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PEORIA, Ill. — Students at a Peoria school are celebrating Hispanic heritage, but not in a classroom.
Students at Manual Academy are putting on a show in honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
Giselle Ochoa, a senior at Manual is spearheading the program.
“With it being my senior year, that’s one of the things that I wanted to at least leave here and be like, ‘oh she started this,’ and then have it continue through the rest of the manual years,” Ochoa said. “I was just in my bed one day thinking, ‘oh well, why don’t I just take initiative and go ahead and inspire the Hispanic Heritage Month.’ It’s not actually one month, it’s actually Sept. 15-Oct. 15” said Ochoa.
Ochoa said she designed the student-led movement to not only entertain, but also inform.
“There’s a gap in knowledge that not a lot of people know, that’s a really cool thing that we get to inspire other students to go ahead and learn about that,” said Ochoa.
Ochoa says the program will showcase the Hispanic culture through different lenses.
“We’re gonna have dancing, we’re gonna have games, of course we are gonna have food. We’re gonna go ahead and have a guest speaker come in and talk about Hispanic leadership,” exclaimed Ochoa.
Nataly Rodriguez says the audience is in for a real treat.
“I just feel like everyone will love it, since like every time we perform, it’s like oh I’ve never seen anything like that. I just feel like it’s gonna be really good one and everyone is gonna like it,” said Rodriguez.
The performance will take place at Manual at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday.


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Artistically, the menus and character designs are high-gloss Anime style with simplistic but easily identifiable characters. The in-game action is an over-head view rendered using cel-shading. The individual cars look pretty decent for a budget title and the sound effects aren't skimped on. The tracks themselves are where the visuals start to fall-apart – the textures of the maps certainly aren't particularly impressive.
The AI is designed to keep the pack pretty close to each other so most races degrade into a near constant fur-ball of jockeying for position. Hits by enemy attacks will send you out of control rather quickly; so most of the driving degrades just into trying to keep your car aimed in the right direction on the course. This wouldn't be so hard if most of the vehicles didn't handle like a go-cart on ice.
I found myself struggling to maintain even the most basic of lines on a straightaway, so you can imagine the typical mess of cars that can be found in the early turns of a race with 6 out of the 8 racers in the wall. The different weapons available make for some different approaches for you; mines will get people off your tailpipe; machine guns will cause an opponent to lose his line; rockets will take a big chunk of health from an enemy; but the highlight is easily the grappling hook which can be used to fishtail an opponent or just make a tighter turn.
The overhead camera will drive you nuts – it forces a perspective change on you whenever it rotates. For example: camera is behind you, you make a forced right turn while grinding with an opponent between you and the wall… now the camera decides to not shift yet… your controls now force you to push up to turn left… while you are keeping pressure with the now switched controls… WHOOPS time for another camera shift. It's the kind of game-play handicap that you sort of learn to adapt to… much like the loss of a limb… sure you'll get used to dealing with it but that doesn't mean you'll learn to like the situation any.
The competitive AI feels 4 consoles ago… you'll have enemies that you've lapped decide to attack relentlessly like they are jockeying for first place… or enemies that just seem to give up for no particular reason. Not that I generally had too much of a hard time wailing on the opposition, more often than not losses could be attributed to outside factors rather than the competition.
Most people will find the initial investment required in this game to be the biggest drawback – the initial 2 cars that you get are… just plain awful. I'm pretty sure that nobody was driving a Geo Metro in DeathRace but for some reason you'll get to until you've accrued enough money to unlock a slightly less pathetic ride. The required race repetition in order to get any of the better upgrades or better vehicles is a big slog right out of the gate for this game.
All in all, Fuel Overdose has a ton of replay value for those willing to look past its warts, especially for the price point.
- Neat little throwback racing combat game for $10.
- The variety of weapons is pretty darn neat
- Handling while on the road is a real challenge
- The camera system is AWFUL
- Unlockable item progression is painfully slow
Score: 5.0 / 10

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The village chimes polka : for the piano forte / composed by Francois Bernard.
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We're in the midst of a basement renovation and one of the huge problems with this basement (since we bought the house, anyway) has always been that it's about 5-7 degrees colder than the rest of the house. The ducts are being re-routed, more return air from the main floor is being added, and hopefully our entire HVAC system will run more efficiently when all is said and done.
However, our HVAC expert thinks that all this work will probably only get us a basement that's STILL 3-4 degrees colder than the rest of the house. He suggests putting radiant heat in the perimeter of the house to supplement our regular forced air heat system.
Does this make sense? Why only have the radiant heat on the perimeter (other than cost)? Will that be a problem?
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03. Oct, 2013
Claypots Seafood & Wine is an well worn, and well-loved seafood restaurant at the quiet end of St Kilda. Situated on Barkly Street, this restaurant is where the locals go for generous-sized portions, fresh seafood and an open bar with live music. Think chilli crabs, garlic tiger prawns, Cajun flatheads and grilled calamari. And don’t forget their signature claypots.
The dishes are priced according to size and are good for sharing with friends. The garlic tiger Pprawns ($10 each) make a great entrée. The prawns are succulent and juicy, and the garlic sauce makes for a great dip for the bread so don’t let any single drop go to waste. Be prepared to get messy when you order the chilli crabs ($60) – the crustaceans come stacked atop a bed of fluffy rice, and there are plenty of mussels to go around.
I was sold by the Cajun rock flathead ($45) – a whole baked fish which brings together a lively blend of spice and flavour. Less persuasive was the claypot dish, Orpheus ($15), which was a tad bland.
There are no reservations here, and the crowds rush in, so be sure to get here early before they open for dinner service.
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As we get ready for a Congressional hearing
later today, news of money that Fisker Automotive
owes to the US government is on the mind of regulators and the public. Therefore, the US Department of Energy has announced that it did recently collect $21 million from the struggling automaker. The DOE says that the $21 million was paid back April 11. The company's first repayment, of $10 million out of the roughly $192 million that the company took (it was originally granted a $529 million loan
but never took all of the money), was due Monday but the company did not send that check
. DOE spokeswoman Aoife McCarthy said in a statement that the agency is "taking strong and appropriate action on behalf of taxpayers," and that the $21 million came from a reserve account. Whether the money covers the payment due is not clear.
Today, the ever-positive-in-the-face-of-trouble
co-founder Hekrik Fisker
), company CEO Tony Posawatz (maybe; reports differ) and COO Bernhard Koehler will be questioned by Republican Darrell Issa
's (R-CA) Government Reform and Oversight Committee. Word is that Henrik will say the company could "survive and move forward if it can secure financial and strategic resources, to build on its achievements so far" and that Fisker's problems are the result of "a confluence of events," which sounds like we could be in for some testy testimony.
It's pretty clear Issa has got a negative attitude about the company, since the hearing's official title is: "Green Energy Oversight: Examining the Department of Energy's Bad Bet on Fisker Automotive
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J. Scott Turner: Biology’s Second Law
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Biology’s Second Law
Biology’s First Law is Darwinian natural selection. In its current form, Darwinian gene selectionism promises a comprehensive and coherent theory of biology and evolution. Although Biology’s First Law has come close to delivering on this promise, it has fallen short in several significant ways. It cannot offer a credible theory for the origin of life or for the evolution of life before there were genes. It cannot offer a theory of adaptation that is not tautological. It has no good answer for the phenomenon of biological design. It has no credible explanation for why living systems tend to organize into organisms or “organism-like” systems. It deals with fundamental questions like the nature and origin of intentionality by ignoring them altogether. I will argue that these gaps may be filled by turning to an idea put forth by Darwin’s French contemporary, Claude Bernard, namely the phenomenon of homeostasis. This notion, largely misunderstood and trivialized today, in fact represents a profound statement about the nature of life, with subtleties that we are only now beginning to appreciate. Just as the concept of entropy was needed for there to be a comprehensive theory of thermodynamics, homeostasis is the idea that will lead us to a fully coherent theory of biology: it is Biology’s Second Law.
J. Scott Turner has contributed to the theory of collective intelligence through his fieldwork on the South African species of termite Macrotermes michaelseni, suggesting the architectural complexity and sophistication of their mounds as an instance of his theory of the extended organism and showing the emergence of super-organismal structure.
The mound functions as an external lung for respiratory gas exchange for the colony as a whole. His prior work on the thermal capacity of incubated birds’ eggs showed that an egg with an embryo and an incubating parent function not as two separate organisms but as a coupled physiological unit. Building upon this empirical work, Turner has argued that the principle of homeostasis is a fundamental property of living systems that accounts for the phenomenon of biological design. Turner is the author of two acclaimed books: The Extended Organism: the Physiology of Animal-Built Structures (2000) and The Tinkerer’s Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itself (2007), both published by Harvard University Press and reviewed in a range of journals, including Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, the New York Times Book Review, EMBO Reports, American Scientist, and Nature.
With this argument, Turner counters both Intelligent Design and strong Darwinism, showing how natural selection (Darwinism) is complemented by other factors. Turner proposes that modern evolutionary theory over-emphasizes genetic natural selection, with its tendency to separate information from catalysis at the molecular level. By connecting information and catalysis, epigenesis, coupled with homeostasis, exemplifies the internal, directive capacities of the organism, linking information and behavior. Turner cites termite mounds as an instance of collective intelligence, a form of swarm cognition that is a model for the emergence of cognitive systems in a variety of contexts, including, but not limited to, self-contained nervous systems.
The extended organism principle also justifies the Gaia Hypothesis, suggesting what we can translate from micro to macro, and that principles governing termites offer a perspective on mind. Turner is Professor of Biology at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) in Syracuse, New York. Under a grant from the Templeton Foundation, he has been a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, writing his third book on “Biology’s Second Law,” which builds the case that evolution operates through the complementary principles of Darwinian natural selection (biology’s “First Law”) coupled to homeostasis (biology’s “Second Law”).

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I was watching the BBC2 series on food last night that goes into how big business captured the food industry – last week it was the bottled water industry, next week the pointless pro-biotic yoghurt industry. Last night, it was the turn of the breakfast cereal industry.
A thought struck me as I was watching it.
Before the rise of the breakfast cereal, most of us would have had a “hearty breakfast”, almost certainly of meat, eggs and fish if we could afford it, or of the previous supper’s left overs if we couldn’t.
Then in 1906, the corn flake was invented by someone who could be politely described as a religious quack doctor, but commercialised by his more worldly wise brother. Over the next hundred years, society switched to an ever widening range of corn and wheat based cereals for our breakfast.
What was for many people the largest meal of the day not only shrunk in importance in favour of supper/dinner, but another significant change occurred. A meat rich breakfast was supplanted by a diet dominated by vegetarian options.
Without even thinking about it, we all became vegetarians. At least for one meal of the day.
It makes me wonder, if there is a lesson here.
Breakfast cereals are the triumph of marketing over substance. Some talk about healthy eating, but mainly the products targeted convenience and memorable slogans. Never once did they mention the V word.
Is there a lesson there, to convert the rest of our meals over to the V option by stealth by avoiding all mention of it and simply sell a packaged product that is convenient?
Yes, it means more commercialisation of food, and more food driven by marketing instead of substance, which I know will be an anathema to many of the more activist sorts within the vegetarian lobby. What is more important though, curbing the consumption of meat, or fighting a somewhat lefty battle against capitalist corporations?
You might not like it, but there is no denying that the big breakfast corporations have done more to cut the consumption of meat than all the vegetarian activism combined could have ever achieved.
It was just a thought – and I am sure people will rip it to pieces below.
Incidentally, the classic fried breakfast of bacon and eggs has only been around since the 1920s, and is itself a product of marketing, and American marketing at that.
To promote sales of bacon, early marketing pioneer, Edward Bernays conducted a survey of doctors and reported their recommendations that people eat hearty breakfasts. He sent the results of the survey to 5,000 doctors, along with publicity touting bacon and eggs as a hearty breakfast.
The traditional fry up was born – as a result of an advertising campaign.


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In other news, the Industry Solutions Division of Siemens Ltd. India has received an order from Vedanta Aluminium Ltd. to supply turnkey high-voltage power distribution equipment for an aluminum melting plant in Jharsuguda, Orissa. The project is part of the second phase of expansion at this facility. The goal of the expansion is to increase the annual melting capacity from 0.5 to 1.75 million metric tons and triple the production of ingots. Siemens had already supplied the high-voltage power system for the first expansion stage of the melting plant.


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Niamh Fahey has just finished a legal internship with Community Law and Mediation Limerick. She is currently studying for her FE1s in October. We wish Niamh the best of luck and thank her very much for all her hard work.
CLM has published a new Casebase report on Child Benefit and the Habitual Residence Condition. Casebase is the only database of Social Welfare Appeals decisions in Ireland, with the aim of providing the public and community organisations with access to decisions of the Social Welfare Appeals Office.
This month, we have a guest blog piece by Rory Conlon, a UCD law student who has just completed a summer internship in the CLM office in Coolock. We would like to thank Rory for all his hard work and wish him all the very best in his final year and beyond! Here, Rory writes about his experience of interning with CLM.
Today CLM publishes Making Rights Meaningful: Is there a right to be cared for at home?, a submission to the Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Healthcare, and welcomes the approach taken by the Committee in recognising the need for a cross-party approach on a long-term health strategy. Our submission to the Committee looks at the current framework for home care packages, which is non-statutory. The submission highlights the significant variation in the provision of services in different counties. The services a person requiring care receives is largely dependent on what part of the country that person lives in. In relation to care in a person’s own home, CLM is of the view that the failure to give appropriate consideration to a person’s right to receive care in their home may amount to a breach by the HSE and/or the State of their obligations under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights as enacted by the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003.
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It's been a busy few months at CLM. On Monday our CEO Rose Wall spoke to Near FM's Donie Tarrant about our most recent newsletter and the ongoing work of CLM.
CLM has made a submission to an inter-departmental working group on fuller working lives. This submission is based on a roundtable held by CLM looks at the legal and policy considerations for older people in employment in Ireland and makes the case for introducing greater choice for individuals in their employment and retirement. It covers topics such as age discrimination in employment and the legal position on mandatory retirement and fixed term contracts after retirement. The report also provides a broad overview of the perception and experience of older workers in Irish society and looks at the benefits that gradual or phased retirement could bring. Women continue to be a particularly vulnerable group in the context of employment and retirement and the report looks at this persistent trend. Since the beginning of 2016, we have had a new forum in which older people whose employment and equality rights have been violated can go to – the Workplace Relations Commission. CLM looks at the new WRC in this context and comments on the impact of the lack of legal aid for employment and equality cases.
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I can't believe what I am reading here! I sure hope that Trump does NOT let Paul Ryan do it this way! This is Obamacare all over again! I am angry! READ THIS!!!!!!
Politico reports today that a leaked draft of the GOP’s Obamacare replacement plan shows the House is not fiddling around the edges but moving toward full repeal and replacement of the law.
The legislation would take down the foundation of Obamacare, including the unpopular individual mandate, subsidies based on people’s income, and all of the law’s taxes. It would significantly roll back Medicaid spending and give states money to create high-risk pools for some people with pre-existing conditions. Some elements would be effective right away; others not until 2020.
The replacement plan would have no individual mandate. Instead, there would be a penalty of 30% for those who fail to maintain coverage. So people who wait until they get sick to sign up, as has been happening under Obamacare, will pay more. In place of the subsidies, the new plan would offer people tax credits of $2,000, with people over 60 getting double that amount. As for Medicaid expansion, states would have the option to continue it but federal support would end by 2020.
All of this is still going to cost a lot of money. The plan to cover those costs boils down to something similar to the Cadillac tax:
According to the document, there’s only one single revenue generator to pay for the new tax credits and grants. Republicans are proposing to cap the tax exemption for employer sponsored insurance at the 90th percentile of current premiums. That means benefits beyond that level would be taxed.
And while health care economists on both sides of the aisle favor tax-limits along those lines, politically it’s a hard sell. Both businesses and unions fought the Obamacare counterpart, dubbed the Cadillac tax.
The devil is in the details with proposals like this. The insidious part of the Cadillac tax was that it was designed to gradually ratchet down and eliminate the tax exemption for all employer sponsored insurance. We’ll see whether the GOP proposal has a similar design.
But if the GOP does anything close to what is described above then former Speaker Boehner was wrong when he suggested yesterday that the GOP would only wind up fixing Obamacare rather than repealing and replacing it. Removing the mandate and the subsidies ends the structure of the exchanges. I suspected the GOP might do that and then leave Medicaid expansion in place, but it sounds like they are going to end federal support for that as well. So this is not shaping up to be a repeal in name only.
Politico notes that the document is still preliminary since the GOP is waiting on scoring from the Congressional Budget Office. Depending what that scoring looks like, the shape of the replacement bill could still change significantly.
I understand your point. All I can do is hope they eliminate the mandate, REQUIRE insurance companies to operate in such a way that the people in each state have no fewer than five companies to choose from AND treat pre-existing conditions in a manner similar to assigned-risk insurance for motor vehicles -- each insurer gets a proportionate share of the "marginal" clients.
Yesterday Senators Ted Cruz and Rand Paul each raised awareness of the need for a free market solution to the problem of ObamaCare. Each did so in his own way: Cruz with a serious op-ed, and Paul with some attention-seeking antics. But the ultimate goal of both Senators was the same: making sure that Republicans repeal ObamaCare the right way: with greater freedom of choice for consumers of health care and health insurance.
Cruz’s op-ed begins by insisting that Republicans honor their promise and actually repeal ObamaCare without making it worse.
Cruz outlines six specific proposals: “allow consumers to purchase insurance across state lines…expand health savings accounts…change the tax laws to make health insurance portable…protect continuous coverage…allow small businesses to pool together in association plans to get better rates for their employees… [and] block grant Medicaid to the states.” The general idea behind the proposals is to let the free market do its magic. I hope Republicans who are looking to “replace” ObamaCare decide to “replace” it with the free market.
Rand Paul tried to raise awareness about that same issue with a stunt in which he looked for the secret room where the House version of the ObamaCare...:
Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul marched to the House side of the Capitol Thursday morning, knocked on a locked door and demanded to see a copy of the House’s bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which he believed was being kept under lock and key.
Aides in the room told the senator — before dozens of reporters in a crowded hallway — that there was no bill to see. In fact, it wasn’t the room where GOP members of the Energy and Commerce Committee were told to meet with staff to review the current draft of their bill at all. But that did little to dissuade Paul, openly critical to the House Republican leadership’s preferred path on the process, from making his underlying point.
I’m less sympathetic to Sen. Paul’s demands for an “open and transparent process” than I am to his ultimate goal of freedom in health care. Sometimes an open process in the debating of a bill leads to grandstanding and less productive discussion. It’s not the secretive nature of the process that disturbs me — and ultimately, I think, Sen. Paul reveals his real concern, with which I agree:
Speaker Ryan said, “We’re basically putting into law the Price plan as our replace plan. It’s very similar to the bill that Tom Price has worked on for so many years, that many conservatives co-sponsored last year.”
Secretary Price served as the House Budget chairman in Congress and sponsored his bill every congressional term since the Affordable Care Act became law.
Speaker Ryan explained that despite concerns about the political will to repeal Obamacare, Congress progresses toward repealing Obamacare. He said, “We’re moving to this next right now in Congress. We’re on track. We’re on our schedule. Our plan was always this spring to take on the repeal and replace of Obamacare, so we haven’t changed a thing. I notice there’s a lot of white noise in the press on this, but we’re as committed as ever before.”
The Empower Patients First Act mirrors many of the details of the Ryan plan leaked in a bill previously reported on last month. The bill provides refundable tax credits for health insurance coverage and health insurance accounts (HSA) contributions. The Department of Health and Human Services would provide state “innovation grants” that would create high-risk pools for people with pre-existing conditions.
The OppCast interview provides the first official details of Obamacare’s replacement plan. Congressional staffers denied Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) from viewing the Obamacare secret draft in the Capitol building. Paul submitted his bill to replace Obamacare. Senator Paul and Congressmen Mark Meadows (R-NC) and Jim Jordan (R-OH) pledged to oppose any legislation that does not fully repeal Obamacare. The Ryan plan does not fully repeal Obamacare.
Congressman Mark Meadows told Breitbart News about his concerns about the Ryan plan. He explained, “We are concerned about a new federal plan that will only increase premiums and lead to higher prices. We are not going to fix health care by replacing Obamacare with another plan that won’t work.”
Kentuckian says ‘Conservatives are inclined to leave it’
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today introduced the Health Care Choice Act, which would remove Obamacare's costly insurance mandates and allow residents in one state the option to purchase a health insurance plan of their choice in any other state. The bill is cosponsored by Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and David Vitter (R-LA). Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has introduced companion legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 543.
"Every last word of Obamacare must be repealed," said Sen. Cruz. "And while we continue that fight, we must also send bill after bill to the President's desk to stop its harmful effects. The Health Care Choice Act will reduce costs, force insurers to compete for business and empower consumers to choose a health plan that meets their needs.
"The Administration has done absolutely nothing to prepare for an upcoming Supreme Court decision that could leave millions of Americans unable to afford insurance thanks to this failed law. Republicans must offer the American people alternatives that lower costs and break the status quo that favors big government and big health care business over hardworking Americans. The Health Care Choice Act is one step in that direction.
"This bill is a true market-based reform that will make health insurance more personal and affordable, giving consumers the freedom to select plans that fit their needs, anywhere from Alaska to Texas to Vermont."
Congressman Blackburn added: "Government-run health care has been foisted on the American public. Obamacare has promised a lot to millions of people - with no ability to deliver affordable medical care. That broken promise will be challenged in the Supreme Court on Wednesday. If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the Administration, these millions of people will be stuck with unaffordable health insurance and no guarantee of actual medical care. Sen. Cruz has offered help to these folks. I applaud his effort and I am pleased to see my legislation, H.R. 543, the Health Care Choice Act was included in this bill."
The Health Care Choice Act repeals Title I of Obamacare, which includes the law's most egregious insurance mandates that have caused premiums and out-of-pocket expenses to skyrocket while degrading the quality of Americans' health care choices. The act also amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that insurance policies approved and sold in one state (designated the "primary state") may be allowed to be sold in any other state (i.e. "secondary state") but only if the health plan and insurer comply with certain basic requirements of the secondary state. Some of these requirements include:


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Star asked me what’s so dang good about MY spaghetti. This stuff is craved by people all over Ohio. The funny thing is that it’s cheap and easy! So, I decided to post the recipe. Seriously, folks, it’s so simple.
I boil water (duh). When I add the noodles (usually vermicelli or thin spaghetti), I also add in a tablespoon or so of margarine/butter/vegetable spread whatever, about a 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and some vegetable oil. I let it boil. What this does is flavor the noodles as well as keep them from sticking as much. Still, keep stirring as it boils to your desired tenderness. I like mine just a titch softer than al dente, but it’s up to you.
Drain, do NOT rinse. Or else you’ll rinse off the buttery/salty goodness!
Add Hunt’s tomato sauce (usually 2 of the small cans), parmesan cheese, a bit of garlic powder, and a bit of onion powder. Stir and TA-DA! My cheap and easy spaghetti.
Of course, I like to add an Eckridge hotdog, cut up. Sometimes I like to eat those hard breadsticks with it, or Keebler’s Club crackers.
If you guys try it out or have any questions, let me know! Enjoy!


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Hong Kong Unknown Manufacturer – Outer Space Ape Man.
As so often, toys from Hong kong are just made there without any sign of the manufacturer. Also this ultra rare and scarce Outer Space Ape Man.
Probably made in the early seventies but unsure about that either. No records of history can be found about this Rare Ape Man. The internet does not give much info either so many things are unclear, i will try to find this out.
This Hong Kong Outer Space Ape Man is made out of fragile Plastic and therefore its a miracle the toy survived in one piece. Even better, the Ape is still in working order ! 🙂 Made out of plastic with walking action and swinging arms. Some info from my facebookgroup ( Search for Vintagespacetoys ) reveil that probably the molds of Tetsujin were used to create this ape. Looking at the Toy, there are indeed some similarities among the Ape and Tetsujin.
What makes this toy even more special is that its accompanied by its original box in good condition. Very nice artwork with the ape on a lunar surface with saturn with rings on the background. Maybe the toy was made for the movie, Planet of the Apes, who will tell….
THe condition of Ape Man is excellent, complete, all original AND working. The battery compartment is clean, the original cover is present. The toy takes 2 C-Cells and works fine and strong.
The box is rough but complete and in good condition. I NEVER saw this toy before in all my years of collecting. Rare and Scarce for sure !
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A 3D-only version of Minecraft is now on the market, and it’s called The House of the Dead 2.
The game is set in the near future where the undead have become the dominant race, and players have to use their own ingenuity to survive.
The developers have put together a Kickstarter campaign for the game, which is looking to raise $3 million.
The project is still in its early days, and there is no release date for the first public release yet.
There is no word on a release date or price, but if you’re interested in backing The House, you can pledge $15 to get your very own copy of the game.
The Kickstarter is currently on a $30,000 goal.


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A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific
Early in the Nineteenth century, the mountain men emerged as a small but distinctive group whose knowledge and experience of the Transmississippi West extended the national consciousness to continental dimensions. Though Lewis and Clark blazed a narrow corridor of geographical reality, the west remained largely terra incognita until trappers and traders -- Jim Bridger, Kit Carson, Tom Fitzpatrick, Jed Idiah -- opened paths through the sun-choked mountain wilderness. Collectively, they came to know every stream, mountain crag, canyon cataract, waterless stretch of plain, refuge of game, hostile Indian hideout.
By the time the beaver market collapsed in the early 1840s, the mountain men's remarkable familiarity with the land provided a map to the Rockies, the Great Plains, the Mexican southwest, the disputed Oregon Territory, and California. They had already helped the first missionaries across the continent to lay groundwork for the wagon trains that followed. They opened the way west to Frimont and played a major role in the pivotal years of 1845 to 1848, when Texas was annexed, the Oregon question decided, and the Mexican War ended with the southwest and California in American hands and the Pacific Ocean our western boundary.
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Some people use their bodies as a canvas for beautiful masterpieces, covering themselves head to toe in gorgeous tattoos that tell a story. But for others, a small tattoo here and there does the trick. If you’re in the market for a super cute and super tiny tat, you’ve come to the right place. These 25 beautiful small tattoos for girls will give you the inspiration you need to step up to the plate- or the tattoo gun, I should say.
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Over 50 Healthy Work Lunchbox Ideas The start of a new year is a great time for changing up our routines. Where better to start than with lunch? Here are over 50 Healthy Work Lunchbox Ideas
Doing Slimming World? You need our Slimming World Free Foods List to keep on the straight and narrow. Beef Chicken Duck Goat Minced Beef (must be l.
Low FODMAP Recipe - Thai chicken and sweet potato soup (leave out sugar)
Chicken noodle soup Mary Cadogans aromatic broth will warm you up on a winters evening - it contains ginger, which is particularly good for colds, too
Hot 'n' spicy roasted red pepper and tomato soup. Whizz up this warming and vibrant soup in 10 minutes for a filling veggie supper, rich in vitamin C
Moroccan chickpea soup recipe - How to make Moroccan chickpea soup
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15 Meatless Meals Your Whole Family Will Love - Hummus Spiral Wraps
Cream of wild mushroom soup - This rich and filling dish is the perfect way to use up end-of-season mushrooms on the cheap
This simple and creamy squash soup has just 6 ingredients including squash, onion, olive oil, milk, and toasted walnuts. It& my go-to soup recipe!
Rich tomato soup with pesto -- When you’ve got rich tinned tomatoes and intense, fruity SunBlush tomatoes, there’s no reason not to enjoy homemade tomato soup in the depths of winter.
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Mexican soup with chicken: All those typically Mexican flavours - lime, coriander, chilli - combined in a scrumptious soup with the crunch of tortilla chips


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Given that I’m seeing a total of 33 shows during this magic festival (haha yes – crazy, I know!) it is rare that I would go back and see a show again. In fact I can only recall this happening one other time during the MMF. This year, an opportunity arose to see the delightful and divine Lucy Darling (performed by Carisa Hendrix) in her show “The Ladies’ Guide to Deceit and Debauchery”. Given the theatrical nature of this show, portions of it end up being a sort of ‘choose your own adventure’ scenario (with Lucy at the helm of course) so I was compelled to see the show again to see what new adventures unfolded with Lucy Darling. Little did I realise exactly how exciting this show would be.
Before I commence raving about this show, I should dispel some assumptions about seeing the same show twice: I was not coerced to see it again, I sought it out and used my own free will; I was never bored – in fact seeing the show twice gave me a chance to experience some small tweaks that Lucy had made to her show. Being able to see this show twice was a gift in itself, as I’m sure there were some jokes or aspects I missed the first time around as I was so caught up and focused on Lucy’s aesthetic and her varied skills.
Prior to the show, the premise was explained to the audience – especially regarding the improv sections of the show and that audience members would have the chance to contribute and help out. During this show, I was sitting next to a friend and also had plenty of other friends located in the audience. This is important, due to the ‘improv’ nature of the show and the simple fact that the enjoyment of this show is magnified when shared with friends. Lucy Darling also took an easier path with some audience members, asking those in the front row if they could help her / if they were the person she’s looking for and if not she simply moved on to the next person. Lucy has so much charm and a great persona that finding some to help her was never a difficult task. Audience members reacted to Lucy’s scenarios in clever ways and really got into the spirit of what Lucy was asking of them, which I relished. I even had the chance to help Lucy on stage, which remains a festival highlight for me! I adored being able to help Lucy and she rewarded me so well (as with all her audience helpers). Who could ask for more from a show?!
This show was definitely as much fun as the first time I saw it (perhaps even moreso). Lucy Darling casts such an enchanting spell on her audience. I’m really going to miss her and I hope she returns to Australia soon.


Zaun’s trackless bi-folding speed gates are the ideal solution for where the speed is essential. Or where space is at a premium.
Bi-Folding speed gates designed with high security in mind. Gates manufactured with a post with a bi-folding leaf attached. The gates have a hinge between the leafs which further assists in very fast operation speeds.
Unlike other bi-folding speed gates, this does not require a track either in the ground or overhead to fold the leaf. This gate uses a unique folding system. Trackless bi-folding speed gate leaf sections with fully welded assemblies. The leaf frames are constructed of CHS and RHS sections.
Featuring an integrated control panel and encoder which allows for a fast and smooth direct drive action. Designed to typically open at more than twice the speed of traditional swing gates of the same size. This ensures a fast throughput of traffic whilst maintaining the security of the site.
Available with your choice of in-fill either with vertical bars and/or other welded mesh to suit the fence line. All available in almost any RAL colour to suit the local environment.
Typically a bi-folding speed gate system consists of either a single unit of one post, one bi-folding leaf. Spanning up to 3.5 metres. On wider openings typically up to 7 metres span a pair of opposite handed units (a bi-parting pair) need to be used. In the centre of the roadway a receptor plate is required to receive the leading edge rollers when the gate reaches the fully closed position.


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If you buy this, order "Your Weapon" with it
Brewzerr | On the fault line, CA | 07/03/2007
(5 out of 5 stars)
"One thing should be made very clear... This album may have been reissued in the early 90's, but it was originally released in the very early 80's. I've been listening to it for well over 20 years and I still enjoy it just as much as I ever did. Kat Arthur was the Janis of punk and her and Brian Hansen were just as iconic a punk "couple" to me as Exene and John Doe. This album in my opinion (along with their follow-up "Your Weapon") was one of the best punk/hardcore albums to come out of L.A., but it's been sorely overlooked and underrated through the years. LW made some crap albums in the late 80's (just my opinion), and perhaps that overshadowed the legacy of the first 2 albums. Whatever the case, this album is a must-have if you appreciate high-quality early 80's punk that verges on hardcore, but with a touch of bluesiness. Early LW sort of bridged the gap between the old Orange County sound (Adolescents, T.S.O.L., Social Distortion) and the L.A. punk-roots scene (Gun Club, Blasters, X, Flesh Eaters)... and this album, along with the equally essential "Your Weapon" are the best examples."
John G. Gibson | Outer Islands, HI | 11/16/2005
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"Kat Arthur and Legal weapon were fantastic- but they weren't an early nineties band. We were wearing out our Death of Innocence vinyl in 83. Legal Weapon were a defining force in the mid eighties with the help of seminal OC/LA punks like Frank Agnew and Steve Soto. By the nineties punk was nothing but a twitching corpse and the bands trying to hold up the cadaver and make it twitch were at that point just vampires desperate to feed."
The best of Legal Weapon
S. Farren | quincy, ma United States | 02/10/2002
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"If you want to pick up some not so well known punk-pop music from the early nineties, this one won't disappoint. The vocals that Kat Arthur delivers are sexy and powerful and the musicianship is straight ahead and right on. This is the best Legal Weapon has to offer...and it delivers the goods with powerful guitar riffs on tunes like "Waiting in Line" and "Wanna Be" to great bass licks on "Death of Innocence". The career of Legal Weapon didn't last long, but this album should go down as one the best "alternative" albums of the early nineties."


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We are now expanding our product lines with new farmers groups to produce more organic products such as pepper, coffee, and coconut sugar. We work together with our farmers in developing a Fairtrade certified supply chain for our products.
Fairtrade is an alternative approach to conventional trade based on a partnership between producers and traders, businesses and consumers. It provides the farmers with a better deal and improved terms of trades, and offers consumers a powerful way to reduce poverty through their every day shopping.
We are committed to the Fairtrade International Certification (FLO-CERT) to support our mission: to develop an organic farming community with premium quality products and with the ability to improve the farmers’ daily living standards.

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Listen: James Suggs Performs: “Side Door at the Palladium”
In August, All Night Jazz kicked off a new monthly feature that will air on the first Friday of the month at 10 p.m. on WUSF called, Side Door at the Palladium.
We’ll be broadcasting recordings of live performances made at The Palladium Theater at St. Petersburg College.
If you missed this months broadcast, click below to listen now:
This month, we’ll feature trumpeter James Suggs, performing a tribute to trumpet legend Miles Davis.
The performance was recorded in February of this year at the Side Door Cabaret inside the historic theater, and features a band of all Tampa Bay area residents: Jeremy Carter on tenor saxophone, Jean Bolduc, drums, John Richardson piano and Brandon Robertson, bass.
Special guest appearance by Austin Vickrey on alto sax.
Suggs has been a fixture in the Tampa Bay area for several years. He teaches at the University of South Florida, and his first major label recording, “Your Gonna Hear From Me,” came out in 2018 on Arbors Records.
The broadcast will also feature interviews with Suggs and Palladium Executive Director Paul Wilborn.
Join us the first Friday of the month at 10 p.m. for Side Door at the Palladium, on WUSF 89.7.


We service your vehicle at the time that suits you, wherever you are. Lubemobile is the trusted Australian mobile mechanic fleet servicing vehicles all over Australia. We travel everywhere from Kambah to Ngunnawal, Harrison and Casey. That includes home and office locations, and even holiday destinations. Equipped for a full vehicle service on the spot, we’ll keep your car servicing up to date when and wherever you need us. Our mobile mechanics have already attended to and serviced 1,172 vehicles in your area over the last year completing full services and repairs like Log book servicing. There is no need to travel into a shop. We are the completely mobile mechanical fleet attending your vehicle at your designated location to complete everything from automatic transmission reconditioning to radiator repair and replacement. Use our on site tyre specialists for all your vehicle’s tyre and wheel needs.
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Nov. 21, 2017—Bolt On Technology's Mobile Manager Pro users can now record and send 10-second video clips to their customers.
This free update to Mobile Manager Pro helps educate customers on the condition of their vehicles.
“A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a video gives the whole story,” said Tom Emery, senior software engineer at Bolt On. “This feature is the second most requested addition to our software.
A picture can show leaks, heavily worn parts and such; but parts that wear over time and have excessive movement need video to relay the complete message. Sometimes, there is no way that all part failures can be depicted with a picture. This is where the new video feature helps to educate customers.
Photo courtesy of Bolt On Technology.


Instead of an original post, here are some of the smart, helpful, and sometimes funny pieces I’ve found and shared on social media:
- Some writers act as if only certain situations warrant plain language, but Cheryl Stephens challenges that assumption. Instead, she asks the simple question: Is the reader human? Read this informative interview with WordRake.
- “A judge’s decision, and the effort behind it, should be understandable to all Canadians.” Why judges are junking legal jargon (thank goodness!). By Daniella Murynka via The Walrus.
- 15 headline formulas that work, like “The secret to” and “This is how to,” by Matthew Royse.
- Four editors give tips on writing headlines, like use better verbs, alliteration and intrigue. A classic from 2014 by Tiên Nguyen via Open Notebook.
- The science of strong business writing. When our brains hear more-specific words, we “taste,” “feel,” and “see” traces of the real thing. Bill Birchard via Harvard Business Review.
- How reading online hurts readers’ eyes, bodies and brains, and what to do: Get to the point faster, organize better, make it easier to read and more skimmable, says Ann Wylie.
- Binoculated? Max-vaxx? Doppeljabber or bivaxual or twinshot or antibody-double? David Astle asks how we should describe those who’ve rolled up their sleeves for the greater good and gone for their double shots, via The Age.
- How to avoid ableist, exclusive language (like unconscious bias vs blind spot) by Ted Kitterman quoting Nikki Hopewell at Rush Medical.
- Don’t always use ‘went,’ says Proofreading Services, offering 335 options. Try a more exciting word, like ‘pounced,’ ‘ambled,’ ‘rocketed.’ (Please don’t use ‘perambulated’ or ‘peregrinated,’ though.)
- Less or fewer? Doris & Bertie’s Dr. Clare Lynch explains ‘fewer’ is used with countable nouns, ‘less’ with uncountable.
Made me laugh
- From R. Eric Thomas (@oureric) on Twitter: “So now I’m hearing that the ‘government’ is making you show an ‘age passport’ to enter a bar or buy alcohol and a ‘driving passport’ to operate a tractor trailer? Wowwww. Smdh” [shaking my damn head]
- Mental Floss shares comments from Roger Ebert on 50 movies he hated, such as “This movie doesn’t scrape the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t the bottom of the barrel. This movie isn’t below the bottom of the barrel. This movie doesn’t deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence with barrels.”
Did you enjoy reading this roundup of items? Do you have any others to share? Please add in the comments.


Electric vehicle adoption has been great in California, but if often leaves out low income households. This is because low income housing mainly live in the city, in apartments that doesn't have home charging. And work places such as fast restaurants often do not charging stations either.
What it does
We built Green Routes to help users to navigate local charging stations for daily usage as well as long distance planning.
How we built it
We took data from California Energy Commission, California Open Data Portal and mapped out entire CA power plants as well as EV station, from there, using different sites on San Jose Clean Energy, east bay community energy, peninsula clean energy, SV Clean Energy and City of Palo Alto Utilities and other CCA to find the cheapest route, cleanest route and fastest route.
Challenges we ran into
We thought electricity is based on proximity of the station, apparently not.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We built a working prototype in less than 8 hours
What we learned
How grid works and how clean energy works.
What's next for Green Routes
We will gather data for all CCA and areas they cover, and create algorithm on the most efficient mapping.


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Due to concerns regarding community health regarding the spread of COVID-19, the Greater Phoenix Chamber team has elected to shift to a telework office and postpone or cancel upcoming events. The Chamber team will still be available to members via phone and email. The Chamber will continue to communicate with you as more information and resources become available. The Chamber’s COVID-19 resource page will remain current with news impacting businesses.
Additionally, our team will be sharing a weekly community health update to ensure that you and your business are aware of what is happening in our community.
Professional Women’s Alliance: Altering your career blueprint throughout time
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A GROUP of protesters chanting "Sotheby's, Sotheby's leave them alone, let us take our ancestors home'' assailed art collectors arriving at an auction of "Important Australian Art'' in suburban Melbourne last night.
Five protesters led by two staff from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre were demonstrating outside Sotheby's at the proposed sale of "racist" 19th-century black plaster busts of Van Diemens Land Aboriginal chief Woureddy and his wife Truganini, who to the offence of Aboriginal people is often referred to as the last "full-blood" Tasmanian Aboriginal.
Sotheby's had withdrawn the works from sale just hours before the auction after it learnt of the protest and growing attention in Tasmania, where the Greens leader Nick McKim had backed the Aboriginal activist Michael Mansell's call for the busts to be returned to the local indigenous community.
The busts had been estimated to sell for between $500,000 and $700,000 for the vendors, a NSW family who has owned them by familial descent from the original artist, Benjamin Law.
One of the organisers, Sara Maynard, from the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, said her group had decided to go ahead with the demonstration to "negotiate" with the vendors to return the busts to Tasmania's Aboriginal community. She said she could not predict what would happen to the busts if returned but could not rule out their destruction.

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PIQUA, Ohio (WDTN) — A man reportedly drowned in the Great Miami River in Piqua on New Year’s Day, according to Miami Valley Today.
According to our partners at Miami Valley Today, dispatchers at the Miami County Communications Center received a call from a citizen shortly after 5 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 1 saying they saw a boat in the water near the dam.
A short time later, the same citizen reported seeing what was believed to be a body near the overturned watercraft.
Piqua police officers responded and brought the victim to shore. Piqua Fire Department medics performed life-saving measures and contacted Upper Valley Medical Center, where the victim was later transported.
There is no update on the victim’s condition at this time.
Crews searched the river and banks to ensure the victim was alone at the time of the incident. They also recovered the victim’s watercraft.


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“This train will be terminating at Walthamstow. Please, Mind The Gap”
With years of listening to Victoria Underground line announcers call out this village name, and never quite having a good reason to stay on all the way to the end of the track (even by accident, which is a genuine London miracle) one day this Christmas break we found ourselves whistling out to Walthamstow with a spare afternoon and a hankering for something slightly different.
Turning out of the station and passing the historic buildings of old Walthamstow village (thanks to Jaime’s recommendations we already want to revisit and explore a little more) we began to wander as all intrepid explorers armed with the internet do.
Intrigued (and with me beginning to wonder where my friend was guiding me to) we followed the GPS along residential streets until we turned into the Ravenswood Industrial Estate where an explosion of colour hides away behind plain warehouse walls.
Not only is Gods Own Junkyard the largest collection of neon signs outside of the US…
…but Chris Bracey’s family have had the sign-making workshop in Walthamstow since the 1950’s and Chris himself was making signs for almost 40 years, including all the original Soho peep-show signs, fairground lighting, movie props and shop fronts.
Akin to waking up in a Baz Luhrman film – and shades of the real Moulin Rouge – it is simply impossible to taken in everything in one look. So, after settling in a corner of the Rolling Scone Cafe with a hot chocolate and tea respectively (we called it warding off the winter cold, but really any excuse will do) before another wander to two around the incredible space (and a visit around to the corner pub for a table full of fries accompanied by feline hosts.)
Well, contrary to the sky blue hue of London Underground maps, I’ve decided that the Victoria Line should be rainbow coloured, with Gods Own Junkyard the neon Leprechaun pot of genius chaos at the end. Just make sure you check the opening hours and their social media before visiting to ward off disappointment.
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Seventeen years after its release of Whitney House’s “One Wish (For Christmas),” the singer’s estate and Legacy Recordings has unveiled a lyric video for the seasonal hit.
“Whitney’s classic performance — an uplifting soulful plea for hope, peace, and unity on Christmas Day — provides the soundtrack for an animated holiday short film by filmmaker Katia Temkin in the song’s first official music video,” Legacy Recordings said of the visual.
“Temkin’s vision for ‘One Wish (for Christmas)’ takes place in a whimsical fantasia filled with familiar symbols of the holiday season — reindeer, ornaments, bells ringing, stars twinkling, snow falling — an evocation of home, hearth, friends, and family coming together to celebrate the holiday spirit. Immersing the viewer in a sparkling glittering winter wonderland, ‘One Wish (for Christmas)’ blends the song’s lyrics — glowing on-screen like Christmas lights— with performance footage of Whitney from her One Wish: The Holiday Album era.”
“One Wish (for Christmas)” was the lone single from Houston’s 2003 Christmas LP One Wish: The Holiday Album, the singer’s sixth studio album and the penultimate release prior to her 2012 death. Houston was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year.


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Muse have won the British Live Act prize at tonight’s (February 14) BRIT Awards in London.
The band claimed the prize, presented by triple nominee and Lily Allen’s actor dad Keith, at the Earl’s Court ceremony.
“Thank you very much and thanks to our girlfriends for putting up with our schedule,” joked frontman Matt Bellamy. “Happy Valentine‘s day!”
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"Is Democracy Sustainable?" by Riley Lewis
The tremendous significance of Democracy and its appeal is measured by the fact that more than half of the countries in the world are Democratic. Like all institutions, democracy has an origin story that goes back twenty-five centuries to the ancient city of Athens. Furthermore, two things were born out of the discoveries of the Athenians, democracy, and philosophy. These two forces often stood in opposition to each other because early Greek philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle, and Thucydides, to name a few, were skeptical of the anarchic nature of Athenian democracy.
The anarchic nature of democracy is still with us today; we are left with the same questions that consumed Plato and Aristotle. What is the nature of humankind? What is the common good? Is democracy the optimal form of governance? In Plato’s eyes, Athenian democracy was flawed. People were perceived as impulsive and unregulated, behaving in their self-interest instead of advancing the common good. Moreover, I suspect that Plato’s ideas would be confirmed to him if he were alive today, witnessing chaos unfold right before our eyes.
Let us return to the origin story of Democracy because you might be wondering why it is regarded as the Holy Grail of governance. The idea of Democracy dominated the latter half of the twentieth century, expanding itself to be a global institution through the creation of instruments such as the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, and the International Criminal Court. That said, the new wave of democratic movements, movements that are losing momentum around the world, dates back to three significant historical events; the outbreak of the First World War, the outbreak of the Second World War, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The outbreak of World War 1 was a terrible shock of such great magnitude that it permanently altered the concept of a sovereign state, the ideation of an international community of leaders, and the punishment of Germany in the Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1918 in the Hall of Mirrors in Paris, France. The end of World War 1 also resulted in the collapse of the Russian empire, the German empire, and the Austro-Hungarian empire, and the Ottoman Turks. In other words, several systems of government that had lasted for centuries were unable to remain in-tact, leaving Democracy on the table as a viable option. Following the end of World War 2, we had seen various forms of nationalism, fascism, authoritarianism, and communism crumble, again leaving Democracy as a uniquely viable option.
The economic, political, and social collapse of the Soviet Union, in addition to the brutality of Joseph Stalin, cemented the idea that democracy, or government by the people, was indeed the ultimate pathway to sustainable, peaceful governance. Fast forward nearly 30 years into the future, from 1991 to 2020, and it appears that Democracy is on its last legs.
The great myth about the downfall of Democracy is based on external threats; whether it is foreign election interference or misinformation, this myth is alive and well. The scapegoat tactic is used both because it is convenient and also because it shifts the burden of responsibility for our actions onto external entities. The truth is, in my observation, that Democracy is built on an unstable foundation and is not sustainable. Perhaps this is hyperbolic, so allow me to qualify this statement. Democracy, in its current form, is not resilient. In other words, the sheer chaos that has commenced in the United States, and around the world, in the last three years alone is a feature of the system, not a bug.
I should make this clear now, I am certainly not advocating for monarchy or a group of philosopher-kings to force their way into power. I just spent several paragraphs explaining that nearly every form of government, aside from democracy, seems to have failed at one point or another. That said, I want to revisit the skepticism of the ancient Greek philosophers who challenged the notion of democracy. Greek philosophers were skeptical of the Democratic systems by nature because popular sovereignty is synonymous with majority rule, not necessarily what is best for the common good. Indeed, there is a fine line between democracy and anarchy and the world’s strongest time-tested democracies are currently falling apart at the seams.
By now, you might be wondering what my point is, and I will make myself crystal clear. My point is that the chaos we see around the world is to be expected. Furthermore, democracy is inherently prone to political instability due to the anarchic nature of the world and the selfish nature of the individual. At the end of the twentieth century, democracy appeared to reign supreme as the optimal power-sharing arrangement between the people and their elected officials. The political will for democracy combined with a sophisticated system of checks and balances was supposed to usher at the end of history.
In the early 1990s, Bill Clinton assured the world that power politics had been rendered obsolete in this new age of self-determination and cooperation. This was a wonderful idea at the time, however, the expansion of several authoritarian regimes has rendered Clinton’s idea obsolete itself.
Democracy is traditionally regarded as a morally good system that serves people by the means of an accountable, inclusive government. Government by the people and for the people is not only moral but also ethical, and my goal is not to diminish this idea. However, my goal is to highlight the fact that Democracy is synonymous with representation, but not necessarily with an effective government. My vision is for a resilient political system that produces some sense of stability and order. To that end, my question is about the sustainability of Democracy. I will leave it with you, is Democracy sustainable?

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The University of North Carolina gets an exclusive gift from Jordan Brand with the new Air Jordan 1 Low OG “UNC” PE. Jordan Brand and UNC have a long history together as the university is Michael Jordan’s alma mater and has inspired numerous colorways over the years.
This limited-edition Air Jordan 1 Low OG was gifted to the university’s football team and comes dressed in the Tar Heels’ signature Carolina Blue. The sneaker has a “Sail” leather base with suede overlays in “University Blue.” The signature Nike Swoosh has a pebbled exterior in a shade of deep “Navy.” Other “Navy” elements are seen on the Nike Air tongue tag and small Nike Swoosh on the forefoot.
The signature Air Jordan Wings appear on the heel in “Sail,” while UNC branding is seen on the sneaker’s ascot-inspired insole. The sockliner is given a luxurious finish as the inside of the sneaker is lined with quilted “University Blue” silk.
Take a look at the Air Jordan 1 Low OG “UNC” PE below. While this sneaker won’t be releasing to the public anytime soon, the UNC Tar Heels invite you to suit up to secure the next pair.

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illegal stuff is even more illegaler
Via Think Progress, Rep. Virginia Foxxxxxxxxx is at it again. This time, she wants to tack on an amendment to the Defense Appropriations Bill (HR 2219) to authorize the Department of Defense to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act. Which it already does, of course, but she wants to make extra super-duper sure that gay members of the military really, really, really are denied all benefits that "opposite-sex married couples" are guaranteed:
The proposed amendment would reaffirm Congress’ expectation that funds shall not be used for benefits, such as housing, education, medical services, transportation, etc., for same-sex couples on the same basis as opposite-sex married couples.
Even though the DOD already denies these benefits to same-sex couples under DOMA, Foxxxxxxxxx is thinking ahead and planning for hypothetical contingencies in which—heaven forbid—the courts acknowledge that discriminating against gay servicemen and women is, you know, illegal:
It is not enough for the Department of Defense to dismiss all concerns about this and many other issues involving marriage status and benefits by pointing to the existence of the DOMA. There is no contingency “Plan B” to deal with this issue if federal courts invalidate that law.
But hey, it's not like Foxxxxxxxxx wants to make it extra super-duper clear that the DOD should not grant benefits to gay couples because she hates gay people. She's already done plenty to demonstrate that—like voting against the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. And sponsoring a bill to amend the Constitution to say that marriage is between one man and one woman. And of course giving her noxious speech against the Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Prevention Act:
I also would like to point out that there was a bill -- the hate crimes bill that's called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay. This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills.
But this bill isn't about hating on gay people. Nope, this is about how gosh darned expensive it would be for the DOD if it had to suddenly start treating everyone equally:
Given the potentially enormous cost of extending marriage benefits to same-sex couples and their dependents, Congress can and should enact a policy making it clear that Defense Department funds should not be used in ways that violate federal law: the Defense of Marriage Act.
And that's why Congress needs to act fast to pass yet another law to ensure that something that is already illegal is even more illegaler. Because we certainly wouldn't want equal rights for all Americans, particularly those willing to sacrifice their lives for their country, to cost us money.


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Nintendo will sneak into Summer Game Fest with a new Direct
Rumors of a Nintendo Direct in late June are true, TRG sources can corroborate.
While Nintendo was a no-show at Summer Games Fest proper, a Nintendo Direct later this month would still let Nintendo slip through the games party’s back door. With massive announcements at Summer Games Fest around known quantities like Starfield and Diablo 4, and then new surprises like Minecraft Legends, Nintendo has its work cut out for it with a new Nintendo Direct.
In the company‘s latest Nintendo Direct in February, Nintendo showed off a slew of updates, including new tracks for Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, an all-new entry in the Fire Emblem series in the form of Fire Emblem Warriors: Three. Hopes, and the announcement of Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Remasters of classics like Chrono Cross and early Front Mission games were more low-key slam dunks that complemented an impressive Direct lineup.
But above all, what will we see at the next Nintendo Direct? Let’s put on a Power Glove, place our hands on my questionably accurate crystal ball, and watch for a look of hope.
There’s no way to avoid Breath of the Wild 2 swirling mists from our crystal ball. Everyone’s hungry for more information, so it would be nice to get a deeper look at gameplay changes, story, or even a more specific release date beyond the vague “spring 2023” which we have to work with now. Link and crew are a quieter bunch than Mario, but they’re part of the powerful first-party scaffolding that keeps Nintendo on firm ground.
Deep in both of our hearts, and hidden behind a few other things in the oracle ball, is the possibility of Metroid Prime 4 appearing. News of Samus’ final main adventure would be a massive reveal for Nintendo. We’ve had nothing but tumbleweeds since we discovered in 2019 that Metroid Prime 4 was being scrapped and rebooted with the help of Retro Studios. It’s a long time to wait for a preview, and I’m willing to bet the latest Metroid will finally get some screen time.
And then just to hedge my oracular bets I’m going to put my prediction credentials on the line and say it’s a lock we’ll see Xenoblade Chronicles 3. With a July release there’s no way Nintendo won’t benefit no chance to show us more of the latest entry in the sci-fi JRPG series. Another trailer would make more sense here, given how close we are to release, especially if it shows off more gameplay, given how co-op play can shine with the new party size of up to seven.
But for now, all we can do is wait and dream of an imminent visit from some of Nintendo’s gaming luminaries.


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