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From a cutting-edge cultural commentator and documentary filmmaker, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great democratizing force of our age.
The Internet has been hailed as a place where all can be heard and everyone can participate equally. But how true is this claim? In a seminal dismantling of techno-utopian visions, The People's Platform argues that for all that we "tweet" and "like" and "share," the Internet in fact reflects and amplifies real-world inequities at least as much as it ameliorates them. Online, just as off-line, attention and influence largely accrue to those who already have plenty of both. What we have seen in the virtual world so far, Astra Taylor says, has been not a revolution but a rearrangement. Although Silicon Valley tycoons have eclipsed Hollywood moguls, a handful of giants like Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook still dominate our lives. And the worst habits of the old media model--the pressure to be quick and sensational, to seek easy celebrity, to appeal to the broadest possible public--have proliferated online, where every click can be measured and where "aggregating" the work of others is the surest way to attract eyeballs and ad revenue. In a world where culture is "free," creative work has diminishing value, and advertising fuels the system, the new order looks suspiciously just like the old one.
We can do better, Taylor insists. The online world does offer an unprecedented opportunity, but a democratic culture that supports diverse voices, work of lasting value, and equitable business practices will not appear as a consequence of technology alone. If we want the Internet to truly be a people's platform, we will have to make it so.
Astra Taylor is a writer, documentary filmmaker, and activist. Her films include Zizek!, a feature documentary about the world's most outrageous philosopher, which was broadcast on the Sundance Channel, and Examined Life, a series of excursions with contemporary thinkers. Taylor's writing has appeared in The Nation, the London Review of Books, n+1, The Baffler magazine, and other publications and she is the editor of Examined Life and co-editor of Occupy! Scenes from Occupied America. Taylor helped spearhead the Occupy offshoot Strike Debt and was one of the instigators of the Rolling Jubilee campaign. She lives in New York.
"The promise was so utopian, and it really seemed possible! Now we watch as the lauded instrument of 'creative destruction' ends up in the hands of a few giant corporations. What happened? Is there a way out beyond pulling the plug? In response, Astra Taylor has laid out clear arguments, sobering information, and inspiring insights. There have been a lot of books about how the Internet is changing our world, but this is absolutely one of the best. Beautifully written and highly recommended."
—David Byrne, musician and author
"Astra Taylor's insights into the 'missing middle' of our present situation are sane, lucid, and generous. This book adjusted my thinking on several scores."
—Jonathan Lethem
"In this, perhaps the most important book about the digital age so far this century, Astra Taylor reveals the unacknowledged economic operating system actually running the net. It's a landscape in which 'open' means different things for different people, leisure might better be classified as labor, and the promise of free culture ends up costing us so much more than money."
—Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed and Life Inc.
"The scariest book I've read in a while is also the most exhilarating: The People's Platform portrays what the digital age has done to our society, our culture, our lives—the power grabs, the blows to democracy, the uphill rush of money—and how it's undermined the economic underpinnings of news and art, in broad scope and precise detail. There is no better, no stronger picture of our bleak new technological landscape and the peppy delusions and deceptions of its profiteers. Knowledge is power, and Taylor gives us a picture so clear it empowers us to find a way forward through the debris. Read it and revolt."
—Rebecca Solnit, author of A Paradise Built in Hell
"A lively, engaging and wide-ranging look at the politics and the business of the Internet. This is a must-read call to action for anyone who believes in the democratic potential of the net."
—Nora Young, host of Spark, on CBC Radio
"Internet policy books seem only to come in two colors: bright dream or dark nightmare. Enter The People's Platform—it's a rainbow of insight. With nuance and a light touch, Astra Taylor exposes the fallacies in contemporary digital punditry. Unlike her peers, she has her eyes on a truly democratic politics. Which makes this a rare book—it's one that can radically change the way we see the future of digital social change."
—Raj Patel, New York Times bestselling author of The Value of Nothing and Stuffed and Starved
"In The People's Platform, Astra Taylor skillfully explores and dismantles familiar polarized positions on internet culture. In this unravelling, she reveals the complex and blurred relationships among users, creators and those who profit from them. Taylor's argument for a sustainable cultural commons is moving and persuasive, and elevates the debate at this crucial juncture in the evolution of cyberspace."
—Jennifer Baichwal, documentary filmmaker (Manufactured Landscapes, Payback, Watermark)
"The People's Platform is a can't-look-away tour through the bombed-out wreckage of democratic culture in the Internet age. If you've ever had the uncomfortable feeling that we've taken a wrong turn on the way to the future, Astra Taylor's shocking, utterly rational, and elegant book will have you shaking your fist along with her. This is an essential and overdue indictment of our ailing media culture."
—Andrew Blum, author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet
"Astra Taylor is a bright voice of the Occupy generation—a courageous philosopher and a keen activist with a digital populist message. Taylor's prescient manifesto for 'sustainable culture' explains why the 99% must pioneer 'cultural democracy' to win real democracy. The People's Platform is destined to ignite a global social movement to rewild our mental ecology."
—Micah White, Ph.D. (@LeaderlesRevolt), co-creator of Occupy Wall Street meme
"Lucid, unsparing, and brilliant, The People's Platform demonstrates how the Internet, hardly a paradise of freedom and equality, has been left in the hands of moguls, oligarchs, and corporate scamsters to produce little more than new forms of exploitation. But it also shows that the utopian promise is not all hot air. Freedom doesn't just happen. It has to be conquered, and this book begins to tell us how."
—David Graeber, author of Debt: The First 5,000 Years
"What happened to the Internet revolution? Why, if everything's so different, does it feel like everything's still the same? Astra Taylor breaks it down here with humor, patience, and an unerring moral sense. She is on the side of the independent filmmaker, musician, and journalist, and pulls no punches in naming those on the other side. This is a brave, inspiring, and necessary book."
—Keith Gessen, author of All the Sad Young Literary Men
"Why has the invention most celebrated for putting the means of expression in the hands of the people produced a few billionaire media moguls and a mass of creative producers expected to work for free? Confronting this fundamental inequality of the digital age, Astra Taylor opens a new front in the battle for sustainable culture—and gives us good reason to think that this is a battle we will win."
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post8121089427601051020..comments2020-08-08T02:37:25.220-05:00Comments on Garden of Aaron: One of the Best Groundcovers - Erigeron puchellus, Robin's plantainAaronhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-54182251862725840212018-05-09T08:11:58.390-05:002018-05-09T08:11:58.390-05:00Mine never really spread either. In fact, you'...Mine never really spread either. In fact, you're doing better than I did, as I had trouble keeping my P. procumbens alive!Aaronhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-81643307209302640462018-05-08T18:29:29.787-05:002018-05-08T18:29:29.787-05:00I love P. procumbens. It's beautiful. I've...I love P. procumbens. It's beautiful. I've had mine for several years now and it hasn't spread an inch. Maybe it's my soil.quercusnuthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-38728138640464462992018-05-08T18:27:09.616-05:002018-05-08T18:27:09.616-05:00Sounds like a plan. Let's revisit this plant s...Sounds like a plan. Let's revisit this plant swap idea in the fall. It'll be nearly 90 this weekend in Tennessee. Too hot to swap!Aaronhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-57911383218469469102018-05-08T18:26:20.412-05:002018-05-08T18:26:20.412-05:00It's just an awesome plant. I was away for thr...It's just an awesome plant. I was away for three weeks traveling and came back to find it still blooming and still attracting pollinators. The foliage looks better than ever and even the seedheads are pretty and fluffy!

I have tried P. procumbens. I have not had much success with it, sadly :(

My parents grew P. terminalis at their place in Pennsylvania. It thrived there,Aaronhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-16551072356264363562018-04-19T15:47:39.998-05:002018-04-19T15:47:39.998-05:00That's a good-looking ground cover! Sure, fee...That's a good-looking ground cover!

Sure, feel free to send me your mailing address using the contact form in the upper right corner of the blog. I will respond via email, but I would rather wait until early fall to exchange plants if you don't mind...Aaronhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-91409251004524370992018-04-19T15:40:59.791-05:002018-04-19T15:40:59.791-05:00Yes, most sources I have seen indicate that it is ...Yes, most sources I have seen indicate that it is hardy in zone 5 and marginal in zone 4.

That said, you might want to try planting it in the spring or early fall, like September, in zone 5 to make sure as a chance to get established before winter.Aaronhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-24363965625527210552018-04-19T15:24:33.478-05:002018-04-19T15:24:33.478-05:00Interesting plant, thanks for sharing. Is it hardy...Interesting plant, thanks for sharing. Is it hardy in zone 5?Jasonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-15421604780295395392018-04-18T23:15:46.600-05:002018-04-18T23:15:46.600-05:00Here's a link to a pic of one of mine. https:...Here's a link to a pic of one of mine.

https://garden.org/plants/view/128883/Goldenstar-Chrysogonum-virginianum-Eco-Lacquered-Spider/quercusnuthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-70937569585662639722018-04-18T23:11:13.387-05:002018-04-18T23:11:13.387-05:00Cool. I have some that are spilling into a walkway...Cool. I have some that are spilling into a walkway that I am planning to sell on ebay. I can trade you some for a start of your erigeron if you want to. Postage for postage. Just let me know and we can swap mailing addresses.quercusnuthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-54962816979504917552018-04-18T21:49:01.701-05:002018-04-18T21:49:01.701-05:00Cool plant! I've seen it growing in the wild a...Cool plant! I've seen it growing in the wild and admired it. The slight purplish tinge to the flowers is special. The foliage, especially in winter, is nifty, too. Have you tried Pachysandra procumbens (Allegheny Spurge)? I have P. terminalis here, because it was here when we moved in, but if I was starting from scratch, I'd definitely go with the native one. Both are great evergreen Beth at PlantPostingshttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-71796936945890679232018-04-18T15:00:11.818-05:002018-04-18T15:00:11.818-05:00Good to know, quercusnut. Well, I'll hope tha...Good to know, quercusnut.

Well, I'll hope that mine flourishes this year in a semi-shady spot underneath some crape myrtles and among other perennials. If it does grow well, maybe I'll take you up on your offer to send some of the Eco-Lacquered Spider this autumn. And if you want some of my Robin's plantain, maybe I can figure out how to send some your way!Aaronhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-267571693236690842018-04-18T00:30:40.547-05:002018-04-18T00:30:40.547-05:00I probably did mention it before. So far I only ha...I probably did mention it before. So far I only have it in shade. I plan to try it in sun. I transplant pretty much any time of year making sure it doesn't dry out until well established.quercusnuthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-82579185017650849482018-04-18T00:27:07.509-05:002018-04-18T00:27:07.509-05:00Thanks for the reply quercusnut! I think you may ...Thanks for the reply quercusnut!

I think you may have suggested Eco-Lacquered Spider before. I'm actually trialing it in my garden now, although for some reason Chrysogonum virginiana (a.k.a. green-and-gold) has not done well for me despite the fact I've trialed it in several different spots with various amounts of sun exposure.

Do you find it does better with sun orAaronhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-617603620841382713.post-63948000600149337382018-04-17T11:53:46.637-05:002018-04-17T11:53:46.637-05:00Great article. I intend to try it. Never knew of i...Great article. I intend to try it. Never knew of it before. A groundcover I love among others is Chrysogonum virginiana 'Eco-Lacquered Spider'. Very dense, almost perfect weed suppressor. Although I haven't trialed it under harsh conditions. Let me know if you would like to try it and I'll send you a start.quercusnuthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com

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Spring has well and truly sprung here in New Zealand. Hip hip hooray. I have been wanting to make the owl pattern from Abby Glassenberg's The Artful Bird since I first got hold of the book a few years ago. Things take time to percolate in my world :)
The wren was my first attempt. Abby recommends starting with this pattern, to get some practice with the techniques. I was really hanging out to make the owl. The owl looks a little more complicated (due to the feathers) but actually that turned out to be quite straightforward. I struggled a lot with getting the body to piece together correctly... I just couldn't get my head around it for some reason. There was a lot of swearing and unpicking at one stage, but once I figured it out it seemed so straightforward! I had a lot of fun with the embellishments, sewing the eyes and the feathers together, putting the ears on. Giving the bird its character is the best part.
I've been watching the birds around our house recently, and I'm thinking about trying a couple of NZ natives. Maybe a wood pigeon or a tui. For the tail I used an old skirt that I bought in Sydney at Glebe Markets years ago, that I just couldn't bear to part with but was long past wearing. And the feathers were the remnants of a peplum shirt I made a while ago, with a kind of painterly design that I love. Re-using these adds another layer of meaning when I look at this owl now, bringing back fond memories. Sometimes as I'm drifting off to sleep I recall old fabric patterns from my childhood that seem to have made a lasting impression on me. I wonder if anyone else does that.
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NightmareZ - A Platform and Shooter game[Now on Steam]
AMAXANG-GAMES posted a topic in WIP ProjectsBIG ANNOUNCEMENT: NightmareZ is now on Steam! Get it on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/509930 Greenlight page link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=693100216 Here is the Greenlight Trailer: Please feel free to provide your feedback and suggestions to improve the game. NightmareZ is a side-scrolling platform action game with lots of fancy features, multiple enemies and retro visuals. This is my first major game project. I will soon put it on Steam Greenlight. Game Story: Who could ever think the Doom's day to arrive so early? The world has been completely consumed by Darkness(Dark energy). The zombies and evil spirits manifested themselves to rule over the world. But this is not an impossible task to restore the human beings who have already been lost. The fate is displaying the NIGHTMARE of being consumed by darkness spontaneously. In this catastrophic situation, a speck of light of HOPE appears. The person who has been lured to the battle field by the king of darkness, is not a human being but a demon with unusual demonic power. He wants to fight against the evil forces. He had lost his family 5 years ago due to the sudden attack of evil spirits. He is now guided by a saint who provides him the instructions from time to time. He is the son of the greatest warrior, Zaxina. He is Razor. There is a deep mystery behind the demonic powers of Razor, which his brother knows. Razor had never seen his brother from birth and hopes to meet him someday. His current aim is to seize and annihilate the evil demonic forces! Here are some gifs and screenshots given below to give you an idea of what the game is all about. Some screenshots from V1.3 which is currently under development. Follow the development blog for updates here: http://anamikmajumdar.blogspot.com/2015/03/project-nightmarez-2015.html Like my Facebook Page and stay in touch with me here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Amaxang-Games/459063974167243 UPDATES: V1.3.1 is coming soon with some new features! It 95% done already. Only 5% to go for the final release. You can expect this game to be finally released in October. To follow the development process, it is highly recommended that you follow the game dev blog: http://anamikmajumdar.blogspot.com/2015/03/project-nightmarez-2015.html Now, you can read more information about this game in my official website: http://www.amaxang-games.com/2015/04/nightmarez-full-version-indie-roguelike.html Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AmaxangGames Feel free to post feedback. Thank you.


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SC asks DDA to allot plots to 14,000 applicants by July, 2016
New Delhi, Mar 10: In a major relief to applicants of DDA's 1981 housing scheme, the Supreme Court on Tuesday asked DDA to allot plots to remaining 14,000 applicants in Rohini area here and conclude external development work by July 31, 2016.
A bench headed by Justice J S Kehar, which had asked the Vice Chairman and the Chief Engineer of Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to appear in person before it, said that any "breach" of its order would be "viewed seriously".
The bench passed a slew of directions while disposing of the petition alleging that despite the lapse of over three decades after DDA announced its scheme, nearly 25,000 of the original 83,000 applicants, still have not received plots.
DDA vice-chairman Balvinder Kumar and Chief Engineer Sandip Mehta told the court that almost 11,000 plots have been allotted to applicants in Sector 28, 29, 30 and 34 of Rohini area and delivery of remaining 14,000 plots will take time.
The court then fixed the deadline of July 31, 2016 and asked DDA to allot remaining 14,000 plots by that time after completing all external development works including laying of water pipeline and construction of roads.
The process of giving temporary electricity connection in some Sectors can be completed by the end of June this year, DDA officials said.
On being pointed out that the allotment of remaining 14,000 plots was earlier obstructed due to agitation in the area, the court asked Delhi government and city police to render all kind of assistance to DDA.
It further made it clear that no court, except the apex court, will hear any plea relating to the allotment process in the present case.
It also directed the authority not to transfer Mehta from his present position as Chief Engineer to ensure that the allotment and the development works are being conducted as per the court's directions.
The plot-seekers had moved the apex court after DDA had failed to honour repeated directions since 2009 of the Delhi High Court to allot the plots.


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Anthony Iapoce
Anthony was named the Cubs major league hitting coach in October, 2018 after three seasons as the hitting coach with the Texas Rangers ... prior to joining Texas, he spent the previous three years in the Cubs organization as a Special Assistant to the GM while overseeing the club's minor league hitting program from 2013-15 ... Has been in a coaching/player development capacity since the 2006 season, including three seasons as a major league hitting coach ... Graduated from McClancy High School in his native Queens, N.Y. ... played college baseball at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
Anthony served as the Rangers hitting coach from 2016-18, marking his first stint as a coach at the major league level ... During his three seasons with Texas, the Rangers ranked fifth in the American League in runs and fourth in home runs ... the 2017 Rangers became the first team in big league history to see nine players reach 17 homers in the same season ... Served as a roving hitting coordinator with Toronto from 2010-12 ... Was a hitting coach in the Marlins system with Short-A Jamestown (2006), Single-A Greensboro (2007) and Single-A Jupiter (2008-09).
A former outfielder, Anthony played 11 seasons in the minor leagues in the Brewers and Marlins organizations, as well as independent ball, after being selected by Milwaukee in the 33rd round of the 1994 Draft ... Reached the Triple-A level four different times and was a career .272 hitter with a .345 on-base percentage in 714 minor league games.


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Timea Bacsinszky's party was ruined when fellow birthday girl Jelena Ostapenko beat her in the French Open semi-finals on Thursday but the Swiss appeared to be taking her second failure at that stage in three years in her stride.
Asked if she would still celebrate her 28th birthday, she joked: "Yes. I'm going to drink some beer, finally."
Bacsinszky battled back after losing the first set tiebreak but the 30th seed was eventually overwhelmed by her 20-year-old Latvian opponent, who prevailed 7-6(4) 3-6 6-3.
The contest was tight, Ostapenko winning 106 points to Bacsinszky's 105, but even that did not spoil the mood of the Swiss, who was obviously disappointed but dejected.
"What's the point difference that we have? But it wasn't that much. Ah, only one? Ah, bad luck. Okay. It's a tough one," she said. "I cry now or later? It actually makes me cry now. Ah, but it's okay."
For all her tactical skills, Bacsinszky could not contain Ostapenko, who hit the lines on multiple occasions in an aggressive style reminiscent of Monica Seles.
"I'm not ashamed to say that she played better," said Bacsinszky. "She was braver. She had more courage."
The Latvian is also eight centimetres taller, meaning it was easier for Ostapenko to hit the ball harder.
That did not unduly depress Bacsinszky either.
Asked how she thought she could handle Ostapenko's power in future, the Swiss joked: "Well, I was thinking about gaining three inches or four inches. No, I'm just kidding."
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Sexual Harassment from Cam4 Spain and Professional Abuse to Webcamers
Hello, I'm Irina Vega and I am going to explain several events that I consider quite serious that have happened for some years on Cam4 with webcammers and performers in Spain. So I also answer all the questions that you have been asking me these last months of why Onix Babe or me no longer work on Cam4.
I will start by saying that, in my case, I have been working for 7 years in the company, many more than people who have entered afterwards on admin and have had the shame of speaking badly and treating us worse. They fire all us of our weekly broadcasts in the Super Shows section, everyone, all of a sudden and without giving us advance notice or relocating.
When they tell me that there are going to be changes, they tell me to talk to the new manager of the section and this one says simply to me: GOODBYE. They did not even have the decency to tell us themselves that they were kicking us out, and they were entrusting that task to new people.
But the most worrisome part of all this is that one of their employees who came in about 3 years ago, harassed me and Onix and has been completely unpunished and continues to work in the company. I'm tired of being silent about abuses like these, so I'll start from the beginning to explain everything that has happened.
About 7 years ago I started working for Cam4 with Silvia Rubí. We did webcam porno shows, twice a week on a Cam4 platform, which paid me and my partner for each show, apart from tokens as tips. Also, for the porn festivals that were being done in Spain, we used to hire myself and Silvia Rubí, HERE the link to Cam4's blog talking about the first festival in Spain. They stopped doing some years and later I started again with Lilyan Red and later with Onix Babe.
Everything was normal with the webcam shows, until about 3 years ago and coinciding with the entry of Javier, the new marketing manager in Cam4 Spain, they decided to take half of the work and get more people to the Super Shows. At first they claimed it was for cuts, but we saw the ones already on the platform, which had added more porn actresses who are also webcammers to that section, mostly Spanish. It seems great to me that they do it to have more variety of shows, but they should not have lied to us.
So, well, we started doing half the shows, one a week instead of two, and of course charging half, all this without warning, from one day to another.
But things got worse when we started doing live shows again. I went with Lilyan Red to the erotic festivals and the marketing manager of Cam4 in Spain, was also in charge of "organizing" the stand in the erotic festivals. Once we set up the booth, he disappeared, we did not know when we had to do the shows, schedules, where are the locker rooms… we had to go and look for it at the bar because it was more likely to find it there than on the phone because we were calling it.
Every day festival he was drunk, stammered, left empty glasses of beer that was drank by the stand that was also abandoned, without anyone who could attend the public kept it clean. Our job was to do live shows on behalf of Cam4 on the stage, we did not work as stewardesses but we have eyes and we saw what was happening. So good … I thought it would be something punctual. But no, it was something that was repeated in all the festivals we attended from then on.
I also like to have my shows and I always look for a camera that can record them and also collect all the photos I can from the photographers who take pictures of our shows. Then I edit the videos myself and publish them in Altporn4U so that people who have not been able to attend the festival can see them.
Several times I told Javier that I could use my videos to put them on Cam4's blog, I sent several of them, which I never saw published. Later I explain why I tell this detail.
All these images that I am putting in this post are photos that I got to publish them at the time (except the flyer of Silvia and mine, which was the first festival attended by Cam4 and the only one with a decent infrastructure). In all the others, nobody in the marketing team of Cam4 put a minimum of interest in paying a photographer or cameras or in publishing them, in contrast Javi did very shabby photos with the mobile and that was the blog posts.
Already in the erotic festival of Barcelona in 2016, several things happened… surely even more and we did not find out. There was one in particular that spread the word, because it was a scandal, and it was Javier had a fight with one of the performers.
Jordi Lucena and Alexa Nasha were performing shibari shows at the Zorrilandia stand, and one of the times they were going to the stage, Jordi caught Alexa on shoulders, and passed among many people who had been there public companions, etc. To Javier, he think that since she was defenseless and on her back, it would be a good time to touch Alexa's sex. But she complained that someone had touched her, and Jordi turned around quickly. The people who were there told him that it had been Javier, they had just seen him, so Jordi went and beat him. A commotion arose and several comrades went to separate them. We were already starting with stronger things.
Later, at the festival of Alicante 2016, we were told by my and Onix that there had been another incident on the part of Javi, of course, with one of the photographers with whom he was sharing the Cam4 stand, since on that occasion he wanted to do so in order to save money. Onix and I went as usual to do shows, not hostesses since they offered us money that we considered very little for all the hours we had to be there and we did not accept.
So it occurred to him to ask that photographer who mentioned you, and he looked for a girl, a porn actress who was starting and who could do the job for less. But, Javier offered to pay more from his pocket, if every day he could have sex with her. Yes, just like that.
The photographer was annoyed and told him that he was not going to say that to the girl who was also his friend. So in the end Javier, spoke with Lukas el Bala who told him that he was going to take a girl to his booth and that he could also work as a stewardess on Cam4. If Javi asked also for sexual favors, I do not know.
Lukas aside, contacted me because he wanted to perform a scene for Altporn4U – Corsetted, in which he did not work good by the way, and I had to cut in the editing more than half the scene. He told me about a girl who was going to work there and could do the scene with him:
– "For € 100 is going to be the two days of festival at the stand letting it play by the public and doing everything I ask because it is my submissive." Quoted words that Lukas told me on the phone, talking about a girl who wanted to start in porn, was going to be her first experience in porn and her first festival.
Here are labor abuses of girls who start, taking advantage of the fact that they have no experience and still do not value their image, in addition to the lack of respect for work and the professionals, people who have been working on this for years.
The thing was getting worse as this character was confident with us. He asked us to advertise in the Clima magazine of our shows on Cam4, which put us in contact with them to go on the cover. Truthfully I cared little to appear on the cover of a magazine of contacts like that also had little taste, and more after to appear in other magazines much more important like Private, Primera Línea twice and Interviú magazine.
But, I said… come on, I do the favor that recently Javier had given me a vibrator that had been sent to Cam4. I spoke with one of the editors of Clima, asked me for a gallery of photos, besides an erotic story, all this FREE. At first all very well and correct, but when they had everything and the magazine had been published, I did not want to send a magazine to my house, he told me that she did not send it to me because sometimes she returned the courier service and went to the kiosk to buy it. I was hallucinating.
I tell you how the operation was. When I was asked for all the content to publish, I spoke with Luis (LMD Photo), the photographer with whom Onix and I had recently organized a photo shoot (on our own, Onix, LMD and mine work, nobody paid us absolutely nothing, it was a job for our respective websites) Well, what is my surprise Luis tells me that Javier had contacted him already and asked him for photos of us. I was perplexed, this man intended to take pictures and use them for advertising without consulting me. Luckily, Luis is a professional and did not give to him. But the fact of believing he think is in the right to ask for photos to another person, the work of others and want to appropriate it… already says a lot about that person.
Both Onix and I, we wrote the story and sent the photos respectively to do Javi's favor, which we did not really want, then find out that nobody gives us thanks and they are not able to send us a sad magazine. I was very angry, and Javi finally told me that he was going to give us the copies of the magazines, that we did not ask them to Clima magazine.
Recently, after a year of waiting, I got angry and threatened to denounce him since no one had made us sign image rights or anything at all and they were profiting from those magazines than if they had to pay for them to buy them. So he got up and quickly sent me a copy, and you see that he realized the seriousness of the matter and he wanted to pay us $ 100 each for our work.
And this is nothing compared to what happened after…
In the last festival of Valencia 2017, Onix and if worked there as hostesses, since we managed to negotiate a better cache and apparently Javier compensated to pay us us a little more rather than having the problems he had with Lukas el Bala at the festival in Alicante, he told me himself.
In this festival, so few people came from the public, and on the first day Javi told us that he was going to fall in the face of those who were above him in Cam4 France. When we finish working at the festivals, it is customary to meet the partners in a group in one of the rooms and talk, because sometimes we do not see each other in a long time, tell anecdotes or just relax. The first day Onix and I were very tired and wanted to go directly to our room, not to another room were all the other pornstars are. As Javi did not have as much confidence with the others, he asked us if he could come to ours for a while, because he did not want to go so early to sleep, we told him it's okay and because he was a little bit upset about the downfall of the festival.
Well, that night, was one of the times most shame I've felt for another human being.
I asked him about the subject of the videos that if he had put them on Cam4's blog, maybe that would give Cam4 more visibility since they are very cool videos, that you could serve as promo and thus also "the ones above" could see the work we do. He said no, he had not even seen it. In addition he was already high and showed us all the time pictures of his friends with the phone, even one called him on the phone so Onix and I would send him a little greeting. Yes, those things that make some men boast that they are with women.
The thing is that I put a video, IS THIS IN QUESTION, please look at it is free and so you draw your own conclusions. She looked the video for a moment and said:
– What do you want to get me horny or what?
– No Javi, it's for the marketing theme, but it's the same …
Onix and I were perplexed by that answer, so we started talking about our things, since with him it was impossible to have any conversation, everything was directed to sexual matters. All he did was make ultra-macho and degrading comments.
For example, Onix commented …
– how tasty were the crepes of the festival truck, they put chocolate on top of them.
Javier: – I would give you my crepe stuffed with cream
It come such a point, we began laughing at the situation it was so ridiculous and telling him to stop being so unpleasant. We were gradually saying that we wanted to sleep, and he was not leaving… and when he finally reacted, heflat out told us:
– Well, I would be willing to pay you both
I stand up ipso-facto and when he saw my face… I think he understood everything at once and left the room.
The next day, he was hinting whenever he could and he begin to tell me things like how long he lasted in bed, how horny he was when he fucked, and things like that, as if trying to provoke in me some kind of desire about him.
And I do not want someone to think… hey! you work in porn. NO! This is a job just like any other, and we already have enough with irresponsible people who have no respect, who are few but there are. But what you least expect, is that your own manager is thinking of getting his cock in you, treat you in that humiliating way and that seeing that you do not get it then offers you money. It's demeaning!
But the drop that made the cup run over, so I spoke with Richard, one of the heads of the Cam4 website that I had the pleasure to meet at the first festival I attended on behalf of Cam4. That by the way, he treated us very well, he and the two companions who came with him, both Silvia Rubí and me. Nothing to compare with now.
I told him what was happening, because I was worried about the image of the Cam4 brand in Spain, because I was seeing that in the festivals the thing was worse and was giving a very bad image.
If you are representing a brand, YOU ARE THAT BRAND. You should not behave that way because you are creating a bad image because it is your job and you are being paid for it. And the thing was not only drunkenness, it was harassment to the actresses in charge, touches to other actresses of other stands and attempts to have sex with anyone who crossed the road.
Richard was very kind and sympathetic to hear all this, but the mistake was that he told what happened to Peter (the manager of Cam4 Europe in France) what happened? that Peter and Javi were friends, and of course… would think that we were liars, that after taking more time in the company than the two of them together, we were going to lie about something of this caliber (yes, this last has been a irony) but even if it sounds like a joke, that's what he thought.
So for the next festival, which was the one in Madrid, he decided to take me and Onix out of the way.
– Ah! that is, that we are harmed by this "gentleman", who has harassed us, and on top, Cam4 take us away the work?
I told Richard, I was very pissed. He talked to Peter and they put us back into the festival. Onix was unable to attend for personal reasons, but we found a substitute. That was the last festival I attended doing shows.
Onix and me had scheduled at the beginning of the year to go to Barcelona too, but we were not told anything about it.
And while this was happening, they were still announcing our webcam shows on social media, both mine and Onix, as well as all the other girls that were not already in Super Shows like Amarna Miller, Lilyan Red , etc.
They used our photos to promote the web, without our consent and much less without paying for them or anything. Of course, I suppose that some professional photos like ours, attract more users than the amateur photos of the majority of users on the platform. Yes, all of this… ideas of Javier Alonso. The Marketing Manager of Cam4 Spain.
After the festival in Madrid, I thought that when the things were hot, Cam4 would prefer not to do more live shows at the moment, even if they would have had the decency to fire Javi of Cam4, but what was my surprise, that I was visiting Friday and Saturday to the festival of Barcelona and it turns out that… not only was Javi there at the stand "working" but at the Chicas Bala stand they were doing Cam4 shows like we were doing, giving away T-shirts and everything. Here the blog article from Cam4 where they talk about it, and we obviously do not mention us at all, Onix and me just disappeared.
Precisely, I was under the stupefied stage, when I approached Javi and this was the conversation:
– Hi Irina! How are you?
– Well, I see you've been looking for substitutes for our shows.
– No, no … those of Cam4 in France have contacted Lukas el Bala directly and they are managing everything between them. Better because that way I'm calmer.
– Calmer why?
– Well … because that's what I do for my business, marketing
And I put a face of … finally, I turned my face and did not want to talk more.
You don't know… the feeling I had at that moment. After working 7 years in a company, treat yourself like a real shit.
I have been more time and I worry more about the company than an guy that they have hire recently, that has no idea of porn, and that this shows is behaving like an animal in heat, without respecting the people that we have worked here since years.
And you get paid like that. Taking you out of the way. Why?
We have always fulfilled our work, we have never had any problems in all this time with Cam4, and now they have started the problems … just when he joins the company. He is a person who does not know how to do his job and has disrespected us, and does he remain in the company?
All this continues to show that we live in a sexist world, in which the victims are removed and hidden, as if nothing had happened.
I can write what happened on my website, I can record statements in a video, I can report it and above all. I WANT ALL THIS TO BE KNOW.
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth because I know for sure that the creators of the web have no idea with all this, but it is their duty to study the people they are delegating, especially in these types of jobs, because they can use their "power" to do what they please as it has happened here. They don't have anyone above them in the festivals, watching their work, those of other stands or other performers I doubt much that they communicate with Cam4 to tell them what happens. Only we were, that if we saw what was happening, that we suffered as well. We were brave and we talked.
Now it will be even worse… all this will continue happening and probably those that remain will not say anything for fear of losing their job.


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Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon shared a festive message via Instagram.
"Happy Easter," the Grammy Award-winning singer, 45, captioned the above shot, alongside her husband, 33, and their nearly 3-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe.
The proud parents went on to share several bunny-themed pics on social media.
"Easter bunny? Are you coming??? – Love, Ms. Monroe & Ms. Mariah," the singer captioned this sweet shot.
And here's a cute one of "Dem Babies" – who turn 3 on April 30 – decorating eggs.
Meanwhile, Nick shared a fun shot on Good Friday.
Such a festive group! Happy Easter to the Carey-Cannons!


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Interesting Things – Lake Issyk Kul
This peaceful, serene waterscape in Kyrgyzstan holds for me at least two interesting facts.
Not that the water is said never to freeze, despite the lake being surrounded by snow-capped mountains (although that is kind of interesting).
Or that the shores of the lake are full of health resorts (although this will become ironically interesting soon).
I'm mostly interested in its connections to plague (see?) and drowned cities (you can make you're own guesses as to what kind of story I'm working on right now).
Plague on the Silk Road
Historians think that Lake Issyk Kul, being a popular stopover point on the Silk Road in medieval times, was the place from which the Black Death swept through Europe and Asia with devastating effect in the fourteenth century. Merchants and travellers would come into contact with each other as they paused to rest along the route, picking up additional plague-carrying fleas or flea-ridden rats – not intentionally of course. They would then continue on their journey, bringing the sources of pestilence with them.
Lost Civilisations
Legends around Lake Issyk Kul mention several drowned cities; archeologists in 2007 were excited to find the remains of a 2,500- year-old bronze age walled city hidden at the bottom of the lake. Some of the items retrieved included the world's oldest existing coins.


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The EU's Success Story: Poland was the only EU country whose economy continued to grow uninterrupted through the recent global financial crisis. Whilst other countries have struck disaster, it has developed into a vibrant European metropolis.
In the university town of Krakow, young students are optimistic about their future in Poland."Warsaw is a truly fantastic place for business and the people are hungry for success". Whilst the youth in other European countries were rioting in the streets, Polish students were partying. They might be looking beyond the borders at the "new horizons" offered by the EU, yet they remain patriotic:"Poland has given me my education for free. I must return this investment". With the economy steadily growing, a prosperous nation of entrepreneurs is emerging."Young people want to succeed in business; they really fight for it. This is because for a long time this hasn't been possible for us Poles."
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I can't believe I'm about to stick up for junk mail…well, sorta. I work f/t for a mtg company and part of our marketing is to do mailouts. I'm not crazy about them, but they accomplish the goal. They get the word out there, let homeowners know about a program they qualify for (in my case Reverse Mortgages), and ultimately lead to the best kind of business: Referral Business.
In fact, I don't consider what we send to even be "junk mail" (though that could be debated). Recently, the calls I'm getting from these seniors asking to be removed from the mailing list are just downright hilarious. By some of their words you would have thought we had just shot their pet. Now don't get me wrong…I'm all for privacy and all for respecting their wishes. But I've arrived at a point where I just want to say sometimes (even though I never will), "Is it such a burden on you? Can you not just trash it? Why the hostility? It's not like other crud you receive…this is not a scam. Might I recommend a good counselor for you?"
I think the bigger picture here is how most of Americans are conditioned into isolation…and their RIGHTS…and I'm gonna sit here on my .75 acre and tell my neighbor's to hush their dog and tell the kids to stop bouncing the ball in the cul de sac and watch 7.4 hours of television everyday and shoot you if you come near my property! What a sad way to live.
I do sympathize with them though. I also have my name on do-not-call lists. I don't like 9pm phone calls either. But I'm not filled with rage over a church postcard or joe schmo trying to sell me insurance or whatever.
By the way: Jiffy Lube has $7 off their "Signature Oil Change" right now….Act Fast!


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Game Console Trade-ins Hit Record High Leading up to the Nintendo Switch Launch
Decluttr.com has reported a spike in games console trade-ins leading up to this week's launch of the Nintendo Switch.
The site, which gives customers cash for unwanted games consoles, video games, CDs, DVDs and books found that trade-ins of gaming devices increased by 66 percent in the weeks leading up to the Switch release, with trade-ins of the New Nintendo 3DS XL and the Nintendo Wii U console growing by a record 70 percent.
Interestingly, trade-ins of the XBOX ONE and PlayStation 4 also increased by 38 percent and 43 percent respectively, marking the highest trade-in rate for both devices over the last 18 months.
"We'd already seen a steady growth in Nintendo 3DS and Nintendo Wii U trade-ins since Christmas, but this increased to unprecedented levels in the weeks leading to the Nintendo Switch launch, as consumers started to trade-in their older consoles in preparation to upgrade in early March," said Liam Howley, marketing director at Decluttr.
Howley added, "Decluttr offers up to $90 and $105 respectively for the New Nintendo 3DS XL and Nintendo Wii U, so it's no surprise that savvy customers are looking to cash in on their old gaming devices. With Decluttr's faster payments, customers will be able to have the money sent straight to their bank account as soon as the items have been processed at our headquarters."
For more information on Decluttr, visit decluttr.com.
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Decluttr.com is a completely free and easy way for customers to get cash for their unwanted CDs, DVDs, video games, mobile phones and other electronics including game consoles, tablets, iPods and more all in one place.
The company's website and smartphone app mean that anyone can easily sell their unwanted products and reap the benefits – from making a little extra cash and freeing up valuable space in the home, to reducing the need for borrowing and minimizing their impact on the environment.
Decluttr.com gives customers an instant reward value for their unwanted stuff using a smart valuation engine named 'Val' and it pays out via check or bank transfer on the next working day after the goods are received. The service is completely free to use, there are no auction or seller fees and Decluttr even pays the shipping.


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text: Digital Developer Spending on Facebook Ads Continues to Soar By Adweek Staff|November 23, 2009 Share By Adweek Staff|November 23, 2009 Share This summer, Zynga CEO Mark Pincus made headlines when he said that Zynga spent a "couple million dollars" on FarmVille's launch on Facebook. At the time, we'd been heading from many developers that their Facebook Ads spends were ramping up. Now, we're seeing the trend continuing, with no signs of slowing down any time soon. From what we hear, as many as 7 of Facebook's top 10 performance advertisers are application developers.Why is this happening now, when many originally thought that app-install advertising was just going to be a flash in the pan in the early days of the Facebook Platform? There's a couple fundamental reasons:1. Many social games are monetizing very well through virtual goods-based business models, and are spending behind their success. In the early days of the platform, much of the CPI (cost per install) style ad spend came from developers who wanted to accelerate growth, even though they didn't have the revenue to back it up. Now that more engaging and better monetizing apps have been developed, and the payments ecosystem has matured, improving monetization overall, many developers are now able to spend behind the projected lifetime values (LTV) of app users. Developers are willing to buy an infinite amount of installs as long as the CPI fits their models. 2. Facebook is tightening up viral distribution channels.Since the Facebook Platform launched, Facebook has continually tweaked its viral channels in order to manage application spam and protect the user experience, while at the same time still providing enough value and opportunity to developers to keep them interested in building for the Platform. For applications that need to grow, these organic communication channels can provide great distribution, but even the best apps can only grow by so many percent per week.Those that want to ramp up more quickly need to spend on either Facebook Ads or third party Facebook Platform ads from companies like RockYou, Cubics/Adknowledge, AdParlor, LifeStreet Media, SocialCash, and others. Given Facebook's recent and upcoming changes to the News Feed, invitations, and notifications, advertising channels are becoming increasingly important ones for the largest developers. Effects on the Platform EconomyOf course, developer bidding wars are good for Facebook's bottom line, at least for now. Facebook has succeeded in making its paid channel a necessity for accelerating app growth. But there are other effects for the larger ecosystem as well.1. Acceleration of ads tools ecosystem. If you're spending a million dollars a month on Facebook ads, chances are you want to get as sophisticated as you can with your spend as quickly as possible. In the past, everyone had to manage their Facebook Ads campaigns by hand. Now that the Facebook Ads API is enabling new tools that can manage bulk volumes of ads and optimize bids in real time, we expect developers to be many of the Facebook Ads API tools pioneers.2. Other advertisers getting priced out in some audience segments.If you're a brand advertiser, it is getting harder to compete with developers who are spending more. We are hearing that, especially on the Facebook Platform, developers are now pricing out some "traditional" brand advertisers. This is partially due to the fact that developers are no longer able to share any data with Platform ad networks, so advertisers can't spend as much as they used to for more targeted ads. Facebook changed its policies on data sharing with Platform ad networks this summer, prohibiting third party ad networks from being able to access user data. Going ForwardThe market is getting more saturated with developers and games, so eventually things are going to get more expensive. As more advertisers come online, prices will continue to rise, and as users get more inundated with app ads, conversion could fall. Nevertheless, both Facebook and Platform ad networks have to be pleasantly surprised with how healthy developer ad spending is at this point. It's the main way Facebook is directly financially benefiting from the rise of social gaming – though more programs, like its in-house payments service and ad network, are still on the way.To dig deeper into the virtual goods market, check out our new report: Inside Virtual Goods: The US Virtual Goods Market 2009 – 2010. Share http://adweek.it/2kqKgIM copy Adweek Adweek


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Client. Travel Leaders—Goli's Avenues of Travel
Our role. AVS Group was hired by Travel Leaders—Goli's Avenues of Travel to develop a video that would serve as a powerful marketing tool. The video needed to communicate the depth and breadth of experience and showcase the corporate travel management services Travel Leaders offers, as well as provide a compelling reason for prospective clients to contact the agents. AVS Group worked collaboratively with Travel Leaders staff members to develop a creative treatment that would leverage meaningful and persuasive customer testimonials, combined with sound bytes from the agents themselves. Eight customer testimonials were recorded in the AVS Group video studio. Next, AVS Group worked with Travel Leaders staff to identify the strongest video clips—those that best communicated the desired marketing messages. Finally, AVS Group edited together a finished video that is used on the Travel Leaders website, YouTube channel, and at various events. Bright, engaging graphics that support the Travel Leaders branding efforts tie the testimonial-driven piece together. Ultimately, the video accomplishes its mission: it clearly communicates Travel Leaders' services, experience, and the value they provide to clients. After watching the video, prospective clients are left feeling certain that Travel Leaders can meet their travel needs.
Client feedback. "AVS is a very professional company with which to work and they allow the customer to have as much or as little input as they would like on the project. This professionalism, demonstrated during our recent video project, was an added 'plus'."
Kathy Davig, Co-Owner, Goli's Avenues of Travel, Ltd.


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6 In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lofty; and the hem of his robe filled the temple. 2 Seraphs were in attendance above him; each had six wings: with two they covered their faces, and with two they covered their feet, and with two they flew. 3 And one called to another and said:
"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts;
the whole earth is full of his glory."
4 The pivots[a] on the thresholds shook at the voices of those who called, and the house filled with smoke. 5 And I said: "Woe is me! I am lost, for I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips; yet my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!"
6 Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding a live coal that had been taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7 The seraph[b] touched my mouth with it and said: "Now that this has touched your lips, your guilt has departed and your sin is blotted out." 8 Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?" And I said, "Here am I; send me!" (Isaiah 6:1-8 NRSV)
The king had died. The people could hardly remember a time before King Uzziah's reign. Suddenly they were in turmoil. Would King Jotham fare well as their new king? Would he lead well as his father had? Or would the nation of Israel be attacked?
Meanwhile, Isaiah was dreaming. He saw God's glory fill the temple. He was almost drowning in the hem of God's robe. Winged creatures were stationed around him singing God's praises. They veiled their faces and genitals. It was noisy and loud and, oh, so very joyful!
And then, Isaiah saw earthly power through God's eyes: political power, priestly religious power and sexual dominance. All were being misused and abused. As Isaiah gazed about him, he saw his own sin and that of Judah.
He had no business being in the Temple. He felt himself undeserving of seeing God. The knowledge of his own sinful condition overpowered him. Not only his sin, but the sinfulness of Judah. He realized in that moment that Judah was in denial. They believed the lies of the politicians; they were content to get wealthy on the backs of the poor; they lived greedily and showed up at worship with absolutely no display of repentance.
I imagine Isaiah must have fallen to his knees with the knowledge and the burden of what he saw. "Woe is me. I've bought into the lies and the greed and hubris. I am unworthy."
God rarely hesitates. God forgives and God purifies and God transforms. That's what happened to Isaiah: his lips were purified and his ministry cleansed.
It will be a difficult call. He will speak prophetically for the rest of his life. He will predict bad things and Judah won't listen. He will try to warn the powers that be — they'll close their ears. Yet, called he is. And when things can't get any worse, Isaiah will speak words of comfort.
How do we worship? With an expectation of getting something out of it? With a closed mind? Are we distracted? Angry?
I believe we all enter worship looking for something: peace; insight; to be right; to sense God's Spirit; to be made right with God and others.
If you enter worship looking to get something out of it, you'll get exactly what you put into it. But, if you enter knowing that God meets us where are, something happens. When we enter broken and questioning; joyful and happy; hoping against hope; persevering; or at peace, God meets us and walks alongside us. God knows and God cares.
In worship we call ourselves into the present moment. We are reminded of our brokenness, so we confess our sins, knowing that we're already forgiven. Then, and only then, are we ready to hear God's word to us. Through scripture, the Word revealed, prayer and, yes, even when we drop our money into the offering plate as a response to God's love for us. Then we go out into the world carrying God's message with us.
God meets us and when we're open to meeting God, things happen. God is revealed in prayer, in song, in word, in action. God speaks. We listen.
Isaiah lived in a difficult time. We know all about difficult times, don't we? And, when he came face-to-face with God, he fell to his knees in guilt and sadness. God purified him and forgave him. God prepared him and then sent him out.
Isaiah's relationship with God would grow stronger over time. God would continue to meet him in his own context and help him move forward in his ministry.
We can expect no less. As long as we enter God's presence as Isaiah did: contrite, open minded and ready to listen, we are open to sensing God's Spirit speaking to us. When we enter worship understanding that we aren't the audience, God is, it changes our perspective.
Bring yourself. All of you. Bring all of the joy and sorrow and guilt and shame. Bring your fears, your worries, your hope. Bring it all and lay it before God. Enter in with a prayer: "Lord open my mind and my heart to listen to your Word today."
Look around. See the friend and the stranger. Know that they're carrying burdens of their own. Pray for them.
I make no guarantees. Sometimes you'll leave worship feeling very little. It happens. But, when we return week after week, something happens. We discover a part of ourselves that we never knew or haven't met in awhile. We learn about a God who can't be completely known and understood.
May your worship complete you this week.
All glory and honor be to God.


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UK on-line community and information
resource for European motorcaravanners.
LHD Fiat Ducato 2.8 JTD Maxi chassis
Having researched motorhomes for
approximately 2½ yrs and having decided that the nearest layout to our
ideal would be a Hymer 694 Bar Version although it was bigger than we
really wanted, MMM printed an article entitled "Knights at the round
table", in the May 2001 edition. We read this article with wide eyes, it
described our ideal layout to a "tee".
The Knaus Sunliner 658 is a LHD Fiat
Ducato 2.8 JTD Maxi chassis based A-class with a fixed rear bed,
bathroom alongside, centre kitchen with wardrobe opposite.
"L" shaped settee with circular swivelling table and two swivel cab
seats with pull down cab bed, complete the layout. The kitchen consists
of a fairly long unit holding a 3 burner hob (not electric ignition) a
deep sink with single mixer tap a fair amount of work space which can be
increased by lowering the sink cover. A good size cutlery drawer sits
next to the 110lt fridge (with full width freezer) which is under the
hob. Under the drawer is a large cupboard with a slide out wire rack for
tins etc. Next to it is another large cupboard with shelf (non
adjustable) above is another storage drawer. Above the unit are high
level lockers, with a hob light and extractor fan underneath, 230v and
12v sockets with cover flaps.
The large wardrobe has been modified and
a Smev oven/grill with rotisserie has been fitted about 2ft off the
floor above an existing small locker with plastic tray (for wet shoes)
also containing the ELCB and mains control switch fuses. The wardrobe is
still large enough to hold a dress of standard length. High level
lockers, some shelved some not, line the walls in the lounge and
bedroom. Plenty of storage for clothes etc. Over the foot of the bed is
a large TV cupboard with sliding doors fitted both towards the lounge
and towards the rear bed. Under the fixed rear bed is a large storage
area accessible from both inside and outside the motorhome this is
heated & lighted and at one end contains the 140lt fresh water tank
together with water pump, reasonably accessible for filter cleaning and
other servicing.
The heating fitted is the Alde hot water
system with radiators all round the 'van this works from Mains
electricity selectable 1Kw, 2Kw or 3Kw or gas with 3 selectable settings
of - Hot water only, Hot water & heating or Heating only. This system is
very effective and even on the coldest nights provides sauna like
conditions on 2kw. The heating also runs under the bed warming the
storage space and the bed. The unit is fitted under the "L" settee
behind a low level drawer, access is limited for servicing but it can be
done (without the need to be a deformed midget).
German construction the caravan door is on the offside, no problem
really as the drivers mirror is huge and electrically operated so if the
driver just angles it a bit you can see if it is clear to step out in
safety, the Thetford cassette door is also on the offside at the rear.
The rear end has a fixed fitted ladder to the roof (rubberised walkway
fitted) with central high level brake light below Reversing Camera. Rear
Bedroom window sits below but a good height above ground. Moving to the
nearside at rear is the generously sized outside access to under-bed
storage the mains connector is forward of this together with fresh water
inlet. The gas locker is next to the Cab Drivers door, the gas locker
holds two 13Kg Propane bottles (yes I said 2 13Kg Bottles) fitted with
Truma automatic change – over together with regulator heating element
for below freezing conditions. Fuel filler is has a lockable cap under a
large flap cover no locking device (I fitted simple locking rod operated
from inside motorhome.) The front of the vehicle is dominated by the
huge windscreen a nice smiley face looks at you from the grey front trim
formed by the shape of the headlights and air intakes. It really gives
Katy a friendly appearance. (Hopefully we are too.)
Lighting is really splendid, plenty of
halogen fully adjustable down-lighters / reading lights over couch and
rear bed. A circular fluorescent in the lounge provides plenty of
general lighting which can be supplemented by recessed fluorescents over
the high level lockers also in rear bedroom lockers (these can be used
alone to provide other mood lighting. The pull down cab double bed drops
to approx 41" from floor level giving plenty of headroom, to ease your
way to bed there is a pull out step behind the passenger seat. (Cab seat
backs must be lowered first) The cab bed is lit by a 12" double tube
fluorescent at the head end plenty of light but can be a bit bright if
one person doesn't want to read. The steps leading out of the caravan
door are illuminated these switch on together with an awning light at
high level over the door outside plenty of light for the large fitted
awning. A light is also fitted in the storage area under the bed this is
bright and illuminates the area very well.
Seating and beds are really comfortable
especially the cab bed which has a thick mattress over slats, I prefer
this bed to sleep in as the mattress is firmer and gives a better
sleeping support. The rear bed is very comfortable but is not as firm I
just sleep better in the cab bed.
Katy is a pleasure, the huge windscreen gives an uninterrupted view
forwards The wipers do exactly what they should together with washers
fitted to the arms they are not a compromise, the large heated
electrically adjustable mirrors give a clear view rearwards with ability
to adjust to see at acute angle junctions. The four fitted three point
belts with head restraints give security to driver and passengers. The
five speed box together with cruise control contribute to give up to
32MPG this we achieved on our trip to France Sept/Oct 2002 and our trip
to the NEC 15th Feb 2003 this year. Power assisted steering and brakes
with ABS make steering and stopping a problem free task whilst the air
suspension reduces body roll on cornering and improves road holding.
Cab heating and ventilation is excellent both while driving and on
heating on site. Spare wheel is very accessible at rear.
Extras fitted include Oyster 85cm fully
automatic digital satellite system, 90 watt Solar panels,
Air-conditioning to caravan (mains) (includes 800 watt heater element).
Radio CD player with cab and lounge speakers. Euro track covers extra
security. A Thatcham cat 1alarm is fitted with bonnet and door switches
together with ultrasonic sensors. Reversing Camera and monitor. SOG to
Thetford cassette toilet, this works really well no need for special
paper or chemicals (very green). Rear steadies are fitted, quick release
and easy adjust. I have front steadies but not fitted them don't think
we need them.
Overall length 6.40mt
(21ft) Width 2.30mt (7ft 6.5in) Height 3.00mt (9ft 10in)
Internal height 2.07mt
(6ft 9.5in)
Rita & Mick Price
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A-Class; a fully integrated body built on a commercial chassis or 'cowl
cab chassis'. Often has a drop down double bed in the cab roof.
Maxi Chassis; also designated '18' this chassis has extra carrying
capacity often having a n MPLM of 3.85t. This means you can carry more but
is technically a heavy goods vehicle (now from 3.5t upwards) and carries
both license restrictions and some extra costs.
13Kg gas bottles; a standard size for Propane here in the UK but large
by continental standards where 11Kg is the norm. As a result many gas
cupboards are a bit small and then we have trouble carrying enough gas.
Oven as an extra; few continental motorhomes come with ovens and grills
as standard.
3-way fridge; one that works on 230v 'mains' when 'hooked up', on lpg
gas when no mains is available and on 12v from the 'van while travelling.
MPG; it comes as a shock to new owners to discover that 20-30 mpg is
normal for these vehicles. It isn't quite as bad as it seems because ,any
motorcaravanners tend to undertake circular tours rather than stay in one
place going out and back each day. As a result fewer miles are travelled
on similar holidays. The type of vehicle body has a great effect on mpg,
so motorhomes with overcab 'lutons' are the least economical, especially
at speed, while the smoother low profiles and a-class bodies have a fair
chance of returning more than 30 mpg.
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Horace and John Dodge founded Dodge Brothers Company to make auto parts for the early automobile companies and by 1914 they had begun to produce their own vehicles. In 1928 the former President of the Buick Division at General Motors, Walter P. Chrysler, bought Dodge Brothers Company to bolster the lineup of then fledgling Chrysler Corporation. Dodge became one of the mid-level tiers of cars alongside the DeSoto, but positioned beneath the Chrysler and above the Plymouth divisions.
By the late sixties Chrysler was looking for a model to compete in the "pony car" era of high performance, affordable sports cars. With a variety of engine and trim options, they hoped the added luxury and style of the Dodge Challenger would set it apart from the Mustangs, Camaros and Firebirds. The Challenger was well received by the public at first but sales declined in all "pony car" segments with the 1973 Oil Crisis and the Challenger's fate was sealed by the middle of 1974.
This car was 1 of 66 made and features a 340 V-8 engine with a Pistol-grip 4-speed transmission, the A-66 Challenger performance package, sport hood, 26" radiator, upgraded R/T appearance package, power convertible top, hood pins, power steering, B51 power disc brakes and N41 dual exhaust.


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The other day, users were reporting that since P.T. was removed from the PlayStation Store, it could no longer be downloaded, even if the user already had the game in his or her library. These reports have been confirmed by Sony, which recently sent out an notification to North American PS4 owners about the horror game.
I received the notification yesterday, which read announced that the game "cannot be re-downloaded," but is still playable if it never was deleted from the PS4's hard drive. NeoGAF user Tunesmith took a screenshot of the notification and mentioned it only appeared in his or her NA account, not the EU account. It was reported on Wednesday that European gamers can still download P.T..
Since P.T. is no longer listed on the PS Store due to the Silent Hills cancellation, numerous people have tried selling PS4 consoles with the horror game installed on it for extremely high prices on eBay. Apparently, eBay has been trying to take down all such listings, but a few still remain on the online auction site in case you desperately want to play P.T.


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Tolstoy in Doubt
Tolstoy's Letters: Volume I, 1828-1879; Volume II, 1880-1910
You think that I am one thing and my writing is another. But my writing is the whole of me.
Thus Tolstoy wrote in 1885, in one of the long and bitter letters to his wife in which he sought to explain the appalling suffering which they had caused each other since his spiritual crisis of the 1870s. Their misery was all due, he believed, to one fatal mistake: she had succumbed to "the general opinion that a literary artist…should write works of art, and not think about his life or improve it, and that all that is a kind of folly or mental illness."
Tolstoy's onslaughts on the principle of moral neutrality in art began in earnest only after the religious conversion he described in A Confession, which he began writing in 1879. But it was a principle that had always been alien to him. When as a young man in the 1850s he had turned for a brief period from writing to teaching and work on his estate, this was because he had temporarily ceased to find in art and beauty a sufficient answer to the central preoccupation of his life—the search for the truths by which men should live. When, having returned to writing in the early 1860s, he produced his greatest novel, War and Peace, he was apprehensive, as he wrote to his friend the critic Strakhov, that people might praise "the sentimental scene with the young lady…or other such rubbish," and might not notice "the chief thing"—his views expressed in the epilogue on the limits of freedom and dependence, which were the essence of an outlook "formed in me God knows by what toil and suffering."
His fears were well founded: as Isaiah Berlin has pointed out in his famous essay "The Hedgehog and the Fox," the "philosophical" passages in War and Peace have traditionally been seen as irrelevant digressions alien to the artistic structure of the work, early evidence of the tragic folly that would lead him to renounce his artistic calling for a role in which his talents were undistinguished: that of moralist and preacher.
That Tolstoy the artist continues so frequently to be divorced from Tolstoy the thinker can be partly accounted for in English-speaking countries by a significant gap in the relevant material available in translation. Tolstoy's belief in the unity of his art and his life led him in his last years to give as much careful thought to the posthumous editing and publication of his diaries as he had ever done with regard to his literary works. Throughout his life those letters which dealt with the questions which most preoccupied him were meticulously copied and preserved. However, only partial translations of the diaries exist, and very few of his thousands of letters have been available in English. We now have 608 of the most important letters in the selection…
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Major Kira Nerys used a polaron field to mask her engine emissions when she took a runabout on an unauthorized mission to locate an assassin in 2373. (DS9: "The Darkness and the Light")
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Below you will find great discount tee times for the Costa Mesa Country Club in Costa Mesa, California. You may also view online tee times at other golf courses in the area of California or other locations by using the search box. At Costa Mesa Country Club, golfers tee off from the Blue, White (L), White, Regular, Red Or Red tees at a maximum distance of 5,538 yards from the Blue tees.


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Crawl Control
The Crawl Control feature in the Configure My Site Section allows you to exert control over the speed at which Bingbot makes requests for pages and resources on your website. You can tell Bingbot to crawl your site faster or slower than the normal crawl rate for each of the 24 hours in the day. This way you can to limit Bingbot activity when your visitors are on your site and allow us more bandwidth during quieter hours.
|If we find a crawl-delay: directive in your robots.txt file then it will take always precedence over the information from this feature.
How to Set a Crawl Pattern Using a Preset
The easiest way to set a crawl pattern that optimizes your bandwidth for your visitors is by using the When do you receive most traffic during the local time day drop-down menu. This drop-down menu provides a number of preset options which you can use to indicate the busiest time on your site based on your local time of day. When selecting any of the presets, we will automatically optimize the crawl pattern by telling Bingbot to crawl more slowly during those hours and faster during the other hours. All you need to do to store the setting is clicking Save at the bottom of the page.
The following example shows a site that chose the 9AM - 5AM local time preset as the busiest time for the site, resulting in an inverse crawl pattern that allows faster crawl speeds for Bingbot outside of those hours:
How to Set Custom Crawl Pattern
Alternatively, you can use your mouse to create an entirely custom hourly crawl pattern by moving over the cubes holding the left mouse button down and dragging it to the desired number of quadrants for the timeline denoted on the x-axis. More blue quadrants indicate more visits from Bingbot (faster crawl), fewer quadrants mean the opposite (slower crawl). The default is 5 quadrants for each time slice. As a result, 5 blue quadrants represent the algorithmically determined baseline crawl rate for your site. Moving them up or down increases or decreases sets a higher or lower crawl rate based on the baseline crawl rate that was determined automatically for your site. When your happy with your pattern, simply click Save to store the setting.


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Pumpkin Festival
October 17 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm$4 – $10
Co-sponsored by The Institute at Renfrew and Renfrew Museum and Park as a joint fundraiser
The Pumpkin Festival has become a family tradition. Visitors enjoy the exciting pumpkin-chuckin' trebuchet, pumpkin carving, hayrides, live music, children's activities and fun games at this popular joint fundraising event benefiting both The Institute at Renfrew and Renfrew Museum and Park.
Check back for the flier with all the details!
Free soup, cider, and bread included with admission fee. Hot dogs, sodas, and bake sale items sold separately. Admission fee $10 adults, $4 kids aged 4-12, and kids age 3 and under are free.
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verse (someone or oneself) in (something)(redirected from verse them in)
verse (someone or oneself) in (something)
To train, familiarize, or educate someone or oneself in or about some field or activity. Often used in the passive construction "be (well) versed in (something)." Our program is intended to verse older customers in the basics of the computer's operating system. As a project manager of over 15 years, I'm well versed in overseeing large teams and meeting deadlines. I versed myself in three different languages while I was in college.
See also: verse
verse in
To familiarize someone with something by study or experience. Used chiefly in the passive or with a reflexive: She is versed in physics. He has versed himself in the art of fencing. The music teacher will verse the students in keeping time to a beat.
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The power station of Design (psD), PSA's creative extension, will present Kazuhiro Yamanaka: Visible X Invisible from March 3rd to May 2nd, 2017.This will be the Japanese product/interior designer's first solo exhibition on the Chinese mainland, whose cross-disciplinary creative practices of unique style challenges the boundaries between product design, lighting design and pure art. The exhibition will feature 14 most representative works from Yamakana's design career, including One Thousand Nights (2006), a dynamic lighting installation, and Collapsible Moon (2016), a new work specially commissioned for his China solo. Little inc. is also involved in design of the exhibition space, while Y2 Lighting Design is responsible for its lighting effects.
Kazuhiro Yamanaka is highly skilled at developing poetry of minimalism with common materials, such as paper or plastic seen in his works like Handkerchief Light (1999), It's Only a Paper Moon (2012), and Paper Torch (2013), to create flexible yet simple geometrical shapes. Such an aesthetic expression that adores the limits of creative design further reveals a kind of simple but tasteful poetry in the complicated daily life, just as Yamanaka once said, "Designers should contemplate how to create a maximum impact with minimum use of material."
Yamanaka's design inspirations usually come from the relation between objects: "I admire the space around objects, not the objects itself. Designing the object is meaningless to me; object is just a tool to design the space around". How to express the space between objects has become the designer's most important task. In his designs of piece furniture such as Sleepy Lagoon (2009), How Slow the Wind – Chair (2001), and In Autumn Sunshine (2009), Yamanaka utilized spatial elements like planes and lines, as well as creative methods including cutting, squeezing and slitting. With these, he emphasizes three-dimensional profoundness and creates a kind of illusion for viewers, offering those invisible space relations a strong visual presence.
Yamanaka's contemplation about the relation between objects can also be identified in his designs of lightings and lit furniture. Having an important impact on our daily sensual feelings, light, with its strong dominating power, enforces a natural-born awe on mankind, but still, it has no physical shapes in space. By creating light rays and intervening with medium, Yamanaka gives light an essential existence in space, connects different objects, and builds shared space relation with tension between those objects.
In Yamanaka's design concept, most valuable things are always invisible and visible things are less valuable. Through his designs, the invisible relations between objects become visible, and viewers can also exercise their imaginations over the invisible.
Exhibition Information
Visible X Invisible KAZUHIRO YAMANAKA
Duration: March 4th – May 2nd, 2017
Venue: 1F , psD,Power Station of Art
Add: No.2 Huayuangang Road, Shanghai
Admission: Free
About Designer
Kazuhiro Yamanaka
Born in Tokyo in 1971, Kazuhiro Yamanaka graduated in Interior Design at Musashino Art University, Tokyo (1992-95 BA (Des.)) followed by Royal College of Art in London for Postgraduate studies (1995-97 MA (Des.) RCA). He set up Kazuhiro Yamanaka Office in London after his graduation.
He participates in different aspects of design: from piece furniture design to lighting design, installation and interior design. Current client list includes Pallucco(Italy), Boffi(Italy), Ingo Maurer(Germany), Saazs(France), Alessi(Italy) and museums worldwide. He was awarded Design Report Award 2004 (Milan) as the best young talented designer at the Milano Salone. His creation belongs to a collection of MoMA (New York). He has also realized lighting installations at Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Collette(Paris), designboom, Laforet Museum (Tokyo), Hangaram Design Museum (Seoul) etc.
Kazuhiro Yamanaka has been featured worldwide in the following publications: Abitare, Casa Abitare, Design Diffusion News, Esquire, Domus, Elle Decor, Interni, Intramuros, md, Metropolitan Home, The New York Times, Ottagono, Vogue, Wallpaper. He has also judged at many international design competitions such as HKDA Design Awards 2009 and designboom International Design Competitions. He was appointed as an associate professor at Musashino Art University in Tokyo since 2014.
About psD
Created in March 2016, psD, also known as the power station of Design, is a creative extension of the Power Station of Art (PSA) in Shanghai. Conceived as a workshop, the new space concatenates education, exhibition, products and leisure into an organic production chain – a space of experience, a space that is a synthesis of self-learning and autonomy.
psD observes art from the angle of design, of consumerism, examines the familiarities of life, and explores the cultural and societal factors behind design. In this systematic act of meditation, it seeks to provoke thoughts on future lifestyles.
Designed by Yung Ho Chang, psD owes its concept to traditional Chinese storefronts, with five metal boxes connecting inside and outside to allow for positive interaction between spaces.


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voestalpine: offer to exchange the hybrid bond 2007
voestalpine: offer to exchange the hybrid bond 2007
voestalpine AG offers all holders of the hybrid bond issued in October 2007 (ISIN AT0000A069T7) to exchange this hybrid bond for a new hybrid bond. The offer is limited to existing holders of the hybrid bond 2007 and serves as an optimisation of the financing portfolio of voestalpine.
Details of the exchange offer, including interest rates and all interest periods, are published on the website of voestalpine AG (www.voestalpine.com).
It is intendend to apply for admission to trading of the new hybrid bond on the Official Market of the Vienna Stock Exchange (ISIN AT0000A0ZHF1).
This notice serves marketing purposes in Austria and Germany and constitutes marketing information within the meaning of the Austrian Securities Supervision and the Capital Markets Acts, but neither financial analysis nor a recommendation or advice concerning financial instruments, nor an offer to sell nor a solicitation to buy any securities. The exchange offer of securities of voestalpine AG in Austria and Germany may only be made in Austria and Germany on the basis of a prospectus dated June 22, 2012, approved by the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF), published and notified to the Austrian Financial Market authorities (FMA) and the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFIN) including its supplements as well as the final terms, which is available free of charge at voestalpine AG, voestalpine-Straße 1, A-4020 Linz, and which can be reviewed in electronic form on the website of the issuer (www.voestalpine.com) and of the Luxembourg stock exchange (www.bourse.lu).
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Today I got around to starting the project. I cut up some foam core board and started rummaging around for stuff to add texture to them.
|Strips of cut file folders
After the texture boards are done students will use them for the background of a collage that emphasizes repetition, value, contour lines and the use of text in art.
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Local Burrito Joint Celebrates Grand Opening with $5 Burritos All Day
Naples. Fla. – September 17, 2015 – Welcome to Moe's!® Moe's Southwest Grill®, the fast-casual restaurant best known for creating delicious burritos to order with fresh, flavorful ingredients, is opening their newest location in Naples, Fla., at 7335 Radio Road on September 24 at 11 a.m. To celebrate the grand opening, the Naples Moe's is offering $5 burritos to all customers the day of the opening along with prizes and games for the whole family.
The new Naples Moe's is owned and operated by franchisee Mike Silverman, who has have been with Moe's for 11 years and was one of three franchisees awarded 2015 Marketer of the Year for the entire Moe's system. This will be the ninth overall Moe's location for Silverman, and the fourth in Naples, though this will be the first location serving the East Naples community. He also operates restaurants in Charlotte County and Lee County.
"Moe's is a rapidly growing brand that already has a loyal following in Naples and across the country, and we know the East Naples community will also enjoy Moe's fresh, flavorful food and family-friendly atmosphere," said Silverman. "We're eager to open our doors and look forward to building long-lasting relationships with our guests and the community."
The new Naples Moe's will be kicking off its community engagement efforts with a Friends & Family pre-opening event on September 23, where guests will be invited to make donations that will go to nearby East Naples Middle School and Calusa Park Elementary.
There are three things Moe's newbies should know: the crew will cry "Welcome to Moe's" when you walk in the door (don't be jolted – it's normal), the most popular burrito is lovingly called the Homewrecker, and Moe's Famous Queso is famous for a reason.
Each meal is created-to-order in a way that is as unique as the people Moe's serves. With honestly good ingredients like all-natural chicken, grass-fed steak, organic tofu and handcrafted guacamole, Moe's offers a wide variety of options to meet guests' unique tastes and lifestyle. And no matter the meal, guests can always count on getting free chips and salsa.
Moe's in Naples will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday – Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. To reach the restaurant, call 239-352-1212 or visit www.moes.com. This location will also offering catering, which guests can take advantage of by calling 239-384-3387. Don't forget to connect with Moe's on Instagram, Twitter, Vine and Facebook, by tagging your posts and pics with #welcometomoes.
About Moe's Southwest Grill®
Welcome to Moe's!® Founded in 2000 in Atlanta, GA, Moe's Southwest Grill is a fast-casual restaurant franchise featuring fresh, handmade, customizable southwestern food in a welcoming environment that rocks. Moe's is committed to serving only the highest quality ingredients 100% of the time at all of our locations in the U.S and abroad. While Moe's is best known for its burritos packed with a choice of more than 20 fresh, flavorful ingredients, the menu also features kid's, vegetarian and low-calorie options, all served with free chips and salsa. Check out Moe's online at www.moes.com.
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Atlanta-based FOCUS Brands Inc. is the franchisor and operator of over 4,000 ice cream shoppes, bakeries, restaurants and cafes in the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and 60 foreign countries under the brand names Carvel®, Cinnabon®, Schlotzsky's®, Moe's Southwest Grill®, Auntie Anne's® and McAlister's Deli®, as well as Seattle's Best Coffee® on certain military bases and in certain international markets. Please visit www.focusbrands.com to learn more.
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I applaud your observations Kim. As Rom Emanuel once said (admittedly in a different context)power brokers are loathe to "waste a crisis." This young woman's story is of the sort which is generally found to be irresistable by those who wish to lend their pet agenda's an air of legitimacy. When I encounter this sort of thing in my activist/personal life, I am likely to repond by directly admonishing my would-be ally "Please…don't be on my side." "I am having enough trouble as it is."
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