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So President Obama has announced his pick to replace David Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. It is Sonia Sotomayor, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals. She would be the third woman and – yes it's true – the first Hispanic to become a Supreme Court justice.
There's some debate about that, actually, because Benjamin Cardozo, who served in the 1930s, was Portuguese-Jewish. I've written before about the complexity of pinpointing exactly who is Hispanic (my first post, in fact). However, I'm going to be bold here and say that referring to Cardozo as Latino is the stretchiest of stretches. And I'm well aware that "stretchiest" is not a word; that's how much I mean it.
Therefore, Sotomayor would be the first. That's enough to get my attention. A brief look at her record indicates that she's slightly liberal, which pleases me (a fact that will surprise no one who has read this blog).
She seems to have the respect of her colleagues, a fierce work ethic, and a solid, fairly noncontroversial record. So why isn't she a slam-dunk for the job?
Well, some commentators have questioned her intelligence. I find this perplexing.
If someone can graduate from Princeton and Yale Law School (with honors), work as a high-level judge for seventeen years, be considered for one of the most important jobs in the country, and yet still be considered dim… well, it either means that there's something seriously botched in our educational and political system, or the standards for regular Americans to be considered "bright" are appallingly low (I don't know anybody who has her credentials, yet I mistakenly thought I knew some smart people).
One has to wonder if her supposed tendency to be "kind of a bully on the bench" and the assertion that she "has an inflated opinion of herself and is domineering" have influenced the opinion of her intellect.
Of course, I have no idea if Sotomayor is really a bully or not. But Antonin Scalia regularly gets cranky, and people respect his assertiveness. Perhaps we just don't like to see that behavior in Hispanic women.
Maybe the description that one of her former clerks offered –that "she's not shy or apologetic about who she is" – provides sufficient ammo for her critics. But she just sounds to me like a confident Latina.
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A.E. Tile Co. Panel, ca. 1920
When we bought our house about five years ago, this was hanging over the fireplace in the family room.
And it wheels here? It rolls?
Yeah, it has... it has caster wheels that the previous owner had it mounted on a rail and he could move it back and forth to access the electrical panels and the chimney flue-- that kind of thing-- from the fireplace.
That is so... I've never heard about that. That's really great.
Yeah, he was a pretty ingenious guy, I guess.
Yeah. This panel is really interesting because it was made by the American Encaustic Tile Company of Zanesville, Ohio, which is very close by.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It's unusual because of its large size but also because of the size of the tiles that make it.
Oh, okay.
Usually if you have a large panel made up of tiles, they're all six inches, almost all the time.
Six-inch square?
Six-inch square. And so these are like a very '20s type of size.
Oh, okay.
And also because it's not decorated in the customary Victorian American encaustic type of style which is molded, which you usually see. This is hand-painted in the Delft style.
In the Delft style, okay.
And I don't know if you're familiar with Delft. It's a city in Holland. They've been producing pots and tiles and mostly tin-glazed in blue and white, just like this.
Oh, really?
So this is America Encaustic's version of the very famous Delft tiles that have been exported all over the world for centuries. So it's a really nice statement.
And you told me that this small tile here comes off, right?
And we can see a mark back here. So I'm going to show this here, right here. And that says "A.E. Tile Co."
Yes, yes.
For the American Encaustic Tile Company.
Hmm, interesting.
And because this panel is so large, I would value this at somewhere between $1,500 and $2,000.
Hmm, not bad.
Not bad at all.
Not bad for something that was hanging in your basement. (chuckles)
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… i wanted to be a tomboy (like George in The Famous Five)
So far the festive season is festering away … I've moved house, changed my psych meds … what a brilliant time of year to do it all eh? I've also landed a v cool editing contract. What I haven't done, is hang out online and I ain't here for long today.
First things first, I need to reblog the following:
Symposium #1: What is Butch? on Butch Lab:
- Ulla from Boxer Shorts & Bras
- Kyle from Butchtastic
- Holden from Packing Vocals
- Roxy from Uncommon Curiosity
- G from Can I Help You Sir
- Victoria from The Musings of a Lesbian Writer
- EST from A Lesbian Christian
- Wendi from A Stranger in This Place
- Jenni from Butch.org
- Ali from Made of Words
- Jolie from This Side of Changed
- Polly from Lesbian Dad
- Sinclair from Sugarbutch Chronicles
… and I also need to mention that in the process, I stumbled upon Jolie's very excellent turn of phrase, "identity geeks." Not only is it uber-cool, it also applies to me like a comfortable pair of ripped and faded jeans. (The ones I wore to East London Pride this year).
So Google has banned ads for the book Queers in History, because of the ooooh-verboten word "queer." That falls under the 'sexual content' no no, although the book is entirely about queer figures in history and in no way about sex. This brings me on to another of my favourite rants i.e. how very, very, incredibly fed up I am of my identity instantly being associated with sex. Sexuality is a far broader matter than the sex act, thankyouverymuch world.
Back to butch … OK, here I need to add the disclaimer, again, that I am in no way trying to diss anyone's interpretation of it, simply define my own. You google butch, you find a lot of bdsm, masculinity (radical or otherwise) and … butch cock. I hate typing that phrase.
I am not a man, I don't want to be a man. I don't even want to be a woman the way most of society defines us, but I am a feminist and so "woman" is what I (re)claim. I've said a lot on this subject, so I shall move on …
BDSM. No. I see a whole bunch of bloggers who identify both as butch and as Buddhist also way into bdsm, on a very conscious and analysed level. I would simply like (as little as I like discussing my sex life publicly) to state that I am indeed butch and a (bad) buddhist, but I am not into bdsm – not one bit. And I (we!) have extraordinarily fabulous sex.
That is all.
Beyond butch. I read a cute FAQ which stated, amongst many other things, that the mental health of queers is far better if they are out and open about their identity. It struck me that this is in fact true for all of humankind. If you know who/what/where/why/how you are and stand with a measure of surefootedness on this planet of ours – you're a pretty well-adjusted specimen. Perhaps, we just don't know when to be satisfied and content, perhaps many of us (*points to self*) just keep on and on questioning until we're convinced we can never be happy. But that is a whole other discussion and I am digressing fearsomely.
Being an identity geek, let me claim the following:
Human [it's not under threat, so not too militant about it]
PTSD person
Speculative fiction fan
Alt.indie music fan
That list could go on forever.
Ima stfu now *grin*
in the form of the latest butch 360 post. i gave my shortest, grouchiest response yet.
sinclair sexsmith's new site: butch lab – home of the top hot butches list and i suspect it'll also be home to the butch symposium thingy we all did back in nov.
Call for submissions for bloggers & writers: The first Symposium (Sinclair Sexsmith) I am planning to launch the new project's monthly Symposium with the site's launch on November 15th, and I need your help. I'm looking for writers who have something to say about butch identity, who are wiling to post their thoughts on their own blog (or email them in, if they don't have a blog) and link back to the Symposium in exchange for the promotion within this project. Here's the topic for the first Symposium: Symposium #1, November 2010: What is butch? How do you define butch? What do you love about it? What does it mean to you?
I am a butch woman, a butch lesbian, a butch dyke – so my interpretation of butch stems directly from that. Beyond that though, butch is an adjective I use to describe the way I look, the way I walk. For me it's about style, not gender. It's the hipster jeans, the sneakers, the wallet chain, the watch, the heavy silver rings, the fact that I wear men's clothing but refuse to accept masculinity and femininity as my gender labels. It's my reclaiming of stuff that society says is just for boys and men. It's liberation. It's boxer shorts and bras.
A pause here to reassure sensitive folks that I am only speaking for myself and only about my own private perception and expression.
My masculine traits and appearance are seen as masculine, because that's society's definition, not mine. My voice is deep – so was Marlene Dietrich's … er … OK so maybe she was butch. I walk loose-limbed like a man, not with the supposedly femme hip-sway. It's just the way I walk, it's comfortable and often it tells potential muggers that I am not afraid. It's important for me to feel safe on the streets – my comfortable shoes, sneakers, boots are all practical in case I have to run.
Female and woman are terms I can claim for my sex, biologically. I don't give much of a shit about gender – mine or anybody else's. My sex matters a lot to my sexuality though.
What do I love about butch? Well, I'd look and be who and what I am whether there was a word to describe it or not, but the fact that the word "butch" exists has some lovely consequences. To quote that ole politically incorrect thing, "chicks dig it." I'm a "type" for some women (yay!). "My handsome butch dyke," she says and I fairly strut about like … something that struts about in a particularly pleased way. Ahem. It gives me cohorts too, a tribe, a family within my queer family. Women to talk about clothes with, for example. There's solidarity when the world rejects me, when kids on streets mock me, when people mutter that clearly I really want to be a man. It also means, simply and profoundly, that I have given myself permission to dress how the hell I want, to be me.
The things I love about butch give butch meaning to me – but of course there are some negatives too. "What are you? A man or a fucking woman?" from some twelve year old on the streets of the UK. "Obviously you're the man in the relationship," from a friend in South Africa. Assumptions, insults, general fuckwittery. Times when people start to get violent about it … but then the courage needed to still be oneself adds such positive meaning to anyone's life too, right?
Language is shorthand for thought. Butch is a proud, strong word. It doesn't beat anyone else up, it's just one of many, many aspects of who I am. And who I am is alright.
some members of a new activist organisation, incl yours truly. i need a haircut.
my butch friend, mfundi, from the Eastern Cape LGBT Forum. i LOVE this photograph, i'm very proud of it.
my my my gail! mine!
zama, my homo homie from nshongweni in kzn. also ECLGBT Forum.
leigh ann, serious transgender activist
dawn, from the Coalition of African Lesbians
the eastern cape's the most impoverished, most marginalised province in south africa. there are challenges not only from the westernised version of hate and intolerance that we all know about, but from traditional practice too. sadly, southern african indigenous populations aren't amongst those ethnic groups who tolerate us trannies and queers. so those are brave faces, not just beautiful ones. and we're talking grassroots activism. and it's so worthwhile i can't even begin to describe just how crucial it is.
"the milk and sugar are over there sir," says the woman in the coffee shop.
"can you pull your car forward please mama?" says the guy at the petrol station.
("mama" isn't just saying that my gender's been read as female, it's also saying i'm old enough to be a mother)
those two interactions took place within minutes of each other and i responded the same to both i.e. i didn't contribute anything gender-related at all. there were times in my twenties, when if a guy called me sir, i'd respond my calling him ma'am. deadpan, straight faced too. now? i just don't care.
the queer community often feels fragmented to me. there's a group wanting gender transcended, the demolition of the binary and the introduction of a fluid approach. and there are those who want to transition instead of transcend and those who just want their biological gender affirmed – those people tend to say that the binary is an irrelevant societal construct – but then they define it and cling to it. i'm not saying that's wrong, i just don't understand the logic.
and we all talk, think, shout about gender – but nothing much is said about sex. not sex the act, sex as in male/female. if sex is what you are biologically, frankly it needs challenging too. south africa has a higher-than-global rate of intersex births – are we going to keep forcing all those people to one end or the other of the binary? do we need no sex-categories, or a whole lot more? or just a sliding scale? surely caster semenya is merely the tip of the metaphorical iceberg? are society and its sports teams ever going to allow for more than the binary? or less, even?
why is humanity so very willing to accept new technology, but so fiercely averse to society's own evolution?
my vote goes to defining the biological sex purely biologically – baby smith has a vagina. baby jones has a penis. baby cooper has a vagina and undescended testes. whatever – but without adding "male" or female" to it. then the babies could grow up, wear whatever the fuck they felt like – and get equal pay for whatever job they did. if the penises consistently beat the vaginas at running, they could create separate leagues, but then what about intersexed people? and the whole binary would probably happen all over again..but at least it would give some respite from gender inequality?
nope, i've just talked myself round in a complete circle of historical gender formation.
so what's the answer?
this game was removed, but ffs …
… and these are the people who bothered to do something about it – major props for that.


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You know the difference between a "Salty Dog" and a "Greyhound"? My friend Harriet would think this question is a lay-up. A greyhound is vodka and grapefruit juice, but a salty dog is gin and grapefruit juice served in a salt rimmed cocktail glass. Now that we got that straight we can move on to the title question of this blog: When is a Salty Dog not a Salty Dog? Well, when it's a compilation and not the original LP.
This LP was given to me by my good friend J.D. from San Francisco, CA. It came to me in the following FedEx box:
The profanity on the FedEx box is a inside joke that I share with J.D.'s family. When J.D. was in high school his Dad,who is my very close friend "Chip"; took him to see Green Day at an outdoor venue here in the Dallas Ft. Worth area. Amid the pushing throng of teenagers my Buddy ran into a young teen-aged girl. She turned around and yelled at Chip: "F*#% YOU, OLD MAN!". It's been a running joke ever since. (Check out my blog from September 2011 at the ACL Festival in Austin Texas and you can see pictures of "Chip" in his F%&# You Old Man T-Shirt that my wife made him for the concert!) Needless to say I was very interested in what the envelope contained, but I waited till Christmas Day to open it anyway. When I finally opened the gift I was really blown away by what a cool gift J.D. had sent my way. It was a copy of an LP by Procol Harum called "A Salty Dog". Here are some pictures of the LP:
I knew Procol Harum had released a great LP called "A Salty Dog" but it had been so long since I had seen or heard this record that I couldn't remember what it looked like. My memory was good enough to recall that this was not the cover I thought it would have. I noticed that the LP had 6 songs on each side instead of 5 songs. U.S. LP's always had 5 songs on each side and European LP's had 6, so i concluded that it must be the English import version of the album. In addition, this mystery LP was also on a Label I didn't recognize as well. Here is a picture of the record label:
This record was released on MFP records sometime in the very early 1970's. MFP turned out to be a subsidiary of EMI records. The disc was a English import after all. Very cool! But the "Salty Dog" turned out not to be THE "Salty Dog". Here is the album cover to the original LP by Procol Harum called "A Salty Dog":
So here's what I discovered: The LP I was given was a "Best Of…" compilation that was released sometime between 1970 and 1972. It was released to capitalize on the enormous success of their best known song, "A Whiter Shade of Pale". It just happened to have the same title as one of the early LP's of Procol Harum. "A Salty Dog" was also one of their better known songs. It is interesting that not even Procol Harum's own web site knew exactly when this compilation was done. After doing much research on these two records that have the same name, I've come to the conclusion that this compilation LP is much more rare than the original LP. There is an interesting comment on the back of my LP I will quote in it's entirety:
"It would be impossible to write about Procol Harum without mentioning A Whiter Shade of Pale. This was a song with a distinct Bach flavour to it which was undoubtedly the making of the band as far as wide public recognition was concerned. It also had its drawbacks, however, in that many people identified them by this sound and expected all their music to be in the same vein.
The group's follow-up to Whiter Shade was Homburg, which was also a Top Ten hit. Like all the tracks on this record it was written by Keith Reid who is a talented original and much under-rated lyricist. Listen to the broad selection of titles on this album, which features pianist/vocalist Gary Brooker, and you will soon realize that Procol Harum has progressed far beyond the style of A Whiter Shade of Pale."
So let's give it a listen and see what you think. By the way all of these songs are from the earliest period of Procol Harum so all the lead guitar work is by the great English guitarist Robin Trower.
Side 1
It is interesting that the quote is trying to distance the band from that Whiter Shade of Pale sound but this follow-up song has exactly the same sound and feel as it's much more famous Big Brother. The dominating organ sound, the cryptic lyrics("…you better take of your Homburg because your overcoat's too long"), the pace all sound very Shade of Pale like. By the way a Homburg is a type of Fedora styled Hat. Hmmm….
She Wandered Through The Garden Fence
I like some of the long titles to songs on this LP. You can hear the germ that Genesis grew out of in this song.
The Milk Of Human Kindness
This song features the great blues guitar work of Robin Trower. I love the bluesy feel to this song and it's a shame they fade out the song while Robin is ripping off a great guitar solo.
The Devil Came From Kansas
Everything about this song is great! The lyrics, the vocals, the drum work, and most of all the awesome guitar work of Robin Trower. This is simply great rock-n-roll. By the way, he's right about the Devil coming from Kansas. I dated her in college!
A Salty Dog
This is Procol Harum at their best! It's no wonder it is the title cut of two different LP's. Again we have the feel of A Whiter Shade of Pale. But it's simply awesome. The art rock feel of this song with the strings and the soaring vocals is fantastic. Once again I can hear the Peter Gabriel era germ of Genesis in this music. Procol Harum was always a trailblazer in the area of "Progressive" or "Art" rock. I could listen to this song ten times in a row!
Magdalene, my Regal Zonophone
The nostalgic sound of song relates to it's title. A Zonophone was one of the first types of record players. RCA Victor eventually bought the company that made the Zonophone and put it on their record label with the phrase "His Master's Voice".
Side 2
Shine on Brightly
Once again great lyrics and great vocals. "And watch as my befuddled brain shines on brightly, quite insane…" Great guitar work from Robin Trower too. "Shine on!!!"
This song has almost a calypso feel. They have that steel drum sound working. Light and airy. Easy to listen to. The opposite of Boredom, really.
This is the original studio version of one of their greatest hits. (Notice on the Album Cover they have the big yellow blot that screams "Including Conquistador") The version I remember is the one from their great live album "Procol Harum Live", but it's great to hear it in it's original form. Once again the song has great lyrics and is driven by the great guitar sounds of Robin Trower. It has that symphonic art rock sound that they are so famous for.
Your Own Choice
"Draw your own conclusions.." but I think this is a great song. As the song says "choose your own examples…"
Rambling On
By this time in the LP it's pretty evident that the writer of the liner notes is right about the lyrics of Keith Reid. He knew what he was doing. After all he did come up with "…that her face at first just ghostly, turned a whiter shade of pale." Great guitar work at the end of the song by Robin Trower.
Pilgrim's Progress
It is ironic that the song is called Pilgrims Progress. It's as if Procol Harum has looked "across the pond" to the U.S.A. and adopted the innocent style of The Beach Boys to sing a simple song in the style of the descendants of the Pilgrims. Of course the Pilgrims wouldn't have liked this song at all! It is also ironic that the organ is an almost exact copy of A Whiter Shade Of Pale. So we end as we began.
As a side note they got their name from a friend's cat. The guys' cat was named Procol Harum. They liked it and took it. They never looked in to what it might mean. Later on people said it was Latin for "Beyond These Things" but the spelling would have had to be different. (Prucol Harum). So it's the name of one of their friends cat. Cool piece of trivia, eh?
So what happened to Procol Harum? They are still around. They still tour too. Robin Trower left the band a long, long time ago and their fame faded without him. But in a way they are just like George Fredrick Handle. They say Handle would have been every bit as famous as he is today if he had only written "The Messiah". But the good news is he wrote a whole lot more great music than "The Messiah". Procol Harum would have been every bit as famous today if they had only written "A Whiter Shade Of Pale". But the good news is they wrote a whole lot more great music too.
So a "Salty Dog" turned out not to be a Salty Dog", but in the end, the taste was just as sweet!
Thanks J.D. for a great Christmas gift!


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Practical Caravan's experts review the four-berth 2014 Adria Adora Seine to find out whether it's as comfortable as it is innovative
Slovenian caravan and motorhome manufacturer Adria is the only firm on the Continent that makes tourers specifically for the UK volume market. All of its caravans are approved by our National Caravan Council, and are 're-handed' so that the entry door is on the UK nearside. They each come with a 10-year bodyshell integrity warranty, which matches the best factory-backed offering currently available from British tourer manufacturers. And best of all, in Practical Caravan's first Owner Satisfaction Awards (March issue, 2013), Adria topped the table for best pre-owned caravans, which proves its tourers are built to stand the test of time.
Over the years, Adria has developed a strong reputation for producing well-built caravans that are full of innovation and deliver high payloads. They're also keenly priced. Although they sometimes lack some of the standard kit found in British-built caravans, generous options packs are usually available to help narrow the gap to their popular UK competitors.
Adria currently produces three ranges for the UK: the entry-level Altea, the mid-market Adora and the top-of-the range Astella Glam. Adria has been building Adora since the early 2000s. For 2014, Adora has benefited from a substantial external overhaul, and it looks a lot more appealing for it.
The Adora range features five floorplans, each named after a European river, and all have front-lounge layouts. The Adora Seine features a popular layout: four sleeping berths with a front lounge, midships kitchen, twin single beds and a full-width end washroom, all on a single-axle chassis. We spent a week in the Adora Seine at Sumners Ponds campsite in cold conditions in West Sussex.
Pitching and setting up
The caravan's sidewalls are skinned with durable polyester, and there are new front and rear panels for 2014. The front ABS panel has a large gas locker, plus eye-catching triple front windows. This is a nod to the styling of Swift's Challenger ranges and Coachman's eye-catching premium models.
The plastic glazing extends up and over the front panel to meet the caravan's roofline, although only the huge central sunroof can be opened. Our testers agreed that it looks great, and is a significant leap forward from the range's appearance in previous seasons.
The rear ABS panel has a moulded bumper, which houses new-style road lights, and chunky chrome-effect grab handles. Along the sidewalls are attractive, 'swoosh-effect' graphics.
Access to the leg steady nuts at the front and the rear of the caravan is more difficult than it should be. They're tucked way beneath the caravan, without grooves in the panels or guide tubes to steer you, so you must crouch down on potential wet or muddy pitches to access them.
There are external hatches either side of the caravan upfront, one of which houses the battery box, and a further hatch to the space beneath the rear nearside bed. The toilet locker hatch is on the offside, and there's an outside barbecue point on the nearside.
At mealtimes, there's a large, freestanding table with rounded corners for easier access to the sofas when it's in use. The Adora's chocolate upholstery and dark furniture veneer, plus the chrome detailing to its lockers and ambient lighting, make for a pleasant lounge area.
There are no access flaps to the seat-locker bases from inside the caravan, and the seat-box tops are of slatted soft wood, with a plywood top. Although you can raise them, they're not assisted by struts, which makes accessing the underseat storage areas rather a hassle.
The large sunroof floods the lounge space with natural light, and has LED lights integrated into its plastic surround. Our testers liked the corner spotlights: the lens unclips from its plastic cowl, flips down and can be rotated for better directional lighting. However, they would have preferred spots sited at both ends of each sofa, rather than just at the front end. They also liked the attractive ambient lighting behind the roof lockers, and found the seating well-supported and comfortable.
The space is heated by the conventional gas and electric Truma 3004 S space heater with blown air. There's a CD/radio sited in an overhead locker, and a small dresser alongside the entry door that's perfect for positioning a TV, with a bank of plug sockets, aerial points, monitors and controls for the onboard facilities stacked directly above it.
There is ample workspace, and the unit has wide drawers, plus a side cupboard. LED strip lighting is fitted to the underside of the overhead roof lockers, and in the ceiling is a roof vent.
Next to the kitchen unit is the Thetford 104-litre fridge/freezer with a Spinflo Midi Prima oven with separate grill positioned directly above it. Some of our testers complained that the grill was sited too high for comfort.
Adria has fitted a frosted window to the offside wall, behind the swivel toilet, to supplement the roof vent above the nearside shower area. Unusually, the shower cubicle, which measures 0.75m deep by 0.82m wide, comprises simply a tray on the floor, with a folding partition door; it's not a moulded, sealed unit so water will splash the wallboard. The hand basin is of the transparent 'salad bowl' variety, with a swan-neck tap.
The large, central vanity mirror has downlighting above it, a cupboard below it, plus a narrow cupboard on either side, each of which is shelved.
A concertina partition separates the bedroom area from the front lounge space. The rear single beds are huge. The bed on the nearside measures 2m x 0.78m, while the offside bed measures 1.9m x 0.78m. Both bed bases can be raised at the head end – resting against the washroom wall – thanks to a cantilevered bed base that can be reclined at multiple click-stops to a comfortable rake. It's great for sitting up and reading in bed. Both have a shelf and reading light above them, although there's no board to keep the mattress away from the sidewalls.The only issue is that the mattresses are so wide they can obstruct the opening and closing of the washroom door, especially when they're made up with bedding.
As well as the wide drawers in the kitchen area, the large overhead lockers in the lounge and bedroom area and the storage in the dresser, there is a wide and deep wardrobe sited above the space heater.
The Seine offers abundant storage space for a couple, and ample space for a family of four.
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The addition of the sunroof may well make buyers take a second look at the Adora range for 2014. The Seine is an impressive – and in places unique – take on what has become one of the most popular layouts on the British market today.
With an MTPLM of 1700kg the Adora Seine is a heavyweight for a single-axle tourer, so you'll need a large estate car such as a Mercedes-Benz E350, or a large 4x4, to tow it. But if you have such a tow car, this caravan is keenly priced from £17,790 when new, and is worth consideration.
- It's well-built, stylish and spacious
- Large, panoramic sunroof floods the van with light
- Wide drawers provide ample storage in the kitchen area
- Adora Pack includes chrome-detailed lockers and ambient lighting
- Large single beds with raisable bed heads
- It's big and heavy
- Washroom is on the narrow side


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Here's a funny film clip from the new sci-fi comedy Paul. In the clip Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kristen Wiig and Seth Rogan's alien character Paul sit nearly a bonfire. Paul offers a hit of his joint with government issued weed, Wiig joins, and she gets crazy high very fast.
The film stars Pegg and Frost who wrote the script as well, during their road-trip crossways the U.S. when they have a close encounter of the third kind with a runaway alien named Paul (voiced by Seth Rogen). The doubtful heroes then begin an adventure to get Paul to his spaceship.
The supporting cast is amazing as well and includes, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Bill Hader, Joe Lo Truglio, Jane Lynch, Jeffrey Tambor and Sigourney Weaver.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz, Shaun of the Dead) rejoin for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi nerds whose crusade takes them to America's UFO area. While there, they out of the blue meet a creature from outer space that brings them on a delirious road trip that modifies their universe forever. For the previous 60 years, an alien named Paul has been associated at a top-secret military base. For strange reasons, the spaceflight smart ass decides to escape the complex and get the first bus out of town—a rented RV hold Earthlings Graeme Willy (Pegg) and Clive Collings (Frost). Hunted by federal agents and the obsessive father of a young woman that they wrongly kidnapped, Graeme and Clive hatch a messy plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two geeks fight to help, one little green man might just take his guy outcomes from outsiders to interstellar heroes.
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West Sister Island Rookery Cruise
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Did you know that the egrets and herons that use the West Sister Island NWR rookery travel an 18 mile round trip, just to feed their young?
Learn more on a sunset cruise around West Sister Island on the Jet Express. This unique experience will highlight the largest Great Blue Heron and Great Egret rookery in the U.S. Great Lakes! Researchers from the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Ohio Department of Natural Resources will be on board to tell you more about this critical habitat.
West Sister Island National Wildlife Refuge is also a designated wilderness area. That means that access to the island is by permit only. It also means that maintenance crews can only use hand tools on the island!
The ferry boards at 6:45pm in Port Clinton, Ohio and will return by 9:00pm. Hors-d'oeuvres and cash bar will be on board.
50/50 raffle and door prizes!
Tickets are $60, and available at the link below or in the Rookery Nature Store.
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B-2, Northpoint Shopping Centre (9 Miles), corner of Pyay Road & Thaw Win Road, Mayangone Township, Yangon, Myanmar
It's not surprising that Chatime is here at Myanmar. Available all around the world, 25 to be exact, Chatime is no stranger to locals. You can choose a drinks from the 70 varieties available customized to your liking. You can ask them to add different types of toppings like pudding, coconut jelly, coffee jelly, red beans, grass jelly and more! They are popular for their unique combination of drinks like lychee yoghurt jelly, oolong tea mouse and matcha red bean milk tea, among others.
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Ground Floor, North Point Ocean, corner of Taw Win Road & Pyay Road, 9 Mile, Mayangone Township, Yangon, Myanmar 0.01 km
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Senior Director of Federal Tax Policy
While imposing harsh budget cuts on the most vulnerable Americans, House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price's budget plan also appears to reflect a continuing drive to cut taxes for the nation's highest-income people. Unlike past years' House budgets, this plan doesn't specify a top tax-rate target of 25 percent. It claims, more generally, that it "substantially lowers tax rates for individuals." Still, other details of the plan clearly indicate tax priorities that favor high-income households:
We estimate that repealing health reform and the AMT would likely reduce revenues by more than $1 trillion over ten years, based on Tax Policy Center (TPC) and Congressional Budget Office estimates. While it's intended to be revenue neutral compared to current law, Chairman Price's budget proposes no specific offsets to pay for these provisions (or for the tax-rate cuts it calls for in general terms, which tend to be very costly). Repealing the AMT and health reform's high-income provisions would provide a windfall at the top while doing little for middle-class households. Based on a TPC distributional analysis of the AMT and of health reform's high-income provisions in 2015, we estimate that repealing these provisions would:
Accounting for eliminating health reform's premium tax credits and other revenue provisions wouldn't alter the conclusion: the specific tax proposals identified in the Price plan would direct large tax cuts to high-income earners and little to low- and middle-income filers. While the tax component of Chairman Price's plan is less detailed than the tax proposals in past years' House budgets, the information it provides strongly indicates that the plan would juxtapose deep spending cuts primarily hitting low- and middle-income people with tax changes likely to heavily favor people at the top of the income scale.


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In Hawaii, Media Surfs Obama's Past
HONOLULU -- Until recently, the players on Hawaii's 1979 state basketball championship team thought their glory days were behind them, consigned to yearbooks and faded newspaper clippings.
Now lots of people are interested in helping graduates of Punahou School jog their foggy memories, trolling for revelations about a young man who spent much of his time that season riding the bench. The Los Angeles Times weighed in the other day. Vanity Fair is coming soon.
So far, the candidacy of the man known by his high school friends as Barry Obama has been good for the Hawaii economy and bad for newsroom budgets. Since January, more than a dozen news organizations from around the globe, from the BBC to TV Asahi to People magazine, have dispatched reporters to Oahu.
Most classmates and teachers recall an easygoing, slightly chunky young man, with the same infectious smile he sports today. Yet many say they have trouble reconciling their nearly 30-year-old memories with Obama's more recent descriptions of himself as a brooding and sometimes angry adolescent, grappling with his mixed race and the void left by a father who gave him his black skin but little else.
The attention on Obama's time at Punahou -- a country club campus with nine tennis courts, an Olympic-size pool and an endowment of $180 million -- represents the next important challenge for a celebrity politician who leapt onto the national stage with a few swift strides.
Obama's presidential prospects have been fueled in large part by an arresting life story: The son of a Kenyan goatherder, he wrestled with his dual identities to become the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review and a member of the U.S. Senate. So far, it has been a narrative spun almost entirely on Obama's terms and in his own words -- most prominently in his bestselling memoir, "Dreams From My Father."
Now that life story is being edited by others. He is undergoing what some have called the "Profile Primary" -- which is testing his ability to keep control of his public image, as journalists sketch portraits of the candidate as a young man and comb for contradictions and potential embarrassments in his past.
So far, this process has not yielded anything especially damaging to Obama's candidacy. But it has revealed the vagaries of memory, as well as the ambivalent emotions stirred among old acquaintances when someone they once knew becomes famous.
Dan Hale, the 6-foot-7-inch star center of the 1979 Punahou basketball team, said Obama's depiction of Hawaii as a place where race really mattered hardly resonates with him.
"I was certainly oblivious to a lot of what he references," Hale said in an interview. "If you look at our teams, that year I was the only white guy on the starting five. You had three part-Hawaiians, one Filipino and me."
But Hale said he is still enjoying the novelty of a famous classmate. "It's good for me, pre-Alzheimer's, to try and remember this stuff," he said, struggling to recall something other than Obama's love for basketball and his improbable hook shot. "If only I had saved that Nerf hoop we used to dunk on. I'd put that up on e-Bay."
Alan Lum, another teammate from the championship squad, who now teaches second grade at Punahou, has done enough interviews that his fellow teachers have started to rib him about his newfound fame. After a recent lunch with a reporter, he winked at a table of faculty-lounge colleagues and joked, "This one is with Playgirl."
The fun may wear off, if history is any guide. Journalistic excavations of a presidential candidate's past often turn ugly. In the 2004 presidential campaign, both John F. Kerry and President Bush were embroiled in disputes over their Vietnam-era records, controversies that were stoked by the conflicting recollections of people who knew them.
Arkansas is filled with people still burned from their interactions with the national news media, which descended on the state during Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign and stayed for his presidency, continuing to poke and prod at his business and personal dealings.
Obama's family is already insulating itself. "I am not giving any interviews," Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, curtly interjected when a reporter phoned. "I am in poor health."
The number at Dunham's apartment in a nondescript Honolulu high rise has not changed in more than a quarter-century. It is the same one that a young Obama wrote in the yearbook of a petite black-haired beauty named Kelli Furushima -- the object of his high school crush.
She wistfully showed a reporter the love note Obama wrote in June 1979.
Furushima paused, then sighed, pointing out how the potential president was prone to drawing a little Afro atop the "B" and the "O" on his signature. "Isn't that sweet?" she asked. "You can see how he was much more sensitive than the other guys, even back then."
But Furushima, too, is learning to be on guard around the press. She said a woman from People came to visit with her and then walked away with the Punahou reunion list and all its phone numbers. "I don't want to accuse her of stealing it, but it was on the table when she arrived and it wasn't when she left," said Furushima.
A spokeswoman for People said the reporter, West Coast correspondent Maureen Harrington, did not take the list.
Meanwhile, the search continues for Obama's closest high school friends -- the self-proclaimed "Basketball Jones," who raced around the island in Darin Maurer's two-toned beige VW van with the band Earth, Wind and Fire blaring from the cassette deck.
Some of that crew has stayed in Hawaii, but others have moved "off island." The race to track them down and coax them to open up likely will include reporters as well as "opposition research" experts for political rivals.
"You need to find Greg Orme," instructed Obama's old basketball coach, Chris McLachin. "If this story is eight paragraphs, seven of them go to Greg. I get one, maybe."
For most of their high school years, Orme and Obama lived and loved basketball, even if their hours of practice never translated into much playing time on game day.
But Orme is a hard man to find. "Greg? He's kind of in and out. He's off the grid," said Hale, who is now the school's head basketball coach.
Most of his teachers and friends express sorrow that they did not know of Obama's racial anguish or inner demons. "I wish I would have known that those things were bothering him, or if they did bother him," said Eric Kusunoki, Obama's homeroom teacher from grades nine through 12. "Maybe we could have helped him. But he seemed to have coped pretty well."
Others are more skeptical that the boy known as Barry felt the angst described by Barack. Furushima said that many of her classmates have expressed dismay at Obama's rendering of the past.
"We are just such a mixed-up bag of races. It was hard to imagine that he felt that way, because he just seemed happy all the time, smiling all the time," she said. "We have so many tones of brown here. If someone is brown, they can be Samoan or Fijian or Tongan. I can't tell if someone is Fijian or black."
His middle school yearbook captures the multiracial mood that many Hawaiians say has always defined the "Aloha spirit." In front of a chalkboard with "Mixed Races of America" written in a student's hand, Obama waved the peace sign for the camera.
On the lower half of the seventh-grade page is the same group, under a heading of "Useless Races in America." The joke, it seems, is on intolerance.
"In Hawaii, our diversity defines us, it doesn't divide us," said Rep. Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii), a close friend of Obama's father in graduate school in the early '60s. "We all come from so many backgrounds, we have to get along."
Obama's teammates for the most part are careful not to judge an old friend, even if his memories of racial attitudes at Punahou differ from their own. "I would never say, ah, that didn't happen," said Hale. "But I was pretty wrapped up in my own world back then."
If Obama did show flashes of anger or hurt, according to friends and teammates, it sprang from his lack of minutes on the basketball court more than his angst as a young black man in a multiracial society.
There are, however, chapters in Obama's high school narrative that are not subject to dispute. Just as he was the only African-American on the basketball team, he was also the only jock working on the school's literary magazine, Ka Wai Ola. In his poem, "An Old Man," there are glimpses of a tortured adolescent as well as a budding orator.
"I saw an old forgotten man/On an old, forgotten road," begins the 12-line poem. The man is "staggering and numb" but eventually "pulls out forgotten dignity from under his flaking coat,/And walks a straight line along the crooked world."
That thoughtful poet is not remembered by any of his basketball buddies, coaches or friends. Through the haze of the '70s, they recall only the "rat baller" who was always up for a game.
Of course, Obama embraced the image of the athlete, dribbling a ball to school and between classes. It was also how he wanted to be remembered.
On his senior yearbook page, he left behind these words: "We go play hoop."


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Website: www.MidAmericaGrp.com
Michelle Panovich, Principal, Executive Vice President; Kay Nelson, Principal, Vice President
We provide strategic retail planning expertise with technically advanced reporting systems to achieve maximum income and appreciation of property values. Services include leasing, property and construction management, due diligence, market analysis and capital repair. Additional contact: Jean Zoerner, Principal, Vice President, email@example.com.
Mid-America Asset Management is the Midwest's largest third-party retail asset manager, leasing and/or managing more than 55 million square feet of retail throughout the Midwest.
50 South 10th Street, Suite 300Minneapolis, MN
Address: 50 South 10th Street, Suite 300 Minneapolis, MN
Phone: (612) 492-4000
Fax: (612) 492-3000
Website: www.ryancompanies.com
Tim Hennelly, President of Great Lakes Region; Collin Barr, President of North Region
Our work encompasses all facets of commercial real estate, but we're especially passionate about creating spaces that have a positive impact on people, businesses and communities. We bring an owner's perspective to the process, adding meaningful value.
Three generations of Ryans have led our business, carrying on the principles we were built upon — integrity, honesty, civic pride and a sincere regard for people — while honing our skills and capabilities to stay ahead of today's fast-paced world.
One South Wacker DriveChicago, IL
• Brokerage •
Address: One South Wacker Drive Chicago, IL
Phone: (312) 957-7600
Website: www.avisonyoung.com/offices/chicago-downtown
Andrew Fredricks, Marketing Manager
Avison Young understands that real estate is among an organization's most significant expenses, with strategic implications ranging from workforce management to productivity, brand image and logistics. Our deep experience and integrated tenant representation platform provides occupiers of space comprehensive solutions to their most pressing issues.
Avison Young, a Principal-owned organization, is the world's fastest-growing commercial real estate services firm. The company comprises more than 2,400 real estate professionals in 78 offices, providing client-centric real estate solutions to owners and occupiers.
970 N. Oaklawn Avenue, Ste. 100Elmhurst, IL
Address: 970 N. Oaklawn Avenue, Ste. 100 Elmhurst, IL
Phone: (630) 782-9520
Fax: (630) 782-9531
Website: www.darwinrealty.com
George J. Cibula, Managing Broker; Richard G. Daly, President
Commercial brokerage, receivership and disposition services, property management, asset management, property valuation and fund management.
A leading Chicago based provider of industrial real estate services. We are the solution for distressed industrial assets. With in-house brokers, property/asset managers, construction department, and systems, we are able handle any industrial asset.
200 West Madison Street, Suite 3300Chicago, IL
Address: 200 West Madison Street, Suite 3300 Chicago, IL
Phone: (312) 881-7000
Website: www.transwestern.com
Mike Watts, President, Midwest; Michael Marconi, Principal
Specializing in Agency Leasing, Management, Tenant Advisory, Capital Markets, Research and Sustainability services, our fully integrated global enterprise adds value for investors, owners and occupiers of all commercial property types.
We are collaborative entrepreneurs who deliver a higher level of personalized service. No matter how much we grow our global reach and resources, our approach to commercial real estate will always be people-driven and client-focused.
5200 Prairie Stone ParkwayHoffman Estates, IL
• Construction •
Address: 5200 Prairie Stone Parkway Hoffman Estates, IL
Phone: (847) 783-3000
Fax: (847) 783-3001
Website: www.leopardo.com
Todd Andrlik, VP, Marketing
Sustainability and LEED, preconstruction, general contracting, construction management, design-build, development, building services, BIM
Leopardo's team of experts build world-class projects across practically every major sector, including interiors, healthcare, retail, municipal, recreation, office, industrial, higher education, K-12 education, hospitality and hotel, community, aviation, etc.
1000 West Irving Park Road, Suite 200Itasca, IL
Address: 1000 West Irving Park Road, Suite 200 Itasca, IL
Phone: (847) 297-4200
Fax: (847) 297-4205
Website: www.pdbgroup.com
Alan Zocher, President; Brian Paul, Executive Vice President
PREMIER Design + Build Group, LLC is your full-service design + build firm specializing in industrial, medical, commercial and adaptive re-use projects. PREMIER handles small tenant improvements to large-scale new construction developments and provides due diligence, full construction and out-sourced design services. We have completed LEED Gold and Silver projects, and are a member of the U.S. Green Building Council.
The PREMIER mission is to realize our clients' visions by leading the planning, design and construction processes, while consistently fulfilling each project requirement and exceeding expectations. All PREMIER projects are built with the future in mind and are designed to be suitable for your tomorrow. PREMIER Design + Build Group, LLC: BUILDING THE FUTURE ONE VISION AT A TIME.
700 W. 47th Street, Suite 200Kansas City, MO
• Developers •
Address: 700 W. 47th Street, Suite 200 Kansas City, MO
Phone: (816) 756-1400
Fax: (816) 410-9569
Website: www.blockllc.com
Kenneth G. Block, Managing Principal; Brad Simma, Vice President
Provide site selection and acquisition, procurement of project team and coordination of approvals, permits, entitlements, and regulations. Provide financing and equity.
Block Development Company is an entity that will purchase, finance, and develop all types of commercial real estate including multifamily, retail, medical, industrial, and office, BDC can handle all aspects of the development process.
2285 S. 67th Street, Suite 250Omaha, NE
Address: 2285 S. 67th Street, Suite 250 Omaha, NE
Phone: (402) 496-1616
Fax: (402) 496-6250
Website: www.noddlecompanies.com
Jay Noddle; Jennifer Rasmussen,
A full service strategic development partner which can provide our clients with assistance in site selection, acquisition, master planning, architect and contractor selections and contract negotiation, zoning, infrastructure installation, tax incentives, construction management and more.
A substantial portfolio of over 150 projects, stretching from coast to coast. Our growing number of retail and corporate centers are among the most efficiently managed, competitively priced, and strategically positioned properties in the nation.
421 N. California Street, Building 1B, Suite #200Sycamore, IL
• Economic Development Corporations •
Address: 421 N. California Street, Building 1B, Suite #200 Sycamore, IL
Phone: (815) 295-2711
Fax: (815) 895-8713
Website: www.dcedc.org
Karen Hoyle, Administrator; Paul Borek, Executive Director
Sites and Buildings, Enterprise Zone Administration ( State/Local Incentives), Labor Market and Customized Research Northern Illinois University(NIU) Intern/Employee Recruitment, R&D Partnerships, Employee Training, Expedited Plan Review and Permitting and IMEC Production and Operation Assistance.
DCEDC serves brokers, developers and businesses by identifying sites, buildings, labor and utility resources together with highway, rail and air infrastructure in support of development in DeKalb County, 60 miles west of O'Hare Airport and the Chicago Loop.
45 South 7th Street, Suite 2900Minneapolis, MN
• Finance •
Address: 45 South 7th Street, Suite 2900 Minneapolis, MN
Phone: (612) 359-4414
Website: www.associatedbank.com/cre
Paul Schmidt, Executive Vice President / Head of Commercial Real Estate
Our clients include professional developers of income producing commercial real estate, including multi-family properties, retail, office, storage, student housing, and industrial.
Commercial Real Estates offices are located in Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland and Dallas. Associated Banc-Corp has total assets of $29 billion and is one of the top 50 financial services holding companies in the United States.
3500 American Blvd., West Suite 500Minneapolis, MN
Address: 3500 American Blvd., West Suite 500 Minneapolis, MN
Phone: (952) 356-0100
Fax: (952) 356-0097
Website: www.northmarq.com
Jeff Weidell, President; William Ross, President
Debt and Equity Financing, Loan Servicing. Direct Lender to Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae DUS, FHA, and correspondents to Life Companies, Banks and Equity Funds.
A leading national mortgage banking firm offering debt, equity and commercial loan servicing. The company closes more than 1,100 transactions annually and services a loan portfolio of $50 billion.


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The Power of the LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform in the Cloud
Don't worry about managing SIEM infrastructure, administration, upgrades, or troubleshooting capacity issues. LogRhythm Cloud provides our complete NextGen SIEM experience with the ease and flexibility of a SaaS solution so that your team can concentrate on the most important task — protecting your organization.
With staffing shortages and an increasing quantity and sophistication of threats, your team doesn't have time to waste on operational overhead. With LogRhythm Cloud, there's no hardware to manage and maintain.
LogRhythm provides 24x7 infrastructure monitoring and applies the latest software patches and updates so your team can focus on threat hunting, qualification, and incident response and remediation. LogRhythm Cloud makes this work even easier for your analysts with an intuitive, browser-based UI.
Kevin Merolla
Security Manager at Chart Inc.
If you're worried about what threats might be moving through your environment, time is of the essence. With LogRhythm Cloud, you don't need to wait for hardware to be configured, software to be installed, or for a shipment to arrive. LogRhythm Cloud's rapid deployment saves you considerable time over an on-prem deployment, providing immediate access to a fully functioning NextGen SIEM so you can realize swift value from your investment. Just import your log data, and you're off and running.
We understand the demands your organization places on your SIEM will shift and change over time. For long-term success, you need a solution that can scale with your business. LogRhythm Cloud gives you the flexibility to handle these changes gracefully by easily scaling your deployment as your business grows.
The security of your data is paramount. In LogRhythm Cloud, your data is both secured and optimized for transfer through encryption both in transit and at rest — with additional options for compression and scheduling.
Many cloud-based SIEMs available today are skimmed-down, limited versions of on-prem solutions. Not LogRhythm Cloud. Our cloud-based NextGen SIEM is the most complete SaaS SIEM on the market. You get the same robust and powerful analyst capabilities as our on-prem NextGen SIEM Platform.
Included compliance and threat detection modules help your team quickly address a wide range of compliance requirements and pervasive threats in real time. Preconfigured and regularly updated content to help your team stay ahead of evolving regulations and emerging threats.
Our embedded security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) capabilities help your team accelerate threat investigation and response activities. With LogRhythm Cloud, your analysts access SOAR capabilities in the cloud, including SmartResponse™ for secure, remote task automation across cloud and on-prem technologies. Because when it comes to detecting threats, you shouldn't have to choose between full-featured or SaaS.
If a cloud-first strategy is driving your organization to consider SIEM as a service, LogRhythm Cloud can help you to move the needle forward to bring your security to the cloud and to realize rapid time to value from your organization's investment.
Assets and compute loads are increasingly being moved to the cloud. LogRhythm Cloud can easily collect data from everywhere: private cloud, public cloud/SaaS applications, and on-prem.
Security teams are looking for help with health monitoring, data management, and technology updates and upgrades. Let LogRhythm take care of these tasks for you with LogRhythm Cloud so you can focus on using your SIEM, not running your SIEM.
Modern enterprise budgets are moving from capex to opex models. LogRhythm Cloud's subscription-based solution allows you to reduce the footprint of your data centers — and the financial costs associated with them — and instead focus your budget on hiring talent.
For a successful security program, it's important to build your SOC on a solid foundation. Your SIEM is a critical building block. A strong security operations program combines people, process, and technology to rapidly detect, investigate, and neutralize threats that challenge the reputation and security of your organization.
The LogRhythm NextGen SIEM Platform is designed by security experts for security experts to help support the fundamental mission of the enterprise SOC and address the common obstacles that can get in the way of this mission through automated risk-based scoring, orchestrated workflows, and reduced operational challenges.
Our end-to-end NextGen SIEM capabilities helps mature your security posture and defend your enterprise by measurably reducing the time it takes to detect and respond to threats.


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By design (and budget), this is a long term project. I am sharing funds with my Honda 400 ICE Cafe Racer Project, and my 1976 Jeep CJ5 rebuild. So slow but sure will be the pace. But, today was sunny and relatively warm in the Great White North, so after a 9 km hike/run with the wife, I was inspired to pull the shabby old Cane out of the corner of the garage and see what shape she was in.
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Lots to do! The first order of business is to get the Roller into decent shape, so bearings, shocks, tires & brakes I guess. Tires can actually wait, as the ones on it hold air, and I won't really need new ones until it's ready to hit the street. (plus I will need to paint the rims first). Unfortunately the rear mono-shock doesn't look good, it doesn't seem to move at all. I jumped up and down on the sub-frame, but nothing. Then I took it out and used it to jack up the jeep, trying to compress the spring, but it just lifted the engine end of the Jeep right off the ground. hmmm. Looks like it will need a replacement, which are hard to find as no-one makes an aftermarket bolt in for this bike anymore. I might take another run at compressing the spring and taking it apart to see if I can free it up, but my guess is that it is toast.
On to the brakes... The lines look in decent shape, but the calipers look a bit banged up. I will pull them apart and clean, and rebuild if needed. The pads are almost non-existent, and the rotors are seriously worn. Whoever rode this bike did an awful lot of braking, and not very much maintenance! Looks like all new rotors and pads all around. There was no pressure in the brake lines. I think the PO (bought it as a project, never rode it) got a bit rambunctious and started taking things apart without really thinking much about what order he was doing things. (take a look at the photo in post #1. With the bike in that state, he had started to sand the frame for paint ) I'm also missing a small part of the rear brake linkage that connects the pedal to the cylinder, I'm not sure where I will find that silly little piece.
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SO, Lots to get through before I even start thinking about electric stuff. Off to Fleabay, and the CBRForum to figure out what I need.


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LANCER DERMATOLOGY 'Method' Luxury Skincare Collection Retails for $250.00 at Nordstrom.
The Renowned Lord of the Skin, Dr. Harold Lancer – has long been one of the experts in Oprah Winfrey's personal inner-circle of beauty gurus.
Now, his Lancer Method Limited Edition Luxury Skin Care Set has been granted the distinction of taking top honors on the coveted list of Oprah's Favorite Things.
The Lancer Method Limited Edition Luxury Skin Care Set is in the December issue of "O" The Oprah Magazine, which hits stands nationwide this week.
The interlocking system in the Lancer Method is a 3-part daily skincare program that starts with a physical exfoliation as its anchor product. Packed with potent ingredients for collagen building and the ultimate in gentle resurfacing, it offers cumulative and ongoing improvement in the skin.
"Oprah's Favorite Things" from Dr. Lancer are also favorites of some of Hollywood's biggest names, brightest stars and most beautiful faces.
Victoria Beckham, Nicole Richie, Michelle Williams, Denise Richards, Kim Kardashian, Portia de Rossi and many others polish, cleanse and nourish their way to beautiful skin.
Just like them you'll be hooked.
The Lancer Method has a luxurious new look of its own for Holiday 2012 in the Limited Edition Luxury Set. Geometric shaped modern Lucite containers set with royal blue and silver accents paired with a chic cylindrical blue cleanser pump make for a regal gift or worthy display on any powder-room vanity table.
The Lancer Limited Edition Luxury Holiday Collection, 2012 is available at Nordstrom
stores,www.Nordstrom.com and www.lancerskincare.com.
Don't have $250.00 to spend on yourself this holiday season?
Don't worry because one Beflossy reader will win a Lancer Method Luxury Collection for themselves here's how!
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Contest ends on November 25th,2012.
Good Luck and don't forget to check out Oprah's Favorite Things which airs as a two-hour event on the OWN network.
The two hour show will air on Sunday, November 18, from 8:00 – 10:00 PM and re-airs again on Nov. 23, Dec. 13 & Dec. 23.


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Well, I'm just all over the kids' movies today aren't I? I went from Disney's Frozen to the Ice Age collection, and finally to…
Happy Feet!
Happy Feet is another one of those rare animated movies that I actually liked. Mumble's just so adorable!
Best Buy is selling the two pack of these movies – Happy Feet and Happy Feet 2 – for just $7.99 right now, almost half off the regular price of $14.99. You can get free shipping if your order is $25 or more, or you can skip the shipping charges altogether by opting for free store pickup.


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Bodybuilding The Right Way Seminar conducted by Mike Brown will help if you have reached a sticking point.
"Brown, you don't look like you can do the things that you can do."–seminar attendee
Forty years ago men lifted weights to increase their ability in competitive athletics, to develop their bodies, and to improve their health.
Today the attitude appears to be that of an "improvement in cosmetic appearance at any cost" and, in order to gain muscular size and strength, people are told that they must "train to failure."
The "cosmetic appearance at any cost" attitude has resulted in the liberal use of anabolic steroids, with the eventual horrendous side effects such substances produce. "Train to failure" puts, on the average, one million people a year into hospitals with injuries from weight training.
If your desire is to become a monster with 22″ arms and, at the same time, become extremely unhealthy and comparatively weak for your size, you may (or may not, it's an iffy business) want to try steroids. On the other hand, if you want to become bigger, stronger, faster, more athletic and healthier, this video is for you.
Sigmund Klein, who owned a barbell gym in New York, once remarked when a bodybuilder informed him that he had an 18-inch arm, "That's nice, what can you do with it?"
If you have hit a "sticking point" in your training, if you keep injuring yourself, if nothing seems to work for you, this video is for you. This video is a sample of what you will learn in a day-long seminar conducted by Mike Brown. This video is premised on two very simple concepts:
If you are not making progress lifting weights:
1. You are doing something wrong.
2. There is something wrong with you.
It is that simple. This video will enable you to recognize what you are doing wrong, what is wrong with you, and how to correct the problem with your training, your diet, and your body in order for you to gain size, strength, and endurance.
Running time approximately 1 hour, 40 minutes.
Mike Brown Training Debbie after a hip replacement
Read more about Mike Brown's training methods:
Proper Training Produces Results
The low-down on lifting with Mike by Ted Roach


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Precise 10440 (previously called the Mini-T) has now replaced all previous SuperTManufacturing models. 10440 version was the first being released in the series and was then called simply "The Precise". Now also 18650 and 16340 models are available. Has a stainless steel body and either steel or brass end caps/button can be chosen by the customer. Adjustable button for throw and spring rate. Comes with Joye510 threading and adapters for DSE-801 and DSE-901 atomizers are included.
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purchaced one a month ago and wow!! (this is not some thin walled flashlight mod, this thing is made to take some abuse). the ss construction puts a little weight to it, just enough to let you know its there. the bottom button is shielded to keep it from misfireing. i have average size hands and i have no problems activating the switch. overall this is the most well built mod that i have used, and for $120 it was well worth the money.
One of the Nicest Built Mods I have. Looks stunning and very solid. However the battery life is the shortest of all my mods and the first few vapes are solid and from then on its downhill from their. Basically you buy this for its looks not for its function.
good mod, looks great,but pricey,and the battery life isn't the greatest
This mod is a masterpiece a true work of art. It is a great classy mod that delivers a great 3.7v experience. The small size makes this a great on the go or bar mod. pair with an LR which is not recommended on 10440s its really shines but the battery life being to suck even more. The main flaw with this mod is the poor battery life and the price point. This in my opinion could never be my main mod. Its a great addition to any Mod collection / kit but the poor battery life and the limitation to 3.7v only keeps this mod from being my main go to PV.


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Madiwor Features
Madiwor is the first cloud based software solution designed for label manufacturers.
Our main objective is to provide a high-end automation solution for small and mid-sized businesses
Production Planning
Browse and plan your production orders on your machines and share the information with your team.
Create price calculations based on your resources, store your price calculations and authorize when ready.
Raw Material Inventory
Track and identify raw materials through the complete production process.
Finished Product Stock
Manage a precise finished product inventory, share this information with each customer through the extranet module.
B2B eCommerce
Madiwor´s Extranet functionality is the best way to develop customer loyalty.
Material Cut and assignment
Assign jumbo rolls to production orders, cut rolls as required to optimize utilization.
Why start using Madiwor?
Our software is specially designed to be intuitive and easy to use.
It assists your organization in key processes. Madiwor understands the challenges and provides the best solution.
Madiwor provides perfect and flawless compatibility between all platforms.
Madiwor´s design allows to use it on any device.
Get Time On Your Side
Saves time needed for setup and training. Madiwor is already running.
Minimum Training
Easy to Use. Intuitive modularity improving the user experience.
Eliminate time Consuming Tasks
Eliminates the burden of upgrading, maintenance, and safeguarding data.
Increase Efficiency
Cuts operational costs. Plus Madiwor costs less compared to on-premises systems.
B2B Store Fronts
Customers have access to a customized e-commerce application.
My Orders & Specs
Allow customers to check order status, browse order history and product specifications.
Re-Order & Quotes
Through the extranet your clients are able to re-order and send pricing requests.
Price Calculations
Create price calculations based on your resources and costs.
Compare & Analyze
Put together different alternatives to find the best alternative to your customer.
Store & Retrieve
Analyze new price calculations based on previous estimates and similar pricing strategies.
Module Highlights
Production Module
Production Planning, Daily Reports, Production Jobs Management
The user interface is extremely easy and intuitive. The production plan shows a colored graph where you can quickly visualize the general status of the resources required for each work order. By automating the update of this indicator, Madiwor fully enhances the communication within the company.
Raw Material Inventory
Raw Material Inventory, Roll Cut & Traceability
The great thing about this module is the not only it allows you to cut rolls into the size required by each order but, it lets you have them assigned to a production job or to the stock. This reduces scrap, saves time when retrieving inventory and automates the need to trace any material used.
Real Time Monitor
Using Madiwor Devices you can connect your press to the Cloud.
Access remotely to your production Dashboard & View a Live Monitor of your Machines
Real Time Dashboard
Updated in Real-time. The Production Dashboard lets you monitor your production status.
Material Processed
Fts or Mts processed.
Current Speed
Ft/min or Mts/min
Average Speed
Average Ft/min. or Mts/min.
Production Time
Total Production Time
Custom Reports by Date & Equipment
Monitor and Compare by reviewing a selected press and date.
Products & Pricing
- Quotes
- Control Device Access
- Estimating
- Sales Orders
- Raw Material
- Production Planning
- SKUs Module
- Dispatch & Shipping
- Daily Reports
- Number of Users
- B2B Extranet
Limited Time Offer
Madiwor Quotes
Starting $15/month
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Limited Time Offer
Labels Estimates
$200/month *
* paid every 90 days
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Limited Time Offer
Labels Essentials
Full Management
$375/month *
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- 25Storefronts
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