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When volatility strikes Wall Street, many investors seem concerned about their portfolios. Although, as a dyed-in-the-wool value investor, I view these events opportunities to pick up more shares of my favorite companies at bargain prices, it's understandable for those who aren't professional investors, or who take a different approach to acquiring securities, to get nervous.

After the correction, a friend of mine asked me what kind of portfolio I would construct for someone who wanted to own equities (stocks) but was keen on enjoying some insulation from price gyrations. As we had a conversation over coffee, I started thinking that the information might be useful to some of my readers. Here's an overview of some of the things that would fit the bill.

Stocks With Dividend Yields Greater Than Long-Term Treasury Yields Are a Good Buffer Against Downturns for Defensive Investors

The first, and perhaps most powerful, defense is a stock that has healthy earnings and a relatively good dividend payout ratio and dividend yield, especially when compared to the yield that is available on the risk-free United States Treasury bond. The logic is actually pretty simple: Investors are always comparing everything to this so-called "risk-free" rate. The reason? When you buy a debt obligation of the United States, you can be certain that you are going to get paid. As the wealthiest nation in the world, all the government has to do is raise taxes or sell off assets to pay its debt.

When the dividend yield of a stock is the same as the Treasury bond, many investors would prefer to own the former. Not only do you get more cash from the dividend yield because of favorable tax treatment (dividends are subject to a maximum 23.6% Federal tax rate while Treasury bonds, although exempt from state and local taxes, can run as high as the 39.6% tax bracket) but, perhaps more importantly, you get the capital gains generated from an increasing stock price. After all, what reasonable person wouldn't want to have their cake and eat it too?

Here's how it protects you during a down market: As the stock price falls, the dividend yield goes up because the cash dividend is a larger percentage of the purchase price of each share. For example, a $100 stock with a $2 dividend would have a 2% dividend yield; if the stock fell to $50 per share, however, the dividend yield would be 4% ($2 divided by $50 = 4%.) In the midst of a market crash, at some point the dividend yield becomes so high that investors with excess liquidity often sweep into the market, buying up the shares and driving up the price. That's why you typically see less damage to high dividend paying stocks during down markets. Combined with the research done by Jeremy Siegel, this is yet another reason investors may want to consider these cash generators for their personal portfolio.

To learn more about this topic, read Why Dividend Paying Stocks Tend to Fall Less During Bear Markets and 3 Reasons Dividend Stocks Tend to Outperform Non-Dividend Stocks.

Consumer Staple Companies and Other Blue Chip Stocks With Conservative Balance Sheets and Durable Competitive Advantages Are Among the Best Types of Defensive Investments

True investors are interested in one thing and one thing only: Buying companies with the highest net present value earnings at the most attractive price possible. In strained economic times, the stability of profits is extremely important. Often, the most successful stocks are those that have durable competitive advantages. These consumer staples sell things such as mouthwash, toilet paper, toothpaste, laundry soap, breakfast cereal, and soda. No matter how bad the economy gets, it's doubtful that anyone is going to stop brushing their teeth or washing their clothes.

Finding these companies isn't hard. They are often known as blue chip stocks and make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average. They include household names such as 3M, Altria, American Express, Coca-Cola, Exxon Mobile, General Electric, Home Depot, Johnson & Johnson, McDonald's, Procter & Gamble, and Wal-Mart. They often have extremely large market capitalizations.

Good Companies With Large Share Repurchase Programs Often Make for Good Defensive Holdings

Some companies, such as AutoZone and Coca-Cola, regularly repurchase enormous amounts of their own shares. In a falling market, this can help reduce pressure because as the stock is sold, the company itself is often standing by with its checkbook open. There is a double benefit here in that if the stock does become undervalued, long-term shareholders benefits from these repurchases as the enterprise is able to reduce the total shares outstanding far more quickly as a result of a lower stock price, increasing future earnings per share and cash dividends for the remaining stock. This is especially beneficial when things turn around the stock recovers because the shares that remain get a higher boost.

Stocks Trading at Reasonable Valuations as Measured by Historical Metrics Make for Good Potential Defensive Selections

Of course, if you only buy a diversified basket of stocks that traditionally have characteristics associated with value investing such as low price to earnings ratios, low price to book ratios, low price to sales ratios, diversified operations, conservative balance sheets, etc., the odds are good that you will emerge from the wreckage unscathed over the long-term. This is why value based money management shops such as Tweedy Browne & Company have managed to return such impressive results to their fund holders and private investors over the decades. For most investors who lack experience, this is best achieved through a low-cost index fund.

A Few Other Thoughts

If you don't have the ability to analyze financial statements and calculate a conservative estimate of intrinsic value for the assets in your portfolio, it is a wise policy to maintain widespread diversification.

Consider keeping a portion of your portfolio in international investments by investing in a highly rated, low risk global mutual fund or index fund.

Never invest any capital into equities that you might need within the next five years.

If you can't handle price volatility, consider reducing the overall gyrations of your portfolio by including a substantial bond or fixed income component. Although this might lower your returns over subsequent decades, if it reduces the chances of you selling everything in a panic, it can provide a workable compromise.


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LONDON, Jan 28 (Reuters) - State-run Royal Bank of Scotland is to pay as much as 250 million pounds in bonuses to employees at an investment banking division heavily implicated in the Libor-rigging scandal, the Financial Times reported on its website on Monday.
British taxpayers will effectively be paying RBS' investment bankers the sum just as the bank is expected to fork out up to 500 million pounds to settle a fine related to the Libor interbank lending rate scandal, the FT said.
An unidentified ally of UK Chancellor George Osborne cited in the newspaper said the controversy would not be "as high-octane" as the 2012 row over the 1 million pound bonus offered to Chief Executive Stephen Hester.
According to a separate report in The Guardian newspaper, the head of the RBS investment bank, John Hourican, is due to receive share bonuses worth 4 million pounds, weeks before his expected departure.
The bonuses form part of a number of packages awarded to Hourican after the bank was bailed out in 2008 but deferred for a number of years, according to the newspaper.
RBS, when contacted by Reuters, would not comment on any payout to Hourican or figure relating to the overall bonus pool.
RBS received a 45.5 billion pound bailout from the British government in 2008 which saved the bank from collapse.

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Sainsbury's 'lateral thinking' children's game upsets customers with 'sick' and inappropriate riddles
Sainsbury's customers have expressed their shock after buying a puzzle game "for kids" which included riddles deemed inappropriate for young children.
The Christmas stocking-filler was marketed as suitable for ages "3+" – yet included morbid riddles about children being "handed one at a time to a man and shot" and "bound to a chair".
Images of the playing cards from "Lateral Thinking Puzzles for Kids" were posted to Twitter and met a mixed response, with some users suggesting people were being "a bit over sensitive".
But one customer said it was "sick" a game marketed at such young children should contain the kinds of riddles shown.
Among those highlighted was a scenario reading: "Adults are holding children, waiting their turn. The children are handed (one at a time) to a man, who holds them while a woman shoots them. If the child is crying, the man tries to stop the crying before the child is shot."
The answer appears to be "Pictures with Santa" – and while it is innocuous in itself, one customer who played the game with her six-year-old god-children told The Independent she was horrified to hear her read out the card.
"I was just really shocked to hear those words come out of a six-year-old's mouth," she said.
"I know it's meant to be lateral thinking but I wasn't expecting that."
The customer, who wished to remain anonymous, called on Sainsbury's to take the game off the shelves and said she expected "better quality checking" from the major retailer.
Another card, which even defenders of the game described as deploying "dubious" wording, read: "A black man dressed all in black, wearing a black mask, stands at a crossroads in a totally black-painted town. All of the streetlights in town are broken. There is no moon.
"A black-painted car without headlights drives straight towards him, but turns in time and doesn't hit him. Why?" The answer, again innocent enough, is that it was daytime.
Other cards featured a child whose "dearest loved ones bind him to a chair, but he doesn't mind" – referring to having a seatbelt put on in a car. And yet another read: "A man marries 20 women in his village but isn't charged with polygamy. Why not?" It's because he is the priest.
A spokesperson for Sainsbury's said: "We haven't sold this item for some time and we are as disappointed as the customer.
"We always aim to get it right but the questions are clearly unsuitable. We can reassure customers that we now have further checks in place to ensure this doesn't happen again."
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Leaving the USS Intrepid I headed to the bus stop that could take me to Times Square using the very useful Transit app. The bus arrived right on time and I tried to pay for my ticket with a 5 dollar note; unfortunately New York buses don't take notes, which I should have probably predicted as London buses don't take cash at all! Thankfully the driver didn't throw me off and allowed me to travel to Times Square (we ended up leaving enough money on the prepaid tickets we bought for the rest of the weekend to cover this journey) so all was well and I learned another new thing about New York public transport.
If you missed part 1 of our Weekend Getaway to New York City you can pop back here to catch up.
Times Square
Arriving in Times Square, a short walk from the bus stop, I have to say I was underwhelmed. Maybe I need to see it in the dark, maybe I was more focused on lunch than all the signs, but it just didn't do anything for me, so I quickly found a McDonald's en route to my next stop and headed off to the New York Public Library. Stacey had told me this was an impressive building, so I was a little surprised when I saw this building with New York Public Library carved onto it!
New York Public Library
Thankfully the building I was really looking for is much more impressive and I headed in to take a look around. After a brief and seemingly pointless security check (if they don't actually look in your bag then…?) I wandered around the building. Sadly a couple of reading rooms were closed, but I explored what I could of the library. My key thought would be to, as Stacey always says, look up!
The main building is named after Stephen A. Schwarzman and was opened in 1911. With a collection of around 53 million items it is the 2nd biggest library in the USA (behind the Library of Congress) and the 4th largest in the world (behind the British Library and the Library and Archives Canada.
Grand Central Terminal
Leaving the library, I headed to Grand Central Terminal where inside the main hall looking up is (again) essential as you will see a beautiful ceiling showing signs of the zodiac. Sadly the artwork was, for many years, covered in grime and dirt as Grand Central Terminal suffered through a lack of maintenance. If you want to see just how dirty the ceiling used to be, find the crab and follow the dashed line to the edge of the ceiling where you will see a small (9" x 18") rectangle that is darker than the surrounding area. That was what the ceiling looked like before they cleaned it! It has been deliberately left as a reminder of how bad the ceiling had gotten.
Grand Central Terminal was built between 1903 and 1913. It holds the world record for the station with the most platforms, 44 on across two levels (not including the "secret" 45th platform under the Waldorf Astoria hotel) and is used by 125,000 commuters each day. Interestingly the ceiling displays the zodiac backwards; is this a mistake, or as some claim, so that only God sees it the right way round?
As I headed to my final stop in New York for the day, I came across this cute wood carving of three monkeys depicting "See no evil. Hear no evil. Speak no evil." just along the street as I walked.
St Patrick's Cathedral
My final stop of the day was St. Patrick's Cathedral where, before heading in, I noticed a plaque on the wall to signify that Pope John Paul II had visited before me. So often do I see these plaques (and always it seems for Pope John Paul II) that I wonder if I am following him around, or perhaps he was Pope for so long he had just been everywhere!!
This cathedral didn't disappoint. As is common, there were many chapels around the edge of the main cathedral dedicated to different people as well as some beautiful stained glass windows (I do love stained glass windows!). Also on display were lots of other interesting artifacts such as a beautiful mosaic of Christ and an impressive crystal cross.
And so my first day in New York was done and I headed back to Penn Station to get the train back to Linden, where New Jersey public transport had one more surprise in store.
As we approached Linden station we were told if we wanted to get off there we had to walk forward to a specific coach which made little sense as to why this would be so, but I didn't want to miss the stop and so headed forward. When the train stopped it was one track over from the platform and we had to climb down the steps, onto the track and cross to exit the station! No explanation was given as to why we couldn't use the track next to the platform and it wasn't as if it could be used by another train what with us walking across it. If anyone knows why they do this, please let me know, but it was just another interesting thing to discover about public transport in New Jersey.
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JT Roundup! "Not a Bad Thing" MV, beach pics, & sneaking into clubs with NSYNC
Today in Things That Will Make You Feel All Warm and Fuzzy Inside, Justin Timberlake premiered his new video for "Not a Bad Thing" on Ellen, which doubles as a documentary about the search for a couple who got engaged on the Long Island Railroad to the tune of the same track.
As the documentarians scour New York City for their mystery couple – goofy text message pop-ups included – the video includes a bunch of heartwarming interviews with couples about their own proposals, as well as the struggles and rewards of finding love, or letting love find you. While it looks like the filmmakers may have found the lovebirds, the clip ends with a "To be continued…" message. Following the clip, Ellen DeGeneres asked viewers to get in touch with the show if they know the couple so Timberlake can finally meet them. So for now, it seems, the search for true love continues.RS
He didn't want to wait! Dawson's Creek heartthrob James Van Der Beek once tried to sneak Justin Timberlake and other then-underage members of 'N Sync into a Las Vegas club, he revealed Wednesday, March 26, in a new interview.
"I was in Vegas one New Year's and somebody came by and said, ''N Sync wants to meet you!'" Van Der Beek told HuffPost Live. "And at the time, 'N Sync was the second to Backstreet Boys, it was before they had blown up. They had just come out with some Christmas album, like at the same time 98 Degrees did," the 37-year-old actor said, laughing, and referring to the boy group's 1998 record, Home for Christmas.
"So, I said, 'okay.' And I met them and they were so sweet, they were so nice. They were such cool kids and I immediately liked them," Van Der Beek continued.
"I remember that night, we were all going to some club and they were all too young. And so I went in and somehow passed my ID back so that Justin could get in," he explained. "And then Justin got in and then tried to pass it off to [Lance Bass] to get in. By the third time [the bouncers] saw a James Van Der Beek ID, they were like, 'Ah, I don't think so, James.'"
Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience tops the weekly list of Hot Tours based on $23.6 million in ticket sales from the final 14 performances of the tour's opening leg. The four-month trek covered North American markets from Nov. 6 through March 5, wrapping in Miami. Venues in Chicago, New York City and Toronto hosted the pop star for two-show stints during the final month of the opening run. All three of the venues reported more than $3 million in revenue, but Chicago's United Center had the highest gross with $3.7 million from concerts on Feb. 16 and 17.
From the opening show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center through the North American leg's final stop at the American Airlines Arena in Miami, the tour's ticket sales surpassed $70.7 million. Timberlake performed 44 concerts during the initial jaunt through 38 cities. Next on the schedule is a 19-city stretch through 11 European countries kicking off on March 30 in England. Concerts are booked in Asia and Africa during May, and a second jaunt through the U.S. and Canada will begin in July. More European dates and a run through Australia and New Zealand are on tap later this year.


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What does a person look for in a Luxury Home?
Maybe a home that can impress everyone just by looking at it from the outside, and impress even more when you walk through the large double size front door?
What about having lots of space? Maybe with high ceilings?
Well, maybe youre a person who likes to entertain or has lots of guests at a time? If you are, I suppose you would need an impressive bar area, lots of place for people to sit down and relax, and a kitchen fit for a king?
And what about when your friends leave, or if some want to stay over? You would want to be able to go to your room and have absolute comfort and relaxation, or if your guests are staying over, you would want them to feel like theyre in a 6 star hotel.
This Luxury 5 Bedroom Home located in the Prestigious Helderfontein Estate near Dainfern and Fourways, is the answer, with 4.5 Bathroom (4 Bathrooms en-suite), 6 reception areas (YES!!! 6 reception areas), Sun Room, 4 Garages, a Kitchen with separate scullery built to impress, Stunning Bar Area and a Pool. Not enough? This home is newly built with top class modern finishes and also has a built in sound system. Travertine tiles throughout, even in the 2 Double Garages.
Did you want high ceilings? The ceilings in this home are almost double volume, on both levels. If you were looking for space, you have found it!! Downstairs you will find 4 Reception areas open plan to the kitchen, a separate Formal Lounge with cozy Gas Fireplace and a separate Sun Room. The open plan lounge also has its own Gas Fireplace.
Upstairs also has its own lounge area with magnificent views looking into the distance.
How about the bedrooms? The 4 Bedrooms upstairs all have en-suite bathrooms and have enough space to have a pajama lounge in each. The main bedroom, and two of the other 3 bedrooms, are also equipped with Gas Fireplaces, what more could you ask for?
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As the saying goes "Experience is the best teacher" One learns in varied ways, such education comes either in a formal or informal way. Regularly one thinks that learning's only do happen inside the classroom but, rather one learns too, in informal that occurs outside the usual four corners of the room called experience. Most often what is experienced retained longer than leaning inside the classroom. Our class in BA 105 (Managerial Economics) used both ways in learning.
Travelling is the greatest experience that we ever had. It is a great advantage for persons like us to have this kind of experience because it leaves indelible memories which we can share to others. This rich experience is what we have gained when we joined the three-day tour together with our 11 classmates and facilitator headed by Dr. Ramael Saturinas our professor in Managerial Economics.
It was past six in the evening of February 25, 2013 when Ferdinand, Joanna and I left Zamboanga International Airport for Manila.We were the 2nd batch who flew since most of our classmates went ahead of us due to the irregularity of flight schedule, as a consequence we were not able to attend the seminar at NEDA that morning. We felt bad because we were really looking forward for that conference. We arrived at Ninoy International Airport Terminal 3at 8:45 pm. We waited for an hour for a taxi until we were able to get that brought us to MOA where the other two classmates were waiting for us. We felt so exhausted and starved to death so we had a quick dinner at Mc Donald and headed to GO Hotel where the rest of our classmates had already checked-in. It was indeed a tiring night for all of us, but it did not disrupt the mood of the group because one thing is certain….a great adventure lies ahead.
Indeed, we were not disappointed! We waved ourselves throughout Manila and discovered the wonders of the place. We went to several enriching and astounding places and companies such as Philippine Stock Exchange, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Manila Ocean Park, ABS-CBN Studio and Resort World.
One of the major goals of our educational tour was to visit companies or organization to learn about managerial decision, and about current market. The Philippine Stock Exchange and Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas are major establishments that can help us meet our goal.
Our first stop was the Philippine Stock Exchange located at PSE Centre, Exchange Road Ortigas Center, Pasig City. We had a seminar about Analyzing Stocks; Fundamental and Technical for business last February 26, 2013. The Resource speaker of the seminar was Mr. Ron Acoba from Trading EDGE Training and Consultancy, the topic fitted more for those experienced ones but he presented it a in such a way understandable even for beginners.
Based on the itinerary Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas was the last place to visit. Ms. Mahalla R. Bontia, Museum Reseacher I tour us in the Museum. We discovered a lot in Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas especially n terms of money. A lot of gallery exhibition are on display where one can see a systematic display of the different historical period of our country beginning from Pre-Spanish Revolution, American, Japanese and the Republic era. Another Gallery is dedicated to a special exhibition "Layon: Money as Vission" Featuring the nation's vision as reflected in proposed designs for money in the 1950s up to the 1980s. The collections were significant since they mirror the aspiration of Filipinos during those times. It was really enriching information that we learned about monetary aspect. A film presentation was presented to us and we saw the procedures on how money is being made from scrap to the final product. Therefore, we realize the value of money; each of us should spend wisely and know how to save money.
The side trip to Manila Ocean Park and ABS-CBN made us closer to one another, a good bonding was developed. At Manila Ocean Park we really had a wonderful experience looking at the beautiful scenery we had great fun. One of the most unforgettable moments was the studio tour where we were able to visit different workrooms of ABS-CBN.
The tour may be a short one for us, but the knowledge and memories we have acquired and the people we met along the way will always linger in our minds.


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Donald Trump has already won one important primary, and that's why he's not going anywhere any time soon.
Every time Donald Trump says or does something that would destroy the careers of most politicians, he maintains or even gains supporters. It seems that nothing he does erodes his support. His voters are loyal, that's for sure.
If you want to understand the Trump phenomenon and the durability of his campaign, you have to understand his voters and how they get their information. Many on the left mistakenly think that Trump supporters are "low-information voters." Nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, it's the opposite. They consume a lot of news and information, and almost all of it comes from their most trusted source — Matt Drudge.
Matt Drudge is all in for Trump, and he is making sure that his millions of daily readers are getting the news.
Drudge, of course, is the owner of the popular conservative news aggregator the Drudge Report, a site that records approximately 2 million unique visitors a day with about 700 million page views per month. His readers are loyal, too. A 2014 Pew Research Center study found that the Drudge Report is among the most trusted news sources among conservatives, while most mainstream media outlets register a very high level of distrust from that group.


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Mild. I want flavor, not the destruction of my tastebuds.
hot Hot HOT!
Hot! Mild is boring... but I live in TX and love jalepenos, so....
I usually like things spicy but for chili, I like mild.
I dont like it too hot where all i can taste is heat but i do like it to have a bite to it.
HOT! :okay:
Blistering hot is best!
mild, maybe slightly spicy, but if food is too spicy I can't hardly eat it.
Moderately spicy.
Mild so I can still taste the food!
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In 2009, a group of Japanese filmmakers began a desperate attempt to make another sequel to Stephen Spielberg's 1975 classic film Jaws, which received praise as being perhaps the greatest killer shark film of all time.
The result was a film entitled Jaws in Japan. Unfortunately, it was not related or associated with the actual Jaws franchise, but it seems to be an impressive effort. The film was directed by John Hijiri and written by Yasutoshi Murakawa. The film also starred Nomani Takizawa, Airi Nakajima, and Megumi Haruno.
This is not the only mockbuster of Jaws; Italy was notorious for two mockbusters of the movie. One of them was released in 1981 and was entitled Great White. The movie sparked a lawsuit from Universal Pictures, the distributors of the original Jaws movie, and as a result, Great White was banned from the American market shortly after its release. Another Italian mockbuster, entitled Cruel Jaws, was released in 1995 and was directed by infamous Italian filmmaker Bruno Mattei, who became notorious for making films with concepts that were blatantly plagiarized from other films. Cruel Jaws was infamous for stealing stock footage from Jaws and its sequels, as well as Great White. It also had a mangled version of the Star Wars theme!
Now, back to the subject. Jaws in Japan had a very simple plot:
In the beautiful Sunny Beach, located on a tropical island, two college girls named Miki and Mai arrive until they were expecting something dangerous; there was a shark attack. Unfortunately, the two girls are unable to find a hotel they were looking forward to staying into.
When the film was released in the United States, it did not get an official rating by the MPAA, but received a 12A rating in the United Kingdom and Ireland. \
The film had gained negative reviews, but I think this is the best out of all the Jaws mockbusters. I'll give three reasons why: (1) it takes place in Japan, a country that is awesome, (2) it was made in 2009, meaning that it must have a higher budget, and (3) the shark was constructed with computer animation.


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The Sprites would like to welcome Keegan, Arnav and Luke to our class!
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November 1st & 2nd– Parent Teacher Conferences: There will be a sign up sheet on the door.
November 4th– Daylight savings time ends- Don't forget to set your clock back one hour.
November 15th– Thanksgiving Academy Feast: Come and enjoy some Thanksgiving food with your little one. There will be more information closer to the date.
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Hi guys!
It's been a hot second since I've posted a blog, and I apologize, but I do promise that there are actually some very exciting things in the works.
It may seem like I've been MIA on social media lately (which…let's be honest I have posted 2 IG's in the last 12 days….sooooo that for sure counts as MIA)
BUT. I have been working like CRAZY to bring you guys a ton of newness.
For one thing, I've officially teamed up with Matt from Clinetography to produce consistent, unique content for you guys! FINALLY.
Shooting consistently for this passion of mine is literally my biggest stress in life. I get major anxiety when it comes to asking anyone for help, so I really don't ever ask a photographer to shoot unless they approach me first. Whichhhhhh is once in a blue moon.
So you can assume how elated I am to find someone who is just as passionate about his craft, and equally as eager to create consistent content!
Matt is SO talented and is so dedicated to his career! Him and his wife work together, and just had the most adorable baby girl! Needless to say, they're a true blessing to me and Blonde Collective. I'm excited to see what we come up with in the next few months!
It's so refreshing to be working with someone who is pushing me outside of my comfort zone. He legit said "don't do the normal blogger thing" on our last shoot. WHICH I LOVED. Because idk about you, but I'm a little bit sick of scrolling through my IG feed in the morning and seeing all these peeps continuing to do the same damn thing. I mean, obviously I'm just as guilty of it all. But c'mon. I'm just a girl trying to wake up for a 6 am workout class, not fall asleep again after I get home in my gym clothes…make a yummy breakfast in my mini-kitchen, figure out the proper coconut milk to cold brew ratio…and get to work without someone yelling at me to get off the sidewalk with my bike bc I'm too scared to ride it in the street with the cars (#anxiety).
Like…let's cut the crap and create brilliant, inspiring things and be honest about the annoying shit that happened throughout our day.
Because life is hard, and all we have is each other. And I'm pretty sure it's safe to say we're all going through MUCH more similar things than we may make it look like on IG.
We shot last Sunday in San Diego and I have about 10 new looks comin' your way…all way different than what I normally post (RIP to the white wall)…so stay tuned!
Second…before we head to the news – how COOL is this vintage Calvin Klein belt? It's my mom's from the 90s, and when Tommy Hilfiger suddenly exploded back onto the scene I asked her to raid her closet for any and all remaining threads she may have from TH.
Sadly, she gave it all up – BUT she just so happened to have this gem still. I'M A FAN.
I've found myself grabbing it more often than my overdone double buckle belt that I love oh-so-much, and get so many compliments on it!
I love saying it's actually vintage 😉 and really love sporting something my mama has pictures wearing from when I was a baby! Who woulda thought.
If you follow me pretty closely on my social media channels then chances are you already know about this…so, sorry if this is boring, old news to you.
It's called 'Not Okay' and is basically about anything and everything that happens to you in your 20 that makes you go "that's just not okay."
It started because a couple months back I was trying to figure out how to transfer my existing 401k balance from my previous employer to my own IRA account.
Where do I open an IRA account? Do I go the Traditional or Roth route? Am I going to lose money transferring it? WHAT DO I DO WITH THE MONEY WHEN IT'S IN THERE? WHAT IS LIFE??!!!!!
I asked my mom (and I love you mom), but her answer was "take a course at a community college." UMMM I DO NOT HAVE TIME TO DO SUCH A THING.
So I took to google. "456,753 results are available for this topic" OKAY DON'T HAVE TIME NOR DO I UNDERSTAND WHAT ANY ARTICLES ARE EVEN SAYING!!!!
Thank god my friend could walk me through it because her dad helped her open up hers.
ALL OF THIS TO SAY…not knowing about adult things that are vital in planning for your future? Not. Okay.
Hannah, who I used to work with and you probably see on my Snapchat/InstaStory frequently, had a similar frustrating experience with her taxes this year.
After venting everyday to each other, and swapping stories about things our friends wanted advice on, we realized that we needed to do something.
There had to be some way to (1) work together again and (2) reach more women (and men if they want to listen) and educate them on the basic, VITAL things involved in adulting, and talk all things relationships!
This is when Hannah had a "brilliant beyond brilliant idea" (name that movie). After a long Sunday brainstorming and planning what we wanted this channel to be all about, 'Not Okay' was born.
We only have two episodes up right now, and Hannah is living the Parisian life in Paris right now for this week….but GET EXCITED for 2 new episodes a week when she gets back!
We reallyyyyyyy want to know what YOU want to talk about.
So much so, that we made a business gmail account (SO OFFICIAL). SO PLEASE EMAIL US CUZ RIGHT NOW IT'S SAD TO NEVER HAVE ANY NEW EMAILS!!!!! (firstname.lastname@example.com)
We want to hear horror stories, good news, questions, complaints, critiques, life updates, LITERALLY ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF. Because that's what 'Not Okay' podcast is. A place to drink rose, or coffee (one episode was recorded at night, one on an early morning, and those were our drinks of choice while recording) and just talk to your girlfriends.
We're here for anything you may need, and to fill in any of the gaps that are making you go "WTF" every single day.
We're SO EXCITED to see where this fun project goes, so if you're interested in listening, click here!
There's also a podcast tab at the top of my page dedicated to anything and everything Podcast 🙂
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[NEW MUSIC ALERT] Zeus The Plug – Face Down
Prepping for the release of his debut EP "The Alibi" March 22, 2017, Chicago's Zeus The Plug releases "Face Down". Face Down is the first installment off of Zeus' anticipated EP. Producer Tres Mortimer gets you in the mood, prepping for the back in the day – Face down ass up! But not quite!
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Zeus The Plug keeps it creative and quirky for those who live the enhanced life with lyrics like, "Drunk in love, I got her with her face down, she got me on the drugs I never take now…addicted to this girl I could say now. In love with so much drugs, I just like my bud."
The rap star on the rise, who has opened for artists the likes of Cash Money artist Jacquees, Jeremih and Lil Yachty, continues to release dope new content including his recently released short film "The Alibi – Part 1," all leading up to the release of his debut EP.
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{Every week, I publish a series of inspiring links. Enjoy!}
Using Instagram for travel planning is an awesome idea!
My friend Courtney sent me the sweetest letter, recently, along with mini envelopes and cards from paperette! I love them.
So true: "More doing, less promoting."
A fascinating podcast about stoicism can be found here.
"Stepping Out: Living the FitBit Life" was a hilarious article!
I'm reading "Body of Work" by Pamela Slim and "Going Somewhere" by Brian Benson. Both are good reads!
I received an advance copy of "The Ephemera Scrapbook" by Michelle Marie and it's gorgeous! Be sure to visit Michelle's blog.
"Journal Love" is my new Pinterest board.
DIY Midori Traveler's notebook inserts are a good idea.
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The San Bernardino Mountains are a rugged east-west running mountain range in San Bernardino County east of the San Gabriel Mountains. While the range tops out at the 11,500-foot summit of San Gorgonio Mountain, you can find great panoramic view from a 4,000-foot peak that is much easier to reach. Marshall Peak rises above the foothills of the mighty San Bernardino... Read more.
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Fine Dining in Berlin: Les Solistes
It's a special occasion to dine as fine as one will at Les Solistes, a restaurant by Pierre Gagnaire, one of the most popular chefs of today's French cooking. In Berlin, he created a casual fine dining restaurant inside of Hotel Waldorf Astoria in 2013, where the Belgian Roel Lintermans is head chef. Lintermans gained the restaurant its first Michellin star and16 Gault Millau points in the first year after opening, and was awarded the title "Berliner Meisterkoch" last year. You're in for a treat, is what I want to say. It is very special to eat here, because Lintermans' food is outstanding, refined, elegant, fresh, balanced and will have you leave very happy.


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1494 — March 24, Georgius Bauer (known as Agricola) born at Glauchau, in Saxony (Germany).
1500 — Mogul emperor Akbar the Great establishes zoos in various Indian cities which far surpassed in quality and size anything in Europe. Unlike the cramped European menageries, Akbar's zoos provided spacious enclosures and cages, built in large reserves. Each had a resident doctor, and Akbar encouraged careful study of animals. His zoos were open to the public. At the entrance to each he posted a message: 'Meet your brothers. Take them to your hearts, and respect them.'" [David Hancocks, A Different Nature.] This appears to be the first clear differentiation between exhibition of animals for entertainment and exhibition as attempted humane education. (M. Clifton, 2007)
1503 — Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli, both from Florence (Firenze) Italy, create a plan to divert the Arno River away from the enemy town of Pisa. Work begins in August 1504, but bogs down as the size and ambition of the project becomes more evident. At one point Leonardo designs a digging machine to move things along. It was, said Roger Masters, a magnificent failure. "Niccolò and Leonardo tried to control the flow of history and the flow of the river by combining science, technology, and political power. The ambition to use this means to conquer nature, common place today, had never been attempted in quite this way on such a scale."
1516 — Thomas More of England writes Utopia, a vision of human perfection and attainment. Moore mentions kindness toward animals and the abolition of animal sacrifice and sport hunting as signs of the moral advancement of the citizens of his fictitious Utopia.
1533-1592 — Life of Michel de Montaigne, a French attorney whose 1588 essay Of Cruelties denounced abuse of animals as "the extremist of all vices."
1538 — Island of Malta establishes Magistri Sanitatas health inspection system. According to the Times of Malta, when people disobeyed environmental and health inspection orders or were caught trafficking products off quarantined ships, penalties included burning their homes. Also, anyone caught throwing trash on the road in Valletta in 1586 had to pay a fine. And to prevent contamination from abroad, letters were dipped in vinegar for disinfection or exposed to burning straw fumes, a mixture of manganese and a solution of sulfuric acid.
1567 — Pope Pius V issued a papal bull condemning bullfighting and other forms of animal fighting for entertainment as "cruel and base spectacles of the devil," whose promoters are subject to excommunication. Pope Pius IX reiterated the 1567 bull in 1846, and Pope Pius XII cited it in 1940 in refusing to meet with a delegation of bullfighters. The 1567 papal bull eventually brought prohibitions against bullfighting throughout Italy. (M. Clifton, 2007).
1556 —Georg Agricola writes De Re Metallica, a book concerning techniques of assaying, mining and smelting a variety of metals. Parts of the book deal with occupational hazards. Published 1556 He writes that Italian city-states passed laws against mining because of its effects on woodlands, fields, vineyards and olive groves: "The critics say further that mining is a perilous occupation to persue because the miners are sometimes killed by the pestilential air which they breathe; sometimes their lungs rot away…" Agricola discounted these and other concerns. "Things like this rarely happen, and only insofar as workmen are careless," he wrote. The idea that workmen were to blame for occupational disease would be repeated with surprising frequency into the mid-20th century.
1546 — Italian physican Girolamo Fracastoro outlines theory of contagious disease. He reasoned that infectious diseases could be passed on in 3 ways: simple contact, indirect contact (e.g., bedclothes) and minute bodies over distance through the air. Thus, isolation and disinfection were the ways to take action against epidemics.
1560-1600 — Rapid industrialization in England leads to heavy deforestation and increasing substitution of coal for wood.
1573-74 — Dutch flood area around Alkmaar and Leiden to break the siege of Spanish troops during the Eighty Years War. The strategy becomes known as the Dutch Water Line and is used frequently for defense.
1589 — Water closet invented by Sir John Harrington in England but indifference to filth and lack of sewage meant that the invention was ignored until 1778, when Joseph Bramah began marketing a patented closet. (Markham).
c.1590 — Queen Elizabeth "greatly grieved and annoyed" by coal smoke in Westminster Palace. (Brimblecombe)
1593 — Aug. 9 — Isaac Walton born in England (dies Dec 15th 1683).
1596-1650 — Life of Rene Descartes, of France and Holland, among the most prominent of the early vivisectors whose work sparked an antivivisection movement in Europe even before there were organized humane societies. (Covered extensively by Richard Ryder in Animal Revolution, 2001 edition.) Descartes was memorably satirized more than a generation after his death by the French philosopher Voltaire, who also attacked "the barbarous custom of supporting ourselves upon the flesh and blood of beings like ourselves," but continued to eat meat. (M. Clifton, 2007)
1598 — Discovery of the dodo, a flightless and relatively defenseless bird, by Dutch vice-admiral Wybrand van Warwijck on the island of Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean. The introduction of animal predators (cats, pigs, dogs), rather than direct human predation, is thought to be the main cause of the extinction at some point between 1662 and 1700. Not much noticed at the time, by the late 18th and early 19th centuries, the phrase "gone the way of the dodo" to refer to extinction becomes commonplace.
1603 — James I succeeds Elizabeth I and orders coal burned in his London household, but rather than smokey bituminous coal from Lancashire, Durham and Cornwall, he orders importation of hard, cleaner-burning anthracite from Scotland.
1634-1703 — Life of Thomas Tryon, a vegetarian shepherd from Gloucestershire, England, who crusaded against human slavery and advocated the "natural rights" of animals. He appears to have been instrumental in persuading many leading Puritans that animals have souls. The repression of animal-baiting by the Puritan regime of Oliver Cromwell included killing the animals, however, as well as punishing the human perpetrators.
1640 — Isaac Walton writes The Compleat Angler about fishing and about conservation.
1641 — The Massachusetts Bay Colony adopted as their Liberty 92 (of 100 "liberties" which were in fact the laws of the colony) the statement that "No man shall exercise any Tirrany or Crueltie towards any bruite Creature which are usuallie kept for man's use." This is the first humane law adopted by any western nation. (M. Clifton, 2007) (Also cited in US v Stevens, 2010).
Mid-17th Century — "Little Ice Age" cold weather, wars and rebellions killed millions around the world. The worst harvest was 1648. Rioting broke out in many countries when bread prices spiked. Villages disappeared as glaciers advanced to the farthest extent since the last Ice Age. — See Geoffrey Parker, "Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century."
How clean were medieval towns?
From The City in History, by Lewis Mumford: (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961), pages 288 – 293.
"I shall begin with the field in which error and bias have been rife for more than two centuries: that of medieval sanitation… As far as usable open spaces go, the typical medieval town had at its foundation and through most of its existence a far higher standard for the mass of the population than any later form of town, down to the first romantic suburbs of the 19th century.
"I lay emphasis upon the persistently rural character of the medieval town because the false contrary image has long established itself as a fixed idea, almost too firmly irrational to be removed by presentation of the actual evidence. People still mistake the cumulative decay that filled the green spaces for the original structure, which was open and sound. As long as these open spaces remained, the crude sanitary arrangements of the small medieval town were not necessarily as offensive as they have been pictured. Complaints such as that made by the Preaching Friars at Beziers in 1345, on account of the bad odors issuing from a tannery, would hardly have been made if bad odors were constant and universal…
"… Crude sanitation is not necessarily bad sanitation; for a medieval farmhouse, in which the common dung pile was the only domestic privy, was not as great a menace to its inhabitants' health as the progressive pre-Pasteur town of the 19th century, blessed with refined water closets in every middle-class dwelling, and cursed by a supply of drinking water drawn from the same river into which the sewage of the town above was emptied. "By the 16th century, special provisions for sanitary control and decency had become widespread. Thus, Stow mentions an ordinance in London which commands that 'no man shall bury any dung or goung within the liberties of the city' nor 'carry any ordure till after nine o'clock in the night.' William Stubbs mentions that the first public sewage plant and water works were possessed by the city of Bunzlau in Silesia in 1543… Alberti, a full century earlier, in his chapter on 'Drains and Sewers,' distinguishes between drains that carry away 'the filth into some river, lake or sea' and those leading to 'a deep hole dug in the ground."
"Bruni's eulogy of Florence … remarks that 'some towns are so dirty that whatever filth is made during the night is placed in the morning before men's eyes to be trodden under foot … It is impossible to imagine anything fouler. For even if there are thousands there, inexhaustible wealth, infinite multitudes of people, yet I will condemn so foul a city and never think much of it.' Similarly, Leland, a later observer, in his journeys about England, made special mention of dirt wherever he came across it: evidently it was rare enough to deserve comment.
"A change for the worse certainly came about toward the close of the Middle Ages, despite sanitary regulations… Until overcrowding began, the normal smells of a medieval town were probably no more offensive than those of a farmyard; and it was not for the 19th century, with its hideous sanitary misdemeanors, to reprove the earlier period. The open sewers of a 'progressive center of civilization' such as Berlin [Germany], as Dr. William Osler found it in 1873, were probably as offensive to the nose and, as he noted, as dangerous to the health."
Essential reading
Tuchman, Barbara, A Distant Mirror : the calamitous 14th century, New York : Alfred Knopf, 1978
Lansdown, R. and W.Yule, eds. Lead Toxicity: History and Environmental Impact. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
Leff, S., and Vera Leff, From Witchcraft to World Health, New York: MacMillan, 1956
Sigerist, H. E. 1945. Civilization and Disease. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.
Roger D. Masters, Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History (1999), 133.


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I am wondering how long I should wait before taking the methadone because someone told me that taking them too close together can kill you? Could anyone help?
I have been takin 1 8mg sub for 5days and ran out. A friend gave me 10mg methadone. Can it kill you
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Go to suboxone.com and find a list of prescribing doctors in your area. Methadone is not going to help you and for someone with little experience with it can be deadly.
You can't successfully buy dope off the street and expect to recover from opiate addiction. You need to bite the bullet and really do something about it. So try and get into a suboxone doctor and do this the right way otherwise you could be in for more trouble then you deserve. Good luck to you and hang in there.. Throw that methadone away as it won't work anyway after you've been taking suboxone... Dave
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Every experience brings new information, whether it seems positive or not. What you encounter – and how you handle it – informs greater consciousness. In other words, the Universe dances through you.
This is a complex concept which might be easier understood with examples as follows.
A woman came to work with me because her history with men has been abusive and yet her pattern was that she still returned to them in her intimate relationship. Intellectually, she understood this was not healthy. But this was an energy that was encoded into her love pattern early in her life, which made it hard to resist. Her mother died when she was very young so she unconsciously feared abandonment and did not learn to claim her value as a person, much less as a woman. Her father raised her and did the best he could; their culture comes from Mexico which shaped his perspective. Without the balance of the female influence, this highly sensitive single child came to understand that punishment equals love. By seeing that dynamic, she now has new freedom to choose life partner relationships with men who honor her.
A man asked for a personal energy reading because, as a result of a recent slew of extremely challenging and volatile situations, he was doubting his self-worth. When we are being pushed to the edge, it is to release all that no longer serves us. In this case, the Universe created a life tipping point for him – to literally help him live the life he deserves on a much deeper level. It can be grueling to handle what feels like too much and yet, once it passes, life will be much more rewarding and aligned with personal truth. Personal value is intrinsic – it is up to us to remember that in every way. Through this experience, he is finding the edges of himself and being invited to claim his crown. (And, by the way, when any one of us does so, we all benefit.)
A woman called me in tears because, while her divorce was final, the business partnership with her ex-husband needed to be finalized after several years. In that process, it became evident that he has been coasting on her hard work for years and that he did not want to lose that level of financial comfort. The only solution was for her to not only hold the annual revenues stable but to add another 50% to them to complete their partnership, which felt daunting and emotionally hurtful at the same time. Through reading the energy of her potential, I 'got' that the extra 50% was not a big enough target – her aim needed to 10x her current revenue projections! Upon hearing that, the tears stopped (probably from shock) and she said, 'yes – I have succeeded in exceeding revenue goals in the past. I can do this.' Her original target no longer seemed like a big deal in the face of the much larger invitation. Essentially, the Universe did not want her to play small anymore, nor to give away her power in business.
Maybe you can see yourself in these scenarios?
Each of these situations initially felt very negative to those in them – until they learned the real opportunity behind them. To have something new, you must clear the space and release what IS; this is the nature of the Universe as life is constantly arising in fresh creation. When we try to hold on to what we think is comfortable, it only limits the experience for us as a human and the Universe. (Try holding back a tidal wave or keeping a flower from blooming – it not only gets really uncomfortable but, in the end, is impossible.)
Whatever your experience right now, look past the obvious and see the potential through the metaphorical eyes of the Universe. You will see that it is time for you to grow because the Universe wants to dance bigger.
© 2016 Lynn Scheurell
About the Author
Making the most of human nature since 1998, Lynn M. Scheurell is a visionary pioneer, spiritual teacher for entrepreneurs and authority in conscious awareness. Your life, business and ability to impact the world grows only as fast as you do; in other words, changing the world starts within your personal transformation. Lynn teaches entrepreneurs how to gain new clarity and accelerate results through metaphysical insights. See www.MyCreativeCatalyst.com


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Who is eligible to enroll in the US Family Health Plan?♫ Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
"Any beneficiary who relies on the Military Health System (MHS) for their health care and who is eligible in the Defense Eligibility and Reporting System (DEERS) is eligible to enroll in the Plan. The DEERS list includes anyone who is eligible to receive military health benefits, including active duty family members, retirees, and retiree family members.
Active duty personnel are not eligible as they are required to obtain their health care at Military Treatment Facilities (MTFs).


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Back in March of 2015 Nintendo unveiled a new system currently known as the Nintendo NX. We're a week into fall and October is coming up, there has already been a lot of NX rumors. Here is the Gaming INTEL rumor round up with the Nintendo NX Name, Price and Specs!
Nintendo NX Name and Price
The Nintendo NX is most likely the code name for the new console, however one leak over on 4chan which seems to have been taken down claims the Nintendo NX is to be called the Nintendo Focus. As for the price, UK retailer TESCO has seemed to leak the NX at a hefty price tag of £349.99 (this converts to approx. $450 at the current exchange rate). What's interesting is that not only did they reveal the price; they also revealed a release date of December 31st 2016. However, we assume that is a preorder date because Nintendo said the NX is coming out in March of 2017.
Nintendo NX Specs
The Tegra Parker (X2) is highly rumored to be whats driving the NX to a later release date then 2016. While originally designed for self driving cars, people seem to believe this is what is behind the Nintendo NX's horse power. The Tegra Parker would allow the NX to Stream 4K video at 6Ofps but also carry a crazy 1.5 teraflops. Now of course that's nowhere near as powerful as the PS4 Pro or Xbox Scorpio, however this is a different type of gaming and it is certainly more powerful then the Wii U with it's 352gflops.
Nintendo NX Hardware
- Based on a leak by eurogamer the NX will be a Home console / Handheld hybrid
- There have been rumors of a clickable scroll wheel
- The gimmick of the console along with it being a hybrid is that it will have detachable controllers
Nintendo NX Confirmed Games
Although the NX hasn't even been revealed, major publishers have been confirming games for it and here are the games revealed so far:
- Dragon Quest X – Square Enix (Considering)
- Dragon Quest XI – Square Enix (Considering)
- Just Dance 2017 – Ubisoft (Confirmed)
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo (Confirmed)
- A Untitled Pokemon game – Pokemon co. (Confirmed)


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The Cannabis Reporter Radio Show
Ep. 59 Show Me MO Cannabis in the Show Me State of Missouri
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11/22/2017Ep. 58 Hemp For Victory Revival - Micah Nelson and Michael Bowman
11/18/2017Ep. 57 NFL Survivor Grant Mattos Dr Uma Dhanalaban
11/10/2017Ep. 56 New Applications for Genetic Testing Inform Cannabis Therapy
11/02/2017Ep. 55 Veterans In Crisis Need Cannabis
10/18/2017Ep. 54 Will Cannabis Solve The Opiate Crisis
10/03/2017Ep. 53 Neuroscience Tackles the NFLs Industrial Disease - CTE
08/23/2017Ep. 51 Legislation for a Healthy Nation_ Industrial Hemp Farming Act
08/16/2017Ep. 50 Micah Nelson Harvesting Harmony & Hope with Hemp
08/08/2017Ep. 49 Hempsters Hit The Highway in the Renew Sports Car
08/03/2017Ep. 48 How to Set Precedents In Cannabis Law - Throw The Book at The DEA
07/24/2017Ep. 47 Meet Professor Mikos Author of The First Text Book On Marijuana Case Law
07/19/2017Ep. 46 Beating Odds in Las Vegas Recreational Marijuana Jackpot
07/12/2017Ep. 45 Ancient Wisdom Meets Western Medicine for Marijuana Cures
07/06/2017Ep. 44 Women Shattering The Grass Ceiling
07/05/2017Ep. 43 The Downside of Marijuana - Too Many Upsides
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05/09/2017Ep. 37 New Hope for MS-Cannabis Alternatives
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03/07/2017Ep. 31 Constitutional Question - Is Prohibition Legal
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02/21/2017Ep. 29 Is Medical Marijuana Safer Than Tylenol
02/14/2017Ep. 28 cannabis-treatment-addiction-recovery
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01/27/2017Ep. 25 Appealing to a Higher Court
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- 1 1⁄4 cup non-‐dairy milk
- 2 teaspoons apple cider vinegar
- 3 1⁄2 cups all-‐purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 cup coconut oil or vegetable shortening
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or almond extract
- 2 cups strawberries, cut into pieces no larger than a dime
- Warm the oven to 375 degrees. In a small glass mix together the milk and vinegar and set it aside.
- In a large bowl combine the flour, baking powder, salt, zest, and sugar.
- Add the coconut oil in small, pea-‐sized clumps.
- Cut the oil into the flour using a fork or a pastry cutter until the flour looks grainy and full of small pebbles.
- In the middle of the flour mixture make a well and pour in the milk mixture, oil, and extract of your choosing.
- Mix until all the ingredients are moistened and then fold in the strawberries.
- Scoop out about 1⁄4 cup of the dough and place it on a lined, greased baking sheet for each biscuit. Bake the biscuits for 18-‐ 22 minutes or until they appear golden.
These biscuits are best served the day they are made.
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Thanks to all the rain this winter in Los Angeles, the city is covered with beautiful blooms and scents. I decided that the flowers of our school garden and our city deserve a moment in the spotlight, so gardeners got a whole new appreciation of flowers in class this week!
Students drew out different parts of a flower, and we talked all about what each part does. We spent plenty of time on pollination as well, since that's what produces such lovely seeds for us to plant and enjoy!
After, our gardeners helped make "sun tea" as a refreshing snack, featuring some lovely edible blooms! After today, each student can say they had the guts to eat a flower- chamomile and chrysanthemum, to be precise.
Some gardeners got a bloom of their own in the garden to draw inspiration from!
I hope the students will take a closer look at the lovely flowers in the garden and on the sidewalk this spring. I know I will.
Until next time,
Ranger Natalie


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2005 Chicago Auto Show Index by TCC
Perennial automotive entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin is back, and after months of rumors, he outlined for TheCarConnection.com an unexpectedly aggressive plan to market at least one million Chinese automotive imports in the U.S. — and to sell another one million Chery-branded products that would be produced in the States.
Where initial reports suggested Bricklin would focus on Chery's QQ minicar, the one-time importer of Yugos and Subarus told TCC he's looking at a wide range of vehicles, including a sporty competitors for the BMW 3-Series. The move would potentially broaden the new brand's appeal — and avoiding a potential legal battle with automotive giant, General Motors.
Within seven years, said the long-time industry executive, his new import company hopes to be selling a million Chinese-made cars annually in the
Bricklin earned his spurs — and a sizable fortune — 37 years ago, when he began importing cars built by
One critical lesson: their firm, New York-based Visionary Vehicles, will not focus on the absolute bottom of the new car market, like Yugo did. If anything, the first product to reach market may very well be aimed at the 3-Series, Bricklin suggested, but with a price tag of "under $20,000." In all, the two executives noted they currently have 14 different possible models under preliminary development. If initial plans hold true, Bricklin would like to have a full range of powertrains, including four-, six-, and eight-cylinder engines, and even hybrid-electric drives, for each model in the lineup.
That sort of program would strain the resources of even the biggest automaker, never mind a fledgling Chinese manufacturer with little experience building modern cars. But together, Bricklin and Chery have enlisted assistance from major players in the global auto industry. Italian design houses Pininfarina and Bertone are both involved, as are major suppliers, such as
Chery's products will be specifically designed for
Stand-alones and Wal-Mart
Sidestepping that confrontation, Bricklin admits there are still plenty of other challenges to get his Chery lineup ready, so a projected U.S. launch in early 2007 is tenuous, at best. Even so, he's planning to make fast to get things ready. More than 1200 potential dealers have already contacted Visionary Vehicles, and by March, the firm intends to begin franchising what will shortly grow into a distribution network of about 250 retailers. Many dealers will likely operate numerous showrooms, and Bricklin wants to have satellite service centers set up alongside, or even within, the confines of major retailers, like Wal-Mart. Successful dealer candidates will ultimately need to be looking at investments of around $15 million.
For that money, Bricklin said he expects each dealer to turn around 4000 cars annually, which would make the new franchise one of the most successful in the industry on a per-store basis. It would also add up to a lot of cars. Right out of the box, Bricklin insists he can move 250,000 cars a year, and the goal is to hit 1 million by the seventh year in the
That might pose problems, considering
Chery pride
Chery is something of an anomaly among Chinese automakers. While there are, by various estimates, more than 200 car companies in the country, only a handful are serious players expected to last long-term. Even though sales have mushroomed —
But according to Bricklin, the Chinese maker sees that as an asset, forming foreign affiliations only when needed. Using those ties, and with the help of regional distributors, like Bricklin, "they want to be the number one car company in the world. And they know to do that, they have to be better than
It's a tall order, and one prompting plenty of skepticism. "It sounds like a stretch to me," says GM CEO Rick Wagoner. He says he'd be surprised to see any Chinese company make real inroads into the


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Artist: School of Seven Bells
Album: Disconnect from Desire
Critic: Daniel Yates
Publication: Drowned in Sound, 2010
Writing Disorders: Jargon Palsy, Idea Fever, Toxic Tedium
Critic Jargon: "fugitive alt-pop cosmopolitanism," "theological reversal of postmodernity," "sub-Haackish flourishes"
Most Emo Phrase: "Like someone you previously adored becoming an embarrassing pastiche of themselves"
Daniel…unless you're traveling tonight on a plane, I'm just going to call you Dan. Let's talk about your review, Dan. I got through the last line and saw that you challenged a heckler to "do a RipFork." Well, hopefully I beat him to the punch, but bear in mind that I seldom indulge folk who ask to be lampooned on my site. A dude petitioning for a beating knows how he could avoid it in the first place. Sometimes it's as easy as just not writing like a complete putz.
I've got beef with your review, Dan, and it goes a little like this. Anyone these days can write how he thinks Twin Peaks defines a band's sophomore failure. And if that budding genius writes for a certain music zine, he's got clout on aggregators regardless of how poorly he writes. Let's say for a moment Metacritic lumps you in with only five other neurotic children who decided to write reviews of a band's album. What's the moral of that story? Since bands can't appeal a critic's terrible writing, they should just hope they find the good side of his 3rd-person anal retention? To me that's a crappy trade for a lot of hard work.
Before you prep a lecture on how people should pay attention to writing and not numbers, I agree. But writing's not your strong suit, Dan. If you're gonna whitewash musicians, get to the point at least. Need some help? How about mentioning the band before the 250-word mark for starters? Even if you couldn't bear to whittle down your examples of jukeboxes in globalism, you could have at least shaved some bush off the mound by getting rid of clumsy modifiers like "naïf-fatale" or "hauntological."
I'm gonna skip how you shoehorned this band into ridiculous subgroups, Darkwave Duck, since I'd rather focus on your refusal to trim your thoughts. You really could have snipped the fat off most of your sentences and left readers none the poorer. I'll even do the honors in this example from your fourth paragraph:
"That reinvocation of shoegazing that seemed to add new layers of promise to the template, and which made 'Face To Face On High Places' as close to a new bubblegum MBV track as we might dare to hope for, has now degraded."
If you're blubbering about the tragic loss of the pivotal My Bloody Valentine reference, calm down. I know you probably see editing as shooting a beloved puppy in the head, but judging from the comments on your review, few people even made it far enough to pass judgment:
"Why do DiS writers take so effing long to make any sort of point in their reviews?"
"couldn't get past the first paragraph of this"
"I got past the first paragraph, but couldn't get halfway through the second."
Dan, I'm going to give my readers a little perspective here. Sometimes I like to show the kind of man who kicks aside clarity so he can make space for his own postmodern choad. Let's see your game face.
Yikes. I'm sure School of Seven Bells are feeling lucky such men exist to niggle the album they spent months writing and recording. Must feel swell knowing their labors played second fiddle to the clunky musings of a bearded weirdo stoned out of his gourd.
Your review really needs to be seen to believe, and since there's only so much I can cover, let's end with your brilliant closing, Dan. What sums this album up best in your mind?
"Slightly lost and, sadly, all too findable."
HOLY COW, that's deep. It's like lost…but not really! Damn, how long did you take pinching out that twig? I don't think I can touch the insight radiating off of that miracle of words, but I'll try my hand. Barring the risk of getting Latin thrown at me for saying so, you look like a creepy milkman from the lip up.


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Flooding is causing difficulties for residents of Myitkyina, after heavy rain has caused the Irrawaddy (Mali Hka) river water levels to rise since June 23.
One resident whose house is situated beside the river in the Kachin State capital had to move all his belongings to a safer place after heavy rains caused flooding in the upper sections.
According to a resident in a Shatapru quarter, also located beside the river, he's packing his belongings at night out of fear the water will eventually get into his home.
"It's still raining. We don't know when the water will come to our house so we put our things on higher ground," said the resident.
Flooding is expected to soon reach the town affecting businesses and residents.
Many people living close to the riverbank are Internally Displaced People (IDPs). The IDPs are worried the rising water levels will flood their quarter.
"We moved here to escape the conflict. Now we have to move again because of the flooding. We have to face many difficulties," said one of the IDPs.
Where the N'Mai and Mali rivers meet near Myitsone, flooding has severely affected jade operations and residences.
Every year, during the raining season, the Irrawaddy River floods Myitkyina. In 2004, severe flooding killed residents and caused widespread damage to properties.
Flooding this year will make life even harder for the estimated 75,000 IDPs who have been displaced by the ongoing conflict between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and Burmese military.
- Hpakant road closed for 3 hours after Burma army's artillery fire (News) 18 May 2017
- Child killed, two girls injured in Kachin landmine blast (News) 24 Apr 2017
- Around 100 Burmese military vehicles march to northern Shan State (News) 24 Apr 2017
- Kachin people prepare for second session of 21st Century Panglong Conference (News) 27 Jan 2017
- Detained Kachin pastors transferred to Muse Police Station (News) 26 Jan 2017


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