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I love this little flower, and it’s a good thing, because it grows ALL OVER my yard and property. It is delicate and beautiful and it makes me happy to look at those sweet blossoms with their heart shaped leaves. And they taste good, too.
The blossoms have sort of a nutty, raw-pea kind of flavor, and the leaves are just nice and mild. I like to chop the leaves and put them in salads and fritters (my current-favorite way of using wild greens, recipe down below). The flowers I’ll leave whole and put on top of salads and dips as an edible decoration. They make a nice presentation when bringing stuff for a pot-luck.
These delicate, innocent-looking little plants grow very robustly, so I’m not worried about over-harvesting at all. They are related to pansies and johnny jump ups, which are also edible flowers. They grow around the edges of buildings and woods, where they get some shade for part of the day, and are happy no matter how much or little rain there is.
Okay, here’s the recipe for my current-favorite way of eating wild greens: Fritters!
1 cup grated fleshy vegetable like sweet potato or zucchini.
1/4 cup flour of choice (I like garbanzo bean flour)
Now here’s the fun part – chop up whatever wild greens you’ve got on hand, throw in about 1/4 cup (more or less, depending on taste) and mix it up good with the other ingredients. Spoon onto a hot griddle with plenty of oil and flatten into a disc shape. Fry until golden, flip and repeat. These are delicious hot off the griddle or cold so they are great to pack in lunch boxes.
Here we go, Spring Foraging is about to come into full bloom!! My plan is to feature one or two In-Season plants in each blog post from now until the deep, dark winter comes again. To start us off, here is a list of Good Harvesting Practices to keep in mind.
First and foremost, before you eat a Wild Food, be absolutely sure of its identity, and Don’t Eat Something if You Don’t Know What it is. (Go ahead, click the link, you won’t regret it) I often tell people that learning about Wild Foods isn’t hard, but it does take effort. You can go to the grocery store and tell the difference between Lettuce and Cabbage, right? Or Iceberg from Romaine Lettuce, right? And if we were to confuse those lettuces at the grocery store, we’d still come home with food that is safe to eat. That’s not always true in the wild, though……many plants have look-alikes and look-similars that will make us and our loved ones sick, so let’s be sure of what we’ve got.
Get Permission. If it’s not your own backyard, make sure you have permission to harvest. On many local trails, parks and public land it’s perfectly fine to forage, but if you aren’t positive, make a phone call to be sure.
Harvest from clean areas. I like to be aware of whether the area has been sprayed with chemicals like herbicides and pesticides, and avoid those places. In my county, most farmers use these things, so I’ll refrain from foraging near corn and soybean fields. I have friends who employ a service to spray their lawns with weedkiller, so I don’t harvest from their yards, either. I’m sure it’s not any different from what we find on conventionally grown foods in the grocery store….but…if I’m going through all this effort to find beautiful, nutritious Wild Foods, I’m going to make sure it’s organic, too.
Harvest with the Plants’ health in mind. We want these plants to thrive and keep growing so that we can continue to come to them for food and wisdom. You’ll find a variety of ‘rules’ about How Much to pick – anywhere from 10% to 50% is what I’ve seen. I don’t think any one percentage can be applied across the board. A yard full of Dandelions would be hard to over harvest, in my mind, lol!! I would say to be Mindful as you go, listen to your intuition, even go ahead and ask the plants themselves. Be Friendly. 🙂
Start Small. It is a wise practice to eat ‘just a little bit’ when you are trying out new foods, whether they are Wild nor Not. Everyone’s body is different, and you may be able to eat as much Chicken of the Woods as you want, but I know from experience that I cannot eat it at all. (I’ll spare you the messy details…..)
Okay, I know this is more than Five Best Practices, so consider this a Bonus: Have Fun!! Get outside, enjoy the sunshine and the rain, take your kids and grandkids along, talk to the plants, listen to them, and enjoy the heck out of life every day. Why not?
Diving deep into Wild Food culture can land you in some really interesting places. What started off for me as a cool way to get free food (foraging beats the pants off of Ultra-Couponing) has led me into some other very satisfying and creative endeavors. Here are some of my favorite tangents that foraging has led me to……
Botany: Well, you can hardly study Wild Foods without acknowledging some Botany, right? Knowing characteristics of Plant Families helps to narrow down the possibilities so we can more easily get to a positive ID. A walk in the woods with my field guide has me looking up any interesting-looking plant these days.
Fermenting, Wine making, Cheese making: Successful foraging means you’ve got a bounty of wild foods, maybe even more than you can eat up. You *could* share it with friends, but they *might* not appreciate it as much as you do…..so in comes Wine Making and Fermentation. I could freeze those berries to make smoothies, but I prefer a nice bottle of blackberry wine, lol! I can freeze or can fiddleheads and wild leeks, but lacto-fermenting them makes them SO delicious and even more healthy than they already are. Cheese-making isn’t exactly a Wild Food thing, but once you start making wine and fermenting vegetables, it’s just going to happen…
Conservation: More and more I am finding myself talking and teaching about protecting plant and animal habitats. We can’t very well forage or hunt if we destroy these things in the process, or allow others to destroy them with harmful practices.
Primitive Skills: Cordage and Willow Weaving are two new skills I’ve learned recently. Eventually I want to try my hand at birch bark basket making, primitive fire starting, and gosh just all kinds of stuff……..
Outdoor fitness: Kinda comes with the territory, right? There’s a lot of hiking involved when we go looking for mushrooms, ramps, fiddleheads and berries! Kayaking and canoeing are the methods we use to get Lotus Heads and Wild Rice. And while we are spending all that time outside on trails and such, let’s try a little Geocaching, just for funsies……
Personal health: “Food is medicine”. “You are what you eat”. The more I learn about the foods I eat – not just the Wild Food – the more I feel empowered to keep myself healthy.
The Sap Moon is full as I write this, and the Maple Sap is flowing. We’ve got 40 taps out right now, and the First Boil happened March 24 when our sons came and spent the day in the sugar shack while we were out and about. They turned 55 gallons of sap into 1.5 gallons of syrup – it was a good day.
Second Boil happened March 29 – hubby boiled 50 gallons of sap down to 5 gallons for making Wine – an even better day!
Third boil happened April 1 – hubby went out to the sap buckets and poured out the tiny bit of sap that was trapped under the ice. It was super concentrated, VERY sweet. We had about a quart, and boiled it to 259 degrees, then stirred it into a cup and a half of Maple Sugar! First time we’ve ever made it, and it was very fun and satisfying.
I’m enjoying drinking some Maple sap straight from the tree – it’s really sweet! I’m using it to make tea, and to flavor my coffee, too.
Did you know that you can tap trees other than Sugar Maples, and make sryup with them, too? Walnut, birch, hickory, sycamore, ash, basswood and butternut all have sap that contains about one percent sugar. And other types of maples can be tapped too, like box elders, silver and black maple. Sugar maple’s sap is The Boss, though, because it contains 3-5 percent sugar, so it takes less sap to make syrup. I’ll bet a person could drink the sap from those other trees, though, and it would taste yummy…………
A friend recently served me some Mushroom and Brie soup, and it was so delicious I had to try making some. The wild-foraged mushrooms in my freezer were starting to look sad, so I used them all up in this soup: Oysters, Crown Corals and Pheasant Back. I looked up a couple of recipes online, and then made up my own. That’s how it’s done, right?
1/2 cup chopped onion, 1 cup mushrooms – saute in butter, add 1T Worcestershire sauce, 1/4 Cup brandy. Pour a quart of chicken broth over the mixture, add 1 teaspoon dried thyme and a clove of crushed garlic. When the broth gets hot, stick the immersion blender in and blend until it’s as smooth as you like. Then add 8 oz of cubed Brie (I took the rind off) and 1 cup of cream. I stirred and stirred but that Brie never melted all the way through, so I ate it with soft chunks. I kinda liked it that way.
Okay, so my soup wasn’t as good as my friend’s, but I had fun making it and it wasn’t terrible. Plus I’m eating Wild Mushrooms in the winter, so it’s a good day.
This winter has been savage, even for Wisconsin. Long stretches of way-too-many-degrees below zero. Too cold to enjoy being outside, but perfect for snuggling up with a good Story. I’ve been hunting down books and movies that contain foraging, wild foods, botany and/or herbalism as part of the story line. These are not ‘how-to’ videos and books, these are just regular movies and novels in which the characters are foraging mushrooms, eating wild foods, studying plants, and making herbal medicine. These are just a few of the many Stories out there……
Now, Forager: This is a movie about a young married couple who sell wild mushrooms to high-end restaurants. The husband wants to go All In, ditch the apartment and travel the Mushroom Trail, and the wife wants to settle down, stop foraging and get a more stable job. It’s a little bit sad, but it was a good story.
A Cry in the Wild: This movie is based on the young adult book “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen. It’s about a teen boy who survives on his own in the wilderness after the small plane he was traveling on crashes. It was made in the 90’s, it’s a little cheesy, but I enjoyed it.
Against the Wild: Another movie with some kids surviving a small plane crash, this time there’s a dog, too. It’s terrible. I’m not kidding, The acting was so bad it was painful, and I couldn’t even finish watching it.
The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldon. I’m not really sure how to describe these books. It is my hands-down All-Time Favorite book series. I’ve read most of the 8 books (9th one is being written) twice, and will probably read them again when the next book is finally published. The main character is a WWII nurse who accidentally time-travels to Scotland in the 1700’s. Herbalism, witch hunts, revolution, love, lust and everything else you’d want for an epic adventure.
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett. A scientist is in the Amazon jungle working on the next new wonder drug, and disappears. Another scientist goes looking for her, and he disappears. Another scientist goes looking for both of them, and finds a whole bunch of stuff. It’s disturbing, exciting, thought provoking and some of the characters are from Minnesota.
The Mushroom Hunters: This is the true story of foodie writer Langdon Cook, who tags along with some rough-and-tumble sort-of-outlaws who forage mushrooms full time. Super interesting, well-told, and I finished the book knowing that I’d never be tempted to live that sort of life!
Today’s Tea: Fresh White Pine needles and some dried Rose Hips. So simple, so delicious. I picked up a few wind-fallen pine twigs, pulled the needles off and cut them up into a quart jar. Threw a handful of dried Rose Hips in the jar, topped it off with almost-boiling water, capped it to keep those volatile oils in, and steeped it for a couple hours to get as much vitamin C as possible. It’s mild and smooth, and I drink it hot or cold. I noticed when it was cold I could taste more of the tartness of the Rose Hips, but either way it’s refreshing and nourishing.
You can use most Pines and Spruces for teas, with the exception of Yew, Ponderosa Pine, and Norfolk Island Pine. In addition to having lots of Vitamin C, pine needle teas help loosen congestion and are high in antioxidants. Good stuff!
I am a bona fide Book Nerd. I read constantly, and own hundreds of books. I love all of them, and some I love more than others. Here are the very Favorite of my Favorites, the books I’m looking at more than any others, because I’m a Wild Food Nerd, too. In no particular order, just because I feel like being random. And no, I don’t get any compensation for mentioning these books, mainly because I haven’t figured out how that works. But someday…….
Botany in a Day, by Thomas Elpel. He covers Edible, Medicinal and Poisonous plants, and designed this book so that we look at the common characteristics within plant families to help us identify plants in the field. I especially like the “Key Words” he points out for each plant family – for instance, Mustard family key words are “4 petals and 6 stamens – 4 tall and 2 short”. (Plant. There, I just had to say it one more time.)
All of Sam Thayer’s Books: The Forager’s Harvest, Nature’s Garden, and Incredible Wild Edibles. These books are beautiful, thorough, and have hundreds of excellent photographs of the many wild foods he talks about. There are pages of information about each plant, and it’s presented in an engaging style with personal stories, antidotes, and lots of botanical details.
Mushrooms of the Midwest, by Teresa Marrone. A good number of mushroom field guides are hard to navigate and have too-small photos. This little field guide is easy to use, and it has large, beautiful photographs with easy to read details. One caveat with this book: apparently the photo of the Chaga mushroom is suspected by some fellow foragers to be something other than Chaga. Just so ya know.
Alchemy of Herbs, by Rosalee de la Foret. This isn’t a totally wild food book, but it does include some favorites like Nettle, Dandelion, Hawthorn and others. What I absolutely love about this book is that is focuses on using medicinal herbs in food preparations, rather than the usual tinctures, gylcerites, etc. The author thoroughly covers the medicinal properties of the herbs, and then tells us how best to incorporate them into delicious recipes.
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants, by Bradford Angier. It’s a slim book that covers over 100 plants. What I love most about this one is the colored drawings…..There are no photographs, but the drawings are beautiful and detailed. I also like that the plants are listed alphabetically by their common names. It’s a very easy guide to work with.
Backyard Medicine, by Julie Bruton-Seal & Mathew Seal. In contrast to Alchemy of Herbs, this books goes into great detail about how to make all kinds of medicinal preparations with backyard plants. I especially love all the different ways they share to explore the medicine of plants: teas, infusions, decoctions, tincture, glycerites, wines and beers (!!), vinegars, herbal honeys, oxymels, electuaries (I’d never heard this word before, but I’ve done this – it’s just mixing powdered herb into honey to make a paste), syrups, salves and more, oh my!
And there you have it, my Favorite of Favorites. There will be others down the road, I’m sure, because I will always be looking at books about Wild Food and Folk Medicine….
The first time someone asked me about Kombucha (a sort-of-sweet fermented beverage), I thought they were talking about Kimchi (a spicy fermented vegetable mix). It took me a few beats to realize that we were having a conversation about completely different things. I stopped, mid-sentence, and said something like “Wait, what?”.
I’d never heard of it before, and the more my friend told me about it, the more intrigued I was. You put WHAT on top of the tea? SCOBY is an acronym for Symbiotic Colony of Bacteria and Yeast, and it’s a slimy blob that contains, well, bacteria and yeast. The good kind. The bacteria and yeast eat the sugar in the sweetened tea and convert it to lactic acid, carbon dioxide, vinegar, and a teeny bit of alcohol. The resulting beverage is tangy, sweet and sometimes fizzy. It’s really quite delicious, and I’ve been drinking it off and on for several years now.
One of the reasons people drink this beverage, besides the fact that it tastes good, is because it contains probiotics, those beneficial bacteria like the kind in yogurt. Probiotics line the gut and are essential for our immune system. I’ve been a little suspicious about the amount of sugar in my homebrew, but a little bit of math made me feel better. I start out with 1 cup of sugar in a gallon of tea. Okay, that’s a lot, that’s 4-ish teaspoons of sugar in one cup. But….a good bit of the sugar gets eaten and converted to other, more healthy stuff. In looking at labels on store brands of kombucha, they vary from 4 to 10 grams of sugar per serving (4 grams is one teaspoon). I like mine a bit on the tangy side, so I’m guessing my homebrew is on the low end of that scale. Even so, I don’t drink it every day, and I don’t use it as a “health food”. It’s a treat for once in awhile, and a fun experiment to keep on my kitchen counter.
So, how is this very tasty, sort of healthy-ish trendy beverage made? I’m not going to go into tons of detail here, because so many others have done that pretty darn well. I’ll include some links at the end of this post. I WILL go through the basics, though, and tell you my tweaks.
It’s a pretty simple process: make tea, add sugar (1 cup per gallon), put in a glass container, put SCOBY in the container along with the liquid it came with, cover loosely, start tasting in a few days and drink it when the tangy/sweet flavor tastes good to you. It will keep getting tangier, the longer you let it sit, turning completely into vinegar eventually. You can use the vinegar, too!
If you want to keep the Kombucha going perpetually, there are a few things to keep in mind. The tea needs to be Real Tea, from the plant Camellia sinensis, and the sugar needs to be plain ol’ white sugar from cane or beets. These items give the Kombucha what it needs to keep on going. Or so I’m told. I like to use organic black tea and cane sugar, because that’s kind of the point of making my own stuff, right?
To keep it going, you’ll bottle up your Kombucha when it tastes good to you, leaving at least one cup for the ‘starter’ of the next batch. Make more sweetened tea, add your starter and SCOBY and there you go. I have used one of those beverage containers with the spigot for ease in getting the Kombucha into my cup, but after awhile the plastic spigot started to erode and it grossed me out. I wouldn’t want to use metal, either, thinking the acid in the Kombucha would leach something nasty from that, too. So I just go Old School and use a glass pickle jar. When it comes time to taste or to bottle up, I use a ladle and a funnel. It works just fine.
I usually drink my Kombucha plain, but sometimes I’ll flavor it in a second ferment. Right now I’m getting some elderberry and prickly ash berry simple syrup going, and will add them to a couple bottles to add some punch. I’ll put about a quarter cup of the simple syrup in a flip-top sealing jar, let it sit on the counter for a day or two or three, then I’ll open it up to see if it’s fizzy and check the taste. If all is good, it either goes into the fridge or into my belly. If the fizz and flavor isn’t there yet, it’ll sit on the counter another few days. Along with the crazy assortment of fermenting things already there.
Here are some really informative articles if you want to continue reading about Kombucha. I mean, who wouldn’t?
This one is on a website where you can buy stuff for fermenting. But don’t buy a SCOBY. You can get one for free just by asking around – they multiply, and if someone you know is making Kombucha they WILL have a SCOBY for you.
A great article about Kombucha by the king of fermentation himself, Sandor Katz. I love how he takes the fear out of fermenting.
And lastly, a bit on making flavored Kombucha from the Weston A. Price foundation.

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The warrior is a masculine archetype, but this does not mean that women can’t express the characteristics of a warrior. From what I’ve seen women are just as likely as men to fall under the influence of this pattern. The word warrior contains the word “war”, which is what this archetype is about. Conflict is the name of the game.
The Warrior Archetype in Battle
To exist the warrior needs a battle to fight. The first question you must ask yourself is, “Who your battles with?” Are you an actual soldier on the battlefield? Or is your war on the mental/emotional plane? Have you considered the inner demons you are wrestling?
The gift of the warrior archetype is an outstanding amount of courage and composure. In the midst of the worst imaginable circumstances the warrior remains calm and rational. The masculine quality of action is embodied in the warrior. He has good instincts and is quick to respond.
When in your life have you tapped into a strength you didn’t know you had? This is the power of the warrior mentality. That sense of invincibility and resolve that nothing, nothing at all, can conquer you.
The Warrior’s Sixth Sense
Intuitive abilities are frequently seen as soft, feminine traits. The alternative healing field mostly attracts women who are looking to mend and caretake. Warrior energy is often shunned because it is seen as destructive and careless. When we release judgements, there is much we can learn from this powerful archetype.
First of all, we forget that intuition is spontaneous. On the battlefield, the warrior doesn’t have time to mull over a decision. The warrior that doubts himself dies. The faster he responds, the more likely he is to survive and prevail. Too often we give ourselves too much time to doubt our intuition. A worthwhile test of our intuitive abilities is to get in the middle of a fast paced situation and see how well we follow our instincts.
Stories and movies about the samurai warrior with the sixth sense (warrior archetype examples: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon or the blind warrior ‘One Hundred Eyes’ in the Netflix series Marco Polo) show how the best warriors are those who trust their intuition. The empowered warrior can see the blow coming before anyone else. He can anticipate his opponent.
The best training for the warrior does not consist purely of endless rounds of mock combat. Hours of observation allow the warrior to learn how to open up beyond his body, listen with his whole being, and sense the world around him.
One of my favorite warrior archetype examples comes from the book Eldest by Christopher Paolini. The main character Eragon, a dragon rider and warrior in training, is instructed by his master to sit on a stump in the woods and do the following: “Open your mind and listen to the world around you, to the thoughts of every being in this glade, from the ants in the trees to the worms in the ground. Listen until you can hear them all and you can understand their purpose in nature. Listen, and when you hear no more, come tell me what you have learned.” Eragon is told later that he will master this training when he can, “watch one and know all.”
The Consumed Warrior
The warrior archetype lives for the battlefield. When not in the midst of all out warfare, this archetype is training to prepare for the next confrontation. The warrior mentality can be all consuming and obsessive in nature. An unbalanced warrior chooses conflict over diplomacy every time. In the shadow, the warrior archetype creates conflict where there is none.
We often think of the warrior archetype in extremes. And he does seem to swing from composure to rage quite easily. Part of the healing challenge of this archetype is learning to manage emotions and find a healthy outlet for them. Societal norms asking us to be courteous and kind suppress the inner warrior. Regardless of your gender, this bottling up of anger without any training on how to channel it causes the unexpected eruption of violence that is becoming all too common in our world.
The suppressed and undisciplined warrior becomes the heartless barbarian. The violence is directed both outward and inward. The aggression does not need to be physical. It is just as likely to be in words that perpetuate shame and criticism. The shadow warrior is numb to pain, his own and that of others. He slays and injures without remorse. The sanctity of life is lost on him.
The Enlightened Warrior
Take note as to whether you view the warrior as good or bad. Remember that each archetype has a light and a shadow side. In working with the warrior, this knowledge is one of your most powerful weapons.
The word courage comes from the Latin word “Cor” which means heart. To this day we still say that people have heart. That is to say they have inner strength. The intense fortitude of the warrior can help us through seemingly insurmountable obstacles. The hero archetype and the warrior have courage in common. The hero has the hero’s journey of many different settings and trials including battles, hardships, and riddles. The warrior lives on the battlefield.
The sense of invincibility of the warrior can lead to an inflated ego, but the true gift and power of this archetype is the ability to release selfish ends and conquer malevolent forces. The enlightened warrior knows that the true enemy is the enemy within. The power to face and triumph over one’s inner demons is the gift of the warrior. So too is a deep appreciation for the sanctity of all life.
The spiritual warrior drinks in the gift of life and cultivates this appreciation in others. He reconciles with the warring nature of humans by cultivating compassion in peacetime. He defends the innocent and is a champion for good.
There are many manifestations of the warrior archetype including but not limited to: soldier, samurai, ninja, gunslinger, guardian, sell sword, militant, minuteman, mercenary, Amazon woman, musketeer, and barbarian.
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About Author, Stacey L. L. Couch
Stacey L. L. Couch is a Spiritual Teacher who specializes in shamanism, inter-spirituality, archetypes, and symbolism. She supports soul pioneers - those of you who are learning as you go along the spiritual path. She works with beginner and life-long spiritual seekers. Through working with Stacey, lost seekers find their way home and professional spiritual guides receive mentorship. Stacey empowers people with the ability to explore their purpose and calling. Wisdom found in story, mysticism, and nature provide guidance and healing in her work. She is the author of Gracious Wild: A Shamanic Journey with Hawks. She values mindfulness, wonder, and compassion in her daily spiritual practice. Learn More about Stacey.

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Only four posts in and I’ve already touched a nerve.
It’s “biast” for me to express my own opinion. Oh my goodness. How dare someone have an actual opinion!
So, if you didn’t read my first, second, or third set of 21 reasons to oppose Trump, consider reading those before you read the next 21 reasons. After today’s post, there will be 95 more posts. If they were bottles of beer, this could be a song.
64. Donald Trump lied about witnessing Muslims celebrating 9/11 on a rooftop in Jersey City, New Jersey. I’ve mentioned Trump’s mocking of Serge Kovaleski, but not how he earned the ire of Trump. Kovaleski had covered a story in 2001 that suggested that there were people in Jersey City partying on rooftops. Donald claimed to see thousands of Muslims in New Jersey celebrating on rooftops after the World Trade Centers collapsed. He claimed there was video of it on television all the time. When he was asked about it by George Stephanopolous, Trump said:
“It was well covered at the time, George. Now, I know they don’t like to talk about it, but it was well covered at the time. There were people over in New Jersey that were watching it, a heavy Arab population, that were cheering as the buildings came down. Not good.”
Except it wasn’t, because it didn’t happen. The story was never about thousands of Muslims. There was no video. It’s all in Trump’s head.
65. Trump insulted Seventh-Day Adventists. While speaking to supporters at a campaign rally in Jacksonville, Florida in October 2015, Trump, after talking about how he’s a Presbyterian, said, “Boy, that’s down the middle of the road folks, in all fairness. I mean, Seventh-day Adventist, I don’t know about. I just don’t know about.” While Trump’s dig may not sound that vicious, it was meant to be very vicious. You seem, some Christians don’t believe that Seventh-day Adventists are even Christian. This is a group that also refuses to vote for non-Christians. This was a time when Trump was behind Ben Carson by 9 percentage points; Carson is a Seventh-day Adventist. It was personal.
66. Trump hired Manafort. When Donald Trump dumped Corey Lewandowski and replaced him with Paul Manafort, very few people in America knew of the background of Manafort. Most stories touted him as having ties to the Republican Party. A few brought up some recent jobs of of his. Manafort has ties to Viktor Yanukovych, who was the the prime minister of the Ukraine at the time, as well as an ally of Vladimir Putin. In 2010, Yanukovych became the president of Ukraine, but had to flee to Russia during the 2014 revolution. Manafort was also a consultant of Yanukovych, helping Yanukovych’s first run for the Ukrainian presidency in 2004. When Yanukovych hired him after the first results were invalidated, Manafort was meant to improve his images. He was unable to in the time given, but Manafort continued to work within Yanukovych’s Party of Regions. Manafort was still working with the administration when Yanukovych fled and continued working within Ukrainian politics after he’d fled, including his reported involvement in the 2015 election campaign of Vitali Klitschko, who ran for mayor in Kiev. Now, Manafort is working with Donald Trump and was even used on July 27th on CBS This Morning to argue that Donald Trump had no ties to Vladimir Putin’s regime, which may have ties to the hacking of the DNC by Russians and subsequent Wikileaks email release.
67. Trump called Hillary Clinton “shrill” at a rally. A lot of people don’t like Hillary Clinton, but most don’t call her “shrill” at campaign events. Actually, he didn’t just say it once, he said it twice–over-pronouncing it the second time. I guess he wanted to make sure that everyone at his half-empty rally heard him correctly. He tried to suggest he calls men shrill, but if he has, it hasn’t been on Twitter. And he should know that the term “shrill” is meant to shut women up. My guess is: that’s why he said it. Luckily, it didn’t work.
68. Trump mocked Fiorina’s physical appearance. No, really. He did and managed to do it while being interviewed by Rolling Stone.
When the anchor throws to Carly Fiorina for her reaction to Trump’s momentum, Trump’s expression sours in schoolboy disgust as the camera bores in on Fiorina. “Look at that face!” he cries. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!” The laughter grows halting and faint behind him. “I mean, she’s a woman, and I’m not s’posedta say bad things, but really, folks, come on. Are we serious?”
When asked on Fox News if he really said something like that, he confirmed, saying, “Probably I did say something like that about Carly.” But he tried to walk it back with, “I’m talking about persona. I’m not talking about look.” Donald always has an excuse.
69. Donald Trump believes that John McCain shouldn’t be considered a war hero. While speaking at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, Trump said of McCain, “He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured.”
70. Donald Trump also stated that he doesn’t believe that people who are captured are war heroes. In his words, “I like people who weren’t captured.” He’s walked those comments back, because they didn’t go over very well, but they were still said. And his reframing of his comments (“If somebody’s a prisoner, I consider them a war hero.” and “If a person is captured, they’re a hero as far as I’m concerned. … But you have to do other things also.”) didn’t really explain the difference between McCain’s capture and the POWs who he actually sees as a war hero.
71. Trump comes up with childish and offensive nicknames for opponents. Little Marco. Lyin’ Ted. Crooked Hillary. Crazy Bernie. Goofy Elizabeth Warren. Pocahontas. Donald Trump is less witty and original than a third grade bully.
72. Trump wants to end Freedom of Press as we know it. Conservatives love to talk about how they have First Amendment rights and how they love using them to offend; they “don’t care about your feels” and want to “trigger” people with the words. Well, Donald Trump doesn’t feel the same. He wants to open libel laws up to sue the press for things that upset him.
73. Trump mocked Ruth Bader Ginsburg. When Ruth Bader Ginsburg expressed her distaste for Trump, he responded with “her mind is shot.” Classy to the end, RBG didn’t fire back challenging his mental state.
74. Donald Trump not only wants a wall, he wants Mexico to pay for it. For some very odd reason, Donald Trump believes that his sacred wall should be paid for by another country. I’m fairly certain that the Constitution requires the United States to provide for its common defense, but apparently Trump has gotten a new copy of the Constitution that is missing the Preamble and the First Amendment. His planned wall is one of the best ways to tell that Donald Trump doesn’t know how to be the President of the United States.
75. Trump called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States. If ever there was a way to show that Mr. Trump is a bigot, it’s his proposed ban on Muslims. Trump has stated he wants to ban Muslims from traveling and immigrating to the country until we get terrorism under control. Terrorism isn’t something that can be controlled and denying people the ability to get to this country based on their religion or, as he’s also suggested, their country of origin will not stop it. If you look at the most recent “acts of terror” that have been “linked” to people who were born in America decades ago. You cannot define a terrorist based on the country they come from or the religion that they believe in.
76. Donald Trump gave Robert Pattinson dating advice. After Kristen Stewart cheated on Robert Pattinson, and ended the sacred, beloved ship known as Robsten, Donald Trump, a serial cheater, gave Rob some advice. For almost a month, he gave him unsolicited advice.
77. Donald Trump is a cheater. He holds himself to be a moral man. He considers his beliefs on marriage and its sanctity to be a representation of traditional values. And, like it or not, he is the now standard bearer for a party that obsessed over his opponent’s husband’s adultery to an extreme. His own running mate wanted to make adultery illegal before joining Trump on the ticket. So how do the Republicans justify nominating a man who has never respected marriage vows or women.
78. Trump’s campaign lied about the plagiarism by Melania Trump. When Melania spoke at the Republican National Convention, people were amazed that this brilliant, beautiful woman gave a touching speech. People on the left and right had joked over her brains for months, and had suggested that her modeling career made her unworthy of being the First Lady. Their misogyny towards this woman was grotesque, but, for a moment, it was forgotten, until people realized that they’d heard the speech before. The campaign denied it. They suggested that the words could have come from My Little Pony or John Legend. Eventually, after days of denial, they said it was just a mistake. Why couldn’t they have admitted that earlier? Mistakes are forgivable. Covering them up is less so. The Trump campaign and members of the Republican Party knowingly attempted to deceived the public. Their little, lyin’,crooked, crazy, goofy cover-up was pathetic and deceitful and shows the character, or lack thereof, of the campaign and the Party.
79. Trump said that the Charlie Hebdo victims should have been armed. Donald Trump believed that the victims of the Charlie Hebdo slayings would be alive if France didn’t have strict gun laws. Like with several other mass murders, there was a cop who tried to stop the attack, but couldn’t. Donald Trump didn’t know what he was talking about then and he doesn’t know what he is talking about now.
80. Donald Trump claimed that every woman on The Apprentice flirted with him. Donald Trump wrote in his 2004 book Trump: How to Get Rich, “All the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected. A sexual dynamic is always present between people, unless you are asexual.” No, Mr. Trump, it isn’t to be expected and it isn’t always present.
81. Trump repeatedly suggested that vaccines cause autism. He’s wrong.
He thinks scientists are lying to you about the causes of autism. Maybe he should have picked Jill Stein as a running mate.
Blaming Obama for autism sounds like something that Trump would say, but that’s because it is something he said.
Trump doesn’t understand autism. He doesn’t understand medicine. He doesn’t understand science. Discouraging well-tested medicine that prevents deaths from infectious disease in favor of fear of autism? We don’t need to give him more authority or influence in our lives. It would literally be sickening.
82. Donald Trump praised Saddam Hussein. Trump said of Hussein, “He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn’t read them the rights — they didn’t talk, they were a terrorist, it was over.” It wasn’t the first time that Trump appreciated Hussein’s tactics. While he admitted that Hussein was a bad man, it isn’t enough to say that Hussein, a brutal dictator who terrorized his own people, was just a bad guy.
83. Trump said that an airplane above a rally was a Mexican attack. It may have been a joke, but it was a pathetic one meant to scare and incite people to be more xenophobic and angry.
84. After the shooting at the Pulse nightclub, Trump took credit for talking about terrorism. When 49 people died in Orlando, Donald Trump thought that the responsible and respectful reaction to the event was to take credit for having talked about terrorism. Donald Trump claimed credit for the actions of Mateen before Daesh ever had a chance to.
Pathetic, Mr. Trump. Really pathetic.
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The last few posts have been all about inspiring you to create a fairy tale version of your life. We have discussed some techniques and story elements that can help you to get on your way. Now it’s time to recognize the things in life that are just waiting to be made into magical tales. Sometimes everything seems so mundane and often we forget to see the magic in the things we take for granted. It’s time to discover what magic awaits us in everyday life.
1. Emotions and states
Your inner world has a lot to tell you. The sensations that come from within can sometimes consume you and shape the way you look at the world. They have a whole other quality as well, though. You can use these emotions and states as a way to create your main character. Take some time for yourself, light some candles, and focus on the sensations within. What do you see when you try to imagine it? What does it look like, what kind of creature is it, what are its qualities, and what does it want more than anything? By sending your states and emotions on a journey in the form of a character, you will be able to transform them within yourself.
2. Trials and tribulations
We all face challenges in life. It can be work-related, in our romantic relationships, or simply in maintaining a lifestyle that brings us fulfillment. You want to achieve something, but it’s a long way to get there full of obstacles. Sometimes you even get lost on the way. You can reimagine all the elements of your personal challenge into magical, otherworldly parts of a great fairytale. What would your obstacles look like as archetypes? Who or what helped you along the way and what kind of creature would that be? A wizard? A wise old tree? Write down every aspect of your personal challenge in a mindmap and then try to think what all elements steps would look like in a tale.
3. Your demon
There are people in our lives that weren’t good for us. They made us feel like we are not good enough. They bullied or mistreated us, and sometimes even worse… The trails that these people have left behind can linger inside us. Creating a story about this person can help you to take some of the impact away. Every bad person is struggling with their own challenges and struggles. Start with reimagining this person as a creature. It’s okay to be harsh at this. Is it a demon? An angry dragon? A troll? Now think about the background story of how this creature came to be the way he or she is. What does it want most in the world and what does it need to change its situation? Soon you will feel the relief that compassion and forgiveness can bring after the story gave your demon its own redemption.
4. Your family patterns
Family is home. No matter what the flaws of your particular family are, they are still the people who have been with you all the way and will be there by your side when you need it most. You grew up with them. At the same time, they carry the weight of many generations and that will somehow affect you and everyone in your direct family. In a magical world, how did this pattern came to be? Was it a curse? A spell? Why was it put upon your family and what can you as a protagonist do to break the spell? Find it own in your own story!
These are some of the focus points that can help you to use your own life to create magical tales, with depth and soul. Would you like some more help with this? Why not try individual coaching sessions where I will guide you through the possess. Enjoy the magic!

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Researchers studying how proteins called helicases travel along strands of DNA have found that when the proteins hit an obstacle they snap back to where they began, repeating the process over and over, possibly playing a preventative role in keeping the genome intact.
Taekjip Ha, a professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator, likens the biological scenario to Boston Red Sox baseball; the team rolls along only to hit a late-season obstacle called the New York Yankees. Then, like the always-anticipated annual cry from Chicago Cubs fan, it's back to square one next year.
However, instead of causing more misery, as is the case for a baseball fan, this motor protein's starting over may serve a beneficial purpose, clearing other, undesired proteins from the DNA, Ha said. The research was done in vitro, using purified proteins and studied with a technique that visualizes individual molecules on DNA. Whether the scenario plays out in real cells in not known and under exploration.
The discovery appears in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature, along with a separate "News & Views" article by Eckhard Jankowsky, a biochemist at the Center for RNA Molecular Biology in Case Western University's School of Medicine, who wrote about the potential importance of the findings.
Ha's postdoctoral fellow Sua Myong led the study, looking at the Rep helicase from an E-coli bacterium. Rep is known to be involved in restarting DNA replication stalled by DNA damage. As a single protein, a monomer, Rep can travel one way along a single strand of DNA but by itself cannot unzip it. Rep's progress was visualized using the single molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) technique that Ha had developed.
By tagging the protein and DNA with green and red dyes, Myong measured FRET changes as Rep traveled along single DNA strands, which are short segments extending out from double strands. Each time the protein reached either the junction of the full double-stranded DNA or hit an artificially created protein obstacle, Rep instantly returned to near the beginning of the single strand on which it had initially bound.
Upon closer examination using FRET, researchers discovered that Rep's configuration gradually closed as it reached the obstacle in its path. Then, conformational changes of Rep allow it to grab and transfer to the end of the single-stranded DNA, leading to the next cycle.
"Although the very flexible single strand of DNA likely bombards the protein constantly, the protein doesn't seem to pay attention to this overture until it hits a physical blockade," Ha said.
Researchers had theorized that obstacles would force motor proteins to disengage from DNA. "The finding was totally unexpected and may indicate a new function for the protein," Ha said. Jankowsky wrote that scientists "should not immediately search for the helix that the enzyme unzips, but instead remember how Rep snaps back."
In cells, single strands of DNA often occur when something is wrong, Ha said. The recycling action, he said, may represent a desirable function of the protein by keeping it engaged on a single strand, allowing time for repairs that allow normal DNA replication.
The human body has more than 200 types of helicases involved in replication, transcription, repair and other genetic processes, Ha said. Defective helicases have been linked to increased cancer risks and premature aging.
Co-authors with Myong and Ha were Ivan Rasnik, a former postdoctoral fellow who now is a professor of physics at Emory University in Atlanta; Chirlmin Joo, a doctoral student in Ha's lab; and Timothy M. Lohman, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biophysics at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
The National Institutes of Health funded the research.
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Today (October 15, 2014) in the military barracks “NH Strasho Pindzur” in Petrovec there was a celebration of the Day of Air Surveillance and Reporting Battalion (ASRB) within the Air Force Brigade (AFB).
15th of October was set as the day of ASRB by the President of the Republic of Macedonia and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. That historical day is considered to be the beginning of Air Surveillance in the Republic of Macedonia because on the 15 October 1943 in the area of Crvena Voda, the mountain of Karaorman there was an organized set-up of an improvised airport where the first Military Aid for the Macedonian Army was delivered by 6 British airplanes. Before the successful acceptance of the Aid there were activities such as giving an order to set up the airport, marking of the same, organizing the visual surveillance of the airspace due to in-time signal activation after appearance of the planes which represents one of the first tasks of this type in the Republic of Macedonia. ASRB celebrates this historical event as a day of the unit and it represents continuation of the tradition.
The Commander of the ASRB, Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandar Krstevski in his address pointed out that the members of the ASRB with their professionalism, unselfish dedication to their profession and service, deeply set military code of behavior, as well as their efficiency in carrying out all their assigned tasks, nurturing important values and maintaining high standards of a member of a unit for air surveillance and reporting.
There were a lot of guests at the ceremony including the Commander of the AFB, Col Kire Kolevski, the Chief of Staff of the AFB, Col Zaim Shrijel, members of AFB, the local self-government, Ministry of Interior, retired members of ASRB and other guests.
The Chief of GS of ARM greeting was read at the ceremony as well as stimulating measures for battalion personnel.
The ceremony ended with a parade of the battalion units.


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Shouldn’t we be encouraging people to vote, including making the process much easier and accessible than it is now? After all, voting is a citizen’s most basic act of democratic participation, and we’re told by editorialists and school teachers that it’s our civic duty. Yet, Republican officials in many key states have been going all out to discourage voters from casting ballots.
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Well that’s exactly the problem, cry GOP politicos, feverishly warning that hordes of non-Americans are swarming into our polling places to pervert our elections with their illegal votes. Thus, say Republican partisans, we must preserve the sacred integrity of the ballot by conducting sweeping purges of voter lists, especially in Democratic areas, and we must impose a new layer of authoritarian “show-me-your-papers” impediments on darker-skinned voters.
For example, the GOP secretary of state in Colorado excitedly asserted – Joe McCarthy style – that he had a list of 11,805 non-citizens who were on the state’s voter rolls. To prove it, he targeted 3,900 of them, directly challenging their citizenship.
The Colorado politico hoped to make a name for himself with this ugliness, but – oops – he only made a fool of himself. It turns out that only 141 of his targets had any questionable status, and only 35 of those had ever voted. Even more embarrassing, his hit list of 35 illegal voters included eight people in Denver, but an independent check there found that all eight are citizens.
Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, the Republican leader of the state house didn’t even pretend that his effort to ram a voter ID requirement into law had a more noble purpose than raw partisan politics. The law, he gloated, “is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania.” So much for ballot integrity.
“Republicans look for voter fraud, find little,” www.rapidcityjournal.com, September 24, 2012.
“Turzai: Voter ID Law Means Romney Can Win PA,” www.politicspa.com , June 25, 2012.


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“ It is openly known that women on the internet are subject to far greater amounts (and intensity) of harassment and abuse than men. This is a pattern and it’s pervasive.”
— No. It’s not. It’s a common misconception. When people actually bothered to study and survey online harassment between men and women it was found and corroborated by multiple studies that men receive more (sometimes double in some findings) harassment than women. Women are just more likely to report the abuse as emotionally harmful, where as men report it as not that important.
You are categorically incorrect.


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I rarely give a five star rating to any romance novel. But any book that begins with a Pap smear on the first page has to grab your attention. And the hook stays in to the book’s very satisfactory completion.
The story’s setting is ideal – the Blue Heron Winery in the Finger Lakes region of New York state.
The motivations driving Honor Holland and Tom Barlow toward marriage are clear and direct and have nothing to do with love. But as noble as their intentions are, love finds a way to invade.
And the supporting characters are a trip – especially the eggs.
Because it is a romance the story does end with a satisfying HEA, but the characters have to work for it.
I am looking forward to the next Blue Heron novel. Kristan Higgins will need to work hard to equal or surpass The Perfect Match.


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USA: A traumatic week for legendary trainer Bob Baffert took a drastic turn for the worse on Thursday with news that leading Kentucky Derby contender Nadal has been retired with a leg fracture.
Part-owner George Bolton told the Blood-Horse the unbeaten son of Blame had been diagnosed with lateral condylar fracture of his near-foreleg after working a half-mile at Santa Anita on Thursday morning.
Nadal, who was being targeted for the rearranged Belmont Stakes on June 20, had surgery at Santa Anita’s equine hospital. “It requires two screws,” the owner told the Blood-Horse.
“He is now going to become a stallion. It’s very sad, obviously. I just got the call this morning. It’s a call you never want to get in horse racing.
“He retires undefeated. He retires, thank God, on a soon-to-be recovery. He gave us four great races.”
Nadal had extended his winning streak to four out of four – three of them Graded stakes – with a powerful victory in Div II of the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn Park on May 2.
Reports earlier this week claimed that the Baffert-trained Charlatan, ante-post favourite for the Kentucky Derby with British bookmakers, had returned a positive initial test after winning Div I of the same race. Baffert’s highly rated filly Gamine was also said to have tested positive on the same card.
The trainer, who lambasted the apparent lack of confidentiality over the issue, is awaiting news of a second test. If it is negative, then there will be no change to the Arkansas results.
Baffert reported that Nadal’s surgery had gone well. “It’s just a shame with the Derby dreams,” he added.
• More US racing and bloodstock news at blood-horse.com


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Yankees notes: Masahiro Tanaka starting against rookie
Promising Rays left-hander Blake Snell is scheduled to make his MLB debut today, starting against Masahiro Tanaka at Yankee Stadium. Snell, 23, was the 52nd player taken in the 2011 draft and was named as Baseball America magazine's minor league player of the year for 2015, jumping from Class A to Class AAA.
In three starts this year at Class AAA Durham, Snell posted a 1-1 record and a 2.51 ERA, with 21 strikeouts and seven walks. He has a fastball-curveball-changeup arsenal, and he has the advantage of facing a Yankees team that remains vulnerable against lefty pitching. According to the Rays, Snell will wear No. 4 — the lowest number for a pitcher in club history.
Pinder to DL
Right-handed reliever Branden Pinder was placed on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right elbow and was headed for tests Friday afternoon. The Yankees recalled right-hander Nick Goody prior to the opener of a three-game series against Tampa Bay.
Pinder last pitched Wednesday, yielding two runs on three hits and a walk in the Yanks' 5-2 loss to Oakland. It was Pinder's only appearance since being recalled from Class AAA Scranton/Wilkes-Barre a week ago.
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Jacoby Ellsbury did not express any frustration with starting Friday's game on the bench against lefty starter Matt Moore, only to enter for Aaron Hicks (jammed left shoulder) in the fifth and become a game-changer. The Yanks have run into a spate of lefty starters and Girardi expressed more frustration with the line of questioning. Ellsbury and Brett Gardner had subpar second halves and might have been dealing with nagging physical issues. "Now, when I sit a guy, everyone wants to know why he's not playing," Girardi said. "You've got to keep these guys strong throughout [the year]."
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Feminist Filmmaking: Celebrating 50 Years
June 8, 2022 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm$12
Independent filmmaker and feminist cultural advocate, Ariel Dougherty, a Truth or Consequences resident, is celebrating a cultural milestone throughout 2022. For this showcase at CCA, she will show films from the early days of Women Make Movies, Inc., the organization she co-founded in 1972. She will also present a contemporary short from a girl-centered film teaching program. Fifty years ago there were few films that centered on women protagonists. On one hand, then, you could count the women directors in Hollywood. Today, the organization she celebrates is the globe’s largest distributor of women-directed films, with a collection of over 700 works from around the world.

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JP Morgan Chase did a thing that is good every person should applaud. Its positive thing ended up being noted as well its bad things had been news that is making. a positive thing too. The positive thing arrived within times of Senate hearings that could have triggered all but Jamie Dimon to consider there is little good to be stated when it comes to institution.
On March 15, 2013, the usa Senate Subcommittee on Investigations issued a 307 page report entitled вЂњJPMorgan Chase Whale Trades: an instance History of Derivatives danger and Abuses.вЂќ The report ended up being given on a single date the subcommittee ended up being conducting a hearing in the subject that is same. The hearing and report centered on the financial institution and its particular top professionals because of the multi-billion dollar trading losings it suffered in 2012. Credit for the losings had been mainly provided to those activities of outsize derivative trades effected by certainly one of the lender’s traders known once the вЂњLondon Whale.вЂќ The Subcommittee states that the research determined, on top of other things, вЂњthat JPMorgan Chase’s Chief Investment workplace used its artificial Credit Portfolio (SCP) to take part in high-risk derivatives trading; mismarked the SCP guide to disguise vast sums of bucks of losings; disregarded multiple interior indicators of increasing danger. . . in the вЂњOverviewвЂќ of this report that seems within the Executive Overview . and investors that are misinformed regulators , together with general general public about the character of its risky derivatives trading.вЂњ a lay individual would maybe perhaps not think well of a organization that partcipates in that style of task (towards the level a layperson knows things such as вЂњSynthetic Credit PortfolioвЂќ). The report then continues on for 304 more pages to explain in certain information those activities where the bank involved. It observes that in 2012 when news reports were just starting to flow concerning the financial hardships associated with bank, Jamie Dimon, ceo regarding the bank described those reports being a вЂњtempest in a teapot. aprilвЂќ
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JPMorgan Chase has made a decision to put restrictions on procedures involving loans that are payday both those produced by the lender and the ones produced by storefront loan providers. Starting in May the financial institution shall restrict overdraft fees which can be gathered and can allow customers to shut records or have end re re payment sales promptly enforced. Heretofore clients discovered it might be impractical to place a finish to automated withdrawals by terminating the authority or shutting the account with all the outcome that charges proceeded to install. JPMorgan will now allow it to be more straightforward to even close accounts when there will be accrued costs. It would go to show that also an institution as venal as JPMorgan generally seems to occasionally have been gets something right.


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Equities tumbled across Asia after the S&P 500 Index fell the most last night since Donald Trump’s presidential win, as reflation trades faltered amid uncertainty over prospects of Trump’s proposed policies. The yen, US Treasuries and gold gained as investors sought refuge in safe haven assets.
- Top Republicans are warning their fellow party members that failing to repeal Obamacare could imperil the goal of a massive tax cut and perhaps more of President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Obstacles remain for the new health-care bill, even with House GOP leaders making a series of 11th hour changes to it Monday evening in a bid to secure more votes, there were still not enough votes to pass the legislation, Bloomberg news reported.
- The S&P 500 Index declined 1.2%, the biggest drop since Oct. 11. The S&P 500 Index suffered its first decline of at least 1% under a Trump presidency following an overnight rout in financial shares. Banks had rallied 22% through Monday, double the S&P 500’s gain and 8% more than the next best group.
- Trump’s ability to enact a rollback of regulations such as the Dodd-Frank Act is headed for a major test, as the outcome of the proposed repeal of Obamacare is in doubt. Investors are realising the difficulties in passing new legislation, and some doubts regarding the unification within the Trump administration and Republican Congress are beginning to creep in.
- The US dollar weakened overnight, with the Dollar Index closing below the 100 psychological level for the first time since Feb. 6. The boarder Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index ended 0.3% lower. The greenback has since pared back some of its overnight weakness in Asia trade this morning, with the latter index recovering 0.1%.
- Treasury yields continued to retreat post FOMC, as the benchmark 10yr Treasury yield declined 4bps to 2.42% in New York.
- A growing number of Republicans are calling on US President Trump to retract his claim that he was wiretapped during last year’s election after FBI Director James Comey said there was no evidence to support that accusation.
- Retail sales in January beat expectations, rising 2.2% month-on-month and 1.7% if automobile sales were excluded; analysts surveyed were expecting gains of 1.5% and 1.3% respectively.
- Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Lawrence Schembri is warning people not to get ahead of themselves after a run of data showing an improving Canadian economy. He outlined reasons for caution, including struggles in exports, subdued wage growth, demographic forces and persistent economic slack in Canada.
- Inflation last month surprised to the upside; headline inflation rose 0.7% month-on-month and 2.3% year-on-year, exceeding the median estimates of 0.5% and 2.1% respectively.
- Exports in February rose for a third straight month, accelerating to 11.3% from a year earlier and beating the expected 10.1% rise. Imports gained 1.2%, slightly missing out on the forecasted 1.3%.
- Trade surplus last month was 813 billion yen, higher than expected, and a result of a large jump in exports due to the Lunar New Year holiday; exports to China were up by 28%.
- The PBOC injected hundreds of billions of yuan into the financial system after some smaller lenders failed to make debt payments in the interbank market, Bloomberg news reported. The institutions that missed payments included rural commercial banks, according to sources who requested anonymity.
- Benchmark money market rates has risen to the highest level since April 2015, causing smaller lenders to face tighter liquidity, and reflecting a mix of technical factors including cash hoarding for quarter-end regulatory checks.
- Spot gold jumped 1.3% to $1,247.65/Oz, its highest level in 3 weeks, amid a selloff in US stocks and the dollar last night.
- Continued risk-off sentiment may keep safe-haven bids for the precious metal intact, with the next resistance region coming in around its 200-day moving average of $1,261/Oz.
- To the downside, the support at $1,220/Oz should hold for the near-term.
- Silver for immediate delivery gained as well, rising by as much as 1.1% to $17.6025/Oz earlier in its session.
- Crude oil futures expiring in April closed 1.4% lower at $48.24/bbl, its lowest close since November.
- US government data tonight is expected to show crude inventories increased by 4.53 million barrels last week.
- Spot 1.4012
- USDSGD advanced 0.4% back above the 1.4000 handle after failing to break below Monday’s low of 1.3956.
- The next support below lies at 1.3903 – the pair’s 200-day moving average.
- Spot 0.7660
- AUDUSD sank 1.1% to 0.7651 earlier today amid risk aversion among investors as well as a retreat in iron ore and copper prices.
- The 50-day moving average around the 0.7600 handle would be the nearest region of support.
- Spot 1.3381
- USDCAD has made a strong comeback, erasing earlier losses and gaining as much as 0.5% to 1.3387 on the back of a steadying US dollar which seems to have found some footing in Asia this morning.
- Spot 6.8746
- The PBOC earlier strengthened its daily reference rate to 6.8889 to the dollar, from 6.9071 yesterday.
- USDCNH was mostly unchanged from its prior close, after paring earlier declines of 0.1%.
- Spot 111.71
- USDJPY fell 1.0% to 111.43 earlier today, its lowest level since last November, as investors sought refuge in safe haven assets.
- A convincing break below the 111.60 support may result in further downside for the currency pair; a move lower to the 200-day moving average at around 108 could be in the offing.
- Spot 1.2474
- GBPUSD rose 0.2% to a 1-month high of 1.2494 last night on the back of stronger-than-expected inflation data in the UK, before paring gains in Asia trade today as US bulls fought back control. The currency pair has gained for 5 straight sessions prior to today.
- With the 100-day moving average at 1.2400 broken, the momentum remains to the upside.


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I want to create a Story map that contains a web map hosted on ArcGIS Online and use ArcGIS Online to host my images.
1) If I try creating the Story Map from the web map (via the Share/Create WebMap), it appears to be looking for a file within that webmap that has the map tour points "The application cannot determine the appropriate name, caption or color data. Please select the fields to be used here. These settings can be changed at a later time." and I am unable to bypass this.
2) If I try creating the Story Map from the storymaps.arcgis.com website, it gives me the option to create a feature service to host the map tour points, but I can't figure out how change the base map to my web map.
My work around is to start creating a story map via #2 above so that it creates a map tour point feature service. Then I add that feature service to my web map and create the story map via #1. Is there a better way to do this?

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Before the Economy Reopens, New Yorkers Need More Testing and Assurances of Safety in the Workplace - CUNY SPH COVID-19 Survey
In the latest CUNY SPH COVID-19 tracking survey, New Yorkers gave convincing evidence that the city is not yet testing enough people and set high expectations for the safety measures they feel are necessary for them to return to work outside their homes. They are also uncertai...
Ohio, Texas, and California 2020: Trump with Narrow Leads in Ohio and Texas, but has Widespread Expectation of Being Re-elected
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Massachusetts 2020: Kennedy Leading Markey by 16 points in US Senate Race
A new Emerson College/7 News poll finds Democratic Senator Ed Markey at risk of losing reelection, as he trails Congressman Joe Kennedy 58% to 42% for the September 1 Democratic primary. (N=620, +/-3.9%, MM, likely voters, May 5-6, 2020). While the lead is significant, 60% of...


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Matt King hosts a weekly conversation with someone we all love.
With co-host Mike Sheffer, each week Hoot & a Half invites a different guest to share a thoughtful and funny conversation about the people we all love. Internet friends, musicians, actors, you name it. Sit back, relax, enjoy a Hoot and a Half.
16. Zane Hijazi
Zane Hijazi joins us to talk about Unfiltered, his first job, getting detention, and more! Enjoy the 16th episode of Hoot & a Half!
15. Jason Nash Returns!
Jason Nash joins us for our FIRST video episode! We talk about Jason's characters, high school superlatives, and get surprised by another special guest! Enjoy the 15th episode of Hoot & a Half!
14. Matt King & Mike Sheffer Return!
We're back! Matt and Mike chat with each other about the difference between dogs and cats, horoscopes, scary movies, swagger-jacking, Christmas vs. Hanukkah, and more! Plus a very special announcement. Enjoy this episode of Hoot & a Half!
13. Suzy Antonyan
Suzy Antonyan (Vlog Squad, YouTube) is the definition of a Hoot & a Half, on this week’s hilarious episode! She chats with Matt and Mike about her family, her hidden talent, meeting her heroes, and more! Enjoy this episode of Hoot & a Half.
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Ilya Fedorovich (Vlog Squad) discusses his true feeling about drinking, his background as a businessperson, single life, and more! Enjoy this episode of Hoot & a Half.
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Todd Smith (Vlog Squad, YouTuber, Author, "I'll Give You a Dollar if You Consider this Art") sits down over some glasses of wine to discuss winning in Vegas, acting classes, writing, music, and more! Enjoy the eleventh episode of Hoot & a Half.

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FRIAS ON CHANGING HOUSE RULES
Warwick, RI – In an opinion column, entitled “Democracy at the State House” published this week in the Cranston Herald and Warwick Beacon , R.I. Republican National Committeeman Steven Frias recommends significant changes to the Rules governing the R.I. House.
Here is an excerpt:
“The House Rules should be changed back to how they existed prior to 2005 when committees elected their chairman, committees could not hold bills indefinitely, and 40 percent of House members could sign a petition to have a bill go to a vote on the House floor. An additional rule change would be to require committee memberships to be elected by a vote of the entire House, which was a rule followed by the Rhode Island Senate during the most of the 20 th century. Lastly, a constitutional amendment should be presented to the voters to require the General Assembly to comply with the Open Meeting Act like other public bodies in Rhode Island.
There has long been dissatisfaction with how the General Assembly operates. For example, in middle of the 20 th century, the Providence Journal published cartoons and editorials which depicted state legislators as sheep voting “baa” in favor of the House Rules and compared “rank and file” legislators to “helpless dummies.” Reforms could change this. Until then, the General Assembly will continue to be known as a place run by Democrats, but not run democratically; a public body which passes laws affecting the public with little notice to the public.”
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In order for our experience in space to be as smooth as possible, it is necessary to feel the effect of Gravity, at least partially. Gravity is what has shaped our bodies, and not being under its effect can have negative health consequences.
With this objective, several projects related to the creation of Artificial gravity systems have been developed over time. In science fiction books they usually do it with centrifugal force, for example.
The fact is that the California startup Vast has reported that it will develop artificial gravity space stations to improve human productivity in space.
Several industry professionals are working on the project, including former SpaceX vice president Hans Koenigsmann.
The goal is to help conquer the solar system in order to make use of its resources, so that we can grow and prosper while preserving our planet.
Once large populations of humans can live in space, we will be able to create the industry and infrastructure needed to access those resources at scale.
The company’s space station will be able to accommodate more than 40 people and be about 100 meters long, all with artificial gravity so that there are no problems with muscle atrophy, bone loss and even brain damage.
In the same way that we read in science fiction, they will do it with the centrifugal force that is produced thanks to a large rotating structure.
It is not the first time that a company has tried it, since space tourism is no longer something completely inaccessible. Prices will go down over time and it will become a millionaire industry in a short time.