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Mamelodi Sundowns coach Pitso Mosimane is confident that his side will reverse matters when they meet Chicken Inn in the second leg of their CAF Champions League clash.
Chicken Inn put a gallant fight in the first leg at Babourfields Stadium over the weekend to narrowly beat the highly fancied Sundowns.
Mosimane blamed the loss to tired legs insisting that his players were tired following a mid week high profile league encounter against Orlando Pirates.
Speaking to Sundowns official website, Mosimane said there are no more excuses but his team will do the job in Pretoria.
"Yes, we lost the match, but the round is not lost. We will have to do the business at home (in two weeks' time)" Mosimane told Sundowns official website.
"Even before the match, I spoke of the quality of Chicken Inn, so we knew what we were up against. We had noted that they had beaten sides like Highlanders and Dynamos"
"Khama (Billiat) complained about a tight hamstring after the Pirates match, while Debnnnis (Onyango) suffered a knee injury – that is why I did not field the two," Mosimane said.
"Then we had to substitute Teko Modise at half time because his legs could not carry him through. Leo Castro and Keagan Dolly also struggled with the pace of the game," he said.
"Chicken Inn looked a lot sharper than us. They sat back and waited to catch us on the counter, and we were aware of this tactic, but eventually they did get the break.
"We played a whole lot more on the counter, and opened up a a lot as we attacked them in search of the away goal. But we just did not have the legs to sustain this," Mosimane said.


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Observing Cloudflow applications
Available with a Lightbend Platform subscription, Lightbend Console provides deep insights and observability for Cloudflow applications. It helps you verify that your application looks as you expect—with the correct streamlets and the proper connections, each using the desired schema. In the Console, you can watch your application run, check on key performance indicators, such as latency and throughput, and observe the health of each streamlet and the monitors computed on them.
Before you can use Console, you need to have been completed installing Cloudflow Enterprise components
|All Console pages have in-app help. Click the ? icon in the upper right of any panel to display the help. To hide the help overlay, click CLOSE in the upper right.
Lightbend Console views
Lightbend Console provides two main views for monitoring Lightbend-enabled applications: infrastructure and Cloudflow-specific. For Cloudflow, Console includes an page that displays all applications in the cluster. In the Cloudflow Applications view you see a blueprint and streamlet-oriented frame of reference: all information is structured for a higher level perspective on a running pipeline-enabled application: where the main actors are the blueprint, its constituent streamlets, their monitors and metrics. Health at the application level is based on rolling up health at the streamlet level which is based on rolling up health at the monitor level.
The infrastructure Cluster Map view is shown below. A Kubernetes-based cluster consists of nodes running pods (you can reach this view by clicking the workload icon within the controls panel in the window upper left). Those pods are organized by the workloads in which they are running. Workloads have monitors running on pods and the health of the workload is based on rolling up the health of its monitors. This infrastructure-based view does not have a high level concept of an application but it does allow you to define or customize monitors for workloads. While this customization is not available directly in the Cloudflow-based view, those monitors do carry over to the Cloudflow perspective.
This is the corresponding infrastructure view for the Cloudflow application shown above. Note that there are 11 workloads here (three with two pods each all others with one). But the pipeline view contains eight streamlets. This discrepancy is due to how spark jobs are handled: they each have an executor and driver—resulting in an additional workload for each spark streamlet—or three additional workloads here since there are three spark-based streamlets.
What's next
The remainder of this section describes:
The Blueprint Graph, a pane on the application monitoring page

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Statistically it has been suggested that 1 in 10 people will soon carry the label of 'diabetes', and the world badly needs new ways of reducing the long term risks of this condition, such as coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, blindness, and renal failure.
It has been suggested that the human race should have learnt by now that unless an intervention for diabetes can be shown to reduce such events, then it has no place in the medical profession's arsenal of treatment – and this will inevitably require large, long trials in typical populations.
A piece in Diabetologia states that the majority of current trials in diabetes registered on ClinicalTrials.gov:
- Exclude older people;
- Are of short duration;
- Involve drug therapy rather than preventive or non-drug interventions; and
- Do not focus on important cardiovascular outcomes.
Source: BMJ 2013;346:f2325.
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Last Thursday, Iran shot down a $130 million U.S. Global Hawk surveillance drone with a surface-to-air missile over the Strait of Hormuz. Two weeks ago, two oil tankers were attacked with Limpet mines attached magnetically to their hulls. After an investigation, the U.S. blamed Iran for the attacks. But is this all the fulfillment of a 400 year old prophesy from a famous Torah commentator? What we do know is that the very location where all of these events took place matches that of the prophesy itself.
The Strait of Hormuz is the focus of tensions between the U.S. and Iran with the potential to spark off a multinational conflict. It is important to note that the Straits of Hormuz were specifically identified as the flash-point that sets off the pre-Messiah conflict of Gog and Magog.
The Strait of Hormuz is a vital shipping route linking Middle East oil producers to markets in Asia, Europe, and North America. It has been the focus of regional tensions for decades. 21 miles wide at its narrowest point, the shipping lane is just two miles wide in either direction and is highly susceptible to attack. About one-fifth of the entire global consumption of oil passes through the Strait of Hormuz. It is also the route used for nearly all the liquefied natural gas (LNG) produced by the world's biggest LNG exporter, Qatar. The U.S. Fifth Fleet, based in Bahrain, is tasked with protecting the commercial ships in the area.
The Jewish blogger known as Shirat Devorah noted that the Strait of Hormuz, or Basra, was identified as the location of the War of Gog and Magog by Rabbi Samuel Ben Abraham Laniado, a 17th Century Syrian rabbi known from the title of most of his works as Ba'al ha-Kelim. Shirat Devorah cited the Rabbi Luntschitz as identifying the Strait of Hormuz as the location of the War of Gog and Magog. In his commentary on the Book Of Isaiah title, Rabbi Laniado identifies Basra, sometimes transliterated Bozrah, as the location.
Hashem has a sword; it is sated with blood, It is gorged with fat— The blood of lambs and he-goats, The kidney fat of rams. For Hashem holds a sacrifice in Bozrah, A great slaughter in the land of Edom. Isaiah 34:6
It should be noted that the name 'Hormuz' is derived from a Persian word meaning 'date palm' but historically, cartographers referred to the location as the Strait of Basra.
Rabbi Laniado wrote in his commentary on the verse, that this section of the Book of Isaiah was indeed describing the War of Gog and Magog.
"It will take place in Bozrah which is called Hormuz. And there will be a great killing in the land of Edom, and thunder will come down with them and bulls with knights (as written in the next verse) because this will be a day of reckoning for God, a day to fight for Zion. And this is to say that many kingdoms from the other nations will join with Edom This distant country is named Botzrah, and it is on the border between Assyria and Persia (Iran) and the border of Edom. Hormuz is now under the rule of Ishmael. And blessed is the one who knows the truth of these words. For it is there that the war in the end-of-days may take place."
Rabbi Yekutiel Fish, an expert in Jewish mysticism who blogs in Hebrew under the title 'Sod Chashmal,' was convinced that the current political conflict will escalate.
"This is just the beginning," Rabbi Fish told Breaking Israel News, noting that many prominent rabbis are calling for Jews to move to Israel as soon as possible. "This situation in the region is very serious. According to our calculations, there will be a war by the end of the summer, certainly before the Jewish high-holidays."
"People should not look to political solutions or even solutions from a natural source. The war will go far beyond that and the only solutions, the only hope is from heaven."
Rabbi Pinchas Winston, a prolific author and expert on classical Jewish sources pertaining to the end-of-days, explained that even if the political tensions do not explode into all-out war, a biblical perspective is the only way to understand the implications.
"This recent flare-up in the Strait of Hormuz is certainly another step in the process leading up to Gog and Magog," Rabbi Winston told Breaking Israel News. "All of the prophetic writings describe Persia, or as we know it today, Iran, as having a major role as an instigator in the final pre-Messiah war."
"It could be that this last flare-up was a false start in order to give people a chance to wake-up and do tshuva (repent)," Rabbi Winston said. "The final confrontation will be like the music stopping in musical chairs. A lot of people will misunderstand the situation and think that everything is okay.
"It is important to properly understand this process and the only way to do that is by seeing it from a Biblical perspective, as a part of the end-of-days, as a lead-up to Gog u'Magog. If you don't have that perspective, then your brain will always find a way to deny even the most obvious facts in order to convince you that this is business as usual."
Rabbi Winston explained that this is what happened to Chamberlain before World War II when he tried to appease Hitler; Chamberlain did not understand the context.
"Nobody wants to go to war but if you see Iranian aggression as a build-up to Gog u'Magog, you will understand the context and the possible implications and the outcome. If you don't have the mentality, you are going to miss the boat."
A slightly different opinion was given by Rabbbi Ken Spiro, a historian and Senior Lecturer and Researcher for Aish HaTorah Yeshiva, who focused on the interplay between the U.S. and Iran.
"In end-of-days scenarios, there are two parallel tracks for Gog and Magog: the world united against Israel, and another in which Ishmael and Esav fight each other," Spiro told Breaking Israel News. "They will both play out simultaneously. Christianity and Islam have been fighting since the inception of Islam in the 7th Century. But they can put those issues aside to passionately fight Israel."
"Even though they are not Arabs, Iran is the most radical representative of Ishmael," Rabbi Spiro explained. "Esav is being led by the Euro-leftists who try to delegitimize Israel through NGO's. At the same time, there has always been a conflict between Christianity and Islam which are offshoots of Judaism."
"If a war breaks out, you can expect Iran's proxies, like Hezbollah, to attack Israel," Rabbi Spiro said. "They are the front-line troops but they aren't the real source of the threat to Israel."
AUTHOR'S NOTE: CORRECTION: The source for the prophecy was originally identified as Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz, a 16th-century Polish Torah scholar known by the pseudonym 'Kli Yakar'. That was changed to the correct source: Rabbi Laniado.


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Thursday, September 13, 2012
Two little lives...saved!
18 comments:
- Angel Ginger Jasper said...
How lovely and this brought back so many memories for me. Many years ago, over 30 when living in Germany with the army we got a sweet guinea pig for the children. It was really friendly and loved being handled. One morning early she was making a lot of squeaky noises and when we looked she had just given birth to a baby the exact colour of your baby and we never knew she was pregnant . I am so glad your mum and baby are doing ok and hope that mum will start to fees soon and give you some rest. Thanks for showing us all the great pictures. Hugs Carol and GJ x
- September 13, 2012 at 3:09 PM
- H and Flo said...
Hee hee. :)
Given that it looks from one of those photos as though you are feeding it Hunters, perhaps you should call it Cider!
Congratulations on your new 'Granny' status!
- September 13, 2012 at 3:36 PM
- Millie and Walter said...
So glad Twix and her little one are okay. Good luck to you with the hand feeding of the baby. You are a saint for your efforts.
- September 13, 2012 at 4:15 PM
- How Sam Sees It said...
She's so cute! Is it normal for Guinea's to only have one baby?
- September 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM
- Furry Bottoms said...
I am truly amazed. I never heard of a C-section on so small an animal before. This is awesome!!! I am so glad both Mom and Pup are doing okay. She looks like a Snufflepuss to me.
- September 13, 2012 at 4:49 PM
- Two French Bulldogs said...
Oh my goodness so adorable. We never had no pet like that
Benny & Lily
- September 13, 2012 at 7:18 PM
- kks said...
what a lovely "pig" story!!
- September 13, 2012 at 7:19 PM
- Tama-Chan, Benny, Vidock, Violette, Ollie, Hotesse & Heloise said...
What a sweet pup! Congratulations!
- September 13, 2012 at 8:25 PM
- NanaNor's said...
Dear Caryl, Congrat's on your new addition. Twix's baby is so beautiful, I'm surprised at it is so big and so covered with hair(I didn't remember this from when we had a g.p.). What fun but I'm sure you'll love it when Twix can nurse.
Love your flower collages and of course seeing Toby & Aunt Tam play.
Hugs today.
- September 13, 2012 at 9:31 PM
- sprinkles said...
Congrats on the addition, what a cutie!
- September 13, 2012 at 9:36 PM
- WFT Nobby said...
Well done Dr Goosen. We think that the wee one should have a name that honours you. Gander perhaps?
Toodle pip!
PS from Gail - I do hope MaxMom is getting some sleep...
- September 13, 2012 at 9:57 PM
- Scout and Freyja said...
I would dare to guess that there aren't many little piggies who have had their birth welcomed and celebrated by dozens and dozens of people all over the world!
Whatever you decide to name Twix's baby - bottom line, she's adorable!
- September 13, 2012 at 10:17 PM
- Suka said...
Your story brought tears to my eyes! Such amazing work by your Vets. And such dedication on your part staying up all night and feeding the wee one. Glad that Twix is o.k. and recovering, and what an adorable little sweetpea her baby is!! Such cute coloring. Congratulations to all! Always love the happy endings!
The photos of Toby and Aunt Tam are beautiful! And I always love to see them playing.
Gorgeous flowers! You certainly have a green thumb! Hope you get caught up on your sleep!
K and Suka
- September 13, 2012 at 11:32 PM
- Molly the Airedale said...
Congratulations, MaxMom! We are so excited for you and we are so happy that Twix and her baby are okay!
Your flowers are just beautiful!
Love ya lots,
Mitch and Molly
- September 13, 2012 at 11:32 PM
- My Dog Sam - Ruptured Disk said...
Great post, thanks MaxMom
- September 14, 2012 at 5:38 AM
- Tweedles -- that's me said...
Oh gosh- what an ordeal. We hope you are getting a little sleep.
So much excitement going on in your world.
We are glad Twix and baby are doing good!
It must be spring time in Africa- what beautiful flowers.
- September 14, 2012 at 7:36 AM
- Kate said...
We have missed all the recent tales of these little critters and found out from our pals at Team Husky that there were some little critters making an appearance with the lovely Maxmom!
We hope you have had time to take a nap and that the little one and Twix are doing extraordinarily well under your care!
Welldone Maxmom!
- September 14, 2012 at 11:27 AM
- STELLA and RORY from Down Under said...
Aww we want a guinea pig so bad. What a beautiful post. We loved all your photos and we think Twix's bub should be called Twinkle cause she's a little star hehe. Thanks for the smiles today. No worries, and love, Stella and Rory (and Carol)
- September 14, 2012 at 11:31 AM


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This article was originally published on Apr. 16 2019 by The Lawyer's Daily (www.thelawyersdaily.ca), part of LexisNexis Canada Inc.
The 2017 Tax Reform Act (the Act) signed into law by U.S. President Donald Trump in December 2017 affects taxpayers who are getting a divorce — even if one is a Canadian resident.
Before the Act, individual taxpayers could deduct alimony or separate maintenance payments under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) s. 215. The alimony recipient was required to include the alimony as gross income under IRC sec. 61(8) and sec. 71(b) on the U.S. tax return.
A payment is considered alimony if:
- Payment is received by (or on behalf of) a spouse under a divorce or separation instrument;
- The divorce or separation agreement doesn't specify that the payment is not includible in gross income of the payee spouse or is not deductible to the payor spouse;
- The spouses/former spouses don't live in the same household when payment is made; There is no requirement to continue making payments following the death of the recipient spouse;
- The payment isn't a fixed sum under the terms of the divorce or separation agreement for the support of the children.
Under the Act, alimony payments are no longer deductible on the U.S. income tax return if the separation or divorce agreement is executed after Dec. 31, 2018. On the other hand, the recipient spouse will no longer have to report alimony as taxable gross income.
However, for those agreements in place prior to Jan. 1, 2019, these changes do not apply as the original provisions are grandfathered into the agreement unless changes are made after Dec. 31, 2018, to the original agreement, in which case, new rules apply.
The bottom line? The new rules affect how alimony payments are negotiated and calculated under a divorce settlement. Prior to the Act, the recipient spouse had a bargaining chip that allowed the payor spouse to deduct alimony payments. Now, negotiations may become a drawn-out affair as divorcing parties try to reach an agreement.
What if the recipient spouse is not a U.S. person and resides in Canada, and the payor spouse resides south of the border? Under Canadian domestic law, a Canadian resident receiving alimony from the U.S. must report the income on their tax return, but the payor spouse will not have a corresponding deduction for the alimony payments. There is no longer a benefit on both sides of the border. Instead, both parties are at a disadvantage as Canadian tax is owed on the alimony income, and U.S. tax of the payor spouse is not reduced by the amount of alimony payments.
The result is more U.S. tax owing than under the old rules. However, there is relief under the U.S.- Canada Income Tax Convention (1980) (the Treaty), which allows Canadian residents receiving alimony payments from a U.S. payor to exclude the payments as taxable income if the agreement was executed in the U.S.
A U.S. citizen payor resident in Canada can deduct alimony payments on his/her Canadian tax return, but not in the U.S. However, the Canadian tax on the alimony payments can be claimed as a foreign tax credit on the U.S. tax return only on certain U.S. source income (i.e., employment income, other U.S. source private pension). Therefore, there may still be some benefit to a U.S. citizen payor who is resident in Canada.
Because alimony deductions are no longer available for U.S. tax purposes, adjustments to withholding taxes are a consideration for a payor spouse under an otherwise grandfathered divorce agreement that was revised after 2018. Under prior law, alimony payments reduced taxes withheld against the payor spouse's wages. Under the new law, the payor spouse must increase withholdings due to the loss of the alimony deduction. The payor spouse will have to provide their employer with an updated Form W4 Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate.
A Canadian resident payor spouse isn't required to withhold Canadian, non-resident tax from support payments to a former spouse who resides outside Canada and the U.S., provided certain conditions are met. On the U.S. side, the payor must withhold tax at 30 per cent, unless there is a treaty in force with the country where the payee spouse resides. Form 1042-S, Foreign Person's U.S. Source Income Subject to Withholding, is required to report the alimony payments to a non-U.S. payee, whether or not the payment is subject to withholding tax or is exempt under a bilateral treaty.
Therefore, it is important that the payor spouse obtain from the payee spouse a duly completed and signed Form W-8BEN, Certificate of Foreign Status of Beneficial Owner for United States Tax Withholding and Reporting (Individuals). This will ascertain the residency status of the payee spouse and eligibility for treaty exemption. Otherwise, the payor spouse would be liable for any withholding taxes that are under-withheld.
The best advice for divorcing parties is to ensure that both parties work with competent cross-border divorce lawyers in tandem with a competent cross-border tax adviser. This will ensure tax compliance on both sides of the border and at the negotiating table


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Louisville gets narrow win over UC-Irvine 57-55
As they've done so many times at the end of this basketball season, the Cards pulled out a narrow win at the end of a ballgame.
In Seattle, UofL gutted out a 57-to-55 win over Cal-Irvine in the east region.
The Louisville Cardinals will stick around Seattle for a couple more days, as they were able to survive, advance and defeat UC Irvine by the score of 57-55. (See complete 2nd/3rd round schedule)
In the second half Quentin Snider had one heck of a game.
Sniders' jumper gave the Cards a 50-47 lead with 5:30 minutes to go, but the Anteaters would not go away.
Luke Nelson connected on the jumper and UCI was up 55-53 with a minute to go.
Wayne Blackshear was clutch for the Cards as well with his jumper, tying it at 55.
Blackshear finished with 19 points and 7 rebounds.
Snider was fouled after chasing down a loose ball in the corner and went to the free throw line with 9 second remaining and still tied … he connected on both.
UC Irvine had one final chance to win it, but Terry Rozier came up with a big defensive play to seal the deal as the Cards win it and advance with the 57-55 win.
"Pretty much I just tried to have confidence in myself coming in to the game. Just have confidence you know. Being my first NCAA tournament, you know, just try to be confident," Snider said.
"We all believed that he could knock them down too. We had all the confidence in him too," Blackshear said. ("Thank you Wayne" – Snider)
The tournament gets hyped up for the talent and for the luck players and team run in too, but in the case of someone like Snider, sometimes all you need is a little confidence.
The Cards advance to the round of 32 where they will now meet up with Northern Iowa, the 5 seed, Sunday at Key Arena at about 9:40 p.m.
That game will be broadcast on TBS.
To join in all the NCAA excitement on Twitter, use the hashtag #WLKYRTFF.


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Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service is pleased to announce the launch of the Research Data Management (RDM) Adventure Game.
The RDM Adventure Game is a text-based role-playing interactive fiction serious game, based on the data management challenges of a research project. The game takes the form of an online choose-your-own-adventure format in which game players take a simulated research project through the following processes: data management planning, data collection/generation, data organisation, data description and research publication, while encountering data management challenges along the way.
The game was developed as part of a collaboration between the University of Bath Library and Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service between 2017 and 2020 by Alex Ball (University of Bath), Samuel Simango (Stellenbosch University) and Nushrat Khan (University of Bath).
In January 2021, the Wellcome Trust's Early Career Researchers Advisory Board endorsed the game by including it in the Wellcome Open Research early career researchers pack, recognising it as a useful tool for researchers. Sonya Towers (Grants Adviser at the Wellcome Trust), stated:
"The game is a great, fun way to teach researchers about how to manage their research data, throughout the entire grant life cycle. I really like the way it feels like you are part of an exciting story, where each decision acts as a cog in determining how the story ends."
Since the game's launch in December 2020 it has been played by people across 32 countries, and has recently been shortlisted as one of the nominees for the NSTF-South32 Awards for an award under the data for research category.
If you are interested in playing the game, click here. For more information, please contact Samuel Simango at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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This means that it's not like the usual museum space – think of it as an experiment the museums and the wider university community are doing together.
We don't have a long guidelines document setting out what will and won't happen in here. Each year, we will set out a manifesto for the space, and anyone can propose any use of the space that is within that.
Typically, a Research Studio Residency will be around a month long, but that's flexible depending on what you are planning to do.
Together we will try things out, spark ideas and conversations, learn together, and rethink what kinds of things happen in museum spaces.
- Ideas, creativity and making
- Prototyping and taking risks
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- Talking and listening
- Anyone who would like to come in
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- Credit-bearing teaching
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More than two months in advance, we will prioritise Residencies of more than three weeks, or events which connect to and complement the Museums' exhibition and programming themes. But we want the Research Studio to be busy and welcome any and all ideas, at any time.
Once a Research Studio Residency or event is confirmed, the Museums team will work with you to plan and market it, and to confirm budget, funding sources (since the core budget for this space is very modest), and other details.
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Every day brings more bad news about the economy: financial meltdown of this, financial bailout for that, more home mortgages foreclosed, more homeless people looking for shelter, more jobless people looking for work, more working people struggling to keep a roof over their head and food on the table. At some point this whole situation is going to turn downright ugly, and it's going to get worse—a lot worse—before it starts to get better. The real suffering has yet to begin.
The story of how the U.S. went from being the world's leading creditor nation to the world's biggest debtor nation is long and complicated, but once this tragic tale is told and the truth emerges a frightening reality takes shape. From that reality we can draw only one of two possible conclusions. Either the bastards who led us into this financial disaster are mind-numbingly stupid, or they're the brilliant engineers of a successful scheme to loot the nation's wealth.
Because no one could be this utterly, insanely stupid unless they majored in Stupidity in college and got a degree in it (Joe E. Half-case, STD?), I'm betting what little money I have left on the latter.
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RALEIGH, N.C. — A Cary woman whose partially decomposed body was found in Walnut Creek last month died of a cocaine overdose.
The medical examiner says the autopsy showed Elizabeth Voigt had drugs in her system.
The 31-year-old former WakeMed nurse had been missing since November.
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text: The female protagonist of the story, Sun is the daughter of the Yakuza Seto Group's boss, GÅzaburÅ Seto. She is a firm believer in the chivalrous spirit of mermaids, and is devoted to her role as Nagasumi's wife. She is also in love with Nagasumi. Since she has yet to become an adult, Sun is unable to completely maintain her human form, and her legs revert to a tail whenever she comes into contact with water. She often cites the similarity between the Japanese words "ninkyÅ" (chivalry) and "ningyo" (mermaid) to stress her adherence to honorable courses of action; in the Funimation release of the anime, her assertion is rephrased as "honor amongst thieves is honor under the seas". When Sun enters chivalry mode cherry blossom petals can be seen in the background. It is later revealed during Lunar and Nagasumi's wedding that if the need arises she can fight very well with a sword and also shows behavior much like a Yakuza member. Her name is related to Seto Inland Sea and is a direct reference to the Sun. She has her own personal body guards but does not use them same way that Lunar does. They only show up on matters involving Lunar's personal body guards whom they (Sun's body guards) are constantly at war with. Like most mermaids, she has a fear of cats (ailurophobia), but is capable of getting over it on occasion, like when the kitten that lives in Nagasumi's house is in danger of drowning, and she goes to save it.


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So coal was a way of life around these parts from the 1760s to the 1960s; my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all worked in the mines in NEPA. When I was growing up in this area, abandoned coal breakers were commonplace (the breaker was the main structure in a "colliery," which consisted of a mine and its complex of surface buildings). As a kid, my friends and I played near a hulking, crumbling concrete bunker that everyone called "the fan house." I had no idea why it was called that, never even wondered. But now, forty years later, I found out why.
|Headstone, Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery (P. Kinsman)
Patricia described the cemetery as overgrown on a hillside sloping down toward the river. The City Cemetery sits next to the much fancier (and better cared for) Hollenback Cemetery, both of which are on River Street, across from the Wilkes-Barre General Hospital. Easy to find. Supposedly, people used to be buried in the Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery until their families had enough money to give them a proper burial at Hollenback Cemetery! (ref.)
|Headstones with ruins of old building
On my return to Philadelphia, I asked Patricia if she knew what the building was. "A fan house," was her reply, "...a ventilation system for a coal mine. There are giant fans that pulled air out of the coal mine. The mine is still there, but sealed off."
|Toppled monument in Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery
|Fan inside Dorrance fan house (c. 1980s) (ref)
|Schematic diagram of "Baltimore-style" fan house fan (ref)
|c.1980s photo of Hillman fan house, Wilkes-Barre, PA (ref)
|Dorrance Colliery coal breaker, Wilkes-Barre, PA, c. 1980 (ref)
Dorrance was owned and operated by the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Think about that. It was a tribute to railroad pioneer Asa Packer's business acumen as owner of the Lehigh Valley Railroad to MINE his own fuel! And then haul it to regions in need of it! The colliery was in operation from 1880 through 1959 (the year after I was born). Eventually abandoned, the structure was imploded in 1984. Today, the only remaining trace of the 550-acre Dorrance coal kingdom is the crumbling fan house, and the graves that lie in its ominous shadow.
I find it interesting that the sign at the cemetery entrance indicates that it was established in 1871, and the fan house was (along with the rest of the colliery) was built around 1880. It appears that the Dorrance shafts tunneled under the cemetery which was already in existence. Convenient location, given all the mining-related deaths that occurred during the period the mine was in existence.
As I mentioned earlier, I did return to explore the fan house, which you can read about next week. All I can say is that I failed to adequately prepare myself. I broke my own rules related to exploring abandoned buildings: 1) Never go alone; but if you must, 2) arm yourself.
|1980s photo of fan house with headstone in foreground (ref)
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Strengthening Roma civil society as independent and transparent watchdog organisations
ERGO members from the Western Balkans, Turkey and the 'Visegrad countries' Hungary, Slovakia and Czech Republic met in Brussels on 24-25 November to prepare a new ERGO project that will strengthen Roma civil society as independent and transparent watchdog organisations.
Being transparent and accountable are important prerequisites for the effectiveness of civil society organisations that are taken seriously by their institutional counterparts. It also shows public authorities that civil society take transparency and accountability very seriously and demand the same from the public sector.
With financial support from the International Visegrad Fund and the European Commission, ERGO Network member organizations therefore agreed on joining their efforts and put their thorough expertise together to set up a list of 'transparency criteria' and capacitate Roma civil society in their countries in implementing them.
During the meeting, all partners agreed that using transparency criteria would give them more legitimacy, better fundraising opportunities and more trust from both the grassroots level and institutions. They then drew up a list of criteria, divided into the chapters 'governance', 'finance' and 'performance'. These include points such as giving access and distributing information about statutes and funding sources of CSOs, clear decision-making structures that divide responsibilities and ensure gender equality in CSOs, as well as the participation of target groups in the development of strategies and goals. The partners furthermore stressed the importance of open leadership and regular training within the organisation that contribute to a positive performance of the staff, as well as the need not to use 'dirty money' coming for example from illegal sources or from companies using child labour.
Transparency also demands a proper and clear communication strategy (both internal and external) that communicates the vision, mission and the long term goals of the organization. If applicable, diversification of funds also contributes to more independence of organisations.
In 2018, ERGO Network will organise a training for trainers on the transparency criteria in order to help their usage and dissemination in the participating countries as well as offer coaching visits to the partner organisations. You will be able to find regular updates on our website.


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New Delhi, June 20 (IANS) At least 15 members, including four woman, of activist Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were arrested here for rioting, police said Thursday.
"The AAP members pelted stones at Gokalpuri police station in east Delhi Wednesday evening while protesting against a rape case," a police officer told IANS.
They also tried to enter the police station and damaged a police vehicle, the officer added.
The protesters were arrested and sent to Tihar jail late Wednesday.
The rape case pertained to the gang-rape of a 20-year-old newly-married woman by four men in front of her husband Tuesday. Two of the accused were arrested while the hunt was on to nab the others.


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Lots of buzz is coming out about the South by Southwest Festival (SXSW) in Austin this week, particularly on the interactive front. One major topic is social networks which are being called "email 2.0", at least according to David Sacks, founder of business social network Yammer who was quoted in a recent BBC article.
People are changing the way they communicate, moving away from email and toward the real-time, publishing format of social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. With 175 million users on Facebook alone, it's easy to see where the buzz is coming from. And as I watch the tweets coming from my friends on Twitter, I'm amazed. Had I gone to Austin this week, I could have simply looked at my Twitter app on my iPhone and found endless updates from fellow Tweeters about where they were eating, meeting and socializing. It is truly a revolutionary way to communicate in real-time with an unlimited audience.
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Agricultural subventions, increased milk production at dropping prices, combined with free-trade agreements in agriculture
and food production between the EU and Switzerland – all of this burdens undermines the economic survival of Swiss farmers.
More and more small farms dissolve and several cases of suicide became known.
While some agricultural businesses seek recourse in industrialization, others venture into market niches: water buffalos, zebus,
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Today, I'm talking about color space. About a month ago I covered some color terms specific to color printing. I'm expanding on that information today and covering a couple other colors spaces. If you're wondering what RGB means and what it's good for, I hope to help you out. Also, this is simplified; this is… Continue reading Talking about color: color spaces
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Pastor Tim grew up in Southern California and graduated from Bible College in 1990, where he also met his wife Aletha. After graduating, Tim taught Special Education students in Torrance, California for 7 years. Then, after working as an electrician for the next 4 years, he returned to education to teach 1st—8th grades at a Christian School in Grand Island, Nebraska. He was the Principal of the school for 6 of the 9 years he worked there.
While serving as Principal, Tim felt God's call to become a Pastor so his family moved from Nebraska to Colorado and attended Sangre de Cristo Seminary in Westcliffe, CO. In 2014. Tim graduated with a Master's of Divinity then starting serving with Village Missions.
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"Much like Leonardo da Vinci, I worked intermittently on this single painting over a period of many years, never satisfied that it was finished, and continually improving upon the original. This painting is my personal Mona Lisa, my daughter, Maria.
We had a live-in servant for many years, named Tanneke Everpoel, hired and paid by Maria Thins. She did all of the "heavy labor", as it were: cooking, cleaning, washing clothes, carrying water, tending fires, and a myriad other chores, including helping with the children. However, the expense of paying her wage and room did not include standing for endless hours, day after day, while I painted this portrait! My daughter, Maria, was lovelier and much more readily accessible for the task of standing for this portrait.
It is argued, convincingly, that the immortal painting by Leonard was his own self-portrait as his own, feminine reflection. What man, or woman, regardless of sexual preference in a given lifetime, has not inhabited the flesh of ten thousand bodies, some human, many not, through a nearly infinite cascade of galaxies, stars and planets come and gone. Is not survival a nearly infinite game, in which we interchange ourselves as the players of many parts?
Leonard kept his portrait with him all his life. He never considered that it was complete or perfect. Nor did he ever intend to sell it. How could one sell a most cherished reflection of himself? It is more meaningful than one's own body, which only disguises the inner self, the essence of spirit that animates the fragile flesh.
In fact, a body hides the reflection of the soul! How can any substance, especially that as rude and fragile as meat, reveal the inherent qualities an immortal nothingness? Indeed, it is the fundamental challenge and the most formidable task of an artist to reveal it!
The name given to this painting by others, "The Milkmaid", is a sacrilege! It rivals the incomprehension others have for Leonardo's personal masterpiece. Yet, how can anyone truly understand that a painting is meant to reflect the essence of an immortal being, seen through the eyes of another?
She is painted with angelic colors: blue, gold and white, in contrast to the menial nature of her station in life. From her issues, for me, the Milk and Bread of Life. Life is embodied in her and through her. Women, are the source of children, the source of energy, the source of care. There is no more vital responsibility for any being who plays the game of life, than to confront dreary daily tasks. To humbly make the daily loaf. To soak that bread, mix and soften it with milk, make it warm and feed it to a teething child. Survival is made of such things.
In those days I viewed life as idyllic. My dreams were more real than reality. All things were a possibility. Tragedy could not find me. Until it did, of course. Even when we lost a child, which we did with several, my wife, Catharina, remained resolute in her Faith. God guided us. He did what was best. We knew not why and need not question His purpose for us.
I have no such faith in predetermination. A loaf of grain, clean water and a bed was my fare. Time and a place to paint, uninterrupted, were necessities. My love, shared with wife and family, was the staple diet of my life. I assumed, as a Fool who knows not his own mortality, that they would endure, even when I was gone."
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Full on shot of someone swimming,although even though the background is blurred,slightly feel the background does slightly take the edge of what is a good photo,sort of feel you want to know whos sitting over there.
Hmmmm, I had to include the side of the pool, otherwise it would have been a photo of a swimmer. I tried to darken the background a tad to make you not look there, alas....oh well, I appreciate your eagle eyes and comments always
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Miso paste
Miso paste is a traditional Japanese seasoning made from soy beans (crushed, fermented and steamed), sea salt, water and depending on fabrication barley or rice, then mixed with a ferment (in Japanese "koji") Aspergillus oryzae mushrooms, then aged from three weeks to a year.
It is the basic ingredient of miso soup found in all Japanese restaurants.
Miso has a very particular taste, the famous "umami" taste that has the ability to enhance dishes giving them more balanced and round flavor in the mouth.
The paste is rich in probiotics, proteins, vitamins and minerals.
The fermentation process produces enzymes that stimulate digestion, promote the elimination of toxins, and increase nutrient bioavailability and absorption. Miso paste also improves intestinal flora.
Miso also contains melanoids that are believed to help stop cancer cells from growing. It would also have a role in breast cancer prevention.
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It is recommended to buy miso in organic stores, as it is prepared with GMO-free soya and without additives.
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Disposition terms, such as 'cowardice,' 'fragility' and 'reactivity,' often appear in explanations. Sometimes we explain why a man ran away by saying that he was cowardly, or we explain why something broke by saying it was fragile. Scientific explanations of certain phenomena feature dispositional properties like instability, reactivity, and conductivity. And these look like causal explanations - they seem to provide information about the causal history of various events.
Philosophers such as Ned Block, Jaegwon Kim, Elizabeth Prior, Robert Pargetter, and Frank Jacksonl have suggested reasons for thinking that dispositions are causally inert. I call this the "Inert Dispositions View." According to this view, the glass's fragility was not responsible for its breaking; the man's cowardice was causally impotent as he fled. The Inert Dispositions View would call many of the explanations we give into question. By employing a disposition in an explanation, we might have thought we were giving a causal explanation of the event. Perhaps we took ourselves to be explaining an effect with some feature of its cause that was responsible for the effect. However, if dispositions are causally inert, we are explaining the event in some other way, or not really explaining it at all.
The Inert Dispositions View suggests that something is amiss with many scientific explanations. If properties like conductivity and volatility are causally inert, it is not clear how appealing to them provides us with information about why certain phenomena occur. This is especially problematic if one thinks, as some do, that the fundamental properties that scientists attribute to the ultimate constituents of matter -- things like force, mass, charge, impenetrability -- are dispositional. If, as Simon Blackburn says, "science finds only dispositional properties all the way down,"2 and if dispositions are causally inert, it would seem that science does not provide us with real causal explanations.
The Inert Dispositions View implies that there is something amiss with psychological explanations as well. At least some psychological states are dispositional -- being courageous or shy, being such that you would accept a drink if you were offered one. On some views, all mental states are like dispositions, since having a mental state is a matter of having some brain state or other that performs a certain causal role. If mental properties are relevantly similar to dispositions, and dispositions are inert, then mental properties make no difference to what a body does. However, it is natural to think that my believing and desiring certain things has much to do with my body moving in certain ways. It would take powerful arguments to cast these beliefs into serious doubt.
In this paper, I defend the causal efficacy of dispositions against two types of arguments that l call "Analyticity Arguments" and "No Work Arguments." According to Analyticity Arguments, there is an analytic or necessary connection between a disposition and its manifestation, and this goes to show that there is no causal connection. I argue, on the contrary, that it shows no such thing. According to No Work arguments, manifestations of dispositions already have sufficient causes, and so there is "no work" for dispositions to do. I claim that these arguments rest on some questionable assumptions.


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The current national economic situation has forced every Department of Defense program to find ways to accomplish more with fewer resources. Spacelift, as one of the most expensive government programs, has continuously been scrutinized and challenged to lower costs and work more efficiently. This thesis reviews a summarized history of events that brought the current launch community to its present state and then details the events of the NROL-41 launch campaign. NROL-41 was the most efficient launch campaign to date and a study of the work completed on the launch shows the depth of effort required to achieve mission success. Spacelift is an expensive and dangerous endeavor, but the risk of launch failures and loss of satellites is worth every penny spent to deliver mission success. This thesis provides the data to justify those costs as well as recommendations of studies that could be performed to define more appropriate places to cut spending without increasing risk.
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Samantha Harris is fast becoming a big name in the modelling industry. This beautiful 21 year old has an Aboriginal mother and Samantha hopes she will be a positive role model for indigenous people.
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College Fair Scheduled For March 6th
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When U.S. soldiers reached this stretch of Iraq's border with Syria, some expected to face off against foreign fighters they thought would be crossing into the country in trucks packed with weapons.
Instead, they found caravans of mules crossing the border without their human masters, the clever tactic of smugglers in Syria who load contraband on dozens of mules or donkeys and set them free to amble down familiar paths.
"They can just smack the mules on the rear and they'll meet them at a rallying point" across the border, said 1st Lt. Scott Weaver, of Susanville, Calif., an intelligence officer with the 1st Squadron of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, which patrols this area.
Though smugglers here mostly traffic in gasoline and cigarettes — sometimes up to $200,000 worth of cargo in one trip — military officials say the trade helps fund the insurgency that has gripped cities to the east such as Tal Afar and Mosul.
Sometimes mules are laden with so much contraband they cannot stand back up after they lay down to rest.
U.S. and Iraqi officials frequently call on Syria to close their side of the border. But the smuggling problem also has roots on the Iraqi side. Some Iraqis in the area consider their ties to the government second to those with their fellow tribesmen, who live on stretches of land that cover both countries.
"It's not a geographic boundary. It is a political boundary where the British and French divvied things up" after World War I, said Capt. James Pavlich, an intelligence officer from Pinetop, Arizona.
In one Sunni Arab Iraqi border town, the local sheik also oversees villages in Syria, often crossing the border to visit family, U.S. soldiers said.
"(Insurgent) forces within their towns are still their people. There is tremendous cultural hesitation to provide information to an outside force," said Capt. Dan Ruecking of Elmhurst, Ill., a battery commander in the 1st Squadron.
Building goodwill
So U.S. troops have been digging dozens of wells in the area to build goodwill among villagers.
The U.S. military has focused on stopping human trafficking of insurgents willing to launch suicide attacks inside Iraq. So far, 15 of those arrested crossing the border in this area since May have confessed to trying to join the insurgency, said officials who estimate insurgents pay only $150 to $200 to local handlers for help with passage.
According to Iraqi border guards, other illegal crossing tactics include bribing Syrian guards to fire their weapons or stage fake arrests to attract the attention of Iraqi guards while smugglers quickly sneak across. On one night, a burst of gunfire was seen in the sky coming from the Syrian side of the border.
"The same Baath Party is also in Syria, so they're helping the bad guys inside Iraq," said Garby Nasser, an Iraqi border guard, referring to the party that ruled Iraq for decades under Saddam Hussein and that still rules Syria.
Though much of the area along Iraq's border with Syria is desert flatlands, parts have gullies and even a ridge of mountains that help conceal border crossers from U.S. armored vehicles and helicopters that peer out at night with high-powered observation equipment.
Even with the added troops and equipment, the task of closing the border is difficult, especially when locals know the terrain. On one recent patrol, a U.S. helicopter spotted about 30 mules and five men near the border, but they quickly melted into villages before U.S. ground forces could arrest the men or seize the cargo.
Slow but steady progress
Iraqi border outposts still struggle with basic equipment, though the U.S. military says more supplies are on the way. At one outpost, Iraqi guards complained of a shortage of food and said they had to pool their personal money together to buy gasoline for their vehicles.
Tensions between Kurdish and Arab guards are also evident, U.S. soldiers said, underscoring the social strains in this ethnically diverse area.
Even the legal border crossing point to the north in the city of Rabiah is a concern for U.S. commanders. Several Iraqi guards were recently fired for corruption.
U.S. forces have recently been added to the crossing to check the work of border guards and watch out for fake passports.
"We are watching every station," said Lt. Col. Greg Reilly, adding that Iraqi guards "are starting to actually do their job."
The U.S. military recently sent teams of U.S. soldiers to live at border forts and train some of the hundreds of border guards stationed in the border outposts, which are interspersed about every 2.5 miles. Soldiers say progress is steady but training is slow because many of the guards have no prior military experience.
"On top of money issues, they also have morale and motivation problems," said 2nd Lt. Matt McKee, of Vienna, Va., who trained Iraqi guards for one month.


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California's governor believes the state's residents should be compensated for their personal data, which has enriched Facebook, Google and other companies that call the state home.
"California's consumers should also be able to share in the wealth that is created from their data," Gavin Newsom said in his first state of the state address this week.
The governor said he has directed his staff to draft a proposal for a "data dividend," an idea that has been championed by academics, advocacy groups and people such as Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook. In an op-ed in the Guardian last year, Hughes compared the value of data to the value of labor. He also cited Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend, which distributes an equal portion of a tax on oil companies among all the state's residents, as a possible model for a data dividend.
Details for a data dividend for Californians are still scarce, including which companies would be taxed and what data would be included. The governor's team is working with legislators and national experts on the issue, said Jesse Melgar, a spokesman for Newsom's office, Friday.
One group that's working with Newsom's office is Common Sense, which advocates for children and families on media and technology issues and helped pass California's first-in-the-nation digital privacy law last year.
Common Sense CEO James Steyer said Friday that the San Francisco-based nonprofit is talking with Newsom's office, legislators, tech experts and economists as it prepares to back the introduction of legislation for a data dividend.
"It's not a minor concept," Steyer said, adding that it could have national and global implications and that he was "heartened" the governor is taking up the idea.
While he couldn't yet share specifics of legislation he said will be introduced in the next week or two — or the lawmakers involved — Steyer said it has two main elements: the idea that consumers own their data and how it's used should be transparent, and creating a mechanism for monetization of that data.
How much is consumer data worth? One measure policymakers might consider is quarterly revenue divided by the number of monthly active users of companies like Facebook and Twitter. In the fourth quarter of 2018, Facebook reported $16.91 billion in sales, so each of Facebook's 2.32 billion monthly active users was worth $7.35. Twitter's revenue for the quarter was $909 million, so that works out to $2.83 for each of its 321 million monthly active users.
"We should not be sanctioning the trade-off of a person's privacy for a fistful of dollars or a handful of pennies," said Jeff Chester, executive director of Washington-based consumer advocacy group Center for Digital Democracy, on Friday.
"There's no way really to easily identify a dollar amount about what you're worth online," he added. "The system is far-reaching, and it's influenced and compounded by a multiplier effect."
Chester said regulation is what's needed to address the privacy and security issues surrounding the use of consumers' data.
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The Lord of the Flies says "I'm part of you…We're going to have fun on this island."
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The Lord of the Flies says "I'm part of you…We're going to have fun on this island."
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I think Ross is smiling because we are partying at an awesome mansion. If you need me, i'll be on the balcony overlooking the ballroom…
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Maps – Playing with new toys – stomp distortion for guitar, and compression to keep it at a constant level. Oh, and singing like a girl, but i've always done that.
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The point isn't really that I have to wear in some new callouses by Saturday so that I can make it through the four sets I'm playing on, but that my callouses grew. Thickened.
I've been playing guitar for eight years at the end of this month. I remember when I had been playing for two and a half years, and I would watch Anthony, who has two years of playing over me, and think "Wow, look what I'll be able to do in two years."
And, well, maybe I can do some of the things Anthony's done now. Who knows? I realized that the path is not linear, and it's not parallel to anyone else's. Early on I learned how to churn out chunky, thumping chords, Ani-fying any song in an attempt to make it my own. Just now I am learning the strength of learning something note for note, rhythm for rhythm. Isn't that backwards? Don't most people play along to the disc first and then figure out their own way to do it? That's what I've been told, anyhow.
On the scale of great I'm sure I hardly rank – plenty of practice left on that front, no disputing that. But, not only can I get better, but even with as much playing as I've done, there are new callouses to be made.
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I am always more the rock star when I draw blood, and last night was excruciating. After a week of practice had thickened my skin to new levels of callousness i spent the day nervously picking at these foreign fingertips, leaving them as naked and vulnerable as a tiny baby's for my rehearsal with Dante. Our first time through "Volcano Girls" I winced and dropped the tempo, eventually giving in and playing the chords as a sevenths to rest my battered pinky.
"Bucket Seat" solved the problem, though, so fun to play, and with drums! Real, live drums, doing what I'd imagine they'd do – propelling me into choruses and matching my crescendos. And, after, inevitably after my spirited performance, I found that I had drawn blood.
I think it was the turning point in the rehearsal, really. Everything rocked more after that. Saturday at the party I'll have nearly half an hour of rehearsed(!) set, with drumming(!) throughout. For most of the guests it will just be background noise; for me, a little victory.


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Micah and I had a great Christmas! This is the first Christmas we were able to be together. It was pretty crazy! We spent a few days before Christmas with his family in Dallas. We woke up Christmas morning and had Christmas with his family; left around 8 am to drive to Katy where all my family was and had Christmas with them; drove to my parent's house and had our family Christmas; then loaded up the whole family and drove to College Station for a couple nights. It was a lot of driving, but it was so worth it! We had a great time! And, we even received several gifts off of our registry! We're off to a good start! I think Micah is getting pretty excited about me cooking since we received several kitchen items. Guess I better start working on that!;) It was so great to get to be together for Christmas, and see both of our families! I look forward to many more years of that!
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Still Snowed In, Brooklyn Residents Say To Bloomberg: Fix It Or "Go To Hell"
"Twas the night after Christmas, and then the snow came. But three days thereafter, it all looks the same."
That could be the chorus running through many New Yorkers' minds lately about the pathetic job being done by the Mayor to clean up the city and get the outer-boroughs back on track.
The haughty aristocrat-cum-mayor is failing miserably at solving this post-blizzard mess, and local Brooklynites have had enough of it.
I recently read the following piece from SheepsheadBites, which expressed the anger so many Brooklyn residents have quite well:
Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn't get it. He's urging patience, and seems somewhat bewildered that us yokels in the outerboroughs would even question why our streets don't matter to the city.
When I ran a quote earlier today of Bloomberg saying, "The world has not come to an end. The city is going fine" – well, I was beside myself. I stewed for a bit, and began to wonder if I was being overly harsh on the city. It was, afterall, an enormous amount of snow dumped on us in a short amount of time.
But screw that.
The final straw was when BrooklynQ sent me the photo [on left] of the street Mayor Bloomberg lives on, perfectly plowed, almost as if it never snowed at all. On the right is my block, unplowed, and with every car under several feet of snow.
I've walked up and down my street several times today, and heard neighbors saying the same things: "Where's the city? Where's the Department of Sanitation? Where's Mayor Bloomberg?"
It must be pretty easy to urge patience when you're well taken care of. It must be pretty easy when every agency caters to your needs, paid for by our greenbacks. It must be pretty easy to shrug off our complaints, as if our contribution – in both taxes and the workforce – amount to nothing.
Read the rest of the story here.
Emails from our readers have reiterated just how disgraceful this interlude has been, as numerous businesses and individuals have become prisoners in their own homes and on their own streets as a result of this terrible debacle.
We've never been fans of the Mayor here at Atlas Shrugs in Brooklyn. As such, we join in the chorus of fellow New Yorkers telling him to fix this problem or "go to hell."
Enough truly is enough.
Younger Republican permalinkDecember 29, 2010 7:21 pm
This is disgraceful. F-U Bloomberg.
"The Jig is Up Atlas" throws Martin Golden into the snowstrom in attempt to hype the State Senator permalinkDecember 29, 2010 7:51 pm
AAA's December 29th post in TJIUA, "Senator Marty Golden Scores Major Victory For Brooklyn By Getting City To Finally Plow Out Brooklyn Streets." is another attempt to change the facts to fit Republican Chairman Craig Eaton's talking points. This was just dumbass in the extreme.
The digging-out aftermath of the Christmas 2010 blizzard was the worst in our lifetime. If State Senator Martin Golden thinks that his official statements and press releases, and smile and patter deserve any "credit", then he is as deluded as the rest of the Eaton mob.
Here's what we have/had in Bay Ridge since the end of the storm early Monday – completely inadequate governmental/public services on all fronts – it's Wednesday evening (56+ hours after the storm ended here) and not all streets have been "cleared"; and there is no bus service (Have there been other bus lines cut that we haven't heard about, yet?).
For this, let's give our State Senator all the credit he wants. For the blah, blah, blah snowjob about how he helped get Bay Ridge the services we've gotten so far, he certainly deserves some "credit" for the sad state we are still in…. along with the non-Republican mayor who presided over it all, right from the beginning of the well-predicted storm.
For thos who may have forgotten, that's the very same non-Republican mayor that the Eaton-Golden cabal shoved down our Republican throats in 2009. So when you mount your next snowdrift or go calf deep in slush, don't forget: Bloomberg's their guy — they're Bloomberg's guys!!!!!
Bloomberg admits fault permalinkDecember 29, 2010 9:01 pm
GOP Failure permalinkDecember 29, 2010 11:35 pm
The Republicans in Brooklyn helped put Bloomberg in power. Now they are whining about him. Talk about an about-face. How could anyone trust the liars in the Brooklyn GOP?
GOP Blog Radio hammers "Bloomberg Debacle" in handling blizzard permalinkDecember 30, 2010 1:03 am
According to Brooklyn GOP Blog Radio hosts Peter Cipriano and Gene Berardelli, and phone guest Russell Gallo —
… it's impossible to get around
…the services we are getting is [sic] just ridiculous
… there are things that Bloomberg should have done that he didn't
… Bloomberg's arrogance has been noted
… Mayor Bloomberg is his own animal… the last of the Dodo birds
Peter Cipriano also made a point that he heard "from an undisclosed source" that the response to this first snowfall was a planned job action by the Sanitation Union.
Does Brooklyn GOP Radio signal a split between Eaton's Republicans and Bloomberg? permalinkDecember 31, 2010 2:01 pm
Does the December 29, 2010 Brooklyn GOP Radio blogcast show a split between the leadership of the Brooklyn GOP led by Chairman Craig Eaton and Mayor Michael Bloomberg?
Is this the end of "The Deal" that delivered the Republican line, via a Wilson-Pakula, to "independent" and formally-former-Republican Michael Bloomberg?
Does this mean State Senator Golden will soon jump ship (off which side is anybody's guess)?
Larry Lloyd permalinkDecember 31, 2010 6:34 pm
Speaking of deals wasn't it Jim McCall's wife who gave hundreds of dollars to Hillary Clinton, and a failed city council run of Joanne Seminara in order to get a certain endorsement of a than Democrat district leader, for a certain someone's than 2007 Civil Court race?
Hey when you give money to the Clintons and long time political wannabe Joanne Seminara, no wonder the Dem's went easy on McCall in that civil court race.
I guess Ralphie boy got the okay from the KCDC to go easy on McCall after all those years of giving money and endorsing Democrats.
Happy New Year.
Lora permalinkDecember 30, 2010 4:12 pm
Thank you Craig Eaton, Russell Gallo and Gene B. for supporting the Wilson Pakula for this horrible Mayor of ours. You sold out the soul of this party and prostituted the GOP
name for money. Hope your streets are the last to be plowed.
Kiss kiss.
"SENATOR GOLDEN ON SNOWSTORM OUTREACH" permalinkJanuary 2, 2011 9:08 pm
Posted by Martin J. Golden on Thursday, December 30th, 2010
"…Today most streets in my district are plowed and those that have not been done will be today according to the Mayor's office. The hundreds of unplowed streets in the different neighborhoods have been one of my priorities these last few days."
Unfortunately, that statement was made on behalf of the State Senator on December 30, 2010, three days after the snow stopped falling.
That was also when some bus service was restored in Bay Ridge — day 3+ for those who were keeping tabs.
Brooklyn snow cleanup was worst in the Golden-Bloomberg belt permalinkDecember 31, 2010 1:51 pm
It's Friday, December 31, 2010, the last day of the old year 2010, a day where several streets are barely passable and cross-walks are still mostly blocked — the snow stopped more than five days ago and there has been a 4-day thaw. The 2010 post-Christmas snow cleanup is the worst ever; and it is still really the bad in those parts of Brooklyn that voted for Bloomberg in 2009 and Golden in 2010.
The 12-31-10 NY Post has clearly identified some of Brooklyn's hard-hit neighborhoods (Dyker Heights was specifically mentioned); "The Brooklyn Spectator" and "The Bay Ridge Home Reporter" specifically focused on the problems in Bay Ridge.
The latest political bandwagon is to "Investigate what happened".
According to the 12-31-10 NY Post (and hinted at by Peter Cipriano on 12-29-10 on GOP Blog Radio), what happened was a smackdown of neighborhoods that supported mayor Bloomberg in 2009.
What was Golden's piece of this? Well, if the job on Bloomberg was a "drive-by hit" on "Bloomberg's neighborhoods"(and there are mounting reports of many snowplows just driving-by on snow covered streets) State Senator Martin Golden was probably just accidental road-kill since his district completely tracks through solid Bloomberg territory.
The irony in all this is that Martin Golden has been a dependable supporter of uniform services unions like those for "New York's Strongest" — Sanitation. Will our stalwart state senator stand up to these unions, when it counts?
Let's see what happens next!
Backstory -- Bloomberg doesn't really want to confront the unions head-on permalinkJanuary 3, 2011 9:24 pm
According to NY-1, the mayor doesn't want to confront any unions right now over any snow-job actions.
Seth Zaslow permalinkJanuary 5, 2011 1:32 am
Even the dead can't escape the ineptitude of the city's Sanitation Department.
My greatgrandparents are buried in this cemetery! What is up with Sanitation? They bury peoples cars with mountains of snow when do do plow….. and then topple the gravestones of the deceased! Shame on DSNY!
In addition, this Midwood area cemetary was also recently vandalized by hooligans whcih is being investiagted by the Police.
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