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The Starfleeters we selected to continue in phase 2
The end of Genesis week: which teams are admitted to the 4-week acceleration period?
Yesterday, 17th of March, was the last day of the Genesis week the first part of the Starfleet program — the startup accelerator powered by æternity Ventures, the investment arm of the æternity Blockchain, and while you were (perhaps) loosing up at home, our teams surely were on pins and needles.
Here is everything you need to know about each of the 7 awesome blockchain-based projects that have been selected for the Acceleration Stage of Starfleet vol. 2.
Read on.
Abend (Germany)
Are you sick and tired of taking care of your wallet and bank cards while you are at festivals and night clubs? We can bet money on that.
So here comes Abend — an open community governed ticketing platform that allows cashless, secure on-site payments based on æternity blockchain.
Moreover, Abend would allow the festivals and parties organizers to ditch the plastic tokens and to provide a faster, verifiable and secure ticket sale.
Last but not least, there will be a fully-transparent distribution of shares between partners thanks to the blockchain technology.
Abend aims to go Public Beta in 2 months, starting from now. Something great is about to happen!
Cryptic Legends (Malta/Serbia)
To roll away from the serious stuff, let's check out Cryptic Legends — a collectable card game, underlying on the blockchain, where you can have your own legends/heroes independently from developers. Moreover, each legend/hero brings a piece of a unique story and you can collect the right ones for your party, pieces of ancient scriptures and engage in legendary tournaments.
Apart from selling the heroes directly to the players, Cryptic Legends will provide the option for trading heroes between players (with a transaction fee applied).
Heytax (Germany)
HeyTax is a futuristic project for crypto tax reporting, targeting tax advisors and various businesses worldwide.
As you know, the tax reporting for crypto traders can be a dreadful experience with all the uncertainty, fear of punishments, and a high level of doubt.
And here comes Heytax which is aiming to change the status in quo by creating a platform that is user-friendly, time-saving, as well as offering fully-automated calculations. And what's more — Heytax is already working in alpha version. Thrilled? We are!
Cryptotask (Croatia)
Cryptotask is the cure for the freelancing, a trillion $ industry that is suffering due to the colossal fees for both freelancers and employers, limited task size values and biased disputes.
Moreover, Cryptotask is a decentralized task-oriented freelancing market looking to meddle the current systems via blockchain. One key innovation it introduces is an effective escrow and dispute mechanism. Moreover, it won't put limits on the freelancing tasks, no censorship, and extremely low fees (around 1%).
After all, the team behind the project plans on registering revenue from dispute resolutions as well as the charging fees for featured tasks on the platform.
SAY (Iran)
SAY is another spunky blockchain project in this year's Starfleet edition which enables donors to improve the lives of children across the world with micro-donations from their phones. In details, these donors become the virtual family of the supported children whose identities are protected, but they are deciding which essential part of the child's life they support, from food to education.
Thanks to blockchain the transactions are fast and secured. Also, there will be detailed weekly reports provided by social workers who will get incentivized.
So far, there are 5000 users/adopters as well as 400 kids that are backed by them…SAY could end the poverty for good? Why not?
Space Project — Homeport (Bulgaria)
Following the concept "More space for everyone", the futuristic Homeport focuses on the efficient collection of satellite data, including earth imaging, atmospheric data, broadband internet, and maritime comms, using a decentralized global teleport.
In a nutshell, Homeport is an open marketplace for ground station capacity and data storage based on smart contracts.
Moreover, there will be a 2.5% fee on the value of each smart contract between satellite operator and stations.
InstaTrust (Venezuela)
Last but not least, is the Venezuelan team — InstaTrust — who are planning to launch a multi-purpose P2P exchange. Further, the platform will protect parties involved in a trade from fraud through a smart contract. Also, InstaTrust will enable faster and more secure transactions with lower fees due to the underlying blockchain technology.
On the docket, the main source of revenue will be the compliance bond, followed by licensing fees to middlemen and bid/post-offer board premium ads.
Fashion Project (Germany)
Fashion Project is a blockchain project that's aiming to balance the fashion industry worldwide by creating a broad online community of fashion designers, customers, and influencers, curating a tokenized product selection to validate, improve and sell products.
Additionally, the idea for the start is to hand-pick designers and influencers which would guarantee that quality exceeds quantity.
Also, the founders of Fashion Project would put a revenue sharing logic on Smart contracts and benefit of the high level of security and trust that the innovative blockchain technology provides.
So… What's next?
The selected teams have been invited to proceed to the Acceleration Stage — a four-week program of mentorships and further uncompromising training. The culmination of the program will happen on April 11, 2019 at "Starfleet Demo Day", where the selected teams will have the opportunity to present their projects to an audience of investors, thought leaders, media, and the global community of æternity and secure funding of up to $100 000 in AE tokens or services.
Let's clap hands for the projects that won't continue in the next stage.
It was a tough competition, for sure!
CapAgri (Kenya) — CapAgri from Kenya is the blockchain project that represents the African continent at Starfleet vol. 2 this year. They offer cutting edge farmers-focused financial solutions — secure payments, higher liquidity as well as proper control.
EXAL Technologies (Cyprus) — EXAL Technology is a pioneering blockchain eCommerce that meets small retailers with unemployed youth. The core idea behind the project is to create new digital jobs while helping MSMEs to go online with zero margins.
INUPESA (Germany) — Secure and user-friendly, INUPESA is one of the four German finalists in Starfleet vol. 2. An awesome project representing a hosted wallet service for internet non-users in less developed countries.
AENOMALY (UK) — AENOMALY is the only one education-orientated project in the Second edition of Starfleet that is aiming to fight the dangers of being online, especially for the kids.
214 Alpha (USA) — The 214 Alpha team has built an encompassing identity/commerce/governance framework for customers to keep their money and affairs local, utilizing a multi-functional, pre-integrated mobile app.
You have missed the Demo day and the presentations of all 13 amazing project?! Worry not! You can watch it HERE ;)
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Social media can be good for business, but dangerous when misused. Employers are learning to tighten acceptable use policies and set standards for emails and professional social networking but there will always be difficulties applying company rules to employees' personal lives and online behaviour. The growth of bring-your-own-device ("BYOD") adds another layer of complexity to the ongoing privacy debate. How far can, or should, an employer seek to control errant employees?
Individuals and their employers may be sued for discrimination (for example on the grounds of sex, race or age) or harassment as a result of inappropriate or illegal content posted online.
To reduce this risk, employees must be aware of (and trained on) the policies and understand the possible consequences of breaching them, (discipline and possible dismissal). For example, in the case of Gosden v Lifeline Project Limited last year, an Employment Tribunal dismissed an employee's claim of unfair dismissal, following his forwarding of an offensive email, to a work colleague, from his home computer, in his own time. His actions were found to be in breach of his employer's equal opportunities policy, regardless of the fact that this was personal email use.
Social media and BYOD policies should also be closely tied to equal opportunities and anti-bullying and harassment policies, to cover situations where employees engage in inappropriate conduct outside work.
Bullying and harassment online, or 'cyber bullying', takes many forms and in serious cases the police may be involved. Criminal proceedings may be brought against individuals for harassment, which, with media interest, can damage a company's reputation and customer goodwill further.
In one recent case a software engineer was jailed for the sexual harassment of work colleagues using email and Facebook messaging, falsely claiming that she was having affairs with them. Whilst this is an extreme example, it underlines the risks for employers; if bullying or harassment is reported, or visible, action should be taken immediately to protect staff and deal with the perpetrator through the usual company procedures.
Contact over the internet seems to result in people going further in their abuse than they would do face to face. However, any emails sent, comments posted or messages left can be traced back to them as part of an investigation and may well be used as evidence in a disciplinary process. Unfortunately, information has often already been seen by others and passed on, escalating the breach and bringing it to the attention of customers and other third parties. Further, information recorded online may never be fully removed and can leave an indelible stain on a company's reputation.
By setting policies in advance, companies should be able to maintain a level of control over employees' online behaviour and deal with any issues. Under the Data Protection Act 1998, it will be necessary to consider the level of intrusion and justify any employee monitoring as part of an investigation. However, where the company's standards are clear and there is a legitimate business or legal reason to gather and rely on online evidence, this is more likely to be justified as reasonable, proportionate and necessary.

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Grand Daddy I.U. x Sadat X – "She Said"
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Grand Daddy I.U. is one of those hip-hop mainstays whose career trajectory never quite matched his talent – but thanks to the internet, the producer/MC is back behind the mic and boards, releasing "She Said" featuring Sadat X. Last time we heard from him was his 2007 album Stick To The Script, but you might better recall him from appearances alongside Big L on Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous or his 1990 Cold Chillin' Records hit, "Something New." "She Said" employs that early-90s boom-bap production style the Grand Daddy is known for, and a nice Dennis Brown sample for the reggae heads out there, and is the lead single off his forthcoming P.I.M.P. (Paper Is My Priority) album due in June. Check out "She Said" below.


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The Gallery is the place to be on Saturday 23 November
Just because Stopping Time: Material prints from 3000BCE to Now has concluded, that doesn't mean that the team at the Gympie Regional Gallery are winding down before the holidays; in fact it's quite the opposite.
On Saturday 23 November from 12.30pm to 2.30pm, the Gallery will be unveiling their newly renovated shop and officially opening two new exhibitions to the general public.
The renovated shop will enhance the visitor experience for Gallery patrons and promote local professional artists.
The $100,000 project was funded by the Queensland Government's $600 million Works for Queensland program and the work was completed by local designers Craftsmen Kitchens.
Following the official proceedings, stay around and enjoy two new exhibitions that will be opening to the public.
On display in The Gympie Times Exhibition Space and Hugo Du Rietz Gallery is Physical Video.
This exhibition provides a unique opportunity for Gympie audiences to experience key video works from the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) collection.
Focused on performance and theatricality in video art from the 1970s to the present, these vibrant and thought-provoking works demonstrate how artists use the physical gestures and actions of the human body to illustrate social, political and aesthetic issues.
On display in Gallery 3 is Fringe Dwellers. Hats are the 'fringe dwellers' of the head. Local fibre artist Rhonda Rettke explores a variety of fringe dweller concepts in each sculpted hat, ranging from the fringes of where the land meets the sea to the social issues of our urban fringe dwellers.
Materials such as handmade felt and hand dyed silk combine with found and natural objects to create original sculptures for the head.
There are loads of activities, workshops and artist chats specific to each exhibition, including the free Pop-Up Art Chat on Saturday 7 December featuring Kim Machan.
Kim is the founding Director of Media Art Asia Pacific (MAAP) and she has developed curatorial projects in Australia and the Asian regions through this organisation since 1998.
Join Kim as she expands our appreciation for video and discusses the history of moving images on screens as a revolutionary artistic medium.
Both exhibitions will be on display until Saturday 11 January 2020.
Entry to the Gympie Regional Gallery at 39 Nash Street is free, with opening hours from 10am to
4pm Tuesday to Saturday.
For more information, or to make bookings for workshops and themed activities, visit
www.gympie.qld.gov.au/gallery or call 5481 0733.


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Will fight corrupt government: Fonseka
Colombo: Former Sri Lanka Army chief and presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka today vowed to fight the "corrupt government" and unite opposition against the Rajapaksa regime.
"I will not join the government for personal benefit. Speculation is misleading. I will remain in opposition to fight this corrupt government", Fonseka said addressing reporters for the first time since coming out of jail. He invited the public to rally around him in the fight to rid the country of corruption.
Fonseka said he would unite the opposition against the Rajapaksa regime which had sentenced him to jail. "Leadership battles have weakened the opposition. My party will join forces with those who want to change this corrupt political culture. The leadership can be decided by the people," Fonseka said.
Fonseka was freed late last month from jail by a presidential pardon. The government last week provided him with police protection giving rise to speculation that the former Army commander was closing ranks with the government.
He was made to face a string of court cases since he was crushed by Mahinda Rajapaksa in the January 2010 presidential poll. Fonseka was backed by both major opposition parties, the UNP and the JVP in 2010.
After launching public agitation campaigns for his release, both parties stay distanced from the former Army Commander since his release.
Fonseka was jailed for 30 months by a court martial for procedural wrongdoing in military procurements and given three more years in jail by the high court for saying that the government had ordered the execution of surrendering LTTE cadres.


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The breakup of Yugoslavia resulted in considerable violence and in the creation of new states. Religion is one of the factors that we need to consider in order to understand the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. Some of the key leaders involved in the conflict referred to religion in their rhetoric and had the support of religious organizations; places of worship were targeted for destruction; and religion to some extent influenced how actors from outside of Yugoslavia approached the conflict. However, religion is far from a sufficient explanation for the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s. In particular, the role of leaders motivated by wanting to stay in power, the legacy of the war crimes committed in Yugoslavia during World War II, and the federal structure of Yugoslavia need to be considered as well.
Keywords: civil war, Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Kosovo, politics and religion, Serbia, Croatia, Islam, Orthodox Christianity, Catholicism
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Take measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19. A face mask is required by several municipalities throughout the Grand Strand. MBACC has compiled a list of resources for businesses to plan for and respond to the virus. Read More
For Immediate Release
November 4, 2017
Media Contact:
Tori Dean, Marketing Director
CBL Properties - Coastal Grand Mall
Direct: (843) 353-5656| Cell: (859) 494-1833
Coastal Grand Mall to Host a Sensory-Friendly Holiday Shopping Experience
For Families Affected by Autism
MYRTLE BEACH, SC - Coastal Grand Mall is teaming up with Autism Speaks, Champion Autism Network, Cherry Hill Programs, and the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce to host an exclusive sensory-friendly shopping and Santa event for families with special needs and family members on the autism spectrum. On Sunday, December 3rd, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. the Coastal Grand Mall will open to families impacted by autism so they may enjoy shopping in a calm, low-sensory atmosphere. This is one of only a handful of such events in the country and the first in the region. This is a great opportunity for families to visit and capture keepsake photo memories with Santa and experience the fun of Christmas shopping!
Sensory triggers such as music and lights will be muted, and mall traffic will be greatly reduced. Families who want to visit with Santa will be given a number when they arrive. Then they can enjoy coloring at a nearby table or shopping until it's their turn to visit with Santa individually in a private setting.
"We hope this event will bring smiles and holiday magic for many families who would not otherwise have the opportunity to shop and visit with Santa this season," said Tori Dean, Marketing Director at the Coastal Grand Mall. "To date, we have more than 40 businesses participating in this event, and we hope to add more in the next few weeks."
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The Mission of the Champion Autism Network:
Creating environments where families impacted by autism feel supported and without judgement. Educating businesses and the public-at-large about the needs and challenges of families dealing with autism. Make Myrtle Beach and the surrounding area THE autism friendly destination.
About the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce:
Since 1938, the Myrtle Beach Area Chamber of Commerce has stood as the unified voice of the Grand Strand's business community. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has awarded the MBACC its five-star accreditation, one of only a few chambers in South Carolina to earn this distinction. The MBACC serves Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, Surfside Beach, Little River, Atlantic Beach, Garden City Beach, Loris, Conway, Aynor, Murrells Inlet, Litchfield Beach, Pawleys Island, Socastee, and Carolina Forest. For more information, visit MyrtleBeachAreaChamber.com.


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Foodie Firsts is a Move Eat Create weekly feature focusing on my adventures in the world of food. Over the course of a few short years, I have transformed from a picky, fearful eater to a curious and open-minded foodie. In a commitment to continue to expand my culinary experiences, I have started Foodie Firsts. Each week I will commit to trying something new and sharing that experience with you. My endeavors may include experimenting with cooking techniques I've never tried before, testing a single new ingredient, or drawing upon my creativity to combine foods in ways I never imagined. Whatever it is, I will eat (or maybe drink) it and share it all with you. You can decide for yourself whether you, too, would like to try. Let's be bold and eat good food!
So there is this thing in television that happens when someone goes from contract status to recurring status. It means that instead of being featured regularly, the character just sort of pops up now and then, whenever the storyline dictates it or just enough to make sure the other characters haven't forgotten they're around.
And by television I mean daytime soap operas.
Don't ask me how I know so much about daytime soap operas. I will plead the fifth in order to preserve my semi-intellectual reputation.
(But if you ever want to talk about General Hospital, you know where to find me.)
The point is that this column is going from contract to recurring status. I wanted to kick it off with a weekly edition and have found it to be incredibly fun and a terrific motivator to keep pushing myself culinarily speaking, but rather than continue it as a weekly feature, I'll be posting Foodie Firsts a bit more sporadically, mixed in with my other regular posts. A large part of this is due to my continued dietary changes (the whole gluten is poisoning me thing) and spending a good deal of my cooking time sorting that issue out.
But, as the last regular Thursday edition, I did want to mention roasted garlic spears. Because as I learned last week, roasted garlic spears are freaking incredible.
For someone who pretty strongly believes a savory meal can never have too much garlic, I can't believe I haven't tried them before. I hadn't intended to do a full post on them, so I didn't take any pictures of them cooked, I just snapped a few raw because they were so pretty to look at it.
I roasted my garlic spears for 20 minutes in a 350 degree oven after drizzling them with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and sprinkling with salt and pepper. So simple. So easy. So delicious.
I ate them just like that, picking them up with my fingers and biting right in. The amount of flavor in these spears is impressive and the crispy texture sublime. The garlic does not overwhelm the tastebuds, as it softens and sweetens through the roasting process, leaving a perfectly palatable and beautiful side dish.
Garlic spears are only in season for a short time, but they are certainly peaking right now. If you find a batch at your market, snatch it up (or snatch a few up) and roast away.
This is the find of the season for my little kitchen – maybe it can be yours, too.


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When it comes to building a good digital marketing strategy, it's crucial for your to know exactly who your clients are – otherwise you're just shooting in the dark.
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Donald Trump - Master Persuader
By John-Pierre Maeli / The Political Informer
The Media isn't to blame for Trump's rise in the polls.
That would be too simple. Not to mention insulting to Trump himself.
See, Trump isn't stupid.
He's a smart guy.
He's also a businessman, which means he knows a thing or two about selling. More specifically, getting people to buy his product.
And as we all know. Politics is a selling game. You're trying to sell a message to your constituents. Your message is what gets you elected.
Trump is selling.
He's selling marvelously.
The poll numbers are evidence to that.
Yet, we're supposed to believe that Trump's rise is a result of media hype.
"It's the media's fault!" the experts say.
Is it?
I'm leaning toward another explanation: Trump's an expert in persuasion.
Here's what I mean…
The Media is only a Tool (& They can't Make You Buy Something You Don't Want)
There's an old marketing adage that fits this perfectly.
You can't get someone to buy something they don't want.
The same goes for the media. They can't get people to believe in something they don't want.
This is why blaming the media for Trump's rise is misguided. The media can only do so much. A better description of their role is they're a tool. The media made the Trump situation worse, but they didn't cause it.
Trump, like any good businessman and master persuader knows how to utilize the media. He knows how to use them to his advantage.
Trump's Hit the Perfect Storm
With a combination of weak candidates, economic status, and fed-up-ness of voters it's no surprise Trump has risen like he has.
The competition is lukewarm at best.
It's politicians vs. an eccentric businessman. Who do you think's going to win?
Trump is playing to the economic worries that many Americans are feeling. And he's painting himself as an alternative to the status quo political system. His brash, boisterous attitude is new and exciting for many voters who are sick of the polite do-nothingness of Washington.
Another marketing phrase comes to mind: sometimes it's not a matter of how good your product is, or how well you marketed it. Sometimes it's just a matter of circumstances surrounding it.
Obviously Trump's rise is more than circumstance, but he is benefiting from a perfect storm.
"Make America Great Again:" It's the Perfect Slogan
Have you ever noticed how benign Trump's slogan is?
Why is America no longer great? Why does it need to be made great again? What happened to the greatness? Who doesn't want America to be great? What is American greatness?
You probably have an answer for all those questions. It's Obama's fault. It's Big Government's fault. It's China's fault.
But guess what? It's another persuasion tactic.
A broad undefined slogan. It evokes a feeling of loss with a slight ting of optimism. As Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert comic strips points out on his blog…
"Trump's slogan about taking back America speaks to loss while retaining the optimism that we can get it back. That is pure, engineered, persuasion perfection."
"Trump's slogan should, by design, make every voter spontaneously imagine the one thing they believe they have lost. It could be anything, from personal privacy to job opportunity to whatever. If you are afraid you lost it, Trump's slogan makes you think of it automatically. And you just automatically paired your emotional sense of wanting something precious with … Donald Trump."
Trump's slogan is specifically meant to let you define what's great. It's a fill in the blank slogan, meant to draw you in.
I think he's done a darn good job so far with it.
Trump is a Master at Playing the Media for All They're Worth
During the first republican debate, Trump showed his mastery of the media.
When Megyn Kelly asked him about his offensive comments about women, Trump didn't try to address it.
If he had defended his comments, the media would've torn him apart. If he clarified what he meant, the media would've torn him apart.
The only option is to throw in your own comment. Distracting the media and the audience at the same time.
Don't fight on the battlefield of their choosing. Pick your own battlefield.
He threw in a crazy comment about Rosie O'Donnell and owned the headlines after that. He played the media, and they fell for it.
He's done this time and time again with the media. All with amazing success.
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Happy New Year!
Hello, hello, and helllllooooo. How are all of you? I'm finally back after a very lovely, very long Christmas holiday and am so excited to start the new year. I have so many fun projects in the works to share with you, along with continuing old projects like the Quote of The Week and Organizing Your House series. I'd really love to start a makeup + beauty series again, and we have a lot of DIY projects in the works on my house, and I can't wait to share what we're working on in the coming months.
I have a new Quote Of The Week coming later today, but I just wanted to pop in and say I hope you had a delightful holiday season. I really do. And I can't wait to jump right into the new year with you!


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Col Werner
Managing Director
Col commenced his career as a graduate in a Chartered Accounting firm. He developed an interest in forecasting methods during this time. He acquired international finance experience working overseas for 3 years. Since returning to Australia in 1999, he has been co-founder in several businesses whilst simultaneously developing the Navitas consulting practice for local & multinational companies.
Bernardo da Veiga
Bernardo has a PhD in Financial and Economic Modelling and is currently a Senior Lecturer at Curtin Business School. His background is as an associate with UBS Investment Bank & Azure Capital where he worked in a team that advised many of Australian leading companies in mergers & acquisitions, capital raising, hybrid instruments and debt advisory. In addition Bernardo has published several articles on financial modelling in international scholarly journals.
Pavithra has a degree in MBA (Master of Business Administration), with a major in finance. She has more than ten years' experience in equity research and financial modeling. She was an offshore research associate to the metals and mining team of Credit Suisse, Melbourne for four years and subsequently the New York team for another year. During this period, she was responsible for building models of gold, copper and iron ore mining companies for initiation of coverage, updating models during the reporting season, building and maintaining valuation and M&A databases. Over the last five years, she has worked on a range of financial modeling projects for buy-side and sell-side research as well as for start-ups for fund raising.
Our History
'Navitas' is Latin, meaning 'to navigate with energy'. The practice was established in 1999 originally under the name 'Corporate Financial Modelling.'
Navitas has developed a specialty in designing the following types of business models for large businesses:
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3 Things Your Auto Repair Shop Wants You to Know
1. All services are not created equal
Some repair services take longer than others – it's just a fact. What most of us don't consider when we're taken aback by a repair timeline we deem no fast enough is the shop's existing workload. How many customers came before you? Next time you're told your repairs can't be done right away, it's likely due to the fact that the shop is extremely busy, just like you are. Keep this in mind and don't get frustrated – we're all only human.
2. Your shop wants to stay connected to you
The truth is, your repair center wants to earn your trust, but to do so they need to stay connected to you and your vehicle; they need to send you reminders and alerts when you're due for service. The next time you feel queasy about giving your shop the information they need, don't, it's all part of the process. Do you withhold personal information from your doctor? Exactly. Just as you would with your physical health, you want your car to be well taken care of and maintained by professionals. The same goes for the vital statistics of your vehicle.
3. Just because you saw it online, doesn't make it true
We've all heard it before, but it's worth repeating: the world is consumed by information, and misinformation. We can find out anything, anywhere, at any time. There's just one problem: we're not experts in everything. The same applies to your repair shop. You don't know which part, price, or timeframe is best for the service you need – but your shop does. There's a reason why we take our vehicles to licensed professionals. So, leave the profession to the professionals.
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Okay, so I just published a post about an anti-gay Jewish group. When I talk about anti-gay Christian groups, I feel fairly confident that people will understand that not all Christians are anti-gay. A) I'm a gay Christian who isn't anti-gay, and B) when you're talking about a majority group, people understand that one part doesn't necessarily speak for the whole.
But as soon as I hit the Publish button on that post, I had this familiar itch on the back of my neck that tells me when something's unfinished.
From the perspective of a minority group member, I know that a lot of (probably most) straight people lump all gay people together. When one of us speaks, s/he is viewed to be speaking for us all. We are rare enough that it's easy to view us as a monolith. People don't always do this on purpose, it's just part of being in the majority.
With that in mind, I want to make sure that everyone understands that not all members of the Jewish community believe as Agudath Israel believes. For example, there's the gay-positive Jewish friend I mentioned in the post.
There's also this tremendous submission from the It Gets Better project.
I don't want anyone who comes to my blog to think that there isn't room for them in their faith tradition. Sometimes it's a tight fit, sometimes it takes years of introspection to be at peace, and sometimes some distance is necessary and even healthy.
To any LGBT Jewish kids or adults who got here on a google search, I want you to know that you are not alone. I want you to know that the lies they tell about you aren't true.
Even if you aren't ready to believe it yourself, you are good and you are whole and you are just as G-d made you to be.
Visit JQYouth and The Gay and Lesbian Yeshiva Day School Alumni Association for more information.


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Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Somewhere in the laws of physics must be a formula explaining why so few things in this life are static. Particularly the good stuff. Just when you get it right, just when it's all tweaked the way you like it and the planets line up and all is good with the world, something changes and before you know it you're back to square one, trying to make it right and good again. Einstein should have calculated the energy wasted trying to stop, undo or otherwise negate change.
Earlier this season I finally gave up shooting my standby 870. It is the first shotgun I ever owned and it's brought down just about every winged species of game in the lower 48, yet this fall I found myself (again) unable to hit much of anything with it. I left it in the closet a few weeks ago in favor of my "walking gun", a lightweight 20 gauge that I carry on extended hikes, and quickly started dropping birds again. Change. I could get all maudlin about it but what's the point? The 870 will still be there in the closet when I can't hit the ground with that 20 gauge.
Sitting under a pair of trees in the dove field last weekend I looked up at the branches of one, already mostly bare, and fought off the slightest bit of chill from the shade of the other. Undeniable, unstoppable, once again fall is coming. Change. Maybe file it under Sometimes Life Ain't So Bad.
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As far as stasis is concerned, I think it has something to do with the second law of thermodynamics or something.ReplyDelete
On the gun, well, I'm a streaky shooter, always have been, and the mystery of why I'll shoot a gun well for a while and then watch it all go to hell will always remain just that. I never know on any given day what shooter will show up (which may help explain why I mostyl hunt alone...)
It's funny how the simple change of a gun can make us better shooters. I think it is more of a "mind" thing. Kind of like new golf clubs make you hit it better. Did they really or was it just in your head?? Nice read!ReplyDelete
Oddly enough Chad, when I hunt alone I shoot like an Olympic champion. Which points to what Trey said about it being in the head, and I can't argue with that. The gun sure hasn't changed any.ReplyDelete
For some reason, maybe the same one, my dog always hunts better when it's just the two of us too.
Well, that's what pro shooting coaches say - "after you've got the basics down, 90% of misses are in your head".ReplyDelete


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ORINDA — The owner of a Frank Lloyd Wright estate who already is facing $5,000 in citations from Orinda and complaints from neighbors upset over weddings on the property, is now being sued by the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation over claims of trademark infringement.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation of Scottsdale, Arizona, contends that Gerald Shmavonian has infringed on the foundation's trademark and design to market and promote the Orinda home "for his own commercial gain." The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco and seeks a jury trial.
In addition, the foundation contends that Shmavonian "registered in bad faith" the domain name www.franklloydwrightestate.com and is capitalizing on the foundation's reputation "for the purpose of commercially advertising the home for use as a 'Special Event Venue,' " the complaint alleges.
The complaint, filed Oct. 26, seeks a court order "permanently" preventing Shmavonian from using the foundation's trademark and design and is also seeking triple damages of all the profits that Shmavonian has made, along with attorneys' fees and costs. The lawsuit was filed by the foundation's attorney, Scott Humphreys of Ballard Spahr in Los Angeles.
Shmavonian, when contacted by the Bay Area News Group on Feb. 14, said he was traveling and could not comment about the case. Subsequent attempts to reach him via phone and email have been unsuccessful.
The Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation is a nonprofit organization established in 1940 by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and the foundation's mission is to preserve Wright's legacy and properties.
The foundation owns the federally registered trademarks that make up the Frank Lloyd Wright name and is also the registrant of website domain names featuring the Frank Lloyd Wright mark, according to the complaint.
Shmavonian registered his website's domain name — www.franklloydwrightestate.com — on Dec. 22, 2015. The foundation says it contacted Shmavonian to resolve the issue. But Shmavonian's website is still active, as is a Facebook page advertising the property, also known as the Maynard Buehler House in Orinda.
The lawsuit alleges that Shmavonian's "infringement has been malicious, deliberate and willful and is intended to benefit defendant at the foundation's expense." The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Maxine M. Chesney in San Francisco, and a hearing has been set for April 26.
A contentious issue with the Buehler House, built in the late 1940s by Frank Lloyd Wright, has to do with weddings that Shmavonian has hosted. He began holding the weddings after a 2016 Vogue magazine article mentioned the estate on a short list of unique wedding venues. After the article appeared, Shmavonian began holding weddings at the estate, leading to complaints from neighbors, who began flooding the city with emails, affidavits, photos and videos about loud music, catering trucks, portable toilets on streets in the residential area and people parking in neighbors' driveways and on lawns.
Orinda responded by issuing a series of citations, saying that the weddings violated the city's zoning ordinance that bans commercial activities in residential neighborhoods. The first citation was issued Sept. 1, 2017, and they run through Sept. 19, 2018. To date, Shmavonian has not paid the $5,000 in citations. Orinda Planning Director Drummond Buckley and neighbor Maureen Perata said it has been relatively quiet at the estate for the past few months.
"This isn't the wedding season," Buckley said.
Meanwhile, neighbors have put up a sign near the estate's entrance as a deterrent and warning to prospective clients. The sign indicates that commercial events such as renting the house for weddings are banned and illegal in residential neighborhoods.
"Orinda's whole complaint-driven process is a sham because it violates due process," Shmavonian said in a previous email in September 2018. He also noted that there have been no citations issued by police, no traffic accidents and no injuries on the site.
In 1948, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the house for inventor Maynard Buehler and his wife, Katherine Buehler, of Orinda. In 2006, the estate was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. After the Buehlers died, the estate was put up for sale. In 2013, Shamavonian bought the estate for $3.3 million.


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Motorboat racing is often compared with the competition of marine boats, as they are connected by one regulation, which is why the name arose.
The World Championship as well as the Middle East Championship are held for this sport.
Foundation History: motorboats appeared almost at the same time as cars. The famous German designer G. Dyler in 1886 invented the world's first motor boat and named it "Neckar". In 1889, French athletes drew attention to this invention, and at the same time organized the first international boat competitions. In 1908, this sport became part of the Olympic Games. The Soviet Union also did not lag behind and in 1900 the first Soviet catamaran was invented. He worked on a gasoline engine and could reach speeds of up to 13 km / h. The first such competition on our land was the initiative of the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Also in 1907, the Soviet engineer Lutsky, on his own invented boat, participated in competitions in Germany. Continue reading


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Genre: Historical fiction
ELL-Friendly: No
Library recommendation: High school
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After losing family and friends, Gideon must bury religion and identity in order to survive the Warsaw ghetto and Treblinka concentration camp during World War II.
I got to about page 50 and had to stop. So bored.
However, the book has a lot of potential. It isn't just about a concentration camp. At least the first part is about living in the Warsaw Ghetto. Later on (I'm guessing), we would have learned of uprisings, which is another topic often not written about in YA Holocaust lit.
The problem I had with Gideon is that it's not written like a novel. It's written like a memoir, which is fine; I like memoirs. But it's not a memoir because it's not true. Part of what bored me was that it reads like a history textbook (almost). If I wanted to read non-fiction about the Holocaust (which I don't…I grew up studying it year after year), I wouldn't have picked up a YA novel. I kept waiting for the plot show itself in full force. Maybe it does after page 50, but I didn't stick around to find out.
That said, I will keep it and put it in my classroom library. It will have a pg-13 sticker on it due to the graphic nature of all Holocaust lit: dead bodies, violence, humiliation, drinking… From the first 50 pages, there is nothing too graphic in Gideon, but I want readers to be warned before they pick up the book anyway.
It seems to be written more for high school students but is okay for upper middle school, too. It's not ELL friendly, not only due to Polish, German, and Yiddish? names but vocabulary in those languages as well that is not always explained. I made my best guess regarding the reading level as it is not leveled by Scholastic.


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The impact of campus buildings cannot be measured by the efficiency of design or the total square footage. But when infrastructure enables people to work together, converge disciplines, be creative and capitalize on good ideas and opportunities, extraordinary things can happen.
The Graduate Pavilion planned by the Eli Broad College of Business, and being funded in part by a $10 million challenge grant from Eli and Edythe Broad, will create a new hub for business education at MSU. The plans are in keeping with the rising national status of the college and will usher in the latest in technology and collaborative learning areas—precisely the kind of flexible, open spaces needed to groom business leaders who will be expected to thrive in team environments.
Meanwhile, on the west side of Michigan, the MSU Grand Rapids Research Center is shepherding in a new era of medical discovery. The university broke ground on the six-story, 162,800-square-foot facility in June. The center will bring MSU bench scientists together with clinical-based faculty physicians in the College of Human Medicine on a grand scale. When completed in late 2017, the center will support more than 40 research teams poised for finding answers in autism, inflammation, transplantation, cancer, genetics, pediatric neurology, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, women's health and reproductive medicine, among other critical health areas.
A new ecosystem for business learning
The Eli Broad College of Business envisions an academic ecosystem that attracts outstanding students, world-class faculty, dynamic corporations, ambitious employers, and proud alumni. And they know they can accomplish this with the addition of a new 100,000 square foot facility.
The Graduate Pavilion—which will house the MBA and all master's degree programs in business under one roof—is part of a bold plan to build on the status of the Eli Broad College of Business as a recognized leader in business education.
Built alongside the existing Eppley Center, the pavilion will meet four specific needs: flexible classrooms for core and elective courses; team rooms and common, multi-use spaces to facilitate and enhance teamwork and collaboration; technology-enhanced spaces for data analytics, telepresence and remote collaboration; and spaces for career management, employer relations, recruiting and networking.
In essence, every inch will be dedicated to teaching and instruction, student and programmatic support, or career management services. The pavilion is projected to cost $60 million to create.
"We recognize that in order to realize our aspirations to be a top-of-mind business school and our vision of providing a vibrant teaching and learning environment that mirrors the real-world workplace and will best prepare our students for the global economy, the college must take action now and construct a new facility to make this happen," says Sanjay Gupta, the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean.
The pavilion will provide a new front entrance to the business complex for students, faculty and the greater business community and will make a bold statement about the college and its aspirations. This in turn will have a significant impact on the standing of the college.
Today, MSU's MBA programs rank in the top 20 among public universities in all major rankings. However, the college cannot expect to hold that position or move forward without an investment in facilities. In recent years, many of the college's business school counterparts in the Big Ten have undertaken building projects, including the University of Michigan with a $135 million expansion of its Ross Business School complex and the University of Nebraska which recently began an $84 million expansion.
The pavilion also has an important role to play in attracting talented students and faculty. In interviews with potential business students admitted to MSU but who chose to go to another school, 'facilities' was consistently ranked as one of the top three deciding factors. Making a difference in these results will require the college's learning spaces to be upgraded well beyond mere window dressing.
A key feature of the Graduate Pavilion will place career planning in the forefront, reinforcing the success of the college in producing graduates who are highly sought after by employers. For example, the college is on U.S. News and World Report's list of top 10 MBA programs with the Most Employed Graduates, with 95.6 percent of full-time MBA graduates landing a job in three months after graduating in 2014. The pavilion will centralize career management services for both graduate and undergraduate students in a modern and prominent place, providing recruiters an improved experience and making it easier for potential employers to make connections.
The new facility also will enhance the ability for students to interact with recruiters, business leaders and alumni as well as with faculty and fellow students. Virtual meetings with business leaders and mentors will be possible thanks to technology-enhanced spaces that assure communication and collaboration can take place, regardless of geographical distance.
In a recent survey of business students at the University of Washington's Foster School of Business, MBA students reported spending an average of nine hours each day in the business center—outside of class time. The students also said most of their extra time there was spent in pursuit of career-related goals. These included changing or advancing careers, landing an internship or connecting with future business partners.
"In the Graduate Pavilion, we imagine a facility that will promote collaborative learning and relationship building within a technology-rich environment, deepen the sense of community, and foster the growth of the next generation of transformational thinkers, leaders and doers who make business happen," Gupta says. "Whether graduate or undergraduate, there is not a single student enrolled at the Broad College of Business who will not be touched by the Graduate Pavilion."
The Empower Extraordinary campaign goal for the college is $136.6 million.
Donors are stepping up to help fuel the positive momentum of the college, among them Bob ('64, Business) and Anna Lou Schaberg, who earmarked the Graduate Pavilion, a business scholarship and a fund for business curriculum innovation in their $3.5M Empower Extraordinary campaign gift.
Putting great minds together
Grand Rapids is poised to become one of the top destinations in the nation for medical research talent. The combination of medical education, clinical practice and academic research now concentrated in the region, already is attracting some of the nation's most promising research scientists eager to join MSU College of Human Medicine and area partners such as Spectrum Health, Van Andel Research Institute, Mercy Health Saint Mary's and Grand Valley State University.
As these leading scientists have come, they have accomplished together what none could have done alone. But, they have run out of space needed to continue to build on their success.
The MSU Grand Rapids Research Center (GRRC) is a critical project designed to meet the needs of a growing number of leading medical researchers. With space to grow and space to collaborate, these research all-stars will be set to transform our understanding, treatment and study of some of the world's most difficult medical issues.
The cost to build the GRRC is projected to be $88.1 million with a goal that $40 million will come from private sources. MSU President Lou Anna K. Simon hopes to fund at least $10 million of that from economic development sources.
"We all know that talent is going to be a key to the future and that discovery will help drive economic development," says President Simon. "In order for us to grow as a state, as a community, we have to have the best talent and the facilities that will allow people to do their best work. With this research facility, together we are creating a more promising future."
Just five years ago, the MSU College of Human Medicine opened the Secchia Center as its new headquarters in Grand Rapids. The $90 million, seven-story building, named for lead benefactors Peter and Joan Secchia, came as the college underwent one of the largest American MD medical school expansions, doubling the size of its enrollment to educate nearly 800 future physicians. It also was part of a long-range strategy that involved partnerships with the Van Andel Research Institute and Grand Valley State University to lease laboratory space to support new National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded researchers recruited to Grand Rapids.
As the number of principal investigators and their teams has grown, all available options for additional laboratory space have been exhausted. In recent years, the college has recruited 20 principal investigators and their teams with as many as nine more expected within two years. In the coming years, the new research building will be large enough to house a total of 44 teams.
"The addition of this beautiful Big Ten Research facility establishes a gateway to the Medical Mile of Grand Rapids and creates a new level of opportunity and partnership that will move the economic needle in West Michigan," says Peter Secchia. "MSU is a proud member of the CIC (Committee for International Cooperation) of the Big Ten which is responsible for more than $10.2 billion in conducted research—far more than the Ivy League's $4.3 billion. The GRRC will help to tap into this network on a deeper level and expand the medical research agenda. It will be a magnet to attract business in the life sciences and growth in biotechnology. Joan and I are really excited to be part of it all."
What all the GRRC teams will undertake as they work in close proximity with practicing physicians is yet to be imagined, President Simon notes. But, the quality and talent of the people recruited thus far has led to accomplishments on an international scale.
For example, in the area of women's health, the Center for Women's Health and Reproductive Research and the National Gynecologic Cancer Translational Research Center of Excellence have amassed a collective 400-plus peer-reviewed publications. MSU and Spectrum Health together are approaching national top-tier research rankings for women's health. They recently discovered lethal differences in target genes and MicroRNAs found in African American women with endometrial cancer.
Neuroscience researchers in the Department of Translational Science and Molecular Medicine, led by professor and chairperson Jack Lipton, have secured more than $16 million in grant awards and boast more than 225 peer-reviewed publications. MSU neuroscientists were selected to test three gene therapies for effect on cellular regeneration and therapy. The scientists recently made an important discovery that a change in the Alzheimer's disease protein may cause neurodegeneration.
Interestingly, fifty percent of all external research funded by the NIH is performed by scientists at medical schools and teaching hospitals. In recent years, following the opening of the Secchia Center, MSU has seen tremendous growth in NIH funding. In neuroscience, MSU ranks 15th in NIH funding, with half of that funding in Grand Rapids. Researchers in women's health have been awarded more than $16 million in grants and awards. Among medical departments of obstetrics and gynecology, they moved from not being ranked at all to a ranking of 21 out of 141 for NIH funding.
The economic impact of an expanded biomedical research footprint does not end with grant funding. MSU recently commissioned Anderson Economic Group to evaluate the benefits of the GRRC. Key findings included approximately 400 new jobs and an increase of more than $28 million in local annual spending. A knowledge economy is an important factor in economic development. The GRRC will be staffed with highly skilled employees—a full 86 percent of positions will require an advanced degree.
The GRRC has been carefully designed to maximize its impact economically, but also to maximize research productivity.
A key element of premier research universities is shared spaces to run experiments. Called "core labs," there will be five in the new research building. One will be devoted to advanced microscopy and another will house state-of-the-art devices to provide central services in genetics, genomics and biomarkers. Some of the core labs will run day and night, populated by multiple researchers from both within the university and from partner institutions. All will promote broad scientific collaboration and will eliminate duplication of expensive equipment in multiple places.
Much like the Graduate Pavilion being planned by the Broad Business College, the new research center puts a premium on open spaces for collaboration. Each floor will include shared spaces to encourage scientists and clinicians to meet informally to talk about their work and share ideas. Also like the Graduate Pavilion, many of the areas will be made flexible in design. Partial walls and moveable benches will not only allow for casual meetings, but also the flexibility to adapt to changing needs.
Importantly, the center will expand the research experience of medical students. Today, more than 90 percent of medical students in the college participate in research with faculty, compared to the national average of 68.2 percent.
While the building itself will be great, it is the medical research that will be conducted inside that is most important, says Elizabeth Lawrence, senior associate dean of the College of Human Medicine for planning, finance and administration.
"We know that men, women and children are waiting for relief from debilitating diseases. And helping them requires scientific discovery," Lawrence says. "The building will have some of the best scientists in women's health, neurology and pediatrics in the country. The real goal is not that you get them in the building, but you put great minds together, and they will germinate new approaches, better treatments and tomorrow's cures."
Brick and mortar gifts:
a cornerstone of our past and future
Private support for buildings at MSU has long been a part of MSU's legacy.
The tradition of private support for facilities at MSU actually dates back to 1917, when Ransom E. Olds, of Oldsmobile fame, gave MSU $100,000 to rebuild the Engineering Building, which had burned down in 1916. Renamed Olds Hall, it still stands today next to the Hannah Administration Building.
In more recent decades, MSU completed the Clifton and Dolores Wharton Center for Performing Arts in 1982—a dramatic addition to campus education and entertainment that was made possible partly by generous alumni support. The center received a significant upgrade and expansion in 2009 from private support, yielding improved amenities for performers and new space for community art education.
In 1993, the North Business Complex opened. The project was the centerpiece of the MSU 2000: Access to Opportunity capital campaign. Another centerpiece of that campaign was MSU's Horticultural Demonstration Gardens and the 4-H Children's Garden.
From 2000 through 2007, many facilities were funded through private support during The Campaign for MSU.
The McPhail Equine Performance Center, a significant advancement in veterinary medicine, opened in 2000, made possible entirely through private support. Some 40 years in the making, MSU's Biomedical and Physical Sciences Facility opened in 2001 after receiving private support. It is MSU's largest academic building, connecting to both the Chemistry and Biochemistry buildings, and represents a substantial advancement in the quality and "connectivity" of science facilities, including research and teaching laboratories. The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development also opened in 2001 thanks to more than $11 million in private support.
In 2003, the International Center completed its 10,000-square-foot expansion following $3.6 million in private support. An endowment to MSU by Delia Koo made possible the third-floor addition, providing additional classroom and office space for MSU's international programs. The center's academic wing was named the Delia Koo International Academic Center.
In 2006, Lyman Briggs College in Holmes Hall was renovated thanks to more than $2.2 million in private support.
In recent years there has been significant private support for facilities in athletics—the Clara Bell Smith Student-Athlete Academic Center (1998), the Alfred Berkowitz Basketball Complex (2001), the Skandalaris Football Center (2008), the Demmer Family Hall of History (2008) in the Skandalaris Center, the DeMartin Soccer Complex (2008), the McLane Baseball Stadium (2009) and the Secchia Stadium for softball (2011). Construction of Pentecost Plaza (2012) at the entrance capped off the new Old College Field additions. Additionally, the John and Marnie Demmer Shooting Sports Education and Training Center came to be almost entirely by private support, led by a $1.5 million gift from the Demmer family.
In 2010, the College of Human Medicine opened the Secchia Center, a $90 million, privately funded medical education facility, named after alumni and lead donors Peter and Joan Secchia.
The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum opened in 2012. This dramatic building, designed by world-renowned architect Zaha Hadid, was made possible by more than $45 million in private support—including the largest private gift to the university in history from founding benefactors Eli and Edythe Broad.
The Bott Building for Nursing Education and Research also was completed in 2012. Made possible by a $7 million commitment from the Timothy and Bernadette Marquez Foundation, a $7.45 million grant from the National Institutes of Health-Center for Research Resources, and the generosity of more than 1,000 benefactors, it has created a highly visible presence for the College of Nursing.
In the Empower Extraordinary campaign, Spartan Stadium's North End Zone addition, a significant facility for athletic recruiting as well as the football program, opened in 2014 thanks to donor support. Plans are underway for the Lasch Family Golf Facility and an expansion of the Berkowitz Basketball Complex thanks to private support as well.
Building the future
The support for these and many other facilities have not just added to the campus skyline, most importantly, they have raised the bar in MSU's teaching and research.
In every case, these facilities make the difference between holding course and moving ahead. The Broad College Graduate Pavilion and the Grand Rapids Research Center are on track to do the same.
To learn more about making a gift to support MSU facilities call (517) 884-1000 or visit go.msu.edu/community.


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Lady Gaga went from wearing a flank steak at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2010 to Saint Laurent in six years. That's quite a trajectory. A look back at her style evolution.
Here, Lady Gaga performing at Terminal 5 in 2009.
A look back at Lady Gaga's style evolution.


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"Yelland-choly" is a term coined by painter Sean Yelland to describe his work, a mix of vague ennui and dark humour (for example he painted a loonie on the sidewalk in front his rendering of a Dollarama outlet, and it sells for $12,001). His precise interpretations of Toronto scenes depict everything from a giant shipping freighter pulling into the Port Lands, to an empty drive-in and a low-flying airliner buzzing the 427. Yelland's paintings, which range between $4,200 and $13,500, serve as a visual diary of a changing Toronto, where everything isn't exactly coming up roses. He bemoans his own quirky Riverdale studio — with its high ceilings and original hardwood floors — may soon be turned into office space.
How did you get your start?
I always doodled and initially wanted to be a cartoonist when I was a kid. While I was working at an art supply store, a backdrop painter came in and needed help. I think I got most of my painting skills from that ... we were painting furniture, backdrops, set work and props. Then computers happened and stole my job!
What inspires you now?
I spend so much time in the studio that I walk everywhere — I purposely don't have a driver's licence. I was never a country guy, I think I would get bored. I like excitement and the energy of the city. I don't often paint cars or people on the street. I like the loneliness of walking around on a Sunday morning in a city filled with millions of people, but there is no one around. It's such a great feeling, it's like the city is your own.
Why is it important to paint a Dollarama, or a pawnshop?
I was walking home and I saw the Dollarama glowing like a beacon. There is something uplifting to them, people are relying on them a lot more these days because food prices are skyrocketing. I took the photograph and knew I wanted to make it big and monolithic. Often I am not sure what the end product will be, so when I came close to finishing I really wasn't happy. So I put a loonie on the sidewalk, then it became someone's lucky day. 'Look a dollar, now I can go in there and live like a king for a minute!' The president of Dollarama saw it, but didn't buy it.
You can see the dark humour in your work …. I am thinking of the headstone that reads "Black" in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
I didn't even realize it belonged to Conrad Black's family when I photographed it, or once I started the painting. I just really liked the sharp contrast of the word Black with the freshly fallen snow.
What does your work convey about Toronto?
A little sadness. A lot of the buildings I have painted are no longer there. A week after I painted Marty Millionaires it was sold, so I don't know what's going to happen to the property. I don't even know how much longer I will be in this studio before I get kicked out. These places are so few and far between.


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Welcome back to the never ending saga where I post about a car that I am 100% committed to buying and the next day say how terrible it is and am no longer buying it! Well the crack pipe Saabaru with a "minor" headgasket leak, potentially bad clutch, nail in the tire, soft shocks, dented subframe, and mostly worn brake rotors and front pads is back!
Back in the sense that it is no longer TOTALLY written off. The seller texted me today and said he thought about it and the lowest he can do is $8k. Now, I already have a flight into SFO and I booked a rental to drive home to LA (such is life when you 99% commit to buying a car and change your mind). But anyways I am checking out another Saabaru nearby and well I might as well test drive this one!
Before you tell me that I am NUTS, I am not bringing any money with me and so I am NOT buying a car that day no matter what! Hopefully the banks are closed too by the time I finish the test drive, dont want any ideas creeping into my head (GOOD THING I CANT PULL $8K FROM THE ATM!)
Haha but really, I am sticking hard to not buying anything until after I arrive in California on the Nov 11th with my Miata. Then if its still available and nobody wants it for that price, I imagine he would be more amenable to my offer. But at least I get a free test drive out of it!
BTW, here was the other maintenance done to the car to provide more history on it:
6/10/2010 - Purchased car
7/1/2010 - 42,000 miles Exhaust leak fixed
7/7/2010 - 43,246 miles Smog check pass
7/22/2010 - 43,727 miles Oil change
7/23/2010 - 43,668 replace front right axle
6/6/2011 - 49,496 miles Oil change
9/1/2012 - 51,252 miles Replaced front pads
4/23/2015 - 54,204 miles Installed Fujitsubo Legalis R Axleback, Tomei equal length header, Subaru gaskets, Subaru exhaust bolt and spring kit, Replace oil cooler to STI version, Oil change, Coolant
8/4/2016 - 58,690 miles Oil change
12/3/2016 - 60,976 miles Front axles replaced with OEM Subaru axles, Oil change, MOC Intake Cleaner, MOC Fuel Injector Cleaner, Factory Air filter, Transmission gear/oil, Brake fluid flush with Motul, Parts wash, Subaru longlife coolant, Denso iridium plugs IK22, Cabin filter, Replace R Valve cover gasket, valve cover, spark plug and cam plug gasket, AC belts
1/10/2017 - 61,688 miles Bridgestone Potenza RE970 Pole Position Ultra High Performance tires, replaced all 4 at Costco (40,000 mile warranty) free lifetime balance and rotation
7/11/2017 - 64,487 miles Alignment
7/12/2017 - 64,600 miles Secondary air system block off plates, reprogram ECU
7/XX/2017 - Smog check pass (couldn't find this receipt)
8/15/2017 - 65,400 miles Oil change
Tomorrow I will be changing out the air filter and cabin filter.


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