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Detroit Public Montessori
Detroit, Michigan. I don't know what you know or think you know about Detroit, but I can tell you what Google thinks: here are some autocompletes for "Detroit is …":
- Detroit is … abandoned buildings
- Detroit is … coming back
- Detroit is … dangerous
- Detroit is … not that bad
- Detroit is … a wasteland
There's some truth in every one of these. Very briefly, and there have literally been books written about it, here's a capsule history.
Settled in 1701, "the first European settlement above tidewater in North America" (Wiki), burned almost to the ground in 1805, a stop on the Underground Railroad before the Civil War and a rising hub of trade and industry after, modern Detroit took off in 1910 with Henry Ford, the Model T, and mass production. Industry quintupled Detroit's population to 1.5 million between 1900 and 1930, brining an average of 100 new residents per day, every day, for thirty years. The city grew, and grew prosperous, and with the automobile, sprawled. The Great Depression was brutal in Detroit, but after WWII the city and the auto industry came roaring back for a 1945-1970 "Golden Age", growing to a peak of 2 million by 1950.
But in the 1960s and 70s, segregation, inner city (and largely Black) poverty, race riots, further sprawl, and the auto industry decline took their toll. Whites fled to the suburbs, jobs disappeared, and population fell to 1.5 million by 1970, 1.2 million by 1980, and down to 700,000 — barely a third of its peak — in 2010. Abandoned houses, schools, and entire neighborhoods blighted the city, poverty withered lives, and criminal violence stalked the remaining citizens. That's the Detroit of the ugly headlines and photo essays.
The population decline and the attendant tax revenue collapse, along with "decades of bad governance", drove Detroit in 2013 to Chapter 9 bankruptcy — at $18.5 billion, the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. Retired bankruptcy judge Seven Rhodes led the city to a settlement which, while without doubt controversial, kept the Detroit Institute of Art's collection from being sold to settle debts, and cut pensions and benefits much less than had been expected. (The Detroit Free Press has excellent coverage here.) Since then, Detroit has indeed begun a revival, investing in its urban core, and beginning to tackle some of its decades-old systemic issues.
Which brings us to schools. What you may have heard about the schools is what made the national news earlier this year: teacher sickouts protesting abysmal working conditions including rats, mold and flooding, as well as enormous class sizes and frozen wages. But there's more to this story, too.
Detroit schools weren't always the worst in the nation, and were even considered innovative during the booming 1920s. As city exploded and the automobile spread population out, hundreds of small neighborhood schools were built. But school construction lagged behind the population decline, and inertia plus parochialism kept schools open, and drove new construction even as enrollment dropped. Who wants to close the school at the heart of a neighborhood? Who wants to vote for their own school to be closed? Desegregation, White flight, deindustrialization, urban decay, and no small amount of mis-management and corruption gutted the school system and its finances, and by 1993, author Jerrey Mirel could chronicle the decline in The Rise and Fall of an Urban School System: Detroit, 1907-1981.
In 1994, Michigan passed a charter school law, and 14 Detroit charters launched in 1995, growing to 96 in 2014, competing with 103 public schools and serving more than half of Detroit's roughly 100,000 schoolchildren. The state of Michigan took over Detroit Public Schools in 1999, returned control to the school board in 2005, and took it back over in 2009, as the system ran up a $730 million annual deficit and $3.5 billion in debt. In 2011, Dan Rather updated Mirel's reporting with a two-hour broadcast, A National Disgrace. As the city transitioned through bankruptcy and revival, Detroit Public Schools continued to slide, until this very year, when the state approved a plan to split the district, with the old entity owning just the debt and the new one free to direct all of its resources to educating students. The interim emergency manager for the plan was the same Steven Rhodes who managed the city's bankruptcy. He takes over from the previous emergency manager, Darnell Earley, who came to the job fresh from his stint as emergency manager for Flint, Michigan, during the lead poisoning crisis.
So that's Detroit and Detroit Public Schools. The system is in truly dire conditions, but there is a re-organization plan on the table, and at least some people in the district earnestly and tirelessly working to make things better. DPS is in fierce competition with the charter schools (this New York Times piece tells the story), so they are eager for any innovation that might keep families from leaving or even pull them back in. There's an internal proposals process for innovations, which has promoted various magnet and academy models, including an International Baccalaureate and dual-language immersion. This year, according to an article on Chalkbeat, district Curriculum Director (now Interim Superintendent) Alycia Meriweather heard about public Montessori programs in other states at an ASCD conference and asked, "Why can't we do that?"
Detroit proper doesn't have much Montessori: three or four schools in a city of 700,000. But surprisingly, the proposal took off. DPS Executive Director of Enrollment Steve Wasko told me that 50 teachers and principals gathered for a planning meeting, plotting out every aspect of the program — classrooms, teachers, curriculum, and parent engagement. Building staff had to put them out to lock the doors at 8:00pm. "We couldn't get the teachers out of the room." Merriweather asked the schools who would be willing to host a new program, and when 11 of the 97 schools said yes, the district knew this thing was real.
The district took the process seriously. Family engagement was extended to the 11 schools, to be sure the program would be a good fit for the community, and wouldn't feel pushed on them. At one school, a parent came in on fire Monday morning after a parent survey had gone out, demanding to know why the school was moving to a "Catholic special education" model — but after some one-on-one conversation, she became a supporter. The district settled on seven classrooms at three locations — six Children's Houses serving children starting at four years old, and one lower elementary. (Funding for three year olds in Detroit's tight budget wasn't available, and DPS is no longer a Head Start grantee, fallout from the political turmoil of the last five years.)
In the planning stages, "not too may people in the room knew too much about Montessori, beyond Googling," Wasko told me. But Montessori parents and people with Montessori connections kept popping up. A state licensed Detroit native with Montessori training returned form Houston just in time for a job fair. Another teacher in the system already had a Master's degree from the AMS program at Xavier.
The district connected with theNational Center for Montessori in the Public Sector (NCMPS) for informal consultation, and with Theo Papatheodoropoulos, the director of the Michigan Montessori Teacher Education Center (MMTEC) in the Detroit suburbs, an AMS teacher training center founded in 1969. Papatheodoropoulos is a prominent figure in public and private Montessori in Michigan, having started numerous schools himself. These resources helped the district build a model of Montessori fidelity including MACTE-accredited training, mixed-age classrooms, a three-hour work cycle, and more. Nine teachers are being trained (for seven positions, to provide a cushion and allow for expansion) at MMTEC and via the Institute for Guided Studies (IGS), and Wasko reported on the transformation teachers are undergoing — prayers and tears were mentioned — immersed in a group of adults talking about having their lives changed by the process. (I asked Wasko if the district had considered AMI, but with a September launch date in mind, just months away, and no local training center, it wasn't under consideration.)
Funding for starting up (training, staffing, classrooms, etc.) comes from a three-year state innovation grant, and thereafter from DPS' student allocation of about $7,500 per child. (As small as that sounds, before the debt restructuring, at least $1,200 of that was going just to interest payments.) Staffing includes an assistant and a trained teacher in every classroom, as well as a full time Montessori lead and curriculum developer, who will take the MMTEC training, and is already a Montessori mother of two children. Building principals will not be fully trained, but will attend the weekend sessions throughout the school year with teachers, and two of three are — as it turns out — Montessori parents as well.
The growth plan is to let school communities tell the district where and when to extend the program, the elementary at least is likely to expand to 5th grade. "We've heard examples of Montessori middle and high schools," Wasko said, "but we want to grow at a pace we can support and keep up the level excellence." On the other hand, with so little Montessori in the area, and no elementary, the district senses an opportunity. Wasko was surprised to learn that none of the many Detroit charters does Montessori, so if the district can get it right, they may be able to stake out the "excellent Montessori" territory and bring people back into the system.
Detroit, and Detroit public schools, face many deeply daunting challenges. And new Montessori teachers in urban, high-poverty schools face personal and professional challenges as daunting or more so. But the level of excitement, good will, and courage in the people involved was evident in my conversation with Wasko, and everyone is pulling for success, for the program and for the children trapped in a system that has failed many of them and that they didn't create. I'll be following the program, and hoping hard to be reporting on successes as they move along.
David worked in private Montessori for more than twenty years as a parent, three-to-six year-old and adolescent teacher, administrator, writer, speaker, and advocate. In 2016 he began working with the National Center for Montessori in the Public Sector. David lives in Portland, Oregon.


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Studying God's Word Together…
Is a privilege we share as a church, and we want to set up times for men and women to gather in order to study God's Word together.
Is a primary means of grace in our Christian faith. Being challenged, held accountable, and prayed for by one another is a way we can grow together.
Is an easy way to get to know one another and encourage one another as we meet during seasons of celebration as well as seasons of difficulty and trial.
Is a perfect time for you to ask your questions in an environment that is safe, friendly, and supportive. Come with your questions and allow God to speak through His Word and His people.

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Nothing is as strong as a mother's bond with her daughter. This Colby Davis Celtic Knot represents the endless love that exists between a mother and daughter. This knot is a complete loop and has no start or finish.
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A cyclical, annual campaign conducted in Łódź since 2000. It aims to oppose intolerance, xenophobia and vandalism.
During "Colorful Tolerance", insulting inscriptions on the walls are painted over. Along Piotrkowska Street the march is organized. One of the activities is the 'open temple' day where lectures are conducted. Moreover the meetings with representatives of various nationalities, faiths and cultures are held. Another part of programme are film screenings. Action is attended annually by school students, students, journalists, politicians, officials, and numerous non-governmental organizations.


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"I Heart" Mango Tart
Ingrid Hoffmann's "I Heart" Mango Tart is a delicious Valentine's Day dessert to enjoy with that special someone.
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- 6Servings
- 6 frozen 3-inch individual tart shells
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3 ripe mangos, peeled, pitted and diced
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sweetened flaked coconut
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/2 cup butter, at room temperature (1 stick)
1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Spray a cookie sheet with nonstick spray and place tart shells on sheet.
1.Combine the mangos, 1/4 cup sugar, lemon juice and salt in a large bowl. Spoon into the tart shells.
1. Combine the flour, coconut, cinnamon and the remaining 1/4 cup sugar in a large bowl.
2. Add butter, squeezing mixture together to form a loose ball, then break into small pieces and sprinkle evenly over each tart.
3. Bake until filling is bubbly and topping is golden, about 10-12 minutes.
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Well his dad is my dentist so they've both been in my mouth.
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They've both given you a filling too.
Not sure what his dad being a dentist has to do with that tho...
Oh...didn't see that cumming, did ya?
That's going to make going to the dentist super awkward if the dad ever found out. "Hmm I see you have two cavities and my son's semen..."
That leaves one guessing who what and where.


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The UK economy will barely grow this year and may have taken a bigger hit from the euro zone debt crisis than thought, but the Bank of England gave little indication that it would rush to pour further stimulus into the economy.
UK-ECONOMY - Team GB's winning streak continues at the London Olympics - but the country's golden success is not reflected in its economy.
The Bank of England predicts growth will come to a virtual standstill in 2012, as the effects of the euro zone crisis continue to batter the outlook.
In his quarterly Inflation Report, Bank governor Mervyn King said that growth in two years time is likely to be around 2 percent a year, down sharply from a forecast of 2.67 percent.
"The recovery and rebalancing of our economy will be a long slow process. So it is to our Olympic team that we should look for inspiration. They have shown us the importance of total commitment when trying to achieve a goal that may lie some years ahead."
Britain's economy entered its second recession in four years at the end of 2011.
And last month data showed output had slumped 0.7 percent in the second quarter of 2012, partly due to wet weather and an extra public holiday.
The Bank of England promised to buy a further 50 billion pounds of government bonds over the summer to help.
It now says the economy may pick up in the short term but only modestly.
Sarah Hewin from Standard Chartered says that's partly due to a fall in inflation - which was 2.4 percent in June.
"I think that the good news from the Bank of England's point of view is that inflation is moving in the right direction. What we will be looking for is the assessment of where inflation will be in two years time. Is it going to be below target, in which case they will be signalling that they need to do more quantitative easing."
The UK government is part-way through a five-year austerity program.
But it's finding the cuts increasingly difficult to defend as growth in Britain and the euro zone falters.
It's a similar story across the Channel where government forecasts of 0.3 percent growth also look optimistic.
France is now expected to slip into recession in the third quarter, with a 0.1 percent contraction in the second.
There may still be scope to increase the number of Olympic medals but there's little sign of growth elsewhere.
Ciara Sutton, Reuters.
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If your house is like mine, I feel like we are one huge charging station. There are plugs everywhere- laptops, iPhones, iPods, Blackberries, ugh! When I cook, and I need to plug in a blender, you would think it is an electronics store instead of a kitchen.
I get it. Phones and electronics charging on the floor is not cool, and it's definitely not safe with dogs and kids running around.
How about these great little charging stations that keep cords off the floors and counters? A small shelf hangs off of the outlet and allows the cord to wrap around the holder. No dangling cords and no cords on my counter so I can cook! 🙂 That would be a nice change!
Cell phone holder (comes in red, white, black, white or lime.) $6.99 at solutions.com


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by Jyotsna Ramani
Conveniently located between three volcanic mountains, the exquisite atmosphere of Bandung acts like a magnet to visitors from not only Indonesia, but from all corners of the world.
The question remains as to why hordes of tourists flock to this soothing destination year after year, referred to as "Paris van Java", though usually for a quick stopover before heading off to explore more popular parts of the country.
If ever you wish to get away from the hustle and bustle and the headaches of everyday life, then Bandung is the ideal choice. The food, for example, is delicious, shopping very affordable and the attractions never ending. There is a very popular saying that Bandung never allows anyone to leave empty handed.
The food in Bandung is not only tasty but inexpensive and extensive as well. To enjoy the experience of a real original Indonesian cuisine, in a serene and comfortable setting this is the only place in the country to savour.
From the bamboo huts of Kampung Daun with the waterfalls and streams to the floating market of Lembang, the culinary delights of Bandung need to be experienced. There is a place known as Paskal food market, where there are more than one thousand delights on offer at any given time. Located on Pasir Kaliki road, this is a very popular choice of all locals and tourists.
Bandung and the surrounding hills offer many interesting hiking trails. The ideal year round temperature adds to the comfort level of the visitor. From short walks to multi day hikes Bandung is a true trekking destination. There are some extremely scenic routes over fields and untamed rugged terrain.
The Mount Tangkuban Perahu hiking trail, is perhaps the most popular walk along the majestic plateaus of the region. Though the normal way is through paved roads, there are alternative and enterprising routes through the mountains which are not only rewarding but offer a soothing thermal springs bath as well. Tangkuban Perahu is situated 25km from Bandung,via Lembang in Sagalaherang village. Camping options are available for those willing to pitch a tent.
There is another well laid hiking track, which can really be enjoyed, in the Dago Pakar area. Mount Pakar is the highest point in this area which can be truly enjoyed by walking on the well laid out tracks.
The historical site of the Dutch and Japanese man made caves of the World War II era are worth visiting. Another popular destination is the beautiful waterfalls of Curug Ciomas and Maribaya along the 4 km trek from gate number four through lovely pine forests.
Tebing Keraton, also known as the jutting rock,is a popular cliff located in the Juanda forest area. The place affords great views of the city of Bandung. The sunrise is the best time to visit this place to view the mist covered mountains and view the silhouette of Mount Tangkuban. Another popular place is Gunung Batu, or the mountain of the dead stone.
This is so called because the stoñe resembles a human corpse. Gunung Batu is located south of Lembang, which in itself is a few kilometers away from Bandung, albeit at an increased elevation. The best place to visit for a short day hike, this off beat locale is devoid of the large tourist hordes.
The trek passes through paddy fields to the base of the mountain. Once you have traversed the tricky path to the top,coming down from the other side is a nice easy walk.
Bandung, also known as the flower city, has plenty of attractions for every visitor. The cool climate, the culinary offerings and the unimaginable experience the city has to offer makes Bandung the ultimate universal travel destination. The colours and landscape of Kawah Putih, makes the place beautiful and surreal.
The lake in this dormant volcano changes colour with the levels of concentration of the soil. Kawah Putih is easily accessible by road and one can drive right up to the crater rim, from where the lake itself is a brief 100m walk. For the more adventurous ones, this is a good place to camp and take in the panoramic scenery of the place.
Nestled between three mountain ranges, the city of Bandung enjoys a climate like no other. Due to its topography, the weather remains cool throughout the year, unlike other cities in Indonesia. The average temperature hovers around 23 degrees C, making it a favourite weekend haunt for locals and visitors from nearby cities. The city is situated on a plateau roughly 768 m above sea level, surrounded by the beautiful Parahyangan mountains.
In colonial times, the city of Bandung came to be known as 'Paris van Java', especially because of the European ambiance and the similarities to Paris. The city, to date, still retains the charm and vibrancy with the rich Tropical Deco architecture on display.
The leading universities are based here as are the art and cultural centres. In fact Bandung can be termed as an art lovers dream, with amazing installations of art in the NuArt sculpture park. This three hectare park was established in 2000 and is the brainchild of Nyoman Nuarta, the most famous sculptor of Indonesia. Filled with brass,copper and steel artifacts, the park showcases some of the best products of the famous man.
Inscribed on the UNESCO heritage list, the Angklung, a traditional bamboo musical instrument, plays an important role in the preservation of Sundanese art and culture. The sight and sounds of Saung Angklung Udjo, a series of interesting daily performances, are seen to be believed. Established in 1966, Saung Angklung Udjo was created to conserve the art and culture of West Java, and eventually earn great respect worldwide.
The Asian -African conference museum, the venue of the first meet in 1955, is now recognised as a historic building and an inspiration to the world at what could be achieved by peaceful means. The museum houses collection of paintings. photographs and other memroblia from the conference and is a epitome of present day Indonesian culture.


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Through the Williams Sonoma website, the same exact fondue set was being sold for $179.95 at retail - Wow! If there's a time to go thrifting, that time is now because a lot of folks are doing their spring cleaning and donating quite a bit of items. As they say, one man's trash is another man's treasure!
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Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM Macro Lens
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Camino Frances | Day 26
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Saint Maurice to Martigny, 16.3 km
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The mountain gods were angry my friends, and the wind gusts were unreal. Something needed to be done, and it didn't take a mace to get there.
After crossing dilapidated bridges, past mythical tricksters and a cow or two, I reached the Pissevache falls. A rainbow and a dip in the cold water later I made peace with gods, and it only cost me a purple toe in sacrifice. I smashed it really bad, let us hope it's not broken.
I was now allowed to pass, and surprisingly enough the wind died down as I entered Martigny. At 15 hundred ft, the city joins Italy, France, and Switzerland with its network of roads.
I settled in at a hotel, properly washed my clothes for the first time in weeks and had a late lunch.
The alps are throwing everything at me, wind, rain and now temperatures are projected to drop in the coming days… bring it on.
Daily Cost Breakdown
₣12.00 Breakfast
₣09.30 Snack
₣08.70 Supermarket
₣65.10 Hotel
₣95.19 Total
Today's stage broken down with the help of Google Earth.
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- Collaborative pixel canvas
On ourPlace you can change the color of a pixel on a public canvas for a small fee. This idea is a combination of the r/Place Reddit April Fools experiment in 2017, and the 'Million Dollar Homepage' conceived in 2005.
At ourPlace you can place one pixel per block, pick any Hex #RRGGBB color, and choose from one of the two canvases.
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Why photographers love Machaba
This owner-run safari camp lies in a private concession bordering Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta. It offers excellent game-viewing, accommodation and guiding.
- High quality tented accommodation.
- Riverside location on the Khwai River.
- Very good game-viewing year round.
- Great predators including lion, cheetah, hyaena, leopard and wild dog.
- Night drives with spotlight.
- Off-road driving permitted.
- Excellent Land Cruisers and great guides.
- Owner-run and –managed.
- Spotlight photography.
How we rate Machaba
Machaba at a glance
- 10 luxury tents with en-suite bathrooms; paths connect the units.
- Dining and public areas are spacious and modern.
- Swimming pool.
- Massage if you need it.
- 220v charging in rooms.
The concession
Situated in the 1800-square-kilometre Khwai Concession bordering Moremi Game Reserve. There is a good network of roads that are shared by just three camps. During the high season you may share sightings with other vehicles.
When to go
- Game-viewing is best from May (arrival of flood waters) to November (start of the rains).
- December is a good month to see young animals.
- From February to April, the area is very green, with good cloud build-ups (some rain) and excellent bird sightings.
Getting there
- A 4-hour drive from Maun by 4×4.
- A 40-minute flight from Maun, followed by a 20-minute road trip to the camp.
What Machaba costs
- Rates from US$520 per person per night sharing.
- There are very good rates for Southern African Development Community (SADC) members.
- Flights to Maun (40 minutes) and Kasane (45 minutes) at about US$250 a leg.
Photographers need to know
- This is a family-friendly camp, so children may be visiting.
The good news
A member of Classic Safari Camps of Africa, Machaba is independently run and owned by Chris Kruger and Alistair Rankin, both previously with Wilderness Safaris.


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Loose Leaf Tea Health Benefits
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Though they may not be magic elixirs, the hard data on the benefit of loose teas—black, green and white--developed and published by medical organizations, research institutes and laboratories, certainly suggests that the consumption of these products may indeed have wide-ranging medical benefits.
Though they may not be magic elixirs, the hard data on the benefit of loose teas—black, green and white--developed and published by medical organizations, research institutes and laboratories, certainly suggests that the consumption of these products may indeed have wide-ranging medical benefits.
In recent years a number of major clinical and laboratory studies in the United States and abroad have shown that tea consumption—especially of loose teas—has significant benefit to the health of prostate glands, bones, skin, teeth and gums, hearts, help block allergic responses, boost metabolisms and aid in weight loss, delay the onset of diabetes and protect against Parkinson's Disease—the list goes on and on. For example . . .
Health Benfits Seen In Studies
In a recent California study reported in the Journal of Nutrition, researchers found the presence of tea polyphenols and theaflavins in the prostate glands of test subjects who ingested black and green teas, and noted that cancer cell proliferation was less when samples were grown in media with serum taken from these subjects. Papers presented at the American Institute for Cancer Research/WCRF International Research Conference on Food, Nutrition and Cancer (July, 2005), established new evidence of links between green tea compounds and cancer prevention that include: diffusing cancer-causing proteins found throughout the body; preventing prostate cell proliferation; slowing the growth of breast tumors; and causing cell death in lymphoma cells.
A study conducted in China and reported on in the International Journal of Cancer found that consumption of green tea was associated with a 41 percent reduction in risk for stomach cancer. University of Arizona researchers found that smokers who drank four cups of green tea daily for four months showed a marked decrease in cell damage caused by smoking. The National Cancer Institute found in animal tests that catechins in green tea deactivated oxidants before cell damage could occur, inhibited cancer cell growth and reduced the size and number of tumors. The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also reported that seniors in Japan who drank one or more cups of green tea per day were significantly less likely than those who drank less tea to show cognitive and memory problems.
Black Tea Health Benefits
Black tea consumption was shown to provide benefit to teeth and gums in a recent Chicago College of Dentistry study. Subjects who rinsed with black tea multiple times daily were shown to have reduced plaque build-up compared to those who rinsed with water. At the Harvard Medical School a study of 340 people who had suffered from heart attacks found that those who drank at least one cup of black tea per day reduced their chance of repeated heart attacks by 44 percent, when compared to non-tea drinkers. A Boston University study indicated that black tea drinking helps prevent narrowed or clogged arteries that lead to heart disease or stroke.
White Tea Health Benefits
White teas too have been shown to provide significant health benefits. Made from immature tea leaves and undergoing less processing than black or green teas, white tea contain more polyphenols, the cancer-fighting antioxidant, than other teas. At Pace University research has shown that white tea extract may help retard the growth of bacteria that cause staphylococcus infections, pneumonia and dental cavities. Researchers say that white tea may actually destroy the disease-causing organisms, while green tea only stimulates the immune system to fight disease.
Scientists also say that compounds in white tea are effective in enhancing skin cells' immune functions and protecting the skin from harmful effects of the sun. Elma Barton, the Director of the Skin Study Center at University Hospitals of Cleveland and Case Western Reserve University reported that "We found the application of white tea extract protects critical elements of the skin's immune system. Similar to the way oxidation causes a car to rust, oxidative stress of the skin causes a breakdown in cellular strength and function. The white tea extract protects against this stress. This study further demonstrates the importance of researching how plant products can actually protect the skin."
The evidence is compelling. From formal studies to anecdotal reports, the facts do more than just suggest that loose black, green and white teas offer significant medical benefits and can offer relief and protection from a host of ailments.


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I'm always interested in what musicians do in their projects after a high-profile prior project ends; how their music evolves, or doesn't, what aspects from the first project carry on into the second.
"Isn't That Something" is one of those follow-ups. Ray Toro, lately the lead guitarist of mid-aughts emo rock kings My Chemical Romance (and thusly one of the driving forces on their truly excellent 2007 rock opera The Black Parade), is making slightly fuzzed out, hook-filled, guitar power pop with just enough '80s hair metal guitar solos to differentiate it from all the other hook-filled guitar power pop that's getting made right now. "Isn't That Something" is labeled a demo on Toro's Soundcloud page, but you can stream it below, and the polish on it sure doesn't sound like a demo. It sounds like Toro is going to make a truly excellent hook-filled guitar power pop record with some thrashy elements to it, and I'm pretty darn excited about that.
No news on a tour or an official release, but "Isn't That Something" is something to hang a future on.


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Each and every month, we see a similar story playing out on dealerships across the United States. People flock to dealerships in near record numbers to buy new vehicles, and more of them are choosing fullsize pickup trucks than anything else. Generally low fuel prices are a big contributing factor to the popularity of these not so eco friendly choices, to be sure, but we also understand the desire for modern trucks.
These do-it-all machines are comforting passengers as well as they are hauling heavy loads.
- The Toyota Camry was America's hottest selling car in the past year. The Camry outsold its nearest rival, its little brother, the Toyota Corolla, by more than 5200 units. The Honda Accord, traditionally America's second-best selling car, ranked seventh. We look at the top 10 hottest car of 2015 in America.
- The Ford F series redesigned is a revolutionary step forward in the full sized pickup truck market.
- The 2015 Chevy Silverado is a more fuel efficient truck than ever. The best feature of this vehicle is that it has front park assist in addition to the rare park assist which was already available.
- The Toyota Camry is a midsize sedan with 178-hp 2.5 liter 4 cylinder and six speed automatic transmission in the standard models.
- The Ram 1500-3500 is more fuel efficient and comes in the 4*4 and 4*2 drive types.
- The Japanese brand Toyota Corolla comes fifth in this list.
- The front wheel drive Nissan Altima combines performance and attractive exteriors.
- The Honda Civic looks to maintain its position with its premium features and safety equipment.
- 2015 Honda CR-V is a fuel efficient SUV with a lot of trunk space. It comes with a 2.4 liter engine and 5 speed auto transmission.
- The Honda Accord is famous for it generously spacious interiors and stylish exteriors.
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If you have a one-star "wanted" level in GTA V, the police will chase you. At two stars, they'll shoot to kill.
At three stars, a helicopter follows you and the police use more advanced strategies to try to stop you. At four stars, the game's equivalent of a SWAT team comes after you. At five stars, the streets of Los Santos are overrun with a murderous cops, all of whom are determined to stop you, no matter the cost.
And at six stars? Well, there is no six-star wanted level—not in GTA V, at least. Previous games had a system that went up to six stars, but the system was reduced into five stars for the newest GTA game. This has never been a secret; since the release of GTA V, players have known that there's only five stars' worth of wanted level.
Most players accepted this. But around late 2014, some hardcore players dove into the code of GTA V and found what they say is evidence of a hidden wanted level. Inside the code, Reddit user GlassGoose45 claimed to see dozens of instances where a level six wanted level was referenced. Stuff like "PLAYER::SET_MAX_WANTED_LEVEL(6);" and such.
The question then became: what did this mean? Was it just unused code? Were people misunderstanding what the code was saying? Was it possible to trigger six stars somehow, but players just hadn't found out how to do it? Was this something that was going to be implemented in the current-gen versions of the game? Was it related to the big ongoing mystery that players swear is hiding inside of GTA V?
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That may sound ridiculous, but consider what's at play: People knew that previous games had six stars, and suddenly the new game doesn't have it—that was kind of suspicious, in their eyes. A lack of six stars means that GTA V doesn't throw things like tanks at you, which seemed like a weird omission to some players. There are tanks in GTA V, after all. Why not throw some of them at the player, like older games did?
It wasn't until this week that someone brought the hidden wanted levels back up again. That makes sense, given that the PC version of GTA V just recently came out. That means players can mess around with the game's inner workings to a degree they can't on consoles. Prime opportunity to see what GTA V might be hiding, yeah?
So that's exactly what ClicheUsername, a member of r/chiliadmystery, did yesterday. He booted up something called "Cheat Engine," and used it to set the wanted level to 6 in the game. And it actually worked. The game gave him six stars. You can see what happens here, in this video:
Immediately after triggering it, a bunch of police cars started blasting toward him from a distance, and a helicopter starts chasing him. This wasn't new to ClicheUsername, though. Enabling six stars was something he claims he tried shortly after the release of the PC version. This was just the first time he was documenting the chaos. "I was mostly just surprised that it didn't crash the game," ClicheUsername told me via email.
Unfortunately, the six-star wanted level didn't seem to make things more intense. "I don't think any law enforcement spawns and comes after you," ClicheUsername wrote on Reddit. "The cops that attacked me in that video were already there." Funnily enough though, setting the wanted level to seven crashed the game altogether.
ClicheUsername seems convinced that the sixth wanted level isn't just some unused code that never made it into the actual game. He believes, or perhaps hopes, that there is more to the wanted levels than people have found so far.
"I can't be sure about this yet, and the only way to be certain may be if we can get a look at the code for wanted levels and how they work," ClicheUsername said. The hunch ties back to the big mystery at the heart of GTA V.
"If you've seen the blueprint map that came with the Collector's Edition of the game, there's a few interesting messages that you can see if held under a UV light," ClicheUsername said. Specifically, he's referring to this:
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The words appear on a part of the map known as Fort Zancudo, a military base in GTA V. Remember how people found it suspicious that GTA V's wanted levels don't include military weaponry, like tanks? Yeah. That's where this theory is going.
"I think if the sixth star is obtainable, Zancudo very likely has something to do with it, considering that's where the military is and that's who I'd expect to be after you if you had six stars," ClicheUsername said. The assumption now is that maybe, just maybe, players haven't found the specific way to trigger the six stars in-game yet. That they haven't "taken control" yet, if you will. And so at least a few folks on r/chiliadmystery are hoping that they'll find an answer after testing a few things out at Zancudo. Maybe they'll find something that gives you a fully-fledged six stars in the game—tanks and all. And, yeah, maybe they won't.
Theories about secrets hidden inside of GTA are a dime a dozen, and any gamer who's spent long enough playing the game probably has a story or two to tell you about such-and-such rumor. Usually, those hunches don't pan out. Most "evidence" leads to dead ends.
This mystery, the mystery of the six-star wanted level stands apart from most others. There is another wanted level in the game. It may just be unused code, and it may not do much (yet?), but still, it's in there.


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Like most authors, I have doubts about my books. I worry about making an impact. About anyone caring. About whether or not they touch anybody.
Then I get comments like this one:
"Laken, thank you for reacting. As well as for your work and your words. Your books have inspired me every single time I read them. I am my monster. My monster is me. You don't know how much those words tripped something in me to fully accept all of my issues and to LOVE myself for them.
There are very few writers like you, who tackle these issues head on, and combine that with skill in writing so beautifully that it makes your readers REALIZE and ACCEPT. Doesn't matter that it's fiction, that it's paranormal, that it's not going to be a world I'll ever be in. It's still life. I'm lucky to have found my way to reading those authors' works (You, Catherine Gayle, Author Faleena Hopkins, Irish Winters are at the top of that list.) So again, thank you."
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What is the best way to complete an outfit? A classy bag or a nice pair of shoes? Yes sure they will do the trick, but big earrings really help you make a statement, which is why they are called statement earrings.
In the 80's these big loud ear accoutrements were very prevalent and today they are making a reappearance. "No makeup", messy hair in a bum, red lipstick and statement earrings is the key for most looks these days. Like Bussinesoffashion.com says "Essentially, statement earrings are what shoes were to Carrie Bradshaw for a generation who wear Stan Smiths".
Personally, I adopted this trend very fast last year, when I changed my hair from very long to extremely short, my first choice of accessories afterwards were big statement earrings. The style of the statement earrings can differ but they all have something in common : they are big, the bigger the better, some of them even extend way below the shoulders. They are bright, flashy and sculptural. I've also noticed that most women these days wear them everywhere, even with a casual outfit when you don't feel like wearing a lot of makeup, statement earrings will save you by giving you a sense of personality. For work, when paired with a suit or any other classy outfit, they are the "must have" if you are a selfie fan or having a date on FaceTime and no runway is complete without a pair of statement earrings.
So if you like big statement earrings as much as me, check out my list of favourites that I picked out personally for you and pick up your own favourite.
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Peter's Vision to Preach the Gospel to the Gentiles
Scripture: Acts 10:1-48, 11:1-18
After the death of Jesus, He appeared to the apostles in his resurrected body and gave them a charge. He said, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations" (Matthew 28:19). The challenge was that up to that point Jesus and His apostles had only taught the gospel to the Jews. So, you can imagine that Peter and the others would have been a little hesitant to teach and baptize Gentiles, from other countries. To the Jews, anyone who was not a Jew was considered a Gentile and was unclean.
As the story continues, Peter was in Joppa and he had a vision (see the video for more details) which helped him understand that he should take the gospel to the gentiles. Shortly thereafter, some men came looking for him and took him to their master Cornelius who was in Cæsarea. Cornelius was a Gentile who believed in God and while praying, had a heavenly manifestation. In his own words, here's what happened, "Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee" (Acts 10:30-32).
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So, Peter arrived in Cæsarea and went to Cornelius' home. He was a little hesitant to enter the home of a Gentile but did it anyway. Then he taught Cornelius and his household about Jesus and they were converted to God and baptized. "Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons" (Acts 10:34). This was an important advance in the work at that time. Peter and the apostles learned that God loves everyone regardless of their heritage or nationality.
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SC Voter ID Costs: Seeing Triple
South Carolina spent $3.5 million to successfully defend its voter ID bill, S.C. Attorney General Alan Wilson's office announced this week. That's more than three times the original cost estimate, which was first reported by former (Charleston, S.C.) Post and Courier reporter Renee Dudley last January.
In fact Dudley's estimate was scoffed at as being too high at the time …
Last October, a three-judge panel upheld South Carolina's law – which requires that voters present a valid photo ID prior to casting their ballots. Wilson referred to the ruling as "a major victory for South Carolina and its election process."
South Carolina lawmakers have appropriated more than $1 million to pay for IDs (including a recurring cost of $100,000 each year) … but that appropriation won't necessarily solve our state's problem. Why not? Because to obtain a photo ID in South Carolina one must first obtain a copy of their birth certificate, which the S.C. Department of Vital Statistics won't give you unless you show them … wait for it … your photo ID.
See how that works?
FITS opposed the voter ID law on the grounds that it addressed a nonexistent problem. We also objected to the way certain politicians – led by S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley – fabricated information in an effort to support the law. Also, as far as we're concerned the rigging of elections is a much bigger problem in our state …
Why were the costs associated with defending this law so high? That's a good question …
Obviously the costs associated with defending this legislation fall most squarely on the U.S. Department of Justice (USDOJ) – which went out of its way to make political hay at South Carolina's expense (even after its non-political staff recommended approving the legislation).
"Damn liberal bureaucrats in D.C. are responsible for this bill," one source familiar with the case tells FITS.
More to the point, the fact that South Carolina is one of a handful of states which has to "pre-clear" election laws with Washington is ridiculous. Our state has a black U.S. Senator and an Indian-American governor – and while neither of them is the fiscal conservative champion they claim to be – their presence in such high offices would seem to indicate the Palmetto State's history of disenfranchising minorities is a thing of the past.


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In The Air with Montana Cox
Montana Cox is one of the country's biggest style exports.
After winning Australia's Next Top Model in 2011, the Melbournian model has walked international runways – including Valentino couture, Lanvin and Givenchy – and is constantly on the road for work.
In Sydney this week for the David Jones Spring Summer 2015 Fashion Launch, the frequent flyer shares her secret to dealing with jet lag – "It's all in your head!" – and the most luxurious place she's ever stayed.
What's always in your suitcase?
A black blazer, white t-shirt, black t-shirt, a nice blouse, jeans, a good pair of boots, and a nice pair of sandals. My style is quite relaxed. I love Jac + Jack and bassike sweaters.
Do you have a secret for travelling light?
I'm really bad at travelling light. I'm one of those people that pack everything, but then wear the same pair of denim jeans for two weeks.
What's in your in-flight beauty bag?
SK-II masks, a rose spray, a hydrating spray and Papaw cream. Also, I usually take Pringles on the plane. They get me through the flight!
How often do you travel?
All the time, I travel a ridiculous amount. I travel every week, even if it's Sydney to Melbourne, or London, or New York, or from New York to LA. It's a lot…
How do you stay fresh on a flight?
Moisturising and drinking plenty of water. I don't drink alcohol on planes, ever. And although you look like a crazy person when you put one of those SK-II masks on, it helps with your skin.
What is your secret to a stress free journey?
I think it is all about being organised. Make sure you get to the airport early!
Do you have any make-up quick fixes if you are looking tired after a flight?
Cleanse your face and moisturise. After that, I put a bit of concealer on under the eyes and a bit of mascara. Don't get on the plane with make-up and don't get off the plane with too much make-up.
What is the most luxurious place you have ever stayed in?
I stayed at Hotel Il Pellicano in Tuscany. It was incredible. It's a hotel on a cliff, with an elevator to go down to the beach. It felt like a scene from a James Bond movie.
How do you deal with jet lag?
I just tell myself I don't get jet lag, and then I don't get jet lag. It's all in your head! If you get tired you just need to go out. Usually a glass of wine somewhere helps. For me, it's a mental thing.
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Enpass on Android unable to open Seafile synced folderYes. I accept this is a problem with Android filesystem and Seafile App in particular.
Enpass on Android unable to open Seafile synced folderI'm moving away from dropbox. I have desktop folder sync setup using Seafile between several desktops and my laptop, works well. I was planning on also using Seafile sync on Android, but when I try to set up folder sync in Enpass on Android I can't add the synced folder or file. When setting up sync I can navigate to the folder in Enpass and see the vault file, but clicking on 'Done' has no effect, forcing me to cancel sync setup. Anyone have any idea why? File permissions issues? Is it because Seafile is syncing to my SD card storage? I've seen other posts suggesting Seafile WebDAV support can work with Enpass, so I'm looking into that instead, but I'm puzzled as to why a simple folder sync cant work.
New Enpass App is crashing everytime I try to open it..Well the iOS download page for version six says minimum iOS version is 10. But on my iPad 2 - stuck on iOS 9.3.5 because that's as far as Apple went - Enpass was auto-updated to version 6. So I presume it just shouldn't have auto-updated. The bigger question for me, assuming the Enpass app gets reverted to version 5, is that will it still sync with devices running 6? Seems like this might be the end of the road to sync with older devices.
Enpass crashes at launch after latest updateShould add that I rebooted before trying the re-install. Just did a bit of download URL tweaking and grabbed Enpass for mac 5.5.8 again. Works perfectly, just have to ignore the update dialog when it launches!
Enpass crashes at launch after latest updateThe Enpass update dialog popped up today and I installed the update but Enpass failed to start again. Tried manually starting it: crashed. Tried downloading from the web site and starting it: crashed. Tried reverting my password wallet to an earlier version on dropbox then starting freshly downloaded app: crashed. App Zapped Enpass to remove both app and all preferences, reinstalled 5.6.0 from dmg, then started it: crashed. So at this point a freshly installed 5.6.0 wont launch. It goes through app verification on first launch then dies, after that it just dies at launch. At this point I really don't know what to do next. Lost without Enpass! Are there any earlier versions available for download anywhere? OSX El capitan 10.11.6 "Enpass quit unexpectedly" Some of the error report: Crashed Thread: 0 Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread Exception Type: EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL) Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000001, 0x0000000000000000 Exception Note: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread 0 in.sinew.Enpass-Desktop 0x0000000107ea0ab9 0x107b9c000 + 3164857 1 in.sinew.Enpass-Desktop 0x0000000107ea09e3 0x107b9c000 + 3164643 2 in.sinew.Enpass-Desktop 0x0000000107e47329 0x107b9c000 + 2798377 3 in.sinew.Enpass-Desktop 0x0000000107dd99b9 0x107b9c000 + 2349497 4 in.sinew.Enpass-Desktop 0x0000000107dbecb2 0x107b9c000 + 2239666 5 in.sinew.Enpass-Desktop 0x0000000107dbba7a 0x107b9c000 + 2226810 6 in.sinew.Enpass-Desktop 0x0000000107c52990 0x107b9c000 + 747920 7 libdyld.dylib 0x00007fff9ed7d5ad start + 1 Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit): rax: 0x0000000000000071 rbx: 0x00007fbb0cbdea70 rcx: 0x0000000000000000 rdx: 0x000000000000002f rdi: 0x0000000000000000 rsi: 0x000000000000e3bd rbp: 0x00007fff580639e0 rsp: 0x00007fff580639e0 r8: 0x000000000000614c r9: 0xffffffff00000000 r10: 0x00000001084f6e08 r11: 0x00007fff91264401 r12: 0x00007fbb0cbdd900 r13: 0x0000000000000000 r14: 0x00007fbb0cbdd800 r15: 0x00007fbb0cb40d20 rip: 0x0000000107ea0ab9 rfl: 0x0000000000010246 cr2: 0x00007000003a4fe8 Logical CPU: 0 Error Code: 0x0200018a Trap Number: 133
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Enpass crashes on use in Ubuntu 16 and OSX El cap using dropbox syncOk, have now tested the Enpass in ubuntu 16 that was crashing before. All working again. Makes me wonder if having enpass open on both my desktop and laptop whilst using dropbox sync is a good idea though...
Enpass crashes on use in Ubuntu 16 and OSX El cap using dropbox syncHave just removed sync_default.walletx and allowed enpass on osx to recreate it. Seems to be working now. Also worked on one of the linux machines I sync too, will still need to check the other ubuntu install I was having issues with.
I'm currently unable to use enpass in OSX and Ubuntu, although the apps launch fine any attempted use, either via enpass itself or a browser extension causes enpass to crash. Often once the crash has occurred enpass then crashes at startup unless I reboot. I use dropbox sync to sync between platforms and dropbox is showing sync_default.walletx hasn't been modified for 8 days, which seems wrong, so I think its possibly something awry with dropbox sync that is causing this issue. Any suggestion on how to work around this? Should I delete sync_default.walletx in dropbox and let enpass recreate it? I was going to attach the most recent crash log from OSX, but this forum seems only to accept image files? I also have enpass installed on my iPad but haven't dared open that to check...


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In the matter of the (Washington) Redskins. I don't like being lectured by sportscasters about ethnic sensitivity. Or advised by the president of the United States about changing team names. Or blackmailed by tribal leaders playing the race card.
I don't like the language police ensuring that no one anywhere gives offense to anyone about anything. And I fully credit the claim of Redskins owner Dan Snyder and many passionate fans that they intend no malice or prejudice and that "Redskins" has a proud 80-year history they wish to maintain.


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YouTube Demonetizes Collective Evolution's Entire Channel
Here's another fine example of censorship by YouTube: YouTube demonetized Collective Evolution's entire channel. It looks like companies in Silicon Valley are doing their best to demonetize, deplatform and ultimately censor most of the alternative media and providers of content going against the brainwash of the establishment. I went into more details on this specific form of censorship in a previous post where I also discussed Minds. You simply cannot trust YouTube anymore, and as we've recently seen, Patreon, PayPal and Stripe.


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Biden Moves Up COVID Vaccine Deadline2 min read
Check out the most recent COVID vaccine updates as of April 2021. John Iadarola and Aida Rodriguez break it down on The Damage Report.
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"President Joe Biden plans to announce Tuesday that he is moving up his deadline for states to make all American adults eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by almost two weeks.
With all states having opened eligibility to the public or at least having announced when they plan to do so, Biden will announce that every adult in the country will be eligible to be vaccinated by April 19, according to an administration official, instead of Biden's original deadline of May 1.
Biden announced last week that 90% of adults will be eligible to get a coronavirus vaccine by April 19, as well as have a vaccination site within five miles of where they live. Biden said the number of pharmacies participating in the federal pharmacy vaccination program was increasing from the current 17,000 locations to 40,000."
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Posted 01/26/16
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Help Japan, Dye Some Fabric
If there's one thing that can make a 9.0 earthquake more terrifying, it's meltdown at a nuclear power plant. While you probably don't have a spare helicopter or nuclear physicist to lend to Japan, you can help the earthquake relief effort by taking a Shibori workshop. The Textile Arts Center is teaching a few techniques of the traditional Japanese fabric dying method, with real indigo dye and everything. You'll learn how to bind, stitch and fold cloth to make patterns of all different shapes.
The Textile Arts Center is donating all of the proceeds to Japan.
Shibori Workshop to Benefit Japan
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Thursday, March 31
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$$$How JPMorgan's storm in a teapot grew [FT]
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$$$ECB stops operations with some Greek banks [Reuters]
$$$Greeks urged to run poll as euro vote [FT]
$$$Paulson Pitches AngloGold Ashanti and Caesar's [DealBook]
$$$Martin Marietta Falls Most Since 2008 After Einhorn Criticism [Bloomberg]
$$$24-Year-Old Finance [sic] Guy Asks All His Dates To Complete A Creepy [sic] Survey Afterward [Deadspin]
$$$Facebook Insider Sales Unlikely to Dent IPO [WSJ]
$$$Accidentally Released - and Incredibly Embarrassing - Documents Show How Goldman et al Engaged in 'Naked Short Selling' [RS / Matt Taibbi]
$$$Judge Tentatively OKs Three Key Wiretaps in Gupta Trial [WSJ]
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The usage of CBD would have more effects in having better health when compared to other medicines. It has been proved that people who have CBD would experience a calm feel and more concentration towards the work. Moreover, when CBD fits in receptors, it helps to have more focus and increases positive thoughts. The main usage of CBD is it makes heart healthy and helps to avoid many heart diseases by reducing daily stress and maintaining the blood pressure at a normal rate. So most of the therapists consider CBD is the best remedy for daily stress out, for reducing high blood pressure to a normal level and for curing psychological level.
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Modern weather forecasting is so good that we aren't often caught out, but we all take a chance once in a while, especially when we're under pressure to be somewhere else. Coastal sailing in near-gale conditions isn't the same as ocean storm survival. Instead, we have to think ...read more


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Vicent Kuitenbrouwer
Dr Vincent Kuitenbrouwer is Assistant Professor History of International Relations at the University of Amsterdam. He is specialized in nineteenth- and twentieth-century imperial history, and has a special interest in colonial media networks. He currently works on Dutch international radio-broadcasting in the late colonial period and the era of decolonization. Recent publications include: 'Radio as a Tool of Empire. Intercontinental Broadcasting from the Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies in the 1920s and 1930s', Itinerario, vol. 40:1 (2016) 83-103 and '"From Heart to Heart": Colonial Radio and the Dutch Imagined Community in the 1920s', in: G. Blok et al. eds., Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation (Amsterdam University Press 2018) 113-131.


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In what should be a very welcome addition for Android developers, Google is adding subscription billing to its app store.
That should give developers yet another to earn revenue on top of in-app purchases of virtual currency, downloads of paid apps and advertising. It will probably most benefit mid and hardcore game developers, who are more likely to have rabid fans willing to pay for monthly access. It will also help magazine publishers, who are still figuring out how to sell content on tablets.
All of the subscriptions are auto-renewing and can be set with monthly or annual fees. Developers set the price themselves. There's also an HTTP-based publisher API that lets enterprise-scale backend servers validate or cancel subscriptions. It's inter-operable with subscriptions on the web, so users can take their paid access with them across devices and web destinations.
The revenue share is just the same as it is with paid apps and in-app purchases. Google takes a 30 percent cut. When Apple launched subscriptions on iOS, some publishers like The Financial Times balked at Apple's cut and instead built HTML5 apps to circumvent the fees. Google's situation is a little more complicated as it relies more on carrier billing, which means most of their 30 percent cut may actually go toward mobile operators.
Google hand-selected a few developers to launch with subscriptions today. One of them is Glu Mobile, which is a publicly traded mobile game developer. They're best known for "action-adventure" games like Gun Bros and they did just over $17 million in smartphone revenue in the first quarter of this year (which was a pretty impressive 72 percent increase from the quarter before).
Google is playing catch-up with iOS in terms of helping developers make money from their apps. Mobile analytics firm Flurry found that for every dollar a developer earns on iOS, they earn about a quarter of that on Android. Most of this has to do with how Android just has fewer paying customers on file. If you look at revenue on a per-user basis (or how a paying user spends on average), it's actually almost the same on iOS and Android. So as long as Google can get more payments information on Android users, it looks promising.


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The Seahawks are becoming more and more of a popular pick for people when it comes to the playoffs and even the Super Bowl out of the NFC.
They beat the team that many have becoming the number one seed in the NFC in the 49ers, and also have one of the top picks when it comes to the MVP of the league – Russell Wilson.
Today NFL.com came out with an article about how technology has the Hawks will make a deep run in the NFC.
TOMORROW-BOT has put out the teams for the playoffs, with the Hawks going 12-4 and being the 5th seed overall as a wild card, and making it all the way to the Super Bowl in February.
The team's first playoff game would be against the Cowboys, here's the result:
Seattle Seahawks 17, Dallas Cowboys 16: Dallas talk radio devolves into nuclear-level vitriol after Cowboys coach Jason Garrett mismanages the clock with the Cowboys driving for a would-be game-winning field-goal try that never happens as precious seconds tick away. (Note: TOMORROW-BOT refused to dig into specifics here, but revealed that team owner Jerry Jones, per NFL Network's Jane Slater, was overheard shouting at a peon: "Get me Payton! Get me Sean on the phone! Pronto, peon!")
The divisional round has the Hawks going up against Aaron Rodgers and the Packers in a classic two OT affair:
Seattle Seahawks 39, Green Bay Packers 33 (2OT): Launching mere seconds after Baltimore and Kansas City's epic clash, the Seahawks and Packers author a double-overtime drama-fest that leaves gridiron fanatics to label the day's action "A SUNDAY FROM THE GODS" — and it's no hyperbole. Russell Wilson and the 'Hawks erase a 33-13 deficit, scoring 20 points in the final 10:37 of play before Green Bay and Seattle battle through a scoreless initial overtime. First-year Packers coach Matt LaFleur generates attention for refusing to wear a hat or scarf in minus-19 degree conditions. Green Bay faithful wonder if that factored into the Packers inexplicably running the ball on third-and-9 from their own 41 in the second overtime period, minutes before Wilson found Chris Carson on a 61-yard wheel route to the house to end a classic that takes nearly five hours to complete.
Here's the results of the NFC Championship game, a showdown with the 49ers:
Seattle Seahawks 3, San Francisco 49ers 0: After the Niners and 'Hawks gifted us with a gem back in Week 10 — and again in Week 17 — their NFC title clash goes down as one of the more spartan affairs in playoff history, as Levi's Stadium becomes a water-soaked web due to the arrival of TROPICAL STORM GINNY-SUE. The Bay Area is besieged as angry GINNY-SUE dumps relentless agua from above and lashes The Big Bellbottom with gusts topping 63 knots. With football's biggest prize on the line, the Niners can't catch a break, as Jimmy Garoppolo's 93-yard scoring strike to Deebo Samuel is wiped out by an illegal formation gaffe before a 43-yard Matt Breida touchdown with three minutes left is nullified by a chop block. The only score comes when Jason Myers bonks in a 22-yard field goal after missing wind-battered kicks from 19, 26, 32 and 45 yards. "Ginny-Sue wreaked havoc," Niners coach Kyle Shanahan tells reporters. "We tried to pass on her, run on her — she forbid it."
And finally after three wins, the team will matchup with the Ravens, a team that beat the Hawks earlier in the season, in Super Bowl LIV:
Seattle Seahawks 40, Baltimore Ravens 33: Baltimore's biggest mistake comes right away, when the Ravens attempt to recreate the Heisman package glory that saw Robert Griffin III seal the AFC title game with his winning catch and dash. This time, Mark Ingram's pitch back to Lamar Jackson floats beyond the quarterback, who snags the bouncing ball and lobs it on the run. It flitters into the arms of Seahawks defender Jadeveon Clowney, who takes it 44 yards for the game's opening score. Lamar makes up for it with 144 yards of poetry on the ground, while Russell Wilson's back-to-back deep strikes to D.K. Metcalf and Josh Gordon tie the showdown at 33-33 with 2:22 remaining.
Fate's cruel kiss then taps the cheek of Ravens center Matt Skura, who mistakenly arcs the ball over Lamar's outstretched hands on a shotgun snap with 0:32 on the clock. From the wilderness again comes Clowney, surging past Skura and Jackson to snatch up the orb and roll untouched into the end zone for his second touchdown of Super Bowl LIV. The Seahawks are champions, Pete Carroll is peppy — and Jadeveon becomes an American super icon, following up his critically acclaimed role in Michael Mann's Miami Vice: Midnight Waters with an emotionally wrenching performance as KOVAR-9, the half-human/half-droid Force-sensitive lackey from Tatooine's Tosche Station, in Ewan McGregor's OBI-WAN miniseries for Disney+.


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Anthony Zuiker's plan to bury books
"Maybe one day we could make a bestseller without ever selling a book in a store," he says. "I think that's our mission. Isn't that great?"
All seem to agree that when the e-book finally achieves mass distribution, it will look and act nothing like the "linear" text familiar to content consumers since the age of Gutenberg.
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Graceland Updates 4am-7am
Jul 12, 2011
1. I told you that the head of the US Treasury, (currently Tim "The Terminator' Geithner) would begin to show his teeth, and eventually replace Ben Bernanke as star of the accelerating crisis show.
2. Here are the latest inspirational words for Elmer Fudd public investor, from Timmy the terminator, "...it's going to feel very hard, harder than anything they've experienced in their lifetime now, for a long time to come...." ~ Associated Press, July 10, 2011.
3. I have repeated many times to you, "The crisis has barely started, and financial Fudd blood will flow'. Is anyone listening to the terminator? I would suggest you consider reading his words several thousand times, before you rush to your trading computer this morning, pounding, "sell everything gold, it's 2008 and 1980 again!'
4. It's not 2008 again. It's not 1980 again. It's 2011, and the financial end of you (again?), if you act on those thoughts.
5. I was on the gold stock buy yesterday, and again last night in the overnight market, with good reason. Click this GDX chart link now. The current rally saw GDX rise quickly from the mid-June lows near $51, to about $57. That was a solid gain of over 11% in just 2-3 weeks, but if you bought nothing into the lows, you sold nothing at a profit into the $57 highs!
6. Live for today, not for birds in the bush. I sold nothing at exactly $57, because price never hit exactly $57. I bought nothing at exactly $51 either, because price never quite dropped to exactly $51. I had no idea price would turn up near $51, but I bought into that weakness, and it did turn up, and I did ring the cash register as it soared from there towards $57.
7. Likewise, I have no idea whether $57 marks the top of a sell-off that will see GDX blow out the $51 lows, or shoot right back up above $57. I do know that where gold stocks are going next is what most advisors and investors are obsessed about, and that is a horrific error.
8. Getting richer has nothing to do with figuring out which scenario is coming, and everything to do with responding to what does come. Be a buyer on further weakness towards $51, and below. Be a seller on further strength above $57.
9. Don't whip yourself into a frenzy of fear over the August 2 debt deadline. Respond not to your greatest fear, but to price reality.
10. One major key to successful trading is to buy into horizontal support and resistance points (HSR). Throw your up and down trend lines in the garbage can, and ask yourself if it is possible that most technicians have an MACD addiction problem.
11. It's probably time to quit that MACD drug, cold turkey, and start watching granny in action in the grocery store. Keep it simple. Note the price-sale flyer in her hand. Look at the gold stocks sale flyer, and join granny on the buy!
12. Note the three blue horizontal lines on the GDX chart. I don't have any clue if price is going to all three of those lines or not, but I know exactly what I'm going to do if it does; take GDX buy action! I already have, in the $55 area. Have you?
13. Click this second GDX chart now. Note the green arrow. That arrow delineates further horizontal support in the $55 area, so I bought it.
14. You should not I care if price breaks the "I want my mommy!' lows at $51. You want gold stock, and you want it on sale. Well, it is on sale now, and the only question is, are you onside?
15. Use my GDX buy and sell action as a guide to take similar action on your individual gold stocks, and use the August 2 debt deadline to tweak your buy and sell size, not to make a decision about whether to buy or sell.
16. Price is always at a certain level, at any given point in time. For profit taking, focus your selling around horizontal resistance points above the current price. Those HSR points are defined by price reaction lows.
17. Click this oil chart now. The red arrows point to the reaction lows. If price rises to one of those horizontal lines you don't buy. You book profit into those lines. Want to "go pro' in the major markets? Try throwing your theories about August 2nd in the garbage can, and start responding to price on the grid, with professional buy & sell action.
18. To recap, you extend horizontal lines from price reaction lows to get your profit booking areas. On the buy side, you extend horizontal lines from price rally highs to get your buy points. Oscillators like RSI, Stochastics, and up and down trend lines are used to help you tweak how much capital you place on a given buy or sell, but not to make outright buy or sell decisions.
19. Click this gold chart now. That is a two day chart, showing a couple of HSR lines, but if you look at that chart, I bet you feel some fear or at least some nervousness. Some "August 2nd is coming!' thoughts may even creep into your head.
20. I'll show you why that fear is unfounded. Click this one week view of gold now. Do you feel the fear subsiding? Now you feel more like a kid at a slow moving river, on a sunny summer afternoon. The dollar price water slowly drifts by, and you wait for it to arrive at the next blue HSR line.
21. Click gold chart #3 now. Call the pharmacist and cancel that order of financial valium pills. The more professionally you act in the market, and the more credit you give to gold itself for what it is, the less stress you will have, and the less "all or nothing' decisions you will make.
22. Chart #3 covers one month of time and highlights buy points at about $1548, $1535, $1518, and $1498. Don't sit there like bozo the clown predicting whether we go to any of those points or not. Just be prepared to act on the buy side if we do.
23. Acting as a group, the gold community could send the banksters home to mommy, in the market. The gold community vastly outnumbers the banksters, but the banksters act professionally in the market responding to HSR in their trading. If the gold community begins to compete with the banksters at the major HSR points in the market, instead of predicting whether price turns or fails at those points, the banksters would really have something to worry about.
24. The banksters don't want you to act professionally in the market. They want you focused on August 2, and they want you to sell them big chunks of your gold and gold stocks at the lowest possible price. Don't hand over anything to these scumbags on price weakness. After Aug 2 is gone, they will have another new and improved "grand event' for you to focus your fear or greed on, and you can take that fact to the nearest bullion bank. Stay focused on today's HSR gridlines, not tomorrow's dollarbug in the bush!
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Prof Ken Evans holds the Chair of Materials Engineering. He is also the Director of Exeter Advanced Technologies and Director of the Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing. His research is on the theoretical and experimental investigation of novel materials, including their processing, fabrication, structure and properties and in their engineering and industrial applications. He has published over 170 research papers and twelve patents.
Prof. Evans is an acknowledged international expert on auxetic materials. These unusual materials exhibit a negative Poisson's ratio (i.e. they expand laterally when stretched). This behaviour has a fundamental influence on the mechanical properties of these materials, with many possible applications. Areas of interest include such diverse topics as blast mitigation fabrics, synthetic skin, 'smart' materials, structural honeycombs and foams and open framework ceramics such as zeolites. The University has established a spin-out company 'Auxetix Ltd' to commercially develop this work.
Other major areas of interest include additive-layer manufacturing, sustainable materials processing (e.g. recycling of composites) and anomalous metamaterials that exhibit a wide range of unusual properties including negative thermal expansion, negative linear compressibility, negative stiffness and negative refraction.