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Seattle Mariners catcher Steve Clevenger tweeted something someone didn't like. He lost his job because of it. Colin Kaepernick kneels for the national anthem and he pockets $16 million a year for sitting on the bench (He sits for the song for free).
Welcome to America, 2016.
"Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black police officer hahaha," Clevenger tweeted. "Shit cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!" He labeled Black Lives Matter and the president "pathetic," expressing his opinion that the people involved in the Charlotte riots deserve to be locked up "like animals."
Harsh stuff. But athletes, as Colin Kaepernick's defenders incessantly insist, retain a right to their opinion. Okay, okay, so they didn't really mean it. They meant: Athletes retain a right to their opinion if it's also my opinion.
"I'm really stunned that he was suspended for the season," Jemele Hill announced on ESPN's His & Hers on Friday. "The Seattle Mariners, they came out immediately, denounced his comments, said, 'This is not what the organization stands for.' But I guess I was sort of pleasantly surprised. Am I wrong for feeling that way?"
A guest host, Jorge Sedano, seconded that emotion. "I'm pleasantly surprised because we need to out fools like this," Sedano said of the suspension. "That's just the reality of what we're doing today."
Colin Kaepernick's cheering section cheering the catcher's suspension for speech illustrates the mental gymnastics journalists play to toe the company line, which, as Curt Schilling and Mike Ditka could tell you, runs in a leftward direction in Bristol, Connecticut. ESPN, again, outs itself as the worldwide leader in hypocrisy.
Herbert Marcuse outlined this depends-whose-ox-is-being-gored mindset in "Repressive Tolerance," a phrase he used to describe and denounce what most people regard as simple live-and-let-live tolerance. In this 51-year-old essay, the communist college professor championed a concept he called "liberating tolerance," which meant "intolerance against movements from the Right, and toleration of movements from the Left."
The concept caught-on on college campuses. Now sports journalists, who hail from many of those same bastions of "liberating tolerance," push, as Nat Hentoff put it on a book cover, "free speech for me, but not for thee" as well. In other words, people who make their living off their opinion want to deny another man his living because of his opinion.
Sure, the catcher expressed himself, as catchers sometimes do, harshly. But it's not as though a negligible number of people think little of the president, want Charlotte's looters and thugs jailed, regard those kneeling for the national anthem as disgraceful, and express confusion about why a black policeman shooting a black ex-con inspires a mob to go on a violent rampage against whites. Should they all lose their jobs too?
Tens of millions of Americans believe what Steve Clevenger believes. They just don't own the Seattle Mariners—or ESPN.
Don't look anytime soon for the latter's 30 for 30 documentary chronicling the day the Seattle Mariners put a muzzle on a guy accustomed to wearing a catcher's mask. The story hits the network as an inconvenient truth. But Time coverboy Kaepernick's characterization as speaking truth to power continues as he enjoys the full support, and a paycheck rivaling Tom Brady, from his team and all the fawning from the Fourth Estate.
Not everyone enjoys free speech. For Steve Clevenger, his speech cost $33,868. That's a big sacrifice to a guy making the league minimum. To Colin Kaepernick, that's what he gets paid for every 90 seconds he holds a clipboard.
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Coffee and Donut Sundays express appreciation for the support given to the St. Boniface Food Pantry and provide an opportunity for fellowship among parishioners after Sunday Mass.
Once a month (with the exception of June and December) coffee, juice and donuts are provided by the food pantry for parishioners following each of the Sunday Masses. Donations for the Food Pantry are accepted at this time.
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Ticking noise problem. Need help
Hey guys. I done a timing belt on my half trac. 2 years ago and now it is ticking. The ticking seam to go with the car acceleration. The higher the rpm the louder it gets. It not a rod knock because that not where the sound is coming from. It coming from the head. I check on the timing again and it is dead on with the original mark. I have torque down head stud and cam shaft stud to spec. Anymore ideas I should check before I start to replace the lifter. How would u adjust the spring for the lifter. Any idea would help me a lot. Pretty much stuck and scratching my head at this time.
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While the engine is running, pull one spark plug wire at a time to see if the sounds goes away. Then you'll know which cylinder is causing this problem. I have the same problem but I am fairly certain it is an exhaust leak on my car.
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Apps, games & voters
The world's largest democracy is at the polls—with over 81.4 crore people casting their votes in nine stages. In the days leading up to the general elections, the internet and social media played a large part in how everyone—from Narendra Modi to Rahul Gandhi—interacted with us voters. From crash courses in social networking to coming out with their own websites and mobile applications, politicians tried every trick on the net to make sure they got our attention. Now, as their futures hang in the balance, we take a look at how you can keep on top of the votes and blow off some steam, digitally.
By Team Indulge
Election India
This app gives briefs on major political parties, along with their own updates. Linked to party videos on YouTube and Facebook, Election India also offers mock votes for different states and public discussions about the goings on in Parliament. You can view each state's scenario on the app and check out past election results, too. Considered more right-wing than neutral, this Android app is an eye-opener for those who've been snoozing so far. Details: play.google.com
Election Watch Reporter
Keeping the parties and politicians under a hawk-eye, Election Watch Reporter is an Android app that is dedicated to election complaints. So when you next see an election violation or over expenditure by candidates—including cash or liquor distribution, misuse of official vehicles—snap a photograph or video (with the location) and load it on the app. Details: play.google.com
Election Tracker
Created by MTS and Social Samosa, the app has a live dashboard to provide real-time analysis of voters—both on the web and social media platforms. By collating data from platforms like Facebook and Twitter, it tracks all 'mentions' of all things political, including politicians and party names, so you can track what you'd like to read. It also displays data in the form of bar graphs and charts to give a statistical view of the current standings. Details: socialsamosa.com/electiontracker
WhatsApp and WeChat
Now you can get your news live—in English and Hindi—via WhatsApp and WeChat. BBC has tied up with the two messaging apps to bring you the election news as it happens. To get updates, add +919650801273 on WhatsApp and 'BBCNewsIndia' (in the 'official accounts' section) on WeChat.
ABC of 2014 Elections
For a better tomorrow, catch them young. Smartur, a start-up that creates digital content solutions for schools, has started ABC of 2014 Elections—an online initiative to create awareness about politics and elections among kids. Targeted at 12 to 15 years olds, it helps children learn through fun quizzes and informative graphics that list out facts about Modi, Gandhi and Kejriwal. They can even list out their demands in the Children's Manifesto. Details: smartur.com/elections
The Five Forty Five
Six post graduate Indian-origin students at Columbia University created thefivefortyfive.com, a website for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. "Our aim is to create a discourse that is different from mainstream media," says Anand Katakam. Put together primarily by the team—Katakam, Indrani Basu, Devjyot Ghoshal, Aparna Alluri, Iva Dixit and Rishi Iyengar—it gives data driven opinion and encourages people to contribute, thus enabling a well-rounded discussion. What's more, this website has plans that extend beyond May, "to create a larger project around it". Details: thefivefortyfive.com
Angry Voters
If Parliament meetings aren't funny enough, Angry Voters, based on the popular Angry Birds game, is tongue-in-cheek entertainment. Rather than toss birds, gamers can throw eggs, coins, slippers and, if you choose, flowers, at the top three prime ministerial candidates—Gandhi, Modi and Arvind Kejriwal. Narrowing the battle to two, there's the Narendra Modi vs Rahul Gandhi app that allows you to ask the candidates questions and pick the winner. Details: play.google.com
Kursi Cricket
Sports fans, download Kursi Cricket and pit political parties against each other for an intense game of the country's favourite sport. Every run counts for a vote, so the more sixes you bat, the quicker your political party takes the lead. Details: games2win.com
Modi Run
Modi has been talking nineteen to the dozen to get votes. Now you can make him run for it, too. The Android game, based on the Super Mario Bros, shows Modi's character running across India, beating obstacles and collecting votes. If this app doesn't give you your Modi fix, try out Modi Express, Bhaag Modi Bhaag or Ek Tha Modi. Also available are games with Gandhi and Kejriwal in the limelight. Check out Flappy Rahul, Rahul Gandhi Run, AAP ki Aag and Kejriwal Run.
Details: play.google.com
Who is the Idiot
Going viral on YouTube is Who is the Idiot, a music video created by Chennai-based musicians Blaaze and Paul Jacob. The song "is born out of a desire for change," says composer and lyricist Jacob. The duo, who believes social media is key in building social awareness, collaborated with Artistaloud and 9XM to create it. "The video (which features the 9XM animated characters, Bade and Chote, along with kids) tells people that in this election, don't be an idiot—wake up and vote. It will make you think and smile at the same time," adds rapper and playback singer Blaaze. Details: youtube.com/whoistheidiot
Tap to keep up
? India Election EC Voter: helps voters locate their nearest polling booth (play.google.com)
? Voting Line: gives real-time election trends across the country (windowsphone.com/en-in/store)
? Vine: lets you make six-second
looping video clips and share them (vine.co)
? Snapchat: creates photos and videos that disappear in one to 10 seconds—perfect to blow the whistle on something unsavoury (snapchat.com)
? Tout: with a single click, it sends mobile video updates in real time (tout.com)


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Kinsale Harbour Regatta 2017
The annual harbour regatta in Kinsale takes place this August Bank Holiday weekend. Saturday 5th is very much a day for the RNLI with their raft race running from the Bulman to the pier followed by an Open Day at the station on Sunday 6th
Sunday and Monday, as always, are for the sailors with races for all classes beginning at 1.00pm with the start line off the pier. Check out the Notice of Race above for all the details and start times.
The water carnival of activities will take place at the pier on Monday afternoon with something for everyone. The full programme of events is available here


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This year's edition sees the 198 riders tackle a grueling 23-day, 21-stage, 3,540-kilometer route that takes in 23 mountain climbs and affords competitors just two rest days.
Here is a quote from the BBC website, "Nairo Quintana is one of the few who can ride away from Froome in the mountains and the paucity
of time trialling this year race will also help the 27-year-old Colombian's cause - but he needs to be more aggressive.
It will be interesting to see if the Movistar rider, who has twice finished runner-up to Froome (2013 and 2015) is helped or hindered by competing in Italy's equivalent race, the Giro d'Italia, where he finished second in May."
Nobody in the news is talking about Rigoberto Uran, I think he is this years "sleeper" in the tour, I think he is the one to keep an eye on. At this time he is in 4th place and less than half a minute behind Froome. Cannondale-Drapac's Charly Wegelius said "There's no chance to rest up in the next few days from I can see on the map. There's no chance to sleep until Paris,", whose own Colombian contender, Rigoberto Uran is merely 29 seconds back in fourth place, and only 6 seconds from the 3rd podium position. "At the moment it's very close and it'll stay like that until some lands a knock out punch. There are some pretty big hills between now and the time trial, so plenty can happen. I think it's going to be a very interesting race right to the end, for everyone and especially for Rigoberto and us."
Nairo Quintana has some work ahead of him if he wants to win this year, he has to become much more aggressive. He has to take the leadership role that he is in and push ahead of Froome. He has to put the tours stupid tradition of waiting for a fallen yellow jersey, and ride on, leaving it behind. Nairo Quintana said "I'm back there with the top guys, I'm not losing confidence and I hope we can do like this for a couple of days, so we can go for it." Last Thursday Nairo appeared to give up, having fallen back more than 4 minutes behind theyellow jersey. Then on Friday he blasted back into contention with a second place finish, a fraction of a second behind Warren Barguil. Then Saturday he fell back again, not able to keep up with the other GC contenders. I think Nairo's mistake this year was trying to win both the Giro de Italia and the Tour de France. That is almost impossible, and the person who wants to win the Tour de France needs to focus his entire year on that one race. Another problem, in my opinion, is the tradition of the GC contenders waiting for a fallen yellow jersey rider. If the yellow jersey falls or stops, the other GC contenders have traditionally slowed and waited for him to catch back up with their group. That is what Quintana did on Thursday, and it appeared to be he downfall again Saturday when Froome stopped with a mechanical problem. The GC guys waited for him to catch up but he just took off ahead of them and Nairo couldn't keep up. That tradition needs to go away and be forgotten. Just because something is traditional doesn't mean it's good.
Chris Froome, who has won 3 previous Tours (2013, 2015, 2016), this year is appearing vulnerable. Could this be his age? He is 32, getting into the old years for a professional cyclist. Last Thursday was a hard day for him, and he showed it. Before the Tour Chris predicted this race would, "be the hardest ever Tour I've ever had to fight." Chris Froome still has the best chance of taking overall victory because he has the best team supporting him, and that means everything in the Tour de France.
This coming final week of the Tour has some mighty big mountain climbs, and many smaller climbs, all of which will test even the best riders and best teams. It's going to be an exciting final week for the Tour de France. If you're a fan of cycling you won't want to miss any of the action. Who's willing to predict the final winner?
As it stands right now there are 7 riders all within about 2 minutes of the yellow jersey, all with a chance of winning the Tour. This kind of a Tour hasn't been seen in many years.
Here are the Colombian riders in the 2017 Tour de France:
|Home Town
|Rider number in race
|Rigoberto URAN
|Medellín, Antioquia
|Nairo QUINTANA
|Cómbita, Boyacá
|#21 (Team #1 rider)
|Carlos Alberto BETANCUR
|Ciudad Bolivar, Cundinamarca
|Sergio Luis HENAO
|Rio Negro, Guainía
|Jarlinson PANTANO
|Cali, Valle de Cauca
|Johan Esteban CHAVES
|Bogotá, Cundinamarca
|#81 (Team #1 rider)
|John Darwin ATAPUMA
|Tuquerres, Nariño
174 riders finished the race today. All the Colombianos are doing very well.


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A new system for evaluating educators, announced by the state on Saturday, will reshape how teachers are hired and fired in the city. It will also have a profound effect on students, who will take part in a series of new exams designed to help administrators grade teachers in specialized subjects.
Under the new evaluation system, which was imposed by the state after months of feuding between the city and the teachers' union, teachers will be graded next school year on a variety of measures. Student test scores will make up 20 percent of their rating, while classroom observations will account for 60 percent. Principals and teachers will work together to decide how to evaluate the remaining 20 percent.
But many educators teach subjects for which there are no widely used tests. In response, the city is developing assessments in a range of subjects, including English as a second language, special education and music. City officials are also working on assessments for kindergarten, first grade and second grade, where exams are less common.
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"We don't want to just invent hundreds of new bubble tests in order to satisfy these requirements for teacher evaluation," Dr. Polakow-Suransky said on Sunday. He said the exams would instead focus on challenging students to think critically and creatively.
An English class, for instance, might require students to complete a long-form research paper, and ask them to repeat the task in the spring to gauge how much students had learned.
Still, some critics of standardized testing question the use of more exams, especially for younger children.
"What's the test for kindergarten teachers or gym teachers?" said Bob Schaeffer, director of public education for FairTest, a national advocacy group. "Those tests don't exist, and they're being cobbled together very rapidly."
The assessments used in teacher evaluations will be put into place over the next three years, Dr. Polakow-Suransky said, and will eventually expand to include all subjects and grade levels. They will be given in the fall and spring to measure how much students learn over the course of a school year.
Across the country, school systems are grappling with the challenges of fine-tuning complex teacher evaluation systems after decades of relying on simple satisfactory-or-unsatisfactory ratings. As the ratings alter school culture, they have also thrust difficult questions upon school administrators. What should an exam on vocational education include? How should learning in kindergarten be measured? Should teachers who handle students with behavioral problems be judged the same way as their peers?
In New York, questions about the evaluation system are widespread, given that state guidelines grant significant authority to principals and teachers to decide how student learning should be measured.
"It's hard to move away from a system where everybody's getting a 'we're-all-O.K.' rating," said Sandi Jacobs, vice president of the National Council on Teacher Quality, a research and policy organization. "It's a cultural shift."
"This is going to be a very, very difficult path," he said.
The city said that it would begin offering training on Thursday to allay concerns among teachers, and that workshops would be held throughout the summer.
Some principals are also uneasy about the new guidelines. Their role in schools is expected to change significantly as they begin observing teachers more frequently — as much as six times a year.
Ernest Logan, president of the union that represents principals, said he hoped the city would offer adequate training. "The burden falls on principals to implement something we really had no input in," he said.
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Matilda Ledger, the 2-year-old daughter of Michelle Williams and the late Heath Ledger licks away at her ice pop while going for a stroll in the Brooklyn neighborhood of New York City on Monday.
And luckily for Matilda, the three stars who completed Heath Ledger's role in his final film, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus, have donated their paychecks to her.
Apparently Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell did the fantasy epic movie out of the goodness of their hearts, reports The Sun.
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The First English Civil War:
In early January 1642, a few days after his failure to capture five
members of the House of Commons, fearing for his own personal safety
and for that of his family and retinue, Charles left the London area.
Further negotiations by frequent correspondence between the King and
the Long Parliament through to early summer proved fruitless.
As the summer progressed, cities and towns declared their sympathies
for one faction or the other, in one case the garrison of Portsmouth
under the command of Sir George Goring declared for the King and in
another when Charles tried to acquire arms for his cause from Kingston
upon Hull, the depository for the weapons used in the previous Scottish
campaigns, Sir John Hotham, the military governor appointed by Parliament
in January, initially refused to let Charles enter Hull and when Charles
returned with more men, drove them off; Charles issued a warrant for
Hotham to be arrested as a traitor but was powerless to enforce it.
At the outset of the conflict, much of the country remained neutral,
though the Royal Navy and most English cities favoured Parliament, while
the King found considerable support in rural communities; throughout
the summer months, tensions rose and there was brawling in a number
of places, with the first death of the conflict taking place in Manchester.
It is estimated that at the start both sides had only about 15,000 men;
however, the war quickly spread and eventually involved every level
of society; many areas attempted to remain neutral, some formed bands
of Clubmen to protect their localities against the worst excesses of
the armies of both sides, but most found it impossible to withstand
both the King and Parliament; on one side, the King and his supporters
thought that they fought for traditional government in Church and state;
on the other, most supporters of the Parliamentary cause initially took
up arms to defend what they thought of as the traditional balance of
government in Church and state, which the bad advice the King had received
from his advisers had undermined before and during the 'Eleven Years'
After the debacle at Hull, Charles moved on to Nottingham, where on
the 22nd August 1642, he raised the royal standard; when he raised his
standard, Charles had with him about 2,000 cavalry and a small number
of Yorkshire infantry men and using the archaic system of a Commission
of Array, Charles' supporters started to build a larger army around
the standard; Charles moved in a south westerly direction, first to
Stafford, and then on to Shrewsbury, because the support for his cause
seemed particularly strong in the Severn valley area and in North Wales;
while passing through Wellington, in what became known as the 'Wellington
Declaration', he declared that he would uphold the 'Protestant religion,
the laws of England, and the liberty of Parliament.
Parliamentary Actions:
The Parliamentarians who opposed the King had not remained passive during
this pre war period; as in the case of Kingston upon Hull they had taken
measures to secure strategic towns and cities, by appointing men sympathetic
to their cause and on the 9th June they had voted to raise an army of
10,000 volunteers, appointing Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex commander
three days later; he received orders to capture the king, the Prince
of Wales and the Duke of York; the Lords Lieutenant, whom Parliament
appointed, used the Militia Ordinance to order the militia to join Essex's
Two weeks after the King had raised his standard at Nottingham, Essex
led his army north towards Northampton, picking up support along the
way, which included a detachment of Cambridgeshire cavalry raised and
commanded by Oliver Cromwell; by the middle of September Essex's forces
had grown to 21,000 infantry and 4200 cavalry and dragoons; on the 14th
September he moved his army to Coventry and then to the north of the
Cotswolds, a strategy which placed his army between the Royalists and
The First Major Skirmish:
With the size of both armies now in the tens of thousands and only Worcestershire
between them, it was inevitable that cavalry reconnaissance units would
sooner or later meet; this happened in the first major skirmish of the
Civil War, when a cavalry troop of about 1,000 Royalists commanded by
Prince Rupert, a German nephew of the King and one of the outstanding
cavalry commanders of the war, defeated a Parliamentary cavalry detachment
under the command of Colonel John Brown in the Battle of Powick Bridge,
at a bridge across the River Teme close to Worcester.
Prince Rupert of the Rhine:
Rupert withdrew to Shrewsbury, where a council of war discussed two
courses of action, whether to advance towards Essex's new position near
Worcester, or to march along the now opened road towards London; the
Council decided to take the London route, but not to avoid a battle,
for the Royalist generals wanted to fight Essex before he grew too strong
and the temper of both sides made it impossible to postpone the decision.
In the Earl of Clarendon's words; "it was considered more counsellable
to march towards London, it being morally sure that Essex would put
himself in their way"; accordingly, the army left Shrewsbury on
the 12th October, gaining two days' start on the enemy and moved south
east; this had the desired effect, as it forced Essex to move to intercept
The First Battle of the War:
The first pitched battle of the war, fought at Edgehill on the 23rd
October 1642, proved inconclusive and both the Royalists and Parliamentarians
claimed it as a victory; the second field action of the war, the stand
off at Turnham Green, saw Charles forced to withdraw to Oxford; this
city would serve as his base for the remainder of the war.
In 1643 the Royalist forces won at Adwalton Moor and gained control
of most of Yorkshire; in the Midlands, a Parliamentary force under Sir
John Gell, 1st Baronet besieged and captured the cathedral city of Lichfield;
this group subsequently joined forces with Sir John Brereton to fight
the inconclusive Battle of Hopton Heath on the 19th March 1643, where
the Royalist commander, the Earl of Northampton, was killed; subsequent
battles in the west of England at Lansdowne and at Roundway Down also
went to the Royalists; Prince Rupert could then take Bristol; in the
same year, Oliver Cromwell formed his troop of "Ironsides",
a disciplined unit that demonstrated his military leadership ability;
with their assistance, he won a victory at the Battle of Gainsborough
in July.
The Turning Point:
In general, the early part of the war went well for the Royalists; the
turning point came in the late summer and early autumn of 1643, when
the Earl of Essex's army forced the king to raise the siege of Gloucester
and then brushed the Royalist army aside at the First Battle of Newbury
on the 20th September 1643, in order to return triumphantly to London.
The Battle of Marston Moor:
Other Parliamentarian forces won the Battle of Winceby, giving them
control of Lincoln; political manoeuvering to gain an advantage in numbers
led Charles to negotiate a ceasefire in Ireland, freeing up English
troops to fight on the Royalist side in England, while Parliament offered
concessions to the Scots in return for aid and assistance; with the
help of the Scots, Parliament won at Marston Moor on the 2nd July 1644,
gaining York and the north of England; Cromwell's conduct in this battle
proved decisive and demonstrated his potential as both a political and
an important military leader; the defeat at the Battle of Lostwithiel
in Cornwall, however, marked a serious reverse for Parliament in the
south west of England; subsequent fighting around Newbury on the 27th
October 1644, though tactically indecisive, strategically gave another
check to Parliament.
Oliver Cromwell:
In 1645 Parliament reaffirmed its determination to fight the war to
a finish; it passed the Self denying Ordinance, by which all members
of either House of Parliament laid down their commands and re organised
its main forces into the 'New Model Army' under the command of Sir Thomas
Fairfax, with Cromwell as his second-in-command and Lieutenant General
of Horse; in two decisive engagements, the Battle of Naseby on the 14th
June and the Battle of Langport on the 10th July, the Parliamentarians
effectively destroyed Charles' armies.
The End of the First English Civil War:
In the remains of his English realm Charles attempted to recover a stable
base of support by consolidating the Midlands and began to form an axis
between Oxford and Newark on Trent in Nottinghamshire; those towns had
become fortresses and showed more reliable loyalty to him than to others;
he then took Leicester, which lies between them, but exhausted his resources
in doing so; by May 1646 he was forced to seek shelter with a Presbyterian
Scottish army at Southwell in Nottinghamshire, which led to the Scots
handing Charles over to the English Parliament and for imprisonment.
The Second English Civil War:
During his imprisonment, on the 28th December 1647, Charles negotiated
a secret treaty with the Scots promising them a church reform; under
the agreement, called the 'Engagement', the Scots undertook to invade
England on Charles' behalf and restore him to the throne on condition
of the establishment of Presbyterianism for three years; following this
a series of Royalist uprisings began throughout England, backed with
a Scottish invasion which occurred in the summer of 1648.
However, Parliamentary forces put down most of the uprisings in England
after little more than skirmishes, but the uprisings in Kent, Essex
and Cumberland, the rebellion in Wales, and the Scottish invasion, were
a different matter, they involved the fighting of pitched battles and
prolonged sieges; Colonel Thomas Horton defeated the Royalist rebels
at the Battle of St Fagans on the 8th May; rebel leaders surrendered
to Cromwell on the 11th July after the protracted two month siege of
Pembroke and Sir Thomas Fairfax defeated a Royalist uprising in Kent
at the Battle of Maidstone on the 1st June; Fairfax, after his success
at Maidstone and the pacification of Kent, turned northward to reduce
Essex, where, under their ardent, experienced and popular leader Sir
Charles Lucas, the Royalists had taken up arms in great numbers; Fairfax
soon drove the enemy into Colchester, but his first attack on the town
met with a repulse and he had to settle down to a long siege.
In the North of England, Major General John Lambert fought a very successful
campaign against a number of Royalist uprisings, the largest being that
of Sir Marmaduke Langdale in Cumberland; thanks to Lambert's successes,
the Scottish commander, the Duke of Hamilton, had perforce to take the
western route through Carlisle in his pro Royalist Scottish invasion
of England; the Parliamentarians under Cromwell engaged the Scots at
the Battle of Preston on around the 18th August; the battle took place
largely at Walton-le-Dale near Preston in Lancashire and resulted in
a victory by Cromwell's troops over the Royalists and Scots commanded
by Hamilton.
The End of the Second English Civil War:
Nearly all the Royalists who had fought in the First Civil War had been
given their parole by promising not to bear arms against the Parliament
again and many honourable Royalists, like Lord Astley, refused to break
their word by taking any part in the second war; so the victors in the
Second Civil War showed little mercy to any of those who had brought
war into the land again.
On the evening of the surrender of Colchester, Parliamentarians had
Sir Charles Lucas and Sir George Lisle shot; Parliamentary authorities
sentenced the leaders of the Welsh rebels, Major General Rowland Laugharne,
Colonel John Poyer and Colonel Rice Powel to death, but executed Poyer
alone on the 25th April 1649, having selected him by lot; of five prominent
Royalist peers who had fallen into the hands of Parliament, three, the
Duke of Hamilton, the Earl of Holland and Lord Capel, one of the Colchester
prisoners and a man of high character, were beheaded at Westminster
on the 9th March 1649.
The Trial of Charles I for Treason:
Charles I was the first of our monarchs to be put on trial for treason
and it led to his execution; this event is one of the most infamous
in England's history and one of the most controversial; no law could
be found in Englands history that dealt with the trial of a monarch
so the order setting up the court that was to try Charles was written
by a Dutch lawyer called Issac Dorislaus and he based his work on an
ancient Roman law which stated that a military body, in this case the
government, could legally overthrow a tyrant; the execution of Charles,
led to an eleven year gap in the rule of the Stuarts, from 1649 to 1660
and it witnessed the rise to supreme power of Oliver Cromwell, whose
signature can clearly be seen on the death warrant of Charles I.
The betrayal by Charles caused Parliament to debate whether or not to
return the King to power at all; those who still supported Charles'
place on the throne tried once more to negotiate with him, but furious
that Parliament continued to countenance Charles as a ruler, the Army
marched on Parliament and conducted 'Pride's Purge', named after the
commanding officer of the operation, Thomas Pride, and in December 1648,
troops arrested 45 Members of Parliament and kept 146 out of the chamber;
they allowed only 75 Members in and then only at the Army's bidding.
The only people allowed into Parliament were those who Cromwell thought
supported the trial of the king; this Parliament was known as the 'Rump
Parliament' and of the 46 men allowed in, who were considered to be
supporters of Cromwell, only 26 voted to try the king; therefore even
among those MP's considered loyal to Cromwell, there was no clear support
to try Charles.
The Chief Judge was a man called John Bradshaw, who sat as head of the
High Court of Justice; he was not one of the original 135 judges, but
seeing as none of the 68 that did turn up wanted to be Chief Judge,
the job was given to Bradshaw, who was a lawyer; he knew that putting
Charles on trial was not popular and he actually feared for his own
life; he had a special hat made for himself, which had metal inside
it to protect his head against an attack.
It was Bradshaw who read out the charge against Charles, that he 'Charles
I', "out of a wicked design to erect and uphold in himself an unlimited
and tyrannical power to rule according to his will, and to overthrow
the rights and liberties of the people of England."; the hall where
the king was tried was packed with soldiers, to protect the judges,
or to make sure that the king did not escape; the public was not allowed
into the hall until after the charge had been read out.
At the trial, Charles refused to defend himself; he did not recognise
the legality of the court; he also refused to take off his hat as a
sign of respect to the judges who did attend; this seemed to confirm
in the minds of the judges that Charles, even when he was on trial for
his life, remained arrogant and therefore a danger to others as he could
not recognise his own faults.
Bradshaw announced the judgment of the court : that "he, the said
Charles Stuart, as a tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy to the
good of this nation, shall be put to death by severing of his head from
his body."; when the judgment of the court was announced, Charles
finally started to defend himself; he was told that his chance had gone
and the king of England was bundled out of the court by the guarding
soldiers; his date of execution had been set for the 30th January 1649.
The Execution of Charles I:
Charles was executed on a cold Tuesday, his beheading took place on
a scaffold in front of the Banqueting House of the Palace of Whitehall;
he was allowed to go for a last walk in St Jamess park with his pet
dog and his last meal was bread and wine; there was an unexpected delay
however, in his execution; the man who was to execute Charles refused
to do it, so did others, but another man and his assistant were found,
who were paid £100 and were allowed to wear masks so that no one would
ever know who they were.
At nearly 2.00 oclock in the afternoon, Charles was led to the scaffold
which was covered in black cloth; he had asked to wear thick underclothes
under his shirt as he was very concerned that if he shivered in the
cold, the crowd might think that he was scared; Charles gave a last
speech to the crowd but very few could hear him; he said: "I have
delivered to my conscience; I pray God you do take those courses that
are best for the good of the kingdom and your own salvation."; it
is said that when he was beheaded a large groan went up throughout the
crowd; one observer in the crowd described it as "such a groan by
the thousands then present, as I never heard before and I desire I may
never hear again."
But even in death, Charles found no dignity, spectators were allowed
to go up to the scaffold and, after paying, dip handkerchiefs in his
blood as it was felt that the blood of a king when wiped onto a wound,
illness etc, would cure that illness.
On the 6th February, 1649, the monarchy was abolished. Parliament stated
that "the office of the king in this nation is unnecessary, burdensome
and dangerous to the liberty, society and public interest of the people.";
what became known as a Council of State was set up instead of the monarchy
and Oliver Cromwell was its first chairman.


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As Kimco's Westlake Shopping Center in Daly City, California continues to welcome new tenants, we always make sure that our tenant mix is varied to offer a wide range of services to our shoppers. Non-retail companies are part of that mix, with the recent addition of Poplar Global Wealth Management (PGWM) being a perfect example.… Read More
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It might sound easy enough. But choosing the right location for your business is one of the most challenging and confusing decisions for entrepreneurs to make.… Read More
Redevelopment continues to be one of Kimco's major value creation strategies. We are excited about our redevelopment pipeline that invests resources back into our real estate. The rewards of redevelopment go much further than the key metrics of value creation, solid returns on our investment, and higher occupancy rates.… Read More
Recently, a retailer had a tall order for us. Within just a few years, it wanted to double its footprint from 250 to 500 stores in shopping centers across the United States. In addition, the retailer needed 7,000- to 10,000-square-foot spaces, a size somewhere between anchor and mom-and-pop that's less common in current shopping center build-outs.… Read More
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GAWDA Member Get-A-Member Recognition Program Rules
Program Announcement
Program Rules
Benefits of GAWDA Membership
ANNUAL PROGRAM PERIOD and ELIGIBLE MEMBER CATEGORIES
• The annual program period for the "Recognition Program" is between Annual Conventions.
• After the presentation ceremony at the Annual Convention, a new reporting period begins for the following year.
• Only new "Distributor" and "Supplier" member categories will be counted. A new member is any company that has either never been a GAWDA member or has not been an active member for 2 or more years.
• Individuals and Manufacturers Representatives, while welcome to join GAWDA, are not included for this program.
• Sponsors must be employed by an active GAWDA member company to qualify.
• There can only be one sponsor per new member.
• The "sponsor name" on the new member application form will be listed as the official sponsor.
• If no sponsor name appears on the new member application form, GAWDA Staff will call the new member for a name. If no name is given and there is an Issues regarding claims for sponsorship, GAWDA staff will make a final determination based on the information available.
• New members (and their sponsors) are announced each month in both the GAWDA Connection e-newsletter and in the quarterly Welding & Gases Today, magazine.
SPONSOR RECOGNITION AND AWARDS AT THE ANNUAL CONVENTION and GIFT CARD DISTRIBUTION
• The member who sponsored the most number of new members in an annual period will be presented with a plaque, on stage, by the GAWDA President, as well as having their name prominently displayed on the big screen as well.
• A list of all sponsor members and their corresponding new member, will be displayed during the business sessions "award ceremony" at the each Annual Convention.
• Any member, who sponsors a Distributor member, will receive a $100 Visa gift card for each new member they sponsor. Sponsor gift cards will be mailed at the end of each Annual reporting Period. GAWDA staff will contact the sponsor as to where to mail the gift card.


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4 Nights Nile Cruise / 1 Night Sleeper Train / 2 Nights Cairo
(In Luxor / Out Cairo)
Day 1: Arrive to Luxor International Airport where you will be met and assisted through immigration and customs and transferred to board your Nile Cruise. Visit Karnak and Luxor temples, a centuries old city of Pylons, Hypostyle halls, colossal statues, Shrines and Obelisks. Continue to visit the West Bank necropolis including Valley of Kings, Funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari and the Colossi of Memnon. Overnight in Luxor.
Day 2: Early morning sailing to Edfu via Esna enjoying the wonderful scenery and picturesque rural sights by the banks of the river Nile. Overnight in Edfu.
Day 3: Travel by horse drawn carriages to the temple of Horus, the Falcon god in Edfu. This temple is considered the best preserved ancient temple and the second largest after the temple of Karnak. Sail to Kom Ombo where you will visit the Ptolemaic temple of Sobek and Haroeris. Sail to Aswan and Overnight
Day 4: Optional trip to Abu Simbel by Car. Overnight in Aswan.
Day 5: After breakfast, disembark. Visit the Aswan High Dam, the Granite Quarries with Unfinished Obelisk and the temple of Philae. Day at leisure on your own. In evening transfer to railway station to board your sleeper train to Cairo, Dinner and overnight on board sleeper train.
Day 6: Breakfast on board sleeper train. Meet and assist by our representative upon arrival to Cairo. Drop luggage at hotel and proceed to visit the Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza which have stood for the last 5000 years. Continue to visit the Egyptian museum of Antiquities which includes the world's largest collection of Pharonicartifacts and the treasures of Tutankhamen's tomb. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 7: After breakfast enjoy your free day at leisure or you may opt for an optional Overday to Alexandria where you will visit the Catacombs of Kom El Shugafa, Pompey's Pillar, Montazah Gardens, Roman Amphitheatre and Qaitbay fortress. Overnight in Cairo.
Day 8: After breakfast transfer to Cairo International Airport for your departure flight. Tour Ends
Above rate includes the following services:
• All transfers (Cairo, Luxor and Aswan) by air conditioned vehicles.
• 4 nights accommodation on board Nile Cruise on full board basis including all sightseeing tours as Indicated on above. Guidance on board cruise joining the group.
• 1 night on board of 1st Class sleeper train on half board basis (LOCAL dinner & breakfast).
• 2 nights hotel accommodation in Cairo on Bed and Breakfast basis.
• Fullday Cairo tour visits: Pyramids, Sphinx, Egyptian Museum.
• Bilingual guide in English and Turkish language.
• Entrance fees tickets for all sightseeing.
• Domestic flight.
Above rate excludes the following services:
• Egypt entry visa.
• Customary tips & gratuities to drivers, guides, representatives, hotel, Nile Cruise etc… (Hotel‐ 6 USD per person/per day and on Cruise‐ 8 USD per person/per day)
• Personal expenses e.g. (tel., beverages, laundry, room service…etc).
• International airfare.
• Entering the Pyramids Chamber from inside & solar boat.
First Pyramids (Pyramid of Khufu): 20.00 USD per Adult / $ 10.00 US per child.
Second Pyramids (Pyramid of Khafre or Kephren): 6.00 USD per adult / 3.00 USD per child.
Third Pyramids (Pyramid of Menkaure or Mykerinus): 5.00 USD per adult / 3.00 USD perchild.
Solar Boat: 10.00 USD per adult / 5.00 USD per child.
• Entering the Mummies Room at the Egyptian Museum.
• Mummies Room: 20.00 USD per adult / 12.00 USD per child.
• Any lunches / dinners during the whole accommodation except on board cruise.
• Mineral Water during the entire trip.
• Domestic airfare, if any.
• Any items not mentioned above.
Important notes:
• The above rates might be changed in case of increasing sales, government taxes, or entrance fees.
• We might change the program sequence to meet with the Nile Cruise embarkation schedule which we are always bound to.
• Sightseeing schedule might change but all the sights will be covered (without any prior notice)
• Fullday tour is 8 hours and Halfday, 4 hours. So any extension of time will be subject to fee on the spot. Except the day excursion, which can be up to 12 hours.
• Official check in time at the hotel, at 15:00 hrs. • Official check out time from the hotel, at 12:00 noon.
• Official embarkation on the cruise before lunch around 11:00 hrs.
• Official disembarkation from the cruise, after breakfast at 08:00 hrs.
• Sleeper Train: Has 13 sleeping cars each, which contains 10 double cabins and 2 bathrooms. Every Cabin has a connecting door to the next cabin, to be used when needed. Cabins are equipped with basins, razor plugs, tap water, soap & towels. A luggage compartment is available on the top of the door.
Sleeper Train to depart Aswan railway station at around 18:35 Hrs and to arrive Cairo railway station at around 06:45 Hrs.


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This unique book of homes, builders, dwellers, dreamers, and doers is the result of Lloyd Kahn's thirty-year odyssey shooting photos and gathering information about builders around the world. It is also the sequel to Kahn's best-selling book Shelter, which was published in 1973.
There are some 1100 photos and over 300 drawings, all illustrating buildings assembled with human hands.
There's a Japanese-style stilt house accessible only by going on a cable 500 feet across a river, a stone house in South Africa where baboons jump up and down on the roof at night, multilevel treehouses on the South China Sea, and a house built of bottles in the Nevada desert. There are ten pages of photos from Archlibre (countercultural builders in the French Pyrenees), a number of off-the-grid solar-powered houses in the Northern California woods, and a section on natural materials: straw bale, cob, bamboo, and log structures.
One section is on photographers who have documented handbuilt shelters of indigenous people in Africa, Asia, and South America. Another portion is devoted to "fantasy" buildings, such as artist Michael Kahn's semi-subterranean sculptural village of ferro-cement and stained glass in the Arizona desert, and the Flying Concrete lightweight curvilinear buildings on the outskirts of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. There are photos from Kahn's trips over the years: houses, barns, and small buildings in Mississippi, Nova Scotia, Nevada, Costa Rica, and Baja California.
"On the Road" documents life on the road: housetrucks and housebuses, camper shells, and tents, as well as John Stiles and his trip across America with two covered wagons pulled by 14 donkeys. "Living Lightly" covers lightweight nomadic living in America in yurts, tents, and tipis, as well as Native American dwellings.
Home Work continues the journey that started with Shelter, and is the first in Shelter Publications' new series of books about handmade buildings.
What struck me the most was that a good percentage of the homes featured were clearly quite functional for their owner-builders, but just looked messy to me - especially the cob houses. They strike me as rather too far along the housing spectrum on the "camping" side to provide practical, year round, full time living.
The story of Ian McLeod in South Africa intrigued me, not only because of his beautiful home, but because he built the entire thing while working nude. I rally just had to stop and think of the logistics of that one. IT certainly does save on laundry! After pondering it for a while I decided that working nude just wouldn't work for me - especially since a bra would be essential to keep "the girls" out of the way. Perhaps just a bra and panties would be fine - or a bikini or something, although since I am rather accident prone it might not be wise to go too light on the clothing. Also, the sunscreen involved, and the application time!, just boggles the mind!
Ma Page's bottle house in Nevada was certainly striking. Not in an "I want that" way, but more of a "how cool" way.
The stone houses and barns resonated the most with me. Perhaps because I'm a native New Englander and barns and dry stone walls are common features here. The stone houses just have a feeling of enduring strength and safety to them.
This one gets eight stars because of the sheer beauty of the photography. The collection is a bit too eclectic for me, and the book is entirely too floppy and oversized to be comfortably read, but it is still quite informative. I'll certainly look for future releases from the author.
Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆


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Over the course of seven decades, Arthur Miller created some of the most memorable plays in American literature.
Miller was born and raised in Manhattan. His father was a wealthy businessman until the Great Depression. However, despite being faced with poverty, Miller made the best of his childhood. He was a very active young man, and he was in love with such sports as football and baseball. When he wasn't playing outside, he enjoyed reading adventure stories.
He was also kept busy by his many boyhood jobs. He often worked alongside his father, giving a hand when necessary. During his spare time, he did some part-time jobs.
In 1934, Miller attended the University of Michigan, studying journalism. His first play, No Villain, received an award from his university. It was an impressive beginning for the young playwright. He had never studied plays or playwriting, and he wrote his script in just five days!
After graduation, he continued writing plays and dramas. During World War II, his writing career gradually became more successful. Death of a Salesman, his most famous work, was published in 1949. It earned him international recognition.
His other major works included All My Sons, A View from the Bridge and The Crucible.
During the 1950s, Arthur Miller became the most recognized playwright in the world. His popularity wasn't simply because of his literary genius. In 1956, he married his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, a famous actress. People often wondered why the world's most beautiful woman would marry such a homely writer.
He was a big man and a deeply American man. He was busy writing plays until he got sick. He has such a great life that you don't feel sad for him.
Miller's plays are among the finest works that have been produced in the 20th century. Miller has looked with compassion into the hearts of the ordinary Americans and quietly transferred their hope and sufferings to the theater.
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Monday, the first day of classes, marks the close of an agonizing, frustrating summer for Chicago Public Schools. It has been a summer dominated by often-harsh clashes over spending cuts and closing schools. So it's probably no surprise that something very good, very positive, didn't get a lot of attention last week.
CPS recognized and rewarded the best of the best.
School leaders awarded cash bonuses to 134 Chicago principals. The principals earned those bonuses of up to $20,000 because they produced results. They boosted student performance in reading and math, or they narrowed the achievement gap between white and minority students, or they graduated more students who were genuinely ready for college, or they kept more kids from destroying their future by dropping out.


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Newsletter - November/December 2014
Editor - Dave Rieger (can be contacted at email@example.com or 904.806.5481)
Learn Scottish Country Dancing – By YouTube
(This article was originally appeared the RSCDS publication Scottish Country Dancer - October 2014)
Graham Stanley (Melbourne) offers some tips for good dance videos:
It's amazing what you can find on Google. Google any one of hundreds of Scottish country dances, and along with Minicrib and other instructions for the dance, you will likely find that someone, somewhere has videoed the dance and posted it on YouTube.
In many cases, the videos can be quite instructive and will help you understand the patterns and formations of a dance. However, in other cases the dancers are
woeful, going all over the place. Often you will have a choice of the one dance being danced by different groups, so you can pick out the best and replay it several times to get the pattern.
Not all videos are helpful. In one, the photographer starts videoing one set then pans left part way through a formation, to another set which is having trouble. Apart from trying to follow a struggling set, the viewer loses the continuity of the formation. By the time the photographer finishes the pan left, you have lost a beat or two while watching half a formation in one set and half in another.
But you don't have to look far down the list in the Scottish Country Dancing Dictionary Scottish Dancing YouTube Videos to find some good examples of helpful videos. For example, scroll down to Antarctica Bound by the Charlotte SCDS Youth, where the camera is fixed and you can see all dancers in the frame and can follow their movements. Also check out Dumfries Rambler, produced by lain Hale; it also shows videoing from the head of the set so you can clearly see how the dance goes. You will find many other examples of good video techniques as you scroll through thelist — as well as many poor examples!
Why not have your group perform one of your own popular dances for presentation on YouTube? Here are a few tips to consider before you rush in.
1. Choose a dance which one four-couple set can do properly. It's very hard to learn a dance on YouTube if everyone is going wrong. So make sure that you rehearse the dance before rolling the camera. If your set goes wrong, stop and re-video so the dance is correct.
2. Ideally, fix the video camera at the head of the set with the lens open wide enough to capture the action on both sides of the set. This should give the best view of the dance. Other camera positions can be tried, but may make it more difficult to observe the whole dance.
3. Start videoing five seconds before the bow and curtsey so that you do not miss the start of the dance. Several videos start after the bow and curtsey and the viewer is not sure what he or she has missed.
4. Resist the urge to pan right or left to bring in other sets; it will only break up the sequence of the set you are videoing and lose part of the formation viewers will be trying to study.
5. Make sure that your camera is properly focused. Several YouTube videos are out of focus, and there is nothing harder than trying to follow a fuzzy dance. So check the focus before and after you video a dance.
6. Make sure that it is easy to identify the individual dancers in the set. There are some very good demonstration sets in some videos, but all the dancers are wearing the same costume, so it becomes difficult to follow the individual men or women in the set.
Once you have a video clip you are happy with, use your video making or editing program to add a title (name of the dance) and credits, and save to your video file. Then you are clear to upload your video onto YouTube so that Scottish country dancers around the world can share your dance.
Not sure how to do that? Then simply Google support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57924. Or else, have a teenager do it for you.
Good luck!
Outlander - Season 3 now filming!
Dougal MacKenzie
Prepare Your Haggis!!
Get ready for the Holidays and Bobby Burns Day.


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Today I'm going to do a quick post comparing one of my newer pretties to a couple that I've had around for a while...and at the end of the post, you'll get to see which one - if any - is actually being de-stashed(!).
So I don't have to re-type this: The "undies" for everything is 2 coats of Sally Hansen Complete Salon Manicure in Without A Stitch - no separate base or top coats.
The first comparison actually ended up being no comparison at all once on the nails. If I'd looked at my nail wheels better, I would have seen that. Oh, well. Now we all know.
pinkie (left) has 1 coat of Sinful Colors Lush Life (limited edition from 2013 Almost Famous collection)
ring (right) has 1 coat of Maybelline Sea-Quins (limited edition from 2012 Sequins collection)
~~no dupes here, just the same color family~~
Moving on:
middle finger (left) has 1 coat of Sinful Colors Lush Life
index finger (right) has 2 coats of Love & Beauty/Forever 21 Crystal/Turquoise
bottle shots
Crystal/Turquoise looks like I've used a bunch, but I've only used it a time or 2
and swatched it on the nail wheel
and swatched it on the nail wheel
They both have a clear base and both have small teal glitters with hex glitters that are a size or 2 bigger. Sinful Colors is more glitter-packed and has a much, much easier formula to work with. It took 2 coats of Crystal/Turquoise to look like one easy coat of Lush Life. You also get a little bit more in the Sinful Colors bottles for less cost than Love & Beauty polishes ($2.80).
Lush Life is limited edition at Walgreens, available now, so if you want it, go grab it now. Crystal/Turquoise might be able to be found at the Forever 21 store; online, I found (and linked) Turquoise Tinsel, Celestial Blue, and Turquoise Glitter that might be similar. I also found some other polishes that caught my eye, but that's another story.
Forever 21/Love & Beauty Crystal/Turquoise will be leaving the stash. It's nice to slowly/quietly de-stash my collection from dupes, keeping just the better formulas while trying to keep limited edition collections together as much as possible. I also need to get back into doing these types of posts comparing them to current releases from OPI, China Glaze & Essie... If I can spot a dupe or "good enough for me" in my collection, then I won't want to run out and buy that particular new polish.
Did you get your hands on Lush Life? Do you know of another polish it might be a dupe for? Let me know! Do you go through your collection periodically and pull duplicate colors or do you do it all at once?
**all items purchased by me
**my opinions are my own
**not sponsored/affiliated


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Below I have written a template email you can copy/paste into an email and send to your parents (inserting your name at the end). Please send this email out by May 25th. This is a simple way to good lasting impression in the minds of your parents and get them excited about registering next semester. Obviously, you can change whatever you wish or even write your own. Just send something by May 25th. 🙂
Thank you for allowing your student to be involved in my D-Group for this semester. It was an honor getting to mentor your child in their understanding of Biblical principles and how to apply them to their everyday life. Being a part of a D-Group is a big commitment, so I appreciate the effort you put forward to get your student here on Wednesday nights. Even though the semester is over I am still available to help in any way I can. I look forward to having your child in my D-Group next semester which will start August 23rd! Registration will open online on July 12. Please register your child by August 22nd to guarantee a spot in my group.
Thank you for allowing me to be your child's D-Group leader,


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A friend from the Netherlands responded to my post Galveston, oh Galveston by email (why people don't leave comments on the blog itself remains a mystery). He'd been reluctant to respond at all, he wrote, because of the storm and what it meant to us, with relatives evacuated and all that.
A girlfriend, also from my motherland returned from her summer vacation to find my storm post. She dropped everything, her floor covered with the contents of her luggage, to write about her earliest memories of the Flood of 1953. A small child when the dikes in Zeeland, the most southwestern province of the Netherlands, broke, she still remembers the photographs showing devastation, people straddling the roof top, a single cow on a float. She remembers the tension, sorrow and stress in her family for farms lost to the water. She recalls the hundreds of people coming to the Noordoostpolder, where her parents were pioneer farmers on re-gained land, trying to find work. My blog post about Ike hitting Galveston brought all those memories to the surface.
And here we are, in the northwestern state of the U.S., going to a party —after a restless night worrying about the welfare of our loved ones— attending a celebration, eating tidbits, listening to music, cheering to the future of Libraries for All.
And here it's Monday and I'm writing about music, and dinner shows, food and entertainment, while my father-in-law and brother-in-law are hunting for a generator and my mother-in-law is worried sick about her business on the Seawall Boulevard, worried about her cats, still locked inside the house —on higher ground, yes, but still, in walking distance from the beach.
On Sunday morning we saw images of boulders, that were part of the Seawall, deposited by the sheer force of water onto the boulevard that runs along the Seawall. The road completely covered with boulders that looked like props from Universal Studios, only we know they're real, not light weight, easy to lift, painted styrofoam!
I heard on NPR that a herd of cows survived, "they swam around all night," the spokesperson said. Eventually they were "swam" (read corralled) by people to higher ground. Now that's an amazing story.
People have lost their homes, their boats, but feel fortunate enough to say: "I'm alive."
And then there's the train crash in Los Angeles, and The Crash in Wall Street and, and …
Here, on high ground in Seattle, I feel somewhat ashamed when I see my post about frivolous things such as music, food and drink. But then I think about the Obama-rama at The Pink Door and realize that the show goes on, that the show must go on …


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I got a text from a close friend and fellow Mac enthusiast, Joe, at 7:33 p.m. this evening.
"Sad day steve jobs died today"
At first, it was kind of an, "Oh, well that's sad," moment. Over the next few minutes, though, I mulled over that announcement and came to a realization that I might not be where I am, doing what I am doing, if Steve Jobs had never existed. He, along with several other key players, practically handed us the technological revolution that led us to where we are today. He was pivotal in the development of the modern personal computer. He was a thinker, an imaginer, and an innovator. He was a technological revolutionary, always daring to challenge the status quo and encourage new and astounding endeavors.
He brought creativity to the digital realm. He was an artist surrounded by analysts and programmers.
I bet many of you did not know this, but Jobs had a passion for calligraphy. His love of the written letter and creative typefaces led to the first Mac's wide array of fonts. It opened doors to massive creative application and the modern graphic design industry. In many of my design theory, mass communication, and technology history classes, we talked about the ways that Steve Jobs influenced the flow of events leading up to the career I pursue. We had an entire unit on him, his achievements, and business ventures in my business class freshman year.
Wrapped up in all the stresses of college, internships, cross-country travel, and learning who I am, I lost track of Steve Jobs over the summer. I remember vaguely hearing that he was ill, but never really registering the severity of the situation. A well-crafted and no-nonsense blog post by one of my heroes, Olivier Blanchard, about Jobs' withdrawal from Apple awakened me to the seriousness of his illness.
That day, I realized that Superman had a weakness, a fatal foe. It went by the name of pancreatic cancer.
I owe a massive dept of gratitude to Steve, as well as many other innovators who helped shape the graphics, communications, and technology industries that I have come to love and rely on. The MacBook Pro that I write this on is a pivotal part of my everyday life, and it exists because one man dared to be creative, ambitious, and bold. If there ever was a man who deserved to be called a thought leader, it was Steve Jobs.
I know in many ways, this blog post is just one of millions of tributes written by people who never met Steve Jobs. For me, it's personal. There are people in this world who make such a profound impact one so many lives that it almost goes unnoticed. Even with all this publicity, I feel as though many members of the public are oblivious to how much richer our lives are because of this man.
Thank you, Steve Jobs. Thank you for all the creativity, independent thinking, blood, sweat, tears, time, effort, passion, and drive you put towards revolutionizing the world around us.
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary." ~ Steve Jobs


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There's something about Australian red wines that's very, well, Australian.
There's a charming, no-nonsense informality about them. They might be a bit loud and argumentative, but they're a friendly lot. And while they can be coarse, there's often a lot of depth #F beneath that burly, swaggering exterior.
Sure, that's a generalization, about the wine as well as the people. There are, no doubt, dour, reserved, even meager Australian people as well as red wines. I just haven't met many of either.


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Solar panels can often get damaged if rocks, large hails or bullets hit its surface. Falls are also possible if bolts on the mount get loosen up. In most of the cases there is no need for you to throw the broken panel away as solar panel repair can be done.
First try to see if the panel still works even though it still has the broken glass in place. You might surprisingly see that it will function, of course not at the same output as before but sufficiently enough to satisfy the house electrical needs. If you want to have a fully functional solar panel than you should remove the broken glass and try to replace it with a new piece. This operation might add some problems: in most of the solar panel repair cases you can not keep water from condensing inside and leading to the fogging of the new glass.
Another problem that can appear is the loose solder connections. As the panel heats and cools some of the connections might cut in and out. You can test to see if this is the problem by sharply rapping the panels with your hand. In this case too solar panel repair can be done but it might be a little more difficult as you have to cut into the silicone that embeds the solar cells and reach the back of the cells for repairing the connections. There are some special products that can re-solder the connections. The first one is the silver impregnated epoxy. It is strong and also waterproof. Another useful product is an electronics solder that contains 2% silver. Even self-adhesive metal stained-glass tape seems to be effective for solar panel repair procedures. If you have some physics knowledge about circuits you will manage to repair your solar panel solder connections in no time.


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Last November 28, 2014, the finalists from the different SM Hypermarket branches compete for the Grand Finals of SM Hypermarket Best Pinoy Streetfood 2014. From the numerous contestants, only 10 made it to the finals which was held at the SM Hypermarket Cubao branch along EDSA.
The popular Chef Boy Logro of Kusina Master was one of the chef judges during the finals.
The 10 finalists are grouped into 5 pairs and was tasked to create a delicious meal of pancit. They were given an hour to shop and cook for about 100 pax. Only two groups will be selected from this elimination round who will vie for the grand finals. Goodluck guys!
They all had a blast shopping for ingredients inside SM Hypermarket Cubao. Each pair was assisted with Hypermarket staff so that getting the items off the shelves will be easier and faster.
At the counter, they're suppose to stay within their P1,000 budget.
And the cooking frenzy begins ...
Aside from the chef judges, a group of culinary students and people from the audience (bloggers included) were tasked to have a bite (or two) of the pancit prepapred by the finalists. Each plate is color-coded. Afterwards, all the judges lined up on stage to drop their tokens on which pancit is the best for them.
So who are the lucky ones who will vie for the title of "Best Pinoy Streetfood Chef?" Stay tuned.


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Construction Consultancy:
Quality, OH&S and Environment Systems
QuickISO has wide expertise in creating Quality, Safety and Environment certification solution for the development business. Our frameworks spread administration of sub-contractual workers and meet the necessities for outline, develop and extend administration.
QuickISO has broad involvement in creating administration frameworks for the development business at all levels:
- Principal Contractors
- Sub-Contractors
- Trades / Service Companies
Construction managers confront a ceaseless test to guarantee a protected workplace - powerful working methodology are the objective.
In perceiving the need to build up management systems and working techniques that guarantee the upkeep of safe working conditions QuickISO can give guidance on:
› Policy, Procedures, Safe Systems of Work
› Risk Assessments / Risk Checks
› Building a Health and Safety Culture in your
› Management Responsibilities
› Auditing your system
› Performance Measurement for Health, Safety & Environmental Construction Aspects
› Incorporating health and safety aspects in
pre-project workshops
Various International Management System has specific roles to play in the Construction Industry. Let's discuss below.
ISO 9001(QM) Quality Management in Construction:
As building tasks get bigger and more perplexing, customers are additionally progressively requesting higher norms for their conveyance. All out quality management (QM) has been perceived as a fruitful management reasoning in the assembling and administration businesses. QM can in like manner be grasped in the construction business to raise quality and efficiency. Two contextual analyses of construction organizations indicated how QM can be effectively executed in the construction business. The advantages experienced incorporate decrease in quality costs, better worker work fulfillment since they don't have to take care of imperfections and customer protests, acknowledgment by customers, work completed accurately right from the begin, subcontractors with legitimate quality management frameworks, and closer associations with subcontractors and suppliers. QM execution measures were additionally reflected through top management duty, client inclusion and fulfillment, representative association and strengthening, customer–supplier connections, and procedure change and management. At last, a structure for executing QM in construction is prescribed.
How QuickISO can help you
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- Handover, As-Manufactured and Culmination Strategy (helpful so that you at long last hand over the majority of the records to the Customer on time)
- Review and Quality Control Methodology (indicating the fundamental system of the investigations that performed nearby)
- Studying and Setting out Methodology
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- Taken a toll Control Methodology
- Organization and Correspondence
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- Evaluating Customer fulfillment
- Demand for Data Methodology (RFI)
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ISO 14001 Environment Management System in Construction:
A study was attempted to evaluate the observations and desires of contractual workers concerning ISO 9000 certification and the expenses and advantages practically speaking. Contractual workers' desires of ISO 14000 certification were likewise found out, together with their ecological mindfulness, arrangements and current practices, and their perspectives on measures which could advance its across the board reception. The study depended on a postal overview. It was found that contractual workers had gotten profits by ISO 9000 however were driven by transient money saving advantage contemplations. Their mentality to ISO 14000 certification was by and large comparative. Recommendations for improving the probability of a high uptake of ISO 14000, and IMS are made.
How QuickISO can help you
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- Performance Benchmarking and Monitoring during Construction Phase and Post Project Reviews
- Advice on Environmental and Social Impacts during Design phases, implementing Sustainable Construction Initiatives
- Incorporating Environmental Aspects in Pre-project Workshops
OHSAS 18001 Occupational Health & Safety Management in Construction:
The QuickISO Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS) Certification Scheme is established with the aim that upon receiving this certification, contractors will become more aware and self-regulatory in promoting safety at their construction sites, leading to better safety standards for their projects.
QuickISO OHSMS (Occupational Health & Safety Management System) Certification Scheme is administered by the QuickISO for the construction industry to certify construction and construction-related firms to OHSAS ISO 18001 requirements. Firms which have effectively established, implemented and maintained Occupational Health & Safety Management System meeting the requirements of OHSAS 18001 are eligible to apply for the certification scheme.
The Occupational Health & Safety Management System is a management system that enable firms to control the impact of their activities, products and services on the Occupational Health & Safety. The standards provide a framework for firms to establish a strategic approach to their Occupational Health & Safety policy, plans and actions.
The QuickISO OHSMS Certification Scheme will certify firms which implement the management system at various levels of Occupational Health & Safety maturity. Firms which demonstrate compliance with applicable Occupational Health & Safety legislation and regulation with a commitment to continuous improvement will be awarded the certificate.
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OHSAS 18001 contains specified requirements which consists of 5 basic sections:
- Occupational Health & Safety Policy
- Planning
- Implementation and Operation
- Checking and Corrective Action
- Management Review.
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- Demonstrated ability to manage construction hazards and high risk activities,
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The way of all war
A hospital in Afghanistan goes up in flames
Doctors Without Borders wants answers about an Oct. 3 U.S. airstrike that killed 22 people at its hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan. They've demanded a war-crimes investigation. Was the bombing due to negligence, willful disregard for civilian casualties, or a tragic error amid the "fog of war"?
No matter what evidence might be found to explain the terrible incident, one fact is not in doubt: In this war, like every war, innocent people die. That is one of the reasons many Anabaptists and other Christians who are committed to nonviolence oppose the war in Afghanistan and have done so for all of its 14 years.
A Pentagon statement used the dehumanizing phrase "collateral damage" to describe the deadly attack. Witnesses said patients burned in their beds. A doctor died while undergoing an emergency operation on his office desk. Because the attack destroyed a hospital run by a Western humanitarian group, these wrenching details drew attention around the world.
But most incidents of civilian carnage go largely unnoticed. In June, a U.S. airstrike destroyed an Iraqi factory that was making bombs for the Islamic State and "flattened an entire neighborhood," killing 70, including civilians, Reuters reported. A Canadian air attack killed between six and 27 civilians earlier this year in Iraq.
This is the way of all war. Even with "rigorous procedures to minimize civilian harm," which the Center for Civilians in Conflict says the U.S. has, eventually a hospital goes up in flames. High-minded goals and glossy policies can't change war's evil nature.
Today's asymmetrical wars pit relatively weak terrorist groups against vastly more powerful conventional forces. The nature of these conflicts makes the combatants even less likely to follow traditional "just war" rules. When the weaker side mixes with civilians, the stronger one accepts that noncombatant deaths are inevitable. Ethicists question whether such wars can ever be moral. Cecile Fabre, author of Cosmopolitan War, has written of "contingent pacifism" — the view that today's wars are almost never justified because they seldom meet the conditions for a just war.
In some ways, such a view is not far removed from the absolute pacifism of the Anabaptist tradition. Yet there is an essential difference: Christ-centered nonviolence is unconditional and rooted in the call of the Prince of Peace on our lives.
The bombing of the Kunduz hospital shows the need to take to heart, and to put into action, an antiwar statement that Mennonite Church USA delegates passed last summer. The resolution, "Faithful Witness Amid Endless War," laments that we rarely object when innocent people are killed on our behalf. It warns against letting unending warfare dull our moral sensitivity. It urges "a renewed emphasis on trusting God and the way of Jesus, not violence, for our security." The bombing of a hospital confirms our objection and sharpens our conscience.
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There is a line that is invisible,
flecked with silver, that goes
through everything.
There is a map at the back
of this book, in pencil, with roads
marked one through seven.
When some time has passed,
the roar is a distant waterfall.
The flowers that come from the ground
are purple and yellow,
are red, with scent of anise and death.
I don't remember what it is a map of anymore.
I wish the birds were returning, reversing the past.
We can't get our bearings, sweet truck back-up beep.
The heart
breaks like a paperweight.
Rewind and it restores.
Broken, always ends up,
eventually, broken.
Still. What, still?
I want to read the paper
in the sleeping man's hand. I can't
pry open. I imagine
the story in the curled pages.
I walk into a field of fragile things,
abide, descend.


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Friday, October 16th 8:00 PM
Benefiting Foster Children's Rights Coalition's Footsteps Program
The Toasted Cork, 4301 N. Civic Center Plaza, Scottsdale, AZ 85251 - 480.386.4588
Join us for our annual sophisticated cocktail party filled with great live music, complimentary snacks, and cocktail specials all night at a fabulous 2-level venue. This event always brings in a great crowd featuring a contest for the best shoes worn by the lovely ladies in attendance.
OUR FEATURED CHARITY ORGANIZATION… FOSTER CHILDREN'S RIGHTS COALITION are foster parents, social workers, court appointed special advocates (CASAs), legal experts, mental health professionals, and other community members. The coalition has created a reform plan containing more than 350 specific recommendations for reform help children in the foster care system who endure far too many injustices. Separation from siblings, inaccessible mental health care, an alarming lack of foster homes, and lack of basics such as properly fitting shoes. These are just a few of the problems plaguing Arizona's foster care system. 17,000 children are underserved in our state. It is their mission to uphold their rights. To learn more, visit fosteringrights.org
OUR SHOE DRIVE… Bring new or gently used shoes (women, men & children) to this event and help our featured charity's program, FOOTSTEPS, make the children in Arizona's foster care system feel cared for.
MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT… We'll be featuring DJ T3PO and percussionist who will be spinning Classic and Current Top 40 favorite hits that will keep you dancing all night long downstairs and upstairs will be talented Evan Berg, acoustic guitarist for added entertainment.
BEST SHOE CONTEST… Each guest will receive a wrist band as they arrive at the party and will use it to select a contestant by placing the wrist band around the lady they feel is wearing their favorite shoes. At 10:00 p.m., the lady who has collected the most wrist bands will be the winner of the contest and the recipient of some great prizes!
DRESS CODE… Business casual or cocktail attire is requested for ladies and gentlemen.
FOOD & DRINK… We'll be offering complimentary snacks until 10:00 p.m. and great wine and cocktail specials all night.
OUR VENUE… THE TOASTED CORK is a modern American wine bar with an approachable wine list for newcomers and connoisseurs alike. Their neighborhood-inspired wine bar is conveniently tucked in the Entertainment District of Old Town Scottsdale. Inside, subtle lighting electrifies a sexy atmosphere, reminiscent of a classic New York wine bar with sparkling chandeliers, rotating art installations, and live music. Outside, our second floor patio has breathtaking views as the sun sets. Executive Chef Jaime Ramirez creates a menu of gourmet-grilled cheeses and small plates that are made for sharing and are flawlessly paired with their wines by the glass or the bottle and craft beers. This sleek and sophisticated destination features a large open-air patio, two full service bars, signature martinis, handcrafted cocktails, and a unique craft beer menu.
PARKING… There is plenty of street parking and valet available just a short walk from the venue.
ADMISSION… $10/person at the door includes, entry, complimentary snacks (until 10 PM), cocktail specials all night, live music and DJ. This event was produced, marketed, managed and hosted by Raven Events, LLC since 2008 and is open to the public; couples and singles over the age of 21. For more information, call 480.664.0228. We look forward to seeing you at the party!
EVENT WEBSITE LINK: www.ravenevents.com/MonthlyEvents/10162015
Raven Valdes, CEO & Founder
Raven Events, LLC
480-664-0228 Office
480-231-9999 Mobile
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