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Portable Cyber-Laboratories for Electrical Engineering Education
Laboratories that address Electrical Engineering (EE) concepts often require expensive bench- top equipment, and numerous students can be difficult to accommodate in these crowded spaces. Additionally, static laboratory tools are increasingly incompatible with the lifestyles of today's students, who are accustomed to mobile resources like laptop computers and cell phones that host multimedia interfaces which enliven the user experience. This paper describes a new collaboration between the Kansas State University (KSU) Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE) Department and the East Carolina University (ECU) Department of Engineering, General Engineering whose overall goal is to develop mobile hands-on learning experiences for EE concepts and then formally assess whether laboratories performed at home are effective supplements for traditional lecture- and laboratory-based courses.
To this end, the project team is developing an affordable, portable circuit prototyping kit whose primary component is a printed circuit board that hosts a National Instruments (NI) myDAQ data acquisition module (which includes a ±5 V power supply, a function generator, and a digital multimeter), a large breadboard, and numerous multimedia connectors. The carrying case that holds this board also contains a desktop power supply and a parts/tools storage area. The myDAQ module communicates over a USB interface with LabVIEW virtual instruments (VIs) that run on either a laptop or handheld computer. This kit design is an upgrade to a Rapid Analysis & Signal Conditioning Laboratory (RASCL) unit that has already demonstrated promise for courses that address circuit theory, signals, and systems.
Initial development and assessment activities target (a) upper-level KSU undergraduates that enroll in ECE 512: Linear Systems and ECE 772: Biomedical Instrumentation and (b) upper- level ECU undergraduates that enroll in ICEE 3014: Electric Circuit Analysis and ICEE 3050: Instrumentation and Controls. The VI-based modules address fundamental learning objectives identified by ABET and the Sloan Foundation in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains. Selected objectives from these three domains are being assessed via student surveys, concept inventories, Fundamentals of Engineering exam performance, and laboratory observations. Higher-level learning is designed into each module, and biomedical applications are emphasized to increase student interest.
I. Introduction Laboratories are integral to engineering education. They authenticate theory, deepen understanding, sharpen hands-on skills, and promote enthusiasm for the profession.1 Laboratories that address Electrical Engineering (EE) concepts require expensive benchtop equipment, and numerous students are difficult to accommodate in crowded laboratories. Static laboratory tools are also increasingly incompatible with today's students, who are accustomed to mobile resources like laptop computers that give them lifestyle flexibility and host multimedia interfaces that enliven the user experience.
Warren, S., & Yao, J. (2010, June), Portable Cyber Laboratories For Electrical Engineering Education Paper presented at 2010 Annual Conference & Exposition, Louisville, Kentucky. 10.18260/1-2--16916
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Conor Maynard Covers The Chainsmokers "Closer"
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Each Tuesday we compile our favorite covers of the top 5 songs on the Billboard Hot 100. Here is this week's edition of The Billboard Top 5 : Covered featuring Conor Maynard, Jess Jackson. They cover the hottest songs in the country right now by the likes of Sia, Major Lazer and Justin Bieber, Twenty One Pilots, Calvin Harris and The Chainsmokers. This week also features a bonus cover of Savage Garden's "Truly Madly Deeply" by Bailey Pelkman
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COLON HEALTH HANDBOOK by Robert Gray
he Colon Health Handbook by Robert Gray
Did you know that the colon and digestive tract of nearly every adult is burdened with a lifetime's accumulation of toxic waste material? Did you know that the presence of this toxic waste material can cause constipation or diarrhea? Low energy due to weak blood? Vitamin and mineral deficiencies due to decreased ability of the body to absorb nutrients? Interference with the ability of the lymphatic system to resist disease? Harmful substances to enter into the bloodstream and be carried to every cell of the body? Have you considered the possible benefits of removing those several pounds of waste that never leaves the bodies of most people?
This book is a synthesis of information gathered from many sources, including modern medical science, ancient Chinese medicine, the Western disciplines of Iridology and Naturopathy, and the author's personal study, observation, and experiences. There are differing views among these various disciplines, and the scope of any of them. The conclusions expressed herein are those of the author. This book is intended for educational purposes, and it should not be used as a guide for the diagnosis and/or treatment of any disease. The reader needing guidance on any particular health-care problem should seek the help of a licensed health-care professional of his or her choice.
Even though a person may be unaware of any colon difficulties, toxic waste stored in the colon can be a causative factor for nearly any disease. It took Robert Gray five years of research to fully explain why. Now The Colon Health Handbook provides the fascinating account of his discoveries. His answers to important questions related to colon health are revealed, along with explanations of the many ways the condition of colon is interconnected with the health of the entire body. Moreover, all factors leading to an unhealthy colon are identified.
Robert Gray spent years of research to develop a colon cleansing program that would: involve only a few minutes per day, require no difficult procedures such as fasting, enemas, or special diet, yet be both gentler and more effective than any other method. He describes the fulfillment of his efforts as an easy-to-follow, self-administered herbal technique for cleansing the colon and entire digestive tract. Now his unique 60-day program is unveiled to you in The Colon Health Handbook.
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(The following article was written by guest contributor Ryan Dyer, who has been on a mission to spread the word about metal music from China, and in this article he focuses on one-man Chinese bands in the genres of grindcore, noise, and industrial.)
China is home to over a billion people. Hundreds of thousands of these individuals have artistic endeavors, but some don't play well with others. The one-man band is a unique performance art in the musical spectrum. Usually, electronic music is where one would find them, and usually as a DJ. The one-man vehicle does reach out into other forms of music, however, such as rap, hip hop, industrial, noise, and even grindcore. As the result of one person's imagination and drive, the output often defies genre limitations, becoming something which could be labeled "outsider music".
The three musicians presented here are certainly outsiders. Hailing from Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai, they prove that no single city is at the forefront of single-handed creative madness in China. It's omnipresent and on the rise.
Torturing Nurse (Noise/Electronic)
Junjun Cao aka Junky aka Torturing Nurse is a 15-plus-year veteran of the Shanghai scene who produces a form of noise which is as nihilistic as it is harsh. Donning a blue mask on stage and deploying several effects pedals for his arsenal of noise, the live performance is a one-man wrecking crew, with Junky violently thrashing his body around while making sure to stab eardrums with his distorted rips, tears, and punctures.
The sound of Torturing Nurse is inherently aggressive, mimicking the constant cacophony of human-created racket in the megalopolis of Shanghai. His live show is a short, but sweet, free-for-all of expressive art, and Junky encourages audience members to twist the knobs on his soundboards after thrashing about the room in a daze. "The performances allow me to be free."
Borrow the Sound (借走声音) (Industrial/Electronic)
Donning a lab coat on stage, and carrying props like teddy bears, candles, and sci-fi influenced lighting, Beijing's Borrow the Sound is a metal-influenced mad scientist of industrial. While playing live, a video screen behind him displays lyrical phrases related to social discontent. He painfully screams his strife to the audience while the music itself consists of harsh electronics. Later, with candles lit and a chime in hand, the music slows down to a lurch and he resembles a Daoshi as he starts to first hit the chime and then pray in front of the candles.
The Hyde of electronic music, he, like Torturing Nurse, has found a home being booked with metal bands. Some fans may seem confused, but others scream along with him, overjoyed with the results of this noisy experiment with borrowed sounds. (Some of the music can be streamed here if you scroll down, and videos can be accessed via the first link below.)
TKD Orgasm (Goregrind/Grindcore)
Goregrind isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Tianjin. A gray, metropolitan port city, its claim to fame in the past decade was the massive explosion which happened at one of the factories in the Binhai area. Well, there has also been a musical explosion in the city along with that literal one.
TKD Orgasm is a one-man grind project who lurks within the wreckage of Tianjin's musical undercurrent. A musical mastermind behind the guitar-work in many of Tianjin's finest bands such as crazed punkers Teddy, the man behind TKD Orgasm is also host to KS Studio, which he uses to record a variety of projects and musical styles other than his grindcore one. Live, TKD Orgasm is absurd, brutal fun – his TaeKwonDo outfit cements the fact you might get kicked in the face with his riffs. Masturbate to his new EP, Masturbate to This.
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This is all so cool. True outsiders in the best sense. Thanks so much for sharing, drawing my attention to it.


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Reckoning with Woody's Final Choice
Since attracting the world's eye, Toy Story's Woody has been Pixar's moral center, its north star. To a generation of millennials, myself included, the toy sheriff has stood as a paragon of friendship, loyalty and love. Imbued with the trademark optimism of Tom Hanks and softened by the seams of nostalgia in his doll-like form, Woody has long been society's direct link to the best of childhood.
Woody's journey with his kid, Andy, had come to a rare perfect end on screen in 2010's Toy Story 3. Those who were of prime toy-playing age when the first movie came out were entering college as Andy was leaving home. At that moment of fear, Woody's enduring kinship to Andy even in their parting evidenced our ability to be okay. The fleeting loves of our childhood could endure even as we parted from it.
Months after his story reopened in the critically acclaimed Toy Story 4, I am still grappling with Woody's new end.
His role from the start of the fourth film feels familiar. Recognizing a nonconventional toy as important to Bonnie, Woody spends the better part of the new installment focused on getting Forky home, prepping him for a life with his kid. In doing so, he succeeds in making his child happy. In a poignant scene, Woody explains to Forky on the side of a dark highway how lucky he feels to have been able to make lasting memories for a child. Though the child would grow up, those feelings of happiness could linger. That love would be eternal.
This version of Woody, one who actively risks his own face-time with Bonnie for the benefit of her happiness by searching out Forky, represents the fully actualized hero of the Toy Story world that he has been growing towards. Here, Woody fights off feelings of jealousy and fear, his prior sins that defined the initial trilogy. Though he felt unwanted when left in the closet, though he saw a future where he was not the favorite toy, Woody persists with helping Bonnie.
Later in the film, Woody even willingly surrenders his voice box, something critical to his functionality, so that Gabby Gabby could try to make another child happy. Though the impact of that choice on Woody ultimately goes unexplored, it is undeniably momentous in his development. Where he once became distraught over a broken arm or a lost hat to such an extreme that he briefly fled from Andy to preserve his body, here he sacrifices himself for another. He decides not to let others be deprived of the feelings he once fought to possess solely.
In passing Woody on to Bonnie, Andy had modeled a selfless path forward for Woody. Inhabiting this new role, Woody manages to help two lost toys find their purpose. Yet in the final moments of the film, Woody chooses another direction. After pushing Gabby Gabby into the loving arms of a child, he leaves Bonnie behind to be with Bo Peep. The kiss is all but implied, with the lights of the carnival illuminating this climactic end.
By choosing romantic love over a child's love, Woody veers off his tracks. He bids farewell to Buzz and Jessie, but crucially never to Bonnie, never to the type of love that defined his life. He forsakes Bonnie's enduring love, not to mention a lifetime of friendships with Andy's gang, for an unknown future with Bo. The love that triumphs is an ordinary sort of love, not the type that marked this series as unique and everlasting - the love between a child and his toy, between a human being and their childhood.
Two decades ago at a Little Rock Embassy Suites, I lost my favorite stuffed animal, a multicolored rabbit appropriately named Bunny. Though I had largely forgotten the incident, the fear for Bunny and the subsequent emotional crisis came rushing back as I experienced Toy Story 4, imagining Bonnie returning to her closet to find Woody missing. After his experiences with Andy, Woody would know better than anyone that kids cycle through favorite toys. And yet, after two weeks on the side, Woody absolves himself of his duty to Bonnie. Whatever the motivation, Woody risks real pain for Bonnie, who would undoubtedly look to her cowboy again and find him missing.
When telling Rex about Woody's choice to leave with Bo in the film's closing moments, Buzz boldly states, "He's not lost. Not anymore." This line offers the most overt explanation for Woody's choice to leave Bonnie and the gang. The facial expressions and the carnival setting further suggest Woody has been freed, not lost. The film, and the series for now, concludes with Woody's impending freedom from Bonnie and the duty that involves. In a franchise about the unbreakable bond between a toy and its child, it is an odd end for the icon of loyalty.
However, I have found a more subtle explanation within the film, one I have not seen or heard critics explore. Rather than diminish the lasting power of a child's love for a toy, it affirms that vitality. It offers Woody an end befitting the story.
Filmmakers make clear Woody's internal struggle throughout the film. In mistaking Bonnie's name for Andy's at one point, and in staring longingly at his freshly painted-over foot with Bonnie on it, Woody feels acutely the loss of his prior love, even amid the development of a new one. Even as he cherishes Bonnie, he longs for Andy. Recognizing a minimized role in his forthcoming life, Woody feels less than what he once was.
As a result, Woody chooses to separate himself from Bonnie because he needs a new purpose. If deep down he knows he cannot replace Andy with Bonnie, maybe he feels he owes it to her to be elsewhere if he cannot ever be fully hers. Perhaps the reason he goes to such lengths to bring Forky back to Bonnie is to pay forward a life he does not feel he can share with her. He needs something different and new, something that allows him to carry out a new legacy without compromising his prior one.
To accept Woody's decision to leave Bonnie is not to see the choice at face value as a quest for romantic love. Nor is it to presume he has been fulfilled, "found" so to speak, through freedom from a child. Instead, Woody must be choosing to be "lost" with Bo so that they can pass on the love he once felt from Andy to a broader swath of the world. Within the credits, there is a hint at this end. Woody works to get toys off the walls into the arms of kids at the carnival. He and Bo form a team that serves a benevolent purpose. Perhaps together as lost toys, away from daily responsibilities, they can reach more children, spread more love.
In the aforementioned roadside scene, Woody beautifully outlines his perspective on the end of childhood. "Well, you watch 'em grow up and become a full person," he says. "And then they leave. They go off and do things you'll never see. Don't get me wrong, you still feel good about it. But then somehow you find yourself, after all those years… sitting in a closet just feeling…" As he trails off, Forky helps him settle on the adjectives useless and fulfilled.
The easy reading of this film is not the end Woody deserves. It is to think his feeling of uselessness wins out, and to believe that drives him to run away from children, away from the possibility of another loss. But after two decades of showing the world the enduring power of a child's love, Woody would never run from that. Nor would he give up on the child whose name resides on his body for a romantic interest.
To believe in this story is to believe instead in Woody's fulfillment, in Andy's love that remains in his seams. It is to believe that Andy's love empowers Woody to pass on his legacy, not forsake it. For in Woody's next act, he is not lost. He is ensuring those who do not yet know the singular joy of a child's love can hold that privilege. He is carrying on the flames of our childhood.
Click here to read my 2017 journal article "Rejecting the Stereotypes Built into Material Culture: Disability in Toy Story."


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Nate co-founded FLM with Shane McCoy in 1999. He is thrilled to see how the company has expanded from the days of a pick-up truck and a lawn mower. Nate is PLANET Certified as a Certified Landscape Technician in Turf Maintenance, is the past President of ALCC's Northern Chapter and currently is on the state board as Treasurer/Secretary.
Nate was born in Des Moines, Iowa but moved to Colorado Springs as a young child and grew up there until his college years took him to Fort Collins. As a student at Colorado State University, he not only met Shane, but also his wife, Heather. Nate has a one daughter, Ellie, that keeps him on the go and a black lab, Tar, who can be seen stealing treats or running around the shop.
Nate's passion in life is fishing and CSU sports. In the summer time, his relaxation after the busy days in the landscape maintenance world, is to take his boat out and fish for whatever comes on the line. He also frequently travels for bass fishing tournaments. When he is not in FLM attire, you will likely find him wearing a CSU shirt and he never misses an opportunity for tailgating or supporting the Rams!
Nate, hands-down, wins the nervous energy award. He paces around the shop like a caged lion on most days and it is extremely difficult to get him to sit still for even one minute.
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Since Google announced they would be introducing a page ranking change based on Core Web Vitals, page performance is really having its heyday in the SEO world. Lighthouse reports are no longer just for the developers! (We already knew that, though).
But do you really understand what Lighthouse performance audits are asking you to do? In one case in particular, Google doesn't even seem to know. Google's own web.dev resource for "preconnect to required origins" mentions using "preconnect" or "dns-prefetch", but recommends at the end of the page to use "preload" instead. So what are these and how can you know which you should be using and when?
What are resource hints?
"preconnect", "dns-prefetch", and "preload" are all relationship types of resource links — the "rel" attribute in a link tag. According to the W3C, a resource hint link uses one of these relationships to indicate an origin or resource that should be connected to, or fetched, by the user agent. That's a pretty vague description, so let's break that down a bit further.
What must happen in order to connect to a resource? For resources on other domains, or cross-origin resources, we can get a good sense of the steps involved by referring to the Network requests in Chrome Dev Tools.
When selecting a resource on another domain (in this case gtm.js from googletagmanager.com) and reviewing the Timing tab, you can see the Connection Start requires a DNS lookup, initial connection, and SSL. These actions happen in that order as the DNS lookup, TCP handshake, and SSL/TSL handshake. After the connection has been established, the browser/client can send a request to the server and receive a response, which is indicated in the Request/Response timings. Learn more about all of these timings.
Origin vs Resource
When thinking about these relationships, we must consider what we're connecting to. Origin refers to the scheme, hostname, and port of a URL, so it's referring specifically to connecting to other domains. "preconnect" and "dns-prefetch" are used for connecting to other origins, which is why those are listed in the "preconnect to required origins" guide from Google. However, at the end of that guide it is recommended that we use "preload" in most cases. "preload" is able to do more than just establish early connections with domains. Let's look a little deeper into what each type does.
Somewhat self-explanatory, "dns-prefetch" helps resolve domain names before the resource is requested. Therefore, this type will start the DNS lookup portion of the connection before the time of the request.
"dns-prefetch" is not supported on Opera Mini, and is not supported via HTTPS on Firefox. If your site is using HTTPS (as it should be), then you will need another option for Firefox users.
"preconnect" has the browser handle all of the DNS lookup, TCP handshake, and TLS handshake (all of the Connection Start timings) before the request to the server.
Unfortunately, "preconnect" is supported on even fewer browsers than "dns-prefetch."
The "preload" relationship type is the one recommended by Google in most cases, because it is the most comprehensive. This resource hint tells the browser to prioritize downloading and then caching the resource to have ready at the time of the request.
In order to use "preload," you must know the type of resource you are requesting and add an additional attribute of "as" to the link tag. Learn more about the different types of content that can be preloaded and know that some browsers limit the types of content that can be preloaded, while many browsers simply do not support "preload" at all.
When should I use resource hints?
Because we must use the "as" attribute on the "preload" hint, we are limited to only using it on resources when we know the content type and that content type is an acceptable value for "as." That is why this works well for fixing critical request chains caused by first-party resources, like stylesheets, which is explained in the "preload key requests" web.dev resource. Let's see it in action on my personal website (because it is old and could use a lot of help).
On my site, I link to a styles.css file from my HTML file. The stylesheet then imports a Google font, which then requests another resource. Because the index.html has to be loaded to then call the styles.css file that imports the Google font, the Google font resource request is chained three levels. Here's how it appears in the Lighthouse reports.
<link rel="preload" href="css/icofont.css" as="style">
<link rel="preload" href="css/styles.css" as="style">
By adding two preload links at the top of my <head> to point to each .css file, my critical request chain now looks like this.
Bonus, preloading these resources also reduced render-blocking!
Before adding preload to the styles
After adding preload to the styles
That was a savings of 1.5 seconds!
What should we do about tag managers?
Website tracking, like Google Analytics, is a common resource that isn't shown in my Lighthouse reports. My website uses Google Analytics (GA) via Google Tag Manager (GTM), so my HTML has the GTM script tag. By design, tag managers create request chains. The HTML must load the GTM script, which can then load the analytics.js script. So how should we speed up connection to GTM and/or GA, since they are third-party resources?
To speed up the initial connections, I can add a link tag with the href attribute pointing to "https://www.googletagmanager.com" and a rel attribute of "preconnect" or "dns-prefetch". Let's see how that changes our Timings for that network call then.
With "dns-prefetch"
<link rel="dns-prefetch"
If you look back at our initial Timings screenshot, without any resource hints, the Connection Start had no timings other than being stalled for 123ms, because the initial connection isn't started until the request. Now using "dns-prefetch", we can see that the Initial Connections are made in what would have been entirely "stalling" time. Our total duration for this resource is 155.75ms, which is down from 286.71ms previously.
With "preconnect"
When adding the rel attribute with "preconnect," it didn't appear as though any initial connection start was happening in the timings, like the very first timings screen. Why? The likely culprit is CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing). We didn't run into this problem with "dns-prefetch" because it isn't actually fetching the resource, only looking up the DNS. Since resource hints aren't sending a full request/response with headers, we can add the "crossorigin" attribute instead. Now let's see how our timings appear using rel="preconnect" with the crossorigin attribute.
<link rel="preconnect" crossorigin
While the total duration on this is slightly higher than our "dns-prefetch" (although that could be tied to other variables changing, causing the initial queuing to delay longer), all of the Request/Response timings are improved, because "preconnect" handles more of that initial connection prior to the request than "dns-prefetch" does. You can see that the Request Sent hit happens further into the orange and purple waterfalls of the Connection Start timings than it did for the "dns-prefetch."
Now what about the recommended resource hint, "preload"? I saved this one for last because, like the "crossorigin" attribute, it requires additional information to send as a replacement for those request headers. Remember, we must use the "as" attribute for this link relation type. With that in mind, we can't connect to just "https://www.googletagmanager.com"; we need to find the exact resource on that domain. When we check the GTM code snippet, we can see reference to "https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js," so let's try that resource link with an "as" attribute value of "script" and maintain our CORS attribute too.
<link rel="preload" crossorigin
href="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js" as="script">
See that failed network call? That's our preload. So what happened here? The gtm.js network call is second in our waterfall, and another appears further down (as it has before) when the actual request is made. That second gtm.js network call actually contains the answer to our "preload" failure; we need to include our GTM container ID on the URL.
<link rel="preload" crossorigin
Okay, so now we have the preload network call with a time duration of 104ms and then the request from the GTM code snippet further in the waterfall with a time of 86ms. This doesn't seem like much of an improvement.
From this testing, I would suggest using "dns-prefetch" where you can for third-party resources like GTM. It has the most browser support and is the simplest to implement, since it does not require sending data about CORS or content types. For your owned resources, like stylesheets, "preload" makes a real impact on render-blocking resources and reducing critical request chains.


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More Americans Choosing To Keep Citizenship Under Trump Than Obama
By listening to the liberal media, one would assume that the election of President Donald Trump transformed the United States of America into an authoritarian and dictatorial hellhole, one that all good and morally upstanding people would want to flee from.
That, coupled with the oft-promised but rarely followed through on vows to leave Trump's America by angry Hollywood celebrities, would naturally result in some people anticipating a mass exodus of anti-Trump Americans fleeing for their lives to the safety of more democratic nations, such as Canada.
Yet, as noted, few if any of those Hollywood celebs who've threatened to leave America have actually done so, and there hasn't been a mass exodus of American citizens fleeing the scourge of Trump's oppressive regime. In fact, fewer Americans are renouncing their citizenship and leaving the country than during the previous administration.
In an op-ed published by The Daily Caller, Rudy Takala reported that the number of Americans who renounced their citizenship and left the country during the third quarter of 2018 has declined from the number who fled the country in 2017, which was also lower than the number who'd left during the same time period in former President Barack Obama's final year in office.
Takala cited data published by the Internal Revenue Service in the Federal Register and said that at least 1,107 American citizens or Green Card holders renounced their citizenship or long-term residency in the third quarter of 2018.
That was a significant decline from the 1,376 who renounced their citizenship or residency in the third quarter of 2017, which in turn was down just a tick from the 1,380 who made a similar renouncement during the same time frame in 2016.
In all, the third quarter total for citizenship renouncement was down some 20 percent from a record high of 1,426 who had fled the country during the third quarter of 2015.
Indeed, the decline in Americans renouncing their citizenship is a welcome change from the Obama years, which saw a surge in the number of Americans who decided it was in their best interest to no longer hold U.S. citizenship.
That surge was fueled in large part by a tax bill passed by the Democrat-controlled Congress and signed into law by the former president in the early years of his administration, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act.
That particular law required all American citizens and Green Card-holders who lived outside of the U.S. to file reports with the IRS detailing their financial accounts and transactions in foreign lands for tax purposes, which prompted a surge in renunciations to avoid that additional tax burden.
To combat the sudden exodus of American citizens, the Obama administration in 2014 actually increased the renunciation fee — a sort of exit tax — from a mere $450 to an incredible amount of $2,350, but even that failed to dissuade the thousands who had decided it was time to go.
It is worth noting that, prior to Obama signing the FATCA bill into law, fewer than 1,000 people renounced their citizenship on an annual basis. Sadly, that number grew to reach a record high of 5,411 total citizenship renunciations in 2016, a number that began to decline once Trump took office.
In 2017, a total of 5,133 individuals renounced their citizenship. Thus far over the first three quarters of 2018, a total of 3,296 people have renounced their citizenship, meaning that other than a sudden last-minute surge of renunciations over the remainder of the year, the total number of those who've fled the U.S. will have declined again.
Despite all of the dire predictions from the liberal media — they were certain that 2017 renunciation totals would dwarf those of the Obama years — Americans are not fleeing in droves during Trump's presidency. No, that is what happened between 2011 and 2016, while the media's idol Obama held power.
Contrary to the media's wishful thinking, the vast majority of Americans are not living in fear of their lives or their rights, and the form of "democracy" we practice in this constitutional Republic remains alive and well, not dying darkness, as some would have you believe.
Americans renounced their citizenship and fled the country in record numbers during Obama's tenure in office to avoid his punitive tax policies, but as Trump has changed all of that, far fewer Americans are deciding to skip the country than before and more are inclined to remain here and reap the benefits of less punitive tax policies and a much-improved economy, which is really what this is all about.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post6565629021972046967..comments2023-10-03T11:18:20.119-04:00Comments on Runs for Cookies: It gets firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-88424131953422949012017-10-30T10:16:41.559-04:002017-10-30T10:16:41.559-04:00Today is going to be my first following you traini...Today is going to be my first following you training plan. I tried C25K a couple of times in the past but I was unsuccessful because couldn't pass week two or three, got frustrated, mad at myself and finally quit. My lungs were on fire, couldn't coordinate my breathing with my pace and ended up breathing through my mouth as soon as I started running. My goal is to run 1.5 miles by mid Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-44357643985806343072017-10-30T10:10:47.836-04:002017-10-30T10:10:47.836-04:00Today is going to be my first day of running follo...Today is going to be my first day of running following you training plan. I had try C25K in the past but I was unsuccessful because couldn't pass week three, got frustrated and mad at myself until I finally quit. Your story is very inspirational for me. My goal is to run 1.5 miles by mid December. Wish me luck... Anonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-15305666274127301542016-01-07T18:24:42.668-05:002016-01-07T18:24:42.668-05:00Have you tried following a structured plan? You mi...Have you tried following a structured plan? You might just need the motivation of a plan telling you exactly what to do. In general, the more you run, the faster you will get; so if you keep at it, I would be very surprised if you don't pick up speed. I understand how discouraging it can feel, though.Katie Fosterhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-39353031714627075122016-01-05T01:49:58.626-05:002016-01-05T01:49:58.626-05:00I've been running on and off for 4 years and j...I've been running on and off for 4 years and just cannot get any better than a 35 minute 5K. I'm not necessarily overweight nor am I slender; I am 160 and 5'8". Could it be that some people just can't run, like, ever? I have been sooooo so dedicated in the past. It took me MONTHS to be able to run more than 30 seconds at a time, but seriously.... I can only barely EVER manageAnonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-9927366685888421802013-11-25T12:15:25.684-05:002013-11-25T12:15:25.684-05:00I love everything about this post! And that pictu...I love everything about this post! And that picture is well worth the money, in my opinion. It perfectly suits this post!!That Loud Redheadhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-78175704464112482892013-11-20T21:23:50.892-05:002013-11-20T21:23:50.892-05:00This post is an awesome reminder of how far I (and...This post is an awesome reminder of how far I (and I'm sure many other!) have come. I'm fretting over my long runs for marathon training, 19 miles on Sunday feels like SUCH a drag, but 2 years ago 9 minutes almost killed me! Great reminder, thanks :)Laurelhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-31063242908141131632013-11-18T14:20:59.179-05:002013-11-18T14:20:59.179-05:00Oh my God I love yout picture from the Chicago Mar...Oh my God I love yout picture from the Chicago Marathon! I am glad you bought it even though it was expensive. I will have to check out those books you're reading :)Rociohttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-41478596673240895132013-11-18T09:36:09.604-05:002013-11-18T09:36:09.604-05:00Oh my gosh, that pic of you after the Chicago mara...Oh my gosh, that pic of you after the Chicago marathon is the most beautiful thing ever knowing how far you've come and how much you've achieved! You're amazing!katie@thecarbmonsterhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-74050180495063796832013-11-17T22:19:12.459-05:002013-11-17T22:19:12.459-05:00Katie, I've been reading your blog for over a ...Katie, I've been reading your blog for over a year and am just commenting for the first time. This type of post is why I love your blog: you share about your own ups and downs, inspire people without coming across as either cheesy or lecturing, and give concrete examples to help your readers. Thanks for writing my favorite running email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-10663416743912723912013-11-17T18:03:42.273-05:002013-11-17T18:03:42.273-05:00at what point did it switch from "I have no d...at what point did it switch from "I have no desire to become a runner" and "I thought I was going to die running for three minutes" to declaring yourself a runner and it actually becoming easier?sarah @makingitmyhome.blogspot.comhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-70153119855708191222013-11-17T16:48:02.344-05:002013-11-17T16:48:02.344-05:00I was planning on asking you the exact same runnin...I was planning on asking you the exact same running questions! I'm overweight and hear so much good and bad about running. I've decided to try it again but experience the same feelings, especially in my lungs. I just need to hunker down and push through!

Sorta tempted to buy a fun watch like yours - to make me feel more committed and to help me see tangible progress. It is Emilyhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-70945270205681113502013-11-17T15:44:50.945-05:002013-11-17T15:44:50.945-05:00Love that last picture of you crossing the finish ...Love that last picture of you crossing the finish line in Chicago. You look so happy, full of joy from your accomplishment, so thin, and so pretty. You are truly an inspiration to all of us who think we can't make those changes we need to make to regain our health!!dupsterhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-78269719205352409222013-11-17T15:42:19.539-05:002013-11-17T15:42:19.539-05:00Thanks! I loved the pic, but it was super expensiv...Thanks! I loved the pic, but it was super expensive to download. When I wrote this post, though, it seemed perfect, so I went ahead and bought it! ;)Katie Fosterhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-24625932851817281262013-11-17T15:40:55.564-05:002013-11-17T15:40:55.564-05:00Thanks! I loved the pic, too, and finally bought i...Thanks! I loved the pic, too, and finally bought it for this post ;)

I wore a hydration belt for my first two marathons, but not Chicago; Chicago had a water station just about every mile, so I didn't think I'd need it. For halfs, I don't need much water, so if I carry something, it's my handheld water bottle. I hate wearing a hydration belt! For long training runs, I Katie Fosterhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-23706129229723870562013-11-17T15:11:55.210-05:002013-11-17T15:11:55.210-05:00Lucy you! You got a great finish line shot in Chi...Lucy you! You got a great finish line shot in Chicago. I'm blocked by other people in all of mine except one but in that one I'm right on the edge and one of my arms is cut off. There are a couple good ones from on the course but I really wanted the finish line pic.
I remember when I said I'd never run a marathon. Then I was just going to do one so that I could say at my 25Lorendahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-32135886896649835122013-11-17T11:19:44.919-05:002013-11-17T11:19:44.919-05:00Love this post! I remember feeling so much of the...Love this post! I remember feeling so much of the same way, like how would anyone ever do this by choice! They are crazy. One of my friends has been running for years, and when I started losing weight and told her walking was getting easy and I was thinking of running, she didn't laugh at me like I thought she would. She gave me good advice, which I followed, and it made a huge differenceAnonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-8131636838807757022013-11-17T11:18:26.906-05:002013-11-17T11:18:26.906-05:00Oh my gosh!! That is the cutest picture of you at...Oh my gosh!! That is the cutest picture of you at the Chicago Marathon! Do I remember correctly that you don't wear a hydration belt/vest and then go through each water station during your 1/2 and full marathons?

I am thinking (hoping) about doing a Ragnar race. I would love for you to do a post on the costs and a packing list of that type of race. I love reading your blog andSara email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-47548323974308172522013-11-17T09:38:59.827-05:002013-11-17T09:38:59.827-05:00Day three is my milestone on tracking, if i can ge...Day three is my milestone on tracking, if i can get through 3 days i feel more in control. Your progress makes me feel like i CAN do this. I'm like rachel, above, at 54 its slower progress.
Oh and Its really flat in email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-8934260044042097342013-11-17T09:01:46.523-05:002013-11-17T09:01:46.523-05:00I kind of wish I had flatter running routes to tra...I kind of wish I had flatter running routes to train on. The flattest route I've found for a 4 mile run still has 138 feet of elevation gain! I also loved reading your c25k excerpts. I did c25k last year and I remember feeling like I was going to die too. Ashley @ Downsizinghttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-34523958408419347712013-11-17T08:35:56.934-05:002013-11-17T08:35:56.934-05:00Katie, your posts are just so spot on! This one h...Katie, your posts are just so spot on! This one has helped me find my courage to run my 8 miles right now. I'm tapering down now for my first 1/2 marathon next weekend. I'm starting to get very anxious and doubt myself this morning. But most of the time I find that after running the first mile, I fall back into sync and remember why I love to run. email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-50950987651480597602013-11-17T02:58:52.110-05:002013-11-17T02:58:52.110-05:00It's really encouraging to hear that it gets e...It's really encouraging to hear that it gets easier... I'm still in the stage where I think "Why the HELL am I doing this?" every time I run, although I do feel awesome when I'm done, and I'm always glad I did it! Congrats on making it past day 4 :)firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-3542882431517064352013-11-17T00:27:20.475-05:002013-11-17T00:27:20.475-05:00Great post! I have a friend who is trying to lose ...Great post! I have a friend who is trying to lose 80 some pounds and has started running. I've heard a lot of complaining and keep having to prod him, but I keep telling him it gets better. IT DOES! It just sucks for a while... :PThomashttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-19798978165266968472013-11-16T22:53:12.574-05:002013-11-16T22:53:12.574-05:00I absolutely love the picture of you crossing the ...I absolutely love the picture of you crossing the finish line at the Chicago Marathon! Your expression is fantastic! Pure joy!!!!Faustinnhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-10474221291260573032013-11-16T21:35:15.550-05:002013-11-16T21:35:15.550-05:00Thank You for telling me that you didn't like ...Thank You for telling me that you didn't like running in the beginning! It's nice to hear that!
I've tried it and given it up several times. I have done 3 5Ks over the past 6 months.
I still don't love it. I think I would like it better if I had a running partner, but I don't. I may try it again once the Michigan Winter is done, as I hate the dreadmill!Sarahhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4904256286279591900.post-68055779705136514652013-11-16T21:30:36.194-05:002013-11-16T21:30:36.194-05:00Awesome post! You are so inspiring Katie!Awesome post! You are so inspiring Katie!Janahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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News Heinz says tomato, Ford says tom-auto However it's pronounced, the humble tomato is what has brought these two companies together. Researchers at Ford and Heinz are investigating the use of tomato fibers in developing sustainable, composite materials for use in vehicle manufacturing. Specifically, dried tomato skins could become the wiring brackets in a Ford vehicle or the storage bin a Ford customer uses to hold coins and other small objects. "We are exploring whether this food processing byproduct makes sense for an automotive application," said Ellen Lee, plastics research technical specialist for Ford. "Our goal is to develop a strong, lightweight material that meets our vehicle requirements, while at the same time reducing our overall environmental impact." Nearly two years ago, Ford began collaborating with Heinz, The Coca-Cola Company, Nike Inc. and Procter & Gamble to accelerate development of a 100 % plantbased plastic to be used to make everything from fabric to packaging and with a lower environmental impact than petroleum-based packaging materials currently in use. At Heinz, researchers were looking for innovative ways to recycle and repurpose peels, stems and seeds from the more than two million tons of tomatoes the company uses annually to produce its best-selling product: Heinz Ketchup. Leaders at Heinz turned to Ford. "We are delighted that the technology has been validated," said Vidhu Nagpal, associate director, packaging R&D for Heinz. "Although we are in the very early stages of research, and many questions remain, we are excited about the possibilities this could produce for both Heinz and Ford, and the advancement of sustainable 100% plant-based plastics." Ford's commitment to reduce, reuse and recycle is part of the company's global sustainability strategy to lessen its environmental footprint while accelerating development of fuel-efficient vehicle technology worldwide. In recent years, Ford has increased its use of recycled nonmetal and bio-based materials. With cellulose fiber-reinforced console components and rice hull-filled electrical cowl brackets introduced in the last year, Ford's bio-based portfolio now includes eight materials in production. Other examples are coconut-based composite materials, recycled cotton material for carpeting and seat fabrics, and soy foam seat cushions and head restraints.KL www.ford.com www.heinz.com 6 bioplastics MAGAZINE [04/14] Vol. 9
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My Mavica got dropped. It hit my wood floor straight down on the bottom of the camera, it probably fell about 3 feet. I picked it up to check and it has Disk Error. I haven't opened it or anything, but, have tried several disk and it still shows disk error. Any answers besides taking it to the camera shop and they charging me 40.00 to send it off somewhere.
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How to list the available values for an workItem attributes like filedAgainst ??
Rahul Singh Bhadauriya (28●2●17●20) | asked Apr 18 '13, 5:54 a.m.
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When i was creating a WorkItem in RTC 4.0.1 using my java code , i found that the attribute filedAgainst is required to make a POST request.
To find the URI of the fieldAgainst attribute i have to visit the individual work item and search for it to know the type and URI value. I want to list out the all available values (URI in case of filedAgainst) for an attribute from which i can assign to create a new WorkItem.
Is there any service available through which i can list the all available URI for a particular attribute like filedAgainst ?
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Kot T. (1.5k●1●12●19) | answered Apr 24 '13, 4:02 p.m.
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You can set properties and customize events for persistent field components at design time. Properties control the way a field is displayed by a data-aware component, for example, whether it can appear in a Vcl.DBGrids.TDBGrid, or whether its value can be modified. Events control what happens when data in a field is fetched, changed, set, or validated.
To set the properties of a field component or write customized event handlers for it, select the component in the Fields editor, or select it from the component list in the Object Inspector.
The following topics discuss using persistent field properties and events:
- Setting Display and Edit Properties at Design Time
- Setting Field Component Properties at Runtime
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You know, sometimes we tend to think games are so advanced these days that old games with minimal controls and systems would be a cinch. It's fun keeping that dream alive, until a collection like Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection comes along to remind you that because a game is simple, doesn't mean it can't be tough as nails.
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is first and foremost a celebration of the Street Fighter series, lining up 12 of the first games, and only five of them are Street Fighter 2. The other seven consist of the original, Alpha 1, 2 and 3, and the 3 Street Fighter 3 games, all in their arcade glory.
Kicking in with the series, I spent a few too many hours with the original Street Fighter. This game is the one that reminded me that I am terrible at games. Only letting you play as Ryu, and with special moves being super hard to get right, the game pummelled me into submission reputedly. Eventually I gave up, but even with the benefits of being able to suspend the game, and unlimited retries, I still had to give up in frustration. Trying to beat this one straight off the bat is a bad idea for the collection, but it's a valuable history lesson included in the collection.
The original Street Fighter 2 on the other hand, while dated, still holds up in its own ways. Admittedly I didn't beat that either, but I got awfully close before deciding to spend some time with the other ten games. Street Fighter 2 surprisingly still plays well, and its pixelated art styles is gorgeous to the eyes, but boy some enemy's cheap moves or combo chains can get frustrating.
One thing that the collection helped me appreciate, especially as a casual Street Fighter fan, is the actual differences between the Street Fighter 2 sequels. It's a bit of a punch line for the series that it keeps being re-released, even after other sequels exist. Switching from one game to the next, the upgrades to characters, graphics, and gameplay are substantial enough that they absolutely warranted the release.
After many hours with the Street Fighter 2's, moving on to Alpha series was shocking. The movement alone is so much faster, that it took more than a few moments to adjust. Some more talented among us may be different but switching between games on the fly will be a challenge for many for this reason alone.
I wont individually cover every game in the series, but after the first game, they all deserve their spot in the collection, as they all have their own value to be had. This helps me understand how the games have existed the length of time they have, with a series this old standing up well today.
Because the games are the original arcade versions, they have kept their original aspect ratio with the borders on the sides of the screen being filled with arcade cabinet art. It's a gorgeous way to help appreciate the games for their original glory. Some of the sound doesn't hold up as well as the art, but again, it's an important part of a collection celebrating the series.
Online multiplayer is there for four of the games, Street Fighter 2 Turbo: Hyper Fighting, Super Turbo, Alpha 3, and 3rd Strike. I dabbled a little but had my rear end handed to me by people that are far too talented for a casual such as myself.
Peppered on top of the games, which are treasures, is a museum with art, music and information about the series, which is standard fare for a collection like this, but very valuable for a series with so much history. The most notable addition is a pause menu, with the ability to create save states. This will make the game les frustrating for many, but I missed any attempt the game told me to use the select button to bring it up, so didn't stumble across it for a while.
Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection is an excellent collection of a lot of great games, with some mediocrity for historical purposes. It's a must play for long-time fans of the series, and a valuable history lesson for the more casuals among us. Some looking for an excellent new fighting game may to find it here, but you'd be missing out to not dabble here.
Released: May 2018
Rating: M15+
Platforms: Xbox One, (also available on PlayStation 4 and PC (Windows 10)
Genre: Fighting, Retro
Developer: Capcom
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Enjoy the Easter message from Pastor Leroy Roybal
Today's Scripture References
Psalm 32:1-5 NIV
Of David. A maskil.[a]
1 Blessed is the one
whose transgressions are forgiven,
whose sins are covered.
2 Blessed is the one
whose sin the Lord does not count against them
and in whose spirit is no deceit.
3 When I kept silent,
my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
4 For day and night
your hand was heavy on me;
my strength was sapped
as in the heat of summer.[b]
5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you
and did not cover up my iniquity.
I said, "I will confess
my transgressions to the Lord."
And you forgave
the guilt of my sin.
2 Corinthians 7:10
1 John 1:8-9
Mark 16:1-8
John 15:9
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Getting Digital Life Certificate is an easy process. Download the PC or mobile application and enrol yourself or you can visit the nearest branch of Jeevan Pramaan centre to get yourself registered. Complete Aadhaar authentication and you will be able to download your Digital Life Certificate.
How do I submit my digital life certificate through Umang?
What is new in Jeevan Pramaan version 3.0?
The UIDAI has recently decided to discontinue the use of "public biometric devices", and it will only permit "Registered Biometric Devices" for Aadhaar enabled authentication. To do so, the UIDAI has introduced a new Aadhaar authentication system, and to support this new framework, version 3.0 of Jeevan Pramaan application has been introduced.
I already have a biometric device; can I use it with Jeevan Pramaan ver 3.0?
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The Ghostwriter's Story
THE WORLD IS DIVIDED between those who actually do the work and those who try to get the credit, Lord Chesterfield advised his son. Try to be in the former group, he said, because there is much less competition. Whatever charm this advice may have held in the 1700s, it has little appeal to today's women, and still less to the legions of ghostwriters who each year churn out books and articles for a growing assortment of celebrities, generals, statesmen. Hardly a season passes without some heretofore mute, inglorious Milton going public with disgruntlement at having to make a living by putting words into the mouths of boobs and pooh-bahs.
Naturally, the condition of ghostwriters has not been overlooked in modern fiction, either. But no one so far has tried what Bette Pesetsky gets away with in this savage, funny small novel - that is, using ghostwriting as a metaphor to dramatize the view that women do most of the work of creation while men (unfairly) get most of the credit. Happily, the author does not huff and puff about it. Her book is a model of brevity and wit, her plot, pure wish-fulfillment fantasy. But the story is suitably studded with domestic details that give it a grainy edge of realism, like all those saws, hammers and faithful pets that Daniel Defoe provides to make you believe in Robinson Crusoe's island adventure.
Mrs. Pesetsky's protagonist is May Alto, first seen in the Emergency Room of a Manhattan hospital after her arm has been slashed by a pair of young muggers. May is rather a tough cookie, with three children and two ex-husbands. She is also an ace cook, when she wants to be.She lovingly controls her kids with whims of irony Against the cowardly advice of her friends (''Who will want you at this age?''), she has tossed out her second husband, a handsome loser named Harry, rather than put up with his casual adultery. When Harry first told her about the other woman, May was prepared. ''Four friends had been in similar circumstances,'' she reflects. ''He tells you, you cry, he cries. Never, he promises. And then for a long time you carefully check the clock, the calendar, who is where.'' None of that for May. ''Out!'' she says. And changes the lock on the apartment.
Most of all, as Virginia Woolf (''A Room of One's Own'') and James M. Barrie (''The Twelve Pound Look'') reminded everybody before Equal Pay for Equal Work was dreamed of, a woman is strong because she is financially independent. For years May has been a successful ghostwriter. Now, though, as her wounded arm suppurates and she feverishly copes with her children and Harry - who turns up now and then in hopes of getting dinner or a small loan - May is into blackmail.
Her pigeon is a smoothie named Quayle. Handsome, quasi-academic, a talk show personality, he is the author of two books, ''Permissible Love Play'' and ''Eine Leerstelle.'' May wrote ''Eine Leerstelle'' for him, and, largely because of it, Quayle has just been awarded the Nobel Prize. May threatens to expose him unless he gives her all the prize money. At first he blusters, speaks of mere background research, says she can't prove anything. Then he comes to heel, offering $25,000. May refuses. A whole series of scenes, meetings, threats and phone calls ensue.
Eine Leerstelle means an empty space. The words are used in German, when one gives dictation, to be sure a space is left between words or lines. Wisely Mrs. Pesetsky keeps the book's real subject vague, though it is still hard to accept, even in fantasy, that the insignificant Quayle could have won the Nobel Prize. He does not, after all, come from some tiny socialist country above the timberline. Mrs. Pesetsky is more convincing about the details of May's ghostwriting trade. May is a tiger for research (before ghosting a new biography of Balzac she rereads the entire ''Comédie humaine''), but she finds most clients hardly glance through the finished product. Their concern is just that the books give them the kind of image they ask for: A banker would like a family history that links his name with significant banking families in 18th-and 19th-century Europe; a Congressman needs a new and more appropriate childhood for his autobiography. And so May begins writing what she wants, readjusting history with changed dates, invented scenes, imaginary footnotes, new anecdotes. And, as she explains to Quayle, into each book that she ghosts, as a sign of scorn and a kind of name tag, she somehow stitches in the same three characters: her mother, Sonya, a trampishvampish aunt named Giselle and Trasker, ''a sort of'' uncle.
There is a running joke, evolving from May's feverish fantasy, that her ghosting gradually extends to most of Western literature. In this outrageous game that goes on in May's mind, Aunt Giselle turns up in a biography, offering herself to the amorous young munitions king, Alfred Nobel, if only he will establish a Peace Prize. And there is a creative cross-reference to ''A la Recherche du Temps Perdu'' when Sonya offers the narrator cherry strudel: ''The narrator stamped his foot. 'Madeleines,' he insisted.''
Long before this, May and the reader have faced the fact that where Quayle is concerned, money is not enough. ''Wasn't the fame also mine?'' she fumes. She wants scenes in which Quayle will quail before her, revenge for a lifetime of being slighted. Quayle has a sumptuous office; she writes on a steel-legged table in an alcove. Her husbands, both of whom she supported at her typewriter, habitually referred to her writing as ''Mother's work, like a hobby.''
THERE are fine moments, suitable for framing in a feminist cartoon strip entitled ''Dreams of Glory.'' May, at lunch with Quayle, spurning a shopping bag in which he has brought $25,000 in cash. May in the kitchen, being called by Quayle, who is now half mad with anxiety, desperate to come to terms somehow. ''Could you call back later,'' she says, ''I have to prepare a cream filling.'' (This is the equivalent, one supposes, of the line: ''Patience, my dear, I'll kiss you after I finish my cigar.'')
Some lines are purest Bombeck. ''How can you plan a crime while frying bacon, being careful to make it thoroughly crisp with no soft, moist edges?'' The rueful rites and wrongs of women in New York, caught in the crossruff between what their mothers believed in and what the middle-class world has come to, are by now an overworked literary sandbox. Mrs Pesetsky has established her own turf, however. She uses parody to save time, like the prisoners in that famous joke who know all their own stories so well that they give them numbers, to speed things up, but laugh at the end just the same. There is also a glint of grim Nabokovian playfulness, and a thread of cruelty that suggests Humbert Humbert gleefully stalking Quilty at the end of ''Lolita.'' As in her recent short story collection, ''Stories Up to a Point,'' the author makes you read, she makes you laugh. She is a literary sharpshooter, small calibered, perhaps, but with a high muzzle velocity, who does not like to waste a single shot.


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Maureen Caudill brings us face-to-face with impossible realities in this exciting interview. We are taught not to believe in anything except what we can see in front of us. But what can we really see, and what lies beyond? The media, science and the intellectual community want us to believe that when we die, that's it. But that's just to disempower us and get us to concentrate on the things of life–what they have to sell to us and impose on us.
In her empowering book Impossible Realities, Maureen shows the data that science prefers to ignore, and in this deeply strengthening conversation, she reveals to us why data proves that 'black swans' such as psychokinesis, telepathy, afterlife communication and much more are almost certainly real effects–as Whitley Strieber says, not "supernatural" and unexplainable, but super natural, and possible to use and understand if we take off the blinders of belief and look at them objectively.
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My family moved to Missouri when I was 9, and some of my favorite childhood memories are heading to the nearest "U-Pick" farm, spending hours out in the blueberry fields filling our baskets, and leaving with even fuller bellies from all the snacking we did along the way. These days I do most of my berry shopping at the grocery store, but I'm already looking forward to when Phoebe's old enough for us to head out to a berry farm and spend the day. There's just something about picking them yourself that makes berries taste even better! In honor of blueberries being peak-of-season right now, we rounded up our 10 favorite ways to use them. Click through for lots of summery inspiration, and leave a comment sharing any must-have berry recipes you love to cook up when the season strikes!
1. Grilled Kale Salad with Blueberries from betacyanin
2. Blueberry Salad with Smoked Trout from The Blueberry Council
3. Apple and Blueberry Baked Oatmeal from Including Cake
4. French Toast with Blueberries and Maple Syrup from Call Me Cupcake
5. Blueberry Yogurt Pancakes from No Recipes
6. Blueberry-Lemon Coffee Cake from us!
7. Summer Berry Crisp from Pure and Simple
8. Blueberry Pie Yogurt Parfaits from The Attune Foods
9. Blueberry Banana Smoothie from Call Me Cupcake
10. Blueberry Lemon Fizz from us!
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1May 31, 2013 at 12:47 pm
love blueberries, love this post. can't wait to make the crisp! thanks for sharing 🙂
2May 31, 2013 at 3:32 pm
I remember when the very best treat I could imagine was the can of blueberries my grandmother would buy for me when I went to the grocery store with her on Saturday morning. These days I treat myself to fresh blueberries the minute they hit the market, and I can't wait to make the blueberry lemon fizz and the blueberry banana smoothie. Thanks for some lovely new ways to enjoy my favorite berry.
3May 31, 2013 at 4:55 pm
That french toast is definitely happening this Sunday!
4June 1, 2013 at 1:15 pm
I've been buying blueberries from my farmers market for the past couple of weeks and though they're delicious as is, I've been searching for recipes that incorporate them. Those blueberry pancakes look like a great way to start the morning – thank you for sharing!
5June 3, 2013 at 8:30 am
Really love this round up Camille- the first item on my list is those killer blueberry pancakes! xx


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NEOAIR INDUSTRIES HOME AIR PURIFIERS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON SKYMALL CATALOG FROM APRIL 1st 2007.
March 14, 2007 (PRLEAP.COM) Health NewsMiami, FL, March 14, 2007 - Neoair Industries LLC (www.neoair.com) announced today that Neoair Enviro and Neoair Plus home air purifiers have been selected by ActiveForever catalog (www.ActiveForever.com) to be featured in their SkyMall (www.skymall.com) catalog advertising campaign.
Since 1993, ActiveForever catalog has positioned itself as one of the major sources of unique home and workplace comfort, ADL, mobility and convenience products in the country.
After spending several years in developing innovative air purification technologies and building consumers trust we are extremely happy to have been selected by ActiveForever to be part of their preferred products base to appear on SkyMall. SkyMall catalog is seen by approximately 88% of all domestic air passengers reaching more than 650 million air travelers annually. I believe this opportunity will promote our cutting edge technologies and brand awareness even further Says Frank Hamilton, CTO Neoair Industries LLC.
The Neoair Enviro and Neoair Plus advanced home air purifiers will be initially available on SkyMall spring edition by April 1st to June 30th. Both models feature the cutting edge of 5 different air cleaning technologies and the patent pending innovative O.F.S. sterilization filter. This combination of multiple filtration stages drastically reduces odors, airborne irritants, allergens and smoke, which can cause or contribute to the development of chronic respiratory diseases such as asthma and other allergies. These home air cleaners are simple to use and care for, and the sleek and compact design integrates easily into any decor.
Neoair is always working to provide consumers with the most compelling residential air filtration technologies wherever they desire.
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