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Release Date: 1976 |
Album Rating: 4.5As always, I'd appreciate if you guys could tell me if there are any typos since english isn't my first language, but anyway, can't believe this didn't had a review, it rules so hard
Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7A8SX7ccI
Part IV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DDEl7JnWvo
at last
magnetic fields is better tho
Album Rating: 4.5Magnetic Fields is great but nowhere near as good as this or Equinoxe for me
Album Rating: 4.0Oxygène IV must be among the most known track by Jarre, and it's gorgeous. I need to revisit that album. I have it somewhere in my homemade cds.
Album Rating: 4.0Great review and I'm glad you covered it. I'm not surprised, knowing that you dig Jarre's music.
Album Rating: 4.5I love his music but I reviewed cause it really needed one, I thought this was like universally considered an extremly popular album, so it was pretty weird it lacked a review
Album Rating: 4.0Still good the artist is in the data base. You have no idea how many known bands/albums I've added to the database in the few past years...
This had no review? Woah, you have done a service. Your spelling is perfect, although there's a few issues with sentence structure which I can message you about if you want. Good review all the same though :]
Album Rating: 4.0Good review. I have this on vinyl, but I haven't checked Equinoxe yet.
Album Rating: 4.5It sounds pretty similar to this one, maybe a little bit darker
i sympathize with the language barrier, and this is a great review for the most part.
my only criticism - i have trouble with this too - is that you tend to write really long sentences that are kind of hard to follow. the fourth paragraph, which is also the longest, is one sentence and a lot of the other paragraphs are too.
Album Rating: 4.0both albums have killer artwork
This guy's sound is ridiculously dated. I personally can't take it seriously, but he's undeniably an important artist.
In other words, great choice for a review!
Album Rating: 4.5Yeah I'd say this one has one of the most iconic artworks ever, even if I prefer Equinoxe's
Nice review SirLord. It reminds me that I need to listen to this album again. I really like this album and of Jarre. It's nice to have a review of this album and of this artist.
I particularly like of this expression:
"just like a cold air stream or the cold wind of a March morning."
You was particularly happy using it. It brings to your review a nice sense of poetry.
Very nice indeed. I really appreciated. Pos.
Album Rating: 4.5Thanks man, glad you enjoyed the review
great album and rev
Album Rating: 4.5thx m8
Album Rating: 5.0Great.
Your sentence structure is iffy sometimes, some of your paragraphs are only one sentence. If you want, I can try to give you a little help, see if it reads better.
"Jean Michel Jarre is one of those musicians that don't need (or at least shouldn't need) an introduction. One of the most important precursors of genres like electronic music, new age or ambient, he is, along with others like Brian Eno or Vangelis, one of the most creative minds that emerged in the 70's, and his magnum opus, Oxygene, is a cornerstone in modern music."
"Even when the ambient created in here is sublime, which works as the proof of the mature sound that Jarre managed to produce, it still feels happy, and even catchy at many points. That is probably one of the most interesting things about Oxygene. Creating such a mystical sound that at the same time could be played at a disco (using Part IV as an example) is certainly difficult to conceive, and even in the present day is a task that not many can recreate."
Plus, I'd split that "Oxygene deserves to be praised" into just two sentences, I'd probably use "Jarre established" as the beginning of the second sentence. Hope I could help you out.
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The boss of adventure destinations, Plettenberg Bay, is bringing out the big guns for a season of adventure in nature: brace yourself for the Plett HIGH FIVE, the best excuse to head to Plett from 21 – 28 September 2019.
Plett is the cross-country of adventure destinations in South Africa, arguably the world. With more than 30 adventures across the region, from the forests of Harkerville to the mountains of Tsitsikamma, Plett is the ultimate base camp from which to tackle the toughest, most insane adventures to be found.
Canyoning, abseiling, zip-lining, scuba and sky-diving, swimming with seals, quad biking, and, of course, leaping off the world's highest bungy bridge provide endless exhilaration in the exquisite wilderness of Plett.
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Your need-to-knows:
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Hey everybody, it's InterNERD time! We are back and this time we are bringing a sequel to a great subject. The original FOTI Comic Book Graffiti brought lots of rad urban art. Now we have even more amazing graffiti. Here are the coolest, nerdiest comic book graffiti I found on the InterNERD.
Spider-Man/Ghost Rider/Hulk Graffiti. A great Marvel montage of characters here. This was created by the awesome graffiti artist SEEN. Check out more of his art over at BigComicPage.
Hit-Girl Graffiti. The lethal tyke from Kick-Ass packs in a punch. This one is very Banksy-esque.
Judge Dredd Graffiti. I am the Law! Dredd is looking pretty enforced! This was created by graffiti artists Koze and Onion on a warehouse in Winsdor UK.
Venom Graffiti. This Venom is looking scary! Watch out Spider-Man it looks like Venom has been hitting the gym, or at least steroids.
Sin City Graffiti. This Sin City mural is sweet! Doesn't look like it's out on the street, but more on a wall inside. Created by Deviant Art's Mechanism0022, check out his gallery for more awesome graffiti.
Red Hulk Graffiti. The Red Hulk or 'Rulk' is done here with very stylized features. I want a Red Hulk movie some day, maybe after Planet Hulk.
Superhero Lunch Break Graffiti. This is amazing! It's like the Marvel and DC crews had lunch together on a high rise building construction. I tried to pinpoint who did this to no avail, I believe it's a real graffiti piece even though I saw a similar image on canvas.
Batman Graffiti. These are so cool, with a cool origin story as well. A couple in Belgium was exploring an abandoned building and stumbled on this amazing art! The artist PeteOne that made these masterpieces is undoubtedly a huge Batman fan.
Thanks for tuning in. Some incredible talents in the graffiti arts here! Have any comic book graffiti to share with us? Share them through our Facebook page. Like us so you are part of our community. Tune in next week to get your nerd fix.


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364872710Join me in a private group where we will work together to improve your lifestyle images. I will provide feedback on how to improve your images, plus ASSIGNMENTS to help you bring your vision to life. I'll be using some of MY images to help you find that Ah-ha moment that will transform your images to Works of Art! Let me be the voice in your ear that guides you to be the best you can be. Let's get it in gear and get this BOOTCAMP started!
Bootcamp will begin on September 9th and continue for 4 weeks. Every Monday I will introduce a new topic for the week. I will also post a Q & A thread in the group where you will be able to ask me questions about the topic for the week. Every Tuesday I will be supplying a video in which I discuss FIVE of MY images, and explain how and why I positioned the subjects, how I metered, etc. I will give you instructions on composing your lifestyle images, making your subjects comfortable in front of the camera, and how to naturally and beautifully capture the magic of your every day.
On Friday, you will submit your assignments. On Monday, I will provide a video in which I will spend up to an hour critiquing the images which you have submitted as assigned. On Week 4, I will post a Silent Edit of one of my lifestyle images, and we will have a weeklong editing bootcamp where I will critique your daily edits.
- Week 1: September 9 ………….Topic: Framing & Natural Posing
- Week 2: September 16 ………………..Topic: Angles, Metering, Lens Choice, Composition
- Week 3: September 23 ………………..Topic: Night & Low Light Shooting Indoors
- Week 4: September 30 ………………..Topic: Silent Edit & Critique
You will receive LIFETIME ACCESS to ALL of the Videos in this course.
There is NO requirement that you post images or that you participate in the discussions. You are free to just read the threads and enjoy the videos. We all learn at our own pace and in our own way. You can watch and follow along silently, if that is your preference.
The link to join the group will be available on the course page once you purchase the workshop. You will have to provide your email address AND secret code provided in order to join the Bootcamp Group! You will be approved individually, shortly BEFORE the bootcamp begins.
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Deipnophoroi, a sequence of short two-channel videos, explores how mothers prepare their children for the unutterable, translating into contemporary language
and anxieties an ancient Greek ritual in which women re-enacted comforting their children with stories as they send them to a certain, horrible fate.
Each video in this series represents a preparation: for death, enslavement, rape, being eaten by monsters. Each was created as a mini- collaboration between myself and another performing artist, dancer, choreographer or actor who is also a mother.
As such, the project—which is ongoing—begins to create a taxonomy of maternal language and strategies, well beyond normalized and toothless cliches of motherhood.
The first eight videos for Deipnophoroi were developed as an Artist-in-Residence project at the Grand Central Art Center with the generous support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, where it was on exhibition from October 2017 to February 2018.
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Jeri Lynn Cohen
Anne Galjour
Margo Hall
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One thing is a pity: he (Pissemsky) writes too fast. He writes much too fast, and much too much. A man should have more ambition, more respect for his talent and his craft, and more love for art. When one's young, ideas come crowding incredibly into one's head; but one should not capture each and all of them as it flies, and rush to give it forth. One should rather await the synthesis, and think more; wait till the many single details which make up an idea have gathered them-selves into a nucleus, into a large, imposing picture; then, and not till then, should one write them down. The colossal figures, created by the colossal writers, have often grown out of long, stubborn labour.
You said once, brother, that I had not read Schiller. You are mistaken. I have him by heart, I have spoken his speech and dreamed his dreams; and I believe that it was a peculiarly good stroke of luck that made me acquainted with the great poet in that special period of my life. I could never have learnt to know Schiller so well as precisely in those days.
But I have vowed to myself that, however hard it may go with me, I'll pull myself together, and in no circumstances will I work to order. Work done to order would oppress and blight me. I want each of my efforts to be incontrovertibly good. Just look at Pushkin and Gogol. Both wrote very little, yet both have deserved national memorials. Gogol now gets a thousand roubles a printed page, while Pushkin had, as you know well, as much as a ducat a line of verse. Both but particularly Gogol bought their fame at. the price of years of dire poverty.
Perhaps it will interest you to know what I do when I'm not writing well, I read. I read a great deal, and it has a curious effect on me. When I re-read anything that I knew years ago, I feel fresh powers in myself. I can pierce to the heart of the book, grasp it entire, and from it draw new confidence in myself.
My novel, which I simply can't break loose from, keeps me endlessly at work. If I had known beforehand how it would be, I should never have begun it at all. I decided to do it all over again, and, by God! that has improved it a lot. Now I'm ready with it once more, and this revision is really the last. I have given myself my word not to touch it again. After all, it's the fate of all first books to be altered over and over again. I don't know whether Chateaubriand's `Atala' was his first book, but I do know that he rewrote it seventeen times. Pushkin did just the same with quite short poems. Gogol used to polish away at his wonderful works for two years at a time, and if you have read the `Sentimental journey,' that witty book by Sterne, you'll very likely remember what Walter Scott, in his article on Sterne, says with reference to Sterne's servant, La Fleur. La Fleur declared that his master had filled about two hundred quires of paper with the description of his journey through France. Now, the question is, What became of all that paper? The result was a little book, for writing which a parsimonious person (such as, for example, Plyushkin) would have used half a quire.
Everybody looks upon me as a wonder of the world. If I but open my mouth, the air resounds with what Dostoevsky said, what Dostoevsky means to do. Bielinski loves me unboundedly. The writer Turgeniev, who has just returned from Paris, has from the first been more than friendly; and Bielinski declares that Turgeniev has quite lost his heart to me. T. is a really splendid person! I've almost lost my own heart to him. A highly gifted writer, an aristocrat, handsome, rich, intelligent, cultured, and only twenty-five I really don't know what more he could ask from fate. Besides all that, he has an unusually upright, fine, well-disciplined nature. Do read his story, `Audrey Kolossov,' in the Otetchestvennia Zapiski. The hero is himself, though he did not intend to depict his own character.
As for myself, I was for some time utterly discouraged. I have one terrible vice: I am unpardonably ambitious and egotistic. The thought that I had disappointed all the hopes set on me, and spoilt what might have been a really significant piece of work, depressed me very heavily. The thought of `Goliadkin' made me sick. I wrote a lot of it too quickly, and in moments of fatigue. The first half is better than the second. Alongside many brilliant passages are others so disgustingly bad that I can't read them myself.


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Wolfgang Puck's Chinese restaurant in Bahrain is gearing up for a celebration to remember as it plans for a Year of the Rooster celebration on January 27.
The already impressive venue will be enhanced by a live market atmosphere at Re/Asian Cuisine and the neighbouring Blue Moon Lounge. Executive chef Brian Becher and his team have created a special menu for the New Year celebration.
A set menu with chicken and wagyu beef soup dumplings, whole roasted duck, lamb with tangerine puree and shrimp XO dumplings. Live cooking stations will serve special dumplings, crisp lamb belly and dishes to represent the five blessings of New Year - longevity, riches, peace, wisdom and virtue. That all sounds good to us, but we'll be happy just to indulge in the green tea ice cream and sweet fruit dumplings with pear, tangerine and toasted sesame.
The Re/Asian Cuisine Night Market will run for one night only on Friday, January 27 from 6pm to Midnight. The price for the evening is BD32 including selected beverages.
If you can't make the night market there will be tasting menus from January 27 to February 8. The five or seven course dinners and dim sum plate with chiu chow, dan dan and XO shrimp dumplings, wagyu beef pot stickers, Hong Kong style black bass served with shitake mushrooms. The menus are priced at BHD 35 (five-course menu) and BHD 50 (seven-course menu). Regular a la carte items will also be available.
For more information visit www.fourseasons.com (1711 5000).


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After the low point I described at the end of the last post, I just treaded water for a while. I went back to school, but to a local college this time. I decided on a simpler major and a lighter course load. The fear and anxiety quickly returned at orientation. I had to wear sunglasses and a hat indoors as a shield just to have enough courage to enter the building on my first day. If it would have been socially acceptable to wear a mask, I would have. In fact, if I had a functional suit of Iron Man armor I might never be afraid to go anywhere again. That need dissipated for some time, but would come back even stronger at a later time. Most of the students in my program were much older than me, so I didn't have the fear that came from the pressure of associating with young people.
Eventually, I became well enough to add a part-time job to my schedule. I got hired as a bank teller. It was mostly manageable, except there were times when fear enveloped me due to confrontations with rude, impatient, and pompous customers. I couldn't please everyone, despite wanting very much to do so to keep the peace. Several bank transactions required assistance from a more senior teller to authorize. Unfortunately, the senior teller could not always drop whatever she was doing to help me immediately. So, the customer would have to wait a minute until I could be helped. Once in a while a customer would have no patience for this. As one customer got upset about waiting, I tried to placate her by saying I understood how she felt and that I totally felt the same way. I was afraid of the anger being taken out specifically on me, so my automatic response was to try and sound like I was on her side. On the inside I was screaming for help and wanted to run away and hide somewhere. I felt all the blood rush to my face, my hands shake, my heart rate spike, my breathing become shallow and quick, my face sweat, and I was losing my patience too. I wanted to disappear.
Another customer wanted to cash a check from another bank, but could not comprehend that identification was needed to protect against fraud. When asked, she said something along the lines of, "I don't need to show you any ID! Do you know who I am?" She went on to say how she was from a powerful, upper class, and respected family. Her clothing, dental work, and overall appearance seemed to contradict that. She did not give the impression she had mob connections of any kind; just elitism. I had never heard of nor met this woman in my life, yet she felt so important she couldn't bear the thought of another person not following her every command, no questions asked. That stoked both fear and anger in me. I was on the precipice of doing something that would surely have resulted in disciplinary action or worse. It took the intervention of a customer service representative who had opened the woman's account to vouch for her. When I asked for ID of a different customer to cash his check, he said I was very rude and began to storm off. I was very stressed at that moment and could not completely bite my tongue. I simply replied, "No. I'm not." Fortunately, he did not turn back around and start trouble. If he had, I could not have restrained myself from getting into a fight. Everyone who has worked in customer service has had to deal with difficult customers. But, when your mental state is such that every negative interaction with someone is internalized you will find your ability to maintain a professional demeanor greatly diminished. It's like having someone flick your ear repeatedly or having a mosquito or gnat constantly flying around your head. If it goes on for long enough, you will break.
Sometimes when I felt very stressed and afraid, I would accidentally blurt things out loudly even though I didn't mean to. And no, I don't have Tourette's syndrome. Thank heavens I didn't say anything that was close to a fireable offense. It just made for some raised eyebrows. For example, maybe I emphasized the "you" in "thank you" way too much or yelled to a customer I was acquainted with just to say hello. I may have had responses that sounded odd like, "a good day to you good sir" or something. Eventually a quota was added for the number of bank products each employee had to sell per month. I was scared to death when I had to stand alone in the lobby and ask every customer who entered if they would like to try our new low interest loan. Every customer who passed by without even a "no thanks" or an "I'm good" felt like a personal rejection of me. Of course, I didn't have the highest sales numbers because of my timidity. After adding an extra class to my course load it all became too much for me to handle. So, I resigned.
When I got my A.A. degree, I was inspired to keep going and get a Bachelor's degree. But, I had no intention of moving away to do it. I was not willing to risk falling back into the deep abyss of depression and having to be hospitalized because of self-harm or a suicide attempt. So, I found a program online that let me do all my assignments from home. While I was doing that I worked for a while as a massage therapist, which I'd been certified in when working toward my A.A., and later raking leaves and mowing grass. After graduating, I found and began an online graduate program in animal behavior. But, by then I was burnt out on education and no longer had the motivation to keep going. But, I still wanted to help animals in some capacity. I had the idea to become a dog trainer, so I entered a program to learn. I have always loved dogs and wanted to help the ones that had behavior issues to change so they could stay in their homes or be adopted. I completed it right at the time my parents and I moved away from the home I had lived in from birth to age 26.


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Thursday, June 27, 2019 The Wenatchee Swingin' Big Band
The Wenatchee Swingin' Big Band was formed over 36 years ago by fans and musicians from the Big Band Era. The 22 piece big band is a Wenatchee Valley College partner ensemble. Without a doubt, the Wenatchee Swingin' Big Band is the most requested Northwest Big Band with a very strong local and regional draw.
Formed in 1981 the Wenatchee Swingin' Big Band has become an active member of this region's arts community, giving new life to the classic melodies made famous by such giants as Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Count Basie and Duke Ellington.
The civic minded band plays to enthusiastic audiences throughout North Central Washington at concerts and festivals.
Tickets: https://www.rlstickets.com/category-s/1820.htm
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Yeah as Edmond points out it's multiple cameras.
He also specifically mentioned that it takes forever to edit the three in-car cameras (one on each presenter) together, plus of course they've got other external ones etc.
^^ yeah, that makes sense
What a borefest that first episode was. Same old tired formula but in boats across Cambodia and Vietnam.
Bingeing this now....its fakkin brutal..
Gangs of London (TV Series 2020– ) - IMDb
^ IMDb says 11 episodes, but I think there are only 9?
How many are there?
Got Gangs of London lined up for later.
As a hard arsed Gangster wide boy myself I think I will like this TV series.
^ Watched the first half hour. Looks promising.
No drive-by shootings by a tough guy on an electric bike yet.
Favourite series:
Peaky Blinders
Worst shite I've ever seen (I managed one episode):
Money Heist
Me too
The series is set to air all nine episodes in the UK on the 23 April 2020 on Sky Atlantic, and in the US on Cinemax.
Directed by: Gareth Evans (3 episodes); Corin Hardy (3 episodes); Xavier Gens (3 e...
No. of episodes: 9 (list of episodes)
Original network: Sky Atlantic (UK); Cinemax (US)
Original release: 23rd April 2020 –; - Present
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Gangs of London (TV series) - Wikipedia
Cheers guys.
Got all 9 downloaded and ready to roll.
Gangs of London
Action, Crime, Drama | TV Series (2020– )
Episode Guide
10 episodes
IMDb now says 10 episodes for some strange reason (did say 11 earlier) - Gangs of London (TV Series 2020– ) - IMDb
Downloaded something I haven't watched or heard of before - Westworld.
Billions season 5 has started
Got halfway through episode 1 of gangs of London. It's 1 and a half hours FFS. Wasn't gripping enough so had a wank and a nap instead.
'Gangs of London' just seemed to be violence and very little else. I watched E01 but don't think I'll bother with the rest.
'Bosch' season 2 & 3 both seem to be much better than season 1 imo. A solid 7.5 for both.
The New Seinfield stand up is...err...up.
The first 30 minutes is funny stuff. The second 30 nowhere near as good.
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My first selection for National Poetry Month is a poem by American poet Kenneth Koch that I think is very relevant to my current stage in life, and I believe it would be prudent for most people to pay attention to its message as well.
Social Life, With Friends
-poem by Kenneth Koch
You want a social life, with friends.
A passionate love life and as well
to work hard every day. What's true
is of these three you may have two
and two can pay you dividends.
But never may have three.
There isn't time enough, my friends-
though dawn begins and midnight ends-
to find the time to have love, work, and friends.
Michelangelo had feeling
for Vittoria and the Ceiling
but did he go to parties at day's end?
Homer nightly went to banquets
wrote all day but had no lockets
bright with pictures of his Girl.
I know one who loves and parties
and has done so since his thirties
but writes hardly anything at all.
A long long time ago, back in college, my ex and I had a conversation about this poem. She refused to believe or accept it. She wholeheartedly wanted to prove it wrong and tried to hold onto anything and everything. I guess in a way she never outgrew that hopelessly optimistic perspective, for better or for worse. I never had a problem with seeing the world in this way. But I think that's because, and you should all understand this, this is not a particularly negative or hopeless opinion. It's a strangely unique perspective I think characteristic of a certain majority that not having it all means not having enough. That to be necessarily 'missing out' on one aspect is somehow indicative of a life not lived fully. But having 'two can pay you dividends', remember? It's not about ability, or even capacity. It's about time and effort and passion. You cannot feasibly be one-hundred percent committed to one hundred things. So rather than focus on what I may not have (as I was wont to do in the beginning of this all), I've learned to love what I do. I have no love right now. But I write more than I ever have. And though my friends and I are not as close, I still have a healthy and happy social life, supplemented with social gatherings like this weekend with new groups of new people, taking myself out to do the things I love and meet people along the way, and appreciating the people I do have in my life when they are there. How could I say I am incomplete, unsatisfied, or underachieving?
Not having it all is not the same as having nothing. And instead of focusing on the missing third, we can shift our perspective to understand and appreciate what we do have. In all reality, if or when I find someone, to give her the attention and care and love that we both desire and deserve, I will need to make time for her. Make room for her. And there simply isn't enough, my friends. Right now I am focused on my career and furthering it and maybe changing or moving it. I am writing and learning and growing. I am socializing and meeting. It is a good fit for who I am and what stage of life I currently am in. These things shift and change, and though we may never have all three at the same time, there is nothing stopping us from happily and enthusiastically pursuing two at a time and feeling the benefit and satisfaction of that pursuit. Take this not as a warning, or even as a negative outlook. If anything, ever since realizing these three major aspects of life and how they work in contrast and comparison, I am much more at ease and find it easier to enjoy what I do have. I'm not trying too hard running around trying to hold onto everything.
Please, enjoy.
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Man: 236 Loneliness: 33


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I don't do pork steaks very often, preferring bone in chops better. Most of the time the steaks are grilled until browned and then braised for up to 3 hours. I read a new method where they were grilled hot and fast. He was using ¾ inch thick steaks, mine were just ½ inch so I reduced the times some.
I heated my Weber Spirit to 400 deg. med. Heat. I had the steaks coated with Jack Stacks meat and poultry rub after dry brining in the fridge for an hour. They were in the fridge for 1 ½ hours after seasoning. I did them for 6 minutes per side then sauced with Kah's BBQ sauce and did them another 3 minutes per side.
In the mean time my wife was browning up some Or Ida hash browns and we had applesauce for a side too. Fried potatoes and applesauce are our favorite sides for pork chops.
The pork steaks were nice and brown and had juice on top. I let them rest about 5 minutes before eating. It all tasted great, a good flavor and not too tough, a new way to do pork steaks for me. I did like the Jack Stack's rub.
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How to Cook Venison – The Ultimate Guide is your one stop to learn everything there is to know about cooking venison! From processing, to sourcing and cooking various cuts of deer meat, you will know everything there is to know! Complete with over 50 recipes!
Have you always wanted to learn about cooking venison? Venison is a protein that has been eaten since paleo times! It is healthy and delicious, if you know the secrets to cooking it properly! We will give you over 50 recipes from some of the worlds' most reknowned venison chefs! Plus a whole lot of useful information to make you an expert too!
What is Venison?
Venison comes the Latin verb venari, or 'to hunt', according to D'Artagnan. In that context, venison can be applied to boar, rabbit, hare, moose, elk, caribou and a few others. The term most often refers to the deer meat. It can also refer to any specific cut of the animal, as with beef and pork, different cuts are referred to with different terms. For instance, loin or filet, bottom round, top round, flank, etc.
In different areas of the world, the regulations differ. In most American states, there are specific times of the year that deer can be taken. These are usually in the fall, after the fawns are mature enough to survive for themselves and before the winter, when food is less plentiful.
In many areas, it is essential to hunt deer to reduce the populations! Loss of habitat due to human encroachment on their territories has played a huge role in over population of deer herds in many areas. If populations are not reduced the entire herd will suffer from starvation, during the winter. Car accidents are a large danger to deer and motor vehicle users in most areas, as well, especially when a herd is overpopulated.
There are also diseases and pests that will be more prevalent in an overpopulated herd. In the northeast, pests, like deer ticks are quite dangerous to humans, they are carriers of lyme disease.
Is Venison Healthy?
This question is, as they say, relative. Comparatively speaking, venison has almost half the fat of beef and more protein! It also contains almost no saturated fat. It is high is iron, niacin, vitamin B6, and riboflavin, according to Outdoor Life.
Deer meat has, again, about half of the calories, and less than 1/4 total fat, compared to pork, according to the USDA National Nutrition Database.
That being said, venison is still a "red meat" and does contain cholestrol (about 30% of the RDV per serving). It is suggested that we only eat red meat a few times per week.
With the grocery store shelves teeming with "grass feed", "no antibiotic" beef and pork, of late, it a clear choice to go with venison as an alternative. In my particular area, the deer feed heavily on apples and residual corn and soybeans, left in farmers' fields, after the harvest. In other areas, deer feed heavily on nuts, and berries. They are about as organic as you can get.
Deer Meat Processing
Proper processing of the deer meat is terribly important. Not only for taste of the finished product, but for food safety, as well. Field dressing should be done immediately. Make sure you are knowledgable in this art. Here is a good YouTube video to get you started.
Aging Deer Meat – Dry Aged vs. Wet Aged
There is much debate whether aging helps tenderize the meat. We are convinced that it aids in tenderizing the meat. Aging breaks down collagen and connective tissues in the meat, as this article from RealTree explains in more depth. There are 2 methods for aging meat. Dry aging and wet aging. Both types of aging should be done for 2 to 7 days. Larger bucks could take up to 14 days. After aging, the meat should cut into different cuts, packaged, labelled and frozen, if not consumed within a short period of time.
Dry Aging
The thing is, you need to have a clean area, protected from animals, cold enough, below 40°F and above 32°F, to hang the deer. If you do not have this, you could dedicate a refrigerator to aging deer for the season and quarter the deer, leaving it loosely wrapped and storing in the refrigerator. When dry aging the outer layer of meat will dry out and should be cut off and discarded.
Wet Aging
Wet aging serves the same purpose, but is done in vacuum sealed bags to maintain the moisture levels. We prefer dry aging, but in years when the weather is too warm, we have wet aged deer, as well.
When cutting the deer into specific cuts, have a clean workspace, clean, sharp tools and clean hands, or food grade gloves. Vacuum pack or wrap the cuts immediately, label them, and get them into the freezer!
When you are ready to cook a cut. Remove it from the freezer a day or two ahead of time and thaw it in the refrigerator, to minimize any harmful bacteria that can grow at room temperature.
Why Does Some Venison Taste Gamey?
Deer meat quality depends on two different, but related factors. Topography and food sources. The main source of food in the deer population around your local area, will have a large effect on the flavor of your venison. Deer that have to work harder for sustenance can have a tougher texture, than deer populations that have plentiful food sources.
Deer taken in a flat topography, will ultimately be more tender. These deer generally feed on corn, beans and fruits and will have less gamey taste. Deer taken in areas, where there are lots of mountains and woods have a tougher texture, the gamey flavor comes mostly because they eat acorns and evergreens. As a result, tougher deer may need special treatment, sometimes, to remove the gamey taste and/ or tougher texture.
How to Remove Gamey Taste From Deer Meat
Because of the low fat content of deer meat, special care must be taken to ensure that the venison does not dry out and the flavor is not gamey.
General Rules for Cooking all Types of Venison
- Always use a good quality meat thermometer and test for doneness.
- Do not cook over 135°F, except when slow cooking deer meat
- Practice safe raw food handling procedures! ie: process properly, freeze immediately, thaw under refrigeration.
- Let meat come to room temperature for about 30 minutes, especially when quick cooking, such as baking, pan frying or grilling..
- Tenderizing cuts from larger deer, with meat mallet can help, especially loin and tender roast cuts.
Quick Cooking Deer Meat
It is especially true that different techniques must be used, when quick cooking the meat. When making kebabs, stir fries and sandwiches, the best way to ensure tender, great tasting meat is to soak, or marinate the meat. Milk, buttermilk, vinegars and vinegar/ oil based marinades all work well for this. Salt is also a good tenderizer, when applied hours or a day, or so, prior to cooking. This Venison Teriyaki is a good example. Marinate in refrigerator, if marinating longer than 30 minutes, or so.
Dishes like burgers, meatloaf, meatballs and other fast cooking recipes require added fat, again, because of the low fat content in the meat.
Types of Fat to Choose
- pork fat
- bacon
- beef fat, our favorite, we use steak trimmings from our local butcher
- butter or oil added to meat
- cheeses
How Much Fat to Use
Obviously, the more fat you use, the less healthy the meat becomes. For ground recipes, we use a mixture of 80% venison and 20% steak fat. That is the percentage that gives burgers and meatballs the perfect texture and flavor, while still being able to taste the venison and maintaining as much of the healthy aspect as we can.
Make sure both the fat and the deer meat are ice cold before grinding. It is also beneficial to freeze the grinder attachments and sausage stuffers. This way you avoid most of the bad pathogens that can infect the meat, when it warms up.
We usually freeze the meat for an hour or two, so that it is ice cold!
Work quickly when grinding meat and wear clean, food safe gloves. Once meat is ground, refrigerate or freeze immediately!
**Pro Tip** Only grind enough meat for a few servings. Ground meat tends to freezer burn faster than large chunks. When processing the deer, save any meat that is destined to be ground in separate bags, labelled as such. Then grind as needed throughout the year. The meat will have a better flavor, ultimately.
How to Cook Venison, Ground Venison Recipes
When you grind your venison you open up so many possibilties! Meatballs, burgers, chilies, casseroles, sausages and more!
Mix deer meat with fat at your preferred ratio, using recommendations above. Add any flavorings that you prefer. Handle the meat as little as possible to maintain the texture and not make the meat tough. The addition of raw eggs or milk/ buttermilk can help with burger that tends to be dry. Also adding cheese to the meat will increase the juiciness of the ground meat.
Spices to Use for Burgers, Meatballs, Sausages
- garlic
- oregano
- Italian Seasoning
- basil
- parsley
- coriander
- cumin
- paprika
- hot pepper
- thyme
- rosemary
- fennel
- pepper
- salt
Here are some delicious recipes using ground deer meat.
How to Cook Venison, Burgers
See all of the notes in the above section for ground venison recipes. They all pertain to burgers, as well.
Do NOT overcook!! Cooking venison burgers to well done, or even medium well, is a recipe for disaster. If you prefer your meat not to be pink in the middle, cook until medium rare, or medium (125°F- 135°F) and let rest thoroughly, at least 5 minutes. All of the pink color will drain away and you will have perfect, juicy burgers!!
Here are some delicious burger recipes from some of the worlds' preeminent authorities on the subject!
Grilled Venison Recipes
Grilling Venison is another quick cooking technique that may require marinating or the addition of added fats! You have to save some venison to cook on the grill in the summer! I know it's difficult, but take my word for it, save some! It is so delicious! Yum!
How to Cook Venison, Loin, Tenderloin and Backstrap Recipes
The loin of the deer, similar to cow or pig, are one of the best cuts of meat on the entire deer. No matter where the deer has foraged, this cut is tender and has very little fat! When cooking loins, it is, again, imperative not to overcook the meat!
How to Cook Venison – Slow Cooking
Now Venison Stews are maybe the ultimate in Fall comfort foods! Slow cooked and braised recipes lend themselves well to deer meat. Less fat is required, because they cook for a longer period of time, and they become fork tender! Some of the tougher roasts from the back legs can be used for these dishes.
Venison Chilies
Venison Chilies are the other category that are the epitome of comfort food! Spicy, hearty, one-pot meals!
Venison Steaks and Roasts
I usually save most of our back legs roasts whole and freeze them. The meat has less of a tendency to freezer burn! Here is where there is huge opportunity to get creative! There is a ton of creativity in the recipes below!
Venison Recipes – Other Venison Recipes
Venison Jerky is one of the first recipes that many hunters learn! It is easy and can be done in the oven, in a smoker or in a commercial dehydrator. It is one of the first ways that I learned to cook venison (that I actually liked! My, how times change! 😂)
Sourcing Venison for Non-hunters
More and more high end butcher shops and grocers are carrying venison these days. With the demand for grass fed and Non GMO foods, venison is a good alternative to beef and other traditional meat proteins. Many states will not allow the sale of wild deer meat, to protect the populations. There are many farms raising venison now. So it is becoming slightly easier to source. If all else fails, there are some reputable online merchants, who ship it frozen to you.
Online Sources For Venison
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- Ground Venison
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- Stew Meat
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- Venison Medallions
Venison is a low fat, all natural, organic alternative to purchasing beef, pork, lamb, or other land mammals. Venison has been eaten since Paleo times and can be cooked in a variety of ways, with numerous methods!
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Kylie Cosmetics had its fair share of #summersuprises, but it seems as though Kylie Jenner may have some fall surprises for fans as well. On Friday, Jenner's Kylie Cosmetics surprise restock was announced via an e-mail blast to fans. While things had been quiet on the Kylie Cosmetics front, it definitely seems to be changing as of Friday, and it's all beginning with the cosmetics mogul restocking two of her sold-out shades.
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How much did you drink this festive season? Between end-of-year work parties, Christmas festivities and New Year's celebrations, your liver probably had quite a workout. Regardless, now's a good time to adopt healthier behaviour with regards to alcohol consumption. You may have heard that alcohol-based shampoos are bad for your hair, but did you know drinking alcohol can also damage your locks?
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Charles Jahleal Boatner ( born January 23, 1849 in Columbia, Caldwell Parish, Louisiana, † March 21, 1903 in New Orleans, Louisiana ) was an American politician. Between 1889 and 1897 he represented the state of Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Charles Boatner attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1870 admitted to the bar he began to work in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1876 and 1878 he sat in the Senate from Louisiana.
In the congressional elections of 1888 Boatner in the fifth electoral district of Louisiana was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Cherubusco Newton on March 4, 1889. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1895 three legislative periods. He was also re-elected in 1894 and entered another term in the House of Representatives on March 4, 1895. However, the election was contested. The Congress declared on March 20, 1896 the seat vacant and ordered new elections. This won Boatner, who could then take his seat again on 10 June 1896. By the end of the legislature on March 3, 1897, he remained a member of Congress.
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"so. are you doing anything? are you going to be going back to work?"
she asks and i feel irresponsible because i haven't thought about working for money in months. i stumble around and say no. i explain myself. i give reasons for living the life i do, making the choices we make and keep feeling smaller and smaller.
when the clothes of mothering were too tight i sat awkward most days and wanted to do something else, anything else. that kind of question sunk me for weeks.
what do i do?
its worth is not so high as strangers can peek in and casually suggest that i better pick up a few hours here or there, you know, just so that…i'm doing something.
i wake up after a night of being sick. joshua is out of town and i'm walking down the steps. i have to stop half way. abe sits down beside me and i tell him i threw up in the night and i feel really awful and dad isn't here and i'm going to need his help. i'm going to need him to help me with breakfast. i'm going to need him to help me get the girls out the door.
"mom." he answers. "you've asked the right person."
i wonder at the unquestionable reasonableness of any other endeavor.
if i tell people i am working part-time selling shoes, it would mean more than cooking my family dinner.
if i said i was picking up a shift at starbucks, i might get an approving nod.
instead i trail behind children bundled up puffy and scarfed. i sit by the fire and go over homework. i meet a friend for coffee with toddlers in tow. i go to the grocery store. i write a blog. i paint a room. i encourage a man. i tell kids of their worth. i learn kindness. i drink too much coffee. i do the laundry. i sit lazy on the bed with cozy girls and read books. i'm at home. i stay at home.
why does making a home mean so little? is it only because it pays so little?
in any case, i don't mind so much this time. when she first asks the question, i'm confused.
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i don't know what she means. i stare blank and she clarifies.
"are you going to be going back to work?"
oh. oh right. you think i should do something else. something better. something more.
he puts the oatmeal in the bowls and he pulls out the brown sugar.
"come on, girls! brush your teeth! we gotta go!" he calls.
he dishes up ella's scrambled eggs and i can only sit on the stool in the kitchen and hold my pounding head in my hands.
"thanks abe." i say weakly.
he looks back from the silverware drawer.
"anything for you mom."
i am paid for my labor. i've been giving my life to my family and sitting there in need of help in the morning, my son offers his life unreservedly right back.
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This August, James Kirkpatrick was chosen to paint a 40 x 25 foot spray-painted mural on the Dundas side of the building owned by the Michael Gibson Gallery. Located at the main intersection of downtown London, the large mural transforms the busy corner.
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And then! Do you know an exceptional global health leader or collaborator? Nominate that person for a 2019 Pioneers Award—Rising Leader, Award for Impact, or Outstanding Global Health Collaboration—before May 10.
Pass the kale chips, please
A new study from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation finds that poor diet kills more people globally than tobacco or high blood pressure.
The upside is that eating better can prevent one in five deaths worldwide. Locally, the International Rescue Committee is helping through its Namaste Farm Stand, where newcomers can sell fresh fruits and veggies—grown at the Namaste Community Garden—and you can eat the rainbow.
Measles misery
A 300% increase. While we may want to see that kind of growth in some places, infectious disease isn't one of them. New data from the World Health Organization shows measles outbreaks are surging nearly 300% globally, with Madagascar bearing the brunt.
While a big global challenge is access, a big domestic challenge is attitude. In our own backyard, Washington's legislature is reconsidering the vaccine philosophy exemption. A bill to remove the exemption passed the House, and an amended version just passed the Senate on Wednesday. The Senate bill will go back to the House—if passed, it will go to Governor Inslee's desk.
Front page worthy
Washington's global health work is making national news:
- New York Times: Cheap antibiotics are fueling antimicrobial resistance in Kenya, where Washington State University researchers Sylvia Adhiambo Omulo and Guy Palmer are working to stay ahead of resistance.
- Project Syndicate: Panorama's Gabrielle Fitzgerald and Rockefeller Foundation Fellow Peter Small lay out a visionary path for how Seattle can disrupt tuberculosis with tech and global health sectors playing on the same team. Humblebrag: Gabrielle is also WGHA's board chair.
- Fast Company: Reminding us that global is local, the Tableau Foundation connects its work to eliminate malaria in Zambia to ending chronic homelessness in the United States.
Double down
Two WGHA member organizations are launching new efforts to take down malaria. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is funding a mapping project to help pinpoint where malaria is and target efforts where it can have the biggest impact. And Malaria No More's colleagues in the UK helped launch the first-ever voice petition (complete with celebrities like David Beckham) to tell leaders #MalariaMustDie so millions can live.
Looking for a way you can get involved this World Malaria Day? Add your voice to the mix!
The University of Washington (UW) School of Nursing and partners are bringing home the global promise of Nursing Now through the new Nursing Now USA initiative. Both the global and domestic campaigns strengthen nursing to achieve a triple impact—improve health, promote gender equality, and support economic growth.
In other UW news, our friends at the UW School of Medicine just won $45 million through The Audacious Project to develop a lifetime flu vaccine.
WHO gets digital
Digital health is moving at high speed with the release of the first-ever World Health Organization (WHO) digital health guideline, designed to ensure that new technology moves us closer to health equity and good information. PATH and other partners supported the framing and development of WHO's recommendations. Now if only someone could write one for how to choose a global mobile data plan.
Around town
- April 25: Join Global Washington to learn about building water systems that last.
- April 26–28: Attend Western Washington University's 15th annual student-led Regional Global Health Conference, featuring activist Festus Ibanda Kisa.
- May 2: Join yours truly for WGHA's annual mixer—ADJUevent! We only have one mixer a year, and it's guaranteed to be a blast—food, drinks, a surprise guest, and a raffle giveaway for School of Rock at the Paramount Theatre. Get your ticket today.
- May 4: Sign up for World Vision's Global 6K for Water and walk or run locally to provide clean water globally.
- May 14: Join Washington State University's (WSU's) Felix Lankester at Science in the City to learn about rabies in the Serengeti and WSU's new vaccination trial.
- May 18: Celebrate 75 years of Bloodworks Northwest and help raise money to save lives while dancing, grabbing a drink, and listening to live music at this annual ball.
"For me, global health is public health without boundaries and borders."
– Ahoua Koné, Health Alliance International, speaking at the Q2 gathering
of Women in Global Health Seattle
Ahoua and fellow panelists talked about their individual paths to global health and the value of being and having mentors along the way to a full house at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. #WGHSeattle
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Where does your fund manager invest?
PUBLISHED: 14:19 18 October 2019 | UPDATED: 14:19 18 October 2019
Fund managers rarely seek fame, but you should examine where they invest, says financial columnist Peter Sharkey.
City fund managers tend not to be high-profile types chased by paparazzi when emerging from a trendy Mayfair club at 3am in the company of two procedurally-enhanced blondes. In fact, considering the average fund manager starts work before 7am, there's a strong probability he or she will be tucked up in bed well before midnight.
Fame is for footballers, actors, models, game show hosts, not fund managers, despite their comparative wealth and ability to successfully invest on behalf of millions of others.
Occasionally, however, a fund manager performs so well, his or her returns are so good, their reputation so revered, that investors flock to them like bees to honey.
Neil Woodford became one such manager: not famous, just very, very good. His long-term investment performance while employed at City fund managers Invesco Perpetual could only be described as stellar.
Had you invested £1,000 with Mr Woodford at the start of his Invesco Perpetual career, it would have been worth £25,000 by the time he left to establish his own business 26 years later. Lots of folks did just that: by April 2014, when Mr Woodford decided to plough his own furrow, he was directly responsible for the management of almost £24 billion worth of investments.
Not surprisingly, once Woodford Investment Management LLP opened its front doors a year later, thousands of investors and billions of pounds flowed into the company's coffers with the express intention of it being overseen by Mr Woodford. This huge injection of cash was driven primarily by Mr Woodford's reputation as an outstanding manager of other people's money.
For several years, the good times continued to roll and investors fortunate enough to follow Mr Woodford from Invesco Perpetual, or invest based upon is star-studded reputation, enjoyed returns which some years exceeded 20%.
In March, however, as investment returns began to slow, the Sunday Times undertook an 'investigation' into where Mr Woodford's funds and investment trusts were actually invested.
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Where once Mr Woodford's large-scale funds would invest primarily in colossal FTSE100 companies, the Sunday Times found that the percentage of his client's money invested in these blue-chip organisations had fallen below 20%. The newspaper claimed that more than a fifth was invested in the junior, riskier, Alternative Investment Market (AIM), while large sums had been invested in a variety of even smaller firms, ie private companies with no stock market listing.
There's nothing inherently wrong in investing in private, unquoted firms, or AIM, or outside of the FTSE 100, far from it, but for all his brilliance, perhaps Mr Woodford underestimated his clients' appetite for risk.
Once it became apparent that one of his most popular funds owned much riskier assets than many investors preferred, the rate at which withdrawals were made from the fund began to accelerate. By June, such was the outward flow of cash that investors were prevented from withdrawing money from the Woodford Equity Income Fund. In many respects, this marked the beginning of the end for Mr Woodford's operations. On Tuesday, he was sacked from his role as manager of the flagship fund by administrators charged with winding it up and returning all assets to investors. The following day he announced that the last two remaining funds operating under the Woodford Investment Management umbrella would be wound down in "an orderly fashion".
Is this a tale of hubris, over-ambition, or plain bad luck? Mr Woodford was certainly unlucky as several of his investments turned unexpectedly sour, but can we blame him for wanting to run his own show after a quarter century as a paid employee?
From an investor's perspective, however, the picture looks a little different.
Investing with a high-profile manager who runs a limited number of funds can prove enormously successful, as anyone who has invested with Terry Smith's Fundsmith over the past decade would confirm.
But cautious investors would maintain that the collapse of Neil Woodford's operation highlights the good sense in spreading risk. Though a single fund manager can experience difficulties, it's unlikely that eight or ten of them will do so at the same time. Which is where investing with a manager who runs a variety of portfolios specifically suited to cautious, balanced, or adventurous investors, for instance, makes enormous sense.
A portfolio will likely consist of half a dozen different funds with similar aims (caution, balance, adventure etc), which can make the selection process much easier for most investors. By contrast, putting all of your eggs in one basket, even when the person managing those eggs enjoys a stellar reputation, can prove riskier than you may first imagine.
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The start of my #NYFW journey couldn't have been better!
I started off Uptown on the Upper East side, attending Lisa Perry's elegant in store show where I met Departures Fashion Editor Amanda Ross. Then I headed off to the Veronica Beard presentation where I met CNN Presenter, Alina Cho looking fabulous! Then finished off my first day, at Lulu Frost's collection party where I posed for pictures with my girl crush Hannah Bronfman's BFF Chelsea Leyland who was sporting some serious haute Jimmy Choo's.
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Markets hit new record highs amid U.S.-China trade talk optimism.
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4:05 p.m. ET: U.S. markets close at record highs
The Dow crossed 28,000 for the first time ever.
S&P 500 (^GSPC): +23.8 points, or 0.7%
Dow (^DJI): +222.9 points, or 0.8%
Nasdaq (^IXIC): +61.8 points, or 0.7%
Highlight: The Dow tops 28,000 for the first time. "It's an incredible market, there's no anxiety right now," @nyse trader @einsteinowallst says. "These records, I think, are significant. ... For me, these are milestones, these are landmarks." https://t.co/Jb7k9twFHf pic.twitter.com/AIig8Q5WMv— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) November 15, 2019
3:30 p.m. ET: T-Mobile CEO John Legere reportedly not interested in WeWork gig
CNBC reports that T-Mobile CEO John Legere will not be taking over as CEO of WeWork, a position vacated by controversial co-founder Adam Neumann. Earlier this week, WSJ first reported that Legere was in discussions to take the job.
T-Mobile (TMUS) shares jumped by nearly 2.5% on the news.
3:25 p.m. ET: Healthcare stocks surge
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren unveiled an update to her plan for healthcare, which would involve a "transition" to "Medicare for all."
Here's Yahoo Finance's Rick Newman: "Warren's transition plan would allow anybody over 50 to pay to join Medicare, with free coverage for all kids under 18 and anybody earning less than 200% of the federal poverty level, which is around $51,000 for a family of four. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts hasn't estimated the cost of this expanded coverage, but she said previously she'd pay for Medicare for all with new wealth taxes on families with fortunes of $50 million or more and new business taxes. Businesses, in theory, would end up no worse off because their new taxes would be equal to or less than what they're already spending to provide health care for employees. The key difference with Warren's new transition plan is she'd leave private insurance in place, which makes it comparable to plans offered by Joe Biden, Pete Buttigieg and other more moderate Democrats running for president. She would also strengthen the Affordable Care Act, which borrows from Biden's commitment to improve the plan that went into effect when he was Barack Obama's vice president."
Rick noted that this would be "less disruptive and more palatable to voters" than what Warren had initially proposed.
The big healthcare names surged in the wake of the news. Humana (HUM), UnitedHealth (UNH), Anthem (ANTM), and Centene (CNC) were among stocks that surged more than 5%.
2:14 p.m. ET: Supreme Court to hear Google bid to end Oracle copyright suit
From Reuters: "Google has appealed a lower court ruling reviving the suit in which Oracle has sought at least $8 billion in damages. A jury cleared Google in 2016, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington overturned that decision in 2018, finding that Google's inclusion of Oracle's software code in Android did not constitute a fair use under U.S. copyright law."
1:31 p.m. ET: 'Hindenburg Omen' and 'Titanic Syndrome' indicators triggered in the Nasdaq
For the chartists out there, two bearish technical indicators have been triggered. Here's Yahoo Finance's Brian Sozzi: "The Hindenburg Omen's guidelines say the market has to be in an uptrend, it must show a large number of stocks hitting 52-week highs and 52-week lows and display negatively diverging breadth momentum. As for the Titanic Syndrome, the rule of thumb is that the market must have reached a new high in the past seven sessions and then suddenly more stocks hit 52-week lows than 52-week highs."
1:04 p.m. ET: Atlanta Fed's model gives gloomy GDP forecast
According to the latest update from the Atlanta Fed's GDPNow model, GDP growth plunged to just 0.3% in the current quarter. From the Atlanta Fed: "After this morning's retail trade releases from the U.S. Census Bureau, and this morning's industrial production report from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, the nowcasts of fourth-quarter real personal consumption expenditures growth and fourth-quarter real gross private domestic investment growth decreased from 2.1%vand -2.3%, respectively, to 1.7% and -4.4%, respectively."
12:23 p.m. ET: Markets are near their highs in midday trading
The S&P, Dow and Nasdaq all set new intraday highs on Friday. Here's where they are now:
S&P 500 (^GSPC): +18.5 points, or 0.6%
Dow (^DJI): +152.53 points, or 0.6%
Nasdaq (^IXIC): +54.1 points, or 0.6%
11:34 a.m. ET: Trump has his eye on the rally
Stock Market up big. New and Historic Record. Job, jobs, jobs!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 15, 2019
10:00 a.m. ET: Markets have bigger things to worry about than impeachment
AGF policy strategist Greg Valliere tells Yahoo Finance's The First Trade, "The more pressing issue for the markets right now is trade, and every day the narrative changes."
Highlight: "I think people who underestimate [Trump] do so at their own peril," @agf U.S. Policy Strategist Greg Valliere says about impeachment hearings, adding: "The more pressing issue for the markets right now is trade, and every day the narrative changes." pic.twitter.com/RzzMqTSIMk— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) November 15, 2019
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9:52 a.m. ET: Investors flee gold
From Bank of America Merrill Lynch: "Weekly flows: $9.7bn into equities, $4.2bn into bonds, $1.7bn from gold (biggest outflow since Dec'16 - Chart 2)"
9:31 a.m. ET: Wall Street opens higher
Markets are modestly higher at the moment.
S&P 500 (^GSPC): +11.2 points, or 0.3%
Dow (^DJI): +61.5 points, or 0.2%
Nasdaq (^IXIC): +17.9 points, or 0.2%
9:30 a.m. ET: Nvidia is 'exceptionally positioned,' analysts says
On Thursday afternoon, semiconductor company Nvidia (NVDA) reported quarterly revenue and earnings that beat expectations.
Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Vivek Arya appeared on The First Trade to discuss the outlook for the company.
Highlight: "We are starting to see new technologies emerge," @bankofamerica semis analyst Vivek Arya says about $NVDA. "You're seeing adoption by enterprises and you're seeing adoption by a lot of super computing companies, so we think Nvidia's exceptionally positioned." pic.twitter.com/P6llQLuThx— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) November 15, 2019
9:15 a.m. ET: Industrial production falls more than expected
Industrial production activity fell 0.8% in October, which was much worse than the 0.4% decline expected.
"With almost the entire drop back in industrial production last month due to the strike at GM and a fall in utilities output, we expect a big rebound in November," Capital Economics' Michael Pearce. "With autos and utilities output set to rebound, industrial production will rise over the remainder of the year. However, the continued subdued global backdrop and the still weak domestic activity surveys suggest that underlying manufacturing output growth will remain close to zero over the coming months."
8:30 a.m. ET: Retail sales climb, Empire manufacturing index falls
Retail sales climbed 0.3% month-over-month in October, which was higher than the 0.2% expected by economists. Excluding autos and gas, core retail sales gained just 0.1%, which was far less than the 0.3% expected.
"There were so many spending categories down in October, it is difficult to see how overall spending rose 0.3%," MUFG economist Chris Rupkey observed. "It looks like consumers shopped on the Internet or filled their cars with gasoline all month long and did nothing else. Spending on furniture, electronics, building materials, clothing, sporting goods, restaurants and bars, all fell... Ouch.
"Net, net, American shoppers returned to the stores and malls in October, but the coast isn't clear yet for consumer spending in the fourth quarter of the year. It's looking more and more that this quarter is going to turn out to be another soft patch for the consumer much like it was in the final quarter of last year and the first quarter of 2019 when purchases were also weak."
The Empire State Manufacturing index fell to 2.9 in November from 4.0 a month ago. Economists were looking for this activity index to climb to 6.0. From the NY Fed's report: "New orders increased slightly, and shipments grew modestly. Delivery times were somewhat shorter and inventories declined. Employment continued to expand, and the average workweek was slightly longer. Input price increases continued to slow, while selling prices increased modestly. Optimism about the six-month outlook remained subdued, while capital spending plans picked up markedly."
7:30 a.m. ET: JCPenney's numbers could've been worse
Beleagured department store giant JCPenney (JCP) lost less money than expected. In Q3, the company booked an adjusted net loss of $0.30 per share, which wasn't as bad as the $0.56 loss expected. Same-store sales, however, plunged 9.3% during the period, which was worse than the 8.3% drop expected.
Shares are up more than 10% in pre-market trading.
6:07 a.m. ET: Q3 earnings season update: 94% of the S&P have reported, and they're beating expectations
From Credit Suisse equity strategist Jonathan Golub: "94.0% of the S&P 500's market cap has reported 3Q results. Earnings are beating by 4.4%, with 69% of companies exceeding their bottom-line estimates. This compares to 5.4% and 71% over the past 3 years. 3Q expectations are for revenues, earnings, and EPS growth of 2.1%, -1.2%, and 0.8%, respectively. EPS is on pace for +1.0%, assuming a typical beat rate for the remainder of the season."
5:00 a.m. ET: "We're coming down to the short strokes," Kudlow said.
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow suggested that a trade deal with China was close, saying that the administration was speaking to its Chinese counterparts "every single day now," and that "we're coming down to the short strokes."
Dow futures (YM=F) are up 84 points or 0.3%.
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"Be a candle of peace that sheds light on the darkness of violence", reads a poster covering a whole wall in the headquarters of the "Volunteers and Peace Building Programme", located in the centre of Baghdad, not far from the Latin Archbishopric . The young volunteers of the programme launched in 2005 by Caritas Iraq with the support of Caritas Italy and Missio Germany, meet here every day. There are over 200 of them, also present in the north of the Country.
Aida Emanuel, the person in charge, receives a delegation from Caritas Internationalis and other European Caritas (Italy, Belgium, Spain and Germany), CRS (Catholic Relief Services, USA), presently in Baghdad for a meeting organized by Caritas Iraq: "those words – she says indicating the poster – sum up the meaning of our commitment and our work."
"Our goal is to plant the seeds of citizenship
and of peaceful coexistence, help the poor, promote equal rights, foster citizens' participation in civil society." These are the components of a recipe designed to help Iraq recover from the crisis caused by the 2003 war (Iraqi freedom) sparked off by the United States to defeat Saddam Hussein's regime, and subsequently as a result of the sectarian clashes between Shiites and Sunnis culminating, in 2014, in the invasion of ISIS.
"Lack of jobs for young people, poverty, political instability, corruption, sectarianism, insecurity, increasing prevalence of psychological and social diseases, especially among women, as well as social and family fragmentation" are the challenges Iraq is facing today. "The Islamic State – the coordinator said – has divided our people even more, having lost many of their spiritual, moral and social values. We feel a strong need to rebuild our community and to grow in solidarity".
Only the next generation will be able achieve this. The "Volunteers and Peace Building Programme" aims to train young people of all faiths and ethnic groups and involve their peers along the path of resilience and citizenship. The fact that many of our young volunteers are, or have been, displaced by war is an added value to their work.
They are sentinels who watch over their fellow citizens and their needs."
Remaining in Iraq. In the past few days the volunteers have been leafleting to raise awareness on the right to health. The red shirts bearing a meaningful logo – a white heart that contains a smaller one – attract the attention of passers-by.
Some people draw closer, exchange a few words and take the leaflet, others walk by without taking notice. "For us, pursuing these programmes also means helping our people remain in Iraq," adds Aida. We want to rekindle the love for our country in people' hearts." It's the best answer to widespread sectarianism. Other young workers take turns in the Caritas headquarters coordinating tailoring, beautician courses and technical drawing workshops for the most vulnerable women and girls. Fadi, responsible for the volunteers, points out: "in this way we try to connect with all sectors of Iraqi society to build bridges of dialogue and restore confidence between different ethnic groups. Volunteering sows seeds of commitment, citizenship and love for our country.
"Coexistence moves Iraq forward".
The numbers seem to prove him right as some 14,000 people in Iraq benefit from the "Peace Building" programme. And the numbers are growing steadily. "We have two teams of volunteers in Zakho, one in Ankawa, in northern Iraq (Iraqi Kurdistan). Others are being created." "We initiated psychological counselling for people traumatised by war, we adopted poor families, delivered food and medicine packages, and we organised meetings between people belonging to different faiths."
The Zaiouna camp. The volunteers of the "Peace Building programme" dedicate special attention to the displaced people of the Zaiouna camp, home to 75 Christian families (over 400 people) from Mosul. They have been here for over two years, waiting to return to their homes, but – until now – to no avail. There are no tents but container homes or shelters and a large tensile structure where dozens of children gather to play and follow the catechesis.
"The Christian presence here has dropped significantly", Aida said. "The lack of stability, security and jobs has driven many of our families to flee and try their luck in Canada, Australia and the USA. Thanks to the help of Caritas Iraq and its partners, the camp's residents attend psychological counselling courses.
The war and the Islamic State have caused serious traumas. The best medicine for children is playing and going to school, which is what we try to offer. Helping Christian families to remain also means preserving the Christian presence in the country. Christians are keen to be active participants in the reconstruction of Iraq."
The tensile structure is now full of children. "They are many small candles of peace – Fadi said – shedding light in the darkness of a life of violence and uncertain future". The volunteers prepared games and gifts for an afternoon of joy – while looking forward to an even greater celebration next year, "when Pope Francis will visit Iraq. Embracing him is our dream."


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