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Before the Hawaii County Council meeting on Monday to review Hawaii County’s performance on Primary Election Day, Council member Pete Hoffman said it was important to remember that the purpose of the meeting would be to restore voter confidence. Only the voters can say for sure if it did. Hoffman said the confidence is likely not back yet, as Monday’s meeting did not result in a plan to move forward and fix problems before the next election.
There was only one agenda item, which was getting a report from County Clerk Jamae Kawauchi about the Elections Office performance before and on Primary Day. Kawauchi released the report at 6:32 a.m. and then read it to the Council at the start of the 10 a.m. meeting.
The Hawaii County Elections Office had been the center of controversy for weeks, with the question being, was the office ready to efficiently and effectively handle the Primary Election. Kawauchi repeatedly said everything was fine. As it turned out, there were some failures, with three polling locations opening around 90 minutes late, and up to 10 others opening somewhat late. Kawauchi acknowledged the failures, and said she was outraged. She laid the blame squarely at the feet of the State Elections Office, inexperienced employees, a Deputy County Clerk who did not pay attention to detail, late deliveries of supplies, and telephone and equipment failures.
In an interesting move, timing-wise, Kawauchi called a press conference while the meeting was going on, asking the media to leave the public testimony portion of the Council meeting—for which she was serving as County Clerk—and meet her in a separate room. One of the questions raised by the media was Kawauchi’s accusation that the State Elections personnel took the County’s election records without her knowledge nor permission. But State Elections Chief Scott Nago said he took those records on Tuesday, August 14, after meeting with Kawuchi and all the County Clerks in Hilo—and did so with Kawauchi’s knowledge and permission. She said in the press conference she did not recall that.
Several people testified at the meeting, ranging from the head of Hawaii Island’s League of Voters who lamented the loss of voter confidence and pleaded with the County Council to take steps to have a good General Election to precinct officials who were dismayed at the problems to a Kona Tea Party member who accused the State Elections Chief of bullying Kawauchi. Each of the County Council members also questioned Kawauchi. And Deputy County Clerk Steve Lopez, who stressed he was testifying as a private citizen as Kawauchi had forbidden him from talking with the media, disputed Kawauchi’s allegations about his performance and acknowledged he had no background in elections and had received little training for the job, and acted completely at the direction of the County Clerk.
The final testifier was longtime Elections Administrator Ed Kozahara, who had retired in 2000. He said there is no problem with the elections process and protocol, as evidenced by the other counties, which had elections that ran smoothly. He said it’s clear that Kawauchi is inexperienced, but also clear that she had no experienced elections personnel to do the day-to-day work. He advised the County Council to not involve themselves in the County Elections Office matters, as they did not have the knowledge to delve into the day-to-day operations. And he advised Kawauchi to get help, and fast.
The end result? Kawauchi called for an “investigation”, with an investigator to be determined at a later time, but Council members said they’d like less of a backwards look and more of a forwards look. Council member Brenda Ford praised Kawauchi for her efforts in sending out absentee ballot applications to all registered voters, now that the State has implemented Permanent Absentee Ballot status. Council member Dennis “Fresh” Onishi said any decision on the future rests in the hands of Council Chair Dominic Yagong, as it is Yagong who appoints the County Clerk.
Yagong said he’d like to hold a joint meeting to work out the issues with the State Attorney General, the Lieutenant Governor, the County Clerk, and the State Elections Office as a way to determine how best to go forward. Yagong said Monday night he spoke with Lt. Governor Brian Schatz after the County Council meeting and that the Lt. Governor will work through the Governor’s office to determine how best to proceed to assist Yagong in getting the parties together to work out the issues and ensure a smooth-running election in November.
After 4 ½ hours, the County Council voted to accept Kawauchi’s report. Any further action, if any, must be taken up at a future County Council meeting.
Read Kawauchi’s report below:
TO: Dominic Yagong, Chairperson
And Council Members of the Hawai‘i County Council
FROM: Jamae K. K. Kawauchi, Hawai‘i County Clerk
DATE: June 4, 2012; correction: 8/20/12
SUBJECT: Primary Election Day Report
In the weeks leading up to the Primary Election, as your County Clerk and Chief Election Officer of the County of Hawai‘i, I stated publicly that the public is the priority and that I would do everything that I could to ensure a fair and well-run election. I also stated publicly that every vote counts. This message to Hawaii County voters and taxpayers was deeply heartfelt and sincere. Through my interactions with voters and taxpayers in the weeks preceding the election, I began to see a positive difference in the public and their perception of government and their election experience. The deep sense of commitment to community that Hawai‘i island voters have communicated to me and the elections division staff encouraged all of us to work hard and to do as good of job as we could in running the elections.
On August 11, 2012, Hawai‘i County, with the State Office of Elections, conducted elections and election day operations including the processing of absentee ballots, the security and delivery and collection of ballots, and the dissemination of election results in accordance with the law. Although I did my best to ensure that Hawai‘i County would have a fair and well-run election, as has been reported by news media, the day did not go as planned. Numerous Election Day irregularities occurred including late delivery of election materials to precincts and failed communications and equipment problems. These problems caused the very late opening of polling places most significantly in West Hawai‘i, and resulted in the Governor’s August 11, 2012 Election Proclamation calling for polling places to stay open until 7:30 p.m.
I am deeply concerned about the Election Day irregularities on Hawai‘i island during the Primary Election. The late opening of polling places on Hawai‘i island is completely unacceptable. As the chief elections officer for the County of Hawai‘i no one can be more concerned than I am about the problems that occurred on Election Day. I began investigating the election irregularities mid-day on August 12, 2012, the day after the election and I am continuing to investigate the Election Day irregularities. I have been harshly criticized by the State of Hawai‘i Chief Elections Officer for not releasing information earlier but my review has been hampered by the removal of election records from the County of Hawai‘i by the State of Hawai‘i Office of Elections without my permission and consent and without prior notice. To date, the State of Hawai‘i Office of Elections has not provided me with a copy of the election records that they removed. This action on behalf of the State of Hawai‘i Office of Elections is deeply disturbing and does little to provide me with confidence that the State Office of Elections can work in partnership with the County of Hawai‘i.
My concerns regarding the State Office of elections and election day activities date back to September 2011 when I expressed my strong concerns to the State of Hawai‘i Elections Commission about the performance of the State of Hawai‘i Office of Elections in the following categories:
1. Planning, organization, scheduling, assigning and directing the work of elections personnel.
2. Communication with staff.
3. Acceptance of suggestions for improvement.
4. Listening to input from staff, volunteers, and community.
5. Conduct of the elections and Election Day operations including the processing of absentee ballots, the security and delivery and collection of ballots, and the dissemination of election results in accordance with the law.
6. Working with county clerks and other interested persons to formulate proposed election related legislation each session.
It is my sense that although the State of Hawai‘i Office of Elections has taken no responsibility for the serious mishaps that occurred on Primary Election day, the problems with election related irregularities on election day do in fact relate back to the significant issues that I identified about the State of Hawai‘i Office of Elections that I transmitted to the State Office of Elections in September 2011. This is why I have written a letter to the Honorable Governor Neil S. Abercrombie, requesting an independent review of the performance of the State of Hawai‘i Office of Elections and also to ask that he please consider the Lt. Governor of the State of Hawai‘i oversee the administration of the State of Hawai‘i Office of Elections for the upcoming general election in November 2012.
Without the election record books, it has been difficult for me to determine the exact opening time of polling places on Hawai‘i island. At mid-day on August 12, 2012, the first action that I took to look into the election day irregularities was to perform a review of the precinct cans, supply boxes and other election related materials that were returned to the Hawai‘i County building following the election. I noticed that the record books were missing. The record books are used to record the events of the day at each precinct, including the opening time of the precinct. As the record books were missing, I was unable to verify the opening times of each precinct by book.
Note that when the polls open, the chairperson and voter assistance official are to call control center as soon as the polling place opens. As noted above, Hawai‘i county communications failed the morning of August 11, 2012. It was planned that the precincts were to use landlines and mobile telephones to contact control center. At least one week prior to Election Day I was informed and I observed Hawai‘i County election staff program the mobile telephones and I saw that they were being packed for delivery to precincts. I was informed that the landlines were to be tested at each location and each location with landline capability was to receive a landline at least one week prior to Election Day. I spoke to the staff person who was in charge of this matter at least one week prior to Election Day to make sure that this matter was addressed prior to Election Day. Despite the phones being programmed and packed, the preparation and planning for our communications had failed that morning. The landlines did not work properly at most precincts and the mobile phones were not properly programmed. Although I quickly provided each control center operator with back up personal telephone numbers to use to establish communication with each precinct, communication was not established quickly enough to be able to accurately record the time of opening with control center and we were unable to obtain the exact time of the opening of the polling places on Hawai‘i island. I was able to determine by telephone contact by election division staff with precinct officials that at least four (4) precincts were severely impacted by delayed delivery of materials, with openings in some locations occurring after 8:30 a.m.
I understood that morning that an election related disaster had occurred related to unforeseen technical and operational problems, including equipment malfunction and the untimely delivery of supplies to polling places, and that given the situation, “doing what was right ” on Election Day meant that polling places would stay open past 6:00 p.m. The Honorable Neil S. Abercrombie, pursuant to State of Hawai‘i emergency powers, and in order to safeguard the integrity of the electoral process and the rights of the electorate to participate in the 2012 primary election, issued his Election Proclamation on August 11, 2012 thereby ordering Hawai‘i County polling places to stay open until 7:30 p.m.
The severely late opening of polling places presented an Election Day crisis that this State had never previously experienced. Certainly, no leader in a time of crisis looks forward to addressing problems and concerns of this magnitude. The affect that the late opening of polling places had on any single Hawai‘i island voter was of tremendous concern to me. As stated above, as the chief election officer of the County of Hawai‘i, no one can be more concerned than I am about the problems that occurred on Election Day. The concern of parents for their children voting for the first time, or elderly voters who had specific timeframes within which to vote, or anyone who believes in democracy and the importance of participation in government, will understand the feeling of regret, sorrow and sadness that I felt that morning and continue to feel to this day. It has been of the utmost importance to me to look in to the cause of the delayed openings of precincts on Election Day. I have tried to work as quickly as possible to complete my research, but as stated above, election related materials have been removed from my offices and that has made it difficult for me to determine the cause of the delayed openings. This has forced me to take on a much longer and harder process to look into the cause of the delayed openings via document review, telephone calls and meetings with precinct officials.
Without the voting records, this week, the elections division staff and I have contacted precinct chairpersons and voter assistance officials to determine the exact opening time of each precinct. Our telephone calls and individual meetings identified five (5) locations on island that opened their polling places at or after 7:10 a.m. on Election Day, with the most severely impacted polling places opening at or after 8:30 a.m. Mr. Nago’s report that he released on August 16, 2012 identified thirteen (13) polling places on island that opened their polling places at or after 7:01 a.m. The attached table, identified as Table One, indicates the comparisons of late opening precincts.
From my research this week, I can provide you with what I understand caused the late opening of polling places on Hawai‘i island. There are four (4) main categories. First, the delayed delivery of equipment and supplies to polling places. Second, voting equipment malfunction. Third, failed communications with control center to establish the programming code for voting equipment. Fourth, missing voter related information such as voting equipment pass code information that should have been packed into the precinct cans and were not.
Regarding the delayed deliver of equipment and supplies to polling places, the most affected locations were the following precincts:
06-05 Kona Palisades Community Center – Delayed Opening 8:45 a.m.
05-08 Kona Vistas Recreational Center – Delayed Opening 8:40 a.m.
06-02 Kahakai Elementary School – Delayed Opening 8:40 a.m.
07-02 Waikoloa Elementary School – Delayed Opening 7:45 a.m.
The genesis of the delay in the opening of these precincts was the failed delivery of election related materials for the Waikoloa Elementary School precinct to the Waimea Police Station on August 10, 2012. Election related materials were scheduled for deployment from four (4) locations on Hawai‘i island the morning of August 11, 2012. These locations were the Hawai‘i County building in Hilo, the Waimea Police Station in Waimea, the Naalehu Police Station in Naalehu and the West Hawai‘i Civic Center in Kealakehe. Deployment was scheduled for 4:00 a.m. on Election Day.
I note that the deployment of materials the morning of August 11, 2012 from Hilo, Waimea and Naalehu went out on time. However, a critical error had been made and not discovered until the early morning of August 11, 2012, which was the mistaken delivery by the warehouse staff of equipment and supplies for the Waikoloa precinct, 07-02, to the West Hawai‘i Civic Center on August 10, 2012, and not the Waimea Police Station as originally planned. I had checked with the staff in charge of the delivery to the Waimea Police Station and I was told on August 10, 2012 that it was confirmed that all of the items were delivered per the plan. I did not find out about this mistake until approximately 5:00 a.m. on August 11, 2012.
On August 11, 2012 at approximately 5:00 a.m., I was contacted by the courier bus services that they had been standing by for an hour and that nothing was happening. I contacted the Deputy County Clerk to check on the status of the start of the deployment from the West Hawai‘i Civic Center. It came to my attention that the courier buses that we scheduled to handle the deployment had not been loaded on schedule that morning. They were to be loaded by 4:30 a.m. but they had not yet been loaded by that time. I spoke with the Deputy County Clerk who indicated that he did not establish contact with the courier buses. I directed him to the buses and they began to load and board the materials.
At approximately 5:30 a.m. I was informed by the Deputy County Clerk that the Waikoloa precinct materials and supplies had been delivered to the West Hawai‘i Civic Center and not the Waimea Police Station as planned. I requested that the Deputy County Clerk drive the Waikoloa precinct materials and supplies to Waikoloa as soon as possible.
Between 6:00 – 6:30 a.m. I was informed by control center staff that there were several precincts in West Hawai‘i that had not received their precinct supplies, in particular their poll books. I made contact with the Deputy County Clerk again and learned that the poll books had not been picked up by the delivery and collection teams for precincts 06-05 Kona Palisades Community Center, 05-08 Kona Vistas Recreational Center and 06-02 Kahakai Elementary School. I also learned that he had collected the poll books and loaded them into his car and that he was driving to Waikoloa. I asked that the Deputy County Clerk drive to these precincts to deliver the cans first but he had already driven ½ way to Waikoloa and he said it was too late to turn back. If the delivery and collection team took all of the cans to all of the polling places then the delay would have been isolated to Waikoloa. However this did not happen.
Sadly I knew at that time that we would have severely delayed openings but there was nothing that I could do to get the books to the precincts except by relaying the materials to the sites by the Deputy County Clerk.
As stated above, I and the elections division staff share exactly the same concerns regarding these Election Day problems as the voters do. The delayed opening of the precincts is a travesty. The need to determine why the polling places did not open on time is directly related to understanding how to keep this problem from occurring again. It has been said that having more election experience would have helped keep this problem from occurring. However in this situation, how could experience have helped? There was a plan in place to deliver items to precinct locations, on time and on schedule. But if election related supplies and materials are left behind, what more can a person do than try to get the election materials to their intended locations? While I do believe that the election irregularities must be further investigated, the simple truth of what went wrong that caused the election delays appears to be rooted in accident and mistake. Not having more experience did not lead the Deputy County Clerk to ensure that no election materials were left behind. What went wrong does not have to do with poor planning, or leadership. What went wrong has to do with staff not paying attention to ensuring that election materials are completely removed from the deployment location. Therefore this is not a matter where more experience would have made a difference. The difference would have occurred if the Deputy County Clerk paid more attention to detail.
I was outraged that the materials were left behind and I can understand why people are extremely concerned with the delayed openings. Polling places opening 1.5 hours late is totally unacceptable. I can assure the public that this mistake will not happen again.
For the remainder of the precincts, the cause of their late opening was caused by voting equipment malfunction, failed communications with control center to establish the programming code for voting equipment and missing voter related information such as voting equipment pass code information that should have been packed into the precinct cans and were not. As stated previously, I am passionate about elections and voting. I am working hard to make sure that I understand the cause of these delayed openings. What happened absolutely thwarted the elections process and I want to know why these problems occurred. The reasons for the delays should be addressed by an investigator who can determine how Election Day problems occurred, how widespread the problems may have been, particularly the widespread communications failures and the widespread missing documentation that should have been included in the precinct cans and were not.
Regarding the missing documentation, said documentation should be included in the precinct cans a few weeks prior to the election. I spoke with the staff person in charge of having the documentation in the precinct cans several weeks prior to the election and he confirmed that all items had been received and were packed in the cans. How it is then that the forms did not make it into the precinct cans is not known to me and an investigator should come in and determine the cause.
I am committed to finding out the reasons for the delayed openings on Hawai‘i island. My concern is for the voters and taxpayers of this county. I have no other concern, no other agenda no other allegiances for any other cause except to do what is right for the voters. I am already committed to the Hawai‘i island voters and to attack my integrity and commitment to the elections process is to divert attention and to avoid getting to the bottom of the problem and it cannot be allowed to continue because to attack me personally does not do anything to find solutions to these problems or to better serve voters and taxpayers. Further, it is my job to make sure that I understand the cause of the Election Day problems and to come up with solutions for the general election. But Mr. Nago took my source for data away. Further, he has publicly stated that he has spoken to precinct officials but he has not provided me with any copies of any reports. This is pretty appalling. I do not understand how one could think that such an act does any good for the State and County of Hawai‘i.
My review of voting on Election Day has also included general information related to voting. Voter turnout for Hawai‘i island ranged from 39.5% to 42.7% over the last four (4) elections. 42.6% turnout this year is in the top of the range, and voter turn out is 3.2% more than in 2010. Absentee ballots cast with walk-in and mail-in voting have increased from 16079 to 23101 or 7022 votes which is 17.9% of the ballots cast. Scott Nago’s report shows thirteen (13) precincts with late start times, six (6) late by twenty-nine (29) minutes or more.
My research shows five (5) precincts with late times. Four (4) precincts were late by forty-five (45) minutes or more. One (1) precinct late by fifteen (15) minutes or more. After completing a second round of telephone calls to precinct officials it was determined that two (2) more precincts should be added with late openings. The combined reports show fourteen (14) precincts with late opening times. Six (6) late by twenty-nine (29) minutes or more.
In general, the precinct with a delayed opening that had a significant difference in its voter experience by election year was precinct 05-07. Konawaena voters at the polls dropped to ten ½ percent (10.5%) or a -17.6% change. Per communication with precinct officials, all materials were delivered by 5:40 a.m., and the exact cause of their delay is unknown at this time. Further research is necessary to determine the cause of the delay and to make changes to solve the delayed opening. Further research would also be necessary to understand what caused voter turnout to change this year from previous years.
The next precinct with delayed opening that had a significant difference in its voter experience by election year was precinct 02-02. Voters at the Edith Kanakaole Stadium dropped to 14.4% or a -13.7% change. The exact cause of their delay is unknown at this time. Further research is necessary to determine the cause of the delay and to make changes to solve the delayed opening. Further research would also be necessary to understand what caused voter turnout to change this year from previous years. Note that the drop at 02-02 occurred with only a five (5) minute delay, which is not deemed to be significant. Some precincts had substantial drops for election day voting but likely this reflects and increase in absentee voting.
The third precinct with delayed opening that had a significant difference in its voter experience by election year was 05-08, Kona Vistas. Voters at Kona Vistas dropped to 17.4% or a -5.2% change. The exact cause of their delay was the delayed delivery of the poll books. To address this problem, the poll books can be delivered one (1) week ahead. This may be done for all precincts to make sure that the delayed deliveries will not happen again. Further research would also be necessary to understand what caused voter turnout to change this year from previous years.
An overall assessment of the precinct comparison shows that for the six (6) precincts that “ostensibly” had a thirty (30) minute delay or more, the comparison of 2012 and 2010 % turnout by precinct closely matches the 2012 County average. Hence, no significant impact was made on the turn out, due to late opening.
A further election delay matter requires investigation. I am informed by a precinct official that a caller made contact with a delivery driver and informed them that there was a road closure, which then lead them to change their route resulting in a delay. This information also needs to be investigated.
Going forward, I will be continuing to work with precinct officials to find out what happened at their precincts and how to make things better. This is a good use of energy and I need to focus on this to get us ready for the general election.
I agree that voter confidence could be shaken. However in the three (3) precincts with the most significant delays, the turn-out percentages are within an expected range compared with the previous three elections. Therefore in spite of the late closings, the data shows that the turn out percentages and actual results were within a reasonable range.


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In his essay ‘What is an author?’, Michel Foucault puts into question the relationship between the ‘author’ and his or her work by asking how it is that we define the ‘work’ to which authorship can legitimately and meaningfully be ascribed. By way of illustration of the conventional and historical difficulties of delimiting an œuvre he asks hypothetically of Nietzsche ‘What if, within a workbook filled with aphorisms, one finds a reference, the notation of a meeting or of an address, or a laundry list: is it a work, or not?’ Phrased somewhat differently, what is the relation between the author and the proper name or the realms of the extraordinary and the everyday?
The present paper aims to explore these questions with respect not so much to a laundry list but to the handkerchiefs that might have been on it with a view to articulating some provisional propositions about the interrelations of art history and material culture in early modern France. The handkerchiefs in question belonged to the draftsman, printmaker and art theorist Charles-Nicolas Cochin the younger and were the object of extended discussion and transaction with fellow painter Jean-Baptiste Descamps in the 1780s. Points of intersection are identified in the body, homo-sociality and the law.
This paper was presented in the Inaugural Early Modern Symposium at the Courtauld Institute of Art on 21 November 2009:
Art and Experience in Early Modern Europe
Organised by: Edward Payne and Hannah Williams
Through a focus on the everyday object, this one-day symposium explores both the experience of visual culture in everyday life and the phenomenon of the everyday in visual culture. Drawing on theories of the everyday from such fields as anthropology, phenomenology and sociology, papers will examine the seemingly banal things that formed the culture of daily life, asking: what constitutes an everyday object? How were everyday objects experienced, represented or collected? And how does their study enhance our understanding of the cultural history of early modernity?
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Soft kitty, stray kitty, feral kitty grrr grrr grrr
Lets just say I'm a Cat lover. My wife is allergic but when the kids have grown up and left home we are going to get an expensive sphinx cat (no fur), I've already purchased the enclosure and playground in my mind.
I was brought up with cast and dogs. I lost my first cat Julie Leah to a dog attack as a teenager and it devastated me, the next was the loss of my Nana Whitton's Cat Ambrose due to old age.
Having stated my love for them, I am still acutely aware of the damage that stray cats and feral cats do to the environment.
The councils animal management officers remove hundred of stray cats per year from within our city. Most of these cats are feral or not owned.
According to Victorian animal management data, one un-desexed, stray, female cat can produce as many as 60 offspring in 12 months.
Unlike southern states the breading season in Darwin is based on proximity to other cats in heat and a stray can live near several different cats within a small area. This results in an increase in cats fighting over territory, food and mating. This can result in injuries and disease transmission not only to other unowned cats but also to residents pet cats. It also results in hundreds of unwanted litters of kittens being born under houses, around sheds, warehouses, in drains, parks and bushes.
The worst thing a person can do is actually feed a stray cat, and I have over the years been guilty of this myself. A major contributing factor to the cat overpopulation problem is people feeding unowned cats but not taking full ownership or responsibility for them.
Feeding unowned cats helps keep them strong enough to reproduce. They keep breeding more and more kittens into a life of injury, hunger, disease and neglect. This contributes to the tragic cat overpopulation problem in Australia. People feed unowned cats because they genuinely care about them and feel sorry for them. However many don't realise they are causing a bigger problem by feeding, but not owning (desexing, microchipping and registering) these cats.
If we are not willing to keep the cat and raise it as our pet then we shouldn't feed it. Instead, we should phone the Council ranger to arrange the hire of a humane cat trap.
If you contact the ranger they will give you more advice on how to calm the cat through covering the cage etc. on 08 8930 0606.
There is an estimated over 18 million feral cats in Australia and 2.7 Million domesticated cats.
Cats are apex predators and mainly eat birds, native marsupials such as ringtail possums and bilby's as well as small lizards, tata's, goannas and native frogs. I have even seen my past cat Julie go for a fruit bat. The also eat rodents and small insects.
They have already been linked to the extinction of over 100 species in Australia.
So apart from micro-chipping and desexing and registering a cat what are some other ideas that we could seek to implement -
Making it an offence for a cat to enter onto the land of another person without that person's permission. With different penalties apply depending on whether the offence was committed in the day or night.
Making fines unbearable such as many councils in Queensland having $2000 fines for owning an unregistered, unchipped cat.
Registration fees for Cat breeding etc
I would like to hear your idea's
A special thank you to Lynne Woodcock who motivated me to do the research and seek more idea's.
Note : Written and Authorized by Sam Wilks. The views included may not be those of others mentioned in the article but are those of Sam Wilks. If you have other idea’s feel free to comment below. Idea’s and differing opinion is recognition of a free and just democratic society. A Society I am happy to live in. Please however try not to be abusive or discriminate, you may be. But if I feel that your opinion may be harmful or is reported as being harmful, I will delete it. Sam Wilks 0402 152 929 PO Box 40441 Casuarina NT 0810 firstname.lastname@example.org

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The FCC's Media Bureau has recertified Boston to regulate
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The city had petitioned the FCC to revoke its finding of
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Comcast had argued that combining RCN with the two satellite
providers met the FCC test of at least 15% subscription to an alternative
service, but the FCC said that was a new argument and that its procedures do
not allow for it to consider that new evidence, as it were, but only the basis
for the original decertification.
But it did say it would entertain a new relief request from
Comcast based on those grounds, and that so long as it files that request
within 30 days of the release of the opinion and order, which came out today
(April 9), it will stay the city's ability to reregulate rates pending the
outcome of that request.
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino filed the petition for basic
cable rate re-regulation at the FCC back in May, citing three Comcast rate
increases in the city and what he said was a lack of competition. The most
recent increase came Feb. 19.
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I'm not loving fall so far. It's unseasonably cool, which is kind of depressing after a cool, extremely wet summer. And I'm also worried about getting the H1N1 vaccine before I get the flu, because when I got the flu two years ago I got pneumonia too, and this one is supposed to be leading to that even more often. But things could be worse...
It could be like the reality that encompasses Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood! That would be much worse, because both books are dystopias by Margaret Atwood. Neither are as depressing as Cormac McCarthy's The Road, but they are pretty bleak, anyway.
Imagine a reality where a powerful person could position himself to purposely destroy humanity by the time he's in his mid-thirties, and you're on your way towards understanding the situation of Oryx and Crake. However, even if you read the follow up, The Year Of The Flood, you still won't know why Crake does what he did. As frustrating as that is, perhaps it smacks of realism: we won't exactly be able to question the motives of the eventual architects of humanity's destruction, after all. Instead we are left only with the clues that Crake's best friend Jimmy (also known as Snowman) gives us through a not entirely reliable narrative. You have to forgive him that, being as he's slowly starving to death and alone but for a race of genetically altered, and strangely perfect, beings that aren't quite human though they're decidedly humanoid.
While I recommend Oryx and Crake, it has sadly turned out to be one of those books that is only genius upon a first reading. I reread it just before the sequel came out, and it didn't seem nearly as profound or clever as it did the first time. I've definitely grown a bit older since reading it six years ago, but not enough wiser to account for the disappointment. The Year Of The Flood was slow-going too, and not as good as the original, being filled with characters less interesting than Snowman in the first book. I suppose it leaves the door open for a sequel, but we'll see.
It's a good time for the book to come out, however, given that The Road is about to come out in theaters. Perhaps the movie (and the recession!) will lead to a mini-surge of interest in dystrophic movies and books, who knows? I'd like some recommendations in that area myself.
As for that movie, I'm not sure I'll be seeing The Road in theaters because I'm annoyed that the actor playing "the boy" (neither main character is ever named, just called "the man" and "the boy") is far too old. The director said that he cast the boy as older because it would be too hard to see a child the proper age, which would have been about seven, in such a bleak setting but I think the switch is likely to rob the story of a lot of its power. I suspect such a squeamish director will leave out or heavily edit the two most shocking scenes in the book, which will leave it far too sanitized to do the book justice.
"You burned your bridges, your world is burning down. No one will save you, your ship is going down til the end of the world." - The Sweethearts, End Of The World

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making these with my 4th, 5th and 6th grade art students right now. . . they love them!
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Taking place in theatres around the country throughout May and June, Kate Miller-Heidke will be embarking on her first extensive regional tour since 2009. Described as a 'triumphant statement' (Daily Telegraph) and a 'masterpiece' (The Brag), Kate's 3rd studio album 'Nightflight' was released last year to critical acclaim, debuting at #2 on the ARIA album charts.
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Direct from its world premiere hit season on Broadway, EMPIRE is the most jaw-dropping show ever seen on the intimate spiegeltent stage. Somersaulting, slapsticking and stripteasing... the most beautiful, daring and incredibly talented artists have been brought together from all over the globe.
Presented by Spiegelworld and Nine Live, EMPIRE is a love letter from New York City, inspired by the vintage days of vaudeville, the night clubs of the East Village, the eccentric characters on Times Square and the big apple's propensity to simply show off. Smashing through the borders of comedy, circus, variety and burlesque, EMPIRE is a weekend-long party in Manhattan, squeezed into 90 minutes and onto a 9-foot diameter stage. And it's all presented in the Spiegelworld carnival atmosphere with its beautifully historic spiegeltent, speak-easy bar and other curiosities. It all adds up to the best night out you will have this summer.
"Imagine Cirque du Soleil as channeled through the Rocky Horror Picture Show"
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Single tickets go on sale from 9am on 7 January 2013. Timothy Constable, Percussion Stacey McCallum, Kimberley Davis, Shane Weatherby, Dancers Rosetta Cook from 2ballerinas, Choreographer Southern Cross Soloists take a spin in a new direction with the addition of rhythm and dance to their traditional chamber repertoire. Movement and percussion have been part of the human experience since time immemorial. Throughout history, dance has been used to tell stories - in ceremonies, rituals and entertainment - and has often been accompanied by rhythmic music. So, when Southern Cross Soloists invited percussionist Timothy Constable (an absolute audience favourite) to take part in this concert, it was with excitement that he agreed to participate as both guest soloist and composer. With an eclectic mix of works from the Baroque to the brand new, there's something for everyone in this vibrant program. BACH Violin Partita in E BWV 1006 MONTEVERDI Chiomo d'oro; Zefiro Torna GLAZUNOV Idyll PROKOFIEV Cinderella Suite GLASS Facades NAVOK Dialogues CONSTABLE New Work - World Premiere WEILL The Saga of Jenny


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Entrepreneur, a major buzz word in the Nigerian society, we’ve probably been fanatic about “start up’s” before the Californians created Silicon Valley. We credit our Igbo brothers and sisters with a remarkable drive to lunch out alone with a business idea and see it from start to finish, but honestly, its somewhere in all of us, it seems like within our DNA is encoded a drive for enterprise and trade, capitalism courses through our veins. We rarely sit around satisfied with our white-collar employment, we lunch out and find a second hustle! Such a remarkable term that defines the Nigerian Spirit to do more, to try harder, to work hard and work smart, because for many of us, we desire to leave a legacy for posterity. We love comfort, excess and ownership. So, no a white-collar job is not enough, we strive for more to satisfy that urge that stems from our nature and is strengthened by how we’re nurtured. For a significant number of Nigerians, the entrepreneurial drive need not be taught, it’s our way of being. We learn techniques, skills and strategies to fine tune and birth our ideas, but that staying power, that resilience is a free gift we received from our mothers and their mothers before them.
The paradox of the Nigerian society is how this drive for success and enterprise does not extend to our institutions. It seems that somehow the traits that make us successful as individuals have failed to find expression in the institutions that were created to serve us. Douglass North, an American Economist and co-recipient of the 1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences defined institutions as the rules of game in a society, the humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction. The term institution applies to both informal institutions such as customs and to particular formal institutions created by the government. We seem to have let our institutions wallow in the darkness of obscurity and rapid decline while on a daily basis we struggle under the weight of their ineptitude.
We have arrived at a pivotal point in history where as a people, we need to extend our entrepreneurial drive to the political landscape. We have one of the fastest growing populations of young people in the world, 50%-60% of Lagosians are less than 30 years old. In a world where many industrialized societies are dealing with problems associated with an aging population, we are blessed with a young and vibrant populace itching for change. It’s time to look to Political Entrepreneurship as this new generation begins to find ways to lead itself not just out of financial poverty but out of institutional degradation.
In a book on Political Entrepreneurship, the authors describe a political entrepreneur as a politician, bureaucrat or officer within the public sector who encourages entrepreneurship for growth and employment using innovative approaches. According to the authors, Political entrepreneurs have the potential to be innovative and encourage growth and development by fundamentally challenging the prevailing formal and informal institutions. In times of economic distress, political entrepreneurship is essential to finding new ways to promote growth, employment and welfare. Schneider and Teske (1992) define political entrepreneurs as individuals who change the direction and flow of politics.
Adam Sheingate identified three general attributes that outline the concept of Political Entrepreneurship. First, Political entrepreneurs shape the terms of political debate: they frame issues, define problems, and influence agendas. Second, Political entrepreneurs are a source of innovation: they invest resources in the creation of new policy, new agency, or new forms of collective action. Third, entrepreneurs somehow consolidate innovations into lasting change: entrepreneurs have transformative effects on politics, policies, and institutions (Sheingate 2003).
The movement toward political entrepreneurship should be relatively smoother for us based on its similarities to the capitalist form of entrepreneurship we innately subscribe to. Very much like entrepreneurship in the private sector and business world, the political entrepreneurial process comprises of the discovery of political preferences and needs of the electorate as well as of political decision makers (Schneider and Teske 1995, Wohlgemuth 2000, François 2003); the identification, selection and framing of problems and solutions (Kingdon 1984); the dissemination and “brokering” of ideas between different social networks and epistemic communities, e.g. between science and politics (Campbell 2004); the mobilization of political support and formation of coalitions on different levels (Kuhnert 2001, Scheider and Teske 1995, Roberts and King 1991); the mobilization of the media; the pushing of proposals for institutional innovation on the agenda of political decision makers (Kingdon 1984); the development of a political strategy (Roberts/King 1991) and the creation and/or recognition of “windows of opportunity” for institutional change (Kingdon 1984); the implementation and consolidation of innovations into lasting institutional change (Sheingate 2003). In bold are steps that business entrepreneurs take to ensure success, as is easily observable, these are the same steps we need to take in political entrepreneurship.
We’ve waited long enough, it’s time for that which courses through our veins to begin to course through the very fabric of our society. It’s time for our ever-growing young adult population to become actively involved in the political process and begin to drive institutional innovation that would birth a nation that serves the needs of the majority of its population. We have a democracy, its high time we all begin to actively participate in it, instead of complaining about our leaders, it’s time we mobilize, innovate and proffer solutions that would transform our institutions and create the future we so earnestly desire.
“Political Entrepreneurship is a lot of things, but it isn’t like being in a comfy party. We are creating ideas, thoughts, coalitions, tools that – to be potent – must sit outside the normal continuum of everyday politics. We are moving faster than the election cycle. We are relentlessly pressuring sitting representatives. We are pushing under-observed issues right into the faces of the powerful. We are reading, dissecting and the recapitulating through action the works of our greatest political science thinkers.” Khalil Byrd.
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Cashless? What does it mean and why does the Deep State want to push us in that direction?
Banks are permanently closing up branches. US Bank has announced that they will be permanently closing 26 branches in the Portland area alone. Wells Fargo is following suit as is Chase and virtually all major banks across the US. Banks employ over 600,000 tellers. When banks close those jobs become obsolete. Big Tech is not just about social media, they have become the new ‘banks’.
PayPal initiated the online bank concept in 1998. In 2019 EBay bought PayPal for $1.5 billion with roughly 286 million active users. Venmo is a mobile payment service that was created in 2009 and is a subsidiary of PayPal. Wire transfers are immediate. Of course, nothing is ‘free’ – Venmo charges a 1% or $10 whichever is less, for each transaction.
Google Pay is a digital wallet application that works something like a ‘prepaid debit card’. Apple Pay, Microsoft Pay, Square, the number of ‘cashless’ apps has grown exponentially essentially working to make traditional banks the next dinosaur. In other words, the RESET to a cashless society has already been instituted and is simply gaining traction as the Deep State intends to smash their Agenda forward years ahead of schedule in the face of President Trump.
CoVid gave an additional ramped up push y forcing everyone to purchase everything online using either credit, debit, or App payment methodology. Within 3 months the media was claiming a shortage of circulating cash.
The promotion for a cashless society hypes all the traditional propaganda; less crime, less money laundering, no currency exchange rates, etc… As though money laundering relies on actual cash at all, which is baseless. Certainly there are stories of suitcases filled with cash and the owner buying property and fabulous McLaren’s, but the real money, the mafia money is a well oiled system of wire transfers via digital money.
And of course the claim to ‘less crime’ is equally ignorant. Digital crime, stealing a person’s identity, and gaining access to digital accounts has been a vast aspiring industry for the past decade. Is your money secure? Insured? No. No. Hacking only ups the ante as hackers can gain access to millions of account holders in one fell swoop! Bada-Bing!
According to Dave Ramsey, a truly cashless society means no one is ‘paid under the table’ and every ‘transaction you make is traceable’! Ramsey disagrees that society is heading in a cashless direction and calls it a boogeyman concept. His entire justification for the boogeyman comment stems from the fact that ‘it hasn’t happened yet’. And we are just in a CoVid blip. Yikes!
Six months ago, Forbes and a host of pundits were ridiculing the articles discussing the possibility of the US becoming cashless. Then suddenly, October 2020, they switched gears and wrote about the transition; ‘why we are rocketing toward a cashless society’. Forbes went from denying its feasibility in February 2020 to Rocketing just six months later.
In order to compete against the Big Tech companies, banks need to actively prune their overhead. Physical addresses are not needed. Support staff – unessential. Infrastructure – unessential. Developers, General Contractors, construction laborers, utilities – unessential. Interest rates on savings – void.
What happens to the value of gold and silver in a cashless society?
When our banks are now represented by Big Tech using digital wallets, their power is once again – control. Given they have every trace of information about you, on you, your political contributions, affiliations, etc… , if these ‘wallets’ determine they don’t like your thinking they can simply push a button and cancel access to all cash. Just like a censorship. A person’s ability to purchase anything would be – scrubbed.
Like a blackmarket, an alternative means of purchasing power would require some sort of asset. While gold’s value is mostly determined by its jewelry application, by comparison silver has industrialized use. Silver is used in electronics, medicine, cell phones, solar panels, etc… As such, its trade value will be higher in a cashless society.
And then there is the idea that a BiG Tech control could extend its tentacles further and require an individual to submit to medical examinations, vaccines, or implants to further control. Your son or daughter could be denied education utilizing cashless credits unless certain conditions are met. Abortion could be forced as in eugenics. Taxes and fees for the App could be directly deducted from a card holder’s credit without any legal recourse. If you don’t agree to their terms of disbursement – you are simply denied credit.
The implications are vast when the hand of control
The purpose of government is to work on behalf of The People. The purpose of Big Tech is to control people so as to solidify a greater concentration of wealth – somewhat like Monarchial rule. Peasants and Kings.


Accounting & Food Manufacturing Software: Icicle’s Integration with QuickBooks
We’ve integrated with QuickBooks and this is a very big deal for small and medium-sized food manufacturers around the globe! Now small and medium-sized food manufacturers can maximize their production efficiency by incorporating their existing accounting software, QuickBooks, with Icicle’s comprehensive food manufacturing software without having to move to a hugely expensive ERP system.
Accounting Options for Food Manufacturers
Accounting software is necessary for all food businesses. For small and medium-sized food manufacturers, robust ERP systems that manage the operations and accounting of larger companies come with an impossible price tag, reaching into the tens of millions of dollars. On top of that, while most ERP systems offer inventory control and other features that relate to accounting, they do not focus on food safety or quality control. This is untenable for companies operating on smaller margins and budget constraints. For many of these food manufacturers, QuickBooks is the go-to solution that allows them to take care of their financial activities at an affordable rate while leaving operation, quality, and food safety control unaddressed.
The Big Picture for Food Manufacturers
But beyond finances, there are many other aspects of the food production process that require documentation and management—not to mention regulatory requirements and demands from customers. Hundreds of companies worldwide find a solution in Icicle, the food manufacturing software offered by Icicle Technologies Inc. Built for food manufacturers of all sizes with the belief that the latest technology to prevent recalls and foodborne illness should be a core consideration, our pricing model means that a comprehensive solution for food safety, traceability, quality control, and more is within reach.
What Icicle Delivers for QuickBooks Users
Using Icicle and QuickBooks—two separate systems running at the same time—would normally require duplicate data entry. As our users know, we are not fans of the inefficiencies, errors, or rising costs that result, so we came up with a solution: by integrating with QuickBooks, Icicle fulfills the need of thousands of small and medium-sized food manufacturers by seamlessly integrating accounting with production management.
The Icicle-QuickBooks integration synchronizes customers, vendors, transport companies, and any other type of company, as well as ingredients, materials, sales orders, and purchase orders, and other core elements. With all this data shared between the two systems, Icicle then synchronizes any inventory transaction that occurs at a facility. Food manufacturers can now keep track of their data in one place and enjoy the benefits of both QuickBooks and Icicle at the same time.
An extra bonus: most QuickBooks users cannot track lot codes using that system alone unless they upgrade to a more expensive package. With this Icicle integration, they can track lot codes without an upgrade, benefiting from the best of both worlds.
For QuickBooks clients who have yet to adopt Icicle, all that this integration delivers enables them to get on-board with Icicle’s food manufacturing software— without risk, drastically improving the efficiency of their operations, and reducing costs.
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Dream about cutting something in half is a symbol for a bright start to your day. You are in tune with your surroundings. You are headed toward the right direction in life. The dream signifies potential and possibilities. You are able to see the bright side of a negative situation.
Cutting something in half dream suggests family togetherness and joy. Seemingly small ideas and concepts can possess much potential and power. You will achieve a promotion, a higher status, more power, or an important goal. This dream is a premonition for your potential to be all that you can be. You need to seek the help of others in order to accomplish a mutual goal.
You know that you could do better as far as your close personal relationships are concerned, and yet something seems to continually draw you back to an old relationship that is familiar, and yet not totally satisfying. Do something now.
What does it mean when you dream about Cutting Something In Half?
Dream about cutting someone in half is goodness, purity, protection, comfort and consolation. You are seeking a closer connection with a person. You are feeling anti-social. Your dream refers to the importance of a maternal bond and connection. You are easily influenced and can be persuaded into doing something you do not necessarily want to do.
Dream about cutting something is sometimes a spiritual journey into the unknown and signals self-development and self-awareness. You have given in to the existing rhythm and are just along for the ride. You are preserving your ideas and energy so that you can access them later. This dream states introspection and deep thought. You are unaware of something important that may be right in front of you.
Dream about cutting someone is about warmth and coziness. You are reluctantly moving into a new stage in your life. Acknowledging your feelings is the key to a happy and rewarding life. This signals compassion, emotional healing and spiritual cleansing. There is a disconnect between your action and your belief system.
Dream about someone cutting me points at your aspirations for wealth and status. You need to be more passionate and direct with your emotional needs. You are undergoing an inner transformation. Your dream is about new opportunities and possibilities. You have learned something significant about yourself.
Dream about end is your quick thinking ability and keen wit. He or she wants to get your attention and communicate some important message. You are plunging into new emotional territory. This dream is a signal for your strong sense of morality and integrity. You are recycling past experiences and finding use for your old skills and ideas.
Dream about close ones states brotherhood, camaraderie and personal growth. You are rushing into some decision. You have overcome some obstacle. The dream is a signal for great abundance, freedom and happiness. You are feeling conflicted.
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Calaveras de Azúcar Playing Cards Blue Edition by Natalia Silva
This deck depicts sugar skulls in various forms. The Court Cards depict the skulls with musical instruments, hats and flowers. The Jokers take a similar approach, although with a character all their own. Amazing skull designs are depicted on the card backs and on the case.
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Client: Odense Kommune
Program: Remodelling of the Thomas B. Thriges Gade street, Odense
Scope: Urban planning and development strategy
The purpose of the remodelling competition of Thomas B. Thriges Gade, a street in the historical city center of Odense, the third largest city of Denmark, is to create a dense, diverse urban environment that reconnects the surrounding neighborhoods and creates an accessible and attractive district for pedestrians and cyclists in the city.
Along with the urban design, a strategy was proposed in order to make the urban transformation process harmless and even attractive for the city, considering its social dimension through participation, temporary actions and digital tools.
Several strategies are overlapped in time and work together to manage the transformation process in a continuous way. Usually a transformation process like this would generate a loss of activity in the affected area, creating a “construction site” atmosphere for a long period. The main objective of the temporary activities is to guarantee the continuity of the urban activity throughout the transformation process. At the same time, temporary activities engage Odense’s citizens and give an idea of the future atmosphere and identity of the area.
The borders connect existing buildings/gables, defining the new streets and blocks and enhancing the east-west connections. Borders act as a limit, but also introduce activities in the area. The borders can grow towards the inner space, intensifying the activities on the streets (small shops, cafes, etc). They can also grow vertically at some points, creating viewpoints or screens.
The active borders define five different zones corresponding with the five future blocks of the new urban development of Odense. These zones will host the temporary activities and events during the city transformation process. Each of the five zones will have a different character that relates to the future identity of the associated block. All the construction solutions for the borders should be based on industrialized systems so that they can be easily assembled. These kind of solutions are also easy to dismantle, so the elements can be reused and/or recycled.
Workshops, festivals and other events will take place at certain points in the process in order to connect with the citizens. They can be tied in with existing events and festivals in Odense (i.e. the film festival, flower festival, culture night, Hans Christian Andersen events, etc).
Digital tools will be used to provide information about the project, news, and a calendar of events for the public, enhancing interaction with citizens and bringing visibility to Odense on the Internet.
This project has been jointly developed and presented with the Danish landscape office Kristin Jensen.

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RV’s truly are moving homes and every owner know that stuff breaks… Often! But really like with any home there’s maintenance whether it lawn care or in our case fixes, hence, RV Fix of the Day.
Today’s fix is located on a small window in the slider area. These little windows don’t slide left to right, they are raised up.
The ‘Window Channel’ that holds onto the glass to raise the glass came apart. The window channel also contains a locking mechanism that seems unneeded unless a baby is going to break in through the window.
Additionally in their haste the manufacturer used screws that are 1mm too long for the locking mechanism. I’ll cut the ends off the screws with a Dremel to then remount the lock without splitting the channel from the glass.
I’ve also added a few dots of a weak adhesive in case I need to ever replace the window or any parts. Our favorite go to adhesive in the RV is E6000 Fray Lock which we also use to secure misc items to surfaces. Save tons of time when preparing to move locations, less stuff to put away the better!
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Shanthi is an engineer-turned Authentic Yogic Lifestyle Expert and a #1 international best-selling author of a Book series on happiness.
Dressed traditionally, she is authentic to her roots in more ways than mere appearance.
The current Yoga-system is misappropriated, adulterated, and diluted, and cannot fulfill the real needs of people.
Shanthi is on a mission to create world-class A.U.T.H.E.N.T.I.C. Yoga-Masters who bring balance back into the world with authentic Yogic lifestyle through her S.H.A.K.T.I. Yoga-Model.
Shanthi comes from a lineage of Yoga-Masters. She was born and raised in the country which is the very source of Yoga-Shaastram (Yoga-Living). She teaches ancient wisdom suitable to modern lifestyle through 2-minute tools.
Shanthi is an eye-opening Speaker, Culture Educator, Healer, Dancer, Storyteller, and a highly sought-after TV, Podcast and Radio Show guest.
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Welcome back GLADGANG!! We back! This episode we get right to it with comedian Doug Key! We talk skin care, masculinity and FIRE!
Doug Key is a New York City based comedian and performs at comedy clubs all over the country. Doug has been seen on MTV, ABC, VH1, and Mark Normand’s Comedy Central Digital series “What They Really Mean.” He’s had the privilege to open for some comedy greats including Dave Attell, Michael Che, Dom Irrera, Kyle Kinane, Sam Morril, Mark Normand and many others. Doug was featured in the 2013 Boston Comedy Festival, 2014 and 2017 New York Comedy Festival, the 2017 Cape Fear Comedy Festival, and founded the first comedy festival in the state of Rhode Island, The Rogue Island Comedy Festival, which takes place every October in Newport!
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Denbigh Town Ladies FC have announced their captain and vice-captain for the coming season.
Elen James-Owen will be captain with Carla Rizzi appointed vice captain.
New Denbigh manager Jordan Baker had this to say: “I am very happy with my choice of players in this situation.
“Elen has shown great quality since I have come in and been commanding on and off the pitch. I look forward to working with Elen to accelerate the ladies growth.
“Carla has an outstanding professional approach. She has shown great commitment so far and is a key figure in the changing room.”
Denbigh announced the good news recently that last season’s top scorer, Rosie Hughes, will be staying with the team for the 2020-21 campaign.
New players, defender Rosie Gillis, midfielder/attacker Alisha Mather, Jess Duff, a young talent who plays at the back, the exciting Cara Jones and Miriam Owen, 17, a prospect who has shown great defensive capabilities, have also joined the squad.
Baker expects to announce a couple more additions to the ranks soon.
Denbigh Ladies have been placed in the North Wales Women’s League Championship East Division this season alongside Corwen, Holywell Town, Northop Hall, Welshpool and Wrexham.
Meanwhile, the team continues to welcome potential new players.
Covid-19 compliant trial nights are held at the club every Tuesday between 6.30 and 8 pm. Just come along for fun, there’s no pressure on you to be the next Lucy Bronze.
Sessions take place on the Rec Pitch next to Denbigh Town’s FC main field at Central Park.


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One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.
The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphi-geneias mother, Clytemnestra, kills her husband in revenge, she in turn is murdered by their son Orestes with his sister Electras encouragement. Orestes is pursued by the Furies and put on trial, his fate decided by the goddess Athena. Far more than the story of murder and ven-geance in the royal house of Atreus, the Oresteia serves as a dramatic parable of the evolution of justice and civilization that is still powerful after 2,500 years.
The trilogy is presented here in George Thomsons classic translation, renowned for its fidelity to the rhythms and richness of the original Greek.
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"How satisfying to read at last a modern translation which is rooted in Greek feeling and Greek thought ... both the stature and the profound instinctive genius of Aeschylus are recognised." Mary Renault, author of The King Must Die
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Dr Niamh Shaw’s To Space interweaves the informative with the personal in this performance lecture on the impossible enormity of space and one woman’s impossible(?) dream to see it for herself. In the apt setting of Summerhall’s Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Shaw positions us in the known universe, upon a blue speck in the void, and within the history of astronomical discovery – our present moment. As she does, she tells the story of her dream of becoming an astronaut, from her first encounter with Han Solo at the age of eight, to her visit to the European Space Agency last year at the age of forty-five.
To Space questions how the individual’s pursuit of the ‘elite dream’ - only 536 people have ever been to space – enables frontline scientific advancement. Shaw herself stumbles in her anecdotal narrative when considering the myriad risks of astronautics, and in doing so asks the question: how do we value the human in advancing humanity? This is highlighted most discomfortingly in Shaw’s discussion of the two embryonic plans to set up a colony on Mars: NASA/ESA’s, set for 2037 (waiting for technology to advance enough to bring colonisers back to Earth); and Mars-One, projected optimistically for 2025, in the knowledge that those sent will die on Mars.
Unlike NASA’s elite entry requirements, Mars-One accepted applications from 200,000 civilians from various backgrounds - Shaw is evidently not alone in being seduced by the promise of extraterrestrial travel. But the metaphor offered by her live whey protein and glycerol experiment remains problematic: is individual suffering (however consensual) in the name of ‘giant leaps’ more ethically complex than “making the useless useful”? (HM)
TO SPACE, Niamh Shaw, 11-17, 19-24, 26-30, Summerhall Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Wheelchair Access and Level Access. https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/to-space
More about Dr Niamh Shaw: http://www.tospace2014.com/#!niamh-shaw/cfe5
Chris Chambers in The Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/11/mars-one-ethical-questions-bas-lansdorp


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I’ve had this simple theory…
You eat fresh fruit and vegetables abundantly, plenty of wholefoods daily, meat and dairy sparingly and processed foods occasionally. You take a walk now and again, go for a bike ride or a swim, for fun and fresh air, sometimes instead of watching the TV… you begin to feel happier, healthier, more alert and with this brings a new appreciation for the simple beauty of life.
You start to make choices, you buy some locally grown foods, you become aware of transportation, packaging and marketing of goods, you begin reading the labels on tins and convenience foods and realize that some of the additives are probably making you fat and ill because they are a significant part of your daily consumption… perhaps the worst additive in many convenience foods is Monosodium Glutamate (MSG), a damaging Excitotoxin allegedly introduced by the british military during WWII to make canned food for it’s troops more palatable and to increase their appetites.. if you would like to find out more I recommend you watch this short video by Neuro-Surgeon Dr Russell Blaylock
You become aware that the below ingredients contain up to 99% MSG and are now a disguised form of MSG labelling and you begin to avoid them..
- Glutamic Acid
- Monosodium Glutamate
- Monopotassium Glutamate
- Yeast Extract
- Yeast Food
- Yeast Nutrient
- Autolyzed Yeast
- Autolyzed Yeast Extract
- Torula Yeast
- Autolyzed Soy Protein (any protein that is autolyzed)
- Hydrolyzed Protein (any protein that is hydrolyzed)
- Hydrolyzed Whey Protein
- Hydrolyzed Pea Protein
- Hydrolyzed Corn Protein
- Hydrolyzed Corn Gluten
- Calcium Caseinate
- Sodium Caseinate
- Textured Protein
- Textured Vegetable Protein (TVP)
- Natrium Glutamate (natrium is Latin/German for sodium)
I had no clue that all those different additives were different forms of MSG! While I do try and cook all whole foods, we do still have a pantry with canned goods and some treats. I’ve been looking at labels lately and it is good to know to watch out for these things. I just recently found out that Celery Root Extract, often found on the new “natural and preservative free” foods is actually a nitrate!
Goodness me I didn’t know that! Yes… its all very interesting stuff and yes, if my research is correct, and the articles I am reading etc indicate that, if it isn’t 100% MSG that is put into the food then they basically have a license to call it something else…
Being aware of this, and because of convenience foods being used sparingly during WWII on the home front, I think it’s a great eating pattern to replicate today. Use convenience, processed and junk food sparingly and only have it occasionally as a treat.
I think using it everyday has to be a bad thing…
Just my opinion …
It worries me a lot, always thinking about it
Here is s ome more information on Excitotoxicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excitotoxicity
The MSG levels given to mice were pretty much a lethal level I think – a human would have to consume an awful lot of MSG for it to become lethal.
The other disguised forms of MSG above are free glutamates and it is the glutamate part which is the concern…
Anyway it is just food for thought…MSG has been used for quite some time
Here is a interesting short article on MSG and obesity http://www.livestrong.com/article/337241-monosodium-glutamate-and-obesity/
First I will say I am a Marmite lover. Second I will say that I am very sceptical about food scares. So you will be able to guess my stance on this.
There is a good article here
If anyone eats enough Marmite to cause problems I suspect it would be the salt in it that would be the culprit – even Marmite lovers eat just tiny percentages of their total calorie intake as Marmite. There are loads of other things we all eat regularly in larger amounts that are more “dangerous”.
Hope you don’t read this as too negative – I have loads of respect for what you have achieved and for your change to a vegan diet.
In this case I really do think it is a case of not sweating the small stuff 🙂
I think what I was trying to say (and think I did somewhere) was that convenience foods with added chemicals or added ingredients such as preservatives, colours etc, should be used occasionally rather than a significant part of our everyday diet (and this was what happened during the rationing years- some canned goods were very high in points and really kind of used as an occasional addition to the diet- comparing to a modern day diet I’d say there was a huge difference)… whole fresh foods IMHO, are definitely healthier for you.
I’m not giving up my Marmite either, it is probably only one of a few items that contain MSG etc in my diet (in limited quantities) and I do so look forward to a little marmite on toast at the weekend!!! 🙂 Nom nom nom!!
Thanks for your input! Appreciate your thoughts and always check out links people post!
TVP/TSP is actually a soy product… 🙂 There’s a fairly educational article here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textured_vegetable_protein . I have an MSG sensitivity, and have never had trouble eating TVP – and I used to eat it several times a week when I was a vegan.
Hi Heather- thanks so much for your response. Yes I should have been more precise. TVP in it’s natural form after it has been processed from the oil of soy beans has no MSG added…and probably if you are buying TVP from the natural wholefoods section it won’t either however it is also sold with added flavours and enhancers such as MSG and what I am talking about is the TVP that is added to processed foods. A manufacturer can get away with NOT ADDING MSG to the label of his can by adding TVP that MSG has been added to…
Hope this makes sense… basically ingredients are being added to processed foods that have been enhanced with MSG and this is a way around adding that MSG is actually an ingredient. The list above is a list of additives that MAY have MSG added to them..

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I am retired and exploring the world on foot, by canoe and kayak. You see and experience much more this way. No luxury resorts on some tropical beach for me.
Kayaking Upper Salmon River. What I do to get some of these pictures.
Kayaking the Upper Salmon River. This falls is called Stern Banger. It is a popular lunch spot for paddlers too. The rocks on the Upper Salmon River ( Beaver Lake and north) are metavolcanic and metasediments meaning volcanic and sedimentary rocks that have been substantially changed by heat-pressure and time. They are 1.28 billion years old. They slope upwards to the west side of the river for many km..
Buttermilk Falls entering the Salmon River. A challenging run. The Salmon River was formed by a fault line running most of the length of the river, about 50 km.. The sharp bend in the falls here, marks the fault line along what is known as the Glen Salmon.
Spring runoff on Upper Salmon River
Always a challenge here.
Peak spring run off on Upper Salmon River. Can you find the paddler?
Beavers cut a lot of trees here. That is very hard maple wood. The many fallen trees make paddling Gull Creek to Sheffield Lake and then the Upper Salmon River very difficult.
Kayaking the Upper Salmon River. There were big Atlantic Salmon runs here up to 1850 because the clean water and deep gravel beds for spawning. Silt from logging, and dams endend it very fast. Pike and Lake Trout were very abundant too.
Lower Salmon River. Get ready, get set, goooo...... The dam is the Breeze dam, rebuilt in 1982 for recreation and ice control
Spring paddle on the Salmon River
Falls at Forest Mills in spring flood, 2008
Hanging in there on Beaver Creek
Upper Salmon River.
Spring time on the Salmon River.
Sheffield Lake is a beautiful lake, but there is no good public access. There was regularly scheduled service by steam boat up Sheffield Lake starting at Gull Creek, up the Salmon River to Horse Shoe Lake between 1850 and 1865 because the roads were very poor, and there were no railways yet.
Upper Salmon River, March 7 2009
Puzzle Lake, near Tamworth. This is one of the head waters of the Salmon River through Gull Creek. This pink granite forms a band about 3 km. wide running in a NE-SW direction and is 1.24 billion years old. This is one of several spectular fault lines found in this area.
Salmon River at Shannonville Ontario. Dams like this encourage the formation of surface ice, preventing frazil ice from building up on the bottom which can cause severe flooding.
Spring time water fall
Beaver Creek in spring run off. There is only one way to get these pictures, you have to paddle here.
Upper Salmon River, below Sheffield Lake
Gull Creek is blocked by several beaver dams and many fallen trees cut by beavers.
Beaver Creek, an upper tributary of the Salmon River that drains into Lake Ontario at Shannonville.
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Movies of Local People - Chapel Hill, NC 1941/1939
Professional "Home Movies" of local residents of Chapel Hill, NC (pop. 3,654 according to 1940 US Census), photographed by Filmmaker H. Lee Waters. Louis Jordan music added by Reelblack. Waters would film local residents and then invite them to come see themselves in the movie, which was projected at a local cinema (in this case the Hollywood Theater). There are dozens of examples. I anticipate posting more later, but this one stood out to me for the fact that 99% of the subjects are African-American and Waters seems to take care to engage with his subjects rather than just observe. Presented for historical purposes. Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments section.
Herbert Lee Waters (1902–1997) was an American photographer and filmmaker. Waters was born in Caroleen, North Carolina. He worked as a studio photographer in Lexington, North Carolina. Waters also created over 252 short films that make up a series, Movies of Local People, depicting life in small towns in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Waters arranged screenings of the short films at local cinemas. They were usually played before the feature film of the screening. Waters made the films profitable for himself through admission prices and contributions from local businesses that wished to appear in the films.
The films, produced between 1936 and 1942, provide insight into American life during the Great Depression. The subject matter of the films includes footage of school children, people at work, athletic events, scenes from city streets, and other everyday activities.
Waters produced Movies of Local People on 16mm black and white reversal film. A collection of Waters' films is housed at the Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University. A number of the films have been digitized and are available in Duke Digital Collections. In 2004, the Library of Congress selected Waters' film of Kannapolis, North Carolina for inclusion in the National Film Registry as representative of his work and genre. - Wikipedia
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Datawell Directional Waverider MkIII: Buoy
The Datawell Directional Waverider is the world’s standard for measuring wave height and wave direction.Its success is due to the proprietary well proven and accurate Datawell stabilised platform sensor, enabling wave height measurements by a single accelerometer.
Real time measurement of wave height with half hourly heave and directional spectra updates.
HF link up to 50 km over sea. The proprietary Datawell HF link module is easy replaceable if a different transmission frequency is required.
LED flashlight integrated in the top of the antenna increasing the buoy’s visibility.
GPS receiver for buoy positioning has now become a standard feature of the DWR-MkIII, and facilitates its retrieval.
Integrated datalogger based on the latest flash card technology.
Material: Stainless steel AISI316 or Cunifer 10
Weight: Approx. 105 Kg (0.7m), approx. 225 Kg (0.9m)
Sensor and processing sampling: 8-channel, 14bit @ 3.84Hz
Solar power system: Solar panel combined with Boostcap capacitors
Hull painting: Brantho Korrux ?3 in 1?paint system (no anti-fouling)
Measures wave direction, water temperature and wave height for environmental monitoring
Near shore applications