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Elda Vokel was an American stage and motion picture actress. Following a brief career as a Hollywood actress, which lasted from 1930 to 1932 and during which she accumulated four screen credits, Voelkel married filmmaker Irving Hartley, with whom she produced numerous documentary films on a wide range of subjects. In 1976, she created the Hartley Film Foundation, which was dedicated to promoting greater understanding of religion and spirituality.
Here is everything you need to know about Elda Vokel Whole family back ground, latest updates on relationships status, Family background, and How Qualified/Educated she was. Elda Vokel’s Estimated Net Worth/Salary, Age, Biography, Work, Social media accounts i.e. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Social Life. Also, know details Info about the Current Net worth of Elda Vokel as well as Elda Vokel ‘s earnings, Worth, Salary, Property, and Whole Income.
Elda Vokel, best known by the real complete Family name Elda Voelkel, was a popular Actress, Film, Creater. she was born on March 6, 1911, in Greenwich, Connecticut.Greenwich is a beautiful and populous city located in Greenwich, Connecticut United States of America. Elda Voelkel entered the career as Actress, Film, Creater In her early life after completing her formal education
Elda Vokel Early Life Story, Family Background and Education
Emily Elda Voelkel, the daughter of Leonidas (“L.C.” or “Leo”) and Emily (Lockwood) Voelkel, was born in Brownwood, Texas, and grew up in McKinney and Dallas. She graduated from Oak Cliff High School in Dallas. Voelkel gained experience at the Little Theater in Dallas and studied expression. She enjoyed sketching and once entertained the dual ambition of becoming an artist and a novelist. She spent two years studying at Southern Methodist University, before departing for New York City to attend drama school.
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On wikiglobals, Elda was is Ranking as the most famous personality Actress, Film, Creater,s.who was most Googled and popular in the list of born in 1911. Have to good Position Among the list of Most famous Actress, Film, Creater.
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Elda Voelkel Net Worth
Though only their own accountants know for sure, various reliable media and social media channels and blogs have estimated the worth of Elda Voelkel’s estimated earnings was as follows. Below you can track her net worth, salary and much more updates from past years.
Elda‘s estimated net worth, monthly and yearly income, the primary source of earnings, luxuries, lifestyle, and much more information have been updated below..
Elda who brought in $3 million and $5 million Networth Elda collected most of her earnings from her Yeezy sneakers While she had exaggerated over the years about the size of her business, the amount she pulled in from her profession real–enough to rank as one of the biggest celebrity cashouts of all time. her Real primery earning source was mostly from being a successful Actress, Film, Creater.
her has a whopping net worth of $1 to $10 million. In addition to her big fan following celebrity
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Elda Vokel Personal Life, Relationships and Dating
In 1931, Voelkel began a romantic relationship with William Keighley. He was the Belasco stage director who selected her for the role of Polaire in The Greeks Had A Word For It. Keighley and Voelkel married in 1931 and were later divorced in October 1936. In 1940, Voelkel married Charles Irving Hartley (1902–1986).
Voelkel died on her 90th birthday in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Elda Vokel: Age, Height & Weight
Elda Vokel’s age years (as in 2021), height & weight. Dress & Shoe size Updated below scroll down and check all about height & weight. Dress & Shoe size.
Elda Social Media Activities/Popularity.
she was a famous person on social media i.e. Instagram, Facebook, Twiter, Youtube, etc. Elda Vokel is unstoppable, and few come close to level as a social media marketing and PR juggernaut.
Fans all over the world have fallen head over heels with Elda Vokel’s simple charm, and if the numbers are any indication — Elda Vokel definitely has everyone’s attention online, too.
This means one thing: Elda Vokel has definitely unlocked the secret to social media marketing that so many brands are struggling to discover!
You’ll notice that Elda Vokel engages with her fans differently, depending on which social media platform he’s on. Facebook has become her go-to “promotions” page, where he mostly posts updates about her projects and shares content from other websites (articles, blog posts, etc.)
The Star still manages to find time to retweet her followers, comment on their Instagram photos, and even repost their content. Elda Vokel definitely goes the extra mile to show them that he cares about them. Please scroll down to see information about Elda Vokel Social media accounts.
Elda Vokel Death: and Cause of Death
On March 6, 2001, Elda Vokel died of non-communicable disease. At the time of her death, she was 90 years old. At the time of her death she survived by her large extended friends and family.
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The U.S. trade war with China may have dented a broad swathe of sectors, but it’s given China’s property market a big fillip.
That’s according to City Development’s CEO Sherman Kwek, who said that around the fourth quarter of last year, the Chinese developers were “actually cheering” on news of the U.S. imposing tariffs on imports from China.
On Monday, the trade war stepped up another notch, with Beijing announcing plans to impose tariffs on US$60 billion worth of imports from the U.S. in retaliation for U.S. President Trump increased tariffs on imports from China Friday.
“I said, ‘why are you guys so happy?’ This could have serious ramifications: Cost of goods may go up, companies may start moving their [operations] outside China. They said,’No, this means that the government will have to start loosening the economy,'” Kwek said at a media briefing Wednesday.
Kwek was speaking on his company entering a deal to acquire a stake in property developer Sincere Property Group for a total 5.5 billion yuan, or around S$1.1 billion.
Those Chinese developers weren’t wrong, Kwek said.
“After the U.S. trade war implications started to become real and started to go from one round to the next round, the Chinese government has started to slowly, very gradually, but certainly, relax these property restrictions,” Kwek said.
Those restrictions had been harsh, he said, pointing to limits on the number of homes each buyer could acquire, loan restrictions and pricing restrictions on developers.
While each city is managed a little differently, the pricing restrictions for condos are being eased, with City Developments able to increase asking prices, Kwek said.
Indeed, after the Lunar New Year period, land prices have “gone crazy,” Kwek added.
“There’s no way people could be paying such high prices if selling restrictions had not been gradually eased,” he said.
China’s real estate investment — including residential, commercial and office — increased 12 percent on-year in April, unchanged from March, Reuters reported Wednesday, citing its own calculation from data released by National Bureau of Statistics Wednesday.
For the January-to-April period, property investment was up 11.9 percent on-year, Reuters said.
To be sure, while Kwek said the trade war has been “helpful” for property developers in the short term, if the tensions drag out long term, he viewed it as a negative.
But Sophia Dai, head of strategic investments at City Developments, noted that even with potential economic negatives from the trade war, a hit to China’s property market was by no means inevitable.
“For the real estate market, especially for China, the residential sector is highly driven by domestic demand,” she said at the same media briefing. “The trade war may have very broad implications, but relatively, in this sector, we should still be reasonably or cautiously positive, because it’s domestic demand driven.”
She added that China’s property market is also “highly driven” by government policy, which is why measures such as price controls have a big impact.
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The shop is loaded up with new sewing patterns and to celebrate I’；ve got a special discount to share with you. Keep reading to find out more!
Last weekend I carved out a bit of time to make a project that had been on my “；wish list”； for a few weeks now. While I was in Utah I picked up some Five and Dime fabric from Riley Blake. As soon as I saw it I fell in LOVE and knew that I’；d need to plan a fun project for it. Keep an eye out for Five and Dime fabric at your local quilt shop you can also find it online HERE. (affiliate link)？waterproof outdoor pillow covers
(I stole this image from the Diary of a Quilter site， CLICK over there， she’；s got a free quilt pattern using the fabric on her blog).
I had been wanting to make a case for my round cutting mat (it’；s the Sue Daley round cutting mat in case you’；re wondering). I bought one last year and it’；s turned out to be a pretty useful tool. ？I find myself toting it around with me quite a bit. Since it has a tendency to roll when it’；s transported I thought a case for it would be a good idea.
While I was a quilt market last Springcustom christmas gifts， Sue Daley (who makes the round mat) saw my Round Bag Sewing Pattern (my Alice bag) and said， “；If you made that bag an inch or two bigger it would fit my cutting mat!”；…； I thought it was a great idea and immediately went home and started to draft a 3rd size for my Alice Bag pattern.
The new bag size is about 11 1/2″； in diameter and turns out is the perfect “；travel bag”； size.
The first larger size Alice bag I made was with my Safari Party fabrics. I did it as a “；test”； and loved it so much that I ended up using it as a travel bag last summer. The larger size is perfect for holding charging cords， makeup， jewelry and small incidentals.
I spent most of the summer perfecting the pattern and making small tweaks to the other sizes of the pattern. One other addition？I made was to add a side attached crossbody strap for the bag (the original pattern had a cross body strap that attached to the back of the bag).
Here you can see the medium bag with the side crossbody strap.
…；and here’；s a shot of all 3 sizes bags together so you can get an idea of how they relate to each other.
I’；m happy to announce that the NEW REVISED pattern is available in the shop in both PRINT and PDF versions! ？For those of you that prefer a printed pattern to a PDF you can now order one. If you’；re a shop and want to carry the patterns you can do that as well. If you bought the old version via PDF you can just download a new copy for FREE. Just click the link in your order again.
You can order them wholesale from me (just shoot me an email using the CONTACT button above) or from Checker Distributors or Christensen Wholesale.
In addition to the Alice Bag， I’；ve also printed 3 other patterns：
You can now get print versions of the Patchwork Safari Quilt：
Zinnia Zebra Quilt (with FULL size fold out template for the zebras)：
and just in time for Halloween the Halloween Haberdashery Quilt!
I finally got my Haberdashery quilt done that I made last year. I just quilted straight lines on it and love how it turned out. I’；ll have to share a few more photos of it later. I think we need to plan to take it for a photo shoot to a spooky house or forest!
We’ve just reached 64,000 likes on our BERNINA USA Facebook fan page! We quickly reached our goal of 64,ooo, and as a way to say “Thank You!” to all who join us at Facebook to share your love of sewing and creating, we are hosting another special giveaway.
To help my kids celebrate the 4th of July, I made them some cute4th of July shirts. Today I thought I’d show you how to make your own Pocket Tees perfect for the 4th.
These Free Printable Halloween Prints and Signs make decorating for Halloween a cinch!?

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20 September 2020: This week the State Railways of Thailand announced the start of a year long study of the proposed construction of a major new railway line between Tak and Nakhon Sawan.
Tak to Nakhon Sawan Railway Line
Currently the border town of Tak is not connected to Thailand’s Railway Network and the only way to travel to and from Tak’s busy border crossing with Myanmar is by road. Nakhon Sawan is located on Thailand’s Northern Railway Line running from Bangkok to Chiang Mai. Building the new railway line will mean that passengers and freight from the Tak border with Myanmar will be able to join the Northern Line in Nakhon Sawan and thereafter travel by rail across Thailand and to the borders with Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia.
The new railway line will run 250 km and cost an estimated 9.6 Billion Thai Baht. The Thai Government is currently giving serious thought to undertaking major infrastructure projects in Thailand as a way of stimulating the economy providing employment to people who have lost their jobs as a consequence of the pandemic and its devastating effect on International tourism. There is a good likelihood that this project will become a reality.
East to West Economic Corridor
The Tak to Nakhon Sawan railway line is part of a larger project called the ‘East to West Economic Corridor’. The better known Pan Asia Railway Network is a North to South project linking Kumming in China to Singapore. The concept behind the East to West Economic Corridor is to create a rail connection between Myanmar and Southern Laos. Laos itself is not the economic market which the designers of the East to West Economic Corridor want to tap into. The effectiveness of the project is dependent on further railway track being build across Southern Laos to connect to Vietnam, which is a large nation with a productive industrial base and massive agricultural sector. As well as transporting goods, travel by train to Southern Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar would also become a realistic alternative to air travel if this project is completed.
The East to West Economic Corridor Project is split into three sections:
- Tak to Nakhon Sawan – 250 km
- Nakhon Sawan to Ban Phai – 291 km
- Ban Phai to Nakhon Phanom – 355 km
The study started this week into the Tak to Nakhon Sawan Railway Line is therefore the very start of this exciting new project to promote international train travel in South East Asia.
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Chicago: Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange rose as the US dollar weakened.
The most active gold contract for December delivery on Thursday rose $9.2 (0.86 percent) to settle at 1$,077.90 per ounce, Xinhua reported.
Gold was given support as the US dollar decreased against other major currencies on Thursday after hitting a seven-month high in the previous two sessions.
The index is a measure of the dollar against a basket of major currencies. Gold and the dollar typically move in opposite directions, which means if the dollar goes up, gold futures will fall as gold, measured by the dollar, becomes more expensive for investors.
The US Federal Reserve released the minutes from their previous Federal Open Market Committee in October, which indicated that most Fed officials believed a December rate hike is likely appropriate.
The CME Group’s Fedwatch tool showed the implied probability of a December rate hike rising from 68 percent to 72 percent, preventing the precious metal from rising further.
Another reason for Thursday’s rise is short traders are in the process of covering their shorts, hedging bets for the December rate hike.
Expectations were originally for a delay in the rate hike till 2016, but the FOMC meeting in late October sent out a strong signal for a December rate hike.
An increase in the Fed’s interest rate drives investors away from gold and toward assets with a return, as the precious metal bears no interest.
There has not been an increase in the Fed’s interest rate since June 2006, before the beginning of the American financial crisis.
The US Department of Labour’s weekly jobless claims report showed claims falling by 5,000 to 271,000 which is in line with market estimates.
Analysts noted that the report on its own would be neutral to gold, but if combined with continually positive jobs reports, it will raise the likelihood of the US Federal Reserve raising interest rates in December.
Silver for December delivery was up 14.1 cents (one percent) to close at $14.222 per ounce.
Platinum for January delivery advanced $10.1 (1.19 percent) to close at $858.10 per ounce.

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I am on day 322 of my 365 page challenge.
A Page of drawing, painting or artistic brainstorming a day for a year
i am now on sketchbook 3 of my my 365 page challenge of today's page is the cover which i have decorated with some face stickers
also new is this week's video now on youTube
you can leave a comment down below or a drawing prompt made of two random words
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The following photos feature the seasonal changes at the Alpenhof****s and photograhps of the Berchtesgaden County – just to give a taste of what to expect, when choosing the Alpenhof for your next holiday.
Between 6 am and midnight local time the picture is updated every 60 seconds.
You can see our children’s playground, at the right in the background the Mt. Watzmann, besides the Mt. Grünstein and then the east side of the hotel (from left to right).

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A former Alexander County School Board member has died. Gary David Lail, age 73 of the Bethlehem Community passed away on Sunday, March 31st.Lail owned and operated Bethlehem Insurance Agency and Bethlehem Realty until his retirement. He was also very active in the community. Lail served as a member and President of the Bethlehem Jaycees and Ruritan Club, served on the Alexander County Board of Education for 23 years and was given the board’s Award of Honor.
A graduate of UNC Chapel Hill, Gary played football during his time there and carried his love for sports on by coaching youth sports in Bethlehem and Alexander County for over 20 years. In 2014 he was inducted into the Alexander County Sports Hall of Fame.
The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 6, 2019 at Mt. Bethel United Methodist Church with his daughter, the Rev. Stella Perrin officiating. Burial will follow at Bethlehem Baptist Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends on Friday evening at Bass-Smith Funeral Home in Hickory from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.


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Of all the lists and awards that are reigned down on bookss at the end of the year, this list is my most favrote. I have reached out to past guests from The Stacks in 2021 and asked them to share with us their favorite book they read this year, and the one book in 2022 they’re looking forward to. I love the list because, guests from The Stacks have the best taste in books, and the list is never what you’d expect to see in any other publication. My guests have range.
I hope you enjoy reconnecting with the many voices from our 2021 season.
Author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies
The best book I read in 2021… I could not break a tie between my Duval homegirls’ books, Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz and The Final Revival of Opal and Nev by Dawnie Walton! Milk Blood Heat is a brilliant short story collection that left me breathless, made me laugh, and made me feel. Dantiel writes with such wisdom and care, on a craft level and on a narrative level. And I love that many of these exquisite stories are set in our hometown of Jacksonville, Florida. The Final Revival of Opal and Nev is a faux oral history about a ’70s interracial rock n’ roll duo, and even though it’s fictional, the chorus of voices are so damn real and unforgettable! I just marveled at how Dawnie created this masterpiece, a sprawling epic full of secrets, pain, grief, and music.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: Post-Traumatic by Chantal V. Johnson
Co-author of Black Futures
My top read this year was Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford. In the memoir Ashley so beautifully shines and opens a window into her life, while holding each reader so tenderly. I am grateful for her generosity.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez. I was fortunate to get an advanced copy and loved pouring through the rich pages.
Senior editor at The Atlantic
I fell in love with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers’s The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois. It was everything I needed in a pandemic book: it was compelling, beautiful, challenging, and for me it was so vivid and showed so much care for Black life in the South that it eased my homesickness and grief in a year of loss. I’ve never met a book quite like this one, and even now, months after I’ve finished, I keep it on my nightstand to flip through when inspired.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò’s Reconsidering Reparations. I’m fascinated by his arguments situating the idea of reparations in a forward-looking environmental context, and I’m excited to dig in.
Author of Black Buck
The best book I read in 2021? Traci, how could you! It’s tough to narrow it down to one, so I’ll opt to mention a book that I loved and want to get even more shine: Give My Love to the Savages, by Chris Stuck. I read Give My Love to the Savages for a New York Times review of three short story collections, and while I went into the project ready to love all collections equally, man, Stuck’s is the one that blew me away (of course, the others were also powerful).
With his debut collection, Stuck had me laughing one minute, cringing the next, and deep in thought the entire time. Each of his stories––all with their own original conceits––strike my favorite balancing act of incorporating humor while also having enough courage to not shy away from the truth. I could go on and on, and tell you about the character who wakes up as a six-foot penis, another who gets vitiligo and goes on a cruise, or the young man who’s offered a beautiful home on a lake, if he only has sex with a white man’s white wife, but I’ll stop here and leave it to you to read the rest.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: I have a whole shelf full of unread books that need some love, and I’ll probably start with A Drop of Patience, by William Melvin Kelley, before making my way to some nonfiction. Right now, Gordon Parks’s A Hungry Heart, 50 Cent’s Hustle Harder, Hustle Smarter, and Will, by Will Smith, are all in the running.
R. O. Kwon
Co-Editor of Kink
A book I’ve especially appreciated this past year is Korean Art from 1953, a Phaidon survey of Korean contemporary art. It’s a gorgeous book full of art, thought, and history, truly a gift during this time of still limited museum-going. It came as a present from my friend Alex Chee when I was having a hard time, and I keep it on my desk so that I can look through it while I write.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: I’m looking forward to so many books that will publish next year, but the only one I’ve already had the luck of reading a couple of times is Ingrid Rojas Contreras’s The Man Who Could Move Clouds, a memoir that could change your life. I don’t say this lightly; it has shifted my thinking on ghosts, power, and afterlives. I’ll say it again: it could change your life.
My personal favorite book of 2021 was The Turnout by Megan Abbott. I can’t help it, unhinged, female ambition is so soothing for the way my operating system is set up. First of all, hi, it’s about ballet. Not only ballet but ballet-teacher sisters who grew up in total dysfunction in the long shadow of their ballet-teacher mother. It has basically all the things I think about this time of year—pain, sex, mental health issues, betrayal and The Nutcracker!
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: I Guess I Live Here Now by Claire Ahn. It’s about immigrant parents who make good on the threat of: “If you don’t shape up you’re getting shipped back to TKCOUNTRYOFORIGIN.”
Professor and Author of The Disordered Cosmos
One of the best books I read in 2021 was Elissa Washuta’s White Magic: Essays. There’s a lot that could be said about the content: a reading of pop culture — from the Oregon Trail to Twin Peaks — through the lens of a Cowlitz woman who is in search of love and a sense of self. And I learned a lot. But there is another layer of brilliance to this book: Washuta is a goddess of lyrical essay, and much as I was caught up in what she said about how she sees the world, I also found myself wanting to study how she said it. Plus, White Magic is a beautiful book, not just as a text but also physically. I loved the use of white text against black pages, and the gold-embossed cover. I cannot more highly recommend this book.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: I’m super excited about Jean Chen Ho’s work of fiction Fiona and Jane.
Chanda was our guest on Episode to discuss her book, The Disordered Cosmos.
Author of How the Word Is Passed
It’s impossible to pick one but one of the best books I read this year was Reuben Jonathan Miller’s Halfway Home: Race, Punishment, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration. Miller is a professor of social work at the University of Chicago and his book is written like a sociological memoir. Grounded in qualitative research on people coming home from prison, the book also weaves in deeply personal reflections about Miller’s relationship with his brother, who for years was in and out of prison. Miller’s proximity to the subject matter adds an invaluable layer of human texture to the story. It’s excellent.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: I hear Patrick Radden Keefe has a new book coming out which means it’s immediately going to the top of my list.
Author of Good Talk
The best book I read in 2021 was Kaitlyn Greenidge’s Libertie, which shows the inner life of a free-born black woman in the Reconstruction Era who isn’t trying to be anyone’s role model–a premise so loving and revolutionary that it has changed the way I read and write.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: Okay, I am cheating with two. In my defense, I am looking forward to reading about 49 books in 2022. Alison B. Hart’s The Work Wife, which pulls apart female complicity in the cesspool that is Hollywood, and Sarah Thankam Matthews’ All This Could Be Different, which looks to be all the things I love–a running-off-the-rails queer immigrant love story.
Author of Sometimes I Trip on How Happy We Could Be
The best book I read in 2021 was My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson. It’s a riveting debut collection that will have you sitting on the edge of your seat, leaning into each story.
Book I’m looking forward to in 2022: Yinka, Where Is Your Huzband? by Lizzie Damilola Blackburn
Author of The Final Revival of Opal and Nev
Between distressing news headlines and the rollercoaster of emotions that is publishing a debut novel, I frequently felt scrambled throughout this year. Brilliant new story and essay collections were my cure for getting over reading slumps (shout out to Milk Blood Heat by Dantiel W. Moniz, The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You by Maurice Carlos Ruffin, and A Little Devil in America by Hanif Abdurraqib). But the book that is currently pushing me out of a writing slump is Toni Morrison’s classic Song of Solomon, which I read for the first time last month (coincidentally, for The Stacks Book Club — thank you for the nudge, Traci!). Within this story Morrison leaps over years in the span of a sentence, experiments with a blend of seemingly disparate genres, and digs into the legends of several characters at once…and yet, the center always holds. As a reader I was enthralled by its wildness, and as a writer I am inspired to be braver, to roam in fresh and unexpected directions.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: Finding Me, Viola Davis’ memoir, and The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan.
Author of Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
The book that resonated with me most in 2021 was probably Milk Fed by the singular voice that is Melissa Broder. I don’t read a ton of fiction, so this was a wild card, but I think it’s just one of those books that arrived in my life right when I needed it. I’d describe it as a creamy, steamy, devourable novel about deprivation and desire in which a 20-something woman trapped in the prison of her own self-loathing learns to set herself free through sex, food, and spirituality.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: My Mess Is a Bit of a Life: Adventures in Anxiety by Georgia Pritchett
Creator and co-host of the podcast Yo, Is This Racist?
Wow, do I feel uncomfortable saying “best” here, but the book I enjoyed the most was probably There There, by Tommy Orange. It’s a cool Native thriller that’s both literary and cinematic, and it just fucking dope.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: A comic book series, The Good Asian by Pornsak Pichetshote.
Reader behind @lupita.reads on Instagram
The best book I read in 2021 was…..how dare you make me pick just one?!….The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan! It’s a book I think about often even though I finished it months ago. Traversing from the US, Lebanon and Syria to Palestine this novel at its core is a family saga that illuminates the way a family’s history/possible fated destiny becomes broken and changed by war. Captivating and beautifully written Alyan captures the realities of family dynamics through such a raw perspective which will leave you thinking the ways displacement ripples through every relationship we build.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative by Melissa Febos!
Lupita was our guest on Episode 195, discussing the best books of 2021.
Host and creator of The Stacks
The best book I read in 2021 was A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib. The book is a nuanced and layered analysis of Black performance in America. I was taken with Abdurraqib’s ability to weave history, pop culture, and personal experiences into each essay, and to complicate my understanding of what it means to “perform”. This is one of those books that I just want to gush over to everyone I meet. A really special read.
Book I’m looking forward to reading in 2022: South to America by Imani Perry, and I’m very intrigued by Nightcrawling by Leila Mottley.
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Though you’ve chosen choosing the low carbohydrate diet plan as your preferred selection of dieting, but knowing the actual one to choose is a huge job on their own. We’ve the Dr. Atkins New Diet Innovation, The Life Without Bread, The Carbohydrate Lovers Lifestyle Program, Neanderthin, The Protein Power, to name a few. In them all, there exists a frequent concept, this being – the strictest decrease in the use of Carbohydrates. As a broad concept, most of these Low carbohydrate diet changes carbs with fats and proteins. Some people actually make reference to the lower carb diet as, The Large Fat and Average Protein Diet. That is home informative regarding the nature of the foodstuff used, and this really is okay for many, but there could be the others thinking whether this is best suited for them to be able to eliminate weight. Properly, could it be?
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Whilst on minimal carbohydrate diet program, or indeed on every other kind of diet, the amount of food one uses and what sort of food to eat discovered whole new debates across the world. However, while on low carbohydrate diet plan, it is recommended that you eat around you want or till you’re full. This really is permitted provided that you stay glued to the allowed meals such as for example, cheese, egg, meat, and poultry, along with an extremely tiny amount of natural vegetables. These permitted foods can be strictly observed if the reduced carb diet program is always to benefit you. But one still miracles how the reduced carbohydrate diet regime really work.
That awareness or this concerns areas in reduced carbohydrate diet program as well as any plumped for diet plans out there. But to get rid of these doubts, it is usually to be understood that reduced Carbs dieters must get 60-70% of these day-to-day nutrient absorption from fat. Carbs is advised to make up less than 10% and in some instances, actually constitute less than 5% of one’s day-to-day calorie intake.
Minimal carbohydrate diet regime conclusively might be considered a new kind of diet for a few people, but I can assure you, it has been around for so long. It’s just now being paid serious interest after years which is why our Government has been telling us to consume zero fat food diets and high-carbohydrates. Considering the entire world around people today, especially Americans where obesity is rife and is growing year after year. The person on-set diabetes is quickly increasing. And for the medical practioners and nutritionist to start recognizing the positive effectation of the lower carb diet, this in itself talks volumes.

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Hairy Bikers - Chicken and Egg season 1
Hairy Bikers - Chicken and Egg season 1 episodes list:
The Hairy Bikers are on a mission to find, cook and eat the most delicious chicken and egg recipes in the world. Biking across Europe, the Middle East and America, the boys celebrate the versatility and universality of both chicken and egg. They start their search on home turf, showing us how to ensure a perfect roast chicken every time. The lads discover how and when chickens first came to the UK and why they have become so popular - not just for food but also as pets. They visit a county show in north Wales to meet some prizewinning breeds and use local eggs to make Welsh cakes and Welsh rarebit. Chicken and leek suet pudding and scotch eggs are all on the Dave and Si's cook list as they crisscross the country celebrating our passion for poultry.
Si and Dave are determined to find out why French chickens are heralded as the poshest birds on the planet. They start their investigations in Lyon, arguably the home of modern French gastronomy, to discover the secrets behind haute cuisine. They visit a farm to see the world's most famous top chick - the magnificent poulet de Bresse. They enjoy chicken dishes created by some of the country's finest chefs before heading to Dave's new home in northern France to cook a feast for his neighbours. Finally the boys are drawn to Paris, where they cook the iconic French casserole, coq au vin (with a biker's twist of course) - overlooking the most iconic of French landmarks - the Eiffel Tower.
Chicken was barely eaten in North Africa before the 1970s and now it is the most eaten meat in Morocco. In Tetouan, the gastronomical and poultry capital of the country, the boys experience the full extent of Spanish and Moorish influences on Moroccan cuisine. In the mountains north of Fez, Dave and Si cook a chicken tagine with preserved lemons and olives for some rebel Berbers, before heading into the city itself where they make rose and pistachio ice cream to cool down after a visit to a Hamman. The boys join a hen(na!) party after which they are taught how to make the special pastry for their piece de resistance, chicken pastilla pie.
Si and Dave lift the lid on the origins story of one of the world's favourite fast foods - southern fried chicken. Richmond, Virginia, is home to an African American community - many of whom are direct descendants of the 19th-century agricultural slaves. Chicken was of such low status at the time that the slaves were allowed to rear their own chickens and ultimately offered them a route to freedom. The boys go back in time to discover the origins of the now ubiquitous 24/7 American diner fare and make their own blueberry and sausage pancakes (not in the same pancake!). They end their journey in the wild, wild West - Texas. Here they celebrate the joys of Americans' favourite part of the chicken - the wing - a cut now so associated with watching sport that 1.3 billion of them are eaten in the States on Super Bowl weekend! And not to be outdone, Dave and Si cook up their own Biker buffalo wings.
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Male’, Maldives – Former Minister of Home Affairs Umar Naseer has said that the release of an individual convicted of smuggling a large amount of drugs and serving a life sentence was done unlawfully.
Abdhullah Sofwath, of H.Everpeace was convicted of smuggling 24 kilograms of drugs with a street value of MVR 100 million and was sentenced to 25 years years in prison, back in 2017.
However, local news outlet “Mihaaru” reports that they have confirmed his release from jail in July 2020.
Speaking on the matter, Umar Naseer said “The release of a man jailed in 2017 for smuggling 24 kilos of drugs has been done illegally, to save this country from drugs, leave political parties and come along with me”
Umar added that the drug abuse issue in Maldives can only be solved when efforts are made with integrity and courage.
There are reportedly ongoing efforts to release Ismail Moosa of G. Trust Home, who was also jailed for 25 years along with Sofwath for the same drug case. For unknown reasons, The Ministry of Home Affairs and The Maldives Correctional Service have kept quiet on the matter.


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Wow! Pretty Bad. This is NOT Chicago!
The only reason I decided to check out this program was because I saw the promos showing Chicago.
If you are from Chicago, you can clearly see this show is not filmed in Chicago. The only shots from Chicago are the transition scenes.
The actual scenes in the program don't even remotely resemble the Chicago area. Where's the green street lights, there are no wooden picnic benches in Chicago parks, they are not "Divisions" they are called districts.
If you are going to make a show based in Chicago, put some effort into making it look and feel real.
Showing the skyline, an 'L' train, the River, the Lake, etc. doesn't make it Chicago.


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Kinabatangan - Rasig Project
The Kinabatangan - Rasig Project is to safeguard a 5.6 acres (about 2.27 hectare) land which is an important wildlife corridor. It is adjacent to the Kinabatangan wildlife sanctuary, located within the lower Kinabatangan floodplain in the eastern part of Sabah (Malaysian Borneo). Sabah's longest river, Kinabatangan meanders for 560km through the floodplain into the Sandakan bay.
This initiative is a collaboration between Indie Travellers, Caroline Pang Photography and Fatimah Homestay to support nature conservation through ecotourism. Rasig was the name of the early settlement on this land. It is the ancestral land of Mr Mursalin Abdullah, who is also the co-owner of Fatimah Homestay.
“My land is surrounded by wildlife sanctuary and I want to do my part to preserve it. It is my heritage. At the same time, I am also exploring ecotourism activities to incorporate that into my homestay programme. So, I approached Caroline of Indie Travellers to identify ecotourism potential in my land”, said Mr. Mursalin.
The Lower Kinabatangan Floodplain
is one of the few remaining freshwater swamp forests in Southeast Asia. The huge plain is created by heavy rainfalls and floods brought by the northeastern monsoon. The area has the highest density of wildlife in the island. It is possibly one of the best places in this region for wildlife viewing, birdwatching and photography.
Read more about the floodplain.
Much of the land in the lower floodplain are being converted to palm oil plantations by external investors and other minor human activities carried out by the local villagers. This has caused major habitat fragmentation. Hence, increases wildlife conflicts such as crop raiding by Orang Utans and elephants with land owners and village settlements. Government agencies and Non-governmental organisations are working towards a common vision, that is, to protect the lower Kinabatangan floodplain from further loss of forest and biodiversity. Local communities are encouraged to participate in conservation efforts and to be more proactive in ecotourism development.
The Rasig Connection
Borneo Pygmy Elephants that cross the river from the other side of the wildlife sanctuary will use Rasig as their landing point, to get to the next forest reserve and vice versa. The herd usually congregates within the land for several days, to feed and play in the swamp forest before moving on. This makes it an ideal wildlife safe-house where elephants and other wildlife can be monitored for injuries or even new birth.
Other wildlife that were being observed frequenting Rasig includes wild Orang Utans, rare reddish form silver langurs, leopard cats and wild boars. There are abundance of fig trees along the riverbank. Figs are major food source for birds especially hornbills, Orang Utans and fishes. Recently, the White Fronted Falconet, Borneo's smallest bird of prey was spotted in the area too.
When the water level is low, the sandbank is visible on the northwestern side of the land, which is also a breeding and resting ground for estuarine crocodiles. The land owner, who is also a fisherman, has voluntarily agreed to protect his land, pledging no development that may affect the wildlife corridor.
This project is possibly the first pragmatic move by a local villager in making such commitment. Most villagers, whose income are affected by depletion of fisheries, would have sold their land to agriculture companies for huge profit. This project hopes to serve as a platform to attain conservation results through ecotourism with participation and support from the local community.
“We are always supportive of community-based ecotourism initiatives. It is also our company's policy to weight ecological, economic and social aspects when we plan or promote tourism related services. We are not into mass tourism but small groups, to understand biodiversity as well as to observe and enjoy the moment of sightings of rare, endangered and endemic species. The Kinabatangan – Rasig project is a good collaboration to demonstrate how low impact tourism can benefit nature, the environment and the community”, said Caroline Pang, Founder Of Indie Travellers.
Caroline explained further on how the land will be utilised for tourism activities,
"Rasig will be kept as natural as possible with no major infrastructure. There will be no obstacle for wildlife to roam freely in the area. We will use the land for wildlife observation and a safe house for elephants to congregate. We get to observe them in their natural habitat at a safe distance. The only basic infrastructure in the pipeline will be either a hide or a platform for observation purposes and a floating jetty for our guests."
The Project Team
The team consists of Caroline with her expertise in sustainable tourism and fundraising for community-based organisations. She has been involved in nature tourism and conservation projects in the Kinabatangan since 1992. She is also a travel and conservation photographer who will be conducting exploration and workshop to Kinabatangan. Other valuable team members include a local wildlife biologist who is specialised in wildlife habitat management, one honorary wildlife warden from the village of Sukau and Mursalin who support us with ground arrangements.
Join Us to Make A Difference
Opportunity For Volunteering
There is also opportunity for volunteers to participate in building platform or hides for wildlife observation, floating jetty, assisting to set up camera traps, and documenting wildlife sighting to complete our list. Volunteering duration can be between one week to a month.
Opportunity To Collaborate
We are open to any corporate companies, organisations and schools who are interested to collaborate and take this on as their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) project.
Email us for further discussion.
Help Us Raise The Funds
Due to its strategic location, data acquired from camera traps and frequent observation from a hide are all useful for the project team to look into best practices as well as information sharing with other parties who are doing wildlife research in the area.
Therefore, we need the following items to support our work:
- building of a floating jetty for visitors,
- a platform or a hide for wildlife observation,
- continuos planting of banana plots to supplement elephants' food source within the site,
- purchase of camera traps that will be installed at strategic sites within the land
Sales from our photography exploration and workshop to Kinabatangan helps to raise partial funds for the above items beside providing tourism income to the local people.


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Bromley Labour leader Angela Wilkins defends Unite’s campaign to stop the privatisation of Bromley’s libraries
PUBLISHED: 16:45 13 March 2017
Unite claim that the only organisation left bidding to run the libraries is Greenwich Leisure Limited
Bromley Labour leader Angela Wilkins has defended union Unite’s campaign to stop the privatisation of Bromley’s libraries, after it was announced that building firm Carillion have withdrawn its bid to run the libraries on behalf of the council.
The annoucement follows a concerted campaign by concerned residents to defend Bromley’s library service which has also seen Bromley Community Link withdraw its bid to run Bromley libraries with volunteers.
According to Unite, the only bidder left is Greenwich Leisure Limited, although Bromley Council declined to confirm this.
Commenting Unite regional officer Onay Kasab said: “This is a significant step in our campaign to keep Bromley’s well-loved libraries out of the clutches of privateers looking to make a quick buck out of an essential service.
“Bromley’s libraries are well used by people from all walks of life right across the borough. An essential point of social contact they provide learning and enjoyment for all ages.
“We will not rest until Bromley council ditches its privatisation plans and will now focus our campaign on the remaining bidder which we believe is Greenwich Leisure Limited.”
Showing support for the campaign, Cllr Wilkins, said: “Labour councillors have opposed privatising our libraries since day one. Of all the council’s services, I have always said I cannot see how a private company can make a profit out of this one without service levels being lowered, so I am not surprised that only GLL remain in the frame.
“Libraries are a huge community resource and not just a book-lending service and we need to keep them open. In fact the council is legally obliged to provide them, so Labour will be fighting any plans to close or run-down these facilities if the privatisation falls through.
“As to the allegation that Unite have ‘hounded away’ potential contractors, I have seen no hard evidence of this. I am aware of leaflet campaigns and demonstrations at some of the libraries and can’t see anything wrong with this - it’s what lots of organisations do after all.”
But Peter Morgan, executive Bromley councillor for renewal and recreation has said getting a new operator for the libraries aims to protect them.
“We must look for the best way of providing services generally and this whole process is actually about protecting the library service that we have today,” he explained.
“The council is continuing to evaluate the tender submissions it has received and when we are in a position to potentially award this important contract, this decision will be made in the usual way, with the decision continued to be anticipated later this year, most probably in the summer.
“We cannot discuss the details of the tenders as this is confidential but it is important to note that tenderers were asked to tender on the basis of the existing library service. The Council routinely provides many of its services using contractors with the Council remaining in full control of these services and it will be no different with the library service.”
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After all, money has its advantages. A new study debunks the theory that money doesn't make you any happier once you've passed a certain income threshold. Seven in 10 respondents said a good marriage and family life lead to the most happiness over a lifetime. By Amy Novotney. Spending money can, in fact, increase your happiness — if it’s spent in a way that jibes with your personality. May 28, 2013.
Share on Facebook Share on Linkedin. According to Dunn and Norton, recent research on happiness suggests that the most satisfying way of using money is to invest in others. Money can’t buy happiness. There is frequent talk about how much money it takes for someone to truly be happy.
According to Dunn and Norton, recent research on happiness suggests that the most satisfying way of using money is to invest in others. 7. Many studies have shown that happiness levels increase with … Here are three ways you can spend your money to help increase your happiness. Finding $5 on the sidewalk can put a smile on your face but can it really buy you happiness? By Tom Stafford 27th March 2013. Share using Email. "Even spending as little as $40 to buy ourselves out of a negative experience like cooking or cleaning can have significant benefits for people's happiness," Whillans said. Yes, psychologists say, but many people don’t know how to spend for maximum happiness. A Statistical Analysis of Predictors for User Satisfaction. Extremely wealthy people have their own set of concerns: anxiety about their children, uncertainty over their relationships and fears of isolation, finds research by Robert Kenny. By Sara Goudarzi 29 June 2006. There is frequent talk about how much money it takes for someone to truly be happy. You might be thinking that it’s easy for me to say that money can’t buy happiness because I have an MBA from Harvard University — an achievement with a high expected salary. That big existential question of whether or not money can buy happiness was also met with a shrug. Statistics Don't Lie, Money Can't Buy Happiness. By Reeka on . Show more. But can greenbacks buy a measure of happiness? Money really does buy you happiness, study reveals Life satisfaction, sense of worth and happiness increased with household wealth, ONS finds
Share this: Facebook Twitter Flipboard. Print version: page 24 ... On the other hand, we know we can be happy with good jobs, lots of money, TV pizza, ice cream, and by seeing our favourite films. Can Money Buy Happiness? Most troubling, perhaps, is the less than 600 (13%) who said they could achieve perfect happiness with the amount of money they already have.
The answer: someone to come home to at night. Share on Twitter. Buy Life Experiences versus Material Items. According to government statistics… In one study, Nobel Prize-winning scientists Daniel Kahneman and Angus Keaton looked at … Purchasing life experiences, rather than material things, can increase your satisfaction and happiness. Research says there can be some truth to the old saying. Called the “Life Twist Study,” its researchers discovered that money … This can take a seemingly limitless variety of forms, from donating to a charity that helps strangers in a faraway country to buying lunch for a friend. Share on Whatsapp. So, if money isn’t what makes us feel that all is right with the world, what does?

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Officials have yet to announce what set off the blast. But several reports say it was caused by benzene, a highly flammable chemical.
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Chipotle Firings: One Story of a Broken Immigration System
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Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and 34 other immigration rights advocates were arrested during a demonstration at the White House on Saturday. Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) and 34 other i ...

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In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or blood and thunder melodramas (e.g., The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.) and uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting spectacular transformations in the sensory environment of the metropolis, in the experience of capitalism, in the popular imagination of gender, and in the exploitation of the thrill in popular amusement. Written with verve and panache, and illustrated with 100 striking photos and drawings, Singer's study provides an invaluable historical and conceptual map both of melodrama as a genre on stage and screen and of modernity as a pivotal idea in social theory.
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Normally the foreskin of the Salesforce Dong is playing a video of a girl dancing in silhouette -- it's Butter in the sky. It's basically the same video as that trashy "MTV The Grind" thing that has been looping in the window above Butter for a decade, but six stories tall.
Previously, previously, previously, previously.
Butter in the sky? Go to your room.
I think jwz is referring to bar across the street from the DNA Lounge.
Rather than a phallus, what I see is a glowing ziggurat mounted atop a cyclopedian pedestal, suggesting a world-spanning cult to the demon god, Mammon.
But, sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.


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Udupi: The first-ever Tulunaada Rajata Sangha Siri award constituted by Akhila Karnataka Beladingala Sahitya Sammelana Samiti was bestowed on webu newsportal, ‘Newskarnataka.com and four other organisations at ‘Mumbai Vaapasigara Sammilana 2022’ organised at Bhavani Mantapa of Ambalapady Temple here on Sunday October 16. In addition, 25 achievers in various fields were honoured with the Tulunaada Rajata Siri State Award.
The event was organised to mark Silver Jubilee Celebrations of Powai Kannada Seva Sangha, Mumbai and Udupi.
The award was received by Spearhead Media Group Director Brian Fernandes, and Spearhead Academy Principal Srinivasa Pejathaya.
It is a matter of pride and happiness that NewsKarnataka owned by Spearhead Media Pvt. Ltd., has been conferred with the Tulunadu Rajata Sangha Siri award on the auspicious occasion of its decennial celebrations.
Started in 2012, Newskarnataka.com is the loved web newsportal of Kannadigas from more than 60 countries. Along with sister concerns, NewsKannada.com and monthly magazine Karnataka Today, Newskarnataka.com is contributing to the development of Kannada people, land, language, art and culture.
In order to reach out to all Kannadigas in every nook and corner of Karnataka, 450 local news sites is being planned to be launched, out of which 30 news sites are already active. Spearhead Academy has now been launched through The Village TV Trust as a foundation for progressivw journalism.


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Michigan's New "Romeo + Juliet Law": How Will It Affect You?
DETROIT--Shakespeare once said something about, let's "kill all the lawyers." However, in Michigan, competent legal counsel can help teen lovers, with a four year age difference up until age 18, stay off Michigan's sex offender registry list, which can be a real drag. Until now, Michigan residents who broke the law as teens for having consensual sex with someone under 16 were lumped in with the rest of the Michigan sex offender registry. But, Governor Rick Snyder recently signed a change in the law that becomes effective July 1, 2011. The "Romeo and Juliet" law reform basically protects certain individuals from having to otherwise be on the sex offender list. There is a difference between most sex offenders who should be on the list and "Romeos and Juliets" who made an error in judgment during their youth. Some believe that teens should not be involved in sexual activity at such a young age, but they also believe that the older of the two lovers is not a sexual offender if it's consensual." Others fear the law will encourage unacceptable behavior e.g 17-year-olds having sex with 13-year-olds. However, according to Michigan law, having sex with someone under the age of 16 is still illegal and punishable by law. The "Romeo and Juliet" law simply lessens the penalty for those who are no more than four (4) years older than their sex partner. Michiganders must understand that when it comes to sex with teens, everything is still illegal. All criminal consequences that would otherwise be there are still there, for example: prison time for a conviction stemming from a felony offense. The new law just recognizes certain circumstances where people who are within four years of each other in a consensual, oftentimes, dating relationship. Michigan Law Bottom Line: An 18-year-old having sex with a 14 year old would not go on the sex offender list, but a 19-year-old would. The law IS NOT automatically retroactive, but if a person was previously placed on a sex offender list for a Romeo and Juliet-type situation, that person can now petition (with legal assistance from a criminal defense lawyer) to have their name removed. Again--the new Romeo + Juliet law becomes effective July 1, 2011.


One third of all council tax benefit is left unclaimed, according to Rhondda Cynon Taf Council.
As much as £5m may be left unclaimed, with some of the most vulnerable groups such as the housebound, the elderly and those on low incomes paying more council tax than they need to.
The council is working in partnership with local charities and other Government agencies to publicise the fact that there is help available with council tax.
The council is making a number of changes to the way council tax benefit is administered:
offering home visits to people who find it difficult to get to one of its offices
providing a mobile benefits bus to visit a number of locations across the county borough, bringing advice and assistance closer to the community
linking up with local charities so that claimants can get additional advice and assistance - such as with filling in the claim form
funding a team of Welfare Rights Advisors, who can offer advice not only on council tax benefit but on all benefits available.
Cllr Annette Davies, cabinet member with lead responsibility for equality, said: 'Council tax is very important - it pays for vital public services that we all rely on.
'However, for many people, it is difficult to pay. The Government makes council tax benefit available so those who would suffer hardship do not have to pay it.
'The campaign we are launching has already been successful.
'One recent claimant has been awarded over £750 in benefits, reducing her bill from more than £1,000 a year to less than £250.
'We realise that the system is often seen as complex, so we have improved the training of our officers and made more of their time available to help people fill in the form.
'Don't lose out on your share - if you are on a low income and don't have much money in savings, ask us to help you.'
Even if you are in work you can claim the benefit.
A little-known aspect of council tax benefit is second adult rebate. If you live with another adult in your house - not your partner - you can claim a rebate if they are on a low income. This is worth up to 25% off your annual bill.


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"The Other Side Of Love"
Capitol Records (1990)
Produced and arranged by Gail Davies for Little Chickadee Productions
Recorded by Rob Feaster at 16th Avenue Sound, Nashville, Tennessee
Mixed at The Castle, Franklin, Tennessee
Mastered by Glenn Meadows at Masterfonics, Nashville, Tennessee
I'm a Little Bit Lonely
Happy Ever After
Holdin' Out For You
Someone Like Me
A Love That Could Last
With a Boy Like You
Remember How It Was
I Need My Baby Back
The Other Side Of Love
One More Night With You
Gail Davies/Paul Kennerly
Gail Davies/Wally Wilson
Gail Davies and Kevin Welch
Richard Bennett on "Holdin' Out For You"
Steve Fishell on "Happy Ever After"
Gail Davies, Vince Gill, Billy Thomas
Gail produced and released this, her favorite album, in 1990. Jimmy Bowen, who had been head of Warner Bros. Records as well as MCA, was now running Capitol/EMI. Gail had recorded most of these songs as demos for her publishing company. When Jimmy Bowen heard them, he gave her a budget and the go ahead to turn it into an album. Gail was also given total control of producing the album including the finished artwork. Gail's old friend Virginia Team recommended two young photographers to shoot the album cover. Gail asked for the photos to be taken on the roof of Castle Recording Studios in Franklin, Tennessee.
Kevin Welch and John Hadley wrote the first single, entitled Happy Ever After, which just missed the Billboard Top 50. Gail had lost momentum at country radio, having changed her musical identity with Wild Choir, and many of the newer, younger radio programers were unfamiliar with her name and music.
Her second single, The Other Side Of Love, was released during the same week, and on the same label, as Garth Brooks' single, Friends In Low Places. Needless to say, Gail's song didn't receive much attention or promotion from the label and went virtually unnoticed.
One of the most impressive songs on this album, One More Night With You, was written by Gail's older brother, Ron Davies.
Although hard to find, it occasionally turns up in Europe where most of the surplus was sold to an overseas distributor. You can contact vintage record stores like the Great Escape.

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DETROIT (WWJ) – A 57-year old man is dead after a dispute with a neighbor over a small amount of cash Wednesday in Eastpointe.
The fatal shooting happened in between two homes on Lincoln. Police say a verbal fight escalated when a 47-year old man opened fire on the victim.
“You don’t know whether to duck for cover or whatever but I knew the man was shot because as soon as I heard it – the female that was over there – she started saying, ‘no, no, no,'” said neighbor Mikale Compos.
“It was so quick, argument then gun shot.”
Compos says the victim, a retired man in his 60’s, was helping to raise three grandchildren, and was being verbally threatened by a man living next door.
Police report the fight was over a small amount of money.
“What I was hearing was, “‘you are going to pay me the money,’ and they were walking back and forth from his garage back there and then the shot went off,” said Compos.
Compos says the suspect was taken into custody without incident.
“Right away he was on the ground – when he came up – and they came out with shot guns, already brandished, so as soon as he seen them – you know they ordered them to the ground – no physical altercation … from him,” said Compos.
Police say they have recovered the handgun used in the shooting and are continuing their investigation.


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Ill. Rep. Ron Sandack (R-Downers Grove) of the 81st District spoke Monday at the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce’s monthly legislative lunch, along with Brad Cauffman, Naperville District 203’s chief financial officer, and Jessica Handy, government affairs director of the nonprofit Stand for Children about the status of SB16.
Area legislators made their arguments on Illinois Senate Bill 16 Monday during a Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce meeting.
Nov. 24 1:51 p.m. |
The Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce Women in Business group will host a women's health panel Wednesday at the Hilton Lisle/Naperville, Lisle.
Oct. 30 2:13 p.m. |
The proposed Senate Bill 16 is projected to reduce education funding by $36.7 million in the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce region.
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The Young Professionals Network of the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce will celebrate its 10th anniversary Sept. 30, at Bobak’s Signature Events.
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The not-for-profit committee of the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce will host its annual program from 7 to 9 a.m. Sept. 19 at the White Eagle Golf Club, 3400 Club Drive, Naperville.
Sept. 15 1:31 p.m. |
The topic of a minimum wage hike for Illinois revealed partisan fault lines Monday at a Naperville Chamber of Commerce candidate forum.
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Illinois Minority House Leader Jim Durkin (R-Westchester) spoke at the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce Legislative Lunch this week, and gave an update on activities in Springfield.
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Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White came to Naperville Monday to challenge people to volunteer in their communities.
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Secretary of State Jesse White will be the guest of honor at the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce’s general membership luncheon from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, July 28, at the Chicago Marriott Naperville.
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The monsters circling around Avel Castle, and especially the approaching Beast, are a real danger for the people of this land. It’s not surprising then that everyone wants to help with the battle. Craftsmen are crafting items, dwarves are building siege machines, and herbalists
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The unions have long since outlived their usefulness.
It is as if there was still an anti-slavery or women's suffrage group still in existence.
They need to justify their existence, so they gin up non-existent problems.
Their termination, through attrition, is long overdue. They have become the very thing they were fighting against -- serial abusers of power.

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J ust what kind of man is Mick Haller (Matthew McConaughey) in The Lincoln Lawyer that his description invokes another, more famous lawyer named Lincoln? Will Mick, in court, find himself embroiled in civil wars? Will he slip into the balcony of a theatre and encounter a gun aimed at his person? Will he come bearing a straggly beard without a moustache? And even if mercifully dewhiskered, will he, like the American President, come to embody decency and dour rectitude — two qualities fetching in men but fatal in the movies?
Mere minutes into Brad Furman's legal drama, these apprehensions are swept aside by the sight of the eponymous lawyer being chauffeured around LA in his eponymous Lincoln. His office, for all practical purposes, is his car — hence the title. And he's nothing like his namesake. He's so cheerfully, so unapologetically crooked, so prone to getting criminals off the hook, that his licence plates proclaim NTGUILTY, presumably because AMBLNCECHASER wouldn't fit.
Mick is the kind of shyster who knows the bailiffs, the warders, the prisoners, the men on the street — he knows, in short, how to grease the system with greenbacks. He's like the director, who knows a thing or two about keeping the machinery moving, even if the parts are rusty, harking back to the earliest detective novel written or perhaps even earlier.
A shaggy William H Macy, looking like a 1960s rock star gone to seed, plays Paul Drake to McConaughey's Perry Mason. There's a nominal Della Street in McConaughey's secretary, but Marisa Tomei, as Mick's ex-wife who's still on exceedingly good terms with him, could just as easily lay claim to that part. Ryan Phillippe is the rich client who insists that he's innocent till his face is as blue as his blood. And Josh Lucas fills out the cast as the public prosecutor, McConaughey's amiable adversary. If nothing else, The Lincoln Lawyer is Exhibit A in how correct casting can reshape ancient mystery-solving archetypes into living, breathing characters of the present day.
But there's something a little more modern at work here — the liquor-happy hero's fall from grace and his subsequent redemption. The most telling line in the film is when a colleague spits out at Mick, “How does someone like you sleep at night?” A few scenes later, Mick's rest is indeed ruined — if not literally then figuratively, as he is tormented by a crisis of conscience.
Like Paul Newman in The Verdict and George Clooney in Michael Clayton, McConaughey is a fallen phoenix waiting to rise from his ashes, and this trajectory is charted not with the glossy craftsmanship of the John Grisham movie adaptations but in a more rough-hewn style, with every shaky camera move seemingly mirroring the jitters in Mick's moral universe. (The more dapper he is in court, the more dishevelled he turns outside.) Fans of courtroom cinema will enjoy the low-key legal standoffs, which offer the solid, if unremarkable, familiarity of comfort food. But even others, I suspect, will come away feeling that after a lengthy season of Oscar-friendly spinach, this basket of mildly spiced fries is just what the lawyer ordered.
The Lincoln Lawyer Genre: Legal drama. Director: Brad Furman. Cast: Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe. Storyline: A shyster grows a conscience when confronted by a cool criminal. Bottomline: Solid, if unremarkable, entertainment.


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“It is always amazing to see artworks from babies to Year 6 and to see children proudly sharing them with their parents. The young musicians who entertained us on the night were thrilled to have an opportunity to showcase their skills. This year our three hands-on activities were inspired by ‘The Big Draw’* and its theme ‘Make the Change’. Everyone enjoyed the opportunity to create an individual art piece or contribute to the collaborative work.”
Meredith Hillam – Art Extravaganza Co-ordinator
*The Big Draw is an international festival that takes place in October with the aim to spotlight the importance of creativity.


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Marvel Studios has begun releasing individual character posters for Avengers: Infinity War.
With such a huge cast of characters, it’s not known how many of these will be coming out but as they’re released this gallery will be updated. Keep checking back to see who’s next. The first image in the gallery will be the newest one released, so here are all of them so far:
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July 30, 2017
Actor Shahid Kapoor, who is busy
working for Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial "Padmavati", is taking
out time to celebrate his daughter Misha Kapoor's first birthday next
month outside the country.
Misha, who is Shahid's daughter with wife Mira, will turn 1 on August 26.
"We are not probably going to be in the country, so we are going to get some family time around that time," Shahid said on the sidelines of an awards event here on Saturday night.


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In reading through the comments on my recent post about the electoral result in Maine (The Lessons of Maine), I could not help but notice that many defenders of the ban on same-sex marriage argue that marriage has always been defined as a relationship between a man and a woman, that there's no reason to change that traditional definition, and that gays and lesbians should be satisfied with having all the rights married people have, without insisting on re-writing the dictionary.
I have several thoughts about this. First, of course, gays and lesbians do not have "all the rights married people have." Only eleven states currently recognize civil unions (or same-sex marriages). The other thirty-nine do not in any way grant gay and lesbians "all the rights married people have." Moreover, because of the federal Defense Of Marriage Act (DOMA), even those states that do recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions cannot grant gays and lesbians "all the rights married people have," because many of the most important of those rights are determined by the federal government, which refuses to recognize the legality of either same-sex marriage or civil union, even when they have been legally recognized by a state. Thus, the assumption that any gays and lesbians in the United States have "all the rights married people have" is unfounded.
But that is not a fair response to the objection. The objection basically argues that gays and lesbians should work to get "all the rights married people have," but in doing so they should not ask for the word "marriage" to be extended to their relationships. They should be content, in other words, to achieve the substantive content of marriage, without also asking for the name. What, after all, is in a name?
So, let's suppose we were to limit the word "marriage" to relationships among same-race individuals. Civil unions between a black and a white or a white and an Asian could not use the word "marriage." What, after all, is in a name? Or suppose we were to confine the word "marriage" to Christian marriages, and used the word "civil union" for Jewish and Muslim marriages. No big deal, right? Or suppose we were to define the word "marriage" to include only Protestant marriages, and relegated relationships among Catholics to "civil unions." Surely, Catholics wouldn't object. After all, what's in a name?
The point, of course, is that words do matter. Words can insult, degrade, shame, and hurt. Moreover, words shape reality. A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but if we artificially give different names to two varieties of roses, over time we would come to think of them quite differently. And in the same-sex marriage context, there can be no mistaking the implication of the use of a different word. It is, and is meant to be, insulting, degrading, shameful, and hurtful. As the Supreme Court observed in Brown v. Board of Education, "separate but equal" is inherently unequal.
Those who object to changing the traditional definition of "marriage" will point out that the examples I posited earlier are all distinguishable from the same-sex marriage situation, because we have not traditionally defined mixed-race marriage, or Catholic marriage, or Jewish marriage as anything other than "marriage." Therefore, my examples contracted the traditional definition to exclude what were once included, whereas in the same-sex marriage situation the opponents argue that the traditional definition should not be expanded to embrace gays and lesbians. However specious, or superficial, this distinction might seem, it is not wholly without merit. It is somewhat different to take away a right than to refuse to grant it. in the first place Tradition counts for something.
But for how much? Certainly, in the law, the meanings of words change constantly. The meaning of the word "search," for example, changed over time. At one point, the Supreme Court held that wiretapping was not a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, because wiretapping does not involve a physical invasion of the target's home. Forty years later, however, the Court held that wiretapping is a "search" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, because it involves an invasion of the target's privacy. I could offer endless similar examples, including such elemental terms as contract, property, torture, obscene, divorce, rape, harassment, militia, and equal.
Of course, the meanings of common words change constantly as well. "Nice" once meant ignorant; "awful" meant amazing; "girl" meant a young person of either sex; "brave" meant cowardice; "bad" once meant bad; and "gay," well, gay once meant carefree. The point is that there's nothing sacred about definitions. They change.
The real question, then, is why some people are so hung-up about the definition of the word "marriage." If someone truly supports granting gays and lesbians "all the rights married people have," why would she bristle at throwing in the word that goes along with the rights? Tradition can't be the answer, because we're really not all that wedded to traditions that hurt and insult people. We've learned to change from coloreds to Negroes to blacks to African-Americans; we've learned to change from chairman to chairperson or chairwoman or chair; we've even learned to change from fag to homosexual to gay. So, what's the big deal about "marriage"?
The answer, I suspect, is that many people think of "marriage" as a religious rather than a legal term. If Christians suddenly started celebrating their birthdays as "bar mitzvahs," it would probably upset some Jews, who would see it as insulting. If atheists started wearing crucifixes to signify their atheism, it would surely perturb some Christians, who might see it as blasphemous. The real flash point about the word "marriage" is that some people strongly associate the word with their religious understandings, and those understandings most definitely do not embrace same-sex relationships. Thus, even if they are willing, as good citizens, to grant gays and lesbians "all the rights married people have," they can't stand the thought of seeing a "sacred" word, and concept, brutalized.
This is a real dilemma. Certainly, such people have no constitutional right to have the state adopt their religious definition of "marriage." Although they may have a strong religious identification with the word, the word has long had a secular meaning and, indeed, has never belonged to any particular religion or even to religion generally. "Marriage" in our society is a secular term. It may coincide with religious beliefs, but in the law it is not a religious concept, nor could it be. Religious organizations and individuals are authorized to officiate at weddings, but the legal concept of marriage is entirely secular. The phrase "by the power invested in me by the state" is revealing. It is the state that bestows legal recognition to the marriage, not the religion.
Those with religious objections to calling same-sex unions "marriages" are essentially insisting that the state must adopt their religious definition of a legal concept. That is fundamentally incompatible with the separation of church. It is not for religion to define legal concepts.
As I see the situation, there are two plausible solutions to this dilemma. First, those who think gays and lesbians should have "all the rights of married people" but want to deny them the word "marriage" must understand that the distinction is untenable. It is demeaning and insulting to gays and lesbians in the same way any system of "separate but equal" is offensive and hurtful, and it is ultimately grounded in religious beliefs that cannot properly be the basis of legal meaning.
Second, both gays and lesbians and those who object to applying the term "marriage" to same-sex relationships can agree to strike the term "marriage" from our laws. Instead, all legal marriage-like relationships would be described as "civil unions," whether same-sex or opposite-sex, and different religions would then be free to use the term "marriage" as they see fit, without government involvement or endorsement. Of course, even this would insulting to gays and lesbians (in the same way that closing the municipal swimming pool to avoid racial integration was insulting to blacks), but it might nonetheless be a compromise worth considering.


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In cooperation with the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival and supported by the Foundation for German-Polish Cooperation, the JFBB screened a selection of Polish and DEFA feature films dealing with the Jewish experience in August. Now the films will be shown in Warsaw, including the DEFA classics THE BLUM CASE, A STORY OF A MURDER and THE ACTRESS and the Polish films THE LAST STAGE and THE PASSENGER.
The relationship of the GDR and the People's Republic of Poland towards Jewish experience was, in light of the Nazi occupation, Shoah and the Cold War, characterised in several respects by reinterpretations of history. On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the DEFA film studios the JFBB und the Warsaw Jewish Film Festival embark on a cinematic journey through time, taking us from the first reflections on the Shoah shortly after the end of the war to feature films from the 1980s. Interesting in this regard are the themes and protagonists that go unmentioned: these number the exodus of the remaining Jews, provoked in 1968 with reference to barely-plausible political arguments, as well as a fitting portrayal of Jewish suffering during the German occupation. The series explores not only how the approach of films from both countries towards history and anti-Semitism was determined by political guidelines, but also sheds light on the gaps these cinematic attempts at remembrance left behind and how the filmmakers, often Jewish, nevertheless tried to reflect on a topic burdened by both history and politics in a dignified manner.
The 19th Warsaw Jewish Film Festival takes place from 15-21 November at the Polin Museum and online. The core of the programme is the feature and documentary film competitions, an extensive short film programme and numerous special screenings, including a retrospective with a selection of films by Aleksander Ford, one of the first directors to make sound films in Yiddish. Bernd Buder, programme director of the JFBB, is a member of the feature film jury in Warsaw.
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“We are becoming increasingly concerned about momentum that is quickly building among some leading conservatives for elimination of the risk corridor and reinsurance programs,” [Blue Cross Blue Shield Association CEO Scott] Serota wrote…
“Their efforts, along with growing support for repealing the risk corridor and reinsurance programs, could combine to create a perfect storm to, at a minimum, dissuade the Administration from modifying risk corridor program rules to provide increased funding in light of the recent ‘transitional policy’ allowing insurers to offer consumers the option to renew their 2013 health plans for 2014,” Serota wrote.
In attached talking points, seemingly directed at Republican lawmakers opposed to risk corridors and reinsurance, BCBSA is asking members to argue that eliminating the risk corridors will lead to the eventual downfall of Obamacare and lead to a single-payer system: “It jeopardizes the entire private health insurance market and will ultimately lead to a single-payer system. Furthermore, it will close the door to pro-competitive health care reform alternatives.”
One bolded talking point, “use with appropriate audiences only,” charges that “eliminating these programs will result in massive premium increases and could cause private insurers to become insolvent.” In Serota’s email, however, this point is intended for Democrats only.


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The first ever computer-generated pieces of music have been restored, bringing back to life three melodies that were last heard more than half a century ago.
The melodies, including God Save the Queen and Baa Baa Black Sheep, were captured by a BBC team on a visit to Alan Turing's National Computing Laboratory in Manchester in 1951. Created by Turing's gigantic Mark II computer, the melody was played out through a series of short sounds (which Turing described as a mix between a "tap, a click and a thump") using a loudspeaker. When played quickly enough the distinct sounds blended together, creating music.
An original recording made on a 12-inch single-sided acetate disc and cut by a BBC technician while the computer played its tunes. But the recording turned out to not be accurate, making it seemingly impossible to listen to the music as it would've sounded at the time.
Now, thanks to some high-tech detective work, the original sound has been restored. Using computer-assisted analysis, Jack Copeland and Jason Long from New Zealand's University of Canterbury, were able to determine the music was playing at the incorrect speed, shifting the frequency of the recording.
Copeland and Long were able to calculate the correct speed, remove distortion caused by a wobble in the recording and filter out background noise to reproduce a more accurate rendition of the world's first ever computer-generated music.


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Wednesdays are my favorite! Why? Because the Humane Society stops by with a new friend that I get to name as Wendy's Pet of The Week. (Yes, I know, I'm posting this on Thursday, I kind of forgot yesterday. I think I was in an adorable puppy coma.)
Trudy Ender, from the Humane Society of West Michigan, brought Tyler in to see me!

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The new STN93321 cable tuner acquires and digitizes the entire 54MHz to 1218MHz downstream spectrum, making it capable of supporting multi-Gb/s broadband access for cable users. It is also capable of transmitting upstream OFDMA channels up to the frequency of 204MHz per DOCSIS 3.1 requirements. STN93321 can deliver 32 QAM and 2 OFDM (192MHz) downstream channels over multiple high-speed SERDES interface lines to the Intel Puma Processors. A complete D3.1 Reference design based on STN93321 is available and tested according to CableLabs ATP requirements by leading cable CPE manufacturers.
STN93321 is designed based on "Total Spectrum ReceptionTM" (TSRTM) technology which is an innovative low-power, high dynamic range patented architecture enabling total DOCSIS 3.1 frequency band reception. At its core, TSRTM technology integrates multi-Gb/s high-speed Data Converters with a highly linear RF front-end, while utilizing both Digital Correction and Advanced DSP algorithms for performance optimization.
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