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Mark B. Chassman
Partner, based in Los Angeles
mchassman@chassmanseelig.com
Mark B. Chassman is an experienced litigation and trial lawyer who practices in the areas of complex business, commercial, and employment litigation in Federal and State courts. Mr. Chassman has extensive litigation experience in corporate, real estate, construction, products liability, contracts, employment, and general commercial litigation. On behalf of plaintiffs and defendants, Mr. Chassman has tried in excess of 60 jury and court trials. In addition, he has tried numerous cases in arbitrations.
Mr. Chassman is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA), an organization in which eligibility for membership requires completion of a prescribed number of jury trials, the display of skill, civility, and integrity, and the nomination and election by the existing members, which include some of the best trial lawyers in America.
Mr. Chassman has been selected as a Fellow to The Litigation Counsel of America, an invitation-only trial lawyer honorary society in which membership is limited to less than one-half of one-percent of American lawyers. Fellows are selected and invited into Fellowship after being evaluated for effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation and trial work, along with ethical reputation.
Named in Southern California Super Lawyers Magazine in Business Litigation/Employment & Labor/General Litigation.
Mr. Chassman is a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum by acting as the principal counsel in multiple cases in which his verdicts have exceeded two million dollars.
In 1982, Mr. Chassman graduated cum laude with a B.S. degree in Business Administration with special emphasis in finance and real estate from California State University, Northridge. He received his J.D. degree from Loyola Law School in 1985. Mr. Chassman has been admitted to the California Bar and all of the United States District Courts in California since 1985. Mr. Chassman is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and in the State of New York.
Prior to September 1993, Mr. Chassman was associated with the construction law firm of Monteleone & McCrory and the New York City law firms of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon and Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance). While associated with these international law firms, Mr. Chassman gained extensive business litigation and trial experience in Federal and State courts, principally on behalf of Fortune 500 companies.
For over 2 years, Mr. Chassman was a Deputy Public Defender. In September 1993, Mr. Chassman opened his own law firm and his practice has continued to focus on complex business litigation and trial work.
Mr. Chassman authored an article entitled "Termination for Convenience - Costs Recoverable" published in The Construction Lawyer, Issue 7:3 at 3 (August 1987) He has two published appellate decisions. The first was in the matter of Brinderson-Newberg Joint Venture, et al. v. Pacific Erectors, Inc., 690 F.Supp. 891 (C.D. CA 1988). The second was a California Court of Appeal (Second District) decision affirming the denial of an award of attorneys' fees in a Proposition 65 case [Consumer Cause, Inc. v . Mrs. Gooch's Natural Food Markets, Inc.,et al. (2005) 127 Cal.App.4th 387.]
Mark Seelig
Non-Resident Partner, based in New York City
mjs@msf-law.com
Mark Seelig is an experienced business lawyer and was named in Super Lawyers Magazine as being in the top 5% of business lawyers in Manhattan in 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013. He is admitted to practice in New York and California. Mark represents a wide variety of clients located throughout the United States in all aspects of commercial business transactions, from formation and financing through the acquisition, growth, merger or sale of their business interests. He has represented purchasers, sellers, joint venture partners, investors, and majority and minority interest shareholders in numerous transactions since 1989.
Mark's practice includes providing general corporate counsel to a host of companies across multiple industries. He represents both public and private companies, entertainers, entrepreneurs, restaurateurs, investors and high net worth individuals. Like his clients, Mark is a business owner and operator. He co-founded MSF where he acts as the managing partner, founded and acts as the managing partner of a large nine figure real estate business, plus a private equity fund, and owns interests in numerous business ventures. Clients appreciate the real life practical and pragmatic approach he brings to their issues. With over 23 years of a unique blend of both litigation and corporate legal experience, Mark excels in representing principals during difficult negotiations. Clients often recognize him for his ability to drive a difficult negotiation to a successful conclusion.
Mark also has extensive experience representing new media and technology clients. He has personally negotiated over 400 software development, licensing and/or distribution deals. Since 1989, he has represented technology companies in connection with many of the legal issues related to their businesses. He regularly assists business owners in the preparation and implementation of estate plans.
Representative transactions:
•	Represented owners in sale of media and online advertising business
•	Represented owners in sale of interest in pharmaceutical promotion business
•	Represented general partners in formation of several real estate private equity funds
•	Represented owners in sale of educational software company for over $200,000,000 •	Represented owners in sale of music library
•	Represented owner in sale of media/online promotional company
•	Represented owners as co-counsel in sale of technology communications company •	Requested sponsors of real estate private equity funds
•	Represented owners in sale of financial services company to public company acquirer for over $200,000,000
•	Represented world renowned author in multiyear master license and development deal for multimedia, videogames and online media properties
•	Represented 40% owner in sale to majority partner of entire interest in international pharmaceutical clinical trials company
•	Represented CEO and founder in sale of drug label company to public acquirer for over $100,000,000
•	Represented numerous videogame and multimedia companies in numerous licensing and development deals, including the development of a television series to coincide with launch of licensed properties
•	Represented fast growing education software company in preferred round of finance for nearly $20,000,000; represented financial, media and other software companies in numerous acquisitions and rounds of finance between $1,000,000 and $20,000,000 •	Represented purchaser in distress sale of $11,000,000 of secured bank debt against company in the metals industry
•	Represented joint venture partners in negotiation of venture deal for acquisition of over $100,000,000 in residential and commercial real estate
•	Represented athletes and entertainers in videogame and license deals for numerous consumer products
•	Represented multimedia company in angel round financing in excess of $25,000,000 •	Represented investors in numerous restaurant deals
•	Represented numerous videogame developers in contract negotiations for development of software titles, license agreements, financings, technology license agreements, and the sale of business interests
•	Represented entrepreneurs and entertainers in the creation and development of estate plans •	Represented long time business partners in various corporate divorce/dissolution issues.
In 1986, Mr. Seelig graduated from Fordham University and in 1989 received his JD from Hofstra University School of Law, where he served as an Editor of the Law Review and was elected to present the Graduation Address on behalf of the graduating class. He was formerly associated with the international law firm of Rogers & Wells (now Clifford Chance) in New York and California. Mr. Seelig is admitted to practice in New York and California, and is a name partner in the Los Angeles based law firm of Chassman & Seelig, LLP. He is a founding partner of Meister Seelig & Fein, LLP, the firm's managing partner and a member of the Firm's executive committee.
In addition to MSF, Mark is an active investor and owner in numerous business ventures. Mark is involved in charitable ventures and regularly donates his time and resources to worthwhile causes. He lives in Westchester, New York with his wife, Valerie, and their three daughters.
Ana Vasquez
avasquez@chassmanseelig.com
Ana Vásquez is an experienced litigation attorney who practices in the areas of business, employment, real estate, construction, products liability, and other commercial litigation.
Ms. Vásquez received her B.A. degree from the University of California at Irvine in 1995 and her J.D. degree from the University of Illinois in 1999. Ms. Vásquez is fluent in Spanish.
Ms. Vásquez is a member of the California Bar.
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Cuomo under investigation by FBI and U.S. attorney in Brooklyn: report
Author Frank
Publish date Feb 17, 2021
Janice Dean might be close to the closure she's been hoping for as New York's disgraced Democrat governor Andrew Cuomo faces probes by the FBI and United States attorney in Brooklyn over his administration's failure decisions with the nursing homes.
The Times Union reports the investigation is in the very early stages and no allegations of wrongdoings have been found, but for those who lost a loved one in a New York nursing home, this might be part of their healing process.
As of now, the FBI and U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn are investigating the actions and decisions that Gov. Cuomo and his task force made in how they handled the nursing homes and long-term care facilities over the last year.
One of Cuomo's aide's has already apologized for Cuomo's administration allegedly hiding data to avoid feds.
Cuomo was on video here saying "we should have done a better job providing information" but did not apologize for his decisions made regarding nursing homes. He apologizes for not providing the information faster, but not for the actual decisions made that allegedly caused people to pass away.
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Here's info about the probe Cuomo is facing, as reported by Times Union states:
The probe by the U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of New York is apparently in its early stages and is focusing on the work of some of the senior members of the governor's task force, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter who is not authorized to comment publicly.
Last March, as the virus began spreading in New York, Cuomo issued a news release listing the 13 initial members of his coronavirus task force, which has been headed by Linda Lacewell, an attorney and former chief of staff for Cuomo. Lacewell is the superintendent of the state Department of Financial Services. Other task force members include state health Commissioner Howard Zucker, Secretary to the Governor Melissa DeRosa and Beth Garvey, counsel to the governor.
"As we publicly said, DOJ (Department of Justice) has been looking into this for months," said Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor. "We have been cooperating with them and we will continue to."
Azzopardi did not disclose whether any members of the administration have been interviewed or if they have been served with any subpoenas.
John Marzulli, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Brooklyn, on Wednesday afternoon said he could not "confirm or deny" whether the office has initiated an investigation.
Janice Dean has been especially vocal calling for Cuomo to face consequences. She lost two in-laws in nursing homes and has been calling out Cuomo for quite a while.
If there's one thing that's a shame, it's this - the probe Cuomo is facing would be better if it came from aliens, and you know exactly where they put those probes.
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Youngkin gets sworn in, immediately signs executive orders targeting mandates
He Betrayed Us: Tulsi Gabbard records home video calling out Joe Biden
Trump predicts female GOP Rep. could be president in 'six years'
Caleb Duvall
Hawley targets Congress with Bill Banning Insider Trading, Nancy Pelosi sure to suffer meltdown
Axios doesn't hesitate to point out Joe Biden's 'Epic Failures'
Marilyn Mosby, the State Attorney supported by Kamala Harris, is federally indicted
George Flinn
I gotta figure the despicable treasonous asshats at the FBI are in it to coverup the criminality like they did for Hillary!
Reactions: Wantnot, Michigan J. Frogg and Frank
PvtCharlieSlate
This spawn of Mafiosa Mario is actually an unhinged, uncultured Mussolini who deserves the same ultimate fate.
Reactions: Wantnot
Michigan J. Frogg
The Left-BI is investigating one of it's own leftists....gee, I wonder how that will turn out.
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Michigan J. Frogg said:
they will go the nursing home, people could croak in front of them, and they'll be like "didn't see anything unusual."
Wantnot
I can't believe they are even 'going through the motions' as if anybody believes they are actually investigating one of their protected class and especially Cuomo who did so much to prove the Wohan virus was lethal and got the body count up nicely then blamed President Trump! Just like they are looking into Hunter Beijing Biden's crimes laid bare by his smoking gun laptop. Nothing to see here folks.
Wantnot said:
It would be cool if Joe Biden helped me get a job paying like $70-80k a month.
And as a thanks, I would get a dancer knocked up and then marry some chick from Africa while videos of me playing with feet go viral hahahaha
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JUST WATCH! NO more "I"s! It's "WE's" and "THEY's", from here on out!
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For a while, the classic Disney nighttime show "Fantasmic!" was not showing due to the construction of Star Wars Land. Fortunately, the show is back up and running with plenty of changes to keep it interesting to even the most frequent of visitors. Watch for Rapunzel, and keep an eye out for Aladdin and his magic carpet.
This new, improved version of the show is definitely worth seeing.


Home General Lighting Topic ➞ How to Select LED Bulbs for Your Home Lighting?
How to Select LED Bulbs for Your Home Lighting?
LED bulbs have become more and more popular with the features of energy saving, eco-friendly, etc. Are you intending to follow the trend and purchase LED bulbs for your home lightings? If so, how much do you know about the LED bulbs? You might find something helpful on selecting LED bulbs from this article.
1) High brightness and energy saving: with the same brightness, the LED bulbs can last for 1000 hours with the power consumption of each kilowatt hour while the traditional bulbs can only last for 15 hours.
2) Without any delay and long Lifespan: the LED bulbs can turn on immediately without delay and their lifespans are also longer than that of the traditional lights.
3) Eco-friendly: there's no ultraviolet rays in the lights of the LED bulbs. At the same time, there's no lead or mercury included in the material of the LED bulbs, that means that they can be recycled and also safety to our health.
1) Luminous efficiency: the higher the luminous efficiency, the more energy saving the bulb is. It's better to choose LED bulbs that with luminous efficiency over 80 LM / W. This indicator is during the growing period, you can saving more bill with the higher luminous efficiency bulbs.
2) Color rendering index (CRI): the CRI can reflect the reality of the object under the light of the bulb. The standard CRI of the LED bulbs has to be over 70. Bulbs that with >80 CRI are the best choices for home lighting, especial for drawing rooms.
3) Color temperature: the color temperatures can be differing from different environments. The range of the color temperature is 2700-6500K. The light will be warmer with lower temperature. Contrary, it will be more blue and white.
4) Product quality: a LED bulb is composed by the shell component, drive power and LEDs. A good heat dissipation shell is very important for the lifespan of a LED bulb. Also the power factor of the drive power has to be more than 0.9. While the LED chips will directly determine the brightness and the decay of the LEDs.


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import com.corwinjv.mobtotems.Reference;
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import net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.RenderManager;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.RenderWolf;
import net.minecraft.client.renderer.entity.layers.LayerWolfCollar;
import net.minecraft.entity.passive.EntityWolf;
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Audiologists have a Masters or Doctor of Audiology degree and must be licensed by the State of Michigan to see patients. They typically work in health care facilities such as hearing clinics, doctor's offices or hospitals. To help patients, they work with other specialists such as ear, nose & throat physicians, speech and language therapists and others.
The study of audiology can be traced to the early 20th century; however, it did not become a career until the 1940s. Since the beginning, it has focused on the range of hearing and the ways that hearing loss changes communication. Scientific advances have made it possible for audiologists to treat people of all ages, including babies, and to help those with hearing and speech problems.
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Christian dieting plans offer a variety of approaches to weight loss and healthy eating, but the one thing these different approaches have in common is an element of faith. For most, the goal is to eat and take care of the body in a way that pleases God.
For people of the Christian faith who want to lose weight or take better care of themselves, Christian dieting plans offer guidance from God's word to support why they should make healthy choices and take care of their bodies. According to the Bible, the body is the temple of God and with this in mind, Christians who want to lose weight often choose a Christian diet plan because it helps them draw strength to do the right thing from God's word, even in regards to eating.
Another benefit to following most Christian diets is that they offer Scripture verses related to dieting for meditation. These verses help the dieter to stay focused on God's word and his will.
While many diets claim to be biblical, it is always important to do your research. If a diet is based on one verse taken out of context, then the diet may not really be biblically sound after all. Just because a diet claims to be Christian or biblical does not necessarily mean that it is. For instance in Romans 14:2 it says, "For one believes he may eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables." Does this mean anyone who eats a vegetarian diet is weak? The answer is no. It is always important to look at Scripture used to support a diet's claims. Determine who the Scripture is written for at the time and the circumstances surrounding what was said. Romans 14:2 had more to do with religious practices than dieting as we know it today.
The Halleluiah Diet is based on Genesis 1:29, "And God said, "See, I have given you every herb [that] yields seed which [is] on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields seed; to you it shall be for food." Based on this Scripture, the Halleluiah Diet recommends a diet of 85 percent raw foods and 15 percent cooked foods. This vegan diet program was started by Rev. George Malkmus who today runs Hallelujah Acres, a farm where followers of the diet can go to be trained to become health ministers. This diet promotes juicing vegetables as the most efficient way to feed our bodies the nutrients they need.
The Daniel Fast is based on the life of the Old Testament prophet, Daniel, when he was brought into captivity and refused to eat the king's food. Instead, in Daniel 1:12, he asked, "Please test your servants for ten days, and let them give us vegetables to eat and water to drink." The account goes on to explain that at the end of the ten days, Daniel and his friends were healthier than those who ate the king's food. This Scripture has generated a number of different diets known as the Daniel Fast. Some are stricter than others. The thing to remember about this approach is that it is a fast. A temporary elimination of certain foods from the diet, but it is not a lifestyle diet to follow for the long term.
Prism is a low calorie approach to eating that helps to re-educate people regarding their eating. This diet takes dieters through phases. The first phase eliminates foods like bread, sugar, potatoes and pasta. It also requires the counting of calories and assigns homework which gets the dieter into the word of God. Assignments deal with eating issues, personal feelings, and applying God's word to the subject in a way that helps strengthen the dieters resolve based on their faith.
Following a diet is not a matter for blind faith. Just because a diet claims to be Christian or biblical does not mean that it is healthy. Do your homework and check out the premise for the diet. Feel free to talk to your doctor for his advice, as well.


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I chose the DTP due to its wide range of projects, strong translational ethos and clinical links. I decided to do the MRes year as it offered me the chance to gain exposure to a variety of techniques and 'sample' different labs and projects before making a final decision regarding the PhD. So far this programme has provided me with experience in a wide range of research areas and multi-disciplinary techniques, and the workshops, seminars and career development aspects of the course have provided additional benefits. Within the DTP I am also a member of both the Social Committee and the Public Engagement Committee.


Blogging: Who, Why, and What's the Point Now?
I have recently been talking to a couple of people I know who want to start blogging. As shocking as that may be to us old-timey bloggers who've been doing this since we had to chip our parenting rants and recipes onto a stone tablet, and in stark contrast to the headlines proclaiming blogging is dead, people are actually still starting new blogs. Even I was surprised by this.
After all, when I started out I had a simple little Blogspot blog with a basic template where I posted once a week. No custom domain name, no Google Analytics, no ads, no Facebook fan page, no Twitter, no Pinterest, no nothing. Just me and my words. And eventually, some tiny, poorly lit photos. (No iPhones, no Instagram.) In those days, the term "mommy blogger" hadn't even been coined yet. Bloggers weren't expected to be professional photographers and social media mavens and brand ambassadors. Oh, how times have changed.
If I were starting out now, I'd be overwhelmed, too. There's just SO MUCH information out there, SO MUCH to know, do, think about. With something like 152 MILLION blogs on the internet and growing, starting a blog seems a little like whispering into the Grand Canyon and expecting to be heard. Plus, all the good domain names are taken, according to one friend who went through a few dozen before she found an available one she liked. Also, people used to spend more time commenting on blogs instead of just "liking" them. You can quote me on this: "Facebook killed blog comments." – Abby from AbbyOfftheRecord.com.
As fascinating as I'm sure this disgruntled old-school blogger's trip down memory lane is for all of you, that's actually not the point of this post. This weekend I finally went through my blogroll – that's the list of links to other blogs over there in my sidebar, for those of you who don't speak blog – and I was shocked at how many of the blogs I used to read regularly are gone. In the old days I had a small but active group of other bloggers I interacted with regularly. It felt like a real community of people I actually knew – their kids' ages and interests, what life was like in their corner of the world, what they were cooking and reading and working on.
So I updated my blogroll, noting both how short it is and how much of an eclectic mishmash it is. Some personal blogs, some writing-related, some blogging- and social-media-related, some where I like the voice, some where I like the subject matter, some I've been reading for ages, some new to me. This is by no means a comprehensive list; I'll be adding to it regularly. But it feels like a fresh start, and that's exciting to this jaded old blogger.
So, tell me: what blogs do you read regularly and why? What advice do you have for new bloggers?
LINKS O' THE DAY: Like I said, I was as surprised as anyone to see an article titled "So You Wanna Be a Blogger?" in the Dec. 2013 issue of Women's Health. Proof that it's never too late to start.
If you want my advice, I'll give it to you: 3 Things to Consider When Starting a Blog and 3 Ways to Maximize Your Blog Content. And lastly, this: there are no hard-and-fast rules. There is no formula. There is only you, your words, and your drive and desire. It's the intangibles that determine your success.
I definitely won't be one of the newbies to start a blog, I enjoy reading quite a few of them, but, don;t think I have enough to say to keep myself interested, let alone others. I am also still very busy with all things Rotary and I'll go days without having the time to read a blog. let alone write one.
I do enjoy a number of folks' blogs and try to get to my favorites at least every other day. I like to read blogs about every day activities, humor, scenery and photos, a hodge podge iof stuff. What they all have in common is good writing, they can be enjoyed without effort.
Some that I read very regularly are: Angie Mizzell, Andra Watkins, Kate Shrewsday, Pioneer Woman, Robin's Chicks, Lame Adventures, Dena Botbyl, Mama's Losing it.
Love this, Lou. It all comes down to that, doesn't it?
It's always funny to me when people say my writing reads as if I write easily. We writers know better! The easier it reads, the harder it probably was to write.
I read your blog, Angie's blog, and a few others. There are some I read because there I times I need inspiration, others I read because they make me jealous of how good they are and I want my writing to be better, and others just make me laugh or think.
I'm finally working on a new post now and it coincides with your post. I took a long hiatus and I think I'm finally working my way out of it and I have because of keeping up with blogs I enjoy reading.
I find there's a fine line between motivating-jealousy and the self-loathing kind. Some blogs I don't read even though I enjoy the content because I can't help but feel bad about myself for not being as "big" as they are. Sad but true.
As you know, I took a hiatus recently too and it was great! Glad you're back, though.


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The story of Southern National, the restaurant that put Mobile on the culinary map
Updated Jan 30, 2019; Posted Jul 26, 2018
Mobile's Southern National restaurant
Gallery: Mobile's Southern National restaurant
By Michelle Matthews | mmatthews@al.com
Whether he's pleasing palates or tickling funny bones, Duane Nutter likes to make people happy. Once torn between his career as a chef and his alter ego as "The Mad Chef," a standup comic in Atlanta, for six years he worked as a sous chef in the mornings and performed at open mics and improv shows at night.
A gentle giant who stands six feet, six inches tall, Nutter's sense of humor comes in handy at Southern National, the restaurant he and his business partner, Reggie Washington, opened last October in Mobile. "I guess that's how I get through the day, with all the stress of being a business owner in the restaurant game," he says.
Two years ago, Nutter and his business partner, Reggie Washington, left Atlanta, where they were both working for One Flew South, an upscale restaurant in the Atlanta airport, to open their own restaurant in Mobile and haven't looked back. If they needed validation for their decision, they got it in February, just five months after Southern National opened, when the restaurant was named a semifinalist for a 2018 James Beard Award for Best New Restaurant.
Nutter laughs when he recalls that he was taking out the trash when Washington called to tell him about the nomination. "I was like, what? I've got to sit down."
But he was honored. "To be so new, and in that category," he says, shaking his head in disbelief. Southern National was the only restaurant in Mobile to be named a semifinalist for the award.
Though they didn't win - not this time, anyway - Nutter, executive chef, and Washington, restaurateur, have put Mobile on the culinary map.
An only child, Nutter was "interested in everything that was happening in the kitchen," especially at family get-togethers, he says. His mom "cooked a lot, all the time," and she still does. "When she's got nobody to feed it to, she'll walk it to the neighbor."
The name Southern National is "what everybody's been calling my food," says Nutter. "And that's what I was doing" at One Flew South: "taking some classics, well-known Southern dishes and recipes, and adding a twist and different ingredients from all over the world but trying to highlight the Southeast in general."
Among the favorites on Southern National's dinner menu are "small plate" items like mussels and collard greens ($14) and Honeysuckle Vodka cured salmon ($13), and "larger plates" including a coffee rub grilled pork chop ($29), crispy fried lobster tail ($31), chicken schnitzel ($26) and Kentuckyaki braised short ribs ($35).
Nutter's "Southern national" cooking style is "a culmination of my travels" and his "cooking gypsy time," says the chef, a Louisiana native who grew up in Seattle. He's as much influenced by the Pacific Northwest as he is by the Gulf Coast, but he's also spent time honing his craft at the Four Seasons Hotel in Atlanta, the Ritz Carlton in West Palm Beach, Fla., and Seelbach Hilton's Oakroom in Louisville, Ky.
Nutter was hired as executive chef at One Flew South in 2008. He hired Washington, a Mobile native and graduate of McGill-Toolen Catholic High School, as his sous chef. Washington's experience includes stints as executive chef at Club Magnolia in Augusta, Ga., and as executive chef for Alabama Gov. Fob James. Nine years after Nutter hired him, Washington was One Flew South's director of operations.
Once, when the two of them went to a pop-up dinner together in New Orleans, Washington told Nutter he'd like to show him around his hometown. "And I said, 'oh, man, this place is cool,'" Nutter says of Mobile. "It's like a clean, baby New Orleans."
Soon, they noticed that "the demographics were changing" in a resurgent Mobile, and that "we might get in there a little early," says Nutter. The idea of starting their own restaurant in Mobile started to take root in their minds. It's one of the four cities where most of One Flew South's regular customers came from, he says, in addition to Pensacola, Memphis and Charleston.
"We were anxious to get out on our own and do what we love to do for ourselves," says Washington. "We knew this market was underserved. We came here to eat all the time, and we knew what we couldn't find."
While Mobile has "some great restaurants," he says, the market was "wide-open for a chef-driven restaurant, and... we could make an impact."
When they started looking at potential locations, they knew they wanted to be in downtown Mobile. "We definitely wanted to be in the nucleus of the city," he says. "Downtowns are coming back in every city in the South. Everything old is new. ... The resurgence of downtown Mobile was the perfect place for us. And it fit into what we really wanted to do, old and new mixed together."
They chose the ground floor of the Wilkins-Higgins building at 360 Dauphin St., directly across from the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, that was once home to the popular John Word's Place Downtown. Since it closed in the 1990s, there's been a succession of failed ventures at that address. But Nutter and Washington don't care what happened in the past.
"I don't think people really realize that the location has nothing to do with the success (of the previous restaurants)," says Washington. "This is the perfect location. You don't have to worry about anybody moving across the street. I love the oldness of the building, and it's just a good fit for our concept."
The duo hired Smith Hanes Studio of Atlanta to design the casually elegant, 3,600-square-foot space, which has covered outside seating on the front porch along Dauphin Street, as well as an enclosed brick courtyard. Inside, the well-planned, 48-seat eatery features Alabama pine and exposed brick walls, as well as a U-shaped zinc and walnut bar.
Nutter is in charge of the back of the house, and Washington takes care of the front. "Chef and I collaborate on everything," Washington says. They try to stay in their own lanes when it comes to their responsibilities at the restaurant. "It's just what makes the best sense, and that makes it easy on our partnership."
And they both love living in Mobile. "We've had a lot of support," says Nutter, who hopes to move his mother from Atlanta to Mobile soon. "It's exciting to come here, and it's like you're more appreciated for what you're doing. In Atlanta, you kind of get lost."
Moving back to Mobile "has been a great homecoming for me," says Washington.
Southern National hasn't even been open for a year yet, and they're already thinking about branching out in Mobile. "We would like to expand our portfolio here," says Washington. "There are some opportunities here to do something else. Something a little more casual, more approachable, more family-oriented."
Now that these two have flown South, they seem to like the climate too much to leave anytime soon.


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America Didn't Fail Your Son, Mrs. Foley!
Why is it that people with no respect for their own lives expect others to come to their rescue? Why do the poor families of these selfish, arrogant people think it is America's job to protect their children, when their children do things that amount to suicide, with the families blessing?
Let's do a simple test: how many of you want to go to a nice war zone in Syria? For vacation or work, it doesn't matter. How much would you need to be paid to stroll into a war zone? Without bodyguards, for a story nobody here in America cares about? Do you care about the plight of the poor Syrians? They all hate our guts, and would kill us in a second.
How about North Korea? There's a vacation spot if ever I saw one! Anyone want to take a trip to North Korea? Maybe take a bible, proselytize where it means the death penalty? C'mon, it will be fun, and hey, who cares if I get arrested, I can count on, expect, no…DEMAND other Americans t risk their lives, the lives they actually respect, to save me, right? Maybe we can tear up our visas and defect, so we can be jailed to spotlight human rights abuses in North Korea's prisons! That sounds like fun, right?
How about we get a fanatical Jehovah's Witness type Christian Pastor, and go to Iran and open up a Christian orphanage for teenage boys? Wouldn't that be fun? Of course, trying to convert muslims to Christianity is illegal, but hey, it's Iran, how much trouble can we get in? I know, Cuba! Let's do Cuba! We can take a contract to (illegally), put up radio antennas for the Jewish community. It's illegal, but what American religious fanatic cares about that? Besides, our arrogance and personal narcissism won't keep our government from going to war to save us, right? Our Constitutional rights are protected no matter where we are in the world, right? If we can't break any other countries laws, risk our very lives, without the US saving us, what good is being an American? Don't we rule the world? Aren't we immune to any other countries laws and penalties? How about here in America? Let's go try and climb the most dangerous mountains we can find, with the least equipment, and no safety devices. When we get stuck where we will most certainly perish, millions of Americans will die trying to save us, right? They should not only be expected to, but forced to, against their will! I was doing what I wanted, regardless of the risk, now come die saving me!
My sympathy is reserved for the abandoned families. Their husbands, sons, fathers just didn't care enough about them to not risk their lives. Mrs. Foley says, "America failed her son!"
Were she not in mourning, I would tell her what I really think of that statement! As it is, I will say, respectfully, that your son failed your son, and you. America did not send him to Syria. He went for a paycheck and a Pulitzer. That was worth more than his life and your love, and was his decision, not America's!
Our government told her they would prosecute if they paid a ransom! I would have loved to see that trial! President obama gives them, (muslim brotherhood, father of them all), billions of dollars for their caliphate, which they use to attack the US and Israel, and then would prosecute someone else for paying a pittance in comparison to save their son?
None of the embedded journalists were asked to go. They went to see America commit atrocities, or get horror stories about how bad America's military and influence has been on the world. Anybody remember any reporters with good stories about America?
Right now, there are Americans held prisoner in all the country's mentioned, and rightly so. They went there voluntarily, for money, or to defect. While I pity their families and the pain their relatives choices have caused, I spit on their demands to help them. I don't believe they should be mentioned in any official capacity. They used their freedom to choose, their freedom to travel, to commit suicide. Let them live with the decision.
The point is, America and American's should protect the innocent, those caught up in situations by chance, not of their own making. Sgt Tahmooressi is a perfect example, being held in a Mexican jail through no purposeful fault of his own. HE deserves EVERY American's support and help. I would have sent a few helicopters full of Marines to get him already, and if Mexico wanted a war over it, so be it. It might lead to a secure border.
Defunding the First Spouse
June 2, 2014 Author: realety
There is not one reason in the world why any First Spouse should get a dime of taxpayers money. They are unelected. They are spouses. With the exception of Secret Service protection and maybe a secretary, there should be no official expenditures for the First Spouse. If the President wants to pay for their spouse to travel or do anything as a hobby, it should not be done with public money. Social secretaries can be hired to run the White House. Does anyone think Bill Clinton, (I pray we never find out for sure), is going to help run the day to day affairs of the White House? First Spouses do not and should not exist on the taxpayers budget. They live a life of pampered existence just being in the White House. They got to where they are because they picked the right person to sleep with, period. That does not justify the American taxpayers paying for separate vacations or pet projects forcing millions of dollars to implement.
Americans do not want an activist First Spouse. They certainly do not want some self-important unelected know-it-all intruding on their most private decisions and wasting their hard earned tax money. Nowhere else in American politics does the spouse of the elected official act in such an overbearing, arrogant manner, as though they have power over the citizens of America! No Governors spouse would ever think of loading up their travel itinerary with multiple vacations on the backs of the taxpayers. No mayors, no one.
Yet, probably due to the fact that it is not legislatively described, some recent spouses have treated themselves as royalty, traveling the world with hundreds of people, taking over high-priced hotels, staying in penthouses. They act as though they are an integral part of the Government.
Newsflash, First Spouses, the country would survive if the President was unmarried! Aside from the extra money in the budget, no one would notice the difference!
Presidents have every right, and responsibility, to fund their spouses activities. There is no justification for any unelected American to have a huge staff at public expense. If, when the President travels, the spouse wants to sit in on the pictures, fine. Get everyone coffee? Great idea! Sending the spouses on diplomatic ventures? No! Never. That is why we feed, water, house and pay Vice Presidents, for when a President doesn't think something is important enough for himself.
In short, we need legislation to define the First Spouse as what it is. Nothing. It carries no weight, and aside from security, no budget. Travel separate and distinct from the President is not paid for by the American taxpayer. If a President wants to bring their spouse's ideas to the legislature to make law, and they agree and pass it, fine. Otherwise, we don't care, and should not have to spend a dime following, any harebrained idea emanating from the Presidents bedmate.
Solving the Veterans Administration Problem
I hear talking heads and politicians calling for one mans resignation over the VA's delayed treatment of our military men and woman. I see them in front of any camera they can find, throwing around strong words of indignation and outrage concerning the scandal having been perpetrated, apparently for years, resulting in a minimum of 40 deaths to date.
I hear no politicians offering the immediate steps necessary to serve our veterans. Conservative pundits, yes. Politicians, no.
First, immediately announce that all military personnel may start using the nearest public or private medical facility at their convenience. Whatever and wherever it is. Have the facilities start billing the government.
Second, put all current VA facilities up for auction. Remove all Government involvement with treatment, and let the government do what it does best. Pay the bills. Facilities will compete for the business of the Vets, keeping the prices down. Government has proven it will not only pay for no results, but pay huge bonuses for no results for the most patients.
That immediately solves the treatment problem.
Now for the corruption problem. Arrest any and all workers in any chain of command that knew of the secret lists. Charge them with criminal negligence, conspiracy to kill, theft under cover of authority, filing false instruments, and fraud. Recoup any bonuses previously paid, call for long jail sentences and crippling fines. Destroy this evil so no one ever thinks of using their government position for anything else but serving the people.
We the citizens are constantly being reminded when we fill out government forms, that lying on the forms will lead to criminal charges. We demand the same for the criminals in government.
We wasted a billion dollars so far setting up government websites and so called health-care exchanges.
Give every vet a medical account to start with, for as many years as necessary. Give them vouchers to whatever healthcare system they want. None of them should ever fear losing coverage, or being lost on an uncaring government bureaucracy list.
Our government runs in debt for years on end. Pay for the costs and absorb the debt for now. As the veterans pass away, costs will diminish. Over time the costs are just another budget figure. Running trillion dollar debts for the most outrageous things, including billions for illegal aliens, and then complaining abut the costs to treat America's true, proven heros is unworthy of America.
Anyone else notice President obama dropped the word "FREE" …?
This evening, Tuesday, September 10, 2013, President obama gave a televised speech, a portion of which may explain his disdain for having to put up with alternative views. One line, in particular, struck me:
"Our ideals and principles, as well as our national security, are at stake in Syria, along with our leadership of a world where we seek to ensure that the worst weapons will never be used." (1)
Really? President obama thinks America leads the world? That his position makes him "Leader of the World?"
I'm sure the Chinese and Russians had a good laugh about that!
I believe America was, and still is, "The Leader of the FREE world," as we work with, and protect, the few semi-free peoples of the world, like England, Australia, Canada, etc. (Semi-free because they have no right to firearms for self-protection).
America is not now, never has been, or made the ridiculous claim to be, the leader of the 180 or so countries run by dictators, monarchs, tyrants, communists or any of the other failed forms of government our enemies in the UN exist under.
It is not our business to rescue one dictator to benefit another. No matter who is harmed by our weapons or actions, they have a family living by savage rules that will forever hold a grudge against America and Americans.
The outrageous claim that He, The Leader of The World, can send missiles into another country on a limited basis, and that our involvement will remain limited because we say so first, is asinine and dangerously arrogant. Are we operating in a vacuum? Is there some guarantee that no one will respond against anyone, anywhere, anytime?
Planes flew into our buildings and we sure as hell responded! If someone started lobbing missiles into America because weapons we sold somewhere killed children somewhere, would we retaliate?
But boy-child President obama's America can lob missiles and rain destruction down on another despots country. 100,000 deaths with conventional weapons have been ignored, but 1,400 have some red line on their method of death. obama gets to punish them! The Leader of The World. Maybe. He's gonna think about it. He'll get back to us, but for now, they exist solely at his whim. obama said so. The Leader has spoken!
If he were a real President, and truly believed what he says, as soon as this gassing took place he would have given this speech, but ended it with this line, "for these and other reasons, I have given the order to fire upon targets in Syria to ensure that they, and by extension everyone, understand the ramifications of using these banned weapons. Good night, God bless you all, and God bless the Unites States of America."
The country would be split on his decision, but the world would know America had a real President.
(1) http://washingtonexaminer.com/thats-what-makes-america-different-complete-text-of-obamas-syria-remarks/article/2535571
All Peoples of the World ARE NOT Our Responsibility, Mr. President!
August 31, 2013 Author: realety
President obama just ended his call to action speech in the Rose Garden today, (Saturday, 8/31/13), with some questions for the American people's Representatives in Congress.
I can easily answer all of them, even though he twists and lies about our international treaty responsibilities.
First, he asked about the "price Assad should pay" internationally for killing his own citizens. Sorry to be uncaring, but the military price is ZERO, NADA, NILCH, ZIP!
If the world wants to isolate Syria, fine, but America has no business stepping between any terrorists trying to kill each other, in any way possible. As long as it does not cross the Syrian border, it is not an International problem.
Second, I know of no treaties we have with anyone concerning the treatment of one nations subjects, and America's responsibility to protect them from harm. Our treaties only come into effect when one group crosses INTERnational borders to attack our allies. Once again, obama twists the truth.
China has always killed it's peoples with impunity, whether Emperors building walls or Premieres building high-speed train lines obama admires so much. Tianneman Square, killing all but one child in every family. Not our problem.
There is not one reason, with the exception of the fact that obama would be a hero to his people for bringing about the attacks on Israel that are sure to follow his illegal, unconstitutional proposed attack.
While I am heartened by the fact that the boy-child President is going to Congress for the authority he would require, I have yet to see a time when the will of the American people stopped obama from doing as he pleased.
As a matter of fact, Americans are being lied to, spied on, having property confiscated, going to jail to cover up obama's crimes, and being set-up and prosecuted for the murders the Justice Department has committed on foreign soil. Our health care system has been stolen and destroyed by socialists who want to determine who lives and who dies, in the same manner that the IRS is deciding who lives and who dies in the political arena.
Where Are, "WE THE PEOPLE?"
June 17, 2013 Author: realety
If the polls are correct, there is only one avenue left for the American people to keep America safe, secure and capitalist. As our former Representatives have turned their backs on the will of the people, WE THE PEOPLE must take the reins of Government and pull them into line.
We need to start the amendment process and go directly to the Constitutional "rules of the game" to protect our heritage.
We need a Constitutional Amendment requiring Americans to show citizenship to register to vote, and show proper, Government issued ID to vote, (not a utility bill or any non-official document).
We need a Constitutional Amendment removing any requirement or permission of the Government to have any say or control over what we and our doctors decide concerning our medical treatment.
We need a Constitutional Amendment defining the First Amendment. Freedom of Speech means just that. No one has a right to not be offended by the thoughts or words of others. Anyone may voice their offense, and explain their feelings, and rebut the original statement. That is it. No one should be censored to protect anyone else's "feelings" or "religion". Short of violence, or calling for it, nothing is disallowed in the universe of ideas. We understand how the world works by allowing those we vehemently disagree with to express themselves honestly, in any public venue. Funerals are not a public venue.
While on the First Amendment, we need to clarify our declaration that any religion is welcome. Unless it infringes on others rights to their own, different religious beliefs. Therefore, I suggest, "Freedom of any Religion that does not call for the punishment, subjugation, forced conversion or death of non-believers."
We need a Constitutional Amendment declaring any citizen of The United States has standing in any courtroom in America to petition for redress against any Government regulation, law, edict or official claiming any authority over that citizen. The thought that a court could censor a citizens rights because they do not "grant" the citizen, (the person giving them their rights, to whom they are responsible for their existence), standing to speak against the very Government born of the rights from that citizen, is repugnant to free people.
We need to define the Second Amendment to state it has nothing to do with hunting, but is specifically there to allow for the personal self defense of the free citizens, and their possible defense of their rights against any unresponsive, out of control, tyrannical Government.
While these seem logical to me, I hope my fellow citizens have their own ideas. After years of disappointment with a no-longer representative government intent on reinterpreting our founding documents against WE THE PEOPLE, we must act.
Our Constitution was written by Honorable Men, and is being bastardized by prostitutes and scumbags until it is unrecognizable.
Where are the Constitutional lawyers? Where is the clamor to fix the problem at it's root?
obama's Coming American Caliphate
The smokescreen of telling Americans that we have prisons that will hold the terrorists currently incarcerated at GITMO is classic obfuscation from this failed administration. It presents a straw man argument that no one has raised, and claims to answer the (unasked) question of whether they can be held.
Of course they can be held, in almost any cage or dog pound handy. They are not magicians or superhuman beings. They are dirtbag terrorists and killers with no respect for anyone's lives, including their own.
No, that is not the question.
The real question is this:
"Mr. President once we bring this scum into a prison near one of our cities or towns, how do we protect those communities surrounding the prison from the terrorists you support and pay?"
CAIR and other terrorist organizations will start flooding that town with public and sleeper agents. Guards will start being followed, their families threatened, kidnapped and killed. The guards will be killed in the streets, as the islamists are now doing in other countries. (NOTE THE LACK OF CONDEMNATION FROM ANY MUSLIM ORGANIZATION!)
The first prison used to house these religious fanatics will be the flash point of the coming wars. It is exactly what Ahmadinejad and obama want. The Iranian murderer wants it so it sparks the war for his 12th imam to return. obama wants it so when Americans object and try and fight back, he can continue to protect his brethren while calling Americans racist, and continue his goal of disarming us.
The "right" of his islamist supporters to kill Americans because of their savage religion will continue to be granted.
The muslim heading up the CIA, (John Brennan) will continue to change talking points and hide any information that might stop his brethrens war in America's streets. The muslim sympathizer in the White House will continue to lie about the deadly "religion of peace" as it attacks and kills Americans, and will jail or otherwise attack and destroy with any means possible all those trying to warn us of, or stop the coming carnage.
The terrorist we face has a name. It is not single, separate cells. It is one entity with a billion arms.
It is islam.
Dr. Gosnell Couldn't Have Said It Better!
Progressive Liberal Democrat Representative Elija Cummings had a truly "Have you no shame, sir" moment during the Benghazi hearings (1). Rep. Cummings, a significant roadblock to common sense, was speaking at, (certainly not with), one of the whistleblowers, Gregory Hicks. Mr. Hicks had just spoken eloquently on the events surrounding the unwarranted, unnecessary deaths of his friends.
Cummings insulted our intelligence and downplayed and dismissed the memory of those abandoned by this government to die, telling an emotional Hicks, "Death is a part of life."
Cummings claimed to have used this fallacy at a relatives funeral in the near past. If that relative was an pro-abortion progressive liberal like himself, that statement may have been right. Because abortion is the only aspect of death that is "a part of life," and only to Cummings, his like minded associates, and the murdering Dr. Kermit Gosnell (2). You live, you get an abortion, you go on living. That is the ONLY time "death is a part of life."
Chocolate is a "part of life." You live, you eat it, and go on living. Marriage is a "part of life." You live, you marry, you go on living. Babies are a "part of life." You live, you create a baby, and go on living. These and millions of other experiences are a legitimate "part of life."
Death is an absence of life, never a part. It is the end, occurring at the instant life departs. They share nothing. There is no life in death, nor death in life.
Except, of course to Progressive Liberal Democrats. Death is a mainstay of their lives, it gives them their power and drive. That is why it was so easy for Cummings to slice through Mr. Hicks pain with an unfeeling platitude, and Dr. Gosnell to slice through living babies spines with an unfeeling scissor.
Isn't Murder a "High Crime or Misdemeanor?" Part Two…OR…
May 7, 2013 Author: realety
"How Many Murders And Other High Crimes Can An American President Commit Before The MSM Pays Attention?"
Murder.
Perjury.
Kidnapping.
False Arrest and Imprisonment.
While there are many Questions and accusations surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attack cover-up by the White House, some High Crimes, already obvious and true as documented by the willing accomplices in the Main Stream Media, are being ignored.
They are possibly the most dangerous crimes any American President and Government can make against their people.
Our Government, made up by and for a free people specifically to protect their rights and ensure their freedom, created and coalesced behind an outrageous lie to frame an innocent American citizen in the eyes of the world, strip him of his rights and wrongly incarcerate him.
The world saw him do it. They heard his lies from the UN pulpit, from his very lying lips.
They world now knows the American President and his administration will frame their own citizens to keep from prosecuting islamist terrorists.
They know he lied to them.
They know he is but one of them, a tin pot dictator, craven in his desire to accumulate and hold onto power. Barack Chavez.
Perjury and lies by one citizen in an effort to imprison an innocent fellow citizen strike at the very heart of the justice system, and are punished as such.
Perjury and lies by a President and the Administration he runs in an effort to imprison an innocent citizen strikes at the very core of our foundation as a nation. It defiles the Constitution to have had it sworn to by such trash, such non believers.
If the power of the Presidency was used, at any level of the administration, from any of his representatives, to impede the necessary available relief from attempting requested and advised help for Americans in Benghazi, is that not a premeditated refusal to carry out his oath of office?
If the power of the Presidency was used, at any level of the administration, from any of his representatives, to divert any investigative or media figures with knowingly false accounts, allowing the terrorist Al Qaeda fighters to get away unpunished, is that not aiding and abetting the enemy and a premeditated refusal to carry out his oath of office?
If the power of the Presidency was willfully used, at any level of the administration, from any of his representatives, to spread the lies about an innocent man and his video causing the Benghazi riots; lies which then themselves caused riots and chaos across a world who had never seen the video in question; lies used to kidnap and trump up charges on an otherwise innocent man, stripping him of all of his basic civil rights and robbing him of his freedom, then I suggest to you we have seen the most glaring High Crime a President can commit.
Maybe his getting away with his administrations wanton murders of Mexicans, which continue to this day courtesy of obama and Holder's "Fast and Furious" second amendment false-flag attack, convinced him he was unaccountable.
Hillary Clinton, disgraced former Secretary of State, while she delivered her perjured testimony, asked pointedly, "What Difference Does It Make…" who killed the embassy employees. Perhaps had she actually laid out the complete thought, the question would be easier for Americans to answer:
"What difference does it make if the American citizens were killed by so-called protesters angered about a video they had not seen, or if they were killed because the President and I decided we didn't want to fight Al Qaeda on the anniversary of 9/11 because it wouldn't look good in the press after we told them we had decimated the terrorist organization? What difference does it make if the President helps the guilty terrorists escape and jails an innocent man?"
I think it makes a big difference.


While I have never read a Nicholas Sparks novel and have only seen a grand total of one of his films, I understand the basic plot. Two good-looking people fall in love, they encounter some sort of obstacle or conflict that makes being together seem impossible, against all odds they overcome and end up kissing in the rain (or dancing in the street or rowing in the boat or take your pick). Bottom line is everyone falls in love and lives happily ever after.
In Sparks' reality, every love story ends in romance and every romance exists in this magical combination of inspiration and passion that provides unlimited feelings of happiness. It's a nice sentiment and it does make for a good story, but I'm sorry folks. It's not real. You do know Nicholas Sparks got divorced last year right?
I'm not trying to sound calloused here. It's just that I'm one day shy of celebrating 20 years of marriage and I've learned that real-life love stories look a lot different than the movies. Sure, they have their moments of romance and passion, but they are mostly forged through determination, patience, forgiveness, trust, selflessness, faith and friendship. That's the stuff real marriages are made of.
When I counsel young couples before their wedding day, I usually tell them something along these lines: "Listen, you won't always feel the way you feel about each other right now. Emotions ebb and flow, romantic feelings come and go, so it's important that your relationship be based on more than romance." They never believe me. They nod their heads in agreement but they are too busy making googly eyes at each other to listen.
On a few occasions, they have come back to me after three to five years of marriage and said, "I see what you mean now. We wish he had invested more time in building our friendship than maintaining our romance." It's good advice. And if you want to build a strong and lasting marriage, I recommend the same thing. Friendships endure when romance fades.
Sadly, she's right and it explains why many couples end their relationship prematurely. They lament that they "just aren't happy anymore" or they "just aren't in love anymore." What they are really saying is that they don't feel the same way as when the relationship first began and they don't know how to handle it. Simply put, their marriage is crumbling under the weight of unrealistic expectations.
We can blame Jerry Maquire for this one. Remember the iconic scene with Tom Cruise and Renee Zellweger when he tells her "you complete me" and everyone swoons? That's what many people are looking for today in their relationships—someone who will bring them continual happiness. Some researchers call it the "soul-mate" model of marriage. We want someone who will meet our every emotional need and fulfill our every romantic desire.
Sorry, but once again, that's the stuff of make-believe. If we expect our love story to read like the plot of a Nicholas Sparks novel, we're begging for discontentment. As Anne Lamott so bluntly put it, "expectations are resentments waiting to happen." In other words, keep things in perspective and temper your expectations with the fact that your partners aren't characters in a movie. They are real people with real flaws and they will let you down sometimes. So cut them some slack and save yourself the heartbreak of lingering resentment.
The bottom line is this. You don't have a soul-mate. You have a spouse. Be faithful to them. You don't have a story-book ending. You have a story that's still being written. Keep writing it. And you don't have a lover. You have a friend. Keep working on that aspect of marriage and the love will endure.
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We reported in September of this year on a demand from multiple consumer advocacy groups to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ("CFPB") to rescind its April 1, 2020, credit report guidance that relaxed the Fair Credit Reporting Act's ("FCRA") deadlines to investigate consumer-initiated direct disputes. In a letter dated November 9, 2020, CFPB Director Kathleen Kraninger told the National Consumer Law Center that the CFPB would not drop the FCRA relief for furnishers and credit reporting agencies.
In April, at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the CFPB advised that it would ease the deadlines for furnishers and consumer reporting agencies ("CRAs") to investigate consumers' disputes regarding the information on their credit reports. Under the FCRA, businesses have 30 days to investigate a dispute, extending to 45 days in some circumstances. The CFPB stated it would not take supervisory or enforcement action against companies that try but fail to meet these deadlines, attributing the policy to the potentially "significant operational disruptions" then facing the industry due to the pandemic.
Consumer advocacy groups argue that furnishers and CRAs are ignoring many disputes given the rise since April in consumer complaints about investigation delays. Moreover, consumer groups contend furnishers and CRAs have had ample time to adapt to the pandemic and respond to complaints timely.
In response, Kraninger stated, "I want to make clear that all companies continue to remain responsible for FCRA compliance with dispute resolutions in a timely fashion," Kraninger wrote. "However, during the extraordinary times in which we find ourselves, the bureau does not intend to cite in an examination or bring an enforcement action against firms who exceed the deadlines to investigate such disputes - but only as long as efforts are made in good faith to do so as quickly as possible."
According to the letter, the CFPB maintains it will keep looking at the administration of consumer-initiated disputes on a company-by-company basis and whether firms are exercising good-faith efforts.
Consumer reporting agencies and furnishers should be aware of the heightened concerns surrounding the reporting deadlines for consumer-initiated disputes and use their best efforts to resolve them promptly. We will continue to monitor any developments regarding the CFPB's activities and guidance involving the FCRA.
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The fight against the ugly green piggies rages to an all-time high. Angry Birds 2 for Android has you return to the continuous battle between birds and piggies.
What's not to love about this game? The concept is so ridiculous and engaging, with equally immersive gameplay. Although, the game did go a few pegs down from its original version, it's still fun to play.
So, without further do, let's talk about Angry Birds 2 and how its differs from the original…
Changes in Gameplay
To begin, let's talk about the actual changes to the way you play Angry Birds 2, compared to the first.
To be fair, the core gameplay hasn't seen much change. Fling your birds, hit the pigs, cause destruction and mayhem. It's basically one-for-one when it comes to the fundamentals.
However, the execution takes a bit of a curve. Rather than having strategic levels that require thinking and skill, these levels are more random.
In the first game, stages were predetermined and would take a specific route or strategy to complete them. This way, you'd use every bird's ability with care and thought.
Although, in Angry Birds 2, each level is completely randomized. Thus, taking less thinking and strategy and more "brute-force". It's more about throwing your birds and watching the ensuing damage and destruction.
Additionally, a lives system was added, making the game a little more tedious and annoying. If you run out of lives, you'll need to wait a certain amount of time for them to regen. You could also bypass this by watching an add, or buying more lives. Mixed with the randomness of levels, there are many instances of annoyance or anger when you run out of lives.
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Menorah Medical Center—part of HCA Midwest Health, Kansas City's leading healthcare provider—announced today it has been honored with an outstanding "A" grade in the Fall 2016 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades, which rates how well hospitals prevent medical errors, injuries and infections within the hospital. The Hospital Safety Score is compiled under the guidance of the nation's leading experts on patient safety and is administered by The Leapfrog Group, an independent industry watchdog.
"Our physicians and employees strive to provide the best care and service for every patient and their family," says Menorah Medical Center Chief Executive Officer Charles Laird. "This score makes us very proud because it means an independent organization recognizes our high-quality care. Patients and their families choose us because our nurses and doctors are dedicated to high quality care and service excellence. The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Score is one measure of performance and to earn the highest quality grades among all hospitals is truly an honor."
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"Protecting patients from harm is the most important charge for any hospital," says Leah Binder, president and CEO of The Leapfrog Group. "We recognize and appreciate 'A' hospitals' vigilance and continued dedication to keeping their patients safe."
Other HCA Midwest hospitals recognized with "A" grades include Centerpoint Medical Center, Lee's Summit Medical Center, Overland Park Regional Medical Center and Research Medical Center.
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Q: How to short a URL I have a URL like:
www.zzz.com/ExternalDocuments/ExternalDocumentUpload.aspx?hjgbasdjfjsggfsdf

I want to provide something short for ExternalDocuments/ExternalDocumentUpload.aspx. I don't want to shorten the whole url.

A: It sounds like what you want isn't "shortening" -- where a service like e.g. bit.ly is used to shorten the entire URL for use in Twitter or suchlike -- but "URL rewriting".
This takes a "friendly" path provided by the user -- to the right of the "/" -- and turns it into the URL you need for ASP.NET to find the page.
There's a few different ways to do this depending on precisely which flavour of ASP.NET and IIS you're using. ScottGu has a good roundup here:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx
and for IIS7 I've used the one here:
http://www.iis.net/download/URLRewrite

A: You can set up url rewriting in global.asax file, on Application_BeginRequest event, that would run on every request, checking requested url and, if needed, redirecting it to desired url. You can make the checking like this:
protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    if (Request.RawUrl== "/someShorturl/page.aspx")
    {
        HttpContext.Current.RewritePath("/ExternalDocuments/ExternalDocumentUpload.aspx?hjgbasdjfjsggfsdf");
    }
}

So, if user goes to "www.zzz.com/someShorturl/page.aspx", he will get "www.zzz.com/ExternalDocuments/ExternalDocumentUpload.aspx?hjgbasdjfjsggfsdf" page, although url in the browser won't change.
If you'd like to change shortened url into long original url, you can call Response.Redirect instead the RewritePath method.
This example is for one speciffic url, but you can create more complex logic, of course.

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Tree of Souls - An Avatar Community Forum » General Forums » Debate
'X' Is Evil.
Am I the only one who is bored of hearing that X ideology is evil?
I know that Marx for example wasn't an Antichrist who just wanted to take over the world. That kind of "bad people" only appears in comics and tales.
When it's about philosophy the people who make systems usually pretend to make the greatest good to the largest range of people. They don't try to destroy your country, that's something those who want to take advantage of a powerful position do.
Ideas don't kill. People do.
And fearing them it's just an excuse to ignore them.
You are most certainly not alone Zenit. I agree completely with what you said - "Ideas don't kill. People do."
Socialism and Marxism for example have earned a dark name for themselves as vicious and cruel systems because of leaders such as Mau and Stalin who are far away from the ideals they supposedly promote. As such, everyone seems to be terrified of the idea of Socialism, many seeing it akin to Nazism when in fact it is quite the opposite end of the spectrum.
Also as you said - "Fearing them is just an excuse to ignore them."
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People take X idea and make it into a way for them to get power at the expense of others. It's always happened, with everything from political systems to religion.
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...Ideas don't kill, true. But what did Marx teach? When you read Das Capital you'll understand his ideology isn't exactly a peaceful one. For example, I don't doubt Marx would disagree with what Mao did. Marx never worked a day in his life; a lazy bum; was a racist and a chauvinist, and his kids died of starvation because of his neglect. Not that great a guy.
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Originally Posted by Woodsprite
... Marx never worked a day in his life; a lazy bum; was a racist and a chauvinist, and his kids died of starvation because of his neglect. Not that great a guy.
This may be true (I know nothing about Marx), but in formal logic a person's motivation, ideology and even actions don't affect the (in)validity of their ideas. Trying to discredit ideas using personal failings usually falls under ad hominem and tu quoque.
Just my two cents...
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Originally Posted by Sovereign
True, but looking at the man in his personal life can really touch into the reasons why he thought the way he did. That isn't ad hominum, that's just personal analysis.
Same with George Washington. You look at his personal life and compare what his beliefs were with his life's actions. The only thing he did "wrong" in his life was him owning slaves. And that was only at one point. He lived a prosperous, accomplished life because he made himself that way. His beliefs can be said to have affected this. He succeeded. Marx, on the other hand, led a very poor life and is remembered for nothing except his writings. He, in the technical definition of life accomplishment, failed.
Last edited by Woodsprite; 04-17-2010 at 12:18 AM.
In fact, the people who work on philosophy -or anything actually- can be the worst persons you could ever meet; but if they're right, truth is truth no matter who (or how) states it.
That's the question though: What is truth?
Can truth be dictated? Or does it come naturally? That's the differents between dictatorships and republics.
Truth is by definition the characteristic of a description that matches with all the actual properties of the object described.
So truth is just in front of us: is reality. How we see and interpret it is what leads to different postures.
Well I wouldn't know whether or not (by that statement) you believe truth is relative, or truth has solid ground. I agree, it can be interpreted differently, but does this mean other people's truths can be just as real as ours? I don't believe this idea.
Okay, but regardless that still doesn't lend any credit or discredit to his ideas. The fact that correlation might exist between his ideas and his ultimate life outcome does not imply causation, nor does it create any formal standing as to the validity of his ideas.
I'm getting the vibe you don't like Marx. I'm not saying you should like him, but I am saying that I am getting the drift that you're trying to discredit his ideas based on the fact that his life-outcome was poor.
Whether your beliefs affect your life, is to me irrelevant from a logical perspective. Beliefs stand on their own regardless of who held them or what that person's life was like. There is no tie between the two in the system of formal logic I use, and that's where I'm having a problem with what you're asserting: you're trying to tie his life failings to his ideas in order to cast his ideas in a negative light. His ideas will stand in positive or negative life on their own (without his life-story).
Marxism from Albert Einstein would be the same thing as Marxism from Marx. Einstein wasn't a Marxist, but for the sake of argument let's assume he was for a moment. The fact that Albert Einstein was successful, intelligent and created the basis for modern physics would not change the (in)validity of the ideas expressed in Marxism.
Henry Ford was known to be anti-Semitic. That dents his character, but has no impact on the importance of his innovation in the assembly-line.
Woodsprite, I'm not attacking you, please don't think that. I just think your logic is faulty and am trying to point that out.
I don't think you're attacking me. Believe me, I've encountered so many uncouth people in debates... discussing things here with you guys is so much better because we're all superior to such... aggression.
I get what you're saying. Basically, don't judge a book by its cover. But consider this: have you ever heard of a marxist who affected the world in a positive way? That's my point. The ideology just doesn't work. We've learned the lessons of Castro, Mao, and Stalin. Let alone socialism, where we've learned the lessons of Hitler. (I'm not talking about the holocaust, just what happened with the government when he took power.) These two are essentially different in that socialism allows some forms of capital gain through work, and communism takes this away, declaring "fair redistribution". Both, however, involve total government control.
We could technically include Mussolini in this comparison. He was a fascist, true, but trying to contrast socialism with fascism will get nowhere very quickly... It's like comparing Coke with Pepsi, there isn't much difference.
But now we're considering it all over again (especially in the U.S.). It's like no one learned anything. Sure, imagine all the possibilities you want in a world where people will just work with absolutely no incentive to do so, but at the end of the day we can look at reality is say, "I guess it doesn't do much good." And it isn't because humans are "bad", "imperfect", or "selfish", it's because the system is unfair to those who wish to advance themselves. If there's total government control you've got too many restrictions on what you can do. If there's total redistribution of wealth, then there's no point in working because your life automatically becomes meaningless, and you just work for the "greater good".
Benjamin Franklin invented a better oven. He refused to patent his invention because he did what he did out of charity. He just wanted to help. The Ipad is phenominal. There are millions who love it. Apple made a product and caused other people to come and aquire it. They didn't go to people's homes and say, "You will have this product, and you will like it." No. They used the free market system to advertize their product. They didn't need to force anyone to do anything.
Communism forces. Socialism forces. Capitalism doesn't. I'm fully aware that pure capitalism is detrimental in the long run, if people are allowed to do whatever they want no matter what the result. But under a system free enough to allow where people can make as much money as they want without harming anything essentially necessary to the society it contributes to, it will indeed "live long and prosper". So far, for the last 250 years it has worked. In more recent years, however, we've turned to a more corporate bond of economies, where each country's economy is connected. If one country fails fiscally: domino effect. Greece is dead. It won't be long before Europe begins to fail. Once Europe fails, the U.S. will fail. Once the U.S. fails, China will. It will continue until every nation's economy has essentially collapsed, but there will always be at least one to reboot the system.
If the U.S. wakes up and realizes that it can collapse, we (or "they" if you're from another nation) can remove ourselves from this system. The same goes for every other country. It used to be all about "M.A.D." or, Mutually Assured Destruction. Nuke one country, the other will nuke back. Holocaust. No one wants that. Then we turned to tying our economies together, which was a terrible idea since we'd all depend on each other not to do something stupid. Now we have to realize that if we're going to survive, we're going to have to go it alone, and not have any connection to another nation's demise.
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Marxism in it's purest form is actually a good ideaology, where the issue of worker oppression and market superiority is addressed and he offers a system where all the people are deemed "equal" and given the same amount of capital.
The problems arise when the leadership issue arises, who leads and with how much authority. Unfortunately, Marx's idea of communism had been used by opportunistic leaders who saw few boundaries..
I have no problem with Marx, but find that his ideas are hard to regulate, especially in the modern world.
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Originally Posted by Pa'li Makto
Mmm... I don't think you've read up on all his ideas to fully understand his position on societies. Not to be insulting, just... if you've read some of the ideas he's posed on "elimination", you'd know there were many problems.
Mmm I recognise that, I've only ever applied Marx and his ideas of revolutions and the classes to historiography and social work
I'm basing my views on what I know, and refuse to push people to see my opinion as right or wrong. I'm just giving an opinion after all.