Developing power on any serious level means identifying the most useful resources; the most productive resources. That is naturally going to include those abilities, skills, powers that are unique to the species to which you belong.
As we find with every effective power, whether or not you get to taste the sweet fruits of magnificent accomplishment is determined far less by outside events than by the choices that you have in front of you at this moment and mostly every moment of your life.
This makes it easier to understand the never-quite-equalled history and record of Thomas Edison, who lost more money for more investors than any other inventor before or since. Detailed records indicate that he struck out with more inventions than any other inventors before or after him.
Make no mistake about coincidences: As of this writing 471 human beings own or control more than 60% of all the money on your favorite planet. Few indeed have much in the way of formal education, let alone degrees. they got where they are by no accident; rather, by design and intent. It is clear that their single most identifiable commonality is their willingness to ask for what they want more than everyone else. Do you really and fully grasp this? there are a billion people per day asking for money. Some get it, some don't. When someone like Bill Gates wanted to sell a new product, he knew when the alarm clock went off that asking a billion people (repeatedly) to buy your product will always produce more sales than merely asking ten people. That's where you come in. Although you already possess the resources to ask a billion people (starting with the internet) for whatever you want, you have, for some reason, refused to ask more than a few people, and, even with all that limitation, these people are only asked by you once or twice, most of the time. True, or not?
Mr. Duncan and seemingly countless numbers of "sudden" success stories every single week after week after week are not as suddenly successful as first glance might indicate. Based on one particular desire that they have, they near-obsessively focus on just one or two of the greatest PowerGems at their disposal, and get very busy. These winners and champions are living their own Avenue of True Success, they routinely and persistently tap into their powers. Whether the power is small, whether the power is multi-national, you are being invited to recognize that power is a choice, true and great power is YOUR choice, at any given moment, and most often determined by little more and little less than what state of mind you choose to be in.
This level of science is easy enough for all of to grasp, no need for techno-babble regarding cingulate and basal ganglia. Caring for those brain structures is the forte of those living and practicing and refining their internal Avenue of True Success. For the Avenue of True Success, the power of the light bulb is a conscious, intentional use of the programming capabilities that were hard-wired into your system before you were even born, still in the development stage.
"Wait, wait! Most self-made millionaires do it HOW?"
Most of these masters and millionaires, champions and billionaires are able to do so with less time than you might guess to be the case, as little as an hour or two per week.
The indisputable observation of anyone subscribing to the underlying tenets of the Avenue of True Success is that those who are hungry to do something, and, most of all, those who ENJOY doing something have a distinct and empirical, a genuinely historical tendency to outperform most everyone around them.
Opening up relatively dormant areas of your mind is a key feature of practicing the Avenue of True Success, and, as you well know, practice makes perfect.
In specific pursuit of helping you to open up areas of your mind that are great resources of power, WHEN YOU LEARN AND USE THEM, the Avenue of True Success invites you to create a mental video for a moment, to awaken more of the powers within you.
If you were deserted on an island or mountain or in a forest and knew that you absolutely had to perform rudimentary surgery on your child to save his or her life, honey, it is no stretch of life to admit that a loving parent will do WHATEVER is necessary to save that child's life. Surely you are not outside of this category, are you? Would you not go to extraordinary lengths to save your child, if need be? Of course you would!
If the rest of your life is not a hyper-priority, then the Avenue of True Success suggests that "prioritization review" might be best for you.
It is when we do more than we say, where the volume of our actions exceeds the volume of our words - both meanings of "volume," that our powers grow into full-fledged mastery. This is where you are rising within your own Avenue of True Success, because it means you are controlling at least a majority of your outcomes. This is power!
" And who has time to invest in the Avenue of True Success ?"
That's really what everything boils down to: the difference between liking something, and wanting it. How much do you want it? Begin by asking for it. Duuuuuhhhn! Go ahead and ask today!.
Whether it is pleasing to see or not, the reality of life, what we refer to as "empirical evidence," teaches us that ninety percent of us, no matter what education level we've got, tend to read only one or two chapters of a book, barely making use of the instantly transferable power found in its pages. Ouch. We know you're smart enough to understand HOW, Would you have the Avenue of True Success ignore basic truth? Respecting the empirical evidence of your very own lifetime, we can all, INCLUDING YOU, see that more than 90% of you are not smart enough to DO.
Since you use this huge power every day for minor things, why not apply the same rules to those areas of your life that are most important of all? Obviously, power shortcuts produce results: I walk, run, ride my bikes and live each day with passion and excellence in mind, despite being told I'd be in a wheelchair for life. I've broken or shattered records at company after company. It's not me, kids, it's the Power Shortcuts used by Winners.
Hush up! PLEASE, hush up!
If you ignore 99% of all the wisdom and foolishness in the world and use this one fantastic trick, this immensely powerful shortcut every day for even twenty or thirty days, you will find magic happening in several areas of your life. Your own sense of the Avenue of True Success reasonably demands that you prove it. You cannot prove it with an opinion, can you? Perhaps you may need to prove it wrong or right DESPITE your opinion, or in blatant defiance of your closely-held opinions or beliefs. Prove it or disprove it the right way, the logical and repeatable way.
... and that's really the whole point of all this effort we've both gone to in order to arrive at this sentence. Enormous resources that change lives in a single day are at your immediate disposal. If you understand, please tap your hoof three times. Prove that you understand by having just enough discipline to set aside a solid, uninterrupted five minutes per day just for you and your innermost cogitations.
In the middle of living with so many demands upon her time, particularly with relation to family and her community responsibilities, she was beset by kidney disease, which requires something called "dialysis." Although she did not have even ten minutes per day to spare, there were these sudden multi-hour visits for dialysis occurring several times per week, and she never went alone, her husband Bert took her; so it was now TWO adult schedules dramatically changed.
Five uninterrupted minutes (heaven forfend you should extend it to a whopping ten minutes, hm?) will absolutely begin creating an entirely new set of circumstances and results, no matter what it is you're most focused upon.
You are invited to become a champion, or at least halfway to being a champion, a master, a millionaire, or even a billionaire, at an incredibly accelerated rate. All you have to do is grab any one of these many life-changing, world-class SuperShortcuts and use even one of them every day for a few weeks. SHUT UP and see for yourself. Better and faster results something like 99.4% of the time. How can you beat odds for success like that? My goodness -- we're handing it to you on a silver platter here. Thanks to the masters and millionaires, champions and billionaires who have paved and pioneered the way for a Avenue of True Success to be crafted so accessibly to most of us, YOU get to beat the odds, YOU get to increase the odds and probabilities of success.
One thing's for sure: Even after reading thousands of books beyond that first putatively "lifetime" goal of ten thousand books, MisterShortcut warrants that the Avenue of True Success is the core and center of gathering all the best information in the world.
The Avenue of True Success, and Avenue of True Success as well, are unique tools for you to use, because never before has an individual or organization, as far as can be discerned, never has such a comprehensive detailing of the exact words and attitudes, tricks and techniques, the SHORTCUTS of virtually every world master in history. Like every great tool, you use it or you lose it.
The Avenue of True Success is certainly not the first or only approach to life that teaches us and reminds us that you can only build your reputation based on what you did yesterday. In point of fact, you now have a reputation. It is the total of all your yesterdays combined with your actions today.
Use the Avenue of True Success.
Welcome to the Avenue of True Success of masters and millionaires shortcuts to wealth health success.


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using System;
using System.Diagnostics;

namespace Benchmarkr
{
    public struct EmployeeQuery
    {
        public string Name;

        public int MinAge;
        public int MaxAge;

        public bool IsHired;
    }

    public abstract class BenchmarkBase
    {
        internal TimeSpan PerformTest(Action<BenchmarkBase> test)
        {
            var stopwatch = new Stopwatch();
            stopwatch.Start();
            test(this);
            stopwatch.Stop();
            return stopwatch.Elapsed;
        }

        public abstract string Name { get; }

        public string Path { get; set; }

        public abstract IDisposable OpenDB();
        public abstract void DeleteDB();

        public abstract void RunInTransaction(Action action);

        public abstract void InsertObject(uint index);

        public abstract int Count(EmployeeQuery query);
        public abstract long Enumerate(EmployeeQuery query);

        protected static string NameValue(uint index)
        {
            return $"Foo{index}";
        }

        protected static bool IsHiredValue(uint index)
        {
            return index % 2 == 0;
        }

        protected static int AgeValue(uint index)
        {
            return (int)(index % 15) + 30;
        }
    }
}

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Participants climb atop their podium and nudge each other off with the oversized fugal sticks. After that, you and your opponent put on harnesses hooked into a bungee cord and race to the end!
Four players take their jousting sticks, balance themselves on their pedestals, and fight to the finish! The double joust allows many guests to play throughout your event, challenges the toughest gladiators, and gives the opportunity for team building or tournament play.
The classic get-together sport enhanced with eye-catching LED lit course & golf balls. Choose from 3, 5, or 9 holes to add that cutting edge entertainment item to your next event.
This fun activity lets participants shoot paintballs at their tee shirts thus creating a one-of-a-kind design! Several paint colors to choose from.
Touch screen apps and games are all the rage of modern times - bring that stylish trend to your event with the iTouch Table! Featuring games and other fun activities, your guests will be having fun and participating in social interaction.
A unique novelty item that features a glowing LED cone to hold that sweet cotton candy. Add a bit of life to that ordinary stick of cotton candy with Glo Cone!
Life Size version of the Favorite we all grew up with...perfect for outdoor events, large groups, picnics, and more!
Eat other Pac-Men! Pac-Man Battle Royale features gameplay that can accommodate up to 4 players simulataneously. Our stunning setup features a large LCD gaming monitor and LED-lit stations for each player. The original PAC-MAN game concept has been given a cannibalistic twist: Eliminate your opponents by eating them and the last PAC-MAN standing wins the round.
Step in front of our camera then paint with light! Take home a 5 x 7 print of your creation!
Guests can choose from over 40 scents at our enchanting Fragrance Station! Cologne or perfume is made in a matter of minutes and encased in a designer bottle.
Taking finger painting to a whole new, digital level! Strolling or stationary, the iSketch Caricaturtist sketches your likeness on his digital canvas using only his fingers! Printed on-the-spot and emailed, this is a great take-away item for your guests.
The Boom-A-Rang air hockey table has an eye catching design and side-by-side play for new twist on air hockey! Designed to fit against a wall, corner, or back-to-back with another unit. Wide goals promote super speed action. All around oversized rails help prevent puck from flying off the table.
Featured at your next event, Buddy's Fun Foods! Our Cake Boss storefront is authentically decorated and customized adding the guest of honor's name to the signage. Best of all, the Cake Boss Bakery stand features cupcakes and treats...even those from Carlo's Bake Shop!
Step up to the Soda Bar where you can grab and go with one of your Favorite Sodas in a Fun Colorful bottle or get funky and CREATE your own Soda Flavor using our Soda Stream Machines.
Fun and a spectacle on several levels...it's huge AND the play field features sequenced LED light animations under a flashy lucite surface! Up to 30 players compete twisting their rows of figures attempting to kick the ball into their opponent's goal.


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I cannot seem to let go. I cannot move the memory of G.O's tender and brilliant performance of Prince Ho Dong in the musical 바람의나라 [The Kingdom of the Winds] during those wonderful warm days of May 2014 from my heart or mind. A little bit of a musical-inspired few days here for this Countdown series. Even as another year is set to begin (the Lunar New Year, that is) and we continue to move further and further from those amazing performances, I am unable to forget and am compelled to also have you remember. The early rehearsal moments captured of G.O effortlessly falling into the fragile psyche of Kingdom's child prince were exciting and breathtaking. And yes, it may have only been his third musical over a three year span, it was nevertheless clear that a musical theater star was gently but with great passion, being born.
I love revisiting these Kingdom rehearsal moments. Watching G.O transform into a playful, idealistic and naive young boy prince is heartwarming and delightful. With tender eagerness, he welcomes us to see the world through the innocent eyes of Prince Ho Dong and does so with humility and charm.
Remember, at time of rehearsals for 바람의나라 [The Kingdom of the Winds], G.O was still performing as Dong Ho on the Seopyeonje musical stage. Think about that for a second and consider how difficult it must have been to learn new dialogue, songs, stage choreography, etc., while still performing in a completely different musical; how challenging it must have been to separate two very distinct and demanding roles, roles that never saw an idol from Korean popular music cast in.
I think that was an amazing feat. It will be quite bold for me to say this, but I am not sure there is another artist from Korean popular music out there who could have navigated it as well and done so while giving the kind of stellar performances G.O did every time he took the stage.
Amazing feat. Amazing artist. Amazingly talented man.
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The mileage tax doesn't apply when running the engine and heater to help clear the windshield.
If Oregon legislators propose an increase in the gas tax this year, as part of a package to keep up with the need for highway maintenance and construction, they won't get any complaints from me. An accounting from OReGO showed me that I'm getting a really good deal, in my opinion, for using our roads.
Some of those 5,000 miles were on I-5 between here and Southern Oregon, and some of the rest were on Highway 34 between here and the coast. Both the interstate and the state highway have been kept, in my experience, in better than average condition. I realize that keeping them that way is a matter of money. And getting to use our entire road system over 5,000 miles for about 70 bucks seems to me a pretty good deal. Too good a deal, actually, so if they want to raise the price a little, who am I to object?
So a few of us have decided we havent paid enough tax at the pump and have volenteered to become a auditor by living with a GPS in their car, to determine their rate of speed, their acceleration, and decelleration habits coupled with the added fuel tax at the pump. I think Oregonians pay a very high rate of tax, the fuel tax has been sufficient to keep Oregon roads in top shape. why volenteer to encourage more taxation?
That being said, your F150 seemed to be a good match for our current state fuel tax with an equivalent $0.015 per gallon. Do you know what the state averages are showing?
I would support an increase in use taxes/fees for maitainence, and upgrades when needed, of existing streets and roads. I would prefer that the enacting legislation included getting rid of the Little-Davis-Bacon act in Oregon and making us a right-to-work state, while I dreaming.
Recall our kicker? When the liberals manufacture means to overspend thereby eliminate our kicker I dont believe for a minute that a volunteered tax will end in a refund. We are dealing with Liberal politicians.
Haha! Liberals? How about just any good old boy politician? That two party mentality has you working against your own best interests. They're all the same crooks. Point your bias towards all those that have earned it.
That said, tax the the hell out of those that avoid paying their fare share in the first place and not us poor saps who don't have our own personal driver.
Exactly on the mark, Leroy. So often good proposals are implemented, only to have them corrupted at a later date by political greed. Be suspicious. Be very suspicious.
I admire Hering's willingness to support our national infrastructure through non-traditional means. Given that most vehicles are using less and less gas and will quickly enough be replaced by electric or hydrogen-powered vehicles, it only makes sense to explore options to pay for the roadways people depend on.
I am weary of those who believe they deserve to have good roads simply by their mere existence…as though their presence on the planet's surface is justification enough for others to provide for them. Gas taxes are anathema.
These are the very same privileged folks who complain when ODOT doesn't maintain the roads sufficiently. These are the very same people who believe that Mexico will pay for the Wall. Delusion runs amuck.


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New Daredevil Season 2 Trailer Released
As we are getting closer and closer to the release of the highly anticipated second season for Marvel's Daredevil, starring Charlie Cox as Matt Murdock a.k.a. Daredevil, the Man with Without Fear, Netflix has released a brand new trailer for the new season. You can check it out below as it features new footage for Season 2.
"Just when Matt thinks he is bringing order back to the city, new forces are rising in Hell's Kitchen. Now the Man Without Fear must take on a new adversary in Frank Castle and face an old flame – Elektra Natchios. Bigger problems emerge when Frank Castle, a man looking for vengeance, is reborn as THE PUNISHER, a man who takes justice into his own hands in Matt's neighborhood. Meanwhile, Matt must balance his duty to his community as a lawyer and his dangerous life as the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, facing a life-altering choice that forces him to truly understand what it means to be a hero.
Blinded as a young boy but imbued with extraordinary senses, Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) fights against injustice by day as a lawyer, and by night as the Super Hero "Daredevil" in modern day Hell's Kitchen, New York City. "Marvel's Daredevil" stars Charlie Cox, Deborah Ann Woll, Elden Henson, Jon Bernthal, Elodie Yung and Rosario Dawson.
"Marvel's Daredevil" is Executive Produced by Doug Petrie ("American Horror Story," "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"), Marco Ramirez ("Sons of Anarchy," "Orange is the New Black") and Drew Goddard ("Cabin in the Woods," "Lost"), along with Marvel TV's Jeph Loeb ("Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.," "Marvel's Jessica Jones.")
"Marvel's Daredevil" is produced by Marvel Television in association with ABC Studios. Season one of "Marvel's Daredevil" is now streaming on Netflix."
Marvel's Daredevil Season 2 will be released on Friday, March 18, only on Netflix, Season 1 is currently available for streaming.
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Peter Stone Brown was a singer-songwriter and freelance writer. He was music editor for The Welcomat, and hosted radio shows on WXPN. He wrote for CounterPunch, American Songwriter and Bobdylan.com.
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Interview: Carl Perkins, October 31, 1978 at the Bijou Café, Philadelphia , PA.
by Peter Stone Brown
Interviews with musicians by Peter Stone Brown
Recorded on October 31, 1978 at the Bijou Café, Philadelphia , PA
This interview took place backstage at the Bijou Café right before Carl Perkins was to do his first show in Philadelphia in years with a band that included two of his sons. It was a rare occasion and I don't believe he ever returned. At the time he had a new album out that pretty much ended up going nowhere and I'm not sure if the album he talks about at the end of the interview ever was released.
For whatever strange twist of fate, that's the way it was for Carl Perkins, a man who was recognized by musicians more than anyone else, though in many ways he was easily as talented as the rest of the artists on Sun. For Perkins, it was bad luck — a car crash on the way to his Ed Sullivan appearance and that crash seemed to set the tone career-wise for the rest of his life. If Perkins had any bitterness it wasn't apparent. He was one of the friendliest and nicest people I've ever met.
PSB: When did you first start playing?
Perkins: I started playing back about as far as I can remember. I was about 5 or 6 years old when I got my first guitar. Of course, I liked country music. I grew up on a cotton plantation in West Tennessee . But I also liked the black blues and I liked the southern gospel spiritual music. So, what I did was try to play country music with a black man's rhythm and it came out as rockabilly music. But I loved guitars all my life. Ever since I can remember, I wanted me as guitar as a little kid, and finally got me a little cheap one and I just lived with it in my arms. I loved it.
Can you talk a little about Memphis and the scene around Sun studios? I saw a picture of you and Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis and Johnny Cash standin' around a piano.
It was a great era, it was a great time. There was no jealousy at Sun record company between say Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Charlie Rich and myself. We were all poor boys. By poor I mean, poor! We didn't have nothin' you know and everybody was really wantin' everybody else to do good and there was no jealousy. When one recorded it was nothin' to look around and see Johnny Cash or Charlie Rich sittin' in the studio wishin' you well. It was that type of thing. It was one of the greatest labels, greatest atmosphere at 706 Union Avenue . It was a very small place, but there was a lot of devotion to what we were doing, individually plus collectively. Everybody was for Sun Record Company. It was kind a little tight package down there for a couple of years.
Was there ever any jamming?
Oh yeah. That was done quite a bit. In fact, you mention this picture of Elvis, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee and myself. There has now in the last year surfaced an hour and fifteen minutes tape of us singing and picking together. It's in court in Tennessee right now as to who actually owns that piece of tape. This happened at a session of mine. The session that I recorded "Matchbox" and "Your True Love." And my lawyers think because I paid for it that it might be mine. Of course some other people, Shelby Singleton who bought the Sun tapes feel like it's his. So I don't really know. I do know that this album will be out pretty soon. I've got a copy of it and it's not that bad at all. It's better quality than I ever thought it was. I really didn't know, or did any of the guys know that it was being recorded. But it's a strange thing, an hour and fifteen minutes and there's not a dirty word on it. But it's a jammin, talkin' stompin' songs, that say "Hey man, let's do it this way." But it's Elvis as I have really never heard Elvis on record. He's happy. You can hear the dialogue in between the songs. We talk about different things. But it's a great collectors item. My guitar playing is horrible on it 'cause we were playing songs I never heard or songs I that I'd never tried to play. But that's beside the point. It does exist. It will be out. I'd say sometime early next year.
What were the early rock and roll tours like?
They were very exciting. The music was new, the kids were just eatin' it up. They were claiming it as their own music. But I really think when the kids were comin' to the sock hops and to the rock and roll shows, I really sincerely believe that mom and dad was home tryin' to learn how to jitterbug to those same records. I never really thought that the kids were buyin' all of those millions of records back then and I think time has proven that the older folks like it too. They just kind of rebelled against it a little bit because they first said it was bad music, they said it would entice our teenagers wrong, but it really wasn't. It was music that made you feel good. They danced to it and I think time has proven that it was worth recording because it's still around and never did leave.
You had considerable influence on The Beatles. They did quite a few covers of your songs. Did you ever meet them?
Yeah I did. I met the Beatles in '63 just prior to them comin' to America . In fact, they invited me to the recording session that they recorded three of my songs that night. I was settin' in the studio when they recorded it. In fact, I wasn't playin' on any of the things that was released, but we did jam around and play a lot in the studio that night. Of course, I didn't know, but they knew all of my old songs. I must say I was very impressed with The Beatles before America really knew about The Beatles. I was surprised that they did as well as they did, but not entirely surprised. I knew they were very talented guys, individually and as a group too. Paul McCartney and John Lennon, no question, history has to say they were the couple of best songwriters that ever came down the pike. I think songs like "Yesterday" and "Michelle" are masterpieces among many. Those two happen to be my favorite Beatles songs, plus I like the way they did "Matchbox," "Honey Don't" and "Everybody's Tryin' To Be My Baby."
Then you were part of the Johnny Cash Show for a while and when you were with him you wrote one of his biggest hits, "Daddy Sang Bass." What was touring with Johnny Cash like?
Well, it was a great experience. I did work with Cash for ten years. Johnny Cash and I back in the early days at Sun, I'd say was probably, we were the best of buddies there. I think I was closer to say, John, than I was Elvis, or Jerry Lee, Charlie Rich and the boys. Johnny Cash and I, and my background kind of was paralleled. He grew up the son of a sharecropper, picked that cotton in the fields. The Mississippi River divided us but our lives were so much alike that when I got to know John in '55 I really liked the dude. He was real quiet, but he would talk if he was talked to and I like that kind of man. I like everybody at Sun. But probably, no question, Johnny Cash and I even back then were the best of friends and it kind of came by accident that I stayed with him for 10 years. I had a shotgun accident. I almost blew my left foot away and John came by to see in my home in Jackson , Tennessee and I'd been settin' around the cast for four or five weeks, and I was kind of irritable. I'd broken a few crutches against the wall and he said, "Man, come go with me. I'm goin' to Chattanooga , Tennessee and Atlanta , Georgia , we'll come back through here and I'll bring you home." So I thought about it a few minutes and said all right, I'll go. So with my crutches and my cast, I climbed on Johnny Cash's bus. He called me out on the stage which I told him not to do, but that's John, he introduced me and I did a couple of songs, standin' out there with the cast on. On the way back from Atlanta after the second day, he asked me would I join his show. He said, "I'd love to have you man." So that I did and it lasted ten years. And it was ten great years. I played before literally millions of people that I wouldn't have gotten a chance to play before plus I was in the company of what I consider one of the greatest men in the music business. Johnny Cash is a humanitarian, a very charitable man. He's concerned about the poor, the down-trodded people of this country and does a lot more than is printed. He's a fine dude. We need a lot more like him. I love the man, I really do.
Could you talk about why so many of the original Sun artists seem to wind up recording in Nashville and do you think the Memphis sound has had an effect on the Nashville sound and vice versa?
I think one of the main reasons that the Memphis boys left the Sun stable was because of better contracts, better deals. We started there, we loved it and it was the first place we recorded, but bigger labels paid better money. So, all of the big labels recorded in Nashville , Tennessee and that's why everybody wound up recording there. But yeah, I think the Memphis sound definitely has eased into Nashville and vice versa.
On your new record you get back to both sounds. It's definitely back to straight-ahead rock and roll than some of the stuff you put on Columbia .
I appreciate you noticing that, I do, because that's what I want to be, that's what I've always been. I was recorded, I always felt on a lot of labels who really didn't know what to do, or how to record me. I think now, with Felton Jarvis producing me, Felton knows my limitations or my capabilities and I think the combination if I'm ever gonna sell any records again, I think it's gonna have to be Carl Perkins with his guitar and his rockabilly beat. And I couldn't be happier about it because I'm gettin' to do what I wanna do now and the deal I have with Jet Records is I make the albums and send 'em the tapes. They don't take from or add to. An artist couldn't ask for a better deal than that 'cause it gives me a chance to write my songs and do what I want to do. That's what I'm gonna do in the future. It's gonna be rockabilly music.
There seems to be a great resurgence of interest in that at the moment.
This is the last night of a five-and-a-half-weeks tour for me. This tour started in San Francisco , California the 21st of last month and I've been to Palo Alto , Los Angeles , Atlanta , Cleveland , Detroit , Washington , New York and now Philadelphia . I have noticed in all of the cites a definite feel, not only from the audiences that I've played to, but from just talking to people, d.j.'s in all of these cities, everybody's sayin' that this kind of music is gettin' played again and it's being recorded again more simple. Because as I said earlier it really has never left. They dressed it up a lot in the last ten years, put a lot of sounds on it, but the beat's always basically been there and I think maybe it's simplifying itself back to the point where if a young man wants to get in the business, he don't have to fifty-thousand dollars worth of electrical switches and amplifiers to be able to play like Carl Perkins. I hope that maybe it will simplify itself. It will be good for the business because more kids will want to learn how to play because if he wants to buy him a little simple guitar, he can definitely learn how to play as good as I play. And I don't think it's been hardly fair for him to try and duplicate what he's heard on some of the records when the cat that put it on the record couldn't do it if he didn't have twenty-five-thousand dollars worth of electronics. So maybe it's simplifying itself back to the basics. I hope it is. Maybe if for no other reason than it will help our business. There's not question that there's gonna be some youngsters come on who say I can learn to do that too, and that's good.
Have you heard this local group around here called George Thorogood & The Destroyers?
I have and they play the old basic rock and roll. That says it is easing back a little bit. I see it happening all over the country. It's very very big in England , it's big in Europe all over. I just was over there back in April and I was there for two months and I was all over Sweden , Norway , crowd's tremendous, reception just couldn't have been better, and it's happenin' in America . I really feel it may be easing back and I hope so.
On your new record you do a lot of covers and new versions of your hits and now that it seems you have a good recording deal, do you plan to take it from here and get into your own stuff?
Oh yes. Before I left on this tour, I cut a new album. This is album will be released in England next month and there's six brand new songs on there, and there's three songs that Elvis Presley would have done had he lived. Felton Jarvis was holdin' 'em for Elvis and gave 'em to me and theyre three really great songs. A couple of 'em are really good rockers and one of 'em is a thing called "Miss Misunderstood" that I'll do it tonight on the show.
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An interview with filmmaker Bob Sarles – Sweet Blues: A Film About Michael Bloomfield,
Andrea Orlandi from Zeppelinfeld to the photo for 'I Contain Multitudes'
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Interview with Professor Longhair (June 10th 1979)
September 5, 2013at5:33 pm
Great interview. Carl Perkins has always been an under-appreciated talent, but he had that thing that Elvis had and that Jerry Lee has.
And I don't know what to call it – a personification of the rock and roll ethos, maybe? Whatever – Peter is far too good an interviewer to have floated a pretentious phrase like that in front of Carl Perkins. And you can tell from the responses to Peter's questions that he knew he was engaged with an interviewer who knew the music and the world from which it sprang.
A Journey to England: CP Lee and the Dylanologists
Peter's eulogy for his friend Steve Brown
Ginsberg on Idiot Wind
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By Jonathan Teo December 26, 2012 December 26, 2012
For the second year in a row, City Harvest Children's Church organizes the Bag Of Love project to bless less fortunate children.
By Jonathan Teo
Carol Loi (center) with Gillian (left) and Nicole. PHOTO COURTESY OF ALBERT SOH.
What can a bag do? When filled with gifts, it can put a smile on a child's face this Christmas.
"We started with the Box Of Love last year," explained Glordia Goh, a pastor of City Harvest Children's Church. "We wanted to provide our church members an opportunity to bless the less privileged members of their church family."
The beneficiaries of the bags are needy children from Children's Church and the JAMs Church members, who are intellectually-disadvantaged.
Box Of Love turned out to be so successful that the CHCC team decided they would do it again, this time with Bag Of Love. In this campaign which ended on Dec. 16, members were encouraged to adopt one or more bags and to fill them with brand new items—school supplies, story books, toys, food items—to be presented to the beneficiaries. The target for this year's campaign was 1,100 bags.
City News spoke with four different groups of givers to find out what is in their Bag Of Love.
Teaching A Lesson On Giving
Civil servant Carol Loi, 41, with her two daughters, Nicole, 10, and Gillian, 7, adopted two Bags Of Love.
Loi used this project as a learning point for her daughters. "They had to make decisions based on what a person with special needs will need, instead of what they want; and they also needed to learn to work within a budget," she explained. "It is part of the season of spreading love."
Gillian's bag contained a pack of Mega Bubbles, star stamps, and a set of Faber Castell art materials (color pencils, markers, glue, erasers, connector pens, a drawing block).
Nicole's bag contained star stamps, a set of Faber Castell art materials (color pencils, markers, glue, erasers, connector pens, a drawing block), stickers and a color pad.
Leow Huimei (left) and Andre Jusuf. CN PHOTO: Daniel Poh.
Newly engaged couple, Leow Huimei, 27, a student and Andre Jusuf, 26, a project manager, filled Bags Of Love. For them, giving was about sharing the joy of Christmas, especially with the children in Children's Church.
"God has been good to us; the least we could do is to share this joy of Christmas, the season of giving. There is much joy by just imagining the smiles of happiness when the children receive the bags," said the couple.
Leow and Jusuf both bought a range of stationery such as files, color pencils, notebooks and pencils. Simple though these are, the couple hopes that the items would be significant and meaningful to the children. The colorful stationery is meant to motivate the children to do their schoolwork.
The couple explained that they included notebooks to encourage the children to write down their weekly sermon notes and revelations. Leow and Jusuf were personally impacted by the My In-flections journal given by the church last year, and have been using it to record their own revelations. Journaling, they said, would help the children to become strong Christians.
The members of E402. CN PHOTO: Daniel Poh.
E402, a cell group of 20 youths, packed 20 small goodie packs into two Bags Of Love. Since it is a season of giving and sharing, the group put 10 goodie packs into one bag so that the child who receives the bag can share his or her gift with nine other friends. "It's to pass on the love they receive to others," they said.
The leader of the group, 27-year-old quality officer Jasmine Kon, felt that the project was "significant for the members of the group; not only were we contributing to the needy, we were doing it together. Every member contributed by helping to buy and pack the items into a goodie pack."
Each goodie bag consisted of pencils, a sharpener, jelly pops, lollipop, a packet of Oreo cookies, hair bands and hair clips.
Rachel Tan. PHOTO COURTESY OF RACHEL TAN.
Educational therapist Rachel Tan, 25, prepared her gifts by giving careful thought to what a student might need in school.
Tan decided to take part in the Bag Of Love project because she felt that it was a meaningful cause. "I didn't have much when I was a kid and I came from a middle income family; so I cannot imagine how much more a needy child will need. I think to be able to contribute to the life of a child is a brilliant idea, so I took a bag," she said.
Her bag was filled with stationery such as an exercise book, color pencils and a sketchbook. There was also a Thea Stilton storybook, a golden hairband, a purple file, Snap playing cards and a Bible. However, all work and no play makes for a dull child, so Tan added two soft toys into the bag. "Every kid ought to have a toy," she noted.
Tan also packed in S$10 Popular vouchers and S$2 Mr Bean vouchers "so that the child can enjoy little luxuries in life"; and an Oral B toothbrush because "a needy child might use the same toothbrush for a prolonged period of time."
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The Rio is a local vintage favorite for watching indie flicks, documentaries and even the occasional mainstream film. Its fitting location in charming and historic Downtown Overland Park makes for a perfect date night.
For showtimes please visit the single-screen theatre's website.


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Here are the 10 best-selling games of 2015 in the US
Physical sales stable.
Matt Maguire
18 January 2016, 11:36 am
Matt is a former editor of Gameplanet.
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Call of Duty: Black Ops III was the best-selling physical release of 2015 in North America, says market research firm NPD.
That marks the seventh year in a row that Call of Duty has been the number one selling franchise in North America according to NPD, and the franchise has now surpassed 250 million sold worldwide.
Interestingly, Assassin's Creed and Need For Speed both failed to break the top 10, shown below:
1.	Call of Duty: Black Ops III (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
2.	Madden NFL 16 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
3.	Fallout 4 (PS4, Xbox One, PC)
4.	Star Wars: Battlefront (Xbox One, PS4, PC)
5.	Grand Theft Auto V (PS4, Xbox One) 360, PS3, PC)
6.	NBA 2K16 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
7.	Minecraft (360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4)
8.	FIFA 16 (PS4, Xbox One, 360, PS3)
9.	Mortal Kombat X (PS4, Xbox One)
10.	Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3, PC)
Sales of physical copies of games were very similar to those of 2014, said the NPD, seeing a decrease of less than 1 per cent (and that includes PC games) to US$13.3b.
Accessory spending rose 12 percent on 2014's figure, but console and portable sales were down four percent.
Meanwhile, after 26 months on the market, the combined cumulative sales of the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 are 47 percent higher than those of the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 at the same time in their life cycle.
Sales of last-gen console games were down 47 percent on 2014's figure.


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Ford opens Bangkok community centre
Ford Motor Company Fund, the philanthropic arm of Ford Motor Company, in Bangkok announced plans for a new Ford Resource and Engagement Centre (FREC), which will serve as the new home for some of the city's most innovative, environmentally conscious NGOs.
The Bangkok centre is a partnership between the Ford Fund and several NGOs, aimed at investing in and bringing new resources to Bangkok's historic Nang Loeng neighbourhood. Ford Fund hosted a kick-off event that brought NGO partners residents together to preview the facility and learn more about plans for the new community centre.
"Our mission at the Ford Fund is to strengthen communities and help make people's lives better, and that's exactly what our Ford Resource and Engagement Centres are designed to do," said Mike Schmidt, director of the Ford Motor Company Fund. "Around the world, each of our FRECs provide access to resources and services that reflect the needs and culture of the surrounding community. We have excellent partners at FREC Bangkok, and we look forward to working together to bring new programmes and opportunities to the residents in this community."
Ford Resource and Engagement Centers are an innovation from the Ford Motor Company Fund that bring non-profit partners together in a collaborative environment to support the surrounding community and help make people's lives better. The newest center complements two that already exist in Detroit, in the US; and one in South Africa (2017) as well as one in Craiova, Romania (2018).
FREC Bangkok is modeled after the original Center that opened in 2013 in Detroit, which has become an anchor in the vibrant community, assisting more than 85,000 people with food distribution, tax return preparation, education and job initiatives and legal assistance.
"Ford strives to build strong relationships and support communities where we operate, and FREC will takes Ford's community outreach in Thailand to a new level," said Wichit Wongwatthanakan, managing director of Ford Thailand. "FREC Bangkok will foster meaningful relationships between Ford and residents of the community, delivering mutual and tangible benefits."
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In 2016, Tyson Foods had a score of 30 on Corporate Equality Index (CEI), a national benchmarking survey and report on corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The commitment of Tyson Foods to inclusion and diversity created an interest in making sure our policies, practices and procedures were open to all. Through extensive review, we looked for opportunities to make our benefits policies, marketing strategies and community commitments more inclusive. After working with our business partners, we revamped our strategy.
In addition, our Pride Network (the Business Resource Group that focuses on LGBTQ inclusion) has increased efforts on a larger scale. The group has participated in Pride events in Springdale and Chicago. The BRG has also supported hiring people who identify as LGBTQ through support of Northwestern's Kellogg Ally Week and the Reaching Out MBA Conference. The BRG has sponsored the Cultivating Change summit for the last two years.
Because of our efforts, Tyson Foods received a perfect score of 100 on the CEI in 2017 and 2018.
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Henning: In big twist, Tigers go for big bats — and a better baseball rebuild
Lynn Henning
Ah yes, a question from the audience. Can someone get her a mike, please?
(Voice clearing:) "Has there ever been a team that didn't like its draft? And if the answer is no, then why should those who follow the Tigers believe 2020 is any different from any other year?"
This would have been Thursday night's most honest, most penetrating, most dead-accurate inquiry a Tigers follower might have asked as Major League Baseball finished up its five-round, Reader's Digest version of the 2020 big-league draft.
And the answer to the audience member's query, is no. No team in the history of civilized sports has ever been publicly disappointed, deflated, or, even stoic about the talent it took in a particular year's talent show.
Every team has had a good draft. A pleasing draft. A satisfying draft. That is, if said team hadn't already used the word "exciting" and "excited" a hundred or so times in assessing the players it just selected in a bid to improve its fortunes, stave off firings, and please fans who tend to want either championship parades or a front-office scalp.
Here might have been the difference Thursday for the Tigers.
They made choices they not only were delighted to make, they made picks that hardcore fans who pay attention to drafts and to personnel thought made sense. You could see as much on social media, where a team like the Tigers is typically bent, folded, spindled and mutilated following a particular year's draft.
But not this year. Folks generally liked the picks. At least the big ones, the typical difference-makers, from the draft's earliest rounds.
The Tigers began Wednesday night with a possible world-class trophy in Spencer Torkelson. He, quite conceivably, could be on the hitting side what Justin Verlander was on the pitching end the last time the Tigers forged a contender.
They followed up Thursday with the night's first turn — and no one outside of the Tigers' draft headquarters knew where this was going.
They went for power and for a catcher in Dillon Dingler of Ohio State. Dingler is a bit of a risk in that scouts hadn't seen a great deal of him in his three seasons at Columbus. He got hurt last year and couldn't play summer ball, which makes it tough to showcase skills when the Buckeyes play baseball in Ohio and often must decide whether to practice baseball or toboggan.
Toss in a pandemic that shut down 2020's baseball spring, and scouts were scrambling to sift notes and scope video on prospects everywhere, particularly from the short-season Midwest.
The difference, it seemed, in taking Dingler is that the Tigers haven't exactly been Kenny Rogers when it comes to gambling. Drafting is often a risk-reward business and the Tigers have so many times tended to be poker players who played not to lose.
Their farm system has as a result been subdued, with pitching – the more dependable investment — leaving them rich in arms and with few bats.
This year was going to be different. With a first overall pick and with a chance to draft an impact bat, and with a hitter of Torkelson's talent worthy of snagging at the top, the Tigers got a probable lineup centerpiece they can pair with last year's first-round grab, Riley Greene.
It's what happened Thursday, the night after Torkelson was hauled in, that made the 2020 draft so intriguing, at least from Detroit's perspective.
The Tigers had looked ahead of Thursday's opening bell as if they might go for a solid, line-drive-hitting outfielder from Louisiana State named Daniel Cabrera with the draft's 38th overall pick.
They instead opted for Dingler. Most students of the Tigers draft would have seen the strategy here. Go for power. Find your outfielder elsewhere.
What wasn't exactly in the cards is that Cabrera, a left-handed stick who smacks line drives rather than drives pitches into the seats, was still there when the Tigers took their next turn, at 63, overall.
They waited 10 more turns before wrapping up a possible Thursday night hat trick. The Tigers, who need help everywhere but at batboy, are particularly light on shortstops. They might have gotten a boost, if not a steal, in swooping up Trei Cruz, a 6-foot-2, switch-hitter from Rice University whose father and grandfather played years of big-league ball.
Next, in a move that probably had Torkelson dancing, the Tigers decided to take a shot with Gage Workman, who, ironically, was so good at third base at Arizona State he helped push Torkelson to first. At least until the Tigers drafted Torkelson and decided he is shifting to third. Don't try and keep any of this straight.
But do tap the calculator and note those numbers:
Four draft turns in the first 73 and five in the first 101 netted five college position players. Five bats. Five players with enough big-stage spurs to believe some flesh, and some battle blood, might have been pumped into a farm system otherwise flush in good young arms.
For toppers, the Tigers took a Mississippi prep star, and a good one, Colt Keith. He has a slick left-handed bat and an arm so strong the Tigers had to decide if Keith was going to pitch or hit for him. They'll take the bat, which probably is what Tracy Smith would like to take to the Tigers. Smith is head coach at Arizona State, Torkelson's and Workman's alma mater, and the school Keith was headed until the Tigers pulled their Thursday raid.
This is one of those upside picks, nabbing Keith, and a brand of down-the-road investing the Tigers haven't often been able to pull off — not with hitters of this vintage.
"We got a little lucky," said Scott Pleis, who heads amateur scouting for the Tigers, explaining that "those players have got to get to you."
True enough. You take what you can get in a draft — what's not been picked over. But there was too much focus on hitting, on power, on left-handed bats — or switch-hitters — not to have detected a clear Tigers mission from 2020. It was a blueprint the team was expected to follow.
The shortage of hitters in Detroit's system and in the Tigers' rebuild was obvious to anyone.
"I'm happy we got these hitters, for sure," Pleis said, and then he mentioned that "pitching really didn't fall right. It would have been hard for us to get the really, really top talent that way.
"It all sort of worked out."
That's the thought from afar.
These are picks that, at the very least, help a virus-weary, playoff-deprived, beaten-down baseball town believe with some credence that baseball in Detroit has a chance to get better. And relatively soon, at least once coronavirus has slipped into the world's unhappiest annals.
Yes, of course: It's absurd to believe all of the above will make it. Some, or even most, probably won't. Not when baseball is the cruelest of all sports in granting big-league passes to minor-league dreamers.
But this draft as Thursday evening evolved had about it a different feel, a wholly distinct composition.
Remember this: The 1984 Tigers were built primarily on one big draft: 1976, which, not coincidentally, followed a brutal 1975 season that set up Detroit with the first picks in each round. They got Alan Trammell, Jack Morris, and Dan Petry in that '76 draft. They even went for another shortstop, a kid named Ozzie Smith, who didn't sign and who later set up shop with the Cardinals and who now has a plaque in Cooperstown.
You can't with any sense of reason, with any understanding of baseball's discriminating ways, say the Tigers built a winner with a few rounds of player-picking in 2020.
But you can say with more assurance that probably has been mustered in many a year that this group looks different. Now, it's up to the kids to play differently.
Lynn Henning is a freelance writer and former Detroit News sports reporter.
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Contributed a series of art murals at the walking and cycling route near Teck Ghee Community Centre. It was a great honor to Introduce those design meaning to Mr. Lee Hsien Loong-Prime Minister to Singapore at the celebration day, and done the final touch paint with him together!
Alice's height changed after she drank the bottle water.
The height represents the way we see things. And the way we see things affects our thoughts and actions.
For example, arrogance happens because an individual think that his or her way of seeing thing is superior to everyone else. On the other hand, lack of self- confidence happens because an individual lacks belief in the way he/she sees things. Both these spectrums lead to unhappy relationships in the long run.
What these arts promote are how we get true happiness. This is possible when we strive for a universal 'height'. These universal heights are associated with these 9 ingredients in the bottle. The ingredient starts with Love first which lays a foundation for the rest. The 9 ingredients are associated with each other too: for example, it is impossible to have kindness without a peace mind.
We love each other and all creatures. We are neither masters nor slaves in this planet. Our place in this world is temporary.
As a designer, it is very common to be 'limited' by our experience. our own thoughts and existing conditions can narrow the way we see things.
Sometimes we might feel like a kite in a bottle. Let's find a new way out to a bigger sky outside the bottle.
By putting stones in and getting water out demonstrate the importance of having an open mind, thinking out of box and being creative. , These may lead us to find more answers.
Every life is a magic!
I was deeply touched the moment I held my daughter in my arms after giving birth. It was a miracle! Although I knew she came from my body, but I knew I am not the one who created her.
I can design, I can draw and so I make created things. But I cannot create a life. Only the creator creates life and this is the miracle.
Our life starts with a miracle. So let the miracle continues. This bottle is part of the story, to make our journey more interesting.
2015 Singapore URA (Urban Redevelopment Authority) My Ideal for Public Space Competition: Forgotten Spaces. Merit Award.
Transform the image of an ordinary countryside factory located at Yan-Cheng China, into a world-class high-tech manufacturer that promotes clean energy for environmental protection.
Create awareness to the global warming issue and embrace environmental protection through clean energy.
Showcase various types of glass products; combining function and flexibility with design.
Elevate company image to High-Tech Enterprise with social responsibility.
Ideas of light, speed and space are presented to visitors upon entering the solar glass manufacturing company. Rays of light are portrayed as long horizontal beans on the entrance wall directing visitors to the reception area. These "Ray Beams" served as display shelves for company products and are found in the showroom too.
A comfortable experience shall be felt by visitors in the reception lounge as they gather around for discussion. Inspired by the ancient Chinese spirit of welcoming and engaging them in a dialogue around a campfire. The pattern of cross stripes on the ceiling, coffee table and carpet are abstract images of the firewoods. The pair of red chairs reflect the warm of the fire and warmth of the host towards the visitors, and the LED lighted shelves at the bar area provide a relaxed backdrop.
Glazing from the reception area across the showroom gives one a specular view of islands mimicking the melting ice at North and South poles. These also convey the message of global warming and environment issues. Each island is arranged to reflect an iceberg cluster impression which allows glass sheets to display.
The open visual concept of the showroom allows visitors to see the two laboratories and CASS room through large glass windows. Different test areas are divided by vertical glass signage from afar. Anti-static raised floors in the laboratories are safety features for equipment protection and waste water collection. The featured wall depicts the company high standard, knowledge and technology in fiberglass manufacturing process.
A custom and unique design that greatly helped the customer is the Heat Testing Island for the Low-Emissivity glass. It has a mobile trolley storage for glasses that allows visitors to view the glass samples anywhere away from the main testing location.
Designing a world-class restroom facility not only improve the user experience but convey the message that the company is customer oriented. Meticulous detail like the glass stripe along the restroom door will light up to inform an "occupied" signal to someone on the outside.
TWG supported design team with their professional knowledge of glass products.
Preset factory space would not fulfill all equipment and products need. The contractor's workers in the countryside not exposed to high-end design and material. Hence, more efforts required for supervision and inspection despite the four hours drive from Shanghai.
But all effort pays off with clients satisfaction and knowing the contribution will help the critical environment issue we all facing now.
Aroma fairies flowing out from ovens.
Leave their cheerful paths in this jewels-like bakery.
An IT department new established in New Jersey. Morgan Stanley was looking for a brisk design and color scheme for their long hour IT workers. After countless rejections. I take over this project and impressed the chief manager with this fresh design and color pallete.


Normal urine smell isn't strong. Strong or four smell of urine may be caused by certain medicines or something you've eaten, but it may also be caused by a health issue, such as a UTI. If food or medicines are causing your urine to smell, than it isn't a problem. But if strong or foul urine odor is accompanied by other symptoms, you should see your doctor.
Below, we list a few possible causes of urine odor, ways to reduce it, and symptoms that indicate you need medical help.
One particular food which may cause urine odor is asparagus. Other food culprits include garlic, onion, leafy vegetables, and coffee. Consuming high doses of vitamin B6 (more than 10 mg daily) may also lead to strong-smelling urine.
Dehydration is the most common cause of strong-smelling urine, and it also causes urine to have a darker color. You can fix it by drinking more water throughout the day unless you are severely dehydrated.
Severe dehydration can cause mental confusion, weakness, and fatigue, among other symptoms. It's a medical emergency and should be treated promptly.
Bladder infection can cause foul-smelling urine, burning sensation when urinating, and having to urinate more often. If you have these symptoms, contact your doctor. Untreated bladder infection can progress into kidney infection, which is more serious and harder to treat.
People with undiagnosed and untreated diabetes experience dramatic fluctuations of blood sugar levels. High blood sugar can cause urine to have a sweet odor and it can also cause you to urinate more often. See your doctor as soon as you can if you suspect you may have diabetes.
Strong or foul urine odor may indicate liver disease. Other signs and symptoms to watch out for include nausea and vomiting, abdominal pain, yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes, weakness, bloating, and weight loss. If you have these symptoms, see your doctor as soon as possible, as untreated liver disease can lead to liver failure, which is life-threatening.
certain STDs, such as trichomoniasis.
Strong or foul urine smell isn't a problem in itself, but if it's accompanied by other symptoms, you should see a doctor.
If you've developed a strong or foul urine smell after starting a new medicine, be sure to tell your doctor about it.
If you have a UTI, drinking cranberry juice may help you recover faster. Remember, cranberry juice is a complementary remedy, not a substitute for conventional treatment with antibiotics. Cranberry juice is not recommended if you've recently passed a kidney stone or if you are on blood-thinners.


Overview: The Cajun Squirrel dog was developed to hunt squirrels and raccoons. They make a good companion as well as a hunting dog.
Coat: The coat is medium length with a soft under coat.
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Training: The Cajun Squirrel dog does best with gentle, consistent training.
Activity: The Cajun Squirrel dog needs regular exercise in a small yard or on walks. They should always be walked on a leash.


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You can take Alta coffee anywhere!
A blurb from a poem called "Ways to Take Your Coffee" by Leath Tonino made me think of when Max Spooner, Patti Spooner's son, went camping in the Eastern Sierras and, of course, brought some Alta Organic Coffee with him.
We received this sweet email from one of our Slowcoast coffee fans. Thank you for writing to us and telling us what you love about Alta Organic Coffee's Slowcoast blend.
If you've ventured into our shop to peruse our selection of beans, you may have noticed some of the varietals are labeled "bird-friendly". This often raises a question with customers -- how can the coffee help birds, and how is it different from organic? It all has to do with the style of farming.
Here at Alta, we sell shade-grown coffee, a method using agroforestry that keeps a diverse array of plant and tree species growing amongst the coffee plants. This approach is drastically different to full-sun coffee, which clears acres of land and destroys natural habitats.
Every year, approximately 120 different species of migratory birds head south from North America to a milder winter in the tropics. Countries such as Guatemala, our featured coffee for this month, are part of the Mesoamerican Biological Bird Corridor. This area provides shelter and food for 10% of birds across the globe. Species like the Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, Magnolia Warbler and Chimney Swift all make the journey each year. Many of these birds we consider to be native to North America, when in reality they spend more of their time each year in Central America. This is why maintaining their tropical habitat is so important.
To be certified bird-friendly, farms must first be certified organic, as pesticides are very harmful to birds. They must also "meet bird-friendly standards that include a 40% canopy cover, and a certain number of tree species and shrub density in their crops", as the Smithsonian requires.
Next time you drink Alta Organic Coffee, you can feel good about your choice to promote sustainable coffee farming and help save thousands of birds from habitat destruction!


To measure the axial and/or superficial dimensional shrinkage of concrete specimens during hardening process in a curing room.
The specimen is prepared by a mould having dimensions 100x100x500 mm, with aggregates up to 30 mm max. diameter, and after housed in the measuring apparatus that determines the axial shrinkage.
The UNI 11307 requires reference pins to be sticked on the specimen.
The UNI 6555 requires inserts fixed into the mould and let into the specimen.


Nature's Classroom now a DonorsChoose.org project!
We're very excited that our Grade 5's trip this spring to Nature's Classroom has been selected as a project by DonorsChoose.org. Please share this campaign far and wide and consider donating! Click here to support this amazing opportunity. Thank you for your generosity!
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Stock Market Today: Stocks End Mixed After Data Dump
Investors had plenty to think about ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday, chewing through a huge helping of economic data.
Kicking things off were weekly jobless claims – released a day early due to tomorrow's holiday – which plunged to 199,000 in the week ended Nov. 20, well below last week's 270,000 and economists' forecast for 260,000 claims. What's more, this was the lowest level for initial unemployment applications since 1969.
Also in focus were October's personal income and spending data, which came in above estimates (up 0.5% and 1.3%, respectively, from September), and an upwardly revised reading on third-quarter gross domestic product (to 2.1% versus an initial estimate of 2.0%).
However, it wasn't all roses. The University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index arrived at its lowest level in 10 years in November and the core personal consumption expenditures (PCE) index – a key inflation measure used by the Federal Reserve – rose 4.1% year-over-year in October, the quickest annual pace since 1991.
Plus, the release of the minutes from the latest Fed meeting showed several members of the committee said the central bank "should be prepared to adjust the pace of asset purchases" and/or raise interest rates sooner than anticipated if inflation continues to run hot.
"In terms of the Fed's economic outlook, it's clear that inflation has accelerated more than anyone expected it to, and the breadth of rising prices has increased substantially," writes Bob Miller, BlackRock's Head of Americas Fundamental Fixed Income.
"While the bar for an acceleration in the tapering of asset purchases is high, it is not insurmountable and looks reasonably likely to be cleared should we see another solid payroll report and inflation data release in December," he adds. "Accelerating the asset purchase tapering would potentially end purchases in March 2022 and would then open the door for the Committee to consider lift off from the zero policy rate sometime in the second quarter of the year."
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At the close, the S&P 500 Index was up 0.2% at 4,701 and the Nasdaq Composite had gained 0.4% at 15,845. The Dow Jones Industrial Average wasn't as resilient, falling 0.03% to 35,804.
As a reminder, the U.S. stock market will be closed tomorrow for Thanksgiving and trading will end early on Black Friday.
Other news in the stock market today:
The small-cap Russell 2000 gained 0.2% to 2,331.
U.S. crude futures slipped 0.1% to end at $78.39 per barrel.
Gold futures eked out a marginal gain to settle at $1,784.30 an ounce.
Bitcoin retreated 0.7% to $57,453.50. (Bitcoin trades 24 hours a day; prices reported here are as of 4 p.m. each trading day.)
Gap (GPS) took it in the chin after earnings, with shares sliding 24.1%. In its third quarter, the clothing retailer reported adjusted earnings of 27 cents per share on $3.94 billion in revenue, well below the 50 cents a share and $4.43 billion in sales analysts were expecting. GPS also lowered its full-year forecast, citing rising freight costs and supply-chain disruptions due to factory closures in Vietnam. "In the third quarter, the Athleta and Gap brands continued to be the bright spots for GPS, as the brands have grown 48% and 8%, respectfully, compared to fiscal 2020," says CFRA Research analyst Zachary Warring, who maintained his Hold rating on the stock while lowering his price target by $8 to $22. "The company reiterated its plan to open between 30 and 40 Old Navy stores and 20-30 Athleta stores in 2021 while closing 75 Gap and Banana Republic stores. We need to see how sales and margins hold up in fiscal 2023 to get more bullish on shares of GPS."
Supply-chain issues were also a noted in Nordstrom's (JWN) quarterly update. "While many retailers are dealing with macro-related supply chain disruptions, Rack [the retailer's off-price chain] faces a unique challenge as off-price procurement of the same top brands we carry at Nordstrom is particularly difficult in an environment with production constraints and lower levels of clearance product," said CEO Erik Nordstrom in the earnings call. While Rack contributed to roughly 50% of total sales in 2019, he added, it's only brought in 42% of sales for the year-to-date. Overall, the company reported earnings of 39 cents a share and revenue of $3.6 billion in its third quarter, missing analysts' estimates for earnings of 57 cents per share and revenue of $3.5 billion. The stock plunged 29% today.
The Pricing Power Advantage
Some of the best stocks to buy now are those that are able to navigate higher inflation.
Pricing power should be an important theme for investors when assessing relative returns of stocks, says a group of analysts at global research firm UBS, especially given the current environment of "surging shipping costs, rising raw materials, supply chain issues and accelerating wage growth."
The team has been studying the share performance of companies with pricing power for some time. They found that shares of firms that can raise prices without consumers balking and taking their business elsewhere and that have solid margin momentum tend to outperform those without by around 20%, on average, over 12 months once inflation rises above 3% on an annualized basis.
So, if you're looking for ways to protect your portfolio against rising inflation, consider this list of the stocks with a pricing power advantage, according to UBS. Each of these names has a high-conviction Buy rating from the research firm and ranks in the top third of its sector for pricing power, margin momentum and input cost exposure.
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Marissa Meyer is from Tacoma, Washington which is the same city I live in. I think this pre-programmed me to enjoy Cinder, us Tacoma girls gotta stick together!
Cinder follows the story of a cyborg, named Cinder, in the city of New Beijing where there is a killer virus, evil lunar queen, and a swoony boy who happens to be a prince. See? It has everything you didn't know you wanted to read about until now!
Cinder surprised me with just how positive a heroine she was. She is a cyborg so many citizen in New Beijing are prejudiced against her. The man who adopted her died and left her with a terrible stepmother, and still she is hopeful about the future and willing to help those who treated her terribly. Cinder was selfless and I really liked that about her.
Prince Kai was surprisingly down to Earth for being a prince. When I began this novel I expected him to be shallow and sheltered. Instead he was a prince of the people and I liked that he was willing to do anything to save New Beijing.
The reason I wasn't able to rate Cinder higher was because I wasn't happy with the world building. It wasn't bad it just wasn't detailed enough for me. The society was explained at a superficial level but I never felt anything for it. In order for me to really enjoy a different world I need to care about it and I never found myself truly caring about New Beijing. Since this is a series though I expect more world building in the novels to come.
Overall, Cinder was a fun mix of Cinderella meets Sailor Moon. I liked the premise and will definitely be reading Scarlet soon. I want to know what happens to Cinder, Prince Kai, and what role the Lunar's will play in all of this.
Cinder is now available as an audiobook for your listneing pleasure. You can check out an excerpt below on soundcloud from Macmillian Audio!
This was on my shelf for well over a year before I finally got to it but I'm glad I did!
It only gets better! Each following book I think is my favorite then I read the next one. I can see the lack of world building, there is a lot left to the imagination.


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Set of Php Classes for creating charts and graphs. It supports more than 18 types (linechart, piechart, barchart, radarchart, curves , gauges, 3D charts, Candlestick, areacharts ....) and combinations of them. It supports also database access, automatic scales (dates and logarithmic) and interactive features using image maps (tips and links). You can create charts with minimum programming.


Get the message across with this "ADOPT HAPPINESS" tee! The shirt says it all and comes with a paw-print seal of approval.
The Help MAS group, a private and independent animal welfare group of volunteers, are raising funds through their Adopt Happiness campaign. You can find more about the group on their Facebook page accessible here. The profit proceeds will fund vet care, supplies, TNR and other animal welfare activities.


As the weather gets colder and kids spend more time indoors, finding ways to keep them active and moving can get challenging. But today I've got a new printable that can help! My Christmas Gross Motor Movement Game is a great way to get kids moving and while bringing a bit of fun to your day.
To play, simply print the Christmas Gross Motor Movement Game cards and cut them out. Place one card into each of the six pockets on a differentiated instruction cube. Then have your children take turns rolling the cube and performing the indicated action.
Want a copy of my Christmas Gross Motor Movement Game?


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Blindly Trusting Government Officials
Who do you trust? What is your standard for trusting them? While I'm sure, most of us have trusted people and sources, have you ever taken the time to consider why they are trustworthy? I'm seeing many people place their trust in courts, Presidents, Congress, even...
A Christmas Journey to Peace with Pastor Rick Stevens
by Pastor Rick Stevens
Do you see what I see? Let Christmas inspire your imagination. Do you hear what I hear? Listen for the voice of God in the songs and stories of Christmas. Do you know the truth? Receive the gift of God. Believe in the story of Christmas. For all who will receive, God...
The Joy of Christmas Stems from the Gift of Giving
People regard the Christmas season in many different ways. But the historical progression of the Christmas story has remained essentially unchanged since the third century. What stands out most is the everlasting principle of the goodness of giving from the heart....
It's Christmas 2021, and Jesus Is Still Not a Socialist
by Tom Wiermann
It's that time of year again where we celebrate the giving of gifts, Santa Claus, Covid tests, and mask-wearing at the Christmas dinner table. (Psst Psst… who? Oh yeah!) And the birth of Jesus Christ! How could I forget? As it usually happens when Christian holidays...
Faith over Fear; Your Christmas Gift to YOU
by DrLee4America
Fear has been pervasive in our lives for the last two years, much of it deliberately ramped up by the media as a way of controlling people's lives. Fear and deception are tools of the enemy to sabotage your health, your relationships, and even your faith....
As Soon as the Weary World Rejoices, We Win
How quickly the year has gone by! But it also seemed like an eternity. I'm glad the Christmas season is here, and I must confess I have defied the puppeteer. Our family is gathering in large numbers for an awesome celebration. Just like it's supposed to be. Whoever...
It's Time To Cancel The Race Card
by Rob and Andrew | May 15, 2021 | Lifestyle, Politics
Most credit cards have an expiration date. Unfortunately, the race card used by Democrats does not have an expiration date. Not only is it without an expiration date it doesn't seem to have a cancellation policy either! Canceling the card, that comes loaded with perks and privileges, is one of the hot topics discussed on "After Dark with Rob and Andrew." Bebe Diamond returns to the show with her analysis on the race card, which has caused a great deal of harm and taken many innocent victims as its debtors.
Also, is the left using the COVID-19 vaccination as a weapon to take away civil liberties, and what exactly is behind the surge in violence against Asian Americans? While the liberal media won't expose the truths to these issues, we will expose them here on After Dark.
Treat the Viral Infection, Handle the Pandemic Crisis
by Dr. Peter McCullough | May 11, 2021 | Healthcare, Politics,
Sick COVID-19 patients don't feel better with masks and it's either too late or they have been failed by the vaccination. We need real doctors helping frightened patients in need to get through the crisis. We need to cut through all the fear, panic, hubris, and false narrative and getting to the truth of what is really going on during the pandemic…
Overload the System to Bankrupt America
by Karen Schoen | May 11, 2021 | Education, Politics,
We must use their system and change the outcome. Then we win. What's in your school? According to Michael Cutler, this week's guest, the immigration system is not broken. It is doing exactly what it was designed to do…Overload the system, bankrupt America, feed the immigration attorney's wallet,s and destroy America as a sovereign country…
Liars, Liars, Biden's Policies are on Fire
by Daniel Baranowski | May 10, 2021 | Politics,
Joe Biden's policy positions and his administration's actions regarding unbridled and unvetted mass migration across our Southern border have been nothing short of a "Lie Fest!" The American people haven't received one piece of truthful information from the Biden administration on nearly anything the president and his handlers are up to…
We Are Being Fed Disinformation Through the Weaponization of Current Events
by Dr. Steve LaTulippe | May 10, 2021 | Healthcare, Politics,
Since acting and speaking on false beliefs can lead to severe and dangerous consequences. Because challenging our own long-held beliefs can be personally intimidating and threatening, Steve leads us through a process of evaluating two theories in hopes of revealing why self-introspection can lead us to greater truths, and sometimes even change our thinking…
Woke Communism Infiltrating America
by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris | May 10, 2021 | Media, Politics,
America is still a free nation with laws on the books that protect individuals from abuses by the state. But we should be very disturbed by the emergence of trends that, if left unchecked, would lead to consolidation of centralized power by elites who would abolish the Bill of Rights as the current administration appears to be attempting…
The Global Predators: Truth Over Fear
by Malcolm Out Loud | May 10, 2021 | Media, Politics,
"People use to debate with each other; now they burn things down and attack each other. Violence has replaced reason, and fear has begun to hold us hostage," – Patrick Coffin. Why did Big Tech work together to sabotage and suppress all information on the availability of early treatment with existing medicines? Dr. Peter Breggin, author of the explosive new book Covid-19 and the Global Predators: We Are Their Prey, joins us.
A Warning to America on the Greatest Threats to its Survival
by Malcolm Out Loud | May 9, 2021 | Politics, World
Are America's best days in front of her, or are they behind her? Ambassador Middendorf feels that his most important mission in life now is to warn America about the greatest threats to its survival, and will outline the biggest threats to the United States. Is France on the Brink of Civil War? An open letter, signed by 20 retired generals, a hundred senior officers, and more than a thousand other members of the French military…
How to Teach the Rising Generation
by Paul Engel | May 9, 2021 | Constitution, Education,
John Jay said we should not only read and study the Constitution for ourselves, but we should teach the rising generation to be free. Today I have an interview with Joni Bryan, Founder and Executive Director of the 917 Society. She will explain what the 917 Society is...
Florida 24th Congressional Candidate Lavern Spicer Wants to Give People Hope
Spicer said it seems the only bill her opponent, Wilson has tried to pass in the House is one to allow her to wear her array of hats while Congress is in session. Spicer, who runs a food bank, said if elected, she will be there for the people, create jobs, help the homeless, single mothers, and senior citizens. She said she wants to give people hope and…
The Turmoil of Our Times Cries Out for Unifying Love
by Pastor Rick Stevens | May 9, 2021 | Education, Faith,
How do we solve a moral problem? The turmoil of our times cries out for a solution. When we face a moral problem, we need a moral solution; a solution from God. God has given us a path from division to unity. Let's follow it!
America's Financial Collapse
by Tim Aalders | May 8, 2021 | Economy, Politics
Our economy will end⏤maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but it will end. Are you ready? Most of us are oblivious to the collapsing of our nation but trust me, our enemies are not unaware, and America will lose its world economic status before Biden leaves office....
Legalizing Crime with HR1 and Felon Release
by Ladies of Liberty | May 8, 2021 | Politics
HR1 is the biggest assault on free and fair voting in American History. It is a free pass for fraud to take over American elections. It does nothing for making voting easier; it just makes fraud easier. We must not pass this bill. California, in a complete disregard...
Radical Crazies are Destroying Policing at Your Peril
by Malcolm Out Loud | May 7, 2021 | Law and Order, Politics,
How will cities and states manage law and order in their communities? How will they attract people to the profession that has been trashed by political operatives and the nazi-media? Sgt. Betsy Brantner Smith and Dave Smith are the best-in-class husband and wife team in law enforcement. We will also talk to Lt. Randy Sutton to get his perspective on the state of law enforcement in America…
What Can We Learn From the 2020 Election?
by Paul Engel | May 7, 2021 | Politics,
Not only should we remember what happened in 2020, but if we don't deal with the problems while they are small, they will inevitability grow. Whether these irregularities were sufficient to change the outcome of the election is not the point. How much corruption will the American people tolerate?
Are White Christian Men Being Erased?
by Rob and Andrew | May 7, 2021 | Media, Politics
Although getting canceled seems to be the norm in today's woke culture, what isn't the norm is being canceled by the right. A social media mob attacked the author for speaking the truth and defending herself and her family. Not only has she been canceled, but she and her family have endured death threats and were forced to move…