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2008 was a real motherfucker.
i mean, not really, but kind of.
our album came out (a full year after it was recorded) and we went on tour. a lot.
we worked really hard this year and all we have to show for it is massive debt (both band and personal), mental instability, shattered relationships and the overall disdain of everyone we work with.
but i'm not bitter.
i'm more like an olive- kind of briny, pickle-ish... but tasty.
if this all sounds super whiny, it is. it's what i do. i whine.
and look, i realize our album is kinda crappy, people have been telling us that from the start, but that's just the way we made it and that's the way we like it. if people don't like it, they should go listen to something better- like bon iver. or bon scott era ac/dc.
as the great robert wyatt once wrote:
"you may notice some technical inadequacies in some of my performances- a hesitant beat here, a dodgy note there- these are of course entirely deliberate and reproduced as evidence of my almost painful sincerity."
totally, dude.
anyway, because it's that time of the year, i thought i'd do a couple year end top ten lists myself. and sticking with the theme of whining, here's:
1. ladyhawke related shit-
yes, we know that there's another ladyhawk(e). no, we don't care. why do you? is this ACTUALLY confusing to people? do we have to change our fucking band name?
2. guys who talk about beards-
this applies to both music writers and guys (and it's ALWAYS guys) on the street or at shows. dudes are always saying shit to me like "hey, sweet beard, man" or they just want to talk about my beard. i NEVER do that to other guys with beards. honestly, what the fuck is up with that? some dudes even want to touch it. music writers always think they're being super clever and use the fucking dumb made up term "beardos" when they talk about us- like weirdos, but with an extra beard reference thrown in all sneaky! GET IT?? why do people always mention the fact that we have facial hair? if i was writing about a band i wouldn't mention the fact that certain members have boobs or perms or whatever. i just really fucking hate shaving.
3. alcohol references (sorry, another one aimed at music writers)-
look, i realize we did this one to ourselves. fully. we deserve it. but it's still annoying to constantly hear yourself refered to as "booze-soaked" when you really don't drink THAT much. i mean, i don't drink that much, the other guys are DRUNKS!
4. stupid, boring interview questions-
i also realize it's lame to complain about doing interviews, like "oooh, poor me, people are interested in what i think about things...", but does anyone honestly care about shit like "where did you get your band name?" or "how did your band start?"? NOBODY cares about that shit! and nobody really cares what i think about things and they shouldn't.
5. sound guys-
hey dude, i think your ponytail's too tight. these guys take their job pretty seriously, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but after hearing the same lecture about stage volume and turning down literally hundreds of times, WE FUCKING GET IT! that doesn't mean we're going to turn down. i'm sure anybody that plays in a guitar-based rock band can feel me on this. i also love it when sound guys "join the band" and feel they can just throw all kinds of shitty digital reverb and delay all over the vocals. it cracks me up every time.
6. being broke-
we make NOOOO money. thing is, i still have to pay rent for all those months i'm away on tour and i can't work when i'm not around, so there's not really any money coming in most of the time. it's also pretty hard to find a job that's cool with you leaving all the time. it's rad to borrow money from your parents when you're 30 because you play in a band and can't buy groceries.
7. drink tickets-
its also lame to complain about getting free drinks, but when you're trying to survive on a $10 per diem, tipping the bartender kind of stings. we usually only get 3 tickets per band member, so it's also pretty difficult to cultivate that "booze-soaked" image we're known for.
8. my amp-
no comment. anybody want to buy an amp?
9. "club night"-
i understand that bars need to make money and that they can make more money if they double book the night, rushing everyone, including the bands, out early so dj's can set up and all new people can come in and get drunk. it makes sense, but fuck off.
10. sketchy promoters trying to rip off bands-
it happens all the time and it sucks.
bla bla bla... god, complain much? yeesh!
here's my top ten albums of 2008 (in no particular order):
david bowie- young americans
some of this sounds a bit too g.e. smith and the saturday night live band, but the song "win" kills me every time.
yaz- upstairs at eric's
i've been obsessed with vince clarke all year. he also did all the music on depeche mode's (pre heroin) debut album that's been ruling me as well.
the grateful dead- s/t
it's no secret that i love the dead. lately i've really been jamming their first album, it makes me want to do a shit-load of speed next time we record.
laid back- keep smiling
best. album. ever.
best. cover. ever.
fleetwood mac- tusk
this is what millions of dollars, 2 years of studio time and mountains of cocaine can get you- a sprawling monster double album/difficult artistic statement that alienates almost all of your fans, but actually deeply rules. i've cried listening to this more than once. totally emo.
no kids- come into my house
nick krgovich is a genius.
tommy james and the shondells- the best of tommy james and the shondells
come on... crimson and clover? i think we're alone now? forget about it. i just want to make music that sounds like this.
double negative- the wonderful and frightening world of double negative
the last time we played in chapel hill, these guys were the only people at our show. for some reason they like our band. anyway, after the show one of the dudes gave me a copy of this album and it totally fucking kills.
crass- stations of the crass
i'll admit, i rarely make it all the way through this album in one go. let's just say it's a little... preachy. but it's got some jams.
guided by voices- alien lanes
28 short songs that are really more like one long song. this has probably been in my top 10 since it came out.
honerable mention: anything by the dwight twilley band.
hey, wait a minute! only one of those albums came out in 2008! turns out we weren't the only ones releasing crappy albums this year, so was EVERYONE ELSE!
just kidding, there were probably lots of good albums released in 2008, i just have no interest in hearing them. that's just me.
AND there's no better way to celebrate christmas than by listening to grim, satanic black metal! so here's my top 10 all-time favorite black metal albums (also in no particular order)...
bathory- the return
pretty much the first "actual" black metal album and kind of the best. i listened to this once on a faulty record player that kept slowing down and speeding up and got thoroughly creeped out.
ulver- nattens madrigal
there's a legend that this was recorded in the forest under the full moon. obviously bullshit. the guitar sound on this album is insane. ulver means wolves in norwegian, pretty badass.
mayhem- live in leipzig
apparently the only surviving recording of the legendary line-up featuring dead, euronymous and varg vikarnes. if you don't know the dirt on these dudes, look it up. this recording is so shitty, but completely ripping and includes between song banter in "grim" voice.
emperor- anthems to the welkin at dusk
emperor gets props for being ambitious, even if their "symphonic" elements are just kind of cheesy synth lines. the overall effect is one of swirling, buzzing, chaotic noise, everything is lost in an almost ambient haze. kind of the my bloody valentine of black metal (that's a joke. is it just me or is my bloody valentine the most overly name-checked band EVER? i mean, i love my bloody valentine, EVERYBODY loves my bloody valentine. let's all just shut the fuck up about it!)
black witchery/conqueror- hellstorm of evil vengeance (split)
i'm not so much into the conqueror stuff (but it's technically more "war metal" anyway), but the black witchery songs are easily the shittiest, fastest, most brutal shit around. nothing but straight blast beats all the way. also, great title, guys.
xasthur- the funeral of being
this shit is totally emo.
gorgoroth- under the sign of hell
gorgoroth is ACTUALLY scary. they make most other black metal bands look like bon iver. you should really check out vbs.tv's excellent documentary about gorgoroth's main guy gaahl. totally insane.
darkthrone- a blaze in the northern sky
this just sounds like a crusty, lo-fi version of shitty early 90's hardcore and it truly doesn't get much better than that.
burzum- aske e.p.
i can't really look past some of the shittier aspects of varg vikarnes character (murderer, white supremecist..), but nobody has a better black metal howl than him.
immortal- battles in the north
these guys are kind of like the savage garden of black metal.
p.s. if you ever get bored just youtube "funny metallica moments"... remember when those guys were actually "booze-soaked"?
see you in the new year!
and if not, see you in hell!
83 comments:
Just wanted to let you know that I really like the new album, imperfections and all. Fuck the naysayers and keep doing what you do best. I've been playing it once a day since I picked it up after the all songs considered year end recap. As far as the Ladyhawke dispute, I have her album and it's shit. Know why, because it overproduced and has no flaws (and no soul).
- December 17, 2008 at 10:58 AM
- liz said...
aww bud. i understand (sorta)
new year? fuck whatever!
ok but why i'm commenting on here is because i'm glad you wrote on here. you should do it more often cause i love reading it.
- December 19, 2008 at 11:41 AM
- Margo Lane said...
I don't know how I overlooked this post but I'm glad I caught it - you're funny.
Also, I've probably mentioned it to you many times before but I also fucking hate how all interviews make you guys sound like alcoholics. Isn't it supposed to be about the music, man? And I don't think you guys are lushy at all. Fuck 'em all!
- December 19, 2008 at 2:34 PM
- Unknown said...
Okay...I'm just some nerd from Tennessee who you don't know, so take my opinion for what it's worth, which may not be much.
First, I wouldn't know about you guys if Justin from Double Negative hadn't given me a copy of your first album, sure that I would fucking love it. He was right. So, while he, his wife (my best friend), and a couple of other guys from his band were the only people at the Chapel Hill show, I was getting a call from them telling me to go to the Nashville show. I was one of a few people there including some shit-faced Canadian girls who were in town trying to break into country music. I went by myself because I couldn't get anyone to go with me because they had other shit to do and didn't know who Ladyhawk was. At some point I ended up talking to the guy from Neva Dinova, who I had never heard of, and assumed that he must be in Ladyhawk since I had no idea what any of you looked like, let alone that you all had beards with which boring interviews could be sustained. He corrected me and I felt like a douchebag, but I didn't really care because I was going to hear Sad Eyes/Blue Eyes that night and that was enough for me.
Long story short, I have been wanting to see you guys again since and have considering traveling some distance to do so. There is NOTHING "bad" about "Shots." I fucking love it and I rock that fucking album weekly. I have pushed your band onto many of my friends with fervor and I wear my Ladyhawk t-shirt proudly, explaining when people ask that Ladyhawk is currently one of my favorite bands.
I'm sorry you're not making any money, but please, please don't stop making music. And next time you're in Nashville and you only have three drink tickets, just yell out "Rosemary!" And I will come bearing beer for all and maybe even a few whiskey shots.
Rosemary, the superfan.
- December 22, 2008 at 11:54 AM
- Scott said...
Wow, somebody just told me about your listing of us...shit, fucking awesome! Too bad ya'll didn't play Raleigh instead...it would have kicked ass. Raleigh is the ONLY place to play in NC..Chapel Hill has always sucked. Please come back this way again. Personally..I dig all Ladyhawk recordings...I think we have similiar taste in music, just going by your list...but seriously...Crass really shines on Penis Envy. We just played ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas a couple weeks ago...if we ever host an ATP..youze guys be firsts on our list..for real. Oh yea...I need another tshirt...mine totally ripped...wanna trade?
I'm not sure if they have christmas in Canada..what do ya'll have... something like..Beaver Boat Day, to celebrate the Hudson Bay Company but if you do...have a happy New Year..
rock on in 2009!
- December 24, 2008 at 10:19 PM
- White Rose said...
David Bowie, Double Negative and Crass! Excellent!
- December 25, 2008 at 12:08 AM
- Bill said...
yeah that ulver album is really good.
- December 25, 2008 at 2:13 PM
- hmc1410 said...
"i realize our album is kinda crappy,"
So does that mean I have crappy taste because your album was one of my 10 favorite albums of the year?
Sorry I missed you last time through Chicago, but I was 5,000 miles away. Come back and I promise to be there AND buy you a drink, tip and all.
- December 26, 2008 at 9:12 AM
- Have You Heard said...
Thats my top ten show and it's been distributed to over a thousand people all over the world. Listen and figure out where you were on the list :)
- December 28, 2008 at 12:31 PM
- Garnet said...
I think your self-hatred may be a shtick of some kind, but understand: your album's fricking great.
- January 6, 2009 at 2:20 PM
- Colin said...
being poor sucks. listening the fight for anarchy 12" in the morning over cereal helps me get through the day though.
- January 8, 2009 at 10:01 PM
- Liam Colle said...
shots is awesome.
it made my top10 of the year: http://popgunning.blogspot.com/2009/01/1st-team-allstars-albums-of-08.html
- January 10, 2009 at 7:34 AM
- canard said...
Hmmmm. I didn't know you were into black metal. Anyway, I thought "Shots" was a great record. I really enjoyed it and felt it had a cohesive mood and vibe. Most importantly, it sounded like a real band should sound. I love it when critics talk about how something sounds "overproduced" and then when they are handed something that has natural guitar, bass, drum sounds on it, they freak out and call if "lo-fi" or some shit like that. I love your band. As a matter of fact, my wife and I traveled from Florida to Boston to hear you play (our unborn also heard you!). I used to be in a band and we did one tour and when we played Boston it was at the Middle East. We suffered the same problem with the "beer soaked" image. Yes, we liked to get fucking drunk, so what. I once saw Grant Hart drink almost a case of beer on stage and few have described Husker Du as "beer" or "booze" soaked. This comment is too long and "comma soaked".
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"This would help our local groups such as Beach to Beach and Creek to Creek, as well as our national parks and state forests to improve nature-based visitor services and experiences."
How the candidates would boost local tourism/industry:
Nationals MP for Port Macquarie Leslie Williams said over the last four years the Nationals have invested an additional $43 million to implement innovative initiatives to attract more visitors to rural and regional areas.
"We have established six new regional tourism entities, the Destination Networks, which have developed bespoke Destination Management Plans to provide a strategic framework for growing overnight visitation in their regions.
"In the year ending Sept 2018, regional NSW received its highest level of international and domestic overnight visitors and nights on record, and exceeded regional Australia's overnight growth in overnight visitors and nights for the year.
Regional NSW leads regional Australia in visitation with 35 per cent share of all international and domestic overnight visitors to regional Australia.
"NSW small businesses will save thousands of dollars under a NSW Liberals & Nationals Government, with the introduction of a raft of cost saving measures including cheaper insurance premiums, payroll tax cuts and access to the Energy Switch program.
"We are reducing costs, cutting tax, and slashing red tape – unlike Labor, who see NSW businesses as a cash cow."
Greens candidate Drusi Megget said the Greens plan to spend money on cycleways, which is good for locals and tourists alike.
"A high priority will be making sure the Beach to Beach and School to School cycleways are funded," she said.
"The Greens will start up a new publicly owned electricity company, PowerNSW.
"A benefit for regional areas is a $1 billion Renewable Energy Fund for local communities and councils.
"This will make it possible for employment in manufacture and maintenance of wind turbines.
"Electrical trades will boom with installation of batteries and solar.
"To boost job opportunities for youth, tenders will be required to include apprenticeships."
Sustainable Australia candidate Jan Burgess said the party appreciates the contribution tourism and small business makes to regional communities. Its policies to help small business include:
1. Removing small business employer involvement in the collection of superannuation funds for their employees (super can be better collected and managed by the ATO by including superannuation in workers gross pay and PAYG payment)
2. Instant write-off for small business assets under $20,000.
3. Having an "effects test" in competition policy to protect small business from misuse of market power.
4. Implementing standard maximum 30 day payment requirements for invoices to government and big business.
Labor candidate Peter Alley said the party recognises the important contribution that tourism makes to the local economy.
Mr Alley said under a Labor government a safe pathway will be built to enable the opportunity for kids in Lakewood and Fairwinds to walk or ride their bikes to Camden Haven High School, and for the Links estate to access the Lakewood Shopping Centre via bicycle or mobility scooter.
Funded on a 50:50 basis with Port Macquarie Hastings Council, this 750m of shared pathway on Ocean Drive between Brotherglen Drive, Kew and Sirius Drive, Lakewood will complete an important milestone of finally joining the Kew community west of the Highway, the Camden Haven High School, the Lakewood Shopping Centre and the Fairwinds estate.
This project will be funded from the Main Streets Revitalisation Fund, part of Labor's Regional Jobs Fund, which will be established from the proceeds of the $4.1 billion that NSW received from the sale of its share of the Snowy Hydro Scheme to the Commonwealth.
Mr Alley said Labor will mandate a target of 50 per cent local content for major state government contracts, as part of Labor's plan to support NSW workers and local industry.
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Moody's cuts China's residential property outlook
This comes via Market Watch:
Moody's Investors Service on Thursday lowered its view on China's property sector, warning that a slowdown is underway with credit conditions forecast to tighten over the next 18 months.
However, the ratings agency stopped short of affirming the view of some economists that conditions are ripe for a perfect storm that would slam the sector.
Earlier today, I asked Is China's hard landing already happening? It is early days, says Moody's so they don't see this yet but they are more cautious about growth in China going forward. House prices are coming off the boil and transaction volumes are slumping. That doesn't necessarily mean that a crash is imminent. Moreover, the house price drop in Beijing is due to changes in property regulations that were recently instituted. We would have to see more evidence of a widespread slowdown in prices and transactions before we know that a crash is happening.
My guess is that if property prices do drop dramatically over the next two or three months, the Chinese will pull back from their inflation fighting stance somewhat and loosen credit conditions. At that point, we would have to see what that means for inflation and food prices for the ordinary worker in China. That's the Scylla and Charybdis flation challenge Central Banks will face for years.


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Monday, October 12, 2009
I Need a Massage
When mine was just a wee babe, some friend and I did a baby massage class. Infant massage has all kinds of benefits for both the baby and caregiver, including relaxation, reduced pain, which means less colic, and great bonding. Also, the techniques I learned work on grown ups too, so one day I will teach her how to massage me. Though she's not an infant anymore, my little one will still occasionally ask me to give her the "poop massage" (also known as "the I Love You" massage, which is the abdominal massage that gets things going in the right direction.) Some sources will tell you it's okay to use baby massage oil or lotion, but we used edible oils like olive oil or vegetable oil. A little messier, but there is no worry about it being toxic.
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This volume contains the most comprehensive collection of scholarly sources on Indian poetics and aesthetics (the Alam?karasastra ever published in ancient India. Entries are divided into three sections and a detailed index is provided. Reference to primary sources from several languages range from about the 5th to the 19th centuries. Secondary sources in two dozen languages are divided into two sections, viz., books and articles. These begin in the mid-19th century and continue to the present. Annotations are usually brief and descriptive. Printed Pages: 390.
Title: An Annotated Bibliography of the Alamkarasastra
Categories: India, Bibliographies,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands, Brill: 2001
ISBN Number: 90-04-12133-1
ISBN Number 13: 9789004121331
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Support the #CEAMCares Covid-19 Family Emergency Relief Fund
The CEAM Team is working in real-time with hundreds of highly vulnerable Missouri families whose lives are being drastically affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. In all corners of the state, our families' needs are already at the critical phase. We urge you to consider supporting CEAM's most vulnerable families and please keep in mind… no contribution is too large.
"We are the unknown secret of the Mizzou campus."
That is how Mizzou K-12 Online Director Zac March initially describes the unique high school which is providing high-quality, accredited courses to students around the world.
But the program has a long history, starting as a provider of correspondence courses for high school students in rural areas in 1913.
"We did that up until the 1990s when the internet came on board and then we switched our medium to online," said March. "Around the same time, we said that we were capable of offering more than just individual courses and we became an accredited high school through AdvancED."
The school's population has always been about half Missouri students and half students from all over.
"In the last couple of years, our international piece has caught fire," said March, noting that the school serves students in China, Honduras, Vietnam, Serbia, Croatia.
But the most interesting international partnership is in Brazil where Mizzou K-12 serves about 2,500 students.
"We serve about 60 schools in Brazil," said March. "They do a dual diploma option so the students go for a Brazillian curriculum from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m. and then from 2 in the afternoon until 6 p.m. or 8 p.m. take the U.S. program through us. They graduate with two diplomas. It is a lot of work for these kids but they get a full language immersion experience and they can walk away with the confidence that they have earned a high school degree in America."
Mizzou K-12 uses a co-teaching model in Brazil.
"We have teachers here in the U.S. working with teachers in Brazil," said March. "We do all of the assessments and they do the day to day activities. It is a great way to tie the local culture of the teacher and the student with us three to four thousand miles away."
March said he hopes to eventually grow the program so that students across the globe will be able to be taking the same courses together.
"Then we could really start to see that diversity of cultures coming together," he said. "We have started that with our middle school courses this year where it is based on the green challenges of the United Nations. Those are things that affect all cultures and countries and we are able to bring kids together from all those different cultures to talk about how to solve these issues."
All Mizzou K-12's programs are offered through an online platform called Canvas, a platform used by many colleges and universities for higher ed virtual classes.
"We have actually partnered with Canvas using a grant from AT&T to write an app for students that have limited access to the internet," said March. "It is for students in rural Missouri or in Africa who cannot find dependable internet access. The students can download the material and work on all of their assignments and then when they get access to an internet connection they can resync."
He said the app is also used by students who are traveling either for fun or because they are competing in high-level sports. A number of the school's students are well-known athletes including Gracie Gold who recently won a gold at the U.S. Figure Skating Championship.
All of the courses are offered in an asynchronous environment so that students can work at their own pace at any time of the day.
"A lot of research has shown that five to six minutes of video is about all that a student can take before they move on to something else," said March, noting that students have the ability to rewatch videos and lessons as many times as they need.
School districts through out the state of Missouri can partner with Mizzou K-12 to bring single courses into their curriculum and students can enroll directly as full-time high school students with the program.
"A lot of our business is from school districts who have lost a teacher or cannot offer an advanced class in a small area," said March. "Three years ago that was the majority of our student base, but over the last three years, we have moved to more diploma students. Of our 6,000 students, about half are international diploma students.
"Some students do take a full curriculum through us," he added. "Sometimes it is because of medical reasons or because they are athletes or actors. Sometimes it is a student who wants to move through the curriculum faster. It is not uncommon for us to have a kid graduate at 12 or 13 years old. We had one student who did that and went on to get two masters and a doctorate at 22 and become a professor at 23."
To learn more about the success Mizzou K-12 students have achieved please click here.
March said that students in the Mizzou K-12 program are served by about 25 counselors and administrators and around 150 instructors, but noted that the program can also provide unique virtual education experience for teachers and administrators in Mizzou's School of Education.
"One of our long-term goals is to provide a rotation for them to be able to teach in our courses so they can understand what it takes to develop an online curriculum," said March. "We are also doing that for some of our superintendents and principals so they will be exposed to how to evaluate online faculty and curriculum when they go to their home districts."
Students in the Mizzou K-12 program who meet certain guidelines in the program will be guaranteed admission to the University of Missouri when they graduate.
"There are actually scholarships for students who meet that criteria and it is open to any and all of our students," said March. "We are also in discussion with the university about doing transfer credit courses. We offer 10 AP courses right now and we are going to expand that to do a STEM focused AP track."


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I receive compensation for content and many links on this blog. Citibank is an advertising partner of this site, as is American Express, Chase, Barclays and Capital One. Any opinions expressed in this post are my own, and have not been reviewed, approved, or endorsed by my advertising partners. I do not write about all credit cards that are available -- instead focusing on miles, points, and cash back (and currencies that can be converted into the same). Terms apply to the offers and benefits listed on this page.
I believe strongly that you should never earn just one mile per dollar spent. You'll never do as well with return on spend as when you first get a card and there's an initial bonus offer. However just because a card is good to use for the benefits doesn't mean you should use it for your ongoing spend. Instead a simple portfolio strategy, anchored around a single Chase card, can supercharge your points-earning.
You don't have to settle for just one mile per dollar. You can earn a minimum of 1.5 points per dollar in a transferable points currency and choose which mileage program you want to move points to later. And you can earn bonuses for a variety of different kinds of spending beyond this as well.
Here's how the strategy works with Chase.
You Want One Chase Card to Serve as a 'Hub'
Since Chase allows you to combine their Ultimate Rewards points from different credit card accounts you only need one Chase premium (annual fee) credit card because those cards let you transfer your Chase points to other loyalty programs. That means you can transfer them to:
- Airlines: United, JetBlue, Southwest, British Airways, Virgin Atlantic, Air France KLM, Singapore Airlines, Iberia, Aer Lingus, Emirates
- Hotels: Hyatt, Marriott, IHG
The two Chase cards that allow this that have modest ($95) annual fees are:
- Chase Sapphire Preferred lets you earn 60,000 bonus points after you spend $4,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening.
The card earns two points on travel and dining at restaurants and 1 point per dollar spent on all other purchases worldwide. The card has an annual fee $95.
- Ink Business Preferred℠ Credit Card has an 80,000 point signup bonus after $5000 spend within 3 months. It earns 3 points per dollar on travel — that's airlines, hotels, rental cars, tolls, even Uber — and 3 points per dollar on shipping and advertising on social media and search engines, so great for anyone who advertises on Facebook or Twitter, or who spends money advertising with Google. It also comes with $600 protection against theft or damage when you use it to pay your cell phone.
Once you have a Chase card that lets you transfer points to miles, you can use that card as a hub for a more sophisticated rewards-earning strategy. But this is step one, your base.
Earn More Points With No Annual Fee Cards Then Make Those Points Much More Useful
There are two no annual fee Chase cards that earn 1.5 points per dollar spent. Those cards normally don't let you transfer points to airline miles. However you can transfer the points you earn on these no annual fee cards over to your Chase Sapphire Preferred or your Ink Business Preferred℠ Credit Card and from there to airline miles.
- Ink Business Unlimited℠ Credit Card is a no annual fee Visa card that has an initial bonus offer to earn $500 bonus cash back (50,000 points) after you spend $3,000 on purchases in the first 3 months from account opening. Ongoing spend earns 1.5 points per dollar.
- Chase Freedom Unlimited also earns 1.5 points per dollar on spend and has no annual fee.
Earn 5 Points Per Dollar in a Variety of Categories, Too
The no annual fee Chase Ink Business CashSM credit card earns 5% back [5 points per dollar] on the first $25,000 spent in combined purchases at office supply stores and on internet, cable and phone services each account anniversary year. It earns 2% back [2 points per dollar] on the first $25,000 spent in combined purchases at gas stations and restaurants each account anniversary year.
The no annual fee Chase Freedom® credit card earns 5% back (5 points per dollar) on up to $1,500 in purchases in bonus categories which change each quarter. You have to register for this each quarter.
The Crucial Points
The ability to maximize the value of these 5 points per dollar offers from no annual fee cards hinges on the ability to transfer those points to a Chase Sapphire Preferred or Ink Business Preferred℠ Credit Card. That's because on their own, Chase no annual fee cards do not let you transfer points to airline miles or hotel points.
Once you move those points over, of course, they become just like points that were earned on the Chase Sapphire Preferred and Ink Business Preferred℠ Credit Card in the first place and can be transferred to participating airline and hotel loyalty programs.
Of course Chase could limit to end the ability to make these transfers in the future, which is why I sweep my no annual fee Ink Chase and Freedom cards regularly, keeping those balances low and accumulating points in my annual fee cards.
Chase reportedly considered such limits, but the Wall Street Journal reported at the beginning of the year that that's not something that was on the immediate horizon.


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To attend this conference you must register on the conference web page. Only people that have got feedback that their registration is accepted, will get access to the venue. That acceptation will be issued after the payment has been registered by Lucubrate.
Registration closes when the conference is fully booked or no later than 1 June 2019
An alternative for people living in Uganda: Deposit 300 000 UgShs upon registration, the rest of the fee can be paid in local currency upon arrival at the conference.
On the top of the web page, you click on the number you want to register. If you click on "show details +", you will find the training fee that fits for you. When you have entered the quantity (it has to be between one and five), you click on the button "Register Now". Here you enter the information for each participant. All required information has to be filled in, to continue the registration. When that is done, you click on "Please Select Your Method of Payment". This takes you to the Registration Checkout. Here you can select how you want to pay. You get four options:
- Bank Draft (this option allow you to go to a bank and pay the training fee there. You have to send the bank slip to show you have paid)
- Invoice (this option gives you an invoice that you can pay in a bank or pay online. If you use the bank, you have to send the bank slip to show you have paid)
- PayPal (this option is for people with PayPal account. After the payment is done it will immediately be registered in the Lucubrate files, and you will receive a receipt for the payment)
- Pay by Creditcard (this option is for people with Creditcard. After the payment is done, it will immediately be registered in the Lucubrate files, and you will receive a receipt for the payment)
When the payment is registered in the Lucubrate files, you will get an email telling that you have successfully registered the participants and you get access to the Training venue.


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from the small business network
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The designer who created an empire around her trademark floral wash bags, tea cloths and crockery, reveals that luck played a big part in her success
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Rebecca Brand shows how to make a Jack O'Lantern decorated Halloween recipe, that's fantastic for a family dinner, the night of! Make this DIY Jack O'Lantern recipe for Halloween parties! Mashed potatoes are easy and this trick or treat special on how to make the pumpkin head is super fun! Make this recipe with your kids!
|Potato cubes
|8 Cup (128 tbs)
|Yam chunks
|2 Cup (32 tbs)
|1 Tablespoon
|Melted butter
|3/4 Cup (12 tbs)
|Heavy whipping cream
|1/2 Cup (8 tbs)
|1 ((only tip of it))
|Egg plant
|1 ((only skin of it))
|Snow peas
|Cooking spray
|5 Dash
Please watch the video for directions!


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Welcome to A Needle Junkies! Our first podcast has been published and can be found here.
Well, our first show is live. There are a couple technical snafus to tend with, but we really hope that you understand and just enjoy us for who we are.
We open up by talking about our needle journeys. Tina started as a child being taught to knit and crochet, but crocheted a whole lot more. As an adult though she prefers her knitting needles. She loves the meditative quality of knitting. She also learned to spin as an adult and said that the lady who taught her is to blame for her (and the lovely Lindsay) opening "A Yarn Crossing". She has also delved into some dyeing. She has some beautiful yarn that is 50% alpaca, 25% silk, and 25% linen. I can't wait for it to go into the shop. I look forward to getting my hands on some.
Kim started crocheting really early in life and doesn't ever remember not crocheting. She never wanted to learn to knit because she had a strange aversion to knitters and thought that they were all snobby and exclusive. In January, Tiffany invited her to the knitting guild of Louisville. It was four days away and she decided to sit down with a how to book and a pair of needles and teach herself. She walked into the guild meeting four days later knitting on her first cable afghan. Now she can't stop knitting. Her favorite is and always will be crochet though. Though she believes that there is always more to learn, she is an advanced crocheter and no longer finds difficulty in crocheting, that is where her love of knitting comes in. She enjoys lace and cables for their level of difficulty and need for learning. Her wonderful, enabling husband is the one that actually found the LYS, A Yarn Crossing, when it first opened and came in and purchased her first braid of fiber. And then on Christmas, her family gave her her first "Ashford Traditional" spinning wheel. She loves to spin every morning and uses it as her morning meditation.
Both of us are extreme nerds. Tina loves strategy games and Renaissance fairs. She got the most beautiful scissors at the last fair she went to. They were found at the Ohio Renaissance Festival at a vendor booth, Pirates Treasure. Check them out folks. They are very ornate and have some gemstones (lets just call them rubies). And then….the technical difficulty…and blah, blah, blah. We were somewhere around Kim saying that Tina was a bigger nerd and Tina reminding her that she owns more Wonder Woman clothing in her wardrobe than anything else. Kim also said that she would wear only Wonder Woman clothes if it were up to her. She also loves Jane Austen novels for the love stories, but some of the women aggravate her because of their wimpiness. Her favorites though are fantasy novels such as R.A. Salvatore and Robert Jordan because she loves things that are not of this world like dragons, dwarves, elves and dark elves.
Kim also told us about her trip to Florida, (if you want to read more about that trip, check out the blog) and that she went to a cool LYS in Woodstock, GA named "A Whole Nine Yarns". If you all are ever around that part of Georgia, please go in and check out their sock yarn selection and all of the rest of their glorious inventory. Make sure that you tell Debi and Jan that Kim says hello.
Tina mentions that she is a social worker and would love to see us reach out to some of the downtrodden, those that have been in abusive relationships, children in bad situations, and the mentally ill. Kim has a great love for drug addicts and alcoholics.
Things you can expect from shows:
-projects we are involoved in
-upcoming events; Southern Indiana Fiber Arts Festival,
October 23-24, 2015
-shop events for A Yarn Crossing
-our knit and crochet
-classes we are teaching
-kal for charities and general enjoyment
-interviews- to help you get to know
-indie dyers
-spinners, crocheters, knitters
-shop owners
-shepherds and shepherdesses
-charities that need our help to deliver handmade items
to people in need
-anything else fiber related
-reviews of books
-other notions
-other life events that you may (or may not) be interested in
Then we get to the meat of the podcast with our interview with Barb from Knitted Knockers. [www.knittedknockers.org][1]
[1]: http://www.knittedknockers.org
Barb shared lots of details that you can listen to and look her up on the website. And then jump on the band wagon and make as many knitted knockers as you can. Barb can help get you in touch with organizations in your area to help you get them in the hands of women that need our help. If you need yarn and are in the Louisville area, please stop by A Yarn Crossing and pick up your Ultra Pima Cotton. Tina and Kim can also help you get them in the right hands. We are going to be doing a kal/cal to help get more out there. We are going to give away 4 skeins of Ultra Pima Cotton to 4 seperate people. 2 will go to people who comment on the show notes here and 2 will go to people who comment on our blog post of the show notes. Please look at the ravelry board for the knitted knockers kal/cal rules. Whoever knits/crochets the most will win a surprise skein from Kim's stash.
You can find us on ravelry and instagram:
Tina is ellabelle on ravelry and ellabelle_knits on instagram. Kim is kimschroeder1203 on ravelry and on instagram.


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Why don't you grow yourself a large rectangular tub of lavender
this year. Be sure to Google lavender
and read up on what it means to grow the shrub.
It goes back to ancient times and is suppose to have healing
I strongly suggest
you buy the seeds and not the shrubs. I
have been disappointed when buying a ready-made plant from someone I don't
Lavender causes a great display and perfume to match: I have given you some links below to start you
Gardening direct: http://www.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=1351&awinaffid=155618&clickref=&p=
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JMR, based in Chatsworth, California has announced three new SiloStor PCI Express SSD cards billed as ideal for computer-intensive workflows, ie anything to do with video.
The company's press release tells us about the uses for fast SSD storage, which is pretty much what you would expect: "The newly developed JMR SiloStor NVMe SSD drives are ideal for compute intensive workflows including HPC, data centres, genome research, content creation, CGI/Animation, codec processing and gaming, to name a few."
And then we get down to brass tacks about the hardware. The SiloStor family comes in three configurations:
- Single drive module NVMe/PCIe: x4 PCIe connectivity, available in 512GB/1TB/2TB capacities. Half-height, half-length card
- Dual drive module NVMe/PCIe: x8 connectivity, available in 1TB/2TB/4TB capacities. Half-height, half-length card
- Quad drive module NVMe/PCIe: x8 connectivity, available in 2TB/4TB/8TB capacities. Half-height, full-length card.
The Dual drive and Quad drive cards incorporate a PCIe switch and the drives can be striped (on a single card) for additional performance. All SiloStor designs incorporate active heat sink coolers on the drive modules themselves, maintaining low operating temperature even during intensive sequential write operations.
The single drive unit utilises x4 PCIe (Gen 2 or Gen 3); the dual drive and quad drive units utilise x8 PCIe (Gen 2 or Gen 3) and can fit expansion slots having more lanes than required, e.g., the x4 single-drive SiloStor works in x4, x8 or x16 slots, etc.
Available Native Storage Capacity: 1-drive: 256, 512, 1,024, 2,048GB; 2-drive: 512, 1,024, 2,048, 4,096GB; 4-drive: 1,024, 2,048, 4,096, 8,192GB
Average access time: <1 mS
Monitoring: S.M.A.R.T.
MTBF: 2 million hours
Endurance: 1,200 TBW minimum
Power consumption: 40W (bus powered) worst case (4-drive SiloStor)
Performance for 4-drive SiloStor
Random 4K read speed: > 90,000 IOPS
Random 4K write speed: > 70,000 IOPS
Sequential read speed: > 4,000 MB/s
Sequential write speed: > 3,000 MB/s
IOPS: 330,000 (Based on 4K, with a queue depth of 32)
Operating temperature: 0-70°C (integrated active cooler)
NAND type: 1, 2 or 4 * 512GB to 2,048GB V-NAND M.2; integrated switch in 2-drive and 4-drive models
Form factor: Half-height, half-length PCIe (1 and 2-drive models); half-height, full-length PCIe (4-drive model)
PCIe connection: x4 (single drive); x8 PCIe (dual and quad drive models)
Weight: 10 oz (285 gm) maximum (4-drive model)
Warranty: 3 years or 1,200TBW
And that's the end of the Press release.
So we have learned that SiloStor is based on M.2 NVME SSD storage technology and you can buy the cards in versions with one, two or four M.2 SSDs. However, that didn't tell us all we wanted to know. We asked JMR for further details and were told: "Our SiloStor products work with a variety of M.2 drives, but we are shipping with the Samsung 960 PRO enterprise-class drives (including the 960 EVO as well). The PCIe switch used in the 2-drive and 4-drive models comes from PLX."
That sounds very promising as Samsung and PLX are both respected companies. Balanced against that we are talking about serious expense as a 2TB Samsung 960 PRO SSD in the UK currently costs £1,050 so the hardware for the maximum 4x2TB card will cost around £5,000.
However, JMR emphasises that SiloStor has been designed to accommodate enterprise class M.2 drives, which means it is considerably more than a simple PCI Express-to-M.2 adapter. One minor feature worth pointing out is the inclusion of an activity status LED indicator. A more significant point is that SiloStor products all have active coolers on the M.2 drives so they can be used happily without concerns about thermal throttling.