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Hello Fellow Campers,
I went to band camp this summer! What a fun thing to say as an adult. It brings up all sorts of memories and associations with being a kid again and playing my instrument just for the pure joy of it, with no expectations or competition, just making music!
That’s what New England Adult Music Camp is all about. It’s a place to make new friends, learn new things, relax, and take in the natural world and beauty of Snow Pond. You get to pick those things that best nurture you whether it’s a music theory class, practicing in one of the practice cabins in the woods, a swim in the lake, taking a nap, or sharing your music experience with fellow musicians.
2017 was my first year as Program and Music Director of NEAMC and I had even more fun as Director then I did when I attended as a camper. I’m already making plans for 2018. We won’t be making many changes – since I am a believer in the motto – “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!” and it ain’t broke!!! There will be many of the usual activities; social hour/happy hour each afternoon on the patio outside the lodge overlooking Snow Pond, jam sessions with the Drum circle, Irish or Dixieland band, or Recorders in the evening after supper, final concerts in The Bowl followed by “lobstah” dinner, and of course our evening activities featuring faculty performances, camper performances, and a special guest artist.
If you are a returning camper you know how much fun it is, and if you are someone considering trying “camp” for the first time….DO IT!
See you all in August 2018!

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A group of Polish tour operators visited Malaga last week with the aim of uilding new tourism links between the Costa del Sol and Poland. The young travel agents represented Rainbow Tours, a company that specialises in promoting holidays in Andalucía.
The group visited hotels, sights and leisure facilities in various resorts along the coast. The agents were met in Benalmádena by the councillor for tourism, Encarnación Cortés, who accompanied them on a guided tour of the town hall, Benalmádena Pueblo and Arroyo de la Miel.
Benalmádena has become a popular choice for Polish tourists. Between April and October of this year, more than 12,000 visited the Costa del Sol and the majority stayed in hotels in Benalmádena. According to statistics released by the Costa del Sol tourist board, in 2018, the Polish market grew by more than 17 per cent in relation to the same period of the previous year.
Encarnación Cortés said, "The Polish tourist market has become increasingly interested in the Costa del Sol in general, and especially Benalmádena, where increasing numbers of citizens are choosing to spend their holidays. We are extremely grateful for the hard work of these dedicated tour operators and we look forward to future links with the Polish market."
Rainbow Tours has been operating for 29 years and it is currently the second largest tour operator in Poland.

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Noble Bastions in the Rugged North: Edinburgh & Northumberland
September 6-13, 2014
We discover the past of the historic pact between the two countries as our tour focuses on the struggles that beset Scottish royalty and also crosses the border into Northumberland, which played a pivotal part in the relationship between the two nations.
Study Leader Information
We immerse ourselves in each area with private tours, special welcomes, and an evening lecture on our theme from an eminent historian. Special Guest Speaker: Dr. Anna Groundwater, author and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh, will expand on our tour’s Borders theme by focusing on this aspect of Scottish and British history in anticipation of the Scottish independence referendum. Her talk will look at the part the borderers played in Anglo-Scottish relations, and what happened to the area before and after the Union of the Crowns, when it ceased to be an international border.
September 6 - Flights will need to depart the US on September 5
On arrival at Edinburgh airport, a private transfer will take you to Norton House Hotel. In the evening you are invited to join the group for a welcome drink, followed by dinner.
September 7 - 9
Explore Edinburgh and enjoy private home visits, Palaces and Castles including: Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Queen’s official residence in Scotland; Newhailes, a 300-year-old Neo- Palladian villa with some of the finest Rococo interiors in Scotland; The Georgian House, an atmospheric 18th-century townhouse; Scone Palace, crowning place of Scottish kings including Robert the Bruce, Macbeth and Charles II and family home of the Earls of Mansfield; Stirling Castle; Guest Lecturer – Author Dr. Anna Groundwater of the University of Edinburgh will expand on our tour’s Borders theme by focusing on this aspect of Scottish and British history, as we head towards the Scottish independence referendum. Her talk will look at the part the borderers played in Anglo-Scottish relations, and what happened to the area before and after the Union of the Crowns, when it ceased to be an international border.
September 10 - 12
Visit Floors Castle, lying on the River Tweed in the Scottish Borders; Alnwick Castle; Doxford Hall Hotel, where we stay for 2 nights. Hadrian’s Wall; Cragside, the UK National Trust’s most popular place to visit; explore Abbotsford, the home of Sir Walter Scott; see Traquair House where the 21st Lady of Traquair will kindly show us around the house; From here we travel back to Norton House Hotel, where we enjoy a farewell dinner.
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A private transfer will take you back to Edinburgh airport for your return flight home.
Please email National Trust Tours for questions about this program. Be sure to include your mailing address if you are requesting a paper copy of the brochure for this program.

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Communications and multimedia security: proceedings of the IFIP TC6, TC11 and Austrian Computer Society joint working conference on Communications and Multimedia Security, 1995
Reinhard Posch, International Federation for Information Processing, Österreichische Computer Gesellschaft
Chapman & Hall on behalf of the International Federation for Information Processing, 1995 - 221 sider
This volume covers many aspects of multimedia and communications security, from national security policies to file server architectures, from hypertext documents to specialized cryptographic algorithms. It provides the interested reader with a spectrum of up-to-the-minute knowledge on the topics covered.
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The puzzling science of information integrity
Covered trust values in distributed systems
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Was six dollars really worth six pre-made pancakes? Probably not. I don’t believe you can put a value on nutrition, but in this case, I was simply being a dumb consumer. I have started to truly care that one third of Americans will develop diabetes AND our generation is the first to have a shorter life expectancy than the one before us.
Maybe you don’t think these things are important. If that’s the case, I implore you to watch Food Inc. I have started to shop for organic foods, the officially healthy foods. But I scuba in murky water. I have the tools, my air, regulator, and bc- the food labels- but they can be really confusing. I guarantee that organic Twizzlers are not healthier than the original in any real way.
Have you ever read the ingredients off of a package of oreos? I have not, because the thought of what’s in them is too scary, even though I wouldn’t recognize a tenth of the chemistry jargon. Yet when I’m in the supermarket, my eyes scan for the words organic and free-range. It seems pretty straight forward. No pesticides or no harsh conditions, albeit a higher price. But as always, the market supply has met demand with a myriad of new, deceptive terminology, ready to please the consumer’s newly-surfaced guilt factor.
The cows that produced this milk roamed in actual pastures, no growth hormones. Rosie, this chicken was fed an organic diet. Picked fresh from the nutritious soils of the South yadayada. Well, awesome, we might think. It’s really nice to know where your stuff is coming from, and how it was made, but not how it felt, not what its name was. Food labels could replace television. While its important to appreciate where your meal came from where your protein came from, what can you actually quantize about a cow that was ‘kept from experiencing unnecessary fear?’
From the other direction, why aren’t pesticides on the food label? Is that not what ends up in our milk? Is that not in what we drink? Why doesn’t ‘risk of salmonella’ come after straight after high-fructose corn syrup on cookie dough. Diabetes should appear on the McDonald ingredient sheet. What actually IS hamburger filler, and why do we settle for factory-made food components?

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The National Health Service is reportedly having to spend £65 million to buy ambulances that meet ULEZ requirements in London.
The Mail on Sunday says Freedom of Information requests sent to NHS ambulance services in the South of England reveal the agreements made with Transport for London that exempt them from the expanded Ulez for a short period while their fleet is made compliant.
Each vehicle costs £140,000 to replace. The South East Coast Ambulance Service has until October 2025 to replace 279 vehicles.
The London Ambulance Service said 27 per cent of its frontline fleet is not compliant, so 255 vehicles need replacing.
The report quotes a spokesman for London Mayor Sadiq Khan as saying: “The Ulez is about saving the NHS money in the long term.
“If no further action is taken to reduce air pollution, the cost to the NHS and social care system in London is estimated to be £10.4 billion by 2050.”

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|Editore: EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste||Collana: Fuori collana|
|pp. 302||ISBN: 978-88-8303-689-7|
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Taking inspiration for its title from the 150th anniversary of President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation and the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington, this book collects essays that examine issues of personal and national liberty, of social, political, and religious expression, and reflect upon the ongoing battle to end discrimination based on race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Retracing the United States’ past, confronting its present, and pondering on its future, Discourse of Emancipation and the Boundaries of Freedom presents a wide array of disciplinary approaches, from such fields as literature, history, linguistics, cultural studies, gender studies, performance studies, political science, law, and psychology. Grouped in sections according to thematic affinity, the essays collected in this volume are representative of many different points of view about, and methodological approaches to, the concepts of emancipation and freedom. They explore the connection between physicality and the quest for freedom; the defense of identity in the face of racial or ethnic discrimination; the legacy of failed attempts to achieve freedom and justice; the great tradition and the current prominence of nature-related writing as a key to the interpretation of the American experience; the problematic aspects of American freedom as an exportable ideology; the ways in which emancipation and freedom figure in popular culture; the many different facets of collective emancipation, personal emancipation, and empowerment.

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Derrida & Eisenman: Laugh(ing) of(f) the lyre
‘I think I understand, at least in principle.’
Jacques Derrida tries to keep track of Peter Eisenman’s elaborate explanation. It is the 21st of April 1986, and in New Haven, Connecticut, philosopher and architect conduct the fifth of six meetings for their design of a garden in Bernard Tschumi’s Parc de la Villette. They call their collaboration the ‘Choral Works’, like a choir’s voices intertwining to form one common composition. Originally though the name alludes to a quizzical, ungraspable, disturbingly disruptive Platonic concept that Derrida smuggled into their very first meeting: khôra – untenable by reason, unimaginable as a thing, irreconcilable with the metaphysics at its source, a headache for generations of philosophers presented as an excitingly impossible challenge for architecture.
By now little more than wordplay remains from those brief pages of the Timaeus, or of Derrida’s intentions in bringing them up over half a year ago. As the design process progressed, khôra’s radically subversive nature found itself gradually subdued into a manageable conceptual referential, a fruitful source of inspiration, a stimulus for unrelated thoughts, or, as it would later be translated, chora. But its threatening restlessness is about to strike back.
‘My question’, Derrida subtly remarks, ‘is this: since people will have to reconstruct the whole themselves, will there be something which prevents them from closing the circle […]?’
Sitting alongside them is Eisenman’s lead designer, Thomas Leeser, to whom the project had effectively been handed down for the past few months. Leeser proves as faithful to the office’s idiosyncratic modus operandi as unfamiliar with the philosopher’s own. He proudly put forth a complicated narrative embodied in a tightly assembled scheme, an absolute self-enclosed totality supported by an all-encompassing origin, which a visitor could not but reconstitute to reach a single pre-defined narrative. In other words, he unwittingly built a bastion for the metaphysical precepts that Derrida’s thinking thrives in and lives off, by bringing them apart.
‘What do you think it should be?’, Eisenman asks, intrigued.
‘I think something should either be missing or… […] [s]omething which should not only prevent you from totalizing but also motivate an infinite desire to start again.’
‘Start again. To see if you can reconstruct in a different way?’
‘[Yes.] So that under no circumstances can you have the total picture in your mind.’
Like leftover pieces of a seemingly complete assembly, something should be in compromising excess to the whole, added yet not belonging, dissonant, unsettling, unnerving, menacing, dangerous – like the very idea itself. Leeser grows anxious.
‘But how’, he protests, ‘do we go about it without, you know, just throwing stuff in?’
‘Without being gratuitous?’, Eisenman inquisitively ping-pongs the conversation.
‘No, no. At the moment there is nothing gratuitous. Leave something, a fortuitous event.’
As they all very well know though, this seemingly simple and arbitrary gesture critically undermines the design’s foundational principles and fundamentally transforms its argument: the self-standing pretense to absoluteness becomes disenchanted, denounced as an illusion. In the totalitarian regime of certainty and under the control of its normativity, chance and singularity are a rebellion, irreducible, intractable, indomitably other to its rules. Yet this ill-fitting some-thing does not mean to destroy altogether. Parasitically, it needs the host to remain alive, in irremediable suspense, since the claim against that absolute only appears as such insofar as the illusion is there to be defied. The event stands against repetition, its fortuitousness against routine, heterogeneity against homogeneity only fully manifest vis-à-vis one another.
Eisenman is convinced:
‘That is interesting – I think we could do it’.
‘I don’t know how’, Leeser pouts.
‘Without disturbing this?’ Derrida asks, hinting at a provocation which his counterpart eventually endorses:
‘Perhaps you would disturb it […]’
An exciting discussion ignites between the two protagonists, who exchange ideas about the character of the thing, its materials, scale, location, references, conceptual properties, narrative value. Even Leeser quickly gets drawn in. How might this powerful yet delicate tension translate into an architectural gesture?
‘I’ll tell you what we could do’, Eisenman interjects, ‘we could have Jacques put what feels right to him. Then it would be totally heterogeneous. […] It will be terrific.’
The collaboration reaches its most extreme and experimental moment: the philosopher shall design. While on the one hand the suggestion unintentionally lets slip how far removed Derrida had been from the actual project – after all, his action was deemed heterogonous to it – on the other hand, suddenly and surprisingly, Eisenman simultaneously yanks him right into the thick of it, by cleverly returning the philosopher’s burning challenge right back at him.
‘At least I’ll make a suggestion, okay. […] Now, what is the approximate dimension of such a thing?’
‘You will have to feel it, and decide […]’.
‘The choice of dimensions, and the shape?’
‘Yes, the shape, the size, the material. [W]e won’t say anything.’
‘No, no. You [have to]. It will only be a proposal.’
‘No. […] M. le Philosophe draws the piece. I think it is perfect. It gives us no responsibility.’
Derrida panics. Even before the two had met and ever since, he quite self-consciously confessed to an inhibiting complete lack of technical expertise in architecture. This does not just feel uncomfortable, it corners him in a nightmare. And yet, within his own conceptual framework, his insufficiency emerges as an unrivaled virtue: an inexperienced non-architect’s architectural proposal for an architectural project cannot but be heterogeneous. Neither Eisenman nor Leeser, only he can perform the task, bound to succeed regardless of the proposition’s shortcomings – in fact, very much because of them.
After the meeting, while still at the airport and then after boarding the plane to Paris, Derrida takes out a few sheets of paper from the Yale Department of Comparative Literature and writes down his idea on a three-page letter (mostly) in French. Upon arrival he typewrites and, in a mix of apprehension and exhilaration revealed in his words, sends the letter to the architects. Both versions contain an identical drawing.
Tucked in-between paragraphs is a peculiar trapezoid-like figure with thick striated borders framing an orthogonal grid. Its lowest vertex just touches its tip upon a long straight horizontal line. On the one hand, it resembles a sieve, insinuating one of the images Plato employs to describe khôra, that ambiguous awkward entity that is neither a Form nor a shadow but where the latter is filtered, thus ordered, and so comes into particular being. Recalling another Platonic metaphor for khôra, its outline is made of gold, a material of malleable quality. The sieve’s net though refers to an architectural formal element, the grid, paramount for Tschumi in la Villette and Eisenman in this and previous designs – which, in fact, also used gold in their representations. On the other hand, although the depiction looks like a piano seen from above, its top half actually means to resemble another instrument, the stereotypical Ancient Greek lyre. The Choral Works are sung at the tune of lyre’s chords.
Line after ecstatically hand-written tilted line, Derrida intricately and brilliantly weaves together khôra and choral even further, through a succession of references, associations, comparisons, and juxtapositions fascinatingly evermore rich, deep, and dense. Tentatively, daringly, hesitantly but adventurously, their hand-drawn figuration produced a starkly contrasting, off-putting, underwhelming form. Derrida’s best amateurish efforts, painfully evident as such, at making use of what this collaboration taught him about architectural design, comes nowhere near pretending he belongs. The drawing lacks the architect’s knowledge, the habits of its practice, the processes, the moves, the intention, the execution, and ultimately of the recognizable kind of outcome expected of someone in the field. In other words, a resounding heterogeneous success.
How successful – meaning both to what extent and in what way – would come up in their next and last work meeting while looking back at the achievements and frustrations of their Choral Works ensemble. Turning towards Leeser and Jeffrey Kipnis, serving as an uninhibited commentator of both men’s work, Eisenman chuckles:
‘Do you remember, Thomas, when I first told you we were going to put this lyre thing in, you [went] out of your mind? He went crazy, Jeff. He said, ‘Are you crazy?’ I remember, Thomas came back from a meeting with Jacques and said, ‘I got this thing from Derrida, you’re not going to put this in!’’
Eisenman may have genuinely raved before the disruptive threat on a conceptual plane, but instinctively defeated it upon the architectural plan: there, heterogeneity was only welcome insofar as the exception fit within a regulation, a deviation expected by the scheme, controlled by an unrepentant status quo, ultimately keeping and reinforcing it rather than revolutionizing from within. The event is absorbed, its fortuitousness predicted, and the crisis adverted.
‘You know, I could anticipate this reaction. Not only from him but from you.’ Derrida embarrassedly admits, brought back to his senses after that brief moment of illusion. It all seems so foolish now. He thought he understood… but only in principle.
‘I said we were going to put it in,’ Eisenman defends himself, ‘I never said we weren’t.’
But like the philosophical concept became a receptacle, for intellectual stimulus and conceptual wordplay, so the thing became the object of brilliant yet ultimately inconsequential discourse for the project. As khôra dissolved into chora, so the lyre was, in truth, consumed.
‘I asked you what you were going to do.’ Kipnis intervened provocatively to blow Eisenman’s cover, ‘You said ‘Well, I am going to find a part of the project as it stands, and call it a lyre.’’
‘Well, I did. The thing about the lyre is that there is a double meaning, the homophone – liar [laughter].’
André Patrão is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the lab of Architecture, Criticism, History, and Theory at the EPFL in Switzerland.
This text was entered into the 2020 Drawing Matter Writing Prize. Click here to read the winning texts and more writing that was particularly enjoyed by the prize judges.
- Jacques Derrida, Peter Eisenman, e Thomas Leeser, «Transcript Five» (1986), em Chora L Works: Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman, ed. Jeffrey Kipnis e Thomas Leeser (New York: Monacelli Press, 1997), p.78.
- Ibid., p.79.
- Ibid., p.79.
- Ibid., p.80
- Ibid., p.80
- Jacques Derrida et al., «Transcript Six» (1987), em Chora L Works: Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman, ed. Jeffrey Kipnis e Thomas Leeser (New York: Monacelli Press, 1997), p.93.


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Pineapple plants are some of the weirdest, most amazing house plants there are to grow, and you can get fruit from them. The most affordable way to get started growing a pineapple plant is with a grocery store pineapple.
My own first few attempts to try growing pineapple plants from the crowns of grocery store pineapples did not go so well, you can read about that below or keep on scrolling to get to how to be successful at propagating pineapple plants from pineapple crowns.
Inception: August 24, 2017
As I witnessed from watching a few YouTube videos, I cut off the crown of my fresh pineapple, filled a jar with water, placed the crown in
Update: September 5, 2017- Yesterday, I trimmed the crown down more with a knife (from the bottom) after not seeing any progress with the plant. It has been a lot cooler since the solar eclipse, so I’m not sure if it’s just growing slower because of a lack of heat and sunlight. Yesterday, I moved the bar and the crown out into the middle of the yard to increase the hours of direct sunlight the plant (and the other plants received).
-Later this same day, I went outside to check on my pineapple plant to find it falling apart. The prickly leaves pulled free from the crown and appeared to be quite dead. I’m giving this attempt a #fail and will try again in a couple weeks.
November 2, 2017:
I ended up trying again a few weeks after that first failure…and killed it again. *sighs deeply* I suppose I’ll spend the winter doing more reading and research about growing pineapples and maybe try AGAIN next summer. I am a little disappointed in the pineapples but I do have plenty of avocado seedlings to entertain me throughout the winter, and on the bright side, I figured the dead pineapple crowns will be great for composting.
Apparently growing from crown is a lot trickier than others have led me to believe. One of these days… I will attempt again and succeed!
All of that is very sad and tragic, I have since figured out how exactly to grow pineapple plants from grocery store pineapples in an easy, highly successful way.
Remove the fruit of the pineapple from the crown
Put the pineapple crown into a planter with soil or soilless substrate
The crown of the pineapple plant only has so many nutrients to provide for the new plant you are attempting to grow so to make it as easy as possible on the plant to grow new roots as quickly as possible, you must provide it with nutrients.
Give your pineapple crown plenty of direct sunlight
A pineapple crown can turn into a plant within a few weeks if grown in the right conditions. I had the fastest and best success with propagating pineapple crowns in the summer outdoors in full sun. I must point out that I do live in the southern United States where the summers are very humid. Keeping your pineapple crown someplace with a high humidity will keep it from drying out before it can grow an adequate root system to become a pineapple plant.
Keep your pineapple plant watered and fertilized to support new root growth
You want to turn that pineapple crown into a plant with a sturdy root system. Although soil generally has plenty of nutrients to propagate a plant, the more nutrients you feed the pineapple crown, the faster it can grow roots and become a plant. As long as you are giving your pineapple crown plenty of sunlight, it should be able to turn all those soil nutrients into new roots pretty quickly.
I recommend using fish tank water or pond water if you have access to it for a low-cost/free and organic way to keep your pineapple crown well-fertilized.


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Jenni Farley is a cast member on the hit show Jersey Shore. The program debuted in late 2009 and the cast members are wicked trashy, but...
Angelina Pivarnick to JWoww: 24 Is Gonna Cheat On You Again!
If you've been watching the current season of Jersey Shore: Family Vacation, you know that recent episodes have centered largely around the slow, slow (very slow) build-up to a clash between Angelina Pivarnick and Jenni "JWoww" Farley.
The biggest cause of the rift between these two is the bridesmaids' speech that JWoww, Snooki, and Deena delivered at Angelina's wedding.
Angelina vs JWoww: When Will They Finally Square Off?!
Long ago, Jersey Shore set aside the bombastic drama in favor of becoming something we've never seen before -- a reality TV sitcom.
It was that shift that allowed the show to carry on once the cast started entering their forties and putting their hard-partying ways behind them.
JWoww & Deena Cortese: We Still Hate Angelina Pivarnick!
Well, a new season of Jersey Shore is almost upon us.
And if you're one of the people who feel that the show has grown a little stale in recent years, then you're in luck -- because these episodes are sure to look completely unlike anything we've seen previously!
JWoww: Rejected and Humiliated By Pauly D?
Well, another episode of Jersey Shore has come and gone, and we still haven't seen the infamous Angelina wedding roast.
(Remember when this show was famous for how much drama and insanity it would to cram into a single episode? Now it's got so much filler it should be called Jersey More.)
JWoww & Pauly D Hookup: What Happened Next?
Given the fact that they never actually smushed, you would think the morning after the alleged JWoww and Psuly D hookup would be pretty chill.
But because all of their roommates wanted them to smush, and the principle players themselves were a little hazy on the events of the previous night, the following day was about as chill as a crime scene investigation.
JWoww & Pauly D: Here's What We Know About Their Forbidden Romance
In a sense, the lives our favorite guidos are more fascinating than ever before.
In recent years, the Jersey Shore gang has gotten married and divorced; some of them have had kids; and some are devoutly sober, while others continue to party like they're on a never-ending spring break.
Zack Carpinello: Is He Using JWoww For Money and Fame?!
Of all the boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and wives who have come and gone from the Jersey Shore house over the years, Zack Carpinello might be the toughest to pin down.
Before he ever appeared on camera, Jenni Farley painted a picture of her new man as an eager and earnest go-getter who wants nothing more than to make her happy.

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Lawyers have never had such a large and public role in how our society functions
By JAMES GRAY ROBINSON, ESQ.Dec 14, 2018 at 6:49 AM
What a great time to be alive and practice law. Lawyers have never had such a large and public role in how our society functions. It seems that governments, groups, administrative bodies, and individuals have defaulted to lawyers to resolve conflicts and disagreements that used to be resolved internally.
Just in recent weeks, lawyers have been asked to resolve election disputes on state and national levels, disputes over press credentials, and disputes about presidential appointments and firings. This is far beyond the roles of attorneys in the past.
I laughed when I read that the media is reporting that candidates in the recent Florida elections are contending that “lawyers were descending on Florida to steal the election”. There are two problems with this position. First, lawyers are trained to resolve conflicts, and it was rare when election conflicts were brought into the courts for resolution. This used to be a good thing for lawyers to show up. Second, lawyers often are faced with a perception problem when they advance a position against a vested interest. Thus, when lawyers show up to protect people’s rights, they are accused of “stealing” something.
It is the new reality for everyone to run to the courthouse when they disagree with something. Multiple lawsuits are filed to cover just one dispute (2018 Florida Senate race). The problem is the judicial system is being Shanghai’d into the political forum. If people disagree about whether an election is conducted properly, people run to court to sort it out. That right certainly differentiates the United States from other countries and is the only thing protecting our Constitutional rights.
The question is: what toll is being taken when every dispute ends up in court? A case in point is asylum requests now take two years to resolve in immigration courts. A large majority of these cases are not tried because after two years the immigrant has already disappeared into the country and assimilated as an illegal immigrant.
Another toll is that unscrupulous attorneys are becoming more and more media oriented in order to try their cases in the Court of Public Opinion. Criminal investigations are minutely monitored by social and public media. It is certainly questionable whether defendants or the prosecutor can get a fair trial when the case is being “nitpicked” by former attorneys on national television
Lawyers have certainly influenced everything from appointment confirmation hearings to tax returns. The recent confirmation hearing for Brett Kavanaugh had legal fingerprints all over them. Whether President Trump’s tax returns are made public will be resolved by lawyers in court. Congressional committees are ramping up their use of subpoenas which will in all probability be fought over by lawyers.
The current President is a one man lawyer’s employment facilitator. I have lost count of how many attorneys are working on his issues. Some are paid by the White House, I assume others are being personally paid by the President. This does not include the number of attorneys hired to represent his associates. Robert Mueller, the Russia investigation special counsel, has hired dozens of attorneys.
What is happening on a national scene is trickling down to the local level. People are starting to realize that lawyers should be brought at every stage of dispute resolution. I used to be concerned about the number of lawyers being created every year, now I wonder if there will be enough.
If everything will require hordes of lawyers to resolve, it is a good time to be alive.
James Gray Robinson, Esq. was a third generation trial attorney, specializing in family law, for 27 years in his native North Carolina up until 2004. Since then he has become an individual and business consultant who works with a wide range of people, professional organizations, and leading corporations. Robinson’s mission is for all people to have fulfilling, peaceful career experiences and work environments. At the age of 64, Gray passed the Oregon bar exam and is again a licensed attorney. You can learn more about his work by visiting www.JamesGrayRobinson.com and to begin a dialogue about supporting you and/or your business, write him directly at [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter at @divinelightmstr.
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1913. Dinners, Millet-Bass, and Napps—three explorers bound not by friendship, but by a dependence founded on survival—volunteer to leave their ship, the Kismet, and scout an uncharted and unknown island in the Antarctic, which Napps names “Everland.” While all three are enticed by the promise of adventure and reward, they are immortalized by the disastrous outcome of the expedition, their stories preserved for posterity. 2012. Brix, Jess, and Decker—three researchers with their own reasons for being so far from home—set out on a centenary field trip to survey the same island. Their equipment is more advanced than the previous group’s, and their purpose more scientific, but the harsh weather of Everland remains an unpredictable and deadly force: the adventure and the danger are inescapable. Under the harsh ultraviolet light of a sun which doesn’t set, and isolated from the world, they begin to echo the expedition of a hundred years ago. History, it seems, has a way of repeating itself—when theirs is written, what will it say?
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WATCH: “Made a Way” sang by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir
Made a Way: written by Travis Green. On the Travis Green album, “The Hill”. Year 2015.
The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir is directed by Carol Cymbala, the wife of Pastor Jim Cymbala. The 280-voice choir, which for the most part is composed of vocally untrained church members, has recorded three videos, three DVDs and numerous albums, winning five Dove Awards and six Grammy Awards. Their concert venues in New York City have included Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, and the Madison Square Garden Theater. They also had the honor of singing at the Billy Graham Crusades that were held in New York City’s Central Park and Flushing Meadows Park. The recognition that the choir has received has provided them with a wide open door for ministry in presenting the gospel message through music to people all over the world.
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Top 10 Low Carb Restaurants Toronto
You might have heard celebrities talking about healthy meals, low-carb diets, and how it has made a huge difference in their lives. And even though it might sound too-good-to-be-true, a low carb diet is packed with benefits that are not only good for losing weight but also for your overall health. In fact, before it became a popular weight-loss diet, keto was already being recommended by doctors to patients with epilepsy and heart conditions.
We know that the keto diet is not an easy journey for anyone. This can be especially difficult when you go outside and you see all those restaurants around Toronto. But if you’re really determined to change your lifestyle and experience the benefits of keto, then you have to check out these Toronto restaurants that will make your diet more enjoyable for you.
- Speducci Mercatto
Being on a healthy diet doesn’t have to be boring. Speducci Mercatto located in Milford Avenue offers a wide variety of dishes that you will definitely love. There are salads and pizzas that are made for people who are on a ketogenic diet. But if you want a light snack when you’re running late, you can always take a bite of their sandwiches. On the other hand, if you are planning to meet up with friends who don’t have the same diet as yours, Speducci Mercatto is also a great option because they also offer Italian pasta that everyone would love to try.
- The Poke Box
The Poke Box in Toronto Street is going to be your low-carb paradise. This restaurant boasts of different combinations of salads and meat that are too delicious to resist. You can choose from spicy salmon to zucchini noodles which are going to satisfy your cravings. The Poke Box features a refreshing combination of ingredients.
- Lebanon Express
If you’re located near Roncesvalles Avenue, then the Lebanon Express is a place that you must see. You can try their kale-apple salad or their beef shawarma salad which are both popular dishes in their menu. What you would love about this restaurant is that they are fast and their prices are budget-friendly.
- The Burger’s Priest
The Burger’s Priest can be your go-to burger place when you’re on a keto diet. Because you won’t feel guilty eating their burger with their keto bun at all. You and your friends will have fun exploring the different burgers that this restaurant can offer.
- The Butternut Baking
Satisfy your sweet tooth with the treats that you’ll find from the Butternut Baking located in Dundas Street. This place has gluten-free and low-carb baked goods that are worth trying. In fact, they have treats that would suit your keto diet. You can see the number of carbs before buying the treats that you want. Some of the foods that you need to try are their Nanaimo bar and cinnamon carnival donuts.
- Islas Filipino BBQ and Bar
This restaurant in Queen Street will surprise your taste buds. If you’re looking for new Asian dishes to try, you can give this place a shot and you might just be amazed at the foods that you will discover. The good thing is that you can still keep your keto diet while enjoying Filipino delicacies like the Kare Kare and Sisig.
- Carole’s Cheesecake Café
Carole’s Cheesecake Café is another place where you can get your keto friendly desserts. Those who are craving for that creamy cheesecake won’t feel bad at all once they discover that they can eat a cheesecake from Carole’s with only 2 grams of carbs. They have various flavors for you to choose from so your sweet tooth will really have a blast.
- Cobs Bread
Located in Bloor Street W, Cobs Bread is popular for when you want to get cinnamon rolls or scones. This bakeshop caters to both dieters and non-dieters. You can find low carb bread here that you can partner with any drink. You can also take advantage of the coupons that they give every month.
- Liberty Village Rotisserie Grill
Meat lovers who are on a keto diet will have satisfying meals in this restaurant located on Jefferson Avenue. It has fish tacos, Greek salad with chicken breast, and their best-selling Rotisserie chicken with salad as a side. This place also has a very relaxing interior that would make every meal more enjoyable when you dine in.
- Burro Burrito
Once you enter Burro Burrito, be ready for a filling treat. This Mexican place in Richmond Street is known for their burrito bowls and salads that come in generous servings. You can even ask for an extra guac and it’s free. And if you’re in a low-carb diet, you can ask them to skip putting tortillas in your food.


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Passenger @ Fly by Night, Fremantle (14/04/12)
The crowds outside the Fly by night were a clear indicator of the popularity of the amazing indie- folk band Passenger. The British band fronted by the charming Mike Rosenberg is fast making their name in the music world.
Having taken to the stage and collaborated with some of the most prominent names in music recently, everyone from Ed Sheeran, Kate Nash, Lior, Matt Corby to Jools Holland and Old Man River. Passenger defiantly is no stranger to a stage, and a room full of people.
He started off with some warm banter with the audience, as if he was talking to a group of mates, asking ‘you guys alright yeah?’ Performing the song The Last Unicorn , solo and acoustic, to start things off. He then welcomed his talented, five piece band to the stage with a roar from the audience.
His latest tour to promote the new album All The Little Lights has been travelling extensively all over Europe and Australia, and yet he still manages to pack such sincerity and enthusiasm in to every show, which gives the audience and fans such a sense that he is a really genuine ‘nice guy’.
Performing the well-known Caravan, the audience joined in on the whistling chorus and swayed in union to the upbeat song.
It’s no secret that Rosenberg loves to go busking in his spare time, taking to the streets on tour whenever he gets a chance. He has one of those voices that sound brilliant naturally, without any technical intervention.
Going solo, Rosenberg performed a little treat for the audience, and unplugged version of Simon and Garfunkel’s, The Sound of Silence, which went down well with the audience of young, and young at heart alike.
Rosenberg spoke with a genuine sincerity about his love of Fremantle, which really struck a chord with the locals, and he included some places in Fremantle in his songs.
It’s refreshing to see such a successful band be so grateful for their current success, thanking the audience after just about every song, they really appreciated the support the crowd was giving.
If Mike Rosenberg wasn’t fronting Passenger, I feel he may have tried his hand at stand-up comedy; his cheeky British humour went down well with the crowd, as he told jokes, and made remarks about British and Aussie slang.
The audience’s enthusiasm lifted when the band performed the comical song I hate, cheering out in agreement with the lyrics. Rosenberg apologised to any Cher fans in the audience, as the song takes a swipe at Cher’s plastic surgery.
With meaningful messages behind every song, you can feel the life stories unravelling before you, from a man who seems to be wise beyond his years, you get the vibe that he is an old soul who is sharing tales from his experiences.
Before the band played The Wrong Direction, Rosenberg assured the audience it had no association with the Boy band One Direction, to which the audience had a good laugh at.
You could feel the emotions coming through in each and every song, and even spot a few sneaky tissues coming out during the performance of Let her Go. The set list was well planned, with a mix of emotional songs, next to songs that got the crowd moving, and intervals of jokes thrown in, it made for a well-rounded gig, which was sure to please the fans.
The performance of the title track of the new album, All The Little Lights, was another crowd pleaser, accompanied with the simple yet captivating backdrop of fairy lights, and a massive mural of the album art.
Sharing the personal stories behind the songs, Rosenberg’s connection with the audience is a credit to him, and he is generous with the fans. Explaining the lyrics in his songs, and telling tales from his busking days, the band provided an intimate and very satisfying performance.
Everyone should have the pleasure of listening to such first-class music.


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Estonian astrophotographer Raivo Hein really brings out the beauty of the world we live in.
I met with the man behind these amazing images today as he gave a brief lecture about taking and processing the photographs. Shortly, one image takes several days and over 10 programs to complete. He takes the images from his own little observatory, which he runs from another city.
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Lake Pepin: Ice Thin, But Getting Thicker
The first Lake Pepin ice measurements of the season on February 12 in the Upper Mississippi River showed lower ice thickness, following what scientists say has been the warmest January on record. But the ice thickened again as temperatures dropped in February.
The National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration said this January was 2.05 degrees Fahrenheit above the average January temperatures for the 20th century, resulting in thinner Lake Pepin ice.
A comparative chart showing measurements between 2011 and 2020 showed the February 12 ice as the thinnest at this point in the year at River Mile 770, at an average of 10 inches thick. The Lake Pepin ice was 17 inches thick at its thickest point at Mile 770 on February 12, narrowing to a few inches at Point No Point.
However, the February 19 measurements showed a thickening of several inches at the thickest part, to about 18 inches by February 19. The lower end of the lake (which isn’t really a lake but the widest naturally occurring spot in the Upper Mississippi River) showed no ice, but the iced portion was extended downstream by two feet by the February 19 reading.
The Corps takes ice measurements on Lake Pepin annually to forecast the navigational outlook on the Upper Mississippi River. Lake Pepin is located between the Minnesota cities of Red Wing and Wabasha. Measurements taken here give the best outlook, as it is the last segment in the navigation channel in which winter ice will break up. The information is used by the navigation industry to predict when it’s safe to break through the ice and begin the 2019 navigation season.
Normally, ice measurements are completed weekly, or biweekly, until the navigation season begins. The St. Paul Engineer District takes the measurements using an ice boat and confirming them with GPS readings.
Historically, the average date in which navigation is open occurs during the third week of March. The next ice measurements are scheduled for March 4.
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There is broad recognition of the need for population-based research to assess the safety and efficacy of newborn screening (NBS) for conditions that are not on current panels. However, prospective population-based research poses significant ethical, regulatory, and logistical challenges. In the context of NBS, there have been a variety of approaches that address parental decision-making in pilot studies of new screening tests or conditions. This article presents an ethical and legal analysis of the role of parental permission by the Bioethics and Legal Work Group of the Newborn Screening Translational Research Network created under a contract from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to the American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics. Circumstances are outlined in which a waiver of documentation of permission or a waiver of permission may be ethically and legally appropriate in the NBS context. These guidelines do not constitute American Academy of Pediatrics policy.
Parental Permission for Pilot Newborn Screening Research: Guidelines From the NBSTRN
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Yahoo's profits hit by restructuring costs as Mayer misses conference call
By John Reynolds, mediaweek.co.uk, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 09:56AM
Yahoo has reported a 4.2% fall in net income to $228.5m in the second quarter, after its bottom line was hit by a $136m (£87m) charge relating to employee layoffs and other cost-cutting measures.
Yahoo’s financial results were announced just hours after the internet company ushered in former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its new chief executive. Mayer, during her 13-year period at Google, helped build its dominance in search.
Mayer was not present during Yahoo’s earnings call.
The results also chime with a major restructuring of Yahoo's UK commercial arm, which has led to the exit of UK sales director Steve Brown.
In the second quarter, Yahoo reported net income down 4.2% from the same quarter in 2011. Revenues nudged down 1% to $1.22bn (£781m).
Revenues across EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa) fell from $163m (£104m) to $128m (£82m) in the period.
With around 700 million users, Yahoo has one of the biggest audiences on the web and its email service is still popular.
However, one of the problems it has faced is that advertisers are coming under heavier financial pressure, forcing them to buy online ads more cheaply from the likes of ad networks.
Yahoo is looking to combat that by launching new initiatives in this area, such as its partnership with Facebook.
It has also forged a partnership with Microsoft and AOL to sell advertising for each other.
Another problem Yahoo has faced is leadership, or lack of it. There have been four chief executives in the last five years, along with two interim chief executives. Mayer will be hoping to stay in the job longer than her predecessors.
Its restructuring costs included cutting 1, 500 staff, reducing its headcount to 12,500 employees.
In the quarter, Yahoo benefited from its stakes in Yahoo Japan and China's Alibaba Group, with earnings from the two businesses reaching $180m (£115m), a 65% uplift from the previous year. Yahoo has already agreed to sell half of its 40% stake in Alibaba for around $7bn (£4.5bn).
Highlights in the period, according to Yahoo, included a new advertising partnership and an agreement to settle all pending patent claims between Yahoo and Facebook; a global distribution deal between Yahoo! and Spotify, and the launch of online advertising service Genome.
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This poster accompanies: “Marxist Dracula meets Vlad the Impaler and the Propaganda Men“. I presented this poster at the 2017 ECCWS conference in Dublin Ireland.
Vlad Tepes, also known as ‘Vlad the Impaler’ and ‘Dracula’ was a 15th century Wallachian warlord whose brutality was immortalized in the stories of contemporary European publicists. These stories were brought to Russia and became the basis for Russia’s first belletristic text: “The Tale of Dracula”. The 16th century Russian Tsar Ivan IV (a.k.a. ‘Ivan the Terrible’) was a critical figure in implementing a cohesive Russian mythology, and he was equated with many stories formerly related to Dracula. The first English-language book which combined the concept of vampires and the historical figure of Vlad Tepes was Karl Marx’ “Das Kapital”. There is evidence that Marx influenced Bram Stoker’s conception of Dracula as a character. In the 20th century, film-makers have developed the concept of Dracula in ways which may undermine Stoker’s arguably Russophobic and anti-Semitic context while also introducing 16th century Russian mythology and modern geopolitics to the vampire story.


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Chateau Margaux is located in the commune of Margaux, located north west within the Bordeaux wine region and on the left bank of the Garonne river in the Gironde department.
The estate covers a surface area of 262 hectares, of which 82 hectares are planted for red wines consisting of Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Petit Verdot and Cabernet Franc grape varieties.
12 hectares are planted for white wines consisting of sauvignon blanc grape variety.
Chateau Margaux currently produces and bottles 4 different wines offering finesse and elegance from its fine Terroir, a concept so French that the word doesn’t have an equivalent in any other language.
Wines produced and bottled on the estate
Château Margaux (Premiere Grand Cru Classe): 130 000 bottles (average annual production)
Pavillon Rouge du Château Margaux: 100 000 bottles (average annual production)
Margaux Du Château Margaux: 40 000 bottles (average annual production)
Pavillon Blanc Du Château Margaux: 10 000 bottles (average annual production)
Since the 2009 vintage, they have been producing another wine which is not bottled but sold in bulk to a few Bordeaux wine merchants.
For Château Margaux wines, ageing means becoming better, a new aromatic world is revealed after fifteen or twenty years.
wines become deeper, more complex, more delicate and more mysterious. In fact, wines are equally ready to drink from a young age as their fruit is so pure.


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Square Metre employed around 50 staff on projects in the capital and south east and had been under pressure in the run up to the coronavirus lockdown. Most staff at the £32m revenue business were furloughed in March as nearly all of its 11 projects were shutdown.
But the firm’s problems continued to build forcing it into administration last week. Owner Steve Hart had steadily built up Square Metre since establishing the business in 2002. The firm specialised in commercial offices, structural alterations, refurbishments and bespoke super-prime residential.
Two years ago, Square Metre took on several former Willmott Dixon staff to broaden its construction capabilities.
As a result, it took on a more challenging £10m office project in Guildford, involving facades retention and greater structural work than previously undertaken.
A source told the Enquirer: “A dispute with the client over leaking cladding delayed payment. Despite Square Metre winning an adjudication it put pressure on cashflow which started to knock-on to suppliers.
“Subcontractors were struggling to get paid and things started to deteriorate.”
Insolvency specialist Opus Restructuring is handling the business.
Watford based fit-out specialist Stoneforce, which mainly worked on high-end residential and commercial projects in London, notified clients and staff that it was entering liquidation on 18 May. Around 60 redundancies have been made but 10 staff have continued to deliver projects via direct contracts with clients.
Director Duane Harvey told Construction News that the 25-year-old business, which had projected turnover of around £36m for 2020, had been a victim of the economic disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. “If we hadn’t had what happened [the shutdown], we’d still be going. That’s the long and short of it,” he said.
Cashflow was squeezed as two jobs were paused in agreement with the client and three more had to be temporarily stopped when subcontractors contracted coronavirus. Harvey said that some clients had slowed payments to Stoneforce as well, adding to the cashflow pressure.
He said that the company tried to access the government’s Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) through its bank in early April but was rejected. Harvey said uncertainty about when future projects would start had scuppered the deal: “As much as they [the bank] accepted the work was there, when they asked ‘when’s it going to start?’, we couldn’t turn around eight weeks ago and say ‘it’s going to start in three weeks’ time’, because we didn’t know what was happening. Nobody knew when anything was going to restart.”
He added: “If they [the jobs] had been started, we could have got the support and potentially found a way through this.”
The firm’s directors then searched for a private backer to inject fresh capital. Harvey said they found investors who were interested, but they too declined to invest due to the uncertainty of when future jobs would start. Directors will meet next week to formally pass a resolution to liquidate the company.
Harvey said the move to liquidation was “very sad and very disappointing”. He added: “It’s one of those things that should never have happened, but given the current times […] We did all we could, but it was one of those things we were unable to manage our way through.”
In its last set of filed accounts for the year ending 31 December 2018 Stoneforce reported a pre-tax profit of £103,000 on revenue of £23.3m with cash reserves of £574,000. In 2017 the company completed the renovation of The Department Store in Brixton (pictured – Google Street View), south London, a £17m job that won RIBA London and RIBA National awards.

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The broad market began yesterday morning with a large opening gap down, but quickly found support and spent the remainder of the day crawling steadily higher. The S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite both closed with 0.2% losses, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed flat. However, each of the major indices closed near their intraday highs and recovered quite sharply from earlier losses. The Nasdaq, for example, was trading 1.3% at its morning low, so the closing loss of only 0.2% was mild in comparison. The closely-watched Semiconductor Index dropped 1.3%, but again found support at convergence of its 50-day moving average and its primary uptrend line from its September low.
Volume in the NYSE increased by 27%, while volume in the Nasdaq was 20% higher than the previous day. Because the major indices closed lower AND on higher volume, yesterday was technically a bearish “distribution day” in the broad market. However, considering that each of the major indices trended higher throughout the day and eventually closed near their intraday highs, it is probably not accurate to view yesterday as a day of heavy institutional selling. Although the volume increases were significant, bear in mind that volume was well below average the previous day due to the Columbus Day holiday.
The S&P 500 was looking pretty ugly in the beginning of the day, but the index perfectly found support at the lower channel of its uptrend, which began with the low of August 13. This enabled the index to quickly reverse its opening weakness and also to close back above its 200-day MA, of which it only traded below on an intraday basis. The daily chart below illustrates how the S&P bounced neatly off support of its intermediate-term uptrend line:
Because the index held support on the test of its uptrend line yesterday, this is obviously bullish and presents a low-risk entry point for new long positions. If you take a new long position in SPY (S&P 500 Index), you could simply place your stop below yesterday’s low, which would also represent a break of the uptrend line. As long as SPY holds above yesterday’s low, you could continue trailing a stop higher over the next several days. When a stock or index is in a steady uptrend on its daily chart, one of the best, yet most simple, plays to make is to buy any pullback to the trendline. In doing so, you create a very positive risk/reward ratio because your potential reward (profit) is much higher than the potential risk (loss). In this case, the potential upside, assuming the trendline remains intact, is many times greater than the potential downside if you place your stop just below yesterday’s low. It’s an elementary concept, yet is one that many traders, even experienced ones, sometimes lose sight of.
For the second consecutive day, the Semiconductor Index ($SOX) also found support at its primary uptrend line and closed above its 50-day moving average. The $SOX probed below the trendline on an intraday basis, but closed above it. When this occurs, it is usually bullish because the probe shakes out the “weak hands,” which frees the index of supply and enables it to resume its uptrend with less overhead:
The big news yesterday, of course, was the quarterly earnings reports from Intel and Yahoo! after the close. Upon announcing their results, both companies were higher in after-hours trading, although Intel was much higher than Yahoo! on a percentage basis. The after-hours bias on big earnings days often follows through into the next morning, so we are prepared for an overall bullish bias coming into today, especially in the $SOX index. When combined with the fact that both the S&P and $SOX bounced off their daily uptrend lines yesterday, the bullish bias from the earnings reports could be just the right impetus necessary to enable the broad market to resume its two-month uptrend.
Today’s watch list:
There are no new plays for today. As the market is gapping up sharply higher, we want to be sure the gap will hold before entering new long positions. We will, however, send an e-mail alert if/when we enter new swing ETFs.
Daily Reality Report:
Below is Morpheus Trading Group’s daily
performance report of closed trades and an update on all open positions from The
Wagner Daily (Intraday Real-Time Room trades are reported separately in The
Wagner Weekly). Net P/L figures are based on the quantity of shares represented
in the MTG Position Sizing Model.
HHH short (from Oct. 12) –
shorted 59.72, stop 61.20, target 57.15, unrealized points = (0.79), unrealized P/L = ($158)
We shorted HHH per yesterday’s trigger price. It is gapping up in the pre-market due to Yahoo! strength, but remember to use the MTG Opening Gap Rules to manage the position. If it gaps open above the stop price, we mark the high of the first 20 minutes and adjust our stop to just above that level.
Edited by Deron Wagner,
MTG Founder and

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Woman dies using a charging iPhone 5, Apple vows to aid in investigationApple has said it will aid in the investigation of the death of a Chinese woman who was allegedly electrocuted when she answered a charging iPhone 5.
In an e-mail sent to Reuters, Apple said the company is "deeply saddened" by the "tragic incident" that killed 23-year-old Xinjiang woman Ma Ailun. Apple vowed to "fully investigate and cooperate with authorities in this matter."
Police say Ma was killed when she answered a call on her charging iPhone 5. The story gained traction when her sister wrote on the microblog Sina Weibo to warn other users to be careful.
Prior to the incident in China, there have been no widespread claims about faulty charging with the iPhone 5. Apple did recall iPhone 3G power adapters back in 2008 over a shocking risk that affected just a "very small" number of adapters.
Negative publicity in China regarding warranty policies prompted Apple to issue a formal apology in April. Since then, the company has been more aggressive in publicly responding to negative reports from the Chinese media.
On Topic: iPhone
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- Rumor: New iPhones with secure iris scanners coming in 2018
- Pokemon Go launches in France and Hong Kong as Nintendo stock plummets


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How 'the beautiful game' united students from Singapore and Cambodia
Head of Primary School Activities
A newly renovated sports facility on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, was the setting for Indochina Starfish Foundation’s (ISF) latest football tournament, where students from UWCSEA East were invited as guests. Over 400 children, from 7 to 13 years of age, played with passion and joy, completely immersed in the country’s most popular sport. From watching the smiling, laughing and pure enjoyment on show from the sidelines, it would be easy to forget that ISF have only been running their football programme for less than a decade and that most of the children involved are some of the poorest and most disadvantaged in Cambodia.
The tournament is just one of a number of football initiatives set up by ISF in collaboration with their national body’s football federation. Before the project began, many children spent their free time supporting families by looking after siblings or working and most had never had the opportunity to take part in organised sport; in fact, many had never known what it is like to simply have a space to play.
The project started in 2006 with only 50 children, but 10 years later, close to 3500 boys and girls are now involved. Children who are deaf or have impaired hearing and those with intellectual and physical disabilities, who are often stigmatised and regularly excluded in their communities, are all fully included.
Our UWCSEA students had the chance to visit two ISF schools prior to the tournament and to meet the children they would be forming a team with. Minutes after entering the gates of the first school, the sight of a football in the open courtyard sparked the perfect opportunity for smiles to be exchanged and brief introductions to be made before a kickabout followed. The fact neither set of children knew the other's language was irrelevant; the universal language of football took control.
Later that day, our students also had the opportunity to visit where some of the local children live; one site consisted of tiny shacks built above a wasteland of plastic bottles. Another set of homes were a formation of either concrete walls with corrugated metal roofs or tiny wooden cubicles covered in plastic sheeting, built in a cemetery, sacred land in Cambodia; but with nowhere else to go, this is where many call home. It was a stark contrast to our students' lives back in Singapore.
At the tournament the following day, our eight UWCSEA students split into two groups of four and combined with children from ISF to form two mixed UWCSEA/ISF international teams. Despite the contrast in backgrounds, the common language of football ensured the students instantly reconnected from the previous day and as the festival progressed, the bond between students became stronger. Football has the power to cross divides and break down social barriers like no other form of entertainment. It can bring together people from different backgrounds, classes, ages and countries and provide a means to focus on ability and promote friendships. It was amazing to watch how the beautiful game really can unite.
ISF’s football programme is not only bringing together players on and off the pitch, it is helping to change their lives, their communities and their futures, and UWCSEA are proud to be able to support their work. I am looking forward to continuing to support ISF and taking another group of students to Phnom Penh in 2017. You can find out more about ISF and how to support their projects in Cambodia here.
By Ian Deeth
Head of Primary School Activities
Thank you to Melanie Douglas for contributing some of the photos.


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Commenting on the protest staged by the residents of Kotli in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) against the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday said that Islamabad has violated all human rights.
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra told ANI that Pakistan is repeating Balochistan in PoK.
“The protest in PoK against the atrocities establishes the fact that Pakistan is a state which has been propagating against its own people, which has violated every human right. We have seen the issue of genocide in Balochistan, and today, we see the same case in PoK ,” said Patra. “A country whose premier Nawaz Sharif calls Burhan Wani a hero and a leader from the stage of the United Nations, naturally is the one who supports such kind of activities in Pakistan. Pakistan has been exposed globally,” he added.
Kotli residents in PoK yesterday took to the streets to protest against the atrocities committed by the Pakistan Army and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The agitation was launched against extra-judicial killings, fake encounters and brutalities committed on pro-Azadi leaders who disagree with the Pakistan State.
The angry mob raised slogans such as “Butcher of Kashmiris, Pakistan Army”, “Dogs are more loyal than ISI”.
The protesters demanded an independent investigation into the murder of Arif Shahid, a major Kashmiri nationalist leader, chairman of the All Parties National Alliance (APNA), and president of the Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Conference (JKNLC).
Shahid fought tooth and nail against Pakistan’s oppression in PoK before he was shot outside his residence in Rawalpindi on May 14, 2013. He was 62. The investigation into Shahid’s murder is still inconclusive, and there is no closure to the cold-blooded murder, so far. The ISI is blamed for conspiring and executing Shahid’s murder.
According to an estimate by the All Party National Alliance based in Muzaffarabad, more than one hundred pro-freedom political activists have been killed by the ISI over the past two years.
There is growing resentment among PoK residents over the killings as well as the continued army clampdown.
Earlier, PoK witnessed a series of protests by residents against rigged polls that saw Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), coming to power.
The United States’ State Department has recently also expressed concern over human rights violation in PoK, maintaining that it has always been urging parties in Pakistan to settle their differences “peaceably and through a valid political process”.


THERE are people you meet in life who make you realise that when you think you’ve done enough, you haven’t even started.
Ronnie McIntosh was that kind of guy – the most indomitable spirit I’ve ever come across in sport, or any other walk of life.
A man who took every duff card thrown at him and still made you believe he had been dealt a winning hand. A man who both humbled and inspired you in the same split second.
A man for whom the words can’t or won’t simply didn’t exist.
Ronnie, winner of the 2011 Disabled Athlete of the Year at the Sunday Mail and sportscotland Sports Awards, passed away on Thursday night at the age of 62.
The hole that news will have left in the hearts of anyone who met him, in his home city of Dundee and beyond, will take a long time to fill.
As a marathon runner, he was a stalwart for his beloved Dundee Hawkhill Harriers, right up to the point when kidney failure twice took him to the brink of death.
Then he was almost battered to death by a drug addict armed with a golf club and in 2008 he had to have both his legs amputated.
His turning point came with a kidney transplant in 2009 – though he then ignored medical advice and got back to training as a race-walker, his defiant, competitive streak seeing him go on to set a world record. But as he stood on stage 13 months ago to collect his Sunday Mail award, he admitted that deep down, he still harboured a dream of running again.
He told the crowd: “Just a 10k, not a marathon or anything.”
There wasn’t a dry eye in the house.
The problem was his prosthetics weren’t up to the job. He needed a pair of specialist sports limbs, but that cost was never going to be met by the NHS.
Anyone else would have thought of himself, done sponsorship, fundraising, the whole nine yards. Ronnie went out and did all that, raising thousands – before giving it away to other charities he thought were more worthy.
That night, when he got up to accept the award his selfless dedication had earned, a dozen top football managers sat with their jaws on the table listening to a guy who was living proof there was no fight which couldn’t be overcome and won.
Days later, St Johnstone boss Stevie Lomas was on the phone, inviting Ronnie in to Saints’ inner sanctum to talk to his players before they played Celtic. A few weeks later, the government asked us to nominate a suitable candidate to present the Scottish Communities League Cup trophy at Hampden.
Ronnie’s was the only name we gave them.
And the only thing which would have made him more proud would have been if he’d been handing the trophy to the Dundee captain instead of the Kilmarnock one.
He was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for sport in his home city.
And with the aid of a deserved fund-raiser – for him, finally, not by him – he was at last fitted with a new set of prosthetics in time for his ultimate dream – carrying the Olympic torch through the streets of Dundee last summer.
Ronnie was back on stage at our Sports Awards four weeks ago, handing over the baton to his
successor, Paralympic gold medallist Neil Fachie.
Afterwards he came and joined myself and Peter Houston, the diehard Dark Blue pulling a
crumpled fiver from his pocket and slipping it to the Dundee United boss, explaining it was his bribe for throwing the derby three days later.
And that night he reiterated a line he’d delivered a year before – that he was the luckiest man in the world. And he believed it.
Incredibly, only a few days before he died, he was in his local paper making a plea for organ donors to give other people the opportunity he had enjoyed.
His last act was the same as every other one – selfless.
If even an ounce of his spirit has rubbed off on everyone lucky enough to meet him, the world is already a better place for it.


Facebook and Twitter temporarily locked Donald Trump’s accounts after a mob he incited stormed the Capitol in an attempt to overturn an election result. They could have acted earlier, and are complicit in stoking the fire, argues Timothy Graham.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly been recorded on tape pressuring Georgia’s top election official to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in the southern state.
After weeks of defiance, President Donald Trump has allowed officials to proceed with a transition to President-elect Joe Biden, giving his Democratic rival access to briefings and funding even as he vowed to persist with efforts to fight the election results.
US President Donald Trump is appealing a federal judge’s dismissal of his campaign’s effort to block the certification of votes in Pennsylvania.


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Feeding a growing population in a hotter world will require exploiting a far broader range of crop diversity than now — and that means valuing wild genes.
Over much of the world, the growing season of 2050 will probably be warmer than the hottest of recent years, with more variable rainfall. If we continue to grow the same crops in the same way, climate change will contribute to yield declines in many places. With potentially less food to feed more people, we have no choice but to adapt agriculture to the new conditions.
To some extent, adaptation can be done by moving crops to more favourable areas and by agronomic tweaks. But that will almost certainly not be enough. We will have to give crops a genetic helping hand, infusing them with new genes to allow them to better cope with new climates, and the new pests and diseases they will bring. Where are these genes going to come from?


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Putting the Doncaster penalty miss and the Wembley playoff result behind us, 2012/13 was a magical season .. as is portrayed in this truly special (even if we say so ourselves) fans’ terrace video.
Featuring the ups and downs of the last year, the video really shows that passion of Brentford fans both on and off the terraces – real fans watching real football.
But not only does it show the Brentford fans’ passion … it also highlights similar passion from genuine supporters up and down the land …. from Rotherham …. to Bradford … to Preston … to Tranmere … Sheffield …. to Carlisle …. all over the shop!!
So, if you have a spare five minutes, put the kettle on, get yourself a cup of tea and enjoy.
And if 2014 is anywhere as eventful as this year, we’re in for another roller-coaster ride!
If you like this video and all the other bits we have been doing, please take some time out to vote for us in the BEST BLOGGER category in the Football Supporters Federation Awards (click here).
We really appreciate all the support you have given us over the past year and feel that the fans should realise the massive part they have contributed to the success of the team. Football is nothing without the fans.
Once again, your support has been very much appreciated and don’t forget to VOTE BEESOTTED!
Onwards and upwards.
The Beesotted Crew

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In the early 1990s, Nick Engler and a team of woodworkers and designers took on an incredibly ambitious task: Create a series of how-to books that encompass all of woodworking, from the router to the router plane, table saw to scroll saw.
Called the “Workshop Companion” series and first published by Rodale Press, the 21 volumes were a huge hit with woodworkers. The books were, clear, concise, easy to read and (very important) free from dogma. That’s because Nick and his team embraced all aspects of the craft.
When I walked into my office on my first day of work at Popular Woodworking, this set of books was the first thing I saw. They were lined up on the shelves and served as the backbone of a basic reference library for editors and writers.
There have been many attempts to get the books back in print. But now Popular Woodworking has pulled it off by offering all 21 books on a single DVD for $69.99. These are more than just crappy scans of the books – the entire collection is searchable by word.
I’ve always been a big fan of Nick and Bookworks, the small publishing company he ran in southern Ohio. I was his editor when he wrote his “Ingenious Jigs” column for Popular Woodworking and I followed Nick and his wife, Mary Jane Favorite, as they built replicas of all the Wright Flyers (a crazy story that continues to this day).
In fact, if you’ve read Popular Woodworking magazine or its books during the last 20 years or so you have been exposed to a lot of Bookworks DNA. Linda Watts, the long-time art director for Popular Woodworking when I was there, was a designer for Bookworks. Mary Jane, another designer and illustrator for Bookworks, still creates the illustrations for the Tricks of the Trade column.
So I can personally vouch for the “Workshop Companion” series. If you are just getting into the craft or are looking to explore new parts of it, you won’t find a better place to start than by reading this series. And the price is a good deal – some volumes of the series go for $20 on eBay or Amazon.
To read more, or order a copy, visit ShopWoodworking.com.
— Christopher Schwarz
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On Wednesday afternoon all 3 white men responsible for the death of Ahmaud Arbery were found guilty of multiple counts of felony murder. Gregory McMichael was found guilty of 4 counts; William Bryan Jr. was found guilty of 3. Travis McMichael, Gregory’s son and the man who attacked Ahmaud Arbery and shot him multiple times for the crime of jogging through a building site while Black, was found guilty of 5 counts of felony murder and an additional charge of malice murder. “Malice murder” is a different charge because Travis McMichael acted with the intent to kill Arbery, whereas “felony murder” exists for people who, like G. McMichael and Bryan, deliberately committed felonies that led to the murder of an individual.
In addition, the 3 were found guilty of multiple felony assault and false imprisonment charges. The murder convictions come with mandatory life sentences, and prosecutors told reporters they’ll be pressing for no chance at parole at the hearing, the date for which is still undetermined. It seems certain that the McMichaels, at least, will die in prison.
Despite being unarmed and having committed no crime apart from entering a building site without permission — something I and every kid I grew up with did on numerous occasions out of simple curiosity — it felt like Ahmaud Arbery has been on trial since his killing on February 23, 2020. The McMichaels saw him exit the building site and, after arming themselves, gave chase. Bryan joined in when he saw the action, with the mindless enthusiasm of hounds chasing a deer. Arbery repeatedly sought to avoid confrontation, only turning to face his pursuers when they pinned him with their trucks. Travis exited his truck with shotgun in hand and Arbery defended himself. In the struggle, he was shot multiple times and killed. Travis, whose truck proudly displayed the traitor’s flag, then called Arbery a “f*cking n——-“ before police arrived, according to William Bryan Jr. There were also numerous social media posts and text messages from Travis McMichael and Bryan with similar racial slurs suggesting their bigotry predisposed them to violence against a Black man like Arbery. Despite this, and thanks to the pervasive influence of white supremacy as well as Gregory McMichael’s past employment as a local cop and investigator, the 3 men faced no charges for 10 weeks after the shooting, and it’s almost certain they’d have gotten away with it had the footage of Arbery’s shooting not been leaked. The local prosecutor recused herself because G. McMichael previously worked for her - and is now facing charges of her own - and the next to examine the case, George Barnhill, wrote a letter to Glenn County police arguing the McMichaels and Bryan should not be charged with a crime because of Georgia’s “citizen’s arrest” law, which allows citizens to affect an arrest if they believe a crime has been committed. The idea that 3 armed white men can chase an unarmed Black man down the street with no evidence of lawbreaking apart from entering a building site is … insane, and the law has mostly been repealed as a result of this tragedy.
Race was almost never mentioned at trial. The prosecutors no doubt wanted to avoid complicating things for the 11/12ths white jury by giving them a political excuse to avoid a guilty plea. The defense, meanwhile, never specifically mentioned anyone’s race for obvious reasons. Their own actions, however, reflected their clients’ racial animus. The crux of their defense rested on claims the three white men chased and killed Arbery because of frequent local burglaries. There’s no evidence that there was much crime in the area, or what a man not visibly carrying anything might have taken from a job site. Power tools and bags of cement are difficult to hide in one’s pockets. It also turns out that despite the defendants’ claims, there were no local burglaries in all of 2019.
Attorney Kevin Gough requested the judge bar Black civil rights leaders from entering the courtroom, telling the judge “We don’t want any more Black pastors coming in here.” These statements did not go down well with either the judge or the public. Three days later the defense lawyers asked for a mistrial because Mr. Arbery’s mother broke down crying in the courtroom. This reasonable display of emotion, they argued, might bias the jury against their clients. During closing arguments Laura Hogue, lawyer for Gregory McMichael, shed what little illusion remained about the defense’s opinion of Mr. Arbery, telling the jury “Turning Ahmaud Arbery into a victim after the choices that he made does not reflect the reality of what brought Ahmaud Arbery to Satilla Shores in his khaki shorts with no socks to cover his long, dirty toenails.” It prompted outrage both inside and out of the courtroom. Jurors returned their guilty verdicts after about ten hours of deliberation.
It is not a surprise that three white Georgians felt empowered to chase down a jogging Black man. It shouldn’t be a surprise or cause for relief that the three were found guilty of all charges, yet here we are. A slamdunk case almost never came to trial thanks to local influence and bigotry. The defendants and their lawyers used every trick in the white supremacist playbook to justify their crimes. They were defending the neighborhood. They were afraid Arbery would overpower and kill them after they hunted him down. He was dirty and poor and had no business being there. These excuses and more failed to work, but only just. Had the video of the shooting and another of officers’ body-cam footage showing they knew of Gregory McMichael’s past in law enforcement never surfaced there is no doubt that both McMichaels and Bryan would be free men today.
Image sources (in order of posting): Getty Images, Sean Rayford; pool; Sean Rayford