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☕ Good Monday morning.
D.C. Readers: You're invited! Join managing editor Kim Hart on Wednesday for a breakfast conversation on how AI will impact our economy, jobs, and lives. RSVP here.
- Kim will interview both chairs of the Artificial Intelligence Caucus: Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) and Rep. Pete Olson (R-Texas), former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy and former Pennsylvania governor Ed Rendell.
1 big thing: Mueller's breadcrumbs
Everyone's waiting for the "Mueller Report." But it turns out that special counsel Robert Mueller is writing a "report" in real time, before our eyes, through his cinematic indictments and plea agreements, Garrett M. Graff reports for Axios:
- One of the least-noticed elements of the special counsel's approach is that all along, he has been making his case bit by bit, in public, since his very first court filing.
- With his major court filings so far, Mueller has already written more than 290 pages of the "Mueller Report."
- And there are still lots of loose ends in those documents — breadcrumbs Mueller is apparently leaving for later.
Perhaps the best example is Mueller's oddly specific reference to the Russian hackers targeting Hillary Clinton "for the first time" after candidate Trump's still-unexplained "Russia, if you're listening" comment on July 27, 2016.
- Trump said: "I hope you're able to find the 30,000 [Clinton] emails that are missing. I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press." (He also said: "I have nothing to do with Russia.")
- A Mueller indictment in July said that the next day, "the Conspirators ... attempted after hours to spear-phish for the first time email accounts at a domain hosted by a third-party provider and used by Clinton's personal office."
- That shows Mueller has access to much more intelligence than is publicly known. Remember, these are Russian government employees. So Mueller has remarkable and thus far unexplained visibility.
By making such detailed filings, Mueller is actually increasing his burden of proof — suggesting a supreme confidence that he has the goods.
- And by making so much public as he goes along, Mueller is also insuring against his probe being shut down or otherwise curtailed by the White House.
Some of his deeply detailed filings raise questions that suggest more is coming:
- In a February indictment of officials of the Russian troll factory, he announced that three Internet Research Agency employees traveled to the U.S. in 2014. He indicted two of them, but left unindicted someone from the IRA who evidently traveled to Atlanta as part of the operation for four days in 2014.
- Mueller makes clear in the indictment that he knows the precise IRA official to whom this unnamed male traveler filed his Atlanta expenses after the trip.
- The information could have come from U.S. intelligence or another country. But Mueller leaves the impression he may have a cooperator inside the troll factory.
Other hints at coming attractions:
- Mueller said in last week's Michael Cohen plea agreement that a "Moscow Project" meeting about a Trump-branded building in Russia was called off, by Cohen, on the same day that the DNC hack became public.
- Based on a court filing last week, Mueller apparently hopes to quickly issue a "report" on Manafort's activities to the court.
Be smart: If it's anything like every other document Mueller has filed thus far, it'll be more informed, more knowledgeable, and more detailed than we can imagine.
2. Thorny U.S.-China talks ahead
The 90-day U.S.-China ceasefire "over tariffs was greeted with relief by businesses around the world as the two largest economies eased concerns over a possible new Cold War," The Wall Street Journal reports.
- But enthusiasm is tempered by the fact "that Trump and Xi didn't bridge major differences."
The Journal's Bob Davis ticks off the issues still on the table: "forced technology transfer by U.S. companies doing business in China; intellectual-property protection that the U.S. wants China to strengthen; nontariff barriers that impede U.S. access to Chinese markets; and cyberespionage."
- What's next: "If the economy slows down, it's very unlikely U.S. will ever ratchet up tariffs," said David Dollar, a Brookings Institution China scholar who was the Treasury Department's representative in Beijing under Obama.
- "But if the U.S. economy is roaring and the negotiations are especially frustrating, 90 days from now we could be headed into a serious trade war."
3. Sanders eyes bigger 2020
"Sen. Bernie Sanders is laying the groundwork to launch a bigger presidential campaign than his first, as advisers predict he would open the 2020 Democratic presidential primary season as a political powerhouse," AP's Steve Peoples reports a meeting of the Sanders brain trust in Burlington, Vt.
- "A final decision has not been made, but those closest to the 77-year-old self-described democratic socialist suggest that neither age nor interest from a glut of progressive presidential prospects would dissuade him from undertaking a second shot."
- "This time, he starts off as a front-runner, or one of the front-runners," Sanders' 2016 campaign manager Jeff Weaver said. "It'll be a much bigger campaign if he runs again, in terms of the size of the operation."
Signs of cracks in his base: "His loyalists are sizing up a prospective 2020 Democratic field likely to feature a collection of ambitious liberal leaders."
- "Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and California Sen. Kamala Harris ... have embraced Sanders' call for 'Medicare for All' and a $15 minimum wage."
P.S. ... At a "Know Your Value" live event in San Francisco with "Morning Joe" co-host Mika Brzezinski, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) said of a presidential run:
- "[O]ver the holiday, I will make that decision with my family."
4. Pic du jour: New House Democratic leaders
Front row, left to right: Katherine Clark, Caucus Vice Chair; Ben Ray Luján, Assistant Majority Leader; Steny Hoyer, Majority Leader; Nancy Pelosi, Speaker-designate; Jim Clyburn, Majority Whip; Hakeem Jeffries, Caucus Chair; Cheri Bustos, DCCC Chair.
- Back row, left to right: Joe Neguse, Freshman Leadership Representative; Jamie Raskin, Caucus Leadership Representative; Eric Swalwell, Steering and Policy Committee Co-Chair; Ted Lieu, Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Co-Chair; Debbie Dingell, DPCC Co-Chair; David Cicilline, DPCC Chair; Matt Cartwright, DPCC Co-Chair; Rosa DeLauro, Steering and Policy Committee Co-Chair; Barbara Lee, Steering and Policy Committee Co-Chair; Katie Hill, Freshman Leadership Representative.
5. As climate change worsens, America faces nuclear closures
THREE MILE ISLAND, Pa. — Next year will mark 40 years since America's worst nuclear-energy accident unfolded here in a partial radioactive meltdown. The reactor still operating next to the defunct one is set to close next year, 15 years sooner than planned, Amy Harder reports in her "Harder Line" energy column.
- Why it matters: As we found in a visit for "Axios on HBO," this power plant represents everything good and bad about America's nuclear power. With climate change worsening, calls are growing to keep plants like this one open despite financial strains because they emit no heat-trapping gases. Yet fear persists about safety and what to do with the radioactive waste.
- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said in interview for "Axios on HBO": "I think that the climate change problem is now so dire and so immediate that we can't afford to turn away from any technologies that promise to reduce our dependence on fuels that emit carbon dioxide when burned. And nuclear is a part of that portfolio."
The big picture: Cheap natural gas and increasingly cheap renewables buoyed by government support are financially squeezing this plant and others, which aren't compensated for their carbon-free profile like wind and solar.
- Nuclear power provides 20% of America's electricity, more than half of the carbon-free kind. In Pennsylvania, that share is nearly 94%.
Driving the news: Exelon, owner of Three Mile Island, has been losing money for five years on it. It announced earlier this year it was planning to close the plant in September 2019 unless there's government action, likely through the Pennsylvania legislature, to financially help it remain open.
6. "The Patrician President and the Reporterette: A Screwball Story"
Maureen Dowd recalls her "decades of correspondence" with President George H.W. Bush after covering/stalking him as a White House correspondent for the N.Y. Times:
- "[H]e tried to figure out why we stayed in touch, beginning one note 'Darn you Maureen Dowd' and mischievously observing in another, 'Sometimes I found it better around my family to go 'Maureen who?'"
- "At times, typing on what he called 'my little IBM,' he signed off 'Con afecto, GB,'' or if I was writing critically about his sons, 'Con Afecto, still, just barely though! gb.' Or 'Love' scratched out and replaced with the handwritten rebuke, 'not quite there yet.'"
41 occasionally referred to 43 in his notes as "my boy, Quincy."
- "He sometimes signed off sardonically, 'Sincerely, My Excellency, GHWB, Eastern Elitist.'"
Bush gave her "a quirky, raffish, 11-page typed parody of my Bush parodies portraying W. as a Boy Emperor being controlled by his malevolent regents, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. His satire was laced with 'forsooths,' 'lyres,' 'nobles and peasants,' 'courtiers,' 'verilys' and other Old English touches."
- "It was funny, bringing alive the fantasy court of Bushland with Poppy as 'the old warrior king'; 'Queen Bar'; 'King Prescott of Greenwich, now in heaven'; 'Princess Doro'; 'Earl Jeb of Tallahassee'; 'Lady Dowd, charming princess of Op-ed land'; 'Queen Hillary of Chappaqua'; 'Sir Algore'; 'Maid Monica' frolicking with 'King Bill' in the Oval Office, ushering in 'a new permissiveness, a new standard that confuses the old man.' And there was George of Crawford, 'the new King' who took the throne after 'the Battle of Chads in November.'"
7. Drone delivery looks to be a ways off
"Jeff Bezos boldly predicted five years ago that drones would be carrying Amazon packages to people's doorsteps by now. Amazon customers are still waiting," AP's David Koenig and Joseph Pisani report.
- "[O]vercoming the regulatory hurdles and safety issues posed by drones" has been a bigger challenge than expected.
- "The day may not be far off when drones will carry medicine to people in rural or remote areas, but the marketing hype around instant delivery of consumer goods looks more and more like ... hype. Drones have a short battery life, and privacy concerns can be a hindrance, too."
"The government estimates that about 110,000 commercial drones are operating in U.S. airspace, and the number is expected to soar to about 450,000 in 2022. They are being used in rural areas for mining and agriculture, for inspecting power lines and pipelines, and for surveying."
- "Amazon says it is still pushing ahead with plans to use drones for quick deliveries, though the company is staying away from fixed timelines."
8. Stat du jour
"Destructive wildfires are regular events in Malibu, but last month's Woolsey fire could prove to be the worst ever to strike the upscale coastal community," the L.A. Times reports.
- "At least 670 structures were destroyed inside the Malibu city limits, including more than 400 single-family homes with an estimated market value of at least $1.6 billion, according to an analysis of aerial imagery and property records."
9. "Hamilton" steals show at Kennedy Center Honors
"The Kennedy Center Honors stepped out of its comfort zone, ... conferring recognition for the first time on a living, breathing work of art, along with four seasoned — and also living and breathing — American artists," the WashPost's Peter Marks writes.
- "By adding a popular musical, the universally celebrated 'Hamilton,' to a historic list of honorees that has run alphabetically over the past 41 years from George Abbott to Joanne Woodward, the Kennedy Center radically revised the rules."
Photo above ... Front row from left, David Rubenstein, chairman of the board for the Kennedy Center; 2018 Kennedy Center honorees Wayne Shorter, Philip Glass, Reba McEntire, Cher, Kennedy Center President Deborah Rutter.
- Back row from left, Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan, Grace Rodriguez, and the 2018 Kennedy Center honorees, the co-creators of "Hamilton," Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Andy Blankenbuehler and Alex Lacamoire.
10. 1 toy thing
"Skip the costly electronic games and flashy digital gizmos. Pediatricians say the best toys for tots are old-fashioned hands-on playthings that young children can enjoy with parents — things like blocks, puzzles — even throwaway cardboard boxes — that spark imagination and creativity," AP Medical Writer Lindsey Tanner reports:
- "Many parents feel pressured by ads promoting tablet-based toys and games as educational and brain-stimulating but there's not much science to back up those claims."
- "The report published [today] by the American Academy of Pediatrics cites studies suggesting that heavy use of electronic media may interfere with children's speech and language development, replace important playtime with parents and lead to obesity."
"The pediatricians' group recommends no screen time for children up to age 2, and says total screen time including TV and computer use should be less than one hour daily for ages 2 and older."
- "The academy's website offers suggestions on ideal toys for young children, including balls, puzzles, coloring books and card games."


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Happy New Year!!!
Have you made your new year's resolution? This month, I will not be featuring random five picks of favorites. Instead, I will be talking about five new year's resolutions (tips) to help you make this year a truly happier one! Ready?
1. Make time for yourself.
So much of our time is dedicated to the people we love and care about. I, for one, is a perfect example of someone who finds it so hard to squeeze in time to do things for herself (go to a salon to have her nails cleaned or go see a doctor when sick). It's not because I can't go out, but it's more of me putting other's needs first. I guess that's exactly how moms are most of the time. And because there seems to be not enough time in a day, often our needs are taken for granted. Truth is, the things that we have to do for our loved ones will just keep on piling up. If you're like me who waits for that "perfect" time to do things for herself, then let me tell you this– it's never going to happen, you'll never see that time coming unless you take a break to do things for yourself.
While it's important that we take care of the people we love, it is also of the same importance that we do not neglect our own needs. I remember my Pulmonologist once told me, "if we truly care about the people around us then we have to make sure that we are also in top shape to take care of them and be there for them". And giving the same importance and attention to our own needs in the same level of effort that we give others is the best way to achieve that.
2. Share and give back.
You heard the saying, "it's better to give, than to receive"? It's true… There's no better feeling than being able to share your blessings. This year, make it a habit to share, to give. It doesn't have to be in the form of money alone, you can give your time, share your talent, whatever you can. Nobody is too poor to be a blessing to others. When we give back we don't just make others happy, we become even happier people too because we get to be a blessing to others. Is there any other feeling more fruitful than that?
3. Go out, explore.
Travel… Go to places. You don't need to go out of the country to do that, you can simply go out of town if money is an issue. Make a list of the places you haven't been to and schedule a trip. Experience what other places have to offer.
For a normal, stressful day– you can go out for a walk, enjoy your surroundings. Walking is said to be a natural form of energizer and serves as an anti-depressant. It also boost circulation and increase oxygen supply in every cell in our body– helping us feel more alive. Don't wallow in things that causes stress, go out and walk those stress away.
4. Buy less, instead do more.
They say that an average person today owns about 10,000 objects. Yet are we any happier? After we buy the things that we thought can make us happy, several days from the purchase the happiness dies down too. This year lets try to do it differently– instead of buying new things engage in classes, learn a new skill- try calligraphy or take clay workshops for example. The important thing is you invest on learning and trying to do something new.
5. Do what makes you happy.
Last but not the least, whatever it is that makes your heart flutter — go for it! As long as you don't hurt or ends up stepping on someone's toes, do it! Remember that nobody else can truly make you happy but you. So reflect on what brings you happiness and set out to do it.
Through the years, I realised that it's so much easy to find things to worry about. It's easy to see the bad in things… But it takes an effort to appreciate the goodness of what is around us. This year, lets all strive and make that extra effort to be happier and be the source of goodness of people around us.
How about you, what are your new year's resolution this 2015? Do you have anything else that you think I should include in the list? Lets ponder more about it in the comments. 🙂

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Stress Management For Kids And Teenagers
Why Stress Management For Kids Is Important Today
Sadly anxiety, depression and stress is becoming a rapidly increasing problem for many kids and teenagers today. Chronic stress. We know how much stress management is important for adults, but stress management for kids REALLY?
Why Stress Management For Kids Is Taken Seriously In Schools
In-fact, stress management for kids is extremely important today, and I will tell you why. Let's look at what stress is and why stress management for kids is now a large part of child's education. Why meditation and yoga for kids is becoming a core part of many school's regular curriculum.
When we think of negative STRESS what we are talking about is the fight or flight response. Our mental, physical and emotional reaction to what we or our body perceives as danger. We are so used to just getting on with every day life or stress. It is easy to forget how busy, noisey and crazy life is in modern day life. It is easy to over look how over stimulated even babies are, never mind children and teenagers. Stress mangement for kids basically teaches your child let go of stress and anxiety in a healthy way. Sadly more and more children are extremely anxious and depressed. Children are supposed to naturally be able to switch off, relax and just be, But today in many situations that is not the case. I have worked with many children who have been seriously depressed and overwhelmed, even at a young age.
Children today are very much over stimulated and over challenged especially mentally and emotionally. They have so much media, peer, family and even school pressure to conform. With so many relationship break ups, children are dealing with the difficult emotional entanglement of parent/ relationship challenges around them. They are often dealing with confusion, grief, loss and at times trauma… So many children struggle to even get a good night's sleep, so they are facing their day tired and more emotionally fragile,
We may look at modern day technology as amazing and the way even toddlers grasp technology remarkable. But no matter how we look at technology in modern day life, life is very noisey and over stimulating. There is so much information over load and side-effects from techno stress especially electro magnetic frequencies and light emitting devices. That many children are very much high wired and hyper sensitive. No wonder we are seeing more symptoms of sensitivity to the central nervous system. Obviously more challenging for kids who already have sensory challenges and sensitivity issues . Believe me I know as someone who now suffers from extreme noise and light sensitivity. Sensory over load is extremely exhausting.
So stress management for kids is a necessary part of modern day life and despite training in many disciplines of stress management and up to university level. Despite learning many types of healing and therapeutic approaches over a few decades, the most simple but powerful form of stress management. Is teaching your child how to meditate, how to relax, how to switch off. Give your child the right type of meditation and even mindful tools and they have learned something wonderful for life. Meditation is like your child's best friend it is always there and it can help your child through their greatest challenge. It helps them experience more calm and contentment, it helps them detach from the noise and chaos of modern day living. It helps them let go of stress, be more happy and care free.
I began teaching meditation and stress management and teenagers in schools and projects over 16 years ago. And it was one of my biggest passions. So I recently decided to created some new fun and educational online stress management programs for kids. I have just launched my new fab and fun Kids Meditation And Mindfulness Membership Club aimed at approx 4-8 years. And I will be putting out a Exam Stress Toolkit For Teenagers very soon. And will be launching some new programs for teachers and schools. If you want to learn more about my brand new programs you can learn more at my brand new site www.eileenburns.co.uk


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Tutorial on how to remove Mi Account on Xiaomi Mi4
- Boot your Xiaomi phone in fastboot boot. To do this, turn it off first, then press "Volume Down" and "Power" buttons and connect your phone to PC after fastboot logo appeared on the screen. You also should have all required drivers installed on your PC.
- Now start Mi Unlock, go to "Xiaomi" tab, select your phone model and press "Remove Account".
- Reboot your device.
- That's it! Your Mi Account should be removed now.


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Questions 4
posted on Apr 15, 2019 08:43AM
Potential to be the largest lithium resource globally
25) Other extraction techniques
Has any other / additional technology company approched Iconic Minerals over the months (or years) to assist in the development of a suitable extraction technique for the Bonnie Claire project and if so, what were the outcome of these discussions?
26) Technical advisors
Has the company recently been approched by any "technical advisor" / "consultant" or has the company any specific plans to add some additional expertise in the near future? Is Dr. Ian Hutcheon still part of the advisory board and if so is he the "driving force" to further look into lithium brines?
27) Royalty Agreement
Do you think that this royalty agreement with St-Georges Eco-Mining could become an issue with regards to any Joint Venture or possible Buyout discussions once the project is further de-risked? "The Parties will establish a royalty stream on the commercial output of the Property for the entire mine life, which will be opposable to any successors of Iconic as a lien on the mining assets. St-Georges and Iconic will negotiate a right of first refusal in favor of Iconic. The royalty, to be negotiated within the guidelines of the "Royalty Formula", will take the form of a 5% Net Revenue Interest or Net Revenue Return."
28) Stage 3 Benchmark
As part of the agreement St-Georges has agreed to provide engineering and technical services on all licensed production sites. Stage 3 Benchmark is defined by the reception of a Preliminary Economic Assesement Report (or commercialization decision). Will St-Georges bear all costs involved to complete the PEA for the Bonnie Claire project and therefore can also decide which engineering firm will be contracted or is Iconic Minerals in charge and has to pay for the Preliminary Economic Assesment Report? What is the expected completetion date for this important milestone?
"1,500,000 shares upon Stage 3 Benchmark completion: which is defined by the reception of a Preliminary Economical Assessment Report (PEA) or at commercialization decision or the third (3rd) year anniversary mark of this Agreement assuming other issuance have been completed."
29) Incorporation of Lithium Brine
In a press release from January 9, 2018 Iconic Minerals stated that "If significant lithium brines are discovered they will be incorporated into St-George's ongoing lithium recovery testing program." However, Frank mentioned in a recent video interview ( released on April 4, 2019 - https://insidexploration.com/st-georges-eco-mining-frank-dumas-and-enrico-di-cesare-talk-extraction-technologies/ approx. minute 18:00) that they won't handle / touching lithium brines at all. Could you please elaborate on this topic?
30) Conflict of Interest
From you point of view what are the implications that St-Georges Eco-Mining applies this unique and proprietory extraction process not only to alternative sources like lithium in clay/sediment as previously intended but also to conventional hardrock sources like spodumene? "A break through to achieve over 99% at atmospheric pressure and low temperature was achieved reducing capex and simplifying the current assumptions that the industry has for hard rock leaching."
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There is no right or wrong way to cope with Christmas, especially if this is the first Christmas without your beloved wife, husband, mother, father, child. We have compiled a list of ideas, gleaned from many sources. Hints that other grieving people have found helped them through Christmas. If there is a suggestion that you feel is right for you and your family hold on to it and let the others go, maybe next year you might feel like trying some other ideas.
- Know that as a grieving person, you have physical and emotional limitations. Evaluate priorities and decide what you want to do and what you are capable of doing.
- You and your family come first, what is most comfortable for all of you is what should be done. Let these needs be known to family, friends and relatives.
- Discuss with your family how they feel and what they would like to do. Let them decorate the tree, make the cake, wrap the presents etc.
Ways to Include Your loved one's Life and Memories
- Take time, maybe before dinner, to ask everyone to have a moment of silence to think about your loved one. Ask them if they would like to share their thoughts.
- Invite everyone to write down a special thought about your loved one and place it in his/her Christmas stocking to be read by anyone at any time. This could be a special gift from you and your family to revive those special memories.
- Light a candle on Christmas day in memory of you're the person who has passed.
- Buy a gift that the person would have enjoyed and donate it to a charity to brighten another person's day or make a donation in your loved one's name to his/her favourite charity.
- Buy an approved helium balloon and get the family to write messages to tie to it and together release it.
- Ask everyone to bring photographs of "Christmases Past". Photos of the person or perhaps them and their parents and siblings. You might find that the sharing of these photos makes it easier and leads naturally into the sharing of memories of your loved one as well as other family members who are absent (parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, uncles, aunts, etc.)
Changes You Could Make
- Have a different type of tree, a smaller one, a white one instead of the traditional green, or maybe no tree at all this year.
- Make a special ornament to add to the tree using craft materials or even a photo. This could be a good way to include younger family members.
- Don't feel you should send out Christmas cards; I'm sure your friends will understand.
- Change the time of Christmas meal, maybe dinner instead of lunch.
- Attend a different Church or different service.
- Do something for someone else. Focus on others (elderly neighbour, someone with no relatives nearby) for part of the holidays will give you a respite from your pain.
Some Things Not To Do
- Don't pretend you do not hurt.
- Don't make changes in everything.
- Don't forget that Christmas and holiday times often magnify feelings of loss of a loved one.
- Experiencing the sadness that comes is important and natural. To block out such feelings is unhealthy. Keep the positive memory of your loved one alive.
- Don't give yourself the additional burden of worrying about crying. Your tears shouldn't ruin the day for other family members but will provide them with the same freedom. Remember your crying can't MAKE others cry, they cry because
they too are affected by the death of your loved one or their relative.
- You might not want to change anything; you may want to keep busy, not have time to think, hold back the pain. Don't get so busy that you will not have time to think about your loved one, it will catch up with you and possibly hit you harder than if you had allowed yourself the freedom to hurt, to yearn, to wonder what might have been, to truly miss them and be allowed to say so.
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Somebody once said that what would destroy political correctness is that you can't tell satire from the real thing. In hopes of which I offer this headline: "Vatican ruling troubles celiac community." You tell me.
Correct, alert readers. It's a real headline from Saturday's National Post. And yet it reads like satire. And not just the headline. The text, and the substance of the story behind it.
The supposed issue is here that some people are very unhappy that Pope Francis has said communion wafers may not be gluten-free. Which might seem an odd comment for him to make or for them to go nuts over.
Sorry, not nuts. Don't want to offend the peanut-allergy community. Not that peanuts are nuts at all, actually. They're the edible seeds of a legume. Please don't shoot me.
At what point did Jesus take time out of his busy schedule to dwell on gluten?
The point is, a question too rarely asked these days. Namely: "Where's that in the Bible?" At what point did Jesus take time out of his busy schedule of moral instruction, parable-telling, death and resurrection to dwell on gluten and inflict misery on those unable to digest it?
Well, he didn't, of course. Nor did the Pope. What Francis actually said, in case it matters in our postmodern "post-truth" times, is that the host must be made of wheat. Or rather, Cardinal Robert Sarah said it, at the Pope's request, in a reminder letter to bishops, given increasingly laxity in sourcing of communion wafers.
Oh, the humanity.
As one former Catholic remarked acerbically to me, it is possible to think of weightier reasons to leave the church. Or I would add to join it. For instance its resolute defence of traditional sexual morality. Or its habit of saying daffy but trendy things about economics or the environment with the best of intentions.
As one former Catholic remarked acerbically to me, it is possible to think of weightier reasons to leave the church
These are matters on which it might be understandable to lose your cool. But no. Today we are obsessed with minutiae especially if they are of the group identity resentment variety. Because, and this is a key point that somehow did make it into the Post story, in its very last sentence, if you are so utterly gluten-intolerant that even a fragment triggers days of torment, you can receive communion just using the wine.
That's right. Nobody is keeping anybody from receiving communion due to celiacphobia or cisgutenism or whatever term is slouching toward Bethlehem waiting to be born. Possibly the hospital not the city. (Bethlem Royal Hospital, Europe's oldest psychiatric hospital, at one time so infamous for its harsh treatment of patients that its nickname gave us the term "Bedlam.")
Now before we hear a howl from the celiac-alcoholic "community" about this "marginalization" or exclusionarismnesshood or whatever it will be called next week, may I just note that the Vatican does allow the use of non-alcoholic mustum, that is, just-pressed grape juice (formally "grape juice that is either fresh or preserved by methods that suspend its fermentation without altering its nature (for example, freezing)" in rare circumstances, including that the priest, or celebrant, is an alcoholic. (Because of the requirement that it not have its nature altered, pasteurized juice is out, by the way, which I'm sure can trigger a grievance somewhere, perhaps from those who are whatever the PC term for obsessive about germs is.)
It's almost as though we're looking for a fight
It's almost as though we're looking for a fight. Salon declared that, "Vatican takes hard-line stance against gluten-free Communion wafers." The Globe and Mail said, "Vatican ruling against gluten-free hosts troubles celiac community." The CBC's Comedy section ridiculed it, though predictably targeting the church for worrying about wafers, not parishioners for whining about them. And something called "The A.V. Club" wrote "Pope Francis doesn't care about your celiac disease."
Admittedly the A.V. Club bills itself as "an entertainment website." So you tell me whether the entertainment is intentional in its declaration that "Pope Francis has earned a largely positive reception since his election to the papacy in 2013 — for instance, he has cautioned against the very real dangers of both climate change and Putin's government. But over the weekend he dealt a harsh blow to Catholics with celiac disease, wheat allergies, and also your annoying neighbor who thinks that gluten makes her head hurt or something."
I treasure Susan Sontag's crack that, "I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them." I think the specific, trendy paranoia about "micro-aggression," especially on university campuses, is an attempt to inflate our egos by deluding ourselves into thinking someone is taking the time and effort to persecute us. Actually, as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's "Total Perspective Vortex" would reveal if you dared step into it, they don't know you exist until the whining becomes unendurable.
Which on this issue it did with such remarkable speed that it feels like satire. If only it was.
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Challenge in the Middle East: Communist Influence and American Policy
Challenge in the Middle East: Communist Influence and American Policy
From 1952 until the present I have worked with the problems of the Middle East, for more than half of that time as resident Middle East correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor. My work has taken me widely and repeatedly throughout the Arab world, and also to Israel, Turkey, and Iran.
In this book I have set down certain conclusions of my own about effective American policies in the area. The central problem I consider to be the safeguarding of legitimate American interests against the steady pressure of Communist infiltration. In the following pages I explain my reasons for believing that Arab leaders--notably President Nasser--are far more deeply concerned about the dangers of Communist influence than is realized by many in the West.
I also attempt to show that the national interests of the United States and those of the Arabs, Israelis, and other Middle Eastern peoples are compatible, whereas the national interests of the Soviet bloc and the nations of the . . .


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On Verge Of Foreclosure, Arizona Man Coughs Up $21K+ To Reinstate Loan & Halt Sale; Bank Pockets Cash, Auctions Off Home Anyway
In Maricopa, Arizona, KPHO-TV Channel 5 reports:
- An Arizona man is accusing his bank of stealing his house and he wants it back. The homeowner was on the verge of foreclosure when he paid off all the money he owed, but the bank sold the house anyway.
David Reed told CBS5 that he thought he had nothing to worry about when his home and 5-acre property in Maricopa was scheduled to be sold at auction, because he fell behind on his mortgage payments. "I called their payment line and asked them what is the total amount I owed to stop my house from going into foreclosure," said Reed. "They told me $21,573."
The 52-year old, who's spent the past year battling health problems, sent the full amount straight to Cenlar Bank, which acknowledged receiving the money March 5. Reed was convinced his home was safe, but it wasn't.
"I came home one day and had a notice on my door that somebody else owned my property and I either had to get out immediately or rent it back from them."
Cenlar Bank had gone ahead with the trustee sale, March 23, even though Reed was now up to date on his mortgage and had paid all his interest and late fees. "I believe they just figured it was an easy way to make another $20,000," said Reed. "Let me make my payment, then turn around and auction it off and make more money."
Reed hired a lawyer and filed a lawsuit after Cenlar failed to reverse the trustee sale. [...] Reed said that he was only able to pay off what he owed because of money he inherited recently following a death in the family.
CBS5 made several calls and sent a number of emails to the attorney for Cenlar Bank to get their side of the story, but have not heard back.


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ASSEMBLY, No. 2732
218th LEGISLATURE
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman BOB ANDRZEJCZAK
District 1 (Atlantic, Cape May and Cumberland)
Assemblyman RONALD S. DANCER
District 12 (Burlington, Middlesex, Monmouth and Ocean)
Senator JEFF VAN DREW
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Clarifies that use of propane-powered noise making device is allowed as non-lethal method of wildlife control on farmland.
As introduced.
An Act concerning non-lethal wildlife control on agricultural lands and amending P.L.1964, c.37.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.1964, c.37 (C.23:4-63.5) is amended to read as follows:
1. Any provision of law or municipal ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding, any owner of lands used for agricultural purposes, shall pursuant to rules and regulations promulgated by the Division of Fish and [Game] Wildlife, have the right to use certain noise making and other mechanical devices, including non-lethal propane-powered noise making devices, intended to scare or repel marauding birds or other wildlife so as to prevent the damage and destruction of crops and other property.
(cf: P.L.1964, c.37, s.1)
2. Section 2 of P.L.1964, c.37 (C.23:4-63.6) is amended to read as follows:
2. The Division of Fish [Game] and [Shell Fisheries] Wildlife is authorized to issue permits to the owners of lands used for agricultural purposes for the use of [said] such devices and no such device shall be used by any person without first obtaining such permit. Any person who violates this section shall be liable to a penalty of [$20.00] $20 for each such offense. Whenever the governing body of any municipality adopts a resolution pointing to undue hardship on nearby residents as a result of the use of any such device, and requests that the division deny or cancel the right to use such device, the Director of the Division of Fish[, Game] and [Shell Fisheries] Wildlife, after review of all available evidence, may deny or cancel a permit to use such [devise] device when he determines that the use thereof creates an undue hardship on nearby residents. In arriving at any such decision, the director may consult with any county or Statewide advisory group [he] the director may designate to advise [him] the director on such matters. The division shall promulgate rules and regulations governing the types and use of such devices as will insure the safety of the public.
(cf: P.L.1979, c.385, s.6)
3. This act shall take
effect immediately.
This bill clarifies existing law by specifically allowing the use of propane-powered noise making devices as a non-lethal method to control bird and other wild animal populations on agricultural land. Currently, the use of a propane-powered noise making device as a non-lethal method of wildlife control on agricultural land is not explicitly authorized by statute or in the State Fish and Game Code.


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Following the September 2016 Japanese release of Persona 5, the Atlus-developed JRPG has finally hit North American gaming audiences, and many critics concede that it's something quite special. Though the title has been lauded for its intense and pulpy story and unique aesthetic design, Persona 5 (like any other game) isn't without its faults. In particular, the game doesn't allow the option to choose between a male or a female lead. And, according to the game's designer, offering that choice wouldn't be worth it.
Waypoint journalist Sayem Ahmed recently sat down with Persona 5 director Katsura Hashino for an interview in which the topic of the game's characters, particularly its protagonist, naturally arose. As with some of the series' past installments, the main character is pre-set in Persona 5. Users play as a male exchange student whose mysterious aura and checkered past stir up gossip and a bit of trouble at his new school.
However, one previous franchise addition featured a gender select option. In Persona 3, players could pick a male or a female protagonist to play as. When Ahmed asked Hashino why this isn't the case in Persona 5, Hashino explained that decision to forgo the option for a female lead was made to ensure other in-game elements could be included.
"Every time the development on a new Persona game starts, this subject always comes up at the very beginning," Hashino stated. "When thinking about how much work goes into accomplishing such a feat, it's a huge amount. Honestly, to put that option into the game, we'd have to cut out other things to compensate for the workload, and every time that's the situation we'll basically say, 'It's not worth it.'"
Hashino continued, referencing Persona 3's storyline in connection to a female protagonist in comparison to certain plot and story aspects that are central to recent installments, like Persona 4 and Persona 5.
"With the way that game's world worked, it was okay for the protagonist to be female," Hashino began. "With Persona 4, though, we needed the character to come from a big city to a small country town to be the driving force of the story, and it seemed more natural for a male character to fulfill that role. There are story aspects to this decision, as well."
The characters that players do follow are multi-faceted and crafted to evoke sympathy -- and do include females. Hashino commented that the most important thing for Persona 5 fans to experience is a connection to each of the characters, male of female. "If they have some personal issues, we want all the people who play the game to understand, and help them. To get that real feeling of a personal relation between the player and character," Hashino said.
Persona 5 is by no means insensitive in its approach to various important and serious issues; Ahmed mentions the game takes "great care" in handling tough subjects. That being said, it's understandable that some players may be put off by the missing gender select option despite the game's positive aspects outside of character customization.
Slated to be a worldwide sales juggernaut after selling 1.5 million copies in the U.S. and Europe just a few days after its April 4 release, Persona 5 doesn't appear to be having much trouble attracting new fans. However, Atlus recently alienated gamers with a stern announcement that promised to punish streamers who spoil the game. Hopefully, Persona 5's lack of a female protagonist option won't further push players away.
Persona 5 is out now on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3.
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Known to us mere mortals as the Snow Cruiser and causing tailbacks along a 1020-mile route stretching from Chicago to Boston, this massive exploration machine represented the US attempt at taking possession of Antarctica in late 1939.
In the run up to WWII, declaring large chunks of the unclaimed continent had become something of a sport for decedent adventurers—and America's dissident social elite wanted in. Except, with cash to develop new transport, they weren't simply going to walk...
Designed by physicist and explorer Thomas C. Poulter, and constructed by the Armour Institute of Technology in Chicago, the Snow Cruiser was staggeringly large. Some 55.9 feet in length, 19.8 feet wide and 16.4 feet in height when standing atop impossibly large pneumatic tires—even by modern standards, this was a force to be reckoned with.
Having such a notable vehicle, boasting a price tag of $150,000 back in 1938 ($2.8 million with modern inflation), demonstrated clear intent from the US on asserting its ownership of various sectors of the polar region, but why?
There was much at stake within Antarctica. Conquering these frozen lands was an irresistible challenge that would bring much admiration and respect to those who were successful. There were invaluable opportunities for scientific study with the possibility of establishing weather observatories that would greatly assist with long-term forecasting. And who wouldn't be interested in enormous reserves of coal, oil, copper, tin and nickel beneath the snow?
Funnily enough, the US was keen to snatch a generously proportioned slice of the pie; especially with tense global relations as Adolf Hitler marched his armies across Europe. Many spots had already been claimed for America, by Lincoln Ellsworth and Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on previous expeditions, but those in power wanted more of a physical presence on Antarctica—thus the need for a research vehicle.
Consequently, the Snow Cruiser was enormous for one main reason. Not only did she have to provide accommodation for several men, she also had to serve as a mobile scientific laboratory and competent polar exploration vehicle. The Snow Cruiser carried 2500 gallons of diesel for powering itself, as well as 1000 gallons of airplane fuel for the Beechcraft Staggerwing scout bi-plane, used to conduct aerial surveys, that it would carry on the roof.


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¹²How To Profit From The Coming Plague Of Busted Banks
By Tom Dyson | 5 April 2010
Hundreds of banks are about to fail. Three banks failed in 2007. Twenty-five banks failed in 2008. One hundred and forty banks failed in 2009. Forty-one have failed already this year and hundreds more will fail soon. How do I know this?
Because these banks have already failed, but the FDIC doesn't have the manpower or the funds to officially "seize" them. "They've got them in a holding pattern," says K. K. is a senior community banker I spoke with last month (he didn't want to be quoted directly). He says the FDIC is treating these busted banks like aircraft circling a busy airport. They haven't closed them down yet, but they're in close radio contact with the managers making sure they don't do anything stupid until the FDIC's staff finds the time seize their assets.
Meanwhile, the FDIC is rushing to hire staff and open new offices in the most troubled regions of the country. Last year, it leased office space in Jacksonville, Florida, with enough room for 500 staff. Jacksonville sits squarely between Miami and Atlanta.
These two Florida cities have the highest concentrations of failed banks in the country. Last month, the FDIC announced it had leased seven floors and 100,000 square feet of an office building in Chicago for another 500 contractors. They've opened a similar office in Irvine, California.
How Many More Banks Are About To Fail?
The FDIC is the government branch charged with insuring banking deposits and seizing failed banks. The FDIC maintains a secret list of problem banks. It won't name the banks on the list to prevent bank runs. But it does publish the size of the list. Right now, it has 702 banks on the list.
The 'Texas Ratio' is another way to estimate how many banks might fail. The Texas Ratio indicates how sound a bank is. It compares a bank's problem loans with the money it has available to deal with them. When the Texas Ratio exceeds 100%, it means the bank has more bad loans than it can afford and it's probably going to fail.
Gerard Cassidy invented this ratio in the 1980s after studying busted Savings and Loans in post oil-boom Texas. Cassidy is currently working as an analyst for RBC Capital Markets, and he's still tracking the Texas Ratio. At the end of the third quarter 2009, 388 banks had Texas Ratios greater than 100%.
Thanks to immense government intervention, the banking sector enjoys more confidence than it has in years. You can therefore consider these current estimates of bank failures the best-case scenario. In the worst-case scenario, half the banks in the country could fail.
This is what happened in the Great Depression. There are approximately 8,500 banks in the nation today, including thrifts— banks that focus on taking deposits and originating home mortgages. Therefore, in a worst-case scenario, more than 4,000 banks could collapse.
There's a major investment opportunity here. When the FDIC seizes a bank, the first thing it does is line up another bank to take over the deposits, branches, and loan portfolio. It's often a local competitor. This way, the FDIC minimizes disruption to the banking system and keeps depositors from panicking. To make sure other banks are willing to take over, the FDIC offers them "sweetheart" deals, including loan guarantees and great deals on the assets.
My favorite way to take advantage of this situation is to buy stock in banks that receive the sweetheart deals. For one thing, the FDIC only awards these deals to the safest banks in the region, so you have an automatic indicator that the bank is safe and has plenty of capital. Secondly, the bank expands its deposit base, sometimes dramatically, without having to pay any advertising or other "gathering" costs. (Gathering deposits is normally very hard work for a local bank and extremely expensive.)
Deposits are like rocket fuel for banks. They can use them to dramatically increase their loan portfolios (using 10-to-one leverage) and their earnings. And finally, in many cases, one bank takes over another local bank. In other words, now there's one less competitor in what's usually already a small local market. The FDIC maintains a public record of all the bank takeovers here.
I study the new additions to this list every week and look for opportunities. This is the only way to find them.
Good investing,
Monday, April 5, 2010
The Coming Plague Of Busted Banks
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How to Create a Crackle Finish with Glue. Give a plain-jane frame with vintage-flair with this easy tutorial.
Disclosure: A big thank you to Cut it Out for the free frames to work with!
I've been using store-bought crackle effect for years but I saw a tutorial on Elmer's about creating the same effect with wood glue. I'd heard that their plain white Glue-All also works so I gave that a try and I just love how it came out. And it's SO easy too!
Here's what you'll need to make this project:
- Frame (I used the Chandler from from Cut it Out)
- Two paints colors (I used a dark teal and light blue)
- Elmer's Glue All
- Paintbrushes/foam brushes
- Paint your frame in desired color and allow to fully dry.
- Brush on a coat of the Elmer's Glue-All. A thinner coat leaves fine cracks and a thicker coat yields larger ones. I opted for something in between. Allow to dry a few minutes until tacky. It's important to do the next step while the glue is still wet but slightly tacky/sticky.
- Brush on your second color. I very slightly watered down a light blue and brushed it over the tacky glue.
- Allow to fully dry. It's crackles like magic as I dries.
- Optional: Sand edges for a even more vintage-y vibe.
Here are some close-ups of the details:
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This would make an easy hand-made gift idea too!
I like how well it worked so much, I think I'm going to try this effect on a table or something bigger.
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There are millions of vehicles in Thailand, and due to their internal combustion engines, they contribute to air and noise pollution. Electric cars are a cleaner option for Thai roads, but there are still hurdles that need to be cleared before we can move into high gear.
High prices are one major problem discouraging general motorists from purchasing electric vehicles (EVs). Overseas prices of popular electric cars range from less than Bt1 million to slightly over Bt1.5 million. With import and excise taxes, much higher retail prices are to be expected in the Thai market.
The government has trimmed taxes on imported EVs to as low as zero for those coming from China, with which we have a free-trade agreement. State incentives have been offered to importers and manufacturers of EVs, including lower import and excise duties, tax exemption for machinery and materials used in their production, and exemption from corporate taxes for manufacturers. But these measures are still insufficient to lure people into buying electric cars.
The government should offer more attractive incentives to get consumers purchasing electric cars – not only tax cuts or financial benefits but also privileges such as free parking or free tolls, as is the case in some European countries, like Norway. Also, it is a good idea to have electric vehicles locally manufactured and assembled, which would help bring down the prices and make EVs a more attractive alternative for consumers.
In fact, even at the global level, electric cars are still far from popular. Last year, global sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery electric vehicles (BEV) accounted for only 1 per cent of total passenger-vehicle sales. However, in six years, sales of EVs are expected to grow more than 30 per cent.
Sales of PHEVs are predicted to grow from 700,000 cars in 2017 to 1.8 million in 2020 and 3.6 million in 2023, while sales of BEVs are seen increasing from 400,000 cars in 2017 to 1.5 million in 2020 and 2.8 million in 2023, according to an industry analysis. Leading manufacturers like Volkswagen, Mercedes Benz, Volvo, BMW, Jaguar and Tesla plan to produce dozens of electric-car models by 2025.
The Ministry of Energy's Energy Policy and Planning Office has forecast a major expansion in the Thai EV market in the next 15 to 20 years, thanks to government incentives. Local sales of EVs are predicted to grow from 9,000 this year to 406,000 in 2028 and 1.2 million in 2036. That last figure could be higher with more attractive incentives for prospective buyers.
To really help the environment, the fully electric BEVs should be favoured. This kind of car needs no engine or fuel tank because they run entirely on electricity, while other types of EVs, even PHEVs, still have an engine and a fuel tank. A typical BEV has fewer than 50 parts, compared to more than 2,000 for a car with an internal combustion engine. Also, with no engine, it makes no noise, and there are no exhaust fumes from internal combustion.
Regarding concerns about running out of power while driving long distances, the government should encourage private firms to set up charging stations everywhere in the provinces. But there must be guidelines and requirements to control the quality and standards. Thanks to improved technology, EV batteries can now store more power for a longer period.
Petroleum giant PTT Group is shifting towards electric cars. It is considering becoming a dealer for EVs and making batteries to power EVs. The government, as a major shareholder in the company, should be encouraging this shift to steer Thailand towards a future with less pollution. At present, the world is turning towards electricity, and away from petroleum.


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Writing this while ice-rain pelts the window and all schools are closed far and wide!
An unexpected day off for me as well.
People are staying home unless they simply can't!
Hoping this ice-storm makes quick work of its 'art'.
We've seen too much of it for our taste in the past few years!
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For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind,
and reveals His thoughts to man,
the One who turns the dawn to darkness
and strides on the heights of the earth,
the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name."
Amos 4:13
More than weather or if we have
Enough to make ends meet
More than fond plans before the grave
Claims what none can defeat
This day the Lord has made is more
Than almost-memory
It is a stepping stone toward
God and eternity
More than an orb of fate unfurled
More than money we earn
Naked we came into this world
Naked we will return
This trek of 'all is vanity'
Of creature joy and grief
Is far, far more than we can see
Where none but God is Chief
Holy, holy, each breath we take
The soft undoing of
The stuff we heap, the plans we make
The people that we love
Where God so rich in mercy, gave
More than time's glance can tell
For death is greater than the grave
That holds the lifeless shell
More than the bud of beaming spring
More than summer's full bloom
More than autumnal winnowing
Before the wintry tomb
More than four seasons, round and round
On earth-bound carousel
More than a stint of lost and found
Beneath time's tolling bell
More than the host and boast of years
Whilst learning what we know
More than mist, kissed with smiles and tears
Where hold means letting go
More than a span of bread we break
Of hello and farewell
Holy, holy, each step we take
Toward Heaven or hell
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A couple looks for their first home in Albuquerque, NM. After seeing several homes, they are torn between a modern move in ready home or a fixer upper to customize. Can they sell the other on what they want or will they be forced to compromise?
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Crowley Maritime Corporation
Business Address: Crowley Maritime Corporation, 9487 Regency Square Blvd. Jacksonville, FL 32225
Country: United States,
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About Crowley Maritime Corporation
Crowley Maritime Corporation, based in Jacksonville, Florida, and founded in 1892, is primarily a family and employee-owned company that provides transportation and logistics services in U.S. and international markets.
Crowley Maritime Corporation is a U.S.-owned and operated marine solutions, transportation and logistics company providing services in domestic and international markets through six operating lines of business: Puerto Rico/Caribbean liner services; Latin America liner services; logistics; marine contract solutions; deep sea petroleum transportation; and petroleum transportation, distribution and sales in Alaska.
The primary services offered by these six business lines include:
- Shipping and Logistics
- Alaska Fuel Sales and Distribution
- Petroleum and Chemical Transportation
- Harbor Ship Assist and Tanker Escort
- Global Ship Management
- Marine Salvage, Wreck Removal and Emergency Response
- OPA 90 Compliance
- Marine Solutions
- Project Management
- Heavy Lift Barge Transportation
- Ocean Towing
- Engineering
- Naval Architecture
- Vessel Design and Construction Management
- Freight Forwarding and Global Project Logistics
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We support all six of our primary business segments with centralized corporate operations, including purchasing, human resources, information technology, public relations and advertising, training, travel and facilities development. In addition, we often provide vessel design, construction management and vessel management services for company-owned vessels that are chartered for use in our operating lines of business.
Our company was founded in 1892, when founder Thomas Crowley — the grandfather of current chairman and CEO Thomas B. Crowley Jr. — purchased an 18-foot Whitehall boat to provide transportation of personnel and supplies to ships anchored on San Francisco Bay. The present structure, in which Crowley Maritime Corporation serves as a holding company for business lines and all subsidiaries, was put in place in 1992. The company is wholly and privately owned by the Crowley family and Crowley employees.


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TO MAKE A DONATION all you have to do is click Here
The two main funds that LA Animal Services accepts donations through. They are:
The Animal Welfare Trust Fund
The Animal Sterilization Trust Fund
Funds may also be donated for specific programs and services and shelter operations.
LA Animal Services has developed and will continue to develop programs designed to reduce LA's euthanasia rate as we increase our live animal placement rate through adoptions, our New Hope program, returning lost pets to their frantic owners, and by humanely reducing feral cat populations in our neighborhoods.
If you would like to help join Animal Services war on pet euthanasia, please send a tax deductible financial gift to:
LA Animal Services
221 N. Figueroa Street Suite 500
Los Angeles, CA 90012
You can designate your gift to the general Animal Welfare Fund or to any one or more of the specific programs described below:
Big Fix sponsors low/no cost spay/neutering services for pets in low-income households.
New Hope is a network of over 70 of LA's pet rescue, support and adoption agencies in Southern California who work with LA Animal Services in the process of locating permenant loving homes for the animals Animal Services rescue.
Safety Net helps pets and their families stay together through difficult financial times or relocations.
STAR (Special Treatment And Recovery) program provides medical treatment to severely injured, abused, and neglected animals rescued by Animal Services.
TLC (Teach Love and Compassion) provides at-risk youth with the employment training in animal care. This is an intergenerational program in which our community's elders work with our youth teach love and compassion through the care and love of animals.
Volunteer Dog Training Program trains Animal Services volunteers to improve the quality of life and adoption rate of sheltered dogs through behavior training provided by our community's most reputable volunteer dog trainers.
FELIX (Feral Education and Love Instead of X-terminations) provides low or no cost spay/neuter service to feral cats managed by a trained feral cat colony manager trained by one of Animal Services feral cat partner organizations.
Foster Program trains volunteers to provide temporary homes for special needs animals until they are healthy enough for adoption.
If you would like your donations to be used for specific programs and services, please specify.
Please make your check or money order payable to:
Department of Animal Services
221 N. Figueroa Street, 5th floor
Your donations are tax deductible and your generosity will be acknowledged.
Even if you cannot make a financial contribution today, there are other ways you can help. Our Animal Care Centers always need blankets, newspaper, and other items. For more details, take a look at our six Animal Care Centers to understand their specific needs. And of course we always need volunteers.
North Central Animal Care Center
South Los Angeles Animal Care Center
West Los Angeles Animal Care Center
East Valley Animal Care Center
West Valley Animal Care Center
Harbor Animal Care Center
Spaymobile Program
By working together, we can make LA the safest City in the United States for our pets! Thank you for your support and gifts!


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Day 2 Highlights
Morning sessions included using ArcGIS Pro for Lidar analysis. This was a great overview of working with LAS files within ArcGIS Pro: data formats, including LAS related data structures multipoints and multipatches, data diagnostics to examine data quality and coverage, and basic processing of Lidar data in ArcGIS Pro. Very useful. Thanks to ccrawford. Next Shane and I checked out Data Science in ArcGIS Pro: Using R and Python. This is an update from last year's session on R and Python in ArcGIS, and again we started with the classic battle of the bands. The python demo showed PySAL, and how to do a quick spatial econometric analysis in PySAL within Pro. Need more time, obvi. The R demo was a nice walk through of data input - vector and raster - via the R-bridge, and showed how easy the framework is. Very useful.
Afternoon sessions included a bunch of stuff, but the highlight was the always funny, always useful, always inspiring wizards of cartography Kenneth Field, John Nelson, and Edie Punt and Mapping with Style. Another great session! Edie discussed the excellent Styles capacity in Pro, which I am aware of but not an expert at. She helpfully pointed out some key things to pay attention to: USE STYLES FOR COLOR CONTROL! because of the new graphics engines used in Pro, TRANSPARENCY is available on all colors, and will be transferred to your PDF! Also, color locking is great! And color brewer schemes are available in Pro Styles. So much love! Interspersed with Edie's slide were John and Kenneth delivering their usual hilarious take on making beautiful maps: John showed off some nice and creative new published styles: Firefly, Imhof, and Lego; and Kenneth presented a whimsical case study bringing to life a 1930s map of Redlands using the watercolor style from John. See other styles here. Good day.
- Author: Maggi Kelly
We are very pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019 student scholarship awards for DroneCamp 2019. We were able to leverage seed support from the open access journal Drones (dedicated to research on the design and applications of drones) to support three wonderful young scholars to attend DroneCamp 2019 in Monterey CA in June. Here is a little bit about each of them.
Melinda Reyes is the recipient of the Drones scholarship. A computer science student at Northeastern University, Melinda aims to improve precision agriculture tools that measure and advance soil health and soil-based carbon capture via data collected by UAVs. Her ultimate goal is to ensure food security in a changing climate. She is passionate about UAVs and their applications in agriculture, and is a future leader in agricultural innovation. She comes to DroneCamp to learn to fly drones, to learn more about current applications in the field, and to meet others interested in UAVs' agricultural applications and applications for good.
Zack Dinh is the recipient of the IGIS student scholarship. He is a M.S. student in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. He is working with Professor Iryna Dronova at UC Berkeley on wetland restoration monitoring in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Together, they are interested in using UAV-captured optical imagery and point clouds to detect vegetation patch heterogeneity, and plant growth. He comes to DroneCamp to learn about best practices for using UAVs for field research as well as networking with others who are engaged in this type of research. He has some experience flying UAV surveys and processing imagery, and is interested in learning more about fixed-wing vehicles, sensors, and data processing techniques.
Anish Sapkota is the recipient of the IGIS student scholarship. He is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Riverside. He is working in the Irrigation and Water Management Lab under the supervision of Dr. Haghverdi. His research focuses on the effect of water-stress conditions in landscape and agricultural crop species, and he seeks to develop irrigation management strategies to save water while increasing production, and soil and plant health. His research involves collection of data from a range of handheld sensors that measure stomatal conductance, biomass growth, and soil moisture. These data will be combined with NDVI and NDRE data from field and UAV-based sensors to determine the stress level in plants and their response to varying rates of irrigation. He comes to DroneCamp to continue to gather skills in the geospatial domain, and to learn how to fly drones, and process UAV data.
- Author: Andy Lyons
To support broad participation for next month's DroneCamp in Monterey, IGIS has launched the DroneCamp Scholarship Program. DroneCamp is an intensive three-day workshop that covers everything one needs to know to use drones for mapping and data collection. The Scholarship Program is aimed at defraying the cost of participation for students, non-profits and under-represented communities.
Drones have revolutionized our ability to produce high resolution, spatially accurate images of any area of interest. Drone mapping has become possible due to simultaneous breakthroughs over the past 5 years in multi-rotor drone platforms, navigation systems, lightweight sensors, autonomous flight planning apps, and photogrammetry software. It is now easier than ever to generate stunning, highly accurate 2D and 3D models of an area, on demand. Despite the technological progress, the learning curve for drone mapping is steep, and mistakes can be costly. DroneCamp covers the entire workflow including hardware selection, compliance with FAA regulations, mission planning, manual flight operations, emergency procedures, data management, stitching images together, quality assessment, and data analysis.
Scholarship applications are now open and will continue through June 6. If you or your organization would like to help a deserving student, non-profit, or under-represented community get up to speed on this amazing technology, please consider making a donation to the DroneCamp Scholarship Program!
- Author: Shane Feirer
Have you ever wanted to work with climate change data? Last week I took a workshop from the UC Berkeley Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF) titled "Working with Climate Data (link). This workshop showed how to work with climate data hosted by the GIF in their Climate App (Cal-Adapt) and other climate data hosted as NetCDF datasets. Through this workshop we learned how to use jupyter notebooks and the python language to query and analyze these types of data. The workshop also highlighted the use of NetCDF data within ArcGIS Pro and its new multidimensional charting tools.
I recommend this training and other trainings held at the GIF. I look forward to applying these new tools in my work with IGIS.
The image below is the Growing Degree Days calculation for 2013 with a 10 degree C base, that I was able to develop with techniques used at this workshop.
- Author: Andy Lyons
- Contributor: Jacob Flanagan
- Contributor: Sean Hogan
- Contributor: Maggi Kelly
At the recent conference of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) in Washington DC, IGIS was recognized for its work in developing open source data management tools for drone data. The AAG is the largest association of geographers, GIS specialists, environmental scientists in the world, and its annual conference attracts over 8,500 people and over 6,900 presentations. IGIS researchers Andy Lyons, Jacob Flanagan, and Sean Hogan won second place in a poster competition sponsored by the AAG Remote Sensing Specialty Group and photogrammetry company Pix4D.
Data management involves protocols and file transfer utilities to help you organize data, assess quality, create backups, find and retrieve files, and reproduce workflows. Photogrammetry programs are brilliant at stitching photos into beautiful high resolution imagery, but they don't offer many tools for managing data before or after the processing. This is the gap IGIS is addressing.
IGIS has been working on data management tools for the past couple of years to help us manage the dozens of drone projects we conduct each year on behalf of UC researchers. In keeping with our public mission and research innovation focus, we use open source programming platforms such as Python and R and share our tools on GitHub so anyone can use them.
The poster presented at the AAG conference showcases 5 data management projects. The foundation of all our projects is a directory structure and file naming protocol that encompasses all the types of data in a drone project, including images, ground control points, GIS layers, documentation, intermediate files, and final outputs. Building upon this, the uavimg package for R creates offline HTML catalogs and maps of images, allow for quality control checks in the field and a master catalog to help an analyst find the right set of images for a project. The IGIS Drive Monitor, written in Python, is designed to run on a laptop in the field and automates the process even further by monitoring a USB drive and copying files into the right place automatically. The IGIS Pix4D Controller, also written in Python, runs on a server and automates the next step of the process, launching the Pix4D stitching software when a new set of images is detected, creating a new project, and initiating the stitching process. Finally, the IGIS Drone Data Management Logbook, still being developed, combines functionality of the previous utilities with additional visualization tools for quality control.
Our drone data management utilities are still under development, but they are available currently available for testing (see GitHub links in the poster). If you'd like to be a beta tester, please let us know!). Later this year, we plan on holding a webinar describing how to use these tools and invite feedback from users. Open source software is designed for collaboration, and our ultimate hope is to collaborate with other drone users and programmers facing similar needs. In the meantime, it's great to be recognized by leading experts in the field.
Open Source Tools for Drone Data Management poster, AAG 2019


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We are very proud at Lawn to have a Nurture Team. The team work closely together to provide nuture support for both pupils and parents. The aim is to remove barriers to learning enabling pupils to be happy and have a sense of emotional and social wellbeing building on good self esteem. We liaise closely with the school's Senior Leadership Team and the Special Educational Needs Co-ordinator (SENCo).
Hi my name is Emma Maclennan and I am the early years family support worker. I have worked with early year's children and their families for over 20 years, so hope I will be able to share some of my experience and knowledge with you.
Hi my name is Sabi Sanghera and I am the Family Support Worker for the primary school. I work closely with Emma and the Nurture team to help support you and your child. I have worked for a number of years within educational establishments in Swindon.
Mrs Stinson & Mrs Saunders - Positive Behaviour Specialists
Nurture Sessions
Our Nurture Groups assess social, emotional and behavioural needs and then provide whatever support is required to remove the barriers to learning. Children attend Nurture Groups for one session each week, the length of sessions range from 15 minutes to 1 hour, depending on the child's needs. We provide bespoke support for pupils meeting their individual needs. This support is delivered in small groups or on a one to one basis. We support with the following areas:
- Personal, social and emotional development;
- Social skills; sharing, taking turns, being with others.
- Resilience skills.
- Overcoming anxiety, withdrawal and shyness.
- Circle of friends; a friendship group to support making and maintaining friends.
- Playground support to encourage positive playtimes.
- In - class support to avoid disruption towards others and to respond to any outbursts of anger, Includes the use of Restorative Justice.
- Therapeutic Art and therapeutic play sessions - tool for talking.
- Tranquillity and mindfulness.
- Young Carers; support and in house activities, links with Swindon Young Carers.
- Response to worry box slips from pupils.
- Bereavement support – including family illness and family break ups.
- Parenting skills.
- Courses and Programmes for Parents.
- Coffee mornings/activities for Parents.
How will nurture help my child?
- To them to and have an awareness of themselves and others.
- To provide coping strategies to support them to become an independent person.
- Enable them to have a voice to empower them to be heard and understood.
- To have some TLC/quiet time.
What do we do in nurture sessions?
Our approach is to use therapeutic play, therapeutic arts and crafts, group discussions; mediation stories with morals and values to develop skills and empower children to achieve.
The Nurture Team have a wealth of experience and training in nurture interventions, supporting families, providing information and signposting to other agencies.
For additional information about supporting children's mental health, please see the following websites:
If you would like further information, have any questions, need any advice or simply want to chat, feel free to contact us on:
E-mail addresses:
Click here to download our Nurture leaflet.
Click here to download our Family Support leaflet.
The Nurture Team have years of experience and are trained in delivering nurture programmes, supporting families, providing information and signposting to different agencies.
If you would like further information, have any questions, need any advice or simply want to chat, feel free to contact us on:
01793 522626
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Young Carers at Lawn
Guided by Swindon Young Carers Centre
At Lawn Primary and Nursrey School we believe that all children and young people have the right to an education, regardless of their home circumstances. We acknowledge that there are likely to be Young Carers among our pupils, and that being a young carer can have an adverse effect on a young person's education. We have adopted our Young Carers policy so that we will be able to relieve some of the worries which Young Carers may have about home and their school work, and show that we believe Young Carers' education is important.
Who are Young Carers?
Young Carers are children and young people whose lives are affected by looking after someone at home. They are carrying out tasks and responsibilities which are additional to those appropriate for their age. The person they look after may have one or more of the following:
- Physical disability
- Mental health issues
- Learning difficulties
- Alcohol or drug misuse
- Long-term illness
The person they care for may be a parent, sibling, or grandparent and the care they give may be physical and/or emotional.
Young Carers can feel tired, worried and isolated. Their social life is often restricted with few opportunities for fun and after school activities.
We care, but do you know why?
Take two minutes of your life to read this..
Do you know that all around you there are people,Young Carers, who care for their families day in day out. We care for our families for a reason and that is because someone in our family has a condition or disability that prevents them from doing daily chores that a normal person can do. So a young carer is a person who cares for a member of their family who can't care for themselves. Please note that young carers can be from the range of 5-18 but even when they reach 18 they are still carers if their family needs them to be.
Put yourself in our shoes, would you be able to...
- Be responsible for a family member's medication?
- Be responsible for their personal care, getting dressed, cooking meals, and washing
- Be responsible for First Aid care, bandaging, putting them in a wheelchair, ringing emergency services, being able to give emergency care such as injecting if needed
- Be able to keep them calm and entertained
(Written by a Swindon Young Carer, provided by Swindon Carers Centre,Swindon Advice and Support Centre, Sanford Street, Swindon.)
At Lawn Primary and Nursery School we try to ensure that our Young Carer policy is implemented in conjunction with the following points:
- The school will provide support Young Carers by providing a named member of staff with lead responsibility.
- We will include issues around disability, mental ill health and Young Carers in PSHE and Citizenship lessons.
- We will try to avoid stigmatisation or labelling of pupils who are carers and provide guidance on preventing bullying.
- We will ensure parents can access school for open evenings, etc and if this is not possible, consider how links can be made with home.
- We will have an agreed confidentiality policy, which includes statements on child protection.
- We will include thinking about sensitivities and differences around cultural needs, including refugees.
- We will consider how information on pupils' pastoral needs can be effectively passed between primary and secondary school or across other phases.
- We will provide specific staff training.
- We will include mechanisms for effective inter-agency work to support Young Carers (including child protection procedures if required).
- We will include mechanisms to consult with Young Carers and their parents about content of policies and delivery of support.
- We will regularly evaluate the effectiveness of the policy and support (in addition to meeting OFSTED requirements).
Lawn would like to thank Swindon Young Carers Centre for their support and guidance in implementing our policy and improving our practice.
To view their website click on the following link www.swindoncarers.org.uk or to view the school's Young Carers Policy click here


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Unnamed friend dropped him off at Martin Luther King Medical Center in Los Angeles and told them that the victim was named Salvador Jimanaz and that he overdosed on drugs. He was admitted and no family was ever located for him. He suffered seizure disorder and organic brain syndrome, believed related to drug use. He was transferred to a board and care home in Beaumont. When he died the County Public Administrator was notified and was unable to establish his identification through search or fingerprints.
If you recognize this person, or have information about this case, please contact:
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Nathan is my friend Bubba Tays' nephew. We went to watch him play in the 17 and under tourney last year where as a 15 year old, he was definitely one of Atlantic Canada's best players as they got slaughtered by the powerful US team. Here he is trying to evade one their players (Seth Jones). I took about a hundred photos and found about two that were paintable. This is pretty loose for me, and I really enjoyed the way it went down. If you are a hockey fan, watch for this kid. He will make it to the NHL, and with any luck, we may see him playing with the Jets.
oil on board 10" x 8" NFS
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Thursday, January 12, 2012
In Front of Grand Central
I finally tried one of Lee Brown's wonderful challenge photos thanks to a prompt from Dana Cooper. This was a fellow reading in front of Grand Central Station in NYC. One of these days I'd love to visit New York.
oil on canvas board 10' X 8"
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Deciding On A New Coat
On a rainy afternoon at the Helper, Utah workshop, under Doug Braithwaite's suggestion, we all set up in the studio area to create and paint our own still lifes. There were all sorts of props and stimulating articles to choose from, and I decided on this longhorn skull which I attached to a dressmaker's mannequin. Don't ask me why. The dramatic lighting was very interesting and we all soon got busy on our own projects. Of course the time flew by, and I never did finish the piece until last night. I've looked at this painting for several months and really couldn't decide what to do with it. Sometimes you just have to wait, or talk to someone like Dominique Eichi to get the ideas flowing again. Thanks Dominique. Because I didn't photograph the setup at the time, it was from memory that I completed this piece. I must admit, that I was struck by some of the colour/shadow nuances that we don't pick up on when painting from photos. Even the photo I took of the finished painting does not reflect these.
Note to self...DO MORE PAINTINGS FROM LIFE!!!
Another note to self...DO MORE PAINTINGS!!!
"Ninety percent of life is just showing up." Woody Allen"
oil on board 9" x 12"
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