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Patriot Day 9/11 in Culpeper
11 Sep 2019 Culpeper, VA
In 2001 our country suffered a terrible attack that took thousands of lives, and thoroughly destroyed our sense of peace. But it also brought us together; it reminded us of the values we share and how much our individual fates are united. In this way it was not unlike our terrible War Between the States. In the aftermath of each we came together and sought out what united us and diminished that which divided us. The Sons of the American Revolution was born as part of reminding us of our common ideals after that earlier tragedy.
Both tragedies struck not far from a small city in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Culpeper, Virginia. The 19th Century war swirled around it and the 21st century terror struck only a few miles away at the Pentagon. It's citizens died in both. Culpeper has strong memories of both tragedies, and a strong spirit of what keeps Americans united. This spirit was aroused, as the years passed, by seeing division creep back into our country, and by 2008 it found a new expression for the memories that bring us together. Gerry Schuck, then Virginia State Director of Bugles Across America, decided that we must remind ourselves of these shared ideals. Gerry began to organize a ceremony to remember 9/11 in Culpeper.
That first year, Gerry's sole support was the Culpeper Minutemen Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution. The Culpeper Minutemen Chapter gathered around Gerry in front of the Culpeper Volunteer Fire Department at 08:46 on the morning of September 11, 2008, the seventh anniversary to the minute that the first plane struck the North Tower. Salutes were rendered as Gerry played taps in memory of the brave fire fighters who gave their lives to save others on that day. At 09:03, the time that the second plane hit the South Tower, the same group gathered in front of the Culpeper County Sheriff's Office and repeated the ceremony in honor of the law enforcement officers who had given their lives. At 09:37, the time that the third plane hit the Pentagon, the ceremony was repeated at Culpeper National Cemetery, in honor of those killed in that attack. Then at 10:03, the time that the last plane crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, the ceremony was repeated at the intersection of Main and Davis Streets, where the police had stopped traffic.
Over the years the ceremony has grown, and the Pentagon ceremony has shifted to the new Military Memorial in Wine Street Park. This year Gerry and Bugles Across America were joined by, not only the Culpeper Minutemen Chapter, but the Virginia SAR President, Peter Davenport, and color guardsmen from the Colonel James Wood II, Colonel William Grayson, Fairfax Resolves, and George Mason Chapters; and the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, the Culpeper Volunteer Fire Department, the Culpeper Police Department, and the Culpeper Sheriff's Office, with their members and their color guards. Beginning in 2013 a second taps was added at Main and Davis to honor the heroes of Benghazi on September 11th 2012 as well as the playing of America the Beautiful and Amazing Grace.
Through the years many other Virginia Society Chapters have contributed members for the Color Guard in this ceremony. In 2018 the National Society Color Guard Commander recognized this as a "Massing of the Colors" National Event. On this day our community comes together to forget our differences, unite around our shared ideals, and remember those modern patriots who lost their lives that we may live free. It is a goal of the Sons of the American Revolution that this spirit be shared and never fade.
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The shortlist for Australian Book Review's CAL-sponsored Calibre Prize for an essay, carrying a prize of ten grand, has been announced. From the media release:
Lindsay Barrett: 'The Shadow on the Steps'
Janene Carey: 'Retreat to the Castle'
Eleanor Collins: 'Ill-Timed Remarks: A Pathographical Essay'
Lorna Hallahan: 'On Being Odd'
David Hansen: 'Seeing Truganini'
Colin Nettelbeck: 'Kneecapper: A Trip to Happiness'
Jessica White: 'Hearing in Other Ways'
The winner will be announced at the conclusion of a day-long symposium on
the art of essay writing to be held at the National Library of Australia on
Friday, April 30.
Robert Dessaix is the keynote speaker. The five previous Calibre winners
will all speak: Kevin Brophy, Jane Goodall, Elisabeth Holdsworth, Rachel
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Aikido of Maine Balances Economics, Environment with Solar Array
Solar At Work | August 14, 2013 | Posted by Fred Greenhalgh
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When Gary Small and his wife Ania moved to Maine in 2000, they came looking for the right place to live the right life and to build a dojo to train the art of Aikido. The right place was Portland, Maine and the right dojo was a space on Anderson Street that would become Aikido of Maine.
"Aikido has been part of my life since I was a teenager. It is a unique practice among the martial arts because it is based on using non violent solutions to addresss aggression," says Gary. "When founding Aikido of Maine, Ania and I took elements that resonated with us from the many dojos we had trained in over the years and incorporated them into a design that was uniquely our own. Building a dojo is an ongoing process, it never ends and we are always looking for ways to make it a better place."
Aikido is often referred to as 'The Art of Peace' and is a non-competitive Japanese martial-art. It is unique in that it is founded on creating harmony out of conflict and order out of chaos with the aim at refining the individual and making the world a better place. It offers students the ability to learn self defense skills while simultaneously instilling character traits of cooperation, responsibility, respect, discipline and responsible decision making.
"Founder Morhei Ueshiba believed that this practice would help make a better world," says Gary. "The name Aikido itself represents Ueshiba's belief that the true meaning of the martial arts is to protect rather than harm."
A Matter of Balance
The principle to protect rather than harm applies as strongly to the environment as it does to interpersonal conflict. "We are concerned with all of the issues related to greenhouse gas emissions and warming trends on the earth," Gary says. "As a business, the financial piece needed to balance the environmental benefits. It was when I met with Fortunat [co-founder of ReVision] that I learned that system costs had decreased by more than half in the last few years and that a strong suite of incentives was available for businesses like mine."
ReVision Energy worked with Gary to design an 8kw solar electric array to be mounted on the flat rubber roof of his building. The solar electric panels are predicted to offset 98% of his facility's electric usage, offering a savings of over $1,500 annually. The savings should pay for the system cost in roughly 7-9 years, while simultaneously offsetting 10,000 lbs of CO2 emissions each year.
While the financial side of the project needed to work, it's the intangibles that excite Gary the most about the dojo's new solar array. "Looking at the sun and knowing we are harvesting our own energy is a wonderful feeling," Gary says. "We are doing our part to restore balance to the ecosystem, while also enjoying the benefits of making a sound financial decision."
Aikido of Maine offers introductory classes to children and adult on a rolling basis, with a flexible schedule to fit the goals of busy lifestyle and training available six days a week. Learn more at:www.aikidoofmaine.com.


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Description of Athens Case Study
Aiming to meet the challenges of the project and deliver smarter, innovative analytics, NTUA will lead the design and implementation of a small scale case study in the City of Athens (Greece). The pilot program will monitor water and energy consumption at 20 households using high-resolution metering devices, aiming to gather additional data and valuable information on water consumption patterns. The high-resolution data will offer the opportunity to develop even more advanced applications, with a focus on the water-energy nexus. The small number of participants allows a detailed monitoring and study of customers' behaviour on water related issues through qualitative surveys, giving the project a more experimental character.
It is envisaged that the pilot will act as an online laboratory in which the developer side is in close connection with the customer side. The participants are selected from a pool of volunteers and form a representative sample that covers a wide range of customer profiles with different socio-demographic characteristics. It is expected that the pilot case study will start in early May 2014 and will be part of the on-line testing and validation of the iWIDGET system, following the time schedule of the project. All the necessary equipment and devices will be provided and installed by UPL.
Athens Pilot "Identity"
Case Study Profile
- Combined real-time monitoring of water and energy consumption at 20 households
- High-resolution data (lower than 15 min) and frequent transmission (more than 2 times a day) offering the "real-time sense" to end-users
- Appropriate selection of participants from an initial pool of 30 volunteers that covers a wide range of consumer profiles
- Selection based to prior NTUA qualitative research on water-related issues in the city of Athens in the framework of iWIDGET
Challenges and Benefits for iWIDGET
- Combined analysis of water and energy consumption patterns – efficient development of tools and widgets
- Further analysis of specific behaviours via frequent qualitative surveys
- Live experiment – continuous two-way communication between developers and volunteers (simultaneous calibration and validation of the system)
Stakeholder Workshop in Athens
Following the stakeholder workshops in Portugal and the UK, a stakeholder workshop took place in Athens in March 2014. The majority of volunteers were able to attend and get additional insights to the project and its objectives. Volunteers had also the chance to discuss their views on the opportunities and barriers associated with the use of smart meters in urban water services. The workshop has contributed to increase our understanding on what different stakeholders desire in an integrated smart meter technology system for water management and their priorities for smart meters for water.


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By Michael Tetreault, Editor, Concierge Medicine Today/Host, The DocPreneur Leadership Podcast
Today we sit down for a 2-part interview with a good friend and a gifted educator, Dr. Jeanette McCarthy.
In this series we discuss some of the trends and factors impacting the genetic testing landscape, what does the genetic testing landscape currently look like and what's happening with the FDA and its regulation of genetic tests?
In part two, we discuss what are some of the trends we're seeing in terms of what genetic testing companies are offering and to whom and how will the integration of precision medicine testing and technology impact patients and Physicians in the future.
I'm so excited she's our guest today. Listen and lean in to our conversation now …
Meet Dr. McCarthy and Precision Medicine Advisors
Jeanette McCarthy, MPH, PhD is a UC Berkeley trained genetic epidemiologist and spent the early part of her career in industry at Millennium Pharmaceuticals before transitioning to academia. She currently holds adjunct faculty positions at UCSF and Duke University. Her previous research had focused on the genetic underpinnings of complex diseases, both infectious and chronic. More recently, she has become a leading educator in the field of genomic and precision medicine. Jeanette helped launch the first consumer-facing magazine in this field, Genome, and served as Editor-in-Chief from 2014-2016. She developed the first MOOC on precision medicine, offered through Coursera, and teaches at UCSF and UC Berkeley Extension as well. Jeanette is coauthor of the book, Precision Medicine: A Guide to Genomics in Clinical Practice (from McGraw Hill Education).
Connect with Jeanette on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanette-mccarthy-25160852?trk=hp-identity-name)
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In his great study Culture and Society (1958) Raymond Williams takes Morris to task for his 'generalised swearing'. Perhaps it is more the generality than the actual swearing that bothers Williams, so some more particularised political swearing (as in this blog post's title, which I have borrowed from an anti-monarchist Facebook site) might therefore conceivably serve some useful purpose.
Today's royal wedding has already been the occasion of the usual spectacular display of obsequiousness on the part of the British media (the BBC's Jenny Bond and Nicholas Witchell have over the years been perhaps the most abject specimens of all in this respect). In the wider society, however, I don't sense quite such intense devotion as usual. Perhaps we are all remembering what an utter fake the so-called 'fairytale' wedding of Charles and Diana (which I watched in an Oxford pub thirty years ago) actually was, and we might therefore be a tad more sceptical and cautious this time round – and these are, anyway, chastened economic times.
So a Windsor is marrying a commoner – one, indeed, who even (like myself) has County Durham miners among her ancestors; so might there be a socially utopian dimension to our celebration of this particular wedding? Good luck to the young couple themselves, of course; but if William were becoming a miner rather than Kate a princess, if the social transformation were operating that way round, then I might believe that utopia really had come.
Morris's derogatory references to Queen Victoria as 'Empress Brown' are a good index of how refreshingly rude his attitude to British royalty could be; and in July 1887 my own local (i.e. Lancaster) branch of the Socialist League was doing its best to disrupt Victoria's Golden Jubilee by distributing leaflets denouncing Britain's imperial violence. So it must always be the task of socialists to challenge such national royalist outpourings, to prick the nauseating bubble of British complacency and obsequiousness in whatever ways they can.
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Who gives a fuck about the royal wedding?
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And I suspect that the mindless traditionalism aroused by the royal wedding certainly had something to do with us losing the AV voting system referendum yesterday. Not a great system, admittedly, but a vote for it would at least have indicated an openness to change and difference, to a new future rather than just more of the same!
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The history of Slavonian forests, within the research of Croatian forests in general, has a prominent place, mainly because of pedunculate oak forests, which werefrom the immemorial immensely significant due to their quality and the size of the area they covered. According to estimates made by forestry scientists, before massive exploitation in the 19th century, some 70% of Slavonia was covered by forests, which inspired an 18th century author Friedrich von Taube to call the region "a huge, almost endless, oak forest". Until then, the people used to live in harmony with forests, because the human knowledge and technology were unable to affect the environment in those days. However, in Taube's time, clearcutting of large forested areas had already begun, reaching its highest point in the 1880s. Thus, a new paradigm of conquering forest expanses was set up, after millennia of harmonious coexistence. This conquest was presented as an improvement of land by making it arable in the name of modernisation and progress, although, the main motive that drove the forest owners and investors was, from the very beginning, making profit. Besides their impact on the economy, the forests also affected the mentality of the Slavonian people through their influence on everyday life, and have retained an important place in the cultural identity of the Slavonians until today. Historical evaluation of the relations between the man and the forest in Slavonia has an unquestionable scientific relevance, because these relations are unique in many ways. Still, they can represent a model for the research of similar relations in other Croatian and world regions.
The history of the forests, in general, has already distinguished itself as a separate branch of the historiography. Such researches have considerable relevance to Croatian historiography because they complement various studies in the fields of economic history, historical demography, social history, and even political history. Despite some individual efforts to publish works on the topic in the past decades, the history of forests has yet to achieve the status of a prominent scholarly field of research. From the aspect of historical studies, Croatian scholars lack the knowledge and institutional stimulation to seriously engage into ecohistorical researches. On the other hand, the forestry scientists are primarily interested in biotechnical topics, whereas the historical contexts in their works are discussed rarely and peripherally. Generally speaking, one of the major problems today is the lack of cooperation between the Croatian historians and forestry experts, without which this field of research is unable to evolve. However, the developed historiographies abroad have organised advanced forms of interdisciplinary cooperation. One of the best examples of such cooperation is the French "Group for the History of French Forests" (Groupe d'historie des Forêts Françaises, www.ghff.ens.fr), which has gathered historians, forestry and other scientists for years.
The research on the history of forests in Croatia was initiated by the forestry experts who published the first works on the topic in the 1880s (Kesterčanek 1882a; Kesterčanek 1882b; Kosović 1914). Among the Croatian historians, it was primarily the researches of economic history who showed considerable interest for the topic, mainly within the studies of the modernisation and industrialisation in Croatia, conducted between the 1950s and 1990s (Bičanić 1951; Karaman 1961; Anić et al. 2014). Nevertheless, during this period history of forests did not develop into a separate discipline, but it was rather covered by some authors within the framework of other disciplines and research topics. After 1990, the treatment of the history of forests by Croatian historiography did not change significantly. It did catch the attention of certain forestry scientists (Piškorić, Vukelić 1992; Klepac 1996, Klepac 2000), as well as the historiographers (Golec 1996, Kolar-Dimitrijević 2003; Kolar-Dimitrijević 2008, Volner 2012), but the interest did not yield a comprehensive study.
This is the reason why the history of forests has remained an undeveloped branch of the Croatian historiography, which has thus been unable to adequately respond to a number of research topics. The history of Slavonia and Slavonian forests supports this assertion the most. The forests used to be an essential element of the life in Slavonia throughout its entire history, especially during the modernisation processes of the 19th century. Still, our historiography only partially covered the topic of development of Slavonian wood production industry, whereas much broader consequences of clearing and exploiting forests remain unknown. (Kolar-Dimitrijević, 2008) According to the report of Slavonian Chamber of Commerce, the major sawmills in the 1889 were the facilities of the companies S. H. Gutmann in Belišće, Société d'importation de chêne in Slatina, and Neuschlosz, Schmidt & Marchetti in Đurđenovac. A number of works has been published on their economic impact on Slavonia at the turn of the 20th century. But, besides the profit of the foreign companies, owners of large estates in Slavonia also benefited form the forests (among which was the Đakovo Diocese), as well as the cities that owned forests and the estate communities of the Military Frontier. Partly because of the state policy, and partly because of the efforts made by the local politicians, industrialists and private forest owners, some of the income from the forest exploitation was invested into public projects, which helped the overall modernisation of Slavonia.


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Hot & Juicy Crawfish is a wildly popular restaurant. It is located in Washington, D.C., near the Omni Shoreham Hotel and Woodley Park Metro Station. The owners started this restaurant in Las Vegas, after noticing an absence of their favorite food, Crawfish. The owners themselves describe Hot & Juicy Crawfish as a restaurant that does not need pretense, special occasion, or utensils.
The food is really tasty, hot, and juicy. There are what seems to be a million flavors inside of the plastic bag of seafood wonderment. The food is reasonably priced. You will get a lot of food for your money. I must warn you, however, if you go to Hot & Juicy Crawfish, you should be aware of a few things. First, you will work for each bite of food. The shrimp and crawfish are served with their heads and shells on. It is truly peel and eat.
Since Hot & Juicy is so popular, I must list a few rules.
Rule #1: Do not dress up. Hot & Juicy is very messy. The juice gets everywhere. To eat without staining your clothing,a bib and gloves are required. To be safe, see rule #1,
Rule #2: Don't try to be cute. Cuteness is impossible here. You must just dig into the food to enjoy it. That means there may be sauce on your face, your arms your clothing, etc. It is impossible to be a "cute" eater here…unless of course your order the fried seafood. Then, and only then, can you eat without being messy. However, please keep in mind that your dinner companions may order the "hot & juicy", and your clothing is still at risk of being stained.
Rule #3: Go for the food and only the food. There is no atmosphere. This is not a good location for a first date. Date #55 yes. Date #1. No.
Rule #4: If you want to taste multiple items, order the fried seafood first. The fried shrimp tastes like it is fried in Louisiana catfish batter. It is really good, but also a bit salty. If you taste the fried seafood after the boiled seafood, it will seem extremely salty.
Rule #5: Order more than you think you will eat. You must order everything up front. Your hands will be too messy to pick up a menu to order more items.
Rule #6: Tear off a stack of paper towels before your food arrives. Then tear off 2 more paper towels and wrap them around your beverage. You will thank me later.
Rule #7: If you want pictures of your food, take pictures of your food before you put on the gloves and definitely before you start eating. I do not have pictures to accompany this post, because I did not follow this rule on my visit. This rule is a MUST for all of my photographers. This rule is easy to skip, because the food smells so good and looks so interesting when it is served. The smell makes everyone want to just dive in and eat.
Rule #8: Skip the sweet tea, because it is not sweet.
Rule #9: Go with your close family, friends, and people you are very comfortable being around. The seating is tight. Your elbows will touch.
Rule #10: Enjoy! Some dining experiences are not fancy or visually stunning. Some dining experiences are designed so that you feast. Hot & Juicy Crawfish is one feast-ful experience.


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Happy Halloween, friends!!!
It's Wednesday and time for two of my fave link-ups with Michelle and Jamie!
Happy Halloween, friends!!!
It's Wednesday and time for two of my fave link-ups with Michelle and Jamie!
I'm loving that today is my first day at work since we had two days off for the hurricane. Luckily our area wasn't hit badly. My thoughts and prayers go out to those who suffered more damage than we did.
I'm loving that I'm now part of a book club with a group of girls. Should be fun! Our first book is Defending Jacob which looks interesting.
I'm loving my new blog design courtesy of Shannon at Page:Twenty-Two! She rocks!
I'm loving that my car didn't get damaged during this storm. Last storm we had a tree hit my car, so I was glad to see no damage this time!
I'm loving my crock pot. Easy delicious meals with little effort? Yes please!
And, as always I'm loving Pinterest!
This week I've been pinning....
Love these colors!
|An idea for something to do around here to make it feel more "Fall"
|Best Chili Ever apparently. Looks yum!
|Eeeks, so true!!
|Happy Halloween!
What have YOU been pinning?
Hope you have a spook-tacular Halloween!


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Jazz Saxophone Studies
Difficulty guide: 2-6
Difficulty level, roughly compared to ABRSM exam grades. 0 is beginner, 9 is advanced (beyond grade 8).
Difficulty level, roughly compared to ABRSM exam grades. 0 is beginner, 9 is advanced (beyond grade 8).
- Introduction
- Aspects of Jazz Rhythm
- Melodic Jazz Studies
- Studies in Various Tonalities
'This book is designed to assist classically trained musicians with the interpretation of jazz music. Comparing the interpretation of jazz music to that of classical can be likened to the comparison between spoken American and spoken English. The best way to acquire a strong American accent is to live there for a while - the sound of the language is absorbed and it becomes natural to adopt the same dialect. With jazz, it is also essential to listen carefully to players in this idiom in order to develop a 'feel' for jazz in your own playing.' James Rae
Item DetailsCategory: Saxophone Study Books
Publisher: Faber Music
Publisher's reference: 0571526470
Our Stock Code: 1127362
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The Push to Normalize Polonophilia
Above are two evocative images: one of Akihabara, Tokyo, and the other of what seems to be the object of onanistic fantasising by nationalists civic and ethnic within the Anglosphere – in fact, beyond the word nationalist, it seems the only thing on which the two factions agree. The thought of the Japanese may conjure all sorts of verbal associations depending on whose story about them you have imbibed. Opinions differ on whether they are based or degenerate, whatever either of those terms is taken to mean. If you are of the #trad persuasion, you may even choose to spend a while in one of their cities and come back with a marvellous tale of woe about seeing nonagenarians waiting to die and fawning over other people's children because they have none themselves – which you know to be true through your telepathic powers of intuition. However, something about Based Poles (this time I shall resist the bad habit of appending a trademark symbol) mysteriously curbs that telepathy, and the unanimity of opinion surrounding them and other countries of the former Eastern Bloc has little precendent in Reactosphere circles. Why, though?
I have seen the phrase "anima projection", borrowed from Jung's schema of unconscious archetypes, to refer to the situation in which a man becomes smitten with a woman as he projects his every fabulistic notion of what a woman should be onto her – falsely. Although not exactly scientific, I cannot help thinking of this when I see everyone from anarcho-capitalists to Ted Cruz clones to MAGA fetishists to WAs (white advocates) heaping praise upon these eastern European countries, especially Poland. Therein lies my gripe; not, of course, with the typical (I dare say normie) eastern European person.
What connecting tissue binds these ideological groups? Well, most of them are white Americans, and most call themselves traditionalists. But to be a traditionalist, apparently, is not the same thing as subscribing to a tradition. Few of these people are pagans or Christians; they are atheists who like paganism or Christianity. Indeed, some of them like paganism and Christianity, and if that does not scream "Raging Larper" to you, nothing will. What they share could more accurately be called social conservatism of various shades, which is really a personality trait for Anglospherians more than a belief system.
Poland and its neighbours are probably not what you think they are. Their women are not popping out ninety kids apiece. Their birth rate as of 2015 was lower than Japan's, and on UN projections of population decline between 2017 and 2050, Japan came in 11th. The top ten, including Poland, were all in eastern Europe. Japan, incidentally, has a single metropolitan area (the Greater Tokyo Area) whose population is quite close to that of the entire Polish nation, and yet Japan is referred to as the ageing nation.
As explored in an earlier blogpost, the reason organised religion is just about dead in my country, and across the First World, is that its psychological foundation, mortality salience, has ebbed away. It is not the fault of the Jews, neo-Marxism, or elaborate cultural conditioning. Poland could be just a few decades behind Britain and the US in this regard, unless there is some unknown variable. With the rural US, another possible exception to the rule, the variable seems to be some mixture of bucolic communitarianism and, interestingly, patriotic feeling. There is already evidence suggesting that ethnocentrism and religiosity are neurologically linked. This may be why the iconography of Jesus in the US so often goes hand in hand with waving the 'Murican flag. It does not seem crazy to postulate that something similar is happening with Poles, given that the land they call home is among the most historically blighted in the world. When you see the religious imagery present at Polish nationalist rallies, this should become obvious.
How religious are they, anyway? 87.5% identify as Roman Catholics. Of those, 36.7% actually attend church. That gives us 32.1% of the country's people who attend church regularly. That puts me in mind of the curious datum which showed that 45% of self-identified UK Christians say they do not believe in God, although it is not quite the same thing of course. It it also likely to vary by region, as in the American case, with even fewer true religious adherents in large metropoleis. Latvia, the Czech Republic, and especially Estonia are all deeply irreligious, so the legacy of communism and reaction thereto do not account for Poland's religiosity either. The Vatican does have a great influence over Poland's governent – that most legendary of Jesusian organisations through whom God imparts his wisdom about the sanctity of migrant life, for the Lord's only constancy is fickleness.
It ought to go without saying the last "problem" on Earth WAs should care about is the nonexistent ethnic struggle between the Germans and the Poles, or between the ghosts of the dead regimes that once ruled them. Yet, so many people are rushing to defend this, "Because national pride." Some, mostly Americans, use this to outright dodge WA matters. Eastern Europe is homogeneous, and lo and behold, suddenly this is a cultural and religous question, not a racial one. But when these countries' leaders say they want to protect their Christian heritage from refugee inflow, do they really mean to say that if their current citizens all deconverted tomorrow they would happily replace them with African Catholics?
I do not think a civic identity that is only implicitly white is in itself bad. This is arguably the way many Europeans thought of themselves prior to the mid-20th century. This is where I think people get the wrong idea about Steve Sailer's citizenism, a position for which I have some respect. It is perhaps the case that whites today will simply never gravitate to an explicitly racialist message and prefer thinking about abstract philosophies. But almost all of those abstract philosophies, from libertarianism to ecological activism, are the province of whites anyway, and once whites secure territories somewhere, we could enact ethnic migration quotas of the sort that existed in the US pre-1965 but with a rationale geared towards the belief systems of the community and an emphasis on ensuring the citizens' welfare. Japanese ancestry is not needed to become a Japanese citizen, but >95% of Japanese residents are the same group who were there a century ago. I see no problem with this model. Call it "implicitly white white nationalism", if you like (citizenism also works). White advocacy may not always be necessary, although combating anti-white rhetoric probably will. But ethnic nationalism of the classical variety is little more than a distraction at the present time, particularly when it is a vicarious ethnic nationalism viewed through the eyes of conservative Euro-Americans.
I have observed a tendency to equate any pan-Europeanism with the European Union, but this does not stand up to scrutiny unless you would also compare the original stock of the United States, Australia, and New Zealand to the EU, or unless you would object to the Polish diaspora population, which is among the largest on Earth.
Criticism of ethnic nationalism does not imply the dissolution of all borders or population unitarianism (i.e. the melding of all ethnicities into one). The EU has not managed that yet, and I doubt it will. But it is simply not reasonable to expect people to adhere to ethnic identities as doggedly as they did in previous centuries. The way forward is through intentional communities, and there are more than enough differences among people in WA circles to become their own ethnic or quasi-ethnic identities. Whether any kind of singular consciousness shared across all these groups is possible remains to be seen, although increasingly I suspect not. The internet gives us something of a blueprint for this – being a kind of "ideostate" if not an ethnostate, which connects groups who have little in common with each other beyond their affirmation of Europeans' right to continue existing. How that will translate into life is an abiding, and exhausting, mystery.
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text: Associated Press Writer SAN`A, Yemen (AP) _ Yemen is holding five of 17 men named in an FBI terrorism alert released this week and has provided the United States with information about them, Yemeni and U.S. officials said. The five Yemeni nationals, who trained in Afghanistan, were already in custody at the time the list was released on Monday, having been arrested between late last year and early this year, Yemeni officials said Friday. A police official, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity, would not immediately confirm the names of those being held, nor would he elaborate on when the men were in Afghanistan or when they returned to Yemen. An official close to Yemeni anti-terrorism investigators said only that Yemeni authorities informed their American counterparts that the five were in Yemeni custody and provided the Americans with information about them. A sixth man is in custody in a country outside the Middle East, U.S. officials in Washington said Thursday. The six men's pictures and names were removed from the FBI alert. They are: _Issam Ahmad Dibwan al-Makhlafi _Ahmad al-Akhader Nasser Albidani _Bashir Ali Nasser al-Sharari _Abdulaziz Muhammad Saleh bin Otash _Shuhour Abdullah Mukbil al-Sabri _Riyadh Shikawi Yemen's government admits there may be al-Qaida suspects in the country, but says the network has no military training camps or any other organized presence. The FBI continues a worldwide manhunt for the 11 others, including the possible ringleader, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei, a Yemeni citizen born in 1979 in Saudi Arabia. A U.S. official said al-Rabeei is believed to have links to al-Qaida but is not believed to have been involved in the attack against the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden in October 2000 that killed 17 U.S. sailors. On Wednesday, a man related to one of the men on the FBI list accidentally blew himself up with a hand grenade after being cornered by security forces in a suburb of the Yemeni capital of San'a. Officials said Sameer Mohammed Ahmed al-Hada was also a brother-in-law of one of the Sept. 11 hijackers. On Thursday, a Yemeni Foreign Ministry official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that the number of Yemeni detainees being held at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had risen to 32 people. The center holds nearly 300 prisoners captured in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, Iranian authorities arrested a multinational group of some 150 people and are questioning them about possible links to the Taliban or al-Qaida, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Thursday. IRNA said those arrested had entered Iran from Pakistan. Many had spent time in Afghanistan at some stage before arriving in Iran, it said. The report said the information was provided by an unidentified source. The detainees are said to include European and African nationals who were carrying passports from countries such as France, Britain, Belgium, Spain and The Netherlands. During questioning thus far, the report said, none of the detainees has been connected to either the Taliban or al-Qaida. The Associated Press was unable to reach Iranian officials for comment. The State Department had no independent information on the subject, a U.S. official said in Washington, partly because there is no U.S. diplomatic presence in Iran. CIA Director George J. Tenet said last week that Tehran has failed "to move decisively against al-Qaida members who have relocated to Iran from Afghanistan." The U.S. administration also has complained that Iran, a neighbor of Afghanistan, has armed and financed fighters to destabilize the government of interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai. Iran has denied those charges.


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Did he really just say that?
I was sitting in my new boss's office. I had just been moved to a new position which I was not very excited about and was in the office for the traditional "meet the boss" session. I had been snatched from a job I really loved to take this position and was not very happy.
My boss described several urgent challenges that my new team was facing and that he expected me to quickly address those challenges. He went on to explain that my predecessor had been removed by the most senior executive because of his inability to address those challenges. So, here I was, in a job I didn't want, with challenges that seemed almost insurmountable, replacing someone who had been fired for not meeting those challenges. No pressure!
Then the boss said the words that would make it just a little easier. "I don't have much experience with these issues myself and I need you to help me learn." I was surprised because such an admission was very rare.
Over the next few weeks and months it became obvious that no one outside my team really understood what the team was doing or why those big challenges weren't so easily fixed. My predecessor's main failure was in not keeping his bosses informed. The team had actually been making progress on dealing with the challenges they faced.
My boss was true to his word and carefully listened when I brought him information. His ability to admit what he didn't know and willingness to learn made him a great advocate for the team and allowed him to better provide the support we needed.
A few years later I found myself in a new job again. This time I was responsible for a large complex organization. I was in the same position as my former boss had been; responsible for challenges I didn't completely understand. Following his example, I gathered my leadership team and told them that I wasn't an expert in what they did. But, I promised to learn all I could and expected them to keep me informed. That was the only way I would be able to support them.
There's an old saying that ignorance is simply "not knowing.†Stupidity is acting on ignorance. The problem for many leaders is a difficulty admitting to ignorance. Will teams think less of us if we admit to some area of weakness? The truth is that your team will quickly discover what you really know and don't know and will actually think less of you if you try to hide your ignorance. Leading doesn't mean being the smartest person in the room. The most successful leaders find the smartest people in the room.


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I'm excited about at least two changes that will take place in September.
It's time to renew The Harman Art Gallery. During the next two months, The Harman Eye Clinic will host local artists, Nancy Hueter and Joan Johnson. Both artists work in oil and acrylic. The show should have upwards of 45 fine paintings to choose from. As we have done in the past, artists display their contact numbers. All purchases are made directly through the artists. There is no charge to the artists. A lovely program booklet is made for each showcase. It has become a well-received tradition for our visitors and I'll be sure to include a program here when it's published!
Also in September comes a long awaited "savings" month for all refractive surgery procedures. A ten percent savings can be applied to iLASIK, PRK, multifocal lens implant upgrade (CrystaLens, Tecnis Multifocal), Toric lens implant, Refractive Lens Exchange. Your savings could even fund a mighty fine winter weekend at Whistler to celebrate your brand new vision! We are combining this savings with the already standing ten-percent refractive savings for all active military and the ten-percent loyalty refractive savings to any patient who has had surgery with us in the past.
As for today, our staff is working diligently to make sure each patient is seen promptly. Although we started off on a challenging foot this morning, we have been on top of everyone's schedule and we see smiles all around now. It makes for a great day!
Best to you,
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WASHINGTON -- The Volkswagen Group of America is recalling about 850,000 vehicles due to potentially faulty airbags made by Japanese supplier Takata Corp. -- the company at the center of a long-running global safety crisis.
Volkswagen said it will recall 680,000 vehicles in the United States due to the potentially faulty airbags, while Audi will recall about 170,000 vehicles, spokespeople for the companies said.
The move comes after U.S. auto safety regulators said last month that Takata had declared 5.1 million U.S. vehicles defective, revealing that far more airbags than previously thought were potentially unsafe.
Also today, BMW said it will recall about 840,000 U.S. vehicles equipped with the Takata airbags. The recall covers BMW cars and SUVs from model years 2006 to 2015. The models have not been included in previous Takata-related recalls, BMW said.
Takata's inflators can explode with too much force and spray metal shrapnel into vehicle passenger compartments. They are linked to at least 10 deaths worldwide and more than 100 U.S. injuries.
Problems with Takata airbags were first reported in 2009. So far, 14 automakers have recalled a total of about 24 million U.S. vehicles involving about 28 million Takata airbag inflators.
The VW recall covers the 2009-2014 Volkswagen CC sedan, 2010-2014 Jetta SportWagen and Golf compacts, 2012-2014 VW Eos convertible, as well as 2012-2014 Passat midsize sedans assembled in the United States and 2006-2010 Passat sedans and wagons built in Germany.
Audi's recall covers the 2005-2013 A3 compact, 2006-2009 A4 Cabrio, 2009-2012 Q5 crossover and 2010-2011 A5 Cabrio.
A VW Group statement said it was unaware of a ruptured SDI or PSDI-5 inflator, the types involved in the recall, in any VW Group vehicle worldwide.
Audi and VW said they will notify owners of the recall once they identify the specific vehicles affected by the recall. However, replacement parts are currently unavailable, according to the companies.
Affected vehicles in Audi and Volkswagen dealers' certified pre-owned inventory at dealers will be placed on stop-sale until repairs are completed, spokespeople from VW and Audi said.
Daimler recall
The VW Group recalls come after Daimler AG recalled about 840,000 U.S. vehicles with Takata airbag inflators.
Daimler said it was recalling about 705,000 Mercedes-Benz cars and about 136,000 vans after being notified by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that certain Takata airbags were potentially defective.
Cars being recalled include the Mercedes-Benz SLK convertible, the C-class and E-class sedans, the M and GL-class SUVs as well as the R-class and SLS coupe made between 2005 and 2014.
Daimler is also recalling vans made between 2007 and 2014, including vehicles bearing the Dodge, Freightliner and Mercedes-Benz Sprinter brands.
Daimler said it was unaware of airbag failures in its vehicles, and that the numbers of vehicles involved in the recall could fall once further technical studies had been carried out by NHTSA.
Daimler said it would take a charge of 340 million euros ($383 million) to cover the cost of the recall. It will account for this by revising its 2015 financial results published last week, lowering net profit to 8.7 billion euros and earnings before interest and tax (EBIT) to 13.2 billion euros, from 8.9 billion and 13.5 billion euros respectively.
"This (340 million euros) is quite a big shortfall but the main message is that the current financial year will not be affected," said Frankfurt-based Bankhaus Metzler analyst Juergen Pieper who kept his "buy" recommendation on Daimler's stock.
More airbag recalls are likely.
Other manufacturers have announced big recalls of cars with Takata airbags over the last few years. A number of automakers from top customer Honda Motor Co. to Mazda Motor Corp. have said they will no longer fit the product in new cars, fanning concerns over Takata's future.
U.S. regulators announced on Jan. 22 a new recall of about 5 million vehicles with potentially defective Takata airbags, covering some automakers not previously affected, including Volkswagen and Daimler.
The move was prompted in part by the death of the driver of a Ford Motor Co. Ranger pickup truck, as well as new tests conducted on suspected faulty airbags.
Honda has recalled 2.23 million U.S. vehicles in the most recent Takata expansion. Ford has recalled 361,000 Ranger trucks and Mazda nearly 20,000 B-series trucks built between 2004 and 2006.
In November U.S. regulators fined Takata $70 million and it is still under investigation by the Justice Department.
Ryan Beene and Reuters contributed to this report.


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Sometimes it's really fun to be interviewed...
Last week, Sean O'Neill, who writes a column for the torontoist site, came by the bakery and we sat and had a great chat. He writes a feature called "I Want Your Job" and it's about different people in the city, doing different jobs, and having a great time doing them.
The thing about a good interview is that it makes you think about what you're doing - not just operate in the daily auto-pilot of the to-do list. Sometimes it's easy to forget why I love my job, or what's unique about how I run my business. I felt all warm and squishy after the interview - but more importantly, had renewed faith that I am on the right track.
Here's the article - I hope you enjoy it!


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Hand made in Madagascar from natural raffia, embroidered with cute light blue hearts and finished with raffia handles.
Perfect for kids' toys & blankets, or as a storage accessory in the bathroom, living room or anywhere in your home. Also looks great as a planter.
Size: H 25 X W 30 CM
All Rice raffia and seagrass products support more than 300 families on the Red Island. As an example, it takes 4 people up to 38 hours to make a set of our popular storage house.
Raffia and seagrass varies in colour from nature, and this variation is reflected in the colouring as well. This means two baskets are never quite alike – this is part of the product's charm.


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One of the biggest dilemmas when growing pineapple plants is knowing when to harvest the fruit. Here are tips for harvesting pineapples before they are fully ripe and still getting all the juicy sweetness.
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It takes a pineapple many months to develop. How many depends on how much heat and sun the plant gets. Shade and cool weather slow them to a crawl.
As the fruit ripens, it colors from the bottom to the top and from side to side. You can harvest it as soon as one side has turned yellow.
Many people think that a pineapple will not continue to ripen once it is removed from the plant.
This is untrue.
Most types of pineapple turn some shade of gold as they ripen. You can tell how ripe the fruit is by looking at it.
The fruit tastes sweetest when it has fully colored.
If you can safely leave it outside in your yard until this happens, you are very fortunate.
I need to harvest my home grown pineapple much sooner than this in order to beat the family of racoons who live in our woods to it.
Not only will these masked marauders steal the ripe fruit, they will destroy any slips growing around the plant while they are at it.
Rather than risk this, I pick the fruit as soon as one side has changed color and let it finish ripening in the house.
Another way I avoid this theft is by growing pineapple plants in containers. When the fruit begins to ripen, I move the pots into my screen porch where the racoons can't get to them.
You will need a lopper to cut through the thick stem. I like to keep a few inches of stem attached so that the fruit can draw energy from it as it ripens. This could be an old wives tale, but it has been working for me for years, so I'm sticking with it.
I have a vase that I set the fruit in until it is ready to eat.
Pineapple ripening in a vase, still showing lots of green.
Fully ripe, golden pineapple fruit, ready to eat.
Each day the fruit will turn more golden. You'll know when to eat it because the sweet fragrance of ripe pineapple will permeate the room.
When the fruity aroma overtakes me the moment I step into the kitchen, I know it's time.
Beautiful, fragrant, and delicious.
No wonder the pineapple is the national symbol of hospitality.
After you eat the pineapple, don't forget to plant the top.
The top from a home grown pineapple has much more life in it than the top from a store bought fruit.
It can be difficult to get tops from store bought pineapples to root.
The top of your home grown fruit will root with ease.
If you are really interested in raising pineapple plants, you won't want to waste a good top.
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In his latest blockbuster book, The Real Men in Black: Evidence, Famous Cases, and True Stories of These Mysterious Men and Their Connection to the UFO Phenomena, the bestselling author Nick Redfern reveals the hidden world of these notorious government operatives.
He documents their origin and lays out classic cases, previously unknown reports and secret government files, while laying out the many theories that explain the mystery.
So please join Nick, and myself as we dig deep into who the REAL MAN in BLACK are! This isn't a Hollywood comedy… This is real.


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Object Pascal STOMP client library for ActiveMQ Artemis
This object represents a message. More...
Public Member Functions
|Acknowledge ()
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|Nack ()
|NACK is the opposite of ACK. More...
|GetPropertyNames ()
|Returns a list of all the property names.
|GetBooleanProperty (const string Key)
|Get the value of boolean property Key.
|SetBooleanProperty (const string Key, const Boolean Value)
|Set the value of boolean property Key.
|GetIntProperty (const string Key)
|Get the value of int property Key.
|SetIntProperty (const string Key, const Integer Value)
|Set the value of int property Key.
|GetStringProperty (const string Key)
|Get the value of string property Key.
|SetStringProperty (const string Key, const string Value)
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Public Attributes
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Standard Headers
|Good consumes will add this header to any responses they send so that entire conversations can be correlated. More...
|Gets the Destination object for this message. More...
|The message's expiration value. More...
|Whether or not the message is persistent. More...
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|Redelivered - True if this message has been redelivered to this or another consumer before being acknowledged successfully. More...
|The Destination object to which a reply to this message should be sent. More...
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This object represents a message.
Acknowledges all consumed messages of the session of this consumed message.
All consumed messages support the acknowledge method for use when a client has specified that its session's consumed messages are to be explicitly acknowledged. By invoking acknowledge on a consumed message, a client acknowledges all messages consumed by the session that the message was delivered to.
Calls to acknowledge are ignored for both transacted sessions and sessions specified to use implicit acknowledgement modes.
A client may individually acknowledge each message as it is consumed, or it may choose to acknowledge messages as an application-defined group (which is done by calling acknowledge on the last received message of the group, thereby acknowledging all messages consumed by the session.)
Messages that have been received but not acknowledged may be redelivered.
|if the provider fails to acknowledge the messages due to some internal error.
|if this method is called on a closed session.
NACK is the opposite of ACK.
It is used to tell the server that the client did not consume the message. The server can then either send the message to a different client, discard it, or put it in a dead letter queue. The exact behavior is server specific.
|RawByteString TBTMessage::Content
The message content.
|string TBTMessage::JMSCorrelationID
Good consumes will add this header to any responses they send so that entire conversations can be correlated.
The correlation ID for the message.
A client can use the JMSCorrelationID header field to link one message with another. A typical use is to link a response message with its request message.
|TJMSDeliveryMode TBTMessage::JMSDeliveryMode
Whether or not the message is persistent.
Providers (servers) set this field when a message is sent.
|IDestination TBTMessage::JMSDestination
Gets the Destination object for this message.
The JMSDestination header field contains the destination to which the message is being sent.
When a message is sent, this field is ignored. After completion of the send or publish method, the field holds the destination specified by the method.
|TDateTime TBTMessage::JMSExpiration
The message's expiration value.
When a message is sent, the JMSExpiration header field is left unassigned. After completion of the send or publish method, it holds the expiration time of the message. This is the sum of the time-to-live value specified by the client and the GMT at the time of the send or publish.
If the time-to-live is specified as zero, JMSExpiration is set to zero to indicate that the message does not expire.
When a message's expiration time is reached, a provider should discard it. The API does not define any form of notification of message expiration.
Clients should not receive messages that have expired; however, the API does not guarantee that this will not happen.
|string TBTMessage::JMSMessageID
The message ID which is set by the provider.
The JMSMessageID header field contains a value that uniquely identifies each message sent by a provider.
A JMSMessageID is a String value that should function as a unique key for identifying messages in a historical repository. The exact scope of uniqueness is provider-defined. It should at least cover all messages for a specific installation of a provider, where an installation is some connected set of message routers.
Uniqueness of message ID values across different providers is not required.
|Integer TBTMessage::JMSPriority
The message priority level.
Providers set this field when a message is sent. To send a message with a priority, use the MessageProducer's Priority property.
The minimum, maximum and default values are broker API dependent:
The API defines ten levels of priority value, with 0 as the lowest priority and 9 as the highest. In addition, clients should consider priorities 0-4 as gradations of normal priority and priorities 5-9 as gradations of expedited priority.
The API does not require that a provider strictly implement priority ordering of messages; however, it should do its best to deliver expedited messages ahead of normal messages.
The possible values depend on broker and protocol version.
|Boolean TBTMessage::JMSRedelivered
Redelivered - True if this message has been redelivered to this or another consumer before being acknowledged successfully.
An indication of whether this message is being redelivered.
If a client receives a message with the JMSRedelivered field set, it is likely, but not guaranteed, that this message was delivered earlier but that its receipt was not acknowledged at that time.
|IDestination TBTMessage::JMSReplyTo
The Destination object to which a reply to this message should be sent.
The JMSReplyTo header field contains the destination where a reply to the current message should be sent. If it is null, no reply is expected. The destination may be either a IQueue object or a ITopic object.
Messages sent with a null JMSReplyTo value may be a notification of some event, or they may just be some data the sender thinks is of interest.
Messages with a JMSReplyTo value typically expect a response. A response is optional; it is up to the client to decide. These messages are called requests. A message sent in response to a request is called a reply.
In some cases a client may wish to match a request it sent earlier with a reply it has just received. The client can use the JMSCorrelationID header field for this purpose.
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The timestamp the broker added to the message.
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The type name of this message.
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Minnesota Starter Jake Odorizzi Win Streak Ends, Twins Lose
An off night at Target Field Thursday for the Minnesota Twins starter Jake Odorizzi who according to Robert Falkoff reporting for MLB.com, started the night with a 2.24 ERA, which was tied for third in the Major Leagues.
It was also an off night for the rest of the defense who recorded three errors against the Kansas City Royals. And if you are counting that makes 14 errors in the last ten games. Kansas City takes the opening game of the series with a 4-1 win.
The Royals hit Odorizzi early getting on the board with three runs in the first inning of play.
Jorge Polanco hit a solo homer in the first, giving him a 33-game streak of reaching base.
The Twins got to see another call-up from the minors in Kohl Stewart and the reliever from Triple-A Rochester was solid with four scoreless innings.
The Twins and Royals are back at Kauffman Stadium tonight where Martin Perez takes the mound for the Minnesota. First pitch is 7:15 on Information 1000 KSOO.


text: I'm a little saddened that Marina chose the easy path for this song, the euphoric dance pop that's so prevalent right now, the Guetta-isation of pop or whatever you want to call it. Marina's voice has always been her chief asset but when it's matched to music that is so generic, it's hard to be so enthused. Marina clearly has a plan with her Electra Heart character and her voice is the standout here. There's not much of that originality that drew me to her music in the first place, regardless of the song's standard pop blush.


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This edition of Monopoly features many of Crown Melbourne's most iconic assets with your favourite destinations being immortalised in this special edition.
Take a chance, make the most of free parking and collect one for yourself as you pass go with Crown Melbourne.


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|The kids brought these in from home.
|We decided that they should use the rulers they were going to have to use on the state test. The 7-inch rulers were not up to the task of measuring the heights and the widths of the boxes, but Rich and I decided that was OK...
|...they would figure it out.
I was most excited to use the opportunity to revisit an area model for multiplying fractions and mixed numbers, so we had the kids outline the area of the bases on square inch grid paper.
|7 1/2 by 2. We had originally thought they would do it on blank paper. But we decided the grid paper was better because it more effectively expressed the idea that the fractions were pieces of actual squares.
This continued for several days. They got a lot of practice working with fractions, multiplying, dividing, and measuring, and the fun was just beginning... because now they would have the chance to create their own cereal, and design the box.
|Drawing a three dimensional shape on paper presented some challenges. This student's ingenious use of two rulers gave Rich and I the idea that protractors could be used to make the representations even more accurate. Duly noted for next year.
|Nike is into everything these days.
|Love the mascot!
|For the One Direction fan in all of us.
|Check out the expiration date.
|This is a "mini-box". Each group had to come up with one that was half the length, width, and height of their standard sized box.


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On the reform of teacher education from integrated education perspective
Prof. Dehua Liu
The Education Science Research Institute of Jimei University
The reform of teacher education in China needs constructing new educational idea, named integrated education. According to the idea of integrated education, we should take the following measures: integrate educational theories with educational practice by case teaching; integrate the educational resources of core curricula; integrate educational resources inside and outside of college; integrate professional development and life value of teachers; integrate accumulated knowledge and critical thinking; integrate understanding of Chinese educational background and educational reform of developed countries.
Prof. Dehua Liu, director of the Education Science Research Institute of Jimei University and Vice editor-chief of Journal of Jimei University
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More than 60 Canadian groups are urging the country's National Energy Board (NEB) to suspend its review of TransCanada Corp.'s (TSE, NYSE: TRP) application for its planned Cdn$12 billion Energy East pipeline.
The Calgary-based firm has said it would file amendments to its existing application for the $12-billion pipeline in the fourth quarter this year to reflect last month's decision to abandon a planned marine terminal in Quebec over potential risks to beluga whale habitat.
"The board cannot determine that the application is complete until after the future amendments are added to the record and assessed," board secretary Sheri Young said in a notice filed with the regulator last week. It has asked for clarification by May 20 "in order to continue its consideration of the application," according to the notice.
But the organizations want to prevent TransCanada from submitting its reviewed documents and have asked the NEB to keep the case closed until the broken federal regulatory process is fixed," according to a news release. The groups include the Council of Canadians, David Suzuki Foundation, Greenpeace Canada and the Conservation Council of New Brunswick.
TransCanada's proposal is to convert one of its existing natural-gas pipelines into a 4,600-kilometre oil pipeline — dubbed Energy East — that would carry 1.1 million barrels of crude oil per day from Hardisty, Alberta, to Saint John, New Brunswick.
The company restated last month that the route will not be finalized until it has assessed and incorporated input from numerous stakeholders, including First Nation and Métis communities, landowners, local communities and provincial and federal governments.
Completion of Energy East is now slated for 2020.


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'Little Favour:' An Anticipated Short Film Starring Benedict Cumberbatch
You know the dude blowing up the film and television world with his brilliant performance as Sherlock Holmes on BBC's Sherlock and his killer turn as the main antagonist in Star Trek Into Darkness? That's Benedict Cumberbatch. The soon-to-be-A-lister who helped crowdfund a short film based off the vision of first time writer/director Patrick Monroe. The story focuses on Wallace (Cumberbatch) as he tries to get over the scars of war and start a life away from the military when his old comrade James (Colin Salmon) calls in a favor. Unable to turn down the man who saved his life, Wallace agrees to help James, but soon finds it may be more than just a little favor. Below is the action-packed trailer and the short will be available via iTunes on November 5th, 2013.


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Nike gives Charles Barkley's signature Nike Air Max2 CB 94 a denim take for the Spring and Summer season.
The Nike Air Max2 CB 94 isnt exactly a fitting "Lifestyle" shoe per say but with its recent denim take, you can almost wear these with just about anything.
The Charles Barkley classic features a Denim and Bronze take, with white accents on the midsole and upper.
The Denim Nike Air Max CB 94 "Denim" is available at select footlocker locations across the U.S. For those interested in copping a pair, You can see where they're at via the Footlocker Locator.


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In the last few weeks I have been doing a bit more running than usual to prepare for my leg of Klondike Road Relay. I have always found that running is a great way to train for skiing because of the aerobic qualities as well as the foot speed it develops. Last year, I could not run due to injury, so I am grateful this year to be able to hammer out some decent races and intervals.
A couple weeks ago, I achieved my personal best on the Haekell Hill running test—a straight uphill dirt road run of 2.85km. I PRed by 35 sec with a time 13:02, 28 seconds behind Graham Nishikawa's all time record of 12:36.
Last weekend I competed in leg one of the Klondike Road Relay, starting at 11:30pm in Skagway. It was a fun event and I managed to come in 2nd in my leg in a time 58:04. Thanks for PhysioPlus and Intersport for sponsoring our team.
Now that my "running season" is over, I am looking forward to shifting to more specific training for the next block of intervals. Now we will still be seen running, but most of the time with ski poles in our hands!
Team Scarecrow - 2012 Overall Champions
My lonely start in Skagway


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Juan, my fiancee suddenly changed his mind at the last minute without notice. the frustrating thing is that he blocked me from all social networks. all attempt to extract an explanation from him fell on deaf ears. one day, i summoned the courage to confront him in his house. you will not believe this, Jaun called the Police on me. in desperation, i turned to several spiritualists without solution. then providence connected me with Master Temujin. Temujin explained that Juan is under a spell ordered by a woman who is interested in him. he performed 2 separate Voodoo Love Rituals (first a Voodoo Separation Ritual that tore Juan from the evil woman's iron grip and secondly he performed a Voodoo Love Ritual) exactly 19 days following the second ritual, Juan called me and asked for a meeting. in that meeting he confessed how foolish has been and begged for my forgiveness. 2 months later, we where married. my happiness knows no bound.
Vanessa, Madrid
My husband and I live and work in the Cayman's Island. around 5 years ago, series of misfortune began to befall us one after the other. the immigration department refused to extend my husband work permit. each time, we manage to take one step forward, some invisible force will take us 2 steps backwards. to make things worse, we both needed a child. all known medical technique failed to make me pregnant. i consulted many Voodoo workers, but no relief came. i found Temujin online and decided to give it another try. Temujin told us that the magnitude of negative elemental forces overshadowing us is numbering zillions. one by one he eliminated all of them, and today, i am glad to tell the whole world that, my husband's work permit was eventually extended for 5 years and i am a happy mother with a beautiful baby girl
Roxanne, Cayman Islands
The 2008 economic down turn took a hugh impact on me and my company. my investors were knocking on my door threatening legal action. i was so depressed that i even contemplated suicide. then, like Mana from Heaven, I met Temujin online. he asked that i be presend in his temple. a wash in the warm mediteranean sea at night (12 Midnight) and a 2 day cleansing ritual was all that was needed. i returned to my base in the UAE. in less than a week i got proposals from 5 wealthy investors. i have since paid off all my debts and i am glad to inform that i am now on my own with 29 workers and a healthy bank account.
James, Dubai
I am became a victim of a mischievous co-worker. this person will not stop making uncomplimentary comments behind my back to my employers. his objective is for my employees to sack me and replace me with him. i ran to Temujin and the said worker has since been transfer to another branch of the company in another country. shortly after his transfer, i was promoted to the position of station chief.
Anthonio, Naples
My barbing studio in Munich became where i pass the time reading newspapers and magazines. no client. nothing. i could'nt eat and i am behind in my rent. closure looked at me in the face. i have no training in doing anything else. i am 58 years of age. without specialised skills no one wants to employ me. Temujin came to the rescue. he gave me a voodoo portion to hang on the door of the studio. ever since, anyone who steps into that studio has not gone anywhere else. my clients continue to grow and grow. today i have 15 studios scattered all over Germany.
Karl, Munchen
The products arrived in just a few days. this is a wonderful experience. in a few days, my desires were realised, just as imagined them., it was very easy using the site, and I already have recommended it to others. I am so excited to have found Temujin!!
Brandon, Melbourne
i have this husband whose dick wags for every passing female. i could'nt leave him because i love him. i contracted Temujin for a Voodoo Love Binding Ritual. since then our relationship has never been so good! I really believe that if it was not for Temujin, i would have lost him to another woman.
Katie, Toronto
I tried many spell casters to no avail. my boyfriend continued to drift away from me. he was not cheating on me. no. but suddenly, be systematically began to grow cold. the sex was just mechanical. no life to it. I was scammed by countless charlatans until I was verbally introduced to Temijin. He recommended the voodoo pupper and I agreed. today, I am happy that the situation has changed for the better. our sex life has also become as amazing as it used to be the first time.
Lizzy, Manchester
for years, my family suffer the effects of a black magic orchestrated by a close family friend. this was done out of jealousy. we haven't done anything wrong to this person as far as we know. we struggled from one business to the other without any head way. then we consulted Temujin. today, the rest is history.
Fati U:AE
it is amazing how things can quickly turn around if you know where and whom to meet. the world economic down turn of 2008 hit my fiancée and I very hard. suddenly we are out of employment. in no time, our social security was gone. left with nothing, suicide became the only viable option....until we were introduced to Temujin. we agreed to a wealth ritual. today, we have our own business in four countries and still expanding.
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If Ryan and Sara Hall wanted to have a five-course dinner party that included a 5K time trial followed by hors d'oeuvres, a salad, 10 x 800 on the track and dessert, we know who they should invite.
Three other sets of fast American running couples — Alan and Shayne Culpepper, Adam and Kara Goucher and Steve and Sara Slattery — all got married a few years after earning All-American honors at the University of Colorado.
Is there something in the water in Boulder?
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"I think it's just a different situation for everyone," says Steve Slattery, one of America's top 3,000-meter steeplechase runners. "But having a close program and spending a lot of time together is part of it."
Unlike the Gouchers or the Culpeppers, the Slatterys actually knew each other before going to college. They met at the 1997 Foot Locker Championships when Steve was a high school senior from New Jersey, and Sara was a sophomore from Phoenix. They were good friends by the time they were on the junior team for the 1998 World Cross Country Championships, but didn't start dating until they were both in college.
Having someone who shares a passion for running, understands the ups and downs of training and knows how to deal with the pressure of running well are some of the built-in perks of being married to a fellow elite runner. Sara, 25, says she gained a lot of insights about transitioning from the collegiate to the pro ranks from Steve, 27, who made the jump two years before she did.
Like all distance runners, the Slatterys have been through plenty of ups and downs, too, from setting PRs and winning national titles to Sara's injuries and Steve's fourth-place, near-miss in the steeplechase at the 2004 Olympic Trials.
"It's good because you always have someone you can talk to about those things," says Sara Slattery, one of the country's top 5,000- and 10,000-meter runners. "He's really helped me with race planning, training and making better choices. And it's just nice because you can share those things together and the other person understands the things that you're going through."
One of their proudest moments came when Sara won the Bolder Boulder 10K in 2006. The elite race is run on a criterium-style loop course and Steve rode on the press truck ahead of the lead pack.
"Just seeing him relaxed me," Sara says. "When you're in a race, you always want to execute your plan, but being able to see him there made it more relaxing and made it easier to follow my plan because it felt like I was running any other workout and he was right there."
The Culpeppers, married in 1997, have unintentionally set the bar rather high by continuing to post world-class results while also adding two boys, Cruz, 5, and Levi, 1, to their family. Alan, 34, is one of the country's top marathoners and the 2007 U.S. cross country champion, while Shayne, 33, owns a bronze medal from the 3,000 at the 2004 World Indoor Championships and is the 2007 U.S. indoor 1,500 champ.
The Gouchers, married in 2001, recently regained their place among America's top runners since leaving Boulder for Portland, Ore., in 2005 to work with coach Alberto Salazar. At the USA Cross Country Championships on February 10 in Boulder, the Gouchers took home unofficial "fastest couple" bragging rights, with Adam, 32, taking second in the men's race and Kara, 28, finishing third among women.
Each readily admits they'd no longer be running if they hadn't had the support each provides the other.
"We know what it's like to be kicked in the gut over and over," Kara says, referring to the couple's struggles of several injury-plagued seasons. "But we've kind of refused to let each other give in. Adam would never let me quit, and there was no way I would let him quit."
The Slatterys, who were married three years ago, are hoping to have their best season yet on the track. They admit it's nice to have a built-in travel partner, especially when part of the summer is spent living in London and competing in Europe.
Last summer they took a train through the Chunnel and snuck away for a fun weekend in Paris. When they're at home near Boulder — which is just a few blocks from where the Culpeppers live — they often go bowling or rent movies to relax.
"We just like doing stuff together and hanging out together," Steve Slattery says. "We would like to have kids some day like the Culpeppers, but right now we're looking forward to big things on the track and just enjoying our time being married and running."


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Most hotel visits are like blind dates: An arrangement is made, you may even see a photo or two, but you enter with a sense of uncertainty, hoping for the best. As with love, however, it is often a chance encounter with a hotel that is likely to set your heart alight. So it was the day I arrived at Morrison House in Old Town, the historic district of Alexandria, Va. I had come for a send-off brunch for a bride and groom, but I was the one who fell in love at first sight—with the 45-room hotel and its restaurant, Elysium.
The hotel was recently granted membership in the prestigious French-based Relais & Châteaux confederation, a remarkable accomplishment considering that Morrison House is the handiwork of Peter Greenberg, a former real estate entrepreneur who, with no previous experience in the hotel business, bought the property in a foreclosure sale, intending a quick resale. That was in 1996, after Greenberg and his wife, Edy, had just completed a six-month joyride in a Ford Bronco. They had driven throughout the West and Northwest and then to Alaska, improvising the route, sleeping in the back of the Bronco—its rear seat had been removed to create enough room for a makeshift bed—and dining on beans and rice.
Perhaps it is because Greenberg, now 39, possesses the soul and stamina of a traveler that he so intuitively grasped what it would require to make his hotel and its restaurant such standouts. Or maybe it was just a matter of inspired amateurism when he decided that he did not want his guests to order meals from a menu. Instead, Elysium offers what Greenberg calls A Chef of Your Own. You decide what you would like for dinner from the ingredients that have been procured earlier that day, and chef Gian Piero Mazzi will create a meal consisting of at least seven tasting-size courses.
My dinner began with seared Hudson Valley duck foie gras over a ginger puree with butternut squash. Wine pairings are given the appropriate level of consideration, and for this dish in which the foie gras predominated, the selection was a sweet white from the Rhône: Domaine de Coyeux (a Muscat de Beaumes-de-Venise). The main course featured perfectly cooked rack of lamb served atop a bed of golden chanterelles and accompanied by a small oven-roasted pumpkin filled with sautéed seasonal vegetables. The wine was a Shiraz from Bulletin Place in southeast Australia.
The meal concluded with the Palette d'Amusement from pastry chef Annie Meaghan. It was a plate of four or more colorful spoon-size desserts, including crème brûlée torched and served on a silver teaspoon. Graham's Six Grapes port proved to be an excellent complement.
Following the meal, I adjourned to my room upstairs where a surprise awaited: a snifter of Amaro Averna, an elixir of 32 herbs devised long ago by Italian monks. Had I preferred, I could have concluded dinner with a digestif—or begun it with hors d'oeuvres and Champagne—in the Federal-style parlor. There are no rules at Morrison House, only the desire to make everyone feel at home.
Morrison House, 800.367.0800, www.morrisonhouse.com; Relais & Châteaux, 800.735.2478, www.relaischateaux.com


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On bo:o'bs and bakassi
On my first date with lawyerman, I wore skinny jeans, a small silk blouse and high heels. I was a size 14/16 and I knew I looked hot. Mesef, I was feeling myself. Lawyerman would later tell me that on that first day, walking behind me while I walked ahead, he fell in lust with me. The falling in love happened later. But that day, he said that the hot feelings coursing through me that day made him determined to have this babe.
I have a sizeable derr;ier'e you see.
But what is it with men and bakassi? Hands up to anyone who took molue as a form of transportation when they were younger. Remember those men that will be 'ledi mo e'? – gum their g;ro'ins to your back. And no matter how much you moved around in that tight molue, 69 sitting, 99 standing, the men would still find a way to move around too so that their groin would still be next to your bakassi? What is it with men and bakassi?
If I was a man, I would NEVER date a woman like me. I would be into b"oob;s. The female form is just so… sensual and beautiful. And the b"oo;bs are the koko of this sensuality. If I was a man, I would be a baby. Just breast-feeding. Shikena.
I don't get the attraction to bakassi. Honestly, I don't. Lawyerman has tried to tell me what the effect on a man is… seeing his woman's de;rriere' walking ahead of you. Or seeing his woman's d;errier'e in the other room, touching her toes…
I still don't get it. Give me two globes of succulent bliss. I would take that over two bakassi. Anytime.


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Nūz: Santa Cruz County News Briefs
Tough Gov
Just when Nüz was beginning to fear four more years of Arnold Schwarzenegger, along comes Elisha Shapiro to save the day. Appearing at the Attic this coming Sunday, the Nihilist Party candidate for governor is pushing for nothing less than California's secession from the United States.
True, it's an idea that didn't sit particularly well when the South tried it, but California today is much more despised by mainstream America than slavery ever was. Plus, if he's successful, Shapiro says California taxpayers will save $50 billion a year that Washington currently diverts to other states.
But wait, just like those Ronco infomercials, that's not all: Shapiro also promises to appoint Jon Stewart and Santa Cruz's own Angela Davis to the California Supreme Court, to return California Guard soldiers from Iraq and to legalize gay marriage, Cuban cigars and Venezuelan oil.
An L.A.-based conceptual artist and media prankster, Shapiro talked to Nüz last week in anticipation of his visit.
NUZ: Nihilists generally don't view any one course of action as preferable to another. Is it difficult to motivate such a group to get out and vote?
SHAPIRO: It's not like Nazis, where they fall right in line. [Laughs.] Nihilists are not what you'd call a highly organized group.
NUZ: How did you get onto your whole nihilism thing?
SHAPIRO: Let's see. The first big event I did was the Nihilist Olympics in 1980. We had 10 different Olympic events that we staged around town. The most popular one was the U-Turn Competition. We had five intersections listed in the LA Weekly, and there were judges posted on the corner, each for an hour, and they'd hold up signs and score them. The guy who won was driving a panel truck, and he did like a 480-degree turn. I don't know if you know Melrose, but it's not a big street. It was pretty scary. He insisted on winning. He was not going to take second place.
NUZ: As an artist, how do you manage to survive: Trust fund or S.S.I.?
SHAPIRO: Actually, I'm an English teacher at Santa Monica College, so it's like a combination of both.
NUZ: And if you were to become governor, how would that affect your position? Do they have tenure at junior colleges?
SHAPIRO: Well, they do, but I'm not quite tenured yet. I'd have to do both jobs at the same time.
NUZ: Which would not be a big problem?
SHAPIRO: [Laughing] I can work it out, I think. I'm not sweating it too much.
NUZ: So beyond laying groundwork for a standup comic career, is there a serious underpinning to all this? What message are you trying to get out?
SHAPIRO: That's a good question. This really was inspired by the last two elections, and how the country seems to be getting so conservative while California is still California. The Bush Supreme Court is trying to push this fundamentalist crap on us, and it just pisses me off, because Schwarzenegger is like a Bush puppet and Democrats just aren't standing up for themselves. I thought this would be a good opportunity to put the fear of God into those people. Even if just a few thousand people voted for secession, I think that would get their attention.
NUZ: Would you invite the Pacific Northwest to come along?
SHAPIRO: Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon, I tell ya. Those pot-smoking hippies up there. One thing I am thinking of is to immediately annex Nevada. Take over Nevada so that we would have a buffer zone, with gambling, hookers and nuclear waste, to slow down the U.S. Army.
Nihilist Party gubernatorial candidate Elisha Shapiro makes a campaign stop this Sunday, Aug. 13, at 3pm at the Attic, 931 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz. For more information, visit www.nihilists.net/gov.html.
Nūz just loves juicy tips about Santa Cruz County politics.
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