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Sport compact tuners are taking over the world.
That's the unmistakable conclusion you might reach after gazing upon miles of aisles of tricked-out tuner cars, over-the-top parts and wild accessories at the recent Specialty Equipment Market Association show in Las Vegas.
There's one problem: People with ears closest to the thrumming ground think you're wrong. They think the wave of sport compact tuning that washed over America in the past decade may have crested and is receding from its high water mark.
Yes, Honda is back. It is reclaiming lost ground with a new Civic that should help Honda secure it as the darling of the tuner world. But Volkswagen is in the mix, showing a full range of concept "R" tuner cars at SEMA, laying claim to its tuner birthright that predates the Japanese imports. Wasn't the Beetle America's original tuner import?
But the distant—and growing—rumble that is drawing everyone's attention is nothing less than the resurgence of modernized muscle cars.
At SEMA, the wild $427,000 Baldwin-Motion Camaro Super Coupe, above, represented the extreme side of this trend. But one does not make a trend: Plenty of other mainstream examples were on hand, such as the latest Shelby Mustangs from Unique Performance, and manufacturer entries such as the Pontiac GTO and Solstice, Ford Mustang and GT500, and Dodge Charger that signal a return to muscle.
"There's definitely a swing back to '60s-era muscle cars—with today's technology," says Clay Dean, General Motors director of small and midsize car design. A SEMA veteran, Dean has been trend-spotting at the tuner show since 1985 and witnessed the rise of sport trucks, the return of street rods and the upsurge of sport compact tuners. Each trend is marked by a similar search for a brand identity that carries emotion and power, says Dean. The swing to '60s automotive icons is more of the same, he says.
"People want to stand out, and their rediscovery of '60s muscle is a return to a time when brands were strong—to when people knew what Chevy stood for," Dean says.
The trick, says trend spotter Rob Tregenza of Minneapolis-based Iconoculture, is to convince consumers to catch the wave, instead of pushing them into it. For North American automakers, steeped in selling in volume, cashing in on their natural advantage in muscle cars will depend on how well they emulate the sport compact manufacturers and supporting tuner companies of today.
"Consumers want to go to niche—they want a 'mom and pop' brand that's unique," Tregenza says.
Success for big automakers like GM may lie in establishing separate brands for enthusiasts, and giving brands free rein to create what the market demands. Performance-based entities, like GM Performance Division, Ford SVT and Chrysler Street and Racing Technology, may be seen as too cozy with the parent to win the battle for buyers.
"The manufacturers are in, but do people buy it—is it authentic?" Iconoculture's Tregenza asks.
Chrysler, with its tuner-friendly and affordable 300C, Dodge Magnum and Dodge Charger, and its wildly successful Hemi engine, may have a leg up on the competition when it comes to latching on to the muscle movement.
Ralph Gilles, designer of the 300, returned from SEMA and reported to his boss, Chrysler design chief Trevor Creed, that the show was loaded with tuned 300Cs and Chargers.
"And we didn't pay for any of them," notes Creed, referring to the common industry practice of financing "dollar cars" for tuners. "The trend is happening on its own," says Creed. "People are saying, 'You've given us the traditional American car back—and it's affordable.'"
Does the rise of muscle mean the end of sport compacts? Judging by the preponderance of the latter represented in SEMA's 2055 booths, along with the huge dollars all those tuner parts and accessories represent (a $31 billion industry) it's more likely sport compacts will run side-by-side with muscle cars for the foreseeable future.
Jarod DeAnda, youth marketing manager for Meguiar's, the voice of Formula Drift, and PR man for Gumball 3000, says we're living in a "mash-up" culture, where consumers demand creative control over products. The result, notes Tregenza, is a youth culture that can "mix and mash products before they even get into production."
Mash-up can best describe what's going on in the tuner world right now, says DeAnda. "It's a mash-up of different global influences, from drifting and JDM (Japanese Domestic Market) styles to California tuning style to motorsports to hip-hop to skateboard culture to graffiti art. It's really all over the board right now, and young tuners are pulling from all sources."
Need proof? DeAnda's drift car displayed at SEMA was painted by Kal Kustoms, a company known for airbrushing low riders and drag cars. "What's funny is [my car] offends the core drift dudes," says DeAnda, "but if it was a single color like a gray, it would be JDM, which is funny."
> Colored Wheels
The days of big, crass chrome wheels are gone, says Ford designer Pat Schiavone. "I have seen a move away from chrome [on wheels] and using it just as an accent. There is also a move toward doing more OE-look [original equipment] wheels with colors. I'm going back to try that on a project."
> Digital Tunes
Digital music moves beyond offering consumers an auxiliary port to plug in iPods. Sony makes a removable faceplate radio that provides up to a gigabyte of capacity with which to download tunes straight from your computer via USB port. Next up: to make all cars at any price fully Bluetooth compatible.
> What are you smokin'?
Kumho Ecsta MX-C tires don't just screech and spew smoke when you light 'em up—these tires spew red or blue colored smoke. Initially made for use in Formula Drift racing, Kumho now sells the MX-C to the public in four sizes for road use. Pick your color and start smokin'.
> Performance Parts
"SEMA used to be about parts to make your car go faster," says Jack Roush, owner of Roush Racing and Roush Performance. "It evolved to a show for personalization: wheels, tires, [and] stickers. Now it is back to go-fast parts like superchargers and turbos. Personalization is still there, but [go-fast] parts are growing."


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Owner: Keith Gunn
Thank you for allowing me to share my truck with you.
This is the only truck I have ever owned, and really the only kind of truck that ever held much interest for me. The first 1955 (second series) I ever saw was purchased by my best friend's father. Not only did I think it beautiful, it was FAST!
While attending an auto show in South Carolina I saw a pristine restoration of a '55 and asked the owner if he new of another that I might restore. He knew of one in Broadway, NC and so my story began.
My truck was purchased new in early 1956 from the Pinehurst Motor Co. in Pinehurst, NC and was loaded with just about every available option except automatic transmission. Since that time it has never been titled outside the state of North Carolina.
The truck had been partially disassembled for restoration, and parts were scattered in several farm outbuildings. It was loaded up and carried to Siler City, NC where I was fortunate enough to find interested people to work on the restoration.
The truck was then completely taken apart, sandblasted and re-assembled on the fresh chassis. My goal was to retain the original appearance while at the same time achieving a roadworthy vehicle. I hope you enjoy the results.
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Interview with APU Alumna, Heather Groen
If you're not able to participate in an Earth Day event, then there are many ways you can help contribute working towards our 2020 goal. For example, you could grow your own produce, invest in hydroponic gardening or aquaponics, or just simply plant trees in your own yard for shade canopy and food and shelter for wildlife and birds. Every effort counts. If you do nothing, then you are not improving; you are diminishing.


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T.Y.E Is an Explosive Addition to the Dallas Rap Scene
The Oak Cliff rapper premieres his video for "32" from his debut project of the same name.
Aug 16 2017, 9:15am
When asked how he'd describe Oak Cliff to someone who'd never set foot in his leafy enclave, T.Y.E answers flatly "It's a hood neighborhood in Dallas." When asked where in the 'Cliff he'd take this theoretical doe-eyed (read: white) outsider, he lists Big T Bazaar, Rudy's Chicken, and Danieldale Park. All three—the overflowing swap meet, the drive-through chicken joint, and the verdant park—feature prominently in his video for "32," which Noisey is premiering, from his debut album of the same name.
On 32, T.Y.E's bipolarity is played to maximal effect: self- and generalized loathing contend with his too-human yearning for love and acceptance; instrumentals change as suddenly—and violently—as his moods; operatic singing boils into gnashing rap. If, at first glance, 32 seems trite, that's understandable–mental illness is regularly commodified as entertaining wackiness, and expressions of vulnerability are treated as an artistic ends rather than a mean. But, in Oak Cliff, depression is weakness. Sharks don't see a bleeding seal as a creature in need of veterinary attention, they see it as prey. The 32 lifestyle's edicts–monastic in their simplicity–account for this: "On guard at all times; protect yourself at all times. Real niggas recognize real niggas. It's all respect unless you got some hoe in ya' blood, unless you got somewhat of a fuck nigga reputation."
Because of his candor, T.Y.E's place in the Dallas rap canon—a more aggressive, unrelenting sound than that of their opiated Houston brethren—is one of partial removal. "My music is different what people in Dallas fuck with, honestly…If I start talking about real hood shit, then niggas can get down with it…I try to talk more about the psychological aspects of living in this environment that people don't like to admit to. I like to talk about depression, the trauma, and the effect that the environment has on you."
Compared to his album's wildest, most depressive flailings, "32" is conservative, or as conservative as a tribute to a crew of goons can be. (In South Dallas gang parlance, "32" is both shorthand for Oak Cliff's zip code, 75232, and the Yung Guerillas gang, often abbreviated as "YG." "Y" is the twenty-fifth letter in the alphabet, "G" is the seventh. 25 + 7 = 32.) "32" is, in T.Y.E's own words, his album's stolid gangster rap cut–no vacillation, no conscience. If the primary qualities of "32" are disrespecting those of hoeish phenotype and immutable self-preservation, then the secondary characteristics are emptying clips, fucking your bitch, and hanging with felons.
In gangster rap, these are fairly mundane qualities—oh, the affordable housing we could build from spent hollow-tip casings and empty banana clips—but there's sub-sub-regional specificity to "32," with T.Y.E rapping "I'm from Red Bird and Hampton, 232/My side of [Route] 67." On that side of 67, about four miles from the intersection of Red Bird and Hampton, is Danieldale Park. The unassuming park (aside from the open-air concrete pavilion, it appears architecturally and topographically boring) is one of T.Y.E.'s three Oak Cliff must-see's. It's where he and director DanceDailey filmed the "32" video, and where the Y.G.'s host an annual picnic in honor of mononymous and deceased members Donte and Chris.
When I ask about Donte and Chris, whose faces and names Yung Guerilla O.G.'s have tattooed, T.Y.E instead offers a benediction for the Oak Cliff dead and incarcerated: "Long live them–they would've been O.G.'s in the game if they hadn't died. Rest in Peace L.D. Rest in Peace Donte and Chris. Rest in Peace Clyde. Rest in Peace Sherm. Rest in Peace–man, it's a lot of 'em. And free all them niggas, too."
Then he adds, "There's a lot of people I wanna say 'free' and 'rest in peace' too, but some of 'em some fuck niggas. I gotta watch what I say now, 'cuz niggas I was cool with probably murked somebody's cousin that likes my music, and I don't wanna step on any toes."
Torii MacAdams is a writer based in Los Angeles. Follow him on Twitter.


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Six Dangerous Investing Myths
Guest post, Rob Bennett
Investing is both an art and a science. There are passionate supporters of a wide range of investing methodologies and the research can be tweaked to support various approaches.
When considering the index fund investing approach, there are considerable ways to view the idea that it's difficult if not impossible to beat the long term market averages. Following are several investing myths, from a valuation informed approach.
What do you think of these investing myths, are they accurate or not?
Valuation Informed Indexing Approach
Mr. Bennett advocates Valuation-Informed Indexing. This strategy calls for the investor to increase his stock allocation when prices are low and to decrease his allocation when prices are high. The concept is rooted in the research of Yale Economics Professor Robert Shiller, who found that, contrary to the widespread belief that market timing doesn't work, long-term returns are predictably poor starting from times of high valuations.
Fact or Fiction? Valuation Informed Investing Myths
Set forth below are six items of investing wisdom viewed as truths by Buy-and-Holders but as dangerous investing myths by those who root their strategies in Nobel Prize winner, Robert J. Shiller's research findings:
Investing Myth 1 – Market Timing Doesn't Work. Buy-and-Holders believe that the market is efficient; that is, all information known to affect the market price is incorporated into it at all times. It follows that market timing cannot work; no one can effectively guess how unforeseeable events are going to play out.
Valuation-Informed Indexers believe that investor emotions are the primary influence on prices in the short term and that economic realities become dominant only after the passage of 10 years or so. If this is so, long-term returns are highly predictable (prices move in the direction of fair value). Under the new understanding of how stock investing works, timing is not only possible but required; investors who fail to change their stock allocations in response to big price shifts thereby permit their risk levels to get wildly out of whack.
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Barb's comment; Actually, maintaining a constant asset allocation will do this for you. When one asset class becomes overvalued, you will rebalance by either selling the overvalued asset class or putting future cash into lower valued assets.
Investing Myth 2 – Economic Developments Cause Stock Price Changes. Did you know that Shiller predicted a former economic crisis? So did Robert Arnott. So did Andew Smithers. So did every stock analyst who takes Shiller's findings seriously. How did they perform this magic feat? Valuation-Informed Indexers don't believe that it is economic developments that cause stock price changes but that it is stock price changes that cause economic developments. The market was overpriced by $12 trillion in 2000. The inevitable return to fair value was going to cause a loss of that amount of buying power from our consumer economy. The crisis became unavoidable once we permitted the bull market to get so out of control.
Barb's comment; There were indications of an overvalued market before the August 2015 market crash, as well.
Investing Myth 3 – The Safe Withdrawal Rate Is a Constant Number. Financial planners use the concept of the "safe withdrawal rate" to tell us how to structure our retirement plans. The idea is to use the historical return data to determine what withdrawal rate would work even in a worst-case scenario. The conventional studies are rooted in the pre-Shiller research and thus do not consider the effect of the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins. Studies that do consider valuations come to wildly different conclusions as to what is safe. In the event that Shiller is right, millions of middle-class people will be experiencing failed retirements in days to come.
Investing Myth 4 – Stocks Are More Risky Than Bonds.This has been the conventional wisdom for a long, long time. But risk is uncertainty. If Shiller is right that long-term returns are highly predictable, stocks are not nearly as risky as we have long believed them to be. If Shiller is right, stocks are a high-risk asset class only for those who don't take valuations into consideration when setting their stock allocations — that is, Buy-and-Holders.
Barb's comment: Modern Portfolio research defines risk as volatility. In other words, how much your asset value moves up and down in price. In general, stocks are more volatile than bonds, although over the long term they have offered much higher returns than bonds. Warren Buffett suggests that risk is running out of money in retirement.
Investing Myth 5 – Super-Safe Asset Classes Are a Poor Choice for Long-Term Investors. The conventional wisdom is that stocks are always best for the long -term investor and super-safe asset classes never provide returns high enough to finance a comfortable middle-class retirement. But a regression analysis of the historical return data showed that at the prices they were selling at in 2000 stocks were likely to provide an annualized return of something in the neighborhood of a negative 1 percent real. In contrast, Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) were at the time paying 4 percent real. That's a return differential of 5 percentage points per year for 10 years running — a total shortfall for the stock investor of 50 percent of his initial portfolio value.
Read more: Is Buy and Hold Finished?>>>
Investing Myth 6 – Stocks Have Become a Good Buy in the Wake of the Price Crash. There were three times prior to the late 1990s when stock prices reached insanely dangerous (high) levels. On each of those three occasions, the damage done to the economy as a result of the inevitable crash ultimately caused stock prices to fall to one-half of fair value. That's a price drop of 65 percent from where we stand today (February, 2011).
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The information contained in this article is the opinion of the guest author and does not necessarily represent that of Barbara Friedberg. Do not construe this information as a recommendation to buy or sell particular securities or asset classes.
This is a guest post by Rob Bennett who created the first retirement calculator that contains an adjustment for the valuation level that applies on the day the retirement begins. His bio is here.
Barb's question: Do you consider valuations when making investment decisions?
A version of this article was previously published.


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Some account change or permissions issues may require that you reset the Supermetrics business integration for Instagram Insights. This guide will show you how to do this.
- Log into Facebook with the account that was used to authorize the Instagram Insights connector.
- Use the following link to go to the Business Integration settings section: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=business_tools
- In the Active section, find the "Supermetrics Connector" option.
- Check the box next to that and then click the Remove button.
WARNING! - There may be two different Supermetrics integrations listed. DO NOT delete the "Supermetrics" one as this can break integrations for Facebook Insights and Facebook Ads if you are using those connectors as well.
- Once the "Supermetrics Connector" business integration has been removed, go back to the Supermetrics product.
- Re-authenticate the Instagram Insights data source per the appropriate directions:
- It should now ask for permissions for the account in a pop-up like this:
- Click on the link to "Choose what you allow".
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Gorgeous Gingham.
There's no doubt about it, gingham is back in fashion. This plain woven fabric has always been popular, but it's now being seen in shops and on catwalks more than ever. Read on to discover why gingham is so on trend, then take a look at the gingham fabrics available on Fabric Direct for your home creations.
Ravishing retro
Vintage themes are constantly being revived, and gingham is one with a long, rich history. It was thought to originate in the 17th century in Malaysia and Indonesia, during the Dutch colonisation there. You may well remember the blue gingham dress Judy Garland wore as Dorothy in 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Then there was the pink gingham wedding dress worn by French actress and model Brigitte Bardot for her wedding in 1959. With a past this interesting, no wonder the fabric keeps reappearing.
Instantly Instagrammable
Gingham uses white plus one other shade, which makes it a striking design that translates particularly well onto social media sites. Because of the way the yarns are arranged, with the uncoloured crossing against the coloured, a third shade is created which complements the other two. For even more visual appeal on today's catwalks, designers are combining two types of gingham or teaming the design with other vibrant prints and patterns.
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Comfortable clothing
Because gingham contains cotton, it's really comfortable to wear. It's sturdy enough to give good coverage and not lose its shape, but lightweight enough to be flexible and breathable too. The yarn is dyed before it's woven, so the end material looks the same on each side. This makes it easy to fold and sew into an appealing dress or shirt.
Very versatile
Gingham is a highly practical fibre. Its pattern means the eye is detracted away from any minor marks that may appear over time. Because it contains cotton or linen, it absorbs any small amounts of moisture without leaving too much of a trace – unlike, say, silk which would stain easily. This versatility makes gingham ideal for tablecloths, cushions and frocks you'll want to wear again and again. At Fabric Direct, we stock a range of gingham fabrics for your home furnishings and clothes patterns. Why not use gingham to make a hair scrunchie, dolls' outfit, necktie, key ring or picture frame?
Buy your gingham fabrics online today
At Fabric Direct, we are proud to offer the finest gingham fabrics to dressmakers, available by the metre and with a wide range on offer at highly competitive prices. We also sell a huge range of embellishments, nets and laces, finishes and more. Buy online for immediate UK dispatch and superb customer service. Can't find what you're looking for? Get in touch and our experienced team will be delighted to help.


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R.A.C.E. (Inc) is the trading name for Racing at Awapuni and Trentham Combined Enterprise Incorporated. RACE (Inc) was formed in July 2002 as the umbrella corporate entity for the Awapuni Partnership of Racing Clubs Manawatu Racing Club (Inc), Marton Jockey Club (Inc), Feilding Jockey Club (Inc), Rangitikei Racing Club (Inc). The Wellington Racing Club joined the Group in October 2005.
We are here to support our current and future members in keeping racing as a dynamic, engaging and relevant sport within New Zealand.
To show leadership within the NZ Thorough Industry by developing a contemporary business model that drives a sustainable future though alternative income streams, industry rationalisation and efficiency of operation.
To develop a racing model that drives consistency of brand experience, confidence in wagering and an environment where stakeholders are prepared to invest.
To develop a commercial model where racing co-exists with parallel racing and non-racing related commercial activities to provide strategic growth options.
To provide a first stop entertainment option of choice that offers a platform for a great day out catering for all age groups.
To celebrate racing and increase engagement breeding a new generation of race goers to protect the longevity of racing.
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Did your New Year's resolutions include joining a gym this year? As with most resolutions we're sure you had the best intentions… however read on to find out the skinny on the costs of gym memberships and why you may be wasting your money.
What your gym won't tell you is that it counts on 35 percent of people who joined in January dropping out by April. What's more, according to the International Health, Racquet and Sportsclub Association, 42 percent of members go to the gym fewer than 50 days per year!
The True Cost of Membership
The average membership runs around $40 per month for a basic gym membership, or $1.32 per day. If you go 50 days per year, you spend $480 per year and basically donate $414 of that to the gym.
That scenario doesn't even take into account "initiation fees" that can cost over $100, amenities like childcare, towel service, and consultations, or extra classes such as yoga and pilates that are often not covered in the basic membership. A few of these extras can increase your monthly fee dramatically.
Fitness clubs know that many people will drop out and almost half of their members rarely go. This is why you typically have to sign a one- or two-year contract, locking you into payments that are automatically withdrawn from your bank account. Just think about what you could do with an extra $480+ per year. These funds could help you become more fiscally fit, helping you start a precautionary emergency fund or supplementing a high yield savings account.
But What About Fitness?!
Joining a gym is setting the intention to improve your health, and that is a worthy goal. But since we've already seen that many of us rarely (or never) use our gym membership, we have lots of money-saving alternatives for you!
Exercising is as simple as moving your body. You don't need cardio theaters or fancy treadmills to do that. Just move!
Here are some great ways to start working out sans the gym:
- Walk, run, or bicycle around the block.
- Use your own body weight for resistance training. Sit-ups, crunches, lunges, and squats will make you sweat and require zero equipment. Want to make it a little tougher? Try tricep dips using a chair.
- Go for a swim at a neighborhood pool.
- If you don't already have fitness equipment at home, you can buy a gently used treadmill and a set of weights from Craigslist at about half the cost of a year of gym fees. Crave high-intensity cardio? Get a jump rope for $5 to $10. You'll torch 500 calories in 30 minutes of jumping rope.
- Check out workout DVDs from your local library or Netflix. Try something new with yoga, Pilates, ballroom dancing, ballet, and kickboxing DVDs.
- Search online for workouts you can download to your iPod. There are affordable subscription sites that offer streaming videos you can access from your home or office, or while traveling.
Need some social interaction? Try the following activities:
- Venture to your neighborhood basketball court after work.
- Walk or jog with a buddy or your dog on a nearby trail.
- Check out fitness classes at your local community center, which often run about $10 per month.
- Take a fitness class through a community college.
- Search online for yoga studios that offer free yoga-in-the-park, donation classes, or work-for-trade options.
Try several activities — meet a friend for a run on Monday, jump rope on Tuesday, take a yoga class in the park on Wednesday. That's the great thing about ditching the gym: You can change up your routine, mixing workout environments and enjoying active time with friends, all while saving you hard earned cash.


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Habitat for Humanity and Realty Income Build Homes for San Diego Families
Dec 09, 2015 05:31PM
By Paul Spear
Habitat for Humanity and Realty Income Build Homes for San Diego Families
Major donation and volunteer effort makes the dream of homeownership a reality
EL CAJON, CA – San Diego Habitat for Humanity (SDHFH) and Realty Income Corporation (Realty Income, NYSE: O) came together yesterday to build better life stories for local hardworking families in need.
Realty Income is one of only four S&P 500 companies headquartered in San Diego. The company is dedicated to providing shareholders with dependable monthly dividends that are supported by the cash flow from approximately 4,500 real estate properties owned under long-term lease agreements with regional and national commercial tenants.
Realty Income believes giving back is an extension of its mission to improve the lives of its shareholders, its employees, and their families. As such, Realty Income has a Corporate Social Responsibility Program which reflects its strong commitment to being a responsible corporate citizen and taking an active role in the betterment of the communities in which its employees and shareholders live and work. Yesterday's activities were a part of Realty Income's continued philanthropic efforts.
The partnership with SDHFH includes a donation of $125,000 and the hard work of 120 employee volunteers, including Chief Executive Officer of Realty Income, John P. Case, who helped install siding, roofing, permeable pavers, paint, plant landscaping, and build fencing at the final two homes of Habitat's Foundation Lane Community in El Cajon. In addition to the financial donation that will help purchase homebuilding materials, Realty Income surprised six SDHFH partner families with gift cards for use to purchase furnishings for their new homes.
This donation places Realty Income as SDHFH's second largest sponsor this year.
"Through our Corporate Social Responsibility Program, we are pleased to work with San Diego Habitat for Humanity and honored to support the partner families," said John P. Case, CEO of Realty Income. "We have had a significant presence in San Diego County since our company's founding in 1969 and it is important to us to continue to impact our local community positively. The mission of Habitat for Humanity aligns well with the purpose of our charitable giving programs this year."
To qualify for a sponsored Habitat for Humanity home, families must earn between 50 percent and 80 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI), or about $64,000 for a family of four. They also must meet specific criteria, including the need for improved housing, the ability to pay an affordable mortgage, and a willingness to partner with Habitat for Humanity throughout the process – instead of paying a cash down payment, families provide 250 hours of sweat equity per adult family member, helping to build their own homes and the homes of other partner families.
"Working alongside partner families, volunteers and generous sponsors, Habitat for Humanity builds modest, safe, affordable housing for local families in need," said Lori Holt Pfeiler, president and CEO at San Diego Habitat for Humanity. "This mission is possible because of the financial and volunteer support of generous and community-minded companies like Realty Income, and we are so grateful for the partnership."
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San Diego Habitat for Humanity Inc. (SDHFH), the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International, is a nonprofit organization that builds simple, decent and affordable homes for ownership by local families in need. Habitat partner families are selected on the basis of housing need, willingness to partner with Habitat and ability to repay an affordable mortgage loan.
Habitat for Humanity exists through volunteer labor and contributions of money, land and materials, including purchases and donations to the ReStore, SDHFH's discount home improvement retail center. For more information, visit www.sdhfh.org or call 619-283-HOME (4663).
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Blaubeuren, Germany
The Blautopf at Blaubeuren has a deep blue color, which is best seen in good weather periods. It is a feature of the Karst Spring
From the Swabian Jura mountains of southern Germany, the meaning "Blue Pot" meaning the spring's blue and dazzling color, lends itself to fascination and myth.
It is one of the largest of its kind in Germany, 21 meters deep. Below the water surface is a widely branched cave system.
The Blautopf has a vast underground cave system in the karst spring landscape. Erosion over 1000's of years has dug an intricate and ever-growing network of tunnels through the region's soft limestone. It has creating a complex underground drainage system.
Due to the high pressure of the water coming from the bottom of the spring, the Blautopf has a steep funnel-like shape measuring 21 meters (69 feet) at its deepest point.
Because the strange color, the remarkably deep pool has had a few legends associated with it over the centuries. Numerous myths and surround the blue spring, according to the legend "The Beautiful Lau" by Eduard Mörike – it is said that once there lived a water-mermaid.
The Legend
The most famous legend associated with the Blautopf is that a beautiful mermaid who was incapable of laughing and could only bear stillborn children. According to the legend, the Mermaids husband, the King of the Black Sea, responded to this situation by banishing her to the Blautopf until she managed to laugh five times, which would break her stillborn curse.
When traveling to this spring in Blaubeuren, proceed with extreme caution. Because of the depth, diving is extremely dangerous Therefore, it is recommended to enjoy the view from the surface.


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They are called "jonbar points", from the moment in Jack Williamson's The Legion of Time when a small boy, John Barr, picks up either a magnet or a pebble. One choice turns the world towards the good Jonbar empire, the other turns it towards the bad Gyronchi empire.
They are, other words, the point of change around which alternate histories are built.
If you are looking for the big dramatic moment when history is in the balance, when events could have gone either way, then the obvious place to look is a war. Because wars are, by their very nature, full of such moments when, but for chance, things could very easily have turned out differently. And because wars can be presented as a bold struggle between good and evil, between democracy and fascism, between freedom and slavery, they make for good jonbar points in science fiction alternate histories. In this blog we've already looked at Hitler winning the Second World War, or the South winning the American Civil War (though even the books we listed in those articles barely begin to scratch the surface: at a rough estimate, more than half of all alternate histories fall into one or other of these broad camps).
But there are many other places where history could have taken a different path, and that's not counting all the cases where alternate histories are initiated by time travellers (we may have to do a separate post just on that at some point). These are some of the more interesting turning points.
The Black Death
The bubonic plague reached Europe, probably aboard a Genoese trading vessel, in 1348. Within the next two years it had killed 25 million people, nearly half of Europe's population. And yet this sudden and devastating depopulation of the continent was followed by immense social changes, the rise of an independent merchant class, and the cultural explosion of the renaissance. However, this onslaught, which led to people in every family, in every village, dying a terrible death, an onslaught against which there was no defence, could easily have had far worse consequences. It is easy to imagine the nascent civilizations of France, of England, of Italy, being weakened beyond the ability to recover; of the continent being seen as easy pickings for invaders from elsewhere, such as the Mongols from Central Asia.
The first author to really explore this scenario was Robert Silverberg with The Gate of Worlds. The Black Death actually kills 80% of the European population, laying Europe open to conquest by the Turks, and as a result there is no renaissance, no rapid development of modern science and technology, and the Americas are not reached from Europe, leaving the Aztecs to dominate the entire continent. Silverberg later edited Beyond the Gate of Worlds, a short collection of three novellas by himself, John Brunner and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro exploring how the elimination of Europe would affect Eastern Europe, Timbuctoo and the court of the Incas.
A very different take on the same scenario came in The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson. The devastation of Europe shifts things elsewhere, so it is from China that explorers set out for the Americas and for Africa; the scientific advances that developed out of the renaissance here emerge from India and the Middle East; and the religions that shape the world are Islam and Buddhism, not the forgotten beliefs of Christianity.
The Reformation
One of the consequences of the Black Death was that people became more willing to question authority, particularly the authority of the Church. Such resistance reached its head in 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the church at Wittenberg, and what he saw at first as no more than a scholarly dispute became the seed of the Protestant Reformation. Over the next 200 years, religious wars stormed back and forth across Europe as Protestantism expanded, acquired powerful allies such as Henry VIII of England or Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, then came up against equally powerful resistance in Catholic southern Europe. As the religious wars turned into dynastic wars, so Protestant Europe became more accommodating to the scientific advances of the age, while the Catholic Church increasingly saw those advances as a threat and tried to ban them.
Perhaps the most powerful novel to emerge from this scenario, and one of the best of all alternate histories, was Pavane by Keith Roberts. (In a postscript added when the stories that made up Pavane were initially gathered together into one volume, Roberts tried to make out that this was an example of cyclic history rather than alternate history, but whatever he says it really is an alternate history novel.) In this world, Queen Elizabeth was assassinated on the eve of the Spanish Armada, consequently the Armada was successful and England was recovered for the Catholic Church. As a result, in the 1960s, when the novel is set, Britain is suffering under repressive rule, the Inquisition is in full and malicious swing, technology is strictly limited, and out in the country there is still a belief in fairies. There's a very similar scenario at the heart of Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove: the Armada was successful, Elizabeth is in the Tower, Isabella is on the throne, the Inquisition has been imported, and both the Spanish rulers and the English rebels want the rising young playwright William Shakespeare to write a play glorifying their cause.
The Alteration, one of Kingsley Amis's rare forays into science fiction, is a work clearly inspired by Pavane. In this world, Martin Luther didn't launch the Protestant Reformation, but instead was made Pope. As a result, modern England has been intellectually, technologically and spiritually frozen in a pseudo-medieval state. What this means, one ten-year-old chorister is about to discover, when the powers that be decide that he should be castrated to preserve his crystal clear voice.
The Creation of America
It may not come close to the Civil War, but the creation (or not) of America gets a lot of attention from sf writers. As we've seen, both Silverberg's The Gate of Worlds and Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt, devote a lot of attention to an America without Columbus. Aztec Century by Christopher Evans allows Columbus to reach the Americas, but then has Cortes change sides and help the Aztecs to throw out the conquistadors. As a result, by the late 20th century the Aztec Empire has gone on to conquer most of the globe, including a Britain that is just getting used to the idea of being subject to a foreign power.
But let us assume that North America is indeed settled by Europeans, displacing the Native Americans pretty much the way it happened in our history. The British Empire laid claim to most of the Eastern seaboard (it is, I suspect, no coincidence that the French in Canada and Louisiana, or the Spanish in Florida, Texas and California, play no more than an incidental part, if that, in any of these alternate histories), and most of the inhabitants of this vast territory were happy enough to call themselves British. Until the usual conflicts between colonists and the distant homeland began to emerge late in the 18th century, leading to the familiar story of Paul Revere's ride and Washington crossing the Delaware and Burgoyne surrendering at Saratoga and so on. Or did it?
In For Want of a Nail by Robert Sobel, Burgoyne didn't surrender at Saratoga. Instead he held on long enough for reinforcements to arrive and achieves a famous victory, so international support for the American rebels quietly disappears. The British consolidate their hold on what they now call the Confederation of North America, while the rebels flee to Mexico (at the time including Texas) to establish the United States of Mexico. The rebellion is similarly unsuccessful in Harry Harrison's Tunnel Through the Deeps, and George Washington achieves his place in history as an infamous traitor. Now, in the 1970s, his descendant is trying to restore the honour of the name by heading up the greatest engineering feat of the age, a tunnel below the Atlantic to link Britain and her colonies. Or perhaps the revolution didn't even happen. The Two Georges by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss imagines that George III of Britain and George Washington for the American colonies had signed a peace treaty before any revolution even got off the ground. Now, in the 1990s, a hate group known as the Sons of Liberty are suspected of being behind the theft of a famous painting of that treaty ceremony, and a "Mountie" is given the task of criss-crossing this different but strangely familiar America to track it down.
Victorian Technology
One of the more persistent themes of modern science fiction is steampunk, a branch of the literature that imagines modern or futuristic devices, from computers to spaceships, being being constructed and powered by steam power and by mechanical rather than electronic means. It is mostly a romantic vision, and it certainly makes for some very good costumes for steampunk fans, but it does have a more solidly science fictional basis. After all, the Victorian era was a period of rapid technological change, from the first steam train to the first powered flight.
Remember, in the middle of the 19th century, Charles Babbage designed first a Difference Engine and then an Analytical Engine. Neither instrument was completed before his death, the Analytical Engine in particular, which was designed to use punched cards and a language devised by Ada Lovelace, is generally recognized as the starting point for digital computing. In The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, the Analytical Engine has been perfected, bringing in its wake a host of technological innovations a century ahead of their time. But the discovery of a set of punched cards for the engine that are of unknown origin and purpose leads to the discovery of how much else has changed in this world.
Of course, it is not necessary to rely on known technologies to explore Victorian technological advances. In Anti-Ice, Stephen Baxter begins with the discovery of a cometary fragment composed of anti-ice, a sort of anti-matter that can be harnessed for vast technological power. This immediately gives the British Empire an even more dominant position in the world, especially when anti-ice starts to be used in weapons, first in the Crimea and then in the Franco-Prussian war, it begins to have an immense effect on the political history of the world. Baxter also went of to produce Newton's Aliens, a collection of three stories, one of which is another anti-ice story and the other two are alternate histories of the alternate history.
The Kennedy Assassination
Stories that explore history-changing events since the Second World War are surprisingly few. There is the occasional novel that imagines a different outcome for the Cuban Missile Crisis (such as The H-Bomb Girl by Stephen Baxter), but not so many as you might imagine. The one relatively recent historical event that has attracted the most interest in alternate history terms has been the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This is not really surprising, since the assassination came as a massive shock to the system for a whole generation, particularly coming as it did at a rare moment of political optimism.
Sometimes the survival of Kennedy is almost incidental to the novel, as in Shadowbahn by Steve Erickson, in which the jonbar point is that Elvis Presley was the twin that died and his non-musical brother Jesse is the one who lives. From this there are all sorts of oddities, from the Beatles never making it because rock 'n' roll never caught on, to the twin towers reappearing in the Badlands of Dakota on the 20th anniversary of 9/11; so the fact that failed presidential candidate John Kennedy appears at an Andy Warhol party is one of the lesser parts of the novel.
Sometimes, Kennedy's survival is only the trigger for a bigger change, as in Voyage by Stephen Baxter, in which President Kennedy sets in motion the idea of sending a manned mission to Mars. From that starting point, the novel is mostly concerned with the technical challenges NASA faces in setting up and then running the mission to Mars.
And then there are those stories where the survival of Kennedy is the be-all and end-all of the story, as in 11/22/63 by Stephen King (which also seems to suggest that only people called Stephen write alternate history stories about Kennedy). This is primarily a time travel story in which a Maine school teacher travels back to 1958, and then works himself into a position in which he will be able to prevent the assassination. But when he returns to the present in a world in which Kennedy won a second term, he finds that there have been nuclear wars in Vietnam and between India and Pakistan, that Maine has seceded from the US and joined Canada, and that the world is physically tearing itself apart.
Dark Orbit
From Nebula and Hugo Award–nominated Carolyn Ives Gilman comes Dark Orbit, a compelling novel featuring alien contact, mystery, and murder.
Reports of a strange, new habitable planet have reached the Twenty Planets of human civilization. When a team of scientists is assembled to investigate this world, exoethnologist Sara Callicot is recruited to keep an eye on an unstable crewmate.


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To coincide with the band's annual Anti-Valentine's Day Party, provocative Hollywood industrial/metal act Skum Love has released the Re-imagined Mix of "Devil May Dance," a remix of 2018's "Devil May Sing" single. Created by Roman Marisak (Professional Murder Music, SpaceTime) and mastered by Alex Crescioni for Stygian Sound, the track follows the band's Sinister Remix album, with the original single produced by Skum Love and Ben Jovi of Left Coast Record Studio; the song is not featured on the remix album, but can be purchased as a standalone track via iTunes and the Skum Love webstore.
Skum Love's annual Anti-Valentine's Day Party will be taking place on Thursday, February 14 at The Viper Room in Hollywood, CA. The band will be joined by special guests Fact Pattern, Midnight Nightmare, and Against the Grave, with tickets now available; further info can be found on the Facebook event page. In addition, the band is planning a West Coast tour supporting Combichrist in May, with dates in Las Vegas and Los Angeles already confirmed.
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At-will employment: when the job isn't guaranteed
Attorney Joe Richardson explains the rights and responsibilities of at-will employment
The rights and responsibilities of at-will employment
Most people that work are at-will employees, meaning, there is no guarantee as to the length of the work relationship. Either the employee or the employer may decide to "go into another direction" at any time. An employee may decide to quit, or take another job; an employer may decide to change course with no notice, or without "just cause."
Excluded from the at-will employment characterization are collective bargaining agreements and actual written contract agreements. If, upon the ending of your employment, you are not entitled to anything more than your vacation pay and whatever final wages you are due, you are most likely an at-will employee. If someone has a contract for a specific period of time, the contract states each party's obligations if the relationship ends before the time stated in the contract. (Yes, you guessed it, professional athletes would not be at-will employees!)
Even in "at-will employment" relationships an employer cannot terminate an employee for an illegal reason. Such reasons would include discrimination, retaliation, or harassment based on, among other things, age, religious creed (including religious dress and grooming practices), mental or physical disability, race, national origin, sex, and sexual orientation. Furthermore, a termination can be actionable if it is in reaction to an employee complaint of illegal activity at the workplace. Such a complaint does not have to be correct; it just needs to be based on the employee's reasonable belief. Also, a termination in reaction to an employee exercising their workers compensation rights related to a work injury can also be a problem for an employer.
For Employers
Employers should have the "at-will employment" designation in writing from the time a potential employee applies and on other documentation the employee signs. Further, keep detailed employee personnel files so that the steps leading to any decision regarding an employee (including termination) are well-documented. Even with at-will employment, an ill-timed or poorly documented employment decision can create potential legal liability.
For Employees
Just because an employer has you "sign something" at the beginning of the employment does not take you out of the at-will employment realm. If you feel that an adverse employment decision has been made for a discriminatory reason, you must generally make a claim under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), or the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Any concerns about perceived illegal or inappropriate activity should be made and/or confirmed in writing.


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As the second month of 2019 gets underway, I am getting pretty focused on my writing and art. I have already written several short stories and am going to keep looking out for some more submission calls, but now it is time to focus on longer pieces. And most of those pieces are going to be in the fantasy genre! I actually just sent a short fantasy novella off to my editor and have a cover artist working on the cover as we speak, so I am hoping to have it out by March! I am now working on outlining a four book fantasy series that I am so excited to get out in the world! These will be novels and might be the biggest undertaking that I have ever had as an author. I am also working on the sequel to my romantic fantasy Quest for Redemption, Quest for Self! So I am going to be writing a lot about elves, dragons and more the rest of the year!
With my writing life centered around fantasy for the year, it got me thinking that maybe I can bring my art into that realm as well. So the rest of the year I think that most of my art is also going to focus on dragons, elves and fantasy. I might even combine both the writing and art for a fantasy based solo art show next year! I'm going to be pretty busy the rest of the year!
Today I thought that I would do another character interview, this time with Zanna from my romantic fantasy Quest for Redemption. Let the fun begin!
So Zanna, tell us a little bit about yourself, how do you want people to see you?
Well truth be told I used to be an elitist. Being born into the royal family of elves, the rulers of our realm, well it made me a little short sighted for a long, long time. Recently I had an epiphany and am trying to mend my ways, to make a difference, to make up for wrongs that I have helped commit in the past. Now I want to be seen as someone who is fair, someone who cares about all the races and wants to protect the good among us.
What brought about this epiphany? Rumor has it there was a romantic interest involved.
*blushing* I had already started thinking about my own personal path to redemption before, it started with a lively sprite that I met. However, I did meet someone who opened my eyes to so many things.
What is next for you? What do you see in your future?
I have many obstacles in my way, but I would like to say that I see peace and happiness in my future. One day I will become ruler of the magical realm and I dream of being a just one. And of course I want a family of my own.
Author, artist, jewelry maker and all around creative person. I write in many genres and have a lot of fun doing so. Please take a look around and enjoy!
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09 Aug Just what is Labour Day about anyway?
Australians in the 1850s worked 12 hours a day, six days a week in a brutal, unregulated work place. On the seventh day, after a spot of church time, they trundled home in their Sunday best for a roast and a well-earned rest before doing it all again. But that was then and this is now thanks largely to a Brit called Robert Owen who believed people should have eight hours to work, eight hours for play and eight hours to sleep – literally The Eight Hours Movement.
By the late 1850s Mr Owen's dream of an eight-hour day was a legislated reality in Australia and Labour Day is a public holiday way of celebrating this. The irony of a public holiday to celebrate working less by doing even less is not missed, but hey who's complaining?
Each state and territory legislated the eight-hour day on different dates so each celebrates Labour Day on different days. Victoria and Tasmania's turn is the second Monday in March. Beware the idle of March?
And here's an interesting bit of trivia to finish with. Next time you pass a Union building keep an eye out for the numbers 888 on a plaque, a brick or a wall. These went up all over the country way back in the day in support of the new era of workplace regulation.
If you would like any information on Employment Law, please contact Marshalls+Dent Lawyers on 9670 5000 or visit www.mdlaw.com.au


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Come along on Sunday 8 November and help celebrate 175 years of the historic Theatre Royal in Hobart.
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It's survived fire, flood and threatened demolition and this year the Theatre Royal is celebrating its 175th birthday.
To recognise this landmark occasion Australia's oldest operating theatre is opening its doors on Sunday 8 November for the public to have a look around.
Weekend presenter Chris Wisbey will broadcast his Sunday program from the stage of the theatre and speak to an array of guests about the future of the Theatre Royal, its historic past and just why performers from all over the world jump at a chance to tread its boards.
There will be tours of the theatre and backstage area and a variety of displays featuring photos, drawings and other memorabilia.
To help whet your appetite Weekend producer Paul McIntyre recently visited the Theatre Royal to explore some of the more unusual nooks and crannies including the Shades Tavern which operated under the auditorium of the theatre until late 1840.
The tavern catered to the needs of the 'lower classes' such as patrons from the Wapping area surrounding the theatre.
Visiting seaman and ladies of so called 'ill repute' also frequented the watering hole, purchasing their drinks from the Shades and then returning to their seat in the lower level of the theatre ready for their often rowdy interaction with the performers.
Also of great interest to the Weekend team from ABC Local Radio was the 'Stacey World Trip Tablecloth'.
This ornately embroidered tablecloth, featuring oriental style designs, was initiated in the 1920s by Mr and Mrs Stacey (supporters of the Theatre Royal) and taken on their international travels.
It includes the embroidered words 'Mr and Mrs E A Stacey's tour of the World 1929'.
The Tablecloth accompanied the Stacey's to Ney York, Dresden, Berlin, Milan, Derby, Venice and Cologne where they gathered postmarks and signatures from post offices.
While you marvel at the wonders of the Theatre Royal you will hear what Sir Laurence Olivier thought of the building when he toured Hobart back in the 1940s.


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Employers that have hazardous chemicals in their workplaces are required by OSHA's Hazard Communication Standard (HCS), 29 CFR 1910.1200, to implement a hazard communication program. The program must include labels on containers of hazardous chemicals, safety data sheets (SDSs) for hazardous chemicals, and training for workers, and the employer must describe in a written program how it will meet the requirements of the HCS in each of these areas. Employers can implement an effective hazard communication program by following these six steps: learn the standard and identify responsible staff; prepare and implement a written hazard communication program; ensure containers are labeled; maintain Safety Data Sheets (SDSs); inform and train employees; and evaluate and reassess your program.
Learn more about the six steps to creating an effective hazard communication program here.
Avoiding Classification Shock
"A key requirement of OSHA's newly revised Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom 2012) is that chemical manufacturers and distributors operating in the United States classify their chemicals using criteria adopted from the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System (GHS). For many manufacturers and distributors, the results of the classification (or reclassification, in the case of chemicals already in the marketplace) can be startling. At MSDSonline, our safety data sheet authors have coined a new term to describe the experience: 'Classification Shock.'
Classification shock is the realization that a chemical is more hazardous than once thought, either because of the new classifications OSHA has put in place or, in many cases, because the hazards were not evaluated properly the first time.…
…The best way for chemical manufacturers, distributors, and even employers to avoid classification shock is to get educated on GHS and HazCom 2012 and stay out in front of HazCom deadlines. The bottom line is that HazCom is a communication standard. The more information all parties have, the more consistent the information is across products and the better decisions everyone in the life cycle of hazardous chemicals will be able to make. Also, there is a lot of help available to those safety professionals who want it, including help classifying chemicals, authoring and managing safety data sheets, and training employees. This is not a road that employers or others must walk alone."
Read the full article, "Newest HazCom Chemical Hazard: GHS Classification Shock," written by Glenn D. Trout, Oct 1, 2013.
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Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Osorezan / Doh No Kembai
* Smooth yet powerful disco funk from Nigeria
* For fans of Kiki Gian, The Meters, Curtis Mayfield, Mixed Grill, Akwassa, Assagai, Commodores, Osibisa
* Filled to the last groove with catchy tunes that feature awesome harmonies
* An original affair for fans of groovy black music
* Excellent sound and performance by high class professional musicians
* First ever rerelease on vinyl and CD
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SPECIAL OFFER! Now for some Japanese psyche and experimental music of the mid 1970s. Do not expect any lush pop harmonies from this music collective formed in 1974 which was at least active up to the early 90s. GEINOH YAMASHIROGUMI approach psychedelic music with from a rather krautish point of view and their first album from 1976 about which I write this review is rather a collage of strange noises, screams, a few rhythms patterns and wide open structures that seem to be borrowed from late 1960s psyched out free jazz. And you can bet, this is an ever flowing freak out but definitely an intense and mind bending experience. I recall German oddities like ORGANISATION (pre KRAFTWERK), FAUST and others but there is another aspect in the music that is more difficult to trace down. Funk and jazz rock with a breathtakingly smouldering atmosphere you would rather expect from English groups emerging from the Canterbury scene like SOFT MACHINE or some of the rather jazz oriented Italian progressive acts. But all in all GEINOH YAMASHIROGUMI find an even more radical way to express their feelings and make their inner visions manifest in sound despite a sweet smoothness coming with these rocking jazz elements. Oh dear, this is definitely far from being ordinary. Choirs with typical Japanese chants add some wicked exotic tinges to the whole musical picture. If you dig progressive, krautish psychedelic jazz rock, this is exactly what you are looking for. The whole album is divided into two parts of which "Osorazan" comes closest to rock music while "Doh no kembai" seems to be a live performance of a stage play by this music and theatre collective based nearly entirely on vocals. Open minded lovers of truly progressive music from the 1970s will go nuts.


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Treating pain with electricity? It can be done, and we're going hands-on – literally – with a gadget aimed at alleviating muscle and skeletal problems by way of this zaptastic method.
The staff here at GadgetGuy always seem to be keen to let me try my reviewing hand at unusual gadgets, and since this one involves electricity, it's even more interesting, since it adds shock value. Literally.
Australian brand ActivLife makes a variety of devices like this, and the SportsMed is one of the company's higher end models, providing several levels of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in order to reduce pain.
These types of machines aren't new, and the gadgets commonly known as "TENS machines" have been used for several years as a way for people to alleviate pain. As to whether it works, that's something that depends entirely on the user, and just how much pain they're in.
The ActivLife SportsMed model we're checking out is designed for more than just pain management, with muscle strengthening also on the agenda.
To use it, you merely charge the SportsMed using the wall plug, and then when you want to use it, attach the electrode pads to a part of your body, plug these into the SportsMed, and switch it on.
Electrodes are placed in controlling positions, with only one limb able to be targeted at one time, and the distance between the electrodes essentially being the part that will be shocked.
Controlling the SportsMed is simple: the gadgets starts at a level of zero, and since there are only two buttons – plus and minus – you're increasing the electrical stimulation level from a starting place that's consistently neutral. Turning it off is as simple as holding the minus button down, but the moment you start hitting the plus button, you're switching it on and moving up through the electrical impulse levels.
With each level comes a slightly different surge of electricity into your skin, muscles, and bone. It starts off with a tingling sensation, and then grows, with you controlling it to the point where you feel comfortable. Give yourself too much and you can find it overwhelming, but just enough and you'll see it can get relaxing.
On the advice of our dentist, we tried it with an acupuncture pressure point during a terrible toothache, and it resulted in some comfort during the ordeal of severe oral discomfort. When we moved the control level too high, though, aside for the comfort we were receiving, we could see the electricity moving our fingers for us.
Likewise, a family member has been suffering pain through the knee joint, and tried the SportsMed to see if it would quell any issues.
"As a 59 year old women that has been diagnosed with osteoarthritis in both knees, this machine has brought me some relief to the constant pain I have been in," said Jan Stark, this reviewer's mother, who helped out in our review by testing the machine in a real world pain situation.


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British Airways Refreshes Boeing 747s
The iconic Boeing 747 is set to continue in British Airways service, with the airline earmarking 18 aircraft to receive onboard products similar to its latest Boeing 787 and Airbus A380 jets. To-date, the Oneworld member has refitted 6 jets with to feature new interiors. Each 4-class aircraft gains an additional 16 Club World business … Continue reading
Airlines Suspend Dreamliner Operations
Operators of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner have moved to ground their fleets following an advisory issued by the Federal Aviation Administration pending safety testing of the onboard batteries. A series of incidents involving the aircraft (most recently an emergency landing in Japan) prompted the directive, with Japanese and US operators the first to suspend operations. … Continue reading
Boeing 787 Dreamliner Debuts In Africa With Ethiopian Airlines
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner made its African debut with the arrival of Ethiopian Airlines' first jet in Addis Ababa. Registered ET-AOQ and dubbed "Africa First", the new aircraft touched down at Bole International Airport yesterday morning from Washington DC with invited guests, media, paying passengers and company executives led by Chief Executive Officer Tewolde Gebremariam. … Continue reading
Etihad Plans Sao Paulo Flights
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the UAE, has outlined plans to begin flights from Abu Dhabi to Sao Paulo, its first destination in South America. Scheduled to launch on 1 June 2013, the daily service will mark the airline's entry into the exclusive club of carriers that fly to 6 continents. Flight EY … Continue reading
Iberia Launches New Business Club Product
Spanish carrier and Oneworld member Iberia has unveiled its new Business Club product for its medium-haul flights, following the successful redesign of its long-haul Business Plus product earlier this year. Installed on one of the airline's Airbus A319 aircraft (with 4 more jets due to be fitted), the new offering made its debut yesterday on a … Continue reading


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17 Days to Open – Dani Shaw
Danielle Shaw with the City of Denton came out to see the progress we've made on increasing access to medical care in our new facility.
We've added 9 new exam rooms to our capacity in Denton to see patients. The additional space allows for increased efficiency and work flow. (and it just happens to be a beautiful place that our patients will be proud to come to!)
We need your support in the final phases, it's not too late to help!


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Ukraine doubles coal imports in nine months
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Ukraine boosted coal imports in monetary terms by 1.9 times in January-September 2017, year-over-year, to US$1.899 billion, according to the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine.
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