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March will be stacked with adidas Yeezy releases as three different colorways of the Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 Women are confirmed to drop in limited quantities on March 16th. The “Hyperspace” colorway, an Asia exclusive, features a light grey upper with hints of a light gum on the outsole as well as on the translucent dash that is implemented on the elastic Primeknit shell.
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Good news for adidas Yeezy fans – a brand new Adidas Yeezy Boost 350 V2 for sale colorway is in the works. Set to release on March 30th, 2019, this new “Clay” colorway of the famed 350 v2 model features yet another earthy tone on the new upper build that features the transparent mesh stripe on the upper. The terracotta-esque tone works quite well with the silhouette, with punchier hits of the hue seen on the heel pull-tab accentuating the overall dyed look of the shoe.
Over the last few weeks, it has become apparent that much of Kanye West and his adidas Yeezy sub-brand’s plans for 2019 will revolve around the Yeezy 700 and the Yeezy 700 v2 silhouettes. While that may be the case, it is a near certainty that the most
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Consequently, your assignment this week is to play around with the unblocked website Graffiti Creator. Investigate the many style options it has, play with color and background. When you have something you like take a screen shot and then draw it by hand.
Or do your own thing, totally invent your own style, color it in, think about the background as well.
And please email me your amazing work.
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Eoin Morgan Praises Jofra Archer And Ben Stokes, Reveals About The Strategy For T20I World Cup 2020
England skipper Eoin Morgan praised Jofra Archer’s performance. The fast bowler Archer has gained the fame from ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 through his bowling attack. In the World Cup final, he bowled the super over which was a crucial part. His Ashes 2019 performance was also commendable. He was the third-highest wicket-taker though he only played four Test matches in that Ashes series.
Morgan appreciated Jofra Archer’s contribution in the team and quoted him as an “X-factor”. The 24-year-old made his debut this year and in a short period, has made his place in the cricket world. He has recently been given the central contract by England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). Morgan observed that the fast bowler has never disappointed when the team needed him.
“I think it is fantastic. Jofra is very exciting to watch and he bowls fast and has an X-factor. He can bowl in any format of the game and any circumstances and to any plan,” Morgan said.
“Every obstacle that is being put in front of him, he overcame that. We haven’t seen the best of him, he still wants to learn all the time.”
Morgan Praised Ben Stokes
Eoin Morgan also appreciated the efforts of Ben Stokes. The batsman has stunned everyone through his innings at Headingley where he single-handedly led the team from the front. Because of his unbeaten batting, England won that game.
“Who would have thought after the World Cup final performance that took absolutely everything that he could come up with, on his own we would win a game (third Ashes Test) at Headingley. The innings exposed every attribute that you need to be a Test match batsman. It was exceptional,” he said.
Skipper reveals his strategy for T20I
The skipper discussed their ICC T20I World Cup 2020 preparations. He said that there was a long span to do the experiment in the team and build a squad which could bring home the trophy.
“We have 18 T20 International games from between now and then and we will try to build a squad that can potentially win that tournament (World T20),” Morgan told a group of reporters here.
“Realistically we do (stand a chance of winning). We came to India in 2016 and made it to the final. We had a similar squad during the World Cup in England this year.”
“If we can build our momentum and gel together as aside, it will give us the best chance,” added the left-handed batsman.
England won the World Cup this year and they will want to repeat their victory in T20 World Cup next year. Morgan opines that there will be changes in the strategy for next year.
“Our strategy will change in the new year towards the (T20) World Cup. It is been a long summer for some of us and some need rest. I think, in the immediate future, we might experiment a little bit. But next year, we will be working towards building a strong team.”
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Earth Day Stories are Due
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The cordials company held a bartender challenge in Indiana this fall, asking contestants to create unique cocktails using the company’s lineup of 70 flavors. From the press release:
Deerfield, IL. (December 4, 2014) – Today, DeKuyper, the #1-selling line of domestic cordials, announces the results of its 2014 Bartender Challenge in Indiana. The challenge, which took place this fall, called on Indiana-based bartenders to create a one-of-a-kind cocktail featuring one or more products from the robust DeKuyper portfolio of 70 cordial flavors.
Throughout the month of October, DeKuyper invited bartenders to submit a video of themselves behind the bar creating their own original cocktail recipe with a pre-selected DeKuyper liqueur flavor. After reviewing all of the submissions, DeKuyper narrowed down the entries to five finalists – hailing from Carmel, Crown Point, Indianapolis, Newburgh and Noblesville, Indiana – and invited consumers to vote for their favorite bartender at dkcocktailmasters.com or via the DeKuyper Facebook page.
Once all the votes were tallied, DeKuyper awarded Carolyn Connelly of Noblesville the title of 2014 DeKuyper Cocktail Master. Carolyn’s impressive Rainbow Shot recipe wowed fans and earned her the votes needed to take home the title.
“We couldn’t be happier to announce Carolyn as our very first DeKuyper Cocktail Master,” said Brendan Lynch, Senior Director of Cordials and Rums for Beam Suntory. “We are so impressed with her creativity in developing a unique cocktail featuring DeKuyper that expressed her lively personality.”
“I’m so honored to be selected as the DeKuyper Cocktail Master!” said Connelly. “It’s great to be recognized for my hard work and creativity behind the bar. I’ve been a fan of DeKuyper for years now and love creating unique cocktails using its cordials.”
Connelly’s Rainbow Shot incorporates her own favorite cordial, DeKuyper Blue Curacao, which features the delicious flavors of orange, lemon and curacao, with Pinnacle® Tropical Punch Vodka, fresh orange juice and grenadine syrup.
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Raspberry Gelato makes a delicious use for the fresh fruits of summer!
by Sue Lau | Palatable Pastime
via Sue at Couscous and Consciousness
A month has quickly passed by since I made my first post for the Secret Recipe Club! In case you missed it by chance (sign up for recipes in your mail and never have that happen!) you can read all about making Grilled Chicken Gyro Salad with Pita Croutons by Spiffy Cookie right here. We absolutely loved that and I had such good time making it. It was a great introduction to the club and has set the stage for the excitement this month as once again, I explore the jungle of delicious recipes in the treasure stores of the Group D Bloggers. Want a taste? Take a peek and see some of them yourself.
Secret Recipe Club Deliciousness
Each month, we are each assigned a secret blog to choose a recipe to make. As I said previously, I did my first from Spiffy Cookie and this month I had the pleasure of digging around the treasure box at Couscous and Consciousness.
There were lots of recipes to choose from. I was attracted by several recipes, such as a peach and lemon cake, prawn and chile pot sticker dumplings, fig and blue cheese wontons, and spiced feta with preserved lemon. But the recipe I could not say no to was the raspberry gelato, deliciously pink and lovely.
Very easy to make, I used some of my own touches, such as buttermilk powder which I keep on hand and have used it often in making frozen custard. But you can still use powdered milk. And other things just minor idiosyncrisies particular to each of us.
I do hope you enjoy. I did!
And now on to the other recipes in this month’s SRC offerings.
Click on the image below to view other recipes in this months SRC Group D link-up
Secret Recipe Club Reveal Day
Raspberry Gelato (Adapted from recipe on PickYourOwn.org)
Makes approx. 1.5 liters
Active: 25 mins.
Inactive: 8-10 hours
- 8 egg yolks (reserve whites for another use)
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup dry buttermilk powder
- 1 cup light cream or half and half
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 cups organic raspberries (if using frozen, measure frozen but thaw before making puree) or 3 cups of other suitable fresh fruit
- various ice cream toppings of choice
- Separate egg whites from egg yolks are use whites for another purpose.
- In a large bowl, whisk together the milk, sugar, and buttermilk powder until the sugar dissolves.
- Place one cup of the milk mixture into another smaller bowl and whisk in the egg yolks one at a time until smooth.
- Heat the remaining milk mixture over a saucepan on a diffuser or in the top of a double boiler on low heat until mixture begins to simmer, then remove from heat for five minutes or so.
- Take one cup of the heated milk mixture and gently our it into the milk with egg yolks in a slow steady stream, whisking constantly.
- One the heated milk is completely in the egg mix, pour the egg mix back into the heated mixture in a slow stream, whisking constantly as you do so as well.
- Heat the mix in the double boiler over simmering water, making sure the top pan doesn’t touch the simmering water inside, stirring constantly until mixture thickens but does not boil, then remove from heat.
- Place a stainless mixing bowl into a sink full of ice water (not deep enough to get the water into the bowl. Pour the thin custard through a strainer set over the bowl and discard any solids.
- To this add the light cream (or half and half) as well as the vanilla. and mix well before allowing to cool completely.
- Place plastic against the top of the custard to prevent skin from forming, the refrigerate until chilled, 6-8 hours.
- For the raspberries, measure out 3 cups (I used fresh). Frozen are fine, but measure them while frozen and then let them thaw. Measuring them after thawing can distort the amount as the can get mushy.
- Puree the berries in a food processor. You can also mash them the old-fashioned way with a potato masher or even fork. Same thing if you choose to use 3 cups of another time of berry or something like strawberries or chopped peaches, although mashing may be more difficult with firmer fruit. Microwaving difficult fruits can help soften them and make them easier to handle and mash, but generally, a food processor will pulverize them without a second thought.
- Place both mixtures into your ice cream machine and run according to directions. If you’re using a prefrozen tub, don’t forget to get it frozen beforehand.
- After completing the machine cycle, eat at once or freeze to firm up a bit further, depending on how it turns out.
- I served my gelato with simple toppings such as chocolate syrup. raspberry syrup, whipped cream, extra raspberries, toasted almonds, and wafer cookies and it was a delight. Use whichever finishing toppings you like!
Strain the custard into the bowl of cream, and stir over the ice bath until the custard is completely cool. Add the vanilla extract. Pour the custard into a jug (that will make pouring into the ice cream maker easier later on). Cover with cling film, pressing the cling film right down onto the surface of the custard so that the whole surface is covered. Refrigerate to chill thoroughly – at least about 8 hours, but preferably overnight.
Now you’re ready to make ice cream. Puree the raspberries for a couple of minutes in the food processor or blender, and strain if you prefer to remove the seeds. Remove custard from the fridge.
Set your ice cream machine churning and pour in the custard followed by the raspberry puree. (You could mix the custard and fruit together before pouring into your machine, but I found that my churn did a good job of mixing them for me.) Churn according to manufacturer’s instructions, then serve straight from the churn, or freeze for a couple of hours if you prefer a firmer texture.
Adapted from a recipe at CouscousandConsciouness.com
as prepared by Palatablepastime.com
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Looks delicious! I use that same buttermilk powder =)
Was there life before buttermilk powder? I don’t remember it but being as young as I am…bwahahahaha. ahem. Nobody believes that. LOL! About my age, not the buttermilk- teehee!
Beautiful concoction, and would be welcome at our 4th of July table!
hope you are having a fantastic Reveal Monday!
I do love a good sundae. I was hoping to find some vanilla wafers like they have at Swensens ice cream parlor. I think the chocolate ones were pretty good. Now I am on a mission to either find those wafers online or find a recipe. But just about *anything* on the gelato is a winner I think! Thanks for your kind words.
Oh drool… that looks so refreshing for the warmer weather that has arrived!!
I could only have a bite or two, being diabetic, but Iplan on trying this with a sugar sub very soon! Thanks for your comment!
What a wonderful dessert! I am partial to raspberries and know I would love a dish of this gelato. Happy Reveal Day!
Thanks. It’s quite tasty! Wish I had come up with the recipe but…at least I found it thanks to blogging friends! 🙂
Happy Reveal Day! I love gelato and raspberry gelato looks so good:) I have found many delicious recipes on PickYourOwn.org. Lynn
That site has been around a long time now, hasn’t it? The listings for the fruit farms are great! Especially if you miss a crop- you can call around to see if someone is still picking.
That first photo is absolutely beautiful! Perfect for summer. Great pick!
Thank you! I had a bit of a headache with the editing on that photo since it was a night photo. Glad it turned out nicely! I always worry too much when I photograph someone else’s recipe.
That’s it…I may as well forget ever putting my ice cream maker away. There are sooooo many great recipes to try!!
It’s a food group, right? Maybe we all need to find a permanent place for them on the countertop! LOL Thanks for stopping by.
Thank you for your kind words, and so glad you enjoyed this gelato. It’s definitely one of my favourite treats when raspberry season rolls around.
Glad I found the recipe for reveal day!
Raspberries are on sale right now… if I weren’t leaving town in two days I’d rush out and make this right this second! Either way, I’m saving it for future Lauren to make. 🙂
I hope she enjoys! This can be made with most berries and some other fruits as well. So grab whatever is on sale!
I’m still on my first one, all these years later and it never hit the yard sale box. I like being able to make whatever kind I want. Thanks, and glad you stopped by!
I pinned this to try in the future. I’ve never made gelato before!
Thanks! I hope you enjoy.

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So far I have self published eight stories on the Amazon KDP platform. Whatever you think of Amazon the KDP platform has given a voice to countless writers who have just wanted to express themselves. It’s a great way to publish and even if you don’t sell many copies, it should give you a great sense of achievement, especially as it’s possible to order a physical copy of your book. Before KDP came along, as an aspiring author, you would have had to have spent a large amount of money to self publish and have ended up with several boxes of books to sell or give away.
So here is the link to my author page, https://www.amazon.co.uk/-/e/B07D3ZTQ1L, and the links to my books on the Amazon UK website although they are available globally.
Busy Bee and the Silent Spring, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Busy-Silent-Spring-Paul-No%C3%ABl/dp/B088JFN1ZV/
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I had my daughter 10 months ago and received an epidural. I still can tell you exactly wear the needle went in when I touch my back because it feels like a constant bruise/sore spot whenever it gets touched. Sometimes if I do something that uses more back muscles than normal or lots of bending over then the site gets achey. So I was just wondering if this is common and will it go away? It makes me wonder if I would want to get another one done if we have another baby!
My mom had that too. She had the epidural when she had me and had lots of pain until she had an allergic reaction to something and had to get a spinal tap in the hospital. After that she said the pain went away.
I had an epidural for my second pregnancy but didn't have any trouble. Hope you get feeling better.
I have 4 girls and had an epidural with all of them. They messed up 3 times in a row with baby #2 so I was pretty sore for a while ater that. My last one though I can relate totally to how ur feeling. It still feels sore and I know exactly where they put it. She's almost 5 months old and it feels like they just did it yesterday. I was thinking maybe it was because if how fast they did it, didnt have much time considering i was 8cm when we got to the hospital. He was rough putting it in, no fun at all. But 10 months later u should have some relief by now poor thing! I hope my pain goes away soon too! But even with the soreness i would totally do it again rather than feel the full blown labor and delivery pain lol! good luck to u!
I have had 2 epidurals and both were practically painless if you consider I was getting them during almost non stop contractions. :) No pain at the time or after. I attribute it to a good anethesiologist....
14! That's a lot. How come so many?
I had an epidural when I had my son 7 months ago. They had to stick me 3 separate times because the anesthesiologist couldn't get the needle in. (OUCH) My back hurt pretty bad for about 3-4 months afterwards and I could feel each stick point bending over and laying down. The pain did wear off though and now I don't have a problem.
And as for having one again...Pretty sure I would
i dont necessarily know where they had placed mine but i Do get back pain from doin labor intensive work noticeably different from before pregnancy...and i remeber the feeling of the epideral as it got inserted i felt a cold chill up the right side of my spine...the epidural didnt work on my upper abdomenn throughout the labor...and i also notice the back pain on this side more stronger from the center of my lower back creeping up the the right side...i didnt so much mind it not working though becuase it gave me the ability to know when to push...
I just had my #2 baby in June and had an epidural. My anestesiologist (sp?) was amazing. I felt no pain when getting it, but to this day my right leg goes numb a lot. I still can't feel my whole right foot. I was told it could take a while for that to go away.
I had an epidural when I had my daughter 3 months ago it wasnt a pleasant expierience I had been up for over 16 hours when I finally decided to get one hoping that I would be able to rest some. My epidural worked great for about 2 hours then I began feeling every contracion on the left side of my body. They redosed it and then the same thing happened an hour later. I havent had any back pain since I left the hospital but I don't know that I will get another one considering it didnt work very well and I pretty much felt everything anyways.

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"Ready to give it our best my sweet little cupcake?" Fred cooed as her pinching her cheek.
'cupcake?' her eye twitching annoyance to the cheesy nickname. Hermione turned and smiled at him with a face stuffed full of suspicious innocents.
"of course my wittwe cuddwie puff." she said in a very high pitched voice along with a remarkably hard pinch to the nose ....Hermione 1, Fred 0
"OW! ok snookums I'd like to keep my nose If its alright with you!" Fred said as he desperatly tried to pry his helpless nose from her cruel unforgiving hand. Taking notice to how small her hands were.
"of course." she smiled letting go of his nose .
"ok you love-birds your giving me the oogies!" George said feigning a gag. Hermione's eyes narrowed as her eyebrow twitched in annoyance.
'i hope he hasnt forgotten who created this mess.' she thought to herself. Hermione looked over at Fred who returned the mischievieous-annoyed-who-does-this-guy-think-he-is look. Hermione raised an eyebrow and Fred smirked. they knew what to do.
Hermione began by turning toward the unsuspecting twin with a piteous look.
"ohh Freddie! i think our wittle Georgeie is lonely!" she said. Fred continued.
"aw! Georgie it's okay you'll find someone...something someday...it may take a while. but someday you wont be a lonely wart!" he said with determination. Hermione hid a chuckle. George glared at his brother and Hermione
"ok guys I get it!" he put his hand up in surrender. just then Mrs. Weasley opened the door with a wash cloth in hand.
"OH! Fred, George, Hermione dear!" she latched on to Hemrione
"Ive been worried sick! Where have you three been!? grasping hermione by the arms. all three of them just stared at her insure of what to say. they had spent so much time looking for th key they had forgotten they were suppose to be there. Fred grasped Hemione's hand and Molly who, havig so man children noticed this small movement. she opened her mouth to say something when a crash was heard from the kitchen. Molly quickly forgot about the gesture and turned with lightening speed. Hermione, Fred. and George leaned in to see what was ocurring. Molly walked swiftly toward the kitchen leaving the three outside. she quickly came back and ushered them inside.
"now you three head straight for the living room do not I repeat DO NOT! go any where else am I perfectly clear!?" she said firmly in a motherly way. the three nodded as she turned to go. Hermione began to head toward the living room but was soon held back by the hand holding hers. Hermione looked up knowing very well the two were set on not doing what they were told.
"oh no we are going to go straight to the living room!" Hermione said as they wagged their eyebrows at her suggestively. Hermionelooked at hem determinedly.
"but!.." they said in unison which quickly was returned with a quick no. Herminone grabbed Freds hand in a firm grasp leading him toward the living room knowing they wouldnt dare do it without the other. especially if their mother was involved. as Hermione stepped through the doorway and turned on the lights however she wasnt expecting what ocurred.
"HAPPY BIRTHDAY YOU THREE!" several people jumped out with a large banner wishing happy birthday on it.
'three?' Hermione thought to herself. as Harry and Ron came over patting her on the back.then the twins.
"three?" she voiced her thoughts.
"yes Hermione three!" Harry said laughing. Hermione looked at him in confusion
"your birthday past too remember? We wanted to celebrate your birthday we all decided that with all thats happened espcially to you you could do with a little cheering up. we are really grateful to you and are happy that you were born." Harry and Ron said exchanging smiles. Hermione felt the tears well up in her eyes.
"Hermione dont cry!" Ron said
"we know your happy and all about the speech but dont cry" Harry said hugging her.
"im not crying!" she said stubbornly wiping the tears away never once letting go of Freds hand. Both Ron and Harry noticed this but kept quiet knowing Hermione would tell them sooner or later. laughter arose and Hermione watched the group of people.
" alright everyone Dinner's Ready!" Mrs. Weasley came in. everybody began to file out but Fred wanting to get in there first began to move quicker than Hermione could keep up with.
"Fred!" she said stopping him. everyone quickly went by.
"Fred we got to do something about the length of this chain! " she said holding up there connected hands and tapping the chain with her wand.
"alright" he said happily pulling out his own wand and muttering something. a light shot out of the wand and hit the chain once again making it invisible.
"what did you do?" Hermione asked.
"stay right here." he said releasing her hand and walking away a bit.
"you got rid of it!?" she asked shocked. then she felt a tug on her wrist when he was 5 feet away from her.
"no, love, I only stretched it a bit. Me and George figured this spell out when we were creating one of our better pranks.." he smiled walking back and grabbing her hand. Hermione followed him in the kitchen but only to find it completely empty.
"where..?" Hermione began when they heard a noise from the back yard. they went out through the back door and found everybody seated at a very long table. it reminded Hermione of the scene from Alice and wonderland where they had a tea party. Hermione chuckled.
"what?' Fred asked with a lopsided smile.
"nothing" she laughed. strangly Fred enjoyed Hermione's laugh it was kinda contagious.
"will you two get over here!?" George called. they began to make their way over there when a gruff voice came from behind them.
"so this is where the party is?" Hermione recognized this voice and turned quickly.
"Hagrid!" Hermione yelled as the great giant came over and hugged her.
"ello there 'ermione! and Appy birthday!" he said and sat her back down.
"ere's your uh present" he said handing her and obviously hand wrapped gift.
"and happy birthday to you two too." he said directed toward Fred and George as he handed Fred their gifts. Fred nodded in acknowledgement. Hagrid made his way over to the table. Hermione then understood.
"thats why its outside" she said as Fred looked over to her.
"feels like everyones here." she smiled then quickly frowned.
"almost everyone..." she said to herself not knowing Fred was able to hear her. They quicky walked over to the pile of gifts and sat them down then sat down at the table its self where two plates were awaiting them.
"well how is it?" Molly asked looking for approval.
"very delicous Mrs. Weasley." Hermione said Fred and George nodding in agreement.
"Molly dear, just Molly." she said smiling. Hermione smiled at the comment.
"Molly than." Hermione said. before they knew it the party came to an end.
"can i have everyones attention please?" Fred said standing up Hermione glancing up next to him. everyone quickly quieted down.
" I have an announcement I think you all should know. " he began Hermione gave him a curiouse look. Fred smirked
'oh this is going to be good" she thought.
"im...WE have some interesting news to tell you all." Fred said gesturing to Hermione.
"we are ENGAGED" he said with ease. Hermione's jaw dropped 30ft as did several other peoples.
'engaged!? Fredrick Gideon Weasley if i make it out of here tonight i'll make sure you never see the light of day' Hermione glared at her Fiancee
A/N hey guys um i just wanted to say if there are any mistakes in this chapter that is because i was holding my fat puppy while typing on my computer which is acting up. thats kinda the reason i named this chapter lucky because it was lucky of me to even get the tittle typed let alone the whole story. so i hope you enjoyed this. :)
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John Russell Houser, the man who killed two people and wounded nine others in a Louisiana movie theater frequented many online forums detailing his fascination with America’s “moral decay,” his hate for liberals, and Hitler.
“America is so sick that I now believe it to be the enemy of the world,” Houser wrote on Fellowship of the Minds. “I know next to nothing about Iran, but the little I do know tells me they are far higher morally than this financially failing filth farm.”
“If you don’t think the internet is censored, try reading a newspaper from a country that hates liberals the way I do,” Houser wrote on Twitter.
In another tweet, he said, “Westboro Baptist Church may be the last real church in America [members not brainwashed].”
On other forums, Houser wrote that the US is racist against white people, sterilization should be mandatory for welfare recipients, and wrote that “Hitler accomplished far more than any other.”
In a post on Political Forum, Houser wrote that President Obama “is doing exactly what Tim McVeigh did, only the president is much more effective. The way I see it, the faster he wrecks this nation,which in no way resembles what it’s founders envisioned, the faster working people with morals may re-assume command.”
Houser was also a regular at city council meetings in Columbus City.
“He came to many City Council meetings and he was in tune with a lot of the issues that were going on in the community,” former Mayor Bobby Peters told The Miami Herald. “He was very outspoken, highly intelligent, really didn’t trust government and anything about government. He always thought something was going on behind the scenes. He came across with a very conservative agenda.”


Circling the Globe
Urban Poverty and Slum Upgrading KSB and the GSG for Urban Poverty, Inclusive Cities and Housing organized a Flagship series, ‘Circling the Globe: A Series of Experiences in Urban Upgrading from the Around the World’. The main objective of the series was to showcase operational experiences focusing on lessons learned related to inclusion and safety, highlighting the work of Country Office staff. The projects/cases showcased during this series have been converted into these 9 Case Notes. The Case Notes are intended to be used by team leaders and clients to demonstrate how urban upgrading tools can be used to achieve policy goals and address financing gaps that city and national governments experience. These case notes are intended to be instructive and practical to urban planning, social and strategy professionals. Click on the images to download the reports.
Featured Blogs and Events
- Land Pooling/Readjustment: An Alternative to Compulsory Land Acquisition (Facilitated) Open Learning Campus
- COVID-19 turns spotlight on slums by Waad Tammaa and Phoram Shah
- From Waste Pickers to Street Vendors, How Can Cities Expand Opportunities for the Urban Poor? by Judy Baker
- Home Sane Home by Luis Triveño and Olivia Nielsen
- Resilient Housing Joins the Machine Learning Revolution by Sarah Elisabeth Antos and Luis Triveño
- #BuildBetterBefore to Save Lives and Strengthen Economies by Ede Ijjasz-Vasquez and Luis Triveño
- Building Better Before the Next Disaster: How Retrofitting Homes Can Save Lives and Strengthen Economies by Sameh Wahba, Luis Triveño, Horacio Terraza and Sarah Elizabeth
- Making Homes Safer to Build Resilient Cities by Kristina Wienhoefer and Luis Triveño
- To Build Resilient Cities, We Must Treat Substandard Housing as a Life-or-Death Emergency by Luis Triveño, Elizabeth Hausler, Niels Holm-En and Peter Yanev
- A Housing Policy that Could Almost Pay for Itself? Think Retrofitting by Luis Triveño
- Let’s Build the Infrastructure that no Hurricane Can Erase by Luis Triveño and Klaus Deininger
- Retrofitting: A Housing Policy that Saves Lives by Luis Triveño and Niels Holm-En
Global response to COVID-19 in slums
Populations living in slums are particularly vulnerable to COVID and its economic and social impacts given their crowded living conditions, lack of access to basic sanitation and health services and inadequate waste management. They are also among the least resilient to the shocks as they are largely informal workers, with irregular incomes, higher poverty incidence and low savings. Their conditions call for an urgent and differentiated response. We have compiled below resources, relevant documents and research that look into how COVID is impacting the urban poor.
- Online course: Upgrading Urban Informal Settlements (Self-paced)
- Podcast: "There is no Place Like Home"
- Podcast: "Machine Learning Joins the Housing Revolution"
- Compendium: "COVID-19 Resources"
Urban Poverty and Housing Knowledge Resources


Modular homes are low-energy or passive buildings that allow for fast and environmentally friendly living. Modular construction is used to address both permanent and temporary structures. Modular construction is the creation of space by stacking unified spatial units – modules.
What is a modular house?
The term modular houses refers to houses with a structural system consisting of individual modules that are folded and assembled together. They can be made up of one or several modules, with assembly taking place on site.
What are the advantages of modular construction?
- The construction of a modular house is fast.
- The installation itself is environmentally friendly.
- The use of modules reduces the cost of building foundation.
- You can arrange a mortgage for a modular building.
- You can dismantle the modular house and then reassemble it on a new site.


7:30pm – Sunday, April 15 on ABC1
The story of Australia is the story of endless change: life, climate, and location. Seas come and go. Mountains rise and fall. Whole kingdoms of life triumph and disappear.
The series final sees us racing down the last 65 million years to the present day. A mere blip in the long geological story of Australia but importantly for us, it is in this episode that we reveal the events that have shaped the more obvious features of the continent we now inhabit. In the wake of the catastrophe that saw off the dinosaurs, Australia set off on a lonely voyage in southern seas.
This is a story of calamity and conquest; how a conspiracy of climate, biology and geology shaped the land that humans now call home. Taking the long view back allows us to look more clearly forward as our island home rafts steadily northwards and into the storm clouds of change.


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Winter Salads? No Longer an Oxymoron
Just because it isn’t spring, doesn’t mean we stop eating veggies. Even in winter there are plenty of ways to enjoy a fresh salad. In the winter our bodies tend to steer us towards warmer, more comforting foods. This can lead to lower intake of fruits and vegetables compared to the warmer months, and sometimes packing on a few pounds. It is important to aim for five servings of fruits and vegetables each day year round. They provide us with immunity building antioxidants, colon cleansing fiber, and many essential vitamins. Start with hardy greens like arugula, kale, or shaved Brussels sprouts. Add some roasted vegetables like sweet potatoes, beets, and parsnips. Sprinkle on some pre-cooked whole grains like barley or quinoa. Top with sliced baked chicken and drizzle with warm tomato basil vinaigrette. Looking to get even more into the winter spirit? Try roasted cauliflower or cabbage “steaks.” Simply cut the heads vertically in about one-half to one inch thick “steaks.” Coat with olive oil, sprinkle with seasonings like salt and pepper, and bake in the oven for 400 for 25-35 minutes (turn halfway through) until golden brown. Be creative, follow your gut, and enjoy a winter wonderland of salads.
By Abby Forman, Registered Dietitian with Bon Secours Physical Therapy & Sports Performance
For more information about nutrition and choosing healthy foods, visit us at http://www.bonsecoursphysicaltherapy.com/nutrition-counseling/

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Aetna Inc. has moved the creative portion of its corporate and retirement services account, with billings estimated at $20 million, to Waylon Ad in St. Louis from Ammirati Puris Lintas, New York, sources said.
The move had been expected [Adweek, Dec. 21], but remains somewhat surprising given Waylon's size. The agency bills about $35 million and, without a media department, employs about 14 people. Waylon Ad is connected with The Waylon Co. promotions firm in St. Louis.
Media duties for Hartford, Conn.-based Aetna were expected to stay at APL for the time being. Waylon referred calls to Aetna; executives there could not be reached by press time.
Aetna spent about $64 million on advertising in 1997 and about $33 million through September of last year, according to Competitive Media Reporting. About $37 million of the 1997 figure went to advertise Aetna U.S. Healthcare, formerly a Waylon client on a project basis. That account is now at McKinney & Silver in Raleigh, N.C.
Waylon began working with U.S. Healthcare shortly after the agency opened in 1995. The Blue Bell, Pa., company merged with Aetna in 1996. Waylon continued to work on projects for the managed healthcare arm of Aetna through last fall, when it broke a campaign with the tagline "Raising the quality of healthcare in America."
Those TV spots broke alongside new corporate work from APL that used a wedding theme under the tag, "What matters most,' and spots for Aetna Retirement Services, also from APL, tagged, "A plan to live well."
All the work is an effort to rebrand Aetna, long known for insurance but now concentrated in managed healthcare and investment services.
Waylon earlier this month was awarded creative work for a $15 million campaign sponsored by a coalition of HMOs, including Aetna U.S. Healthcare.

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There he is! Brayden “Waldo” Williamsen, 6, blends right in with the rest of the
characters as they march in the parade. According to weather forecasts, trick-or-
treaters shouldn’t have to contend with rain on Wednesday, but temperatures are
expected to drop to a low of 25 degrees.
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Sophia Detig (left), 5, and Jacob Tucker, 6, march through the parade dressed as a
washer and dryer.
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Steven Pope helps his son, Antywon Pope, 3, with his mask Saturday afternoon during the Lion’s Club Halloween parade through downtown Dixon.


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Our Restaurant Guide picks the best restaurants in Portland every October. We hem and haw and fuss to recommend 100 restaurants we think best represent the city.
This is not that list.
Rather, these are five spots we're excited about right now. Maybe that's a taqueria we've loved forever, maybe that's a seafood spot with a special menu this week or a new burger joint we stumbled on Friday night. It's designed to answer that age-old question: Where should we go out to dinner tonight?
1. Kachka (pictured)
720 SE Grand Ave., 235-0059, kachkapdx.com.
You get the idea with one dish, “herring under a fur coat,” a pink-tinged stratified butte of a salad that is Russian coffee-table fare rendered jaw-gapingly tasty. It's also our restaurant of the year.
2. Old Salt
5027 NE 42nd Ave., 971-255-0167, oldsaltpdx.com.
This Cully neighborhood butcher shop and restaurant takes sustainability-focused, whole-animal butchery to a new level in town, doing what they can with two cows and three or four pigs, then freestyling the rest.
1818 NW 23rd Place, 894-8904, ataulapdx.com.
Those sous-vide patatas bravas say everything about Jose Chesa’s meticulous approach to food: crisp on the outside, then meltingly tender within. Perfect.
3003 SE Division St., 954-2687, theamericanlocal.com.
Take a cross-country road trip—with an extended stop in the Asian conclaves of Los Angeles—and you have the bones of this Division Street “American izakaya,” which serves salad-topped frybread and a burger loosely based on In-N-Out’s Double-Double.
5424 NE 30th Ave., expatriatepdx.com.
When they eulogize the housemade bitters craze, the named killer will be Kyle Webster, whose antique cocktails use Angostura and Regan’s to perfection. The bar bites are damned good, too, especially the Chinese corn dog and James Beard’s onion sandwich.
Previous Hot Plates:
Oct. 8: 1. The American Local 2. Expatriate 3. Kachka 4. Old Salt 5. St. Jack
Oct. 1: 1. Fireside 2. St. Jack 3. BTU Brasserie 4. Kachka 5. Buki
Sept 24: 1. Pyro Pizza 2. St. Jack 3. BTU Brasserie 4. Kachka 5. The Blue Goose
Sept. 17: 1. St. Jack 2. BTU Brasserie 3. Kachka 4. Kim Jong Grillin’ 5. Pizza Maria
August 27: 1. Ración 2. Pizza Maria 3. Old Salt 4. The Blue Goose 5. Love Belizean
August 20: 1. Pizza Maria 2. Kachka 3. Taqueria Portland 4. The Blue Goose 5. Grant’s Philly Cheesesteaks
August 13: 1. Grant’s Philly Cheesesteaks 2. Pizza Maria 3. Taqueria Portland 4. Local Ocean 5. C’est Si Bon! Crepes + Vins
August 6: 1.Grant’s Philly Cheesesteaks 2. Local Ocean 3. Luce 4. Son of a Biscuit 5. C’est Si Bon! Crepes
July 30: 1. Kachka 2. Stammtisch 3. Luce 4. Firehouse 5. C'est Si Bon! Crepes + Vins
July 23: 1. Kachka 2. Stammtisch 3. Albatross & Co. 4. Bun Bo Hue 5. C'est Si Bon! Crepes + Vins
July 16: 1. Stammtisch 2. Kachka 3. Albatross & Co. 4. Smokehouse 21 5. Taqueria Nueve


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Original wood floors
Bath with Showers and WC
These rooms are accessible through a staircase, an elevator is not available.
With a stay of minimum 2 nights in our hotel you can get the Valposchiavo All Inclusive Guest Card and benefit from lots of advantages!

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Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare
Number of new coronavirus infections in Finland is still relatively small – daily testing volumes have increased
The number of new coronavirus infections remains relatively small at national level, although the number and incidence of cases have risen compared to the low figures at the beginning of July.
During the latest period (10–16 August), a total of 131 new cases were reported to the communicable diseases register. In the previous week (3–9 August), the number of reported cases was 168.
Currently, the estimated basic reproduction number is 1.30–1.50, with a 90 per cent probability.
The incidence of new cases during the period of 10–16 August was 2.4 per 100,000 inhabitants. The incidence of new cases in the two-week period (3–16 August) was 5.4 per 100,000 inhabitants and in the preceding two-week period (20 July–2 August) it was 2.5 per 100,000 inhabitants.
Cases of both domestic still and foreign origin have been reported in Finland. Infections stem from several countries. Some of the new cases are related to identified infection chains and clusters of cases that are being monitored, but the source of all infections is not known. The infection chains of all new cases are carefully tracked in order to prevent new infections as effectively as possible.
The situational picture and modelling group’s most recent and previous reports are available on the website of the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL):
On 19 August 2020, the total number of cases in Finland was 7,805. There have been 334 deaths related to the disease. It is estimated that 7,100 people, i.e. over 90 per cent of all confirmed cases, have recovered from the disease.
On 19 August 2020, a total of seven patients were receiving hospital care due to the COVID-19 disease, but none were in intensive care. The number of hospitalised coronavirus patients has remained at a low level since the beginning of July.
During the most recent monitoring period, the epidemiological situation has remained stable in the majority of hospital districts. No new cases were reported in 10 hospital districts over the most recent seven-day follow-up period. The weekly incidence of cases fell or remained unchanged in most regions. The incidence also decreased in Helsinki, the Uusimaa region and Southwest Finland, where the number of infections has been the highest in recent weeks.
At present, the testing capacity of laboratories is still more than 14,000 samples per day. In the past two weeks (3–16 August), more and more coronavirus tests have been carried out, between 6,000 and 11,000 daily. At national level, the proportion of positive samples of those tested has remained low.
Taneli Puumalainen, Chief Physician, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, [email protected] (epidemiological questions)
Kari Auranen, Professor, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, [email protected] (projection models)
Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki, Strategic Director, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, [email protected] (situational picture and modelling group)


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GODSENT and MAD Lions qualify for BLAST Premier Fall Showdown
Group winners MAD Lions and GODSENT kept their W streak going, as they qualified for BLAST Premier Fall Showdown 2020. Heroic and HAVU were left empty-handed.
What an AMAZING tournament we had, yet again!— Elisa Esports (@ElisaEsports) November 1, 2020
We would like to thank teams, talents, production team and our sponsors for making this tournament possible❤
HUGE congrats to @GODSENTgg and @MADLions_CSEN for qualifying to @BLASTPremier Fall 2020 Showdown!🏆#ElisaInvitational pic.twitter.com/MTlG8cPCLD
|Qualifier Final #1||GODSENT||Heroic||19 – 16|
16 – 12
|Qualifier Final #2||MAD Lions||HAVU||16 – 10|
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16 – 11
Qualifier Final #1 – GODSENT vs. Heroic
GODSENT might have won their group, but there was no question about the favorite to win the match. Heroic had regained their #1 spot in the world rankings on Monday, but didn’t stop GODSENT.
Heroic had excellent start in their own map pick Nuke, as they won their T-side 10-5. GODSENT was barely hanging in there, but their own T-side wasn’t too bad either. Jesse “zehN” Linjala had two big clutches, while they came back and even took the lead 14-13.
The Danish side won two rounds to get their first match point, but GODSENT survived. Heroic won the first round of overtime, and that was all they got, as GODSENT stormed to surprising 19-16 victory.
Overpass was GODSENT’s map pick, but they had a slow start similarly to Nuke, halftime score was once again 10-5 for Heroic. The international roster had no trouble locking the sites, as they stopped Heroic’s attempts again and again. In the end, they closed out surprising qualifier final victory cleanly 2-0 by winning Overpass 16-12.
Qualifier Final #2 – MAD Lions vs. HAVU
HAVU had extremely slow start for their own map pick Nuke, as MAD Lions didn’t need any eco rounds in their CT half. Half-time score was 11-4 for them, and they won the second pistol round too. The Finnish team had a decent comeback effort, winning six rounds in a row to make it from 4-14 to 10-14, before MAD Lions cruised to victory 16-10.
Overpass was the map pick of MAD Lions, but HAVU had a strong start. They won the pistol round for the third time in this tournament to begin their CT-side. The team led by Eetu “sAw” Saha had a 4-1 lead, but in the end of first half MAD Lions led once again 8-7. It wasn’t over for HAVU though, quite the opposite.
HAVU took their fourth pistol round win during the tournament and won the following four rounds too to make it 12-8 lead. The Danish side made it even score, before HAVU started to win again. Two strange half buy wins lead to 16-13 map win for HAVU.
Train started with a knife round that went in HAVU’s favor. The first half however, definitely didn’t favor HAVU. They suffered two money resets in their CT-side, and MAD Lions capitalized by winning T-side 8-7. HAVU had even won the pistol round, but MAD Lions could still win eight T-rounds.
MAD Lions won their CT-pistol and HAVU couldn’t get a hold of the match until MAD Lions led 14-8. Finnishmen got three rounds, before MAD Lions closed out their first qualifier win with this lineup 16-11.

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Published Date: Jan 30, 2013
Exports to India grow faster than imports
ISLAMABAD: The Indian High Commission said on Tuesday
that Pakistan’s exports to India had grown faster than imports despite
missing of a deadline of Dec 31 for complete trade liberalisation regime
between the two countries.
recent tension between Pakistan and India over Line of Control led to
suspension of revised visa regime along with cross-border bus service in
Kashmir. After signs of easing of tension, bus service between Poonch and
Rawalakot was resumed on Monday.
the commerce ministry in Pakistan, the delay in complete liberalisation was
because of procedural hiccups along with political compulsion, but for the
skeptics in Pakistan, the LoC tension provides an opportunity to propagate for
reversal of all those measures taken so far for complete liberalisation of
trade regime with India.
official, who did not want to be named, said it was India which provides a
platform to the people who were opposing trade liberalisation between the two
unilaterally decided to suspend the implementation of the revised visa regime”,
the official said, adding it was not a wise decision.
was so concerned about the delay in trade liberalisation that Pakistan’s Commerce
Minister Amin Fahim spoke to his Indian counterpart on telephone for taking him
on board over an issue which is holding up full trade liberalisation with
Tuesday, Indian High Commission issued a statement in Islamabad to dispel the
impression that the liberalisation has only benefited Indian exporters which
was mostly believed.
analysis was carried out on the basis of latest figures of the Directorate
General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics, Ministry of Commerce &
Industry (MoCI), Government of India.
statement claimed Pakistan’s exports to India between April-December 2012 show
a growth of 66 per cent over the same period in 2011 while India’s exports to
Pakistan grew by 16 per cent in April-December 2012.
exports to India in the nine months of 2012 stood at $460 million, which is
much more than $277 million during April-December 2011 and is also more than
the value of Pakistan’s exports to India ($401 million) in the entire previous
year (April 2011-March 2012).
growth of $183 million in Pakistan’s exports to India during April-December
2012 is more than the increase of about $170 million in its imports from India
in the same period.
devaluation of the Pakistan rupee was one of the major factors for growth in
exports to India.
MoCI figures also indicate that the share of Pakistan’s exports in bilateral
trade with India have almost doubled since 2009-10.
to the Indian High Commission, the impressive increase in Pakistan’s exports
during April-December 2012 reflects the benefits of the steps taken to enhance
bilateral trade, and improvement of trade environment, aided by SAFTA tariff
order to address concerns of Pakistan’s exporters, the two countries had also
signed three agreements in 2012 in areas of customs cooperation, mutual
recognition of standards and redressal of trade grievances.
number of trade organisations in both the countries have promoted, especially
in 2012, greater exchange of trade and business delegations between India and
Pakistan. Liberalised visa provisions pertaining to business persons will
further facilitate such exchanges.
experts at a roundtable discussion on Tuesday urged increased bilateral trade
between India and Pakistan and said that trade could be a catalyst for peace by
enhancing bilateral relations, increasing economic growth and reducing poverty
in the region.


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Filmmaking Is Helping Me Rediscover The Things I Took For Granted
The mystique and magic of film is real. I recently entered a video challenge and made a video close to home, which made me realise that I should be grateful for the beautifully simple things in life, like the susurrus of leaves.
At times we are all guilty of taking things for granted. Everyday things become the routine song of life so it’s hard to sing the praises of something when you experience it regularly. I am highly guilty of this.
I am easily swayed by the thrilling and exciting highs that I have experienced through travel: the mirage of beautiful places, unexpected adventures and exotic people with different perspectives — they draw me in, just like Medusa drew in sailors with a beautifully unique song (before turning them to stone as is told in greek mythology).
This became quite extreme for me. So much so that I started to disregard my home and any aspect of my life away from travel
The thing is that the beautifully simple aspects of life are often said to be the secrets to happiness.
One step to my re-discovery of these simplicities involved taking some time off social…


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Skip to comments.Obama’s dirty-money Hawaii connection
Posted on 01/02/2007 1:48:03 PM PST by AndrewWalden
Barack Hussein Obama is the closest Democrats can come to electing a foreign Muslim President of the United States without actually violating the constitutional requirement that American Presidents be native-born.
Obamas nomination would follow in the footsteps of 2004 Democrat presidential candidate John Forbes Kerry, whose French-language Swiss boarding school education made him the closest thing to a European socialist able to run for President of the US without violating the constitution.
Not only does Obamas name sound like some kind of sick Islamist joke on Americaa candidate whose moniker invokes both Saddam Hussein and Osama bin-Ladenbut he would be the first madrassa-educated American President. Moreover Obama is subject to a standing order of death to any Muslim who abandons Islam as Obama formally did when he finally joined Chicagos Trinity United Church of Christ in the early 1990s just prior to his first political campaign.
While it is tempting to dismiss Obama as a lightweight who is peaking too early in the election season, comparisons with another Democrat presidential candidateBill Clintonshould give pause to any who might dismiss his candidacy as a fad. The Clinton parallels include early dirty-money backing from Hawaii Democrats.
Obama, born in Honolulu in 1961, has not only a Muslim father, the late Barack Hussein Obama Sr. of Kenya, but a Muslim step-father as well. His first father left when Obama was two. His mother divorced and soon remarried Lolo Soetoro, an Indonesian oil manager. Obamas first campaign book is titled, Dreams from My Father: A story of race and inheritance.
The new family moved to Jakarta Indonesia in 1967 when Obama was six. Indonesia was still reeling from a Muslim war with the Maoists leading to the death of between 300,000 and 1 million Indonesians.
According to a March 2004 Salon.com article by Scott Turow, Obama in Jakarta spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school." He was then sent back to Honolulu to live with his maternal grandmother and attend the private secular Punahou School from grade five through high school graduation.
Growing up without a father in the house is not Obamas only Clinton common denominator. Theres drug abuse too. In Dreams from My Father, Obama writes about smoking marijuana and snorting cocaine during his teenage years.
Obama studied for two years at Californias Occidental College then continuing at Columbia University, where he majored in political science with a specialization in international relations. He also studied for three years at Harvard Law School.
Occidental, Columbia and Harvard are all places where conservative students and faculty are denied academic freedom.
Obamas life: Raised in Muslim lands and educated in Muslim schools, then sent to a secular high school serving the children of Hawaiis Democrat-controlled political and business elite. Graduating to secular US colleges run by academic leftists. Not a pretty picture, as Obama himself explains in a June 28, 2006 speech:
I was not raised in a particularly religious household, as undoubtedly many in the audience were. My father, who returned to Kenya when I was just two, was born Muslim but as an adult became an atheist. My mother, whose parents were non-practicing Baptists and Methodists, was probably one of the most spiritual and kindest people I've ever known, but grew up with a healthy skepticism of organized religion herself. As a consequence, so did I.
Beyond corrupt Hawaii Democrats, leftist academia and cultural secularism, Obama has another Clinton characteristic: shady land deals. A standard method for bankrolling the lifestyle of up-and-coming Democrat politicians, in Obamas case his associate in the deal is already indicted by a federal grand jury. The December 24 ChicagoTribune documents Obamas relationship with political fundraiser Antoin Tony Rezko and Illinois businessman Joseph Aramandaboth of whom are named in a federal investigation of bribery of Illinois state officials. Rezko was indicted by a federal grand jury in October and Aramanda is named as an un-indicted co-conspirator.
According to the Tribune, Rezko, a real-estate and fast-food entrepreneur, has emerged as a central figure in a series of state government corruption scandals. He began cultivating a friendship with Obama around 1990, becoming a key fundraiser ".
In June 2005, even as Rezko was widely reported to be under federal investigation, the Tribune reports, Obama bought a $1.65 million South Side home on the same day that Rezko's wife purchased the adjoining garden lot for $625,000. Obama and Rezko then engaged in a series of private transactions to redivide and improve their adjoining parcels.
Obamas corrupt backers in Illinois seamy and fetid political swamps are matched only by the unsavory gaggle of politically-connected supporters assembling to back his candidacy in Hawaii. Obamas Hawaii support comes from a group of Democrat politicos around former Governor John Waiheeconsidered by some the dirtiest figure in Hawaiis very dirty politics. Waihee and his cronies were also early money backers of Bill Clintons successful 1992 bid for the White House.
The little-known story of Clintons Waihee early money Hawaii connection is told in the 1997 PBS Frontline special The Fixers, a story which begins with poor Hawaii farmers being driven off their land in a mid-1980s deal to build Maunawili Valley Oahu golf course deal with Japanese investors flush from the Japanese market and real estate bubble. Fixers (and Waihee associates) Gene and Nora Lum go from buying the entire Hawaii State legislature for $50,000 in order to pass a bill allowing golf courses on agricultural land to becoming early money Clinton financial backers. They engage in a series of transactions mixing Oklahoma gas leases, Democrat connections with Asian money and the sale of political influence to facilitate other Hawaii land deals.
The story continues into the Clintons better-known mid-1990s Asian money scandals involving John Huang, Charlie Trieh, Johnny Chung, the Lippo Bank of Indonesia, Clintons Commerce Secretary Ron Brown, Hillary Clinton, and 938 documented visits to the Lincoln Bedroom by hundreds of people who paid thousands for the privilege. The Fixers ends with then-President Clinton, ten days after winning his second Presidential term, on his way to Asia stopping in Honolulu and playing golf with Waihee in the pouring rain on the Maunawili Valley O`ahu course where it all started. The early money backing of Clinton paid off handsomely for Waihee and his cronies. Clinton in 1993 signed the so-called Apology Resolution in essence apologizing for the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and 1898 US annexation of Hawaii and implicitly placing Hawaii Statehood in question.
The Apology Resolution quickly became a politically correct guilt justification for corrupt Hawaii political operators to rake in millions operating lucrative state and federally funded programs and even private companies pretending to benefit Native Hawaiians. One deal alone, Sandwich Isles Communications, got $500 million in federal funds to provide nearly useless fiber optic connections to Hawaiian Homelands residential lots--most of which are undeveloped. Costs are estimated at $278,000 per utilized connection.
Today Hawaiis political class is focused on passage of the so-called Akaka Bill a political descendant of the Apology Resolution which would create a sovereign native Hawaiian tribal governmenta guaranteed source of billions for Hawaiis venal elites, possibly making them able to drain all of Native Hawaiians patrimony without legal oversight. Obama has been such a strong Senatorial advocate for the Akaka Bill, he is often called Hawaiis third Senator.
In addition to the Hawaii Democrat dirty money machine Obama is tied in with Goldman Sachs, investment houses specializing in highly regulated industries and many Clinton administration figures as described in the December 6 Harpers Magazine article, Barack Obama, Inc.:
He (Obama) quickly established a political machine funded and run by a standard Beltway group of lobbyists, P.R. consultants, and hangers-on. For the staff post of policy director he hired Karen Kornbluh, a senior aide to Robert Rubin when the latter, as head of the Treasury Department under Bill Clinton, was a chief advocate for NAFTA and other free-trade policies that decimated the nations manufacturing sector (and the organized labor wing of the Democratic Party). Obamas top contributors are corporate law and lobbying firms (Kirkland & Ellis and Skadden, Arps, where four attorneys are fund-raisers for Obama as well as donors), Wall Street financial houses (Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase), and big Chicago interests (Henry Crown and Company, an investment firm that has stakes in industries ranging from telecommunications to defense). Obama immediately established a leadership PAC, a vehicle through which a member of Congress can contribute to other politicians campaignsand one that political reform groups generally view as a slush fund through which congressional leaders can evade campaign-finance rules while raising their own political profiles.
Goldman Sachs had substantial dealings with ex-Governor Waihee and the corrupt trustees of the $6 billion Bishop Estate exposed finally in the late 1990s and documented in the current Hawaii best-selling book, Broken Trust.
Is Broken Trust a thing of the past? Obamas Hawaii steering committee taps into both Bishop Estate and the Waihee administration. As the December 13 Honolulu Advertiser explains, Chuck Freedman, a retired vice president of corporate relations for Hawaiian Electric Co. (HECO) and former communications director for former Gov. John Waihee, said the committee has contacted Obama's aides and has received a positive response.
Currently three of the five Bishop Estate trustees are also board members of Hawaiian Electric. HECO monopolizes power generation and distribution in Hawaii and through double-taxation (tax on fuel for generation, and on the electricity produced) under the General Excise Tax, supplies a large part of the State General Fund. HECO also provides many thousands of dollars of political donations to legislative incumbents. Bishop Estate is Hawaiis largest private landowner.
Voters rarely got the truth from Bill Clinton; will they get the straight story from Obama? Not judging by his December 6 comments to Harpers: Progressive candidates generally have a harder time raising money, he said, and at times some of them will trim their sails on behalf of the people who are financing them.
Hawaii may not amount to much in the Electoral College, but to the National Democrat Party money machine, these islands are a fountainhead of cash. If Waihee and his cronies could parlay their dirty land deals into the Presidency for their selected candidate in 1992, they could do it again. Barack Hussein Obama will keep his Islamic past under wraps and his radical secularist sails trimmed. He will say whatever it takes to bring in the cash and win election. His candidacy, record and corrupt connections deserve close scrutiny now, before it is too late.
PBS Frontline: The Fixers: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/fixers/etc/script.html
Harpers Barack Obama, Inc.: http://harpers.org/BarackObamaInc.html
Chicago Tribune: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0612240343dec24,1,7299492.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
Hawaii Donations to Incumbents: http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?1ba6f2ab-6c24-46a5-855a-452cec2339e6
Advertiser: Effort launched here to draft Obama http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Dec/13/br/br9324817650.html
Broken Trust: www.brokentrustbook.com
Sandwich Isles Communications: http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?9341371c-c4b7-4b47-8855-8279fefcf04c
First negative news source ever I've read about my Senator.
My local media fawns all over Obama. He is intelligent. He is spiritual. He is Mr. Clean Ethics.
Should have prefaced with: with the help of the main stream media,
I will never vote for a Muslim....
Oops, do I have the right to say that, since it has been pointed out repeatedly that the Constitution does state that no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States?
Lots of info there. Thanks.
freedom of speech :)
Very interesting. Barack Hussein needs to be asked about his timing.
What else do we expect?
As is often misunderstood, the Constitution and BoR affects, constrains, limits government, not the people. At least that's the way it's supposed to be.
Feel free to use whatever litmus test you wish, against any candidate you are allowed to vote for.
That looks like someone tying up loose ends before embarking on their career to me. I may be wrong...but I doubt it.
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Skin-friendly Fermented Foods for Gut Health
You can’t read a magazine or scan a newsfeed these days without being told about the amazing benefits of fermented foods. These special foods do indeed have a significant role to play in gut health and feature in the Bestow Love Your Gut Programme for this reason. Here’s the skinny on how fermented foods can promote gut health and support beautiful skin.
What are fermented foods?
Fermented foods are food or drinks that have been pre-digested by live microbes as part of a fermentation process. When eaten daily they provide a multitude of bio-available nutrients and beneficial microbes. They can be plant-based and pickled in brine, or liquids or proteins cultivated with a live culture.
How do fermented foods help gut health?
The gut is home to various colonies of live bacteria and fungi – some good and some bad. When bad colonies of gut microbes overtake good colonies this has a damaging effect on skin and overall health. Our gut needs a regular supply of beneficial live microbes in order to maintain a harmonious microbe balance. Fermented foods support the gut by supplying a diverse range of beneficial gut microbes as well as digestive enzymes, which enhance nutrient absorption.
What’s the connection between gut health and skin health?
A sluggish digestive system and imbalanced gut leads to an overloaded liver and unwanted inflammatory toxins circulating around the body. This exacerbates skin challenges like acne, rosacea and any sensitive or inflamed skin conditions. It gets in the way of a clear, glowing complexion. But the reverse is also true. When we make the changes required to heal our gut, our skin is supported and renewed from within. The gut-skin connection is very direct.
What are common fermented foods?
We feature three skin-friendly fermented foods in the Bestow Love Your Gut Programme: coconut yoghurt, sauerkraut and kombucha. We avoid some of the other common fermented foods like kimchi, tempeh and miso because soy-based products can be irritating to the gut and the spices in kimchi can inflame sensitive skin.
Are fermented foods a new food fad?
Not at all! Before electricity made refrigeration possible fermentation was a common way of preserving food. But fermented foods have deeper roots than that. They were part of ancient food cultures in many parts of the world. Greece brought us yoghurt, Germany – sauerkraut, Japan – miso, Russia – kombucha, kefir and kvass, India – lassi and Egypt – sourdough. Countries where fermented foods continue to be embraced are often reported to have better overall health and life expectancy than countries that don’t.
As civilization progressed, it seems that somewhere along the way – and particularly in the West – these fermenting practices were lost. What now looks like a fad is simply a renaissance of interest in these amazing foods, prompted by a greater global awareness of other food cultures and advances in gut health research endorsing their health-promoting benefits.
Are fermented foods enough or should I take a probiotic supplement as well?
Because the quantity of fermented foods we ingest is often insufficient as a sole probiotic source, a probiotic supplement is a good addition. It is important to eat a variety of microbes and the combination of various fermented foods and a probiotic supplement will help to ensure diversity. Bestow Gut Love + is a world-class synbiotic powder including probiotics, prebiotics and digestive enzymes to support a thriving gut microbiome.
How much fermented foods should you have for gut health?
Aim for at least two servings a day of fermented foods. Incorporating at least two of the following into your daily eating habits is quite easy to do. Enjoy the benefits!
One serving equals any of the following:
- 100 mls of Kombucha
- 1 tablespoon of Sauerkraut
- 2 tablespoons of Coconut Yoghurt


Construction Journal (CTJ) has named the top 10 projects in the construction industry in Ireland.
The list was compiled by the construction publication on a list of top projects completed in 2017.
The project highlighted on the list is a new 100 metre high tower that is being built on a property in Connemara.
It will be the largest of its kind in Ireland and will span 3,500 metres and have a height of more than 1,000 metres.
The first phase of the project, which will be completed by the end of 2021, is a seven storey building, which is set to have a total floor area of 1,400,000 square metres.
This will be followed by a three storey tower at a site near the centre of the city, which has a floor area less than 700,000 sq metres.
It is also the first of three towers planned in the area, which includes the former home of the local council and a number of offices.
The new tower will be built on the site of the former Connemarra General Hospital, which was sold to the Irish Construction and Building Society in 2017 for €2.8 million.
The site of Connemarrra General Health has been used for a number in the past.
The Connemora Hospital, with its heritage, is located in the middle of the City of Connabhac, on the border of Kildare and Cork.
The building will be divided into two towers, one for each ward.
In the west wing, a 1,500 metre long tower will house a new cardiac ward, which opened in the year 2020.
It will have a capacity of 300 people.
In between these two towers will be a 1.5 metre tall building with a capacity for 200 people, which also opened in 2020.
In a further development, the west side of the hospital will be converted into a new 24-hour emergency ward, with a maximum capacity of 350 patients.
The hospital was built in 1912 as the Connemoran General Hospital and was renamed the Connemenor General Hospital in 1953.
The area will be used to house other hospitals in the city including the Connestra Hospital and Connemannor General Medical College, which have been closed for over 20 years.
Construction Journal has been reporting on construction in Connemenors building for the past five years.


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[This piece was originally published on the RSA blog. The post was a guest blog written by Andrew Hurst, Program Leader with the Think Tank Initiative, which discusses how think tanks can contribute to positive social change.]
The RSA’s mission is “to enrich society through ideas and action”. This mission is based on the belief that all humans have “creative capacities that, when understood and supported, can be mobilised to deliver a 21st century enlightenment”. Much of RSA’s work is focused logically on building networks and opportunities for people to collaborate. With RSA Global, the venerable society is turning its attention to challenges beyond the UK’s borders. This is a great and noble goal, and the RSA is to be commended for pursuing it.
The Think Tank Initiative (TTI) has a similar story, if newer in origin. The brainchild of the Hewlett Foundation, and hosted by Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), TTI was created with the belief that it could go a long way towards meeting the challenges faced by developing countries if it supported organizations that have proven adept at contributing to positive change through policy-focused research. TTI has for the last eight years worked to strengthen the ability of independent policy research institutions, or think tanks, to generate and analyze credible local data, enhance public policy debates and promote more objective, evidence-based decision-making that makes real, sustained improvements in people’s lives.
Given the similar philosophies and trajectories of RSA Global and TTI, it made sense to collaborate on a study that examined the question of how think tanks contribute to positive social change, and to explore what innovations could help think tanks to make this contribution successfully.
Why Think Tanks?
IDRC has for over 40 years helped support researchers in developing countries. While many low- and middle-income countries have much better pools of highly educated experts today than four decades ago, these pools often remain limited and the institutional context for knowledge generation is sometimes weak. At the same time, public policy institutions such as government bureaucracies and public universities are often rigid and slow to change. As a result, they have been unable to produce the kinds of knowledge needed to help address the complex and pressing public policy challenges these countries face, such as climate change, inequality or rapid urbanization.
There are many ways to support and mobilize creative capacity in these contexts. Large think tanks like Brookings or multinational consulting firms like McKinsey have chosen to mobilize creative capacity through a “franchise” or “branch plant” approach, creating national affiliates led by and populated with in-country staff. There are clear benefits to this approach, including instant brand recognition and access to impressive global networks. However, there are drawbacks as well. Local think tanks have more “skin in the game” than foreign affiliates or non-profit arms of global businesses, whose presence reflects international ambition, or global business strategy that may shift or change over time. Being locally embedded and with a deep knowledge of their context, think tanks are able to produce relevant and timely evidence-informed policy options, and help monitor and assess policy implementation. These think tanks also offer a credible way, even if only in symbolic terms, to reflect back out and into regional or global conversations the perspectives of their fellow citizens and societies in a manner that is not complicated by multinational relationships.
Arguably, the advantages of national think tanks, which stem from a legitimacy that outside experts or global affiliates lack, affords them a unique position to push for and catalyze change. This legitimacy allows these think tanks to broker conversations across a range of national and sub-national actors – from government to unions, from community associations to international donors – facilitating public policy consultation and deepening citizen engagement. As such, think tanks provide excellent examples of how creative people in the global South have self-organized to facilitate collaboration around research and policy engagement and increase their influence and impact on public policy through collective action.
Of course, think tanks themselves must continually innovate to realize their potential, and international support for them can undermine their local legitimacy by arousing government suspicions of “foreign influence”. However, at TTI we believe that, if done right, investing in local policy research organizations offers the best approach to mobilizing creative capacity for the long run.
The Road Ahead
Looking ahead, a key challenge will remain how to galvanize interest and support from different funders and partners of local think tanks. Policy actors must continue to be made aware of the value that think tanks bring. At the same time, think tanks require resources, and a supportive institutional environment to help realize their catalytic potential. As the RSA Global Discussion paper argues well, and based on TTI’s own evidence, supporting and working with local think tanks makes sense if we are collectively to realize the benefits of a 21st century enlightenment. Given the RSA’s storied past and innovative present, it is in a great position to help, and in so doing be true to its ambitions to “empower communities to meet their challenges in their own unique way”.

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Ancient Greek πυκνότης (puknótēs, “density”) + -cline
pycnocline (plural pycnoclines)
- A boundary layer in a body of water between areas of different temperature or salinity.
- The bay has fresher water at the surface and saltier water at the bottom, in between is the pycnocline.
- A layer of water where the density changes rapidly with depth

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Herd Behaviour and Market Efficiency: Evidence from the Iberian Stock Exchanges
The present paper examines the extent to which herd behaviour is prevalent in the Iberian stock markets using constant and time-varying coefficient estimation. An important finding is that the results obtained from using the two different methodologies for analyzing the Iberian markets lead to different conclusions, suggesting that estimates are not independent of the methodology used. Using constant coefficient methodologies no evidence of herding is found in the Spanish market suggesting a generally efficient market, however regarding the Portuguese market we find evidence of herd behaviour. On the other hand, by employing the Kalman filter, a methodology scarcely used in the study of the herding phenomenon, we find that herd behaviour presents time-varying dynamics in both Iberian markets. Additionally, the issue of a potential contagion across these two highly integrated economies is also addressed and the evidence suggests a strong spillover effect. The findings, particularly those regarding the time-varying dynamics of herding, highlight the necessity of further research given the impact of herding on market stability and particularly on portfolio risk diversification.
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Rogers postpones 2014 Buffalo Bills game in Toronto
The media co has announced it is pushing the next game back one year, adding it has built a Canada House at the Bills stadium in Buffalo.
Rogers Media has announced it is pushing the next game in its Toronto series back one year to “deliver a better fan experience.”
The media co signed a deal in the fall to continue bringing the Buffalo Bills to Toronto each year until 2017, with the most recent game running on Sunday Dec. 1 of last year.
Greg Albrecht, executive director of live content, Rogers Media, tells MiC that despite tinkering with the format over the past couple years, the media co isn’t happy with where it’s at and wants to take a year off to reevaluate the Buffalo Bills experience it is bringing to Toronto.
In addition to announcing it is moving back the next game in its series with the Bills, Rogers also announced it is building a Canada House near Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo that will serve as the official tailgate zone for Canadians at all home games.
Albrecht says that rate cards and details for sponsorship deals around the house will be available within the next month. He adds the house will be built and ready for fans to enjoy by the start of the next Bills season.

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