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Last week I shared a picture of the new hue on our living room wall. The reason I gave you an out of focus sneak peek of it is because the paint was so ugly that I wanted to tear my eyes out. It was bad. I thought I had failed. And here is how I conquered said failure.
These photos were taken on different days and under different lighting conditions, so please excuse some of them as they aren’t the best.
I wanted to paint the wall behind our shelves a bold colour. I’ve always swooned over the deep maroon some of the deceptive dust covers I made 100 years ago, so I took some left over scrap pieces of the paper and taped them to the wall to give myself an idea of whether or not that colour would be too dark, and also to see if that hue would suit our room.
I loved the colour and was excited to get painting so we headed out that evening I bought a 2.5L tub of B&Q’s forest fruit paint. In a silk emulsion finish. It wasn’t until the next morning that I realized how wildly unsuitable it was for our living space. You could see every brush stroke and it was so shiny you could almost see yourself in it. It made me feel pretty crap.
I remembered a discussion my dad and I had about paint a couple of weeks previously. I wondered, if I mixed a little bit of plaster of paris into the paint, would it make it look like matt paint?
I mixed a couple of teaspoons of plaster of paris with water into a smooth paste then added it to a couple of cups of paint in my painting tray. Whatever you do, do not add the dry plaster of paris directly to your paint. It’ll end up like a badly made hot chocolate with lumps everywhere.
At the same time, I wasn’t too keen on how purple the paint was. It was a cold purple and definitely wasn’t adding to the cosy vibe I was going for. Before I started mixing my paint in the tray with the plaster of paris, I cheekily squeezed a tube of cherry red acrylic paint into the tub [which was only about 1.5L after my 2 coats of paint on the wall the previous night] and mixed furiously.
I painted a test patch to see how the new paint differed in both colour and sheen. And just like Charlie, this level of Sheen was winning.
The above picture is a bit horrible, but you get the idea. I was excited. I had conquered the paint. I was in love with how it turned out and it only took one coat of paint to fix the problem. Please tell me I’m not the only one who’s had a paint disaster?
At the moment I don’t have photos of the entire wall without a Christmas tree stuck in the middle, but the colour is much better suited for our living room. A beautiful berry hue. That paint very nearly got the better of me. Nearly. xx A
the new wall color matches your blouse in your new picture at the top of your website!!! haha 🙂 its a really great color and it really suits your apartment.
Hahah, oh god I didn't even notice! I am so predictable.
You ended up with the perfect colour! I'm very impressed with how you fixed that shiny purple paint, and transformed it into a lovely matt berry hue. Very resourceful, and you didn't waste what you had!
Upcycling wizard genius or disaster designer? Think I'll settle with the former 😀
Yep, soooo much better. What an interesting solution, too. Who knew a little matte can go a long way?
The color you ended with is truly great! I really like how your apartment looks with this color! You did a really nice job! Thanks for sharing!
The design is awesome! I love everything!
The color is lovely! I am getting really keen on this color lately and I want to paint at least one room at home in this color! haha

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Twitter rips Nasty C over Kanye West comment
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Johannesburg- Hip-hop newcomer Nasty C found himself being torn to shreds by Twitter following a comment about Kanye West's latest album.
Nasty C quickly found himself in the middle of a storm after Tweeting that his album is better than Kanye West's latest album, The Life of Pablo.
Nothing could have prepared the rapper for the Twitter brigade that came out guns blazing.
Nasty C tweeted that his mixed tape, Juice Back Remix is better than Kanye's album.
The tweet has since been deleted. However, the shade and Twitter memes are still flying around.
Here's some of the reactions...

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The level of motor insurance premiums is measured by the CSO using as a base the costs obtaining in December 2001 which is allocated an index of 100. Using this scale the costs for motor insurance in February 2002 measured 99.6 index points. From that date, costs rose to 108 index points in April 2003. Motor insurance costs have subsequently reduced and at February 2007 the index stood at 70.5 points, a reduction of 34.7% since April 2003.
There are various factors contributing to this reduction. The introduction of the Personal Injuries Assessment Board was a major step as was the Civil Liability and Courts Act which includes penalties for giving false or misleading evidence in personal injury cases. In addition, random breath testing, increased resources to the Garda Traffic Corps and the roll-out of the penalty points system are expected to deliver better driver behaviour and reduced frequency of traffic accidents. These initiatives are having a positive effect on motor insurance premiums and I am confident that they will continue to do so.


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BIAS OR REFLECTION OF REALITY?
Stojan Zupljanin’s defense contests the credibility of Ian Traynor, war reporter for the newspaper Guardian, claiming that he ‘lacks objectivity and is biased against Serbs’. Traynor replied that his articles ‘reflect the reality in the field’: the fact that the Serb forces were stronger, controlled two thirds of the BH territory, besieged Sarajevo and ethnically cleansed Eastern Bosnia
Ian Traynor, witness at the Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin trial
In the cross-examination of Ian Traynor, war reporter for the newspaper Guardian, Stojan Zupljanin’s defense tried to discredit the witness as ‘biased and lacking objectivity’. According to the defense, Traynor’s articles ‘do not reflect the actual situation’ in BH. Stojan Zupljanin is on trial with Mico Stanisic for crimes of the Serb police in 1992.
In his effort to contest the witness’s credibility, lawyer Igor Pantelic suggested that Traynor was less than objective in his report from Kozarac because he didn’t talk to the VRS commanders. The indictment alleges that many civilians were killed in Kozarac and nearby places in May and June 1992. The witness noted that in his story he quoted from statements he took from the refugees from Kozarac and international officials. When he came to Kozarac, the Serb army arrested him. The defense counsel then tried to prove that the destruction in the town could have been the result of ‘a legitimate military operation’. The witness wondered aloud how random shelling and the expulsion of 15,000 civilians could be seen as a legitimate military operation.
The defense counsel also noted that the witness in his ‘biased articles’ concluded that the ‘Serb side is the main culprit for all the crimes in the war’. Traynor rejected this claim, arguing that his articles only ‘reflected the reality in the field’: the Serb forces were superior and between April and November 1992, they were able to establish control over two thirds of the BH territory. Also, the Serb forces besieged Sarajevo and ethnically cleansed Eastern Bosnia.
The judges asked Pantelic several times about what he wanted to achieve with his examination. In the end, the judges told the witness not to respond to the claims the defense lawyer made in order to challenge his objectivity and credibility.
Pantelic referred to the notes Traynor took during his interview with Stojan Zupljanin in late September 1992 in Banja Luka. In his examination-in chief, the witness claimed that Zupljanin told him that the mass departure of non-Serbs was not ‘ethnic cleansing’ but ‘economic emigration’. They left because European countries offered them ‘hotel rooms and well-paid jobs’, Stanisic added. The defense counsel today argued Zupljanin’s claim was accurate, saying that many displaced persons never returned to BH even after the war was over. Traynor repeated that in his view the economic emigration theory was ‘entirely inappropriate’, adding that he was not a sociologist to analyze the reasons why so many of the refugees decided not to return to BH.
The next witness at the trial of Mico Stanisic and Stojan Zupljanin is Branko Peric, a judge of the BH State Court.
- Case : Zupljanin i Stanisic - "Bosnia and Herzegovina"
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Firenze Artegiani has its origins in 2005 when one of the founders of the brand studied Architecture in Florence.
A few years later, that influence of style, work methodology and design led to the creation of our brand FIRENZE ARTEGIANI.
FIRENZE ARTEGIANI is a FASHION and accessories brand, especially handmade bags and accessories. We work with the best selected leathers, Italian VERA PELLE, being manufactured entirely in Italy, MADE IN ITALY.
We work with a great variety of designs and finishes, always with the highest quality leathers.
Our bags guarantee that they are made in ITALY, by hand and with genuine leather.


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Project Type: Parks & Recreation
Client: Fort Seward Foundation
Location: North Dakota
Beaver Creek Archaeology was hired by the Fort Seward Foundation to relocate the officers' quarters at Fort Seward in Stutsman County, North Dakota. Due to disturbances to the site during the years since disarmament of the military installation, no evidence of the quarters could be seen on the surface of the grounds.
Beaver Creek Archaeology conducted magnetometry and ground penetrating radar (GPR) surveys across the Fort grounds in hopes of locating any subsurface anomalies, such as basements, which would indicate the locations of the quarters. During the inventory it was discovered that a large deposit of lime had been buried at the site making the discovery of any subsurface features impossible.
Beaver Creek Archaeology then turned to our GIS analysts. Old maps and plans from the fort was georeferenced with modern topographical maps and aerial photos. By combining the georeferenced maps with ground-proofing, Beaver Creek Archaeology was able to determine the locations of the officers' quarters with a relatively high certainty.

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Table of Contents Introduction “Blindspot” follows the story of Jane Doe, a mysterious woman in Times Square covered in intricate tattoos with no memory of her past. As the series.
One of the top series of Netflix original is now going to have its Korean version, Yes. Netflix original has confirmed its title as Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic.
Stockholm syndrome is a psychological condition in which hostages form an emotional connection with their captors under captivity. These relations form over the period of many days, weeks, or even.
Who is Netflix's Messiah? return of Jesus or emergence of Dajjal? When the trailer dropped, some unnecessary controversy erupted, but here is the truth.
Netflix just released the trailer of its upcoming series, Messiah making Dajjal trending on Twitter which is to portray the ‘false Messiah’.

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Purchased this stand back in March of 2019. Last night the base shattered and the TV fell. Left with glass everywhere and a broken TV we need to replace. Fortunately no one was near the stand when it broke. If you own one of these stands be sure to check the base for signs of cracking. If you are in the market for a stand keep looking.
Just remember to put base bars in right locations no problem. Very sturdy but no need to over torque adjustment screws as they will bend. Very pleased with design and sturdiness.
I love it! Lost my stand and this makes it so much easier!
Awesome stand, very easy to put together and very sturdy. Holds up my 55" tv with no problem.
I feel that my tv will be safe from tipping over


A collection of recaps from last night’s 7-1 Saint John Sea Dogs loss to the Moncton Wildcats…
Our recap. The Sea Dogs ventured out into the snow to take on the Moncton Wildcats in their own rink on Wednesday night. This was a rescheduled game, the original game being cancelled due to a severe snowstorm at the end of 2012.
The Telegraph-Journal’s recap (paywall). The Moncton Wildcats and Saint John Sea Dogs are two different teams going in two different directions.
News 88.9’s recap. Featuring Tim Roszell’s goal calls.
SaintJohnSeaDogs.com’s recap. The Saint John Sea Dogs dropped their first game against the Moncton Wildcats 7-1 in a make-up contest in Wednesday’s Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action.
SCRATCHES: The Sea Dogs were without Jonathan Huberdeau (Florida Panthers camp), David Weckworth (lower body), Connor Donaghey (upper body), Jurij Repe (broken hand), and Spencer Smallman (healthy) on Wednesday night.
HIGHMORE: Matthew Highmore scored his first QMJHL goal in the first period last night. It would be Saint John’s only goal of the game. Highmore, playing in his first game since December 21 because of the World Under-17 Challenge and a death in his family, has a goal and three assists in 13 games this season. Hopefully it is the first of the many.
OUTPLAYED: The Sea Dogs were out shot 21-11 in the first and 21-5 in the second and trailed 7-1 after two. Those ain’t pretty numbers. Saint John did out shoot Moncton 8-6 in an uneventful third period.
GOALTENDING Although he faced just six shots, Alex Fournier did not allow a goal in the third period after coming in to replace Sebastien Auger. Hopefully that is a confidence booster. Auger allowed seven goals on 42 shots through two periods of play.
BARBASHEV: Ivan Barbashev continued his solid rookie season last night, registering two goals and two assists. He now has 39 points in 43 games, good for fifth in rookie scoring.
DANAULT: Phillip Danault scored his first goal as a Moncton Wildcat last night at 13:21 of the first period on the power play. He added three assists, six shots, and a +3 rating.
VS MONCTON: This was Saint John’s first loss of the season to Moncton. The Dogs are now 4-1-0-0 against their rivals from up the highway. The two meet again on Sunday at Harbour Station.
STREAK: Saint John has now lost five straight and are 2-8-0-0 in their last 10 games. The Dogs have been outscored 27-7 over their past five games.
STANDINGS: The Sea Dogs are still fifth in the Telus Maritimes Division and 15th overall in the league with an 18-25-0-0 record for 36 points. They are three points back of the Gatineau Olympiques who sit 14th.
NOTES: The attendance was 3,830. Solid crowd for a stormy Wednesday night… Moncton went 3/6 on the power play… Andreas Tsogkas had four shots… Steven Duda had four penalty minutes… Phillip Danault and Dmitrij Jaskin each had six shots… Saint John out hit Moncton 19-13.
OUT OF TOWN
P.E.I. 6 at Acadie-Bathurst 5 (OT)
NEXT GAME: The Sea Dogs host the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles on Saturday night at 7pm at Harbour Station.


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Acne is one of the most common skin problems. Its other names are Acne Vulgaris and cystic acne. In this disease, skin becomes scaly and red. This condition is known as seborrhea. Blackheads and whiteheads are also developed, known as Comedones, Scarring is also possible during this. The most affected parts of the body are face and upper part of the chest. Back is also one of the common affected parts. There are two types of acne, inflammatory and noninflammatory.
Genetic component is also one of the reasons. Hormonal changes also cause acne. It includes menstrual cycles and puberty. During puberty Androgens are increased. So, the follicular glands grow larger and produce more sebum. Dust and Bacteria are also the reasons to cause acne. There is scientific research that shows that acne severity is related to the stress. More the stress, more will be the severity of acne.
Mostly, acne is occurred during adolescence. In most of the people, acne diminishes with the passage of time and then it gets disappeared. But it can’t be predicted that how much it will take to disappear completely.
The symptoms of acne include:
Increased oil-sebum secretion
Blackheads and whiteheads
WHEN TO CONTACT A DOCTOR:
You need to contact your doctor when
Acne is clearing up but scars are appearing on the skin.
All the steps of self care are turning out to be useless.
Acne is getting worse.

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Bombay HC rejects appeal against use of trademark Covishield
The Bombay high court (HC) on Tuesday refused to interfere with the district court order, allowing Serum Institute of India (SII) to use the name ‘Covishield’ for the vaccine manufactured by it. Cutis Biotech had sought injunction on the name’s use, as it too had a similar name for a drug. But as the district court had refused to grant the injunction, Cutis approached HC.
A division bench of HC justice Nitin Jamdar and justice CV Bhadang, however, held that as SII’s vaccine was already well-known and neither company owned the trademark, it was not inclined to grant the prayer of Cutis.
The bench, while hearing an appeal filed by Cutis Biotech, was informed by advocates Dr Abhinav Chandrachud and Aditya Soni that the company had applied for the trademark Covishield under the Trademark Act, 1999, last year on April 29. The advocates submitted that on January 4, Cutis had initiated a trademark suit against SII at the Pune commercial court, and hence, till the outcome of the suit was decided, they had filed an interim application seeking an injunction against SII from using the name.
However, the district court had refused to grant the injunction as SII had started using manufacturing the vaccines by the Covisheld, following which Cutis approached HC.
Senior advocate Dr Birendra Saraf for SII submitted that the company on June 6, 2020, had applied for the registration of trademark ‘Covishield’ under application no 4522244 for vaccine under Class-5. It had also applied for other variants. The company had sought permission to carry out tests for the coronavirus drug from various authorities, and on December 10, 2020, the Union health ministry published the Covid-19 vaccine procedure, which referred to the trademark of SII as ‘Covishield’.
After perusing the proceedings of the interim application heard by the district court, the HC bench noted that neither Cutis Biotech nor SII had a registration for the trademark ‘Covishield’. Thus, the grievance of Cutis Biotech would be termed as an allegation of passing off by SII.
The district court further noted that as the products of both the companies were different, there was no chance of confusion in the minds of the public.
“The court noted the situation brought about by the pandemic and the importance of the vaccine for the general public. The district court, by the impugned order dated 30 January 2021, rejected the interim application,” the HC bench, while dwelling on the implications of the injunction, observed.
In light of this, HC observed, “That ‘Covishield’ is a vaccine to counter coronavirus is now widely known. A temporary injunction directing SII to discontinue the use of mark ‘Covishield’ for its vaccine will cause confusion and disruption in the vaccine administration programme of the state. In this case, thus, the grant of an injunction would have large-scale ramifications traversing beyond the parties to the suit.”
While dismissing the appeal, the bench noted, “The discretion used by the learned district judge in refusing to grant an injunction is not arbitrary or perverse. Even if the evidence was to be looked at in the first instance, no case is made out for grant of any relief.”

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Katie Holmes wants to rebuild her friendship with Victoria Beckham
According to reports the actress is feeling lonely since splitting up with Tom Cruise
Katie Holmes is said to be keen to get back in touch with Victoria Beckham.
The pair met in 2007 when the Beckhams moved to Los Angeles and soon became close friends.
Katie and Victoria, who are both fashion designers on top of being global stars, were often seen attending catwalk shows together and going out for dinner with their respective husbands.
However since Holmes' divorce from Tom Cruise she has lost touch with her British friend.
'Katie's lonely, short of female friends and really misses the time she used to spend with Victoria' an insider told Now magazine 'She knows she's incredibly busy but she's pushing for them to spend quality time together when Posh is next in New York'.
Over to you Victoria...


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His name was Albert Vaughn. He was by all accounts a very good kid living in a very tough neighborhood. He was attending a party at a home that was supposed to be a haven for young inner-city Chicago teens back in April of 2008. The kids were there to enjoy some fun, drink some Kool-Aid, and listen to their favorite music, free from the fear of violence that too often inhabited the streets outside.
But violence found a way in.
At about 10:30 p.m., a scuffle broke out in the basement between two of the guests, and the fight ignited a chain of events that led to the death of the innocent young man. He was fatally struck in the head with a baseball bat as he tried to help the party chaperones usher the kids home.
That’s right. A baseball bat. The same murder weapon Al Capone killed a guy with in The Untouchables.
“He was just trying to do something good for the ’hood because there’s nothing but violence around here,” Sunday Turman, 33, who hosted the party, told reporters. “Next thing you know, he hit the ground right in front of police.”
Vaughn, a student at Julian High School, was the 23rd Chicago Public Schools student slain that school year.
From 2008 through January of 2012, 530 young people have been killed in Chicago, President Obama’s hometown. Over 80 percent of those homicides occurred in black or Latino communities on the city’s South, Southwest, and West sides.
But you don’t know Albert Vaughn’s name.
You don’t know the name of those other 22 kids from Julian High School who died in 2008.
You don’t know any of the other 530 young people, most of them minorities, who were killed between 2008 and January of 2012 in Chicago alone.
All of them were tragedies. All of those victims were too young to die.
Why didn’t you hear about their senseless deaths? Why didn’t the media make them household names? Why didn’t civil-rights leaders march, and march and march again, calling for justice?
Because they were not killed by a white guy.
No, I need to be more accurate. They were not killed by a “white Hispanic,” a new term of art the New York Times and others in the media are using to describe George Zimmerman, the man who killed Trayvon Martin.
Why? Because the real racism that exists in the media is this: a young black male’s life is not worth reporting when it is taken by another black male. It is worth reporting only when it is taken by a white guy.
Thus the contortions to make George Zimmerman “white.”
If this were a voter-ID story, Zimmerman would have been called an Hispanic, not a “white Hispanic.”
And if he were a presidential candidiate, Zimmerman would have been called an Hispanic, not a “white Hispanic.”
I don’t ever remember the New York Times calling President Obama the first “white black” president.
The real tragedies here are the stories not being told by the media when it comes to race. So let me continue with Albert Vaughn’s.
He was known for playing basketball with the younger kids in the neighborhood, and trying his best to keep them out of harm’s way. Not the usual activity of a teenage boy, being selfless and caring about someone other than himself.
“If he was guilty of anything, he was guilty of always protecting these kids,” said Trualanda Fields, a neighborhood mother.
Vaughn’s father, who is also named Albert, said his son was “always smiling,” dreamed of attending college, and wanted to be a football player or boxer. “He’d rather box in the ring than in the streets. He didn’t pick fights,” the elder Vaughn said.
Piers Morgan didn’t give Vaughn’s father a sit-down on CNN to talk about his grief.
President Obama didn’t talk about how young Albert could have been his son.
Albert Vaughn’s story gets worse. According to his stepmother, Yolanda Johnson, on the night of Albert’s memorial — a Sunday-night candlelight vigil — about 50 people were huddled close together when the sound of gunshots was heard. Everyone scattered as the count approached ten.
“This isn’t cool anymore,” said Johnson. “They’re trying to take out another one of my kids.” Johnson told reporters she did not feel safe anymore in her neighborhood, and planned to vacate her home.
The “they” Yolanda Johnson was talking about were other young black males, not white people. Because it is predominantly young black gang members — and, increasingly, young Hispanic gang members — who are terrorizing the streets of inner cities all over America.
Yolanda Johnson told reporters she was leaving home, and she is not alone. Blacks are fleeing northern urban centers in record numbers, many of them heading back to the South in what has been called “the Great Return.” They are fleeing the crime and the awful schools and seeking opportunity and a better quality of life.
Between 2000 and 2010, an estimated 1,336,097 blacks moved to seven major southern cities alone, according to the Brookings Institute, which compiled the most recent data from the U.S. Census. Today, 57 percent of the country’s black population lives in the South, a 50-year high.
Young black males are killing one another in epic proportions, and blacks are moving in record numbers from cities like Chicago and Detroit, and the media just yawn.
That story doesn’t interest the mostly white editors and gatekeepers of the mainstream media, who presume such stories won’t draw ratings, especially from a white majority insulated from the problems of inner-city life.
And they may be right for making such assumptions.
This I know for sure: If hundreds of white kids were senselessly murdered by other white kids in high concentrations, the media would be all over it.
Chicago is Columbine every day.
But the one ratings grabber — the one story the media run to like a mouse to cheese — is the story of white-on-black crime. They jump all over it, sometimes to their own detriment, as was true in the Duke lacrosse case. The very same civil-rights leaders posing for cameras in Sanford, Fla., marched in Durham, N.C., a few years back demanding “justice” without actually knowing what had happened in that case.
We all know how that turned out. Those white lacrosse players are still living down the false accusations of a black woman, and the media — and the civil-rights leaders — just moved on.
Those civil-rights leaders I refuse to name don’t seem to care all that much about white people’s civil rights, that’s for sure. Silly ones included in our Bill of Rights such as the the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth amendments, all of which protect the accused from mob justice, and which demand probable cause before an arrest, real-life due process for defendants, and proof beyond a reasonable doubt for any criminal conviction.
No one knows whether George Zimmerman is guilty of a crime, or whether he is a racist. Only time — and a trial — will tell. The endless speculation is just that — speculation.
Then there is the reality of Chicago, and the all-too-real tragedy of black-on-black crime in America. In his latest Wall Street Journal column, Juan Williams cited a comprehensive study by the Justice Department in 2005 on the subject that he said should have been a “clarion call” for the black community, and the nation at large.
Almost one half of the nation’s murder victims that year were black and a majority of them were between the ages of 17 and 29. Black people accounted for 13% of the total U.S. population in 2005. Yet they were the victims of 49% of all the nation’s murders. And 93% of black murder victims were killed by other black people, according to the same report.
That is astounding. Almost one in two murder victims in America is a black male, and more than likely, a young male. And nine out of ten of those young black men were killed by other young back men.
Williams went on to cite some other depressing figures. Less than half of black students graduate from high school, and the education system’s failure is “often a jail sentence or even a death sentence.”
Williams is right. For far too many black kids, public schools are jails before they get to real jails. Young men and women staring down such prospects are kids without hope. And kids without hope can do desperate, senseless things.
This year, a shocking 72 percent of black babies are born to unwed mothers. And it doesn’t take a rocket scientist, let alone a social scientist, to begin to make some connections about the relationship between that last shocking figure and the rest of them.
Kids — and entire communities — without fathers do not know a masculine love that is essential to a neighborhood. To its moral development. And its safety.
That we are still not properly talking about the real race problems in America — ones that include disparate sentencing and profiling — is a failure of imagination. And conscience.
Yes, Trayvon Martin’s death was a tragedy, and a nation’s prayers should go out to everyone in his family. And all of his loved ones.
But while you are at it, say a prayer for Albert Vaughn’s loved ones. Say a prayer for all of the thousands of young black Americans whose lives were cut short by senseless street violence. Say a prayer for the faceless, voiceless victims we never hear about or read about or see on TV because so many of us just aren’t interested.
Say a prayer for all of those young black men and women who were too young to die.
— Lee Habeeb is the vice president of content at Salem Radio Network, which syndicates Bill Bennett, Mike Gallagher, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, and Hugh Hewitt. He lives in Oxford, Miss., with his wife, Valerie, and daughter, Reagan.

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Thiazolidinedione and sulfonylureas have similar CV benefit for diabetics on top of metformin
Effects on the incidence of cardiovascular events of the addition of pioglitazone versus sulfonylureas in patients with type 2 diabetes inadequately controlled with metformin (TOSCA.IT): a randomised, multicentre trial
Good glycemic control can reduce the incidence of CV events and microvascular complications in diabetic patients [1,2]. Metformin is the first-line therapy in these patients, but it achieves appropriate glucose control only in approximately 50% of patients at 3 years after diagnosis . Sulfonylureas and pioglitazone are used as add-on therapy in diabetic patients with inadequate glucose control, however, it is not clear which combination benefits these patients most [4-6].
In this multicenter, randomized, parallel-group study, the long-term effect of a sulfonylurea versus pioglitazone as add-on therapy to metformin was evaluated in regard to the incidence of CV events, glucose control and safety, in diabetic patients inadequately controlled with metformin monotherapy, under usual clinical practice conditions. The study was stopped early on the basis of a futility analysis after a median follow-up of 57.3 months.
Approximately 3.000 men and women, aged 50–75 years, with T2DM for at least 2 years on stable treatment with 2–3 g metformin per day and an HbA1c of 7.0 – 9.0 % (53–75 mmol/mol), and a BMI of 20–45 kg/m2 were recruited. The key exclusion criteria were acute CV events in the previous 6 months, chronic HF, and a serum creatinine concentration greater than 132 μmol/L.
Metformin dose remained unchanged throughout the study, whereas the add-on drugs could be titrated at the investigators’ discretion (15–45 mg for pioglitazone, 5–15 mg for glibenclamide, 30–120 mg for gliclazide, and 2–6 mg for glimepiride were used).
Treatment failure was defined as an HbA1c of 8% (64 mmol/mol) or higher on two consecutive visits 3 months apart. If treatment failure occurred, insulin was added, in a stepwise manner, to the previous treatment, which continued at the same doses. The primary outcome was a composite of the first occurrence of all-cause death, non-fatal MI, non-fatal stroke, or urgent coronary revascularization. The key secondary outcome was a composite of ischemic CV disease, including the first occurrence of sudden death, fatal and non-fatal MI, stroke, leg amputation above the ankle, and any revascularization of the coronary, leg, or carotid arteries.
- The primary CV composite outcome occurred in 7% of patients in the pioglitazone group, and in 7% of patients in the group of sulfonylureas, corresponding to 1.5 per 100 person-years (PY) in both groups. There were no significant between-group differences in the composite primary outcome (HR: 0.96; 95% CI: 0.74 – 1.26; P = 0.79) or in its components.
- The key secondary outcome occurred in 5% of patients in the pioglitazone group, corresponding to 1.1 per 100 PY, and in 6% of patients in the sulfonylureas group, corresponding to 1.2 per 100 PY (HR: 0.88; 95% CI: 0.65 – 1.21; P = 0.44).
- HF occurred in 1% of patients in the pioglitazone group and in 1% of patients in the sulfonylureas group (HR: 1.57; 95% CI: 0.76 – 3.24; P = 0.22).
- The mean HbA1c over time was slightly lower for patients in the pioglitazone group than for patients in the sulfonylureas group (7.24%; SD: 0.20; vs 7.30%; SD: 0.21; P = 0.01; 55 mm/mol vs 56 mmol/mol).
- Fewer patients had treatment failure with pioglitazone compared with sulfonylureas (13% vs 20%; HR: 0.63; 95% CI: 0.52 – 0.75; P < 0.0001).
- The overall incidence of serious adverse events was similar in the pioglitazone and sulfonylureas groups. Severe hypoglycemic events were uncommon, but were more frequent with sulfonylureas. The occurrence of confirmed malignant neoplasms, including bladder cancer, was also similar between groups, as well as the incidence of pathological bone fractures and macular edema.
In a real world clinical setting, both sulfonylureas and pioglitazone have a similar effect as add-on therapies to metformin regarding the incidence of total CV events in diabetic patients. These findings suggest that in T2DM patients without CV diseases, pioglitazone or a sulfonylurea are suitable alternatives as add-on treatment to metformin, although the combination of metformin and pioglitazone was advantageous in terms of durability of glycemic control and frequency of hypoglycemia.


Our Singing Hands concert, scheduled originally for Thurs 19 March is now postponed until 9th December. See you there!
PACSO and Chichester Down Syndrome Support Group will be hosting a concert with Singing Hands on Thursday 9th December from 4.15pm at Chichester Baptist Church. Singing Hands are amazing!
Tickets available on eventbrite: £7 per family; limited tickets available on the door.


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LINKS Faith Ministry Placement Service
We call our placement service LINKS to reflect that Faith is a link the Holy Spirit uses to place people into ministry. We can assist you in your search.
Chorale TourMarch 7–16
Attend one of the Chorale’s spring concerts in Illinois and Michigan.
Scholarship WeekendMarch 20–22
Seniors who have applied to Faith can interview for valuable scholarships.
Faith Pulpit DayMarch 31
Speakers this year will address the topic of the Family in Modern Culture.
Youth ConferenceApril 17–19
Pastor David Tebbenkamp will challenge teens to live Unashamed.
Board Appoints Interim President
The Board of Directors of Faith Baptist Bible College and Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa, is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Ernie Schmidt as the interim president of the institution. Read More
Faith Ranked #1 Nationally
Faith Baptist Bible College recently was ranked #1 nationally in an interesting Facebook survey. Read More
Faith Honors Tim Crown
On Wednesday, October 30, Faith had a special service at the close of chapel to honor Tim Crown by officially naming the new Crown Park in his honor. Read More


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If you head down to Central Harbourfront or Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade on a Tuesday evening, chances are you’ll be overtaken by what appears to be a high-energy party; as a tribe of black-and-neon-clad runners stream by seemingly chasing a person with a large speaker strapped to their back – hello Midnight Runners.
Hong Kong has a stellar reputation as a trail-running destination, with events like HK 100 Ultra Trail Race, Lantau 50, The Ultra-Trail Tai Mo Shan and Oxfam Trailwalker attracting eager participants from around the world to the city’s magnificent mountain trails. But equally, those looking for a distinctly urban location in which to work out won’t be disappointed. Swathes of flat, pedestrianised promenades, mountain-hugging roads and city parks, often backdropped by famous landmarks and epic vistas, afford terrific gallop-ortunity. Add in easy access to trails, safety, and the fact that running only requires inclination and a decent pair of trainers, and well, it’s a sporting opportunity open to anyone visiting Hong Kong.
For Jody Bragger, a nomadic Brit who’s CEO of Midnight Runners, the union of city and community is central to the group’s identity. Hong Kong is the first city in Asia to set up a local chapter of the global community, and since launching in early 2019, Midnight Runners welcomes a mix of residents and visitors of all ages and abilities to its weekly runs and bootcamps.
Like it says on the tin, the group meets at nighttime (though at a more civilised 7:30pm, rather than pumpkin hour), because “cities at night are very beautiful,” says Jody. “If you’ve ever run along Hong Kong Harbour in the evening, you’re running through this amazing experience of culture, of architecture with a real sense of place.'' Midnight Runners offers the chance to engage with the city on a deeper level. “There’s an unwritten rule that all our runs, exercise spots, warm-ups and cool downs are next to cool locations, so you connect with the environment,” Jody continues. “You’ll be stretching and behind you is The Peak or HSBC Building; you get to discover fabulous, hidden parts of the city and appreciate the amazing Hong Kong that we live in,” he says.
A typical Tuesday Midnight Runners session attracts anything between 30 and 80 participants; after a group warm-up, there’s a 10km run with bootcamp intervals either along Central Harbourfront or TST Promenade. No one is ever left behind, and everyone is cheered along; the session only ends when the last runner finishes. We’re more than a running crew,” says Jody, “it really is a community of like-minded people who use running as a catalyst to improve their lives, meet new people and connect with the city.”
Hong Kong is a remarkably safe environment for runners of all abilities, but if you’re not used to the city’s sweltering heat and humidity, it’s important to acclimatise and ensure you’re hydrated before and during a run (download the app Water for Free which shows water fountains around Hong Kong). Here are three of Jody’s favourite routes.
You’re surrounded by thousands of people watching the light show and there’s nothing better than running along listening to some really awesome music, and all the endorphins kick in and you look back over the harbour and the city and it’s a ‘my God I live here moment’. It’s awesome.
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NAI Columbia’s Peyton Bryant, CCIM, Ryan Causey, and Alex Johnson, represented the landlord, First Citizens Bank, in the lease of 6,181 square feet of office space located at 1230 Main Street in Columbia’s Central Business District (CBD) to Williams Mullen Law Firm.
“Our yearlong effort to secure this high-quality tenant for the office space in the prominent First Citizens Center building proved to be successful,” said Peyton Bryant, CCIM, Senior Broker and Principal at NAI Columbia. “The professional tenant mix, Class A quality construction with high-end finishes, and convenient location on Main St. near the State House make 1230 Main Street an extremely desirable place for any company to call home and we are happy to have been a part of the deal.”
1230 Main Street is an approximately 170,000 SF Office Tower located along Columbia’s Main Street District. The building was constructed in 2006, to include high-end finishes such as floor to ceiling windows, an underground parking garage for employees and a surface parking lot for visitors. The remaining office space consisting of 3,345 RSF on the 3rd floor and 12,000 RSF of shell space on the 4th floor is available for lease.
About NAI Columbia
NAI Columbia, a full service commercial real estate firm, officially launched on January 1, 2019. The new company is a partnership with NAI Earle Furman (Greenville, SC) and eight local principals, all of whom were senior brokers with NAI Avant, which has served the midlands market for over fifty years. As the Metropolitan Columbia representative of NAI Global, NAI Columbia is affiliated with more than 375 offices strategically located throughout North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific, with more than 6,000 local market professionals, managing in excess of 1.15 billion square feet of property and facilities. NAI Global is the single largest, most powerful global network of owner-operated commercial real estate firms that work in unison to provide clients with exceptional solutions to their commercial real estate needs. NAI Columbia provides comprehensive brokerage, leasing, development, property and project management services throughout the Southeast.


EDITOR’S NOTE: The Nation believes that helping readers stay informed about the impact of the coronavirus crisis is a form of public service. For that reason, this article, and all of our coronavirus coverage, is now free. Please subscribe to support our writers and staff, and stay healthy.
The coronavirus pandemic has made it painfully obvious that the United States lacks a fully functioning public health infrastructure. In recent years, funding has been cut to local, state, and federal public health agencies. The White House dissolved the National Security Council Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense. We are now observing the effects of these cuts. In the face of a global pandemic, our country is disastrously unprepared.
These cuts did not happen by accident. The neoliberal worldview, which has dominated public policy-making across the world for the last 40 years, celebrates the liberation of a nimble market free from the oppressive constraints of the lumbering government. Neoliberalism’s prescriptions are rooted in a radical individualism. In the words of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, “There’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families.” Corporations, wealthy elites, and their political allies have turned this narrative—along with a healthy serving of racism and xenophobia—into self-fulfilling prophecy: Slash government funding so the public sector no longer works well, erode public confidence in government, justify further funding cuts, and reap the benefits in lower taxes on wealth and profits.
But it’s not just the defunded public health infrastructure that has left us unprepared for the pandemic, nor the fragmented health care system and the large number of people who remain uninsured. Neoliberalism has also undermined other aspects of our social order that are necessary for a robust response to this catastrophe.
Unprepared… by design
First, workers in today’s neoliberal economy don’t earn enough to survive a crisis of any kind. Living paycheck to paycheck, many workers have no savings to fall back on. The majority of Americans can’t pay $400 in unanticipated bills, so, even before the arrival of Covid-19, unforeseen medical bills drove families into bankruptcy, foreclosure, eviction, or homelessness. As the economy grinds to a halt, many working people can’t pay for food, housing, health care, or almost anything else, despite the federal bailout and its derisory $1,200 checks. The outbreak has made clear that many of us live precariously and the existing safety net is inadequate for a real emergency.
Second, our care infrastructure is insufficient. In today’s economy, most families must have two working parents to get by. That leaves holes, in good times and bad: Who will take care of kids and elders? Women, often women of color, perform most of the child care, elder care, and unskilled nursing care, some of it unpaid, the rest underpaid. Many working parents can’t take paid time off from work to care for themselves or their family members when they are sick. Today, they face the choice of going to work feverish, in defiance of public health guidance—or staying home, unable to pay their bills. And while the emergency bill passed by Congress provides paid sick days for some, it does so only for our current pandemic and not for workers at businesses with more than 500 or fewer than 50 employees. Not to mention, who is supposed to take care of the kids when schools close? In the brutal social order modern capitalism has created, the basic challenge of combining work and family has been shrugged off by both business and government.
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Third, neoliberalism has cultivated sizable populations that are uniquely vulnerable to the spread of disease. People who are homeless—victims of the soaring cost of housing, elimination of housing subsidies for low-income people, and reduced support for mental health and substance abuse treatment—often have underlying health conditions that put them at risk. They live in close proximity to others and lack places to safely shelter from the cold and rain, let alone wash their hands. Incarcerated people, a population that has grown fivefold in the neoliberal era thanks to the unequal distribution of economic opportunity paired with draconian Law and Order policies, are starting to fall ill in the confined quarters of jails and prisons. And then there are undocumented immigrants, systematically demonized and terrorized for political gain, but crucial to our economy and here because of the devastation neoliberalism has wrought in their home countries. They are understandably hesitant to get tested or seek medical help if they get sick.
Even our democracy is ill-prepared for the pandemic, with some primaries postponed and others likely to be. Neoliberalism has played a role in this, too, as political actors with power and influence have blocked online voter registration, vote-by-mail, and other democracy-promoting reforms by spreading tales of voter fraud and stoking racial animosity.
Ultimately, the pandemic has revealed starkly who has power and who doesn’t. Much of the response to Covid-19 has been shaped by the needs of industry and finance, not health. While unaccountable multilateral bodies like the International Monetary Fund have forced painful austerity on countries suffering financial crises, the World Health Organization lacks the authority to dictate a response to the health crisis. Here at home, stock market numbers seem to spur presidential responses far more than health data. And when our season of bailouts and rescue packages is complete, it feels inevitable that pork for corporations will dwarf the crumbs thrown to working people.
In short, the outbreak, its fallout, and the inadequate US response have laid bare the brokenness of neoliberalism. The problem goes far deeper than Trump. Indeed, the failure of prosperous, developed nations to respond appropriately to this crisis should push us to question the more profound if ugly truth on which today’s economy lies: Society as a whole produces wealth, but only some of us get to take it home.
In our contemporary narrative, wealthy people and successful corporations deserve their bulging bank accounts because of their work, ideas, effort, or brilliance. But no one makes money alone. Put Bill Gates on a desert island, and he won’t generate a dollar, let alone a billion. His success depends on factors far beyond his control: the labor of workers, which in turn depends on their education, housing, transportation, and nutrition; the utilities that supply power and water to factories and offices; the financial and banking systems; the legal system to enforce claims; and so on. Microsoft made billions because a huge social infrastructure allowed it to operate and succeed.
Every society creates wealth, and every society writes its own rules about how to distribute it. Some use that wealth to build pyramids or cathedrals or skyscrapers. Some distribute it to keep people fed, clothed, and housed, whether through the obligations of feudal noblemen to their serfs or through progressive taxation and a welfare system. In the past 40 years, our society has systematically made it easier for the most powerful individuals and corporations to stash socially produced wealth for their own benefit and accumulate it at prodigious levels. Under the rules of neoliberalism, “business as usual” exacerbates inequalities and allows billionaires to pile up more wealth than many nations will ever produce.
Times of crisis drive home these guiding principles. Bailing out financial firms after the Great Recession of 2008 socialized corporate losses. When the bailout enriched executives and investors, it privatized profits. We anticipate the same outcome from the Covid-19 outbreak. In good times, the rich get richer. In poor times, the poor get poorer. Heads I win, tails you lose. One stimulus bill at a time, wealth flows from the public into the pockets of corporations and the wealthy.
The privatization of wealth at this scale widens inequality, weakens democracy, and unleashes a competitive individualism that undermines community and destabilizes the social order. But the worst part is that so many people think this is just the way it is.
Another narrative is possible
Maybe the Covid-19 outbreak could allow us to imagine a different world. Perhaps the coronavirus could expose the dark side of neoliberal capitalism and make possible a different economic system, just as the Great Depression of the 1920s made possible the New Deal. Is it really such a radical idea to think that we could design our country to function better for everyone, not just the über-rich?
What if we took advantage of this moment to tell a different story about wealth? What if we dispelled the obvious fiction that the so-called free market allows people to thrive? What if we saw contemporary corporations for what they are: engines that take from the many to make profits for the few?
The platforms of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are a start—policies like Medicare for All, paid sick leave, and free child care. But we have to be able to respond to the inevitable pushback: “How are we going to pay for that?” As long as we assume corporations deserve their massive profits and executives their obscene paychecks, while working people are getting charity if they access public benefits, we will never create a more equitable society (not to mention prepare for the next pandemic).
A transformational narrative would begin with the idea that society’s wealth belongs to everyone. We all have a part in creating it, whether as workers, consumers, or taxpayers who underwrite the education, infrastructure, and safety net that make profits possible. Once we see our society’s prosperity as a collective product, it’s a short step to making democratic decisions about what to do with this wealth, so that everyone can thrive.
We’re not claiming this argument is original. Community organizers and others on the left articulate it every day, and it has been the guiding principle of many societies in the world. But to many it still sounds alien and radical, because it has been strikingly absent for the past 40 years.
If we could shift the public conversation in this way, a further set of policies would seem common sense: guaranteeing workers a living wage; taxing emissions of pollutants and building a green economy; requiring employers to cover the costs of health, child, and elder care; and expecting businesses to contribute to housing, education, and infrastructure—including public health infrastructure—in their communities. Remaining corporate profits could be taxed significantly, as could high salaries, capital gains, and individual wealth.
Many organizations on the left are already fighting for these policies, but there are limits to our current approach. The current narrative makes it hard to win any of these policies, let alone all of them, and it pits us against each other as we squabble over slices of a tiny budgetary pie. If we could join together to change the public discussion while we advocate policy changes, we would multiply our power and position ourselves to advance real change.
For an example of how conceptual shift could drive smart policy, consider Amazon, which is flourishing during the crisis. The popular narrative tells us that Jeff Bezos has earned his riches, but Amazon’s success was built on the labor of many and depends on infrastructure—like paved roads—built and maintained by governments and taxpayers. Seeing that, isn’t it reasonable to insist Amazon’s workers receive a living wage, paid sick days, and reimbursement for child care; that the company pay for the environmental harm it causes; and that a share of Amazon’s annual profits be used to shore up our public health system? (While we’re at it, let’s also fix the loopholes that allow the company to avoid paying federal income taxes.)
More pandemics will arrive on our shores. Climate change will wreak havoc. And we’ll face other disasters we can’t yet anticipate. To respond adequately requires questioning the unquestioned premises of neoliberalism, telling a different story of how society should function, and taking control of resources that belong to us all. In a democracy, we should all get to make decisions about who takes home the profits and how we spend them. Only this will move us toward the world we want to live in, where prosperity is distributed more equitably, with less division along lines of race, gender, and class, where we care for our democracy and our environment, and where we nurture the community we all need to thrive.


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Alle Nachrichten und Hintergründe
Meat Attraction starts in October
SPAIN, Madrid. The trade fair will drive the internationalisation of the Spanish meat industry.
New record result set
GERMANY, Cologne. Anuga Meat covers a gross exhibition surface of 55,000 m² spread over three exhibition halls.
Biosensor developed to detect horse in beef meat
SPAIN, Madrid. The identification of horse meat adulterating others as beef meat is possible thanks to an electrochemical biosensor.
Fully-booked exhibition halls
GERMANY, Cologne. The fair awaits around 7,200 exhibitors from 100 countries.
Women get help to increase annatto crop
ISRAEL, Herzliya. Growing demand for annatto coloring creates a unique ecosystem.
Course in Dry Cured Meat Products
SPAIN, Monells (Girona). The 5th International Course is to be held from 29 May to 2 June and will highlight topic the importance of starter cultures on sensory characteristics of dry fermented sausages.
Polish meat processors to merge
POLAND, Gdynia. The Polish meat companies are all involved in the pork business.
Romanian meat processor invests €6 mill. as sales rise
ROMANIA, Bucharest. Caroli's robust 122% net profit rise has sparked its current investment drive.
Investors combine know-how
DANMARK, Kolding. Saic Holding, owned by Danish private equity company Axcel and a group of investors has acquired Frontmatec, a leading supplier of automation and software solutions for the global food and utilities industries.
China ends trade ban on Italian pork
ITALY, Rome. Italian cured meat specialities could be popular with China's middle class, according to analysts.
Meat marked newly structured
ISRAEL, Jerusalem. Meat prices in Israel to fall after pact reached on easing imports.
Taking food hygiene principles worldwide
GERMANY, Frankfurt am Main. The group`s membership has more than doubled in the past decade, with a significant increase of enrollment from nations outside of Europe.
International Butchers' Confederation
Exerting influence at an early stage
GERMANY, Frankfurt IBC committee meets to consider current issues.
New records: more exhibitors, more visitors
GERMANY, Frankfurt This year’s visitors and exhibitors were extremely pleased with the fair in Frankfurt.
Questions in meat’s relationship with cancer
SPAIN, Tarragona. A new report reviews the correlation between environmental contaminants in meat and human health.
New exhibitor record
GERMANY, Frankfurt Industry and butchers’ trade anticipate significant growth impulses for the entire meat sector.
Reducing methan production in rumniants
SPAIN, Madrid. 3-nitrooxypropanol compound reduces greenhouse gas levels with no risk to the animal's health.


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Temperatures may reach 64 today, with snow possible on Friday
Apr 06 2018 by Cristina Jennings
Most areas in West Michigan are just dealing with rain at this time as well. That will usher in some warmer air behind it though and set the stage for a warmer week next week.
Colder than average temperatures continue into next week. Locker said. "Alpena didn't get any lake effect snow because of the ice cover in the lake". Winds are still a bit breezy too. Expect spotty snow showers or flurries, especially in the snowbelt. Lowstonight dipping into the 20s in some locations.
Some locations across the commonwealth could see a "decent morning burst" of snow, though current predictions seem to show that Boston won't get the brunt of the wintry weather.
Overnight: Snow showers. Low around 29. There's strong indication that a system to the south stays far enough south not to bring much worry to the region Saturday morning. Most schools closed for the day, but polls are open! Since we retain a northerly wind flow, look for high temperatures only in the mid 40s with wind chill values down in the 30s.
The mostly sunny skies won't stick around for very long, though, as showers are likely after 2 p.m. on Sunday. And along with that snow, of course, comes some chilly temperatures.
NEXT WEEK: Monday we're watching yet another system.
The Kansas City area could see some rain and drizzle in mid-morning Friday, with a second band of precipitation later in the afternoon, according to forecasters. Low in the upper 10s. Wednesday is dry with sunshine. Temperatures are expected to rise well into the 50s to possibly near 60 degrees. Warmer temperatures in the low to mid 50s expected west of HWY 75 toward central Kansas where winds could increase this afternoon up to 20-30 miles per hour gusts.


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Mercy Vs Law, Society Vs Humanity
Author: Victor Hugo
Les Miserables has long been a staple of our shared narrative – an epic story of heroism and villainy and all the shades of desperation and hopelessness that lie in between. Spawning numerous plays and movies, as well as countless adaptations and abridgements, Hugo’s story survives not because of its perfection but because of its uncompromising power.
I first encountered Les Miserables as a child right on the cusp of adulthood, although I was ultimately more inclined to childish things than the new world opening up to me. I saw Hugo’s story represented in a movie, which stayed mostly true to the overarching story; fifteen odd years later, I still remember the closing scene, the gut wrenching desire to cry, and the commentary on a “justice system” turned intolerably cruel. I’ve been promising myself to read the book ever since, but its sheer volume (1,000+ pages) and my first experience with Hugo (the slog through the digression that is known as Hunchback of Notre Dame, which is entirely more about the architecture of Notre Dame than the fate of the hunchback) kept me from approaching the task until now.
Ultimately, I’m glad that I took this long journey. It was an unforgettable foray into the depths of humanity at both its most angelic and most depraved. Hugo, however, remains a difficult author, not so much for his writing style (it’s languid and beautiful) but for his affinity to add non-fictional essays wherever possible, stilting what is a dynamic plot. But more on that later.
For those not in the know, Les Miserables follows the life of a man, Jean Valjean. Caught as a young man, stealing a loaf of bread to keep his sister and her needy children alive, Valjean was sentenced to 19 years of imprisonment and hard labor. As his body grew more stolid and strong, his soul collapsed within him. He emerges, having paid his supposed debt to society, but even still that is not enough. His sister and her children are gone, presumably long dead or else captured into prostitution, and Valjean, with his tell-tale convict papers, is not wanted anywhere in society. The bitterness is extreme and heartfelt and sets him on a dark path that is intercepted by a kindly Bishop who through one true act of kindness and forgiveness alters everything for Valjean and allows him to start over. But, secrets will out and Javert, the ineffable police inspector, is determined to capture the convict again.
As Valjean makes his journey through society, now hidden behind a secret name, success is offset by compassion. But nothing is so clear-cut in Hugo’s world, and the “justice” system is far from done. Javert is not the only antagonist, and soon circumstances put Valjean in a difficult position.
Meanwhile, Fatine, a young woman destroyed by the love of a man, is left pregnant, unmarried, and desperate. As she slowly works her way down in society, desperate to do anything to take care of her child, Cosette, destiny is set in motion. As Fatine sells first her hair, then her teeth, and finally her body, her path intersects with Valjean, and what’s right and what’s wrong takes them all far outside of the law and its steadfast interpretation by Javert.
As Les Miserables continues, other characters come and go. Dregs from the bottom of society, criminals, orphaned street children, policemen, and a wealthy young man consumed by monarchism and an ancient debt that will soon get him entangled in the mess of all the miserable people around him. It culminates in the June rebellion of 1832 where history and fate interweave, love and romance meet despair and war, idealism and reality clash, and the meaning of duty leads to shattering decisions.
Les Miserables ranges over a lifetime with Valjean starting as one type of person and then working his way through an incredible character arc, which pits his own delusion of his criminality against the necessity to thwart the law and protect the neglected and the brutalized. Valjean’s encounter with Fatine and her dying wish that he protect her daughter, held by a ruthless foster family, forces Valjean to take a strange path and find his own form of justice, his own definition of what’s right against what is legal. This is where the crux of the novel lies and where Hugo shines his brightest. The law is dogmatic whereas love and God are not. Human law is pitiless, but God’s law sees room for forgiveness and understanding. One thwarts and plays against the other, and simple interpretations are thrown aside as we submerge ourselves into the underworld of Paris and watch good intentions lead to criminal actions, lead to desperation, which then leads ultimately towards violence and a weird sort of connection. The world of the street is a dark place, but by our complacence have we not made it so? Have we not determined that once fallen escape and retribution are impossible?
The story lives up to its title. It’s a tear jerker and while some characters elicit more sympathy than others (I was so mad at Cosette and Marius by the end) Jean Valjean ties us emotionally to the narrative, even through Hugo’s sermonizing about everything ranging from the ultimate historical meaning of Waterloo to the creation of Paris sewers and a surprisingly long narrative on human waste and its existential meaning. If you can read through this tale and not cry – not feel for Jean Valjean as though he is a close and much abused friend – then you ultimately have no soul and no love for humanity. Hugo is a master at character and a master at revealing injustice in all its fetid ugliness.
What he is not a master of, however, is pacing. While the story is itself is sheer perfection, the delivery hurts the narrative and its forceful point. Hugo likes to ramble. A LOT. Because of this, I often found myself picking up the book, not for the joy of reading or the revelation of Hugo’s complex morality, but out of duty. This is a pure Hugo issue, and he is the only author to ever make me feel kindly towards abridging. Every time the narrative starts to build power and the theme force, Hugo stops and goes on (sometimes for hundreds of pages) about things that simply don’t matter to the story. This devalues everything he is working toward. As Valjean finds himself transforming into a father for Cosette and finally finding love among people, everything stops for pages and pages as we deep-dive on monasticism, specifically its merits and cultural implications as opposed to its unnecessary strictures and flaws. An interesting topic, sure, but does it belong here? The answer, as always, is no.
Hugo likes to set his stage with history, and I am surprised that he doesn’t just go back to the beginning of time. Any mention of a road, a building, a personage, leads to a back-in-time extravaganza with much eulogizing of everything from military tactics to the virtues and vices of Napoleon (long dead by the time this story starts, I might add.) It’s enervating and saps the joy of reading out of a narrative that is, in and of itself, unforgettable and unsurpassed. Just why, Hugo, why?
In the end, despite Hugo’s rants (oh, there are so, so many and they are soooo long) Les Miserables is so amazing that it’s worth the trouble, even (if you can stand it) the non-abridged version. Ignore the asides and keep your eyes on Valjean, on Javert, on Cosette, and allow your heart and connection to prevail during the dry moments. Valjean is an unforgettable character. He will leave you in tears, but ultimately his story will change your life and perception, will make you kinder and more empathetic, will make you look at the why behind people’s circumstances instead of relying on knee-jerk judgment, and will make you accept (and hope to change) your complicity in the entire mess of society and despair.
– Frances Carden
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It’s that time of year, again.
Last year, Michael Cervin (with whom I later toured the wine scene in Crete) from IntoWine.com stirred up a minor sh*tstorm when he published the inaugural version of his list of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the U.S. Wine Industry.
We love lists, and we hate them. Hence the ensuing sh*storm: why was so-and-so left off? how could they place what’s-his-name so high up on the list? are these guys just attention-grabbing?… etc. My takeaway last year was that the list was “good for a pulse check, probably bad for anything more substantial than that.” I’m pretty much of the same mindset regarding the recently-published 2013 version of the list.
According to IntoWine.com, they don’t really have a strong agenda in compiling this list of influencers:
“Does influential mean people who move markets, impact consumers, inspire winemakers, form policy, and create debate? Yes… We merely define the Top 100 people, from winemakers to law makers, bankers to bloggers, and sommeliers to celebrities who influence wine; how it is made, marketed, perceived, sold, shipped, purchased, shared and consumed.”
Over the last year, not a lot of shuffling took place in the top 20 (I swapped places with Eric Asimov, which puts him ahead of me and therefore rights at least one wrong from the 2012 version!) – I’m not sure if that means that the wine biz in the U.S. is pretty stagnant from an influencer perspective, but the advent of the list is a god excuse for us to take a pulse of the U.S. wine biz in general…
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Anyone remember back in 2011, when we talked about the fact that Boomers – who by and large account for the vast majority of current wine sales – wouldn’t be around forever, and so the wine biz really needed to get off of its duff and start thinking about how it would court Gen X and Millenial buyers?
Well, I’ve got some bad news for those who’ve been ignoring that advice.
In the 2013 incarnation of Silicon Valley Bank’s annual State Of The Wine Industry Report presentation, a round-table style discussion between author Rob McMillan (from SVB’s wine division), Paul Mabray of VinTank, Tony Correia of The Correia Company and MJ Dale of KLH Consulting, who discussed the results of the report live in mid-January 2013. During the discussion (uber-interesting for wine geeks and insiders, probably not so much for normal people), McMillan (who is a nice and interesting guy, by the way, something I found out when I had dinner with him at Nickel & Nickel) discussed the sobering fact that the exit of Boomers from the wine market will be a potentially enormous blow to wine sales, and that the Millennial generation requires focus to help fill the expected gap.
To ease in the understanding of this, I’ve taken a graph from the SVB report and “enhanced” it so that the implications are more, well… transparent (click to “embiggen”):
In other words, Boomers don’t just exit the wine market “feet first” (though many, hopefully, will continue to love wine and keep on buying it until they shuffle off this mortal coil); they exit it in droves when they retire. The message is this: if you’re a wine producer who hasn’t been courting younger generations as well as Boomers (And as we’ll see in a minute or two, chances are good that you haven’t), you ought to be crapping a brick right about now…
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Today, a quick-hit to tell you that my friend Evan Dawson’s recently-released book Summer in a Glass: The Coming of Age of Winemaking in the Finger Lakes just took home the award for “International Wine Book of the Year”at the 2012 Louis Roederer Wine Writing Awards.
I am personally thrilled for Evan, who is having a banner year in 2012 as he kicks ass and takes names across the wine writing spectrum. Evan is the kind of writer whose works make the rest of the on-line wine media world look good.
I’d offer you more thoughts on Evan’s first printed work, but as I’m quoted in it and am clearly biased all I can tell you is that it’s a decidedly well-written humanist take on the stories behind the Finger Lakes wine region. For more non-review thoughts on the book, check out my, well, non-review from a little over a year ago.
Congrats to Evan on such a well-deserved win – my friend, you’re making us proud!


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