Every morning I take a shower and like most guys we tend to shave in the shower. Its just more convenient than standing at the sink later on to do this. So I get out the shaving gel and the razor blade and begin to shave after first of all giving my face a really good soaking with plenty of warm water. As Im sure you boys know this helps to soften the bristles and helps the blade make a clean cut.
However, more often than not I will finish the shave with a 'nick' or two or sometimes three. This is normally due to blades that end up becoming blunt after around three days of use. Or even more incredibly its because i have had to change my brand of shaving gel!
To get a very close comfortable shave one really needs a new blade every day. But the cost of blades are one of the most extortionate outrageous 'rip offs' one can imagine. Four measly blades for around 6.95! Theyve got us good and proper because lets face it, a lot of people prefer to shave every day.
As far as electric shavers are concerned -forget it. They are completely hopeless when it comes to a close shave. Ive tried all kinds of electric shavers, from the foil type to the rotary head and none of them give as close a shave as a wet shave.
More often than not when I started with an electric shaver I would end up having to finish with a disposable razor, just to get that really close shave.
Why dont we all just grow a beard and be done with it. This would save so much angst!
Payless is right. If you tap the razor head on a towel after washing it then it will last ages. I just used a new disposable this morning - the previous one lasted 3 weeks. I buy Bic Sensitive, pack of 4, cheap and effective (ie that's a 3 month supply for less than £3). Can't see why guys pay £12-£18 for those Mach types and half the time you can't get refills, or they only fit a certain type. Rip off.
Shaving gels and soaps are a waste of money, too. Just get a shaving brush and wet the ordinary facial soap before applying it to our beard.
If you dry the razor carefully after use it will prolong its life considerably. Apparently, it is the rust that accumulates along the blade edge that makes it blunt. I have been using the same razor for three weeks now since starting this technique, and it is still as sharp as the first day.
After use, I dab it dry, then use a cotton wool bud to remove all the hair and damp, then blow on it to dry it completely. Works a treat and saves a fair bit of expense.
Actually,I've already taken to growing a beard. I have better things to spend my money on than razor blades [things such as a KFC Godfather Box Meal].
Dont buy cheap Chinese blades that is my advice. If I dont shave my shirt collors wear out.
Shaving is a pain the the a***. Why not grow a beard instead?
if your too poor to shave then why not grow a viking beard.
Have you ever considered laser hair removal? It may be expensive but would eliminate all of your problems and you would save in the long run on razors.
Iv`e always thought that men get a better deal from nature than women, but I would hate to have to drag a razor across my face every morning, when I`m still half -asleep.
Shaving every other day gets the best results,(and first thing in the morning) I found that the five pack tripple blades by "lazertech" from poundland are good value, (sorry for the advert) but you have to buy the handles seperate (with a couple of complimentary blades), the only downside with these, is that the handles drop to bits if dropped on the floor.
Do manufcturers use blunting agents in their shaving cream/gel..?
Why not try DE - double edge blades? Cheap as ($2 for 5 blades), far sharper, and a razor to put them in will last a lifetime and cost around 20 quid.
Some decent shaving creams are really cheap and nicer to use too. I'm saving a fortune andenjoying it too.


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On Rear Vision this week we look at the recent history of the digital distribution revolution. Over the last hundred years of media history, content has become cheaper to produce and distribute.
Content used to be king for the analogue media conglomerates. Now in courts and in the marketplace they're fighting off challenges from new digital distribution companies.
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Stan Correy: This week on Rear Vision, media mergers and the digital distribution revolution.
Journalist [archival]: Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox confirming it made an offer to buy Time Warner…
Journalist [archival]: Time Warner has officially rejected an $80 billion formal offer that they received last month from 21st Century Fox…
Journalist [archival]: A proposal to unite two of the world's most powerful media conglomerates set Time Warner's stock surging and the business world buzzing…
Man [archival]: Can there be synergies in a Fox…who are they buying, Time Warner? I can't remember the names, my head is spinning so much…
Journalist [archival]: A merger would create a media colossus…
Stan Correy: Hello, this is Rear Vision on RN and via the web, I'm Stan Correy.
Soon, if media conglomerates keep merging, there might only be one big media entertainment corporation controlling content and distribution in the United States. And that possible future will in turn affect how Australians use the internet, what film and television programs they can access online and how much they pay.
Audiences in the US and Australia have plenty of choice, say the big media companies, there's online video and subscription or pay television. And the media companies also say there's plenty of legitimate competition from new digital giants like Apple, Amazon and Netflix.
But in reality, if consumers don't pay the high prices demanded by the media companies, they are treated as pirates. It's a political nightmare.
Chris Uhlmann [archival]: This is the internet age. I don't know enormous amounts about it but I can't imagine it costs any more to do it.
Malcolm Turnbull [archival]: No, but Chris, look, anyone is entitled, people are entitled to sell their products for whatever price they like. That's their right. My only…and I'm not suggesting that the government should be setting prices here, but I'm just saying that if you want to discourage piracy, the best thing you can do, and the music industry is a very good example of this, the way they've responded, the best thing you can do is to make your content available globally, universally and affordably.
Stan Correy: Digital distribution is causing havoc in the courts, the marketplace and in government. Multibillion dollar mergers excite the market, but audiences are increasingly captive to a system that looks more like the US railway industry of the late 19th century, dominated by very powerful railway barons. That's the view of Harvard law professor and former technology adviser to President Obama, Susan Crawford.
Susan Crawford: The media conglomerates in America have a pretty good thing in the consolidation of the distribution networks so far because it's a system that's perfectly engineered to raise revenues for both sides. Online video at the moment is not affecting the popularity of the media conglomerates' very shiny bundles of programming and they are able to force those bundles through a guaranteed distribution chain and pass those costs along to consumers. It's all been working out quite well so far. The problem is that the distribution networks can shape that marketplace now because they've become so powerful.
Stan Correy: Digital technology just makes it so easy to find, copy and transmit information.
The Distribution Revolution is the title of a new book to be published next month in the United States. One of the authors is Associate Professor Jennifer Holt from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Jennifer Holt: These legacy companies that are built primarily on content, they have been trying to adapt their distribution networks but I don't think they quite have the formula figured out. So we are at this pivotal moment when we've been there before and there's this long history of is content king or is distribution king? And the way these original empires of entertainment were built was to combine content and distribution. They didn't have to make those choices. It's the same way that the old studios consolidated their power; they bought up all the theatres so that everybody had to go and see what they were producing, you didn't really have a choice. They expanded that model with the new media conglomerates that were built in the '80s and '90s, and now there is a moment where they are trying to determine what the most efficient, effective, and important avenues of distribution are and how to control them.
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Stan Correy: Every day there are more and more stories of consumers who want to use digital technology in creative ways and the media conglomerates who want to stop them. The media companies' historical preference is called windowing, literally dividing up the content and presenting it in an array of digital windows to get top dollar.
Rupert Murdoch's on again/off again bid to take over Time Warner wasn't about providing more consumer choice but getting control of distribution networks and sports rights. And 21st Century Fox isn't the only company bidding for Time Warner, the giant telco Comcast owns the distribution pipelines as well as content and it has a merger proposal on the table and it's causing concern in Washington DC.
Journalist [archival]: At the first public hearing of the proposed $45 billion merger between Comcast and Time Warner cable, lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee voiced concern about higher prices for consumers and too much power over what Americans watch on TV and online.
Charles Grassley [archival]: Consumers want to know whether a combined Comcast-Time Warner will be in a better position to expand high-speed internet access. Will consumers have higher cable bills? Will they have more or less content choices?
Stan Correy: The companies that provide our news and entertainment are getting bigger every day. But Rupert Murdoch still describes his company as a swift-footed new economy entrepreneur.
Rupert Murdoch [archival]: 21st Century Fox is an amazing company and our future has never been brighter. While we remain opportunistic and nimble, we are strategically a complete company and have a clear sense of where we are going.
Jack Shafer: It's always difficult to predict technological change but what we've seen over the last 100 years of media is that media has become increasingly cheaper to produce and increasingly cheaper to distribute and increasingly easier for new entrants to come in and create what's being created already.
Stan Correy: Jack Shafer, media analyst for Reuters Business.
Jack Shafer: There have been a couple of cases where that has not been true. There hasn't been a new genuine successful motion picture studio created. Steven Spielberg and his partners tried to create the Dreamworks studio to have their own independent production and distribution business, and they were unable to really knock that door down. But that was probably like trying to enter the newspaper business as the newspaper business is beginning its slide. I think it is a truism that everything becomes faster, everything becomes less expensive, and this is a real threat to the companies that are deeply invested in old technology and very expensive technology.
Stan Correy: For over 30 years, journalist Frank Rose has been following how digital technology has changed the media. He thinks that most of the people running media business today are products of the couch potato era of television. The natural laws of consumption that media conglomerates often talk about are products of another age.
From his office in New York, Frank Rose:
Frank Rose: The industrial age mindset of mass media is really no accident, it's just how things evolved, starting actually in the mid 19th century with high-speed steam-powered printing presses that made it possible to produce very large numbers of newspapers and railroads and other distribution mechanisms that enabled you to get them to people pretty quickly. And from there it just evolved, from movies and radio and television, all of which worked on what's essentially a broadcasting model, that is mainly from one to many. And it was a very efficient way of distributing information but really at the cost of turning information into a product rather than a service, and treating everyone the same, creating huge masses of people or at least imagining huge masses of people. And digital is fundamentally different, it does not encourage you to look at people as masses, it encourages you to look at individuals.
Stan Correy: As Frank Rose explained, wars between old media and new technologies aren't new. In the 1930s, the new broadcast medium of radio challenged the old mass media of newspapers. In the US, it was called the press/radio war. In Australia the battle lasted throughout the 1930s and into the 1940s and it was between the ABC and the newspapers led by Sir Keith Murdoch.
Here's a reading from a report from ABC archives describing a meeting between the Newspaper Association and ABC management over the right of the ABC to collect its own news.
Reading: I would particularly invite your attention to the last page of Mr Holtz's letter with its display of power, its claim to monopoly and its threat of action against the Commission if the latter dared to exercise its right to collect its services independently of the Combine. The last page is of a piece with a remark by Sir Keith in course of a conversation with Mr Moses that the 'Commission's proper function is to entertain people, and not to encroach on the newspapers' sphere' and that 'if you people think you are going to usurp the functions of a newspaper you will get your wings clipped'.
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Orson Wells: On this particular evening, October 30, the Crosley service estimated that 32 million people were listening in on radios.
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Stan Correy: In the US press/radio war of the 1930s, it wasn't Martians the newspapers feared but radio, and they used the panic caused by Orson Welles' radio drama to warn of the dangers of the new broadcast technology.
Frank Rose: The example of newspapers versus radio in the '30s is certainly historically apt. And if you recall in 1938 Orson Welles did this famous or infamous radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, the HG Wells novel about invaders from Mars, and he did this as a radio program, and people tuning in in the middle of it thought that Martians were actually invading and there were scenes of mass panic all across the US. It was unbelievable.
And part of it, part of the reason this was played up so much in the news media was because newspapers viewed radio as an interloper and as a dangerous new technology, so therefore they were eager to give play to a story like this one. Today what we're seeing is certainly a case of new technology threatening and ultimately I think it's going to trump older technologies, but the fundamental difference is that until now in the 20th century…whatever the technology, whether it was movies or print or radio or television they were mass media, they operated on a one-to-many broadcast model, and that's just not the case anymore. What digital technology does is that it breaks that up completely, and it means that distributors of news and entertainment have to fundamentally rethink how they're going to interact with the public.
Stan Correy: You're with Rear Vision on RN and via the web. I'm Stan Correy, and today we're looking at the recent history of the digital distribution revolution and how it's causing havoc in the courts, the marketplace and in government.
The new digital technology hasn't yet trumped the old way of doing business in the US. Hollywood entertainment companies like Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox are worried about audiences stealing their content by using new digital technologies. But they are even more concerned about other media distribution companies like Comcast.
Susan Crawford is now Professor of Law at Harvard University, and Rear Vision spoke to her via Skype.
Susan Crawford: So at this point if Comcast is permitted to merge with the number two cable distributor, Time Warner cable, that combination will pass 70% of American households. So Hollywood is quite worried actually. In order to reach the people who love their content, they're going to have to figure out how to get through the door of a single gatekeeper who controls access to most American households. And the only thing that beats scale is scale. So on the programming side we're going to see even more consolidation than we have already experienced. There are only about six media conglomerates in the United States that serve up 90% of programming, and now we're going to see fewer, they are going to consolidate.
Stan Correy: It's common to hear of old entertainment empires fading as the new digital based companies take control. That's not exactly what's happening, says Jennifer Holt.
Jennifer Holt: Well, I see that they are under siege in some ways and not in others. These companies, as they were amassing during the late '80s and '90s, were bringing together various strands of media, film and broadcast television and cable television, and now they're all trying to adapt to an entirely new delivery method for all of these media forms. So in some ways they are under siege in the sense that they are subject to the kind of tyranny of data-driven production that is going on right now, which is all very much oriented around what various digital platforms are able to glean from their users and their viewers and how much emphasis is being put on those various elements of data and translating that into our entertainment. So big data has really started to take on a very prominent role in our entertainment universe in ways that we are both aware of and often unaware of. And also the growing contingency of very tech-savvy audiences have them on their toes because now audiences are able to find content in a host of ways—illegal and legal—which don't necessarily funnel into the conglomerate coffers.
Stan Correy: Tech-savvy audiences all around the world are adept at an annoying media companies. In recent weeks, the Times and the Sun newspapers, owned by News Corp, have been warning British football fans not to replay premier league goals using the social media technology Vine. Here's how Channel 4 in Britain reported the story:
Journalist [archival]: See it, tweet it, repeat it. But fans who share unofficial videos of goals on the internet might be breaking the law, and the premier league has vowed to clamp down.
Journalist [archival]: Fans can basically self-published their own instant replays online. So if I'm watching a game and I see a particularly good goal or a good save, all I have to do is this; I wait for the instant replay and I use an app called Vine. Once I hit the screen, Vine starts recording. It records six seconds of gameplay, and once I'm done I can publish it instantly to Twitter.
Stan Correy: That report about the social media video technology Vine by Channel 4's technology writer, Geoff White. And it's a classic illustration of what digital expert Frank Rose calls the clueless attitude of many content providers to what's happening in the digital universe. The audience may not own the content, but in the digital world their behaviour counts more than it did in the old mass media days.
Frank Rose: The first moment really was the introduction of the remote control which happened back in the '70s, and until then you had to literally get up and walk across the room to change your TV channel, and that really started to revolutionise the way people watched TV. And then of course Sony introduced the video cassette recorder, Sony and Philips both. And then of course you had eventually digital video recorders which did the same thing without bothering with a cassette. And now you have high speed internet and the emergence of companies like Netflix that distribute programming over the internet, and that just leads to more and more audience control.
Now the audience not only doesn't have to watch a TV show when it's aired, they don't even have to subscribe to the cable package that distributes the TV show in many cases. So I think that's a fundamental development. But a big problem I think that the media companies have is that they are generally sort of clueless when it comes to new technologies and they kind of simultaneously rush to embrace them before they really understand them and resist their implications.
Stan Correy: And the media companies resist via copyright law. And very punitive copyright law. Here's James Murdoch, currently co-chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox, speaking in 2010:
James Murdoch [archival]: You need governments to play ball. These are property rights. These are basic property rights. There is no difference from going into a store and stealing a packet of Pringles or a handbag and stealing something online, right? And the idea that there is this new consumer class that somehow are thieves but we call them consumers, and we say we have to be customer friendly when they're stealing stuff, is lunacy, right? This is the basic condition for investment and economic growth, is some level of sanctity around property rights, whether it's my house or a movie I've made, okay? And there's no difference, and I think it's crazy, frankly, if people say, 'Oh, it's different, these kids, you know, these crazy kids…' No, punish them.
Stan Correy: Murdoch might be annoyed and surprised at the views of one of Hollywood's new power brokers. Ted Sarandos is the chief content officer for streaming video giant Netflix and a Fox competitor in the video streaming business. He told the authors of the book Distribution Revolution that a lot of anti-piracy efforts are just sport. For every technological solution to piracy, a counter-technology emerges.
Here's Sarandos speaking last year:
Ted Sarandos [archival]: There is a problem when I mentioned piracy on movies around the world, but television is also driving a tonne of that piracy now and, again, not because people are becoming increasingly dishonest, I don't believe that, I think it's because the internet is this enormous global unfragmented platform. In every other form of distribution besides the internet there's a physical need for distribution to be fragmented, you know, the satellite signal only covers half the Earth at the same time, wires have to be run, prints have to be delivered. But on the internet there's no reason that you can't push play anywhere in the world and watch the same thing and watch whatever you want, whenever you want. And everyone is using this a marketing platform.
Frank Rose: I call piracy market failure because it fundamentally happens…I mean, there are certainly exceptions, but most of it happens when people can't get what they want legitimately.
Stan Correy: Frank Rose covers the digital business world for Wired magazine. He says most media companies invariably blame consumers. To admit fault would mean that their media business is based on industrial era economic models that no longer work.
Frank Rose: There have been a number of studies that have shown this, studies all over the world, and they show that when people are able to get something, when they are able to buy something or rent it, you know, some media property, they will do so. When it's not available they will turn to other means of distribution, which is to say piracy. So if media companies give the market what it wants, piracy goes down. If they don't, piracy goes up. It's pretty much as simple as that.
Stan Correy: Over the past decade in the US and in Australia there have been quite vicious legal and media campaigns where traditional content providers have challenged consumer use of digital technology. There are winners and losers on both sides. In Australia at the moment there's an intense lobbying campaign by Rupert Murdoch's Foxtel and the movie distributors to change federal copyright laws in their favour.
Associate Professor of Law Matthew Rimmer is a copyright expert from the ANU. Like Frank Rose in the US, he thinks copyright owners are using out-dated business models to fight their campaigns.
Matthew Rimmer: It's entirely true that copyright owners have been given a range of rights through successive reforms but often have not been very good at innovating to make their works widely and flexibly accessible to consumers. So there is a great deal of frustration that copyright owners have been very much focused upon protecting and defending old business models, rather than innovating with new business models, and as a result they have lost a lot of the opportunities.
So Steve Jobs with Apple saw a real opportunity with the battles breaking out between Napster and the music industry for a legitimate player to come in and provide access to digital files at a relatively fair price. And as a result, Apple was able to kind of insert itself into the relationship between the music industry and creators and consumers, and really now has something of a chokehold in terms of that relationship.
Similarly Amazon.com has shown a great deal of innovation in terms of building up its publishing empire and offers a great marketplace in the net. Really publishers had the opportunity to do that themselves but they missed that opportunity. And in relation to Netflix you can see that Netflix is satisfying a very definite consumer demand in the United States for access to a wide range of copyright content on a subscription basis, and that seems to be much more attractive than the very expensive packages that are being offered by some of the pay television providers like Foxtel. So there's a real tension there in terms of whether or not copyright owners are best off spending their money trying to defend their old business models and chasing after pirates, or whether they should be engaging in research and development to be ensure that they are not left behind by the next wave of disruptive technologies.
Stan Correy: Matthew Rimmer.
You would expect Susan Crawford to have strong opinions on the copyright issue and how it's affecting consumers in accessing the internet. Crawford is now Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property at Harvard University. She thinks the copyright wars may be distracting people from the bigger problem; the concentration of corporate control of the internet.
Susan Crawford: The whole industry is so concentrated that they've been able to make a deal. Right now Hollywood is not that worried about piracy online because they're cooperating with the distribution networks on something called the six strikes scheme that allows the content industry to complain about piracy and people who are pirating long-form intellectual property to the distribution networks and have those people or subscribers removed from the network if they're pirates. So in fact these guys are frenemies in a sense, that Hollywood and the distribution networks are in cahoots working together and are able now to defeat piracy in a way that would have been more difficult if there was greater competition in the distribution network side.
Stan Correy: Some people looking at digital distribution say that this is breaking down old models, but your book was called Captive Audience. Some people say the power is moving to the audience, but in a sense that's not your opinion, is it?
Susan Crawford: Well, the audience only gets to get online if they have a wire going into their home. This is just what some people call a natural monopoly, it's quite expensive to build two sets of wires to homes and nobody is stepping up to claim this market from the cable operators here in the United States. So they pretty much reign without constraint from either competition or oversight in this country. And so only so much a user can do if their distributor has complete power over their connection.
Stan Correy: So the power is with the distributors rather than…digital is not giving audiences power, only if they are connected do they have that power to, I suppose…via decisions about programs and things like that.
Susan Crawford: That's right. So the first step is getting online and for that first step we have a very few actors in the United States who have enormous market power.
Stan Correy: Professor Susan Crawford from Harvard Law School. My other guests: Associate Professor Jennifer Holt from film and television studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Jack Shafer, media commentator with Reuters Business; Frank Rose, digital business correspondent with Wired magazine; and Matthew Rimmer from the ANU College of Law.
Today's sound engineer is Simon Branthwaite. I'm Stan Correy, thanks for listening.
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My first port of call is Simon Martin's monograph on Burra, my Book of the Week. There is one brief mention in Chapter 3 ('The Danse Macabre: Burra's Dark Side') of Burra's 1937 visit to Mexico, of which the main legacy seems to have been a fascination with Mexican 'Day of the Dead' imagery, a powerful stimulus in later works such as Skeleton Party 1952-4.
Some further background reading leads me to conclude that the RA may have slightly overplayed Burra's connection with Mexico. He visited by chance in May 1937 with his friends Conrad Aiken and Mary Hoover, who were travelling to Mexico from Boston so that Conrad could obtain a divorce and marry Mary. Burra became extremely ill with dysentery, and by July he was back in England, having spent time in Mexico City initially and then in Cuernavaca with Aiken's friend Malcolm Lowry. That's really it.
As Simon Martin notes, Burra's eclectic, eccentric and exuberant paintings drew on a vast range of influences, from Renaissance and Baroque art to German 1920s Neue Sachlichkeit painting, Hollywood cinema, jazz music, French literature, avant-garde photography, and Parisian dance revues. His extraordinary and still far too little-known output incorporates street scenes, landscape and still-life paintings, stage designs and book illustrations. In the course of a 50-year career, Mexico was but a brief moment.


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SheSails Initiatives for this Year
One of the points of focus for Australian sailing authorities is to take up programs that encourage the participation of more people in sailing. One of their forthcoming initiatives is to encourage women's participation and that would be launched on March 8th, International Women's Day.
The initiative is being taken up by She Sails which is the brand for promoting female participation in sailing. The program is designed to recognize all female contributors who are dedicated to the sport. There would be promotional and branding toolkits given out to different clubs for this program.
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AKZONOBEL CAPTAIN REINSTATED HOURS BEFORE STAGE 1 RACE
AkzoNobel dismissed its skipper Simeon Tienpont last week for breach of contract but the sailor contested the move. The case ended with Team AkzoNobel reinstating the disgruntled sailor just hours before the 2017/18 Volvo Ocean Race.
According to reports Tienpont was granted permission to lead the team on the morning of the stage 1 race. He eventually cast off from Alicante with a crew of seven members. The bulk of the experienced crew remained ashore so a shore team was put together and a sailor borrowed from another squad for the race. (more…)
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This pet is ridiculously overpowered. The combination of black claw and flank can destroy a pet in two turns. Should be a CD on Black Claw or a limit of one turn.
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Have you heard the news? I am partnering with the amazingly talented Melanie from Schoolgirl Style once again to decorate my kindergarten classroom with an all-new theme. After two wonderful years of enjoying my Rainbow Chalkboard classroom theme, I decided it was time to shake things up a little.
Melanie and I started planning what my new theme would be several months ago, and I drove out to her little shop in July to stock up on a few classroom essentials.
Once August rolled around, I headed back into my classroom ready to work and I really had my work cut out for me. This is how my classroom looked when I first walked in the door. I had a new plan for how to decorate the space above my windows so the silhouettes of children playing had to come down. You wouldn't know it, but those paper decorations were held in place with a whole lot of glue and a little bit of tape! Each display come down in one piece. It was such a shame to throw them away, but after 2 years, the paper definitely needed to be replaced.
From there, the real work began: deciding on a color scheme. My new Schoolgirl Style theme came with plenty of printables, but I still needed to narrow down my color scheme.
This has proven to be quite a task! So many people on Instagram have been eagerly waiting for a peek at the new colors and design, but something in the room changed every single day. Often, it was big changes. Like the time I covered the massive bulletin board in the back of my classroom with Canary Yellow Fadeless paper.
Only to decide that it was too much yellow a few days later and start all over again with a new color.
And then there was the classroom library. Oh my word, I thought that space in my classroom might be the death of me. I spent hours this summer looking around for every possible color of plastic bin to use in my library. I really wanted it to have lots of teal. This was the initial color scheme I had in mind. Within a day, it was replaced with this: And soon evolved into this: I really wanted to find book boxes in softer colors and was not having any luck. So I took my matters into my own hands and decided to spray paint a couple of book boxes to see if that was a viable option.
I ultimately decided to embrace the colors currently available for plastic boxes. My library has successfully been transformed and I decided to change things even more and make the switch to using my White Series Classroom Library Labels (instead of the black labels I had been using).
Those black labels aren't the only thing to change. I decided that it is finally time to say goodbye to my little chevron bookshelf. The design is just a little too busy for my new classroom theme.
I recently purchased a new piece of furniture from IKEA and my wonderful husband even came in for a few hours to assemble it for me. He also sent me flowers. I'm not at all sure how I got so lucky.
As my classroom color scheme evolved, so did my debit card. I have made countless trips to various stores to purchase new items and just as many trips to return items that I ultimately decided were not a good fit for my classroom design. This is just one haul that I decided to return during an afternoon of errand running. The gold letters went back to Hobby Lobby, the coral baskets went to Target and the decorative cork boards went to Bed, Bath & Beyond.
School resumed this week for me and once again, my classroom was not ready on time. It has a definite atmosphtere (and, thankfully, a color scheme) but many of the finishing touches are still a work-in progress. I ripped down my classroom alphabet after the first day of school and replaced it with a new look. I am hoping to roll out the rest of the details in the coming week so I can share it with you soon!
You are a wonderful and dedicated teacher to put in so much time, money, and thought in decorating your classroom! Love the reading area and look forward to seeing more! Have a great school year!
Can't wait to see it! I used the scalloped border as well. Beautiful!
I cannot wait to see your classroom reveal and I love the painted palette border I see peeking out! You do such a fantastic job decorating!
Can the chalkboard and dotted swirls border be used for the rainbow chalkboard classroom?
This year will be my first year teaching kindergarten. I have taught young 5's for 5 years. I love your classroom. I want to make my classroom fun and inviting but I am kind of stuck. I keep stressing that I have so much to do but I never start because I don't know where to start. It does not help that the previous teacher took everything.
I love the paper lanterns in your room. Do you happen to know how long the ribbons are?


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A Shortcut for Attorney's Fees?
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We've talked here before about what it takes to make a record on attorney's fees that will withstand scrutiny on appeal. Here's a link to one such post among many. As I've said, it should be a subject of vital interest to attorneys who spend any time in court.
Did you know that there is actually a shortcut to proving attorney's fees?
Here it is … MCA 9-1-41:
In any action in which a court is authorized to award reasonable attorneys' fees, the court shall not require the party seeking such fees to put on proof as to the reasonableness of the amount sought, but shall make the award based on the information already before it and the court's own opinion based on experience and observation; provided however, a party may, in its discretion, place before the court other evidence as to the reasonableness of the amount of the award, and the court may consider such evidence in making the award.
That would seem to be pretty clear, then. No proof as to reasonableness is required, and the court makes its award "based on the information already before it and the court's own opinion based on experience and observation …, " with the proviso that you can put in other evidence to support the award.
Does this mean that the McKee factors need not be considered? Not necessarily. In the case of Par Industries, Inc. v. Target Container Co., 708 So.2d 44, 54 (Miss. 1998), in a case dealing with attorney's fees on an open account, which has its own particular body of law, the MSSC said, "This does not mean these factors are not relevant, just that proof of them is not required before a court awards attorney fees. This Court does not leave the reasonableness of an award for attorneys' fees to the arbitrary discretion of the trial court."
I think you can take from the Par Industries case that the appellate courts require the trial judge to flesh out how she arrived at a determination of reasonableness, and how the court calculated what the fee will be. In other words, a blanket award like "Plaintiff is awarded $5,000, which the court deems reasonable," will not do the job. But an award that spells out what the court considered in making its decision will (or should).
CLARIFYING ATTORNEY'S FEES IN CONTEMPT ACTIONS
I've talked here before about some confusion (in my opinion) on the part of the COA as to the criteria to award attorney's fees in contempt cases as opposed to other cases. The question that gave rise to the confusion was whether proof of the McKee factors and/or inability to pay would be required to support an award of attorney's fees in a contempt action.
In Williamson v. Williamson, decided January 10, 2012, the COA set the record straight. Judge Carlton's opinion sets it out at ¶ 28:
Furthermore, we find no merit to Will's contention that the chancellor erred in awarding attorney's fees to Mary due to a lack of consideration of the McKee analysis. Will's argument fails to differentiate the chancellor's award of attorney's fees in a divorce action as compared to a contempt action. In Mabus v. Mabus, 910 So. 2d 486, 490 (¶13) (Miss. 2005), the Mississippi Supreme Court explained that, generally, in divorce actions, appropriate attorney's fees are awarded in an amount to secure a competent attorney. However, in contempt actions, attorney's fees are awarded "to make the plaintiff whole." Id.; see also Patterson, 20 So. 3d at 73 (¶26) (stating that an award of attorney's fees is appropriate when there is a finding of contempt, and "[n]o showing as to the McKee factors is required"); Bounds v. Bounds, 935 So. 2d 407, 412 (¶18) (Miss. Ct. App. 2006). As stated, Mary introduced an itemization of attorney's fees into evidence at trial. Will failed to provide sufficient evidence showing that the attorney's fees testified to by Mary were unreasonable. Therefore, we find no abuse of discretion by the chancellor in finding Will in contempt and in awarding Mary the attorney's fees she incurred in bringing her petition for contempt. See Mabus, 910 So. 2d at 489 (¶8) ("Where a party's intentional misconduct causes the opposing party to expend time and money needlessly, then attorney['s] fees and expenses should be awarded to the wronged party.").
I think that language pretty well clarifies the law on the point. In contempt cases, contrary to other cases such as divorce, proof of the McKee factors is not required, nor is proof of inability of the wronged party to pay; however, you must put on proof to show the fees incurred and the reasonableness so that the trial judge has some objective standard to apply.
There is one often overlooked avenue for establishing the reasonableness of attorney's fees. It's set out in MCA 9-1-41, which reads as follows:
In any action in which a court is authorized to award reasonable attorneys' fees, the court shall not require the party seeking such fees to to put on proof as to the reasonableness of the amount sought, but shall make the award based on the information already before it and the court's own opinion based on experience and observation; provided, however, a party may, in its discretion, place before the court other evidence as to the reasonableness of the amount of the award, and the court may consider such evidence in making the award.
In my opinion, the statute is something you can use to your advantage in a contempt case, since McKee proof is not required. But be careful in trying to apply it in other kinds of cases. In Doe v. Doe, 644 So.2d 1199, 1209 (Miss. 1994), the supreme court said:
It is true that Miss.Code Ann. § 9-1-41 (1972) allows an award of attorney fees based "on the information already before it and the court's own opinion." However, such discretion still requires some guidelines. Guidelines help to insure that the chancellor's award is based on factual information and is not arbitrary. This Court accordingly holds that chancellors should grant attorney fees under Miss.Code Ann. § 9-1-41 (1972) after considering the factors for attorney fees as stated in McKee v. McKee, 418 So.2d 764, 767 (Miss.1982).
Doe was not a contempt case. It was an action for termination of visitation rights based on allegations of sexual abuse. In non-contempt actions the rule is that you will need to put on the proof required by the case law. In divorce cases, for example, that means proof of the client's inability to pay as well as McKee proof.
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Based on current volume ice loss trends, I predict with 97% confidence the Arctic will be ice-free on July 29, 2021 at 11:42 AM.
Ice loss this year was fourth lowest on record, with all of the lowest four years occurring since 2013.
This shouldn't surprise anyone, because summers have been running cold in the Arctic in recent years.
The ice edge is not quite as extensive as it was in 1971, when the New York Times was worried about expanding ice and a new ice age.
The climate prophets aren't doing very well, which is why the fake news press quotes them every day, and refuses to talk to anyone who states factual information about climate.
The story is-less ice cover will warm the water and give us an accelerating heating and ice loss.
This is due to less albedo in the ice free waters.
One of the tipping points mentioned.
Can we say this is proven to be wrong?
So where is the acceleration mentioned?
The point of this post is that the ice cover is not trending downward over the last 15 years or so.
"Can we say this is proven to be wrong?" – I'd say the standard for asserting a 'tipping point' would be to prove that it is correct, not to throw it out there and assert that someone must prove it incorrect.
Can that be proven wrong?
I might have mistaken this audience knowledge of the different theories for tipping points.
The "may have" in the article's title tends to weaken your argument.
Please elucidate the conditions for the "tipping point" and when that threshold has been reached or will be reached.
If there are multiple tipping point scenarios, then by definition, at most only one of them can be correct.
Which theory in particular do you support? And please provide proof that all of the other tipping point theories/scenarios are incorrect.
And before you judge the knowledge of anyone on this site, please know that I'm an electrical engineer, so I almost certainly know more about positive and negative feedbacks than you do. On a practical basis.
Yet another instance of the boy who called wolf.
On occasions you have provided a website which shows sea level rise and fall on the margins of North America. Can you please post the link for that website? It would much appreciated.
to save us from the ice age.
Sadly the skills were so strong that we all gonna burn now if we do not pay the co2 jiyza.
Is this 97% confidence the same as "for the record"?
I love that moronic pose of Gore staring at his hands. We should all give thanks every day for those hanging chads in Florida.
A little OT, but we had 4″ of 'Permanent Drought' at my house today in Metro DFW, from 5-6:20 pm, as measured in my garden rain gauge.
Still raining, and more expected by Sunday morning.


WASHINGTON — Protection of NCE FMs against potential interference from low-power television stations on Channel 6 in the future is being debated. Meanwhile, the last vestige of ambiguity in the FCC rules regarding so-called "Franken FMs" is closer to being stamped out.
The commission is reviewing public comments about rules governing the transition of low-power television to digital. The Media Bureau proposed such rules in July.
Petitions for reconsideration involving radio were filed in the fall by NPR and engineering consulting firm Hammett & Edison. The organizations agreed that NCE FMs need to be protected from potential interference from digital low-power Channel 6 TV stations, but they disagreed on whether noncoms are afforded any such protection in the proposed rules, and whether the FCC needs to spell out specifically how and in what circumstances NCE FMs need interference protection.
NPR believes the FCC proposals appear to limit LPTVs and TV translators to protecting only first-adjacent NCE FMs from potential interference. It wants the agency to spell out protection for all "adjacent" NCE FMs in the new LPTV rules.
NPR stated there's no technical reason why LPTV television Channel 6 stations operating with substantially increased power would cause interference to first adjacent NCE FM stations but not second-, third-, or other adjacent NCE FM stations. Indeed, NPR says its testing demonstrated a substantial likelihood of interference throughout the reserved portion of the FM band.
Hammett & Edison concurred that NCE FMs are protected from interference from LPTVs on Channel 6 in theory, but argued that the language is not meaningful without a Part 74 rule regarding the impact on radio from LPTV, TV translator and TV boosters.
"Section 74.703(b) of the commission's rules discusses the obligation of a secondary LPTV/TV translator/TV booster station not to cause interference to the reception of existing TV signals, but makes no mention of interference to the reception of FM signals," Hammett & Edison states.
It asked rhetorically how a digital LPTV licensee can know there may be a problem if it obtains a CP and builds a facility, in the absence of benchmarks.
In its petition for reconsideration, NPR asked the FCC to clarify that LPTVs must protect noncom FMs from interference from adjacent LPTV Channel 6 stations and include that obligation in its rules governing the LPTV service.
The network also asked the commission to specify that LPTVs using TV Channel 6 to provide an FM radio service "in lieu of a bona fide television service" are operating without commission authority. That's a reference to so-called "Franken FMs" — Franken as in Frankenstein — that operate analog aural carriers on 87.7 MHz.
As RW has reported, NPR believes those LPTVs are causing interference to member stations; the LPTVs say they're operating within the law. NPR wants the commission to clarify the situation, especially if it authorizes Channel 6 LPTVs to operate with increased power.
The FCC, meanwhile, has not stepped in to illuminate the "Franken" situation, which will end regardless when LPTVs go digital.
H&E calls for technical standards for "D06-into-NCEFM stations." The firm suggested that if the commission wants to go this route it should open a rulemaking on the issue specifically.
"We do not want to see a nonexistent protection requirement for DTV-into-NCEFM arbitrarily and capriciously established," stated H&E, adding that it's past time for the FCC to finish updating its rules to reflect the reality of current digital TV operations.
The reply comment period for those petitions ended in mid-December, and NPR and H&E submitted comments about each other's filings.
NPR said the commission doesn't need to reconsider its LPTV Report & Order based on the H&E petition.
"To address concerns raised by NPR about potential interference to NCE FM stations, the commission affirmed the secondary status of LPTV stations and their obligation to protect primary services, including NCE FM radio stations, from interference," it wrote.
"While the Hammett & Edison petition agrees that such protection is required, it seeks reconsideration of the Second Report and Order based on a lack of technical criteria for predicting when such interference might occur." NPR urged the agency to reject the H&E petition. The network is not opposed to the development of further technical standards to predict the occurrence of LPTV-to-NCE FM interference, but believes that's a matter "separate from an obligation to ameliorate interference that an LPTV station actually causes." Hammett & Edison agrees that the FCC erred by restricting interference protection rights of a noncommercial FM from a TV Channel 6 LPTV or TV translator only to first-adjacent channel NCE FMs.
"A secondary TV Channel 6 LPTV or TV translator station, especially one operating at the now allowed 3 kW effective radiated power, could cause interference to an NCE FM station operating on any of the reserved channels, not just FM Channel 201 (88.1 MHz)," it wrote in comments in December.
"NCEFM stations on FM Channel 202 (88.3 MHz) or FM Channel 203 (88.5 MHz) would presumably be less susceptible to adjacent-channel interference from a digital TV Channel 6 station, but not immune to adjacent-channel interference.
H&E believes the commission needs to develop technical criteria defining both digital TV Channel 6-into-NCEFM interference, and NCE FM-into-digital TV Channel 6 interference. Such technical rules would also provide the commission with a benchmark to use in determining whether a particular application should be granted, H&E believes.
As far as timing for the transition, the FCC in July proposed a Sept. 15, 2015 deadline for low-power television stations to transition to digital. Among other things, the FCC proposed requiring existing analog and digital LPTVs in the 700 MHz band (Channels 52–69) to cease operations in the 700 MHz band by Dec. 31, 2011.
The National Translator Association said in public comments the Dec. 31 construction deadline is unworkable and asked that it be extended to June 30, 2013. Other commenters requested delaying the deadlines as well. NPR opposes efforts to delay the LPTV transition.


Following the highly publicized fatal shooting of Sean Bell in 2006, New York City adopted a rule the following year that says that if a police officer shoots someone, he must submit to a breathalyzer test. The labor union challenges that rule under the Fourth Amendment. The Court of Appeals says this procedure is legal.
The case is Lynch v. City of New York, decided on November 15. Under the rules, if the test produces a reading under .08, the officer has nothing to worry about. Otherwise, he must submit to a more alcohol-sensitive test at Internal Affairs. If he fails the test, IAB decides whether the officer is unfit for duty due to intoxication. Since the alcohol test is a search, the question is whether it violates the Fourth Amendment,which only prohibits "unreasonable" searches. You don't always need a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. Nor do you always need reasonable suspicion to conduct a search. Not if the government can satisfy the "special needs" doctrine, a narrow exception to the usual Fourth Amendment rules.
Does the special needs doctrine apply here? You know the answer. The Warren Court is no longer with us. Under "special needs," we look at the primary purpose of the search, i.e., the immediate objective of the search, not its ultimate goal. We also ask if the interests served by special needs outweighs the privacy interests at stake. Here, the immediate goals of the alcohol search is not criminal law enforcement (i.e., to punish the officer for unlawful intoxication) but personnel management and the maintenance of public confidence in the police department when officers discharge their guns and cause death or injury. The test also deters officers from carrying a gun while they are unfit for duty due to alcohol.
What about the lack of any warrant? The procedures are sufficiently narrow and specifically defined to satisfy the special needs doctrine. They only apply when an officer discharges his gun, causing injury or death. IAB has no discretion at that point to conduct the test, and officers know the rules are in place. A warrant would provide little or nothing in the way of personal privacy protections. Also, the burden of obtaining a warrant would frustrate the purpose of the program, as alcohol is eliminated from the bloodstream at a constant rate, such that any delay in getting the warrant could get the officer off the hook.
Finally, the rules are reasonable. Officers have a reduced expectation of privacy as they carry guns and have authority to use deadly force. Breath testing is not that intrusive. And, the police department has a manifest need to confirm that officers who discharge their guns are fit for duty. While the Union argues that the City has less intrusive means to test for alcohol, the City is not required to use the least intrusive search practicable. The City therefore is entitled to summary judgment in this case.


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An incredible force of nature, Ross Perot, has died. I idolized and sort of knew him.
In his day, Ross was like Elon Musk is now — constantly in the news for achievements that made you shake your head in awe. To my knowledge, he was never known for awful things like some billionaires are, but for heroic and daring things, things that became the stuff of movies and legend.
Headlines will probably profile him as an independent candidate for president who got an impressive 19% of the vote, but I think that was a minor part of his life. The articles go on to list an unbelievable number of accomplishments:
Ross Perot, a self-made billionaire and former presidential candidate, dies at age 89In 1992, Ross Perot jumped into the presidential campaign as an independent candidate, challenging President George H.W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton.www.usatoday.com
I had a few personal experiences with him that were amazing. I wrote one up a few months ago:
The fascinating bromance between Steve Jobs and Ross PerotPart 1: A few years after Steve Jobs was exiled from Apple and launched NeXT (his new computer company) he was invited to Ronald Reagan's birthday party. He told us the guests were greeted with a ...www.cake.co
Doing one amazing thing in your life would be enough for most people. Ross did at least a dozen amazing things.
Harry McCracken, the tech editor at Fast Company I admire, quoted part of my story and added his own insight. I loved it:
How Ross Perot befriended Steve Jobs and helped bring us the iPhoneThe billionaire presidential candidate was disappointed by his investment in NeXT. But anyone who owns an iPhone, iPad, or Mac should be grateful.www.fastcompany.com
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These are great stories Chris!
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July 12 at 4:24 AM
Yea, part of the earlier thread or conversation, I am proud that of the only political campaign I have volunteered to answer phones, it was Ross Perot's campaign office in Irvine, CA. I never got to meet him in person but, he was a true "maverick" before Sarah Palin tainted the term. RIP Mr. Perot. One of a kind for sure.
Thanks for sharing, Chris! When I think of Ross Perot, I think of Dana Carvey's impression of him. That impression of Ross Perot is one of the first impressions I worked on and one my best. I'm glad to see this side of Ross and learn more about his incredible achievements and life story!
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What I really love about the Dana Carvey impressions....was that Ross totally embraced Carvey's impressions...
"He had a very good sense of humor about it — he loved it and was very nice about it," Carvey tells the Los Angeles Times. "In fact, he called me up once because he wanted me to be with him in Texas on election night! He said to me, 'I got an idea: You go out and
do me, and I'll do me. Then there's two of me!'"
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When I tell stories about him in person I impersonate him too! Love doing it. You made me Google Ross Perot Dana Carvey and I got a hilarious two-fer:


The gospel reading today (4th Sunday of Lent) is about the parable of the prodigal son. Our chaplain preached a homily about how we should move away from self-love, towards charity.
The younger son who squandered everything did not return to his father's because he was contrite, but because he was hungry and lusting after food. It is motivated by self-love.
The older son was upset at his father sacrificing the biggest calf for his brother and was fuelled with anger and envy. It is not justified by righteousness, but self-love.
We do not cater enough time to pray to begin with. Yet when we pray, we ramble on about our troubles absorbed in self-love.
What we need to do is to remove self-love and instead, work towards charity.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines "charity" as "the theological virtue by which we love God above all things for His own sake, and our neighbor as ourselves for the love of God".
This message hit home as I have been struggling with being sacrificial when my meets are unmet. During the Liturgy of the Eucharist, I begged God for the grace and strength to be charitable in my vocation. During adoration (post-mass), I was blessed with God's healing touch/ tears as I beseeched God to fill me up as I am running on empty. And He did.
This is why I love mass. Why I love being Catholic. Because the only person who can restore my wearied soul is God. He is the potter, I am the clay. He restores and makes all things new.


The Maltings Theatre & Cinema and Berwick Visual Arts) is located in Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. It is England's most northern theatre and cinema and uniquely positioned on the border between England and Scotland.
The Maltings' building contains the Main House Theatre (a proscenium arch theatre with raked stalls, circle and boxes, seating 310) and the Henry Travers Studio (a black box space with retractable seating for approximately 70). The venue also includes the Stage Door Bar (a bohemian-style theatre bar), Maltings Kitchen restaurant, offices of the Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, meeting rooms and associated facilities. Off-site facilities include two galleries in the town: the Granary Gallery (located within the recently refurbished Berwick YHA building) and the Berwick Gymnasium Gallery.
The Maltings currently presents over 200 live events annually. Additionally, it is one of the North East's leading independent cinemas, screening around 200 film titles per year. The theatre's 35mm cinema projection system underwent a digital conversion in February 2013, allowing the presentation of an entirely new area of programming, "event cinema" broadcasts of live performances by some of the greatest artistic companies in the world.


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The triumphs of President Trump
ELIZABETH WEST Managing Editor
I wish I could hone in on all the spectacular moments from President Donald Trump's State of the Union Address Tuesday to spotlight my favorite parts, but unfortunately the entire speech was so impressive that it is hard to pick out what I truly enjoyed hearing him say the most.
Trump managed to address all the major issues we face today in a short but impactful speech. He left no popular topic untouched and covered all bases speaking on New York's repulsive abortion bill to our country's dire need for stronger southern border security in the form of a border wall.
Our president also made it a point to recognize United States veterans who served our country nearly 75 years ago during a war that I personally feel is what has made us the great nation we are today - World War II. God bless these Americans.
One of the things I enjoyed most about Trump's speech was how he seemed to find a way to articulate matters that even Democrats couldn't resist cheering for, even at a time where our country seems so divided.
Togetherness is what we need to progress and move our country forward. Like Trump said, "Together, we can break decades of political stalemate. We can bridge old divisions, heal old wounds, build new coalitions, forge new solutions, and unlock the extraordinary promise of America's future." But he also reminded us that ultimately "the decision is ours to make."
Therefore in our choice between "greatness or gridlock," it is time that we as Americans choose "greatness."
Love him or hate him, the triumphs of Trump's first two years in office can't be denied. Like our president pointed out, "wages are rising at the fastest pace in decades, and growing for blue collar workers." He is giving life to that middle class. Even more impressive is how he has played a role in having nearly five million Americans lifted off food stamps.
His speech spoke to how our president believes in our small businesses, which are often the heart of a community. His actions, as he stated, "virtually ended the estate, or death, tax on small businesses, ranches and family farms."
Trump has brought jobs back to America, which has resulted in unemployment reaching the "lowest rate in half a century." Speaking from the House Chamber, Trump said, "African-American, Hispanic-American and Asian-American unemployment have all reached their lowest levels ever recorded. Unemployment for Americans with disabilities has also reached an all-time low."
This is huge, because it proves that Trump is not just working for one side, but instead he is out to give every person - no matter their race or gender - the opportunity for success.
He has made efforts to transform our justice system through working with both Republicans and Democrats to sign the First Step Act into law, which is changing a system that for decades has seemed to work against those less fortunate. This has reformed sentencing laws that wrongly and disproportionately harmed the African-American community, and will now give those who have been wronged by a system pretending to protect, an opportunity at a life they should have had all along.
When Trump spoke on the issue of stronger border security, I couldn't help but think back to when a young American man was killed by an illegal immigrant in Evangeline Parish in 2016. It was a drunk driving incident so it wasn't as violent as some killings you hear about, but nonetheless, it has always made me desire more security at our southern border.
I believe Trump has made it clear that this country is one that wants people to be able to come here and build their American dream. However, like he has preached, immigrants need to come legally.
Some immigrants crossing the border from Mexico bring horrible things such as drugs into our country. That's the last thing we need because we have our own drug problems to fight.
However, I do recognize some immigrants are legitimately trying to escape a life much worse than the one they would have in our great nation. For those, I pray they will be able to stay strong throughout the process that will allow them to enter our country legally.
Good or bad, illegal immigrants hurt the United States citizens that are busting their butts to make ends meet. These immigrants, like Trump said, create a system where "working class Americans are left to pay the price for mass illegal migration -- reduced jobs, lower wages, overburdened schools and hospitals, increased crime, and a depleted social safety net."
I work everyday and I work hard, but by the time I reach the age where I can draw social security there most likely will be nothing left for me. People often blame the baby boomers for running our system dry, but the reality is so are illegal immigrants. And, honestly, I'd be okay knowing there was no money left because we gave it to working Americans who paid their share. But, I'm not okay knowing I'll probably work until I die because our system was run broke by people who never gave what myself and my fellow Americans have given.
And then there was the abortion talk. With the recent passage of New York's abortion bill "that would allow a baby to be ripped from the mother's womb moments before birth," it was expected that this would come up during the State of the Union.
And, like every other topic, Trump delivered just like he needed. He said, "These are living, feeling, beautiful babies who will never get the chance to share their love and dreams with the world." His strong stance against such a morbid New York bill, has thankfully led our president to ask Congress to pass legislation to prohibit the late-term abortion of children who can feel pain in the mother's womb."
All I can say about that is Amen, Amen and Amen!
I also must give Trump praise for spotlighting how far women have come in our country. Like he stated, "And, exactly one century after Congress passed the Constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote, we also have more women serving in the Congress than ever before."
It is amazing to think that 100 years ago a woman's voice meant little, but today we have a president that looks to have the voice of both sexes heard. He proved that by stating, "All Americans can be proud that we have more women in the workforce than ever before."
The theme of unity and removal of discrimination in Trump's speech were evident. And, those are the themes we should all hope for in our life because it takes a team to be successful.
Our country must become one big team whose colors are red, white and blue.
As Trump said, "This is the time to re-ignite the American imagination. This is the time to search for the tallest summit, and set our sights on the brightest star. This is the time to rekindle the bonds of love and loyalty and memory that link us together as citizens, as neighbors, as patriots.
"This is our future -- our fate -- and our choice to make. I am asking you to choose greatness.
"No matter the trials we face, no matter the challenges to come, we must go forward together."
And so remember, "We must keep America first in our hearts. We must keep freedom alive in our souls. And we must always keep faith in America's destiny -- that one Nation, under God, must be the hope and the promise and the light and the glory among all the nations of the world!"


The first weekend of Sundance 2019 closed with some big name films and stars all across town in Park City. Jake Gyllenhaal's newest film Velvet Buzzsaw was one of the hottest tickets of the festival, while the crowds buzzed about the Ted Bundy film Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile. Ty and Nathan caught several films and are ready to give you their Take 3 for Sundance Day 4.
Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile was one of my most anticipated films of the festival but my expectations were not high. The dramatization of one of the most monstrous men to ever walk this planet was something that could easily be mishandled and I wasn't sure if it could be original. I was wrong. I absolutely loved this film. The story structure of being told by Ted Bundy's longtime girlfriend creates a fresh take on a serial killer movie. From her perspective you don't see any of the murders, and instead are introduced to a man that couldn't possibly be capable of these gruesome accusations. But as the film goes on, we discover the true man he is and the real horrors come to life. The film is full of outstanding performances. Lily Collins is outstanding as Bundy's girlfriend but it is Zac Efron who makes a career defining performance and is haunting and perfect as Bundy.
L to R: "Jiang Yongbo, Aoi Mizuhara, Chen Han, Tzi Ma, Awkwafina, Li Xiang, Lu Hong, Zhao Shuzhen." Courtesy of Big Beach.
Having lived in Taiwan for over 5 years now, I've been hard pressed to find movies that successfully explore the differences between Eastern and Western cultures. Thankfully, Lulu Wang's new film The Farewell does just that. It's a delightful comedy that deals with the complex family dynamics that exist in the East. Rising star, Awkwafina really stepped into her own on this one, proving that she definitely needs some more lead roles.
We were privileged to attend Kia's Supper Suite for the party of the release of Light from Light. These dinner parties are the best at Sundance. It's a wonderful break from fast food, granola bars and coffee,, which is the usual diet of a film festival. But there we were tonight with out free drinks, steak fillets and carrot cake. And also we got to have dinner with Jim Gaffigan. Not a bad Sunday.
For me, the best moment of the day was watching the endless scores of people walking out of Makoto Nagahisa's film We Are Little Zombies. From the plot description and trailer alone, it should have been clear from the get go that this film was going to be absolutely bonkers. Watching the tense, anxious looks on the faces of people leaving was almost more entertaining than the movie itself (which by the way is great).
The incredible weight of emotion The Farewell gave me. A hilarious comedy that delivers a gut punch throughout and especially the end. As the credits rolled I had to hold back a flowing stream of tears. After I achieved that, I ran outside to call my Nana to tell her I loved her. This film was so good and could be a big hit following in the footsteps of Crazy Rich Asians.
The weekend coming to a close means that it's time for the real work to begin. With most of the big premieres having already taken place over the last weekend, festival-goers are now free to start digging for the true gems of the fest. As much as I liked Honey Boy and Late Night, I can't help but think there is something better hiding out in the lineup, just waiting to be discovered.


Star Chef v2.1.1 Mega Mod Apk Build your own classy restaurant in the heart of the city and maintain a high Star Rating. Run a bustling kitchen with specialized cooking appliances and manage a skilled staff all in this fun filled game Star Chef.
If you ever dreamed of becoming a Master Chef and running your own restaurant, now you can with Star Chef. Give your elegant touch to the restaurant décor and make it worthy of a Star-Rating! Need fresh produce for a dish.


This compilation looks back on ten years Pork Pie. The first German ska label presents on this CD a considerable rpertoire of the greatest hits of the most well known bands of the past decade.
Songs like Derrick Morgans Moon Hop, Bad Manners Skinhead Love Affair or King Kong from No Sports belong to the most popular tunes of their decade. This compilation presents all bands having released one or several albums on Pork Pie plus one track from the Godfather Of Ska Laurel Aitken previously unknown to the ska scene.
This release appears within the Pork Pie 10 Years Jubilee Edition at an extremely low price, which is not meant as a sellout, but rather a Thank You to the fans of ska music.


I am always looking for new apple recipes and so I couldn't help but try this Betty Crocker recipe.
1 Heat oven to 425°F. Make pie crust mix as directed for 9-Inch Two-Crust Pie, using 1/3 cup cold water–except trim overhanging edge of bottom pastry 1 inch from rim of plate.
2 Stir together 1/2 cup sugar, the flour, cinnamon and nutmeg in large bowl. Add apples; toss. Spoon into pastry-lined pie plate.
3 Roll remaining pastry; cut into 10 strips, each about 1/2 inch wide. Place 5 strips across filling in pie plate. Weave a cross-strip through by first folding back every other strip of the first 5 strips. Continue weaving, folding back alternate strips before adding each cross-strip, until lattice is complete. Trim ends. Fold trimmed edge of bottom crust over ends of strips, building up a high edge. Seal and flute. Brush lightly with milk; sprinkle lightly with additional sugar.
4 Bake 30 to 35 minutes or until crust is golden brown and juice is bubbly.
This is a Betty Crocker recipe and my pie did not look like the Betty Crocker picture but my munchkins loved how the pie tasted and to me that is good enough. My picky eater, "aka" Princess number 1, loved this pie so much that she asked for seconds and that is a rarity in our home.
I hope you enjoy trying out this recipe.
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Budapest often appears as a great holiday destination among European cities, but not so often as an ideal city for cyclists. Bicycling.com collected some of the reasons why Budapest has much to offer for bike lovers.
Whether you take a ride in the hills of Buda, and climb the 526-metre-high János Hill for a great view of the city from above, or visit tourist attractions, outdoor cafés, and ruin pubs on the streets of Pest, the city has many interesting sights for cyclists.
MOL Bubi is the first bike share in the city, which has become very popular among locals and tourist alike. The green bikes can be rented from 98 stations, and they cost 500 forints (€1.59) for 24 hours, 1000 forints for 3 days (€3.17), and 2000 forints for a week (€6.34). Already in their first year of operation, the bikes have been used more than 1 million times.
Stringbike is a company manufacturing bikes that use a rope instead of bike chains, thus their innovative bikes promise a smoother ride. The bikes can be tried out at various local events, but they also offer private tours in the city.
The EuroVelo6 is a 3,200 km bike route that follows the River Danube and spans 10 European countries, including Hungary. From Budapest, cyclists can head west though Bratislava, Vienna, and Germany, all the way to France, or go south, through Serbia, towards the Romanian-Bulgarian border.
Tourists might find the cycling opportunities a pleasant change from the kilometres of walking that is often associated with holidays, but local commuters have much to say about the state of the bike paths in Budapest. Vs.hu reported on some of the shortcomings of the Budapest cycling scene.
The main issue with the infrastructure is that many bike paths run on the pavement. In many parts of the city, cyclists are forced to use the pavement since there is either no designated bike path or it is not clearly separated from the pavement. When there is great traffic, neither parties can use their own lane properly, and this will be an inevitable source of conflict.
Even if new and more practical bike paths get built, there are rarely any resources nor the necessary technology to properly maintain them, so their condition often just keeps deteriorating.
Many people choose commuting by bike as a healthy and more environmental friendly alternative to driving or taking public transport. However, as Daily News Hungary recently reported, air pollution in Hungary is at critical levels. In fact, Hungary ranked second on the list of countries where air pollution related deaths are the highest. The capital city is undoubtedly the worst when it comes to the quality of air, which puts cyclists in a vulnerable position.
Although there are noticeable developments, in many respects the bike paths of Budapest are behind those of more advanced European cities. In Brussels from 2004, in Paris from 2008 cyclists can use every one-way street where the traffic and the width of the street allow it. In Germany, all bike paths have been relocated from the pavement to the side of the road. Although the advancement is understandable, since developments began much earlier, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Budapest has a lot to catch up on, but the numbers show that it is on the right track. Currently the city has more than 240 km of bike paths, and in 2013, Hungary was the fourth country in the EU, following the Netherlands, Denmark and Finland, with regards to frequent cycling among its citizens.


The Butterfly Ship sails to schools in the form of workshops geared to specific age-groups, and focused on themes of personal health and wellbeing, kindness toward each others, and care of our environment. We offer engaging assemblies that include music and interactive learning activities. We work with teachers to tailor performances to reinforce topics that students are learning, which may include plant biology, entomology (particularly of caterpillars & butterflies), marine biology, & astrophysics (solar sailing, light physics or sun science).
Additionally, we offer a 1-hour school version of our full-length performance. The story appeals to the kid in all of us: The Butterfly Ship is a modern fairy tale filled with fantasy and adventure. Most recently we performed a "Pajamas & Storyteller Night" for students and parents, and a benefit for an elementary school library, for an audience 250 kids and parents. When time permits, we involve kids in our performances: we bring in students to perform in a song & dance scene in the show, and have 7th graders run the light and sound board for us!


We at Advanced Healthcare believe in the value of wellness care for you and your family and have maintained a pricing structure that allows care for all budgets. Our office participates in most insurance programs. We also accept auto accident injury, slip/trip and fall injury, personal injury and workers' compensation cases. For patients who have little or no chiropractic insurance coverage, flexible payment programs can be arranged. To learn more about our payment options for chiropractic and wellness care, you can call our office directly.
Most insurance plans are accepted at our office. We accept auto accident, workers compensation, personal injury and most extended health insurance plans. Since there are so many individualized plans and coverage varies widely, please call us at (416) 633-3000 to find out if your plan covers care in our office. Our staff will verify and explain your benefits before treatment, at no charge.
For patients who have little or no chiropractic insurance coverage, flexible payment programs can be arranged. If you have no insurance or do not have chiropractic benefits, there is still a way for you to receive the care you need. Many patients pay directly for care, as they discover our chiropractic and massage services to be extremely cost-effective and affordable.
Pricing plans for chiropractic care offered at Advanced Healthcare range depending on your health condition, the various professional services required and the frequency of visits prescribed for your individualized treatment plan to achieve injury recovery and maintain optimal health. Following your consultation, examination and report of findings, your chiropractor will determine the treatment plan that is right for you. Advanced Healthcare strives to offer the best scientific and evidence based chiropractic and wellness care in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) with reasonable fees, and works with patients to create flexible financing plan options that make chiropractic care at our facility as affordable to as many people as possible.
Our focus at Advanced Healthcare is to actively help you and your family in taking responsibility for your health, wellness and disease management. We assist and guide you to take the time to care for the important people in your world - you and your family. In an effort to make living the 'wellness' lifestyle as easy and affordable as possible, we can create a customized family plan that is specific to your needs and that of your family.
At Advanced Healthcare, Dr. Pisarek and staff are convinced that a small amount of your time and money to care for your most important asset - your health - will be far less time consuming and expensive than trying to recover it. If you feel you do not have enough time or money to take care of yourself, please contact us - we can help! The last thing we want is for you to come to our wellness center in crisis. So please, we would like to encourage you to take your health very seriously.
As the old saying goes, if you don't have your health, you don't have anything. Unfortunately, too many people don't discover how true that statement is until it is too late!
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The Evil Within 2 is one of your free Games with Prime this month
Amazon has announced the six games you will get this month through Games with Prime.
The headliner for January is The Evil Within 2. If you have never played it, in the Tango Gameworks title, you star as a detective who must rely on his wits to survive the "nightmarish world" of STEM to save his daughter Lily.
The Evil Within 2 Launch Trailer
In the game, a person's mind is being used as a "Core," and this person builds and controls the world you have entered. This Core so happens to be Lily, who is controlling the town of Union, which is deteriorating as she loses her mind.
The other games are Faraway 2, a side-scrolling puzzle game, and Breathedge, an ironic outer space survival adventure game where you try to survive in outer space with your immortal chicken.
Beat Cop is also included. In this retro, pixel art style game inspired by '80s cop shows, you are jack Kelly, a beat cop trying to find out who framed him for murder.
There's also Lawn Mowing Simulator which has you mowing the British countryside by riding an authentic roster of real-world licensed lawn mowers, and then there's Chicken Police. This buddy-cop noir adventure game features a tale of redemption, love, death, and chickens as you take on the roles of Chicken Police.
Alongside the free games, you can claim in-game content for FIFA 23, Apex Legends, Call of Duty Mobile, League of Legends, Lost Ark, New World, KartRider Rush+, and more.
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Here's a look at the The Last of Us multiplayer concept art
The PlayStation Store January Sale is now on!


SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 27, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Based on its recent analysis of integrated Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) solutions for the process equipment market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes AMI Global with the 2018 North American Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award for its broad offerings of affordable and cost-effective IIoT solutions. These include hardware, software, and services for the remote process equipment monitoring market.
"AMI Global's novel fusion of hardware and software opens up opportunities in affordable remote asset management of rotating equipment, such as pumps, motors and Variable Frequency Drives (VFD) used in the water and wastewater, oil and gas, chemicals, and power generation industries," said Anand Gnanamoorthy, Industry Manager.
AMI Global has truly disrupted the process equipment monitoring market by offering end-to-end, turnkey solution. The company's offerings provide customized hardware, software, data visualization and communication capabilities, mobile applications, and cloud infrastructure, as well as robust customer and technical support.
AMI Global handles all integration with customers' diverse multi-vendor systems, including sensors, gateways, and software, which helps clients reduce cost and accelerate time to market because clients do not need to develop expertise on each system component. AMI Global offers four key product support services: engineering, technical support, software deployment, and digital integration. As pump manufacturers can better predict equipment downtime and better understand the reasons for equipment failure, this comprehensive support helps clients improve maintenance response time.
"By leveraging open architecture, AMI Global has developed a secure end-to-end IIoT solution that can aid pump manufacturers in shifting from the current business model of a CAPEX-based to an OPEX-based revenue model," says Anand.
With its state-of-the-art innovation and unique ability to blend technology, adoption, and implementation for process equipment manufacturers, AMI Global has earned the 2018 Frost & Sullivan North American Entrepreneurial Company of the Year Award.
AMI is an IIoT technology company with a focus on Software as a Service (SaaS), edge, custom industrial gateways, and secure global communication solutions for equipment manufacturers, distributors and other integrators in the industrial sector. AMI's IIoT solutions allow clients to connect remote industrial assets and equipment to AMI's or a 3rd party PaaS solution, enabling data collection and analysis as well as remote control of these assets. Contact us here.