James Morris (Jim to his friends – and we hope BOOM! Holidays might now fall into that category) took a cheeky punt when he purchased his tickets for our very first luxury Barcelona holiday – our second ever live BOOM! Holidays draw.
And… He didn’t tell the Mrs! In similarity to everyone who enters any of our amazing trip-of-a-lifetime competition, Jim knew exactly who he would take, should the numbers fall in his favour.
After all… Who doesn’t hanker to surprise their loved ones by whisking them away on an all-expenses-paid luxury trip to a dream destination?
So, he bought his tickets – and promptly forgot about them
Savvy Jim took full advantage of one of the special ticket offers at the time of entry – a special 2 for 1 purchase. In fact, as he told Jamie after he won, he ended up buying double by mistake – spending a total of £28.00 (and getting a BOGOFF into the bargain). Well, he might have spent more than he intended, but it was certainly a mistake that came good – as he found out when BOOM! called him live on air after his number came up trumps on the 23rd of July 2023.
Jim is obviously a pretty laid-back person. While we know that a huge amount of ticket holders join us for our live Facebook draw (that always takes place at 7.30 pm on the relevant Sunday) – our Jim was totally oblivious to the excitement. However, this made it all the more unforgettable when we called him, because we totally blew him away.
He told us during the call that he’d yet to tell his partner, Lynn. That was certainly going to be a fab conversation and one that Jim was keen to do off air.
The surprise announcement certainly had the desired effect. Lynn was both delighted and amazed when he broke the news and, naturally, the all-important planning discussions began straight away.
Prizeshark was soon in contact.
As always, Prizeshark was on the phone within 48 hours. At BOOM! Holidays, we know that our winners want to get started on the pre-trip prep straight away. This stage is a huge part of every holiday build-up. When to go, where to fly from, what to pack…? The excitement builds from the outset and only gets more intense as departure day draws closer.
As with all of our incredible holiday prizes, Jim and Lynn’s Barcelona trip included the following:
- Return flights from their chosen airport.
- All transfers – they’ll be picked up from home, taken to the airport and transferred on arrival to their hotel. (And the same on the way home, naturally).
- 4-star hotel accommodation. For this Barcelona trip, they were staying at the INNsIDE Barcelona Apolo Hotel – slap bang in the cultural epicentre of the city and just a few minutes’ walk from the famous Las Ramblas.
- £1000 spending money – in cash, to spend as they liked.
Choosing the perfect time to travel
As the only dedicated holiday giveaway website in the UK, BOOM! Holidays is keen to offer something that makes our already awesome prizes even more unique. From the ‘no-restrictions’ cash spending money to the ‘choose your own travel dates from any time in the 12 months after the draw,’ we make sure our prizes let winners get the most out of their trips without having to find the funds for hard-to-afford extras.
Jim and Lynn had been to the Catalan capital once before. In fact, this was the very reason that Jim entered the draw – he was keen to revisit fond memories of wandering down Las Ramblas, sampling delicious Spanish cuisine and simply soaking up the unique and eclectic architecture of Gaudi’s city.
They decided to wait until the intense heat of the summer was over before taking their trip.
After settling on a departure date of the 26th of September 2023, they had only weeks to wait.
In our humble opinion, the end of September is an ideal time for a Barcelona city break. They would still enjoy balmy summer days, the temperature would be comfortable, and the city would be buzzing but not packed.
They were also delighted to hear that their hotel was right in the heart of the action. The INNsiDE Barcelona Apolo was hand-chosen by us as for its combination of comfort and location:
- 4-star luxury.
- An easy stroll to Las Ramblas, the port, the Fira and all the restaurants, shops, museums and art galleries that the city is renowned for.
- Art exhibition rooms within the hotel.
- A charming restaurant with terrace for al fresco dining, breakfast coffee or a pre-dinner cocktail.
- Modern rooms with flat screen TV, private facilities and complimentary toiletries.
- Fully equipped fitness room.
The BOOM! Holiday difference
Whether you’re a couple going to Barcelona or a family heading to the delights of Disney in Orlando, we include virtually everything you need to have the best time – without dipping into your own savings.
Our city breaks, such as Barcelona, New York and Disneyland Paris, include all the added extras in the price of the ticket. With the BOOM! Big 5 (that’s Orlando, California, the Maldives, Australia and the Caribbean), these uber-trips include all your travel and accommodation, and you can choose to spend a few pounds more to get tens of thousands of pounds of added extras. For example, Emily – one of our Disney winners who bagged an incredible family trip to Orlando – was so glad she spent the mere £3.50 that meant they got every upgrade under the sun. This included swimming with dolphins. Kennedy Space Centre (and a real live rocket launch), unlimited 14-day passes to all the Disney parks and other Orlando must-visit theme parks, £4,000 spending money, car hire and more.
As Emily said,
“I’m so glad I spent that extra £3.50 – I’d never have been able to afford all those extras myself”.
But we digress…
Barcelona… Here we come!
Nothing compares to the excitement that builds as departure date draws near. Jim and Lynn were soon adding to their packing pile, deciding what to take (and – always a hard one – what to leave out!), checking passports and printing off boarding passes.
The 26th of September came fast – and before they knew it their private transfer had rolled up at their front door and they were off…
What happened on tour is a whole other story – and one that you can read here – complete with photos and videos from their incredible BOOM! Holidays Barcelona trip.
And while you’re in the holiday mood…
How do you fancy being in with a chance to be one of our next holiday winners?
Of course, you do… Who doesn’t want to join our ever-growing list of happy BOOM! Holiday winners, such as:
Emily – who won a family holiday to Orlando.
Clive – winner of an amazing trip to New York.
Jo-Anne – the ecstatic winner of a family trip to Disneyland Paris.
And, as the weeks roll by, many, many more…
Whether you want to try your luck for a particular trip or you want to take advantage of the amazing BOOM! Bundle, the easiest way to buy multiple ticket draws to all of our dream destinations, it’s so easy to do.
Simply head over to our Live Draw page and enter in just a couple of clicks. Plus, don’t forget to take full advantage of the many special saver offers, such as the Disney Bundle, 3 for 2, Stack & Save and more…
And then we’ll see you live on Facebook for the draw (or drawers) that you’ve entered. Or, if you can’t make it – don’t worry. Because we might end up surprising you in the same way that we did Jim, with a phone call to tell you that you’re the latest lucky BOOM! Holidays winner.
Whichever way you play it, we wish you the very best of luck…


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Yep, it's another long hula post, as in my life right now, it's all hula, all the time.
We have a rare performance coming up. No, you're not crazy... we had a big thing just last year. In our halau, there aren't really any performances after the big ho'ike that comes two years into your hula studies. I mean, some of us have been involved in smaller things since then - for instance, I danced at a school fundraiser, and at a dance studio open house, and we go out and dance when Hawaiian musicians are on the bill around town, but there's no big group performance organized by our Kumu.
Later this month, though, instead of the big annual show involving our halau's performing group (it's really a dance company), there's a big recital featuring the students in all the classes (there are four). In a real theatre. On a big stage. People are buying tickets for this one. It's mostly family and friends of my hula siblings, but still... this is a big deal for us. And because our Kumu is known for staging really great shows, he's pulling out all the stops for this - as many as he can with a bunch of amateurs.
One of the great things about our halau is that all students are treated equally, regardless of age, ability, background.... none of that matters. That's part of what makes this entire experience so special - you have hundreds of people from all walks of life coming together to create this lovely, loving community.
Sure, we're all aware who the stronger dancers are, and who the "leaders" of the classes are - the ones who rarely miss, who keep up with all we're supposed to learn, who get involved when there are class projects to be done - but our Kumu treats us all the same. So it was a real eye-opener when the time came to set the lines for where we'll dance on the stage for our performance, because it was the first time we got to see how Kumu and the others who run the halau see us. We became aware a few months ago that they were watching us very closely - they were talking among themselves and pointing discreetly at people as we danced, so for a few weeks there, it felt like an audition, though they never said what they were up to. It was a key time to try to dance well.
It's incredibly gratifying that I've been placed in the front row for most of the dances we're doing. And because he arranges us according to height, with the tall people in the center, I'm front and center for much of what my class is doing. (I'm also the chubbiest girl up front, but that's a subject for another post). It's a big change from the plays and dance performances of my youth, where I always ended up in the back because I was taller than everyone else...!
I'm also one of eight people from my class (there are 90 dancing in the show) chosen to do an extra dance, one of our more challenging ones. This was a shock, as we had no idea he was planning any such thing, and -- I don't mean this to sound like I'm bragging, because that's not what I'm trying to express -- it's a tremendous honor. I couldn't even speak when we were told. At the risk of sounding like a cult member, I'm in awe of my Kumu's creativity and talent, so it's stunning to me to receive what is essentially a thumbs-up from him. I feel very fortunate to be learning from him, and deeply honored to get his approval.
It's also a huge challenge. The bar has been raised. It's very intense working with Kumu in a small group for a special performance, as every little move has to be perfect and we have to really move together as a unit. We're almost re-learning the dance. This is one we do on the ground, with our legs folded beneath us and all of our weight on our ankles and feet, and when you spend a long time in that position, it's excruciating...especially when you get sick and hardly move for a week and a half, as I did...and then go to practice and spend so much time working so hard in noho (that's what that position is called) that you can barely dance on your feet for the rest of the night... and can hardly walk for three days after. I'm not exaggerating!
And because I'd missed the first practice with the small group when I was sick, most of the feedback that night was directed at me. I was so sore and so rattled by the intensity of that session that I couldn't focus well for the rest of the night, which was my regular class. I was making mistakes left and right on dances we've been doing for eons. In the front row. In front of Kumu. For the first time ever, I was watching the clock because I wanted to stop dancing! That was the toughest night I've ever had in hula, and I really started to doubt that I was up to this challenge, and that was a feeling that persisted for a good week or two after. I even had a few hula anxiety dreams.
And then I got sick again (or relapsed into something worse). Only this time, I knew I couldn't miss any more classes or practice sessions, because what I need to do now is ramp up the workouts and the practice sessions so that I CAN live up to this challenge. It's just that this nasty-ass cough I've had has made it really hard to dance well.
It was reassuring to learn that my hula sisters in this smaller group are also feeling the pressure, and we've been scheduling all sorts of additional practice sessions on our own, and they're paying off. Our last practice went really well and we all felt the difference. And my cough is fading so I'm feeling much more optimistic about this performance. There is still much work to be done, and I really have to work my ass off this month to improve my strength and stamina and make up for lost time.
The unfortunate thing about this experience is that some folks in my class have been grumbling about their placement on the stage for the performance, and some are wondering why they weren't chosen for the extra dance (no announcement was ever made about that, BTW - people are finding out because they're seeing us practice before our regular class). I won't lie; I would probably have felt envious if I weren't being rewarded as I am, but I also work hard in hula, because I love it so. I know the dances, I know the words to the songs and chants, I know how to "perform" on stage. I feel a responsibility to get it right largely because this is part of a culture that's not my own, and it would be really offensive to be a hula dilettante. It's nice to know I'm doing something right, but also humbling - in a good way - to be reminded that there is still so much more to learn and so much more work to do.

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Professor Alejandra Sierra
By: Kyle PoormanConsortium for Innovation in Post-Harvest Loss and Food Waste ReductionIowa State University
I reached Zamorano University Professor Alejandra Sierra via Google Hangouts in the midst of serious COVID-19 containment actions occurring for her in Honduras and also for myself in the United States. These actions limit Professor Sierra to only one trip to the grocery store per week, with the day being chosen by the digits of her national identification number. These containment measures have also meant that all students at Zamorano University that could return home have left, leaving a campus that is typically devoted to a unique curriculum of learning-by-doing agricultural education much quieter. As with most other higher education institutions facing the COVID-19 virus, this situation is unprecedented.
Then again Zamorano itself is positively unprecedented in its own right. This Pan-American institution was established in 1941 and offers a unique blend of classroom, experiential, and learning-by-doing education in agriculture. Until a couple of years ago, it only offered undergraduate education, but has just begun to offer a Master of Science degree in Sustainable Tropical Agriculture. In fact, most of the research that will be conducted through Consortium projects at Zamorano will rely upon undergraduates carrying out the research.
Professor Sierra is a model for the type of student and researcher that the university produces. She is an alumna of Zamorano and received her graduate education at the University of Florida. She was also a Fulbright Scholar, worked in the Honduran Ministry of Agriculture establishing an organic ag portfolio, and has been on the faculty at Zamorano for 12 years. She specializes in plant production and organic agriculture.
I met Professor Sierra for the first time in Ethiopia during the Consortium’s initial organizational meeting being held on the margins of the 2nd All Africa Post-Harvest Congress in September 2019. At the meeting, Professor Sierra described Zamorano’s Consortium research plan. This plan includes an analysis of producing insect protein via the use of food waste, multiple analyses of loss and waste in export focused vegetable value chains in Honduras, and an evaluation of grain and dried bean quality and safety at local markets. At the meeting, she also told me that every year she takes a group of students to Florida to provide them experience in various commercial agricultural production systems. This year was no different, and Professor Sierra accompanied a group of students in February. Even though the group wore medical masks on their flight home and were admittedly lucky not to get stranded in the sunshine state, the students were still able to experience Florida’s food production systems that are now categorized as essential businesses.
After discussing the general COVID-19 situation on the video call, I inquired about the status of Consortium research being undertaken, fully expecting that all projects would be on hold for the foreseeable future. To my surprise, even in the midst of crisis, the insect protein project was continuing. With some students, staff, and faculty on campus, the dining halls are still functioning and the generation of food waste continues. Professor Sierra told me that the next step in the insect protein project was to purchase some equipment, but they had to wait until their numbered day came up again to go out and get it. I was assured that all research activities being undertaken were following strict protocols set up by the school and could only be undertaken on campus. Additionally, as of right now, no students would be involved in the insect protein research or any other activity due to the COVID-19 situation.
It was excellent to connect with Professor Sierra and relay to you that her team, so far, is healthy and doing well. It was also excellent to find out that some Consortium research could safely move forward.

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A higher percentage of a property’s cost that needs to be borrowed could make a home equity loan more difficult to get. Lenders that may approve an LTV of 80 percent for a primary residence may require 70 percent or less LTV for rental property, Huettner says.
U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo both offer investment property loans. They suggest using current home equity as a financing tool in certain situations. You could also try a blanket mortgage, a loan that funds multiple property purchases. However, this option comes with risks.
Rental Home Investment Calculator Net Rental Yield Investment Property Calculator. This investment property calculator works out the net rental yield. Net rental yield is a much better gauge of potential returns than the gross rental yield. It takes into account the costs of buying and the monthly running costs so is far more.
Starwood Property Trust is a large commercial mortgage real estate investment trust with an equity value of $6.0 billion. The REIT primarily invests in first mortgage loans, subordinated mortgages,
An equity line on an investment property will be second or third in line, Sweet said. Then, if the borrower enters bankruptcy, proceeds from any assets sold to pay off debts will first go to first mortgages. That may not leave enough money to pay off a second-position loan such as a HELOC.
The office-space sharing company is establishing the committee in an effort to ring-fence its financing deliberations from.
Investment property mortgage rates Investment Rental Property Mortgage Rates Heloc For Investment Property Getting an equity loan on a rental property could require a credit score of 680, compared to 620 for a homeowner who lives in their home, Huettner says. rental property insurance. banks may be especially vigilant about check that rental property owners have enough insurance, says Ramnarain.Denmark May Land World’s Cheapest Mortgage Rate Danish homeowners may be able to get a 1% fixed. is selling their 12-acre property for $17.95 million. The 6,800-square-foot house-originally listed.The interest rates for a mortgage on a non-owner occupied or investment property is usually 0.250% – 0.500% higher than the rate on an owner-occupied property. Additionally, closing costs for non-owner occupied mortgages are also usually higher.
Additional Loan Deductions. Landlords may take out a second mortgage or home equity line of credit to improve a rental property or cover other property- or business-related expenses for a rental.
Cash Out Refinance For Investment Property This video was created to explain how we buy our rental properties without using a dime of our own money. We buy cash, re-fi and then repeat, repeat, repeat. We over-estimate a lot of things to.
Vornado Realty Trust is a fully-integrated equity real estate investment trust. Such factors include, among others, risks associated with the timing of and costs associated with property.
CTO to sell and contribute 20 single-tenant properties to newly-formed Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. Alpine to be externally managed by CTO CTO to focus its investment strategy on higher return.
Helocs On Investment Properties Banks hold higher credit standards for HELOCs drawn on investment properties because they are more susceptible to default than loans on primary residences. Homeowners with multiple properties are more likely to accept default on an investment property than on their primary home.
A home equity loan (HEL) lets you borrow a fixed amount, secured by the equity in your home, and receive your money in one lump sum. typically, home equity loans have a fixed interest rate, fixed term and fixed monthly payment. Interest on a home equity loan may be 100% tax deductible (please consult your tax advisor to see if you qualify).
It’s not clear what Manafort is up to, but it’s almost certainly not what home equity loans are designed for, which is home improvement. “It feels like we’re seeing a small piece of the bigger picture.

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A steering committee for a proposed Lubbock Expo Center will begin the process of planning the new multi-use facility that Lubbock County Judge Curtis Parrish hopes will be the county’s “crown jewel.”
Lubbock County commissioners approved during Monday’s commissioner’s court a memorandum of understanding with members of the Lubbock County Expo Center Inc. to develop a plan for a new multipurpose arena that voters approved during November’s election.
Voters last November approved a 2 percent increase to hotel/motel occupancy taxes to partially fund the expo center. The tax will provide a bond between $25 and $35 million, according to estimates previously given to A-J Media.
The memorandum of understanding gives the committee permission to start planning the funding, design, construction and operations of a multipurpose arena. The group will have three months to come up with a proposal to county commissioners, according to the memorandum.
“This is the time to begin the process of examining the community … and set a foundational structure so we can go forward,” Parrish said.
Parrish encouraged residents to send to the group their input about the features of the multi-use facility.
“This is the time and place right now to listen to the ideas the community has,” he said.
Steering committee member Randy Jordan said residents can send their suggestions to the group’s Facebook page and website, which are monitored regularly.
Parrish said he hoped the committee’s work will result in a facility the community can be proud of for the next 40-50 years.


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Pathways Linking Socioeconomic Status and Postpartum Smoking Relapse
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Low socioeconomic status (SES) exacerbates the high rate of smoking relapse in women following childbirth.
This study examined multiple models of potential mechanisms linking SES and postpartum smoking relapse among women who quit smoking due to pregnancy.
Participants were 251 women enrolled in a randomized clinical trial of a new postpartum smoking relapse prevention intervention. Four models of the prepartum mechanisms linking SES and postpartum smoking relapse were evaluated using a latent variable modeling approach.
Each of the hypothesized models were a good fit for the data. As hypothesized, SES indirectly influenced postpartum smoking relapse through increased prepartum negative affect/stress, reduced sense of agency, and increased craving for cigarettes. However, the model that included craving as the sole final pathway between SES and relapse demonstrated superior fit when compared with all other models.
Findings have implications for future interventions that aim to reduce postpartum relapse.
KeywordsSmoking Postpartum Structural equation modeling Relapse Socioeconomic status
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors have no conflict of interest to disclose.
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2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 prototype spotted having a break down while testing on the public road. Two of the Mercedes engineers stranded on the roadside after the car stopped and refused to start again.
While getting help, there are several photos being captured by the spy photographer. One important detail is the 2017 Mercedes-AMG E63 will have 330 km/h speedometer. You can also see its engine bay which housing a 4.0-liter V8 which expected to produce 563 horsepower.


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Easy homemade jam using only three ingredients. Any combination of fruit or berries will work for this recipe.
Simple Guide to Canning and Making Homemade Jelly -- Learn how to successfully and safely make your own canned goods to share with family and friends.
I absolutely love the spring and summer season but not for the weather! It means all of our favorite fruits and vegetables are in season. With this in mind I started thinking of how fun it would be…
Homemade Grape Jelly | Fun Home Things
Canning & Preserving for Beginners: learn to preserve fresh fruit and vegetables in homemade jellies, jams, chutneys, pickles, & more
Easy Small-Batch Spiked Strawberry Jam with Grand Marnier | www.savingdessert.com
Planning on making some delicious jellies and jams this year? Here is a big list of homemade jelly recipes to choose from!
Apple Pie Jelly recipe from The Country Cook. Good on biscuits, toast, even on ice cream.
Homemade Blackberry Jelly - Easy Step-by-step Instructions
Grape jelly is a snap to make -- REALLY. And this? You can make with fresh grape juice or 100% grape juice from the s.t.o.r.e. Even in the middle of the winter!

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BoomBozz Craft Pizza & Taphouse
Pizza was really good. Will need to go back and try some of the other menu items. Course I'll probably end up getting the pizza again cause it was so good. Lots of options
Their pizza is fantastic. I try something different or adding something new every time I go. This has quickly turned into our family's favorite pizza place. We call it the Qdoba of pizza places.
Use your City Saver coupons to receive a free dozen donuts when a second dozen donuts is purchased (up to $7.75 value), or 15% off any cake, cookie or bread purchase of $10 or more (up to $15 value).
Hands-On Bike Maintenance - Fix A Flat:
Jun 28 - Cincinnati REI
If it hasn't happened yet, it will. You're riding along happily when a flat tire stops the fun. In this Hands-On class our bike techs will share tips and tricks for fixing a flat, changing your bike tube and getting back on the go. Details
Camp Cooking Basics:
Jun 29 - Mount Airy Forest
Do you want to make easy and fun meals at camp but feel unsure how to cook them? We'd like to help you learn how to set up your kitchen and create easy and fun meals everyone will enjoy. Details


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Regina: 737 makes emergency landing with engine problemsgreenspun.com : LUSENET : Grassroots Information Coordination Center (GICC) : One Thread
Wed Apr 18, 2:30 pm
Plane makes emergency landing in Regina
An Air Canada Boeing 737 had to make an emergency landing at Regina airport Wednesday morning.
The plane, with 41 passengers on board, landed at 11:00 local time after the crew detected strong vibrations in one engine.
Emergency evacuation was not required and passengers left through the regular exits.
One passenger said the atmosphere on board was so calm that other passengers continued to read.
The plane was en route from Winnipeg to Calgary.
-- Rachel Gibson (firstname.lastname@example.org), April 18, 2001


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I make wheel-thrown, high-fired functional pottery, such as mugs, bowls, plates, etc. I love making things that people can use. When I started taking classes at Central Michigan University in 1982, my intent was simply to become familiar with a medium I hadn’t studied as a fine arts undergraduate at Eastern. I started working on the wheel, then moved on to hand-building. Today I am back to my roots—throwing on the potter’s wheel and making things that people can use in their everyday lives. (
P.S. I loved working with clay so much that I ended up with a second Master’s degree!).
Marlene Michels, Owner


A recent Sacramento Bee report found that the State Board of Equalization has more offices than it did five years ago, but the number of public visit for offices fell by nearly one-half.
The sad reality is that this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the sorry state of the efficiency, organization and accountability of California government.
Government reformers, including the California Revision Commission from the early 1990s and Governor Schwarzenegger's Performance Review, have found significant inefficiencies and overlapping responsibilities of California's statewide elected offices and government Departments.
When is the last time California government abolished a government agency? I recall that some have been renamed but they are rarely ever eliminated, despite major changes in the economy and the need for government oversight and functions.
I have studied this issue extensively and read dozens of reports and there is a consensus in the research that says California government has way too many statewide elected offices and too many boards and commissions. This creates a huge amount of inefficiencies, political infighting, duplicative costs, obscured accountability, and overall increase in the cost of government.
The state should start by abolishing the California State Board of Equalization (BOE) and its five "constitutional offices" (Note: one position is the Controller or their appointee). These positions are little more than a welfare program for politicians looking to advance to higher office or regroup after being termed out of the California Legislature.
The primary functions of the BOE, hearing appeals of tax matters could be done by an appointed board or tax court.
California is one of the few states that has three separate tax agencies--the Franchise Tax Board, the State Board of Equalization, and the Employment Development Department. The State BOE has long been deemed the most inefficient, least effected and most ripe for elimination or consolidation into the California Franchise Tax Board.
Numerous proposals have been floated on this issue over the years and there are solid proposals that could be enacted this budget season if need be. At the very least, the BOE could be appointed by the Administration, Controller and Legislature and significantly downsized based on actual need.
Second, California should also consolidate the California Treasurer's Office and California State Controller's Office into one office. There is no justifiable reason for having two separate positions and neither office has been particularly proactive in recent years in helping improve the fiscal management of California government or providing substantive fiscal oversight of the California Legislature or other State Agencies.
I believe both positions could be eliminated given the dominate roll of the Administration and Director of Finance on fiscal issues, and the lack of any other entity possessing the staff capacity and fiscal expertise to adequately scrutinize the Administration's fiscal projections or budget policies.
Another statewide constitutional office ripe for elimination is the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The state already has a Board of Education, Department of Education, and local boards of Education. The Superintendent position is clearly duplicative and serves little purpose in addition to these other entities, particularly to those familiar with education policy.
The Lieutenant Governor's Office is perhaps the office with the perhaps least amount of formal responsibilities and could be eliminated without anyone even noticing except for the need to have an alternate Governor.
Here I would suggest that the Governor appoint a Lt. Governor as a running mate, similar to the federal system. This would also help resolve the issue of the Lt. Governor being at odds with the actual Governor.
Of course, few of these proposals are likely to gain much traction in the Democrat-controlled Legislature because lawmakers see these posts as future stepping stones for their own Legislative careers. Not to mention that they are all filled by Democrats and these positions are seen as a good statewide platform to pursue a political agenda.
California's public employee unions always oppose proposals that eliminate a single union position or serve to downsize government even if it will improve efficiency and accountability.
The reality is that many of these offices need to be either eliminated or consolidated to improve the efficiency, effectiveness and the accountability of California government.
David Kersten is a political observer and commentator on California politics. He also serves as an adjunct professor of public policy at the University of San Francisco.


HARTFORD, Conn — Under the guidance of the Meriden Chapter of Experimental Aircraft Association, 24 Wilcox High School students and members of the ‘Teens to Flight’ program accepted the challenge several years ago of building an actual airplane.
Friday morning, several years of hard work took to the sky.
The single-engine aircraft, known as an RV 12, was five years in the making. And, it could be a career-maker.
"I’m actually going to school for mechanical engineering, with an aerospace option, hoping to go into aerospace someday," said Kylie Johnson, a
2019 Mercy High School graduate. "So, it’s pretty much-been game-changing for me, life-changing."
"One of my teachers just asked if I was up to it," said Jaden Rogers, a 2019 Wilcox Tech graduate. "There was a meeting after school. I went in and I was hooked."
"When they first came in, some of the kids didn’t even know how to hold a file or drill correctly," said the students' advisor, Mark Scott of the Experimental Aircraft Association's Meriden Chapter. "They couldn’t read plans and, as they went, you could see they were getting more and more confident."
One of the students, who worked on the plane, went to visit his guidance counselor to start setting forth a plan for college.
Scott told the story with a smile.
"And the counselor says 'what have you done?' And the kids said 'well I built an airplane. Oh. Model airplanes are nice. And he said no. I built a real airplane' and he spent the next 10 minutes trying to convince him he actually built a real airplane.
It's real alright. The students, many of whom are now in college, felt their pride soar as the plane took off from runway 36 at Meriden Markham Airport.
"I’m thinking 'you know I built this you know I helped build this' and I think it’s a great you know it’s a great thing to see come full circle," said Tyler Stout, a 2019 Wethersfield High School graduate.
Their eyes never lost sight of their plane.
"Just knowing that we put so many hours into it, so many nights, weekends," said Johnson.
Then, she had the opportunity to be the first student to co-pilot today. And what a rush!
"Scary at first. I’m not gonna lie," she said after her flight, which included a flyover of Lyman Orchards, near where she lives in Middlefield.
She said as she and instructor, Mark Scott, were taking off, she hoped she had built everything correctly.
But, she was proud.
"I took the stick. So, I flew a little bit. And it was just like wow. I built this. It was pretty neat."
The tail number of this plane includes the letters WT - a tribute to Wilcox Tech.


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Authors: Scott Mariani
Tags: #Adventure, #Mystery, #Crime, #Suspense, #Thriller, #Contemporary
Fairfax smiled sadly. ‘I’ll explain. Mr Hope, I have a granddaughter. Her name is Ruth.’
Ben hoped his reaction to the name didn’t show.
‘Ruth is nine years old, Mr Hope,’ Fairfax continued, ‘and I fear she will never see her tenth birthday. She suffers from a rare type of cancer. Her mother, my daughter, despairs of her recovery. So do the top private medical experts, who, despite all the funds I have at my disposal, have been unable to reverse the course of this terrible illness.’ Fairfax reached out a slender hand. On his desk facing him was a photograph in a gold frame. He turned it around to show Ben. The photograph showed a little blonde girl, all smiles and happiness, sitting astride a pony.
‘Needless to say,’ Fairfax went on, ‘this picture was taken some time ago, before the disease was detected. She doesn’t look like that any more. They’ve sent her home to die.’
‘I’m sorry to hear that,’ Ben said. ‘But I don’t understand what this has to do with-‘
‘With the Fulcanelli manuscript? It has everything to do with it. I believe that the Fulcanelli manuscript holds vital information, ancient knowledge that could save the life of my beloved Ruth. Could bring her back to us and restore her to what she was in that picture.’
‘Ancient knowledge? What kind of ancient know ledge?’
Fairfax gave a grim smile. ‘Mr Hope, Fulcanelli was-and still is, as I believe-an alchemist.’
There was a heavy silence. Fairfax studied Ben’s face intently.
Ben looked down at his hands for a few moments. He sighed. ‘What are you saying, that this manuscript will show you how to make some kind of…some kind of life-saving potion?’
‘An alchemical elixir,’ Fairfax said. ‘Fulcanelli knew its secret.’
‘Look, Mr Fairfax. I understand how painful your situation is,’ Ben said, measuring his words. ‘I can sympathize with you. It’s easy to want to believe that some secret remedy could work miracles. But a man of your intellect…don’t you think perhaps you’re deluding yourself? I mean,
Wouldn’t it be better to look for more expert medical advice? Perhaps some new form of treatment, some modern technology…’
Fairfax shook his head. ‘I’ve told you, everything that can be done, according to modern science, has been done. I’ve looked at every possibility. Believe me, I’ve researched this subject in extreme depth and am not taking the matter lightly…there is more in the book of science than present-day experts would have us believe.’ He paused. ‘Mr Hope, I’m a proud man. I have been extraordinarily successful in my life and I wield a very considerable amount of influence. Yet you see me here as a sad old grandfather. I would get down on my knees to beg you to help me-to help Ruth-if I thought that could persuade you. You may think my quest is a folly, but for the love of God and the sake of that dear sweet child, won’t you indulge an old man and accept my offer? What have you got to lose? We’re the ones who stand to lose a great deal, if our Ruth doesn’t survive.’
‘I know you have no family or children of your own, Mr Hope,’ Fairfax went on. ‘Perhaps only a father, or a grandfather, can really understand what it means to see one’s dear offspring suffer or die. No parent should have to endure that torture.’ He looked Ben in the eye with an unwavering gaze. ‘Find the Fulcanelli manuscript, Mr Hope. I believe you can. I’ll pay you a fee of one million pounds sterling, one quarter of that sum in advance, and the balance on safe delivery of the manuscript.’ He opened a drawer of the desk, took out a slip of paper and slid it across the polished wood surface. Ben picked it up. The cheque was for £250,000 and made out in his name.
‘It only requires my signature,’ Fairfax said quietly. ‘And the money’s yours.’
Ben stood up, still holding the cheque. Fairfax watched him intently as he walked to the window and looked out across the sweeping estate at the gently swaying trees. He was quiet for a minute, and then he breathed out audibly through his nose and turned slowly to Fairfax. ‘This isn’t what I do. I locate missing people.’
‘I’m asking you to save the life of a child. Does it matter how that’s accomplished?’
‘You’re asking me to go on a wild goose chase that you
can save her.’ He tossed the cheque back across Fairfax’s desk. ‘But I don’t see how it can. I’m sorry, Mr Fairfax. Thanks for your offer, but I’m not interested. Now, I’d like your driver to take me back to the airfield.’
In a large open field full of wild flowers and gently swaying lush grass, a teenage boy and a little girl were running, laughing, hand in hand. Their blond hair was golden in the sunshine. The boy let go of the little girl’s hand and dropped to his knees to pick a flower. Giggling, she ran on ahead, looking back at him with her nose crinkled in mischief and freckled cheeks rosy. The boy held out the flower to her, and suddenly she was standing far away. Beside her was a gateway, leading to a high-walled maze.
‘Ruth!’ he called to her. ‘Come back!’ The little girl cupped her hands around her mouth, shouted ‘Come and find me!’ and disappeared, grinning, through the gate.
The boy ran after her, but something was wrong. The distance between him and the maze kept stretching further and further. He shouted ‘Don’t go, Ruth, don’t leave me behind!’ He ran and ran, but now the ground under his feet wasn’t grass any more but sand, deep soft sand into which he sank and stumbled.
Then a tall man in flowing white robes was blocking his way. The boy’s head only reached as high as the man’s waist, and he felt small and powerless. He got around the man and made it to the entrance of the maze just in time to see Ruth flitting away into the distance. She wasn’t laughing any more, but crying out in fear as she vanished around a corner. Their eyes met a last time. Then she was gone.
Now there were other tall men in white robes, with black beards. They crowded round him and towered over him, blocking his way and his sight, jabbering at him in a language he couldn’t understand, eyes round and white in mahogany faces that loomed close up to him, grinning with gaps in their teeth. And then they grabbed hold of his arms and shoulders with powerful hands and held him back and he was shouting and yelling and struggling but there were more and more of them and he was pinned and couldn’t move…
He gripped the glass tightly in his hand and felt the burn of the whisky against his tongue. In the distance, beyond the heaving dark grey waves that crashed against the rocks of the bay, the arc of the horizon was slowly lightening to red with the dawn.
He turned away from the window as he heard the door open behind him. ‘Morning, Win,’ he said, managing a smile. ‘What are you doing up so early?’
She looked at him with concern, her eye flickering to the glass in his hand and the empty bottle on the table behind him. ‘Thought I heard voices. Everything all right, Ben?’
‘I couldn’t get back to sleep.’
‘Bad dreams again?’ she asked knowingly.
He nodded. Winnie sighed. Picked up the worn old photograph that he’d been looking at earlier and had left lying on the table next to the whisky bottle. ‘Wasn’t she beautiful?’ the old lady whispered, shaking her head and biting her lip.
‘I miss her so badly, Winnie. After all these years.’
‘You think I don’t know that?’ she replied, looking up at him. ‘I miss them all.’ She laid the picture down carefully on the table.
He raised the glass again, and drained it quickly.
Winnie frowned. ‘Ben, this drinking-‘
‘Don’t lecture me, Win.’
‘I’ve never said a word to you before,’ she replied firmly. ‘But you’re just getting worse. What’s wrong, Ben? Since you came back from seeing that man you’ve been acting restless, not eating. You’ve hardly slept the last three nights. I’m worried about you. Look at you-you’re pale. And I know you only opened that bottle last night.’
He smiled a little, leaned across and kissed her forehead. ‘I’m sorry if I snapped. I don’t mean to worry you, Win. I know I’m hard to live with.’
‘What did he want from you, anyway?’
‘Fairfax?’ Ben turned towards the window and looked back out to sea, watching as the rising sun touched the undersides of the clouds with gold. ‘He wanted me…he wanted me to save Ruth,’ he said, and wished that his glass weren’t empty.
He waited until just before nine, then he picked up the phone.
‘You’re reconsidering my offer?’ Fairfax said.
‘You haven’t found anyone else?’
‘In that case, I’ll take the job.’
Ben arrived early for his rendezvous at the Oxford Union Society. Like many old students of the university he was a life member of the venerable institution that nestles off the Cornmarket and has served for centuries as a meeting-place, debating hall and members-only club. As he’d done in his student days, he avoided the grand entrance and went in the back way, down a narrow alley next to Cornmarket’s McDonald’s restaurant. He flashed his tatty old membership card at the desk and walked through the hallowed corridors for the first time in nearly twenty years.
It seemed strange to be back here. He’d never thought he would set foot in this place again, or even in this city again, with all the dark memories it held for him-memories of a life once planned, and of the life that fortune had made for him instead.
Professor Rose hadn’t yet arrived as Ben entered the Union’s old library. Nothing had changed. He gazed around him at the dark wood panelling, reading tables and high galleries of leather-bound books. Up above, the frescoed ceiling with its small rose windows and priceless Arthurian legend murals dominated the magnificent room.
‘Benedict!’ called a voice from behind him. He turned to see Jonathan Rose, stouter, greyer and balder but instantly recognizable as the history don he’d known so long ago, striding happily across the burnished floorboards to shake his hand. ‘How are you, Professor? It’s been a long time.’
They settled in a pair of the library’s worn leather armchairs, and exchanged small-talk for a few minutes. Little had changed for the professor-Oxford academic life went on much as it had always done. ‘I was a little surprised to hear from you after all these years, Benedict. To what do I owe this pleasure?’
Ben explained his purpose in asking to meet him. ‘And then I remembered that I knew one of the country’s top ancient history scholars.’
‘Just don’t call me an
, as most of my students do.’ Rose smiled. ‘So, you’re interested in alchemy, are you?’ He raised his eyebrows and peered at Ben over his glasses. ‘Didn’t think that sort of stuff was your cup of tea. You haven’t become one of those New Age types, I hope?’
Ben laughed. ‘I’m a writer these days. I’m just doing some research.’
‘Writer? Good, good. What did you say this fellow’s name was-Fracasini?’
Rose shook his head. ‘Can’t say I’ve ever heard of him. I’m not really the man to help you there. Bit of a far out subject for most of us fuddy-duddy academics-even in this post-Harry Potter age.’
Ben felt a pang of disappointment. He hadn’t entertained high hopes that Jon Rose would have much to offer him on Fulcanelli, let alone on a Fulcanelli manuscript, but with so little to go on it was a shame to lose any potential source of dependable information. ‘Is there anything you can tell me generally about alchemy?’ he asked.
‘As I say, it’s not my field,’ Rose replied. ‘Like most people, I’d be inclined to dismiss it all as complete hocus pocus.’ He smiled. ‘Though it has to be said that few esoteric cults have endured so well over the centuries. All the way from ancient Egypt and China, right through the Dark Ages and medieval times and onwards into the Renaissance-it’s a sub-current that keeps resurfacing all throughout history.’ The professor stretched back in the worn leather chair as he spoke, adopting the tutor pose that was second nature to him. ‘Though heaven knows what they were up to, or
they were up to-turning lead into gold, creating magical potions, elixirs of life, and all the rest of it.’
‘I take it you don’t believe in the possibility of an alchemical elixir that could cure the sick?’
Rose frowned, noticing Ben’s deadpan expression and wondering where he was going with this. ‘I think that if they’d developed a magic remedy for plague, pox, cholera, typhus, and all the other diseases that have ravaged us through history, we’d have known about it.’ He shrugged. ‘The problem is it’s all so speculative. Nobody really knows what the alchemists might have discovered. Alchemy’s famous for its inscrutability-all that cloak-and-dagger stuff, secret brotherhoods, riddles and codes and supposed hidden knowledge. Personally I don’t think there was much substance to any of it.’
‘Why all the obscurity?’ Ben asked, thinking of the reading he’d been doing over the last couple of days, running Internet searches on terms like ‘ancient know ledge’ and ‘secrets of alchemy’ and wading through one esoteric website after another. He’d turned up a wide variety of alchemical writings, ranging from the present day back to the fourteenth century. They all shared the same baffling and grandiose language, the same dark air of secrecy. He hadn’t been able to decide how much of it was genuine and how much was just esoteric posturing for the benefit of the credulous devotees they’d been attracting over the centuries.
‘If I wanted to be cynical I’d say it was because they didn’t actually
anything worth revealing,’ Rose grinned. ‘But you’ve also got to remember that alchemists had powerful enemies, and perhaps some of their obsession with secrecy was a way of protecting themselves.’
‘Well, at one end of the scale there were the sharks and speculators who preyed on them,’ Rose said. ‘Once in a while some hapless alchemist who’d bragged too loudly about gold-making would be kidnapped and made to tell how it was done. When they failed to come up with the goods, which of course they probably always did, they’d end up hanging from a tree.’ The professor paused. ‘But their real enemy was the Church, especially in Europe, where they were forever burning them as heretics and witches. Look what the Catholic Inquisition did to the Cathars in medieval France, on the direct orders of Pope Innocent
. They called the liquidation of an entire people God’s work. Nowadays we call it genocide.’

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Listing running services and processes with Windows Powershell March 27, 2013Posted by vbry21 in Microsoft Training, Windows 2012.
Tags: Microsoft, Windows 2012
One of the courses I teach is the Microsoft Windows 2012 Installing and Configuring course, the Microsoft designation is the 20410B
In the presentation, I cover an Overview of the Windows 2012 Windows Powershell Interface. The demonstration shows getting a list of running services and processes.
Powershell allows administrators to create scripts and perform bulk management tasks
The demonstration covers add Roles and Features and talks about the management of those roles and features.
The demonstration is available at the BryanQA Youtube site


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Mysterious Cities of Gold
|Number of discs||6|
|Runtime||18 hours and 40 minutes|
In the year 1532, a Spanish orphan named Esteban joins a party of Spaniards in their search for one of The Seven Cities of Gold in the New World, hoping to find his father. He is joined on his quest by Zia, an Incan girl, and Tao, the last descendant of the sunken empire of Mu ("Hiva" in the English dub). The series is a mix of ancient South American history, archaeology, and science fiction. Esteban, Zia, and Tao encounter the Mayans, Inca, and Olmecs during their journey. The characters discover many lost technological wonders of the Mu Empire, including a solar powered ship (the Solaris) and The Golden Condor, a huge solar-powered would-be ornithopter (mechanical bird), capable of traveling considerable distances under the sun's power alone. They are constantly pursued by antagonists Gomez and Gaspard, who are also in search of the Cities of Gold. It is the 16th century. From all over Europe great ships sale west to conquer the New World, the Americas. These men eager to seek their fortune, to find new adventures in new lands. They long to cross uncharted seas and discover unknown countries. To find secret gold on a mountain trail high in the Andes. They dream of following the path of the setting sun that leads to Eldorado, and the Mysterious Cities Of Gold.
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Package Dimensions : 19.2 x 14.2 x 4.8 cm; 539.77 Grams
- Manufacturer reference : 5030697010865
- Run time : 18 hours and 40 minutes
- Studio : Fremantle
- ASIN : B00149XOW2
- Number of discs : 6
- Best Sellers Rank: 30,084 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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The characters are nicely believable and develop well as the series progresses. At times the animation is a little primitive by modern standards and the sound is a little shaky in places but this doesn't distract from what is still a well made series. It gets a little silly near the end when they meet the Olmecs and I'd forgotten what a trail of dsestruction they left behind as they progressed, but overall it was worth buying and watching again. I will probably watch it through yet again at some point soon.
This also has a 5 minute documentary at the end of the episodes which describes events and history of the subjects in the episodes that us Brits didn't get on the TV run. While I wasn't offended by it, there was some tribal nakedness and a live chicken beheading that I admit would be a bit much for 80s BBC to show to children.
Anyway, worth a look!
The live action documentaries at the end of each episode are interesting and educational and any Brit buying this DVD set may be seeing them for the first time because I think they were edited out when the series aired in the UK. Why they were cut?, I don't know. Perhaps the British censors thought the reference to sacrifice and very brief scenes of nudity, bull fighting and chicken slaughter were unsuitable for children. The scenes are brief and in my opinion there is nothing graphic enough for parents to worry about their children seeing. This view seems to be backed up by the number of 5 star reviews and lack of complaints.
When I heard that MCOG 2 was being released I could not wait to get hold of a copy. This brought back so many childhood memories.
I have to say that the the second series is not a patch on the first series. Don't know why, but I was expecting the voices of the characters to be the same as the first series. They are not, but close enough. Nevertheless, it was great to see the developers come together to bring back what I regard as the best cartoon series ever created.
Give your kids a proper cartoon to watch, rather than the computer-generated graphic cartoons they appear to produce these days.
If you remember this from your childhood too, get it, you won't be disappointed. :)

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A Reading Company Survivor in...
This is the Exton Hotel, also known as the Exton House and Ship Station. Built in 1859, it is a three-story, five-bay, stuccoed-stone building with a full-width porch in the Italianate style. For several years, this structure housed a ticket office for the adjacent Chester Valley Railroad, one of the Reading Company's predecessor lines. This structure, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983 can be seen here in a fascinating before and after shot featuring a Reading Company freight train crossing Business Route 30 by the traffic lights. Amtrak's Exton station is about a mile away, to the south, located on the former Pennsylvania Railroad's Philadelphia to Harrisburg mainline, better known as today's Keystone Route.
Wanna know more?
The Chester Valley Railroad has its beginnings in 1835. when the Pennsylvania Legislature granted a charter to the Norristown and Valley Railroad company to construct a railroad to run from east of the Brandywine Creek on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad which would connect with the Philadelphia, Germantown and Norristown RR somewhere near Norristown. While the effort failed, it was revived on April 22, 1850 under a new name, that being the Chester Valley Railroad. The Chester Valley Railroad was to be a short-haul railroad running through the Valley connecting with what eventually became the Pennsylvania Railroad on one end (at Downingtown) and the Reading Company (at Norristown) on the other end. A schedule from 1869 shows, along with various freight trains, three trains a day, each direction, between Philadelphia and Downingtown with 16 stops along the way.
The Reading acquired the CVRR through lease in 1858 (and full ownership in 1945). At the time, there was talk of a new railroad being built from Morrisville, PA (near Trenton, NJ) to Norristown, PA. Connecting the Reading with the Chester Valley RR would've provided a direct path for the Reading to New York. A bidding war broke out between Alexander Cassatt of the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading, with speculation that Cassatt wanted the Chester Valley to shorten the freight run for the Pennsy from New York to the West. Cassatt lost the bid, but his motive proved correct with the eventual building of the PRR's Trenton Cut Off, which paralleled the Chester Valley some distance, bypassing the main through Philadelphia, after Cassatt lost the bid. The Reading thus gained an important feeder to their main trunk as well as a connection to the Pennsylvania Railroad. As late as the mid-1930's, there were two trains a day in each direction, but high-speed, more frequent service on the PRR out-classed any competition from the Chester Valley. Until about 1970, there were still short freight trains on the Chester Valley branch - as many as six a day. However, it was clear that trucks were stealing local traffic. In April of 1976, Conrail took over the Penn Central and the Reading, and freight on the Chester Valley branch all but died. Continual, if unscheduled freight service was provided by Conrail on the Chester Valley right-of-up into the early 1990s after which, parts of the line were leveled, covered up and removed, however, what remains is now part of the Chester Valley Trail.

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Starting earlier this year Graham Kettles began growing and selling plants from his home in Romsey, at car boot sales and through nextdoor.com, facebook, and whatsapp.
He has been a loyal support of YIR and has kindly donated one third of his sales to us, £185 + gift aid = £228 !! 🥳
We are so pleased to have received this wonderful gift. The money will, as with all donations, go towards enabling us to offer support to more young people in Romsey.
Thank you so much 💚

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HOUSTON — Record crude prices this summer are translating into huge profits, as BP and Occidental Petroleum showed Tuesday, but some energy companies are keeping a closer tab on cash and cutting spending.
Despite a 71 percent jump in third-quarter profit, Occidental Petroleum said Tuesday that it likely would not increase capital spending next year from its current $4.7 billion level. Refiner Valero Energy Corp., which also reported July-September results, said it was scaling back spending by 33 percent and cutting its 2009 budget.
ConocoPhillips, the third-largest U.S. oil company, also said it likely will keep capital spending at $15 billion.
It's vital that oil companies spend money on new exploration and production if they want to grow. "The bigger you are, the less chance you're going to cut your capital spending," said Brian Youngberg, an analyst with financial services firm Edward Jones.
He noted that some smaller exploration and production companies are eliminating or delaying projects because they rely on credit markets for funding. That credit isn't available right now, he said.
That's not likely a worry for oil giant BP PLC, Europe's second-biggest oil producer behind Royal Dutch Shell PLC, which said Tuesday that its third-quarter earnings rose to $8.05 billion from $4.41 billion a year earlier. Revenue jumped 45 percent to $103.2 billion from $71.3 billion the previous year.
Whirlpool cuts 5,000 jobs through 2009
GRAND RAPIDS — Whirlpool Corp. said Tuesday that it is eliminating about 5,000 jobs this year and next, due in large part to downturn in the U.S. housing market.
The nation's largest home appliance maker also reported that its earnings fell 7 percent during the third quarter on lower global unit volumes and higher costs.
The Benton Harbor, Mich.-based company earned $163 million, or $2.15 per share, for the quarter, compared with $175 million, or $2.20 per share, a year earlier. Revenue for the three months that ended Sept. 30 edged up to $4.9 billion from $4.8 billion.
— From wire reports


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|Join us at Zinc on New Year’s Eve to send 2016 out in style and ring in 2017 with a pop!
In the Cellar Bar, we are offering two dinner seatings by reservation at 545pm and 830pm featuring a $69 four-course prix fixe menu with wine pairings and the live “Swinging Dirty Blues with that True Rock n Roll feel” music of the The Rudy Boy Experiment. This menu is also available without the wine pairings for $52 per person (plus tax & gratuity) and a full bar is available a la carte.
The Cellar Bar dinner seatings are by reservation only, but we will also open to the public for another late night set by The Rudy Boy Experiment at 1030pm ($5 cover).
The dining room will be seating from 4pm to 11pm with a special menu incorporating signature Zinc plates (Manhattan Steak Frites, anyone?) and dishes unique to the evening, such as Brandied Lobster Bisque and Miso Glazed Chilean Seabass. We will also have a holiday version of our Tasting Menu that incorporates specials, too.
For reservations for either the dining room or the cellar prix fixe, please call 505.254.9462.
Click on the links below to view the menus and
check out the band!
Check out The Rudy Boy Experiment here…
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Why autonomous cars are set to read your mind as well as the road
Mercedes-Benz unveils a brain-computer interface that could one day see you control the AC (but not the accelerator) just by thinking about it.
As the small car powers ahead, it suddenly swerves to the left—prompted not by a spin of a steering wheel, or even an autonomous driving system, but by the human mind.
Luckily, given we’re in the middle of a crowded trade show in Germany, the said vehicle is merely a video projection, moving through a surreal, Avatar-inspired landscape. But for the car company behind it, the potential of brain-computer interfaces is anything but fantasy.
Mercedes-Benz on Monday gave a flavor of how we’ll one day control vehicles using thought alone—although it’ll be more about tinkering with the sat-nav or radio than navigating Autobahn exits.
Installed in a seat mockup of the automaker’s Vision Avtr concept vehicle, which is on display at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, the technology uses electrodes to measure the visual cortex at the back of the brain.
At the beginning of the simulation, the device is strapped to the user’s head and calibrated—during which it measures neural activity while the “driver” is asked to direct their full attention to some swirly visuals on the dashboard.
Then, the fun part: as the animated vehicle makes its way along a path, the user can simply look at different parts of the projected image to, say, brush aside an obstruction, change course, or select a parking space. There’s no eye-tracking involved—the control is purely through the brain, as it reacts to visual stimuli, and the device recognizes where the user is looking.
“This is about controlling the interior—we’re not focusing on steering the car with the mind.”
Admittedly, it’s more video-game fun than a steering-wheel replacement. Yet for Maxine Benz, technical futurologist at Mercedes-Benz AG, it has serious potential for the cars of the future—in terms of what goes on inside them, rather than how they drive.
Maxine Benz heads up the German brand’s “future technologies” department, which looks at what will be important for the automotive industry 15 to 20 years down the road. “The brain-computer interface is one of these technologies,” she says. “Imagine you’re sitting in the car, you can just control and communicate with the interior without moving any muscles. This is maximum comfort—I don’t need to move, I don’t need to speak.”
In what it describes as “a new dimension of future human-vehicle interaction,” Mercedes says the possible uses of thought control in cars could include selecting a navigation destination, or changing the lighting in a vehicle. Even as the brand unveiled a range of new electric vehicles at the IAA show, Maxine Benz had her eye on how brain-controls could be used in the fully autonomous age.
“The brain-computer interface is quite a perfect match. Because imagine while driving autonomously, you have different seating positions. That’s why it’s really interesting to look into, because I can control things independent from my seating position—I don’t have to face the dashboard anymore. I can just think, ‘I want to to cool down’,” she says. “This is about controlling the interior—we’re not focusing on steering the car with the mind.”
Other devices are being assessed by Maxine Benz’s team, including “passive” brain-computer interfaces that—instead of using electrodes—could measure the moods of passengers using quantum sensors. “We’re looking into some disruptive technologies, so sometimes it’s like watching a science fiction movie when we are working,” she says.
One thing Mercedes won’t be offering with every set of car keys are actual chips to implant in drivers’ brains. “That’s absolutely not a focus for Mercedes-Benz—we only focus on non-invasive devices,” says Maxine Benz. “Our vision is, for example, using quantum sensors, to be contactless, maybe in the headrests. So this is a vision of mine, that… you don’t even see the electrodes.”
But who knows whether Elon Musk, boss of both Mercedes rival Tesla and brain-chip company Neuralink, will have other ideas.


President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the government and people of Burkina Faso that Nigeria and the West African sub-region would not abandon them to their fate.
His spoke in reaction to Islamist militants’ killing killed 35 civilians, 31 of them women, in an attack on a military base and a town in Burkina Faso.
Seven soldiers and 80 militants were also killed as the army repelled Tuesday’s attack in Arbinda, in northern Soum province.
President Roch Marc Christian Kaboré had since declared two days of national mourning.
The president in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Thursday said ”the slaying of 31 women among the innocent victims was cowardly and remains condemned by reasonable opinion all over the world.
He recalled his meeting last weekend with the country’s President, Roch Marc Christian Kabore on the sidelines of the ECOWAS meeting, where thet agreed to hold a summit in 2020 to discuss the issues of security and economy.
“I look forward to that meeting. As we have done all the time, we will stand with our brothers and sisters in West Africa in all situations,” he said.
Buhari commended the Burkinabe troops for repelling the deadly attack and prayed for the repose of the souls of those killed.


June 2, 2017 – In the wake of the announcement of the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate, the Gouvernement du Québec reaffirms its commitment to a proactive role in the global fight against climate change, which it sees as a unique opportunity to build a modern, low-carbon economy based on innovation, creativity and clean technologies.
A number of U.S. cities and states have said that they intend to pursue their commitments under the Paris Agreement. Just one example is the creation of an American climate alliance announced by the governors of California, Washington and New York.
Québec is one of the most engaged and ambitious federated states in North America on environmental matters, as shown by the Québec-California carbon market (soon to be joined by Ontario), the Green Fund, the 2013-2020 Action Plan on Climate Change, the 2015-2020 Transportation Electrification Action Plan, the 2030 Energy Policy and measures for climate cooperation with developing countries. In recent years, Québec has also worked toward carbon pricing agreements with countries such as Mexico, Switzerland and China.
“We are obviously disappointed that the U.S. government is withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, but that will not discourage Québec from maintaining its commitment and staying focused on achieving our climate objectives. The Gouvernement du Québec is convinced that the strong global mobilization born of the Paris Agreement will endure despite the U.S. withdrawal. Québec has followed this path for years, forming productive alliances on climate with other subnational governments, notably in the United States, and we are more determined than ever to continue and deepen those relationships. We must act now. It’s about our future, our children’s future. Let’s do it for them!”
David Heurtel, Minister of Sustainable Development, Environment and the Fight against Climate Change
“Despite the announcement by the United States federal government, we are pleased to note that many of our American partners have chosen the path of action on climate change, and we offer them our full collaboration. We believe that this new wave of mobilization will bring innovative initiatives to speed the transition toward a green, sustainable economy in North America.”
Christine St‑Pierre, ministre des Relations internationales et de la Francophonie
•The Paris Agreement’s central aim is to limit global warming to under 2 °C above pre-industrial levels, while urging all countries to be more ambitious still so as to limit the increase to 1.5 °C.
•The Agreement entered into force on November 4, 2016 when the threshold was reached of ratification by at least 55 nations representing 55% of global GHG emissions. To date the Agreement has been ratified by 147 nations plus the European Union, and the number continues to grow.
•On November 16, 2016 the National Assembly of Québec unanimously adopted a motion to approve the Paris Agreement and formalize Québec’s commitment to contribute to global efforts toward reducing greenhouse gases.
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Su Xiaotong (苏晓彤) Profile
Su Xiaotong(苏晓彤) born on November 9, 1998, in Kaifeng, Henan, is a Chinese actress.
In 2013, she officially debuted by filming the war drama “Si Shi Jiu Ri Ji”. In 2019, she co-starred with Zhang Xincheng and Zhou Yutong in the ancient suspense drama Young Blood. On April 29, 2021, The Imperial Coroner in which she starred was aired.
Stage Name: Su Xiaotong
Chinese Name: Su Xiao Tong(苏晓彤)
Place of Birth: Kaifeng, Henan
Birthday: November 09, 1998
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio
Height: 165cm (5’4″)
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- Her agency is H.Brothers.
- Education: At the end of 2010, Su Xiaotong was admitted to The Affiliated Secondary School of Beijing Dance Academy with second place in her major. In 2017, she was admitted to the acting department of Beijing Film Academy.
- She started learning to dance at the age of 4.
- She wants to do a Xian Xia drama with Liu Yifei.
- Karry Wang and she are classmates in college.
- In 2017, she won the 24th Beijing Student Film Festival Best Newcomer.
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If you like snowman images you'll love this set!
I colored the image with Spectrum Noir Sparkle Pens
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This is the wedding cake finally done at midnight. I'm so nervous I could puke. I went with my sis (who's maid of honor at this wedding) to the reception place last night to see the layout and where I put the cake. The lady there asked if I was refriderating the cake before hand. I said no it's just bc and it has red fondant. She asked "so"? I said I didn't want condensation and colors leaking. She said she has done cakes and never had a problem. She said if there is any problems with the cake then she will come find me and I can cut it Hello, I'm a guest with my family and not being paid to cut it too! Sorry guess I just needed to vent a little too. Does it look OK? Does it need anything else? There's a bow for the top with the tails draping down the sides.
Looks good to me. Make sure to post the finished product.
I think it looks good as well. It has a classic, elegant look to it and adding something may give it a muddled look. My vote goes to keeping it as is. You did a magnificant job and it looks beautiful.
Great job!! and don't you dare cut it for them..let her do it...
I agree with the others.. your cake is beautiful as is..simply wonderful!! You did an excellent job.. I love the red..my fav color!!
Keep it as is. Jaw dropping, over-done details are fine in their place, but my favorite cakes are always those done cleanly with simplicity. I always think that it adds to the sophistication some how...
It's going to be a beautiful set up.
Looks great. Can't wait to see it all together. Love the red with the silver details. Don't you just love those people who have 'done cakes before'. If someone has trouble cutting that cake then they are a goofball....lol. Think she just might have been lining you up for the job?
I think it is striking, beautiful just as it is. Great job!
Wedding cakes are so nerve racking to do. When I went to stack the cakes my crusted bc cracked quite a bit. I fixed as much as I could. Some of my fondant on the sides cracked as well.How do you wedding cake people prevent this? While transporting I cringed every time I went over a bump. The bride loved it in the end so that's what matters. I'll post pics soon.
I think it looks wonderful as is. The bow will definitely add the finished look. As for the cracking during transport...you might try putting some foam under the cakes. That is what we do at the shop I work at and it helps cushion the bumps. We use an icing that forms a GOOD crust and we don't have a problem. Can't wait to see the finished cake!
Perfect just like it is. I agree with the person above... less is more. It's stunning. Leaving it out this time of year would be the best, I totally agree with you!!! They are going to LOVE it.
Here it is. You can't see the cracks much in the picture and the worst damage is in the back. The cracking happened when I stacked the tiers. I had double layer cardboard under each tier. I guess it's still not enough. Better ideas anyone? Everyone at the wedding said they loved it so that's something. Oh yeah, I didn't cut the cake.
It's absolutely stunning
Simpley lovely. Just as I thought it would be.
You did a wonderful job, it's beautiful!
Did you use dowel rods in the two bottom tiers? If not, it's possible that the cakes weren't completly level and when you went over the bumps the weight of the other tiers bouncing could have caused it to "bow" slightly and cause cracking. Does what I'm saying make sense to you?
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Dont Change a thing. I think it georgous.!!!
Thanks everyone! I needed to hear this from fellow CCer's. My husband says it didn't look professional and I needed to give them back their money I told him I'd like to see him do it. He said it didn't look professional like Duff or the other cake people I watch. I was so upset while setting it up. Things are still a bit chilly at home. Everyone at work loved it when they saw the pictures. I was stressed out but happy with it.
Formerbuckeye- I had seven wooden dowels in the bottom and there was one in the middle of the bottom two layers. I put the top one on at site. It was cracking when I stacked. I thought I had enogh support underneath but I guess not.


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The National Football League has seen a lot of big-time injuries in the aftermath of Week 2, so much of the game of football is a battle of attrition. The Dallas Cowboys got dealt their first injury blow when they found out wide receiver Michael Gallup will miss 2-4 weeks with a knee that needed surgery, but unfortunately the news didn’t stop there.
Early Tuesday morning, ESPN’s Todd Archer reported another injury that that Dallas is now dealing with. Xavier Woods suffered a high ankle injury at Washington and his status against the Miami Dolphins in Week 3 is now in question.
Free safety Xavier Woods suffered a high ankle injury Sunday at Washington and is availability for this week’s game against Miami is in doubt, according to sources. He was hurt on the final series. If Woods can’t play, then Darian Thompson could move into the starting lineup with rookie Donovan Wilson being active for the first time this season. Thompson played mostly a special teams’ role for the Cowboys last season but had a solid training camp before suffering an ankle injury in a preseason game.
NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero added this to go with Wood’s long-term status.
#Cowboys FS Xavier Woods is expected to miss four to six weeks with a high ankle sprain, source said. A blow to the secondary with #Saints, #Packers among upcoming opponents.— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) September 17, 2019
And this from the Dallas Morning News.
Xavier Woods will miss Sunday’s game with a high ankle sprain. But sources stress he’s week to week at this point. There’s no indication he’ll miss a substantial part of the schedule.— David Moore (@DavidMooreDMN) September 17, 2019
As Archer mentions, the plan for Dallas would be to roll with Darian Thompson and rookie Donovan Wilson in the back end of their defense should Woods ultimately not play. Wilson has yet to be active this season but he showed an enormous amount of promise in the preseason.
It’s important to acknowledge who the Cowboys are playing over the course of the next four to six weeks:
- Miami Dolphins
- at New Orleans Saints
- Green Bay Packers
- at New York Jets
- Philadelphia Eagles
- BYE WEEK
There are two to three questionable quarterbacks in that mix, so while missing Woods for some time isn’t ideal the Cowboys aren’t exactly facing a gauntlet at this moment in the season. Hopefully Woods heals up sooner rather than later and hopefully returns. For what it’s worth the Cowboys are working out Josh Jones at safety on Tuesday.
Some workouts today: The #Cowboys are working out S Josh Jones; The #Falcons are working out LB Carroll Phillips; The #Jets have CB and ST Kayvon Webster in, while the #Skins have RB Josh Ferguson.— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) September 17, 2019

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