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Presented November 8, 2009, by Rev. Dr. Rob Manning
We are all shocked and saddened by what happened at Fort Hood on Thursday. The entire country unites together in mourning and we all think about the senselessness of this tragedy and the horrible waste of life and the pain of the families involved. But so soon the common feeling that unites us all gets replaced and we begin to quickly to splinter. Right away right wing talk show hosts begin to mock mainstream media. Mainstream media people don't even tell you the killer was, of course, a Muslim, or they tell you only at the end of the story.
With his history of mental problems and bad reviews, should he have been put in the delicate job? Was it absolutely necessary to deploy him to Afghanistan and was no one worried about how me might respond to this? Is there a lack of concern for the safety of our soldiers?
And do we have to allow handguns that can get off 20 shots without reloading? Armor piercing bullets?
This might seem like a strange question to ask-even here in this church where we talk about pretty much everything-but do you spend much time listening to the radio? Are you very familiar with the choice of radio stations in our area and the various programs available on the radio? Or are you the type of person who never listens to the radio, or who sticks to one station and listens to that all the time and doesn't know anything about any of the other stations? Probably like many of you, I fall more into the latter category and listen nearly all of the time to the college radio station because of NPR.
I'd say about myself that I am not really a big radio listener and certainly don't spend much time listening to talk radio or know much about it. But at the same time I remember driving into Quincy for the first time in my life in 1990 thinking that I might take a job at QU and live here for a year. As I was driving I remember being concerned about one thing: did this town have National Public Radio? So although I would say I am not a big radio listener, obviously getting quality news every day via the radio is very important to me. Like many people in our congregation and Unitarians across the country, if I listen to the radio chances are great that I am listening to NPR.
I do change the radio dial, however, because I like to listen to baseball games when the news is not on. So I do listen to Cubs game and/or Cardinals games. This year the Cardinals games were more meaningful late in the year so I listened to them over WGEM. Between innings I heard over and over again, seemingly hundreds of times, a promo for something called the Neal Bortz Show. In this quick advertisement for his radio program Mr. Bortz was saying over and over again that when Democrats are in office they raise taxes. Anyone who votes for Democrats is voting for higher taxes; that's just obvious, just the way it is. Then a voice: "Listen to the Neal Bortz show from 9:00 to Noon on WGEM." Then back to the baseball game. Most times this obnoxious promo pours over me without thinking about it. Sometimes I actually hear it and think about it. In my life time the national debt ran amok during 2 Republican administrations, the Reagan and the George W. administrations. We just had 8 years of a Republican administration which doubled the national debt and a Republican Vice President who famously assured us "Deficits don't matter." Yet I and everyone else are told over and over again throughout each and every Cardinals game that democrats raise taxes; it's just what they do. Sometimes when I really hear this promo I feel insulted. Sometimes I wonder why the radio station I am listening to for the Cards game needs to or wants to insult me at the same time. Sometimes I wonder how many QU students are listening. They don't know anything about the Reagan administration. They would be shocked to learn that the national debt doubled under Bush. He was a Republican after all, they do know that at least, and Democrats raise taxes. They know that. They have heard that a 100 times.
Just in case you don't know anything about Neil Bortz or his show, here's a recent snippet. . "when I went to bed last night I didn't know the name of the shooter. I told my wife that it was my guess the shooter would turn out to be a Muslim. Well . . . this morning we're treated to the name . . . the shooter was Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan. Doesn't sound like a Deacon in the local Baptist church to me. It seems that Major Hasan had some problems with American foreign policy. So . . . let's just shoot up some soldiers. According to a fellow soldier this Muslim (I'm guessing) goon said that Muslims had a right to rise up attack America."
I think it is fairly easy to imagine the tone of his show on Friday. But when it comes to reactionary talk radio in America today, Neil Bortz is a piker. And when it comes to reactionary talk radio in America today, our community has to say with pride that we get them all.
If you move your radio dial away from WQUB public radio and you are not a baseball fan, your choices are pretty limited. Of course you have a number of music stations but suppose what you wanted was talk radio. Now your choices are political talk and sports talk. If you are not interested in sports talk - something always available anywhere in what one critic dubbed Sports Glut USA - and want political talk, your choice in political talk is exactly nil. Or you could say your choice is between right-wing talk radio and more right-wing talk radio.
This is precisely the choice you have at, say, 11:00 in the morning if you want to listen to talk radio in the area. Our area has 3 talk radio stations, KHMO out of Hannibal and WTAD and WGEM out of Quincy. At 11:00 you can listen to listen to your third hour of Neal Bortz on WGEM or you can listen to your first hour of Rush Limbaugh on WTAD. This is typical of the radio scene in our area throughout the day and evening. Those of you who are not sports fan and are as glad as my wife Dana to see baseball, or what Dana refers to disdainfully as "throw and hit," finally come to an end, have to admit that all those Cubs and Cardinals game and that mind numbing sports talk at least provide a respite from the unrelenting right-wing programs on the radio. In our area we have a great treasure of right-wing radio offered to us. If we want to listen to talk radio that isn't sports, we really have no choice other than right-wing radio. WGEM gives us 3 hours of Neal Bortz but then thankfully doesn't have right-wing radio during the afternoon. It makes up for this, however, by treating us to 3 hours of Laura Ingraham at night. WTAD gives us 3 hours of the top-rated talk show in the country, Rush Limbaugh. Then it gives us 3 more hours of Glen Beck, from 4:00 to 7:00. That is 6 hours every day of extremely right-wing radio on WTAD. WTAD's contribution to our public discourse is outdone by KHMO, which leads the way locally in right-wing radio. KHMO starts its right-wing talk later than the other stations, at noon, but makes up for it by having nothing but right-wing talk throughout the day and evening. Starting at noon it gives us 2 hours of the Dennis Prager Show. Now I had never heard of Dennis Prager so I checked out his website. The first thing I noticed was a side bar with a young woman in a tee-shirt. This was an ad selling a tee shirt. That's innocuous enough but then I notice the tee-shirt reads "I'd rather be . . ." and instead of "I'd rather be golfing" or "I'd rather be listening to Rush," or whatever; the tee shirt says "I'd rather be waterboarding." So one of the many things that upset so many people in this country during the last administration, that we tortured human beings in Guantanamo Bay and other places, is now reduced to a joke on a tee shirt. I just can't wait till I see students at QU walking around with their "I'd rather be waterboarding" tee shirts. But after we have 2 hours of Dennis Prager KHMO then gets even more right-wing with the second most popular talk show in the country, Sean Hannity. Fortunately for all of us, Sean Hannity begins on KHMO just as Rush is finishing on WTAD so you can have six solid hours in the company of Rush and Sean Hannity. Then after Sean, KHMO gives us an even nastier personality who at least is well named, Michael Savage, with four solid hours of "Savage Nation," from 5:00 to 9:00. Then it gives us the self-described right-wing libertarian Jerry Doyle from 9:00 to midnight. So KHMO gives us non-stop right-wing talk radio from Noon until midnight 5 days a week. That is quite a contribution to our community!
I don't know how much you know about these right-wing talk shows or if you ever listen to some of them or all of them. My guess would be that probably most of us don't really know very much about what is said on these programs and by these right-wing talk show hosts. I am certainly not an expert on this myself, but I know enough to be troubled about their affect on what might be considered our public discourse in our democratic society about important issues concerning all of us. For example, one thing our country really needs is intelligent conversation and democratic debate about the health care crisis. Health care costs us all more and more every year; businesses are unfairly saddled with the costs and they try to shift the costs on to their employees whose incomes are not going up to begin with and how can you afford health care if your job doesn't provide it, and then you have to be concerned about gaps in your coverage even if you are lucky enough to have health insurance. We all know the problems and this is certainly a public crisis we need intelligent democratic discussion about, but does this happen on these talk shows that are on every talk station all day? Does this happen when President Obama's attempt to reform the health care system is mockingly referred to over and over again on all these shows and "Obamacare" and all these right-wing talk shows host insist that what is being proposed is a complete government take-over of the health care system and is unconstitutional and going to turn is into either a fascist or a communist society? Does this really help our public discussion about this important public issue or does it prevent it from actually happening?
Or how about another issue just as important: Afghanistan. Should we put additional troops into Afghanistan as General has recommended or are we just getting deeper and deeper into a Viet Nam-like quagmire? We just concluded the most devastating month of our now 8 year war (of course is it a war?) in Afghanistan. 55 of our soldiers lost their lives in Afghanistan in October; 5 British soldiers got killed there just the other day. November promises to be even more deadly than October. Putting more soldiers there may well escalate the casualties. And what about the corrupt election there just concluded with the challenger to Karzai basically giving up because he doesn't think the run-off election would be any less corrupt than the first round. And is increasing our troop strength there to 80 to 90,000 soldiers the best and most effective way for us to combat Al Quaeda? Do we assume that the Taliban will support Al Quaeda as they did before 9/11 or is this one of the unquestioned assumptions that just leads us deeper and deeper into this quagmire and causes to unthinkingly throw away once again more and more precious lives of our soldiers? This is such an important time and such an important issue and we should have a great deal of public, democratic discussion about this. And is this what has been happening on these right-wing talk shows the last few weeks? Do you think Rush and Sean Hannity and Michael Savage and all the rest of them have been encouraging open, intelligent public discourse about the best way to proceed at this important turning point in our now 8 year long intervention in Afghanistan? On these shows the issue for discussion is not whether we should add more troops or not. The issue is why Obama has taken so long to do what the general is saying he should do. Why is Obama such a waffler? Is he completely incompetent as a commander in chief? Is he a traitor? Is he actually working to undermine the clear best interests of his own country? How much greater danger has he caused our troops already over there because of his waffling? How many troops have actually died because Obama cannot make his mind up to add more troops? And who should make this decision anyway, Obama, who does not have military experience, or the generals who do? Our listeners have voted on this and 80% of them have the good sense to say the generals should decide. Does this type of discourse on all these right-wing talk shows all day and evening long, does this help our vital democratic, public discussion about this important issue of Afghanistan or does it actually prevent it from happening? I ask that not as a rhetorical but as a genuine question because I really do not know much about these right wing talk shows and have ventured out to a topic you may know a lot more about than I do.
I will say that this question and this entire topic of right-wing radio makes me think of this great German philosopher who celebrated his 80th birthday this summer, Jurgen Habermas. He is the west's greatest defender of the Enlightenment legacy of the role of reason in deliberative democratic societies and a great champion of public discourse that is always for Habermas at the heart of any thriving democracy. Habermas argues democratic societies make progress through open, informed, public debate. This progress, he says, can happen only when we come to the discussion with honesty and openness and mean what we say, honestly articulate our views and then openly and respectfully listen to the viewpoints of others. When we mean what we say and honestly speak our views, says Habermas, "a small bit of ideality breaks into our everyday lives." Perhaps it is this "small bit of ideality" that happens when we speak our views honestly that then encourages us to wait and actually listen to others and willingly submit our views to open public discussion. For Habermas, truly democratic societies are societies where this must happen in public discourse. People must openly and honestly say what they mean and then remain open to what other honest speakers have to say."
I admit I don't know much about right wing radio, but it seems to me a world where Habermas's "small bit of ideality" is ground into dust. Does Rush Limbaugh openly and freely speak his views and really mean what he says? He began to refer to the economic crisis gripping the world since the Autumn of 2008 as "the Obama recession" even before Obama became president. Is he really saying what he means or is this phrase the Obama recession simply a rhetorical device he intends to use over and over again in hopes that it takes and his 20 million listeners and millions of others will eventually come to think of this recession as Obama's fault? More recently, he has made the ridiculous claim over and over again that the economic stimulus package saved a mere 30,000 jobs, which then enables him to repeat over and over again that several million dollars per job, which just shows you how ridiculous big government is. Does he really believe that the economic stimulus package only created 30,000 jobs or is this a ridiculous figure he simply pulled out of the air to serve his own purely rhetorical purposes?
I don't know much about this world of right-wing radio. As I said, my radio listening is either NPR or the baseball games. I do have the sense that this world of right-wing radio that we are surrounded by even if we don't immerse ourselves in it is something like the opposite of Habermas's ideal speech situation, the saying what you mean, the willingness to listen to the other, the small bit of ideality, all of which democracies need if they are really going to be deliberative democracies that make progress on the challenges that confront them. This world of Neal Bortz and Sean Hannity and Glen Beck seems like a Nietzschean nightmare where you can never know if people really mean what they say, and where all language and all speech is emptied of every last vestige of ideality and is reduced to pure instrumentality. If this world dominates political discussion in our society as much as it appears to if we judge by our local talk radio stations, then we might as well, as Derrida would say ironically, call it a day for democracy.
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HS Football Preview: Rice Lake is ready to surprise everyone in 2019
Rice Lake (WQOW) — The last couple seasons for the Warriors have been very successful. But after a division three state title in 2017 and a level four playoff appearance last season, a lot of new faces will lead Rice Lake.
Head coach Dan Hill has the challenge of replacing loads of talent on both sides of the ball, including his quarterback Peyton Buckley. He's ran the show for the Warriors the past two season, and the competition to replace him is wide open. Hill is looking for someone to step-up, fill-in, and lead the offense for the upcoming season.
"There's a three-way race for it right now. We've got three great kids, maybe even four," Hill says. "We don't know yet, we're still working on that. If I had to give an edge, I'm going to give it to the upperclassman (Tyson) Tomesh, who's looking really good. But all three kids are working on it, and it's a matter of sorting all that out."
The Warriors are still searching for their first outright conference title in program history. But even with all the holes they have to fill on both sides of the ball, the one strength that could help set the tone for 2019 is the offensive line.
"The trenches are looking good this year," says senior quarterback/linebackers Tyson Tomesh. "We've got a couple returning guys, like our center and our guard. And everyone's been grinding in the weight room this year, so I think our offensive line is going to be pretty good this year."
"Everyone's pretty fast learners, more so than other years," senior running back/safety Bradley Hackel says. "We've got a lot of power on the line this year, so I think that's looking pretty good for us."
Rice Lake opens the season with a non-conference game on the road, they'll play Medford on August 23rd.

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The Co-op Academy is a holistic cooperative entrepreneurship training and mentorship program with an emphasis on creating sustainable, member-owned businesses.
Using curriculum developed with partners around the region and an outgrowth of proven, successful models for co-op incubation, Worcester Roots holds an intensive 14 week co-op incubation program each fall. Services and resources provided include: one-on-one followup and mentorship, connections to networks of co-ops and co-op funders, know-how and expert advice on the nuts and bolts of co-op development.
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The next Co-op Academy begins September 2020.
Sessions were held 5:30-8:30pm, Wednesday evenings, September 11th to December, 2019 in Worcester, MA.
An application process is required.
If interested, please APPLY HERE. Deadline is September 1th, 2020.
Announcing the clean energy track!
•Additional clean tech specific curriculum
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Use same application form above.
Information on past Co-op Academies here.
Las sesiones serán un día de la semana en la tarde de septiembre hasta diciembre, 2020 en Worcester, MA.
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Aplique aquí en español antes de 1 de septiembre, 2020.
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The Foundation Pit
Pictures and objects made of soil and inspired by the works of Andrei Platonov
The exhibition, based on Andrei Platonov's milestone novel, displays paintings, objects, and installations of a Moscow artist Mikhail Roshnyak.
All Platonov's works are charged with the theme of the search for the meaning of life, universal truth, and, of course, the theme of death and overcoming it. Likewise, Mikhail Roshnyak is trying to come closer to uncovering the truth and comprehending the most complex meanings of human life using the unusual material and flatly refusing to accept the principles of artistic academism. His pictures made of soil symbolize and reveal the mystery of the existence of a man who spends all his life digging a foundation pit in the hope of reaching the proverbial happiness. What he fails to notice, however, is life passing by while the foundation pit turns from the site of building a happy life to the tomb of broken dreams and false beliefs.
Mikhail Roshnyak is one of the most active and famous contemporary Russian artists. He took part in more than 100 group exhibitions and had 15 personal ones. He is the author and participant of over 100 live art and action art performances.
Mikhail started an artistic group Miros-Yggs in Leipzig in 1992. In 1993 in Moscow he published a magazine called ALL-MANACH dedicated to the problems of alternative art. Since 1994 he has organized and supervised independent art exhibitions together with O. Mavromati, A. Dugin, S. Kuskov, E. Limonov. G. Vinogradov, S. Kuryokhin, S, Ponomarev, N. Dmitriev, M. Katkova, A. Aigi, E. Kasimov, art group TANATOS ("Spirit and soil" 1,2, "Crusade", "Archeology of mind", "STOP NATO", etc.). Participant of international art fairs in Strasbourg and Geneva since 1996. Organiser and curator of club performances together with S. Kuzin, V. Skvortsov, A. Shilov, A. Stepnov, Max Orekh since 1997.
In 2011-2016 Mikhail supervised and participated in the 4th, 5th and 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art with special projects "On transparency", "Spirit and soil", "Petroleum in a square".


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September 29th, 2017
Hello families,
We had a bit of a bumpy week this week as a class. Students are choosing not to record their work and some are choosing not to do any work at all. Please take a moment to talk to your child about their responsibility to work while at school. We talk at length about how school is their job and I am here to help them grow academically. I am firm with the kids and I have high expectations for their work because I know they can all do amazing things. Their success is dependent upon the effort they put into it. We also talked a lot this week about the difference between Mrs.Homan being "mad" or "yelling" at them versus me using a firm voice and holding them accountable for their work. If you have questions about this please come and chat with me.
Last week we learned about Stellar Nucleosynthesis. This week we started our solar system projects and they are turning out lovely. Next week we will be wrapping up these projects and finalizing our Montessori peace value flag projects. You will be taking all of these lovely works home with you at your child's parent teacher conference. These conferences will be in October.
Quickly approaching is our next field trip to the Anchorage Museum. We will be learning more about space and experiencing the planetarium. Currently we are short on chaperones. We need at least one more chaperone to make this field trip happen. Are you available? We will be spending the majority of the day at the museum. This is a 9:30-2pm field trip.
Many of the kids have finished their personal timeline books and they are turning out great! These will be shared with you at conferences and will be kept at school to be used during the Celebrations of Life.
Have a great weekend and as always, let me know if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks for being such an amazing and support parent group!!
Important Dates:
Lia's Celebration of Life - October 6th at 2:45 pm
Daisy's Celebration of Life - October 13th at 3pm
Field trip to the museum - October 18th at 9:30am -2pm
In-Service day (No school!) - October 20th
Half-Days/Parent Teacher Conferences - October 25th & 26th
Field trip to the Apple Store - October 26th -10am-12:30pm
In-Service day (No school!) - October 27th
Fall Carnival - October 27th
Field trip to Franz Bakery - November 9th at 10am
Field trip to the Natural History Museum - December 13th
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A business trip to South America, Brazil, Sao Paulo. Also planned a few days additional to see the Iguazu Falls and check Sao Paulo by helicopter flight. One day left to go on a country side tour to a coffee farm and some horseback riding.
UNESCO World Heritage Sites visited: Iguacu Falls in Argentina & Brazil (see all UNESCO sites here)
Day 1 through 7 – Sao Paulo
See here: BRAZIL – Sao Paulo (2012.11.25 – 2012.12.05)
Day 8 – Brazilian side Iguacu Falls
Arrived around noon to the (small) airport from Sao Paulo and checked in to the Hotel das Cataratas, part of the Belmond hotels and located IN the Iguaçu Park at the Brazilian side! So cool, sleeping with the noise of the waterfalls through the open windows. It's how luxury feels. Anyhow, did this basically because had only one night and wanted to see both sides. On the day of arrival checked out the Brazilian side (takes up to 2 hours max) and after went to the pool and spa.
The Iguaçu Falls are one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world and therefore at the world heritage list. The area also has lots of endangered fauna and flora. It has over 170k HM of land and spans 2700 meters and up to a height of 80 meters.
Day 9 – Argentina side Iguaçu Falls
See here: ARGENTINA – Iguacu Falls (2012.11.25 – 2012.12.05)
Day 10 through 12 – Sao Paulo & Departure
See here: BRAZIL – Sao Paulo (2012.11.25 – 2012.12.05)


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According to the City's publicly available data, there are certain intersections located throughout Manhattan and beyond that are statistically more dangerous than others. While auto accidents and pedestrian accidents can happen anywhere and at any time, it is worth being aware of intersections that are particularly dangerous and using extra caution when in these areas.
Below are listed the most dangerous intersections throughout New York City along with the approximate number of collisions that take place at these intersections each year.
- First Avenue and East 96th Street, Manhattan
Approximately 100 accidents per year
- Houston Street and The Bowery, Manhattan
Approximately 100 Accidents per year
- Seventh Avenue and West 42nd Street, Manhattan
Approximately 100 collisions per year
- Alexander Avenue and East 138th Street, Bronx NY
About 100 crashes per year
- East 36th Street and Second Avenue in Manhattan
Approximately 100 Accidents annually
- Southern Boulevard and East Fordham Road, Bronx NY
About 100 crashes per year
- Flatbush Avenue and Tillary Street, Brooklyn NY
About 180 accidents per year
- Kenmare Street and the Bowery, Manhattan
Approximately 115 collisions a year
- Pennsylvania Avenue and Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
About 130 accidents per year
- 8th Avenue and 42nd Street, Manhattan
Approximately 140 crashes per year
- Linden Boulevard and Pennsylvania Avenue, Queens
135 accidents per year
- East 59th Street and Second Avenue, Manhattan
About 150 collisions per year
- Long Island Expressway and Queens Blvd., Queens
110 crashes per year
- 11th Avenue and West 40th Street, Manhattan
Approximately 100 accidents annually
- 3rd Avenue and 57th Street, Manhattan
110 accidents per year
- 7th Avenue and 34th Street, Manhattan
About 110 collisions per year
- 9th Avenue and 42nd Street, Manhattan
Approximately 110 accidents annually
- East 59th Street and 3rd Avenue, Manhattan
About 95 crashes per year
- Seaview Avenue and Erskine Street, Brooklyn
Approximately 95 accidents annually
- Empire Blvd. and Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn NY
About 90 collisions per year
- 8th Avenue and West 34th Street, NYC
Approximately 90 accidents per year
- 2nd Avenue and 125th Street, Manhattan
About 90 crashes annually
- 6th Avenue and West 42nd Street, Manhattan
About 90 collisions per year
- Conduit Blvd. and Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
Approx. 95 crashes a year
- Second Avenue and 34th Street, Manhattan
About 90 accidents annually
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Below is a guest post by John Rials, a Clearwater Snowbird.
Who would have thought that staying "in the woods" would present so many opportunities? Our time at Clearwater RV Park in Carriere, MS has been full of opportunities. Even though during the winter months Clearwater is populated with snowbirds from points North, it is still a sleepy little park where "Quiet, Never Sounded So Good!"
When you think of quiet and rural you would expect to have grassy areas, and you do. You will also find birds, turtles, fish, frogs, pond with paddle boat, ducks, chickens, horses and cows. In fact, while we were there two calves were born – one all black and one black with a white face which we named 'Snowbird'.
So what about the social aspect of Clearwater? The get-togethers are numerous. With a closed group on Facebook for RVers staying at the park, members would post outings to restaurants, drinks under the Gazebo, community campfires with s'mores, potlucks in "The Roost", wine tasting, cobblers cooked in a Dutch oven on open coals and even music and dancing. Card playing was a consistent activity around 6:30 each evening.
As full timers we believe that no matter where you are there is always something to see or someplace to visit. The same is true at Clearwater. There is a world class arboretum just a few miles from the park, The Crosby Arboretum, including a famous structure (Pinecote Pavilion).
I don't play golf but there are others who do, so usually twice a week there is a group foray to the golf course. A short ride away, the course offers a senior discount that is hard to beat. In Slidell there is a great indoor shooting range for those who like to stay on top of their shooting skills.
The Teddy Bear House Museum is located in Picayune. The MS Gulf Coast is located 45 minutes to the South so a day of sand and fresh gulf seafood is just a short drive away.
A walk around the park will usually reveal Lady Bug, Bubba, and Fifth, the three resident horses of Clearwater. With permission there is opportunity to give them a treat so they look forward to your walks. Also, from time to time, the owner will hitch one or two up and it's possible to catch a ride in the buggy. Whether just a short jaunt around the park or a longer ride, it is a thrill from yesteryear.
But even though you are in a rural area, Picayune, MS is just minutes away with multiple groceries, box stores like Tractor Supply, Home Depot and of course the everywhere Walmart. Lots of restaurants to go to from chains such as Ryan's Steakhouse and Applebee's to many local, one of a kind Mom and Pop to larger eating establishments.
How about fresh eggs instead of the grocery store variety? Well, both the owner of the park has chickens and so occasionally he has eggs and Ed's (just past the Dollar Store) has fresh eggs.
Craft beer aficionados will appreciate Lazy Magnolia brewery near Kiln, about a 30-35 minute drive. You'll find brews such as Southern Pecan and Lazy Saison with many of their brews on tap.
If you stay at Clearwater and are bored, it is probably because you have your head down and are not looking around. Some of the snowbirds have been coming here for well over 10 years. For us, it is a park we will return to in the future…
John & Laurie Rials are full time RVers with Cajun heritage from South Louisiana who now consider the Lafayette area to be home base. You can read their blogs at rvcajuncooking.com and travel.cajunville.com.


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Asian Tribune is published by World Institute For Asian Studies|Powered by WIAS Vol. 12 No. 2992
Concerned over high food inflation, Congress President and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi on Saturday discussed with Food Minister KV Thomas steps required to check price rise besides reviewing progress on the proposed Food Security legislation.
A report released online earlier this week states that effective partnerships can improve tuberculosis responses globally. The summary report, titled, "Whole Is Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts", was also distributed at the 42nd Union World Conference on Lung Health in Lille, France.
Battered by allegations of financial misconduct, the core committee of Team Anna met on Saturday but ruled out disbanding itself saying it will not be cowed down by government's "attempts to target its members".
One of the penetrating novels that I have ever read was Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart. When I read it for the first time, sometime back, Okonkwo's character reminded me of Silidu in Leonard Wolf's Village in the Jungle. The tragedy of Okonkwo and Silidu was determined by the conditions of colonial transition in two societies, Nigeria and Sri Lanka, then Ceylon.
Sri Lanka's State Petroleum distributor, the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation has announced that the prices of petroleum products have been revised with effect from midnight tonight 29th October.
In support of two important sectors in the Eastern Province – transportation and healthcare – the United States renovated a b us depot in Vakarai, handed over newly refurbished buses to the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) and provided a new incinerator to the Batticaloa Teaching Hospital.
The representatives of the EU, who had been on a sentimental roller coaster during this week when the serious debt issue of some member states took a turn for the worse, seem to have collectively – and grudgingly - clutched at straws by the weekend; the head of the European rescue fund dropped the bombshell, when he said that the EU could issue bonds in yuan, much to the astonishment of the battered inhabitants of the EU.
Mu'ammar al-Gaddafi died on October 20 on the way to a hospital in Misrata. An autopsy determined that he had bullet wounds to his chest and head. Apparently, he was killed by a Libyan captor with the rebel forces that had toppled his regime.
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This is going to be possibly the shortest Blog ever! …
The question I get most asked in Life is " How do I change my Life"?
The answer I give to people, and I give it to you here is "Decide what change is required – and – then take the actions necessary to bring it in to fruition".
It really is that simplistic, in logic! What prevents people though from 'doing' this is FEAR which is an 'emotional' based reality, not, logical.
FEAR is appropriate – in the appropriate context. In day to day thinking, deciding, acting etc… however it is illogical and inappropriate.
Yet we still run this pattern endlessly, hiding behind 'lack of time', 'no energy' or 'procrastination' as a means to excuse ourselves from following through.
Emotions will ALWAYS rule over logic.
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I'm excited to share photos of Quinn and Jason's wedding in Fulton, CA! I love doing a "First Look"! It was so fun to spend time with just the two of them prior to their wedding ceremony! They commented on how calm and relaxed they were leading up to the ceremony! I know this is often the case with other couples who can do a first look. It calms your nerves to see your partner early in the day! Quinn looked amazing in her gown and Jason helped her show it off by giving her a twirl!
I love arriving early to photograph the details! We had fun with her dress, jewelry and wedding bouquet! Quinn had lots of beautiful flowers on the tables including, dahlias and succulents. Some were in her mom's vases and jars and some where displayed in wooden boxes. They had lots of custom wedding decor throughout their wedding and ceremony, including a hand painted sign with their names on it. Their wedding was held at her parents home, near rows of vineyards! They had approximately 80 guests, many commented on how touched they were by the couples handwritten vows! Their guests enjoyed cocktail hour while we photographed the family. Chef Robert Negoesco with Eli Grace provided hor d'oeuvres for the cocktail hour and taco bar for dinner!
My assistant, Naomi did a great job helping me with all of the details and throughout the day!
I love their custom ring box and Jason's engraved wedding band! Quinn's vintage wedding ring is stunning!
The bride and groom exchanged cards prior to the ceremony!
Quinn surprised Tayler with a necklace at their private ceremony earlier in the day!
Ceremony decor!
Quinn's hair looked awesome! Her curls were rockin!
A little dad and daughter time before the full ceremony.
Dancing flower girl and flower crown!
Married underneath the pergola alter the bride's brother built!
I love their custom life-sized Jenga game which served as their guest book!
Guests enjoyed wine from Truett-Hurst winery, Great White draft beer from Lost Coast Brewery and Racer 5 IPA from Bear Republic Brewery! They enjoyed music from DJ, Jason Hornig!
The bride and groom during their first dance. I love market lights above dance floors, they provide the perfect amount of light as the sun goes down!
Such a yummy and beautiful dessert table. The desserts were handmade by friends of the bride and groom!
Another beautiful dahlia! Love them! And… Mug shots with their Bride and Groom signs!
The father and daughter dance!
The bride with her nephew and niece!
And a toast from mom and dad!
Guests enjoying the night!
I greatly enjoyed photographing Quinn and Jason's backyard wedding! It was a wonderful event! Thanks for having me guys!


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- Annual sales of €176m (+58%)
- Strong growth in France (+56%) and in International sales (+60%)
- Operating margin guidance reiterated
SES-imagotag (Euronext: SESL, FR0010282822), specialist in digital solutions for physical commerce and the global leader in connected digital price tags, today announced its sales for 2016.
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With a Q4 in line with expectations, SES-imagotag reached, as announced in October, the top end of its target range with sales of €176m, an organic growth of +58%, its strongest annual growth rate for 10 years. Growth was strong both in France (+56%) and in International sales (+60%), due to outstanding deployments in France and Germany and to the ramp-up of new non-food retail verticals.
As forecast, the Group anticipates a current EBITDA at approximately €16m for 2016, strongly up from 2015 (€9.5m).
SES-imagotag confirmed its goal to exceed the €200m sales target in 2017; this is consistent with the Leapfrog 2020 plan, which set an average annual growth target of 30% between 2015 and 2020, to reach total sales of €400-500m by 2020.
Record turnover and growth in France
France saw its best ever historical performance with €67m in sales, an increase of +56% over the previous year. This exceptional performance in an already highly developed market is explained by a combination of four factors: the development of new market segments in non-food retail (Sephora, Darty, Boulanger), the increase in SES-imagotag's market share in food retail (first Casino deployment contract), the positive dynamics of sales to independent retail chains (Intermarché, Système U especially), and finally a sustained policy of innovation that drives the installed base to renew its technology; the latter benefits from solutions in the areas of HD graphic display, product geolocation, shopper connectivity, click-and-collect optimization, in-store customer traffic analysis and centralized software architecture.
International sales over €100m
International sales set a new record of €109m, up by 60%, and accounted for 62% of SES-imagotag's total business. This performance was achieved mainly through the acceleration of deployments in Europe, particularly in Germany (Media-Saturn), Scandinavia (Jysk, Spar), Italy and Spain, and to a mix of mostly non-food retailers (electronics and appliances, household equipment, etc.) facing fierce competition from e-commerce 'pure players'.
In the U.S., SES-imagotag opened an office in Silicon Valley in 2016 and established a new management for building high potential commercial, technological and industrial partnerships. In just a few months, SES-imagotag signed around one hundred stores and intends to accelerate the trend in 2017.
Annual orders hit €145m
With a good 4th quarter (€41m), annual orders weighed in at €145m mark, a figure which, though down on the 2015 record of €225m boosted by a very large multi-year contract in Germany, reveals a distribution more concentrated on 2016/2017 and better balanced over a larger number of retail chains under deployment. In addition, a major exclusive referencing contract for a period of two years with a central procurement bringing several retail chains together was signed in Q4, but has not yet produced store orders (and therefore not taken into account in the published figures).
PDi and Findbox acquisitions finalized
During the 3rd quarter, SES-imagotag also accelerated its development through two external growth projects:
- PDi, a leading engineering company that develops ultra-low power e-paper displays, based in Taiwan,
- and Findbox, a German retail technology start-up specialized in innovative technologies for commerce that help consumers search and find products in physical stores thanks to flashing digital price tags.
SES-imagotag shareholders approved these two external growth operations with a 99.9% vote during the Shareholders' Meeting of November 30, 2016.
Operational profitability: guidance reiterated
Based on the annual closing figures currently being audited, operating profit for the second half should, as forecast, be close to that for the 1st half, i.e. an annual current EBITDA that should be around €16m, compared to €9.5m in 2015 (approximately +70%). This performance was achieved despite the strong negative impact of the €/$ exchange rate.
Given the portfolio of orders and business opportunities, SES-imagotag confirmed its 2017 target to beat the milestone of €200m in sales while improving profitability. These objectives are in line with the Leapfrog plan.
Thierry Gadou, Chairman and CEO of the SES-imagotag Group, commented as follows on the company's sales and outlook: "The excellent operational performance in 2016 was in line with our objectives and the ambition of our Leapfrog 2015-2020 medium-term plan. After an excellent year in 2016, both in signatures of new contracts and in structuring acquisitions, we are starting off 2017 with confidence. The reinforcement of our teams, particularly in our international subsidiaries, the quality of our products and our innovative solutions, endorsed by major international retail chains, confirm our ambition to establish our leading position on the American and Asian markets."
Next release: annual results for 2016, February 23, 2017 after the Stock Exchange closure.
About SES-imagotag
SES-imagotag is a specialist in digital solutions for physical commerce and a global leader in electronic labeling systems. The Group designs and markets all the components of its solutions (software, radio-frequency infrastructure, labels and mountings), thus providing its clients with a turnkey solution. The range of products and services offered by SES-imagotag allows retailers to manage pricing dynamically, to improve in-store productivity and develop new contactless applications for consumers.
SES-imagotag is listed on compartment B of Euronext™ Paris
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68: Baking on Christmas Eve
68: Baking on Christmas Eve
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Christmas in Canada
Baking on Christmas Eve
Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned.
~Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
Every year I say I am not going to bake. But as Christmas grows closer, comforting childhood memories draw me to my cookbook. Christmas just isn't Christmas for me without star shaped sugar cookies and the family's famous rum balls. And baking with a snifter of something, or coffee laced with rum, makes it just that more Christmassy.
And so it was on that particular Christmas Eve, I was baking. I did not normally bake so last minute, but I had been working overtime. And there was a reason I wanted to do extra baking that Christmas: I was newly single for the second time, and my first ex and our adult children were coming for Christmas dinner. I wanted to make it special.
"Shortbread," I said to the dog, who was hanging out in the kitchen, "I will make shortbread, and those little cookies with a maraschino cherry on top. And I could make chocolate covered almond bark — I have chocolate left over and everyone loves almond bark."
I got to work. It was a strange Christmas Eve, being on my own, the first ever not sharing the usual rituals and last minute gift-wrapping with family. The baking made it feel more normal. I allowed myself just a splash of rum in my coffee, no more, as I was on call with the crisis line. There were two of us on call that night; I was second in line and didn't expect to receive a phone call. Even so I drank the rest of my coffee minus the rum.
I loved baking for other people. I recalled making fudge for my father and how much he enjoyed it. I remembered first learning to bake cookies and cake at age nine, and watching my dad make Christmas pudding. And I recalled that Christmas at my house, when our kids were little, the one when we knew it was my dad's last as he was dying of cancer, the one where we didn't know it was also my father-in-law's last Christmas. We had all the family in our little house, with the tables stretched from the living room out into the hall where the youngest children sat at a card table. Sixteen of us in all, and I had baked for days. I cooked the turkey and made the gravy the way my father always made it. He barely touched his dinner, but I knew he approved.
I was remembering all the Christmases past and wondering about my need to nurture with baking when the phone rang. It was eleven o'clock on the night before Christmas, and I had just removed the last tray of shortbread from the oven. It was Mara, my crisis line partner. We had a call to go to the R.C.M.P. station in the nearby town of Lake Cowichan to pick up a woman and her preschool children. The police had rescued her from a violent domestic scene and she needed to be escorted to the women's shelter immediately. At that time there was no shelter in our area; the nearest one was in Nanaimo, about a one-and-a-half-hour drive from where we were to pick her up.
While I waited for Mara to collect me, I placed cookies, short-bread and almond bark in a small box to give to the woman we were meeting. I wondered if she had time to grab her kids' Christmas gifts before leaving her house. What a horrible way to spend Christmas; my heart went out to her. Like my parents, I always had extra gifts on hand at Christmas. I rummaged through what I had: Scented soap and hand lotion should be all right for the mother. A puzzle, a children's book and those rolls of Life Savers, multi flavours all packaged together, would do for the kids. In spite of the seriousness of the occasion, I was humming Christmas carols as I wrapped the gifts for the little family.
The woman was young and already looked beaten down by life, and I gathered this wasn't a new occurrence. She flashed us a defiant glance, a "don't dare judge me look," as she shuffled her kids into the back seat of our car. Snow was threatening, and it was already past midnight and into Christmas Day when we left the police station in the small lakeside community.
We tried to draw out the girl. She talked a bit about what happened, and seemed resigned about her husband's violence and worried that she was ruining his Christmas. There wasn't much we could do except drive her to a safe place where she would receive counselling and nurturing, so we drove through the chilly winter night mostly in silence and let her and the two young ones sleep.
When we dropped them off in Nanaimo I gave her my bag of baked goods and wrapped gifts, and briefly saw the protective veneer of toughness leave her face as she thanked me, her voice breaking with emotion. We watched as the mother and two young children were received by a caring support worker in the wee hours of Christmas Day. I silently sent her love as we turned our car around and began the long drive home.
A few hours later when my children and former husband arrived for Christmas dinner, I hugged them with fierce love, squishing them tight in my need to keep them safe. And then I fed them until they couldn't move. It was all I could do.
~Liz Maxwell Forbes
Crofton, British Columbia
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Developer Cabot, Cabot and Forbes filed a letter of intent with the Boston Redevelopment Authority to build student housing in Brighton. In collaboration with private dormitory operator Peak Campus, the developer will rennovate St Gabriel's Monastery, a closed Passionist cloister, and build several new buildings on the 11.1 acre site, resulting in 680 apartments, amenities and common space and 400 parking spaces. Four new buildings will be built on existing parking lots, ranging from four to seven stories in height.
St. Gabriel's Monastery and Church.
In total, the development will consist of 610,000 gross square feet at 159 Washington Street and so will have to undergo large project review with an impact advisory board. The site is about midway between Brighton Center, with its bars, restaurants and, one day, grocery store and the B branch of the Massachuasetts Bay Transportation Authority on Commonwealth Avenue with its amenities. The 64 bus route to Kenmore Square stops in front of the site. Existing pedestrian routes will be improved. Ther site is also walkable to Allston Village.
The project is targeted to graduate students. The LOI cities the fact that Brighton has 4,100 graduate students in rental housing, which is says encourages housing prices and rents to rise. "The project concept is to provide a new type of development in Boston to house this demographic, at a scale that will free up housing for local neighborhood residents."
The 400 parking spaces are not neccesarry. Brighton has low rates of car-ownership already, especially near the Green Line, and area universities have encouraged students to use car sharing services or other forms of alternate transportation.


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Patrick Dunkerley gets his investing edge by always asking, "What if?" He avoids overleveraged companies and businesses plagued by weighty issues, for example, because they may not survive a market downturn. And that's why he didn't put all his money on one presidential candidate.
"The Street did not expect Mr. Trump to win the election," says Dunkerley. "We thought it was a toss-up, so, fortunately, we were positioned for this."
Dunkerley, 54, who co-manages the $1.2 billion Scout Mid Cap fund (ticker: UMBMX) with Derek Smashey, John Indellicate and Jason Votruba, had picked up infrastructure stocks Martin Marietta Materials (MLM) and Vulcan Materials (VMC), which got a lift following Donald J. Trump's victory. The fund's restaurant and retail stocks also got a boost on expectations of corporate tax cuts.
All else being equal, the managers look for cash-generating midsize companies with strong balance sheets. A company makes it into the fund only when it ticks off every one of Scout's 10-point checklist, including positive cash flow from operations, a catalyst for outperformance, and a stock price below the managers' calculation of intrinsic value.
Those quality checks help the fund lose less in down markets. In 2008, when the Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 37% and the average mid-cap stock fell 39%, the fund was down 35%. Last year, when its peer funds were in the red some 5%, it was up 1.4%.
Losing less over time can lead to hefty gains. The fund celebrated its 10-year anniversary at the end of October. In that decade, the fund returned an annualized 10% net of its 1.04% fee, beating the 7.6% of its benchmark, the Russell Midcap's 7.6%; the S&P 500's 6.7%; and 99% of its mid-cap fund peers.
Barrons.com asked the manager to make the case for his five picks, which include heart-assist device maker Abiomed (ABMD), videogame chip maker Nvidia (NVDA), information technology company Computer Sciences (CSC), cruise operator Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL), and Olive Garden owner Darden Restaurants (DRI).
Abiomed: The heart-assist-device maker's Impella pumps received Food and Drug Administration approval in April. They work like stent implants but are delivered through a catheter, making them considerably less invasive. Abiomed ships around 16,000 units per year now, and full market penetration would mean 350,000 units. Dunkerley isn't expecting the company to take 100% of the specialized heart-pump market, but he does expect it to gain a sizable share and its earnings growth to eventually show it. Wall Street analysts expect Abiomed to deliver $1.80 in earnings per share by its 2018 fiscal year, which ends in March of that year, from 85 cents in fiscal 2016. Shares recently traded at $110. Based on traditional valuation screens, it's an expensive stock, "but if you weigh the upside and downside, the upside is better," says Dunkerley.
Nvidia: The chip maker is dominant in graphic-chip leaderboards and should continue to strengthen as videogaming becomes an even bigger business. Nvidia's graphic-processing units are found in gaming software, virtual reality, and increasingly in tech-laden cars. "Technology is a winner-take-most business, and Nvidia is the leader" in its area, says Dunkerley. Its stock price, at a recent $84, shows it. Two weeks ago the company reported a blowout quarter, with earnings of $542 million, or 83 cents a share, from $246 million, or 44 cents a share, a year earlier. It helped that gaming revenue was up 62% and its data center unit up 92%. Nvidia raised its dividend to 14 cents from 11.5 cents. Based on the company's fundamentals, Dunkerley sees shares clearing $100 by the end of the year. "My price target is higher than that," he says.
Computer Sciences:Barron's recommended investors take their gains after the information-technology services company shares got a 42% lift from acquiring Hewlett Packard Enterprise's (HPE) services business in late May. Dunkerley sees more upside from a recent price of $61. Since CEO Mike Lawrie took the helm in 2012, he has cut costs and sold unprofitable businesses. As a result, the margins on Computer Sciences' earnings before interest and taxes have been expanding. Dunkerley expects Lawrie to find more cost savings as he folds HP Enterprise's IT unit into Computer Sciences'. Analysts expect the company to earn $3.25 per share by fiscal 2018, which ends in March. "Some people are talking about $7 in earnings power in three to five years," says Dunkerley. "This is not a short-term play."
Royal Caribbean Cruises: Higher fuel costs and a stronger U.S. dollar prompted the cruise-line operator to lower 2016 earnings-per-share guidance to $6-$6.10 from $6.15-$6.35. Shares got dinged and recently traded at around $84. Dunkerley is positive about the company's earnings prospects and says that if economic fundamentals hold—a demographic tailwind from baby-boomer demand, for instance—the company could earn $6.80 or more next year. "Based on booking and pricing, 2017 looks OK," says Dunkerley, who is pulling for a recovery. While you wait for Royal Caribbean to right its course, collect a 2.3% yield.
Darden Restaurants: The operator of the Olive Garden franchise has been on a diet and has been looking trim lately. Darden sold its second-largest chain, Red Lobster, in 2014, and has been disposing its low-margin businesses and cutting costs. "There's a lot more rationalizing to do," says Dunkerley. "Capital Grille and Eddie V's Prime could be spun off or sold." Darden has streamlined menus, focusing on dishes that sell better, and is simplifying kitchen procedures. A decline in prices of pork, beef, chicken, and wheat will continue to help margins. Darden stock has been flagging in an unpopular industry, but the road to a turnaround is paved with a 3.1% yield.
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Since October 2014, Blu Jazz has brought a cool new vibe to the Historic Arts District of downtown, with swinging shows from local, national and international performers. And while patrons could order Southern-inspired nibbles at the club, it wasn't exactly a fine dining destination. That all changed last summer.
Blu Jazz converted its upstairs kitchen into Blu Plate, a chef-driven restaurant that provides its own fine dining experience and still sends plates to hungry listeners at the downstairs jazz club. "It definitely can be its own experience," says General Manager Mike Hamad.
The cleverly named Blu Plate builds on Blu's reputation for a New Orleans-esque jazz experience by serving up Southern-inspired fare with Akron flair, like the Frenchmen Street Po'boy made Ohio-style with pommes frites tucked inside the seafood sandwich. Or the customer fave St. Louis-style stuffed pork chop that features house-made chipotle cornbread, smoked Gouda and an okra-tomato sauce drizzled overtop. Wash it down with a Prohibition-style French 75.
Details like piano-shaped liquor shelving behind the bar and a wall plastered with playbills for hepcats like Lionel Hampton and Louis Armstrong bring the funky vibe upstairs from the club and remind you that this upscale restaurant is still all about that swing.
With windows overlooking bustling Market Street, lunch or dinner at Blu Plate can add spice to a downtown adventure, with the bonus of a solo piano player on Fridays and Saturdays from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. But parlaying your visit into an entire evening comes with an incentive. "If you have tickets to the show and you make reservations to get dinner, we do a dinner and show package with a 15 percent discount on your bill in the restaurant," Hamad says. That is one hot deal for a lot of cool music and spicy eats.


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Moon phase on 29 May 2054 Friday is Last Quarter, 22 days old Moon is in Pisces.Share this page: twitter facebook linkedin
Last Quarter is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 51% and getting smaller. The 22 days old Moon is in ♓ Pisces.
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Moon rises at midnight and sets at noon. It is visible to the south in the morning.
Moon is passing about ∠7° of ♓ Pisces tropical zodiac sector.
Lunar disc appears visually 6.5% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1773" and ∠1893".
Next Full Moon is the Strawberry Moon of June 2054 after 21 days on 20 June 2054 at 03:42.
There is medium ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at very acute angle, so their combined tidal force is moderate.
The Moon is 22 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving through the last part of current synodic month. This is lunation 672 of Meeus index or 1625 from Brown series.
Length of current 672 lunation is 29 days, 9 hours and 40 minutes. It is 1 hour and 46 minutes longer than next lunation 673 length.
Length of current synodic month is 3 hours and 4 minutes shorter than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 3 hours and 5 minutes longer, compared to 21st century shortest.
This lunation true anomaly is ∠288.9°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠316.1°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
1 day after point of apogee on 28 May 2054 at 00:43 in ♒ Aquarius. The lunar orbit is getting closer, while the Moon is moving inward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 10 days, until it get to the point of next perigee on 8 June 2054 at 21:43 in ♋ Cancer.
Moon is 404 170 km (251 140 mi) away from Earth on this date. Moon moves closer next 10 days until perigee, when Earth-Moon distance will reach 365 007 km (226 805 mi).
Moon is in descending node in ♓ Pisces at 02:37 on this date, it crosses the ecliptic from North to South. Moon will follow the southern part of its orbit for the next 12 days to meet ascending node on 11 June 2054 at 07:33 in ♍ Virgo.
14 days after beginning of current draconic month in ♍ Virgo, the Moon is moving from the second to the final part of it.
5 days after previous South standstill on 24 May 2054 at 11:01 in ♑ Capricorn, when Moon has reached southern declination of ∠-19.115°. Next 9 days the lunar orbit moves northward to face North declination of ∠19.164° in the next northern standstill on 7 June 2054 at 14:08 in ♊ Gemini.
After 7 days on 6 June 2054 at 02:40 in ♊ Gemini, the Moon will be in New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and this alignment forms next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy.


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There are certain ways we expect tennis players to win matches. They can serve big. They can use their forehands to control the rallies. They can turn themselves into human backboards. They can pressure their opponents and, every once in a while, attack the net. But not many do it the way Grigor Dimitrov did it in his 85-minute, 6-3, 7-5 win over Nick Kyrgios in the final of the Western and Southern Open on Sunday.
Yes, Dimitrov served well, and he controlled his share of rallies, and he even made his way to the net when he had the chance. But he won this match with his defense. He won it with his slice backhand, which skimmed the net tape and made the 6'5" Kyrgios uncomfortable—the Australian, who had been so sharp in beating Rafael Nadal two nights earlier, finished with 31 errors against 21 winners. More than anything, though, Dimitrov won this match with his running forehand from five feet behind the baseline.
Kyrgios likes to make inroads on his opponents by hooking his forehand crosscourt. But Dimitrov, like Pete Sampras and Andy Murray and not all that many others, loves nothing more than tracking down a ball deep in that corner and either chopping a neutralizing ball back, hooking a passing shot crosscourt, or, best of all, slapping a screaming winner down the line. Dimitrov's two most memorable and important shots of this match were the latter. He sent a corner-to-corner screamer for a winner to go up 0-30 on Kyrgios's serve in the first set, and broke serve from there. And he hit an even more spectacular slap winner up the line in the final game.
Those shots were flashy enough to remind anyone who may have forgotten that Dimitrov was once known as Baby Fed. Still, he won his first Masters 1000 title in very adult fashion. Dimitrov was nothing more or less than solid and steady throughout. He didn't drop a set in five matches, and won 52 of 53 service games. While seven of the Top 10 men weren't in Cincy, he still found his way through against three hard-hitting, high-quality opponents: Juan Martin del Potro, whom he had never beaten before; John Isner, in a 12-10 second-set tiebreaker that featured some scintillating rallies; and Kyrgios.
What about Kyrgios? It was an up week, on and off court, for the up-and-down Aussie. He was healthy; he competed fully; he beat David Goffin, Nadal, and David Ferrer; he reached his first Masters 1000 final; and he injected his name back into the US Open conversation. Along the way, Kyrgios showed that he can do the SABR every bit as brilliantly as its inventor, Roger Federer.
Kyrgios also reminded many of us why we liked him. He charmed Cincinnati by practicing with one fan and high-fiving a few others during a match, and he cracked up Tennis Channel's Leif Shiras when he told him that, all things considered, he'd rather be inside "having a cold one" than playing in the 100-degree heat.
The only down moment for Kyrgios came at the very end of the final. After competing well through the second set and reaching 5-5, Kyrgios suddenly double-faulted three times and sent a flat-footed forehand over the baseline for the decisive break. As Kyrgios said afterward, there's more work to be done, but at least he seems to feel like the work is worth doing again.
For Dimitrov, the work finally paid off. At 26, he becomes the second of his age cohort, after Marin Cilic, to win a Masters 1000. That won't make him the favorite in New York, but it should let him know that he can still fulfill his early potential, especially without the Big 4—three of whom were absent in Cincy—in his way. At 26, back in the Top 10, with a 34-14 record on the year, Dimitrov isn't Fed, but he's hardly a baby anymore, either.


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A sign
Matthew 12:38-42 38 Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered, saying, "Teacher, we want to see a sign from You." 39 But He answered and said to them, "An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign, and no … Continue reading
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How do You know me?
John 1:45-49 45 Philip found Nathanael and said to him, "We have found Him of whom Moses in the law, and also the prophets, wrote–Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph." 46 And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good … Continue reading
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We have found the Messiah
John 1:35-42 35 Again, the next day, John stood with two of his disciples. 36 And looking at Jesus as He walked, he said, "Behold the Lamb of God!" 37 The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. … Continue reading
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Simon Peter: "You are the Christ"
Matthew 16:13-17 13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" 14 So they said, "Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and … Continue reading
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Flesh and blood has not revealed this to you
Matthew 16:15-17 15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" 16 Simon Peter answered and said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." 17 Jesus answered and said to him, "Blessed are … Continue reading
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The industrial building supervision companies are entrusted with the work of managing corporate office buildings, eating places and full outlets amongst other business establishments. If the business shareholders do not provide virtually any fiscal aid to enhance the worthy of of these structures, y. g., to get the repair and repair actions of these complexes, the properties managing businesses will not really be capable of maintain these kinds of buildings to the best likely level. A few of these kinds of shareholders are global investors and therefore are associated with a lot of business establishments and tasks global. Withdrawing via these kinds of assignments rather than funding the organization facilities may result in the closure of these organisations not just in an individual country, nevertheless throughout the world.
The commercial property management businesses are seeing some very tough moments owing to the recession because these traders are holding back again or perhaps terminating the projects they have done. The resources taking care of businesses build the hopes on the property investors because they get organization from them and so they provide business to all of them. The properties and assets managing businesses receive capital rewards for telling organization to these investors and by preparing parties to purchase or work with the investments in which the investors devote. Once the traders turn away via any potential tasks, the belongings taking care of organizations quit having their particular benefits and thus suffer big losses.
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#12 – Market Predictions for Detroit, MI from the American Monetary Association
Detroit, MI: 9.7% Return on Investment (2011)
Detroit is one of the most widely publicized toxic markets in the United States. Extensive financial difficulty with the auto manufacturers has crippled the primary employment base in Detroit, and plunged the market into free fall. This is compounded by burdensome taxes and regulations from the government and union organizations that are significantly impeding the new investments required to spur a fundamental economic recovery. Currently, approximately 61% of listings in Detroit are from foreclosures[1].
Values in Detroit have been significantly depressed in recent years, which have made affordability much better for residents and investors. However, the population of Detroit is steadily decreasing, due to the flight of jobs away from the city. Many people have seen repeated news stories showing extremely inexpensive properties for sale in Detroit. Unfortunately, the net flight of jobs out of the area will make it
increasingly difficult for investors to find tenants and for residents to find work. This has resulted in many abandoned property and high vacancy rates for rental property. On balance, this makes Detroit an extremely dangerous place to invest since there is likely to be a sustained period of economic contraction on the horizon.
Values in Detroit have been in a perpetual downward spiral since the financial crisis of 2008. Rents in the area show reasonable strength in relation to cash flow, but this makes a fundamental assumption that an income property is occupied. With very high rates of vacancy for rental property in Detroit, it is entirely possible that vacancy could destroy the cash flow of an income property investment.
Our models indicate that values in Detroit will bottom during 2011, as a result of decreased supply from government decisions to bulldoze vacant neighborhoods in an attempt to reduce oversupply in the real estate market. Detroit is in decline, and will not be favorable for investors until its economic fundamentals improve significantly.


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Ray Rice: I'll Donate My ENTIRE SALARY to Charity If I Get Signed!
Back in 2014, shocking footage of then-Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his wife, Janay Palmer, was obtained by TMZ.
Back in 2014, shocking footage of then-Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice punching his wife, Janay Palmer, was obtained by TMZ.
New security camera footage from the night that Ray Rice assaulted Janay Palmer was released today.
The tape shows Rice and Palmer being handcuffed by police and kissing while in custody.
A day after NBC's Today aired its Janay Rice interview, her husband Ray Rice broken his silence on the infamous video of the former NFL star assaulting her.
Janay Rice, the wife of disgraced NFL star Ray Rice, sat down with Matt Lauer to discuss the shocking domestic violence episode that unfolded between the two.
Eminem has made a career out of trash-talking celebs and courting controversy, but he's toned down his act considerably in recent years.
Em's sober now; his three daughters are old enough to listen to his music and understand the lyrics, and there are certain punchlines that would make it onto an album in 1999 that just don't fly in 2014.
As you've probably heard, NFL running back Ray Rice was cut from the Baltimore Ravens and suspended indefinitely by the league after viciously assaulting his wife, Janay Palmer.
Embattled former NFL player Ray Rice will reportedly argue that TMZ edited the now-infamous video of him knocking out Janay Palmer in an elevator.
What he's claiming likely amounts to nothing but mere semantics, however.
CBS made a last-minute decision to drop Rihanna from performing during last night's Ravens-Steelers NFL pregame show, leading fans to note the obvious irony.
Instead of a performance featuring the singer, the network instead aired commentary about Ray Rice, the disgraced former Baltimore running back.
Ray Rice's abuse of hard liquor was a big factor in him knocking out Janay Palmer, according to a new report, and he's sworn off the stuff as a result.
He still drinks, though. Just not the hard stuff.
Former NFL star Ray Rice is speaking out for the first time since the release of the shocking video of Rice knocking his fiancee unconscious earlier this year.
Janay Palmer married Rice shortly after the incident, which became a hugely controversial story after Ray's arrest and modest two-game suspension.
Janay Palmer is breaking her silence on the shocking video of Ray Rice knocking her out cold, defending her now-husband and putting the media on blast.


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Following on from my last post, here is the next instalment of our family holiday 🙂 It seems so long ago…in the meantime we've had school holidays and more family fun, and all the usual things that go along with that!
So sit back and prepare for another photo overload, this time of our visit to Kuranda…
There are plenty of tours you can arrange to get you up to Kuranda directly from your accommodation in Cairns, but I can definitely recommend the self-drive Skyrail/train option. We drove ourselves to the Cairns Skyrail station in the morning, were taken up the mountain via cablecar, enjoyed a couple of hours wandering around Kuranda, then caught the scenic railway back down to Cairns where we were bussed back to our car ready to drive ourselves back to our hotel. Or you can do it the other way round.
It was an overcast morning, and a bit drizzly as we set out on the Skyrail. I'm sure there were some amazing views over Cairns…
We had a couple of stops on the way up, with the weather improving as the morning went on. Here we are admiring Barron Falls
It's the end of the dry season, so the Falls weren't doing a lot of 'falling', but were spectacular anyway.
We were told to look out for a crocodile 'sunning' himself on a log, and were very excited when we spotted him! (Remember, we are a very long way above him, and we had to look out the back of the cablecar to see him, so it was very difficult to get a clear photo. And thanks to my sister Liz, who took this photo. My croc photos were very blurry!)
By the time we arrived at Kuranda, it was sunny and clear!
We enjoyed a scenic walk into the main part of town, where we separated and explored the bazaar and markets
There were treasures to be found, and interesting things to see! Here is a selection:
Tasting, and then producing, sugar cane juice. Our juice was mixed with ginger, and it was so delicious and refreshing!
We discovered Dr Who's TARDIS (actually an electricity box)!
We came across this very cool airplane that had been used (crash scene) in the movie Sky Pirates, filmed in the 1980s. It was originally built in 1942 in California, and named Geronimo. It was part of the USA 5th Air Force and was based in Brisbane. It was handed over to the Australian Government in 1945. For the next 35 or so years it operated as a passenger aircraft for several Australian airlines, then aerial survey work. The plane was re-named Miss Fortune for the movie, in 1983.
We learnt about Cassowaries and how they are endangered on our visit to Hartley's Crocodile Farm.
Fun backdrop to this seat
Kuranda railway station is something to behold
The train features heritage style carriages, and I was amused to see this sign at the entrance to the carriage. The steps were indeed very steep and narrow, so it was a timely reminder to take care!
And to finish, here are some photos from our train journey back down to Cairns. It was a wonderful way to travel!


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OrangeTee - Celia Chong is a highly talented leader and property consultant with OrangeTee. Meeting Celia for the first time, you may find her warmth and sincere personality a great partner to talk to in selling or buying your property. That is about her to put you comfortable and at ease.
Celia has been in the real estate industry since 2007. Her passion in real estate was sparked off by her first venture into property then selling her cousin's property in D12 at a record price. Since then, Celia has charted numerous records in brokering deals in D15, D16, D17, D18 and prime districts, serving both buyers, home-owners, and investors – buying, selling and leasing of private properties. She has won numerous awards as top producer with the past real estate agency HSR, GPS Alliances, and with the present agency OrangeTee.com.
Celia's greatest strength is her engaging personality with her clients, and is very skillful in negotiating good and fair deals. She likes challenges and enjoys tackling issues, and skilled at handling problems. She is passionate about making a difference to the real estate industry with her positiveness. This is evident in her favourite phrases, among them "Oh, that's wonderful!", "Yes, we certainly can work this out!" When she listens to you, she would look you in the eye, at times nod her head and say "That's right!" often with her ready friendly smile. Yet, when a challenge is thrown onto her, she knows that perseverance is the key to success, and she presses on. A firm believer in elevating the industry's standard of professionalism, she has a systematic programme in place for the process of securing deals for both buyers and sellers. Celia and her work transpire integrity; she believes that when she acts with integrity, the clients, co-brokers, associates whom she work with will place trust in her. The pool of clients whom she has built relationship with over the past few years to represent them in real estate deals will readily vouch for her.
Celia Chong is committed to deliver the best real estate experience to her esteemed clients; backed by her years of strong work ethic and professionalism with prestige organizations, she placed each of her clients' interest above all else.
Celia is a graduate of RMIT University, with Bachelor Degree in IT & Info Sys. Prior to joining of real estate industry, Celia was an IT Expert specialized in IT Network Infrastructure and Security system, with prestige organizations like IBM, DBS Bank, and Heinz. She is a licensed holder of Salesperson under the Council of Estate Agencies (CEA) since 2011 when the statutory board was first set up.
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