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Our staff is comprised of dedicated and licensed professionals with the experience to answer all your questions regarding our services. Please feel free to contact any of our staff members at any time.
Owner / Funeral Director & EmbalmerAaron was raised in Amboy and is 1987 graduate of Amboy High School; a 1989 graduate of Highland Community College in Freeport; a 1990 graduate of Southern Illinois University School of Mortuary Science; a 1991 graduate of Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor's of Science in Healthcare Management. He is a licensed Funeral Director, Embalmer and Life Insurance Agent (to assist with prearrangements). He spent his first 23 years at Walker Mortuary in Freeport before acquiring LGH Funeral Homes in 2015. He recently celebrated his 29th year as a Funeral Director. He lives in Shelbyville with his wife of 28 years, Devi, and daughter Abbi. Aaron has a love for the outdoors whether it be fishing, hunting or just taking in nature.
Telephone: 1-217-218-9028
Owner / Administrative Assistant
Devi was also raised in Amboy and is a 1986 graduate of Amboy High School; a 1989 graduate of Sauk Valley College in Dixon; a 1992 graduate of Southern Illinois University with a Bachelor's in Accounting and went on to become a Certified Public Accountant following graduation. Devi has worked alongside Aaron in the funeral industry for 28 years working behind the scenes to ensure all business practices run smoothly. Her background as a CPA helps to guide the day-to-day operations and she has extensive experience in the insurance industry to assist families with the life insurance claims process.
Telephone: 1-217-774-2195
Funeral Assistant
Abbi was raised in Freeport and Shelbyville and is a 2020 graduate of Shelbyville High School. She currently attends St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa where she is a member of the "Bee's" competitive dance team. Abbi has worked alongside her parents in the funeral industry her entire life, filling in wherever help is needed.
Funeral Assistant
Dave was born in Shelbyville, graduated from Findlay High School and Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He is married to Nancy Bitzer and they have three children and six grandchildren. Dave ran construction companies for 40 years, retiring in 2013. He recently retired as chairman of the Shelby County Board and currently serves as vice-chairman of HSHS Good Shepherd Hospital in Shelbyville. Dave has been a part of the LGH Funeral Home family for eight years.
Funeral Assistant
Jim was born and raised in Shelbyville. After graduating high school, he joined the United States Air Force as an Air Traffic Controller and was honorably discharged in 1975. He and his wife, Patty, lived in Bloomington where he worked in retail for several years. In 1983, Jim purchased a retail store in Shelbyville and operated it until 2013, upon his retirement. Jim and Patty have two children, Gregory and Allison and five wonderful grandchildren. Jim has been a part of the LGH Funeral Home family for over 10 years.
Funeral Assistant
Kevin is a lifelong resident of Shelby County, the son of Forest "Frosty" and Joan Herron. He is a graduate of Findlay High School. He received his Associates Degree from Lake Land College with a major in Music. Kevin is well known in the area for his musical talents. Whether it be tuning pianos, directing various choirs, playing organ for the local churches, or playing in his own band, Forever Gig. Kevin worked at Graphic Packaging for over 19 years and recently retired from Walmart after 13 years. Kevin and his wife, Jane live in Findlay and are the parents of three boys: Kyle, Jonathan and Joel.
Funeral Assistant
Lisa is a lifelong resident of Shelby County, the daughter of the late Roger and Naomi (Ruot) Corley. She is a graduate of Cowden/Herrick High School. Lisa has two daughters, Ashley (Josh) Dunaway and Jennifer (Davy) Fouts along with six grandchildren. Lisa has been a valuable part of the LGH Funeral Home family for over 25 years filling in wherever she is needed.
Funeral Assistant
Lynn has lived his entire life in Shelby County. His wife, Kay, is a retired kindergarten teacher. He has two children, Michl and Brandi. Lynn is an avid Chicago Cubs fan. Much of his free time is spent following and cheering for his three grandchildren. Lynn has been a part of the LGH Funeral Home family for 12 years.
Shelby County Coroner/Funeral Assistant
Brad graduated from Shelbyville High School, is a United States Army veteran and earned his Associates Degree from Lake Land College. He retired from the Illinois State Police after 27 years of service. Brad served as the Chief Deputy Coroner in Shelby County for eight years and was recently elected as the coroner for Shelby County. Brad can often be found on Lake Shelbyville fishing or on one of his many trips to Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron or Lake Michigan. Brad has been a part of the LGH Funeral Home family for over 12 years.


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The Turning Point
Torah, Deuteronomy 9:13 – 9:14: And the Lord spoke to me [further], saying, "I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people. Leave Me alone, and I will destroy them and obliterate their name from beneath the heavens, and I will make you into a nation mightier and more numerous than they."
The people are in a state where their entire egoism has come out; however, it has not been transformed. Therefore, it seems to the people that there is nothing they can do. Let there be death, but they must not remain like this, and here comes another state.
Question: Here, the Creator tells Moses to distance himself, I will annihilate them, and you will beget a different nation.
Answer: This is how a person feels. There is nothing left within him except for the property of "Moses." This is precisely the turning point.
From KabTV's "Secrets of the Eternal Book" 4/5/16
Related Material:
"Your Heart Grows Haughty And You Forget The Lord, Your God"
The Road To The Garden Of Eden
Delighting The Creator

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By now, you've probably heard that, following years of careless stewardship at the hands of a neglectful American foster family, the quirky Saab brand has been adopted by Dutch supercar builder Spyker. But if trouble-prone Saab is to be healthy, its future offerings need to quickly get competitive with some standout products from BMW, Audi, Cadillac, and others. What might future Saabs be like? Well, Spyker has just provided details on the new models it plans to introduce over the next two years, as well as its vision for the brand over the longer term.
2011 Saab 9-5 Sedan, SportCombi, and 9-5X
Not surprisingly, the General Motors–developed flagship 9-5 sedan and wagon are still a go. Both will go to market as designed under GM ownership, being that it is rather late for Spyker to make any changes of note. The 2011 9-5 made its public debut at last year's Frankfurt auto show; it's due in dealerships this summer in sedan, wagon, and "X" body styles, the latter following the lead of the Subaru Outback–style 9-3X wagon with butch body mods and a jacked-up suspension. Spyker says that, at least for now, plans are to offer all the configurations in the U.S.
2011 Saab 9-4X Crossover
The long-awaited GM-engineered 9-4X crossover will finally hit the market in early 2011, and will be built by General Motors in Mexico, likely through the end of its life cycle. This allows General Motors to turn a healthy profit on the 9-4X, given that it can charge cost plus a markup to Saab Spyker Automobiles for the fully completed vehicles, recouping development costs and leaving Spyker to absorb any potential loss-causing discounts or incentives. The 9-4X is based on the same underpinnings as the latest Cadillac SRX.
Saab 9-3 Sedan, SportCombi, Convertible, 9-3X, and Hatchback
Saab's next debut will be an all-new replacement for its bread-and-butter 9-3, by far the company's most important model. While a typical product cycle would mean that design and engineering work for a 2012 model—which the 9-3 is scheduled to be—would be at a relatively advanced state, Saab's new owners appear to believe there's sufficient time to ensure that it will be, in Spyker's words, "all Saab." Spyker confirms that the next 9-3 will be offered in five body styles: sedan, wagon, "X," convertible, and—hooray for Saab lovers!—a hatchback. Rather than be a traditional upright liftgate, he hatchback model will almost assuredly recall Saabs of yore, wherein a large hatch is integrated into a sedan-like body. The droptop could remain front-drive only, but all-wheel drive will almost certainly be standard on the 9-3X and available on the other models.
Saab 9-1 Small Car
As did GM, Saab Spyker will study the prospect of adding a smaller 9-1 model, citing continued worldwide interest in small cars as an important factor. Saab Spyker says that the 9-1 would of course require additional funding if it is to become a reality. But even so, we expect an efficiency-driven vehicle like a 9-1 to appear eventually, in large part to satisfy various emissions and efficiency regulations. Spyker would also like to raise Saab's production to "pre-crisis" levels of 100,000 to 125,000 units annually, and a smaller, more affordable model would certainly help.
Halo Vehicle / Saab Aero X
Remember the Aero X concept? Spyker does, too, and it is rumored to be keen on building something like it. The Dutch company, of course, has the engineering chops to turn the car into something that would drive as fantastic as it looks, but the development of low-volume products is difficult without ample cash to do so. Given that a $564 million loan was requested simply to keep Saab alive in the wake of the Spyker acquisition, an Aero X likely is no closer to reality now than it was at its Geneva show debut in 2006. Boo.
Think Big, Remain Small
Beyond 2012, specifics are predictably few. But Saab Spyker has made more general statements regarding its plans for Saab, starting with it being repositioned as "an independent, performance-oriented niche car company with an industry-leading environmental strategy." The BMW 3- and 5-series and Audi's A4 and A6 were specifically called out as prime competitors. While Saab Spyker will divest itself of GM influence as quickly as possible, cultivating other strategic partnerships will be critical—taking on huge projects like the development of platforms from scratch would be costly and unsustainable. Indeed, the company promises that it will use "independent sourcing" to "reduce GM dependency and obtain improved access to other suppliers and the codevelopment of unique innovations."
For now, the Saab brand is destined to think big but remain small. Saab Spyker Automobiles plans to operate Saab and Spyker as two independent entities, each focusing on its own respective DNA, which for Saab is characterized as "unique and rooted in its aeronautical heritage, innovative and independent thinking, and its Swedish origins." In other words, expect more wraparound windshields, more high-revving turbocharged engines, a few more fighter-jet-inspired cockpit gizmos, and, of course, ignition switches in the center console. Can we stump for a Swedish-meatball-machine option?
Saab Spyker further says that its two brands will share "certain assets and technology services," such as combined marketing programs and the optimization of Saab's global network of 1100 dealers. We also expect that Spyker will also make use of Saab's Technical Development Center in Trollhättan, Sweden, which will continue to serve as the HQ for Saab product development.
This is Going to Be Very Interesting
For Saab-philes, the brand's acquisition by Spyker was the best possible scenario. (Of course, when the alternative was Saab's swift death, any scenario was better simply by default.) But it remains to be seen just how fruitful Saab can be under the care of an eccentric outfit with experience building cars by the dozens, not by the hundreds of thousands. The future of Saab rests on Saab Spyker operating as the very antithesis of GM, which couldn't think small enough to preserve the beloved Swedish marque's trademark quirkiness, the only real distinction among its competition. The decision to revive the hatchback was a good start; let's see where things go from there.


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Too Real: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford Says He Gets Enough Pxssy To Eat AT Home!
Toronto mayor Rob Ford talks to the media about recently released police documents. Disses the Hamilton TiCats and says he didn't eat a colleagues pussy. He gets enough of that at home from his wife!
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Research Triangle Park, NC (Dec. 27, 2018) – Two or three times a year, Pierre Tong happily leaves his car at home and takes GoTriangle Route 100 to Raleigh-Durham International Airport, so he finds it perplexing that the No. 1 misconception he hears about transit in the Triangle is that there is none to the airport.
"Well, there actually is," Tong says, and adding even more service to RDU was one of the first improvements made in the first full fiscal year of the Wake Transit Plan that voters approved in late 2016.
"Whenever you have more frequency, that's less time you have to wait for a bus when your plane comes back and gives you more options to get there," says Tong, a civil engineer who lives in Raleigh. "That way you're not getting there too early or too late. There are lots of benefits to having increased frequency."
Increased frequency and more coverage have been two main focuses of the many improvements that GoTriangle and other area transit agencies have made over the past 18 months. GoTriangle, as the Triangle's regional transit agency, runs routes between municipalities and gets funds from Orange, Durham and Wake counties. Voters in all three counties have approved half-cent sales taxes devoted to transit improvements, and each county has an approved transit plan that works with the others to create a unified, regional transit network.
In addition to adding half-hour service to Route 100 in August 2017, GoTriangle added half-hour and Sunday service on Route 300 from Raleigh to Cary and continued the Fuquay-Varina express service to GoRaleigh station.
At the same time, GoTriangle Routes 700 to Durham and 800 to Chapel Hill moved from hourly to 30-minute service Monday through Saturday until 7 p.m., making it even more convenient for residents to get out of their cars and enjoy the benefits of buses.
"With all three counties investing in transit improvements that work together, GoTriangle is looking forward to rolling out the next phases of bus improvements that give our riders even more choices and accessibility," says GoTriangle CEO and President Jeff Mann. "With the Triangle growing by more than 80 people a day, increasing transit options is one of the most important things we as a region can do."
Already in fiscal year 2019, which began July 1, GoTriangle has added even more service hours to Route 100 to RDU, increased the daily trips on its popular express route between Raleigh and Durham from 24 to 34 and added operating hours at the Regional Transit Information Center, where many riders transfer to other routes or buy passes.
Engaging the community
An important part of implementing any new service is giving the public a chance to weigh in beforehand. Over the past 18 months, GoTriangle has engaged well more than 3,000 people at more than 100 meetings, presentations or events and assessed more than 3,200 survey responses and more than 2,400 comments.
Going electric
Wanting GoTriangle to explore alternative-fuel buses has been a high priority for many community members, and GoTriangle leaders were thrilled in August when they won a $943,000 grant through the federal government's Low- or No-Emission Grant program to help the agency buy its first electric buses. GoTriangle will put the money toward buying two 40-foot electric Proterra buses and hopes to have the buses on the road in about 18 months.
Planning rail projects
Building toward the future, GoTriangle has continued to work this year with the Federal Transit Administration to keep Orange and Durham counties' light-rail project moving through the federal engineering process. In addition, GoTriangle has proceeded with the early planning of the 37-mile commuter rail line that will provide comfortable passenger service between Garner through Raleigh to Durham by 2028.
Securing a grant for bus facility
That commuter line will stop at the new downtown Raleigh Union Station. This month, GoTriangle won a $20 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help build a unique bus transfer facility that will connect to the rail station.
The Raleigh Union Station bus project, better known as RUS Bus, will provide direct connections to existing and future GoTriangle and GoRaleigh bus routes and to the existing Amtrak service. The space also will incorporate a mixed-use, high-rise building above the terminal that could include office and retail space, a hotel and residential units with an affordable housing component.
Giving back
Being a good neighbor is an important part of GoTriangle's mission. The agency is an engaged member of the community, offering buses and operators each year to shuttle attendees to events such as the Komen Race for the Cure and the Valor Games, a competition in adapted sports for service members or veterans living with disabilities.
This year, for the second time, GoTriangle and partners also were able to orchestrate a drive to collect goods for North Carolinians devastated by a hurricane. In the wake of Hurricane Florence in September, an 11-hour fill-the-bus event at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh brought in enough water, food, paper products and other goods to fill five buses, three vans, a box truck and part of a tractor-trailer.
The next week, GoTriangle and GoDurham bus operators and volunteers delivered the precious cargo to United Way offices in Lumberton and Newport.
"It was a humbling experience to be a part of this effort, to see the outpouring of generosity from our community and to be able to help our neighbors in Eastern North Carolina after this devastating storm," says GoTriangle Communications Director Mike Charbonneau. "The tremendous response truly highlights the power of partnership and the positive impact we can make when we work together as one community."
Cultivating new riders
Increasing ridership and awareness are goals of any transit agency, and the exciting new Youth GoPass has certainly done both. More than 3,400 Triangle teenagers ages 18 and under now possess a GoPass, which allows them to ride any Triangle agency's bus free. Since the program launched in August, those teens have used their passes to take nearly 125,000 transit trips.
The new program invests in the youngest members of our community to help cultivate lifelong transit riders and gives them more access to jobs, entertainment and schools across the entire Triangle.
Connecting to RDU
To tout the fact that transit does indeed go to the airport, in October GoTriangle disguised two buses that travel Route 100 as airplanes. Every day, GoTriangle's Route 100 runs between the downtown GoRaleigh Station and the Regional Transit Center in Durham, stopping directly in front of both RDU terminals and several times near NC State University.
On Dec. 22, Pierre Tong again took advantage of the ease and affordability of taking a Route 100 bus right up to an RDU terminal to get his holidays off to a more relaxing start.
"If you live along the route and it's convenient to you, it's kind of no-brainer," says Tong, who was headed to Boston to see his parents. "You don't have to worry about driving or finding parking. It takes you right to the terminal so it's really easy and convenient. It takes time, I guess, for people to get used to the idea of transit, but they have to understand there are better options than driving your car."


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Most car accidents are traumatic on your body – a 30 MPH car accident without a seatbelt has the same force on your body as falling off a three-story building.
With that type of force involved, it is no shock that one of most common injuries after a car accident is whiplash.
Whiplash is the injury and resulting medical problem caused in car accidents by fast, powerful movements of the head from front to back and side to side. The pain in some whiplash cases can be all-encompassing and last for quite some time.
But did you know that right after your car accident, you might feel perfectly fine? It's common for people who suffered a whiplash injury not to feel much of anything in the first few hours after a car accident.
Here's why.
Your body floods with adrenaline and endorphins right after a crash. This surge of chemicals coursing through your body might make you feel fine, but that doesn't mean you are.
Some signs of whiplash include but are not limited to:
You should be seen by a medical professional right away to determine if a diagnosis of whiplash is appropriate.
A doctor will examine you and ask about any pain that you are feeling. Based upon this exam, the doctor may take X-Rays to see if any injuries are obvious. He may also fit you with a cervical collar to support your head and reduce the risk of further injury.
If your X-Rays come back normal but your neck and head ache, your doctor may ask you to keep wearing the cervical collar and to come back later for an additional exam.
At that time, he may order new X-Rays, an MRI or "dynamic X-Rays," which involve leaning the head forward and backward.
If he diagnoses you with whiplash, he will recommend appropriate treatment.
Treatment for whiplash can vary depending on the types of symptoms you're feeling. Most importantly, you need to obtain plenty of education about a whiplash injury. Understand that it's a real injury, and most patients do fully recover with enough time.
The most common whiplash treatment for many years was placing a soft cervical collar around the neck to reduce the patient's range of motion and to prevent additional injury.
Most clinical studies indicate that this treatment does little good and could be harmful; in fact, it might actually slow your body's healing process.
On the contrary, modern medical research finds that keeping the neck moving – in limited fashion as comfort allows – is actually better than immobilization.
Canadian researchers found that different strategies after injury affected recovery time. For example, people with whiplash who stopped being active and socializing had a much slower recovery from pain symptoms.
On the other hand, people who kept moving and were active generally recovered from their injury faster. A combination of activity, gentle stretching and periods of rest with a cervical collar has been found to lead to recovery the fastest.
Patients who do head and neck range of motion exercises early in treatment usually have a faster recovery. Please keep in mind that you should not do any of the exercises in the above link (or any exercises at all) unless directed by your health care professional.
Research indicates that resting too much and immobilizing the neck can actually prolong symptoms of whiplash. This may be because losing range of motion in the neck leads to more stiffness and pain.
Immobilizing the head and neck also can cause the neck muscles to atrophy. This reduces blood flow to the injured tissues, which then leads to damaged muscles being healed in a contracted state. This makes the neck less flexible and more painful.
A good physical therapist can help you to strengthen your neck muscles and increase range of motion after a car accident. Your doctor (or your personal injury attorney, if you have retained one) will be able to provide you with a good physical therapist referral in order to start a whiplash treatment program.
Your doctor may also recommend that you visit a chiropractor for treatment of your whiplash symptoms.
A chiropractor may use manual spinal manipulation to improve your range of motion and eliminate pain. Chiropractors believe that manual manipulation can be very effective to minimize the long-term effects of whiplash.
Your chiropractor may also recommend massage therapy, exercise and trigger point therapy to reduce symptoms.
Getting an immediate medical diagnosis and treatment for your whiplash is absolutely essential. Once you have been diagnosed by a doctor, you should consider legal action if the accident was because of the negligence of another driver. Find a personal injury attorney using our Law Firms Directory.
You will want to start the legal process as soon as possible. If your state allows you to file suit for personal injuries from a car accident, you should write to the other party's insurance carrier. Inform the company of your injuries and intent to file suit. You could also retain a personal injury attorney to handle it for you.
Don't wait to file a whiplash claim or lawsuit. Your injuries may worsen, you may feel more pain, and you will have to wait longer to be compensated.
The sooner you file a claim, the sooner your medical bills will be covered by the insurance company.
Thinking to bring a legal claim or lawsuit for your whiplash injury? There may be legal concepts you should know about. Read up in our Personal Injury Basics guide. Here are a few highlights:
Want more information about treating whiplash? You always should be seen by a doctor if you suspect you have an injury, but in the meantime:


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Priests from Greece, Crete, Turkey, Finland, Austria and the UK participated in the laying on of hands at the ordination, at which the Revd Canon Malcolm Bradshaw was the preacher. The Revd Frances Hiller was the deacon for the celebration and Mrs Christine Saccali, a reader from Athens was my chaplain.
St Thomas's Church was built by Fr Tony and serves the growing Anglican community in Crete. It comprises a smaller building in traditional Cretan style, and an open-air space for worship which incorporates an old grain threshing floor. While Fr Tony continues to serve the congregation as an Assistant Curate in the Greater Athens Chaplaincy, St Thomas's has now grown to the extent that plans are now being made to appoint a resident priest-in-charge. This growth and development is a credit to Fr Tony's pioneering work and pastoral vision.
In the photo below is (a slightly sunburnt) Fr Tuomas (left) with Fr Tony (right).
The website of St Thomas's Church Kefalas is here.


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How to Jeri . . .
[big sigh]
Welcome to my blog.
I know. Where have I been? What took me so long?
Well, first, it's none of your business, but I appreciate your needy desperation. Makes perfect sense.
After all, you've been spending shocking amounts of time looking for ways to fill the hole I left. Who could blame you? Well, besides, me, of course. We'll be discussing that.
Fact is, I became aware that [shudder], average people were sharing (ugh) beauty tips, posting about their little lives, making that stupid kissy face in every picture . . . Frankly, someone had to step in.
And the truth is - this is going to hurt - I thought "Why be bothered? No matter what I say, no matter how much of me I give, you're still going to be . . . you.
With my guidance, you can be a better you, a Jerier you! Isn't that why you spend hours reading blogs and watching vids and posting carefully-posed images of yourself all over the cyber verse?
So you can appear to be something you're not?
The question is:
Why are you not being like them when you could not be like me?
Fix it!
Click here each day for my thoughts on everything from beauty, body, fashion, and health to school, siblings, and stuff I like/hate (see siblings, above).
Thus, I invite you to Legendjeri!
Let the Jeriation begin!


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Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 12/15/08
Loyola's P.T. Ricci (Conestoga), Virginia's Ken Clausen (Hill School) and Cornell's Matt Moyer (Tower Hill, DE; of Chadds Ford) were named to the Inside Lacrosse Preseason Division I All-American squad.
Ricci, a senior, is a long-stick midfielder while junior Clausen is a defender and senior Moyer is a defender.
Named to the second team were Ohio State junior midfielder James Green (Central Bucks East) and Penn State senior goalie Drew Adams (Springfield-Delco).
The honorable mention picks featured Penn senior attacker Craig Andrzejewski, Penn junior face-off specialist Justin Lynch, Drexel junior defender Matt McCormick (Malvern Prep) and Notre Dame junior defender Mike Creighton (Malvern Prep).
Drexel, meanwhile was listed as the No. 23 team in the Top 25 men's poll.
The Philly area is represented in the Division II All-American squad with Mercyhurst senior defender Matt Spahr (Penncrest).
In Division III, Cabrini is listed as the No. 6 team while Haverford College is No. 14.
Cabrini senior attacker Scott Reimer (Henderson) and Gettysburg senior midfielder Tom O'Donnell (La Salle) are on the first-team All-American squad. Denison senior midfielder Dan Maude (Haverford School) is on the second-team unit and Cabrini junior attacker Casey Grugan (Ridley) is on the third-team squad.
Honorable mention picks include three more Cabrini players: sophomore midfielder Paul Skulski (Garnet Valley), sophomore defender Coleman Till (Downingtown East) and junior long-stick midfielder Steve Heaps. Also listed are Washington College senior face-off specialist Thayer Damm (La Salle), Wesley College senior defender Kirk Waldie (Ridley) and Widener junior defender Nick Politarhos (Ridley).
The All-American lists and preseason polls are published in the annual Face-Off edition of the magazine.


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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Eating Out on A Budget
During these declining economic times everyone is trying to figure out how to save a dollar without sacrificing the life of luxury they have grown to love. No one said that you have to stop eating, you just have to figure out how to eat at a good price. This is where B.M.M.O. Consulting has come to help. Below are some tips you can take to help you eat on a budget.
1. Eat at lunch time - Lunch time is almost always cheaper than dinner. You can get the same meals just smaller portions, which may end up being healthier too!
2. Use coupons - Begin to plan meals around coupons. There are several discounting options such as Groupon, LivingSocial and now Amazon is getting involved. Buy them when you see one you like or use it as a way to try new places at discounted prices.
3. Dine at BYOB locations - You will find that most times it is the alcohol that increases the bill. Find places that will allow you to bring in your own. Many times the cost of one glass of wine on site is equal to the cost of a bottle you could bring in.
4. Never go to eat on an empty stomach - When you are hungry, you always think you can eat more than your stomach can really handle. You end up ordering more food than needed and spending unnecessary money.
5. Buffets - While people have different opinions about eating at buffets, they can sometimes be a good inexpensive filling meal. Inside tip about buffets, go towards the end of one meal so you can benefit from enjoying two meal choices. We recommend that you try Flat Top Grill, their breakfast is exceptional!
6. Eat the Specials - Restaurants always have specials. Sometimes they have full course meal options at discounted prices, most of the time there are no substitutes, but it's a bargain!
We hope that we have shared with you some good options to still enjoy the eating out lifestyle while maintaining your budget. Let this nation's economic situation be an indication of how going off the budget can have negative consequences. Now go use these tips and enjoy eating good on a budget. Please comment and share any additional tips you have for eating on a budget.
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by Lisette R.
City: Roselle Park, NJ.
I can't believe you made my ugly old tub look so shiny and clean. You even came by to make sure I was completely satisfied with the job. I am very happy with my re-surfaced bathtub. The chips and faded look are now totally unseen and the bathroom has a great look!


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Tests and contests: Hamas without Syria
The political dynamics of Hamas are shifting as it seeks to reconcile its geopolitical power base away from Syria.
Exeter, United Kingdom – As far as political pluralism goes, Hamas has entered a phase of creative tension. While this may not be new, it is today becoming more obviously conspicuous. The reason? Literally, Hamas – the Palestinian resistance movement – populates an immaterial state (of mind) – a state beyond the physical, as it were.
Thus, Hamas finds itself framing, reframing and regulating its polemics in pursuit of its much delayed project of physical territorial integrity. To this end, the tests and contests between elite control, guidance and even the usual veil of secrecy, lurk throughout the society.
What are these tests and contests?
Whether viewed as a historical resistance movement or as a religio-political organisation, Hamas and its politics should be interpreted according to: Which leaders are publicly active and where they are located in Hamas' unfixed geography.
Palestine's Hamas and Fatah sign unity deal
The first is a question regarding hierarchy and power between a phalanx of charismatic leaders who fiercely compete over the ownership of Hamas' historical mission and future direction.
The second is a spatial factor, a matter of the geography from which a given leader speaks or acts. At the core of this dynamic is the inside-outside tension. That is, their actors within Gaza, and those abroad. This important specificity explains the rigidity, resilience, versatility and plurality within Hamas. And today, this specificity is under stress.
The explanation for this is two-fold. Firstly, relaxation in the Gaza-Egypt border is rendering the formerly rigid boundaries between the inside and the outside relatively blurred. Secondly, post-Syria Hamas is trying to re-adjust and reinvent a political operation and apparatus that Syria hosted after Jordan ordered Hamas out of its territory following the Oslo Accords.
Post-Syria, post-modern
Hamas has thus far missed the bandwagon of modernism – as has Palestinian political society in general since the Nakbah (the "catastrophe" of 1948 that led to Palestinian de-territorialisation and dispossession at the hands of Israeli colonialism). They have, thus far, failed to enter the global Westphalian "habitat" with its territorial formalism, amongst other trappings.
Palestinian movements and global civil society, made up of a dispersed diaspora, have as a result – and unwittingly – been probably among the first converts to post-modernism. Territorial absence, polycentric political leadership and competing ideational templates of how to fix a cause that remains un-fixed have been the core features of this post-modernity.
Certainty is noted by its complete absence in all things Palestinian, especially the dream of statehood. Ideology has ceased to provide certainty in terms of how to frame the struggle for Palestine. Those Palestinian factions who once embraced Marx and Lenin have turned to the patronage of mortal political leaders, self-styled demi-gods, who could provide money and weapons. And those whose "god" was Abu Ammar (Yasser Arafat's nom de guerre) are today left only with the skeleton of a "temple" devoid of ideology or a sense of purpose. In fact, perhaps the only certainty is the fluidity that has marked their cause.
The only arena where Hamas challenges "post-modernism" is in its stolid religiosity – it has cemented Palestine to one God. It has premised its struggle, the rationale for it, its core values and manifestos, and its continuity, on this religious basis. It is that continuity that equips Hamas with the kind of durability that other organisations – whose lesser mortal "gods" die or err – today find only in short supply.
Hamas vs Hamas
The uprising against Syria's government has challenged Hamas. Again, it finds itself faced with straddling "territory" not of its own making, ownership, or control. Like Fatah and other Palestinian factions, Hamas leaders have no demarcated or recognised geography. Geography presents them with an absence-presence paradox. Indefinitely confined to statelessness, all they can seek is a fleeting territoriality, a base from where to organise, mobilise, and keep alive the dream of a free Palestine.
Thus, once again, post-Syria Hamas and its version of Palestine "travel" in search of a greener pasture from where they can continue to wage their political struggle, and a presence can be maintained while a Palestinian state continues its absence. This time around, luckily, they are carried by the current of the Arab Spring, opening new doors for Khaled Meshaal and the rest of the leadership. Tunis to Cairo, Doha to Amman, and Beirut to Khartoum are all multiple centres in a vast space where Hamas pitches camp temporarily.
Post-Syria Hamas is undergoing tests that inevitably impose new contests of adaptation to the new realities on the ground: Dispersed de-territorialisation, multi-vocal and diverse leadership, and dispersed constituency.
Hamas' leadership and political and diverse civil societies have historically endured the tests of statelessness and geographical permanence through dispersion, not concentration. They have maintained existence, if that is possible at all, within the "void" – not firm and fixed political geography. It is in the cracks between absence-presence and between the inside and the outside that they play out their politics.
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Inventing and reinventing
The prisoners (the quintessential example of the absent-present actor), the diaspora, Gaza, the West Bank, the inside in its entirety and the outre-mer (such as Hamas foreign-based posts – especially Damascus, until recently) all invent and reinvented polity within these contradictions.
The tests and the contests of this reinvented politics in the bosom of contradictions have always presented Hamas' project with perilous dimensions. However, the opportunities outweigh the perils: the resulting creative tension meant monopoly of power is not possible. Precisely, Hamas has reproduced its polity based on a division of labour. In that division, the Meshaal political bureau shared power with Gaza, and both referred to an extensive constituency, including in Israeli prisons.
Today, the contests multiply because the test faced by Hamas regards the collapse of the division of labour and divisive geography, both of which created a pilloried polity, specialised cadres and a pluralist civil society.
The old boundaries and their attendant fluidity are ceding today to accessibility (into and out of Gaza) and mobility that makes Ismail Haniyyah suddenly wearing Meshaal's shoes, stepping in his territory. The obverse is true. This is a not a personal feud. This is hardcore politics, in which jostling for influence, leadership and contesting the framing, reframing and regulating of Hamas' project is becoming fierce.
Note the relocation of leaders from the now vacated Damascus politburo, with Musa Abou Marzouq – owing to strong knowledge of and family connection with Egypt – settling in Cairo. Meshaal has become a roaming leader – based in Doha but now with access to Amman (facilitated by the Qatari Crown Prince Tamim), Cairo and Gaza. Muhammad Nazzal settled in Jordan, which gave the green light for the return of Hamas (after a four-hour meeting concluded between Meshaal and King Abdullah II in February, again with Prince Tamim's mediation). Khalid Al-'Alami returned to Gaza.
Mahmoud Al-Zahhar openly favours the return of all leaders to Gaza. Fixing Hamas to a single centre or geography – apart from security considerations – would weaken Hamas.
Tests and contests of Khartoum and Cairo
Hamas boasts a long list of charismatic leaders in which Meshaal and Haniyyah are two good examples. Mahmoud Al-Zahhar, Khalil al-Hayyah, Nizar 'Awadallah are additional stalwarts; and there are many more second- and third-ranking upcoming stars.
The general meeting in Khartoum in late December 2011 gives an insight into the internal challenges faced by Hamas. It was historical in the sense that it was the first time in many years that the inside and the outre-mer met in a single place. Many Hamas leaders and cadres view this in a positive light as being a form of rahmah – divine mercy. These directions can be read as quasi political "traditions" or "cultures" within Hamas.
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Very generally, the inside is rigid in its political management, conditioned by the harsh milieu of a five-year embargo after a deadly war in December 2008 to January 2009. Gaza views itself as the new political centre and the pivot of the organisation's polity. It has the numbers, the guns, the constituency and a record of sacrifices. Al-Zahhar alone lost two of his sons in the Israeli bombing of the Strip in 2008 to '09. Political weight is more or less measured by the high political price paid by the local leadership, which includes kidnappings and imprisonment by Israel.
The outre-mer tends towards resilience and even pragmatism – not denying that others in the inside can be pragmatic, such as Haniyyah, for instance. It has founded its legitimacy on being the foreign sounding board, flying the movement's flag abroad and more importantly, procuring funds, networking and setting up a diplomatic corps for Hamas.
Just as Gaza may see the outre-mer as "living the good life" away from siege, hands-on military struggle and dealing with people's problems on the ground, the outre-mer views Gaza as un-trained in the finesse of diplomacy and pragmatic political management.
It was therefore no surprise that discussion of Meshaal's leadership of the politburo brought the Khartoum meeting to boiling point. It was at once the result of musarahah – or frank discussion – in search of a musalahah – the reconciling of two schools of politics within Hamas. Some of this reconciling required a second meeting in Cairo – especially between Haniyyah and Meshaal (the former admires the latter and views him as a mentor).
Unfolding fluidity
The departure from Syria was more than a geographical move. It is gradually forcing a shift in Hamas' political management. Meshaal may have declared his intention not to run for a new term as politburo chief – extended twice without an electoral process – due to his cognizance of the winds of change from the Arab Spring. Alternation of power is the Arab Spring's indelible "ink" on the scripting of a road-map by Hamas' leaders, cadres and constituents post-Syria.
However, Meshaal was, possibly, unsettled by the shift in power dynamics from the outre-mer to the inside: Gaza being the centre of gravity as Egypt relaxes former restrictions from the Mubarak era on Hamas' leaders. He may be searching for a new role or simply adjusting to change.
This is where Hamas is now. Hamas is mired in so much subjectivity – not a bad or good thing – so there's no single or fixed "truth" in the scripting of Hamas' direction post-Syria. Time, space and political actors collectively forge this subjectivity.
Between absence and presence and inside and outside Hamas, opens up margins for dissolution of tendencies towards singular forms and styles of management and leadership.
A space to be watched when I explain in a follow-up column how Hamas is pitted against Hamas when its fluidity and poly-centricity are subverted.
Dr Larbi Sadiki is a Senior Lecturer in Middle East Politics at the University of Exeter, and author of Arab Democratization: Elections without Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2009) and The Search for Arab Democracy: Discourses and Counter-Discourses (Columbia University Press, 2004).


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The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) has announced that The Last Unicorn author Peter S. Beagle will be honored as the 34th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master for his lifetime contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy. Beagle joins such luminaries as Ray Bradbury, Anne McCaffrey, Ursula K. Le Guin, Isaac Asimov, Joe Haldeman, C.J. Cherryh, and previous Grand Master Jane Yolen.
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SFWA president Cat Rambo praised Beagle, saying, "Peter Beagle's work has been the gateway for multitudes of fantasy readers, but also writers as well, including myself. His work shines a light on the human heart and its beauties even when that heart is flawed and wanting, showing how that beauty arises from such imperfect conditions. Beagle unquestionably belongs among the greats, and I count it a privilege to invite him to be the next SFWA Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master."
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After the first three days of the year I realised all over again why I have never been a fan of new year's. I believe it is one of the worse excuses to celebrate.December is one of the best time of the year for me, It starts with my Birthday and ends with Christmas. As a kid it was the best time of the year to do shopping.
Soon after Christmas starts the paramount of lies we like to tell ourselves. "the best is yet to come", "I will keep my resolutions this year", And those lazy louts who prefer to mock themselves for not keeping or even making resolutions. It's amusing to watch young boys coming to the park to jog in the evening, By the end of the month would like to know how many of them are still on track to achieve their goals.
So make a deal with yourself, don't ever make false promises to yourself, Don't make resolutions that you were never suppose to make because you know you won't keep them and it's not in your nature e.g. to exercise and lose weight. Instead discover yourself and set realistic goal (like I will drink a green tea with every dessert I eat) that won't make you guilty of the things you never resolved to get done. Spend more time with people so that you discover who truly cares for you, and build a meaningful relationship with them. Find a new hobby to keep your idle mind occupied. And be more productive and have a satisfying year ahead ( Vaibhav I had to quote your choice of words).
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Brown Butter Shortbread with Dark Chocolate + Sea Salt
These Brown Butter Shortbread with Dark Chocolate + Sea Salt are made with high quality ingredients to create a delicious shortbread cookie that's the perfect addition to any holiday party. Dark chocolate and flaky sea salt make this shortbread even more irresistible!
Fah la laaaa…it's really is starting to feel like Christmas, isn't it? Christmas tree farms have officially replaced all of the pumpkin patches, candy canes and peppermint bark are on the shelves of all the grocery stores, and Christmas music is blasting on all of the radio stations. It seriously feels like this year has breezed on past, but I'm ignoring that and focusing on my favorite part of the holidays: the baking part (of course).
Christmas cookie making is absolutely one of my favorite parts of winter and if you think I bake a lot the rest of the year…the cookies seriously start to get churned out of the kitchen in December. Today my roommate Ally and I went on a big grocery shopping trip and I got a whole bunch of baking ingredients. I mean seriously a lot, as in: I got EIGHT POUNDS OF BUTTER.
Eight. Pounds. Most people probably use less than that in year, and I'm embarrassed to say that I hope it lasts me through the new month or two. What can I say…holiday baking requires a heck of a lot of butter.
In this recipe for Brown Butter Shortbread with Dark Chocolate + Sea Salt? The butter really, really shines. I'm sort of obsessed with this recipe, and I've been making it for a while. These cookies got put into all my Christmas cookie tins last year and the cookies had a gorgeous appearance on my Instagram. <– if you click to see that photo, yes, I totally intentionally photographed the cookies like that again cause I <3'ed the way it looked.
It's about time I shared this recipe with you guys. The butter is important. I used Challenge butter because as I said…the butter is important and one of the stars of the show, so it's definitely preferable to use high quality. The butter gets warmed on the stove until bubbling and toasty brown, but not burned. Dark brown sugar, vanilla, sea salt, and flour are stirred in and the simple dough is pressed into the pan, and then left to stand at room temperature for a few hours.
Letting the dough stand helps the dough cool down to room temperature and lets the flavors meld together. The process of cooling slowly creates an irresistible sandy texture with a bold brown butter flavor and light caramelization from the dark brown sugar.
The shortbread is baked low and slow for 45 minutes and then slathered in dark chocolate and sprinkled with a bit of fancy sea salt – I like using Maldon's Fleur de Sel. The result is an irresistible cookie with a warm caramelized flavor, crisp and sandy shortbread texture, and smooth chocolate topping with just the perfect hint of sea salt.
I made these are part of Challenge Dairy's 12 Days of Cookies, and I think these brown butter shortbread are a contribution that you'll definitely want to put on your wish list and/or your gift list. If you're giving them away though, be sure to snag a few for yourself. Enjoy! :)
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Brown Butter Shortbread with Dark Chocolate + Sea Salt
- Prep Time: 20 minutes
- Cook Time: 45 minutes
- Total Time: 65 minutes
- Category: Dessert
- ¾ cup (1½ sticks) unsalted butter (I used Challenge butter)
- ½ cup dark brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- ½ teaspoon sea salt
- 1½ cups all-purpose flour
- 3 oz. dark chocolate (chopped)
- Fleur de sel (for sprinkling)
- Lightly grease a 9½" round fluted tart pan or a 14″x5″ rectangle tart with a removable bottom. If you don't have a pan with a removable bottom you could line a 8″ or 9″ square cake pan with aluminum foil, leaving an overhang of foil on two opposite sides so you can easily lift the shortbread out of the pan.
- In a small saucepan over medium melt the butter and continue to cook until it caramelizes and emits a nutty, butterscotch aroma. You will notice brown flecks in the bottom of the pan as the butter deepens in color. Be careful not to burn the butter. Remove from the heat.
- In a medium bowl, combine the melted butter with the brown sugar, vanilla and salt. Add the flour and mix until incorporated. Spread the dough evenly in the prepared pan. Cover with plastic wrap and let stand for at least 2 hours or preferably overnight. Do not refrigerate.
- When ready to bake, preheat oven to 300°F. Bake for 45 minutes.
- Let cool completely. Melt dark chocolate in the microwave and then spread evenly on the shortbread. Sprinkle with fleur de sel.
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This morning loneliness descended over my backyard. I share my morning coffee, when the sky is still dark blue, right before dawn, with the creatures of the woods. The bullfrogs croak, the birds join a chorus and wildlife wanders in occasionally.
Today, quilt in lap, to guard against the chill, the silence was palpable. There was no bird song and not a sound from the pond. I realized that our unseasonably cold weather has already sent the songbirds on their way to warmer climes. A mallard duck broke the stillness of the sky, a reminder that not all of the migrating birds have left. But the melody of hundreds of songbirds was not present.
The trees still have most of their leaves, but they are shades of gold, green, red and yellow. It was beautiful, in the early morning light, but it is a reminder that it will soon be too cold to sit outside in the morning.
A single song began, with its familiar repeating, three part call. Then, a dove joined in and I was glad that I had some company at last. As summer leaves there is a sadness that comes with it. The loss of my backyard, at least as a place to have my morning coffee, is just around the corner. The promise of pristine yards covered with freshly fallen snow is not welcome yet; I hope we get an Indian Summer.


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Over the last 10 years or so, Puglia has emerged as a vibrant hotspot to travellers and foodies alike after suffering a long period of under-appreciation. Here we touch upon just some of the wonders of this region to give you a flavour of what it has to offer.
Where to visit
Puglia isn't the vastest of regions, so it's totally possible to choose a base for your stay to day trip around. It's advised to rent a car for your stay, although cycling tours are entirely doable too for the more active and eco-conscious. Most itineraries start in Bari, although we'd recommend heading straight out of Bari on arrival, starting in Monopoli or Polignano a Mare, both a short trip down the coast. Sunsets are to die for in Puglia, but Polignano's is extra special, this charming town perched atop a cliff right above the clear, blue waters of the Adriatic. Remove your sunglasses and simply drink it in.
Other recommended stops include a trulli stay in Alberobello; stroll around the white-clad winding alleys of Ostuni; experience the historic city of Lecce with its stunning Baroque architecture, often referred to as the "Florence of the South"; relax in the seaside town of Santa Maria di Leuca in the southern tip, and explore the charming town of Gallipoli to the West.
There are simply too many great beaches to list where you can swim in the enchantingly clear Adriatic Sea (Wolf & Badger swimwear optional). Make your travel plans flexible enough to accommodate new discoveries, staggered lunches and wine drinking if you so please.
Where to stay
Near Otranto lies Masseria Prosperi. At its simplest, this is a house and a farm. Yet upon arrival, it becomes evidently clear that the proprietors are masters in the art of luxury in simple things. Each room features items authentically & lovingly restored, every detail a reinvention, decorated like a truly well-lived in home. This place embodies luxury with a modesty and gracefulness true to the region itself. The fields surrounding the house serve the plumpest tomatoes, grazed upon gleefully by guests with Puglian bread & local olive oil. Farm to table at its finest. In the evenings, guests can join the convivial owners for dinner, exchanging stories over delicious local produce which changes weekly.
For animal lovers, there are horses, donkeys, goats & geese on the farm - getting out for morning runs or some yoga before breakfast is a hell of a lot easier with a donkey alarm clock. The owners have their own dogs and cats that roam free, intermingling with guests, adding to the rural charm of the stay. If you so wish, your horses are welcome too (they have boxes with large paddocks on site), and more commonly-owned pets are welcome too.
Where to eat
Puglia cuisine is truly a force to be reckoned with. After your fifth round of burrata - this creamy delight derives from here - the slow demise to gluttony starts to seem like a fair trade off for an other-worldly feasting experience. Think languid seaside grazing; towns that belong in paintings, not just your Instagram feed; leisurely cultural strolls to simply punctuate meals; wine, wine, and more wine to drink before, during, and after those meals (if you're not the unlucky designated driver). Regional wines feature the Negroamaro and Primitivo grapes, and there are plenty of vineyards you can visit too to discover more first-hand. Most establishments tend to have a course featuring orecchiette, the regional pasta in Puglia.
In Monopoli, the unassuming Osteria Perricci is great for hearty, home-cooked, unpretentious seafood lunch to escape the midday heat. After you've slept off your lunch with a sea breeze, try Don Ferrante's terrace for sun-downers. Heading south from Polignano a Mare, en route to Ostuni, the 8 course tasting menu at Masseria il Frantoio is well worth pencilling into any itinerary before walking it off in Ostuni. Think traditional rustic Puglian courses served in a picturesque masseria - formerly working farms or country houses - now a boutique hotel complete with its own gardens growing vegetables and olives.
In Ostuni itself, Taverna della Gelosia is in a quintessentially Mediterranean courtyard, tucked away in the labyrinthine streets, serving exemplary food, best washed down with a carafe of house red wine. For a more fine-dining experience, try LaltroBaffo in Otranto, a contemporary restaurant serving up sumptuous seafood with seasonal ingredients.
When to visit
Although a bit cooler, June or September avoids peak summer season and you'll have more of Puglia to yourself on the trip. Whenever you visit, time will gratefully slows down upon setting foot in this enchanting region of Italy - not to be missed.
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Higher Ground's Executive Director, Mossik Hacobian, meets Mayor Michelle Wu at East Boston Coffee Hour on July 13, 2022
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Thank you, Boston residents, for rising up and taking to the streets to declare that Black lives do matter, that police departments need reform, and that unprovoked killings of unarmed Black people deserve justice and accountability and will not be tolerated.
The racism, discrimination, and inequality, which have manifested themselves in the acts of police and vigilante brutality acts that we have witnessed, are also present in every other aspect of societal life. Let's not forget the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 – which fixed a spotlight on longstanding health and economic disparities which have killed Black and Brown people in this country, in record numbers.
Our staff and board are acutely aware of the deep-seated racism, discrimination, bigotry, inequality, xenophobia, and microaggressions that people of color deal with on a daily basis. We know about the chronic neglect and disinvestment that have plagued our communities. We have been working for 10 years since our founding in 2010, collaborating with residents and organizations, and advocating for resources to improve conditions and address racial and economic inequities. As we are about to launch a one-year celebration marking our 10th Anniversary, we feel a heightened sense of urgency and a deeper resolve to continue the work we have been doing for several years.
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As a Roxbury-based backbone organization, working to address what we call a "trilogy of disparity" in health, housing, and education, we are redoubling our efforts to support local actions that advance our communities toward equity. We are collaborating with organizations that seek to strengthen the lives of children and families, including public schools that are committed to delivering a quality education; agencies that will provide decent, permanent housing for students and their families; and healthcare organizations, that seek to tackle and eliminate the underlying conditions that have led to the deaths of so many during this pandemic. We will also join our local partners in participating in conversations that seek to dismantle racist systems, structures, and cultures.
Our world has been rocked by George Floyd and COVID-19 – and it is forever changed. We hope that this change will deliver the kind of transformative action that will bring long-overdue equality and opportunity to all.
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As the former Chairman of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, I understand how trade is critical to the prosperity of our nation, and to Texas. Our state is the number one exporting state in the nation, and one of the fastest growing. The Port of Houston is the second largest in the United States, first when you count tonnage. The goods and services we produce are sold around the world – creating good-paying jobs right here at home. One in five manufacturing jobs in Texas results from trade. One in three acres Texas farmers plant are sold abroad. And 280,000 jobs in the Houston region are associated with the economic activity the Port generates.
That's why I'm so pleased that Congress passed and the President signed three key sales agreements in this Congress. The new free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia will mean business for our south texas ports and customers for Texans.
The principle in trade is this: If we, as Americans, build a better mouse trap, we ought to be able to sell it anywhere in the world without discrimination. If someone else builds a better mouse trap, we ought to be able to buy it for our families and our businesses.
But as our business owners and farmers look to sell their products overseas, more often than not, they find the world market tilted against them. Other countries have negotiated over 100 bilateral trade agreements that benefit each other – but leave the United States out. Our competitors erect barriers to our goods and services that make it difficult to do business. U.S. trade policy must focus on tearing down these unfair barriers.
That's why I have supported a range of trade negotiations – at the global level, regional and bilateral – that can help level the playing field for U.S. workers and brighten our economic future – especially at a time when we need it the most. Our bilateral partners make up only 7% of the world's economy, but they are some of our best customers, buying over 40% of all that the United States sells. In 2008, as our nation has faced dire economic times, exports have been the one bright spot in our economy – helping to keep our GDP afloat.
And a new global trade agreement, however far from reach it might be, will help to increase the standard of living for all and is a worthy goal for us to continue to pursue.
That's why I have called for a renewed authority for the next President to continue to negotiate market-opening trade agreements.
America shouldn't retreat from competition in the world marketplace, we should insist on it. It is America's strength and the key to the high-tech, high-paying jobs of the future.
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Maya will star alongside Syrian actors Basel Al Khayat, Ayman Rida, Fayes Qazaq and Muna Wasef.
In the new series Maya plays the role of Miraj, one of the most important Israeli agents that worked with the Israeli intelligence, 'Al Musad.' Miraj is known for her beauty and wisdom.
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Palace Malice posts impressive Belmont Stakes work
- Palace Malice had the top workout Monday among Belmont Stakes probable entries
- A field of about 14 is shaping up for the Belmont Stakes
NEW YORK (AP) — More than a half-dozen Belmont Stakes contenders have posted workouts at Belmont Park less than two weeks before the final leg of the Triple Crown.
Palace Malice was among the most impressive with a five-furlong work in 1:00.24 on Monday. Trainer Todd Pletcher says his 12th-place Kentucky Derby finisher "worked unbelievably well."
Pletcher could have as many as five 3-year-olds for the 1 1/2-mile Belmont on June 8. The others, all of whom had workouts Monday, are Revolutionary, Overanalyze, Midnight Taboo and the filly Unlimited Budget.
Freedom Child had his first workout since winning the Peter Pan earlier this month, covering five furlongs in 59.87.
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Watch The Destructive Video For Objekt's "Second Witness"
Unspooled film for the techno producer's new clip.
British techno producer TJ Hertz's debut LP as Objekt, Flatland, is one of the most engaging electronic LPs from this year, disintegrating techno's basic framework and running hot-blooded electro through its re-assembled pipes. There's something molecular and deconstructive about his music, and this video for Flatland cut "Second Witness," a collaboration between Hertz, Swiss visual artist Rachel Buehlmann, British photographer Joe Dilworth, and French/Japanese artist Nine YamamotoMasson, embraces those tendencies in a visual medium.
"It expands upon one the concepts behind the album – the idea of seeing a complex scene from every angle at once – as it explores the theme of vision and the limitations of sight, probing the desire to escape one's own restricted point of view," PAN, the notorious noise label that put out Flatland, said in an email to FADER. "The theme is reflected in both medium and motifs: shot entirely on film, the images purposefully tread the boundary between figurative and abstract."
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Banco Santander SAN said Wednesday that its fourth-quarter net profit fell, with solid operating performance weighed down by exceptional items.
Net income declined 3.5% compared with the same period last year to 1.54 billion euros ($1.91 billion), according to Santander's quarterly report, with charges dragging the result lower, as analysts expected.
"The group took a further EUR752 million charge in the fourth quarter relating primarily to the impairment of goodwill for the group's investment in Santander Consumer USA," Santander said. In November, the Spanish lender had said it would recognize a goodwill impairment of about EUR500 million due to a decline in Santander Consumer USA's earnings relative to previous years.
On a net level, taking into account gains and provisions, Santander reported a EUR382 million net charge in the quarter. The sale of a stake in Allfunds Bank and a small gain related to the U.S. tax overhaul partially offset charges.
The full-year charge for capital gains and provisions was EUR897 million, more than double the 2016 figure. For the full year, net profit was EUR6.62 billion, up from EUR6.2 billion, while gross income grew 10% to EUR48.39 billion.
Fourth-quarter underlying profit, which strips out special items, rose to EUR1.92 billion, up about 9%. Gross income rose 6.9% to EUR12.06 billion, supported by higher net interest income and fee income.
"The Group continued to see positive trends across its businesses, with revenues increasing in eight of its ten core markets," Santander said.
Results include Banco Popular, which Santander bought last year. Popular's results were hit by a EUR300 million charge for planned integration costs in the third quarter and generated a loss of EUR37 million in 2017, Santander said.
"Santander continues to expect the acquisition to generate a return on investment of 13%‐14% in 2020," it said.
The bank's fully loaded common equity tier 1 ratio, a key measure of capital strength, notched up to 10.84% from 10.80% in September.
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Last month, I shared here the details of moving my books from CreateSpace to KDP Print in 3 easy steps. I also promised to see if there's anything else you need to do next. Amazon has done all it can to ensure an easy move but it turns out that yes, there are still some issues and possible glitches that require your personal attention in order to ensure that the move goes as smoothly as possible.
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This month, Amazon bestselling author Effrosyni Moschoudi is releasing her new novel in four compelling kindle episodes. If you're looking for a cracking good read to enjoy this Halloween, this is a great choice!
Lizzie is not your average tourist. She may have just arrived on the idyllic Greek island of Corfu, but her mind is not on having a good time. Far from it, Lizzie has a daunting task to undertake: to claim back her twin brother who was kidnapped twenty years earlier on her previous visit. In a cave. By an evil witch.
When Lizzie sees her brother again, she receives the shock of her life. The witch has tricked her… And, as if this weren't enough, a handsome local steals her heart to complicate her life even further…
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Readers of my blog will no doubt be aware of the importance of the categories and keywords your book uses. From using Amazon categories to increase your rankings to the perils of using keywords like Free, Bestseller, and Kindle, they can be used to optimize your book page. But, as I often say, book marketing is like building on quicksand: everything changes every other month.
No, it's not that keywords are suddenly any less important — in fact, quite the contrary. It's just that the way Amazon uses them to identify which books to display when a reader searches for a book to read seems to have changed lately.
As David Kudler of The Book Designer explains, it used to be that you could use natural-sounding phrases of two to five words for your keywords, especially those which returned between two hundred and a…
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East is placed at the top. The sun and moon hold lush forests. Jerusalem is the center of the world. And dragons hold the globe up at the bottom. But there is one aspect of the Psalter World Map, created in the 1260s, that is even stranger: a line-up of grotesque men located near Africa, two of whom have faces in their chests.
These monsters, called blemmyae, were actually based on the writings of Classical authors such as Pliny the Elder. In The Natural History, penned in 77 AD, Pliny wrote of the members of a North African tribe who were "said to have no heads, their mouths and eyes being seated in their breasts."
Over 1500 years later, authors were still talking about these chest-faced men. In Othello, none other than Shakespeare wrote…
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Financial markets do react to changes in financial public policy. That's a valid axiom. So, if markets do not move when new public policy arrives, does that mean that markets no longer care? Or that the particular new policy does not matter?
Strip away other things that markets are not reacting to: the economy is chugging along above forecast, in the second half of 2017 at or above 3 percent annualized GDP growth but still with no increase in the slope of inflation or wages; new trade policies are more hurtful than helpful, but can stay so for years without much economic effect.
The same is true for geopolitical risk: our adversaries may steal a march or two in these years, but fundamental global strengths and weaknesses are deeply anchored.
This leaves the tax bill as the oversize turkey — or ham, depending on your tastes — arriving as early as next week. The Senate may pass its version before Thursday, which would then plunk that version along with the House one into conference committee, which usually assures passage of a final.
We won't know until then what's in it (most of us have survived Thanksgivings with experimental stuffing), but the basic outline is clear now. Thus, stick with that outline for now and work on perspective and overall effects.
First, it's hard to tell how much attention the public is paying to the tax bill. A lot of the country seems more tuned-in to politics than usual, but a lot of politics now is at the level of circus and gossip, not substance. Our longstanding national tune-out of gridlock may explain markets' non-response to the tax bill.
Second, the math. The trillion-this, trillion-that, biggest-ever, most in 30 years — all of that is numbing. I'm not sure exactly when, but a couple of decades ago we began to discuss fiscal changes — taxes, spending, deficit — as "over ten years," which makes the changes seem bigger than they are. Over-ten-years has also been convenient camouflage for bi-partisan Congressional fraud, as in years eight-nine-ten spending has always turned out bigger and revenue smaller.
With apologies to Everett Dirksen, $1.5 trillion used to be a lot of money. But divide this proposed tax cut by ten — $150 billion per year — that's barely 3.8 percent of annual federal spending (total $4 trillion). As a percent of our $19.5 trillion GDP, an undetectable 0.8 percent.
That's an accounting error. In the same range as total repair costs of this year's hurricanes.
The overall structure of the tax bill is clear. It is not "reform" in any sense of the word. It adds more complexity than it removes and opens many gates to new tax gaming. A better term would be tax "reallocation," as nearly three-quarters of the tax cut will go to big business.
Will this reallocation have positive effect on the economy?
At Tuesday's gathering of the Wall Street Journal's (WSJ) CEO Council (229 members), a WSJ editor on stage with the prideful and log-rolling Gary Cohn asked the CEOs how many intended to expand investments because of the tax bill. The WSJ's own coverage says that only "a smattering" of hands rose; the YouTube video shows none raised above shoulder level.
Cohn looked as though slapped with a mackerel and blurted "Why aren't the other hands up?" No one answered.
The top risk in this tax bill has been that it might stimulate the economy. The Fed and other economists are in a running fight about the speed limit of our economy, but all non-political mainstreamers agree that if we're not at growth capacity now, we're going too fast. Any significant stimulus would force the Fed to react, raising rates and the risk of aborting growth altogether.
Small magnitude aside, the bill would push chocolates to big businesses in a world already bloated with excess capacity (see "China"). Making an unneeded investment tax-deductible does not make it needed. Adding to corporate bottom lines has never added to wages, let alone in a world drowning in labor.
Markets don't care. Pass the turkey, or don't.
The hardest part of true tax reform, especially if neutral to revenue and the deficit, is a good political balance between cutting taxes for some taxpayers and raising taxes on others to compensate. The great 1987 reform raised revenue by closing anti-productive loopholes and cutting tax brackets instead.
Today's bill does some of that for the middle class by increasing the standard deduction. However, the offsetting loopholes closed are not abusive ones, or non-productive. And the public has not noticed the things it will lose.
Example: both the House and Senate versions hurt the 20-year-old tax exemption for the sale of a primary residence. In current law, you get the exemption if you've lived in a primary home for two of the last five years; the new bill proposes five of the last eight. There is no economic benefit to this change, just stealing one of your few protections against inflation-boosted taxes.
Acting like Democrats, the Republicans propose an expanded federal deficit while reaching into your wallet for money to give to their buddies.
Republicans desperate for revenue have also tacked on a repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate. I am biased, my judgment clouded: my wife and I have a disabled daughter, uninsurable, who will depend on Medicaid for life. This tax bill's economic ineffectiveness aside, its small-mindedness and mean spirit trouble me.
This exchange in a Senate hearing this week: when senator Orrin Hatch, chair of the Senate Finance Committee, said that there were no Medicaid "cuts" in the bill, just people choosing not to sign up for Medicaid, senator Claire McCaskill snapped, "Where do you think the $300 billion is coming from? Is there a fairy that's dropping it on the Senate?"
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We got up this morning for a nice, lazy Sunday morning potter about the house, doing bits and bobs of straightening up and hoovering up the mysteriously large amount of shredded tissue that was appeared on the front room carpet overnight.
Carole nipped out to the shops, and to collect (and then return) a delivery at Next. So I was left at home doing stuff.
Or I should have been.
I was distracted by a stoat.
Yeah, that happened.
It's never happened before. Ever. And I have been in plenty more stoat-worthy environs than a street in Huddersfield, I can tell you.
I just happened to glance out of the window, having caught a movement in my peripheral vision. The street is loaded with cats, so I naturally assumed it would be one of them. They're always worth a watch because they're frequently hilarious with their almost honey badger levels of not giving a shit. Whether it's climbing up to sit on a car roof or trying to hide themselves in the grass on the green, they are an endless joy to watch and the perfect excuse not to do housework.
But it wasn't a cat.
It was a stoat.
And then it just disappeared. It ran under a car an vanished. I didn't see it come out the other side. Or turn back. Or anything. And believe me, I looked.
I even went so far as to open the front door and lie on the floor so that I could see under the car it had run underneath to try and work out where it was. Which, if nothing else, probably gave the neighbours something to talk about.
I sort of hope that it didn't climb up into the car, like you hear of kittens doing, because it was warm. I dread to think what sort of damage a damp stoat can do to the inner workings of an internal combustion engine. Or for that matter, what the inner workings of an internal combustion engine do to a stoat.
I have a feeling that this stoat is going to be like the sparrowhawk from earlier this year, or that time I saw a pheasant in next door's garden. Just a random animal encounter out of nowhere that will never, ever be repeated.
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New York Mets Sign Tim Tebow to a Minor League Deal
Tim Tebow's professional sports career may be resurrected after all.
The New York Mets have signed the former Florida Gators and NFL quarterback to a minor-league contract. After the signing was first reported by ESPN, the team confirmed it on their Twitter account.
They also announced that Tebow will participate in the Mets instructional league.
We have signed OF @TimTebow to a minor league contract. He will participate in the #Mets Instructional League. pic.twitter.com/I6gmW0b6hY
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The 29-year-old Tebow held a showcase for 28 of the 30 MLB clubs last month, as a way to demonstrate his seriousness about changing sports.
According to the New York Daily News, the general consensus coming out of the demonstration was that Tebow had outstanding raw athletic ability, but would need to work on the fundamentals of baseball.
Tebow won two BCS National Championships (2007, 2009) and the 2007 Heisman Trophy while playing college football for the Gators. His NFL career was initially promising, including leading the Denver Broncos to an overtime playoff victory during his second season. However his awkward mechanics combined with the team's acquisition of Peyton Manning ended his time in Denver. From there, Tebow had short stints with the New York Jets, New England Patriots, and Philadelphia Eagles. He hasn't played in a professional football game since 2012. He's worked as an on-air sports personality
In addition to his sports persona, Tebow has become known off the field due to his strong Christian beliefs. He's written two best-selling, religious-themed memoirs, appeared in numerous documentaries, and took part in a pro-life themed commercial aired during the 2010 Super Bowl.


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Dancing in the Isles: Baroque and Traditional Music from England, Scotland, and Ireland [TrackList follows] – Musica Pacifica – Solimar 101, 74:58 *****:
This engaging recital tries to make the case–successfully, I might add–that the cultural crosscurrents of the British Isles in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were such that high and low, elevated and grassroots popular, citified London and rural Scottish and Irish music were finding a home in the hearts of the populace in general, and this blending of styles was so commonplace that a program like the one under review here would have been not only welcomed, but expected.
Whether listening to improvisations on tunes that publisher John Playford in his fabulously profitable collection The English Dancing Master (1650) created, or the more complex choreographies of the Jacobean masque, the lively and foot-tapping exuberance of the traditional dance tunes, to the high intricacies of composers as groundbreaking and advanced as Nicola Matteis and John Locke, you will be astounded at how well it all fits together. When I first looked at the program I was curious as to how adept the artists of Musica Pacifica would be in navigating the styles and transitions, and whether the looseness of the popular material would cause consternating sloppiness in the "serious" pieces while that style made the "popular" pieces too rigid.
I needn't have been concerned–the whole point of this disc is to show that the distance between such music is not great, and that mastery of one does not preclude mastery of the other. I am not convinced that such generalities apply to music created in any age; instead it seems to me that this particular time period is more amenable to this kind of similarity in approach and shares basic musical building blocks not necessarily found at other times–this one may be unique in that regard. Regardless of philosophy, it all works, and works well.
Musica Pacifica has consistently proven themselves one of the brightest lights in the Baroque musical firmament, and this release is one of the best, a joyous and beauteous romp through the vagaries of an age and culture that we think we know well, but is actually far richer and more varied than we realize. Concept, playing, and performances are terrific.
TrackList:William Byrd: La Volta James Oswald: 3 Trio Sonatas on Scots Tunes – Sonata in D Major Matthew Locke: Broken Consort, I – Suite #4 in C minor Nicola Matteis: Ayres in G Major Francesco Veracini: Sonata in A Major, Op. 2 #9 "Scozzese" Henry Purcell: 3 Parts upon a Ground Traditional tunes and dances from the British Isles
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