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Tickets are an inventory item and a form of currency that can be used to purchase items such as gumdrops, stingers, and royal jellies. It's also used to buy things from the Ticket Tent, namely certain Event bees, gold eggs, star treats, and a cub buddy. Tickets can also be used to speed up the process of Blender when crafting items. Tickets also have the face of a Basic Bee.
To see how much honey it would cost if you buy tickets with honey, see the Ticket Shop page (The calculation formula hasn't been known since the 11/25/2018 update because the cost increases in a very complex way).
Ways to Obtain
- The player can obtain tickets as a reward for acquiring badges. Collecting badges gives 5 tickets for earning Cadet badges, 10 tickets for earning Hotshot badges, 15 tickets for earning Ace badges, 25 tickets for earning Master badges, and 40 tickets for earning Grandmaster badges.
- The player can buy tickets from the Ticket Shop, located outside the Mountain Top Shop.
- Very rarely, flowers will generate a ticket token instead of a honey or treat token when collecting pollen. The base probability is around 1/1000 (0.1%), although it does increase with Loot Luck.
- Some bears give tickets as rewards for completing quests (See the quest lists on the bears' pages to see which quests give tickets).
- There is a chance of getting a ticket as a reward for killing mobs. The probability depends on the type of mob as well as on your Loot Luck, while Tunnel Bear, Stump Snail, and King Beetle are guaranteed to grant tickets upon defeat. Wild Windy Bee will also yield ticket tokens.
- Collecting pollen from sparkles may yield tickets, be it from faces or fireflies.
- There are ticket tokens hidden in various places – see locations below.
- Redeeming certain valid codes:
- 38217 (Gives 5 tickets).
- Bopmaster (Gives 5 tickets).
- Cog (Gives 5 tickets).
- Crawlers (Gives 5 tickets).
- Roof (Gives 5 tickets).
- Connoisseur (Gives 5 tickets).
- Discord100k (Gives 3 tickets + other stuff).
- Wax (Gives 5 tickets + other stuff).
- Wink (Gives 5 tickets + other stuff).
- 1MLikes (Gives 1 ticket + other stuff).
- Buying them from the Robux Shop.
- Popping a normal, rare, epic, legendary, supreme, or festive sprout often yields ticket tokens (The rarer the sprout, the more tickets it will yield; rare sprouts and above guarantee tickets).
- Honeystorms are guaranteed to spawn ticket tokens (increments of 1-5 tickets per field).
- The Wealth Clock gives tickets every hour after interacting with it, and increases incrementally every hour, stopping at the fifth (1 ticket first time, 2 second time, 3 third time, 4 fourth time, and 5 fifth time and onwards).
- As a rare drop from Festive Gifts.
- Winning them from Normal, Mega, and Extreme Memory Match.
- Through a cub buddy gift.
- The Commando Chick will always drop 1 ticket upon being captured.
- Capturing it on the 25th time gives 99 extra tickets for a total of 100 tickets.
- As a common drop from a meteor.
The following methods are no longer possible.
- As a drop from Stockings (Only possible during Beesmas 2020).
- Opening the Paper Gift Box gives 20 tickets and other items (Only possible during Beesmas 2020).
- On his third visit, Sun Bear gave 250 tickets as the prize for finishing his quests.
- Snowbear, a mob exclusive to Beesmas 2020, granted tickets upon defeat.
- Completing Bee Bear's Festive Bee Workshop 3 and A Beesmas Miracle quests before or after purchasing the Festive Bee Pack and Cub Buddy Launch Pack would grant 500 and 250 extra tickets respectively. In addition, obtaining Festive Bee from the Festive Present in Beesmas 2019 or the Festive Fight Finale quest in Beesmas 2020 also refunded the player's 500 tickets.
Tickets may only be claimed from each of these spots once.
- On top of the biggest pineapple in the Pineapple Patch. This token grants 3 tickets (To get it, use the Parachute or Glider and glide down from a high spot).
- In the back of Red HQ, near the ceiling (The best way to get it seems to be to get x5 Haste, climb on top of the teleporter, jump up and walk on the edge of the leaderboard, and then glide to the ticket. The enhanced jump ability granted by certain hats, boots, and/or the bear morph will also help).
- In the very back left corner inside the Mountain Top Shop.
- On a "cloud" fairly high above the Pine Tree Forest and Pumpkin Patch. This token grants 5 tickets. (Jump off the tip of the red shoulder guard of the 30 Bee Gate, then glide or parachute down to it).
- On a small ledge between the Lion Bee Gate and the Brave Bee Gate. This token grants 5 tickets. Use the slingshot and move yourself to the left. Parachute at the right moment to land on the rock. Alternative: Jump down from in front of the Lion Bee Gate. A Parachute/Glider can be helpful, but not absolutely necessary.
- Behind the red shoulder guard of the Bear Gate (i.e. inside the 30 Bee Area). This token grants 10 tickets.
- On the awning over Mother Bear's area. (Easily reached from the ramp that leads to the Honey Bee Gate).
- On top of the Ant Gate. This token grants 5 tickets.
- Behind the Honey Dispenser in the Lava Obby. Upon entering, immediately turn right. This token gives 3 tickets. This replaced one of the Plastic Egg locations.
- Underneath the Basic Bee Gate ramp, where Honey Bee used to be. This token gives 3 tickets. This replaced one of the plastic egg locations.
- In the Blue Maze, turn left and then take the first right. This grants 5 tickets. This replaced one of the Plastic Egg locations.
- Inside the tunnel behind the Coconut Dispenser in the Coconut Cave. This token grants 5 tickets (In addition, there used to be a ticket token on the rise between the Noob Shop and the hives, where Sun Bear's RV was parked for his Spring visit, but it disappeared after Sun Bear left).
- 6 tickets are required to use the Royal Jelly Dispenser near the Clover Field / Noob Shop / Dandelion Field.
- 1, 10 or 100 tickets is required to buy Gumdrops from the Gumdrop Shop (1 ticket = 3 gumdrops; 10 tickets = 30 gumdrops; 100 tickets = 300 gumdrops).
- 10, 100 or 1,000 tickets is required to buy Stingers from the Stinger Shop (10 tickets = 1 stinger; 100 tickets = 10 stingers; 1,000 tickets = 100 stingers)
- 20 or 200 tickets is required to buy Magic Beans from the Magic Bean Shop (20 tickets = 1 magic bean; 200 tickets = 10 magic beans)
- 1 ticket is required to use an Instant Converter.
- 10 tickets are required to use the Ant Pass Dispenser.
- The Ticket Tent has the following items available: gold egg (50 tickets), Cobalt and Crimson Bee (250 tickets each), miscellaneous Event bees (500 tickets), star treats (1000 tickets) and a Cub Buddy (2000 tickets).
- Tickets are currently the only way to obtain most Event bees.
- 50 tickets are required to start another Stick Bug Challenge when your free challenge is already used.
- Tickets, along with honey, are used to purchase Market Boosts from the Boost Market.
- Tickets can be used to speed up materials that are currently being made in the Blender.
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Arrange bok choy, red cabbage, carrots, edamame and bacon on large serving platter. Sprinkle with rice. Combine Hellmann's® Classic Caesar Dressing and Hellmann's® Sesame Thai Vinaigrette Dressing and drizzle over top.

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I was lucky enough to accompany my darling parents on an Alaska cruise adventure. What a hoot:)
My dad (who has lost like 35 pounds by the way) was so diligent in his exercising. I am so proud. He's such a stud! Ow owwwww!!!
The welcome cocktail party with my Aunt Diane.
Mmmmm...delicious drinks. Pina Colada and a Diet Coke...a winning combination!
The totem park in Ketchikan.
This was in Juneau. Prostitution was huge in the mining towns, and this was in "Dolly's House" which was a brothel that operated for a long time. These roses on her shower curtains are made out of silk condoms from France that didn't work. Seriously.
Dinner in the dining room.
Mendenhall Glacier in Juneau
Sawyer Glacier. We stood in that spot for like two hours while the ship drove up the fjord. We HAD to get the best lookout spot...and we did!
Ugh. My least favorite part of Alaska.
Skagway. This train would clear the snow off the tracks.
Yukon Trail train ride in Skagway. Absolutely gorgeous.
Prince Rupert, Canada.
We are soooooo attractive:)
A great trip. Thanks mother and poogly!

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As of: February 22, 2024, 5:13 a.m
By: Bona Hyun
China is actually considered a loyal ally of Putin.
But gradually more and more Chinese banks are allowing the Russian president to appear.
Moscow – The Western sanctions against Russia are apparently worrying China.
As a result, there could be tension between Russia and Beijing, one of Vladimir Putin's most important trading partners.
Three out of four major Chinese state banks will no longer accept payments from sanctioned Russian financial institutions, Russian daily
reported on Wednesday (February 21).
Concerned about the consequences of the Russia sanctions?
China's banks end payment transactions
These are the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), the China Construction Bank and the Bank of China.
The three banks have stopped transactions since the beginning of 2024, Alexey Poroshin, general director of investment and consulting company First Group, told
the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is considered the largest bank in China (as of December 2023).
reported, the three banks informed their Russian customers of the decision in January.
The trigger was apparently the twelfth sanctions package against Russia, which the EU decided in December 2023.
At the same time, the United States imposed secondary sanctions on foreign institutions that might support the war.
The sanctions against Russia are worrying important trading partners of Moscow.
More and more banks are letting Putin run afoul.
© Alexander Zemlianichenko/dpa (archive image)
EU approves twelfth sanctions package against Russia – China’s banks react
Background: The core of the twelfth EU sanctions package are new import and export bans, such as the ban on the export of Russian diamonds to Europe.
In addition, the sanctions list will be expanded and assets of over 140 additional natural and legal persons will be frozen.
Shortly after the death of Alexey Navalny, further sanctions were imposed against Russia by the EU on Wednesday (February 21).
In addition to the three Chinese banks, Zhejiang Chouzhou Commercial Bank also wants to stop doing business with Russia.
One reason could also be the fear of Western sanctions on Chinese banks.
The bank recently informed its customers about the termination of relations with all Russian and Belarusian organizations, as customers told the newspaper
“We have already canceled several transactions,” a company owner confirmed to Wedemosti.
More and more Chinese banks are exposing Putin because of sanctions in the Ukraine war
There were fears of an immediate “logistics collapse.” Exports from China to Russia could stall until at least March, the source added.
The bank is said to have previously informed another businessman who buys machine tools in China that payments for certain products subject to an import ban due to Western sanctions had been suspended.
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Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko on Friday (February 9) denied alleged problems in payment transactions between China and Russia.
Rudenko admitted that some Chinese banks are holding back from investing in Russia for fear of sanctions.
However, he told the state news agency
that he was “confident that this problem will be solved.”
United Arab Emirates (UAE) banks close Russian accounts
In response to the secondary sanctions, several banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have also restricted payment transactions with Russia and started closing accounts of Russian companies and individuals.
There are many companies in the UAE that trade in Russian oil.
Many UAE banks no longer want to accept money from Russia and are refusing repayments.
This was reported by
, citing three businessmen working in the UAE and a representative of the Business Russia business association.
Tax and legal advisors are also said to have confirmed the events.
One of them explains in the newspaper that transfers are not credited.
Instead, they would be returned to the senders.
According to him, some banks have begun to require explanatory documents for almost every transaction or refuse payment without giving reasons and close the account.
Signs that Russia is on the verge of an economic downturn are likely to be increasing.


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Dr Jim Hansom, University of Glasgow
Geodiversity is a relatively new term that has not captured the recognition that Biodiversity currently enjoys. Ask in the street about geodiversity and you are likely to get a blank response at best, and an “aye right” at worst. The myriad ways in which a healthy biodiversity supports us is well understood, yet without geodiversity there would be no biodiversity, since all life depends on the variety of surface environments provided by rocks, landforms and the processes that form them. With an enhanced rate of climate change now upon us and surface processes and ecosystems increasingly in a state of flux, we need to publicise the value of geodiversity to science and society. Using examples from the coastal zone, this presentation aims to show how an understanding of coastal geodiversity can help society better adapt to changes that are under way and may increase in the future.
The lecture will be preceded by the signing of Scotland’s Geodiversity Charter on behalf of Glasgow University and by the society’s annual general meeting.

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Dealing with Communist dictatorships – Cuban Embargo
Communism may not be the enemy, dictatorships are. Communism may be the enemy when individual rights and liberties are trampled by dictatorial governments. Fidel Castro is a communist dictator of a little island that would bear no significance if it were not so close to the US shores and if it were not being used by large communist states to export their brand of governance.
The USSR used Cuba in the Cold War. That is over. When Fidel is gone and his brand of leadership, the gates will open. It is worth holding your breath.
“At 50, Cuban trade embargo is not aging well
By Al Kamen
Friday, August 6, 2010
The half-century-old Cuban trade embargo has seen better days. For its first 30 years, when the Castro crowd was in cahoots with the Soviets -- even welcomed nukes 90 miles from Florida -- the embargo enjoyed widespread support.
The collapse of the Soviet Union 20 years ago undermined the Cold War rationale for the effort. International and domestic support steadily eroded. Even Bay of Pigs veteran Francisco J. Hernandez, head of the hard-line Cuban American National Foundation, last year undercut the once-sacred embargo, not calling for ending it but calling it "a symbol'' and "not something that is that important anymore."
But you're in very deep trouble when none other than Soldier of Fortune magazine blasts the embargo in an article headlined "Fifty Years of Failure: Petrified U.S. Policy Toward Cuba."
Worse, the lead author of the piece, coming out in the October issue, is Jay Mallin, a former Latin America reporter for the Washington Times and news director of Radio Marti during the Reagan administration. (His co-author is former Miami Herald Latin America editor Don Bohning, who covered Cuba and the region for many years.)
The embargo "is essentially an absurdity that accomplishes nothing," they write, and "has been a boon to the Castro government, providing a handy excuse" for its failures. They recount arguments, usually spouted by the libs, for changing course.”

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MIAMI (AP) - New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez, already connected to a homicide victim in Massachusetts, is being sued in South Florida by a man claiming Hernandez shot him in the face after they argued at a strip club.
Serena Williams has reached out to the family of the victim in the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case after the tennis star was quoted in a Rolling Stone article saying "she shouldn't have put herself in that position."
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Gregor Blanco has learned to think like a run producer.
BOSTON (AP) - The Chicago Blackhawks kept taking the lead until there were no more chances for Boston to come back and tie it.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - David Murphy had three hits and scored twice to snap out of a long slump, and the Texas Rangers beat the AL West-leading Oakland Athletics 9-4 on Wednesday night.
SANTA CLARA (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers signed defensive end Justin Smith to a two-year contract extension Wednesday to keep one of their most important defensive players off the free-agent market next offseason.
OAKLAND (AP) - Golden State Warriors general manager Bob Myers has been busy taking flights across the country and overseas, meeting with players and agents and talking to other NBA executives ahead of next week's draft.
MIAMI (AP) - Game 7s do more than settle championships. They define legacies.
In little more than a month, Tiger Woods went from being tough to beat to having a tough time even playing.
BOSTON (AP) - A man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's home had been killed, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
HARRISON, N.J. (AP) - Replacing Mia Hamm as the all-time leading goal scorer for the United States women's soccer team can't happen soon enough for Abby Wambach.
FORTALEZA, Brazil (AP) - Neymar scored one goal and set up another for Jo to lift Brazil to a 2-0 win over Mexico on Wednesday and secure a spot in the semifinals of the Confederations Cup for the host nation.
HOUSTON (AP) - Mark Appel received high praise from MLB commissioner Bud Selig on Wednesday when the No. 1 overall pick signed with the Houston Astros.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Juan Perez hit a tiebreaking single with two outs in the eighth inning and the San Francisco Giants beat San Diego 5-4 on Tuesday night, snapping the Padres' seven-game winning streak.
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) - Facing Yu Darvish has been no problem for the Oakland Athletics. They have beaten the Texas Rangers' Japanese ace four times, more than any other team.
OAKLAND (AP) - Jason Hammel walked off the mound in the sixth inning to a standing ovation from the announced crowd of 16,335 at the Coliseum. He saluted the fans with his right hand, looking more relieved than happy.
MILWAUKEE (AP) - Brewers manager Ron Roenicke is a much bigger fan of video replay than his San Francisco counterpart Bruce Bochy - at least for one night.
GLEN COVE, N.Y. (AP) - Bethany Wu shot a 2-under 68 on Tuesday in the U.S. Women's Amateur to top the 64 match-play qualifiers.
SANTA CLARA (AP) - Stevie Johnson had produced three straight 1,000-yard seasons with 23 touchdown catches as Buffalo's most dynamic player in the passing game when that streak ended in frustrating fashion last year.
MIAMI (AP) - The former clinic owner accused of selling performance-enhancing drugs to Alex Rodriguez has agreed to plead guilty in what prosecutors called a wide-ranging conspiracy to distribute steroids to both major league ballplayers and high school athletes.
NEW YORK (AP) - A person who reviewed the deal tells The Associated Press that free-agent reliever Jim Johnson and the Detroit Tigers have agreed to a minor league contract.
NAPA (AP) - Oakland Raiders projected starting tight end David Ausberry is scheduled to have knee surgery and will miss Friday's preseason opener against Minnesota.
Paul George's broken right leg has already created questions about the future of NBA players in international competitions.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Golf stories about Rory McIlroy are a lot more flattering than those a year ago. And if he reads too much into them, they can be a lot more dangerous.
As a 5-foot-6 point guard, decorated WNBA veteran Becky Hammon has never had the experience of shattering a backboard with a dunk.
GLEN COVE, N.Y. (AP) - Australia's Su-Hyun Oh shot a 4-under 66 on Monday in the U.S. Women's Amateur to take the first-round lead in stroke-play qualifying.
SANTA CLARA (AP) - Colin Kaepernick cradled his eight-month-old nephew, Ezekiel, in his arms, then lifted the infant into the air, gently bouncing him up and down.
NAPA (AP) - Andre Holmes is the biggest wide receiver on the Oakland Raiders roster.
NEW YORK (AP) - San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain will have season-ending surgery next week to remove bone chips in his right elbow.
OAKLAND (AP) - Derek Norris singled up the middle with two outs and the bases loaded in the 10th inning against former Oakland closer Grant Balfour, and the Athletics beat the Tampa Bay Rays 3-2 on Monday night.


Age of Sail
In the Age of Sail (and in the early years of steam) ships had long rows of guns set in each side of the hull which could only fire to the one side: firing all guns on one side of the ship was known as a "broadside"; firing all guns on both sides was a double broadside. The cannons of 18th century men of war were accurate only at short range, and their penetrating power mediocre, entailing that the thick hulls of wooden ships could only be pierced at short ranges. These wooden ships sailed closer and closer towards each other until cannon fire would be effective. Each tried to be the first to fire a broadside, often giving one party a decisive headstart in the battle when it crippled the other ship.
As a measurement
Additionally, the term broadside is a measurement of a vessel's maximum simultaneous firepower which can be delivered upon a single target, because this concentration is usually obtained by firing a broadside. This is calculated by multiplying the shell weight of the ship's main armament shells times the number of barrels that can be brought to bear. If some turrets are incapable of firing to either side of the vessel, only the maximum number of barrels which can fire to one side or the other are counted. For example, the American Iowa-class battleships carried a main armament of nine 16-inch (410 mm) main guns in turrets which could all be trained to a single broadside. Each 16-inch shell weighed 2,700 pounds (1,200 kg), which when multiplied by nine (the total number of barrels in all three turrets) equals a total of 24,300 pounds (11,022 kg). Thus, an Iowa-class battleship had a broadside of 12 short tons (11.0 tonnes), the weight of shells that she could theoretically land on a target in a single firing.
See list of broadsides of major World War II ships for a comparison.
- George Dorsey, "When a U.S. Battleship Fires a Broadside," The New York Times Magazine, 30 December 1917.
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Fed mediator in library strike criticizes state
Cantronrep.com continues the strike coverage. The Latest Story is more bad news, the Federal mediator who thought he could resolve strike last week, has canceled his proposed talks and adopted a \"wait-and-see attitude\". The State Employment Relations Board has scheduled a meeting for Wednesday.
\"“I thought there was flexibility enough to (resolve the strike), but when this happened, everybody took a step back,” Connelly said Monday.\"
Anyone from Stark County have anything to add?
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“We’ll see how it pans out Wednesday,” he added. “If it doesn’t work out, I’ll get back in the picture. (SERB) interfered with the mediation process, which is not a good thing to do.”
The library and District 925 of the Service Employees International Union have a mutually agreed dispute resolution procedure which calls for Connelly to mediate. But SERB, using its authority under state law, decided last week to take jurisdiction in the case.
The board is neutral, said Executive Director Jeffery J. Taylor.
“The whole goal is to help the parties reach a settlement,” he said.
The meeting, which is closed to the public, is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the Comfort Inn on Broadmoor Circle NW in Plain Township. Follow-up meetings are a possibility, said Taylor, who would not elaborate on what SERB plans to say or do to encourage agreement.


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Victim family speaks out after Minneapolis cell phone theft ring busted
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (FOX 9) - One metro area family is speaking out, sharing their story of how thieves stole their cell phone and how quickly they attempted to drain their online financial apps, in hopes of helping others.
A sweeping investigation involving state and local law enforcement in Minneapolis recently led to racketeering charges against a dozen suspects in a sophisticated cellphone theft ring.


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- Volcanic hotspots, such as the one creating the Hawaiian Islands today, have long been considered fixed points in the scheme of slowly moving tectonic plates that form the earth’s outer surface.
- New evidence that hotspots can instead be mobile comes from study of Hawaii’s chain of islands and submerged defunct volcanoes. The chain’s elbowlike geometry has traditionally been attributed only to a change in the motion of the Pacific plate. Now it is in part credited to hotspot migration, itself an expression of movement in the earth’s mantle deep below the surface.
- Implications include textbook rewrites, as well as new views on paleoclimate records and the stability of the entire earth on its spin axis.
Where was the cone? We had just pulled up our drill pipe, replaced its worn drill bit, and lowered it back down to the seafloor, a mile under our ship. Crowding into the control room, we watched images from a camera attached to the end of the pipe, looking for a cone we had left as a marker to guide the pipe back to the hole we were drilling. The team had gone through this exercise many times before. Usually we would see a fish swim by or a squid momentarily grab the pipe, and then the cone would appear. This time we saw only fish and squid. What had gone wrong?
We had come to the northwestern Pacific Ocean to extract core samples from the submerged extinct volcanoes, known as the Emperor seamounts, that form the northernmost leg of the Hawaiian-Emperor volcanic chain. The neat pattern formed by the chain is apparent on any world map and, along with the jigsaw-puzzle shape of South America and Africa, has long stood as a testament to plate tectonics—the principle that our planet’s surface is an ever shifting mosaic of rocky puzzle pieces. Not only do the islands and seamounts form an uncannily straight line for 3,500 kilometers across the Pacific, their rocks get steadily older as you move northwest up the chain: from the Big Island (which is still growing) through Maui, Oahu, Kauai and on up to the Midway atoll, whose long-extinct volcano has subsided so much that it barely sticks up above the sea surface. Past Midway, the line makes a sharp bend, continuing northward along the Emperor seamounts and stretching nearly as far as the tip of the Aleutian Islands.
This article was originally published with the title Hot Spots Unplugged.


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Istanbul Food and Restaurants
Food Glorious Food, a food guide post where I start with all the mouth-watering food in Istanbul as you walk through the streets of Sirkeci, you tend to get greeted and visit their restaurants by their waiters.
Restaurants in Istanbul
On our first evening after arriving we went to a local restaurant based near our hotel in Sirkeci called ‘Bereket Doner’. I tried one of their popular dishes on the menu ‘Iskender Kebab’, a dish filled with donner meat, cubes of bread soaked in yoghurt and tomato sauce.
A restaurant based around Taksim Square, Istanbul, I headed down to an Arab restaurant with my other cousins, a place next to an Indian/Pakistani Restaurant called Mustafa. As my parents decided to eat at Indian/Pakistani there. We decided to try something different by going next door, which I thought the interior looked simply stunning, just like a wedding hall in London.
During our visit here I decided to order ‘Kusbasulu Pide’ just like a pizza filled with cheese and meat. Finally, for dessert, as most restaurants in Turkey tend to give their customers a complimentary, so we got offered ice creams and baklavas.
Dubb India – Istanbul
Food around The Blue Mosque, as my parents are from India, could not resist not having some Indian food. Therefore, I did my research for an Indian place to eat and found a restaurant called ‘Dubb Indian’ which serves various Indian dishes nearby to the Blue Mosque/Hagia Sophia place.
I had to check it out and see if it was any good, although the view you have during the day or night from the top floor is pretty awesome, this requires a reservation if you like to be sat upstairs. I have to say the food was not amazing, but just satisfying.
We ordered one of their popular dishes which was ‘Butter Chicken’ alongside Gosht (Lamb) and a meat platter which serves daal, rice, sweet (Halwa), chutney and chicken tikka. There is also a platter option for veg, also if you’re strictly vegetarian.
Sultanahmet Köftecisi – Sirkeci
I’m sure everyone knows about Sultanahmet Köftecisi. A lot of use recommended this place on Instagram, therefore I had to check it out and see if it was any good, so I had the ‘Izgara Kofte Porsiyon’ known as the grilled meatballs with chips as shown above and there were pretty good I must say. These meatballs are priced at 19 Turkish Lira.
Also, a good sign of this restaurant fact that they were really busy, barely any room to sit. At times they were turning people away as there was no room for groups of people to sit.
Bursa – Kofteci Yusuf
The most famous and in-demand restaurant is based in Bursa called Kofteci Yusuf. Apparently, during weekends you have no room to sit down unless reserved beforehand that’s how busy this place becomes.
The restaurant we visited during our trip to Bursa was simply amazing, it did not disappoint all the food was spot on, from starters, mains and desserts. Although I could not capture all the food as everyone was in a rush to eat and could resist, I captured what I could as seen below.
All three desserts were different, as one had just a sponge cake with cream, the other included honey and the third one was a vanilla cream cake with jam, cream spread on top. I preferred the one on the right as it was less sweet than the one which was filled with honey.
Sirkeci – Istanbul
A local restaurant in Sirkeci, next to the Centrum Hotel where we stayed at. I had the nicest looking ‘Turkish Pide’ and desserts as well as some entertainment when we ordered Turkish traditional food, ‘Testi Kebabs’. There are vegetarian and meat options to pick a clay pot from but in this case, we opted for the meat option. These include lamb, chicken or beef and with the vegetarian option there includes carrots, celery, onions, garlic, and potatoes.
When the clay pots are ready, waiters tend to entertain their customers with the blazing hot jug and crack the pot in front of you, releasing the nice aroma scent. It’s an experience not to forget, where everyone tends to enjoy from a distance. I would definitely recommend having this for the experience and taste.
Finally, the dessert I ordered was really well presented. The baklava with its sweet taste and the banana chocolate spread with two ice creams aside were spot on with their presentation. I truly enjoyed capturing these two dessert pieces.
Our daily morning breakfast consisted of a lot of Turkish traditional food, as seen in my first Istanbul Vlog.
We had many options to choose from in the hot and cold drinks section. This included juice, hot chocolate, tea and coffee. For those who love their cereals, they have corn flakes and raisins as an option. They also had freshly cut watermelons, melons, olives, jam and biscuits. If that wasn’t enough, there were plenty of cooked chips, yoghurt and lots of different cheeses to pick from.
As it seems like Turkish people love their cheese, we had this same breakfast for 7 days straight eventually I started to feel as if I wanted something different, but most cafes around the area pretty much have the same menu for breakfast.
Thanks for reading my blog post on my experience and thoughts on Turkish food during my visit to Turkey.
What are your thoughts on Turkish food? Do you like these types of food, let me know in the comments section below?


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Having A Hard Time Dealing With Cancer? Here’s Some Helpful Advice
Cancer has become a common disease among many people in today’s society. Cancer is caused by carcinogens, cancer causing agents in our very environment. Doing certain activities can expose people to more carcinogens than others, leading to a better chance of having cancer. The advice in this article will show you how to avoid cancer causing carcinogens.
Avoid anemia during cancer treatments by eating foods rich in iron such as liver, green leafy vegetables, molasses and lentils. These foods will boost your iron levels allowing oxygen rich blood to be carried throughout your body and facilitates chemotherapy.
Many herbal supplements are on the market and when diagnosed with cancer you may want to turn to some of them for their additional benefits. They can help the immune system and strengthen the body’s natural defenses. However, be sure to consult your doctor or a professional in the herbal field before adding herbal supplements to your diet.
If you are battling cancer, it can be helpful to join a support group for your type of cancer or cancer in general. Talking to others in your situation can help you feel less alone and give you a chance to make new friends. Mutual support can be very important on the journey to recovery.
Doctors and the general public at large have long known that red wine can help fight against heart disease, but more people are now finding out that wine can also help work against contracting cancer. The polyphenols in wine (like those found in grapes) help to neutralize and eliminate dangerous free radicals.
It is quite normal for cancer patients to feel unattractive. Self-esteem is at an all-time low and nothing seems to be right. This is a great time to pamper yourself! When you are feeling well enough, take a friend and go out to lunch. Get your nails done, or shop for a new outfit. Doing normal, everyday activities can make you feel like part of life again and change your whole attitude!
Take all the medicine that your doctor prescribes to you, and make sure you are taking the correct doses. If you have trouble remembering what to take, buy a pill holder that will store all your pills that need to be taken that day. Cancer does not equal death, so try to take care of yourself as best as you can.
Many people suffering with cancer also have post-traumatic stress disorder, commonly known as PTSD. If you notice that you have any of the symptoms of PTSD, you should immediately get help from a professional. Symptoms of PTSD include aversion to people or places, flashbacks of events, irrational fears, and changes in your sleep patterns.
As stated before, cancer is a common disease in today’s society. Our own environment contains cancer causing agents, known as carcinogens. Some activities, such as cigarette smoking, can expose people to more carcinogens, increasing the chances of getting cancer. If you remember the advice in this article, you can avoid cancer causing carcinogens.

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Harriet the Spy refuses to become ruffled when an unidentified person starts leaving disturbing notes all over the quiet little beach town of Water Mill. She’s determined to discover the author of the notes. And she drags her friend, mousy Beth Ellen, into all kinds of odd and embarrassing situations in her efforts to reveal the culprit. Observing in her own special, caustic way with her ever-present notebook, Harriet the Spy is on the case. But will she be ready to face the truth when she finds it?
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Harriet Spies Again
By Louise Fitzhugh and Helen Ericson
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Novel
“Ericson has perfectly captured the voice and pacing of Fitzhugh’s original novel in a seamless rendering of a fresh, enjoyable story for today’s readers.” —School Library Journal
Harriet the Spy, Double Agent
By Louise Fitzhugh and Maya Gold
“Harriet the Spy is back, and Gold does a credible job of maintaining the special character and her crusty charm.” —Booklist
The Long Secret
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[STAR] “A worthy successor to Harriet the Spy—and that is high tribute.” —Booklist, Starred
An Excerpt fromThe Long Secret
The notes were appearing everywhere. Everyone was talking about it. The first time Harriet and Beth Ellen ever saw anyone get one was one day in July when they were in the supermarket in Water Mill. They were standing at the checkout counter waiting to pay for their cookies. The woman with mean eyes who always checked them out was getting ready to charge them, when she suddenly drew her hand back from the cash register as though bitten by a snake.
"What in the world . . . ?" she shrieked, and Harriet almost broke her stomach in two leaning over the counter to see. The woman held up a large piece of paper on which was written awkwardly in red crayon:
Jesus hates you
"What is that? What in the world is that? Why would someone do that? What could they mean by that? Why would they say that to me? To me . . . to me?" The woman screamed on and on. A clerk came running. The manager of the store came running. Harriet stood with half-closed eyes, watching. Beth Ellen stared. Everyone began talking at once.
"Jake at the feed store got one."
"They're all over town. Everybody in Water Mill has gotten one."
"Why doesn't somebody do something? What is this?"
"They have. Mr. Jackson went to the police."
"Well, they're looking around. What can they do? They can't find out who's doing it."
"Maybe they're protecting somebody."
"Yeah. Didn't have none of this all winter. One of those summer people flipped, maybe."
For some reason everyone turned and looked at Harriet and Beth Ellen. Harriet was so busy writing down everything in the notebook she always carried that she didn't notice, but Beth Ellen started to back out of the door.
"This all you have, kids?" The woman at the register suddenly became very sharp and businesslike.
"Yes," said Harriet in what she hoped was a disinterested way.
Beth Ellen was already out on the street. Harriet saw her streaking for the long black car.
"Well, I'll tell you," said the checkout lady as she put the cookies in a bag, "there's some mighty strange people in these parts of a summer."
Harriet stood a minute with the bag in her hand, hoping the woman would say more, but she just looked at Harriet expectantly. Feeling foolish, Harriet turned abruptly and left the store.
Outside, she walked slowly to the car. The air on this early morning was sweet, faintly wet, and clinging. She felt the same nostalgic joy that she felt every year. The memories of every summer of her life seemed to make the air thick and rich. It was all so beautifully familiar: the short stretch of stores along the Montauk Highway, the flag in front of the tiny post office, the sign saying You are entering Water Mill, New York. Slow down and enjoy it, which now was a virgin-white with black letters but by the end of the summer would be scrawled with drunken wit.
Even Beth Ellen, who sat waiting in the backseat of the big car driven by Harry, the Hansens' chauffeur, seemed a patient memory. Funny about Beth Ellen, thought Harriet as she climbed into the backseat. I never see her in the winter the way I do Janie and Sport, even though I go to school with her; and in the summer she's my best friend, just because she lives in Water Mill too, I guess.
The car glided off. She punched the button which raised the glass between the backseat and the front. She liked privacy. Besides, she liked pushing all those buttons.
"No, no," said Beth Ellen and pushed it again so that it lowered, "we have to tell him where we're going."
"I have to go to your house. I left my bike there," Harriet said, pushing the button again briskly. "Then shall we go to the beach?"
Beth Ellen looked frightened, but that was so much her normal expression that Harriet thought nothing of it. "I don't know if I can ride good enough to go that far."
"Sure you can. How're you ever going to learn if you don't try it? What good is a bike if you just ride around your driveway?"
"But I only learned a month ago." Beth Ellen began to munch a cookie in a distracted way.
"Well, I don't care if you come or not." Harriet delivered this last looking sideways at Beth Ellen. It worked.
"I didn't say I wasn't going. I want to go."
"I know what let's do." Harriet made her eyes into slits and pushed them so far sideways her head hurt. "Let's just run past the Evil Hotel on the way."
Beth Ellen turned an intense red.
"Hee, hee," said Harriet and looked out the window.
"If you want to," said Beth Ellen, trying to look bored. She succeeded only in looking faintly sick to her stomach.
"If I want to!" said Harriet rudely. "HAH!"
"I thought you were writing a story about it," said Beth Ellen.
"I am," said Harriet, "but only because we've spent practically the whole summer there! I haven't anything else to write a story about! What have I seen this summer? Only that silly Bunny! And what have I heard this summer? Only that silly Bunny play the piano!" She sounded quite angry. "Well!" she said emphatically and stopped.
"Well, you don't have to come," said Beth Ellen with a little smile.
"I'm coming," said Harriet. "I have to finish my story now, don't I?" She grabbed for the cookie box and stuffed three in her mouth. Beth Ellen smiled. Harriet saw her and said with her mouth full, "Listen, Mouse, for a mouse you sure get your own way all the time." Beth Ellen looked out the window to hide her tiny smile.
The car turned into the driveway of Beth Ellen's house. "I have to go and see my grandmother before I go," said Beth Ellen in a rather mournful way.
"That's okay," said Harriet. "I'll just fool around here." She didn't even look at Beth Ellen, because she was watching Harry. She had been spying on him all summer, and he bore careful watching. Harry seemed to lead a very curious life.
"And anyway," said Beth Ellen as she slammed the door to the car, "it's you that call it the Evil Hotel. I don't."
Harriet started to shout something after her, but Beth Ellen shot through the door. Hhrumph, she thought, I just called it that to bug her. I never saw anybody with such a crush. I hope I never have one.
She marched off to the servants' quarters, which were attached to the garage. Covering her course as well as she could by a row of hedges, she stationed herself at the window of Harry's room.

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Boulevard Park is a small neighborhood located in King County, Washington. Boulevard Park, previously know as Riverton-Boulevard Park, is a Burien suburb located just minutes away from downtown Seattle.
The median home value in Boulevard park is around $450.000, which makes it more expensive than 60% of Washington neighborhoods, and the median rent is currently around $2.600, which is almost 85% higher than its Washington neighbors.
The real estate in Boulevard Park is mainly constructed of medium, three- or four-bedroom homes, to larger, five or more-bedroom, single family homes, apartment complexes and high-rise apartments. Most of the residential real estate in Boulevard Park is owner occupied. Many residences in the Boulevard Park neighborhood are built between the 40’s and 60’s. A vast number of residences were also built after 2000 – and this neighborhood continues to grow rapidly. There is a huge demand for property in Boulevard Park, mostly because it’s minutes away from downtown, but still offers a great number of amenities and things to do around the neighborhood. A number of things matter when it comes to picking the perfect neighborhood to reside in, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Burien, Boulevard Park, has some unique, outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting. Americans are known for loving their cars. This is a well-known fact. They’re almost always a necessity for most Americans due to the shape of most neighborhoods and the distances between where people live, work, shop, and go to school. As a result, most households in America have one, two, or three cars. But the residents of Boulevard Park neighborhood have a highly unusual pattern of car ownership. Residents of this neighborhood must really love their cars, because 35% of the households here have four, five, or more cars. That is more cars per household than in 98.8% of the neighborhoods in the nation. The residents of the Boulevard Park neighborhood in Burien are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood.
Experts say that this neighborhood has a higher income than 70% of the neighborhoods in America. Boulevard Park is one of the best, most rapidly growing neighborhoods of Seattle, Washington, and if you’re planning to move here, prepare for an explosion of diversity, uniqueness and an upscale city feel that Boulevard Park offers its residents. Being so close to the city center, but far enough to live in a tight-knit community with everything you could possibly need and more, is probably the dream of most people. And with the coming years, Boulevard will most definitely grow to be Seattle’s most high-class neighborhoods with one-of-a-kind attractions around the city while still remaining small enough to not lose its urban suburb appeal.
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Prince$$ presents Foul Play featuring Butch Clancy, Getter, & Getter at Bar Smith in Downtown Phoenix on Friday, May 31, 2013.
This spring, notorious multi-genre dance music producer BUTCH CLANCY is teaming up with drum and bass veteran turned trap music forerunner MAYHEM and the young bass pioneer GETTER of Datsik’s Firepower Records.
After being introduced to millions of people across the world when his remix of “Pumped Up Kicks” went viral with friend Marquese Scott’s choreography routine, Butch Clancy etched his mark into the world of dance music by following up the hit with a string of hugely successful melodic bass remixes. Independently releasing his hip-hop/trap album “A Beautiful Mind” for free in collaboration with VIBE Magazine earlier this year, Butch again shows his versatility and originality, adding another genre to his repertoire. Not missing a beat, Butch Clancy began plans to take his album across the states. Read More…
Joining Butch on tour is bass heavyweight Mayhem. Having toured around the world and released records with legendary acts such as Andy C and Noisia, Mayhem brings over a decade behind the decks and a collection of hits from drum and bass to trap.Read More…
To round out the tour is the young up and upcoming producer Getter. Slinging synths more akin guttural rips and saws than the pillowy lullabies often heard elsewhere, Getter’s unique style finds its home on frequent collaborator Datsik’s Firepower label.
Bar Smith is a longstanding fixture for house music in the valley. Located in Downtown Phoenix on Washington Street light rail path, Bar Smith has hosted the valley’s longest running house night Solstice for nearly a decade.
Prince$$ presents: FOUL PLAY @ BAR SMITH. A night dedicated to the best and newest in Electro, Trap, Glitch, Hiphop, Dirty Dutch, Prog, Dubstep, and MOAR!!! EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT!!! 2 Floors of music- MAINROOM: HIPHOP | TRAP | GLITCH | UPSTAIRS: ELECTRO | PROG | DUBSTEP
About Butch Clancy
The Ghost of Detroit has materialized. Crafting music for over a decade has afforded Motor City based producer/drummer Butch Clancy precious time to fine tune his own unique, bass laden style. With a production resume reading like a laundry list of genres: hip hop, house, … Read More
Chart topping, dance floor rocking, and taste making come naturally to Atlanta based DJ and Producer Mayhem. With over 15 years in the studio and the decks, he has garnished the attention of the heavyweights in every genre of his focus. Rooted heavily in Drum … Read More
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January 17, 2014 |
John Hanson, the chief financial officer of the Delaware River Port Authority, was named Wednesday as interim chief executive of the DRPA to replace John Matheussen, who has been appointed a state Superior Court judge by Gov. Christie. Hanson also appears to have the inside track to get the job permanently, although DRPA board members said they would conduct a nationwide search. Hanson, 53, a certified public accountant from Cherry Hill, is a former DRPA board member and a former chairman of the Camden County Republican Party.
January 11, 2014 |
Erez Vigodman will succeed Jeremy Levin as the chief executive officer of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. After reports of the move last week in Israel, where Teva is based, the drugmaker made the announcement Thursday morning before the stock market opened there. Teva hopes to somehow calm citizens and employees at home, while also satisfying Wall Street analysts concerned that disagreement at the top of the company would further delay planned changes meant to boost profits and share price.
December 7, 2013 |
The painful financial restructuring underway in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia made substantial progress in the year ended June 30, a report released Thursday showed. The central financial office of the archdiocese lost $4.9 million in fiscal 2013, down from $17.6 million the year before, not counting unusual income and expenses in both years. Including those unusual or one-time items, such as $11.9 million in legal and professional expenses in fiscal 2012 and $10.3 million from the sale of real estate in 2013, the improvement in results for the Office for Financial Services, was even more dramatic.
November 25, 2013 |
By most calculations, Toni Pergolin was completely nuts. Why would she leave a secure - and lucrative - job as a chief financial officer at Pennsylvania Hospital to move to a storied nonprofit in Haddonfield that was barely afloat? Then, in August 2004, when she got there, it was even worse. More than 1,500 autistic, developmentally delayed, brain-injured clients, some of whom had lived in Bancroft Neurohealth group homes for most of their lives, were counting on her for a miracle.
November 3, 2013 |
KEVIN G. CLARK, who has been a senior adviser to Temple president Neil D. Theobald for the past year, was named vice president and director of athletics at the university, the school announced yesterday. Clark had been interim AD since May 3. He succeeds the retired Bill Bradshaw. Before arriving at Temple, Clark was senior associate athletic director at Indiana, where Theobald had been the chief financial officer. He served 11 years on Indiana's senior athletic staff. He was also in athletic adminstration at Saint Louis University from 1996 to 2001, and worked at the NCAA before that.
July 30, 2013
Marketing Systems Group , a Horsham provider of products, information, and services to the survey research community, has hired Trent D. Buskirk as vice president of statistics and methodology. He had been research director, advanced methods, at Nielsen Co. Diego Rincón has been hired by Philadelphia International Airport as deputy director of aviation, capital development. He had been assistant director of aviation for the City of Dallas at Dallas Love Field and director of development for the modernization of Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.
July 26, 2013 |
As the Philadelphia School Reform Commission considers closing a charter school in Germantown, a School District auditor said Wednesday the school had been operating at a loss in each of the last four years. At a hearing on whether Imani Education Charter School should have its charter renewed, Mayer Krain said the district was especially troubled because the size of the school's losses had been increasing. He said Imani's annual financial statements showed the school's net assets went from $442,976 in 2009 to a deficit of $767,188 for the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2012.
July 4, 2013 |
The Archdiocese of Philadelphia on Wednesday reported a staggering $39.2 million loss for the year ended June 30, 2012, while disclosing unprecedented details about longterm financial deficits totaling $350 million. Even after stripping away millions in unusual expenses, including $11.9 million for legal and professional services related to the priest sex-abuse scandal and other issues, the archdiocese said its cash expenses 2012 still exceeded revenue by $17.4 million. "It's not so simple to say our problems are related to the sexual-abuse crisis," Timothy O'Shaughnessy, chief financial officer for the archdiocese, said.
July 2, 2013
In the Region Pepper Hamilton renews C.C. lease Brandywine Realty Trust , the Radnor-based office landlord, said it executed a long-term lease renewal with Pepper Hamilton L.L.P. on the law firm's 268,000 square feet of office space at Two Logan Square in Center City. The existing lease had been set to expire in 2015. Pepper Hamilton is one of Brandywine's three largest tenants. Among its many holdings, Brandywine owns three office buildings comprising 2.3 million square feet in the Logan Square area.


So, in previous posts I’ve made mention of several projects, and this is to announce that one of them, at least, has come to completion. If you think some of my topics don’t seem to fit with the nature of the website, this one’s going to be even worse.
I have just finished off my novelization of The Road Warrior, the 1982 film with Mel Gibson, and it is available as a free download. “Wait, what? 1982? Were you etching it in stone?” you say disparagingly. No, actually, the writing went fairly well, all things considered. I’ve had the project in the back of my head for years, because I’ve always liked the film and wanted to write up my treatment of it, including several of the nuances that I perceived therein, but never got a start – until the news of Mad Max: Fury Road came along. It was clear from the first available trailer that it was a reworking of the same film, and so I was prodded to write the book before the new version
butchered it overwhelmed it offered a different take. My deadline was the first of May for everything, which I didn’t quite make, but my first fine draft was completed by then at least. In the interim, I’ve done the second (as it is now, final) draft and converted it to downloadable formats. So, since you’re here and have, at least, some interest in what I’m writing, go here to find a copy for yourself.
There wasn’t an overriding purpose to this, except to see if I could do a novel-length piece and make it coherent – like a lot of the blog, it’s a writing exercise among other things. Since I do not own the rights and have not obtained permission, I cannot charge for it, not like I would have made anything off of it anyway. But it also serves as an example of my long-form writing, and I’m pleased with it myself. Later on, I might be less so, so read it now while it’s still good.
If you have never seen the film, all the better – I’d be delighted to hear how the story works for anyone who is not able to judge it against the movie. It’s a tender, touching love story, lighthearted and full of cheer. Okay, that’s probably not going to help at all…
We return to more typical blog content shortly.


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Today’s News Synopsis:
The FHFA reported a 0.5% increase in home prices in the first quarter of 2012. In addition, home sales increased last month 3.3% to 343,000, a positive sign for the economy. The National Association of Realtors believes the housing market will soon be impacted greatly by the baby and echo boomer demographic.
In The News:
Housing Wire – “FHFA: Home prices rose 0.5% in first quarter” (5-23-12)
“Home prices across the nation rose a modest 0.5% in the first quarter from a year earlier, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency house price index.”
DS News – “Economists’ Analyze Positive Reports on New Home Sales” (5-23-12)
“New home sales rose 3.3 percent month-over-month in April to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 343,000, the Commerce Department and HUD reported Wednesday.”
Bloomberg – “BofA Will Buy Back $330 Million of Mortgages From Freddie” (5-23-12)
“Bank of America Corp., the second- biggest U.S. lender, will repurchase $330 million of home loans from Freddie Mac, the mortgage company supported by taxpayers, after flaws were found in how they were created.”
Realty Trac – “California Approves Short Sale Bill” (5-23-12)
“The California State Assembly has approved a bill that would prevent a lender or servicer from proceeding with a foreclosure on a home after approving a short sale in writing.”
Realty Times – “Aging Baby and Echo Boomer to Impact Housing” (5-23-12)
“The demographic shift of the aging baby boomer generation will soon have an impact on the nation’s housing market. According to the National Association of Realtors researchers and the new report “Demographic Challenges and Opportunities for U.S. Housing Markets,” the next two decades will see a surge in our nation’s senior population by 30 million. We are an aging nation”
Mortgage Bankers Association – “Record Low Mortgage Rates Fuel Third Consecutive Increase In Refinance Applications In Latest MBA Weekly Survey” (5-23-12)
“Mortgage applications increased 3.8 percent from one week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey for the week ending May 18, 2012.”
Housing Wire – “Two senators want bank executives banned from Fed boards” (5-23-12)
“U.S. senators Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., proposed a bill Tuesday that would block employees of banks regulated by the Federal Reserve from serving on the Fed’s board of governors.”
San Francisco Chronicle – “Home buying rises in all U.S. regions” (5-23-12)
“Americans are buying more homes in every region of the country, the latest indication that the housing market could be on the mend.”
DS News – “Senators Seek to Expand Housing Assistance for Military Members” (5-23-12)
“Senators Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-Rhode Island), and Mark Begich (D-Alaska) are sponsoring a bill to expand protections for military members in the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA).”
Housing Wire – “Fitch expects more USD-denominated covered bonds” (5-23-12)
“U.S. investors could have more access to U.S. dollar-denominated covered bonds after the Securities and Exchange Commission cleared a foreign bank to issue the product last week, according to Fitch Ratings.”
Hard Money Loan Closed
Moreno Valley, California hard money loan closed by The Norris Group private lending. Real estate investor received loan for $76,000 on a 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home appraised for $127,000.
The Norris Group posted a new event. The Norris Group will hold its REO Boot Camp on May 22-24, 2012.
The Norris Group posted a new event. Bruce Norris of The Norris Group will be at the Temecula Valley Chamber of Commerce Economic Forecast on Thursday, May 31, 2012.
The Norris Group posted a new event. Bruce Norris of The Norris Group will be at the Cutting Edge Financial Tactics Brunch on Saturday, June 2, 2012.
The FBI said property crimes dropped 2.5% in the West. A new study showed that homeowners at least two-months delinquent on their mortgage were more likely to strategically default. The Treasury Department released a free online calculator that provided borrowers with an estimate of whether or not they qualified for HAMP. Homeowner insurance premiums increased across multiple states.
For more information about The Norris Group’s California hard money loans or our California Trust Deed investments, visit the website or call our office at 951-780-5856 for more information. For upcoming California real estate investor training and events, visit The Norris Group website and our California investor calendar. You’ll also find our award-winning real estate radio show on KTIE 590am at 6pm on Saturdays or you can listen to over 170 podcasts in our free investor radio archive.
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When the current regime in Washington, D.C. says they are ‘going after violent extremists,’ they mean patriots
When the current regime in Washington, D.C. says they are “going after violent extremists,” they mean patriots.
Three weeks ago, President Obama’s “Counter-Terrorism Czar” and the former Director of Central Intelligence, John Brennan, spoke on MSNBC and stated the Biden team is moving in “laser-like fashion” to identify “religious extremists, authoritarians, fascists, bigots, racists, nativists, and even libertarians” who constitute, in Brennan’s words, a great threat to the Republic. He said that the civilian enforcement and intelligence agencies, as well as the military, are and should be working to root out this “threat.”
In describing the threat, Brennan specifically mentioned the previous administration and its supporters.
Two weeks ago, the Biden Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin, warning of “objections” to “governmental authority.” The report states in part: “Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.”
Who are the “violent extremists” they are discussing?
Not sure of that?
Last week, Robert Grenier, the former CIA Station Chief for Pakistan/Afghanistan told NPR that the U.S. needs to handle people such as those who “stormed” the U.S. Capitol on January 6 the same way the U.S. government handled insurgents in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In other words, kill them.
Also last week, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ordered a sixty-day military-wide “STAND DOWN” order so that the military can purge “extremists” from its ranks. In his confirmation hearing, Austin said, “If confirmed, I will fight hard to…rid our ranks of racists and extremists…”
A noble effort.
So how are we defining “extremists?”
Remember: during the Obama administration, “extremists” included military veterans returning from combat.
From where did the term “violent extremist” come?
First, let’s back up to a few years after September 11, 2001, when the U.S. government brought the “Countering Violent Extremism” (CVE) program to the United States from Britain.
The CVE program in Britain was created by Muslim Brotherhood groups, including the Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Association of Britain, and others.
U.S. officials, thinking anything the Brits do must be awesome, literally bought this program in its totality and brought it back into the FBI, DHS, CIA, et al.
The main purpose of CVE is to define threats as “violent extremism” so that intelligence and law enforcement agencies target “extremists” instead of jihadis, communists, and other definable threats.
If you cannot name the threat, you cannot target the threat, and, therefore, you can never defeat the threat.
Also, the DHS CVE Working Group has included jihad enablers such as Mohamed Elibiary, Mohamed Magid, and others, who were given secret clearances during their tenure at DHS.
So here we are, 20 years after 9/11, and not only is America much farther away from defeating the jihadis and communists, the communists just seized executive power in the United States one month ago.
On January 30, MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace suggested that Trump supporters who “incited violence” at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 be convicted just like Al Qaeda’s leader in Yemen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who also “incited violence” and was killed in a U.S. drone strike in September 2011.
Put aside the fact for a moment that Nicolle Wallace lied when she said that al-Awlaki was killed because he “incited violence.” Awlaki was actually killed because he was the leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen and responsible for jihad attacks inside the United States.
The fact that the propaganda arm of the U.S. communist/jihadi cabal, the traditional media, is openly calling for violence against Americans exercising their unalienable right to freely express themselves and hold the federal government accountable when it is ruled by those hostile to the Constitution should alarm and alert all thoughtful patriots.
The point is clear. The U.S. government under the current communist regime in the White House will use and is using its full power to suppress and eliminate opposition.
The communists/democrats did it to President Trump when they traitorously and unlawfully used the FBI, CIA, DNI, and other agencies to spy on him, his family, and his staff.
They are doing and will do it to citizens.
For those unable to see this unfolding before them, Understanding The Threat (UTT) encourages you to attempt to educate yourselves and join the patriots who are working diligently to reestablish a republican form of government at the local and state level right now around America.


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Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression Prevention
Pregnancy and postpartum depression prevention can be as important as treatment. Most mood disorders, such as the baby blues and postpartum depression, can be minimized with preventative care and proper support. If you do notice that you are not feeling like yourself, speak to your healthcare provider. You are also welcome to join WellMama’s support groups.
Remind Yourself of the Following Truths Each Day:
- I am not alone. All women are at risk for depression and anxiety during pregnancy and the first year postpartum.
- I am a good mom. The mere fact that I am trying to stay well means that I am a good mother.
- Taking care of myself is essential. My needs are as important as my baby’s. The healthier I am, the healthier my baby will be.
Find Supportive People
Surround yourself with supportive people. Support can come in many different forms. People can go shopping for you, help with the housework, bring food, listen to how you are feeling, open the mail for you, or watch your baby while you sleep.
Write a list of people and places that form your support network so you know who to call on when you need help. Your list can include family, friends, coworkers, neighbors, professionals, hotlines, support groups, postpartum doulas, or Internet forums. Keep the list handy so when you start to feel overwhelmed, you know exactly who to call.
Focus on Nutrition
Our culture tends to under-emphasize the importance of nutrition on our emotional and physical well-being. Try to eat as many whole wheat grains, lean proteins such as chicken and fish, and whole foods as possible, especially fruits, and vegetables. Avoid sweets, starchy carbohydrates, and caffeine. Also, drink plenty of water.
When you are feeling depressed or overwhelmed, you may go hungry because preparing your own food seems like an insurmountable task. Ask your partner or another trusted friend to keep your refrigerator stocked with ready-to-eat nutritious foods.
Studies have shown that taking between 1000-3000 mg of EPA and DHA through fish oils is effective in treating depression and anxiety in pregnant and postpartum women and is considered safe during pregnancy and nursing. Some healthcare practitioners recommend up to 9000 mg. Ask your healthcare provider for more information regarding the best dose for you.
Try to Get As Much Sleep as Possible
Taking care of a new baby who wakes up every two-three hours can be difficult. Make arrangements with a partner or friend to care for baby part of the night a few nights a week. Getting at least five hours of uninterrupted sleep to complete a full sleep cycle is important.
Get Some Exercise
Exercise is important to our mental and physical well-being. After just a few minutes of exercise, our bodies release important endorphins. We tend to feel better about ourselves, and our bodies feel more energized.
Don’t listen to people who tell you to go to the gym or go jogging if you hardly have any energy. Instead, think about exercise more broadly: walk around the block or to the mailbox.
Take Breaks from Baby
Newborns require a lot of care and attention, and they can be exhausting! Try to get regularly scheduled breaks. Ideally, you should get at least two hours at a time, three times a week. During your breaks, take time to reconnect with yourself and other adults. Take a long bath. Go for a cup of tea with a friend. Surf the Internet. If you have no energy to leave the house, someone could take the baby out for a few hours so that you can have the quiet house for yourself.
Go outside of the house at least once a day, even if you just step outside on your balcony or patio. Sunshine and fresh air are essential to helping us stay healthy. Some women find taking a vitamin D supplement to be very helpful. Speak with your healthcare professional before taking any over-the-counter medicine.
Recognize Your Limits
Remember, you are recovering from your pregnancy and/or childbirth. The idea of “supermom” is unhealthy and unattainable. Be gentle to yourself. Find ways to nurture your spirit. Drinking a cup of tea while reading a magazine, taking a bath, or calling a friend are simple ways to recharge even if only for a few minutes. You need time to yourself each day.

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In the last five months, Amazon job listings decreased about 19% globally, but still number more than 30,000. In the company’s headquarters city of Seattle, listings are off 36%.
Amazon has more openings in Seattle — about 7,300 — than any other single location, down from about 11,500 in early February.
That was before the coronavirus pandemic upended all aspects of life, driving a wave of business to Amazon — which made 175,000 temporary hires in its warehouses and transportation network this spring — while much of the rest of the economy shut down, causing widespread unemployment.
The Seattle-area’s role as a technology hub has insulated it to a certain extent. King County’s unemployment rate was 14.3% in May. (The June update is due next week.) But employment in the information industry, which includes many technology jobs, was up 2.8% in 12 months ended in May. Professional, scientific and technical services employment also increased slightly in that period, according to preliminary data from the Washington Employment Security Department.
“Seattle has fared better in terms of job openings, hiring, adding head count” than other markets in the West, said Megan Slabinski, Seattle-based district president at professional staffing firm Robert Half Technology, where she oversees the technology practice for western North America. (The company counts Amazon as a client, and as such could not comment on its hiring plans.)
Slabinski said about 1,000 new technology job openings have been posted in the Seattle area in the last week, which was typical of recent weeks, compared to about 1,500 a week before the pandemic.
“Technology hiring here remains really challenging,” she said. “The pandemic has actually driven a lot of IT project needs for companies.”
Meanwhile, would-be candidates who currently have jobs are reluctant to trade job security for new opportunities, reducing turnover and the new job openings that might have generated, Slabinski and others watching hiring trends said.
“Some organizations are reporting some of the lowest turnover they’ve seen in years,” said Tauseef Rahman, who focuses on talent and hiring strategies as a San Francisco-based partner at consulting firm Mercer. Some employers are looking to transfer employees to busier parts of their businesses to avoid layoffs or the need to make outside hires, he added.
The success many employers have had with remote work — and the potential that it may continue through the pandemic and beyond — is opening their eyes to recruitment opportunities outside the Seattle market, Slabinksi said.
Meanwhile, as employers assess hiring plans, they’re evaluating a new factor in Seattle.
Last week, the Seattle City Council passed a new tax on large businesses to raise funds for the pandemic economic relief in the near term, and affordable housing, local business assistance and Green New Deal programs in years to come.
Companies with at least $7 million in annual payroll are taxed 0.7% on salaries of Seattle employees making $150,000 or more a year.
While it paused construction on its growing Seattle headquarters over a 2018 “head tax” proposal, Amazon had no comment on the “JumpStart Seattle” tax, which carries a rate of 1.4% on annual compensation for companies with a Seattle payroll of at least $1 billion — a group that appears to include only Amazon.
“Several tech companies have already begun to rethink location strategy, including consideration for increased distributed workforce working from home or local offices,” Rahman said. “This will directly impact the tax base of cities in general if employers and employees are open to working outside of headquarters, whether that’s in another office or at home in another city.”
An Amazon spokesman declined to comment on the greater reduction in job openings listed in Seattle compared to the company as a whole. “We continue to hire in the Puget Sound region, across the U.S., and around the world with tens of thousands of job openings globally,” the spokesman said.
Comparing listings on Amazon’s jobs site Monday with a snapshot Feb. 5, when the company had the most openings in recent memory, shows a few of its other technology hubs were down by a similar percentage to Seattle. Openings in Bangalore, India, and Herndon, Virginia, each fell 37%, while openings in nearby Arlington, where Amazon is growing its second headquarters and eventually expects to employ 25,000 people, were off 28%. Vancouver, Canada, saw listings fall 44%.
Meanwhile, New York City, an erstwhile second headquarters location, still has nearly 850 openings listed, just 2% off its Feb. 5 total. Listings in Nashville, Tenn., a major logistics hub for the company, were essentially flat.
Openings listed in Bellevue, where Amazon is moving its worldwide operations group and has plans in place for as many as 15,000 employees, were down 20% to 561.
Amazon’s job listings are a rough proxy for its hiring appetite. Some listings are for multiple open positions, and a separate jobs site advertises hourly roles in fulfillment and distribution centers across the country.
Amazon said 125,000 of the temporary hourly workers brought on in March and April to deal with pandemic-related demand would be offered permanent, full-time roles.
Amazon ended 2019 with 798,000 full- and part-time employees.
The opinions expressed in reader comments are those of the author only and do not reflect the opinions of The Seattle Times.


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Maxine coordinates Cockpit’s awards, careers and young people’s programme. She holds an MA in contemporary craft and is a Weston Jerwood Creative Fellow.
Other members of cockpit
Annie joined Cockpit as Chief Executive in 2018. Previously Creative Director at the Crafts Council, she has 20 years’ experience as a cultural leader and social entrepreneur.
Head of Marketing & Digital
Amy joined Cockpit in 2023, bringing over 15 years experience as a creative producer, graphic designer and visual storyteller.
Head of Business Incubation
David leads our team of business coaches and trainers. He designs our in-house programme of business support and one-to-one coaching and leads Cockpit’s international consultancy service.
Business Incubation Programme Manager
A trained coach, Madeleine plans and delivers our business development programmes and provides one-to-one coaching for studio holders. She returns from maternity leave in April 2022.

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Well paid position with guaranteed hours!
Our amazing dental team is looking for a Full Time Dental Hygienist. We are a
growing general dental office with many specialty offerings. If you are a fun,
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New hygiene school graduates are welcome and encouraged to apply!


Back in the bad old time, server computers had a proprietary management controller (BMC), for example HP iLO or Dell iDRAC. These varied widely in capabilities, and worse, in data structures presented to the management software controlling the data center.
A lot of standards came, and failed, until pressure from certain customers with a lot of machines, everybody kind of centered around Redfish. All modern servers, no matter who makes them, understand Redfish.
But Redfish does not stop at the server, nor is it the whole story. It is cross linked to Rack Scale Design (RSD), which is an initiative lead by Intel and joined by many vendors to build composable hardware.
In RSD, we have a Pod, a collection of Racks and the Rack Management Modules. The racks contain drawers, which in turn contain parts of machines, pooled resources – Compute Drawers contain compute modules, machines with memory and processors, Storage Drawers contain disk drives or SSDs. A bunch of Top of Rack Switch (TORS) connects the racks together, and is built for a lot of rack-to-rack (East-West) traffic. At least one Pod Manager (PODM) exists, that together with other lower level controllers controls and orchestrates the configuration of these pooled resources – and all of them speak Redfish.
The game that is being played here is disaggregation – taking a traditional server computer and cutting it into a bunch of generic pieces that make up the machine, then providing these pieces and composing the necessary actual computers dynamically as needed.
It’s like building a virtual machine in hardware, and if that is sounding weird to you, that is because it is weird.
The level of disaggregation is variable – some of it even makes sense.
Looking at the way we consume hardware at work, the biggest cause of variation between machines is storage.
But fact is: even the small type of machine is often already too large for what is needed by an application. A dual E5-2620v4 delivers 32 threads, and with 128GB of RAM and one or two 10 GBit/s Ethernet interfaces – that’s 4 GB of memory and 300 (or 600) MBit/s of networking per thread. A very useful and balanced configuration.
What varies is the storage provided to these machines – different types of storage (HDD or SSD) and different sizes of storage (one or two small disks, because the machine does not persist anything locally, or many disks, because it’s running a persistence service like a database).
Disaggregating storage makes a lot of sense – have storage boxes in each rack, and provide disk storage to each machine that needs it, and – and that is an important point – in exactly the size needed. Because right now each box consumes the type of storage hardware one size larger than it needs in order to have sufficient space – and that leaves a lot of disk space unused. So it is useful to have a kind of distributed filer than creates volumes that are an arbitrary, application defined size, not the size of the disks that make up the total storage volume available to the filer. Having that kind of storage definition will most likely dramatically improve my storage utilisation.
But I am not using a PCI interconnect across my racks to do that, but most likely the existing Ethernet and things like iSCSI or RoCE for that. One bus tying together all my racks, one topology to manage, and one way of routing things.
Having smaller CPUs and proportionally less memory also makes sense – to have, but probably not to buy. And that is where I wonder why I would want the composability that is provided by RSD. I am not really going to configure a number of CPUs, DIMM modules and network adapters somewhere in my rack to assemble into Voltron a software defined machine, but I am most likely going to take a machine that I have and slice and dice it into smaller units.
That is, I am more likely to use Kubernetes or Openstack to take a set of machines and subdivide them into smaller, software-defined units of useful size, than I am going to take a bunch of software-configurable hardware parts and make machines of the appropriate size from them.
I am not assigning special hardware like a GPU to any machine, but I am more likely to have special hardware in one machine and then assign software to run on this machine as needed.
And then there is latency. Companies like HP keep talking about disaggregated memory in many forms for more than half a decade now, but of course that is not easily done – while you can provide bandwidth, simply moving memory away from the compute is going to incur latency. That is not fixable, so we are not going to disaggregate memory properly at all, ever, but add a new intermediate tier to the cache hierarchy in the data center – below local RAM, but above remote flash. Funnily enough, this again seems to point to RoCE again, and not to PCI switches.
So, if I can have disaggregated storage without RSD, and I don’t really want disaggregated memory, because it will never materialise, what other good may come from RSD?
RSD provides the management you do not have. Through PODM, the RMM and the lower level modules, all understanding the RESTful Redfish API and the tools built on top of that, finally we are getting software that can manage data center hardware in a useful way. Rack performance data (power draw, airflow, temperatures) are being exposed and are being collectible by modern software. Machines can be BIOS-updated, partitioned and installed automatically without manual intervention and dashboards are finally possible without writing a gazillion low-level proprietary hardware abstraction layers first.
So the composability is mostly bullshit, or at least a solution in search of a problem. Most people don’t need PCI switches, as they already have trouble managing their Ethernet switches, and most people are way better off having one network and one topology to manage. Also, you need IaaS/PaaS software such as Openstack or Kubernetes anyway, and you are most likely not going to assemble your hardware from parts across a rack anyway.
But the management is really nice, if you don’t happen to have such a management already.


UCSF Chancellor’s Concert Series
We are very pleased to announce, after much hard work and fund raising, that the Chancellor’s Concert Series (CCS) will continue for the 2017-18 season. There will be nine concerts, one per month from September to May. However, whether the CCS will continue beyond the 2017-18 season is uncertain.
Here is the situation: The CCS must break even. All UCSF Campus auxiliary units are required to break even. Since we do not charge for admission, the CCS has not been breaking even. To break even and continue our concerts, we ask you, our attendees, to contribute some of the funding for the concerts. In addition, we need volunteers to help us do the necessary behind the scenes work, as volunteers reduce staff costs and help CCS break even.
The concert series is a free program that brings members of the San Francisco Symphony – arguably the best symphony orchestra in the country – and other exceptional classical musicians right to Parnassus Heights. The performers have very much valued the enthusiastic reception by you, the audience. The CCS is one of UCSF’s rare cultural programs on campus, a fantastic “oasis” that inspires and rejuvenates appreciative UCSF students, faculty, staff, retirees and the community throughout the academic year.
With your charitable gift specifically earmarked for the concert series, you show your support for the series. Our major donors need to know if continuing the series is important to you, the audience. Your gift, large or small, will be a tangible demonstration. Please make your gift today. All gifts specified for the concert series are tax-deductible.
HOW MUCH DO WE NEED?
With the help of volunteers taking over the behind the scenes staff work, each additional concert will cost only $1,683 for the season 2018-9. This is a reasonable and achievable goal with your participation. Any amount will be appreciated.
WHAT HAPPENS IN 2017-8 and WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN 2018-9?
We will have 9 concerts in 2017-8, with 7 of the concerts supported by leadership gifts. Continuation of this series would not have been possible without the generous leadership gift from Margot and John Clements.
In 2018-9, the number of concerts will depend on the number of contributors and the amount of support received. If most people in the audience were to contribute (the suggested amount is $50, $100, or more for 9 concerts a year), it will be evidence of audience support, and we will have nine concerts a year. Otherwise, without adequate audience support, the series will conclude.
21st UCSF Chancellor’s Concert Series (2018-9) – Cole Hall:
September 6, 2018 - Thursday
Tien Hsieh, piano
Beethoven: Piano sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
October 4, 2018 - Thursday
Beethoven: Piano Trio, in B-flat major, Op. 97, “The Archduke”
In Celebration of UCSF Veterans
November 8, 2018 – Thursday
Ives Collective with
Robin Sutherland, piano
Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op. 84
December 20, 2018 – Thursday
Dan Carlson, violin
Dian Zhang, violin
Joy Fellows, viola
Peter Myers, cello
Mendelssohn: String Quartet No. 3 in D major, Opus 44, No.1


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Duesenberg Guitars Deluxe Leather Strap
The padded Duesenberg leather strap - handmade in Canada.
The Duesenberg Deluxe Strap is handmade from fine materials such as suede and genuine leather. It is also nicely padded for those seeking an extra comfort from a high quality strap. Suede on its backside prevents the strap from slipping and keeps your guitar safely on your side.
Length: 130cm, adjustable
Handmade in Canada

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