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42 U.S. Code § 300u–8 - Biennial report regarding nutrition and health
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(a) Biennial report
The Secretary shall require the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service to prepare biennial reports on the relationship between nutrition and health. Such reports may, with respect to such relationship, include any recommendations of the Secretary and the Surgeon General.
(b) Submission to Congress
The Secretary shall ensure that, not later than February 1 of 1995 and of every second year thereafter, a report under subsection (a) of this section is submitted to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1709, as added Pub. L. 103–183, title VII, § 704,Dec. 14, 1993, 107 Stat. 2240.)
A prior section 300u–8, act July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XVII, § 1709, as added Nov. 10, 1978, Pub. L. 95–626, title V, § 502, 92 Stat. 3594, related to establishment of national program on sports medicine research, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 98–551, § 2(c),Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 2816.
Change of Name
Committee on Labor and Human Resources of Senate changed to Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions of Senate by Senate Resolution No. 20, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 19, 1999.
Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives treated as referring to Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives by section 1(a) ofPub. L. 104–14, set out as a note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on Commerce of House of Representatives changed to Committee on Energy and Commerce of House of Representatives, and jurisdiction over matters relating to securities and exchanges and insurance generally transferred to Committee on Financial Services of House of Representatives by House Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Seventh Congress, Jan. 3, 2001.
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More examples of racism in the news, this time in Huntingdon.
So sad, we haven't even formally left the EU yet and already 40 years of good work is being undone and we're stepping back to the 1970's when racism was "acceptable".
But this is one of the small battles that we can win. If you see any racism, don't walk by on the other side, challenge it. Let people know that you don't think it's acceptable!

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INDIA E POST CHANDIGARH JULY 04, 2022
The Punjab Governor and Administrator, UT, Chandigarh, Banwari Lal Purohit on Monday administered the oath of office and secrecy to five new Cabinet Ministers of the state in a brief but impressive ceremony here at Punjab Raj Bhawan in the presence of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
Disclosing this here today, a spokesperson of the Chief Minister’s Office said that Chief Secretary Anirudh Tewari conducted the proceedings of the ceremony with the permission of the Governor.
The Cabinet Ministers, who were sworn in the Guru Nanak Dev auditorium within the complex of Punjab Raj Bhawan, included Aman Arora (MLA Sunam), Inderbir Singh Nijjar (MLA Amritsar South), Fauja Singh (MLA Guru Har Sahai), Chetan Singh Joramajra (MLA Samana) and Anmol Gagan Mann (MLA Kharar) were administered the oath by the Governor during the ceremony. After being sworn in the new Ministers signed the oath, which was counter signed by the Governor.
The prominent dignitaries who attended swearing in ceremony included Speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Deputy Speaker Punjab Vidhan Sabha Jai Kishan Rauri, Cabinet Ministers Harpal Singh Cheema, Dr. Baljit Kaur, Harbhajan Singh ETO, Lal Chand, Gurmeet Singh Meet Hayer, Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Laljit Singh Bhullar, Bram Shanker Jimpa and Harjot Singh Bains.
Apart from these, AAP MLAs, senior party leaders, workers and volunteers from Punjab and dignitaries from different walks of life also graced the occasion. The function was attended by the senior officers of State Civil and Police Administration besides family members, relatives and friends of the newly sworn in Cabinet Ministers.


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In my mind I have this image of space transforming like when being looked through some glass object (a looking glass?). So one doesn’t see the thing itself but just the effect (breaking the homogenous space into multiple moments and surfaces) it produces.
I don’t know of how it can spring from something, but there’s surely a way to make it as a part of narrative.
Another interesting thing to see would be a 2D image represented in hologram. I wonder how would it look. Like a drawing that one perhaps is walking around and seeing it stretch or shrink.

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text: Petra. Jordan. View of some of the tombs facades from the Street of Facades at the Red Rose city of Petra. The street of facades has four levels of tightly packed carved tombs some with simple cornices incorporating crow step styling. The vast city of Petra is the ancient home of the Kingdom of Nabataeans who settled here there more than two thousand years ago. It is a UNSECO world heritage listed site.

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text: Located in Collingswood Nj, this 3,000 sf restaurant is designed around the chef/owner’s passion for woodfire cooking. Earthy materials and textures are incorporated to complement the flavors prepared from the brick cooking hearth. The lighting design is approached with careful sensitivity with the use of hidden ambient lighting that delicately enhances the warm tones of the suspended wood ceiling. American cherry table tops nestle up to custom designed banquette seating, appointed with hand-crafted upholstery. In the private dining area a custom steel & brass candelabra gently illuminates a dining table sourced locally from a single slab of ash. During the temperate seasons, the exterior doors along the restaurant’s perimeter are fully opened up like bellows, allowing patrons to enjoy al fresco dining both inside or outside over the heated stone floor.

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says it has settled discrimination claims from two HIV patients who said physicians at a Milwaukee-based medical provider refused to treat them because of their illness.
The settlement announced Friday calls for Aurora Health Care Inc. to pay $30,000 to one patient, $15,000 to the other and a $15,000 civil penalty to the federal government. Aurora will also provide additional training to staff regarding anti-discrimination policies.
One of the patients said an orthopedic surgeon refused to perform a hip surgery on August 2015 because he feared HIV transmission. Another patient said a urologist declined to remove his catheter on January 2016 because he was concerned blood could be in the urine.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin filed the complaints.
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Not the best start to the week! Larsa Pippen revealed that she injured her leg via Instagram on Tuesday, March 30. She shared a photo of herself with her legs elevated and crutches nearby along with the caption: “Cried a lot today I can’t believe I can’t walk I’m so depressed.”
The injury comes after Pippen, 46, shared a since-deleted video of her and her friends jumping into the ocean off a yacht. She admitted she was in tears from the pain when her two pals had to help her out of the water.
The Real Housewives of Miami alum has since posted a new video to her Instagram Stories, in which she showed off a “new present” she received — a red Porsche. She kept mum, however, on who gifted it to her.
Pippen has recently been linked to Malik Beasley. Larsa and Beasley, 24, made headlines after photos of them holding hands surfaced in December 2020. The basketball player was married to Montana Yao at the time, but Pippen claimed that he was no longer with his estranged wife when their romance began.
Less than a week after the photos made it to social media, Yao, who shares son Makai with the Minnesota Timberwolves player, filed for divorce. The couple had originally gotten married in March 2020.
“We had spoken about it,” Pippen, 46, said of Beasley’s situation on a February 13 episode of Hollywood Unlocked With Jason Lee. “It wasn’t a secret.”
She continued: “I googled them when I first met him — they weren’t together. They had issues before. It had nothing to do with me, so I wasn’t thinking anything about it.”
On Monday, March 29, a Minnesota court ruled on “temporary” requests made by Yao while Beasley motioned to prove the paternity of their 2-year-old son.
According to court documents obtained by Us Weekly, Beasley “now contests paternity” and has already taken the test to learn whether he is the biological father of Makai.
Yao “contends that Husband [Malik] is the biological father of the child but no Recognition of Parentage has been signed and Husband has not otherwise been adjudicate the child’s father,” the court docs state.
The Minnesota Timberwolves player’s attorney, Steven A. Haney, exclusively told Us in a statement on Tuesday, March 30, that the paternity test was “taken last week.” He added: “Given the facts and circumstances surrounding these parties’ relationship and lifestyle it would have been negligent not to have one performed. If he is deemed the biological father, he will comply with the order or the court. The Order was contingent upon paternity being established.”
The model’s rep told Us exclusively on Tuesday that her estranged husband “did want a paternity test and took the test” already. “It’s comical for her that he has requested a paternity test because this entire time on social media he has claimed Makai to be his son and he knows it’s his son.”
Reflecting on the recent controversy, Larsa said that she does regret how public her relationship with Beasley became when it was starting out. “I wish that wouldn’t have happened. What’s the point of taking a beating over a guy I had just started talking to?” she admitted to Jason Lee. “I just feel like I need to do a better job of not being public with my situation. I wasn’t trying to be public with this situation, but it just went and happened that way.”
The mother of four, who shares Scotty Jr., 20, Preston, 18, Justin, 15, and Sophia, 12, with her estranged husband, 55, added that “everyone eventually moves on,” which is what she and Beasley have tried to do.


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Rich Harwood in The Huffington Post about National Campaign
By Richard Harwood
November 7, 2013
Last week we successfully launched our Reclaiming Main Street Campaign, starting in Washington, D.C. I'm embarking on this effort because I believe we must remind ourselves -- and reclaim the practical idea -- that community is a common enterprise. We must get past the dysfunction in today's politics and public life and create a new path forward. I believe that each of us can help shape this new, constructive direction. On the day of the kick-off, I was asked the same question -- first on Wisconsin Public Radio, then again just after my speech, and in various other conversations: What do we hope to accomplish?
Here's my response: Too much of our community and public life is about what people are against. Consider Exhibit A -- the recent federal government shutdown. Then there's the ongoing ObamaCare drama, the nasty Virginia gubernatorial election and countless other situations both in our nation's capital and in our communities. Progress is hard to come by nowadays. Division and acrimony have become a way of life.
The Reclaiming Main Street Campaign is about what people are for. Through the campaign, we seek to:
1. Remind ourselves that community is a common enterprise. None of us can go it alone, on our own. 2. Provide practical steps -- including hands-on tools that people and organizations can use in their communities - to articulate our shared aspirations, do shared work, and tell a new story about our ability to come together and get things done. 3. Invite people to come together with a growing number of individuals across the country who are joining our Public Innovators Corps -- people who want to help produce positive change in their daily lives in their communities.

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Fabian Nicieza and Dan Jurgens Team Up for Sinister Story in ‘X-Men Legends’
Two top-tier creators unite for a new mutant masterpiece set in one of Marvel’s most epic eras!
Take a guided tour of Marvel's mightiest creators with Marvel Tales! Ben Morse, currently a visiting lecturer at UNLV, previously spent a decade working within the House of Ideas. In each installment of this series, he utilizes that insider knowledge—plus his lifelong fandom—to connect with comics professionals as they spin stories about the Marvel Universe and its inhabitants!
The descriptor “legendary” aptly suits comic book icons Fabian Nicieza and Dan Jurgens, the writer/artist pairing responsible for X-MEN LEGENDS (2021) #10, the latest issue of the anthology series out in comic shops now. Nicieza served as scripter not only on X-MEN (1991) and X-FORCE (1991) at the height of their 90s popularity, but also quarterbacked dozens of other seminal works including the highly regarded first volume of NEW WARRIORS. Jurgens counts lengthy runs with Spider-Man, Captain America, and Thor among his luminous accomplishments which include some of the biggest events of the past 30 years.
Amazingly, despite their combined achievements as among the most successful creators in comics across several decades, Nicieza and Jurgens had never officially collaborated until now. This marks a return to X-MEN LEGENDS (2021) for Nicieza, who already concocted a multi-part tale to kick the series off, with Jurgens making his artistic debut on the X-Men, characters he has somehow never had the opportunity to draw.
We spoke with the dynamite duo about how they came to this assignment as well as why they chose Mister Sinister as a centerpiece, the joys of depicting Beast, how to balance nostalgia with other considerations, and much more!
Marvel.com: How well did you guys know one another prior to this assignment?
Fabian Nicieza: We’ve known each other a long time. We’ve always been friends, we’ve just often worked for different companies. We’ve had meals together and been at lots of shows together. I’ve always had a huge amount of respect for Dan and what he’s done both as a writer and an artist.
Dan Jurgens: We’ve always talked about doing something together at some point. We go back to when [Fabian] was on staff [at Marvel] for marketing. We’ve known each other for a long time!
So, how did you both become involved with doing this issue of X-MEN LEGENDS?
Fabian Nicieza: For my end of it, [editor] Mark [Basso] asked me in the fall of last year if I’d be interested in writing three issues for the first year of a new anthology book called X-MEN LEGENDS. He basically gave me the parameters of what the book was going to be like. I told him to let me think about it because, honestly, I don’t automatically say yes to anything that has the letter “X” in it anymore. [Laughs]
I gave it some thought, looked through some old issues, and didn’t feel like I had too many stories I really wanted to tell in a self-contained fashion. Everything was so soap operatic back then that a lot of my ideas got absorbed or destroyed in the mix of multiple titles. But I did find a few ideas. The first was the Adam-X story that I wanted to originally tell. Another one was an offshoot of plans I always had for Mister Sinister that were never able to come to fruition because any time I tried to percolate the story as a subplot in one of the monthly books, the next issue I found out he was appearing in six other books. [Laughs] This particular issue that Dan and I worked on was an offshoot of that.
Dan, how were you approached for this?
Dan Jurgens: Mark approached me and asked me if I wanted to draw an issue of X-MEN LEGENDS. I did what I always do and asked if I could read the script first. I’m kinda picky about what it is I actually end up drawing. [Laughs] He sent me the script and told me Fabian had written it, which I thought was great because we had talked about working together for quite some time. When I read it, it had this whole idea of Beast and how we would see him in his various versions as he has progressed over the years. I immediately got hooked by that. From a drawing standpoint, that would be fun to do, to find ways to accurately represent him. The easiest way would be to just mimic the artists’ styles from each point—here’s Jack Kirby, here’s Dave Cockrum, on through the years. But you can’t really do that unless it’s a Beast solo story. Anyways, that’s what I was hooked on, getting to draw all the different versions of Beast as well as Magneto and Mister Sinister, because I think they both have great designs.
Fabian Nicieza: I love that when Dan is drawing a book, even though he has written thousands of comics, he focuses on the visual. Not the fantastic use of adverbs or anything, but the visual hook of the script. [Both laugh]
Fabian, you said you were a little reticent to return to the X-Men, but now that the experience is in the rearview, how was it?
Fabian Nicieza: It was easy in that the DNA of this book is to tell stories under the pretext that you’re reading something brand-new but it’s like it came out in 1993. The issue that Dan and I did was basically X-MEN (1991) #34A. If the book had been bi-weekly, this would have been a companion piece to what was coming out from me and Andy Kubert. I didn’t approach it as if I had to copy how I wrote back then, I just tried to mimic the general style, the general verbiage. What I did with Adam-X with Brett Booth was a little easier because Brett draws in that bombastic style—he always has, he still does, it’s cool as hell, it’s fun as hell. I knew this issue was a “quieter” one. It was the kind of issue that [90s X-Men editor] Bob Harras would get excited about because he loved issues where characters interacted with each other without the threat of buildings exploding.
Dan, you’ve never had an extended run on the X-Men before, correct? There’s not a story or a series I’m forgetting?
Dan Jurgens: No, there’s not, and it’s weird, because over the years I’ve had various offers and I was always busy. This was certainly my first prolonged exposure to the X-Men in any shape or form. Doing something with the X-Men has always been on my bucket list, because I never had.
Fabian Nicieza: Dan and I are at the same point in our careers where if I’m doing something, I want to enjoy it. I prefer to be paired with an artist I like and an editor I like. I’ve got a bucket list too. I want to cross certain things off. When I did a custom comic with Black Panther a few years ago, I wanted to do it because I had never written Black Panther before! I got to do a New York Jets custom comic that I wanted to do because it was Thor and the Hulk, and I realized I had never written Thor in 30+ years of writing for Marvel Comics.
Dan Jurgens: That’s so weird because I wrote THOR for like seven years–and you are supposed to be the Marvel guy! [Both laugh]
Talk to me about the impetus for centering this story around Mister Sinister.
Fabian Nicieza: I always liked Sinister, from his introduction. He had a Machiavellian nature to him, an insidious approach to what he was doing, unlike the other big villains that the X-Men offered, from Magneto to Apocalypse. Sinister was almost like a shadow operative in the mutant world. That’s a bonus. I had always intended that at some point we would start to unravel this guy’s machinations. We had established that he was long lived. We had hinted he might not have been a mutant at birth...
It was fertile ground because it always spoke to the inherent DNA of the book, the divergence between humans and mutants and what that means. What does that mean for everyone in this fictional world? I saw Sinister as a spider building a web between the two. Most people think he’s trying to control one or the other, or one versus the other, but I always saw it as more interesting, more shades of gray.
Dan, speaking to the visual aspect of Sinister, what’s cool about him and what was fun to draw?
Dan Jurgens: The face that looks like he should play lead guitar for KISS–it’s just fun! I like that he has that sense of dramatic flair. In this story he holds up a wine glass and toasts his enemies; that’s just dramatic fun to do artistically. Part of that look is the color combination, the white face without much in the way of color, the black lips—you get to play around with the emotional expressions a little more. That gives it a unique look. You throw in the... I wouldn’t call it a cape, but the scalloped things hanging from him, it’s a cool look.
Fabian Nicieza: It wouldn’t have been a deep cut in 1993, it would have been a precursor, and that’s how I approached this whole thing. I percolated Black Womb from my very first two issues writing X-MEN that Art Thibert drew, issues #12 and #13.
I used Black Womb in GAMBIT (1999), I used her in X-MEN FOREVER, she’s been lingering in the fringes of my mind. I always saw her as a really unique and interesting opportunity to tell basically the last 100 years of genetic manipulation that would be a flip to the side of the coin that Sinister was presenting. This was a case of me going down to my basement and finding a notebook of ideas I had never gotten to resolve.
Who else did you enjoy drawing, Dan?
Dan Jurgens: Professor X. Over time a lot of people have drawn Professor X as if he’s just a typical bald guy who shaved his head while other artists have given him weird eyebrows, which was kind of fun. Certainly drawing Professor X was a fun part of this. Even getting to draw Moira MacTaggert. She’s been around a long time and ended up being such an important character in the mythos, which I don’t think people would have thought of when she first showed up.
How do you balance the nostalgic factor of a book like X-MEN LEGENDS with telling a story for a modern audience?
Dan Jurgens: From an artistic standpoint, I think you lean into [the nostalgia], you embrace it. It’s called X-MEN LEGENDS for a reason. The title implies that it is a throwback to something else. Looking at the previous issues, whether it was Brett or Walter [Simonson], the reason people like this is that as a creator you embrace it wholeheartedly. I think you might adapt a couple of little things. Right now it appears to me that 90s nostalgia is sort of hot anyway.
Fabian Nicieza: I agree with what Dan is saying as far as how you approach it. It depends on the story that you’re actually telling. This story never felt to me like channeling 90s nostalgia. The Adam-X one certainly did because Brett was drawing it in that fashion. It also depends on the characters involved. This was, for the most part, adult characters in a relatively adult story. There’s a little less of that early 90s excess just because of the nature of who’s in it and what’s going on. If Cable were in it, I’m sure Dan would have been required to draw a two-thirds page shot of him with guns and ammo even if he was just there to have dinner. [Laughs]
Dan Jurgens: There’s our next plot!
Where do you see the place of books like X-MEN LEGENDS in the larger sphere both of the X-Men specifically and comics more broadly?
Fabian Nicieza: I’m a big proponent of the belief that no comic book is more valuable to you as a person than the one you read when you were 14 years old. To me this book has a place because we should always be speaking to the 14-year-old in you. Mainstream Super Hero publishing should always cater to the nostalgia in older readers and hopefully afford something in that story that can appeal to a newer reader too. The worth is in whatever entertainment a reader gets out of it.
Dan Jurgens: We are now dealing with characters that have been around for multiple decades. If I go to a comic store or a convention, I’m seeing readers who are that 14-year-old up to much older and in between. From a publishing perspective, I think there’s nothing wrong, and in fact I think it’s admirable, to say we have different books for different audiences. If we have a group of readers out there who want something from the 90s, from the 70s, whatever, we can give that to them.
If given the opportunity, would you like to pick up on this story in the future?
Fabian Nicieza: I’d be interested in getting to work with Dan again on just about anything, though I’m not sure it would be this particular story…
Dan Jurgens: I agree. I’d add that while this story is left somewhat open-ended, I also really like the ending because it allows the reader to pick it up and go where they want. Sometimes there’s a beauty in the ending that you just want to leave alone, and I do think that’s the case here. It brings it to a nice point. Yes there is stuff left, but I think that’s where you let the readers’ imaginations fill in the blanks.
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MOST bond-market strategists have been worried about higher interest rates this year. Not William H. Gross, manager of some of the fixed-income industry's best-performing and most consistent portfolios.
''I think the next move by Greenspan and company will be down as opposed to up,'' said Mr. Gross, the strategist in charge of fixed income for the Pacific Investment Management Company, known as Pimco, of Newport Beach, Calif. ''This probably will not occur until we are well toward the end of the year, or maybe early in 1998, but we could wind up the year at 6 percent on the long-term U.S. Treasury bond.''
If he is right about the plans of the Federal Reserve and its chairman, Alan Greenspan, a decline from the current level of around 6.75 percent would have implications for equity investors as well.
Mr. Gross, who oversees $92 billion of fixed-income assets, or 84 percent of Pimco's $110 billion total, has been called ''the Peter Lynch of bonds'' by Newsweek magazine, in reference to the former manager of the Fidelity Magellan fund (though Mr. Gross shrugs off the comparison because, he noted, Mr. Lynch's upper lip is bare while his own sports a mustache).
MR. GROSS has been bullish on the bond market all year, but that hurt in the first quarter, when bond prices were down. But it paid off in the second quarter, when the average long-term Government bond fund -- the bellwether portfolio -- rose 4.27 percent, delivering nearly a year's worth of returns in only three months.
Indeed, Mr. Gross has been betting on lower interest rates since they spiked up in 1994, during the last round of Fed tightening.
Earlier this year, when the Fed nudged rates up, his optimism backfired for shareholders of the several bond funds he manages.
But the first quarter's weakness was more than erased by a rally in the second period, when the Fed declined to raise rates further -- as it did again on Wednesday. Over the first half, Pimco Low Duration rose 4 percent and Pimco Total Return gained 3.65 percent, surpassing the 3.1 percent return of the Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond index.
Two funds that Pimco manages for other firms, Fremont Bond and Harbor Bond, also beat the index. The Pimco funds have five stars, the top ranking for risk-adjusted performance, from Morningstar Inc., the fund researchers in Chicago, and the other two have four stars.
''I think it's hard to talk about fixed-income managers without his name being the first one mentioned,'' said Mark Wright, senior analyst at Morningstar, of Mr. Gross. ''Pimco's developed one of the best track records in the industry, consistently and over a long period of time.''
Mr. Gross, 53, has spent his entire financial career with Pimco, which specializes in debt securities. He joined the firm as a securities analyst after receiving a master's degree in business administration in 1971 from the University of California at Los Angeles. A 1966 graduate of Duke University, Mr. Gross served three years as an engineering officer in the Navy and six months as a professional blackjack player in Las Vegas, Nev.
''It was blackjack that got me interested in securities markets,'' he said. The mathematics, memorization and gamesmanship that fuel success in one endeavor work equally well in the other, he said. ''When I found out you could beat the house at blackjack -- and you can -- it encouraged me to test my skills in financial markets.''
Mr. Gross was originally interested in equities, he said, but when he got out of school the competition for fixed-income jobs was less keen. ''I only got two job offers when I got out of U.C.L.A., and this was the better of them,'' he said.


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Gateway Motorway at Depot Road On-Ramp, QLD (North), QLD
Sandgate - Brisbane City
Gympie Road & Webster Road, QLD (Southeast), QLD
Gympie Road & Beams Road, QLD (North), QLD
Houghton Highway Bridge, QLD (Northeast), QLD
Sandgate Road & Beams Road, QLD (South), QLD
Gateway Motorway over Sandgate Road, QLD (East), QLD
Boondall - Brisbane City
Gympie Road & Samsonvale Road & Bells Pocket Road, QLD (South), QLD
Anzac Avenue & Dohles Rock Road & Narangba Road, QLD (Northeast), QLD
Anzac Avenue & Dayboro Road & Gympie Road Roundabout, QLD (Southwest), QLD
Anzac Avenue & Bruce Highway, QLD (East), QLD
Bruce Highway & Anzac Avenue Interchange, QLD (South), QLD
Southpine Road & Eatons Crossing Road, QLD (South), QLD

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This was tough to get to, as I'm not sure if you're supposed to turn left down the road (Google thought not, and the road markings were self-contradictory), and it's virtually impossible to see before you pass it if you're turning right. I drove past it and U-turned twice, before I gave up and drove down the left lane during a break in the oncoming traffic to make the turn. But it's free parking, and the waterfalls are about one minute's hike from the parking lot—we could hear falling water and children squealing as soon as we got out.
|Looking downstream from the bridge...|
|And upstream from the bridge: a small-scale gorge.|
The fun of this site is the hands-on exploration of the waterfalls. We didn't try scrambling through the tubs, since it looked too slippery to do without falling and getting thrown down by the water—but you'd be bruised rather than broken, and the water levels weren't high/fast enough when we were there that I'd have been particularly concerned about drowning. However, there's a trail that fords the stream at a wide pool, great for wading and we could scramble about the rocks there and play with the falls at either end. (My daughter even managed to make a water slide out of one slope, though her older brother couldn't do it without grinding to a halt.)
There's a short trail around the area, but we just played where we were. A group of people had set up a folding table and small grill and were having a party right there in the pool. This made it a little more crowded than perhaps we would have liked, but the idea was such genius that I couldn't resent them for it. The water was crystal clear, and we saw a big turtle (possibly a snapping turtle?) at the deep end, wedging himself into the rocks. We named him Grumpy McWhyareallthesepeoplehereface.
|It drove me crazy, but this rock was just that bit too high and slippery for me to pull myself up there. I boosted the kids up, but I had to settle for playing photographer.|
We stayed about an hour, then headed out for lunch. In retrospect, I should have stopped beforehand and picked up a picnic.
After that, it was a smooth drive north to some old friends who moved to NY from VA, and who we hadn't seen for four or five years. We spent the rest of the afternoon in their pool, followed by the local 4th July fireworks display... We were glad to get the chance to celebrate a day early, as we were headed to Canada the next morning.


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Is there any issue,if the positive supply is delayed by 5sec from Negative supply during Power ON
As we want to directly drive the parallel control lines [Bit 1 to Bit 6] using FPGA controller in LVTTL Logic by avoiding Buffers for space and cost reduction,
Can we use this part with Vdd=3.3V,Vss=-3.3V,Control Voltage=0/+3.3V,if it can be used what will be performance variation.
As we are planning to use this device in Multi channel Receiver sections,hence we want to know the leakage RF signal level at control lines[BIT 1 to BIT 6] to ensure the RF Isolation between channels.


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Wednesday, 20 February 2019 - 7pm
Situated Voices 6. The Feminist Tide
Articulating Feminist Resistance in the Face of Global Violence
The struggles in different corners of the planet with feminisms at the forefront go beyond traditional categories in readings of social movements. Putting into practice ‘the personal is political’ and reshaping our understanding of the political, the feminist tide pulses and proliferates on a global scale with its persistent iterations and capillary potential for dissemination and influence.


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This paper uses the Vaasa region of Finland as an illustrative case study to explore how the relationships between climate change, sea-level rise and land uplift may offer applications in forecasting future land uplift changes. Using a comparative literature review and analysis of open source data, a conceptual framework is developed to ex-amine causes-effect relationships between them. The sea-level rise around the world by the end of the 21st century shows dramatic effects all over the world. However, the rate of land uplift in the Vaasa region is higher than the rate of sea-level rise. This localised finding is different from global average rates for land uplift and sea-level rise. This indicates that although climate change is global, it can lead to very different regional expressions. This paper presents a first attempt to combine sea-level rise and land uplift into a single cohesive framework to sup-port future land uplift management. The results of this paper establish a conceptual framework for studies of vulnerability and adaptation to climate change that can ben-efit local, regional and global communities.


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Rebecca Bagley serves as vice chancellor for economic partnerships and works with senior leadership at the University of Pittsburgh to develop a strategic plan for the university in economic development. She oversees public and private partnerships that connect and advance the university and have regional and national impact. She also serves as a liaison with government, community leadership, and the business community on matters pertaining to economic development.
Bagley was formerly the president and chief executive officer of NorTech, a technology-focused organization that worked to strengthen Northeast Ohio’s economic vitality by accelerating the pace of innovation in the region. NorTech used its expertise in emerging industries to foster an innovation environment that provided companies of all sizes and higher education and research institutions with new opportunities for collaboration that attracted capital and created jobs.
Prior to joining NorTech, Bagley was deputy secretary for the Technology Investment Office of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). She previously served as director of venture investment for DCED and managed venture and real estate investment programs. Before joining DCED, Bagley worked for several investment banks, most notably JPMorgan Chase, where she advised energy and technology companies on mergers and acquisitions and raising capital in the high-yield bond group and oil and gas group.
Rebecca holds a B.S. from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Stream Earl Sweatshirt’s New Album Some Rap Songs
After three years out of the spotlight, Earl Sweatshirt is following up 2015’s I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside with a new project called Some Rap Songs. The album is out now via Tan Cressida/Columbia and available to stream below.
The California cult rapper made his big commercial return at the beginning of the month. After a brief cameo on Vince Staples’ FM!, he dropped the dense and murky “Nowhere2go” and the Navy Blue-assisted “The Mint” a little over a week later. And on Tuesday, we heard Earl’s feature on the Alchemist’s song “E. Coli” for his new Bread EP, yet another Earl-featured project that’s also out today.
Some Rap Songs’ 15 tracks clock in at just 25 minutes total and include collaborations from Navy Blue and Brooklyn duo Standing On The Corner, as well as Earl’s own parents. His mother, Cheryl Harris, and his father, the late South African poet Keorapetse Kgositsile, appear on deep cut “Playing Possum.” The album is warped by the gravity of his father’s passing and finds Earl reflecting on closure and learning how to figure himself out. Stream it below.
Some Rap Songs is out now via Tan Cressida/Columbia.


The LG Tone Infinim Bluetooth headset has made the journey over to India where it has been officially launched at Rs 10990 which is a rather steep price. However, the peripheral does offer some pretty great features and it comes with high-quality hardware.
The LG Tone Infinim was originally launched back in May and it has been designed in collaboration with Harman/Kardon. Unlike traditional Bluetoothheadsets, this one features a behind-the-neck design and the ear tips can be extended out of the casing for a comfortable fit. What’s more, the company has implemented a retractable wire management technology to prevent the wires from getting tangled up.
The accessory is basically designed for the G3 flagship smartphone, but it’ll work with almost all Bluetooth devices supporting version 3.0 or higher. There are a couple of features which are exclusive to the said handset. They include Name Alert which basically announces the saved name of the caller, and Answer Me+ that disconnects the headset when you lift the G3 phone for direct use when receiving a call.
The company is touting the Tone Infinim as an ideal choice for fitness enthusiasts as it comes with a dedicated jog button for convenient much playback controls. There’s a dedicated answer key as well, with a microphone for making and receiving calls and a volume rocker.
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The LG Tone Infinim will be available in silver only, flaunting a glossy metallic finish.


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One of the most underappreciated reasons that Donald Trump won the 2016 election was voters motivated by a vacancy on the Supreme Court.
One in five voters told CNN in an exit poll that the Supreme Court was one reason they had cast a ballot. Of the voters who said it was the “most important factor” in their decision, 56 percent voted for Trump. According to the Washington Post, 26 percent of all Trump voters polled said that the Supreme Court was the basis of their decision.
Anthony Kennedy’s retirement confirms what Republican voters knew two years ago: Sending a Republican to the White House could make a huge difference in the makeup of the court for a generation.
Now, with Trump’s approval ratings continuing to flag and the tax plan the GOP had plan to run on in the midterms losing popularity, Republicans are glad to have a new talking point for 2018: They’re promised a conservative court. And they’re going to deliver.
Kennedy has made the Supreme Court a campaign slogan — again
Already, Kennedy’s exit has ratcheted up for the 2018 midterms. Republican strategists plan to make it an issue.
Dawson Schefter, the chief of staff for the North Dakota Republican Party, told me: “There is no question that a vacancy on the Supreme Court will drive North Dakota Republicans to the polls in November. ... North Dakotans need a reliable vote for a conservative justice in the US Senate and they know Kevin Cramer to be just that.” Kevin Cramer is running against North Dakota Senator Heidi Heitkamp, one of four Democrats in the Senate representing states Trump won in 2016 by more than 10 points.
Indiana Republican Party Chair Kyle Hupfer released a statement Wednesday that pointed directly to the Supreme Court as a motivation for conservatives to vote Republican in November. He referenced Sen. Joe Donnelly, who beat Republican Richard Murdock in 2012 after Murdock said that when a baby is conceived during rape “that is something that God intended to happen.” Donnelly is considered one of the most vulnerable Democrats in Congress.
Hupfer said in the statement:
“No matter when this vote ultimately takes place, today’s news changes the November equation by putting added pressure on Democrat Joe Donnelly and increasing the importance of electing Mike Braun, a proven conservative ally of President Trump, to the United States Senate....“Who knows what Democrat Donnelly will do if he’s faced with this confirmation vote. But we know, for sure, what Mike Braun will do. He will always stand with President Trump. And that’s why we need him in the Senate.”
This isn’t the first time the GOP has used the Court as a campaign banner. After the death of conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, the Court was such an important issue for conservatives that Trump’s Republican opponents in the primary, like Sen. Ted Cruz, used it as a cudgel against Trump, arguing that he wouldn’t nominate conservative justices.
In February 2016, Cruz said on This Week that Trump “does not care about conservative justices on the court” and added:
“Far too many Republicans don’t care about the court, don’t invest political capital in it. And it’s why so many Republican nominees have turned out to be disasters...Justice Scalia, one of his biggest opinions was the “Heller” decision. It was 5-4, upholding the individual right to keep and bear arms. If an additional liberal justice goes to the court, we’re one justice away from the Second Amendment being written out. And if Donald Trump becomes president, the Second Amendment will be written out of the Constitution because it is abundantly clear that Donald Trump is not a conservative.”
But Trump himself recognized the importance of the Supreme Court in the mental calculus of Republican voters, and he used it to shore up support and win the nomination.
In March 2016, when some Republicans debated throwing their support behind a third-party candidate, Trump responded by saying:
“If they want to embrace this, that’s great. And let me tell you, if they don’t win, they’re going to have probably four, and could even be five, Supreme Court justices approved that will never allow this country to be the same. It’ll take 100 years, but that won’t work. So they better be careful.”
Trump appears poised to tap a conservative
To settle the worries of conservative voters during the campaign, Trump released a list of possible Supreme Court picks in May 2016, a list he said was “representative of the kind of constitutional principles I value.” (The National Review wrote then that it was “cautiously optimistic” about his selections.)
But Trump went further. He mentioned the Supreme Court during his Republican National Convention speech accepting the nomination for president: “We are also going to appoint justices to the United States Supreme Court who will uphold our laws and our Constitution.”
During campaign speeches in the fall of 2016, he made the opportunity to get a conservative justice (or two) on the Supreme Court a touchstone of his argument for his presidency. In Waukesha, Wisconsin, Trump told a crowd of supporters, “Don’t let it slip away. We have one chance. This is it. We don’t have four more years. We don’t have four more years. They’ll start appointing justices of the Supreme Court. Remember that, Supreme Court — we lost a great one, Judge Scalia. We can’t let it slip away.”
Conservatives and independents agreed, and many voted for Trump with the Supreme Court in mind. In an email, Hupfer, the Indiana GOP chair, said that the Supreme Court helped get Indianans behind Trump in 2016. “The Supreme Court played a significant role in Hoosiers selecting Donald Trump,” he said. “We knew that the next president would likely nominate two or more justices, and only one candidate, Donald Trump, would choose solid conservatives to occupy the bench.”
In July 2016, conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt wrote (in an article titled “It’s the Supreme Court, Stupid”) that his decision to vote for Trump was based largely on the potential repercussions of a Hillary Clinton presidency on the Court.
If Hillary Clinton wins, the Left gavels in a solid, lasting, almost certainly permanent majority on the Supreme Court. Every political issue has a theoretical path to SCOTUS, and only self-imposed judicial restraint has checked the Court’s appetite and reach for two centuries. That restraint will be gone when HRC’s first appointee is sworn in. Finished. So vote for Hillary Clinton (or sit it out) and then prepare for the deluge of court-ordered solutions to every social problem, bench-drawn congressional districts and extraordinary deference to every agency of the federal government combined with a sweeping away of federalism.
In October 2016, Manny Klausner, a libertarian and co-founder of the Reason Foundation, said that he was voting for the Libertarian Party candidate, Gary Johnson, but added that for other libertarians, “the likelihood that the next president will nominate several Supreme Court justices in the next four years is reason enough for voters in battleground states to vote for Trump — rather than Johnson — if their state is a cliffhanger on the eve of the election.”
In 2018, it’ll be a version of that same list, the one released during the 2016 campaign, that Trump uses to make his choice this summer — full of conservative heavy hitters with close ties to both right-leaning legal organizations and Republican members of Congress.
The most recent Supreme Court term, with cases focusing on unions, religious freedom, and Trump’s travel ban, showed that conservatives were correct to focus so intensely on the Supreme Court. According to the New York Times, Justice Neil Gorsuch — nominated by Trump — was the deciding vote in 15 of the 18 cases decided by a 5-to-4 vote. In 14 of those, he voted with the Court’s conservative wing.
Abortion was the hot-button issue for Supreme Court voters
Among the Supreme Court issues that pushed voters towards Trump: abortion. In June 2016, Trump met with evangelical Christian leaders in New York, and Trump told the group that his potential Supreme Court nominees “will be great intellects, talented men at what they do — and women — but also be pro-life.” He added, “If Hillary gets in ... we know exactly what’s gonna happen. We’re gonna end up being a different country ... a Venezuela.”
That remark had a powerful impact on pro-life groups. Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an organization opposed to legalized abortion, told NBC News, “When he said several times today ‘pro-life Supreme Court justice’ — that’s the first time I’ve ever heard a candidate use those words together in one sentence.” That was a major shift for Dannenfelser, who had earlier that year joined other anti-abortion activists in furiously rejecting comments Trump made arguing that women who have abortions should be “punished.”

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Another Great Depression?The predictions are everywhere: the current economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression or “we’re entering another Great Depression,” some of the pundits on financial channels are saying.
The predictions are everywhere: the current economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression or “we’re entering another Great Depression,” some of the pundits on financial channels are saying.
A panel of senior citizens at Fair Oaks Lodge in Wadena don’t know whether or not we’re really in an economic downturn that rivals the mother of all recessions, but they have a few lessons to share after living through the real thing.
In a word, save. More on that later.
Tubandt remembered the onset of the Great Depression. His father was a wheat farmer in South Dakota who hadn’t had a crop from his fields in seven years due to a drought there.
“There was no rain,” he said. “Grashoppers too.”
They lost the farm in 1929 when the Depression hit. They moved with another family onto another farm and worked together on that one. Eventually, Tubandt said, his father was able to buy back the second farm and rebuild.
Norbert Ament remembers trouble on the farm, too.
“We got along as best we could,” he recalled. “We pretty near lost the farm.”
He recalled selling 200-pound hogs for $2 apiece during that time.
They were hard times, the group at Fair Oaks agreed, but they didn’t know what to call it, nor did they consider the time they were living through to be anything extraordinary — just hard times.
“We didn’t think of it as a Depression,” Opal Forsell recalled.
She said social gatherings were simple, but fun, and the community revolved around the school.
Esther Weappa said a real luxury in those days was going to school. Doris Eastman said she had to walk three miles to go to high school, but did it happily.
While the unemployment rate was sky high — north of 20 percent — most of the Fair Oaks folks said it was an advantage to live in a rural area like Wadena.
“There were no jobs in the city,” Ament said. “Around here, there were jobs on farms. I think we had it better than the city people had it.”
Tubant said being able to hunt and fish for food on his farm was a big advantage during those tough times.
Mildred Fyten said there was a spirit of cooperation back then.
“The farmers especially — they all helped each other,” Fyten said.
The Fair Oaks residents recalled as many happy times as hard times during the Depression. But they also remember scrimping and saving, and pitching in wherever they could.
For instance, Weappa recalled as a little girl getting the job of cleaning the chimneys and kerosene lamps, and she remembered skimping on clothing.
“We wore what we had,” she said. “My dad would come home with flour sacks, and we couldn’t wait to get a pattern [to make them into clothes.]”
But people then were also proud, Ruby Tubandt recalled.
“We roasted a lot of barley for coffee,” Ament recalled, making a sour face. “I wouldn’t drink it again. I can still imagine the taste of it.”
Ament also recalled “syrup sandwiches,” which are exactly what they sound like: syrup on bread as his lunch at school every day.
“Kids never went to school with holes in their knees,” she said. “Now they buy them that way.”
The group agreed that young people can’t even conceive of living like they did during the Depression.
“The young people now, they don’t believe any of this stuff,” Ament said.
He said he’s afraid the predictions of another depression may be coming true, and he’s seeing the warning signs with the rash of recent bank closures.
“It’s starting out just like the last one did,” he warned.
Asked if they believed that today’s generation had what it took to make it through a downturn like the Great Depression, most sat with arms crossed, giving a skeptical look. No one said no, but no one said yes.
But they did have a message for today’s generation.
“Hang on to some of your money,” Weappa said. “Gosh, if they’ve got a nickel, they go spend it.”
Glen Wheeler sheepishly admitted he spent everything in his pocket whenever he had money during the Depression, but did say he mostly bought shells for his gun, which he used to hunt for food.
Ament also warned that young people should always be saving when times are good.
“Start saving a little,” he said. “Things aren’t going to stay the way they are now.”
Eastman agreed: “Don’t spend all you got. Don’t spend your last dollar.”
And, capturing the get-through-it spirit so apparent in people who lived through the Great Depression, Helene Wallace, who is closing in on 100 years old, said: “Just keep going. Make the best of it.”


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I have mentioned before that I am not so great at tracking things (I’m looking at you MyFitnessPal app) Last year I did however keep track of layouts that I made by month. As with the fiber portion of my life, I didn’t think that I really got that much accomplished. My plan to document in photos and words monthly pretty much did not happen (even though I had everything I needed all ready in an album … AND that is not to say that I won’t get around to that project this year). When I looked at my list at the end of the year boy was I shocked…
Yep… 328 pages… I had pretty much forgotten that I had made collage layouts for the girls school albums which were 100 layouts alone! Yeah, not sure I can keep up with that this year but maybe just doing my thing and not worrying about page counts is the key to success!
In addition to layouts, I made these super cute houses/village buildings on my silhouette die cutting machine out of plain yardstick. The girls did help me fold some of them and they were really easy to do! Now that the Christmas decorations are put away, I need to put the little houses back up!
And that is a wrap! I’m going to try and insert a “gallery” here with a selection of layouts from 2019!
Thank you for stopping by ! Let me know what your crafty plans are!! I have decided to plan by the quarter so as not to get too overwhelmed planning things out for the whole year!
For the past several years, I’ve been working on “The Triggs Family Archives”. Really what this looks like is a giant pile of boxes and slide trays behind the living room couch. We have a mix of printed photos, lots and lots of slides and a box of super 8 movie reels which honestly makes me queasy just thinking about it. I have been picking away at scanning for the last year or two and it is a slow process.
As I’ve been scanning, I’ve been thinking carefully about the end product of all this work and Ive been formulating a plan that looks something like this:
Slides scanned at 600 dpi, and imported into their own “family history” catalog in Lightroom for further sorting, tagging etc…
Certain groups of slides will be made into photo books for gifts (ie. my Dad’s Marine Corps slides were made into a book and given to him for his birthday)
Other various Family slides will be part of digital scrapbook pages, some simple, some more elaborate. I have already printed a number of these pages out and put them in page protectors in my giant mishmash of scrapbook layout albums. I had considered photo books for these photos but the random nature of these photos means I don’t know if I’ll ever feel “done” enough to print out a complete book… so printed layouts for now.
Physical photos that we have come across are slipped into 3-up photo albums and as much information as we know written on the space next the photo sleeve. Multiple photos of the same event are tucked into the same pocket, this way they are safe and secure while I figure out what to do with them.
Did I mention this is only one half of my family??? There are “The Kilmer Family Archives” that I need to work on as well…different set of parameters for that group of items!
A few years ago, I scanned a page of family photos all taken at the same time / day in 1961 at my Grandparents house in Rochester NY. I made a layout a few years ago with one of the photos and my friend Janet’s “Rooted in the Past” kit from her company, Little Feet Digital Designs. Last month she re-issued the kit and it’s HUGE !!! Honestly I could scrap for months. This iteration also contains Templates from Dagi’s Templates and the whole bundle of wonderfulness is wrapped up under their joint brand: Partners in Crime Digital Designs. I went on a little bit of a digi page making tear this weekend and managed to finish up working with all of the photos from that series! whew! So without further ado…. a completed set of layouts!!
Not bad for a few days work! I’m excited to make more layouts with this kit and get more of our family stories told!
In an effort to ATTEMPT to spend my time creating more and consuming less (GoT excepted)… tonight I sat down and instead of scrolling FB endlessly…I made a scrapbook layout (!) gasp. I know, I know. We have actually been super busy in a good way this summer so lots going on but not a lot of sharing. In an effort to remedy that, may I present…
yep, Christmas baking layouts in August! I had bought the cutest baking kit from Pink Reptile Designs and a template kit from Scrapping with Liz at The Lilypad (one of my fave digi-scrapping shops) and tonight was the night to use it.
Last night I spent my evening catching up with my 2016 photos in Lightroom, and I’m thrilled to say that I believe that 2016 is all done, edited, rated and tagged. That is why I could find these photos about baking…from my “baking” keyword. I have a lot of memory keeping to work on. I have realized that I’ve been catching myself thinking 2 more first-days-of-school until the girls go to college, 2 more back-to-school shoppings until the girls go to college … you get the idea. One layout to make a dent in the memory keeping list!
Once school starts and we are on a more normal schedule, maybe more posting (?!) best of intentions…. enjoy!
I got a wonderful package to open BEFORE Christmas… yep, Christmas came early…
57 layouts that I had printed through Persnickety Prints. I love their quality and their customer service. A few times a year, they sell print credits for different sizes so I can print a 12×12 layout for half price. The credits are perfect because they never expire, they just sit in your account until you are ready to order so…In keeping with my “print it out” mantra, I went into my files and discovered that there were layouts from 2015 that were waiting to be printed (!) no time like the present so I uploaded everything and off they went to the printers. A week or so later, back came a lovely stack of layouts…and of course there they sat in my studio for two weeks until I finally got a moment to open them…
Yay for printed out layouts! I’m so happy with how they all came out. Now, the next thing? Getting them all in an album….The thing after that? Re-organizing my albums by year…because they are all completely random…half a dozen+albums crammed full of randomly filed layouts. Put it on the to-do list for 2017!
On to more post-Christmas fun!! Happy Wednesday everyone!
In honor of breast cancer awareness month, my dear friend Janet at Little Feet Digital Designs has created a free kit and she is giving it away to all digi-scrappers ! Here’s Janet talking about her kit…
In recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month I have created a FREE kit – Strength Is Pink – to honor, celebrate, support and remember the amazing women in our lives that have fought or are fighting this battle. I’m so excited to have teamed up with Laurie Callison on this project… she has created a gorgeous template to go with my kit. This FREE kit is available exclusively on my Facebook Fan Club Page.
I hope this kit will serve as a reminder to do regular self-exams and get professionally screened. Supporting the fighter, admiring the survivor, honoring the taken and never giving up hope for a cure.
So Digi-Scrappers, pop on over to the LFDD Facebook Fan Page and download this kit for yourself. Hybrid scrappers can print out the cards for pocket style layouts. I’ll be sharing a page I made with this kit over the weekend. Thanks for your support and happy friday!!

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Today it is reported by an American General that the Russians are violating the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (Moratorium) by testing to develop new nuclear weapons. Well that’s not good but ….
1. REMEMBER the US is NOT a signatory to this treaty but claims to be operating according to its terms.
2. The US Administration has budgetary commitments to developing new nuclear weapons (Livermore Labs alone as nearly $1.842 Billion) called “Nuclear Weapons Activities”.
3. The Lawrence Livermore Lab has capabilities to develop and test new nuclear components using subcritical tests that violate the Test Ban Treaty in spirit if not in actual literal fact.
How about there is a portion of the US National Defense “community” that is pushing a new Arms Race and trying to justify it by labelling the Russians as the bad guys who are breaking with the Test Ban Treaty. However, a) the USA never ratified that Treaty and b) the USA has been in violation of that treaty while maintaining the fiction that we were voluntarily abiding by it. All the while we were committing at least a Trillion to new nukes development over 30 years supposedly to create smaller useable nukes. Then, when the Russians respond by upgrading their nukes we justify our actions by saying, “See they are doing it and we have to restart actual critical tests again.” All in the name of “National Security” of course.


Eliza Romero - Blogger, Writer, Podcast Host, Aesthetic Distance
Eliza Romero began blogging in 2014 and has since created a multi faceted career. Her blog produces fashion editorials along side her opinions on pop culture, race related issues and activism. She’s co-hosted podcasts, hosted the Charm City Night Market and Katipunan’s Filipino Fiesta, moderated panels, and is the Public Relations Officer of Katipunan of Maryland. Eliza is about community involvement, creating her own content, and has launched her own podcast this month!
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I am a blogger, pop culture writer, podcast host, and the founder of Aesthetic Distance. I am also the Public Relations Officer for the Katipunan of Maryland, which is the oldest Filipino cultural association in the state. My parents were highly involved in it and I grew up with it. Now that I have kids of my own, I love being able to share our work and philosophy with them. I manage all of their social media accounts and am one of the co-founders of the Filipino Cultural School for children. I also re-established the Katipunan book club.
How did you begin blogging and create your career?
I started blogging back in 2014 on Tumblr, before I knew how to create my own website. I can't even remember what my first blog post was. It was probably some generic, get-to-know-me type of post. Not my best work but everyone has to start somewhere! In 2015, I finally got my own website and domain name and established a regular publishing schedule and in early 2017 my blog really took off. Around that time, I started podcasting too and fell in love with the medium.
Was incorporating pop culture, race, Asian American identity, activism in your blog important and something you always wanted to do? And how was it received?
It's something I was always interested in and when I couldn't find anyone who was making the kind of content I wanted to see, I just made my own. At first, people were really surprised because some of the stuff I wrote and talked about was pretty controversial. People weren't used to seeing that on a fashion blog. But it got people talking, which was always a goal of mine.
What is the biggest challenge in the work you do?
There is never enough time for everything! Every week I record and edit a new podcast, I write a new blog post and I have to create photo and video content for my Instagram. And then there are all my responsibilities for the Katipunan!
How important is representation and diversity in your work?
It's a top priority for me.
How did you get involved in Charm City Night Market, book festivals, and Katipunan of Maryland?
I got involved with the Charm City Night Market when Stephanie Hsu, the founder of the Chinatown Collective, reached out to me and invited me to host their first event, a night market festival in downtown Baltimore. We got along really well and enjoyed working with each other and I was asked to host their second event at Center Stage Baltimore too.
CityLit Project saw me on Buzzfeed News' live morning show, AM2DM, when I talked about the importance of Asian authors and Crazy Rich Asians. They asked me to curate and moderate the first all-Asian panel at the Baltimore Book Festival this year, which I ended up doing. The topic I chose was "Where are all the Asian beach reads?" and it was one of the most attended panels at the festival. I'm going to be curating and moderating another panel at the CityLit Festival in April 2019. This time we're going to discuss redefining the classics and required reading for Asian Americans and who belongs in the Asian American literary canon.
I grew up in the Katipunan. My mom was a former president and my family's social circle was heavily involved in the organization. After my blog started getting more and more attention, the board of directors invited me to run for Public Relations Officer, which I did. I'm in my second term now and love it. We've rebranded the organization in the past few years because the new generation of members uses it differently than the old one, which was primarily made up of first generation immigrants. It's much more of a cultural organization than a social one now and we focus more on connecting people to the language, language and history of our homeland.
What is your favorite content to create? Some of your favorite projects?
Nothing makes me prouder than publishing an article or a really great podcast! I've been doing more video lately too and I love all the collaboration that goes into it. Over the summer, I had a small role in this Crazy Rich Asians parody video that my friends, Krewksi, filmed.
What are some goals you want to accomplish through your work?
I want to help establish a strong community for Filipino Americans and other Asian Americans. We've spent a lot of time trying to assimilate into mainstream white society and not enough time trying to build our own youth culture and unique identity as Americans. I hope to help change that for the next generation.
Please describe your biggest driving force?
Filipino pride has always been my biggest driving force.
Do you have any projects, events coming up that you are excited about?
My very own podcast launches on December 1st! After co-hosting two other podcast shows in the past two years, I'm finally putting on my own weekly show where I can talk about whatever I want. I've been planning for this launch for about six months now and everyone behind the scenes has put in so much work. I'm not focusing solely on Asian American and Fil-Am issues; but we'll be talking about those issues ostensibly through pop culture, current events, entertainment, politics, you name it. And all through an Asian American lens. You can listen to the trailer here.
Photos courtesy of Eliza Romero


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Me: I had this really weird dream last night…
Me: Yeah, I dreamed that I was hungry and I was looking for something to eat. I didn't want Jack in the Box or McNasties I wanted Whole Foods but I couldn't find one so I was like- fuck it and went home.
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By SIMEON AKOJE
LAGOS- The Chief Executive Officer, Center for the Promotion of Private Enterprise, Dr Muda Yusuf, has urged the CBN to unify the multiple foreign exchange windows to enhance its liquidity and curb inflation.
Yusuf said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on Thursday.
Yusuf said the apex bank should have a convergence in the foreign exchange market.
“Having a convergence in the foreign exchange market is imperative to attract foreign capital and enhance adequate liquidity.
“Then the domestic currency will be more stable and the foreign exchange demand triggering inflation will begin to dip,” he said.
He noted that the CBN could check inflation rate by reducing its ways and means of interventions in the economy.
“We cannot expect to fight rising inflation and the other hand expend trillions of Naira in ways and means.
“The authorities must stop funding fiscal deficit of the federal government through ways and means, if we are serious in checking the inflation rate,” he said.
Also, the former Executive Secretary, Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Mr Okechukwu Unegbu, said the tiers of government should ensure to tackle food induced inflation by adopting modern agric practice.
“Enhancing farmers with improved seedlings, machineries and ensuring that there is relative peace in their domaine.
“ Particularly in the middlebelt of the country which is a food hub, so as not to disrupt food supplies,” he said.
Unegbu noted that the states should adopt recent innovations in preserving agric yield, so as to reduce post harvest losses.
He also said that the Federal Government must support the growth of domestic manufacturers by addressing some of their structural challenges.
“Associated challenges in the sector such as diesel could be subsidised to enable them operate at optimal levels.
“Then, the sector will begin to produce substituted imported goods, thereby boosting domestic capacity,” he said.
NAN reports that Nigeria’s inflation rate in the month of July rose to a 17-year high of 19.64 per cent.
This compares to 18.6 per cent recorded in the previous month of June.
The latest inflation data is according to the recently released Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for the month of July, by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The last time Nigeria’s inflation was above 19.64 per cent was in September 2005. (NAN)


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MPs are to vacate the Houses of Parliament for at least six years to allow essential repairs to be carried out, it has been reported.
The Palace of Westminster, a Unesco world heritage site, is in need of extensive renovation because of its crumbling stonework, leaking roofs, and inadequate fire safety measures. The Victorian building also has problems with asbestos.
Under the plans expected to be announced on Thursday, peers and MPs will have to relocate between 2022 and 2028.
The Prime Minister is set to endorse the recommendation by MPs on a restoration committee to relocate. It would be the first time MPs have moved out since bombing in the Second World War.
The report is said to recommend the building currently used by the Department of Health on nearby Whitehall as the new home of the House of Commons.
Meanwhile the Lords would take up residence at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre or a location at Victoria Gardens, close to Westminster.
Where peers could relocate to during Houses of Parliament renovations
A report last year estimated that should MPs stay in the building while restoration took place, the cost could be as much as £7.1bn.
Forcing MPs and peers to move into temporary accommodation for six years would halve the cost, the report said. However, the overall expense could rise to closer to £4bn.
The report is expected to say that there is a "clear and pressing need" to carry out repair work to the Palace of Westminster to prevent a "catastrophic failure in the next decade".
The plans will still be subject to a parliamentary vote.
In recent years, part of the ceiling of the Lords Chamber collapsed onto the benches below, while a pipe once burst, flooding the Committee Room corridor.
It is believed that the renovations will be completed as much as possible using materials sourced from within the UK. Among the refurbishments will be works to the heating, electrical and water systems.
Crucial to the improvements will be improving the fire safety systems. The director of Parliament's renewal and restoration programme, Dr Richard Ware, told the Sunday Telegraph last year: "We don't have the kind of fire containment - 'compartmentalisation' - that is normally recommended for historic buildings.
"What that means is that if a fire ever took hold, we would get everybody out but we couldn't necessarily be sure of saving the building."


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To Mary Stevenson
AL: American Philosophical Society
[June 15, 1765]5
Mr. Franklin did not know of the Message this Morning till the Servant was gone; he has since been ready to beat Mrs. Stevenson for declining any Occasion (especially so joyful an one) of meeting the good Family of Kensington.6 Having made up the Quarrel, they now jointly beg to be favour’d with the Company of that Family this Day in
Cravenstreet, June 15.
5. The year is determined by Polly’s response, immediately following.
6. The “Message” was probably to the effect that Polly and her two aunts, Mrs. Tickell and Mrs. Rooke, with whom she was living at Kensington, proposed to visit Craven Street that day. Mrs. Stevenson had apparently replied that the visit would be inconvenient.


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As the central mode of transportation in this science fiction fairy tale, Oregon Children's Theatre's "A Wrinkle in Time," directed by Marcella Crowson with apprentice Fergus Firth, chronicles the adventures of the daughter of a family of science nerds. There's the scientist mother (Anna Gettles) and father (Greg Barrett) plus the daughter Meg (Madeleine Rogers) and her brother Charles Wallace (Jack Clevenger) who are too bright to fit in at school.
The story begins with Meg sitting alone on her bed during a terrible storm, wishing her father were there to make her fears go away. We find out that he has been missing for two years, and that at the time he vanished he had been in the middle of a top-secret physics project.
Out from the storm and into the family's kitchen comes Mrs. Whatsit (J.G. Smith), an eccentric woman in bright plaid wellingtons, a colorful skirt and a fuzzy aviator's cap. As she heads back into the rainy night, she hints that she knows something about the father's disappearance.
The next day, the first of Meg's journeys occurs as she takes Charles Wallace down the lane that leads to the haunted house (which sports an appropriately ominous, gloomy look thanks to scenic designer Tal Sanders). The house has recently become occupied by Mrs. Whatsit and her cohort, Mrs. Who and Mrs. Which. Along the way, they meet Meg's schoolmate Calvin (Connor Delaplane), who is happy to join the group. From the three good witches they learn the fate of Meg's father and what they must do to save him.
The subsequent journey to other planets gives the creative team on this production a chance to strut their stuff. Mark LaPierre with apprentice Hanna Mock pull off sparkling special effects with stars, and Ashton Edmonds (costume design) offers a memorably creepy red-eyed alien.
When the book on which this story is based, " A Wrinkle in Time" by Madeleine L'Engle, was published in 1962, it was notable because its hero was a strong young woman. Though not as unusual today, it is still satisfying to follow a spunky female character as she displays courage and resourcefulness and, finally, triumphs. Recommended for ages eight and up.


Margaret Scott's son Dougie organised the helicopter flight.
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Cold winds bring a taste of winter.
Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service is reminding people to clear clutter that may be blocking escape routes in the event of a fire.
Researchers are tracing the relatives of the widows and mothers of soldiers killed in World War One, who wrote letters to 'agony aunt'.


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(Lihue, Kaua‘i) – A rapid assessment team comprised of experts from Island Conservation (IC), the DLNR Division of Forestry and Wildlife’s (DOFAW) non-native avian predator control team, and the Kaua‘i Endangered Seabird Recovery Project (KESRP) flew to Lehua island Tuesday, after checks of motion-detecting field cameras showed the presence of two rats on the island.
HONOLULU -- The DLNR Division of State Parks announces an additional Diamond Head summit trail repair project to improve a section of the lower hiking trail along the Diamond Head State Monument summit trail. Anyone planning to hike the summit trail between Wednesday January 3 – through Friday, January 19, 2018, needs to be aware that the summit trail will be closed all day Mondays through Fridays.
(Ka’iwi State Scenic Shoreline, O‘ahu) – Under a nearly full moon, with the temperature right around 70 degrees, clear skies, and the promise of a spectacular sunrise on the first day of 2018, hundreds of people made the relatively short walk to the Makapu‘u Overlook at the Ka‘iwi State Scenic Shoreline in East O‘ahu. This was the seventh First Day Hike put on by the DLNR Division of State Parks and is considered one of the largest and certainly most unique hikes that occur on New Year’s Day in state parks all across the country.
(KANEOHE) – The carcass of a three and a half ton Humpback whale that stranded on a reef just off of Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i (MCBH), was successfully removed today. It’s believe the carcass may be the same one spotted off Haleiwa earlier in the week. In Kaneohe Bay the carcass split into two major pieces, with the whale’s skull sticking out of the water a short distance from the main carcass.
(HONOLULU) – The carcass of a badly decomposed Humpback whale washed onto a near-shore reef at Marine Corps Base Hawai‘i (MCBH) late yesterday. There’s a good possibility this is the same carcass that was first seen off the beach at Haleiwa earlier this week – it was towed eight miles offshore by a private dive company but ocean currents may have brought it back to shore at Kaneohe.
(HONOLULU) – Anyone who knows anything about Laysan Albatross knows they are among the most dedicated parents in the animal kingdom. During nesting season, as one parent sits atop an egg, the other one searches for food for their soon-to-hatch chick. This is no easy task. Albatross prefer cold-water fish and amazingly as one parent stays home, the other flies from Hawai‘i to Alaska and back over the course of about ten days, returning with bellies full of food.
(Haleiwa, O‘ahu) - The badly decomposed carcass of a Humpback whale that nearly washed on shore at Haleiwa on Christmas Day, is in the process of being towed out to deep ocean waters this afternoon. A private dive company, One Ocean Diving, first towed the carcass away from Haleiwa on Sunday and today volunteered to go ahead and tow it further offshore. Yesterday the remains were towed three miles offshore by one of the company’s boats and this afternoon, based on drift pattern modeling provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, it was towed an additional ten miles offshore, due north of Haleiwa.
HONOLULU -- A project to revitalize one of only six remaining fishponds on O‘ahu took a significant step forward in the fall with the demolition and removal of two abandoned/condemned residential structures that shared the beach front property along busy Kalaniana‘ole Highway in Niu Valley in east Honolulu. Work at the site of the historic Kalauha‘iha‘i Hawaiian fishpond (also known as Lucas pond) was completed two months earlier than planned. Work to clear the property and restore a more natural state was completed in September.
(HONOLULU) – A report released today by the United States Dept. of Agriculture’s National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC) in Fort Collins, CO shows no detectable levels of the rodenticide Diphacinone in the livers of five pilot whales that died on Kaua‘i on Oct. 13, 2017 (two washed onto Kalapaki Beach and three were found floating in Nawailili Harbor).
(HONOLULU) - Make a New Year’s resolution to your health and happiness by kicking off 2018 with an invigorating First Day Hike at Kaiwi State Scenic Shoreline. On January 1, all 50 states will participate in the seventh annual national event that encourages everyone to celebrate the New Year with a guided outdoor exploration. Of special note this year, the Ontario Provincial Parks have joined the movement in providing First Day Hikes uniting with America’s State Parks, and a number of staff from the National Park Service and local parks departments are also participating.


Getting Out Alive News, Sport and Politics at the BBC
By Roger Mosey
Delinquent presenters, controversial executive pay-offs, the Jimmy Savile scandal… The BBC is one of the most successful broadcasters in the world, but its programme triumphs are often accompanied by management crises and high-profile resignations.
One of the most respected figures in the broadcasting industry, Roger Mosey has taken senior roles at the BBC for more than twenty years, including as editor of Radio 4’s Today programme, head of television news and director of the London 2012 Olympic coverage.
Now, in Getting Out Alive, Mosey reveals the hidden underbelly of the BBC, lifting the lid on the angry tirades from politicians and spin doctors, the swirling accusations of bias from left and right alike, and the perils of provoking Margaret Thatcher.
Along the way, this remarkable memoir charts the pleasures and pitfalls of life at the top of an organisation that is variously held up as a treasured British institution and cast down as a lumbering, out-of-control behemoth.
Engaging, candid and very funny, Getting Out Alive is a true insider account of how the BBC works, why it succeeds and where it falls down.
'Perceptive, revealing and honest, Getting Out Alive reveals what makes the BBC tick. It’s funny, too. A delight.'John Humphrys
'A hugely enjoyable book. Roger Mosey was a good and unflinching companion on the road to London 2012 and witnessed the Games from a unique perspective. He is a believer in the power of sport to inspire and the importance of critical friends in enduring partnerships.'Sebastian Coe
‘[...] cast[s] a clear, often critical eye on the BBC. His memoir is engaging and intelligent, peppered with some enjoyable stories.’Stephen Robinson, Sunday Times
'…a hugely entertaining insider’s account of life at Auntie [...] [a] candid and clear-eyed book by one of the best and the brightest of the Beeb’s recent bosses. The BBC needs more Roger Moseys.’Robin Lustig, New Statesman
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