My Granddaughter made this little Potato Head*vignette* of her PaPaw, Grandmama, and little brother, Sidekick Scott. I thought it was hilarious and had to share it with all of you.
Well...Summer 2012 is here! What are your plans?
I've already been busy with an early garden bounty, end of school year programs, and the annual week of Vacation Bible School. AMAZING WONDERS is this years Theme!
I assume that most of you know about VBS but for those who may not take part in this summer ritual: VBS is like Bible Boot Camp for kids! Most of the time it lasts an entire week. Our church schedules VBS the week after school is out...before family vacations begin taking folks to the beaches and to the mountains. The children hear Bible stories, sing lots of upbeat songs, play games, make awesome crafts and enjoy snack time. I was in charge of the Kitchen Brigade and we served, trailmix, nachos, hot dogs, cookies, and ice cream.
Boil your squash and onion till fork done. Salt & Pepper to taste. Mix eggs, sour cream, soup, and enough milk to make mixture creamy. Fold in your cheese (reserve some for your topping) and pour into buttered or greased casserole dish. The amount of squash you use will determine the size casserole dish. Now melt butter and pour over crushed crackers till crumbly. Sprinkle over casserole along with reserved shredded cheese. Bake at 350 till set, approx. 30-40 min.
I typically serve this dish as a side with a meat entree except for last week when #1 Husband and I ate ONLY squash casserole with a side salad and fresh strawberries for dessert. We didn't miss the meat at all...we eat MUCH less meat when the weather warms. Most of our meat is grilled during the summer months.
I have a stitching play-date coming up with a good friend and old teaching colleague who retired with me in Dec. 08!! She just bought a brand new Bernina quilting/embroidery 830 machine. She has invited me over for a test drive....oooh, ahhhh, squeal like a little girl................I'm so excited!!! I LOVE you Celina!!
for my Aussie and New Zealand friends.
I've got several swaps and projects coming due on a fast approaching timeline.
I'll get some pictures up ASAP!!
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Jannette lost her mother so be sure to stop by and read Jannette's note to all of us.
Our VBS lasts only one Saturday now, but I remember the "old days" when it was a week. In fact, when my boys were younger I taught in VBS every summer. There are some great memories there.
Hi Sweetie I haven't heard from you in a while, some how I missed your Sunday blog. I am sure I didn't get it because I always read them even if day behind. I figured you were busy with school ending,husband retiring etc. I have things to tell you but will send e-mail. We haven't made any plans yet for summer. I remember going to VBS when I was a kid. Take care.
Boy Scout camp begins next week so I will be off in the woods with no internet connection. I return the end of the month and take off for the States to make the rounds of kid visits. Our VBS will be in August when I return. (every year I do the games ... now doesn't that stand to reason that the oldest volunteer gets the most wild and active part)? I have a good HS assistant who has been helping me for the last five years. He has a good understanding of when I need a kid and when I need a leader, so we make a great dog and pony show.
Good ol' VBS!!!! Great fun for everyone...:) How wonderful that you are able to volunteer your help. The squash recipe looks very yummy. Thanks for sharing your recipe. This last weekend we did a family BBQ, my husband grilled cut-up summer and zuchinni squash. He wrapped them up in foil with...butter, s&p, and a veggie seasoning. OH my! those were a hit! Everyone loved it!
Could you please add to your prayer chain a request for our family? My brother, Mark, has pancreatic cancer that has spread to his liver. And, now we also just found out my mom had a breast lump removed, and it did come back cancerous. My sister (from Ohio), and I (I'm in Calif) are traveling there soon (to Utah) to see her. She has a return doctor's appt before we arrive to see what their plan of action is. I would really be grateful for all of the prayers. Thank you so much for praying!
Blessings for a beautiful weekend, dear friend!
I love the Mr. Potato Heads. My kids would add the Disney character parts ones that we have to make it a party. Have a great time testing out your friend's new baby...just don't sneak it home for yourself.
When I was in High School, I was a counselor for two years at my church's Bible Camp. It was fun. I may have gotten more out of it than the children. This summer we will be going to the pool, and having play dates.
love the grandkids, your summer salads, your joie de vivre this season....you been busy girl..
That looks so good. I may have to make that recipe this summer. Sadly I have a husband who is VERY picky with veggies no matter what I try. He will not touch squash of any kind (and a whole host of other veggies) but I may see if this has the 'right' stuff added to make him maybe at least tolerate it. Wish me luck.
Thank you. I know I'll eat it or make it every time my son and DIL come to visit.


Dr. Barbara Blatner, lecturer in English at Yeshiva College, will attend the La Mama International Playwrights Retreat in Umbria, Italy, led by playwright Erik Ehn, from August 18 to 28.
Dr. Greta Doctoroff, associate professor of psychology at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, recently published two articles.
Dr. Paula Geyh, associate professor of English at Yeshiva College, recently edited The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern American Fiction, published in April by Cambridge University Press.
Daniel Pollack, professor of social work at the Wurzweiler School of Social Work, recently published a brief article titled "How to banish child sexual groomers" on Youth Today, a website created to provide resources to professionals working with young people.


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Re: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Diagon Alley
Here is a sneak peek video, released by Universal of the new Hogwarts Express ride
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5gmSf4R2Ac4
Here are some details on the Gringotts ride, although most of it had already come out through HTF on Orlando United it has now been more officially confirmed
http://www.orlandounited.com/forums/showthread.php/8942-Harry-Potter-and-the-Escape-from-Gringotts-(SPOILERS!)
Universal have just released this on FB
Sneak Peek Escape From Gringotts.....wooooo
https://www.universalorlando.com/Rides/ ... 5219907406
So excited for this ride
Found some cool images on Theme Park Insider of shots inside the Gringotts building
Skubersky on OU has just left the following
It's official! I just received my invitation to a "Media & VIP preview" of Diagon Alley for June 17-20. Note that it doesn't say "grand opening," hopefully they won't pull a 7DMT and keep the public out until July...
Exciting times since it will be open in just over a month!
Just been reading up more on this and found some interesting stuff:
- 'riders will feel a sensation of being launched, shaken and dropped.' Could this hit to a freefall section and launched?
-the animatronic goblins will talk to people, asking things like 'would you like to open a savings account'.
- project managers said that for this ride they have toned down the sudden movements like there is on forbidden journey.
- they also said that unlike forbidden journey, there will not be a weight restriction.
It says the feeling of dropping that would lead me to believe in a free fall drop, however saying they have toned down sudden movements maybe it's something else. Either way I'm so looking forward to this!!
Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-t ... 42658.html
Also found this, a competition being held and the prize is a visit to the grand opening of Diagonal Alley. It says it will notify winners some time during May! Which means they must have an idea for an opening date now! Also there's some concept art of the new shops.
Source: http://www.snitchseeker.com/harry-potte ... may-97707/
As roodles has said before, the drop bit is a teeter totter effect and its a similar sort of setup as spiderman except on a rollercoaster track, so thats how it will do the shaking.
Here is an article from USA today after they were given an exclusive look round DA
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/experience/america/videos/2014/05/16/9086811/
ORLANDO -- It's a peculiar feeling, locking eyes with a goblin. Especially one sporting a custom-tailored suit complete with tarnished-brass cuff links.
On one hand, you feel in awe of the craftsmanship. Bushy eyebrows dominate the deep crags of his forehead. Gray nose hairs peek out like periscopes. On the other hand, it's quite unsettling. Although his black eyes are animatronic, they're quite lifelike.
And he's not alone. In all, there are nine animatronic goblins that greet guests at the start of Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts, the marquee attraction at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter — Diagon Alley at Universal Studios Florida.
They look every bit like the goblins from the Harry Potter movies. And it's no wonder.
"We worked with the film team," says Thierry Coup, Universal Creative's senior vice president. "And we actually took the mold of the goblins from the film."
In fact, "I spent about 2 1/2 years working on these guys," adds Eric Hunt, creative producer with Universal Creative.
Last week, USA TODAY was the first to tour the 20-acre themed land, which is scheduled to open this summer. Not only is it jampacked with a high-tech train ride, elaborate shops and dining experiences, "everything is totally true to what was in the films or the books," Coup says.
'Way beyond' a coaster
Plus, there are plenty of bonuses not originally part of the series. For instance, inside Gringotts bank, after guests pass through the grand lobby, there's a hallway with magical portraits and armor fit for goblins and trolls.
Turn the corner, and you realize you are in the office of Bill Weasley, who greets you in a similar way that Dumbledore does in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey at Universal Orlando's Islands of Adventure. Then, you board souped-up elevators that make you feel as if you are going deep into the cavernous vaults.
Once you exit, there are massive stalactites above and 12-person ride vehicles, each with its own steam-pumping chimney. That is impressive in itself, but what about the ride?
"Is it part roller coaster, part 3-D-motion-based ride?" I ask.
"It would be a real understatement to call it a roller coaster, because it does so much more," Coup says. "It's way beyond that."
Here's how it works: Riders put on 3-D glasses and race through a labyrinth of underground vaults, where they encounter the villainous Bellatrix Lestrange and Lord Voldermort, Harry's archrival.
At one point, "a troll grabs the vehicle and starts shaking it," Coup says. At another point, hot lava surrounds guests just as the villains reappear in a full, 360-degree scene. It's all thanks to 4K digital high-definition animation, state-of-the-art 3-D Infitec projection systems and live special effects.
It's clearly very different from Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, a wildly popular ride at Hogsmeade. The distinguishing factor: Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts "is thrilling and dynamic, but not as dynamic as Forbidden Journey because we wanted everyone to be able to ride it."
After all, Harry Potter's fan base is broad, from bespectacled 8-year-olds to wand-wielding tweens to soccer moms and dads. A huge chunk of the fan base, of course, is the young-adult crowd.
"People my age are the ones who literally grew up alongside Harry," says Kara Brown, 21, a St. Petersburg, Fla., college student, who plans to visit on opening day. "So it is kind of like going back and visiting your elementary school again when you are older. I just can't wait to see all of it."
Which is music to Stuart Craig's ears. As the production designer for the Potter films, creating Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley were dream projects.
Craig and the team set out to knock the socks off of Potter fans in every way possible, with theming that begins even before you enter. For starters, the parklike area in front of the London facade houses the three-story Knight Bus from the films. And, yes, there's a shrunken head that talks with onlookers.
Then, in true Potter fashion, you must transition from the real world to the magical world by traveling through the brick wall at King's Cross station.
"It's a very cool trick," Gilmore says. "One at a time, you do your run. It's basically so insane. Everybody's going to want to do it many times."
Cruise down Diagon alley
Inside, to your left is the Leaky Cauldron, a sit-down restaurant that will serve British favorites such as fish and chips and bangers and mash. Just steps past that is Knockturn Alley, a dark and menacing place with dancing skeletons, a ceiling lit like a foreboding night sky and more wisecracking shrunken heads.
The entrance to Gringotts is farther down, along with The Magical Menagerie, which offers plush toys including ravens and chubby, white rabbits that transform into silk top hats. Nearby is Florean Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, which serves unusual flavors such as Earl Grey and lavender, sticky toffee, and clotted cream.
In a final stroke of brilliance, there's the Hogwarts Express, which transports parkgoers from Hogsmeade Station to London's King's Cross Station and back.
As you trundle along, you are treated to a four-minute Harry Potter movie made for this ride. Each carriage is "basically your own little audio theater," Gilmore says. "The characters are all around you in this experience."
Robert Niles, editor of ThemeParkInsider.com, is intrigued. "I can't think of a theme-park project I've ever been more excited to see for myself than this one," he says. Author J.K. Rowling "is the queen of back story ... creating an imaginative world that practically begged to be re-created in film and, now, theme parks."
Indeed. As I sat in a train carriage on the Hogwarts Express, with the sound of the engine rumbling and smoke bellowing outside, I started to feel less like a Muggle and more like a wizard.
Universal are now booking Harry Potter packages from the 29th June 2014, from what I have found online suggestions are being made that the launch date will be the 20th June. Will keep you posted if I see or find out anything else.
The media preview event is 17-20th which would suggest maybe the 21st as the launch date. One of the users on Orlando United who is usually pretty spot on with what he says reckons softs could start 6/7 June
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So the dragon has finally arrived. Wow.
Credit to hatetofly on Twitter
That was added a few days ago, it looks brilliant!
Well not really a few days since it was only put up on 24th
Here is another pic
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Re: Exclusive: The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter Aerial Up
Well, we decided to take to the air again this past Saturday (05/24/14) with the news of a dragon. In fact, a dragon was mounted to the top of the "Harry Potter and the Escape from Gringotts" ride.
For even more photos please visit Pixels At The Parks at --> Universal Orlando Resort Diagon Alley Aerial Photos from 05/24/14
Thanks and enjoy, Bob
Please see update here --> Exclusive: The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter Aerial Update
An amazing photo from HTF on OU from yesterday evening
Many thanks for the share Bob, It's really great to see this amazing new land coming to life!
Diagon Alley food list released
Some good old fashioned English grub on here
http://blog.universalorlando.com/whats- ... 0_25005056
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The wings for the dragon look to be being installed this weekend.
Plus the return ticket machines have also been installed.
The fences have also been moved back by Hogsmeade Station revealing a little more of the new landscaping
(Credit for images to Attractions Magazine and Orlando United Twitter)
Universal 5th Hotel and Waterpark (WonderSea)
Back a few years ago Universal registered the name Wondersea and now it looks like they will be using it for a new waterpark
Rumour has it that the center piece will be a giant volcano, also note that Universal has the following ideas patented which could make an appearance.
Articulated waterslide
System and method for generating waves in multiple directions
System and method for providing water park beach visual effects
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Dodger Stadium doesn't like me.
By Malingering
Published Apr 22, 2007 11:00 PM
Yeah, yeah, yeah, Dodger Stadium parking fiascoes are old news now. I probably shouldn't even be bringing this up right now, but yesterday the spark re-ignited my Dodger Parking kindling and I'm back on the rampage. You see, I thought I'd come up with a good system, as one night last week I waited for less than 6 minutes to get out of the lot and I was very very proud of my ingenuity and ability to overcome adversity with creative problem solving (worthy of a college admissions essay, if you ask me). At yesterday's Sunday afternoon game against the Pirates, I decided to implement my plan. I arrived at the stadium an hour before game time, paid my $15 and headed up the hill to my lot, grinning at my little parking secret and laughing at the naive fans trudging up the hill next to me. "Free at last!" I thought. Well what do you know, the Walking Highlighters have decided to block my lot off with a bunch of PVC pipes and orange cones, even though it was less than 25% full. Instead they directed me to a lot which is much much farther from the exit, and then tell me to park here:
My one hope in having a plethora of parking attendants would be that this would prevent these overgrown vehicles from spilling their gas-guzzling guts into the next spot. But now not only are they doing the same, they are asking those of us with smaller cars to try to wedge ourselves in there to save some space. I know that Earl Scheib Paint and Body is a proud sponsor of the Los Angeles Dodgers, but come on.
*note: after I'd parked and started walking up to the park, they re-opened my lot and were waving people in.
This has been an ongoing frustration since Opening Day. I'd like to think that the fury would be ameliorated with a drop in parking prices (at least back to the good 'ol $10), but instead the madness continues and the prices remain ridiculous.
This was the traffic at the Sunset Gate TWO AND A HALF HOURS BEFORE GAME TIME on Opening Day. People were pissed, the LA Times (and LAist) printed several articles about how shitty the parking situation has become. And the Dodgers came up with this load of bullshit?
I love the Dodgers. But this made my (Dodger Blue) blood boil:
Johnston said the organization did receive negative e-mail about Opening Day, but very little regarding any parking problems for Tuesday and Wednesday's games. The e-mails showed there is a certain type of fan that is having a hard time with the new system.
"Many of our fans who have been coming here, some of them for 45 years, they like to drive in one gate, out the other gate, park in their favorite spot, all those things," Johnston said. "Those are the people that this has been a difficult change for. For the average person, not much has changed at all. They come into a gate, they are directed to a parking spot, and they walk into the stadium. [Then] they come out and get out."
So what you're telling me, Camille Johnston, Dodgers' senior vice president of communications, is that you would prefer to cater to Miss French Manicured Toenails who wears wedge sandals to the ballpark and has no idea what a double play is beyond that it sounds a little like something she did for Girls Gone Wild back in Cancun last spring and her date Mr Greek Letters with a ratty backward baseball cap that says Abercrombie (which division is that? AA?) in flip-flops with hairy foot tops who decide it would be "really cool" if they went on a date to the Dodger game and spend the first 35 minutes of their arrival talking about how long it's been since they've been to a ballgame and then leave in the 7th inning because it's "boring" instead of your long time 45 year dedicated fans? You would rather cater to the average occasional ballpark visitor rather than the die-hard Blue Thinking Dodger loving fans who believe in the religion of Vin Scully and pray in the church of Chavez Ravine?
This is your "new and improved" parking system on a typical weekday night. Note the hoards of cars here trying to log jam out the Downtown Gate. Also note the wide expanse of empty space leading to the Academy Gate.
Last season, these cars would have been able to veer left and exit out the back gate, thus cutting down on the crowd here. But with the new system we have sealed our fate upon entering, and lust as we might for a chance to speed down that path to freedom there is no chance in parking lot hell (why do you think brake lights are red?) that anyone will be allowed out an alternate route. Even if it made everyone's life a bit easier.
And while I'm addressing this monstrosity of a problem which is sucking hours out of my week, may I please bring up the fact that the earlier you get there, the farther from the entrance you have to park. See below, I got to the park at 5:30pm for a 7:10pm game.
The lots were entirely empty. I grinned with delight at the perfect parking spot right by the exit which I knew would be my path to freedom. And then the giant walking highlighters start waving their orange flags at me, coaxing me through rows of pylons until I am in the absolute furthest spot from the exit. Please, I begged them. Let me park over THERE! But no, there is no sympathy in highlighter-ville and I was exiled to a deep dark corner of parking lot hell, so that I may spend the next 4 hours grimacing in anticipation at the thought of trying to go home.
I've been going to Dodger games for a long time. Last year I attended 33 home games, and my parking has a system so fine tuned and perfect that once I set foot in my car it was guaranteed I would be speeding along the 110 freeway within 10 short minutes. It did not fail me. To me, this was my reward for being a dedicated and quick-thinking Dodger fan. Sure I had to pay $330 in parking last season, but hey, I got in and out without any trouble at all and I got to see my beloved team make it to the post-season.
Whatever "system" is being implemented here needs some dedicated reworking. Supposedly this new system is supposed to be safer and provide more guidance as we enter and exit the lot, but the Highlighters don't have any idea about what is really going on.
This woman was waving me along to come forward. Please note that if I were to go forward, I would hit all of these cones or the truck next to me. But she kept insisting. Also note that she is in my direct path. So I rolled down the window and said "if I drive forward, I will hit something." I motioned for her to move to the left a bit. She continued to brandish her flag and stood her ground until I began creeping along, my front bumper pointed right at her. The she started screaming at me that I almost hit her and probably calling me names though I'd rolled up the window at this point so the profanities were limited by my lip-reading skills. I feel like this is coercion and is a cause of undue emotional distress. For everyone.
Then there is the idea that the Highlighters will assist at the pedestrian walkways to help Dodger fans get inside the stadium safely. Another half-baked idea.
Here you see that the pedestrian walkway which the Living Breathing Pylon is waving us across is actually blocked off on the other side. Sure, we made it 90% of the way across the street safely, but that last 10% which involves 5 year old kids and elderly Dodgers fans in Brooklyn gear tripping over this line as Mr. Pylon starts waving the traffic along again. This causes utter panic in our entangled friends, resulting in even more emotional distress.
I have now tried entering at every gate possible.
The Golden State Gate:
The Academy Gate:
*note: I purposely parked at the Academy Gate in lot 6 because it is adjacent to the Union 76 Station in the stadium and I was very low on gas when I pulled in. However thanks to this new system, you are not allowed to drive in the direction of the gas station, regardless of where you are parked. There were 7 orange cones separating my car from its nutritious fuel and I could not get to it. I even got out of the car to try to move the cones, only to find they were chained down. My car's belly grumbled the entire way out of the lot which took over 40 minutes thanks to the bottleneck - 6 lanes turn into 1, which eventually leads you to the freeway, but not a gas station.
This current situation is a kick in the scrotum to those of us who love the Dodgers. I have tried to think of creative solutions to this problem:
1) Take the train to Union Station and take a taxi cab up to the park, then call another taxi cab to come pick me up when the game is over. Unfortunately, even the cabbies are stuck in traffic these days, and I'm sure they'd charge more than $15 to be put through this torture.
2) Purchase a pit bull or automatic assault rifle. Park in the $5 flat rate lots over in Chinatown and walk the mile or so up to the stadium. Tie the pit bull outside the park or check the weapon in at "Guest Services" during the game. Game is over, walk back down the hill with the pit bull and or gun next to me, fighting off my assailants as I will likely be mugged a total of 34 times on my walk from Stadium Way down to Broadway.
3) Move into that apartment that sits at the entrance of the 110 freeway with the boarded up windows and rusted barbed wire fence and the old toilet on the stoop. I would call for the next open house but the numbers on the door are disguised by so many tags and so much spray paint that this is rendered impossible.
4) Purchase a nice tent and live on the grounds of Dodger Stadium in the bushes where all of the drunk fans throw their Corona bottles and pee after the games because they know they're going to be stuck in the parking lot for 2 hours trying to leave and they are going to have to empty their bladders before that.
5) Start picking up transients downtown on the way to the stadium and pay them off to sit in my car so that I can park in the special "carpools of 4 or more only" lot which on its best day had about 60 vehicles in it and will likely be eliminated by next week.
6) Rent a van and begin my own shuttle service up into the stadium for $10 per person. We can do "park-and-rides" from Elysian Park and Skid Row, (with discounts for the homeless, shit, everyone should be able to go to a Dodger game).
Unfortunately for my patience and my sanity, I am a sucker for the Dodgers and will probably tolerate this for the rest of my life. And unfortunately for my wallet, my car was broken into when I parked on the streets outside of the stadium, so now I feel I have no choice but to park in the lot. In the end all I can say is, Let's Go Dodgers, and I hope you keep on winning this season to make all of the other stuff seem worth it.
All photos by me, the Cranky Malingering


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Mahindra Front Mount Snow Blower - 56"
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Allows cleaning of the chute safely. Always use the shovel NEVER your hand.
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Requires Subframe, drive mechanism, driveline, and the hydraulic hoses which are included.
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Is the powerful saw tooth auger which breaks through any type of snow with ease.
Is the impeller that turns at a high RPM which propels the snow to further distances.
Once the subframe has been installed on the tractor, you can leave it on permanently or you can remove it.
Hook on the snowblower and the drive mechanism, insert the driveline, connect the hydraulic hoses and have fun.


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League Two previews
ALTHOUGH Macc's next two games are at the Moss Rose, they could hardly be tougher, as league leaders Wycombe and second-placed Brentford are the visitors.
Macclesfield Town v Brentford, Saturday, Jan 24; Macclesfield Town v Wycombe Wanderers, Tuesday, Jan 27
The Bees are on a nine-game unbeaten run and have just three defeats so far this season.
They will, however, be without striker Nathan Elder, whose appeal against a red card in his first game back after suspension, means he will be missing. Their leading scorer, diminutive poacher Charlie MacDonald, is available and will be looking to add to his tally of nine, while December's player of the month, midfielder Marcus Bean, has six.
The three previous league clashes have all gone the way of the hosts by the only goal of the game, the Bees winning October's clash with a goal from MacDonald.
Boss Alan Scott has added midfielder David Hunt to his squad from Shrewsbury, recalled striker Moses Ademola from a loan spell at Welling and extended the loan stay of Reading centre-back Alan Bennett.
Wycombe go into this weekend six points clear of Brentford, despite their shock defeat at home to Grimsby in their last outing.
Peter Taylor's Chairboys inflicted a 4-0 defeat on Macc in the December fixture and, although they are far from the biggest scorers so far, they have the meanest defence, with just 15 conceded in 25 games.


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Q: Will `function` produce an instance of an ES6 Class (Babel)? Consider the following ES6 (to be transpiled by Babel):
class A {};

class B extends A {};

...

function isAnA(func) {
  // Return true if func will produce an A or subclass of A (e.g. B).
}

...

isAnA(B); // should return true

What is a valid way to code isAnA() to work without creating an instance of func?
is-class on npm requires running a toString() on the function which seems unwieldy.
Is there a better way?

A: Check the prototype object of the class B .
    function isAnA(func) {
     return func.prototype instanceof A;
    }

    class A {}

    class B extends A{}
    class C extends B{}

    function isAnA(func) {
     return func.prototype instanceof A;
    }

    console.log(`B ? `,isAnA(B))
    console.log(`C ? `,isAnA(C))

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Today, Jake&Papa take their fans on an behind-the-scenes look into the brotherhood so crux to their musical journey. With an assorted arrangement of visuals from their tour days with Tory Lanez, SXSW, critically acclaimed visit to Sway In The Morning, and their telling interview with legendary radio host, Big Boy, this video gives slight insight into what makes this R&B duo so incredible.
Watch behind the brotherhood of Jake&Papa here. Their project Tattoos&Blues EP was released via Priority Records on April 28th, with their single "Phones" (as produced by Bizness Boi). Take a listen to Tattoos&Blues on SoundCloud or via all DSPs worldwide.


The 2017 BSides Security Conference, just outside of Ottawa, was a two day event from October 5th to 6th. It was packed with talks, lock picking, and a capture the flag (CTF) competition. Pretty great for being a free conference.
On the second day of the conference I decided to join one of the Shopify CTF teams since it looked like a ton of fun. Actually, I think it was the deep house playing 24/7 was what lured me into the dim and crowded CTF room of the conference centre. I subbed in for one of my friends on Shopify's Red Team, which was suitably named for Shopify's second CTF team. Shopify's first team was named the Blue Team.
I thought I knew what CTF's were all about – hacking challenges, they say. But I was completely unprepared. My "so called" 10+ years of listening to the Security Now podcast didn't exactly prepare me for the hands-on experience required for CTFs. It was quite the learning experience since most of the flags remaining on day 2 were difficult to capture for a newbie.
Having some of a background in security and hacking helps, though it doesn't bridge the gap between the hacking experience and intuition required to solve CTF challenges. These challenges require experience and practice in thinking like an attacker.
For example, it's one thing to understand that data can be hidden in images via steganography, but it's another thing completely to actually extract the hidden data from an image.
Instead of wasting time on finding unknown flags, I focused on the topics I have experience with. Most of the flags I focused on were WEP and WPA cracking with aircrack-ng, and it's associated collection tools. I was not able to inject packets with my setup, but luckily some other competitors did the hard work for me. After a few hours of unsuccessful attempts to crack the Wi-Fi networks I conceded that my attempts weren't working.
I moved onto a new flag that involved breaking into an old exploited version of Joomla. After asking for some help from a teammate we found a script on exploit-db that would raise privileges to admin for any user. After running the exploit it took me a bit to figure out that it ran successfully since the flag was locked inside a Page that was locked for editing by someone else. The 'locked for editing' didn't allow reading the Page, but after figuring out that the Page had a context menu to unlock it enabled me to view the flag. That made me facepalm both at Joomla's UI and my inability to figure that out sooner.
After a day filled with a of couple muffins, a few slices of pizza, and countless teas the CTF concluded around 5pm. Winners were announced and thankfully our team didn't fail too hard. I came out of the competition having met a bunch of colleagues from different parts of the company, and the expectation of what to expect in future CTFs. I'll definitely be attending another CTF.
My team, the Red-Team, placed somewhere around 5th or 6th. Not too bad for having a handicap on it like myself. I got to hand it to Shopify, they have some seriously talented Security folks! No wonder Shopify's Blue-Team came in first!
The celebrations started with Saturday morning. A bunch of friends and colleagues of mine grabbed breakfast to wish a colleague farewell and best wishes being back at school.
The crowd storms the field as Carleton wins at Sportsball!
Just like last year, a larger group of us met up at the TD Place for the annual university football Panda Game between Carleton and Ottawa U (Carleton won, of course :P). A lot of time was spent laughing at our once younger selves acting foolish in the crowd. After the win we spent a few hours pigging out at an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant.
To finish the day off we visited the pool and hot tub at a friend's apartment, and played the card game What do you Meme? Sunday, my actual birthday, has been spent relaxing and writing this post. I'm sure my colleagues will have more festivities planned for next week.
Additionally, this year I got more into road biking – putting just over a thousand kilometres on a new road bike, and visiting a few new locations in the Ottawa-Gatineau area – Cafe British in Alymer, Quebec is worth the trek on a nice sunny day.
Since I've been interested in craft beers, this year I received a homebrewing kit as a gift. The process is laborious for a day or two but is quite rewarding at the end. I've completed two large batches so far – a wheat beer and an IPA. They're pretty drinkable, but the quality isn't high enough for the ingredients I used. I'll definitely have to make a higher quality batch of beer, or even delve into making wine.
At the end of October last year I travelled with my Aunt and a few of her friends to Manhattan in New York. What a city! The sheer size and bustle of everything going on at all hours of the day is intoxicating. The restaurant scene was tasty, even when eating within a reasonable budget. The attractions and Central Park were fascinating. I would recommend any first-timers to get a City-Pass to get access to the major attractions. It was definitely a memorable week.
Me shaking Leo's hand at the TWiT studios.
For a graduation trip in June I flew over to California with my mom. We spent a solid 10 days rv-ing and camping from north of San Francisco all the way down to San Diego. The climate, scenery, and attractions made it an amazing experience. We stopped by the TWiT studios to see Leo Laporte, a longtime mentor of mine for 11 years. Leo's podcasts have taught me a staggering amount about technology news and computer security. It was great to have been able to see him in person and watch a live recording of Security Now with Steve Gibson.
During the trip we had to stop by the Computer History museum. Holy cow! That museum is big. I could have spent a few days there reading everything. One particular part of the museum I found memorable was showing my mom a diagram of the history of programming languages, pointing to the ones I knew, and the ones I would soon learn at Shopify. Seeing some of the first Google servers were pretty nostalgic in a way with how scrappy they were to get a lot of computing power for cheap.
Some of the rough goals I have this year are to advance my career, improve on my social skills, become friends with more people, and build up some muscle. I have surprised myself already with the speed and progress that has been made across these goals so far.
Since starting work at Shopify the thought of moving closer to work has really been bugging me. A 20 minute bike ride is great in the summertime, but Winter is Coming – and Ottawa doesn't fall short with its winters. The social scene with colleagues and all the activities that are had downtown are more attracting factors for moving closer. I'm really liking the idea of moving into a 1-bedroom apartment – gaining more privacy and being able to focus more on myself compared to living with my entertaining and sometimes distracting roommates (in a good way).
I'm not sure how I can top the major events from this past year. Maybe moving into my very own place, attending a conference or two, performing my first conference talk, or even some travelling with friends? I'm down for all of those.
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It's a pain to get the latest version of the Go programming language installed on a Debian or Ubuntu system.
Oftentimes if your operating system is not the latest then there is a slim chance that there will be an up to date version of Go available. You may get lucky and find newer versions of Go in some random person's PPA, where they've backported newer versions to older operating systems. This works, but newly released versions are reliant on the package maintainer to update and push it out.
Other options of installing the latest version of Go may involve building the package from source. This method is often tedious and can be error prone with the number of steps involved. Not exactly for the faint of heart.
Command line tools have been built for certain programming languages to streamline the installation of new versions. For Go, GVM is the Go Version Manager. Inspired by RVM, the Ruby Version Manager, GVM makes it quite simple to install multiple versions of Go, and to switch between them with one simple command.
The only downside that GVM has is that it's not installed via a system package (eg. a deb file). Don't let that worry you too much though! Installation is as simple as running the following curl-bash, and then using the GVM command to start installing different versions of Go. Here's the installation guide/readme.
One confusing point when using GVM to install the latest version of Go resulted in a failed installation. This made no sense. Eventually RTFM'ing resulted in understanding that you first have to install an earlier version of Go to "bootstrap" the installation of any version of Go later than 1.5. Explained here in more detail.
After following their instructions to install Go 1.4 it was now possible to install the latest version of Go and get on with coding!
A while ago I was looking into what it takes to setup a private Docker Registry. The simplest way involves running the vanilla Docker Registry image and a small amount of configuration (vanilla is used to distinguish the official Docker Registry from the Artifactory Docker Registry offering). The vanilla Docker Registry is great for proof of concepts or for people who want to design a custom solution, but in organizations where there are multiple environments (QA, staging, prod) wired together using a Continuous Delivery pipeline – JFrog Artifactory is well suited for the task.
Artifactory, the fantastic artifact repository for storing your Jars, Gems, and other valuables has an extension to host Docker Repositories to store and manage Docker images as first-class citizens of Artifactory.
Here's a few compelling features which make Artifactory worthwhile over the vanilla Docker Registry.
The Docker Registry image doesn't come with any fine-grained access control. The best that can be done is either allowing or disallowing access to all operations on the registry by the use of a .htpasswd file. In the best scenario, each user of the registry has their own username and password.
Artifactory uses its own fine-grained access control mechanisms to secure the registry – enabling users and groups to be assigned permissions to read, write, deploy, and modify properties. Access can be configured through the Artifactory web UI, REST API, or AD/LDAP.
If enabled, Artifactory will use the same TLS encryption it uses for Docker Registries. Unlike a vanilla Docker Registry, there is no need to setup a reverse proxy to tunnel all insecure HTTP connections over HTTPS. The web UI offers a screen to copy and paste authentication information for connecting to the secured Artifactory Registry.
Artifactory has the option to automatically purge old Docker images when the unique number of tags has grown to a certain size. This keeps the number of available images, and therefore the storage space, within reason. The results of not having old images purged can lead to running out of disk space, or for you cloud users, expensive object storage bills.
Continuous delivery defines the concept of pipelines. These pipelines represent the flow of commits from when a developer checks in their code to the SCM, all the way through CI, and eventually into production. Continuous Delivery organizations who have chosen to use multiple environments for validating their software changes would "promote" a version of the software from one environment to the next. A version would only be promoted if it passed the validation requirements for that environment.
For example, the promotion of version 123 would first go through the QA environment, then the Staging environment, then the Production environment.
Artifactory includes Docker image promotion as a first-class feature, separating it from the vanilla Docker Registry. What would be a series of manual steps, or a script to run, is now a single API endpoint to promote a Docker image from one registry to another.
The Artifactory UI already has the ability to look at various artifacts contained in Maven, NPM, and other types of repositories. It was only natural to offer the same service for Docker Registries. All images of a repository can be listed and searched upon. Images can be further described by showing the various tags and layers that compose it.
The current vanilla Docker Registry doesn't have a GUI. It is only through third-party projects that a GUI can be provided to offer the same functionality as Artifactory.
Besides hosting local and caching remote registries, virtual registries is a combination of the two. Virtual registries unite images from a number of local and remote registries, enabling Docker clients to conveniently use just a single registry. Administrators are then able to change the backing registries when needed, requiring no change on the client's side.
This is most useful for humans who need ad hoc access to multiple registries that correspond to multiple environments. For example, the QA, Staging, Production, and Docker Hub registries can be combined together, making it seem like one registry to the user instead of four different instances. Machines running in the Production environment, for example, could only have access to the Production Docker Registry, thereby preventing any accidental usage of unverified images.
Artifactory is a feature rich artifact tool for Maven, NPM, and many other repository types. The addition of Docker Registries to Artifactory provides a simple solution that caters towards organizations who are implementing Continuous Delivery practices.
If you're outgrowing an existing vanilla Docker Registry, or entirely new to the Docker game then give Artifactory a try for your organization, it won't disappoint.
GitHub explains a few of their guidelines for harassment and abuse prevention when they're developing new features. Some of the interesting points in the article include a list of privacy-oriented questions to ask yourself when developing a new feature, providing useful audit logs for retrospectives, and minimizing abuse from newly created accounts by restricting access to the service's capabilities. All of these points taken into consideration make it harder for abuse to occur, making the service a better environment for its users.
I had a fun weekend with my roommate hacking on the Shopify API and learning the Ruby on Rails framework. Shopify makes it super easy to begin building Shopify Apps for the Shopify App Store – essentially the Apple App Store equivalent for Shopify store owners to add features to their customer facing and backend admin interfaces. Shopify provides two handy Ruby gems to speed up development: shopify_app and shopify_api. An overview of the two gems are given and then their weaknesses are explained.
Shopify provides a handy gem called shopify_app which makes it simple to start developing an app for the Shopify App Store. The gem provides Rails generators to create controllers, add webhooks, configure the basic models and add the required OAuth authentication – just enough to get started.
The shopify_api gem is a thin wrapper of the Shopify API. shopify_app integrates it into the controllers automatically, making requests for a store's data very simple.
The process of getting a developer account and developer store created takes no time at all. The API documentation is clear for the most part. Though attempting to develop using the Plus APIs can be frustrating when using the APIs for the first time. For example, querying the Discount API, Gift Card API, Multipass API, or User API results in unhelpful 404 errors. The development store's admin interface is misleading as a discounts section can be accessed where discounts may be added and removed.
By default, anyone who signs up to become a developer only has access to the standard API endpoints, leaving no access to the Plus endpoints. These Plus endpoints are only available to stores which pay for Shopify Plus, and after digging into many Shopify discussion boards it was explained by a Shopify employee that developers need to work with a store who pays for Shopify Plus to get access to those Plus endpoints. The 404 error when accessing the API didn't explain this and only added confusion to the situation.
One area that could be improved is that there is little mention of tiered developer accounts. The API should at least give a useful error message in the response's body explaining what is needed to gain access to it.
The shopify_app gem provides a simple way to define any webhooks that should be registered with the Shopify API for the app to function. The defined webhooks are registered only once after the app is added to a store. During development you may add and remove many webhooks for your app. Since defined webhooks are only registered when the app is added to a store the most straightforward way to refresh the webhooks is to remove the app from the store and then add it again.
This can become pretty tedious which is why I did some digging around in the shopify_app code and created the following code sample to synchronize the required webhooks with the Shopify API. Simply hit this controller or call the containing code somewhere in the codebase.
If there's a better solution to this problem please let me know.
Lastly, to keep track of your sanity the httplog gem is useful to track the http calls that shopify_app, shopify_api and any other gem makes.
The developer experience on the Shopify API and app store is quite pleasing. It has been around long enough to build up a flourishing community of people asking questions and sharing code. I believe the issues outlined above can be easily solved and will make Shopify a more pleasing platform.
Scheduling with Adrian Cockroft was quite timely as part of my final paper for my undergraduate degree focused on the breadth of topics in scheduling. Adrian discussed many of the principles of scheduling and related them to how they were applied at Netflix and earlier companies. Scheduling is really a necessity for software developers to know as scheduling occurs in all layers of the software and hardware stack.
Developer Roles with Dave Curry and Fred George was very entertaining and informative as it presented the idea of "Developer Anarchy", a different structure to running, (or not running), development teams. Instead of hiring Project Managers, Quality Assurance, or DBAs to fill a specific niche of a development team, you mainly hire programmers and leave them to perform all of those tasks according to what they deem is necessary.
Infrastructure with Datanauts' Chris Wahl and Ethan Banks entertained as much as it informed. This episode had a more casual setting as the hosts told stories and brought years of experience to the current and future direction of infrastructure in all layers of the stack. Comparing the current success of Kubernetes to the not-so-promising OpenStack was quite informative as it showed that multiple supporting organizations drove the OpenStack project to have different priorities and visions, whereas Google, being the single organization to drive Kubernetes, is shown to have one single, unified vision.
I'm taking a course that focuses on parallel and distributed computing. We use a compiler extension for GCC called Cilk to develop parallel programs in C/C++. Cilk offers developers a simple method for developing parallel code, and as a plus it now comes included in GCC since version 4.9.
The unjust thing with this course is that the professor provides a hefty 4GB Ubuntu virtual machine just for running the GNU compiler with Cilk. No sane person would download an entire virtual machine image just to run a compiler.
Docker comes to the rescue. It couldn't be more space effective and convenient to use Cilk from a Docker container. I've created a simple Dockerfile containing the latest GNU compiler for Ubuntu 16.04. Here are some Gists showing how to build and run a Dockerfile which contain the dependencies needed to build and run Cilk programs.
Another grand year has gone by since my last birthday. Here's my look back on the year as I turn 22 today. I'm on the edge of finishing my Computer Science degree (yay!), had a blast spending time vacationing with my family, and succeeded at completing a few personal goals, to name a few.
I have accomplished my goal of biking to Gatineau's Champlain Lookout – a hefty 60km ride on a franken-road bike that safely got me there. Getting hooked on the Strava app has helped gamify my cycling fitness. When my Grandmother passed away this summer we spent five days in Owen Sound, a quiet town on Georgian Bay. I had the itch to go biking one day and ended up renting a proper road bike compared to what I have. Two hours later and I've cycled 42km, swam in the water and enjoyed the scenery pass by, completely satisfied.
This time last year ZDirect, the previous name of the company I work at, got acquired by TravelClick. Over the year we've hit home run after home run at delivering on making changes, namely a successful datacentre migration, rebranding of the UI, new profile screen and plenty of features to boot. We're expanding rapidly: acquiring new office space, hiring more developers, account managers and support people. An incremental integration into TravelClick has been happening, involving processes, infrastructure and software. The sales figures show we're doing something right. Not a few weeks from now I'll be in New York for a short vacation. During this time I'll stop by TravelClick headquarters in Times Square to say Hi and see if I can grab some swag.
My main achievement during this summer of working at TravelClick has been implementing a weekly Continuous Improvement meeting for my team where we improve our processes and software by discussing and planning items of action. Seeing the entire team engage and drive the discussion, including planning on what should be done is the truest sign of having succeeded, not to mention the improvements that are being made.
I have started listening to a lot more software-related podcasts. Learning FTW! It's crazy the amount of information you can learn just by listening when you're not doing any brain-intensive tasks.
Continuing to experiment with new recipes, I have begun making sourdough bread as it's much healthier than your regular white loaf. Vegetables and fruits have become more prominent in my meals, as well as Thai coconut soups every once in a while. I've reduced the number of unhealthy foods I eat such as bucket-loads of homemade pizza and frozen foods like perogies.
On the topic of health, I was disciplined for the first half of the year when it came to performing workouts five to six nights a week. Freeletics is an excellent social exercise app that only requires your body, a pull-up bar and a small amount of space to do short but intense exercises. Besides the pre-programmed workouts, performing 250 sit-ups a night definitely helped get that six-pack ready for the February trip to the Dominican Republic. (On a related note, Long Island Iced Teas became my new favourite drink).
When the summer started it was an abrupt transition from school-life to work-life. I eventually stopped using the Freeletics workout app and instead went for hour-plus bike rides a couple of times a week, using Strava to track my distance. I miss the disciplined workout. I want to get back into the routine again when my joints aren't complaining.
Having a second (but small) source of income as well as keeping my other skills sharp was prominent this past year. I performed some freelance logo design and web development with a great friend of mine. At the moment I feel like the work I'm doing is valued at less than what it should be. I plan on being actionable for future jobs by valuing my time more.
A bad practice that I want to take control over is the number of hours of YouTube videos that I consume per week. I could easily spend that time reading, sleeping or getting things done. I feel that if I visualize my video consumption and set a goal of reducing the hours watched per week I will gain back valuable time.
Some good practices that I want to continue with this year is getting good sleep, writing every day, practicing mindfulness, taking notes while reading books, being fit and listening to podcasts and conference talks.
Reading about and using the Getting Things Done method is another goal of mine that I think would help me perform better and achieve more given all my work and personal tasks. Being able to organize better and be disciplined about getting things done will enable me to feel more fulfilled day-to-day.
Well time to publish this and pack it up for the night as it's just past midnight. Today my friends and I are attending the Panda Games, an annual football game with a decades-old rivalry between Ottawa's two big universities: Carleton and Ottawa U. It's a big party and it'll be a write-off for all of us.
Copy and paste is bad.
Every single person who uses a computer learns how to copy and paste.
Copy and paste is necessary to perform many tasks.
Email and Word documents and illegally downloaded movies all expect you to use copy and paste because it's how you're supposed to do things: copy this email into that folder, move that paragraph of text into the next chapter, copy those illegally downloaded movies to the external hard drive for safekeeping.
There's a time and place for copy and paste, but why resort to it when you do the same task multiple times every day? It's passable when the situation can't be made better, or can it?
Sounds like old habits die hard.
Sure, copy and paste is quick when you're good at it, but the time adds up. For example, take the process of navigating into a bunch of files and folders to copy the same five files to a different place. Let's be earnest here and say it takes a minute of this theoretical person's time. Based on the work they do, they repeat the same copy and paste job ten more times that day. This time adds up.
Yes, old habits die hard.
Humans are excellent at copy and paste. Guess what else is excellent at copy and paste as well? Computers!!! Computers are better than humans in every way possible when it comes to performing repetitive copy and paste tasks. Speed. Accuracy. Longevity. It's a combination which doesn't disappoint.
Luckily where my soliloquy is headed involves people who program computers for a profession: Programmers. Programmers write programs to make computers do things for humans. Copy and paste is one of them. So why are Programmers still using copy and paste to do things themselves repetitively instead of programming a computer to do it for them?
Programmers are proficient in telling the computer what to do, namely copy and paste. But they're still using copy and paste things themselves because they're really good at it. It's been a habit since they started using a computer however many decades ago.
This shocks me, especially in the sense where programmers are paid very well to program computers, but instead they're spending a chunk of their time performing repetitive copy and paste tasks, not to mention they're fully qualified to program the computer to do it for them.
It's a bad habit of programmers to repetitively copy and paste. Knowing so and continuing to do must involve masochism. Be a better programmer and get the computer to copy and paste for you!


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Sholem Asch Museum
Rybak HouseBen Ari Museum
The Sholem Asch Museum is a research center for the written word, offering contemporary theoretical and practical research. The former residence of writer Sholem Asch is part of the Museums of Bat Yam complex, joining the Ben-Ari Museum of Contemporary Art and the Ryback House.
During the 1950s, renowned Yiddish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch, whose writings were translated into numerous languages and garnered great success, lived in the house. Asch's most famous work is the trilogy Farn Mabul (Before the Flood), translated as "Three Cities," portraying the lives of the Jews before the Bolshevik Revolution in St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow (1921-31). His best known plays are Got fun Nekomeh (God of Vengeance, 1907); Motke Ganev (Motke the Thief, 1916), and Kidush Hashem (Sanctification of [God's] Name), 1919.
At the height of his literary success, Asch aroused huge controversy centering around taboo subjects in his novels. His interest in the lives of figures from the New Testament portrayed in his books The Nazarene (1939), The Apostle (1943) and Mary (1949) stemmed from his objective to bridge the dichotomy between religions, yet was perceived as heresy by many Jews.
Asch spent the last years of his life between Bat Yam and London, where his daughter Ruth lived. He passed away in London in 1957. Mathilde (Madzhe), Asch's widow, donated the house to the city of Bat Yam with the objective of turning it into a museum and a center for culture and knowledge. The study, bedrooms and living rooms display Asch's impressive collection of antique books, rare manuscripts, unique Judaica, and works by great modern masters such as Chagall, Pissarro, Modigliani and Kisling.
Inspired by Asch's oeuvre and personality, the Sholem Asch Museum is a center for encounters between cultures, languages, religions and the arts.
*The Sholem Asch Museum is open
Sholem Asch (left) with Shalom Aleichem. Courtesy of MoBY's archive
Book cover of East River, by Sholem Asch. Design: Yaakov Lichtenstein. Courtesy of MoBY's Archive


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Happy Ungrateful Day!
This week, it was announced that statues of two United States Presidents are being removed from prominent places in New York City because they are supposedly "problematic". The Museum of Natural History is removing the statue of Teddy Roosevelt, the man was on the forefront of the naturalist and the conservationist movement, and one of the reasons why there even is a Museum of Natural History in the first place. And on Monday, the City Hall in New York removed a statue of Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, who penned the phrase "all men are created equal". These historical figures and their contributions to this nation will no longer be honored or even acknowledged by many people on the left.
These moves underscore how ungrateful many in our country have become towards America. People who have contributed nothing to America believe they have the right to erase our founders, and their contributions. Ironically, these two moves are occurring during Thanksgiving week, a time when we are meant to give thanks for living in this great nation these two men helped build. Far too many people who were born in this country, who have benefited immensely from living here, take America, its freedoms, its rights, and its Constitution completely for granted.
The wealthy elite, the millionaires and billionaires, who have become rich from America are usually the ones who criticize it the most, and want to change it, thus denying others from benefiting from America the way they have. Barack Obama who attacks America as systemically racist, and filled with racial injustice, was a mixed-race child whose father abandoned him, and was raised by his grandparents, rose to become the President of the United States, and is now worth over $100 million. He never shows an ounce gratitude toward this country that gave him the opportunity and the pathway to success. Rather he is hell-bent on fundamentally transforming America, as if the country in which he has enjoyed extreme success, is flawed to its core.
Anti-Americanism has also taken hold over professional sports. LeBron James, who went from living in poverty to become a billionaire in America, spews his anti-American hate on all of his social media platforms, never failing to exploit any social issue to tear America down. Colin Kaepernick became a multimillionaire in America as an adopted orphan, but continually knelt for our national anthem and disrespected our flag, and never misses an opportunity to tell the world how evil America is.
Hollywood is filled with people living the American dream, enjoying levels of success, wealth, and fame the rest of the world can only dream of, yet they continually make movies and give speeches about the evils of America. All of these people are living in and enriching themselves from the most prosperous country in the world, and very few are thankful for that country. Hollywood has some of the biggest proponents of cancel culture and censorship, not understanding the importance that free speech and expression is to a country, and their success as artists. Many in Hollywood were on the forefront of the movement to shut down people like Dave Chappell who speaks out against their left-wing orthodoxy. This shows a lack of appreciation for the very tenets that are the foundation of American greatness.
Likewise, college professors are the ones advocating for and implementing intellectual and academic censorship in their classrooms, failing to fully understand that the source of the greatness of our academic institutions is free and open debate. These professors who live in a safe and secure academic bubble with tenure that protects their jobs from firing claim that life in America is patently unfair as they sit in their ivory towers, collecting their guaranteed paychecks generated from over-inflated college tuition, and student loans of their middle and lower-class students.
All of these people will argue that their success is a direct result of their hard work and their production, and they are absolutely right. That is the greatness of America. If you work hard, and produce good things, you can improve your lot in life, you can enrich yourself, you can benefit from the fruits of your labor, the sky's the limit, you have the opportunity to become whatever you want. That is America. That is what the rest of us do not want to lose. Ironically, the people who have not benefitted materially from America in anywhere near the way the most vocal American critics have, are the ones who thank God every day to have been born in the United States.
America is not perfect; we do not have a perfect history. There are many sins in our past that we have worked hard to overcome, yet far too many people want to put a laser focus on our failings while ignoring all of the greatness that America has brought to this country and to the world. America's critics don't want to talk about the hundreds of thousands of northern Union soldiers who laid down their lives to free the slaves in the Civil War. They don't want to talk about the 400,000 American soldiers who were killed liberating Europe and Japan from the clutches of totalitarian dictators. They don't want to acknowledge the unbelievable prosperity that America has brought to the world through its inventions and innovations, and how many hundreds of millions of people our free-market capitalist system has lifted out of abject poverty.
On our day of Thanksgiving, how many people are truly thankful to have been born in, and to live in America? In the past year, 1.7 million people from 84 different countries risked their lives making the dangerous journey through South and Central America for a chance to live in the United States. The flow of immigrants doesn't go both ways. They're not 1.7 million American citizens who are fleeing the United States to go live in any of those 84 countries. It doesn't happen. But sadly, many of the people who are coming here will become indoctrinated by the anti-American left, and in the near-future, will be bashing the America they now claim to love.
The greatness of America is leading to its own downfall. America has created a generation of people who are so privileged that they have the luxury to criticize and want to destroy the very source of their privilege. They so hell-bent on its destruction that they are inventing ways to criticize it. Only people who live lives of such privilege can be concerned with micro-aggressions and the woke agenda. People living in poverty, who don't know where their next meal is coming from have neither the time nor the energy to concern themselves with the LGBTQ agenda, or micro-aggressions. That only comes from a place of privilege.
When you have no other problems in the world, you create new problems out of thin air; you become offended when someone says, "where are you from?", or "all lives matter", or uses the "wrong" pronoun, or promotes a colorblind society. Your privilege causes you to assume prejudice or bias when the entire world does not love you or celebrate your very existence. Creating fake hate crimes like Jussie Smollett and Bubba Wallace is another sign of extreme privilege; it means that your life is so hate-free, that you have to make up false hate crimes in order to play the victim, and then you use the objections of innocent people you are falsely accusing as proof of their hate. Recently, Colin Kaepernick likened the NFL combine to modern-day slave trade. Only the privileged believe that auditioning for a job that pays millions of dollars per year is akin to slavery.
We are living in an increasingly ungrateful country, surrounded by people completely unaware of how truly fortunate they are to live here. Not only are these people benefitting from the privilege of prosperity, but also from the privilege of the time in which they live. The advancement of modern philosophical thought on human rights and individual freedom, owes a debt of gratitude to people like Thomas Jefferson who not only embraced new and radical ideas, but codified them into our founding documents. And yet, not only do we not want to thank the country and people who have given us so much, we are determined to destroy them.


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Future Chinese skylines could look more uniform
Updated 22nd February 2016
Written by Matt Rivers, CNNStephy Chung, CNNBeijing
Chinese architecture will now officially be less weird. A statement from China's State Council Sunday, says new guidelines on urban planning will forbid the construction of "bizarre" and "odd-shaped" buildings that are devoid of character or cultural heritage.
Instead, the directive calls for buildings that are "economic, green and beautiful." China's economic boom over the past several decades has coincided with a boom in the construction of unique, eye-catching buildings and the country has been dubbed an architect's playground.
Beijing is home to one of the country's most iconic buildings, the CCTV headquarters by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), co-founded by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas. It has been nicknamed "big pants" by locals, for its resemblance to trousers.
The golden People's Daily headquarters has also been made fun of. Midway through construction, a doctored photo of the phallic building superimposed under the CCTV's "pants" went viral.
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Other eye-catching buildings include an exhibition center in the shape of the tea pot, while one company built its corporate headquarters in the shape of the Starship Enterprise -- the legendary spaceship from the Star Trek TV and movie franchise.
The document said "bizarre architecture" that isn't "economical, functional, aesthetically pleasing or environmentally friendly" would be banned although it didn't detail how those criteria would be assessed.
"I don't feel shocked by this news," says architect Hao Dong, founder of Beijing-based architecture firm Crossboundaries.
"The guidelines pretty much point to a positive direction, particularly in China where there are so many buildings completed to stand out, without considering their function."
More prefabricated structures
The guideline adds that construction techniques that use fewer resources, such as prefabricated buildings, would be encouraged, and that within a decade, 30% of new buildings would be prefabricated.
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James Shen, one of the founders of People's Architecture Office in Beijing, says prefabricated structures could help the country ensure quality and lower housing costs. His design office has constructed IKEA-like prefabricated structures, that help modernize traditional courtyard homes in the city.
"We constantly hear in the news about rising housing costs, environmental waste, pollution and poor labor conditions. More oversight in the building industry and increased efficiency in production could help."
The directive also called for an end to gated communities. These residential housing estates that strictly control public access have sprung up in China as incomes have risen. Those already in existence will gradually be opened up to pedestrians and traffic, the document said.
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Creative with constraints
The new directive appears to be a way of formalizing construction rules that have been in the making for some time. In October of 2014, President Xi Jinping called for less ostentatious buildings in China's skylines, according to state media.
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And later that year, the vice-mayor of Beijing said the municipal government would be taking a more hands on approach to regulate buildings' size, style, color, and materials.
"Architects can be creative with constraints, we've shown that with our work," said Shen. "It's not having enough constraints that creates problems and I think that's what's happened in China. Endless building production has happened with little social responsibility."
CNN called the State Council for clarification on the new guidelines and was referred to the Ministry of Housing and Urban and Rural Development. Calls to that ministry went unanswered.
Intern Jessie Jiang in Beijing and CNN's Katie Hunt contributed to this report
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Mohammed bin Salman. After taking over Newcastle United's Public Investment Fund (PIF), a group of funds from Saudi Arabia. It immediately made the Salika Dong army become the richest football team in the world.
With assets worth up to 320 billion pounds (about 14 trillion baht) of PIF , Saint-Sheikh Mansour, owner of Manchester City, who has a property value of 23,200 million pounds (about 1,067.2 billion baht) on the podium. Is the number one in the football industry overwhelmingly.
Leading the takeover is PIF chairman Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia. Who rules on behalf of the government, and the country's deputy prime minister. And Chairman of the Council for Economic Affairs and Development including the Minister of Defense
Most recently, The Sun, the British media delved into the personal story of bin Salman. Especially the issue of wealth and ownership. "The most expensive house in the world" in Paris, France.
Named after The Chateau Louis XIV, the Saudi prince paid £230 million in 2015 for a luxury mansion in the west of Paris. Covering an area of more than 50,000 square meters. There are 10 master bedrooms, swimming pool both inside and outside. It is decorate with gold in many places that it is compare to the Taj Mahal.
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