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The #FollowFriday Series highlights today's up-and-coming, active and all-around noteworthy Twitter accounts the AudioAcrobat staff deems worthy of following; while at the same time peering deeper into the soul(-cial media) of each account and providing a brief-yet-informative analysis.
Welcome back for the forty-fifth #FollowFriday tweet / WordPress mashup of 2012 here on the AudioAcrobat Weblog!
In today's post, we will dive deeper into the tweets of San Francisco-based 3D Virtual Trade Shows platform, HyperFair (@hyperfair) and the Twitter accounts they have chosen to follow … a mirror, if you will, into the soul(-cial media) behind a company whose recent 3D virtual trade show demo impressed TechCrunch writer Anthony Ha enough to write about it!
Yep. That's right, we just said it … "soulcial media". We also said, "a company whose recent 3D virtual trade show demo impressed TechCrunch writer Anthony Ha enough to write about it" in the same sentence.
Experience the future of trade shows at HyperFair.com
Featured #FollowFriday Twitter Account
@hyperfair: Virtual trade shows done right
Read the english translation of Yvonne Ortman's article on Hyperfair: http://t.co/92qhGUzL Thank you @t3n!
— Hyperfair (@hyperfair) October 22, 2012
More about HyperFair
HyperFair enables real business in an online 3D environment. Exchange business cards, engage in conversations, schedule meetings and gather exhibitor materials just as you would at a traditional event.
Exhibitors and attendees enjoy a new way of doing business while generating qualified leads, saving money and time (no traveling) and attending a larger number of trade shows worldwide.
We partner with trade show organizers, enabling them to host 3D virtual trade shows, creating a new revenue stream in the process.
'The List'
Here you will find a list of 25 accounts @hyperfair is following. They are all active users who we deem worthy of checking out, retweeting and following. Enjoy!
01 @RocketSpace: An accelerator for tech & new media companies
02 @lazerow: CEO/Founder: Buddy Media, GOLF.com + More!
03 @davidhelgason: Founder CEO of Unity Technologies
04 @infinite_ammo: Indie Games by Alec Holowka 'n Friends!
05 @unity3d: Unity Game Engine
06 @biphenyl: Pythonista Astrophysicist, Unity/iPhone game developer
07 @robotduckl: Consultant & Trainer at Unity Technologies
08 @aras_p: Rendering dude at Unity (http://unity3d.com)
09 @TheRussMorris: Product Evangelist at Unity Technologies
10 @UniversitiesUK: representative organisation for UK universities
11 @CollegeBoard: committed to excellence and equity in education
12 @Blackboard: Official channel for news & updates from #Blackboard
13 @IFMA: World's largest int'l association for pro facility managers
14 @IHRSA: the fitness industry's only global trade association
15 @RSNA: Radiological Society of North America
16 @Supercomputing: Official Twitter for the SC Conference Series
17 @siasnowsports: SnowSports Industries America (SIA)
18 @TheIACP: International Association of Chiefs of Police
19 @LeadingAge: expanding the world of possibilities for aging
20 @SPIEtweets: the international society for optics and photonics
21 @AAMers: American Alliance of Museums
22 @IrishDentists: Irish Dental Association + Irish Dental Union
23 @AAPAorg: American Academy of Physician Assistants
24 @AAPEXShow: #AAPEX2012 Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX)
25 @SEMASHOW: the world's premier automotive aftermarket event
In summary, it looks as though @hyperfair likes to follow twitter accounts and users who are either part of Unity Technologies, or are societies, organizations, associations, academies, unions, events, expos and trade shows.
In a nutshell, the above twitter list is a a great collection of international associations and events mixed with some cool 3D modeling "techies", all of which we feel are well worth checking out, retweeting and following!
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I can truly say I have been blessed this week. My gratitude practice has been paying off and I want to acknowledge the good things that have been given to me. The more I say thank you the more I seem to receive. I was given 2 pieces of good news at work. One will help out my wallet and the other my time. A new friend has crossed my path who offered up some timely and much-needed advice. Two old friends got back in touch. I received quite a few tokens; organics from a friend's garden and some yummy homemade bread, a monetary boost, a fantastic Thai cookbook, and (Whoo Hoo) some awesome vintage jewelry from my grandma. More important than any of these, the darkness continues to be lifted from my life and my genuine smile is appearing more often.
It's magical what happens when you refuse to look down. Gratitude and Manifesting are powerful. Calling on our Spirit gives us guidance. Seeing the good, refusing to waste negative energy and giving a nod to Karma works wonders. The full harvest moon is above us today, so call it down. Give thanks for every. little. blessing.


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Genre: Rock / Alt
A punk band who are between 15-17 years old. Their life and passion is lived by music and performance. They have played various gigs and are trying to build their fan base. When they write songs they always try to relate it to something everyone experiences or has experienced; this enhances their listeners to relate to their songs. They have a keen passion for their instruments and wish to build a career out of them.


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Some years back, our now demonstration plot called Luca Frutig Agrofeorestry Demonstration Farm – in honour of our mentor Roland Frutig – was once a dumpsite which constituted nuisance to the environment. The whole environment was filled with the stench from the dirt and the unkempt grasses made the environment unsafe for dwellers as hoodlums used this area to carry out vices. We then decided to convert this area of land into a farm.
Our success has been tremendous so far. We were able to practicalize our knowledge on agroforestry while incorporating youths and rural farmers hence furthering our objective on creating a co- working space between youths and rural farmers. So far, we have made three cycles of harvest of pumpkin, seven cycles of okra, eight cycles of spinach and one cycle of Ewedu (Cochorus). it was great to have our mentor Roland Frutig witness the last harvesting season.
As our knowledge increases on agroforestry, our farm practise gets better. We have carried out land preparation for the next planting season which included tilling, making beds, adding manure and mulching it. During planting, we introduced fluted pumpkin, okra, pepper, tomatoes, watermelon, beans, cassava, yam, groundnut, ginger, turmeric, corn, spinach. We also inculcated agroforestry tree like Gliricidia Sepium and Moringa and food trees like coconut, papaya, banana, oil palm, orange. Work has also begun on the establishment of the LTI tree nursery. The nursery site has been tilled and prepared.
In the face of challenges such food insecurity, climate change, poverty and poor health. Our goal is to create an organic food forest which would address these issues.
Follow our progress on this project and visit our social media pages for updates on every of our projects.
Remember, Eat healthy, Stay healthy!


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As an English teacher, I have seen how our students strive to learn. Even with expensive intensive courses of more than six months, most students find it difficult to learn English. However, it is not as difficult as you think. The problem is not the right course or having the right teacher. The problem is knowing how to learn.
So here's a short article about what it means to learn to learn and how it can help you with English or any other subject.
Learning to learn is about learning more effectively, using a variety of invaluable learning techniques to accelerate information acquisition and maximize deep and permanent retention.
To begin with, we must recognize that the way we learn can only work for exams. So we studied the night before to get that pass. The next day, though we can't remember anything of what we 'learned'. Perhaps, because this wasn't really 'learning' but simply short-term memorization, one of the brain's tricks. Learning, of course, is deeper, as it provides permanent access to the information and knowledge learned. Memorization usually doesn't accomplish this, and yet what we need is learning. Confused?
The brain is confusing, but at least now we have the science to understand it a little better. Imagine a plant from which branches grow, well that's your brain, when you learn new things. The plant doesn't grow constantly, but it tends to do so in bursts of energy with intermediate breaks. Those breaks are just as important to our brains as they are to the plant. We cannot limit and memorize things in the hope of permanent retention. We need to grow in small controlled bursts, making that branch a little stronger each time until it becomes solid and permanent, as does our learning.
In essence, we need to reinforce learning by reviewing what we have learned over and over again. Of course, we don't need to review everything. So, again, what do we need to review? This is where Wordiser and its unique technology help.
Wordiser offers not only courses, but also a comprehensive review system that can constantly test you and make sure that key learning is never forgotten. However, this is really up to you. If you want to learn, then you must do each and every one of the exercises. Remember, if a word is too easy for you, you can always deactivate it from the test. This way, you can control your learning and progress quickly. You decide what you learn, when and how important it is to you. This is part of learning. Basically, we only learn what we are ready to learn.
In addition, our courses offer tips and suggestions for learning. Each progress test you take will ask you to review previous units if you have not passed at least 80% on the test. This is not like a difficult teacher, just practical. We are all capable. We are all intelligent. However, we know that learning and forgetting are connected, we are all human after all. Sometimes we have to go back and check several times before we are ready to learn something.
Wordiser differs from other online courses or learning providers in its flexibility. We offer not only courses but also self-learning resources, knowing how important it is for the student to learn how to learn.
You can get bored of your course, which is normal. It means that your brain needs time to process everything you have learned. Then, you can explore the thousands of words in the system, each under a particular topic and labeled according to level or difficulty. All topics come with pictures to help you better understand the words or phrases, definitions, and good examples with the proper context for you to use them.
So why not take learning into your own hands? Using MY NOTES you can create a variety of interactive exercises to put yourself to the test. How? Well, open a test and use English and Spanish for a word, adding some incorrect answers. You can also take a sentence from an article and open a word that is difficult for you to memorize. There are many other types of exercises that you can explore and play. In the end, it's about improving how you learn.
By taking control of your learning, you will maximize your chances of learning more effectively and retaining information better. Create a learning pace, enjoy your learning, understand that forgetting is natural, and review what you have learned. Understanding how you learn helps you learn.


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So, Basically Letter of Ordering Goods is a Letter which is written by a buyer to a supplier to request purchasing products. In this Business Letter you have to mention your personal information, shipping information, payment information and the correct information for the product which you like to order. It is one of the basic Business Letter which is essential to both, the buyer and the supplier. In this post I have provided some images of the Ordering Goods Letter and the images are fully printable. You can also easily download the images, these are free of cost. Please find the attachments below.
Letter of Ordering Goods Sample
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On a green world far into the solar system, all life is doomed when planet Nordren's natural resources begin to dry up. The planets scientific council commonly referred to as the 12 paladins or the council of 12 meet and decide on a plan to save the dying planet.
Several phases of the blood moon Luna pass as the ancient "Builders" toil on a project called Cerebus, meant to breathe life back into the planet. Unfortunately the plan failed.
The ancient "Builders" created 3 artifacts called Obelisks that have the ability to store unlimited amounts of power. One of the Obelisks became unstable and exploded, showering the land and sky with fragments of crystalized energy. Large holes were blown into the atmosphere, allowing high levels of radiation to cover most of the planet.
Realizing the power they unleashed, the "Builders" hid the remaining Obelisks throughout the solar system, and then vanished to unknown places. All that remains of this elder race is some ancient prophecies and small pieces of their powerful creation.
Symbiotic spores breach the destroyed ozone and now threaten all life on the planet. Many plants and creatures are mutated into perverse creations overnight. Only able to leave their protective sanctums after sundown, Nordren's population soon faces starvation and extinction.
Two groups of humanoid creatures live on the surface of the wasted planet; the Talamorphs, who are generally considered a bloodthirsty warring lot and the Terrans, a peaceful people who only fight when their way of life is threatened. There are also the creatures that live in the dark places; caverns and mines deep beneath the surface.
Evil roams the wasted planet, seeking slaves to dig for the lost fragments of crystallized power. Those that don't end up being "diggers", search for the deepest cavern in the planet to lose themselves in.


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Ok, you already know that I love Flipp and how much easier it makes shopping for me and my family. Well, I'm letting you in on the latest for this cool app! It's upgraded to a newer and even BETTER version that's going to make my shopping even easier and will take less time. And let's face it, time is definitely at a premium when you are a Mom!
The biggest enhancement is Flipp's new Shopping List feature. With that, users can begin planning their shopping trips at home or on-the-go by adding items to their in-app list. The new feature, combined with the app's enhanced search functionality, allows shoppers to quickly find the best deals for their weekly essentials. Once they're in the store, shoppers can easily check off items from their list to ensure they pick up everything they need. Do you see how this can be huge? No more forgetting something on your list because you will know what you haven't crossed off!
Here are some of the latest features that are available on Flipp for US and Canadian shoppers:
- Flip – Browse through all of your weekly local flyers quickly and intuitively
- Shopping List – Plan ahead and stay organized while shopping by adding items to the digital list, discovering matching offers from your local flyers, and checking them off in-store
- Search – Easily find a specific store, item or brand
- Clippings – Tap an item in a flyer to clip it for easy access while shopping and price-matching
- Item Details – Tap and hold on an item for additional product information and reviews
- Discount Slider – Highlights the best savings in the flyer to find them at-a-glance
- Notifications – Reminders about expiring clippings and nearby offers ensure you never miss a deal
I'm loving these new features! Just think how much more you'll save with the notification feature of expiring coupons? WOW!
If you haven't tried Flipp yet, what are you waiting for? You can find it for both iPhone (www.AppStore.com) and on Android. For more information and demos check out Flipp.com!
Which of those new features above would be best for your lifestyle?


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Lunch & Discussion With The Soupman & Koji
Your business or organization can now sponsor a visit from The Soupman and Koji, his service dog! Hear Peter talk about his personal story involving homelessness and addiction and how he has taken the tragedy of losing his son Travis and turned it into a positive force within the community. Peter and Koji will deliver a brown bag lunch and talk to your team about the work The Soupman has done and our goals for the future. For more information about hosting The Soupman and Koji at your company or organization.


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Nigeria: 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview
Nigeria: 2018 Humanitarian Needs Overview
The crisis in north-east Nigeria is one of the most severe in the world today. Across the six affected states of Borno, Adamawa, Yobe, Bauchi, Gombe and Taraba, 10.2 million people are estimated to be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2018, of whom 52 per cent are women and girls, and 48 per cent are men and boys. Children constitute 63 per cent of those needing assistance.
The most acute humanitarian needs are clearly concentrated in Borno State – and areas bordering Borno in Adamawa and Yobe states – where the crisis shows no sign of abating.


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I want California to split.
I want California to split.
If I wanted a smaller state - I'd move to Rhode Island. Being a Native Californian for 8 decades doesn't make me an expert. However, the preposterous idea of dividing the Golden State into three smaller insignifIcant entities would be PLAIN SELF DEFEATING! The person who put this proposition on the November ballot should have his head examined. The song "California Here I come" welcomes people from all over the USA. If you're proud of California & happy to be here - OK. If not, it's time to leave & turn out the lights before you go!
Stupid ! I was born here, I will be buying 3 fishing licenses. Dumb is as dumb does Not to mention losing almost all the power california has in DC. Dumb ass!!!
Hell no, totally against this!
While we're at it, can we split up Florida and Texas too? Having lived in all 3 states it is my experience that each state has parts that are very politically polarized. If we start here, where will it stop? This is ridiculous and I believe will fail. The people who will vote for it are the ones who feel lost in CA without representation. My advice to them, LEAVE! Or go to another county you feel satisfied in. There are plenty of rural conservative states just to the right that will accept you wholeheartedly without having to split up CA and the nation's 5th largest economy.
This has been a plot of the ultra conservative for years it gained steam after Brexit. Ask yourself what Nigel Farage has to do with this whole thing, while your at it, please read: "From His Home in Russia, #Calexit Leader Plots California Secession". Here is the link to the article---https://www.kqed.org/news/11217187. LEAVE CALIFORNIA ALONE--1 STATE NOW AND FOREVER!!!!!
It's going to fail. Homeowners won't vote for it because the end of California means the end of Proposition 13. Liberals won't vote for it because they like the States liberal "throw weight." License holding professionals won't vote for it because it will limit their practices and force a threat of re licensure requirements. Northern county right wingers will hate it because Northern California would be far more liberal than California is now. Finally Northern California would control everyone else's water. Guess how that's going to go over in the TV ads.
Include Bay Area in strip along coast to LA. Separate liberals from conservatives. Elect separate Govemors. Let the people vote on territory lines.
Problem is, I do not want SF in the mix for Northern CA......same problems as we have now for those of us who are more rural and conservative views. I like STATE OF JEFFERSON best. Let us become that...do not fight us....then "new" CA can do whatever it wants!
Interesting division. Three states...1 dominated by LA, 1 dominated by SF, and the third dominated by San Diego. I don't think that rural voters would be interested in being dominated so completely by three liberal cities. Furthermore, the notion that Draper can draw lines and be done with it...that's hilarious. However, his point about under representation in the Senate is well taken. Let's merge the Dakotas! Do we need a Montana AND an Idaho?
How funny that the same right-wingers who lecture the rest of us about "getting over it" (re: Trump) can't cope with living in a state with a Democratic governor. Suck it up, losers.
I also was wrong in my decision.i am voting against california being split.i want california as one state we need to stay united
I retract my previous post ....please do not bring it on .i was stupid in my decision
Mark Zeller is desperately in need of some one on one mental therapy lol ....you sound crazy buddy..take a chill pill bill
Lol yeah let's not.pure idiotic thinking wow
Bring not it
Leave things alone, some fecal matter filled head
trying screw things up more.
This is desperately needed, several states have way too much political influence due to their population. The demographics of California are very diverse and the tightly populated cities reflect different values and needs of that of the more rural areas. Splitting this state up will ensure more fair representation.
I will not support this. California should remain united..
This is in progress. See alternate proposal by New California. This is in progress. Actually Northern California could encompass the northern part of New California and become the State of Jefferson. This would then be a three state split and the Bay Area along with L.A. would be left as a state. Per the proposed map, there would be New California and California. Or with the alternate three state split, there would be California, New California and the Northern California state which could be called Northern California or Jefferson. See map here https://newcaliforniastate.com/
Yes please
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The Rag Picker's Child. Song and Chorus.
(White, Smith & Company, 516 Washington St., 1881)
You'll Miss Me Darling Chloe. Uncle Tom's Lament. Song & Chorus.
(William A. Pond & Co., 25 Union Square, 1881)
America's Greatest Song Writer. Jas. A. Bland's Great Songs. Only To Hear Her Voice.
(Mrs. Pauline Lieder, 60 Chatham St., 1881)
Blow De Golden Trumpet. Song, With Piano and Banjo Effects.
(Wm. A. Pond & Co., 25 Union Square, 1881)
Send Me A Rose From My Angel Mother's Grave. Song and Chorus.
(Hitchcock's Music Store, 32 Park Row, 1881)
Good Bye! I'm Gone.
(Geo. D. Newhall & Co., 50 W. 4th Street, 1881)
Other Days. Soprano or Tenor Solo.
(W.A. Evans & Bro. Publishers, 1881)
Baby's Empty Cradle. Song and Chorus. The Best Selling Song in America.
(R.A. Saalfield, 12 Bible House, Astor Place (Opposite Cooper Union), 1881)
President Garfield Died Last Night. Break the Sad News to His Mother. Pathetic Song and Chorus.
(Lee & Walker, 1113 Chestnut St., 1881)
Shall Our Parting Be Forever. Song & Chorus.
(S. Brainard's Sons, 1881)


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'It's good to be kind to people'
The Aspen Times
Aspen Assistant Police Chief Bill Linn is truly a nice guy.
Ask nearly anyone in law enforcement around here and they'll tell you. Now one Florida man who recently took a wrong turn on his mountain bike knows it too.
"I'm really impressed with the character of Billy," said mountain biker Nate Post. "It seemed to be reflective of a lot of the citizens of Aspen."
Post, 30, is a Santa Fe, New Mexico, native but lives in Orlando, Florida, where he works in the software section of a cancer research laboratory. He also is a cancer survivor. He was diagnosed with a particularly virulent form of the disease when he was 22 and spent the next two years "really sick" until chemotherapy put him in the clear, he said.
About the time he was declared cancer-free, Post said he hooked up with a charity in the Denver area called First Descents, which provides outdoor adventures for young adults ages 18 to 39 who've been impacted by cancer, according to the organization's website.
Fast forward to the Leadville Trail 100 Mountain Bike Race earlier this month. First Descents was putting together a team for the race to raise money for the charity, and Post said he volunteered for it. Only thing was, Post isn't really a mountain-bike racer, he said.
So he he came out to Colorado 10 days early to get some mountain-bike rides under his belt. For one of those rides, Post said he decided to try out the first leg of the race, which goes from Leadville, around Turquoise Lake, then over Sugarloaf Pass and back into Leadville.
He set off from Leadville on Aug. 7, the Sunday before the race, for what he thought was going to be a low-key 15- to 20- mile training ride. Because he didn't think he'd be gone long, he brought along one bottle of water and no food, he said.
Unfortunately, Post took a wrong turn and ended up at the top of Hagerman Pass. Thinking he was still on the right track, he said he began descending. And descending. And descending.
"I started to get a little concerned," he said. "If you've ever been on that road, you know it never ends."
As the path changed from mountain bike trail to fire road to pavement and he ran out of water, Post said he began to get really concerned. He finally ran into another person walking along the road at about 7 p.m. and learned he was way off course and about 20 miles from Basalt.
Despite having no water or food, Post said he was confident he could make the 20 mile distance to Basalt, find a hotel and figure out a way back to Leadville in the morning.
"After about 12 miles, I realized I was really bonking," Post said. "The sun was setting. I was really hurting."
He was somewhere above Ruedi Reservoir at that point and hadn't seen a car in quite awhile when he looked over his shoulder and saw a truck coming. Post said he hopped off his bike and flagged down the truck, which was being driven by Linn.
"I was up in Meredith fishing with a friend," Linn said. "And I was driving home when I saw something I'd never seen before — a bicyclist holding his thumb out. That's just weird."
So he stopped and asked if Post was OK.
"He was actually kind of delirious," Linn said. "He wasn't making a lot of sense. I'm guessing he was really dehydrated."
Linn immediately agreed to give Post a ride to Basalt. But as Post calmed down a bit and began to tell Linn about himself and why he was in Colorado, Linn said he just couldn't simply drop him off in Basalt.
"Honestly, he's a pretty impressive young man," Linn said. "There was no way I was going to leave him with a 7-Eleven dinner in Basalt."
Linn said he also knew getting back to Leadville wasn't going to be an easy exercise in public transportation navigation.
So instead, Linn drove Post to his family's home in Aspen, where a dinner of fettuccine Alfredo was on the table. Linn invited Post to sit down with his family, which Post quickly accepted.
"I was devouring it," Post said. "I think I ate half a pot of pasta."
Linn offered Post a change of clothes and a shower after dinner, but Post declined, Linn said. They then climbed back into Linn's truck and headed over Independence Pass to Leadville, arriving about 10 p.m.
A pizza place was still open and Post insisted on buying Linn a slice, so they sat down and ate again, both men said. Afterward, Linn drove back to Aspen, and Post climbed into his truck and drove to Crested Butte, where his friend had been wondering where he was.
Linn said his actions were no big deal and that he felt a bit self-conscious about the story appearing in the newspaper. Still he said he enjoyed the experience and making a new friend.
"I'm a Christian and that's an important part of my life," Linn said. "I got more out of it than he did. It's good to be kind to people."
Post ended up competing in the Leadville 100, and his team raised $210,000 for the First Descents charity, he said.
"I was totally blown away (by Linn's actions)," Post said. "I try to do good things and I guess that was my payback or something."
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BLM will study environmental impact of quarry wells
The BLM will conduct an environmental assessment of the proposed wells needed to begin the NEPA process on the larger quarry expansion.


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"Kieran has always been in our orbit," says Stinson. "He would play with us sometimes at The Bluebird." Stinson had co-produced Kane's Atlantic album, developing a following in a faraway place.
"A distributor in Norway said 'if you've got a record, I'll pay to get it done.' He offered to buy a thousand copies. About the same time, Kevin was looking for an outlet for his stuff. We (Stinson, Kane, and Welch) stayed up quite late one night convincing each other that this was the way to go. Then Tammy and Mike came in shortly after."
Rogers was a relatively recent arrival on the scene, but she had quickly established herself as one of Nashville's top session fiddlers and toured withYearwood and Kane. "She was playing fiddle for me for about a year,"recalls Kane. "When we were starting the label, she had a record I actually helped her work on." So Rogers became a Dead Reckoner, and her album came out as the label's second release.
With all of the Dead Reckoners' previous work out-of-print, (even The O'Kanes), it would be reasonable to think that the label might want to reissue it. all. While none of this material would be chart-topping items, all of it would likely sell very well by the standards of a small label. The three-year old albums by Kane and Henderson would seem to be particularly likely to benefit, since they were deleted before most of the target audience ever knew they existed.
The thought has occurred to the artists as well. "We're attempting to make some licensing deals," says Kane, who handles much of the label's business. "We're going to reissue Kevin's albums at some point. My stuff, I don't know. We may be able to do something with The O'Kanes, but it doesn't look good. Atlantic has refused to license my (solo) album. They'd rather it sit in a box somewhere. It's not reasonable. They have nothing to lose and the potential to make a few bucks. We can't license Mike's album either."
They manage to keep the label afloat by keeping costs down. A distribution and promotion deal with Rounder makes their albums findable in stores. But a large percentage of the label's sales come at their shows, and Kane admits "If we can sell 20,000 copies of a record, a major label can sell more" because of its greater resources.
The Dead Reckoners have launched several short tours around the country and in Europe.
Creative ways of selling product don't necessarily work. Kane tells of advertising Mike Henderson's "First Blood" album on an Internet Blues newsgroup for only $10. The album had been nominated for a prestigious award, and Kane's posting was followed by a couple of unsolicited testimonials from newsgroup readers who already owned it. Kane says he got almost no response. Obviously, most people only buy what they've heard, no matter what.
Is Dead Reckoning a wave of the future? Stinson thinks not. " It was an organic process. You can't plan this out. Some of us have been working together for 10 years. It just seems natural to play together Our situation is unique."


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I hope that listening to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg on WMCA these past several years has drawn you closer to Christ. It's been our pleasure to partner with WMCA to teach the Bible to listeners in the New York City area since 2008.
Our ministry has always been, and continues to be, under God's sovereign care. We trust that man makes plans, but God directs his steps. Along these lines, both Truth For Life and WMCA have jointly determined that financial support for the program is simply not sufficient to cover the costs of the broadcast in a manner that is consistent with our stewardship responsibilities. Therefore, effective October 5, 2016, Truth For Life will no longer be heard on WMCA.
Rest assured however, there are many other ways you can continue to listen each day without interruption. Because of the generous support from listeners like you, all of the ways listed below provide free access to Alistair's daily teaching:
Truth For Life Mobile App
The Truth For Life mobile app can easily be downloaded at truthforlife.org/app. It's entirely free and provides a convenient way for you to hear Alistair's daily message through your smartphone or tablet. You can listen anywhere, at any time you choose. And, if you missed a day, you can go back and replay a program.
Just visit truthforlife.org from your smartphone, tablet, or computer and you'll have instant access to the daily teaching. You can also view the daily devotional, the daily blog, and search Alistair's entire teaching archive -- over 2,000 sermons! It's entirely free.
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In Which She May Bake Some Brownies Today Loo Loo Loo Loo Loo
By Emily Gould, thisrecording.com, April 2, 2010
Ladies of the Canyon ushered in a period of unprecedented commercial success for Joni Mitchell. Warner Brothers marketed the album explicitly to young women, betting that they'd aspire to the liberated yet traditional bohemian earth-mother image embodied by Joni and the "canyon ladies" she celebrated.
"Cats and babies 'round her feet/all are fat and none are thin," Mitchell sang of a Laurel Canyon neighbor; her voice still has that high, pure almost-yodel that cigarettes would eventually strip from it, leaving a more nuanced, less cloying instrument. "She may bake some brownies today/loo loo loo loo loo loo loo." A listener could be forgiven for wondering what had melted the brilliant lyricist's brain.
An exaggeration, sure: after all, Ladies contains some of Mitchell's most enduring hits "Big Yellow Taxi," "Woodstock", and the affecting meditation on fame "For Free." But it also has some resounding, cringe-inducing clunkers: "Sometimes in the evening he would read to her/roll her in his arms and give his seed to her." Eugh. Was it marijuana? California? Love? All three, probably, but primarily the lattermost.
Before this album, Mitchell had sung hymns to women's – well, her own — empowerment, coming off as preternaturally worldly-wise (she was still in her early 20s) and in control of romances that, while they might have caused her fleeting pain, left her with valuable impressions and experiences.
She'd painted a sly, catty portrait of a compulsive seducer in The Gallery, quoting a male celebrity's emosogynistic pickup line – "'Lady, don't love me now, I am dead/ I am a saint, turn down your bed/ I have no heart,' that's what you said/ 'I can be cruel, but let me gentle with you.'" "She will love them when she sees them," she had written of another song's heroine's various lovers, "and her heart is full and hollow, like a cactus tree/ while she's so busy being free."
By the time Ladies Of The Canyon was released, though, Mitchell was busy settling down.
She had met Graham Nash at a radio station's party for his British Invasion band the Hollies. As Nash told Sheila Weller when she interviewed him for her 2008 opus Girls Like Us, their first night together in an Ottawa hotel was one of not only carnal but artistic communion: after bringing him up to her room, Mitchell got out her guitar. "She played fifteen songs, almost her entire first record…I was gone. I had never heard music like that." But it wasn't just her music that smote Nash, he told Weller. "I loved her before she played a note, just from looking at her and talking to her and realizing what her spirit was."
The domesticity that the pair soon settled into in leafy, redolent Laurel Canyon would be immortalized in a hit that Nash would soon record with ex-Byrd David Crosby and Buffalo Springfield member Stephen Stills. "Our House" is a portrait of rich-hippie paradise, full of implicit lazy, sunny mornings and sex and good coffee and explicit cats in the yard (two). Who among us has not longed to light the fire while someone else puts the flowers in a newly-bought vase — newly bought at, probably, a charming antique shop or outdoor flea market? Whether you love or hate "Our House", it's hard to shake the idea of this effortless shacking-up as a domestic and romantic ideal: "Now everything is easy 'cause of you."
Could the life of two cohabitating artists ever really be "easy," though? Nash describes racing Joni to the piano in the morning: "It was an intense time. Who's gonna fill up the space with their music first?" And as Crosby, Stills & Nash got more popular and Joni continued to open for them – especially after her song "Woodstock" became their signature hit – criticism that her performance had been "overshadowed" by theirs must have stung. "Willy [her nickname for Graham] is my child, he is my father/I would be his lady all my life," Mitchell sings on Ladies, then promptly tones down this already-conditional declaration of lifelong fealty: "But you know it's hard to tell/When you're in the spell if it's wrong or if it's real."
Early in the spring of 1970, Mitchell left the canyon to wander through the Mediterranean for a bit. On that trip she would meet a bright red devil who'd try to keep her in a tourist town in Crete and go to a party down a red dirt road in Ibiza, then come home – relieved and spent – to California, to see the folks she dug. Nash, by that point, no longer numbered among them: from Crete, she'd sent him a telegram that read, "if you hold sand too tightly in your hand it will run through your fingers."
He'd told the world that he wanted her to play her love songs "only for me;" this had been too much to ask. She'd go on to write more and better love songs and hate songs, and songs of indifference, singing and playing in a sadder, more thwarted mode. From the memories of her travels and her cumulative heartbreaks, she would create an album that, while it contained no cats, no babies, and no sun-dappled paeans to idealized hippie homemaking, laid the groundwork for the rest of her career.
"I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, traveling, traveling, traveling/ looking for something, what can it be?" Blue began. "Oh I hate you some, I hate you some/I love you some/ Oh I love you when I forget about me." She would love lots of people besides Nash, of course (indeed, All I Want is, according to Weller, likelier about James Taylor), but she would never again, for better or worse, forget about herself.
Meanwhile, back in California, Nash wrote his first solo album, Songs for Beginners. The song "Simple Man," like much of the album, is unambiguously, vulnerably directed towards Mitchell: "Never been so much in love/And never hurt so bad at the same time…I wish that I could see you once again/Across the room like the first time. /I just want to hold you, I don't want to hold you down."
Emily Gould is the senior contributor to This Recording. She is a writer living in Brooklyn.
In 1970, Mitchell was living with Graham Nash in Laurel Canyon and had made a name for herself with her soaring voice and skillful compositions. Soon, though, feeling hemmed in, she fled to the hippie cave community of Matala, Greece.
Here are the words of Joni Mitchell herself regarding Matala in Crete and the song "Carey," from an interview by Rolling Stone in early 1971.
"Matala was a very small bay with cliffs on two sides. And between the two cliffs, on the beach, there were about four or five small buildings. There were also a few fishermen huts.
"The caves were on high sedimentary cliffs, sandstone, a lot of seashells in it. The caves were carved out by the Minoans hundreds of years ago. Then they were used later on for leper caves. Then after that the Romans came, and they used them for burial crypts. Then some of them were filled in and sealed up for a long time. People began living there, beatniks, in the fifties. Kids gradually dug out more rooms. There were some people there who were wearing human teeth necklaces around their necks," she said with a slight frown.
"We all put on a lot of weight. We were eating a lot of apple pies, good bacon. We were eating really well, good wholesome food.
"The village pretty well survived from the tourist trade, which was the kids that lived in the caves. I don't know what their business was before people came. There were a couple of fishing boats that went out, that got enough fish to supply the two restaurants there.
"The bakery lady who had the grocery store there had fresh bread, fresh rice pudding, made nice yogurt every day, did a thriving business; and ended up just before I left, she installed a refrigerator. She had the only cold drinks in town. It was all chrome and glass. It was a symbol of her success.
"Then the cops came and kicked everyone out of the caves, but it was getting a little crazy there. Everybody was getting a little crazy there. Everybody was getting more and more into open nudity. They were really going back to the caveman. They were wearing little loincloths. The Greeks couldn't understand what was happening."
Then during a performance at The Troubadour, Joni introduced the song "Carey" with the following story.
"I went to Greece a couple years ago and over there I met a very unforgettable character. I have a hard time remembering people's names like so I have to remember things by association, even unforgettable characters, I have to remember by association, so his name was "Carrot" Raditz, Carey Raditz, and oh, he's a great character. He's got sort of a flaming red personality, and flaming red hair and a flaming red appetite for red wine and he fancied himself to be a gourmet cook, you know, if he could be a gourmet cook in a cave in Matala. And he announced to my girlfriend and I the day that we met him that he was the best cook in the area and he actually was working at the time I met him – he was working at this place called the Delphini restaurant – until it exploded, singed half of the hair off of his beard and his legs, and scorched his turban, melted down his golden earrings.
Anyway, one day he decided he was going to cook up a feast, you know, so we had to go to market because like in the village of Matala there was one woman who kind of had a monopoly – well actually there were three grocery stores but she really had a monopoly and because of her success and her affluence she had the only cold storage in the village, too, so she had all the fresh vegetables and all the cold soft drinks and she could make the yogurt last a longer than anyone else, and we didn't feel like giving her any business that day. Rather than giving her our business we decided to walk ten miles to the nearest market.
So I had ruined the pair of boots that I'd brought with me from the city because they were really "citified" kind of slick city boots that were meant to walk on flat surfaces. The first night there we drank some Raki and I tried to climb the mountain and that was the end of those shoes. So he lent me these boots of his which were like Li'l Abner boots – like those big lace-up walking boots and a pair of Afghani socks which made my feet all purple at the end of the day and I laced them up around my ankles and I couldn't touch any – the only place my foot touched was on the bottom, you know, there was nothing rubbing in the back or the sides – they were huge and he wasn't very tall, either, come to think of it was kind of strange – I guess he had sort of webbed feet or something but we started off on this long trek to the village, I forget the name of it now, between Matala and Iraklion – and started off in the cool of the morning and by the time we got halfway there we were just sweltering me in these thick Afghani socks and heavy woollens and everything, so we went into the ruins of King Phestos's palace to sit down and have a little bit of a rest and while we were there these two tourist buses pulled up and everybody got off the buses in kind of an unusual symmetry, you know, they all sort of walked alike and talked alike and they all kind of looked alike and they all filed over to a series of rubblely rocks- a wall that was beginning to crumble – lined themselves up in a row and took out their viewing glasses, overgrown opera glasses, and they started looking at the sky and suddenly this little speck appeared on the horizon that came closer and closer, this little black speck.
Cary was standing behind all of this leaning on his cane and as it came into view he suddenly broke the silence of this big crowd and he yells out "it's ah MAAGPIE" in his best North Carolina drawl. And suddenly all the glasses went down in symmetry and everybody's heads turned around to reveal that they were all very birdlike looking people. They had long skinny noses – really – they had been watching birds so long that they looked like them, you know – and this one woman turned around and she says to him (in British accent) "it's NOT a magpie – it's a crooked crow." Then she very slowly and distinctly turned her head back, picked up her glasses and so did everybody else and we kept on walking. Bought two kilos of fish which would have rotted in the cave hadn't it been for the cats.
When we got back from that walk Stelios, who was the guy who ran the Mermaid Cafe, had decided to put an addition on his kitchen which turned out to be really illegal and it was so illegal, as a matter of fact, that the Junta dragged him off to jail and torture was legal over there – they burnt his hands and his feet with cigarette butts mainly because they hated, you know, all of the Canadians and Americans and wandering Germans living in the caves but they couldn't get them out of there because it was controlled by the same archaeologist that controlled the ruins of King Phestos's palace and he didn't mind you living there as long as you didn't Day-Glo all of the caves and everyone was like putting all of their psychedelia over all this ancient writing. So they carted him off to jail…"


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Late Michael Jackson breaks new record with 'Thriller'
Michael Jackson has broken another music record even after his death, with Thriller today certified as the first album to sell more than 30 million copies in the United States.
The Recording Industry Association of America announced that the 1982 work was its first "30 times platinum" album, with platinum defined as selling one million copies, meaning roughly one out of every 10 Americans has a copy.
"What an exceptional achievement and testament to 'Thriller"s enduring spot in our hearts and musical history," the industry group's chairman, Cary Sherman, said in a statement.
Thriller was considered a musical and marketing breakthrough, with the new "King of Pop" seizing on the possibilities of then nascent MTV to promote his music through videos and glitzy concerts.
Thriller produced a string of hits, including "Beat It" and "Billie Jean" and landed Jackson a record 12 nominations at the Grammy Awards, where he won eight.
"It is crystal clear that Michael Jackson is simply the greatest, and biggest, artist of all time," L.A. Reid, chairman of his label Epic Records, said as he saluted the new feat.
Thriller scored renewed sales with the release of a reissued 25th anniversary edition in 2008 and Jackson's death a year later. The album was certified as 29 times platinum less than two months after his death.
Jackson's estate says that "Thriller" has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, although some experts believe that figure is inflated.
British ballad singer Adele recently set the record for fastest sales in the United States since at least 1991, with her album 25 selling more than five million copies less than a month since its release.


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Mecha "Crocodile Mk2"
"Machine creature"
The distant future, the environment of the earth was harsh.
A highly developed AI has created a Mecha adapted to its natural environment.
The Mecha was designed with reference to living things.
From living creatures that have survived since ancient times, we can learn a lot.
"Tyrannosaur" is the largest carnivorous dinosaur in history.
It is also the largest carnivorous beast on earth.
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Hyundai will debut the BTR Edition Elantra Sport Concept at this year's SEMA Show as a tuner's take on the automaker's well-received sporty compact. Developed in cooperation with Blood Type Racing (BTR), this Elantra Sport gets a slew of modifications to make it more aggressive-looking and more potent. Some of the key suspension changes include an HSD coilover setup, and an upgraded…Read More


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In a general equilibrium setting, we study versions of the proposal to pay interest on reserves at the market rate. We argue that the proposal makes the demand for total reserves indeterminate whether interest is paid on total reserves or on required reserves only. One consequence is that tax financing of the proposal gives rise to a continuum of equilibria, equilibria which differ in real returns and consumption allocations. Another consequence is that an attempt to finance the proposal through earnings on the central bank's portfolio either gives rise to an equilibrium with a zero nominal interest rate or fails to give rise to an equilibrium.
A statistical definition of the natural unemployment rate hypothesis is advanced and tested. A particular illustrative structural macroeconomic model satisfying the definition is set forth and estimated. The model has "classical" policy implications, implying a number of neutrality propositions asserting the invariance of the conditional means of real variables with respect to the feedback rule for the money supply. The aim is to test how emphatically the data reject a model incorporating rather severe "classical" hypotheses.
Preliminary version of WP 43.
Paper prepared for seminar on New Methods in Business Cycle Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, November 13-14, 1975.
This paper is labeled as "W" and has no issue number. Issue number 0 is used for chronological purposes.
Remarks prepared for the Minnesota Economics Association Meeting, November 4, 1977.
This paper describes methods for conveniently formulating and estimating dynamic linear econometric models under the hypothesis of rational expectations. An econometrically convenient formula for the cross-equation rational expectations restrictions is derived. Models of error terms and the role of the concept of Granger causality in formulating rational expectations models are both discussed. Tests of hypothesis of strict econometric exogeneity along the lines of Sim's are compared with a test that is related to Wu's.
This paper constructs a model with two structural equations: the Government budget constraint and a linear version of Cagan's portfolio balance equation. The model contains a continuum of equilibria with "sunspot equilibria." Closed forms for the solutions are found. Even though there is a continuum of equilibria, the model is overidentified econometrically, so that the model restricts time series data on price levels and currency stocks. We describe how the free parameters of the model can be estimated, including some parameters that serve to index particular members of the continuum of equilibria. The sunspot equilibria hold out some promise of explaining anomalies in the observed behavior of inflation and real balances during hyperinflations.
This paper catalogues formulas that are useful for estimating dynamic linear economic models. We describe algorithms for computing equilibria of an economic model and for recursively computing a Gaussian likelihood function and its gradient with respect to parameters. We apply these methods to several example economies.
This paper catalogues formulas that are useful for estimating dynamic linear economic models. We describe algorithms for computing equilibria of an economic model and for recursively computing a Gaussian likelihood function and its gradient with respect to parameters. We display an application to Rosen, Murphy, and Scheinkman's (1994) model of cattle cycles.
Commodity money is modeled as one or two of the capital goods in a one-consumption good and one or two capital-good, overlapping generations model. Among the topics addressed using versions of the model are (i) the nature of the inefficiency of commodity money; (ii) the validity of quantity-theory predictions for commodity money systems; (iii) the circumstances under which one commodity emerges naturally as the commodity money; (iv) the role of inside money (money backed by private debt) in commodity money systems; and (v) the circumstances under which a government can choose the commodity to serve as the commodity money.
This paper surveys recent issues in macroeconomics from the viewpoint of dynamic economic theory. The need to look beyond demand and supply curves and the insights that come from doing so are emphasized. Examples of issues in debt management and fiscal policy are analyzed.
This paper proposes a method for estimating the parameters of continuous time, stochastic rational expectations models from discrete time observations. The method is important since various heuristic procedures for deducing the implications for discrete time data of continuous time models, such as replacing derivatives with first differences, can sometimes give rise to very misleading conclusions about parameters. Our proposal is to express the restrictions imposed by the rational expectations model on the continuous time process generating the observable variables. Then the likelihood function of a discrete time sample of observations from this process is obtained. Parameter estimates are computed by maximizing the likelihood function with respect to the free parameters of the continuous time model.
This paper describes the continuous time stochastic process for money and inflation under which Cagan's adaptive expectations model is optimal. It then analyzes how data formed by sampling money and prices at discrete points in time would behave.
This paper shows how the cross-equation restrictions implied by dynamic rational expectations models can be used to resolve the aliasing identification problem. Using a continuous time, linear-quadratic optimization environment, this paper describes how the resulting restrictions are sufficient to identify the parameters of the underlying continuous time process when it is known that the true continuous time process has a rational spectral density matrix.
This paper reconsiders the aliasing problem of identifying the parameters of a continuous time stochastic process from discrete time data. It analyzes the extent to which restricting attention to processes with rational spectral density matrices reduces the number of observationally equivalent models. It focuses on rational specifications of spectral density matrices since rational parameterizations are commonly employed in the analysis of the time series data.
This paper describes how to specify and estimate rational expectations models in which there are exact linear relationships among variables and expectations of variables that the econometrician observes.
This paper illustrates how to use instrumental variables procedures to estimate the parameters of a linear rational expectations model. These procedures are appropriate when disturbances are serially correlated and the instrumental variables are not exogenous.
A prediction formula for geometrically declining sums of future forcing variables is derived for models in which the forcing variables are generated by a vector autoregressive-moving average process. This formula is useful in deducing and characterizing cross-equation restrictions implied by linear rational expectations models.
On our interpretation, real bills advocates favor unfettered intermediation, while their critics, who we call quantity theorists, favor legal restrictions on intermediation geared to separate "money" from "credit." We display examples of economies in which quantity-theory assertions about "money-supply" and price-level behavior under the real bills regime are valid. In particular, both the price level and an asset total that quantity theorists would identify as money fluctuate more under a real bills regime than under a regime with restrictions like those favored by quantity theorists. Despite this, the Pareto criterion does not support the quantity-theory position.
This paper shows how the cross-equation restrictions delivered by the hypothesis of rational expectations can serve to solve the aliasing identification problem. It is shown how the rational expectations restrictions uniquely identify the parameters of a continuous time model from statistics of discrete time models.
This paper describes methods for estimating the parameters of continuous time linear stochastic rational expectations models from discrete time observations. The economic models that we study are continuous time, multiple variable, stochastic, linear-quadratic rational expectations models. The paper shows how such continuous time models can properly be used to place restrictions on discrete time data. Various heuristic procedures for deducing the implications for discrete time data of these models, such as replacing derivatives with first differences, can sometimes give rise to very misleading conclusions about parameters. The idea is to express the restrictions imposed by the rational expectations model on the continuous time process of the observable variables. Then the likelihood function of a discrete-time sample of observations from this process is obtained. Estimators are obtained by maximizing the likelihood function with respect to the free parameters of the continuous time model.
This paper explores some of the implications for econometric practice of the principle that people's observed behavior will change when their constraints change. In dynamic contexts, a proper definition of people's constraints includes among them laws of motion that describe the evolution of the taxes they must pay and the prices of the goods that they buy and sell. Changes in agents' perceptions of these laws of motion (or constraints) will in general produce changes in the schedules that describe the choices they make as a function of the information that they possess. Until very recently, received dynamic econometric practice ignored this principle. The practice of dynamic econometrics should be changed so that it is consistent with the principle that people's rules of choice are influenced by their constraints. This is a substantial undertaking, and involves major adjustments in the ways that we formulate, estimate, and simulate econometric models.
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A dynamic linear demand schedule for labor is estimated and tested. The hypothesis of rational expectations and assumptions about the orders of the Markov processes governing technology impose over-identifying restrictions on a vector autoregression for straight-time employment, overtime employment, and the real wage. The model is estimated by the full information maximum likelihood method. The model is used as a vehicle for re-examining some of the paradoxical cyclical behavior of real wages described in the famous Dunlop-Tarshis-Keynes exchange.


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Cake & Cunnilingus Day - Isn't it about damn time?
April 14th.
It's simple: Steak and BJ Day hails itself as "Man's Valentine's Day" - but we all know that's BS.
No amount of gas station flowers, collection of chocolates, cheap dates or spa vouchers equate to what he considers "equality" for a blowie and steak come March 14th.
Let's not beat around the bush… Here's OUR little secret guys: WE feel left out.
Now, we're not opposed to March 14th per se (we've actually celebrated it in the past) but there is no way it makes things "even." No way, no how. Not in a million years. Nada. No sir.
So how about this:
- 1) We all ditch Valentine's Day - funnily enough we actually agree with the S&BJ boys who argue that it's overly commercial / capitalist… Indeed it is. But that doesn't give guys free license to request a day just for them.
- 2) Women play along on Steak and BJ Day AS LONG AS:
- 3) Men reciprocate and celebrate Cake and Cunnilingus Day on April 14th.
To somewhat paraphrase… "Simple, effective and self explanatory. No cards, no flowers, no special nights on the town; the name explains it all: just a cake, and some good ol' fashioned head."
And if you don't come good on April 14th then good luck getting anything beyond 1st base for weeks thereafter.
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Cakes are delicious. Head is divine. Prostate cancer blows… April 14th is thus a chance to tackle all three. We're giving everyone the opportunity to send an email invitation to your partner whilst giving a few bucks to charity.
In 2015 we're supporting The Prostate Cancer Foundation - the leading philanthropic organisation funding and accelerating prostate cancer research. In the United States, it's the most common non-skin cancer - but remains 100% treatable if detected early enough.
Invite your partner to April 14th and help raise awareness.


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Momentum Trains wins contract for regional rail fleet, maintenance facility
A contract has been signed for the $2.8 billion project to design, build and maintain the new regional rail fleet.
The contract has been signed with Momentum Trains, which is lead by Spanish company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles.
It includes the construction of the new rail fleet, which is comprised of 10 regional intercity trains, nine short regional trains and 10 long regional trains, as well as the establishment of a rail maintenance facility.
Transport and Infrastructure Minister Andrew Constance said the fleet would replace the current XPT, XPLORER and Endeavour trains.
"We're going to take the maintenance of country trains out of the city and put the jobs where they belong, in the country, where these trains are going to be maintained," Mr Constance said.
"We're going to have 200 jobs during construction, 50 full-time maintenance jobs and 60 associated with the final fit out of these trains."
Dubbo MP Troy Grant said the kids in Dubbo schools would now be able to consider a career in the industry without having to leave home.
The new trains will travel at 160 kilometres per hour. They'll be diesel and electric to produce fewer emissions and have been designed with consultation from the public, Mr Constance said.
"We're going to have a premium service, we're going to have an economy service, we're going to have charge points where you can charge your iPhone and they're Wi-Fi enabled," he said.
Trains on longer rail journeys will also include buffet cars and be more comfortable for people in a wheelchair.
Deputy Premier John Barilaro said it was one of the most exciting transformations of passenger rail in NSW fr decades, improving how people travel and ensuring investment goes straight back into regional economies.
Construction on the new regional rail fleet and maintenance facility will start straight away. Mr Constance said he expected the fleet to be progressively introduced from 2023, operated by NSW TrainLink.
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