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Our last day in Chillagoe and we saw Bustards, Butcherbirds, Red Tail Black Cockatoos and Jude saw Bentwing, Sheath-tailed, Horseshoe and Pignose Bats in the cave. The trees around the caves and which resemble the candle tree of Namibia, are commonly known as Helicopter Trees, with a Latin name of jovocoptus americus, so named due to their spiralling falling leaves.
The Datto doesn't like hills even without the van in tow and it was down to second in places on our run to the coast. We topped the rise at 639 above sea level on our way out of Chillagoe and coasted down to Dimbulah where we refuelled, did some shopping, and got directions for a back road to Atherton.
Well, we missed the road turnoff but upon backtracking found it and not long after found a lovely camp site on a pebbly beach on the Walsh River.
I had to do repairs to the Datto's left hand tail light while Jude and Jeddah collected firewood. Bright moon caused sleep deprivation again. We rose around 6am the next morning and organised a hot shower by boiling the billy. Some clouds were to be see but no rain although roof of the truck was damp. We had a pleasant trip to Atherton and then the rain came down in buckets. Once in Atherton, we spent one and a half hours in the Crystal Caves display centre which is a fascinating place. One descends a staircase into caves below made of polystyrene foam into a fantasy world to view a magnificent display of crystals from all over the world. The highlight of the collection is the Star of Uruguay amethyst pictured below.
Then we made for Malanda but stopped at Gallo Cheese and Chocolates along the way to buy a supply of delicious cheeses. The rain got worse and the road seemed narrow.
We stopped at Malanda for look at Malanda Falls and to buy fridge magnets and milkshakes. Later on my shake went through me like a dose of salts. Then it was down the Palmerston Highway and the Great Dividing Range to Innisfail in wet and misty conditions. Downhill was OK but I would not like to be towing in the opposite direction! Old bus struggled on the hills and whizzed on the downhills. I used low range gears to safely take us down the slopes without having to touch the brakes. We stopped at Innisfail and whilst Jude did the shopping I washed the wet bulldust and muck off the old truck, right in front of the Police Station! We refuelled and made for Cowley Beach and got lost along the way.
Revisiting Cowley Beach after 15 years was a nice surprise. We remember the beach and the run down caravan park with great nostalgia and wondered what had changed in the intervening years. Well, new owners, amenities upgraded and lawns mowed made for a much improved park. The friendliness was still there and the new owners went out of their way to make us comfortable. Cowley Beach has not changed at all and we were given a site at absolute beachfront, which was great. It rained hard during the night but we had no leaks. Not like the first time we stayed here in 1995 when the old Viscount had buckets on the floor to catch the water. The surf roared all night.
We walked on the beach a number of times much to Jeddah's delight and found a variety of flotsam and jetsam together with seed pods which we collected for our Secret Garden at home.
Our gas bottle was getting light and I decided to do a swap and go bottle change. The new bottle however was very loose in the holder and seemed too small I so exchanged it for another one, which fitted, thanks to the park owner. I found a coconut on the beach and spent some time prising it open and then drank the milk and ate some of the fruit. The rest we saved. Got some info from another traveller about free camping places out of the Camps 3 book and decided that we had better buy one of these books. All in all a very relaxing day. Awake at 2.30am. Heavy dew outside. Turned the electric fan off and closed some vents and windows. Time to do some computer work. Back to bed by 4.30am after letting Jeddah out for a sniff and a widdle. On the road by half past eight. We visited Kurramine Beach, Bingle Bay and then Clump Point Access to the latter was down a very narrow jungle road with little chance of passing. But we met no one.
Next place to visit was Mission Beach, Wonaling Beach and South Mission Beach. On the way out of the overcrowded beach areas to Tully, we saw a large male Cassowary walking along the roadside. Then we visited the Golden Boot at Tully and Jude bravely climbed to the top and got some great shots of the sugar mill in operation.
Then on to Hull Heads where we decided to camp for the night. It cost $12.50 and has toilets and hot showers and absolute river frontage. Our next door neighbours there were an elderly Swiss couple travelling Australia and when they saw that we were from South Australia they said that they were going to a small village near Port Pirie called Peterborough as their youngest son was a Rotary Exchange Student there in 1991. Small world! We did some beach walks but were in the van early in the evening as the Sandflies gave us curry even though we covered ourselves with Desert Dwellers Creme! Drunks nearby carried on till about 8pm and singers with guitar sang great songs filtering through the bush behind us till about 9pm. Couldn't get to sleep and it ended up being a long night. Jeddah and I were at the beach at 6am walking through a heavy dew with everything around us being wet. We packed up and got on the road by 7.30am after hot showers, water top up and wheel pumped up. We had a good look at Tully Heads and then drove on to Cardwell where we had Fetta cheese pies for smoko. Jeddah would not eat her usual morning tea biscuits but liked pieces of pie instead. We made it over the Hinchinbrook Jump-up in second gear stopping for a photo at the top. The Datto's speedometer turned over to 400,000 kilometres a short while after the descent and we sang Happy Birthday. Then we went and met a business acquaintance in Ingham and had a cuppa and a snack with him and a good yarn. Called in at Goodyear Tyres at Ingham after that to enquire about tyres but at $385 each it was not a viable proposition for us.
We were looking at our RACQ paper map out past Mount Fox National Park to Hervey's Range Road which then would take us to the Gregory Development Road and on eventually on to Fletcher Creek where we had camped many years ago. We had hoped that the road would be following through a valley. At first the road was good narrow bitumen winding its way through cane fields. Then it became a very formed gravel road as we neared the mountains. I had engaged 4×4 but as we started the ascent the road reverted back to bitumen and so I disengaged the hubs so as to avoid differential wind-up. What followed was nine kilometres of switchbacks rising from close to zero sea level to 800 metres. I had the truck in Low Range third gear for most of the way and on the final pinches in second gear and hoping that another vehicle did not come to meet us on this very narrow road! The engine temperature reached 90 degrees and at a lookout near the top we let it cool down for five minutes. The tropical Rainforest was just magnificent.
At Michael Creek locality it was back to good gravel road, which eventually deteriorated to a washed out road. We were on top of the range now and out of the tropical jungle and into heavily wooded forest. Still, we saw lots of very tame Brahman Cattle around. Also saw a large feral Boar. The road then took us to Hidden Valley locality and a camp spot as marked on our map. A large gathering of young people however, were at the campsite and no space was left for us. We kept on driving. Heading south the road turned into a track which was quite corrugated in places and soon after we entered Zig Zag Station mineral lease with a plethora of signs warning people off. At one stage we saw a lone bushwalker. He was a young fella with a German accent with no hat and no water, who had got lost on a hike. I told him that it was about six kilometres back to his camp along the track. I asked belatedly if he wanted water but he had put his earphones in again and could not hear me as he strode up the track. Soon after a voice called me up on the radio and it was a bloke in a ute trying to past. I stopped him and asked if the road got through to Hervey's Range road and he confirmed that we would soon get to a T junction, turn left and then be on a mining road. When we arrived at the junction we met a huge wide gravel road which had a better surface that most bitumen roads in Queensland! This road was good with some weird one-way (in both direction) bridges across creeks. Then we made it to Hervey's Range Development Road, the Gregory Development Road and eventually we arrived at Fletcher Creek at 6.15pm. The place was packed with about 80 vans and RV's but we found a reasonable spot as far from the road as possible and set up camp. Trucks made a noise on purpose using exhaust brakes on a flat road and snoring partners through the night saw me get up at 3.30am to do some writing. It was overcast at first then sunny the next morning and then very overcast again. So we decided to go to Charters Towers to buy a new set of tyres as the old Eldorados had come to the end of their life. We visited the information centre, bought books including Camps 5 (at last!), food, and a new set of Maxxis Bravo tyres. Then we had a roast chicken counter lunch at the Waverly Hotel and then it was 42km back to camp to do washing, battery charging, reading and snoozing. The next day Jude painted and I started reading my book, Source of the Nile by Sir Richard Burton, an explorer dating back to the 1850's. Jeddah stayed with Jude at the painting site near the creek. She was sleeping close to the embankment and rolled over in her sleep into the creek. What an embarrassed looking dog!!! Later we gave her a bath as she was becoming a tad smelly. She was not impressed with two dunkings in one day! Jude did a lovely painting of Fletcher Creek, which is still running at this time of the year. After lunch we did more reading and tried a snooze but Jeddah barked at passers-by and circumvented that.
We had a hot solar shower in the pterodactyl which refreshed us both. Later in the afternoon two vans pulled in either side of us and started up their generators. This pissed us off big time and although we were in the beginning of cooking tea we packed up and left, making for the Basalt Wall road a short distance away and also away from the constant noise of campers in exchange for the quiet of the bush. Tomorrow we will have new adventures. The Kookaburras serenaded us at sunset as we sipped our red wine.
Once back in Charters Towers the following morning and a refuel, we drove along the road to Townsville and called in to the Marcossan, free campsite, near the Burdekin Railway Bridge. I drove down a grassy track to a dead end and had to make a seven point turn to get the rig around facing the way we came again.
Luckily the van is only relatively small and easy to turn around. Other places along the river looked unexciting and the ablution block stank, so we decided that this place was no good to our liking. We returned to the main road and at Mingela we turned south after having smoko in front of the local pub. The next town was Ravenswood, a historic mining town with quaint buildings and an olde-world look about it. There is a new operational mine nearby. The Showgrounds caters for campers in an oval fashion but it did not appeal to us and we pressed on to Burdekin Falls Dam. The countryside is heavily wooded with grasslands interspersed in between. Brahman-cross cattle range the bush. At the dam we drove around to look at all aspects of it and including the Lookout Platform and we also drove below the spillway to see the falls and the road to the south.
Then we made for the caravan park which is the only commercial facility at the dam and pulled up next to a camp with a Nissan the same colour as ours. Our neighbours were into fishing and had a car topper and outboard and I was absolutely amazed at all the gear they carried. The weather was spitting rain and it was not much better the following day. We had lots of chats with our neighbours about this and that.
Our next drive and we took the road south from Burdekin Falls Dam. The weather fined up. The first 20km along the Collinsville Road was up and down with some quite sharp dips. I found a Landcruiser which had rolled over the edge of a jump-up. It looked quite recent. Put my shoes on to scramble down the hill to see if there was anybody in it but there was no sign of anyone or bloodstains so we assumed all was OK. The engine was cold. It was obviously a station vehicle judging by the tray. There was also a motorbike on the back albeit a tad squashed. The road to the Collinsville turnoff was basically 40kmh stuff. I had let the tyres down to 28psi to smooth the ride out. From the Collinsville turnoff to Mt Connell the road was slightly better with less dips and a smoother surface. Mt Connell is an old mining town, now pretty much derelict. I asked about bitumen at the Mt Connell Roadhouse, if you could call it that and received a blank stare. No, there wasn't any bitumen on the road towards Nebo. So off we went. There was bitumen for about a kilometre and then a good gravel road for around 105km. Lots of mining activity out there. The bitumen started again near the Burton Coal Mine and very soon we were at Lake Elphinstone free camp. There were about 20 camps. Lots of Jetski activities and boats and canoes, with kids having lots of fun. A V8 ski boat with kids in tow and with doof-doof music blaring also cruised the lake annoying some people. The amenities block was a bit sad but there was water on tap and also rainwater in a tank. After setting up camp we discovered that the caravan water pump hose had broken at the tank outlet and that we had lost all of our water. The plastic must have gone brittle. Much fiddling with and breaking more bits and getting cranky ensued, but it was repaired with epoxy within an hour and later it was holding water again. The radio aerial holder was also broken so that was repaired as well.
Our camp is right on the water and in a Kookaburra zone. There are also Hardhead Ducks with seven ducklings, Pacific Black Ducks, Grey Teal ducks, Darters, Honeyeaters, Magpies, Butcherbirds, Peewees, Lorikeets, Galahs, Cotton Pygmy Geese, Australian Shoveller duck and the inevitable Crows. The countryside was quite pretty on the way to Lake Elphinstone, with stands of eucalypt trees and grasslands. Quite a bit of traffic went past up until around 8pm and then it quietened down until around 4.30am again. The days were quite nice at Lake Elphinstone, which is a locality and not a town as marked on our maps. Wood was scarce for fires. And sandflies got active after dark. Jeddah and I went for a walk in the long grass to look for more wood but came away with only a few sticks, We stayed there for five days just taking things easy. Managed to do some repairs to the caravan stove whilst in camp as the framework supporting the stove had come adrift no doubt due to the corrugations on some of the roads we have traversed to date. For the rest Judith painted some scenes and even sold a painting to a local whilst I sat and read, did some bird-watching and spent my time moving the solar panel around. The last day at Lake Elphinstone turned cold. Friends from Darwin who were on holidays in Queensland, called in and had tea with us. The cold day had turned into a bitterly cold day with a very thick mist covering the valley.
Our next journey took us further south to Dawson River free camp seven kilometres west of Moura. We had arranged to meet our long time market friends at this place as they were camped there as well. Our journey took us along the road to The Junction, past the town of Nebo and then south down the Fitzroy Development road. We bypassed the town of Middlemount before reaching Dingo on the Capricorn Highway. There was nowhere to stop along the Fitzroy Development Road except for truck turnouts and we wanted to have a cuppa. Eventually I spied a gravel pit and drove in. It had rained the night before and the ground consisted of damp clay, which made movement outside very tacky. Jeddah managed to get her paws full of clay and we had to wash then with warm water much to her disgust! Before Duaringa the Fitzroy Development Road did a dog-leg south again and we went that way. The last 20 km was gravel road before we joined up with the Dawson Highway at Bauhinia Downs. That road must be the worst stretch of bitumen in Australia with bumps and potholes everywhere! The Dawson River free campsite is covered with black soil and after a light shower of rain made for a very muddy and tacky encounter. We had a good time however, with our friends. Generator noise is still a problem at these campsites and a bloke with a particularly noisy one was told off by someone else in a loud voice. The generator went quiet it was relatively peaceful after that.
The next day we passed through the towns of Moura and Biloela. These towns have grown exponentially due to mining activity in the region. We visited Mount Scoria, which used to be called the Singing Mountain. When we visited it last in 1996, you could play a tune on the rhiolite rocks sticking out of the surface at the apex of the hill. Now the place is a conservation park with signs everywhere and a local aboriginal interpretation of the area and no mention of the sound qualities of the mount.
We followed back roads from there to get back to the Burnett Hwy. At Monto I enquired after the road to Gin Gin and Bundaberg via Mount Perry and found out that there was a newly built and sealed road going that way, as the alternative route via Biggenden and Childers was around 100 km further. We stopped for a break at Ceradotus free campsite at the Burnett River crossing and then took the road to Gin Gin and Bundaberg via Mount Perry. There were a few steep pinches that required shifting down to second gear but nothing too serious. We stayed with friends on the outskirts of Bundaberg for a few days. Our journey further south took us to Burrum Heads, Toogoom, Hervey Bay and Maryborough before we crossed the Bruce Highway again to join up with the Wide Bay Highway. We were not impressed with the coastal development of the Hervey Bay area. Everything looked so artificial to us. We visited friends at Wondai and stayed there for two nights. We picked up the Brisbane Valley Highway out of Nanango and drove down the ranges across the Wivenhoe Dam barrage to visit friends on the slopes of Mount Stradbroke near Fernvale. Their property lies quite high on the slopes of the mount and I had to resort to low range gears to drag the van up the hill. The view from their veranda is quite spectacular. Still heading south we drove the Scenic Rim route from Marburg to Boonah and Rathdowney where we stopped over with friends.
They kindly agreed to store our van for a few days while we drove to Tweed Heads to attend to some family business. We took the Lion Road across the ranges and through the Border Ranges National Park which was quite spectacular. New bridges have been built on the Queensland side of the ranges but the road from the border crossing to Kyogle and Murwillumbah leaves a lot to be desired with uneven and bumpy surfaces. The drive is very spectacular however and as we drove it on a Sunday it was popular with bikers swinging their way through the numerous twists, turns and hairpin bends. Along the way the Border Railway Loop is visible from a lookout where you can see part of the figure 8 loop through some tunnels which gives trains an easier gradient climb across the ranges.
Border Ranges
Once in the hub of the Tweed the traffic turned to frantic and we longed to get back to the bush and its quieter ways.


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Remembering Craig Mchugh
We are hearing news that Craig Mchugh has stepped down as the president of Creative. Major re-structuring efforts are said to be in the works with an announcement to be made over the next weeks (but don't hold your breath for it). Meanwhile, here is an interview Craig has done with Digital Life way back in 2008. In his many years with Creative, he was best remembered for launching the ZEN V series of players in Singapore (see video) and ... I don't really remember.
SIM Wong Hoo may be synonymous with Creative Technology, Singapore's own multinational company. But in recent years, it has been Craig McHugh, president and chief operating officer of Creative Labs - the US subsidiary of Creative Technology - who has been in the limelight.
Craig has become the front man for Creative, flying into Singapore regularly to present the company's quarterly results to analysts and the media. Sim has declined to speak to the press for the last three years.
Apart from managing the Americas' retail and OEM (original equipment manufacturer) business for Creative, Craig is also the head honcho for Creative's sound cards, speakers and headphones product groups worldwide.
Married with two girls and a boy aged 10 to 15, he said his three children are his harshest critics.
"They often give valuable and honest feedback on what they think about Creative's new products. Like the popular pink - that is my girl's favourite colour too."
He was in town earlier this month to talk about Creative's latest financials and to showcase its latest products, when Digital Life caught up with him.
How often do you come to Singapore?
I counted 21 times last year.
Are you the official successor to Sim?
I would love to be but I don't know if I am. But I hope Sim does not retire because his vision for technology and product development is very important for us.
So how did you get involved with Creative?
I was working at a company called Trace in the late 80s which specialised in high-speed replication of floppy disks. Creative was one of Trace's top customers in Asia for its Sound Blaster driver software (which came on) floppies. After Trace was acquired by Nakamichi, I got an offer from Creative to join the company. And the rest, as they say, is history,
Your recent quarter showed a drop in revenue by about 19 per cent. What happened?
It was mainly because of our shift away from hard disk-based MP3 players to purely selling flash-based players only. Because the average selling price of a flash-based player is lower than the hard disk ones, that impacted our revenue.
So why did Creative decide to go flash only?
Two reasons. The first is because prices of flash memory have fallen to verY-low levels and are expected to come down
even more. The second reason is that. flash is also a better solution because it is more reliable and much lighter.
Our first strategy was to shift away from hard disk to pure flash. Our next strategy for this year is to offer higher capacity flash players and we are looking to hit 32 GB this year. As we increase the capacities, it also means we can sell them for higher prices and therefore boost revenues.
How is the sound cards business coming along?
Actually the sound cards and gaming headsets businesses have been doing well because of the surge in online games on the PC. Our US$300 (S$425) Aurvana gaming headset, which has a built-in X-Fi chip inside, has been getting fantastic reviews. We priced this headset at the same price point against top audio brands like Sennheiser and Bose because we believe we are better.
You started selling direct to your retailers in the US last year. Any updates on this?
Our top 10 retail customers in the U are now all direct. Going direct mean better margins for our retailers and therefore making it more attractive for
them to sell our products.
But wouldn't it mean that you would have to hold more inventory and take greater risks without engaging the distributor?
On the contrary, by shipping direct we actually reduce inventory and improve channel management. That's because we build to order and don't stock up distributors in the direct model.
Which are the most popular Zen MP3 colours?
Lime green and pink in the USA.
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FORT PIERCE, Fla. — An attorney for the family of the woman who died in a deputy-involved shooting spoke on the steps of the St. Lucie County courthouse Friday.
When Susan Teel's daughter called 911 to say her mom was trying commit suicide, "She asked for an ambulance, not police," said attorney Guy Rubin during a news conference.
Indian River Sheriff Deputies were dispatched to the home of Teel and her husband Dr. Dudley Teel in Vero Beach last week.
Sheriff Deryl Loar said Dr. Teel discovered his wife cutting her wrists in the bathroom and when his deputy Deputy Jonathan Lozada arrived the 62-year-old woman lunged at him with a butcher knife.
"In the perfect situation he would have been able to go up and help her she would perhaps be alive but unfortunately this is a spit second decision," said Sheriff Loar last week.
Loar said the deputy took one shot at the woman who died from the injuries.
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One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds, WHO report finds
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One person dies by suicide every 40 seconds around the world, the World Health Organization says in a new report that finds few countries have specific policies focused on preventing suicide.
In its first-ever global report on suicide prevention, the World Health Organization says it's a serious public health issue that could be alleviated if more countries developed national suicide prevention plans.
Dr. Shekhar Saxena, WHO's director of mental health and substance abuse, notes that only 28 countries currently have national strategies.
"We believe that every country, whether their suicide rates are high or low, should still be thinking about it and planning for it in a meticulous way involving not only the health sector," he told CTV's Canada AM from Geneva.
Saxena says there is a general misconception that suicide is a problem mostly found in rich countries. The WHO's new report shows this is not true; in fact, 75 per cent of suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries.
In low-income countries, elderly women have higher rates of suicide than their counterparts in high-income countries. In richer countries, three times as many men die by suicide than women.
Globally, suicide rates are highest in people over the age of 70. But in some countries, the highest rates are found among the young. Globally, suicide is now the second leading cause of death among 15-29 year-olds.
Saxena says, even in the world's poor countries, it's the poorest segments of society that are at the highest risk of committing suicide.
"So suicide is a truly global phenomenon and the solution can be global," he said.
Brian Mishara, a psychology professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, says the report represents a recognition that the burden of mental illness and suicide is far greater than previously estimated.
"In many parts of the world, suicides are a very taboo topic," he told CTV News. "In 25 countries, people can be jailed for attempting suicide. So this is something that needs more attention because this is so common a cause of premature death."
The WHO report says one strategy that can reduce suicides is to enact policies that restrict people's access to the most common methods of suicide.
It notes that suicide is often an impulsive decision, and that evidence from Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere show that many who attempt suicide but receive help later go on to live long lives. For that reason, limiting access to the most common suicide methods can help reduce suicide rates.
Deliberate pesticide poisoning, for example, is a common means of suicide in rural countries, so policies to control access to these chemicals is one method that can address the problem. Controlling access to firearms is another, as is creating suicide barriers on bridges and railways.
"But the other important initiative should be to make health care and social care systems much more responsive to people who are at high risk of suicide," Saxena said.
The report notes that mental disorders and alcohol abuse contribute to many suicides around the world, so early identification and treatments of these problems would also help cut suicide rates.
The World Health Organization recommends countries involve several government departments in developing a national suicide prevention strategy, with commitment not just from within the health sector, but also within education, employment, social welfare and judicial departments.
"This report is a call for action to address a large public health problem which has been shrouded in taboo for far too long" WHO's Director-General, Dr. Margaret Chan, said in a statement.
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Classical music is not only great for relaxing, it can be actively enjoyed as well. You're in no danger of switching out Led Zeppelin's box set or The Chronic for Classical Concertos in the Key of C, but if you're thinking it's time to deepen your musical repertoire, we have got the perfect launching point into the greatest hits list of classical music. Get your headphones ready for a few hours of true, heavenly music. Let us check out some of the greatest and (mostly) well known pieces of classical music our guest blogger Shreyas Sarasan loves.
Sonata No. 21 in C major
This one is not that well known, but it is great enough to start off the list.
Fur Elise
Among Beethoven's most recognizable works, Fur Elise is the bona fide piano piece. It enjoys immense popularity in the modern world, more so for its easy accessibility and melody than its musical complexity. Amongst a number of pieces written for his lady loves, Fur Elise probably remains the most popular and one of the greatest pieces of classical music, ever.
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, or "A little night music" is probably Mozart's most famous work, owing to its simplicity as compared to his other works and its melodic,easy-flowing tune. Performed in classical halls to street corners(!), EKN is Mozart's light-hearted and laid-back vision of a beautiful night serenade.
Clair De Lune
Clair De Lune can be called modern society's fallback classical piece when scouting musical scores for high profile living. Actually the third movement of Debussy's piano suite, Bergamasque, Clair De Lune enjoys incredible popularity for its relatively simplistic and well structured beauty, making it one of the most accessible pieces of classical music ever.
The Magic Flute
An opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Magic Flute is probably more famous as 'Singspiel', played and recited in a two part format. An instant success upon its release, The Magic Flute has continued to endure as one of classical music's more dramatically accessible works, enjoying huge popularity even today all over the world in opera houses.
Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi's Four Seasons eclipses his Flute Concerto as his best work. One of the best selling baroque pieces of all time, Four Seasons consists of four violin pieces that are a wedding and aficionado favorite. Four Seasons rose in prominence and was admired for the violin pieces' ability to evoke the feelings of a particular season in the audience.
Moonlight Sonata
Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata was written as an effort to appease his 17 year old understudy, Countess Giulietta Guicciardi, and is often considered the definitive romantic classical piece, rivalled only by the fame of Fur Elise. Beautiful and filled with longing, Beethoven imbibed the Sonata with fierce personal expression which was to later become his hallmark.
Brandenburg Concerto No.3 in G-Major
Probably the finest example of music from the Baroque period, the Brandenburg Concertos were a musical set composed of six pieces which was presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig. Noted for its clean structure and intellectual depth, the Brandenburg Concertos (especially No. 3) are resounding with sound composition and teeming with intricate complexity (Baroque's signature).
The Marriage of Figaro
Probably Mozart's most famous opera; It is so great because of it's sheer genius it exudes in its technique, composition and style. Inspired by a play of the same name, Mozart transports the characters beautifully into the operatic genre, leading the Marriage of Figaro to be considered a standard by which to judge opera-ctic repertoire.
5th Symphony
Beethoven's answer to critics who called him anything "less-than-a-virtuoso" in classical music, the 5th Symphony is oft considered by many to be the greatest piece of classical music ever written.
The 5th Symphony is also probably the most recognizable classical composition due to its opening four-note motif. This motif has been a cultural darling and has been used in everything from parodies to dramatized works.
Also referred to as the Victory symphony, the 5th Symphony is characterized by sweeping notes of struggle, heroism and transcendence.
9th Symphony
With his 9th Symphony, Beethoven ushered in a new era of music almost singlehandedly. The use of chorals had been previously discouraged by leading composers, but Beethoven changed all of that with the 9th, which was at its core, a fusion of art forms melding poetry, choral and instrumental music into one sweeping, majestic and musical ode to joy. The fact that Beethoven was almost completely deaf by the time he finished writing the 9th serves to underline its greatness.
The 9th Symphony is transcendental. It breaks the boundaries of its own form and ascends to something more. Something shimmering. Something joyful.
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Many knew him from his role as Tommy "The Machine" Gunn in the 1990 film Rocky V. But for true fans, Tommy "The Duke" Morrison was one of the greatest heavyweights to ever box, though one who never realized his full potential.
A small-town kid from Oklahoma with a devastating left hook, Morrison enjoyed a cliched celebrity lifestyle of too much, too soon. In 1996, before his career was even close to reaching its pinnacle, he contracted HIV.
After testing positive, Morrison freely admitted he'd been living a reckless lifestyle. In March 1996, he fought in Japan, scoring a first-round TKO. He said he'd never fight again.
As the years passed, he became became a conspiracy theorist about HIV and AIDS. He suggested AIDS was a governmental hoax, and eventually got involved in Internet-based education that attempted to paint HIV and AIDS as nothing more than myths. He continued to do his own research and subjected himself to additional HIV testing in an effort to prove his original tests were false positives.
As Morrison approached his 40s, he started planning a comeback. In 2007, he submitted two negative HIV tests, both examined by experts, to suggest his 1996 test was a false positive. These findings were followed by a third test, specifically for a story being developed by the New York Times. Again, the test was negative. In total, he offered four negative tests in 2007.
Boxing doctors remained skeptical. They claimed there was no way to know if the blood being tested was actually Morrison's. The only way they could know is if he agreed to a supervised test.
Regardless, Morrison was able to find two opponents and two venues that would allow him to fight: he scored TKO victories in 2007 and 2008, fighting at a casino in West Virginia and an arena in Mexico. These turned out to be his final bouts, ending his career at 48-3-1 with 42 knockouts.
In 2011, Morrison hoped to make another comeback, this time in Canada. The boxing commission governing fights in Quebec required him to undergo a supervised HIV test before taking part in a scheduled bout. Morrison declined. Instead, he suggested the commission attend a public test administered by medical professionals he trusted. He looked to be in excellent health, though it's the humble opinion of this writer that Morrison's impressive physique was, in part, a product of readily available HGH.
After the fight fell through, Morrison's public presence began to rapidly wane and reports of his ailing health began to surface. According to his mother, as his final year passed, he became too weak to speak, and was being kept alive by a feeding tube and respirator.
Morrison died late Sunday night, his wife Trisha by his side. His cause of death has officially been listed as Miller Fisher Syndrome, a rare variant of Guillain-Barre Syndrome.


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Archive for June, 2009
Happy Father's Day… From Dexter's bubby.
by DexFan on Jun.18, 2009, under Dexter News
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Showtime have just sent me this promo pic for Father's day.. Wicked eh?! Don't EVER mess with Dexter's baby 😉 Showtime sure know how to promote Dexter, always with dark, shocking images. Good work guys…
Some of you might remember the fountain promo's of last year:
Source: Flickr
Dexter Season 4 premieres September 27, 10pm on Showtime.


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I made a beaded sea fan for a project that I have had fermenting in my head for a while. First, I printed the pattern on organza and than proceeded to bead it with size 15 seed beads. Two beads at a time. It took me 14 days. I photographed it every night when I finished for the day. I thought it would be a neat idea to make a little slideshow of my process. I plan to incorporate this into a quilt which will be a underwater scene with fish and coral.
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North Korea's latest fustigations – on Monday, it accused the US of aggressive military moves in the zone separating the two Koreas – are best heard as the defensive posturing of a regime in political transition, experts on the reclusive state say.
Get used to such hyperbolic rants, these experts add, since a transition of power from the ailing Kim Jong-il is expected to stretch over the coming months.
Before Monday's declaration, the North Korean regime threatened to ramp up production of nuclear weaponry. This was in response to the Group of Eight leaders' condemnation this past weekend of the North's recent sinking of a South Korean warship.
"When any country goes through a leadership transition, but particularly in the case of one-man-rule like North Korea's, the tendency is to pull back, hunker down, and offer displays of strength," says Jim Walsh, a North Korea expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program in Cambridge. "They are rallying people around the flag at a delicate moment," he adds, "and we shouldn't expect it to stop tomorrow."
It's not just that a new generation of young military officers has been pressing for a more aggressive approach to the United States and the rest of the outside world as rumors build of an ailing Mr. Kim. (Some analysts cite the March sinking of South Korea's Cheonan as just such an act.) As Mr. Walsh notes, the North's ruling Korean Workers' Party has announced a major meeting for September – an event that could also cause the regime to offer more chest thumping.
Monday's warning from Pyongyang over what it claimed was movement by the US of "heavy weapons" into the demilitarized-zone "truce village" of Panmunjom was the kind of "provocation" that CIA Director Leon Panetta said Sunday was par for the course from a "rogue regime."
Appearing on ABC's "This Week," Mr. Panetta said recent actions by the North – including the sinking of the Cheonan, in which 46 South Korean sailors died – could be seen as Kim trying to establish the leadership bona fides of his youngest son, Kim Jong-un – in particular with the military.
"The skirmishes that are going on are in part related to trying to establish credibility for the son," Panetta said. "And that makes it a dangerous period."
That may make this seem like exactly the wrong time for diplomatic overtures to Pyongyang. Indeed, the United Nations Security Council is expected to follow up on the G8 leaders' condemnatory statement over the Cheonan with its own tough statement. President Obama says he wants the Council to produce a "crystal-clear acknowledgment" of the North's act – something that Beijing, a Pyongyang ally, seems less prone to do. (For its part, North Korea denies involvement in the sinking.)
Some members of Congress have even called for North Korea to be reinstated on the US list of state sponsors of terrorism. The Bush administration dropped North Korea from the list in October 2008. But the State Department said Monday that, while Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would evaluate the North's recent actions, the Cheonan incident was not likely to trigger a return to the list.
"As a general matter, a state military attack on a military target would not be considered an act of international terrorism," the State Department Office of the Spokesman said in a statement Monday.
Yet as counterintuitive as it may seem, says Walsh of MIT, this may in fact be the moment to initiate a calming diplomatic dialogue with the North – so that Pyongyang's urge to show some muscle doesn't get out of hand.
"People talk about the wisdom of our current policy of 'strategic patience,' and that might be a good policy in the abstract," he says of the current US approach, which calls for waiting out the North's period of political transition. "But I'm beginning to worry about strategic patience when Kim Jong Il could die at any moment. If a train is heading for a wreck," he adds, "just sitting on the train and doing nothing is not a good idea."


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Since 1 January 2018, Martin Nydegger is the CEO of Switzerland Tourism (ST). He has been a member of the Executive Board since 2008 and was in charge of Business Development until the end of 2017. He had previously managed the ST branch office in Amsterdam for three years.
Prior to joining ST, he already held a number of positions in the tourism sector, including six years as Director of the Engadin/Scuol Tourism Board. A native of Bern, Nydegger holds an Executive MBA in Strategic Corporate Management and has repeatedly undergone further training in the field of marketing management. He is married and has an 11-year-old son.


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We moved into our house almost 9 months ago and about a week after we moved in our sewer backed up into the basement. Everything that you see in the before pictures had to be cleaned out, moved somewhere else and then started the long (and I mean long) process of redoing the room. With the help of a tax return, some really awesome friends and a handy husband we are almost 95% back into this space. There is still some work (stair treads for one and some baseboard), but for the most part we are ready to roll. Here's the latest pictures of our process:
Here's the steps (and a closet in the background) before and after:
The little rounded "door" is a hide out for the kids. The plan is to make a "hobbit door" and the inside will be sheetrocked in. We are hoping to paint the walls white and have a bucket of sharpies available for the kids to each have a wall and then have a wall for their friends to autograph.
Here is the back wall with a door to the outside before and after:
And here is my new sewing corner before and after:
So my latest dilemma is how to store yardage that I don't really need out and all my scraps. Hence the tubs in the corner. I went through and sorted out the scraps and yardage and now I have a lovely tower of tubs…any ideas on other, possibly more attractive, options?
The black squares is chalkboard paint. The bottom part is going to be fore the kids and the top for my sewing/crafting to-do list. Once I buy the chalk that is 🙂


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Posted Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
January & February at the Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center
Discover the sweet smells, sights, and Tastes of maple sugaring
The trees are tapped and the firewood is chopped – it's maple sugaring season this winter at the Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center in Chatham Township.
Immerse yourself in the maple sugaring process from start to finish. Identify and tap maple trees, collect the flowing sap, and witness syrup making over a wood-fired evaporator. Best of all, taste-test the finished product organically made at the Great Swamp.
Hour long Maple Sugaring Demonstrations are held at 1 p.m. & 2:30 p.m. on the following dates:
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February 4, 11, 12, 18, 19, 25, 26
Celebrate the peak of the maple sugaring season at the annual Maple Sugar Festival on Saturday, March 4, from 12 noon to 4 p.m.
Says Jenny Gaus-Myers, Assistant Director of Education and Interpretive Services: "People don't look at the maple syrup on their table the same way after experiencing the maple sugaring demonstration. They begin to appreciate the quality differences, as well as the process required to make this tasty treat. The demos are a fun and educational experience for everyone."
Head outside and watch steam billow from the evaporator, and become engulfed in the sweet smell of maple sugar. See maple cream making first hand and taste the final product. Enjoy a variety of crafts and games, and enjoy your own maple snow cone.
Bring your friends and family and take a guided 'Hike Through Maple Sugaring History,' to discover how sugaring has changed since it was started by the Native Americans hundreds of years ago.
Admission is $3 per person age 3 and up. No registration is required, but it is first come, first served seating.
Admission for the Maple Sugar Festival is $4 per person age 3 and up.
Maple Sugaring Demonstrations and the Maple Sugar Festival are held rain or shine. For more information and directions to the Great Swamp Outdoor Education Center, visit morrisparks.net or call 973.635.6629.


text: OH my goodness- What a treat it was to watch these two tie the knot in September at the Mill Creek Country Club!! Kayla and I went to high school together so it was a total blast from the past to hear from her and a complete honor to capture such a big day for her and Bryan. The love these two have for one another is so obvious, but the love that surrounds them in their friends and family is breathtaking. I loved being able to meet some many people that brought tears to their eyes throughout the day. This also happened to be that one insole stormy day in Washington state where it literally DOWN POURED ALL DAY. It was crazy! But, thanks to Kayla's high spirits, we made it work and I must say- These are some of my favorite pictures. Isn't she gorgeous?


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After last night's drama-filled episode of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, former housewife and Caroline's 'estranged' sister, Dina Manzo took to her Facebook for a "statement."
Dina is not only Caroline's sister, but is married to Caroline's husband's brother… After Caroline has accused Teresa Giudice as the reason there has been "friction" between the two sisters, Dina felt the need to explain that Teresa "had nothing to do with it." Dina was a RHONJ until she decided to leave early from Season 2, because she couldn't take the negative energy anymore.
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Xbox One Audio ReviewPosted: Saturday, January 4, 2014 by Dylan Benson in Labels: Gaming, Gear, Review, Software
I have had some time to really mess around with the Xbox One. Since this is not a game review blog, I'll stick to the audio side of this. There is more to talk about then you probably think. So let's dive into the expected, unexpected, and just flat out strange audio aspects of the Xbox One.
Microsoft released the Xbox One to the North American market on November 22, 2013 a few days behind Sony's release of the PS4. The highly anticipated console had a few unanticipated drawbacks for me. The Xbox One only has two audio outputs: HDMI and optical. This for me was a huge let down.


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The public exposure of the name of the victim and the testimony given by the crime witness to Zee News bode ill for public order in India.
As one of the assailants is allegedly a Muslim minor and the late victim is Hindu, the entire issue will take on a communal colour. Ethnic hatred laden remarks have already been made by people with a "bhoomiputra" ideology in certain parts of the country. This is another major fault line in the national social fabric and that could emerge as a separate driver of conflict.
A number of insensitive statements from the police authorities and several leading political figures have stoked public anger. The police and politicians of India do not seem to understand that there is no longer a "Lakshman Rekha" that women can be expected to seek safety behind. Very few leading figures in India have come forth and openly stated that this mythological notion is outdated and irrelevant in the modern Indian economy. Comments about "contractual basis of marriage" etc... and "western" versus "indic" traditions of women's rights are unhelpfully irrelevant.
As things stand, women comprise ~ 40% of the Indian workforce. Every Indian family has a working woman in it. Given the high cost of living in India, women have to work - there is simply no choice in the matter. The very notion core of the Ramayana - of a Lord Rama who goes out to work and come back with enough to sustain his wife Sita - is no longer valid.
Women in India are less attracted to the concept of the "Ram Rajya" because as many people have pointed out that Sita is treated very poorly in the Ramayana. One does not have to be a feminist to grasp this. The notion of the "Ideal India" for men and women in India is very different. The gender divide is prominent and women feel threatened. Some men are aware of this and work hard to accommodate what is obviously the result of thousands of years of gender repression.
The most obvious consequence of this buried sentiment is a pervasive sense of fear among women - a fear that translates to their families.
Rape is the physical manifestation of this fear that all Indian families live with. It is this fear that has steadily found a voice in news coverage of the event.
As indicated by the testimony of Sudhir Chaudhary, Zee News Editor - media has collected enough first hand accounts of rape in India that it possesses very clear evidence of police ineptitude in these matters. If released such account could cause public confidence in police institutions to decline precipitously. It will be extremely unwise if the police attempt to challenge the media on this issue. The media has the upper hand right now and it is best if the mistake of the Delhi Police with Zee News is not repeated elsewhere.
If the public at large perceives the police cannot protect them, then vigilantes and lynch mobs will fill the vacuum left by the police.
India's national security agencies are unprepared to face such a threat. The intelligence branches do not have the human resources in place to secure against public anger or to restore public confidence in the government quickly.
At the present time, the dissemination of the victim's identity and incident details on the internet is very rapid. Blogs, internet fora and the public responses on newspaper websites are showing a large number of extremely negative statements about the Delhi Police and sex crimes detection in India.
During the Anna agitation - the internet presence of the protesters was significant - however the movement was focused on key public figures. Once the Government of India engaged those figures in constructive dialogue the possibility for a law and order breakdown was reduced dramatically.
The diffuse and pervasive nature of this anger presents a very significant threat to law and order. On the issue of sex crimes no such leadership is visible and no viable engagement point exists. The possibility of a massive breakdown of law and order looms in background.
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How two men turned a sterile backyard into a viable garden.
"The front yard was a short, steep slope of asphalt with a tiny strip of sterile gravel and subsoil," write Toensmeier and Bates, with a "backyard that looked like a moonscape, sparely populated with tufts of crabgrass." It was the perfect place to launch their experiment: Could two men with horticultural experience and a love of nature turn a typical compact backyard into a garden full of lush plants and edible food? The authors chronicle their 10-plus years of trials and experiments, as they transformed their "moonscape" into a permaculture of "trees, shrubs, vines, and herbaceous perennials" that produced food at every level. By analyzing their soil and plotting the movement of shade and sun for a year, the authors discovered the prime locations to build a greenhouse and tool shed. They knew where to plant trees and perennials so that they could bring their site to life, and they developed a deeper kinship with the space and with each other. Along the journey, the authors present ideas like sheet mulching, which can transform a lawn into a useful garden plot capable of growing tomatoes and sweet corn in the first year. They also share their thoughts on the plants that can become noxious weeds despite their culinary uses. Toensmeier and Bates discuss both their triumphs and their defeats, as they experimented with chickens, nitrogen fixers, ground covers, numerous kinds of berry bushes and water plants.
Although not a how-to guide, the authors give readers plenty of choices and ideas to think about when deciding whether to embark on this kind of gardening.


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LinkedIn is taking its professional networking services a step further by helping you find a mentor. The new feature, which launched Thursday, mimics Tinder's approach to matching people: letting users browse options before connecting.
"We have done research and found that among the senior ranks of our user base, nine out of 10 people have said they want to give back," Hari Srinivasan, the head of identity products at LinkedIn, told TechCrunch. "All of them received help on the way up, and now want to find a way to give that help back to others."
The new service gives potential mentors options about whom they would match with, including location or whether they want to work with someone from their alma mater. Mentees are offered the same factors and can indicate if they are looking for advice on a particular topic. Once a match is made, you can message each other through the app (similar to Tinder). From there, it's up to the pair to establish the parameters of their relationship.
LinkedIn started the free program with small tests last month and rolled it out to users in San Francisco and Australia. The dip into mentorship expands the company's offerings and gives it a competitive edge against career-coaching sites like BetterUp and Everwise, which both offer similar services for a price. But neither has LinkedIn's bountiful 500 million-member network.


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And now I turn my lonely eyes to the chapter on testing legacy code. I liked this chapter in the original book, and it's something I get asked about pretty consistently, so I really want to make it great.
I'm personally going to spend a lot of time with David Chelimsky's post about RSpec 2 docs. It's the best listing I've seen so far about changes between RSpec 1 and RSpec 2. In particular, the Cucumber features are outstanding -- the best example of tests as documentation I have ever seen.
Corey Haines has an article on testing JavaScript via Jasmine in this months jsmag -- not a free article, just so you know. I've heard Corey present on this topic, and he's great.
In a related story, Kristian Mandrup has a fork of the BlueRidge JavaScript/Rails test framework that makes the generators compatible with Rails 3.
Adam Wiggens describes Clockwork, a Ruby alternative to Cron.
Multiple sources report that the Lemmings game port for iOS that I reported on a few days back was immediately slapped with a cease and desist order from Sony. Ouch.
And if you haven't read the message from the CEO of Woot to his employees on the occasion of being acquired by Amazon, well, it's worth five minutes of your time.
One year ago this weekend, Gregg Pollack was nice enough to give the Lulu version of Rails Test Prescriptions a big shout-out on the official Ruby on Rails Weblog. This was part of what drove me to submit the book to Pragmatic, so this is another thank you to Gregg for the kind words and the push forward.


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Jacket Weather and Seam finishes
I hate to admit it but the weather has officially turned to fall and we are full swing into jacket weather. Perhaps a new outer layer would help ease your transition? My closet is full of 3/4 and full-sleeved light sweaters but I'm lacking a good outerwear piece for the crisp climate. Bolt has a great variety of jacket and coat patterns--new ones from a beautiful Japanese pattern company for both adults and kids or Wendy Mullin's Built by Wendy: Coats and Jackets has great customizable options. Erica is teaching sessions of Indygo Junction's Midtown Trench down at MD for those who want and need the extra guidance. I went with SEWN's Upline Jacket because I liked the collar, the raglan sleeves, and the zipper front.
I chose a bright color in a heavier cotton for the outer fabric and a beautiful bold Amy Butler print for the lining. I also chose one of our brass teeth separating zippers for the front and couldn't be happier with the substantial effect it gives.
Plus, there's topstitching and a back belt detail.
The pattern doesn't do a bag lining that would hide all the seams, but rather flat-lines the entire body and encourages you to finish the raw edge in your prefered manner. There a number of ways to do so. I decided on a Hong Kong (or bias bound) seam finish which I think gives such a professional look to the garment. It was quite time consuming but worth it, I think. And now I'm ready for fall!
**Newsflash** Bolt just received a shipment of Anna Maria Horner bias tapes and they are YUMMY. What beautiful bindings, Hong Kong and otherwise, these would make!
But since we're on the subject of seam finishes (and maybe you think I'm nutty to have finished all of those seams separately with bias tape), what are other ways to finish raw edges? For your perusal--the overlock stitch edge, the pinked edge, and the serged edge.
The serged edge requires the use of a serger, but can trim and finish in one fell swoop. Don't own a serger? Most sewing machines come with an overlock stitch that looks like a mock serge, similar to stitch #8 in the picture below.
You'll get the best results out of the overlock stitch if you sew it with an overlock foot on your machine. If your machine doesn't sew an overlock stitch, you can also finish your edge with a simple zig-zag stitch.
I do love a good pinked edge sometimes. It's so vintage and classic. Instead of shears, I usually reach for my rotary cutter. I replaced the straight blade with a pinked one and now I can easily roll pinked edges. Don't forget the self-healing mat; you don't want to damage the blade or the table underneath.


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So I've been joking about getting arrested (I shoulda done it with Cornel West! Though our current OWS boarder says she'd hold out for Christian Bale) for a while, and occasionally worried about it when fortifying myself for direct actions (see this post for that anxious but stubborn meditation)...
But watching the police harry the protestors out of privately owned public spaces (the winner of the 2011 Oxymoron Award, I hope) twice in less than two hours tonight has my knickers in a twist.
Freedom of speech. Freedom of assembly. Seeing as how our government is ignoring our petitions for redress of grievances, Freedom of Getting Shit Done (aka Good Governance) Ourselves. These are really important things, not just words to trot out at the 4th of July… They are what makes us citizens of a great country, not consumers of a plastic-but-comfortable culture.
They can be just words, but the words made manifest can create a healthy and sustainable reality for a large and diverse group of people.
I've never been able to sit/stand through a whole GA (I can never hear past the tall backs and there are lots of people wonking off on polysyllabic jargon and I don't have the patience to get through the personal agendas before we get to the real agenda. That's why I chop carrots and carry soup…) But by golly, the wonking needs to happen, and it needs to happen in public.
And this is something I might just be willing to get arrested over.
Free speech. Free assembly. Free alia.
P.S: Happy New Year, wherever you may spend it...


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Invited Presentations
In addition to presenting my academic research at economics conferences, I also do a variety of other presentations. The most recent ones (and a few of the older ones) are listed below.
"Measuring Economic Freedom at the State and Local Level," panel speaker, Academic Research Seminar, Institute for Humane Studies and Mercatus Center, "Using Novel Data to Examine the Impact of Government Policies," March 13, 2019.
"Economic Freedom and Migration: A Metro Area-Level Analysis," with Adam Hoffer (Wisconsin - La Crosse) and Imran Arif (Appalachian State Univ.), Texas Tech University, Free Market Institute, Research Seminar, February 15, 2019.
"Economic Freedom: What It Is and Why It Matters"
*Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Issues and Ideas Forum, Lansing, MI, February 12, 2019 (link here includes video). (PowerPoint file here.)
*Kennesaw State University, Georgia, February 10, 2017 (link here includes video). (PowerPoint file here.)
*America's Future Foundation, Dallas Chapter, "Liberty & Libations" event, September 8, 2016.
*James Madison University, Gilliam Center for Free Enterprise, April 21, 2016. (PowerPoint file here.)
*Troy University, Manuel Johnson Center for Political Economy, February 25 and 26, 2016. (PowerPoint files here: Feb. 25 (Dothan); Feb. 26 (Troy) )
*Texas Public Policy Foundation, part of panel on "Economic Freedom vs. Government: Which Provides the Best Opportunity for Prosperity?" February 9, 2016 (link here includes video). (PowerPoint file here.)
*Florida Atlantic University, Undergraduate Economics Speakers Series, October 15, 2015 (PowerPoint file here.)
*CFA Society of Naples, FL (Chartered Financial Analysts), October 6, 2015 (PowerPoint file here.)
*University of Central Arkansas, Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, November 13, 2014. (PowerPoint file here.)
*St. Bonaventure University (Olean, NY), November 12, 2014. (PowerPoint file here.)
*University of Louisville, Economics Club, September 24, 2014. (PowerPoint file here.)
*Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Issues and Ideas Forum, Detroit, MI (Walsh College in Troy, MI), September 16, 2014 (link here includes video). (PowerPoint file here.)
*Bastiat Society, Cleveland (OH) Chapter, September 11, 2014. (PowerPoint file here.)
*Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, September 9, 2014. (PowerPoint file here.)
*Students for Liberty, Florida Regional Conference, Gainesville, FL, October 12, 2013.
"Which Institutions Best Support Prosperity?" panel speaker, Policy Research Seminar, Institute for Humane Studies and Texas Public Policy Foundation, "Which Institutions Best Support Prosperity in Texas and Beyond?" June 2, 2018.
"Applying Academic Research for Policy Outcomes," panel speaker, Association of Private Enterprise Education, annual conference, April 4, 2018.
"Why Some Cities Are Growing While Others Are Shrinking"
*Bastiat Society, Charleston, SC chapter, February 28, 2018. (PowerPoint file here.)
*Kennesaw State University, Georgia, February 9, 2017 (link here includes video). (PowerPoint file here.)
"Following the Texas Model to Increase Freedom and Prosperity," panel speaker at Policy Orientation conference, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Austin, February 9, 2018. (Video available here.)
"Which Education Funding Source Best Supports Texans' Prosperity?" panel speaker, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Austin, November 7, 2017. (Video available here.)
"Policy Breakfast: Boost Your In-House Research," panel speaker, State Policy Network annual meeting, San Antonio, TX, August 31, 2017.
"Taxation and Public Finance" -- Teaching Free Enterprise in Texas (program for Texas high school teachers)
*Arlington, August 14, 2019
*Grand Prairie, August 8, 2019
*McAllen, May 28, 2019
*Fort Worth, March 25, 2019
*Cedar Park (near Austin), February 18, 2019
*Houston, January 26, 2019
*Dallas, November 10, 2018
*Huntsville, September 25, 2018
*Grand Prairie, TX, August 9 and June 13, 2018.
*Dallas, TX, June 12, 2018.
*Amarillo, TX, June 8, 2018.
*Aledo, TX (near Fort Worth), June 7, 2018
*Metropolitan Social Studies Supervisors Meeting, SMU, Dallas, January 12, 2018.
*Aledo, TX (near Fort Worth), November 27, 2017.
*Houston, TX, August 15, 2017.
*Burleson, TX (near Fort Worth), August 2, 2017.
*Abilene, TX, June 22, 2017.
*Region 10 Economics Summer Conference, SMU, Dallas, July 21, 2016.
*American Teacher Initiative, 2016 Summer Institute (for new teachers), University of Dallas, July 13, 2016.
"Economic Freedom of North America" -- Teaching Free Enterprise in Texas (program for Texas high school teachers)
*Arlington, August 14, 2019
*Grand Prairie, June 3 and August 8, 2019
*Denton, August 7, 2019
*Dallas, April 2 and June 19, 2019
*Midland, June 12, 2019
*Amarillo, June 6, 2019
*McAllen, May 28, 2019
*Fort Worth, March 25, 2019
"Economic Freedom of North America: An Overview"
*EFNA Network Conference, SMU, Dallas, TX, June 4, 2019. (PowerPoint file here.)
*EFNA Network Conference, SMU, Dallas, TX, June 5, 2018. (PowerPoint file here.)
*EFNA Network Conference, SMU, Dallas, TX, June 20, 2017. (PowerPoint file here.)
*Mont Pelerin Society, General Meeting, Miami, FL, September 19, 2016. (PowerPoint file here.)
*EFNA Network Conference, SMU, Dallas, TX, June 2, 2016. (PowerPoint file here.)
*EFNA Network Conference, SMU, Dallas, TX, June 23, 2015.
"Economic Development: A Debate on Corporate Welfare in Texas," panel speaker, Texas Public Policy Foundation, Austin, October 12, 2016. (Video available here.)
"Unleashing Economic Growth and Job Creation," panel speaker, State Policy Network annual meeting, Nashville, TN, October 5, 2016.
"Housing Prices and Economic Freedom in U.S. Metropolitan Areas"
*Florida Gulf Coast University, Department of Economics and Finance Research Seminar, March 4, 2016. (PowerPoint file here.)
"The Texas Model: #1 in Economic Freedom"
*"Keeping the Texas Economy Strong," Annual Conference, O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom, Cox School of Business, SMU, Dallas, TX, October 2, 2015 (PowerPoint file here and video here.)
"An Economic Freedom Index for U.S. Metropolitan Areas"
*University of Louisville, guest lecture in Capitalism and Economic Freedom class, September 24, 2014. (PowerPoint file here.)
*Foundation for Economic Education, Second Annual Winter Freedom Academy, Naples, FL, February 2, 2013.
"Taxes, Spending, Economic Growth, and Budget Crises in State and Local Governments"
*Real Estate Investment Society of Southwest Florida's monthly luncheon, Fort Myers, FL, January 8, 2013.
*Commercial Real Estate Summer Outlook Conference, co-sponsored by CCIM Southwest and West Coast District Chapters, Sarasota, FL, June 21, 2012.
*Foundation for Economic Education, First Annual Winter Freedom Academy, Naples, FL, February 4, 2012.
*Wake Forest University, Omicron Delta Epsilon (economics honor society) induction ceremony, October 17, 2011.
*University of South Alabama, March 26, 2010.
*Town Hall Forum on "The State of the Economy in Collier County," Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce and Naples Daily News, March 16, 2010.
"Unmasking the Mortgage Interest Deduction: Who Benefits and by How Much?" one of four speakers at "Rethinking the Mortgage Interest Deduction," a policy forum cosponsored by Reason Foundation and Tax Policy Center (Urban Institute and Brookings Institution), July 28, 2011.
"Interjurisdictional Competition and Local Economic Well-Being," James Buchanan Center Brown Bag Seminar, George Mason University, November 6, 2001.
"The Myth of America's Underfunded Cities," Economics Faculty Workshop Lecture, Wake Forest University, November 12, 1998.
Press Conference for the Cato Institute's "A Fiscal Policy Report Card on America's Governors: 1998" (authored by Stephen Moore and Dean Stansel), National Press Club, Sept. 3, 1998.


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Date Posted : 2015-08-20
Category : Healthcare
Chatterboxes is looking for a Speech-Language Pathologist who shares our love for working with kids. We welcome the submission of resumes from dynamic, creative, highly motivated individuals with entrepreneurial spirit interested in joining our energetic team, at our new Lexington, MA location!
As a member of our well-recognized private practice, you will provide direct intervention and consultation services to young children experiencing a full range of communication difficulties Part Time. We are currently seeking an SLP who is available for Saturday and/or weekday office and home based sessions. The opportunity initially offers between 10-12 hrs per week, with the potential to add additional hours if desired.
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Please submit your resume to our Associate Director, Heather, by replying to this posting.
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Besides 6 convenient locations, a minimal wait to service your vehicle, knowledgeable technicians you can trust, competitive prices, service with a smile, and guaranteed satisfaction, Bolton Oil Change cares for you. Bolton Oil Company, a family-owned business since 1949, focuses on offering competitive prices and building relationships on trust and friendliness.
We want you to feel at home when visiting our business, and know that we treat your vehicle like our own. At Bolton Oil Company, we realize that we're in the people business before the gasoline or oil change business. Come see what we mean, as you're part of the family!
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The structure of the Company includes plants located in the Samara Region (AO Novokuibyshevskaya neftehimicheskaya kompaniya), in Eastern Siberia (Angarsk Polymer Plant JSC) and in the Republic of Bashkortostan (Ufaorgsintez PJSC).
In 2017, the total processed volume of hydrocarbon feedstock amounted to more than 2.3 million tons, while the production of commercial products, to about 2.0 million tons.
Novokuibyshevskaya neftehimicheskaya kompaniya
AO Novokuibyshevskaya neftehimicheskaya kompaniya has a history dating back to 1957. In March 2015 the enterprise became part of the structure of Rosneft.
AO Novokuibyshevskaya neftehimicheskaya kompaniya is one of the largest producers of gas processing products, petrochemicals and organic synthesis in Russia and Eastern Europe. The company operates the basic petrochemicals production sites, obtaining liquefied hydrocarbons, TAME and benzene; it produces phenol, acetone, alfa-methylstyrene, olefins, and para-tert-butylphenol (PTBF), which has no analogues in Russia and the CIS countries, and the only production site in Russia making synthetic ethanol.
The list of products manufactured by AO NKK includes more than 50 items.
In 2017, the volume of hydrocarbon processing by AO Novokuibyshevskaya neftehimicheskaya kompaniya was about 1 million tons and the production of commercial petrochemical products amounted to about 0.9 million tons.
Angarsky zavod polymerov JSC
Angarsky zavod polymerov JSC is a petrochemical enterprise in Eastern Siberia, which produces 200 thou. tons of ethylene, 100 thou. tons of propylene and 60 thou, tons of benzene annually. Part of the ethylene produced is sent to Sayanskkhimplast JSC as raw material, and another part is used for the production of high-pressure polyethylene and other types of petrochemical products. The plant uses straight-run gasoline produced by the Angarsk Petrochemical Company and hydrocarbon gases as raw materials.
In 2017, Angarsky zavod polymerov processed more than 715 thousand tons of raw materials and produced about 555 thousand tons of marketable products.
Ufaorgsintez Public Joint Stock Company is one of the largest enterprises of the Russian Federation processing liquid fractions and associated refinery gases, which produces organic synthesis products and dates back to October 16, 1956.
The company's range of products includes over 30 types of petrochemical products and over 25 types of consumer goods. The plant produces products of organic synthesis (industrial synthetic phenol, industrial acetone, alpha-methylstyrene), polymeric materials (high-pressure polyethylene and polypropylene of various grades depending on purpose, 40 and 50 EPDM rubber, polyethylene types for the cable industry).
In 2017, Ufaorgsintez PJSC processed more than 643 thousand tons of raw materials and produced about 520 thousand tons of finished products.


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The power struggle continues in Washington D.C., while economic conditions are fragile and risk stays high. The E.C.B. could cut rates in March or April, if the new Greece's bailout will not reassure the financial markets. A weak euro is beneficial for Europe. However, any decline should be temporary.
U.S.: Exports have declined slightly.
During election year, politics is at the center of the scene. The Bush tax cut will expire January 1, 2013. Dividend, income and capital tax rates will rise, if an agreement is not found. Republicans are saying tax increase will slow growth, limiting the net effect on the deficit. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), tax revenues will instead rise more than 30% between 2012 and 2014. During the same period, the deficit would be reduced by 68%. At the contrary, the public debt would reach 94% of the G.D.P. in 10 years, according to the CBO, if the Congress votes to extend provisions. Who is right? For sure, the fiscal burden will be heavy in 2013.
Growth stays fragile. The contraction of world economies could limit investment, production and employment. Imports have gained momentum in the last quarter of 2011, while exports have slightly softened. A decline was in the cards. Since 2009, exports have almost doubled the rate of growth registered in the last forty years. They should remain the driving force behind to G.D.P., considering the U.S. dollar is competitive against the majors and wage demands are low. Latest data showed the manufacturing employment diffusion index reached 69.1 in January. It is the second monthly reading in history. In reality, the labor market stays overall soft. The latest decline in the unemployment rate is also related to a weak labor force growth.
Greece saved again. Or was it not?
As protesters were torching Athens, the Greek parliament passed a new austerity bill that will secure Greece a new bailout fund of euro 130 billion. Will it be enough to reassure the financial market? For sure, it will give more time to better prepare all parties involved for the possible bang. Public sector creditors are removing private sector's exposure to Greece to the PSI (Private Sector Involvement). The European Central Bank is trying to find enough capital to protect those nations exposed to the Greek's debt.
Another three-year LTRO will be introduced at the end of February. More banks could participate, since the number of collaterals used to gain liquidity has been increased. The E.C.B. is adopting a "wait-and-see" approach on rates. In March/April, they could be cut again by 25/50 basis points, if the debt crisis will deteriorate
A weaker euro would be good for Europe.
Greece does not have any more room for improvement. The economy is contracting for the fourth consecutive year and the population is fed-up with the measures. Clearly, austerity is not enough. Why? Fiscal revenues drop and more austerity is needed, which contracts demand. Growth must pick up to end the vicious cycle. Exports would help, but the currency must fall. European rates should be lower than American rates. It will eventually occur. For now, the longer-term cycle stays bullish for eur/usd.
Over the short-term, nonetheless, risk aversion could support the dollar. Euro/usd could correct to 1.2950, 1.2840 and eventually 1.26. Technically, the price is leaning against both the upper channel-line and the 100 days moving average. Finally, there is a strong divergence between current price and the RSI indicator on the daily/weekly chart. In the past, it has been a strong indicator of trend's reversal.
Angelo Airaghi, www.ProfitsOn.com
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Im sorry, Kamijou-san!!
Join Date: May 2013
Location: California
This is why
Spoiler for NT 10:
Accelerator is the sort of person who really comes through when he thinks he's doing something good or "classy" and he often lies to himself about the method he's using to do that good thing in whether he's a villain or a good guy, but when he begins to doubt himself, as with when he saw Mikoto and Touma both protecting the sisters and claiming that they were people and not just masses of protein, he lost all of his resolve to fight, after he finally acknowledged the truth in that statement.
He only lost because he thought he shouldn't win... THAT time. The same sort of thing happened with Touma the second time. He basically lost control, and felt bad about it, and wanted someone to stop him.
Spoiler for NT 10:
I honestly think Kamachi purposely doesn't want any of his main protagonists stronger than each other because that would mean that he would be claiming that one philosophy is better than another one, and I don't think that he really believes that in the first place.
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Hidden Behind the Truth
Join Date: Oct 2009
These are the changes that were made (using the magazine chapter numbers):
-Chapter 63 Page 14 extended to 3 pages
-Chapter 65-67 combined into a single chapter and subsequent chapters renumbered accordingly
-Chapter 66 title page removed
-Chapter 69 Page 19 extended to 4 pages
-Chapter 69 final page has added dialogue for Touma and Mikoto: "I can move it like normal" and "What is with your body?"
-Chapter 71 begins with an additional 8 pages of Mikoto visiting Kongou
-Extra 16 page chapter of Misaki and Mitori visiting Dolly's clone
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