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Captain's log Stardate: 70019.8 (Aug 15th, 2013)
Ever since I watch the episode, I couldn't help thinking about it. Let alone drooling about it everytime I viewed the pictures (NO! NOT THAT!). It tempts me so much that I couldn't stand it any longer. I have been considering about cosplaying as one and soon, had finally decided to come to a conclusion. Yes, I will!!
It origin from this Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger. Or better known as Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger. The series were unlike any other Super Sentai series, cause this one was created as a parody that parodies all the long-running Super Sentai series. It tells the story of three people, also refer as Okatus due to their high volume of such interest. One man and two women, all living in the Akihabara district of Tokyo. They were chosen to fight a mysterious entity that swore to conquer Earth.
In the series, past rangers were called back. Their predecessors does play a big part into this, even though it was regard a parody. I believe most of you had heard or seen this hilarious Super Sentai. Yes, its way too damn funny in each episode shown. Just way too funny!
What caught me the most (and I believe caught others as well like a trap) was episode 5 in Season 2. Fans of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers will probably scream when they saw this episode.
Ok, long story short. The team met Tyranno and Dragon Ranger from Zyuranger. Soon realized that Zyuranger never really exist. Instead, they are the Red and Green Ranger from the American series Power Rangers, which Super Sentai was adapted from! Not exactly Power Rangers but "Powerful" Rangers. There's probably a good reason why they name it that way.
And also, we all know that Saban, the creator of Power Rangers had chosen Zyuranger as the 1st generation to be adapted into Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I think that's the whole plot for Toei company to goof up this 1st series of Power Rangers. Making it like as though this part of Super Sentai has never been existed and Power Rangers had it coming to clash between the two franchise. Like two worlds collides. How interesting! =D
And so, somewhere in this episode a timeline has been messed up. These two "Powerful" Rangers appeared to have an American flag banner warp around their neck. Even their belt, were American flag design. So that's why they claimed to be Made In America.
Can tell the difference?
"You think you can just take our American Powerful Rangers?"
In that episode, they indeed appeared badass. Too cocky. Big bullies! Those who have watched this episode knew how it goes along. Sure they speak Japanese. But acted in an American way. Not your typical Jason and Tommy though. Neither your typical Geki and Burai. So in turn, they appeared as Americanize Powerful Rangers to be exact.
Ok so cut to the chase. That's the whole point of why I am drooling about. By the looks of it, it doesn't look that complicated to custom made them. I had simply used foam and paper. Took me less than an hour to complete the whole process. Doesn't appeared that hard! =D
Now here come the exciting part. To suit it up with it!
So how do I look? Americanized isn't it? Hahaha! I'm totally satisfied by it!
I'm happy in the way how it had turned out. Finally accomplished it! Now I can finally cosplay as one. Can't wait to try it out for the next cosplay event! You guys should watch this episode, for those who haven't watch. You gonna love and adore it! =D


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Laramide will hit the ASX boards at 12.00pm EST on Tuesday 30th April 2013, and will have 73.3 million Chess Depositary Interests (CDI) on issue, at a ratio of 1 CDI representing 1 fully paid ordinary share. The recent prospectus offered up to 12 million CDI's at $0.85 to raise up to $10.2 million.
The Canadian company is engaged in the exploration and development of uranium assets based in Australia and the U.S., which includes its main asset of the wholly-owned Westmoreland Project, which is a sandstone-hosted conventional, open-cut deposit located in north-west Queensland near the Northern Territory border.
Laramide has spent over $30 million on Westmoreland since acquiring the project in 2005, which has expanded the work carried out by its former owner and advancing the project through a series of drilling campaigns, updated resource estimates, environmental studies and metallurgical studies. Westmoreland currently has a JORC Indicated Resource of 36 million pounds of uranium (U3O8) contained in 18.7 million tonnes at 0.089% U3O8, and a further Inferred Resource of 15.9 million pounds of U3O8 contained in 9.0 million tonnes at 0.083% U3O8.
A benefit for the project is that recent metallurgical test work demonstrated a uranium recovery rate of over 90% utilising conventional technologies. Other Australian interests for the company include being in three Northern Territory joint ventures that border Queensland.
These include the Murphy Tenement Farm-in and Joint Venture with Rio Tinto Exploration Pty Ltd on a number of tenements, situated geologically within the Murphy Uranium Province and along strike from Westmoreland. United States exposure Laramide's interests in the U.S. include La Jara Mesa in Grants, New Mexico and La Sal in the Lisbon Valley district of Utah, and are both at the permitting stage and exploration and development activities have included metallurgical testing, mine infrastructure and resource estimates.
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Is it or is it not a Pinterest fail??
The other day I saw the cutest Halloween sign which really spoke to me since I'm a Catholic religious education teacher. I posted it on my Facebook saying I need to make this now. Did I really think?
This is the sign:
After searching for other signs I saw this one on an Etsy site which is also cute:
I actually ordered the Holy Ghost sign with the dove but decided to try to make one myself. Wal-Mart just happened to have a chalkboard sign in the craft section which already had a rope for hanging. Yup, they had chalk, too.
Since I can't draw a dove I decided to go with a Sacred Heart and to use the word Spirit instead of Ghost. This is how it came out (The chalkboard is really catching the flash's glare):
A Facebook friend said the Sacred Heart looks like a turnip. Great. It's still hanging near the front door. 🙂
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Yesterday was the four month anniversary of NO DIALYSIS!!! Time is whipping by at an extortionate rate and we're still waiting for an appointment to come through for the hernia operation. Blokey has suggested dates; we just need the surgeon to confirm one of them.
The operation will involve a four or five day stay in hospital and there's only a 30-40% chance that it will be successful. If it happens again the surgeons will probably refuse to operate again because the chances of it happening again will then be even higher. To say that Blokey is a tad irked would be a very big understatement. If they hadn't insisted it was just a collection of fluid this could have been rectified sooner, the tear wouldn't have become as large as the incision made to insert Our Kidney and Blokey would be enjoying life a little more.
Yes, we shouldn't grumble. He's alive, Our Kidney is behaving marvellously and there are many oodles of billions of folk in the world who have shittier lives than Blokey. But this is OUR life, and we expected it (if the transplant was successful) to be an even better life that it currently is.
I am not a haemoD widow anymore … I am simply a Star Wars: Republic widow instead. He's still playing it; shouldn't he be a little bored by now or do men not get bored of their online games?
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It's written in the Cloud
Can you even remember a time when you were doing business without the use of email? More often than not these days, email is coming to businesses from a variety of providers, but typically from the cloud. That's not to say that every cloud provider is the right one for your business and how you want to use email. Below are 4 key points to keep in mind if you are thinking about changing your email provider.
- What's their experience level? The skills involved in setting up accounts, migrating customer data, support, maintaining the data centers and infrastructure or enabling mobile users is not something you want to take lightly. Make sure the provider you are considering is well versed in all of these areas.
- How do you offer customer support? A lot of providers say they have 24×7 support services, but who are you getting on the phone? Are you talking to an outsourced service or is it a Microsoft-certified tech? You want to make sure you are getting the best available.
- Are there other hosted services that you offer that could be integrated into the email offering? If you are using multiple cloud apps, you may already know how difficult it can be to get them all working together. Ask your potential provider what services they offer in addition to email so you can have a full picture of what's available to you for a more streamlined approach to the cloud.
- What's in my contract? You want to make sure you are clear about whether any migration or onboarding services will be included or will those be extra, the same for support. What if you need to add additional administrators? You want to understand all the ins and outs so there are no overlooked costs and no surprises later.


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HGTV Smart Home Sweepstakes 2018: Entry Tips and How-Tos (Expired)
Win a Home, Cash, and a Mercedes Benz Car Totaling Over $1.5 Million
Note: This sweepstakes has expired, but you can find many sweepstakes with similar prizes on the House and Garden Sweepstakes List.
HGTV's Smart Home Sweepstakes is back for 2018! For the sixth year in a row, HGTV has built a house just brimming with technology to help its owners be safer, conserve energy, save money, and have more fun... and then they're giving that home away. With a little bit of luck and some time spent entering, you could be the winner of this amazing home.
If you don't want to take possession of this Bluffton, South Carolina house, you can also take a cash option making your prize worth about $749,999.
Are you ready to be the lucky winner of the 2018 Smart Home? Here's what you need to know to see if you're eligible and to maximize your odds of winning. Good luck!This sweepstakes has expired.
Sweepstakes Links:
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- Sweepstakes Rules: http://www.hgtv.com/design/hgtv-smart-home/sweepstakes/rules
- Sweepstakes Homepage: http://www.hgtv.com/
Car Sweepstakes, Cash Sweepstakes, House & Garden Sweepstakes, Mail-in Sweepstakes, Mega Sweepstakes, Daily Sweepstakes
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Grand Prize: The 2018 HGTV Smart Home built in Bluffton, South Carolina, including furnishings and artwork, $100,000 cash, and a 2018 Mercedes-Benz GLC 350e 4MATIC Plug-in-Hybrid vehicle.
The winner can also choose a cash option of $600,000 instead of the home, and still receive the furnishings, the $100,000, and the vehicle. (ARV: $1,632,985 or $749,999)
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Online, you can enter twice daily, once through the HGTV website and once through the DIY Smart Home Sweepstakes website.
You can also use the alternate entry method to enter as often as you like by mail. See Should I Enter Online Sweepstakes Online and by Mail for the pros and cons of maximizing your entries by mail.
The 2018 HGTV Smart Home winner will be chosen around June 19, 2017 by the sweepstakes administrator, Ritway. The winner will be notified between June 27th and July 12th, 2018.
The winner may also be required to attend a winner's weekend at the home scheduled for July 13th through 15th, 2018.
Are you worried that you couldn't afford the taxes on such a huge prize? You don't need to be. See Could Taxes Spell the End of the Dream for HGTV Winners? for more information.


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Largely credited as the filmmaker who defined horror's subgenre of zombie flicks with his classic trilogy of
Night of the Living Dead
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Day of the Dead
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The opportunistic Kaufman (Dennis Hopper) oversees Fiddler's Green, a secluded community where society's elite live in obscene luxury high above the less fortunate, who wallow in poverty and hopelessness. When Kaufman backstabs the equally opportunistic Cholo (John Leguizamo), his artificial paradise is threatened, and he must resort to enlisting the help of Cholo's former colleague, Riley (Simon Baker).
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MEDIA: Did you feel a certain pressure in being part of the franchise that defined the subgenre of zombie movies?
SIMON: I felt the pressure for George. I didn't feel that much pressure. I thought that it was very much due, you know? It was really the right time to make another one. Almost overdue. I think the most important thing for me, with my character, is tapping into what these zombies are and where they fit in--and that's sort of the moral compass thing. The most important thing was just to try to find the truth in that for George.
What particular character elements did you want to bring to your role?
I thought straight away, if you make him essentially, at his core, a pacifist, then there's automatically a conflict with him. So I just play around with that idea. Then he's also a guy that is kind of the leader. But then if you make the guy somewhat anti-social, then he's a leader that has people with him that doesn't want to be responsible for the people. There's another conflict. They're not obvious conflicts. He doesn't want money. He doesn't want the more obvious things that Dennis' character wants. He's trying to work himself out. It's more of an internal conflict.
Having been behind the scenes of this movie, are you still able to be shocked or scared by it as a viewer?
It's funny...I'm not very vocal when I watch films generally. The most laugh you'll get out of me is like "hmmm..." That's it. But I found myself, at a few of the moments, moaning and groaning very loudly, and then afterwards laughing because I loved the fact that it was able to make me do that. I watched it again last night with an audience, and yeah, still those moments shock me. I even know when they're coming now, but they still shock me and scare me. There's some very precious gore moments in there. I know that George has been up in Canada working on an unrated cut, which is gonna be crazy. [laughs]
Like George's other zombie movies, this one makes a few comments on contemporary society. In your opinion, what is this film really about?
Well, I think if you ask all of us that question, we'd all have pretty different answers. For me, stuff that I thought about a lot was the idea of making decisions on your own and not being told, or believing, the propaganda. You've got to understand, the time we were shooting this, the US presidential election was taking place. It was just so hard for anyone to have their own idea or their own opinion without being influenced by the publicity machines of each of the parties, the spin of someone's opinion in the newspaper or CNN. The whole thing is not targeted for the individual to make up his own mind. Everyone's being influenced by different things. So that was a major thing for me because my character tends to want to go against the grain and say, "I'm trying to work out what I think." That was kind of what it was about for me.
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Northeast Nebraskans will soon be able to get into the seasonal mood as the Northeast Community College music department hosts its annual Holiday Concert. The event will be held Sunday, December 9th at 2 p.m. in the Cox Activities Center Theatre on the Norfolk campus. The Northeast College Community ...


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U nderstanding the Adobe Flash CS3 Pro Environment. It is important that as a beginning student, you spend time exploring the numerous options and methods they have within Flash to perform tasks such as "zooming", "viewing a timeline", and "changing frames per second". (12fps is the default).But, let's start with the real basics:
Flash Files: The files you save in Flash have a .FLA extension added to them, which can only be opened in Flash. Another note, any file you create in Flash CS3, the most current version, can not be opened in Flash 8 or any former version for editing; however, you can certainly do the reverse. A later version of Flash can always open a former version.
Flash Player: In order to view a Flash movie (.SWF file or Shock Wave Flash), you will need a Flash Player to decompress the file that Flash compressed for the Web. A Flash Player comes with all the important Web Browsers, however, if you create a file in Flash CS3, the visitor to your site might not have the most current player. Therefore, Flash will request that they download the newest player, which is free and only takes a few seconds to do.
The Stage: The Stage contains all of the objects that are part of the movie that will be seen by your viewers. You can resize the stage and change the background color applied to it. You can draw objects on or import objects to the Stage, and then edit and animate them.
The Timeline: The Timeline is used to organize and control the movie's contents by specifying when each object appears on the Stage. The Timeline is critical to the creation of movies, because a movie is merely a series of still images that appear over time. The images are contained within Frames, which are chapters of the Timeline. Consider Flash frames much the same as motion picture frames. The Timeline indicates where you are at any time within the movie and allows you to insert, delete, select, and move frames.
The Panels: The panels are used to view, organize, and modify objects and features in a movie. The Property Inspector is context sensitive so that if you are working with text it displays the appropriate options, such as font and font size. You can control which panels are displayed individually or you can choose to display panel sets. Panel sets are groups of the most commonly used panels.
The Tools Panel: The Tools panel contains a set of tools used to draw and edit graphics and text. It is divided into four sections:
Tools: Includes draw, paint, text, and selection tools.
View: Includes the Zoom tool and the Hand tool for panning the Stage window.
Colors: Includes tools and icons used to change the stroke and fill colors.
Options: Includes options for selected tools, such as brush size
You should examine all of the individual panels, such as the Properties Inspector panel, Toolbox, Zoom controls, and Color mixer panels, and how you might want to use them, as well as arrange the panels around the Stage to be productive for you.
O pen a document and play a movie
Flash allows users to essentially playback a movie in 2 separate ways; 1) within the FLA environment. 2) Tested out as a SWF (Shock Wave Flash) movie. And there are some benefits and disadvantages to each method.
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If you are unable to access the Effects panel it might be because your shape has not yet been declared an "object". Using the Selection arrow tool, select the shape on the Stage by dragging a selection marquis around it, and then declare it as a symbol; Insert > New Symbol or [F8]. Give the shape a name and then save the symbol as a graphic. The shape on the stage has now been declared as a "graphic object", and will be able to be affected by the Effect panel in the Properties Inspector for Tweening as an example.
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Like most other objects in Flash, Text too can be animated, as long as you understand that the entire text block will be animated together.
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While it may seem at first glance that the mentee is the main beneficiary of a mentoring relationship, it is a two-way street.
While it may seem at first glance that the mentee is the main beneficiary of a mentoring relationship, it is a two-way street. Being mentored by a colleague or superior in their organization helps keep employees informed about the best ways to handle their current cultural situation and provide a feeling of safety and support, which leads to higher morale. However, mentors also benefit from mentoring relationships.
Being a mentor enhances self-determination, which makes mentors feel empowered over their career, leads to personal engagement, and heightens feeling of competence and confidence. Mentors gain validation and satisfaction from applying their experience, strengthening their own influence and social capital, gaining support within the organization, and also building their own succession, which enables their own career development. Other intangible benefits to mentors are promulgating the perception of good judgment, reputation and credibility with peers and superiors.
But it is not just feelings of confidence and security that mentoring generates; it also boosts performance. Managers tend to be rated as better performers when they provide career-related mentoring to their direct reports. Because high performers require attention in order to feel valued and establish a feeling of loyalty to the organization, leaders and potential mentors should note the tendency of high performers (an average of 15 to 20 percent of the workforce) to demand more mentoring and coaching than steady performers (around 70 percent of the workforce).
Mentors are an integral part of an employee's development, and companies that support mentoring reap the rewards of a more engaged and savvy employee base.
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It's been a bit up and down for me lately. Nothing too stressful, but I can't seem to find any kind of balance between feeling pretty good and feeling a bit flat.
I can have a really great few days, and then in the flick of a switch, it all heads downhill. Not in a super bad, with drastic circumstances, kinda way. More like a seriously frustrating, losing my temper, new-stuff-I-don't-know-how-to-deal-with, kinda way.
I'm pretty sure Ava starting school has something to do with it, as her new found 'Preptitude' has hit our house (in a big way!). I touched on my learnings from Term 1 in last week's post.
Suddenly she has developed a whole new set of ways to push the boundaries, AND my buttons. Sometimes I can manage it and other days, it sends me in a tailspin. I know I shouldn't react, but she just keeps pushing and pushing! And yes, I'm the adult. But geez it's hard when your small person is standing there with her hands on hips, cocking her head, rolling her eyes and being a total brat!
There's small comfort in knowing I'm not alone. A lot of the other parents (at school) are feeling my pain, and this newfound behaviour seems not uncommon. We are all having the same issues and it's the number one topic of conversation at drop off and pick up.
For the most part, Ava is really enjoying school, but the tiredness is overwhelming. We used to have Fridays off together, and it was great to kick start our weekend with a pretty leisurely 'girls' day. I know she misses it, and I do too. And now, by Friday she's exhausted and she has to get through another day of school. I feel tired for her, just thinking about it.
And she is yet to understand that cycle of starting all over again. She graduated from kinder and then she had to start over (at the bottom, so to speak). Just like when the end of Grade 6 rolls around, and then end of Year 12. With each graduation, comes new (and sometimes scary and overwhelming) adventures. I very much remember that pressure of having to start again, it was always daunting.
Back to my girl, who really is a gorgeous little lady and mostly, very well behaved. But she's a sensitive little soul, and I need to be able to nurture that. I'm not afraid to say, that I'm not doing the best job of it right now.
So with the end of Term 1 approaching, I'm planning on doing some research and reading over the school holidays. It's super important to me to manage my own behaviour, so I can better support Ava through this challenging time.
If you have any good resources, I'd love to hear from you.
Thanks for reading.
L xo
PS – Here's one from the vault. I still can't believe my Mum kept some of these, and it's so great to be able to share with Ava.


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Corn futures are showing fractional to 1 cent gains in most contracts at midday. This morning's Export Sales report showed old crop sales totaling 6.056 MMT in the weeks ending Jan 10-Feb 14. That was an average weekly sale of 1.009 MMT, and 42% behind last year. New crop sales were 29,170 MT. The lead buyer of corn in that time frame was Mexico at 1.427 MMT, with Japan at 1.349 MMT. USDA released more forecasts for 19/20 at this morning's Ag Outlook Forum, showing carry out at 1.65 mbu, down 85 mbu from this year's projection. The Grains Crushing report for December will be released this afternoon.
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Soybean Market News and Commentary
Soybean futures are up 1 to 2 cents in most contracts on Friday. Meal futures are UNCH in the nearby contract, with soy oil 2 points lower. Export sales of old crop soybeans in the weeks of Jan 10-Feb 14 were tallied at 6.532 MMT, with a weekly average of 1.089 MMT. That was on the lower end of estimates, but more than double the same six-week total in 2018! China purchased a majority of the total at 3.923 MMT, with Egypt buying 602,500 MT. The average trade estimate ahead of this afternoon's Fats & Oils report called for 182.5 mbu of soybeans crushed in December. A preliminary estimate for the 2019/20 soybean S&D table shows ending stocks at 845 mbu, which would be down from the current 910 mbu 18/19 projection.
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Wheat futures are trading steady to 5 cents higher in the winter wheat contracts, with MPLS the leader to the upside, up 9 to 15 cents. The now up to date Export Sale report from this morning indicated that a total of 3.575 MMT of all old crop wheat was sold in the weeks of 1/10-2/14. At a weekly average of 595,801 MT, that was above the range of estimates and 87.9% larger than the same six weeks last year. Nigeria was the top buyer of 444,400 MT, with unknown purchasing 400,600 MT. New crop sales totaled 244,090 MT in that timeframe. At the USDA Ag Outlook Forum, a preliminary estimate of 944 mbu of wheat was shown for 19/20 ending stocks, down 66 mbu from the current 18/19 projection.
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Live cattle futures are steady to 85 cents higher in most nearby contracts on Friday. Feeder cattle futures are mixed, with front months 22.5 to 25 cents lower. The CME feeder cattle index was up a penny on February 20 at $141.11. Wholesale boxed beef prices were lower on Friday morning, widening the Ch/Select spread to $7.20. Choice boxes were up $1.32 at $219.39 with Select 78 cents higher at $212.19. USDA estimated the WTD FI cattle slaughter at 436,000 head through Thursday. That was down 23,000 head from last week and 8,000 lower than the same week last year. The delayed January Cattle on Feed report will be released this afternoon, with Jan on feed estimated 2.2% larger yr/yr. Cash cattle bids are being shown around $123 and $202 so far on Friday. Asks are still around $128 and $205-207. Export sales of beef in the six weeks ending on Feb 14 totaled 90,100 MT, which is an average of 15,017 MT per week.
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Lean Hog futures are mixed on Friday, with front months steady to 42.5 cents lower and back months slightly higher. The CME Lean Hog Index was down 7 cents from the previous day @ $54.06 on February 20. The USDA pork carcass cutout value was down 2 cents on Friday morning at an average weighted price of $61.21. The national base cash hog carcass value was down 90 cents in the AM report, with a weighted average of $47.24. USDA estimated weekly FI hog slaughter at 1.890 million head through Thursday. That was up 59,000 head from the previous week and 91,000 above the same week last year. Accumulated pork export sales for the weeks of 1/10-2/14 were at 122,900 MT, averaging 20,483 MT/week. China was both buying and shipping.
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Cotton futures are mixed at midday, with nearby March down 19 points and October up 80 points on thin trade. The Cotlook A Index was UNCH on February 21 to 80.30 cents/lb. The USDA Adjusted World Price was updated to 61.80 cents/ lb on Thursday, down 47 points from the previous week. The Export Sales report showed all old crop upland cotton bookings of 977,144 RB in the weeks of 1/10-2/14. That averaged 162,857 RB per week and was 46.09% shy of the same time frame in 2018. Turkey was the top buyer of 352,800 RB, with China cancelling a net 28,100 RB. There were 161,392 RBs in new crop sales, with 85,600 RB sold to China. The USDA released preliminary forecasts for 19/20 cotton numbers, showing production at 22.5 million bales and a carryout rising 2 million bales to a burdensome 6.3 million.
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Businesses pinned their colours to the mast this month with many using social media to applaud the US Supreme Court's ruling that same-sex marriage is legal under the constitution.
The past year marked a significant improvement in the lives of many LGBT employees and in the representation of their community at the highest echelons, with Apple's Tim Cook becoming the first openly gay person to head a Fortune 500 company.
Today we invite nominations for Outstanding and the FT's Leading LGBT and Ally Executives 2015, with rankings to be published in October.
Mr Cook is likely to be high on the list but there are other spots to fill, including the 30 top allies of the LGBT community.
To nominate yourself or someone else, go to www.out-standing.org/nominations. The deadline is September 17.
Despite recent advances, LGBT rights are still far from assured in many workplaces. A 2011 Harvard university study showed that revealing you are part of the LGBT community on your CV significantly cuts your chances of an interview. It is little wonder that more than half of LGBT employees hide their sexuality at work, according to a Human Rights Campaign report.
According to Suki Sandhu, founder of Outstanding, the not-for-profit LGBT network group: "It needs to be explicitly demonstrated that LGBT people are thriving at all levels in an organisation. It is fair to say that there is a way to go."
Showcasing business leaders who are out and proud makes it easier for employees to be open about their sexuality. This should help to nudge reluctant businesses towards creating a more inclusive culture and to recognise that it is in their business interest to do so.
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Undergraduate Association Goals, Fall 2006
Undergraduate Association Goals, Fall 2006
This is the mid-semester update for the Undergraduate Association's Fall 2006 goals. The Tech will evaluate the success of the committees at the end of the semester.
* Goals were either modified or added since the first publication of the UA goals on Sept. 19, 2006
This is the mid-semester update for the Undergraduate Association's Fall 2006 goals. The Tech will evaluate the success of the committees at the end of the semester.
* Goals were either modified or added since the first publication of the UA goals on Sept. 19, 2006
|UA Committee
|Goals for Fall 2006
|Executive Committee
|Construct a new Web site with interactive features (votes, polls, and forums) to help the UA to better gauge student opinions.
|A student Web designer has been found, and a skeletal Web site (http://scripts.mit.edu/~ua/drupal) is already running that has the capability to host votes, polls, and forums, but additional features and pages are needed before it formally goes online.
|Create email@example.com, an optional list for all undergraduates to disseminate information regarding pressing campus issues that could have an effect on student life.
|The committee has spoken to Information, Services & Technology and discovered technical hurdles to establishing an undergrads list permitting unsubscriptions. Efforts are continuing.
|Work more closely with Institute and faculty committee representatives to ensure that the UA has the pulse of the faculty and the administration.
|A forum with all committee representatives will be held in late November followed by a banquet in early December for all committee representatives and faculty committee chairmen.
|Increase the level of competition for Senate seats and improving voter turnout for all UA elections.
|Voter turnout actually decreased compared to last fall: 1,160 votes decreased to 1,083.
|Cultivate a stronger relationship with campus media outlets, including weekly or bi-weekly UA Q&A interviews.
|The Tech and the UA have produced weekly Q&As as well as this mid-term goals checklist.
|Focus resource development efforts on finding sponsors for undergraduate student groups and activities.
|A number of companies have been contacted, but no plans have been finalized. Care is being taken to push this in an amenable and unobtrusive direction.
|* Evaluate the MIT Cable offerings and recommend changes as necessary.
|Discovery Channel has already replaced MIT Weather When You Want It. Comedy Central, Sci-Fi, and MTV are scheduled to replace Bloomberg, C-SPAN2, and mtvU in January 2007.
|Committee on Athletics
|Examine Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation managerial infrastructure to seek ways of improving its operation efficiency and cost effectiveness.
|Since 2001, DAPER has outsourced the management of its facility to Health Fitness Corporation, a provider of fitness management service with more than 400 fitness centers across North America. The committee is preparing to submit a report before the end of the term on the status of HFC's operations, its relationship with DAPER, and its current role within the MIT community six years since it began its service.
|Organize sports tournaments to foster and increase student participation in athletics on campus.
|The committee is contacting various club basketball teams from other colleges in Massachusetts to invite them to MIT for a basketball tournament. The committee hopes to hold the event during the Independent Activities Period..
|* Implement student input and suggestions regarding DAPER operations and facilities.
|The committee is currently working with the UA Executive Committee to assess the proposal to slightly increase the Student Life Fee so that DAPER will have more money to provide better services, facilities, and programs for the MIT community.
|Committee on Campus Sustainability
|Establish MIT as a global leader in the realm of sustainability by drawing from all schools and departments.
|Establish a self-sustaining grant with 20 $25,000 amounts for release in Spring 2007.
|Create a proposal for a built environment which generates energy, processes waste, demonstrates new innovative building technologies, supports a vibrant learning community, and lays down a path for structure retrofit.
|Complete design of three CAD models, one of the new graduate dormitory, one of the proposed Energy Research Council center, and one of a radical think-and-do tank to demonstrate prototype technologies. Beginning audit of all buildings on campus, and putting green roofs on at least one building by Summer 2007.
|Investigate how MIT uses capital on campus, and evaluate how financing for sustainability initiatives might best be located, locked in, and used effectively.
|Beginning relationship with MIT endowment office to investigate how the endowment is invested and whether on-campus rates of return might be high enough to justify local investment.
|Investigate and report on MIT's ecology and use of consumables for community and research use.
|Establishing protocol for a 90 percent decrease in energy and materials for research and a 25 percent reduction in cost for community consumables.
|Work to make the average MIT undergraduate a more aware, compassionate and wise global citizen.
|This is met by the self-sustaining grant mentioned above.
|Committee on Dining
|Work with Campus Dining to promote a student survey to help fill the remaining storefronts in Lobdell Food Court.
|The survey went out and was well received.
|Continue to work to improve late-night dining options on campus.
|When Subway opens, it will stay open until 11 p.m. weeknights. More work remains to be done regarding dormitory dining hours.
|Organize a joint event with the Graduate Student Council to publicize the diversity of dining options on campus.
|Tentative discussions have taken place with the Graduate Student Council and Dining for an event to take place early next semester after the opening of Subway and Au Bon Pain.
|Continue to explore increased breakfast options on campus.
|The success of Jamba Juice in the Dining Survey is a step in the right direction but more work remains to be done.
|Student Committee on Educational Policy
|Draft an advisory report compiling undergraduate feedback regarding the recommendations of the Task Force on the Undergraduate Educational Commons.
|The committee is working with the Student Advisory Committee on the recommendations of the Task Force. After a town hall meeting a few weeks ago was held to collect student feedback, an online survey was just released to collect more quantitative data. The current plan is to write a student report over IAP.
|Work with the faculty to increase awareness of term regulations and resolve violations.
|The committee has been in contact with faculty over violations received through the SCEP Web site (http://web.mit.edu/ua/www/committees/scep/termregs/report-violation.shtml), and all of them have been resolved.
|Work with faculty and administrators to demonstrably improve undergraduate advising.
|The committee has incorporated feedback received from faculty on a brochure the committee created titled "How to Get Advice." It will serve as a resource for all students on how to make the most of their advisors. The brochure is going to be printed by the end of the term so that it can be distributed at the beginning of the spring term.
|Create a "Guide to Educational Policy at MIT" for incoming freshmen.
|The committee has compiled information for the brochure, including term regulations, reporting violations, and educational resources. The brochure is currently being laid out and the plan is to print it by the end of the term so that it can be distributed at the beginning of the spring term.
|Committee on Housing
|Ensure significant student input and involvement in the transition of Ashdown House to an undergraduate dormitory.
|The committee is currently looking for speakers for an Ashdown forum. Interested parties should e-mail email@example.com.
|Provide for student involvement in the decision-making process regarding undergraduate dormitory renovations and "swing" housing.
|The issue is currently under consideration by the committee. A rough version of the committee's position will be included in the committee's December report.
|Investigate the needs and the future of cultural houses at MIT and how they integrate with other elements of the housing system.
|The committee is debating upon the Review on Cultural Houses unveiled by the Housing Strategy Group in November and will present its opinions in December.
|Publish reports regarding the committee's opinion on important housing issues at least twice a term.
|Input-a-palooza! housing survey is being used as a diagnostic tool and raw data for the committee's report. The first draft of the report will be out in December, and the full report will be completed sometime in the spring.
|Investigate the practicability of returning full telephone service to dormitories.
|The issue was included in the Input-a-palooza! survey and will be addressed in accordance with what the majority seem to prefer.
|Committee on Orientation
|Work with the Office of Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming and Student Life Orientation Planning committees to better showcase undergraduate student activities to incoming freshmen.
|The meetings to plan the Orientation schedule for next term have not begun yet. The committee will send a member to the preliminary fall meetings and also to the SLOPE Orientation planning committee. In the meantime, the committee has compiled a report on Orientation documenting important student issues.
|Work to make the UA-supported Tuesday Night State Center "T-Party" a recurring event, clarifying how the Association of Student Activities restrictions on advertising apply to this event.
|Committee member Erik D. Fogg '09 has volunteered to lead this effort. The UA Report on Orientation has sections dealing with the importance of student groups.
|Investigate the rescheduling of the Mathematics Diagnostic Test to Orientation Week; if necessary, work to reschedule the exam to a more amenable time slot.
|The committee has spoken to Physics Professor Thomas J. Greytak who explained that a significant difference was observed between the test's score distributions on years when the test was taken by mail over the summer and years when the test was taken during Orientation. The Physics Department has said it is interested in working to schedule the test at an amenable time during Orientation but has said that the exam will probably not revert to its former summer mailing.
|Work to support the Virtual CPW project to help admitted students get a better idea of the strength of MIT student life even if they are unable to attend Campus Preview Weekend.
|Committee member Valery K. Brobbey '08 (also a Tech staff reporter), who worked on Virtual CPW last year, is leading the effort again this year. Getting Virtual CPW recognized as a student group is currently under consideration.
|Perform annual post-Orientation feedback sessions to identify the best and worst elements of the orientation experience from the freshmen who went through it.
|The committee conducted a freshman survey visitng five dormitories from Oct. 9–12. The following week an online upperclassmen survey was conducted. Results were tabulated and, together with statistics from the Department of Housing's earlier surveys, a UA Report on Orientation was written. The report was approved at the most recent UA Senate meeting.
|Committee on Student Life
|Promote, staff, and administer the new Undergraduate Mentorship Program.
|The Undergraduate Mentorship Program is underway as planned. The committee is getting feedback from the mentor pairs and is handling problems that arise.
|Investigate and draft a report in response to student complaints regarding MIT Medical quality of service.
|The committee is currently gathering data through multiple surveys and drafting a report that will be available by the end of the semester.
|Committee on Student Space Planning
|Conduct an inventory of existing student spaces on campus, analyze their strengths and deficiencies, and present this information on the committee Web site.
|The committee will be doing most of the legwork in building this inventory duirng November and will launch the Web site in December.
|Invite feedback from the student body on the need for new spaces or improvements that can be made to existing spaces utilizing surveys, public meetings, and Web forums.
|The committee polled the student body on the future of the Student Center game room and proposals for Student Center expansion in the DormStorm survey. These projects will be brought to the UA Senate for review.
|Develop a vision for the long-term future of the campus, and build relationships with the MIT Department of Facilities, the administration, and other key players in forming the new campus.
|The committee has met with Philip J. Walsh, director of the Campus Activities Complex, to discuss upcoming projects that relate to student activity space and will be helping to select artwork to place in the Building 10 Community Lounge and the Student Center's fifth floor Reading Room.
|Produce an official report of all the above findings for public access.
|This will be available at the end of spring term and will review all of the committee's activities from the year.
|Finance Board
|Improve communication between groups and liaisons (including regular Finboard Office Hours).
|Office hours were held last week. http://web.mit.edu/finboard/www.
|Improve overall allocation usage by better leveraging past data and spending trends.
|FinBoard is incorporating previous spending trends on allocations, which has helped identify underspenders and has reduced publicity and printing allocations.
|Provide for a longer institutional memory span by making previous usage statistics more accessible.
|A new liaison page for future FinBoard members has been added. Members can have access to information we post for internal use.
|Investigate the creation of a capital start-up fund for new groups.
|Applications are currently out and are due Nov. 22. They will be addressed IAP and Spring 2007 allocations.
|Nominations Committee
|Improve communication with advocates so that, if there is a problem, the committee is always in the know.
|Starting in December, regular forums will be held to improve communication with advocates. Blog updates will also keep advocates informed.
|Train student advocates and utilize an improved Web site to track issues being discussed among the various Institute and faculty committees.
|A blog that is part of the new UA Web site has been set up that will be coming online soon before the rest of the site does.
|Throw an advocate banquet to increase communication between faculty and advocates.
|The banquet will be held Dec. 1.
Source: Undergraduate Association and UA Vice President Ruth Miller '07


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Many people who are in the market for auto loans are somehow under the impression that the price of these auto loans are declining. They probably think that because the market is below where it should be auto loans are being offered up by companies at insanely low rates. The truth is that such a thing is not happening. Regardless of how low the economy goes and how many auto loans companies may shut down there is a certain level of interest below no auto loans company can go. This level has been set by the government for good reason.
Now even though the rates of auto loans do fluctuate quite a bit over the course of a decade this is probably the best time to get auto loans. I wouldn't advise that you sit around and wait for the rates to lower any further because it probably won't happen if anything the rates of auto loans is only going to rise along with other aspects of credit in the United States.
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text: Humanities History & Culture The Biography of Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806) Share Flipboard Email Print Stock Montage / Getty Images History & Culture Inventions Famous Inventors Basics Famous Inventions Patents & Trademarks Timelines Computers & Internet American History African American History African History Ancient History & Culture Asian History European History Family History & Genealogy Latin American History Medieval & Renaissance History Military History The 20th Century Women's History View More by Mary Bellis Mary Bellis, known by some as CalmX, was an experimental artist, film director and producer, video game content creator, and freelance writer for some 18 years. She specialized in writing about inventors and inventions, in particular. Bellis died in March 2015. Updated February 06, 2019 Benjamin Banneker was a self-educated scientist, astronomer, inventor, writer, and antislavery publicist. He built a striking clock entirely from wood, published a Farmers' Almanac, and actively campaigned against slavery. He was one of the first African Americans to gain distinction in science. Family Background On November 9, 1731, Benjamin Banneker was born in Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. He was the descendant of slaves, however, Banneker was born a free man. At that time the law dictated that if your mother was a slave then you were a slave, and if she was a free woman then you were a free person. Banneker's grandmother, Molly Walsh was a bi-racial English immigrant and indentured servant who married an African slave named Banna Ka, who had been brought to the Colonies by a slave trader. Molly had served seven years as an indentured servant before she acquired and worked on her own small farm. Molly Walsh purchased her future husband Banna Ka and another African to work on her farm. The name Banna Ka was later changed to Bannaky and then changed to Banneker. Benjamin's mother Mary Banneker was born free. Benjamin's father Rodger was a former slave who had bought his own freedom before marrying Mary. Education and Skills Benjamin Banneker was educated by Quakers, however, most of his education was self-taught. He quickly revealed to the world his inventive nature and first achieved national acclaim for his scientific work in the 1791 survey of the Federal Territory (now Washington, D.C.). In 1753, he built one of the first watches made in America, a wooden pocket watch. Twenty years later, Banneker began making astronomical calculations that enabled him to successfully forecast a 1789 solar eclipse. His estimate made well in advance of the celestial event, contradicted predictions of better-known mathematicians and astronomers. Banneker's mechanical and mathematical abilities impressed many, including Thomas Jefferson who encountered Banneker after George Elliot had recommended him for the surveying team that laid out Washington D.C. Farmers' Almanacs Banneker is best known for his six annual Farmers' Almanacs published between 1792 and 1797. In his free time, Banneker began compiling the Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac and Ephemeris. The almanacs included information on medicines and medical treatment, and listed tides, astronomical information, and eclipses, all calculated by Banneker himself. Letter to Thomas Jefferson On August 19, 1791, Banneker sent a copy of his first almanac to the secretary of state Thomas Jefferson. In an enclosed letter, he questioned the slaveholder's sincerity as a "friend to liberty." He urged Jefferson to help get rid of "absurd and false ideas" that one race is superior to another. He wished Jefferson's sentiments to be the same as his, that "one Universal Father . . . afforded us all the same sensations and endowed us all with the same faculties." Jefferson responded with praise for Banneker's accomplishments. Benjamin Banneker died on October 25, 1806. Benjamin Banneker's Letter to Thomas Jefferson Maryland, Baltimore County, August 19, 1791 Sir,I am fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom, which I take with you on the present occasion ; a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and dignified station in which you stand, and the almost general prejudice and prepossession, which is so prevalent in the world against those of my complexion. I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world ; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt ; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments. Sir, I hope I may safely admit, in consequence of that report which hath reached me, that you are a man far less inflexible in sentiments of this nature, than many others ; that you are measurably friendly, and well disposed towards us ; and that you are willing and ready to lend your aid and assistance to our relief, from those many distresses, and numerous calamities, to which we are reduced. Now Sir, if this is founded in truth, I apprehend you will embrace every opportunity, to eradicate that train of absurd and false ideas and opinions, which so generally prevails with respect to us ; and that your sentiments are concurrent with mine, which are, that one universal Father hath given being to us all ; and that he hath not only made us all of one flesh, but that he hath also, without partiality, afforded us all the same sensations and endowed us all with the same faculties ; and that however variable we may be in society or religion, however diversified in situation or color, we are all of the same family, and stand in the same relation to him. Sir, if these are sentiments of which you are fully persuaded, I hope you cannot but acknowledge, that it is the indispensable duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of human nature, and who possess the obligations of Christianity, to extend their power and influence to the relief of every part of the human race, from whatever burden or oppression they may unjustly labor under ; and this, I apprehend, a full conviction of the truth and obligation of these principles should lead all to. Sir, I have long been convinced, that if your love for yourselves, and for those inestimable laws, which preserved to you the rights of human nature, was founded on sincerity, you could not but be solicitous, that every individual, of whatever rank or distinction, might with you equally enjoy the blessings thereof ; neither could you rest satisfied short of the most active effusion of your exertions, in order to their promotion from any state of degradation, to which the unjustifiable cruelty and barbarism of men may have reduced them. Sir, I freely and cheerfully acknowledge, that I am of the African race, and in that color which is natural to them of the deepest dye ; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, that I now confess to you, that I am not under that state of tyrannical thralldom, and inhuman captivity, to which too many of my brethren are doomed, but that I have abundantly tasted of the fruition of those blessings, which proceed from that free and unequalled liberty with which you are favored; and which, I hope, you will willingly allow you have mercifully received, from the immediate hand of that Being, from whom proceeded every good and perfect Gift. Sir, suffer me to recall to your mind that time, in which the arms and tyranny of the British crown were exerted, with every powerful effort, in order to reduce you to a state of servitude: look back, I entreat you, on the variety of dangers to which you were expose; reflect on that time, in which every human aid appeared unavailable, and in which even hope and fortitude wore the aspect of inability to the conflict, and you cannot but be led to a serious and grateful sense of your miraculous and providential preservation; you cannot but acknowledge, that the present freedom and tranquility which you enjoy you have mercifully received, and that it is the peculiar blessing of Heaven. This, Sir, was a time when you clearly saw into the injustice of a state of slavery, and in which you had just apprehensions of the horrors of its condition. It was now that your abhorrence thereof was so excited, that you publicly held forth this true and invaluable doctrine, which is worthy to be recorded and remembered in all succeeding ages : ``We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.'' Here was a time, in which your tender feelings for yourselves had engaged you thus to declare, you were then impressed with proper ideas of the great violation of liberty, and the free possession of those blessings, to which you were entitled by nature ; but, Sir, how pitiable is it to reflect, that although you were so fully convinced of the benevolence of the Father of Mankind, and of his equal and impartial distribution of these rights and privileges, which he hath conferred upon them, that you should at the same time counteract his mercies, in detaining by fraud and violence so numerous a part of my brethren, under groaning captivity and cruel oppression, that you should at the same time be found guilty of that most criminal act, which you professedly detested in others, with respect to yourselves. I suppose that your knowledge of the situation of my brethren, is too extensive to need a recital here ; neither shall I presume to prescribe methods by which they may be relieved, otherwise than by recommending to you and all others, to wean yourselves from those narrow prejudices which you have imbibed with respect to them, and as Job proposed to his friends, ``put your soul in their souls' stead;'' thus shall your hearts be enlarged with kindness and benevolence towards them; and thus shall you need neither the direction of myself or others, in what manner to proceed herein. And now, Sir, although my sympathy and affection for my brethren hath caused my enlargement thus far, I ardently hope, that your candor and generosity will plead with you in my behalf, when I make known to you, that it was not originally my design ; but having taken up my pen in order to direct to you, as a present, a copy of an Almanac, which I have calculated for the succeeding year, I was unexpectedly and unavoidably led thereto. This calculation is the production of my arduous study, in this my advanced stage of life ; for having long had unbounded desires to become acquainted with the secrets of nature, I have had to gratify my curiosity herein, through my own assiduous application to Astronomical Study, in which I need not recount to you the many difficulties and disadvantages, which I have had to encounter. And although I had almost declined to make my calculation for the ensuing year, in consequence of that time which I had allotted therefore, being taken up at the Federal Territory, by the request of Mr. Andrew Ellicott, yet finding myself under several engagements to Printers of this state, to whom I had communicated my design, on my return to my place of residence, I industriously applied myself thereto, which I hope I have accomplished with correctness and accuracy ; a copy of which I have taken the liberty to direct to you, and which I humbly request you will favorably receive ; and although you may have the opportunity of perusing it after its publication, yet I choose to send it to you in manuscript previous thereto, that thereby you might not only have an earlier inspection, but that you might also view it in my own hand writing. And now, Sir, I shall conclude, and subscribe myself, with the most profound respect, Your most obedient humble servant, Benjamin Banneker Thomas Jefferson's Response Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin BannekerPhiladelphia Aug. 30. 1791. Sir, I thank you sincerely for your letter of the 19th. instant and for the Almanac it contained. no body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colours of men, & that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence both in Africa & America. I can add with truth that no body wishes more ardently to see a good system commenced for raising the condition both of their body & mind to what it ought to be, as fast as the imbecillity of their present existence, and other circumstance which cannot be neglected, will admit. I have taken the liberty of sending your almanac to Monsieur de Condorcet, Secretary of the Academy of sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic society because I considered it as a document to which your whole colour had a right for their justification against the doubts which have been entertained of them. I am with great esteem, Sir, Your most obedt. humble servt.Th. Jefferson By definition, an almanac is "a book containing a calendar of a given year, with a record of various astronomical phenomena, often with weather prognostications, seasonal suggestions for farmers, and other information - Britannica" Many historians consider that the first printed almanac dates to 1457 and was printed by Gutenberg in Mentz, Germany. Early Farmers' Almanacs Benjamin Franklin published the Poor Richard's Almanacs beginning in 1732 to 1758. Benjamin Franklin used the assumed name of Richard Saunders and wrote witty maxims (sayings) in his almanacs; for example: Light purse, heavy heartHunger never saw bad bread.Relation without friendship, friendship without power, power without will, will without effect, effect without profit, & profit without vertue, are not worth a farto. One of the earliest dual-color illustrated almanacs (1749), Der Hoch-Deutsch Americanische Kalender was printed in Germantown, Pennsylvania, by Christoph Saur. Saur's publication was the first foreign-language almanac printed in the United States. Continue Reading


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The world can be your oyster with a little help from the best travel apps around
Booking and getting around
Flights, hotels, rental cars — Skyscanner has got you covered. The app searches for the most affordable and best options via its travel partners. Like with Google Flights, you can see the cheapest dates to fly through a month view calendar, and you can also get alerts when prices change. If you're not sure where exactly you want to go, Skyscanner offers a category that lets you explore "Top Deals" from your nearest airport, as well as a curated list of destinations at affordable prices.
For many, Kayak has been the go-to trip planning destination for quite a while — and for good reason. Like Skyscanner, Kayak searches across various travel sites for rental cars, hotels, and flights. Kayak often has exclusive deals you won't find on other sites, and you can set price alerts and use Price Forecast to see whether you should buy now or wait. Kayak also acts as a trip planner, offering up important details at a glance like your hotel confirmation number or gate number. You can also access these details in real-time, and on other devices such as the Apple Watch.
If you're really looking to get the cheapest possible price for a plane ticket, you need to download Hopper. Like Kayak and Skyscanner, you can look at the cheapest dates to fly via a month-view calendar, but Hopper prides itself on telling you when to buy your tickets via push notifications. The company claims it can save you up to 40 percent on your next flight, and that's all done by analyzing and tracking billions of flights. The user interface is simple, and Hopper says you can book a flight in 60 seconds or less. Apple added it to the App Store's Best of 2015 list, and Google made it a 2016 Google Play Award winner.
Whether legal in the city you're visiting or not, Airbnb is a household name. The app undercuts hotels by offering far cheaper prices, and a more authentic experience by staying with a local, or their home. The app recently added a new feature called Trips, which offers Experiences to choose from during your stay — these are curated events you can partake in with local guides. Eventually, the app will become an all-in-one travel app that lets you plan your day, book a car, and more.
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Well I feel a bit pressured by myself to put something on this new site I made for my home. I unfortunately do not have a lot new to say.
My next album, In the Worship of Monsters, is still in the works. I have about 3 or 4 songs to finish writing for it that I've been neglecting. See I get excited about sharing music with people and I just can't afford to pay to get an album mastered and printed right now and it'll probably be a while before I can afford it.
I am working on getting an mp3 service going so you can pay whatever you want for a song and can go as low as I think 15 cents. I might have to run the calculation again. I'm also toying with the idea of some straight digital singles or tracks this way but time will tell.
Decibel has a gig in Austin, TX February 19. Aside from this I'm shying away from live performances. They're a lot of trouble and while the performance is massively rewarding emotionally, they do take a ton of time to plan. Add that to I really don't care about playing gigs in Tusla where I live and then it becomes costly. See non-famous bands don't get paid much if anything by the venue. Most of our income comes from merchandise. That's why you see bands like Cruxshadows, Ego Likeness, and Bella Morte trying to sell you books, comics, arts, and tons of other stuff besides their album. There is nothing wrong with that, but its just not the life I want to live.
My new goal in life is to get a job doing soundtracks for video games. I love video games and I love soundtracks, now its just a matter of finding a way in. I have some ideas or at least starting points thanks to some suggestions from Joystiq.com but any way it goes it will take time. On top of that I will undoubtedly have to relocate to achieve this goal, which means eventually selling my house that I just bought under a year ago. And to avoid the government's extra fees I can't sell it without having owned it for 2 years so I have a bit of a wait. But in the meantimes I intend to develop myself online and do more research into the industry. Yes I do love my current job, but its not want I want to do with my life.
Anyway, that's my story. Later.
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Actually, we get payed reasonably well for most shows, particularly in larger markets like LA, NYC, etc. While yes, cd's have more or less no value, that is not why we sell all of the other things. I, for instance, have a degree in fine art, and made a living as an artist, long before the band ever existed. Donna has always written, same with Andy from Bella. All of the various creative projects feed into each other.
While the band's are probably the most public of our various projects, many of us are multidisciplinary, by nature.
Though obviously having as many unique things to sell as possible does help with the practical expenses of surviving as artists of any kind.


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The Australian High Commission Malaysia is announcing the launch of the 'Faith, Fashion, Fusion: Muslim women's style in Australia' exhibition at the Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia (IAMM). The exhibition (from 3 November 2018 to 28 January 2018) explores the experiences and achievements of Australian Muslim women and how they express their faith through fashion.
It will also showcase Australia's growing modest fashion market and the work of a new generation of Muslim designers and entrepreneurs, in efforts to make a mark on the Australian fashion industry. This will also be the first time the critically acclaimed exhibition to be displayed internationally, after an extensive and highly successful Australian tour.
Australian High Commissioner to Malaysia, HE Rod Smith PSM, says: "Faith, Fashion, Fusion showcases the diversity and openness of Australia's multicultural society, as well as the excellence of Australia's creative industries. Australia and Malaysia share a vibrant tradition of creative exchanges and I am sure the exhibition will help foster greater understanding and deepen the longstanding friendship between our two nations."
The Malaysian version of the exhibition will feature pieces from IAMM's collections of original images and drawings of Islamic fashion from the 1770's and 1950's, as well as Islamic dresses from across the Muslim world.


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Actor Alex Castro was one of the bachelors that walked the runway of Cosmo Carnival 2015, a Cosmopolitan magazine event featuring 10 of their annual male centerfolds and 69 other gorgeous men.
Image: capture from Instagram video (yes_magazine)
Alex kneeled at one side of the stage during his walk to shake hands with the audience, but something else happened.
A member of the audience grabbed his crotch and it was captured on video by Yes! Magazine.
The video was immediately uploaded on the mag's Instagram account, and you can actually see that it's a man who grabbed Alex's private part.
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I was trying to get to Cauldron Linn on the River Devon and couldn't work out how, so continued along the track to Muckhart Mill. There are some lovely old stone buildings, and one of them had this very attractive external iron staircase.
There were also beautiful views of the Ochils with the last of the winter's snow, and the Devon valley.
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Amazing Sculptures Made out of Cardboard
Chris Gilmour was born in Stockport, UK (1973), but now calls Udine, Italy home. Using only cardboard and glue, Chris creates incredible sculptures that do not use any supporting structures or wooden/metal frames. Everything you see is 100% cardbaord. His medium of choice is plentiful, cheap and lightweight.
Guido Bartorelli summarizes Gilmour's workas follows:
Gilmour's work includes stunning virtuoso life-size objects, as well as cruder and more essential reproductions, sometimes left at a stage that calls to mind drafts or models. These are however all based on objects we have all experienced first hand- a typewriter, a car, a bicycle, a wheelchair.
These objects are always carefully chosen for their evocative and conceptual power, for the potential for mnemonic narration that they contain. They offer a blank canvas upon which the viewer can project their own memories or experiences, recalling collective perceptions or the gestures and the rituals of daily life. All the objects have an uncanny power to provoke a sensation of attraction and a desire to interact in the viewer.
How do you choose the things you portray?
There has been a progression in the choice of objects portrayed, which go from smaller domestic items (like the moka or the typewriter) to objects which are larger and belong to a broader cultural context (the Fiat 500, the Lambretta). However, the reason for the choice of objects has always been pretty much the same- they call up memories and emotions connected to our experience of these (everyday) things.
Since this is both a visual and conceptual work I choose objects for their visual appeal and cultural resonance, but I also usually choose objects which imply an action or interaction of some sort. The interaction of the viewer with the works seems to function as a kind of short circuit between an implied action and the impossibility of performing it: you want to open the car door, or turn the wheel on the bike, but of course you can't. I think this immediacy is important to enter the work, to grab the viewer
Earlier works were made with very clean cardboard because I was aiming at a hyper-realistic effect which showed the material "at its best", or rather seemed to do something impossible with it, making a perfect representation- indeed, many people assumed that the works were real objects that had been painted or covered in paper. The works I am producing now are made from cardboard boxes which are still found on the street, but which show all the printing, tape, labels etc.
I like the idea of concentrating on the material in its "natural state" and playing with the idea of these beautiful objects represented with a material from the waste basket. I guess it's about trying to be as honest as possible with the material- I don't want it to get too clean, so you can't see what it really is. I think it gives another dimension to the work to use scrap cardboard packaging which has been thrown away after the coveted objects it contained have been removed.


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My aunt posted this article to her Facebook ( <--- it's a good read, read it!). It's 110% true.
While I openly tease Lee about being my 6th child, he knows (because I tell him verbally, not just cause I assume he knows) that he is an immeasurably important person in our house.
He is a great parent. He is allowed to succeed and fail just as much as I am. I am not the queen of mommies and he's just a lowly dad. He changed as many if not more diapers than I did. He got up in the middle of the night. He gave baths. He picks out the kids clothes (usually with better taste than me!). He stuffs cloth diapers. He washes floors (on his hands and knees!). He IS an equal parent.
Too often I see moms not "allow" dad to pick clothes, do hair, snuggle baby when they're upset, ect... Then, those same moms complain that dad doesn't "get it". How could they? They're not allowed to be parents. They're sperm donors who get to live with their kids.
Society says that dads only babysit. They say that dads are bumbling fools. Look at most sitcoms. Dads are either idiots or assholes. Sure not all dads can sit through the 64th episode of Caillou (hell, neither can I!), but does that mean they suck as parents? Hell no! It means they're human, just like us moms.
ALL parents excel and lack in various area of parenting regardless of what's in their pants.


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The Multiverse is basically an idea that there are multiple universes. Popularized by many popular TV shows and Movies such as The Flash, Dr. Strange, back to the Future series, this theory might sound bizarre and stupid to some, but there's a very good science behind it. There are many theories that have pointed to the fact that the Multiverse may actually exist. Here, we look at some of those theories.
1. The Many Worlds Theory
This theory states that there are infinite universes along the space-time. Since there are only a limited number of ways in which the particle in the universe can be arranged, the particles must have started repeating somewhere. Since most scientists believe that the space-time is infinite, we can conclude that there are an infinite number of universes where everything you can imagine has happened an infinite amount of times. That means that there are infinite number of versions of you reading this article right now, there are infinite number of universes where you're Spiderman, infinite number of universes where you don't even exist and infinite number of universes where you're a Hollywood star. What this also means is that everything that has ever happened, happening now and will ever happen has already happened an infinite number of times.
If this theory is proved, it will also mean that we have no free will. Say for example, you decided to go bald, but there are already infinite universes where you're already bald. Humans might not feel so unique because everything that you decide to do will already have happened an infinite number of times. This would really hurt the human ego.
2. Daughter Universes
2 minutes ago, you decided to read this article. But in another universe you decided not to, instead you went to the bathroom where you slipped and fell. And then you died.
When you decided to read this article, two new universes were created, one where you read this article and the other where you don't read this article. The Daughter Universe theory says that new universes are spawned with every new decision and action. There'll be an exponential amount of growth in the number of universes with each decision and action that you make. Since there are more than 7 billion people on the planet and that they make many decisions throughout a day, an infinite number of new universes are created every day and there's no stopping to it. I'd recommend you to watch "Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earth" if you want to dive deep to understand this theory much better.
3. Simulation Theory
With the advancement of science and technology, using computers, we've been able to able to simulate small things. There are games like Flight Simulator, Truck Simulator, City Simulator and what not. Imagine that with new technology being developed every day, we could actually simulate humans or a universe in the long run. The simulation theory put forward by Nick Bostrom suggests that we are actually a part of a digital simulation run by an advanced alien species or by our own future generations. According to Bostrom's concept, it takes 10 to the power 36th calculations to create a lifelike, detailed replica of the entire human history. Now while that may sound like a lot for now, we might be able to perform it in the near future. We could run simulations to find out what went wrong in the past, or to run hypothetical situations such as: If Hitler never rose to power, If the atomic bombs were never been dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki cities, etc. So if this theory is true, our world might be one of many simulations that has been simulated by future generations. We might just be tiny computer codes in a computer of the future or a kid's science fair project. Who knows? What's even weirder is that those future generations that have been simulating us could also be a part of another simulation and so on.
There are other concepts such as Bubble Universe Theory, Parallel Universe theory, Mathematical Principle theory that have suggested that we could be living in a multiverse. In the past, many theories that have suggested to a similar outcome have always been proved true, so we might be living in a multiverse.


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Monday, November 24, 2014
A Time To Give Back
2 comments:
- Mosby Hardin said...
You have such a beautiful heart. I'm glad I have you in my life :)
- November 24, 2014 at 9:50 AM
- Mosby Hardin said...
This is so good, Mosby. I moved a few months ago to a different area of Detroit, and for the first time, I'm actually seeing the homeless who live here. I've been brokenhearted over them but afraid to approach, so I appreciate your suggestions here. Thank you for your boldness in this!
- November 24, 2014 at 9:40 PM
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