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The boat ride went on for about an hour. When we reached our destination the boat slowed. We saw about 15 other boats with passengers wearing the same bright orange life vests staring off into the water. The wave were so large that the boat was seriously rocking back and forth and back and forth but it didn't matter to me, we didn't come this whole way just to be sick. So I got up and started staring into the water with the rest of the people. Then like magic we heard a big breathing sound, like that of someone breathing out heavily, then we saw a large, dark blue, shiney surface, just above the water, then a huge tail...a whale in the wild. I was amazed. It was so mysterious. Where did it come from and where was it going? Seeing the first whale excited the crowd on our boat. It was seriously amazing. Time after time we would hear and see the same things and every time the moment was filled with awe and mystery.
Probably my neatest experience with the whole whale watching adventure was when we were all waiting around for more whales to surface and I went over to the other side of the boat, away from the crowd. I was just sitting, waiting for another spotting, when all of the sudden 2 whales surfaced about 50 feet from our boat on the side where I was sitting. I heard the breathing, and physically saw their blow holes and the texture of their skin. It kind of startled me...I was in shock...
This is the closest picture I found as to what I saw...I saw more of the tops of their back and then their little fin piece...much closer than this.
Then as we were headed out, mostly because people were spewing from the choppiness of the water, we saw 2 whales jumping nose first out of the water and then splashing down if to rejoice the fact that the humans were leaving them alone. SO COOL!
The ocean was so vast, so deep, so wide, so many different species of animal, but the Lord knows where each is at all times. He provides food and shelter for them. He knew we were going to be going out to this area last Saturday and blessed us by providing real "encounters" with these amazing animals. I felt so loved by God. So treasured. And I thought about the part in the Bible, in Job, where God is talking about who He is and how no one is before Him. He created all things, and all things are in His control. Yet, He cares for me even when I might not understand His ways. He is good!

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The optical illusion hidden in the 'Mona Lisa' explained
Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling.
There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research into a second painting attributed to da Vinci suggests yes, it was.
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"Portrait of a Young Fiancée," which is thought to be of an Italian girl named Bianca, shows the same almost-smile depending on viewing distance and sharpness of the image.
"When she is viewed from close-up the mouth appears to have a downwards slant, making her look melancholic, unhappy and hostile, but when viewed from further away, her mouth appears to take an upward, smile-like appearance making her appear happy and cheerful," researchers wrote.
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The researchers also found the smile — or frown — appears to change depending on where it is in a viewer's peripheral vision.
They simulated this effect on test subjects using blur. The blurrier Bianca was, the happier she appeared to be.
The technique in this portrait and in the "Mona Lisa" is called "sfumato," in which da Vinci blended colors and shades to get gradual transitions between different shapes in each painting.
The effect could be hard to pin down because it's so hard to do: the researchers suggest nobody has been able to pull it off as successfully as da Vinci did.
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The sex-education classes, coined as "personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) education," will include topics such as homosexuality and contraceptives. The article quotes Ed Balls, Secretary of the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), as saying, "I have concluded that parents right to withdraw their children from sex and relationship education should continue until their children reach the age of 15."
DCSF released a statement about the decision last week. Therein, Balls explained that since the age of consent is 16 (one year higher than the age limit he is establishing), parents should not have complete control over whether their children attend such classes, implying that by opting out, parents withhold vital information from their children. Ignoring the obvious leap of logic in his argument, Balls pointed out that a very small minority of parents use the opt-out alternative currently available. He said that when his department polled parents on whether they supported the opt out, nearly 70 percent agreed that parents' rights should be limited. The new rules ignore the wishes of the remaining 30 percent, yet Balls said the age limit of 15, which he considers high, was intended to build "a strong consensus" among parents.
The new plan, which goes into effect in September of 2011, requires all schools to subject children at age five to classes about puberty and "safe" relationships. Over the next few years, topics expand to include intercourse, tolerance of "alternative" lifestyles, divorce, STDs, and substance misuse. Under the plan, parents will be able to opt their children out of all but one year between the ages of five and sixteen. Current rules allow schools to drop sex education altogether and allow parents to opt out entirely for moral or religious reasons.
New rules will allow religious schools to tailor classes to reflect their individual "ethos." The Daily Telegraph reported that Balls said, "You can teach the promotion of marriage. You can teach that you shouldn't have sex outside of marriage. What you can't do is deny young people information about contraception outside of marriage." Daily Telegraph columnist Gerald Warner dubs the plan "child abuse" and called this supposed caveat for parochial school a "cynical method of enforcing anti-Christian values on faith schools."
DCSF claims that sex education is necessary to combat problems like rising rates of teen pregnancy, STDs and substance abuse. Paul Tully, General Secretary of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, contested these claims in a press release, stating, "these [classes] have been characterized by obscene and lurid presentations. These are the classroom equivalent of 'advertorials,' promoting sex and birth-control products. They send the message to children: 'do whatever you like — just be sure to avoid or abort any pregnancy.'"
Even before the new plan was adopted, pro-abortion columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown asked, "How many more teen pregnancies will it take before this Government realizes what a catastrophic failure its sex education policies have been?" She pointed out that a recent sex education program targeting teen girls with intensive training and free condoms cost the British government £5 million. The result? The rate of pregnancy among girls in the program skyrocketed over the rate among teens not enrolled.


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University of Guam Sea Grant (UOGSG) and the Department of Agriculture's Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources (DAWR) will host the Kids' August Saltwater Fishing Derby from 7 a.m. to 12 p.m. at Asan Park this Saturday, August 12. Free registration at DAWR ends on Friday, August 11 at 12 p.m. Competitors need to provide proof of age to establish eligibility, which is 7-12 years old.
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DAWR and Sea Grant led two fishing clinics in July and earlier this month to encourage youth participation in the derbies, which have been held for over 25 years.
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Last night, Yahoo's quasi-independent technology incubator, Brickhouse, launched a new social network for college students and college alumni: Kickstart. It is a professional network for the college crowd: it's supposed to help students, alumni, and recruiters all connect to share job information. It looks like the strict Venn intersection of Facebook and LinkedIn. (News story: Yahoo Kickstarts a social service aimed at college grads.)
It's a good idea, but only in a vacuum. If there were no LinkedIn, and Facebook were tiny, and Mash (see Yahoo finally gets a good social network) didn't exist, it might make great sense. But there are too many social networks already, and what makes a social network work is not its features but its people. I don't get how Kickstart is going to win over an audience as long as Facebook has a lock on the college demographic.
Since I'm not convinced that Kickstart can collect the user base it needs, it may seem just mean to also kick its feature set, but by current standards Kickstart is weak there, too. You can't even invite people who aren't already on the system (although it's easy to join if you have a Yahoo account). About all you can do right now is create a profile with your educational and work-related affiliations, see the same for your connections, and then message people in your network
Meanwhile, Yahoo has this other social network, Mash, that's not connected to Kickstart. And if you play on one network, you're going to be mighty irked when you have to recreate your profile and network on the other service, even if the whole idea is that the networks are supposed to be different: one for fun, one for work.
What Yahoo really needs for Kickstart is some way to integrate with existing social networks. You know, like OpenSocial. Then, theoretically, Yahoo could make it easier for users to join their specialized social network without having to completely recreate their online persona (unless they wanted to).
But for the moment, Kickstart seems like a project from before the Peanut Butter Manifesto. That is to say, not what Yahoo needs.
See also: Center Networks on Kickstart.


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Running Time: 180'
Main Cast :
Rutger Hauer - Tom Burton
Carol Alt - Christine Sanders
Elliott Gould - Red Murchison
Omar Sharif - Emir Magrouf Zair
David Flosi - Robert Sanders Zair
Brett Halsey - Sal
Kabir Bedi - Moulay Zair
Larry Dolgin - William Sanders
Peter Sands - James
Stewart Jan Bick - Daniel
The former CIA agent Tom is hired by the beautiful CEO Christine to save the life of her son who has been kidnapped by his father and taken to his grandfather in Morocco.
The handsome and clever Tom, with the help of his ex CIA friends, works out a plan to rescue the boy, who is only a pawn in a game of betrayals, led by the ruthless Christine's lawyer Red and her uncle.
At the same time, Tom is also chased by corrupt Government agents who want to arrest him for something he didn't commit.
Christine is anxiously waiting for the coming back of Robert and, of course, Tom - with whom she fell in love during their dangerous adventures in the burning Sahara.
The shooting of this movie lasted five months, spent almost all in the middle of the Morocco desert.
The original soundtrack has been written by Ennio Morricone, the famous composer who, in 2007, was awarded the Career Oscar.
The cover of the soundtrack CD
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Traditional Cultural Property and Tribal Interest Study for Camp Far West Hydroelectric Project
Client: South Sutter Water District
Location: Yuba and Nevada Counties
Timeframe: 2016–2019
Project Manager: Clinton Blount
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• Our senior ethnographers are working collaboratively with the tribes and the water district to negotiate mutually beneficial management options.
• Albion will contribute to management plans for traditional cultural properties based on findings, evaluations, and considerations of tribal interests to support the relicense application and continued operations.
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My friend Kevin are launching a new gaming group here in Phoenix. It's called Laughing Dice Club. Here's a detailed post about the group!
Our first official meetup will be at Changing Hands Bookstore in Phoenix, January 20th, 2018 – 5pm to 8pm. It's open gaming. People are encouraged to bring a game and a friend. Changing Hands offers a comfortable (chill) environment to play games in as well as some great drinks and snacks.
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A couple of weeks ago I went on a fish cookery course. Remember my bread course? Well I went back to the same place and had an amazing day making friends with fish. This is the first opportunity I have had to try out some of the skills at home.
When I was growing up we didn't eat much fish and when we did it was standard 70s fare; fish fingers or boil-in-the-bag. So, although I spent time watching my mum cook, I never really learned how to prepare or cook fish. Fast forward 25 years or so and I found myself living in Cornwall, by the sea, surrounded by the most amazing fish and shell fish you can imagine. Fish became my favourite thing to eat in restaurants and bars but I still didn't eat much at home.
My lovely husband is allergic to shellfish (proper, full on "anaphylactic shock" allergic – not just "feels a bit queasy" allergic) so I never cook shellfish at home. For years he didn't like eating fish either as he was nervous about the bones and I allowed this to be my excuse not to cook much seafood at all.
Then a few years ago a friend of ours opened a fish shop in the village – amazing. I could go in and choose my fish and he would do all the tricky bits; cleaning, filleting, pin-boning etc. But it felt a bit like cheating even then. I did, however, become quite proficient at cooking fish so my skills developed, albeit slowly.
Last year Rik closed the fish shop and became a postman (so I guess I wasn't the only one who didn't buy enough fish) and I was back to being scared. I did try to fillet a mackerel but ended up with something fit only for making mousse! Finally, I decided enough was enough and I signed up for the fish course at Philleigh Way Cookery School.
The first thing I was faced with was – you guessed it – a mackerel. The first thing I learned was – I can fillet fish! George showed us how and then handed me that most treasured of items – a beautifully sharp, flexible, filleting knife. I was smitten. I know good knives are important but I was also brought up in the school of "a bad workman blames his tools" so this knife was a revelation. So much so that I bought one – no excuses now.
Then we moved on to preparing and cooking flat fish, crab and mussels before learning how to make a simple smoker in order to smoke mackerel fillets. Just as last time I had an amazing day, I met some lovely people, learned some invaluable skills, took some risks and overcame some fears. I was also treated wonderfully well; champagne mid-morning and wine with lunch plus we ate everything we cooked. A highlight of the day for me was a trip down to the river (sitting on bales of hay in a trailer towed by the farm quad) to cook mussels, al fresco.
Anyone looking at my photos will see that my filleting is far from perfect. It's OK, I already know that. The course didn't make me an expert but it did make me brave enough to try and that's good enough for me. I took immense pleasure in walking into a fish shop this week and buying two sea bass. I came home, got out my knife (it lives in its box in a drawer away from the other knives so that it never gets used for anything other than fish), took a deep breath and started filleting. I was really pleased with the results and even more so when Martin ate it without finding a single bone – something that rarely happens when you buy fillets.
I pan fried the fillets and served them with gremolata and colcannon.
Gremolata is just chopped parsley, garlic and lemon zest. You can serve it dry, sprinkled on cooked meats or fish (it is traditionally served with Ossobuco) or you can do as I did and add a little olive oil to make a sauce. The proportions are roughly zest of one lemon, to one large clove of garlic and a generous handful of parsley but adjust it to your own taste.
If you want to find out more about the fish course visit the bun scuffle facebook page where you will find lots of photos from the day.
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The Q at Parkside
News and Nonsense from the Brooklyn neighborhood of Lefferts and environs, or more specifically a neighborhood once known as Melrose Park. Sometimes called Lefferts Gardens. Or Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. Or PLG. Or North Flatbush. Or Caledonia (west of Ocean). Or West Pigtown. Across From Park Slope. Under Crown Heights. Near Drummer's Grove. The Side of the Park With the McDonalds. Jackie Robinson Town. Home of Lefferts Manor. West Wingate. Near Kings County Hospital. Or if you're coming from the airport in taxi, maybe just Flatbush is best.
Friday, October 25, 2013
The Q Can't Take It Anymore
You bet. Not only is there a Micky D's right across from my beloved Q, the neighborhood is literally teeming with fast food joints that all pay the same. I'll let the vid speak for itself, but if this doesn't get your dander up then try Selsun Blue...
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Yeah. Astounding logic at work in that video. Reminds of the brilliant thinking shown by supporters of gas pumpers.
Gas pumpers, those guys who worked in gas stations, usually after school and on weekends, earning minimum wage until Exxon and Mobil and Chevron discovered they didn't have to pay anyone to pump gas.
All it took was credit-card readers built into the gas pumps, maybe one cashier inside the convenience store, and the understanding that anyone who can drive is capable of pumping his own gas.
So ended a job that was part of life for millions of workers for decades.
Is anyone crying for the loss of a job that once employed millions of part-time workers? No. The job is gone and pretty much forgotten.
Reminds me of the job of pin-setting, the job at bowling alleys in which someone put the bowling pins back in place after the bowlers knocked them down.
My sympathies are always engaged when the subject of telegraph operators comes up. A skilled group of workers who saw their careers go up in smoke when another technology appeared. That's sad.
Lately, changes in the frozen yogurt business have concerned me. What happens at 16 Handles? Just like a gas station, you pump your own, and then you pay the cashier. One, maybe two less employees to pay at those yogurt shops.
You know other players in the fast food business will figure a way to cut out a few jobs at each site.
We need a national holiday, a national day of remembrance for all the jobs that no longer exist.
- October 26, 2013 at 7:47 AM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
Interesting that you missed the point entirely. Of course jobs will disappear. That's the nature of increased productivity that lifted the middle class. The point is that McDonalds is essentially making the case for universal health care. It apparently expects the government to take care of ITS workers. Another form of corporate subsidy...unnecessary and short sighted. Were they paying into a national health fund, it'd make sense.
- October 26, 2013 at 8:52 AM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
Their payroll taxes are pittance compared to what they get for their poorly payed workers.
- October 26, 2013 at 8:54 AM
Clarkson, nope, I didn't miss a thing. Last year McDonald's paid $2.6 billion in income taxes alone. There was, in addition, huge property tax bills, and huge utility costs. The company also purchased all the meat and potatoes needed for its products.
A lot of workers were paid along the way. And, at the end of the day, stockholders received $2.9 billion in dividends. Those dividends, in most cases, were taxed again. A significant portion of those dividends land in pension funds and retirement accounts, spreading the benefits to workers at every economic level.
That aside, McDonald's merely dispensed information about benefit programs the caller might be eligible for. Obviously anyone -- a non-employee -- could have called that phone number and gotten the same information, and it would have been just as relevant.
Just like H&R Block dispensing tax advice, however Block charges customers to prepare returns. But Block usually manages to find deductions and otherwise help its customers reduce their tax payments.
Is that wrong too?
Should employees and taxpayers stick to the path of ignorance instead of becoming informed?
Have you noticed that even people in the US military, usually those with families, are often recipients of food stamps and other benefits granted by social programs?
If the US government is underpaying its employees, who is supposed to come to their aid? All their income is derived from tax revenue, which makes them -- in your view -- the most subsidized workers of all.
At least one National Guardsman I know subsidizes his Guard paycheck by working at Spartan Gym, up Coney Island Avenue by the Kent Theater. For minimum wage.
By the way, you mentioned a universal healthcare system. McDonald's is older than Medicaid and Medicare. You can be absolutely sure neither was created for the benefit of McD's.
Meanwhile, McD's follows every employment law on the books, including the laws about healthcare coverage.
- October 26, 2013 at 9:25 AM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
Interesting that you should note the health of stock portfolios and the banks and middle-men and yes, even pensioners (who no longer receive pensions from the companies they worked for, but rather have to hope corporations like McDonalds will squeeze a few dollars of extra profit out its employees so they might enjoy a rising 401K in order to enjoy 1/4 the retirement of their parents)...you choose to highlight the health of all those over the basic needs of employees. It's typical supply-side bull, and this argument that the health of the economy relies on treating workers like dogs has a long history -- all the way back before progressives and unions shook a few measly concessions out of greedy industrialists.
I suspect you'd prefer we let the corps set all the rules.
And frankly, $2.6 billion is a pittance on $27 billion in revenue. Sure they list something $6 billion in profit, but that's a joke. Everyone got paid, big time. Fat cats at the top are making plenty, and that counts as expenses. Plus profits are easily concealed overseas through loopholes. Meanwhile they're squeezing factory farms to produce beef that's unhealthy and unsustainable in order to sate an appetite for meat that is destroying the planet. Weening ourselves off the staggering amount of meat we eat is the best way to save the world. But then you probably think all scientists and environmentalists are chicken littles.
And yes, Anon, it is relevant that the advice to get food stamps and Medicaid is coming from your employer. It is an acknowledgment that you know damn well you aren't paying a living wage or taking care of your workers. There was a time, even in our own past, when taking care of one's workers was considered a good investment.
- October 26, 2013 at 11:52 AM
I can see from your comment that you don't know much about finance or McDonald's.
McD's, as an example is a little tricky because the parent company listed on the stock exchange runs only a portion of all the burger sites. There's a lot of revenue that only shows up on the books of the individual franchisees who pay a royalty to the parent company.
So, feel free to drop by the local McD's to tell the franchise owner he's a creep and should cough up higher wages. He's the guy you need to talk to.
As for the finances of the public McD's, well, yeah, revenue was over $27 billion. And net income was $5.5 billion.
You only pay income taxes on income. Not revenue. So McD's paid a tax rate of about 30 percent. That's a heck of a lot higher rate than is paid by most people in Brooklyn.
From where do you get this nonsense that McD's sends US profits to other countries to hide it? That's income tax evasion, and it's illegal.
Are you unaware of the fact that the IRS loves to extract revenue from any entity that appears to be chiseling the government of its due?
McD's does have restaurants in China, and those restaurants are profitable. If McD's were to bring those profits back to the US to reinvest here, it would have to pay income tax of at least 30 percent on the cash. Maybe more.
On the other hand, it can reinvest the money in China, after paying China the taxes it demands. On balance, reinvesting in China is more attractive than bringing the cash back to the US.
That's how it works with US companies doing business in other nations. We don't set their tax rates.
As for your assessment of the McD's product, well, I don't eat at McD's but, as the ads say, billions of burgers have been sold. So clearly billions of people have enjoyed a McD's burger and fries.
Is it okay for people to make their own food choices? Even when the choices are foolish?
I know there's an obesity problem in the country, especially evident among the poor. All I can say is cut way back on the sugar and flour, don't smoke and cut way back on the drinking. But no one listens to me. I've been saying the same thing for years.
As for the silliness of a "living wage", a company needs to do nothing more than to pay enough to meets its staffing requirements. McD's would gain nothing from raising wages to the Jumaane Williams level of $15 an hour.
In fact, if that were the new wage, McD's would raise the hiring requirements to include a college degree and thereby eliminate everyone it now employs.
- October 26, 2013 at 1:22 PM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
"From where do you get this nonsense that McD's sends US profits to other countries to hide it? That's income tax evasion, and it's illegal. "
Oy. I won't dignify that comment with a response.
On other poorly researched points, you seem to think that McDonald's choice of how much to extract from a franchisee has nothing to do with the chain that leads to full-time worker on food stamps. That McDonalds is in the business of feeding people makes that statement beyond ironic. Of course it's not the owner of the franchise one should speak to...go try it and they'll show you how they're being squeezed. They're not even allowed to choose their pricing! That's not a business...it's extortion.
I don't know if you have a degree in economics or are just working P.R. for the Tea Party, but your straightforward reading of a balance sheet shows you have absolutely no idea how that "profit" number is derived. It's pure fiction, as it is on the vast majority of companies in the 500. That's the whole point of tax reform...to stop allowing the richest to cheat the system by hiring the best tax lawyers. Teams of them, plus offshore subsidiaries. Google "Apple" and you'll see what I mean.
(Actually Googling Apple is quite a hysterical statement in itself.)
Look, you clearly don't care that NYC costs about 10 times what it costs to live in rural Alabama, or you'd be interested in raising the minimum wage. Or I suppose you think full-time fast food workers should be required to commute from hours away. I just don't get it Anon...you hit all the same sad points about barbaric capitalism used to defend the status quo, but you never think it through to the actual circumstances of real people. As a country we enact plenty of laws to protect the weakest...so why not economically at the level of the worker? Because we're still living with the ghost of Milton Friedman I suppose...
Not sure what line of work you're in, sir. I do hope your employer sees fit to pay you well, give you benefits, and adjust your income upward as you show your loyalty and trustworthiness. God forbid you should one day have to face any of the very real consequences of living a life outside the comfortable classes.
- October 26, 2013 at 1:44 PM
Ahh, if revenue is generated in the US you can't send the dough out of the country to hide it from domestic taxation.
Maybe you've been reading some oddball imaginary accounting texts.If you have, you should switch to something reliable that addresses the tax code and is an example of actual practices.
As for your grasp of accounting practices as they apply to companies in the S&P 500, well, as someone with a professional background in analysis of financial statements, I can tell you your perspective is way off. Fictional.
Apple has subsidiaries in other countries. Yes. Are any set up to exploit tax rules? Yes. Big deal. None of the actions are illegal.
Ireland created tax incentives that Apple has chosen to utilize. If you don't like the tax rule, blame Ireland. Apple didn't order Ireland to change policies as a tribute to Steve Jobs.
And McD's doesn't set the payments for food stamps, Medicaid, rent subsidies or any other social program in any state. It merely responds to the programs politicians have enacted on behalf of voters. So, if you don't like the social programs, take it up with our elected officials.
By the way, Apple paid $14 billion in income taxes in fiscal 2012. Fiscal 2013 ended Sept 30th. Results will be out soon, and it's expected the company will report a huge quarter.
For 2012, Apple paid out $10 billion for Selling, General and Administrative expenses (in other words, salaries). Not much for a company with almost $160 billion in revenue.
Yes, it's a highly profitable company that pays its Apple Store employees very little -- because they keep showing up for the pay they're offered.
Anyway, you seem unable to respond to the fact that even the US government cheaps out on military pay that often falls short for married troops who then turn to food stamps.
Where are these good guys you're dreaming about? At the Park Slope Food Co-op? The place that probably knocked out the demand for at least two supermarkets that would, if they existed, compensate their workers with cash?
- October 26, 2013 at 3:27 PM
- Clarkson FlatBed said...
You're both deeply cynical (taking on a cooperative?) and incredibly gullible. You claim to understand balance sheets, but you seemingly have no idea how profits are manipulated. Sure it's technically legal, but certainly not fair by any stretch. Let me give you but one example.
McDonalds owns a lot of intellectual property, the Big Mac for instance, and the various machines and techniques it uses to create its haute cuisine. Franchisees pay fees on those things. Guess where those trademarks originate and are therefore counted as foreign profits? You guessed it. Anywhere but here. One of the reasons are rates are high is because we have the best tax evaders in the world. Fine you say, but I say fix the code.
Plenty of pedigreed economists believe that a sound economy can function BETTER with worker's living wage rules. According to your cruel analysis, whatever's legal by loophole is also apparently ethical. Progressives typically search for a more equitable law. Laissez-faire generally favors the rich and powerful.
Absurd income inequality does not a sound economy make. Nor a just society. Nor a politically stable one. Most important of all, achieving equality of opportunity disappears rapidly when the lower classes are stuck in neutral or retreating relative to GDP.
There's nothing visionary or progressive in your logic. You regurgitate facts you've heard elsewhere. You can say the same of me if you want. Let's leave it there.
I'm not even sure how we got here. The low-wage earner in this City is screwed with a capital S, and you offer nothing new, nothing constructive. Next thing you'll be telling me they're poor because of their DNA, and thus doomed to suffer.
I even doubt your background in accounting practices. Sounds highly dubious, since you cite obvious examples from the headlines and seem to be unable to comprehend that anything sneaky is happening anywhere. You also cite big sounding numbers (ooooh. billions!) that are meaningless without context.
I'm enjoying this immensely and I consider you too smart to dismiss out of hand. You deftly explain your partisan perspective and reel off the talking points. But I'm tired, and I'll let you have the last word if you must.
Were I a politician and you were on the other side, I'd gladly look for compromise rather than shut down the government. But don't look for me to do so here. It is my blog after all.
- October 26, 2013 at 9:09 PM
McD's has very little "intellectual property." Most of it consists of trademarks, like "McDonald's" and the Golden Arches logo. Those two have considerable, though unquantifiable value. But patents on food machinery? No money there. You're flailing.
If you were to look at McD's 10-k, you'd find that expenses for Research & Development are a drop in the bucket, which means there's not a lot of high intellectual complexity behind the development of McD's operations. It's not a pharmaceutical or bio-tech company.
As for franchisees, well, they willingly pay the freight that McD's corporate demands. Most of the time things work out, though occasionally McD's franchises run into trouble.
But the company and the franchisee consider all the angles before plunging ahead. Every operating reality is considered -- the foot traffic, car traffic, the presence of competition, local taxes, and the local labor, etc. Again, McD's reacts to the environment in which each site operates. It doesn't create the environment.
However, you seem to believe the company orders the government to create a special subsidized labor market for it. In fact, that's what you want. You want the government to impose wage laws on it. But the government already does that. And in addition, the government has also created massive social spending programs
That aside, the failure of the tax code is obvious enough. However, blocking any improvements is the unyielding belief that corporations are the actual source of tax revenue.
Moreover, there's an equally rigid view that hiring experts to perform necessary tasks is cheating. However, one way to reduce the need for some experts is to eliminate the thing that creates their value, which you find so disturbing. The complex tax code leads to the demand for tax experts.
If US corporate tax rates were zero percent, then the need for corporate tax experts would diminish, though not disappear, because other countries levy taxes. income statements would show top-line revenue, cost of goods sold, interest expenses, a few other expenses, but NO depreciation allowance, because without a tax on income, there'd be no reason to offset revenue with the decline in value of purchased equipment, etc -- capital expenditures.
And a lot of that cash kept offshore would return to an environment where it would be well treated, rather than confiscated. Would that lead to an increase in the number of McD's? More employment at McD's? Higher wages? Probably. Especially if the economy were expanding at a faster rate and approaching a state of full employment.
It's also believed that people can't move up the economic ladder in this country. Of course, if someone can only work the register at McD's their options are limited. But even restaurant work has its hierarchy. Waiters and waitresses all over NY City make some pretty good money. Excellent money, in fact. However, they derive their earnings from tips. Not hourly wages. Thus, there's always a better working environment waiting for everyone who looks.
Regarding my current activities in the financial world, well, I'm tied into another hot button industry -- oil & gas, with a focus on hydraulic fracturing.
- October 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM


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"Isn't it wonderful?" said Norman Frankl, former economist and inventor of the device. "This is what the free market is all about, folks. Services which used to cost consumers into the hundreds of dollars per hour plus a full benefits package can now be had for pennies."
Frankl's invention, called Econobot, consists of a lifelike, anthropomorphic robot programmed to use a comprehensive economics software suite called Efficient Market. From teaching undergrads and writing multivolume treatises to delivering cherry-picked data and partisan talking points to television news outlets, Econobot can replicate every service previously performed by the nation's economists.
"It even has a 'rogue' function for producing contrarian podcasts and rant-based blogs," says Frankl. "One time I set [my Econobot] Chester to rogue, and he played a prank on some snobby professor buddies of mine, tricking them into declaring Franzia top shelf French wine after changing the labels in a tasting game."
Econobot also aims to imitate the various lifestyles of the professionals it replaces. Depending on user-defined settings, the robot can wear everything from a bow tie, suspenders and tweed to free t-shirts it forages from festivals it just happened to be walking by. It also requires no charging, instead running on heat generated by the chemical breakdown of bulk-purchased, wholesale ramen and Kraft Easy Mac.
Just as important, Econobot is capable of performing its functions through the lens of nearly every school of economic thought in a manner Forbes magazine gushed is "just as cold and borderline sociopathic as the discipline's most influential human practitioners."
"I don't care if you're a world famous academic or the armchair economist next door," says inventor Frankl, "This thing can do your thing, and it can do it better. Keynesian or supply-sider, pre-modern, classical, Chicago school, Neo-Ricardian, gold bug, Austrian, Marxian, ecological, feminist. You name it. And it's all further customizable by the user. There are 100 different settings for smugness alone."
Before Econbot, the only people with the resources to obtain top flight economic insight were large corporations, educational institutions and governments. Everyone else seeking personalized economic analysis usually had to procure the services of lesser-known, independent economists working the street corners, infomercials and blogs of America. These "indy" economists generally practiced outside mainstream economic thought, which was not always appealing to some consumers.
This increase in consumer choice is a welcome change for most of the nation's former economists, and Econobot agrees. Indeed, the general response among the former economics community at large has been one of jubilation as the gears of capitalistic progress grind what meager livelihood and meaning they had derived from life into ash and dust. Many are even committing suicide so as not to inefficiently leech off the economy's resources in unemployment, since they no longer possess any marketable skills and will likely be unable to find another job anytime soon, if ever.
"This is a fantastic example of disruptive innovation," said Malthus T. May, former economics professor at the University of Chicago, while standing in line at the Cook County unemployment office. "Some great new invention just came out of nowhere and totally changed how we look at the economics industry. Of course, you don't need me to tell you that anymore. Just go down to your local Econobot retailer or one of the many websites offering free, ad-supported Econobot analysis."
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Aches to Emerge
Here, where the forest unfurls like a rug almost to the rose-gold beach, is where it all started. Where the eagle cries amid cobalt thermals like something abandoned. Forgone yet freed.
"You're a warrior. But are you my warrior?"
"Who's asking?"
The sky crackles like a death-throe radio. Old limbs dislocate at the first hesitant storm. Something in the trees aches to emerge. Don't let it. Please don't fucking let it.
Caffeine is masculine; tannin feminine. The latter leaves less residue, less darkness on the tongue, is cleaner.
I am a man, so I wake and make coffee, and Annalise smiles at me, still partway gripped by her dreamworld.
"I'm glad you came back," she says.
Rather than answer I take great pelican gulps of my coffee though it's too hot and I know my tongue will pain me for days.
Birdland is our purgatory.
Neglect the equivalent of abuse. Indifference as keen a weapon as hate.
Please don't tell me about your dream, I think.
Against the window a ruby-throated hummingbird flits its quantum dance. There. Not there. Vertical. Tiny needle aloft. There again. Not there. Someplace else in an instant. The only clue to its trickery the vague blur at its shimmering sides. If this is the Matrix, hummingbirds are its emissaries.
Once looked at, a bird; unseen, some other thing.
"We should hang more nectar."
I can't recall later which of us said that. Since kindness was its source, I like to think it was me, but I'm likely wrong in my usual random way. I don't know about yours, but in my universe God indeed plays dice.
Someone knocks at our door, and I'm startled out of something beyond the mere moment; it's as if I'm flipped from one dark tale into another, if not darker then less knowable.
A tight voice from outside, a sexless shadow beyond the sheer curtain and frosted glass. "I know you're home."
Unbreathing, we out-wait the interloper, and after a while I go out back and drowned in the bloody dripping yolk of a sunset kick a deflated soccer ball against the darkening house, over and over, again and again, volleys and half-volleys, inside of the foot unswerving passes, outside skewed bananas, until I'm filled with hubris and start to juggle it unselfconsciously, a possessed marionette, soon surpassing my own record of fifty and finally overdoing it around seventy-five and dropping it in the talcum-fine dirt at eighty-one. Incensed I didn't make a hundred. While the cowl of night drapes all, scowling, indifferent.
"Come inside. I made dinner," she calls. "The eagle has left."
This wasn't supposed to happen. Not like this. The hummingbirds are absent, and I go inside to eat.
Her tender care is like a razor, and I am her strop.
"The neighbours have gone, I think," Annalise says over dinner. She has made a perfect pho with nut-rich fungus and something dark as green can be.
"I only want to eat," I say ungratefully, and think for a moment I might be a bad man.
"Then eat," she says.
Silence should follow, but it doesn't. Slurping and sighing follow.
Then, as if on cue, breaking news on CNN violates our intimacy to inform us of possible terror attacks in a scattering of cities. Confusion and mayhem, panicked crowds, global howls.
We look across a clean marble surface into each other's eyes. I think I reach for her hands first, but it honestly doesn't matter.
Fingers knitted, we talk. About what we'd ask for if granted three wishes (I insist we should ask for infinite wishes; she thinks that's finagling). About the long chalk ghostlike faces near Dover, England. About the skeletal grip of someone dying. About the faultless imploring eyes of children fighting cancer. About this amazing thing: do we love our pets in ways we don't love each other? Is that question even framed right? How honest can we be? Do we privilege our antic species at every juncture? Even when we're genociding? Is MAGAlomaniac a word? If not, should it be? Can dreams come literally true? Even if they feature Nazi dryads giving blissful head to supine unicorns? Even if they narrate our appalling triumphs? Even if they highlight our equally shabby fiascos?
What gears have slipped so badly in the machinery of the world that all this is the upshot?
I say to her, "We should head inland."
"I'll go pack some stuff," she says. Her brimful ass, swaying as she climbs the staircase, is the best thing I've ever seen.
While I wait, a shadow returns and looms at the door. It hefts something heavy in its hand. It weighs at least fifty hummingbirds, probably more, and part of me knows we almost made it.
(The thing in the trees parts the curtains. It's like unspeakable sex.)
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WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that Nellie Liang, an economist and financial regulation expert nominated by President Trump for a seat on the Federal Reserve's board of governors, had withdrawn her name from consideration.
Ms. Liang, who was nominated in September, faced opposition from the banking industry and Senate Republicans sympathetic to Wall Street's concerns that she favored overly stringent financial rules.
"We regret to announce that today Nellie Liang notified us that she has withdrawn from nomination to the Federal Reserve Board of Governors," Lindsay Walters, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement. "We supported her nomination and believe she would have made a good governor."
Ms. Liang, 60, is a fellow at the Brookings Institution. She previously spent three decades on the Fed's staff, rising to lead a department created after the financial crisis to monitor financial stability.
At the Fed, she helped orchestrate stricter postcrisis oversight of the financial industry, including the creation of annual "stress tests" to determine whether the nation's banks could withstand a severe economic downturn.
Mr. Trump's nomination of Ms. Liang was applauded by many current and former Fed officials, who regarded her expertise as a potentially valuable addition to the Fed's board. The Fed has significantly increased its focus on maintaining financial stability in the aftermath of the financial crisis, when bad bets by big banks helped plunge the American economy into a recession.
But the banking industry has argued that the government overreacted to the crisis and imposed overly restrictive rules that are impeding lending and economic growth. Both the Trump administration and congressional Republicans have pledged to ease the burden of those regulations, despite hefty profits at the United States' biggest banks. Financial firms had quietly rallied opposition to Ms. Liang's nomination, arguing that she was not supportive of efforts to recalibrate postcrisis rules.
Jerome H. Powell, the Fed's chairman, supported Ms. Liang's nomination and encouraged Senate Republicans to confirm her. But the Senate Banking Committee did not schedule a confirmation hearing in the fall, and Ms. Liang's nomination expired when the 115th Congress ended this month.
Ms. Liang would have become the first Asian-American to serve on the Fed's board, and just the 10th woman. She has spent almost her entire professional life at the Fed. She graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1979, then completed a doctorate at the University of Maryland in 1986. That same year, she joined the Fed's staff in Washington as a research economist.
Her decision to withdraw from consideration leaves two vacancies on the Fed's seven-member board.
The Senate also did not act on the nomination of Marvin Goodfriend, an economics professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Now that a new session of Congress is underway, the White House could renominate Mr. Goodfriend, but it has not announced if it plans to do so.


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Limitations of Gender Subversion in Three Works of The Ballets Russes
This dissertation presents a psychosexual and gender analysis of three ballets that were created
by the Ballets Russes – Schéhérazade (1910), Le Spectre de la Rose (1911), and Petrushka
(1911). The aim of this work is to show how these ballets, which can be seen as provocative
and subversive to gender norms, were made in the constructs of the common gender perception
of 'masculinity' and 'femininity', and on the other hand to show how these 'queer' characters
were placed in an honourable place in popular culture since its premiere to the present day.
Gertrud Kraus
Today I'm going to speak to you about Gertrud Kraus—a very small, very special woman. Born in Vienna on May 5, 1901, - Died in Tel Aviv Nov. 23, 1977. You wouldn't expect someone so petit to have such a big influence but that is the truth. I'm so honored that Henia has asked me to speak about her, something of her life.
A Retrospective of Mallorquin Dance
This article is drawn from my ethnographic research on Mallorquin dance on the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca, between 2003 and 2007. The Mallorquin dance repertoires have developed in two parallel lines following the establishment of the organisation Fomento del Turismo de Mallorca (Promotion of Tourism) in 1905: for tourists as presentational choreographed dances, and for locals as participatory improvised dances in social contexts. The Sección Femenina (Women's Division of the Falange Party) controlled dance throughout Spain and Mallorca between 1939 and 1975, when only choreographed dances were performed. These dances were devised for the national folkloric dance competitions of Spain.
Martha Graham Company at the Teatre Liceu
You would expect nothing less from the Martha Graham Dance Company than a superbly executed, attractive, and impeccable performance, alive with colour and amazing style.
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It's a Fallout Pip-Boy that's much more than a decoration. ThinkGeek really outdid themselves with this one. You'll be able to pair a smartphone (or tablet) to this bad boy and take calls, play music, and more. What's better is that screen in actually built in! You can pair your phone via bluetooth but no connection is required! There's also a neat "Cosplay mode" that makes it look as it does when you're playing the game.
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PIP breast implants: review to give findings
Some 40,000 British women with banned PIP breast implants are expected to learn later whether the government believes they should be removed.
France banned the implants, by the French firm Poly Implant Prothese, in 2010 and said they needed to be taken out due to a high risk of leaking.
They were found to have industrial, rather than medical grade silicone gel.
The UK government has so far said the risk is low but ordered a review because of conflicting data.
The findings of the review into the rupture risk will be released soon.
What rate?
The key question will be the rupture rate of the implants. The French authorities have quoted a rate of 5%. The UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) said the rate was 1% - in line with other implants.
The health secretary, Andrew Lansley, ordered the review amid reports of rupture rates of 7% from one cosmetic surgery group, Transform. However, it says that rate was based on just seven out of 108 patients it fitted with PIP implants since 2005.
The organisation which represents the majority of UK private breast implant clinics has insisted the rupture rate is not abnormally high.
Sally Taber, director of the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services, said: "Following an audit of our members, which includes data on thousands of patients... we can confirm that the average rupture rates reported for PIP implants are within the industry standard of 1-2%."
On Tuesday, Mr Lansley said the data from private companies had been "inconsistent" and was sometimes "inadequate" and of "poor quality".
Prof Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director who is leading the review, said: "I am disappointed at the ability of some private providers to submit accurate and meaningful data. I am pursuing this with vigour."
They were set a deadline of Thursday to provide the information or they would be named and shamed.
The advice from government officials has consistently been against removing the implants.
The chief medical officer for England, Prof Dame Sally Davies, initially said: "We currently have no evidence to make us think they should have the PIP breast implants removed."
Then, three days before the review was due to report, Mr Lansley told the BBC: "The overwhelming evidence continues to support the advice we've given women previously.
"It is not advisable for women to routinely have implants removed because the risk associated with an operation of that kind would outweigh the benefit of removing these implants."
The president of the British Association Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, Fazel Fatah, has argued that all implants should be removed.
He said it would be impossible to find out the exact rupture rates and that the important issue was the quality of the silicone as "it is not fit to be implanted into humans".


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Tamara Jenkins - Tamara Jenkins, New York City, USA - at the premiere of Fox Searchlight Pictures 'Another Earth' at Landmark's Sunshine Theatre. Wednesday 20th July 2011
Tamara Jenkins - Saturday 23rd February 2008 at Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica, California
On the other side of the country, Lenny's two kids are busying themselves with crap jobs while they attempt to be acclaimed writers. Wendy (Laura Linney) temps at data-entry cubicles in New York City, using their copiers and mailing capabilities to apply for Guggenheim fellowships. When she can, she also sneaks into the supply room and steals her weight in pens and paper. She comes home to a message on her answering machine about her father's incident and panics. Meanwhile, Jon (Philip Seymour Hoffman) teaches at a second-rate Buffalo college as he attempts to finish research for a book on Bertolt Brecht. When Wendy pleads for him to help her hunt down their father, Jon responds with lethargic wit: "This is not a Sam Shepard play."
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Recovering co-dependent Ruby Weaver has such bad luck with men that she and her girlfriends keep a shoebox of photos called "The Ex Files."
In the beginning of "Happy Accidents," writer-director Brad Anderson ("Next Stop Wonderland," "Session 9") shows us a comical montage of progressively eccentric examples: The Bad Actor, the Artist, the Fetishist, the Frenchman, the Junkie and the Abductee, who thought he'd been kidnapped by aliens.
Ruby (Marisa Tomei in an amusingly harried performance) hopes she's seen the worst of this trend and is, with the help of her intrusive therapist (the wonderfully wry Holland Taylor), beginning to curb her pathological urge to try to fix men that are beyond repair.
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His new album Underneath It All is out now.
Pixies kicked off the European leg of their latest tour in the sleepy retirement town of Bexhill-On-Sea.
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Tickets for this summer's Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival are already selling like hot cakes.
The two-day event, held at Funkirk Farm, near Skipton on Saturday, July 20 and Sunday, July 21 features the undisputed queen of the kitchen Mary Berry, Lisa Faulkner, the Hairy Bikers and Yorkshire's Brian Turner.
The 2019 event is set to be bigger and better than ever, with a new Yorkshire AA Rosette Demo Theatre hosted by the Devonshire Arms Hotel and Spa and Head Chef Paul Leonard.
Betty's Cookery School will be celebrating its centenary and showing off some of its best dishes on a new cookery school stage.
The event, which was a finalist in the White Rose Awards, features the best of regional food and drink traders, from artisan producers to award winning brands and products. There are also craft and lifestyle exhibitors and free workshops in our Markers Marquee, perfect for shopaholics.
Set in the beautiful Yorkshire countryside with camping and caravanning available, the dog-friendly festival also offers gin and whiskey schools, a pizza and prosecco parlour, mini beer festival, tipple talks and tasting tents. There's also lots of entertainment for children, with cookery classes, circus skills, a mini World Cup tournament and even a princess party, plus a kid's area full of fun activities to keep them occupied.
To top it off, there will be a range of live music with a Take That Live tribute act, ABBA Revival, voted the best in the UK, Little Fix, winners of ITV's 'Better than the Real Thing', Freddie Mercury tribute Pure Magic and local bands.
Rachael Higgins, marketing director at Events By B3, said "Our 2019 is set to be our best year yet. We have got so much planned we have had to open another field at the farm to fit everything in. I am so excited to have Bettys involved, plus I can't wait to hear from Mary Berry. The AA Rosette Demo stage is the first of its kind too - where else would you find 18 AA Rosette Chefs cooking together? Tickets are selling fast and there are only a few VIP tickets left."
There are free buses running from Skipton Railway Station and High Street all weekend, plus onsite parking.
Tickets are available from www.yorkshiredalesfoodanddrinkfestival.com
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Just as rumored, Apple today officially detailed CarPlay, a feature that integrates iOS with a vehicle's in-car system.
Originally introduced in 2013 as iOS in the Car, the new CarPlay system gives users access to features like phone calls, messages, music and Maps through their car's built-in user interface. Once a compatible iPhone is connected, Siri will enable users to make calls and listen to voicemails and also respond to messages using only their voice. Siri can also provide turn-by-turn directions along with the Maps display that'll show up on the vehicle's built-in display. Finally, the iOS assistant can play back music and other audio content, and CarPlay also plays nicely with select third-party music apps like Spotify and iHeartRadio.
CarPlay will debut in vehicles from Ferrari, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo this week, with support from BMW Group, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai Motor Company, Jaguar Land Rover, Kia Motors, Mitsubishi Motors, Nissan Motor Company, PSA Peugeot Citroën, Subaru, Suzuki and Toyota Motor Corp expected to come in the future. The feature will be enabled as part of an update to iOS 7 and will work with the iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.
Many folks are reliant on their smartphones for nearly every aspect of their lives, including entertainment, navigation and keeping in contact with loves ones. As a result, people increasingly want to use their devices while in the car. Doing so can be dangerous, though, which is why it's good to see Apple making in-car phone use safer and easier. Google recently launched the Open Automotive Alliance to promote better in-car integration with Android devices, with the first vehicles backed by the group expected to debut before the end of 2014.
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Sailing Yacht by Hakan Gürsu
Hakan Gürsu Presents The Snow Sailing Yacht
Hakan Gürsu, the author of the highlighted project Award Winning Snow Sailing Yacht explicates, Designed as an extraordinary 66-meter superyacht, Snow is a new sailing vessel with a radical approach. Her elegant lines with streamlined touches, combines modern design with classical taste. She has a draft of 4.85 m keel up / 7.5 – 12.1 m keel down with an innovative foldable keel, featuring a beam of 10.6 m. One of Snow's many groundbreaking features is her twin masts that split upon hull and increase performance and stabilization. Aiming to offer an ultimate sailing experience, Snow is one of the newest generations of retro schooners with improved strength, comfort and sailing joy..
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Location: Banff
Distance: 3 km
Time: 30 mins
Difficulty: Easy
Elevation: 0
Highlights: Picture perfect view of Moraine Lake
Trailhead: Across from the main parking lot, next to the outhouses.
The Moraine Lake rock pile hike a really easy quick hike that takes up the rock pile at the front of the lake giving you the classic postcard view of Moraine. Due to Moraine's popularity the access road and lake can get very busy, especially during the summer and on long weekends, resulting in line ups and parking along the road leading up to the lake itself. If you can make your way here first thing in the morning to avoid having to park on the road or the massive crowds climbing the rocks. The lake is glacier fed so it doesn't generally fill entirely until June; our last visit was at the beginning of May, there were absolutely no crowds which was incredible, but the lake was not yet filled which may have been a disappoint to some- check it out here. We've also checked out Moraine on the August long weekend two years ago.


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Eastern Cape born writer, filmmaker and photographer, Lidudumalingani has just won the 2016 Caine Prize for African Writing, Africa's leading literary award, for his short story entitled 'Memories We Lost' published in Incredible Journey: Stories That Move You (Burnet Media, South Africa, 2015).
The writer who grew up herding cattle and moulding goats from clay in rural Transkei also received a £10,000 prize at a dinner held on 4 July at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
'Memories We Lost' tells the emotionally charged story of a girl in a rural village in the Eastern Cape who acts as protector of her sister, whose serious mental-health problems (schizophrenia) cause consternation in a South African village. Her situation deteriorates as her care is entrusted to Nkunzi, a local man who employs traditional techniques to rid people of their demons.
Multi-layered, and gracefully narrated, this short story leaves the reader full of sympathy and wonder at the plight of its protagonists.
As the winner, he will have the opportunity to spend a month at Georgetown University as a Writer-in-Residence at the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. He will also be invited to speak at the Library of Congress and take part in the Open Book Festival in Cape Town, Storymoja in Nairobi and Ake Festival in Abeokuta, Nigeria.
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So public action does work. Yay. I like the powerful, collective feeling.
Late link: seems like the same thing is happening in the good ole US of A.
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Here we are, minus one very precious family member - Nathan. Though life joyfully continues, we greatly look forward to being reunited with him one day.
There is no replacement, yet there is consolation. We hope, by being painfully transparent about Nathan, this website and Nathan's Story bring healing to you.
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A camel trip is probably one of the main reasons why you should visit Morocco. Camel trekking and an overnight stay, combined with stargazing in the Sahara desert will leave you with one of the most memorable experiences of your life and perhaps with some painful blisters on your butt too. Here is what you need to know before you go.
Where are the camels?
Most of the camel trips start in Merzouga. Depending on your itinerary, most likely you will be traveling to Merzouga from Marrachesch. There are plenty of travel agencies that can arrange the camel trip for you from Marrakech, but if you want to save money, we recommend that you take a CTM bus from the city. The bus ride is about 8h-10h, but is very comfortable. If you have the time you can also stop in Todra Gorge for a night or two and do some trekking there and continue on to Merzouga from there.
First of all these animals are not camels. They actually are call a dromedary. The difference is that the dromedary have one hump, unlike camels, which have two lovely humps.
The most surprising thing about out camel ride was that all the camels are tide together by a rope and they walk in line following a guide. If you have never been on a horse and you are afraid, this is probably great news for you. For those who expect a more wild ride you might be a bit disappointed in the ride itself. The ride was fairly comfortable, but we were happy to get down after 2-3 h.
What NOT to wear on a dromedary (camel) trip?
There is just one very important piece of clothing that you should NEVER wear on a dromedary/camel trip. It's a thong. OMG, don't ever make the same mistake, unless you want to experience blisters in places that you never thought you could get.
Have you heard of the phenomenon called sahara butt? probably not. It's when you wear clothes that rub in the crevices of your body e.g your butt. Yeah, just don't wear any clothes that will crunch up in you butt. We are going to leave this here but trust us!!
How to avoid the sahara butt?
1. Wear comfortable underwear and don't wear any clothes that will crunch up (in you butt).
2. Wear long pants, your legs won't chafe !!
3. Loose clothes are great! You won't sweat and it will protect you from the sun plus you will be comfortable.
Also Important: Do not forget your sunglasses, head scarf, sunblock and SPF lipstick!
Night at the Desert
After a few hours of trekking you will arrive to your camp. You will be fed, with most likely Tagine, and if you are lucky enough you might be entertained with traditional berber music. Berber people have an amazing culture and spirit.
Tipsy Gypsies Tip: We recommend that you bring some liquor to the desert. Berber people like alcohol, and as long as you share your goods with them, they will too.
Berber people were traditionally nomads. Don't assume that the nomadic lifestyle and simple life make these people ignorant . Both of our guides were smart students who spoke fluently in at least 4 languages. They were also are humble and very talented musicians They told us they didn't like big cities and decided to live a simple life and follow their passion, music.
Tipsy Gypsies Tip: We talked with our guides and asked them for some funny stories from the desert. They told us that sometimes tourists get too drunk and behave rude. Some tourist decide to wander off the camp to the dunes and can't find their way back. Drunk tourist might be only 5 minutes away from the camp, but the dunes all look very similar. The guides are always vigilant and they know where you are and will rescue you (after some time) of course. So unless you know how to guide yourself with the starts, you might have to spend some lonely hours rethinking your behavior and actions. We think that is a fair lesson.
You can't miss the sunrise in the desert. It's spectacular! If you only stay one night you will most likely head back to the hotel early in the morning. You will eat breakfast at the hotel and you can use the shower and pool for couple of hours.
Saying goodbye to this view was hard, but we will be back for more!!
Meet the Ganoua tribe
On your way out from Merzouga we stopped by Khamlia village. Khamilia village is inhabited by the Ganoua or Gnawa people, who originally were slaves from Africa. Nowdays, the Gnawa people are shepherds and dromedary/camel herders and their music is world famous. At the village we experienced the traditional music and dance of the Ganoua tribe performed by a group called "Groupe des Bamabras" . They were truly amazing and welcoming. If you want to learn more about their history check out www.khamlia.com


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Appearing now in Los Angeles - newest additions to Poetry In Motion®
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Recently the Poetry Society of America launched its Centennial year with a widely praised exhibit, "Portraits of Poets, 1910-2010." There were more than 150 images of poets—oil paintings, drawings, photographs, even two stone frescoes—spanning the hundred years of the organization's history. It was thrilling to represent the glory and the range of our poetry in the 20th century and beyond, and we were especially proud of the images of African American poets we included. Read Full Post
The spring, 2010 "Poems & Pints" series, co-hosted at The Fraunces Tavern, New York's oldest, by the Poetry Society of America, the nation's oldest poetry organization, and the dynamic Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, launched last night with a reading byTerese Svoboda and Molly Peacock. Read Full Post
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Ward Chronicles - Volume 6
Inspirational is the word that best describes Easton Mountain for me. It inspires me to explore, hike, swim- and most of all, to paint, do photography and write. I am an artist and it is one of my muses. What is a muse? In classic Greek mythology there were nine of them... all women. They inspired great works in the sciences, literature, and most of all, the arts.
At Easton Mountain, where lines blur, I choose to think of my muses in the masculine sense. One of the greatest gifts of this mountain has been the many creative men I have met here- men who have inspired me and men who I have inspired. Yes, I have had the great pleasure of being a muse here at Easton. One night photographer Ross MacDonald, myself, and 9 others invented the "Penguin Pile" - similar to a puppy pile, only done standing! While "Penguining" we mused what our tribe would be like if we were Indians- and hilarity ensued. Instead of ponies we would ride pink flamingos! Our war paint would be eye shadow and our medicine man would know how to do botox! You get the picture. That night, I dreamed of a great spirit who instructed me to make a "man catcher"...similar to a dream catcher only bigger and used to, as the name implies, catch men. I made it the very next morning. while dressed in cowboy drag. I was seen walking through the forest with it by noted New England landscape artist David Brewster who asked me to sit for a portrait that very morning. He called the piece "Man Catcher." The only gift greater than making a work of art is inspiring one. I was deeply honored to be his subject, his muse. I have since posed for 3 more of his oil portraits. I was also muse to photographer Giovanni Di Mola who I took to see the Cobb House, a mud and straw structure that has a medieval "Hobbit" feel to it. He loved the light and had me sit for a photo in a time-lapse series called "Di Ritardo" (The Delay) which evokes the chiaroscuro of a painting by Caravaggio. Giovanni is a true master of his medium. It felt almost "religious" to be a part of his process. Poet Scott Harris used me as inspiration for one of his works which now hangs on my door, framed in tree branches and crystals... fitting for a poem titled "Ward the Glitter Elf". I find myself inspired by men and nature. I go to them as the bee goes to a flower for a nectar I can make into my own honey. I have constructed a golden phone that hangs outside my cabin on which I can "Call God." I have taken angelic photos of my good friend Paul Tomilson, and every morning I write in the hours between sleep and awake...the place where dreams still live. When I let go and let God, he guides my hand, and art happens. Art often happens on Easton Mountain. It is my muse.


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