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I took a trip last week to Bauman's, a traditional apple butter business run by a husband and wife near Kutztown. We dropped 10 mixed bushels of apples off two weeks prior and received the rich brown butter jarred in return. Apple butter does not contain butter; it is made simply, crushing the apples and cooking them until they are reduced to the consistency of butter. Its tart-sweet flavor lends itself well to a meat marinade or a breakfast topping for toast or oats. I also make my own vegan, gluten-free baked goods and I find that adding a couple tablespoons to my flour and oil mixtures helps combine the baked goods for a better consistency.
After squeezing the truck into a parking space, the processing building takes up a small acre lot in between houses and a narrow lane, I unloaded the boxes into the truck and introduced myself to Mr. Bauman, "Harvey," he said. If it had been a younger person I might have paid and left, but the older generations approve of small talk. The weather was the main subject; spring is variable, the winter was hard, but the crops will pull through, they usually do. Then he asked, "So you're working on the farm, did you go to college?" Tentatively, "Yes," I said, "I went to college for communication and got my masters in development communication. I'm working on the farm, helping with the retail side, but also learning more about the outdoor work involved in the fruit." And with a smile that couldn't lift the corner creases of his hurt eyes Harvey said, "That's nice, my children decided not to continue the family business." Where could I go with that? I think that any family business suffers some degree of hurt when the next generation fails to continue their legacy, but there is a special kind of sadness that I've seen and read about for farmers. Maybe because, for most farmers, work is more than an occupation, it is one's blood and bone, blessing and curse. There's a reason most farmers as they age, look like the land they tend to; like a geologic natural progression, the sun, the earth, the wind and the rain work away at a farmer's solid form. Man starts out fine skinned and pale and ends looking more like an obsidian arrowhead than a polished marble bust, polished through work rather than refinement.
It's not just farming that's threatened; any skilled trade that takes time to learn is perceived as obsolete. I say perceived, because like the bumper stickers say, "No Farmers, No Food." Not only do we need farmers, and other skilled trades, I would argue that there is a growing trend amongst the younger generations for these products and eagerness to learn these skills. Our reliance on large commercial agriculture owned by a few big names isn't what I mean by farmers. The younger generation in this farming trend doesn't follow the traditional model of taking on their parents work, as it used to be done in the early 1900's, rather they often arrive at this line of work because of personal convictions or exposure through traveling, for example, (WWOOF) World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Popularity and interest in CSA's, Community Supported Agriculture, where one pays a certain amount upfront and gets a fair share of whatever crops the farmer harvests that season, are another way that we can see local resurgence in small-scale farms. Organic is another buzzword that hit the mainstream media and has been taken up by many new young farmers with an interest in integrated often, non-profit driven farming. You can find them at the local farmer's market with their Michael Pollan books, hipster attire and vegetarian inclinations. I kid. But by far, there are less farmers in the United States then there ever have been since it was conquered by our forefather immigrants, not settled as it was land taken by force.
I can't deny the importance of the work farmers do but the question I wanted to ask Harvey, was, "Is a legacy more important than your kid's happiness?" People tell their kids, you can be anything you want to be, but what most mean is, Do something that makes us look good so we can brag about you, Carry on my legacy because why else have I put in all this effort for if not for your stability? The message is not usually so clear-cut, at least in white suburbia, normally it's disguised in good intentions. Truly, in contrast I picture an image of Buddhist monks, living symbols of non-attachment, and through ritual remind themselves of this non-attachment. For example in their works of sand art, huge mandalas made from painstakingly placed grains of sand laid in whirling precise patterns, which, upon completion, are swept away by the own artisans hands. Why? All that effort for something so beautiful, and they intentionally don't keep it. Then again, monks don't have kids, so this comparison may be unfair.
For me, I feel a physical pain when I am asked this question of carrying on the farm. My parents have spent 30 plus years growing this farm, but I have spent 28 of them here too; I don't have the same skilled knowledge and experience, but the farm has always been a responsibility that I've felt tied to. I can sympathize with both parties, the grown child who feels guilt from parents, and the parents who can't imagine a life on the farm without their children. I see both and the only happy message I can pull from it, is that we all die. HA. We all have a choice to leave our mark in the world whether we choose to pour our efforts into careers, children, charities, but for each and every one of us, that is our choice. Maybe that's optimistic, we don't always have a choice about the things that happen to us, but we have a choice as Bob Marley so wisely wailed, "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds."


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COLIN CHARVIS has pledged to be ready for Wales' World Cup campaign after a group of businessmen stepped in to pay the flanker, who is currently on the look-out for a new club.
The 30-year-old is without a club after leaving Swansea at the end of last season but has reassured Wales coach Steve Hansen he will be ready for this autumn's World Cup after agreeing a unique sponsorship deal.
Charvis, who is expected to play a pivotal role in Wales' World cup hopes, has been linked with a move to French giants Biarritz while a post-tournament move to Japan has also been mooted.
But for the time being he has no regular wage coming in and the Welsh Rugby Union were unable to help, leading to today's news.
A group of businessmen have clubbed together to fund Charvis' training regime and save the former Wales captain from getting a job.
Charvis said: "My main concern throughout the past few uncertain months has been to find a way to continue to play for Wales.
"I am happy to announce that through the kindness of a group of businessmen -who want to remain anonymous - I have been offered a sponsorship package for the next four months that will ensure I can train fully without having to get a secondary job.
"I am so grateful to these people who have agreed to support me in my quest to go to the World Cup.
"This sponsorship has been agreed between myself, my agent and the third parties involved, although I would like to acknowledge the support and understanding I have received from everyone within the Welsh training camp, management and players alike.
"I am fully fit at the moment and looking forward to getting back into training with the squad.
"There are four great games to focus on in August and then a World Cup campaign to build for in October and November. I'm just looking forward to playing a part in it all."
Hansen is delighted to have Charvis fully focused on rugby and the Wales coach is confident the news will be of major benefit to his squad.
He said: "I'm very pleased that Colin's immediate future is now secure and that he can concentrate fully on his World Cup preparations. He is a quality player whose availability will only enhance the strength of our squad.
"It's great that the business community in Wales recognise the abilities he brings to the national team enough to come forward and offer the help required to keep him out of the clutches of clubs from other countries at this vital time.
"I'd like to publicly thank them for their support of Colin and the national team."

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Bel Ami or the Story of a Gigolo in Paris
Bel Ami was a French novel written by the great writer Guy de Maupassant. The subject of the book will interest you : how a penniless man becomes important and wealthy by seducing rich women.
A classic book you can recognize its value when it still talks to its readers even hundred years after it was written. It is the case of that book.
The main character of the book is an ex soldier of the French army, Georges Duroy, who is so broke that he must decide if he will eat a meal or drink a glass of beer instead. He can't get both.
Thanks to his good looks and charm he succeeds in climbing up the ladder of success by seducing important women in french society.
Although the book speaks about the French society of the 19 century, nothing changed because all over the world even today you can see men doing the same thing.
They are called gigolos.
So guys you know what to do now. Buy that book here on Amazon and learn from Georges Duroy the hero of the book how to speak to women…I guarantee you that if you speak like him not many will resist you.
For people who don't like reading there was an American film available here made in 2012 about the same book.
I didn't see the film so I don't know if it is good but I read the book who is excellent, like every thing from Guy de Maupassant.
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When you skip those camps at witch the result exps are?
Not much, 3912. But i am looking for cheap granite not exp.
well with one easy block you can clear one sector more so more exps for same losses because you kill camp 6 and block 8
but thanks for answer
I let them finish last tower before i kill leader camp, i do not want them to loose cavalry.
Even if i don't sell/swap lootspot i like to send attack and then return to my island to build wells and stuff. I do not want to sit and watch over general to make him retreat.
*This block does not give much advantage. It does not save many soldiers.
*Using this block will put 1 General to sleep. Attack on camp 10 will put other General to sleep. That is 2 sleeping Generals.
All that is left is my vet general. And after finishing adventure there is no room for my armies to return home.
They must return on their own. Which takes time. And i have to wait for next adventure.
camp 10 on witch tower a cheaper alternative and safer (current version above has possibility of losing 84/120 cav) is 1: 194B 1R ( 194B 1R) 2: 77R 30M 1ES 120C 22XB (77R 30M) the bowmen is preference cos i buy bronze swords so any bow usage is preferable.
I coudn't place G3 where it says in map, but needed to leave little shoutner. So when attacking 6, it will tricker T5.
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I love summer because I love barbecues and I LOVE watermelon! In fact, watermelon salad is pretty much my go-to for a potluck style BBQ. It's easy to make, super delicious and a crowd-pleaser.
There are tons of watermelon salad recipes on the Internet, but I took the liberty of adding a little more flavor to the traditional watermelon, feta and basil situation.
• 2 small watermelons
• 1 bunch of basil
• 8 ounces of feta in block form
• 2 cups of pine nuts
• 3 jalapeños
• 2 Tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
• 1 lime
Preheat the oven to 400 degrees and gather your ingredients. Coat the pine nuts with balsamic vinegar and place in the oven. The nuts will roast for about 10-15 minutes, but be sure to check them periodically to make sure they don't burn.
While the nuts are in the oven, chop up the remaining ingredients to your liking. I think it's super important to buy feta in block form and chop or crumble it yourself! It's much more flavorful (and fluffy!) this way. Then take the nuts out of the oven, toss the ingredients together and enjoy!
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Dr. Cox is a 1968 graduate of the University Of Houston College Of Optometry and received the Outstanding Clinician Award.
After graduation Dr. Cox served as Captain in the US Air Force at the 27th Tactical Hospital, Clovis, N.M. from 1969-1971 and then entered private practice in 1971 in Nacogdoches, Texas where he established and was appointed Director of the Eye Clinic and member of the Medical staff at Rusk State Hospital, Rusk, Texas.
In 1987, he began a private practice in Ruidoso, New Mexico and while there was a member of the Lincoln County Medical Center Staff, Eye Consultant to Fort Stanton State Hospital and Sierra Blanca Camp Prison Facility.
He has served on the advisory board for the State of Texas Commission for the Blind and Beacon Last Vision. Dr. Cox served on the Board of Directors of the Texas Optometric Association, the New Mexico Optometric Association and was examiner for the New Mexico State Board of Optometry.
In 2002 he accepted a position on the faculty of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center-El Paso where he was appointed Medical Director of the Division of Ophthalmology.
While at Texas Tech UHSC-El Paso he participated in 120 hours of Faculty Development Training, developed the Division of Ophthalmology, taught Internal Medicine, Family Medicine and Emergency Department residents and was a staff member of R.E. Thomason General Hospital.
He is an adjunct associate professor at the University Of Houston College Of Optometry and adjunct assistant professor at the InterAmerican University of Puerto Rico School of Optometry.
In 2009, Dr. Cox became a member of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Ft. Bliss, Texas but returned to Nacogdoches where he lives and presently practices at the TSO, in Nacogdoches, TX.
Dr. Cox presents continuing education courses and lectures throughout the country. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry and a Fellow of the College of Optometrists in Vision Development.
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Branches of Faith..
Narrated Abu Huraira: The Prophet said, "Faith (Belief) consists of more than sixty branches (i.e. parts). And Haya'
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Mainstream, VOL XLIX, No 43, October 15, 2011
Forbidden Territory, where Life is Death, and Women are Sold on Thursdays
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Everyone has heard of the ruggedness of the "Northwest Frontier Province", the "forbidden area" where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran meet, of the merciless codes of honour that govern the lives of the Pushtuns and the Baluchis, of the primitive pride of the tribes that must battle with nature—and with one another—merely to survive.
But exactly how rugged? How merciless? A new book, The Wandering Falcon, provides a rather frightening introduction to what consti-tutes everyday life in a part of the world that is virtually beyond the writ of governments. Everyday life here is also everyday death. Here the spirit of revenge is carried from generation to generation, tribal loyalties are unbending, and women pay heavily for any sign of self-assertion.
Human nature raises its head occasionally. A woman of the Siahpad tribe, married to an impotent man, runs away with a servant. The two are deeply in love and manage to hide in a military post. The woman's husband tracks her down after a five-year hunt. Knowing that they have no escape, the lover does what is expected of him: shoot his beloved dead. He then surrenders—to be stoned to death and the head crushed beyond recognition. That, it was proudly proclaimed, was how "the Siahpads avenge insults".
A bunch of such stories strung loosely together make up this brief novel (180 pages). But they get under the reader's skin because of the stamp of authenticity they carry. Author Jamil Ahmad was born in Jalandhar but spent his life in the Civil Service of Pakistan, mostly in the Frontier Province and Baluchistan in senior positions. He knew the people and their passions at first hand.
There is a pervading air of menace when he describes the Wazirs and the Mahsuds, "the two predatory tribes of Waziristan". Every few months, he says, "their hate and tensions explode into violence and some men die...If nature provides them food for only ten days in a year, they believe in their right to demand the rest of their sustenance from their fellow men who live oily, fat and comfortable lives in the plains."
That explains why the Wazirs and the Mahsuds look upon the jobs of hired assassin, thief, kidnapper and informer as honourable professions. We are given graphic accounts of how an informer does his job, how the Deputy Commissioner pays the informer, how the kidnappers take away their victims and how the authorities pay the ransom and settle the
matter. It's all routine.
OUR sense of unease grows when we realise that the men who live by their exalted honour code are illiterate and ignorant of the world and its ways. They do not comprehend things like national borders. They have to migrate from the
hills to the plains in winter and back to the hills in spring. If someone now tells them that the hills are in Afghanistan and the plains in Pakistan and that you need permission to go from one place to the other, they just don't get it. The result is that migrating groups are sometimes butchered along with their animals.
Jamil Ahmad, a first-time author, narrates all these with detachment, which adds to the horror of the events he describes. There is no judg-mental approach even when he tells us about the village of Mian Mandi, the marketplace where women are on sale on Thursdays.
A judgmental touch is allowed only when he relates the story of how a group of rebel Baluchis were executed. "There was complete and total silence," says the author, "about the Baluchis, their cause, their lives and their deaths. No newspaper editor risked punishment on their behalf. Typically, Pakistani journalists sought salve for their conscience by writing about the wrongs done to men in South Africa, in Indonesia, in Palestine and in the Philippines— not to their own people."
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Sir Stuart Etherington, chief executive of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, has called on the new chair of the Charity Commission to set a fresh tone for its regulatory work, saying "regulation by red top simply does not work".
In a speech delivered at a charity regulation conference in Salford this morning, Etherington said Baroness Stowell, who took up the role of chair of the commission from William Shawcross last week, should "establish her own agenda, a different one to that of the Shawcross years".
Etherington said: "Some of the change that the new chair needs to make is about tone and messaging.
"Regulation by red top simply does not work. I would like to see some recognition that responding primarily based on the 24-hour news agenda or the obsessions of a few social media provocateurs is not the same as plotting a strategic course and sticking to it.
He said he hoped new strategic priorities would be consulted upon, refined and kept to.
"The new strategy must consider what the commission cannot do either through lack of resources or expertise, and the commission has to be clear about where it considers the greatest real risks to lie and prioritise action accordingly," he said.
Etherington used his speech to talk about issues arising from the commission's intention to charge some charities for its services.
He said the sector was well aware of the pressures on the regulator's budget, "and a strong commission is in everyone's interests".
But he said budgetary pressures were acute across the voluntary sector and charities would rightly want to know exactly what the commission was asking for extra funding for.
"They certainly won't want it to be used to replace funding from the Treasury," he said. "Additional revenue for new services or functions that are based on evidence and complementing what sector bodies can do, not duplicating it, is a very different discussion from simply tapping up charities to fund core work."
Etherington also revealed he had asked Peter Riddell, the Commissioner for Public Appointments, for a meeting to discuss reforming the appointment process for the position of chair of the Charity Commission.
The NCVO has repeatedly said that the appointment process is open to political interference and creates the perception that the regulator is not independent from government.
In his letter to Riddell, Etherington says the regulator's independence from party politics is vital for its effective functioning "and for its credibility in the eyes of the general public and the charities it regulates".
He says: "A charity regulator perceived to be political risks undermining perceptions of charities more generally. And it is worth emphasising that perceived independence is just as important as actual independence."
Etherington references a discussion paper published by the NCVO in 2015 that put forward suggestions for reform to the process, including given parliament an effective power of veto over the appointment or widening the membership of the parliamentary committee responsible for the pre-appointment hearing to include peers as well as MPs.
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That said, it ultimately will depend on what the specs of the antenna you are using are. If it's something like this:
then as you can see the smallest beamwidth is 40 degrees so that would allow for you to be 20 degrees off centre either way.
That's the one. In fact, I have two of them though I am having other problems right now. I was getting constant 50 Mbps down on speed tests for some months. At the beginning of the year this suddenly dropped to 18 Mbps max, usually less, sometimes as little as just 2 or 3. We can't figure out why but our streaming has become unusable. The antenna's don't appear to have shifted, but that is the reason I asked my question. Now I am wondering if the Huawei could possibly be faulty. The speed has recovered briefly once or twice, but then it dropped back down again.
I seem to be in the exact predicament as well.
Same Aerial, same modem, same problem, different ISP.
ISP is Farmside, who were very unhelpful when it came to advising on the issue. Their solution was to send a tech ($150+gst) to look at the aerial incase it had moved. With the beam angles previously advised, a degree of rotation should not cause a major issue, if it had moved at all. It would have been easier if the tech who did the install, marked its alignment at install time, so I could visually check if it had moved.
Apparently 4G is not available, however the connection when set up was showing 4G at full strength, and down and up connections were around the 30Mbps mark. Now seeing 3G connectivity and connection speeds occasionally below 1Mbps.
Connection is coming off a vodafone tower.
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Here are the top stories from this month:
Commercial food waste bans are sweeping the country, both at the state and city level, which means that big food businesses can no longer send their surplus food and organic waste to the landfill. We've mapped out the current food waste bans. Find details below.
Read more: A Growing List of Food Waste Bans
It can be tough to keep up on all of the latest trends. If you're looking to curate a feed of relevant food waste news, we've compiled 15 influencers to get your list started. Did your go-to source for news on food waste make the list?
Read here: 15 Food Waste Influencers to Follow on Twitter
From Wednesday, December 7 through Sunday, December 18, we celebrated the "12 Days of Food Rescue" across our Facebook and Twitter accounts. We highlighted some notable transactions from Spoiler Alert and shared additional context on how those food recovery transactions developed. Read the recap of the transactions we spotlighted.
Read here: Celebrating "12 Days of Food Rescue"
Coalition of 12 organizations set to launch FurtherWithFood.org, an online hub for information and solutions to cut food waste
FurtherWithFood.org will be an online destination for stakeholders to learn more about cutting food waste. The participants in the Further With Food collaboration include The Rockefeller Foundation and a public-private partnership composed of USDA, EPA, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy, Feeding America, the Food Marketing Institute, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the National Consumers League, Natural Resources Defense Council, the National Restaurant Association, the World Resources Institute, and the World Wildlife Fund.
Read more: Rockefeller Foundation, USDA, and EPA Create Online Hub
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The Hilton Honors hotel points promotion offers a maximum of a 100% bonus when purchasing Hilton Honors points. Hilton are known to differ their promotions between a "100% bonus" and "50% discount", both of which are the exact in terms of the amount you will pay when purchasing points.
Until 7th June 2018 you receive up to an 100% bonus when purchasing Hilton hotel points.
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By Rashid Zia Qureshi
(Pakistan News & Features Services)
He admitted public opinions about irregularities in the court system and noted that sometimes advantages go against oppressed.
Khwaja Naveed told a questioner that Supreme Judicial Council is the best forum for the accountability of judiciary but bad practice appears when this forum is not used.
(Pakistan News & Features Services)
Former President Asif Ali Zardari always believed in the politics of reconciliation and it was under this philosophy that no political personality was arrested during his tenure.
"Heading the present government, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif too is pursuing the same policy," Barrister Khawaja Naveed Ahmed, retired judge of the Sindh High Court and former Chairman of the Human Rights Committee of Sindh Bar Council, observed while talking to media at the Nawabshah Press Club.
Abdul Qadir Qureshi, founder member of the Nawabshah Press Club. Chaudhry Abdul Sattar and Aamir Qazi, who accompanied Khawaja Naveed from Karachi, were also present on the occasion.
Replying to questions, Khawaja Naveed defended military courts in a way pointing out that judiciary felt insecure in the wake of continued circumstances of terrorism with criminals and terrorists extending threats to honorable judges hearing their cases.
He admitted public opinions about irregularities in the court system and noted that sometimes advantages go against oppressed.
He told a questioner that reconciliation courts, established for the purpose of dispensing cheaper justice, failed as concerned people were unaware of complications of judicial procedures. However the situation can be made better if retired judges are posted in Reconciliation Courts. He said that menace of falsification has overcome politics due to which common man is not pleased with politicians.
He opined that in many cases an Oath Commissioner seemed more powerful than Chief Minister who can make documents legal with a single stroke of his stamp on a payment of ten rupees.
"How a government ascribe itself authoritative when it cannot deliver rights of poor grower in shape of due payment from sugar mills," he said mentioning that in a country where the Governor tenders resignation saying he is week before mafias and land grabbers, then what one can expect of constitution and law.
He said that law making was necessary for cases whereby a complainant gets court order for FIR registration under section 22A when police refuses to entertain. It is necessary to issue notice to other party as well prior to issuing order under section 22A to frustrate the objective behind registering of fake FIR, he suggested.
Khawaja Naveed recalled that as Judge of the Sindh High Court he issued orders in 1,400 cases and many of his orders were cited as reference in various cases. He described as deplorable non hearing of cane growers case with regard to payment of quality premium by sugar mills.


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(Re: Greek couple) 19-Year-Old Murder Suspect Allegedly "Wanted to Feel What It Was Like to Shoot Somebody"
Three 19-year-olds have been charged with the murders of Nia Haqq, 25 and Michael Muchioki, 27 outside their Jersey City home last weekend after they had returned from an engagement party.
And sources told NBCNewYork that one of the teenaged women told investigators, "I just wanted to feel what it was like to shoot somebody."
"She should have served her country," said Nia's mother, Majeeda Haqq after she was told that quote. "That's what she should of did if she felt she needed to feel what it felt like to pull a trigger on someone. She should have took her behind to Iran(sic)," Haqq added.
Haqq and Muchioki were brutally gunned down after they got out of their car at three in the morning. Lawmen were stunned then, and stunned again on learning that one of the young women actually suggested it was some sort of "thrill kill."
"That's cold-blooded," said Hudson County Sheriff Juan Perez. "You took the lives of two individuals. How can you even sleep by saying such a statement, it's horrible," Perez said.
"We will go after them," Haqq said. And she added "Whatever we can do to make sure they never step outside of a cell again, we're gonna do it… because they have stolen my sunshine."
Bail for the two women, Darmelia Lawrence and Latonia Bellamy, was set a $1 million cash each, and for Shiquan Bellamy (Latonia's cousin) it was set at $2 million. All three face felony murder, armed robbery and weapons charges.
Bellamy served 10 months in prison last year after being convicted of two counts of selling drugs near a school.
But NBCNewYork learned that after getting out on parole in October, a warrant for his arrest was issued January 27 "for failure to meet conditions of parole," according to State Parole Board Spokesman Neal Buccino.
Buccino said Bellamy had failed to attend a community resource program.
Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy, after calling the murders "an act of pure and random viciousness," said the entire community "felt a bit of relief … knowing these killers are behind bars (in) the first step in the healing process for our city."


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Lightning Arrester. Design Note 26
Various kinds of Lightning arrester circuits are available, but here describes one with Multi-level protection so any one of the component may be damaged if a strong lightning occurs. Thus it leaves the gadget without damage. Usually one Surge protector like MOV, GDT, Bidirectional Diode etc is used in surge protector circuit. But here a combination of all the three is used to give multi level protection. The circuit can be hooked up in Telephones, Cable TV lines, Modem, Dish antenna cable etc.
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Here at Brainscape, we like to believe that our scientifically proven web and mobile "smart flashcards" tool is the best natural way to improve your concentration and help you learn more with less study time. But often, students turn to drugs like Adderall to give them an additional academic edge. Considering the potential health risks, one might wonder if caffeine is a safer and comparable learning aid.
Doctors prescribe Adderall to patients with difficulty maintaining focus and alertness — specifically those with a diagnosed abnormality in daily function. The active ingredients are psychostimulant amphetamines, and the drug looks and acts similarly to MDMA and methamphetamine (neither of which would be taken to study!). How does caffeine compare? Let's talk Adderall vs. caffeine.
Stimulants with Different Side Effects
Adderall vs. Caffeine: Which is a Better Learning Aid?
While its popularity grows by the semester, the repercussions of using amphetamines like Adderall often evade its users. In addition to the risk of hypertension and seizures, Adderall causes the brain to stop making dopamine over time, which can result in severe depression, aggression, and psychosis. Adderall is also a Schedule II drug, meaning it has a high risk for addiction and dependence — further increasing the likelihood of negative effects.
Caffeine is also a drug, and while you can find it on almost every corner, its effects are powerful. Caffeine is the most commonly and widely consumed psychoactive drug. It is a stimulant of the central nervous and metabolic systems — and causes alertness, wakefulness, and focus. Naturally, a downside exists: irritability, restlessness, insomnia, and heart palpitations are not uncommon symptoms of use. The Food and Drug Administration recognizes caffeine as safe since toxic doses (>1g) are significantly greater than doses normally found commercially (<500mg).
So, how do Adderall and caffeine size up as learning aids? Adderall causes a longer-lasting, non-jittery period of focus; however, the dangers and illegality of Adderall far outweigh its advantages as a learning aid. But these drugs don't make you smarter. They let you productively hone already existing knowledge despite prior sleep or wakefulness. They don't even necessarily make you a better learner! Caffeine is a safer, more easily accessible alternative that can truly help you study and learn in a productive, yet less physically taxing, manner.
Sources of Caffeine
Below are options that DO NOT include study drugs, but will give you just the boost needed to keep you successfully powering through your work. Safe studies!
Soda may not provide the energy or attention boost that Adderall does, but it is inexpensive and tasty. Some high-caffeine options are below!
• Dr. Pepper 12 oz. can: 36 mg of caffeine
• Coke Classic/Zero 12 oz. can: 35 mg
• Mountain Dew 12 oz. can: 55 mg
Energy drinks contain ingredients like guarana, a caffeinated berry, and ginseng, a stimulant, which can power you through fatigue.
• Red Bull 8.4 oz.: 80 mg of caffeine
• 5-Hour Energy 2 oz.: 207 mg
• NOS 16 oz.: 260 mg
• Monster 8 oz.: 80 mg
If you're happy with your coffee fix, you may be interested in the different caffeine contents depending on how the coffee is made.
• Brewed: 1 cup (7 oz.): 80–135 mg of caffeine
• Espresso: 1 shot (2 oz.): 100 mg
• Drip: 1 cup (7 oz.): 115–175 mg
Most importantly, stay hydrated with WATER. Research suggests that feelings of fatigue may indicate dehydration. It's easy and healthy to drink — at the very least eight 8oz. glasses of water a day — and who knows, it may even be the energy fix you need to study and learn better.
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U.S.-Iran Misperceptions: A Dialogue
Edited by: Abbas Maleki and John Tirman
London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014
In the midst of ongoing nuclear negotiations between Iran, the United States, and its international partners; the regional conflagration in Gaza, Iraq, and Syria; and the ascendance of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) – widely labelled a 'common enemy', this book could not come at a more opportune time. Below the surface of the nuclear talks is the question on everyone's mind: could a permanent nuclear deal result in a thawing of US-Iran relations? Can Americans and Iranians mitigate their historical grievances and pave the way for cooperation and, if not a grand, but limited bargain? How do each country's elite view each other and what factors have shaped (mis)perceptions of one another? These are the questions that lie at the heart of U.S.-Iran Misperceptions: A Dialogue.
In this eight-chapter volume, editors Abbas Maleki and John Tirman attempt to clear up some conventional cobwebs in thinking that separate these two pivotal countries by bringing together the insights of a range of former policy makers and international relations experts. In an effort to move beyond the rigid and hostile perceptions that have beset the relationship since the advent of the 1979 Iranian-Islamic Revolution, this collaborative effort engages the most sensitive issues that separate the two countries, including the American position during the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88), the hostage crisis, Iran's role in the Levant, the nuclear issue, and Iran's role in the region. These themes, of course, have been covered extensively in literature on Iranian and American history and international relations – thus, in this capacity, the volume does not offer anything new. However, the ideas floated around in this collection of essays re-energise the somewhat stale and exhausted debate on Iran-US relations.
The book is timely and, as the subtitle – 'a dialogue' – suggests, there is a degree of optimism embedded in each chapter as each author strives to chart a potential trajectory towards diplomacy and rapprochement. However, the bulk of the book is predominantly descriptive, with its biggest shortcoming being its failure to tie chronological events into a broader conceptual framework. The chapters lack the kind of rigorous analytical framework required for a serious and scholarly analysis of American and Iranian perceptions, policy choices, and strategic priorities.
Conspicuously absent in the volume is an analysis of the growing body of literature pertaining to Iranian-American relations. IR theory, the paradigms of foreign policy behaviour, and state peculiarities – for example, the role of Shi'a Islam in international relations as a discursive and mobilisation force – need to be woven in. Otherwise the arguments and predictions presented are tantamount to crystal ball reading.
For example, in his chapter, "Iran's Perception of the U.S. Policy towards the Region" (pp. 89-110), Kayhan Barzegar discusses American support of Saddam Hussein during the traumatic Iraq-Iran War, commonly known as 'the Imposed War' in Iran. He explains, '[US] support of Saddam Hussein and their intensifying political and economic pressures as well as military threats… all institutionalised the sense of threat from the United States among the Iranian political-security elites.' (p. 93). His argument, while entirely valid, lacks the theoretical underpinning required to give it scholarly weight. The chapter would have benefitted from a short survey of the leading works on threat perception and security dilemma in foreign policy formation. In the same vein, a theoretical overview of the role of psychological factors in foreign policy decision making, and the way in which perceptions are shaped by historical memory, would have made for a more robust analysis.
Robert Jervis's instructive chapter, "The United States and Iran: Perceptions and Policy Traps" (pp. 15-36), would have also benefited from a literature review. As a leading theorist on misperceptions in international relations, the author could have been more generous in providing the reader with a theoretical context in which to situate his argument. Jervis cites Karim Sajjadpour, hardly an authority on the subject, and he disappoints with declaratory statements. For instance, in asking 'What is the Iranian-US conflict about?' Jervis explains, 'for the Americans, it is Iran's support for terrorism' (p. 16). Such a wholesale statement betrays the complexity and texture of the relationship.
In general, higher standards should be set for the study of Iranian foreign policy in both academic debate and policy discourse. More analytical depth is required for a book that is being marketed as a scholarly title – and not merely a think tank monograph. For instance, what is the Islamic Republic's conception of a normative foreign policy and what is the profile of American normative foreign policy? Each country brings its own distinct history, political philosophy, institutions, traditions, and resources to bear upon these questions. These elements cannot be simplified or summarised: they need to be wrestled more aggressively in order to buttress the arguments put forward – otherwise the postulations are merely speculative and superficial. A substantive assessment of US and Iranian normative foreign policy goals would allow us to determine, with more confidence, if there is both conceptual and practical common ground on which a tentative relationship could be forged.
Also absent is a discussion of how Iran's foreign policy priorities unfold in the international system. What is the external context and how has the environment shaped Iran's perceptions or misperceptions vis-à-vis the US? How does Iranian foreign policy interact with the domestic dynamics, and how does foreign policy interact with the policies of other international actors and the wider international context? What international or regional pressures bear upon American position vis-à-vis Iran? These issues should have been considered in more depth for a book the editors deem a scholarly title. On this note, another issue with the book is that of the eight chapters: four of the chapters include are written or co-written by either of the editors, Maleki or Tirman.
Overall, the book provides exactly what the title suggests: an explanation of US-Iranian perceptions and misperceptions. In this task, the book has delivered adequately: it provides a coherent account of the progression, development, and consolidation of American and Iranian perceptions of one another. However, it finds itself with an awkward identity crisis – as neither an academic book nor a think tank brief.


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Whether or not you wanted it, we are getting more Purge! This past weekend at San Deigo Comic-Con, The Purge series, which is hitting USA network this Fall with 10 episodes, released a full trailer during its Saturday evening panel.
"What is America? America is, we've been told the Land of the Free, so, tell me then, what is more American than the Purge?" A newscaster can be heard saying over the radio at the start of the trailer.
From film franchise creator James DeMonaco and Blumhouse Television, The Purge series will add a new chapter to the already well-established universe and finds "several seemingly unrelated characters living in a small city, and as the clock winds down, each character is forced to reckon with their past as they discover how far they will go to survive the night."
The trailer doesn't offer much for the plot, but definitely sets up some of the different locations and characters, including a group of corporate employees who are working on Purge night, a guy whose sister seems to be in some sort of Purge cult, and a couple attending a Gatsby-inspired party. While the series is being helmed as a character drama, the trailer previews all of the violence and gore that Purge fans have come to expect in the franchise.
Check out the full SDCC trailer below!
The series stars Gabriel Chavarria, Jessica Garza, Hannah Emily Anderson, and Reed Diamond. It will be written and executive produced by DeMonaco and led by Jason Blum with Thomas Kelly serving as showrunner.
The original Purge movie hit theaters in 2013 and starred Ethan Hawke and Game of Thrones' Lena Headey. It quickly became a cult hit and before we knew it there were three more installments including The Purge: Anarchy, The Purge: Election Year and 2018's The First Purge.
The Purge is set to premiere on Tuesday, September 4 at 10/9c on USA Network,


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We're excited to share the second generation of 5Pillars games in Indonesian.
At Pondok Mall, our new generation of 5Pillars games were launched in Indonesian with a day full of fun playing the different games. It was great to see the games enjoyed by our Indonesian friends.
You can now get a game in Indonesian from our local online store.
Our Zileej team also worked with our local partners in creating a pilot TV gameshow. Stay tuned for the full show!


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Well! That's Easter over and done with and it all seems to have gone off pretty much without a hitch. We weren't the subject of a terrorist attack, we didn't decimate the populace too much by smashing cars into one another or into inanimate objects as we tried to get out of the cities in droves and into holiday places in droves. We consumed large amounts of chocolate and, quite probably, large amounts of food, and alcohol. We watched benignly as most of the Middle East continued to decimate its population and infrastructure with its internecine war kindly assisted by various outsiders with vested interests. We watched as in Kenya extremists under the guise of religion proceeded to murder those who professed another religion just because they didn't believe in their religion. And not to be outdone, Australia produced a bunch of Onanists with miniscule IQ's, crooked cross tattoos, and a variety of xenophobic placards who were intent on Reclaiming Australia! Just what they were reclaiming it from was rather uncertain and not very well articulated but no doubt we will be appraised once they start marching in jackboots up and down the streets. Couple of points: 1. Maybe your name would be better as "Re:claim Australia – a tad more punch, and relevant, and; 2. A guy called Samuel Johnson, a long long time ago – that's more than ten years to you, said – "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel"! He was right, and you are! I could have used some more appropriate Australian appellations as to what you are but that would have ruined the tenor of the quote.
Yep! Four days of religiosity didn't seem to make much difference to the state of play and the platitudinous utterances from the various religious leaders still carried the same resonance of hollowness as they fell, once again, on deaf ears. And in the tradition of Easter celebrating the demise and rise of a Judeo-Christian, Islamic icon we also had chickens, and eggs, rabbits and bilbies and we've even got these two ducklings with their view on the true meaning of Easter;
In that week that was we saw Jacqui Lambie announce that she was forming a new party under her name. Jacqui, naming a party after yourself is just a tad egotistical and never augurs well for its longevity – just look at the Palmer United Party!
Our beloved bottom of the polls pollster Prime Minister Rabbott was discovered having a bit of a rest after all those backflips. Oh! Sorry! Policy Redirectional Reviews!
That Bloody Rat was impressed that Alan (God Calls Me God) Jones had provided a lengthy list of to-do's to PM Rabbott, especially since Tony seemed incapable of getting a list together himself. We're assured that his list is chock-a-block full of Jonesy's 'common sense'!
Rat was particularly enamoured with the hypocritical behaviour of our big companies who, whilst loudly protesting the iniquity of the Federal taxation system and how it was forcing them into penury and pathetic profits, were happily skimming a little of the top! I think in mafia parlance it's called 'sipping at the well'?
It became increasingly obvious to The Rat that Joe (Eleventy) Hockey was the main problem with regard to taxation and other fiscal matters given his encycolopaedic understanding of the difference between a profit, and a loss.
He was also impressed with the spyfolks characteristically reserved understatement with regard to the successful passage of the data retention legislation. Ever vigilant, our spyfolks have neither confirmed, nor denied, that the reason the lights were burning all night in the office was due to the wild party undertaken post passage.
And Rats mate Cynical wasn't surprised at all when it was revealed that consumers were in a state of policy anxiety.
Through the week, amongst all the factoids being perpetrated, our trusty policy bereft government told us all that we were involved in a conversation. The conclustion arrived at was that it was just . . . . . . . ;
And all of that led to proverbs, I've no idea why, except perhaps as a sequeway into this.
And there you have it . . . . . . . .!
PS: You may have noticed that the comment usually placed here has now gone. Seeing that it was perpetuating another Tony Abbott lie That Bloody Rat thought it might be better to remove it, rather than perpetuate it. More power to The Bloody Rat!
AFTERTHOUGHT: If you don't punish politicians and their parties for lying to you, you are predetermining your treatment as a fool!
POSTSCRIPT: All characters appearing in this work are entirely, and amazingly, fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living, dead or in a zombie like state, is purely coincidental with an exceptionally high probability of being the construct of a deluded mind trying to grasp the true meaning of the political unreality of Australian politics! We can only gaze upon such greatness with wonderment!


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Date: 16 November 2017
Time: 1 pm to 5 pm
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As governments worldwide are encouraged to rely less on direct tax and more on indirect tax to raise tax revenues, over 160 countries including Malaysia and more recently India, have implemented Value-Added Tax (VAT) or Goods and Services Tax (GST). Coupled with transformation in operating model and emerging trends of conducting cross-border transactions in a digitised world, businesses are facing increased challenges to keep pace with changes in tax rules to manage the risk of non-compliance.
Join us at the inaugural BDO Regional Indirect Tax Seminar 2017 where tax advisers from BDO Singapore, BDO India and BDO Malaysia will share GST updates and developments in the respective countries and how the changes impact businesses. Take this opportunity to get your questions answered during the Q&A session.
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Time: 1 pm – 5 pm (Registration starts at 12:30 pm)
Venue: Ballroom 1, The Mandarin Orchard Singapore
Fees: $120 (BDO client, Alumni, SIATP Member) / $150 (Public)
CPE: 4 hours
*Companies (with financial year-end November 2017 to December 2017) can claim enhanced tax deductions or a cash payout of total registration fees under the Productivity and Innovation Credit (PIC) Scheme. For more information, please visit the IRAS website at https://www.iras.gov.sg/irashome/Schemes/Businesses/Productivity-and-Innovation-Credit-Scheme/.
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I love stripping down to nothing but my favorite silky stockings and a sexy pair of heels so I can dance privately during my down time. I do love sex, don't get me wrong, but sometimes my pussy, ass, and mouth need a break! Dancing sensually for no one but myself is very relaxing and freeing.
I sometimes use a pair of feather fans from my closet of goodies in my dance. They feel so good gliding against my skin; almost like the warm caress of a delicate pair of hands on my most sensitive parts. I purposely tease them across my nipples and send a wave of cool air between my legs, making me gasp as my insatiable sex drive is once again awakened.
It isn't long before I can no longer stand the touch of only a few strands of feathers. I need to feel a warm body moving against mine. I need to cum over and over. I need sex, and I need it now. I don't care who it is. Will it be you?


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All we wanted was to overcome our weaknesses. We didn't care for the fame, the money. Why are the simplest parts of life also so hard? The blood runs through our veins, why do we fear it? The fixation to our weakness was to kill. Soon, our weakness became our addiction. One summer and 21 dead bodies.
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When it comes to HAVING logs, more is good.
For READING logs, less time spent is better.
A concise trace gets answers fast by
highlighting what's working and what's not.
So easy to use non-techs can get answers without waiting on/interrupting devs building your future.
Quicklog combines the capabilities of distributed tracing with key application events. Instantly retrieve real-time events by application-defined key values. For exammple entering a user-id could list all the recent actions by a user, or entering a widget-id could show any activity related to a specific widget.
Once you see the high-level flow of activity, you can see what DID or did NOT happen in that flow. Usually that's enough to give you the answer. In cases where more detail is needed, just click on a trace/span-id for full details in Loggly or other logging provider. [Trace/span id's are described in the F.A.Q.]
Time-travel: Even if your application tags a trace mid-way through processing, all the events from any source that occured before that point in time are also shown when the tag is entered into Quicklog.
The REST API is fully documented for use from any other language or environment. There are two POST requests: one for logging messages with a trace/span id and another for tagging a trace id with an application-defined key:value. The GET requests enable querying Quicklog from scripts or command line to automate recurring tasks.
Q: What are trace-id's, span-id's and Zipkin?
trace-id is a unique random id created when starting a request. Other services called while processing a request all share the same trace-id. A
span-id is generated for the segment of a request processed within each service. There is a parent/child (caller/callee) relationship of span-id's. Zipkin defines a convention for how trace/span-id's are communicated.
Q: Is Zipkin distributed tracing required to use Quicklog?
A: No. Even without Zipkin trace/span-id propagation, Quicklog is still able to correlate events across your services using its key:value tagging. You get most of the benefits with very easy implementation.
Q: Is Quicklog only for microservices?
A: No. A single-page Vue/React/Angular webapp and backend benefits greatly from tagged logging. And even in a monolithic server-side app, having key events structured with 'sources' (modules) is clearer to see than digging through flat lines of logs.
Q: How much code is needed to use Quicklog?
A: Sending a Quicklog event is a one-liner:
quicklog('my-action', 'my-object', 'my-target', context, tags, trace). To add
tags just use some strings like
tags = ['MyKeyA:value1', 'a-label']. Generate the trace/span id with
trace = traceOpts('user:123', '', '') and re-use it throughout a request. A
context hash/map is for any related key/values.
Q: How do I choose the right-sized plan?
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How much and to what extend DOM knowledge is needed for a front end developer?
How to learn DOM besides W3C documentation and some sporadic youtube videos?
Again, is it necessary?
How much and to what extend DOM knowledge is needed for a front end developer?
DOM understanding is essential to frontend because it is the means by which you access documents and elements via JS. Maybe try the DOM introduction article on MDN, I usually prefer the MDN documentation over W3C.
Thank you, vohumanah.
It is important if you want to be a web developer to understand how the DOM works.
This is the best tutorial explaining it that I have found:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM9h1wN4rfU (watch part 1 and part 2)
Thanks a lot, gwenf…I watched these videos and also reading the documentation vohumanah suggested. Awesome resources. I can say, I know DOM now but practising will make it better, of course!


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Sandy Hook Will Not Be a "Wasted Opportunity"
Posted by M. C. on December 20, 2012
The cause and probable effects of the Sandy Hook/Newtown disaster is summarized as well as I have seen here.
There are so many associated issues.
Most are the result of government sponsored violence:
Foreign wars and empire building making the US the enemy of the world.
Remote control killing making the US the enemy of the world. Anesthetizing us to government sponsored violence. Killing with no casualties on our side. Ain't life a dream? Has your militarized police department purchased its fleet of drones yet?
Destruction of Constitutional rights-communication privacy, unlawful search and seizure, elimination of due process making the US citizen the enemy. I wonder. When I send an email who gets it first? The intended recipient or Janet Napolitano?
Obama's memorial speech was an obvious political opportunity and show of power.He kept a memorial service waiting two hours. How caring and thoughtful. We can remote control bomb from half a world away but we can't get the President to Connecticut on time! He had his business card on the front of the podium. When was the last time you saw that at a funeral service? A poorly faked tear from his single functional tear duct. A short oration on his sorrow for 20 US children. Nothing for the thousands of children killed in the Middle East nor for the children now officially fair game for drone strikes. This was a show staged to tell us, I am the president, I am the power, only ME and MY government can save you from yourself. The problem is… government is the problem.
Nothing said by the president nor the press about the raft of contradicted statements that were just dropped down the memory hole. The press has been their usual subservient, obedient self.
Nothing said about the slew of pharmaceuticals with suicidal side effects being pumped into the children. Obama's Psycho quack and Big Pharma partners are even now swarming around the children. Any normal emotion is now a problem with a 25 cent name. Heard about the new DSM-5 psychiatric handbook? If a psychiatrist was a tax lawyer it would be the equivalent of the tax code. No worries. There is a $25 pill for every 25 cent name.
Nothing said about the violent games, movies and glorification of government's remote control killing. Obama's Hollywood and military contractor pals wouldn't like that.
Nothing related to the obvious question-Why after 400 years of gun ownership are these horrible things happening now? Hint- see the points mentioned above. See this. And this. When I was in high school we had a hunting and fishing club. You threw your rifle or shotgun in the trunk and hunted before and/or after school. The only gun violence that affected us came from Viet Nam. Progressive/New World Order worshippers hate gun ownership because it inhibits people ownership.
This is the "don't waste an opportunity" administration. The end game is progressive government, progressive is code for control – of everything and everybody. Sandy Hook is for the Progressive in Chief merely an opportune step towards the transfer of control to New York City. I am sure Bloomberg would happily re-name the street the UN resides to Pennsylvania Avenue.
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The following is an excerpt from A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century (Counterpoint, 2009) by Jane Vandenburgh.
1. Normalcy
The last house I will live in with both my parents and my two brothers was one built on a sandy lot in Redondo, a develpment in a beach town near Los Angeles. Our house is distinguished only by the pepper tree our father planted out in front, where other, more normal dads would dump topsoil and then scatter lawn seed. The house is new, but there isn't any hope for it. It smells of wet cement, as if something is wrong with its foundation. Cold leaks upward through the floorboards, drawing body heat down and out of our bare feet, back to the lot's damp sand.
By brothers and I are blond, tan, tousle-haired beach rats, seriously unkempt. Will and Geo and I know, becausee one of our more elegant San Marino relatives told us, that we are being rasied "by Gawd." "By Gawd, quite obviously, since John and Maggie cannot be bawwthured." Our parents' parenting is described by our Aunt Nan as benign neglect.
My brothers and I know no discipline. We wander for miles, going off to the beach or to the pier to fish. We ride our bikes on the esplanade and come home late, idly poking sticks into the already rotting stucco on the outside of the houses to get at the scraps of tar paper, which we pull out and chew like gum.
It is the 1950s, and both of our parents—who come from privileged backgrounds—elieve they've ended up in this dump because their money and their luck ran out. Luck is no longer John and Maggie's specialty. They can still count on one or the other set of grandparents, however, to swoop in to fix things when they mess up. My grandparents say it's always trouble whenever the phone rings and it concerns Maggie and Johnny. That's when they have to make phone calls to The Powers That Be, or help my parents out financially. Buying them this house at the beach in Redondo may be one of their last-ditch attempts, getting a starter home for people no longer starting out.
Redondo is an object lesson: How Normal People Are Content to Live.
Other families seem less ambiguous about what you're supposed to do. You get this job. You buy that house. You raise your children. You build a foursquare life, you go forever to live in it.
On Avenue B in Redondo, our parents are losing any wish they've ever had to fit in. Folks believe in America as a Melting Pot, in which everyone urgently needs to learn to conform. The Melting Pot reminds me of Little Black Sambo, who is chased by a tiger around a tree every Saturday morning on cartoons: They go round and round until they melt together into butter.
Redondo is I Love Lucy, which I hate for its noisy domestic chaos, and My Little Margie, which I like because Gale Storm has a good haircut and a job she keeps from week to week. The name Gale Storm also contains the one grown-up joke I understand.
There is little about being an adult that is clear to me. What I do know is that the foursquare life doeesn't impress my parents. Homeownership does nothing for them, either. Homeownership involved housekeeping, home maintenance, staying in one place. And awwwctually? our mother remarks as she swooshes her paintbrush around in the bright dyes she uses to paint on Bristol board. Truuuthfully? I'd much prefer to move.
Homeownership is a family tradition; real estate is what amounts to almost a family religion, everything predicated on growth, on the ever-skyward direction of California land values. Everyone in our family has always owned houses, plural—he main one in town and also the ratty dream shack in the mountains or up the coast in Cambria, or at the beach for the summertime, when—ike all Californians—ou hike and fish and swim. You very vehemently picnic, as my mother says, or you are forced to camp out in those gawd-awful sleeping bags on the wretched sleeping porch that is never heated, in order to simulate being in the tyrannical Out of Doors.
My god how I hate na-chur, our mother likes to say, how it's all red in tooth and claw.
She says these things to any and all who listen as she works at the kitchen table, where she is painting the storyboards she makes for Disney. Homeownership doesn't make you a good person, she says. The Vandenburgh Seniors awwwwnd the Whites awwwwnd the Ainsworth-Rutherford-Rolands all own houses, plural, she goes on, and did we imagine this was anything that got them immediately into their version of heaven? Honestly?
She glances up from what she is doing, one eye winked shut against the upward bloom of her cigarette smoke. She then flicks her gaze over the four corners of her work.
Honestly? she asks again. Just look how crappily they turned out.
She inhales smoke, changes brushes in the water jar. Shitheels, she pronounces, whispering to herself.
Excerpted from A Pocket History of Sex in the Twentieth Century by Jane Vandenburgh. Copyright © 2009 by Jane Vandeburgh. Excerpted by permission of Counterpoint.


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We have learned a great deal from Project Fractal. Initially released in July 2016, there are over 3500 people who have tried their hand at coding their design logic in Dynamo and automating design option creation with Fractal. Today we are announcing that Project Fractal has evolved into a new beta project called Project Refinery. Project Refinery not only lets you create design options with many of the same methods that existed in Fractal, but it also allows you to set goals and optimize for those goals. When you choose to maximize or minimize designated outputs, Refinery will return the best options. Refinery also solves some of the problems we heard around not being able to run custom nodes including Python nodes. Refinery runs locally and allows custom code to participate in design option generation. Refinery will run in Dynamo for Revit or Dynamo Sandbox and includes a node to cache Revit data for use in option generation. Refinery is still a beta project. There are rough edges, but if you would like to try it out and work with us to advance generative design for AEC we would be thrilled. You can learn more here:
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By Beau Wilson, Boulder Daily Camera | Boulder's Office of Arts and Culture is gathering local muralists for their 2019 mural artist roster, which will help the city select artists for enriching Boulder with public art projects.
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Photo – full description: Mayor of East Tincup, Colorado, Pete Smythe and guitar legend Chet Atkins have returned to their one-time home of West Colfax! This is the finished mural on The Colfax Museum wall, as brilliantly painted by Tommy Kaui Nahulu, assisted by Carmen Richards and Kemery Kane.
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Happy Monday! Are you still snowed-in? Hopefully not. But in case you need a lift before heading out to shovel your driveway, have a listen to this sundry mix from the (not quite famous) YIM Catholic Music for Mondays archives. We've got it all this week from Pop to Poetry. Thank God someone invented YouTube!
We start off with a couple of selections suggested by readers last week, in response to posts. This one was sent to us by Maria and is sung by renowned bass Paul Robeson. The words are from one of our favorite non-Catholic poets, William Blake, from his poem Jerusalem (from Milton),
And did those feet in ancient time
Walk upon England's mountains green
And was the holy lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen
And did the countenance divine
Shine forth upon our clouded hills
And was Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark Satanic mills
Bring me my bow of burning gold
Bring me my arrows of desire
Bring me my spears o'clouds unfold
Bring me my chariot of fire
I will not cease from mental fight
Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand
'Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land
'Til we have built Jerusalem
In England's green and pleasant land
Our next selection was also sent in by a reader: Ennio Morricone directing the theme music from the movie The Mission.
This is Seal singing Prayer for the Dying from his second album. One of our readers wrote that she thinks of this song whenever she hears of someone's untimely death. This song is about all of us though. Is Seal Catholic? I have no idea. I only recall these words of Our Lord when he was questioned by the Sadducees in the Gospel of Matthew (22:29-33),
Jesus said to them in reply, "You are misled because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God. At the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage but are like the angels in heaven. And concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was said to you by God, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living." When the crowds heard this, they were astonished at his teaching.
So Seal croons,
There is a light through that window
Hold on say yes, while people say no
'Cause life carries on
Speaking of Our Lord, here is one of my favorite modern Catholic hymns sung by a choir from the St. Mary Parish in Alpha, New Jersey. Here is their blog. Maybe this hymn is one of your favorites too? The lyrics are based on Psalm 16,
Keep me safe, O God,
for in you I take refuge.
I say to the Lord,
"You are my Lord, my only good."
The gods of the earth are but nothing,
cursed be those who delight in them.
Those who run after foreign gods
only have their sorrows multiplied.
Let me not shed blood for them,
nor their names be heard on my lips.
O Lord, my inheritance and my cup,
my chosen portion – hold secure my lot.
The best part has been allotted to me.
Delightful indeed is my inheritance!
I bless the Lord who counsels me;
even at night my inmost self instructs me.
I keep the Lord always before me;
for with him at my right hand,
I will never be shaken.
My heart, therefore, exults, my soul rejoices;
my body too will rest assured.
For you will not abandon
my soul to the grave,
nor will you suffer your holy one
to see decay in the land of the dead.
You will show me the path of life,
in your presence the fullness of joy,
at your right hand happiness forever.
Ash Wednesday is coming up in a few days. Let's all go to Church. After all, as this song (which helped make Kansas's reputation in the late 1970s) notes, all we are is Dust in the Wind.


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The Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization and other such entities across Texas would get greater power in decisions about toll roads — from increased financial review to inclusion of more elected officials in decisions — under a bill filed today by state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin.Senate Bill 668 would "put more openness and transparency" in decisions on toll roads that are mostly made now by regional mobility authorities, which are made up of appointees, said Watson, who is chairman of CAMPO. "Many people's frustration and anger has been that there is not more openness in the process."Metropolitan planning organizations and regional mobility authorities operate in Austin and other major cities across the state. The latter's toll road decisions have become increasingly controversial in Austin and several cities in recent years.Other provisions of the proposal would allow local governments to be reimbursed for money they put into road projects that later become toll roads and would require the approval of metropolitan planning organizations on many decisions involving toll roads that the regional authorities now make by themselves.In addition, the governing boards over local toll projects would have to include at least one elected official, and they would have to file an annual financial report detailing data about planned and existing toll roads.Watson, vice chairman of the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee, said the measure is intended to open the tolling process to more public view."We need to have people accountable to the voters" on the regional authorities, he said. "There's a need for people to feel like the decisions are made in the open. . . . This bill would do that."
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