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Thursday, September 30, 2010
Jo Addison & Alice Walton 'one day exhibition' (September 2010)
In the first of it’s kind at Centrum, London-based artists Jo Addison and Alice Walton created a
one-day exhibition following a mini-residency in the Project Room. During
their short stay they looked at ways of developing a dialogue between their
work as well as experimenting with installation and ideas of display. Alice Walton makes collages and sculptures that incorporate found materials such as magazines and art history books. Jo Addison is also inspired by found material. She seeks out invisible objects, things we are not supposed to notice.


The rules will require employers to take action to prevent their employees from developing diseases caused by exposure to vibration at work from equipment, vehicles and machines.
Two types of hazard are covered; hand-arm vibration, which affects people who use hand-held power tools, and whole-body vibration, which occurs when people are sitting or standing on industrial machines.
Hand arm vibration is said to be common in vehicle manufacture and repair – some hand-held portable power tools transmit vibration into the operator's hand and arms. Tools that are selected need to be designed and constructed to reduce the risk of vibration and used only by trained workers.
Around 3000 new claims for industrial injury disability benefit are made each year in relation to vibration 'white finger'. The courts have also awarded large sums of compensation including £210,000 for a railway employee.
The regulations will specify daily levels of vibration exposure where employers will be required to take action to control risks and prevent further exposure. They must come into force by July 2005 to implement the European Physical Agents (Vibration) Directive on time. Consultation ends in March 2004.


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Crash in Racine leaves 6 people injured
Incident reported early Saturday morning
Six people are injured after a crash in Racine.
It happened around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday near Main Street and Carlton Drive.
Police said a vehicle lost control and hit a tree.
Two of the victims were flown to the hospital via Flight for Life.
Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call police.

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When the disk drive indicator of a computer cannot be read (since the computer is under or beside the table) it may be useful. If difficulties arise, to have an extended indicator alongside the monitor.
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The PC drive LED in the computer must be branched off to a D connector to be fitted at the rear of the computer. The small circuit is easily constructed on a small piece of prototyping board and built into a small case. The whole is then connected via a cable terminated to a D connector to the computer. The small case can then be located wherever desired.


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Pandora has announced new integration with Instagram today that makes it easy to share music and podcasts to your Instagram Stories. In a blog post, Pandora detailed the new feature and said it’s rolling out now to a “limited” selection of users, and will come to everyone within the next several weeks.
To share your Pandora song to Instagram, simply tap the the “Share” button in the Pandora app, then choose the new “Instagram Stories” option. Once you do that, you can customize the appearance in the Instagram app and more:
There, you can add text and stickers to your Cover Art card and share as a Story, or send it as a direct message to a friend, a group of friends, or all of your followers. Each “card” has a distinctive color dynamic based on that music or podcast’s original cover art, so each Pandora share on Instagram Stories is eye-catching and unique.
The ability to share Pandora content to Instagram is available to all Pandora users, including those on the free tier. When someone views your story with Pandora content, they’ll see a “Play on Pandora” button:
When your friends on Instagram see the Cover Art card you’ve shared, they can tap “Play on Pandora” and get direct access to that content, as well as Pandora’s full music and podcast library. Friends who don’t already have a Pandora Premium account can access your shared content plus a session of free, unlimited, on-demand music and podcasts after viewing a short ad thanks to Pandora’s Premium Access feature.
Pandora is available on the App Store as a free download.
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Chris Sale pitching against Cleveland's injury-riddled lineup looked like a mismatch Thursday night.
Boston's ace was battered while matching the shortest start of his career, and rookie Yandy Diaz got four hits as the Indians beat the Red Sox 13-6 in a matchup of division leaders.
Sale (14-6) was tagged for seven runs on seven hits and three walks in just three innings. The Indians, held to a combined four hits by the Red Sox in the previous two games, erupted against one of the top contenders for the AL Cy Young Award and roughed up Boston's bullpen.
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> On Jan 21 15:09, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>>I've been working on integrating the full bind resolver into Cygwin and,
> Is that different from what we already have in minres?
Yes. I'm taking a slightly different approach then Pierre. I believe
he is using bind8 sources, whilst I'm using the latest bind9 w/ FreeBSD
sources. My goal is to provide a single, uniform resolver across all
platforms, with the source code as clean as possible of any kluges. I
know that either people are going to call me crazy or flame me for what
I'm saying, but, hey, it's just my opinion. Frankly, I'm sick of seeing
one thing done 4 different ways because Microsoft can't get its act
together and release a unified winsock3 for all versions of Windows.
Also, let's face it, the windows resolver is very simple and bind wins
hands down in terms of functionality and flexibility. Maybe I'm bias
because the more I get into the winsock internals, the more I dislike
it. Anyhow, I'd like to keep the /etc/resolv.conf as the central
configury point. If it doesn't exist, then I'll grab the "nameserver"
and "search" information from the registry. I've also thought of
providing a simple utility for use in scripts (profile.d, init.d, etc.)
which automatically generates this file on the fly (similar in nature
to mkpasswd). I'm also intrigued by CGF's idea awhile back regarding
/etc/fstab; perhaps I could do something similar with /etc/resolv.conf.
 I mean really, if you look at the NDIS DDK interface and how WinPcap
has exploited it, the support code is *there* in Win95a to support all
of the same winsock feature code (with exceptions for security) found in
the latest & greatest winsock dll in Win2k3. Gee, too bad that federal
judge was so soft on Microsoft... If I were judge, my punishment would
be to force them to support, free of charge, all their products for a
minimum of 15 years ;-).
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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) — Across the locker room from where Montae Nicholson slowly took off his hoodie, Jordan Reed deliberately lifted the shoulder pads over his head to avoid more pain.
It’s only Week 3, and the Washington Redskins are hurting as they prepare to face the Oakland Raiders on Sunday night.
“They’re trying to fight through it right now,” coach Jay Gruden said.
With the return of Reed to practice on Thursday, the Redskins could have all their injured players active against Oakland even if none are 100 percent. Reed is being bothered by a chest/rib injury, running back Robert Kelley by a rib cartilage injury, Nicholson, cornerback Josh Norman and linebacker Mason Foster by shoulder injuries and right tackle Morgan Moses by shoulder and ankle injuries.
Burgundy and gold has been replaced by black and blue.
“It’s painful,” Norman said Wednesday. “But this whole human body is going to go through trials and tribulations just like everybody else. We’ve just got to be geared up and ready for Sunday. We’re going to go through the pain for now because you definitely feel that. But we’ll be all right come game day, I feel like.”
Reed, Kelley, Nicholson, Norman, Foster, Moses and safety Deshazor Everett were all injured in a 27-20 victory over the Los Angeles Rams, though progress is coming faster for some than others. Reed was limited Thursday with Gruden saying the pain is becoming more manageable.
That’s something Kelley knows all about.
“It’s how much I can tolerate,” said Kelley, who got a break when tests showed he didn’t have any broken ribs. “The pain tolerance is pretty good right now because we’re not doing too much. We’ll see the closer we get to the game how I feel. It’ll be a call the coach has to make or the training staff will have to make.”
Gruden said a lot goes into determining whether to play someone at less than 100 percent or replace him with a healthy backup. After Foster popped his dislocated shoulder back in place and made the game-sealing interception in L.A., there’s no sense betting against him playing against the Raiders.
“The pain, you’re always going to be hurt, but as long as it works, it works,” Foster said. “We’ve got great athletic trainers, and I’m just going to keep working, keep going day by day and let them handle the situation.”
Nicholson, a fourth-round pick out of Michigan State, was elevated to the starting lineup last week and also has no intentions of sitting out with a sore shoulder that has “come a long way real fast.” The rookie safety wants to prove coaches right for trusting in him and has put his trust in trainers to get his shoulder right.
“I can’t complain,” Nicholson said. “I’m watching what I do and making sure I do as little contact as possible so I don’t re-irritate it, so on Sunday I’m hoping I’ll be pretty much 100 percent.”
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Allandale Waterfront GO Station
|Address||285 Bradford Street, Barrie
|Line(s)||formerly The Canadian, Northlander|
|Platforms||1 side platform
6 bus bays
|Tracks||1 + 1 bypass|
|Opened||June 19, 1905|
|Closed||1980; rails lifted 1996|
|Station code||GO Transit: ADGO|
|Owned by||Metrolinx/City of Barrie|
Allandale Waterfront GO Station, was built just south of Allandale Station, a historic train station that occupies a large property on the southern shore of Lake Simcoe in the waterfront area of Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Construction of the new facility began in 2009. GO Transit announced on 15 June 2011 that the station would open in the autumn of 2011, but construction delayed its opening until January 2012. Bus service to the station began on the 28 January 2012, with the train service following two days later.
The Ontario, Simcoe and Huron Union Railroad (OS&HURR) first built a station here in 1853. The current structure, the fourth station building on the site, was built in 1904 by Richard Scruton, and opened by then-operator Grand Trunk Railway on June 19, 1905. The station provided passenger service for the Grand Trunk and later the Canadian National Railway and Via Rail until closing in 1980. It briefly reopened as a GO passenger facility from 1990 to 1993. In 1996 the CNR lifted rails between Allandale and Longford.
The Allandale Community Development Corporation or 'ACDC' (with City interests) purchased the buildings and adjacent 7 acres (28,000 m2) from CNR after train service discontinued in the 1980s. ACDC then sold the station to CHUM Ltd in 2000.
CHUM Ltd. purchased the 6.9 acres (28,000 m2) of land, including the station buildings for $1,050,000 in 2000. CHUM planned to restore the Allandale Station building as part of their plan to develop of a new broadcast centre on the site, though changed their plan in 2004. In 2007 CHUM agreed to sell the property to the City for the same amount CHUM originally paid. CHUM received a Charitable Donation Tax Receipt reflecting the increased value of the property since 2000 largely due to the restoration and site works completed by CHUM.
Construction of the new Allandale Waterfront GO Station (located adjacent to the historic Allandale Station) broke ground in spring 2010 and the station officially opened on 28 January 2012. Redevelopment of the station cost approximately $5 million.
The area of the historic station is currently undergoing two remaining stages of redevelopment: (i) the City of Barrie is undertaking the restoration of the historic Allandale Station, and (ii) the City of Barrie is undertaking the restoration of Gowan Street, which borders the southern edge of the station lands. The area is expected to become a new transportation and cultural hub of the city once all the construction is complete.
The Barrie line has weekday service consisting of five trains southbound to Union Station in the morning, and five trains northbound from Union Station in the afternoon. During the months of July and August, bidirectional weekend service is also provided. As of June 29, 2013, the service consists of 4 trains in each direction between Allandale Waterfront Station and Union Station.
- 1A Bayfield northbound to Georgian Mall
- 1B Bayview southbound to Park Place
- 3A Johnson northbound to Georgian College
- 3B Yonge southbound to Barrie South GO Station
- 4A East Bayfield northbound to Georgian Mall
- 4B Yonge southbound to Barrie South GO Station
- 5A Little terminus from Park Place
- 5B Mapleview terminus to Park Place
- 6A Livingstone northbound to Georgian College
- 6B Ferndale southbound to Park Place
- 7A Eastview northbound to Georgian College
- 7B Ardagh southbound to Park Place
- 8A Essa Park Place clockwise loop
- 8B Big Bay Park Place counter-clockwise loop
- 9A Grove terminus to Georgian College
- 9B Edgehill terminus from Georgian College
- 90 terminus via Angus to Borden
- GO Transit
- 68 southbound to Newmarket Bus Terminal
- 68B southbound to East Gwillimbury GO Station
- 68C southbound to Aurora GO Station
- 68, 68B, 68C northbound to Barrie Bus Terminal
- Ramsay, Janis (3 May 2011). "Station named Allandale Waterfront". Simcoe.com. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Bruton, Bob (June 2011). "Station names a GO". The Barrie Examiner. Retrieved 22 September 2011.
- Colebatch, Cathy (2009-10-01). "Go Expands Barrie Line with more service, new station". The Barrie Examiner. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- Kalinowski, Tess (15 June 2011). "GO expands Barrie line with more service, new station". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2011-06-15.
- McInroy, Ian (21 January 2012). "New GO station is ready to go". Barrie Examiner. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- McInroy, Ian (27 January 2012). "GO rolls out free train trip". Barrie Examiner. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
- Boos, Josephine, Allandale Station, Simcoe County Historical Association
- Smith, Jeffrey P. (2009-08-28). "CNR Allandale". CNR in Ontario. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- Urban Explorer
- municipal press release
- Bruton, Bob (11 January 2012). "Train station tab picking up steam". Barrie Examiner. Retrieved 2013-01-08.
- "Barrie Line Seasonal Schedule". GO Transit. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
- Media related to Allandale Waterfront GO Station at Wikimedia Commons
- GO Transit station page for Allandale Waterfront GO Station


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Black Pegasus' double release for Black Friday taps into the rare groove chamber this go around.The 1st joynt is a 200 copy limited edition, red colored and numbered Marc Davis' Chi Talo EP. This is a rare and well sought after Disco Boogie Monster 12 inch re edit of both Chicago and Italy obscure 7 inches that will satisfy any hardcore vinyl collector!
The 2nd release is the Soul In The Hole In The Park DVD, featuring Sadar Bahar and Marc Davis spinning funky vinyl pieces! For over 10 years the Soul In The Hole family has been hosting legendary Chicago summer park jam functions with two turntables, a mixer and underground Disco, Jazz fusion, Afro rhythms, and obscure Funk. This limited release of 100 copies is a journey inside this world with interviews, rare footage and incredible music! DOING PREORDERS ONLY !!! SHIPPING WILL BEGIN DEC 17 FOR RECORDS AND DVDS !!


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Meetup Notice:ONLY 4 SPACES ARE LEFT ON THE ITALY GROUP TOUR
- Italy: A Group Tour of Rome & Tuscany - 8 Days
Just a quick note to let you know that the Italy group trip only has 4 spaces remaining and will be sold out very soon. If you are interested in joining the group to Rome and Tuscany, now is the time to sign up!When
: September 18 - 25, 2010Where
: Italy: Rome & TuscanyFor more details about the trip and for a link to sign up with the tour operator, please visit the meetup event page: Italy: A Group Tour of Rome & Tusca?
Please be sure to let me know if you have any questions.
See you all soon,
KevinChicago Adventure Travel Club
PS: don't forget to sign up for our next local meetup event (plus there will be another fun dinner in August - keep an eye out for that!): http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Adventure-Travel-Club/calendar/13725754/
PPS: be sure to check out all of our upcoming local events and group trips, including:
- TIBET & NEPAL overland trip in October (with stops at the Taj Mahal in Inida & Mt. Everest Base Camp in Tibet)
- COSTA RICA in January
- AFRICAN SAFARI in February
- EGYPT/JORDAN in April
These group adventures are all shaping up to be great trips: http://www.meetup.com/Chicago-Adventure-Travel-Club/calendar/list/

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Yesterday I took a hike at a local wildlife refuge. They have a visitors center where they keep a couple of birds that cannot be returned to the wild. This American Kestral is 11 years old and he is a diminutive thing, and oh so beautiful. Kestrals are the smallest falcons in America.
Click to enlarge for the real feel of this lovely fellow. He was screeching at some birds that were flying by -- screeching right next to my ear. What a great sound.
It was a perfect day, at one of my favorite hiking spots. It's in Carmichael, which is a very wealthy area north of Sacramento, and you travel through these palatial neighbors before you get to the wildlife area. Which is right next to a golf course. Where they probably use all kinds of chemicals to keep the grass perfect.
One of the many snags in the area, which is home to woodpeckers who have drilled so many holes in the wood it looks like a shooting gallery. But there they store their acorns and keep their nests.
Many deer prints were about, and we actually spotted a fox running through the tall grass. Sneaky little thing, darting his way along, keeping low so as not to be spotted. Too fast and far away for a photo. Drat.
Life is Good.
"In wilderness is the preservation of the world." HD Thoreau. Well, I don't know about the world, but it does my soul a world of good.

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Brocade wins patent case against A10 Networks
Brocade Communications Systems Inc. was awarded $112 million in damages in its intellectual property trial against rival A10 Networks Inc. on claims that the latter infringed on patents related to server load balancing software and equipment.
The legal battle, which has been going on since 2010, hinged on the question of whether A10 Networks, improperly used technology from Foundry Networks, which was purchased by Brocade (NASDAQ:BRCD) for $2.6 billion in 2008. A10 CEO Lee Chen was a co-founder at Foundry.
The jury found three counts of patent infringement related to A10's AX Series line of load balancers, four counts of trade secret misappropriation related to the Serveriron product line that Brocade purchased from Foundry Networks, and copyright infringement on 145 lines of code from the Serveriron software. An engineer was also found to have breached his contract by working for both companies at the same time after being recruited by Chen.
A10 Networks said in a release that the offending lines of code have already been removed from its products as of last year, and noted that the court awarded only $1 in damages for the trade secret and breach of contract charges. It plans to appeal the decision.
Click here to read A10 Networks' press release.
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If we had done nothing but eat and drink on our $25-an-Amtrak-ticket getaway to Philadelphia, we would have had a splendiferous time. But as soon as Bob sprang for the fares, I went online to reserve tickets at the newly relocated Barnes Foundation. And then I read a rave review for the Prohibition exhibition, and then @atrios mentioned three Vietnamese supermarkets and @dgroff reminded me of his new favorite site/sight, the Piazza at Schmidts, and of the addition of the Rick Nichols room at the Reading Terminal Market. So we were fully committed even though we had no reservations for anything but the hotel, the second-newest Kimpton, just off Rittenhouse Square. (The bad news was that the great AIA bookstore had closed. The good news was that the Palomar had taken over the entire AIA building.)
Since Amtrak seductions beyond the lack of security kabuki now include rolling WiFi, I was able to poke around online on a ride that went faster than a trip to Flushing and turn up lunch potential, starting with Barbuzzo, which could not have made a more promising start to the long weekend. I expected the New York expected from a pizza/small plate menu, but this was exceptional. We split the $13 antipasti, with not one less-than-dazzling element among the seven on the plate, which included roasted Brussels sprouts, beets with (inspired) grapefruit, fresh mozzarella with tomato pesto and a farro salad and was accompanied by outstanding bread drizzled with Arbequina olive oil. Our cinghiale pizza was also way above average, with a just-blackened-enough crust and generous topping of San Marzano tomatoes, olives and broccoli rabe along with the wild boar sausage, but what made it worthy of 15 bells was the set of condiments the waitress delivered: dried oregano still on the stem and olive oil infused with Calabrian chilies.
Our second-best meal was at Vernick, where we were steered by a friend who comes from and is moving back to Philadelphia; she reported her sister and brother-in-law had been three times since it recently opened. No reservations were possible for Ms. Procrastinator, but @dgroff called and found we might be able to walk in and eat in the bar. Beyond the superb service, what was most gratifying was that four of us could actually hear each other talk while seated at a corner of said bar.
The chef is known for his “toasts,” so we split a special with creamy-tasting chicken livers, onion marmalade, dill and black pepper, plus one topped with the unlikely but sublime combination of eggplant and chanterelles and a third heaped with Maryland crab with just enough mayonnaise moisturizer. Only after he had helped Hoover the light and lively “dressed beets, Moliterno cheese” did @dgroff confess he hates beets. I’m no shrimp fan but was equally taken with the salad of frisee with avocado. All four of us were blown away by the pork blade steak laid over mustard greens despite the repeat of the onion marmalade as a garnish; the butchering and the cooking were exemplary. But into every meal a dud or two must apparently land, because the whole-wheat cavatelli with mushrooms and Meyer lemon seemed leaden and the butterscotch and smoked chocolate parfait was pretty much a mess, and not in the Eton sense.
As we’re wont to do, we went exploring the dining rooms we’d been shut out of, and one or another of the staff insisted we go back and see the kitchen, with its wood-fired oven. At the peak of Friday night service, the chef not only took the time to greet us but answered Bob’s plea for suggestions on where else to eat by writing three names on the back of a “fire nxt crse” slip.
One was for a sushi restaurant, the other for a place I had already checked on and been shut out of, so we made our way the next night to Le Virtu, deep in South Philadelphia. Our four-top for two turned out to be right next to the kitchen, which meant we got running commentary from the minority owner/slave (as he described himself) and advice on what to order from the Abruzzo-oriented menu. He talked up the palott cac’ e ove, AKA braised egg and cheese croquettes, which were cucina povera at its best, like meatless meatballs in a lively tomato sauce, and we also couldn’t pass up the n’duja, which came with sweet and sour carrots to cut the spicy richness of the “spreadable salami.” Finally the kitchen split an order of the pappardelle-like taccozelle with sausage, porcini, truffle and Italian saffron for us. Italian is not my favorite cuisine, because it tends to be more ingredients than cuisine, but this was that perfect hybrid of Abruzzo traditions and American tastes.
Our last dinner was maybe too American: good and plenty but just a little too much muchness. I hadn’t even bothered trying to reserve at Talulah’s Garden, assuming it would be impossible, but our friend who said it’s among the few restaurants she had gone back to repeatedly called Sunday afternoon and snared a table in time for us to duck in before dashing to the 7ish train. As she warned, the menu does tend to read like a shopping list. My duck breast came with crunchy bits of confit of the leg, pears, mustard greens, jus, lentils and “savory vanilla syrup;” Bob’s “exotic mushroom pate en croute” was teamed with speck, fried chicken wing (or wingette), quail egg, pickled mushrooms and shallots. Even the “little stinkers” cheese board we shared to start had so many accoutrements of the nut and fruit variety you could barely make your way to the main tastes. I didn’t try the torchon of foie gras and its many partners but agreed with @dgroff that the farro “risotto” with its six accompaniments did not deliver enough flavor bang for the 26 bucks. Bob, however, scored with lamb belly so beautifully cooked it was not overwhelmed by the pickled carrots and turnips, citrus and hummus. And the side of maple-glazed Brussels sprouts with leeks and ciders plus Alpine cheese was pretty great. The service was definitely personal, too. She knew we had a train to catch, but she had cheese to explain.
We didn’t do too well with our two breakfasts, although I was happy to find tantalizing-sounding places so close to the hotel. The menu at a.kitchen read well, but everything on it was cooked by kids (we sat at the counter, which was a mistake — like laying a magnifying glass on mistakes). Mushroom scrapple with cheese fondue sounded genius, but it was really just crisp polenta sticks flecked with bits of mushrooms over a schmear of cheese sauce, not what it should have been: a little cornmeal binding a mess of mushrooms in a puddle of hot richness. The mustard-oil fried egg did at least have a hint of flavor around the crisp edges. But the oyster mushrooms laid over the whole assemblage were stone cold, as was the “fondue,” and the sticks were chilling, too. Bob’s “crispy Parmesan strudel and scrambled eggs with fennel confit and olive salad” at least had perfectly done eggs and the acidity of the olives to compensate for the sad little packet of oily cheese in phyllo on top. We also got upsold on the house-made English muffin and jam, only to be penalized with a doughy chunk of dough with none of the stalactites and stalagmites that breakfast bread needs. At least our cappuccinos were perfect.
Both of us had poached eggs with hollandaise next morning at Marigold, which is one Starr-looking restaurant (with an English-pub theme), and both of us came to regret them, not least because they took just short of a week to arrive in a not-full restaurant. Mine came over smoked salmon on an English muffin, Bob’s over bubble and squeak. Suffice it to say they tasted fine but were unfilling, as in rentals. My cappuccino came in a coffee mug, which was also a bad idea. (If you want to serve tea, don’t offer the Italian caffeine.) We were also offered free flat or fizzy water and opted for the latter, only to have my glass contaminated by the waitress’s finger as she cleared my mug while we waited, and waited, for our food.
Having heard Vietnamese in Philadelphia is far better than in NYC, we also made our way to a late lunch Saturday at a restaurant we think was recommended by the daughter of Vietnamese restaurateurs in Frankfurt (funny how the world connects these days). I need to do a lot more research on what to order, but I will say the crispy spring rolls on my very fresh, very lively bun were like nothing I’ve ever eaten, and Bob said his pho was BTNYC if not up to what he remembered on the road recently in Virginia. WIGB? Yep, not least for the cashier who noted my last name on the credit card slip, said he had never encountered it before and wondered if it might be . . . English.
Other attractions: The Reading Terminal Market really does get better every trip; this time we spent a long time talking with people at the Fair Food Farmstand, which sells local products from produce to cheese. (Big discussion: Why is there no Edible Philadelphia, in a city so ripe for it?) The Italian Market seemed as vibrant as ever (the cookware store is a trip in itself). Rittenhouse Square, the park I walked through every day for two years on my way to work, now has a Saturday farmers’ market with pretty great offerings, including black walnuts. The Piazza at Schmidts, a cluster of apartments and shops up in Northern Liberties, is clearly a model of development that could not be more distant, conceptually at least, from Headhouse Square. DiBruno is one fabulous specialty market, where the samples on Saturday had us scooping up cheeses and salume.
Mostly, “American Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition” would be worth a journey all on its own. It’s a civics lesson and a history class, both timed perfectly, now that this country has dodged the cannonball of fringe kooks hijacking the national agenda yet again. And it’s fun.
We were also glad we made the trek to the Barnes Foundation despite trepidation since seeing “The Art of the Steal.” The collection is just as jaw-dropping as it looked the first time we saw it in the setting where its owner placed it; they have hung those Cezannes and Matisses with care among all the hardware gewgaws Barnes also perceived as art. But as you walk through, spinning in awe, you keep wondering: Does the end justify the means? Is a contract worth anything anymore if a dead man’s wishes can be overruled?
Also, too, the museum itself looks not much different from the jail you will pass on the train ride south. But we shared a pretty great peanut butter cookie and a smoking hot chai tea in the cafe. Friday nights the place stays open till 10 for a party, and it looked as if a lot of suburbanites had made the reverse journey.
As for the hotel, the location could not be better, or the (smallish) room more comfortable. Plus it has a free-wine happy hour every day, attended by dogs, which are also welcome as guests. It says everything that we didn’t even use the $10 check-in gift card for the minibar. Too much else was too close. Which could be Philadelphia’s tourism slogan.


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"Holiday Story": The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.
- You know, Pop, the main reason I became a psychiatrist was so I could understand why you did the things you did to our family. Now that I've been a criminal myself, I think I understand some of the choices you felt you had to make.
Appearing in "Holiday Story"
- Barry Quinzel (First appearance)
- Batman (Dick Grayson)
- Jenny Quinzel (First appearance)
- Nick Quinzel (First appearance)
- Nicky Quinzel, Jr. (First appearance)
- Sharon Quinzel (First appearance)
- Drug Lords
- Alfred Pennyworth
- Bruce Wayne (As an illusion only)
- Helena Kyle (As an illusion only)
- Holly Robinson (As an illusion only)
- Lamar Schultz (Single appearance)
- Tim Drake (As an illusion only)
Synopsis for "Holiday Story"
- Synopsis not yet written.
- No special notes.
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- Cover gallery for the Gotham City Sirens series
- Images from Gotham City Sirens Vol 1 7
- Catwoman Recommended Reading
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Dirk Wolf is a multi instrumental rock musician who has a gift for songwriting, which makes the catchy songs stay in head of the listener. Because of the countless hours he spent playing guitar during his youth, he can implement his music with ripping guitar solos and powerful melodies. Authenticity is a priority and that can be traced back in to his lyrics which resonates with feelings of melancholy and a critical view on today's society. With a healthy dose of self confindence, perfectionism and drive he releases the self-produced debut single:’’Reflections of an Early Man’’. This gives the listener a slight glimpse of what to expect during a live show with his band. A diverse alternative rock show with a trademark sound that offers a variety of sounds, from melodic tunes to down and dirty distorted guitars.


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Here is a 'KRRNN vs kbppp' four-move chess problem generated autonomously by a computer using the DSNS computational creativity approach which doesn't use any kind of traditional AI. There is no known limit to the quantity or type of compositions that can be generated. Now with synthesized audio narration!
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After falling to Texas 30-7 last week, TCU (3-5) looks to bounce back against West Virginia (3-5), who comes into the game after losing three straight.
Here’s who to watch for each team:
Casey Pachall, Senior, Quarterback
He’s back. Pachall will most likely be the starter for this Saturday’s game against West Virginia, his first start since Week 2 against Southeastern Louisiana when he broke his forearm. Pachall’s 13-for-34 performance against Texas was underwhelming in a rain-delayed game. Head coach Gary Patterson said this week that he wanted Pachall on the field for his leadership abilities. Pachall’s leadership and intangibles may be just what this offense needs to get back on track.
Davion Pierson, Sophomore, Defensive Tackle
TCU missed this 305-pound sophomore from Oklahoma City, Okla., in the rush defense last Saturday against Texas. Texas racked up 187 yards rushing and successfully ran for first downs to shorten the game after the rain delay. Pierson is back from injury this week and the defense will be glad to have him back. West Virginia’s two leading rushers, Charles Sims and Dreamius Smith, have nearly 1,000 yards rushing combined and are averaging almost five yards a carry. Look to see if Pierson is effective in his first game back from injury this Saturday.
Sam Carter, Junior, Safety
Carter had seven total tackles including six assisted tackles against Texas, and he is regarded as one of TCU’s most important defensive players. Carter was named the Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week back in Week 5 against SMU. After a rough game against Texas, Patterson and the rest of the TCU defense will be looking to Carter for a big game and perhaps force a fumble or an interception against a West Virginia team who a had its own share of quarterback issues throughout the season.
Charles Sims, Running Back, Senior
Following the departure of West Virginia superstars Geno Smith and Tavon Austin, many wondered who would step up and deliver for the Mountaineer offense. Running back Charles Sims was brought in to help solidify the West Virginia offense after a junior season at the University of Houston where he finished second in all-purpose yards in Conference USA, Much like the Mountaineer’s season however, Sims has been underwhelming through the first eight games of the season. Despite being the best offensive weapon for West Virginia, having rushed for 600 yards and four touchdowns this season, he has yet to show the big play capability that was expected from him at the start of the season. If the Mountaineers are able to get anything done offensively on Saturday, look for it to come through Charles Sims.
Darwin Cook, Safety, Senior
Despite the return of Casey Pachall, the TCU offense failed to generate much of anything against a stout Texas defense. West Virginia’s leading tackler Darwin Cook will be anxious to pick up right where the Texas defense left off. Through eight games this season, Cook has amassed 51 tackles, 44 of which have been unassisted. His team-leading four interceptions makes him a threat to the TCU passing game which has struggled immensely this season. In a game that will feature two struggling offenses, it may come down to the two defenses to decide Saturday’s matchup. Look for Cook and the West Virginia defense to make a big impact this weekend
Kevin White, Wide Receiver, Junior
In a blowout loss against Baylor three weeks ago, wide receiver Kevin White had a breakout performance that saw him reel in seven passes for 130 yards and two touchdowns. He is averaging 15.7 yards a catch and ranks third in receptions with 24. He leads the Mountaineers with three touchdowns, despite missing a game and leads West Virginia in receiving yards with 9 less catches than receiving leader Charles Sims. What White brings to the Mountaineers is the threat of the deep ball, something that plagued the TCU secondary a week ago against Texas. The Frogs struggled to contain the Longhorns on 3rd down, and gave quarterback Case McCoy ample time to find his receivers downfield. Should they give West Virginia quarterback Clint Trickett the same luxury Saturday, look for him to target White early and often.


"Lazy" -- Deep Purple
"Time" -- Pink Floyd
"Bicycle Song" -- Orbit
"Add It Up" -- Violent Femmes
"Everything's Magic" -- Angels and Airwaves
Okay; THAT was the exercise. I am done. It's all dribble from here:
'Dribble' here: "Lazy" is the first song I play on a public jukebox; Golden Earring's "Twilight Zone" is usually the second jukebox song.
"Time" is still my favorite song of all time, and I play it often.
"Bicycle Song", by Orbit, is the best "unknown" song I ever got to play on the radio. "Bicycle Song" is the theme song for my FCP; it's also Captain Beach Bum's favorite song from my weird radio days. (When people ask me about the best unknown songs I ever got to play, I say "Bicycle Song" first, then 3 Penny Needle's "Stain" second. In fairness; 3 Penny Needle did AT LEAST 3 of the 10 best unknown songs I ever got to play.
"Add It Up" has always been my favorite Violent Femmes song. YOU know it (and I learned it) as the song where singer (Gordon Gano) asks 'Why can't I get just one fuck?'.
"Everything's Magic" is one of the best radio songs, ever. I have an ear for these things sometimes; and I felt it from the first listen to this song in early 2008.
Even though a good copy of "Add It Up" didn't come to my collection until 2008, and the EXISTENCE of "Everything's Magic" did not happen until almost 2008, these two songs are as important as any to me, and DO get played at least once per week.
Because music is so vital to me, and to my Static Girlfriend, we both hear lots of music daily. Together; she and I share roughly 3 hours per week of 5 discs on random play. So we get a differing, weekly, 3-hour mix of these 5 CD's:
Garbage -- Version 2.0
Garbage -- garbage
various artists for the MASSES (Depeche Mode tribute)
Nine Inch Nails -- The Fragile (left)
Nine Inch Nails -- The Fragile (right)
I feel it is important to mention these 5 discs on random play because without them I would play more NIN every week, and Static Babe would play more Garbage. In fact, without these, I would also play more Shirley (Garbage), and she would play more Trent (NIN). And, for the record, OUR song together is Depeche Mode's "Enjoy The Silence", which Failure covers brilliantly on the tribute disc. Without this tribute disc, we definitely would play more Depeche Mode weekly, too.
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Daimler has just been awarded a “Golden Dolphin” in Cannes, at the Corporate Media & TV Awards, for their video “Spirit, Passion & Performance”.
The 4-minute video transposes the values of the German company into sports, promoting team spirit and top performance, discipline and fair play.
The video shows world champions and employees of the Mercedes-Benz plants from all over the world, talking about why they are part of a strong team. The video was filmed in ten locations in four continents and produced by a German production house located in Berlin. It also gives a glimpse on Daimler’s future technologies, like autonomous driving and special safety performance.
The Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards is thought to be one of the most important commercial film festivals in the world and the biggest of its kind in Europe. Oscar and Emmy award winners, experts from the fields of corporate marketing and film industry judge the videos submitted by companies.
The juries in Cannes were not the only one to be deeply impressed by the carmaker’s video. The “OttoCar 2015” gala also brought them two gold trophies in the categories Image Film and Internal Communication and Recruitment.
It is not the first time Daimler makes an impression in the city on the French Riviera. The car maker got gold in 2012 and silver last year.


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Shark Tank dealer and crypto-convert Kevin O’Leary thinks non-fungible tokens (NFTs) will probably be larger than bitcoin (BTC-USD).
The chairman of O’Shares Investments suggested Yahoo Finance Stay that NFTs current worth primarily due to their talent to digitally maintain observe of the possession, authenticity and stock administration of real-world objects like classic watches (of which O’Leary is a big collector), sports activities memorabilia, art work and different property.
“One of many largest challenges I’ve is stock administration, insurance coverage plan administration, after which, of sophistication, authentication,” O’Leary stated. “When people current me traditional watches, I’ve to go by a really arduous authentication strategy to know if it may be phony or not, there’s actually so many fake watches within the trade. NFTs might clear up all of these individuals problems.”
O’Leary, who after termed bitcoin “rubbish,” now says investing in cryptocurrencies and NFTs is like investing within the early occasions of Amazon (AMZN) and Google (GOOG).
“Should you spend in Microsoft (MSFT) and Google and Amazon, what’s the core you’re investing in? It actually is principally software program,” O’Leary talked about. “Effectively, bitcoin isn’t a coin, it may be actually software program. The blockchain is program, ethereum… HBAR, polygon, is software program program. So the actual choice is in case you is perhaps desirous to commit in software program bundle, given that it actually is a effectivity system. It provides a companies, notably in fee strategies that’s at the moment being employed globally.”
If 2021 was the yr crypto went much more mainstream, O’Leary claims 2022 might maybe see apparent regulation within the market.
“If we make it regulated, if we get establishments into it and uncover a means for them to be compliant, there’s actually trillions of greenbacks heading to reach into this area, primarily as a result of it has a realistic use.”
O’Leary retains many positions within the trade resembling Immutable Holdings (Maintain.NE) which owns NFT.com, the funds platform Circle, and the decentralized finance system WonderFi (WONDF),which a short time in the past purchased Canada’s largest crypto commerce. O’Leary can be a compensated spokesperson and endorser for crypto commerce FTX.
“The Swiss, the Canadians, the UAE governing administration, a few of these areas are actually turning out to be a minimal little bit further progressive and you need to spend in people geographies, if you need publicity [to crypto and NFTs],” claimed O’Leary.
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Though he admits crypto is extra dangerous than tech shares, O’Leary talked about it’s one thing patrons need to need to make peace with. Bitcoin simply recently fell 40% beneath its November peak as cryptocurrencies stumbled into 2022.
“Bitcoin’s possessing 1 of its worst begins off [to a new year] ever,” O’Leary said. “However you need to get utilised to it, identical to you needed to get employed to Amazon, during which it will have these 30% to 50% corrections, comparable difficulty with bitcoin.”
O’Leary started introducing bitcoin to his portfolio in March 2021. On the time, he allotted 3% of his portfolio to the world’s largest cryptocurrency following his native area Canada, and a handful of different international locations, eased limitations on institutional acquiring of the asset.
When it arrives to deciding on which money to private, O’Leary suggests he applies the precise ideas of diversification that he applies to picking shares and bonds. “No further than 5% in anyone explicit placement, no additional than 20% within the full sector. So I am not any the place round 20% in crypto, I’ve simply absent above 10.7% in our functioning enterprise.”
Ether (ETH-USD) is presently his largest crypto scenario — even bigger sized than bitcoin.
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SAN RAMON — Residents in south San Ramon will have to travel a little farther to get their groceries after the closing of a neighborhood supermarket.
The Ralphs supermarket chain announced in late January that it will be closing 16 grocery stores throughout Northern California, including the location at County Club Village Shopping Center.
The Compton-based chain had been operating at a loss for several years, said Ralphs spokesman Terry ONeil.
There was a meeting with associates, where we reviewed that the stores had been underperforming for a significant amount of time, he said. Ultimately, the decision was made.
ONeil said that 800 employees are affected by the closures, including about 65 at San Ramon.
Large yellow signs were posted outside the store early in the week to let customers know that the store would be selling discounted merchandise and not taking in any more shipments.
Those headed into the store on Thursday were caught off-guard by the markets closing.
I just found out about it, said Isabel Martinez of Dublin before heading in to do some shopping. I shop here quite a bit. Actually I started coming here when they closed the Ralphs in Dublin and a lot of the clerks moved here. It will be sad to see it go.
About a year ago, Ralphs had to pull out of a location on Regional Street in Dublin because it was performing below expectations.
There are a lot of grocery stores in the areas, like Albertsons right down the street and Nob Hill, so they have a lot of competition, said Matthew Crain of San Ramon.
ONeil said that Ralphs is helping to find a retailer to replace the San Ramon location before its last day on March 28.
Angela Rezab of RREEF Properties — owners of Country Club Village — said the company just found out about the closure recently and informedshopping center tenants of the situation. Rezab said that RREEF is “on the sidelines” concerning choosing a new tenant, and that Ralph’s was taking the lead in the search.
“The community doesn’t want an empty store,” O’Neil said.
“It’s going to affect a lot of people if that store is empty for a significant amount of time,” Crain said.
“It will be sad to see them go, but as long as we get a market in here at soon as possible, that’s important.” said Eva Schmitt of San Ramon
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Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.— Mississippi State’s Department of English is welcoming two authors and educators for a fiction and poetry reading Wednesday [Oct. 26] at the university.
Free to all, the presentation by Kendall Dunkelberg of Columbus and Alexander Weinstein of Ann Arbor, Michigan, begins at 7:30 p.m. in Colvard Student Union’s third-floor Fowlkes Auditorium. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow.
A poet reared in Osage, Iowa, Dunkelberg is a professor of English and creative writing program director who also directs the Eudora Welty Writers Symposium at Mississippi University for Women in Columbus. He holds a bachelor’s in English/creative writing from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, as well as master’s and doctoral degrees in comparative literature from the University of Texas at Austin.
Among other works, Dunkelberg is the author of “Landscapes and Architectures” (Florida Literary Foundation Press, 2001) and “Time Capsules” (Texas Review Press, 2009). To be published later this year by Texas Review Press, his third book of poems, “Barrier Island Suite,” is inspired by the life and works of iconic Gulf Coast artist Walter Inglis Anderson (1903-65). For more, visit https://kendalldunkelberg.com.
Weinstein, an award-winning fiction writer who originally hails from Brooklyn, New York, teaches creative writing at both Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan, and the University of Michigan. In addition to leading fiction workshops in the United States and Europe, Weinstein serves as director of Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, a Massachusetts-based summer writing retreat. He holds a bachelor's in English/creative writing from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, as well as a master's in English/world literature and Master of Fine Arts in English/creative writing from Indiana University.
Weinstein’s new short story collection, “Children of the New World,” (Picador, 2016) already is receiving high praise, including recognition from The New York Times, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post.
Introducing readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games and frighteningly intuitive robots, the stories “grapple with our unease in this modern world and how our ever-growing dependence on new technologies has changed the shape of our society.” For more, see http://www.alexanderweinsteinfiction.com.
Additional information about Dunkelberg and Weinstein’s visit may be obtained from Michael Kardos, MSU associate professor of English and creative writing co-director, at 662-325-3644 and MKardos@english.msstate.edu.
For more on MSU’s Department of English, visit www.english.msstate.edu.
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At the start of June, Chris Faulkner, Chief Executive Officer of Breitling Energy, was a high-flying shale company executive and media darling, often interviewed on CNN, Fox Business News and even the BBC. During his most recent appearance on CNN on June 2nd, he weighed in on the financial prospects for drillers who survive low oil prices despite the spate of bankruptcies sweeping the shale industry.
It was hardly the first time the Texas oilman aired his views on the national stage. “The era of coal is coming to an end,” Mr. Faulkner told The New York Times in June 2014. “We are entering the era of natural gas.”
“Instead of rejecting promising new energy-extraction techniques, citizens should work with responsible energy companies to preserve the benefits of fracking, while stamping out current abuses,” he said in the Wall Street Journal in August of the same year.
“I believe that strict compliance to current regulations is sufficient to protect the aquifer while allowing American companies to tap into rich US reserves and free the nation from its dependence on foreign sources of energy,” he wrote in the US News and World Report in 2011.
But behind the scenes, Mr. Faulkner’s world — which according to the US Securities and Exchange Commission amounted to little more than a house of cards — was already beginning to collapse by the time he made his June CNN appearance.
In September, Breitling Energy had been forced to tell investors that its auditors had concluded that some of its prior financial statements “should not be relied upon”. By April, Breitling could no longer keep up with its drilling obligations and had lost expensive drilling rights covering roughly 3,600 acres in Texas, the SEC says. And by May, federal investigators were closing in.
On the last Friday in June, the authorities made their move. Mr. Faulkner and seven others at Breitling Energy Corp. and three additional related companies were charged with what the SEC says was a massive financial fraud that bilked investors out of $80 million. Trading of shares of Breitling was suspended, but not before the stock plunged to just two cents a share.
Mr. Faulkner, 39, had personally used at least $30 million worth of investor money for his own “lifestyle of decadence and debauchery,” according to the SEC lawsuit, including not only jewelry, fashionable clothing and fine dining, but also the frequent use of escort services.
“The financing for Faulkner’s opulent lifestyle came directly at the expense of unwitting investors across the country,” Shamoil Shipchandler, Regional Director of the SEC’s Fort Worth Regional office, said in a statement when the charges were announced.
The lawsuit, which labeled the fraud “long-lasting and egregious,” carries only civil penalties, according to Mr. Faulkner’s attorney.
The accused Breitling executives include not only Mr. Faulkner, but much of its former top management, its attorney Jeremy Wagers, and Joseph Simo, who prepared reserves estimates for Breitling’s oil wells. The companies named by the SEC were Breitling Energy Corp, Breitling Oil & Gas Corp., Crude Energy LLC and Patriot Energy Inc.
They stand accused of a long-running effort to swindle hundreds of investors out of their money by offering false statements about drilling costs, how much oil their wells could produce and even Mr. Faulkner’s personal background, including a masters degree and doctorate he claimed but never earned.
Reserves estimates that investors were told came from by a third-party firm were actually written by a one-man shop run by a Breitling-affiliated exec, the SEC said.
At times, Mr. Faulkner took the exaggerated reserves estimates prepared by that firm and arbitrarily inflated them even further, making the company’s wells look far more productive than they would actually be, the SEC charged. Other times, the execs sold interests in wells that they didn’t actually own, the SEC added.
“In addition, while in the middle of perpetrating this fraud on investors, Faulkner engaged in a scheme to manipulate the price of BECC’s stock, with the assistance of former BECC employee Gilbert Steedley, by placing trades at the end of the day to “mark the close” of the stock,” the agency added in a press release.
There are scam artists to be found in any industry, especially during a boom. But what makes Mr. Faulkner unusual is his prominence as a spokesperson for one of the nation’s most powerful industries despite the relatively small size of his company, which has said it had purchased stakes in several hundred wells and directly drilled a small handful.
Nonetheless, as early as 2013, the outspoken Mr. Faulkner was already being labeled “the next darling spokesperson” for the gas industry after Aubrey McClendon’s financial misdeeds had led to his removal from the top seat at Chesapeake Energy, then the nation’s second-largest natural gas producer.
And he wasn’t shy about promoting fracking, even spelling it with the “k” usually omitted by most shale reps. Mr. Faulkner dubbed himself the “Frack Master,” a nickname picked up by CNN and other news outlets.
“Records from the United States Patent and Trademark Office show the company has sought to trademark the names ‘Frack Master,’ ‘Frackmaster’ and ‘Frackman,'” the Texas Observer, which last April published a massive investigation into Mr. Faulkner, reported. “In one trademark application, Breitling seeks exclusive use of ‘Frackmaster’ for uses including video games, comic books and ‘positionable toy figures.'”
The Texas Observer exposed Mr. Faulkner’s role as a heavy-hitting political donor in the state. “His $100,000 contribution to the campaign of Railroad Commission candidate Ryan Sitton made him Sitton’s biggest individual donor,” the Observer reported, referring to the Texas Railroad Commission, the agency responsible for regulating the oil and gas industry in the state.
And he made connections at the national level too. “The Breitling website shows photos of US Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) at the company’s offices. Faulkner also held a reception last year for House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio),” the Observer added.
In the media, Mr. Faulkner aggressively promoted the shale gas industry. Powering America, Mr. Faulkner’s 45-minute a week podcast, was broadcast by CBS radio in Texas among others. He’s the author of a book, “The Fracking Truth—America’s Energy Revolution: The Inside, Untold Story ” and once stopped by a Chicago high school to speak to an AP class that adopted the book as course material. His feature-length documentary, “Breaking Free: The Shale Rock Revolution” premiered at an oil conference in 2014 and can be streamed on Amazon.com and purchased on iTunes.
But while Mr. Faulkner toured the world, speaking before conferences and legislatures from Asia to the UK, he was running up astonishing bills, with the tab paid by investors who thought they had purchased shares of oil and gas wells, the SEC says. According to the lawsuit:
Faulkner used this card – which he referred to as his ‘whore card’ – to charge more than $1 million for personal travel, expenses for various personal escorts , gentlemen’s clubs, nightclubs, and associated expenditures. Wagers used his card predominantly for gentlemen’s club expenses, including nearly $40,000 in charges at a Dallas gentlemen’s club over a four day period in July 2014. Faulkner requested that Handkins pay these credit card charges using company funds. She complied, meaning that virtually every dollar of payment on the ‘whore card’ and for Wagers’ salacious expenses was made using investor funds. … In 2013 alone, Faulkner and Relief Defendant Tamra Freedman, Faulkner’s wife at the time, charged approximately $7 million on Amex cards Faulkner used.
Mr. Faulkner’s lawyer, Larry Friedman, denied that the SEC’s allegations were true. But he also told the Dallas Morning News that lavish expenses for entertaining potential investors are common in the industry.
“That’s just the cost of doing business,” Friedman told the paper.
In 2014, the oil and mining sector topped the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s list of the world’s most corrupt industries, based largely on the frequency of international bribery charges against miners and drillers.
The natural gas industry has repeatedly produced exceptionally high-profile con men.
Back in 1992, Kenneth Lay, the founder of the now-infamous Enron — the company that went from being valued at $70 billion at its peak to worthless and bankrupt in 2001, at the time the largest bankruptcy in US history — was among the first to label natural gas a “bridge” fuel, or a substitute for coal on the way to building up renewable energy infrastructure. Mr. Lay was convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges over Enron’s collapse and died while awaiting sentencing.
More recently, Chesapeake Energy removed its CEO Aubrey McClendon following a powerful Reuters investigation that revealed a string of financial misdeeds and undisclosed transactions by McClendon. Mr. McClendon died in a fiery car-crash when his CNG-powered vehicle struck a highway overpass the day after he was indicted by the Department of Justice for breaking federal antitrust laws.
Mr. Faulkner stands accused of defrauding investors out of much smaller sums than Mr. Lay or Mr. McClendon, though the SEC put the damage done at $80 million. And unlike McClendon or Lay, the SEC has not sought criminal penalties over Mr. Faulkner’s alleged misdeeds.
Instead, the agency’s new lawsuit requests civil fines and court orders, including one barring Mr. Faulkner from participating in the penny stock market.


Eric B. Larson, Chief Executive Officer of the Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP), to Speak at the 2023 Detroit Policy ConferenceSeptember 21, 2022
Eric B. Larson, chief executive officer of the Downtown Detroit Partnership (DDP), will take the stage at the 2023 Detroit Policy Conference on Tuesday, Jan. 10.
Larson will report on the current state of downtown Detroit by the numbers, with a focus on the return of visitors and workers to the city, post-pandemic. Larson will also share what DDP and its partners are doing to promote placemaking, sustainable development, and urban vitality in the city’s central business district.
Since 2014, Larson has served as Chief Executive Officer of DDP. Larson has more than 30 years of experience in real estate investment, development, asset management, and leasing. During his career, he has developed, financed, owned, and managed over $3 billion in Detroit real estate, including the Renaissance Center, Little Caesar’s Arena, and The A. Alfred Taubman Center for Design Education.
Further, Larson is also the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Larson Realty Group, a real estate development and management company.
2023 Detroit Policy Conference: The Future of Our Downtown
The revitalization of downtown Detroit is one of the nation’s greatest success stories of the past decade. As the city enters a post-pandemic environment, new efforts are underway to build a more equitable and prosperous future. The 2022 Detroit Policy Conference examines the next phase of downtown’s resurgence and the actions needed to continue its momentum.
Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023
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Improving Organ Procurement and Oversight
The organ procurement process is a complex series of events that involves medical professionals at all levels in all areas of the donation and transplant community. The National Organ Transplant Act of 1984 (NOTA) established the framework for a national organ recovery and allocation system in the private sector. The goal of this system is to help ensure the organ allocation process is carried out in a fair and efficient way, leading to an equitable distribution of donated organs based on medical criteria.
NOTA provides the primary authority for the national organ procurement organization (OPO) system and the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN), both of which are under the purview of the Secretary of HHS. It also broadly outlines the structure, functions, responsibilities and funding model of each system.
The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) is the not-for-profit organization that serves as the OPTN by contract with the federal government. Federal regulation requires that every OPO be a member of and participate in the OPTN – which assists OPOs in placing organs locally, regionally, and nationally.
The OPTN Final Rule is federal regulation that addresses the scope and authority of the OPTN. However, as provided in the Final Rule, no OPTN requirements are enforceable by the OPTN until approved by the Secretary. At present, only OPTN data submission requirements are enforceable.
The system is working: Record increases in organ donation continue
The U.S. system for organ donation and recovery is among the best in the world. As a result of innovation and continuous improvement, the nation’s 56 OPOs have increased organ donation for twelve consecutive years.
- More than 42,800 organ transplants performed in 2022, again setting annual record
- Total kidney transplants exceeded 25,000 for the first year ever
- Annual records also set for liver, heart and lung transplants
- Deceased donation continues 12-year record trend
The increases are significant given that less than one percent of people die in a way that allows for organ donation.
What is needed for further improvement and enhanced oversight?
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is currently considering a revision of its regulations governing oversight of OPOs. CMS is seeking to improve OPO performance metrics, in part through the use of independently reported and verified data.
The OPTN recommends the requirement that ventilated in-patient death data be transmitted directly from hospital electronic medical records to a third party (either CMS or UNOS as the OPTN). This approach would provide the best possible data both for OPO evaluation and improvement purposes, including sufficient clinical detail to assess whether a death has occurred under conditions consistent with organ donation.
This kind of data set would assist with two different goals:
- Identification of OPOs that fail to perform at a minimum level of performance, necessitating improvement and/or regulatory action; and
- Identification of where, during the donor referral and recovery process, specific hospitals and OPOS could improve practices to recover more organs.
CMS and UNOS have complementary roles concerning OPO oversight. Through HRSA, the Secretary is represented in both the OPTN and CMS compliance monitoring and regulatory oversight processes.
To ensure the quality and safety of donors and recipients, UNOS, as the OPTN, requires OPOs to follow its policies and report key data to the OPTN and to the transplant hospitals receiving organ offers.
UNOS’ focus in working with all of its members, including OPOs, is help them comply with OPTN policies, including those that govern deceased donor procurement, organ allocation, the organ offer and acceptance process, donor-transmissible disease testing, organ packaging/labeling/shipping, and data submission.
As the OPTN, UNOS uses a peer review process outlined in OPTN policies and bylaws. UNOS offers data reports, tools and coaching to help members improve the quality of service they provide and achieve our joint goal of placing donated organs equitably and efficiently.
When members fail to meet OPTN performance standards, the OPTN has processes in place to help them improve and come into compliance.
The OPTN does not have the authority to:
- Decertify OPOs. Only CMS has this authority.
- Remove members from OPTN membership. However, if CMS were to decertify an OPO, the OPO would also no longer be a member of the OPTN.
- Review OPO finances. CMS has this authority. In addition, because OPOs are required by federal law to be 501c3 non-profit organizations, the IRS and State Attorney Generals have this authority – the publicly available IRS form 990 provides significant financial transparency.
- Bar participation in Medicare. CMS has this authority.
Under federal law, CMS conducts on-site, unannounced recertification inspections of OPOs for compliance with requirements and performance standards every four years as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid participation and payment. The CMS Conditions of Coverage include both outcome and extensive process measures (similar to hospitals), such as board requirements, clinical staffing, donor authorization, donor medical screening, documented policies and procedures, and donor chart documentation. OPOs must correct any problems cited in surveys in order to be recertified as an OPO and continue receiving payment for services from Medicare and Medicaid. OPOs submit detailed annual cost reports to CMS about their kidney-related costs.
An OPO must abide by not only CMS regulations but also any state law applicable in the OPO’s
Designated Service Area (set by CMS) and FDA regulations if the OPO is also a tissue recovery agency. OPOs are accredited by the Association of Organ Procurement Organizations (AOPO) and the American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB), each of which require OPOs to meet a full set of accreditation criteria.
Our mission is to unite and strengthen the donation and transplant community to save lives.
Facts about organ transplantation
- The national organ transplant system
- UNOS fast facts
- FAQs about UNOS' role in the system
- Organ Procurement Organizations: Increasing organ donation
- Improving Organ Procurement and Oversight
- Improving access for liver allocation
- Improving access for kidney and pancreas allocation
- Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health
- UNOS LabsSM: Testing products, tools and methods to improve the transplant system
- In 2022, the U.S. reached 1 million transplants and again set annual records
UNOS is a non-profit, charitable organization that serves as the nation’s Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under contract with the federal government. The OPTN helps create and define organ allocation and distribution policies that make the best use of donated organs. This process involves continuously evaluating new advances and discoveries so policies can be adapted to best serve patients waiting for transplants. All transplant programs and organ procurement organizations throughout the country are OPTN members and are obligated to follow the policies the OPTN creates for allocating organs.

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It's an act of bravery to be vulnerable. Especially on something like YouTube or Twitter, where the comments sections are often rolling dumpster fires. So, on any platform available for public consumption, being honest about some element of your experience is courageous. But people do it anyway.
Stories that have resonated with me lately have been stories from outwardly successful people--people I admire--about fear. Their fear. Their anxiety. Their self-doubt. The knots in their stomachs before they did that impressive thing I read about, watched them do or heard them say.
Speaking of being vulnerable, here's my confession: I've always secretly believed there was a fundamental difference between myself and women who achieved impressive things. I thought they did amazing things because they weren't scared or plagued by insecurities like I was. But in reality, many of them do those things in spite of that fear not because of it's absence.
I wish I'd known that earlier. I wish that I hadn't, in Elizabeth Gilbert's words, let fear hold onto the steering wheel and pick the music on the road trip of life.
I wish I'd told fear to get in the back seat and let me drive the darn car. I wish I'd felt the fear and done it anyway so much sooner than now. But we're all a work in progress, doing the best we can with what we know.
Anyway, I thought I'd share a few of the things that have inspired me lately. Maybe you'll find something in them too.
There was this video, which I shared on the blog last month. Any video where someone talks openly about body image gets my attention, but I then found this one where she spoke about how intimidating doing that original video was for her.
This book. The concepts aren't new, but there's something about the way they're presented, the exercises they have you do, and the order of them that has been a really good fit for me.
And finally, but firstly in a way, was the first episode of the Lady Bam Podcast. The interview guest was Stacey K. Black. She's now a television director, but she's had this really interesting career, moving through several roles in television production. I heard this podcast several months ago and was so inspired by the way she spoke about navigating a male-dominated and competitive industry, and pushing through the fear she feels with each new thing she does.
Have you come across something lately that inspired you or made you feel less alone? I hope that if you're struggling with something, big or small, that you've got people who love and support you. And I hope you have found examples of others who've walked a similar road to inspire and uplift you on your journey.
Take care, friends!