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Okay, I know there's a reason no one has submitted this review yet because who in their right mind will admit shelling out $31 to go to this show? Unfortunately, I did. Before going to this show, I was definitely a fan of New Found Glory, having seen them twice before they got big and Hot Rod Circuit, whose albums I like a lot and give a decent live performance. That being said, here's the review:
I got inside the First Union Spectrum about 10 minutes before the show started and realized that, standing at 5'11, I had a completely unobstructed view of the stage â from about 30 rows back in the pit. The average height of the concertgoers was between 3'4 and 3'7 â and maybe that's being too generous. Anyway, Hot Rod Circuit came on precisely at 7:00 and tore through their energetic set. They opened with "Radiation Suit" and closed with "Irish Car Bomb", playing mostly Sorry About Tomorrow in between. Little did I know that they would be the best band on the night. The crowd, meanwhile, was dumbfounded, not sure how to respond to the band during their super-long 15 minute set. I was pissed and walked out to look at some merchandise before Less Than Jake came on.
I'm not the biggest fan of Less Than Jake, knowing very few songs, but was looking forward to their performance and they came on at exactly 7:30 and proceeded to rock the arena. Or try to. As the set wore on, it became increasingly obvious that they were not suited to play a crowd such as this. They tried hard but their sound and vocals were terrible â not to fault the band at all â they are simply a band not suited for this tour. I would, however, like to see them in an environment such as the TLA or Electric Factory. They closed with "Gainesville Rock City" and left the stage and obviously attracted some new teenybopper converts. Lucky them.
Next up was New Found Glory in one of only two shows that they are not headlining on this tour. To call them awful would be unfair but it was obvious that theirs was performance driven by the suits at MTV. 12 year old kids on both sides of the stage jumping through the whole performance. A big flashing "NFG" sign. Chants of "Sell-Out" resonating through the crowd. Their set, if you're really interested ran a little something like this: "Something I Call Personality", "Sucker", "Understatement", "Forget My Name", "Better Off Dead", "Hit or Miss", "Sonny", "Never Sometimes", "Dressed to Kill", "Head on Collision", "Ballad For the Lost Romantics", "Glory of Love", "My Friends Over You". Or precisely the same set, song by song, that they have played the entire tour. No imagination. Little from Nothing Gold Can Stay. No interaction with the crowd. Let's just say they sucked and move on.
Final on the bill for some unbeknownst reason was Good Charlotte. How they could ever headline an arena is beyond me. Anyway, their performance moderately surprised me in that I didn't hate them quite as much as I wanted to. Dare I say it, but I enjoyed "East Coast Anthem", "Little Things", "Motivation Proclamation" and "Waldorf Worldwide". The rest of the set was, as expected, off the abysmal Young and the Hopeless CD. I fell asleep at least once. Overall, Good Charlotte sounded very clean and very polished in their performance and I was surprised somewhat that I enjoyed any of their set.
On a final note, I had a lot of problems with the crowd but do not have the time nor the patience to detail it. So, I'll just move onto what I have to say last.
To recap: Hot Rod Circuit â great; Less Than Jake â unfairly poor due to the nature of the show; New Found Glory â disappointing; Good Charlotte â fair. 3 out of 10 overall.
I am not punk and don't claim to be, but I know what punk is and this antithesis of a tour sure as hell isn't it. I will never see New Found Glory again, as their performance was even worse than Blink 182's on Pop Disaster last year. Hopefully, this perfectly synchronized, TRL-driven tour will also remove consideration by anyone of the two headlining bands as anything resembling punk (by people outside the punk community) in the future, though this is doubtful. Now if I could only get my $31 and Friday night backâ¦
Okay, I know there's a reason no one has submitted this review yet because who in their right mind will admit shelling out $31 to go to this show? Unfortunately, I did. Before going to this show, I was definitely a fan of New Found Glory, having seen them twice before they got big and Hot Rod Circuit, whose albums I like a lot and give a decent live performance. That being said, here's the review:

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"What we discovered was PMA was really the Great Spirit," says bassist and Bad Brains founding member Darryl Jenifer. "The [ideas in the] book Think and Grow Rich worked for Andrew Carnegie back in the Industrial Age, helped him make money out of these concepts of positive thinking." Napoleon Hill championed the merits of Positive Mental Attitude in his 1937 book, which outlined Carnegie's moneymaking formula in an effort to inspire greatness in ordinary people. Coming from Washington D.C.'s inner city, a band rose above the ordinary by latching onto that PMA, which led them down the spiritual path of Rastafarianism. As a result, Bad Brains propelled to greatness, though not quantifiable in dollar figures or record sales.
Originally published in Wax Poetics Issue 30
Bad Brains formed in southeastern D.C. in the late '70s. The members of the Black ensemble, originally called Mind Power, first bonded over a mutual admiration for the aggressive jazz of Billy Cobham and Mahavishnu Orchestra. The group was comprised of bassist H.R., who would become Bad Brains' unpredictable lead singer, younger brother and drummer Earl Hudson, vocalist Sid McCray, and, later, Darryl Jenifer, who would appropriate bass duties after H.R.'s promotion and Sid's departure. Guitarist Dr. Know, whose blinding guitar leads would help define Bad Brains' sound, joined the group by way of a local funk outfit, Stress. Despite their rich soul backgrounds, Bad Brains immersed themselves in punk music and culture, abandoning, for the most part, the more definitive D.C. genres.
Jenifer explains, "It's the Great Spirit making us go, 'You could play go-go or funk, but then you could play whatever the hell you want!'"1 It was as a result of this spiritual realization that Bad Brains began playing punk music and not the jazz fusion that they are often wrongly acknowledged for crafting in their early career. "We were into electric jazz, but it was all for the riffs," insists Jenifer. "People get it all twisted. It's an interesting story to say to your kids, 'fusionists turned punkers.' Really, it was a concept. [Mind Power] never played a show, and we only had one song, called 'How Many Years of Love.' We adopted these Black hippie names; I was called Sun Light. It was sort of like Mandrill but with a PMA concept."
It was the group's original singer, Sid McCray, who would introduce the inner-city combo to the brash, yet inviting, sounds of punk rock. "I used to listen to rock before punk," recalls Jenifer. "Sid was a wild dude. He came through the crib [wearing] safety pins, and he had these records with him. He put on some Ramones, and I thought it was kind of funny. He had the No New York compilation. It was a noise thing with James Chance, Lydia Lunch, and DNA. I liked that because I liked Sun Ra, and I liked music that pushed the threshold of people's sensibilities. I was like, 'If the Ramones think they are playing fast, I'll play it like this and put some Stevie at the end of it!'
"It was what the Great Spirit had in the wind for us to do," continues Jenifer. "We didn't sit around and conceive it. We just had the essential albums of punk: the Sex Pistols, the Damned, and the Dead Boys, and we took it from there. H.R. really liked it, and we jumped into being punks—leather pants and all that. I really liked punk because I was shy, but once I saw people who couldn't play were playing it, I was like, 'Fuck that! If these dudes sound like this, I'm going to sound like a monster!'"
From the get-go, Bad Brains was never your average punk-rock ensemble. The dreaded quartet stood out from their contemporaries, not just because of their race or the reggae tracks that peppered their albums and live shows, but also because of the virtuosity of their playing. "To this day, I have never seen anything that was better than the Bad Brains at peak performance," recalled D.C. native and former Black Flag front man Henry Rollins. "We saw them open for the Damned, summer of '79, right before they recorded their demo. People didn't know what to do, and only a few people would come up to the front of the stage. Ian [MacKaye] and I walked right on up and felt like our ship had come in! As far as impact, it was incredibly motivational. Ian and I are still in awe of those guys."2
Ian MacKaye, front man for fellow hardcore pioneers Minor Threat and, later, Fugazi, has concurred, praising the group for giving his own influential ensembles early musical momentum: "They were charismatic, they were incredible, they wrote great songs, they were nice to us, they had good ideas, they had good energy, and they made things happen. They made us feel like anything was possible."
Along with MacKaye's Minor Threat, Bad Brains is largely responsible for punk rock's evolution into hardcore, a genre that today is almost unrecognizable by '80s standards. Still, as MacKaye explained, it was crucial to the movement for positive visionaries like Bad Brains to separate music's fashion from function: "Punk rock, mostly in the media, was portrayed by Sid Vicious and was nihilism and self-destructiveness. New wave was like the B-52's and 'Rock Lobster.' So we wanted to distinguish ourselves from those two worlds. So we said we were 'hard-core punk rock,' meaning we didn't need to look tough. We were more committed. It wasn't a dress up thing; we were going to actually live it."3
For Bad Brains, their twofold musical mission was coming to fruition. Not only was their music making waves up and down the East Coast, but their PMA was also infiltrating the local punk scene, which up until that point, had been one of violence and intolerance.
"When we first came out, [punk] was kind of on some vulgar shit," recalls Jenifer. "We started kicking PMA in our music, and the message was different than the regular punk rock. You know, a punk rocker can write a song about hate—I hate my mom or some shit, you know? We wasn't on no shit like that. Some kids who wanted to see some regular shit saw us, and every kid's heart and mind was opened. It's like you're just going to see some regular reggae music, and Bob Marley is playing. You might walk away from that and go, 'Damn, that's some consciousness in this music.' When we would play, you'd see, [sings] 'I got that PMA,' and there was a whole mode of consciousness that was coming through it."
Bad Brains' live show is perhaps still one of the most definitive characteristics of their musical identity. The lightning-fast riffs and machine-gun percussion that Bad Brains was able to harness on record ran wild onstage. Lead singer H.R., often donning a cape and motorcycle helmet, both alienated and engaged audiences, encouraging unified sing-alongs one minute and horizontally catapulting himself into the crowd the next. John Joseph, of the seminal New York hardcore band the Cro-Mags, first encountered Bad Brains en route to a D.C.-area tavern. "Doug, the owner, comes running out, and he was like, 'Dude, you got to fuckin' see this band.' I was like, 'Cool, all right, I'll go check it out.' He was like, 'No, no—you don't understand.' He looked like he'd just seen twenty people get gunned down by a fuckin' terrorist or something. He was blown the fuck away. So I went upstairs, and the motherfuckers clicked off a song, and I was just like—get the fuck out of here."4
But the capital city was becoming, in increasing capacity, inhospitable to the incendiary quartet. "We played at this club in Logan Circle with yuppies, jocks, and people having their beer," Jenifer says. "It was the Bad Brains, Teen Idles, and SOA. We went up in there, and people are getting uptight because the punkers are coming in with their boots on. To make a long story short, we slammed the place up, jumping up and down on the floor, knocking [things] over, and the [owner] wasn't having that. But we really blew the dude's mind because we were Black. So my man said, 'I ain't having no more punk shows. All y'all get the fuck out of here!' So we were leaving, and he says, 'You be sure I ain't having no more punk shows, and definitely no Black punk shows!'" In 1979, the band would pack up and move to New York City, where they self-released a 45, "Pay to Cum" b/w "Stay Close to Me," the former track being picked up by Alternative Tentacles' infamous 1981 compilation Let Them Eat Jellybeans.
In 1982, Bad Brains released their eponymous demo tape on ROIR Records. The cover art, a lightning bolt crashing through the Capitol building, echoed the band's collective sentiment regarding their hometown, yet it still became an instant classic in D.C., as well as their newly adopted New York City. The cassette included tunes that would be canonized in hardcore punk's songbook. "Pay to Cum," "Sailin' On," and the aptly named "Banned in D.C." were complemented by irie reggae offerings like "I Love I Jah" and "Leaving Babylon." In addition to their long-standing relationship with PMA, Bad Brains would soon synthesize lessons from Hill's book with the tenets of Rastafarianism, accounting for the band's increasingly dense spiritual identities. "PMA—that was big on us," says Jenifer. "That would keep us cool in the hood. And then, guess what PMA was? It was Rasta. It's like an advancement of a concept about making money being pushed into, 'Okay, now there's a Black Jesus,' so to speak—something I can identify with in terms of spirituality."5 Through Rastafarianism, Bob Marley, and reggae-punk offerings by the Clash, the Bad Brains would form a lifelong fascination with reggae, dedicating entire tracks on subsequent albums to the Caribbean art form.
"I always felt rather guilty," said Bad Brains' former manager and reggae mentor, Nick English, who introduced the group to reggae after moving to D.C. from the U.K. in the '70s. "I was able to introduce these guys to reggae music. They had open ears—it was wonderful. When I came, I had probably one hundred 45s and twenty albums, and nobody here knew a single thing about [reggae]. But these guys, they just ate it up. They wanted to know, they wanted to learn, and H.R. was right at the forefront." Although reggae music, and the individual member's varying propensity to play it, would become a divisive factor within the band, much of the mentality of Jamaican music stuck with the group and bolstered their do-it-yourself ethos. "Reggae informed a lot of early punk in London," continued English. "They taught punk musicians that, just like Dischord [Records], you go out, you make your own records. That was all from Jamaican music; they are the godfathers of all of that."6
Despite its unorthodox speed-meets-weed compositions, the self-titled cassette was essentially a sonic pamphlet for the group's increasingly extensive PMA philosophy. "We're the thinking man's punk," declares Jenifer. "So we know our message is that of peace and love and Positive Mental Attitude. That's what we really stood and stand for. In music, we have a background of progression. When I imagine a riff, it's like a big wall falling down. If I pick up my guitar and I say to myself, 'You sellout,' then I say, 'All right, watch this—this is a song about sellouts.' And from there, my imagination will let me create, from my musical experiences, what a sellout introduction riff is going to be. I guess that's a blessing that I have, and me and Doc and Earl and all of us together, that we're able to do this. The next key is keeping at it. That's when you advance. That's when you progress in anything."
Marking their progression was 1983's Rock for Light, the band's second album, produced by Cars front man Rick Ocasek. "He used to listen to the ROIR cassette on tour to hype himself up to go out and play," muses Jenifer. "You would never think that this cat would listen to the ROIR cassette to get energy going so he could go out and play some pop!" Nevertheless, Ocasek took a shine to the group, buying them gear, giving them amps, and taking them into the studio to record the follow-up to their explosive debut. The polished product, Rock for Light, featured new material and revisited renditions of earlier songs, including "Attitude," "Sailin' On," and "I." The big-budget sheen afforded by Ocasek was somewhat double-edged. While it removed an element of grit and grime from the furiously unbridled sound that longtime fans relished, it made the group more accessible to wider audiences, a by-product that Jenifer applauded. "Some people say that's when the Brains started becoming not so much about what the Brains stood for in the earlier days. But that didn't have anything to do with the grander picture. If you're talking about what the Great Spirit has in store for us, [Rock for Light] was just one more step to universal appeal!"
The group's third album, 1986's I Against I, managed to take the band in an increasingly commercial direction, sacrificing minimal punk points with fans, still sore from the previous Ocasek effort. "We are progressive-minded people," explains Jenifer. "We're always thinking and trying to make something different. It's all about creative expansion. People called it metal, but I was trying to make some funky kind of rock." Despite being released by West Coast hardcore powerhouse SST Records, the sound captured herein was indeed more progressive, H.R.'s lyrics more introspective, rendering a musical ore that abandoned the rapid-fire punk motifs of albums past.
"When we made I Against I," Jenifer says, "it's our progressive fusion background coming out with a punk-rock edge, because we weren't exactly virtuoso jazz musicians. That's cats trying to play Al Di Meola so bad that it's punk Al Di Meola. After we made the riffs, H.R. would come in as the singer, integrate the lyrics, and we'd build from there."
As the band prepared for Quickness, the reggae wedge further divided the band, with brothers H.R. and Earl favoring island vibrations to Jenifer and Doc's increasingly metallic aspirations. "The bands that influenced me at the time," Jenifer says, "you wouldn't think would. It was groups like Winger, because I always liked their riffs. I wasn't paying attention to anything any punk band was doing at the time. If you look past the face value of Winger, and listen to their riffs, then listen to Quickness, you'll see what I mean."
With H.R. and Earl placed on involuntary sabbatical, Jenifer and Doc enlisted the help of Cro-Mags drummer Mackie Jayson and singer Taj Singleton to assist with the band's fourth studio record. "We worked on Quickness for a really long time during the winter in a tiny rehearsal space in the Wall Street area," remembers Jenifer, who, due to obvious obstacles and personnel changes, refers to this album as "a miracle record." Although the new ensemble was in accord regarding the heavy compositions, the chemistry just wasn't right. Producer Ron Saint Germain, who would go on to work with Living Colour, confided in Jenifer, fearing that the would-be record was falling short of the band's potential. "He said, 'Yo, D, you guys are literally running this dude's vocals right off the track.' So we call up H.R., we give him the tape, and he checks into a hotel for a weekend. He comes out on Sunday and says, 'Let's go.' He wrote all the lyrics in two days. Those are the sickest vocals he's done since! He doesn't write like that anymore. That's why he's a miracle man."
H.R., despite being Bad Brains' wobbly wheel, was indispensable when creating musical magic within the group. His dynamic vocal range, evocative lyrics, and enigmatic stage presence made him hard to replace during his frequent hiatuses and exiles. His behavior seemed metaphorical with the band's music: at one moment aggressive and violent, and in the next, peaceful and serene. Although H.R.'s erratic personality has been as detrimental to the band's success as it has been integral, H.R.'s role in the band is just like that of any family, musical or otherwise.
"We're all brothers, and we argue," explains Jenifer. "There's no big mystery behind this; it's like a dysfunctional family, but we're still together. We were a family before Bad Brains. We didn't form through an ad on a wall. People say, 'This guy is crazy and this guy's that.' It's like my big brother is a wild motherfucker. Well, if you knew him growing up, you'd understand why. And living with him in a one-bedroom apartment isn't easy. But as much as someone gets on your nerves, you get on someone else's nerves. And this still happens with Bad Brains."
Over the years, Bad Brains has been able to grow, and with their maturity came greater understanding of their role in music and a better understanding of each other. Each of the members of this influential unit have made a life playing music and been afforded the artistic liberty of following their hearts. The brothers Hudson have been able to praise Jah freely via their reggae vehicles, Human Rights (for which the moniker H.R. is an acronym) and the Dub Agents. Dr. Know performs infrequently, but did help Mos Def fulfill his own rock fantasies in 2004 when he joined the ranks of studio supergroup Black Jack Johnson. In addition to Doc, the group's roster included both Parliament and Living Colour alums and produced much of the music for Mos Def's sophomore album, The New Danger. Darryl Jenifer is putting the finishing touches on his own solo record, tentatively entitled Soldier Styles. But perhaps the most notable of any of the Bad Brains' individual pursuits would be their most recent and collective effort, Build a Nation, the group's first studio album in over ten years. Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys was brought on to produce the record. Despite the musical progress the group had made over the years, Yauch sought to ensure that Build a Nation recaptured the early punk ruckus that made the group legendary.
"This record goes back to the ROIR cassette style," explained Yauch, "where the dub is very separate from the hardcore tracks. There are tracks that are more straight-up hardcore and then tracks that are straight-up dub." Although the group's median age hovers around fifty, the group still possessed the youthful exuberance necessary to rival their rock uprising. "If anything," Yauch expounded, "they play more accurately than ever. They're pretty incredible musicians. It was pretty amazing hearing those guys play together and lay it down. The way that they move together, the drums and bass and guitar, is almost like one complex instrument. I guess they've just been playing together so long that there's a certain flow to the way the band plays that's pretty unique. They have a lot of jazz influences in the way they go through changes. Like, the chord changes that they choose and the rhythms that they do are pretty amazing."7
Star-studded accolades aside, the Bad Brains' mission is perpetual, albums purchased and tickets sold being relatively inconsequential to the band's spiritual destiny as PMA missionaries. "I'm not trying to be evangelistic," concludes Jenifer. "I say that this is the Great Spirit at work. I only realized that when I got older, and that's why I know it's the Great Spirit at work. Because being part of it as a youth, I look back and I can't even imagine how I created some of the riffs that we did and went through the things we went through. I say, 'Wow, man!' It's almost like we were put to sleep and went through all these things and woke up."
- Darryl Jenifer, Sid McCray, Ian MacKaye, Nick English. Interview by Mike Paarlberg, Dissonance, Radio CPR, 97.5, Washington, D.C., June 6, 2008.
- Henry Rollins, interview by Saul Williams. The Tripwire, June 21, 2006. http://www.thetripwire.com/features/2006/6/21/saul-williams-vs-henry-rollins-the-exclusive-interview
- See note 1.
- John Joseph, interview by Trevor Silmser, Vice Magazine, 2008, Vol. 15, issue 5: p. 145.
- See note 1.
- Ibid.
- Adam Yauch, interview by Dave Maher. "Beastie's Yauch Talks New Album, Bad Brains," Pitchfork Media, March 9, 2007. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/41634-beasties-yauch-talks-new-album-bad-brains


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The Weather Bureau in WA says it is increasingly having to defend itself against claims it is "cooking the books" as part of a conspiracy to prove the State's weather is changing.
As the chapter closed at the weekend on one of Perth's driest and warmest summers, the bureau said resources were being wasted as staff answered questions about the legitimacy of its record keeping.
Some of the claims being made against the Federal Government-controlled organisation were that it was deliberately moving gauges to areas where it rained less.
Other claims asserted that changes in equipment could have skewed meteorological data to favour the view that Perth and the South West's climate was drying and warming.
Neil Bennett, a senior forecaster with the bureau, said there was unprecedented demand for its services and its huge store of information.
"But the flip of that is you find yourself having to defend your record keeping," Mr Bennett said.
"You find that you're spending time answering people who come to you and say, 'You're cooking the books, you're mistreating the data, you're moving your sites around and you're adding fudge factors into the narrative you want to drive'.
"People, not so much in the regional offices but in head office, are having to do a lot of that sort of work.
"They're finding that their work is being diverted from monitoring the real data to go back and answering questions about, 'Why did you move that particular weather station in 1992, what happened when you changed the thermometers, why did you do that?'"
Perth has recorded a 15-20 per cent fall in annual rainfall compared with the long-term average and a savage decline in run-off into the city's dams and aquifers.
It is also warming, according to bureau figures showing that mean temperatures in Perth have risen more than 1C since 1910.
The Department of Water said the availability of water for public open space, typically sourced from groundwater, was now so tight that it was clamping down on how it could be used.
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The Stornoway Christmas lights are due to be switched on this Friday (11 December), with everything kicking off at 6.50pm, and it promises to be a night to remember. The Stornoway Amenity Trust have joined up with Stornoway Port Authority to provide something extra special this Christmas.
The Christmas parade, which will include six vikings and 34 local torch-bearers, will leave the lifeboat station at 6.50pm, going along Cromwell Street Quay, North Beach Quay, North Beach Street, and ending up at Perceval Square.
The night's entertainment will include Christmas carols, local dance groups, the Pipe Band, Santa, and the presentation of the 'Stornoway at Christmas' display winners. The entertainment is due to be finished by 8.45pm.
The Town Hall will be open with local stalls selling Christmas goodies and raffle tickets, from 4.30-6.45pm, closing for an hour for the switching-on of the lights and reopening 7.45-9.30pm.
Santa will be in Pointers from 7.45-8.45.
It is worth noting that Perceval Square car park will be closed from 4pm on Friday (except for disabled parking) so all vehicles need to vacate the car park by this time, until 8.30pm, when it will reopen.
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Fort Walton Beach, FL – The United Way of Okaloosa & Walton Counties and their Partner Agencies will partner with local Walmart stores and four Publix Supermarkets in an effort to provide needed school supplies to local children for the upcoming school year.
Plan now to shop at Walmart and/or Publix every Saturday in the month of July and August, beginning July 12th through August 9th from 10 am to 4 pm to donate school supplies to help us "CRAM THE VAN". It is easy to help… just purchase the school supplies for your children and/or a little extra for others using the list of items required by schools and drop them in the "CRAM THE VAN". United Way Partner Agencies will collect and sort the supplies, then distribute the needed school supplies to local children in our community.
A special thank you to the Publix Supermarkets in Crestview, Ft Walton Beach and Santa Rosa Beach plus the Ft Walton, Destin, Niceville, Crestview, DeFuniak Springs and Santa Rosa Beach Walmart Stores for supporting the United Way "CRAM THE VAN"! Look for the vans in the parking lots and help us "CRAM THE VAN" and help kids succeed (Times 10 am to 4 pm). The schedule & times for each Walmart store & Publix is listed below:
Publix at Sun Plaza – Ft Walton Beach: Saturdays….July 19th, 26th, Aug 2nd & 9th
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If you are looking for a sea front wedding venue in Brighton with the look and feel of a stylish private house, Drakes is the place to be. Not only does it have an unbeatable sea view, it oozes contemporary elegance, has an award winning restaurant and has earned itself a reputation for being Brighton's leading boutique hotel.
Drakes has plenty of boutique appeal; it has 20 bespoke bedrooms, welcoming and attentive staff, and it can be hired exclusively for your wedding, which not only offers you more privacy, but adds a very personal and special feel to your day. never stuffy or formal, Drakes is about luxurious surroundings and an escape from everyday life. It promises to treat guests as treasured friends and everyone is encouraged to relax and enjoy the sumptuous surroundings.
Expect unrivaled service from Drakes. Its warm and friendly staff will lavish you and your guests with personal attention, making sure that your day runs smoothly, you and your guests are happy and that you take away many treasured memories that will be made throughout the course of your wedding day.
"Being such an integral part of one of the most special days in somebody's life fills me with honour. The pleasure in creating a bespoke day for each individual couple and witnessing the arrangements all come together on the day is tremendous." – Carla Ter Mat, Wedding and Events Manager.
The complete Wedding Package offered by drakes makes for stress-free planning. Incorporating virtually everything you will need for your luxury seaside wedding, it includes:
- exclusive use of all hotel and public areas from arrival (at 13.00) to departure (the following day 12:00)
- a selection of sandwiches on arrival for you and your guests
- exclusive use of the sea facing lounge to hold your ceremony if required
- champagne and canapé reception in the sea facing Lounge
- private use of our fine dining restaurant for a bespoke 3 course celebration meal
- accompanying wine with your meal
- champagne toast after the meal
- light bites later in the evening
- 20 bespoke bedrooms for you and your guests to retreat and relax after your celebrations
- a generous drakes breakfast to complete the experience
- parking for up to 14 vehicles
- (based on 40 guests. An additional 30 can attend the evening Reception.)
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"Now it came to pass on one of those days, that he entered into a boat, himself and his disciples; and he said unto them, Let us go over unto the other side of the lake: and they launched forth. But as they sailed he fell asleep: and there came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filling with water , and were in jeopardy. And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. And he awoke, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm. And he said unto them, WHERE IS YOUR FAITH? And being afraid they marvelled, saying one to another, Who then is this, that he commandeth even the winds and the water, and they obey him?"
Last week, we learned together WHY WE NEED TO GET BACK ON OUR FAITH; and all the things having faith can do for us in these times of contrary winds. To overcome whatever we are facing or going through; to experience great calm, rest and peace – we need our faith to be in place and intact!
Today, we are going to find out what faith is.
Heb. 11: 1 – "Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, a conviction of things not seen."
Faith is knowing that the thing you have asked for is coming, even though you have not seen it; it is a conviction; FAITH GRABS THINGS THAT ARE PROMISED BY GOD! It is knowing that we have received what we hope for, despite what we are seeing or feeling in the present. God's people require faith in a world that there is so much conflict, sorrow and turmoil.
FAITH is believing God's word in order to lay hold of things that are promised and make them real in our lives.
FAITH is the mode or manner by which we possess heavenly things on earth. Please note that, faith does not create the things we hope for – faith receives them! Your faith does not create your healing, joy, wealth etc.; it RECEIVES! In Rom. 4: 16, we read that Abraham received by faith. Our faith does not create the blessings of forgiveness, favor, spiritual provision – no, rather, faith receives these blessings from God.
FAITH is trust, assurance, confidence in God. It is the conviction in us that gives us strength to continue to follow God.
Matt. 9: 27 – 30 – "And as Jesus passed by from thence, two blind men followed him, crying out, and saying, Have mercy on us, thou son of David. And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They say unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it done unto you. And their eyes were opened. And Jesus strictly charged them, saying, See that no man know it."
These blind men came to Jesus for healing and the first thing Jesus asked them was "DO YOU BELIEVE?" This is the first substance of faith – the belief that God exists even though we cannot see Him. The second substance of faith is to believe that God is able to do whatever we ask, like these blind men did – they had the substance and the evidence!
In John 4: 46 – 50, we read of the nobleman that not only believed in the Person of Jesus but also in His words. With all of his agitation to have Jesus come with him to heal his dying son, the moment Jesus spoke the words that his son will live, he turned and went home because he believed completely in Jesus' words!
Mark 1: 40 – 42 – "And there cometh to him a leper, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And being moved with compassion, he stretched forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou made clean. And straightway the leprosy departed from him, and he was made clean.
The leper in this text had an incomplete faith; he had the substance but no evidence – he believed in God, but he was unsure if he would get his miracle from God; luckily for him, Jesus was willing to cleanse him. Many of us do not receive our miracle and breakthrough, because even though we come to God, we are still unsure whether He will give us what we ask; sometimes some of us need God's help to complete our faith! God is ever willing, believe that!
In Mark 9: 14 – 29, we read of the boy possessed with the devil that had gone through a lot but was still alive because God had a purpose for his life (the reason why you have come out of the things you have been going through is because God has a purpose for your life). The father of this boy brought the boy to Jesus because He needed a miracle, but he said to Jesus "if you can…" Jesus countered him in vs.23 saying "If you can believe that all things are possible!"
A lot of us come with one side of faith – the one that brings us; but we leave the other side of faith, the one to receive! We need both sides of faith; when we wholly believe, God moves into action!
FAITH therefore, in my words, can be defined as knowing that God exists (this is the assurance), and that He rewards those that earnestly seek Him (this is the evidence)!
Faith is trusting the promises, words and character of God – knowing that He cannot lie, alter or break His covenant with us! Psa. 89: 34
Rom 4: 17 – 21 – "as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were. Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, so shall thy seed be. And without being weakened in faith he considered his own body now as good as dead (he being about a hundred years old), and the deadness of Sarah's womb; yet, looking unto the promise of God, he wavered not through unbelief, but waxed strong through faith, giving glory to God, and being fully assured that what he had promised, he was able also to perform."
Abraham believed that God exists and in His word – this was the secret of Abraham and this is FAITH DEFINED. All that God is looking for is our faith – the Abraham and Mary kind of faith. Mary believed fully in Jesus, but Martha did not believe that Jesus is the Resurrection and Life – the One that could and did bring her brother back from the grave!
The three Hebrew children in Daniel 3, refused to bow to the king's god and in the face of the danger of not bowing, they not only believed that their God exists, but they also believed that He would deliver them – and they did not stop there, they believed that even if He chose not to deliver them in life, they would be with their one true God in the after-life.
Beloved, do you believe that God exists? Do you believe in His words and promises of what He will do for you, with you and by you?!
Again, let me reiterate –
Faith does not make God real; your faith responds to a real God! Isa. 45: 5, 6
I pray for you today, your faith will be strong! I come against every spirit of unbelief today; your faith will begin to work and receive all that God has promised you. Your faith will establish you and bring you the sudden help, healing, joy that you need. Your faith will bring you victory over the enemy and bring you answered prayers – your faith will make you an overcomer! Every storm rising against you, I command them to be still! Every sickness and disease hiding in your body, I bind and cast them out in the name of Jesus. By faith, be released into your destiny of great things; by faith, receive your forgiveness, restoration, peace and prosperity. In the name of Jesus! AMEN.


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Maybe a few weeks ago you read my post on sauerkraut, thought it looked super delicious and decided you wanted to have a go at it. Maybe you then bought a massive jar of sauerkraut that you could never finish. And maybe that jar is still leering at you from the back of the fridge. No? Because that sure did happen to me. Those jars really are massive and there's only so much sauerkraut you can eat by yourself.
For the longest time, I wasn't too bothered, because, as I wrote, sauerkraut holds forever – it wasn't gonna go off any time soon. However, I'm used to sauerkraut being winter food. (Traditionally it must have been precisely that – preserved cabbage to keep you going in the dead of winter, after you'd finished all your fresh food.) Up until about a week ago, that wasn't a problem – temperatures were stuck at 12 degrees and it didn't feel like spring at all. But now the weather's changed and I've been in the mood for much more summery food. And meanwhile that jar of krauts was still only half empty.
Thankfully I remembered a sauerkraut dish that an aunt of mine made me years ago. I really liked it back then and I distinctly remember having it on a warm day. It's a sort of quiche with sauerkraut and salmon. It's an unexpected combination (or it was to me, at the time) but it works really well. If you have it with bucketloads of white wine, it even feels like a summer's dish.
For a wee quiche you will need:
- half a slab, or about 175 gr, of puff pastry
- a wee tin of salmon – I'm too poor to buy fresh salmon, but if you insist you can use the fresh variety
- a bunch of sauerkraut – two handfuls or something
- 2 tbsp of crème fraîche
- 2 eggs
- a bunch of fresh chervil, chopped – if you can't get any chervil you could use dill, which works nicely (but in a smaller quantity), or leave it altogether
- salt and pepper
Roll out the pastry to fit your dish or cake tin – I used a small wee round cake tin, about 20 cm diameter. Use butter or oil for greasing the tin, then put the pastry in and poke little holes in the bottom with a fork.
Fill the tin with the sauerkraut and the salmon, make sure you mix the two well.
Beat the eggs, then add the crème fraîche, the chopped chervil, and a bit of salt and pepper. Mix well and pour over the salmon and krauts. Now make a little decorative grid on top with what you have left from rolling out the puff pastry earlier, then pop it in the over, 180°C, for about half an hour.
Take it out, leave it for about 10 minutes, then cut it up. Serve with a bunch of white wine.


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Kia Ora all kiwis in Shanghai and surrounds!
Let's farewell Solidaz, a great Kiwi Band here in Shanghai. Solidaz has been a kiwi staple in Shanghai for several years and recently played at the Kiwi Ball. Unfortunately for us Soliaz is moving on from Shanghai and so this could be your last time to hear them play some true kiwi classics!
Starts at 8pm, at The Brew in the Kerry Hotel in Pudong.


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The twin cylinder, all-hydraulic pumps utilize exclusive Schwing features to pump concrete with up to 1.5-in. aggregate. The Cat diesel engine is a Tier 4 Interim model that capitalizes on Caterpillar's strengths in designing power units for the demands of the construction industry. In this regard, the Cat-powered pumps benefit from up to 5 percent improved fuel efficiency, a boost in power and long-life durability. All Schwing stationary pumps are expected to be Cat powered for 2012.
The resulting performance of the Cat engines combined with the 5-in. pumping cylinders on the SP-305 is up to 30 yd./hour with up to 625 psi applied to the concrete. The SP 750-15 and 750-18 offer outputs to 70 yd./hour with up to 1,100 psi on the concrete. These capabilities translate to high utilization on projects requiring horizontal and vertical pumping. The compact size of the models means easy towing with one-ton trucks. A standard remote control provides convenience on the job. — Schwing America, 888/724-9464; www.schwing.com


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Amy Wild, Animal Talker: Book 9
Amy Wild and the Silly Squirrel
Amy Wild has a secret – she can talk to animals! She and her best friends – a dog, a parrot and four squabbling cats – love to help out creatures in need. So when a squirrel tells them someone wants to cut down his oak-tree home, they jump into action! Can they come up with a plan to save the tree and the amazing animals and birds who live there?
Key Stage: KS2 E; Age 7+
Price: £5.99
112 pages
198 x 130mm
Illustrator: Sofia Cardoso
Diana Kimpton has two passions - horses and writing. So it is no wonder that Diana creates brilliant pony stories, which demonstrate her own love and understanding of ponies. Diana also has a mischievous sense of fun, not unlike Princess Ellie!
Diana has written a number of books and television scripts for children. She lives on the Isle of Wight, just a short walk from the sea.
Visit www.dianakimpton.co.uk to find out more.


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Response to InterventionRRock Ready to Future Ready
The Response to Intervention (RtI) system in Round Rock ISD is an early intervention and identification framework created to address and support academic and behavioral challenges for individual students in school.
RtI holds the promise of ensuring that all children have access to high quality instruction. The RtI framework ensures student academic and or behavioral needs are identified, supported, and served early and effectively. The successful implementation of the Round Rock ISD Multi-Tiered Response to Intervention framework will result in: increased student achievement, professional collaboration and overall school improvement.


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Hi! I've been having dull pains on the left side of my chest for a few days now, I also suffered what I think was a panic attack after googling heart attack symptoms.
I have been told to go to my GP and get a heart monitor and to use it when I feel like there is something wrong.
My heart seems to beat very powerfully and somehow quick, yet when I take these Heart beats per minute test on my iPhone, it tells me that my BPM is 50.
I have not suffered from nausea, jaw pain or arm pain, I do sometimes get the odd tingling sensation in my left arm an hand though.
I have small back pain on the left side also.
My parents say it's because I'm growing too quick (I have 6ft3 at the age of 16, male)
I did go lightheaded and sweaty once, but that was during my panic attack.
So confused right now.
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KU to Replant Campanile Hill
LAWRENCE — Volunteers will gather around the University of Kansas Campanile to plant 24 crabapple trees along the stairways leading toward Marvin Grove and Potter Lake. The event, which will take place Friday, Oct. 27, is part of Replant Mount Oread, KU's initiative to involve the campus community in restoring historic and locally significant tree species to the campus landscape.
During Chancellor Dean Malott's tenure (1939-1951), his wife, Eleanor, led an effort to plant more than 1,000 crabapples throughout campus. Many of those trees are at the end of their natural life and need to be replaced. This project will contribute to that effort and continue the tradition of flowering trees on Mount Oread. Past Replant projects returned crabapples to the landscape near Fraser Hall and along Irving Hill Road behind the Daisy Hill residence halls.
Replant Mount Oread is supported by donations through KU Endowment and is participating in a LaunchKU crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the Campanile planting. The project met its $5,000 goal within a week of starting the campaign. However, individuals interested in supporting future Replant projects can still contribute to LaunchKU through Oct. 31.
"We are fortunate to have such strong support for our fall planting," said Jeff Severin, director of campus planning & sustainability. "Every dollar given beyond our initial goal will go toward future plantings and ensure that we can continue this new campus tradition."
The project is also seeking volunteers to help with the planting. Shifts start at 10:30 a.m. or 12:30 p.m. Participants can register at the Center for Sustainability website.
Photo: Volunteers work along Marvin Grove in spring 2017 as part of the Mount Oread Replant project. Volunteers are needed for the Oct. 27 replant event, which will add crabapple trees along the sidewalks leading from the Campanile. Photo by KU Marketing Communications


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End of the Year / Holiday Party
,With Kickoff right around the corner, the Elm City Robo Squad got together to celebrate the holidays as a team. The celebration included a Yankee Swap which is a team tradition. Students and mentors drew numbers and chose small gifts from the gift table or "stole" a previously opened gift from another player. One of the best gift in the swap was the FIRST Robot Inspector Hat. Another highlight was a winter hat knit by one of our students. The worst gift was a can of ant and roach spray! The swap took well over an hour as we had about 30 players. A great time was had by all!


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|Road grader kicking up dust in the wind Friday
Friday, April 27th, 2012: I had everything dialed for putting on T.I.V8. Cue sheets, volunteers, logistics, and even a room to stay in. I only was concerned about two things: I didn't have a way to change out a flat tire for my truck, and the weather.
I decided to gamble on the flat tire possibilities, but the weather thing was eating at me a bit. You see, it was an "even numbered year" for Trans Iowa, (2012), and it is true- most even numbered years for this event have had really bad weather. For believers of "The Curse", the weatherman was not disappointing- Chance of rain from 1pm Friday through till late morning on Saturday. Percentages for this were in the range that if you were a gambler, it was a no-brainer to bet on it. I was nervous about having another "non-finishable" year for Trans Iowa.
|Not looking like a rainy day
As I drove southwards though, things began to improve, and my spirits rose. I saw patches of blue sky, and thinning clouds. During my promised pre-race recon of the first leg of the route, I began to think that there was hope that we would miss the rain altogether. The roads were very dry, dusty, and in great shape, although the county maintainers had obviously been quite busy throwing down fresh gravel throughout Poweshiek County. The wind was really the only concern on Friday. 26mph with over 30mph gusts. The wind was insanely strong, and right straight out of the East.
I spent most of the day driving around the Trans Iowa course checking things until about 2pm. Then I headed into Grinnell to set up for the Pre-Race Meat-Up and the showing of Jeff Frings' "300 Miles of Gravel". I was a bit concerned about that as well, since Jeff had to work and would be high-tailing it down from Milwaukee just to get there by 6:00pm. I decided to have the film be last, just so Jeff would have time to have everything set up as he would like.
As if having a major part in the film wasn't humbling enough, Jeff wanted to make this special trip just for us to gauge reaction to it. I was very honored by that. Blown away, really. But Jeff was obviously very excited to see how his multitudinous hours of labor and passion that went into this project would affect the viewers and myself.
|Riders sign on at The "Meat-Up"
Once at the Grinnell Steakhouse, I met some of my volunteers, who were especially helpful this year. Brent, Wally, George, and Tony were all instrumental in getting the riders signed in and numbers handed out. The timing of events, especially moving the start up an hour, made a big difference in getting folks in and on their way to eating much more smoothly than last year.
The Grinnell Steakhouse staff was ready, excellent, and super-accommodating to the needs of Trans Iowa. The room for the film showing was all set up ahead of time, and we had a smooth running event Friday night.
I was concerned that the forecast would scare off a lot of riders, and that we would have many "no-shows", but I underestimated the resolve of the folks signed in this year. Of a possible 71 still on the roster going into T.I.V8, only four no-showed. We got 67 folks signed in and into the meeting room to see the showing of the film and to hear me blather on about the course as I tend to do.
So, it was probably a good thing that I flip-flopped my original intent to have the film shown first and do the meeting last. You know, save the best for last, get the mundane stuff outta the way right out of the gate.
Wally made a great observation during the Meat-Up. He said he loved to see how the meeting served to be a "family reunion" of sorts. A place where friends meet again. He is right about that. You could look all around and see folks catching up, or folks making connections for the first time. I guess Trans Iowa has been around long enough now that the "veterans" of the event see it as a kind of fraternity of sorts. We actually had riders from every year of Trans Iowa in this event, which says something right there, I guess.
|Chatting around the grill
But it isn't like it is an "exclusive club" either. No- Trans Iowa riders seem to enjoy meeting new riders coming into the event as well. The new riders certainly appreciate being able to have some of that veteran experience rub off on them too.
That's why I like the venue. It makes people rub elbows. That isn't something you can avail yourself of at every meeting place. I know we could do a more traditional type of arrangement, but I still think the way it has been done the last three years is about as good as it gets.
After eating, everyone retired to the meeting room where I went in and did my usual. Then it was time to see the film. Jeff wanted to be able to say a few words before he showed the film, so I had him come up and he spoke about the "why" of the project, which was nice to hear. Jeff essentially wanted to explore the reasons folks do long, ultra-marathon events like Trans Iowa and to show off a cycling event he was drawn to since he is a self-described "former long distance cyclist".
|Riders get settled in for the flick
If I say the flick is "such-and-such" or that folks were stoked about it, that might seem self-serving to some people out there. Well, I'll let the flick speak for itself. As far as how some of you may be able to see it, that may be able to happen, but that's another post. Stay tuned....
The Pre-Race Meat-Up went really well though, and the riders in attendance were excited and ready to get going. The event went so smoothly that we were all out of there well ahead of my schedule and I was really happy to have it go that way. More time for a "fitful night's sleep"! That and the non-rain event, (so far), was making me really hopeful the T.I.V8 would be the year that "The Curse" would be broken.
|Oh Darn! Rain!!
It was Jeff Frings, who had come down to show the movie to them down there, and Coop had it on the store's loud speakers. Weird!
Well, at any rate, as we were hanging out I heard it start to rain. Hard! It was coming down in buckets and washing away any hope that I had of starting T.I.V8 dry. Oh well....maybe the curse thing was real. Nothing I could do about it now. So, I took off for the motel to see if I could check out the weather reports for the morning.
It didn't look good on radar. Clouds were spinning off the low pressure center and rain looked likely for several hours. Now my only hope was that it wouldn't actually be raining at the start. I tried going to sleep, but I never really got much, if any, what with all the lightning, thunder, and 50 plus mile an hour wind gusts. So much for a restful night.....
Tomorrow: The Start: Wet And Windy!


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Subject: RE: TA SPEC VOTE by email
I submit my "approval" vote. Bob Cunningham Military Traffic Management Command Falls Church, VA. -----Original Message----- From: Brian Eisenberg [mailto:email@example.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2000 12:11 PM To: 'ebXML-Architecture List ' Cc: 'duane '; ': Klaus-Dieter Naujok ' Subject: RE: TA SPEC VOTE by email Importance: High I second Duane's motion to freeze the current spec (0.95) and call on the rest of the TA team to vote by email to APPROVE the Technical Architecture specification to the Quality Review team. Pending QRT approval, we shall release the document to the rest of the ebXML community for a second comments and review period, leading up to a plenary vote on the FINAL document in Vancouver. TEAM - please send your vote (no later than Jan 4) with either "APPROVE TA SPEC" or "NOT APPROVE TA SPEC" to the Technical Architecture discussion list. I will count the votes (not Florida style :-) ) and post the final numbers to the list on Jan 4. Pending the outcome of the vote, I will then call on Anders/Duane to formally submit the document to the QRT on Jan 4. Regards, Brian -----Original Message----- From: duane To: Brian Eisenberg Cc: 'firstname.lastname@example.com'; Raman, Dick; email@example.com; ebXML-Architecture List Sent: 12/27/2000 8:21 AM Subject: TA SPEC VOTE by email All: I may be out of contact for 5 days (Swiss Alps) so I wanted to vote by proxy. I vote that we send the current frozen spec to the QRT and then for its' second review cycle ASAP. Moderate changes accepted. Brian/Anders - can you guys please coordinate the TA PT vote then get it out ASAP. Duane
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London 2016 Hockey Champions Trophy
This years Hockey Champions Trophy saw the Olympic Park once again alive with sporting action. From the 10th to the 26th June, the worlds best competed against each other in both ladies and men's competitions for the Champions Trophy. The men's competition saw teams from Great Britain, Australia, India, Germany,Read More →


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Inland Real Estate to Redevelop, Expand Joliet Commons Shopping Center
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Inland Real Estate Corp. recently announced plans to redevelop the Joliet Commons power shopping center in Joliet, Ill., and add both a DICK's Sporting Goods store and a DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse at the location. According to a news release, Inland intends to build an additional, 65,000-square-foot building to house the two retailers, scheduled for completion in the fall of 2015.
"The redevelopment of Joliet Commons is an example of our commitment to continuously seek opportunities to enhance asset value by adding best-in-class retailers that promote shopping synergies and drive consumer traffic," said Scott Carr, executive vice president and chief investment officer for Inland Real Estate Corp. "The addition of DICK's and DSW further strengthens the center's position as a top shopping destination within the greater Joliet regional submarket and provides long-term benefits to the surrounding community," Carr added.
In order to make room for the two new retailers, Inland plans to redevelop a former movie theater at the location into a new building for DICK's and DSW. The theater is scheduled for demolition in February/March 2015, with groundbreaking on the new building set for April. Following this addition, Joliet Commons will comprise 229,000 square feet of retail space. Other tenants at the center include Old Navy, PetSmart, and Famous Footwear.
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I'm a late arriver to the skinny mashed potatoes train. I wish I had jumped aboard sooner! They are delicious!
For those of you wondering how mashed potatoes can be skinny, well let me fill you in on the not so secret substitution–cauliflower.
Say what?
Yep, you heard me. Instead of using actual potatoes, sub them for cauliflower.


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The latest issue of the Journal of Young Investigators includes an article reporting on a study of the impact of high-fat diet and ethanol on cognition and behavior in female mice. The research was conducted during spring 2012 as part of Advanced Behavioral Neuroscience (Psyc 359) by Chris Daniell '14 and Shelby Bartlett '12, under the supervision of Assistant Professor Jessica Siegel. It was supported by Psychology Department operating funds and a grant from the Dean of the College.
Daniell, C., Bartlett, S., & Siegel, J.A. (2013, July). Effects of High-Fat Diet and Ethanol on Cognition and Behavior in Mice. Journal of Young Investigators, 25 (7), 96-100.
The college lifestyle is associated with both a high-fat diet and alcohol consumption. While the isolated effects of diet and alcohol consumption on cognition and behavior are well studied, there is little known about the effect of both together. In this study, we created a mouse model of the college lifestyle in order to better understand the potential combined effects of a high-fat diet and alcohol consumption on cognition and behavior.
Adult C57BL/6J female mice were exposed to either regular food or high-fat food and daily injections of either saline or ethanol. The Porsolt forced swim test (FST), open field, and novel object recognition test measured depression-like behavior, anxiety-like behavior and locomotion, and memory, respectively.
In the Porsolt forced swim test, ethanol-exposed mice trended towards spending more time immobile indicating increased depressive-like behavior. Ethanol exposure also decreased distance moved by the mice in the center of the open field arena, suggesting increased anxiety-like behavior. The high-fat diet had no effect in the FST, but, it did increase distance moved in the open field. There were no effects of diet or ethanol exposure on memory in the novel object recognition test.
In conclusion, it appears that ethanol can increase the risk for depression-like behavior and anxiety-like behavior in female mice, but contrary to our original hypothesis, there were no effects or interactions of high-fat diet on depressive behavior or cognition in the current study. The findings regarding ethanol's effects correspond to the current high rates of student depression and anxiety seen on college campuses.
The mission of the 15-year-old Journal of Young Investigators is to showcase undergraduate research in science … non-technical writing for the public and technical writing (both journal articles and the peer review process). It provides learning opportunities to undergraduates as authors and as editors.


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We hear the term 'residual income' talked about a lot in network marketing, but it's a concept that confuses many people. If we have a look at the general term 'Income' it can be thought of as being divided into three main groups:
1. Earned income - that which we would earn from our job, with a weekly or monthly salary. When you stop working, you stop earning.
2. Passive (or residual/recurring) income - money received on a regular basis with little effort required to maintain it.
3. Portfolio income - such as we might receive from a portfolio of stocks and shares.
Residual income can therefore come from a number of sources including rental from a property, royalties from publishing a book or even, some might argue, a pension. Many recording artists receive residual income in the form of royalties; Sir Paul McCartney might have left the Beatles many years ago, but he will still receive an income from the work he did whilst part of the band. In sum, it reflects an ongoing payment for work that was done some time ago. Harry Potter might be the name everyone is familiar with, but the recurring income from all the hours and hours of work that went into creating him will go to J.K. Rowling.
In the world of sales and network marketing, residual income is therefore the repeat regular income generated from the payment of a product or service, that must be renewed on a regular basis in order to continue receiving its benefits.
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Clive Robinson • September 13, 2010 7:29 AM
Now that is going to prove interesting...
You may not have any questionable browsing habbits but once someone posts your details (plus fake history) how do you prove it's not true...
I can also see such a system being used for secondary blackmail in other ways. Afterall you don't have to have viewed the questionable content, you only have to appear as though you have...
Oh and when they have your CC details what are you going to do when they decide to take a second or third payment down the line. You've made one payment which could easily be seen as an admission of guilt...
Joe • September 13, 2010 7:35 AM
People actually pay for porn>
Tyler Moore • September 13, 2010 8:32 AM
There's a paper at the upcoming ACM CCS conference examining similar Japanese scams:
Nob0dy • September 13, 2010 8:33 AM
Blackmails me to who? My fiancee` knows I do it...
As far as anyone else goes, I don't care...
Curt Sampson • September 13, 2010 9:03 AM
I can't imagine that it would be so hard to track down the criminals. If they're taking credit card payments, there's an audit trail. If there's a shell company, it has bank accounts (not to mention directors and an address, though of course the address could be fake).
So how do they hide?
Ian • September 13, 2010 10:05 AM
This is speculation, since I only read the BBC article, but they might not even actually run the charge - they just want the credit card info, which they can then sell. Ten pounds is probably less than they'd get for the card info, and then they don't run into the problem you're describing.
Not sure if that's actually the case, just thinking. :)
Ian • September 13, 2010 10:10 AM
I don't care if people know what kind of porn I actually look at, but as Clive points out, how do I prove that they didn't just make it up? I bet your boss/the local police would be very interested in knowing that you're active on known child-pornography sites... even though you're really not.
Hmmm • September 13, 2010 10:33 AM
Why the sudden interest in this? The articles are all from April.... Is there a new outbreak?
Ivan • September 13, 2010 10:37 AM
@ Curt: This scam works by creating fear about their reputation in the victim -- they pay to keep information hidden that they deem a threat to their reputation.
Reporting them to the authorities would necessarily involve disclosure of the information the victim paid before to keep hidden, thus actively and by themself causing the consequence they fear. Maybe this reduces the amount of reports down to a level "manageable" by other means.
Also, you just gave them your credit card details; they are not limited to charging your credit card "like reputable merchants" but can basically proceed with any other scheme popular for exploiting fished CC information.
Peter Maxwell • September 13, 2010 11:11 AM
@Clive Robinson at September 13, 2010 7:29 AM
Exactly what I was thinking. As soon as people believe the data published is accurate then it is open for third-parties to arbitrarily spoof other peoples' browser histories.
If this type of attack becomes more common place, it is conceivably possible to setup a site in the guise of having retrieved the victim's browsing habits but actually being entire made-up; same effect but no infection necessary. Names+addreses, etc, can be obtained from another database (e.g. a marketing list).
Or the converse: similar setup is arranged to the example in the articles but the malware visits certain dubious sites on the behalf of the victim before erasing itself from the system. Next day when the Police turn up to the victim's house, serious questions are asked. The corollary is that the tighter access control your system has, the harder it is to prove that it was not the victim browsing those sites.
Nobody In Particular • September 13, 2010 11:57 AM
"You may not have any questionable browsing habbits[sic] but once someone posts your details (plus fake history) how do you prove it's not true..."
That eventually becomes a self-solving problem. The fake history is only a trustworthy as the site that posts it and/or the idea behind it. Once word (or even a widespread suspicion) gets out that bogus histories are being created, most people will stop caring. It's like 419 scams - in the beginning you could draw people in, but now you've got be living under a wi-fi shielded rock to not know someone is trying to scam you.
It will suck for the first people to be caught up in it, but eventually, it will stop being taken seriously.
Cornerstone • September 13, 2010 12:07 PM
Yes, the scariest version of this is malware that could actually download "illegal material", store it on your system, even if in deleted form, and then blackmail you into paying. A digital age version of the shop owner protection racket. And what about at a corporate espionage level?
Clive Robinson • September 13, 2010 12:44 PM
@ Nobody In Particular,
"It will suck for the first people to be caught up in it, but eventually, it will stop being taken seriously."
The history of operation Ore in the UK suggests otherwise. The man in charge Jim Gamble is guilty of making at the very least false representations to courts and to the UK's House of Lords (which at the time was the senior court in the land).
Many complaints about his and the officers under his command where made to the Independent Police Complaints, some by the relatives of those. Driven to take their own lives by Mr Gamble's officers behavior. Sadly although the IPCC has effectivly upheld the complaints they have failed to carry out their statutory duty to investigate them.
Mr Gamble has a shady past and was intermatly associated with Ronnie Flanagen both of whom had to leave their positions in N.I.
Further many investigations that Jim Gamble was involved with are now considered not just tainted but toxic and are being re-investigated.
He is thankfully nolonger a police officer many say he jumped before he was drop kicked out the door.
Sadly thought he is still peddling his old nonsense only currently as CEO of the UK's new Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP).
From what Mr Gamble has been saying it appears Microsoft have "got into bed" with CEOP, I wonder if the did due diligence on it's CEO or not, or as is more likely Mr Gamble is at best stretching the truth yet again.
BF Skinner • September 13, 2010 12:55 PM
Shouldn't work.
The central threat of blackmail is to create the belief in the victim that only if coercion doesn't work with the discreditable secret then be revealed. The payment is to prevent the disclosure not to reward it. An innocent person has nothing to lose by making a police complaint at the first threat.
Hitoshi and Niko Piranha began what they called the "operation" and select a victim and then threaten to beat him up if he paid the so-called protection money. I suggest they review their goals, methods, core compentencies, and skip right to the other, other operation.
Seems that for this to work it depends on public shaming. Hard to feel publically shamed on a website. We have county tax delinquents in a database that publishes to the web by query. I have even been on it a time or two myself. Didn't even know it was there and now that I do? Not so much shame. That requires a sense of people before you feel shame, that people know who you are, a community _not_ the internets.
good paper if dated by an Economist from the late 50s -
"The Theory and practice of Blackmail", Elsberg, D., 1959, RAND http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/2005/P3883.pdf, Accessed 9/13/10
Get me a service where I can pay to have information expunged from Equifax and my birth certificate and _then_ we'll talk.
AppSec • September 13, 2010 1:29 PM
@BF Skinner:
Theory meets practice. Depends on who you are directing the blackmail and their impression of the Internet as well as those whom the information is disclosed to and their perception of the reliability of the data.
Some people firmly believe everything that read is true.
BF Skinner • September 13, 2010 1:59 PM
Given that.
It still shouldn't work. Because the embarrassing disclosure has still already been made.
The Tams are no longer a threat. Damage done.
AppSec • September 13, 2010 2:43 PM
@BF Skinner (almost said @AppSec, and I know I tend to talk to myself sometimes, but that would have been embarassing?? Ironic?)..
Anyway.. I guess I'm thinking more of specific attacks than attacks at the community level. It isn't necessarily about embarassment. It's more about personal risk assessment.
Similar to how some lawsuits are settled not because the defendant is "guilty" but because of other reasons -- fighting costs more than the settlement, public exposure (is that a bad word to use in this scope) isn't necessarily in and of itself embarrasing -- but commulative exposure could be, etc..
I don't know.. it was just a thought... You could be right..
poldergeist • September 13, 2010 5:16 PM
I just wrote to the BBC: The virus does not infect PCs, it infects Windows. I think explaining why porn surfers should switch to Linux would make an impact. More readily grasped than the merits of OO or Gimp, for instance.
Regards, poldergeist
debianUser • September 13, 2010 6:04 PM
It's primarily social engineering. What part of it do you think would not work on Linux?
Davi Ottenheimer • September 13, 2010 8:07 PM
This just reminds me of the parking ticket/wheel lock scam in the UK that I mentioned here.
People there said they'd rather just pay a ticket than figure out if it's real or enforceable.
Good social engineering preys on a particular behavior or bias. In Japan there must be a shame trigger for the porn or similar whereas in England it has become a respect for authority reaction. People will pay without thought if you touch the right nerve.
This is the foundation of my social engineering research and presentation (I'll be giving it again next week at the HTCIA). So I could have a biased lens but the delivery mechanism is mostly irrelevant.
It also reminds me of the unlock code trojan in Russia.
Why would people pay so much when it is easy to unlock themselves? It's not a tech failure -- it's a social and probably cultural facet of risk management.
Nobody In Particular • September 13, 2010 10:41 PM
@ Clive Robinson
So your contention is that since this "Jim Gamble" fellow hasn't been arrested/publicly discredited/whatever, that people will believe what they see on any random website of unknown providence, even once it's been demonstrated that the information on such websites is suspect at best and a complete fabrication at worst?
And I thought that I had a low opinion of people.
Clive Robinson • September 13, 2010 10:49 PM
@ Davi,
"People there said they'd rather just pay a ticket than figure out if it's real or enforceable"
In the UK most "fine systems" have a nasty little "pay without question" bias. Put simply if you payup within 14days of issue (not recipt) you pay X if you do not pay within that time it goes up to 2X. All have rules about contesting that take you ino 2X or more.
The monetary value of X appears to be based on a "normalised pain" threshold such that 2X is above the threshold and X below it.
Interestingly for most of the "official scams" of this sort, of those that "contest" the fine something like 85% of them are successfull. Of those that are not those that go through an appeals process appear to have a better than even success rate.
So only about 5-8% of these fines are found to be vallid when those receiving them chalenge them.
My own experiance was with a rail operator of very low repute in }ondon called South West Trains, due to the failure of their automatic ticketing machine system I could not get a ticket. On using their "platform help system" I was told to seek a member of SWT staff either at the station or at some point during my journy. I did this and was told I had to pay a fine of 20GBP, I contested it and was told "sorry you have failed" I wrote to the "company secretery" of SWT Head Office (that also just happened to be the same as the supposadly "fully independent" appeals organisation) and was brushed off. I was then sent a "getting heavy" letter of "pay the fine or go to court" with the threat of "get a "criminal record" and "pay court costs of several hundred GBP".
In all my letters I very clearly stated what had happened including being assulted by a member of the Metropolitan Police, being illegaly detained, and the fraudulent paperwork from SWT staff. SWT's "Company Secretary" again failed to investigate what the SWT staff where upto. When the court summons arrived it was incorrectly filled out. I was told by SWT staff if I paid the costs within seven days I could stop the court case. I refused and "put them to proof" and asked for copies of the CCTV footage names etc of those involved so they could be summoned to court. SWT sent back a letter saying I was out of time and that they where not obliged to give me the evidence I had requested untill 14 days before the court date. No evidence turned up and just days before the court date the person who was representing me was told verbaly by SWT they had withdrawn the case. On contacting the court however I found that SWT had not informed them they had withdrawn the case. Being a naturaly suspicious person I actually went to the court on the day and SWT had sent down a legal representative, who only on being told that I was present and that evidence had not been supplied etc addmitted that he had not been given instructions by SWT to withdraw. He phoned SWT and then said he would speak to the magistrate about withdrawing the case...
I saw red and told the court clark I wanted compensation for time etc. The magistrates decided to hear my side. I presented the letters etc and they where visably shocked as was the Court Clerk. I was told that unfortunatly as SWT had withdrawn the case they court could not make them pay me my costs. However the Court Clerk told the magistrates that due to the fact that I had attended court it was within the courts discretion to pay me a sum of money directly from the court, the magistrates agreed and I was awarded an appropriate sum for lost earnings etc.
I then went and did some digging around and found out that there where a number of cases where SWT had said they where withdrawing a case to a defendant or their representative but actualy not doing it and getting judgment against the defendant simply because they did not show. Apparently on the defendent going through the process of "reclaiming their rights" SWT blaimed "clerical / paperwork errors" in their defence.
Further investigation showed that most magistrates courts hated dealing with SWT for a whole host of reasons. I was told by one member of a court's staff it was obvious that SWT where bringing cases before the courts they had no hope of winning so often that even SWT could not be that incompetent. When I suggested that SWT where using the courts to leverage fine payments they said it was a "not unreasonable interpretation of the facts"...
So you could say that many UK GO's/NGO's with fine raising powers are "socialy engineering" money out of inocent people. Personaly I prefer that good old word "extortion" as defined in many dictionaries.
Oh one thing, in the vast majority of these "fine systems" those at the bottom of the system that "hand out the fines" are on "minimum wages". BUT they get a significant percentage of the "fines they issue" which can easily quadruple this as an incentive... So I'll leave it to you to decide just how impartial they are, and if they are likley to "issue fraudulant" fines as South West Trains Revenue Protection Officers did with me. Further just how complicit the entire orginisational chain above them to director level is, as they must know and turn a blind eye as long as "The revenue is protected".
Clive Robinson • September 13, 2010 11:19 PM
@ BF Skinner,
"Get me a service where I can pay to have information expunged from Equifax and my birth certificate and _then_ we'll talk"
I'm curious... why would you want to "have information expunged from... ...my birth certificate"?
Are you an immortal or an American who is thinking about becoming President but unfortunatly was born outside the US?
I don't know about US birth certificates but the UK one's have very little information on them and we have a system called "Deed Poll" whereby you can change your name to get rid of quaint curious or embarrassing names your parents or guardians might have foisted on you.
Hopefully you are not like "Frank" in "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" where "Frank" is short for "Frankincense" because his mother could not find a boys name begining with F in the bible for her sixth son...
Clive Robinson • September 14, 2010 12:11 AM
@ Nobody In Particular,
"So your contention is that since... ..., that people will believe what they see on any random website of unknown providence even once it's been demonstrated that the information on such websites is suspect at best and a complete fabrication at worst"
Yes, I guess you did not follow the link I provided.
Operation Ore was a witch hunt for downloaders of "child pornography" based on the use of the US website "Landslide" which was a payment gateway to many forms of adult entertainment on other illegal sites.
The US Government sent a list of names and CC details they had from investigating Landslide to the UK Gov and Operation Ore was setup to investigate the list...
Well Mr Gamble and his subordinates assumed that every one on the list (except for close friends of prominant UK politicians) where all guilty of downloading "Kiddie Porn".
Only that was very far from the case, even before LandSlide was closed down it was well known that it was being scamed by Internet Fraudsters with stolen CC details (it would appear in the UK case that they where stolen from a well known highstreet grocery chain).
Amongst other things Mr Gamble presented false evidence in court (a doctored image of landslides front page making the "child porn" refrences considerably more prominant than they realy were)
The interrogation techniques used by the officers involved telling suspects that they would tell all and sundry know that they where pedophiles. And it appears they did just that with many suspects losing their jobs, homes, families, friends and freedom, even when there was overridingly clear evidence that it was stolen CC details that had been used by Internet Scammers.
Some of the suspects who where not sufficiently familiar with technology took their own lives others are still fighting to have their names cleared and those responsable for the mess to be brought to book.
One of the reasons the sham that was Operation Ore investigation came to light was the US FOI act that alowed one suspect to show that stolen CC details had been used.
Some estimates say that Operation Ore was not only unsuccesfull and harmfull to many inoccent people, it also has set back nearly all otherrrrrrr
Clive Robinson • September 14, 2010 12:32 AM
@ Nobody In Particular,
Sorry my LG Android "smart phone" did it's occasional part piece (keyboard driver does strange things and the phone has to be hard booted).
So just to finish what I was saying... the last paragraph should read,
Some estimates say that Operation Ore was not only unsuccesfull and harmfull to many inoccent people, it also has set back nearly all other child explotation / protection investigations several years and has thus been a very real disaster that has done nothing but cause far reaching harm.
BF Skinner • September 14, 2010 7:04 AM
@Clive Robinson
Let's be Frank! Aldis wasn't it?
A shame the courts payed out your damage instead of it coming from SWT coffers. Bad incentive and gives them no cause to change.
@Nobody In Particular, "...that people will believe what they see on any random website of unknown providence even once it's been demonstrated that the information on such websites is suspect at best and a complete fabrication at worst"
What's your point? Of course they will.
1 in 5 people in the U.S. say they believe that the President is a Muslim even though the evidence of decades says otherwise. The fact that this correlates to their opposition to him politically, socially and racially is telling.
The fact that it's written down in the amplyfying echo chamber that is the internet is contributatory but secondary.
There are people who will say any shite and people who will believe it because they want to. These people will seek support from the 'written' word. "They wouldn't let them say it if it weren't true."
Sad to say in the U.S. even lies are protected speech if they are about public figures (the libel and slander laws still apply) or, even better, groups of the unrighteous. But anyone can get on their cable 'newsiness' show and make unfounded allegations and be accepted as fact by them that want to believe.
1 in 5. I'd feel worse but half the people in this country have IQ's of less than 100 and their education usually stops at high school. Reading, 'righting and 'rythmatic...don't ask us about critical reasoning.
As many have pointed out here the goal of the social engineer is to engage emotional responses (anger, fear, hate, hope, sympathy) to bypass reasoning. As soon as they do we get stupid people. People who are feeling arn't thinking and people that arn't thinking are easier led.
Hat • September 14, 2010 11:37 AM
You always have to be careful about what information you put online. Singular lesson.
Confidence criminals always try and pressure you to make snap decisions to give out personal information. Sometimes that is just like when you are at Taco Bell and taking too longer to order and the clerk gets angry and forces to you to go ahead.
Complain instead or walk out.
Late • September 14, 2010 12:53 PM
I must say Clive's comments are the 2nd best thing of this blog.
Nick P • September 15, 2010 1:21 AM
@ Late
Clive, you should really stop one upping yourself with fake aliases. At least this time you posted a 1 line compliment: the last one's 20 paragraphs kind of gave you away. It seems you've learned your lesson.
Clive Robinson • September 15, 2010 3:14 AM
@ Nick P,
Sorry bad call it's not me.
I'm sure Bruce will be able to confirm the difference in IP adds (and the one I'm posting from now is the Royal Brompton Hospital in London where I'm awaiting some holes to be put in me).
I thought @ Late might have been you as you often say that your late to the party.
Nick P • September 16, 2010 12:19 AM
@ Clive Robinson
"Sorry bad call it's not me."
Dude, I was kidding. The IP stuff was totally unnecessary. And yes, I'm often late to the party, but at least I'm always *fashionably* late. Unlike the other guy... ;)
pdf23ds • September 17, 2010 3:49 PM
Nobody In Particular said to Clive,
"So your contention is that since... ..., that people will believe what they see on any random website of unknown providence even once it's been demonstrated that the information on such websites is suspect at best and a complete fabrication at worst"
Clive said:
"Yes, I guess you did not follow the link I provided."
Actually, I think he was just being stupid, but your exposition on Operation Ore was a good read.
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