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HEY! Listen to samples of each episode below!
Then purchase the entire album THE AUDIO ADVENTUREBOOK OF BIG DAN FRATER Volume 1 with all 5 episodes (plus extra special bonus material) or just get BIG DAN FRATER in Sorry Right Number as an individual track on iTunes right here!
and the House of Long Pants
Millie inherits an old farmhouse!
But it comes with a sinister secret... carrying a TROWEL
... with special guest star Frank John Hughes!
and the Escalator of Forgetfulness
Our three heroes solve a crisis at the local mall
... with special guest star Michael Chiklis!
BIG DAN FRATER and the
Barbecue Pit of Sudeman Phycer
Will barbecuing be lost forever?
Not if our heroes have anything to say about it!
... with special guest star Kevin McKidd!
and the Night of the Werewithal
Big Dan, Dutch and Millie find a troubled young man with a secret so terrible he cannot help but tell them all about it.
... with special guest star Sam Witwer!
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.We are today launching our 2013 Fundraising Calendar - Classic Bikes for Classic Men - the brave club members of the East Northamptonshire bared all in the name of charity to raise funds for Spinal Injuries Association.
The calendar goes on sale today and you can purchase your copy by going to http://www.spinal.co.uk/page/classic-bikes-for-classic-men-calendar The calendar costs £9.99 and all proceeds will be donated to SIA.
Special Thanks goes to Bike Sure, East Northants Classic Motorcycle Club and Anna Bowkiss Photography.
This press release from the SIA was published on Sunday.
Buy now.
For more information about its making see the April 19th Blog in this section.

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Think of it as a Cinco de Mayo warm-up
Tickets are on sale now for Jose Rizo's "Mongorama," a Latin jazz concert presented by Laguna Beach Live! at the Laguna Playhouse, 606 Laguna Canyon Road, at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4.
This new, nine-piece ensemble formed by Rizo (host of "Jazz on the Latin Side" on KJazz) explores the early Mongo Santamaria charanga-jazz material of the 50s and early 60s.
Mongorama celebrates the music of conga legend Mongo Santamaria, who performed with Chombo Silva and Rolando Lozano, to create an energizing Latin jazz sound driven by Cuban charanga rhythms and old-school straight ahead jazz. Rizo's ensemble preserves the old-school element, while refreshing it with a modern perspective.
Mongorama will feature tenor saxophonist Justo Almario and flautist Danilo Lozano, who revisit the explorations of saxophonist Chombo Silva and flautist Rolando Lozano (Danilo's dad), respectively. Rounding out the ensemble will be Adonis Puentes (lead vocals), Ramon Banda (timbales), Joey De Leon (congas), Alfredo Ortiz (perc/vocals), Rene Camacho (bass), Joe Rotondi or Oscar Hernandez (piano), and Dayren Santamaria (violin).
Tickets are $25-$30 for adults and $15 for students (21 and under) and may be purchased by calling 800-595-4849 or by visiting www.lagunabeachlive.org.
Jose Rizo's newest Latin ensemble is set to perform at Laguna Playhouse next week.


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The Digital Media Ministry at Calvary Chapel Monrovia is in charge of keeping our website updated, creating digital content such as our weekly studies in both video/audio form and photography for various events. It also includes doing graphic design work for most ministries and managing our church app. This ministry is in need for constant help as it is continually expanding to adapt to modern technology, so if you have experience or knowledge in these areas or if you simply wish to learn and serve, we would ask that you would get involved in this ministry. Contact us with the form below if you're interested in serving.
Areas that are included in this ministry include:
- Video sermon editing/uploading
- Graphic desing
- filming and editing
- Audio editing
- Weekly bulletin
- Logo design
- Church app
- Photography
- Maintaining website


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If you accumulate twelve or more points in a three year period running from the date of the first conviction to the date of the last offence, the court is obliged to disqualify for a minimum period of six months 'unless the court is satisfied that such a disqualification would cause exceptional hardship'. If the court finds that exceptional hardship would be caused, it can decide to either disqualify for less than six months or not disqualify at all.
The exceptional hardship can be hardship which affects the motorist or some other person or persons.
It is important to get specialist legal advice as soon as possible to give yourself the best chance of success in avoiding a disqualification. Whether you have already been charged and are due to go to court or whether you have simply been made aware that you have been caught committing the offence and will receive a summons or postal requisition at a later date, we advise that you get in touch with us straight away.
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Alt-med practitioners and proponents luuuuuuuuuuuuuuuve to talk about how no one would ever get sick if they just did x, y, z to boost their immune system. Here's the thing guys. When push comes to shove, I don't think that you really believe your own hype. But I could be wrong. Fortunately I'm going to give you a chance to put your money where your mouth is. So, here's your big chance to finally show all those naysayers and close-minded skeptics.
All you have to do is accept (and complete) my challenge:
Step 1: Boost Your Immune System!!!!1!! (Naturally, of course)
Do whatever you have to do to "boost" your immune system. Crack your back, align your chakras, breathe in a bunch essential oils, get needles stuck in you, eat only organic food, recharge your crystals, drink water (i.e., homeopathy), get a foot massage, buy a bunch of stuff on Mercola.com, Natural News, or Infowars, etc... Do all those things which "boost" your immune system that "they" don't want us to know about.
Step 2: Fly to West Africa and Find an Ebola Outbreak
Step 3: Cure People with Your Modality of Choice.
Of course, since your immune system has been boosted, you don't have to worry about catching Obama's ebola. Here's the fun part. You also don't need to wear any protection when you help ebola patients because, as you say, the only way to get sick is if your immune system isn't "boosted." And yours is fully boosted! Yay!
If by some improbable chance you do catch ebola, just treat yourself with whatever natural cure you advocate or you can just buy something that "they" don't want us to know about from Mecola.com, Natual News, or Infowars. Don't use big pharma's poisons!!!1!!11!!!
Normally, I would reject any medical evidence based on a single data point. But if you can complete all three steps and come home alive, I will pay for your flight, recant everything bad I've ever said about your magic remedy, and I will become its biggest proponent.
I'm waiting...
In this blog I present, in an informal way, core ideas in philosophy and their application to current events and everyday life. For critical thinking lessons and resources, please check out my free online course reasoningforthedigitalage.com
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
My Challenge to Alt-Med
Posted by Amitabha Palmer at 5:03 PM
Labels: alternative medicine, ebola, false advertising, scam, West Africa
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This is the most amazing, rational response to the Alt-med types I have ever read.ReplyDelete
Would you mind terribly if I stole your argument? I will gladly credit you each time I do, but seriously- this is what I have been trying to say for *ages* and just was unable to formulate with my own words.Replies
Hi! Yes, of course you can use it! Also, I fear some homeopaths might have read my article:Delete
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An NHS trust facing staff shortages and a rising financial deficit could carry out a controversial centralisation of A&E services six months earlier than planned.
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust is planning to speed up a shake-up of services after being warned by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) over staffing levels.
Dewsbury and District's hospital will effectively be downgraded to an urgent care centre treating minor ailments under the plan, which will see critically-ill and injured patients taken to a beefed-up A&E at Wakefield's Pinderfields Hospital.
The A&E move was planned for spring 2017, but has been brought forward to September this year under new proposals made after the CQC rated Mid Yorkshire as "inadequate" for whether its services were safe.
CQC inspectors found low staffing levels and poor hygiene in parts of the trust, a report published in December revealed.
A report to the Wakefield and Kirklees joint health scrutiny committee meeting on January 8 said a new timeline was agreed in principle "as part of the response to the Care Quality Commission's recommendation to achieve safer nurse/bed ratios".
Parts of the shake-up, including consultant-led maternity services being centralised in Wakefield from next summer, will go ahead as originally planned.
The report said earlier implementation of the plans would lead to £10m a year in savings for Mid Yorkshire.
It emerged last month that the trust was forecasting a financial deficit of £21.3m at the end of the year - £6.5m higher than planned.
Faster access to skilled medics for patients and better use of Mid Yorkshire's workforce are also expected from bringing the shake-up forward.
And it is hoped that making the changes earlier will lead to more stability for the trust and its workers.
The scrutiny committee report said: "There is a risk that a protracted transition creates instability and anxiety in the workforce which may result in staff seeking employment elsewhere and could exacerbate staff shortages.
"Completing the programme sooner could, therefore, provide greater security for the future of Dewsbury Hospital as a vibrant local health resource."
Stephen Eames, Mid Yorkshire's chief executive, said NHS bosses would formally consider the revised timetable this month and make a recommendation.
He said: "There is agreement in principle that the benefits that could be derived in terms of clinical safety by better deployment of existing workforce would justify delivering full reconfiguration in summer 2016."


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LIA Cast 115 - Knowledge Curation
Talking about researching, leveling up skills, learning new skills, and information hoarding on the LIA Cast!
When you're in school, learning and leveling up are often very directed activities with relative clarity in their intended outcomes. But when you're on your own in your art explorations, finding the resources to level up, and defining the outcome in which you're interested, can be jobs in and of themselves.
How do you know whether or not you're ignorant on a topic or skill? How do you find the resources you need to broaden your knowledge or strengthen your skills? How do you curate and refine this information into something useful?
Join us for a discussion on researching and curating knowledge to improve our art. Together we explore the distinctions between the Autodidact, the Workflow-Hacker, and the Adaptive Expert For Hire and how each of them might leverage various online and offline tools to find, collect, and refine information that can assist with shipping your art projects.
Links mentioned:
- LIA Cast 53 - Self Learning Skillset Research
- LIA Cast 88 - Writing in the Cloud
- LIA Cast 85 - Where the Heck are all of My Art Files?
- The Dunning-Kruger Effect
- A list of cognitive biases
- Logical fallacies
- Predictably Irrational
- The You're Not So Smart podcast
- The Back to Work podcast
- A Whack on the Side of the Head
- Here Comes Everybody
- LIA Cast 94 - Critiques and Feedback with Dave Roman and Brandon Dayton
- Fujitsu ScanSnap
- iThoughts
- MindNode
- The Doodle Revolution
- The Sketchnote Handbook
- The Art SoundOff Challenge
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When you think of high-tech cars, you probably think of Tesla or BMW.
But there's another automaker that is quietly becoming one of the industry's most tech-centric brands: Volvo.
For years, the Swedish car company has been at the forefront of introducing the latest safety tech into its vehicles.
But the car company's tech savviness extends beyond just its safety systems. Volvo is also investing in technology and partnerships that will make its cars more convenient, efficient, and autonomous.
The company's latest move includes its pledge that all new Volvo cars will either be fully electric or hybrid by 2019.
Here's a closer look at how Volvo is quietly becoming one of the leading car companies in auto tech.
By 2025, Volvo aims to sell one million electrified vehicles. To help it meet this goal, the company plans to only sell fully electric and hybrid cars starting in 2019.
Volvo also plans to offer a plug-in hybrid version of every model, the company said.
Volvo said in a press statement in April that its first fully electric car will be based on its Compact Modular Architecture (CMA), which is the platform the carmaker will use for its smaller 40-Series vehicles.
However, it is not clear whether Volvo will actually use the CMA platform for its first electric car, or if it will introduce another new platform that is even smaller.
The company also said in April that it will manufacture the vehicle in China and ship it around the world.
While details about the vehicle are still sparse, the company has revealed that it will have a range of about 250 miles per charge and price between $35,000 to $40,000, according to a report from Automotive News.
Volvo has said that three of these vehicles will be Volvo models and two will be Polestar vehicles, which are cars made by Volvo's performance division.
At least one of the three Volvo models is being developed on the company's Scalable Product Architecture (SPA), which is the same platform the company uses for its full-sized vehicles, like the XC90.
The company's Pilot Assist II, which became available in Volvo's new S90 last year, will do all of the steering and braking at speeds of up to 80 mph.
The company's first generation semiautonomous system could only handle steering and braking for speeds up to 30 mph on the highway and it must have a car in front of it to follow. So it was really only useful when you are in stop-and-go traffic.
The updated system, though, is much closer to what Tesla offers, allowing the car to do the steering and braking on the open road up to 80 mph. It also no longer needs a car to follow to work.
The updated system, however, still needs clear lane markings to work properly.
The system comes standard in Volvo's S90 and is available as an option in the 2017 XC90.
Volvo and Uber teamed up in August to develop base vehicles that work compatibly with all of the latest autonomous-driving technology.
Both companies pledged to invest $300 million in the project. Volvo builds the new base vehicles and Uber then purchases the cars from the automaker.
However, Volvo will also use the new base vehicle for the next stage of its own self-driving-car strategy, which includes fully autonomous driving.
The company has been testing its autonomous-driving system, called Intellisafe Autopilot, internally for some time. But it launched a pilot program earlier this year that enables real customers to test out the technology.
Volvo launched its pilot program, called DriveMe, in 2017 in Gothenburg, Sweden earlier this year.
The pilot program still requires drivers to supervise their vehicle while it's in autonomous mode. However, data collected during the pilot is used to improve the system so the company can eliminate human supervision in just a few years.
"We will design and test for real outliers because just building and demoing a self-driving car, is not very difficult," Erik Coelingh, Volvo's senior technical leader for safety and driver-support technologies, told Business Insider.
"But building a self-driving car and saying that an ordinary customer can get behind the steering wheel, that means that the car should be able to deal with all thinkable traffic scenarios that occur on the road — extreme conditions in terms of weather and traffic scenarios, but also technical flaws in the system."
By 2020, Intellisafe Autopilot will enable the car to drive autonomously without the driver's supervision. However, a driver will likely only be able to activate the function in certain areas that are well mapped.
In 2016, Volvo announced it had partnered with chipmaker NVIDIA to use its deep-learning computers to power Intellisafe Autopilot during the DriveMe pilot.
NVIDIA's platform for self-driving cars, which is called Drive PX 2, basically gives the car deep-learning capabilities. Deep-learning is a type of machine-learning where computers are able to teach themselves by sifting through tons of data.
This way the car can learn to identify different objects and situations so that it can continually improve. But expect Volvo's first driverless car to be extra cautious, just in case.
"Designing a self-driving car is very much about dealing with exceptional situations. And I think we will have a self-driving car that, in the early years, will be a very careful and polite driver," Coelingh told Business Insider.
"Safety is really at the heart of this development and we will let the car drive with sufficient safety margin so if you miss a turn or something it doesn't become dangerous."
In June, Volvo also announced that it had partnered with Autoliv, a company that builds safety system for cars, to help it create the software to power its self-driving cars.
Gradually, Volvo will also roll out some of the futuristic design elements it showed off in 2015 in its driverless car concept called Concept 26.
Some of the features included in the Concept 26 are a steering wheel that retracts, a seat that reclines, and a console that can transform into a large screen.
While Volvo won't roll out all of these features in its first self-driving car, Coelingh said none of the things included in Concept 26 are that far-fetched.
"These are really simple things. Things like getting more space by moving the seat backwards, moving the steering wheel in, you can do all of these things with little effort," Coelingh said.
"Concept 26 is pretty realistic in what you can do. It's not like you have a swiveling chair or putting in a dining table. It's still a car interior, but it provides you with a little bit extra."
Volvo is interested in more than just self-driving cars. It's also investing in technology to make its cars more connected and convenient.
For example, Volvo's On Call app provides access to data about the car's condition and lets the owner control certain functions remotely.
Among other things, owners can use the app to view the car's location, fuel level, lock status, maintenance warnings, and to check if a window or door was left open. It can also be used to start the car remotely, control the car's climate, honk the horn, and flash the lights.
Volvo said it will offer a commercial vehicle that won't have a key. Instead, the key is the driver's smartphone app.
The Bluetooth-enabled digital key will make it so users never have to carry a key again. It will also allow owners to easily share digital keys with people they trust.
Volvo said in February that it was testing using the smartphone as a key and said at the time that it should launch a commercial vehicle with the technology sometime this year.
Volvo is integrating technology in its newer vehicles to enable over-the-air software updates. This allows the company to seamlessly install safety updates and new functions.
For example, last November, the company rolled out a software update that allows its vehicles to get over-the-air mapping updates as long as the vehicle is connected to the internet.
Over-the-air updates make customers' lives a lot easier, considering owners currently must bring their vehicles into a dealership for software updates.


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The Thursday Night Pussy Club is a group of women who meet in Chippendale each week to explore, share, and learn about all aspects of sexuality, fetish, and personal pleasure and satisfaction. Held in a very sexy private venue, this girls-only space has invited MAXXX BLACK to show off the latest and greatest in pleasure objects (and the best ways to use them) at their next workshop on November 6th.
The workshop will take approx. 2 hours. Cost is $10 per person. Start time is 7pm. Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or 02 9557 0122 to be added to the RSVP list.
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Hi Drupalers,
In last tutorial, we saw how to create a new menu from scratch. In this tutorial we are going to learn below mentioned topics.
How to reorder menu links in drupal 7 ?
In last tutorial we created menu called "Administration Shortcuts" with two links. Let's reorder these menu links. You can see menu in the left side bar as shown below.
In the menu "blocks landing page" link appears first then "user listing". Let's change this order of menu links. To quickly navigate to administration of this menu, login as admin and hover on the block. You can see a wheel like icon on top. Click on that icon. Then, click on "list links" link to go to list of links in this menu. You will see something like below.
Now take your mouse on top of block landing page, hold the right mouse button and drag it to down. Once you drag it to down holding mouse button, screen will look like below.
By dragging the link downwards, you reordered the menu link. Now click on save below to save the changes. After saving go to home page to see the changes. Now user listing comes on top.
How to reorder menu links in Drupal 7 using weights ?:
In last section, we saw how to reorder menus using drag and drop feature. Let's see now how to reorder the menus using weight option. Both, will do the same job actually. Now by changing the weights let's reorder our menu links.
Open the list of "Administration Shortcuts" links just by following steps discussed above. You will see the page like in screen shot 2. As you see now "User listing" links appears first then "Blocks landing page" appears second. Let's change this order.
In drupal 7, where ever weights appears they follow the same rule. Lighter one floats and heavier one sinks. Means smallest number goes to top and highest number to bottom.
Hope, you learnt how to reorder menus and how to use weights concepts. Stay tuned for more tutorials.
Anil Sagar
Joomla và Drupal >


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Tractor-Trailer Accident on North Carolina Highway Kills One Man and Injures Another
One man is dead and another person was injured in North Carolina last week in a three-vehicle collision that occurred when a tractor-trailer's brakes failed while headed south on NC 89. The tractor-trailer then crossed the center line, striking a Nissan pickup truck and then a Chevrolet van before slamming into a mountain and catching fire. North Carolina Highway Police say that the tractor-trailer was moving at 65 mph when the collision occurred.
Pickup truck driver Glenn Roy Shumate, 68, died upon impact. Marvin Patton, the tractor-trailer driver, sustained minor injuries. He was released from the hospital after treatment and charged with death by motor vehicle, driving left of center, and speeding.
Speeding is one of the number one causes of truck accidents caused by a truck driver. Speeding can cause accidents because a truck driver may not have enough time to stop crashing into another motor vehicle or pedestrian. It can also prevent another car driver, motorcyclist, or pedestrian from getting out of the way of a truck before being struck.
Tractor-trailer accidents can be very tragic events, especially for pedestrians or the passengers of any other vehicles that are involved in a collision with a tractor-trailer.
A tractor-trailer that is fully loaded can weigh tens of thousands of pounds—compare that to the 3,000 or so pounds that regular motor vehicles weigh.
If you are injured in a truck collision, you should contact a North Carolina or South Carolina truck accident lawyer right away. Tractor-trailer collision claims and lawsuits are more complex to deal with than regular car accident cases, and it is important that the personal injury lawyer that you hire knows how to properly deal with truck companies and their insurance companies.
It is not uncommon for there to be more than one liable party that can be held responsible for a truck accident. For example, the truck company may have failed to service the truck so that a brake or engine malfunction ended up causing a fatal accident, or the maintenance company may have neglected to properly service the truck.
Even if the truck driver caused the accident by speeding or engaging some other negligent behavior behind the wheel—the truck company might still be partially responsible for the collision if it allowed the driver to operate the tractor-trailer for longer than the legally allowed number of hours.
Your tractor-trailer collision lawyer will know what evidence to gather in order to properly investigate your case and prove that you deserve personal injury compensation for your injuries from the truck accident.
One dead in three-vehicle accident, The Mount Airy News, January 23, 2008
Related Web Resources:
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Speeding, Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety/SafeRoads.org


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Turning down the Earth's temperature won't be fast, simple or inexpensive
In case you haven't heard, the Earth is getting hotter, and most scientists blame mankind. The average global temperature has risen 1.3 degrees in the last century, and the future might be quite a bit warmer. As international climate negotiators convene in Cancun, Mexico, this week, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is projecting that the temperature could rise as many as 10 degrees more by the year 2100 if we do nothing to stop it.
Is there any way to get ourselves back to those 19th-century temperatures in a hurry?
Not without extraordinary risk. Even if we immediately stopped burning fossil fuels and all became vegans, average temperatures probably wouldn't drop much for about 500 years, according to Ken Caldeira, a climatologist at the Carnegie Institution and Stanford University.
There are two reasons for that. First, carbon is really persistent. For every four molecules we release into the atmosphere, one will still be there five millennia later. Second, the oceans have been absorbing extra heat for a long time, and it would take more than a century for all of it to radiate through the atmosphere and into space.
The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines, which released 20 million tons of sulfur and cooled the Earth by about a degree for a year, proved that shading can affect the temperature rather quickly. Some models suggest that, if we were really aggressive and everything worked out just right, shading could return us to 19th-century temperatures.
Nevertheless, shading is a last resort because it could have terrifying side effects, according to Damon Matthews, a climate scientist at Concordia University in Montreal. The shade might diminish or stop the monsoons that water South Asia's crops. It would undermine the solar panels that help cut our fossil fuel use. And who knows how it would affect plants and the animals that rely on them, including us?
There might be geopolitical consequences as well. Some countries, such as Russia, stand to gain a relative advantage from a little global warming. They might not be happy if another country unilaterally dimmed the sun. (The United Nations has issued a moratorium on geo-engineering.)
There are also less drastic proposals to manage solar radiation. For example, some have suggested sending ships to the equatorial seas to continuously foam up the water. The white surface would absorb less sunlight than the great blue expanse. Such plans are in their infancy, though, says Jay Gulledge of the Pew Center on Global Climate Change, and no one knows how much they would affect the temperature.
Another option is to filter excess CO2 out of the atmosphere. Researchers have developed synthetic trees that might do the job. They're capable of extracting carbon from the air 1,000 times as fast as regular trees, according to Columbia University's Klaus Lackner, one of the scientists behind the technology. But it'll be a while before we build a synthetic forest.
Removing carbon from the open air is far more challenging than just catching it from the business end of a smokestack, a process that could slow, but not reverse, climate change. It would be expensive as well. Right now, it would cost about $1 trillion to filter out 10 billion tons of carbon using the smokestack method; climate scientists are estimating about $100 per ton using current technology. To capture carbon from free air probably would cost two or three times that much. And scientists aren't even certain how much the scheme would lower temperatures. It's unlikely we could safely scrub out enough carbon to cool down the planet within the next century.
Palmer, a freelance writer based in New York, is a regular contributor to Slate's Explainer column.
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No matter how much we love what we do and what drives we have, all of us get into our fun and exciting mobile and concession food businesses for one shining reason above all others: to make money and make a living, hopefully by doing something that doesn't feel like work. Being able to survive while doing this is key, and as such we need to have an idea how much we can make each year; can we survive on the actual profits of a concession trailer job?
One definitely needs to double check all the factors and ensure their potential salary can get to what they individually need. Of course, the true potential range for this is huge, based not just how well YOU will do but countless other influences. That said, we approach the subject on anyone's mind who's looking at opening up a concession trailer: What kind of salary can I make?
For this particular question, we'll assume that you're actually able to develop a strong customer base and a steady flow throughout the year with the typical 'high and low seasons.' Of course getting to that point is another adventure within itself that dictates success, but that's an article for another time. On that same line, one can rarely expect to rarely make rates in this range UNTIL having done so, of which not a single penny will be pure profit until you've broke even after paying off loans, debts, equipment, and all those other startup business costs one has to deal with. But it can give you an idea on how much you can pay off each year until that point; and then on it's smooth sailing.
There are of course multiple factors that will heavily influence how much you're able to make, which generally include, but are not limited to:
Concession Cart Cost – 'How much you're spending on your gelapi.' Buying used, maybe at around $2-$5,000 for something small or up to $50,000, if not more, for larger and newer models
Menu Prices – 'How much you're making per Order'
Single vs Meal – 'Are customers ordering a single item or compiling multiples?' Basically are you getting frequent small upsales
Production Speed – 'How many Orders can you produce every hour,' so how many checks can be gathered, like turning tables for restaurants
Hours of Operation – 'How often are you actually out on the Streets? How many longer event gigs are you doing vs just shorter lunch/dinner street parkings?'
Event Fees – 'How much are they taking from you?' What kind of event fees do you have to deal with, and are they events that you can make that back easily or are you fighting for every penny?
Seasons of Operation – 'How many DAYS are you on the Street each year?' Is this business your life, all year, 24/7, or are you only doing it during the warmer months, stowing in the dead winter period and filling wage requirements with some other part-time job
Part Time vs Full – One should never really go into the mobile food business thinking they can operate it on the sid, but there are some BBQ Teams, Restaurants, Meat Companies, etc that will send their own trailer/cart out to special events all year or during the big giant summer fairs; these ones will obviously be in the MUCH lower price range brackets mentioned later, if not even lower still
Competition – 'How many potential customers are being taken away by other trailers or trucks?' This certainly sounds negative, but other trucks can also bring MORE customers to an area to buy from you, the question is if there's a balance or simply too many damn trucks in one location
Employees – 'How many people does it take to shell out your food?' Can you get it all out, and fast, with just yourself and/or one other person, or do you need more people that need a paycheck
Maintenance – 'How well are you taking care of the trailer?' Technically more concerned with your cooking equipment here; and everyone has maintenance costs. The question comes into whether you're using new/well-maintained models that keep up well over time, or older/not-paying-attention-to machines that suck money from you every month at least
Licensing and Permits – 'Where are you and what the hell are they trying to soak from you?' Where you are, what kind of trailer one has, stationary vs temporary, where one parks, what kind of events one does, all of it varies highly in fees. This is something that needs heavy research for your area and proper navigation to avoid the higher ends of billing while maximizing opportunities to make your salary
After all this is said and done, one rounds their expected earnings towards the final yearly salary. Though, again, there's no real consistencies to hang on, we do have some figures that give us an average height to look to. For instance, the average owner salary for those in amusement and recreation food service industries, like concession trailers, in 2008 came to 45,650. This could be seen very hopefully, in for the effect of inflation, and the increasing gastronomic interests, raising this average even further. That said, one could also say that increased competition from OTHERS getting into the new concession trailer and food truck industries may also drive this number down. So take it as you will.
Another source states that many operating out of smaller trailers and focusing on some of the smaller events will often see 5-20,000 a season. Assuming they operate all or most of the year, and that figure is probably for the BUSY season, one could estimate the addition of slower months could bring that to anywhere between 10-45,000 depending. Which lines up to those he states achieve ALL of their revenue from the concession, and do a lot more events, who get into the range of 20-50,000.
What this means for YOU, chances likely, is that your first few years of success will be occupying these lower ranges. As nice as the higher values look, always keep in mind that most concession businesses won't be getting to that ranges until you've worked the business 2 – 3 years at least.
Then again, there are always concession owners that strike a nerve among the public and make incredible returns very quickly. Just one example would be the founders of Cousin's Maine Lobster who started out with a single truck and had a multiple six figure per year business. Now they have an exploding empire that includes an e-commerce store and franchise of food trucks.
It is possible to make a very healthy salary, very fast 6-figure+ salary in the concession business. But prepare for much lower numbers, especially when starting out.
Also Read These:
The Average Salary of a Person Who Owns a Concession Trailer – Small Business
"A Concession Business Can be Big or Small" – Festival Net
Starting a Food Concession Business – StartingaBiz.com


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A Sequel to The Locked Door 1 (http://nairgoks.blogspot.in/2011/10/closed-door-1.html)
Nihar now sits with his mom on the floor under the fan for dinner. His dad joins in as well but it's the same even now, he hasn't been able to open up completely to his parents. The psychiatry sessions might have cracked a major part of his silence. Seven years of his lonely life might have changed his attitude and approach towards his parents. He was always more open to his friends than his parents.
Nihar never felt secured to open up his personal life. Perhaps being a teenager he thought some things are better, kept unsaid. He heard enough of his parents brag about the tensions and the pressures of their work lives which would sometimes change into personal glitches, especially on their children. Even silly matters which can be ignored would turn into major issues. Initially he would try to think about it but now as it was regular, he started to look past it.
The lonely life had hit him hard. His academic performance was on a downfall. The kid who used to be at the pinnacle of the ranking system until 5th grade surprisingly fell to the level of an average student. It was a shock to his parents, who thought it might affect the status quo they had in the society amongst other parents. Nihar was moderate at sports, so there was nothing that could be shown to the society to outshine their status.
The competition amongst parents to show off their children as numero uno had been a trend, not only amongst friends and social circles, even in the family. As for him, his cousins were always good in something or the other, and whenever he visited them, he went through the constant praises of his fellow cousins. It never made a difference to him, but he did not know it was affecting his parents as their son was falling down from what he used to do best, study, leaving them with absolutely nothing to praise about him.
Perhaps the competitive world had set its mark in the academic life of children.
Instead of investigating his problem in regards to the downfall, they only forced him to participate in different sports activities. The life of being lonely had rendered his competitive mentality, paralytic. It was as if his brain was rusting. He became inconsistent in everything. He couldn't set his mind on anything. It made him a loser in all aspects of life. He became a reserved and a silent student in class, good amongst the teachers but not amongst the other fun loving students. He desperately wanted to come out of it but it was too late.
That's when he started to find solace in a selected few friends. They had become a totally different world for him. He started to enjoy their presence, even though he never told them about the inner demon he was fighting.
Although he had only male friends, he never knew a girl could bring comfort into his life. He was a shy person especially towards women so never knew how to talk or be around girls. It happened in his tenth grade. She entered his already disturbing life, later known, to be the girl who changed the life of the most silent, reserved and infamous student of the class…..
P.S. To be continued.
FYI: Based on a true story. Currently the character Nihar(name changed), in real life, is partly, a successful individual, maintaining a good relationship with his parents. The posts are a look back into his disturbed life. The sender is anonymous.


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Sing Lit Station (SLS) and Literature Across Frontiers (LAF) are proud to co-organise the LAF-SLS Translation Retreat, an international training programme in literary cross-cultural translation.
Using English as a bridging language, eight multilingual poets from Europe and Southeast Asia will cross-translate one another's work into a variety of different languages, comprising of Chinese, French, Latvian, Malay, Spanish and Tamil.
Held at a remote house in Malaysia from 31 Oct to 5 Nov 2017, the programme will culminate in a presentation of their work at the Singapore Writers Festival:
Juana Adcock is a Mexican-born, Scotland-based poet and translator working in English and Spanish. Her first book, Manca, explores the anatomy of violence in Mexico, and was named by Reforma's distinguished critic Sergio González Rodríguez as one of the best poetry books published in 2014. In 2016, she was named one of the 'Ten New Voices from Europe' by Literature Across Frontiers.
Hamid Roslan graduated from Yale-NUS College in 2017, where he jointly won the Outstanding Capstone Prize in Arts and Humanities for an as yet unpublished manuscript, parsetreeforestfire. Other work more readily available may be found in the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, OF ZOOS, and the 2016 SingPoWriMo anthology. He writes prose, poetry and plays. He is owned by three cats.
Subhashini Kalaikannan has been writing poetry and prose in Tamil since her school days and has taken part in many writing competitions. Her first collection of poetry, Annal, was launched at the Singapore Writers Festival 2015. She has worked in many roles such as a script-writer, subtitler, translator and assistant producer, in the entertainment industry as well as a trainer and tutor.
Nathalie Ronvaux is a poet and playwright from Luxembourg. She writes in French and has published four plays and five poetry collections. Her first collection Vignes et louves (Vines and She-Wolves) was awarded the Encouragement Prize by the Servais Foundation in 2010. Her play La vérité m'appartient (The Truth Belongs to Me) received first prize in the 2013 National Literary Contest and was staged in 2016. Nathalie was named one of Literary Europe Live's New Voices from Europe 2017.
Tse Hao Guang is a poet and editor, assembled with parts from Hong Kong and Malaysia. His first full-length poetry collection, Deeds of Light, was shortlisted for the 2016 Singapore Literature Prize. He edits literary e-journal OF ZOOS, educational resource poetry.sg, and UnFree Verse, an anthology of Singapore poetry in form. He is a 2016 fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program.
Arvis Viguls is a poet and translator. His first two poetry collections, Istaba (2009) and 5:00 (2012), were published to great critical acclaim and won him several prizes, including the Annual Latvian Literature Award for best debut and the Poetry Days prize, awarded by Latvia's main poetry festival for the best collection of the year. His poems have been published in anthologies and magazines in more than 15 languages.
Afi Noor has read and performed in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and London and has published a chapbook titled Ten Poems (2012). She was part of KCL's King's Players and has performed at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Her poems are featured in Kisah Journal by PUSAKA, Asian Centre Anthology of Malaysian Poetry in English, Rambutan Literary and Odd One Out Magazine. Currently she organises a monthly poetry workshop called Spill the Ink Poetry Lab as part of the SpeakCityAsia initiative.
Pierre Vinclair is a French poet and philosopher, usually writing in French. Having lived in Asia for nearly 8 years, Pierre is also a freelance editor and multilingual translator, currently based in Singapore. A prolific writer working across multiple genres, Pierre is also the 2017/2018 Jalan Kubor Writer-in-Residence at Sing Lit Station, where he is working on two literary projects and two translation projects.


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Robert Gilvesy
Organic Wine Producer
Robert Gilvesy produces organic wine on the slopes of the Badacsony volcanic mounts north of Lake Balaton in Hungary. A second generation Canadian-Hungarian, he grew up on a farm in southwestern Ontario but moved to Hungary in 1992 to explore his roots. After working in architecture and international business, Robert settled in Szent György-hegy (Saint George's Mount) and renovated an 18th century cellar where he now produces the indigenous Furmint, and Riesling-Italico (Olaszrizling) as well as Rhine Riesling and Sauvignon Blanc wines. His wines portray - as John Szabo has come to define - 'savouriness'; the umami "salt, grit and power" that volcanic wines are known for. Robert leads the association Volcanic Wines of Hungary to raise awareness of their unique terroir. He believes in promoting a dialogue of tastes and often collaborates with noted local and visiting chefs to bring authentic food and wine combinations to his guests.


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The Challenge
eIDSR - enhance disease prevention and control through the capture and submission of data on epidemiologically important diseases
The electronic Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response system (eIDSR) was created to improve the flow of information within health systems. Paper-based methods present challenges that make health and disease data reporting time-consuming and error sensitive, resulting in questionable credibility and completeness of information.
Our approach is a purpose-built digital data collecting and reporting tool. The tool is integrated in the national health system through its compatibility with the health information system DHIS2 which is used in over 45 countries, including many with vulnerable health systems.
Our regional knowledge enables us to incorporate features that tackle challenges such as low connectivity and inconsistent power availability. Reinforced by expertise in expansive implementation, targeted training, mentorship and the delivery of necessary logistics and hardware, we present a stellar solution for health data collection and reporting. From health workers in hard-to-reach rural areas up to health officials in the major urban centers, eIDSR connects the health system to generate a clear and accurate picture of the population health landscape.
Elevating Health Information Management
Public health workers are frontline responders during disease outbreaks. In order to prevent diseases from spreading, they need to be able to alert authorities quickly and accurately in order to ensure they get the right resources at the right time in order to keep communities healthy.
To overcome the challenge of paper-based reporting, we created a time-saving and error-reducing tool for data collection and reporting that could be built upon an existing infrastructure.
Collect data completely and quickly
through a simple user interface and reliably online or offline.
Report data accurately
online, per short message service (SMS) or store data and submit automatically as soon as an internet or mobile connection is available.
Analyze and store data instantaneously
using DHIS2 dashboards, visualizations and reports to make informed decisions for the health system.
eHealth Africa's eIDSR makes it possible to accurately record case-level or community-level data for analysis and decision-making at scale.
In contrast to the traditional health facility paper-based system which requires data to be re-entered electronically at the district level, the eIDSR mobile application collects and reports data from the community level up to the national level. The user-friendly interface makes it easy to train new users with little or no smartphone experience. The new system reduces the risk of errors through mechanisms including data validation and improving the accuracy of the data submitted by health facilities before it is seen on the district level. Barriers, such as poor connectivity in remote areas, are overcome by the capability of the application to submit data via internet, SMS, or to save data offline and automatically submit as soon as a connection is available.
Since it is built on the infrastructure provided by DHIS2, a health information system used in over 45 countries, it allows data to be visualized which provides insights into the state of public health. This information can then be used by health system decision makers to form near real-time decisions about any potential disease outbreak.
We have credibility and experience in the successful launch, implementation and technical expertise of eIDSR. As proven through pilot programs implemented in six health facilities located in Sierra Leone's Port Loko district and planned releases in two of Liberia's districts, we offer a user-friendly solution that enables public health workers to collect, report and analyze data on one platform.
case studies
Sierra Leone
The 2014 Ebola outbreak highlighted the need for a swift and modern surveillance system for priority diseases. In collaboration with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MoHS), the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO), and additional partners, we have been rolling out eIDSR in Sierra Leone.
Current IDSR data submission process in Liberia relies on paper, phone and excel files. Problems with this system include issues with data quality and consistency, data security, manual aggregation process and timeliness of reporting. To combat the problems and the scarce internet connectivity, a Windows application for case entry at the district level was developed. The application allows the District Surveillance Officer to submit cases locally without internet connection.
The eIDSR mobile app is the fastest way to send information.
Yeama Thompson,
Community Health Nurse,
Royiben Maternal and Child Health Post
Sierra Leone
The feedback from the six facilities was good. This prompted us to roll out to other facilities and even the entire country. Looking at what we have been doing before and what we have gathered from them, with regards to the time period that we have done the piloting, it is much more satisfactory with the collection of data [with] eIDSR [compared to] the paper based or the Excel version. It minimizes a lot of discrepancies and it reduces the time of reporting and it helps us to take real time action with regards to disease investigation and reporting.
Abdul K. Sesay,
National Surveillance Officer & Deputy Data Manager,
Directorate of Disease Planing & Control
Ministry of Health and Sanitation
Sierra Leone
It will improve the health system, health communication, health information management, so that we as health workers or at ministry level will be able to take prompt and efficient decisions. We still want assistance from eHealth Africa because there are other areas [where] we still need to strengthen the health system. We only had 65 public health units (in this roll out period), yet we have 111 PHUs. We want all of them to be trained in eIDSR, so that data management will be improved in the district. Because here in some areas we have problems with [the] network, some villages are not motorable, it takes longer time for the health staff to bring their report to the district where it will be imported in a timely manner.
Hawa Kallon,
Public Health Sister,
District Health Management Team,
Port Loko District
Sierra Leone


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Onslow County
Onslow County
All Onslow County Public Libraries will be closed Nov. 28-29 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Laptime for infants up to 23 months and their caregivers meets at the Main Branch every Wednesday at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Time for Twos for 2 year olds and their caregivers meets at the Main Branch every Thursday at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
Preschool Explorers meets every Tuesday at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m. at the Main Library.
Preschool Storytime, for children ages 3 to 5 meets at the Sneads Ferry Branch every Tuesday at 10 a.m. and at the Richlands and Swansboro Branches every Thursday at 11 a.m.
Mother Goose Time for children up to age 3 and their caregivers meets at the Richlands Branch every Thursday at 10 a.m. and the Swansboro Branch every Wednesday and Thursday at 10 a.m.
Kids Creations, featuring theme-based stories and crafts for children in kindergarten through fifth grade, meets at the Richlands Branch the first Thursday of each month at 4:30 p.m.
Legos at the Library for children ages kindergarten through 12th grade meets at 10 a.m. the second Saturday of each month at the Main Library and the third Saturday of each month at the Swansboro Branch Library.
Free family film Friday
The Onslow County Public Library shows a free family-friendly movie the first Friday of each month at 4 p.m. at the Main Branch. Bring the family and enjoy an afternoon movie and free popcorn. For more information or to register, call 910-455-7350, ext. 231.
American Girl Club
American Girl Book Club for youth in grades two to five meets the third Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at the Main Library. The group discusses a different American Girl each month with snacks, crafts and activities relevant to different periods in history.
For more information on Onslow County Public Library services or programs, go to co.onslow.nc.us/library/ or call 910-455-7350.
Carteret County
Carteret County Public Libraries will close at 6 p.m. Nov. 27 through Nov. 29 for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Book wagon
Friends of the Carteret County Public Library�s book sales wagon is located at the corner of Turner and Front streets in Beaufort. Hardback books are $1 and paperbacks are 50 cents.
Children and youth programs
Carteret County Public Library�s storytime program for 3 to 5 year olds meets at 10 a.m. Wednesdays. Time for Toddlers, ages 18 months to 3 year olds meets at 10 a.m. Fridays.
The Western Carteret children�s storytime with Ms. Anna for ages 3 to 5 years meets at 10:30 a.m. Tuesdays. �Bookends� meets Tuesdays at 4 p.m. Anime Club meets Tuesdays at 5 p.m.
Z-Factor Productions is cancelled this week.
Gaming meets at 3 p.m. Fridays.
Newport Public Library children�s library November is �American Indian Heritage� month. Crafts will be rain sticks, totem poles, feather headbands and dream catchers in honor of the rich culture of our Native American Indians. Book Worms Book Club meets Mondays at 3:30 p.m. Preschool �Read-to-Me� Storytime for ages 3 to 5 years meets at 10 a.m. Tuesdays. Book Buddies Book Club for grades K-2 meets at 3:30 p.m. Wednesdays.
Bogue Banks Library�s preschool storytime is cancelled Thursday due to the holiday.
For more information on Carteret County Library services or programs, call 252-728-2050 or go to carteret.cpclib.org.
Camp Lejeune
Preschool Storytime meets every Wednesday at Tarawa Terrace Community Center at 10 a.m. and Midway Park Community Center at 10:30 a.m.
Storytime meets for theme-based stories and crafts on Thursdays at the base main library at 9:30 and 10:30 a.m.
For more information on events and programs at the base libraries, call 910-451-3026.


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Whenever someone things about interior design, the first thing that strikes their mind is to hire some interior designer. It can cost you too much to hire a professional. Instead, you can also turn your rental apartments into a dream home on your own. However, for doing that you'll have to avoid the common mistakes that people usually do while designing the interior of their homes.
The first mistake that people make while designing their apartment for rent in new haven ct is over-furnishing the rooms. Measuring the room's dimensions is really important before invest anything in furniture pieces. People usually go for furniture items which are just too big to be placed in a room. It does nothing but to make the room feel over-stuffed. So, keep the furniture pieces in any room limited to a particular number.
People also tend to hang art pieces higher up the walls. Don't hang portraits or paintings very high. Instead, keep them at eye level. One would say that eye level differs from person to person. In that case, the advisable height is 165-180 cm. In case, if the art piece you are trying to hang is very big then you can simply hang it a bit higher. However, still make sure that it's around wall's midpoint. If you're looking to hang some pictures right above your sofa, make sure that frame's bottom is almost 15-20 cm atop your chosen piece of furniture.
Another common mistake is disorganization. Many times, things are kept in the home which you do not use too commonly. All such stuff just keeps lying around your apartment and is of no real use. Of course, you'd not like to make your rentals in new haven look stuffy or messy. Do everything in your power to the throwaway or donate any unused or unwanted items. Also whatever you want to keep should be kept in some box or any proper storage unit. You'll be surprised to find out the spaciousness it adds to your place.
Decorating interiors are all about quality. Bringing in more and more items won't mean your apartment will look better. It's really important that you put your hands on something that you love. Buy top quality furniture items or artwork as they can be expected to last for a longer period. Furthermore, their resale value is also better.
Many people do not incorporate enough lighting into their space, and that's a huge mistake. Lighting is something that often goes unattended. All you have in your apartment rooms is an overhead lighting source. Instead, it is advised to use multiple sources of light. They won't just provide you with the lighting you need, but they also set the overall atmosphere of the entire space as well.


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Youghal Tidy Towns is a not for profit organisation set up in 1988 and run by a group of hard-working volunteers.
In addition to picking litter, planting flowers and painting walls, YTT is heavily involved in improving our wildlife, habitats and natural amenities as well as encouraging a sustainable waste and resource management plan. YTT endeavours to create a wonderful environment in Youghal that both visitors and people living here can enjoy.


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EFFECTS: Reduces the muscle contractions that generate expression lines - Age Killing Effect
By applying the product twice a day to 45 volunteers over 28 days, it was demonstrated that: - It reduces forehead lines by 52% -It reduces wrinkles caused by cell contraction by 82%. –It reduces crow's feet by 24%.
Women and men of any age who are worried about wrinkles, expression lines or crow's feet.
The anti-wrinkle effect is achieved by relaxing the muscles, making facial lines very much less visible. This decrease can be seen in the graph on the following page, showing how, after applying the product, long-term relaxation is achieved lasting up to four days. By applying the product twice a day you achieve the maximum muscle relaxation effect which continues for up to four days after application provided that you continue to apply it every day.


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There's a popular belief amongst anthropologists: that you must immerse yourself in an unfamiliar world, in order to truly understand your own.
Annie Braddock, from the movie "The Nanny Diaries" [2007]
Now in order to truly understand this statement, you really must do and be as it says. I was living back home in comfortable Toronto and really did not realize, but knew at the same time, that once I left home and did something drastic, like perhaps fly 5000 miles to California, let's say... lol; that my comfort zone would be shifted; and say it ain't so... here I am ;)
And, I knew this. I wasn't oblivious to it. But I gotta tell you, I really did not know the extent of this shift until I arrived here. Don't get me wrong, I still love California with all my heart, but living here is not the same as vacationing here, especially having done so for the first time, period. I've been here many times before to visit family and vacay, but never for more than two weeks at a time, and my decision in staying here for 5 months, yes, I am here for 5 months folks lol, is to truly experience the life here, not as a tourist or a visitor, but as a local Californ-I-A...
So far, it's been great. I love California. I'm a true California Girl at heart. Everyone who knows me is aware of this and has always known. Just the fact that I'm out here right now, not only do I have their love and support, but they also know it's what makes me happy and agree I should be here. It's no surprise to them, whether it's now or later, that I ventured off... And that I did; NOW :)
I am here. I have spread my wings and I am here to make my mark. My mark on Cali Sand I call it. It definitely is Unfamiliar. It definitely is a Challenge. And it definitely is a Change. But at least I can say NOW I know. I know a world that is completely different from my own and because of that, I can now love and appreciate my world in a way that I never knew or even understood before. That is the Beauty of Change and that is the Beauty of Self. Know it, Be it and Do it. You will love yourself for it and others will love you back in return.
Now I can say I have Two Worlds to call my Own. They are very different in every sense of the word, but I love them both equally in very different ways. It did take me literally flying across the map to get these two worlds to collide into ONE Understanding of Self. BUT I DID AND I KNOW.


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Keep sockets running until app is officially closed
I was excited about sockets support until I found out that on every single app I downloaded that use sockets, if I switch to a different app, the start screen, or turn off my phone's display, the socket disconnects. This sucks, for a number of reasons.
When switching away from my app, *as long as my app is still in the task switcher*, I want to be able to suspend the UI while maintaining my socket connection (and any necessary base operations required to do so). I don't want to have to reconnect to IRC or SSH or RDP every time I hit start or switch tasks or just turn my screen off. It takes time, and is annoying to me and the people I'm talking with (plus I miss things in the meantime!)
All information I've been able to find on the subject suggests this is not currently possible.
In Win10 we are introducing a new socket functionality that will allow an application to transfer its socket(s) to the OS when in background or terminated and have the OS brokering the sockets for the application.
The new functionality is expose in the Windows.Networking.Sockets namespace. Here is a link to the base transfer functionality in MSDN: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn879847.aspx
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jagmohanmourya commented
Windows 10
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cleia commented
Este apligativo e otimo tem muito jogos eu amo de mais
cleia commented
Shahid Roofi Khan commented
i think if such a thing is added (which should be) but it should be controllable. Because phone device is not essentially a service device. I would not want the background program to keep running for most of the application (except few which I allow). This should be the design for windows phone.
Anonymous commented
A lot of legacy protocols can't be wired up in a modern way with server side asynchronous notifications. Telnet is one example, as well as many other chat apps.
phildaub commented
Sorry, but you havent understood the very basics of windows phone development if you make such suggestions...
It is all about great user experience and power saving: this means if your app is not in the foreground, it has to be dead/tombstoned and _not_ consuming power/performance-related ressources like cpu, gpu, network, etc. As a developer you have plenty of possibilities to create the same feature-rich experience without having to run in the background all the time: let a server (e.g. cloud hosting) keep alive the connection to the IRC, SSH, RDP, etc. and forward important events via push notifications.
Yes, it is easier for a developer to just have the app running all the time in the background like on android, but the user has to pay the price with bad performance and bad battery life (just like on android). This is just what I love with WP7: developers are forced to write 'good' apps (in a sense that they behave like the user expects, not in a sense that it is easy for lazy developers).
斌 沈 commented
this is really bad user experience if an messaging app keep reestablish connection every time it is activated. this really sucks!!!!
Anonymous commented
Really really needed by an OS that want kick android...it is ao funny if i develop a im program...and it ia not possible to make a sockect keeps running....so so so so so ao big mistake MS...pls hear us....your customer ....how many times we have to say this ?????
maybe this reason why yahoo wont making an official ym for us
I have an android device....but im not tolerant about piracy....but this feature is a must have on our lovely windows phone device....pls MS hear us
Sorry for my bad english
from east java,indonesia
Saija Eteläniemi commented
This is very important feature. Lumia 800 would be perfect phone if it would have this feature. I mostly use my phone at home ( and everywhere where's possible) with WiFi connection. Sockets just simply close when WiFi shuts down when screen is locked. As an active SSH user this is a big no-no, and I'll put all my possible votes for this to be fixed. Let the user do the choice between battery saving and WiFi / Sockets usage!
Rudy commented
Definitely needed. It's horrible for IM clients when they reconnect. Now it's true that there is a background download feature (like iOS), but this is different. I doubt this feature will pass though, especially with the very strict battery considerations by MS. :(
Krzysiek commented
This is a must for various instant messaging communicators.
Users can't be disconnected from server because they just want to reply sms, receive call, check something in calendar...
Push notifications aren't any useful in there situations - maintaining and servicing additional server just for proxying is total nonsense.
The best solution would be to add network agent - this way users can still receive messages via e.g toasts.
Of course some sort of background agent<->app communication api is also required.
Miwa commented
What's really annoying is that MS will allow streaming audio providers to keep sockets open. So they'll let users waste battery on non-useful audio streaming (you can at least play music from the local storage!), but trying to use your hand-held communication device for communication is a no-no. Biggest regression from WM6.5.x.
Paulos commented
Also reconnecting might take too long...
Paulos commented
Absolutely needed feature! Sometimes it's just impossible to establish a new connection without breaking something important that was in the first session.
SleepyDaddySoftware commented
I really need this for my telnet application. This is the most requested feature from my users. What i need is the networking background task API that is in windows 8. This API allows you to hand over your open sockets to the OS when your app is suspended, then the OS keeps the socket alive and buffers incoming data, and i think it even triggers your background task for processing incoming data on the socket.
The only option at the moment is to run under the lock screen, but i didn't go with this option because it's a terrible user experience. Sockets don't stay open reliably under the lock screen, and not at all if your socket is over WiFi.


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Aus 85 Designs von 30 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
It's a tough real estate market so I've decided to set my house apart by auctioning it off. I need an eye-catching logo for my website, yard signs, and flyers to generate some buzz and drive traffic to the site.
It's a buyer's housing market so I've decided to auction off my house, with a twist. The "Bothell Countdown" is like an auction but instead of the price going up over time, it goes down. Each week I'll drop the price of the house by $5k-$10k and send out email updates to interested parties until I find a buyer.
I need a logo to put on the auction's website, yard signs, and flyers. The logo should attract people's attention who are driving by the house or see a yard sign on the road and encourage them to visit the website.
Final artwork should be vector based and editable in Illustrator.
- The logo should scale well so that it's visible on both 2 foot x 2 foot signs from 50 feet away and on a 2 inch x 2 inch corner of a flyer.
- Should look good on a white background (yard signs will be white)
- The text, "www", "Bothell", "Countdown" and ".com" must all appear but they don't have be sequential, all the same color, etc.
- Logo should convey that the "Bothell Countdown" refers to a home, but doesn't have to imply an auction is involved.
- Bonus points for incorporating tag lines like:
- "Price reductions every week"
- "How low will it go?"
- Note: if present, tag lines should be easily removable without detracting from the overall design
Can't think of anything.
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I considered doing a round up of the year like so many we see around this time floating around the web-o-sphere. Some are quite entertaining or inspiring but I realized none really stood out to me as being THE list. So, instead of boring you with a re-hash of previous posts, I decided, I would just be realistic and share a recipe; something you'll probably appreciate a lot more than me waxing about how awesome this year has been for me!
I mean, really, what is the fun in relating only one side of the equation. It simply becomes a gargantuan joke like the Facebook experiment. Everyone knows that there is yin and a yan to life and without the other, neither is appreciated. Yet, it seems society as a whole shuns hearing the 'other' side of life. I am pretty sure someone somewhere has done some study on the hypothesis I am going to expound (if not, it should be done. I think it would be fantastic insight into cultures!).
So, I postulate that humans like stories with happy endings because that they can focus on the happy bit and forget the rest of it, all the struggles and disappointments before and during.
I will go further and claim that in the medium of words (including lyrics), realities attract only the tormented; the rest prefer happy and bliss.
But, in the medium of visuals (TV, movies, photos) it invokes an empathy that either resonates with a person's circumstance or make the person appreciate their position in life ever more.
Have you noticed that we as a whole seem to be drawn to more poignant pictures than those depicting fun (unless it has something to do with children)? It is almost as if we shy from elation, as if we feel judged in an odd way. Somehow, harshness of someone else's life, captured, seems to call us more than happiness in theirs.
I can't help reflecting what it speaks of us as a society.
Nevertheless, Introspection seems to be the tone in my life as I prepare for 2015. I would love to say,with a dramatic flair, this is the result of my 40 day tour around bits of Europe. But, truthfully, I doubt that. It is simply a continuation of an ongoing process of re-discovery that began a couple of years ago and set a series of changes in my life.
I am sure many of you are going through some form of transformation, metamorphosis, rejuvenation, discovery, and all that stuff. So, let us celebrate all the strides we have leaped and all the steps that we may have slid back, the tears and the laughs, the agonies and the joys, the pain and the pleasure, the burnt dinners and stunning flambes and everything that makes us better each year!
I would like to wish us all
Hurray! Bring on 2015!!
Apple Fruit Cake with
Salted Caramel Cream Cheese Frosting + Salted Caramel Apples
For the cakes, I made mini versions and had multiple of these layered creations. I had four 3.5 inch cakes in all. But you can simply bake them in a regular 8 inch pan and have one nice cake. The measures I have included are should work just fine for a single larger cake.
Note: The recipe calls for using the egg whites whipped separately from the yolks. To keep the lightness of the batter, I suggest, dividing the the whites into two parts and folding in the brandied fruits in between. Folding in the fruits in the end, sometimes, results in loosing some of the airiness in the batter from attempting to spread the fruits evenly.
For the cake:
scant 1 cup, whole wheat flour
1/3 cup flaxseed powder
1/2 cup muscovado sugar or light brown sugar
2/3 cup roasted apple puree (recipe below)
6 T butter, room temprature
1/4 cup heavy cream
2 eggs, seperated
1/2 cup brandied dried fruits
1-1.2 tsp baking soda
For the caramel frosting:
8 oz cheese cheese, softened
1/4 cup cream
1/3 cup of caramel sauce (recipe below)
2 T powdered sugar (if desired sweeter)
For the caramel apple topping:
2-3 apples, peeled, cored and sliced thin
2/3 cup caramel sauce
3 T butter
Preheat the oven to 350F.
Whip the yolks and butter to a light fluffy yellow. Add the sugar and whip to create volume and dissolve the sugar.
Add the roasted apple puree and cream and beat to fold in.
Sift in the flour, flaxseed powder and baking soda and combine to create a batter
In another bowl, whip the whites to stiff peaks. Fold a third of the whipped whites in to the cake batter to loosen it.
Fold in the brandied fruits and then fold in the remaining whipped whites.
Divide into molds or one cake tin and bake for 45 minutes or so, until a tooth pick stuck in the center comes out clean.
Fold and cool to room temperature. Since this is nearly like a fruit cake, you can feed it brandy everyday and keep it stored in an airtight container for a few days.
When ready to frost and finish, slice the cake into three horizontal layers.
Mix together the frosting ingredients and divide between the layers finishing with a top layer.
Set aside while you melt butter in a pan to cook the apples for the topping. Cook covered on low for a few minutes. When the apples start to soften, add the caramel sauce to the pan and toss the apple slices with the sauce.
Arrange the slices on top of the cakes and pour remaining sauce over.
Salted Brown Sugar Caramel Sauce
Roasted Apple Puree
1 cup muscovado sugar
6 T salted butter (organic and non-homogenized)
1/2 cup whole milk
In a heavy bottomed pan, melt the sugar over medium heat, whisking vigorously to prevent it from sticking.
When the sugar starts to boil, add the butter and remove from heat. Stir in the milk to mix to create a smooth caramel.
You can store this for ages.
6-7 medium roasting apples, cored and quartered
drizzle of olive oil
2 tsp honey
1/2 tsp salt
Toss all the ingredients together in a baking pan and roast covered at 400 F until soft and cooked through, about 1 hour.
Reserve and cool until used. You can store in the fridge for a week.


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Join Taz Tally for an in-depth discussion in this video Convenient Develop module shortcuts for adjusting images, part of Creating Black-and-White Landscape Photos with Lightroom Classic CC.
- In this segment, I'd like to take a few minutes just to give you some tips and tricks on how you can more easily or efficiently navigate and use the Lightroom interface. And particularly the tools on the develop side. To do this, let's go ahead and make our virtual copy. And notice that I've been using this menu, this popup menu, right-click and make Virtual Copy. You can just go command on Mac, control on Windows and then the apostrophe to do the same thing. If you wanna just do that quickly from your keyboard. So that's one shortcut for you, as you can just go command or control and then, boop, apostrophe to create a virtual copy.
You can always just hit the delete key and it's enter to remove a virtual copy. Remember, these are not actually separate physical files. They're thumbnails that are tied back to the original so you can delete them at any time without fear of, you know, losing the actual file. And it's very nice. And then the other little tip for navigating around the interface is just use the D to go to the Develop mode. Cause you're going back and forth between the Library and the Develop mode so it's just G to go to the grid mode or E to go to the enlarge view and then D to go to the Develop mode.
It's just a little bit faster. The less time that you spend navigating the interface, the more time you have to go kayaking, hiking, skiing or surfing. Alright, so every mouse stroke saved is another paddle stroke or something. Alright, so what we did so far in the course is I've been working down here and moving these sliders, and that's fine. There's some other things we can do to navigate the sliders. This is the first adjustment, we're just gonna kinda repeat the first adjustment we did but show you some other ways of navigating the interface.
Remember down here we took the whites and I moved this over and we watched the histogram and how the histogram moved. Well, you can do that. And remember, any of these that you want to, any adjustment that you make, you can just double-click on that tool to undo that adjustment. Or if you've made a whole bunch of adjustments and you wanna undo them all, just double click on Tone. And if you would like to undo everything that you accomplished with your developed module, you can just move your mouse down here and click Reset. So, let's say that we wanted to make some adjustments, starting with the whites.
You can move your mouse over here and notice this, see the little double arrow hand that comes up. You can click and drag right there, rather than having to do it on the slider and you can watch the numbers if you'd like. Or you can come up here and actually click in the Tone region and move that back and forth. Or the one that I really like to use because it doesn't require that I'm mousing and I have to grip that mouse so tightly. And I can just come down here and double-click on that and then just move my mouse away. Then just use my up and down and left and right arrows. See I'm using my up arrow like this.
Then I can watch my histogram as I'm moving it. And then when I get up to where it starts to clip, like in the upper right-hand corner, then I just go down arrow and back off a little bit. Same thing, what if I wanted to move to the exposure. I can just click and then I can just hold it if I want to. I can just hold it and it moves very quickly if I wanna hold it. If I go one at a time then I can just incrementally do it. Or I can just press and hold if I know I have a lot of adjustment to make. And same thing with contrast.
Just click once and then just hold. Then I can watch the histogram. That way I don't have to be mousing all the time. And it's an awful lot easier to accomplish this kind of adjustment. And again, I'm just using the up and down arrows while I'm watching the histogram. So it makes it an awful lot easier and faster and a lot less mousing. So there's just some tips and tricks for controlling the tools. Remember the D for going to Develop module. G or E for moving back to the library. G will take you to grid mode. E will give you the enlarge view or what Lightroom calls the loop view.
The D to go to the Develop. And very importantly, use that Y key to give you the before and after on any adjustments you've made in the Develop module. Except for your dimensional adjustments like cropping, which don't show up in the before and after. Alright, so that should speed you up and give you some more time to get outdoors and have some more fun.
- Understanding channels
- Measuring and adjusting brightness, contrast, highlights, and shadows
- Working in the Develop module
- Fine-tuning contrast with tone-based adjustments
- Adjusting color
- Making mask-based adjustments
- Sharpening, sharing, and printing


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Tony Romo is leaving football and stepping over, er, into Phil Simms' spot in the CBS broadcast booth.
The veteran Dallas Cowboys quarterback retired Tuesday and will replace Simms as the lead NFL analyst for CBS, along side Jim Nantz.
"It was a very difficult decision. I went back and forth a number of times," Romo said during conference call.
It was speculated that Romo — whose injury in the preseason led the way to the emergence of rookie Dak Prescott under center in Dallas — could continue playing this year in either Houston or Denver, but retirement and a plum job as CBS were too enticing to pass up.
"It really had nothing to do with the Texans and everything to do with CBS," Romo said. "I felt like it was the right decision. My wife would tell you we've had a lot of late nights. It was nice to have some clarity. … Do I envision playing football? Absolutely not. Do I expect to get some calls? Yes, that's the reality."
Sources told ESPN and NFL Network that if teams, including the Cowboys, requested Romo to fill in for an injured starter as an emergency replacement, he would consider returning to the league. It is unclear if Romo's contract with CBS would preclude him from leaving his new gig on short notice.
Romo, who never played in the Super Bowl during his 13-year NFL career, will work with Nantz on Thursday and Sunday games and is now in line to work as the color commentator for Super Bowl LIII in Atlanta in 2019.
"Going from one legendary team to another as I begin the next phase of my career is a dream come true," Romo added earlier in a statement. "I have always known that once my playing career was over I wanted to become a broadcaster. I am ecstatic for the opportunity to work with Jim as I learn the craft and convey to fans my passion for this great game."
ESPN first reported news of the signal caller's career change.
"We wish Tony and his family nothing but the best," Cowboys owner and general manager Jerry Jones said in a statement. "As an organization, we did what he asked us to do in terms of his release, and we wanted to do what was ultimately in his best interest and in the best interest of his family. … We are thrilled for him and his family that he will be able to continue working as a professional in the game he so dearly loves. He is a young man who is just getting started on a long journey in life. All the best my friend."
Fox Sports had previously expressed interest in hiring Romo to succeed new 49ers GM John Lynch as its No. 2 analyst, but CBS outbid them. Simms, who has been with CBS since 1998, is currently in talks with the network about his future.
"Phil has been a very important part of our coverage since the NFL returned to CBS in 1998," said CBS Sports chairman Sean McManus. "His strong opinions, coupled with his tremendous knowledge and passion for the National Football League, has created a unique broadcasting style making him one of the best analysts to ever call the game. We are discussing with Phil his future role with CBS Sports."
The soon-to-be 37-year-old Romo believes the time is right to pursue a new line of work.
"Tony competes to the end in everything that he does," Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett said. "… It has been one of the great privileges of my life to work with Tony Romo, one of the greatest players in Dallas Cowboys history."
The Romo news didn't sit well with everyone in the media as former CBS sideline reporter Bonnie Bernstein blasted the hiring.
"Tony Romo, w ZERO broadcast experience, reportedly replacing Phil Simms on CBS' #1 NFL game crew. No offense. But that's total crap," Bernstein tweeted.
Dallas had for months attempted to trade Romo following Prescott rookie rise. But after the Texans and Broncos, who were the favorites to land Romo, failed to strike a deal, the Cowboys instead opted to cut him.
Romo, an undrafted four-time Pro Bowler, had struggled with serious injuries in recent years. He suffered his first collarbone break in 2010, followed by two more collarbone fractures during the 2015 season, when he started just four games.
Romo broke a bone in his back during a preseason game last year, which opened the door for Prescott, the team's fourth-round draft pick in 2016, and soon made the veteran expendable.
Romo, who played all of his 156 games with the Cowboys, is the franchise leader in both touchdowns (248) and passing yards (34,183).


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Harold Ramis: 5 classic comedies he helped create
You may not know his name or remember his face, but you have surely heard of at least some of the movies that Harold Ramis directed, helped write or appeared in.
Ramis got his start in comedy in 1969 at Chicago's famed Second City improvisational theater troupe, while still employed as an associate editor at Playboy Magazine. He would later apply those comedy skills to big-screen filmmaking.
Here are five smash comedies created in part by Ramis, who died Monday at age 69:
--"Animal House": Fond of quoting from this all-time frat house favorite? Chances are you're quoting at least something written by Ramis, who worked on the screenplay with Douglas Kenney and Chris Miller.
--"Ghostbusters": He was Dr. Egon Spengler, the quiet Ghostbuster alongside Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray in one of the biggest hits of the 1980s. He also wrote the screenplay along with Aykroyd and an uncredited Rick Moranis.
--"Stripes": Another high point for Murray watchers, with Ramis co-starring as a fellow military recruit and assisting on the script.
--"Groundhog Day": This unforgettable comedy about a weatherman who lives through the same day over and over was a breakthrough for Murray as an actor and stands 20 years later as a pop culture fixture. And Ramis, once again, helped make it happen. He directed and co-wrote the script with Danny Rubin.


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The struggle over control of the Detroit school system didn't end in June, when the state legislature's $617 million restructuring plan created a new, elected Detroit school board with actual authority.
On Nov. 8, more than five dozen school board candidates will appear on the ballot in Detroit in a historic contest that is shaping up to be a war between two camps: candidates who aim to work within the new law that allows Detroit to have an elected board, but one that must work under state oversight; and those candidates who vow to continue to protest against state intervention in the school system.
The 63 candidates are vying for seven at-large seats. Since 2009, the school system has been under the control of state-appointed emergency managers who has held no regular public meetings. So the new board will mark the first time in seven years Detroit has a school board with policy-making power over the schools.
See the bios, promises and, in some cases, financial setbacks of the 63 candidates for the Detroit school board:
The election, unprecedented in size and scope, is expected to be watched by leaders statewide who voted in favor of the financial rescue plan. At stake is not only control over decisions that affect 45,000 students in the nation's lowest-performing urban school system, but the makeup of the newly elected board, which will likely influence whether the state tightens or loosens its grip on Detroit schools moving forward.
David Arsen, professor of Education Policy and K-12 Educational Administration at Michigan State University, said it makes sense that the board race pits the protesting former school board members against newcomers who take a less contentious stance.
"Who could be surprised by this?" said Arsen, an economist and education researcher. "Local citizens care about their schools, especially in a place like Detroit where there's been so much controversy about state intervention. There has to be a period of reconciliation locally."
The newly elected school board will be able to set academic policy but, under the terms of the state restructuring plan, the board won't be able to hire and fire key officials or make many significant decisions without approval from the Detroit Financial Review Commission, comprised mostly of state appointees.
The state must dissolve the FRC if the district remains deficit-free for three years and meets other budgetary requirements
If the new board operates in a way that pleases state officials, the Detroit Financial Review Commission could allow it greater involvement in making financial decisions for the district. If not, the board's financial and academic decisions could be more closely scrutinized or vetoed by the commission, effectively stripping the board of its already limited authority. In a memo earlier this year, the commission warned that it can wield authority over academic and administrative decisions when deemed necessary.
Candidates, slates and mandates
The field includes Detroit residents from all walks of life, from parents and educators to business executives. Some have run for elective office several times while others faced serious personal financial problems, according to a review of court and other records (see database, above) by Bridge and three Detroit-area media groups, which joined forces to vet the sea of candidates. More than half the candidates had filed for bankruptcy, had a foreclosure or eviction, or lost a lawsuit over unpaid bills, according to the media collaboration, which also included Fox 2 Detroit, the Detroit Free Press and WDET.
In an attempt to stand out, several candidate slates have cropped up with candidates aligning themselves with others, touting endorsements from unions, media outlets and political parties.
Among the slates with candidates vowing to work cooperatively with the oversight commission are:
- The "A+ Team": Penny Bailer former head of a nonprofit youth group called City Year Detroit; Sonya Mays, CEO of Develop Detroit (a nonprofit real estate and housing development organization), an attorney and former financial advisor to former Detroit emergency manager Kevyn Orr; Mary Kovari a retired Detroit Public Schools principal, and Kevin Turmin, pastor of Second Baptist Church of Detroit.
- "Detroit's Dream Team": Deborah Hunter-Harvill, a former DPS principal who served brief stints as superintendent in two small districts; Angelique Peterson-Mayberry, community relations director at UAW Ford; Misha Stallworth, advocacy coordinator for Detroit Area Agency on Aging; Iris Taylor, retired president of Detroit Receiving Hospital; and Keith Whitney, pastor at Sanctuary Fellowship Church.
- The "Freedom Team": Leslie Graham Andrews, director of community relations and corporate giving at Rock Ventures/ Quicken Loans Family of Companies; Ryan Mack, Michigan market president for Operation Hope, a financial literacy nonprofit; Theresa Mattison, a retired DPS principal and Karen White, associate superintendent for the Archdiocese of Detroit and a former DPS principal.
Bailer, who served on the school board from 1990 to 1994, prior to the 1999 state takeover, said the board – like the city of Detroit - has to deal with an oversight commission until the financial outlook is stabilized.
"Whether or not the law gets changed is up to the legislature, but for now it is what it is," Bailer told Bridge. "I want to make the financial review commission applaud when we turn in our budget. My thing is: Deal with it. I think if we get a good board we can turn this district around. We need to demonstrate to people we can get it right."
Ten of the 11 former school board members who were essentially sidelined while the schools were under emergency management are running for election and they vow to continue to fight state intervention. Some of the former board members, who go by the slate name SPEED, argue they had no role in the district's financial calamity because they had no authority. Since 1999, there was a brief period between 2006 and 2009 when Detroit's school board controlled the district. The most recent board spent most of its time suing state-appointed emergency managers and advocating for Detroit to regain a school board with the same autonomous powers as other boards across the state. Relations were so strained with the state that former DPS emergency manager Robert Bobb cut off the board's budget in 2009 so board members couldn't hire an attorney nor buy bottled water for their meetings.
SPEED is comprised of six former school board members -- Herman Davis, Elena Herrada, Lamar Lemmons, Wanda Redmond, Ida Short and Tawanna Simpson - along with former interim superintendent for DPS John Telford.
Telford said if voters elect a board that is split - with some members who want the state intervention to end and others who are comfortable with an oversight committee to look over the finances - the board can work. That is, he said, as long as everyone on the board works towards a goal of proving oversight is not needed.
"We need to get the state out of here sooner rather than later," Telford said. "I'm willing to work with this financial oversight commission at the same time I am going to work as hard as I can to get them out of there because they never should've been there in the first place. This whole takeover is a sham going back to 1999 when (Gov. John) Engler wanted control" over a $1.5 billion bond. "They took us over because they could."
Why here, why now?
It took two years of debates and protests for the legislature to come up with a $617 million plan in June to prevent the financially crippled district from running out of money. The former district, the Detroit Public Schools, will continue to exist to collect local tax revenue to pay off debt that accrued over the past decade.
Many in Lansing voted reluctantly for the expensive plan that created the new Detroit Public Schools Community District. Critics of state oversight say they viewed the deal as a concession by Lansing that it was largely responsible for the budget hole since the state controlled Detroit schools for 14 of the past 17 years.
Still, the $617 million awarded by the state was far short of what the district's state-appointed emergency manager, Steven Rhodes, said the schools needed. Rhodes, a retired federal bankruptcy judge who also oversaw the city's exit from municipal bankruptcy, said that the district needed $750 million to pay off debt and fix dilapidated schools.
Jennifer Smith, director of government relations for the Michigan Association of School Boards, said the lack of a primary election to narrow the candidate list and the long period of state-intervention led to such a large field of candidates.
The candidate pool "shows the strong desire that the Detroit Community has to return their schools to local control," Smith said.
No matter who is elected, progress will be determined by board members who concentrate on turning around the district, she said.
"Board members should be willing to work with each other, the superintendent and the community to address the needs of the students," she said in an email to Bridge. "Especially for this district, board members should be capable of growing with the district and being flexible to address current and not yet identified need."
Selina Wilkins-Poe, a DPSCD parent, said the board needs a combination of old and new faces.
"There's some value in keeping people who have been fighters going against the grain for the best interest of the kids," she said. "And we also need some new ideas."


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NIAID conducts and supports research on antimicrobial resistance. Because most bacteria, viruses, and other microbes multiply rapidly, they can quickly evolve and develop resistance to antimicrobial drugs. Overusing or misusing antimicrobial drugs can make resistance develop even faster.
Basic Research—Understanding How Resistance Happens
NIAID supports research to better understand how microbes, particularly bacteria, acquire and pass on drug-resistance genes. The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics can make drug-resistant bacteria even more widespread.
Quick Diagnosis Is Critical
When doctors can't diagnose which microbe is infecting a patient, they may prescribe a "broad-spectrum" antibiotic that kills many kinds of bacteria. The overuse of broad-spectrum antibiotics can make drug-resistant bacteria even more widespread. Faster diagnostic tests being developed by NIAID-supported researchers will make it easier for doctors to prescribe a drug to match the bug.
Clinical Trials
NIAID supports clinical trials of new antimicrobial drugs and new strategies for using existing drugs. The goal is to find treatment regimens that limit the emergence of drug resistance.
New Drugs and Vaccines
NIAID supports company and university researchers who are designing new drugs and vaccines that will be effective against drug-resistant microbes.