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Formed in Q3 2014, Sparinvest's Responsible Investment Committee meets 6 times per year. The focus of this Committee is to:
Continuously monitor and review RI Policy and processes and look for any improvements that can be made;
Formally establish the RI goals that will ensure that the relevant RI strategy is adopted and understood throughout the organisation.
Formal RI goals are set at the beginning of the year. However, the objective of improving RI processes is ongoing and regularly discussed at RI Committee meetings. Action points are set and followed up in subsequent meetings.
The Committee is chaired by the Head of Responsible Investment and includes representatives from both the Equities and Fixed Income investment teams as well as members of Sparinvest's Investment Committee. The meetings are also attended in a non-voting capacity by other interested parties, including two ESG assistants and an analyst. As and when industry developments require it, external RI experts may be invited to Committee meetings to help inform RI policy decisions.
The Head of RI reports to Sparinvest's Investment Committee on RI matters and is asked to give a formal progress report twice per year. Once per year the Head of RI will appear before the Board of Sparinvest to give an update on Group progress towards achieving RI goals.


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Club Pilates opening in Citiplace Court retail center
Club Pilates, a boutique Pilates studio franchise, is moving into the Citiplace Court space once occupied by Corporate Brew & Draft, which closed last July.
Carmen Austin of Saurage Rotenberg Commercial Real Estate, the property's leasing agent, says Kendra Williams, a multi-franchisee, recently signed a 10-year lease on the 2,700-square-foot space, which was among several vacancies at the Corporate Boulevard retail center.
"Citiplace offers a convenient environment near many local offices, businesses, hotels, and neighborhoods, which is what [Club Pilates] was looking for," Austin says, adding she also has three restaurant and bar concepts considering the next-door space vacated by The Cove bar in September, as well as a lease pending with a national franchise at the center's former UPS space.
The studio, which bills itself as "the nation's largest premium Pilates franchise," offers a range of classes that include low-impact, full-body workouts, in addition to a corporate wellness package.
It would mark Baton Rouge's first location of Club Pilates, which currently has 503 active studios in the U.S. and Canada, according to its website, with another 600 planned to open soon. The 12-year-old company has other Louisiana locations in Mandeville, Metairie, Lafayette and Shreveport.
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Saving for a car can be both exciting and hard on the nerves. You have a goal you want to reach, but then you have to be willing to really do something about it. The easiest way to attain your goal is to do all the math, set your goal, save, spend less and build your car savings fund. This is the trusted way and a sure way to get it done!
First of all, do some car shopping, either at car dealers or on the internet. This will enable you to get an idea of what you can afford. This is also where you decide whether you want to save for a deposit or to buy the car cash. Most often, paying cash for a car is almost impossible, but if you are able to save enough each month, you may just be able to do it.
A good rule of thumb is to add an extra amount to your supposed goal amount, to be sure that you will be able to cover any additional fees that may arise. These include transfer fees, license and registration and any other expenses. So, find out what these costs usually amount to and add that amount to the amount that you want to save – your final goal.
Now that you have established your final goal amount, you have to work out a time frame.
If you can save enough money in a year, then you have to divide your goal amount into 12 equal parts. This will give you the regular amount you have to save each month.
This may be easier said than done, but once you get into the habit, it will become a part of your life. You can open a savings account and use that as your car savings fund. Deposit the specified amount in that account each month and NEVER withdraw money from it. Just pretend it isn't there, especially if you want to go on a trip or payday seems miles away. Once you start dipping into your car fund, it will become easier and before you know it, half of your savings will be gone!
Okay, this is the not so nice part when you are saving for a car, but the reward will be well worth it. You can save a lot of money by watching what you buy. Don't keep on buying the most expensive brands and start giving up some of the things you can do without. If you regularly eat take-aways, stop that and rather prepare food at home. Leave the snacks and donuts, spend a little less time on the phone … you get the idea …
Your car savings fund should be coming along nicely. Whenever you feel despondent and wonder if the effort is worth it, think about the lovely car that waits for you. Think about the freedom you will have with your own set of wheels and DO NOT withdraw even a teensy amount from your car savings fund.
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Maintenance Innovation at Dorothea Dix Park
Starting this week, a herd of 20 goats begin to clear two acres of vegetation out of a pine grove at Dorothea Dix Park. This initiative is a new sustainable and cost-effective way for our Raleigh Parks maintenance team to manage vegetation in the park. As part of the ongoing effort at Dix Park to open up and activate the park grounds, clearing overgrown areas is needed to not only make the park look nicer, but also improve visibility and safety for park visitors.
The goat herd will call Dix Park home until the job is done, which is anticipated to take less than two weeks. To keep the goats safely inside their designated area, they are contained with a low-voltage solar-powered electric fence. The goats are provided a shelter and will work through the rain, unless there is a chance of extreme weather. A second fence is installed around the goats work zone to create an additional barrier to separate park visitors from the goats while allowing community members to watch them work.
The pilot area where the goats will be eating away vegetation is in the grove of pine trees between The Big Field and Williams Field along Blair Drive. Once cleared, this stand of trees will offer a shady grove for park visitors to sit and relax as well as create better sightlines between the two fields.
This vegetation management project is set to begin on Wednesday, August 28, 2019. For the safety of people and the goats, the City of Raleigh asks that the public stay outside the bike rack fencing and not touch or feed the goats.
For more information about this and other vegetation management projects happening at Dorothea Dix Park, please contact Ryan Lerch, Natural Resources and Parks Superintendent, at 919.996.6548 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Inspired by God at work within our people, written by the Special Committee on Facilities and Mission, and unanimously affirmed by the congregation in March, our church's new vision statement tells a story about a people, a place, and a calling. For the Spirit has been at work among us, inviting us in this season of our common life to, in the words of Dr. William Sloane Coffin, "risk something big for something good." In so doing, we've taken our cue from Jesus, whose life and ministry capture his vision of a new day, a kingdom where God's dream for this world is made possible. Using our lectionary texts this month, we will explore our vision statement together in worship, letting the stories of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark inform our understanding of this vision for First Baptist's future that God has given us.
Mark 7:24-37; Proverbs 1:20-21
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Audiobooks - Friends In The Bubblebath - remixes
- Remixes by Gwenno / Gabe Gurnsey / David Wrench
audiobooks are pleased to share a remix bundle for their latest single, 'Friends in the Bubble Bath'. The release features two remixes by Gabe Gurnsey (Factory Floor) and one each from Welsh songstress Gwenno and audiobooks' own David Wrench. "I love audiobooks, and 'Friends in the Bubblebath' is brilliant," Gwenno says. "I wanted to create a reflective atmosphere around Evangeline and David's lyrics, to try and compliment the story and that feeling of the party still trying to keep going at 3am, as parties tend to do."
"It was a real pleasure to be asked to remix audiobooks' as I'm a big fan of theirs," Gurnsey adds. "I wanted to take all that energy they exude vocally and musically and bring it onto the dance floor. I ended up working on two remixes which work side by side, reflecting that chemistry David and Evangeline have in their live performances."
Talking about the source material, the band said, "It's song about friendship, about living in the present, though still being aware of the transient nature of everything. But even when things pass, a skeletal memory remains which can still summon up a living essence. …. and enjoying bubble baths."
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If you choose towel warmers, a review will help determine the optimal model. The fact is that such devices are produced by a huge number of firms. The market is very diverse, and therefore you can get confused when choosing. In order to navigate, it is worthwhile to dwell on each of the types of towel dryers in detail.
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If you're a staunch Starbucks enthusiast, remember to get your coffee fix elsewhere tomorrow afternoon!
As reported last month, Starbucks will close its Canadian stores on Monday afternoon to provide staff with implicit racial bias training.
The announcement came about a month after the company publicly apologized for the arrest of two black men who had been refused permission to use the washroom of a Starbucks coffee shop in Philadelphia.
Starbucks stores in the U.S. went through the same racial bias training last week, with over 8,000 cafés closing for a few hours.
Company didn't initially include Canadian stores in closure
As part of its initial apology, Starbucks announced that it would close the U.S. branches of its coffee shops for one afternoon on May 29.
No plans for Canada closures were part of that announcement.
But on May 4, Starbucks Canada president Michael Conway sent a memo that scheduled store closures for part of the afternoon on June 11 for a training session to address implicit bias.
The memo says Starbucks believes "everyone deserves to be treated with respect" and that its employees have the support and clarity they need to create "a culture of warmth."
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I had really hoped to have Si's quilt top done to show you today. I got it all put together on Saturday, laid it on E's bed to size it up, and decided it was not wide enough. That's what happens when I make these things up as I go.
As a result, I can't look at it, or work on it. I need to decide my plan of attack. I suppose you're wanting to see it... Well, I'll go take a quick picture.
I do love the way it looks with the blue and white popping out the colors, and its plenty long, but to just add another row or two of blocks puts seams where I don't want them. The perfectionist tendencies are coming out. After all. its for my kid and he'll (hopefully) have it forever. On the other hand, he's turning two and who cares, right? Maybe its just the disappointment of having to start, again.
And so, I'm doing some garment sewing. For me. The Meringue skirt from Collete. I received the Sewing Handbook for Christmas.
And I've been wanting to enter a sewing survival contest. But its really hard to pick which project to submit. A quilt? Clothing? A purse? I need to decide soon.
Here's hoping all your projects are going better than mine....
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Sew, I've been thinking.....
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- Dee said...
Wow...this was eerie to read today. LOL I did a similar quilt last year for the Robert Kaufman challenge and this quilt and my quilt look like siblings! I love your take on the pattern though and looking through your blog...we also share a "love" of all things Legos!
As for the quilt...can you put a sashing of white around so it's not so long? I love it and hope the creative juices help you finish it up quickly! What a sweet mom for making such a beautiful quilt for her son!
- February 21, 2012 at 12:18 PM
I have experienced the too long problem several times myself. Very frustrating I know. Maybe you could add a wide side border of some kind. Good Luck, I'm sure a solution will come to you if you take a break for a while. Peggy
- February 23, 2012 at 4:03 PM
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GAP member Kathleen Trenchard will be among more than 65 local artists participating in a self-guided tour of local studios . Kathleen's open studio is located at 105 N. Josephine Tobin Dr. in the Woodlawn Lake Neighborhood. An opening reception will be held at Bihl Haus Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg Road on Friday evening from 6 to 9pm.
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text: Healthwatch Hillingdon – Health Champion (Young Healthwatch Hillingdon) Details of the Charity:Share this Healthwatch Hillingdon represents the views of everyone who uses health and social care services in the London Borough of Hillingdon. We make sure that these views are gathered, analysed and acted upon, making services better now and in the future. We exist to make health and social care services work for the people who use them, and we monitor local services to ensure they reflect the needs of the community, and where necessary, use statutory powers to hold those services to account. Everything we say and do is informed by our connections to local people. Our sole focus is on understanding the needs, experiences and concerns of people of all ages who use services and to speak out on their behalf. Details of the Volunteering Opportunity: We want to make sure that children and young people get their chance to have a say so, based on feedback from young people, we are creating Young Healthwatch Hillingdon (YHwH). As a YHwH Health Champion you will: Carry out work as planned by the YHwH Panel, which could include helping to plan and attending events to: gather the views and experiences of local young people about health issues and services through surveys, focus groups and other engagement activities share and promote information about health issues and services with young people raise awareness of the role of YHwH Be a contact point in your school/university for other young people to go to if they have questions of concerns about health Report young people's feedback about health services to the YHwH Panel Act in a way that positively represents YHwH Skills Required: You are ages between 11-25 and live, work or study in the London Borough of Hillingdon You are happy to volunteer some of your time to be a part of the YHwH Health Champion You are interested in the health issues that are important to young people & want to improve health services for the benefit of all young people in Hillingdon. You are a good communicator who can talk to a wide range of people You are a good listener who can listen to and record a wide range of views and represent the views of others You are open minded and believe in equality and diversity. This means you accept people's differences, treat everyone equally and believe that everyone has the right to have their say *DBS check required – provided free of charge by Brunel Volunteers Additional Benefits: Free training Travel expenses reimbursed Hours volunteered will be recorded on your HEAR – which goes on your permanent university record All hours contribute towards your Brunel Volunteers Award, which leads to an invitation to the Brunel Volunteers Award Ceremony Interested? Apply below: Please note '*' denotes mandatory fields Name First name Last name Email Your Brunel Student ID What course are you studying? Mobile / Home Telephone Have you come to study at Brunel from outside the EU NoYes If you are an international student which visa do you hold? I am a home or EU studentTier 4 (General) VisaStudent Visitor Tell us about yourself i.e. your interests, what you can bring to the organisation, why you want to volunteer? Referral Apply Now Consent By submitting this form, you consent to Brunel Volunteers keeping your details. For more information email the form owner. Information regarding the University's data protection policy is available here. Click here to see terms and conditions specific to Brunel Volunteering


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After a very long footy season, it's now time to head out for some serious local fishing action.
October is the time of year where we see a red hot yellowbelly bite. And with the shrimp and yabbies on the move, the fish will be feeding. Match the hatch is the old saying so if you can get your hands on some fresh bait I'm sure you will be in for a ripper session.
The rivers have been very up and down over the past months so it's been tough to lure fish on to hooks! Dirty water is just the start of our problems; fast flowing water moving the boat all over the place is a nightmare.
Another favourite for local anglers is walking the banks of the Broken or Goulburn. However, it is now near impossible due to muddy banks, so take care if you are planning a bank fishing session. The only positive in bad conditions is the fish will be full of feed and bigger and stronger once things clear up. So be patient because these things come in cycles and we will one day see a steady and reasonable clean river system.
I have been enjoying afternoon sessions in our local channels recently. Redfin can't resist a lure if it's presented enough in their area. If you can find any structure in the channels get amongst it. You may lose a few lures but you will get nailed plenty of times to make it worth it.
There are plenty of bridges and drop bars in our local area – these must be fished when you come across them!
The lakes are finally producing fish, but it's not good-sized yellas, it's big redfin.
I have fished the lakes mostly using small lipless crankbaits or small spinnerbaits. Bright colours seem to be doing the trick but you must be aggressive in your retrieve. A slow and steady wind used to be the key at Kialla but don't let them second guess themselves, produce a lure and drag it back quick and you will get smashed.Reads: 1266


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Dr. Lauren is excited to work with the HousePaws team after practicing veterinary medicine In the South Jersey area for over 12 years. She was born, raised in Hammonton, NJ. She can't remember ever wanting to be anything but a veterinarian. Dr. Lauren achieved her goal by obtaining her DVM degree from Iowa State University in 2000 after graduating Cook College, Rutgers University in 1996. She spent summers as a veterinary technician, a pharmacy technician at the vet school and as a vet assistant/farm laborer on a Michigan pig farm. She had the unique opportunity to pursue her passion in alternative medicine and study acupuncture at Beijing University , China during her senior year of veterinary school. Her professional interests include dermatology, behavior and integrative medicine incorporating eastern and western medicine philosophies and therapies.


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Did you know that if you have diabetes, you are 15 times more likely to have a limb amputated due to gangrene.
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Art Trail – June 8th | 6-10 PM
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Fremont, California (EastBayDaily) — Strategy-Keys.com, a leading business strategy & execution journal, announces:
Y-Change, Inc., a top provider of strategy software solutions that translate corporate strategy into aligned objectives, metrics, initiatives, projects, has released their newest release of their application. This current 7.2.5 version utilizes new reporting capabilities that include scorecards and dashboards.
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Today was the day of our free online class with Ken Oliver! We had a blast painting along with Ken using the Harvest Pumpkin Colorburst Kits available at Blitsy right now. I wanted to share the replay with you guys in case you missed it live. There's also a giveaway happening right now . You could win a 12x12 Painting signed by Ken Oliver along with a $25 Blitsy gift card to spend guilt-free on Blitsy!
You'll notice the class is broken into 2 videos. This is because Facebook kicked us off in the middle, so we had to pick up where we got kicked off. I've added both videos below and the giveaway at the bottom of this post. Pick up your kit today and bookmark this post so you can watch the class again when your kit arrives!


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Brotherhood Lunchtime Seminar:
Justice and Climate Transitions
The Research & Policy Centre at the Brotherhood of St Laurence is delighted to invite you to attend our 11 April session of Brotherhood Talks.
Professor Jeremy Moss - Professor of Political Philosophy and Co-Director of the Practical Justice Initiative at UNSW, where he leads the Climate Justice Research Program.
Recipient of the Eureka Prize for Ethics, the Australasia Association of Philosophy Media Prize and several Australian Research Council Grants (recently Ethics, Responsibility and the Carbon Budget, with researchers from Adelaide, ANU and Oxford). He chaired the UNESCO working group on Climate Ethics and Energy Security.
Books include Reassessing Egalitarianism, Climate Change and Social Justice and Climate Change and Justice. Recent publications include: 'The Morality of Divestment', Law and Policy, July 2017; 'Mining and Morality', Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol 51 No 3, 2016; 'Going It Alone: Cities and States for Climate Action', Ethics, Policy and Environment', 12/2/18.
Moderated by Damian Sullivan - Senior Manager Energy, Equity and Climate Change at the Brotherhood of St Laurence.
To avoid dangerous climate change, the world must drastically cut its greenhouse gases emissions. This transition will be costly and disruptive – who benefits and who is burdened will depend on the choices we make and the paths we take. Professor Moss argues for a concrete framework to assess impacts and guide choices. This discussion will explore:
- Why a fair approach to climate transitions is critical
- How justice concerns influence the shape, speed and extent of the transition that will be required
- Key challenges and tensions - domestically and in Australia's relationship with the world
- A framework for assessing the justice of transitions and identifying opportunities for climate transitions to reduce inequalities
Thursday 11 April
12-1, but please stay around for a light lunch and chat immediately afterwards.
The forum is free. A voluntary contribution (up to $5) is most welcome to contribute to lunch costs.
Father Tucker's Room, Brotherhood of St Laurence Head Office, 67 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy.
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A golden treasure in Sveshtari
An all-gold treasure of the ancient Thracians was discovered inside a tomb at the site of Sveshtari, Bulgaria, archaeologists have found a treasure kept in a wooden container. The objects date back to the end of the 4th and beginning of the 3rd century BC. Among the gold artifacts brought to light in the tomb there are also rings - or pins - and small female busts, which probably adorned clothes. The objects were discovered in the largest tomb of the 150 on the site, belonging to a tribe of Thrace, the Geti.
Gold processing in Bulgaria has a long history: in 1972, a 6,000 year old necropolis near Varna was discovered by chance, rich in tombs containing the oldest funerary objects made of precious metal.
More than other objects found in the treasure, a gold ring or brooch clearly shows in its workmanship the influence of the style of the Greeks, with whom the Thracians had close business relations.
The Thracians were ruled by a warrior aristocracy with vast gold deposits at the mouth of the Danube. They established intensive trade relations with their neighbours, including the Scythians in the north and the Greeks in the south, as can be seen from their influence on the manufacture of the objects. "At the height of their civilization the Geta produced wonderful things," says excavator Diana Gergova. "From the first analysis the tomb could perhaps belong to the sovereign Cothelas (or Gudila)".
In China the oldest cheese in the world
The oldest cheese in the world was found on the neck and chest of a few mummies buried in a desert in China. Dating back to 1615 BC, the pieces of organic giollognol material provided direct evidence of the oldest method of fermentation of dairy products. The individuals were probably buried together with the cheese so that they could also taste it in the otherworldly world.
The 3,600-year-old cheese was discovered during archaeological excavations carried out between 2002 and 2004 in the Xiaohe cemetery, in the Taklamakan desert, under the guidance of Idelisi Abuduresule, of the Ürümchi Institute of Archaeology. The burial was discovered in 1934 by the Swedish archaeologist Folke Bergman, and is one of the archaeological sites scattered in the Tarim basin. The cemetery, built on a large natural dune, houses hundreds of mysterious mummies with Caucasian features, buried in wooden coffins similar to upside-down boats. From the analysis of the DNA it would be a Euro-Asian population.
The area, with its saline and ultra-arid sands, extremely hot in summer and cold in winter, has provided the perfect conditions for natural mummification. The coffins were covered with several layers of cowhide, which sealed them from air, water and sand as if they were vacuum-packed. Skin and hair, which had ended up inside the dehydrated bodies, remained almost intact, such as the wool fabrics, plant seeds, grass woven baskets and pieces of organic material around the neck and chest. No ceramic objects associated with the production or consumption of food were found.
Researchers led by Changsui Wang, of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, collected 13 samples of organic yellowish material from 10 tombs and mummies, including the so-called "Beauty of Xiaohe", a mummified woman 3,800 years ago wrapped in a refined shroud and with Caucasian features such as long nose and light hair. The protein analysis carried out in Dresden showed that the organic material was not butter or milk, but a cheese produced with a kind of kefir, a beverage obtained by fermenting milk. The analysis also revealed that Xiaohe cheese had not been made with rennet, an enzyme extracted from the intestines of calves and used since ancient times for curdling.
The cheese was produced by mixing the milk with a mix of Lactobacillus kefiranofaciens and other bacteria and ferments. The technique is still used today to produce kefir cheese, similar to milk flakes, and a lactose-free kefir probiotic drink, a food with a slightly acidic taste first mentioned by Marco Polo in the 13th century. For scholars, this is the first known practice of cheese-making, which persists to this day in an almost unaltered way. The discovery shifts the mysterious history of kefir up to the second millennium BC, making it the oldest known method of dairy fermentation.
Edible by Asian inhabitants intolerant to lactose, the cheese of the mummies was very easy to make. The fermentation of kefir did not require the killing of livestock to obtain the enzyme necessary for curdling. In addition, the milk fat may have been physically removed during cheese production, just like
The Mayan sun god mask - El Zotz, Guatemala
The Temple of the Nocturnal Sun was a red blood lighthouse visible for miles, adorned with giant masks of the Mayan god of the sun as a shark, blood drinker. long lost in the jungle of Guatemala, the temple finally shows its faces to archaeologists, revealing new clues about the rival kingdoms of the Maya. Archaeologists from the University of Texas have unearthed a spectacular series of stucco masks in the Mayan city of El Zotz. Dating from 350 to 400 BC, these masks decorated a temple at the top of the El Diablo pyramid, which commemorates the founder of the city's royal dynasty. The masks are painted bright red and depict gods, including the sun god.
Unlike relatively centralized empires such as the Inca and Aztec, the Mayan civilization was a loose aggregation of city-state. "This has been a growing awareness since 1990, when it became clear that some of the few kingdoms were more important than others," said Stephen Houston, archaeologist at Brown University, who announced the discovery of the new temple.
The sides of the temple are decorated with stucco masks 1.5 meters high that show the face of the sun god changing as he crosses the sky in the course of a day.
A mask represents the shark, probably a reference to the rising Caribbean sun to the east.
The midday sun is described as being ancient with eyes crossed that have drunk blood and a final series of masks resembles local healers, who wake up from their jungle sleeps at dusk
In the Mayan culture the sun is closely associated with new beginnings and the sun god with kingship. So the presence of solar faces on a temple near a royal tomb may mean that the person buried inside was the founder of a dynasty the first king of El Zotz.
It is an example of "how the sun itself would be grafted onto the identity of the kings and the dynasties that follow them".
The scholar Simon Martin of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (who was not involved in the project) said that the masks found in the temple of El Zotz are "absolutely unique" and valuable, because they could help to verify the theories about the Mayan depictions of the sun god.
"We have images of the sun god at different stages ... but we have never found anything that puts it all together.
"We had to assemble [the sequence] from bits and pieces of information and trust only that we did not understand it well. This could be the opportunity to see the whole scene.
The temple is also wonderfully well preserved, added Martin, which makes it a "real gold mine of information.
"We have seen some places where entire buildings have been preserved," he said. "But generally what happens is that a building is destroyed and then built on it, so when you dig into a building you don't find much of their decoration.


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One of the most exotic and intriguing figures in the Old Testament is the legendary Queen of Sheba. Although her visit to the court of King Solomon is only mentioned briefly in the Books of Kings and Chronicles,1 her stature in the Bible, and her subsequent impact on the imagination of writers and artists down through the ages, has been immense.
'And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon & she came to test him with hard questions. And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bare spices, and very much gold, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. And Solomon told her all her questions: there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told her not.'2
The detailed description of the Queen's treasures declares her to be a rich and powerful ruler, while her immediate testing of the King's wisdom with 'hard questions' reveals that she considers herself his equal in knowledge as well as wealth. Marina Warner has observed that it is very unusual for a woman in the Judeo-Christian tradition to be accorded a role of such authority3-which, in turn, is reinforced by Solomon's response to her questions. For their meeting becomes a mutual exchange of ideas and beliefs: she told him 'all that was in her heart', while he trusts her with everything he knows and understands.
The truth behind this fabled meeting, or more accurately, the extent to which historical evidence supports the existence of a Queen of Sheba, is one of the important subjects addressed by a current exhibition at the British Museum.4 A range of artefacts and inscriptions, uncovered during archaeological excavations in Yemen over the past several decades, has shed new light on the pre-Islamic civilisation of Southern Arabia. In particular, the exhibition examines the ancient kingdom of Saba', a major trading centre specialising in gold, precious stones and aromatic substances, that flourished during the eighth century BC and possibly much earlier. Certainly the richness of Sabaean culture uncovered by these excavations accords with the Biblical record of the Queen of Sheba's great wealth and sophistication.
For modern audiences, it is the legend of the Queen herself rather than the historical facts of the Sabaean kingdom that holds the greatest appeal. Over the centuries, the evocative but brief Old Testament story has undergone a series of embellishments by Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Ethiopian writers. The exhibition conveys these colourful traditions by displaying an array of works of art from Europe, the Middle East and Africa, dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
For instance, something of the magic and exoticism of the Qur'anic (Koranic) tradition is reflected in the beautiful sixteenth-century tinted drawing from Iran, which shows an elegantly reclining Bilqis (as the Queen of Sheba is called in Islam) communing with the hoopoe bird. The bird has been sent by Solomon, who in the Qur'an is a great king and prophet of God, with wizard-like powers. Having heard of a fabulously rich but pagan queen in the south, Solomon dispatched the bird with a message demanding 'In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate; do not act proudly against me, but come to me in humble submission'.5 The Queen duly visits Solomon in his crystal palace, and converts to Islam.
A far more earthy version of the story is provided by the Ethiopian tradition, in which the Queen of Sheba visits Solomon in Jerusalem and later gives birth to their son. This child, Menelik, goes on to found the dynasty from which the Ethiopian royal family today claims descent. The subject is a favourite theme in Ethiopian popular painting, which depicts the protagonists in an extended 'comic-strip' narrative. The example in the exhibition includes a vivid image of Solomon and Sheba in bed together.
The Judeo-Christian tradition acknowledges the possibility of a passionate union between Solomon and Sheba. The Biblical account concludes with the words: 'And King Solomon gave unto the Queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal bounty', suggesting that the Queen's desires might extend beyond mere worldly goods. During the Renaissance, the story was often used to decorate wedding chests or cassoni, with the Queen's gifts taking on the guise of a dowry.6
Alternatively, the emphasis upon the Queen of Sheba's gifts could be used to allude to her role as a symbolic precursor of the 'Three Magi' in the New Testament. As St Luke explained in his gospel: 'the Queen of the South & came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.'7 Certainly the parallels between the two stories are clear: in each, pagans from a distant land come and receive knowledge of the True faith – bearing with them riches and incense, such as gold, precious stones, frankincense and myrrh.
Given this interpretation, it is not surprising to find that artists of the High Renaissance and Baroque increasingly exploited the subject's potential for splendid courtly display. Thus, in a painting such as Lambert Sustris's The Queen of Sheba before King Solomon (c. 1550-70), the foreground of the composition is filled by the queen's richly-laden retinue, while the rest of the composition is dominated by the extravagant architecture of Solomon's Temple and palace. Exotic clothing and accessories also became commonplace, although the Queen of Sheba was almost always portrayed as a European monarch, rather than an African or Arab. For example, in Dirck Volkertsz Coornhert's etching after Maarten van Heemskerck's Solomon and the Queen of Sheba (1549), only the camels in the Queen's caravan give any hint of her non-Western origin.
This convention did not really alter until the nineteenth century, when a new interest in historicism focused attention on 'authentic' costumes, racial types and architectural settings. Probably the most famous example of this approach is the painting in the Art Gallery of New South Wales by Sir Edward Poynter, entitled The Visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon (1890). One of the largest and most elaborate depictions of the subject ever produced, the picture is represented in the British Museum exhibition by a watercolour study. Although on a smaller scale, the watercolour reproduces the key features of Poynter's oil painting: the meeting takes place within Solomon's sumptuous reception hall, with the Queen ascending the famous Lion throne. The whole scene is depicted with a wealth of scholarly detail, for Poynter has drawn upon recent archaeological discoveries in Assyria and Iran to 'flesh out' the architectural features of Solomon's court. Thus, the King's canopied dais is inspired by the elaborate Assyrian thrones in ancient reliefs from Nineveh, which were readily available to the artist in the British Museum.
Apart from the lavish archaeological setting, Poynter's version of the story is noteworthy for its presentation of the Queen of Sheba as a non-European. Indeed, one critic of the day described her as 'a combination of & an Egyptian and an Indian Queen'.8 Her opulent appearance was probably influenced by the contemporary French Romantic movement, for books such as G←rard de Nerval's Voyage en Orient (1851), Flaubert's Tentation de Saint Antoine (1856-7, 1874) and Gounod's opera, La Reine de Saba (1862) had transformed the biblical queen into an oriental femme fatale. Poynter had studied in Paris in the 1850s and would have been well aware of this Romantic Orientalist interpretation.
The mixture of archaeology and exoticism in Poynter's painting created quite an impression, and provided fertile source material for later theatrical visualisations of the Queen of Sheba, including various circus extravaganzas by Barnum and Bailey and the Ringling Brothers. The latter staged a lavish 'spectacle' of Solomon and Queen of Sheba in America in 1915 which included '300 dancing girls, 735 horses, 400 singers and a 90-piece orchestra'. 9 But it was Hollywood cinema that really ensured that the nineteenth century vision of the Queen of Sheba was kept alive. Film director, King Vidor's 1959 production of Solomon and Sheba incorporated ancient Assyrian and Persian motifs into the elaborate costumes and sets. A strong element of theatrical archaeology was now an essential part of any Hollywood Biblical 'epic'. But the choice of the Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida for the role of 'Sheba' showed Hollywood reverting to an earlier, more conventional European concept of the Queen. Lollobrigida might be exotic but she would never be mistaken for an Arab or Ethiopian. Indeed, it was only in 1995, with the American television film Solomon and Sheba that the non-Western origins of the Biblical Queen were finally acknowledged by casting the African-American Halle Berry in the title role.
1 Kings 10: 1-13. This passage in the First Book of Kings is repeated almost verbatim in the Second Book of Chronicles (2 Chronicles 9: 1-12).
2 1 Kings 10: 1-3.
3 M. Warner, 'In and Out of the Fold: Wisdom, Danger and Glamour in the Tale of the Queen of Sheba', in C. Buchmann and C. Spiegel (eds.), Out of the Garden: Women Writers on the Bible, New York, 1994, pp. 152-53.
4 Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen, British Museum, 9 June-13 October 2002.
5 From 'The Ant': Surah xxvii: 15-44.
6 Warner op. cit., 1994, p. 154.
7 Luke 11: 31.
8 The Times, 17 May 1890, p. 17.
9 L. Llewellyn-Jones, 'The Queen of Sheba in Western Popular Culture 1850-2000', in Queen of Sheba: Treasures from Ancient Yemen, British Museum Press, London 2002, p. 17.


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IAF Releases Human Services 2035 Report
The Institute for Alternative Futures (IAF) and The Kresge Foundation release a new publication, Human Services and Human Progress 2035, that explores what human progress, human need and human services will be in the United States in 2035.
The human services sector includes over 100,000 organizations and provides $200 billion in services. Yet it faces significant uncertainty about its operations, funding, value, and role. To explore these issues and their implications for the sector, The Kresge Foundation and IAF partnered with thought leaders to develop scenarios describing expectable, challenging, and visionary futures of human services in the U.S.
The Human Progress and Human Services 2035 scenarios consider the macro trends in the economy, employment, technology, health, and the environment, as well as the driving forces shaping human service both in general and in key areas, e.g., aging, behavioral health, children and family, disability, food and nutrition, housing and income supports.
Scenarios offer different stories describing how the future may unfold, which can be used to bound uncertainty into a limited number of paths. They reveal what decisions and strategies made today will help the sector achieve a preferred future. For human progress and human services these include:
- Scenario 1: Reductions and Rebounds explores the expectable or most likely for human services, though not necessarily preferred.
- Scenario 2: Navigating Unending Challenges explores some of the issues and problems the nation and human services might face.
- Scenario 3: Building Human Potential explores a visionary future changing hearts and mind with a guaranteed basic income, increased equity, greater self-sufficiency, and integrated human serving supports.
- Scenario 4: Thriving Communities explores a visionary future changing hearts and mind with a living wage, increased equity, greater self-sufficiency, and integrated human serving supports.
In addition to developing national human service scenarios, IAF has worked with the human services community in several states (Mississippi and Connecticut), counties (Montgomery, MD; San Diego, CA; Jefferson, CO), and cities (Memphis, TN; San Antonio, TX; and Richmond, VA) to develop 2035 scenarios for their specific places and organizations. Three additional communities will be identified in the fall 2018.
Other local, state, and national leaders may use the scenarios to consider uncertainties, trends, and forces that will shape human services and their organizations.
The national Human Progress and Human Services 2035 scenarios and recommendations as well as those from the eight state and local efforts are available at https://altfutures.org/projects/human-progress-and-human-services-2035 and https://kresge.org/human-services-2035.
The Kresge Foundation is a $3.6 billion private, national foundation that works to expand opportunities in America's cities. The Human Services Program is committed to accelerating social and economic mobility with two primary focus areas: next generation human services providers and place-based opportunity ecosystems. To support these focus areas, the Human Services Program is making cross-cutting investments to advance a robust Human Services Sector and aligned policy solutions, including ones that address racial equity, health and human services integration, workforce opportunities, and outcomes-based contracting. For more information on Kresge's programs, strategic objectives and focus areas, visit www.kresge.org.
The Institute for Alternative Futures is a nonprofit research and educational organization that helps communities and organizations more wisely understand and better create the futures they prefer. Since 1977, IAF has been a pioneer in the use of futures methods, such as forecasts, scenarios, and vision, in health and health care, energy, transportation, education, and business. These human services scenarios build on IAF's previous work in health and health equity, such as Primary Care 2025, Vulnerability 2030, Public Health 2030, and Health and Health Care 2032. For more information, visit www.altfutures.org.


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text: John M. Taylor - November 03, 2010 The Golden Goose A Memorable Anniversary For This WaterFower. By John M. Taylor Laying amongst a pile of family photos was a Christmas letter from 1956; one of those that people enclose with their holiday cards that details their family's highs and lows of the past year. According to this one it was the year I became an Eagle Scout, and when, the day after Thanksgiving, I shot my first goose.World Champion goose caller and guide Sean Mann calling and flagging geese near Wye Landing, Maryland.Anniversary EditionIt all came back in a rush. Dinner with my elderly great aunt and uncle was over and my dad and I were heading across Southern Illinois into goose country. Lights twinkled from farm houses as we turned from the hard road onto gravel south of Miller City, Illinois. Goose hunters in 1956 hunted at "Cairo," (pronounced Kay-Ro, the other in Egypt is pronounced Kai-Ro) but the hunting was really 15 miles northwest of Cairo, Illinois, around Olive Branch and Miller City. Known in those days as the "Goose Capital of the World," the hunting was in the fields surrounding the Horseshoe Lake refuge. Horseshoe Lake was formed when the Mississippi River was in its infancy, and is an old ox-bow that was cut off as the river shifted its channel a mile-and-a-half to the west. In the 1920s, the Illinois Department of Conservation purchased the island in the middle and most of the lake, 3,500 acres in all. Improvements were added enabling the lake to hold water year 'round, and the island put into grain crops.Historically, Canada geese had wintered on the sand bars and islands in the river, but soon began concentrating on Horseshoe Lake because of the calm water and plentiful food: But there was a down side. Increasingly hunters were taking large numbers of geese, and it all came to a head in the mid 1940s when the goose season was closed following only five days of hunting. In those five days more than 5,000 geese were bagged, causing the closure of the season. The following year the entire Mississippi flyway was closed to goose hunting, and in 1947 President Truman and the Governor of Illinois proclaimed the 18,000 acres surrounding the lake closed to hunting. By 1956, some 170,000 geese were in Southern Illinois. We arrived in darkness at the home of John Marlin, whose "club" we would hunt the next two days. He quickly introduced us to Bud Dillman, who guided for Marlin and who offered rooms and breakfast to goose hunters. As a growing lad I recall lacing into a hearty plate of home-made sausage, and then wondered at my thirst the whole day.Heavily laden clouds covered the moon, making it nearly pitch dark when we alighted from a tractor-borne wagon. Headlamps in those days were for miners, and hunters traveled light with gun and shells; a thermos of hot chocolate or coffee was a sometimes thing, normally becoming a casualty when the glass liner broke at the slightest jolt. Bill Collins, who introduced himself as our guide, had directed us from the wagon and forward across a harvested corn field. Through the pre-dawn gloom muted by the gray clouds, we quickly sighted some silhouette decoys and soon Collins kicked the corn stalks from the top of our pit. Collins had served in the Army during the second World War, and as we awaited shooting time, he described his near fatal wounding in the Battle of the Bulge: Such were the men who raised the likes of me in the post-war years. The night before I had shown my wooden goose call, a Cajun, to Bud Dillman, who simply said, "We don't use those . . . we call by mouth," which he followed with a throaty demonstration. I took my call, but it stayed put in my canvas hunting coat as Collins greeted the first geese of the day. His repertoire of sounds were impressive.Swarms of Canadas.As if engraved on my brain, I still hear Collins say, "He's right behind us." I arose and to this day can see that old single goose hanging on outstretched wings barely 10 feet off the ground. It was really my dad's shot, but the impetuousness of youth had my 16 gauge Model 12 to my shoulder in an instant and down came my goose. Nearly to the day he died at nearly 94, he reminded me that I shot very close to his right ear, and it rang for a couple of weeks. It really was his shot, but in the kind way he conducted his life, he was proud as any parent at my feat. For the uninitiated, it was one of those perfect shots where my eye and total concentration were on the bird with no thought of the gun. Only with age and knowledge do we start thinking about our shooting, and marksmanship plummets.Over the two days we hunted, my goose was our only trophy. As the darkness began to envelope the land on that Friday, we dropped our goose to be picked, cleaned and shipped home in dry ice via Railway Express. In a cabin that seemed to creak and sway with our footsteps, and lighted by a single kerosene lamp, sat an elderly black woman in a rocking chair. In her lap, breast up, lay a plump goose that she was picking, one handful of down at a time. No mechanized poultry picking machine, just the practiced pull and drop. Surrounding her were what seemed dozens of geese to be picked. It was a Dickensonian scene of Americana.Fast forward through hunts, college, moves, jobs, 21 years service in the Army and a second career as a writer, and I found myself laying in harvested Alberta pea field nestled in a layout blind. Next to me was Sean Mann. I began my writing career telling yarns about duck and goose calls, and when Sean began making his trademark Eastern Shoremann goose call, we met and became fast friends. He went on to become a three-time world champion caller, a champion of champions and collected enough trophies to sink a ship. For 15 years we guided for Bill Clark near Chestertown, Maryland. With the moratorium of goose hunting on the Maryland's Eastern Shore, Mann turned to Canada where he opened a guide service. During his first year or so he invited me to join him for a week to enjoy the spectacular hunting in Alberta. Over the years, it has become a tradition to join him on the prairies.So it was that in early September 2006, laying in a pea field, I mentioned that the day after Thanksgiving this year I would celebrate the golden anniversary of taking my very first goose. "We've got to really celebrate that!" Mann explained. I agreed, and hoped it would come true.The Monday before Thanksgiving I received an email from Mann. How things have changed. I recall the drama of my dad's long-distance call to confirm our reservation at Marlin's asking if I was ready to go on Friday. The answer was an emphatic yes! Wye Landing is a public boat ramp on the Wye River that flows into Chesapeake Bay. Bordering the river is a farm Mann leases. "We don't really have any geese nearby, and most of them come over high," Mann said. "For whatever reason, they like this place, and while we don't get every flock, we have enough come down to make for good shooting," Mann said as we walked the 200 yards to the pit.Reminiscent of my first goose hunt, we used nothing but silhouettes. "They look good to the geese, and there is never a problem of frost or moisture on them," Mann said. How different these Real Geese silhouettes looked compared to the decoys of my baptism. Southern Illinois silhouettes were all of one pattern, heads upright like a flock that had just been frightened out of their skin, and ready to take flight. "You know the drill," Mann said, referring to my many hunts with him in Alberta as I watched his philosophy of decoy setting mature. He uses what he calls a lazy X that runs legs of Real Geese silhouettes out from the pit or blinds giving the geese plenty of places to land, and that doesn't require wholesale change should the wind shift. "It's a very early Eastern Shore rig that Bunky Ewing, who I started guiding for when I was in high school, showed me. It works as well today as it did then," Mann said.The sun was well up when a flight of six geese came down the river. Mann's siren song and judicious use of his black flag soon had them circling, then committing. "There they are," Mann said, "Pick one!" I chose a quartering gander and dropped him with a single load of 3-inch Kent's Tungsten Matrix ones. As luck would have it, my Winchester Model 12 Heavy Duck gun was made about the same time as the 16-gauge Model 12 I used 50 years ago near Horseshoe Lake. The 16 is long gone in a trade, but both were of the early 1950 vintage. The old Heavy Duck gun was made in 1954, and that shotgun and the Browning Auto-5 were the guns of choice of Southern Illinois guides. With a solid, matte rib and loaded with Kent's Tungsten Matrix or bismuth, it's one of my favorite waterfowl guns. The full-choke measures .036, and it will drop anything I center in the tight pattern.Seldom does one have the opportunity to enjoy a morning solely with a friend. No other hunters, no paying customers who expect a limit, just Sean and I talked about hunting, calling, our families and the recent passing of our fathers who showed us the joys of hunting. Yes, a second small flock dropped into the decoys, and I took my legal two-goose limit. We headed home by 10 a.m., as the day warmed and the geese settled into their mid-day slumber.ConclusionHunting is more than just a limit, more than how many birds can I kill, it is a storehouse of memories, those of father teaching child, the child learning the skills of calling and setting decoys, and in maturity learning that enjoying the experience is the true reward. I treasure the times I hunted with my father, and equally treasure times with the likes of Sean Mann and the other great guides and personalities I've been privileged to know and call friends. Two friends sharing a special time, a special hunt and bagging that special 50th anniversary golden goose, it just isn't any better. GET THE NEWSLETTER Join the List and Never Miss a Thing. Sign Me Up


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Kangana Ranaut starrer Manikarnika is raking in moolah as the film is earning big at the box office. The movie opened up with Rs 8.75 crore and now inching towards to earn Rs 50 crore. The film has earned Rs 18.10 crore on Saturday, Rs 15.70 crore on Sunday and Rs 5.10 crore on Monday. Now the films total collection stands with Rs 47.65 crore.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted its latest figures "#Manikarnika is decent on crucial Mon. Decline on Day 4 [vis-à-vis Day 1]: 41.71%… North circuits continue to lead… Week 1 should be close to ₹ 60 cr [as per trends]… Fri 8.75 cr, Sat 18.10 cr, Sun 15.70 cr, Mon 5.10 cr. Total: ₹ 47.65 cr. India biz. #Hindi#Tamil#Telugu"
Read More: Thackeray-Manikarnika box office collection Day 1: Any guesses which film has won the battle?
However, the movie was released alongside with Nawazuddin Siddiqi's Thackeray based on the life of late Shiv Sena supremo Bal Thackeray. The film is receiving good reviews from the critics and Nawazuddin Siddiqi is winning his fans heart with an outstanding skills of playing Bal Thackeray.
Nawazuddin Siddiqi's Thackeray is leading the box office in Marathi circuit, thanks to the powerful image of Politician Bal Thackeray. But in the other parts of the country, it has to struggle a lot to pull out the audience in cinema halls. According to early estimates, Nawazuddin Siddiqi's Thackeray has earned around Rs 3 crore on day 4.
Trade analyst Taran Adarsh tweeted its collection "#Thackeray has a healthy weekend… #Marathi version is dominating with superb biz, while #Hindi version is best in #Maharashtra… Fri 6 cr, Sat 10 cr, Sun 6.90 cr. Total: ₹ 22.90 cr. India biz. #Hindi #Marathi"
While praising Nawazudding Siddiqi for his role as a Thackeray, filmmaker Shoojit Sircar called him "one of our finest actors." he also tweeted on twitter "Film Thackeray portrays how an Artist becomes a powerful political leader. The film is bold and powerful. @Nawazuddin_S one of our finest actors roars like a tiger.. Congratulations to @rautsanjay61 and @RKpanday1977."
Both movie depends on the power of word of mouth as the movie chronicles the life of Rani Lakshmi Bai and the battle she fought with the britishers is showing its potential especially in Northern belt including Delhi, UP, Punjab and Rajasthan. However, despite being working day Manikarnika is performing exceptionally at box office.
Also Read: Box Office: Big Shock to Kangana Ranaut! Tamilrockers leaked the film Manikarnika online.


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People will march for drug awareness Saturday in Simi
People will march in a Simi Valley rally Saturday to raise awareness about opioid and other drug abuse.
The sixth annual event is expected to attract community leaders and is hosted by Not One More, the group formed in Simi Valley by parents of people who died of heroin abuse. The group now has chapters ranging from Pennsylvania to Alabama.
The event begins at the corner of First Street and Los Angeles Avenue at 9 a.m. Saturday and runs to noon. Environmentally-safe balloons will be released in the memory of people who died of drug addiction.
Read more: Local health officials sound alarm on fentanyl
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ON US??? Say it ain't so, DIESEL. Say it ain't so.
SADLY, it is so. Young Diesel's been too busy to favor us with a post for the past few weeks, yet he somehow managed to scratch out a moderately amusing paragraph OVER HERE. Bastard. Good thing we didn't see that last week when we were A) scrambling for something to put up here, B) heading up to Boston with TEH PENGUIN, even as we worried about what we were about to put up here, and/or C) worrying while we were walking the Freedom Trail in 153 degree heat, because we wrote something really pathetic and feared no one would leave a comment, or even worse, bother to come back when we eventually had something better to offer (LAMPSHA'S Saturday Spins notwithstanding, because, let's face it, those are always fabulous. And, of course, CRUMMYJOEL'S hilarious weekly offerings have been anything but crummy, and continue to get more hilarious with each passing week. But, as we're wont to do when thinking about our faithful and/or talented contributors, we digress*).
ONCE we wiped the sweat from all that worry and/or heat off our furrowed brow, we managed to have a great time in Boston (until we got sick, that is), but that's beside the point. The point, which is as obvious as the fakey smile on our face, (just above our fevered brow), is that Diesel cheated on us, and we're beside ourselves with dismay. Fortunately, it's now August, and "dis" May has come and gone, and we're moving on with our lives, or, at the very least, dis post. More or less. (mostly less)
WHAT can we say? We're buying his stupid shirts. We're pimping his stupid book. Heck, we were so desperate to get him back, we even offered to babysit for free should he ever decide to take his beautiful (and, we suspect, faithful) wife on a proper trip. What the hell does a blog have to do to win back the other man in it's life? We'll tell you what: nothing. That's right, we're not gonna do anything. Let him have his flings. Let him dazzle other blogs with his wit and/or weirdness. We'll wait. He'll come back, eventually. They always do.
*Speaking of "talented and/or faithful" — not to mention fabulous — contributors, we should note that the delicious and/or funkified CATTY YUMMY MUMMY naturally gets a "posting pass", thanks to her recent cross-continental move. That said, we highly suggest watching her most recent videos, because they are nothing short of brilliant. And we're certain the precocious and/or highly acclaimed author of steamy novels, THE LITTLE BLUE PILL, will see fit to favor us with another of her clever/hilarious sex-related posts any day now, as soon as she can pry her head out of the clouds. That said, who can blame her for being up there in the first place, after receiving such a fabulous review? (well done, girlfriend, well done!)
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Who the hell does he think he is-that Diesel-, a wife and family, a book out, t-shirts…humor blog and a house to build…and he calls himself busy. Well slap me silly!
Someone should do something about that!
I hope you are feeling better, less nasal and/or throaty and please tell Andy I can´t get to the bycicle. The two mean guys won´t let me through to Eterna city!!! *weeps*
The audacity of some people…did he not sign the Central Snark Oath of Allegiance? Thanks for pimping my post, pathetic though it may be.
See I told you we should have made that punk sign an exclusivity deal! Ah, the more exposure – the better. But he'd better come up with something for TheSnark to make up for that.
I hope you're feeling better. I was home myself feeling a bit buggy and thought of calling…couldn't muster the energy, but I *did* think to call.
Have a wonderful day. Why is the Penguin weeping? There, there.
I told you… it meant nothing. NOTHING!
hehe you sound like the Republicans when they lose an election. "Oh they'll be back" you snicker as you watch movies and eat pork rinds.
Glad to see you enjoyed Boston, I'm a local and it is a nice city but the humidity is as bad as Florida. This actually was a kinda cool summer too, you just trekked up during the one week we had a heat wave hehe.
How did you like the drivers? Don't they suck ass?
Maybe counselling is in order.
Oooh! What a faboo post to come home to (yes, come home to… I had a 6:30 am class today you see!)!!! You have me, as always, in stitches and laughing my patootie off amiga mia… which has my kids baffled as to why Mummy, who normally looks serious at the computer, is laughing away like a hysterical hyena! Oy!
As for Diesel, tsk, tsk… It meant nothing? THAT'S WHAT THEY ALL SAY!!! *sob*
And oooweeee! A faboo mention for moi? Gracias muchly my dearest Nevalicious Snuppy de mi corazón who sees me all too sweetly but who am I to complain? Bring it on I say! 😉
Well, off I go for my own yoga practice whilst I cater to the lil' bohemians first (translation: turn the TV on as a babysitter so I can buy me some time for yoga as their dad is passed out in bed due to a bad night with the boy whom he took care of at night, as he always does, so I could awaken bright and early… poor man and bad me but oh well! Desperate times call for, um, the TV!)… and with that and endless besos,
yeah, you'd betta know the drill!
BoheMia OUT!
Just think once the book release has happened we can have anniversary editions! 🙂
Penguin: i know! yeesh, you'd think he had something really important to do, what with all that whining he does in the privacy of my own imagination. 😉
oh, and i'm feeling better (but not great). thanks for asking (you didn't get sick, did you??). also, Andy says "hang on PokéMonika"… he'll be by in a bit to offer up a few helpful tips. not sure how "helpful" he'll be, considering he's stuck, himself, but that's beside the point. the point, for he had one before launching into a screaming match with Brain Age, is that he thinks might be able to help.
BoBo: pathetic? YOU? begging your pardon, dearest husband, but that post of yours is hilarious. hey…. don't suppose you've got another one up that Brooks Brothers sleeve of yours, do ya? (just sayin' i could use a little help…) 🙄
Lampsha: *sniffs* i shoulda listened to you, NBFF! damn me and my trusting nature, anyway. SOOOOOO sorry you weren't feeling well, either, and SOOOOOOOO hopeful it's not because you were exposed to the unfortunate illness that recently befell me. yikes! (i told you not to hug me, missy!) 😳
Diesel: i'll believe that when i see a new post up, HERE. 😐
Chris: YOU'RE in Boston?? who knew?? we (me 'n BoBo) lived up there for 3 years back in the mid-90's (ish). we LOVELOVELOVE Boston. that said, not ONCE did we have to suffer through a summer with temps as bad as the ones teh penguin and i were subjected to last week. oy. (don't go comparing me to Republicans bub. not if you know what's good for you. heh) 😕
logo™: why do i think "counseling" with the likes of Diesel would result in someone (who's NOT me) gettin' tossed into a rubber room?? 🙄
Catty Yummy BoheMian Mummy: you, my dearest amiga, are, as always, a breath of fresh air! just knowing you're living on the same continent (and within phoning distance) is enough to make a sick girl smile. now…go do that voodoo and/or yoga that you do so well! i linked to your wonderful post because i think it's time for folks to know you're getting back into the "bloggy game"… one or two (or three) videos at a time. 🙂
CJ: don't go giving that guy any ideas. bad enough we've been reduced to pimping his money-making efforts in order to get a little well-deserved attention, not sure i want to shell out an additional $24.95 for the "uncensored" version of his book. wait… come to think of it, that might be a pretty darn good read. 😉
LBP: "Precocious" is most definitely a compliment, young lady. and represents behavior FAR more adventurous than sitting around in a pretty dress looking "precious". trust me. that said, you're pretty damn "precious", too. but in a precocious fashion that makes you, um, downright fucking adorable. (how's that?) 😎
Oh, how could he?? You must be so upset! It used to be such a lovefest around here…
I've noticed his comments have been fewer and farther between lately too. As if he something better to do than comment on 150 other people's blogs and write for 4 of his own. Geez.
For years we have carried you Diesel, nurtured your blog, stood by you, and now in our time of need you desert us?
*Diesel enters the comment section*
Diesel: "See those footprints in the sand? Notice the times there are only one set of them?"
Me: "Are you trying to say that you carried me?"
D: "No, I am trying to say the sand was hot and I didn't have shoes that day."
LOL @ Chris C….
Man, it's all about "what have you done for me lately?" around here, isn't it?
…says the guy who begged off of writing his humor-blogs reviews this week and caJOELed some sucker into doing them for him.
Claire: just when you think you know someone… 🙄
Jeff: i fear i'm a bit guilty of that "low comment" thing too. but at least i have an excuse. that is, if you consider a horrible/awful/terrible/no good/very bad cold a "good excuse", and i, for one, do. 😉
Chris: hahahahaha. 😎
Diesel: so? what have you done for us, lately? besides make us laugh, i mean? 🙄
CrummyJoel: caJOELed?? HAHAHAHAHA. good one. 🙂
by the way: in case no one's noticed, today's post is brought to you by the words:
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buy Diesel's book.
carry on.
For the record, I wrote that post like 3 weeks earlier, and he just happened to use it the day that I told you I had nothin'. Ironic, eh? Like rain on your wedding day. Or something.
or a free ride when you've already paid. Ironic.
My first stop after a month on vacation and what do I discover – Diesel is cheating on the Snark! Diesel has a book out! I turn my back for a minute (ok, a month) and the whole thing just gets out of hand, jeez, what's an Adjutant Inspector to do?


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HCM CITY — The number of passengers taking flights at Tân Sơn Nhất International Airport in HCM City rose to a record 124,000 in a day, according to Nguyễn Nam Tiến, deputy director of the airport.
The number on Sunday set a record compared to previous years, Tiến spoke on Tuesday at a meeting with the inspection team of the Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam.
As many as 827 flights were recorded at the airport on Sunday, while 794 were recorded on the peak day of 2017, Tiến added.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam said the number of passengers was expected to increase by 20 per cent this year to more than 4.1 million on a total of 26,288 flights.
More X-ray machines, check-in counters and an additional luggage belt as well as aerobridges leading from the terminal to departure gates had been set up to serve passengers, he said.
A team had been established to solve problems at the airport, he added.
In the last several days, there were unexpected problems that delayed flights for 30 minutes to one hour. Several flights were delayed for four hours.
A representative of Vietjet Aviation Joint Stock Company said that 6,609 flights had been scheduled during this Tết, an increase of 978 compared to the same period last year.
The total number of passengers on these flights were expected to total nearly 1.4 million, up by 25 per cent compared to the same period last year.
The routes seeing an increase in flights were from: HCM City - Hải Phòng City, Thanh Hóa Province, Thừa Thiên-Huế Province, Quảng Nam Province's Chu Lai airport, Quy Nhơn city in Bình Định Province, Khánh Hòa Province's Cam Ranh City and Kiên Giang Province's Phú Quốc; and Hà Nội - Cần Thơ.
Forty per cent of the total number of passengers on Vietjet flights have checked in online.
Trần Doãn Mậu, director of Southern Airports Authority, said airline companies had encouraged customers to check in online.
Võ Huy Cường of Civil Aviation Authority of Việt Nam instructed companies to continue asking passengers to check in online to reduce congestion at ticket counters.
"If flights are delayed, the companies should have representatives to speak to passengers," he said.
To prevent traffic jams, the airport authority should fine individuals parking more than the regulated time of 3 minutes at pick-up and drop-off areas, Cường added. – VNS