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This Road Safety Week, locals in the Sandford area of North Somerset are set to celebrate the opening of a new section of a popular heritage trail, built as part of National Grid’s Hinkley Connection Project.
People will be able to walk, bike and wheel their way along the Strawberry Line’s new Sandford Link from Saturday 25 November following the opening of the new traffic-free section of the route near the project’s infrastructure – including its distinctive new T-pylons.
Built by National Grid as part of the construction of the new Sandford substation, and in partnership with North Somerset Council, the Sandford Link takes users from Station Road in Sandford north past the substation boundary to cross Drove Way and continue towards Yatton. Users will no longer need to travel along the busy and narrow Nye Road.
The opening marks the latest development for a route that has been undergoing transformation into a greenway since the early 1980s.


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Ballads of a Love Sick Yankee
I'm not quite sure how I first came across Jonny Kaplan. I may have seen him live, heard him on a compilation or via the internet or the radio.
Whatever I have a copy of his 1999 debut album California Hearts which has been gathering dust on the Americana shelves without having been played in a while.
That was until a week of so ago when I dusted it down and I have been playing it pretty much continuously ever since.
A lovely mix of America, power pop and Gram Parsons influences.
He is still active touring with his band as Jonny Kaplan and the Lazy Stars
Jonny Kaplan - Ballad of a Lovesick Yankee
Jonny Kaplan - Pocket Fulla' Nickels
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I didn't know much about Jonny Kaplan before hearing these and 'Pocket Fulla' Nickels' is how I imagined he would sound. 'Ballad of a Lovesick Yankee' exceeded all expectations though and is very good indeed.ReplyDelete
Ballad of a Lovesick Yankee has a Steve earle sound, no bad thing, and that 2nd one could easily be a Gram parsons song. Sounds like this could be a very good record!ReplyDelete

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After a six-year drought, metal fans are getting their Family Values back, if only for a day. Korn has announced the lineup and other details for the 2013 edition of the festival, to be held Oct. 5 at the 1st Bank Center in Denver.
Joining Korn in Colorado will be Hollywood Undead, Asking Alexandria, Machine Gun Kelly and Beware of Darkness. Timed to mark the release of the band’s new album, “The Paradigm Shift,” which drops Oct. 8, the festival also celebrates the return of guitarist Brian “Head” Welch and will reintroduce the Korn Kage to their stage show.
“We wanted to celebrate our new album release in a big way since Head is back and since this record means so much to us. What better way but to bring back Family Values and the Korn Kage for one big fuckin’ special night!” says frontman Jonathan Davis. “Denver became the spot — we figured we needed something cool in the middle of the country, so everyone would have a chance to get there.”
Tickets go on sale Friday, Sept. 6.
Korn introduced the Family Values Tour in 1998 as a rock-rap alternative to other festivals. They followed it up with editions in 1999, 2001, 2006 and 2007 with lineups including major acts like Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube, Incubus, Deftones, Evanescence, Staind and Stone Temple Pilots.
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DUBAI: New bank branch caters to women only
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In a first of its kind, Dubai last week unveiled a new banking service that caters only to women.
The Emirates Islamic Bank newest branch in the United Arab Emirates offers women a financial zone free of men, but also custom-made banking products, including retail-outlet discounts, special travel packages and discounts on bank products in addition to exclusive ladies lounges, free Internet and text-message banking.
“Catering to the individual needs of our customers has always been a core part of our business model, and opening an exclusive Al Reem branch is an extension of that belief,” said Faisal Aqil, an official at Emirates Islamic Bank told the daily Gulf News.
‘’We understand and value the role of women in today’s society and have carefully tailored services and special offers to provide them with all they need to fulfill their personal dreams and ambitions,’ he said.
But some wonder whether such ‘innovations’ are signs of progress, showing Arab women’s increasing involvement in the world of business, or a dreary sign of increased gender segregation in the Persian Gulf.
— Khaled Hijab in Beirut
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The jail system across the UK appears to be at breaking point with a record number of assaults on prison officers.
In the year to June here were almost ten thousand (9,485) assaults on staff within prisons, this is a rise of a staggering 27 per cent, which amount to 26 a day.
Almost a thousand of the 9,485 total, resulted in a “serious” incident, which needed medical treatment.
Overall assaults rose 20% to a record high of 32,559, including a 19% leap in prisoner-on-prisoner assaults. Self-harm also rose an alarming 10%.
Frances Crook, Chief Executive of the Howard League for Penal Reform, said: “This is yet another shameful set of statistics that shows the sheer scale of the bloodshed in prisons.”
Justice Secretary David Gauke said: “I have been clear in my absolute determination to bring down the unacceptable levels of violence in our prisons.
“The safety of our dedicated prison officers is paramount, which is why we recently changed the law to double sentences for those who attack them, and are rolling out PAVA incapacitant spray, body-worn cameras and ‘police style’ handcuffs and restraints.”
Peter Dawson, director of the Prison Reform Trust, said: “The government has recruited more staff and spent money on security. But so far it has only talked about reducing the number of prisoners the system holds.
“That needs to change, with action for the short and long term which will bring the prison population back down to a level where safety can be restored.”

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In a follow-up to a report two weeks ago concerning possible leprosy cases in two students at Indian Hills Elementary in Jurupa Valley, California, Riverside County Public Health says laboratory testing on one of the children, performed by the National Hansen’s Disease (Leprosy) Laboratory Research Program in Baton Rouge, was positive for the bacterial disease.
A second child was suspected of having the illness but there is no indication at this time that the youngster was infected, said Dr. Cameron Kaiser, Riverside County’s public health officer. “None of our recommendations to the school or parents have changed,” Kaiser said. “It is incredibly difficult to contract leprosy. The school was safe before this case arose and it still is.”
Hansen’s disease, formerly known as leprosy, is caused by Mycobacterium leprae (M. leprae ) bacteria. The infection has also been identified in nine-banded armadillos. Approximately 95 percent of people are resistant to infection; people who develop clinical illness can experience a wide range of clinical manifestations, but typically develop infections involving the skin, peripheral nerves and nasal mucosa.
Although the mode of transmission of Hansen’s disease is not clearly defined, most investigators believe that M. leprae is usually spread person-to-person in respiratory droplets following extended close contact with an infected person, such as living in the same household.
Feared as a highly contagious and devastating disease, it is well established that leprosy is not highly transmissible, is very treatable, and with early diagnosis and treatment, is not disabling.
Leprosy remains the most misunderstood human infectious disease. The stigma long associated with the disease still exists in most of the world and the psychological and social effects may be more difficult to deal with than the actual physical illness.
175 new cases were reported in the U.S. in 2014 (the most recent year for which data are available). Most (128 or 73%) of these new cases were reported in Arkansas, California, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, New York and Texas.


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Thanksgiving is a generous holiday. You’re giving thanks and spending time with those you love, and it’s the one day you’re allowed to unabashedly stuff yourself full of juicy turkey, flavorful dressing, and as many casseroles as you can handle. You don’t save room for pie, per se—but you definitely eat some anyway. Besides the once-a-year dishes we look forward to for months, another exciting part about Thanksgiving for Southerners is the décor. We get to create stunning seasonal tablescapes, break out our favorite china, and meticulously plan how we’re going to display all that food we’ve been stowed away in the kitchen cooking for the past two days.
Most Southern families have their china and their silver, but another very important facet of the Thanksgiving meal is the many casseroles dishes, serving platters, and gravy boats that must accommodate our mountainous menu, and must do so in style. This is where you can mix and match, throw in color, stick with your china pattern, or use anything else you might have picked up throughout the year. It’s up to you and what type of table you’re setting.
Serving platters tend to steal the show at the Thanksgiving table because they hold the precious goods: that turkey. You can use serving platters for a variety of sides, as well, which help to make a table not quite as stuffed with just casserole dishes. If you’re in the market for a new serving platter or two (or three), there are so many different ones to choose from depending on your taste. Whether you want neutral or bright, classic or modern, you can undoubtedly find what you want. Here are some of our favorite Thanksgiving serving platters to have on the table this year.

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This session was full of romantic vibes! After ten years together, Lauren and Paul danced away as if they had just fallen in love. Maybe it was the eve of Valentines Day sneaking up, but love was in the air! These two were ready to take on the session with fun and all my silly ideas I had, including reenacting a moment from Titanic for me. They laughed, they kissed, the smooshed on command, what gorgeous people to photograph.
We headed to Canberra’s stunning Lennox Gardens for a summer eve sunset, the weather was just perfect for Lauren’s flowy white dress and casual linen shirt for Paul. There’s a hidden treasure in all of this. Lauren’s hidden belly bump with baby number two cooking away. Pregnancy looks good on her don’t you think?
Now for my real fear, how will I top these on the wedding day!? These images are so stunning and authentic. Well I’ll have my work cut out for me in 2024.
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President Joe Biden expressed an interest in meeting with Kim Jong Un should the North Korean leader have sincere diplomatic intentions.
Biden made this statement after meeting with the recently elected South Korean President Yoon Suk-Yeol. Biden said that South Korean and U.S. officials would soon begin holding discussions to expand joint military exercises as North Korea resumes launching missiles and testing nuclear weapons.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Biden said the U.S. and its allies would address the ongoing threat of North Korea “by further strengthening our deterrence posture and working toward a complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
The two presidents held a series of discussions as North Korea struggles to contain a growing COVID-19 outbreak which Biden said he was willing to help them get control over. Biden stated that the U.S. was prepared to prJoe Biden Says He’s Open to Meeting With Kim Jong Un Under Two Conditionsovide vaccines “immediately.”
A White House official later clarified that the U.S. would not directly provide North Korea with vaccines but would instead provide them through existing infrastructure like Covax, a program financed by wealthy nations to help lower-income countries obtain vaccines.
The Biden administration reportedly made North Korean leadership aware of the offer to provide them vaccines as recently as last week. The administration also offered to provide the vaccines to the Chinese government who could then transfer them into North Korea.
North Korea, however, has previously rebuffed offers of Covid vaccines from Covax and has not responded to recent offers from South Korea to provide vaccines and other medical supplies. North Korean officials have accepted medical supplies from China, though.
When asked whether he would have any preconditions for meeting with Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, Biden said, “That would depend on whether he was sincere and whether he was serious.”
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Postgame: Strong result for Major League Soccer tonight at Real Salt Lake came from behind twice on the road to draw at Monterrey, 2-2.
The aggregate-score series will resolve next Wednesday at Sandy, Utah (and broadcast on FSN). The first tie-breaker is road goals, creating an even better scenario for the MLS club.
Pregame: Real Salt Lake will visit Monterrey at 7 tonight in the first of a two-game set for the CONCACAF Champions League championship and the right to represent the region in the FIFA Club World Cup. The match will be shown live on Fox Soccer Channel.
Sounders coach Sigi Schmid was asked today about Monterrey, which beat the Sounders 2-0 and 3-2 during group play.
"Obviously, they’re a good team," he said. "We said when we started in group play last year that we were probably in the toughest group. Two of the four teams: You’ve got one team in the final and one team got knocked out in the semifinal. So I think it shows we were in the toughest group for sure. Monterrey is a difficult place to play. Their stadium is a difficult place to play. We were able to get up on them, but it was a game they didn’t necessarily need to win, so they probably approached the game a little bit differently and sat some players that are very important. But they are a team that probably over the last year and a half in Mexico has been the most consistent team."
Here are some basics from the RSL website:
Having carried the banner for Major League Soccer south to Mexico, Real Salt Lake is ready for its first-ever appearance in the CONCACAF Champions League Finals against another CCL Finals debutante, Mexican powerhouse Monterrey. The two-legged showdown for regional club supremacy will begin this evening at the Estadio Tecnologico in Monterrey, with kickoff set for 8:00 p.m. MT. The two sides will renew acquaintances a week later next Wednesday, April 27 at Rio Tinto Stadium for the second and decisive leg to determine which club will represent CONCACAF in this December’s FIFA Club World Cup.
Following are details on how to keep up with all the red-hot action from sweltering Monterrey this evening:
How to Follow Real Salt Lake at Monterrey (CCL Finals – Leg 1) ■TV: FOX Soccer (English) and TeleFutura (Spanish)
■Online: Live streaming video on CONCACAF.com (free registration required), live updates via Official RSL Twitter Feed (@RealSaltLake), and live chat/MatchCenter on RealSaltLake.com
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So the piece I wrote yesterday got a lot of attention, and a lot of positive feedback, for which I’m grateful. When I stray beyond foreign policy and world affairs I’m the first to admit that I’m out of my comfort zone, and I certainly didn’t intend that post to be anything more than a collection of thoughts loosely organized around a particular theme. But some of the reaction I got on Twitter was about the Democratic Party’s policies–aren’t those policies intended to be good for workers? Isn’t the Democratic Party manifestly better on economic issues for anybody outside the top 1% than the Republican Party?
My answer to this is two-fold. First, the fact is that “better than the Republicans” is a low bar, and the Democrats only barely clear it in a lot of cases. “Free” trade, as it’s been fetishized in Washington by the establishments in both parties, hurts people all over the country, and the usual Democratic solution, throwing money at “training” that demonstrably doesn’t help, is arguably worse than doing nothing at all. Obamacare, while a necessary first step compared to what came before, was a grotesque compromise of basic principles that is hurting people all over the country. That compromise was unavoidable given the political constraints that existed in 2010, but the Democratic Party should be talking loudly and often about how much more work needs to be done, and how obstructionist Republicans are blocking any improvements. So no, the policies need work.
Obamacare actually leads me to the second part of my answer, which is that it’s not all about policies. The Democratic Party can have the greatest, most just, most sensible policy platform ever conceived, but we’ve learned over the last several elections that when your default campaign strategy is simply to point at your Republican opponent and say “man, can you believe this guy?” people are going to stop paying attention. It’s not enough to be against things, and it’s not enough to throw a collection of policy ideas up on a website and direct people to it when they have questions. Your political movement, your party, has to stand for something, it has to have a story to tell. And no, that story can’t be “look at how experienced I am,” particularly not in a cycle when many voters are clearly not interested in experience. You have to have some basic principles–and sure, maybe we won’t all agree on how to achieve those principles, which is fine, but we should all be able to agree on what the principles are, shouldn’t we? It seems to work for the other folks.
“Black lives matter,” that’s a principle. “LGBTQ people should have the same rights and protections as the rest of us” is a principle. “We should fight, everyday, for justice–economic, environmental, in our courts, in our foreign policy, everywhere, because we live in a system that, left to its own devices, is manifestly unjust,” that’s a principle too. Whether they’re the “right electoral principles” should matter less than whether they’re the right principles, period. I don’t know what all the principles should be. We’ve already seized on some, but there need to be more, and the political left in this country needs to talk about them, all the time, to everyone. Which means forming a political party that campaigns on them, all the time, in every race, without exception. No more complaining about gerrymandering and leaving dozens of Republicans unopposed every cycle. Gerrymandering is bad, and hard to overcome, I get it, but I’m tired of giving my money and my votes to a party that won’t even try to contest the really tough races.
With only a few quibbles, basically I agree with what President Obama said in his press conference yesterday:
With respect to the Democratic Party. As I said in the Rose Garden right after the election, “When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it’s hard, and it’s challenging. And I think it’s a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection. I think it’s important for me not to be big-footing that conversation. I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge – that’s part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing.
The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles. The belief that we should have an economy that works for everybody, not just a few. The belief that America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive. That we insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in. That we are committed to a world in which we keep America safe, but we recognize that our power doesn’t just flow from our extraordinary military but also flows from the strength in our ideals and our principles and our values.
So there are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn’t be up for debate. Should be our north star. But how we organize politically, I think is something that we should spend some time thinking about.
I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don’t matter if people don’t hear them. And one of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to compete everywhere. We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level, something that’s been a running thread in my career.
I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and BFW Hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. There’s some counties maybe I won, that people didn’t expect, because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for.
And the challenge for a national party is how do you dig in there and create those kinds of structures so that people have a sense of what it is that you stand for. And that increasingly is difficult to do just through a national press strategy. It’s increasingly difficult to do because of the splintering of the press (ph). And so I think the discussions that have been taking place about, how do you build more grassroots organizing, how do you build state parties and local parties and school board elections you’re paying attention to, state rep races and city council races, that all, I think, will contribute to stronger outcomes in the future. And I’m optimistic that will happen.
I’m actually not optimistic that it will happen, because it never does. When Democrats lose the instinct, fed by centrist pundit shills in the corporate media, is always to move a little more to the right, get a little further from the party’s working class roots, be a little more pro-business, ease up on this environmental stuff, stop talking about protecting all these at risk groups, get a little “tougher on crime,” get a little “tougher on foreign policy,” pull more resources out of states and districts that seem out of reach, and on and on. That’s what happened in the 1980s, in the 1990s, and again in the 2000s, and if you look at any level of government below the presidency, the fact of the matter is that it’s not working, and save for a maybe 2 year window in the early 90s it really never has. And no matter how much the party loses, it never seems to wake up to the need to, as the president said, “show up everywhere.” “White House or Bust” isn’t a sustainable political model, because eventually you will go bust, and then you’re in for a pretty awful ride.
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Destiny: Rise of Iron is the next expansion to the Destiny universe. It features an all new cinematic story campaign set within The Plaguelands, a brand new location on Earth along with new weapons, armor, gear along and a six-player cooperative raid. #destinyvideo #destiny
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Destiny: The Taken King Legendary Edition features the complete Destiny experience including The Taken King, the next great Destiny adventure, Destiny, Expansion I: The Dark Below and Expansion II: House of Wolves. Unite with 20 million Guardians in the fight to defend our solar system and Become Legend. #destinyvideo #destiny
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We are Guardians. We are Hunters, Titans, and Warlocks. We have fought back the Darkness together. But now a new threat looms on the horizon: Oryx, The Taken King. Battle the greatest villain we have ever faced and begin the next Destiny adventure on September 15th. Join us and Become Legend. #destinyvideo #destiny
As we prepare to kick off the second year of Destiny, we're looking back at the first year through your eyes. The launch of Destiny has meant so much more to us than the release of a new game. Our first journey around the sun together led to the origins of an amazing community. #destinyvideo #destiny
Destiny: The Taken King delivers the next great adventure in the Destiny universe.
Oryx, The Taken King has arrived in our solar system, bringing with him a corrupted army to exact revenge on the Guardians who destroyed his son, Crota, and to consume our worlds. Arm yourself with newfound abilities, weapons, and gear. Defeat the Taken hordes. Make your way aboard the Dreadnaught, and face Oryx himself within his inner sanctum.
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Happy Saturday friends! Do you know what you are doing for lunch today? You are going to enjoy a little slice of heaven that’s what you are going to be doing. I debated posting this because it is so easy and I figure people don’t need a blog post telling them how to make a tomato melt but then I thought about the few folks out there who were once like me who have never heard of such a thing…wondering cold and alone with no tomato melt to comfort them. All you need is bread, miracle whip, mustard, thinly sliced tomatoes, salt and pepper (also really good with thin slice of ham or turkey) and any kind of cheese you like. Put all those together in that order and put it in the oven on broil for about two minutes and badda bing badda boom you’ve got your tasty heart warming tomato melt. Combine that with a tall glass of chocolate milk and you are set!
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text: Four-year-old Liberty Bank of Clearwater takes on another patriotic name Thursday. Liberty will start operating as a branch of fellow bay-area based USAmeriBank with the completion of their merger. Combined, the banks have assets of $530-million and five offices in Pinellas and Hillsborough counties. USAmeriBank of Tampa is run by Joseph Chillura. Liberty Bank CEO and longtime area banker David Stone becomes an executive vice president of USAmeriBank.

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Well, Vienna was "supposed" to go into heat in May, but we are still waiting - LOL
Normally, females go into heat anywhere from 6 months to 8 months, so hopefully by the end of August...
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Optimax has developed a robust freeform optical fabrication CNC process that includes generation, high speed VIBE polishing, sub-aperture figure correction, surface smoothing and testing of freeform surfaces.
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The geometry of machines used to center lenses and to measure centering error all work in terms of the wedge case. Two important considerations are the centration of the lens and the difference in edge thickness.


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In its ongoing bid to be a central conduit of media, TiVo Inc. plans to broaden its digital video recording service later this year so users of its set-top boxes can download videos from the Internet and watch them from their television sets.
And now they're rewriting it with mod_perl to be an apache module content handler that can do it all much faster and more reliably. Sorry to ramble, but I tend to think it's impressive.
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The Republican Party is so concerned about inflation that it's considering a return to the gold standard. While there's little evidence those fears are justified, they could shape a Romney administration's approach to the Federal Reserve.
The platform the party adopted last week at its national convention in Tampa, Fla., calls for a commission to investigate a possible "metallic basis for U.S. currency."
The move is driven by supporters of Rep. Ron Paul, of Texas, the libertarian presidential candidate who has long criticized the Fed's control of the money supply and wants to revive the gold-dollar link to preserve the currency's value.
"We have a fiat currency that's backed by nothing," said Eric Brakey, 24, who ran Paul's campaign in Maine's Republican primary. "It's really only backed by the say-so of our government, and I think the government is losing credibility more and more. Inflation is going higher and higher."
Yet inflation has been tame, with the personal consumption expenditures index, the Fed's preferred inflation gauge, declining in three of the past four months. Since the June 2009 end of the recession, the average increase in the index has been 1.8 percent, below the central bank's 2 percent target. Over the last 20 years, the index has risen 2.1 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Most Americans aren't worried either. The public expects inflation to remain subdued -- an annual average of 1.26 percent over the next decade, according to an estimate by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
That hasn't quelled concern among some Republican politicians that the dollar's value is being eroded.
Mitt Romney, the presidential nominee, has criticized Fed Chairman Ben S. Bernanke for weakening the dollar through his bond-buying efforts known as quantitative easing. Romney said recently that additional Fed measures to stimulate the economy risked the potential for "inflation down the road."
Such vigilance on inflation could affect the Fed if Romney wins in November. The former private equity executive has vowed to replace Bernanke, whose term expires in 2014. He'd likely fill any unexpected vacancies on the Fed board with inflation hardliners, who might favor raising interest rates before the end of 2014, as Fed policy makers currently plan, says Mark Thoma, an economics professor at the University of Oregon.
"If Romney is elected, he will put people on the board of governors who are very credibly hawkish," Thoma said.
Romney's running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, the House Budget Committee chairman, called in March 2009 for the Fed to base the dollar's value on market measures "such as a basket of commodities." Ryan also has assailed the Fed's asset purchases.
"There is nothing more insidious that a government can do to its countrymen than to debase its currency," he said in December 2010.
Since the September 2008 onset of the financial crisis, the dollar has lost 1.1 percent of its value on a trade-weighted basis.
The gold standard, which the U.S. dropped in 1933, isn't coming back anytime soon. Michael Feroli, chief U.S. economist for JPMorgan Chase & Co., calls gold talk "political noise." Of the 37 economists who responded to a January University of Chicago survey asking whether restoring the dollar's link to gold would benefit the average American, none said yes.
"A gold standard regime would be a disaster for any large advanced economy," wrote Anil Kashyap, a former Fed economist and now a University of Chicago economics professor.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt took the dollar off the gold standard shortly after he took office in 1933, a move that economists say helped lift the economy from the depths of the Great Depression. In August 1971, President Richard Nixon broke the last link to gold, ending the ability of foreign central banks to convert their dollars into the metal.
Now, Republicans are eyeing a study of "possible ways to set a fixed value for the dollar." No specific gold proposal is under consideration. Restoring a dollar-gold link would remove from policy makers the ability to respond to a financial crisis such as the 2008 credit crunch and would be enormously complicated, economists say.
If the U.S. pegged the price of gold too high, the result would be inflation as investors rushed to sell their gold to the Fed, thus boosting the domestic money supply. If the price were set too low, gold would flow out of the U.S., shrinking the money supply and igniting a job-killing spiral of deflation or falling prices, says AEI's Makin, a former consultant to the Treasury Department and International Monetary Fund.
The Republican platform last included a gold plank in 1980. Once elected, President Ronald Reagan appointed a 17-member commission, which included Paul, to study the matter. It determined in March 1982 that a return to the gold standard "does not appear to be a fruitful method for dealing with the continuing problem of inflation." Paul dissented from that conclusion.
Since September 2008, the price of gold has almost doubled to about $1,665 an ounce, even as some on Wall Street question the rationale of buyers.
"Ultimately, you are going to buy gold if you think there is going to be some kind of persistent, severe inflation problem, and that just doesn't seem to be very realistic," Michael Hood, a market strategist for JP Morgan Asset Management, said in an interview last week.


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On the eve of its inaugural developer conference, Twitter is having to explain itself to third-party developers becoming increasingly nervous that new features being added to the micro-blogging site will gut their businesses.
In an e-mail sent over the weekend, Ryan Sarver, director of the Twitter platform, tried to calm developers by explaining Twitter's plans to acquire Atebits, announced Friday. Atebits makes the popular Tweetie application for posting messages on Twitter via an Apple iPhone. The acquisition announcement left developers wondering if their applications would eventually become unnecessary as Twitter builds or acquires its own features. Making matters worse, Twitter labeled "official" a mobile app it's building in conjunction with Research In Motion for the latter company's BlackBerry smartphone. In his e-mail, which first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, Sarver said that Twitter's decision to launch its own iPhone app was intended to end the confusion caused by the many Twitter applications on Apple's App Store for the iPhone. The number of available applications made it difficult for new iPhone users to find what they wanted, and many would just give up. "This means that we were missing out an opportunity to grow the user base which is beneficial for the health of the entire ecosystem," Sarver said. He went on to say that the company plans to continue adding new features, and acknowledged "the potential to upset a company or developer that may have been building in that space and they then have to look for new ways to create value for users." "My promise is that we will be consistent in always focusing on what's best for the user and the ecosystem as a whole and we will be sincere and honest in our communication with you," Sarver said. The use of third-party developers to quickly expand functionality within a software product or Web service is not new. Companies that have been successful with such strategies include Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and many others. In Twitter's case, developer support has helped the site soar. In March, the number of visitors reached 9.3 million, an increase of more than 5 million visitors, or 131% from February, according to ComScore. However, dependence on third-party developers often leaves companies walking a fine line between adding features themselves without alienating the developers they need for continued growth. Twitter's position is particularly precarious, because it also needs to find ways to make money to satisfy investors. The company is expected to announce how it expects to become profitable at the Chirp developers conference, April 14-15 in San Francisco. One investor watching Twitter closely is Union Square Ventures. Fred Wilson, a Twitter director and partner at Union Square, pointed out that some of the most popular services on Twitter came from third parties, including access from mobile phones, photo sharing, and search. "Twitter really should have had all of that when it launched or it should have built those services right into the Twitter experience," he said in his blog. Going forward, Twitter will have to incorporate more features within the site, while also finding a way not to lose the developers that add services it may not even think of, Wilson said. "It's time for Twitter and its developer ecosystem to work together to create entirely new things that will shape the Internet in the coming years," Wilson said. However, that's likely to take time and require lots of close communications with developers. Indications of developer concern can be seen in the comments on Sarver's e-mail. "With these recent moves and announcements you're starting to realize (for the first time) lots of developer's fear: 'what if Twitter makes that same feature I'm working on?'" developer Arnaud Meunier wrote. "This situation happened on a lot of other platforms before, and I guess we all knew it was going to happen here, soon or later. The only questions were when and who. One of the question is still opened. I hope we'll find answers @chirp."
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Mozart’s final symphony stands as a triumphant apotheosis.
Symphony No. 41 in C Major concluded the monumental symphonic trilogy (Nos. 39, 40, and 41) that Mozart wrote over the course of two months during the summer of 1788. For the 32-year-old composer, it was a time of personal and professional loss. In Vienna, Mozart’s popularity was in decline as the city’s notoriously fickle audiences turned their attention elsewhere. Funding from aristocratic patrons evaporated with the outbreak of the Austro-Turkish War. As income dried up and creditors pounded at the door, Mozart and his family relocated from central Vienna to the suburb of Alsergrund. In June of 1788, Mozart’s six-month-old daughter died. His wife, Constanze, suffered serious illness. The clock was winding down for Mozart who, three years later, would be dead at the age of 35.
Out of this turmoil emerged a work that elevated the classical symphony to its apex. Some thirty years later, this transcendent symphony would earn the nickname, Jupiter, a reference to the Roman god who hurled mighty thunderbolts. The impetus for Mozart’s final three symphonies remains unclear. With no apparent commission, the German musicologist Alfred Einstein suggested that the symphonies were an “appeal to eternity.” Perhaps there were plans for a London tour, or an elusive concert at a newly opened casino on Vienna’s Spiegelgasse. Regardless, it is unclear if Mozart ever heard this music performed.
The Jupiter Symphony opens with three thunderbolts on the pitch, C. Immediately, we are drawn into an operatic conversation among instrumental voices. There are echoes of the ominous sounds we encounter in Don Giovanni, which generated a lukewarm reception at its Vienna premiere less than a month earlier in May of 1788. The first “character” is filled with confidence and bravado. The second is quietly pleading. Amid cascading thunderbolts in the strings, the first theme unfolds with a sense of celebratory grandeur. The exposition concludes with a cheerful, skipping theme which originated as the comic aria, Un bacio di mano, K. 541 (“A Handkissing”), written by Mozart as an addition to Pasquale Anfossi’s opera, Le Geloise fortunate. Again, notice the operatic conversation which occurs as the bassoon joins the violins in this theme while the oboes enter with a singing counter statement (2:38).
The second movement begins with a serene and expansive melody which resembles the stately triple-meter baroque dance of the sarabande. The use of mutes in the strings creates a dark, veiled blanket of sound. Soon, F major turns to C minor. The opening sarabande enters the shadowy, supernatural world of Don Giovanni. Amid wrenching dissonances and rhythmic disruptions, the music leaves behind its initial elegant, courtly dance and ventures deeply into mysterious and ghostly territory. When we return home, the movement’s dramatic journey cannot be forgotten.
The third movement is a stately, aristocratic minuet. Its buoyant triple meter measures merge into long, majestic phrases which seem perpetually airborne. What begins as a simple melody soon breaks down into weaving motivic fragments. We get the sense that the instrumental voices are “playing” with these fragments. The trio section develops from the kind of simple cadence we would expect at the end of a piece. In the second half of the trio section, we hear a stormy foreshadowing of the final movement (2:38).
The contemporary American composer, John Adams, has observed that the later music of many composers gets increasingly contrapuntal and complex. The final movement of the Jupiter Symphony offers one of music history’s most dazzling examples. This euphoric and celebratory display of counterpoint culminates in a cosmic fugato which combines five independent music themes. The conductor, Claudio Abbado, described this eruption of counterpoint saying,
The finale has all these ideas superimposed, bursting out, one after the other, like fireworks. There’s a pile-up of musical lines, a proliferation of colors. The ingenuity is almost unimaginable, limitless.
The opening bars introduce one of the movement’s principal motivic building blocks: C-D-F-E. This common motif, derived from Gregorian chant, can be heard in Josquin des Pres’ Missa Pange lingua. Interestingly, it emerges in the second movement of Mozart’s First Symphony, a work that the composer wrote in 1764 at the age of eight.
Regarding the final movement, the musicologist Elaine Sisman writes,
The mass of simultaneously writhing fragments, at all rhythmic levels and in all instruments, with the relentless background of the four whole-notes, cannot be taken in. It reveals vistas of contrapuntal infinity. The coda thus creates a cognitive exhaustion born of sheer magnitude. It makes vivid the mathematical sublime.
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Five Great Recordings
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 “Jupiter,” Sir Charles Mackerras, Scottish Chamber Orchestra linnrecords.com
- Sir Colin Davis and the Staatskapelle Dresden
- George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra (1955 studio recording)
- Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra (1962 studio recording)
- John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists
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The Boy Is Mine is the second studio album by American recording artist Monica. It was released by Arista Records on July 14, 1998, in the United States. The album deviated from the formula of her 1995 debut album Miss Thang, as she had more creative control over the material she wrote and recorded; a step that she considered a "natural progression". On the record, Monica worked with a variety of producers and writers from different genres such as gospel, R&B, and pop, including frequent collaborators Dallas Austin, Colin Wolfe, and Daryl Simmons. Additionally, she wrote and produced the album's material with David Foster, Diane Warren, Jermaine Dupri, and Rodney Jerkins and his Darkchild crew, some of which would become household names on subsequent albums.


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Nigerian forward Ebere Christian, who made history in the CONMEBOL with his first goal for Club Nacional, has scored for his team yet again in their league match against Liverpool.
In their Uruguayan Primera División · Apertura clash against Liverpool, Ebere Christian played a pivotal role, scoring the equaliser that rescued his team from a potential defeat, Footballrover reports.
The match, held at Estadio Belvedere on Sunday, saw the 20-year-old striker slam home a second-half goal to secure a 1-1 draw for the visitors.
Despite trailing by a narrow margin at halftime, Ebere Christian and his teammates rallied in the second half, with the Nigerian youngster finding the back of the net after 19 minutes of relentless pressure.
Both sides had opportunities, but the game ultimately ended in a 1-1 draw, with honours shared between Club Nacional and Liverpool.
Ebere lived up to expectations despite playing just 78 minutes; this is his second straight game with Club Nacional in which he has scored.
With this result, Club Nacional maintains their position in second place with four points, trailing league leaders Peñarol by only two points and leading Liverpool by the same margin.
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Browns reportedly trying to trade with Rams to draft Robert Griffin III
The St. Louis Rams already have former Rookie of the Year Sam Bradford at quarterback. Though some people believe they should use the No. 2 overall selection in this year’s NFL draft on Baylor quarterback Robert Griffin III, they can stick with Bradford at QB and trade the pick to beef up their roster. It sounds like the Cleveland Browns are trying to convince them to do just that.
We’ve heard plenty of chatter over the past month suggesting Cleveland was trying to trade with St. Louis to obtain the second overall pick. Ex-GM turned reporter Charley Casserly has taken that even further, reportedly saying the Browns are “in the driver’s seat” to acquire the second pick from the Rams to draft RGIII.
The Rams reportedly are discussing potential trades with several teams, and Adam Schefter mentioned the Redskins, Dolphins, and Seahawks as teams expected to draft quarterbacks. The Browns may be in the driver’s seat for a trade with St. Louis because they can offer the 4th and 22nd picks in return.
Any team that trades for the Rams’ second pick will have made a worthwhile deal; we’re expecting RGIII to be a franchise QB. And if St. Louis can grab Justin Blackmon at No. 4 and maybe a lineman or another playmaker at 22, they’d be on their way to building a stronger squad as well. This is the type of trade that can benefit both teams, much like the Giants-Chargers Philip Rivers-Eli Manning trade in 2004.


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I am a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor (LCPC) that seeks to come alongside those who want to grow and change. Being in counseling is hard work and it takes courage; it is much easier to stay on the familiar path of destruction or the comfortable path of survival, but moving onto a daring path of growth is worth the risk. It is possible to go from surviving to thriving and I love to work with kids and adults of all ages, helping them make this a reality.
One of the needs we all have is connection with others. Whether in individual or group therapy, I believe that being seen, heard, and valued by others is one of the ways we heal. With training in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and experience dealing with many types of trauma, I seek to use relationships as one of the keys to healing. Many times we were hurt in relationships and so we must also heal in the relationship. I like to provide a safe environment for this healing to take place. In addition to dealing with trauma, I work with those struggling with anxiety, depression, borderline, bipolar, obsessive-compulsive, and attachment-related disorders.
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The Dublin actress has relocated to London with her family, including daughter Evie, who has Stargardt Disease. After eight years in Hollywood, it was time, she tells
ACTRESS Victoria Smurfit is the epitome of glamour as she breezes into Dublin’s Merrion Hotel. But she’s quick to credit her hair and make-up artists.
Lightly tanned and glowing in an all-white, one-shoulder ensemble, it’s hard to believe it’s two decades since she became a household name as feisty young barmaid Orla O’Connell, in Ballykissangel.
It has been a summer of new for her: new home, new beginnings, and a new country and culture to experience with daughters, Evie (14) and Ridley (12), and son, Flynn (10), her children with former husband, Doug Baxter. This summer, following eight years in Los Angeles, they relocated to Surrey, an hour south of London.
“It’s been a crazy summer, after eight years living in LA,” she says. “They’re very excited for their new school. They’re going to go to an American school in Surrey, as it’s just a completely different system, so I’ve moved close to there.”
Packing up your life to move to a new home can be emotional. “I thought it would be. It was exhausting, but throwing stuff out is very freeing. And I think it’s only when you move house, you realise how many cupboards you have, and how much rubbish is in them. I gave a lot of my stuff to friends; I’ve left my DNA around L.A. All the kids just went: ‘OK. Grab your stuff. Bye house. Let’s go in the car’, and off we went. It was just time for all of us. It was just time, and they’re loving it.”
A terrifying incident reaffirmed her decision to move: a shooter tried, unsuccessfully, to target the children’s school in Santa Monica. She was alerted by text by Evie and told her daughter to hide, as per protocol. The school went into lockdown and for an hour she did not know what was happening.
“I wouldn’t have known if Evie wasn’t a ‘divil’ and she didn’t have her phone in the classroom, but she did. “They rehearse a lockdown once a month. They all pick a hiding spot in the room and you stay there as quiet as you can. Ridley said she was very aware that when she looked up at her teacher that he looked terrified, whereas, normally, the teachers know the drill is coming.
“You know, it’s what the kids have to learn. We all have different things that you adjust with. But their gun policy is so crazy and nothing’s changing.”
It wasn’t until she moved to Surrey that she made another realisation. “What’s really interesting is that I hadn’t realised, really, until we got here, that in the last year and a half, since the powers that be changed over there, that there’s been a kind of a real low-grade fear that you live with there.
“In a bit of a way, it’s like you live with a low-grade feeling of damp, if you live here in January; it’s there and it was only when we arrived, you realise.”
She is in Dublin, her home town, as launch ambassador for the Longines Irish Champions Weekend. The two-day event, one of the biggest on the racing calendar, takes place in Leopardstown and The Curragh on September 14th and 15th. It will be her children’s first-ever day at the races.
“I was lucky enough to have grown up going to these events. The one I wish I’d been to was when Vintage Crop won the Melbourne Cup; that would have been a treat. I grew up around horse racing, with the family. My uncle (businessman Michael Smurfit) has had a 60-year love of horses and when we were lucky around the holidays, we’d get to go with him. We’d go with dad (Dermot), and the family, at Christmas.
“It’s closing up the season and it’s all the very best horses and all the very best jockeys coming together.
“Longines brings an elegance to whatever they’re doing. On top of that, you also have the Pat Smullen charity race. So you’re bringing all the legends out of retirement to be able to raise funds. Pat, who retired this year, following a cancer diagnosis, is organising the event to raise funding for research.”
Smurfit has had a busy career since she first pulled pints in Fitzgerald’s of Ballykissangel. She starred opposite Hugh Grant in About a Boy and as a TV detective in Lynda La Plante’s gritty series, Trial & Retribution. Recent successes have included her fun Cruella De Vil in global TV smash Once Upon a Time and police drama Marcella, but recently she has been concentrating on the move and her family.
Evie has been diagnosed with Stargardt Disease, which causes progressive sight loss. A few days ago, Victoria took her eldest daughter to a specialist clinic in Switzerland, a trip documented on social media at Evie’s request.
“That was entirely her thing. She said to me, a couple of months ago: ‘Mom, do you think there’ll ever be a cure?’ And I said: ‘My darlin’, I don’t know. I believe so and I wish for that, hope for that, pray for that.’ And then, she goes: ‘Do you think there’s going to be a cure before I lose my sight?’ ‘I don’t know. I hope for it. I wish for it. I pray for it’.
“And she just turned to me, and she’s fourteen-and-a-half, and she says: ‘Well, if I have to go through this so the next generation of kids with Stargardt’s don’t, then so be it. But we will find something’. And I just thought, what an incredible young lady. She’s really incredible,” she said, clearly moved by her girl’s courage.
She has vowed to do whatever she can to support her. “One of my sort of action plans is I want to make sure that the top docs in L.A. New York, London, Dublin, all of the top places, are fully aware of this girl, Evie Baxter, who is an advocate for Fighting Blindness, who is an articulate, gorgeous, held-together young lady. So that when the clinicians, when the scientists, when the geneticists, have a breakthrough, they go: ‘You know who needs this? That’s Evie Baxter.’
I’m all for being the squeaky wheel. I would never do it for me. But you bet I’m going to do it for her.
“We’re just gonna keep banging the drums and picking up every stone and looking under it for the clues. To find a solution.”
In recent years, Smurfit has been developing her own projects, including a drama set in a boxing club and a TV series in the US. Writing has become creatively important to her, she says.
“To me, it manages the crazy. You know, we all have thousands of ideas and thoughts and feelings and words and I can put it all into a place that is fun. It’s like my therapy, I guess. Because the joy of it is I can play every character; I kind of like that.”
She’s looking forward to spending the rest of the summer introducing her children to a country she herself knows well. “I thought, we’ll take this summer off and go and settle the kids, so that they know where they’re at and what they’re doing and introduce them to a British pub lunch, which they love, and then get back to it come September.
“In the US, you can go for months and months and not find a degree of separation. So people don’t necessarily have the connectivity that we have. One of the most important things for me, for the kids, is to get a sense that you belong to a community. It’s really important to have that sense of belonging. “I think that’s vital. So that’s a big difference. That, and proximity to Hula Hoops and Tayto has been extremely important to my kids.”
- The Longines Irish Champions Weekend takes place in Leopardstown and The Curragh on September 14th and 15th.


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Murder rates spike in some neighborhoods, fall in the north
By ROBERT ABRUZZESE and VERONIKA BELENKAYA
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Oct 18, 2008 | 1:45 PM
Murder in Brooklyn is on the rise - but it's not the usual suspects.
In a dramatic turnaround, the borough's traditionally less violent south Brooklyn neighborhoods had a 31.4% rise in murders so far this year - from 54 to 71.
Meanwhile, north Brooklyn precincts - which the NYPD flooded with cops last year - had 23 fewer murders, or a 20.5% drop, the latest NYPD statistics show.
"It's got a lot of people worried. This is not the type of neighborhood that people usually worry about," said Bensonhurst resident Sal Carrizzo, 67.
Murders in Bensonhurst's 62nd Precinct went up from two in 2007 to four this year. Robberies increased by 23.4%, from 158 to 295. "We have alarms [and] cameras, and we never used to worry about that kind of stuff," said Carrizzo.
In Crown Heights' 71st Precinct, also in the south Brooklyn command, murders went up from 8 to 12 this year.
Carl Cohen, president of the 71st Precinct community council, said he was surprised at the shift in murder statistics, and attributed the unwelcome change to the troubled economy.
"Over the past year crime was down and it never happened until the economy started to decline," he said.
While Cohen said the precinct could "always use extra officers," he pushed for added community programs for young people and new jobs in the area to stop the crime spike.
In another south Brooklyn neighborhood, Sunset Park, murders increased from one to four and car thefts rose 33%.
While south Brooklyn precincts didn't get any additional cops, it's a different story in neighborhoods like East New York and Bedford-Stuyvesant, where 645 rookie cops have been patrolling since last year.
The huge 75th Precinct, which covers East New York and was considered the city's most violent last year, showed a dramatic decline in murder - from 25 to 10 this year.
"A lot of it has to do with the police presence," said Patricia Tucker, 62, a retired drug counselor and East New York resident.
"There's been times in the day when you would see two or three cops on every corner. Their presence is felt and it's helpful."
But despite the overall drop of 3.2% in crime in northern Brooklyn, the borough still claims the city's most murderous precinct.
This year, it's Brownsville's 73rd Precinct with 23 murders. Although that is one murder less than last year, it is still the highest of any single precinct in the city.


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So much has been going on behind the scenes with FTT that I can't even begin to tell you all of it. But, today we have a new owner, a new look and some new weekly challenges on the horizon. However, we still have the 4x4 theme going on. Check out the sidebar at FTT for some great project ideas. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Sue Bridesmith for taking over FTT for Abbie and I as we move on to other pastures. I will hang out for a short time as a GDT for Sue while some of her team is on vacation. I know that Sue will do a smashing job and I hope ya'll will give her your continued support. Break a leg Sue (supposed to be good luck to say that)!
Sue has chosen the first challenge as anything goes with buttons. Whats not to like about that? Pretty easy. So here's my project.
As you can see, I'm still in Fall mode. It won't be long and you'll start seeing snowflakes and holly around here. Anyway, my friend Leslie gave me an ATC card pack (3 actually) and I found this cute little fellow on one of them. He was surrounded by pumpkins which I did not need this time so I made him into a small tag and added some orange bakers twine. I used chocolate chip card stock (SU) for my page base then layered the patterned paper from a paper pack I got over a year ago. I promised myself no more hoarding! I laid a doily down on the corners and inked a bit to add a little more dimension. Then I inked up the paper doily with chocolate chip ink (SU), cut in half, and added my twill ribbon which I also inked up with chocolate chip ink. The ribbon was wrapped up between the layers. I had to stick it down with score tape so it wouldn't tear the paper. I stapled (Tim Holtz's Tiny Attacher) a small piece of the twill ribbon over the long strip then added a leaf embellishment to finish it off. The "Boo" sentiment is a trimmed sticker. I used powder on the back to eliminate the sticky then inked the edges and popped up on foam tape (3M). Of course, everything is inked around the edges. Lastly, I added my buttons below the tag and on my "Boo" sticker. I like how the buttons are different sizes on the sticker. Cute. All in all, I was happy with my fat page. But, look what I did with it:
I popped it up on foam tape and added it to a 5-1/4" square card base. I stamped leaves in the background with the chocolate chip ink (stamped off once or twice first) then added the photo corners (punch from SU) using chocolate chip card stock and the patterned paper from the fat page. Love it! I have decided I will be doing this more often with my fat pages. I love the look.
Well, that's it for me today. Get on over to Fat-Tastic Tuesday and check out the Fat-Tastic team inspiration. And hey, why not join in the challenge? There's a great prize to be won!


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How Much Do You Know About the 9/11 Attacks?
Do You Know the NRA?
Which Is the Only State That...
Do you value American lives more than foreign lives?
Should free speech ever be restricted?
Should the US stop sending aid to developing countries?
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"I like Ike" helped elect Dwight Eisenhower. Can you match these slogans or catchphrases with the right presidential campaigns?
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The UK government has lifted the ban on larger phones, laptops and tablets from being taken into the aircraft cabin for all flights from Istanbul Ataturk and Dalaman airports in Turkey.
The move means that there are now no restrictions for these electronic devices on all flights from Turkey to the UK.
The restrictions on larger electronic items being taken onboard aircraft was put in place in March 2017 on direct flights to the UK from Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, due to security fears.
Over the past 18 months, the UK government has been gradually removing this laptop ban from specified airports and airlines after they introduced additional security measures.
There are now no restrictions on all UK-bound flights from Antalya, Bodrum, Cairo, Dalaman, Hurghada, Istanbul Ataturk, Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen, Izmir, Luxor, Marsa Alam and Tunis-Carthage International.
“Restrictions have also been lifted on a number of individual airlines operating from other airports,” said the Department for Transport in a statement.
“The vast majority of carriers operating from airports in Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon are no longer subject to these restrictions. Passengers should contact their airlines for advice about whether their flights are affected.”
The laptop ban still applies on some flights from Jeddah and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, Amman in Jordan and the Lebanese capital Beirut.

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January 12, 2022
By Sahr Morris Jnr
Sierra Leone National team, Leone Stars put up a brave fight to frustrate reigning champions Algeria to a goalless draw in their African Cup of Nations Group E opener on Tuesday in Douala.
The holders were left in a frustrating mood as they made an uninspiring start to the defence of their Africa Cup of Nations title.
Algeria were expected to get their Group E campaign at the tournament in Cameroon off to an easy start against minnows Sierra Leone, who were returning to the tournament for the first time since 1996.
But it proved a brave showing by the West Africans as they clung on for a point in sweltering heat in the port city.
The second Group E game will be played on Wednesday in Douala when Equatorial Guinea meets the Ivory Coast.
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Laura Bliss is CityLab’s West Coast bureau chief. She also writes MapLab, a biweekly newsletter about maps (subscribe here). Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Sierra, GOOD, Los Angeles, and elsewhere, including in the book The Future of Transportation.
In an echo of the Amazon HQ2 backlash in Queens, Canadian foes of Alphabet’s city-building arm have organized a campaign against the Quayside development.
Ever since Sidewalk Labs announced its plan to develop a Toronto neighborhood “from the Internet up” in 2017, the Google sister company has faced consistent criticism, locally and abroad. Now, in the wake of fresh headlines related to the project and a growing global backlash against urban profiteering by other tech companies, it will face an organized resistance.
Launched Monday morning, #BlockSidewalk is a campaign by Toronto residents to halt Sidewalk Labs’ sensor-laden, data-driven vision for a parcel of waterfront land known as Quayside. For the moment, supporters anywhere in the world can add their names to an online petition “to stop the project, assess the lessons learned, address the policy issues and then consider a fresh start for the deal.” In the future, leaders say, the campaign may eventually lead letter-writing, meetings, protests, and other actions.
“We’ll figure out as we go what the next steps are, but everything is on the table,” said Bianca Wylie, a campaign organizer and open government advocate who has long been a prominent critic of the Sidewalk Labs project. “To start, all we need to do is to bring residents together.”
#BlockSidewalk was catalyzed by a series of recent news events, Wylie said. Earlier this month, the Toronto Star leaked a proposal by Sidewalk Labs that proved the company’s ambitions to be much grander than previously known. Whereas the amount of public land slated for development had been limited to a 12-acre patch of the city’s waterfront, the documents revealed that Sidewalk Labs hopes to develop a much larger 350-acre swath that the smaller parcel sits within.
What’s more, the company also proposes financing a light-rail extension and underground infrastructure on that property, recouping its investments and profiting from a cut of developer fees and/or property tax increments leveraged from the future growth of land values. Those revenues could reach $6 billion over the next three decades, according to the proposal, which Sidewalk Labs has since publicly released.
These revelations came as a shock to elected officials at all levels of Canadian government, according to local media reports, despite the frequent meetings between Sidewalk Labs leaders and local and provincial politicians registered in lobbying records. Yet they underscore issues related to transparency, accountability, and democratic governance that Wylie and others have raised with the project from its inception.
For example: The founding agreement between Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto, the government-appointed nonprofit responsible for stewarding the public land in question, went undisclosed until public outcry forced its release. The company also stayed mum for months on how it planned to manage citizen data collected within the Quayside community. And its underlying business model has long been hazy.
Dan Doctoroff, the CEO of Sidewalk Labs, responded to mounting criticism of the project in the wake of the leaked documents to the Star earlier this month. “It isn’t fully baked and people just naturally are afraid of new things,” he said. “The best thing we can do is sit down with them and explain and we will be thoughtful and patient and listen to people’s concerns and hopefully reach a place where we have a mutually acceptable way of moving forward that doesn’t have to be what we suggested.”
A Sidewalk Labs spokesperson later offered this response to the #BlockSidewalk campaign:
Robust public debate and discussion will only make these ideas better and we look forward to continuing to consult with Torontonians across the city to get this right. This project is for Toronto and it will be up to residents, Waterfront Toronto and all three levels of government to decide if it should go forward."
But for the people behind #BlockSidewalk, the development of Quayside should be reset and reimagined—without Sidewalk Labs in the driver’s seat. “There is no reason to continue with a process that’s been this anti-democratic,” Wylie said. Towards that end, the campaign will eventually introduce new visual renderings to offer Toronto alternative visions about what could be done with the space. “There’s a lot to be said about, ‘What do we want instead?’” she said.
The timing of the group’s announcement is meaningful: #BlockSidewalk comes on the heels of Amazon’s withdrawal from its much-ballyhooed plans to build a second headquarters in Queens, New York. That dramatic reversal was the result of mounting pressure by local activists and politicians opposed to the plan, which had been developed largely in secret and included nearly $3 billion in government incentives to bring the shipping giant to town. The day after Amazon’s departure made global headlines, the Washington Post broke a story about Google’s extensive use of shell companies and nondisclosure agreements to hide its identity as it expands data centers and offices across the U.S.
Melissa Goldstein, a Toronto affordable housing advocate and #BlockSidewalk organizer, said that these headlines are helping normalize the idea of protesting a tech giant among regular citizens who weren’t as engaged before. She pointed to a Facebook group for planning-minded Torontonians called “Young Urbanists League,” where conversation about Sidewalk Labs has been recently swirling among normally quieter voices. “People who aren’t really activists are now are seeing that this is happening in New York, and that it’s not so strange to push back against corporate influence,” Goldstein said.
That trend goes beyond North America: Last year, anti-gentrification activists in Germany forced Google to back out of plans to build a headquarters in the Kreuzberg neighborhood in Berlin. “I don’t know exactly how to stop something like this from happening,” Goldstein said. “But people have managed to do it in Berlin and in New York, and it’s pretty inspiring.”


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This past Saturday, Dim Mak and The Well LA hosted the Shady Pool Party up in the beautiful hills of Hollywood (oh soooo cool). The event hosted LA’s hippest party goers, along with some the industry’s most familiar faces. We’d like to thank Red Bull for providing energy, The Cobra Snake and Rony’s Photo Booth for supporting the event, and the beautiful Saturday afternoon that we were blessed with!
Dim Mak Live presents the Official BeatPatrol Promotional Mix, available for a Free Download on Soundcloud today! This brand new mixtape, apart of the 2012 Dim Mak World Tour Series, features new and unreleased tracks by PeaceTreaty, Jidax, Haezer, Steve Aoki, Tommy Trash, Clockwork, Proxy and more!
D.O.D joins the Dim Mak crew for his first single release with a blistering summer anthem. Feel good main room business all the way from the 24 year old UK producer. Euphoric, hands in the air breakdown fused with a rolling percussive lead has party smasher written all over ‘Headache In A Bottle’. With a packed full international tour diary and a host of A-List DJs already playing the new record, this is just the start of D.O.D’s story.
|Now Available: D.O.D – Headache In A Bottle||[lightbox url=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/headache-in-a-bottle-single/id528892974″ width=”100%” height=”100%” iframe=”true”][/lightbox] [lightbox url=”http://www.beatport.com/release/headache-in-a-bottle/918856″ width=”100%” height=”100%” iframe=”true”][/lightbox]|
To all our avid Twitter followers, and frequents of the #FF shoutouts, we have adorned a whole new meaning towards this overused Friday chant-off… Presenting #FreeFriday. Starting on Friday the 13th, we will be giving away a different track, possibly unreleased, rare, old, new or wherever in between, on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. As bit-rate quality seems to be a common concern for anything ‘given away’, all downloads will be offered in 320kbps. This means you’ll be able to bring something new to the dancefloor each weekend in full mp3 luxury.
The Kickoff — No. 001, Special Friday the 13th Giveaway
– Artist: Tony Senghore & Dave Spoon
– Track: Be 4 Ever (Tony Senghore Remix)
… To begin with, Alec Empire has a history with Sony — he’d sued them for copyright infringement after another song was included in a Sony ad without permission, and he settled, still feeling ripped off. Part of his dissatisfaction was hearing his music in a commercial at all.
Now Sony was back in Empire’s life — and asking this time. Empire knew at once what he wanted to do.
“I was actually on the phone and had to slow down my pulse and breathe… so the excitement wouldn’t be audible in my voice.”
Read the full interview on wired.com here.
If you couldn’t get enough of Tony Senghore’s new single “Be 4 Ever,” featuring Dave Spoon take a listen to his new SBC Summer Session mixtape. The hour-long mix features the newly released single along with Rebecca & Fiona, Miike Snow, Ect!Ect!, Staygold, Bassjackers & Angger Dimas and more!
This just in — Felix Cartal, PeaceTreaty and TAI’s official DJ playlists are now available for purchase on iTunes. Check the links below to see what some of your favorite DJ’s have compiled for this hot July month.
Felix Cartal – July iTunes DJ Chart
PeaceTreaty – July iTunes DJ Chart
TAI – July iTunes DJ Chart
Steve Aoki is back with the remix album of his debut artist LP, WONDERLAND REMIXED, out today July 10th. Bringing together his superstar friends as both featured artists and remixers, AOKI reinvents and reinvigorates his original WONDERLAND album, highlighting why he has become one of America’s most beloved electronic producers.
|Now Available: Steve Aoki – Wonderland Remixed||[lightbox url=”http://bit.ly/WonderlandRemix” width=”100%” height=”100%” iframe=”true”][/lightbox] [lightbox url=”http://www.beatport.com/release/wonderland-remixed/932836″ width=”100%” height=”100%” iframe=”true”][/lightbox]|
Felix Cartal and fellow canadian hero, Sebastian Grainger (JFK’s partner in crime for Death From Above 1979) collaborate for “H.U.N.T”, out now. The single is a sneering spelling lesson that flies over filthy beats. In addition, JFK remixes H.U.N.T. into audible sweat and blood for those who want to brawl a bit.
|Now Available: Felix Cartal – H.U.N.T. feat. Sebastien Grainger||[lightbox url=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/h.u.n.t.-feat.-sebastien-grainger/id539084737″ width=”100%” height=”100%” iframe=”true”][/lightbox] [lightbox url=”http://www.beatport.com/release/h-u-n-t/934271″ width=”100%” height=”100%” iframe=”true”][/lightbox]|
Tony Senghore and Dave Spoon are set for their new joint project on Dim Mak Records, “BE 4 EVER” out now. The release sounds as if from another planet and explores a thrilling journey to the deepest beats of the universe. Mr. Tony Senghore does not disappoint with his known talent for voice manipulation and starts the track solid in a Prometheus-esque tone.
|Now Available: Tony Senghore & Dave Spoon – Be 4 Ever||[lightbox url=”http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/be-4-ever-single/id528891586″ width=”100%” height=”100%” iframe=”true”][/lightbox] [lightbox url=”http://www.beatport.com/release/be-4-ever/918869″ width=”100%” height=”100%” iframe=”true”][/lightbox]|
This past weekend David Guetta released another F*ck Me, I’m Famous to his podcast series featuring two of Dim Mak’s very own. The 50-minute podcast features Junior Sanchez’s recently released DimMak Attack and Peace Treaty’s soon to be released single In Time feat. Anabel Englund.


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