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| Thomson ReutersShoppers pass by the Toys R Us store at Times Square in New York
CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. retailer Toys R Us said on Wednesday it has lowered its free shipping minimum for online orders, as retailers continue to outdo each other with delivery deals before the holiday shopping season. The world's largest dedicated toy retailer said it will lower the minimum required for free shipping of online orders from $49 to $19. In May, the world's largest retailer Wal-Mart Stores Inc said it planned to test a new unlimited online shipping service this year for $50 annually, a move aimed at Amazon.com Inc's $99 yearly Prime shipping service. Within days, Amazon announced it will offer limited free same-day delivery under Prime. "Based on current insights and a comprehensive review of the competitive landscape, we've decided to drastically lower our free shipping minimum, just in time for the holiday season," said Matt Blonder, vice president for U.S. e-Commerce at Toys R Us. A recent study of 1,400 online shoppers by Walker Sands Communications found that free shipping was the feature most likely to get people to shop online, followed by free returns and one-day shipping. (Reporting by Nandita Bose in Chicago; Editing by Andrew Hay) Read the original article on Reuters. Copyright 2015. Follow Reuters on Twitter. More from Reuters: Former prosecutor seeks to unseat Senator Boozman of Arkansas Study finds seeds of Alzheimer's may have spread in medical procedure Three children found dead in van across street from Los Angeles school Vaginal mesh slings for incontinence fail in about 3 percent UN says rights violations escalating in Congo ahead of elections | FINANCE & BUSINESS |
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| Berkeley Bed Bugs I saw a berkeley bedbug, sucking up a pint of blood….. In California, where almost everything is considered toxic, and is therefore regulated or banned by the government, there’s a price to pay. Bay area KRON brings us news that the North Branch Berkeley Public library has been closed down due to the presence of bedbugs in the restrooms, computer areas and reading areas of the facility. Possibly to blame is transport of these critters on University of California, Berkeley students, who have been suffering chronic problems with bed bug infestation in their dorms. One wonders how this problem will be addressed with the limited arsenal of insecticides available there, and in light of the fact that bedbugs have pretty good resistance to these measures. Maybe bagging up the library ;-) or heating the interior above 110 degrees F will get the job done. Bedbugsextermination.net provides some information on eradication which might benefit the People of Berkeley, and others who must fight the hordes of invading insects. This entry was posted on Sunday, September 27th, 2015 at 12:47 pm and is filed under education, FUN Stuff, Odd news. You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site. | ENVIRONMENT & ANIMALS |
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| Regrow destroyed mangroves, Cidco and Navi Mumbai civic body told
Posted on 08 September 2015. Tags: body, Cidco, civic, destroyed, mangroves, Mumbai, Navi, Regrow, told
Regrow destroyed mangroves, Cidco and Navi Mumbai civic body told
"We are happy by the strongly-worded directions passed by the division bench of Justice A S Oka and Justice Revati Mohite Dere, making it clear that the authorities—Cidco, Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC), forest department and the Konkan …
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| The GSTC 2015 Annual General Meeting was held September 10-13 in Huangshan, China. Participants from fourteen countries attended the event hosted by GSTC and the Huangshan Administrative Committee which manages the Mount Huangshan World Heritage site.
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| Courtesy Belstaff David Beckham’s film, Outlaws, in which he stars as the Stranger, a drifter and motorcycle stuntman (of course), is released today, but not before a screening and VIP event at la Bodega Negra restaurant in Soho, following a similar event in New York at the Back Room last Thursday.
But hold tight, it’s not a Hollywood film in the traditional sense: it’s a promotion for Belstaff, although it does feature Harvey Keitel (Reservoir Dogs), Katherine Waterston (Inherent Vice) and Cathy Moriarty (Raging Bull).
He did ‘98 per cent’ of his own stunts in the film. The film was shot on location in México, and was written and directed by Geremy Jasper, and executive produced by Liv Tyler. It was produced by Belstaff Films and Legs (a Milk Media Company).
Beckham, Moriarty and Jasper were present at the London event, joined by celebrities Jeremy Piven, Laura Whitmore, Emma Miller, Lilah Parsons, Rafferty Law, Doina Ciobanu, Lilah Parsons, Spencer Matthews and Hugo Taylor.
Outlaws sees the Stranger ‘haunted by memories of a beautiful trapeze artist and hunted by a maniacal director seeking revenge,’ according to Belstaff.
Beckham described it as ‘a lot of fun and very creative … and obviously having Harvey and Katherine and Cathy in there,
it doesn’t really get better than that. I knew it was going to be fun which is one of the reasons why I agreed to do it.’ David Beckham interview
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| Love Bytes Watch! Daily Horoscope Spoof by Ms. Peo (September 8th) By Love Sujeiry | September 9, 2015 0 Comments Tweet Pin It She’s baaaa-aaaaack! Ms. Peo took a bit of a hiatus because I put her in a closet. That’s why she hates me right now – and potentially forever. She is, however, super excited to share her daily horoscope. PLUS: Oh Love! The Time I Whiffed Boo’s Boxer Briefs Today’s horoscope is for September 8th for the signs of Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, and Virgo. Enjoy and tune in on Friday, September 11th for the next batch of horoscope! Related: Guests on LOVE Sujeiry, SiriusXM Ch 154 Elaine Del Valle and Crystal Roman on LOVE Sujeiry SiriusXM ◄ Back Next ► Picture 1 of 26 Producers Elaine Del Valle and Crystal Roman come on LOVE Sujeiry's SiriusXM (Ch 154) show to dish on women who cheat. Related ItemsastrologyHoroscopeVideos | ENTERTAINMENT |
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| I don't know what it is, but I definitely woke up in a crabby mood today. I have zero patience for the daily bs and all I want to do is go home. I'm tired, too. I stayed up until midnight finishing a library book that was due today. And you'd think 7 hours of sleep would be restful but it's not. Mainly because I don't sleep that well. Anyways, I'm just feeling all out of sorts and can't wait for this stupid day to be over with.
I have alot to do tonight--I need to run into the store to get something I forgot yesterday and a birthday card. Tomorrow straight after work I am going with my mom and aunt and cousin to my grandpa's lady friend's house for her birthday (I know I already mentioned this) but I don't want to arrive empty handed. My mom gave me a ton of bananas that were on the verge of going, so I threw them in the freezer, which is perfect for making banana bread. Anyways, I decided that I'd make a batch, divvy it up into my mini loaf pans and wrap them up all nice in parchment paper and bring one each to my mom, aunt, and Angie. I'm looking forward to baking, just not the going to the store part.
Grocery stores are kind of limited here. You can go to Marc's, but that's an entirely different animal. You have to have cash or your checkbook, and they never have EVERYTHING on my list, so I always end up having to go somewhere else in addition. It is a little cheaper but their produce is usually nasty, and it's like a circus side show in there. You really need to take your patience, and when I'm going to the store, 9 times out of 10, I have zero patience left.
So then the second option is Giant Eagle. It's expensive, but I don't think any more so than anywhere else. It's location is slightly more convenient, but the one on Bunts is becoming weirder and weirder each time I go in. For one, they never have baskets when you first come in. It's like playing find the basket. You go through 7 or 8 checkout lines before you have to weasel your way in and say to the person you are pushing past, "excuse me, I just need to grab a basket real quick.." How hard is it to put the effing baskets out???? Tell me. I need to know.
Then there is the matter of the cashiers. There's Trish, who is a total bitch. I will never forget going in there when I was sick as a dog, no voice. I was buying I think, sore throat stuff, NyQuil, kleenex and gatorade. Clearly, sick. And I'm croaking out something to her and she's like, "you need to talk louder!!!" and I'm standing there just like, "eff you."
Then there's I think his name is Damien. I kind of think of him as a mini-Dean. He looks like him which is weird. But he was the cashier that was ringing me up when I realized I dropped J's $100 bill and then proceeded to have a total meltdown. And he always rings me up when I'm buying wine, so I'm pretty sure I'm pegged as the overly dramatic and crazy wino-lady.
Ugh. Then there's this other woman, I can't recall her name, but she's so obnoxious. She'll be like, screaming at the top of her lungs, "Are you paying with food stamps??" to someone, or "How much were those tampons???" It's like, lady--have a little discretion. I truly don't know where they find these people.
Add to that, they've been rearranging the store and it took me 15 minutes last night to find the damn corn tortillas. By the time I walk out of there I'm ready to crack open that wine.
So the next option is Heinen's. Which, ok, you're going get a different type of person in there, and that is good. I do like Heinen's, but it's too damn out of the way for a quick grocery run, and you don't get the fuel perks and it's just as expensive as Giant Eagle. So, yeah.
There's also an Earth Fare and a new Whole Foods coming in but truly, who can afford to shop like that all the time?
Anyways, I'm rambling. I also have been feeling kind of cruddy for the last couple of days, just vaguely queasy and sore. The sore is from three days of spin in a row, but the queasy is probably just a combination of being tired and maybe eating some shit my mom gave me from her freezer that was probably expired.
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| Get more focus, determination and a positive mindset to help you realize your full potential. Join international business coach and inspirational speaker, Ash Ali for a boost of knowledge to get your day started and rock your online business! | OTHERS |
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| Terrifying invader–also known as “adorable little girl”–welcomed and loved and cherished by Holy Father, because she is a human being:
At this point, it is customary for the nativist to start looking for evil: her parents put her up to it, they were shouting “Yes we can!” in Spanish and are therefore ritually unclean Obama supporters, this is all a conspiracy to make conservatives who treat refugees like garbage and who say “Amnesty equals abortion” look like heartless ogres.
Here’s the thing: If you don’t want to look like a heartless ogre, stop calling refugees “invaders” and telling them that they are abortion incarnate. Instead, try doing what the pope did. Incredibly, it turns out that desperate people who are just trying to feed their families tend to gravitate toward people who treat them with respect and don’t call their little girls “invaders”. | POLITICS |
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| In Asia, Japan will release data on Average Cash Earnings y/y and the US will publish economic data on the Unemployment Rate, Non-Farm Employment Change, and Average Hourly Earnings m/m. So, there is a strong probability that the USD/JPY pair will move with low volatility during the Asian session, but with medium to high volatility during the US session. TODAY TECHNICAL LEVELS: Resistance. 3: 120.14. Resistance. 2: 120.19. Resistance. 1: 119.94. Support. 1: 119.65. Support. 2: 119.42. Support. 3: 119.18. Disclaimer: Trading Forex (foreign exchange) on margin carries a high level of risk, and may not be suitable for all investors. The high degree of leverage can work against you as well as for you. Before deciding to invest in foreign exchange you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment and therefore you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. You should be aware of all the risks associated with foreign exchange trading, and seek advice from an independent financial advisor if you have any doubts. The material has been provided by InstaForex Company - www.instaforex.com
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| On the M40 southbound between junctions J14 and J13, minor delays are possible due to a broken down vehicle closing one lane. Normal traffic conditions expected from 11:00 am. | OTHERS |
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| FXStreet (Guatemala) - AUD/JPY is currently trading at 84.66 with a high of 84.74 and a low of 84.32.
AUD/JPY has been static in a quiet open in Asia this week as we run up to month end while data events will start to kick in and get the show moving along. There is second tier data for both Australia and Japan this week, but the key events stay with the US. AUD/JPY looking out for US data
We have the Nonfarm Payrolls released at the end of the week as October kicks in, and further along the calendar comes with the FOMC. Before then, later today holds the Fed's preferred measure of inflation in PCE. AUD/JPY may be subject to volatility around the market's appetite for risk, and as it stands, a risk-off mood will continue to weigh on the cross with S&P futures currently down 0.4%. AUD/JPY levels
Technically, the cross is pressured to the downside below the 200 SMA at 85.43 on the hourly sticks and the pivot at 84.56. First support come sin at 84.20 (50 SMA) before 83.42 and 82.97. Resistance above the pivot comes at 84.82, the 20 DMA. | FINANCE & BUSINESS |
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| We raised over $5,000. We had 68 riders, more or the long ride than the short one but I don’t have a breakdown between the two.
Jerry Monahan won a prize for most pledges at $370. There were 10 other prizes given out in a random draw thanks to generous donations from local businesses.
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| three brands celebrated tenth anniversary milestones in very different ways this season at fashion week. first, givenchy made history by not only bringing their show to new york, but giving a select number of tickets to the public. they were in for a treat as riccardo tisci celetrated ten years with the brand with a heartfelt tribute to the city in front of new yorkers and a star-studded front row. in my eyes, givenchy has taken over the mantle of ready-to-wear-meets-couture that nicolas ghesquiere cultivated at balenciaga. the show was stunning and while it would be hard for a mere mortal to acquire any of the looks, they are easy to replicate, especially the ones featuring silk lingerie and pinstripes.
not to be outdone, alexander wang brought the street to his tenth anniversary but still had some preppy pieces like striped shirts, bomber jackets, and baseball hats. i wasn't a fan of the shredded denim (a bit too abercrombie for me), but i did love the wide striped pants, slip dresses, lace-up sweaters and the outerwear (always a wang strong suit). the collection and accessories are on moda operandi right now if you're interested in pre-ordering the pieces.
finally, phillip lim showed an elegant collection yet again, bridging the gap between wang's urban girl and givenchy's more proper, french lady. stripes—which were big in both wang and givenchy's collections—showed up again here but juxtaposed with floral prints, oversized shirt dresses, paper bag waist pants, and scuba separates.
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| Salesforce CEO Mark Benioff is taking the multibillion dollar company in a bold new direction: Healthcare. With the recent announcement of its new Health Cloud , the customer relationship management cloud system is taking on the electronic health record – branding it as a patient relationship management product.
We’ll be chatting about the new wave of tech-driven population health platforms and other top stories on this week’s MedHeads , MedCityNews.com’s look at the business of innovation in medicine.
MedHeads starts at 4 p.m. Eastern on Friday, as it does every week. Join us via the YouTube embed below, or on our Google Hangout On Air page.
MedCity News teammates Neil Versel, Nicole Oran, Chris Seper and Stephanie Baum will discuss Salesforce’s bold new foray into healthcare – as well as the company’s forthcoming Dreamforce conference next week in San Francisco. Notably, IBM Watson Health just announced its own Health Cloud this week, and its integration with Apple – so we’ll chat about that as well.
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| One of the many benefits of having a second job in Boston is that I can purchase items such as frog legs easily. This morning I visited Savenor's, a market on Charles Street (Beacon Hill, Boston), and purchased 6 pairs of frozen prepared large frog legs. This batch actually did not taste as grassy as the previous purchase. As my husband reminds me, "you are what you eat"! I found some young ginger at one of the C-Mart Supermarkets (an Asian market in the South End). I like the combination of ginger, garlic and oyster sauce in this dish. You can add as little, as much or no thickener to this dish as you prefer. Check out a similar recipe, Spicy Frog and Lemongrass dish, if you have an interest in eating frogs.
6 pairs of large frog legs de-jointed frog legs tender young ginger Sauteed Frog Legs in Ginger and Garlic Oyster Sauce (serves 2-3 as part of a shared meal)
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2 Tbsp olive or vegetable oil
3 garlic cloves, smashed and chopped
1 3/4 oz julienned young ginger (about 3 adult thumb sized knob of ginger)
6 pairs of large frog legs (about 1.1 lb) , skinned, de-jointed, washed and drained
2 Tbsp oyster sauce 1/2 tsp sugar
Mixture of 1 Tbsp cornstarch with 1 Tbsp water (less cornstarch if you prefer a thinner consistency)
A little chopped scallions, garnish (optional) Method:
1) Heat a medium sized pan over high heat.
2) Add oil. Once the oil is hot, add garlic and ginger. Saute about 2 minutes. May turn heat down to medium high.
3) Add frog legs. Cook about 5 minutes or until the largest part of the leg is cooked through.
4) Season with oyster sauce and sugar to taste.
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| The public is invited to comment on the Cummings Middle School Formerly Improvement Required/Focus School Targeted Improvement Plan during a public presentation and hearing at the BISD Board Meeting on October 6, 2015 at 5:30 in the Boardroom located at 1900 Price Road. TEC 39.106 requires a public hearing since Cummings Middle School received an Improvement Required rating in 2014 and Met Standard for 2015 in the state accountability system. Click here to view the Cummings’ Improvement Plan. | EDUCATION |
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| In my farewell "address" to the kids, I talked about pockets. After making sure they knew what a pocket was, we talked about what most people put in them. I asked if anyone had anything in their pocket, and Leo produced a broken part of a plastic toy he'd found on the road. I talked about how important it must be to Leo to have picked it up and put it in his pocket for safekeeping. Then I told them that before I had left America to come to Uganda, many people had called and expressed a desire to shrink down small enough to fit in my pocket so that I could bring them with me. They got a kick out of that visual. I went on to say that now that it was time for me to go, I wished I could shrink each of them down to a size that would fit in my pocket so I could could take them home with me. I reminded them that, of course, this isn't possible, but then I told them that the most important pocket of all is one that you can't even see. It's invisible, but it is deep and wide and holds so many important things. That pocket, I said, is in our hearts. So that no matter how far away we are from each other, no matter how long it has been since a special CTT friend has visited, even if someone isn't ever going to come back to visit, we all know that we're carrying each other around in this special pocket - and because of that we'll always be right there for each other. In her good-bye letter to me, Queen wrote that she wished she could fit in my real pocket, but that she knew I'd always be close by since she was in my heart pocket and I was in hers. I'm glad she "got it" and I hope the other children did, too. | OTHERS |
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| Last Year Finalist. Image Courtesy of ISARCH
Open to any student of architecture or architect who has graduated within three years prior to their submission, the ISARCH Awards are international awards providing a platform for debate surrounding student solutions to architecture’s problems. The competition highlights avant-garde trends and recognizes new research emerging from university studies. By extending the traditional relationship of student to university, young people are encouraged to join the debate on architecture, contributing fresh new visions and opinions.
The evaluation process will involve both a panel of judges and public voting. Eighty percent of the final score will be decided by the judges, while the remaining 20% will come from public voting on the ISARCH website.
The final date for entries will be October 15, 2015. From November 1 to November 20, 2015, all competition entries will be published on the ISARCH website, with judges deliberating and public voting happening. On November 24 all winners, honourable mentions and finalists will be announced.
First prize will be €3,000 and an HP Designjet Web Connected Printer; second prize will be €2,000; a special prize will be the publication “The role of architecture in the well-being of communities lead by The Prince’s Foundation for Building Community” presented by Dr. Matthew Hardy, and €1,000. All prizes will include a subscription to On Diseño magazine and 2G magazine. There are agreements for professional practice at various studios and publication of the submitted work in journals and websites partnered with ISARCH for all winners, honourable mentions and finalists available.
Panel of Judges for the 6th ISARCH Awards. Image Courtesy of ISARCH
Judges:
Jeroen Zuidgeest - Project Manager at MVRDV
Yosuke Hayano - Principal Partner at MAD Architects
Tomislav Dushanov - Associate at Herzog & de Meuron
Emmanuel Blamont - Senior Design Partner at Atelier Jean Nouvel
Makoto Fukuda - Project Manager in Toyo Ito and EMBT Architects
Dr. Matthew Hardy - Prince Charles Foundation for Building Community
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| Surfinbird Radio Show # 342
BO DIDDLEY - Bo Diddley - Chess 1955 ATOMICS ROTORS: Chicken - Be Fast 2015
GEORGE THOROGOOD: Crawling King Snake - Maverick (Emi) 1985 BROR GUNNAR JANSSON: My Gal Drinks So Much That She Staggers In Her Sleep 2012
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL: I put A Spell On You 1968
SCREAMIN JAY HAWKIN'S: Constipation Blues - What That Is! (Philips) 1969
OTIS REDDING: Louie Louie - Pain In My Heart (Atco) 1964 THE FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS: Sofa Circuit - Hot Number (CBS) 1987 THE BLUES BUSTERS: How Sweet It Is - Behold (Dynamic) 1964
PRINCE BUSTER: Wash The Pum Pum The Big Five 5 (Melodisc) 1972
JOHNNY FULLER: Hauted House Specialty 1958 Don and DEWAY - Bim Bam Specialty 1958 THE PRETTY THINGS: Shakin All Over -Live At The Heartbreak Hotel (WEA) 1985
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART: I'm Glad - Safe As Milk RCA 1967
MITCH RYDER and THE DETROIT WHEELS: Devil with A Blue Dress On (New Voice ) 1966 THE REGENTS: Barbara Ann - Gee 1961 ROGIE: Twist With The Morning Star - The Sound of S.E Rogie (Domino Sound)
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| Washington - Obama Administration Starts Carrying Out Nuke Deal As Time Expires On GOP Published on: Today 08:48 AM By: AP Text Size Email Post Print Post Comments (0) Save Article Washington - The Obama administration began carrying out the Iran nuclear deal as time expired on Republican efforts to derail it, appointing a senior diplomat to ensure that Tehran moves further away from bomb-making capability and outlining a months-long process before Western nations will start easing economic sanctions. Senators failed to reach the 60-vote threshold for a measure to keep all sanctions in place on Iran until it recognizes Israel and releases all imprisoned Americans, and then on a resolution expressing disapproval of the nuclear agreement. Two previous votes in recent days against the Iran deal also failed, and Congress’ 60-day window to prevent President Barack Obama from implementing the seven-nation pact was set to close Thursday night.
Advertisement: Shortly after the votes, the State Department named Stephen Mull as “lead coordinator for Iran nuclear implementation.” Mull, who has served as ambassador to Poland and in other top diplomatic posts, takes on the “crucial” responsibility of shepherding an agreement “which will make the United States, our friends and allies in the Middle East, and the entire world safer,” Secretary of State John Kerry said. To celebrate another benchmark toward securing his biggest foreign policy achievement, President Barack Obama stopped by the State Department’s headquarters on his way home from a fundraiser and briefly attended a reception Kerry held for his Iran team. The accord clinched by the U.S., Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and Iran on July 14 will provide Iran hundreds of billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions in exchange for a decade of constraints on the country’s nuclear program. While the GOP-led Congress’ objections posed the last serious threat to the package, the sides will need months to put the deal into place. Washington expects Tehran to begin on Oct. 18 making major changes to its main site for enriching uranium at Nantanz, its underground nuclear facility at Fordo and its heavy water reactor at Arak. Uranium can be enriched as part of fuel production or for nuclear weapons development. At Nantanz, Iran will have to uninstall thousands of centrifuges and place them in storage controlled by the U.N’s International Atomic Energy Agency. It must also remove electrical infrastructure and pipework. The entire process could take months, senior U.S. officials said. They weren’t authorized to speak publicly on the process and demanded anonymity. A similarly long and complicated process awaits at Fordo, which Iran agreed to convert into a research facility. There, the Islamic Republic must remove about two-thirds of all its installed centrifuges and significant infrastructure, the U.S. officials said. And at the Arak plant, which will be redesigned so it cannot produce weapons-grade plutonium, the center of the current reactor must be pulled out and filled with concrete so it cannot be used again, the officials said. None of those steps will happen immediately, and Iran has further obligations before it can reap the benefits of sanctions relief. It must ship abroad nearly its entire 12,000-kilogram stockpile of enriched uranium, install real-time monitoring systems at its uranium mines and mills, and comply with a long-running IAEA investigation into past nuclear weapons work. That probe is supposed to finish Dec. 15. The officials said they couldn’t predict exactly how long Iran would need. No sanctions relief will occur until all the steps are completed, they insisted, but they said Obama would start issuing waivers on Oct. 18 so that the U.S. can fulfill its end of the bargain once the IAEA verifies Iran’s full compliance. The European Union will undertake a similar process for actions it plans to take, such as ending a ban on imports of Iranian oil. Obama also will instruct U.S. agencies such as the State Department and Treasury Department to lay the groundwork for relieving sanctions on Iran. Iranian compliance also will end U.N. penalties, though some will remain. These include an arms embargo that lasts up to 5 years, a ballistic missile technology ban for up to 8 years, and a ban on transferring any unauthorized nuclear goods, which stays in place for a decade. The combined effect will allow Iran to re-engage in the global financial markets and recover from hundreds of billions of dollars in lost commercial activity as a result of U.S.-led sanctions. But the senior U.S. officials said they still expect Iran to need until about 2020 to take its economy to a level where it would have been, had there not been sanctions. In Congress, some Republicans prepared to move on. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the deal “likely will be revisited by the next commander-in-chief.” House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has held out the possibility of taking legal action to block the deal, while lawmakers also considered legislation to reinstate sanctions or take other steps against Iran. More of today's headlines “Berlin - A court in western Germany says it's waiting on a doctor's assessment of a 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard to determine if he can stand trial on 170,000...” Berlin - Former Auschwitz Guard, 93, Could Face Trial In Germany | POLITICS |
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| Feedback in: Hi Michael, Continue to enjoy and learn from your Podcasts. As previously stated, I am 80.5 years, an analog of the first order and deeply challenged by the digital arena. Finally plowed my way through the iTunes maze for sign up/registration and wrote a review under nickname: trdrtom. I am not certain that it was accepted. Please let me know. It is almost one year since I communicated with Blair Hull. I will take another swing at that challenge. Am starting to reread your three books on my iPAD. Warm regards,
[Name] The Blair Hull interview happened! | OTHERS |
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| DC’s All-Star point guard John Wall was on hand to support the Washington Mystics as they hosted Game 2 of the WNBA Playoffs versus the New York Liberty. Wall took time earlier in the weekend to lend some playoff advice to fellow point guard and Mystics emotional leader, Ivory Latta. The Wizards Wall-Star was seen sitting court-side cheering on the home team only to watch the Mystics fall short to the number one seed Liberty. John Wall took in a casual Sunday afternoon at the Verizon Center and stepped on the scene in his new adidas J Wall 2 signature shoes. Wall rocked an all-red version of his new sneaker. Look for this edition to hit retailers in the coming months. Take a first look at on-foot photos of the new “Red October” inspired adidas J Wall 2 kicks. Tell us what you think. Do these Kicks Roc?! Or should they go Kick Rocs!? Photos via Tony Martin Also Check Out:
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One of the albums I personally was waiting for is officially released today, K Camp’s debut project ‘ Only Way Is Up ‘. Throughout his journey leading up to his debut he has more than delivered on the material he has been releasing. Lets start from what he has done since becoming a 2015 XXL Freshman, he’s dropped songs prior to like “ Lil Bit ” along with a remix and ‘ Comfortable ‘ but it has been his post Freshman Freestyle where K Camp really turned things up. We’ve seen tracks like; ‘ Room 1102 ‘, ‘ Sept 4th ‘, ‘ Change ‘ & ‘ Yellow Brick Road ‘.
Today you get to witness more of what he has to offer as it is courtesy of Spotify we can stream his debut which features supporting acts like Jeremih, T.I., French Montana, Snoop Dogg, Bun B, Cyhi The Prynce & Fetty Wap.
Listen to the album below, I am sure you won’t be disappointed.
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| On the evening of Wednesday, September 16, a woman and her young child were leaving Central WalMart in their vehicle when they were approached by the...
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| It’s weird when song lyrics really get to you. On one hand you want tell everyone about the beautiful gem you found, but on the other you don’t want to sound like the kid who says, “oh my god! ‘Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?’ Did you hear that? Hayley Williams and B.o.B. totally get me. I really could use a wish right now too,” every chance they can. We get it. You posted those lyrics as your Facebook status yesterday. And the day before. And the day before that. I’m pretty sure they were your AIM status for the past month. (I’m sorry, 2010.) Personally I don’t force lyrics down people’s throats. Instead, I passive-aggressively play the song on repeat and sing along to the one part of the song I want people to hear, which is arguably more annoying but don’t think about that too much. Most of the time I don’t think they catch on to what I’m trying to do anyway. Recently I’ve been really caught up on the album “As It Were” by Marietta, particularly the song “Are You Afraid Of God? No, But I’m Afraid of You,” and even more particularly the ending gang vocal section where they’re screaming,
“am I imaginary, or is my voice not loud enough?” Marietta - Are You Afraid of God? No, But I'm Afraid of You I don’t know if it’s the isolation of the vocals, or if it’s the desperateness in all the voices, or if it’s the magnitude of emotion jammed into that moment, but they really get to me every time I hear them. They start off obfuscated by the preceding vocals and explode into a cry as if they had just surpassed the threshold of the container holding them in. Like letting out tears, the sonic direction of those lyrics create a visceral experience out of an arguably simple phrase. That’s the interesting thing about music. Nothing of what I said, had anything to do with the words themselves. (Albeit, I do have a personal response to those words, but then I’d be going into a rant about who I am and no one wants that.) There’s so much that can be drawn out of a couple of seconds in a song without even touching a word. I’m pretty sure a lot of us are accustomed to picking through poetry, and I’d say music is no different.
What is music anyway? Or I guess the better question would be, considering music can encompass instrumental composition, which is a different ball game, what are songs? Some would say poetry with musical accompaniment. Consider this song: Old Gray - Show Me How You Self Destruct It’s basically spoken word over a sparse guitar riff and moving violin line. Because the instrumentation is very simple, it’s easy to pick up the big change that happens in the song that really defines the piece. The first half of the song is relatively bright, with its major key and play on harmonics (those are the bell sounds the guitar makes), but then a change happens at around the <0:27> mark where the key becomes minor and the guitar stops playing harmonics for the most part. That change elicits a negative response from the listener and adds to the experience of the song. Looking into the lyrics and a description by the vocalist, the song is about “chasing something you can never get again,” in his case, opiates, “ and continuing to do so against your will.” The music adds to this by placing two very similar instrumental sections with different emotions attached to them. I want. I shouldn’t. I want against my will. There’s a dissonance between those phrases that the music inhabits. I said I wouldn’t go into the technical parts of music, but I did lightly. I’m sorry. For something simpler, I’d consider this song: Watermedown - Exposure What’s really nice about this song is that what it does is very simple. Looking at the second verse, at around the <0:19> mark, screaming vocals are layered under the main, clean vocal track. The screaming track is so subtle that, without thinking about it, you could miss it, but the addition of it adds to how those lines should feel. A better example would be the line at the <1:29> mark, “I’ve never wanted any more than for someone to understand me.” The vocals in that part juxtapose each other in a great way. The clean vocal track slowly becomes defeated as it goes down that line, and at its lowest point the screaming track bursts in with a passion that felt lost in the clean track. The juxtaposition between the two vocal tracks create a dilemma for the listener, asking them how they feel about the lines and possibly how they feel about themselves. Are they hopeful? Or have they given up? If you try singing along, see where you fit in. -Christian
I'm sorry all of these songs are pretty big bummers. Here's a song to chill out to:
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| Credit : Steven Vance
Half Marathon results
Ian La Belle (1:13:09) bested nearly 8,200 runners to win the 19th annual Chicago Half Marathon in Illinois.
The course which starts and ends in Jackson Park, works runners along Chicago’s south Lake Shore Drive and through the University of Chicago campus, while taking in views of Lake Michigan and Chicago skyline.
Lionel Montenegro secured second with a time of 1:13:23.
Matt Dahl turned in the third best time at 1:13:46.
For the women, it was Kristina Aubert (1:17:40) topping last year’s winner Kristen Heckert (1:19:32) by almost two minutes.
Heckert finished third in 2013.
Meshelle Rich (1:21:51) rounded out the top three with 1:21:51.
Top 10 Men
1
Ian LA BELLE
1:13:09
2
Lionel MONTENEGRO
1:13:23
3
Matt DAHL
1:13:46
4
Josh KAPLAN
1:14:59
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Touseef BHATTI
1:15:55
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Alessio PASSERA
1:16:24
7
Elliot BASSETT
1:17:50
8
Eiichiro KAMIKAWA
1:18:34
9
Steven BLAND
1:20:19
10
Ragnar FREIJ
1:20:31
Top 10 Women
1
Kristina AUBERT
1:17:40
2
Kristen HECKERT
1:19:32
3
Meshelle RICH
1:21:51
4
Krista MOYLAN
1:22:20
5
Karrie HAMSTRA-WRIGHT
1:22:45
6
Holly EASTHAM
1:23:06
7
Amanda MIROCHNA
1:23:13
8
Nora FERGUSON
1:23:42
9
Jill WEINBERG
1:24:43
10
Megan GREENE
1:25:02
Complete Results
5K results
Top 10 Men
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Daniel LINDBLOOM
16:36
2
Carleton SMITH
16:47
3
Graham SEVERANCE
16:52
4
Casey JERGENSON
17:23
5
Derek CHAPUT
17:44
6
Botezan RAUL
17:54
7
Jose I. VARGAS
17:56
8
Mike WONG
17:57
9
Rodrigo Garcia-Rada PUCCIO
18:19
10
Tony CLAVIO
18:32
Top 10 Women
1
Ilana MILLER
19:14
2
Leslie MCSPADDEN
19:57
3
Kaele LEONARD
19:58
4
Rachel PARKS
20:59
5
Carol COADY
22:00
6
Sascha STEINBERG
22:11
7
Gloria ROMERO
22:27
8
Christina THOM
22:41
9
Amy RICE
23:17
10
Heather LENNAN
23:20
Complete Results
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| Adonit is adding another great option to its popular line of styluses compatible with the iPad and iPhone.
The new Jot Dash sits firmly in the middle of the companys lineup and is highlighted by its 1.9mm tip with the same Pixelpoint technology found in the great Jot Script 2 stylus. Thanks to such a small tip and 8.5mm overall diameter, it should provide a more fluid and pen-like writing experience when taking notes or completing other tasks.
Unlike other higher-end styluses from Adonit, the Jot Dash doesnt use Bluetooth technology to connect to your device, and youll be able to use any iOS app like Procreate , Astropad , Notability , and Penultimate .
The Jot Dash can be recharged with a charger that plugs directly into any USB port.
The stylus can be turned on with a quick click to the power button on top of the device. The built-in battery can last for up to 14 hours of usage before needing to be juiced up with a handy USB charger. You can also easily transport the Jot Dash thanks to its carrying clip.
Heres a promo video about the stylus. Click here if you cant see it.
The stylus retails for $49.99 and can be ordered now from Amazon.com or Adonits site . Its available in either a silver or charcoalversion.
Just like our own Jeff Byrnes , Ive really enjoyed the similar Jot Script 2, and I think the Jot Dash gives buyers a more inexpensive way to experience the pen-like experience of the Pixelpoint tip.
For other recent accessory reviews and news, see: Review: PyXY shines with dressy bands for Apple Watch , Review: Bluelounge Kosta Charging Coaster for the Apple Watch , and Nomad’s Roadtrip is a 3,000 mAh battery designed for the car .
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| "Heaven could not span its Creator, but the faithful soul, and only it, becomes its dwelling place and seat, and it becomes so in virtue of charity of which the impious lack."
— St. Clare of Assisi
"When the beauty of mankind impresses you, you should immediately distinguish what is apparent to the eye from what is seen only by the mind. You must remember that all corporeal beauty flows from an invisible principle, the uncreated beauty of God. You must discern in this an almost imperceptible drop issuing from an endless source, an immense ocean from which numberless perfections continually flow. How my soul is ravished when I consider that Eternal Beauty, the Source of everything beautiful!"
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| Panasonic has announced the Lumix DMC-GH4R, a variant of the GH4 that offers a Log gamma curve and unlimited 4K video recording. There will also be a paid-for firmware update adding the V-Log L Photo Style to the GH4 - a super-flat tone curve designed to capture the maximum dynamic range for greater flexibility while color grading. Read more
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| Exterior photo of the Franklin, Nebraska Carnegie Library, built in 1915.
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| Time really flies! It’s already been over two years since I posted the original roundup that inspired today’s: 44 More Slow Cooker Recipes with 4 Ingredients or Less. The original post is still my post popular post here at Homemaking Hacks. That tells me one thing. People love easy slow cooker recipes as much as I do. They aren’t as easy to find as you would think either. Isn’t that a bummer?
Luckily, I’ve been able to summon some great bloggers and with the use of all of my favorite haunts for slow cooker recipes like Pinterest, I was able to stack up another 44 options. From chicken all the way to sweets, these are some great recipes and I know you’ll find some new favorites. The original recipes can be found when you visit the individual recipes below, I’m not the author of them all.
Are you ready to dig in? Let’s get to it!Chicken / Poultry Slow Cooker Recipes
4 Ingredient Slow Cooker Whole Turkey from Homemaking Hacks
Root Beer Crock-Pot Chicken Sammies from Wine & Glue
Portobella, Potatoes & Chicken from Homemaking Hacks
Slow Cooker Buffalo Chicken from Diethood
Cheesy Ranch Chicken from Homemaking Hacks
Fajita Slow Cooker Chicken from Homemaking Hacks
Slow Cooker Chicken & Gravy from Southern Bite
Orange Soda Slow Cooker Chicken from Totally The Bomb
3 Ingredient Italian Chicken from Pillsbury
Crock Pot Chicken & Stuffing from The Pursuit of Happiness
Broccoli & Cheese Slow Cooker Chicken from Homemaking Hacks
3 Ingredient Taco Chicken from Two Healthy Kitchens
Slow Cooker Pineapple Chicken from Dizzy, Busy & Hungry
Slow Cooker Shredded Chicken from A Cedar Spoon
Zesty Crock Pot Chicken from Being Consumed
Photo Credit: Dizzy, Busy & Hungry
Indian Butter Chicken from Dizzy, Busy & HungrySlow Cooker Recipes with Meat
3 Ingredient Crock Pot Beef Tacos from The Frugal Foodie Mama
Easy Slow Cooker BBQ Beef from Noshing with the Nolands
Brown Sugar Pineapple Ham from Julie’s Eats and Treats
Slow Cooker Kalua Pork from Shockingly Delicious
Photo Credit: The Food Charlatan
Spicy Slow Cooker Ham from The Food Charlatan
Autumn Pork Loin from Homemaking Hacks
Crock-Pot Make Ahead Beef from Recipes That Crock
Slow Cooker Italian Beef from It’s Yummi
Crock-Pot Beef Dip Sandwiches from The Kitchen Magpie
Photo Credit: The Big Man’s WorldSlow Cooker Side Dishes
Paleo Curry Pumpkin Soup from The Big Man’s World
BBQ Sticky Rice from It’s Yummi
Slow Cooker Mac & Cheese from 30 Handmade Days
Slow Cooker Black Beans from Miss in the Kitchen
Queso Dip from Savvy Saving Couple
Photo Credit: Confessions of an Overworked Mom
Caramelized Onions from Confessions of an Overworked Mom
Rustic Mashed Potatoes from Shockingly Delicious
Easy Cheesy Cauliflower from The Frugal Girls
Slow Cooker Sweet Potatoes from Homemaking Hacks
Crock Pot Corn on the Cob from Potluck Dad
Photo Credit: Riches to Rags by Dori
Parmesan Ranch Mushrooms from Riches to Rags by DoriSweets & Dessert Slow Cooker Recipes
Chocolate Chip Brownie Cake from My Favorite Things
Crock-Pot Cranberry Butter from The View from Great Island
Paleo Apple Butter from Confessions of an Overworked Mom
Caramel Vanilla Pear Sauce from Suburbia-Unwrapped
Slow Cooker Baked Apples from The Magical Slow Cooker
Crock Pot Peach Butter from Just 2 Sisters
Chocolate S’mores Cake from Sweet Peas & Pumpkins
Dulce de Leche from The Fountain Avenue Kitchen
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| Rihanna keeps it cute in a floral-print dress while making her way inside the Up&Down nightclub on Saturday evening (September 12) in the West Village neighborhood of New York City. The 27-year-old “Bitch Better Have My Money” entertainer was joined by her rumored boyfriend Travis Scott, with whom she was later seen leaving. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics ofRihanna A couple nights earlier, RiRi and Traviswere caught on camera making out at a NYFW after-party. 10+ pictures inside of Rihanna andTravis Scott partying it up together in the Big Apple…MORE HERE! »
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| H.C. Wainwright has initiated coverage of Galectin Therapeutics (NASDAQ:GALT) with a “buy” rating and 12-month price target of $7. The stock closed at $2.28 on Friday.
Galectin is a clinical-stage company focusing on the development of complex carbohydrate compounds that inhibit galectin proteins, which potentially could prevent the progression of and reversal of fibrosis in human organs.
The company’s primary clinical efforts center on a therapy for cirrhosis in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), which is a global unmet medical need. The only other drug candidate specifically targeting NASH cirrhosis is Gilead’s simtuzumab.
“We note that the NASH indication could warrant a multi-billion dollar market,” writes analyst Yi Chen, adding that Galectin’s agents may also be applied to fibrosis of other etiologies and cancers.
In June 2015, Galectin initiated the placebo-controlled and double-blind Phase 2 NASH-CX trial of GR-MD-02 for NASH patients with cirrhosis. A total of 26 infusions every other week for one year are to be given to 156 patients.
The primary endpoint is the change in hepatic venous pressure gradient, which is a FDA-approved surrogate endpoint for NASH cirrhosis. Topline data are expected in the fourth quarter of 2017.
Galectin also initiated a smaller NASH-FX trial in September 2015 to evaluate GR-MD-02 in NASH patients with advanced fibrosis and three non-invasive fibrosis diagnostic tools, with data expected in the third quarter of 2016. “We believe GR-MD-02 could demonstrate positive efficacy in these trials,” Mr. Chen said.
Galectin Therapeutics currently trades at an enterprise value of roughly $25-million, which “we believe is undervalued compared to other mid-stage NASH companies,” he added. | COMMUNITY & LIFESTYLE |
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| The Seahawks are magical and I’ve loved watching them ever since I moved to the Seattle area. They’ve been doing very well recently and I love capturing all their glory with a great NFL banner. My new Seahawks banner lets everyone know that I’m a hard-core fan and helps me feel one with the city. Ever since I got my new banner, I’ve enjoyed Seahawks fandom day in and day out. My banner flies high alongside my home and I can have it out all year round. I’m even planning on getting another banner that features a Seahawks helmet on it. I love collecting all sorts of Seahawks items and my new NFL banner is the perfect addition. Did you like this? Share it:
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| Adelaide is coming up with some cool things right now... The Timberwolf show at the UniBar on Friday night was a good example of this – of the three bands on the lineup, two (including the headliner) were very talented local bands. It's a good thing to see. Anyway, Friday night. Adelaide UniBar. Final show of Timberwolf's launch tour for the new EP Flux. The night started with SKIES, an indie-rock four-piece from Adelaide. SKIES are pretty new, having formed in 2014, but they're promising. They've got a fairly laid-back, psychedic-indie-pop vibe going and their live performance is enthusiastic. They're not a stand out quite yet (their genre is pretty crowded right now), but they're certainly solid and worth keeping an eye on. Next up was Stonefox, a three piece from Melbourne. Stonefox had a kind of Lorde (and I'm not just saying that because they have a female lead singer) meets Silversun Pickups meets Vampire Weekend thing going on. Their vibe was good, and they had nice stage energy, but the thing most worth mentioning is their drummer, Monica Spasaro, who was amazing. Her intricate rhythmic work added a lot of purpose to Stonefox's sound, and really pushed my enjoyment of the band up a few notches. Then, just as the crowd was getting kind of restless, Timberwolf. Timberwolf is ostensibly the stage name of Christopher Panousakis, but it looks like the moniker has expanded, at least onstage, to include a full band. It works, and the songs off the new EP are impressive, but it'd work just as well Panousakis on his own. He strolls onstage, takes a slug from a bottle of Bacardi, and launches into the set. His stage presence is magnetic, and the sheer unbridled emotional reaction he has to performing makes the whole thing electric. There's this really rare vibe of actual rockstar about his performance, and it's no surprise that Timberwolf has gone so far in about two years. The setlist of the show was, obviously, heavy on songs from Flux, including 'Fallen Sun' and 'Whiskey Jar', both of which are layered and hypnotic in a gorgeously indie-roots kind of way. At one point, though, Panousakis did take a break from his own material to sit on the edge of the stage and play a haunting version of The Arctic Monkey's 'I Wanna Be Yours'. Timberwolf's first time headlining the UniBar (and headlining his own tour in general) was a really gripping experience. Hometown shows probably always have a touch of magic to them, and this one was no exception. While I don't totally love the venue – the UniBar is always a weird venue and I much prefer it for pub crawls and post-lecture drinking than gigs – the show was fantastic, and Timberwolf is absolutely someone to keep an eye on if you aren't already. The acoustics at the UniBar are completely terrible though. It's fine for music, but when the musicians just spoke I had a really hard time hearing anything. Also, as an afterthought, there are a lot of indie-esque bands named after North American or foreign animals around at the moment – Stonefox, Timberwolf, Sincerely Grizzly, Tame Impala. That's odd... You can stay up to date with the bands via their Facebook pages below: https://www.facebook.com/Timberwolfofficial
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| I'm an awful patient. I'm an impatient patient. I'm pretty convinced I'm invincible. And I'm sadly getting older so healing is happening too fucking slow for my liking. The first 36 hours felt like Armageddon in my body, fever, chills, pain, nausea, weakness, the whole shebang. It would take me an hour to recover from the 10 minute drive to drop off the chicks at school. Takes longer in the afternoon because, apparently, sunshine and heat are not my friends.The bottle of antibiotics has two stickers on it: one tells me to drink lots of water, the other tells me to avoid prolonged exposure to direct sunlight. It would seem I'm now a fern.
So today, after a two-hour nap, I got up feeling great-ish. I did some light chores, a couple loads of laundry, emptied the dishwasher, and then went to sweep and Swiffer mop Teen Queen's bedroom floor. It was getting icky. Halfway through sweeping, I started sweating. Then shaking, dizzy, wobbly, little black dots swirling in my peripheral vision. Okay, just a little more and I'll rest before I've got to get the chicks. I finished sweeping and realized that was it, I was done.
I've been on the couch sweating for the last 30 minutes trying to psych myself up for the little trip to the school. What the hell happened to me? I'm the woman who shot Class IV-V rapids at Taos Box two weeks after an emergency c-section. I removed and replaced the hot water heater while suffering from bronchial pneumonia. I sprained my left ankle twice in a month and never used crutches. I'm tougher than nails, harder than concrete, and this stupid little infection is taking me down. I'm so mad and frustrated, and at the same time have no energy or strength to do anything about it.
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| The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers Ghana (COPEC) has released prices of petroleum products of the various Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) as at Wednesday, September 23, 2015.
The prices chart, according to the Chamber, would help Ghanaians to know which OMC sells the cheapest fuel on the market since the deregulation exercise started.
The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) on June 16, 2015 allowed OMCs to set their own ex-pump prices for petroleum products.
The move is in conformity with the full implementation of NPA's petroleum product price deregulation.
The NPA, the regulator of the downstream sector, before the full deregulation exercise, was involved in an Automatic Price Adjustment system, which took into consideration government subsidies and an existing pricing formula that was regularly opposed by petroleum product consumers.
The deregulation policy brought to end government’s subsidy on the petroleum commodity.
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Glory Oil sells the cheapest fuel among 10 OMCs selected by COPEC.
Glory Oil’s petrol price per liter is GH¢2.828, while diesel per litre is sold for GH¢2.750.
GOIL quotedGh¢2.929 per litre of petrol and Gh¢2.829 per litre of diesel and UBI quoted Gh¢2.930 per litre of petrol and Gh¢2.820 per litre of diesel.
Shell Ghana quoted GH¢2.950 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.860 per litre of diesel and Allied Oil quoted GH¢2.960 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.850 per litre of diesel.
Agapet quoted Gh¢2.900 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.890 per litre of diesel and Total Ghana quoted GH¢2.980 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.880 per litre of diesel.
Frimps Oil quoted GH¢3.048 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.790 per litre of diesel and Ev Oil quoted GH¢3.070 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.820 per litre of diesel.
Petrolbay quoted GH¢3.070 per litre of petrol and GH¢2.810 per litre of diesel.
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| Remember that book I told you I picked up a used copy of, called Memory Verse Motivators by Cheryl Price? Here's another activity we did from the book. G made one for us and one for his godmother.
I love St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians. It is loaded with so many good things to remember.
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| Last month, we learned of the Doogee F5 and were pretty excited to see what it was going to bring to the table. If you feel the same way, you’ll be pleased to know the Doogee F5 pre-orders have begun and the handset has a low price of $139. One of the big draws of the Doogee F5 is its build, as the company opted for a “liquid metal” alloy frame and a bit of a squared look. It’s not a bad looking handset, but the real reason folks will be interested are the internals and price. The Doogee F5 isn’t a flagship, but it offers up quite the value and is a little cheaper than we initially thought at only $139.99. The Doogee F5 sports a 5.5-inch FHD panel and gets its power from a 64-bit MediaTek MT6753 and 3GB of RAM. You’ll get 16GB of internal storage to work with, while the camera combo clocks in at a respectable 13MP/8MP. Connectivity options include the usual suspects along with Bluetooth, GPS, 4G LTE and a fingerprint scanner. A 3,000mAh battery will keep the lights on for the dual-SIM handset, and its set to run Android 5.1. As you can tell from the Doogee F5 specs, it’s well worth a look if you’re thinking about trying a smartphone from the Far East and don’t want to spend a fortune. While we can’t speak to the software side of things or the user experience, it’s certainly solid under the hood. The Doogee F5 is available for pre-order on Gearbest and is set to ship “after” September 30th if you’re interested in picking one up. via – Androidguys Read more about: Mobile Phones | SCIENCE & TECH |
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| Harmonix y Mad Catz Interactive han anunciado en el día de hoy las últimas canciones no presentadas que conformarán, junto a las anteriomente confirmadas, la playlist completa de su nuevo título musical Rock Band 4, el cual aterrizará el próximo 6 de octubre en nuestras PS4 y Xbox One.
“A menos de 20 días para el lanzamiento, estamos encantados de anunciar el conjunto final de canciones, para que los fans del juego musical tengan una imagen más clara de lo que van a rockear con sus amigos y familiares este mes de octubre”, ha dicho el Product Manager Daniel Sussman.
Os dejamos, así, la lista completa de temas a continuación, aunque no sin antes recordaros que el título será compatible con todos los DLCs de sus predecesores, lo que pone a nuestra disposición un total de 1.500 melodías jugables:
Canciones confirmadas hoy
• Brad Paisley ft. Keith Urban – “Start A Band”
• Brandi Carlile – “Mainstream Kid”
• Dark Wheels – “V-Bomb”
• Gary Clark Jr. – “Ain’t Messin ‘Round”
• Gin Blossoms – “Follow You Down”
• Grouplove – “Tongue Tied”
• Imagine Dragons – “I Bet My Life”
• Jeff Allen ft. Noelle LeBlanc and Naoko Takamoto – “Recession”
• Johnny Blazes and the Pretty Boys – “Cold Clear Light”
• Lynyrd Skynyrd – “That Smell”
• Mumford & Sons – “The Wolf”
• R.E.M. – “The One I Love”
• The Warning – “Free Falling”
Canciones anteriormente confirmadas
38 Special – Caught Up In You
4 Non Blondes – What’s Up?
Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
Arctic Monkeys – Arabella
Avenged Sevenfold – Hail to the King
Benjamin Booker – Violent Shiver
The Black Keys – Fever
The Both – Milwaukee
Cake – Short Skirt/Long Jacket
The Cure – Friday I’m In Love
Disturbed – Prayer
Dream Theater – Metropolis – Part 1 – “The Miracle And The Sleeper”
Duck & Cover – Knock ‘Em Down
Eddie Japan – Albert
Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds
Fall Out Boy – Centuries
Fleetwood Mac – You Make Loving Fun
Foo Fighters – The Feast and the Famine
Halestorm – Miss The Misery
Heart – Kick It Out
Heaven’s Basement – I Am Electric
Jack White – Lazaretto
Judas Priest – Halls Of Valhalla
The Killers – Somebody Told Me
Lightning Bolt – Dream Genie
Little Big Town – Little White Church
Live – All Over You
Lucius – Turn It Around
Mark Ronson ft. Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Impression That I Get
The Outfield – Your Love
Ozzy Osbourne – Miracle Man
Tijuana Sweetheart – Pistol Whipped
Paramore – Still Into You
The Protomen – Light Up The Night”
Queens of the Stone Age – My God Is The Sun
Rick Derringer – Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo
Rush – A Passage To Bangkok
Scandal – The Warrior
Scorpions – No One Like You
Slydigs – Light The Fuse
Soul Remnants – Dead Black (Heart of Ice)
Soundgarden – Superunknown
Spin Doctors – Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong
St. Vincent – Birth In Reverse
System of a Down – Spiders
Van Halen – Panama
Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
White Denim – At Night In Dreams
The Who – The Seeker
Grupos que formarán parte de los DLCs previstos
Blink-182
Fall Out Boy
Jimi Hendrix
Lady Antebellum
Pixies
Sublime
The Doors
The White Stripes
Whitesnake
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LDF Commander Lt General Tlali Kamoli
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Defence and National Security Minister Tšeliso Mokhosi has told the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Commission of Inquiry that although he was not directly responsible for the reinstatement of Lesotho Defence Force (LDF) Commander Lieutenant General Tlali Kamoli, “I trust and enjoy working with him 100 percent”.
“As the minister responsible for defence, I am very comfortable with Lt Gen. Tlali Kamoli. He is a very good man to work with, quite knowledgeable and very experienced actually,” Mr Mokhosi said.
Mr Mokhosi was responding to a question asked by his lawyer, Advocate Salemane Phafane (King’s Counsel) if he was comfortable working with the controversial LDF boss who was fired in August 2014 by former Prime Minister Thomas Thabane—only to reject the dismissal, arguing it was illegal.
Adv Phafane had asked: “This reinstatement of Lt Gen Kamoli, Minister, which is alleged by the opposition to have brought all sorts of problems…how do you view it? As the minister he is answerable to, are you comfortable with him? Is he helpful? Is he steering the army in the right direction?”
The question, prompted by one of the Commission’s terms of reference that it should investigate claims by opposition political party leaders that Lt Gen Kamoli’s reinstatement in May this year, had resulted in divisions in the army.
Dr Thabane fired Lt Gen Kamoli and replaced him with the now late Maaparankoe Mahao. Brigadier Mahao was murdered by the military on 25 June this year, for allegedly resisting arrest after he was fingered in a foiled mutiny plot against the army top brass.
However, after the 28 February 2015 elections, new Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili demoted Brigadier Mahao, and backdated Lt Gen Kamoli’s re-appointment to August 2014, also arguing his expulsion had been unlawful.
On the other hand, commission chairperson Justice Mpaphi Phumaphi of Botswana did not seem to be too impressed by Mr Mokhosi’s response on Friday last week.
“What do you make of the fact that Kamoli ignored His Majesty’s command as it were? That he decided he was not budging?” Justice Phumaphi asked the minister.
“Well, allow me really to say, bring him to the commission one day and hear what he has to say. I cannot answer for him. But working with him now, I am really comfortable,” Mr Mokhosi told the Botswana High Court judge.
Advocate Phafane chipped in: “The newspapers say the prime minister (PM) said he trusts Kamoli. Do you?”
Mr Mokhosi: “I do. I trust him 100 percent.”
Justice Phumaphi also expressed interest in establishing what role Mr Mokhosi played in the reinstatement of the LDF commander.
“Did you have a role to play in the reappointment of Lt Gen Kamoli?” Justice Phumaphi asked.
“Not necessarily so since that is a decision made by the PM. But as the relevant minister, the PM will definitely transmit that information to me.”
Justice Phumaphi: “I noted that his appointment was backdated to 2014. Were you surprised by this?”
Mokhosi: “I have to say it’s not a matter I really deliberated much on. I just accepted what the PM did.”
Justice Phumaphi: “Do you know what that appointment did, because the former PM had removed him and replaced him with Lt Gen Mahao? What it means is that if his appointment was backdated, Lesotho had two de jure army commanders from last year. Isn’t this strange, that two army commanders can be in charge of the same army at the same time?
Mokhosi: “Well, I didn’t think of that My Lord, since I’ve already said that was the decision of the PM.”
It was at this juncture that Mr Mokhosi’s legal counsel, Advocate Salemane Phafane interjected, asking Mr Mokhosi whether Lt Gen Kamoli’s removal was regarded as “a nullity as he was never removed from office”.
“I was part of the previous government. Although the removal of Lt Gen Kamoli was there on paper, practically it was never implemented. It didn’t happen,” Mr Mokhosi said.
Justice Phumaphi then asked the minister: “We hear Lt Gen Kamoli refused to budge, refused to move out of office. If it was a nullity, the only way for it to be declared as such was by a court of law. You don’t take the law into your own hands and say it’s a nullity.
“That appointment was made by the former PM, who was still prime minister at the time according to your own law and still had the right to make recommendations to His Majesty to appoint. And, His Majesty approved. The removal was made by His Majesty, by the way.”
On the Commission’s term of reference addressing the kidnapping of former LDF members by the military, Mr Mokhosi said it was “mere allegations that the military was kidnapping former members of the LDF. It’s totally wrong, it’s a false statement,” Mr Mokhosi said.
“There have never been any kidnappings and there were no former members of the LDF who were kidnapped then and now. The only people who were legally arrested as per the judgment of the High Court of Lesotho were members of the LDF who are still serving the force.
“The High Court of Lesotho has ruled that those arrests were legal when there was suspicion by their family members, that those soldiers had been kidnapped.”
However, Justice Phumaphi then warned Mr Mokhosi that the term of reference in question said “kidnappings of former members of the LDF”, but that it did not say whether or not the military was carrying out the kidnappings.
“When it says that and you say there’s nothing like that, my question is, how are you able to know there’s nothing like that?” asked Justice Phumaphi.
“I understand my Lord. But I am answering this question taking into account that it talks about the ministry where I’m involved. Otherwise, if there are kidnappings made by other people outside my ministry, definitely my Lord I’d not know.”
Justice Phumaphi asked again: “What if they are kidnapped by your soldiers and you do not know, they don’t tell you? There was a report made to you, that there’s a mutiny that had been discovered. Your permission was sought to investigate, you were directly involved in this instance. What if your soldiers kidnapped people without informing you? Would you know?”
“I wouldn’t know but I’d take it that it would be a public matter. But as far as I’m concerned, nothing like that has ever surfaced anywhere in Lesotho, in the media,” Mr Mokhosi said.
But Justice Phumaphi ploughed on: “I am asking this question in anticipation that if somebody was to come here and say he or she was kidnapped by soldiers, would you deny that?”
To this, a seemingly defeated Mr Mokhosi quickly said: “I surrender My Lord. But as far as I’m aware, the alleged kidnappings have not happened.”
Adv Phafane posed yet another question, asking Mr Mokhosi if there were serving members of the LDF who, to his knowledge, had been kidnapped.
“There are no current or serving members of the LDF who have been kidnapped but there are members of the military who have been lawfully arrested,” Mr Mokhosi said, adding there were 23 members of the army in detention for allegedly plotting to overthrow the LDF command.
On the question of the alleged killings of members of the opposition by the army, Mr Mokhosi was adamant that “there are no killings of members of the opposition by government, particularly by the army”. | POLITICS |
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| Maya Donnelly awoke to what sounded like thunder in the early morning hours, but dismissed it as a typical monsoon storm and went back to sleep.
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| God desires to inspire one life and one heart at a time. Groups can pursue meaningful change but it takes inspired individuals to lead to change the world. God desires individuals who radically treat others as they want to be treated as Jesus lived out. In a complicated world this can be by pursing both mercy and justice in response to evil, which are different aspects of love. Loving parents seek the admiration and respect of their children so they want to follow in their footsteps to make this world a better place. Similarly, knowing and understanding God’s amazing love for us is what inspires acts of selfless love toward others.
Followers of Jesus often put the cart before the horse by insisting on obedience instead of pursuing an intimate relationship with one’s Creator. It is implied we better obey God or burn in hell forever. God has never sought to inspire out of fear but love. The Cross is not about God’s revenge and need for appeasement. Actually, the Cross is God’s attempt to convince us of His imaginable love for us. God seeks a relationship for our own good. Jesus didn’t die to change God’s attitude toward us. God’s attitude never changes. To suggest God seeks to inspire out of fear than from love suggest humans understand love better than God.
Human parents don’t threaten their children with punishment for the purpose of gaining a friendship. We warn them of evil for their own good in hopes to steer them from destruction. Tough love is simply another side of genuine love. The fear of punishment is meant to deter but doesn’t lead to life transformations. Gloomy uncertainty as to God's favor does not conquer battles against self-centeredness or long-standing habitual sins in our lives. Fear does not lead to intimacy in relationships which can inspire us to be the kind of person we truly want to be. We often are not invited to understand how much God loves us so a true friendship can develop.
God’s love, not His wrath, was center stage in Scriptures (I John 4:8). The fear of punishment doesn’t prevent one from finding ways to hide their actions. Obligatory obedience doesn’t lead to reflections how to better ourselves, only to reach certain “good” standards. Do we truly love our partner if we are successful 85% of the time? “There is no fear in love. But perfect loves drives out fear… (I John 4:18).” Does God not know what humans know that in perfect love, fear cannot exist?
We all are selfish to some degree but why doesn’t God interfere more with certain horrific evils? But, is one rape any less evil then the raping of women and children of an entire village? God would have to make a total mockery of freedom to control evil. Would you as a parent destroy your child, if they murdered, if you thought they could be redeemed? Would you destroy the murderer of your child if you knew in time they would genuinely repent of their evil and influence others for good? God always cares more about redeeming than destroying. God joined in undeserved suffering through His Son to identify with us and influence us. God surely created the very best world possible, with freedom in mind, to redeem as many of His children as possible.
Mother Teresa had an amazing capacity to love others. Mother Teresa claimed that she was simply responding to God’s boundless love for her and for all of humanity. When one feels extraordinarily loved they simply want to return that love to others. Understanding God’s radical love is the only way to change the world in the long-run one life at a time. Intimacy inspires one to follow in God’s path of wisdom which is always in our best interest. Efforts vary but God’s love doesn’t. We can start off each day feeling accepted. Jesus encouraged others to follow Him for He knew their thirst would be satisfied if they did so. | RELIGION |
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| The Yakima Bait MagLip 4.5 hasn’t been around for too many years yet it already is one of my all-time favorite salmon plugs.
These things are absolutely deadly on spring and fall Chinook (not to mention chums and coho)…and I have caught a ton of other stuff on them while fishing for salmon.
Here’s a look at some of the other species that have snapped up my MagLips:
Stripers really seem to have a taste for them…
And, of course, I’ve caught a bunch of steelhead on MagLips as well…
Resident rainbows will even take one…
I have caught largemouth, smallmouth and spotted bass like this one too…
Not surprisingly, I have caught squawfish on MagLips, but here’s where things get a little weird. I have also had sucker fish…er…suck them down…
And definitely the funkiest catch so far on a MagLip: How about a little sculpin…
Bottom line: everything loves a MagLip!
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| Donna McGinn
BRIDGEWATER, MA and MARSHFIELD, MA…
Remote Quality Bookkeeping makes its living by providing on-site bookkeeping, accounts payable/receivable, payroll and tax preparation services. The company recently formed an alliance with a like-minded company, HR-Onsite. HR-Onsite is a human resource consulting firm that similarly provides on-location HR services for its clients.
“Human resources goes hand-in-hand with the services we offer, so this partnership with HR-Onsite makes all the sense in the world,” said Mark Kilduff, president of Remote Quality Bookkeeping, based in Bridgewater, MA and serving clients throughout the United States. “With HR-Onsite on board, our clients and their clients essentially have available to them a corporate-level HR/Accounting department at a fraction of the cost of hiring a staff.”
HR On-site is owned by Donna McGinn, a human resource consultant based in Marshfield, Massachusetts. HR On-site provides assistance with all facets of human resources, employee recruitment, employee handbook development, employee termination, sexual harassment policy compliance, and more.
“The new sick leave law forced many small business owners to look at their overall human resource policies. Many realized that the HR component required more time and expertise than they had available,” said McGinn. “We give these companies more than HR services, but an HR presence without the cost of hiring a full-time staff. So, it’s a win for the company and employees.”
Adds McGinn, “The partnership with Remote Bookkeeping is another win. Essentially, we are to HR what Mark and his team are to bookkeeping.”
For more information on HR On-site, call Donna McGinn at 781-718-4778.
In addition to its wide range of bookkeeping services, Remote Quality Bookkeeping takes a consultative approach with its clients. Often that includes remote sessions to walk clients through reports and to translate the numbers into easy to understand pieces.
Remote Quality Bookkeeping hosts data on secure servers providing clients with a safe haven accessible from anywhere at any time. This allows accessibility and peace of mind so business owners can focus on their business.
Remote Quality Bookkeeping clients can outsource just a few bookkeeping tasks or the whole accounting and bookkeeping department. Remote Quality Bookkeeping’s team approach ensures that the books are accurate and up-to-date all for one low monthly fee.
Remote Quality Bookkeeping is located at 12 Spring Terrace, Bridgewater, MA 02324. For more information, call (508) 889-0201 or visit www.myrqb.com . | FINANCE & BUSINESS |
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| Stay up-to-date with KAKE News: iOS app Android app Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook WICHITA, Kan.--- Wichita police are standing guard over a local gang member in the hospital after they say he went on a crime spree before being beaten unconscious by a homeowner. Police say the 40-year-old suspect first stole a pickup truck in the 600 block of north Emporia Monday morning at 11 a.m. At noon, investigators say the same man damaged the garage at his ex-wife's home in the 700 block of North Golden Hills before going to a home in the 3400 block of east Roseberry. Police say the suspect fired a shot from a gun he found inside the stolen truck. He then reportedly went inside and shot at the homeowner. Investigators say the suspect demanded money from the homeowner and tried to fire another round at him, but the gun jammed. Police say the homeowner then beat the suspect until he was unconscious. EMS took the suspect to the hospital with a bleed on his brain. Officers are standing guard over the man until he is well enough to go to jail. The suspect faces five counts each of aggravated robbery, aggravated battery and aggravated assault in the case. The homeowner tells KAKE News he was a friend of the suspect from years ago. He says the man was recently released from prison and believes he was high on drugs. The suspect's name has not been released. | LAW & CRIME |
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| FXStreet (Delhi) – Yann Quelenn, Market Analyst at Swissquote, suggests that in case of a U.S. rate hike, Russia could be a casualty, caught in the crossfire of a stronger greenback. Key Quotes
“A stronger dollar would serve to push Russia's international reserves down, (currently at $364 billion). In addition, Russia relies mainly on its oil and gas exports and its revenues are suffering from low commodity prices.”
“Also, most commodities, which are priced in dollars, will become increasingly expensive for other countries which will have a downside effect on Russia’s revenues.”
“Since the beginning of the year, Russian GDP shrank by 2.2%y/y in the first quarter and by 4.6%y/y in the second quarter. Despite potential Fed rates hike being negative for Russia, it is also worth saying that Russia has been trying to improve its relationship with China and is also trying to give up the dollar in its international exchanges.” | FINANCE & BUSINESS |
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| When local eggplants are plentiful and available in different sizes and colours, it’s time to enjoy them more often and in different ways. This recipe comes from Persiana, a new Middle Eastern cookbook by British food writer and cook Sabrina Ghayour (Interlink Publishing Group, Northampton, Mass., $43.95). She says this Turkish dish, known as karniyarik (belly-stuffed), is packed with flavour thanks to its stuffing of ground lamb, garlic and tomatoes.
You can put the dish together early in the day, ready to bake at the last minute. It’s one of many tempting recipes among the 100 Ghayour provides from “the Middle East and beyond,” as she puts it. Add a tossed green salad — and that’s dinner. Keep the eggplant stalks intact so the shells do not collapse in cooking. Ghayour likes to use pale green Turkish peppers, but offers regular green bell peppers as an alternative.
Eggplant Stuffed with Lamb and Tomatoes
Serves 6
Vegetable oil
3 large eggplants, halved lengthwise
2 large onions, coarsely chopped
500 g ground lamb
4 large tomatoes, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
Sea salt or coarse salt
Freshly ground pepper
1 large green pepper, cut in strips
Pour enough oil into a large, heavy frying pan to coat bottom generously. Heat over medium heat and fry eggplants, cut side down, for 8 to 10 minutes, being careful not to brown the peppers. Turn and fry the skin side another 8 minutes. Drain on paper towels.
Raise heat to medium-high and fry onions until they begin to brown. Add lamb and cook, stirring to prevent meat from stewing. When meat has browned, drain off surplus fat and add 3 of the chopped tomatoes, the parsley, and salt and pepper to taste. Stir and remove pan from heat.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F and have ready an oiled ovenproof dish that can hold all the eggplant halves in one layer. Slash the sides of the eggplants, being careful not to cut right to their bottoms; you should leave about a half-inch at the edges. Use the back of a spoon to press the eggplant flesh in order to create a cavity in the centre of each half.
Fill the eggplant halves with an equal amount of the stuffing mixture, piling it up so all the stuffing is used and patting it down gently. Top each eggplant half with an equal amount of the remaining tomato and the green pepper strips. Arrange eggplant halves in the ovenproof dish. Sprinkle a little cold water over each eggplant half.
Bake in preheated oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until the pepper is slightly blackened around the edges. Serve at once. | FOOD & DRINK |
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| SUCRE, the traditional baked mooncake specialist, doubles its mooncake offerings, bringing this to a total of 12 mooncake flavours this Mid-Autumn Festival 2015.
“This year’s inspiration for the mooncake gift box is the aptly titled Fleurs d’Automne, also known as ‘Flowers of Autumn’, which take the form of the gold-laced floral motifs covering the box,” explains Lucy Pek, founder of SUCRE. “Ash blue was chosen as the backdrop colour to convey the mood of high autumn. At the same time, the flowers on the box are designed such that they are ‘emptied’ of colour to reflect Mid-Autumn as well as the changing season.”
BOX DESIGN
The Fleurs d’Automne gift box is replete with SUCRE’s signature colours of bold pink and luxurious gold. Design-wise, the floral outlines in gold are reminiscent of a luxurious arabesque as the overlapping flowers in two different shades of pink create a strong textural contrast. Each Fleurs d’Automne gift box will be accompanied by a luxurious paper bag in hot pink colour, fronted on two sides with an intricate gold ornamentation.
12 MOONCAKE FLAVOURS This year, SUCRE, the traditional baked mooncake specialist, doubles its mooncake offerings for the Mid-Autumn Festival, bringing this to a total of 12 mooncake flavours. This year’s highlight flavour is the auspicious-sounding ‘Phoenix’ or '鳳黄', another perennial favourite with a twist – White Lotus Seed Paste with Pineapple and Single Yolk. ‘Phoenix’ is a play on the Mandarin word for the single yolk as well as the pineapple filling. The evenly grated pineapple filling in this traditional baked mooncake has a tart accent which perfectly balances the saltiness of the single yolk with the sweetness of the white lotus seed paste. Last year’s best-selling White Lotus Seed Paste with Cherries is back by popular demand – this year, SUCRE will up the ante by introducing Organic Cherries as an ingredient in this traditional baked mooncake for those with a taste for the finer things in life. For traditional baked mooncake purists, SUCRE has included in this year’s offerings the following: White Lotus Seed Paste with Melon Seeds, White Lotus Seed with Single/Double Yolks, and Mixed Nuts (五仁). The artisanal brand will also introduce 2 new unique tea-flavoured mooncakes – White Lotus Seed Paste with a blend of Oolong & Pu-er Tea and White Lotus Seed Paste with Oolong Tea and Osmanthus Flowers. The 12 mooncake flavours are as follows: Signature Collection ‘Phoenix’ White Lotus Seed Paste with Pineapple and Single Yolk / ‘鳳黄’
White Lotus Seed Paste with Pineapple & Melon Seeds White Lotus Seed Paste with Organic Cherries & Melon Seeds White Lotus Seed Paste with Japanese Kiwi & Melon Seeds Traditional Collection White Lotus Seed Paste with Melon Seeds White Lotus Seed Paste with Single Yolk White Lotus Seed Paste with Double Yolk Mixed Nuts /五仁
Seasonal Collection White Lotus Seed Paste with Oolong & Pu-er White Lotus Seed Paste with Oolong & Osmanthus Flowers White Lotus Seed Paste with Macadamia Nuts Premium Red Bean Paste with Melon Seeds
POINTS OF SALE From September 14 to 27, SUCRE’s Fleurs d’Automne mooncake gift sets and artisanal cookies will be on sale at the Mid-Autumn Festival Fairs at JEM Shopping Mall and Parkway Parade Shopping Centre. The gift sets are also available for purchase online at www.ruedusucre.com from July 20. SUCRE artisanal cookies are also currently retailing at Naiise, Clarke Quay Central Shopping Mall, #02-23, 6 Eu Tong Sen Street, Singapore 059817.
PRICES SUCRE offers various mooncake combinations for each Fleurs d’Automne gift set. Each set of 4 mooncakes will retail from $52.00 to $60.00. SUCRE’s artisanal cookies will retail from $20.80 to $23.80 per jar. Deliveries can be arranged for corporate orders. For more information and to place orders, please visit www.ruedusucre.com, email order@ruedusucre.com or contact SUCRE hotline at +65 6680 0295. Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook | FOOD & DRINK |
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| Big news broke this morning as NASA scientists announced the first direct evidence for water on Mars. Let that sink in for a moment. Water. On Mars. It’s very exciting stuff, just in time for the big opening weekend of The Martian . Here’s what we’ve learned so far about this momentous discovery. Read more…
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| December 7, 2015 , will be the last day to transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Amtrak .
All Aboard! Transfer Your Chase Ultimate Rewards Points to Amtrak by December 7, 2015
What’s Happening?
Link: Should You Transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards Points to Amtrak Now That Their Program Is Changing?
Link: Two New Amtrak Credit Cards, Should You Get One?
Via View From the Wing , Chase will remove the option to transfer Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Amtrak .
December 7, 2015 , will be the last day to make the transfer.
Remember, you’re allowed to move your Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Amtrak (and other partners like United Airlines, Southwest, and Hyatt) when you have 1 of these cards: Chase Sapphire Preferred , Ink Plus , or Ink Bold.
If You Want to Use Your Points for Travel on Amtrak, Transfer Them Soon!
Amtrak is changing to a revenue-based program on January 24, 2016 , but you can still get good deals on train travel .
Bank of America recently introduced 2 new Amtrak credit cards , so it looks like Amtrak is ending their partnership with Chase.
This is disappointing because it means folks will have fewer ways to redeem their Chase Ultimate Rewards points in a couple of months. That said, last year Chase added Singapore Airlines . So if this is a swap of sorts, many folks would make that trade.
There are always changes in our hobby, so when you see a good deal, go for it! Because we never know when it might end.
Hopefully, Chase will add another new travel transfer partner to replace Amtrak!
Book These Awards While You Still Can!
If you want to plan a trip on Amtrak with its current zoned-based award chart, be sure to book it before January 24, 2016 . And if you want to use Chase Ultimate Rewards points, we now know you’ll have until December 7, 2015, to transfer your points.
Award Pricing Based on the Number of Zones You Cross Will Go Away on January 24, 2016. And Roomette and Sleeper Awards Will Cost Many More Points!
Here’s how many points you’ll need:
One Zone Coach Class – 5,500 Business Class – 6,500 Roomette (for up to 2 people) – 15,000 total Bedroom (for up to 3 people) – 25,000 total Two Zones Coach Class – 8,000 Business Class – 10,500 Roomette (for up to 2 people) – 20,000 total Bedroom (for up to 3 people) – 40,000 total Three Zones Coach Class – 10,500 Business Class – 12,500 Roomette (for up to 2 people) – 35,000 total Bedroom (for up to 3 people) – 60,000 total Northeast Zone Coach Class – 4,000 Business Class – 6,500 Roomette (for up to 2 people) – 15,000 total Bedroom (for up to 3 people) – 20,000 total Special Routes (Various Short-Haul Between Popular Cities) Coach Class – 1,500 Business Class – 2,000 Acela Express (High-Speed Train Between Boston and Washington, DC) Business Class – 8,000 First Class – 12,000
Read about the best Amtrak awards and take advantage of Amtrak’s zone-based award chart and roomette awards while you still can!
Bottom Line
Amtrak has lots of changes coming up! Starting January 24, 2016 , they’re changing to a revenue-based program that will be better for some. And recently Amtrak came out with 2 new credit cards .
And now we’ve learned that December 7, 2015 , will be the last day to transfer your Chase Ultimate Rewards points to Amtrak.
You can still get good deals even after all the changes, so if you like to travel on Amtrak, it might be worth transferring some of your Chase Ultimate Rewards points within the next couple of months.
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| Oh My Captain – Max Pacioretty Honoured by Habs Teammates
J.D. Lagrange September 18, 2015
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By J.D. Lagrange, Senior Writer, All Habs Hockey Magazine When the Canadiens decided to go without a captain after losing quality leadership in Brian Gionta and Josh Gorges last summer, they decided not to name a captain for the 2014-2015 season, wanting to see who would step up and take on a bigger role on the team. What they saw was impressive as a few stepped up in their leadership roles. Let’s face it: any of Max Pacioretty or P.K. Subban would have been a good choice. But one guy made a late push in spite of his young age and that’s Brendan Gallagher. PENTICTON, BC. – When the team announced that Max Pacioretty was named the franchise’s 29th team captain, it came as little surprise and a vast majority of fans were in total support… particularly when they found out how the choice was made. Pacioretty will be the third American to wear the “C” on his jersey (second consecutive) after Chris Chelios and Brian Gionta. In his last meet with the media, GM Marc Bergevin had said that the next captain could not be announced at that time because he hadn’t met with all of the players yet, but that a choice would be made during training camp. Those who listened to what he said will also remember that Bergevin mentioned that the next captain would have to have the respect of the other players in the dressing room. We now know why: the leaders were voted in by the players themselves! It turns out that in the voting, not only was Pacioretty named captain, but Andrei Markov, Tomas Plekanec, PK Subban and… Brendan Gallagher led the votes and will share the duty of assistants to Pacioretty. This captaincy process is yet another example of the way Bergevin is bringing a new direction for this team. Past managements have all appointed the players wearing the letters on their jerseys but Bergevin wanted to bring back the old school way of doing things by letting the players decide on who their leaders were in the dressing room. The last captain to be voted by his teammates? Saku Koivu, back in 1999. Make no mistake here: This team is Carey Price’s team in the dressing room. He is the ultimate leader on this team and players know it, but league rules prevent a goaltender to wear the “C” during a game. You will remember the fiasco in Vancouver when, in a desperate move to convince Roberto Luongo, a future UFA, to sign back with the team, pulled the publicity stunt by naming him captain. Not that Luongo wasn’t a great leader, far from that, but they knew the league rules and it created all sorts of controversy, the goaltender even getting the “C” painted on his mask. The results of this vote are interesting in many ways and one thing stands out in all of this, and it’s particularly obvious when looking at the names chosen. Last year’s four alternate captains were Markov, Plekanec, Pacioretty and Subban, all chosen by management. After the players’ votes, the same four names came on top, with the addition of young Gallagher who really stepped it up last year, particularly in the playoffs. This is a clear sign that management has a pretty good idea of what’s going on with this team, and it shows how both the players and the organization are “in sink” with each other. They are called clichés because they are truth being repeated over and over again, but while Pacioretty will have the captaincy, the fact remains that there is a core group of young leaders in this dressing room and all will contribute in their own ways in providing the necessary guidance on the team both on and off the ice. Many of those players have worn a letter on their jerseys at some point in their career, and weather they are wearing one or not this year, they seem to all be wanting the same thing: the team’s success and ultimately, winning a Stanley Cup together. WHY FOUR ALTERNATES? As only three players can wear a letter in any NHL game, teams traditionally go with one captain and two alternate captains, sometimes naming one extra in case of an injury. For some reasons, the Canadiens have named four alternates, a decision which raises even more questions about the status of veteran centreman Tomas Plekanec. There is no doubt that he is one of the quiet leaders in this dressing room and for as long as he is wearing this uniform, he will be an alternate captain and he will be playing centre even in the event of the current log-jam at that position. Plekanec, as we all know, is entering the final year of his contract with a cap hit of $5 million, and it has been reported that no contract talks have been held between his agent and the team. This doesn’t mean that there won’t be any, but many think that if Alex Galchenyuk shows that he’s ready to take on the next step in his career by showing that he can play centre, Plekanec could be sacrificed to obtain scoring help on the wing. This could explain the four alternates, although one would think that the team would have kept the announcement for the fourth one quiet, at least until one of them is moved via trade. So why the rush to name four? Like with anything else, we will likely find out in due time, but this decision certainly won’t stop the rumour mill from turning full speed until Plekanec is either re-signed or traded, that’s for sure. With one of the Canadiens’ top 10 questions entering training camp now answered, nine others remain. Isn’t it great that hockey is back? 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| There was a time when having an unlimited dial-up account at home is already a luxury. Having access to the internet, even at maximum speeds of only 54Kbps, was the most liberating and addicting as you get instant access to vast information and online services. It was also very expensive — about Php5,500 a month, and unless your job requires and can justify for it, your only other viable option is a Php50-an-hour session at a nearby internet cafe.
All that has changed. We get access to the internet from almost anywhere — the traditional wired DSL at home, fixed wireless for last mile, and 3G or LTE for nomadic use. For really remote areas where no cellular coverage is possible, there’s the option to hook up to satellite internet.
Internet speeds have also gradually improved. From the very first 128Kbps DSL line from 10 years ago, we now can choose anywhere from a basic 1Mbps line to a more generous 10Mbps connection. If you want faster, there are options that go from 20Mbps to 200Mbps but it’s still limited to very few areas in Metro Manila.
Prices have also significantly gone down. The Php5k unlimited dial-up connection is now an equivalent of 8 or 10Mbps DSL or fiber connection.
Of course, as the connectivity service has progressed, the amount of information and content the consumers access have also greatly increased. Back then, there was no Facebook or YouTube. Online games are very limited and HD streaming was unheard of. Websites and portals were pretty basic and light.
All things considered — speeds are up, costs are down — the state of internet in the Philippines have significantly improved. If it didn’t, we won’t be labeled as the social media capital of the world with almost 92% Facebook penetration, one of the biggest YouTube consumers and producers in the region and become the selfie capital of the world.
Yet, there is this unanimous sentiment that internet access in the Philippines is the slowest and most expensive in the region, and perhaps even the rest of the world. Even independent studies have shown this many times before.
Everything is relative and the few who can afford a Php20,000 monthly service fee for a 100Mbps fiber connection at home would tell you otherwise.
But when we see hard numbers across Asia and globally comparing the average internet speed of the Philippines with other countries, we always lag behind in numbers.
We’re not that ambitious to compare ourselves to the blazing fast connections of Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea but at least our numbers should be within the range of contemporaries such as Malaysia, Vietnam and Indonesia.
Two sources frequently publish reports about internet speeds. One is Ookla and its very popular SpeedTest website and the other is Akamai that has analytics on everyone that accesses their Content Delivery Network (CDN) mirroring popular sites like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and YouTube.
If we are to interpret the results of their published report, we have to look at and consider two factors:
What is the subscribed internet speed of the users that are being measured?
Most ISPs have varying speed offerings but a significant majority of subscribers are on the lowest tier (1-3Mbps). Hence, this tier will determine the average speed of the whole country if we are to base that on Speedtest.net’s crowdsourced data.
In any case, the number is still reflective of most households in the country.
What is the average purchasing power of subscribers?
How much a typical household allocate for internet service will be reflective of their purchasing power rather than the ISPs capacity to deliver.
If ISPs offer a higher speed for the starting subscription plan, then the general average would also be higher. When providers scrap the 1 to 3Mbps starting plan and just start their services at 5Mbps, our general average would double. The result, however, is that fewer people or households will be able to subscribe to the service.
In other words, the current subscription plans that are being offered by the current set of players are a result of fierce sales and marketing push for bigger market share. There is more opportunity and revenue to be made by converting the remaining 60-70% of the population to subscribe rather thanthan up-selling and providing faster service to the existing subscribers.
However, once market saturation reaches 80-100%, the dynamics will change from subscriber acquisition to subscriber retention. That means service providers will focus more on selling higher speed plans to existing subscribers than selling starter plans to new subscribers.
Overselling, Underserving .
Let’s put this into a simple analogy. An ISP is selling tickets to a movie screening that runs 24 hours. Each ticket costs Php999 and allows you to come in and go out of the theater at any time. It even allows you to hand over the ticket to a friend so that when you are out, they can use the ticket and watch the movie while you are away.
The seating capacity of the theater is 1,000 seats. The ISP sells up to 2,500 tickets in the hope that not all 2,500 will enter and watch the movie at the same time. Besides, each one would probably only watch for 2 hours and not the entire 24 hours. Technically, every 2 hours they can accomodate another set of 1,000 new viewers which puts the ceiling capacity at 12,000 in a 24-hour window.
For a time this was okay — only around 800 to 1,200 people watch the round-the-clock movie at once. During those times where there are 1,200 people, the theater is over-crowded and it is standing-room (congested). It was still bearable as 1,000 gets to sit and only 200 are standing.
As years go by, the types of movies shown become more interesting and lasts longer than 2 hours (FB, YouTube, blogs, etc.). Of the 2,500 tickets sold, almost 2,000 people enter the theater and stay for 8 hours instead of the usual 2 hours. That’s 1,000 people seating and another 1,000 people standing. It’s too crowded and while people can still watch, it is not comfortable and others are blocking people’s view. Some would even stay thw entire 24 hours and hog the seats (ISPs refer to them as the 3% abusive users).
The ISP expands floor space or builds a second floor and adds 50% of its original seat count. There are now 1,500 seats. Theater owner says we now have bigger capacity, hence we can sell more tickets. The booths sell 1,000 more tickets. The seating capacity is increased to 1,500 seats but the tickets are now 3,500. The ISP waits a few years until it recovers the cost of adding the new 500 seats.
That is where we are at — a never ending cycle of adding more seats and selling more tickets.
This is exactly the same as in the airlines industry where carriers are actually allowed by law to overbook tickets by up to 10% (selling 99 tickets to a 90-seater plane). That’s why some people get bumped off of their flights once and a while.
In the ISP industry, there is no such thing as a limit on overbooking. The service providers are allowed to overbook in multiples. If an ISP has a capacity of 1Gbps (1,000Mbps) and it sells that capacity to subscribers at 2Mbps per plan they don’t just divide 1,000Mbps by 2, giving them a maximum of 500 customers paying Php999 each. That 1Gbps pipe might cost them $100,000 a month but they will only make Php499,500 from the 500 customers. A Php4.5 million pipe only making Php500k a month in subscriber fees — that’s not the way they will sell it.
What they will do is sell that 1,000Mbps pipe to as many as 20,000 customers which would net them around Php19,980,000 . Of course, giving 20,000 customers 2Mbps each would actually require 40,000Mbps in total despite the fact that 2Mbps needs to be guaranteed. That is where the congestion starts. We go back to the movie theater analogy.
Just one of many reasons .
Now that we have a better picture of how the industry players behave, we can better understand the state of internet in the Philippines.
There are a lot of factors to take into consideration, some more obvious than the others.
1) Topography. The Philippine population is scattered in 7,107 islands so the type of connectivity solutions to cater to all of them will vary. Compared to Singapore or Hong Kong which is just a small land mass, the Philippines’s topography poses a more expensive roll-out of infrastructure. Rolling out an underground fiber line from Vigan to Naga requires huge investment. Add to that additional roll-out of submarine cables just to connect the numerous islands of Visayas (Negros Island, Panay Island, Cebu, Bohol, Samar and Leyte).
It is possible that any single internet provider will have to spend 2,000 – 3,000% more on infrastructure in the Philippines compared to the how much it costs to roll out in Singapore. Yet they both have almost the same subscriber base (Something like 2.5 million home broadband subscribers in the Philippines vs. 3 million home broadband users in Singapore. This does not include nomadic 3G/LTE users.)
This is one of the reasons why many barangays and islands in the Philippines only have weak signal or just GPRS/Edge connection.
No ISP is willing to invest and put up the 3 or more towers it needed to give the appropriate coverage. Hence, they will just put up one tower to serve the 100 to 500 or so potential subscribers in those areas. From a business stand-point, it makes sense — why invest millions on a small island of 1,000 people when only 500 of them will subscriber to you and pay you Php300 a month (ARPU or Average Revenue per User for prepaid SMS and voice).
2) Investment Cycle and ROI. The existing players that have already invested in service infrastructure in the last 5 to 10 years are still waiting for their return on investments from the last upgrade. Until then, they need to increase their market share and average revenue per user in order to hit their annual targets. Since most of the players are public companies, they have to balance their growth and expenditures against their revenue and performance in order to please the shareholders. In short, service providers need to recoup their investments and make a profit before spending some more to improve the service quality and coverage.
3) Lack of Competition. Did you know that in the early 2000, there were more than 300 independent ISPs in the Philippines? Though the market then was mainly just for dial-up, any service provider can easily hook up to the backbone and buy more dial-up numbers to increase their capacity. Hence, competition was fierce to gain and retain subscribers.
Today, with mostly DSL and fixed wireless services, the players have shrunk to just the bigger ones.
Believe it or not, we still have so many Internet Service Providers in the country. They range from cable internet, DSL, wireless (WiMax, LTE) and satellite (Read: All the 7 Philippine ISPs to Choose From ) but the problem is they all have to deal with PLDT or Globe for the outgoing pipes. So yes, there is some sort of duopoly in play.
4) Peering and Local Exchange. There is some level of inefficiency when ISPs do not locally peer. Content has to go out of the country and back in order to reach a user instead of making the shortcut and travel locally. It also reduces lag time which is essential for certain services like online gaming and VOIP.
One ISP claims that they built their own backbone over the years and paid for it. It is an advantage that will give them a huge lead over competitors. If they interconnect, that would remove their advantage.
5) Appropriate Legislation. The current set of laws on competition, consumer protection and regulations are not enough or outdated. There’s the Competition Act of the Philippines that has been already enacted into law.
The NTC needs to work faster to resolve issues and penalties to erring ISPs must be updated to give it more teeth. Did you know that NTC is only allowed by law to penalize ISPs up to Php200 per day for failure to deliver service? It’s an old law that needs to be amended.
6) Government Support. The National Broadband Network which was proposed and scrapped many years ago would have been a first step had it not been riddled with controversy. A national budget to provide a bigger backbone or wider network would help alleviate the network coverage.
There is already a bill that is being prepared to come up with a Universal Charge which will collect from ISPs and the funds will be used to build more infrastructure. This is already being done in the power sector (check your Meralco bill for Universal Charge) and you can even see this in your water bills.
We’re seeing some progress but for most consumers, that progress is very slow especially when compared to our neighboring countries.
Just like electricity where our rates are among the highest in the region, internet connectivity is even a more complex problem.
For the mobile internet users, read more about “ Why Your Telco Needs To Cap Your Mobile Internet “.
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| A few weeks ago in the Voice, an article ran saying that bidding wars were breaking out in Fall Creek. Homes in the neighborhood are being fought over by multiple buyers, and driving up the sales prices (and assessments for all the other properties).
So, being of an analytical mind, I wanted to see if there was any way to prove that. And that is the topic of today's post.
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So the hypothesis is, if there are bidding wars going on, we should be seeing relatively low reductions from listing to sales price, or even sale prices above the listing price. According to anecdotal evidence from real estate website Zillow, 90-95% of list value is common, assuming that the home was priced realistically for its market.
Using the bounds of Fall Creek as defined in the article, listing and sales data were pulled from houses sold within the neighborhood from 2013 to present. Zillow and Trulia (mostly Zillow) were used to find old listing prices, and the sales price were cross-checked with the county records website when possible. The initial price was used, meaning that if the owners reduced the price before a house sold, it "didn't count".
One of the problems is, not all houses go through real estate agents, and not all homes are widely advertised when they're put on the market. There's a lot more sale information out there than there is listing information. Nevertheless, sales and listing prices were found for 45 homes in the Fall Creek area. Not the most robust sample size, but the homes are a nice distribution of sub-neighborhoods and sales values. The average home value in Ithaca is about $220,500 over that time period (and $229,100 now). The mean listing price here is $238,460, and the median $226,900, both pretty close to the city average.
Now let's look at the sale prices. Many prices went down, and judging from the increase in a few of the pricier bins, some values went up as well. The mean sales price is $234,444, and the median sales price is $225,000. The lump sum math says that the average decrease from listing to sales price was 1.68%. So if we go by the Zillow guideline of where sales price is 90-96% of listing price, and here the sales price is 98.32% of the list price, then there's at least evidence that Fall Creek is doing quite well as a real estate market.
However, looking at the aggregate values don't tell the whole story. Breaking down and sorting the percentage change between listing price and sales price, 17 of the listings saw an increase from the asking price in the listing, to the sales price. And then there's at least 4 property owners who either had really unrealistic expectations, or were hosed. One of those houses was on the market for 22 months, while most of the other listings were on the market for 2-4 months (and by on the market, I'm counting the pending sale/listing removed period).
If one goes looking for trends with time, they won't find anything here. With an R-squared of 0.0447 (and R of 0.2114), the trend line is crap and there's no strong correlation with prices as a function of time. There didn't appear to be a strong trend geographically either, although I had no set up the data for geographic parameters (but if someone really pushes for it, it'll be produced for verification's sake).
in conclusion, there might be some bidding wars going on. There are definitely homes selling over asking price, and the housing market in Fall Creek is certainly healthy. But there are still a number of homes selling in the more typical -5% to -10% range, either because sellers are asking too much, or because buyers haven't been biting (given the other evidence, I'm going with sellers asking too much).
There have been very rapid appreciations in home values in the past 15 years, which have caused strains for residents with modest or fixed incomes. But for now, home buyers appear more than happy to offer a way out. For better or worse. | FINANCE & BUSINESS |
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| POPSUGAR Celebrity Wedding Music 30 Perfect Songs For an Autumn Wedding by Shannon Vestal Robson 07/9/15 Like us on Facebook Previous Photo 1 of 31 View on One Page ADVERTISEMENT ( more slides) Next Share This Link Copy What’s Your Reaction? Thanks for your reaction Don’t forget to share this with your friends! 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 30 Perfect Songs For an Autumn Wedding There are a lot of music decisions to make when you plan a wedding, and that's why we have so many music guides to help you find the right songs for your event. But what if you're not searching by first dance, processional, or dance floor picks, and you're looking for something to match the general vibe instead? We've got that, too, and right now, we're focusing on Autumn weddings as Summer comes to a close. Autumn brides are picking their music now, so we have some options for music that just sound appropriate (think guitars, folkiness, and Ed Sheeran). Previous Photo 1 of 31 View on One Page ADVERTISEMENT ( more slides) Next Back to Homepage Comments Read More Wedding MusicAutumnMusicWedding POPSUGAR, the #1 independent media and technology company for women. Where more than 75 million women go for original, inspirational content that feeds their passions and interests. What’s Your Reaction? Thanks for your reaction Don’t forget to share this with your friends! 0 0 0 0 0 0 0Reactions Latest Celebrity | ENTERTAINMENT |
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| After days of squalid limbo, the refugees of Keleti station square, armed only with desperation, forced the hand of a government they saw as jailers. Despairing of ever escaping the increasingly squalid station, barred from boarding trains and buses without papers, they simply set off to Austria on foot, a 125-mile journey that seemed better than staying put. The scenes they fled might have looked familiar to the 19th-century architects of Keleti’s soaring arches. Ever larger crowds of desperate, penniless, homeless people milled around, unable to go on to the countries they dreamt of, unwilling to go back to the countries they had fled, trying to hang on to dignity and hope. It was not easy, as a refugee camp took shocking shape in the heart of a European capital. Hundreds were camping out on a metro underpass and a small plaza in front of its entrance. Among them were many children, cut and bruised, hungry and frightened. Perhaps the most disgusting part of daily life was the lavatories, a fetid line of eight portable toilets for hundreds of people that by Friday was overflowing on to the concourse, the bitter ammonia smell drifting across the tents and sleeping bags laid out below. There was a pump providing fresh drinking water and somewhere to wash hands and faces, but it was in a public concourse. A sign warned against washing feet, let alone any more intimate parts. Tents and cloths hanging from string provided some protection from the fierce midday sun and the chill autumn nights starting to close in. “Hungarians look after animals more than people, they treat dogs and cats better,” said student Jamal al-Deenberra, 23, whose flight from Syria had come to a halt a week ago. As conditions deteriorated, Keleti became a symbol of the migration crisis, a shameful rebuke to Europe’s confused and cruel handling of the thousands of people flooding across the borders. One woman even gave birth there, and nursed her newborn on the concrete tiles. The crowds had grown for days as Hungary became entangled in the contradiction between its own anti-immigrant rhetoric and a desire to cut refugee numbers in Hungary by letting people without papers move on. Prime minister Viktor Orbán insisted Europe was in the grip of madness over immigration, and claimed he was defending European Christianity against a Muslim influx. Meanwhile his government told Hungarian TV not to broadcast images of children among the travellers. But then he encouraged a race to Budapest by opening up trains travelling to Germany to any passenger, soon after chancellor Angela Merkel said that any Syrian who reached her country would get asylum. When all international travel was cancelled a day later, many had spent the last of their meagre funds on now useless tickets and had no choice but to wait in a country that made clearwhere they were not officially welcome. But while the government was hostile, not all Hungarians felt the same. Many were shamed and horrified by the suffering on their doorstep, handing They flocked to hand out food, toys, blankets and clothes they bought or collected themselves. Some donned rubber gloves to clean up the mounting piles of rubbish and at night a projector and screen distracted children briefly with cartoons. There were a handful of Austrian volunteers who were driving refugees across the border. “We are not doing something so special, just what has to be done,” said one Austrian waiting for a family to gather their possessions. She asked not to be named because the Hungarian police had arrested other Austrians doing the same thing on Friday, but her only doubts were about which of the hundreds of families clustered on the forecourt should be offered a lift. “There are so many, it is impossible to choose,” she said, heading simply for the nearest group with children. “The more people they have to arrest, the harder it will be to stop us.” Most of the men, women and children from Syria have middle-class, even wealthy backgrounds, who owned factories and shops or worked as chemical engineers, teachers, managers at companies such as Samsung and Oracle. The poorest cannot afford the steep bribes and smugglers’ fees neededto get out of the country and then across other borders. But by the time they had reached Hungary, prosperity was a distant memory and most of their possessions had gone, some stolen, others thrown overboard during the treacherouscrossing between Turkey and Greece. All they had left were their families and their dreams. | WORLD NEWS |
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| The cue word at CASology this week is circles. The challenge at the Simon Says Wednesday Challenge is to make a card with NO designer paper...so I believe this fits the bill for that challenge too! I think I was putting this card together in my dreams...and it turned out just like I dreamed it did! I used the SSS stitched circles dies to cut concentric circles and then put them back together like a puzzle into the white card panel. The "best" is a some of my NBUS that just happened to be the same size as the center blue piece. I cut the "best" out 4 times and layered it for dimension then adhered it over the blue circle. The rest of the sentiment is from SSS collection called Best Hugs (also NBUS!) which I stamped in Versamark on black then heat embossed in white. The embossed sentiment sections were popped up with some foam tape. I added some fun foam behind the panel and adhered it to a white card base. The corners were rounded with a 1/4 inch corner chomper. Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by for a visit! Hope you'll come back soon! Your comments are greatly appreciated! Until next time... | CULTURE & ARTS |
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| I came home to find a gift on the front porch yesterday. There were two big crates full of wood scraps that a friend had dropped off. They were from a couple that we know, who have a son the same age as Little Dot. They both work at furniture shops (there are a lot of those around here). The two crates were the scraps that the woman had cut off of her work that day. Mrs. Wang gave her a pumpkin by way of thanks.
We had talked about scraps from the shop the last time those folks were over. In the winter time, they toss the scraps into a stove to heat the shop. In the summertime, though, they have to pay somebody to haul them away, for lack of any place to keep them all. Of course they don't mind if somebody wants to take them for free. I figured it sounded like a good source of fuel for our new bath boiler. Actually, I am slowly burning through a pile of odds and ends from my own carpentry projects. The city here will give you money to help you install a pellet stove, and subsidize your purchase of locally sourced pellets. I imagine that those ultimately come from chips or sawdust from local mills, though for all I know somebody might be grinding up new trees just for that purpose. Either way, I prefer to cut out the middle man and get mine for free.
Now I need to put together some kind of bin to toss a bunch of oddly shaped pieces of wood into. I think I might do what Mrs. Wang suggested, and get some big plastic bins with lids, so that we can go out there and load them up, and then just put the bins back by the shed. That way we can save ourselves having to load and unload multiple times. I am not quite ready to take them yet, but I have made some inquiries about getting sacks full of sawdust and plane shavings, too. | ENVIRONMENT & ANIMALS |
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| I have been watching a bunch of British-produced TV shows, lately. In fact, since cutting cable TV, my wife and I have actually watched more TV than before, because we are actively picking shows that seem interesting; there is less "flipping around" and stumbling onto things. We have definitely gravitated toward the British shows. Because of this, I have seen a contrast so sharp between British and American TV that American TV now seems ridiculous, for one major reason: casting.
Our Netflix/Hulu/Amazon Instant wanderings started with American made LOST, which we liked quite a bit and then we moved onto Deadwood, which was brilliant, if filthy. Then, we embarked on a series of British mystery-oriented shows, from Ripper Street to the brilliant Foyle's War to the light, quirky and entertaining Midsomer Murders, to our current binge-watched show: Whitechapel.
They are all very good shows (I really like Whitechapel) but that's not the point of this. What I have noticed is an apparent difference in casting philosophies. I have long been aware that American casting is superficial, especially on TV. Everyone is exceedingly handsome or beautiful. Every adult seems to be a former prom king or queen. Doctors, garbage collectors, teachers, presidents, CEOs, security guards, students, letter carriers -- they are all models from the Sears catalogue. Unreality just hangs in the air. In advertisements, the shows look ridiculous to me, especially when those ads come on during the British shows.
It is indescribably refreshing to see shows in which the casting was clearly done for personality, but also with regard to the character and not just the aesthetics of the actor's "look."
American TV was once like this, I think. But I guess the Internet supported image-distribution, coupled with the availability of cosmetic surgery have made the crop of good-looking actors inexhaustible. The Brits have access to the same pool of humanity and to just as many images -- it just seems they are maintaining some level of integrity.
Here is the main cast of Whitechapel. Sure, we have the dashing Rupert Penry-Jones as our leading man, but his sidekicks look like real people. And, in fact, Penry-Jones's out-of-placeness is accentuated in the stories by his handsomeness. It works for the story:
Contrast this with the cast of Madmen. Try to catch seven guys and girls in one (real) room who are so handsome/lovely. I dare you:
Or CSI -- to me these people look factory-generated; like they were genetically engineered to be TV stars:
And it just isn't the lead characters; the extras on the British shows are all more real, as well. Notice that I said, "real" -- not less and not even less-attractive. They just look like actual people, not actors playing real people on TV. The only time American shows seem to cave-in and hire non-perfect actors is if they need a villain (ugly outside, ugly inside, right?) or a street person (poor = homely, right?).
And the women. I am sure the girls in England deal with a lot of the same unrealistic image-pressures that our young American girls deal with, but it is nice to see, for example, these two women, on Whitechapel -- both of whom do not fit the "Barbi Doll" mold, but both of whom I (and I am sure, many) find beautiful because of a combination of their character and their individual (and unique) appearances.
Here is Claire Rushbrook as Dr. Llewellyn. She is not cookie-cutter beautiful; she is real and more beautiful for her individuality and for the character she has created in Dr. Llewellyn, who is intelligent, passionate about her work and infectiously vibrant. (Please excuse the burnt corpse on the table):
Or, also from Whitechapel, Hannah Walters as Megan Riley. Not 115 pounds of six-foot runway model -- a real person whom you believe on screen. Here is a woman given a chance at a role she might not have gotten on American TV; or if she had gotten the chance, she might have had to play a skinny, leading girl's chubby girlfriend. On Whitechapel, she stands on her own as a strong, sweet and adept woman. Is she beautiful? I absolutely think so; in fact, I find her pretty sexy. But the best part is that is doesn't matter; her role is not about her appearance; it's about her character -- a character that could have been thin or overweight; glamorous or not. And unlike what one sees on many American-made shows, her appearence is never even referred to; the writers never feel the need to justify her presence in the cast by having her character constantly trying to lose weight, etc.:
British leading men and women are allowed to be old and they are allowed to be imperfect. British actors seem to be chosen for many reasons outside of their appearance and a for marginal ability to act. (I find the British actors -- and I am certainly not the first one to say this -- far superior, in general.)
Even the women on the British shows who need to be pretty because of their character seem to me more naturally pretty; pretty in more of a quirky way; not with a perefectly symetrical face and perfect teeth and silken hair, but, they are the girl you once fell deeply in love with in your math class; not the one you had on a poster in your room. More real, yet again.
I'm sure all directors and casting directors want a "look" for their characters, but that look should be chosen in service of the character. I never realized the contrast until I started watching these British made shows. Good art reflects reality. In reality, people are composed of different measurements, weights, sizes and facial types. Remove that and it might as well be a poor puppet show we're watching. | ENTERTAINMENT |
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| Beauty is synonym with any woman. It is not only the physical beauty that matters but the inner beauty that comes with clean thoughts, supporting noble causes, pain for others and above all love for yourself first so that you are able to love the whole world around you. What if you have to support a noble cause without any extra efforts or spending? Being a woman, definitely, you must be having a passion for the glamour part of yours where you need beauty products and jewellery. Why not then support a noble cause like Breast Cancer while making your purchases during the coming month of October? 50% of sales amount at online portal Glamulet goes to various charities that are engaged in supporting breast cancer.
Although with the advancement of technology and medicine, we see more cases of breast cancer as ever before but on the other hand the number of cases diagnosed with this disease has increased phenomenally. Every hour (or a little less) there is a death casualty - a woman dying from the disease. To overcome this critical rate of diagnosis and deaths there is a tremendous need of support from every end so as to facilitate timely diagnosis and medical support. Every one has to change to fight against this devil. Glamulet is on the job by doing whatever it can be done from their end by bringing together open-minded fundraisers, creative minds, and efficient campaigners. The mission is to bring down the death rate due to breast cancer to ZERO by 2050.
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BAUNAT is their excellent priced diamond jewellery collection of impressive quality that is available online. The product range is quite versatile and attractive. The gemstones include diamonds, topaz and quartz. Organic gems are cultured from pearls and amber. Man-made stones include crystal and cubic zirconia. The Metal range includes sterling silver, 14k and 18k gold. In the other materials category you can opt from a wide range of products made of Murano glass, wood, textile and leather.
Some facts related to breast cancer in US alone. About 12% of women (approx 1 in 8) in the United States are prone to develop breast cancer during the course of their life period. In 2015 itself new cases nearing to 3000,000 are being expected to be diagnosed with this risk of invasive and non-invasive breast cancer. About 50,000 women deaths from breast cancer are expected in 2015. In the U.S. the deaths due to breast cancer are highest among any other cancer (excluding lung cancer). Among all cancer diseases, breast cancer share is 30%. By 2015, U.S. has recorded around 3 million breast cancer cases. The risk of breast cancer diagnosis increases in women as they grow old.
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| An amazing thing happens in our community every year, as people work together to provide hundreds of thousands of meals to undernourished children in more than 70 countries around the world. You can be a part, either by attending a delightful fundraising dinner this weekend, or participating in the big "Mobile Pack" in October when the meals are actually prepared. All the info for both events is at the website linked below.
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| 1871 and MARC USA Chicago Host Marketing Sparks Program for WiSTEM Cohort Member Companies Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
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| GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / EDITOR’S NOTEPAD – Summer festivals are over, but with school starting next week in Vaud and Geneva it is time for a series of popular autumn events. Please note that I am no longer updating the GenevaLunch events calendar, which will soon disappear from the site. I will occasionally feature a group of events here. Morges book fair A highlight of the English events for the book fair: a Lake Geneva cruise with short readings by 10 regional authors Le Livre sur les quais, a celebration of books, is expected to pull in 20,000 people again, 4-6 September. Some 325 have been invited to take part and the three days offer a number of readings, theatre, and more. The Geneva Writers Group is a partner this year and is promoting the English language side of the event: “The invited English language authors will include Jonathan Coe, Amanda Hodgkinson, Helen Dunmore, Esther Freud, Chris Tsiolkas, Petina Gappah, Tessa Hadley, Paul Lynch, Louis de Bernieres, Gabriel Gbadamosi, Dimitri Elias Legere, Frank Westerman, Jenny Colgan, Peter Stamm, and from GWG Michele Baillat Jones, Patti Marxsen, Susan Tiberghien. Plus for children and teens, Kevin Crossley Holland. The GWG will give two writing workshops, Travel Writing, Sunday, 13:30 (to be led by Jo Ann Rasch) and Writing Workshop for Teens Saturday 11:00 (to be led by Katie Hayoz). Workshops are free. Please register at workshopsmorges@gmail.com. Verify the time slot on final program at www.lelivresurlesquais.ch Also on Saturday, there will be a dialogue about Biography and Autobiography, with Patti Marxsen and Susan Tiberghienscheduled at 11:00. And another about Translation, with Michele Baillat Jones and Patti Marxsen, scheduled at 17:15. These events are also free. Sign-ups on line, www.lelivresurlesquais.ch. Again verify time slot when final program is posted. And great news: the GWG will have a program on the boat cruise from Geneva to Morges Sunday morning. We did this two years ago, the ride is beautiful. The cost from Geneva to Morges (including breakfast) is 20chf, and from Nyon to Morges 15chf.
– From Geneva to Nyon, Breakfast with GWG, featuring ten of our writers who published in the last year, presented by Jennifer Bew Ott. The boat leaves at 9:00, coffee and croissants will be served.
– From Nyon to Morges, Tessa Hadley will present her work and give a reading. She will be introduced by Jennifer Bew Orr. Tessa is one of the invited UK authors, who will also be teaching at the next Geneva Writers’ Conference March 18-20, 2016. The boat leaves Nyon at 10:15. Note: I’m one of the Sunday cruise authors, giving a reading about wine along the shores of Lake Geneva from my book Vineglorious! Switzerland’s Wondrous World of Wines. Register for the cruise: breakfastwithgwg@gmail.com Swiss wines at the Vinea wine fair The annual outdoor Swiss wines fair, Vinea, takes place 4 and 5 September, under tents in the beautiful Valais wine region. This is the events 22nd year and its popularity is centred around the relaxed atmosphere that lets visitors sample wines from all of the country’s wine regions. From this year’s press release: “A new architectural approach, which re-centres the event around the Hôtel de Ville in Sierre, clearly has appeal: as registration closes, the 2015 wine fair is fully booked. Taking part are … 72 individual producers and nearly 80 associations of grouped producers have made commitments to be present … Those holding stands include seven of the eight noteworthy winners of the title “Winery of the Year”, given by the Grand Prix du Vin Suisse. Also lined up are six associations that regroup wineries: AOP IGP Suisses, Clos Domaines et Châteaux, the Mondial du Chasselas, Schaffhauser Blauburgunderland, Sion Passion, Ticinowine. Ticino will have a particularly strong presence this year because, in addition to tasting its wines, visitors will have a chance to sample cheese polenta from Locarno, Switzerland’s Ville du Goût 2015. … The wine fair is designed to encourage friends to meet up and share a good time. A new space allows visitors to continue to enjoy themselves together during the evening, after the stands have closed. A cash Swiss wine bar and light foods restaurant will be open, with live music, from 19:00-23:00. This “after-event” will add a festive note to the wine fair. Friday 4 September: 15:00-20:00, CHF30 Saturday 5 September: 11:00-19:00, CHF30 “after-event”, 4 and 5 September: 19:00-23:00, free entry with a VINEA wine fair ticket, or CHF10 entry per person Classical music in magical settings The Lake Geneva region is famous for its summer music concerts, but back-to-school doesn’t mean they are over. The September Musical held in a number of settings around Montreux and Vevey offers a fine selection of concerts, including some at the Chillon castle. 27 August – 8 September, prices vary depending on concerts Programme/calendar Matisse at the Gianadda Foundation This is proving to be a hugely popular art exhibition – don’t miss it! With vacation crowds gone, you’ll find it’s easier to visit this excellent art show. Review and details, GenevaLunch 19 August Economic growth and climate protection The Graduate Institute gears up with autumn speakers starting 28 August, 17:30, with Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman. Polman chairs the World Business Council for Sustainable Development and he’s a member of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate. His presentation “explores the dynamics of the new climate economy, leading in to a discussion of the Global Commission’s latest “Better growth, better climate” report.” Register for the conference | CULTURE & ARTS |
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| The Jam
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New York City, New York, USA
April 14th, 1979
Audience Recording
FLAC File Format
See artwork for the track list.
NFO: (http://musiccornershop.blogspot.com)
Very average audience sound on the first songs
and it's getting better later. Play it loud, it's better.
Audience B-. FLAC. -Original | ENTERTAINMENT |
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| So...as I just mentioned, in real life I'm something of a gamer, and one thing I've always noticed and appreciated about certain games is their soundtracks. Whether it's 8-bit chiptunes or modern orchestration, game music does a lot to make the experience of playing more engaging. What's more, a lot of it is brilliant music that stands on its own and makes great listening.
I've often wondered where video game composers get their ideas. After all, aside from the earliest chiptunes most game music can't be said to have its own genre; instead, video game music pulls from all genres to make something that serves either as effective background music or, at times, something much greater. Game composers have sometimes revealed their own favorite music to listen to; more often than not, it's stuff made by rock and pop bands.
Based on my extensive knowledge of game soundtracks, I'm going to list here a set of ten bands and musicians whose work bears a strong resemblance to them, as well as being very good listening to boot. Please note that I don't pretend to know which bands have had the greatest influence on game composers; these are just bands that would appeal to gamers and give the same sense of fun and enjoyment that video game music provides.
Here they are, in no particular order:
1{> Björk
There are probably few recent musical acts as controversial as the Icelandic solo artist Björk. Some people think she's an otherworldly genius; others are put off by her squeaky voice, vocal antics, and lyrics that sometimes veer into the incomprehensible. But it's hard to deny that she's a talented composer and self-producer, and her fondness for unorthodox synthy sounds and choral overdubs makes her a clear choice for video game fans. The similarities lean more towards modern games with their heavy orchestration, so you might stay away if you're a fan of older games. But if you like the background music in modern sci-fi titles like Destiny or Mass Effect, she'll suck you in.
Recommended albums: Vespertine, Debut
Similar soundtracks: Metroid Prime 3, Fez, Super Mario Galaxy
2{> Nick Drake
A commercial failure in his own time, Nick Drake has recently experienced a surge of popularity from modern listeners who enjoy his unique brand of laid-back folkish music. With a lifetime discography of only three albums he still managed to establish a unique style: long and introspective songs focused on his guitar and voice, both of which were skillfully used but never flashy. This lends his music a soundtrack-ish quality that makes them great for fans of indie games and the more subtle and serious games of the last decade or so. Fantasy gamers in particular are strongly encouraged to check this guy out.
Recommended albums: Five Leaves Left, Bryter Later
Similar soundtracks: Baten Kaitos, Pikmin 2, Braid
3{> Cocteau Twins
Not actually twins, although spiritual siblings Elizabeth Fraser and Robin Guthrie were the heart of the band. Cocteau Twins are very heavily focused on atmosphere; strong bass synths and airy background noises were their stock in trade, along with Fraser's dreamy and expressive voice. In many ways they're like the predecessors of Enya and the entire ambient genre, although their music is often darker and more distressing. Their output, particularly the album Victorialand, is often next to wordless, with Fraser's vocals being hard to make out and feeling more like an instrument. Fans of opening songs, title themes, and minimalist soundtracks will find Cocteau Twins a rewarding listen.
Recommended albums: Victorialand, Heaven or Las Vegas
Similar soundtracks: Myst, NIER, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
4{> Pink Floyd
These first three bands have ranged from well-known but not super-popular to very obscure. Rest assured, video game fans, that big and important bands have their place in the history of game soundtracks as well. From the very beginning these guys had a spacey sound that was way ahead of its time, and as they went on their experimentation reached legendary levels. There's no doubt that some of the important early game composers would have heard Pink Floyd, because everyone who was into music heard them at some point. Replace the guitar in some of their songs with a synth line and you practically have game music already. For those who like their game music hard-rocking and energetic, the Floyd is an obvious choice.
Recommended albums: Dark Side of the Moon (natch), Relics, Obscured by Clouds
Similar soundtracks: Metroid, Final Fantasy VI, Rayman 2
5{> Kate Bush Quite possibly the most underrated female songwriter of all time (it's a hard choice between her and Laura Nyro), Kate Bush constantly experimented with arrangements and production styles to create unique and interesting songs. Oddly enough, the background elements she chose often sound eerily similar to virtual instruments on many Nintendo soundtracks: for instance, "There Goes A Tenner" sounds similar to the Dark World theme from A Link To The Past, and "Running Up That Hill" has a background line quite a lot like one used in Donkey Kong Country 2. I could find similarities like this all day, but it would be more fun for you to find them on your own. I'll just end by saying that Kate Bush is a fantastic musician, and whether you're a gamer or not she's well worth looking into.
Recommended albums: The Dreaming, Hounds of Love
Similar soundtracks: Metroid Prime 2, Shadow of the Colossus, 3D Castlevania Games
6{> XTC
Okay, confession time: I really should have gone ahead and made these guys my pick for the "X" underrated album instead of fudging things. Because, honestly, these guys made some of the best music the 80s had to offer, and they're very underrated. If you like Blur, The Jam, or The Kinks, you should know that these guys are not just "a" link between those bands, they are "the" link. With their emphasis on guitar-heavy songs and jerky, almost atonal riffs, XTC actually bear a strong resemblance to a lot of Sega Genesis chiptunes. There's a riff in "Respectable Street" that I swear is used in a track that plays during Sonic The Hedgehog II. But even excluding that, this band has the diversity and the catchiness that gamers want and expect from music. Take some time out and give these guys a chance.
Recommended albums: Skylarking, Black Sea
Similar soundtracks: Dynamite Headdy, Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3, Genesis games in general
7{> Gentle Giant
As one of the few truly "medieval"-sounding bands out there, you might think that Gentle Giant is a good companion for fantasy games. And you'd be right. But their predilection for curious keyboard sounds and unorthodox time signatures and melodies means that they also have a lot in common with the weirder kinds of soundtracks out there. If you have an ear for the diverse, these guys are so completely unique that you have to give them a listen. There really is no other band that plays the same kind of music that these guys used to. And at times their synthiness almost sounds like some of the very first arcade games, though of course these guys played several years before those days.
Recommended albums: Free Hand, Octopus, Gentle Giant
Similar soundtracks: Wario Land 4, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Earthbound 8{> Brian Eno
Of all the names on this list, Brian Eno is probably the one with the closest actual connection to video games and technology in general. He composed the Windows 95 startup sound, after all, and even acted as a consultant on the soundtrack to Will Wright's Spore. Known as a pioneer of the ambient sound, Eno is constantly writing the sort of music that ends up in artsy and serious games. But he has his playful side, too, and can write a catchy melody with the best of them. His music's otherworldly quality shares much in common with many game composers from Akira Yamaoka to Disasterpeace. If you're at all a fan of indie PC titles or old-fashioned point-and-clicks like Myst, check him out and you might find the inspiration for one of your favorites.
Recommended albums: Before and After Science, Another Green World
Similar soundtracks: Fez, Silent Hill series, Machinarium, countless other PC games
9{> Genesis
Not the 80s pop incarnation, mind you (although that certainly has its moments). No, I'm talking about the original progressive rock band from the 70s, headed by the eccentric artsy man Peter Gabriel. For good measure I'll throw in the solo career of guitarist Steve Hackett, whose guitar chops are brilliant and impressionistic. Both he and the original band share a taste for long songs with intricate arrangements and fantasy themes, which are also popular with video game composers. But honestly, it may be keyboardist Tony Banks who has the most links with game music; his fondness for synths puts him in good stead with the computerized sounds of early games. And some day you should take a listen to "It" from their album The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway; tell me the main theme doesn't remind you of the final boss battle from Chrono Trigger.
Recommended albums: A Trick of the Tail, Foxtrot, Selling England By the Pound
Similar soundtracks: Metroid Prime, Chrono Trigger, SNES games in general
10{> Emerson, Lake & Palmer
We end our list with possibly the most worthy band to be included on it. Not only are ELP admitted influences on many game composers, but their progressive rock bears so many similarities with classic game soundtracks it's hard to count them. Their music was far ahead of its time in sound and style, centered on Greg Lake's smooth vocals and Emerson's virtuoso keyboard skills. To really appreciate the similarities you have to give a listen to more than a few of their songs, but I will say here that they combined catchy main melodies with elaborate transitions and bridges that many classic games strove to imitate. Modern games actually sound very little like them, but the farther back in time you go the stronger the similarities get. Either way, pick up a few of their albums cheap and you'll see why they're one of the most beloved prog rock bands of history.
Recommended albums: Tarkus, Trilogy, Emerson Lake & Palmer
Similar soundtracks: Castlevania, Bomberman 64 and Hero, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, so many others I can't begin to remember them...
And these are just a few of the bands I can think of that share close similarities with the best of video game music from the past and present. If you know of any great bands or soundtracks I skipped out on, let me know in the comments below. I had a blast remembering the great video game music of my childhood, and hope that this list gives you a chance to seek out some great new music for yourself. Thanks for tuning in as usual, and stay tuned in the near future for more fantastic updates from the Internet's favorite totally fictional radio station, Radio Precinct 49! "Wide awake, staying up late, sending my regards..." | CULTURE & ARTS |
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| When facing a two-score deficit, the Falcons remained calm, didn't abandon the run, and finished with authority. Three elements that have been missing in Atlanta over the past two seasons.
Two games is usually not a rational barometer when you're trying to figure out whether a team is going to succeed or fail in any one aspect. Rod Marinelli's swarming defense stole headlines last week by shutting down DeMarco Murray and the pre-season darling Philadelphia Eagles. Sean Lee was finally healthy after nearly two seasons. Even without Greg Hardy and Randy Gregory, they looked like an excellent unit from a run stopping perspective. With Tevin Coleman suffering from a rib injury, it seemed likely that Dallas would continue their assault on opposing ground games.
With a 21-7 deficit in the second quarter, Atlanta was already facing a substantial challenge. Falcon fans were accustomed to seeing former offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter abandoning the run to generate a potential comeback. That decision forced more predictable play calling and increased pressure for a creaky offensive line.
Dan Quinn and the coaching staff decided to stay aggressive even when they were down 28-14, which has become the norm in Atlanta. Matt Ryan struggled with his accuracy in the first half, with his tendency to stare down his top receiver derailing the offense. That changed on the last drive of the first half, which featured Devonta Freeman running past Tyrone Crawford for a 35-yard completion. A quick field goal to cut the deficit to eleven points, and that was a major morale boost.
With key defensive stops and Julio Jones ultimately being unstoppable, Atlanta stayed balanced and didn't hit panic mode. Freeman was given a hefty workload and couldn't have made a better impression. The former Seminole always finishes his runs with authority and has the ability to make defenders miss in the open field. On the latest Falcfans podcast, fellow writer Charles McDonald, host Aaron Freeman and I tried to figure out why Coleman looked far more effective in two games than Freeman.
Besides Coleman having breakaway speed and being more elusive in the open field, we couldn't figure out a reason other than having better run blocking in front of him. As it turned out, improved blocking pushed Freeman into the open field and forced the Cowboys' safeties to make constant stops. J.J Wilcox felt the after effects of trying to meet Freeman on a head-to-head collision. Despite standing five-foot-eight, Freeman's shifty and violent running style is potent, and somewhat reminiscent of former Falcon Jacquizz Rodgers.
Besides his vision, shiftiness, and pass-catching ability, Freeman's outstanding work ethic makes him a valuable player. While some particular writers beg to differ, Freeman is talented and versatile. Former Marine and UFC middleweight Brian Stann spoke to me about Freeman's work ethic from just a short time spent teaching him boxing routines. Stann's training was directed more towards both lines to learn about hand fighting and winning one-on-one matchups, but Freeman took the initiative to train and learn about something that wouldn't necessarily enhance any technical ability as a running back.
When you watch him run, his relentless work ethic is apparent. Only sheer size limits him from maximizing certain plays. It didn't matter yesterday, as Freeman excelled through stretch plays to running straight up the gut. Shanahan deserves credit for being persistent with both particular plays based on how ineffective they were with Freeman during the past two weeks.
Most productive running backs will attribute part of their success to their fullback. After two average seasons, Patrick DiMarco appears to be the most improved player on the roster. His blocking never really made a positive impression before, and we never saw him pancake linebackers or open significant holes for the running game. This year is different, and his presence was felt on opening night by putting Malcolm Jenkins on his back. On Coleman's first career touchdown, his block drove the rookie into the end zone standing.
It appeared that DiMarco had made more of an impression in the last two games than the two previous seasons combined. Similar to Freeman, yesterday was his coming out party. DiMarco leveled Kyle Wilber on the edge, which allowed Freeman to run into the end zone untouched. Falcon fans haven't witnessed such impactful blocking from the fullback position like that since Ovie Mughelli. Throughout the game, DiMarco made key blocks that ended up being significant runs. The full back position has become somewhat endangered, but in Shanahan's offense, it plays a vital role towards the offense's success.
The same praise can be used for Chris Chester and Mike Person, who were excellent throughout the game. Both linemen made crucial blocks on Freeman's third touchdown run. They opened such a gaping hole that 2012 Michael Turner would have managed to blast right through it.
Shanahan's scheme has worked wonders for anemic running games such as Houston and Cleveland over the course of his career. In three games, he has managed to salvage a non-existent running game (with the exception of the Giants game). They face daunting tasks in the next two weeks against talented front sevens, which should provide a sturdy litmus test for the surprisingly effective offensive line.
It's far too early to rate Atlanta's legitimacy as a contender. Besides the AFC South, there is no disputing that the NFC East is the worst division in the league thus far, and it can't be discounted how Atlanta's front seven was absolutely obliterated for two quarters in Dallas. They remain undefeated and face a plethora of below-average offenses over the next month. Instead of dissecting Atlanta as a contender or pretender, we should just enjoy the reinvigorated franchise, which deserves credit for living up to the team's early promises.
Quinn's promise of being a finishing team has been justified so far. While the statistical rankings won't show it, the defense has made improvements particularly on third down. Most analysts and fans were concerned about Atlanta being a one-dimensional offense. Those sentiments have been erased following their performance against an overachieving Cowboys' defense, and even after Atlanta's first win over Philadelphia, I realized how essential their running game would be for a successful season. From converting nine out of fourteen third-down opportunities to going four out of five in the red zone, the Falcons' comeback wouldn't have happened without a proficient running game. Another victory is another reminder that a new era has truly arrived in Atlanta. | SPORTS |
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| Looking for a jacket for your little man? Look no further than The Children’s Place where you’ll pay just $50.37 for this 3-in-1 jacket that will take you from fall to spring and let you pass the jacket on down afterwards. Regularly $89.95, it is on sale for $62.96. Add the coupon code 5CB7FY20 to get the price right down to $50.37 . They’ve also got free shipping on every order right now, so you’ll get that perk as well.
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This weekend we had a little taste of the cool weather to come. In Ontario, it is going to get hot again, but from what I see on the long range, the cool will inevitably set in. You’ll want to be prepared for this so your little guy doesn’t have to feel those frigid temperatures in his fall jacket while you scramble to find a deal on winter coats in November.
At the end of August Anna blogged about a similar 3-in-1 jacket for girls , which is no longer on sale and now is the full price of $100. This tells me that this boy’s jacket could go up in price at any time as well so I wouldn’t wait to find out.
This jacket comes in two colours – vibe blue and duffle green. I much prefer the blue.
This jacket is 3-in-1 because it has a water-resistant outer shell, which could be used alone as a rain jacket. It has a hood and body lining that is insulated with polyfill, which can be used as a winter jacket in November or March with temperatures above 0. Then, there is another inner layer made with glacier fleece, which is great for cool nights or sunny winter days with a vest on top. Put them all together to wear on those days of -15 degrees and below.
The sizes start at 12-18 months and go up to 5T. If you need a larger size , they also have these on sale, regularly $99.95, on sale for $74.96 and come down to $59.97 with the coupon code added.
I’ve actually owned a 3-in-1 jacket from The Children’s Place and find them warm and practical with all the different pieces. I don’t think they are super stylish, but for the price they are definitely worth the value.
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| Title : The Noose
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Nathan Fillion – Rick Castle Stana Katic -Detective Kate Beckett Jon Huertas – Detective Javier Esposito Seamus Dever – Detective Kevin Ryan Molly C. Quinn – Alexis Castle Susan Sullivan – Martha Rodgers Tamala Jones – Lanie Parish Toks Olagundoye – Hayley Shipton
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| And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. — 1 Cor. xv. 45
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The great Metaphysician wrought, over and above every sense of matter, into the proper sense of the possibilities of Spirit. He established health and harmony, the perfection of mind and body, as the reality of man; while discord, as seen in disease and death, was to him the opposite of man, hence the unreality; even as in Science a chord is manifestly the reality of music, and discord the unreality. This rule of harmony must be accepted as true relative to man. (Eddy, Mary Baker, Miscellaneous Writings, p.187:4-12) | RELIGION |
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| A make-believe that traced a expansion of enormous, splendid galaxies over a march of several billion years has bright a probable origins of some of a many impassioned objects in a universe.
Multiple spots in a unnatural star feverishness brightly during submillimeter wavelengths of light. Image credit: UCSD
Large smudges heated with feverishness low in space have intrigued astronomers given initial glimpsed in a late 1990s. Called “submillimeter galaxies” for a wavelengths of their light we detect, they are gigantic in distance and igniting new stars during startling rates, a thousand times faster than a possess galaxy. But submillimeter galaxies are so filled with dirt that roughly no starlight reaches us. Instead telescopes detect usually a feverishness of dirt exhilarated by measureless stellar radiation.
Collisions between galaxies that restrict gas to form many new stars comment for a brightest galaxies nearby, though those starburst events are brief in astronomical time. Whether a impassioned starbirth within submillimeter galaxies also resulted from collisions has been unresolved.
Simulations that indication how galaxies form—based on a earthy laws of nature—provide a approach to know a how a universe, including galaxies like these, evolved. Earlier efforts to indication submillimeter galaxies possibly unsuccessful to beget finish states that compare what astronomers indeed see or indispensable to make impassioned assumptions about a underlying earthy processes, such as impractical masses of shaped stars, to force a match.
The new simulation, published this week by Nature, is formed on some-more picturesque and finish physics, including a appetite submit of stars to their surrounding gas. It also accounts for a send of appetite from starlight to exhilarated dirt to softened guess how brightly a star feverishness with long-wavelength light. When played out for several billion years—computations that ran for weeks even on supercomputers with vast numbers of computing cores—the make-believe generated galaxies that resemble astronomical observations.
The group found that no vast mergers were indispensable to emanate submillimeter-bright galaxies, only vast galaxies with good amounts of gas within a large halo of dim matter.
“Traditionally these galaxies were explained as vital mergers of galaxies, though we find that in this some-more picturesque simulation, they are only unequivocally large galaxies bombarded by smaller ones and eating a gas from their vicinity during all times. That reserve this outrageous star formation,” pronounced Dušan Kereš, an partner highbrow of production and member of a Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences during UC San Diego, and one of a co-authors of a new study. Keres generates astrophysical models with a sold concentration on cycles of star arrangement and a ways galaxies benefit gas and remove or reuse materials from spent stars.
When a group spun their initial conditions brazen regulating their softened formula for displaying production and enclosed a radiative send of appetite from stars to dust, a unnatural galaxies began to feverishness with submillimeter radiation. And a galaxies insist in their heated starmaking state for a prolonged time. “You can have a submillimeter-bright proviso that lasts a signifiant fragment of their lifetimes, hundreds of millions or even a billion years,” Kereš said.
The make-believe creates a perspective of these galaxies during apart some-more accurate beam than they have been celebrated so far. The fortitude of submillimeter wavelenghts by comparison telescopes was deficient to register some-more than a allegation of light.
“With a model, we can start solution some of a sum of those submillimeter galaxies,” Kereš said. “We can see there are mixed objects, infrequently three, 4 of 5 apart objects, within a ‘beam’ of progressing images.”
Newer observatories, quite with ALMA, an array of 66 dishes high a Chilean Andes, will concede astronomers to see larger detail, that will concede them to establish how good apart submillimeter-bright galaxies compare galaxies combined in this simulation.
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You are subscribed to News from the Prints & Photographs Division for Library of Congress. This information has recently been updated, and is now available. Caught Our Eye: Sunshine in the House 08/27/2015 03:38 PM EDT What first catches my eyes in Gertrude Käsebier's 1913 photograph is the streaming sunshine illuminating the interior scene while one bold slant of sunlight has entered the room through the open screen door: Next, as I survey the five people gathered near the open door, the sailor's attire worn by the four male figures prompts me to wonder: […] This service is provided by the Library of Congress at www.LOC.gov. (...) Follow us: Blog | Facebook | Flickr | Instagram | Pinterest| Twitter | YouTube This email was sent to pascal.alter@gmail.com using GovDelivery, on behalf of: Library of Congress · 101 Independence Ave, SE · Washington, DC 20540 · 202-707-5000 | MEDIA |
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| RB Tiers
You may find Charles and Bell ranked lower on other sites, but these are my top 2 backs in Fantasy. I am targeting this guys first and foremost when I can. Peterson will have a chip on his shoulder and should come out firing in an improved Vikings Offense, but there should be some concerns about durability over the course of the season. Forte I am little down on with the absence of Brandon Marshall and rookie Kevin White now out for the year. But that said, Bears will be trailing a lot and Forte should keep up his PPR production.
I am a little weary of LeSean McCoy, but he could have something to prove after the Eagles let him loose.
You will notice I am high on Latavius Murray as well as Spiller. Going further down I like Matt Jones the rookie from the Skins. He is a Marion Barber clone, agility and power. Gurley is a beast, but his ACL injury might ruin his rookie year, don't overspend. Abdullah could explode but is going high in drafts and auctions, if you want him be prepared to pay a lot.
Devonta Freeman's talent is obivous, It's just hard to bank on him, especially with Tevin Coleman there. But the offense is there to produce.
I like the propsects of TJ Yeldon and Duke Johnson, but the Cleveland backfield is crowded with talent and Dernard Robinson is still present in Jacksonsville. Tough to say who will emerge, talent wise I like both the same.
It may take Melvin Gordon a few games, but eventually I think he will start to pick up the pace and could be in for an excellent rookie year. He's at a decent value at this point as well.
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Le'Veon Bell, Jamaal Charles
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Eddie Lacy, Adrian Peterson, DeMarco Murray, Marshawn Lynch, Matt Forte
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C.J. Anderson, Jeremy Hill, Arian Foster, LeSean McCoy
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Andre Ellington, C.J. Spiller, Mark Ingram, Justin Forsett, Carlos Hyde, Lamar Miller, Latavius Murray
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Frank Gore, Jonathan Stewart, Melvin Gordon, T.J. Yeldon, LeGarrette Blount, Ameer Abdullah
Tier 6
Shane Vereen, Rashad Jennings, Todd Gurley, Tre Mason, Isaiah Crowell, Joseph Randle, Chris Ivory, Alfred Morris, Doug Martin
Tier 7
Joique Bell, Duke Johnson, Devonta Freeman, Giovani Bernard, Matt Jones, Ronnie Hillman
Tier 8
Charles Sims, Bishop Sankey, Ryan Mathews, Danny Woodhead, David Cobb, Darren McFadden, Darren Sproles, Reggie Bush, David Johnson, Dernard Robinson, Jonas Gray, Dion Lewis, Roy Helu, Lance Dunbar, Christine Michael, Tevin Coleman
Tier 9
Knile Davis, Jerrick Mckinnon, Andre Williams, Dan Herron, Josh Robinson, Terrance West, Cameron Artis-Payne, Khiry Robinson, Jay Ajayi, Gus Johnson, Chris Polk, Alfred Blue
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Ryan Williams, Montee Ball, James Starks, Theo Riddick, Buck Allen, Stevan Ridley, Bilal Powell, Zac Stacy, Fred Jackson, Trent Richardson, James White, Lorenzo Taliaferro, Branden Oliver | SPORTS |
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| The Federal Reserve building (AFP PHOTO/KAREN BLEIER)
The Federal Reserve on Thursday voted to maintain its unprecedented support for the U.S. recovery, leaving a key interest rate unchanged amid gathering clouds over the global economy.
In an official statement, the nation’s central bank said the job market is recovering and hiring is “solid.” But it expressed concern that inflation remains too low and exports have weakened. Meanwhile, the risk is building that turmoil overseas will drag down growth in America.
"Recent global economic and financial developments may restrain economic activity somewhat and are likely to put further downward pressure on inflation in the near term," the central bank's official statement read.
The decision to keep the Fed’s benchmark interest rate at zero amounts to a recognition that the robust recovery central bank officials had hoped for when they launched into an uncharted era of easy money during the throes of the 2008 financial crisis has yet to materialize. The Fed has repeatedly pushed back the goal line as the economy failed to deliver. Seven years after the central bank cut its target rate to zero, Fed officials believe the recovery is not yet ready to stand on its own.
Documents released by the Fed show most of the Fed's top brass now anticipate increasing rates only once this year, instead of twice. A growing minority think the central bank should not raise its benchmark rate this year at all, and one suggested it should stimulate the economy even more by taking the rate negative.
Three officials are advocating a 2016 liftoff, while one person pinned 2017 as the date -- longer than anyone has suggested so far.
“Even though the summer stresses in financial markets have abated, the impact of the intense market volatility on domestic economic activity is yet to fully play out,” Millan Mulraine, deputy chief U.S. macro strategist at TD Securities, wrote in a research note.
The Fed lowers its target rate when it wants to stimulate the economy by encouraging businesses and consumers to spend. It hikes when the economy begins to grow too quickly and inflation picks up, making saving money more attractive.
Timing, however, is crucial. If the Fed moves too soon, it risks undercutting the recovery’s momentum. Waiting too long could stock dangerous financial bubbles.
The Fed modestly upgraded Thursday its expectation for economic growth this year from 1.9 percent to 2.1 percent, but the forecast is still lower than the robust expansion enjoyed a decade ago. The jobless rate has already fallen below the central bank's June estimate of 5.3 percent. The Fed adjusted its forecast to 5 percent. It also nudged up its estimate of core inflation from 1.3 percent to 1.4 percent.
In May, Fed Chair Janet Yellen said speech that she expected the economy would be strong enough to raise the target rate by the end of the year. Other top Fed officials had signaled the long-awaited move could come during its meeting this month.
But that was before the jaw-dropping swings in financial markets over the past few weeks, including a 1,000-point plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average. Evidence is mounting that China’s breakneck economic growth is fizzling out faster than previously thought.
In the meantime, the strong U.S. dollar and low oil prices are weighing on inflation, which has run below the Fed’s target of 2 percent for years. The World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, Nobel-laureate Joseph Stiglitz and former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers have all called on the central bank to hold off on a rate hike, at least for now.
“Now is the time for the Fed to do what is often hardest for policymakers,” Summers wrote in The Washington Post recently. “Stand still.”
The calls for delay are also coming from a populist campaign known as Fed Up, which protested outside of the central bank’s buildings Thursday. Several lawmakers joined the demonstration, including Michigan Rep. John Conyers, who is sponsoring a bill that would require the Fed to target a 4 percent unemployment rate.
Not everyone agrees the Fed should wait, however. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker dissented from the central bank’s vote on Thursday. In a speech earlier this month, he pointed to strong consumer spending, the sharp decline in unemployment and a pickup in inflation measured since the beginning of the year as reasons a rate hike is warranted.
“I am not arguing that the economy is perfect, but nor is it on the ropes, requiring zero interest rates to get it back into the ring,” he said. “It’s time to align our monetary policy with the significant progress we have made.”
In its official statement, the Fed attempted to assure investors and the public that after the first rate hike, it expects to make subsequent hikes only gradually. Though most officials predicted the Fed would raise its target rate several times next year, they also forecast it would remain below its historic norm of about 4 percent for several years. Fed documents released Thursday show the long-run median estimate at just 3.5 percent.
Each hike will also likely be small, analysts expect just one quarter of one percent. That would allow the central bank to assess how an economy grown accustomed to easy money operates under a new regime.
“One should never discount the importance of an interest rate change by a central bank merely because it looks small,” said Scott Sumner, an economist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. “Some pretty big avalanches have started from a small pebble being dislodged.” | FINANCE & BUSINESS |
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If you think a cool ride is something involving Xzibit, subwoofers, or huge plasma screens for doors, then looks at this photo of a seal casually traveling on a humpback whale, because … why not?
Australian photographer Robyn Malcolm was taking photos of sea life near Eden, New South Wales, when she saw something strange in the water.
“I was not sure what it was,” she told ABC News. While looking through her photos and deleting the bad ones, the photographer realized that she had actually captured a chilled-out seal hitching a ride on a whale.
Malcolm speculated that the whale may have lunged for food (although surfacing for air is more likely) and arrived at the top directly under the seal – so the seal found itself on the whale’s back. The seal looks as it was born to surf.
The Australian seal is not the only “wildlife rider”. A Florida man recently snapped a dangerous raccoon rodeo: It was standing on the back of an … alligator. The author of the photo which thrilled the internet, however, said that the raccoon stood on the predator for only a second before scurrying away into the forest.
Florida is the homeland of many brave animals, who apparently have no respect for the dangerous alligators. What about this egret?
Indonesia, however, is where tempers are ultimately tested. There, Andri Priyadi captured a snail creeping onto a saltwater crocodile’s nose. The curious mollusk even moved around the crocodiles jaws and still managed to escape.
But nothing can quite compete with the flying woodpecker-weasel combo. You already know all about it so we just leave it here.
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| BROKEN TEETH , the Austin-based hard rock quintet featuring DANGEROUS TOYS / WATCHTOWER vocalist Jason McMaster , will release a new CD and vinyl album titled “Bulldozer” on October 23 via Texas Metal Underground Records .
“Bulldozer” features five original BROKEN TEETH razor-sharp songs: “Raining Fire” ; “The Rough And The Tumble” ; “Red River Rising” ; “Devil On The Road” (from BROKEN TEETH ‘s best-of CD); “Flamethrower” (previously available only as a digital download single); and two red-hot cover songs — MOTÖRHEAD ‘s “The Hammer” and AEROSMITH ‘s “Lightning Strikes” .
BROKEN TEETH will hold a “Bulldozer” CD/vinyl album release party on October 23 at The Sidewinder in Austin, Texas.
Asked when fans can expect to see a new full-length album from BROKEN TEETH , McMaster told Sleaze Roxx : “We have lots of songs written, but not yet recorded.
“The ideas come and they sit for a while before we even make a demo of them.
“We have just about done the writing and recording session every way possible. Write as many as you can as fast as you can, or I will write lyrics while the band writes song parts. It all takes about as much time to produce and the last, or the next batch of material.
“We all write the songs, so there is not just one way that works best.
“In answer to the real question, we have no idea when a new full-length will appear but we will not give in to any deadline someone may or may not have. We work at our own pace. We do this for fun and make sure we love the material we write. If we stay on it, maybe next year, we may have something.”
BROKEN TEETH has been cranking out heavy-duty rock ‘n’ roll for more than 15 years. The band exploded out of Austin in 1999 and has been a global powerhouse over the course of five albums — 1999′s self-titled debut, 2002′s “Guilty Pleasure” , 2004′s “Blood On The Radio” , 2007′s “Electric” and 2010′s “Viva La Rock Fantastico” (featuring Danko Jones ) – and a non-stop touring schedule. | ENTERTAINMENT |
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| KINOKO EVANS
E-TICKET TO THE FUTURE
RE: "Ticketless to Ride" [News, Sept 2], regarding concerns over the transition of Portland's public transportation to digital fares.
DEAR MERCURY—I'll give you that TriMet runs through public money like a 12-year-old girl with a Hot Topic gift card. But your story about the coming e-fare system smells wrong. You take issue with the fact that "60 percent of bus stops are more than a quarter mile from the nearest e-fare retail outlet," while you separately mention the fact that TriMet plans to quadruple the number of such outlets by the time the system goes live in 2017. Citizen oversight is always good, and I applaud OPAL's work in this area so far, but it seems like trolling to make a big deal out of where retail locations are. I mean, I assume that Portland will do what every big city in the world does: Sell fare cards online. And most major cities refund the charge to buy the card, at least partially. CONTINUE READING | CULTURE & ARTS |
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| We bring you more rumours about the Huawei Nexus 6 (codename: Angler) just as it gets ready to launch alongside the LG Nexus 5X on the 29th of September 2015. New reports suggest that details about the Huawei Angler were spotted on a site called GFXBench.
Here is a picture of the leaked table :
According to this leaked image of the specifications the new handset could sport a 5.7 inch display with Quad HD resolution of 2,560 x 1,440 pixels. The Angler is also expected to come with a Snapdragon 810, 3GB of RAM and up to 24GB of storage. Apart from all this it is also expected to run on the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow and could come with a 12MP rear camera with 2160p video. The selfie camera is expected to be at 8MP.
These specs honestly seem quite moderate. It’s not something Samsung or any other mainstream vendor cannot offer. The only way we can judge this smartphone is after the price is announced. Pre-orders are expected to begin two weeks after the unveiling. But, till then that’s all we’ve got.
Source: GFXBench
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| I can't believe summer is drawing to a close already. I think I sat at the beach and watched the water maybe twice?! And that seems like yesterday... Where does the time go?
Tomorrow is 9/11. Of course we all remember what we were doing (I'm sure). Where were you? I was getting ready for a Bible study when my youngest who was at her Grandma's called to tell me of the travesty unfolding before her eyes via TV.
A very special discovery, post-wreckage, that I saw in a documentary was moving and telling. Despite the woe that we experience in this life brought on by self or others, God is still in control and has the power to hear our petitions and bring them to pass, or not. And He saves those that would come to Him through Jesus. | OTHERS |
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Week 2 of the NFL season is officially in the books. There’s a lot to talk about, check out the Streamline Sports weekend wrap.
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| Football Themed Party: How to Make It Unforgettable
When you live in North Texas, you need to know how to throw a football themed party. That’s what fall is all about in this part of the country: football, friends, and those Friday night lights. Check out these tips for throwing a winning football bash. Audrey Sellers Sep 10, 2015 When you live in North Texas, you need to know how to throw a football themed party. That’s what fall is all about in this part of the country: football, friends, and those Friday night lights. Before you rally up some fans to watch the game at your house, check out these tips for throwing a winning football bash. Set the Tone If you’re hosting a real-deal party and not just an impromptu gathering of friends, make it feel that way by sending out formal invitations. Ask everyone to wear team colors, which in Dallas, aren’t always blue and white for the Cowboys. In case you didn’t already know, high-school football is huge here. Your football themed party doesn’t necessarily have to be tied to an NFL game. Elevate Your Game-Day Grub Texans love ladling some queso out of a giant crockpot, but that doesn’t mean it’s the only food that’s fit for football season. Treat your guests to some gourmet bites at your next football themed party. Consider offering epicurean toppings such as oven-roasted kale or Greek yogurt for their Texas-style chili. And when it comes to veggies, skip the store-bought tray and serve up a fresh, home-cooked option such as crunchy baked Brussels sprouts or carrots and homemade hummus. Incorporate Some Fun Don’t just invite people over to kick back in front of the TV — provide ways for guests to mix and mingle. Many people attend football parties to socialize, not just watch the game, so arrange chairs on your patio or in your kitchen in a way that invites conversation. Think about creating a pool for light betting or have some party games out for guests to partake in. Dish Out the Football Favors Party favors aren’t just for kids’ parties. Make your bash one to remember by handing out creative favors at the end of the game. These could include anything from custom-wrapped candy bars to mini footballs. People always love food, so anything homemade such as cookies or brownies are sure to be a hit with the crowd. Popcorn is a smart choice, too. It’s easy to switch up the flavors depending on whether you want sweet or savory. Football season in Texas is unlike anywhere else in the country. When those Friday night lights start shining, make sure you’re prepared for a football party that will have all your friends cheering — and wanting to watch the big game at your house. Image Source: Flickr/Anders Ruff Custom Designs football football decorations
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| As we coast through our 30’s the weekends continue to become more of a weekly celebration of our emancipation from the work place. With this weekly celebration, there comes an important decision; we have to decide what else the weekend will ensue beyond Happy Hour. Unfortunately, at this age, the club isn’t the ideal choice due to the human aging process. 83% of us, who are over 30, can’t really kick it like we used to. We can’t wait up until 9pm to start getting ready, and nobody wants to stand in heels all night. It’s just not a good decision anymore. Just don’t do it, reconsider.
Always consider the greatest option ever created, that’s not new, but kinda new, but not for real, only because it somehow was lost in the “things to do on the weekend” list of options when people started buying nice furniture and painting accent walls. My friends, I bring to you: The House Party.
House parties are always a great option. They’re inexpensive, intimate, the perfect setting for a serious spades game, and an overall good time to drink cheap and chill with your crew. With something so easy to throw together, how do people still manage to mess it up? Well, I’ll tell you. It’s so easy for a house party to go south, and to avoid being a part of the problem, let me provide you with these tips on securing your invite to all house parties to come:
1. When you’re told to bring a bottle, bring something that you actually drink. This is not your opportunity to explore new liquor options. This is also not your moment to be cheap. At this age, taking Popov or Barefoot wine to a house party is just lame. I guarantee that you go straight for the top shelf options, and leave your lonely bottle in the bag and in the corner. I also guarantee that you’re the first one to be pissed, when the only bottles left mid way through the party are the thotty bottles that you brought.
2. Don’t stop up someone’s toilet. I don’t know what it is, but somebody always manages to clog up someone’s toilet, and for what?! What is it that you can’t do in 60 seconds or less, that will allow you to flush, wash those hands, and leave the bathroom in the manner in which you found it? I don’t know why people go to someone else’s house and don’t know how to act.
3. This is for the host. Don’t have a house party, with bad music and bad speaker options. There’s nothing worse then everyone trying to huddle around a Beats Pill to hear your Pandora station + ads. If you are going to have people over, have a respectable speaker, and either make a legit play list, or pay to have Pandora without the ads. Nobody wants to hear about Taco Cabana’s new shrimp quesadillas in the middle of a kick back.
4. Do not bring your whole goon squad to someone’s house party. It’s socially acceptable to bring a friend or two, but there is no need to have your whole set represented. Nobody has space or food for you +12. Also, be sure that whoever does come with you adheres to #1.
5. If you host, have food. Period. There is nothing worse than having a house full of people that are hot and hungry. Nobody said having people over was free. It takes nothing to order some pizzas, or put in an order at wingstop. Besides, you likely aren’t buying liquor anyway. You should provide more than a friendly meeting space.
6. M ake sure you have a well functioning cooling system. If you know your thermostat starts to act funny if you put it anything lower than 75 degrees, consider a different kick it option. Everyone knows people of color create heat in large quantities.
7. Watch your liquor. There is no need to be ‘white girl wasted’ by 11pm off some house made drinks. The purpose of the house party is to chill with good people, not worry about taking care of Drunky in the other room.
8. Manage your guy to girl ratio at the door. Do not have 33 Men and 13 Women at your house party. It may come across as something else, and that’s just not cute at all. House parties are the perfect opportunity to meet dateable people, so provide adequate selections.
9. Don’t invite more people then your place can hold. You know how establishments post those maximum capacity signs near the front door? Those are there for a reason. You should really consider that if you live in a studio apartment, you can’t invite all your people from around the way. Yes, you may have to deal with some backlash if someone who wasn’t there hears you had a set, but it’s better than having hot, hungry and irritated guests because nobody can move.
These are just some of my thoughts on how house parties go south. I’ve experienced each of these ate east once in my day. I don’t want you to be the one to hear about the house party of the year. I want you to make it there.
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| If you are concerned about the future plans for the state of Selangor, then you must read and give your feedback on the Draft Rancangan Struktur Negeri Selangor 2035 (Draft Selangor Structure Plan 2035)
The Draft RSN 2035 is the follow up from the Laporan Tinjauan Kajian Rancangan Struktur Negeri Selangor 2035, that the state released in January 2015.
The State Government would like the public's feedback on the information provided in the Plan. The public has until 30 September 2015 to send in your comments.
You can access the Plan online: Draft RSN 2035 download link But in order to view or download the Plan, you must be registered with the Department of Town & Country Planning Selangor (JPBD). This can be done fairly fast and easily. Follow these steps:
1. Go to JPBD home page : http://jpbdselangor.gov.my/en/
2. Set up a new account on the right hand side of the page by clicking on "Create an Account"
3. Check your email, most likely under SPAM, for the reply email from JPBD with the activation link
4. Click the link in your email, which will take to the JPBD website.
5. Enter your username and password. Do NOT fill the 'Security Key', it is not required.
6. Return to the page : Draft RSN 2035 download link
7. Click on the Draft Rancangan Struktur Negeri Selangor 2035, and then click to download the individual chapter. 8. Also download the Borang Bantahan which is required for you to submit your comments. Feedback Forms - download these forms to send to JPBD Selangor. You can type your feedback as a Word.Doc and attach the pages to the form, instead of typing or handwriting on page 3 of the form. It appears you can send your Borang Bantahan by post, fax or by email. Send your forms to JPBD, on or before 30 September 2015: Pengarah Jabatan Perancangan Bandar dan Desa Negeri Selangor Tingkat 15-18, Bangunan Darul Ehsan
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| These two are getting married tomorrow! We met Lesley & Courtney at Matt Murphy's, the site of their very first date, to chat a bit and grab a few photographs…a little warm-up for the big day. Peter and I have actually known Lesley for close to six years now. She used to live in a wonderful home in Brookline, lovingly called the Pretzel Factory by those who lived there. It was an awesome place to visit because of all the amazing people who used to live there together. In fact, L&C are the fourth couple we're photographing from that home in Brookline. We've photographed Bonnie & Burton (who just celebrated their five year anniversary last week), Casey & Eli (who we'll be seeing soon!) and Colleen & Pete too. Thank you Pretzel Factory Peeps for having us at all your celebrations!
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| EXCLUSIVE KEEP IT FRESHTMZ.com Music producer Dallas Austin thinks there's never been a better time for "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" reboot, but there's one big hot button issue. There have been rumblings that Will Smith will bring back his '90s sitcom, so Austin seemed to be the right guy to quiz since he's worked with Will in the past. While we totally agree with Austin's casting for the lead, the role of Aunt Viv gets way controversial. You'll recall, halfway through the series Viv was replaced by a lighter-skinned actress, triggering outrage with the black audience. | ENTERTAINMENT |
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| Fake, fraud, misleading... perhaps all appropriate words to describe internet b.s. Yet, so many internet users do not know the difference between truth and hoax. Viral Facebook hoaxes need to be ignored! Don't like them or share them, ignore them.
For example, claims that Facebook is about to make a change to its privacy settings, and unless you pay a small fee, everything in your profile will become public is simply untrue. Another Facebook hoax is that if you post certain legal language as your status then your photos and other information will be protected by Facebook.
You have probably all had a friend post: "As of September 28th , 2015 at 10:50 p.m. Eastern standard time, I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, or posts, both past and future. By this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information." The post typically goes on to warn you that if you don't copy and paste this status, your privacy will be compromised. Both assertions are complete fabrication. Facebook does not own your photos. You are responsible for your own content. You can decide who can see your posts by checking the appropriate privacy settings. Facebook’s Terms of Service. When you post a photo, Facebook's permission to use them is limited to how you set your settings. Privacy settings. Furthermore, once a Facebook user deletes a photo, it can not be recaptured. In any event, merely writing a post about privacy would never prevent anyone from copying any content you choose to post. Once something is published, you can not prevent those from receiving the content from saving it to an external hard drive and storing it for later use. Snopes. Be smart! Use your privacy settings and control who sees your content and by all means, ignore the hoax spam! | OTHERS |
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| If you’ve ever wanted to get into the Bitcoin game for fun and profit, this new $400 gadget could be the best way to do so. 21 Inc.’s Bitcoin Computer is a tiny Linux-based box that lets you mine the cryptocurrency and buy and sell digital goods for Bitcoin, either independently or plugged into a PC. It includes a micropayments server that lets you receive payments for your offerings, meaning you don’t rely on a third-party service that will take a cut of your earnings. The 21 connects to your laptop and includes a micropayments server to buy and sell digital goods Of course, you shouldn’t expect to get rich just by leaving the device plugged in to mine Bitcoin. The company believes its new product makes it easy for users to earn revenue by selling internet-accessible goods and services like machine translation, apps and media, renting out a 3D printer or microtasks like tweeting. 21 is backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz, Qualcomm, Cisco, and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel, and has a long-term vision for Bitcoin that goes beyond its speculation value. Describing how machine-to-machine payments could solve numberous problems for Web users, Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Ben Horowitz told The Wall Street Journal: If I could read stuff on the web for a small amount of money, and didn’t have to open myself up for repeated charging or subscriptions I didn’t want? That’s a relatively straightforward application if you have machine-to-machine payments. 21’s device includes an energy-efficient mining chip, a custom version of Linux with the Bitcoin protocol baked in, as well as a 128GB SD card that contains the entire Bitcoin blockchain so you can run the computer as a full node to mine currency. The $400 computer will ship on November 16 and is available to pre-order now from Amazon. Interestingly, you can’t buy it with Bitcoin yet — but the company says it will enable the option to do so in the near future. ➤ 21 [via Balaji S Srinivasan on Medium] | SCIENCE & TECH |