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Thank you to all my readers who left me such beautiful comments. You guys remind me that I am not without my blessings. Nobody has sweeter, more well intentioned readers than I do. Some of your words offered me comfort, some offered inspiration, and some were the kick in the ass I probably needed, telling me to stop feeling sorry for myself and move on (nobody's exact words– I'm just paraphrasing).
The night things ended, I just hurt so much. My face was very swollen and pained from all the crying I did. In the morning I felt a lot better (though still sad), and with that relief came some clarity: the door to Birdy's heart is a closed one. It's no shocking revelation dollies. I am not completely clueless. I guess I was hoping that could change. I was hoping he would see how amazing I am and decide to let me in. Well, I guess that was pretty dumb. I have no excuses to make, so I won't even attempt it. It is what it is.
I don't want to wallow in my suffering. Life is short, and quite frankly, I'm fucking tired of the hurt. Just once, I want the feeling of being loved just as much as I love. I want to feel safe with someone and valued. I hate what I feel now, that familiar feeling of abandonment, and knowing that I just wasn't good enough to stick around for. I'm tired of crying. I'm tired of that sickly mix of anxiety and wanting that makes me want to vomit.
I remember how I felt when I did my "Birthday Challenge" a while back. I think it helped me tremendously. I dropped out of the romance race for a while. During that time I did my best to feed myself with good thoughts and a bit of self love (some days were more successful than others, as I'm sure will be the case this time around too). I'm going to do that again. It was a very productive time. With the encouragement of someone I love very dearly, I came up with another challenge, similar to the old one, but this one will be more lengthy. During that time, I will not make any attempt to talk to any guys. No Birdy, no dating websites. I am just going to try to focus on feeling good and accomplishing a few personal goals. Should Birdy contact me during that time… I don't know. I'll cross that bridge if I get there.
In the past I have used men to medicate myself so that I don't have to sit in my loneliness and feel my feelings (not sex, but the euphoria of feeling cared for — or dare I say "loved" — I always found the attention of someone I admired to be positively exhilarating). I spent most of my life suffering from this feeling that I am always on the outside looking in. I have this desperate desire to feel like I'm part of something bigger than myself. For a brief moment surrounded by Birdy and his incredibly wonderful family, I felt part of something, and it was positively delicious. My heart felt so satisfied…. and now it's gone. Well I guess it's time to make friends with the emptiness that lives inside of me. I've been living with her for a very long time, might as well shake hands and get to know each other. We are so intimate, yet I am always trying to hide her from my own consciousness. I know there is a great lesson to be learned here … but ugh, I'm not sure I'm looking forward to the process.
I end this post with something I heard Gabrielle Bernstein say on YouTube. She advised that when you are overcome with fear and anxiety of the unknown to say this little prayer:
"I choose to see hope in this, and I'm open to creative possibilities."
I'm going to do just that (because I don't know what else to do).


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The federal deficit has topped $1 trillion with three months still to go in the budget year, showing the lasting impact of the recession on the government's finances.
In its monthly budget report, the Treasury Department said Tuesday that through the first nine months of this budget year, the deficit totals $1 trillion. That's down 7.6 percent from the $1.09 trillion deficit run up during the same period a year ago.
I did some thinking about what 1 trillion is. How can we grasp the size of this number. I took my calculator and started doing some lookups in Wikipedia. This is what I came up with to get a grasp on the number "1 trillion". I thought I share it with you.
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In a shocking development that I frankly hoped we'd never actually see, the Federal Reserve dropped a bombshell today and announced that it is going to create an extra $1 trillion dollars out of thin air to support the spending desires of the US government and to drive down interest rates for mortgage borrowers and savers.
Flat out the Federal Reserve said, as plain as can be, that they are going to be printing money directly to support the borrowing needs to the US government and US consumer. Below I explore this outrageous turn of events. Please note that I have not had much time to digest this incredible news and that I reserve the right to add to (or amend) my thinking over the next few days.
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All this talk about "stimulus packages" and "bailouts"...
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The news is full of stories of all the happy ATV riders flocking to Jericho Mountain State Park and lining Berlin's Main Street. But no one is hearing about the much different scene playing out at the Gorham OHRV trailhead.
The problem is simple. This trailhead brings off-highway recreational vehicle traffic, along with its noise, dust, and exhaust fumes, right into residential properties. One friend is in his home, windows shut, earplugs in, trying to pretend that hundreds of OHRVs are not revving past his home. Another neighbor is distraught because her mother was just diagnosed with cancer, and she realizes she has not had a summer family barbecue in their backyard for six years. Then there's the woman sick in bed for weeks with the windows to her formerly beautiful backyard shut, because it's no longer fresh summer air blowing in, but OHRV dust, exhaust and noise.
Our neighbors are leaving their homes most weekends of our short summer to find peace and quiet elsewhere. They have been talking to local and state officials for years, explaining that the ability to enjoy their own homes and property has been taken from them without due process. Picture hundreds of OHRVs driving down your street, through your neighborhood, past your yard in a day.
Is this what you would want?
It is against the law to own a rooster in Gorham. Abutter notification by certified letter along with a Zoning Board hearing and vote is required for a flock of chickens. "Fowl will not be a nuisance to any neighbors by means of odors or noise."
Why is the Ride the Wilds OHRV Trail not being held to this standard? We aren't the "Wilds." We are a community, on paper at least, that cares about noise and quality of life.
The Jericho Mountain State Park Riding Area Master Trail Development Plan, 2006 states, "in order to preserve some sense of solitude for riders we have attempted to keep trails a minimum of 500 feet apart from one another."
There is no 500-foot zone of solitude between this trail and the homes it passes. In fact, the trail is within 45 feet of multiple homes, not to mention their yards, gardens, picnic tables and swing sets. The opening of the Ride the Wilds Trail has turned neighbor against neighbor.
Do Gorham and the state of New Hampshire really value the privilege of ATV riding over the rights of tax-paying residents? It's past time to restore this neighborhood. Build a proper OHRV trailhead and welcome center away from our homes.
Abby Evankow lives in Gorham.
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Name - Joel Chang
Where are you from? - I am from Kingston Jamaica
Define your sound - I grew up listening to people like the Isley Brothers, The Temptations and Al Green just to name a few. Naturally because of this I love R&B and would define my sound as a blend of R&B and whatever else I choose to put into the mix.
How would you say you got started? - I originally started my musical journey playing the guitar. One day I was caught singing by my guitar teacher and that's where it got all crazy.
Tell us how you got to this position today: - I have gotten to where I am by just doing hard work and not listening to the discouraging things that I have heard.
Who are your favorite producers/engineers and why? - I love Dark Child who does a lot of music with one of my favourite artists Brandy. There is also Stargate and Timbaland who have done work with most of the top names in the business such as Neyo, Craig David (who is more famous everywhere else except America). Aliyah (R.I.P Baby girl), Chris Brown and Rihanna.
Define a "Good Studio" - A good studio is one that has internationally recognized standards when it comes to recording. Recording here in Jamaica you'll find a lot of people walking into and out of your session and that's really distracting.
what peices of gear do you have your eye on? - As a producer myself I have my eye on the Tera Pack from East West Quantum Leap. They have some of the best sounding VST's that I have ever heard !!!
when youu are making a track do you envision a certain artist or type of artist for the song or do you just go off of instinct? - I do both ways. Sometimes I make tracks for myself as I do a little singing and sometimes I imagine having Neyo, Chris Brown, Tamia, Rihanna or whoever else pops up in my head.
What are you currently working on and what can we expect to see? - Right now I am working on a Jingle for the new airline called Fly Jamaica. Other than that I am working with 2 young and upcoming singers so you can expect to hear singles from both of them.
Where do you see yourself in 5 Years? - In 5 years I see myself still in the studio making beats and writing songs but the difference is I would be a household name with production credits from the biggest R&B artists in the world and few grammy's on my wall.
where did the passion for music Form? - Ohh this is a tough question. I really don't know exactly where it came from. I guess its something that was always inside of me. Id say God put this passion inside me.
Tell us about one of the hardest challenges you had to face in the industry? - Getting that break. I still haven't seen the success that I want to see so im just going to keep working because hard work always pays off.
What would you say has been the high point of your career? - Ohh this one is easy. I won the grand prize for the John Lennon Song Writing competition in collaboration with my classmate Alina Aminova and her husband Ildar.
And where can others hear your work? - My work is all over the place but I pay attention to my youtube channel the most - www.youtube.com/globalbeatsinc
Anything Else before you go? - Yes I would like to say Big Up To RiddimWild for contacting me to do this interview. Also big up to my high school crew A.M.P, my Xfire crew, my F.I.U, UCC and UTECH crew, Parkview Supermarket, Better Bite Bakery and all the people who have supported me along the way especially my family and friends.


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You drank that gross orange stuff, suffered through the blood draws, and then got the call that you FAILED.
We've been there and are here to tell you, Gestational Diabetes is not the worst thing.
There will be days when all you want to do is make out with a pint of frozen custard and a cinnamon crunch bagel, but with a few tips and the help of your health care provider, you can do this!
The placenta is to blame for Gestational Diabetes: it's producing a cocktail of hormones that block the insulin the body is producing from doing its job. This causes the blood to carry excess sugar to the baby, which can make the baby really big and hard to deliver. Some health care professionals or the Internet may cite some terrifying risks to GD but try not to worry too much. You and your healthcare team can keep this in check and avoid those scary potential outcomes. GD is not like many other pregnancy complications where you have no control. With Gestational Diabetes, a few simple lifestyle tweaks, and mom and baby can come out smelling like roses (or like newborn babies because, swoon!).
What you will need:
A great doctor: We hope you love yours, because you will be seeing him or her a lot, especially for the last 6-8 weeks, when you will most likely be monitored twice a week.
A blood sugar monitor: the doctor will prescribe this to you, and you will check your blood sugar four times a day to make sure it is within a healthy range.
A tracking device: We recommend not only keeping track of what your blood sugar readings are (your health care team will require you to report these at least weekly to monitor your progress), but also exactly what you ate that gave you these numbers. This way, you know how well your body tolerates certain foods, you can stock up on yummy favorites that are "safe" foods, and you have an explanation for any crazy readings (hopefully). You can do this the old fashioned way with pen and notebook or, of course, there's an app for that! There are also several on the market to help with monitoring your intake and blood sugar levels. We paid the $9.99 for Diabetes and Blood Glucose Tracker by MyNetDiary. It tracks food and blood sugar levels and even has alerts when it's time to test. It has the basic carb count for most foods and also comes with a barcode scanner that works for everything we tested. Very convenient!
What to Expect From Your Provider:
You will speak with either a nurse practitioner or a dietician to get the lowdown on the diet they want you to follow. This diet is not as complicated as it might first appear. On the bright side, it puts you in a place to have an extremely healthy pregnancy, filled with all the good foods we pregnant women should be eating but might not always choose first when left to our own cravings (ahem….looking in the mirror).
Again, your healthcare team will require you to report your blood sugar readings at least once a week. From there, they may or may not prescribe some medicine to help manage your levels, depending on what your readings are.
Your doctor might monitor you more closely during the last trimester to make sure everything is going smoothly. These appointments can be extremely reassuring: twice a week, we are told everything is perfect, nothing to worry about. That's pretty cool.
They may want to deliver you at 39 weeks because of potential placental complications. It is what it is, right?
How to Manage Gestational Diabetes
Ask Lots of Questions: Ask the dietician, the nurse, your doctor, other moms who have had GD — there are lots of resources and no question is dumb. We don't normally recommend chat rooms or forums when it comes to health concerns, but in this instance, there was a lot of helpful information out there for GD newbies. It's a way to find other moms' 'real life' experiences, to know what they are eating, how they manage to eat out, what they do at dinner parties and BBQs, and what to expect.
Talk It Out: When Meg got the GD diagnosis the first time, she panicked and had an anxiety attack. She felt mad and guilty and worried. She stopped sleeping. She told her doctor how she was feeling and not only did she work to alleviate Meg's worry, she hooked Meg up with a psychologist in order to preempt any potential triggers for postpartum depression or anxiety. You are NOT alone in this and you did NOTHING wrong that made you get GD. Talk to people about how you feel. It will help a lot.
Seek Other Good Resources: There are some fantastic resources out there for Gestational Diabetes. Many sites pointed back to Lily Nichols, a dietician, nutritionist, and certified diabetes educator in California. She wrote a book called 'Real Food for Gestational Diabetes' and, while it does have a handful of recipes as you'd expect with a title like that, it's more helpful at explaining what GD is and how to manage it during pregnancy. It can be helpful in stopping blaming yourself (and the three-too- many bowls of Corn Pops we might have been eating on a fairly regular basis), understanding where the diabetes came from, and how one can control it without medicine.
Find New Favorite Foods: Did you know Noodles and Company makes delicious salads, as does Potbelly's and Panera? As long as you omit the rice, Qdoba and Chipotle burrito bowls are very kind to the blood sugar. Speaking of skipping rice, non-fried Chinese and Indian foods, both take-out or homemade, are blood sugar friendly choices. At home, cauliflower rice replaces white and brown rice beautifully in most dishes, and look at the caloric savings there! Kind Bars are a great snack on the go. Angelic Bakehouse products can work well as long as they are eaten very moderately. Halo Top Ice Cream is a lifesaver when you need a sweet fix. Breakfasts and snacks without cereal, milk, pancakes and maple syrup can be really hard, but it's amazing how the palate expands when it must. Cottage cheese with a sprinkle of cinnamon and a few strawberries on top is delicious, as is cottage cheese with a spoonful of pesto and some cherry tomatoes. Siggi's whole milk yogurt (a great protein source) with raspberries, a spoonful of pomegranate balsamic vinegar and a sprinkle of granola or almonds is divine! We found our levels would also stay on track with peanut butter filled pretzels (though just a handful), apples dipped in ground almond butter, and bacon-wrapped dates with a pinch of goat's cheese inside (yes please!) We plan on sticking with many of these newfound treats post-baby simply because we now love them, and they are healthful habits to help drop some baby weight.
Though let's be real, a large pizza WILL be delivered to the hospital and whether or not it will be shared is still in question.
Get a good pair of shoes: Exercise helps keep those blood sugar numbers where they should be as well! Even if you spent the first trimester curled in the fetal position on your couch, it's not too late to get up and get walking. Even 10-15 minutes after each meal helps!
We feel your pain in the gestational diabetes diagnosis. It sucks. But you've got this, Mama! It won't last forever, and when it's over, you will have a beautiful baby in your arms.


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Stunning as Trump's upset (and upsetting) capture of the White House was, prognosticators swung into immediate speculation about what it would mean for science and medicine. Note that speculation is pretty much all it is–or can be–at this point. That's because, while Trump's policy declarations have been sweeping and startling, they also utterly lack details.
Said Damien Garde at STAT: "[H]ere in the world of science and medicine, the election of Donald Trump has left many trying to make sense of the vagaries, reversals, and red herrings that have marked his rhetoric on key issues from research funding to drug pricing." Also at STAT, Sharon Begley dove a bit deeper into scientists' perplexity at those vagaries, reversals, and red herrings.
Brian Resnick interviewed several scientists, all of them worried, at Vox. At NatureNews, Lauren Morello rounded up tweets from dismayed scientists, including some who say they may leave the country.
Science's Jeff Mervis queried science policy types about who would end up as Trump's science advisor. But he quoted Arizona State's Robert Cook-Degan, an old Washington hand, as saying it may not matter. Why? "[B]ecause there won't be any 'policy' apparatus, but only traffic cops and damage control fire brigades. Science won't get much attention, except when it gets in the way or bolsters support for a political priority."
Except, possibly, for biotech and pharma (of which more below), the consensus seems to be that the election results are unlikely to turn out well for science and medicine.
The quintessential elephant in the room. This most important of topics arose only indirectly during the campaign, in declarations about energy policy. Climate change itself was almost never mentioned by either candidate, and no questions about it were asked by journalists.
To borrow Trump's favored locution, a disaster. Clinton had a forward-looking climate policy on paper. But for hopes of slowing down Earth's warming, Trump's election is unrelieved bad news. He has, for one thing, called the idea of global warming "bullshit" and has said that climate change is a hoax perpetrated by the Chinese.
The election was summed up at the climate-change denial site Watt's Up With That? via this jubilant hed: "In Trump, U.S. Puts a Climate Denier in Its Highest Office and All Climate Change Action in Limbo." Poster David Middleton crowed, "This is the best election aftermath I have ever seen."
"The billionaire climate skeptic has said he would not only disentangle the United States from the deal reached by nearly 200 countries last year near the French capital but also withdraw all funding from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and redirect climate programming funds to infrastructure projects," notes Climate Wire's Jean Chemnick in a post reprinted at SciAm.
Needless to say, these things will be more complicated than Trump declared during the campaign. Chemnick explains that countries wanting to withdraw from the Paris agreement must go through a four-year process, and there's a one-year process for leaving the UN climate change effort. Also, Trump may hesitate to withdraw because it could complicate dealing with world leaders to get other things he wants.
OTOH, says Paul Voosen at Science, there are practical forms of sabotage that are far more doable. One is failing to fund the $800 million yearly US commitment to help less developed nations cope with climate change. Given that all three branches of government are now under Republican control, with the purse strings in the hands of Congress, it's unlikely that money will be forthcoming.
ClimateWire's Robin Bravender is reporting that Trump has appointed Myron Ebell, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the conservative Competitive Enterprise Institute, as head of transition plans for EPA. "His participation in the EPA transition signals that the Trump team is looking to drastically reshape the climate policies the agency has pursued under the Obama administration," Bravender says.
Voosen says attempts to get rid of existing regulations such as fuel efficiency standards would end up in court. Regs not yet finalized would be more vulnerable to being blocked or watered down.
Ebell has said Obama's Clean Power Plan for greenhouse gases is illegal, and the plan is already in court. "Efforts by the Trump administration to change EPA's position would likely face more litigation, stretching out for many years. And even if the administration did find a way to stop the plan, the collapse of the coal market would likely continue, driven by the low price of natural gas, a competing fuel," Voosen notes.
"The most important thing scientists can do, however, is find a way to help Trump understand their pressing concerns about climate change," Voosen argues hopefully. He quotes Princeton geoscientist Michael Oppenheimer: "The community has a job to do here. It can't go off and sulk about the outcome of the election."
Everybody seems to agree that the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare, is dead in its current form. Still, on Wednesday, the day after the election, more people signed up for Obamacare than on any other day of the current open enrollment period, says Mary Ellen McIntire at Morning Consult. There seems to be some agreement that this insurance will continue in force at least through 2017.
Sarah Kliff outlines four ways the Republicans could dismantle Obamacare at Vox. At Covering Health, Joanne Kenen outlines some possible immediate actions that the new Trump administration could take after his Inauguration Day, January 20–for example, dropping the Obama administration's fight against a court challenge to the government subsidies that enable most ACA enrollees pay for health insurance premiums.
But Obamacare may not be completely dead in all forms. Repealing and replacing the ACA, one of Trump's most high-profile campaign promises, will be a lot more complicated than it appears from outside Washington. Julie Rovner walks us through some of the possibilities at Kaiser Health News. Also at KHN, Jay Hancock and Shefali Luthra say that the "replacement" will inevitably retain some features of Obamacare.
Nearly 16 million of those newly enrolled in medical insurance plans enrolled through Obamacare's funding of state Medicaid programs for the poor. It won't be just an easy matter of dumping poor people from the program, though, because that would also be a blast at people with political power, like doctors and hospitals, who need the ACA to pay for their services. Phil Galewitz explains some options at Kaiser Health News.
In addition to wrestling with Obamacare and facing the political prospect of suddenly depriving 22 million citizens–a number of whom probably voted for Trump–of their medical insurance, the new administration will have to deal quickly with several other medical policy issues. Julie Rovner outlines them at KHN.
Seven more states legalized cannabis, either for medical or "recreational" use. Weed is now legal in California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, while Arkansas, Florida and North Dakota approved it for medical use. At STAT, Ike Swetlitz tells residents of those states what they need to know.
Nevertheless, the pot industry is worried. Trump's anti-drug stance is well known. Marijuana Business Daily reports great uncertainty about what his election "means in terms of federal regulations and enforcement, with some fearing an eventual crackdown."
I assume the election results will also mean continued federal barriers to cannabis research. As I keep saying here at On Science Blogs–just last week, in fact–the US is engaging in a giant uncontrolled experiment on the population, and millions more subjects have just been added to the n. Scientifically speaking, we know little about the effects of weed, and next to nothing about whether it really works on medical conditions.
From Rebecca Robbins at STAT: "Biotech stocks rallied on the news that Republicans would control both the White House and Capitol Hill, buoyed by the perception that a ruby-red federal government won't take action to rein in high drug prices." Another bellwether: pharma spent a ton of money to defeat California's Prop 61, which would have lowered drug prices. It worked.
But even here there are many unsettling uncertainties. Jonathan Gardner explains some at Evaluate. Also, my guess is that lower drug prices would be hugely popular with Trump's voters. It's a interesting question whether he will be pursuing their interests when he actually has the power to do so. Much may depend on whether he will want to run for a second term in 2020.
Now there's a thought.
I'm wiped out, even though I ignored several topics. More next week perhaps, if there's more to say about an election where–for the second time in this still-young century–the person who got the most votes is not our new President.
But last word, on the demography of this election. There's an idea around that the election exposed a voting chasm between those who went to college and those who didn't. Aaron Zitner and Dante Chinni summarized the idea in the Wall Street Journal last month: "The clearest dividing line in this year's presidential election now falls along educational lines: Whites without a college degree have consolidated behind Donald Trump and those with a four-year degree are tending to back Hillary Clinton."
It's a common trope, one echoed by New York Times columnist David Brooks on the PBS Newshour on the Friday before the election. And he added another familiar trope: genetics. "[B]asically, less educated or high school-educated whites are going to Trump. It doesn't matter what the guy does. And college-educated going to Clinton. . .People are just going with their gene pool and whatever it is."
This suggests that Brooks believes that the electorate broke into anti- and pro-Trump voters on the basis of educational attainment and intelligence–and that these traits are partly genetic. That's a common trope too.
I probably don't need to remind you, however, that the precise contribution genes make to educational attainment and intelligence has been in raucous dispute for well over a century, and continues to be enormously controversial. Some people even still argue that genes are irrelevant.
That's not my position. But it seems to me the data are pretty clear that the election results are not explicable wholly on the basis of education and/or intelligence, whatever their genetic component.
The data suggest a different explanation. One that rests on a different characteristic. A trait that is incontrovertibly, irrefutably, unassailably , uncontroversially genetic.
Skin color.
Voting data are available several places; I'm using a table from Clare Malone's post at FiveThirtyEight. (See also Zack Beauchamp's Vox analysis of research by University of London researcher Eric Kaufmann on the racism of Trump's strongest white supporters.)
Yes, it's true that many white male college graduates were more likely to vote for Clinton than for Trump. But at only 39%, nowhere near a majority. And note that nearly one out of four (23%) non-college white men also supported Clinton. Which suggests to me that a college degree was not the most important factor.
Yes, it's true that non-college white men were solidly for Trump (72%)–but so were well over half (54%) of white men with college degrees.
Nor did Clinton do particularly well with white women. White non-college women, while somewhat more favorable to Clinton than men were, still gave a whopping majority (62%) of their votes to Trump. And white women with college degrees gave Clinton only a bare majority (51%).
So yes, education had some impact on white voting patterns. But it's a great mistake to view this as a "working class" revolt, a movement that was by and for the uneducated. Huge numbers of college graduates voted for Trump too.
It's absolutely clear that what really mattered was skin color. Let me stress again that white women were in no way overwhelmingly supportive of Hillary Clinton. She captured only 51% even of educated white women. A majority of white voters, nearly 60% and whatever their education, cast their ballots for Trump.
Please note: This means, whew, that more than 40% of whites did not succumb to this lack-of-melanin loyalty.
Yeah, lots of other issues were floating around and doubtless had some influence on white voting patterns: job loss, trade deals, party loyalty, sexism, whatever.
But at the root of these election results is a simple explanation that has also been at the root of most of Homo sap's most ruthless, vicious behavior for thousands of years: hegemony.
It was the rage of folks who have believed themselves superior to others for centuries but are now being (successfully) challenged. After eight years of a black President, a majority of American whites who voted were making a last stand, trying to beat back a tsunami of Those People.
As even they must know, it's a temporary victory. Let us hope it's not a horrendously costly one for us all.


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...and another thing... Having lived out on Redington Rd for over 4 years I witness EVERY weekend, not just one hour, the transgressions of cyclists. You mention, R. Serraglio, your personal observation of vehicles vs. bicycles, stating the motorists were, by far, the ones at fault. Come on over to my side of the world and watch the stupidity compound on any given weekend, especially when you ride two and more. When on roads with bike lanes, I have witnessed plenty of cyclists in the car lane, forcing a vehicle to swerve away from them. You need to lose the high and mighty attitude and judge reasonably what is actually going on with bicyclists. It's a two way street, some with bike lanes, stay in yours, I'll stay in mine.
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Four grants totaling more than $500,000 to help equip veterans with the skills they need to re-enter the workforce have been awarded by Accenture.
Hosted by the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, the company awarded a grant to support the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities, a summer program to provide disabled veterans with the skills needed to start their own businesses. This will help Krannert expand its enrollment by covering the costs for lodging, books and materials, meals, and travel for up to eight bootcamp participants. In addition, Accenture volunteers will provide training and education programming to help enhance negotiation and communications skills as well as provide ongoing mentoring and webinars following the bootcamp.
New Sector Alliance will get a grant that will support the expansion of New Sector's social change leadership training curriculum and fellowship programs to provide veterans with the skills they need to get jobs focused on social or environmental impact. The program will include skills-based curriculum development, technology platform development, training and fellowships. Accenture employees will volunteer as mentors, trainers, and career advisors, and also serve on an advisory committee of veterans and professionals to ensure the training is focused to veterans' needs.
Through the grant with American Corporate Partners, a mentoring program that helps veterans successfully jump from military careers into business, Accenture will provide 50 executives with military backgrounds to serve as mentors. Finally, working with Kauffman FastTrac, an affiliate of the Kauffman Foundation, Accenture will provide educational support and resources to nearly 300 veterans interested in starting and growing their own companies


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Tiger Woods restaurant set to open
The Woods Jupiter scheduled to open Monday
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Tiger Woods new restaurant is scheduled to open Monday
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"Quite interesting from what I could see its just a matter of knowing what's on the menu and give it a try," said Rodney Jones.
Construction is still going on at the restaurant.
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Hey, Passive Gun-Owners: Shut Your Mouths and Turn in Your Fire Arms!
Sounds like something you might hear from Diane Feinstein or Mayor Bloomberg if they were caught with a hot microphone, but it's not. It was the sentiment felt by legislators almost 400 years ago. History really does repeat.
We've all felt the ever tightening grip of our powers-that-be slowly restraining our freedom to bear arms. Many of us have had conversations as to what is the dream of the ant-gun folks? Is it really all guns being illegal? Would they really confiscate weapons from citizens? Many pro-gun folks think that could never happen here. Some scoff, no way in you-know-what would our government take our guns. It's just a political argument to garner power, not a real possibility…really?
What if I told you it's already happened here? What if I told you it could easily happen again? This is not a new idea. The reason our founders put the Second Amendment in the Constitution was they had historical precedence that governments most certainly do want to disarm their citizenry … that's when they become subjects. Here's a little Early-American history for you … these following events were part of what became known as the Anne Hutchinson Scandals…
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Two nominations for the Southampton Mustangs
Congratulations to our 2016 NBL Championship-winning side who have been nominated in the Team of the Year category.
Also nominated is our third baseman Maikel Azcuy-Perez who's nominated in the Senior Sportsperson category.
Organised by the Eastleigh Sport and Physical Activity Alliance (SPAA) the awards showcase and celebrate some of the fantastic achievements by Eastleigh's talented athletes, dedicated players, teams, volunteers and officials in 2016.
It's already been an incredible twelve months for the club as we look to build on our success both on and off the field.
Good luck to all the nominees from across the borough and… Go Mustangs!
The second annual Eastleigh Sports Awards take place at the Hilton Ageas Bowl on Monday, February 13th 2017.


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Hello folks. I am back from my unauthorized absenteeism from the blog :-)
My sincere apologies for the same.
You know folks, when we look back at our own lives,we feel strange and surprised that how things changed around us.
With rapid developments in electronics and computer technologies, we have everything at our fingertips. No debates on this.
Lifestyle has changed. Our definition of "Comfort" has changed. What we used to say "Comfortable" 5 years ago is now no more the same. We rather say its "Outdated" or to be more technical…"Old Version".
Every now and then new models are being introduced, whether its car or television or bikes or laptops. Not to forget, aggressively marketed and people "Upgrade" their existing equipment to "Latest" version.
I think its time to reveal the fact that why I started to write this blog or what is the purpose of this article. Actually I already started sharing the purpose. It's all about so called "Upgrade". It's about so called "Latest Version"
Folks, have we ever asked a question to ourselves, what actually makes us happy?
Have we ever noticed that why we run behind materialized things thinking that it gives us happiness?
Have we ever stopped getting tempted when we noticed a latest version gadget?
Where I am going with this article? Let me simplify.
We are heading towards an addiction which I would like to name as Virtual Happiness.
That means, we are creating an illusion of happiness which is not only momentarily but also comes at a (high) cost.
We buy latest gadget thinking that it makes us happy. It does make us happy only until next version arrives.
Again, we run behind getting that version.
Have you ever noticed that happiness you are experiencing by upgrading your gadget to new version, fades down within months and you start regretting that why did you buy this as a new version has arrived already. Is not this true?
What I am saying doesn't just apply to gadgets; it applies to your cars, your laptops it applies to many things.
Time has changed, technology has changed. Lifestyles have changed. But the source of happiness has not changed. We are creating a new virtual happiness and thus by masking the real happiness.
So when do we actually experience real happiness then?
Happiness lies in creating.
Have you ever done a painting of your own?
Have you ever given an advice to aspiring student?
Have you ever composed your own music song?
Have you created your own new software product which actually can solve many people's problems?
Have you ever created something new which never existed before?
How did you feel when you did any of these things? I am sure it's a more fulfilling and long lasting happiness feeling.
I must say that these things need time, take time but its worth because it is created by you. It's your own creative child.
I recall a famous saying "Happiness lies in small things".
What we used to do when mobiles were not invented?
How we used to feel happy when motion gaming never born?
Why we were so healthy when nobody had even heard of treadmills.
Were we not happy and content that time?
We were. Probably more than what we are right now.
So. Folks. It's time to slow down a little in your life.
Its time to regain that real happiness.
It's time to stop that carried away feeling when you see the latest version of your favorite gadget.
It's time to take your painting brush and canvas.
It's time to switch off your television and go for a walk and hear the sound of real birds.
It's time to stop changing your desktop wallpaper and go out and smell the fresh flower and enjoy its creation.
It's time to stop playing 3d games and go to the nearest playground and awaken child in you by playing a real game and becoming healthy.
It's time to stop being virtual.
It's time to get real.
It's time to go back to old version of life.
It's time to create something new.
Have a real evening.
I am here posting my own poem which I wrote several years ago.
A lost soul
Man created machines for his own use
In turn, machines turned him of no use
Discoveries take place every new morning
Who cares about nature's warning?
Natural things have come to a standstill
Everyone thinks now digital
Man calls himself as independent
In real, he is now machine dependent
In the forest of machines…
On a gifted planet called earth
A search has begun
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As brands continue to pour more dollars into social media, one of the most effective opportunities for targeted messaging, engagement, and intelligence continues to be live events. At Earshot, we have seen engagement rates and share rates more than triple for brands that are able to effectively message event attendees "in the moment" or retarget them post-event.
Whether it's a concert, sporting event, or business conference, marketers have a unique opportunity to extend their reach and create a more lasting impression with attendees through social media. Event-goers are a captive audience, most are active on social, and as a result, it opens up a natural communication channel between brands and relevant attendees when done properly.
If you are not doing event-based social media marketing already, here are 4 ways to consider getting immediate value from live events through social:
1.Surprise & Delight
One of the tried and true ways to capture earned media is to find relevant influencers who will share a unique brand experience to their audience of followers. The key is finding the right person – the "needle in the haystack" at these events – and providing the right "delight" so they are inspired to share. Upgraded seats, free gear, or backstage access all create instant brand affinity and amplify the reach of the brand beyond the event to those following this person on social media. By using the proper tools to surface and engage quickly, marketers can now surprise & delight in seconds at hundreds of events every year.
2. Intelligence and Insights
Diving deeper into the profiles and opinions of attendees can reveal invaluable clues for marketers. From creating lookalike audiences for paid campaigns to understanding key insights and sentiment about the brand from attendees, the data that is accessible through attendees is incredibly powerful. Moreover, it doesn't always require sponsorship to deliver valuable intelligence. Brands can now listen effectively through social to any events relevant to them and their target demographic as it will reveal needs, wants, and interests that might be otherwise missed. Connecting the clues that can only be found on social media (e.g. most common handles followed by attendees) can provide important insights and make other marketing investments more valuable.
3. Influencer Discovery
As brands connect themselves to the experience at events through signage, give-ways, and other promotions, the ability to find and connect with new influencers is a powerful way to extend reach. These are attendees with strong, positive emotions who are likely to think of the brand in a positive light in the moment. Using clues like logo detection and share probability can help brands leverage these influencers both during the event and well after it has concluded.
4. Retargeting
By capturing new audiences and re-targeting them with paid content relevant to the event itself (e.g. playlist, results, photos, etc.) brands can drive much higher engagement and allow for more genuine content. For scale, marketers can use the insights found with these audiences to create unique lookalikes that take new data into account such as geographic, bio, or demographic data of that audience.
Live events create a natural environment for brands to strengthen their relationship with consumers through social media. Beyond traditional sponsorship, signage, and promotion, the ability to become part of the conversation at events humanizes the brand and creates trust and a deeper connection with the audience. This translates into brand loyalty and ultimately, better ROI from these event-based use cases.
David Rush (@davidmrush) is the Founder and CEO of Earshot, a social media marketing platform that enables brands to discover, prioritize, and engage customers in real-time. Learn more about Earshot at earshotinc.com and follow us on Twitter @earshotinc.


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Eight Tips on Perfecting a Business Pitch
8 Tips on Perfecting a Business Pitch.
Whether we like it or not we are constantly pitching our businesses and ourselves. Your pitching could be at a networking event, on social media or in more formal ways, such as a meeting with investors or customers.
This pitch can least from 140 characters (think Twitter) or it could be as long as an hour. If you listen to a TED talk all their presenters have 18 minutes to talk. Which has been thought to be the ideal length of time to get your message across and keep your audience engaged.
So what makes a high quality pitch? Doing some research on line I've come up with these following points:
Have a hook; for example; In this room we have 20 small businesses. Statistics show that half of all small businesses fail in the first year. Who wants to be one of those businesses?
Get some interaction – for example; Who in this room is in their first year of business? Raise your hand.
What do you do and what do you specialise in? For example; I specialise in working with pre-start and early stage entrepreneurs to ensure that they grow their business to a stage where they can support themselves and their business, businesses usually up to three years old.
Think WIIFM – I heard it described as 'get them tuning in to Radio WII FM!' – or 'wiifum' – the acronym stands for What's In It For Me? If you are not telling them what is in it for them why would they buy from you or invest in you? What problem are you solving for them? Make sure you evidence the WIIFM.
Avoid jargon and acronyms. Need I go into why?
Prepare, Practise, Passion – the 3 P's of Pitching. – the more you practice the more you will be 'pitch perfect'. You don't want to be stumbling through your pitch or through the questions that they may ask you. Watch some pitches on You Tube to see how to and how not to pitch. Practice in front of someone who will give you honest and constructive feedback. In your preparation, make sure you think carefully about what you are wearing. Do you look smart and investable / buyable? Are you wearing comfy shoes if you are going to be on your feet for a while? And make sure you get your passion across. If you aren't passionate about what you do, how can you make anyone else be passionate?
Visuals. Do they really enhance your pitch? Do they add value and gravitas? Visuals don't need to be a 'Powerpoint', they could be your product or they could be something else. The important thing here is that they add to what you are saying and don't detract from it.
Have an ask. What is your call to action? If you are not asking, then why are you pitching? For example: "What I am looking for is people who want to trial my amazing product. I've demonstrated how you will gain from it, what the value proposition is. Now I want you to join me. On each of your seats is a card and a pen. (Show them!), I want each of you to fill out the card with your name and email address and I will book you in for our free trial" Equally you may be asking for finance, if you are pitching to a group of investors. Remember to ask for the money. If you are pitching for a sale or contract, ask for the contract or to move it on to the next stage.
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United Health Foundation donates $50,000 to Teen Challenge
BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – What began as teenage experimentation with smoking cigarettes eventually led Mike Stewart into a downward spiral with a life out of control, fueled by drugs and alcohol. He flunked out of college, was unemployed, and looking at becoming homeless. He'd lost his friends; his family didn't know how to help.
Fast forward 16 years -- Mike Stewart now directs Northern Appalachian Teen Challenge and is working on bringing a new facility to the Clarksburg area. He's been there, done that, and can relate better than anyone who's in what used to be his shoes.
After entering and even completing many programs, his turnaround began when he discovered Teen Challenge, which for more than 50 years has offered Christ-centered, biblically based ministries to help people with life-controlling problems.
The work — and success — of Teen Challenge has so impressed United Health Foundation that it has donated $50,000 to the local Teen Challenge. As Bridgeport physician Jonathan Stanley, D.O., infectious diseases, explained, West Virginia faces a statewide epidemic in illicit drug abuse, making the work of Teen Challenge especially relevant.
United Hospital Center takes care of young addicted adults with life-threatening illnesses due to their habit. Now that Teen Challenge is in the area, it will offer a discharge plan after hospitalization, with a chance to cure the underlying opioid addiction. These patients often need long term antibiotics and cannot be discharged.
"Specifically, the increase of intravenous drug abuse has led to so many new cases of both Hepatitis B and C that West Virginia nearly leads the nation in new diagnoses. This epidemic has also led to increases in life-threatening infections resulting in prolonged hospitalizations and even death. Northern Appalachian Teen Challenge will give people healthy avenues to get the help they need," Dr. Stanley said.
Through Teen Challenge, Stewart learned he couldn't do things on his own.
"That first week I lay awake in my bunk and thought about my life," Stewart said of joining the faith-based program. "I remember how it felt like I was being scrubbed from the inside out."
Stewart went through the year-long program, which centered on following Christ and changing his life, and he hasn't touched drugs or alcohol since.
The Bridgeport native graduated from the program and went to college, working toward a degree in business marketing when he felt a calling to go into the ministry. He joined Northern Appalachian Teen Challenge in 2009 as executive director and is looking to open the Clarksburg center hopefully this year debt-free, serving up to 22 boys ages 12 to 17.
Now he finds joy helping others who are going through the same thing he did.
"I'm an open book. I share where I was and where my life has taken me today and what's caused that change," said Stewart, who speaks at schools and churches.
For more information on Northern Appalachian Teen Challenge, call 304-933-3209 or go to http://wvteenchallenge.com.
Photo caption: Pictured left is Mike Tillman, CEO of United Hospital Center; Ted Lopez, board member of United Health Foundation; Mike Stewart, director of Northern Appalachian Teen Challenge; and Tom Gorrell, chairman and board member of United Health Foundation.


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As states across America adopt more lenient marijuana laws, area employers may want to pre-emptively set their own pot policies before things become hazy.
Melissa Sabus — director of drug and occupation health screening with HR Plus, based in Chicago — said Pennsylvania businesses should draft bylaws addressing marijuana use in case state or federal laws are amended.
"They should be adding it in their policy," she said. "We're certainly seeing momentum with these kinds of (legalization and decriminalization) laws being passed. We really expect that to continue."
Making recent national headlines were referendums in Colorado and Washington state, where a majority of voters supported legalizing marijuana for both medicinal and recreational use. Adults in these states are now permitted to smoke or ingest the plant as long as they are not operating a vehicle or machinery.
Closer to home, however, states in the Northeast have also taken a softer stance on pot. With the exception of West Virginia, all of Pennsylvania's neighboring states — Ohio, New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland — are less strict regarding the drug.
New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland provide varying degrees of protection to those who use marijuana for a medical condition. Both Ohio and New York have nixed jail time as a punishment for possessing small amounts of pot.
"There are a few considerations for employers in Pennsylvania," said Sabus, a certified substance abuse program administrator with 14 years of industry experience. "Knowing that it may be (coming) down the road, it's something to start thinking about."
According to Sabus, companies with locations in multiple states should adopt a uniform policy for all employees. She noted that occupations governed by federal drug testing guidelines — such as employees of the Department of Transportation — are not protected by states with more liberal marijuana laws.
"That's the rule: Federal law trumps state law," she said.
Sabus added that her home state of Colorado included language in its legalization bill specifically stating that private businesses do not have to permit the use of marijuana by employees.
"The point is that state law verbiage varies from state to state," she said. "It is the employer that needs to be looking at being clear in their workplace policy. That's really the best practice at this point."
Although Pennsylvania hasn't passed legislation allowing the use or possession of marijuana, it isn't for lack of trying on the part of state Sen. Daylin Leach, a Democrat representing Montgomery and Delaware.
Leach has introduced multiple bills legalizing marijuana, including one that would allow adults to use it recreationally. He said even conservative estimates indicate that the state government would generate approximately $24 million in revenue per year by taxing the plant.
"We have spent billions of dollars investigating, prosecuting, incarcerating and monitoring millions of our fellow citizens who have hurt no one, damaged no property, breached no peace," Leach stated in a January press release. "Their only 'crime' was smoking a plant which made them feel a bit giddy."
His fellow legislators, however, don't seem as giddy about passing his proposed amendments.
State Rep. Carl Walker Metzgar, R-Allegheny Township, said he isn't aware of a strong push to approve Leach's bills.
"It hasn't gotten any traction," he said. "It seems that the will in most districts has been to (keep the status quo)."
Metzgar did not offer a personal opinion on the subject.


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David Hockney: Five Double Portraits is a double celebration, marking the return to Britain of one of our most globally successful artists, and the discovery of (for him) a new medium - watercolour. Relishing the possibilities and restrictions of watercolour, these portraits are large (almost 4ft high), produced in a single six or seven hour sitting, with no preparatory sketches, and no possibility of over painted alterations. The centrepiece is a portrait of the Glyndebourne impresario Sir George Christie and his wife, commissioned by the gallery, which proved the catalyst for Hockney's interest in the medium, and produced a burst of creativity. National Portrait Gallery until 29th June.
Painting On Paper continues David Hockney's new enthusiasm for watercolour, with large scale, vividly coloured landscapes, painted on multiple sheets of paper, executed during visits to Norway and Iceland last summer. These have the qualities we expect of a Hockney painting, but which are rarely seen in watercolours. They are shown alongside line drawings and studies of bonsai trees, and a dozen more portraits. Typical of Hockney to rush to explore his new found medium with all kinds of subjects. Annely Juda Fine Art, 23 Dering Street, London W1 until1st March.
Paradise explores ways in which artists have reinterpreted the visible world to create images of paradise itself, to recall a lost Golden Age or a longed for future, or to show the world transformed and idealised. At the centre is Brueghel's The Garden Of Eden, imagined as a menagerie in which leopards lie down with guinea-pigs and parrots fly above penguins. Religious images include Benozzo Gozzoli's Virgin And Child With Angels, set in a heavenly garden recalling the lost Eden, and Friedrich's visionary Winter Landscape. The pastoral poetry of the ancient Greeks, revived in the Renaissance, is represented by Claude Lorrain in Landscape With Narcissus And Echo; the shepherds, nymphs and satyrs depicted by Poussin in A Bacchanalian Revel Before A Term Of Pan also derive from classical descriptions of a lost Arcadia; while Constable's The Cornfield presents a quintessentially English Golden Age. From among the 19th and 20th century artists who looked beyond these traditions in their search for the perfect world, are works by Gauguin, who sought Paradise in Tahiti and the islands the South Pacific, and Monet, who retreated from the world to the Eden of his water garden at Giverny. This is the second in a series of touring exhibitions organised by the National Gallery in association with regional partners. Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery until 30th March.
Working Water: Roman Technology In Action is a full scale reconstruction of a 2000 year old water lifting machine. The sophisticated Roman mechanism - possibly the earliest example of mechanical engineering in Britain - was uncovered in Gresham Street, in the City of London, in September 2001. However, key elements were missing, and there were no written instructions about its design or operation. By comparing evidence from the surviving remains with known examples of ancient engineering, and supporting these with modern engineering principles, experts have been able to reconstruct a unique machine, which in its original form would have been capable of raising an astonishing 72,000 litres (15,000 gallons) per 10 hour day. The completed machinery consists of an 8 sided oak drive wheel, with water buckets jointed together to form a continuous loop, that empty into a trough as they near the top of the chain. The 18 oak buckets are made from planks with a recessed base to allow room for the articulated movement of an iron chain. This reconstruction, on view outdoors, has been made with a capstan and gears, and is being operated by a trained demonstrator assisted by members of the general public. Museum Of London until 31st May.
Unseen Vogue: The Secret History Of Fashion Photography has been produced by sifting through over one and a half million unused images in the archive of the fashion bible British Vogue. From first efforts by famous photographers and great pictures by forgotten ones, to out-takes from now legendary shoots, it reveals images which were commissioned by Vogue but never published, either due to editorial arguments or 'excess of imagination' on the part of the snappers. Either way, this collection offers an alternative version to the official history of fashion photography. It features previously unseen work by such legends as Horst, Cecil Beaton, William Klein, David Bailey, Guy Bourdin, Helmut Newton, Bob Richardson, Bruce Weber, Steven Meisel, Nick Knight and current hottie Mario Testino (although surely the world has seen even his holiday snaps). The photographs are given an extra dimension by the inclusion of editors' notes and sketches, photographers' letters, and even models' payslips. A fresh insight into a world about which we thought we already knew too much. Design Museum until 23rd February.
Barbara Hepworth Centenary Exhibition is the first of many planned to mark the anniversary of the birth of one of the twentieth century's most important and influential sculptors. Hepworth's first love was carving, and although her early work in stone was representational, she soon moved on to abstracts, using woods such as walnut, teak and guarea, and stones such as marble and alabaster. Together with her second husband Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore, Hepworth was at the centre of a group of British sculptors living in Hampstead, who created a revolutionary new approach to European abstract sculpture of the 1930s. At the outbreak of the Second World War, Hepworth and Nicholson moved to St Ives in Cornwall, where she developed a deep affinity with the location. In the 1950s she started working with metal, constructing forms in sheet metal, and bronze casts from her original carvings. As a result, Hepworth's sculpture could be shown out of doors, and she went on to undertake many large scale public commissions, often exhibiting her trademark 'big lump with a hole drilled through it (usually larger on one face of the material than the other)'. This exhibition shows the full range of her work, with marble carvings in the gallery, and large bronzes outdoors in the park. New Art Centre Sculpture Park & Gallery, Salisbury until 6th April.
Piranesi's Carceri is an exhibition of Giovanni Battista Piranesi's celebrated Imaginary Prisons series of etchings. These images of dark cavernous spaces traversed by vertiginous walkways have a nightmarish quality that gripped the imagination of Romantic artists like William Wordsworth and Thomas de Quincey. The influence of these works can still be felt in today's cinematic visions of dystopian cities of the future. In essence, Piranesi was creating the world of Blade Runner in the 18th century. Perhaps best known for his etchings of ancient and modern Rome, Piranesi also opened up new vistas in the world of fantasy architecture, breaking loose from practical restraints to allow his imagination free rein. Piranesi's architectural fantasies developed out of his early training as a theatrical designer in his native Venice, but he invested the genre with a dark brooding menace that was entirely new. Despite being 200 years old, these images remain freshly, almost futuristically, threatening. British Museum until 21st April.
Marcus Gheeraets II: Elizabethan Artist is the first solo exhibition to consider the work of this important but little known late Elizabethan and Jacobean immigrant Flemish artist. This is all the more surprising since Gheeraets produced some of the most haunting portraits in British art, and defined the public images of many of the leading Britons of his age. Gheeraerts depicted his male subjects as heroes, often in the increasingly fashionable full length format, as in that of Elizabeth I's final favourite, Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. Although his father is best known for a portrait of Elizabeth I (also included here), the younger Gheeraets legacy is the 'pregnancy portrait' - depicting women who are clearly (even exaggeratedly) pregnant. It was an age when a wife's role was to bear many healthy children to extend a family's name and influence, yet childbirth was so hazardous, that these portraits were commissioned to record the features of a loved one who might shortly be dead. The exhibition includes the exceptional 'Portrait Of An Unknown Lady', which has not been exhibited for more than thirty years; Captain Thomas Lee, also known as 'the man with bare legs'; and over twenty other works, including paintings, engravings and portrait miniatures, together with 16th century illustrated medical books, and a 'mother's legacy' book, written for her unborn child were she did not survive childbirth, the author of which sadly did not. Tate Britain until 20th April.
The Jane Austen Centre recently added an unusual new portrait of Austen to its display. It was painted by Melissa Dring, who as well as being a portraitist, is a forensic artist, and works with police forces producing reconstructions and court illustrations. She has used her experience in this field to create a likeness of Austen based on contemporary first hand descriptions by her family and friends. Most images of Jane Austen have been developed from the 1810 watercolour by her sister Cassandra, which is generally held not to have been a good likeness. Perhaps this new portrait is the closest to real life yet created. The permanent exhibition tells the story of Austen's life in Bath, and the effect it had on her, and her writing. It is located in a Georgian town house in the street where Austen lived 1805, set between the architectural masterpieces of Queen Square and the Circus. The novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are largely set in the city, and Bath features in all six her of her works. The Jane Austen Centre continuing.
Magic Pencil - Children's Book Illustration Today is a display of more than 300 paintings and drawings for children, by thirteen of Britain's best known contemporary illustrators. Mythological monsters, spooks and fairytale princesses leap out of the pages in a wide range of colours and styles. These encompass Angela Barrett's fantasy visions, Sara Fanelli's collages, Raymond Briggs and Posy Simonds more adult worlds, and modern classics by Quentin Blake and Tony Ross. The exhibition considers what moves an artist to draw, if children's book illustration is really art, and how we learn to 'read' pictures. Each artist is assessed individually, revealing how and why they work, with examples of their different approaches, techniques and draughtsmanship. The exhibition also examines how today's illustrators reflect contemporary concerns, often through subject matter not always associated with children's books. This current work is placed in the context of the long tradition of British children's book illustration through examples of books from the past 300 years from the permanent collection. The British Library until 31st March.
Rewind provides an opportunity to revisit favourite television commercials, press and poster advertising campaigns, graphics and packaging from the sixties to the present, as well as study more recent examples of product, interactive and environmental design. In 1962, a group of designers and advertising art directors working in London joined forces to create a new organisation, British Design & Art Direction (D&AD). Since then, D&AD's annual award scheme has become an international barometer of changing trends. This exhibition shows winning work from the awards, rewinding across four decades to chart developments in design and advertising through a wide range of disciplines. From 'Beanz Meanz Heinz', through the Guinness 'Surfer' commercial, to the Apple iMac, this major retrospective, reflects the rise of Britain's creative industries. It also shows how design and advertising have become an integral part of the fabric of the world economy - and a reflection of the times in which we live. There is a People's Vote to chose the public's favourite campaign from the 43 Gold Award winners on show, which can be found on the V&A web site via the link opposite. Victoria & Albert Museum until 2nd February.
Star Trek - The Adventure is a £24m 'multi-media interactive experience through four decades of Star Trek adventures, where stars, creators and state of the art technology will come together to reveal the secrets of the creative process'. The show is receiving its world premiere in a 7,000 sq metre 'hi-tech climate controlled environment' (that's tent to you and me) in Hyde Park - the biggest event to be staged there since the Great Exhibition of 1851. The extravaganza (at last something which actually deserves the word) offers the first chance for civilians to experience the interiors of various generations of the Enterprise at first hand, including a red alert on the bridge; the transporter room, where they can experience being 'beamed up'; and the engineering bay with the latest technology, together with hundreds of props, costumes and artifacts, and interactive demonstrations and simulators. Last (and by no means least) there is more merchandising on offer than you would think possible in one universe. "It's an exhibition Jim, but not as we know it." Entertainment crosses the final frontier. Star Trek - The Adventure, Speakers Corner, Hyde Park until 31st January.
Somerset House Courtyard Ice Rink, is now as regular a Christmas feature in London as the Holiday Season outdoor skating arena at the Rockefeller Center in New York (although the skating is possibly not as stylish). The rink, which at 9000sqm is larger than ever and capable of accommodating some 2000 skaters a day, has been installed in the courtyard at a cost of around £300,000. It is open from 10am to 10pm, and as darkness falls the courtyard is illuminated by flaming torches and architectural lighting on the building's 18th century facades. A 40ft Christmas tree donated by the city of Basel has been erected at the north end of the courtyard. Both skaters and spectators can enjoy traditional hot snacks and drinks in the rinkside cafe. Tuition is available for beginners and ice guides can accompany inexperienced skaters. The rink is open throughout the Christmas and New Year period, closing only on Christmas Day. Somerset House until 26th January.


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Retro-bolting at Kaputar
Since the first climbs were done in Mount Kaputar National Park in the 1960s, it has been a predominantly trad climbing area. Until about ten years ago, most of the hundreds of established climbs were protected entirely with natural gear. A small number of climbs had one or two bolts, and a few independent, fully bolt-protected climbs had been done. The 80m north face of The Governor has been regarded as one of the premier trad crags in Australia, with more than 80 multi-pitch climbs, many of very high quality, mostly established in ground-up style and with only a few bolts in total (and often at the technical limit of the climbers).
Since about 2005, more bolt-protected climbs have been established, particularly on Euglah and then Mt Lindesay, then The Governor. At first these were independent of established trad climbs and on otherwise unprotectable rock. But over the past few years other climbers have been retro-bolting over the top of existing climbs. This practice began on Mt Lindesay and then extended onto the Governor.
On Lindesay, about 200 bolts were placed, most of which retro-bolt or impact on at least 20 existing climbs. Bolts were very close together and some bolted lines were only one metre apart. Many bolts were placed beside good placements for removable gear. Numerous chains were also installed at the cliff-top, and the climb grades were painted in large letters along the bottom. Some of the bolts were found to be dangerous – either glue-ins on which the glue never cured (and which pulled out by hand) or dangerously short 'studs'.
These were not assessable without removing them. Some of the retro-bolted Lindesay climbs are on the bold side, while others are very well protected with natural gear.
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On The Governor, at least 60 bolts were been placed which either retro-bolt existing climbs, or squeeze up very close to them. Natural lines on The Governor's columnar structure tend be only a couple of metres apart, so any new bolted climbs will impact on adjacent trad routes. Eight climbs have been impacted, including the popular moderate classic Clandestiny, and it's start that gives access to five other climbs. Additional chain anchors have been installed at the cliff-top. Some of the new Governor bolts have also been found to be dangerous, including a chain anchor with un-cured glue.
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The retro-bolting on both Mt Lindesay and The Governor was visually intrusive, using large stainless ring bolts or shiny stainless brackets.
The people who have done this retro-bolting are not known to have consulted with first ascensionists, other Kaputar climbers or NPWS. Some first ascensionists and other climbers are angry.
A number of climbers who love the special qualities of Kaputar climbing became very concerned about this trend and joined together to take action. The objectives are to restore The Governor to a premier trad-only crag (i.e. no sport routes), and to remove impacts on pre-existing routes on Mt Lindesay (retro-bolting etc). Most of the offending new bolts have now been removed and patched on both cliffs and the remainder will be removed shortly. Painted grades have been cleaned off. This has taken lot of work, time and expense by a bunch of people. If any of the bolts removed from these climbs are replaced, they will also be removed. Any new retro-bolting will also be removed.
Why have we taken this action?
Because we believe the following:
Trad climbing at Kaputar
Trad climbing at Kaputar requires judgment and skill. Important skills include route-finding, down-climbing (when necessary) and finding and using natural gear placements - which are often small wires or cams/nuts in unexpected places. Kaputar is a good place to learn and apply these skills because it offers trad climbs at a wide range of grades.
Protection is often very good but not always obvious from below. Poor protection is usually mentioned in route descriptions, and/or allowed for in the grading (i.e. increased grade for poor protection). Bold routes on Mt Lindesay can be easily top-roped. Route descriptions on thecrag.com will be amended where necessary to assist safe climbing on climbs that were previously retro-bolted. But climbers should always be wary of attempting trad climbs that are close to the limit of their ability.
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Cornell University is located in New York, New York. They have proudly represented the Metropolitan Conference three times at the national level (1990, 2000, and 2014). Note: We are still in the process of establishing their placement in the 1990 competition.
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Proceedings, Debates of the U.S. Congress
April 25, 2013
113th Congress, 1st Session
Issue: Vol. 159, No. 58 — Daily Edition
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[Extensions of Remarks] [Page E553] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] PERSONAL EXPLANATION ______ HON. LUCILLE ROYBAL-ALLARD of california in the house of representatives Thursday, April 25, 2013 Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Speaker, I inadvertently missed one of the three rollcall votes on Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Had I been present, I would have voted in this manner: Rollcall vote No. 122--On agreeing to the Rule Resolution, H. Res. 175, Providing for consideration of H.R. 1549, Helping Sick Americans Now Act--``no.'' ____________________