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Heston Blumenthal OBE is one of Britain’s best chefs. The earned recipient of several Michelin stars, his restaurants The Fat Duck, Dinner, The Crown at Bray and The Hinds Head each play host to coveted tables, reservations, and meals. As we all self-isolate per the government guidelines, Heston generously shares a recipe exclusively with Quintessentially—so you can bring the restaurant home.
Pea and Ham Soup
For the soup
1 ham hock
2 cloves garlic, peeled
1 onion, peeled and sliced
1 carrot, peeled and sliced
1 leek (white part only), sliced
1 celery stalk, roughly chopped
1 bay leaf
1 sprig thyme
½ tsp black peppercorns
1kg frozen peas
For the mint oil
25g mint leaves
100g grapeseed oil
2 Tbsp olive oil
75g banana shallots, peeled and diced
1 clove of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
160g pancetta, chopped
salt and freshly ground black pepper
Place the ham hock into a large pan and cover with water. Bring to a boil, then drain and refill the pot with fresh water to cover. Add the garlic, onion, carrot, leek, celery, bay leaf, thyme and peppercorns and bring to a simmer for 3 hours, covered. Remove from the heat and allow the ham to cool in the stock. Strain and reserve the stock through a double layer of muslin, discarding the vegetables. Shred 270g of ham hock meat and set aside to add later. The remainder can be placed in the fridge for other uses.
In the meantime, defrost the peas by spreading out on a large tray lined with kitchen paper.
For the mint oil, bring a pan of water to a boil and prepare an ice bath. Blanch the mint leaves for 20 seconds, then drain and add to the iced bath. Once cooled, remove and dry thoroughly by squeezing the leaves, then patting dry using kitchen paper. Place the mint and grapeseed oil into a blender and blitz for 15 seconds. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve, discarding the mint and reserving the oil. The mint oil will keep well in the fridge or up to 5 days.
To finish the soup, heat the olive oil in a pan and cook the shallots, garlic and pancetta gently for 5 minutes until the shallots have softened. Add 1.2kg of the reserved ham stock and bring the mixture to a boil. Simmer for 5 minutes, then add the peas, keeping 110g of peas aside to add later. Remove the pan from the heat and blend the mixture until smooth. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve and return the mixture to a clean pot.
Season with salt and freshly ground pepper and gently reheat, using a hand blender to aerate the soup until frothy.
Divide the reserved shredded ham and fresh peas between six warm bowls and add the soup. Drizzle each portion with mint oil, and serve.

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Seven Stars Inn in Llechryd offers cosy accommodation and a full Welsh breakfast in this small village around 3 miles from the picturesque town of Cardigan. There is a large bar and restaurant, as well as private parking and free Wi-Fi.
Rooms at Seven Stars are decorated in a modern style and all have a TV. Each has tea and coffee facilities and an en suite bathroom.
The property has a large beer garden and terrace area to enjoy meals from the restaurant or drinks from the bar. In addition to breakfast, the guest house can also prepare packed lunches on request.
Llechryd is approximately 8 minutes’ drive from Cardigan, which has several places to eat out, as well as many small shops and well-known stores. Among the area’s other attractions, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park is less than 30 minutes’ drive.
Breakfast is served between 08.30 and 09.30 and can be served earlier upon request only.

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"Second Woman" is actually two men: Turk Dietrich of Belong and Joshua Eustis from the legendry Telefon Tel Aviv. Both Americans are obsessed with sound and production processes and have been working together for some time to shape a dystopian, piercing, taciturn and amazingly magnetic electronica; complex and demanding music that sits perfectly on the Editions Mego sub label, Spectrum Spools. They describe their sound as borrowing elements from footwork, dub, house and techno, manipulating them until unrecognizable and unconstrained from established conventions. When performing live these sounds are visualized, almost becoming tangible, thanks to a powerful AV show created together with Berliners Pfadfinderei, one of the most reputable filmmaking teams in the world (already well known to Sónar for their work with Moderat, Tiga, Paul Kalkbrenner and Boys Noize, among others).
A few years ago Dietrich and Eustis met in New Orleans thanks to Charles Cooper, a member of Telefon Tel Aviv, who died in 2009. They spontaneously began to work together under the name Benelli and also collaborated on their respective personal projects until they decided to create a completely new and individual sound under the alias, Second Woman. They debuted in 2016 with a self-titled LP, followed more recently by "S/W", as well as an EP that included remixes from Jlin and Fluxion. Self-avowed perfectionists and extremely meticulous both in the studio and on stage, the two members of Second Woman create their compositions by working sound by sound and shaping musical elements in a traditional way, with the idea that each of them is unique, necessary and irreplaceable.

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text: The Egg and I is a dog-friendly, daytime-only restaurant boasting delicious food and a friendly atmosphere. Dog owners with a hankering for a glass of seasonal juice and an Apple Cinnamon Pancake--fresh apple slices and crunchy granola baked into a large, whole-wheat pancake, sprinkled with cinnamon and topped with cinnamon butter--can find and enjoy it at one of The Egg and I's five outdoor tables. The eatery's menu includes benedicts, omelets, scrambles, frittatas, skillets, hashes, "healthier side" dishes such as California Avocado Toast, Berry Steel-Cut Oatmeal, and a Garden Frittata, pancakes, waffles, French toast, sandwiches, salads, soups, and coffee, tea, juice, and soda. This location of the Egg and I is open Monday through Friday from 6:00am to 2:00pm and Saturday and Sunday from 7:00am to 2:30pm. It is closed for Thanksgiving and Christmas.


Bob Burman was an American racecar driver active in the formative years of auto racing. He won one of the first races at the Indyanapolis Speedway in 1909 and competed in the first Indy 500 in 1911. He was killed in the Boulevard Race in Corona, California.
Bob Burman was born in Imlay City, Michigan and was an American racecar driver active in the formative years of auto racing.
In 1905 William Durant, the founder of General Motors, decided to enter his company into the world of motor racing. He entered a little Buick into the race at Grosse Point that year.
While not an official entry, the car was allowed to compete as the field was somewhat sparse. Burman, who had originally been a wheel painter in the old Durant-Dort Company, drove the car to victory. Durant was quick to see the potential for publicity and Burman was thus entered into the races at St Louis and Grand Rapids with similar results.
By 1908, the Chevrolet brothers, Arthur and Louis, joined Burman and Lewis Strang in the works team. Burman took victory in the Massachusetts Dead Horse Hill Climb, Giants Despair Mountain Climb and the 100-mile Free for All at Empire City Track, New York.
In 1909 still racing for Buick he raced at the inaugural meeting at the new Indianapolis Speedway. Hailed as the The Brooklands of America, the races were held over three days between the 19th and 21st of August. With 100 cars and 20 different events organised the main event for the first day of racing was the 250 mile Prest-O-Lite Company Trophy. At the 150 mile mark, the lone Knox entry driven by Wilfrid Bourque with Harry Holcombe as the riding mechanic was running second to Burman's Buick. Unfortunately tragedy followed as it appeared that a rear wheel came off the Knox. It had just made a pit stop and it is possible that it had not been properly tightened when the wheel was changed. The car veered off the track, crashed through the fence and overturned crushing its occupants. Bourque and Holcombe both died from multiple injuries. Burman went on to take the win.
After his success at Indy, Burman took the Buick Bug to Pablo Beach where he won a 20-mile free for all at an average speed of 91.06 mph. He also raced a stripped-down Buick agaimst an early biplane at Daytona that year. The Buick reportedly won easily.
At the Vanderbilt Cup race in 1910 the field was dominated by American entries. Louis Chevrolet at over 70 mph dominated the opening laps. On lap seven his teammate Burman took over the lead. Chevrolet returned to the lead but later lost his steering and crashed killing his mechanic. Joe Dawson then took the lead but the race was ultimately won by Harry F. Grant in an ALCO.
1911 saw the first running of the Indy 500. Burman drove well but on the eighty-fifth lap, a right rear tire burst with a loud bang that brought the spectators to their feet. The car swerved but Burman quickly regained control however he had passed the pit entrance and continued on another lap on the rim as the tire had come completely off. Going through the south curve he lost control and crshed over the stone retaining wall,fortunately without injury.
On April 23, 1911, he took the Blitzen-Benz to Daytona Beach. Burman had replaced Barney Oldfield as the driver, and set about using the long, wide expanse of coastline to set a new land speed record.
The car had been built as a sports car by Benz & Cie. in 1909, with the aim of breaking the 200 km/h (124.26 mph) barrier. Powered by the 150 hp engine from the Grand Prix car, the displacement was enlarged to 21.5 liters, eventually developing 200 hp. The car used the chassis of the Grand Prix car. The car was raced successfully in Europe and in 1910, fitted with new bodywork, the car was shipped to America. There it was bought by racing promoter, Ernie Moross, and named the Lightning Benz. Driven by Barney Oldfield, it broke the world land speed record, setting the mark at 211.97 km/h st Daytona Beach.
Re-named the Blitzen-Benz, Burman achieved 225.65 kph for the mile with flying start and 228.1 kph over the kilometre with flying start setting a record that remained unbroken until 1919.
Buick pulled out of racing and in 1914 he aquired a 1913 Grand Prix Peugeot. He took a win on the dirt oval at Kalamazoo and a second at Galesburg after leading the race from lap 21 until lap 99 when he ran out of fuel and coasted across the line.
Late in the year the Peugeot engine broke a con rod and destroyed itself. So, early in 1915, Burman hired Harry Miller to build a replacement. Miller and his engineers rebuilt the Peugeot engine with pistons machined out of aluminum alloy. This made them 44 ounces lighter than the steel originals, producing an engine that was lighter and more powerful than before. As a result, Burman won the 200 mile Southwest Sweepstakes road race at Oklahoma City. He finished 6th at Indy and also won a race at Burlington and a 25-mile race at Providence, Rhode Island.
In 1916 he made another attempt at the world land-speed record at Brighton Beach, New York, and then raced in Corona, California. The town had a three mile long, 70ft wide circular main street called the Grand Boulevard than ran around the city center. Races were held there in 1913 and 1914 with great success. After a break of some 18 months a third race was organised in 1916. Burman had led most of the race but about 12 laps from the finish, the rear wheel of his Peugeot collapsed, sending it crashing off the track at over 100 mph. The car hit a parked spectator car and rolled into the crowd. Burman and his riding mechanic, Erick Schroeder(Schrader), were thrown out and landed nearly 50 feet away. The Peugeot finally came to rest against a telephone pole.
Schroeder died instantly along with William Speer, a track steward. A number of other spectators were also injured. Burman was taken to Riverside hospital where he died shortly after. The tragedy prompted his friends, Barney Oldfield and Harry Arminius Miller, to join forces to design and build a racing car that incorporated a roll cage inside a protective streamlined driver's compartment. The result was the famous Goldern Submarine.
The events at Corona in 1916 effectively ended racing away from the coast in Southern California for almost 40 years.


[Noozhawk] Santa Barbara Symphony to Showcase ‘American Masterpieces’
By Gerald Carpenter, Noozhawk Contributing Writer
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The upcoming brace of concerts by the Santa Barbara Symphony — at 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday in the Granada Theatre — has been dubbed “American Masterpieces” by conductor Nir Kabaretti, and he has enlisted the artistry of exquisite pianist Xiayin Wang to serve as guest soloist for the occasion.
As you must have guessed, the program is confined to works by American composers — three of them — including the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s Concerto Grosso (commissioned by the Santa Barbara Symphony and featuring several first-chair solos); Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”; and George Gershwin’s Concerto in F-Major for Piano and Orchestra (with Wang).
Leshnoff’s music is romantic, that much can be said without controversy. His romanticism is not of the heart-on-sleeve variety, however, but feels tentative and introspective. He is a genius of moods and atmosphere. I’ll stop there, not wanting to place any restrictions on what you may imagine his Concerto Grosso will sound like — I have no more idea than you do, since none of us has heard it yet.
In a few short years, one notes, Leshnoff’s music has compiled an enviable amount of good press — all of it deserved, I must say.
As for the rest of the program, I am devoted to both Bernstein and Gershwin, yet I can’t help but regard the selections as a non-American’s slightly patronizing version of “American Masterpieces.” Is it a coincidence that both of the American masters were wildly successful in both the concert hall and on Broadway? (That lets out Aaron Copland, I guess.)
To be sure, coming up with an uncontested choice of a great American piano concerto does present something of a challenge (Samuel Barber? Edward MacDowell? Howard Hanson?), but one might consider Bernstein’s Second Symphony “The Age of Anxiety”, which has a huge part for the piano and is, moreover, a shockingly neglected masterpiece.
That could replace both the West Side Story dances and the Gershwin concerto, and leave room for a great American symphony like Virgil Thomson’s Symphony on a Hymn Tune or Ross Lee Finney’s Symphony No. 1 “Communiqué” (1943) or George Antheil’s jazzy, art-deco Symphony No. 5 — all of which are tuneful and well-within the accessibility parameters established by the Bernstein and Gershwin.
Still, most listeners, including this writer, will find the program a delight as it is, and no one will be heard to complain afterward.


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This morning, Christmas Eve day, I noticed a holiday card on the coffee table. It was slightly crumpled and curled around the bottom as if it has been discarded for a while. I opened the card and gasped – it was signed by my grandmother, who died four years ago this month. The card must have been mixed in with one of the ornament boxes and then, when my spouse had cleaned up, the card remained.
This unexpected and bittersweet joy – this Christmas ghost – warms me. It’s as if my grandma showed up in her full-sized sedan that was always spotlessly clean, flashing her playful smile and holding her signature stuffing in a white and blue Pyrex dish.
Dang, I miss my grandma.
Here’s the truth: one of the often overlooked aspects of this holiday is nostalgia, and the somber accounting of who is here, and who is not. There is a mourning aspect to the holiday; the Christmas blues are always here, cast like a shadow and given stark dimensionality by the holiday lights and cheer.
Christmas is all about ghosts, and always has been of course.
But no one has reinforced this modern ghost-centered holiday more than Charles Dickens.
And Dickens, as it turns, out was frequent experiencer of vivid dreams, dreams intruding into waking life, and sleep-induced spiritual encounters.
As dream scholar Gregory Rosa suggests, Dickens was a master lucid dreamer. (If you’re not yet, follow Rosa’s newsletter Dream Treasures — it’s wild, and his recent piece inspired this here article).
Rosa writes, “Ebenezer has no less than three intense lucid dreams in that novella, preceded first by a humdinger of a harbinger of a hallucinatory visitation, before he trip balls through the past, present, and future over the course of one long transformative night.”1
Let me back up to say, there’s been a lot of literary analysis over the years that has focused on the dream-infused worlds of Dickens. We’ve been diagnosing Scrooge every time we reread A Christmas Carol, or more likely, rewatch the movies (We’ll be sticking to Bill Murray’s version this year).
Dickens was known to be an insomniac, and a man of waking visions who famously dealt with his sleeplessness by taking to walking the streets at night, which gave him a close and personal view of how the poor and unhoused citizens of London were suffering.2
Many have suggested that Dickens’ insomnia led to hypnagogic hallucinations, which typically emerge while falling asleep or while waking up. However, sometimes hypnagogic visions would intrude into waking life, much like the vision of Marley’s face on the door knocker.
I’ve personally experienced this before, when I was working in Alaska one summer in a salmon cannery. We were working 90- 100 hours a week, and sleeping when we could, in tents on a high bluff facing the Kenai inlet. I was incredibly sleep deprived and the monotony of the work led to several waking hallucinations, which I learned I could induce at will. I remember focusing on the idea of Lucky Charms while endless cans of fish passed by my station; I was delighted when –as clear as day – an imprint of stars, moons and four leafed clovers superimposed itself on my waking life surroundings. They were organized in a tight repetitive grid like you might see on a sheet of blotter paper, and they shimmered and danced. That was a clue I really needed to get some rest.
Yet I don’t think Dickens was inspired by this sort of hypnagogia – characterized by fleeting and seemingly disconnected images, noises and smells—when writing the scenes of the Christmas Carol in which Scrooge is visited by four ghosts. (Yes, four, Marley counts).
Rather, I suspect Dickens was drawing from his experience of hypnagogia entrained by sleep paralysis, which manifests frighteningly real encounters with supernatural agents who loom over the bed, and sometimes, take the dreamer on an otherworldly journey. Historically and cross-culturally, this type of dream vision is often interpreted in line with a culturally-specific supernatural assault tradition.3
One of the calling cards of these experiences is they feel like waking life – the dreamer swears “this is not a dream” because, unlike most dreams, the dreamer tends to still have their waking-style thinking online. We can look to the text for support of this notion:
“You don’t believe in me,” observed the Ghost [of Marley].
“I don’t.” said Scrooge.
“What evidence would you have of my reality, beyond that of your senses?”
“I don’t know,” said Scrooge.
“Why do you doubt your senses?”
“Because,” said Scrooge, “a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheats. You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”4
This wonderful description also points towards a common 19th century explanation for nightmares – that they are caused by indigestion. Except in the 19th century, nightmares did not refer to “bad dreams that wake you up” (as we talk about nightmares in the 20th century) but sleep paralysis night-mares – ie supernatural assault visions in which the dreamer feels awake and aware and is struck paralyzed by an evil force that can go on to “ride” or harass the dreamer.
This gastronomical theory dates back all the way to Galen, and was still quite in vogue in Dicken’s time. The theory basically goes that the over-full stomach presses on the diaphragm and/or somehow impedes circulation to the heart and lungs which triggers the mind into an emotional panic.5
By the way, the indigestion theory for night-mares actually still has wings: in 2006, Takenori Ikeda and colleagues investigated heart health after subjects ate a huge meal. Subsequent ECG abnormalities were indeed noted, suggesting that a large meal before sleep could lead to ventricular fibrillation in folks who have poor heart health – or an unknown deadly heart defect like Brugada syndrome, which is the likely cause of death in Hmong refugees who suffered terrifying sleep paralysis and then died in their sleep.6
And speaking of horrors leading to art – this is the case that inspired Wes Craven to write and direct Nightmare on Elm Street.
Anyhow, Dickens surely knew of sleep paralysis nightmares; he actually described the symptoms of the condition some 40 years before the affliction was medically recognized. In Oliver Twist, Dickens suggests,
“There is a kind of sleep that steals upon us sometimes, which, while it holds the body prisoner, does not free the mind from a sense of things about it, and enable it to ramble at its pleasure. So far as an overpowering heaviness, a prostration of strength, and an utter inability to control our thoughts or power of motion, can be called sleep, this is it; and yet we have consciousness of all that is going on about us, and, if we dream at such a time, words which are really spoken, or sounds which really exist at the moment, accommodate themselves with surprising readiness to our visions, until reality and imagination become so strangely blended that it is afterwards almost a matter of impossibility to separate the two …”7
Let’s zoom in to the specific aspects of Scrooge’s experience which are so often mentioned in regards to intruder visions and sleep paralysis-linked supernatural assault: the sound of footsteps, the dragging of chains, and finally the supernatural night visitors looming over the bed followed by lucid and guided visionary experiences, similar to Emmanuel Swedenborg’s tour of the cosmos a century before, as I’ve discussed in my book Sleep Paralysis.8
Taking into account all these strands of evidence, I’d say Scrooge’s ghostly encounters are a fairly accurate depiction of a sleep paralysis-entrained hypnagogia or REM intrusion into waking life, followed by powerfully emotional and existentially gripping lucid dreams.
On the lucid dreaming front, Gregory Rosa points out:
“Notice how Dickens, through his fictional lucid dream persona Ebenezer, confronts the nightmarish memories of his early life, the same way any modern dreamworker will tell you to confront your nightmares to transform and banish them from your psyche. Indeed, all throughout the tale, Dickens-Ebenezer expertly interprets his dreams in real lucid dreamtime, and he’s pretty darn Jungian spot-on — which is impressive, given that Dickens wrote the story a full 50 years before Freud’s “The Interpretation of Dreams” was published, when William James was still in cotton nappies.”9
Regardless of the validity of A Christmas Carol connection to sleep paralysis and supernatural assault—as theories come and go—the story sticks with us, sort of like a fragment of an underdone potato.
A good ghost story brings lucidity: it stirs our fears, and with it, heightens our vigilance and provides us a chance to notice how we respond to the world – and even change our ways.
As I sit with a little sadness and melancholy on this particular Christmas eve (the sun is setting as I type these words, we are entering the liminal zone), I am resolving to make space for these undigested feelings tonight, to notice who is here, and who is gone; to notice what I can be grateful for; and to bear witness and alleviate whenever possible the suffering of others.
I’ll leave the last word on Dickens to dream researcher Kelly Bulkeley, who suggests, “Dickens wants us to know that in dreams, especially dreams at this time of year, anything is possible….”10
Love you Grandma. Your stuffing really couldn’t be beat.
1 Rosa, G. (2023). Ebenezer Scrooge, Master Lucid Dreamer. Dream Treasures. Substack: Published December 23, 2023.
2 Gomes and Nardi (2021). Charles Dickens’ hypnagogia, dreams, and creativity. Frontiers of Psychology: 12: 700882.
3 Adler, S. (2010). Sleep paralysis: Night-mares, nocebos and the mind-body connection. New Brunswick: Rutger.
4 Dickens, C. A Christmas Carol.
5 Jones, E. (1951). On the nightmare. New York: Liveright.
6 As quoted in Adler, p. 126
7 Cosnett, J.E. (1992). Charles Dickens: Observer of sleep and its disorders. Sleep. 15(3):264-267.
8 Hurd, R. (2011/2020). Sleep paralysis: A guide to hypnagogic visions and visitors of the night. San Mateo: Enlightened Hyena Press.
10 Bulkeley, K. (2019). The wise nightmares of a Christmas Carol. Dreaming in the digital Age: Psychology Today.

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Boise actress Jodeen Revere, pictured, stars as Mary Hallock Foote in “Fair Use,” a play written and directed by Nevada-based writer Sands Hall. The play explores the controversy surrounding author Wallace Stegner’s use of Foote’s writings for his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Angle of Repose” without her permission.
7 p.m. Saturday, June 4, Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 W. Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise. $15. EventBrite.com.


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Hairspray And Grease Auditions
The Aracoma Story Inc. is holding auditions for two big musicals that will make up their ¡°LIVE in the Park¡± summer season.
Auditions will be held for ¡°Hairspray¡± and ¡°Grease¡± on Friday, Feb. 24th from 3:30pm til 6:30pm and Saturday, Feb. 25th from 12:30pm til 4:30pm at West Logan Church of God.
Both shows will be under the direction of Bill France (director) and Robin Bunch Bailey (music director), the team that brought ¡°Disney¡¯s Beauty and the Beast¡± to the park stage last summer.
Those auditioning are asked to prepare a one minute monologue and one minute of a song (from any show). Wear comfortable shoes in case you are asked to learn a portion of a dance. No experience is needed.
Hairspray is an award winning musical based in the 1960s. Hairspray was winner of eight Tony Awards, including Best Musical, is a family-friendly musical, piled bouffant-high with laughter, romance and deliriously tuneful songs.
It's 1962 in Baltimore, and the lovable plus-size teen, Tracy Turnblad, has only one desire ¨C to dance on the popular "Corny Collins Show." When her dream comes true, Tracy is transformed from social outcast to sudden star. She must use her newfound power to dethrone the reigning Teen Queen, win the affections of heartthrob, Link Larkin, and integrate a TV network... all without denting her 'do!
Hairspray was a Broadway smash, has been performed all over the world, was a major motion picture and was recently featured as a live action performance on NBC.
This will mark the first time The Aracoma Story Inc. has presented the show on its stage. ¡°Hairspray¡± will be presented June 8th thru 11th and June 15th thru 18th (all shows start at 8:30pm) at the Liz Spurlock Amphitheater at Chief Logan State Park.
Hairspray Character Breakdown
Our story's unsuspecting protagonist is large and in charge. She is full of confidence, talent, and is incredibly determined. A romantic with a good heart and desire to cut up the dance floor. Always on top of the latest trends.
The charismatic host of the Corny Collins' Show is good looking and smooth talking, he is a genuinely nice guy both on and off camera.
Tracy's big, blonde mother is a working housewife who has lost her confidence and dreams of becoming a plus-size clothing designer. Boisterous and commanding. Played by a male in drag.
Tracy's best friend and dorky sidekick is not the brightest girl, but has good intentions. Bursting to get free of her mother's dominating control, she falls for Seaweed with childlike curiosity.
Velma Von Tussle
Amber's mother and the director of Corny Collin's show is a devious taskmaster and snobby racist. The former Miss Baltimore Crabs will go to any length to ensure her daughter is the next big thing.
Amber Von Tussle
Link's girlfriend and Tracy's nemesis is pretty, thin, shallow, snobby, and racist. Can't dance but is expected to win the Miss Baltimore Hairspray crown. Always feels the need to be the center of attention.
The star heartthrob on Corny Collins' show is extremely attractive and talented. Hoping to get his big break with a recording contract, he unexpectedly falls for Tracy.
Seaweed J. Stubbs
Tracy's classmate and friend, who is discriminated against due to his skin color. He is cocky but surprisingly lovable. Talented in song and dance. He falls for Penny.
Seaweed¡¯s little sister, who is packed with talented and itching to have her big break.
Seaweed and Little Inez's mother who appears as the Guest DJ on the Corny Collin's Negro Day show. Big, blonde, beautiful and proud of it. She is sassy and confident.
Tracy's simple minded and kind father. He owns a joke shop and supports his daughter in spite of everything else. He also loves his wife, Edna, very much.
Penny's strict mother. Very conservative, controlling, and closed minded.
The head of Ultra Clutch Hairspray who sponsors the Corny Collins Show. His focus is earning money.
Gender: male (but could be played by the right female)
The principal is an authority figure at Tracy¡¯s school.
Gender: male (but could be played by the right female)
Owner of the Hefty Hideaway, the clothing store that asks Tracy to become its spokesperson.
Gender: male (or female)
Rude, crude and means business when the bell rings for gym class.
Corny Collins' Nicest Kids (Tammy, Brad, Brenda, Sketch, Shelley, IQ, Etc.)
The ensemble is made up of students, protestors, Baltimore residents.
As for the Grease cast, it¡¯s 1959, and Rydell High School¡¯s senior class is in rare form. The too-cool-for-school ¡°T-Birds¡± are stealing hub-caps and acting tough and their gum-snapping, jacket wearing ¡°Pink Ladies¡± are looking hot in bobby sox and pedal pushers.
The 1950s high school dream is about to explode in this rollicking musical that is both an homage to the idealism of the fifties and a satire of high schoolers¡¯ age-old desire to be rebellious and provocative.
At the heart of the story is the romance between hot-rodding Danny Zuko and the sweet new girl in town, Sandy Dumbrowski. They had a secret romance in the summer, but now back in the context of school, peer-pressure and cliques make their love a bit more complicated. Can Danny maintain his cool dude status and still get make demure Sandy his girl? The whole gang sings and dances around Danny and Sandy¡¯s romance, through such hit songs as "Greased Lightnin'", "We Go Together¡±, ¡°Summer Nights¡±, and ¡°You¡¯re The One That I Want¡±. recalling the music of Buddy Holly, Little Richard and Elvis Presley that became the soundtrack of a generation. Starting off with an eight-year Broadway run, Grease is among the world¡¯s most popular musicals and has a cult-like following of young and old alike.
Grease Character Breakdown
Sweet, wholesome, innocent and pure. She is new to the school and starts out shy.
The leader of the ¡°T-birds¡± good looking, cool, strong, confident and charming.
Leader of the Pink Ladies. She¡¯s tough, sarcastic and outspoken but vulnerable.
Second in command of the boys, tough, avoids any show of softness. Off-beat sense of humor.
Full of mischief but good-hearted, he¡¯s the clown of the group, ¡°anything for a laugh¡± type.
Member of the T-Birds. Sometimes referred to as a ¡°knucklehead¡±.
Youngest of the guys. They are boyish, open and have a hero-©\worship attitude toward the others.
Pretty. fashionable. Looks older than she is, tries to act ¡°sophisticated,¡±
doesn¡¯t always succeed.
Dreamer, good natured, dumb. Fussy about appearances.
Drops out of school to be a beautician.
Loud and funny with the girls, shy around the boys.
Slightly awkward and loves food and TV.
Head cheerleader. Overly enthusiastic and perky. Loud, confident, sweet and extremely chatty.
The class nerd. Smart beyond his years. Class valedictorian.
Slick, loud, greaser who leads a rock n¡¯ roll band and thinks he¡¯s a rock legend.
Distinguished dancer and Danny¡¯s ex-girlfriend. Got kicked out of Rydell
A strict, old-school Principal. She¡¯s been at the school longer than anyone and it shows. Gender: female
¡°Teen audience¡± radio disc jockey. Slick, egotistical, fast©\talking and smooth.
¡°Frankie Avalon¡± type. Good looks, great voice. He is Frenchy¡¯s guardian angel.Gender: male
Ensemble includes students, angels, and teachers.
The casts in both shows primarily consists of teens and adults, however, there are a limited number of spots for younger children in ¡°Hairspray.¡±
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A stop sign is a traffic signal that instructs vehicles to come to a halt before continuing. It’s a red octagon with the word “STOP” written in white lettering on it. They are typically located at crossroads where two or more directions of traffic converge, but they can also be found in other places, such as driveways and school crossings.
Running a stop sign is a moving violation that can result in a fine, points on your license, and higher insurance premiums. It may potentially result in an accident in some situations.
The laws are strictly enforced in Illinois to safeguard the safety of all road users. Drivers must come to a complete halt at a stop sign, ceding the right of way to other cars and pedestrians. A traffic consequence and a ticket can follow for failing to acknowledge it. It is critical to understand these regulations to avoid potential penalties and fines.
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Egypt’s President Mohammed Mursi is set to review a controversial draft constitution on Saturday amid rival rallies that will kick off following afternoon prayers, the Muslim Brotherhood said.
The marches of “Islamist and nationalist revolutionary forces” will set off from mosques in Cairo and head for al-Nadha square, said the Freedom and Justice Party, the Brotherhood’s political wing.
The protests were originally to be held in Tahrir Square, the scene of vast anti-Mursi demonstrations on Friday, but the location was changed to avoid confrontation, the Brotherhood said.
Tens of thousands of protesters marched in Cairo on Friday calling for the dissolution of a dominated panel that approved the draft charter earlier in the day, and condemning “dictatorial Mursi”.
This comes as anti-Mursi protesters again gathered in Tahrir Square early on Saturday.
The charter has taken center stage in the country’s worst political crisis since Mursi’s election in June. It is expected to go to a popular referendum within two weeks.

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Miley Cyrus is hard at work on her next album - even though she JUST dropped her "Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz" CD for free the night she hosted the 2015 MTV VMAs.
MILEY CYRUS THROWS SHADE AT TAYLOR SWIFT'S GIRL SQUAD!
Miley shared the snap below of herself working on new tunes with her guitar, posting, "Celebratin this free music droppin #mileycyrusandherdeadpetz by workin on da next one lol 💖 www.mileycyrusandherdeadpetz.com"
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Aberrant regulation of WNT/β-catenin signaling has a crucial role in the onset and progression of cancers, where the effects are not always predictable depending on tumor context. In melanoma, for example, models of the disease predict differing effects of the WNT/β-catenin pathway on metastatic progression. Understanding the processes that underpin the highly context-dependent nature of WNT/β-catenin signaling in tumors is essential to achieve maximal therapeutic benefit from WNT inhibitory compounds. In this study, we have found that expression of the tumor suppressor, phosphatase and tensin homolog deleted on chromosome 10 (PTEN), alters the invasive potential of melanoma cells in response to WNT/β-catenin signaling, correlating with differing metabolic profiles. This alters the bioenergetic potential and mitochondrial activity of melanoma cells, triggered through regulation of pro-survival autophagy. Thus, WNT/β-catenin signaling is a regulator of catabolic processes in cancer cells, which varies depending on the metabolic requirements of tumors.


China is building a supercomputer equipped with a top-tier processor and other key elements, making it the fastest in the world. The prototype of the first exascale supercomputer, dubbed Tianhe-3, is expected to be completed early next year.
The next-generation supercomputer would be capable of doing a quintillion calculations per second. This means it is 10 times faster than the Sunway TaihuLight, China's first supercomputer powered with a home-grown processor.
For a comparison, Sunway TaihuLight can make 125 quadrillion calculations per second. Tianhe-1, the country's first supercomputer developed in 2009 currently performs 1,400 assignments per day, including solving problems from "stars to cells".
"Its computing power is on the next level, cementing China as the world leader in supercomputer hardware," Meng Xiangfei, the director of application at the National Super Computer Tianjjin Centre told the China Daily adding, it would be available for public use and "help us tackle some of the world's toughest scientific challenges with greater speed, precision and scope".
Tianhe-3 would be developed entirely in China. It would be stationed in Tianjin and begin operating by 2020; earlier than US' exascale supercomputer.
The new supercomputer would be able to analyse smog distribution on a national level, whereas the current models can only handle district-level detection. Meng said it can even simulate earthquakes and epidemic outbreaks thoroughly. Additionally it can also analyse gene sequence and protein structures at unmatched speed.
Shanghai news outlet, The Paper quoted Liu Guangming, director of the National Super Computer Tianjin Center as saying that Tianhe-3 will generate over CN¥10bn ($1.49bn, £1.16bn) in benefits per year.
Alongside Tianhe-3, China is also working on another exascale supercomputer. "Such machines take years to make and typically are retired in six to eight years, so you always need a backup, especially when your older models are overworked," Meng added.


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When any government claims they’re here to help you, check your pockets to make sure your wallet is still there.
When this Liberal government says it cares about your mental health – a problem they intentionally manufactured with two straight years of 24×7 COVID fear porn – you know the opposite is true.
So, my gun owning friends, if you value your Possession and Acquisition License (PAL) or your Restricted Possession and Acquisition License (RPAL), avoid the government of Canada’s Pocketwell app like the plague.
“This app offers free support for mental health and substance use concerns, funded by the Government of Canada,” says the app’s download page.
The fact this app is promoted by Justin Trudeau personally should be all the warning you need.
Am I saying this app is designed specifically to target gun owners?
Nope. Not for a second.
I am saying the PocketWell App is one more tool this Liberal government will use against you simply because it can.
I’m all for mental health and for people getting the help they need.
In fact, that’s precisely why I created The 2-Minute Freedom Challenge – to help my family, my friends and the people I care about most learn how to use gratitude, love, joy and compassion to overcome all the fear, shame, isolation and division our government bombards us with daily.
But the government’s Pocketwell app – more specifically the data collected by the government’s Pocketwell app – will be used against you when it comes time to renew your PAL or RPAL.
Bill C-71 gave the RCMP the power to review your entire life history, including your posts on social media and any other means available to the government (like data from this app), when it comes time to renew your firearms license.
If you believe the government of Canada will not use this information against you, well, my first encouragement is for you to open your eyes to what’s going on all around you.
My second encouragement is for you to watch any of my 2-Minute Freedom Challenge videos and do what I suggest.
If you are a licensed firearm owner in need of assistance, there are a multitude of options open to you that don’t include installing a government monitoring device on your phone.
- Use those local options, if you need help.
- Reach out to a friend.
- Let someone you trust know you’re struggling.
But do not trust this Liberal government to have your best interests at heart.
If the past two years have proven anything, it’s that Justin Trudeau and this Liberal government hates you, hates your guns and will do anything to remove them from your hands.
This Liberal government refuses to fix our broken Firearm Prohibition Order system, as evidenced by the 34 repeat offenders were arrested charged with 77 counts of violating an existing Firearm Prohibition Order so far in January 2022.
This Liberal government reduced criminal penalties for violent criminals committing offences with illegally-possessed guns – while insisting licensed firearm owners and their legally-owned guns are the problem.


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A top team of executives is leaving Twitter as soon as today. The company is losing its VPs of media, engineering and product development, while hiring a new head for its PR division.
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Why do people hate that I'm so accurate?
On a lot of subjects I know the answers to them, I often correct people when their wrong. And yes I know it's upsetting to be wrong but when ever I'm wrong I don't act like everyone around me, sure my voice sounds a bit angry but their voice is full on angry but it's like they hold it in at the same time. I mean, I feel like I'm making more people get mad then when they make me mad. I don't mean to make them so upset it's just I want people to know what is right instead of what is wrong. I act about accuracy as a posed to neatness, say someone saw a picture frame that was a little off they would keep thinking about it until something was done about it. I'm just like that if someone says something wrong I hold it in until I can't take it anymore and I just have to tell them their wrong and what the right answer is. my question is why do people hate it when I'm so accurate?

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Non Qualified Mortgage Products – blogarama.com – Updated Jan, 2016 Non qualified Mortgage products are being announced by lenders frequently in today’s mortgage marketplace. Many lenders have turned to releasing non-qualified mortgage products as a way to service borrowers that need mortgages but don’t qualify for qualified mortgages.
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A non-QM loan is any loan product that doesn’t meet the standards of a qualified mortgage. The difference is that non-QM lenders have more flexibility in underwriting guidelines to work with borrowers whom "vanilla" lenders deem too risky, says Raymond Eshaghian, president of GreenBox Loans in.
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England’s cricket team has discarded over 100 years of tradition and finally moved with the times by liquidating the role of national selector and giving the responsibility for picking squads to the head coach.
It means Ed Smith, the national selector, will be made redundant at the end of the month and coach Chris Silverwood will now have the final say on the make-up of squads for England’s red and white-ball teams.
The move is the most radical shake-up in England’s management structure for 122 years, with teams having previously been picked by committee since 1899.
Many would say it is a long overdue move and they’d be right. Football dispensed with selection by committee when Alf Ramsey took over as England manager in 1963.
Up until now, the nation’s cricket squads had been selected by consensus, with Smith heading a quartet of decision-makers that included his deputy James Taylor, Silverwood and the respective captains of England’s Test and white-ball teams, Joe Root and Eoin Morgan.
From now on, cricket will be dragged into the 21st century, with Silverwood ultimately being judged on selection calls even if the composition of the actual playing XIs for each match will still be the result of consultation with the captains.
Smith was appointed national selector in early 2018 by then director of cricket Andrew Strauss and has had some success, notably his decision to recall Jos Buttler to the Test team the same summer. Other decisions, notably to persevere with Joe Denly, a stalwart at Smith’s former county Kent, were less celebrated.
As part of the restructure, Taylor will be kept on but is now head scout as opposed to a selector. Mo Bobat, a man who most outside of the England & Wales Cricket Board have never heard of but whose position as men’s performance director has seen him wield an increasing amount of power, will also aid Silverwood’s selection calls.
The restructure is a bold but welcome call and credit must go to Ashley Giles, England’s managing director of cricket, for instituting the long-overdue change.
“The current process of selecting England teams has been in place for over 120 years,” said Giles.
“Even though this system has its merits, with advances in technology and a greater information gathering resource at our disposal than ever before, the restructure is in the best interests of helping England men’s teams be successful.
“The new structure also makes lines of accountability much clearer, with Chris Silverwood, as head coach, taking ultimate responsibility for picking England senior men’s squads.”
The departure of Smith will not be mourned by many, particularly the players, with many feeling he took far too much of a hands-on involvement in day-to-day activities when turning up for training days before Test matches and being present for long stretches of overseas tours.
“It has been a huge privilege to work with great people trying to help England cricket,” said Smith.
“The role of national selector has been enjoyable and rewarding, and that is significantly due to my interaction with all of the England players.”
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American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau and British tenor Ian Bostridge combined poetry and classical music to kick off the second concert of the 2019-20 Candler Concert Series. With about 350 people in attendance, the innovative performance left a strong and touching impression on the audience.
The Oct. 18 concert was performed in two parts. During the first part, Mehldau and Bostridge presented “The Folly of Desire,” a musical composition based on famous poems by William Blake, William Butler Yeats and William Shakespeare. The second part was their performance of the traditional song collection “Dichterliebe” (“The Poet’s Love”) by Robert Schumann. These two halves of the evening were united by a common theme — human love and adoration — since all of the poems and the lyrics related to confessions of love.
This special art form of singing poems rather than reciting them afforded the performers more artistic freedom to interpret and express the emotions of the verses. During the concert, Bostridge controlled the pace, pitch and tone of each word, and used hand gestures and facial expressions to emphasize certain phrases. This method was particularly impressive for Shakespeare’s Sonnet 147 and Sonnet 75; Bostridge extended the last two words of each line in Sonnet 147, while he shortened the last two words of Sonnet 75. These techniques added a layer of depth and interpretation to the music.
The poems progressed through a certain order, from the lower bodily desire to higher spiritual love. The poem “the boys I mean are not refined” by E. E. Cummings plays with crass words like “tit,” “masturbate” and “piss.” The poem was even originally declined for publishing. The vocal presentation of the poem was a rejection of elitist publishing standards. Bostridge and Mehldau performed in an honest and truthful artistic manner, presenting this language authentically and maintaining the more subtle expressions of other poems as well. Cumming’s poem was followed with Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” which was stylistically full of grandeur and elegance. The eloquence helped create a didactic tone, while verses like the ones from Blakes’ “The Four Zoas” sounded more inspirational: “Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy.”
The performance continued with Schumann’s “Dichterliebe,” a song comprised of several smaller German songs that are tangentially related to each other in their expressions of the feelings of a sorrowful lover. As shown in the translation of the concert program, the words used in these songs were often simple, but the emotions they generated, with the help of vocals and music, were surprisingly powerful.
Because of the enthusiasm from the audience, Bostridge and Mehldau performed three 20th-century blues songs as an encore to the performance.
By the end of the night, Bolstridge and Mehldau had delivered an extremely successful concert that took the audience into a complex journey of human love and compassion. Even more, the duo created a space for empathy and contemplation.


Joe Biden's announcement ended feverish speculation that increasingly consumed Washington
Biden decided against a White House run on Tuesday night
With barely 10 minutes warning, a press staffer yelled at shocked journalists and hustled them to the White House Rose Garden just before noon on Wednesday to witness an abrupt moment of history.
The ceremonial venue, the stolen glances at a teleprompter and word that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden would appear told the reporters all they needed to know.
Biden used the space reserved for the most ornate and somber presidential theater to announce he wasn’t running for President, suddenly ending the feverish speculation that increasingly consumed Washington.
This account of the swift and poignant end of Biden’s presidential prospects is based on interviews with multiple friends and aides of the Vice President. It illustrates the excruciating process he went through over the past several months to determine whether he could mount a winning campaign after the death of his eldest son this summer and take on front-runner Hillary Clinton. And it shows that for all the groundwork Biden appeared to be laying, his decision not to run seemed to come suddenly.
Biden told the gathered reporters on Wednesday that he had already warned – in a soul-bearing interview with Stephen Colbert’s show – that his family’s grief over the loss of Beau Biden could cause his window for a credible White House run to close.
“I’ve concluded it has closed,” Biden said simply before a clutch of senior administration officials including national security advisor Susan Rice and White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, who were hurriedly rounded up to witness Biden end his presidential dreams.
But Biden’s broad outreach to a lifetime of political allies and associates in recent weeks left many convinced he would indeed mount an unlikely bid to become the oldest man ever elected president. Just this week, Biden reinforced that impression by staking out political ground, jabbing Clinton and sharpening rhetoric that seemed to augur a run.
A senior Biden aide confided that the vice president only made his final decision on Tuesday evening as the clock raced towards filing deadlines and milestones on the road to early nominating contests that he could no longer ignore.
Ultimately, according a source familiar with Biden’s thinking, the Vice President became hung up on a couple of key points.
First: The emotional marker Biden laid in his Colbert appearance – one of the most heart-rending and honest glimpses into a politician’s pscyhe in years – was so heavy that it was tough to argue his family was ready for a run.
“It’s kind of hard to pivot out of that,” the source said.
And Biden also took the warnings of James Clyburn, the South Carolina congressman he deeply respects, who told the Huffington Post this week that he would not advise him to get into the race.
Given the strength of Clinton and surprise endurance of Bernie Sanders in Iowa and New Hampshire, the Palmetto State would be the place where Biden would plant his flag in early states to grab political momentum.
In a way, the relentless media coverage of a potential Biden run for president seemed to outpace the veteran politician’s own deliberations, which did not only center on his grieving family’s emotional health.
’He wanted to run’
“I don’t think he ever got to the point where he would justify the risk of doing this,” said the source familiar with Biden’s thinking. “It’s clear he wanted to run, as we all know, but the reality of it was too tough. He knows what the realities of a campaign demands.”
Still, another source close to Biden said that the Vice President enjoyed the process of working through his options immensely, and in a way, his deliberations turned into therapy as he recovered from his loss. But some of the media coverage, which he read voraciously, aggravated him and he was especially infuriated by reports that he was not genuinely taking a serious look at a run.
When it came down to it, however, the political omens were always daunting.
Biden well understood Clinton’s vigor and toughness, the narrowness of his own potential path to the nomination – and the fact that presidential campaigns just can’t be built in a couple of months.
“This was a hard decision for him,” a senior administration official said, stressing that Biden only made one firm decision – not to run for president – and did not vacillate between jumping in and staying out, possibly in an attempt to debunk “Hamlet on the Potomac” scenarios which suggested a hesitating Vice President was paralyzed by indecision.
Some days, Biden felt bullish on the possibilities and on others he didn’t, a close associate said, comparing the vice president’s mood to high and low tide.
The senior official said that Biden concluded there was simply not sufficient time left to raise enough money, to establish a political organization and to do what the vice president loves and does best, wooing crowds with his zeal for retail politics.
Not a mirage
Still, the potential campaign was not a mirage. The vice president had asked advisers to consider likely scenarios should he get into the race as well as to make contact with operatives who would be prepared to staff up a campaign.
That would explain why so many people honestly believed that Biden was set on an opposite course to the one he adopted in the Rose Garden.
One person fooled was Rep. Brendan Boyle who had previously tweeted that he was sure Biden would make the race.
“I’m very surprised. Clearly something changed from this weekend till today. I have new found sympathy for reporters!” Boyle said after Biden’s speech.
There’s a certain irony to the fact that Biden, one of the most notoriously loose-lipped men in Washington, managed to keep his thinking so locked down.
In fact, the vice president had been surprised that his 2016 hopes ever inflated. He never seriously considered a third presidential bid until after the death of Beau, who reportedly pleaded with his father to make one final run for president.
“The whole thing kind of caught him off guard from the start,” said the source familiar with Biden’s thinking.
At the same time, Clinton’s slump in the polls over the summer, as she struggled to contain the furor over her personal email use during her tenure as secretary of state, raised the specter that the Democratic Party’s vaunted front-runner could implode – and thus open the way for Biden as Obama’s heir apparent.
“That turned what was always perceived as a far-fetched idea into a possibility,” the source said.
Clinton called Biden after his speech, her communications director Jennifer Palmieri told CNN. But there was no sense in the vice president’s remarks that he was yet ready to fall into line and endorse her.
There was a tantalizing glimpse on Wednesday of the campaign that might have been.
With a wistful Obama at his side, Biden mounted a fierce defense of the administration’s legacy and left no doubt that it should anchor the 2016 presidential campaign.
“I believe that President Obama has led this nation from crisis to recovery, and we’re now on the cusp of resurgence,” said Biden.
“I’m proud to have played a part in that. This party, our nation, will be making a tragic mistake if we walk away or attempt to undo the Obama legacy,” warning that Democrats must battle for the middle class and combat what he said were “unsustainable” levels of economic inequality.
Biden’s call for free college education, for the wealthy to pay more in taxes, and warning that America must avoid open ended military excursions abroad hinted at a narrative in Obama’s own image.
And the vice president had a veiled warning for Clinton, again implicitly rebuking her for her remark in the Democratic debate on CNN last week that Republicans were her enemies.
Partisan politics, he cautioned, were ripping the United States apart. “It’s mean spirited, it’s petty and it’s gone on for much too long.”
Affection for Biden
Though many in Obama’s White House feared the consequences of a Biden presidential campaign, both for his own legacy and their hopes that Clinton can secure a political inheritance from Obama, there is no doubting the affection in which the vice president is held.
After sometimes becoming irritated by Biden during his 2008 run, and the vice president’s penchant from gaffes and volcanic verbosity, Obama came to deeply trust and appreciate his loyal subordinate. That bond burst into the open when Obama placed a kiss on Biden’s cheek after delivering a moving eulogy at Beau Biden’s funeral this summer.
So there will be some relief in the West Wing that Biden will not face the indiginities of what could have been a futile White House run.
And after a career bracketed by tragedy – after the death of his wife and infant daughter after he was elected to the Senate in 1972 – and the loss of Beau this year, some will take solace that Biden has now arrived at some inner peace.
He said he will fill the inevitable void left by the end of his White House apirations with a new challenge – what he called a “moonshot” to find a cure for cancer – in honor of his son, while putting the capstone on the Obama agenda.
“Now, all he has to do is find the energy and strength to do it,” a person close to Biden said. “And I believe he will.”


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By Kevin Robinson-Avila
Albuquerque Journal, N.M.
WWR Article Summary (tl;dr) “Team accelerator”, created by the Albuquerque engineering firm Team Technologies Inc. is helping startups turn new hardware ideas into minimally viable products. It recently received a $275,000 grant from the city to work with local startups.
A novel skullcap to monitor sports-related head injuries may soon be ready for mass manufacturing with help from Albuquerque’s newest business accelerator.
Team Accelerator, which launched in February to help local startups design and build new hardware, is now working with its first six companies to turn ideas or initial prototypes into marketable products.
Pressure Analysis Co., which is developing University of New Mexico technology for real-time monitoring of sports-related blows to the head, already has a hand-built prototype of its new “SmackCAP.” As a graduate of the ABQid business accelerator, the company has also done extensive market research to demonstrate customer demand.
Now, Team Accelerator will help turn the company’s initial device into one ready for mass production, said company co-founder Lori Upham.
“They’re helping us go from something built by hand to something that’s manufacturable on a large scale,” Upham said. “That’s a huge step that’s very hard to do without assistance. Team Accelerator has the engineering capability and facilities to help us take this next step.”
The accelerator, created by the Albuquerque engineering firm Team Technologies Inc., received a $275,000 grant from the city to work with local startups. Unlike the city’s other accelerators, which generally impart skills to accelerate a company’s path to market, Team Accelerator is helping startups turn new hardware ideas into minimally viable products.
The Albuquerque engineering firm has amassed extensive infrastructure over 30 years of contract work with government and commercial entities. That includes a 36,000-square-foot engineering facility at the Sandia Science and Technology Park for precision machining, 3-D printing, metrology, and electronics development and manufacturing.

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Looking cool and sparkly blue, this summer dress is perfect for that beachy occasion. That's beachy, not the other word. You're too cool for that so let that beautiful part about you stand out.
- Fabric: Jersey(95% polyester and 5% spandex)
- Regular fit
- Spaghetti straps, v-neck, adjustable shoulder straps are not customizable
- Fabric weight: 180g/m²
- Care Instruction: Machine washes cold with similar colors, do not bleach, tumble dry low, do not iron, do not dry clean.


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Globalization and an increasingly interconnected world we live in takes its toll on our homes. Whether you are an avid traveler or simply dream of being one, creating a worldly home that reflects oriental, African or Indian influences is easier than ever before. Displaying keepsakes from our travels and trips gives us a unique opportunity to cherish the moments we spend away from home. But for those who don’t travel so often or simply can’t exceed their baggage allowance, elements full of global chic are only a few clicks away.
Works of art, handmade pieces, exotic textiles, natural materials and bold pattern rugs can add an international air in our homes. Here are just a few examples that will create a home reminiscent of global travels.
Bold hues, gold accessories and the Asian-inspired console table with suitcases underneath offer so much cultural interest. Any of these design elements is guaranteed to give your home a well-traveled look.
Wool, silk, cotton, and linen interlocked and dovetailed tapestry bring the unfathomable richness of the oriental world inside. If you aim for a bohemian and exotic style, mixing patterns and colors can be your best option. It lends a space a sense of travel especially if you pick vivid geometric patterns so prevalent in Asian and Indian designs.
Most of our rugs are rich in elements that present a globalized world. They feature details from across the globe and most especially tell the fascinating story of the profound influence of Asia. This marvelous art Deco rug from China shows a mixture of Chinese prototypes – birds and flowers and even a mythical creatures.
This exquisite antique Indian rug is another piece what will infuse your home with global character and charm.
If you prefer lighter and subtler patterns, Moroccan rugs are a great alternative. They are versatile and easy to coordinate with a variety of styles.
View more of unique rugs to bring the exotic and global look to your home.


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Varicose Veins Intervention
For most people with varicose veins, either an abnormal vein in the thigh (the great saphenous vein) or an abnormal vein behind the knee (the small saphenous vein) or both, are responsible for the development of the varicose veins. Unlike the bulging varicose veins, these veins are usually not visible and are examined using ultrasound. Therefore successfully treating varicose veins not only requires removal of the visibly abnormal bulging veins, it also requires removing or closing off these aforementioned veins which are the cause.
Ligation and Stripping procedures: This was the ‘classic’ operation for varicose veins, requiring a surgical incision and dissection in the groin or sometimes behind the knee, ligating or ‘tying off’ the problem vein in the groin or at the back of the knee, and removal (or stripping) of the great saphenous vein from the body. These procedures though sometimes still the best treatment option, are largely replaced now by Endovenous Thermal Ablation procedures, which are associated with less risk of nerve damage and infection, and less post-operative pain.
Endovenous Thermal Ablation Techniques: This encompasses Endovenous Laser Ablation (EVLT) and Endovenous Radiofrequency Ablation (RFA). With these techniques heat energy is applied to the lining of the saphenous vein (great or small or both), damaging the vein irreversibly, so that it blocks off and does not open again. These techniques are minimally invasive, performed through a needle hole or tiny skin incision. Comparing Endovenous Laser Ablation (EVLT) and Endovenous radiofrequency ablation (RFA),both treatments are similarly effective and have similar risks of complications (1-2%).
Sclerotherapy: This can be effective treatment for large varicose veins, but is more commonly used for smaller veins and thread veins (spider veins). A special liquid known as a sclerosant is used neat, or mixed with air, and is injected into the vein. This damages the lining of the vein causing the vein to become permanently blocked, eventually shrinking and becoming scar tissue. Smaller veins or residual varicose veins present following other treatment are best treated by sclerotherapy.
Avulsions: This refers to the removal of varicose veins though small skin incisions (microphlebectomy). Often a long length of vein can be removed through a single tiny incision, but usually multiple small incisions are made. Although occasionally performed as an independent procedure, avulsions are usually performed at the same time as the ligation and stripping procedure or the endovenous thermal ablation procedure.
Anaesthetic: Most varicose veins procedures can be performed under local anaesthetic, with shorter hospital stay and fewer risks. These are typically sclerotherapy procedures or Endovenous Thermal Ablation procedures or both.
Ligation and Stripping operations with avulsions, or Endovenous Thermal Ablation procedures with avulsions are usually performed under general anaesthetic, though still as day case procedures.

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WASHINGTON, DC – (RealEstateRama) — On Wednesday, Mayor Bowser will hold a press conference to give an update on DC statehood. The Mayor will also release the final report from the DC Housing Preservation Strike Force, an 18-member panel charged with recommending an action plan to preserve the District’s existing supply of affordable housing.
The 28-page report outlines a proactive strategy for preserving affordable housing units in Washington, DC by 2020. During the press conference, Mayor Bowser will also announce the winners of 13 projects that will produce or preserve more than 1,200 affordable housing units across the District as part of DC’s Housing Production Trust Fund.
Wednesday, November 9 at 11 am
Mayor Muriel Bowser
Brian Kenner, Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development
Polly Donaldson, Director of Department of Housing and Community Development
DC Housing Preservation Strike Force Members
John A. Wilson Building
Mayor’s Press Briefing Room (G9)
1350 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
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*Bus Lines: 32, 34, 36*
LaToya Foster (EOM) – (202) 727-5011;
Gwendolyn Cofield (DHCD) – (202) 657-8489;


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In the streets of Barcelona, Spain, the word barí
is also the name that alternative combo Ojos de Brujo
("Eyes of the Wizard") gave to its second album before critics all over Europe began using the same word to describe the songs on it. Shiny and pure like a gemstone, Barí
combines passionate flamenco guitars and cantes
over hip-hop's funky beats. Since the album's 2004 release, the nine-member group has evolved into an international phenomenon, blowing up at this year's South by Southwest festival and igniting crowds from London to Japan. Ojos has also evolved the descriptor it gives to its sound. Jip-jop flamenkillo
is a term that better evokes the music's modernized traditionalism and border-crossing appeal. The band makes a stop in Miami this week for the second time in two years; on its next pass, it'll probably have another word and an even deeper grasp of its ever-shifting style.


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TLDR: Experiment with all the placements if you’re not sure which suits your face best. You’ll find the one you like best over time.
I’ve been a makeup artist for 8 years now, mainly focusing on bridal makeup. I absolutely love how makeup can transform faces with just a bit of know-how for what suits each face best. The good news? You only have one face, so you only need to figure out each know-how once, haha.
Over the years, I’ve discovered that everything we learned about makeup from 10, or even 5 years ago, doesn’t necessarily apply anymore. Rules have loosened, regular people like us now have access to professional tips and tricks, and products have vastly improved in every aspect. The makeup world has reached heavenly levels.
So when it comes to blush, don’t settle for the two-blotches-on-the-cheeks idea! Blush can do wonders to your makeup look, whether it’s the colour or finish (ie. warm/cool tones and matte/shimmery/satin finishes), or today’s how-to, blush placements. Let’s get into it:
- This style enhances naturally symmetrical faces, ie. if your face isn’t “too round/too long/too square/too short/etc”, this style will most likely suit you best.
2. This style looks fantastic on squarish or long, thin faces. You can experiment with how high or low it should be, but basically keep the blush in a horizontal line from the side of the nose to the bottom of the ear. Depending on your face shape, this line can be right on the cheekbone, just below the cheekbone (replacing contour powder), or even lower just above the jaw. Experiment with it until you find the perfect spot!
3. This is my current go-to since I’ve been wearing less makeup this year. Lightly go over the bridge of the nose, brushing down to the start of the cheeks. I recommend using a small blush brush for this look to avoid getting blush all over the center of your face. Start with a light hand and gently add blush if you feel like you need more. If you accidentally get too much on, use your foundation brush to pat/brush away the excess blush. This style looks great with a bit of highlight under the eyes – so fresh!
4. This style really blows my mind how well it suits rounder faces with high cheekbones, when paired with contour below the cheekbones. Stick to just a little sliver of blush, avoiding the area inside the triangle and you can be heavier-handed with the contour below the blush.
5. I use this style for clients with squarish wide faces, again pairing it with the right placement of contour (the ‘3’ shape is one good example of where to place the contour). This combo softens the face shape. Getting the right contour & blush colour is another key to success for this style.
6. If you have a short, round face, this style might be just the thing for you! Throw out all the outdated rules you know about blush and try placing your blush just below your cheeks. Placing the blush directly on your cheeks may take up too much precious space near your eyes, so placing it just below that keeps the focus on your eyes, and keeps the center of your face bright. Just a little bit of blush will do, curving up in a small checkmark shape right below the cheeks towards the ears. You can also pair this with contour at the very edges of face.
7. If you have very deep-set eyes or brow bones or if your features are very pronounced but you have a small face, this placement keeps your features neutral without drawing too much attention to any one feature. It “disperses” the focus to the overall face. Experiment with a satin highlight powder or brighter (usually reddish) concealer in the center of your face as well and you could hit the jackpot with this style.
I’m using Maybelline’s Fit Me Blush that gives me Nars blush dupe vibes. Especially the nude peach and gold rose shades hmmm macam yes?
Hope that helps! <3


Anyone in the United States, whether citizens or non-citizens, has the right to take legal action if subjected to police misconduct. Police misconduct can include a number of abusive actions ranging from discriminatory traffic stops and use of excessive force to coercive sexual conduct. If you experience Atlanta police misconduct, consult an experienced police misconduct lawyer about actions you can take.
The primary laws that allow civil recourse for police misconduct are Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the OJP (Office of Justice Programs) Program Statute. Both of these laws protect people against discrimination from state and local law enforcement agencies. Protection against police misconduct extends to either individual instances or patterns or practices of discriminatory conduct. The Department of Justice (DOJ) provides funding to state law enforcement and most local agencies. The DOJ enforces federal laws that govern state, county and local law enforcement officers, which include personnel working as prison guards in penitentiaries and jails along with federal law enforcement officers.
Examples of misconduct under these laws include:
Before bringing a lawsuit with the DOJ against police misconduct, you must file a complaint with the DOJ. The DOJ attempts to resolve police misconduct issues administratively before allowing a victim to pursue a lawsuit.
The Cochran Firm Atlanta helps clients fight police misconduct and receive compensation for damages. Arrange a free consultation to discuss your rights.
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