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Garrett's Blog: Spring Thunderstorm Risk
It only takes a few minutes outside to know we're in the spring storm season. Warm, humid air has surged across much of the south with widespread rains in the forecast tonight and Wednesday (April 10).
The risk of severe weather is minimal due to a strong capping inversion aloft and the shallow Arctic nature of the cold front out west. Despite incredible surface heating the risk of a tornado outbreak does not exist. Typically, the first severe risk of the spring season generates plenty of talk and hype but there are several factors which favor a rain/temperature plunge type of event as opposed to a full-blown severe weather episode.
Here's what's working for… and against… severe storm development:
Our main concern has been a lone or isolated supercell developing ahead of the cold front. Although that looks unlikely given the current environment, the strong surface heating could force a storm or two through the warmer capping inversion giving way to a severe supercell and tornado risk.
The capping inversion is a layer of warmer air above our heads. Today, it's located around 7,400ft. If you go outside and look at the cumulus clouds you'll see their tops are leveled off at this inversion. If surface heating is warm enough, sometimes it can push through the inversion with supercells and tornadoes developing. If this occurs today in our area it would be the exception but it would cause a rapid tornado risk. The upper level winds do not favor long track tornadoes. Essentially, if a storm developed, the colder air produced by the rain and the evaporation would cause the updraft to be choked off fast. The window for a supercell and tornado is rather small. Not 0%, but very limited.
The second negating factor for severe storms is the shallow nature of the Arctic airmass which will actually cause freezing rain in central Oklahoma tonight. The shallow cold air will be sucked into the updraft of thunderstorms creating storms that eventually transition from a surface-based tornado threat to an elevated-based hail/wind theat. In fact, hail is quickly becoming the most likely severe risk with this event. Probably in the neighborhood of quarter to half-dollar with the strongest storms. The timing would be late tonight and towards morning.
Regardless, there's plenty of heat and moisture across our area and there will be plenty of thunderstorms across the entire region overnight and into Wednesday morning. Wednesday looks like a rainy, chilly day with temperatures falling into the 50s and lows in the upcoming nights in the 30s. Rainfall totals will be around an inch or more and rain may not clear the area until around 5 or 6pm on Wednesday.
Plan on dressing the kids back in the jackets and jeans again on Wednesday and even Thursday morning. The warmer trend will take place into the weekend, but it looks like yet another chance for rain could move into the picture on Saturday.


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Travel Resources
Hey, fellow Explorers! Over the years, I have turned to various resources for my trip planning over and over. Now, I want to share them with you. You'll not only save money, but also your sanity. Whether you're planning a trip to Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland, Shanghai Disneyland, or maybe all three, there's sure to be something here you'll find useful.
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This is my favourite website for initial flight prices. The best part is the easy way to set up alerts for the dates you select for your trip.
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Hong Kong Express
If you're flying from Tokyo to Hong Kong, this is my preferred airline. They often have sales and you can sometimes get a roundtrip for around ¥10,000 (~$90 USD).
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Disney & Travel Blogs
Disney Tourist Blog
One of the best Disney Blogs out there. If you're planning a trip to any of the Disney Parks (Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, etc), he's the one you want to turn to.
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An extension of the Disney Tourist Blog is his blog that is about non-Disney destinations. If you're a fan of his guides for Disney Parks, then you'll want to subscribe to Travel Caffeine.
Disney Magical Kingdom Blog
An excellent blog that covers Hong Kong Disneyland with frequent updates.
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If you're reading this, you probably have an idea of where you are now (point A), and where you want to be (point B). The middle part is the messy middle. It's the lackluster land where doubt and fear reside.
The only time you're excited about running a marathon is when you sign up and when you finish. The middle part is a silent assault on your spirit. In the messy middle where nobody is cheering you on. There's no cameras flashing. There may not even be any other competitors in sight. It's just you.
The lifters journey is similar.
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If you have no plan once you enter the messy middle, it's tempting to throw the white flag up.
So what separates the lifters who have an unwavering capacity to keep going in comparison to the sophomores in the gym who run on emotional motivation to fuel their training?
You see, in any strength sport, technical ability and physical excellence are very similar amongst the greats. Great weightlifters know how to perform a snatch. Great powerlifters know how to deadlift. Great physique athletes have bodies that make you stop scrolling on Instagram.
The thing that separates them from everyone else is their daily routines. They have designed their behavior to in order to produce the best results in their craft.
The weightlifter didn't start out with a 120kg snatch. The powerlifter didn't start with a 610 pound squat. The physique athlete didn't start with a pair of shoulders that look like two pumpkins.
Instead, they recognized their starting point (point A), and then determined where they wanted to go (point B). And then, they filled the messy middle with single efforts of practice repeated every day.
The key was that they systematized the approach. They put it on auto-pilot so they didn't have to think about what to do every day. This saves them tons of psychological energy, and thus, leaves them with more reserves to practice every day.
And just like you, they too, face challenges, setbacks and disappointments.
But when the storms hit and they enter the messy middle, they can rely on a battle-plan that's been forged by habits. This allows them to develop uncompromising consistency, which essentially sets them apart from everyone else.
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7 Habits of Highly Effective Lifters
1. They've identified if they are an abstainer or moderatorThere is an emotionally charged debate between flexible dieting and clean eating alive on the Internet these days. The premise for argument is that one is better than the other. Both parties are fighting the wrong battle.
Rather than actually considering the person, strategies are getting slammed down people's throat.
The flexible dieters preach that moderation is key and it's as easy as a poet's dream. The clean eaters shout that abstaining from junk food is the answer and the "one-bite" methodology is like a crack addict taking "one-hit."
The bottom line is that people behave differently. And the diet they choose must pair up with their respective personalities.
Effective lifters have identified if they are abstainers or moderators.
Abstainers perform well when they follow all-or-nothing habits. They feel relieved knowing that there isn't an option. A monotonous approach to food provides them with a "no-stress" plan. A protein, some healthy fat, a fibrous carb and a starchy carb is the make-up of their meals. Think like salmon, broccoli and brown rice for lunch and dinner every day.
Moderators must have the ability to indulge. They don't like being restricted when it comes to food choices. If they want a cup of ice cream of a few slices of pizza, they're going to have it. Moderators do better with flexible rules. By allowing themselves to splurge, it keeps them on track and cravings don't run-a-muck.
The tricky part is that they are so polar opposite that it's easy to be biased with the one we most associate with. However, what works for one person is simply a data point of one. It doesn't mean it works for everybody.
Look at your past habits and see where you do the best. Do you prefer all-or-nothing habits or do you like to have flexibility? Identifying this will end a lot of frustration with your diet.
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2. They've learned how to delay gratificationWe all know that one workout or one meal doesn't yield breath-taking results in an instant. Rather, it's a more a chop-wood-carry-water approach that produces seemingly overnight success results.
So, the question is how do effective lifters fight off the temptation of immediate pleasure in hopes to gain a larger reward down the road? They learn how to delay gratification.
Walter Mischel, a Stanford psychologist did a study with children on delayed gratification. In the test, he offered a marshmallow to each child. But he told them if they waited 15 minutes before eating it, he would give them another marshmallow. The research was aimed to see how long each child resisted temptation to eat the marshmallow, and whether doing so had an effect on his or her future success.
One-third of the children endured long enough to wait for the second marshmallow. The children who waited long enough to get the second marshmallows showed remarkable results years later. They ended up having lower levels of substance abuse, lower obesity, better responses to stress and higher SAT scores.
Highly effective lifters are like the children who endured to wait for the second marshmallow. They are willing to delay immediate gratification for a larger reward down the road.
They don't fall for cheap traps. They aren't easily lured by the insidious shiny objects thrown in their face. Despite any momentary discomfort, they press on and stay focused, knowing that a sweet reward is waiting for them at the end.
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3. They employ positive distractionsThere's more to life than weights, plates and protein shakes.
To be sure, strength sport is one of the last tools on earth that can forge discipline, commitment and integrity in humans these days. However, there is an invisible line between harnessing training into a something that makes you a better person and becoming a basement gym hermit that loses touch with humanity.
It's tragically easy to get lost in your training. Once you get a taste of success, letting the wheels fall off in other areas of life can happen faster Usain Bolt can sprint 100 meters. It's arguably subjective, but how much is a million dollar body worth when you have a 10 cent life to back it up?
Rather than letting the game consume you, it's important to have positive distractions in your life to keep things in perspective. For example, Victor Hugo was a writer who was most noted for his novel Les Miserables.
Even though his work was writing, he engaged in daily positive distraction to curate creativity, connect with people he cared for and to keep his health up to par. After his writing session ended at 11 a.m, he went on a two-hour walk or performed exercises on the beach. In the evening he enjoyed his friends over dinner while they played cards.
It's the space between the noise that makes the music.
Effective lifters are undoubtedly focused on their goals. But they also allow positive distractions into their life to stay grounded. Investing time into non-strength training related activities is important to the longevity of a lifters life.
4. They're willing to give up to keep growing
Anything you achieve requires that you pay a price. Effective lifters arguably understand this better than anyone else. You see, to become an effective lifter you have to make sacrifices.
Before we put some context behind this, lets look at a story from the author Fred Smith:
Something in human nature tempts us to stay where we're comfortable. W try to find a plateau, a resting place, where we have comfortable stress and adequate finances. Where we have comfortable associations with people, without the intimidation of meeting new people and entering strange situations. Of course, all of us need to plateau for a time. We climb and then plateau for assimilation. But once we've assimilated what we've learned, we climb again. It's unfortunate when we've done our last climb. When we have made our last climb, we are old, whether forty or eighty.
Effective lifters never make their last climb. And in doing so, they also recognize that they are giving up some things to keep climbing. For example, effective lifters give up the choice to mindlessly throw McGriddles down their chin slits every day for breakfast and then wipe their mouths of with the bag.
Effective lifters also trade immediate pleasure for long-term growth. Effective lifters give up the choice of recklessly thrashing themselves in the gym. Instead they conduct each training session like symphony. Planned. And executed with purpose. They trade quantity for quality.
5. They train harder than you (probably)All of people want to be a beast, but when it comes time to do what beast do, #beastmode is nowhere to be found. Instead, there at home texting their homeboys how they want to compete next year.
It's incredibly fascinating: The amount of flimsy claims people make about how they want to get stronger or get in the best shape of their life.
What I'm about to say is a free tip, I won't charge for this one: Training hard, is hard. And until you've either trained with a maniac who's knuckles turn white when they grab the dumbbells, you probably don't know what training hard even means.
Effective lifters train hard.
But they also know that training hard doesn't mean lifting till you puke or doing pull ups until your palms are bleeding raw. They follow a sound application of training all out and taking things to failure when its appropriate to do so.
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6. They banish all word-gamesWe live in a world where it's intoxicating to market yourself as a human being who has no flaws. We turn our cheeks to any negatives aspects about ourselves and indulge in the feel good moments.
The cure is usually posting a filtered pic of our latest dopamine inducing life event (like a trip to Vegas, or the new Nike Flyknits you just bought).This is a mask to cover up what we usually need to face head on. But instead we play word-games and justify the delay in addressing areas that need attention. For example;
A lack of discipline turns into "open-minded." A lack of commitment becomes "flexible." A disposition to blame everyone else but you for the lack of results turns into "I'm just not lucky." A day full of busyness that leads to no progression morphs into "I'm so buried with work, I don't have time to do anything else."You see what's going on here? We turn the truth sideways and the responsibility gets shifted away from you.
Effective lifters never do this. They face their weaknesses like a Spartan shoulder entering battle. Brutally confident. Fearless.
7. They do what worksIn 1915, buried in the Jungles of South America, a conflict arose. Two rivaling American companies wanted to occupy the same five thousand acres of land to produce more fruit.
The problem was that neither company knew who owned the land, so they didn't know who to approach to purchase the property.
One company was a giant and they proceeded to handle business like a giant would: Lawyers, piles of cash and fluid business jargon. The other company was small. In fact it was one man. He didn't have the money, resources or brand dominate like the company he was facing.
But his advantage was that he was flexible and decided to do what works instead of playing by the corporate rules. He approached two of the supposed land owners and paid them both off. This settled it. He beat the big boys in grey suits.
While the big company was off preparing legal docs, lining up resources, and bringing high level execs into the picture, the small company did what works. And they won. They got the land even though they were severely undersized the match.
Effective lifters don't waste their time with all the fancy surrounding the strength game today. They simply do what works. They train hard. They eat well. They supplement smart. And then, do it again and again until the desired outcome is achieved.
Wrapping UpYou've got the toolkit to repair your game. Take a look at where your approach might be lacking one of these habits and plug it in ASAP. You can shave off tons of frustration by implementing the habits of effective lifters into your own routine.
Or you can learn the hard way: Continuing to do the same thing over and over, expecting different results.
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One thing so many of us are angry about is the way the quislings entrench themselves into the decision process to either stymie or twist any sort of forward movement towards poplar will. We see it constantly with the snivelling Remoaners.
There may well have been something to Remoaner concerns in the sort term – some of those concerns but their very behaviour killed off any goodwill towards them. And yet they're still there doing their worst. Blair is still there like a bad smell, Mandelson, Campbell, Gina Miller, Ashdown. This is more than just opinions, which anyone is entitled to – this is actively using people in the Deep State to stymie the nation.
And some of these mindless idiots might actually have convinced themselves they're doing right – the narrative is powerful.
So we see across the pond the Democrat Ashkenazi Kushner and Steve Bannon at loggerheads and naturally the Donald is listening to family, isn't he and not to the man who was brought in as representing the populist mindset and the one so many of us embrace.
'Work this out': Trump issues ultimatum to Bannon and tells his beleaguered chief strategist that he will be 'forced out of the White House unless he adopts a more conciliatory approach'
Conciliatory? What the hell does that mean? Drop the promises Trump came to power on?
We're seeing it headed off at the pass in every country now – it happened in Holland, it happened in our own Brexit, now it's happening in the States … and then with Marine?


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Kineo Hosts Event in NYC to Share Industry Insights
Kineo, global leader in learning solutions, hosted 'Konnect' NYC on Thursday, December 5th at Scandinavia House in New York, NY, where over 30 business leaders gathered to network and share industry insights.
Kineo recently launched a report focusing on the top learning insights for 2014, based on interviews from over 20 industry leaders. Steve Rayson, CEO of Kineo (UK) and author of the report, gave an overview of these insights and how they relate to current L&D challenges.
Cammy Bean, VP of Learning Design (US), moderated discussion. Panelists included representatives from City & Guilds, Kineo's parent company; McKinsey & Company, Prudential and UNICEF. The panel and attendees shared everyday challenges, best practices and tips for developing strategy.
"It's an interesting time in our industry as we try to stay aligned with corporate goals and strategy while at the same time harnessing the wealth of resources available on the web. The group really dug into this topic and shared some terrific challenges and insights." says Steve Lowenthal, CEO, Kineo (US).
Kineo (US) announced plans early this fall to begin hosting 'Konnect events to bring together industry leaders for thoughtful dialogue and knowledge sharing. Sharing is a big part of Kineo's company culture and 'Konnect' is an outward extension of this. Kineo has plans to host a spring event in 2014.
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I loved the colour of this fabric when I bought it at Cabramatta and I originally thought to use this fabric with a contrasting knit net print. I'll do that anyway but I decided to make this top using a feature from a Burda world of fashion belt feature.
The top is my basic knit top that I use all the time so now it's got a belt feature.
Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Fabric stash #5
2 comments:
- Sharon said...
Great use of the belt feature, I first thought you had added sleeves to the pattern LOL. The colour is gorgeous.
- 11 February 2009 at 09:35:00 GMT+11
- velosewer said...
Thank you for the belt pattern. I trimmed it back by 5cm on the bottom and it worked. I owe you one.
- 11 February 2009 at 21:50:00 GMT+11
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Open Thread: Friends and Family and Everyone Else
Here's a place to talk about the relationships in your life whenever you want.
I've got a flight to Los Angeles booked on Friday, and I'm not so quietly freaking out about it.
Normally I wouldn't be nervous. Normally I wouldn't think twice. I'm something of a frequent flyer and I'm used to the regular routine of airports. I've even got one of my own.
I type up an itemized list, print it out and pack my purse and suitcase carefully the night before. The next day, I don't wear crazy jewelry or difficult-to-remove shoes. I always check in the day ahead and get to the airport early to hand over luggage (as a beauty blogger I need over 3 oz. of cosmetics).
Then I whiz through security. I get into the expert line and everything. I remove my shoes, jacket and my laptop from my bag. I retrieve all my stuff on the safe side of X-ray machine and chill at the gate before boarding. I've got it down to a science. Or so I thought.
On my last trip out of Chicago's Midway, something different happened. I was all ready for security. Took out my laptop, took off my shoes. Went through the metal detectors with nary a beep. But then before waving me through, the female TSA agent gave me a somewhat apologetic look and reached for a pair of blue plastic gloves.
Because of what I'd been reading in the news and on natural hair blogs, I already kinda knew what was about to go down.
"I need to examine your hair, ma'am."
It's the kind of thing you don't think will happen to you, until it does. Now you're standing there while other soon-to-be-passengers are staring at you (because everyone stares when someone is getting an unusual pat down).
The examination itself took maybe a minute, minute and a half tops. But it felt like five.
While wearing the aforementioned blue plastic gloves, the officer touched, patted and slightly parted my hair. She was slightly shorter than me, so I crouched a bit while she peered at it closely.
I wanted to ask questions, to say, "Hey, if I didn't set off the metal detector then why do we need to do this?" I wanted to make some kind of joke to deflect how embarrassing the whole thing felt in general. But Lord knows airport security is no place for jokes.
So I just stood there and endured it all. When she was finished, the TSA agent gave me the all clear. She may have even said, "All clear!" I don't know. I just remember wanting to get my shoes, my laptop, my dignity and a big chai latte from Starbucks (not necessarily in that order) and thinking to myself, "I can't wait to tweet about this."
I laughed at the situation right away. I could tell the TSA lady didn't want to feel up my hair any more than I wanted her to. The whole thing had a taste of let's-get-this-indignity-over-with-shall-we about it. The fact that I blog about natural hair (among other things) for a living made it all feel wry and ironic. Maybe I could just laugh it away. La la la. But the outraged Twitter responses I got started to resonate.
Similar stories from other women who don't write about it, they just wear their natural hair with pride, stuck in my craw.
On the flight to New York I sat next to a blonde, white woman with a big, fluffy, fabulous cropped head of curls. She told me she was going to see her father who was in the hospital so I didn't want to go on and on about what had just happened to me in light of what she was going through. But she did admit that her curly hair wasn't examined, and that she thought it was weird that the TSA singled me out, seeing as we had almost equally voluminous hair.
Since my run in with the TSA, I've read quite a few articles and watched several news clips of fellow natural-haired women who have experienced the effects of this apparent new policy. Renowned Dallas hairstylist Isis Brantley, whose client list includes Erykah Badu and established the Natural Hair Parade there recently suffered a similar indignity at the Atlanta airport, in September.
A recent funny-but-not-funny CNN article warned that natural hair and snow globes are now liable to search at airports. Usually stories about airport security hair checks take a humorous tone: LOL the TSA strikes again, what will those crazy kids do next? Most articles end with a similar conclusion. As humiliated as you may feel when the pat down is happening, we're all better safe than sorry.
And I get it. I get that things won't ever be the same when it comes to air travel. I get that the Transportation Security Administration is here to keep us safe from terrorist attacks. In a world where explosives have been smuggled on flights using shoes and underwear, it makes sense that airport security would want to do the most thorough checks possible. I appreciate their efforts. But to be really real with you, the more I contemplate what happened to me and my hair at the airport and what's happening to other women and men like me, the less cool I feel about it.
On Friday afternoon, I head back to Midway en route to Los Angeles and I'm concerned. Will my 'fro freak out the TSA again? Have I been added to some kind of natural hair watch list? Should I just expect the blue rubber glove treatment every time I go on a trip from here on out?
So many questions! I guess the best I can do is get to the airport early, hope for hair shrinkage and try my best not to make any jokes when I go through security.
What say you, xoJane-sters? Should I just get used to getting my head felt up and my hair patted down or is this new TSA practice just not OK?


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Grant Thornton's Detroit office has launched a $175,000 scholarship fund for students in Michigan State University's Department of Accounting and Information Systems that, in the next five years, will support the school's study abroad program and on-campus scholarships.
Nearly two-thirds of Grant Thornton's Detroit office hires have come from Michigan State and the university's Eli Broad College of Business' Department of Accounting and Information Systems in the last two years.
"Michigan State has become a vital provider of talent to the firm, and we wanted to give potential recruits from MSU an opportunity to study abroad and build a strong foundation of knowledge about the global economy," said Vincent Tomkinson, managing partner of Grant Thornton's Detroit office, in a statement. "Many of our clients rely on us to help with their worldwide business growth, and we need the people we hire to have a deep understanding of cultures and business practices from South America to Asia Pacific and many places in between. This scholarship provides MSU students an international learning experience that's fast becoming a prerequisite for employers."
"The experiences I gained through the study abroad proved invaluable in the development of skills needed to serve multinational clients in an increasingly global marketplace," stated Geoff Wait, a Grant Thornton senior associate and Michigan State alumnus who participated in the accounting study abroad program in May 2010. "The visits to various sites during the trip exposed me to different cultures and business environments and provided perspective, which helped to prepare me for my career at Grant Thornton."


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100 Years Ago – 1917: A northbound Park Place trolley, shortly after two o'clock yesterday afternoon, collided with a team of horses owned and driven by Thomas Anderson, at 12th and Edgmont Avenue, with the result that one of the horses was slightly injured. Motorman Thomas Brown was running at a rapid rate of speed and was fortunate in not killing of the animals. The accident attracted much attention from pedestrians and tied up six trolleys for nearly half an hour.
75 Years Ago – 1942: It was a quiet Halloween as far as police were concerned. Chief George J. Feeney remarked this morning that Mischief Night and Halloween were the most undemonstrative in 30 years. He complimented the youth of the city in their determination not to destroy property as a patriotic gesture.
50 Years Ago – 1967: Carl Hasenfuss, who was celebrating his 14th birthday, and Linda Wasilchick, 9, were riding their bikes past the home of Mrs. and Mrs. Kenneth Gillmore, 2041 Woodside Lane in Marple Township, when they smelled smoke. Inside the home, Mrs. Marilyn Gillmore, 49, was sickened by smoke inhalation as a fire in the rear television rooms sent thick smoke through the home. Linda sent Carl to the Wasilchick home and he returned with her mother Emo Jean and brother John, 17. They returned to find Mrs. Gillmore semi-conscious on her living room floor and pulled her from the home. Township patrolmen John Anderson and Raymond Castaldi arrived and used a fire extinguisher and garden hose to fight the flames.
25 Years Ago – 1992: The Democratic candidate in the 9th Senatorial district, Mary Ellen McLaughlin, thinks 78-year-old incumbent Clarence D. Bell is old and in the way. The Legislature's senior member, however, says the 29-year-old challenger would eat his dust if she tried to keep up with his frantic pace on the Senate floor. Bell's record of bringing state funding into the district has frequently been criticized by McLaughlin, daughter of Chester Councilman Charles McLaughlin, during the race. "I don't know what she's talking about, and, to be frank, I don't think she does either," Bell said.
10 Years Ago – 2007: Construction on the $7.5 million sound barrier project along 7,000 feet of Interstate 95 will begin in the spring, according to a report at a recent Ridley Park Council meeting. Councilman Nick Miccarelli said representatives of borough council and Ridley Township commissioners met at the office of state Rep. Ron Raymond, R-162, where the community project was reviewed. The wall will run from Stewart Avenue along I-95 north to Darby creek and will be 10 to 14 feet in height.


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Coconut Pineapple Bread
It's the most wonderful time of the year! The time of year we give friends and neighbors home baked goodies from our kitchens. This tradition has been passed down to me from my parents who bake quick breads and cookies for our neighbors every year. Our neighbors would reciprocate the gesture and give us tins overflowing with cookies and fudge. Many times when our neighbors delivered these goodies, my mom and I would be out christmas shopping. By the time we would get home, my brother and dad had polished off each and every treat! My mom and I always missed out! But that is ok, we always made enough of our own treats to make up for it.
Here is one bread you will want to include in your homemade holiday goodie bags. Coconut Pineapple bread speckled with chunks of pineapple and toasted coconut. With each bite of this scrumptious bread, you will be transported to a white sandy beach with your toes in the sand and a cold drink in your hand. Oh that sounds so perfect right now! I don't need a traditional christmas tree, just string some lights onto a palm tree and I am set. A few years ago my husband and I spent Christmas and new years on the beaches of Jamaica. It was so much fun and what made it even better was knowing how cold and miserable it was back at home. There is just something about wearing shorts and a tank top in the middle of winter that just feels so right! 😉 Even if you are not spending your holiday season on a sandy beach, you can pretend as you savor each bite of this incredible quick bread.
Coconut Pineapple Bread
Yield: 10 servings
1 1/2 cups sweetened shredded coconut
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1 cup sour cream
1 can (20 ounces) pineapple chunks in juice, drained well
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Pour pineapple chunks into a fine mesh strainer and allow to sit and drain, at least 10 minutes. On a large rimmed baking sheet spread coconut. Bake until lightly toasted, tossing occasionally, 6 to 10 minutes.
Grease bottom and sides of a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan; dust with flour, tapping out excess. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar on high speed until light and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Reduce speed to low, and alternately add flour mixture in three parts and sour cream in two, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix just until combined.
Fold pineapple and 1 cup toasted coconut into batter. Scrape batter into prepared loaf pan and smooth surface with a rubber spatula; sprinkle with remaining 1/2 cup coconut. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean, 65 to 70 minutes (cover pan with foil halfway through). Let cake cool in pan 15 minutes. Remove from pan, and transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
Source: Martha Stewart
23 Responses to "Coconut Pineapple Bread"
I will say Mele Kalikimaka in honor of your island-themed post 🙂 This looks superb– I will make and share with all my coconut-loving friends! Not many of them, so there's more to go around 🙂
That looks absolutely divine….I am adding this to my "try" list. Thanks for sharing.
looks perfect.
I love pineapple and coconut. I can't wait to make a loaf of it. Thanks Luana from Virginia
I made this this morning. Fabulous. I did not have sour cream so I used a cup of low fat buttermilk instead. I also added 1/2 cup of chopped brazil nuts (wanted to use them up). My pan is dark so I reduced the temperature to 325 and baked it for about 65 minutes. Beautiful and delicious!
I love the addition of the brazil nuts! Sounds like a great addition! I am so glad that you enjoyed the bread…thanks so much for sharing how it turned out for you! 🙂
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I do not make breads at all. This looks so yummy! Can I make this with a regular hand mixer or do I have to have the fancy kind with the paddle?
A regular hand mixer will work, just make sure to beat the butter until light and fluffy. If you give it a try I would love to know how it turns out for you! 🙂
I have UNsweetedned coconut on hand…would this work ok or do I NEED sweetened coconut?
It will taste a bit different and will give you a different result if you use the unsweetened coconut, but it should still be delicious. Sweetened coconut has sugar added to it before drying, so it tends to be a bit sweeter and more moist. If you give it a try I would love to hear how it turns out for you! 🙂
Christina! What a tropical treat!! You have all my favorite flavors wrapped up in one.
I also wanted to let you know that your post, photos and recipe have been posted on a site called "cake recipes with pictures dot come". They also have a pin it button for your photo that drives traffic to their site. Chef Dennis notified me about one of my posts there as well and it's taken me weeks to get them to remove it (Dennis advised complaining to Google Adsense)
I'm kinda glad I saw it though as this recipe has gone to the top of my to try list!
Thanks so much for pointing this out to me Kim…It seems that there are so many websites out there that do this and it is so irritating! I emailed them asking them to remove it, hopefully they do since at least two other people have complained about their site!
I made this yesterday and OMG, it's amazing! So moist and delicious! Everyone had 2 pieces! Super simple recipe but big on flavour!
I have made this bread 3 times (I have a loaf in the oven right now) and it is phenomenal. I came up with the idea to eat the bread while still warm with a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream and I'll be trying that out today. I'll let you know how it turns out. 🙂
Can this be frozen?
Thank you!
I have not tried freezing this particular recipe, but I am sure it will be fine. Just make sure you wrap the bread tightly in plastic wrap, wrap it again in foil and place in a ziploc freezer bag. If you give it a try I would love to hear how it turns out for you! 🙂
i bet adding macadamia nuts would make it awesome
I just made this tonight. I added some coconut sugar on top in addition to the toasted coconut. It did take longer to bake then the instructions. Maybe 15 minutes more. Something like that. It came out good. Tastes like a pineapple upside down cake. That is stating the obvious. Cake is moist and flavorful. Edges were a bit crunchy, but I like that. I had to cook it longer since the toothpick didnt come out clean after 70 minutes. Maybe the coconut sugar caused it? Either way, it is good. Might try to add macadamia nuts next time.
My wife made this for our kids and they loved it. Thanks for a wonderful recipe. It was the perfect compliment to the slow cooker bacon and barbeque apple chicken we made. Love that you are from Peoria. I went to ISU so I know it well.
From El Paso, IL! Can't wait to make this on Thursday…my day off!
So dense and delicious! Had to do a few substitutions… Margarine for butter, stevia for sugar,Greek yogurt for sour cream. Needless to say it is delicious. But, since it's Friday night, I'm going to put a wee bit of a glaze using that pineapple juice on top of the loaf. The girls will be happy tomorrow, if there is any left! Yum! Thanks for the recipe!
I made this bread with finely chopped unsweetened coconut and added powdered suger when browning it. ( it's what I had) I kinda messed up the order of adding flour and sour cream, but it turned out spectular, the smells were wonderful. It took all the time to bake but didn't burn.
Thanks so much for this recipe. I'll be making it again.


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I'm not a bleeding-heart liberal. I certainly recognize that the violent anti-American protests this week throughout the Middle East and beyond in response to a stupid video denigrating the Muslim religion are a real threat to the United States and need to be taken very seriously.
But what we don't need right now are more politically motivated charges against President Barack Obama for being soft on our enemies.
Gov. Mitt Romney, who's trailing in the latest polls, including a new Fox News poll, clearly sees this latest undeniably frightening uprising as an opportunity to reinvigorate the charge that Obama has failed on foreign policy.
Romney this week accused Obama of being more sympathetic with Muslim protesters than with the American diplomats they attacked in Egypt and Libya. Romney reportedly said Obama was "disgraceful" in that he "apologized for American values."
Well, the so-called "apology" to which Romney refers, which was issued by the American Embassy in Cairo on Tuesday before the violence began, wasn't actually an apology at all. It was a call for cooler heads, an attempt
to quell the angry mob before they attacked.
Even Fox News' Bill O'Reilly, no fan of Obama, said it was the right thing for the embassy to do. "I'm not sure the governor is correct on that," O'Reilly said on The O'Reilly Factor this week. "The embassy was trying to head off the violence" with their statement.
Longtime John McCain adviser Mark Salter, also no fan of Obama, told RealClearPolitics that there is "nothing wrong in principle with making clear to people, who have yet to embrace the categorical right to free speech, that Americans and their government deplore the deplorable, that we reject vile attacks on Muslims as vigorously as we reject vile anti-Semitic attacks. To do so does not constitute sympathy for the people besieging our embassy, as Gov. Romney alleged. Nor is at an apology for America, as some Obama critics have claimed. It's an expression of our decency."
But in politics, truth is rarer than fiction. The notions that Obama keeps apologizing for America and that he has not been a strong president on matters of national security have enjoyed a long shelf life - but they're not true.
Whatever you think of Obama, the truth is he has been far more of a hawk than most expected. But while George W. Bush got us into an unnecessary and costly war in Iraq, Obama has focused on our real enemy:
fundamentalist Muslim terrorist leaders. More of them have been killed on Obama's watch than in the eight years Bush resided in the White House.
On Wednesday, Obama said of the embassy killings, "No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this
great nation... Make no mistake. Justice will be done."
I tend to believe him, based on what he's done the past four years.
Hell, he even ordered that Predator drones be sent into Yemen to take out an American citizen and former San Diegan (Anwar al-Awlaki), who'd become arguably the world's most influential Jihadist.
Even the ACLU and Ron Paul condemned Obama's decision to kill al-Awlaki - so he must be doing something right! Obama said at the time that the strike against al-Awlaki was "further proof that Al Qaeda and its affiliates will find no safe haven anywhere in the world."
Blake Hounshell, managing editor of the nonpartisan Foreign
Policy magazine, told the Los Angeles Times that it "smacked of desperation" for Romney to try to
use the embassy's note as an example of the Obama Administration's weakness abroad.
Hounshell said that "anyone who knows how diplomacy works knows that Barack Obama is not
editing statements by junior foreign service officers in Cairo. And, even if the language was
imperfect, it was not an apology. But the narrative for Republicans for a long time has been that Obama apologizes for America and that Democrats are unpatriotic."
Given the fact that these protests have spread throughout the Muslim world, this has indeed become a dangerous situation for Americans. But what would Romney do? Would he declare war against and send Marines and soldiers to all of these countries?
Romney's hawk talk and Obama bashing won't make the situation any better. And it could make it worse.
Some are comparing this situation to the 1979 American hostage crisis in Iran in which Republican candidate Ronald Reagan was sharply critical of President Jimmy Carter, whose attempt to free the hostages failed. But it's not a good analogy. Obama's efforts to kill al-Awlaki, bin Laden, and many other fundamentalist Muslim leaders have succeeded.
It comes down to this: Do you want to throw gasoline on the fire right now and stoke a possible full-fledged worldwide war
between Christians and Muslims? Or do you want America to continue strategically killing the bad guys but also continue recognizing and reaching out to moderate Muslims?
And yes, moderate, peace-loving Muslims do exist. After the violent attack in Libya, pro-American protesters took to the streets of Tripoli to offer condolences for the death of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens. The peaceful protestors in Libya, a nation that is nearly 100 percent Muslim, carried signs that read, "This is not how we thank who helped us when we needed help the most."
That presumably refers to Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was also killed under Obama's watch.
So, the choice we have
in November in terms of foreign policy in times of crisis seems very clear:
We can either cut off all diplomatic efforts, rattle our sabers, condemn all Muslims as terrorists and move closer toward World War III, or we can continue to eliminate the Muslim terrorists efficiently but also keep an open dialogue with moderate Muslims like the ones who took to the streets of Tripoli.
I don't care if you're a Republican, a Democrat, a Libertarian, an Independent, or a member of the Silly Party,
no thinking person should have a difficult time deciding between those two options.
Friday, September 14, 2012
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We made a stop at the rocks, said Intrepid skipper Kevin Osborne March 15, where we picked off a few more handfuls of nice grade Wahoo, a few yellows, and had some fantastic grouper fishing. Everyone landed many of the tasty bottom dwellers to take home and share with their friends and family. We will continue our way home with another chance to stop and break up the ride. The weather has been really nice coming up and looks to stay that way all the way home.
Andy Cates made his reports from Red Rooster III. The first was March 12:
We made a short stop at Alijos Rocks and picked up 39 wahoo. We will be starting at the island tomorrow.
On the 14th, Cates wrote, We picked a few more decent fish and then it died at lunch. Pretty tough the rest of the day. The fish never showed again. We will try it again in the morning. John and Frank picked off a couple decent fish. Ron Hiraro broke in the new Accurate 80 with a nice 252 on the kite, Bob Michener got a 237, Woody took a 230 and Dan with one just over 200 pounds.
The next day, he posted, We basically caught nothing today and are headed out to the Bank for tomorrow. We should be there after breakfast.
Spring Mix
Quite a mix of fish this week, wrote Jonathan Roldan March 15. Lately, its like a box of Cracker Jack. You just dont know what the prize will be when you empty it out. Its the same with fishing. Theres just no telling what youll be catching either. One day, its a mix of inshore rock fish. Next day, the rock fish dont bite, but roosterfish show up. The next day, its some pelagic species.
Thats what it was like this week. There was no predicting what might turn up for our fishermen.
One day it was cabrilla (sea bass and bonito). Another day, neither the bonito or cabrilla would bite and instead pargo bit in the rocks and they got some roosterfish along the beach. The following day, when the rock fish wouldnt bite, venturing outside a tad, our guys got marlin and dorado!
I wish there was a little more predictability, but we seem to be in a transition time when theres warm and cold water species mixing it up a bit as the waters move away from winter to more spring-like conditions. I think well continue to see a wide variety of species for a while. We do have reports of yellowtail (finally) north of La Paz by commercial guys and good amounts of bait. Wind can still be an issue but with each week, week should be diminishing.


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All sales will be processed through Topshop tills. Depending on the length of the tenancy, brands will be paid in arrears 7-10 days after the end of their first week's trade. Longer term leases will be 28 days after the first week of trade.
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Unmatched in size and style and showcasing an ever-evolving variety of trends, shoppers from across the globe pass through its doors every day. The list of Topshop and Topman collaborators now reads as a list of fashion legends, including Christopher Kane, Celia Birtwell, Markus Lupfer, Kim Jones, JW Anderson, Sibling, Mary Katranzou, Agi & Sam, Astrid Andersen, and of course, the iconic Kate Moss.
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"Go to the page with a heart as open as the heart of god." Elizabeth Strout, My Name is Lucy Barton
A flyer arrived in my mailbox, inviting me to a workshop entitled "Artist's Way: A Spiritual path to Higher Creativity." Published in 1992 by Tarcher-Putnam, Julia Cameron's Artist's Way is an international best seller. At first, I was put off. Higher Creativity? Really? I judged the book awkwardly written, and felt it borrowed too freely from 12-Step lingo and other journaling and creativity techniques.
But I trusted the clinical social worker offering the workshop. Judith Alexander is a long-time resident of Port Townsend, Washington, and we'd worked together with at-risk adolescents. And so, for the next fourteen weeks, two hours every Tuesday, eight of us met in an artist's loft overlooking Port Townsend's sparkling seas. One woman wanted to paint murals, and a man wanted his carpentry work to become more alive. Others wanted to write poetry or sculpt using materials found in the environment.
The Artist's Way advises three pages of hand-written daily journal, a weekly solitary adventure called an Artist Date, and other exercises and activities Cameron describes as "toys" designed to awaken the creative spirit.
With Alexander keeping us on track, we talked about our morning pages (doing or not doing) and completed homework. I'd kept a journal since elementary school, but I liked having permission to enjoy my daily warm up rather than feel guilty. Artist Dates indulged the pleasure of seeking treasure in a thrift shop, or creating secret art in a garden or on a beach.
I'd always planned to write. My mother's degree was in journalism, and she took her six offspring along on assignments. When I was in fifth grade, she gave me my first journal, encouraged me to write every day, and helped me enter writing contests. She and my father, an artist, reviewed every project or paper I wrote. My father shredded it, and then my mother offered encouragement. When I was in seventh grade, my father gave me E.B. White's Elements of Style and took me to night classes at the University of Washington as he earned his M.A. in English. He assigned me the books he was reading, Hardy, Mann, and Joyce, and we'd discuss them as my father drove through the night.
In school, I studied with teachers who encouraged and mentored me. After I completed my M.A. I was ready to take on the world. Instead, I drifted into a marriage that left me supporting my husband's musical aspirations. I blasted out of that by drinking like a madwoman. At one year sober, I met a man with a four-year old child. He needed me. The child needed me. Heck, I convinced myself, even the guy's wife needed me. And so I married him.
One Tuesday when I returned home from the group, my husband seemed to notice me for the first time in years. "Those jeans aren't very flattering," he said. Soon after that, when a group member called, my husband noticed again. "You never told me there were men in the class!" he shouted. Although the second chapter of Artist's Way is entitled "Crazymakers," I'd skipped that one. "None of those in my life," I reported to the group. Halfway through the course, my husband "accidentally" erased the novel I was still pretending to write.
For our final gathering, Judith assigned a collage to symbolize our life. We weren't supposed to think, just tear images from magazines and slap them together on a poster board. Until the group members pointed it out, I didn't notice that although images of my stepdaughter appeared everywhere, my husband did not appear at all. Determined to make the marriage work, I wrote myself a formal letter of resignation from my writing dreams.
In Artist's Way, Cameron describes finding "True North." Once identified, Cameron says, there is no turning back. Our lives gently, slowly, or sometimes tumultuously lead us toward truths about ourselves, the choices we've made, and the opportunities we've abandoned. The marriage ended, and then my job. I moved into a tent on a wild and remote bay where I'd grown up, the frame of an unfinished cottage rising skeletal beside me. Finally, forced to face myself, I made two decisions. First, I would finish building the cottage on my own. Second, I would seek out the Artist's Way, this time on-line.
I lucked into a group that was just starting. Each week, about a hundred of us completed the exercises and shared the results with strangers all over the world. Then, out of the blue, I was offered a position as editor for a start-up. I landed in Los Angeles to talking of design, buzz, and monetization. By the time the start-up failed, the co-founder and I were headed off to the island of Rarotonga, where a Maori elder pronounced us joined for life. Back in LA, though, we were jobless.
"Let's head north," I said. We combined our tattered treasures in my wilderness cabin. We planted wildflowers and vegetables and watched eagles take their first flight from the nest overhead. We became activists, managing to hold off the chain saws to protect hundreds of acres. The only thing we weren't doing, it seemed, was make a living.
Then came another out of the blue call. My husband, a New Yorker, was offered a position in New York City. Soon we were sub-letting in Manhattan. I stumbled into a writing group. At the first gathering, a novelist described how she always left her projects 95% complete. A man, just selected by a prestigious magazine as one of the "top twenty under thirty," was now in a profound depression and couldn't write at all. When my turn came to lead, I described how I'd resigned from my own dreams, and how discovering this group offered hope and support.
When the group broke up, an elegant woman came up and shook my hand. "Thanks for your talk," she said. "I really identified." Her face seemed familiar. In fact, I realized, I'd just seen that face emblazoned on a huge poster in a bookstore window. "I'm Julia," she said.
What does it mean to be "stuck with your vulnerability?" How do you face yours? Do you find, as the character Lucy Barton does, that you can "go to the page with a heart as open as the heart of god?" What does that feel like for you?


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Lyrics Depot is your source of lyrics to Tennessee Stud by Eddy Arnold. Please check back for more Eddy Arnold lyrics.
Tennessee Stud Lyrics
Artist: Eddy Arnold
Album: The Best 2
Well there never was a horse like Tennessee Stud
Along about 1825 I left Tennessee very much alive
I never would've got through the Arkansas mud
If I hadn't been a ridin' on the Tennessee Stud
I had some trouble with my sweetheart's pa
One of her brothers was a bad outlaw
I send her a letter by my Uncle Fudd
And I rode away on the Tennessee Stud
The Tennesee Stud was long and lean
The color of the sun and his eyes were green
He had the nerve and he had the blood
And there never was a horse like the Tennessee Stud
[ guitar ]
We drifted on down onto no man's land
We crossed the river called the Rio Grande
I raced my horse with a Spaiard foal
Till I got me a skin full of silver and gold
Me and a gambler we couldn't agree
We got in a fight over Tennessee
We jerked our guns he fell with a thud
And I got away on the Tennessee Stud
[ guitar ]
Well I got just as lonesome as a man could be
Dreamin' of my girl in Tennessee
The Tennessee Stud's green eyes turned blue
Cause he was a dreamin' of his sweetheart too
We loped right back across Arkansas
I whoopped her brother and whopped her pa
I found that girl with the golden hair
As she was a ridin' on the Tennessee Mare
The Tennesee Stud was long and lean...
[ guitar ]
Stirrup to stirrup and side by side
We crossed the mountains and the valleys wide
We came to Big Muddy and we forded the flood
And the Tennessee Mare and the Tennessee Stud
A pretty little babyy and the cabin floor
A little horse cold playin' round the door
I love the girl with the golden hair
And the Tennessee Stud loves the Tennessee Mare
The Tennesee Stud was long and lean...
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LinkedIn profile picture tips
Here are a few Do's and Don'ts to make sure you put your best foot forward:
- Dress according to your profession. Wear the type of clothes you'd wear on the job. If you work in finance, go for a suit and tie. If you're a programmer at a high-tech firm, a plaid shirt is A-OK.
- Smile like you mean it. A warm, inviting, genuine smile will go a long way to attracting attention to your profile. Be sure to look directly into the camera and let your true self shine through.
- Go solo. Don't include spouses, partners, friends, or kids in your picture. This is your professional profile and your online business card. Focus on you.
- Use a recent photo. While it's tempting to go back into the archives and pick a great shot from yesteryear, it's important to depict yourself as you look right now. If someone meets you in person and doesn't recognize you from your profile pic, that could raise a red flag.
- Follow the rules. LinkedIn lays out clear rules for profile pictures. Landscape photos, pictures of animals, and other types of imagery are a no-go. If you flout the rules three times, LinkedIn could block you from uploading your headshot.
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Sara Lomax-Reese, President and CEO of WURD Radio, has received the 2017 Trailblazer Award for her pioneering work creating HealthQuest Magazine which explored health issues that impact Black people and in growing the state's only African-American-owned talk-radio station, WURD Radio, ensuring Black people have an outlet for expressing concerns about issues that are important to Black people.
Sofiya Ballin, a reporter with the Philadelphia Media Network (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com) has received the 2017 Online Journalist of the Year Award. Her "Black History Untold" series offered a view of what many African Americans learned about African American history outside of the classroom. Her powerful stories, told through the voices of African Americans, explored the kinds of valuable information about African Americans that was not covered in textbooks and other traditional academic teachings.
Aundrea Cline-Thomas, a reporter for NBC10 Philadelphia, has received the 2017 Broadcast Journalist of the Year Award. Aundrea is a reporter whose stories focus on issues that push beyond commonly covered headlines to discover and share textured stories that reflect and impact people in Black Communities.
Errin Haines Whack, urban affairs reporter for the Associated Press, has received the 2017 PABJ Print Journalist of the Year. As Urban Affairs reporter, she tackled stories that impact Black people from angles that are often not explored in majority media. Her work has focused on the intersection of race, politics and culture as well as other issues of importance to African Americans.
Sandra Clark, Vice President for News and Civic Dialogue at WHYY, has received the 2017 Impact Award. A longtime champion of diversity, she believes all of our lives are enriched when we have access to different voices. It's a philosophy that is reflected in her hiring, and mentoring of ethnic journalists.
Barbara and Tyree Johnson, Westside Weekly newspaper owners, have received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award. The husband and wife team turned an idea about a West Philadelphia newspaper into a voice of the community that is rooted in journalistic integrity. Tyree is a charter member of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists, and Barbara, who is receiving the award posthumously, was one of its earliest supporters
Lois and Oshunbumi "Bumi" Fernandez have received the 2017 PABJ Community Service Award for their work with the ODUNDE Festival, which celebrates African culture and legacy through song, art and food. 40-years ago, the late Lois Fernandez began the family oriented street fair. Her daughter Bumi worked with her mom through the years, and as Odunde CEO, has created year-round programming called Odunde365.
Haniyyah Sharpe-Brown is Communications Manager for Philadelphia City Councilwoman At-Large Blondell Reynolds Brown and founder of On Point Communications. She has received the 2017 Media Professional Award for public relations and community work that helps her clients craft campaigns to have a positive and empowering impact on Black people, while promoting their product or service.
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|4. Journalist of the Year
|2. Trailblazer
|5. Impact Award
|3. Lifetime Achievement
|6. Media Professional
Community Service
Awarded to a journalist, member of the media or community person who has had a positive impact on African Americans or Black people of African descent. If the nominee is a journalist, his or her community service must be rooted in work done outside the typical realm of journalism.
Awarded to a pioneer Black journalist of extraordinary accomplishment who has broken barriers or blazed trails. Nominees may be living or deceased and have contributed to the advancement of news coverage of issues involving African Americans or Black people of African descent.
Lifetime Achievement
Awarded to a Black print, broadcast, online or photojournalist with a minimum of 15 years in the industry. Nominees in the category may be living or deceased. The nominees must have made or still be making an extraordinary contribution to the enrichment, understanding, or advancement of news coverage involving Black life and culture.
Journalist of the Year
Honoree(s) are to be selected from the broadcast, print and/or online fields, at the discretion of the awards committee and executive board. Awarded to a Black journalist who produced work during the 2016 calendar year that was extraordinary in depth, scope or significance to African Americans or Black people of African descent.
Awarded to a person behind the scenes whose support positively impacts diversity in newsrooms
or whose work positively impacts coverage affecting African Americans or Black people of African descent.
Media Professional
Awarded to a public relations, advertising, marketing, communications professional or media owner whose work facilitates significant coverage of people, issues and events affecting African Americans or Black people of African descent. The candidate must demonstrate overall excellence in media.


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A Modest ProposalLast night, I had dinner with a friend and her sister, whom I'd never met before. The topic of Uber came up when I mentioned I drive for Lyft and Uber. My friend's sister said she really likes taking Uber. She's a performance artist and often needs to get around the city at night. Before Uber, she was regularly stranded by cabs, which would invariably pick up a street hail on the way to her location, leaving her in the lurch and forced to seek other options. With Uber, she's never had this problem. She just requests a ride and the car shows up.
Awesome. The only problem is, well… Uber. And the way they're treating drivers. As I mentioned to her the struggles drivers face when dealing with the lowered fares, the lack of tips and the general unpleasantness of Uber as a company, I began to feel like a dick. There I was, shitting on something that fulfilled a need in her life both personally and professionally. Without Uber, she, like a lot of people in the city, would once again be at a disadvantage. It seems the only thing everybody can agree on when it comes to this new trend in transportation is that cabs suck.
This got me thinking… If I owned a business that made a product people loved—one they loved so much they would be disappointed not to have anymore—why would I lower the price? I'm not business-minded in the least, but it just stands to reason that if somebody really wants your product, you could charge whatever price you wanted for it. So why is Uber continuously lowering fares?
Then it hit me. Fucking Lyft. Lyft is the problem. They keep picking fights with Uber. And Travis Kalanick, Uber's founder and CEO, isn't somebody you want to trifle with. But Lyft, the quirky kid with bad acne, thick glasses and a pepertual cowlick, does just that: day after day, they walk across the playground and challeng the biggest bully in school.
It's not much a shock that Lyft is getting pummeled in the rideshare wars. It's almost embarrassing how badly Lyft is losing this David and Goliath showdown. But you can't feel too bad for Lyft. They asked for this. Unfortunately, the drivers on both platforms are suffering because of Lyft's hubris.
The price wars have been going on for a while. It's hard to imagine a time when the minimum fare for an UberX ride was $10. But back in 2013, that what the going rate for a ride. Nowadays, in San Francisco, it's $5. In LA, it's $4. That's highway robbery at its very essence. Not to mention how drivers face serious risks with insurance gaps, troublesome passengers, potential health problems, damage to our vehicles, the financial hardships of constant repair and maintenance and we are denied tips. On top of all that, with the rating system, we don't even have job security. Any passenger on a power trip could easily have us deactivated.
I started driving for Lyft in March of 2014. I made decent money. A few months later, to combat Uber's growing domination of the rideshare market with UberX, Lyft lowered their fares and stopped taking a commission. The price cut was supposed to be a test. Around the time they planned to return to the original rates, Uber lowered their rates, forcing Lyft to make their temporary price cut permanent and start collecting commission again, pissing off all but their most loyal drivers.
The Rideshare Wars
Uber is definitely winning the rideshare wars. In their calculated, underhanded assault on Lyft, Uber shows no restraint. They even announced UberPool, a carpooling feature that wasn't active, the day before Lyft announced their own carpooling service, LyftLine, which was ready to launch, effectively stealing their thunder.
Even without public support, Uber is racking up victories. A month ago, when Uber's Operation Slog was exposed, everybody felt bad for Lyft. But then Lyft lowered prices again and drivers started burning their mustaches.
Before this happened, Uber had started poaching Lyft drivers. I was one. I joined Uber during their $500 sign-up bonus. $500 to take one ride? Where do I sign?! The gimmick was that newly recruited drivers would see how much better Uber was compared to Lyft and switch sides. And it worked. As a regular Lyft driver, I was blown away by how much more business I got from driving for Uber. (Lyft tried to get Uber drivers to switch sides, or double down, by making a counteroffer of $500 plus a taco, but just came off looking silly, as usual.)
These are the kinds of tactics that show who is really in charge when it comes to ridesharing: Uber.
Now don't get me wrong, I think Uber, with Kalanick at the helm, is an evil, unscrupulous company along the lines of Wal-Mart. Kalanick comes across as an antisocial, libertarian scumbag who'd stab his own mother in the back to get ahead. He probably has a cum-stained paperback of The Fountainhead under his pillow that he strokes gently as he falls asleep at night. But he's not stupid. He knows how to run a business, even if it is at the expense of workers. Lyft, on the other hand, has yet to display any business acumen. Their entire platform lends itself to mockery.
Look at their signature branding: the pink mustache. While it's proven to be an effective symbol to get attention, it's so ugly and goofy and alienating and … shit, the list goes on and on. Most people don't like the stupid thing and very few drivers have them on their cars anymore. Lyft, realizing this, developed what they call a "cuddlestache," a smaller version that goes on the dash instead of the grill. But from a distance, it just looks like a pink turd. Another Lyft fail! [UPDATE: Lyft is ditching the 'stache.]
Where Lyft supposedly excels is through creating a sense of community. I prefer the social aspect of driving for Lyft. It makes for better stories. Driving is more fun when you are free to chat with the passengers. The time goes by so much faster. And Lyft encourages tipping, which is awesome. Uber tells their users the tip is included in the fare. (It's not.) But the whole "Cult of Lyft" mindset is a niche market at best. In order to fall for it, you have to drink the Kool-Aid. Lyft fanatics are a brutal lot of mustache-waving zealots who will try to stifle any dissent in order to protect the brand. Still, there's no way they can corner the entire rideshare market based on jingoism alone. In fact, I'm willing to venture that the community aspect hurts Lyft more that it helps. Some people just want to get from point A to point B without making a friend along the way.
There are folks to whom Lyft's transportation model is appealing and Lyft needs to cultivate those users. Not the market as a whole. They will never be able to compete with Uber, financially or logistically.
As cutthroat as they are, it's not surprising Uber is resisting Lyft's attempts to corner the market. Lyft is fighting with a ruthless bully. Their only move at this point is to beg for mercy. Even their cries of "that's not fair" have fallen on deaf ears. If this were a schoolyard fight, we'd all be standing there with out arms folded going, "Dude, you asked for it."
The question of who started the price wars doesn't even matter anymore. Even if Lyft were out of the picture, it's not likely the prices go back to what they were at the beginning of the year. It doesn't even matter that, except for surge pricing, passengers weren't complaining about the prices before the price war started. What's done is done. At this point, Uber could charge as much as cabs and still be profitable and control the market.
The Writing on the Wall
Oh sure, there are plenty of problems with ridesharing. Killing Lyft might not fix them all, but the only way to end the price wars is for Lyft to be better than Uber. Or die.
I'm not the only rideshare blogger who's come to the conclusion that Lyft isn't going to win. They are perpetuating the price wars in a futile attempt to compete with Uber and yet they've lost each battle.
Somebody needs to put a stop to the price wars. Despite what the their computers tell them, raising prices would benefit the company and improve the rideshare experience for passengers. Of course, if Uber and Lyft did raise the prices, the users who take advantage of the five-dollar rides would drop off. And while those short rides are fine for a computer to just add to the ultimate tally, earning those five-dollar rides as a driver is no easy task. The five-dollar rides need to end anyway. The minimum fare for an on-demand ride should be ten dollars. If you can't afford ten bucks to get from one neighborhood to another, you really shouldn't be using an on-demand car service. Why waste an Uber driver's time by having them spend several minutes driving to you just to take you a few blocks? That's plain lazy and a waste of everybody's time.
It's time for passengers who want quality transportation options provided by drivers paid a fair wage to expect more than a race to the bottom.
As a driver, the end of Lyft cannot come soon enough. There are very few drivers who are even loyal to Lyft anymore. Lyft is the losing team. All roads lead to Uber. Whether we like it or not, they are going to win the rideshare wars. Anybody who can't see that is obviously drinking too much Lyft Kool-Aid.
FOLLOW UP POST: Should We Really Kill Lyft?


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Butt_whole means the opposite of butt hole if thats what your thinking. Whats a Whole butt? A butt without a hole. Pretty deep, one letter changes the whole defention without you knowing it.
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Definition of Long bone
1. Noun. In limbs of vertebrate animals: a long cylindrical bone that contains marrow.
Generic synonyms: Bone, Os
Terms within: Endosteum, Metaphysis
Specialized synonyms: Epiphysis, Diaphysis, Shaft, Arm Bone, Leg Bone
Definition of Long bone
1. Noun. (anatomy) Any of the relatively slender bones of the upper and lower extremities. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Long bone
1. One of the elongated bones of the extremities, consisting of a tubular shaft (diaphysis) and two extremities (epiphyses) usually wider than the shaft; the shaft is composed of compact bone surrounding a central medullary cavity. Compare: short bone. Synonym: os longum, pipe bone. (05 Mar 2000)
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1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1914)
"I am in favor of the autogenous bone splint in the medulla of the long bone, taking a little chuck out of the tibia and introducing it into the medulla of ..."
2. General Surgical Pathology and Therapeutics, in Fifty Lectures by Theodor Billroth (1890)
"... for experience shows they cannot aeal up in the osseous cicatrix. This elimination of the sequestrated of fracture of a long bone with external wound, ..."
3. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"Each end of a long bone is called an epiphysis, and the diaphysis is the long shaft between them. At the junction of the epiphysis and the diaphysis at each ..."
4. The Anatomy of the human skeleton by Henry Morris, John Ernest Frazer (1914)
"The primary nucleus of a long bone appears quite early in foetal life, and the main part (shaft) ... On section, the shaft of a foetal long bone is seen ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"If the outer surface of the compact tissue of a long bone and the wall of the medullary canal be examined with a pocket lens, they will be seen to be ..."
6. The U. S. Coal Industry, 1970-1990: Two Decades of ChangeTechno (1992)
"In another study conducted by the US Navy, the long-bone radiographs of a group of 177 non-diving enlisted men were compared to the long-bone radiographs of ..."
7. Anatomy, Descriptive and Applied by Henry Gray (1913)
"Cases, however, occur where the inflammatory process affects the whole or a great portion of the diaphysis of a long bone, and here extensive death of the ..."


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Actually, the Answer is Rather Easy
In his latest column , Ben alleges that although we can all agree that the Yoo memo, and the 2002-04 torture regime it engendered and immunized, were way out of bounds and that the subsequent national settlement about the rules for military interrogation is a good and salutary one, we are nonetheless ignoring the remaining question of what the CIA should be entitled to do: "We have yet to decide as a society," Ben writes, "how the CIA should handle [alleged 'high value detainees'—with 'value' presumably determined not by what they've done, but by what they (might) know] in the future."
Ben worries that this is a "wrenching" decision, one that "truly tests our core values."
No, it doesn't. The question is easy, and we have already decided it, based upon those "core values." Indeed, we basically decided it more than 200 years ago, codified it in the Lieber Code in 1863 (which specified that "military necessity" does "not admit of cruelty") and spent many long years persuading the rest of the world to go along with it: All coercion of POWs is prohibited. And as for non-POWs—so-called "unlawful combatants"—torture and cruel treatment are categorically prohibited. So is other conduct that "shocks the conscience." That's what the CAT and Common Article 3 say. And we cannot deviate from those very well-established norms without repudiating—that is to say, breaching—those treaties , thereby opening up a Pandora's Box with respect to "deviations" that might be adopted by all the other nations of the world. (Proponents of a new interrogation regime tend to ignore that if the U.S. in effect scoffs at Geneva and the Torture Convention, that will have profound effects with respect to treaty compliance by other nations, too, some of which might strike the "balance" in favor of even more cruelty than the Bush Administration has promoted.)
That is to say: What was good enough for Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt, and Truman is good enough for us now. In every war we've ever fought, and all those we will fight in the future, it would be of great strategic and tactical value to be able to coerce important information from those we detain through the use of violence and threats of violence. (And all other belligerent nations think likewise.) Yet we have long concluded that the costs of allowing such techniques—by all belligerents—far exceed the benefits. Not to mention that they're simply immoral.
The historical settlement against all cruel treatment and threats of violence is more or less codified in the Army Field Manual that once again governs military interrogations. (If anything, the Field Manual authorizes some techniques that might be prohibited by treaty in many applications, such as "false flag" [when used as a threat] and "pride and ego down," broadly conceived.) Ben claims that the Democratic bill that would bind the CIA to the Army Field Manual, too, is "ill-conceived" and that there is "considerable space between what the field manual permits and what the law might reasonably tolerate." But he doesn't provide any arguments in support of these conclusions, and they are, as far as I know, simply mistaken.