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Fed's Kocherlakota Is OK With Fed Offering Rate Guidance
A key U.S. central bank official said he is comfortable with the idea of the central bank predicting very low rates for some time to come, although he added he would prefer a shorter-term view than the one now officially held by the central bank.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Narayana Kocherlakota told an audience in Williston, N.D., Thursday the Fed's decision to offer a conditional pledge to keep rates very low until at least late 2014 is "a reasonable attempt" to provide guidance.
But Mr. Kocherlakota called any such action by the Fed a "forecast" and not a commitment. He also said had it been entirely up to him, "I would not have chosen to put that date as far out."
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Inviting the audience to work with musicians, dancers and performance artists in intimate, one-on-one shows, Tara Rynders, creator of You & Me, has seen great success across Colorado since she started her site-specific interactive perforcmances in 2011. The dancer has also taken her show on the road with events in California, Montana, Massachusetts and Nevada, and now Rynders has set her sights on Europe, where she wants to create a whole new series.
See also: Watch a live stream artist Tara Rynders' You & Me in-house exhibition
With the help of a new Kickstarter campaign, Rynders hopes to head to Europe in the fall, connecting with new artists and audiences in Iceland, Finland, Austria, Germany and Ireland.
Because each You & Me performance is exclusive to its location, Rynders and her crew of four American artists have big plans for the tour.
"We are all meeting in Iceland and will work with five to ten local artists there to create You & Me on a farm in the countryside, as well as in a home in Reykjavik," says Rynders of the first international performance. "From there, we will travel to Finland where we'll meet with two more artists -- Mirva Makinen, a dancer, and Kaisa Kuokka, an artist -- working with them and five other Finnish-based artists to create You & Me in this location." Similar plans are in the works for the other countries on the tour.
As with the American versions, the European You & Me will connect with a limited audience, chosen ahead of each performance. These shows -- created with each individual community in mind -- will bring guests into a pre-created installation or stage, utilizing the specific city and its landscape for the interactive events.
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Kasaii wrote:Argh.
After a bit of testing, the problem seems to be that I can only save the fancomic from DeviantArt as a 1x1 file. I can't for the life of me figure out why, and I didn't notice when I uploaded originally because I was doing it in a hurry via holiday.
Kris, if you email me the fancomic I will upload it properly in the archives and post a mainpage link to it. Sorry!
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Travels with Switzer: Eight unforgettable days in the Philippines, Part 1[wptouch target="mobile"]
South Cebu
This year Free Energy Coop hosted the 4th annual Visayan Longboard Trilogy or "VLT". From my eye opening experience last year, I knew an adventure was in store as this series of events is unlike any skate trip in the world. The fast paced island hopping, mango eating, hammock sleeping, white sandy beach, blue ocean swimming, waterfall jumping adventure is something special and full of energy!
Starting off with the structure, the skate trip is ten days long with three races on two different islands in small towns and rural areas. The tour is the largest gathering of Filipinos from all regions of the Philippines, and now has grown to attract riders from Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, three this year from Sweden, and a Canuck. This counts to roughly 120 young energetic competitors.
Oslob Freeride Group
The weather is considerably hot, sleeping in hammocks is the standard way of lightweight camping, and motorcycles are the preferred mode of transportation. You'll be surprised to find out how overwhelmingly kind and hospitable the people are. Being accompanied by a local, even the most deprived areas still feel safe. Tasty home-cooked cultural meals are available all over with sweet breads being your substitute in the mornings and late nights. The best yellow mangoes in the world are from Cebu, which make pit stops all the more pleasing. Seafood is extremely fresh with shrimp, octopus, oysters, squid and many types of fish. And the most obvious thing a visitor welcomes is that everything is very inexpensive. For example in rural areas you can eat a good meal for $2, an hour long massage for $7, or a flight to another island for $40!
Street Food
For a quick history and geography lesson, the Philippines has been invaded by the Spanish, Americans and Japanese, so in time it has created a harmonious mix of cultures giving the people diverse faces. Spanish has been a large influence to the many different languages considering the country consists of 7107 islands. Fortunate for travellers, the second language is English.
Spanish Memorial
For such short people you'll find it humorous that the Americans established basketball as one of the most common sports with small and large stadiums in every town. Everyone has a basketball net no matter how make-shift.[sam id="8″ codes="true"]
You'll also quickly realize that just about anything can happen in the Philippines. It is a considerably unregulated place with a very wide grey area as to what is allowed. For instance, driving is safe and courteous for the most part, but a two lane road turns into a highway of bicycle taxis, cars, buses and motorcycles all passing each other creating six lanes of mayhem somehow without ever colliding! I laugh every time I see a family cruising along on a motorcycle as dad drives with two kids squeezed between mom and a baby.
Moto-Taxi Family Ride
Filipino Secretary
Boat Maintenance
The Filipinos are extremely resourceful people. They always seem to find a way to make things work with whatever they have. They leave nothing to waste, except for the endless supply of plastic which no one knows what to do with.
For us skateboarders we can be happy with the recent calm and strong political structure and a growing economy for it is easy to see after just a year how much is being put back into roads all over rural areas such as the island Siquijor.
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Epos GN Santilmo
3rd world country.
Christian Evren Gimotea Lozañes
woot! XD XD
Paulo Varela
Looking forward to this continuing series!
Khijel Jugan Dabalos
we know it is. but this country, especially the visayas group of islands, has so much to offer. :)
HK Niu
'third world' is just another word for 'paradise' :)
Jemely Estañero Gerundio
Nice one..
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Laura Blade Runner
Amazing captures! the best


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This recipe came together after a lot of trial and error. The trick to making oil-free cauliflower crispy (and for it to stay that way) is to wait until after baking to salt the cauliflower. You will not need to add salt as the sauces have enough salt to season them. It took a while to find the right coating that would not draw out the moisture and would make the florets crisp, so I am pleased that it has turned out to be a very simple recipe.
The cauliflower bites will get softer once they are coated with the sauce, so hold off tossing until the very last minute. Either a smoky barbecue sauce or Frank's hot sauce would work well, but if you are like me and prefer sweet and spicy, then try a little bit of both. Serve with ranch or Caesar dressing on the side if you wish.
INGREDIENTS, Makes 6 cups
2/3 cup brown rice flour
2 tablespoons almond flour
1 tablespoon tomato paste
2 teaspoons garlic powder
2 teaspoons onion powder
2 teaspoons smoked paprika
1 teaspoon dried parsley
1 head cauliflower, cut into 2-inch florets
1/3 cup Frank's hot sauce or barbecue sauce
For recipe instructions please visit Forks Over Knives: https://www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/crispy-buffalo-cauliflower/


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A 10 a.m. ceremony will be held on Saturday for the Raymond J. Harbert College of Business and University College. At 2 p.m. Saturday, a ceremony will be held for the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and the School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences. Leah Rawls Atkins, a three-time graduate of Auburn, will speak at Saturday's ceremonies.
There will be a 1 p.m. ceremony on Sunday for the College of Education, the College of Human Sciences and the School of Nursing. A Sunday 5 p.m. ceremony will be held for the College of Agriculture, the College of Architecture, Design and Construction and the College of Sciences and Mathematics. Former Athletics Director David Housel will be the speaker at Sunday's ceremonies.
On Monday, a 10 a.m. commencement ceremony will be held for the College of Liberal Arts, and award-winning journalist Mark Winne will be the featured speaker.
Auburn's professional schools will hold their ceremonies Tuesday in Auburn Arena for their students, with the College of Veterinary Medicine at 10 a.m. and the Harrison School of Pharmacy at 6 p.m.
At Sunday's 1 p.m. ceremony, Auburn University will award John W. and Rosemary Kopel Brown, both 1957 graduates, honorary doctor of science degrees. The Browns have exemplified extraordinary excellence and character throughout their lives–John, through his business leadership and accomplishments, and Rosemary, through her teaching career and commitment to education, community service and support of the arts.
Atkins holds the distinction of earning the first doctorate of philosophy granted by the Auburn Department of History in 1974. Atkins taught at three institutions: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Samford University and Auburn. She also served as the founding director of the Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in 1985.
In addition to her achievements in the humanities, Atkins is a former U.S. National and World Champion water skier, and she was the first woman to be inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. Each year, Auburn recognizes its most outstanding female athlete with an award named in her honor. Atkins currently serves on the Auburn Library Development Committee and has authored many articles and books, including "Alabama: The History of a Deep South State" and "A Century of Women at Auburn, 1892-1992: Blossoms Amid the Deep Verdure."
Housel graduated from Auburn with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1969. Following a brief stint as a news editor at The Huntsville News, he returned to the Plains to start a career with Auburn Athletics. Housel spent two years in in the ticket office before teaching journalism at Auburn from 1972-80. He rejoined the athletic department as an assistant sports information director and was named sports information director in 1981 and assistant athletic director in 1985.
Housel became athletics director in 1994 and served in that capacity until 2005. That same year, the press box in Jordan-Hare Stadium was dedicated in his honor. Housel has written numerous books including "From the Desk of David Housel, a Collection of Auburn Stories" and "Auburn Saturdays to Remember." He is also the member of the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and the College Sports Information Directors of America Hall of Fame. In 2015, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Auburn Alumni Association.
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Corporate Volunteer Days
Kanyana regularly accepts corporate volunteer groups who want to get involved in the community for a day. Generally these groups help Kanyana with various grounds keeping duties, along with extra jobs that can include redesigning enclosures or making possum boxes. It's a great team building day out of the office for your team and you are helping to keep Kanyana looking beautiful and our enclosures maintained. To be involved contact us and we will find a suitable date for both parties.


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The small business landscape is always evolving, but many experts still agree that when it comes to writing a business plan, this old adage still applies: A failure to plan is a plan to fail. Starting a business venture without a thoughtful, detailed plan is a big no-no — a quick route to disaster. But writing that plan can be a pretty intimidating prospect for novice entrepreneurs.
In the past, you practically had to get an MBA to learn how to prepare the kind of tome that might persuade traditional lenders to fund your startup. But these days, investors — especially venture capitalists and people involved with nontraditional, crowd-sourced or online sources of business funding — are more open to receiving the information in novel ways, and they tend to value business plans that are short, sharp and to the point. They still expect you to examine your assumptions, think through variables and be able to answer any question that might arise about your business idea, but they no longer demand a plan as heavy as a phone book. In today's marketplace, it's more important than ever that you utilize available technologies to make your business idea stand out.
There are plenty of tools you can use to generate a business plan online. The Small Business Administration (SBA) is a great place to start. Its online business plan tool offers a step-by-step guide to help you think through all the aspects of your business. Best of all, you can use your completed plan to discuss next steps with a mentor from one of the SBA's resource partners. Other sites offer free, paid or subscription-based options for generating a business plan online. Even if you choose not to take advantage of their online tools, these outlets are great sources of information for writing your own business plan. Some also offer templates and sample business plans you can download and customize.
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- Deeb, George. "The 6 Key Components of Writing A Business Plan." Forbes.com. Feb. 19, 2015. (May 11, 2015) http://www.forbes.com/sites/georgedeeb/2015/02/19/the-6-key-components-of-writing-a-business-plan/
- Dubois, Lou. "How to Write a Business Plan for Your Online Business." Inc.com. July 19, 2010. (May 11, 2015) http://www.inc.com/guides/2010/07/write-a-business-plan-for-your-online-business.html
- Entrepreneur. "Make Your Business Plan Stand Out." Oct. 24, 2009. (May 11, 2015) http://www.entrepreneurmag.co.za/advice/business-plans/business-plan-advice/make-your-business-plan-stand-out/
- U.S. Small Business Administration. "Build Your Business Plan." https://www.sba.gov/tools/business-plan/1
- Wells Fargo Works. "Writing a business plan: Your step-by-step guide." March 14, 2012. (May 11, 2015) https://wellsfargoworks.com/start/writing-a-business-plan
- Zimmerman, Eilene. "As Start-Up Strategies Evolve, So Does Role of a Business Plan." The New York Times. Dec. 3, 2014. (May 11, 2015) http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/04/business/smallbusiness/business-plans-for-start-ups.html


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high energy dance music
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Elixir blends driving fiddle and guitar with the rich texture and rhythmic excitement of a full horn section, deftly weaving brassy riffs and daring solos in and out of traditional Irish, French Canadian and New England tunes. Elegant melodies evolve into raucous dixieland horn riffs; transcendent harmonies, playful improvisations, and rock, swing and reggae-inspired rhythms weave in and out of traditional and original Irish, French Canadian and New England tunes.
Elixir plays for dances, festivals, camps, weddings and other events, with a repertoire that includes music for contra, square, English Country, and swing dancing; waltzing; couples dancing; and concert programs.
For performances outside of the Northeast Elixir includes Brian Bender on trombone. For local gigs around New England we work with our original resident caller and trombonist Nils Fredland.
- Anna Patton clarinet / vocals
- Ethan Hazzard-Watkins fiddle
- Jesse Readlynn trumpet / flugelhorn
- Owen Morrison guitar / foot percussion
- Brian Bender trombone / melodica
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By Bonnie K. Goodman
Now that Donald Trump has been elected president, he begins his presidential transition from the election until the inauguration. The first task of newly elect president is forming his cabinet and White House team, and staffing all the departments. Trump revised his transition team on Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, replacing New Jersey Governor Christie as Chairman with his Vice President Mike Pence. Trump has already appointed two key members to his White House staff.
Trump named on Sunday, Nov. 13, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus will serve as White House Chief of Staff and Trump for President CEO and Breitbart editor Stephen K. Bannon will serve as Chief Strategist and Senior Counselor to the President.
The Trump team has indicated they might announce Treasury Secretary later this week, and former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani has implied he would not be Attorney General, but he is now at the top of the list for Secretary of State. While campaign surrogate and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson says he will not accept a position in a Trump cabinet.
The following is a list of prospective candidates for each post from the New York Times updated on Nov. 14 (candidate descriptions also quoted from the NYT):
Secretary of State
- John R. Bolton Former United States ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush
- Bob Corker Senator from Tennessee and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
- Newt Gingrich Former House speaker
- Rudolph W. Giuliani Former New York mayor
- Zalmay Khalilzad Former United States ambassador to Afghanistan
- Stanley A. McChrystal Former senior military commander in Afghanistan
Treasury Secretary
- Thomas Barrack Jr. Founder, chairman and executive chairman of Colony Capital; private equity and real estate investor
- Jeb Hensarling Representative from Texas and chairman of the House Financial Services Committee
- Steven Mnuchin Former Goldman Sachs executive and Mr. Trump's campaign finance chairman
- Tim Pawlenty Former Minnesota governor
Defense Secretary
- Kelly Ayotte Departing senator from New Hampshire and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
- Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn Former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (he would need a waiver from Congress because of a seven-year rule for retired officers)
- Stephen J. Hadley National security adviser under George W. Bush
- Jon Kyl Former senator from Arizona
- Jeff Sessions Senator from Alabama who is a prominent immigration opponent
Attorney General
- Chris Christie New Jersey governor
- Rudolph W. Giuliani Former New York mayor
- Jeff Sessions Senator from Alabama
Interior Secretary
- Jan Brewer Former Arizona governor
- Robert E. Grady Gryphon Investors partner
- Harold G. Hamm Chief executive of Continental Resources, an oil and gas company
- Forrest Lucas President of Lucas Oil Products, which manufactures automotive lubricants, additives and greases
- Sarah Palin Former Alaska governor
Agriculture Secretary
- Sam Brownback Kansas governor
- Chuck Conner Chief executive officer of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
- Sid Miller Texas agricultural commissioner
- Sonny Perdue Former Georgia governor
Commerce Secretary
- Chris Christie New Jersey governor
- Dan DiMicco Former chief executive of Nucor Corporation, steel production company
- Lewis M. Eisenberg Private equity chief for Granite Capital International Group
Labor Secretary
- Victoria A. Lipnic Equal Employment Opportunity commissioner and work force policy counsel to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce
Health and Human Services Secretary
- Dr. Ben Carson Former neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate
- Mike Huckabee Former Arkansas governor and 2016 presidential candidate
- Bobby Jindal Former Louisiana governor who served as secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals
- Rick Scott Florida governor and former chief executive of a large hospital chain
Energy Secretary
- James L. Connaughton Chief executive of Nautilus Data Technologies and former environmental adviser to President George W. Bush
- Robert E. Grady Gryphon Investors partner
- Harold G. Hamm Chief executive of Continental Resources, an oil and gas company
Education Secretary
- Dr. Ben Carson Former neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate
- Williamson M. Evers Education expert at the Hoover Institution, a think tank
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
- Jeff Miller Retired chairman of the House Veterans Affairs Committee
Homeland Security Secretary
- Joe Arpaio Departing sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz.
- David A. Clarke Jr. Milwaukee County sheriff
- Michael McCaul Representative from Texas and chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee
- Jeff Sessions Senator from Alabama
E.P.A. Administrator
- Myron Ebell A director at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and a prominent climate change skeptic
- Robert E. Grady Gryphon Investors partner who was involved in drafting the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990
- Jeffrey R. Holmstead Lawyer with Bracewell L.L.P. and former deputy E.P.A. administrator in the George W. Bush administration
U.S. Trade Representative
- Dan DiMicco Former chief executive of Nucor Corporation, a steel production company, and a critic of Chinese trade practices
U.N. Ambassador
- Kelly Ayotte Departing senator from New Hampshire and member of the Senate Armed Services Committee
- Richard Grenell Former spokesman for the United States ambassador to the United Nations during the George W. Bush administration


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Best Beaches In Maui
A list such as the Best Beaches in Maui is subjective to say the least and we are also certain that there are undiscovered (by us and those not native to the region) coves and sandy patches along the coast of The Valley Isle that shame many of the selections placed on the list. Nonetheless this is a fairly comprehensive collection of stand out beaches in Maui. We have taken into consideration the differing reasons visitors find a beach attractive. Some like amenities while others like feral seclusion, some like white sand while others like black. We've included the best of the best that have that special something to suit the tastes of all of you beach bums out there.
Makena - Big Beach
South Maui (off of Makena Alanui Road)
Big Beach has a steep inclining shoreline which means a BIG shorebreak. What this also means is that Makena offers some of the best skim boarding, body boarding, and body surfing in Maui. The conditions that make the above mentioned activities so fruitful on the island make other activities less adviseable. Be wary of the days you decide to go snorkeling and monitor conditions carefully if you plan on swimming at Makena. There will be sign postings when things get out of hand in the fronting pacific. Otherwise, place down the biggest beach towel you can find on the golden sand and enjoy the scenery at one of the most beautiful and best beaches in Maui.
Porto potties
Picnic tables (w/shade)
Paved parking
Hiking Trails
Little Beach
South Maui (off of Makena Alanui Road)
Next door to its big brother (or sister), Little Beach is not only one of the best beaches in Maui, it is one of the premier nude beaches in "America". What it lacks in size (guys at a nude beach may not want to hear that) it makes up for in spirit. The crowd at Little Beach is different from it's neighbor and is obviously more adventurous in nature if not downright eccentric at times. Sunset sees the inception of drum circles on any given night with a guarantee of such activities, including fire dancers, on Sunday evenings. Be it in board shorts and bikinis or bare bums (questionable when playing with fire!), the spirit at Little Beach is far bigger than it's name lends.
Amenities (close enough to Big Beach to utilize its offerings)
Maluaka Beach
South Maui (next to the Maui Prince Hotel)
Maluaka is a white sand beach with gentle slopes that make the scenery and conditions perfect for swimming and snorkeling. Malakua is also nearby to the home to the aptly monikered Turtle Town which is a fair indication of the sea life you will get to see through goggled eyes.
Restrooms & showers
Picnic areas
Paved parking
No lifeguards
Wailea Beach
South Maui (Paved path to walk past the Wailea resorts)
Not for those seeking seclusion but fun for families and those seeking the comforts of beach front resort civilization, Wailea Beach is long and wide and offers good snorkeling, swimming, stand-up paddling and a break for tourists growing weary of too many hours logged on the sand and wish to take a break to shop or dine nearby at the restaurants and shops found on Wailea's resort row.
Amenities: Everything
Launiupoku Beach Park
Mile 18, Kai Heleku & Honoapiilani, Lahaina, West Maui, HI
Enjoy the view across the water staring directly at the islands of Lana'i and Moloka'i and even witness whales frolicking – when in season - while your own backdrop of Lahaina Road speaks volumes about the appeal of this West Maui beach. Longboarders, beginners and intermediate surfers love this beach for paddling out and catching easier to ride waves than found at some of the more intense spots around this surf rich island. The seawalls at Louniupoku Beach Park are a few too many which does in fact take away from the potential of this beach but one can still feel the beach escape of Maui paradise when at Launiupoku.
Picnic (shaded)
Ka'anapali Beach – Black Rock
West Maui
The highlight of this beach found along the western shores of Maui comes in the form of a massive black lava rock protrusion jetting out into the azure waters and splitting Ka'anapali Beach in half. The rock is covered in coral, accommodating a diverse array of sea life including a color spectrum of fish and sea turtles which makes this section of Ka'anapali Beach one of the most fun and interesting places to snorkel on the island.
Black Rock is also considered to be sacred amongst the ancient Hawaiian peoples, with legend stating that spirits of the island's warriors leaped off the ledge into the ocean and into the afterlife to meet their ancestors. While there certainly is a spiritual feel to this place, you need not make such a commitment yourself, so feel free to take your own plunge from safer points along Black Rock and into the blue churning ocean below for purely recreational reasons. Pay close attention to ocean conditions. If the waters look tumultuous then steer clear of such activities. The best bet is to watch what the locals do (you'll spot them easily) and follow their lead. If no one is around, don't even think about trying on your own.
Beach front hotels
No restrooms or facilities
Kite (Kanaha) Beach
North - Central - Maui (behind Kahului airport)
Kite/Kanaha Beach is the birthplace of and home to the world's best kite surfing. Although the ocean and wind conditions make Kite Beach a progressive kite surfer free for all, beginners fear not as a time slot between 9am and 11am has been set aside on a designated section of the beach, allowing those entering the "arena" for the first few times to wet their whistle in this exciting sport. For the causal beach goer, aside from the natural beauty found on pretty much every inch of Maui coast, there is little reason to spend much time at Kite Beach unless of course you are also a fan of watching the world's best dance upon the wind and the waves at Kanaha.
Lifeguard tower
Ho'okipa Beach Park
North – Central – Maui (along the Hana Highway towards Haiku)
Ho'okipa is one of Maui's most consistent surf spots, however it switches from paddle and pop up to windsurfing at the drop of a hat, or pick up of wind in the afternoon. In fact, Ho'okipa is considered to the among the world's best windsurfing locations, but one meant for experts and not the novice. Ho'okipa can provide for fun swimming and snorkeling in the calm summer months and the coral reef has created pond areas perfect for exploration, but as usual, conditions should be monitored at all times. After summer passes, the switch is flipped and Ho'okipa comes to life with a roar.
Restrooms & showers
Wai'anapanapa State Park – Black Sand Beach
On the way to Hana - East Maui
Black sand and deep dark lava cliffs make Wai'anapanapa one of the most unique and stunning beaches in Maui. A large sea cave is found at water's edge and legendary caverns lie deep below. For those with a hike in mind, King's Highway – an ancient Hawaiian foot path – will lead followers for three miles along the coast towards the town of Hana. Wai'anapanapa Beach is small but a truly magical place and deserving of its position amongst the Best Beaches in Maui.
Restrooms & showers
Paved parking
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Note: This is an archival copy of Security Sun Alert 249646 as previously published on http://sunsolve.sun.com.
Latest version of this security advisory is available from http://support.oracle.com as Sun Alert 1019951.1.
Bug Id
Release Phase
Solaris 10 Operating System
Date of Resolved Release
A security vulnerability in xscreensaver(1) may display portions of a locked desktop after being resized:
1. Impact
A security vulnerability in the xscreensaver(1) program may allow users with physical access to an X(5) display running the Xorg(1) X server (or Xnewt(1M) X server for Sun Ray servers) which has the X Resize and Rotate (RandR) extension loaded to be able to view portions of the locked screen.
2. Contributing Factors
This issue can occur in the following releases:
SPARC Platform
Note 2: This issue only affects systems configured to use the Xorg(1) X server (or Xnewt(1M) X server for Sun Ray servers). To determine which X Window System display server program (see Xserver(1)) is configured on a Solaris (non-Sun Ray server) system the following command can be run:
$ svcprop -p options/server svc:/application/x11/x11-serverTo determine which X Window System display server program (see Xserver(1)) is configured on a Sun Ray server the following command can be run:
$ /opt/SUNWut/bin/utxconfig -l |grep XSERVERNote 3: This issue only affects systems which have used the RandR extension to resize the screen (for example using the xrandr(1) utility). To determine if the RandR extension is loaded, the xdpyinfo(1) utility can be run:
$ xdpyinfo | grep RANDRNote 4: OpenSolaris distributions may include additional bug fixes above and beyond the build from which it was derived. To determine the base build of OpenSolaris, the following command can be used:
$ uname -vNote 5: Only OpenSolaris installations that include the affected binary "/usr/X11/bin/xscreensaver", are impacted by this issue.
3. Symptoms
If the RandR extension has been used to increase the size of the screen, for example using xrandr(1), then xscreensaver(1) will only cover the original screen size.
4. Workaround
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Shipyard : Moody Yachts
Built : 2004
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The Moody 56 is a centre-cockpit cutter rigged blue water cruising yacht designed by renowned naval architect Bill Dixon.
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text: The speech assesses racial ties following the 7 July blasts In a speech to be delivered next week and obtained by The Sunday Times newspaper, Trevor Phillips, chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, says Britain may be "sleepwalking" into segregation. He is to warn that a parallel would be the serious ethnic divisions in parts of the United States shown up by the impact of Hurricane Katrina. "The fact is we are a society which, almost without noticing it, is becoming more divided by race and religion," Phillips says in his speech, to be delivered in Manchester, northwest England, on Thursday. "Our ordinary schools... are becoming more exclusive and our universities are starting to become colour-coded with virtual 'whites keep out' signs in some urban institutions." The speech continues: "If you look closely at the campuses of some of our most distinguished universities you can pick out the invisible 'no blacks may enter' message." Measures Phillips is to propose measures to address the problem, which could include forcing predominantly white schools to take larger numbers of ethnic minority pupils to aid integration. "The fact is we are a society which, almost without noticing it, is becoming more divided by race and religion" Trevor Phillips, chairman, Commission for Racial EqualityThe speech is to assess race relations in Britain following the 7 July London bombings, which killed 52 civilians and four bombers, all British Muslims, three of Pakistani ethnic origin. Following the blasts, a series of commentators warned that some British Muslim communities were failing to integrate fully. According to data cited by The Sunday Times, the number of Britons of Pakistani heritage living in ghettos - defined as areas with more than two-thirds of any one ethnicity - trebled between 1991 and 2001. Some areas are on their way to becoming "literal black holes into which nobody goes without fear and trepidation and from which nobody ever escapes undamaged", Phillips is to warn. This risks ending in a "New Orleans-style Britain of passively coexisting ethnic and religious communities, eyeing each other over the fences of our differences". SOURCE: AFP


text: It has been awhile since I have made a post. One of my goals for this year is to write more on my blog. I have never been a great writer but I have lots to say, things to talk about and share with you. I can only become better at things by actually doing them right, Right!! So here we go, I have always had a love/hate relationship with running, it is on all levels my biggest display of weakness (food is also my weakness but that is another post) I am all over the place, not relaxed, my breathing is out of control, my calves are on fire, its not pretty. I want to love running, I want to feel that high and experience those breakthroughs. This is the year I will run my first half marathon. I have been saying it for years and I am ready to go for it mentally but physically I am not there yet. I hope to run the Silver Falls half with my sister in law in November, it is a trail run and I have found out over the last year that I do like, actually love running trails. It would also bring me great joy to my little heart to run my first half marathon with someone that I have looked up to for so many years, Leslie inspires me everyday. I have not decided if I should do two half marathons this year or just train fully for the trail run but I think that is what I might do, we have lots of trails to train on here in Arizona. I have been filling my head with self sabotaging thoughts that I could never run a half marathon or accomplish many things for that matter. About a week before Christmas I decided to get back to it and take my life back, I started getting up at four in the morning to meet my friend and get an easy three miles in, most of that was walking but walking so FAST!!! I could barely keep up with the pace, then another friend joined back with us and she walks even FASTER!!!!! Now you might not think that walking can be challenging but let me tell you, Chasity and Stacy are super fast and we are also walking out in the desert with lots of ups and downs and on sandy dirt roads kinda like the beach but no water. I am always a few steps behind but this is good because it has been pushing me and making my legs stronger. I am really taking baby steps through this journey adding a few intervals at a time. I have done my share of doing things to fast to soon and then ended up with an injury or just gave up because things got too hard. So we have been at it every morning just at about 3 weeks now (they say a new habit is created in 21 days, phew I made it now let's keep it going) and the past two mornings we have been picking up the pace meaning running more often and longer with our intervals, (I really need a running watch) both of my friends are experienced runners so I am very thankful for them because they push me to do better and really help me even though my pace is much slower and I cannot run as long, they always slow down for me and give me positive words of encouragement. Some runners may not be so helpful, I know that they could just leave me in the dust but they don't (thank goodness its pitch black in the desert) and now that we are running more I am a few feet behind, but its totally fine I keep going and say OK so they know I need a break and even that break is challenging because its a power walk. I am so grateful for those two, and for my sister in law who taught me about the walk/run method. It's hard getting up at four in the morning and out the door to go walk/run in 30-40 degree weather for an hour but it has become a goal that is non negotiable for me. Too many times I would have made an excuse, it's too early, it's too cold, I'm tired blah blah blah. That saying "choose the same way of thinking and you will get the same old results" is sooo true. I am working very hard on changing my thinking to more positive thoughts and talking to myself with more loving and kind words. I know that I can do anything and everything that I set my mind on, with a little Faith all things are possible. As soon as I saw the photo I am posting I fell in love with it because it brought me to a specific moment from this morning while we are out there running under the stars all I heard was silence and our feet hitting the dirt roads moving us closer to our goals it was like we were playing the road a little symphony, or telling a story that only the road could hear. The past couple of mornings when I am driving home I have felt this really calm and peaceful feeling, not tired just calm. Have a great Tuesday everyone….


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The creation of a product isn't as hard as many people think. In fact, once you learn the process, you can start turning out information products faster than you ever imagined. But that's the key. Learning the process.
You wouldn't drive a car without taking lessons, or try to cook a new dish without a recipe and a list of ingredients. But many people jump into info product creation with only the vaguest idea of the steps involved. And while they might end up actually creating a product, they also make the process much harder on themselves than it needs to be.
Here are the simple steps you can take to create an information product.
Start with an Idea
Creating an info product starts with an idea. Choosing something you are interested in is a good start. After all, if you're going to spend time learning about a topic, then creating products in that niche, you at least want it to be something you won't get sick of before you're half finished.
But, when brainstorming ideas for your info product, keep one thing in mind. Your info product should solve a problem that people are actively searching for solutions for. So, rather than just trying to think of an interesting topic for your product, try to think of a problem your product will solve.
Is It a Good Niche?
Before you actually start creating your info product, try to find out if there's a market for it. You can create the most informative, most well-written, most beautifully illustrated information product in the world. But unless there are enough people who would be willing to pay for it, you won't see much profit from your efforts.
Create Your Product
When writing your ebook, making your audio recording, or taping your video, keep one thing in mind. Your product doesn't have to be the longest, most comprehensive product ever on that topic. People who buy info products don't want a lot of fluff or back story. They want a solution, and they want it fast. So just give your buyers the solution they are looking for. Not only will they be happier, it will mean less work for you.
Market Your Product
Many people create great info products, but then don't seem to know what to do with them. They might create a sales letter, maybe post to a few forums and write a few articles to submit to article directories, and that's it.
After getting the idea for your product, the most important thing to keep in mind is that no one can buy it if they don't know about it. So learning how to tell as many people as possible about your product is your top priority.
Creating an information product isn't as hard as you might think. In fact, after you've taken the time to learn the simple process, it will be easier than you ever dreamed.
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Homemade ornaments make great keepsakes. I'm excited to add these to our collection of ornaments, and maybe you will too!
Supplies: Clothes pegs (found at Michaels, Walmart, etc), paint (red, white, black, orange, yellow), felt (red, white, black – very cheap at Michaels), one cotton ball, twine, string, hot glue gun, toothpicks
Paint all but the round part of the clothes peg red, the round part will be Santa's face. Once dry, paint on black shoes and a black belt using a toothpick. Add a yellow belt buckle. Make beard out of felt and glue on. Make hat out of felt (cone shape) and glue on. Use some of the cotton ball to add fluff to Santa's hat and glue. Add black eyes. Don't forget to glue your hanging string on the back.
Paint the entire clothes peg white and let dry completely. Use toothpick to add black buttons, mouth, and eyes. Use another toothpick to add orange carrot nose. Cut long red felt strip to use for frosty's scarf and secure with glue. For frosty's top hat cut out a square from the black felt, that will be the brim of his hat. Next cut out a long rectangle from the black felt and roll it up and secure with glue. Glue the square onto frosty's head and glue the top of the hat onto that. Attach your hanging string on the back.
This one was easier, no painting involved! Take 2 plain clothes pegs and glue together, having one shorter than the other (Mary and Joseph). Cut (break, chop, or file) a clothes peg to make Baby Jesus (that was the toughest part for me). Tie a bow around Jesus' neck using twine. Glue Jesus onto Mary and Joseph. Attach twine as a hanging string in the back.
Merry Christmas!


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Tea is more than just hot water and dried leaves - it is a history, an origin and an adventure, and Bellocq Tea Atelier seeks to create an elaborate, almost poetic experience. The artisan company was formed when Heidi Johannsen Stewart, Michael Shannon and Scott Stewart joined forces to fill the gap in a tea market flooded with bags yet bereft of flavor. They start by sourcing the highest quality base tea from single estate high-elevation growers, and then sample 20-30 gardens each season to select the most flavorful leaves and herbals from all over the world. The shop offers full leaf teas enjoyed on their own and a range of house blends expertly balanced in the atelier. There is also a collection of limited edition teas drawn from competition winners and wild harvests that is constantly changing and evolving. Bellocq takes tremendous pride in fresh, pure ingredients and strives to make tea an everyday affordable luxury. It is both a laboratory and an education center, founded on an exchange of knowledge and an appreciation for the subtle flavors and rich experience of a freshly brewed cup of tea. Show lessRead moreAly
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YouTube advertisements on the Android app can be quite annoying. It sometimes cannot be skipped and often are longer. It is difficult to block than the YouTube web's ads. Today we are going to show you an easy way to block these ads. It requires nothing like root access or anything. So for the trick, just follow our guide to skip YouTube Ads on Android.
The Ads on YouTube are different based on many things. If it is a longer video whose length is like 20 minutes or more, multiple ads will show up in certain intervals and that will be even more irritating. Skip Ad buttons show up sometime and don't other times.
Regular Ad blocker apps may be able to block ads on websites and other apps but not the YouTube app. Finally, we here share you an app that will solve this problem for you. An app made by the developer Erwin Goslawski can skip any ads showed on the YouTube app automatically. This application is best suited for this purpose and the most striking thing about it is that it does not need a rooted Android to run.
Skip YouTube Ads on Android App
Like we said before, the app by Erwin Goslawski doesn't require root access. Not many apps offer this for phones without root access. You can download the app, named Cygery AdSkip from the XDA forum (link provided below).
The app has no extra settings or anything to configure. All you have to do is just install and press a button "Enable". It will then do the job or you by skipping ads automatically on your YouTube app for Android. Please note that this app supports only Android version above 4.1. It is also recommended to have the latest version of YouTube app.
Download AdSkip App for Android 4.1+
Cygery AdSkip – Link
Steps to Skip YouTube Ads on Android
- Download and install the Cygery AdSkip app from the link provided above in the Downloads section.
- Make sure that Unknown sources setting is enabled on the Settings > Security.
- After the app is installed, run it by tapping on the AdSkip icon.
- When you launch it for the first time, a popup will ask you to turn on an accessibility service. Press OK to turn it on and you will be taken to Accessibility settings now.
- After that in the Adskip app, you can have it enabled by using the Enable option.
- You can also change the option "Mute audio during ads" if you want. We recommend you having it disabled to have better results in skipping of ads.
- That's all you have to do here. There is nothing much to configure. Just head to the YouTube app for Android and run a video with ads.
- Now, You will notice that the ads will get automatically skipped once they are reached in the video.
That's all from us here today. Hope you enjoyed! Do share and comment your thoughts below if you liked our trick. Stay tuned for more tricks! [Via]


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The Sidebar has been my favorite Baltimore punk venue since I was thirteen. Most people wouldn't even have allowed thirteen year old kids into the smoke filled, Natty Boh glazed hole in the wall at the corner of Lexington and Guilford that is The Sidebar, but Richard looked out for my friends and me. He'd come around and see that we were doing alright between bands, give us sodas on the house, and bring his dog around when there weren't too many people.
After months of practicing and seeing bands like Fishnet Stalkers, Blondsai, Thee Lexington Arrows, and The Living Wrecks, we got asked to play a show at The Sidebar. The first Media Pigs show was a night that will stay planted in my memory until the day I die. We played with Nighttime Dealers, Naked Skanks, and Living Wrecks. We ripped through ten or twelve of the loudest, fastest songs we had to offer, and made jailbait jokes as often as we thanked the audience for listening. Coming offstage and having everyone that we looked up to in the other bands tell us that we played a great set was one of the most gratifying feelings in the world. It was even better when Richard told me personally that I did great and gave me a hug because Richard didn't seem all that into punk rock. Most nights, he'd sit quietly on the steps or at the bar chatting and looking around every once in a while to make sure all of the drunk punks weren't wrecking his bar. His appreciation meant one thing, Sidebar was home. It seemed kind of weird to me at first that a bar whose walls were tattooed with bumper stickers from punk bands played host to a bunch of lawyers and yuppies during happy hour, but it was all the same to Richard. He welcomed everyone into his bar, and as long as they weren't fucking things up too badly, he treated them like family.
Media Pigs played about five or six more shows there before we disbanded in 2007, but I kept going to shows at Sidebar and played there once again with my post-Pigs band The Communist Eyes. Every now and then, I'd run into Richard and say hello. One day, I realized that I hadn't seen him in a while and one of my friends informed me that he sold the bar to Travis Hunt about a year or two ago. Hearing that he died today made me realize what a powerful influence he had on everyone involved in the Baltimore punk scene. Thank you for everything, Richard. We will miss you!


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Tamaya Blue Corn Atole Flour
Called atole, this cornmeal is toasted and finely ground for cooking like Cream of Wheat (tm).Can also be used a a thinner drinkable porridge, or add chocolate for a hot chocolate type drink. It can also be used in any cornmeal recipe for a toasted flavor. 12oz package.


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For the Troy Daily News
MIAMI COUNTY — The Miami County Sheriff's Office will be deploying extra deputies throughout the upcoming Labor Day holiday weekend working a combined 99 hours of overtime at various time frames to strictly enforce all Ohio traffic statute, according to Sheriff Charles Cox.
The extra enforcement has already began, with special emphasis being placed on removing drunk and drugged drivers from area roadways. The national "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" campaign runs through Monday, Sept. 7.
Drunk driving is one of America's deadliest crimes. Two of three drivers involved in fatal crashes between the hours of midnight and 3 a.m. were drunk. Over 10,000 people die each year at the hands of drunk drivers, which is equivalent to 20 jumbo jets crashing each year. During 2013, three of four drunk drivers were male. Additionally, during 2013, four of every 10 fatal crashes involved an impaired driver. Every 52 minutes a drunk driving fatality occurred during 2013.
For these reasons the Miami County Sheriff's Office will be joining with thousands of other law enforcement agencies across the nation this Labor Day holiday to take part in the "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" crackdown on impaired drivers, Cox said.
Driving with a BAC of .08 or higher is illegal in every state. Yet we continue to see far too many people suffer debilitating injuries and loss of their loved ones as a result of impaired driving, according to Cox. To help keep this from happening the Miami County Sheriff's Office is dedicated to arresting impaired drivers wherever and whenever they are found, he said.
The national "Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over" impaired driving crackdown is a prevention program organized by the U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that focuses on combining high-visibility enforcement with heightened public awareness through advertising and publicity.
The extra deputies are being funded by a grant the sheriff's office received late last year from the Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services. The grant pays for the overtime the deputies accrue during the enforcement campaign and some fuel costs.
For more information, visit www.nhtsa.gov/drivesober.


text: Glaucophane, common amphibole mineral, a sodium, magnesium, and aluminum silicate that occurs only in crystalline schists formed from sodium-rich rocks by low-grade metamorphism characteristic of subduction zones. Glaucophane typically occurs in folded rocks associated with blueschists. Both ferrous and ferric iron are replaced by magnesium and aluminum in the crystal structure to form riebeckite. For chemical formula and detailed physical properties, see amphibole (table).


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Take part in massive revolutionary war era line battles with hundreds of other soldiers! Command your army into battle and conquer the enemy!
Rise of Liberty is a single player massive strategy / battle simulation game that takes place during the revolutionary war, you can fire cannons, command a huge army or take part in massive battles!
- Take part in massive line battles!
- Relive historical battles such as Bunker Hill
- Defend against bayonet charges!
- Use old flint lock weapons from the revolutionary war!


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I'm bored senseless with all the bickering over electability and whose demographics are better but Jeralyn reports on the early returns coming out Wyoming, where it's effectively a closed contest in spite of CNN listing it as an open primary.
Huge turnouts in Wyoming. Registration ended Feb. 22, so those turned away today are not those who decided to vote this weekend, but those who didn't arrive in time. Everyone was told to come an hour early because you had to be in line at 9:00 am.If Hillary's latest kitchen sink strategy was working, and she is indeed the clear choice of Democrats, one might expect she would be swinging that state like a carnival ride. When I checked CNN's numbers earlier, with 48% reporting, Obama was winning by 23 points. Blogger glitched out for a few hours here though, so in the interim, with 78% now reporting, Clinton whittled that down to a 19 point deficit. I'd venture a guess that Obama will still win with a hefty margin.
I leave you to draw your own conclusions about what that means for the candidates or the party.


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Can Do and More Presents the Oaks Day Luncheon
Date and Location
Thursday 3 November 2011, 12 noon – 5pm
Plenty Ranges Arts and Convention Centre
Ferres Boulevard South Morang
The Event
Includes champagne on arrival, two course luncheon, tea and coffee. Prizes for best hat and best dressed.
Fashion Parade, Stalls, Sweeps, Auction, Raffle, Entertainment
Tickets $50 per person
Tables of 10 available
Contact Bev Carman on 5782 1582
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In the past several weeks I've had many opportunities to describe what we're doing at Agape Ann Arbor. It's been a fun a challenging experience to try to explain this idea that we have. Fundamentally our goal is to live the Jesus-life in Ann Arbor and invite other's to do the same. In so doing, we will build a community experiencing and expressing God's love.
But how does that work? What does that look like?
It starts with individuals intentionally living the Jesus-life in whatever context in which we find ourselves. We focus on getting out into the community, building relationships and loving people. As we build these relationships we invite people to spend time with us.
Mostly, this means we have parties. And truthfully, what's more Christlike than having a party? Don't believe me? Take some time to read the four stories of Jesus life, the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John in the New Testament. You'll find that Jesus loves a good party.
As people connect together socially with us and our friends and start showing some interest in Jesus, or Agape Ann Arbor, or just express curiosity about religions, we invite them into our community. At these gatherings focus on learning who Jesus is and what it means to live the Jesus life. The goal of our community gatherings is to encourage, equip, exhort, and empower people to live the Jesus life.
The people in our community then go out and live the Jesus-life in whatever context in which they find themselves, and the missional/incarnational cycle starts over again.
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What specifically is driving the recent strong surge in volumes and pricing? Yes, parcel volumes associated with e-commerce continue to show outstanding rates of growth, with both FedEx and UPS reporting strong U.S. domestic volumes, but the current strength is more than just the ongoing growth of e-commerce.
On the capacity side, we should point out that most modes of transportation under-invested in infrastructure and capacity over the last 2 to 3 years, with the notable exceptions being FedEx, UPS, and XPO Logistics. Hence, capacity in general hasn't expanded. The electronic logging device (ELDs) rule recently imposed on the trucking industry may not constrain capacity as much as is widely feared, but it certainly won't expand capacity.
Capacity concerns aside, we believe this is much more of a demand story, and we see two basic factors at work on the demand side:
Industrial economy – we should first remind our readers that in the U.S. the 2009 – 2014 period was the first industrial led recovery since 1961. The advent of fracking and the substantial supplies of natural gas and crude oil that have been developed in the U.S. have lowered the global price of oil, made natural gas incredibly inexpensive, and made the U.S. the world's largest producer of crude oil. Fracking and all the industrial activity that it spawned were a powerful economic boom to our country. In the 2010 – 2015 timeframe, 8 new chemical refineries, and 22 new plastic resin production plants were built. Feedstock for these facilities has become plentiful, the energy cost has dropped dramatically, and the U.S. has become the least expensive place in the world to make most plastic products. Then, as the price of oil fell from over $100 a barrel in 2014 to under $40 a barrel in early 2016, the same force that led the economic expansion died. In turn, as oil climbed back above $50 a barrel in the fall of 2016, industrial activity stopped contracting. In more recent months, as oil climbed above $55 and then above $60, industrial activity has returned to boom levels. Simply put, industrial activity is alive and well, and accelerating strongly. The recent changes to the tax law and the ability to accelerate depreciation, should only serve to further strengthen the capital intensive industrial economy.
Consumer economy – to be fair and accurate, there really hasn't been a consumer recovery since 2009. Consumer income and consumer spending growth has been anemic. Then the stock market began to rally in the fall of 2016 and has continued to do so (the Dow Jones has broken through 26,000 as we write this). This has increased the confidence throughout the Baby Boomer demographic as they have watched the value of their 401Ks and other investments grow. Data suggests that they began to spend some of that increased wealth this holiday shopping season. Also at work is the millennial generation. After being long derided as "never going to start household formation," they have begun to prove the critics wrong. Just as has been true for almost 100 years, each generation has waited a little longer to get married and buy that first house. The millennials are no exception. That said, there are more millennials than boomers. Millennials have started to form households, and have started the goods accumulation phase of their lives that accompanies it. Consumer spending is poised to be strong for the foreseeable future, and the recent appearance of some wage inflation only emboldens our view on this.
Bottom line, both the industrial and consumer economies are shifting into high gear. 2018 should be very interesting, stay tuned…
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Historical Look at a Pristine 1974 International 200 4x4 Camper Special
Backward Glances
When the '74 model year International Light Trucks debuted, only a few outside the International Harvester (IH) boardroom knew the light trucks were on the chopping block; the blade poised for a decapitation. The perennial problem was per-unit profitability. International simply didn't build enough trucks to be able to match the prices of other mass-produced trucks on the market. As a result, their IH trucks were somewhat overpriced for the market and there was little choice in the matter. It was that or sell at a loss. Furthermore, the dealers were nowhere near "Main Street" where the general public easily could see the great line of trucks IH offered. International dealers were found at the outskirts of town or in the industrial sections, sold alongside tractors, agriculture equipment, and big trucks. These were places most non-commercial light truck buyers didn't go.
From the corporate angle, International Harvester was a bit schizophrenic. It had many different divisions—some profitable, some not so much, but almost none in the non-commercial area. The centrally controlled division competed internally for resources, rather than being independent and managed on its own. This business model had worked for IH for many decades, but as with most big companies, major changes in foundational structure come slowly.
It became increasingly clear that the Light Line, which included the legendary Scout, no longer fit the IH business model. Some in the boardroom had harped for many years to excise the Light Line completely. By the end of 1974, that process was underway and though an abbreviated '75 model line debuted, the last International light truck rolled off the line on April 28 and that was that. The Scout carried the Light Line load until the end of 1980, when it too was cut for largely the same reasons.
The overall light truck model line had been consolidated for 1974. The four-digit model designations were replaced by three digits. The 1210 3/4-ton and 1310 1-ton 4x4s were replaced by the 200 line, which came in a range of three GVWs: 6,800, 7,200 or 7,700 pounds on a 132-inch wheelbase. Body types included a chassis cab, standard (step side) bed, and Bonus Load (smooth side) beds.
A large selection of engines was available. The base was the 6-258, AMC's 258ci inline-six, which made 113 hp and 191 lb-ft of torque. Next up was the V-304A, which cranked out 137 hp and 133 lb-ft. A very popular choice for the 200 line was the V-345 two-barrel engine that put out 144 hp and 263 lb-ft (or 156 hp/269 lb-ft with dual exhaust). The top-dog engine was the V-392 International: a four-barrel medium-duty truck engine that made 179 hp and 297 lb-ft (or 193 hp/305 lb-ft with dual exhaust). Both of the bigger engines were stump pullers that delivered peak horsepower at 3,600 rpm, and the only significant difference between them and the medium-duty truck installation was a governor and tuning.
The powertrain also had lots of options, starting with a standard T-331 three-speed manual. From there, you had the choice of wide (T-427) or close ratio (T-428) four-speed manuals and even a pair of five-speed manuals, one with an overdrive Fifth (T-494) and one a close-ratio box for towing (T-496) with a 1:1 Fifth. The automatic was Chrysler's TF727 Torqueflite (IH T-407), a new addition for International that replaced a Borg-Warner unit. The standard transfer case was a single-speed chain drive (TC-143), with a $54 NP205 (TC-142) as an option. The driving front axle was a Dana 44 with a 3,400-pound rating standard and 3,500-pound rating with the higher GVW packages. The rear axle was a Dana 60 full-floater in the 4x4 range with no alternatives.
The interior trim level varied from a bare bones, hose-out truck, to a nicely appointed Deluxe, to the plush Custom, which included carpets and nylon insert seats in four colors. Outside, the Deluxe exterior got you a little extra chrome and hubcaps with 17 color choices. The Custom exterior got you a two-tone paint scheme, with a choice of available two styles.
The truck you see here was bought new by the current owner, Tom Thayer, on March 15, 1974. It's a 7,700-pound GVW truck, the highest rating you could get in a 200 4x4, with a Bonus Load bed and the Camper Special package. It was the Thayer daily driver until 1983, when his firm gave him a company car. From that point, it was used when a truck was needed, and in all that time, it has only acquired 118,000 miles.
Tom Thayer has an extensive collection of restored or mint-original IH Scouts and trucks, so a few years back he decided the old truck needed a little sprucing up. He sent it down to Scout Connection in Iowa, and they did a frame-off cosmetic restoration, though not much was needed mechanically and the interior was pristine. Now, the truck looks like the day he drove it home from Rich Truck Sales and Service way back in 1974, and it runs just as well too.
The Details:
'74 International 200 4x4 Camper Special
Owner: Tom Thayer
Estimated value: $25,000
Engine: 345ci two-barrel (IH V-345)
Power (hp): 156 @ 3,800
Torque (lb-ft): 287 @ 2,000
Bore & stroke (in): 3.875 x 3.656
Comp. ratio: 8.05:1
Transmission: 4-speed manual, IH T-428 (T-19A close ratio)
Transfer case: 2-speed, IH TC-142 (NP-205)
Front axle: IH FA-63 ( Dana 44, 3,500lb)
Rear axle: IH RA-17 (Dana 60 FF, w/Powr-Lok)
Axle ratio: 3.73:1
Tires: 8.75-16.5, 10-ply
L x W x H (in): 202.8 x 77.6 x 73.8
Wheelbase (in): 132
GVW (lbs): 7,700
Curb weight (lbs): 4,340
Fuel capacity (gal): 16 x 2
Min. grd. clearance (in): 7.3
Approach angle (deg): 24
Departure angle (deg): 22
Ramp breakover (deg): NA


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His children are falling from the sky. He watches from horseback, acres of England stretching behind him; they drop, giltwinged, each with a blood-filled gaze. Grace Cromwell hovers in thin air. She is silent when she takes her prey, silent as she glides to his fist. But the sounds she makes then, the rustle of feathers and the creak, the sigh and riffle of pinion, the small cluck-cluck from her throat, these are sounds of recognition, intimate, daughterly, almost disapproving. Her breast is gore-streaked and flesh clings to her claws.
Later, Henry will say, 'Your girls flew well today.' The hawk Anne Cromwell bounces on the glove of Rafe Sadler, who rides by the king in easy conversation. They are tired; the sun is declining, and they ride back to Wolf Hall with the reins slack on the necks of their mounts. Tomorrow his wife and two sisters will go out. These dead women, their bones long sunk in London clay, are now transmigrated. Weightless, they glide on the upper currents of the air. They pity no one. They answer to no one. Their lives are simple. When they look down they see nothing but their prey, and the borrowed plumes of the hunters: they see a flittering, flinching universe, a universe filled with their dinner.
All summer has been like this, a riot of dismemberment, fur and feather flying; the beating off and the whipping in of hounds, the coddling of tired horses, the nursing, by the gentlemen, of contusions, sprains and blisters. And for a few days at least, the sun has shone on Henry. Sometime before noon, clouds scudded in from the west and rain fell in big scented drops; but the sun re-emerged with a scorching heat, and now the sky is so clear you can see into Heaven and spy on what the saints are doing.
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I'm wondering what if.
What if the football hadn't gone over the wall.
What if Hector had never gone looking for it.
What if he hadn't kept the dark secret to himself.
What if . . .
Then I suppose I would be telling myself another story.
You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
Miss Connolly, our old teacher, always said start your story at the beginning. Make it a clean window for us to see through. Though I don't really think that's what she meant. No one, not even Miss Connolly, dares write about what we see through that smeared glass. Best not to look out. If you have to, then best to keep quiet. I would never be so daft as to write this down, not on paper.
Even if I could, I couldn't.
You see, I can't spell my own name.
Standish Treadwell.
Can't read, can't write,
Standish Treadwell isn't bright.
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I said that again to myself. 'Then there is Standish, with an imagination that breezes through the park, doesn't even see the benches, just notices that there is no dog shit where dog shit should be.'
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Adam had, for the occasion, bought a new suit. He had wavered between dandyish black, chalk-striped and double-breasted, and a more traditional two-button jacket in deep navy wool. After some consideration he had chosen the navy. It seemed a more appropriate suit for a man who was newly engaged.
And now he was in the suit and in synagogue, considering the stained-glass windows that painted a dappled light, pale rose and paler sapphire, on to the painted faces in the women's gallery. There were three of these windows – a red-flamed golden candelabra for Chanukah; a rainbow in a cobalt sky with white leaded doves swooping beneath its arch, and a third pane in which acid-green palm trees framed the two rounded silvery tablets of the Decalogue, an orange and lemon sunburst above them. Beneath this one sat Rachel Gilbert between her mother and her grandmother, looking intently at the pulpit. Adam, in turn, lowered his eyes from the windows and looked intently at Rachel.
They had been together since they were sixteen – twelve years last summer. For twelve years she had been his girlfriend and now, for a week, she had been his fiancée. And it all felt different. He could never have anticipated the shift, profound and inarticulable, that had taken place when he had seen the ring over which he had agonised winking on Rachel's slender finger. It was more than possession, more than union, more than love. It was absolute confidence. It was certainty, and a promise of certainty always.
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"Hawk and Shadow"
I watched a hawk
glide low across the hill,
her own dark shape
in her talons like a kill.
She tilted her wings,
fell into the air –
the shadow coursed on
without her, like a hare.
Being out of sorts
with my so-called soul,
part unhooked hawk,
part shadow on parole,
I played fast and loose:
keeping one in sight
while forsaking the other.
The hawk gained height:
her mate on the ground
began to fade,
till hill and sky were empty,
and I was afraid.
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Muscles, But Were Afraid to Ask!
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…OR..."The Underappreciated Role of Muscle in Health and Disease"...
…which is the title of some research published about 10 years ago, and which is particularly relevant to many topics on this site.
So, Muscle? Did you know...you have quite a lot of it? Not just biceps and triceps, or a 'six-pack', the show-off muscles which is probably what people think of when the subject of muscles is raised. You have muscle all over your body. In fact quite a large amount of your body is muscle.
Skeletal muscle is the correct way to describe it. It's attached to your skeleton, and it enables you to move - and to be still, to stand, for instance, or to sit. The other muscles in your body, in case you're interested, are 'smooth' muscle, which makes up the system for propelling food around your digestive tract, and 'cardiac' muscle, which is your heart, of course.
A good estimate is that the percentage of your body that is skeletal muscle is between 28% and 39% for women and between 38% and 54% for men. Are you surprised just how high those figures are? Surprised or not, it follows that since skeletal muscle makes up such a high percentage of your body, if you don't look after it, that's a large proportion of your body going downhill.
Why is it so important? One reason is that loss of muscle can mean a seriously reduced capacity to perform everyday activities, let alone all the sports that Silver Grey athletes take part in. We have also reported on how exercise, which maintains muscle, contributes to brain health. Now we have come across another piece of research, which describes the many ways in which muscle is fundamental to overall health as well.
The research is the aforementioned "The Underappreciated Role of Muscle in Health and Disease" and was carried out by Robert R Wolfe at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. Here is some of what it says.
1. All one's internal organs and vital tissue require a constant supply of amino acids in order to function properly. Apart from when you eat food and digest it, at which time the supply comes direct from the gut, muscles are the principal source of this requirement. To quote the report "Muscle plays a central role in whole-body protein metabolism by serving as the principal reservoir for amino acids to maintain protein synthesis in vital tissues and organs in the absence of amino acid absorption from the gut".
Therefore too little muscle mass results in your internal organs not being able to operate as effectively as they might. Rather gruesomely, post mortem inspection of people who have starved to death has found that the final nail in the coffin (so to speak) comes when muscle loss has advanced to the point where there is not enough muscle to supply your internal organs with the amino acids they require so they stop functioning!
2. Muscle mass helps the body to survive stressful situations, when the requirement for protein and amino acids rises. Again to quote "The stressed state, such as that associated with sepsis, advanced cancer, and traumatic injury, imposes greater demands for amino acids from muscle protein ….". Therefore the ability to cope with serious injury or critical illness is diminished by loss of muscle mass.
3. The same can be said of the ability to deal with chronic disease.
4. Having an adequate amount of muscle is an important contributor to the body's ability to maintain a healthy level of body fat. The body's energy balance is the relationship between energy taken in and energy used. Too much taken in and too little used up results in a build up of body fat. A principal factor in determining a body's energy use is its Resting Energy Expenditure (REE), which is the amount of energy - measured in calories - that the body uses simply by being. The more muscle one has, the higher one's REE, due to muscle being an active body part even when at rest (whereas body fat is a passive body part and uses no calories just by being).
So more muscle means that more of the energy taken in (as food) is used even before adding in the energy used for any physical movement such as walking, carrying something, exercising and so on.
5. Alterations in the metabolic function of muscle are seen to be a likely factor in the onset of type 2 diabetes.
6. Maintaining muscle is an important contributor to countering osteoporosis, something that is particularly important for women. Again quoting from the report "Mechanical force on bone is essential for modelling and remodelling, processes that increase bone strength and mass. Whereas body weight and weight-bearing exercises provide a direct mechanical force on bones, the largest voluntary loads on bone are proposed to come from muscle contractions".
Basically, resistance exercise, which maintains / increases muscle mass, also maintains bone density.
So here are ways in which muscle maintenance contributes to overall health.
The relevance to age is that, to quote from a study from 2000 published in the Journal of Applied Physiology "The amount of muscle you have in your body, …. decreases as you age and dramatically after age 45" something mentioned earlier.
This is not news, of course. It is well known that muscle is easily lost, once you get past 50 or so, through atrophy or muscle wastage. For instance internet physician Dr Michael Roizen says "We lose an average of 5 percent of our muscle mass every 10 years after the age of 35 —." This loss is known as Sarcopenia, and we think that it is a major factor in the reduction of people's ability to deal with the world and in reduced quality of life.
However, all is not lost as the critically important part of Dr Roizen's statement is the second part where he goes on to say " - if we don't do anything about it".
And at SGSC one of our core messages is that you can do something about it.
There are many studies that report that in age there is less ability to build muscle to counter muscle loss through Sarcopenia. The best that can be hoped for is to get as much muscle as you need at the age when you can build muscle and then do what you can to keep it or at least to lose it as slowly as possible.
But at SGSC we are not of the opinion that muscle can't be built later in life.
When we - in our sixties - are lucky enough to do a lot of surfing, say, during the summer months, the effect on our physiques is quite noticeable - as it also is when we work with weights in the gym at any time of the year. Similarly, when we were interviewing then 95 year old world record holder Dr Charles Eugster, his physical trainer Sylvia Gattiker related an experiment she had conducted in which she worked with some residents of an old people's home and who were able to substantially build lower body muscle under her training regime. On top of that, she has certainly enabled Dr Eugster to come back from the Sarcopenia he suffered in his eighties. And there is a hard-to-find, but highly entertaining documentary, from Leopard Films, entitled "Bodybuilding Pensioners"? Those people certainly are not demonstrating an inability to build muscle!
And finally, there is also scientific research to support that idea. Scientists at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston say you can build muscle well after the age of fifty - which is the age at which the traditional viewpoint has it that you can no longer build muscle. They have done tests which showed the exact opposite : older bodies are just as good as young ones at turning protein-rich food into muscle.
So even if you are not interested to go down the competitive body-building route (we're not!), maintaining your muscle to a functional level is one of the best things you can do for yourself. So make sure you include strength exercises as part of your regular exercise regime.
And if you do build up some of that "show-off" muscle, then maybe one might have to accept that a 'little' vanity does have some benefits to health too!!


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NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - "Boardwalk Empire" star Paz de la Huerta is being sued by a reality star whom she allegedly attacked last month.
In a law suit filed Friday in New York City, Samantha Swetra, who starred on MTV's "The City," claims she suffered permanent injuries after the HBO actress punched her and then threw a glass at her, cutting her leg, in a posh hotel bar.
Swetra was "assaulted, beaten and battered" so viciously that she sustained "severe" physical and emotional injuries ... "some of which injuries are permanent in nature," the law suit reads.
Swetra is suing for unspecified damages.
De la Huerta was arraigned Tuesday in New York on assault and other charges related to the incident. De la Huerta's lawyer said at the time that she is "asking people not to rush to judgment."
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