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From Washington to Nigeria and Back... From Washington to Nigeria and Back...
Not too many industries are able to fly low under the radar these days. Gone are the days in the seventies where huge land deals would be struck in clear violation of zoning and public housing regulations. We bid adieu to the gluttonous 80's where frat boys manipulated junk bonds just enough to plop a red Testarossa in the four car garage. The offshore wire transfer financial institution scams of the nineties are now history. Where did all the fun go?
Now I'd be the last to suggest that we've entered into the clear zone. I for one am still awaiting for King Neby Mgawanga of Nigeria to deliver me my fifty-million dollars of his Uncle's (King Matawabu III) once frozen assets that I helped liberate. I've also been noticing the mysterious debits on my Visa card from some company called V-I/\G.R/\ .com for them vitamins I've been taking that have been keeping me up late at night.
We can now rest assured that our interests are protected not by the new moral code promulgated by the Bush Jr. administration but rather by the new certification requirements calling for records retention standards. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of June 2003 which requires CEO's and CFO's of financial institutions to retain essentially all internal and investor electronic communications. Also, any "significant changes" made to the corporate financial reporting scheme must be duly revealed via a quarterly report. Failure to report/retain would subject the CEO or CFO to criminal penalties if such a failure was knowing and in bad faith.
These new regulations don't only protect our pocketbook, they allow us to engage some of America's most important institutions with a renewed sense of trust and zeal. It's sort of like knowing that the new DC-10's have remote auto-pilot capabilities today just in case the pilot starts to doze...
Of course, these new requirements call for the enhanced retention of electronic records which translates into an avalanche of electronic discovery when it comes to litigation. Companies who are in business to help these financial institutions retain their electronic communications and therefore stay compliant with the new regulations (fines have reached into the hundreds of millions of dollars for those who have strayed from the regulations) are partnering with electronic data processing outfits to handle this onslaught of electronic data comprising the bulk of what used to be traditional paper discovery.
As a nation of laws, I don't see us going the other direction anytime soon. "Lawless laissez faire" societies such as modern day Russia went from extreme regulation to the wild west and they have suffered. Of course, there is a happy medium out there somewhere - but finding it is the trick. In the meantime, them EDD and financial data capture machines will be a hummin... posted by Alexander | 12:45 AM


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CLEMENT, the restaurant with themed rooms and an American menu at The Peninsula New York, is not without its quota of drama. During dinner, the sole gentleman in the group proceeds to be adventurous with a Green Dragon, featuring Baijiu, the Chinese spirit distilled from sorghum. Declared to be unmixable in cocktails, it is smelly, pungent and aggressive. But our Baijiu chatter is quickly diverted by the antics of the maitre d' and his waiters—furtively peeping into one of the rooms, gesturing to the rest of the team, trading whispers. We join in, and find a young swain following the main course with a proposal to his beloved. That all eyes are on him (friends of the couple wait in anticipation behind doors) doesn't dampen his enthusiasm one bit. Fortunately for him, after the inevitable gasp of surprise, the girl says 'yes'. Later, the wait staff agree that the stylish restaurant and bar that overlooks Fifth Avenue is often witness to such happy proceedings. There was quite a buzz during the recent New York Fashion Week, when afternoon tea was served with sweet delights fashioned like bags, shoes and tubes of lipstick, together with a glass of Louis Roederer Brut '72. They made for great posts after all. But serious food critics are also coming back for chef Remi's experiments featuring seasonal produce. Fall dinners, for instance, are already being anticipated for his ingenious Big Apple brunch on weekends and Remi, ever modest, says everything is special. "I love to use local goat cheese, fresh burrata, heirloom cherry tomato and radish, but my gem is the soft shell crab that is seasonal and local," he says.
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Originally from Paris, chef Remi van Peteghem's stints at l'Arpege and the Michelin-starred Le Sensing have no doubt contributed to his passion for seasonal produce. His monthly series, Chef's Table, at the fashionable Clement, sees food connoisseurs at a communal table sampling everything from exotic poultry (Coop du Jour) to a wild mushroom dessert. More from him:
How long did you take to conceptualise and facilitate your recent hit, Coop du Jour?
It was very easy to design this eight-course meal once our supplier gave me an idea about the poultry available (roasted filet of squab, anyone?). It is why I love my job: in five minutes you draft a menu and it becomes real.
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A software tools company and a maker of high-performance servers said they set a new record in the speed of pricing options contracts.
Xcelerit and Super Micro Computer, both based in the United Kingdom, said their software and hardware, running together, demonstrated the record speed in a Monte Carlo simulation on European-style options using the industry's fundamental pricing model, known as the Black-Scholes model.
The two companies said the prices of 1 million options were evaluated with 500,000 simulation paths in less than 17 seconds.
This, they asserted, was "almost 2,500 faster than an equivalent traditional sequential implementation" running on a single central processor.
In this case, however, the tests were not run on a single core processor. The speed was achieved using a combination of general processors and graphic processors on a Super Micro 6016GT server, running the Xcelerit code.
At its peak, the test ran 30 billion Monte Carlo experiments on option pricing per second.
The Super Micro Super Server was equipped with two NVIDIA Tesla M2090 graphis processors, using Xcelerit's software development kit.
The Supermicro 6016GT server also uses two Intel Xeon X5670 processors.
The NVIDIA processors can execute up to 1.3 trillion floating point operations a second each and can be used to split up the computation over several hundreds of thousands of threads.
"Splitting up a complex problem so that it can be executed in parallel across all of these CPUs and GPUs is a task that programmers do not find easy, but our Xcelerit SDK really simplifies this," said Hicham Lahlou, CEO of Xcelerit.
The Monte Carlo Method of simulating real-world conditions encompasses solves a problem by directly simulating the underlying process and then calculating the average result of the process.
In finance, the Monte Carlo method is used to simulate the various sources of uncertainty that affect the value of the instrument, portfolio or investment in question, and to then calculate a representative value given these possible values of the underlying inputs.[
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Filed: June 24, 2010
Court: Arizona District Court
Office: Phoenix Division Office
County: Maricopa
Referring Judge: Edward C Voss (PS)
Presiding Judge: Robert C Broomfield
Nature of Suit: Prison Condition
Cause of Action: 42:1983
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This is a war debate. It is impossible to accept this debate. If you want to accept, please send me a PM. If you somehow find a way to accept this debate, you will automatically forfeit the complete 7 points. Tell me what country you will represent, and tell me why I should choose you to be my opponent; give me a very good reason as to why you want to do this debate and why you would be a worthy opponent. I am (insert country name). Comment if you are interested. If you want to debate, message me.
lannan13 has accepted, he will invade.
If you are a member of the Art of War (AOW) debate group [created by @The-Voice-of-Truth], then you must vote on this debate. If you are a member of AOW and accept this debate, then state your win/loss ratio.
If you are interested in joining AOW, message @TheRussian or @The-Voice-of-Truth. The primary prerequisite to join this group is: you have to have participated in AT LEAST ONE war debate. If you are a member of AOW, you must vote on other members' war debates unless a valid reason is given. You can challenge other members to debates related to war game scenarios.
There is a Moderator who will ensure that this debate follows the below rules. For this debate, the Moderator is (insert member name).
There are some strict rules that apply. Voters must penalize any violation of the rules.
1. When you accept the debate, state your country, and state the numbers of your armed forces (aircraft, men, ships, etc.). Use this source for military numbers ONLY, as it is the most reliable: http://www.globalfirepower.com.........;
2. Each country's turn can range from about 3 days to 60 days long, so all actions must be in accordance with this time period. (DO NOT try to win in one turn! Take into account that your opponent is also a living, thinking being that can adapt to a situation.)
3. Morale is a key factor in your armed forces' effectiveness.
4. You may produce more military forces (soldiers, ships, aircraft, tanks/humvees/cavalry), but it depends on your military budget, your country's population, and how industrialized your nation is.
5. You may choose to invade or defend.
6. The invader makes the first move
7. The defender's primary military objective is to remove the attacker's forces from the defender's territory. The attacker's primary military objective is to annex the other country, or destroy it (physically, economically, etc). Secondary military objectives can be made by the debaters if they wish. Fulfillment of the military objectives is victory. If either side fails to fulfill their set objectives, the voters are free to reasonably determine the winner based off of who was more successful in completing their objectives.
8. If a nation's capital is destroyed/liberated, this does not necessarily mean that the war is won; the capital could be recaptured. If one of the debaters destroys or controls the administration of the opposing country, OR if the opposing country is destroyed to the point of no administration, then that debater is immediately guaranteed a 7-point victory.
9. Every aspect of the war must be realistic and must remain within the parameters established by the rules and the title. Any unrealistic action and actions deviating from the rules will cause the entire action to be void. Any further deviation after the first void action will result in a complete debate forfeiture.
10. Weapons of mass destruction are NOT allowed. A WMD is defined as:
-Radiological weapon or a radiological dispersion device: any weapon designed to spread radioactive material
-Nuclear or Thermonuclear weapon: an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions
-Chemical weapon: a device that inflicts chemicals designed to harm or kill humans/animals
-Biological weapon: the use of biological toxins or infectious organisms to inflict damage.
Non-conventional detonation of conventional weapons IS allowed.
11. No allies (NATO, UN, Muslim Brotherhood, or otherwise) under ANY circumstances. Annexation of other countries or agreements that allow formations of larger nations and/or direct military intervention is NOT allowed. Personnel and forces CANNOT be supplied by other nations.
You CAN have military or diplomatic agreements and/or treaties with other nations (agreements not to interfere etc). Radical groups, militant organizations, paramilitary factions et cetera are NOT allowed.
Religion is NOT a factor. No economic sanctions from any other nation, but economic warfare is allowed.
You cannot increase your country's population, nor can you use ANY method to allow the involvement of other countries other than what is specified.
12. Cyberwarfare is allowed. Electronic warfare is limited to radar/radio jamming and interception; NO EMPs.
13. The country chosen must be one of the 206 sovereign states recognized by the United Nations as of 2015. Former states such as the USSR are not accepted, nor are territory-controlling factions not officially recognized by the United Nations, such as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, currently the Islamic State), and Gaza Strip, controlled by Hamas, but recognized by the UN as a part of Palestine. You cannot choose my nation.
14. Appropriate conduct MUST be maintained: no insults, cursing, profanity, vulgar language or trolling. Any violation of appropriate conduct WILL BE REPORTED to DDO authorities.
15. If you fail to follow the rules once, you will be given a warning and your actions in that round will be void. Further disobedience of ANY of these rules WILL result in an immediate loss of the debate.
16. The Instigator is Pro.
17. These debates are strictly Force versus Force; no civilian action is allowed unless Total War is declared.
18. TOTAL WAR can be declared only as an absolute last resort. Total war is defined as the complete mobilization of all available manpower of the country. In a state of total war, every able citizen either joins the military personnel or the military labor workforce.
19. All scenarios MUST be realistic; there MUST be an established reason for conflict.
20. We may either follow the date-time storyline format, or state the events that occur directly as realistically possible in a period of 60 days.
UNITED STATES ARMY (http://www.globalfirepower.com......):
Active frontline personnel: 1,400,000
Reserves: 1,100,000
Tanks: 8,848
SPGs: 1,934
MLRs: 1,331
Total aircraft: 13,892
Total Navy: 473
Aircraft carriers: 20
Defense budget: $577,100,000,000 (may be higher at the moment)
Labor force: 155,400,000
Population: 145,500,842
Available Manpower: 69,117,271
Fit for Service: 46,812,553
Reaching Military Age Annually: 1,354,202
Active Front line Personnel: 766,000
Active Reserve Personnel: 2,485,000
Tanks: 15,500
AFVs: 27,607
SPGs: 5,990
Towed Artillery: 4,625
MLRSs: 3,781
Aircraft: 3,082
Fighter/Interceptor: 736
Fixed-Wing Attack Aircraft: 1,289
Transport Aircraft: 730
Trainer Aircraft: 303
Helicopters: 973
Attack Helicopters: 114
Naval Strength: 352
Aircraft Carriers: 1
Frigates: 4
Destroyers: 13
Corvettes/amphibs/troop carriers: 74
Submarines: 63
Coastal Defense Craft: 65
Mine Warfare: 34
Oil Production: 11,000,000 bbl/day
Oil Consumption: 2,200,000 bbl/day
Proven Oil Reserves: 80,000,000,000
Labor Force: 75,680,000
Merchant Marine Strength: 1,143
Major Ports and Terminals: 7
Roadway Coverage: 982,000
Railway Coverage: 87,157
Serviceable Airports: 1,218
FINANCIAL (in USD):
Defense Budget: $76,600,000,000
External Debt: $631,800,000,000
Reserves of Foreign Trade and Gold: $537,600,000,000
Purchasing Power Parity: $2,486,000,000,000
Square Land Area: 17,098,242
Coastline: 37,653
Shared Border: 20,241
Waterways: 102,000
My WMD is a 15 ppm VX nerve agent.
For the purpose of this debate the stats are this round and next round my opponent will give the reason for war and I will begin my invasion.
There will be no warnings for my opponent's mistake on the WMD. It is declared VOID.
May 26th: At 8:00 AM, Moscow, Russia is in peace. A white van pulls up onto the street in from of the Mercury City Tower. 7 men armed with M4 Carbines walk out. They are covered from head to toe in body armor. They burst through the door of the Mercury City Tower. Four of the men stay on the first floor at the entrance and take hostages. The other three go up the elevator to the 49th floor. After about 10 minutes, they cannot find their target on the 49th floor. They decide to go to the 42nd floor, the club floor. At the first floor Moscow police have already lined the streets. The four men threaten to execute the hostages if they do not back off. 5 minutes later, their target, a weathly Moscow businessman is found. The men on the club floor assassinate the businessman. On the first floor, Moscow police try to negotiate with the men. Little do they know that Moscow police has lined up men with sniper rifles to take them out. The men fire but only get one of the people on the first floor. One of the men orders to kill the hostages, when they do Moscow men breach the door and the men drop their weapons. 3 men are caught, the other two escaped using the underground parking to hide. The other two men are never found.
May 27th: The three captive men talk and say they were from the US, and the carbines they used were made in the USA.
May 28th: Russia speaks up to the USA, demanding an answer. The USA refuses to have anything to do with it.
May 29th: The weapons were traced to the USA. They were made by the USA company named: Colt's Manufacturing Company
May 31st: Russia threatens war. The USA tries to calm things down.
June 1st: Russia demands an answer by June 5th, or they will declare war.
June 3rd: Russia executes two of the three captive men. They threaten to execute the last.
June 5th: Russia declares war on the United States. They execute the last captive man.
June 6th: The USA starts mass producing tanks and propaganda posters which will help recruit people.
June 8th: 600,000 troops are put on the Pacific coast, and 600,000 of the rest are put on the Atlantic Coast. 200,000 are put in Alaska.
June 9th: 4,000 tanks, 25,000 AFVs, and 6,000 aircraft are placed all across the Pacific Coast.
June 10th: Same goes with the Atlantic Coast. Canada agrees to a military agreement worth $700,000 because they are close allies.
June 11th: Tens of thousands of men and women are recruited in the Army.
June 12th: Quit-Russia Act is passed.
June 13th: 500,000 men/women are taken out of reserves.
June 15th: 300 navy ships are put on the Pacific coast, and 150 on the Atlantic coast. 7 aircraft carriers on Pacific, 5 on Atlantic.
Quit-Russia Act:
Any merchandise from China past the date of June 5th is to be discarded or destroyed. Major companies can not get their resources or products from Russia, and the Russian embassy is destroyed, and any remaining Russian ambassadors are executed. Any Russian immigrants that have not been a citizen for at least 1 year is to be deported, if they refuse they will be executed without question.
Mass aircraft production:
The USA will be mass producing in an aircraft called the F-35 Lighting II. It is a stealth aircraft that can scout Russia's attacks ahead of time and get info on their setup. They will also mass produce the Apache helicopter and A-10 Thunderbolts. These two will be used for defending, that is their sole purpose.
Trade agreement with the UK:
The United States has agreed with the United Kingdom to trade for more attack aircraft such as the BAE Systems Hawk. In exchange the USA is willing to give up some of their budget, and they are also willing to give up their arms that they produce. UK agrees to this, them being good allies. BAE Systems Hawks are used for defending Alaska and the Pacific coast.
Border Security:
Any border, even with Canada or Mexico is secured. Nobody is allowed in if they are from Russia or have ever even been on Russian soil. This keeps out Russian spies.
Mass navy production:
Submarines are being mass produced in the USA, and more aircraft carriers along with destroyers are being produced for more war efforts.
Over to you, Russia.
Opperation Halestorm.
Russian craft locates 3,500 miles off the US west coast shore line. Armed with 100 of NON-NUCLEAR ICBMs. Upon this set of wolfpacks are 150 Russian ships. It's lone carrier, and 20 submarines, 320 air craft, 7,500 tanks, 500,000 troops. (Putin calls up the reserves on this date so keep that in mind.) Russia launches ICBMs, the attacks at the following Red dots on the map bellow.
Notice the above maps. These dots are stagetically placed all over the US. They are placed at Nuclear stockpile locations and US powergrid locations. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk...) and (http://www.geni.org...) Even though there are some that get destroyed that head more inland those that don't strike strategic locations on the US West coast. Now that the US West cost power system is fried it will take its damage on the US through the lacking problems in the food system and since the US food stores have only one month's supply of food the entire west coast area is practically screwed by lack of food. (http://www.empcommission.org...) [Yes I know the source is that of an EMP, but the source has information on economics and other things needed for this war debate and is applicable.] Since my turn takes over a month I will also target major transportation roadways to also target these areas. Death tolls are skyrocketting from due to nuclear detonations and deaths from the US nuclear stockpile systems. The other colored areas (not yellow) are those vastly affected by the nuclear fallout from the bombs. To refute an upcoming argument of shooting down most of these. US has been cutting it's NMD program for quite some years and has significantly cut it almost entirely out of existance. (http://www.armscontrol.org...) So we can see that at this time the US doesn't have the materials necessary to stop this attack. Also appart of this attack Russian bombers bomb strategic waterways in the Pacific and key island areas such as Okinawa, Ohau, and Aiku, before Russian advancement in order to paralyse American forces before the upcoming attack.
This also occurs on the US east cost with the same numbers.
Opperation Lenin (Aprx. 15 days laters)
With the armored divisions being called back by the President in an expected retreat for them to help due to the failure of FEMA and other governmental organizations (see EMP document, note that this also applies to failure of US powergrid in the same attacks that I'm doing) and with the defenses destroyed due to the nuclear winds, Russians land unopposed. (Russia lands in Oregon and northern California. On the Eastern front Russia lands on Maine and Northern North Carolina and begin to fortify themselves in an established position.)
Opperation Mosqua
Russian forces in the East begin to move northward towards Richmond. Their Air force serges ahead to bombard costal towns including whats left of Washington DC. This is a new form of Blitzkreig known as Kugelblitz. The Russian Naval forces enter the Cheesapeek Bay area bombarding the cost line providing support fire for the troops on the shore line. Russian Subs go forward first to clear the area of any remaining ships.
Economic Warfare
This is about the OPEC issue. Russia, though may not be an OPEC member, is an obsever and other OPEC nations like Iran and Venesuela are strictly opposed to the US and they agree to place an embargo against the US and allied nations. Similiar to that of the Oil Crisis in the 1970's that caused massive oil shortages. This puts quite a bind on the US raising oil and gas prices through the roof and causing a crisis which also in turn affects the food shortage and skyrockets food prices that are already sky high. (http://en.wikipedia.org...)
Russia dumps the dollar and the Petrodollar
Russia dumps the dollar and the petrodollar. Due to this the Russian federation is now accepting oil in Yuan and strikes a deal with China for this to become the new reserve currency. This greatly affects the US currency and inflation and the value of the dollar drops as many OPEC nations are already concidering changing the dollar out for the Yuan. (http://www.globalresearch.ca...) This also crashes the US financial system here are interviews with US economists on the issue.
"It would be disastrous for our markets. All those excess dollars coming in, with bonds being sold, interest rates would spike.
We have not seen a return of health to the banking system. So, the system is very vulnerable; and if the Russians carry through with their threat, you have, indeed, the risk of it collapsing the system." (http://usawatchdog.com...)
With that I will end my turn.
Gabe1e forfeited this round.
It does appear that my opponent has deactivated his account. Due to that under Rule 8 I get an auto win, plus his government is destroyed to the point of no administration so that is also an auto-win in Rule 8.
Gabe1e forfeited this round.
Since I have nothing for this round, please enjoy some of this Russian music.
Gabe1e forfeited this round.
Russia wins!
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from Jan
Sunday-Baked ham and green beans
Sounds like an elegant, home-cooked family dinner, right? Think again. We had been at Target most of the afternoon. Joshua has owned a bike for a couple of years now and really enjoys riding. Jeremy and I decided it was time for us to have bikes too so that we could all ride together. We were all getting hungry, still had to assemble and mount the bike rack on the car, and get the bikes on the car. And, we were low on food in the house because I had not had a chance to get my weekly shopping done (a story in itself). So, when I saw a ham "nugget" as it was called that I could throw in the oven and then plop on the table, I grabbed it. Turned out to be a good thing I did not expend a lot of effort.
Joshua who, to be fair, turned out to be suffering from a sinus infection (more on that later) decided not to eat ANY dinner and sat on the couch. Jeremy was feeling frustrated and hangry from an accumulation of all the "help" he was getting from Joshua with the bikes and a minor injury sustained while working with the bikes. And, I was just tired and hungry. When the dinner was ready, Jeremy and I silently dug in. As our bellies filled, our conversation picked back up. Joshua reluctantly had a few bites of ham. No one ate any green beans. An interesting start to the week.
Monday-Cabbage rolls (If you see Joshua, please call them meatballs!)
I had planned on having cabbage rolls this week, but wasn't sure when. They are almost always a hit. After the previous night, I needed a win (and some comfort food). Cabbage rolls seem like a lot of work, but my mom came up with a trick that makes them a breeze. Instead of rolling the meat in a leaf of cabbage, just add shredded cabbage to your baking pan! You can even buy cabbage that is already shredded! If that is not "comfy," I don't know what it!
This actually turned out to be a fun dinner because Joshua helped make them. He loved preparing and measuring the ingredients, mixing them together, plopping the ingredients for the sauce into the (biggest) bowl, and getting messy shaping the meatballs! I was very impressed. Joshua was so careful when we used the can opener and had a great time using his scissors to cut the onions. When it was time to cook them, he very carefully and deliberately opened the oven door for me. And, asusual, they were a hit. Phew! Joshua was very proud of cooking dinner. So proud, he even ate some of the cabbage!
I use a cabbage rolls recipe from "The Mensch Chef" cookbook by Mitchell Davis (2002). Here is the recipe (which I cut in half):
For the meatballs, mix together the following—20 small gingersnaps, ground; 2 pounds ground beef (not too lean); 3 large eggs; 1 medium yellow onion, grated; 1/3 cup raisins; and ½ teaspoon black pepper. The recipe also calls for ¼ cup uncooked white rice and 1 tablespoon kosher salt. I omit both. Shape the meat mixture into balls.
For the cooking liquid, mix together the following—28 ounce can crushed tomatoes; 28 ounce can whole tomatoes with their juice, cut into chunks; 6 ounce can of tomato paste; ½ cup sugar; ¼ cup raisins; ½ teaspoon black pepper, and shredded cabbage, to taste. The recipe also calls for 2 teaspoons kosher salt and ¼ c uncooked rice. I omit both. Cover the bottom of oven safe baking dish with cooking liquid. Put meatballs in baking dish. Pour the rest of the cooking liquid on top and spread evenly around dish. Baked covered at 325 degrees for 1.5 hours, then uncover and bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. (When I do a half recipe, I bake covered at 350 degrees for about an hour.)
Tuesday-Deli café (it is just too convenient!)
This afternoon really, really got away from us. Joshua had school, as usual and we dropped a friend of his at his home. Usually we either go to a park for a bit or head home. Today, unbeknownst to Joshua, he had a doctor appointment. After waking up at 6am for 3 weeks coughing, I decided to take him in, even in the absence of other symptoms. Well, the last time Joshua was at the doctor was for a flu shot and the time previous to that he got three vaccinations! So, when I told him about his appointment that afternoon he got very teary eyed assuming another shot was coming. After dealing with that fear, I was able to comfort him a bit with some construction truck books I had just gotten at the library. As if the doctor's visit (sinus infection) was not enough, as a family, we decided to go for our first family bike ride with all of our new bikes. We headed down to the trail and started off around 4:15pm completely forgetting that we had just changed our clocks for daylight savings time, and it would start getting dark in about 20 minutes. Here we are with a sick kid without a jacket (don't tell Grandma) and 20 minutes of light left in the day. Not the best parenting decision ever.
We make it back to the car just after dusk to head home, but remember we need to pick up Joshua's prescription. It is getting late and we realize by the time we get home and I actually cook something it is going to be too late. We decide to stop at Jason's Deli on the way home. A great decision and we are all looking forward to our free ice cream at the end of the meal after a long day. Lots of macaroni and cheese, soup, and sandwiches are consumed and we are ready for ice cream. Agh! The machine is broken. I'm ready for the breakdown and, honestly, Joshua deserves to have one. He is sick, tired, got rushed on his first bike ride, had to go to the doctor. But, the kid looks at me and says, "let's get some ginger muffins instead...I get the biggest one." And he did!
Wednesday-Pesto pasta
We had another fun time riding bikes and playing chase at our local park. So much fun that we got back really late for dinner. Fortunately, the park is right next door to our place, so we didn't get caught in the impending dark quite like the day before. But, we were all really hungry and it was getting late. Pasta to the rescue! Joshua, our new head chef, filled the pot with water. While we were waiting for the water to boil, we safely used our knife together and cut up zucchini and mushrooms. With our (clean) grabber hands, we put the zucchini, mushrooms, and pre-cubed butternut squash on a baking pan and roasted them while the pasta was cooking. Drain the pasta, mix in the pesto sauce, and throw the veggies in a bowl. Our bellies were full!
My pesto recipe, which freezes very well, is from Vegetarian Times (so I don't have to worry, I omit the nuts from the recipe): www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/classic-basil-pesto/
Thursday-Pizza, by Joshua
Joshua decided he wanted to play at his school's natural playground, Bunny's Place, after school. While we were there, we made leaf-stick pizza with mud sauce. Quite a delicacy in some parts! I really had not thought too much about dinner, so when Joshua asked if we could make "real" pizza for dinner at home, I was happy to have the decision made. The evening was made even easier when Jeremy offered to walk to Trader Joe's to get the dough, sauce, and cheese. For toppings, we would use this as an opportunity to clean the fridge out.
Joshua, who has been in a cooking mood lately, made our pizzas for us using Trader Joe's pizza crust and marinara sauce.. His part was just cheese. Jeremy had mushrooms, onions, and pineapple. I decided on mushrooms and onions. Yummy and easy.
Friday-Tikka Masala-ish chicken and rice
I really should stop trying to make Indian food. It just never turns out right and tonight was no exception to that rule. (Good thing we had some left-over pizza.)
Saturday-Mexican black beans and rice
An old stand-by lets me down. Or perhaps it was just a so-so black beans and rice recipe I tried for the first time. Either way, we all use lots of guacamole and salsa to liven up this recipe. This is a great meal, as I will mention many times, because we can all make it our own way. Jeremy as a salad, me as a rice bowl, and Joshua as a wrap (and, after all the filling fell out, as a rice bowl).
I made the black beans and rice recipes (which I will not bother to include here) and also had bowls of corn, cheese, guacamole, and peach salsa. One success for the meal was that Joshua was much better about serving himself only about 2 times the amount of food he might eat rather than 12 times the amount. Small steps!


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One of the most common factors that negatively impact decisions whether a person should go to a nursing home or not is the possibility of abuse. Nobody wants to experience that, especially in the later part of his life where he is particularly vulnerable to it because of two reasons – he will not be able to defend himself or report his situation to the authorities due to physical and mental limitations.
Also, according to the website of Karlin, Fleisher & Falkenberg, LLC, those who have experienced abuse in nursing homes may pursue compensation. So, it is not just an ethical and moral issue, but also a legal one. But how can you avoid nursing home abuse anyway?
Checking the nursing home's competence
Prevention is better than cure, and this also applies to nursing home abuse. Before you put your loved one inside a nursing home, you should check the nursing home's overall competence. Incompetent nursing homes may incidentally or accidentally inflict abuse. You should give particular attention to the following factors:
Looking for signs of abuse
But if you have already put your loved one in a nursing home, do not worry, because you can still look for the signs of abuse, to give you hints whether your loved one is being treated right or not. Abuse can come in many forms, such as physical, emotional, and even sexual. Below are some of the most common signs:
Creating a long-term care plan
Elder planning is important, because growing old is inevitable. According to the website of Peck Ritchey, LLC, a long-term care plan has a lot of benefits, especially if you get them while you are still quite capable. Below are some of the most important benefits:
In short, having a care plan even before you need it significantly helps in preventing nursing home abuse.
The medical industry is so complicated that, typically, you need a professional license to prove your competence. But there are instances where even the most competent medical professional becomes negligent or reckless, resulting into the harm of their patients, either through injury or medical complication.
Medical malpractice is a serious issue. Those who have been victims of medical malpractice may take legal action against the responsible parties, such as getting compensation from the damages they have sustained. The attorneys of the Erez Law firm understand the importance of taking legal action when one party's negligence negatively affects innocent parties.
But how can it be determined that an instance is a medical malpractice case? There are variables that can be considered:
Unnecessarily harming the patient has a variety of consequences. The patient suffers not just from unwarranted injuries and complications, but also from unwarranted medical costs to fix the problems, such as corrective surgeries and prolonged hospital confinements.
Of course, these costs do not come free, and on the worst instances, may even reach thousands upon thousands of dollars. The financial burdens do not end there. Being a victim of medical malpractice may also mean that the patient is going to lose time at work, and therefore cannot earn a living. On worst instances, the medical malpractice may even disable the victim, making him lose his ability to earn a living temporarily or permanently.
The website of Crowe & Mulvey, LLP has enumerated various areas where medical malpractice can arise as an issue. But some areas are more common than others. Below are some of the most common medical malpractice claims:
Millions of nerve fibers actually make up the spinal cord. These fibers are responsible for transmitting electrical signals to the different parts of the body. Nerves exiting the spinal cord's upper section, for instance, control the movement of our arms and our breathing; the nerves that exit the mid and lower sections of our back allow us to have on our trunk and legs, sexual function, and bowel and bladder movements. Thus, any damage or harm to the spinal cord (even to the spinal or vertebral column) can cause failure in the transmission of signals from the brain to the parts of the body below the injured area. This can result to paralysis or loss of function on affected parts.
Any form of injury, especially severe injury, to the spinal cord can be devastating due to the very important function it plays. Spinal cord damage can result to partial or total paralysis, depending on how severe the damage is and the specific area affected by the injury. Partial paralysis, or Paraplegia, is loss of control and function on one side of a person's body. Despite having lost control in the paralyzed area, there is still possibility that he/she would still have sensation, though.
Total paralysis, or Quadriplegia, on the other hand, is total loss of functions and control of body parts. Total paralysis starts from the area of the spinal cord that has been injured down to the rest of the body; this means that the higher the injury, the greater the extent of the paralysis.
A spinal injury can a result of a traumatic or a non-traumatic experience. The causes of a traumatic spinal cord injury include a knife or a gunshot wound that pierces and cuts the nerves in the spinal cord, or a sudden blow that dislocates, fractures or crushes an area of the vertebral column (this forceful, sudden blow can be caused by a car crash). A non-traumatic spinal cord injury, however, can be due to an illness, such as cancer, arthritis, infection, inflammation or disc collapse of the spine.
The Toronto spinal cord injury lawyers of Mazin & Associates know that "Spinal cord injuries almost always result in significant disabilities, making it nearly impossible to live life as planned. Activities such as sports, walking a dog, and other basic life tasks are often no longer possible for those who sustain spinal cord injuries. These injuries can occur for numerous reasons, many of which are caused by major accidents such as car accidents, slip and falls, and sports injuries. Spinal cord injuries are difficult to deal with for everyone involved, and when the accident was not the fault of the injured it is unfair for them to face the consequences alone. Spinal cord injury victims also need a much higher level of support and care, as well as the highest amount of compensation possible, whether it is from the at-fault party or an insurance provider.
Nursing homes, also called convalescent homes, are facilities for people, who require extra care, medical attention and assistance (specifically, in the performance of daily activities, such as eating, toileting, bathing and dressing), but who do not need to be in a hospital. To address the various needs of residents, nursing homes should have a registered nurse, a licensed nurse and trained nursing aides who are expected to attain and maintain the highest possible level of physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of all residents and patients.
In February 2015, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had on record about 15,700 registered nursing home facilities in the U.S. These housed an estimated 1.4 million elder citizens, usually 65 years old or above, children and young adults who are physically or mentally incapacitated, or needing rehabilitative therapies due to an illness or an accident, and those who need extra care, like patients with Alzheimer or Parkinson's disease.
Nursing homes guarantee provision of the highest level of care; however, beneath the friendly and warm welcome to arriving residents who are accompanied by family members, what is hidden can be painful experiences wrought by abuses and various forms of acts of neglect. Some examples of acts of neglect are non-provision of hygienic care, delay in treating or non-treatment of bedsores, failure to provide needed medical care or attention, denial of food and/or drinking water, delay in providing needed assistance, and so forth.
One must bear in mind that these acts of neglect are committed against individuals who are either too sick or too weak to defend themselves. In relation to this is the necessity to know that abuse or neglect in nursing homes can be a federal offense since both these acts are violations of the mandates of the Nursing Home Reform Act, which requires facilities receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds to provide services and activities that will help attain or maintain the highest possible physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of all residents in accordance with a written plan of care. This Act also says that residents should be free from corporal punishment, involuntary seclusion and all forms of abuses, including, but not limited to, verbal, physical, mental abuse, and sexual abuse.
You can view more helpful and very informative content about nursing home negligence in this website:
Statistical records from the Traffic Safety Facts of the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) show that speeding-related fatalities from 2003 to 2007 averaged to at least 13,400 yearly; from 2008 to 2012, the yearly average was 10,600. Traffic Safety Facts data also shows that about 74% of the 10,219 speeding-related fatalities in 2012 were males aged between 15 and 24, and that 42 percent of all speeding drivers had BACs of .08 g/dL or higher.
The NHTSA considers a crash to be speeding-related if racing, exceeding the posted speed limit, or driving too fast for conditions (or when condition is not totally safe, which is the case when there is road construction going on, mist or fog, or when the road is wet and slippery due to heavy rain or snow) was a contributing factor in the crash.
Speeding increases the chance of an accident and, thus, compromises the safety of others on the road because it:
People who drive at inappropriate and illegal speeds offer these reasons to justify what can only be described as bad road behavior:
Aside from increasing chances of car accidents, speeding, and more so, excessive speeding (which is driving more than 40 km/h over the speed limit), significantly affects the consequences of car crashes, so that, other than the possibility of causing major damage to properties, greater speeds can also easily result to severe injuries or death.
Though advances in technology and increased awareness of the importance of safety on the roads have reduced the threat posed to public health and safety by car accidents, Tucson car accident attorneys of Russo, Russo & Slania, P.C., say that car accidents still remain to be one of the leading causes of serious injury and wrongful death in the United States each year, and the sad truth is that far too many of these accidents could easily have been prevented.
Speeding is just one of the many causes of car accidents identified by the NHTSA. Other causes include auto defects, reckless driving, road defects and drunk driving, among others. Victims, howefer, shouldn't have to deal with the repercussions and aftermath of accidents on their own if the accident is due to the reckless acts of someone else. With the help of a skilled lawyer, victims can pursue legal action which may enable them to recover compensatory damages resulting from whatever type of injury they sustain.


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The prospects and challenges currently facing not only organized labor but the working class in general are synthesized well in the below article from International Socialist Review no. 66, "US Labor in the crisis, Resistance or retreat?" authored by Lee Sustar.
Sustar, who relies to a certain extent on Kim Moody's very solid 2007 book, US Labor in Trouble and Transition, paints a broad picture of contemporary labor as one that has faced a thirty-year employer assault that has destroyed its organizations, left workers with stagnant wages, and looted its social services, meanwhile the profits and power of capital soar. The result of this attack has not only left workers in the objectively worst position it has been in since the 1930s and before but has also created a general crisis of historical memory where a newer generation of workers lack the traditions of struggle of an older one.
This ruling class offensive which has been exacerbated by the economic crisis, has hurt people of color, women, and queer folks most acutely. Talks of the "he-cession" which depict the loss of those jobs that employ men disingenuously leave out how it affects the unpaid labor of women who both produce future workers and reproduce current workers' ability to work. They forget how the recession affects queer folks who already are not entitled to domestic partner benefits. And they forget the already disproportionately unemployed and underemployed black working class who have suffered another round of job losses and concessions that have affected the industries where they are most concentrated, including public employment.
The union bureaucracy has undergone a change. Decades ago, they were reined in through the capital-labor social contract to help deflect working class self-activity into bureaucratic channels. The union structure became removed from the struggles of the shop floor and colluded with management to ensure labor's productivity. Nowadays, these institutions are dead and dying as capital no longer needs them. The appearance of labor's organized reup via Andy Stern's SEIU is in fact appearance only, for in the name of organizing it has undercut labor conditions, bargained behind workers backs, attacked independent unions, and has partnered with management to ensure not only productivity, but capital growth. The UAW is another manifestation of this transition where it has gone from management partner to shareholder under American auto's restructuring. Where previously it oversaw the destruction of union jobs and wage and benefit concessions, under its new position it is leading this process with the creation of a two-tier workforce.
The hopes for any labor renewal from above that came with either the election of John Sweeney to the AFL-CIO helm in 1995, the Change to Win split in 2005, or the election of President Obama have come crashing down every time. Instead, Sustar points to the 2006 immigrant general strike, the Republic Windows occupation, the Smithfield Strike, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers boycott, and the growth of workers centers as new forms of organization and activity as new possibilities for renewal. People of color have been central to each of these experiences and, at least with the CIW, the Smithfield Strike, and workers centers, have taken place within the US South.
Continue reading Lee Sustar on the Current State of US Labor


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The Winchester & Chandler's Ford constituency is served by strong rail links to Southampton and the West Country but also into London Waterloo.
However, the popularity of rail travel on one of the busiest commuter routes in Europe has placed huge strain on the service which, for some commuters, ranks among the most expensive in the entire country.
Over 5m people use Winchester stations (including Winchester itself, Shawford and Micheldever) every year, many of them as commuters, and numbers continue to rise sharply.
Summer 2017 saw big changes as the South Western Franchise moved from Stagecoach (South West Trains) to First Group operating as South Western Railway. The new operator took over during the major Waterloo works which saw Network Rail and the DfT deliver £800 million of investment into the Wessex Route through the Waterloo & South West Upgrade.
Shortly after the RMT Trade Union announced a series of strikes over the issue of on-train guards which Winchester MP Steve Brine said were 'politically motivated' and would be met with 'despair' by his constituents.
An initial burst of strike action took place in early January 2018 and a second wave at the end of March/start of April 2018. More are planned for Spring 2018.
LATEST UPDATE : SWR Timetable Consultation - see the report of the outcome and how changes taking effect in December 2018 could affect our area. Download a copy of Steve Brine's response to the consultation here.
Local MP Steve Brine made improving rail services one of his clear priorities after first being elected in May 2010 and has forged strong links with train operators as well as Network Rail and successive Ministers. This has led to a series of improvements for local rail users ...
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Steve is clear the real work lies ahead as figures show the number of passenger journeys on the Wessex route has more than doubled in the past twenty years, from 108 million in 1996 to around 234 million each year in 2017. The number of journeys is expected to increase by a further 40% by 2043. Combined with an existing 20% over-crowding, this means an increase in capacity of 60% is required.
Steve has been clear that this challenge can only be met by major infrastructure investment and a joined-up approach between Government, Network Rail, the Office of Road and Rail as well a local councils and other groups such as our Local Enterprise Partnerships.
Steve meets regularly with Network Rail and is backing major projects which, although miles up the line away from Winchester, hold the key to addressing the capacity issues his constituents face each day. This includes the proposed Woking flyover which Steve recently wrote to the ORR and Secretary of State to support.
Over the years, Steve has spoken up consistently for his constituents on the issue including at a House of Commons debate in December 2014, a special rail summit at Hampshire County Council in January 2015 and a second Parliamentary debate in October 2015.
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Steve Brine has also campaigned consistently for the introduction of 'smart ticketing' on our network which can pave the way for the long-awaited and much-needed part-time season ticket. Steve's campaign came good when both were included in the 2015 Conservative manifesto.
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"In Decatur Alabama this is know through out the land. It kicks the beer can chicken to the curb and rightfully so. You will need a metal meatloaf pan or large glass meatloaf dish to fit the chicken in."
Chicken (Chicken in a Meatloaf Pan)
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READY IN:2hrs 15mins
Ingredients Nutrition
- 1 whole chicken
- 1⁄4 cup Worcestershire sauce
- 3⁄4 cup applesauce
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 2 1⁄4 teaspoons paprika
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons black pepper
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground coriander
- Heat grill to low medium about 300. In a small bowl combine applesauce and Worcestershire sauce mix well. Hold the chicken over top of the loaf pan and pour the mixture all over the chicken inside and out.Make sure the excess falls into the pan.
- In a small bowl combine dry rub ingredients and mix well.Cover the chicken inside and out with the dry rub.Place the chicken breast side up in the loaf pan.
- Make sure the grill is at 300 and place the pan away from the flame so it is getting indirect heat.Close the lid and cook until the internal temperature of the thickest part of the chicken reaches 175, this should take around 2 hours. let the chicken rest before cuttings into servings pieces.
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It has officially been almost six months since I landed in Canada (that is half a year… for the record) after embarking on one of the most life changing adventures I could have asked for. It hasn't been easy, this whole 'adjusting' back into 'real' life thing and I am not sure if I am there yet but I have survived… I think.
A friend, a fellow traveler (who also suffers from wanderlust) posted on my Facebook wall that she could feel my ravenous wanderlust from wherever she was. It must be all of the daily links I share, my old photos, and my whiney status updates regarding travel… I just can't help it.
I am going to share the ways in which I have survived being in my hometown for almost six months (other than a road trip to Chicago and a family vacation to Mexico).
Okay, so I actually don't really love either of my jobs… I don't really feel like they give my life meaning but I need to make money so I can get back out in the world. It has also kept me really busy, which is a good thing.
When I am not busy with work I have been catching up with my closest friends (the ones who aren't living in other provinces or countries). It has also been nice to spend time with my family, especially Christmas. I have a very supportive family and I don't know what I would do or where I would be without their love and support.
I have started writing this blog. I have found it extremely therapeutic to write about my adventures and passion as well as join an online community where I can read about other people's adventures. It keeps me motivated and gives me ideas for future travels. It also makes me feel like I am a part of something important. Here are some of my favourite travel blogs:
I am constantly online looking up flights, budgeting, figuring out travel paths, looking at supplies, reading books, reading articles, and watching videos. Here are some of my favourite articles & videos:
20 Things I Learned From Traveling Around the World
You Don't Have To Be Rich In Your 20s
Young and Restless: The Modern Day 20-Something
The 16 Reasons You Need To Drop Everything Right Now And Travel
Time is Nothing // Around the World Time Lapse
Journey of Dreams
Philippines Travel Log
Corona Live Mas Fina
Instead of ONLY focusing on travel related things (which is hard when you're obsessed), I also focus a lot on health. I have been on a weird food journey for the last year and a half, trying to find what works for me and it takes a lot of my attention too. Do I go vegan? Do I go vegetarian? What's a pescetarian? I think that's me right now… Do I juice cleanse? Shop organic? It is a freakin' battle.
Although it was the last thing I expected or really wanted, I have met someone incredible who I spend a large portion of my time with. He supports me, he is passionate, he is open-minded. We share a lot of the same thoughts and opinions on the world. I feel really very lucky to have him in my life and I can't wait to travel with him in the near future. It turns out maybe the timing was better than I thought.
This is hard for me to preach because this past winter has been one of the hardest I have ever had to deal with. Here in Canada, we have officially had the worst winter we have had in years, constant snow storms and extremely cold temperatures. It has made me (and probably a lot of other people) really depressed. It has been hard but deep down inside I have tried to stay positive. I know I am where I need to be right now, I need to make money. I know things will work out eventually… a negative attitude will only drag more negative things into your life and it isn't worth it.
What I mean by this is that I have been more interested in exploring different areas around me. Before I spent a year living and driving in Australia, I refused to drive in Toronto. Since I have been home I have realized there is so much in Toronto to explore and I have driven many times to do all sorts of things. I have also become somewhat of a regular at an Indian restaurant in a surrounding city, stuff I never did before.
We all know that music soothes the soul, do I even need to go into details? I have been on a mission, finding and downloading a ton of new music… yes that includes country (don't judge me – I love it). Music really does change my mood and motivate me to do more.
I am constantly thinking about life, mostly my life… what kind of job I will have… if I will have a job? Where will I live? Will I ever have kids? I don't know these things and it scares me. I often feel like I am really different from my friends and most people I know with how I view life and it is frustrating but I have also realized that is the beautiful thing about life. The exciting part about life is the unknown. When I think about this concept it helps me to not worry about whether I am on the right track or not… it motivates me to keep doing what I love and that is obviously travel.


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Beatrice is a smart kid. Hard times forced her to take a temporary job as a pizza deliverer, while searching a more appealing position. Her first delivery has been calamitous. Shortly after hitting the road, a sudden blast of wind took the distribution list away. Impossible to know who ordered what! Beatrice hesitated only a little. As she had noted the addresses in her city plan, she rushed to deliver the hot pizzas to the waiting customers, taking the chance of giving them something different of what they were expecting.
Back in the office, she levelled with the supervisor who was outraged and threatened to fire her on the spot. "Please! give me another chance, said Beatrice. The customers got their food still hot, and I am positively sure that one or more got exactly what they ordered!"
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|If it bleeds, we can kill it.
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|Yautja Prime
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The Predators are the primary alien antagonists of the Predator film series, they are a race of hunters that continuously seek human and other exotic prey both sapient and non-sapient.
In the various non-film media the Predator have been portrayed in a number of different ways, they are typically called the Yautja (e-wat-ya) in expanded material and the term has generally been accepted by fans and writers of the material.
However in two of the DH Press predator books, starting with Predator: Forever Midnight they are portrayed as the Hish-qu-Ten (Abbreviated as Hish), with seemingly no attempt to even loosely connect them with previous versions of the species.
Biology & AppearanceEdit
Predators are physically distinguished from humans by their greater height, arthropod-like mandibles and long, hair-like appendages on their heads that are set into their skulls. Their bodies are resilient to damage, capable of recovering from multiple gunshot wounds and radiation doses which would be fatal to humans. They are much stronger than humans, having been portrayed as being easily capable of outmatching a conditioned adult human male and shattering solid concrete with their bare hands. They are also skilled climbers, and will readily move through trees or across rooftops in pursuit of prey. Though capable of surviving exposure in Antarctic temperatures for an extended period of time, it is implied that Predators have a preference for hot equatorial climates.
Consistently the blood of the Yautja has been portrayed as a luminous phosphorous green.
The dreadlocks are an iconic physical feature of the Yautja seen in every published material featuring them. In the films the Yautja wear what appears to be jewelry on them, and the Predalien eventually grew them (implying they are genetic.)
- (Alien vs. Predator: Hunters Planet) The first step toward becoming a warrior amongst the Yautja was the agony of the pleating of these locks, a process that took months of ritual and scalp pain, performed in public sessions. If there was any sign of tears or even the tiniest voicing of pain, then the intricate weavings would be undone, and the candidate had to start from the beginning.
- (Alien vs. Predator, Film Novelization) The Yautja apparently use their "High Tech Dreadlocks" as scanning devices.
- (Predator: Forever Midnight) The Hish apparently have flesh braids.
- (Predator: Strange Roux) When the predators dreadlocks were shot off they bled profusely.
As the films are told from the perspective of human characters nothing is revealed about the creatures evolutionary history.
- (Predator: Homeworld) During her experience with the species Dr. Bergstrom created several elaborate theories on the origins of the predator. She theorizes that the predator she met was on a pilgrimage to earth, driven by instinct to return to its species world of origin.
- (Predator: Forever Midnight) The Hish are a cold blooded reptilian race that evolved on a hot swamp world.
The Yautja in every film they have appeared in have worn masks to apparently aid in breathing, although in each film at least one member of the species either removes the mask or loses it, in no cases were any members of the species abilities hindered in a human atmosphere. In Predator 2 when the city hunter lost his mask he used a hand-held breath mask.
- (Alien vs. Predator, 1990 comic) When the Predator leader was captured and restrained by the human colonists of Ryushi, the doctor Miriam Revna commented that the specimen appeared to breathe a mixture of Methane with traces of other common elements. This dialogue is absent from Steven Perry's novelization of the comic.
- (Predator: Homeworld) They breathe 1% more oxygen, and 4% more nitrogen than humans. They can adapt to earth's natural gases, but it could only last for one week at the most.
- (Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predator) It is mentioned that they thrive in air that is rich with nitrogen.
- (Predator: Captive) The captive Yautja was provided with a hot and humid tropical environment with a high methane-content atmosphere.
The subject of Yautja reproduction is not touched upon in the slightest within the films, there are many members of the species seen but none blatantly female by human standards.
- (Alien vs. Predator: Prey) Female predators are apparently not hunters, but are still none-the-less equals in Yautja society and mentality. "Lou-dte kalei" was a derogatory term that was sometimes used to refer to females, it literally meant "child-maker." The warrior Dachande had ever heard the name spoken to a female's face.
It was apparently considered a very unwise thing to do or even consider, for an insulted and angry Yautja female was not something even a not-too-wise male wanted to create. Apparently an angered Yautja female is far stronger than even an armed male.
Mating was considered pleasurable, one of Dachandes mates had tossed him across a room during the heat of their mating and that had been an accident. And it is apparent that females were known howl in ecstasy during it. It is noted that there is apparently a breeding season. The females are larger and had milk glands of some sort, Dachande was not able to recognize a human female until he had seen her breasts. The children are referred to as "sucklings".
- (Predator: Forever Midnight) The Hish are an asexual race. They phase between genders involuntarily. Hish are known to always have 6 offspring, called spawnlings at a time. The different genders are almost unidentifiable but females can be told apart from their brighter colored flesh braids (dreadlocks) and purple mottling around the jaw.
Not much is known about the Yautja skeleton, it has not been seen in full in any of the films. In Predators a Yautja skull was seen in the Super Predator trophy-site.
- (Alien vs. Predator 1990, comic) doctor Miriam Revna noted that Dachande had four cracked ribs.
Miscellaneous Biological InformationEdit
Various miscellaneous biological aspects have been given throughout the various published predator media that do not fit strict categorization.
- (Alien vs. Predator 1990, comic) doctor Miriam Revna notes that they have a completely different cell structure from the Xenormorph facehugger.
There is virtually no indication of government in any of the films, the Yautja are portrayed as operating in groups with clear leaders but no indication of how they the society functions is given. In Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem when a predator ship crashed it was shown there was a quick response to the situation, indicating a governing force that monitors the hunts.
- (Aliens versus Predator: Extinction)
Food & DrinkEdit
Virtually nothing of the predators eating habits is revealed in the films, the City Hunter from the second predator film did covertly raid a slaughterhouse for frozen beef.
- (Alien vs. Predator: Prey) C'ntlip is a fiery Yautja brew that fogged mind and body with pleasure.
- (Predator: Homeworld) The Yautja was observed eating the roots of an earth plant, it was speculated that he was guided to the root either through instinct or scent.
- (Predator: Strange Roux) The Yautja in this comic is seen skinning and eating muskrats
In Predator 2, Aliens vs. Predator, and Predators, the Yautja are clearly shown to be organized into Clans. These groups seem to be somewhat familial with clear hierarchical structure and leaders, each of these clans in the films seems to have distinct technology and customs, although they are largely the same.
Known ClansEdit
- Dark Blade Clan (Predator: Concrete Jungle, game) - was a Yautja skull clan that was indirectly responsible for the distribution of Yautja technology throughout Earth. One notable member of their clan was the hunter Scarface
- Killers (Aliens vs. Predator: Three World War) - The Killers were a Bad Blood clan of Yautja who were considered heretics by the mainstream Hunter Yautja. This was because the Killers did not engage in standard hunting practices but instead sought only to kill rather than hunt, which many Hunters found no honor in.
- Lost Colony (Superman and Batman vs. Aliens and Predator) - The lost colony was a Yautja clan that settled on earth 14,000 years ago in a volcano Viejo Abuelo living underground.
- Super Predators - A group of large and hostile Yautja who seem to have a long-standing rivalry with another Yautja clan. These Yautja are a racially and culturally distinct group. Only three of them are known, and it is said by Robert Rodrigeuz the filmaker behind Predators that they are outcasts, possibly having been sent to the game preserve planet as a form of punishment.
- Although they are never named Yautja on film, it is the name used in the slight majority of non-film sources, and thus is somewhat favored by this wiki.


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A collection of recent and significant news articles about Sherman Associates, Sherman Associates' properties and employees.
Kayla Klumb is the Property Manager at Les Chateaux in Duluth. Joining the team in January of 2015, she manages daily operations at Les Chateaux including marketing of the property, directing leasing traffic and leading the maintenance staff. Klumb has extraordinary work ethic and commitment to exceeding expectations, paired with her thoughtful personality and attention to detail, Les Chateaux have become a truly enjoyable home for residents.
Klumb's interest in the industry originated when she was offered a position as a Leasing Agent at her apartment community in college. Her four years of experience, including time as a Property Manager for Goldmark and IRET Properties, are evident in her drive to go the extra mile for residents. She holds a Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design from Minnesota State University – Moorhead.
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Last year three models sued former "America's Next Top Model" judge Nole Marin, accusing him of stealing half a million dollars in booking fees [click here if you missed that].
The models may be out of luck...
According to reports Nole Marin filed for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan Federal Court last month, claiming $106k in liabilities and only $621 in assets.
Angry model Devon White tells Page Six,
"I saw this coming! He can't pay me but was buying f–king Louis Vuitton dog bags!"


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Published by Bartleigh Adam at Sunday, December 24th 2017 08:36:13 AM under Chair
Everybody loves to redecorate rooms every now and then. Is not it amazing how sometimes just a few added touches can transform a room and give it a totally different look? Its fun to add different touches to a room to bring that added touch of style and pizazz but who has the money these days to totally redecorate a room? There are all kinds of things to buy such as flooring, furniture, window fixtures, and the list goes on and on.
The final thing you want to think about when choosing the perfect accent chairs for your home is placement. Where will you be placing your new chair? You want to make sure your chair makes the room feel charming and inviting. Take a good look at your room and place your accent chair in an area where it is not overcrowding the room but adding to the overall decor.
There are tons of chairs in the market, but there is no definite chair that suits everybody. It all depends on your size and how long you will be sitting on the it. Meshed, plastic, metal, wooden, foamed, fabric, or leather - all of these will give you different levels of comfort. Leather chairs, for example, are some of the most popular because they cushion your back and bottom evenly. They are also easy to maintain because they are waterproof. If you accidentally spill your coffee on a lether it, you can just wipe it and sit on it again without having to wait for it to dry up. The same thing goes with fabric upholstered chairs.