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Recently a Detroit public high school that focuses on farming and second chances for young mothers was added to a list of schools that would be closed this summer. Catherine Ferguson Academy is on that list thanks to a new law that allows Michigan governor Rick Snyder to dismiss locally elected officials and put in place new ones. (I'll let Rachel Maddow give the details in the video, below).
You might have heard that Detroit lost 25 percent of its population in the last decade. What has resulted is a lot of abandoned land and a lot of blight. And yet, Detroit is also home to an urban agriculture Renaissance, with projects like the Greening of Detroit and D-Town Farm, among others. Catherine Ferguson Academy is just one such place that offers opportunities in growing food to those who need it most.
Principal Asenath Andrews recognized that opportunity and created a vision that helped propel her students to success. "I need to figure out how kids can make around $20,000 a year minimum farming," she said in a film that features the school, Grown in Detroit. Her graduation rate is 90 percent, and all of her students are being taught and tested with the expectation that they will go on to college. She even helps them find the money to make that happen. Meanwhile, they grow vegetables, raise animals, and are given childcare and health services at the school. Their school and work were even featured by Oprah's magazine.
The students aren't taking this threat to close their school lightly. Last week, some were even arrested as they protested the move.
If you feel moved to support the school, you can sign a petition here, and there is a fundraiser going to pay the legal fees of those fighting the closure here.
Here is Rachel Maddow's coverage of the story from last Friday:
Photo: via Grown in Detroit
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- Wednesday, April 27th, 2011The action against the school is one of the smallest and meanest things I've seen in a long time. What happened to our country?
- Wednesday, April 27th, 2011I used to live in Michigan, Detroit specifically. That city has the potential to be great. There are beautiful people who live there and it is not the dangerous place that the media will have you believe. The problem with Detroit and other cities in Michigan is that every time someone takes a step forward towards making it a better place the people in power (city government, business owners, state government) create actions that go two steps back. No progress. You drive thru that city and there are lots and lots of abandoned land left over from the shrinking population of the city. What a wonderful idea to turn them into farms. Farms to feed people in a city where no major chains of grocery stores exist. And better yet teach a skill you to young mothers and send them off to college. Great idea! But not in Michigan :-( So sad
- Friday, April 29th, 2011Wow. This is horrible to read about! I was in Detroit for the US Social Forum last year and that city is doing some wonderful things! In spite of the government.
I hope that since Oprah featured the school (and profited from it by having it on her show), she'll step in and make sure this school survives financially.
- Saturday, April 30th, 2011It's official-- Big Brother is here and he really, REALLY doesn't want you to have a prayer of getting out of poverty, let alone thinking independently. It used to be that America was the land of opportunity, and that hard work could improve your life. Now if you work too hard, you'll be punished for daring to step out of your place. This is American injustice at it's finest, and we as a country CANNOT continue to let it happen! http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph
- Saturday, April 30th, 2011YES in Michigan! And every state!
This is not just about one school, although I love this school dearly. It is about all Detroit public schools, and really all of public education and whether we actually will have democracy and demand equality for all.
Pleas read the demands of the CFA protest:
• No School Closings
•Keep All Detroit Schools Public – No More Charters or Privatization
•Reinstate all programs and services that have been eliminated, including art & music as well as counselors & social workers
•Student Control of Curriculum and School Character to assure that every Detroit school provides equal, quality education for all
•No discipline or retaliation against any of the participants in the occupation
Read more at http://www.bamn.com/doc/2011/110415-catherine-ferguson.asp


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It has reported that newly-qualified solicitors in Scotland employed in the large commercial firms have been able to claims starting salaries of up to £38,000; furthermore, junior partners have reported six-figure salaries and there has been a marked increase in the salaries commanded by lawyers between three and five years post-qualification throughout Scotland. Not to be left out or forgotten, in-house lawyers have also seen rises in various key sectors.
It is believed that the financial services market in Edinburgh, which has remained strong and has even seen an increase in activity over the past 12 months despite political turmoil in the UK and the US, may have contributed to the increase in lawyer salaries across the country.
The key sectors in which in-house lawyers have increasingly been in demand have been energy, manufacturing, biotechnology and technology. This has been particularly true of companies based in Glasgow.
It is not all good news, however, as the gas and oil market continues to face a slow recovery. This has resulted in many Aberdeen lawyers choosing to relocate further south.
In-house positions are proving a popular choice for lawyers in Scotland. Thomson Legal's report states that one-third of lawyers intend to look for a move in-house within the next year; furthermore, it states that any Scottish lawyer considering a relocation who has experience within the sectors of corporate law, banking or finance law are likely to find many attractive opportunities. In particular, Magic Circle firms and US law firms that have a London presence continue to search for talented lawyers in these areas.
For lawyers who practise within a more specialist subject area, there are opportunities available; however, these are thinner on the ground.
Despite the employment opportunities in existence, Thomson Legal has reported that there is a general air of unease about making any moves at all in the post-Brexit referendum economic and political climate.
Accordingly, whilst many individual lawyers and some firms are undoubtedly very cautious in terms of new employment opportunities as a result of Brexit and the presidential election in the US, there remains a huge amount of positivity in the legal scene in Scotland. A number of Scottish law firms have taken strategic mergers and others are expanding their focus into new sectors. Far from the stagnant market that may perhaps be expected, there appears to be a genuine pool of talented lawyers in Scotland who are making opportunities happen.
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Glasgow Shopping Guide – where and what to shop and buy
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With the second largest retail centre in the UK, Glasgow is Scotland's shopping capital. Whether you're after big brand names, luxury outlets or smaller stores, Glasgow caters for any budget or style. In the heart of the city is the "Style Mile", a district dense with independent boutiques, high street names and memorable malls, all within strolling distance. Refuelling is easy, with plenty of pitstops in the shape of Glasgow's lively cafés, bars and restaurants.
Barras Market
Towards the east end of Glasgow, Barras Market has been operating since the early 20th century and is a complete contrast to the sleek modernity of the Style Mile. Passing under its towering metal gate you'll find yourself amid an array of old fashioned market stalls selling everything from vintage clothes to home-made sweets – you might even have your fortune read, if you dare. Even if you don't buy a thing, just ambling around, chatting to the colourful characters and veteran sellers makes for a lively and memorable day out in Glasgow.
Argyle Street
Glasgow's epic shopping thoroughfare, Argyle Street is where you'll find the major outposts of well-known high street stores. Expect massive, multi-level shopping experiences and bustling crowds, although there are plenty of nooks and side streets to seek refuge in, where smaller shops await. One example is Argyll Arcade – note the different spelling – which is where numerous jewellers call home. In this warren of genteel and high-end shops, windows gleam and glitter with engagement rings, watches and other treasures.
Buchanan Street
Decked with elegant Victorian buildings, Buchanan Street is another of Glasgow's primary shopping destinations. From well-known fashion brands to footwear and beauty shops, Buchanan Street is a busy hive of activity where a lot of the city's high-end retailers can be found. Towards one end of the street stands the Buchanan Galleries shopping mall, resplendent with a collection of popular high street retailers as well as smaller specialist stores. As night falls, the street is bathed in dazzling electric-blue streetlights, making it an atmospheric area to end your shopping spree and refuel in the surrounding bars and restaurants.
Merchant Square
Merchant Square is a quaint, historic oasis in the city centre, and on most weekends it offers a relaxing environment to peruse smaller craft stalls. Whether you need a special gift for your loved ones, or a unique trinket to remember your trip by, you can wander around its historic walkways receiving the most personal shopping experience in Glasgow. When you're finished for the day, you can drop the shopping bags and savour a range of craft ales and authentic Scottish cuisine in one of Merchant Square's many bars and restaurants.
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It has been 7 months since Mencap opened its first charity shop in Bury. The brand new retail movement is part of Mencap's ambitious plan to open 120 stores by 2022.
At the heart of this project are our volunteers who give up their time to support the running of their local shop. Each volunteer contributes something unique to that shop and provide essential support to the team, like Elliot Reed, a volunteer at the Bury Donation Station store, the very first Mencap store.
Meet Elliot...
I have been volunteering since January 2017 with Mencap. I am looking for work at the moment and wasn't doing anything. My mum donates to the Mencap store and she heard about the volunteering opportunities, that is how I heard about the volunteering opportunity. I had not heard of Mencap before starting to volunteer with them.
I love volunteering with Mencap at their store. I help the van driver load the vans and sometimes assist on local deliveries. I also help people to sign up to Gift Aid when they donate to the store. This means we can claim the VAT back if they pay tax. I enjoy volunteering, I volunteer on a Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Tuesdays are really busy in the shop.
Since volunteering with Mencap I have become much more confident and have more work experience and really like meeting new people.
Working alongside the volunteers are a Store Manager and a Store Assistant.
At the moment we have 10 volunteers working with us in store. Working with volunteers has been great and from the start we have asked volunteers to commit at least 4 hours per week. This has really helped the team to gel as a family.
Julie Sloan, Store Manager
Meet John...
In Bury we not only recruited volunteers who had never heard of Mencap, but also a volunteer who is a Mencap tenant in Rochdale. On Tuesdays John Dingivan volunteers with two of his support staff too. John has been volunteering for a couple of months, and here is his story.
John was donating some of his old things after a clear out at home to the store in Bury, and asked about volunteering. John's main role is to get the old books off of the shelves and bag them up, to be circulated to other stores. Then to sort through the new books into story books and fact books and to put the stickers on them. John then puts the books back out into the shop.
This role is structured to support John and suits him very well, and John enjoys his cuppa at the end of his shift. Volunteering has given him the opportunity to go out and about on a Tuesday and meet new people. John surprised us all a few weeks ago by coming to the rescue of one his colleagues who was struggling with some heavy boxes.
Lesley James, Support Worker (pictured above, and with John and Support Worker Michael below)
John and Elliot both provide great support to Julie and her team. Julie is always on the lookout for more volunteers to join her team, as are the other stores opening soon.
So Julie's message to anyone thinking of volunteering is:
Join our team! We really are like a family, even with the regular customers who come into store. It is a great place to meet new people and we will find a role to suit you within the store.
Visit our volunteering recruitment site to find out about the latest exciting opportunities in your area!


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In the State of Florida and other States, amusement parks and theme parks provide fun and excitement in the form of roller coaster rides, carousel rides, ferris wheel rides, and rides. Some amusement park rides go quite slow and involve little force, friction, or height. However, any mechanical ride can pose a threat to riders if there is a malfunction, design defect, or operation error. This is especially the case with roller coasters that involve great heights, sharp turns, and twists and turns at high speeds. A recent incident that took place in Daytona Beach, Florida at the Daytona Beach Boardwalk. It was reported that two riders fell from the Sand Blaster Roller Coaster ride. There were a total of nine riders injured as a result of the incident. For more information regarding this incident, see Roller Coast Ride Accident – Daytona Beach – Personal Injuries and History of Ride Inspections by the State of Florida.
With most legal cases involving a personal injury, there are four elements of the case to establish as follows:
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Ever wanted to split a list into several smaller lists? Now you can without needing to export or import anything. The new Split action allows to randomly divide a list into two or more new lists. You have the option to choose the distribution percentages or to evenly distribute them.
- It is important to note that when prospects are split onto the lists, they are done so randomly. This means that if you split the same list the same way twice using this tool, you will NOT get the same prospects on the resulting lists.


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The formula of this mascara is more to the dry side, even if it looks slightly wet off the tube. I had no difficulties in applying this even all over my eyelashes.
As for staying power, I would say they did an excellent job on my thin lashes throughout the humid weather of our lovely Jakarta. Sure it didn't look exactly like it was when it was first applied, but it did a pretty good job staying in place, being waterproof and all.
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I just realized today that I haven't written a post yet about the Shaun T's new T25 workout program. Anyways, it's been out for about 2 months, and from what I'm hearing it's one heck of a program! I haven't started it yet because I'm waiting to go through it with Melinda after we have our baby in October, meaning it will be a November or December start date. Once she's able to start, we are going to do a T25/Body Beast hybrid program. I do know quite a bit about the program, though, since so many of the people I coach and coaches on my team have been going through it, and I'm going to break it down below.
What is T25?
First of all, what is T25? It's actually called Focus T25, and it's just as the name sounds, 25 minutes of insane non-stop exercises where you're completely focused. What Shaun T did was pretty much break down an hour workout into 25 minutes, and yes, that means it's crazy! You work out 5 times per week, and on the 5th day you double the workouts, so you will be doing 50 minutes instead of just 25. If you start on Monday, you will have Saturday and Sunday off each week, and trust me you will need it! This program is definitely TOUGH!
What is the T25 Schedule?
There are actually three separate phases of T25. The first, called Alpha, is obviously the least difficult and teaches you the basics of the program and how to stay focused during the entire workout. The 2nd phase, Beta, focuses more on the core, and is more difficult than Alpha. Gamma is the last phase and of course is the most difficult of the three phases, and focuses more on strength and muscle building.
Who should do Focus T25?
The great thing about this program is that most people can do it, even if you haven't gone through a Beachbody program before. Even though it is a tough workout, there are modified versions of the exercises that are shown in each of the videos. There is nothing telling you that you can't pause it either. If you struggle, pause, catch your breath, and then pick back up where you left off. Just keep pushing yourself so that you're making progress each week. If you're already in great shape, this is just another program that will challenge you and help you get into better shape! Another great thing about this program is that it's just 25 minutes, so if you're like most people and short on time, you can now get in an incredible workout without spending an hour or two doing it. It completely eliminates the excuse "I don't have time to work out." Before you do any program, though, you need to make sure that it's OK with your doctor!
Where can I purchase T25?
Since I'm a Beachbody Coach, you can order directly from the links I give you below! There are a few options available for you.
(1) T25 Challenge Pack (On sale for $180 until the end of August). With this option you will get the program and get started on Shakeology Home Direct, a meal replacement that I've been taking every day for the past 3 years. You will also receive the Alpha and Beta phases, workout calendar, nutrition guide, Stretch workout, 5 day fast start, and 15 lbs resistance bands.
(2) T25 Base Kit ($119.85). This is just like the Challenge Pack that I listed above, but without the Shakeology. However, for just $60 more, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND that you get the Challenge Pack!
(3) Gamma DVD's ($59.85). This is an optional add-on that many people end up getting after they complete the first two phases of the program. With this kit you will get addition workouts and a plan to complete those workouts over a 20 day period.
If you're crunched on time and looking for a tough and effective workout, Focus T25 is the way to go! Like I mentioned above, I can't wait to try it out here in a few months!


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A friend of mine recently told me that he spends most of the weekend in his shed. "Why on earth would you do that? Have you that many DIY jobs???" I replied incredulously. "Well", he replied with a smile, "it's not the DIY that brings me there, it's all the other stuff!"
Though he dearly loves his wife and kids and would do just about anything for them, he told me that sometimes, he just needed to get away. For months on end, he'd try to go for a run, pop down to the pub for a pint or escape for a game of golf. Somehow, it didn't work. He felt guilty about leaving his wife to deal with the never-ending demands of the kids and felt he ought to be there with her. After weeks of wrecking his own head, trying to find a solution for this problem, he suddenly came up with a cunning plan – and this is how the man shed was born.
He realized that he could spend his time in the shed if only he could find a way of keeping his wife and kids out………Soon after, he did and I will tell you exactly how he created the perfect man-shed:
- Come Up With A Tough DIY Task That Will Take Ages to Complete: What he told me was, that he created a big job for himself, with the intention of never finishing it. Of course only he knew that, but his wife and kids were impressed by his ambition and enthusiasm.
- Set the Scene and Fill Your Shed With Dangerous Tools and Toxic Substances: To keep his wife and kids out, he filled his shed with dangerous tools and lots of poisonous DIY type substances giving his wife and kids stern warnings to keep away.
- Smuggle in the Real Stuff in the Middle of the Night: He completed his task by filling his shed with a TV, fridge full of beer, Wi-Fi, cigars and lots of other real man stuff. Heaven had been recreated and life couldn't have been better.
- Enjoy: He spent the next 50 weekends in his shed, beavering away at his tough DIY job…. He watched all the live games on TV, drank beer and even had the occasional flutter on the horses. "I must be the happiest man alive", he sighed "I couldn't ask for more here!"
Occasionally, he'd feel a tiny bit guilty, but only just, until the day when his wife casually mentioned that she had regularly watched her favorite soap while sipping some champagne – in his shed. "How long has this been going on?", my friend demanded to know. "Oh, just about a year now", she replied with a bright grin.
He finished his big job pretty quickly after that, but the shed still stands tall. The only thing is that now, he occasionally has to let his wife and kids enjoy his little haven.


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I'm so glad you're here.
In the middle of our chaos, cutting through the noise of busy lives and restless souls, echoes an invitation.
Can you hear it?
Like a fresh breeze on a summer day, a Voice beckons us to come and be still. To stop with our striving and trying so hard to be enough. To quit performing, and just rest.
"Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light" (Jesus, in Matthew 11:28-30, emphasis mine).
I used to doubt Jesus' words, to secretly believe this kind of soul rest was impossible. Until my good girl life crumbled and I reencountered Jesus. He dazzled my weary soul with the beauty of who He really is.
He taught me that rest comes from knowing Him deeply. From trusting in His love and full acceptance, made possible by what He's done for me, not by what I do for Him. From doing life with Him instead of for Him.
So whether you're a busy mom, a worn-out good girl, or a weary traveler looking for a quiet spot to breathe, you've come to the right place.
I hope you'll pull up a chair and join the conversation as we explore together what it looks like to live from a heart of rest.
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Thanksgiving is approaching, and so it is time to ponder some of my perennial favorite dinner wines for this particular holiday. When it comes to pairing wine, two things count most to me: the bird and the trimmings. Turkey is a naturally lean flesh, making it a perfect companion to fruity or even sweeter wines, such as Riesling, Pinot Gris, Beaujolais, or some Pinot Noir. The trimmings tend to be better off when eaten with the reds in this list: my stuffing tends to have Italian sausage in it, and loves being wedded to more rustic Burgundies, while cranberry sauce is a natural pairing with Beaujolais, itself often hinting at cranberry fruit aromas. We also usually have some form of mushroom dish, which can harmonize beautifully with the notes of truffles and earth in Pinot Noir.
And Pinot Noir is the subject of this posting. The 2007 Cono Sur Pinot Noir, Chilean in origin, is a delightful value, perfect as the second red wine poured during Thanksgiving. I first tasted this wine's 2005 vintage, and was equally impressed. It shows an intense brick red in the glass, with bright berry fruit, particularly raspberries, on the nose combining with truffles and dried leaves, with just a touch of meatiness. The mouthfeel is a tasty mix of suppleness and zesty acidity, balanced to just a hint of oak. A great introductory Pinot, although definitely New World in style; you need to appreciate this wine for what it is, instead of holding a Burgundian grudge. Simple and fine. $8.


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Marvin Rettenmaier entered the 2012 WPT Championship final table as the massive chip leader.
Then he lost it.
Then he went on to win anyway.
At one point in heads-up play, Rettenmaier was at a 4-to-1 chip disadvantage. But he battled back, defeating Philippe Ktorza to win the title.
For the win, Rettenmaier banks $1,196,858. This marks the second lowest ever WPT Championship first place prize (Season 1, won by Alan Goehring, was for just over $1M). Ktorza earns $805,310 for second.
Along with Goehring, Rettenmaier joins the following WPT Championship winners: Martin De Knijff, Tuan Le, Joe Bartholdi, Carlos Mortensen, David Chiu, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, David Williams, and Scott Seiver.
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi finished third ($424,618), Nick Schulman fourth ($256,235), Steve O'Dwyer fifth ($192,176), and
Trevor Pope sixth ($155,571).
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This elegant marking gauge is really three tools in one — a wheel gauge, a pin gauge, and a cutting gauge.
The unique swiveling pin/blade chuck takes either a pin or a blade that locks in place (after extension is set) using a set screw in the end of the 115mm gauge stem. The cutting blade can be set for either right- or left-handed use. The opposite end of the stem is tapped to accept a 9.5mm diameter wheel cutter.
The fence and the internal portion of the locking collet are a single eccentric brass turning. The collet fingers have just enough stem friction to hold a projection setting while you lock it in place with a half turn of the knurled locking sleeve. The 25.4mm diameter fence is eccentric to maximize rub depth. A side benefit is that it also prevents the gauge from rolling off the workbench.
Comes complete with a dozen spare blades, two hardened steel pins, a wheel cutter and screw, and a hex key. Extra stems are available separately for those who prefer to switch heads as quickly as possible.
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Who's Who: Gemma Hunt
Introducing another one of the presenters of the Alpha Film Series
Gemma Hunt is a BAFTA award-winning TV presenter. Gemma has been working in TV since 2003, on CBBC and CBeebies programmes including the pirate gameshowSwashbuckle. She also presents live at festivals around the UK and runs workshops in presenting skills.


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With Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning coming out in just a couple months, Big Huge Games and 38 Studios have released an 8-minute-long trailer that goes in-depth with the game's combat mechanics.
It's been compared to both Fable and The Elder Scrolls, and those comparisons seem apt. In this video, the designers explain that they want the combat to feel visceral without players missing out on all the RPG elements that they'll expect. Check it out and let us know what you think in the comments or on Facebook or Twitter.


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Dresden Files New Haven
Greg Wherther
Caffeine Wizard
Portrayed by Seth Rogen
Hi, my name is Greg Wherther, the great grandson of Hans Wherther………You should recognize my family name from Wherther's Candy. 《Keeping with Brent's tradition 》
I didn't need to work my way through college that left plenty of free time on top of my studies to explore the world around me and then I found a better fulfillment in life helping at the shelter and food kitchen rather than my elected study in finances. I finished school to the delight of my family.
One day after dinner my mother stared at me differently as if studying me. It felt like a long pause in time when my mother requested me into the other room in the house to speak privately. She spoke of how I reminded me of her father who I had only seen once briefly and then never heard of again nor heard my my speak of my Grandfather no matter how I pestered her. She told me how at first she enjoyed listening to my experiences and adventures until today when she realized I was following the same path as her father. She did not care where I worked or where I volunteered, her concern was that I was about to discover something not to be spoken of and to not follow that path. It was a awkward conversation and then she just left the room without another word and never spoke of it again. The conversation made ponder endlessly about what she was talking about and what happened to my Grandfather. It was if there was a burnt spot in your mouth you should leave alone only to constantly check with your tongue and inspect.
I took a job at the local coffee shop called Mike's Caffeine Addiction. I have a trust fund that I manage which covers my necessities in life like rent, food, electric, and etc, but having a regular job is something I enjoy. Over a year at the coffee shop I went from being the barista to also taking care of the books to being the manager of the shop. The owner rarely comes into the shop now other than to have a cup of coffee and allows me to do as I please with the place as long as the business is in the black. Although I was making advancements at my "job" which was more of a hobby that sore spot in my mouth was nagging for attention so I answered the call to start following and investigating what happened to my Grandfather. Oddly, I found more leads would almost find me during my time volunteering at the local shelter.
During my research and prodding around what I found is when Detective Claxton approached me at the shelter. He gave me firm warnings that I should not look any further for I may find things I would not like nor may accept. He warned me I may tarnish my memories of my Grandfather until I explained how I never knew my Grandfather and the most my mother told me was when she warned me not to become like him with her cryptic message. Detective Claxton offered to teach me about "stuff" so if I find out anything about my Grandfather I may be prepared and he would meet at the close of the coffee shop the next night to begin my studies. A lot went through my mind trying to figure out what exactly the good Detective was going to teach, but I was not prepared for what I was about to learn.
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Locks the door on his way out and walks across the street to make the bank deposit. Nearly gets run over by a car then followed by a house size cat on the move after the car. George scratches his head at the spectacle and wonders if it is a full moon that night.
Greg is from Western CT but went to UNH (not Yale).
Sometime after graduation, at dinner, his mother "dropped the grandfather bomb" and just left that hanging.
This mystery looms over Gregg.
Gregg then started working at Mike's Coffee Addiction in New Haven, and continued volunteering at a local shelter.
Detective Claxton offered to teach Gregg "stuff" so if he found anything about his grandfather he would be prepared.
Regarding the grandfather and Gregg's connection to him:
Greg only saw his grandfather once, briefly, then never again.
Greg's mother said he reminded her of his grandfather, and that she was concerned he would "discover something not to be spoken of" and did not want him to "follow that path."
Greg actively looked for information on his grandfather, but found less leads that way then just volunteering at the local shelter could produce. There the leads seemed to almost find him.
It is because of this active research and prodding around that he meets Detective Claxton, who knows about Greg's grandfather but warned him not to look any further, for he may find things he wouldn't like or accept.
I have some questions:
Regarding magic:
When did Greg become a Wizard of the White Council? Honestly I have not put much thought into the White Council so when has not become a priority. I wasn't sure I wanted him to be on the WHite Council but it appears he may have no choice or perhaps I should write him that way….hmmmm
Who was Greg's mentor? Detective Claxton
Where did they live? Who is this They you speak of? >:)
Are they on good terms? Again They?
Regarding his grandfather:
Who was he? What if Greg's Grandfather was not a Wizard but something else? Perhaps he was mixed into with the Fey?
What was he? Greg only met him once.
What did he do? Again, only met the fella once.
Are Greg's mother and Det. Claxton the only people who know about him? Are you trying to tell me that Claxton and Greg's Mom are having an affair?
It seems like leads for that information to be found elsewhere aren't too hard to find – why hasn't Greg discovered this information yet? Why is it still a mystery? Maybe he walked in on this affair and it made memory block?
Regarding New Haven:
How long has he been in New Haven for? Almost 7 years now including college.
How long has he worked at the coffee shop for? 5 years and he was working there while in college too. Edit: lets make this his last year of college just for something different to do.
How long has he looked for info on his grandfather? Since he finished college almost 3 years ago.
I may have more questions. I know you might not know all these answers and want to leave them up to us – that's fine, but if you have details you want to make sure we use let us know in your answers.


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Another year gone by and I cannot help but look back and say it was one of the best years of my life;I finally finished up my Mba, got promoted and last but not the least found love and got married .The paris trip was like the chocolate icing on the cake and everything I has imagined or rather never imagined it to be.What more can I say...Sigh.Goodbye 2007.
So 2008 stated with me getting down with a bad cold,cough and fever and it makes me wonder if that was law of averages at strike? Anyways as I was wallowing in my sickness I happened to log into futureme.org; a site where one can write future dated letters but cannot view/edit them once written! So here I was staring at the letter I had written to a 28 year old me and somehow something did not sit well with me. I chickened out! I deleted the letter I had written to myself. I was worried I would not be able to suitably answer with justification all the questions neatly printed in there. Having done that, now I am sitting by my laptop trying to figure out what exactly I had written there? Given that I cannot remember anything ,I guess it will now remain in the realms of unknown now...
Happy new year and how I turned chicken
5 comments:
- Raaga said...
its OK Lipstick... it happens... as long as we make the most of what we have and what life hands us, we should all be fine.
Happy new year!
- January 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM
- Keerti said...
yup so true! Good to know you still stop by...
- January 8, 2008 at 5:33 PM
- Raaga said...
I have problems with blogspot... I can read all your posts on my reader but can't comment because the .blogspot.com won't open!
- January 10, 2008 at 2:34 PM
- Seema said...
If you keep a diary then I guess you don't need such a mail. When you turn the pages of your diary a few years down, you'll realize what you were then and how much you have grown. :)
- January 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM
- Keerti said...
@ fullmoonearth - Nay the point is I had asked an older me some pertinent questions and I felt maybe years down I would not have satisfactory answers.
- January 15, 2008 at 2:51 PM
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Simplify Media - one of the most popular and innovative 'jailbreak' apps for the iPhone - has gone legit and appeared as an official application, allowing people to stream their music (and their friends' too) to their handset.
Simply Media allows you to set up an account that makes your music available to you via streaming (as long as your PC or Mac is on and connected to the web of course).
An install and a free account with Simply Media is all that's required, and you can also add up to 30 friends' libraries as well.
Once up and running you can browse by playlist or album, and you can also get album art and artist bios.
There's a fair amount of surprise floating up that Apple allowed the app to make it through, and whilst the first 100k downloads are free, it could soon cost a pretty penny to install the service.
In other words, if you like the concept, probably best to get it whilst it's hot.


text: West Mignon Hall Hall Director: Bellande Bertrand Designation: Upperclassmen Opened in the fall of 1964, West Mignon Hall was the first building of the Mignon Complex to be completed. The Mignon Complex (composed of 4 residence halls) is named in honor of Mignon Doran, founder of MSU's Personal Development Institute and wife of Morehead State University's 7th President, Adron Doran. The four-story, air- conditioned hall is a four-person suite, private bath facility housing 196 residents. All floors are accessible from the elevator located in the main lobby. Each room is furnished with window blinds, beds, study desks and chairs, closets, bulletin boards, book shelves with lighting underneath, mirrors with lights over the top, a multi-purpose table and chairs, telephone jack with local service (students will need to provide an analog telephone), cable television jack and wired internet port. Study Room Size: 10' X 16'8" Bedroom Size: 10'7" X 16'8" Window Size: 63" X 34" Features Co-Ed by suite Wireless internet throughout the building Laundry facility on the first floor Lounge and study area on the main floor Kitchen on the main floor Elevator Room Floor Plan


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Sooooo, I'm married. That means I am forced to look at a few pics every night from Pintrest of peoples "brilliant" ideas. After I got it through my wife's head that I wasn't gonna just nail a pallet to the wall and say I made something, I decided to see what I could really do with scrap wood. First step, break down some pallets that we get at work all the time. Next, yesterday at work I brought in my sander and borrowed my bosses 12 1/2" planar. Yes I said "at work". What kind of wood working do I do for a living you ask? None, I am a home theater/ low voltage installer. Some days I love my boss!
So I got about two and a half pallets torn apart and salvaged what I could. Lots of red oak and maple. Then a bunch of stuff I can't identify.
I was also surprised to find this nice little piece.
Sorry about the pic quality. I know this isn't an easy task, made harder by the pictures but I was hoping for a little help identifying one of the woods. The two top pieces in the above pic are confusing me. I have about 10 assorted pieces of that wood. The coloring/hue? is very close to red oak, but as you can sort of see the grain is no where near as tight. It is also incredible light, lighter than any pine boards I have ever picked up. Just throwing this out there as the challenge of the day.
Definately have to find something interesting to do with it. What you can't see in any of the pics is I saved 5 stringers of maple, two of red oak and one white oak. So I also have some nice beefier pieces. Next up will be figuring out a project or two to make the wife happy. Thanks for looking and any feedback!


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Mondelez partners with TubeMogul
Online video campaigns launched via the new Mondelez and TubeMogul partnership will be piloted in Canada and the US.
Better control.
When it appointed California-based TubeMogul as its software partner in charge of video ad planning, buying and serving in North America, Mondeléz International immediately took sounder control of its online video advertising strategy, says Grant le Riche, managing director, Canada, of TubeMogul.
The deal, announced Monday, enables the Chicago-based, $35 billion company and proprietor of such popular consumer brands as Cadbury, Nabisco and Tassimo to fully utilize TubeMogul's suite for media buying. The software suite includes Brandpoint, a tool that accurately buys digital video on a gross rating point (GRP) basis.
The programmatic buying offers Mondeléz greater accuracy and transparency when it comes to planning their online video campaigns, says le Riche.
"Without software, you pay a media vendor and you kind of hope you're in certain sites and certain channels where you don't really have site-by-site reporting, the ability for analytics and the frequency capping across your entire buy," le Riche, tells MiC. "Software enables that. so Mondeléz just wanted a lot more control."
Mondeléz obtains that control through MediaVest, the company's North American media agency of record. Approximately 20 MediaVest team members are being trained to optimize TubeMogul's software.
"MediaVest is creating a special programmatic team specifically for Mondeléz to handle the day-to-day trading and strategy, aligning it with the broader TV and broadcast strategy," le Riche says.
Served media bought through premium channels like Rogers, CBC or Shaw will also be audited through the software.
"MediaVest starts getting audited reports on things like viewability, player size and where the ads are running in about 50-plus direct response metrics," says le Riche.
"It shifts a lot more accountability over to MediaVest."
One of the more interesting aspects of the software will be the ability of MediaVest and Mondeléz to determine why certain ads were not viewed.
"There are two reasons why an ad isn't seen. The first one is that the viewer just doesn't want to see your ads, but the second is typically player size, and this is the biggest red flag for not having that seen," says le Riche.
"What we're seeing in the market is that a large chunk of inventory is actually occurring in small banner size players, auto play, unlike what brands actually want – pre-roll players, which are typically much larger, 1000-pixels-plus players. That contributes to better viewability metrics."
Although this project is utilizing Canada and the US as its pilot markets before globally expanding to Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, le Riche maintains that the partnership between Mondeléz and TubeMogul – which had been working together for at least a year prior to Monday's announcement – won't be restricted to online video advertising.
"We'll also be moving towards programmatic TV," says le Riche.
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I have a problem trying to create a simple funnel, as it can be seen on the attached file:
I have tried to look at the internet, trying to write the lines, but it won't work. I am using TikZ. The basic idea with the figure is to show the reader, that I do a delimitation.
If someone can help me or have another better option, I would be glad to hear about that.


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East Morrisania
Ranked 45th best neighborhood in The Bronx
Great for
- Childcare
- Medical Facilities
- Parks & Recreation
- Public Transport
- Schools
Not great for
- Clean & Green
- Lack of Traffic
- Peace & Quiet
- Pest Free
- Safe & Sound
Who lives here?
- Professionals
- Singles
- Families with kids
- Retirees
Got a burning question? Why not ask the locals! Simply ask your question below
East Morrisania
"Not Especially Appealing"
This neighborhood – which also goes by the names of Crotona Park East and Crotona (though this is different from Crotona Ave, which is in East Tremont) – is not exactly tourist material. It doesn't even make the cut for a lovely place to take a walk, or even a somewhat decent place to take a walk. The streets don't offer much in the way of aesthetic pleasure, with low income residential dwellings taking up most of the space in this neighborhood. There are a high number of public housing projects here, which unfortunately add to the ugly nature of the area.


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Etude House Water Color Blusher in Pink 01 Review
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As what it called, it's really really like a water color! the packaging and also the texture of the product itself, very interesting!
first impression:
– creative product idea
– nice packaging
– travel friendly
texture : like a liquid foundation if i can say..
easy to blend in and the color shows up nicely
Applied on my cheek:
final opinion:
i love this product, it's easy to carry and cute :3
the texture is nice and instantly applied on my cheeks using my finger (preferable) or foundation brush. the color shows up nicely in real yet it doesn't stays really long.
overall, it's worth a try!


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Legendary pop princesses and bitches Britney Spears and Lady GaGa will be both teaming up to record a new song, a hit (oh yeah!) together! Yay!
The song which will be written by Spears and Lady Gaga with the help of big-time producers Richard Vission (Hilary Duff), Timbaland (Justin Timberlake) and Miguel Karam (DJ Butterfly) will be produced by the three hit-makers as well.
The song entitled "I Am..." will be recorded on August 20, released on October 13 and a video is expected to be shot sometime in September according to Jive Records rep, Alyson Mamacitta.
Fans are very happy; Britney Spears said it "was an honor working with Lady GaGa" while Lady GaGa said "we'll rock the world and we'll rule it and you'll see!".


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Police are looking for an armed suspect who sexually assaulted a woman in Queens on Saturday.
The suspect followed the 46-year-old victim in the vicinity of Union Street in Flushing about 4:50 p.m., cops said. He forced his way into an undisclosed location and sexually assaulted the woman. The man had a firearm in his waistband, police said.
The woman was transported to Queens General Hospital in stable condition.
The suspect is described as a white male in his 40s, between 6-foot and 6-foot-4, and weighing about 220 lbs. He was last seen wearing a light blue T-shirt, shorts, sneakers and a baseball cap.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 800-577-TIPS. The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website or texting their tips to 274637(CRIMES) then entering TIP577.


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Thursday Theoretical Oscar Category
Welcome to a weekly feature here at Movies With Abe. In my love for everything Oscar, it's always fun to speculate on who or what might have been included given different circumstances. Though there are twenty-four fields recognized on Oscar night, that still neglects a handful of key players. As a result, I'd like to take a look each week at imagined categories, and who or what might have benefited from their existence.
The category: Best Casting
Why it should exist: The role of the casting director is a crucial one, since assembling an ensemble makes the existing Oscar acting categories possible. The Casting Society of America has a handful of separate categories for productions of different financial and thematic natures. Enough people believe that this category is worthwhile that it's been suggested three times in the past fifteen years, last rejected in 2011.
Why it doesn't exist: The Academy's justification was that it was too hard to determine who did the casting in a movie (the director, for instance, might also have been involved), and that there shouldn't be any new categories (an irrelevant objection for our purposes). Most importantly, average viewers aren't particularly interested in hearing speeches from other faces they don't recognize.
Who might have been nominated the past five years:
2011: The Artist, The Descendants, The Help, Margin Call, Moneyball
2010: The Fighter, The King's Speech, The Kids Are All Right, The Social Network, The Town
2009: Inglourious Basterds, The Hurt Locker, Nine, Sherlock Holmes, Up in the Air
2008: The Dark Knight, Doubt, Milk, Revolutionary Road, Star Trek
2007: Hairspray, Into the Wild, Juno, Michael Clayton, No Country for Old Men
Who do you think might have been nominated?


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Announcement of the week! You may have read that I ordered my dream Soul Momiji doll online last week. Well, the little princess is here and I absolutely love her!
She's adorable and worth the £15 I paid for her. Her new name is Miss Derrie Junior 😉
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Yes! This is a new post although duplicated in content and request. All the other requests (dating back to more than 3 years ago) related to this particular topic are marked 'Solved' (look at the url!) -- So, assuming that that may be the reason we are not getting any responses or updates from GoDaddy's team of professionals (because I know they care!), I am restating this request as a new post, in the hopes that we will at the very least get an update from GoDaddy.
I'd like to be able to rearrange the list of PRODUCTS in a manner that suits our needs. At this time, they are arranged in the order the user adds them. We understand that the potential customer or site visitor can arrange by price or A-Z or popularity, etc. While that can be useful, it just is not what are looking for! Why can't the PRODUCTS be rearranged similar to how the CATEGORIES can? Is it in the works? Will it ever be implemented? It would surely be nice to know... 🙂
Hi @pabloz. For the thread in question, the solution appears to have been chosen by the post author. I'm not sure if that feature was removed or if it is something that was available in the previous version of Online Store. The latter seems more likely. However, I've removed the solution since the thread seems to need more information on it. I will get the suggestion over to our product team and hopefully they can reply to address the concern. Thanks.


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WASHINGTON — The nation's top intelligence official on Wednesday delivered a scorching attack on Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, and called on him and his "accomplices" to return the trove of classified documents he took from the N.S.A.
James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, told lawmakers that Mr. Snowden's disclosures had done grave damage to the country's security and had led terrorist groups to change their behavior to elude American surveillance. Mr. Clapper did not give specific examples to bolster his assessment about the damage Mr. Snowden had done. He also did not say whom he believed Mr. Snowden's accomplices to be.
In his annual testimony to Congress about the threats facing the United States, Mr. Clapper, who in the past has said he resented having to testify in public about classified issues, ticked off a daunting list: cyberattacks from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia; the spread of affiliates of Al Qaeda; and an array of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons technologies. But in part because he and his colleagues are so wary of discussing classified issues in public, the hearing became as much a moment for speechmaking as for substance.
Senator Ron Wyden, the Oregon Democrat who has been outspoken in his critique of the growth of the N.S.A.'s surveillance activities, said that the dealings between spy agencies and their congressional overseers were crippled by a "culture of misinformation."
Mr. Wyden has had a particularly contentious relationship with Mr. Clapper. During a hearing last year, he questioned Mr. Clapper about whether intelligence agencies were collecting any bulk information about Americans. Mr. Clapper said they were not, but months later he had to apologize for that answer after Mr. Snowden revealed an N.S.A. program to collect and store domestic phone records.
On Wednesday, Mr. Clapper — who appeared at the hearing with the heads of several intelligence agencies — railed against the flood of reports in the news media based on Mr. Snowden's documents. He also accused Mr. Snowden of hypocrisy for choosing to live in Russia while making public pronouncements about "what an Orwellian state he thinks this country is."
In his written statement, Mr. Clapper listed threats from "trusted insiders" like Mr. Snowden, in addition to "threats posed by foreign intelligence entities," as a greater concern even than international terrorism.
A spokesman for Mr. Clapper, asked about the reference to Mr. Snowden's accomplices, said, "Director Clapper was referring to anyone who is assisting Edward Snowden to further threaten our national security through the unauthorized disclosure of stolen documents related to lawful foreign intelligence collection programs."
Other lawmakers engaged in testy exchanges with John O. Brennan, the C.I.A. director, over a voluminous committee report about the agency's detention and interrogation program, which is now defunct. The report was completed over a year ago but has yet to be declassified.
On two occasions, Democratic senators tried to press Mr. Brennan for details about an internal C.I.A. review that they said contradicted the agency's official response to the Intelligence Committee's report. Both times, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who leads the committee, cut off the questioning and said the matter would be discussed behind closed doors.
Mr. Clapper ticked off a list of global focal points during his opening statement, saying that in his years as an intelligence official he had "not experienced a time when we have been more beset by crises around the globe."
He said that the turmoil across the Middle East in the aftermath of the collapse of authoritarian governments had created an opportunity for various franchises of Al Qaeda to flourish. He described Syria as the most powerful magnet for foreign fighters hoping to wage jihad, with about 7,000 foreigners having traveled to Syria from about 50 countries.
For the second year in a row, Mr. Clapper listed cyberattacks as the most significant threat facing the United States. He said financial institutions, defense contractors and, potentially, electric grids, water utilities and even medical devices are under threat from cyberattackers. Mr. Clapper's written testimony cited the threats from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia as the most pernicious. It also raised the alarm that they are copying the steps the United States took several years ago when it unified under one command the civilian task of code breaking and surveillance with military cyberoffensive operations.
While the report noted a major attack on South Korea last year that destroyed data at a bank and media organizations, it stopped short of blaming North Korea for the attack.
But Mr. Clapper was more specific about another aspect of North Korea's abilities. In his written testimony, he said that the country had made good on threats to enlarge its supply of fuel for nuclear weapons, expanding the size of a uranium enrichment operation at its Yongbyon nuclear facility and restarting a mothballed reactor that can produce plutonium.
South Korean officials and nonproliferation groups using satellite technology had reported these developments, but Mr. Clapper's testimony represented further corroboration by American intelligence agencies.


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Cops: Car in crash hits Mount Sinai home
A collision between two cars late Tuesday in Mount Sinai ended with one vehicle crashing into an occupied home, police said.
Suffolk County police said the occupants of the home were not injured in the crash near the intersection of Route 25A and Mt. Sinai Avenue at 10:53 p.m.
The house had minor damage, police said.
Police did not release the identities of the two drivers, other than to say both were females who suffered minor injuries. One driver was taken to a hospital for treatment, police said.
There were no passengers in either car.
Police said the cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Google to Test New Product Ads on Prize Real Estate
For years, when people have searched Google.com, they've seen standard text ads with no frills attached. While Google sells other sorts of ads on other Web sites, the overall advertising experience on the search results page hasn't moved beyond snippets like "Free running shoes" when you search for sneakers, for instance.
That may change. Google is launching a test that will show people who search Google.com for products, like shoes and televisions, an entirely different advertising format known as a "product ad," the company confirmed Friday.
Unlike text ads, product ads will "feature product specific information directly in the ad such as price and product image," according to the email Google sent some advertisers inviting them to try out the ads this week. Google said that it would continue to work on the most effective format for the ads and that the ads would "complement standard text ads on Google.com…


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Joshua, 27, knocked out Wladimir Klitschko in May to add the WBA title to the IBF strap he already held.
But Tyson - a two-time world heavyweight champion - has warned the position can be "a crown of thorns".
In a wide-ranging interview with BBC Radio 5 live boxing's Mike Costello, Tyson outlined his belief in Joshua's ability, gave his views on a potential Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor bout and offered insight into the man who turned him into the youngest heavyweight champion in history.
Tyson describes Joshua as a "happy fighter" who is "fast for a big guy", and his admiration grew when the Briton survived the first knockdown of his career to stop Klitschko in the 11th round at Wembley Stadium.
He places huge emphasis on the heart Joshua showed to "finish the job", insisting such grit is the most important quality in the sport.
"Joshua has the potential to do a lot of things," said Tyson, 50. "He's got the look and throws a lot of hard punches. But there is so much pressure on him. I was in Dubai and there are big posters of him there."
Tyson was stopped from entering the UK in 2013 because of previous convictions, one of which saw him serve three years of a six-year jail sentence imposed in 1992 for raping a teenage beauty-pageant contestant.
In a career packed with incident, he also regained the WBC world title after his spell in jail, bit the ear of Evander Holyfield during a 1997 bout and filed for bankruptcy in 2002, three years before his final fight.
He told 5 live's boxing podcast: "The heavyweight championship will drive people crazy, you know that right? It's like a crown of thorns. Everyone wants to use you for something. It's like being the President of the United States.
"Joshua can't get the big head. He has to focus on fighting. When you start focusing on money, girls or whatever it is, it's going downhill. No religion, nothing, you can do those things when the fight is over. Let's see if he can handle that stuff.
"It's his time. I could be wrong, I'm not the gospel of boxing but he impressed me with Klitschko."
A similarity between Tyson and Joshua can be drawn as both men found boxing after difficult spells in their youth.
By his own admission, Tyson lived in the "hell hole" neighbourhood of Brownsville in Brooklyn, New York. Joshua meanwhile, pled guilty to possession of cannabis with the intent to supply just over a year before he won Olympic gold in 2012.
Tyson, whose father had left and mother had died by the time he was 16, found Cus D'Amato - who became his legal guardian, taught him to read and write, and coached him on the road to boxing stardom.
His new book, 'Iron Ambition', focuses on his relationship with D'Amato, who Tyson says forced fighters to visualise success and believe in themselves.
"I never had a father figure but I knew what it was like to have a father being with Cus," he said. "My objective was to make my father happy. He wanted to have a heavyweight champion of the world and that's what I wanted to do.
"That's the 25-million-dollar question. How did I get hooked to that old white Italian guy? What did he say to me to make me believe this other life is over and I stick with the boxing world? He made me worship the fighters.
"I came with no self-esteem and he turned me into a megalomaniac. I know he gave Muhammad Ali instruction for the George Foreman fight. He was an amazing man.
"He'd give you the reaffirmation that you are the greatest fighter in the world and no man can beat you."
D'Amato died a year before Tyson became the youngest heavyweight champion in history at 20, beating Trevor Berbick in two rounds he believes his tough late trainer would have called "sloppy".
Iron Mike had fought 28 times in 20 months as a pro to land the WBC title but concedes the loss of the man guiding him ushered in a "dark period".
"Everyone else was trying to get me for their own reasons, I was just lost without him," added Tyson, who took champagne to D'Amato's grave after his title win.
"I'd be a bum, imagine what I'd be without meeting that guy. I don't think I'd be in good shape. I'm so happy I met that old gentleman. He was a good man."
Almost 12 years have passed since Tyson ended his career with 50 wins and six losses.
Alongside television work he still studies the sport and talks up Tyson Fury's credentials when prompted, insisting the former world heavyweight champion "really knows how to fight".
His belief in the boxing craft of Conor McGregor is not so apparent when talk turns to the potential meeting of the two-weight UFC champion and Floyd Mayweather.
"Conor is a personality," added Tyson. "It's very rare to get a personality like that. Floyd doesn't have that.
"I don't believe that is going to happen. If it's boxing then Conor doesn't stand a chance. He would in UFC but if it's a boxing match it's not going to be a fight."
Asked if he would still attend, his response is energetic: "Yes, I would."
Clearly the man who admits he would watch bouts day and night as a youth is still hooked on the sport which plucked him and countless others from difficult beginnings.


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Leaving a bit early today but clearly the afternoon trade provided very little as the markets chopped around under the morning highs. Big winner the DJIA and the large caps while semis and small caps lagged.
NAZ internals recovered to the flat line but hardly inspirational to the bulls or the bears.
Sector leaders were internets, brokers, metals, biotechs, and retailers while the losers included INTC, KLAC, EBAY, airlines, and AAPL.
It may be just a sign of rotating market leaders, but again today the New High list is kind of skimpy with 150 new highs (early afternoon) as opposed to about 220 in the middle of last week when the markets were lower. One would have expected with the markets so close to new all time highs on the DJIA that more individual stocks would also be approaching all time highs but obviously not the case.
Lots of chatter also about how the back end of September and the week after options expiration is negative for the markets and it would not surprise me as we are do for a pullback in light of the recent bull run and joyful outlook.


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Three new releases hit the charts this week. Big label debuts from Diggy and MGK were surpassed by a strong independent showing from Odd Future, who's latest album is their biggest to date as a collective. Through the week, Drake's Take Care fell 11 spots, dropping out of the Top 10, as Tech N9ne, Chiddy Bang and WZRD albums held onto the Top 200 of the charts.
Odd Future's OF Tape, Vol. 2 Cracks The Top 5 Of The Charts
The third nationally-distributed Odd Future-related release was a Top 5 debut. Odd Future's follow-up to to 12 Odd Future Songs tied Tyler, The Creator's Goblin for a #5 debut. Put out on Odd Future's imprint (distributed by Sony Red), the work featured a song from recently-released Earl Sweatshirt, along with Tyler, Frank Ocean, Domo Genesis, Mike G, Hodgy Beats and Taco. OF2 sold 40,000 first-week units for the group-backed label.
Diggy Simmons, Machine Gun Kelly Debut Albums Hit The Charts
Two newer artists made their retail debuts. Bad Boy Records' Machine Gun Kelly (as MGK) barely missed the Top 40 with his Half Naked & Almost Famous. The EP-sized effort from the DXnext alum features Waka Flocka Flame and longtime label-mate Cassie. At Atlantic Records, Diggy Simmons (as Diggy) released Unexpected Arrival. Nearly a Top 10 release, the work debuted at #12, featuring Jadakiss and R&B singer, Tank. The heir to the Hip Hop mogul Simmons family, Diggy is son of Run-DMC co-founder Rev Run.
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 3/25/2012
#5. Odd Future – OF Tape, Vol. 2 – 40,000 (40,000)
#12. Diggy – Unexpected Arrival – 21,000 (21,000)
#16. Drake – Take Care – 18,000 (1,636,000)
#18. Tyga – Careless World: Rise Of The Last King – 16,000 (157,000)
#28. Young Jeezy – TM 103: Hustler's Ambition – 12,000 (533,000)
#34. Jay-Z & Kanye West – Watch The Throne – 9,900 (1,393,000)
#42. MGK – Half Naked & Almost Famous – 8,500 (8,500)
#48. Lil Wayne – Tha Carter IV – 7,900 (2,093,000)
#111. Tech N9ne – Klusterfuk EP – 3,300 (20,000)
#117. WZRD (Kid Cudu & Dot Da Genius) – WZRD – 3,100 (84,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000. Each week, HipHopDX presents top albums in Hip Hop/related, and five notables.
Will Bumpy Knuckles & DJ Premier join E-40 on the charts for a veteran's week? Stay tuned to HipHopDX.


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WSA Wrap-Up Celebrates Grads, Welcomes Administration Speakers
The Webster Staff Alliance welcomed three special guests to its year-end celebration and institutional outlook meeting Thursday.
Their presence drew an attendance so large that the meeting location had to be changed a day in advance, from Sunnen Lounge to the larger Marletto's Marketplace.
WSA leaders saluted employees who earned their degrees this spring, announced newly elected WSA board members, and welcomed three leaders from the University administration to answer questions about institutional strategy.
Guest Panel
The main feature of the gathering was a panel of special guests invited to speak about institutional direction: Julian Schuster, provost and senior vice president; Greg Gunderson, vice president and chief financial officer; and Nancy Hellerud, associate provost.
As each are relatively new members of the Webster community, the meeting presented a chance for each to give brief introductory remarks — and try out a few quips for a responsive crowd — while also thanking fellow Webster employees for all they do to help the University meet its mission.
Schuster spoke about how the administration under President Beth Stroble is working to change the "silo" culture that is so common in higher educational settings. "We want more integration, to better work together across divisions," Shuster said. His ideal is for employees to think "not about who reports to whom, but rather to focus on our common goal, which is to serve students better."
Gunderson handled questions about compensation — some of which also came up in the recent WSA compensation open forum — and discussed how the administration will implement some of the findings from a recent compensation study performed by an outside consultant.
New WSA Board Members
Congratulations to the new board members, who will begin two-year terms:
Associate Chair: Jennifer Holtmann, administrative support coordinator, User Services
Special Events Chair: Tyann Cherry, senior academic advisor, Academic Advising
Membership Chair: Sarah Nandor, director, Admissions
They will replace outgoing board members Debbie Ray, Merideth Daly and Ron Van Fleet, respectively.
After the recent board elections saw two staffers from extended sites run for election, employees can look for a survey soon about better integrating extended campus representatives into WSA proceedings.
For more information on all matters WSA, including the compensation study, stay tuned to the WSA email list and also join or check the WSA group on Connections. (If you have difficulty accessing the WSA group on Connections, ask a board member for help.)
Category: Employee News, St. Louis Campus News


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I always liked the quote "Motherhood is learning to live with your heart outside your body."
Bogie is starting to crawl. Monkey is at the Pre-School age where he can do just about everything by himself, and that's the way he wants it to be. I just pray that they would know how much I love them, how much I plead with God to protect them from physical and emotional harm. I want them to appreciate my prayers for their souls, their brains, their hearts, their wallets, and their future wives. (Those wives will someday hold the power to almost all of the above.) I pray for their friendships and the souls of those friends. I pray for their time and how they spend it.
And then sometimes I pray that I would truly understand that they are not really mine and that someone bigger than I knows what's best for them. In my womanhood, I don't like this prayer very much, I want to control this, too. I want them to be mine always always. But I am raising men. Somehow, God knows what's best. I still don't like it, but I am accepting it.


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McCarran's New $2.4 Billion Terminal Offers High-End Appeal
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One of the city's busiest hot spots will get even more visitors later this month when the $2.4 billion Terminal 3 opens at McCarran International Airport. A recent public preview drew a crowd of 15,000 to take a first look at T3, as the new facility has been nicknamed—6,000 of them during the first hour alone.
When it opens on June 27, T3 will offer 14 gates that can accommodate more and larger planes than its predecessor, which will close the day after the new terminal's is placed into service. The 1.9 million square foot facility will lighten Terminal 1's load by 23 carriers, with the airlines being moved to T3 in a three-stage operation. American, Delta, US Airways and Southwest will keep their places at Terminal 1, First Coast News reports.
T3 features more spacious customs facilities and jet bridges for simultaneous front and rear boarding for the enhanced comfort of international fliers. Passengers will also added dining and shopping options in its seven restaurants and retail areas. Those faced with a lengthy wait for a flight will be able to relax in the terminal's express spa. Free Wi-Fi and power outlets throughout the airport will keep travelers connected.
And whether visitors are arriving or departing, they will enjoy a taste of a quintessential Las Vegas experience: T3 offers 300 slot machines for those who wish to try their luck.
Photo courtesy of allairports.net


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Something tells me the Steelers Defense was in mind with this one:
Link to Article here
Rule changes unanimously approved Tuesday at an NFL owners meeting could have a chilling effect on defensive players.
The league has further defined what constitutes a defenseless position to provide better player protection. There also are further restrictions on the ability to launch and level a defenseless player (i.e. leaving both feet prior to contact to spring forward and upward into an opponent or using any part of the helmet).
Not only will there be a 15-yard unnecessary roughness penalty but the launching defender can be ejected from the game if the action is judged flagrant by the officiating crew.
There were too many hits that came in the past three years that were legal but not ones that we were comfortable the player who got hit had any opportunity to do anything to protect themselves, said Atlanta Falcons president Rich McKay, who is head of the NFLs competition committee.
The league also announced plans for another safety initiative that will result in teams being fined if their players accumulate too many penalties for illegal hits. The NFL already fines teams if too many of their players run into off-field legal trouble under the personal conduct policy.
The exact details of the new club accountability guidelines are still being formulated but NFL senior vice president Adolpho Birch expects implementation for the 2011 season (provided its played).
Were trying to encourage clubs and coaches to teach the proper techniques and correct dangerous play on the field, Birch said.
The following hits on players in a defenseless posture are now illegal:
A player in the act or just after throwing a pass.
A receiver attempting to catch a pass or one who has not completed a catch and hasnt had time to protect himself or hasnt clearly become a runner. If the receiver/runner is capable of avoiding or warding off the impending contact of an opponent, he is no longer a defenseless player.
A runner whose forward progress has been stopped and is already in the grasp of a tackler.
A kickoff or punt returner attempting to field a kick in the air.
A player on the ground at the end of a play.
A kicker/punter during the kick or return.
A quarterback any time after a change of possession (i.e. turnover).
A player who receives a blindside block when the blocker is moving toward his own end-line and approaches the opponent from behind or the side.
Prohibited contact against a player in a defenseless position was further defined as forcibly hitting the neck or head area with the helmet, facemask, forearm or shoulder regardless of whether the defensive player also uses his arms to tackle the defenseless player by encircling or grasping him. It is also illegal to lower the head and make forcible contact with the top/crown or forehead/hairline parts of the helmet against any part of the defenseless players body.
The latter provision does not prohibit incidental contact by the mask or helmet in the course of a conventional tackle.
This will permanently change the mentality, we think, of the defensive back trying to separate the ball in that youve got to lower your aim point, McKay said. The aim point has got to come into the numbers or below as opposed to above because you have to give that player an opportunity to defend themselves.
McKay said the launching rule likely wouldnt result in an increase in player ejections and isnt a point of emphasis for officials who already had the ability to issue disqualifications for hits that clearly cross the line.
Weve always said that disqualification has to be open and obvious to you, McKay said. Its hard at full speed to determine that act was so egregious that it deserves a disqualification. When in doubt, always throw the penalty (flag) and defer to the videotape to determine if a suspension or something else is necessary. Were not changing that standard at all.
McKay said some of the inspiration to further bar launching stemmed from an alarming increase in the tactic at the college level.
I think we always look at ourselves where we want to set the standards and help people downstream, McKay said. We think we needed to make a point. Youre doing it as much to protect the guy getting hit as the guy doing the hitting. We have a couple of plays on videotape where the guy doing the hitting is getting hurt.
We just dont like the fact that people have decided they can use their bodies, spring off the ground, lead with their head and expect to have a good result all the time.
The third approved rule change clarified protection of the quarterback. Hits to the head of a passer by an opponents hands, arms or other parts of the body will not be fouls unless they are forcible blows.
There are a number of plays this past year that many of us werent comfortable with (being) fouls, McKay said. We think weve got good video to show the referee what we want called and dont want called. We think it will lessen penalties. We dont think it involves player safety at all because if you do strike the quarterback with any force at all in the helmet, it is a penalty.
These rule changes were tabled at a March owners meeting because some teams were unhappy with the wording that was presented by the NFLs competition committee. Teams approved the revamped measures by a 32-0 vote.


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Photography arrived in India in the 1840s. The first photographic society in South India was created in Madras in 1856. During the early decades of Indian photography, photography was accessible almost exclusively to the colonial administration and Indian elite. However by the 1880s, commercial photography studios had found their way into the bazaars of the Presidency's and family portraits started to appear inside Tamil households. It is important to note that, in South India, prior to the coming of commercial photography, there existed no local forms of popular portraiture aside from the representations of divinities.
Tamil portrait photography, often facing restricted access to technological improvements, rapidly developed into a rich practice, where technical inventions, ingenious adaptations and artistic achievements rubbed shoulders. The early Tamil commercial studio photographers created their own visual language to represent south India selves and families. Their idioms combined the uses of props, accessories, backdrops, over-painting, collage, montage. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, constraints imposed by high costs and difficulties in importing recent photographic equipment resulted in the 'prolonged' use by small family-run studios of older photographic processes and equipment.
The advent of mechanised processing and printing, of colour photography (both in the 1980s) followed by the digital revolution (mid 1990s) radically transformed photographic practices and production. A very large number of studios closed down (and their archives often –but not always– lost) as they could not financially manage to acquire the expensive equipment necessary. The studios that did manage to survive these successive technological revolutions discarded manual processing and printing of black and white portraiture which had been the trade and skill for over a century.
The S.T.A.R.S. project aims to constitute the first physical and digital archive of commercial studio portraiture which will provide researchers with unique visual material and metadata of Tamil society at moments of crucial social and cultural changes. Besides the study of photographic processes and mediums throughout history, of the evolutions of representation of women and men, a wide range of issues are investigated such as the consequences of the introduction of photo portraits in the homes, the ways in which these have affected vernacular notions of individuality and dual dimension of personhood (akam/interior and puram/exterior), their impact on representations of marriage from alliance to conjugality, the uses of family portraits as hybrid photo-objects subject to daily domestic ritual venerated alongside chromolithographs of divinities in Tamil households, the transformation of regional and sectarian dress codes etc.
Through the exploitation of an unprecedented corpus composed of the archives of a hundred photography studios, this project proposes a history of the popular practices and uses of photography in South India. While, over the last few decades, social sciences have increasingly relied on photography as a source, much of the work on India has focused on the photos produced by and for colonial and indigenous elites. To date, studies have not been carried out analyzing the relationship entertained by the majority of the population with the appearance of this new technique, which gave them access to an emblematic prerogative of modernity: to have their picture taken. The STARS project aims to fill this empirical gap.
The research will be carried out in three directions:
1. to contribute to the world history of photography, by studying, through the Indian case, the diffusion and adaptation of photographic process in a colonial context. Particular attention will be paid to the development, in a caste society, of the profession of commercial photographer;
2. to open a new field of research by proposing a history of the practices and popular uses of photography in South India;
3. to make an innovative contribution to the field of conservation science, seeking to develop solutions for the stabilization and conservation of photographs in a tropical climate which is particularly deleterious for this type of object.
The STARS team, which brings together social scientists and conservation and restoration professionals working in Europe and India, responds to our desire to question this new photographic corpus in a comprehensive manner, without dissociating its materiality from the conditions of its production and its uses.
Digital archive projects
- (2017-2019) Major project " Representing Self and Family. Tamil Studio Portraiture", funded by EAP (British Library/Arcadia), London. Hosted at the IFP.
- (2015-2016) Pilot project " Representing Self and Family. Tamil Studio Portraiture", funded by EAP (British Library/Arcadia), London. Hosted at the IFP.
- (2015) "Heritage of the Family", in association with PondyArt.
Sample of press reviews:
– «Sepia Sutra», in The Pioneer, 14/11/ 2015
– «Portraits of the past», in The Hindu, 13/03/2015
– «Studio photography as a mirror of mores», in The Hindu, 26/02/2015
– «Exhibition of old photos» (article in Tamil), in Dinakaran, 26/02/2015
– «Photo exhibition on Tamil families» (article in Tamil), in The Hindu, 24/02/2015
– « Retelling history from family portraitures», in The Hindu, 24/02/2015
Seminars, Conferences, workshops
- (2018) Producing and Consuming Photography in South Asia (1840-1980). Conference panel at he EHESS during the 25th conference of European Association on South Asian Studies (EASAS). 24-27 July 2018
- (2018) Workshop on Conservation and Restoration. Fondation des Sciences du Patrimoine, INP, IFP, CEIAS. June 2018
- (2016) Headley, E. Z. « Les portraits sont bons à penser. Éléments d'une recherche sur la photographie de studio au Tamil Nadu », Actualités de la recherche en Asie du Sud (CEIAS-EHESS, 13 December 2016).
- (2015) Headley, E. Z. « Naked Babes and Garlanded Corpses », CEIAS Newsletter, 4(1).
- (2015) « Vintage Photographic Processes : Cyanotype, Salt Albumen, Egg Albumen», 3 day training workshop by Aditya Arya, IFP, India.
- (2014) Headley, E. Z. « Representing Self and Family. Preserving Early Tamil Studio Portraiture», International conference Visual Anthropology and Contemporary South Asian History (University of Cambridge, 4-5 April 2015).
External team members:
- Arya Aditya – Photographer, founder of the India Photo Archive Foundation, Delhi.
- Etter, Anne-Julie, Historian, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Madhavan Pillai, founder and director of the Asia Photography Archive, Ooty.
- Potin Yann, historian, Archives Nationales, Paris.
- Sainte-Marthe Bertrand, conservator, Archives Nationales, Paris
- Vande Kasha, Founder PondyArt, Pondichery
- Vidal Denis, anthropologist, IRD, Paris


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by Jewel Leann Williams
Like much of the world, I spent my week a little stunned, a little sad, at the passing of Carrie Fisher. For those of you who think this is stupid, that's okay. I usually agree that this huge outpouring of grief over celebrities' deaths is asinine, and maybe it is in this instance as well.
I'd like to ramble on for a bit about why, at least for me, this particular death has hit me in the feels.
I wish I could find the picture to post here of myself in Princess Leia regalia: long white dress, super-long hair braided up and twisted into giant Cinnabons on my head. Alas I do not have that picture, but imagine a really cute, sassy, spoiled, maybe a little chubby, little girl.. well, here. Let me provide a visual aid:
So, this isn't me. But imagine better buns, no boots or belt, and NOT skinniness. That was me for Halloween for--I don't know how many years. A few. I was like, 4 or 5 years old, and then 6, 7... I really liked dressing up as Princess Leia.
|This is not me. I got it from Google.
And who wouldn't? She was an awesome role model! A princess, which is just automatically cool for little girls, right? But more than that. She was on a life-risking mission. She could program robots. She stood up to Darth Vader and Grand Moff Tarkin with sass and bravery. When her rescuers came, she was as much a superhero as they were. I mean, Princess Leia Organa was the ultimate female superhero/role model for little girls! The other princesses could take some lessons from Leia, ya know what I mean?
( Here's a fun link for someone's imagining of a Princess Tea Party with Leia)
A few years have passed. Just a few.
I'm in a way different place in my life. I haven't dressed as Leia in a LOT of years (although I did attend the premiere of Episode 3 dressed as Padme Amidala, accompanied by a friend who WAS dressed as Leia, complete with buns of braids).
Princess Leia has evolved as well. She's now General Leia Organa, head of the Resistance. Still kicking butt and taking names, still brave and sassy. Her character resonates with me as much as the bold and daring Princess did to my tiny little self all those years ago.
Why? This is no "happy ever after" -- Leia got her man, yeah, but lost him, as well as her son, due to circumstances, the way life works for most of us. In the book BLOODLINE, which is one of the Star Wars novels that led up to The Force Awakens, we learn that Leia was a respected member of the Senate. She stayed true to her beliefs and values and the cost of that was that she made enemies. She was the victim of political machinations and betrayal and left the Senate to concentrate on the Resistance, back to danger and doubt and war and loss, because she knew where she could do the most good. Leia in this iteration is a grown-up "princess"--she's a role model for not just girls, but women. Actually she's a role model for not just women, but anyone who looks for an example of selfless leadership and general badassery.
|General Leia Organa, in the midst of heartbreak and personal loss, doing what she does.
I've had to be an adult for a few years now, and with adulthood comes the realization that life is full of disappointments, of dreams slipping through fingers like sand, of loss, of really hard things amidst all the good. General Organa is a fine example of a woman who has endured those same realities and has maintained not only her spunk and her fire, but her grace and kindness.
That resonates.
So yeah, I cried when I found out Carrie Fisher died. I laughed at myself a little, because I realize the absurdity of being so affected by the death of someone I don't know. But the part of my heart that was around when I was a kindergartner, is a little broken at the thought of the heart and soul of Princess General Leia Amidala Skywalker Organa Solo being gone.
So make fun of me if you want; point out how a lot of people who had more of a real impact on the world passed away this year; but for me, I will miss the lady who taught me that: