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Just like there are things that you should be doing during your work time, there are also things that you must avoid doing.
1)Avoid Gossip and office politics
Do not indulge in office gossip. It may be fine to comment on office happenings but it should be limited.Office gossip tends to spread rumors.A rumor about co-workers, your seniors or yourself can spoil relations. You can even lose your job due to extreme gossiping. Always remember too much of gossiping in office is unhealthy. Also avoid being part of office politics. You have been appointed to do a specific job and you must give your best shot it. Your career is more important that empty words that do no good to anyone.
2)Do not bring personal problems to office
It is always wise not to bring your work to home and avoid bringing your personal concerns at workplace. Do not discuss your worries and tragedies with co-workers during working hours. Avoid talking about husband-wife fights,love problems,financial hurdles and other such topics. It may have a negative impact on work efficiency. Focus on the present and it will provide you some mental space away from your problems.
3)Avoid use of office technology for personal use
You must be responsible while using office technology like telephones, fax machines, printers and computers. Making never ending personal calls from office phone,online chatting, using social networking sites,visiting banned websites or watching videos show highly unprofessional behaviour.Limit personal use if it is important to use it.
4)Dress inappropriately
Many offices these days are adopting a casual dress code, and while that might be good for your comfort and wallet, it also opens the door to poor decisions.No matter how laid-back your office environment might seem,don't make the mistake of wearing clothing that's too revealing, ripped,or just plain unlaundered.Wearing T-shirt and a pair of jeans to office exhibits unprofessional attitude.
Along these lines, avoid t-shirts with potentially offensive language or slogans.
5)Avoid being a chatter box
Constant chatting with co-workers can disturb everyone. Keep your conversations short and crisp when you are working. You can indulge in small conversations but do not disturb the work environment with constant babbling.
6)Handle office property with care
Always handle office property such as machines, furniture and electronic equipments with care. Do not be harsh while using office property. Act responsible while handling important materials such as files, folders, documents and confidential data.
7)Avoid eating at desk
Do not eat near or on your desk. Accidents do happen and you do not want to ruin important documents or your keyboard. Some offices may allow eating at desks but it is advisable to eat lunch at office canteens or other places.
8 )Do not stay absent without genuine reason
Taking an off from work and giving fake reasons about ill health is highly irresponsible behavior.As an employee you have official holidays and leaves.Do take advantage of these leaves.
If you have genuine reasons for being absent from office inform your colleague or the Human Resource in charge.Provide all details of pending work and submissions.Make sure you are available on your mobile.
9)Avoid being late
Do not arrive late at office.Record of coming late can lay a bad impression on your superiors and bosses. It is better to arrive five minutes earlier or on time.When you come late,you need more time to settle down and you end up wasting time which can be used to complete important tasks.If you have a genuine reason for coming late,inform the designated person stating the reason of delay. It shows that you are responsible.
10)Not flushing the toilet.
No one can quite figure out why people don't think they need to flush the toilet, but it's high on the list of gross habits at work.Make it an habit to flush the toilet in public or the person following you into the restroom is going to get an unpleasant surprise.


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How to add a Lost Item Listing
Please use the following example to add a description for the lost item.
Add a Lost Item Listing to the Lost Found Stolen website
- Listing Description
- Add a DESCRIPTIVE 'Title' of the lost item eg, Female Tabby Cat with red collar, Ladies Wallet Oroton black colour
- Add a 'Description' of where the item was lost.
Please note: Include the Day, Date, Time and Place.
- Add 'Keywords' eg, Lost, SA, Wallet, Ladies, Oroton, Black
- Lost Item Listing Category
- Select a 'Parent Category':
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- Antiques, Art & Collectables
- Boats & Jets Skis
- Childrens Goods
- Electronics
- Entertainment
- Home & Garden
- Personal Items
- Sporting Goods
- Trade Tools & Equipment
- Vehicles
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- Listing Attachments
- Upload an image from your computer or phone by selecting the browse button and navigating to your photo or image.
Please note – images uploaded can only be .jpg .gif or .png format and have a maximum 600kb in size.
To find out how to resize your image please go to 'Resizing Images'.
- Upload an image from your computer or phone by selecting the browse button and navigating to your photo or image.
- Listing Attributes for Lost Item
- The reward field is optional.
- Please select the Listing Type – 'Lost' – this is a required field to ensure your listing is found on the website.
- Add the 'Make' of the lost item.
- Add the 'Model' of the lost item.
- Add the 'Serial No' of the lost item.
- Add the 'Colour' of the lost item.
Please note: Adding specific details will give your lost item more search availability on the website.
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- Add the location of where the item was lost by adding the address into the search field and selecting 'Search'.
- It is also possible to select a location by scrolling on the map. Scroll down to zoom out and scroll up to zoom in, then click on the desired location to confirm.


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Study: Caregivers who put relative in LTC facility get little relief
Caregivers who place a relative with dementia in a long-term care facilities get no relief from depression or anxiety and may suffer additional emotional trauma, a new study shows.
Investigators at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, sponsored by the National Institute on Health, conducted the first study to analyze the emotional turmoil caregivers experience when entrusting a facility to care for their relatives. The study involved 1,222 caregiver-patient pairs, including 180 caregivers who placed their loved one in a facility. These caregivers experienced the same high level of depression and anxiety as if they were in-home caregivers.
Investigators examined conditions that led to placement, the contact between caregivers and their relatives after placement and the health outcomes among caregivers following the placement. Caregivers who placed their spouses in long-term care facilities and those caregivers who visited their relatives most frequently had the most difficult time. More than 50% of the caregivers visited their relatives daily.
The study recommends intervention for caregivers who place their spouses in long-term care facilities, who visit their relatives most frequently, who suffer high depression or have no outside help. The patients in the study all suffered from moderate to severe Alzheimer's disease and had a median age of 80 years old.


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A 12-year-old boy shot by a 68-year-old woman after he threw bricks at her last fall -- as well as his 13-year-old friend who also took part in the assault -- pleaded guilty today to misdemeanor charges in Cook County Juvenile Court.
The two slightly built boys stood silently in the courtroom except for when Circuit Judge Andrew Berman asked if they intended to plead guilty to the aggravated assault of a senior citizen and criminal damage to property, both misdemeanors. "Yes, sir," both replied.
Prosecutors dropped two felony charges of aggravated battery and additional misdemeanor charges. The judge said he expects to sentence them to probation next month.


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Artnet has selected the Finnish Pavilion as one of the top five at this year's Venice Biennale.
From the Frame press release:
"Individually known for their irreverent and often comedic story-driven work, in which a humorous approach deceivingly belies a profound inquiry into contemporary issues of morality and power, Mellors and Nissinen will focus on various clichés surrounding Finnish history and national identity in The Aalto Natives.
"The installation will be conceived for the architectural and ideological context of the Finnish Pavilion, designed by architect Alvar Aalto in 1956. Conflating ideas and tropes from archaeology, anthropology and science fiction, it will re-imagine Finnish society.
"'The Aalto Natives explores themes such as the invention of national identity and the origins of culture by way of absurdist satire. Dressing its intellectual ambitions in purposefully silly gear, it both addresses the complex challenges our globalized world faces today, and pokes a cheeky kind of fun at the political correctness of its discourse,' says curator Xander Karskens.
"In The Aalto Natives, the artists, who share an interest in the capacity of absurdism and transgression to critique power structures and the status quo, bring together Nissinen's intuitive, do-it-yourself attitude to image production and his penchant for naïve musicality, with Mellors' writing-based approach to filmmaking, and integration of sculpture."
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This is the classic Italian almond macaroon. When first baked they are crispy on the outside and chewy on the inside. As they sit, they get crunchy throughout. Delicious with any fruit dessert.
Yum! I couldn't find blanched almonds at my grocery so I substituted 2 cups of Bob's Mill Almond flour instead and mixed it all in my stand up mixer and they turned out great! Easy and very little clean-up! My gluten free kids loved them! - 08 Jan 2007 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
I love the amaretti cookie. It is truly worth the reaction that you get from people. The only adjustments that I made to the recipe, was that I didn't do the almond blanching. I just bought ground almond already done. You need about 5 cups. It saves ALOT of time. Also added the 1/2 tsp. of vanilla as well as I placed one whole almond on top before going into the oven.... Happy baking eveyone!! - 23 Dec 2007 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
Really good!I used Splenda in these and baked them on a stoneware cookie sheet and they turned out great! A cookie I love with no butter,flour or sugar.Who would have thought??????? - 24 Mar 2004 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)


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Muslim Women and the Veiling Fashion Industry in Turkey
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- Published: 02 February 2015
- Written by Pierre Cassel, Manon Rubiloni, Leïla Seddiki
Abstract : Since the 80's, Muslim veiled women became more and more visible in the Turkish public space. A new way to claim their belonging both to Islam and Fashion appeared with what has been called the Tesuttür fashion. Understand the mechanisms of Veiling Fashion industry leads us to rethink Turkish modernity issues and to capture the diversity of its social practices. A careful consideration to the industrial fields mobilized by the producers as well as the resources developed by the Muslim consumers is necessary to analyze the success of this industry.
Keywords : Turkey, Islam, modernity, veiling, fashion, neoliberalism, industry, consumption, communication
Résumé : Depuis les années 1980 la visibilité de femmes musulmanes voilées s'est accrue au sein de l'espace public turc. Une nouvelle façon de revendiquer à la fois son appartenance à la religion musulmane et à la sphère de la mode est ainsi apparue avec ce que l'on appelle la mode Tesuttür. Comprendre l'industrie de la mode du foulard islamique permet de repenser les enjeux de la modernité turque et d'y saisir la diversité des pratiques sociales. Analyser le succès de cette industrie nécessite donc d'accorder une attention particulière aux domaines industriels mobilisés par les producteurs et aux ressources mises en œuvre par les consommatrices musulmanes.
Mots-clés : Turquie, islam, modernité, foulard, fashion, néolibéralisme, industrie, consommation, communication
The veil has been a bone of contention and the center of many debates since the 1980's. In many European countries, some politicians pointed out the threat of Islamic veil on secularism. The controversy increased with the rise of Islamic terrorism that lead to the development of Islamophobia. While media continue the debate, many sociological aspects of the veil are left aside. The silence of mass media explains our approach. The question of veiling fashion in Turkey can be treated as a social fact with an impact on the economy. This is achievable if we focus on a pragmatic concern: the veiling fashion industry and its impact on Turkish women.
Rethinking the Paradox Between Veil and Fashion in Turkey :
At first sight, combining two concepts like veil and fashion could sound antithetic. Veil is tradition while fashion is modernity, "out of the sign of all references" as Baudrillard analyses (Banu Gökariksel, Anna J Secor, 2009). But veil shifts across time and space as shows us the Turkish history. In 1923, Mustapha Kemal founded the Turkish Republic whose basic principle was secularism. He had established what we call an authoritarian secularism implying the interdiction of the veil in public space. In 1982, veil was authorized again thanks to the demonstrations of young educated women. These women asked a crucial question : what does it mean to be a woman, to be Muslim and, to be modern? The visibility of veiled women increased in public spaces and a new way to dress up appeared: the Tessetür. This fashion was a new style for modest women that began to appear in urban areas in the 1980s with the rise of Islamic parties in politics. With the increase of the conservative Islamic class elector of the JPD a new class appeared. It consisted of pious and rich people having a role in the economy of the country. Women of this class adapted the Tesettür into a veiling fashion that became successful all over Turkey and in other countries.
Veiling-fashion across networks of design, industry and economy :
The veiling fashion success in Turkey both explains and comes from the rise of the veiling fashion industry. But what about the veiling-fashion's producers ? Banu Gökariksel and Anna Secor undertook detailed surveys and interviews that are relevant for our study.
Fashion implies shift. This is especially true of the veiling fashion in Turkey. Collections change at least seasonally.Speaking of collections, what are the influences or inspiration of the veiling fashion? Purpose of these firms is to design Islamic clothes and headscarf respecting both fashion and the Tesettür which implies that shapes must be hidden. Many collections are thus inspired from the catwalks of London and Milan. The way of production respects Islamic ethic and commodity, which is appreciated in the conservative Islamic class. The case of Tekbir firm is the foremost example of the veiling-fashion industry's operation. Indeed, Tekbir is the largest and the most visible veiling-fashion company both in Turkey and in the world. Founders of Tekbir belong to the new Muslim bourgeoisie previously mentioned. It is then, relevant to understand in which ways Tekbir defines and practices Islamic-ness.
Contemporary Islamic entrepreneurs are operating with economy, hence the following question : for this case is it possible to speak about Islamic neoliberalism ? Firms export a lot in the world. For instance, Tekbir has outlets in Germany – Germany is the top destination – France, Lebanon, Dubai, USA and, Canada. In the itinerary of the veiling-fashion, Islamic banking and trading practices have a role in the economic field. Islamic entrepreneurs formulate new forms of Islamic neoliberalism and, they also reinterpret and transform Islamic values.
Consumers and Communication of Veiling Fashion :
Consumers of the Turkish veiling fashion industry are numerous in Turkey as well in many other countries. This may surprise us if we think of the relative isolation of Conservative Islamic women from the Turkish public space. Indeed, many families that belong to the "Instanbulite New Bourgeoisie" lives in gated communities, such as Başakşehir district, that were instigated by Erdogan in 1994. How do these conservative Islamic women communicate about fashion? What allow them to follow the same trend ? The scholar Nora Seni (Seni Nora, Hérodote 1/ 2013 (n° 148)), explained that some of these women go to specific spots such as malls or specific quarters (Fatih quarter in Istanbul).
It is therefore easy to target women by installing advertising boards in these specific places. Besides, Internet and media play a fundamental role in the veiling fashion industry's communication. Companies communicate or sale their products through their website and facebook pages. As well, they profit from the communication between Turkish Muslim women. Indeed, many "hijabistas" from the conservative Islamic class, share their experiences of fashion and daily life on their blogs and facebook pages.
Their numerosity does not only contribute to the advertisement of some companies, but it feeds the trend and creates new needs. Magazines also contribute to this veiling Fashion. Âlâ for instance, is sold all over Turkey and its sales have exceeded the sales of Elle-Turkey.
The example of Turkey shows us that wearing headscarf is not only a way to follow the rules of Islam. Veil is a concept deeply rooted in the Turkish society. Not only it follows the shift of cultural, political and social history but it is linked with the laws of Market. This explains the sociological relevance of the question : "How do you wear your veil?"
Banu Gökariksel (2012) The intimate politics of secularism and the headscarf : the mall, the neighborhood, and the public space in Istanbul, Gender, Place & Culture : A Journal of Feminist Geography, 19:1, 1-20.
Banu Gökariksel and Anna J Secor (2009) New transnational geographies of Islamism, capitalism and subjectivity : the veiling-fasion industry in Turkey, Area (Royal Geographical Society) 41:1, 6-18.
Banu Gökariksel and Anna J Secor (2010) Islamic-ness in the life of a commodity : veiling-fashion in Turkey, Trans Inst Br Geogr (Royal Geographical Society), 35:3, 313-333.
Göle Nilufer, Musulmanes et modernes, voile et civilisation en Turquie, Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2003.
Seni Nora, « Polarisations d'une société en mutation culturelle », Hérodote 1/ 2013 (n° 148), p. 122-137


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Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2018
Rothbard Graduate Seminar 2018
Today was the first day of this year's Rothbard Graduate Seminar. A total of 27 students from 13 countries have joined us in Auburn to dissect and discuss Murray Rothbard's economic treatise Man, Economy, and State. RGS stands alone as the sole academic program in the world that applies the tradition of a great book seminar to Austrian economics. It has proved to be an invaluable asset in developing modern scholars in the Misesian tradition, and is possible thanks to the incredible generosity of Alice Lillie.
Man, Economy, and State is a work deserving of the title "great book, it having played an important role in the history of Austrian economics. Dr. Joseph Salerno has credited the publishing of Rothbard's masterpiece as being vital to the revival of the Austrian tradition in the United States. As he wrote in his paper, The Rebirth of Austrian Economics — in Light of Austrian Economics:
This handful of scattered contributions to Austrian economics forthcoming in the 1950s, however, would have defined the death throes of the school rather than the prelude to its rebirth were it not for the creative genius of Murray Rothbard, which came to fruition in the early 1960s. The revival of Austrian economics as a living scientific movement can be dated from the publication of Rothbard's Man, Economy, and State in 1962, a contribution to Austrian economics and to pure economics in general that ranks as one of the most brilliant performances in the history of economic thought.
In his review of the book in 1962, Ludwig von Mises also identified Man, Economy, and State as an important contribution to economics that built upon the contributions of the Austrian school:
The main virtue of this book is that it is a comprehensive and methodical analysis of all activities commonly called economic. It looks upon these activities as human action, i.e., as conscious striving after chosen ends by resorting to appropriate means. This cognition exposes the fateful efforts of the mathematical treatment of economic problems…
In every chapter of his treatise, Dr. Rothbard, adopting the best of the teachings of his predecessors, and adding to them highly important observations, not only develops the correct theory but is no less anxious to refute all objections ever raised against these doctrines. He exposes the fallacies and contradictions of the popular interpretation of economic affairs.
Today's RGS sessions focused on the first three chapters of Man, Economy, and State, with Dr. David Gordon lecturing on praxeology and Dr. Guido Hulsmann leading discussion on topics such as direct and indirect exchange.
Some photos from today's sessions can be found below:
JRR Tolkien on the Danger of Centralized Political Power
At the recent Mises University, Jeff Deist and Ryan McMaken recorded a live edition of Mises Weekends focused on radical decentralization and addressing some of the points raised against it. While in this conversation and in many others related to it intellectual titans like Mises and Rothbard are invoked to support the decentralist view, many libertarians unfortunately fail to call upon one of the most articulate critics of centralized political power with unparalleled intellectual and cultural influence; JRR Tolkien. While Tolkien is no doubt a popular figure among many libertarians, an unfortunate unfamiliarity with his work on a deeper intellectual level often prevents his enormous cultural influence from being brought to bear against the forces of statism and centralization.
There is no need to wonder about Tolkien's political leanings, as he made them quite explicitly clear in a 1943 letter to his son Christopher Tolkien (who would later edit a great many of Tolkien's posthumous works) he wrote "My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs) – or to 'unconstitutional' Monarchy." In the same letter Tolkien continued that "Anyway the proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."
With such political sentiments, it is hardly surprising then that Tolkien incorporates a disdain for centralized power and a warning about its seductive nature in his work. In The Lord of the Rings, perhaps Tolkien's best known work, the story traces the journey to destroy the One Ring of Power and chronicles the various effects the potential to wield this power can have. Tolkien does not attempt to hide the nature of the Ring, its purpose is clearly labeled upon itself:"One ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them, one ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them." The One Ring is just that, one, singular, representative of a unitary will that imposes itself upon all.
Sauron, the creator of the One Ring, is unambiguously evil, driven by a desire to impose his will and dominate all others. Yet, Tolkien's message does not simply end with the idea that power should not rest in the hands of clearly evil tyrants, but rather penetrates much deeper into why centralized power by its very nature is too dangerous to exist.
One of the first characters to fall prey to the temptation of the Ring's power is the wizard Saruman. Saruman's reasoning for wanting power is quite simple and is certainly a sentiment that we hear everyday from the DC class. "The time of the Elves is over" he tells fellow wizard Gandalf, "but our time is at hand: the world of Men, which we must rule. But we must have power, power to order all things as we will, for that good which only the wise can see." Such an attitude is all to common when it comes to the actual and aspiring members of the governing class who believe that they know best and are justified in imposing their kind hearted plans upon everyone else. Whether it is social democrats who believe they can plan the economy, or neo-conservatives who believe they can plan the entire world order and engage in "building" entire nations at the point of the gun in the Middle East, the world is full of wannabe Saruman's fully convinced of their own wisdom and infallibility.
Tolkien examines in great psychological depth the process by which ordinary people end up abusing power, most poignantly in his creation of the Ring Wraiths; men who were once mighty kings who over time became subdued to Sauron's will after accepting the nine rings of power gifted to men. Tolkien expert Dr. Thomas Shippey has said that "the Ringwraiths are Tolkien's most original and distinctive image of evil" in part because they represent the danger that power poses in the hands of anyone, even oneself. Shippey calls this process by which ordinary people who begin with good intentions end up becoming corrupted and twisted as they acquire power the "wraithing process." The use of the adjective "twisted" is quite intentional, as the word "wraith" stems from words such as wreath and writhe which are both twisted things. The etymology of "wraith" also draws upon the important element that wraiths are more defined by shape than by substance. According to Shippey, what fills this shape is ideology with power.
The suspicion is that people make themselves into wraiths. They accept the gifts of Sauron, quite likely with the intention of using them for some purpose which they identify as good. But then they start to cut corners, to eliminate opponents, to believe in some 'cause' which justifies everything they do. In the end the 'cause', or the habits they have acquired while working for the 'cause', destroys any moral sense and even any remaining humanity. The spectacle of the person 'eaten up inside' by devotion to some abstraction has been so familiar throughout the twentieth century as to make the idea of the wraith, and the wraithing-process, horribly recognizable, in a non-fantastic way.1
The dangers of the wraithing-process by which ordinary people end up becoming consumed by ideological power and committing atrocities are known all too well to anyone familiar with the bloody history of the 20th Century, a century in which, with bureaucratic efficiency, millions were exterminated in the ideological crusades of the USSR, Nazi Germany, and Communist China among others. According to Shippey, Tolkien's portrayal of evil through the wraithing-process "is a curiously distinctive image of evil, and… a very unwelcome one because what it says is it could be you and under the right circumstances, or I should say the wrong circumstances, it will be you."
While there is still much left to unpack from Tolkien's prodigious body of work, one of his central theses is very clear: centralized power is too dangerous to be allowed to exist. If concentrated power exists people will be corrupted by it. This important point cannot be ignored in arguments for decentralization.
- 1. Shippey, Tom J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century pg. 125
3D Gun Debates Shows the Limits of Politics
In a great interview with CBS, Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed declares that the "debate is over" in terms of the availability of 3D printed guns.
Honest, well intentioned people can have genuine concerns about what this means for society, in much the same way that concerns exist about the existence of pornography or certain types of drugs. Those concerns, however, don't change the fact remains that designs for 3D printing guns are obtainable and there is nothing the government can do to change that reality.
In a better world, this would serve a reminder to society of the limitations of politics and government. Government, after all, is simply force. The only thing the state can do is attempt scare the population into giving them further powers to hunt down individuals who choose to access these files - which is precisely what we are seeing now with the political theatre playing out in Washington. It can even go further and harass Mr. Wilson, perhaps even try to throw him behind bars next to Ross Ulbricht. Perhaps it can go even further and use the threat of "ghost guns" to give the state new powers to regulate the internet and try to control data.
It can't however, change the fact that Cody Wilson's designs exist. For all the power horrific government has, it simply can't change that.
Medicare For All – Getting the Math Straight
Okay, so I've been looking at the Mercatus numbers.
First, Think Progress IS wrong in their representation. (Think Progress makes the very simple error of acting like an ADDITION to cost is the WHOLE cost.)
HOWEVER, my initial impression was also wrong. My error was a bit more complicated – I assumed constancy in some things that weren't constant in the Mercatus estimates, and ended up misrepresenting the results, TOO.
So, let's try to get it right, and we'll just focus on one year.
Before we hop in, we need to figure out what we're talking about. We're going to look at National Health Expenditures (page 5 is my reference here). What this is: Personal Health Care Expenses + Government Administrative Cost + Net Cost of Insurance (Basically, private administrative costs, I would guess) + Government Public Health Activities
Mercatus starts by looking at personal health care expenses in 2022. They suggest these are projected, under our current system, as being $3.859 trillion. (Note: this includes both public and private systems.) With Medicare 4 All, there would be a big jump in healthcare utilization – amounting to $435 billion. This comes from the currently uninsured being covered and from Medicare covering things that some private insurance doesn't, and from people using more medical care because they are no longer responsible for copays or coinsurance (so, on the margin, they go to the doctor more often – though I suspect this effect is small). BUT, providers would receive less because of M4A's pay structure. That would cut $384 billion from provider payments, and $61 billion from prescription drug costs. Net effect: personal health care spending FALLS by $10 billion in 2021.
The other change is that total administrative cost is expected to fall by about $83 billion. Basically, we're eliminating private health insurance costs, but Medicare's administration would have to eat that up – but with some economies of scale, there would be a net savings on the administrative side.
So, total effect: $93 billion in National Health Expenditure savings. The other years in the estimate project savings of up to $300 billion in NHE by 2031.
Now, Mercatus's point is that, EVEN WITH this savings, the government would be spending an additional $2.535 trillion that year – since it is absorbing the private insurance industry's costs. They want to know where the money is coming from, since doubling income taxes on both individuals and corporations wouldn't be enough to bring in that money.
On the one hand, progressives can reasonably point out that we're already spending this money, it's just a matter of redirecting it. And there's a point in that. This $2.535 trillion is not new to the ECONOMY, it's just new to the GOVERNMENT BUDGET. Okay.
But, would progressives then suggest that we should just have the government absorb the health insurance premiums currently paid by employees, employers, and individuals? I suspect not. That would mean that each person's premium would vary not based on income, but on their current employer. This would be an administrative nightmare, I suspect. So, while the money is there, there is still the practical question of how best to collect it in a way that isn't politically disastrous.
Another big point: Blahous is very clear that he's being generous in his estimates of savings because he wants to estimate the MINIMUM amount of additional tax revenue that would be required.
Have You Gained or Lost Weight? Congrats, TSA Is Now Tracking You for Suspicious Activity
If you fall asleep or use the bathroom during your next flight, those incriminating facts could be added to your federal dossier. Likewise, if you use your laptop or look at noisy children seated nearby with a "cold, penetrating stare," that may be included on your permanent record. If you fidget, sweat or have "strong body odor" — BOOM! the feds are onto you.
Welcome to the latest profiling idiocy from the Transportation Security Administration. TSA's Quiet Skies surveillance program is spurring federal air marshals to target dozens of Americans each day on the flimsiest of pretexts. The secret program, first exposed by Jana Winter in The Boston Globe, is security theater at its best.
What does it take to become a Quiet Skies target? "The criteria for surveillance appear fluid. Internal agency emails show some confusion about the program's parameters and implementation," The Globe noted.
Anyone who has recently traveled to Turkey can apparently be put on the list — as well as people "possibly affiliated" with someone on a terrorist watchlist (which contain more than a million names). The program is so slipshod that it has targeted at least one airline flight attendant and a federal law enforcement agent.
After a person makes the Quiet Skies list, a TSA air marshal team is placed on his next flight. Marshals receive "a file containing a photo and basic information" and carefully note whether the suspect's "appearance was different from information provided" — such as whether he has "gained weight," is "balding" or "graying," has a beard or "visible tattoos" (bad news for Juggalo fans of the Insane Clown Posse). Marshals record and report any "significant derogatory information" on suspects.
TSA air marshals follow travelers targeted by this program, even writing down their license plates. Marshals must ascertain whether a "subject was abnormally aware of surroundings." Does that include noticing the undercover G-men who are stalking them in the parking lot? No wonder the president of the Air Marshal Association, John Casaretti, considers the program unjustified.
Read the full article at USA Today
Peter Klein Receives the 2018 Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Prize
Congratulations to Mises Senior Fellow Peter Klein for being recognized by the Strategic Entrepreneurship Society with its Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal Best Paper Prize for his paper "Opportunity Discovery, Entrepreneurial Action, and Economic Organization."
One of the aspects that makes this award particularly important is that it recognizes the impact of a paper. As such, papers are not eligible until they have been published for five or more years.
The award committee consists of the Editorial Board of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal and is supplemented by surveys of leading figures in the field of strategic entrepreneurship conducted by the Co-Editors of the Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.
This paper is included in Dr. Klein's 2010 book The Capitalist and the Entrepreneur.
A Modest Proposal from Dr. Walter Block
If you're reading this, you should be supporting the Mises Institute every month!
I recently taught at the Mises University. This weekly experience is the highlight of my entire professional year, as it has been for lo these many decades. (When I started, I was an enfant terrible; now, I'm an old duffer. I don't know what happened. Time goes by fast whey you're having fun). It is an honor to work with my colleagues on the academic staff. The students, as always, were superb. Presumably, in the next few years, more than just a few of them will become MU professors, as are about half of the present faculty ex students of MU.
Thanks go out to Lew Rockwell, Jeff Deist, Joe Salerno, Pat Barnett and some dozen other members of the Mises Institute staff. Lew started off the entire institution, Jeff is the president of the MI, Joe put together the entire MU program, and Pat is the excellent administrator of the operation.
Who is the forgotten man? Who are they, such that without their support, the entire institution would fall to the ground? Have never been able to be started up in the first place? I'll give you just one guess. Yes, it is the donors of course. I must take my hat off to them, for without these generous people, there, literally, would be no Mises Institute.
We had about 200 students at this year's MU. Most of them are at the stages of their careers where all they have is brilliance and enthusiasm. Neither undergraduate students, nor those in graduate school have much money to donate to the MI. I had occasion during that week, nevertheless, to ask each of them to contribute $5 on an annual basis (until they have more money) to the Mises Institute (by the way, I myself donate a bit more than that). Why did I make this plea? It is not really that the $1000 that would be raised in that manner if all attendees complied with my request would spell the difference between success and failure. Yes, every $1000 helps, and I would be grateful to anyone who can afford to donate that amount, or more. No, the reason I asked all students to contribute this relative small amount of money was quite different.
It was this. Wealthy people will be more likely to contribute funds to the MI, and more heavily so, if this institution has many donors. They do not like to be the only ones financially supporting an organization such as the MI. Moreover, the more people who contribute to the MI this $5 per year I am asking for, the smaller is the average donation. That, too, encourages potential large donors to contribute in the first place, and in greater amounts.
I am now extending my plea from the some 200 students who attended MU 2018, to all those who are reading these words. Please donate $5 to the MI (I'd lower this to $1 per year, but, thanks to the fed, that doesn't amount to two cents, so to speak). If all readers of LewRockwell.com did so, it would not, to be fully honest, help all that much, directly. But it would be of immense aid indirectly, in encourage larger donations.
So, poverty stricken students and other impecunious folk, please reach deep down into your pockets, and cough up that $5. You can do so at this easy to reach link: mises.org/giving/now.
I will be the BFF of everyone who complies with this request of mine.
Red Flag Laws: The Latest Anti-Gun Scheme
Gun control may be coming to a legislature near you.
In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, and Santa Fe, Texas, shootings, elected officials on both sides of the political aisle are rallying around "red flag" legislation.
Extreme Risk Protection Orders (ERPOs), informally known as red flag laws, are gaining traction in legislatures nationwide. Red flag laws are presented as a common-sense proposal to disarm people who allegedly present a danger to themselves or others around them.
Political leaders assure gun owners red flag laws won't trample over civil liberties and are a middle ground solution that appease pro-gunners and gun controllers alike. But the devil is in the details when dealing with any form of government intervention.
The Potential Threat of Red Flag Laws
In Gunpowder Magazine, Ted Patterson details the potential dangers of "red flag" laws. Four points stick out the most:
Anti-gun family members, friends, or acquaintances can levy dubious accusations to justify the confiscation of law-abiding gun owners' guns. They can take these accusations to a court of law, even if the individual in question was not charged or convicted of a crime. In turn, due process rights are turned upside down, as gun owners are presumed to be guilty and must then prove their innocence.
The duration of ERPOs is unclear — which could end up being weeks, months, or even a year. Gun owners would then be forced to go to court multiple times just to win their Constitutional rights back.
What makes red flag laws even more dangerous is the bipartisan support they currently boast. It is no secret when both parties come together on legislative matters, nothing good can come out of it.
Political insiders constantly remind us that Republicans are staunch supporters of the Second Amendment. They contend Republicans play a pivotal role in defending our gun rights, and any criticism directed toward them is unjustified.
But nothing could be further from the truth. A Republican governor in Maryland recently signed a red flag bill into law, while Republicans in states like Colorado and Pennsylvania have actively pushed red flag bills of their own.
Lawmakers under the impression that compromising on red flag laws will curtail further gun control attempts, are in for a rude awakening. The nature of the government beast is to expand.
Economist Ludwig von Mises recognized full well how interventionism is "illogical and unsuitable, as it can never attain what its champions and authors hope to attain." Once the regulations fail, the political class will clamor for even more regulations to "fix" the problems they ironically created in the first place.
This has been on display in sectors such as healthcare. Under the banner of "compassionate conservatism," George W. Bush signed Medicare, Part D into law — the largest welfare expansion since Medicare was originally established in 1965.
Even with the passage of Medicare, Part D, healthcare interventionists were still not satisfied. Once Democrats returned to power with significant majorities in both chambers of Congress, then President Barack Obama passed a hefty piece of government intervention in Obamacare with ease.
We can expect the same dynamic to occur if politicians start kowtowing to red flag laws. The recent passage of Fix NICS is already a troubling development.
At this point in the game, it may behoove gun rights activists to start shifting their focus toward decentralization and fight for expanding gun rights in their own backyards instead of looking for Washington to change its ways.
You'll Soon Be 3-D Printing Guns at Home
Remember Cody Wilson? In 2013, he's the guy who successfully tested a fully-3-D-printed gun. Shortly thereafter, he posted information on how to make the guns online.
Shortly after that, as many predicted, the federal government took steps to shut the whole thing down.
Recent developments, however, mean that the guns and plans on how to make them, will soon be seeing the light of day again.
Last week, Wired reported:
Two months ago, the Department of Justice quietly offered Wilson a settlement to end a lawsuit he and a group of co-plaintiffs have pursued since 2015 against the United States government . Wilson and his team of lawyers focused their legal argument on a free speech claim: They pointed out that by forbidding Wilson from posting his 3-D-printable data, the State Department was not only violating his right to bear arms but his right to freely share information. By blurring the line between a gun and a digital file, Wilson had also successfully blurred the lines between the Second Amendment and the First.
The Department of Justice's surprising settlement, confirmed in court documents earlier this month, essentially surrenders to that argument. It promises to change the export control rules surrounding any firearm below .50 caliber—with a few exceptions like fully automatic weapons and rare gun designs that use caseless ammunition—and move their regulation to the Commerce Department, which won't try to police technical data about the guns posted on the public internet. In the meantime, it gives Wilson a unique license to publish data about those weapons anywhere he chooses.
This isn't exactly a total victory for laissez-faire, of course. The federal government is hardly abandoning any attempts to regulate firearms — including those created by Wilson. But, the recent court settlement does signal the political and legal realities that make it difficult for the federal government to arbitrarily decide what sort of information is legal to share.
The effect of the settlement will soon be felt, it seems:
Now Wilson is making up for lost time. Later this month, he and the nonprofit he founded, Defense Distributed, are relaunching their website Defcad.com as a repository of firearm blueprints they've been privately creating and collecting, from the original one-shot 3-D-printable pistol he fired in 2013 to AR-15 frames and more exotic DIY semi-automatic weapons. The relaunched site will be open to user contributions, too; Wilson hopes it will soon serve as a searchable, user-generated database of practically any firearm imaginable.
All of that will be available to anyone anywhere in the world with an uncensored internet connection, to download, alter, remix, and fabricate into lethal weapons with tools like 3-D printers and computer-controlled milling machines. "We're doing the encyclopedic work of collecting this data and putting it into the commons," Wilson says. "What's about to happen is a Cambrian explosion of the digital content related to firearms." He intends that database, and the inexorable evolution of homemade weapons it helps make possible, to serve as a kind of bulwark against all future gun control, demonstrating its futility by making access to weapons as ubiquitous as the internet.
The triumphalist response to all this, voiced by some libertarians is that gun control will "end" as soon as Wilson's operation goes online. They're not totally wrong, although history suggests we're really just about to head down a long road of quasi-legality and court battles over these sorts of weapons.
After all, the US government has not said it has no role in regulating guns. It still says it can prohibit publication of information on how to make fully automatic weapons, for example.
Nevertheless, the court settlement does suggest the federal government, for now, has been forced to admit that it is at least somewhat constrained in just how much it can prohibit the spread of information — even if that information involves the manufacture of firearms.
Over the next decade as this issue further works its way through the courts and legislatures — as is sure to happen — we will nevertheless see here a true decentralization of both the information and the tools necessary to make guns.
Historically, this has always posed a threat to states, and decentralized distribution and ownership of weapons has long been a hallmark of guerrilla warfare.
RELATED: When Guerrilla Warfare Can Succeed — And When It Will Fail by Ryan McMaken
The US state, of course, is as well aware as any state that the ability to manufacture guns at home — at relatively low cost — does indeed change the landscape.
But what will the state do in response? States, to be successful, must be able to maintain a monopoly on the means of coercion. The US state is no different, and it will be interesting to see what steps the US government takes to restrict the ability to crank out guns with a 3-D printer. Will the US government simply tell itself that it can easily overpower any challenge to its monopoly that might arise from the proliferation of homemade guns? After all, it's still not possible to churn out tanks or rocket launchers or Apache helicopters with any equipment one might have in one's basement.
To some extent, this strategy of relying on better firepower will depend partially on just how much gun ownership might proliferate in an age of DIY guns. After all, it's easy enough the deal with a small number of angry gunmen with superior firepower. This advantage becomes smaller, however, the more gun owners there are. Even today, when many types of guns can still be easily bought, only 42 percent of Americans say they live in a home with guns. I happen to be of the opinion that these numbers tend to understate the probable real ownership rate. But by how much? Even if the 42-percent figure gets it wrong by 10 percent, we're still talking about only half the population with an apparent interest in having guns. And even fewer of these are likely skilled in the usage of firearms. Ownership rates, are important, though, because someone who owns guns is less likely to support efforts to confiscate them.
The fact that guns are easy to come by,however, doesn't mean every one will want one. Of course, things could change substantially in a crisis situation that would significantly undermine public opinions of the state. This could arise from a serious economic crisis or from a surge in crime and civil unrest. Or all of the above. Then we might see a lot more interest in private gun ownership.
And Cody Wilson's gun operation might make it much harder for governments to assert control in such a situation.
Block in NY Times: Trump's Tariffs a "Fake Fix"
In today's New York Times, Walter Block employs some excellently Rothbardian logic in exposing just how absurd is the argument that protectionism increases wealth. In this case, Block notes that if protectionism helps to increase the living standards of people in American states who import from other states, then New York would surely benefit from slapping tariffs on imports from Iowa:
As an illustration, assume Mr. Trump is the governor of New York. He is devoted to making the Empire State "great again." Right now, both New Yorkers and Iowans raise pigs — but Iowa produces far more than New York. So Governor Trump sets up a protective tariff against the importation of Iowa-raised pork. Will this make New York great again?
Hardly. There is a very good reason the Empire State does not produce a huge amount of this product: economic efficiency, the true path toward economic greatness. Of course, pork product jobs will increase in New York thanks to the Trump tariffs. But this is the way to ruin the state's economy.
Surely, New Yorkers would be far better off continuing to produce goods and services in which they have a comparative advantage (Broadway shows, dairy products, financial services, jewelry, maybe even newspapers) and trading them for pork, rather than trying to grow more of it locally. Ditto for the Iowans. They, too, would be well advised to stick to what they do best and trade for what they want.
There are good reasons the United States is such a prosperous country, one of which is this: The country is a gigantic free-trade zone among the states. Yes, every once in a while a state legislature will get in the way. Wisconsin may try to reduce the importation of wine from California. But this only interferes with the specialization and the division of labor that maximizes output. Happily, the Supreme Court has typically given the back of its collective hand to all such attempted interferences with interstate economic freedom. ... Maybe we should be happy that the president hasn't yet kicked Hawaii out of the union and imposed a tariff on pineapples to strengthen the weak pineapple industry in other states. Absurd, yes, but hardly less bizarre than thinking tariffs on foreign goods will make the American economy great again.
Tariffs are Bad — Not Because Trump Is Good or Bad — But Because Tariffs Are Always Bad.
[Originally published by the Albany Student Press.]
The Trump Administration levied tariffs on steel and aluminum last month through an executive order. Imported steel is subject to a 25 percent tariff and aluminum to a 10 percent tariff. A tariff is a tax on the American people. The money is paid for out of citizen's pockets and does more harm to Americans than it does to their trading partners.
There are several arguments President Trump and his supporters use to defend the tariffs. Economist Walter Williams says that one of these arguments are that they help domestic steel and aluminum industries. Increasing the price of foreign steel and aluminum reduces the supply and makes it easier for domestic firms to compete. Williams then debunks this claim by arguing the increased profit of domestic firms comes at an aggregate cost to Americans. Artificially higher costs on steel and aluminum make the prices of other goods go up that use them. The argument that it helps steel and aluminum producers in the U.S. is true, but it ends up hurting the economy overall.
Another point that deserves rebutting is one made by Trump. NPR quoted Trump saying, "A strong steel and aluminum industry are vital to our national security." Defense Secretary James Mattis said, "Military demand for steel and aluminum can be met with just 3 percent of domestic production." The notion of autarky, that the U.S. needs to produce all of what it needs instead of trading, greatly limits the economy's potential and as a result may limit future defense capabilities.
The New York Times reported that Trump also claims that shifts in trade policies are necessary to make countries like China engage in fair trading. However, there is no such thing as fair trade, only free trade. Free trade is the voluntary exchange of goods and services between people in different countries. It allows one region or firm's comparative advantage to create more of something at a lower cost, benefiting everyone. Free trade produces mutual benefits to all parties involved. Trade isn't a zero-sum game that has losers and winners. A great quote that summarizes this concept is one by sociologist Franz Oppenheimer , "The first method [of acquiring wealth] is by producing a good or a service and voluntarily exchanging that good for the product of somebody else," aka: the free market. The other method being stealing taking someone else's property.
The Trump Administration wants you to artificially pay more for certain goods. Cans of soda, construction, and countless other things we pay for everyday are going to be more expensive. Free trade is a part of capitalism. Trump's campaign was full of protectionist rhetoric, so it isn't surprising that he followed through with it. What is disheartening is the hypocrisy of the media and politicians. President Obama's tariff on tires did not see the same scrutiny from the mainstream media as Trump's tariffs have. On the flip side, some from the right-wing media have not been critical about the tariffs simply because they're Trump's. Many in the Republican Party who claim to be capitalists and conservatives have supported the tariffs as well. Trump's tariffs are bad, not because Trump is good or bad, but because tariffs are always bad. Government interference in consensual interactions between people is wrong whether it's by Republicans or Democrats.


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Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders both dominated Hillary Clinton in social media growth during Sunday night's Democratic debate — even though Trump wasn't even participating or tweeting about the debate.
The Democratic National Committee's attempt to hide Clinton on a Sunday night may have concealed her from public view, but it did not keep people from flocking to Sanders' and Trump's social-media pages.
Sanders beat Clinton in follower growth on both Facebook and Twitter during the debate and also defeated her in total social media engagement, according to statistics compiled by Engagement Labs.
Sanders picked up 9,388 new Facebook fans and 14,711 new Twitter followers, against Clinton's 6,254 new Facebook fans and 10,918 new Twitter followers.
Sanders' most-liked Facebook post during the debate picked up 49,000 Likes and 19,900 shares, while Clinton's top Facebook post – plugging her gun control policy – only got a little bit more than 8,200 Likes.
On Twitter, Sanders' biggest tweet got 6,900 Likes and 4,900 re-tweets, while Clinton's most popular tweet only picked up 2,300 Likes and 1,500 re-tweets.
But the real winner of the debate, apparently, was Donald Trump.
Trump amassed 10,170 new Facebook fans and 13,069 new followers on Twitter, which was more than Clinton and way ahead of Ted Cruz, who took in a little more than 5,000 new followers across the two platforms.
The debate in South Carolina was a joint production of NBC News and Youtube. The Youtube viewership numbers – available on the bottom of the screen during the broadcast – were paltry.
When the debate started at 9 PM Easter, less than 300,000 people were tuned in.
By 10:20 PM, there were 349,015 people watching.
Immediately after the debate ended at 11 PM and the post-game analysis started, only 214,713 people were still tuned in.
Youtube promoted the livestream on its homepage throughout the broadcast, and made it a "Featured LiveStream."
By comparison, Youtube's live stream in June of the Electronic Entertainment Expo notched eight million views in just twelve hours on the site.


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Re: Amos & Wiley Adams Williamson Co. TN
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Amos & Wiley Adams Williamson Co. TN
jim adams 2/07/04
Hi Jim,
Not related , just reading old messages.
Do you have your info yet?
If not, can you tell me if the ages of these guys or the year they were born is given?
Does it state they were born in TN, is that Tennessee or is that just where the census was taken?
Let me know.


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The Dancing Master by Julie Klassen
Friday, January 17, 2014
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Ah, I love a good book that weaves both romance and mystery.ReplyDeleteReplies
Me, too, Heather. One of my favorite combinations. :)Delete
I've heard that this one isn't quite as good as some of Julie Klassen's other books. I bought it last week but haven't read it yet. I assume (from your Goodreads) that the other book of hers that you've read is The Girl in the Gatehouse. I've read that one and thought it was pretty good. But my favorites of Klassen's novels by far are The Silent Governess and The Tutor's Daughter (absolutely loved that one!). You should give one of those a try. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
You assume correctly, Kristin! The other Klassen novel I read was indeed The Girl in the Gatehouse. I was just thinking that I may have preferred it over this novel but it's been too long. As to the two you recommend, thank you! I've heard fabulous things about The Tutor's Daughter so perhaps I'll read that one when I have a bit of time. I love the era in BBC drama, just not always in books. Weird...Delete
Hope you enjoy The Dancing Master; I think most fans will. :)
One of my favorite parts was definitely all the secrets from Julia's past. They definitely threw me into a loop :)ReplyDeleteReplies
That plot was masterfully written, Jamie! I was SO impressed; Julie had me flip-flopping over the end result until a certain point when I stuck with my assumption and was right. Wow. Loved that about the novel and of course, all of the beautiful dancing passages. :)Delete
I really like Julie Klassen's books, so I am planning on reading this one.ReplyDelete
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I think you'll enjoy this one then, Ella. The one novel I read by Julie wasn't a favorite for historical but most of my blogging buddies do LOVE her writing so if you're a fan also, I'm sure you will be glad to read this one, too. :)Delete
Happy reading.
I've read all but one of Klassen's other books and I'm always excited when a new one comes out :) Nice review!!ReplyDeleteReplies
Wonderful! Hope you enjoy The Dancing Master then, Sara. I loved the dancing passages and of course, the mystery. :)Delete
Thanks for reading!
I just got this book in the mail and looking forward to reading it. I love Julie's books. It's funny how everyone has a different favorite. : ) Mine was 'The Apothecary's Daughter ' keep me guessing till the end.ReplyDelete
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Yay! Hope you enjoy it, Cathy. I know a couple of girls who were anxious for their copy to arrive also so hopefully since you just got yours, theirs has arrived. It IS funny how we all have different favorites. I was just thinking this morning that I liked The Girl in the Gatehouse better than this novel however it's been too long in-between books.Delete
Love those guessing games in fiction... they're the best. :)
Thanks for reading, Cathy.
Great review sugar pie.ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks for reading, Juju. :)Delete
This sounds like a very interesting book, and your review was wonderful, Rissi :) I've had Julie Klassen on my reading list for a while, but have never gotten to any of her books--maybe this will be the year when I can change that! :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Yay! Do, Hannah. Julie has a fabulous skill and is indeed very talented. I think I preferred The Girl in the Gatehouse overall, however the back-and-forth teasing mystery of this book was brilliant. Plus I loved the intricate information on old-fashioned dancing, so gorgeous. :)Delete
Thanks for reading.
Yours is the first review I've seen of this book Rissi, but I'm sure soon it will be all over the blogosphere. I already have it on my Kindle and am looking forward to reading it very much, I love Julie Klassen! I think it will be interesting having a male as a main character, while in most Christian fiction written by female authors it's always the heroine who gets the most attention.ReplyDeleteReplies
...this book is indeed making the blogosphere rounds, Birdie! Several reviews have popped up on my dashboard over the last few days and I'm looking forward to reading those I've not gotten around to.Delete
I'm glad you're excited about this novel - I really felt Alec played the prominent role and it was an interesting perspective. So different as you say, from most Christian fiction.
I LOVE this cover. Shame to hear the chemistry and romantic development isn't really all there as this is the highlight of a good Regency for me. I used to be all over the Regency romances a few years ago - but now I've been bitten by the fairytale bug, haha! ;)ReplyDeleteReplies
Isn't it a stunner!! Love beautiful covers like this one. :)Delete
I do hope you enjoy this one if/when you read it, Mary. Nothing wrong with that "fairytale bug." It's one of my favorite genres, too.
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Michael Clark Proves That (20/10 Vision) Does Exist In The Basketball World
If you don't know Michael Clark then it's about time you get...
CHICAGO — Ernie Banks celebrates a birthday this Sunday, and Mr. Cub insists "at 79, everything is fine." But another task remains on his to-do list.
In light of Mark McGwire's admission that he took steroids during his record-breaking home run season of 1998, Banks says he would like to assist Sammy Sosa if he wants to address allegations that he used steroids.
"If he wanted to do that, knowing that people were leaning toward thinking he was involved with steroids, I would say just what Mark McGwire did," Banks told me. "You know, come clean with it. Explain it to them. You know he will have fans in the Dominican. Just say: 'This is what happened.' "Just admit it and live with it and understand it. I am sure a lot of people will forgive him."
According to a report in the New York Times, Sosa failed a league steroid test in 2003. Sosa insisted he never has taken steroids when I questioned him about three years ago. But Sosa has yet to respond to the report that he failed the 2003 test.
The ever-optimistic Banks says he would like to see Sosa embraced by new Cubs ownership.
"I would like to see Sammy come back. Throw out the first pitch, sing 'Take Me Out To The Ball Game,' you know, meet some of the players and all of that. I was dreaming about it. I always thought that the way he left here and went to his demise here was quick. The lesson from that is that fame is fleeting."
Banks traveled to the Dominican Republic last year on behalf of the Cubs. While there, Banks tried to contact Sosa, but he was in Brazil at the time. Now Banks wants to meet with Sosa to have a heart-to-heart talk.
"That's what my lifelong dream is," Banks said. "Just to sit down with him and listen to him. … I know he has advisers around him and all that. But with all my experience and (over) 50 years with this team and in this city … I will just explain it to him and how the people are …
people are for you; they want to see you do well. They are forgiving people.
"We haven't won in over 100 years, so this audience here is pretty special."
Unlike Carlton Fisk, who blasted McGwire and others who took performance-enhancing drugs, Banks insists he has no contempt for players who cheated. Alex Rodriguez, for instance, hit 52 homers for the Rangers in 2001, breaking Banks' major league record for a shortstop of 47 in 1958. Rodriguez admitted he was taking steroids during that period.
On Saturday, Rodriguez was honored at the New York baseball writers' dinner.
"Postseason MVP… Wow!" Rodriguez said upon accepting the award. "What's next, the good guy award?"
The magnanimous Banks insists A-Rod is a good guy.
"They invited me to come down there to (Arlington) Texas, and that's my hometown (Dallas)," said Banks of the experience of seeing his record broken in 2001. "I was with A-Rod, went by his house, had lunch with him. He was very nice and I like him."
"I was down there when the kid from Texas — Rafael Palmeiro (also a steroid user) — hit his 500th home run. I am saying this with love. I just care a lot about


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Hines is a privately owned real estate firm involved in real estate investment, development and property management worldwide. The firm's historical and current portfolio of projects that are underway, completed, acquired and managed for third parties includes 1,147 properties representing more than 462 million square feet of office, residential, mixed-use, industrial, hotel, medical and sports facilities, as well as large, master-planned communities and land developments. With offices in 108 cities in 18 countries, and controlled assets valued at approximately $23.3 billion, Hines is one of the largest real estate organizations in the world. Hines is also a world leader in sustainable real estate strategies, with extensive experience in LEED®, ENERGY STAR®, BREEAM, Haute Qualité Environnementale and DGNB green building rating systems.
Gerald D. Hines founded his company on the premise that projects of superior quality and architectural merit, backed by responsive management, lead to lasting value. This has proven true in Hines buildings and communities since 1957. For the residents of Palencia, Hines' uncompromising standards translate into pride of ownership and the highest quality of living. Through well thought out planning and and careful building, the land's natural beauty and historic ties to the past are carried forward, giving Palencia homeowners a true sense of value and contentment.
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The Quantum Wellness Diet Review
How The Quantum Wellness Diet Works
Author Kathy Freston created The Quantum Wellness Diet to help people slowly learn how to live healthier lives and lose weight in the process. During the 21-day diet, dieters are instructed to stop consuming meats, caffeine, alcohol and other items to quickly rejuvenate the body. The Quantum Wellness Diet wasn't designed with weight loss in mind, but Freston does point out that it is a welcomed benefit for overweight dieters.
There are plenty of healthy tips in The Quantum Wellness Diet, but it is important for people who need to lose weight to realize that it simply wasn't designed to help people lose more than a few pounds. It lacks any type of long-term workout plan and the diet itself is only done for 21 days at a time.
Do Dieters Lose Weight on The Quantum Wellness Diet?
Dieters who stick to the restrictive food menu in The Quantum Wellness Diet book will probably lose a little bit of weight in the first three weeks. This is because they will be cutting out most of the foods that have a lot of calories, which should see them trim down at least a pound or two in the short term.
Since The Quantum Wellness Diet only lasts three weeks and lacks a full exercise plan, long-term weight loss is going to be very hard to achieve. Most dieters who do the three-week "detox" will go back to their old habits once the 21 days are up, so they will simply gain all of the weight back that they lost.
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The Quantum Wellness Diet book does recommend about a half-hour's worth of exercise three days per week, but there are no specific exercises for dieters to use. This means that they are left on their own to figure out which workouts will work best for them, which can be difficult for those who are new to exercising.
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Loaded: 'Playboy' is a bustGoogle adds magazines to its book project, Microsoft launches a blogging platform, and "Playboy" launches a very silly Webcast called "Interns."
>> Natalie Del Conte: We will add magazines to it's book project, Microsoft launches a blogging platform and Playboy launches a webcast - and I'm sure you can already get what I think of that... It's Wednesday, December 10, I'm Natalie Del Conte and it's time to get loaded. ^m00:00:13 [ music ] ^m00:00:17 Google's book project now extends to magazines. Google has added current and past magazines to it's book database, which will allow users to search, read, and print out pages from magazines in full color in the exact layout they were originally published in. The pages contain the magazine's own branding and link back to the magazine's live website. The magazines will also share ad revenue with Google. Participating publishers include Hurst, Johnson Publishing, New York Media, and MS. You'll find some really great titles there like Popular Science, New York magazine Ebony, and more. So say goodbye to microfilm; you may never have to go to an actual library again. Speaking of Google, the company has released it's 2008 Zeitgeist which gives us a little cross sectional look at our culture. You might be happy to know that it has very little to do with celebrity obsession, a little but not much. You can find it yourself at Google dot com slash Zeitgeist 2008, and find the fastest rising search terms by country. The fastest rising keywords internationally were Sarah Palin, Beijing 2008, and FaceBook login. The only celebrities involved are Keith Ledger and the Jonas Brothers, unless of course you count Sarah Palin as a celebrity - which I actually think is debatable. Microsoft launched a blogging platform called Oxite. It isn't meant to compete with consumer programs like Word press or movable type though. This is a developer's platform designed to support either blogs or larger websites. 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AT and T has announced that they've begun testing Femtocell technology, which can significantly improve cell phone coverage in your home. Femtocells are basically small cell towers that live in your home and then pipe your voice data over your high speed internet connection. Sprint has already offered a version of this technology in select markets, and Verizon is said to be exploring Femtocells as well. T-Mobile however, has opted to instead offer Wi-Fi enabled phones which can seamlessly switch between the T-Mobile network and your home wireless network. AT and T however, hopes that it's solution will be able to offer 3G data services as well as traditional voice services. Tivo may be responsible for killing commercials, but they're trying to bring them back. The company has started to insert text ads into paused programming, which means that when you're watching something and you pause it, you'll see an overlay ad for a ragu or something like that. It works for prerecorded content as well as live TV. Fortunately it's only for the pause feature right now, it doesn't ad ads to your on demand watching habits. I would actually say this is just fine, it wouldn't bother me to see an ad when I pause something; especially since when I pause something, it's specifically because I have to look away from the TV. Advertise all I want when I'm looking, fine by me. If you're vacillating on whether or not to get a Netbook, here's some incentive; they're getting even cheaper than they already are. Lenovo cut prices on all models of the Idea Pad S10, which means you can get one for as cheap as 349 dollars. The higher capacity versions with a gigagram and 160 gig of hard drive space can be purchased for as low as 399 dollars. The Dell Inspiron Mini is also cheaper at 299 dollars, but that's the stripped down version that runs Linux; has 512 megs of RAM and 4 gigs of hard drive - still not bad. To pick out which one might be the best for you, make sure you watch all our reviews here on CNET. Rumors are already flying about Mac World since we're less than a month away. The latest rumors who rear it's ugly head is that Apple is gonna go all DRM free in iTunes. Speculation is that this could happen this week even. I do think Apple will go this direction, but why would they do it in a soft launch announcement style when they've got Steve just weeks away. I'm guessing Jobs wants to announce this to the masses himself, but if I'm wrong - and it does happen - I will happily eat those words and let you know about it right here on Loaded. Playboy has launched a new web series called Interns. It looks ridiculous, but if you find the premise of a reality series about people doing an internship for Playboy compelling, you can find it on the web and on Myspace. >> This is... this is good. 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CHESTER, PA (August 12, 2017) – Everything to play for tonight for the Philadelphia Union. After last weeks decisive win over MLS powerhouse FC Dallas at home, the Union sit in eighth place in the Eastern Conference. That may sound underwhelming, but a win tonight could potentially launch them to seventh place if Orlando City SC draws to New York Red Bulls. In fact they could even reach sixth place and a playoff spot if Columbus Crew SC lose to the Chicago Fire. A lot to ask for but stranger things have happened and with the match ups tonight it is entirely possible.
Impacted: Philadelphia Union Fall To Montreal Impact For Second Time This Season
Tonight they face for the the Montreal Impact third and final time. Earlier this season, the Union hosted the Impact at home. Despite going up three goals, the Impact put together a come back and drew with the Union. This is considered rock bottom and is definitely heard in this quote from Alejandro Bedoya:
"Pure frustration. I mean I'm at a loss for words. To be up 3-0 at home…..it feels like a loss. It's hard to stomach. This team deserve better. The fans deserve better since I came to this club."
The Impact sit ninth in the Eastern Conference standings, only two points behind the Union. A win tonight for them catapults themselves to eighth. They have all hands on deck and mostly all star players re available except for Cameroonian left back Ambroise Oyongo.
Philadelphia Union: Blake/Gaddis;Yaro;Elliot;Wijnaldum/Medunjanin;Bedoya/Ilsinho;Picault;Pontius;/Sapong
Montreal Impact: Bush/Duvall;Cabrera;Ciman;Lovitz/Piette;Dzemaili/Oduro;Bernier;Piatti/Mancosu
The second minute saw a chance for the Impact. Impact superstar Ignacio Patti put in a cross for striker Matteo Mancosu. Mancosu connected but pulled it weakly wide.
A minute later, an errant pass back to Laurent Ciman saw C.J. Sapong pick it off and run through, leaving Ciman eating grass. Despite being one on one with the keeper, Evan Bush saved the shot and the ball went far and wide. Four minutes in and both teams are getting looks.
The rest of the half would prove to be fruitless. Both sides had opportunities but minuscule at that. The half would end with zeroes on the board.
The 65th minute would finally bring back a big opportunity for the Union. After getting laid out, Chris Pontius would draw a free kick. Haris Medunjanin lofted up a free kick that met the head of Jack Elliot. Giliano Wijnaldum brought the ball down and got it to Fafa Picault. His shot was blocked and fell back to the feet of Wijnaldum. Whose shot careened off the bar and a scrum forced the ball out of bounds.
In the 69th minute, Montreal broke the tie. A Blerim Dzemaili volley sent the ball rocketing into the back of the net to give Montreal the lead. It is his fifth goal in his 12th game.
John "Helmet" McCarthy in the 90th minute got caught of his line and conceded a penalty kick. Ignacio Piatti stepped up and put away his tenth goal of the season for Montreal. He leads the team in the category.
Blerim Dzemaili's night wasn't done yet. Again in the 90th minute a goal for the Impact occurred as Dzemaili curled home the ball past McCarthy to extend to a 3-0 lead and subsequent win. The Impact jump the Union in the standings and shuts them out for the season.
Next week they travel to San Jose to face the San Jose Earthquakes. A major bounce back is needed to keep the season on track.


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Can I buy tickets at the door?
Yes, although several events sell out, so we recommend buying tickets in advance to avoid disappointment.
Is there a ticket box office?
The ticket box office is held at the actual venue of each event, prior to each event.
What sessions does the festival pass include?
The Festival Pass includes access to all reading events and workshops. When there are concurrent events you must choose one event.
What sessions does the reading pass include?
The Reading Pass includes access to all reading events. When there are concurrent events you must choose one event.
Does the ticket include accommodation?
The host hotel – The Fairmont Chateau Whistler offers, offers "Bed and Book" Packages which include accommodation and a festival pass. Check out the Accommodation page for more details.
Can I come late to the event?
If you are late our volunteers will help you find a seat when there is an appropriate break in the presentation.
Should I print my ticket and bring my receipt?
Where can I buy tickets if I don't have a computer? Or don't want to buy them on line?
Whistler Writers Festival tickets for reading events only are available at Armchair Books (cash only for purchases at Armchair). Otherwise you can buy tickets at the door if the event is not sold out.
What should I wear?
This is Whistler, so dress casually, comfortably, or go fancy! Anything goes. If you are attending a workshop you may wish to bring a sweater.
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For free parking in the daytime, go to Lot 4 or 5. It's a short walk to the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler Public Library, Maury Young Arts Centre or Audain Art Museum. All of these venues will be hosting some 2018 festival events. Lots 1 – 3 have pay parking during the day, and Lots 4 & 5 have free parking. Lots 1 – 5 have free parking after 5pm. The Fairmont Chateau and Whistler Public Library have pay parking.
Where can I eat?
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The Ascent of Gravity
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- Hardback: 288 sider
- Udgiver: Orion Publishing Group, Limited (April 2017)
The Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2017
'Entertaining and at times mind-boggling guide to the weakest of nature's fundamental forces, which also controls the fate of the universe' Manjit Kumar, The Times
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognised and described yet it is the least understood. It is a 'force' that keeps your feet on the ground yet no such force actually exists.
Gravity, to steal the words of Winston Churchill, is 'a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma'. And penetrating that enigma promises to answer the biggest questions in science: what is space? What is time? What is the universe? And where did it all come from?
Award-winning writer Marcus Chown takes us on an unforgettable journey from the recognition of the 'force' of gravity in 1666 to the discovery of gravitational waves in 2015. And, as we stand on the brink of a seismic revolution in our worldview, he brings us up to speed on the greatest challenge ever to confront physics.


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Some information about the Solo from Audicus' website:
The Solo is a smart personal sound amplifier (PSA) that provides sound clarity and reduces background noise in occasional settings. It helps in situations where it's inherently difficult to hear, such as listening from a distance, discerning speech in loud places and having soft conversations.
The Solo hearing amplifier works best with the Tuning Kit and the Tuner App (for iPhones & iPads), which let you select your listening preferences from the comfort of home. We can then tailor the Solo to your selections!
Customers are encouraged to purchase the Solo with the Solo Tuning Kit, which is a set of headphones and earmuffs to be used with your own iPhone or iPad. The Tuning Kit + Audicus Tuner app are used to conduct a preliminary hearing screening and to do some preference tuning. Audicus says the Solo Tuning Kit (headphones and muffs) costs nothing if returned within two weeks, but does not say what the cost would be otherwise (we couldn't find the price on their website).
This Personal Sound Amplifier is like none other. You can use the Audicus Tuner app to indicate your hearing preferences, which we can then use to personalize your Solo. Download the Audicus Tuner App on your iOS device, like an iPad, iPod, or iPhone ... Source: Audicus
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The Audicus Solo has water resistant coating, push button, disposable batteries, directionality, processing channels, and noise reduction.


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Deborah Adele, The Yamas and Niyamas
Julie Bennett has received top level certification as a Yoga Therapist from IAYT, the International Association of Yoga Therapists. It took hundreds of hours of training at Yoga North, one of a handful of IAYT-accredited schools in North America. It took hundreds more hours of seminars, workshops, conferences, and documented work with clients. And it took three months of review by the credentials committee, but Julie Bennett has been recognized by as a C-IAYT credentialed yoga therapist.


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Reason if you want to buy an entry level Bonsai Tree for yourself you need to spend at least 2000 Rs. So you can Look for Online Site they offer at the same rate as the local nursery.
Bonsai Tree Price in Chennai Is About 2200 – 4500 Rs
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