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Are there worms in the soil when you turn it over, or water hard?
I have found that cow manure can be too hot for plants (and worms) the first season. It often has to cook down a season to be fit for plant growth. 40 lbs is quite a bit, I usually suggest an half cup per cubic ft of soil. Then you doubled down and added another 80 lbs of manure. High nitrogen burning the plants is a real possibility here. If that’s the case it should be perfect next year.
Also, topsoil is a great starting point for above clay or rocky hardpan. Great for contouring a yardscape or flattening out a hillside but, it also is VERY prone to compaction. It’s the main reason most do not recommend it for container or raised beds without adding lots of loosening amendments to fight compaction. Especially with 120lbs manure, which I find also is prone to compaction. I don’t think the small amount of potting soil (fluffy) would be enough to prevent compaction. I bet if you fluff it up with some leaf litter (falls for free in the fall) and chipped wood and or char it would gain more bulk and loosen up. Does the soil clump together in tight shovel full; or does it loosely run off a shovel? Specifically after it has sat undisturbed a couple weeks?
Crushed lava rock would work well too, or perlite. But the perlite would not last as long as the lava rock, and it tends to float up in the soil with watering/rain over time. More so outdoor when it rains hard. Personally I would add all these to what I normally see sold as topsoil to prevent compaction. If it compacts then there is not enough oxygen for good plant roots on annual crops. Tree roots are different. Compaction would also prevent the manure from cooking down properly to be less “hot” like it would normally in a loose pile. If there is lots of dirt clods, or it’s easy to make dirt balls (like snowballs) then the soil is probably too compacted. Hope that makes sense.
I second the soil slurry test to make sure it’s not something obvious. High N could easily be all that’s wrong from the cow manure not cooking down yet. Especially if you live somewhere without much rain to flush and mix it. Or lack of Ca (or Mg) as @borialis suggested. I love KNF methods myself, so second that and love the suggestion. But that’s another thread ha.
Where did you get the manure also? Less likely, but a surprising common thread topic on my fruit forum is contamination. Many leaders/moderators there have been very vocal on my fruit growing forum about broadleaf herbicides being used on hayfields as a common practice now. The problem is that the poop from these horses and cows fed grass from herbicide treatment is no good for the garden. Farmer is like awesome, no broadleaf contaminates in my hay, it’s worth more. Or a cattle farmer will buy bulk hay and doesn’t know it’s been herbicide treated; broad leaf contaminated hay is often deemed worthless because some of the seeds and weeds can irritate or get lodged in cattle/horses. So I am told anyway…. Then think nothing of it and pile the manure into the manure compost pile. Basically, all the fruit growers suggest sprouting a handful of pinto beans or green beans in a cup of any grass eating manure product before spreading it. If the beans don’t sprout, or grow twisted and gnarled, then it it likely contaminated. This is something I would have never thought of myself.
Here is a quick cut and paste from the fruit forum:
Licensed sprayers please weigh in.
So basically hay, grass clippings and manure can contain ‘persistent’ herbicides, which, even after composted can kill or distort growth in fruit trees, garden veggies, potted plants, etc. Their half-life is about 18 months. The active ingredients of greatest concern are picloram, clopyralid, and aminopyralid because they can remain active in hay, grass clippings, piles of manure, and compost for an unusually long time.
Apparently the instructions for these say that whatever is sprayed with these ‘persistent’ herbicides is not to be used for composting (for just these reasons).
*Anyway this problem is showing up in backyard gardens. *
So, where does the responsibility lie to inform people about these so that doesn’t happen to us? I called a local supplier of compost and he was totally unaware of the problem. What’s more, his attitude was more like, “Well, we’ve never had that problem. We can’t send every thing we get to the lab. (Let us know if it causes you problems.)”
For now, it looks like my only recourse is to get a small sample, plant some beans in it and see if they get distorted growth. I’d like to convince my local guy to at least ASK his suppliers (he wouldn’t give me the info so I could ask), but maybe, if the law says something about this it will motivate him. So that is my question.
You get the idea. Yikes. Just something to think about.

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Does Music Matter?
Around age 14, I decided wanted to be a professional musician. My mother warned me it wasn’t a stable path. To some extent, Mom, you were right. (There. I said it.) Since I graduated from Juilliard in 1992, the music profession has suffered debilitating changes.
These days, we blame two familiar culprits – technology, and the economy – but to me, it’s really the same old story: telling us that music belongs at the margins. That music doesn’t really matter, at least not as much as the stock market does.
I teach entrepreneurship classes at Mannes, and in these classes we challenge this story. I argue that we need new language to talk about what music is and what music does in the world.Read More

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This convenience bundle has the following two resources:
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Sony is a very well recognized brand in the world when it comes to consumer electronics. The company has a long history of producing some of the best televisions, 5.1 home theatre systems, and more. In recent years, wireless technologies have been developing fast. The development has necessitated companies to include the feature in their audio systems. Today we will look at those models of the Sony home theatre system that incorporates BlueTooth technology.
Sony HT-S350 2.1Ch Dolby Digital Soundbar
This model is among the most highly rated Sony home theatre system available in the market. The system is specifically designed for TV and comes with a dedicated wireless SubWoofer. This 2.1 channel speaker system is rated for 320 Watts with BlueTooth and HDMI connectivity. The sound system also features the proprietary S-Force Surround Sound. The SubWoofer houses a large 16 cm speaker that offers a 28-litre volume filling sound. The resulting sound is not only deep but rich as well. The virtual speaker system comes with the S-Force Surround Sound that gives a virtual surround sound experience. You get to hear the sound from the speakers from all angles! The BlueTooth feature helps you to stream music directly from your smartphones. This feature is a specifically important point of discussion in this article. The design of this unit is seamless and blends in well with the contours of your television. Finally, if you own a Bravia TV, its BlueTooth transmitter can send the audio signal to the speaker directly. Overall, this is one Sony home theatre system that you would love to have in your home.
Sony HT-RT3 600 Watt Real 5.1 Channel Wireless Bluetooth Soundbar with Dolby
This is a fantastic 5.1 home theatre system from the house of Sony. The speaker system packs a whopping 600 Watt power. The rear speakers combine with the 3 channel soundbar to give you the immersive sound effect of a 5.1 home theatre system. The SubWoofer produces bass that you have to listen to believe. This 5.1 home theatre system has all the qualities to bring movies to life, especially with its S-Master digital amp feature. The speaker also has the Dolby sound technology that enhances the sound experience many folds. The speaker also supports NFC (Near Field Communication) technology and BlueTooth technology to provide a seamless wireless experience. If you love your movies, you would want to get this Sony home theatre system for your home.
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Sony HT-S20R 400 Watt Real 5.1 Channel Wireless Bluetooth Soundbar with Dolby Digital
Do you wish to feel a real 5.1 home theatre experience with the immersive 5.1 channel sound? You got to listen to the music this speaker produces. The SubWoofer, combined with the 3 channel soundbar and 2 rear speakers, delivers the perfect surround sound experience that you have always dreamt of. The speaker also has Dolby Digital technology, so you don’t need to think twice before buying this Sony home theatre system. The BlueTooth technology helps you to seamlessly connect to all your music from any BlueTooth-supported music player. The 400-watt output makes it a powerful 5.1 home theatre system.
Sony MHC-V21D High Power Portable Party Speaker with Bluetooth Connectivity
This speaker may look a bit different from the lot, yet it is equally fantastic, if not more. The single stand-alone speaker packs a serious punch and can make any 5.1 home theatre system look ordinary in front of it. The angled speakers have the unique ability to spread the sound all across the room. Combined with a speaker light, this can turn your home into a club. The angled tweeter helps spread the beats all over the space, and everyone enjoys the music equally. The speaker comes with built-in carry handles, so moving this speaker is as easy as a charm. The Sony Music Centre App with the NFC and BlueTooth technology lets you control the music and play what you want from a distance. Overall this is a fantastic Sony home theatre system especially when you consider that multiple compatible speakers can be connected via BlueTooth.
Sony HT-IV300 Real 5.1ch Dolby Digital DTH Home Theatre System
This is the last one on the list and another fantastic 5.1 home theatre system from Sony. It comes with a SubWoofer, 2 front speakers, 1 center speaker, and 2 surround speakers to give you an immersive sound experience. The S-Master Digital Amp gives you a perfect cinematic sound experience. Featuring a Dolby TrueHD surround sound, it makes you want more from this speaker. The power output is an enormous 1000 watts, and the 5.1 home theatre system supports NFC and BlueTooth technologies. For a true music lover, this is a must-have Sony home theatre system.
You may like to choose from these highly-rated speakers for your very own Sony home theatre system and enjoy music the way that you have never before.


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Fondly referred to as the Big Bull, the ace investor has been making his mark on Dalal Street ever since 1985, when the BSE Sensex was ruling at 150 level. Starting his career with just Rs 5,000, Jhunjhunwala is today 48th richest Indian with $2.2 billion (nearly Rs 16,400 crore) in assets, as per Forbes.
Among his early investments,
BEML (100 times), Lupin (160 times), Crisil (200 times) and SCI (1200 per cent) are some other stocks that did wonders for Jhunjhunwala in the 2000s. In the last decade, the ace investor made 20 times return in Escorts (2013-2020) and 200 per cent in Tata Communications (2010-2020).
But what contributed most to Jhunjhunwala's wealth was Titan Company, which jumped 80 times between 2005 and 2020, and remains his biggest stock holding even today.
So, what made Jhunjhunwala a successful trader and investor?
“Trading and investing are like having a wife and a mistress. You can’t manage both well. So, keep them apart. One should not know anything about the other,” Jhunjhunwala, whom the media calls the Warren Buffett of India, said in a 2018 interview:
“Trading is momentum, 'le fatafat, de fatafat' (buy and sell quickly). But in investing, one can be contrarian and can still make money," he said.
"In trading, ROEs are highest and cash flows are great. I love trading. Given a choice, I would love to make all my money out of it. But that's not possible. You lose money, also,” he said.
Jhunjhunwala said that 98 per cent of the money in the stock market is made by being a bull. The ace investor said, in the past he at times used technical analysis, which helped him make long-term returns. “As an investor, I may feel a stock is overpriced and so I should sell. But my trading skills teach me that stocks can be overvalued and still get more overvalued,” he once told ETNow.
Radhakishan Damani, who Jhunjhunwala calls his mentor, said the Big bull is an original thinker. “He does not get carried away by other’s thought processes. He is a sharp guy. He really believes in Indian equities and India's prosperity," Damani once told ETNow.
When Vishal Gupta, Jhunjhunwala's nephew moved to Mumbai in 2005, the ace investor convinced him to go for chartered accountancy instead of law. Gupta joined him four years later at Rare Enterprises, a privately-owned stock trading firm, whose name was derived from the first two initials of his and his wife Rekha Jhunjhunwala’s names.
“He was two different people. One was a kind uncle at home, the other was a super sharp boss, He has a compartmentalised mind, whose one part is an investor and the other is trader. The investor mind is an eternal optimist, a big picture guy; while the trader part is realistic that keeps eyes on the numbers all the time,” Gupta said.
Jhunjhunwala values stocks on five parameters: patience, people, governance, frugality and technology. In June, Jhunjhunwala said he still thinks that the mother of all bull markets has started. "Bull markets are test matches, they are not 50-over matches,” he said.
Asked about his plans for his 60th birthday, Jhunjhunwala in the same interview said: “I am only realising that we live 60 years. So, we have finite life. Do what you want, fast.”
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Sixpence None The Richer: Leigh Nash (vocals); Matt Slocum (guitar, E-bow, cello, keyboards, vibraphone); Sean Kelly (guitar); Jerry Dale McFadden (piano, Hammond B-3 organ, Mellotron); Justin Cary (bass); Dale Baker, Rob Mitchell (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel includes: Bruce Dukov, Eve Butler, Mario De Leon, Peter Kent, Brian Leonard, Bob Peterson, Rachel Purkin, John Wittenberg, Rick Todd, Suzie Katayama.
Producers: Paul Fox, Matt Slocum, Rob Cavallo.
Genre: Rock/Pop, Rock, Pop, Alternative, Christian, Christian Rock
Original Year: 2002
Recorded at Ocean Way Recording, Nashville, Tennessee and at Record One, Sherman Oaks, California.
Austin, TX's Sixpence None The Richer have traveled a rather unusual path. After two mid-'90s records, the openly Christian band had a sizeable cult following in the secular world, much of it in the unlikely domain of indie-rock, before scoring a gargantuan teen-movie soundtrack aided pop hit in 1999 with "Kiss Me," from the outfit's third release. Three years removed from the top of the charts, the group--centered around guitarist/songwriter Matt Slocum and the bewitching vocals of Leigh Nash--offer album #4, DIVINE DISCONTENT.
The passage of time has only shifted their Sundays-indebted sound slightly; it's a bit less mournful, a bit less orchestral, but still possessed of a balance between dark uncertainty and the hope omnipresent in their earlier work. Moreover, Sixpence still know how to craft songs that haunt the memory days after last hearing, like the opening track "Breathe Your Name," which opens lightly before a crescendo into a rapturous hook. Of particular note is the cover of Crowded House's 1987 hit "Don't Dream It's Over," on which Nash's otherworldly vocals transform the song into something original yet warmly familiar, which could be said of all of DIVINE DISCONTENT.
01 Breathe Your Name
03 Down And Out Of Time
04 Waiting On The Sun
05 Still Burning
06 Melody Of You
08 I've Been Waiting
09 Eyes Wide Open
11 Tension Is A Passing Note
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13 Don't Dream It's Over
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Crystal Lake — Idea Adventures children's museum is still an idea, but Jayne McGrath is working to make it reality.
McGrath is a Crytal Lake parent of four children ages 2 to 16. She noted that other children's musemums are in faraway places such as Elgin, Rockford and Wilmette, so she has launched an effort to open a children's museum in her community, coining the name of Idea Adventures.
She said that 26 percent of McHenry County's population are under age 15, providing plenty of potential patrons close to home.
McGrath said she and other organizers are negotiating to acquire 2.5 acres "for such a low price that it's almost a donation."
Acquiring land, constructing a building and creating exhibits will cost about $1.5 million, she estimated.
"I've researched successful children's museums, and the formula they use is obtaining grants, corporate sponsors, and wide community support," she said.
Other parts of the formula include attracting child-oriented traveling exhibits and maximizing the use of the facility, such as opening it for after-hours meetings and tutoring programs.
"We have a lot of exhibits on paper. When it comes down to actually doing them, committees will take each idea and figure out what resources and materials are required," she said.
The ideas include exhibits and hands-on stations on agriculture, Native Americans, Abraham Lincoln, construction and plumbing, and a room with plastic building blocks, water table, and a replica rain forest, McGrath said.
"Our biggest worry right now is, of course, the building," she said. "But we also need citizens to donate labor and materials to build the exhibits."


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Athens. Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis will try to regain his popularity rating and put an end to the claims about early elections by paying a series of visits abroad over the next two months.
On March 18-19 he is to visit Belgian capital to attend the regular session of the Council of the EU, and on April 2-4 he will be in Strasbourg to join NATO summit and try to meet, even for a short time, with U.S. President Barack Obama.
On April 5 Karamanlis and Obama will be in Prague for the EU-U.S. summit. On April 9 the Greek PM is to visit Paris to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy and on April 22-23 he is to pay an official visit to Cyprus. From Nicosia PM Karamanlis will head for Bulgaria where on April 24-25 a natural gas summit will take place.
On April 29 he is scheduled to visit Warsaw to attend the European People’s Party meeting. On May 7 he will participate in an international conference on Eastern Europe in Prague.

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text: Meincraft is a popular game. Here you build structures, collect resources to create your own world. The important task of the player is to build the right world, in which the cheats will be disabled. The game world consists of two modes. These are creative mode and survival mode. In the first, the player can create a custom design of the structure. Survival mode is more complicated. Here, additional resources are needed to create items. The player can brew a potion or use a special powder for donuts. Collect all the resources in the game and build a good defense for your structure.

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THE CONNECTED-HOME: Forecasts And Growth Trends For The Leading 'Internet Of Things' Market
Overall, a fair number of mainstream consumers still don't fully understand what connected-home devices are and how they work, and so demand hasn't reached its full potential. However, adoption and awareness is still high for such a new category. We expect the devices to become more prevalent in the next two years, when growth will peak.
In a recent report on the connected home, BI Intelligence takes a closer look at this market, and forecasts shipments and revenue growth for connected-home devices over the next five years. We also examine current consumer sentiment about these new devices, the potential opportunities and barriers the Internet of Things will face on its way to mainstream adoption, and the leading companies currently in the market.
Here are some key points from the report:
- Connected-home device shipments will grow at a compound annual rate of 67% over the next five years, and hit 1.8 billion units shipped in 2019, according to BI Intelligence estimates. Connected-home devices include all smart appliances (washers, dryers, refrigerators, etc.), safety and security systems (internet-connected sensors, monitors, cameras, and alarm systems), and energy equipment like smart thermostats and smart lighting.
- The connected-home category will make up about 25% of shipments within the broader Internet of Things category this year, but that share will increase gradually to roughly 27% in 2019 based on our forecast, as growth in other IoT areas picks up.
- Connected-home device sales will drive over $61 billion in revenue this year. That number will climb at a 52% compound annual growth rate to reach $490 billion in 2019.
- Home-energy equipment and safety and security systems, including devices like connected thermostats and smoke detectors, will become popular first, leading the way to broader consumer adoption.
In full, the report:
- Forecasts annual shipments of connected-home devices between 2014 and 2019.
- Estimates the connected-home market's annual revenue potential between 2014 and 2019.
- Breaks down connected-home market shipments by device category, including home-energy equipment, safety and security systems, and smart appliances.
- Discusses current consumer uptake of connected-home products and potential barriers to mainstream adoption.
- Pinpoints companies that have had early success in the market and examines the potential for heavy market consolidation.
For full access to all BI Intelligence's charts, data, and analysis on the mobile and Internet of Things industry, sign up for a free trial.
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Violence in Kenya and its effect on PLHIV, especially Women and Children
PRESS RELEASE - HAVE WE STOPPED TO THINK OF WHAT COULD BE HAPPENING TO PLHIV’S ESPECIALLY WOMEN AND CHILDREN LIVING WITH THE HIV VIRUS?
We speak on Behalf of the people who are infected and affected by HIV/AIDS in Kenya. Much has been said and generalized concerning the deteriorating situation in the country and we appreciate the calm which is slowly creeping in after 2 (two) weeks of violence, looting and merciless killings. As much as we would like to thank Kenyans who have heeded calls for peace by various religious, political, civil society organizations, Ambassadors of peace, individuals of good will, the international community etc, we still feel that so much more needs to be done.
We the people living with HIV/AIDS in Kenya are deeply concerned by the current political impasse resulting from the disputed general elections held on the 27th of December 2007. We have witnessed violence and all sorts of unjust and inhumane behavior in most parts of this country for a number of days. The aftermath of these actions are just beginning to light up so far over 300,000 people are said to be homeless and about 487 people dead. How many of the homeless are HIV/AIDS positive and how many of the same group of persons would be dead by now is something we don’t want to imagine.
From information gotten from Women Fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK) they have not heard from over 1500 of its members who receive support from them and some few others have called to say that they are stranded to an extent that they have no access to their life saving drugs (ARV’S). Kenya Network of Women Living with HIV/AIDS (KENWA) is reporting over 2000 of its members while Kenya Network of Positive Teachers (KEPOTE) is reporting 12 persons who are stranded and in need of help. In Kenya we have several other organizations offering care, support and treatment to persons living with HIV/AIDS and we are sure if we went by figures the number would be quite alarming. Most of these women who are affected from this organizations also happen to be members of the International Community of Women living with HIV/AIDS (ICW), and that is why we are mostly concerned about the fate of the PLHIV especially women who most often than not are faced with the heavy burden of looking after their children, stigma and discrimination and the accusation of having brought the virus into the families/communities, sadly enough right now RAPE cases are on the rampage.
We know that a number of them have lost their life prolonging medicines (ARV’S) during the skirmishes in a hurry to run to safety, and to save the lives of their children. Ironically, their lives may still be in danger if they don’t get any interventions soon, as there are a lot of side effects likely to be experienced with defaulting medicines or failure to proper adherence. What about those who might have been bed-ridden at the time of the skirmishes, the support organizations can not continue with their activities for instance Home Based Care, DOT etc as most of these places were closed down due to insecurity, we wonder if such people were evacuated to safety, and as much as we appreciate the efforts the government is putting to assist its citizens we are concerned that as much as they may be put in these camps, they may not be accessing the due medical attention and nutrition required by them. We all know that HIV Positive women and children especially those on medication need to have a very good diet to be able to counter the risk of opportunistic infections. The rescue sites due to the magnitude number of people they are serving may not be able to give these people specialized treatment, and due to the great impact of stigma and discrimination for persons living with HIV/AIDS no one would openly want to admit the fact that they are HIV+ and hence need specialized treatment.
We know and acknowledge the efforts that has been made by our government, NGO’S, FBO’S, CSO’S etc in cubing down the spread and transmission of HIV/AIDS and where once was HOPE and EXPECTATIONS too high, now lies suspicion perhaps too deep for anyone to stomach. The air in the HIV/AIDS community is so thick with fear, anxiety and great worry of which exactly would be the most fatal, HIV/AIDS or the violence that has robed us the choice to adhere to treatment, care and support, Nutrition and positive living.
- We urge our leaders to stop playing politics instead of dealing with the problems of Kenyan people, they should seek for reconciliation
- We call for peace, Love and unity from all our brothers and sisters in the country; we used to co-exist before the elections, what went wrong?
- The Government should create modalities in the rescue sites where PLHIV’S, especially women living with HIV/AIDS and their children can access medication a temporary intervention plan before they resume their hospital visits (a formation of tents at the red cross sites with qualified personnel)
- We also ask the Government to speed up resettlement of displaced persons, by helping them rebuild their homes, offering 24hrs security and providing transport to ease the movement of people from one place to another.
- Our humble appeal is to our sisters, brothers and children living with HIV/AIDS to try and avoid unnecessary stress, to adhere to treatment and try as much as possible to make use of what ever distribution of food that is available to them and to freely seek for help when it is made available to them without fear of being discriminated for we are bonded by only one thing, “ OUR HIV STATUS”
- That the Government, NGO’S, FBO’S, CSO’S , etc offer Financial, Material and Human support be given to organizations working with PLHIV’S to assist in evacuation, creation of rescue centers and care, support and treatment needed by PLHIV’S especially Women and Children living with the virus.
- That Post-Election education, Information and Communication including psycho-social support and counseling be offered to PLHIV’S, especially women.

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So the other day we were watching some movies over at Aggressive Comix when we realized the movie we were watching… didn’t hold up. And the last time any of us REALLY watched it we were teenagers (back when we THOUGHT we knew best… but we didn’t) So we decided to create a list of the awful movies we used to like as kids. (in no particular order)
Super Mario Brothers (Stephen Franchek)
Don’t be so proud of that statement yet boys… So Super Mario Brothers is the one game everyone remembers as a kid. When they announced they were making a movie I remember excitement filling my heart and running to the theater with my father so I could watch the game I played so often come to life. I LOVED this turd of a film. Back then you really don’t think that John Leguizamo being brother to Bob Hoskins was an issue. We thought that King Koopa was awesome… When you get older and slap this movie in you laugh at how awful it really was. From the terrible graphics to the stupid storyline to the big fat broad that randomly beats up old women for really no reason, to the teenagers bed room… and by that I do mean the cum soaked room… or maybe it was slime? I forget. Either way this movie is great if you want to engage in a drinking game. Otherwise
Crow Salvation (Dom Davis and Rich Cassidy)
Crow Salvation really makes me question my opinion on things. This movie in the eyes of BOTH creators of Aggressive Comix was AMAZING! We used to talk about how we wanted Eric Mabius to be in EVERYTHING and 90% of all the characters we created for our comic books all looked EXACTLY like this character. HE WAS THE COOLEST! My god you step back and watch this movie now and you shiver from the level of bad that this thing is! It is honestly depressing! I mean look at just this images alone.
Just Terrible… Yup
Don’t give me that face, you know what you did!
Face-Off (Dom Davis)
Ohhh Face-Off… how we loved you. It was a great concept with a crap load of action. It had high tension and so much great shit. Then when you grow up its like… why do they keep touching each others faces… is that supposed to be symbolic? Because if I was at a mall and I saw people greeting one another with a face touch over a hug I would be completely weirded out. I mean the movie starts off with Nick Cage dry humping a choir girl for fuck sake to show he is one bad mother!
So for that alone you have made it on the list… At least we get some epic Nick Cage faces as a result of this…
which is more than we can be say about the Ghostrider films. So congrats Face-off you don’t age well
Butterfly Effect (Rich Cassidy)
Next on our list of terrible… Butterfly Effect. This movie was honestly the cause of all this. I destinctly remember seeing this film in my teens and going OMG YES! This movie so creative and so epic. You watch as an adult and there are SOOOO many point you are just like COME ON. First off its always nice to see a fat Fulton Reed have a career outside the Mighty Ducks but good god his story arches were always “shut in nut job”… And the best part, it wasn’t the family getting blown up by an blockbuster that puts him over, no its him killing a dog… really?! … that just shows you where our heads are as a society… But anyways there were so many different ways Kutcher’s character could have fixed everything, but instead he was worse time traveler ever, even worse than Marty and Doc Brown…
Yea that’s exactly how we felt after we re-watched this movie, dazzed and confused thinking we once knew this movie sooo well. The only good parts was when he was a really little kid and he told off the pedophile father…
which as a kid I remember just having chills watching that scene because it got too creepy too quick like … REALLY QUICK?!
Wouldn’t change a thing Kutcher sorry but your movie sucked.
He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (Danny Santos)
Glad you agree skelator. I don’t even think we need to spend much time on this one… If you want 80’s cheese then we have a movie for you. Back when Dolph Lundgren had a career as a Russian he also got gigs as He-Man where he has to save Courteney Cox… Why… let her die… this movie tried really hard to make a storyline but why did all our comic book characters in the 80’s have to come from a time rift or some shit and then battle on earth? This isn’t Howard the Duck. Keep it simple and make it an ACTUAL He-Man story… no no no that would make sense and well the 80’s were like fuck that noise… so congrats He-Man you made it!
Street Fighter (Christina Tellifson)
I know we used to watch Street Fighter for DAYS on end. It was soooooo good, or at least we thought it was… The back stories on some of the characters made you do nothing but laugh. I mean these movies were all trying to ride the coat tales of Mortal Kombat’s success in the theaters. At this point in time production companies were jumping head first into video games movies screaming “YES WE CAN DO THIS”. There was soooo much wrong with this movie, like how Mr. Epic Splits was the most American Character in Guile.
Well fuck you too then! Now I LOVE Raul Julia BUT AS M. BISON?! REALLY!
Bison is a brick shit house and Raul Julia is a stick… the casting choices clearly were terrible as was the script. I do have to say though it was ballsy TRYING to bring Blanka into the movie… but… this is how it turned out…
He looks like a giant cheeto. So here is to you Street Fighter way to ruin my childhood!
Batman Forever (Ray’s Pick)
Don’t get too excited Jim we are about to destroy you. I suppose I’d have to go with Batman Forever. I wasn’t a super-huge fan of comics as a kid, I knew who was who and the odd origin story, and Batman was, of course, one of the favorites. There was something about all those actors that seemed to indicate greatness, I mean, Tommy Lee Jones and Jim Carrey as awesome bad guys, and I was too young to realize exactly what Bruce Wayne should really have been like, so I didn’t inherently dislike Val Kilmer’s representation as such. It definitely seemed like a badass Batman story, over-the-top villains and gung-ho heroes. My God…watching it fifteen years later was so far beyond a chore I’m not sure I can actually define what the movie really is. Oh, right. Shit, that’s what it is. Plus how can we forget this stupid scene… like we NEEDED to see his “ninja” laundry skills or some shit?!
Yup for this and many MANY other things… you have earned a spot on our list!
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A couple of years ago, I accepted an invitation to be a writer-in-residence at the University of Wyoming. These gigs typically involve a little teaching, a little money, a little time to write. Just before I flew over, I was informed that in addition to my pedagogical duties, I had been slated to appear at a number of events across the state advocating for refugee settlement.
I hadn’t been asked first.
These events entailed being flown in a small single-engine plane to deliver pro-refugee talks in fairly conservative places (in one town, the cops arrested a rabble-rouser who’d put out a podcast call inciting violence), guest-slotting a ‘social justice’ book club, and doing a bunch of media. The worst of it was a PBS TV bit. I could’ve said no but I didn’t, I said this:
I was a refugee. My family was involved in the Vietnam War and . . . when things went downhill, we, like millions of other Vietnamese, fled the country . . . When we were in trouble, Australia let us in and took us in and looked after us. They had no reason, really, to do it; they had a lot of reasons not to. They didn’t know us. They didn’t owe us anything . . . It still does boggle me when I think about that, and it’s not really something that gratitude can cover. It’s too big for that. But what it does bring home to me is [that] beyond the politics and the policies and the very legitimate notions of sovereignty, border protection, of cultural preservation, there’s still this project of very simple grace – of just helping people who need help even though you don’t owe them any help. And that, to me, meant everything when we needed it.
Predictable stuff, right? Most people, I reckon, from left and right alike, would find these sentiments unobjectionable, even agreeable. Most people would be confused by my own reaction to them – for any time I see this clip, I come away with a wretched feeling – a mixture of unease and ire and self-directed scorn. That I did it to myself – let myself do it to myself – makes it harder to bear.
What exactly did I do?
I allowed myself to be used. I became a mouthpiece. I took in vain my plural self to spruik a singular, flat, facile politics. In part, I did it because I agreed with the politics – pinned down, of course I thought/think the US should be resettling Syrian refugees – but my problem was with being pinned down, coerced into answering that question without being free to question the question’s underpinnings, its mess of historical, political and ethical consensions. None of the terms were open to me. How could I in all conscience argue for the stateless, for example, when, to me, the very consensus of the Westphalian nation-state feels unconscionable – a spur to hate and horror? How could I make a case for immigration when I hold the very concept of territorial sovereignty responsible for encoding the world’s deadliest asymmetries? A state is a priori an exclusionary mechanism. It ransoms the human need for belonging against the human wont to tribalism and xenophobia. It justifies the self-interest that justifies its statehood – ouroboros, ad infinitum. A state sets limits and conditions – that is its deal.
All politics is border politics. Sovereignty doesn’t mean much without someone else to shove it to.
On top of that, I loathed the whole set-up – I couldn’t help feeling a familiar vein of bad faith running through all these good intentions. Social justice is easy when it’s low-cost, high-return. Wasn’t this just another way we could all broadcast our progressivism without forfeiting our exceptionalism? (No pro-refugee activist there was proposing open borders.) Wasn’t this just another neo-liberal application of virtue, whereby we could accrue socio-cultural capital through the Having of Opinions without having, ourselves, to forgo any economic capital or comfort? Guilt as vehicle for vanity?
And all done via the amiable, earnest Asian-Australian guest (an ‘Eminent Writer-in-Residence’, no less) who had been there, and even written about it!
This, of course, was the other thing. I had taken in vain my writing self. I had used language in a way that was antithetical to what I ask of my writing: that it come from me, and carry some of my life, and convey my truth (including its uncertainties, ambiguities and antinomies) in as true a form as I can find, wherever it might lead me. What I delivered instead was a maudlin Hallmark ad for my ‘sponsors’, pitched intuitively at the level of coddling and congratulation. I took an issue about which I have insoluble feelings and – having no opportunity to think it down through writing – instead boiled it down to literal propaganda. What candour might have been in it (and of course, in a way, I meant every word) was made performative by camera and context – I felt myself false even while saying what I meant.
At bottom, the failure that wounded me most, I think, was my deference. To the brazen assumption that because I had been a refugee, I would be willing to be identified as a refugee, I would be willing to be defined as a refugee, I would be in support of refugees (whatever that meant), I would be willing to speak in support of refugees. I did what was expected of me. In doing so, I essentialised not only myself but all refugees (who, I know, are as variable, irrational and prejudicial as any other people, including on refugee-related topics). I spoke for others when I wasn’t even truly speaking for myself. We refugees are already trapped in a condescending narrative that promotes asylum as destiny; I failed to resist the denouement that ascribes destiny to character.
That moment has come back to me over and over again. It’s taken some time for me to realise its connection to this essay: it’s to do with sovereignty, but of a different kind – personal, artistic, closer in spirit to Bartleby’s ‘I would prefer not to’ or Stephen Dedalus’s ‘non serviam’. A sovereignty that recognises that all authority – under state or religion or tribe, or even under ‘self-evident’ abstractions like legitimacy, public good, or moral or civic duty – is coercive in the absence of clear consent. And consent, obviously, can never be clear in a world wholly consisting of ‘facts on the ground’.
Which brings me to David Malouf. Over a long career, he seems, somehow, to have preserved – with natural lightness of touch – this personal, artistic sovereignty for himself.
He is ethnically half-Lebanese (with some Portuguese strained in for good measure), of immigrant stock, yet has for decades elided these aspects of identity to little note and no fuss. (I cannot understand how, even accounting for generational differences, he’s managed this.) He’s gay but has also managed to stop this from becoming seasonal grist for the queer studies mill. A former academic himself, he must understand that such openings are enticements to academic spits: once stuck, writers can end up turned eternally on the same skewer, basted in the same sauce. Famously private, Malouf has nevertheless intimated enough about himself in his work to ward off too much off-grid digging.
Most impressive to me is his composure; his disregard for fashion or recency (and his collateral disquiet towards contemporary literary ‘scenes’); his comfort in his self and his place in the world. Reading him, you find yourself in an exchange with the courteous stranger at the party who, while speaking to you, looks over neither your shoulder nor his own. He eschews labels and allegiances, schools and groups and movements (‘a mug’s game, a mugger’s game’, he’s called all that). Around about the time my book was published, I came across a quote from him in a newspaper article: ‘I totally reject the idea of being representative in any way.’
From the first, Malouf has gone his own way. It’s an ethos so marked it rises to the status of an ethic. In literal terms, it’s meant spending substantial time in England and ‘a place in Tuscany’ (not quite as idyllic as it sounds, but still . . .). In literary terms, it’s meant a restlessness, a searchingness of genre, form and subject that led early (and unimaginative) reviewers to note that his books seemed written by different people. ‘You do what you do, the way you do it’, Malouf said in that article, ‘out of a kind of necessity.’
I know something about labels. My book consisted of short stories that ranged, fairly widely, across settings, styles and subjects. That was what my necessity looked like then. The reviews, mostly positive, were also mostly complicit in common reference to my ethno-nationality – as though no estimation of the work could keep without the seal of the author’s status as ‘Vietnamese-Australian’. I expected this – even anticipated it in the meta-fictional first story of the collection. And of course I appreciate that context matters, that fiction is scored by both its maker and its making, and that interpreting these marks can be instructive, even enlightening. Proust, notes Malouf (while keeping his own mind), ‘is in no doubt that a contemporary writer’s life will be known and is part of the text’.
But how has ‘life’ become so unquestionably shorthanded – short-changed – into ‘identity’? Why should, say, the work of ‘ethnic’ writers – now that overt orientalisation is out of fashion – remain charged with extra onuses of representation, explanation and authenticity? ‘Vietnam’ is a Western war. Is it actually impossible for a work by a ‘Vietnamese’ writer in the West to be evaluated without this unifocal historical knowingness? Without presumed psychodramatic intimacy? Without a framework of imputed, all-smothering victimhood? Auden writes, ‘Of any poem written by someone else, my first demand is that it be good.’ This is how the writers I know and respect talk about writing – in private. (And yes, we know ‘good’ is a contested, contingent term.) My naive hope, I guess, was for my work to be judged the same way in public, unbeholden to the cultural diktat that the more ‘marginal’ a writer’s face, or place of origin, the more central it must be in the commentary. That way lies special pleading – and special treatment.
If literature has a nemesis, it is instrumentalism – the approach that treats it as a tool, values it not for its own sake but as a means to an extrinsic end. This is, I realise now, the language of Kantian metaphysics. Humans are to be treated as ends in themselves, never as means to an end. It makes sense to me that art might warrant the same imperative as people. ‘Identity’ is not nothing, but it’s not everything. What it is – how much it matters – is something for case-by-case consideration. (Another imperative that applies as profoundly to all serious art.) Yes, the system is rigged. It’s built on the circular, stupefying logic of ‘entry by admission only’, which, for so many, for so long, has meant off-limits, no-go, maybe-next-time. But for those of us who have spent our lives fighting for cultural space, respect, autonomy, equity – the last thing we need is for our accession, if and when it comes, to be asterisked. The system wants us to want to belong, at almost any price. We owe it to ourselves to want more.
One term at school, I was chosen as bell ringer. This memory still shines through the murk. I remember the thrill of possessing the empty corridors and courtyards with cause, singled out, special, bearing pass and power to end the given period. I was in charge of all that freedom. I would wait as long as I dared, then swing the rope knotted to the thick brass tongue, swing it hard and regular and skullbreak-strong against the bronze rim.
I know something about labels, or my parents do. What follows is a bit patchy, in the way of family histories; I can’t entirely vouch for it. In fact, I can barely stand to write it. I don’t like to write about personal things in non-fictional mode; the truth feels harder to get to. Yeats said, ‘All that is personal soon rots; it must be packed in ice or salt.’ He was talking about the formal conventions of lyric but let’s allow the poet some play: ice hardens the heart, salt poisons – irrevocably – the razed city.
Not so easy when it’s your family on the line.
In the PBS spiel, I said of my family: ‘when things went downhill, we . . . fled the country’. Those first four words – when things went downhill (and what more tritely perfect example of Australian understatement?) – papered over assorted bad things (death, suicide, dispossession, displacement, labour camp, starvation, subjugation), but the common coefficient to all this was a booklet of cheap, coarse, yellowish pages called the Declaration of Personal Background.
Saigon fell; the Communists took over. Law became ideology; your fate as a southerner was pegged to a Party line that twanged unpredictably in response to the internal and interpretive tensions of Marxist–Leninist–Stalinist–Mao Zedong Thought. Those few Communists who claimed to understand the theory spent their time contesting it with each other; the rest went about their usual business: classifying people. The Declaration was a brilliant originary outsourcing of work. It opened everyone’s record: first you classified yourself class-wise (bourgeoisie, petite bourgeoisie, proletariat, peasantry) and then you accounted in detail everything you’d been, done, thought or associated with over a thirty-year time span. This led you to the next rung of classifications (puppet, lackey – imperialist or neo-colonialist sub-types – quisling, comprador, rightist, revisionist, reactionary, or – the catch-all – counter-revolutionary). You picked your poisons.
Then you repeated this process for every single person in your extended family, going back three generations. (Given the size of Vietnamese families, this typically involved over a hundred people.)
The Declarations would then be collected and cross-referenced against each other. You would expect to be cross-examined on what others had written about you. You would expect to be cross-examined against what you had written in your own earlier Declarations – for you were expected to regularly fill out new ones. People learned to keep things simple and consistent. They learned to apply the correct Communist jargon. By way of countermeasure, Communists mandated interminable ‘self-criticism’ and ‘struggle’ sessions; they demanded you write extemporised, in-depth essay after essay. You had no choice. You had to keep producing the words that would be used to sentence you.
And so they were. The labels stuck, and they were fatal. They became your identity and your identity became your destiny. Based on these labels (petit bourgeois, quisling), my father was sent to a ‘re-education camp’, where he was enslaved and tortured for three years. My grandparents (neo-colonialist, compradors) had their homes and businesses confiscated, their possessions commandeered, their savings devalued. Two of them suicided. My mother (bourgeois, lackey) fared better: she was merely relegated, with her baby, my brother, to a crowded garage that had once belonged to her family, and invited to pay her ‘blood debt to the people’ by relinquishing any rights, jobs, civic status or control over her future.
I’m reminded of a bit in Vasily Grossman’s incandescent, excoriating Life and Fate. Our protagonist, a compromised intellectual in Stalin’s Soviet Union, is (of course) filling in a questionnaire:
Viktor wrote, ‘Petit bourgeois’. Petit bourgeois! What kind of petit bourgeois was he? Suddenly, probably because of the war, he began to doubt whether there really was such a gulf between the legitimate Soviet question about social origin and the bloody, fateful question of nationality as posed by the Germans.
The italics are mine.
How far is the distance from ‘legitimate’ to ‘bloody’?
Is this where you end up when you go too far?
Early in Malouf’s Harland’s Half Acre, some white boys come across a rock carving:
Not far before the ruins there was a platform of rock. Aborigines had foregathered here, all the local tribes in their wanderings, and left crude rock carvings . . . With their knees drawn up [the boys] would sit on warm stone in the very midst of it, among the sea-creatures and the flights of wallabies and paddymelons and every sort of bird; that other world would be all about them, abstracted into enduring lines that crossed and criss-crossed in an endless puzzle. The outline of a whale might be broken by that of a bounding kangaroo, the separate orders of creation, sea-beast and land-beast, interpenetrating in an element outside nature – the mind of whoever it was, decades back, who had squatted here and with bits of flint or a sharpened stone made the clearing a meeting-place for separate lines of existence.
Malouf’s books abound in numinous moments, but this one stands out for me. The rock carving is a work deeply in and of the world, made by many human hands. There is no separation of past and present, myth and materiality. This is archetypal Malouf in that everything is interconnected, everything liminal, on the verge of metamorphosing into a ‘separate order of creation’. In The Great World, the hero, Digger Keen, says, ‘Even the least event had lines, all tangled, going back into the past, and beyond that into the unknown past, and other lines leading out, all tangled, into the future. Every moment was dense with causes, possibilities, consequences; too many, even in the simplest case, to grasp.’
This is what identity looks like, Malouf is saying, if you must insist on it. It is, at its most basic, indistinguishable from existence, which is, in turn, infinitely complex – a network of tangled lines going every which way, through every part of being-in-the-world. These lines run in and out of place, time, genetics, culture, language, circumstance, accident, other people, all the happenstances of mind-life and dream-life. All a writer can do is stand in the midst of this monkey-puzzle mesh and pluck one line, then another, trying to happen on a harmonics that sounds right. Art comes (or it doesn’t) from these soundings.
What is folly is imagining you could compact these lines into coherence, let alone sense – let alone representativeness. If my family history has imbued me with anything, it’s the awareness that identity is complex, politics is complex. What a disappointment, then, that identity politics is so simplistic. I’m actually not unsympathetic to identity as politics, as political performance. There’s a place, I think, for strategic essentialism: for the use of identity to create community, to centre sidelined voices, to defend ‘standpoint epistemology’, to bear witness and collate testimony – to redress structural inequity. As a person, a citizen, a comrade, I get it – I can even get with it.
As a writer, I find it profane.
Writers shouldn’t be joiners, shouldn’t be boosters or censors or mouthpieces – representatives – of anything but their own truths. They should protect, at the exact cost of their art, their artistic sovereignty. Because a correct literature is not a moral literature. Because without sovereignty, a writer is an instrument of a foreign power – truly a puppet, lackey, collaborator, quisling – and their work no more art than those millions of forced, falsified autobiographies written by my forebears. As soon as a writer can be said to be what others label them (from whatever intention), they’re no longer – no longer allowed to be – entirely themselves.
‘Entirely himself’. This is how Malouf describes Peter Porter, the Australian-born poet who spent his adult life as an expatriate in London. Belonging neither there nor here, he was instead ‘made’ by books (Auden, Pope, Donne), music (Mozart, Donizetti, Verdi, Bruckner, Bach) and, most of all, language. Malouf has written, of Christina Stead, that she ‘belongs wherever she puts down her intelligence and allows it to take root’. Of Porter again: language is ‘the only place he has ever been at home’. I might be projecting, but it feels to me as though Malouf might be projecting here.
English is my second language, my better language. It’s the language better suited to my way of thinking – which was conditioned by it to think so. (It takes a mongrel, maybe, to know a mongrel . . .) I’ve never felt unwelcomed in it. Which is more than I can say for every place it’s spoken. For me, the question of a writer’s ‘identity’ – if it must matter – is answered, of course, by words. The true pedigree is linguistic. The true passport is imaginative. Writers should get some say in it. (Fancy that!) What matters is not what tribe or place the person was born to but what community the writer has made for themselves through reading, thinking, writing. Malouf’s first name comes not from his Jewish or Melkite Catholic heritage but from Dickens – Copperfield, not King. His work, he wants us to know, is descended not from patchy family history but from the all-access traditions of so-called ‘high art’, and within them the writings of Homer, Hesiod, Horace, Virgil, Dante, Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Balzac, Hugo, Kipling, Lawrence, Kafka, Proust, Mann, Joyce.
There’s a metaphor of Jean Rhys’s I love in which she describes literature as a great lake to be continually fed. You pour yourself in, as a writer, you draw yourself out as deep as you dare. When Malouf praises overlooked Australian writers Kenneth Mackenzie and Frederic Manning by placing them in the company of Mann, Radiguet, Kafka, Musil, Hamsun, Camus and Beckett, it is the opposite of cringe – it is a carriage of justice, an action of equilibrium, of graceful re-centring. It is welcoming them into the middle of the lake, where the water, though darker, runs deepest.
Photograph © Prince Roy

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OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio-- The FOX 8 I TEAM has learned records show some suburban police officers surfing the Internet when they said they were patrolling or doing other police work.
Questions surround the work of some Olmsted Falls officers. Records show one supervisor going to a website for cheerleader wardrobe malfunctions, browsing YouTube, and shopping for a snowblower while on duty.
Mayor Ann Marie Donegan says she ordered an audit of the use of all city computers, and only sites visited by police officers raised issues.
Donegan said, “I mean, when you’re working on behalf of the citizens, they work hard for their money. We need to work harder for their money.”
Donegan says Lt. Carmen Battaglia just retired after being confronted with the computer records including the site visits involving the cheerleaders and more.
The I TEAM reached him by phone. He said, “I’m retired. I’m done. I didn’t get away with anything. I’ve been told not to say anything.” Earlier this month he had been suspended without pay for one day over the incident.
An attorney for Battaglia says the lieutenant had planned to retire after the first of the year.
Meantime, the mayor says a couple of other Olmsted Falls officers are facing discipline over computer usage on duty.
Oddly, the I TEAM went to Chief Dan Gilles. He claimed to know little about all this saying the findings weren’t shared with him. However, the mayor says he’s been informed.
The mayor also insists this has nothing to do with a domestic violence charge against her filed by her own officers last year. That case was dismissed by a judge.


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Despite US Rate Increases, the Dollar's Biggest Gains Look Done for Now
19 March, 2017, 01:07 | Author: Elaine Woods
With support showing-up around this key level, we may be seeing the rate hike that's largely-expected to take place later today being priced-in.
At 3:13 p.m., the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 34.93 points, or 0.17 percent, to 20,915.17, the S&P 500 had lost 5.85 points, or 0.25 percent, to 2,379.41, and the Nasdaq Composite had dropped 5.46 points, or 0.09 percent, to 5,894.59. The S&P 500 rose 0.8 percent one day after the Fed's decision.
Gold is highly sensitive to rising U.S. interest rates, as these increase the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding bullion, while boosting the dollar, in which it is priced.
Still, some market strategists see near-term headwinds for precious metals, especially since the bullish sentiment spurred by President Donald Trump's proposals to juice the US economy through fiscal-stimulus measures haven't entirely vanished.
After jumping almost 2 percent in the wake of the Fed meeting, the lira slipped 0.4 percent on Thursday.
Analysts said the election this week in Holland had calmed concerns over political risk in Europe, as Dutch center-right Prime Minister Mark Rutte fought off the challenge of anti-Islam and anti-EU rival Geert Wilders. After Britain's vote in summer to exit the European Union, investors wondered whether the Dutch election and others scheduled later this year on the continent could lead the European Union to break apart.
SOME CENTRAL BANKS FOLLOW THE FED: China's central bank raised a short-term interest rate on lending to banks but left its benchmark rate unchanged after the US increase.
SNP: UK Government running scared of second independence vote
The remarks upped the ante in a war of words over Scottish independence as Britain prepares for intense European Union exit talks. Theresa May called for the country to come together to ensure "we can get the best deal for the whole of the United Kingdom".
The 10-year Treasury yield fell to 2.51 percent from 2.54 percent late Thursday.
"Even though the dot plot is not relevant because so much can change, the Fed reminded us all of the gradual nature of their expected behaviour on this rate hike cycle", said Peter Boockvar, chief market analyst at The Lindsey Group, in a Wednesday note.
The central bank's rate increase was spurred by steady economic growth, strong job gains and confidence that inflation is rising to the central bank's target.
Data:French inflation rose 1.2% (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/french-inflation-confirmed-as-slowing-in-february-2017-03-15) on the year in February, slowing from January's rate, statistics agency Insee said.
On Thursday, Hong Kong stocks were up 1.7 percent, Shanghai adding 0.8 percent and Seoul advancing 0.8 percent.
The yellow metal was trading 0.20 per cent, or Rs 50, up at 28,467 per 10 gram, while the white metal was up 0.31 per cent, or Rs 124, at Rs 40,722 per 1 kg.
CURRENCIES: The euro from dipped to $1.0746 from $1.0749 late Thursday, and the British pound fell to $1.2367 from $1.2358.
According to a report by Fortune , Tesla shares opened at $264 today morning before dropping 0.7% and then rebounding. Elon Musk recently attended the 2017 World Government Summit in Dubai, to launch Tesla in the UAE.
It is safe to say that Los Angeles Dodgers' first baseman Adrian Gonzalez is not the biggest fan of the World Baseball Classic . Not only have there been some very good games early on, but there has been a playoff-type atmosphere during numerous matchups.
Goa Governor Mridula Sinha on Sunday appointed Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar as the new Chief Minister of Goa. Mr Parrikar exuded confidence that the BJP would prove its majority on the floor of the House on March 16.
Arsenal legend Paul Merson has described his former side's upcoming trip to West Bromwich Albion as a potential banana skin. The Baggies could lose three Premier League games in a row for the first time this season .
Paramedic Todd Zobrist pulled the boy's lifeless body out of the SUV and used the roof of the vehicle as a surface to perform CPR. The neighbor, Sherry Ricker, told the newspaper that she saw Cristy Campbell and held her infant son just three days earlier.
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Twitter Counter's Ginor added: "We do not store users' Twitter account credentials (passwords) nor credit card information". Twitter Counter informed users that it has now cut off tweet posting through its system and changed its Twitter app key.
Note: Manipur and Goa have been marked in red because at the time of writing, no party was in a position to form the government. However, Congress MLA Thounaojam Shyam Kumar, who has reportedly joined the BJP, was conspicuous by his absence.
Her British DJ boyfriend, David James Taylor, was convicted of the same offence and jailed for six years. Taylor, known as DJ Nutzo, was supported in court by his parents John and Janet Taylor from the UK.
Claims for unemployment benefits dip by 2000
The number of unemployed residents rose by 2,726 to 23,887, while the number of employed residents decreased by 1,094 to 387,721. The number of unemployed residents in the region rose from December to January by 1,033 to 14,139, labor officials said.
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I wasn't too anxious about the result because we have had such a good day anyway but Defi made it look easy", she said. Despite his late charge, Mullins couldn't hold off Gordon Elliott in the race to be leading trainer at the Festival.
States seeking Trump travel ban block want new hearing
Giving those explanations, it's hard to understand why the United States is still allowing travel from, say, Afghanistan. It still suspends admission of refugees and still bans issuing visas to a group of Muslim countries.


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Our 'Clinical Genetics in Action' series was created in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians. The films were initiated at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Genomics in Medicine (The British Society for Genetic Medicine, The Royal College of Pathologists and The Royal College of Physicians), with development led by Dr Kate Tatton-Brown and Dr Katherine Josephs at St George's Hospital, London. Clinical Genetics is an area of medicine that is rapidly evolving as more genomic tests are developed and we learn more and more about the links between genes and disease. The series showcases some of the many breakthroughs in genomics and how they are changing the lives of patients, whilst also highlighting some of the challenges for healthcare professionals of using genomic technologies.
In this film, Dr Richard Scott, Consultant Clinical Geneticist at Great Ormond Street Hospital and Clinical Lead for Rare Disease for the 100,000 Genomes Project - genomicsengland.co.uk/about-genomics-england/the-100000-genomes-project/ - discusses the complexities of interpreting genomic test results.
Dr Scott gives an example of a case he recently worked on where a little girl had genomic testing in an attempt to find a diagnosis for her health problems. The testing discovered a rare variant in a gene called PNKP that had been reported once before in another family who had undergone whole genome sequencing.
Dr Scott explains that given the (very limited) evidence, it was tempting to classify the variant as pathogenic (disease-causing), but that his expert team's knowledge of genomics enabled them to see that some of the girl's clinical features and her general development did not quite match with a variant in the gene in question. As a result, it was classified as a variant of uncertain significance.
Dr Scott discusses the challenges of conveying uncertainty to families, but emphasises the importance of not being hasty when it comes to classifying variants. As his case shows, time is often needed to gather enough evidence to say wither way whether a variant is disease-causing or not. Indeed, with more time, the variant originally identified was found in healthy people and therefore determined non-pathogenic; and later tests revealed another genetic variant that the team felt confident was the real cause of the girl's condition.
Dr Scott goes on to outline some of the potential consequences with making an incorrect diagnosis, such as unjustifiable worry in other family members and further genetic testing in search of an 'innocent' variant. The conclusion is that, though uncertainty is difficult to deal with, it is less damaging than wrongly classifying a variant as disease-causing.
Health Education England's Genomics Education Programme is developing a substantial education programme to inform healthcare professionals about the impact of genomics on clinical practice. This video is the one of the many educational resources from the programme.
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CINCINNATI - There are not too many times when news of a twerking flameout collides with a sober anniversary like Sept. 11. This week was the exception.
#Twerkburn. By now, you’ve probably seen the epic “twerking” fail: Girl “twerks” on her door, friend opens door, girl back flips onto a coffee table adorned with candles, girl busts table, girl catches fire. While the video went viral almost instantly, many were scratching their heads: was this real or fake?
Jimmy Kimmel had the answer on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Monday night. It was, in fact, fake, and Kimmel himself orchestrated the whole thing. The video was performed by a stunt person, and just like that, we had to question everything we believed in.
I mean, if you can’t believe something on the Internet, what can you believe? Luckily, we have WCPO Community Editor Holly Edgell to give us some good rules of thumb to follow when viewing digital content that is both ridiculous and pretty cool. Watch Holly’s interview with 9 On Your Side reporter Tony Mirones.
An Apple Update. After a few months of anticipation, Apple made its big announcement Tuesday, delivering announcing a new operating system, iOS7, and two new phones: the iPhones 5C and iPhones 5S. Apple said the iOS7 will be available as early as September 18, with the new phones coming later. The biggest shock though? The colors of the phones. If you were unimpressed with the black and white options before, you’ll probably get a kick out of these babies.
#NeverForget: Patriot Day and social media. Wednesday, was the 12th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. Also known as Patriot Day, it’s a time for Americans to remember and reflect on how far we’ve come as a nation. You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who didn’t remember where he or she was on that tragic day; in fact, our Tri-State social media users told us exactly where they were. Community Manager Libby captured their responses – check them out here.
Calling Saul. Social media networks were abuzz Wednesday when it was announced that the “Breaking Bad” spinoff, tentatively titled “Better Call Saul,” got the green light from AMC. For those of you who are preemptively mourning the end of “Breaking Bad” in just a few episodes, this is the news you’ve been waiting to hear.
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Understanding farmers’ intentions to follow a nutrient management plan using the theory of planned behaviour
By: Daxini, A., Ryan, M., O’Donoghue, C., Barnes, A. P., & Buckley, C.
Farmer decision making in relation to chemical fertiliser and manure use is of great concern to policy makers. Inefficient use can lead to both environmental pollution and financial losses to farmers. Following a nutrient management plan (NMP) can help to mitigate these impacts and improve farm incomes. As the use of NMPs remains below expectation globally, this study aims to provide insights into the drivers of farmers’ intentions to follow a NMP and to understand how behavioural change can be encouraged. An extended version of the theory of planned behaviour is adopted and structural equation modelling is used to analyse survey data collected from a sample of Irish farmers. Results show that intention to follow a NMP is primarily driven by perceived behavioural control (ease/difficulty) over following a NMP, followed by subjective norm (social pressure) and finally attitude (negative/positive evaluation) towards following a NMP. Read more>>
Exploring diversity in expert knowledge: variation in local ecological knowledge of Alaskan recreational and subsistence fishers
By: Chan, M. N., Beaudreau, A. H., & Loring, P. A
Local ecological knowledge (LEK) of resource users is a valuable source of information about environmental trends and conditions. However, many factors influence how people perceive their environment and it may be important to identify sources of variation in LEK when using it to understand ecological change. This study examined variation in LEK arising from differences in people’s experience in the environment. From 2014 to 2016, we conducted 98 semi-structured interviews with subsistence fishers and recreational charter captains in four Alaskan coastal communities to document LEK of seven fish species.
Fishers observed declines in fish abundance and body size, though the patterns varied among species, regions, and fishery sectors. Overall, subsistence harvesters provided a longer-term view of abundance changes compared with charter captains. Read more>>


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Last night, Ariana Grande posted and then deleted a picture of her new palm tattoo. It includes the characters "七輪" which is apparently meant to be in celebration of her recent single "7 Rings." As a couple of people online and the website Kotaku explained, the symbols translate to "seven" and "ring," "circle," or "hoop" in Japanese when separated, but, when combined, roughly translate to "small charcoal grill."
When confronted about the tattoo on Twitter, Grande explained herself in a since-deleted tweet. "Indeed, i left out 'つの指' which should have gone in between," she writes. "It hurt like fuck n still looks tight. i wouldn't have lasted one more symbol lmao. but this spot also peels a ton and won't last so if i miss it enough, i'll suffer thru the whole thing next time." She adds right after that she's also a "huge fan of tiny bbq grills."
The singer has recently been called out and questioned for using Japanese characters in a bunch of her promotion for her upcoming album. People noticed that some are randomly scattered in her "7 Rings" video, as well as that she included characters in the thank u, next album art and is selling merch with arigatou (thank you in Japanese) on it.
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TheXboxHub Official Podcast is back and in Episode 130 (yes, one hundred and thirty!), the team get together to chat about a ton of games, as well as the recent Nintendo Direct Mini presentation and dive into the world of Overwatch.
Things may have calmed down in the gaming world in the last seven days, but there’s still much to discuss. We’ve got opinions on some of the latest games to hit the Xbox, thoughts on the recent Final Fantasy news, a bit of Fall Guys, and even a quiz to put everyone's knowledge to the test. So, have a listen to TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 129 and enjoy it!
It’s been a hell of a week for games, hasn’t it? And so, it’s only natural that we’d cover the two biggest showcases: Xbox Bethesda Showcase and Summer Game Fest. TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 128 has the highs, the lows, and everything in between. As such, it’s packed with discussion of many, many games by podcast regulars Gareth, James and Paul. You won’t want to miss this one!
From snipers and zombies to cats and dinosaurs, there’s quite a lot to unpack in TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 127. So, settle down for thoughts on the most recent PlayStation State of Play, Sniper Elite 5, Modern Warfare 2, the latest instalment of the Jurassic World saga, and much, much more.
Prepare for a weird and wonderful episode this week on TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 126, with saints, spirits and the redeployment of Arma cropping up throughout. We’ve got an in-depth preview of the upcoming Saints Row reboot, an announcement regarding Arma Reforger, the unveiling of the next big life management RPG Spirittea, and much more. Be sure to have a listen to hear what else has caught our attention recently and enjoy our musings!
It’s a relatively quiet time in terms of AAA releases at the moment, but that doesn’t mean our team has nothing to talk about. Far from it, with a selection of interesting games like Whiskey & Zombies to provide opinions on as well as news regarding the future of FIFA, a monstrous invasion in Call of Duty Warzone, and a surprising decision involving Gotham Knights. There’s also a quiz, so you won’t want to miss TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 125!
Following our Atari Special, we’re ready to widen our scope to incorporate everything and anything going on in gaming right now. Expect to hear about a selection of games the team are currently invested in, including a JRPG, a run ‘n’ gun type experience, the latest adventure from LEGO Star Wars, a spooky take on Tokyo, and a couple more. There’s even a quiz to put everyone’s knowledge to the test. So, be sure to tune in to TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 124 to learn more and have a little fun along the way.
Join Gareth, Neil, James and Richard from TheXboxHub as they chew the fat over the latest announcements to come out of the Atari fold. Gravitar: Recharged is the headline act, but you'll hear the team talk about how Atari have really gone to town with modernising the likes of Breakout, Centipede, Black Widow and Asteroids.
After a brief hiatus, we’re back with TheXboxHub Official Podcast Episode 122 and there is a real eclectic mix of topics on the agenda this week. First and foremost, expect discussion regarding Xbox Game Pass, the hottest games like Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands, and future prospects. You can also find out what Gareth, James, Paul and Richard have been up to, which includes talk about the latest TV shows and WrestleMania. What more could you ask for? Be sure to give it a listen!

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TZYNCHROMESH 1 Christian Art & Poetry Magazine is out now.
TZYNCHROMESH is a "rolling magazine" that is constantly added to throughout each calendar year.
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With his first collection of haiku Brendan Slater stamps his own unique style and distinctive voice on the world.
Though they are individual poems, Slater's haiku present many possibilities for the reader. The placement of two poems beside each other allows the reader to choose their own direction : either vertically or horizontally.
Slater has gone on to be owner of Yet To Be Named Free Press and editor of 'moongarlic' haiku magazine.
Now with a special surprise feature at the end of the book for 2019.
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I have admired Brendan’s work for some time now. We have shared many ideas on haiku. When Brendan approached me with his manuscript idea for two liners, which he was reluctant to call haiku, I was both excited to see what he would produce and honoured he thought of my press. I had 100 poems in hand within weeks from what I suspect was a red-hot keyboard. I had told him beforehand I would only use 60 or so poems and he gave me the difficult task of having to cut some.
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On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage. While this shift in the law may seem like one of the swiftest cultural changes in recent memory, the struggle for marriage equality has been fought for hundreds of years and will continue into the future. Same-sex couples face many challenges from religious freedom groups, communities, employers and with family planning.
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