location, to uncover more layers of the deep history. It's impossible to anticipate the ending, yet when it comes, the threads trace back to early hints, mentions, shadows, and you think, "Ah! So that is what that meant!"
A satisfying resolution that takes its own sweet time to unfold is one of the best things about Taylor's writing style. I am often annoyed by otherwise good writers who rush their endings - building to the climax then wrapping everything up in a quick couple of paragraphs, as though they suddenly realize they've reached their word limit. Taylor doesn't do that. He never leaves his readers in the lurch. He continues to follow the story for a bit to let us absorb what happened and neatly finish the final seams, so that it is complete and full.
All in all, "Life Unworthy" is a good story, a satisfying read, that doesn't waste our time. It's a book for adults, and will leave you thinking about the characters long after you've shelved the book in your permanent collection, to read again someday.
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Yes, Virginia, Once Upon A Time, Real Men Played Football
Via Traces of Texas, on Facebook:
"Dandy" Don Meredith, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, talks to reporters in the locker room following the famous "Ice Bowl" game against the Packers in Green Bay, Wisconsin, back in 1967. The game-time temperature at Lambeau Field was about −15 °F (−26 °C), with an average wind chill around −48 °F (−44 °C). It remains one of the most famous games in NFL history."
Yes, that is a cigarette he is smoking. And yes, that is real hair on his chest.
SportsDay writes:
"[Bob] Lilly, A TCU graduate out of West Texas, unfamiliar with such brutal weather, suffered frostbitten fingers on his left hand in that game. His three mates on the defensive line that anchored Tom Landry's effective but quirky "Flex Defense" all suffered frostbite as well. ...
"They might have worn gloves but Lilly recalled that old-school defensive coordinator Ernie Stautner admonished that such a luxury was for "sissies" and he couldn't have such coddled players on his squad. ...
"While players cautiously tried to navigate a sheet of ice underfoot, an announced assembly of 50,861 fans exhaled from behind faces covered by woolen masks, emitting enough carbon dioxide to remind of London fog.
"Please, Ryan said under his breath, let those of his cameras that refused to die in the cold, continue to work. The crew's remarkable work in those conditions provides the only known extended video from the game. "
"Once the game began, referee Norm Schachter and his officiating crew abandoned their whistles, which froze to their lips soon after kickoff. Instead, they relied on voices and hand signals to control the game. An elderly fan in the stands suffered hypothermia and died. Alicia Landry, wife of the Cowboys coach, is said to have missed the game's decisive play because her eyelashes were frozen shut. ..."
But Don Meredith had the final insight into why the Dallas Cowboys of Old played the way they played: not for the money, or their coaches, but for their fans:
"Meredith, of course, was on the plane that returned the Cowboys to Love Field in the wake of the Ice Bowl.
"I remember the pilot telling us he got word that there were a lot of people waiting for us," recalled Brandt. "We didn't know what to expect."
News reports estimated about 500 sympathetic fans were there to embrace their heroes in relatively balmly 32-degree weather.
"It was the first time Cowboys fans celebrated a loss," Meredith, who died in 2010, once told Michael. "It changed everything about the way we felt about our fans. It created a bond that would never be broken."
Go read the whole article: "Too Cold to Bleed: Why The Ice Bowl Still Resonates 50 Years Later".
It's the stuff America ... and real football... is made of.
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Sunday, December 31, 2017
Iran, King Cyrus, and Donald John Trump
Before the election, Nov 5, 2016, there was a news report about protests in Iran, and I wrote about this in a post about the prophecies seeing Donald John Trump as "the new Cyrus":...Iran was named Persia until very recently. This was the heart of King Cyrus's empire. ...This story points to advances made by now-Christian Russia's influence against Islamic theocracy. It portends well toward Mr Trump's foreign policy plans within that region.
"And essentially, it points ahead into a future of considerable brightness, with hope for genuine liberty coming out of oppression once again. Not through meddlesome outsiders like Hillary Clinton making war, but through God's action in the world raising up peoples and new generations. "
Here's a portion of the 2016 news article, from Breitbart's Adelle Nazarian:
For those who do not know what Iran was like before the 1970s Islamic take-over, it was a modern nation, and an American ally. Many Iranians who supported overthrowing the Shah later regretted the revolution, as the new Islamist regime become increasingly oppressive.
Please continue in prayer to our Father God in the name of Jesus, for the people of Iran to overcome their oppressors and restore their nation, on their own and peacefully, as we are restoring our America. MAGA!
12/31/17 UPDATE: Instapundit quotes the Wall Street Journal, noting that the current Iranian protests are not exactly all about the "economy", despite what the Fake News are saying:
As they say over at Glenn Reynolds' blog, "read it all"...
"And essentially, it points ahead into a future of considerable brightness, with hope for genuine liberty coming out of oppression once again. Not through meddlesome outsiders like Hillary Clinton making war, but through God's action in the world raising up peoples and new generations. "
Here's a portion of the 2016 news article, from Breitbart's Adelle Nazarian:
"According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), protesters chanted, "Iran is our country, Cyrus is our father" and "clerical rule is synonymous with only tyranny, only war." The protesters also reportedly chanted, "freedom of thought cannot take place with beards," a reference to the theocratic leaders currently in power.
"Many Iranians consider King Cyrus the father of international human rights, citing the discovery of the Cyrus Cylinder around 559 B.C. — the first known charter of human rights. In 1971, the Shah of Iran's twin sister, the late Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, presented the United Nations with a replica of the Cyrus Cylinder, which is kept at the U.N.'s New York headquarters and is promoted as "an ancient declaration of human rights."
"Pooya Dayanim, President of the Iranian Jewish Public Affairs Committee (IJPAC), told Breitbart News that the rally was an indication that "the generation that was born after the revolution of 1979 feels as if their parents made a mistake and destroyed their hope and future." Dayanim added, "They consider themselves a burnt generation, just like the generation in America that has been living in their parents' garages and basements and are either unemployed or underemployed."
"Dayanim said that ... "getting in touch with their rich Iranian heritage from the pre-Islamic era is one of the only sources of pride they have. What happened today is a sign of them embracing Iran when it was a strong and powerful and respected State, versus the government that they have now which has turned Iran into a pariah and has destroyed their hopes, dreams, aspirations and future." ~ BreitbartThat was 14 months ago. Now, new riots have broken out, and Iran's government is cracking down. President Trump has already spoken his support for the protesters and for liberty in Iran.
For those who do not know what Iran was like before the 1970s Islamic take-over, it was a modern nation, and an American ally. Many Iranians who supported overthrowing the Shah later regretted the revolution, as the new Islamist regime become increasingly oppressive.
Please continue in prayer to our Father God in the name of Jesus, for the people of Iran to overcome their oppressors and restore their nation, on their own and peacefully, as we are restoring our America. MAGA!
12/31/17 UPDATE: Instapundit quotes the Wall Street Journal, noting that the current Iranian protests are not exactly all about the "economy", despite what the Fake News are saying:
"In a number of cities, demonstrators have expressed nostalgia for the last monarchical rulers of Iran, the Pahlavi dynasty, by evoking the name of its founder Reza Shah. Many Iranians consider Reza Shah to be the father of modern Iran and his era is associated with a time of economic prosperity. . . .
"Here are some slogans being chanted at the protests, translated into English:
"We don't want an Islamic Republic, we don't want it, we don't want it."
"They are using Islam as an excuse to drive people crazy."
"Independence, Freedom, Iranian Republic."
"Reformists, hard-liners, Game is over."
"We are all Iranians, we don't accept Arabs."
"We are getting poor and clerics are driving fancy cars."
"Reza Shah, Rest in Peace."
"We will die but we will take Iran back."
"Come out to the streets Iranians, shout for your rights."
"Death to the Revolutionary Guards."
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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Bill Quick: Donald Trump Harks Back to JFK's Mainstream America
At his Daily Pundit blog, Bill Quick writes:
Do go read the whole post. It is quite heartening.
"It's interesting to compare Donald Trump to John F. Kennedy. Both JFK and PDT supported civil rights for black Americans, but not for illegal aliens. JFK's coalition looked a lot like PDTs does today, as JFK's Democrat Party still catered to the needs and desires of working class and southern Americans – just as PDT does today.
"JFKs judicial appointments were more liberal that PDTs, because the litmus issue in those times was civil rights. The Vietnam war arose as a national issue only after the mass drafts of the post JFK years began to bite. Nor did the Boomers elect JFK. In 1960, they were still in high school, and more than ten years away from getting the right to vote as 18 year-olds.
"It is popular among today's pop "historians" to present the years of the 1960s and 1970s as the decades in which America as a whole finally took up the New Left's philosophy en masse, but that is simply not the case. The New Left, the hippies, the massive use of drugs, and all the rest of the cultural appurtenances of that time were always a practice of the minority. More young men went off to serve in Vietnam than rioted in the streets for one cause or another. With the possible exception of marijuana, drug use was never practiced by any significant majority of Americans (as is still the case). .... "
Do go read the whole post. It is quite heartening.
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Our Student Member ACS chapter is an academic, social, and service organization open to all science majors who strive to attain academic and professional success at Duquesne. Our mission is to create professional and networking opportunities that engage our undergraduate students, to serve as the centralized core of learning and activities in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, and to make chemistry more accessible to the students and public.
For the 2017-2018 year, the organization is operated by an executive board made up of 15 undergraduates. Membership has grown from 12 students in 2008 to more than 120 as of 2017! Our student chapter has received national recognition from the national ACS office since 1998 and the highest "Outstanding" award 19 times!
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The philosophy behind this build is to utilize the support Sona provides with her auras.
Summoner Spells:Clarity should be an obvious choice that allows you to stay in your lane constantly early game, late game clarity is more for you to provide mana to your team's mana users. Ignite is a bit unorthodox to take on a support character however, I like to use it to play aggressively with my partner and get some early kills. In addition it becomes useful when there is a team throwing out a lot of heals, whether it be through a Soraka or Warwick.
Other viable summoner spells are clairvoyance to provide visibility for your team or ghost/flash if you feel you need a bit more escape options, though personally map awareness and the speed Sona has with boots of mobility and song of celerity is plenty.
Mastery Trees: The mastery tree is pretty simple, Get into utility to reduce your CDs then go into offensive to get a little more AP and CD reduction to keep your auras up constantly.
Items: The item build gets you enough mana to stay in lane and then gets your Mejai's snowballing quickly. The only item you should switch out is Frozen Heart for another CD reducing item if the other team isn't really going to be hitting you with too much physical damage and you could pass on the armor. If that is the case you can take Deathfire Grasp or Shurelya's Reverie.
Lane Partners:I generally try to lane with a tank-y champion so that we can do some good damage early on with me keeping them in lane for extended periods and them disabling and soaking up damage. However, Sona excels with any partner.
Early: First of all start out with a point in Hymn of Valor and charge up your power chord at the spawn. This will provide you with some decent damage burst at the very start of the game. Make sure to grab some potions with your meki pendant to keep you up until you get your heal. I generally take ignite so that my partner and I can score a few easy kills easy game to give us the advantage for the long run. You should have your Tear of the Goddess and Mejai's pretty quick to give you a pretty healthy mana pool and AP.
Mid: By mid game you should have your boots of mobility, and those in combination with Song of Celerity should make it possible for you to participate in every fight around the map.
Late: By the end of the game you should have your Innervating Locket and Frozen Heart which will allow you to ultilize Sona's secondary passive which keeps your auras up for 3 seconds after you have cast another. This will allow you to keep all three of your auras up during all team battles while also constantly healing your team and damaging the enemies. Use your ult as needed to stun enemies to score the kill or interrupt abilities like Miss Fortunes or Fiddle's Ults.
Tips: I see a lot of Sona's stealing kills from their team, don't chances are they need the gold more than you. Sona doesn't have a massive damage output, but sometimes there are scenarios where you can put yourself in position to catch enemies trying to escape and finish them off. In team fights you have 2 things you need to do, keep cycling your auras constantly and STAY BEHIND YOUR TEAM. If things get bad you can escape (and help your teammates do the same).


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Following is a conversation Linda Johns had with Grannie (Ollie) during the summer of 1981.
Linda was asking Grannie about her Mother, Cynthia Langford.
Was she young when she married your Dad?
Ollie: "I don't know how old she was. But she was a good looking woman. Marie has a picture of her, and my Daddy, and of Alan and Mattie and all of us. We went to Starke one time and had it made. Roy was just a little old boy and my Daddy was holding him in his lap and I was a little ole tough thing, looked like a toad. And Mattie she looked just…..had hair coming along about there you know. They all made fun of me cause I had a big ole handkerchief in my hand. They said they didn't know why in the world she didn't take that old handkerchief away, that big ole handkerchief. I was sitting down, looked like I was swelled like a toad."
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I knew when I was five about the zombie in my house. My uncle pointed out the innocent looking panel of sheetrock that stood out from the rest of the wall.
"Knock three times," he said, "and it will come out."
I didn't know then just what a zombie was. A monster, maybe. Something horrible from beyond the boundary between life an death.
All I knew, as I passed that panel daily to play in my backyard, or to go take something down the cobwebbed, cement stairs to my basement, was that knocking would release the zombie and leave me vulnerable. My fear, like a zombie in its instinctual feast on my fevered brain, made me avoid that room with its sheetrock panel and scary noises.
I didn't find out until years later that my monster was simply a water-heater, hidden behind a sheetrock panel for aesthetic reasons. I'd been controlled by an illusion–forced to walk a narrow path because of fear of the nonexistant. Or so I thought.
Now, nearly twenty years later, I have another zombie in my house, eating at my brain one bite at a time. All because, one overcast, boring day, I knocked at that proverbial panel.
I knocked because it hadn't harmed me when I was five, because if all of my zombies were just water-heaters there was nothing I couldn't do, no horrible thing to keep me in check.
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Every time I pass a mirror, I look less alive. There's a manic glow in my eyes that was never there before, behind my excellently styled hair. I smell the reek of death, too, under the fruity scent of perfume and beneath my designer shirt and jeans.
My face is not my own. The colors–carribean shimmer, strawberry burst, smokey cobalt–reveal the decay in my skin.
The zombie in my house bares its teeth when it sees me; a grotesque attempt at a smile that chills me to the bone.
I see it in my TV screen, on my computer, in the faces of friends who flocked to my side after that first, painful bite. I was a loner before, when I thought my own thoughts–when life flowed through my veins.
Now, life leeching out of me, I join the ranks of my murderers. Stumbling along in the crowd. I know, somewhere deep inside, that this zombie is as imaginary as my five-year-old monster. All I have to do is strip off the paint, bolt the sheetrock panel onto the wall once again. Stand alone in an empty room.
I can't go back.
I smile–a dead grimace.
I'm not alone anymore.
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620. At the moment, however, then, so far as
access charges are concerned, it is you and you alone, is it,
who decides what those ought to be?
(Mr Winsor) Yes.
621. So that in effect means that the government
simply has to pay up under the indemnity of the franchise holders
when the access charges presumably exceed the amount stated in
the indemnity? Is that the position?
(Mr Winsor) Essentially. If I may add
a little, I do stress that I have a statutory duty to have regard
to the financial position of the Strategic Rail Authority and
therefore the government's financial position, but "have
regard to" is not the same as "do what you are told".
I also have to exercise my functions in the way that I consider
best calculated to ensure that the network operator is not unduly
impeded and it is not unduly difficult for it to finance its relevant
activities, so that is pulling me in the other direction, although
both are pulling me towards the efficiency and competency of the
operation of the network. Other statutory duties also pull me
in the direction of having a sound, competent network, as I have
said. The Secretary of State issued me with guidance, as he is
entitled to do under section 4(5) of the Railways Act 1993, and
I have published that as part of my annual report. What that guidance
says, and it is meticulous in respect of the independence and
jurisdiction of the regulatorwhich I welcome, is: "When
you are doing your access charges review, if you are likely to
come up with a figure which is higher than the Strategic Rail
Authority's established budget, will you please tell us as early
as possible and give the Strategic Rail Authority an opportunity
either to re-negotiate existing contracts so as to throttle back
on the outputs of the things they are buying, not enter into new
contracts which might be more expensive than they would wish,
or to get more money from the government", and the statutory
guidance expressly asked me to give early warning if I think that
the figure I am going to come up with is going to be higher than
the established budget. What it does not say is, and could not
say, "You shall not go higher than that particular figure".
622. And their budget is purely what they get
from the Treasury?
623. So far as appeals are concerned, do I understand
that in taking a particular decision as to access charges against,
say, one rail operator, if Network Rail think that the access
charges which you have fixed are inadequate, they can go to the
Competition Commission?
624. But conversely, if the franchise holders
think that they are too large, they can do nothing but go to judicial
review, is that right?
625. Have they no locus before the Competition
Commission in that situation?
(Mr Winsor) No. They are rather less
engaged in the process of the access charges review than I would
wish them to be because with the benefit of a full indemnity from
the state, at least the last time we did an access charges review
they sat back and displayed a rather considerable lack of interest
in the whole process because they knew that the indemnity would
bite on any increase in access charges. What they did not realise
was the decision I was making was not only in relation to the
level of charges but also the structure, and the economic incentives
that work to encourage good performance and to penalise poor performance,
and that made a big difference to them. This time round I am happy
to say they are taking it a lot more seriously, but in terms of
right of appeal to the Competition Commission the answer is they
do not have one.
626. So it could be that in that particular
situation, which is rather anomalous, they have no chance of making
their point in an appeal which is already before the Competition
(Mr Winsor) They will be listened to
in the Competition CommissionI am sorry if I was too brief.
They do not have the right themselves to force the case to the
Competition Commission. However, when the Competition Commission
is dealing with the matter I am certain that they will ask the
train operators, the franchise holders, what they think so they
have a locus in the sense that they have a right to be heard,
or an expectation that they will be heard, but they cannot compel
the case to go. The more natural position as things stand at the
moment will be for the government to want to have a right of appeal
to the Competition Commission because they are the ones who are
627. But supposing there was really no issue,
either so far as the government or the franchise operator were
concerned, about the level of charges but the structure of the
charges alone was an issue which the franchise holders did not
like, then there is nothing they can do about that except go to
judicial review?
(Mr Winsor) Correct.
628. Which they may, or more likely may not,
succeed in?
(Mr Winsor) I have been trying very
hard to encourage the train operators to understand the checks
and balances in the system to get them to enforce their contracts
one with the other. The idea that we should get them to take a
further step and be very grown up and go for judicial review is
well after my time in office.
629. Do you think there are advantages in giving
to the franchise holders a right of appeal to the Competition
Commission, for example on restructuring of fares?
(Mr Winsor) Yes, there are advantages,
because it is a simpler matter than the old regulatory model where
you had millions of consumers and you did not want anyone, or
a collection of them, making an appeal. Here we have a very much
smaller class of customers, of network operator, namely 25 or
30 train operating companies, so it is a simpler matter to confer
the right of appeal in those circumstances. As I say, however,
the real person who would want to exercise it is the person who
stands behind me with the cheque book.
630. But on a restructuring basis the government
might have no interest?
(Mr Winsor) The prospect of the government
being able to sell franchises in the future without the benefit
of the contractual indemnity to which I have referred is pretty
631. Finally, you as regulator hear appeals
on fairly complex matters, is that not right?
632. Perhaps you would just briefly explain
in what circumstance that occurs?
(Mr Winsor) There are two kinds of appeal
that come to me and they are both under the industry-wide central
commercial code for the operation of the railway industry called
the Network Code, and they can be classed as regulatory appeals
and legal appeals. Regulatory appeals would deal with matters
such as whether Network Rail has within the scope of their existing
contractual discretions properly allocated capacity in a particular
timetable period, and that is very properly a matter for the regulator
because under sections 17-22 of the Railways Act he is in charge
of the fair and efficient allocation of capacity. The other class
of appeals that come to me are appeals on pure questions of law
where I must sit as an appeal tribunal from one of the industry-specific
dispute resolution tribunals, and effectively I am expected to
act as a judge. It is a full appeal on the merits. Because of
the unsatisfactory nature of the tribunal below I have to rehear
the whole case, and it is extraordinarily time-consuming for me
to do this. It is perhaps more by luck than design that the two
Rail Regulators who have ever heard these appeals have both been
practising lawyers, but I have no idea how an economist or administrator
would deal with leading counsel, junior counsel, firms of solicitors,
packed into a hearing (with clients at the back paying the bill),
listening to complex questions of law being argued before him.
633. Are you final on that? Is there any appeal
from you?
(Mr Winsor) Judicial review on the grounds
of illegality. If it is a pure question of law there will be a
full appeal on the merits by virtue of that challenge. It does
mean that the railway industry has five levels of dispute resolution,
unlike most industries which only have three. You go to the industry
tribunal; if you do not like that you come on appeal to me; if
you do not like that, it is the High Court on judicial review,
the Court of Appeal, and maybe the House of Lords. There have
only been a handful of appeals so far and, as I have said, they
are extraordinarily complex, very high value matters. Both appeals
I have heard in the last year have been worth over £100 million
each and have raised very complex questions of law, and I believe
that the industry and investors in it need to have confidence
in the system of appeals, including on questions of law, if they
are to invest and continue to invest, and therefore the way in
which the government and the regulatory board will handle this
matter when the regulatory board comes along and takes my place
is yet to be understood.
634. I am conscious of time; so quickly, if
I may, I want to explore the danger of the regulator going mad
which is something you touched on earlier, to use your terminology,
which is another way of saying a regulator is acting in essentially
an unpredictable way. Ideally you want to prevent that happening
in the first place. Would I be right in inferring from one of
your earlier comments that that is one of the advantages of having
a board structure, whether it is statutorily provided for or not?
(Mr Winsor) It is a bit of an advantage
but given the way we act at the moment, and I can only speak for
my own authority, the existing board operates very well. We have
created deliberately both procedural and substantive legitimate
expectations enforceable in public law in relation to our procedures
and policies. We go well beyond the requirements of common law
or statute in terms of our due process, hearings giving full written
reasons for decisions, hearing the other side, draft conclusions,
provisional conclusions and final conclusions, and the idea that
suddenly, at the end of all that, the regulator will then intervene
and change direction in some radical way and come up with a ludicrous
outcome seems to me to be rather remote.
635. Picking up on the point you made about
transparency in the processes you go through, because they may
as you say help prevent unpredictability in the first place, but
also stressing the importance of accountability, because the principles
of better regulation include transparency and accountability,
it strikes me you could argue that transparency is a necessary
condition for accountability. As you just mention and you stress
in your paper the Railways Act 1993 and the rules of public law
do not require you to commit to such a high degree of due process
and transparency in decision-making. Arising from that, do you
think there should be a requirement on regulators to be that transparent?
Should that be an imposition on regulators?
(Mr Winsor) I doubt it is necessary,
certainly not in the case of my organisation because we have done
everything we can to give people enforceable legal rights in terms
of having that degree of due process. As far as other regulators
are concerned, their processes are very good insofar as I understand
them, and I think the intervention of Parliament to require this
level of due process is probably unnecessary because the judges
are doing a pretty good job compelling public authorities to go
that bit further. My objective has been to keep one step ahead
of the judges.
636. Finally, tying in with other regulators,
what degree of contact do you have with other regulators, and
how useful do you find it?
(Mr Winsor) We are now eight sectoral
economic regulators and every two months we get together. One
commentator said that it is a regulators' cartel, and if the companies
within our jurisdiction were to do the things that we do amongst
ourselves we would hammer them under the Competition Act! We are
not subject to that jurisdiction, so we are all right. It is a
very useful forum. Unless somebody really cannot make it we all
turn up in person, and there are subgroups under that for our
establishment officers, our economists, the lawyers, and so on,
so it is not just the regulators meeting once every two months.
We share best practice; we tell each other what is going on in
our fields of activity; and I have found it enormously useful
to swap notes with my opposite numbers, particularly in
energy, telecommunications, water and the OFT.
Chairman: Thank you. We are very grateful to
you and for your paper, and very much appreciate you being with
us this morning. It has been very valuable for the purpose of
our inquiry. Thank you very much indeed.


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Light over Le Pierroux by vincentfavreWatch
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[Dévoluy - FRANCE]
Wonderfully !
Wow. This photo is incredible.
your copositon is sometimes too difficult to me (I don´t understand it), but I am your fan!
sorry for my english..
sorry for my english..
Beautiful composition, the autumn colors and the approaching clouds set such an explosive scene!
brilliant image
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I think the vignette is a tad too strong but other than that, the color, light, and comp are great!
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quel bonheur !
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Marvelous shot.
nice place
Gorgeous; you have a fine portfolio.
I can't get over how dramatic the light is here. This is probably my favorite image of yours, and that is really saying something!
A mighty image!
sweet lighting. looks like it was painted on velvet or something.
excellent shot
Did you alter this? or is it a natural shot, I love the light and dark.
Stunning shot, the contrast between the sombre weather and the vibrant colour of the trees is wonderful
Beautiful light and color Vincent!
I like this shot very much! Fantastic light!!
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Wonderful picture! Amazing light and colours.
Another stunning photo
Weird, saw another image of this same mountain not more than a few minutes ago from another deviant. His, of course, had some fog. Yours seems to show the mountain in its entirety much more elegantly, however. Both faved.
Well done.
Well done.
Oh yes, could you show me this another photo ?
Xavier Jamonet has got one of the same mountain, but at the same time, because we are photographying together sometimes ^^
Xavier Jamonet has got one of the same mountain, but at the same time, because we are photographying together sometimes ^^
stunning contrast, with the bright orange trees and the dark background!
Cette photo est vraiment maginifique. Les couleurs et le paysage sont exceptionnels. Je ne savais pas qu'il y avait d'aussi beaux paysages en France ^^
Et pourtant si !
La France est superbe et n'a pas à rougir face à d'autres destinations lointaines.
Merci pour le message.
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Merci pour le message.


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ENA Hires its First Chief Government Relations Officer
Jan 18, 2013, 03:36 EST
DES PLAINES, Ill., Jan. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ENA is proud to announce the recent hiring of Richard Mereu, JD, MBA, who will serve as the chief government relations officer. Dr. Susan Hohenhaus, LPD, RN, CEN, FAEN, ENA's Executive Director, describes this new position as instrumental in overseeing federal and state advocacy efforts and government relations related to emergency nursing. "This is the perfect time for ENA to make advocacy for the profession of emergency nursing a priority," said Hohenhaus, "and Mr. Mereu is the perfect professional to begin this journey with us."
Mereu has a JD from Albany Law School and an MBA from The Wharton School. He has worked on a variety of health care issues as chief of staff to Rep. Elton Gallegly (R – Cal.) and staff director for two subcommittees of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, as well as serving as a professional staff member on the House Judiciary Committee. He believes his vast background is essential to helping ENA shape its new Advocacy Department.
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ENA's mission to advocate for patient safety and excellence in emergency nursing practice is one of the factors that attracted Mereu to the position.
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Mereu, based in ENA's Washington, DC office, looks forward to working on ENA's top priorities, including workplace violence in the emergency care setting, which he describes as one of the most "important issues affecting the functioning of emergency departments."
About the Emergency Nurses Association
ENA, with more than 40,000 members worldwide, is the only professional nursing association dedicated to defining the future of emergency nursing and emergency care through advocacy, expertise, innovation and leadership. Founded in 1970, ENA develops and disseminates education and practice standards and guidelines, and affords consultation to both private and public entities regarding emergency nurses and their practice. Additional information is available at ENA's Web site www.ena.org.
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So the problem here is not that your pdf can't be copied (or opened to read). To lose the select/copy text ability is a common trouble when a pdf is repaired/fixed with some programs.
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If your loved one with dementia must be hospitalized for a broken bone -- a common aftermath of an accidental fall -- make sure the treatment (and you) focus on three important issues.
1. Advocate for proper pain management
Most people hospitalized for a broken bone will have pain. For some, the pain is present all the time. For others, it's just with certain movements, such as standing.
For people with dementia, the trouble is that they often have difficulty communicating pain. They may not remember the pain when hospital staff come to ask about it. Or they may consistently deny being in pain, even though careful observation of their activity and facial expressions tells another story.
It's essential that your loved one be treated for pain, because untreated pain can cause delirium and also affect his or her ability to participate in the physical therapy that's needed for recovery. Studies show that elderly patients with broken bones are commonly undertreated for pain, especially if they have dementia.
Pain: What you can do
To ensure that your loved one with dementia gets properly treated for pain, take the following steps:
If your loved one denies being in pain, watch for other telltale signs, such as grimacing, refusing to move, or being more confused than usual.
Let the hospital staff know if your loved one often seems to be in pain. You know him or her better than they do and can observe your loved one over longer periods than any staffer can.
If a pain medication has been prescribed on an as-needed basis, you may find it helpful to remind hospital staff to give it to your loved one or talk to the doctor about making the order effective at regular intervals.
2 more important issues for someone with dementia who's hospitalized for a bone fracture
2. Understand what kind of physical activities are OK.
Once your loved one's fracture has been assessed -- and surgically treated if need be -- he or she will be ready to begin the healing and recovery process. People with dementia, however, often can't remember whatever instructions or restrictions have been specified by the doctors and physical therapists.
That's problematic because participating in rehab is essential in order to recover function and regain as much independence as possible.
Rehab: What you can do
Make sure the physical therapists understand that your loved one has dementia. Don't count on them seeing it in the person's file. It will help if you can specify the stage of dementia and give some examples of what your loved one is usually able to remember.
Make sure you understand the plan for recovery from the fracture, including what kind of activities or weight-bearing movements are OK and which should be avoided.
If your loved one can't remember instructions, plan what you'll need to provide help. For example, some people with dementia respond to written signs. Or your loved one may need a caregiver at the bedside most of the time to give verbal reminders. Ask the physical therapy staff to help you brainstorm.
Ask about timing pain medication before therapy. Activity can create added pain even though it's necessary, and if this pain isn't inadequately treated, your loved one might not participate in physical therapy. If he or she is balking or not trying hard, talk to the hospital staff about providing more pain medicine, ideally an hour prior to therapy.
3. Request an evaluation for osteoporosis.
In an older adult, breaking a bone may be a sign that the bones are much thinner than normal, a condition known as osteoporosis. It's especially important to identify and treat osteoporosis in older adults with fractures. Treatment can reduce the chance of a future fracture by 50 percent, and it's usually tolerated by people with dementia.
Osteoporosis: What you can do
If it hasn't been mentioned to you, ask the doctors to evaluate your loved one -- female or male -- for osteoporosis. Note that men with osteoporosis should also be checked for low testosterone, which can cause osteoporosis.
If osteoporosis is diagnosed, ask about a multifocused treatment. Ideally, your loved one should be prescribed both calcium and vitamin D supplements, as well as prescription medications for osteoporosis.