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Loved by many, hated by so many more, Donald J. Trump is the 45th President Of The United States. From travel bans to border walls, to some he appears to be an unhinged rogue. But you may be surprised to learn that the drama surrounding him pales in comparison to the men that are now regarded as the greatest presidents of all time.
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Folding Camping Table and Chairs
When it comes down to selecting the right folding camping table and chairs for your camping trip there are several different varieties to choose from. Each has pros and cons. We've had experience with a few types and will try to answer the common questions that arise. How many people does it sit? How much space does it take up? Is it sturdy? How much does it cost? This post will detail our thoughts on a few popular choices.
Our Favorite Folding Camping Table
The Lifetime 22123 Folding Picnic Table
The Lifetime picnic table is without a doubt our favorite folding camping table. It is large enough to seat six adults. It's the only one piece table we've tried that's truly sturdy enough for multiple adults. The polyethylene table and benches are durable and will not damage easily. The steel frame is offers good support. This unit folds down to a slim four and a quarter inches but the width and length may make it difficult to transport to the campsite in some vehicles. At 57×72 inches it would be best suited for full sized trucks, SUV's and RV's. Weighing in around eighty pounds it can be moved about easily by two people. This table is also great for the yard and is easy to store during winter. Collapsing the picnic table and erecting it are a cinch. There is also a center whole for an umbrella if you need a little shade. If camping with multiple adults this is the best option out there. Check out all the positive reviews on Amazon!
Folding Suitcase Picnic Tables
You may have seen these around. They seem to be getting pretty popular. Several manufacturers are making them. They are all four seaters. At least that I've seen so far. To be honest the few we've tried out have all seemed unstable for adults. I even heard of one collapsing on a heavy man. Most claim 220 lbs. per seat but that is pushing it. But on a positive note they are great for children. Especially for giving the kids their own table to eat. They also pack up really nice and small making them extremely easy to transport just about anywhere or to store in an attic or shed. I will give a brief summary of the few we've tried.
The Outsunny Wooden Outdoor Camp Suitcase Picnic Table
This is by far the the best among the suitcase tables. The aluminum frame and wooden table and seats are a nice touch. They really give this table a nice appearance that always draws compliments. And maybe the wood and aluminum give a sense of stability when compared to the common plastic counterparts. This is definitely the sturdiest of the suitcase picnic tables I've experienced while being very lightweight at the same time. If you must get one of these suitcase tables, this should be the one. Check it out on Amazon, it seems to have favorable reviews.
The Other Two Suitcase Tables
There are two more that we are experienced with. They are a steep drop off from the one above but at the same time are also a little more affordable and may be ideal for the kids.
First there is the plastic model that is also made by Outsunny. It still has the aluminum frame but the plastic seats and table make this one feel much less secure. It still folds up nicely and everything, but the wooden model feels much more sturdy (maybe imagined). It claims to support 265 lbs. per seat. Just make sure not to lean on the table. The plastic one usually runs about twenty bucks cheaper than the wood one, so if being bought for kids it may be worth the extra savings.
The Second one is manufactured by Stansport. I've liked some of their products in the past, such as their Camping Privacy Shelter but this table seems to be of pretty poor quality. It feels flimsyaltough it also has an aluminum frame. It claims a 200 lbs. limit per seat which is less than the others, but I wouldn't test it. Kids only for this one would be my advice. This table does come with an umbrella included to help keep the little ones out of the harmful UV rays and is usually available at a decent price.
A Great Two Seat Folding Camping Table and Stool
From World Outdoor Products comes this awesome little three piece set. Although there are three pieces, the stools fold up and fit nicely in the suitcase formed from the folded table. Weighing about sixteen pounds this table is light weight enough to transport easily. A great addition to your camping gear, but it only seats two people. It would work great together with one of the four seater picnic tables e mentioned earlier with this one being for the adults and the picnic table being for the kids. This one has pretty solid aluminum construction to boot. We highly recommend this table and stool set for camping. See what others are saying about it!
A More Traditional Option
Flash Furniture 5-Piece Folding Card Table and Chair Set
Folding card table and chair sets have been used for camping and outdoor use for ages now. they are really convenient and most people already own a set. We are really fond of this set from Flash Furniture because it is built to a higher quality standard than similar ones we've came across. The seats are padded which makes sitting a little more comfortable(especially for long card and board games). The table has rounded corners so falls and bumps will not hurt nearly as bad. The table and chairs can be folded and thrown in the back of a vehicle easily. This set comes with four chairs. Get your set today!
Another Good Option
These types of folding chairs we all own or have owned at some point. They are great for just about any outdoor activity. Convenient. Collapsible. Easy to carry. Here we have a set of four with a table and a nice little tote bag for added convenience. the table isn't real sturdy but will hold a plate or two of food and a couple of beverages. The chairs would be better with arms, but we're camping not lounging in the living room watching football. Really love the carry bag though. This set with it's familiarity should be a popular option for many campers. Check it out on Amazon!
Three Piece Table With Benches
Flash Furniture has made another decent table set for campers. It is a three piece set with benches instead of chairs. It is not the sturdiest you'll come across. It is supposed to sit four people, but I wouldn't try it with four adults. Perhaps two adults and two children. What I like about this set is the way that the benches fold up neatly underneath the table making for just one piece to carry around. These benches could be a little sturdier. Another good camping table for the kids or for a couple, but not the best for family camping.
There are many options in the Folding Camping Table and Chair market. Our favorite is also the bulkiest. The cheaper you go the quality goes as well. With all the styles out there it, we hope we've helped you narrow it down a bit. Good Luck!

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Former President Barack Obama on Friday shared some of the books, movies and music he found most inspiring or thought-provoking in 2018, including works that he "just plain loved," compiling them into a year-end list posted on Facebook.
It was a wide-ranging list that included songs by artists as varied as Cardi B, Janelle Monáe and Nancy Wilson, who died this month. Unsurprisingly, "Becoming," by Michelle Obama, topped his list of books, which featured multiple works by women and by authors of color.
Obama started sharing his reading lists and playlists during his presidency and has continued that tradition into retirement. The selections are a carefully curated mix of works that have found critical acclaim or mainstream popularity, punctuated by nods to lesser-known artists.
Obama, an avid reader with a deep appreciation of pop culture, not only celebrated art during his presidency but also brought it into the White House.
There was the luncheon with novelists Zadie Smith, Barbara Kingsolver, Junot Díaz, Dave Eggers and Colson Whitehead. Visits from numerous rappers and R&B singers including Common, John Legend and Queen Latifah. And the multicultural "Jazz at the White House" event in 2016.
In 2009, before Lin-Manuel Miranda was a household name, Obama invited him to a White House poetry jam, where he performed an early version of the opening song from "Hamilton." Miranda was invited back in 2016, along with his cast, to perform parts of the Broadway blockbuster for high school students.
A love of books has always been one of Obama's defining features. Nearly every night in the White House, he would read for an hour or so, The New York Times' former chief book critic, Michiko Kakutani, reported.
"Not since Lincoln has there been a president as fundamentally shaped — in his life, convictions and outlook on the world — by reading and writing as Barack Obama," Kakutani wrote.
Obama's Facebook post provided "a chance to highlight talented authors, artists, and storytellers — some who are household names and others who you may not have heard of before," he wrote.
Several of his favourite books, including "There There," "Asymmetry" and "Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom," appeared on The Times' list of the 10 best books of 2018.
Here's his full list of favourites.
"Becoming" by Michelle Obama "An American Marriage" by Tayari Jones"Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie"American Prison" by Shane Bauer "Arthur Ashe: A Life" by Raymond Arsenault"Asymmetry" by Lisa Halliday"The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die" by Keith Payne"Educated" by Tara Westover"Factfulness" by Hans Rosling"Feel Free" by Zadie Smith"Florida" by Lauren Groff"Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom" by David W. Blight"Futureface: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging" by Alex Wagner"A Grain of Wheat" by Ngugi wa Thiong'o"A House for Mr Biswas" by V.S. Naipaul"How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt"Immigrant, Montana" by Amitava Kumar"In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History" by Mitch Landrieu"The Largesse of the Sea Maiden" by Denis Johnson"Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" by Max Tegmark"Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela"There There" by Tommy Orange"The New Geography of Jobs" by Enrico Moretti"The Return" by Hisham Matar"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe"Warlight" by Michael Ondaatje"Washington Black" by Esi Edugyan"Why Liberalism Failed" by Patrick Deneen"The World As It Is" by Ben Rhodes
"Annihilation""Black Panther""BlacKkKlansman""Blindspotting""Burning the Death of Stalin""Eighth Grade""If Beale Street Could Talk""Leave No Trace""Minding the Gap""The Rider""Roma""Shoplifters""Support the Girls""Won't You Be My Neighbor"
"Apes**t" by The Carters"Bad Bad News" by Leon Bridges"Could've Been" by H.E.R. (feat. Bryson Tiller)"Disco Yes" by Tom Misch (feat. Poppy Ajudha)"Ekombe" by Jupiter & Okwess"Every Time I Hear That Song" by Brandi Carlile"Girl Goin' Nowhere" by Ashley McBryde"Historia De Un Amor" by Tonina (feat. Javier Limón and Tali Rubinstein)"I Like It" by Cardi B (feat. Bad Bunny and J Balvin)"Kevin's Heart" by J. Cole"King for a Day" by Anderson East"Love Lies" by Khalid & Normani"Make Me Feel" by Janelle Monáe"Mary Don't You Weep (Piano & A Microphone 1983 Version)" by Prince"My Own Thing" by Chance the Rapper (feat. Joey Purp)"Need a Little Time" by Courtney Barnett"Nina Cried Power" by Hozier (feat. Mavis Staples)"Nterini" by Fatoumata Diawara"One Trick Ponies" by Kurt Vile"Turnin' Me Up" by BJ the Chicago Kid"Wait by the River" by Lord Huron"Wow Freestyle" by Jay Rock (feat. Kendrick Lamar)"The Great American Songbook" by Nancy Wilson.
Written by Christina Caron
Courtesy: New York Times
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Welcome to the 2015 NM Film & Media Industry Conference
At the Beautiful Isleta Casino & Resort
Friday October 30th and Saturday 31st
Come visit us at our booth #38
Touché International Films LLC.
This was the most successful conference to date. Well appointed and attended with over 85 booths and over 400 attendees. Very happy with the entire experience and will return next year…Bravo NM Film and the entire team…
Fun seeing new and old faces. Here I am with Tina Presley Borek and David Robbins.
See you next year!


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Our thoughts and prayers are with our community and school district officials as they make these decisions and attempt to keep us all safe, as well as all the families affected by the virus.
Please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns.
Thank you and have a great day!
The Safety Education and Training Department (SET) provides hands on and classroom instruction, training, and certifications to a variety of individuals including: district students, staff, trainers, employees, parents, and the community by offering an assortment of safety programs that meet a wide range of individual needs. The department is structured to provide safety trainings and information that will benefit K-12 and beyond with an emphasis in Traffic Safety. We are striving to promote all areas of "SAFETY" (Safety Alliance Foundation for Educating Texas Youth) in our region and across Texas.


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I've had a nibbler for years. They are VERY air hungry. A 14CFM compressor is generally required to run them without stopping (think 3hp and twin cylinder). The horseshoes it throws out get everywhere. You feel your feet snicking the carpet in the house and realise several have lodged in the soles of your shoes. Keep the cutting bits well lubed and have a spare or two. I've snapped several, usually at times I don't have a spare! A good tip is to use a pair of G-clamps and a straight bit of whatever alongside any straight you wish to cut rather than do it freehand.
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Making books is fun! I'm experiment with ways to make pages, binding, and imagery. Last night was open studios and then a visiting painter lecture. It's so cool to see how everyone is using their space and filling it. I had an amazing conversation with a woman named Bev last night at dinner. She made some very astute observations about me and honed in on our shared Judaism immediately when she asked me if my Mother wants me to marry someone Jewish..... It turns out Bev is a clinical psychologist and in the mix with our great conversation I did feel like she was psycho-analyzing me just a little in her head. The funny thing is that from a far she seems a little flaky and dreamy, she is a beautiful woman-- with silver curly hair to her chin. She always wears these cute red clog-like shoes with striped socks a some kind of hat that makes her look like a flapper. She's probably in her 60's?? Anyways, she just has a sparkle!
I am in a total news and world void-- even though Im at an advantage to those without a car here- I just have no idea what's happening in the world. My days are structured around mealtimes! I get up at 7:30, shower and go for breakfast. Then, I go to my studio around nine. At noon, I break for lunch-- three days a week I work in the development office from 1-4. Yoga is usually 4:30 to 6. Dinner is at 6. Then, there has been an activity like open studios, slide night, readings, lectures from 8-9. Then more studio time or sometimes the sculptors make a bonfire. And bed-- then repeat!


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Research group IDC warned on Monday that poor economic conditions would have a severe effect on spending on new technology. In particular, IDC is concerned that there could be a more severe downturn in Western Europe.
The company said that a worst-case scenario projection could be a global slowdown that would "reduce worldwide IT spending between 2001 and 2003 by as much as $150 billion, with $50 billion less demand from Europe."
IDC's worst-case projection would mean that IT spending in Europe would rise by only 7.9 percent in 2001. The research group actually expects to see growth of around 11 percent this year, more optimistic than some experts predict.
"Software and services are still expected to show strong growth this year," said Stephen Minton, manager of IDC's Global IT Economic Outlook research program. Minton warned that hardware sales would be most badly hit if economic conditions were worse than expected.
While many tech firms claim publicly that economic conditions will soon improve, many experts are less confident. Last month's Holway Report predicted that demand for IT products would remain modest until at least 2004. Richard Holway, director of Ovum--the analyst firm that publishes the Holway Report--said IT spending would stay low because there was no exciting new technology that would boost demand on the horizon.
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We are still trying to get our Olympic Weightlifting Team going.
Only Laura has really shown the dedication to be part of this team, and though she's been sick lately she was still at Oly. practice.
Does any one else have the determination to do Olympic Weightlifting competition?
We just missed an event this past weekend that we could have entered, let's not miss the next one.
Here's the link for the Florida Weightlifting Federation (which we are part of)so you can get the latest information.
Let's make this team a reality!


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Four Ways To Make Economy Feel Like First Class
We've all done that walk of shame on a plane through first class to our seats in economy and thought "when is that going to be me?" As we gaze wistfully at those comfy reclining seats with generous leg room, we begin to wonder whether it would really be so extravagant to pay a little extra to upgrade – before realising it would cost more than the flight itself.
Yep, travelling in economy is a punish – especially for long-distance flights. But unless you happen to win the lotto, stumble upon an inheritance, rack up a boatload of frequent flyer points or become a high-powered CEO, it's the reality for most young Aussies who like to travel. But the good news is, just because you're flying economy, doesn't mean it has to feel like it. With a few simple airline hacks, you can amp up the luxury factor and make economy feel like first class. Here are the best flight hacks to fly in comfort:
#1 Book the exit row
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While nabbing the exit row used to be a case of being extremely tall and turning up to the airport early, it's now anyone's game – so long as you're prepared to pay. Most airlines now give you the option to select the exit row (this will sometimes be called "extra leg room") when booking your flight. And it is definitely worth paying the extra $40 to $60 to do so.
Not only will this give you the ability to stretch your legs out, but it means you won't have to climb ungracefully over your neighbour to get to the bathroom! The absolute holy grail is the window seat in the exit row – you can lean against it when you're sleeping and stretch out.
Be warned though, you will actually have to be willing and able to help in the case of an emergency (no, it's not just something they say).
#2 Take advantage of lounges
One of the best things about flying first class or business is being able to hang out in the airport lounges. These are a refuge of calm amidst the chaos of the airport, where you get enjoy snacks and bevvies before your flight. But believe it or not, you don't actually have to be a frequent flyer to do this. There are lounges you can access with an entrance fee and some that are free if you have a certain type of credit card.
You can also get a membership with Lounge Pass, a program that gives you entry to over 1000 airport lounges overseas. You pay approximately $126 per year, on top of which you'll pay $35 for each lounge visit. Some airports around the world also offer independent lounges where you can pay per visit using a website called LoungeBuddy.
#3 BYO amenties
Yes, pillows and blankets are usually supplied in economy. But these are flimsy at best and unhygienic at worst, as many airlines reuse the same blankets and pillows for hundreds of passengers. Yuck.
To instantly make your flying experience more comfortable, consider bringing your own amenities along. It's worth investing in a merino blanket, as these tend have the best weight to warmth ratio (ie. they're lightweight but incredibly warm). A travel pack like the Aria Kit is also a great to have on hand. Packed in a convenient case, it's filled with luxe-yet-practical essentials to level up your flying experience — including a toothbrush, eye mask, microfibre socks, noise-cancelling ear buds and a pen.
Also don't forget to bring things like moisturiser, lip balm and a refillable drink bottle with you – there are often taps on board for refilling, or the flight crew can do it for you.
#4 Dress the part
Just because you're not flying first or business class, doesn't mean you can't dress like it/ Rocking up looking like you've just rolled out of bed (because let's face it, you probably have) is only going to make you look and feel like more of a pleb.
That said, ain't nobody got time for wearing skinny jeans, a suit or uncomfortable shoes on a long flight. Looking good and feeling comfortable don't have to be mutually exclusive. Jogger pants (not trackies!) clean sneakers, a basic tee and a fitted jacket are all understated-yet-polished travel staples that will make you look like a frequent flyer.
Bonus points if you can get a large scarf that doubles as a blanket. Who knows, you may actually get bumped up a class – as cabin crew are more likely to upgrade those who are well put-together and look like they travel often.
Now read these backpacking hacks no one tells newbies.
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Get Your Garden Ready With Some Plants From the Annual Brooklyn Botanic Garden Sale
Pull out your garden tools, the annual Brooklyn Botanic Garden Plant sale will be returning this month, just in time for your gardening season.
Head to the garden's Cherry Esplanade to check out the thousands of plants up for sale in what is billed as the "largest collection of plants in the metropolitan area."
In addition to the opportunity to purchase some specimens for your garden, there will education sessions on a range of topics for enthusiasts. Among the subjects to be explored will be making your own subirrigated window box, growing herbs and designing a garden of annuals.
The sale is a benefit for the Botanic Garden and visitors must pay admission to attend the sale, but in return they will get a coupon for a free return visit to the garden. General admission is $15 for adults, $8 for students and free for seniors and children under 12.
The members-only preview will take place on Wednesday, May 9 from 4:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. On May 10, the sale will open to the general public from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. For more information on the sale and the lectures being offered, click here.
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Making Luna Lapin
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Welcome to the charming world of Luna Lapin, a quiet and kind rabbit with impeccable taste. Learn how to sew your own felt rabbit along with her exquisite wardrobe including 20 garment and accessory sewing patterns. All the clothes are made using the finest fabrics including wool felt, lace and Liberty print cotton. Choose from a perfectly tailored wool coat, matching tweed skirt and bag, or pretty lace set. Don't forget the accessories - there are bunny boots and tiny French knickers to create. Luna even has the perfect pair of pyjamas for elegant lounging and a comfy armchair to relax in. You will be captivated by the stories surrounding Luna on her adventures as she goes for a job interview and visits the theatre. Her brother Alfie even makes an appearance in his own dapper outfit of jeans, waistcoat and tailored shirt. These adorable sewing patterns will appeal to the child in all of us and make beautiful heirloom gifts to treasure.
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Sarah Peel is a trained pattern cutter and ex-fashion buyer, avid stitcher, expert rice pudding maker and overall creative. She trained as a garment pattern cutter and then moved in to the fashion industry where she spent 25 years in buying and design. Under her business brand name, CoolCrafting, she runs an online shop and sewing workshops, plus attends and demonstrates at shows such as Country Living, Festival of Quilts, Handmade Fair, Knitting and Stitching Show and more.
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Introduction to Luna Contents listing About Luna Hand sewing techniques Machine sewing techniques Materials and tools Technical information Step-by-step instructions, patterns and photographs: How to make Luna and her brother Alfie T-shirt dress and lace shrug Lace knickers, boots and bag Wool coat and polka-dot dress Liberty patchwork scarf Alfie's gingham shirt, wool waistcoat and jeans Crossover pyjamas Luna's armchair and cushions Matching lace setChristmas cape and shoes Wool skirt and shoulder bag Templates Suppliers Acknowledgements About the Author Index Copyright


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Ikove Debuts $10 Million Startup Nursery Fund After Launching 10 Technology Companies
According to the company, the $10 million vehicle will help launch 10 to 15 early-stage technology companies through its proprietary Startup Nursery.
Previous Startup Nursery graduates has featured technological ideas developed by Ohio State ECE faculty and students, such as Nikola Labs, Cognovi Labs, Circular Wave Drive, ParaGen Technologies (parent company to four holding companies: RenovoDerm, Atreon Orthopedics, Vascular Genesis and Tarian Medical), eLum Technologies, Soliton Reach and Soil1. To date, Ikove has raised over $40 million directly into their portfolio companies to further develop the technologies and accelerate their commercialization efforts.
Ikove's venture development model identifies and cultivates cutting-edge technologies at leading research institutions, by partnering with inventors and institutions to found new companies around intellectual property.
"We've reimagined technology commercialization and venture and have developed a unique, scalable, hands-on model to bring transformative technologies to life," said John D'Orazio, co-founder of Ikove.
Ikove has built a structure that leverages world-class talent and harnesses years of research and design and investment from grants at research institutions to unlock powerful innovations created in laboratories.
Bridging the gap between lab and market, Ikove focuses on commercializing concept and seed stage technologies.
"While $70 billion is invested annually into university-backed research in labs across the country, less than one percent is invested in commercializing these life-changing ideas," said Flavio Lobato, co-founder of Ikove.
This leaves more than 95 percent of patented university innovations unfunded, never reaching the commercial market. Since 2014, Ikove has launched 10 early-stage deep-tech companies in the STEM, AgriTech and MedTech verticals, creating more than $150 million in equity value. With most of the companies entering hockey-stick growth phases, Ikove expects the portfolio value to grow to over $250 million by the end of 2019.
The SUN Fund enables Ikove to expand its outreach to help more early-stage technologies overcome the commercialization gap as well as develop new verticals.
"The SUN Fund affords us the opportunity to realize the substantial pipeline of technologies we've identified which have the potential to influence and evolve how we live our day-to-day lives." said co-founder and Ohio State ECE alumnus Rodolfo Bellesi.
The SUN Fund is a proprietary vehicle that allows investors to co-invest with Ikove and access founder-level valuations and accelerate growth through follow-on rounds via an international network of strategic investors, hailing from over 10 countries.
"We're inspired by the success of Ikove and our portfolio companies over the last four years," said Lobato. "With the launch of the SUN Fund, we're looking forward to scaling our efforts in fulfillment of our mission of unlocking the potential of technology commercialization, bringing to life disruptive technologies that deserve to be shared with humanity."
About Ikove Venture Partners
Ikove is a venture development company founded to pursue early-stage investments with emphasis on technology commercialization in the Midwest. Through its proprietary Startup Nursery, in partnership with multiple U.S. research institutions, Ikove identifies and validates developing high-impact technologies, providing capital and commercialization resources to bridge the gap between R&D and VC funded rounds.


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1. Improve Posture
Daily activities can take a toll on your posture. Pilates helps to significantly improve the awareness of the whole body, by reminding you to constantly pull your stomach in and pull your shoulders down for good posture and spinal alignment. Your body awareness will continue even beyond the class session due to the level of attention and focus you need to keep during class, therefore the bad habits regarding your posture will slowly disappear with every session.
2. Improves Flexibility
Joseph Pilates, the inventor of this fitness system said, 'true flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed.' Compared to yoga, with Pilates the muscles are warm as you stretch due to the movement focus, rather than the static, unmoving stretches yoga utilizes. Another benefit of improved flexibility and constant movement is a better blood circulation as the body isn't stuck in one position for too long.
3. Reduces Stress
As Pilates is focused on breathing, it can be considered a form of meditation, therefore it can help you relax and de-stress. When you are working out and completely focused on your movements, your body will release endorphins that will make you feel good. Furthermore, a study by Pierre Phillipot showed that different emotional states are associated with distinct breathing patterns. The study showed that you can basically breathe yourself into calmness or anxiety, and Pilates can help with achieving calmness.
4. Great workout for the entire body
Conventional workouts tend to train only some parts of your body, which can lead to muscular imbalance which is a primary cause of chronic back pain and injury. Pilates trains the whole body, and so your entire musculature is evenly balanced and conditioned. This is the reason why many athletes use Pilates religiously to train.


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Centred around front-man Ron Young's raspy, soulful vocals, 8 journeys through classic rock ballad territory via Time Enough For That, locks in a solid groove on Vegas, swaggers in on City Of Sin and brings the riffs on tracks like Straight Shooter and Another Fine Mess.
Little Caesar fuse no-nonsense hard rock that harks back to 70's giants such as Bad Company and Humble Pie with an aching ZZ Top groove and overlay it with classic R&B melodies to produce some mighty fine straight up good time rock and roll!
8 is more than the sum of its parts, it harks back to when albums were albums, a proper roller coaster of various emotions from start to finish that you can enjoy from end to end or track by track depending on what your soul is in the mood for.
"It's early February, but Eight is a solid contender for 2018's top spot."
-Decibel Geek USA
"Bands should not be releasing their best album over 30 years into their career, but Little Caesar have."
Uber Rock UK
"8 captures the real essence of soulful, uplifting blues-infused rock. This might just be Little Caesar's finest moment"
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Bursting onto the LA scene in 1987, big things seemed inevitable for a band who had the winning combination of being managed by Jimmy Iovine, A&R'd by John Kalodner and produced by the one and only Bob Rock.
Their unique blend of soulful, yet ballsy hard rock was a perfect reflection of the musical climate that spawned them. They first appeared on the 1989 Metal Blade Street Survivors compilation which lead to them signing with DGC Records under Geffen. However, within weeks of the release of their self-titled 1990 debut, their label was sold. In the mix-up all their records were lost in transit to the new distributors and the bean counters anvil came down on a band who were just getting going. Such is the rough and tumble music business.
Never to let a thing like a label shuffle get in their way, the band hit the road off the success of their cover of Aretha Franklin's Chain of Fools and toured with bands as varied as Jane's Addiction, Kiss, Iggy Pop, Billy Idol, Social Distortion and Lynyrd Skynyrd. They also headlined their own tours across America and scored heavy rotation on MTV.
In 1992 they released their second album, Influence, and toured Europe for the first time. The tour drew rave reviews and they sold out the famous Marquee Club in London.
That same year Ron Young appeared in Terminator 2 as a tough talking biker that gets into a fight (and inevitably is thrown out of a window) by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Just as they got going again, like so many hard rock bands, they were stopped in their tracks by the grunge wave and ultimately disbanded for over a decade, re-emerging in 2001 for a string of high profile shows at the House of Blues, the California Speedway for NASCAR, and the Rock The Bayou Festival in Houston TX.
The band went quiet again, until 2009 when they released their fourth album Redemption and returned to Europe and the UK. In 2012 they released American Dream and performed at the Hard Rock Hell festival in Wales that December.
They returned once again to Europe in 2013 appearing at The Download Festival alongside such acts as Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Rival Sons, and Queens Of The Stone Age, and in 2016 released the double live album Brutally Honest.
In 2017, the band returned to the UK and Europe, toured the US, and entered the studio with Bruce Witkin to produce their Golden Robot Records debut.
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*This post is written with priority given to humor and sarcasm followed by logic. Do not get hyped up reading this post and come down with your rifles just to fuck me up with all the statistics you can find in the world.
I'm sitting down here thinking of something to write but I just couldn't keep my focus on anything. Topics are plenty, but it's just like my mind had got something of a mental block that I can't just let my ideas flow. Then, I thought again, it's been sometime since I came out with something particularly interesting. I've been boring you with the sort of shit you wouldn't want to really read perhaps. Perhaps you're just commenting on each post of mine just to make me happy. I guess so. Sooner or later, perhaps I would be writing only to myself if I keep on doing the same way I'm doing now.
All right, I'll try hard to write about this then. I've thought about this thing for a long time now, and perhaps it might be entertaining and unique for you to read.
According to my own calculated statistics, I think Indian guys dies faster than Indian girls in our country. I'm not talking about worldwide population because I can only write about things that revolve around me. Thus, it's Malaysia then.
See, why do Indian guys die faster than Indian girls or woman? I'll tell you why.
1. Indian guys smoke and drink alcohol.
The first reason for this is of course basically, we, the guys think that smoking and drinking is cool. Both of which influences the condition of our body directly and contributing to a number health cases. This however, would not stop Indian guys from stopping these 'cool' habits.
Either the guys dies by health related problem before they could get married or after getting married, due to constant drinking, they might get a heart attack and die. With a combination of mutton, cigarette and beer, we go up faster than you can imagine.
I'm not saying Indian girls do not drink and smoke either. But the fact remains that most of the Indian girls do not drink and smoke, and even though they do, it's usually occasional. Thus, they live, longer.
2. Indian guys drinks and then fights
And then we have some of the famous wannabe gangster who thinks they're some superheroes once they're drunk. All they might want to do after a session of drinking alcohol is to stare at another Indian. Probably in an attempt to start up a fight.
Every Indian should stare when they see another Indian. This is rule number one of being an Indian. And if you 'catch' someone staring at you while you're drunk, you must at that very moment hurl some vulgarities towards the other Indian and try to start up a fight.
These fights sometimes do not just end up with injuries, sometimes it ends up with death. So, this concludes that drunken Indian is dangerous to be kept around. They can end up beating you lifeless with a beer bottle. And yes, I've seen that. Read related:Smiling and Staring
3. Indian guys fights and die because of woman
See, there is a saying in Tamil, which is actually vulgar. But then, I never refrain from talking profanities either. So, it goes like this.
"Tamilan sandeleh sagevan, illenah pundeleh sagevan."
To tell you in plain English with a direct translation, Indian guys either die by fighting or because of a pussy. We have too many Indian warriors in our country that is more than willing to give up their life just because of a woman. See, any positive thing and the guy gives up his life, I would applaud that. For an example, in the mean of trying to save the woman from a robber, he was shot and died. This is a positive death. He had done something proud.
But on the other hand, we have some pussy-hunters who would fight up with another guy just to gain attention of a girl. We also have some other guys who would fight up with another guy just because this guy might have said something about his girlfriend. In both cases, fatalities cannot be ruled out. Here, the guys die, while the 'pussy' gets away unharmed.
The above pictures describes what other people think when Indian guys fight
4. Indians guys' suicide
It goes beyond fact that Indian guys are the most likely to commit suicide in the event of misery or love failure here in our country. I've talked about this. Reasons are plenty, but Indian girls had always been lower in statistics compared to Indian guy's suicide rate.
It might be because basically those guys are simply sentimental idiots, or cowards who do not want to live anymore; scared about what the world might have to say. And suiciding because you couldn't get a girl? Fuck the dead ones. I've got no respect.
Indian girls on the other hand do not end up suiciding once they fail in their quest of love, want to know why? It's because they're smart and they use their brains.
5. Indians shot dead or die in custody
Last but not least, we have quite a number of Indian shot dead blindly by the uniformed guys. Not saying that all of them were innocent victims, but even the criminal ones should have been given a fair trial. Sigh, they're dead. No point talking bout it.
Hardly any Indian woman or girls are being shot dead, and so yes, Indian guys are getting lesser even because of this. Or let say even if the Indians are caught, most of them die in custody anyway. So , whether caught alive or not, chances for you to come out alive is pretty much poor.
6. Indians gets killed by hired killers
If you have enemy, then you should have one that would not harm you in anyway possible. I mean physically. Of course you might have enemies , but make sure you have someone who will not go to the extend of hiring someone to finish you up. If someone is willing to put up a bounty to your head, then mate; you have serious problem here.
Most of the times only Indian guys/mans gets killed by hired killers. Take an example of some of the Indian politician that got killed in recent years. And also the number of Indians shot dead in coffee shops and so on. We hardly hear any hire-and-kill for the woman's/girls anyway.
And that's what something that I can summarize from the lots of thinking I've done for this topic anyway. Please take note that I have no facts to support this post of mine, and I've written this based on my own observation and things that happens around me. I've a massive number of friends and thus pretty much I've some information on things that happens.
The same thing might be happening to other races as well, but again, I do not feel the importance of writing about it because this topic is not meant to be that way.
I guess it's time for the Indian guys to just shut the fuck up of trying to be a 'Singgam' in the public and fight for each shit they can find reason for. Remember, the calmer you're, the better it is for your life. It might just let you live a little longer. No need to be fucking wannabe gangster and end up getting beaten to death by another Indian or getting shot dead by the man in the blues.
Perhaps Indian parents should try for male babies to balance up the statistics. Girls, we, the Indian guys are getting lesser, thus it is time for you to act, get one of us as soon as possible.*Grin


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Getting kids to eat fruit doesn't have to be a battle! You can try the recipes below for some healthier treats that will sneak in some vital minerals and vitamins. These are delicious and totally kid-friendly.
Super Simple Fruit-Based Desserts
Simple Strawberry Frozen Yogurt
(Makes about 4 servings)
1/2 cup sugar
1 package (16 ounces) frozen unsweetened strawberries
1/2 cup plain nonfat yogurt
1 Tbsp. lemon juice
In a food processor, add sugar and strawberries. Pulse until chopped coarsely. Slowly add the yogurt and lemon juice while the food processor is still running. Process until smooth and serve immediately.
Broiled Pineapple
1/2 lb. pineapple
Nonstick cooking spray
While preheating oven to the broil setting, coat a broiler pan with nonstick cooking spray. Core your pineapple and cut wedges lengthwise to make 8 spears. Put pineapple spears on the broiler pan and cook for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown and tender. This is tasty served with a dollop of fresh whipped cream or ice cream and a sprinkle of cinnamon!
PB&C&C Bites
1/4 cup chocolate chips
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 large bananas
Coconut flakes
Cover your working surface with a sheet of parchment paper. Slice bananas. Heat the peanut butter and chocolate chips in microwave (about 1 minute) and stir. Dip banana pieces into the peanut butter and chocolate mixture until they are well-coated. Sprinkle coconut flakes on them and let them harden (about 1 hour). Alternatively, you could place them in the refrigerator to help them set quicker.
Of course, nothing beats fresh fruits on their own! Anything in season is bound to be a hit because of its peak ripeness and flavor.
For a special treat, drizzle your favorite fruit LIGHTLY in some melted dark chocolate. Yum!
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Last night, we took our kids to see the lights at Thanksgiving Point. It is a Christmas tradition we have been doing for 6 years. We often go more than once. It is a "stay in your car and drive thru the light display" experience. No worrying about chasing after kids, them complaining that it is cold, etc. It was 19 degrees last night.
At the start, we roll down all of the windows, blast the heat in the car, loudly play Christmas music and let the kids lean out the windows to look at the lights. Thanksgiving point has soldiers, penguins, ice skaters, flowers, Santa's workshop, reindeer and this year an Andrew Smith Kinetic ice sculpture. All of the trees are beautifully lit as well.
At end of the lights, there is a beautiful telling of the Savior's birth using billboard sized pictures from Simon Dewey's "This is the Season" children's book.
Afterwards, we park our car and head to see the reindeer.
Then, we go inside and get dinner at their deli. Excellent food.
(Toothsome #3 thinks jazz hands are hilarious right now.)
The inside is decorated for Christmas.
After dinner, we let the kids get 50 cent ice cream cones.
There are also ice sculptures on display. We arrived just as they were finishing making this one.
Honestly, nothing gets me more in the Christmas mood, then going to Thanksgiving Point.
Unrelated, but finally after eight years of living in this house, we finally paid someone to hang Christmas lights on our house. There is no way I was going to have Dentist Husband on our roof. (We need his hands and arms to do dentistry, and not risk breaking them on a potentially icy roof.)
I love this picture. The kids were so excited watching them work.
The finished lights.
Also, my friend Kimmy drastically lowered her prices for her I Chart You genealogy charts. A great in-law Christmas gift, if anyone is looking . . .


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Honshin is one of Yang's special attacks, exclusive to the OMEGA Mode of Ultra Street Fighter IV.
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Executed by performing a "reverse Shoryuken" motion (back, down and down-back) and pressing punch, Yang will be lower and if the opponent hit him, Yang will absorb the damage of the attack and attack the opponent with a punch depending on the button used. The EX version also has a variation, what is his Tourouzan. If the player do not use any follow-up, Yang only will use the Kaihou. This move is a counter.
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Like the other counters, Honshin can be used to escape the opponent's pressure. It can be used under the influence of the Super Combo, Seiei Enbu.
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Booming river development replacing blight
Newlyweds Marcus Leming and Lena Carpenter recently sidled up to the bar for after-work pints at GS 1221, an upscale beer bar on Broadway. The 30-something couple love the convenience. They live at 1221 Broadway — industrial-style apartments with retail space that includes the bar.
They also live a block from the Museum Reach — a 1.3-mile stretch of the San Antonio River between Lexington Avenue and Josephine Street — where Carpenter jogs regularly.
A few years ago, this stretch of the river was nothing more than a bleak trash-strewn ditch lined with old industrial buildings and gravel lots. In the mid-2000s, $72 million in public money was pumped into this segment of the river. It was transformed into a linear park of landscaped paths and public art, creating a more pleasant urban environment that city leaders hoped would spark construction of apartments and condos, coffee shops and bars — a River Walk for locals.
It took a couple of years after the Museum Reach's completion in 2009, but development started to bud. Since 2011, nearly 1,000 residential units — mostly apartments — have sprung up in the area. Another 737 units are under construction and likely will be occupied by year's end.
In short, more than half of the residential units constructed in San Antonio's entire downtown area in the past four years were built — or are under construction — along the Museum Reach and Broadway, the former car dealership row that runs parallel to the river in northern downtown.
The total value so far: $254 million in private investment, with an assist of about $25 million in incentives.
"When you talk urban revitalization, this is what it is, and I think to do it so quickly (in this area) speaks a lot," Carpenter said. "Obviously there is a big appetite for it."
There's potential for even more development.
Twenty acres of vacant or semi-vacant land in the Museum Reach area is owned by developers with a history of building in the area, including big-hitters James Lifshutz and David Adelman. The area also has drawn interest from outside the city — Austin, Dallas, Indianapolis and Boston.
"I don't even know who they are," said Katie Luber, director of the San Antonio Museum of Art, which owns 7 acres of mostly vacant land along the stretch. "Realtors call and say 'I have a developer … I have a national developer who wants to come to San Antonio.'"
But as the area continues to blossom, some critics say the infrastructure isn't keeping pace — the $72 million in river upgrades was a nice start, but what about streets and sidewalks?
Others, meanwhile, warn that the area is developing into a neighborhood accessible only by the upper class.
Most rents are as high as $2 a square foot (the downtown average is about $1.50) — yet occupancy rates hover in the mid-90 percent, indicating a strong demand for the booming area. City officials and developers say they want more diversity in housing, but there's no signal yet that shows lower rents are coming from the private sector.
Blossoming neighborhood
Around the time the Museum Reach was completed in May 2009, this stretch of the river included some residents, but not many. A condo here, a motel there. At the Pearl, still in its inchoate state, about 20 residential units existed.
A ghost town of concrete slabs — a multifamily project started in 2003 by developer George Geis, but abandoned because of legal troubles — stood ruinous for five years on Broadway just south of Interstate 35. Developer Ed Cross took ownership of the eyesore in 2006 and, along with Adelman, later fleshed out the lattice with 307 apartments. The area's first big development piece, 1221 Broadway opened in 2011.
Soon after, the Pearl started to take off, eventually adding another 300 units in 2012 along with a flurry of restaurants and shops. Along the river and Broadway came more apartments, a hotel, an office building, and the recycling of an old warehouse into office and restaurant space.
The ditch and dealership row started to look like a neighborhood.
Behind the scenes, the deal-making continues for even more apartments. Word has spread beyond the Texas border about the area's fertility.
"There is momentum and people seem to like the area," said Steve Bodner, president of SCB Bodner Co. Inc. of Indianapolis, which is close to purchasing property along the reach. "Pearl looks to be a great developer and (it is) creating some excitement in the community, far and wide."
In the middle of the reach, Bodner, a third-generation developer, is close to signing a deal for a 1.7-acre riverside parcel once home to the Turner bowling alley. He wants to build 200 apartments there.
"We're statistically motivated in the development of our projects," Bodner said. "We looked at a bunch of analytical information that pointed us to San Antonio. We like the River Walk area; it has unfulfilled potential."
It seems like every parcel — either vacant or not — in the area holds some potential.
"A lot of developers have offered to buy our property," SAMA director Luber said. The museum's board has been adamant about preserving its 7 acres, across Jones Avenue from the museum, as green space featuring a sculpture garden.
Dallas developer Alamo Manhattan has plans to build a six-level apartment building on 1.3 acres surrounded by SAMA's properties. Lifshutz, owner the Blue Star Arts Complex south of downtown, also owns this property, but deflected questions about the project toward Alamo Manhattan, which did not return interview requests.
Lifshutz did confirm he wants to eventually build residential and commercial on 2.5 acres he owns a block east, the former dealership that faces Broadway between Jones and 10th Street.
Just west of the Turner site, Adelman said he wants to build 300 apartments on a 3-acre swath south of the river between Eighth and Ninth streets. On property on Avenue B, behind the KLRN studios, he's closer to beginning construction on 107 "micro" apartments — smaller, more efficient units.
Without getting specific, Glenn Huddleston, a developer who specializes in commercial space in Alamo Heights, would like to build some kind of residential development on a square block he mostly owns across from the lock and dam.
"It's been overlooked, the lock and dam," Huddleston said. "I'd like to come up with a project that really takes advantage of that … it would be mixed-use project with a residential component."
North of I-35, Pearl developer Silver Ventures owns all of the riverfront property west of the river — from Newell Avenue to West Grayson Street — and said in an email the group continues to explore development options, but has no concrete plans.
"All options are on the table right now," Bill Shown, Silver Ventures' managing director, said in an email.
Will incentives last?
Aside from the Museum Reach, the city's incentives policy is credited with the area's rebirth.
Most of the area's developments received an Easter basket of incentives that at the time included cash. The downtown-wide policy was revamped in 2012 — partly because of criticism over the grants, partly to streamline the process — and the Center City Housing Incentive Policy was born.
The CCHIP doles out property tax reimbursement grants in 10-to-15-year increments, city and San Antonio Water System waivers, among other carrots.
When it was announced, city officials described the program as a kickstarter. Someday, they said, incentives will not be necessary because the market would reach a point where it's less risky for banks and other investors to loan money.
Some developers, however, say "don't stop at 1,700 units." That number is a smidgen of the 10,000 units the Museum Reach needs to become a true neighborhood.
"We're not there yet," Adelman said. "Our community will get the development that you sort of push for, and a big component of what the incentive does is it redirects the interest from the sprawl that we've experienced into the inner city."
The program expires in June 2016. In a couple of months, the city's Center City Development Office will look at the market to determine whether to strengthen, leave as is, scale back or zap parts of program.
"Until we have a San Antonio study to show us the market rate and whether or not we hit the tipping point, we don't want to make any major amendments," CCDO director Lori Houston said.
Whether that means the incentives for the Museum Reach will be scaled back, because it's doing far better than any other downtown district, will depend on the results of the study. Of the three projects in the works — by Alamo Manhattan, SCB Bodner and Adelman — none has yet applied for incentives, Houston said.
"The assessment will look at each target area and provide an analysis that shows the revised financial gap based on the rents, construction cost, land values, and other market conditions," Houston said.
The river has plenty of vacant parcels left that could be developed. Beyond the river in all directions are even more parcels and older buildings that could be repurposed. Adelman said 10,000 units in the area will begin to draw the attention of a grocer, the sign of a real neighborhood. It's an amenity the area's current residents say is lacking.
It will be easier to drive to Central Market on Broadway, some residents say, than traverse downtown proper to get to the store H-E-B is in the process of planning on South Flores and East César E. Chávez Boulevard.
Streets, sidewalks
What's also lacking, developers say, is infrastructure. The $72 million spent on the Museum Reach was catalytic, but few public dollars have been spent on streets and sidewalks.
Broadway remains a race track, and the ancillary streets and sidewalks still flood.
Part of the city's plan is to turn Broadway, from Third Street up to Cunningham Avenue, into a pedestrian-friendly street.
"You're turning it into more of a neighborhood street as opposed to a major thoroughfare," said Pat DiGiovanni, president and CEO of Centro San Antonio. "Not to be confused with a local street, like you're in a single-family neighborhood. The right-of-way remains the same, but you're introducing wider sidewalks, introducing trees, places for bikes, places for parking, for transit as well."
DiGiovanni estimates that project alone could cost $15 to $20 million. Broadway should work in tandem with the Museum Reach in order for the area to reach its full potential, he said.
"If you go out and look, there's a great deal of infill development," DiGiovanni said. "There's a lot of developable land there that could shatter the 10,000-unit goal. But public infrastructure has to keep pace with the private investment."
One misstep in the area's planning has been the execution of the tax increment reinvestment zone, DiGiovanni said.
In a TIRZ, revenue generated from the rise in property taxes is collected and put back into the area. Tax abatements, however, neuter this funding mechanism. Such is the case with the area's residential projects, which produce no revenue because of the abatements.
DiGiovanni, a former deputy city manager, suggests the city float bonds to pay for the Broadway upgrades now. Such a move would amplify the rate of development, he said. When the tax abatements expire — many of which will in about 10 to 12 years — the revenue can be used to pay back the debt.
City officials say they aren't investigating the strategy, at least for Broadway.
"We had looked at some of that a few years back and it didn't seem to work at that point in time," said Ben Gorzell, the city's chief financial officer. "One of the challenges you have, particularly in that area — once they issue the debt on Day 1, we start incurring interest costs."
Houston said other funding options include taking a slice from the 2017 bond program.
Costly rents
At 1221 Broadway, Marcus Leming and Lena Carpenter, who reverse commute to USAA where they both work, pay about $1,400 a month for a one-bedroom, 1,000-square-foot apartment. Carpenter said she probably could afford to live there alone, but would have to forgo some of the area's restaurants and bars.
The same goes for Lori Martinez, 34, a Rackspace support technician who looked briefly at the Museum Reach before deciding on an apartment in Monte Vista.
"It's great, if you can afford it, definitely," said Martinez, who says she visits the area about twice a month for festivals at the Pearl or to eat at a restaurant. "It has parking. Everything's within walking distance. Nice neighbors. Everything is clean, brand new. Yeah, it's awesome. It's probably not something your average San Antonian would be able to afford."
While there are gradations of rents in the area — there are some around $1.50 a square foot — the area still is unaffordable for most San Antonians. Developers say high construction costs play a huge part in determining rents. But they also agree that the area would be better served if there were rent options.
"I do agree that healthy neighborhoods over the long term have diversity of options," Lifshutz said. "They have a diversity of building types, a diversity of when buildings were built. So they're built over a long period of time and implicit in that is a range of rents … it is concerning to me a little bit."
The area also is in high demand.
"These projects are 90- to 95-percent leased, so there's clearly a market for the rents," DiGiovanni said. "Having said that, I think there needs to be alternative housing options whether it's workforce or transitional housing or even affordable housing. We want to be smart as a community that we keep that diversity of housing. It's the best recipe for a successful neighborhood and that's been proven time and time again throughout the country."
Rehabilitating older buildings into dwellings is one option, DiGiovanni said.
Another is the San Antonio Housing Authority, which owns 2.5 acres just north of the river between Brooklyn Avenue and Eighth Street. The agency said it plans to build on the site some level of housing, but did not specify whether it would be subsidized or affordable.
For private developers, there are a wealth of noncity incentives out there than can reduce project costs and therefore make rents more affordable, but they're often highly competitive, said Christine Drennon, Trinity University Professor of sociology and anthropology.
Just as developers get incentives to build, Drennon wonders if people who live in surrounding neighborhoods — whose property taxes may be effected in the coming years as development begins to push out to Tobin Hill to the west and Government Hill to the east, for example — should get incentives, too, to rehabilitate aging homes.
"Developers get incentives. Well, that's terrific," Drennon said. "So do I, as a home owner or someone buying a deteriorated house also get incentives then to fix up my house? It seems only fair."


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Walking celebrity Julia Bradbury, who is currently to be seen on BBC TV exploring the countryside with Hugh Dennis, has become an ambassador for Britain's Scouts.
She joins a roll-call of inspiring public figures who use their status to promote and increase awareness of Scouting, which has 508,000 members in the UK.
The Dublin-born presenter, who fronted the Wainwright's Walks series and completed his Coast to Coast Walk, celebrated her appointment by visiting the 13th Southall Scout Troop, where she met Scouts and leaders, and helped the troop to build survival shelters outside their meeting place.
She also spoke to the young people about her adventures, including the 2007 ascent of the 60m sea stack the Old Man of Stoer in the company of Tim Emmett.
After the meeting, Ms Bradbury said: "I always love seeing the enthusiasm of both the Scouts themselves and the Scout leaders and it has been inspirational to meet them.
"The 13th Southall is a wonderfully lively and energetic group which is so much fun to be around."
The walking celebrity joins figures such as Ian Hislop, Chris Evans, Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King, and London 2012 Olympics boss Lord Coe as ambassadors for the Scout movement, which was started by Robert Baden-Powell in 1907.
Scouting now has 28 million members in 216 countries across the globe. The movement, whose Chief Scout is adventurer Bear Grylls, is co-educational, welcoming both boys and girls.


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Join us in celebrating our fabulous young ladies
Forever Brilliant
Sat., June 1, 11am- 2pm
Marvin Williams Recreation Center | 725 Park Avenue, Bremerton
$25 | Purchase your tickets on Eventbrite
OurGEMS Annual Brilliance Awards Luncheon and Ceremony is student-initiated and is the brainchild of OurGEMS' student Kelsey Scott. Kelsey, with a desire to gather all of our young ladies under one roof, envisioned an event where young ladies will come together (in the spirit of Academy Awards glitz, glamour and paparazzi) to celebrate student success.
The luncheon is a celebration of girl power, with awards, gift bags, raffle prizes, and most importantly remarks from empowered women recognizing OurGEMS for their hard work and determination. We believe in setting high expectations and celebrating when students meet them. This is their time to SHINE BRILLIANTLY!


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Asian Tribune is published by E-LANKA MEDIA(PVT)Ltd. Vol. 20 No. 105
U.N. Accused of Undermining Goal of Palestinian State
By Thalif Deen - Inter Press Service
United Nations , 18 June, (IPS): When Ban Ki-moon was asked about the scathing remarks by his former Middle East envoy denouncing the strongly partisan U.N. role in the ongoing peace talks, the U.N. secretary-general appeared more distressed with the public revelation of a confidential document than with the strong views articulated by his Under-Secretary-General Alvaro de Soto.
"It was unfortunate that the document was leaked to the press," Ban told reporters Wednesday.
On the eve of his retirement, and after 25 long years with the world body, the former Peruvian diplomat blasted the United Nations in a 52-page confidential report to the secretary-general, accusing the world body of undermining the goal of a Palestinian state.
"I would like to make it clear that this is his (de Soto's) personal view," the secretary-general said, apparently seeking an escape hatch.
Chris Toensing, editor of the Washington-based Middle East Report, was less sympathetic towards Ban, who has cultivated the fine art of evading answers to politically-sensitive questions fired off by reporters here.
"Bravo to Alvaro de Soto for committing his unvarnished views to paper," Toensing said.
"And shame on the secretary-general for disavowing the opinions of this distinguished international diplomat, indicating that he, like his predecessor (Kofi Annan), will sacrifice the independence of the United Nations to curry favor with Washington," he told IPS.
Nadia Hijab, a senior fellow and co-director at the Washington Office of the Institute for Palestine Studies, was equally critical of Ban and laudatory of de Soto.
"De Soto's report should be required reading for anyone working at the United Nations today or thinking of applying," she said.
"It sounds the alarm about what happens when the international organization and its secretary general are forced to become subservient to the policies of world powers instead of being neutral among nations and the defender of international law," Hijab told IPS.
An Arab diplomat told IPS that historically the United Nations was never seen as an even-handed mediator in the Middle East, primarily because of its in-built bias generated under by U.S. pressure.
"Judging by the comments of the secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon is no better than his predecessors and will continue to peddle the same line," he added.
In a stinging rebuke to the United Nations, de Soto wrote: "The steps taken by the international community with the presumed purpose of bringing about a Palestinian entity that will live in peace with its neighbor, Israel, have had precisely the opposite effect."
Pointing out that the one-state solution for Palestine-Israel is fast gaining ground, de Soto says that "the combination of (Palestinian Authority) institutional decline and Israeli settlement expansion is creating a growing conviction among Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, as well as some Jews on the far left in Israel, that the two-state solution's best days are behind it."
According to the report, which was first published in a London newspaper; both Ban Ki-moon and Kofi Annan provided political cover to the United States and the European Union (EU) in their efforts to marginalize Hamas despite its electoral victories in the occupied territories.
Annan was accused of "hampering" de Soto's efforts to maintain regular political contacts with Hamas leaders.
The former secretary-general was accused of playing ball with the United States: a charge that has also been made by several non-governmental organizations against the current secretary-general, who is beholden to Washington for his job.
De Soto has little or no faith in the Middle East Quartet -- a group comprising the United States, EU, the U.N. and Russia-- which is said to provide a political "shield" for the United States and the EU to bankrupt the Palestinian government.
"Even-handedness has been pummeled into submission," says de Soto, whose official title is U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process.
At the same time, he criticized the Hamas leadership for continuing its advocacy of the destruction of Israel.
He describes the Quartet as a political "sideshow" and advises the United Nations to get out of the group.
"I would not agree with his point that the Quartet has become a kind of a sideshow," Ban said, responding to de Soto.
Toensing of the Middle East Report said: "De Soto's incendiary memorandum lifts the veil on the extent of George W. Bush administration's skullduggery in undermining both the Palestinian democratic process and burying prospects for peace in the region."
He said the memo demonstrates exactly why the intra-Palestinian fighting in Gaza is embedded deeply in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Specifically, the Bush administration and Israel actively pushed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and other Fatah elements into conflict with Hamas, he said.
"Most interesting, aside from de Soto's revelation that a U.S. official applauded an earlier round of Hamas-Fatah combat, is his conviction that Abbas himself always wanted to co-opt, rather than clash with, his Islamist rivals. Now -- thanks in great measure to the White House -- that strategic option is gone," Toensing added.
Hijab of the Institute for Palestine Studies said that as the world gazes in horror and bewilderment at the bloody intra-Palestinian power struggle, De Soto's timely report elucidates the reasons why the Palestinians are at this pass, particularly Washington's insistence on isolating Hamas after its election to government in January 2006.
"The U.S.-led international sanctions against the freely elected Palestinian Authority have ruined the economy and pushed the vast majority of Palestinians below the poverty line, and that these were not removed when Hamas and Fatah tried to come together in a unity government."
She said the United States also armed and trained elements of Fatah so that they could take on Hamas. "And it was unable or unwilling to hold Israel accountable for its obligations as an occupying power and for the agreements it signed," Hijab noted.
"This damning report by de Soto should be required reading for all U.S. policy makers because it explains why U.S. policy always boomerangs in the Middle East," she added.
- Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency -


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A hearing that was scheduled for Tuesday to discuss a proposed settlement between FPL and the state Office of Public Counsel has been postponed to next month.
At issue is the utility's costs to restore power after Hurricane Irma in 2017.
Florida Power and Light and the agency that represents consumers in utility issues filed the proposed settlement last week with the state Public Service Commission, but the Florida Retail Federation and the Florida Industrial Power Users Group did not sign on, so the commission has delayed the hearing until July 9th.
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WMP-VRR Plus Facing
WMP-VRR is the most commonly installed insulation facing in metal buildings. The front side is composed of a polypropylene insulation facing, with a metallized polyester (foil like) backing on back side. WMP-VRR Plus provides a higher permeability than WMP-VR. It is generally used in a typical metal building that does not require heavy facing. WMP-VRR Plus insulation facing is available in white or black.


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|Jodies Kitchen Potato Wedges
I would say, I have cooked potatoes in about every way known to man.
We grow them in our garden every year and I still purchase potatoes throughout the year from the store as well.I cant even remember the fist time I made Potato wedges at home for the first time it was so many years ago.
These are not fried but baked in the oven!
I like doing these because they can be seasoned in so many different ways.I stuck with the original version in this post mainly to highlight the cooking method which is very important in a good wedge.They are easy to make and fun to eat.You can always use your favorite dipping sauce or stick with regular old ketchup.For me it's normally mayo & ketchup together.GOOD LUCK!
Jodies Kitchen Homemade Potato Wedges
3 medium potatoes skins on cut into wedges
1 Tbs. cooking oil
1/2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
Preheat oven to 425F. Drizzle half of oil onto a sheet pan and spread oil evenly.Add pan to oven for heating about 4 minutes.Meanwhile in a bowl add wedges and toss with reaming oil.Once pan is heated remove from oven and place wedges in a single layer on side (Not skin side) Sprinkle with half of your salt and pepper.Place in oven and cook about 15 minutes.Remove pan and turn each wedge over to the other side,sprinkle with remaining salt & pepper.Cook another 15 minutes or until wedges are done.


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Objective of the flight:
To produce high-resolution aerial photographs of burned areas in the Jonkershoek Valley as part of a study on the role of fire in rock weathering.
Pilot: Mark Rule
Aircraft: Piper Dakota
Beneficiary: University of the Western Cape, Michael Grenfell
Report from the beneficiary, Michael Grenfell:
"The flight provided an aerial perspective on some of the rock-weathering hotspots that had been identified during fieldwork in March, and the photographs taken will allow us to verify low-resolution satellite images of vegetation type and surface moisture variation in the post-fire Jonkershoek landscape. Variation in vegetation type and surface moisture was shown through the recent field survey to be strongly correlated with fire-induced rock shattering. In particular, the presence of alien invasive woody species with high fuel potential could lead to accelerated rock deterioration and sediment production rates, which has implications for catchment management.
The photographs will contribute to spatial indices of landscape vegetation and surface moisture dynamics which will allow us to extrapolate the results of a small-scale field analysis of rock weathering rates to a larger landscape area. Finding will be published in a scientific journal. The impact of invasive woody vegetation on rock weathering rates, with implications for catchment management, will be measured."
Report from the pilot, Mark Rule:
"A clear day with minimal wind was my preference for this flight and fortunately the weather on the day was excellent, suitable for flying the length and width of the Jonkershoek valley as required. Michael's main objective was to observe and photograph the northern slope of the valley, the area in which he is conducting his investigation. Although the northern side of the valley was largely in shade, Michael was happy that he had observed and photographed the necessary detail after we had flown up and down the valley twice and traversed it once.
From a flying perspective, I had contacted Cape Town ATC before the flight to let them know our intentions. On the day, I contacted Approach and was given a squawk for the flight. In the valley, the TMA's lower limit is 4500ft for a smallish part of the western end of the valley and 7500ft for the middle and eastern section. This required me to keep an eye on the altimeter to avoid entering controlled airspace.
Thanks to the Bateleurs and the University of the Western Cape for giving me the opportunity to fly this mission."


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Check out these smart City of Adelaide projects set to improve your city experience!
Imagine the time you'd save if you had help finding a city parking space and could extend your stay from anywhere.
Council is implementing smart technology involving sensors and an app to make parking more convenient and stress-free. The app will allow you to locate available parking bays, advise of any limits and pay for the park if you need to. Plus, the app will notify you when your time is about to expire so you can remotely top-up to the maximum available limit. First stage roll-out starts in 2018. Click here for the latest update.
A bench that uses the sun to charge up to three smartphones at once is currently available for community use in Hindley Street.
The City of Adelaide has facilitated a trial of the solar smart bench technology by the Adelaide West End Association outside of 75-77 Hindley Street, from April through to the end of May 2018.
The smart bench seats four people and - with a built-in wireless charging capability and two publicly accessible USB connectors - it can charge up to three mobile phones at once, as well as provide internet connection to users. The bench also has adaptive ambient lighting – so you can make use of its functions no matter how dark it gets!
Smart waste technology could be key to cleaner city streets with a Council trial of solar-powered smart bins in Hindley and Bank Streets producing positive results.
A built-in sensor and compactor in the bin signals when it needs emptying and lets each hold up to eight times more litter than normal. Next up? 18 city bins retro-fitted with fill-monitoring sensors have already been deployed in Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga.
Safer streets, less emissions and cost savings – three reasons Council's replacing all city street lights by 2020 with LEDs or LEDs + smart lighting technology.
A trial saw lights along Pirie Street and Hindmarsh Square / Mukata replaced with dimmable LEDs and presence sensors so they brighten on-demand. The results were impressive. LEDs save 40-50 per cent in energy consumption, with sensors adding 8-10 per cent. Real-time monitoring also means faster fault maintenance, improving city safety.
Six sensors around the City will collect vital 'green data' on factors like CO₂, dust and temperature levels as part of a Smart Environmental Monitoring pilot. The data will be made public to help create innovative ways to improve the city experience.
A space where innovative minds can connect, get help bringing ideas to life and showcase their wares to the world – Adelaide Smart City Studio is 'at your service': 25 Pirie Street, Adelaide.
Following installation in 2017 of free USB chargebars at Council's City Library and Customer Centre, charging stations are now also available for public use at all three City of Adelaide Community Centres, the North Adelaide Golf Course, Adelaide Aquatic Centre and Adelaide Central Market.
In 2018, these indoor chargebars will be complemented by the installation of three solar-powered outdoor USB charge stations along North Terrace, Rundle Mall and Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga. These free 24/7 access points will be super handy for people looking to charge up their digital devices any time of the day or night.