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Something Blue was thrilled to be part of a gorgeous boho watercolor inspiration photoshoot at Magnolia Manor, recently featured on the Artfully Wed blog. The shoot features photography from the ever-talented Jessica Pledger and design from Stephanye Lynn Wedding & Event Design, along with several other spectacular vendors (see full list below).
The model is wearing a bridal separate outfit by Emmaline Bridal, selected by Something Blue to fit the playful, outdoorsy theme.
"We chose the two-piece gown because we wanted something very bohemian for this styled shoot and it just fit the bill perfectly," said Something Blue owner Sandie Walther. "We though the sequined skirt would be lots of fun!"
To check out the full photoshoot, visit Boho Watercolor Wedding Inspiration at Artfully Wed.
The following vendors were involved in putting this beautiful photoshoot together:
Photographer: Jessica Pledger Photography
Calligrapher: Fabled Papery
Floral Designer: Haute Flowers & Finds
Beauty: My Beauty Rocks
Dress Store & Flower Crown: Something Blue Bridal Store
Event Planner: Stephanye Lynn Wedding & Event Design
Bakery: Sweet T's Sugar Shack
Event Venue: Magnolia Manor, THE SPRINGS in Angleton


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"It is the use of machete; it is the systematical use of rape on women; it is really terrible, terrible things," he said. "Kasai has been characterized by the beheading of a lot of people. You have heard about the mass graves; it has been a terrible situation. People who are coming out, they are just traumatized. Traumatized."
Without significant increases in funding from donor nations, he says, the agency will run out of food by mid-November.
He says the bigger solution to Kasai's woes is beyond the scope of his U.N. agency. Jibidar noted the DRC government has made progress in restoring peace, along with the U.N. peacekeeping force in Congo.
"It is a question of sustained, long-term security and peace," he said. "That is the first thing. Without peace and security maintained, now it is calm, it has to remain calm. People have to regain confidence and they all have to come out of the bush."


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There are one or two basic things that must be be checked. Like is your refrigerator too full? A refrigerator that's too could result in glass jars and other foods and liquids to clink together. This can cause a lot of loud noises inside of the refrigerator that is not ideal because the refrigerator is on and producing a small vibration.
If you have a refrigerator that has a built-in water dispenser or ice maker but do not have the water line connected, be sure you turned off the water dispenser and the ice maker. There is typically a button on the water dispenser on the refrigerator that can be pressed to shut off the water dispenser. And as far as the ice maker, you need to lift the bar inside of it. If the refrigerator was installed right by a wall, it might cause the standard running noise to seem much louder than it really is. This is because of the echoing of the sound of the appliance. Pull it out away from the kitchen wall and see if that helps at all or not. A refrigerator needs to be around 2 inches from the rear wall of the kitchen to limit the noise.
If it is not any of these basic and common fixes, it is time to explore the issue further. The majority of the time, the fans are the reason for a loud refrigerator. There are fan blades that sometimes get clogged and dirty. Sometimes the fan motors do as well. There's a condenser fan and an evaporator on the refrigerator too. Sometimes the condenser fan will get a coating of dust or fuzz on it and then should be cleaned on a regular basis. If the dust gets too heavy it can wear out the bearings inside of the fan's motor.
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Spin the fan blades in the refrigerator. Do the blades spin freely? If not the fan motor bearings are not working. This is an easy fix, as the fan assembly is typically a unit that can be purchased online and can be replaced by simply disconnecting it. But, before you do any of this, ensure the refrigerator is unplugged. Do this same process for the evaporator fan, which is typically located behind the freezer unit. This is not typically the issue, as this particular fan is concealed by being within the walls of the refrigerator. But, if the noises are coming from the top of the refrigerator that is the area to check.
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Last month, I read the most recent of Ian Rankin's Inspector Rebus books, Exit Music. I enjoyed it, and decided to check out some of the earlier books. Knots and Crosses is the beginning of the series.
From Goodreads.com:
Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders…and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as the ghoulish killings mount and the tabloid headlines scream, Rebus cannot stop the feverish shrieks from within his own mind. Because he isn't just one cop trying to catch a killer, he's the man who's got all the pieces to the puzzle…
I found it interesting– for the first half of the book, I thought it was more of a character study than a mystery. That was OK, I like books that are primarily about characters. In the second half of the book, many seemingly extraneous details tied in to the murder, as the character picture and the mystery filled in together.
I enjoyed the character of Inspector Rebus, even if he isn't someone I'd like if I met him. He was a complex character, one that I look forward to learning more about in future books. The secondary characters were also interesting, for the most part. There was more depth to his colleagues in the police department than in the depictions of his family members, which I think was an intriguing deliberate choice.
The mystery worked well enough. For most of the book, it was presented as a way to get to know Rebus. This isn't the sort of book where you can solve the mystery before the police– there's too much we as readers don't know that contributes to the resolution.
As far as I could tell, Exit Music is either the last book of the series, or it marks a significant turning point. Starting there and moving to the beginning was a curious experience. Rebus is recognizably the same character, but he does change as the story continues.
I'll continue reading this series.


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The conclave of white supremacists, banksters, war-criminals and their historically ignorant sycophants known as the CPAC convention closed its festivities with a speech by the admitted emotionally tortured manic depressive alcoholic Glenn Beck. The emotionally unstable Fox "News" propagandist's pro-corporate rhetoric likened normal people (Liberals/Progressives) to a "cancer" much the same way Hitler railed "The Jews are a Cancer on the breast of Germany".
The sole reason that Beck and his right wing brethren in the corporate media exist is to run cover for the institutions of the elite who are actively turning "The Land of the Free" into The United States of Serfs and Lords". The particularly pervasive meme purports that indentured servitude to transnational corporations equals (=) freedom and the original intent of the Constitution is to facilitate 1% of the population riding 99% of the population to the bank unfettered by the pesky government!
Beck and the rest of the Republican Media Misinformation Machine have tapped into the rage that average Americans feel as the result of being under the boot of middle-class-killing Republican policies for the past 30 years. This inconvenient truth is purposely misdirected and funneled into a populist rage against the very progressive policies that created the middle class in the first place and have the poor dupes crying, "liberals are bad!" without a sense of irony as they collect their unemployment check, Social Security and/or want government to keep its hands off their Medicare.
Bill Maher summed it up brilliantly in the closing of Real Time where he succinctly laid out the fact that the Teabaggers, rather than being a populist movement, was in actuality a cult.
- People in cults believe in ridiculous unattainable goals like "edifice reduction by way of giant tax cuts"
- Cults have their own vocabularies: Freedom means Guns, Diplomacy means Weakness, Elitist means Reader, and Socialist means Black.
- Cult members attribute all the problems to one person – in the Teabaggers case, this one:
A poll showed 90% of Teabaggers thought that taxes had gone up or stayed the same under Obama. Only two percent thought they went down. The simple reality is: for 95% of working families, taxes went down.
Only 2 percent of the people in a movement about taxes and named for a tax revolt have the slightest idea about what is going on – with taxes.
Watch the whole clip here:
Make no mistake. We are in a class war and the elites are winning. The Economic Royalists view the Constitution solely as an apparatus to concentrate wealth further into their hands and make the middle class as "quaint" as the Geneva Conventions – all with the "patriotic" agreement of those most hobbled and exploited.
This economic war is deliberately shadowed in swatches of misinformation, some of which is couched in a so-called "culture war" as another way to convince average dupes to support the side in the economic war which is actively destroying them.
From the wreckage of the Republican policies that caused the Great Depression, FDR gave us a "New Deal". This was a social contract that attempted to realize the dreams of the Founder's intent to create "a more perfect union" by uplifting our nation as a whole and put the power the power of OUR government on the side of the People as well as set standards and regulations designed to "promote the general welfare".
These were a guarantee that workers be paid adequately, provided safe working environments, and ensured a retirement, which would maintain one's dignity in old age after a lifetime of work. This system also ensured all citizens a decent education, regardless of one's economic station at birth – and if FDR had lived to complete his fourth term in office, a Second Bill of Rights that would have guaranteed all citizens a job with a living wage, freedom from unfair competition and monopolies, a home, an education, recreation and health care (much like every other industrialized nation on Earth currently does).
A system like this is anathema to Republican (and sadly, some Democratic) sociopaths whose only motivation is to secure as much profit and power for themselves as is possible. Period.
The American Aristocracy are currently winning in their mission to dismantle the New Deal and anything else that gets in the way of their profits – even if that means sentencing another human being to die without lifesaving medical treatment. That fact is a sad example of the moral bankruptcy of the Republican worldview.
Although these Republican sociopaths wrap themselves so unabashedly in the flag and adorn their lapels with "made in China" American flag pins, they fundamentally loathe democracy because democracies bend towards democratic socialism.
In the gap that is the disconnect created by the Republican attack on public education and their lack of intellectual curiosity cherished as a badge of honor, steps the likes of Glenn Beck who turns his audience's ignorance into a fear that any attempt to restrain corporate power or promote the interests of the middle class has something to do with "Hitler."
These are the corporatists who are currently running our government and promoting a hierarchical system ruled by money who we believed Barack Obama would be standing up to when we sent him to Washington with a mandate for "Change we could believe in."
After a year of disappointment, watching Obama capitulate to the Right and betray the progressive base who elected him, I'm beginning to believe that the only way We The People will ever rebuild the middle class is when the daily lives of millions stand in stark contrast to the right wing propaganda machine telling them that it's the liberal's fault. That is the time when the idiots who clap whenever Sarah Palin says "tort reform," not understanding that they are (once again) blindly supporting something that limits the power of the PEOPLE over the corporations who harm them, will understand that they have been the willing accomplice in their own demise.
As it stands today, without real "change we can believe in," it's going to get a lot, lot, worse before it gets better.
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This Mother's Day idea is a favorite of my readers so I had to share it again!
Have your children decorate hot pads for mom to use in the kitchen! They will think of your children every time they cook. Use fabric paint or markers and let your children decorate a light-colored hot pad. Be sure to label it with their name and date.
For our grandmas a couple of years ago, I did a handprint with paint on one side and let my son (then 2) color the other side with markers–all scribbles. They turned out adorable and the grandmas love them! (see above)
We've also done this version, which I just think is the cutest!! They're tulips made with their hands (just paint the 4 fingers, not the thumb; and the top part of the palm). The kids drew on the backs, as well.


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Dad and I go got back home late last night. Well it's not actually home anymore now we have our Adventure Camper.But it is still somewhere we can visit sometimes. Home is now on the road. I think are heading to the High Country of Victoria next or maybe the Warrumbungles in Northern NSW. The thing is we don't really know where we are going. .
Our new camper is wonderful. Dad has been talking about it for a long time and dreaming about it even longer. But things happen eventually. Even if they are so far in the distance you don't think they will ever arrive. Like a new bone that Dad buys from the butchers and it seems to stay in the fridge forever. Then one day out it comes and you think it's Christmas.
Well sometimes it is because I always get a big bone at Christmas.
Dad has been 'blogging' and I have been 'dogging' for three months now. Its a big job for me because dingos don't usually have to think about things very much. But now as we drive I just stick my head out the window and let thoughts and feelings come. The when I sit down to 'dog' it is easy.
Read Dad's BLOG ON BLOGGING about our 3 months of the Electronic Swagman. I get a mention. It is really nice because we are getting closer and closer. I don't mean because we both sleep in the back of the Toyota together, I mean because we spend so much time together.
As we drive we always stop every few hours. I have a sniff and Dad a stretch. Then we head back into the car and drive off. It is a nice way to live.
Now we have the camper we will pull up for a week by a river or a beach and just enjoy being in one place. Dad is going to buy a bike so we can leave the car behind and explore that way. I'll run beside him. He is also looking for an inflatable canoe that will fit us both.
See we do everything together.
I have a great life don't I.
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The UK is fast becoming a global hub for the development of connected and autonomous vehicle technologies including testing of driverless vehicles in the urban environment.
But how is the industry being affected by legislation governing privacy? asks Rocio De la Cruz, principal associate at Gowling WLG.
Millions of vehicles worldwide are being implemented with in-vehicle computer systems and connected devices, raising many concerns concerning privacy.
Autonomous and connected vehicles (ACVs) collect data from numerous sources in order to deliver both the basic mobility function and broader societal benefits.
Personal data relating to insurance, taxes, locations, mileage, fees and bookings will all need to be processed to provide the service. If customers opt into other services such as Wi-Fi, entertainment, telephony and marketing services—such data will be processed by a number of different operators.
Some of these operators may want or need to share data between themselves, therefore forming a complex scenario where the implementation of data protection and e-commerce requirements will have different implications.
The data protection regime under the Data Protection Act 1998 and General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), which will become enforceable from 25 May, 2018, presents a number of key challenges to the ACVs industry. Those causing more concern are:
Personal data has to be collected for ACVs to work properly. Any journey would enable identification and tracking of individuals by multiple organisations. This personal data could be used by the car itself, insurers, other vehicles, traffic planners, the police, commercial organisations and infrastructure.
Unless there are valid reasons for processing such data without obtaining consent, for example, where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract, or for sensitive personal data where processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of individuals by the police, users' consent must be obtained and kept secure.
This need for clear consent is making data controllers think about how privacy notices could be redesigned to ensure that users fully understand them before giving consent. Regulators including the Information Commissioner have mooted the possible use of standardised icons to represent different parts of the privacy notice.
Sharing personal data
Mapping the flow of data between the multiple organisations processing it and determining the security measures to be in place will be crucial to complying with the GDPR.
Where joint controllers, processors and sub-processors are involved in dealing with personal data the role and responsibilities of each party will have to be defined and agreed. Organisations would benefit from collaborating to identify identical and compatible purposes, which might help centralise processing to reduce the number of privacy notices given to each user.
The right to object
Enhanced individual rights in the GDPR such as the right to object will impact considerably on automated decision-making taken by ACVs. The industry needs to work out how users can object or withdraw their consent and build in systems to ensure that these rights are complied with.
Tracking and marketing
Marketers and other operators will use cookies and other tracking technologies when interacting with ACVs users, either because this might be necessary (e.g. use by the police), or to send targeted marketing to individual users.
This will also be affected by the forthcoming e-Privacy Regulation (the draft Regulation) for which a draft proposal was published on 10 January, 2017 by the European Commission. While the draft Regulation is at a very early stage, its default position is that all content, metadata and information stored on users' devices is confidential – regardless of whether or not it is personal data.
The draft Regulation increases the scope of existing legislation and applies to 'over the top providers' like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger and Skype, and applies a higher level of privacy rules for all electronic communications. It takes account of the Internet of Things, which the ACV industry falls into, ensuring privacy of machine-to-machine communications.
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Planeta Inform Film Distribution and Shout! Factory have made a deal to distribute Quackerz in the U.S. and Canada. Shout! Factory was able to secure all distribution rights to the animated comedy film including broadcast, theatrical, digital, VOD and home entertainment. A tactical rollout on major platforms and in packaged media is designed for the year through the Shout! Factory Kids imprint.
Quacker is set on a faraway island and follows the story of Longway. He is the son of the Mandarin Duck Emperor and a next generation Sun Duck who holds the power to control the sun's energy. In order to protect Longway from danger, the emperor works hard by keeping him unaware of his abilities. However, when a wicked witch learns his secret, Longway and Erica, his new charming friend must unite all the ducks in order to beat her in her quest to destroy the sun.
Victor Lakisov directed and co-wrote the film and produced by A-VFX Studio and Rome Animation & Film Studio. The CG comedy adventure features the voices of Michael Gross, Robbie Daymond, Alanna Ubach, Andrea Becker and Enn Reitel.


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The Polymers Center exhibited at the NPE2018 Plastics Show in Orlando, FL in May. The 2018 show was the largest NPE in history with more than 2100 companies from 121 countries represented. The goal of NPE is to introduce new manufacturing technologies, strengthen partnerships and encourage new ones; in general, to move the plastics industry forward.
This is also the goal of the Polymers Center. As a non-profit organization, our mission is to support, maintain and encourage the strength and growth of the polymer industry. The Polymers Center provides opportunities to increase knowledge through hands-on courses and training, offer technical support such as materials and processes analysis and testing, and promote the development of emerging technologies in the plastics industry.
For those who visited our booth at the show, we thank you and invite you to contact us to schedule a visit of our facility. We welcome the opportunity to discuss our capabilities and how we can help your company move forward and grow in the plastics industry.


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|Architecture, La Piedra
The town of La Piedra (piedra means stone in English) is a parched campo with little water. Its rough dirt roads are laid out in grids and most of the houses are built using rusty sheets of galvanized, corrugated sheet metal and cut, un-milled poles for framing. Used blue poly-tarps are ubiquitous as building material and glass windows or even screening are non-existent. There are no actual stores and the few colmados are small, with few provisions, and operate out of homes that may only have power for part of the day. At the end of a day of caving it is often impossible to buy a cold beer anywhere.
Lynne Guitar, who is an anthropologist who teaches at a university in Santiago and specializes in studying the Taíno culture, first introduced us to this area. Several years ago Lynne bought a piece of land in La Piedra I that has a large cave on it that contains petroglyphs and she invited us to map it for her. On Alain's and my first visit we missed the turn where the mule was supposed to have been tied to the tree and wound up all the way over in La Piedra III where we parked in front of a small group of houses. When some people came out to see who we were Alain asked them what he always asks strangers he has never met before, "Hay cuevas por aquí?" which means Are there any caves around here? The answer was yes and someone went to fetch Raphael.
|Raphael (foreground) with Alain in a cave entrance.
Raphael Agramonte, 50's, short, wiry and angular with a few teeth missing would become our cave guide for the next few years. When he was younger he attended an agricultural school in Santo Domingo and specialized in fertilizer. One thing led to another and he would up in La Piedra. Times got tough and he got involved in buying and selling black market fertilizer which comes in 55 gallon drums and needs to be hidden somewhere— thus Raphael's extensive knowledge of all caves in the area. He did well for a while and bought several small parcels of land and saved money but eventually got busted, spent some time in jail and lost most of what he had. He now lives with his wife, Morena, and subsists by working with his machete chopeando, making charcoal, and foraging ñame, a tuber resembling a sweet-potato, in the bush which also leads him to discover more caves that no one else knows about.
One day earlier in the week we visited two caves, both of which we had to rappel into and neither of which turned out to have either pictographs (paintings or drawings on the cave walls) or petroglyphs (carvings in the limestone walls or calcite formations). Close to half the caves in the country contain some kind of indigenous art, usually a crude, often nearly invisible, petroglyph or two on a stalactite near the cave entrance in partial daylight. The first cave turned out to be very small. The floor of the second cave directly below the entrance was covered by a six foot tall pile of garbage (partial list includes pampers, tampons, pig bones, rotten chunks of wood, tires, plastic oozing shopping bags, chicken carcasses, unidentifiable glop and detritus) with no way of avoiding landing in it and sinking up to the knees.
Practically none of these caves have names and because we need to refer to them somehow in our databases the three of us confer on the spot. We might name them after the owner of the property or after a distinctive tree growing in or near the entrance. We called the first cave Cueva Colorado after some reddish iron oxide stains on the walls and the second the Cueva de Cojo, because the owner is lame. Other memorable names have included Cueva de Los Puercos Muertos (entrance clogged with pig bones, hides and carcasses), Cueva de Caoba Condenada (mature mahogany tree near the entrance that Raphael estimated was worth 3000 pesos at the sawmill, sure enough when we returned to that cave a month later, the tree was gone), and Cueva de Mano Mocha because the owner had lost a hand in a machete incident.
Thursday, after buying the usual lunch provisions in Valiente, we picked up Raphael at his house and drove over to the Barrio de La Cucaracha (Cockroach Barrio) to check out a few caves. The first was the Cueva de Bienvenido that was shaped like a very low crawlspace and was in the back yard of Bienvenido's small house. We crawled and slithered around in it and found a half dozen petroglyphs and a nesting chicken. Bienvenido served us all coffee and gave us some plantains for the road.
The next site we visited looked a lot like Bienvenido's— two shallow sub parallel wandering ridges pocked with various open-air abrigos or natural rock shelters and alcoves. We clambered down a short slope and wandered through the scrub poking our heads into the little pockets and hollows in the limestone walls until we came to the back of a low horseshoe shaped formation. We crawled in through a low opening, stood up, turned our headlamps on and immediately saw numerous, dark, clear, large charcoal pictographs. We quickly reconnoitered the rest of the cave and found many other paintings and went back to the guaguita to get our recording gear.
We were parked on the side of a dirt road with grass growing in the middle of it, about 50 meters from the cave entrance. Raphael mentioned at the last minute that maybe we should not leave anything of much value in the guaguita because it was a lawless barrio and so I carried all my camera stuff down into the cave.
About two hours later, while I was photographing in an open clearing within the cave, I heard a distant buzzing noise but thought that it was probably a car alarm somewhere far away. The sound continued for 20 minutes or so and eventually Raphael walked up to check and a minute later I heard a shrill call ¡DANIEL, VEN ACÁ, LA GUAGUITA! I dropped my archeologist's scale and went running and sure enough, someone had jammed a screwdriver into all the key entries of the guaguita and then smashed the driver's side window in frustration. Broken chips of tempered glass all over, shades of my youth. The bags that we had left behind were in disarray and the seats turned up to expose the engine. They had been looking for the battery to sell as scrap. Luckily a chip of glass had gotten lodged under the horn cushion on the steering column and shorted out the horn which had stuck in the ON position and was blaring and which had evidently spooked the ladrones and was the buzzing noise I had heard from afar. They stole only my favorite flip-flops and my machete. They left Alain's bag containing 100 meters of climbing rope and my bag of climbing gear worth maybe $500 USD along with the ashtray full of change and our street clothes. We had been lucky.
As I was probing the violated door locks with my key and trying to raise the back hatch, which had also been unsuccessfully jimmied, a small crowd of villagers gathered. Arguments broke out over whom the thief might have been; one woman hiked up her skirt and shook her butt in the direction of an old man in an unspoken answer to some unspoken challenge; naked children darted between the legs of taller onlookers. I left Raphael in charge and went back to the cave and collected my camera gear and got Alain, who was still in the cave obliviously working. I swept glass chips off the seats onto the road and rearranged the packs and we left.
Later we learned that local tigueres and drug dealers occasionally use that cave to torture and kill captive rivals. They reportedly noose the victim on the surface and throw him down through a skylight in the cave so that he is hanged in one of the rooms in the darkness below.
We went back to finish measuring and photographing the Cueva del Barrio de La Cucaracha a few weeks later, but this time we parked in the yard of a trusted acquaintance of Raphael.
Raphael went back on his own a few times looking for someone wearing my sandals but no luck. Evidently the prime suspect kept stealing until his neighbors got sick of it and he was killed about a year later,
Examples of
the art can be seen HERE in a photo gallery of the same name; and is discussed beginning at the 6 minute 30 second mark of the Powerpoint video below that
I presented at the IFRAO conference in Bolivia in 2010 with the help of Robert
Raphael went back on his own a few times looking for someone wearing my sandals but no luck. Evidently the prime suspect kept stealing until his neighbors got sick of it and he was killed about a year later,
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My husband is hard on clothes when he is working in his shop, especially when he was working on his vintage John Deere tractor. Cleaning out old grease, sand blasting old paint, welding, and whatever else he could think of doing would wreck his clothes, so he would go to Value Village for more pants and shirts, and a jacket to wear when it was cold. While he was doing his shopping, I would stay in the van and read. I had no interest in "browsing" through rows of used stuff.
On one occasion, he suggested that I come in the store with him because I am always looking for vintage glassware. I would often find lovely vintage glass pieces at garage sales and flea markets, which I loved to give as gifts to friends. When we have guests, we often receive a bottle of wine, which we appreciate very much, but if we needed to select a wine, we really don't know a good wine from a not-so-good wine. I now take a lovely vintage glass dish, with some chocolates, or bath soaps, or wrapped cheeses for the hostess, and to date, not one hostess has refused the gift!!!
I agreed to do some looking while he was getting some work clothes. I had two very surprising experiences that day. As I walked in the direction of the kitchen and gift section, I spotted a ladies' jacket hanging at the end of a rack of clothes. It was the exact jacket (but a different color) that I purchased two years previously, to wear at a very special social event. I paid over $100.00 for it, much more than I usually would consider, but rationalized that it for a very special reunion of my nursing classmates. I took a closer look at the jacket on display; it still had the store tags on it, but the asking price at Value Village was $12.00. If that jacket were my size, I would have bought it just because it was so cheap that I couldn't afford not to buy it.
I proceeded to the kitchen department, and as I was looking the the large selection, I spotted a small crystal bonbon dish that was in the pattern of my mother's collection. There was no price tag on it, but because I have purchased other pieces on Ebay to replace broken or chipped pieces in my mother's collection, I had a good idea of what a reasonable price would be. I told my husband that if the dish was less than $10.00, I would purchase it.
When I went to the check-out, I asked the cashier to get a price for the dish, and off she went to speak with her supervisor. After a brief discussion, she returned to tell me that the price was ….. 37 cents! All I could think about was, "There must be some mistake! Perhaps she misunderstood!" The cashier asked if I was still interested, and I accepted the price she quoted, and thanked her for helping me.
I now return to Value Village whenever I have the opportunity or the time to do a bit of "treasure hunting". My wardrobe has improved, and I have found "bargains" that I share with friends. I'm having a lot of fun, with hardly a nip in my budget plans. I also have a convenient location to donate items that are still saleable but not needed at our home. That is called 'down-sizing' AGAIN.
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When ever I need anything I always look at the thrift stores first. One can get amazing things and if old they are better made than the new stuff.
Yes, I have seen some high name brand goods at Value Village, the daughter of an aquaintance used to buy all her babies clothing there, and got some really nice things, and to top it off, on Tuesdays it's 30% off for seniors.
In addition, when VV receives a donation, they punch a card for the donor, and when the card is full, the donor receives a 30% discount on their next purchase. I purchase clothing that is either new or washable; can't remember the last time I have been to a drycleaner.


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Some unnamed reporter lobbed a softball question to Nouriel Roubini, asking him whether the Madoff story was somehow an allegory for the entire economy. And of course Roubini said yes, explaining how the entire economy for the last decade or so was just a big Ponzi scheme built on cheap money.
You know, a lot of people thought they were making money by trading ever-inflating assets until, boom, too many redemptions came in and it turned out that our houses and mortgage-backed securities weren't worth what they thought they were.
Paul Krugman said the same thing, using pretty much the same language. He called it our "Decade at Bernie's".
Lots of other folks have said the exact same thing before Roubini or Krugman. Peter Schiff had been warning about this since back in the days when Roubini still thought the trade deficit would be our undoing. Remember that? At some point we began to guage our economic process by looking at our asset values, rather than what we created. It's not that growing asset values aren't good. If you buy a house in a slummy area a few years before it gets gentrified, your increasing home value will reward you for having some foresight.
The problem though is that ultimately, the economic value of these assets don't correspond into any standard of living increases -- which is what a healthy economy is supposed to achieve, and so the two had to come back in line.
That being said, it's all well and good to say that cheap money inflated a big bubble, but the more interesting question is, why did the cheap money go towards building and buying houses. Why didn't the cheap money go to building factories, or to building up usable infrastructure.
That part isn't Alan Greenspan's fault. Banks are good at housing loans and securitization made that easier. We also, obviously, have a policy bias that makes manufacturing difficult -- whether it's our labor laws, environmental regulations, zoning or whatnot. Manufacturing houses one at a time with cheap (often illegal) labor is easy. Using those same factors of production to build something else isn't easily done.
That's what needs addressing. If we just clamp down on the asset-growing aspects of the economy, but don't facilitate our ability to produce anything of value, our economy is guaranteed to be a total basket case for years to come.
To some extent, this is what Obama is talking about with their desire to see "green jobs" -- you know, hard hats in Ohio building turbines and solar panels.
But all the people who were previously employed in the housing sector aren't going to find jobs in this sector. Not even close. At some point, real, non-subsidized industries need to spring up that can take advantage of all this cheap, unskilled labor that previously went into homes. Otherwise, forget about it.


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with any probable hope of success at the present moment; and looking at the extreme and extensive inconvenience its being hung up occasions, the state of suspense in which it holds this part of Germany in particular, nay, the whole of it, by preventing the proceedings of the Diet, its immediate operation in postponing the arrangements with Darmstadt, &c., I am sure the breaking it off altogether would be the most happy event at present to be expected. Nay, paradoxical as it might otherwise appear, had I not explained my meaning in a former letter, I am convinced that this course would be the most likely ultimately to accomplish those very views of Austria which the actual negociation with Bavaria intended to accomplish. Whether this will or will not be the result of the references to Milan, it is not in my power to say, neither General Wacquant's, from the last advices, nor Wessenberg's couriers having yet returned from that place.
Having yesterday asked the latter why he, who was not only so well versed in all the statistical knowledge respecting the countries proposed to be exchanged, but who also had gone through all the details of the negociation on the subject at Vienna, and who was also the actual accredited Minister of Austria at the Court of Munich, had not been the person selected to recommence these discussions, instead of General Wacquant, he told me confidentially that the whole of this negociation, as at present pursued, grew out of a party at the Austrian Court in opposition to Prince Metternich, (we had some experience of this party at Vienna) at the head of which was Prince Schwarzenberg—that their reasoning went on military grounds, and that they had succeeded in persuading the Emperor of the necessity of acquiring those territories which he now sought to obtain from Bavaria—that Metternich, contrary to what he avowed to be his (Wessenberg's) opinion, and contrary to that which he gave me to understand was Metternich's, had felt himself obliged to give way, and, in order at once to conciliate his opponents, and to exempt himself from the charge of supineness in the event of failure, and to throw its responsibility from his own on their shoulders, he had thought it advisable to employ a military man as the negociator.
I have heard nothing further since my last of the project of occupying Salzburg, as therein stated; but this may possibly arise from the want of instructions from Milan, in consequence of the non-arrival of the courier despatched thither.
We have experienced some little delay in the prosecution of our Netherlands' Treaty, from the sudden death of the Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, who, on the 9th instant, in the evening, was found by his son, the present reigning Prince, at the bottom of a flight of stairs near his own apartment, with his skull horribly fractured, supposed to have fallen down the whole flight in consequence of a fit, probably apoplexy. This tragical event necessitated Gagern's absence for two days at Weilburg.
It is Gagern's intention, as Humboldt sends his treaty to Berlin prior to signature, to do the same by his Court, and I cannot blame him. The practice, however, is a vile one to introduce into diplomacy, as being calculated to add to the delays, already sufficient, in that branch of public affairs. We have to thank Razumowski for this, who set the precedent at the Congress of Vienna. Notwithstanding all this, except its introduction into his Royal Highness's speech from the throne, I think you may venture to argue upon all the territorial arrangements connected with this projected treaty as being finally adjusted, if you should conceive such arguments necessary to be urged in debate at the commencement of the Session.
Ever most affectionately yours, CLANCARTY. PS. My accounts go with the present messenger direct to Mr. Bandinel, my agent: they have, however, been signed by me, and he will deliver them to you.
Sir Thomas Maitland" to Lord Castlereagh.
Malta, January 23, 1816. Dear Lord Castlereagh-I am convinced, when you consider the only motive that can actuate me upon the present occasion, you will find no apology necessary for the liberty I now take.
I understand that young Foresti is trying in England to procure the situation of Resident with Ali Basha at Jannina. This appointment is, in a variety of ways, of extreme importance to our interests in the Ionian Islands, and I apprehend is one of those that ought not only to be held by an Englishman, but by one of known prudence and discretion. Young Foresti has already held that situation, and there are strong grounds for suspecting that, when such, he actually aided the French in getting supplies into Corfu. Besides, the politics both of his father and himself are, to say the best of them, of a very suspicious character, and such appointment would infallibly give him much weight among his countrymen -a point that I think, under the present circumstances, ought to be most carefully avoided.
I thought it well to say thus much on the subject to your lordship, as you may not have been informed relative to this young gentleman's past conduct. Should, however, what he says prove true--that he is actually to be appointed- your lordship may rely apon it that I will, as far as I can, try to keep him right; nor have I any other view upon the present occasion than simply to put your lordship in possession of the fact.
I have the honour to be, &c., T. MAITLAND.
Sir Charles Stuart to Lord Castlereagh,
Paris, January 23, 1816. My dear Lord, I was this evening honoured with your private letter of the 19th, and immediately went to the Duke
Brother of the late Earl of Lauderdale, Governor of Malta and the Ionian Islands
de Richelieu and to M. de Caze, for the purpose of fulfilling the instructions it conveys. They have equally manifested the best possible disposition to comply with your wishes, and I am assured that copies of all interceptions, memorandums, and other papers connected with the subject of Sir R. Wilson's arrest, shall be entrusted to me, together with a written detail of everything which the police have been hitherto able to discover respecting the intrigues carried on by the English at Paris. As there are, however, many papers to copy, it is doubtful if the whole can be got ready before next mail.
I believe Kinnaird to have been committed in the first instance, but to have had the prudence to avoid committing himself in the transactions which have led to the arrest of the other gentlemen. The information received before the other papers by "The Morning Chronicle" upon this business must, moreover, have come through the channel of his correspondents, because he is the only person who sent letters to England by the courier despatched the evening the arrest took place.
I have already exchanged the ratifications of the Congress and of the Paris Treaty with the French Government. My repeated remonstrances and official notes have, however, failed hitherto to obtain the same from the other Powers; indeed, with this exception, of course, I much doubt if I shall obtain anything satisfactory from them before the meeting of Parliament.
Ever, my dear lord, &c., CHARLES STUART.
[Enclosure.] Paris, Janvier 22, 1816. Les alarmes du Gouvernement ont été très grandes dans ces derniers jours. On a redoublé les gardes aux Tuileries, et on a donné des cartouches aux soldats. Les Anglais aussi ont fourni de la cavalerie pour faire des patrouilles. On craignait effectivement une explosion et il parait que les ennemis du Gouvernement, qui certainement sont en très grand nombre, voulaient tenter un coup pour faire en sorte que le service funèbre pour Louis XVI. n'eut pas lieu. On avait même cherché à exciter des troubles parmi les ouvriers qui travaillaient à l'église de Saint Denis pour cette cérémonie. La police fait toujours des arrestations nouvelles, mais il paraît qu'on ne parvient pas à découvrir les fils de ce qu'on machine.
On a commencé à ouvrir des régistres dans plusieurs villes de France pour faire inscrire tous ceux qui dans le tems n'adhèrerent pas à la condamnation de Louis XVI. Mais comme on sait qu'il y a plusieurs centaines des milliers de Français qui la signèrent, il est très sûr que cette autre misérable mesure va encore diviser et enflammer les esprits davantage; et malheureusement ils l'ont été beaucoup par suite des discussions de la chambre des députés et de l'exil des votans. Les cris contre les infractions faites à la charte s'élèvent de toute part, parceque on craint qu'à la première occasion on ne veuille revenir sur les ventes des domaines nationaux.
Au reste, comme la situation de la France devient tous les jours plus alarmante, je suis forcé de répéter plus que jamais que, dans l'équilibre politique de l'Europe, la France ne peut plus entrer que comme force répugnante qu'il faut très soigneusement contenir. Le meilleur moyen d'atteindre ce but est décidément celui de contenter les autres nations aux dépens d'elle ; car si la France, dans l'état actuel de l'Europe, parvenait à avoir l'appui de quelqu'une des autres nations qu'on a injustement mécontentées, on peut être sûr qu'il en résulterait an bouleversement universel dans le monde politique.
La brochure du Général Sarrazin, dont j'ai parlé dans un de mes précédens bulletins et que le Gouvernement Français avait fait saisir, a été payée quatorze-cens francs par ce même Gouvernement au libraire qui l'avait achetée et imprimée. À présent lo dit libraire imprime un autre ouvrage de Sarrazin qui est intitulé: La guerre de la Restauration. Le Gouverne


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Pugh said she has traveled to multiple countries, including Singapore, Australia and China, and lived in Indonesia for three years. Pugh said her world travels have inspired some of the items she offers at the Pinehurst store.
"I love different cultures, and I have an appreciation for [them]. Everybody wants to make all these other countries America, but they're not America," she said. "Some of my inspiration comes from that, but I also try to get stuff I think my customers will like."
Unique Decor & More—previously called Pinehurst Trade Center—opened in September 2018 after former owner Cheryl Holderrieth told Pugh she should open her own store, Pugh said.
"I was [previously] involved in importing, so over the years I've known Cheryl, she kept saying, 'You need to do this.' She had retired, and the building was just sitting there," Pugh said. "I thought, 'What the heck, why not give it a shot?'"
Pugh hand-picks items directly from the factory so she can offer wholesale pricing to her customers—which makes her prices lower than a retail store, she said.
She said she offers home decor and furniture and receives new items about every two weeks.
"My items come direct. There's no middle man, so I don't have to mark up the price like you would at a retail shop," Pugh said. "This way I can sell it cheaper."
In addition to regular business, Pugh said she plans to offer new events this fall, including a sip-and-shop event in November as well as a visit from Santa in December.
"The people out here, they've just been real sweet. I enjoy people coming by, even if they just want to talk and don't buy anything," Pugh said. "I'm from a small town myself, so I just love Magnolia."
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I actually had a different post in mind for today when I finished it up last night. But I was consumed by the question posed in this post's title: "Have we lost our grit?" I will have to get around to telling you all about my ski weekend tomorrow. Today I will explore the question of the day with you. Here's what I was doing, to give you a bit of context: I was mostly settled in to my morning routine today, cutting up vegetables, heating up mushrooms, washing my Leeks, as an the question popped in to my mind. "Have we lost our grit?"
I did go on to finish making breakfast, and the leeks were delicious. But this also completely derailed any other productive thoughts from my mind, including finishing my post about my ski weekend, until I had written down my thoughts on the grit and dirt I was washing out of my Leeks this morning.
Have we lost our grit?
This question can be interpreted in several different ways – and I intend it to be interpreted in all of those ways! Here's where I was coming from: Is it possible that the experience of eating a meal has been diminished by the lack of preparation we have to make in order to eat? Here is how my parents eat a meal in the summer time: They head out to the garden and harvest some lettuce, some onions, perhaps a heel of garlic, some cucumbers, a zucchini, a pepper, perhaps a hot pepper. They grab the hose on the way in and give the basketful of vegetation they just harvested a thorough soaking, removing most of the bigger pieces of dirt from their meal. They come inside, chop, heat, and otherwise prepare the meal, including some local farm-raised meat (most likely a beef or pork cut), and sit down after about 30 minutes of harvesting and 15 minutes of chopping, for a nice home-made meal. And when they call their food "home-made" they have an earned right to the term.
I put a similar amount of preparation in to my food, but it's very different in content. I go to the store (I'm urban, after all) and agonize over the variety of salad greens available: "Is there wild arugula here today?" I ask myself, looking at the 1000's of meals worth of various salad greens. If no wild arugula, I'll look for organic spring mix, or some similar sort of salad green – the more color, the better. It probably takes me as long to locate the salad greens I choose as it did my parents to harvest theirs – so I get some meal appreciation, since I did work for it. But is it possible that the content of my work is also important? And how does this bear on people who simply grab the first bag on the lettuce shelf? Can they enjoy their meal as much as I do? Can I enjoy my meal as much as my parents do?
I don't know the answer to those questions – but I know that they're important questions. I know that there is a "Slow Food" movement out there gaining steam to help people to remember that "Saying Grace" before our meal used to have a real meaning. It's trying to re-teach us that food isn't a chore, and that because it is perhaps the most important single thing we do in our lives, it should be savored, appreciated, and considered at great length. We should have food that is, as Lavi Strauss put it "Good to think." And it should contribute to, not detract from, our Grit.
Is the extra work enough?
I do extra work, and shop at more than one (often more than 2) grocery stores in an attempt to find food which still has the grit on it, just so that I have to wash it off. I go far out of my way to buy Leeks, the progenitor of today's question, which are not trimmed, and have not been washed. I buy arugula which is wild harvested, as are the blueberries and raspberries I have in my freezer. I buy grass-fed beef, pastured chickens (not even "Free Range"), and pastured pork. At the end of the week, I likely spend as much time in grocery shopping, after considering all the labels I read, all the research on this brand and that which I do, as my parents spend tending their garden and harvesting their produce. And I enjoy my food, truly, more than most people I know. I work hard to get the best ingredients I can find. I carefully select which ingredients are added to each dish, making sure that their flavors and textures are well matched to the final experience I am in pursuit of. And it works! Not only do I enjoy my food, but so does everyone else who eats it! But that doesn't answer the question: is it enough? Is my parents' experience of food still better than my own? And is their experience meaningfully better?
What does this have to do with our "Grit"?
I notice that more and more people are not reading the labels on their packaged foods. Including the foods that my parents eat in the winter. This is a strange observation for me, since I spend most of my conscious time deep in my own world of highly perceptive food considerations… But the few times I actually pick my head up and look around, I hear people talking about going on a "Low Fat Diet". I think to myself "Do people still believe that crap?" And then I see another article, published in the NY Times or some other reputable periodical, stating "conclusively" in the title that red meat will kill you. When I read the article, though, I find buried somewhere in the text that there is no actually established causative link, and that the correlations are vanishingly small when adjusted for more important risk factors. But that doesn't make a good news story, does it?
And the news is only the beginning. How many medications are there for asthma? I have close friends with 2 and 3 year old kids who have asthma! This is not natural! So, scientists and doctors are blaming it on the pollutants in the air. Here is my problem with that: if pollution is the cause, then why aren't the White Tailed Deer populations being decimated by their inability to run? Why aren't the pigeons falling out of the air? I could go on, but I think I've made my point. Let's be honest with ourselves here: if the cause is ambient, then all natural beings are subject to it. This is a very simple logical deduction. And since White Tailed Deer are heavily overpopulated, and Pigeon populations don't seem to be threatened in the least, we know that it's not an ambient issue. Air quality is not the cause of asthma – it may be a trigger, but it is not the cause. And what is every bit as fundamental to our health as our air quality and water quality? FOOD!
Here's what you need to do: eat real food. Nothing else will do. If you're buying something in a package, it should have only the ingredients you think you're getting, and nothing else. If there's other stuff in it, don't buy it. Eat unprocessed salad greens, wash the dirt off yourself, eat colored vegetables, and eat grass-fed beef. It's just not that difficult. And if you do, you can look forward to the same kind of health that the White Tailed Deer seem to have, despite that they drink the water we pollute, and breathe the same air that we pollute, and sleep in the acid rain that we caused. What's the difference between them and us? They eat real food! They eat the food they are meant to eat! And we eat stuff we don't even have a language for. Why don't we have a language for it? Because it's not real food!!!
Yes, it seems we have lost our Grit…
I think that the people who read those articles, and mindlessly believe the title have proven the title of this post! They have lost their Grit. And for a lack of any other reasonable hypothesis, I am blaming it on the lack of dirt in their food. I have concluded (for argument's sake) that when people stopped gardening, and started buying pre-washed romaine hearts, they lost their Grit. Literally, and figuratively.
And so, it's possible that my parents enjoy their summer meals slightly better than I enjoy mine. They made the meal themselves, truly. But I think that the hard work that I put in to my meal is part of what makes it so delicious. Today I am asking you to go buy some Grit!
If you have comments, please send them in!! I know that this topic should generate quite a bit of thought – share your thoughts with us on the comments board! And thank you for reading and (hopefully) enjoying my rant today – it was on my mind, and now it's out there for all to read.


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CUNA Strategic Services has partnered with Seattle-based fintech Switch to bring instant card updating to credit unions across the country. The two firms have announced a market feasibility pilot involving Switch's CardUpdatr app which updates merchant websites with credit union cards in real time to get new cards into circulation faster, boost transaction volumes, and increase customer loyalty.
An issuer-branded solution, CardUpdatr supports activation, reissuance, and card use promotion marketing programs. The app can be deployed and used without requiring the involvement of in-house development teams to make the card updating process easier and smoother for issuers and cardholders alike. The technology is powered by Switch's CardSavr platform, a scalable, cloud-based solution that uses advanced autonomous broswer technology fueled by machine learning and AI-powered algorithms to place new or reissued cards on any online account.
"CSS recognizes that tech-sophisticated financial organizations who apply easily integrated solutions to directly address member experience problems are in a better position to win on member loyalty and long-term growth," Switch co-founder and CEO Chris Hopen explained. He warned that because many cardholders do not update their online accounts when they receive newly-issued cards, issuers often do not see the ROI that they should. "Switch looks forward to witnessing the positive impact CardUpdatr will have on credit unions and their members."
Switch issued its CardUpdatr app this spring. The app leverages the power of the company's payment provisioning platform to keep cards-on-file updated where cardholders shop and make online payments. Cardholders simply enter their card and billing information, choose the websites of the online merchants where cards-on-file need to be updated, and provide login details for those selected sites. The updating process takes seconds and does not involve reading, pulling, or scraping personally identifiable information (PII).
"The CardUpdatr solution is uniquely positioned to propel credit unions to the frontline of innovation to increase cardholder satisfaction and differentiate themselves from other financial institutions," CUNA Strategic Services (CSS) President Eric Gelly said. "(Switch) offers a powerful solution that is in complete alignment with our organization's mission of helping credit unions improve their bottom line and enhance their relationships. CSS is thrilled to bring the breakthrough capabilities of the Switch technology to our credit unions."
Founded in 2014, Switch demonstrated its technology at FinovateSpring 2016. The company picked up $2 million in funding late last year, bringing its total capital to more than $2.3 million.


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Victory for Elisabeth Goergl
The satisfaction of winning the Super G event this week has been unimaginable after a long journey for Elisabeth Goergl of Austria. Winning her first gold medal was an extremely proud moment for the accomplished alpine skier, who also enjoys downhill disciplines as well as giant slalom. Born on 20 February 1981, Goergl will most definitely have something to celebrate along with her birthday as the enormity of her victory begins to sink in. Even though she was up against world class competition, the Austrian skier did not allow pressure to deter her from delivering one of her best performances.
Goergl had to settle for a bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships, but the Super G event of the 2011 World Championships seemed to have been waiting for her, as skiing is most definitely in her genes. Her mother, Traudl Hecher also won a bronze medal at the Winter Olympics of 1962 and 1964.
Two well known names in the skiing industry, Maria Riesch from Germany and Julia Mancuso of the United States of America provided intimidating competition for Goergl, but could not beat her time of one minute and twenty-three seconds. Mancuso was only off the mark by .05 seconds, while Riesch finished her round in a time of one minute and twenty four seconds. Lindsay Vonn, who was there to defend her title in the Super G discipline and who is the overall World Cup champion, commented that participating might not have been a good idea on her part, after sustaining a concussion a few days earlier when she fell during practice. Vonn was only able to secure a seventh position. The top ten positions were as follows: Elisabeth Goergl, Julia Mancuso, Maria Riesch, Lara Gut, Anna Fenninger, Elena Curtoni, Lindsay Vonn, Fabrienne Suter, Daniela Merighetti and Anja Paerson.
Goergl told the press that to take on the Super G course you need to ski it. Most contenders did comment on the dangerous conditions and bumpy ride they had to endure. Elisabeth Goergl, however, had a strategy going into the event and was quoted saying: "I wasn't nervous at all at the start. I had a good run, I did what I had planned to do. The conditions were in my favor in this case."


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It was a wild and woolly Saturday evening as Nintendo World Report raised over $4,000 for Child's Play and we got to work with our friends at RPGamer - Chris and Anna Marie Privitere - to determine the best Nintendo system for RPGs ever. This recording is the result.
There were laughs, tears and the birth of a new, probably offensive analogy. A grand time was had by all. And yes, we worked a little blue as well.
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Well, figuratively speaking, that is. There are just so many great things going on right now! Here are four reasons you should get over there as soon as possible:
1) The Art of Video Games
From the moment I heard about the Hudson River Museum's latest exhibit, I couldn't wait to check it out – and it was even better than expected.
Organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the exhibit presents a series of stations which together present the evolution of the art of gaming. Each station is a visually appealing, interactive and information-packed kiosk highlighting a particular gaming system from a particular moment in time, along with four representative video games for that system. Continue reading


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I employed Bill to paint the bedrooms and bathrooms in my house and I am very pleased with the finished job. He made sure he knew what I wanted right from the start and helped advise me on what paint types to purchase for each room he decorated. In addition to the good quality of his work he is was always on time, clean and tidy and went the extra mile to oblige. (Margret Jones, Ashford).
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San Francisco Silent Film Festival
The Strong Man (1926)
Accompanied By: Stephen Horne
Sat, Jul 17th 4:00pm
Castro Theatre
I attended this program for my 1st chance to see a Harry Langdon comedy. Some of the set pieces, such as when he carries a woman up a flight of stairs with his butt, are humorous, but for the most part I found the Langdon character's mindlessness uninteresting & unfunny. His small stature, tight-fitting clothes & graceful mime just kept reminding me of Chaplin instead. On the other hand, it does look like Chaplin stole the idea of a romance involving a blind girl from this movie. Stephen Horne accompanied on the piano, pump organ & accordion. Somehow he can play the piano & the accordion at the same time, though it was so dark I could not see how this feat was accomplished.
As usual for this festival, the Castro was packed with enthusiastic & well-informed attendees, some in period dress. Critic Leonard Maltin was easy to spot in the VIP seating. The program began with the Georges Méliès trick film An Impossible Balancing Feat. Festival Executive Director Stacey Wisnia then presented Photoplay Productions, represented by Kevin Brownlow and Patrick Stanbury, the Silent Film Festival Award. After the movie, Mr. Brownlow was on-hand to sign copies of his seminal survey of the silent era, The Parade's Gone By.


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Report: GM Targeting Chevrolet Volt Sales of 36,000 in 2013
GM may build more PHEVs this year.
General Motors is hoping to move more Chevrolet Volts this year. A new report states that the automaker is aiming to move 36,000 Volts in 2013, roughly 20 percent more than in 2012.
To put that into perspective, Chevrolet sold 23,461 Volts in the U.S. last year. According to the report by The Washington Post, GM built approximately 30,000 range-extended plug-ins last year between its Chevrolet and Holden Volt and Opel/Vauxhall Ampera models. That's a far cry from the original 60,000-unit goal announced for 2012 sales by GM CEO Dan Akerson, although he quickly halved that expectation.
It's not easy to match up the Volt against its competition - neither Ford nor Toyota break out sales figures for its PHEV models from the rest of its C-Max and Prius model lines. (The Ford Fusion Energi didn't go on sale until the beginning of this year.) That said, Ford still sold 13,309 C-Max Hybrids and Energis in 2012, despite not being on sale for the entirety of the year. Toyota sold 236,695 Prius, Prius v, Prius c, and Prius Plug-Ins last year.
Hopefully, General Motors won't have to idle its Hamtramck, Michigan plant - where the Volt and Ampera are built - again this year, and will be able to keep producing the PHEVs to meet its 36,000-car goal. That said, the four-week shutdown in 2012 was to retool the plant in preparation of production for the 2014 Impala sedan, which is also built there; GM will also begin building the Volt-based Cadillac ELR PHEV at Hamtramck later this year in anticipation of it going on sale at the beginning of 2014.
Jim Hall, a consultant from 2953 Analytics, told The Washington Post that the 36,000 production number is "probably doable. [The cars] will have a full calendar year in Europe, and GM will probably sell more this year now that the Volt is eligible for the car-pool lane in California."
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The Searchers of the Grail (Blu-ray)
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Label: Arthaus
Cat No: 109081
Format: Blu-ray
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Documentary
Release Date: 28th August 2015
ArtistsPlacido Domingo
Violetta Urmana
Nikolai Putilin
Matti Salminen
Kirov Orchestra and Choir
ConductorValery Gergiev
ArtistsPlacido Domingo
Violetta Urmana
Nikolai Putilin
Matti Salminen
Kirov Orchestra and Choir
ConductorValery Gergiev
Hitler, the most dangerous dictator of all time, even identified himself with Parsifal, on his quest for the Holy Grail. Harrison Ford, alias Indiana Jones, engages in a fierce race for the cup with the German Nazis in 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade'. And Plácido Domingo is considered to be one of the best performers ever of Richard Wagners 'Parsifal'.
The Wagnerian opera and the three men mentioned above now meet in 'The Searchers of the Grail', a superb documentary by Tony Palmer.
Starting with a 'Parsifal' production starring Plácido Domingo in the title role, Violetta Urmana as Kundry, Nikolai Putilin as Klingsor and Matti Salminen as Gurnemanz, the film takes us to the gardens of the Villa Rufolo in Ravello, Italy, which had been a principal source of inspiration for Wagner; on to the actual stage in Bayreuth for a rare interview with Wolfgang Wagner, the composers grandson; and finally to Hollywood and Steven Spielbergs 'Indiana Jones'.
In an impressive way, Palmer weaves together documentary, fiction and the everlasting spell of the myth of the Holy Grail.
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If you are sick of the midterm election stuff…then I have something different…..history.
So far the series has taken the reader through the early days, the revolution, the convention and the presidency of the first president of the US, George Washington…..
Maj. Danny Sjursen continues his series with a look at the presidency of John Adams, the 2nd president of the US…..
Part 10 of "American History for Truthdiggers."
"Liberty, once lost, is lost forever." —John Adams in a letter to his wife, Abigail (1775)
"[A social division exists] between the rich and the poor, the laborious and the idle, the learned and the ignorant. … Nothing, but force, and power and strength can restrain [the latter]." —John Adams in a letter to Thomas Jefferson (1787)
Two quotes from the same person. Barely a decade between the two utterances. How can a man be so conflicted? John Adams, who helped lead the revolution against British "tyranny," would later become a president apt to suppress dissent and restrict a free press at home. Well, Adams was a complicated man, and the United States was—and is—a complicated nation.
As John Adams succeeded the quintessential American hero, George Washington, becoming the second president of the United States, division pervaded the land and a debate raged in both the public and private space: Shall we have liberty or order? Could a people expect a measure of both?
Maj. Sjursen does a brilliant job of educating the reader on facts about the country….facts that have been left out of the teacher's fact books for class.
Excellent series and an excellent writer…..chuq


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2019 is a very special year for many different reasons in Major League Baseball, which celebrates 116 consecutive seasons of the professional competition this season. In addition, this year is also the 150th anniversary of the sport turning professional in North America, with the Cincinnati Red Stockings becoming the first all-professional team back in 1869.
While the popularity of professional baseball and the MLB is mostly evident in the United States and Canada, the sport and this leading competition continues to enjoy an ever-growing following elsewhere around the world. Statistics show that the official MLB rosters at the start of the 2019 season featured 251 internationally-born players from outside the two North American countries.
One country where baseball continues to grow in popularity is South Africa, with two players in particular having managed to forge successful professional careers in North America, even managing to earn opportunities to play for MLB teams.
Tayler Scott – South African Pitching for MLB Success
Hailing originally from Johannesburg, Tayler Scott moved to the United States aged 16 as part of a baseball scholarship at Notre Dame High School in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was drafted by the Chicago Cubs during the 2011 MLB draft, and quicky became a featured profit machine at Apostas esportivas no Brasil because he was featuring as a professional player with several of their affiliated minor league teams, until the disappointment of being released by the club in 2016. His MLB journey could have just as easily ended there, but Tayler's determination to succeed at the highest level never waned.
Spells with the Milwaukee Brewers and Texas Rangers never led to more than appearing for their minor league affiliates. However, everything changed when he became a free agent and signed for the Seattle Mariners in January 2019. Working hard to earn his opportunity, he became the first South African pitcher in MLB history, debuting in the major league at the start of June.
By the end of the same month, 27-year-old Tayler moved to the Baltimore Orioles and straight into their major league roster. The Orioles finished the 2019 regular season bottom of the American League East division, which was won by the New York Yankees, who are among the favorites to win the World Series this year according to the latest MLB odds on bet365.
Nevertheless, Tayler demonstrated a powerful pitching arm and looks set to continue playing regularly next season, having now proven that, after years of effort and developing his ability, he certainly has the talent to deserve a place in the major league roster with the Orioles. If not in Baltimore, there's a very strong chance that several other MLB teams would be interested ahead of the 2020 season.
Gift Ngoepe – First Ever African Player in MLB
While the future in MLB looks bright for Tayler Scott, he wasn't the first South African or African-born player to debut in the major league. That honor remains with Gift Ngoepe, who was the focus of a special CNN news story in 2018, which featured on the African Voices segment broadcast internationally. This story charted his remarkable journey in baseball against all the odds, from playing at a baseball complex in Randburg, to eventually making his MLB breakthrough.
Ngoepe became only the sixth South African to earn a professional baseball contract in 2008, signing for the Pittsburgh Pirates after impressing at the Major League Baseball Academy in Tirrenia, Italy. Although he would have to prove himself in the minor leagues for several years, he was eventually promoted to the major league roster in April 2018 and on the 27th of that month, which coincidentally was also Freedom Day in South Africa, he made his MLB debut with the Pirates.
The journey continues to be tough for 29-year-old Ngoepe, who has since had spells with other MLB teams including Toronto Blue Jays and the Philadelphia Phillies, before returning to the Pittsburgh Pirates. However, this is a second baseman who remains enthusiastic and believes he can still succeed at the highest level, despite dropping down to the minor leagues with the Lancaster Barnstormers this season.
Whatever the future holds for Ngoepe, as the very first baseball player from South Africa and the African continent to make the breakthrough in MLB, his story is one that will undoubtedly inspire other young players aiming for the same objective; especially given the continuing growth in popularity of the sport throughout Africa over recent years.


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After retiring two years ago, I have been able to enjoy many new and some long-awaited pursuits. I love photography, hiking, exploring, traveling and of course, writing. But one of my biggest joys is floating on local rivers in my kayak. A friend introduced me to kayaking and we shared some remarkable time on a clear quiet lake. It was like cocaine to my spirit. It awakened something inside me that is hard to explain. Floating on the water, quietly paddling along, listening to the harmony of nature has renewed my life and rejuvenated my well being. It struck a chord in my heart reminding me of how music, any kind, can bring quality to my life.
Since that time, another friend has offered numerous opportunities to go paddling. I get a high on every trip and feel compelled to write about it here. I sincerely hope that by explaining how the music of the river has affected me, you too, will be inspired to pursue a part of our natural world that fulfills your wandering soul.
The music I hear on the river can be legato (smooth) or it can be forte (played loudly.) The water is sometimes cool and serene, and other times it is hot and raucous. Floating along allowing the current to drift you over a multicolored pebbled bottom can relax you into a nature induced coma. I always hear a medley of bird calls, frogs, and all things that buzz along the river. I am amazed by the soft timbre of a whooshing heron's wings. I love to greet a curious dragonfly that hovers with wings beating to its own musical rhythm. The light "plop" of a turtle into the water off a nearby log relaxes the tempo of my blood pressure.
Some rivers have fast waters with numerous obstacles waiting to claim your kayak. Paddling over boulders and through narrow rushes of water wakes up the human motivation to feel alive. I am A Capella, alone in my quest to conquer the river. In these places, in between quick decisions, the composition can be heard in the bubbling and gurgling waters. Because I am a novice kayaker, there are times I can hear some riffles well before reaching them, and the anticipation feels like a loud drum with tympanums is inside my chest.
The music of the river, with nature as the conductor, is a song cycle with a single theme – inspiration. Whether you can get into a canoe or kayak on the river, or just spend some time near a lake or river, you are sure to hear music in the water if you listen. Mother Nature provides encore after encore through each season, revitalizing our spirits with her songs. I wish you the peace of music in nature wherever your wanderlust takes you.


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BEC (battery elimanator circuitry) used to provide the 5V require to power flight controllers like the Naze32. ESCs like the BL20A do not have a BEC. So if you aren't using a board like the OSDoge, these will be needed to power the Naze32.
- Input voltage – 5-23v
- Output voltage 5v 3A.


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Graduated South Hampton University, UK. Andreas has worked in various specialities in UK and Australia (Perth, Melbourne and Canberra) including general medicine, paediatrics and aged care. He has special interest in Diabetes and Weight issues, attaining the Postgraduate Certificate in Endocrinology & Diabetes from Royal College of Physicians UK.
He worked in urban practice in Perth for 20 years before making the sea change to Esperance in 2011.
Special interests: Diabetes and weight issues
Hobbies: Classic guitar, cinema & world music, cycling and canoeing.


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Back in 2017, Nokia announced the return of the legendary Nokia 3310 complete with mobile-gaming classic, Snake. If you're an iPhone user with fond memories of the game, but not quite willing to give up your smartphone powerhouse, worry not! You can now download and play retro Snake for free on your iPhone.
And it comes complete with a 90's Nokia 3310-inspired keypad displayed on screen. In fact, you can choose from 6 different old-school Nokia phones. Perfect for that train ride into the office.
You'll find it in the Apple App Store and it's free to download here https://appsto.re/gb/jEchA.i. For those that of you that prefer the updated game Snake 2, that's included too!
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Velocity Trophy: James Ishmail nets winner to help Romford see off local rivals Hornchurch
PUBLISHED: 10:30 29 October 2017
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Velocity Trophy second round: Romford 2 Hornchurch 1
A dominant performance from Carlos Djalo saw Romford progress to the third round of the Velocity Trophy with a 2-1 derby win over Hornchurch.
Djalo contributed a goal and an assist in his side's success over their Bostik North rivals at Ship Lane.
It was an electric opening 20 minutes with chances coming at both ends. The first of those chances came after 50 seconds when Martin Tuohy fired wide from inside the box after the ball looped over Michael Finneran's head.
It was the home side who came even closer a couple of minutes later.
Harry Daly's edge of the box drive took a wicked deflection and forced Urchins stopper Sam Mott into a wonderful save before Sam Mvemba volleyed wide the rebound with the goal at his mercy.
Mvemba was denied yet again on the eight-minute mark.
Jonathan Nzengo lofted ball found the run of the Boro man, but his low shot was scuppered by the onrushing Mott.
Both sides creativity seemed to dry up after that with neither team creating any clear-cut openings.
The second half started as the first finished with little goal mouth action.
That changed after 60 minutes when the home side were awarded a penalty after Daly was pulled back by Boro old boy Nathan Cooper.
Djalo stepped up and calmly slotted home to put his side ahead, but the lead lasted just six minutes.
Substitute Theo Fairweather-Johnson stretched to stab home Tobi Joseph's cross to bring the Urchins level.
The tie was then settled with 12 minutes to play, however, when Djalo turned his marker in the box before cutting the ball back for James Ishmail to tap home the winner.
The visitors pushed for an equaliser but failed to find one as the home side held strong to win the tie.
Boro face a trip to either Folkestone Invicta or Metropolitan Police in the 3rd round.
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