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Home Blog St. John Neumann parishioner hailed as a first-responder hero
St. John Neumann parishioner hailed as a first-responder hero
Officer Kyle Botica's fast action saves man's life, helps prevent traffic incident from being a tragedy
By Bill Brewer
Sometimes the road less traveled really does make all the difference. Just ask Kyle Botica.
The University of Tennessee Police Department officer has been saluted as a hero for saving a man who collapsed in the emergency lane of Interstate 40 as the fifth-wheel camper trailer he was tending burned out of control.
But to hear him tell it, Officer Botica shouldn't have even been on I-40 driving by the vehicle fire.
The emergency situation unfolded on Oct. 21 as Officer Botica was running errands in West Knoxville on his day off.
As he drove westbound on Kingston Pike, Officer Botica decided on a spur of the moment to take the interstate instead. As he approached the Pellissippi Parkway interchange with I-40 west, he noticed thick black smoke ahead. When he neared the overpass, he could see a large camper being pulled by a truck was on fire.
He immediately pulled in near the rig to lend assistance.
"I didn't see any emergency vehicles in front of me or behind me, so I knew nobody (first responders) had responded yet," said Officer Botica, a corporal who has been with UTPD for eight years. "As I got close I could tell it was the back end of a tow-behind camper trailer that was on fire."
Officer Botica's training quickly kicked in once he saw the smoke.
"I had to stop to make sure no one was hurt and everyone was out of the trailer," he said. "As I approached, one guy was trying to use a fire extinguisher, but it was way too engulfed. I convinced him he needed to get farther away."
The 30-year-old corporal explained that a couple of other people were attempting to separate the pickup truck from the camper trailer while belongings were being pulled from the burning camper. But it was a rapidly deteriorating situation that was increasingly dangerous.
"Fortunately, the men got it unhooked and the owner moved the truck from the trailer," he said.
But that's just when the emergency escalated, and all of Officer Botica's first-responder skills were summoned.
"While we were moving away from the trailer, one of the men in front of me just collapsed. We picked him up and moved him away from the trailer. He was about 20 feet from the trailer when he collapsed," he recalled.
Although contained to the camper trailer, flames from the fi re could be seen lapping upward against the bottom of the overpass. Passersby took video of the incident from their smart phones and shared it on social media.
"Once we moved him to a safer spot, a woman who identified herself as a nurse had stopped to assist, and neither she nor I could find a pulse on the man. So we started CPR. My training kicked in at that point. We get so much training and we must renew our certification every two to three years. When it's ingrained that much, it becomes reflexive," explained Officer Botica, who noted that he worked as a lifeguard as a youth and has maintained his CPR certification, but he never thought he would have to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
He applied chest compressions, and the unidentified nurse used a portable mask to apply oxygen. Officer Botica believed the man suffered a cardiac event after inhaling smoke. He said there was so much of it that many, if not most, of those assisting inhaled smoke from the fi re.
By this time, bystanders who the corporal instructed to call 911 had phoned for help. He and the nurse continued CPR until firefighters and emergency medical services arrived to take over. The Knoxville Police Department, Knoxville Fire Department, and an AMR ambulance responded to the scene.
The camper trailer was a charred husk by the time the Knoxville Fire Department extinguished it. The fire blocked most lanes of I-40 in both directions during the emergency.
"When he (the man who collapsed) left in an ambulance, he had a pulse and made it to the hospital. He did not die at the scene," Officer Botica said.
Officer Botica, who attended Sacred Heart Cathedral School and graduated from Knoxville Catholic High School in 2008, believes his presence at the scene was divine intervention. He has no other explanation for being at that location at that time when his normal route was Kingston Pike.
"That change of route on a whim that put me on I-40 as that fi re was going on was miraculous. You could definitely see God's hand in this. There was no real specific reason for me to change from Kingston Pike to the interstate," he said.
Officer Botica described the scene as "chaotic" when he first arrived. That's when his training—and adrenaline—took over.
"I was in a position where I could help, and the last thing I would ever want was to know I could have done something but I did nothing. And it was the right thing to do," he said, adding that he believes he would have stopped had he not been a police officer but he would not have had the training.
Officer Botica wasn't sure how the man fared after he arrived at the hospital, but he was hopeful everything turned out OK. He also didn't have the identity of the nurse who also stopped to help, but he is grateful that she responded and took quick action, too.
"It's so encouraging to see people put themselves in harm's way to help a neighbor," he said. "You're wired to go toward things that are not going well. You never know how you're going to react in a situation like that. A person does unique things under the effects of adrenaline."
Officer Botica credited the University of Tennessee Police Department for preparing him to respond to just such an incident where lives are at stake. And since it happened, the Knoxville Fire Department wanted to make sure his superiors were aware of the feat. An assistant fire chief wrote a letter to Officer Botica's chief crediting Officer Botica for saving the man's life.
Since joining the department, he spent three and a half years on the night shift before moving into the investigations unit for nearly four years. Now he works on day-shift patrol.
"The UT Police Department is a really good place to work. They have a lot of really good people there, and they give us excellent training. We're fortunate the University of Tennessee provides funding for us to get training to handle traumatic events like injuries as well as CPR," he pointed out.
Officer Botica and his fiancée, Cathy Varga, are parishioners at St. John Neumann in Farragut. He has been active in the Diocese of Knoxville Frassati Fellowship for Young Adults, and he and Miss Varga are co-leaders of the young-adult group at St. John Neumann, where she has been a lifelong member.
Miss Varga is a fifth-grade teacher at Farragut Intermediate School.
The couple plans to get married in 2021.
Officer Botica is confident he would react the same way again. Experience in similar situations is invaluable.
"Moving forward, I think it would be much easier. It's the kind of practice you don't want to make perfect, but it has the same effect when you do it."
St. Mary Parish breaks ground on parish life center
Gatlinburg church will have more room for CCD classes, other youth and adult programs By Dan McWilliams St. Mary Church in Gatlinburg is bursting at the seams, and the 85-year-old... Read more →
Father Ronald Franco celebrates silver anniversary in the priesthood as he prepares for next assignment By Dan McWilliams The celebration of 25 years as a priest for Father Ronald Franco,... Read more →
Rep. Dunn receives Tennessee Right to Life award
Veteran legislator, longtime Holy Ghost Parish member honored for his service to the state and pro-life movement By Bill Brewer Rep. Bill Dunn, a state legislator whose 26 years in... Read more →
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( )1. Mr. Green gave us on how to learn English well.
( )2.—Alice, you on the phone.
( )3.— will Mr Green be back?
—In a week, I think.
( )4. At times they go to the cinema. In this sentence "At times" means .
( )5. The sign "@" in tzjoy "@" hotmail.com means .
( )6. The writing brushes(毛笔) bamboo and animal's hair.
( )7.—Do you need more time to finish the work?
—Yes, another ten days enough.
( )8. We all how he made such great progress in a short time.
( )9. Tell me next.
( )10. We'll never give up working on the experiment, difficult it is.
( )11.—It's a secret between us. Don't tell any body else.
( )12. They have no problems out the maths problem.
( )13.—Merry Christmas and best wishes for the New Year!
( )14. The letter is in French, I can't read it.
( )15. We'll do all we could our friends.
( )16.—My car has broken down. Can I borrow .
—Sorry, they are all out.
( )17. She can't the difference between the two words.
( )18.—We have worked for a long time, so we a rest.
( )19. Are you fond staying here?
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You may think that English dictionaries have been used for many, many centuries. In fact, an English dictionary you 1 today wasn't made until the Qin Dynasty. They spent most of the important 2 work on dictionaries. They spent nearly all their lives trying to 3 words for their dictionaries. For them, it was a wonderful journey. The largest dictionary in the world is Oxford English Dictionary(牛津字典). The 4 for this dictionary came from an important meeting in Britain in 1857. twenty-two years later, Oxford University asked James Murray to be the editor(编者)of its new dictionary.
school in Scotland and taught himself while working in bank. 6 he became a great teacher. After Oxfordgave him the job. Murray had a small house 7 in his garden to do the work. Every morning, Murray got out of bed at five o'clock and 8 in the small house several hours before breakfast. Often he would work into the night. Murray hoped to finish the new dictionary in ten years but after five year, he was 9 adding(增加)words for the letter "A"! He worked on the dictionary 10 he was very old. Forty-four years later, in 1928, other editors finished the dictionary.
Which is the best way to learn a language? We know that we all learnt our own language well when we were children, if we learn a second language in the same way, it won't seem so difficult. How does a small child do? It listens to what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ask for it. It's using the language, thinking in it and talking in it all the time. If people use a second language all the time, they will learn it quickly.
In school, you learn to read, to write, to hear and to speak. It is the best way to learn all new words through the car. You can read them, spell them, and write them later.
( )1. 癫痫病的治疗专家When we were very young .
( )2. A small child can learn his own language very well because .
( )3. According to the text, it is the best way to learn a second language, .
D. looking up the words in the dictionary when we don't know their meanings.
( )4. In school, when we learn a second language, we must .
( )5. The word "it" in the sentence "it" wont seem so difficult" refers(指的是) .
Dolphins are not fish. They are mammals(哺乳动物). They live in groups and speak to each other in their own language. But they are quite different from almost all land animals. Their brain(大脑)is as big as men's and they live a long life-at least 20 or 30 years.
Like some animals, dolphins use sounds to help them find their way around. They also use these sounds to talk to each other and to help them find food. They do not use their ears to receive sounds, but use the jaw-the lower part of the mouth.
It si strange that dolphins are friendly to men, and for thousands of years, there are many stories about dolphins and men. In the 19 th century, in a dangerous part of the sea near New Zealand, there was a dolphin, the seaman liked him very much and gave him a very good name, Jack. From 1871 to 1903 apassenger on a boat with the name of The Penguin shot and hurt Jack. Luckily the dolphin didn't die, and after a long time he was well again. He guided the ships through the area for nine more year, but he refused to help the boat The Penguin.
Today, some people still kill dolphins, but many countries in the world now protect them. In these places, people are not allowed to kill them.
( )6. The word jaw means in Chinese.
( 保定治羊羔疯的医院)7. How do dolphins find their way?
A. They use their noses to smell the way.
B. They use their ears to hear the sounds.
C. They use their eyes to see the way.
D. They use sounds to find the way.
( )8. Who was Jack?
A. The writer. B. A dolphin. C. A seaman. D. The passenger.
( )9. The dolphin guided the ships for .
( )10. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT right?
A. Dolphins are not fish.
B. Dolphins don't live in groups.
C. Dolphins are kind and friendly to people.
D. Dolphins can live a long life.
Laura: Hi, Rose. I've sent you an e-mail. Have you got it?
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Rose: Where was it make? Was it made in Japan?
Laura: No, it was made in my home.
Laura: You see, my father bought different parts of the computer and then put them together. That's how the computer was made in my home.
is a person who one into another.
, he has to travel to a country where English is not spoken.
, America became a powerful country.
There are some differences British English American English.
How did these differences ?
to be invited to the party.
I like your program very much. It has a lot of interesting stories, attractive games and popular English song. From your program we can learn many new words and expressions. We can improve our listening and speaking in English. We can also know more about the culture of other countries in the world. In a word, we learn a lot from your program.
I'm sorry to tell you that I can't follow you easily sometimes because you speak a little bit fast. It's also a pity that we can only watch your program twice a week.
Thank you for giving us a lot of fun! I wish your program a bright future!


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Q: Indexes and Optimizations for Logging System I'm designing tables for a new log system and am having trouble figuring out what indexes I'll need (I'm a developer, not a DBA), and am also open to any suggestions/criticisms/etc. for making the tables as "fast" as possible (from my app's point of view).
Background info: the DB itself is a MySQL instance hosted on AWS. It's a shared server and I don't have tuning privileges beyond basic table setup, indexes, key constraints, etc. This is a logging system, so very write-intensive. Although I will write scripts to dump certain log records (errors, etc.), there won't be much reading going on.
The logging system will consist of two tables, log_entry which is the log record itself, and log_level which is a "static" lookup/reference table used by log_entry. Below, where I specify Type as just varchar, I haven't figured out what size to make the field (varchar(50), varchar(100), etc.). My proposed schema for the two tables is as follows:
log_levels:
Column          |    Type        |    Special Info                 |  Nullable?    |  Example
============================================================================================================
id                   int              Primary Key, Auto-Increment      No             3
name                 varchar(20)                                       No             "Info"
tag                  varchar(20)                                       No             "INFO"

log_entries:
Column          |    Type        |    Special Info                 |  Nullable?    |  Example
============================================================================================================
id                   int              Primary Key, Auto-Increment      No             19348
app_name             varchar                                           No             "My App"
timestamp            long                                              No             1373316599 (UNIX Epoch time)
log_level_id         int              Foreign Key (log_levels)         No             3
origin_class         varchar                                           No             "com.me.myapp.SomeClass"
message              text                                              No             "Something log-worthy happened."
throwable_class      varchar                                           Yes            "java.lang.RuntimeException"

The problem child here is log_entries.message. This field will store a lot of information, and for reasons outside the scope of this question, I can't break this information out into better-normalized fields/tables. It's just a big text blob that will store lots of different kinds of data, and again, there's nothing I can do about that.
When I do perform reads (for the purposes of analytics/debugging), these are the queries I plan on using the most (and hence perhaps a basis for creating indexes from):
// Give me all the ERROR log entries.
SELECT * FROM log_entries le INNER JOIN log_levels ll ON le.log_level_id = ll.id WHERE ll.tag = 'ERROR'

// All ERROR log entries for a particular user.
SELECT * FROM log_entries le INNER JOIN log_levels ll ON le.log_level_id = ll.id WHERE le.message LIKE '%user: john.doe@example.com%'
    AND ll.tag = 'ERROR'

// All log entries for a particular user.
SELECT * FROM log_entries WHERE message LIKE '%user: john.doe@example.com%'

// All unique throwables in the system.
SELECT DISTINCT(throwable_class) FROM log_entries

// All messages in a given time range, or after a certain datetime.
SELECT * FROM log_entries WHERE timestamp >= 1373315311 AND timestamp <= 1439065711

// All log entries for a particular user within a time range.
SELECT * FROM log_entries WHERE message LIKE '%user: john.doe@example.com%' AND timestamp >= 1373315311 AND timestamp <= 1439065711

So I ask:

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*What indexes should I be creating here, and is there any sort of management/housekeeping I should be performing with the indexes (re-indexing, vaccuming, etc.)?

*Any other optimizations I can be making, in general (again, nothing I can do about log_entries.message)?

*

*For instance, I've heard that with some DB servers (not necessarily MySQL), the order of the columns (when you go to create the table) can impact performance as well...?!? etc.

Thanks in advance!

A: My rules of thumb for indexing are to

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*first, read the execution plan,

then think about adding (or verifying) an index on

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*every column used in a WHERE clause,

*every column used in a JOIN condition,

*every column used in an ORDER BY.

In some cases, one multi-column index will be faster in SELECT statements than several single-column indexes.
Then, make sure your WHERE clauses are sargable. Expressions like LIKE '%user: john.doe@example.com%' are not sargable. Unless you extract the user information and store it elsewhere, full table scans are in your future.
When MySQL has to use a filesort, it writes rows to the sort buffer using a fixed-width format. The wider your columns, the longer it's liable to take to sort.

Filesort uses a fixed-length row-storage format similar to that used
  by the MEMORY storage engine. Variable-length types such as VARCHAR
  are stored using a fixed length.

The fixed length for columns of type text defaults to 1024 bytes. MySQL will use a slower algorithm for sorts that include text columns.

[MySQL] normally uses the modified algorithm except when BLOB or TEXT
  columns are involved, in which case it uses the original algorithm.

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One problem with this approach is that it reads rows twice: One time
  when evaluating the WHERE clause, and again after sorting the pair
  values. And even if the rows were accessed successively the first time
  (for example, if a table scan is done), the second time they are
  accessed randomly. (The sort keys are ordered, but the row positions
  are not.)

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Gabbie Green has been playing basketball since she was a little girl. But she never thought that she would accomplish as much as she has during her first two years in college.
Green grew up in Bellville, Texas, where she started playing basketball at age 7. She continued to grow her passion of basketball through high school, where she also played volleyball and ran track. She continued her basketball career at South Plains College, where she majors in pre-physical therapy.
Green said she wasn't recruited highly coming out of high school but came to SPC because it felt like the best fit for her. She also said that Cayla Petree, head women's basketball coach at SPC, had gotten her former players to big schools in the past, so that was a desirable part of coming to and playing at SPC.
Green's career as a Lady Texan started with a disappointing season, as the team went 17-13 overall and failed to advance to postseason play. As one of only two returning sophomores, Green said she was driven by her faith to come back and play hard for the team, the program, and her mother.
Green says her favorite thing about basketball is becoming a family and the togetherness of basketball teams, no matter what team she has been on.
Despite the disappointing first season, things started to look up for Green and the team. An 11-1 record in the first month of play showed that the Lady Texans, and a much-improved Green, were a force to be reckoned with.
As a driving force for SPC, Green helped lead the Lady Texans to a No. 1-ranking earlier in the season and a 27-3 overall record in the regular season. The Lady Texans also won a share of the Western Junior College Athletic Conference championship, en route to the final four of the NJCAA National Tournament, which was held in Lubbock.
Green attributes the successful season to the leadership of her and fellow returning sophomore Chantel Govan, and sophomore transfer Keke Hunter, along with the coaching staff.
Green was named the NJCAA Region V Player of the Year, the Most Valuable Player in the WJCAC, Women's Basketball Coaches Association First Team All-American, and NJCAA All-American for her hard work.
Now that her playing time at SPC is over, Green is looking toward the next step in her journey. She has been recruited by Central Arkansas, Illinois State, Delaware State, Boise State, and the University of Massachusetts, but she is leaning toward signing a scholarship agreement with the University of Pittsburgh, with plans to major in communication studies and sports broadcasting wherever she ends up.
After college, Green said she is looking to compete in women's basketball leagues overseas. However, if the opportunity to play in the WNBA presented itself, she would try it out.
In her spare time, Green enjoys listening to music, as well as singing and dancing with Govan. She also enjoys going to the mall and creating her own fun.


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How does an argumentative atheist wind up Catholic? By being too stubborn to walk away from a fight, even as it got clearer and clearer that she was going to lose. Leah's road to Rome went along the scenic route, with detours into deontology and stoicism, as she tried to understand how morality worked and wound up forced to choose mercy over justice. Join us as Leah launches the first conversion story for the 2017 Theology on Tap series – Reasons to Believe: Why I am Catholic! Be sure to bring your philosophy loving friends to this one!
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Published7 September, 2016, 3 years ago
Fear Spreads in Philippines as Women on Drug List Raped, Kids Killed
Manila, September 7, 8:30 p.m. China Standard Time
See January 8, 2017 Document Duterte Must Resign
Young women are being detained & raped by police while little girls are being murdered in the streets of the Philippines.
The 4-year-old little girl pictured here with her dad was murdered by police who were trying to shoot her grandpa, a man who Denila Katalbas, police chief in Guihulngan City, says was put on a "drug list".
Witnesses say police pick up girls among the thousands listed on an "accused of using" list and are allegedly raping and torturing them.
MARTIAL LAW or something else?
Our Press Release of September 3 acknowledges that President Duterte names his recent emergency enactment something other than martial law. However, The RINJ Foundation is warning women a form of martial law is in place as that appears to be a de facto reality.
5-Yr.-Old Danica May Garcia was shot to death in her family's store by two men on motorcycles, said police in Dagupan in Pangasinan province. Her Grandpa was on a list of drug users.
Anarchy in the remote provinces puts women and girls at risk?
In the provinces our workers are seeing ordinary law overruled by 'extraordinary law' wherein a state of national emergency has been declared and paramilitary operators as well as vigilantes are murdering civilians in the streets under the express instructions of the nation's commander-in-chief. This conduct began in July long before President Duterte on September 3, ordered a state of "lawless violence" wherein the military and the police will run the country in accordance with my specifications," said Duterte last Saturday morning.
Pres. Duterte admits that he is ordering crimes be committed, in the context of his war on drugs. He says, and rages despotically as he speaks, he will guarantee the immunity of the murderers acting on his behalf. Over 2400 civilians have been shot and killed including men women & children as young as 4 years old.
Fear is spreading as women are raped or murdered.
Lawyers and politicians in the Philippines are too terrified to challenge Duterte for fear of being added to a hit list. Most public persons are afraid to speak out against the popular President Duterte who has emphasized and even invented enemies of the state to vigorously go after to increase his popularity. On September 1st, Duterte won much sympathy when he claimed a plot to assassinate him was thwarted.
Duterte has threatened those who have criticized him including the U.S. President and the Secretary General of the United Nations causing his "clean-up crew" to run frantically to the stage and announce that 'No, The Republic of the Philippines would not likely leave the United nations', and 'No', the official policy of the Philippines is not that President Obama is the "son of a whore" as Duterte declared early this week. Diplomatic relations will remain in place between the two countries.
The RINJ Foundation Repeats It's Warning
Women listed as drug users–in some cases put on the list by people who just don't like them, according to sex-worker friends seeking help–are instead of being murdered picked up and kept as sex slaves or repeatedly raped in local Barangay or police stations.
Women warned to stay clear of the criminal justice system.
In the past we know that women are especially at risk when police are given extra-legal powers in the Philippines. "Cops" may declare you a risk, bring you to the police station and rape you, torture you and imprison you under trumped up charges or worse.
Be wary,
don't travel alone at any time,
and keep your behaviour above reproach.
Stay away from alcohol, bad driving, drugs & bad people.
~ 30 ~
Stay out Turkey! You can't play with us any more.
by Melissa Hemingway on July 18, 2019 at 5:09 am
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Over 80,000 building professionals, remodelers and designers recently gathered in Orlando to attend the combined 2017 Kitchen & Bath Industry Show (KBIS) and NAHB's International Builders' Show (IBS), collectively known as Design and Construction week. KBIS is the world's largest trade event dedicated to the kitchen and bath industry and IBS is where manufacturers and home builders explore the latest products and innovations in home improvement. Check out some design trends, cool new products and innovative ideas.
White is full of wonder. It's an unmarked canvas. So it may not seem like a trend, but what is expanding this year is the layering of whites. When you layer in texture and detail all in complementary shades of white, you suddenly have a rich, subtly complex space that is personalized to your style and easily updated.
This removable, reclaimed wood accent-wall product is the best I've seen of this popular trend. Gathered from old barns or salvaged buildings, each plank has a story that you can trace with a unique code printed on the back. With an innovative micro-loop and hook, the boards are easily adjustable and removable, making install beyond simple. ArtisWall's patented installation system allows for the planks to be easily installed, removed and reused in any room.
Homeowners are becoming increasingly aware of the germs, chemicals, allergens and other pollutants that are invading our indoor spaces. This year, companies showed us that they are ready to help us fight for the health of our homes. Products like whole home water purifiers, HVAC systems that improve indoor air quality, and non-toxic paints and adhesives lined the aisles. Kwikset proudly displayed their line of Microban door hardware specifically engineered with the anti-microbial finish to keep door handles cleaner. This bacteria fighting finish significantly reduces the spread of germs on one of the most frequently touched items in our homes.
Remember when you were a kid without a care in the world? A rainstorm was just another place to play and leave worry behind. Now you can do the same in your shower with Kohler's Real Rain Shower System. This 19" x 19" panel consisting of 775 nozzles delivers three different random-sized, gravity-driven water droplets, mimicking the look and feel of a real rain shower. To top it off, with the push of a button, the deluge function drops a half a gallon of water for six seconds giving you the power cleanse. All this with just two gallons per minute. Now that's innovation.
Do you ever wish you could have a giant Post-It Note to capture all your thoughts or have the freedom to let you kids write all over the walls without getting in trouble? Thanks to Formica's new writable surfaces, any wall, door or surface can now be clad in a sleek panel that welcomes personalization. In colors from black, gray to patterns with grids to help with more creativity, this flexible new surface opens up all kinds of possibilities.
While already vastly popular in Europe, the induction method of cooking is gradually making its way into American kitchens. And it's easy to see why with their energy and time-saving features combined with striking design aesthetics. This year AGA released the largest (48") Mercury Induction cooktop that sits atop a sleek, clean-lined multifunction oven. Meanwhile, Elica incorporated powerful ventilation within the cooktop on the Nikola Tesla line. The central fan communicates with the cooktop and automatically sets the ideal air capture based on the information from the cooking zones.
It's easy to take your toilet for granted, but toilets play an important role in your bathroom. And this year, more than any other, people were willing to talk toilets. Blending design and technology on both the interior and exterior of the toilet, manufacturers took cleanliness to the next level. More powerful engines provide a stronger flush keeping the bowl cleaner. Kohler covered that s-shaped trapway that nobody wants to clean by skirting it with smooth lines that can easily be cleaned and replaced those bulky bolt caps with low-profile CleanCaps. The intelligent toilets are growing in popularity because after all, a cleaner toilet means a cleaner bathroom, and ultimately, a cleaner you.
The generously sized master bath located just off the master closet offers top-notch amenities in a coastal-inspired space that has a fresh and serene feel.
The average home size is shrinking (and according to the NAHB, this trend should continue in 2017), but our bathrooms have been spared, or at least our showers are spared. Delta's booth featured a replica of HGTV's Dream Home master bath, and the shower looked big enough for a small party. While most designers and homeowners are opting out of built-in tubs in exchange for larger shower footprints, free-standing tubs continue to be life's little luxury that becomes the statement piece of any bathroom.
This year brought innovation not just through technology, but also through the re-engineering of hardware mechanics. Companies like Häfele and Fabuwood Cabinetry displayed more efficient and attractive methods of opening and closing cabinets, something you do every single day. With hinges that allow the cabinet door to be lifted, tilted, swiveled or folded upwards rather than to the side, and sometimes with just the touch of a button, the user can access more of the cabinets and reclaim unused kitchen space with ease. These solutions not only look great but actually improve the way you interact with your space.
Do you like the look of cedar shingle roofing but don't like the idea of maintaining it?Thanks to Ply Gem's new engineered version, you don't have to compromise. Made from recycled resins and earth-mined minerals, you can now get that sought-after look with the resilience to withstand 150-mph winds, golf-ball sized hail and also have the highest level fire rating, all with a lightweight installation.
The unmistakable beauty of the finest marbles on earth is recognized as a universal luxury, but it comes at a steep price and with some maintenance headaches. Now you can get it with no reservations. Daltile's Marble Attaché tile opens a new frontier of design possibilities. These beautiful interpretations of the finest marble combine the traditional colors of marble with the ease of porcelain tile. With six colors and sizes up to 24"x 48" panels, you can transform any space into a customized lavish retreat.
How can you improve a garbage disposal? I mean, it's pretty much just a blender and a drain for your sink right? Insinkerator went back to the drawing board to improve the obvious. Welcome Fresh Kitchen Food Waste Disposers. All the functionality of a traditional disposer with the key addition of a colorful backpack of aroma-infused liquid. With every cycle, this disposer adds a just the right amount of refreshing agent that neutralizes odors and leaves behind the fragrance of lemon, lime or orange.
Tankless water heating just got even more efficient with the Therma Circ 360 technology from Rinnai. This integrated recirculation pump improves the already-great endless hot water by having it at your tap faster and on demand with motion detection or push-button control.
What's better than the world's softest and easiest-to-clean carpet? How about a beautiful carpet that is warrantied for pretty much everything, like bleach, mustard, red wine and pets? Now you can have your cake and eat it too, right on top of your Mohawk SmartStrand Silk Reserve carpet.
There has been little innovation with attic stairs in recent years. What a welcome change to see the new automatic telescoping stairs from Arke. A simple push of a button lowers and raises a robust metal structure and keeps you from having to jump to grab that notorious pull string.
HGTV and DIY Network host Chip Wade went trend-spotting at the 2016 Kitchen and Bath Industry Show and The International Builders' Show. Take a look at the designs and products that caught his eye.
HGTV and DIY Network host Chip Wade reports on the coolest products and innovations from the 2016 International Builders' Show at Design Week.


CENTRAL JERSEY – In the last few years, apartments have been springing up in Central Jersey towns with a frequency not seen in decades. For so long, the ideal home for most Americans has been a single-family home that apartments seemed to be a very low priority for developers.
That mindset has not only changed, but the change has accelerated as millennials graduate from college and start settling into their first home. Alert developers who have been anticipating this trend for a few years are reaping the benefits of their vision, and thousands more are planned around Central Jersey. As Realtor Tim Delucia of Berkshire Hathaway New Jersey Properties explained, the appeal of renting a luxury apartment in a downtown such as Somerville, Metuchen and Linden appeals to millennials, business executives and empty-nesters alike.
First, there's the appeal of walking to the places you want to go. If you are renting an apartment in a downtown area, especially near a train station, you may not need a car, so you can save on car payments, insurance, gasoline costs and parking fees.
Second, the great recession of 2007-2008 taught many people, especially millennials, that building equity through homeownership has its risks. Home prices don't always go up. The easy credit created during the Clinton and Bush II years collapsed, leaving many homeowners unable to pay mortgages as they lost their jobs and could not find new jobs that paid as well. Some homeowners who sell homes today are still selling at somewhat below the peak prices of 2007, and of course many people lost — and are still losing — homes to foreclosure.
Having seen this happen, many millennials are gun-shy: They don't want to buy a house. Besides, most of them have significant student loans to pay off, so it's difficult for them to save money toward a down payment on a house. It may be enough of a challenge to scrape together sufficient money for a security deposit on an apartment.
And besides, renters generally are not responsible for repairs when they are needed. It's nice to call the landlord or property management company to fix any problems that come up.
"People don't want to own anymore," said George Capodagli, president of CPC Meridia, a real estate developer that builds apartments in central business districts near railroad stations, including Somerset and Union counties. "They don't want to take care of things."
Another perceived advantage to renting a luxury apartment is that they are amenity-laden, with state-of-the art fitness centers, yoga parlors, business centers, concierge services, swimming pools and/or restaurants or coffee bars. Some apartment communities contract with a car service such as Uber or a bike-share service to help residents with their transportation needs.
And of course, most of the new apartments seem to be located near train stations — which have been dubbed transit villages.
Apartment buildings can't spring up overnight. From the time that a developer identifies a piece of property as a potential apartment site until the time the project is completed can take three years or more.
Capodagli at CPC Meridia said that his company made a conscious decision a few years ago to create apartments for the middle of the market.
"We're looking for the renter who can pay between $1,600 and $2,200 per month," he said. "You have the most renters in that middle range. So we've looked for towns where there haven't been new apartments for a while. Before we went to Linden, there hadn't been a new apartment built in 40 years. In Bound Brook, it had also been decades. Hackensack hadn't had a new apartment building in 20 or 30 years, and Roselle Park, in over 50 years."
Capodagli said these communities had less expensive land and good locations near train stations that were well suited to the kinds of apartment homes his company wanted to build. Generally, his projects take two or three years from start to finish.
"When I was growing up, we didn't have a lot of money, but we always felt like we belonged," Capodagli said. "I want the same feeling for our buildings. So we have support facilities like gyms, yoga, restaurants and bars in our buildings. We are even including a stipend for the in-house restaurants included in our rent."
CPC Meridia creates apartments "with a vibe," Capodagli said. "If it's the correct vibe, people will come and stay. We ask ourselves (about the millennials), 'What do these kids want?' Not furniture. They don't want big homes. Their streets are their culture. And the towns where we build have been very cooperative. They see how are buildings contribute to the life of their communities."
Stephen Santola, executive vice president and general counsel at Woodmont Properties, said his company has a different, broader vision. They don't target just the middle market, but rather they cast a wider net. Generally, he said, they build in train towns, places with plenty of room for growth.
"If you look at transit-oriented towns, you see that their downtowns have grown up around the train station," Santola said. "And towns want to revitalize their downtowns, so building apartments there and renting to people who want to walk around the downtown is ideal for them. So we've sought out communities like South Amboy, Metuchen and Cranford."
"When we started working with South Amboy, we originally envisioned a community of for-sale units," he said. "But as our planning evolved, in conjunction with the vision of the city's officials, we ended up building rental apartments instead."
While many newly constructed apartments are available, some older buildings are getting renovated, sometimes as affordable rental units. In Edison, the old Roosevelt hospital has been renovated and converted into affordable rental homes for senior citizens. In North Brunswick, a garden apartment complex was purchased by the housing authority and renovated as new affordable housing units.
Santola said that Woodmont would consider renovating an apartment building if the ceilings were at least 9 feet high. He also said they'd have to be able to bring the renovated units to market at a competitive price point.
In Somerville, Tom Genova has been renovating apartments and mixed-use buildings for years.
"I love upgrading blighted buildings," Genova said. "They aren't as time-consuming, and they're more charming."
Genova said he prices his renovated units according to what the market will bear and what his renovations cost.
"I like to be conservative. I look at the high mark and the low in the market, and end up somewhere in the middle," he said. "I also want the buildings to pay for themselves quickly, in 15 to 20 years, but when I figure what the rents need to be to accomplish this, I also take into consideration that I may have some empties, and I may have to live with lower rents for a time."
One of Genova's tenants is Gary DeRogatis, who has been living in Somerville apartments off and on for more than 10 years. He's been living in his current home in downtown Somerville for about a year. He loves the fact that Somerville has a lot of the qualities of an urban center, but with a small-town vibe. He picked his home because it's close to the train station.
"My girlfriend works in lower Manhattan, so we like the fact she can take a direct express train to Hoboken from Somerville and then catch the Path train to New York," he said. "Plus, we have a beautiful apartment for about half the price we'd pay in Hoboken."
He added that his renovated building feels like home much more than a newer, more modern building would feel to him, and the parking is great throughout the borough. He just hopes the rents don't go up.
At least two Central Jersey professionals looking a few years into the future worry that too many apartments may be in the works, especially in the greater Somerville area.
Tim Deluccia of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices New Jersey Properties, has been working with developers who are constructing apartment buildings in Somerville. He said that in Somerville alone, there are now about 400 luxury apartment units among the various new buildings under construction. Also, there are 140 units scheduled for Raritan Borough, and Bound Brook has hundreds of apartment units in the pipeline.
"I've been saying for a while that we need to slow up the apartments, pump the breaks a little bit," Genova said. "We need diversity in housing stocks; they can't all be apartments. Everything is a cycle. Look at New York City. They are actually having trouble renting luxury apartments in New York City. I've been advocating that we have fee-simple condos or townhomes. Besides, people who own their home take better care of it."
However, Don Tozzi, a councilman in Raritan Borough who has lived at the Lena in the borough for six months, disagrees. Tozzi and his wife sold their Raritan Borough home and moved to the Lena to get away from house-maintenance chores. They're renting one of the larger two-bedroom units there, and they couldn't be happier.
"The upkeep is phenomenal. It's the best place to live I've ever experienced," Tozzi said. "The gym, the lounge, the pool, everything is well kept and perfect."
Tozzi believes that there are enough people out there who want to live the way he's now living that there won't be a glut of apartments. The restaurants in town are always full, he added, and both the Lena and the 140 new apartments now underway on First Avenue are close to the train station, which is a key to their success.
"These apartments move the town forward, because other towns are doing the same thing," Tozzi said. "I don't think there will be a glut because people are moving in from other areas. This trend is good for the borough."
Pamela MacKenzie: 908-243-6616; pmackenz@gannettnj.com. Pam is the real estate editor of the Courier News and Home News Tribune.


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Lame-Duck Dems Must Lift Debt Limit, Advocates Say as GOP Doubles Down on Social Security Threats
"Democrats must do whatever it takes to defeat Republican attacks on our earned Social Security benefits," said one advocate. "That means raising the debt ceiling this year, before Republicans take control of the House."
By Julia Conley. Published 11-30-2022 by Common Dreams
#StoptheShutdown Press Conference with Speaker Pelosi and Senator Schumer in 2019. Photo: AFGE/flickr/CC
Progressives on Wednesday warned that time is running out for Democratic leaders to take Republicans at their word regarding slashes to social safety net programs, as U.S. Sen. John Thune indicated the GOP will use a potential fight over the debt ceiling next year as leverage to push cuts—unless the Democrats act now to raise the debt limit while they still control the Senate and House.
Thune (R-S.D.), who is the number-two Republican in the Senate as the chamber's minority whip, told Bloomberg Tuesday that the party has a "long list" of policy priorities for the next Congress, which will commence on January 3. The party plans to put forward budget reforms including to federal programs which they have long claimed, erroneously, are unsustainable.
"There's a set of solutions there that we really need to take on if we're going to get serious about making these programs sustainable and getting this debt bomb at a manageable level before it's too late," Thune told a panel of Bloomberg journalists in Washington.
Thune's comments came weeks after Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is expected to be named House speaker in the next Congress, told Punchbowl News that Republicans plan to "eliminate some waste" as lawmakers negotiate the debt limit next year, in comments widely seen as referring to Social Security and Medicare.
The programs have long been targets of Republicans, despite the fact that Social Security is fully funded through 2035 and is able to pay for 90% of benefits for the next 25 years, even without Congress acting to expand it.
"It's past time for [Democratic leaders] to believe the Republicans when they say, again and again, that they are going to force cuts to Social Security benefits first thing next Congress," Alex Lawson, executive director of advocacy group Social Security Works, told Common Dreams Wednesday. "Democrats must do whatever it takes to defeat Republican attacks on our earned Social Security benefits. That means raising the debt ceiling this year, before Republicans take control of the House."
A failure to ultimately raise the debt ceiling and defaulting on the government's existing obligations including Medicare, Social Security, and tax refunds could trigger a global financial crisis.
Before the midterm elections, President Joe Biden and other Democrats discussed a number of proposals to head off the Republican Party's exploitation of the debt ceiling next year, including a hike that would extend past the 2024 election. Lawmakers have also proposed legislation that would allow the Treasury Department to raise the debt limit and or repeal the federal limit on borrowing.
According to Bloomberg, those efforts have "fallen by the wayside" since the elections earlier this month.
Numerous polls have shown voters strongly oppose cuts to Medicare and Social Security. On Tuesday, a survey by progressive think tank Data for Progress showed that 83% of voters—including 77% of Republicans—would be upset by such austerity measures.
New poll from @DataProgress >>>
83% (!!) percent of likely voters said they would be "very" or "somewhat" upset if Republicans were to cut Social Security and Medicare.
77% of **Republican** voters would be "very" or "somewhat" upset if Rs cut SS.https://t.co/3Yj9Pfu0Kv
— McKenzie Wilson (@McKenzieAWilson) November 29, 2022
"Seniors voted for Democrats in the midterms explicitly because of their promise to protect Social Security, now Democrats have to do that," Lawson told Common Dreams. "We won't accept any excuses of it being procedurally hard, or time being short. None of that matters."
David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect, emphasized that Democrats can't credibly claim to be unprepared for the urgent push to lift the debt ceiling in the lame-duck session, considering comments about Social Security and Medicare cuts made over the past year by McCarthy and Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.).
This is shocking, it's coming out of nowhere except for the dozens of Republicans in power who said it during the election.
Unfortunately there's just nothing Democrats can do, except put end the debt limit through reconciliation in the lame duck https://t.co/StXEosSJH1 https://t.co/xhocsEVeIp
— David Dayen (@ddayen) November 29, 2022
Pam Keith, director of the Center for Employment Justice, warned House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that her party has "one shot to cut this crap off at the knees and change the debt limit ceiling laws."
I told you so. @SpeakerPelosi you have ONE SHOT to cut this crap off at the knees and change the debt limit ceiling laws.
Please don't squander it. Get it done. America is depending on YOU. https://t.co/O10rS3sIOs
— Pam Keith, Esq. (@PamKeithFL) November 30, 2022
Thune's comments "make it clearer than ever that taking the global economy hostage to force cuts to Social Security is the unified position of the Republican Party in both the House and Senate," said Lawson in a statement.
"Democrats can't allow Republicans to force them into choosing between an economic catastrophe and cutting the American people's hard-earned Social Security benefits," he added.
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American Siamak Namazi is on a hunger strike in Iranian prison. Why now and for what?
A mural in Washington, D.C. depicts Americans Siamak Namazi (left), who remains in Iran, and Jose Angel Pereira, who was released from Venezuela in October. Siamak Namazi, a U.S. citizen ...
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American held in Iran launches hunger strike and writes to Biden asking him to do more for detainees
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US citizen imprisoned in Iran for 7 years announces hunger strike, begs Biden to do more for detainees
Siamak Namazi, who has been in Iran for seven years, said that he is the "longest held Iranian American hostage in history." Free Siamak and Baquer Namazi Namazi was not included in a January ...
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American imprisoned in Iran since 2015 begins hunger strike
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University Dance Theatre presents 'Be the Music'
Home » University Dance Theatre presents 'Be the Music'
Fresno State's University Dance Theatre will present "Be the Music," its student-choreographed dance performance, at 8 p.m. April 26 through 28 and at 2 p.m. on April 28 in the Lab School 101 Theatre.
"Be the Music" features numerous dances created by Fresno State students. Dances range from island to contemporary and cultural pieces to reflect the diversity of Fresno State students. The performances are student-driven — from the dancers to the production of the concert, with the help of Kenneth Balint, professor of dance at Fresno State and instructor of University Dance Theatre.
"This performing group never fails in its ability to captivate audiences," Balint said. "Every semester has brought new and different ideas of what is dance and how it relates to the world around us. It is a course that engages a high level of collaboration, dialogue and discovery. Year after year the group continues to bring a rich dance tradition of creativity and community to Fresno State."
By attending the performances, audience members support dancers attending Fresno State as well as the performing arts community in Fresno. With the support of the community, dancers are motivated to pursue the art of dance and continue training, Balint said.
Tickets are $5. The box office hours are noon to 4 p.m. on weekdays. Tickets will be sold at the door 30 minutes before showtime.
Parking is free for shows on Friday through Saturday night. For the Thursday night show, parking permits are required and can be purchased at dispensers in parking lots on campus.
For more information, contact the box office at 559.278.2216 or universitytheatre@csufresno.edu.
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Erasmo de la Parra (Amsterdam, 11 maart 1987), is een Chileens-Nederlands filmregisseur en muziekproducent.

Biografie
Erasmo de la Parra werd in 1987 geboren als de zoon van Claudio Parra en Patricia Vera, beiden Chileense politieke vluchtelingen. Tijdens zijn studie aan de IVKO-school in Amsterdam liep hij stage in de opnamestudio van zijn broer, die onder contract stond bij ID&T, en maakte hij ook korte films met zijn klasgenoten.

De la Parra heeft een achtergrond in muziekproductie; hij heeft talloze albums geproduceerd voor artiesten uit Latijns-Amerika, Europa en de Verenigde Staten. Zijn werk werd lovend ontvangen door publicaties als Rolling Stone, Vibe en Pitchfork.

Zijn vader Claudio Parra is medeoprichter van de Chileense rock band Los Jaivas. Zijn oudtante is de Chileense zangeres Violeta Parra.

Filmografie
De La Parra regisseerde in 2021 de korte film U-47700 met in de hoofdrollen Walt Klink, Teun Stokkel en Kees van Wandelen. De film werd vertoond op talloze internationale filmfestivals en won diverse prijzen.

Externe links

 Officiële website

Nederlands filmregisseur
Nederlands scenarioschrijver
Nederlands filmproducent
Chileens filmregisseur
Chileens filmproducent
Muziekproducent

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IMD has recently launched a series of online-based progra ms bringing the quality of its top-ranked face-to-face learning to the offices of executives worldwide.
Participants in IMD's new Global Leadership in the Cloud series engage in a highly-personalized and interactive experience, with individual coaching, learning partners, feedback and recommendations provided throughout the programs.
Maija Karhusaari, Senior Vice President at ABB discusses her experience in Learning Leadership, part of IMD's Global Leadership in the Cloud, which was recently awarded a Gold Medal for being the best advance in unique learning technology in 2015.
IMD: What has been your previous experience with online learning?
Maija Karhusaari: My previous experience with online learning has been in the format of e-learning courses or tutorials with specific themes. These have very little in common with IMD's Learning Leadership online-based program. The biggest differences were the high amount of interaction with other students, with the program coach, and the amount of off-line work in the form of assignments and high-quality readings in the IMD program.
What were your expectations about this course and how did the reality compare?
Maija Karhusaari: I have to admit I was maybe a little bit skeptical on how well an online course could actually engage and inspire, but it did both. There were also a lot of off-line assignments. All-in-all, the program far exceeded my expectations.
What were some of the features you appreciated most?
Maija Karhusaari: There were many. I appreciated the interactive element designed into the course: the coach, the personal buddy and the changing weekly working groups offered a great network of fellow leaders from different countries, organizations and backgrounds. Exchanging ideas and reflecting on the weekly topics in this kind of environment was great. I also appreciated the high quality of the materials offered in this program.
Did you feel like the experience was tailored to your needs?
Maija Karhusaari: Yes. Especially the individual assignments and interaction with my program coach and buddy took the learning to a personal level. There were parts in the program that were tailored to identifying and developing my individual leadership skills.
Will it help you be a better leader?
Maija Karhusaari: Absolutely. The course offered some valuable insights into my own leadership style and improvement areas.


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Youthful Indiscretions: Stories about being young and dumb
This week we present two stories about people making choices informed by the naïvety of youth.
Part 1: On a dull night in Orlando, young Josh Flaum decides to experiment with drugs he can buy over the counter.
Josh Flaum is a comedy writer local to Los Angeles. He has written for G4 Network's 'Attack of the Show', Nerdist, Legendary Entertainment, has worked as a consultant for Disney Imagineering, co-created the award-winning web series 'Written By A Kid', and is currently working for Caffeine.tv writing for a partly-scripted, partly-improvised, live, weekly, interactive hour-long comedy chat show done entirely in virtual reality called 'Live From The 8th Dimension'. He recently shattered his right anterior sinus bone, so that's why he looks the way he does (if you were wondering). If you like photos of cats, you're welcome to follow him on Instagram at @joshflaum.
Part 2: After Will Tran accidentally cheats his way to a high school math award, he has to grapple with whether or not to come clean.
Will Tran is not a scientist, but he got close a few times. In high school, he interned at the National Institute of Mental Health working on a study of Alzheimer's. He matriculated to New York University as a neuroscience major, but then quickly switched to the art school. Whoops. Will is a creative director in Los Angeles. He enjoys sunsets, long walks on the beach, and standing on stage to share profoundly personal stories with hundreds of strangers for no discernible reason other than the temporary appeasement of some deep, dark, inner desire to please. He also has a dog named Finch.
Part 1: Josh Flaum
So, February 22, 1997. This is a red-letter day. This is the day that scientists from the University of Edinburgh announced that they had finally successfully cloned a sheep. Her name was Dolly and she was the first mammal ever to be cloned from a somatic cell using a very delicate process known as nuclear transfer. Basically, DNA is taken out of an unfertilized egg and then injected into the nucleus of a cell using a microscopic needle and a teeny, tiny vacuum cleaner.
To be honest, I don't understand it. But I remember that day because, the night before, I had been conducting a little experiment of my own. I was living in Orlando, Florida back then and I was hanging out with three friends of mine. Given that this story is very embarrassing and contains excruciating moments, let's just call them Ian, Will and Greg, which are their real names because, believe me, they deserve to be a part of this nightmare every bit as much as I do.
So we were at Greg's condo and the plan was to have an all-night drinkfest. It was Ian and Greg's condo, all-night drinkfest except 1:30 in the morning rolls around and we had already finished all of the alcohol in the house. Thanks to Florida's 'blue laws', it was now too late to go out and buy anymore. This was a real dilemma. We had officially run out of time to get fucked up.
Josh Flaum shares his story with the Story Collider audience at Lyric Hyperion in Los Angeles in December 2018. Photo by Mari Provencher.
This is actually a problem with Florida in general, Unless you own a boat or a gun, there's not much to do after hours. If I'm being really honest, there's not much to do in Orlando, period. It's like two hours from the ocean and ten years behind the times. People literally move there to die. Personally, I was bored every day I lived in Florida.
But you don't get fucked up in Florida because you're bored. Getting fucked up in Florida is a cultural imperative. After all, if you're not fucked up that's when you start to notice all the spiders. If you aren't fucked up in Florida somewhere then you start to realize you are absolutely nowhere, so we really, really needed to get fucked up.
That's when Will had an epiphany. "Hey, you guys. We could robo-trip."
For those of you unfamiliar with robo-tripping, and hopefully that's every single one of you, I will explain it to you exactly as Will explained it to me. You drink a bunch of Robitussin and it gets you insanely high. See, Robitussin contains something called dextromethorphan which is basically a cold medication but, if taken in large enough quantities, it delivers a high very similar to LSD, hence the tripping part.
We thought to ourselves maybe, just maybe, this was it. Maybe we can get really fucked up tonight and all we have to do is drink entire bottles of cough syrup. This is what scientists call a hypothesis.
We were down so we hopped into Ian's Geo Metro and sped toward the 24-hour Walmart down the street and, all the while, Will is going over the finer points of what we were to expect. He said, "Your stomach is going to hurt for about 10 minutes or so. You might even puke but then after that you will trip balls, I swear."
Then he added this. He said, "Robitussin tastes terrible so you're probably going to want to chase it with Hawaiian Punch."
Given that we were on a Walmart, that was an easy task. But once we hit the cold-and-flu aisle that's when we hit our first snag. You see, Robitussin actually comes in two sizes, small bottles and large bottles. Will could not remember which size bottle it was that we were supposed to drink.
Keep in mind, these were the days well before everybody carried a tiny super computer around in their pants, so we didn't have Google at our fingertips. We only had Will who, after hemming and hawing for quite some time, finally came to the conclusion that it was the small bottles that we were supposed to drink.
So Ian grabbed the small bottle. I grabbed two bottles, one for me and one for Will, who was springing for the Hawaiian Punch, but motherfucking Greg he was holding a bottle of grape Dimetapp, which only comes in one size, by the way, large. His rationale was that he hated the taste of Robitussin and grape flavor was delicious plus, and he pointed this out, Dimetapp contains dextromethorphan, that same ingredient. So what could go wrong?
Will is like, "Dude, I've never heard of Dime-tripping though. I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be Robitussin." But we could not convince Greg at all so we just ended up at the cash register all lining up with our respective syrups. We bought them, went out to the parking lot and that's when Will slapped his forehead and said, "Guys, I am so, so sorry. I just realized it is the large bottles that we're supposed to drink. The small bottles won't be enough." Once again, he was pretty sure.
So Will waited with Greg while Ian and I went back into Walmart to return our small bottles and exchange them for large bottles. This was the plan.
Unfortunately, once we got to the cold-and-flu aisle, Ian was like, "You know what? Greg is right. Robitussin sucks. I think I'll just get Dimetapp."
And because I'm a stupid monkey I thought to myself, "When in Rome…" and I grabbed two bottles of Dimetapp myself.
Then I headed towards the cash register with four bottles of cough syrup, two of which I was returning because they were too small. This is something so colossally stupid that even the Walmart cashier thought she had to say something.
"Eh, what you got all these bottles for?"
I said, "Well, my kids are sick."
And she said, "Well, you don't need two bottles. You just need one."
I said, "Well, my kids are really sick."
"Well, how old are your kids?"
I said, "Eight and twelve," having turned 23 just the month previous.
And keep in mind, the entire time I'm having this discussion, Ian is standing directly behind me with two bottles of cough syrup of his own ready to do the same exchange. It should tell you a lot about Florida that nobody tried to stop us.
Got back out into the parking lot and Will noticed I had bottles of Dimetapp and he was like, "Dude, I told you there's no such thing as Dime-tripping. You need Robitussin," and I told him he could go back at the Walmart and exchange it himself, but he declined. So we went back to Ian and Greg's condo.
There, we stood in a circle, bottle of Dimetapp in one hand, can of Hawaiian Punch in the other, and we actually fucking cheersed. We clacked our bottles together like stupid idiots and held them high and guzzled them down and then chased it with fruit drink, because we were the future of America.
My stomach was fine but I'd started to feel nauseous pretty much immediately, and so did Ian, and so did Greg, and Will assured us this is perfectly normal. This happens all the time. Just wait it out. You're going to trip balls in no time.
So we waited. Five minutes is when the stomach pain actually hit razor sharp, like daggers and glass. Once again, Will assured us that this was part of the process. "Your stomach is going to hurt. Don't worry about it. Just relax. You're going to trip balls in no time at all."
Suddenly Greg turned around, ran into the downstairs bathroom, slammed the door and I'd have asked him if he was okay but I was busy running upstairs so I could puke in Ian's sink. When I came back down, I found out that Ian, when he had been outside smoking, had projectile vomited over his neighbor's brand new picket fence.
But once again, Will explained, "It's perfectly normal. In fact, it's probably better that you puke. Don't worry about it. Relax. You're going to be tripping balls in no time."
"I'm going to bed," said Greg, who turned around and went straight upstairs.
"I'm also going to bed," said Ian, who also turned around and went upstairs to his bedroom. So it's just me and Will.
"I'm going home," said Will, who turned around, walked straight out the door with 12-fluid ounces of cough syrup in his gut leaving me alone. To tell you the truth, I'd have driven home too, but that's when the diarrhea hit.
Actually, diarrhea is not the right word. I don't think there's medical terminology in existence that can explain exactly what was going to happen to me. I was in that tiny little downstairs bathroom for five straight hours. For five unrelenting hours, cough suppressant sprayed out of my ass like purple dragon fire. For five hours, I could hear the sounds of Ian's and Greg's toilets running upstairs, a symphony of flushes to accommodate the sound of my own shitting. It was as if we poisoned ourselves.
Five hours later and I'm finally done. I stagger out of the bathroom, plopped down on the couch exhausted at the break of day. Right then, as the birds sang their 'hellos' and 'how are you', right then and right there, I started tripping balls. I mean colors I could smell, breathing walls, near-mystical understanding of the universe. All that stuff. So I had finally gotten fucked up. It had only taken five hours of pooping and puking to get there. Now, this is what scientists call results.
So February 22, 1997. I drove home that very day, the day that scientists announced cloning Dolly the sheep, which I actually remember because I heard it on the news on the radio on my ride home.
Here's the thing. Kudos to them. Their experiment was a grand success. They went on to get knighthoods. While my experiment earned me little more than, I would say, a ham-sized hemorrhoid and a Pavlovian response to Hawaiian Punch that haunts me to this day. That was it.
It occurred to me that there were people out there changing the world forever and I had drunk a bottle of cough syrup just because I had nothing better to do. It was in that moment, in that car that I had felt more worthless than I ever had in my entire life. If you want to get fucked up, nothing will ever fuck you up worse than finding out how pointless your life is.
So my experiment was a failure but it was informative. I learned that if you want to walk the path to greatness, you, at the very least, have to come to an understanding of what it is to live a life of goodness.
I'm just kidding. I didn't learn that. Just so you know, that's not the message here. But I did learn not to drink full bottles of cough syrup because it's dangerously stupid. And I also learned that getting fucked up to forget a life in Florida is not as effective as actually just leaving Florida. And that, my friends, is what scientists call a conclusion.
Part 2: Will Tran
Let me start this off by saying that I have never, ever cheated on a test in my life and this I swear. I was raised in an Asian immigrant family so I learned from an early age that academic success is the end all, be all, and to cheat would be throwing that all away. Rule Number One of the Asian immigrant code was always 'No cheating'.
So it was with that open and pure and honest heart that I asked my friend Jason to give me his math exam so I could copy down his answers. Here, I'll explain.
I was raised in London, which I'm sure you can tell from my accent. In the tenth grade we were given the opportunity to take this prestigious international math award exam. It was administered in three parts. It was totally optional and it had no bearing on our grade. But, like I said, it was a prestigious recognition.
Will Tran shares his story with our Story Collider audience at Caveat in New York City in December 2018. Photo by Zhen Qin.
We all know that stereotypes are bad. But there was one stereotype that I always thought was maybe a little less bad and one that I was kind of proud of which was that Asians are good in math. I had no reason not to believe that because, up until that point in my life, I had always taken honors and AP math classes and, for the most part, I was an A student, which means I got the occasional B-minus and B-plus which is basically an F in Asian-American family.
But, overall, I thought I was doing pretty well. And stereotypes being stereotypes, apparently, others thought I was doing well too, or at least good enough to cheat off of. I remember there was this one time in sixth grade, this kid Phil Reilly copied my answers for a math quiz over my shoulder. And being the idiot that he is, he got caught and he got both of us sent to the principal.
I remember that feeling when they told me that they called my mother and she was coming to the school to talk with the principal. I nearly vomited. I was so terrified because, after all, rule Number One is 'No cheating'.
But I explained vigorously that I wasn't part of this grand conspiracy but I was actually the rube and the real victim here. Even though they did believe me, that experience stayed with me and shook me to my core.
So it was with that firm belief that I was good in math that I agreed to take the prestigious international math awards exam, but it wasn't until I was in the middle of that exam that I found out that I was, in fact, not good in math. There were numbers I had never even seen before. It was just total madness. I was utterly lost. And learning that I wasn't good at math felt like finding out Santa Claus wasn't real again and I was completely gutted.
So that was that. I figured there was no point in humiliating myself any further so, when they announced the second and third parts of the exam, I just passed it up completely.
About a week later, our math teacher returns our answer sheets so that we can see how we'd done and I performed pretty much as expected. I got a few answers right but there were a lot of red Xs, a lot of wrong answers, and completely blank ungraded sections for the second and third parts of the test.
But it was a completely different story for my friend Jason who actually aced the exam, all three parts of it. That shocked me a little bit, honestly, because I had considered us intellectually equals and here he was intellectually cuckolding me. I really felt that I had to step things up, so I asked him if he would hand me over his exam so I could copy down the answers and figure out the problems on my own time, because if he had been able to solve them then I really wanted to as well.
So that's what he did. He gave me his test and I copied down the answers. I gave it back to him. At which point the teacher wanted to collect all of them again so we just passed those back up.
At the end of the week, our math teacher announces the recipients of this prestigious international math award and there are only three in the entire school and all three are in this one math class so she's just ecstatic and overjoyed.
The first name that she announces is David Jackson-Hanen. I'm not exaggerating when I'm saying this kid was a bona fide genius. He was the Cal Ripken of Calculus. He was the Alfred Hitchcock of Algebra. He was the Yo-Yo Ma on a TI-83. He just fit the image of the nerd so perfectly. He was just skinny, shy, gentle, sweet and awkward. He had this aura of academic destiny around him where everyone was sure he was going to be the next Stephen Hawking so no surprises there.
The next name she announced was Jason Danker, my friend. He was a bit of an oddball, kind of an atypical nerd. Socially awkward, for sure. The first words that he said to me on our first day of school together was, he just came up to me and said, "Hey, I like to burn things."
We became friends after that. It's a hell of an ice breaker. But he was also a bit of a jock and he was on the school rugby team so you could say he put the athlete in Mathlete.
And the final name announced, the third in this Trigonometry triumphant triumvirate was none other than yours truly. I was shocked, the class was shocked, the teacher was shocked. Then the applause started from the class in that sort of don't-really-give-a-shit way like office workers singing Happy Birthday.
But Jason turned and his head nearly completed an Exorcist-180 as his gaze was just boring through my skull. I ignored him and just soaked in the praise because, you know, why not?
Here's the funny thing is that I still, to this day, don't know exactly how this happened. I have some theories. I imagine on the day that our teacher collected those exams again, she must have left school to go to do something both important but mentally taxing, maybe like a second job. But ours was a private American school in London who's notable alum included Andrew Luck, Steve-O and Devon Aoki, so I feel like the teachers were pretty decently paid. So this must have been more of like a passion project, like volunteer fire fighting or ER nursing or at-risk youth basketball coaching. Honestly, maybe like all three at once, which could explain this lapse of grading that she had but we'll never really know for sure.
But after that class when they announced the awards, I talked to Jason and he was understandably pissed but he agreed that he wouldn't say anything about it because, honestly, this would probably be the last time we'd heard of this thing and we'll just let bygones be bygones.
On Monday, in auditorium, in front of the entire school, they announced that we'd be receiving medals onstage. Medals for math. Math medals. They called our names out one by one, David Jackson-Hanen, Jason Danker, Will Tran. It felt like the final scene of the only good Star Wars movie there is, Phantom Menace. I'm kidding.
It was the awards ceremony and there I was up on stage, all awkward and gangly and out of place, like Chewbacca, and then the audience started to applaud the entire school for real. Jason made sure to stare at me extra hard but I ignored him and I just soaked in adulation. Things were getting kind of ridiculous at this point but, surely, this would be the last we'd ever of this so, now, bygones could truly be bygones.
A few weeks later I'm coming home from school and my mom greets me at the door with a big hug and a big smile. I see she's holding in her hands the school newsletter that they print and send to every family. On the front cover is a photo of the three of us and fucking article written about that goddamn math award.
She's just overjoyed. She's so happy and I'm overcome with guilt at this point. I just have to stop her mid-praise and come clean. I just need to tell her everything.
So I tell her, "Look, I did take the test but I bombed it. Jason got everything right and I copied down his answers because I wanted to figure out the answers for myself, but then they started giving us these stupid medals and now I have to give the medals back, right?"
She puts her hands on my shoulders and she looks at me with her big, brown eyes and she says, "You will not tell this to anyone. Do you understand me? You're going to put this on your college application, you're going to get into an Ivy League school and you will never, ever, ever tell this story again. Do I make myself clear?"
It was then that I learned the one rule that supersedes 'No cheating' in Asian Immigrant code, and that's 'No refunds'.
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SEP will hold their second parent meeting: Thursday, May 19 at 6:30 pm at the Children's Rehab Center in Howland. The meeting is scheduled to last an hour. Staff will meet at 7:30 at the same location.
The first SEP parent meeting has been scheduled for Thursday, April 28 @6:30 pm @ Children's Rehabilitation Center in Howland (885 Howland Wilson Rd. Warren 44484). Please plan to attend! You may bring your application at this time if you have not already sent it! We will be discussing updates and information regarding this years' program.


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Q: La función de correo PHP mail() no envía correo si es dirección de Yahoo Buenas noches compañeros.
Espero alguien pueda ayudarme.
Lo que ocurre es que tengo un formulario donde se envía un mensaje a un correo electrónico de Yahoo. Cuando se envía un correo con dirección de @gmail o @hotmail el correo llega perfectamente o incluso con cualquier otra dirección. El problema ocurre cuando se envía de una dirección de @yahoo.
Probe cambiando el destino a una cuenta de Gmail y ocurre lo mismo, si se envía de una dirección de @yahoo el mensaje no llega pero me marca que si fue enviado.
Adjunto el código envío PHP:
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$affair = $_POST['affair'];
$phone = $_POST['phone'];
$email = $_POST['email'];
$message = $_POST['message'];

$header = 'From: ' . $email . " \r\n";
$header .= "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion() . " \r\n";
$header .= "Mime-Version: 1.0 \r\n";
$header .= "Content-Type: text/plain";

$mensaje = "De: $name \n";
$mensaje .= "Télefono: $phone \n";
$mensaje .= "Correo electrónico: $email \n";
$mensaje .= "Enviado el " . date('d/m/Y')."\n\n";
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?>

A: Probablemente tu servidor esté baneado de Yahoo, recuerda que para que un servidor pueda enviar correos de manera correcta debe cumplir con muchos requisitos, por ejemplo:

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*Contar con una firma DKIM

*Contar con registros SPF

*La dirección IP del servidor debe estar permitido como enviador por el registro SPF

*Contar con registros DMARC

*La dirección IP del servidor debe contar con un registro inverso válido según registro SPF y DKIM

*Las cabeceras de envío de correos debe declarar el nombre del servidor
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Normalmente todo esto no se hace solo, debes hacerlo tu mismo, si usas cpanel entonces todo esto se realiza de manera casi automática, si has utilizado una instalación manual entonces deberás realizar todas estas modificaciones de manera manual, comenzando por instalar OpenDKIM y crear tus entradas de registros DNS que correspondan.
Recuerda cada cierto tiempo darle un vistazo a tus correos en cola, otra opción es que tu servidor fue atacado y se ha puesto a enviar correos de manera masiva y has caído en alguna lista negra, para saber esto revisar tu dominio y dirección ip en algún sitio de verificación RBL.


Call Buffalo Wild Wings Arby's $2.9 billion appetizer. Last week, word dropped that it was acquiring the 1,200-location wings chain, but now Axios warns that this was merely step one of "much greater acquisition plans." Parent company Roark Capital is reportedly amassing $2 billion that it can fling at impressionable restaurant brands. Once the shopping frenzy ends, Roark hopes to roll all of them into a new fast-food megacompany, and take it public.
Axios has obtained a confidential pitch-deck for this fund, which shows the entire investment strategy is to purchase additional restaurant chains that would be added to the Arby's platform, with targets having annual EBITDA of between $50 million and $300 million.
It's worth noting that Arby's was struggling until Roark bought it from Wendy's six years ago — it went from Jon Stewart's favorite punch line to a "meats"-having colossus whose sales hit $3.7 billion last year. Roark also controls a small army of other big fast-food players (Jimmy John's, Carl's Jr. and Hardee's, Corner Bakery, Carvel, Cinnabon, Moe's Southwest Grill, Auntie Anne's). No doubt it thinks this fast-food prowess will help sell investors on the new giant restaurant group, which according to Axios will have the extremely hokey name of Inspiring Restaurant Brands.