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we are already.
How can a fish become a bird?
Because we are suffering from the idea of
a mistaken identity
are we on a quest.
To become,
in the future
what we aren't already.
Not here
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Looking away from what is present:
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Breaking barriers and hearts the world over, Pitbull is an international sensation with #1 hits in over 15 countries. His unique sound merges hip-hop with Cuban swing, pop flavors and a Caribbean bounce, and has earned him international superstardom as well as a Grammy® Award. His best-selling songs include the mega-hits Give Me Everything, Timber, Fireball and Time of Our Lives. Pitbull concerts around the world have a history of selling out, so get your tickets now!
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In recent months, questions surrounding U.S. police and procedural fairness and excessive force have come into question. Regardless of one's stance on this controversial topic, there are basic rights afforded to anyone who is arrested that police officers and other law enforcement officials must respect and by which they must abide.
In our last post, we discussed issues related to the Fourth Amendment and unlawful search and seizure. Potential violations of an individual's Fourth Amendment rights may occur in cases where a police officer searches an individual's person or car even though he or she failed to obtain verbal consent and lacks probable cause. In cases where a violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment rights subsequently results in an arrest and drug possession charges, a criminal defense attorney may seek to have evidence deemed inadmissible and charges dismissed.
In addition to Fourth Amendment violations, other rights afforded to every individual include the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney. In cases where an individual contacts a defense attorney, police are required to stop all questioning until legal representation is present. In cases where an arresting police officer fails to recite an individual his or her Miranda rights or fails to respect an individual's right to remain silent; a criminal defense attorney will likely seek to have charges dismissed on the grounds of coercion and individual's rights being violated.
The U.S. criminal justice system was built upon the foundation and belief that an individual is "innocent until proven guilty." With this guiding principle in mind, pending official criminal charges, an individual who has been arrested cannot be held indefinitely. Additionally, those individuals who have been formally charged with a crime have the right to a speedy trial and just treatment while in police custody and awaiting a formal decision or verdict.
Charlotte area residents who believe their rights or those of a loved one were violated by law enforcement officials would be wise to consult with a criminal defense attorney.
Source: FindLaw.com, "Getting Arrested Checklist: Have My Rights Been Violated?" 2014


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Can testosterone therapy promote youth and
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Although some men believe that taking
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We love hamburgers and hotdogs — especially cheeseburgers — but let's not forget why we celebrate Memorial Day with family picnics (or, if you're like us, coding). Thank a veteran today, and honor those veterans who are no longer with us.
OSC would like to thank those men and women who have fought and given their lives for our country and our safety.
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I have been a regional human rights activist in the Asia-Pacific region since 1996, and have been closely involved with Human rights and human security issues directly involving Australia's nearest neighbour, the island of New Guinea, since 1999.
I have gained extensive experience since this time in active human rights service, and in the process I have formed and maintained a large network of useful allies and sympathisers in all areas of human rights, refugee protection, peacekeeping, environmental protection, fisheries, aid monitoring, national parliaments, government, military, security, and intelligence. More to the point, I have an unparalleled grassroots base within my areas of interest and operation. These contacts, and friends, span the entire Pacific region, and globally.
I currently am coordinator for West Papua Media Alerts which reports the latest independently verifiable news from West Papua. News reports are posted by journalists, both on the ground in West Papua, and around the world. We are also involved in providing citizen media training and capacity building for witness broadcasting.
A new initiative which I founded is Project Cockatoo, which is an exciting new project to deliver safe source secure mobile broadcasting and communication technologies for activists and citizen media operating in repressive contexts. Please watch this site closely for more details on this groundbreaking project.


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Mid-Columbia Libraries
▪ Kennewick branch, 1620 S. Union St. Call Jan Wheaton, 582-4899.
(7 p.m. second Tuesday of the month)
June: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
▪ Pasco branch, 1320 W. Hopkins, conference room. Call: Susan Koenig, 545-6936.
(1 p.m. third Wednesday of month)
June 21: Ordinary Grace by William Kent Kreuger
Richland Public Library
955 Northgate Drive. Call Lisa Adams, 942-7678.
6:30 p.m. third Monday of month
June 19: Astoria by Peter Stark
Thursday Afternoon Book Group
955 Northgate Drive, Richland. Call Evelyn Painter for location, 509-420-4811.
1 p.m. third Thursday of the month.
June 15: This meeting will be to select books for next year and to have lunch.
Coffee Break Book Club
Barnes & Noble Cafe, Columbia Center, Kennewick. Call Tricia Schierman, 509-619-3165.
7 p.m. last Thursday of the month
June 29: A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson
Grandview Library
500 W. Main St. Program Room. Call Paula Brotherton, 882-7035.
10 a.m. fourth Thursday of the month.
June 22: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Central Church
1124 Stevens Drive, Room 300, Richland. Call Helen Coleman, 375-5757.
1 p.m. first Thursday of the month.
July 6: The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah
Adventures Underground Book Club
Caterpillar Cafe, 227 Simons St., Richland.
7 p.m. first Friday of the month
Bookworm Book Club
731 N. Columbia Center Blvd., Suite 102, Kennewick. Call Marilyn McLaughlin, 509-735-9016.
6 p.m. second Tuesday of the month.
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University Professor: All educators working in the teaching profession, in the public or private higher educational institutions, recognized by the Ministry of Higher Education in the United Arab Emirates or the Ministry of Education from which the nominate applies for the award.
The award is dedicated to university professors, who teach courses and does not include administrators, whose performance is limited to administrative work, whatever the type of work is.
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- Distinguished University Professor in the Field of Teaching.
- Distinguished University Professor in the Field of Scientific Research.
Distinguished University Professor in the field of specific conditions of nomination for the (University Professor) Category:
- The teacher should have spent five (5) years or more in the field of teaching at a University and/ or Higher Education level in the U.A.E or Arab World and still teaching at the time of applying to the award.
- The candidate must have obtained three technical reports officially issued by the University administration and the grade for the last three years should be "Excellent".
- The Professor shall be distinct in his work compared to peers in the same profession in U.A.E or any state in the Arab World, proved by the result of applying a set of academic instruments, based on clear specific criteria and specific performance indicators.
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Essential Considerations to Make When You Have Plans of Selling Your House Fast
There is no place that can never be compared home and this is the main reason why people tend to have peace of mind whenever they are at home. One of the ways through which you can be able to get our home is the real estate investment whereby you can be able to buy your home or even acquiring the services of a good contractor will be able to give you a perfect home. There are quite a number of things that can never be predicted which can be moving from one geographical location to the other especially when it comes to changing your place of residence. When you have from one geographical location to the other, you will realize that you cannot move your house and therefore, you need to ensure that you sell it. One thing that is quite difficult is being able to get potential buyer of your house especially when the season for selling houses is gone. Highlighted below are some very important tips that can help you anytime you planning to sell your house or even when you're looking for a good potential buyer of your house.
Majority of property depreciate and your house being like any other property, there is a high probability that it might have depreciated and therefore, you need to ensure that you determine its actual value. Determining the actual value of your house can be very important especially in scenarios whereby you do not know which particular price can be the best fit for your house. The only way you can be in a position to get the true value of your house is by ensuring that you hire a professional that is good at property appraiser to help you determine the actual value of the house.
One of the best ways you can be able to sell your house quicker by ensuring that you involve yourself in different kinds of advertisements of that particular house. Majority of potential buyers of your house will always want to envision themselves to the owners of the house when they come to check the house and therefore, you need to ensure that you remove anything that can portray that you still own the house. You have to ensure that you set a price that will drive potential buyers of your house away because that is one thing that will make you to sell your house fast. The best way to go about this is by ensuring that you check on the market prices help you determine the best you can set for your house.
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Restructure aims to promote Georges River local government areal as an investment, innovation and jobs hub
Georges River Council has announced a restructure, creating a new City Strategy and Innovation Directorate to promote the local government area to the Sydney metropolitan region and across NSW as an investment and employment destination.
The restructure creates 11 new roles, five attached to the new City Strategy and Innovation unit and and a new road safety officer, environmental policy officer, events officer, two new waste investigation officers and a new full-time Chinese liaison officer.
Under the restructure, the council will remove its Transformational and Change Directorate established to guide the council through its merger phase.
There will be an increase to staffing in the service areas of Event, Community Safety and Chinese community support.
There will be the transfer of staff within Communications to the new City Strategy and Innovation Directorate.
There will be an increase in staff to provide environmental policy, engagement and education services within the Environment and Planning Directorate.
And there will be an increase in staff in areas of waste education, waste investigations and swimming pool compliance within the Environment and Planning Directorate.
The new City Strategy and Innovation unit will be responsible for preparing a 30 year City Vision and City Reputation Strategy.
The city's reputation will be linked with its success in attracting investment, business and trade, a skilled workforce, students and visitors for tourism and events.
"This is about us striking out into the future," Georges River Council mayor Kevin Greene said.
"We have worked under the current model for 18 months and this is a refining of the final structure of the council to make it go forward.
The council was required under the Local Government Act to review and redetermine its organisational structure.
The review recommended the dissolution of the Transformation and Change Directorate and the establishment of the new City Strategy and Innovation Directorate.
The City Strategy and Innovation unit's responsibilities will be to :
- Advance the status and influence of Georges River Council across all levels of government and enhance the reputation and brand of the City of Georges River;
- secure government investment towards infrastructure, grant funding, community programs and other government projects to support the city's population growth.
- prepare a 30 year Vision for the City of Georges River to shape its future direction.
"The aim is to look at the big picture, to look at ways of promoting Georges River by promoting the cities of Kogarah and Hurstville," Councillor Greene said.
"This includes promoting Kogarah as a health and research hub and attracting future investment to create jobs."
The City Strategy until will look at ways of attracting visitors to Hurstville as a night-time precinct.
The aim will be to transform Hurstville central business district as the cultural heart of the local government area with theatres, events, galleries, retail, hotels, clubs, restaurants, public areas and plazas.
The City Strategy unit will look for applying for various grant funding, for example, the green space programs the council is currently implementing at Gannons Park.
In the 2017/18 financial year, the council received a record $23.8 million in grants for capital works and $8.8 million for operational grants.
Up until now, the council's various council departments individually applied for grants.
The new unit will centralise and coordinate grant applications across all departments of council.
The unit's role will also be establish the council's reputation as a leader in innovation.
The council recently launched the Smart City joint project with the University of NSW which sees the using of smart technology such as street furniture sensors, power tables and healthy living space hardware.
Georges River is one of the first councils in NSW to use the Smart City technology, and the project has attracted the interest of the Wall Street Journal which interviewed Councillor Greene about the project.
"We need to be seen as being at the forefront of innovation and this will be part of the City Strategy unit's role," Cr Greene said.
"One of my aims as mayor is to promote the brand of Georges River Council with a strong reputation with the broader community and particularly I want to make our own community and our staff proud"
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(PV-Tech) Similar to past solar PV deployments, the rise in energy storage shows a meteor trail. Bloomberg's new energy economy information estimates that energy storage will reach 305 GWh by 2030.
According to Bloomberg's new energy economy, between 2016 and 2030 the market will grow 12-fold to 125 gW/305 GW H. The research group released a new report yesterday called "Energy Storage Forecast".
Drawing on the global solar PV market between 2010 and 2015, the BNEF said the projected energy storage for that period had a "similar trajectory". Solar photovoltaic capacity has grown more than 14-fold over the five years. To facilitate expansion and integration into the mainstream market, technological investment is expected to be approximately $103 billion.
BNEF believes that the money invested is broadly spread evenly across Asia and the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas. Nevertheless, about a quarter of the installed capacity is expected to be deployed in the United States, where 70 per cent of the installed capacity is expected to be distributed in China, Japan, India, Germany, Australia, South Korea and the United Kingdom.
"Throughout this phase, the storage of power from utilities and the back end of the meter is a key source of flexibility and critical to integrating the growing level of renewable energy," BNEF employees said in a statement. "I don't know.
Earlier this year, the International Renewable Energy Agency(IRENA) said the global power industry used about 1 GW of battery reserves. In its report, Energy Reflection 2017: Accelerating the Global Energy Transformation, IRENA estimates that batteries could hold 250 GW in 2030.


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Laguna Beach resident and Republican presidential candidate Fred Karger has qualified to be on the ballot for California's primary election June 5.
He will join the other remaining Republican candidates — Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Rick Santorum and Buddy Roemer, according to a news release from Karger's campaign.
"I am thrilled to be on my home state's ballot," Karger said in a statement.
"Now if Fox News, CNN, NBC and the other networks would include me in their future debates, there would be a fresh new moderate candidate among a pretty mediocre field of Republicans. Just let me in one debate," he added.


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Blue Highways: Somewhere on Lake Michigan
Unfolding the Map
On the high seas...or at least the high lakes! William Least Heat-Moon (LHM) takes the ferry from Kewaunee to Elberta, and we're on deck with him, watching Wisconsin grow more distant in the early afternoon. I'm putting us right square equidistant between Michigan and Wisconsin, so get your soundings at the map.
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"On the aft deck I took a seat and watched Wisconsin get smaller. I had long wondered whether all shorelines disappear on a clear day in the middle of Lake Michigan (the name means 'big water'). I would soon find out."
Blue Highways: Part 7, Chapter 13
Somewhere on Lake Michigan
In the short list of things that terrify and fascinate me (spiders, certain types of heights), I'm going to add a couple more. I know why I have one of these small phobias, but not the other.
Deep water terrifies and fascinates me, but only in a certain sense. Have you ever been out on a lake or in an ocean, and you jump overboard for a swim, and you realize that your feet are simply dangling and you have no way of knowing where the bottom is? It isn't the water that terrifies me, but the sudden realization that there's an unknown depth below and anything could be in that unknown depth. For some reason, that just sends a chill up my spine. I don't think that's a fear that is unexplainable. Water is really not a human element, though our makeup is over three-quarters of the stuff. To me, swimming in an unknown depth is like free-falling in slow motion, or being suspended over clouds off an unknown height where you cannot gauge how high you are.
The other thing that terrifies me, for reasons I cannot fathom (oh, that pun was so intended!), is the sides of ships. But it's not just the side - if I look at a ship straight on or from a distance, I am fine. No, the part that terrifies me is imagining that I might be in the water next to the side of a ship. I think about being in the shadow of that huge thing, with my legs suspended and dangling over an unknown depth, before I'm sucked under the ship and into the propellors.
Mind you, I don't think about these things often. They are not an obsessive phobia. And they are not debilitating. I will still jump off a boat in the middle of a lake to swim despite my uneasiness. But when I do think about them, I get a shiver and that hollow feeling in the pit of my stomach.
I bring this up because Lake Michigan is a huge, deep lake. LHM wonders just how big it is and before he gets sidetracked by a story told by a fellow passenger on the ferry intends to put it to a test and see if the land disappears completely, leaving him surrounded by water. There is something magical and forlorn in watching land disappear from the deck of a ship. The only time I've experienced it is on the ferry from Le Havre, France to Rosslare, Ireland. I was so excited and fearful of getting seasick (another slight phobia) that the uniqueness of my situation was lost on me at the time. My imagination has filled in the gaps, though. The land, the anchor to the world, dissolves into the horizon or perhaps mist off the water. At that point, which I have experienced, the movement of the ship is betrayed only by the sound of the engines, the movement of air over the ship and the ship's wake. Otherwise, like a lonely swimmer, you seem suspended between water and sky and often at the mercy of the water, until the farther shore materializes in front of you.
I believe I wrote this story before, about not realizing the size of Lake Michigan from a map. On my first trip to the Midwest I had to take a puddle jumper from Chicago to Benton Harbor, Michigan. I expected a short flight. After all, it was only over a lake. We took off from O'Hare Airport, flew out over downtown Chicago, and then out over the lake. 30 minutes later, we were still over the lake. It was only my second flight and I began to wonder if we were lost when the land appeared below us and we touched down. Later, when I lived in Milwaukee, I loved heading to the lakefront, because the vastness of the water reminded me of being on the ocean where I grew up.
The other theme in this passage is the ferry. LHM might have been one of the last few people to take this ferry because it ceased running in 1982 after 90 years of service. The ship, the Viking, was known originally as the Ann Arbor No. 7 and was renamed after it was rebuilt. The Ann Arbor Railroad train ferries originally ran between Kewaunee, Wisconsin and Elberta, Michigan and expanded to other cities on upper Lake Michigan.
In the chapter, LHM remarks how small Ghost Dancing looks next to the boxcars on board, and when he hears some clanking down below hopes that the boxcar hasn't shifted in some way and crushed his van. The boxcars were actually loaded onto the ferries, taken across the lake, and then disembarked onto tracks there to continue their railway journeys. Without the ferries, the route would take much longer and therefore be much more expensive. I did a quick Google Maps route and found that by car, getting from Kewaunee to Elberta would take about eight and a half hours. By boat, that would be at least cut in half, and by the time LHM took the ferry, it might have been only 3 hours.
Though the Kewaunee ferry has ended, I am happy to say that there is still ferry service on Lake Michigan from Wisconsin. The Lake Express has been billed as American's first high speed ferry line, and it runs from Milwaukee to Muskegon, Michigan. It appears to be one of those sleek, double hulled catamarans and the website says it does about 40 miles per hour (34 knots) during the 2 and one-half hour trip. The ship has been sailing since 2004. The Lake Michigan Carferry runs between Manitowoc, Wisconsin to Ludington, Michigan. The ship, the S.S. Badger, appears to be more of a conventional style ferry that plied the Great Lakes. The website touts her as the biggest ferry to ever sail the Great Lakes and did so from 1953 until 1990, when she was tied up in Michigan. An entrepreneur bought her in 1991 and had her refurbished, and began running her again shortly afterward. The cruise takes four hours.
A Great Lakes or ocean ferry is a great way to get a nautical experience without having to endure days at sea, and if you pick the route right, you can get a little of everything. Sometimes there are big waves and big excitement, sometimes calm seas and relaxation. Perhaps, if you're lucky, you'll catch that magical point just as the land disappears from view and you too are suspended between water and sky on your personal chariot between space and time.
Musical Interlude
You won't believe that there aren't many songs about ferries. You would think that given their importance to our nation's history and growth, there'd be more written about these forms of transportation. However, I was only able to find one fun song by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters celebrating the the Black Ball Ferries. If you have any other suggestions, Littourati, let me know.
If you want to know more about Lake Michigan and the history of the railroad ferries
Classic Trains Magazine: Lake Michigan Carferries
Great Lakes Information Network: Lake Michigan
Lake Michigan Circle Tour
Railroad History of Central Wisconsin: A Lifelong Love of Lake Michigan Railroad Car Ferries
RRHX: Railroad Car Ferries
Wikipedia: Ann Arbor Railroad
Wikipedia: Lake Michigan
Wikipedia: Train Ferry
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources: Lake Michigan
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It all started with "Days' Folly".....
In the mid-1910's, an enterprising young man named Joseph A. Days had a vision. He wanted to move his home in Provincetown to the beach along the state road in North Truro, and to help realize that dream, he purchased a strip of land along either side of the street, ready for the future.
The people of Provincetown thought he was crazy! "It's just a bunch of sand!" they would tell him, "What do you want THAT for?" At the time, the state road that would later become Route 6 (and still later Route 6A) was itself just packed-down dirt and beach sand, and the road was desolate for miles! But Joe kept his vision in focus while everyone else kept going on about the purchase that would come to be known in the 1920s as "Days' Folly"
The Depression!
In October 1929, the bottom fell out of the stock market, and work was drying up! Joe's dream seemed dead once, after having his house in sections all ready to move, decided it wasn't worth it, and turned the house into a massive bonfire on the beach.
But Joe had another idea.....the one that would forever change the history of North Truro's Beach Point....
By this time, he was in charge of the F.A. Days and Sons construction company, and this industry was also hit hard by the Depression, as crews were idle due to no customers available to purchase their services. One day, he surprised his workers with his idea. He wanted to build some small cottages on the strip of land he owned, noticing that a couple other people were starting to do the same on the scenic 2-mile strip of Route 6. He offered to buy all the materials needed. He did, however, tell his workers that they would have to take a pay cut for the work. Basically, Joe became his own customer.
Being the Depression, his crew jumped at the chance to work again!
A Dream Becomes Reality
In the fall of 1930, the crew of F.A. Days and Sons went to work on the first of what was to be five cottages. Each cottage was to be built with a bathroom, full kitchen, 2 bedrooms, a small living room with fireplace, and an open-air porch overlooking the water. It was to be the perfect little summer community, and everything seemed right on schedule.
But there was one problem...Joe realized that not one of the cottages-in-progress was actually on his land! That problem was quickly rectified with the purchase of more lots along either side of Route 6 to cover the 5 cottages already built, and he found out he still had room for MORE! By the time the cottages were ready to be opened, a total of 9 had been built. Across the street, he had 2 other buildings built. The first was built right along the highway, and housed the rental office, a small summer residence for himself and his wife, cellar space, and a small seasonal grocery store called
Days' Self Service Market
. The second was built just downhill from the highway, and was a storage garage with 9 bays, and was much more space than he needed at the time, but he knew the future would prove the extra space useful. The leftmost bay would later house a generator for those stormy days when the power goes out.
So not only did Joe have his summer house on the beach, he now had a new business to attract the new breed of Cape Cod vacationers as well as desperate out-of-work people looking to find a job at the new resort, and
Days' Cottages & Self Service Market
opened up for its first season in July 1931. Some people who stayed that season continued to come back every year for decades on end!
The story doesn't end yet!
Continue past 1931!


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Ransom Olds Biography Summary: Ransom Olds (1864 – 1950) was an important inventor and leader of the Automotive industry in America. He is recognized for becoming the founder of the successful car manufacturing company which was originally named the Olds Motor Vehicle Company. It later became the Oldsmobile Motor Division of General Motors Corporation. By 1901, this famous American pioneer had built 11 prototype vehicles including at least one of each steam powered, gas powered and electric powered motors. Ransom Olds was famous for producing the Curved Dash runabout which became the first mass produced, low-cost, American car.
He was also famous for introducing the assembly line to the motor trade which shaped the future of vehicle production by helping to increase the speed in which automobiles could be built and completed ready for dispatch.Ransom Olds Fact Sheet: Who was Ransom Olds? The following short biography and fact sheet provides interesting facts about the life, times and history of Ransom Olds, the famous American inventor and pioneer of the motor industry.
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Ransom Olds Fact File Biography: Lifespan: 1864 – 1950 *** Full Name: Ransom Olds was also known as Ransom Eli Olds *** Date of Birth (Birthday): He was born on June 3, 1864*** Place of Birth: Ransom Olds was born in Geneva, Ohio in the United States *** Family background: His father was a blacksmith called Pliny Fiske Olds *** Early life and childhood: Ransom Olds grew up and spent the majority of his life Ohio *** Ransom Olds died on August 26, 1950 in Michigan
Ransom Olds Fact 1: Ransom Olds was born on June 3, 1864 in Geneva, Ohio in the United States. His British ancestors came from Dorset, England.Ransom Olds Fact 2: His parents were called Pliny Fiske Olds and Sarah Whippe Olds. His father was a pattern maker and blacksmith. Ransom Olds was the youngest member of the family. As a child, he moved to Cleveland, Ohio with the rest of his family.Ransom Olds Fact 3: He married Metta Ursula Woodward in Lansing, Michigan on June 5, 1889.Ransom Olds Fact 4: On August 21, 1897, he founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company. It was based in Lansing, Michigan, and he sold it in 1899 to Samuel L. Smith who renamed the company Olds Motor Works.Ransom Olds Fact 5: Samuel L. Smith relocated his new company to Detroit and Ransom Olds became its vice president and manager.Ransom Olds Fact 6: He built eleven prototype vehicles by 1901. He was the first and only American to manufacture and sell at least one of each power driven vehicles - steam, gas and electricity.Ransom Olds Fact 7: A fire occurred on March 9, 1901, burning the car factory to the ground. Only one car model survived the fire, the Curved Dash runabout. He decided to put this model into production.
Ransom Olds Fact 8: Following the 2nd annual New York Automobile show, he managed to set up a deal with one buyer for 1000 Curved Dash runabouts.Ransom Olds Fact 9: The Curved Dash runabout was the first mass produced low priced vehicle in America. Each vehicle sold for $650.00. In 1901, around 600 were sold, followed by 3000 in 1902 and over 4000 in 1904.Ransom Olds Fact 10: Due to clashes with Samuel L. Smith's son, Ransom Olds left the company in 1904 and founded the R.E. Olds Motor Car Company which he renamed the REO Motor Car Company after the initials of his name.Ransom Olds Fact 11: He was the first person to use the production line in the motor industry. Henry Ford was the first to use a moving assembly line to produce motors. One of the biggest advantages of the assembly line was the increased speed in which vehicles could be produced.Ransom Olds Fact 12: Ransom Olds developed an area after buying 152 km² of land in 1913. The land was located near the northern part of Tampa Bay, Florida and it is now known as the city of Oldsmar.Ransom Olds Fact 13: He was well known for auto racing at Ormond and Daytona which took place on the Florida beaches. An unofficial event took place around 1896-1897 between Ranson Olds and Alexander Winton. Winton won the race by .20 seconds.Ransom Olds Fact 14: As a Republican, Ransom Olds served from Michigan's 6th District to 1908 Republican National Convention as a delegate.
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There is nobody who doesn't love flower. Every flower whatever it is real or artificial/paper make, we have a soft corner for flower. Flower have different uses in different occasion. Today we will know about the produres of Orimami star flower making for wall decoration. Very easy paper crafts which is really easy to make with in a minutes.
Procedures OF Orimamy Star Flower Making
Easy and simple, you just have to follow these steps to make a Origamy Star flower .
At frist, take necessary tools that you need like-
1. 2 sheets of A4 size square paper
2. Scissors
3. Glue
4. Pencil and a Stone for decoration
Then, take one sheet and fold it into diagonal and again fold it and further fold it diagonally.
After that, Trim out or cut the extra side of paper
Now, do the same thing for another piece of A4 sheet paper
Again, fold them into diagonal shape one more time.
Mark out according to shape through pencil and trim out them .
Again, do the same thing for other paper as you want. You can cut it like this video / photos.
Now cut both the paper parallely two times before ending, as like this video
Unfold both the papers and put this papers one above another like this way.
Add some glue into the center of both papers
Now pull upper paper middle part into center and add them into center with glue by this way.
Again pull other paper middle part and glue them like this way as shown in the video
Now, add a stone into middle with glue
Through the entire process you can make a origamy star flower easily. We made a video tutorial for you. You can watch the video for your better understand.
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Our nation holds people accused of a crime, but not convicted, in jail on bail even when they are not threats to the public or likely to flee. The vast majority of those held are the poor. Unable to come up with cash to post bail, the poor spend many more days incarcerated than those with financial means. OAR's bail fund works to reduce this injustice.
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OAR has been working with our clients to ease their reentry back into the community for many years. The growing interest in the issue has engaged many more people.
OAR believes that by working with an inclusive group of organizations and individuals, greater changes lie ahead. Visit our resources page for more information.
Assigned Council
The vast majority of OAR's incarcerated clients live below the federal poverty line.
Constitutionally, these individuals have a right to legal representation—provided in Tompkins County through the Assigned Counsel program.
OAR conducts intakes for Assigned Counsel representation four days a week at the Tompkins County Jail, guaranteeing swift assignment of legal representation.
College Initiative Upstate is a learning community of educators, students and volunteers from Tompkins county who are working together to build pathways from criminal justice involvement to college and beyond.
We can help you: choose a college, apply for financial aid, work with outstanding student loans, receive tutoring, engage in college readiness courses, get wrap around support during the application process. Give us a call to see if College is right for you.
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At OAR, we offer comprehensive liaison services between you and entities in the community.
Getting you the support you need is our number one goal.
We maintain a direct line for receiving phone calls from clients in jail.
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The Green Room at The Oval will see Mark Durden-Smith compering a trio of cricket's most recognisable and in some cases, notorious faces. Putting aside the exuberance of the hospitality, the incredible view of the cricket and, let's not forget, the excitement of the game itself, just to spend the day in the presence of our esteemed panel, will guarantee you an experience that your guests and yourselves will be talking about for years to come.
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Bond Rout Sends Fund Investors a Message
05/07/2015 10:00 am EST
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The decline in bond yields and increase in their prices has been a global affair, so MoneyShow's Tom Aspray takes to the charts to determine what changes bond fund investors might now consider making in their bond portfolios.
The stock market selling continued on Wednesday but late buying limited the losses. The S&P 500 had an intra-day low of 2067.93 but closed at 2080.15, down 0.45% for the day. The Nasdaq 100 was a bit weaker losing 0.67% while the small-caps bucked the trend as the Russell 2000 gained 0.32%. It is still down 4.6% from the recent highs and the futures are lower again early Thursday.
The carnage in the bond market has been even worse as the WSJ reported that bond king Bill Gross's new fund at Janus lost 2.7% in the past week. Most bond investors are likely unprepared for such a sharp swing in their bond funds as they are unaware of the potential for capital losses. Of course, the junk bond market has been hit even harder as the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corp Bond (LQD) has dropped 3.4% in just the past thirteen days.
The decline in bond yields and increase in their prices has been a global affair. The chart shows that the yield on the 10-Year German Bund has been rising steadily since the later April lows.
So, what are bond fund investors to do now and what changes might they consider making in their bond portfolios?
Chart Analysis: The iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corp Bond (LQD) has assets of $21.47 billion and a yield of 3.34%. The expense ratio is 0.15% and LQD is down just slightly this year.
- The daily chart shows the gap to the downside last Wednesday.
- LQD has been trading at its starc- band for the past week.
- The daily uptrend, line a, was broken on Monday and it now represents first resistance at $118.70.
- The sharply declining 20-day EMA and stronger resistance is at $120.90.
- There is more important resistance in the $121 area.
- The OBV rallied back to its WMA last week before prices plunged.
- The violation of the OBV uptrend, line b, is negative.
- The weekly OBV (not shown) looks ready to close the week below its WMA.
The iShares Barclay 20+ Year Treasury (TLT) has total assets of 5.28 billion with expenses of 0.15%. It has a current yield of 2.66% and is down 3.47% YTD.
- The daily uptrend, line c, was broken earlier this week.
- The 61.8% Fibonacci support from the September 2014 lows has also been broken.
- If the current decline matches the decline from the late January high to the March lows, then the equality target is at $117.54.
- The daily OBV has broken the support, line d, that goes back to December.
- There is initial resistance now at $123 with the declining 20-day EMA now at $126.51.
- The quarterly pivot is much higher at $130.27.
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The weekly chart of the 10-Year T-Note Yield shows the rise in yields over the past two weeks.
- The yields had stayed in a fairly narrow range for most of April.
- The weekly downtrend, line a, is now at 2.290% with the 50% retracement resistance at 2.342%.
- If this is just a rally within the downtrend then the equality target is at 2.451%.
- The 50% retracement resistance stands at 2.505%.
- The weekly MACD broke its downtrend, line b, in late February.
- The MACD has since formed a pattern of higher lows which is consistent with a bottom formation.
- There is initial yield support at 2.100-2.200% with the 20-day EMA at 2.025%.
The T-Note Futures rallied back above the 130 level in early April before the recent decline.
- The weekly uptrend, line c, is now being tested with more important support in the 126 area.
- A weekly close below 125 would be much more negative.
- The OBV broke its uptrend, line d, three weeks ago, before prices dropped.
- The OBV is now below its slightly declining WMA.
- The Herrick Payoff Index (HPI) formed a negative divergence at the January highs.
- This divergence was confirmed by the drop below the intervening low, line f.
- The HPI has dropped below the zero line, indicating that money flow is now negative.
- The prior positive signal in the HPI (point 1) occurred in October 2014 before the sharp rally.
What it Means: On a short-term basis, the decline in the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corp Bond (LQD) looks to be overdone. This makes a rebound—or some consolidation—likely over the next week or so.
In contrast to the higher yield LQD, the Vanguard Short-Term bond Index (VBISX)—which has a much shorter duration—is actually up 0.82% YTD.
More importantly, investors should realize that investors in bond funds or ETFs run the risk of capital loss unlike the holders of individual bonds.
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Philippine police early yesterday arrested four people, including three Taiwanese, on suspicion of smuggling drugs and ingredients, in a joint effort with Taiwanese authorities.
Based on information provided by the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau, a Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency-affiliated team under the Philippine National Police inspected a fishing boat in a village in Infanta, Quezon Province, about 138km east of Manila, and found several bags of chemicals used in the production of amphetamines, the police said.
Three men and a woman were arrested and drug enforcement authorities also recovered amphetamines, they said.
Authorities from the two nations had monitored the suspected smuggling operation for several months before bureau liaison officers in the Philippines joined the effort, they added.
Initial information showed that two of the three Taiwanese suspects are from Pingtung County, while the woman is a Philippine national, the police said.
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has repeatedly accused the Taiwan-based Bamboo Union gang of being a major source of illegal drugs smuggled into the Philippines.
In the most recent instance, Duterte last week told a news conference that the Bamboo Union was the primary supplier of illegal drugs in the Philippines.
However, the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in the Philippines has issued several statements saying that "Taiwan has never been a source of illegal drugs entering the Philippines. Rather, Taiwan is the best partner for the Philippines to jointly combat against drug smuggling."
On Aug. 24, Manila police arrested a Taiwanese man after ammunition, amphetamines and chemicals to make illegal drugs were found in his residence.


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JUBILEE YEAR for the CENTENNIAL of BLESSED ROMERO, 2016 — 2017
|Salvadoran bishops with Card. Ezzati.
#BlessedRomero #Beatification
During the 1982 anniversary of the assassination of Archbishop Oscar A. Romero, a slogan emerged which would resonate in many future commemorations of the martyr bishop: "We want more bishops like Archbishop Romero." It was a popular veto of sorts against an episcopate perceived as too far removed from the style now promoted by Pope Francis: of "shepherds with the odor of sheep"—or, as the slogan put it, "who align themselves with the poor." Quite a long time has passed since those days, and now many bishops seem to want to take up the style of the former Archbishop of San Salvador. We examine the praise that twelve of them gave to the martyred archbishop during the recent commemorations of the centenary of his birth.
First, the Bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, issued a letter for the centenary of the birth of Archbishop Romero, in which he prays: "One hundred years have passed since the birth of Blessed Oscar Arnulfo Romero, bishop and martyr, illustrious pastor and witness of the Gospel, determined defender of the Church and the dignity of man. Son of the beloved land of El Salvador, he spoke to the people of our time about the saving work of our Lord Jesus Christ and his love for all, especially the poor and marginalized. In his priestly life as well as in the beginning of his episcopal ministry he experienced a unique spiritual path that led him to foster justice, reconciliation and peace."
Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile and personal representative of the pope in the commemorations, added: "I dare say that Blessed Archbishop Romero is a martyr of Hope. He is this for the poorest of the Continent; he is this for our beloved Church; he is this for those who struggle for justice, reconciliation and peace—who, with renewed fondness, already call him 'Saint Romero of the Americas'."
For his part, Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, Archbishop Vienna, said that Archbishop Romero "belongs to these great figures who, without power and without weapons, have changed the world solely through their witness."
The Archbishop of Bologna, Italy, Msgr. Matteo Zuppi, wrote in a letter that Romero's centenary "is an important opportunity to thank God for his testimony and to choose, based on his example, a renewed and passionate commitment to peace ... His cherished memory encourages us and confirms us in the commitment to the Peace of Christ."
Archbishop Giovanni Ricchiuti, president of Pax Christi of Italy, highlighted that Romero was a "courageous witness of the Gospel for Justice and Peace ... The spiritual heritage and the current relevance of the witness of Archbishop Romero spur the world community's commitment to building peace based on justice and peoples' rights."
Others have tried to dissect the inspiration that motivated the martyr. In a mass for the centennial of Romero and the Feast of the Assumption of the Virgin, the Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas, Gustavo Garcia-Siller commented that "as we celebrate also the 100th birthday of Blessed Oscar Romero, late Archbishop of San Salvador, we celebrate the life of someone who followed this example of Mary."
The Archbishop of Los Angeles, California, Jose Gomez, emphasized the need to advocate for the common good of the people as Romero did: "In Blessed Oscar's name, let's keep working — to build a better Los Angeles, a better America, and a better world ... Let's keep pressing for immigration reform — to keep our families together, to give rights to our workers, and to open the way to make new citizens for this great land of ours."
Romero's friend, Cardinal Gregorio Rosa Chavez of San Salvador, wished to recall other martyrs of El Salvador: "It is easy for us to apply this term when we speak of Archbishop Romero, of the murdered priests and of the four American women — three Religious and a secular missionary — whose lives were snatched in December 1980. However we have a debt that we must begin to pay as soon as possible: we are bound by gratitude to God and for the love of truth, to recover the memory of hundreds of anonymous martyrs, most of whom are humble peasant men and peasant women."
Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia, postulator of the cause of canonization of Archbishop Romero, paused to reflect on his humanity. "Romero was not a Superman," he said. "He was afraid of dying, and he confessed that to his friends on a number of occasions. But he loved Jesus and his flock more than he loved life. This is the meaning of martyrdom. Love for Jesus and for the poor is greater than love for oneself. This is the power of Romero's message."
Panamanian Archbishop Jose Domingo Ulloa expressed a similar sentiment: "Before the giant figure of Oscar Arnulfo Romero, we cannot forget what he was: a human being who loved his people, that is to say, everyone. By vocation he was a priest, minister of Christ and servant of those entrusted to him, especially of the peasants and the needy. That is what he wanted to be, above everything else. Now we look forward with joy to the canonization of Archbishop Romero, who is a cause of inspiration for Christian commitment."
The Bishop of Dallas, Texas, Edward Burns, explained his decision to have a Mass in honor of Romero. "When I went to El Salvador and found out that today was going to be his anniversary, I knew we had to do something, especially for the Latino community living here in Dallas," said Burns, who assumed his office in February. "Oscar Romero was a great man of faith and a great faithful pastor of our Latin community," said the bishop during his homily.
The Archbishop of San Juan de Cuyo, Argentina, Jorge Lozano, explained the admiration for Romero felt by many faithful, including himself: "such are the saints, factors of unity and communion even before the hatred of enemies," he said, adding: "One wishes to imitate his surrender and his clarity. I caress and kiss his grave, his memory and his life."
Other bishops did not make statements but did speak through their gestures. The Bishop of Astorga, Spain, José Antonio Menéndez, inaugurated a stained glass window with the figure of Blessed Romero in a church, while Bishop Joseph Toal of Scotland unveiled a canvas of Blessed Romero to mark his adoption as the patron saint of the Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF).


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Discussion in 'iMac' started by seasurfer, Jan 1, 2008.
I feel that my iMac aluminum get dusty easily, do you all feel the same way?
Yeah my iMac's in the kitchen and sun regularly shines on it and I am for ever dusting it!
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anything in my house gets dusty if it doesn't get dusted. It also gets finger prints all over it due to my 7 year old and 4 year old....... dam greasy little finger prints.......
It's going to, it's a big hunk of metal with electrical equipment on the inside.. it's like an ice cream van for dust.


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Friday, January 9, 2009
Weekend Gazette: January 3-4, 2009
Georgia will be well represented at the inauguration festivities for the nation's 44th President.
We'll tell you who's headed to the nation's capitol and why.
And, we revisit the Georgia coast, once a renowned destination for race car enthusiasts.
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STOPGAP Dance Company visit The Point at Eastleigh next week to launch their latest tour The Enormous Room.
This follows the 2017 London launch at the Lilian Baylis, Sadler's Wells.
It features David Toole, whose achievements and skills as a disabled performer have been widely influential, and newcomer Hannah Sampson, as a father and daughter living through their own, very different experiences of grief.
Dave's wife Jackie has died, but he still sees her everywhere. She is lying in his bed, sitting at the kitchen table and laughing with their daughter Sam. Dave has withdrawn into the living room unable to let his memories go, but going is all that Sam can think about….
David Toole's career includes a prominent solo in the 2012 Paralympic Opening Ceremony and the landmark 2004 film from DV8, The Cost Of Living. David has worked with Stopgap Dance Company for over a decade.
Sam is played by Hannah Sampson, a young dancer with Down's syndrome who has received over 10 years of professional training with Stopgap Dance Company. The interactions between David Toole and Sampson demonstrate their onstage chemistry, which has been evident since initial rehearsals and workshops of this work.
David and Hannah are joined by non-disabled dancers Amy Butler (the rehearsal director of Chotto Desh by Akram Khan) and Meritxell Checa (collaborator with Philippe Decouflé), who take the roles of Jackie as Sam's mother and Dave's wife respectively.
Lucy Bennett, Stopgap's Artistic Director and choreographer for The Enormous Room, chose to have two performers play Jackie to illustrate the subjective nature of memory. The Cambodian wheelchair dancer Nadenh Poan plays Chock, a Puck-like presence who orchestrates the collision between this world and the next. Christian Brinklow from Great Yarmouth plays the role of Tom, who offers his friend Sam a chance to escape sadness.
Local tour dates:
The Point, Eastleigh, February 8: www.thepointeastleigh.co.uk
Salisbury Arts Centre , March 20: www.salisburyartscentre.co.uk


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Pools are not just for swimming laps! Drop in on a water aerobics class a few times each week and give your body a great workout in the low-impact aqua environment.
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Concerning my time and my science fiction and fantasy writing, well things have been busy around here, more busy than I'd like to admit I guess. Back Home, Book 4 in the Alien Encounters Series is back from my editor from its first round of edits and I'm going through, making my revisions.
Lyrissa and Peggy are both back on Sylax and in a nice twist we get to see this world through both Lyrissa's and Peggy's eyes. I've never tried to write a book in two different points of view, but I do like a challenge. I read Scott Westerfeld's Levithan Series and really liked the way one character's point of view complimented the others'.
Challenge is what got me started on the Alien Encounters Series. I love Stephen King novels and the Green Mile was great. Mr. King strikes me as someone who likes to experiment with form. I was intrigued by the Green Mile's delivery method. When the book was first published it came out as a serial—I believe there were six novellas in all. Well as luck would have it that's where I intend to draw the line with the Alien Encounters; six seems like a nice round number to me.
If you follow me on twitter you've probably already seen the cover art for this book, the most recent installment in the series, however I did promise to post my cover art here, so as promised here it is.
You can find me through the week at www.Kimwelsman.ca or on twitter @kimwelsman.


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Marlborough's weather is here!
From the more formal 'fine dining' establishments and brasserie-style restaurants, to hostelries serving traditional, home-made pub food — all the bases are covered.
But Marlborough's restaurants don't have it all their own way. Because no matter what you want to eat, or how you want to eat (seated or on the hoof) Marlborough will fit the bill.
As well as a choice of formal restaurants, you'll also find the quintessential English tea room, pubs serving excellent and inexpensive dishes at lunch and dinner, delicatessens producing first class take-away (and eat in) food, ethnic restaurants of all kinds and the slick, value for money High Street restaurant chains.
To help you choose, this section of the site has been categorised by the nature of the establishment. This page lists Marlborough's restaurants, bistros and brasseries; follow this link — or the link at the bottom of this page — for the town's pubs and for Marlborough's ethnic restaurants.
And when you get in touch with (or visit) any of the restaurants or other places to eat or drink on this website, please mention that you found them through www.marlboroughwiltshire.co.uk. Thank you.
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The West Wing (1999)
1 continuity mistake in And It's Surely to Their Credit
Starring: Allison Janney, Bradley Whitford, Dulé Hill, Janel Moloney, John Spencer, Joshua Malina, Martin Sheen, Richard Schiff, Rob Lowe, Stockard Channing
Genres: Drama
And It's Surely to Their Credit - S2-E5
Continuity mistake: When Ainsley Hayes and Lionel Tribbey are talking in her office, the bottled water moves from being to the right of the framed picture on her desk in the shots over her shoulder to being behind the picture in the shots of her desk from the front. (00:21:40 - 00:22:30)Captain Defenestrator
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It's normal to want to own a castle of your own. Slaying the various dragons to get over the moat is a whole 'nother story. Whether you're facing the I-Work-Hard-So-I-Deserve-It Dragon or the Having-More-Means-A-Better-Life Dragon, you've got to do battle to carve out the money you'll need for a downpayment.
Step 1: Figure out how much you want to have saved.
Step 2: Decide how long it'll be until you buy your castle.
Step 3: Beat back the Dragons of Spending to pile up your pot of gold.
If you want to buy a $375,000 house and you want to put 20% down (which you should), you'd need to save $75,000. Planning to take possession of that beautiful chateau on the hill in four years? That gives you 48 months to pile up your treasure. Divide your $75,000 goal by 48 and you come up with $1,562.50 a month.
Now it's time to get out your sword and start cutting those dragons down to size so you have the money you'll need. You're going to be ruthless in your slashing. The urge to spend will rear its ugly head: dinner out with friends or a quick pizza on the way home so you don't have to cook, along with the latest DVD, the broken iPod you have to replace and your sister's baby shower. You must battle through the smoke and fire of consumerism to not spend the money.
Having a picture of your citadel pasted on the fridge can help keep you focused. A picture in your wallet will be your shield against pulling out your plastic. Surround yourself with reminders of why you're not spending – what you're working towards – to help cut those dragons down to size.
Cutting expenses is only one strategy to increasing the contents of your treasure box. You might also want to take on some side jobs so that you have more money to sock away. Failing that, you might decide to buy a smaller castle or wait a little longer to make your dream come true.
Hey, it's your dream. You have to make it work. Just know, there are dragons in them thar hills!


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Chris was gone to Arkansas last month and thankfully he was home three weekends out of four - not bad! I have a friend whose husband has been gone since August and will not be home until December. She has a six year old and a one year old - now that would be tough. Anyway, Chris has today and tomorrow off and then he will head to OKC for a rotation. This will not be near as bad due to family being so close. I am sure Kate and I will spend lots of time down south this month. Today we made a trip to the zoo. Kate loves the zoo - I'm sure you get tired of me talking about the zoo! Daddy hasn't been with us on a zoo trip in a very long time, so we felt extra special today. Feather Fest is going on right now at the zoo, but Kate was not a fan. Feather Fest is an opportunity for people to feed the birds. They give you a stick with food on it and the birds fly to you and eat off of your stick. I won't lie, I was a little freaked out myself! Chris loved it of course and had four birds on him at one time - too much for me! I forgot my camera (for a second time), but I bought an $8 camera in the gift shop - rip off I know, but I had to capture the moments! So, after I get those developed I'll post some pictures - it really was pretty cool. Also, I'm going to fix my picture problem today and get everyone caught up to date on our fun and exciting life!
Monday, September 29, 2008
Fun with Daddy
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
YEAH - It's Done!
So, Chris and I sat down tonight and officially applied to nine pediatric residency programs. After a long, did I say long - application process of reading and re-reading and re-reading the same personal statement and CV information, Chris finally took the plunge and I didn't stop him by any means - I was wondering if it was actually real! The APPLY button finally was pressed - yeah for Chris.
Really, this has been a long process. Any of you that have been through it, know what I'm talking about. The application in itself takes a long time to fill out and then you must write a personal statement all while continuing your rotations! I am so proud of Chris and his achievements. I couldn't ask for a better husband or daddy for Kate and there are going to be lots of very fortunate little kiddos out there in a few years that get to see Dr. Robertson! (He diagnosed yet another ear infection of one of our friends little ones - not official yet, but it will be tomorrow after the little one goes to the doctor.)
The next step: waiting on interviews. We really hope to stay here in our town, but we know that God has His plans for us and we would never want to get in the way. We are praying for God to take us to the right place and hopefully that's right here, but we know that it might not be. Interviews will start in November and finish up in January. The match will take place in March (Chris is applying to allopathic programs) and then we'll know where we'll be for the next three years of residency - exciting and nervous all at the same time! Chris is thinking he wants to do a fellowship, so that will be an additional three years after residency - will this madness ever end???? Just kidding, I'm very excited and try to keep a positive attitude about our "adventure" - I know God has a plan for us!
We'll keep you updated on our progress through this last journey of medical school! I cannot believe how fast it has gone. All my friends said it would fly, but I didn't believe them and here we are - taking off!
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Poor pitiful me!
Okay, so this is kind of a feel sorry for me post! No really, I'm fine, but I'm being a bit lazy. If you've been reading my blog for a little while you know my luck with uploading pictures, etc. - not good. Anyway, a new problem has risen and I know I can fix it myself, but I just don't feel like it - I AM EXHAUSTED!!! Somehow the folder I was uploading to has two different names in my photo area and it caused a big to do!! I'll fix it soon, but no pictures until I get around to it I guess!
We had a great weekend with Chris home - went by way toooooooo fast! We changed our office to a playroom and I love it. All of Kate's toys have a home now. We decided the office was becoming a place to put junk that we really didn't need, so we are having a garage sale this weekend to get rid of it! We are in the process of switching our room around and finally hanging pictures (3 years later) - about time to do something in our bedroom. Don't they say your bedroom should be a sanctuary (I missed that part somewhere around the dirty laundry piles)!
Kate and I went to the zoo this morning and ran into a friend from church and met up with the SAA playgroup at 10:30. I am really excited that we have so many MSI's involved this year. There was a time that I thought SAA might be done at the end of last year, but God knew better. He has brought in lots of families this year and SAA is alive and strong - yeah!!
I guess I had more to say than I thought. Pray for my motivation - in turn you might get to see some pictures of my most beautiful girl ever KATE!
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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Chris is home!
Okay, so I haven't posted in a while, but I promise there will be new pictures soon and an update on our lives. Chris is home for the rest of the week - he took his Step 2 Boards today - urgh!! One more step closer to being a "real" doctor!! I am so proud of him!
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
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Monday, September 8, 2008
1st SAA playdate
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My little baker
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Grocery helper
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Labor Day Weekend/Week
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Kate the sticker queen
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Babies anyone????
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Sunday, September 7, 2008
So much to say...
Well, here we are staying busy as usual. I thought I would drop a note to catch you up on what's going on with the Robertson's. Chris is busy with a rotation away, but we are so glad to see him on the weekends!! Kate and I spent last week with my mom and dad and she got to hang out with her cousin Ava so much - she had a blast! Things are starting to get busy again for me, too. SAA is kicking off this week and MOPS will be starting on the 17th. I am so excited for all of the fall happenings! I would post pictures but they are still on the camera and I have an enormous headache - tension and stress I think. Anyway, Kate is in bed and I'm going to go read myself to sleep and RELAX!! I'll post pictures tomorrow, hopefully ; )
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I spent some time this week getting the kart ready and I'm two tiny parts away from having it completely ready to sell. I misplaced one of the motor mount bolts, and of course it's a size that I cannot find locally. And I need a throttle guide for the clutch cable on the motor itself. I mounted the seat, the motor, the steering wheel, and radiator hoses, so hopefully I can get it sold in the next week or two so I'll have room to work on the other karts.
I also got to take the kid kart to the trailer so get it out of the way. And tomorrow I'm scheduled to get my new exhaust installed on the truck, so that frees up some more space in the garage. I have a few more things to take to the trailer, too, to get enough room in the garage to be able to work on two karts at a time.
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Stick 'er where? July 24, 2007Posted by reverseengineer in Oddities, People, Wala lang.
Is there some unspoken rule, some commandment tacitly understood and obeyed by all Mac users that the best place to put your white Apple sticker is in the lower right corner of your car's rear window? Is this rule in fine print in the documentation that comes with the Mac that I didn't read but obey instinctively, like the lemming that I am? Has there been some whispered conspiracy passed down from user to user that I never got wind of but am following anyway by sheer unconscious impulse?
I just find it odd that I come across the white sticker on cars all the time, either on the left or the right lower corner of the back window (sometimes on the upper corners, but not too often), but when I ask the car owners why they put it there (theorizing that it's some secret code or practice of their particular MUG), they just say, nothing really, it just "felt" right.
I've put one on the same location on three or more cars that have passed through my hands – without being told. It looked particularly appropriate on my wife's all-white Honda Civic hatchback, although at the time she couldn't understand my partiality for Macs (she's since come around). I saw a friend at the car wash this weekend and it was in his Mazda's rear lower left corner, and when I asked him about it, he just shrugged. Looks nice there, he said. The Kool Aid has some subtle side effects, don't it?
Just curious, where do you guys put yours?
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I've been wanting to. But every time I got a Mac product, I somehow lost the stickers. At least, the next time I buy a mac, I know where to place the stickers. 😉


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So, there was no Ditmore this week after all, but I tried to look up the chapter anyway. I did not succeed, but I did find some information on what it is about. Ditmore is interested in sex trafficking and according to this source writes about organized groups of sex workers in India who work together to educate and empower other sex workers in their communities, and work internally to identify and help liberate trafficked persons in their brothels. Ditmore contrasts this with an approach from police usually involving raids. I found another report Ditmore wrote on this subject (police raids) in 2009 for the Sex Workers Project. I did not read the actual report (it's 74 pages long) but the executive summary seems to provide a good overview. One point she makes is extending the conception of "trafficking," popularly conceived of only in relation to sex work, to a broader range of types of work including domestic labor, agricultural labor, manufacturing, and service industries. This seems to provide an interesting lens to look at migratory labor, as mentioned at the end of the notes on Mazzadra, with respect also to Pugliese and talking about anti-voluntarism of migrants — is it useful to then utilize the lens of "trafficking" when talking about that?
At least in this report, Ditmore describes her proposed course of action as centering "the needs, agency, and self-determination of trafficking survivors." She doesn't specifically use language about affect here but I'm sure in the piece in The Affective Turn she puts a more definite affective spin on her particular moves; maybe she is changing the types of discourses she's utilizing based on her supposed audience for the different pieces? In any case, there is definitely still a lot here about providing affective support for sex workers and migrants in various ways, and fostering community-building.
Looking up what this piece was about made me think about a discussion some of us had earlier today (well, yesterday, now) while doing the readings. We were unconvinced by the moves/arguments being made by several of the authors about the positive biopolitical potential of affective labor, and how that would actually work. Without reading her actual piece, I wonder if maybe that is what Ditmore is trying to give an example of here? She's talking about using these affective methods of both support and community building in order to increase the power these sex workers have in protecting their own communities, which I suppose could be looked at as a positive biopolitical affective move. Thoughts?


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Some air travel information:
- You can take empty plastic bottles through security as there are plenty of drinking fountains where you can fill up your water bottles.
- Make sure there is more than the computer generated time between flights.
- Carry those emergency drugs in your handbag for easy finding if you need it! There is no point having them on board but having to search for them when you aren't in any state to do so.
- There are no immigration forms to fill in for France as there are for the USA, UK and New Zealand.
I was very pleased to arrive in Avignon as I had had a terrible couple of flights as first of all there was a toddler screaming on and off for 5 hours in the row I was in, and then I got sick just before arriving in San Francisco – It wasn't a bug or food poisoning but it had the same effect! Not at all nice. It may have been a form of migraine as I was so tired. Unfortunately I had not been able to buy the stuff I have taken with great success in the past – Flyhydrate – as I didn't realise they were only selling on line – if you are travelling it is definitely worth looking at their website. I used it for several trips in 2013 and 2014 and felt great and had no sleep problems (as I did this trip).
Then there was barely enough time to get to the Air France flight to Paris – immigration was slow as increased security meant slower queues. And now you have to give them all your fingerprints and one iris scan. However, once you have gone through immigration once on your ESTA, then it doesn't take so long and there is a different queue – unfortunately I was on my new passport and hadn't been into the US since I got it.
And then they wouldn't take my suitcase at the luggage drop off point. I had to take my suitcase and find the Air France check-in counter on the next floor up and check it in again, get new baggage tags and get another boarding pass. At this point it was time for the flight to start boarding and I still had to go through the security part of check in. And of course I had to take my laptop out, my shoes off, drink my water, etc and all this while feeling really horrible (but luckily not sick).
I managed to get to the gate in enough time to be in time for my boarding – they board by rows and I was not impressed to find that my seat was in the very last row (first for boarding but last to get off) and they don't go back very far! The only bonus was that I had no one behind me, no one across the aisle and I was close to the loo. But I won't be flying Air France again.
There were only 2 hrs 15 mins allowed for, and although in theory the airlines would have to put me on the next flight, that would have meant I would have lost my train booking and one night of my B&B accommodation along with all the hassle of claiming against insurance later, and communicating with the B&B! Next time I come to Europe I will fly through Asia or just do Air New Zealand all the way to London – I could have spent the night in London and then got the Eurostar from London to Avignon.
However, once we were in the air I was sick again and I was getting worried about becoming dehydrated so I called the steward. They found a doctor who prescribed me some lomotil (which worked) – they had it on board. Even if I had had some with me, I was too ill to have the energy to find it – so see the notes at the beginning.
I had 3 hours from the time the flight landed in Paris to the train leaving which was plenty of time – however, when you first arrive at the airport, you walk for miles, then get on a shuttle train, then walk a whole lot more to get to immigration, then you collect your bags as usual.
I got to the train station with an hour to spare and I was feeling slightly better by then. So I was able to change into my summer top and shoes – it was hot! The high speed train to Avignon was great – I had booked 1st class and I have never been so pleased to have done so. It took a bit over 3 hours. Something to note, in France on these high speed trains, the seat numbers are just above the single seats on the wall or between the double seats – it was not immediately obvious or intuitive! You find out what platform the train is leaving from 20 minutes before, then there is a mad rush for the platform.
When I arrived in Avignon I just got a taxi – at about 5 pm it was very hot (35 C +) and I definitely didn't have the energy or inclination to try to travel on the cheap. And it was a very reasonable price to be dropped at the door when I didn't have the first clue where I was going. It is all very well to have a map but I wouldn't have found the B&B (Le Limas) on my own.
My room was on the first floor and had 3 windows – see the photo above.
The room was lovely and just what I needed after the past 35-40 hours! Marion showed me over the B&B, and where the terrace was where breakfast was held – she was so welcoming and friendly and even washed and dried some stuff (including my travel pillow!) for me.
That evening I went out and found a small cafe-bar and had a tartine. For some reason when I saw the list of ingredients I thought I was getting a salad …
so I was slightly surprised when this pizza bread arrived – however, it was really yummy and just what I wanted. And it was only 8 Euro.
It wasn't as big as the photo makes it look – it was about 100 x 150 mm (4 x 6 inches).
Have a look at this link to the Google photos album, Avignon Day 1
More about Avignon in the previous post, and Day 2 is in the next post.