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As previously discussed, the rowing machine’s big advantage is that it provides more than just a cardio workout. It can definitely help you build muscle and lose weight. Compared to a treadmill, the rowing machine works most of your body. It will really hit your shoulders, core, quads, hamstrings, glutes, arms and back effectively while being low impact thus reducing the stress on your joints. Bigger muscles need more energy and will burn fat to get it, which of course leads to healthy weight loss.
Ergometer rowing machines (colloquially ergs or ergo) simulate the rowing action and provide a means of training on land when waterborne training is restricted, and of measuring rowing fitness. Ergometers do not simulate the lateral balance challenges, the exact resistance of water, or the exact motions of true rowing including the sweep of the oar handles. For that reason ergometer scores are generally not used as the sole selection criterion for crews (colloquially "ergs don't float"), and technique training is limited to the basic body position and movements. However, this action can still allow a comparable workout to those experienced on the water.
The First Degree Fitness Challenge AR (Adjustable Resistance) is designed and engineered by professional rowers and craftsman using only the highest degree of quality components – ensuring complete satisfaction in function, performance, and reliability. With its patented Fluid Technology, First Degree Fitness has incorporated the truest emulation of sensation, sight, and sound of real on-water rowing captured in the private setting of your own home.
The machine is well constructed for a consumer device. The control panel does not accurately measure distance. It's off tenfold. I've contacted the manufacture about the issue and first I was told it should only be used for comparison purposes, then I was told it would be too expensive to provide a product that didn't show 1 km as 0.1km. Yes, these are ridiculous excuses.
Most races that are held in the spring and summer feature side by side racing, or sprint racing, sometimes called a regatta; all the boats start at the same time from a stationary position and the winner is the boat that crosses the finish line first. The number of boats in a race typically varies between two (which is sometimes referred to as a dual race) to eight, but any number of boats can start together if the course is wide enough.
The Challenge AR has the capability to allow the rower to control and adjust the resistance from “Feather light” to “Olympic sprint” delivering a silky smooth resistance to the user’s effort and instantaneous response to input with no “flat sport”. With water resistance being the most accurate manner in which to simulate actual outdoor rowing, the Challenge AR provides a smooth and consistent sensation throughout the range of motion of the exercise experience.
The rowing machine itself is unlike any other on the market with its patented water filled flywheel. It is hard to exactly copy the action of a scull on the water, but the mechanics of the flywheel spinning in water comes in a close second on dry land. The fact that the water is 800 times denser than air means that there is no need for any extra resistance or dampening that you will find in normal air rowers. The faster you pull, the more resistance is generated giving it infinite variability. However, if you want to be able to practice rowing with a faster stroke, you will have to reduce the amount of water in the tank unlike an air rower where you just have to adjust the baffle.
WaterRower Dimensions: 83'' x 22'' x 21'' / Weight: 108 Lbs (At Minimum Water Level)Built For Light Commercial Use & Practically M...aintenance Free, Rowing Machine Targets All Major Muscle Groups (84% Of Total Muscle Mass) W/ Excellent Adjustable Resistance LevelsMade W/ Kiln Dried Harwood; Danish Oil & Urethane Finish For Better Wood Performance/Strength & Cozy Feel To Your GymBoasts A Patented Water Flywheel That Mimics The Natural Dynamics Of Rowing Yet Suitable For Users W/ Joint Concerns (Chlorine Tablet Is Available Free Of Charge)Enjoy 1 Year Manufacturer's Warranty (Upgradeable To 3-Year Parts While 5-Year Frame Is Free Of Charge W/ Registration)Comes W/ The S4 Performance Monitor For QuickStart Of Functions And Displays Intensity, Kcalories Per Hour, Strokerate, Heartrate, And More!Storage Dimensions: 21'' x 22'' x 83'' (Easily Store It On End)Entry Height Is At 12'' (At 20'' W/ Optional Hi-Rise Adaptor)Noise/Intrusion Levels: Soothing & Relaxing/Minimal read more
There is much to love about the WaterRower--and I do love it--but I would echo others' comments that although the seat rolls solidly and smoothly on the wood rails, the seat itself is very hard (I use a gel seat pad I bought for my hard fiberglass kayak seat), and the footpads are in need up rethinking and upgrading--the cheap plastic doesn't let you row in socks or barefoot and is not really worthy of a machine that is otherwise a stunning piece of engineering and a beautiful one as well. As one other person noted about his machine, my machine made a clicking noise on the return stroke, so I had to adjust the wheel underneath the top rail that connects to the footpad and pull it away gently from where it was rubbing against another component. Also, be warned: the instruction booklet is in the DVD case. I did not see the little sticker on the case telling me that, thinking I'd wait to watch the DVD until after I'd assembled it. But WaterRower has a copy of the assembly instructions on their website, along with a video (I found the written ones better and easier to follow), so I was able to assemble it with no difficulty.
The horizontal movement of the water when a wave passes is approximately equal to the up and down movement of the water. If you are on flat water and are parallel to waves made by a passing boat, your boat will move side-to-side as much as up-and–down as the wave passes under you. The side-to-side movement actually creates most of the difficulty in balancing the boat in such a situation. However, under typical conditions in the bay there can be such varied wave action that you can’t easily distinguish horizontal and vertical motion.
Unlike the 1445, the Elite Wave Water Rowing Machine includes an upgraded, high-end fitness monitor and a chest strap heart rate sensor. Programmed to sync seamlessly with the multi-function monitor, the data the sensor provides allows you to tailor your workout. For example, you can target a certain heart rate for weight loss or to increase endurance by adjusting your rowing speed and therefore, your rowing intensity. In addition to pulse, the multi-function monitor also tracks distance, time, calories burned, stroke count and strokes per minute to further motivate you during your rowing session. For further customization, users can also add or remove water using the included siphon to either increase or decrease the resistance.
The WaterRower Classic is handcrafted from solid American Black Walnut wood, finished with danish oil. The WaterRower's patented WaterFlywheel has been specifically designed to emulate the dynamics of a boat moving though water and is unsurpassed in its simulation of the physical and physiological benefits of rowing. WaterRower will not provide support or documentation for any product transported outside of the original country of purchase
Note: Some states do not allow limitations on how long an implied warranty lasts, so the above limitations may not apply to you. Some states do not allow the exclusion on limitation of incidental or consequential damages, so the above limitations or exclusions may not apply to you. This warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may also have other rights which vary from state to state.
According to fitness experts, water resistance is by far the most efficient technology used in a rowing machine, and the result is a realistic rowing experience that provides a better workout with smoother and more fluid rowing. These machines use a paddle that’s suspended in a tank of water, providing a realistic sensation of rowing outdoors. Extremely quiet running, as you row the only sound you’ll hear is the gentle splashing of water moving with each stroke, which serves to enhance the realistic experience of this style of rower.
Storage is also a plus point for the Waterrower series as they are all designed to stand upright with the tank acting as ballast for stability. In this position they only take up around two square feet. Again, great if you are planning on training in the living room. However, if you have small children, I would advise fixing the top to the wall with a hook and strap.
Rowing is unusual in the demands it places on competitors. The standard world championship race distance of 2,000 metres is long enough to have a large endurance element, but short enough (typically 5.5 to 7.5 minutes) to feel like a sprint. This means that rowers have some of the highest power outputs of athletes in any sport. At the same time the motion involved in the sport compresses the rowers' lungs, limiting the amount of oxygen available to them. This requires rowers to tailor their breathing to the stroke, typically inhaling and exhaling twice per stroke, unlike most other sports such as cycling where competitors can breathe freely.
In general, multi-boat competitions are organized in a series of rounds, with the fastest boats in each heat qualifying for the next round. The losing boats from each heat may be given a second chance to qualify through a repechage. The World Rowing Championships offers multi-lane racing in heats, finals and repechages. At Henley Royal Regatta two crews compete side by side in each round, in a straightforward knock-out format, with no repechages.
Outside of resistance type, we found the number-one arbiter of ride feel to be cord quality. Water ergometers tend to employ nylon cords, while air ergometers feature metal chains — a durability factor we anticipated would result in our favoring air. But while all three water rowers aced our expectation of smooth, high-tension strokes, perfecting the chain seems to be more difficult: Some tug with just a slight rumble, others feature bouncy, grinding chains that are incredibly loud, something akin to angry snoring. As for nylon, the best wind and unwind like elastic silk — no slack, no sound, no catching, just perfectly even tension throughout the stroke.


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McCulloch County Commissioners held a Special Session Thursday at 10am to consider and act on approving an inter-local agreement between the City of Brady and McCulloch County for Emergency Services.
The discussion began with County Judge Frank Trull indicating that from his standpoint, the situation is that an Inter-Local Agreement included a provision that it would automatically renew on September 1st of each year. And, Judge Trull notes that since the agreement had not been terminated by either part since 2020, the agreement was automatically renewed on the 1st of the month and there is a current inter-local agreement in place between the City and County.
Judge Trull also points out the agreement signed initially in 2020 specifies the County will pay the City 12 one-half percent of the EMS net operating costs. The Judge added that the County had increased that amount to 15% since then.
The judge said the City Council has proposed a new inter-local agreement with new terms and a change in the expiration date.
Also, Commissioners indicate they are not happy with what they refer to as a “take it or leave it” attitude by the Council and an unwillingness to negotiate the issue.
The Commission voted to take no action on the proposed agreement, with both parties continuing to operate under the terms of the current inter-local arrangement. At the same time, they will continue to review the proposal and seek to negotiate the issue with the City.
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WASHINGTON — As congressional conferees struggle with negotiating a budget resolution, the nation’s governors want more certainty about the federal budget and the amount of funds states will receive as well as more flexibility on how to spend that money, National Governors Association officials said.
“No matter what the outcome, more discretion under discretionary spending would be a great thing,” NGA executive director Dan Crippen told reporters Wednesday, adding, “The ability to adjust programs to meet state requirements, to meet state realities, would be a great thing.”
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters Thursday that if House and Senate budget conferees fail to reach a compromise on a budget resolution by Jan. 15 when the current continuing resolution expires, the House will be ready to vote on another CR containing Budget Control Act funding levels.
The BCA of 2011 established caps on federal discretionary spending through fiscal 2021, and if congressional appropriations do not stay within those limits, across-the-board spending cuts occur. The continuing appropriations act that expires on Jan. 15 has defense discretionary spending at an amount greater than the cap for fiscal 2014 and non-defense discretionary spending at an amount below the cap, NGA deputy director Barry Anderson said.
Republicans want to increase the amount of defense discretionary spending and Democrats want to increase the amount of non-defense discretionary spending. A lot of non-defense discretionary spending consists of grants to states, and it is possible that Congress will find a way to increase both types of spending while also offsetting the increases, Anderson said.
But what is of utmost importance for governors is for Congress to put something in place so that the governors can plan, Anderson said. Governors, currently working on their budget proposals and drafting their state of the state speeches, and will be mostly done with them by Jan. 15, Crippen said.
The NGA continues to be guided by four principles concerning deficit reduction, that: reforms be designed to produce savings for both the federal government and states; deficit reduction isn’t achieved by shifting costs to states or imposing unfunded mandates; states have increased flexibility so they can be more efficient; and Congress not impose maintenance-of-effort provisions on states as a condition of funding.
In addition to seeking more certainty and flexibility over federal funds, governors also want the online sales tax bill called the Marketplace Fairness Act to be enacted. NGA officials said they expect the act to pass the House soon. NGA deputy director of policy David Quam said he thinks it’s a good sign that House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte released principles about what he wants in a bill, rather than completely deciding against moving forward with online sales tax legislation. He also thinks there will be a hearing on this topic soon.
The Senate passed its version of the bill in the spring, and Quam said that he was encouraged by the large size of the majority of senators voting in favor of the bill.
“The discussions we’ve had, even in the House among members, and this is a sea change, they understand the issue,” Quam said. “They understand that this is now about jobs on Main Street.”
If the Marketplace Fairness Act becomes law, states may reduce their taxes. Some states have set income-tax rate reduction goals, and states don’t want to have higher taxes than neighboring states, Crippen said.
“It’s hard to cut rates, but states are still interested in doing that,” he said.
The NGA recently released a report about the costs of curbs or elimination to the tax exemption for municipal bonds and the deduction for state and local governments. The group is monitoring whether there will be additional action taken on tax reform before the year’s end, said NGA general counsel and staff director David Parkhurst.
States are collecting more in general funds since the recession, but federal contributions to states are declining. The chance that federal contributions will increase are minimal, Crippen said. He does not believe that Congress will raise the federal gas tax soon, and since gas-tax revenue is falling, less federal money is going to states for transportation infrastructure. As a result, states will have to be more responsible for funding projects and are raising their own gas taxes or are looking at innovative financing methods, Crippen said.


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Swallow Park Barn and Glamping is by the Norfolk Broads and just 2 miles from us. Also situated 3 miles from our site is the glorious golden sands of Gorleston beach. And in the other direction is Fritton Country Outdoor Activity Park (www.frittonlakeeoc.co.uk) ideal for friends and families to get outside and explore with Canoeing, Fishing, Rowing Dingles, Pedal Go Karts, Mountain Biking, Tree Climbing, Low Ropes, Bushcraft, Horse Riding around the lake. Try the Fritton Arms for lunch and a drink.
Thoughtfully designed and beautifully furnished, this luxury bolthole is the ideal base from which to explore. Spread your wings and venture further afield along the coast before returning to the luxury comforts that this property affords. Don’t forget to bring your pampered pooch along too – why should they miss out on such a treat!
This splendid retreat has been thoughtfully furnished to an exceptionally high standard, creating the ideal retreat for family to gather or couples looking for a romantic getaway
Benefitting from a quiet location you are able to enjoy being away from the hustle and bustle that comes with this popular seaside destination, yet still be within east access as only 3 miles away from Gorleston on sea a glorious beach
This property really is the perfect retreat!
Open Plan Lounge, Dining & Kitchen, awaits guests of swallow park, by coupling the edge-of-the-village location with comfortable, modern furnishing the owners have created a quiet sanctuary that all ages can enjoy.
The lounge is furnished with double sofa bed and large armchair centred around the wood burning stove and Widescreen TV making it the ideal place to retire to after a busy day out and about exploring Norfolk and Suffolk
A dining table for 4 people sits between the kitchen and the lounge. It is also placed perfectly for days when you are able to open the French doors to the enclosed back garden. For a nice spot to enjoy a paper and a coffee on a fine Spring morning, you could not do much better.
A well-appointed kitchen is situated next to the dining table, from here the chef of the day can easily participate in the other goings on while still being able to make sure that nothing is getting burnt!
- A fully fitted kitchen with everything that you my need (home from home) integrated gas & electric oven, microwave , kettle, Lavazza coffee maker (pods provided,)toaster, fridge and freezer. Belfast sink
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- Mezzanine is where you will find the gorgeous comfy Double bed with luxurious linen and fluffy towels
- The property offers a safe, enclosed back decking area with private hot tub, relaxed out door seating and gas bbq
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Access for All partners with Female Fusion Network to create opportunities for women entrepreneurs in the UAE
Female entrepreneurs in the UAE will benefit from the unique insight of much accoladed business expert Kate Hardcastle MBE in a new partnership with the UAE’s most engaged platform and community for women in business, Female Fusion Network.
Retail and business expert, Kate Hardcastle MBE, and her team from Insight with Passion (IWP) will be supporting Female Fusion members through their Access for All Programme which gives its time free of charge to support microbusinesses, start-ups, charities and community projects, who would otherwise not be able to access the expertise and experience that Insight with Passion offers.
With a combined community of 20,000 women business leaders, women running their own businesses and those looking to start a business in the UAE, Female Fusion offers networking, support, insight and education both online and face to face via their subscription membership – The Network by Female Fusion
Working globally, UK based Kate Hardcastle MBE is the founder of Insight With Passion, a business consultancy which has helped to rejuvenate businesses with a customer focus, and she is seen regularly on television as an expert commentator and presenter. The ‘Access for All’ initiative is designed to provide support and insight to SMEs on a pro-bono basis.
“The opportunities for women in business in the UAE have never been greater”, says Kellie Whitehead, Founding Partner, Female Fusion Network. “The country presents a fabulous eco-system for setting up and growth of female-founded enterprise. That said, we also know that there is a real need for further support, motivation and ways to market for ladies within our membership, after the year that we have all had, with many business owners forced to pivot, remain agile and face many unprecedented challenges. We are thrilled to be able to work with Kate Hardcastle MBE and the Access for All team to be able to provide fresh insight, advice and motivation to help our members push forward in achieving their business goals”.
A 2021 survey by UN Women and NAMA – Women Advancement Establishment, taken across women owned businesses in the UAE revealed that 63% respondents witnessed a drop in sales due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the UAE with an average decrease in revenue by 58%. However, to mitigate the risks, 43.1% shifted their services online while 37.9% have enabled remote working for employees.
The new partnership will see female entrepreneurs in the UAE benefit from a range of sector specific learning opportunities, both virtual and face to face, giving Female Fusion members a global perspective from some of the most knowledgeable experts on acquiring and retaining customers, clients and business, and what that looks like in the new Post-Covid consumer landscape.
Kate Hardcastle MBE said, “The UAE is a brilliantly progressive environment for small and micro businesses. With so many independent brands and retailers, many female owned, it’s never been more important to ‘shop and support local’. Working with a global insight within the UAE to help entrepreneurs really understand their market and opportunities is really exciting for us, and a perfect collaboration for Access to All to be able to work with Female Fusion members”
About Kate Hardcastle OBE:
Kate Hardcastle MBE is TV’s “Customer Whisperer”, a straight-talking UK consumer expert and multiple business award winner who strongly believes in the power the customer can wield to force change. Her aim is to help harness this power by bridging the gap between customers and the companies and organisations they deal with by putting a huge focus on a common sense approach. Kate is driven by her experiences working at the sharp end of retail, which included designing and creating market-leading products, devising marketing campaigns and buying and selling internationally – as well as working in Chinese factories and witnessing workers’ conditions for herself. Kate’s philosophy is to “do well by doing good,” meaning as a business you can still be profitable and have principles. To do this she feeds insight into the boardroom from the frontline, gleaned through tough conversations with leaders, employees, suppliers and customers. It is this inside knowledge and wealth of experience – plus an unusual career trajectory where she chose not to take the easy path and worked in all possible departments – that makes her an in-demand business expert as well as a sought after commentator on consumer/retail stories in the media, and sets her apart from her counterparts. Kate’s expertise has been featured in a range of TV shows including ITV’s Eat, Shop, Save, ITV’s Tonight, BBC’s Watchdog, Rip Off Britain and Inside Out, and she has been quoted and appeared frequently across the news media in print as well as on TV and radio.
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Female Fusion Network is the most dynamic and engaged association for female entrepreneurs in the UAE. Founded in 2015, as a platform for like-minded women in business, we now boast over 20,000 members across all nationalities, representing a myriad of industries within every sector. Female Fusion members enjoy the opportunity to network in person via events that cover both learning, sharing and social, from intimate focus groups to 250 women in business in one venue.

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The unique success story of Thonet began with the work of master carpenter Michael Thonet (1796-1871), which established the transition from manual furniture production to industrial production. Michael Thonet succeeded in making the breakthrough to industrial production in 1859 in Vienna with chair No.14, later called the „Vienna coffee house chair“, for which the innovative technique of bending solid beech wood was used. The individual production steps were standardized and the division of labor concept was implemented for the ﬁrst time in furniture production. In addition, the chair was easy to disassemble and could be shipped in a space-saving way. Chair No.14 cleared the way for Thonet to become a global enterprise, and numerous successful bentwood designs followed. Thonet’s production peaked in 1912: that year, two million units were produced and sold worldwide.
Tubular steel furniture is the second constant in Thonet’s product line. In the 1930s, the company was the world’s largest producer of this innovative furniture, which was designed by a number of famous architects including Mart Stam, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer. Today, the early tubular steel furniture designs are considered milestones in design history. Their clear, open and simple forms were an expression of a new attitude in every-day culture and architecture, which became famous under the catchphrase “New Objectivity”. Currently, numerous successful classic models are still in the product line, among them the ﬁrst cantilever chair S 33 for which Mart Stam was awarded the artistic copyright for its form and basic principle, as well as models S 32 and S 64 by Marcel Breuer.
The family company has its head ofﬁces in Frankenberg in the north of Hesse. Today, all bentwood and tubular steel classics as well as the contemporary collections are produced here in a facility with cuttingedge production equipment and a staff of workers with vast experience to draw upon. Thonet still develops innovative products that stand out due to their quality materials and timeless formal language and always take sustainability and durability under consideration.
We strive for a balance between profitable growth, protection of the environment, and responsible actions towards all shareholder groups. We base our actions on an integral view and sustainability combined with social responsibility. Our products are durable and do not harm the environment, neither in their production nor their recycling. New products are added to our portfolio only after a careful examination of the recyclability of the used materials, the share of machining and environmental friendliness, and the sustainability of the materials being used.

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I built this guitar from the plans of Antonio Torres (1864) who was one of the first ones to come up with a popular design what is now the classical guitar
This guitar has an amazingly loud bright and clear tone. The guitar itself is very light which is usually one of the traits of a good sounding acoustic guitar.
I made the top from quarter sawn Douglas Fir and the back is made of Mahagony. The fret board is black ebony.
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Copper Sulfide Ore Flotation Technologies Xinhai
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We’re glad to publish the official Resurrection Fest 2017 mobile apps. As usual, you will be able to enjoy its content without Internet (offline mode), English support, reminders for favourite shows, geo-location for places, among other things you told us to improve. We’ll keep posting and updating all the information about the festival, and do not forget to activate the Push notifications in order to receive all the news and announcements (delays, changes in the running order, signing sessions, etc.) immediately.
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A Republican legislative leader put Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle in the middle of the legislative impasse over the stalled state budget Thursday, saying Doyle should cancel his trade mission to China so he can devote those 12 days to budget talks.
I started to giggle when I read my own representative's reaction to the the call for Doyle to stay in Wisconsin:
Democrats on the committee said there was no need for Doyle to cancel his trip.
"You know, they have Internet in China," said Assembly Minority Leader Jim Kreuser (D-Kenosha). "They have telephones. (Doyle has) got staff here with hard delegation authority."Rep. Krueser is correct, China does have the internet and telephones, but...
If that is the case, Why take the trip in the first place?
Considering the huge deficit this state is running, can't the Governor just email or call China, instead of wasting thousands of our tax dollars?

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*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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To keep these bars soft, reduce baking time to about 8 to 10 min. 15 is too much. Remember if you are adding additional dry ingredients to substitute them for oats. There should be 2 cups dry ingredients total. If you add more dry(seeds, nuts, etc) you must also increase the wet (honey, pb).
My 4-star rating is based solely on taste they are yummy (and easy to make). However at 15 minutes in the oven they ended up "crunchy" and dried out. I followed the recipe except for adding a few mini chocolate chips and some chopped peanuts. I will make these again but I'll check them at about 7 minutes as I know they'll dry out/solidify once they're removed from the oven and cool. What I'm looking for is a granola bar that is somewhat soft but doesn't fall apart or crumble and I think that means less time in the oven. Nice recipe Naomi thanks for sharing.
I was low on granola bars and too lazy to go to the store so I searched and found this recipe. I have made it twice in the last week and it came out great both times. The first time I had no honey so I used molasses which was a strong flavor but tasty. The second time I used honey 1T. creamy PB and 1T. chunky PB and we liked them even better for the little added crunch of the nuts. My hubs prefers his granola bars crunchy so I pressed them very well then baked each batch for 15-16 minutes. I STRONGLY SUGGEST if you bake them to be crunchy you cut these bars fresh out of the oven. They will be sticky and I had to kind of press the bars back down along either side of the cut lines before leaving them to cool but after cooling they kind of just snapped apart in the pan but THEY STAYED INTACT IN THEIR BAR SHAPE. I cannot imagine how one could cut them into nice bar shapes if one waited for them to cool completely into crunchy bars but after cutting while warm it was easy. As an added bonus i just added any of the little bits that fell off into our cereal container so there was no waste. Love this recipe and the hubs was impressed at how "professional" they looked. I was impressed that now I can make granola bars that are preservative-free. Thanks for sharing.
It came out a crumbly mess, couldn't cut them. Tastes great, though and I'll use it to sprinkle on yogurt. I'll try again after I brush off my ego. This time I'll follow the recipe exactly, and if it comes out better I'll up my rating!
Great basic granola bar recipe. Tasty and easy. Came right out of the (greased) pan. I cut it twice - once while still slightly warm then I went over the lines again after it had cooled completely. Worked for me. Next time I may try adding cinnamon and raisins.
I used a couple of the reviewers suggestions for adding this and that. I too added 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, some sunflower seeds, finely chopped pecans, and some ground flax meal. I didn't know I had cranberries, but I'll make this again and add all those things plus the cranberries and some cinnamon. This is the second time I've made this recipe and followed the original recipe the first time. It was good, but I wanted to add more "texture" to it, thus the changes. I agree with the one reviewer who mentioned that this is a good basic recipe for granola. I've rated it 5 stars because the recipe was really good.
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Drivers urged to obey traffic laws
JAKARTA: Most drivers in the city have a complete lack of interest in traffic signs or laws, which is one reason for the heavy congestion on almost every road in Jakarta, an official at the South Jakarta Mayoralty said on Tuesday.
Head of South Jakarta's transportation agency, Nurbun Buntaraga, said that drivers, especially those of public transportation vehicles and trucks, also neglected the conditions of their vehicles, which often forced them to stop in the middle of roads to do repairs.
Public transportation vehicles often just stop anywhere to pick up passengers -- and rarely at actual bus stops -- thus harassing other motorists and causing traffic jams, he was quoted by city's official website beritajakarta as saying.
He urged the drivers to comply with the laws to reduce traffic congestion.-- JP


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A good-time vibe was almost palpable Saturday night at the “Big Ska Show” at the Grove of Anaheim. As the finale to the second year of the venue’s Locally Grown concert series, a stellar lineup of local acts — Save the Swim Team, Half Past Two, Chase Long Beach, Starpool, Suburban Legends and headliner Reel Big Fish — played to a nearly sold-out room of fans just looking to cut loose.
The crowed roared when RBF hopped on stage, and the homegrown sextet was clearly ready to bring the party. Opening with its hit single “Sell Out” led to fans hopping up and down, waving their hands and screaming back the lyrics at the top of their lungs. “Another F.U. Song” and “In the Pit” got the front tier of the venue simultaneously skanking and moshing.
Known for being part band, part comedy act, Reel Big Fish’s brand of adolescent humor has always been key to its shtick. But for one female fan the joking must have been too much to take, as she screamed in her friend’s ear loud enough so I could hear: “God, these guys are so immature!” Then she walked out to get a drink. Where did you think you were, lady? Obviously she’s a newbie.
Indeed, when vocalist/guitarist Aaron Barrett (pictured) asked the crowd to raise their hands if this was their first Reel Big Fish show, about a third of the audience put its hands in the air.
The setlist was filled with plenty of fan favorites — “Everything Sucks,” “I Want Your Girl to Be My Girl,” “Snoop Dog, Baby,” “She Has a Girlfriend Now” — plus covers, including Metallica’s “Enter Sandman,” a-ha‘s “Take on Me” and Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl.” (“If you were wondering why that song wasn’t as good as the rest of them,” Barrett said after that last cover, “it’s because we didn’t write it.”)
The group encored with multiple quick renditions of “S.R.,” testing the audience to see which style it was better at dancing to: a sped-up, straight punk version, a techno-ish dance rendition, a metal snippet and a countrified take that got the crowd to square dance. The finale, of course, was “Beer,” always a crowd-pleaser.
Suburban Legends also brought great energy to the show, never really slowing down to catch a breath, all members jumping around so much it seemed that their feet never even hit the ground. These guys have their choreographed moves down to a science, from synchronized hopping to organized arm-flailing. Vocalist Vincent Walker announced that a new album is coming shortly, and the band debuted a new song (I didn’t catch the title) in which guitarist Brian Klemm took the lead and Walker picked up guitar.
Anaheim-based Starpool, including ex-members of Save Ferris, really stole the show with a strong set, starting with “You Know You Want It.” Vocalist Alan Meade (a member of the earliest incarnation of No Doubt) has a commanding stage presence and a dynamite voice that shows off well on tracks like “New Light” and “Start Again.” Starpool also had the crowd going crazy at the end of its set via a super-fun cover of the Isley Brothers’ “Shout.”
Half Past Two and Chase Long Beach were great openers, setting the mood for the evening with their upbeat vibe; it also was good to see original vocalist Karen Roberts back fronting the latter band. Roberts left in December to pursue an acting career, and the group had picked up a new vocalist in time for its side-stage gig at the Bamboozle California at Angel Stadium in March. Whatever the case, Roberts knocked it out of the park here. Let’s just hope it’s a permanent return.
Photo of Reel Big Fish’s Aaron Barrett, from a 2008 Warped Tour stop in New Jersey, by Bryan Bedder, Getty Images.


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Until this point I have put any thoughts of my ePortfolio on the back burner. In part, because the re-purposing and re-mediation projects have been enough to think about, but also because I am not quite sure what I want the final product to look like. It’s easy to imagine what parts one and two of the project will look like in the end, but visualizing the greater ePortfolio is definitely more of a challenge. Do I want it to have a theme dictated by my re-purposing and re-mediation projects? If this were the case then my third artifact would have to somehow fit into the category of female empowerment or the consequences of beauty standards. Looking back at the work I have saved, I’m not sure anything fits that mold.
The chapter on “Drafting and Revising Your Project” made me think more specifically about the numerous steps that will help me take my individual pieces and create an online portfolio that presents them in a united front. Whether I have a central theme or no theme at all I will still need to consider the layout, visual elements, fonts, color schemes, and all of the other elements that contribute to a polished ePortfolio. I want my ePortfolio to be a representation of who I am, which is perhaps asking too much. Maybe instead I should try and make it representative of my values and interests. That would make choosing my third artifact easier, because it doesn’t have to explicitly relate to my re-purposing and re-mediation as long as it embodies something that is important to me.
The section of the chapter that discussed techniques on moving from a rough cut to a rough draft really got me thinking about how I want to make my ePortfolio interactive. One idea I have to make my re-mediation interactive (after I have finished the rough-cut and placed it on my ePortfolio) is to have a scroll-over feature that allows readers to view more in depth analysis of my artistic choices. For example if I have a subtitle on my magazine cover that says, “Find the sunscreen that’s right for you!” viewers can scroll over it and read a longer description of why I chose to say that. I think interactivity is a key element of an ePortfolio, because it engages the reader and helps them better understand your message. I’m excited to see where these thoughts and ideas take me.


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A native of the Egyptian city of Alexandria, Moshe Mizrahi—who died this month at the age of eighty-six—came to the land of Israel with his family just after World War II. In the 1950s, he moved to France and began writing film criticism, but did not direct his first movie, The Customer of the Off Season—about a French concentration-camp guard who takes refuge in Israel under an assumed identity—until 1970. Liel Leibovitz reflects on his career:
The film was well received, and was nominated for several prestigious awards, including the Golden Globe. A second film wasn’t as successful, and Mizrahi . . . decided it was time to go back to Israel and tell the stories he had always wanted to tell. For the most part, these stories were about women like his mother, resourceful and courageous and forced to provide for their families by themselves.
In 1972’s I Love You, Rosa, he told a story about a young widow bound by tradition to marry her late husband’s brother; because the boy is still young, however, she ends up teaching him how to become a respectful partner, and they end up forming a partnership that defies the confines of their patriarchal, religious society. The film was nominated for an Academy Award, as was Mizrahi’s follow-up, The House in Chelouche Street, based largely on the life of the director’s mother. In 1977, he finally won the award with Madame Rosa, based on the novel The Life Before Us by Romain Gary.
Israelis, however, were not impressed. Not only was Mizrahi’s Oscar-winning film French and therefore foreign, but the director’s work was out of step with the popular Israeli cinema of the time. . . . He continued to direct, but felt himself more and more at odds with the culture in both Israel and France. . . . [But his] cinematic legacy [is] very much worthy of a second look.


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Pets of the Week available for adoption at the Humane Society of Harford County include Goldie the rabbit, orange tabby cats Precious 1 and Precious 3 and American Pit Bull Terrier Mix named Ebony. The Humane Society includes pictures of all their available pets on their website. You can click here to see dogs, click here for cats and click here to see small animals. If you’d like to help the animals without adopting one, you can donate money for their care through the Humane Society’s website. You can visit them at www.harfordshelter.org. Click here to follow them on Facebook. Or call them at (410) 836-1090. The shelter is at 2208 Connolly Road, Fallston, MD 21047.
Small Critter of the Week – GOLDIE
Age: 2 years
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Adoption Fee: $50
Hi! My name is Goldie, and I am a 2-year-old handsome little guy who came to the shelter as a stray. I am very sweet and very cuddly with the cutest little white blaze on my forehead. I hope that you will stop by and visit with me. Perhaps I could go home with you? I look forward to meeting you soon!
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Age: 4 months
Breed: Domestic Short Hair
Adoption Fee: 2 for $95 (reduced from $95 each)
Hi! Our names are Precious 1 and Precious 3. We are orange tabby cats and we LOVE to play together. We are sure to entertain you with our antics and melt your heart with our cuteness! We’d love to be adopted together, but it’s not a requirement. We are both in the Lonely Hearts Club, which means our adoption fee is reduced by 50%, so we’re two for one!
Dog of the Week – EBONY
Age: 1 year
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Adoption Fee: $80 (reduced from $160)
Hello, my name is Ebony. I am a brown and white pit bull mix. I love to chew on my toys and the minute I see you I wag my tail. While I have been at the shelter, I have learned to sit for a treat and I am also learning to walk nicely on a leash. I have grown quite a bit since I have been here. I would make an excellent addition to your home. Please come and see me and give me a chance! Since I’ve been here for a while, I am a member of the Lonely Hearts Club, which means my adoption fee is reduced by 50%.

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'Mexican Judge' Curiel Will Rule On Deported DACA DREAMer CaseChris Menahan
Apr. 20, 2017
Girls Kicked Off DC College Campus For Wearing Trump Hat
Report: Bannon Eyes Starting Fox News Competitor
Baltimore: Robert E. Lee Statue Replaced With Statue of Pregnant Black Woman
Student Kicked Out Of College Over Silent Protest At Confederate Monument
US District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who Trump rightly said was biased against him due to his "Mexican heritage," is set to decide on the case of Juan Manuel Montes, the 23-year-old criminal illegal alien DREAMer who was deported despite allegedly being protected under DACA.
Judge Curiel is a member of the racist La Raza Lawyers Association and awarded illegal aliens with scholarships.
"La Raza" literally means "the race" in Spanish.
Seeing as how he strongly identifies as Mexican and is a member of an explicitly race-based advocacy group, the odds he will rule impartially on this case seem rather slim.
From USA Today:
President Trump will confront a familiar figure in the lawsuit over a DREAMer who was deported by federal immigration agents: U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel.As I said yesterday, Montes is a convict who has already cost US taxpayers potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars solely due to the years of special needs public schooling and taxpayer-subsidized college he has received.
He was convicted three times for driving without a license, the most recent time being just three months ago, and he was convicted of shoplifting just last year.
Montes is a grown adult now who now has a $200,000+ education he can use to his benefit in Mexico.
He should be thanking America rather than suing us.
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South Carolina travelers can breathe a sigh of relief. They won’t need a passport to board domestic flights after all.
The state has been granted an extension for becoming Real ID compliant through Oct. 10, 2018, the S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles announced Wednesday in a news release.
The extension means that those with current driver’s licenses and ID cards may continue to board domestic flights and enter federal buildings and military bases without a passport.
The agency expects to begin issuing Real ID-compliant cards during the first quarter of 2018 and should not need another extension, the news release said.
“While this agency fully anticipated this extension and saw no barrier to receiving it, we’re pleased that DHS did the right thing for the people of the state,” Kevin Shwedo, SCDMV executive director, said in the release.
Passports are still required for international travel.
Those who would like to begin the application process for a Real ID-compliant driver’s license may bring the required documents to an SCDMV branch, even though the licenses aren’t being issued yet, the release said. It said more than 65,000 South Carolinians have already done this.
“You put yourself in a better position to avoid the line and potentially be able to order your Real ID license from home next year,” project manager Melissa Cisson said in the news release.
Here’s what you need to bring:
▪ Proof of identity (a government-issued birth certificate or valid U.S. passport)
▪ Proof of Social Security number
▪ Two proofs of a current, physical South Carolina address
▪ Proof of all legal name changes
The requirements for commercial driver’s licenses and identification card holders or international customers are different. For more information, visit www.scdmvonline.com.
Drivers who received their first South Carolina driver’s license or ID during or after November 2010 or moved to the state after being licensed or holding an ID in another state after that date may already have the required documents on file with the agency. Check the status of your documents by completing the “Real ID Document Check” at www.scdmvonline.com or call 803-896-5000.
Lisa Wilson: 843-706-8103


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Feet to the Fire
The article I wish someone would write about Halle Berry.
rē•spin your story:
It’s only natural to develop preconceived notions about people and things. Every day we’re fed new information that substantiates or refutes these unconscious assumptions, often from the media or passed along via word of mouth. But this does not make them true, which is why we can all benefit from reality-checks to unearth the ungrounded biases that develop as part of human nature.
There are limits to what we can actually know about the people we read about and put onto pedestals. The truth is, our shared humanity connects us, and everyone deserves the chance to be seen and known as they are rather than as who they are presumed to be. When it comes to public personalities, media-driven narratives might serve the publication, the promotion of a project, or an initiative, or follow an agenda that is driven by storylines motivated by clickbait for attention. But this is not authentic, and this status quo is woefully unacceptable when perceived as truth — not to mention, disempowering to the individual in question. At some point, the fair thing to do is to rē-empower the individual’s narrative to him, her, or themselves.
In life, we are blessed to find our tribes of like-minded individuals that deeply know and understand us. Within our close-knit communities, we offer up a pure-hearted willingness to give them the benefit of the doubt, with a desire for a deeper understanding of what makes them tick. In fact, holding this space for a person’s genuine identity in this way is one of the most beautiful gifts you can bestow. But why practice this elevated stance only with those you know?
Through this series, readers will be given the opportunity to leave these pre-formed opinions at the door, to rē-think what they’ve been fed from third parties, and to take part in the healing practice of authentic connection and sharing between individuals. It takes a special type of person to be willing to view another through their authentic lens, so consider this your opportunity. This time, you’ll have the opportunity to seek out authentic stories as told through the lens of their loved ones and family, learning more about the writer and who these subjects are in a real way. As such, they will be unedited, protecting the integrity of the author’s expression at its most raw.
Feet to the Fire by Van Hunt
“the face of Revlon has no lotion?” this was the question i asked no one while drying my hands and scanning Halle Berry’s bathroom for hand moisturizer. as it turns out she has plenty of hand moisturizer, i just wasn’t looking in the right place; which could be a metaphor for something we’ve all overlooked about her. we can never really know anyone; not while limited to studying them through portholes, as we do. we can gather up glimpses of intimacies and guess about their meaningfulness, but we all have blind spots to the fullness of others, and moreover, to celebrities. we think we know them, their environments, and their processes.
these people we’ve never met, environments we’ve never been in, and processes we’ve never gone through. the reality is we don’t know shit. we humans hold complicated layers of secrets and idolatry; and it is within these rabbit warrens that comprehension of our strangeness is tucked away. i’m sitting outside a trailer on a film set, and all around me i hear the cicada shaking their courtship calls. it is the repeated motoring of tiny dishwashing machines. i’m sharing this night air that spreads across my skin with these insects. i let the experience wash over me without wonder for what my presence means to them. Halle is not so passive. she allows no experience to envelop her without inspection; and she curates the experience she wants you, and the cicada, to have of her. i also dance behind the beat when the music plays, waiting for the rhythm’s lead.
Halle waits on nothing and leads the rhythm where she wants it to go. she knows that magic is made, and she was not made for waiting on it to happen. it could be interpreted as “controlling”, but a more obvious explanation is that this man’s world has made this woman acutely aware that survival is a thing that must be secured, not hoped for. no one ever discusses this tenacity when describing her. they speak of beauty and favorite movies, but never of heart. it is nigh impossible to peer inside Halle without noticing her heart; and the principles that make it thump. notice, i did not say a “fighter’s heart”, as that would be redundant. to have heart is to have already proven your mettle on the battlefield. of course she is a fighter, but what does she fight for? survival, would be the answer nearest the surface. respect, beneath that. but perhaps the fight engulfing her at deepest depths is for the expectation of being heard and never having to wonder if her words will be written like she says them.
for her part, she respects everyone, studies every bend of every word said to her, is always punctual and giving of herself. in fact, there’s a fairytale quality to her generosity that unfolds like a shimmering Christmas morning. but the Santa Claus inside Halle shares the space with a ruthless practitioner of brutal honesty. to her, truth hurts with cuts that one can heal from but lies lead you around by the nose; and only waste time, resources, and dignities that can never be regained. so she does not suffer the dishonest, but she does forgive them.
“because we all do dumb shit.” – Halle Berry
an unyielding fascination for humanity’s damage can allow one to not shrink in the face of human frailty, but move toward understanding it. it is a trait that has cultivated a familiarity within Halle that breeds empathy, and never contempt. hers is the heart of a saloon owner who opens up shop in the fertile wild west and all at once sits with, presides over, entertains, and tames the lawless cowboys who are also her customers. she can speak their language of freedom because she dares to be free. she is what Toni Morrison called an outlaw woman: “Outlaw women are fascinating – not always for their behavior, but because historically women are seen as naturally disruptive and their status is an illegal one from birth if it is not under the rule of men.”
Halle is fast on her feet. operating on the edge of instinct and with life on the tip of her tongue. she engages with her body to produce sound, pursue mystery, and create the time and space of a journey. and she takes the journey without the trepidation most of us have of putting our foot in our mouths. in fact, that’s the point where her stories begin.
have you ever thought about what acting is? i have. well, at least i thought i had. then i met Halle and found i’d never had an inkling of what acting is. i’d felt the result of it and waved my hands through its surreal fog, but i didn’t know it.
acting is making magic. and what all magicians understand is that making magic is not magic. it is, instead, years and years of preparation, ushered before an audience with only seconds to hold or fold before it. acting is finding the truth in what makes a person behave the way they do. what makes them lie to us, for example. what makes them lie to themselves. what makes them want to be lied to. acting is not pretending, it is forgetting to pretend. no one owns the truth, truth being as unobtainable as fire and every dalliance with it, electric.
when i entered her life, i knew very little about the film Halle was working on. i knew what everyone else on social media knew: it was a fight film called Bruised, and she had been injured in the making of it. she and i dipped into our first conversations by getting right to lovers’ work, sniffing out commonalities and red flags like two hounds. i eventually came to learn that Bruised was the result of a fixation with mixed martial arts, or MMA. for a previous film, training in Judo was required. getting a handle on the discipline’s form, and martial arts culture in general, proved an attractive challenge. this rising to meet challenges is an obsession not seen when first encountering the starlet; as first impressions are generally stolen by her sparkling eyes. but blink once and you’ll see her game face baiting you with a glimmer from the teeth behind the smile. the smile sends onlookers away satisfied. the teeth chew up facades and reveal information about people and stories that challenge and interest her.
wiping the veneer off a fable about a white young female mma fighter whose story lacked punch, and reshaping it into a lurking and rough neoteric struggle of a black, middle- aged antihero is exacting enough; but to star in and direct yourself in a genre as difficult to bring to screen as prize fighting — where both the emotional and physical expectations of movie viewers must be met — and to do it at 53 years old, sustaining two broken ribs in the process but continuing to shoot thru the shooting pain because you don’t know if you’ll get the chance to direct again, dragging an ensemble cast and production crew along with you, fielding and assuaging all of their concerns, as well as those of your financiers; and to do it in your directorial debut?, is maniacally onerous.
it’s a job for a woman. EQUALS the “=” sign shows how unknown quantities relate to known quantities. in the way that women equate to men in a male-dominated society, for example. both are victims — women left unseen, unheard, without a true reflection of themselves and their position within a society. a society they fully contribute to but only partially benefit from. and men, absorbing all the spotlight but with their maturity diminished — cocooned by a looping swirl of their own feedback. pretending they have all the answers but radiating a powerful weakness that seduces civilization into self destruction. they are the pipers of a boy’s cry.
it is difficult to be both a champion of / and a blockade to / other perspectives, but as a man in a man’s world, that is where i sit. it is only the gracious bowing out of a father, so convinced of his inability to positively impact my life that he stayed away from its development, that i know what advantage lies in being the charge of a single mother. that is the node connecting me to the protagonist in Bruised. Halle’s Jackie Justice is a fighter and mother who finds the two cannot be separated.
she tries to give up one and loses both. and when the child she abandoned returns, Justice is forced to fight again in order to earn the right to be a mother. Jackie Justice is Halle’s triumph but it is also my mother’s. who in my adulthood has emerged victorious over my fears as a child that some unknown fury hovered over our home, challenging my nascent manliness to hold steady in the darkness. Bruised showed me how ignorant i was of my mother’s power. without need of a single flex of my budding muscles, she protected our home from being overtaken by unspoken evils. i was allowed to blossom. because, to quote Jackie Justice in a valiant scene with her son, “big protects little.” this is a gritty film about fractured, broken human beings. it doesn’t offer any false promises, and redeems its characters through teaching us all to accept the fact that cookies crumble. humility will redden her face upon reading this, but the feat of bringing Bruised to screen is deserving of an embarrassment of praises.
as i wind down this account i am served a reminder that none of Halle’s extraordinary accomplishments have protected her from ordinary struggles. many would assume an easy path awaited her journey to the director’s chair. but, she had to audition for the right to sit behind the camera; and we can understand that:
• films aren’t cheap to make.
• directors don’t usually finance their own movies.
• they need investors.
• any potential investor would need assurances that the filmmaker can do the job.
Halle did all the upfront heavy-lifting required of any first-time director: providing sizzle reels and a director’s look-book, adding flesh to the bones of her vision of the film, and most importantly, carrying belief in herself, all by herself. of course, first-time directors don’t usually have 30 years of acting experience, an Academy Award, and a household name to put down with that bet on themselves. and that should’ve been enough to secure full financing. and yet, a quilt of small coin had to be stitched together just to underwrite the start of production — on a movie that was, by industry standards, a small budget film. when production costs ate through the initial investment Halle then pitched in her own actor and director salaries to keep production going through to completion. additionally, the film’s soundtrack boasts an all-female effort, that includes Cardi B, H.E.R., Young M.A. (just to name a few), plus a woman composer and music editor; all because Halle insisted on this being the case, and persisted in bringing these talents to roost.
it was at the beginning of post- production for Bruised that i met Halle. “post”, as it is referred to, is the epilogue to filmmaking’s monumentality and often lasts longer than the actual shooting of the film. involving endless days of editing image and sound. Halle had to oversee this process in the little downtime she had nudged between other movie productions in her day job as an actor. it may not have been her plan at the start of Bruised, but in reimagining the script, managing pre- production, directing production, finding money/ investing her own money, assembling the soundtrack, and overseeing post-production, in the end Halle not only starred in her directorial debut, she produced it as well. a triple-headed feat that must certainly be the rarest of troikas.

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Borussia Monchengladbach coach Andre Schubert has defended Barcelona star Neymar.
Schubert insists there's no problems with his showboating ahead of their Champions League tie.
“Neymar always wants to demonstrate his immense quality, he's a top notch player, but I've never seen him show a lack of respect to anyone."
Schubert continued: “I don't like it when players show a lack of respect to their rivals, but I've never seen Neymar do something like that. He demonstrates his technique and his ability."


Evanston alders narrowed their draft list of goals from 10 to six and produced brief descriptions for each goal at at special meeting Saturday.
The goal setting process was a response to what Mayor Daniel Biss said has been “a lack of focus” during the first two years of the current council’s four-year term.
The goals are designed to guide the body in allocating time and resources as it heads toward the next election for mayor and all the alders in April 2025.
The goals on the final list are:
- Housing — Expand the supply of safe and affordable housing in every neighborhood of Evanston.
- CARP — Achieve Evanston’s 2025 Climate Action and Resilience Plan goals.
- Economic Development — Invest in and bolster Evanston’s unique identity and culture. Foster growth and stability for existing and new Evanston businesses. Ensure pathways to economic growth for residents.
- Finance — Responsible and sustainable stewardship of city assets.
- Public Safety — Ensure Evanston is safe and welcoming to all. Implement best practices and policies and develop coordinated alternative public safety responses.
- Public Health — Make signficant and measurable progress toward addressing E-plan priorities.
Alders trimmed from the list four other goals that they had identified during their first goal-setting meeting last month.
They decided to reference “Equity” in a preamble to the goal list.
“Goals change,” Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) said, “but putting it [equity] at the top makes it a number one priority that won’t change.”
Also dropped from the original list of 10 were “Community,” “Process and procedures” and “Infrastructure.”
Those got the lowest number of votes when council members were asked to pick their top five choices from the list of 10.
Biss said city staff now would be asked to provide more specifics about what the city might try to accomplish in each of the six areas over the next two years and return to the Council for another session to evaluate those action plans.
The new goal list is designed to replace a list of six goals the Council adopted in 2019. Those included:
- Invest in city infrastructure and facilities.
- Enhance community development and job creation citywide.
- Expand affordable housing options.
- Ensure equity in all city operations.
- Stabilize long-term city finances.
- Implement the city’s climate action and resilience plan.
Diversity and leadership consultant Gilo Kwesi Logan, who led the session, emphasized that just because a topic didn’t make the top priority list doesn’t mean it won’t be considered by the Council over the next two years.
All the council members except Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) were present for Saturday’s session.


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