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Should Getting Married Completely Change You?
This past weekend I attended a friend's church in Dayton (more on my crazy travel-filled month in a later post), and the priest said something that both of us thought was completely inaccurate.
The priest asked whether our lives were different because of Easter, because of Jesus' resurrection, and argued that if they aren't different, then we don't fully understand Easter. In an attempt to draw an analogy, he mentioned that a couple had been married in that church the day before.
"If you don't feel different the day after your wedding," he said, "if getting married doesn't completely transform your life, then perhaps you don't fully understand what you've done."
He went on to say that in both cases, we had not an option but an obligation to live differently because of what had happened.
Leaving aside the discussion about Easter, let's talk about this perspective on marriage.
The friend whose church it was said she thought the priest was a bit biased because he's not married, and she may be right. How could he know what it's like to wake up the morning after your wedding? He understands marriage from a sacramental/theological view, sure, but in terms of talking about how it should make you "feel" to be married?
I'm not trying to downplay the importance of the marital commitment (which I realize means different things to different people). As you may know, my own wedding day marked for me a commitment of unconditional love for Mike, and it drew a clear demarcation for the physical aspects of our relationship.
But I've said before that I think it's dangerous to emphasize the wedding day too much, and I still believe that's true. Mike and I had been together almost five years by our wedding day, and I think the majority of the things that make us "us" were established by that point. I woke up the next morning still happy, still in love -- maybe slightly relieved that the wedding planning process was finally over, but not radically and fundamentally different. And yet this priest would have you believe that that's a problem -- that that means I didn't fully grasp what I had done.
In contrast, I think that if your wedding day constitutes a seismic shift in your life such that you feel completely and utterly different the day after than you did the day before, then I think there may be a problem.
Here are some possible radical attitude changes as a result of marriage that I don't think are all that great:
"Now everything is perfect!" This is the infamous "honeymoon period." Now that you're married, all problems have vanished and you are so in love that nothing can touch you. God has sanctified your union and you are now untouchable, unbreakable. If you wake up the day after your wedding thinking you will never be unhappy again now that you're married... you have some rough times ahead.
"Now he/she will change!" Making a promise to stay together doesn't make you or your partner into a perfect person, nor is it the magic bullet to get your partner to commit to make changes in their life. If you think that your messy, perpetually late, chain-smoking partner is going to become a neat, punctual non-smoker because "now we're married and everything's going to be different," you will more than likely be sorely disappointed. Change takes time; even if getting married does strengthen your partner's resolve to change (and there's no guarantee it will, or even that they'll feel they need to change), it will be one step in a much larger process.
"Oh sh*t, what have I done?" This is pretty much the antithesis to the other types of "radical changes." This is essentially waking up the day after your wedding feeling radically different because making a permanent commitment to the person next to you has suddenly made you see them for who they are. The giddiness of courtship had blinded you, and now that you've got a ring on your finger, harsh reality is setting in. Or maybe your partner does change as a result of getting married, but for the worse -- dropping the "charade" of wooing you and instead becoming rude or even abusive. That certainly isn't what this priest meant about your wedding transforming your life.
I like what Monday's What Marriage Means to Me contributor said: "I see getting married as a roadstop rather than a destination in two people's journey as Partners for life." Even if your wedding day is a big, flashy, massively important roadstop, it's still just one piece of the journey. And if you have a healthy, loving relationship before and after reaching that particular milestone, I see no reason that passing through it has to fundamentally change you or your life for it to be meaningful.
What do you think? For those of you who are married, did you feel radically different after your wedding? For those of you who aren't, do you think getting married would make you feel completely different?
Posted by Jessica at 5:00 AM
Labels: change, love, marriage, priests, relationships, ThoughtsOnMarriage, wedding
Emily Hornburg April 18, 2012 at 6:26 AM
I think after marriage life changes - but that doesn't mean YOU change. Or at least completely. Yeah, being in a relationship with someone changes you because people rub off on each other. That's just life. But if I get married someday and the expectation is for my life to do a complete 180 the next morning - no thanks.
Jessica April 19, 2012 at 7:35 AM
Right, and maybe I didn't make that distinction clear enough, based on the some of the comments -- being in a relationship has certainly changed me, and continues to change me. But the act of marrying Mike didn't make me into a different person, at least nowhere near the way that being with him for almost 7.5 years total has changed me.
Little redhead April 18, 2012 at 8:35 AM
I don't believe you would feel totally different the day after your wedding, happy, tired, possibly excited, but different? Most of us nowadays have been with their partner for some time before getting married, your relationship is already established, it's not puppy love anymore but something more, something real. Getting married is just a way of saying to the world, this is the person I want to spend the rest of my life with and I want to share it with my loved ones, that we are bonded forever. While I'm sure that's an amazing feeling at the moment, I assume once the wedding is over you go back to your normal way of life together.
I think from this priest's perspective -- and this I can understand -- if your way of life with your partner is exactly the same before and after the wedding and you see the wedding as being for other people, then you may be missing out on the spiritual aspect of your commitment together. I realize not everyone believes in marriage as something spiritual or sacramental, but from the perspective of a Catholic priest I can see why he would want the couple to appreciate marriage as a sacred covenant. My disagreement with him is that I think you can place that kind of great importance on the marital commitment in terms of how you view your relationship, but not feel completely transformed as a person as a result.
In other words, committing to be Mike's wife was, for me, a very serious commitment, but it doesn't mean that Jessica-his-fiancee was a different person than Jessica-his-wife.
If marriage makes two into one flesh then indeed a profound spiritual change has occurred. It might not manifest itself in a specific way or feeling but if nothing changes after marriage then I would suggest there might be an unde underlying problem preventing that change.
My question is, if really "appreciating" marriage requires some kind of change, what does that change look like? If, as you say, it doesn't manifest itself in a specific way, can anyone really say that a couple wasn't "transformed" enough by saying their vows to have fully appreciated the commitment they made?
Cathi April 18, 2012 at 10:55 AM
I spoke a little bit in my own blog in the entry about my engagement how getting engaged felt like a huge weight had been lifted from my shoulders, that the missing 1% had clicked into place, and how being 100% certain of us felt so. radically. different than 99%. While I try not to "expect" to feel any one way or another at any given time (that just sets one up for disappointment, I think), I'm anticipating our wedding day to have a similar emotional impact on me. An emotional settling, perhaps, where I'll intuit the foundation of our relationship finally being cemented after years of standing on shifting sand, and this engagement period of pouring the cement and standing by waiting for it to dry. If you will.
But. I am also a bit insecure, and so need constant rites and symbols and physical demonstrations to make me believe in ephemeral things like feelings and intentions. For people who aren't chronic doubters, they probably had their "day after the wedding" moment waaay earlier in their relationship. Perhaps the first time their partner said "I love you, too". And for religious couples who built their relationship on a spiritual foundation, being spiritually bound might not feel like anything new, because they had their moment the first time they went to a Bible study together.
In conclusion: I think everyone does have these feelings of feeling different, feeling changed, but when they happen will vary from person to person, couple to couple. For some, the grand, dramatic act of Getting Married will be that moment (or at least, A moment), and for some, their moment(s) happened while they were dating, or might happen in the future.
There's a lot to think about here. I wouldn't want to say that every couple gets to that point where they feel their relationship is completely "cemented," but we definitely reached a point like that, and it was well before we got engaged. I knew that I could confidently commit to spending the rest of my life being a partner to Mike before he asked me to marry him.
If I'd been unsure about that, I wouldn't have wanted to wait until my wedding day for that feeling to hit -- to my mind, to what marriage means to me, it's too big of a commitment to have banked on my wedding day being the moment I really felt secure in the relationship. I'm not saying this is the case for you, but if I hadn't felt 100% certain about being with Mike leading up to the wedding, I sincerely doubt that I would have felt completely sure after the fact -- or, if I had, eventually that uncertainty would creep back once the afterglow of the wedding wore off. That's why I say that if you wake up after your wedding thinking, "Now everything is perfect, now everything is in place," you've put too much stock in one day's ability to construct a solid, committed relationship, which truly takes time.
In other words, for me, the wedding was the declaration of my commitment to Mike, not the creation of it.
Vonae Deyshawn April 18, 2012 at 4:31 PM
I think marriage does change you but for the better. Obviously you have to become more compromising, learn to communicate better, and become selfless but these things are all a learning process. You're right on the fact that the priests is looking at it from a theological perspective. It's one thing to be married and another to study marriage in school or to be a casual observer.
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I guess I didn't make this distinction clear enough in the post -- I see a big difference between marriage changing you and getting married changing you. My entire relationship with Mike, both the time we've been married and the time before we were married, has changed me into a better person. But the moment that I made a commitment to unconditionally love him and be with him for the rest of my life, while hugely important to me, didn't in itself instantly make me into a better, more selfless, more caring person. And I think if I'd relied on the act of getting married to produce those kinds of changes in myself, I would have been disappointed.
I agree with Cathi's point about the impact of cementing a commitment. You might say that you're absolutely committed to someone, but until you are married you shouldn't be, by both theological and pragmatic standards. Lots of people date someone seriously and feel like they're going to be with that person forever, but then it doesn't work out. Part of you should be evaluating the relationship and weighing whether it is right no matter how long you have been together. Being married is different, because you're "all in" and promise to be all in permanently. For the first time, you are fully free to love someone with total abandon, and you are fully responsible to love someone no matter what they do. Many people, of course, don't treat it that way--and for them, maybe marriage is just a ceremony. If you believe, though, that marriage is an unbreakable lifelong bond, then it marks the moment that you move from loving-but-considering to loving-no-matter-what and that will feel different for most people who think it.
If you read the post I linked above about unconditionally loving Mike, you'll see that how I view marriage is very close to what you're describing here: "the moment that you move from loving-but-considering to loving-no-matter-what."
Where I disagreed with this priest was that I don't think my commitment to unconditionally love Mike made me feel massively different, because I couldn't have made that commitment if I didn't already feel able to do that. As I said to Cathi above, I would not have gotten married if I didn't already feel that I could be "all in permanently," as you described it. My future plans already included Mike -- or, indeed, were constructed with Mike -- so my life was not suddenly transformed by the fact that I now had a husband. My life, my plans, myself were transformed over time leading up to the making of our marital commitment -- not as a result of it.
Becca April 20, 2012 at 10:05 AM
I've heard about this kind of "complete change" for various areas of life, and it always sounds to me like something that happens to people who have been immature and are suddenly jolted by the realization that they have to grow up now. For people like you and me, who tend to be pragmatic and think ahead, that doesn't happen so suddenly.
A number of people have told me that parenthood "completely changed" them from selfish, irresponsible people to good citizens; therefore, everyone should become a parent ASAP to minimize their selfish destructive effects on society. I can only respond (I struggle to say this non-judgmentally!) that it's great that they've improved themselves so much, but not everyone is selfish and irresponsible in the first place! Personally, I feel that becoming a mother hardly changed me at all. Is my life different because of knowing my son and because of the physical experiences and schedule changes and so forth? Yes. But is Nicholas's Mama a completely different person from the old Becca? No! It's more like I was always Nicholas's Mama but just didn't have that title yet. :-)
Wow, yeah, I definitely don't agree that wanting to become more mature is a good motivation to become a parent. I get the whole "there's no perfect time to have a child" and you shouldn't hold out until you're "perfect" to become a parent, but I also wouldn't bank on having a child making you more responsible -- there are definitely parents out there who are far from responsible.
I hadn't thought about the parallel of parenthood until you mentioned it, but using that as another example where your life changes but you don't necessarily instantly change makes the priest's words seem that much sillier. Who would say to a new parent, "If you don't feel completely transformed at this moment, then maybe you don't realize what you've done"?? I expect that having a child will change my lifestyle, but I think that the experience of growing as a person as a result of being a parent will happen over time, the same way I've changed as a result of my relationship with Mike and every other person who is close to me. I hope that I will continue to grow in patience, understanding, and love, but I'm under no illusions that becoming a parent will suddenly transform me into this ultra-patient, understanding, loving person beyond who I am currently.
Becca April 24, 2012 at 6:17 AM
Who would say to a new parent, "If you don't feel completely transformed at this moment, then maybe you don't realize what you've done"??
It was an unusually clueless/tactless but basically nice older man at church who said essentially that to me. The same guy saw me a few months later walking home after picking up my baby from the sitter on a workday and berated me for "carrying way too much stuff--like you think he's going to have to survive all DAY out of that diaper bag!" Well, uh, actually, he did. The guy just wasn't good at understanding that other parents' situations aren't necessarily exactly like his had been.
Oy, it never ceases to amaze me the things that people say to parents. I'm sure I will get to hear even more gems like that once I am a parent. I wonder if there's anything that opens one up to more unsolicited advice/admonishment than having children... that certainly seems to prompt quite a lot!
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Croat says delayed EU talks must not slow down privatizations
April 19, 2005 19.04.2005 • 08:00
ZAGREB (Reuters) – Delay in launching Croatia's EU entry talks must not be allowed to slow up badly needed economic reforms, a leading businessman said yesterday. Emil Tedeschi, who heads the Croatian Employers' Association (HUP), told Reuters in an interview that the «business climate in Croatia has improved in the last five years, but many more reforms lie ahead. EU entry is an important motive, but we should keep on pushing them for our own sake, regardless of the EU.» Zagreb hopes to open EU accession negotiations this year. The talks were postponed in March as EU members were unhappy about Croatia's cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal in tracking down its top fugitive, General Ante Gotovina. «Nothing tragic business-wise hit Croatia when the EU talks were postponed, but what matters is not to lose momentum in pursuing reforms,» said Tedeschi, who runs Atlantic Group, a top local food retailer and producer. The government has focused its efforts since taking office in late 2003 on starting membership talks as soon as possible, with the aim of completing them in 2007. An increasing number of observers say it has devoted far less time to economic reforms. «I think the government is aware of key problems in our economy and the need to tackle them, but the pace of reforms is slower than what businessmen would like. HUP represents local entrepreneurs and seeks to improve business climate through regular talks with the government and unions on the main social and economic issues. Fight gray economy Tedeschi said Croatia needed to further improve the legal framework to become a more secure place for investors. After the independence war ended in 1995, muddled property rights and slow judiciary have hampered major foreign investments. Another weak point in the last two years has been slow privatization. «We need faster privatization, but done in an expert and transparent manner. Still too much of our economy – around 50 percent of gross domestic product – is in state hands,» Tedeschi said. High social costs have burdened the state budget for years, but both the current conservative and the previous center-left government were reluctant to cut spending and enforce painful reforms that could result in job losses. Tedeschi said easing the tax burden could help the economy's competitiveness, as well as the government's pledge to crack down on the widespread gray economy. Official estimates say almost 25 percent of GDP is currently generated in the gray economy, which illegally employs 100,000 people and costs the budget some 7 billion kuna ($1.23 billion) in lost revenues every year. The «gray economy damages the image of employers, distorts fair competition, hampers reforms and does not bring money into the budget,» Tedeschi said. The government decided last November to reintroduce financial police to control the payment of taxes and other duties. It should start operating in the coming months.
Gov't determined to stem state companies' losses
Draft law on PPPs ready this week
Bourse hit hard by global market worries
Shipping Report
William Hill to explore Greek fortunes
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Launched in 2012, the award is now in its third year and open for entries.
Rahul won a full Waveone kit from Dentsply.
Jamie Nelson, winner in 2013, is on the website of the Saving Teeth Awareness Campaign http://www.savingteeth.co.uk/against-all-odds.htm.
Jamie's winning account of saving the tooth of his patient is a perfect example of a tooth saved against the odds.
Chloe had been told by her previous dentist that her lower molar would have to be extracted.
She decided to get a second opinion from Jamie who told her that he would do his best to save the tooth, which he did.
Jamie also won a full Waveone kit from Dentsply.
Julian said: 'It is admirable to see young dentists acting in the best interests of patients by providing root canal therapy and saving teeth.
As in previous years, the prizes for first, second and third place winners will be valuable equipment useful to dentists aspiring to undertake endodontics at a higher level as well as the opportunity to observe at 121 Harley Street.
The judges of the award are Julian Webber, Trevor Lamb and Professor Andrew Eder.


Connecticut's fashion scene tapped into its wildside at the annual SWAN (Support Women Artists Now) Day at Trinity-on-Main in New Britain, Conn. March 5.
Two design lines that push the boundaries– Bad Bunny with its burlesque and pinup undertones and Bliss Ninja Clothing with its hippie meets '70s glam rockers approach– took to the stage with a mini-peek at both of their aesthetics.
Meanwhile, Tainted Inc of Hartford helped add to the edgy fashions with its boundary-pushing approach to makeup.
Here are some scenes from backstage and in the auditorium.
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The Original Gibson Girl
The Gibson Girl
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©2006, The Gibson Girl
The Gibson Girl was the iconic representation of feminine beauty created by the illustrator Charles Dana Gibson (1867-1944). She "reigned" in the United States during a 20-year period between the late 19th Century and the early 20th Century. Her image was published in newspapers and magazines of the time and adorned many advertising and marketing campaigns. She was the first "super model."
The Gibson Girl was tall and slender with the hourglass figure popular during that time. In addition to her refined beauty, in spirit she was calm, independent and confident, and she sought personal fulfillment. There's no question she was surrounded by an aura – she was self-confident to the point of being somewhat remote and aloof but never haughty. Gibson illustrated her as being so captivating that men would follow her anywhere, attempting to fulfill any desire. Men wanted to possess her and women wanted to be her. Many models posed for Gibson Girl-style illustrations, including Gibson's wife, Irene Langhorne, who may have been the original model, and her sister, the infamous Evelyn Nesbit. Stage actress Camille Clifford was probably the most famous Gibson Girl, for her looks and style personified Gibson's iconic images.
World War I saw a waning of the popularity of The Gibson Girl; the elegant fashions and long skirts worn by her in Charles Dana Gibson's illustrations were replaced by practical clothes that were more compatible for women in a country immersed in a world war. However, during World War II radio transmitters carried by plans in over-the-water operations were called "Gibson Girl" because of their hourglass shape.
A timeless classic, just like the purse that bears her name.


Each year Brightstowe runs routine end of year examinations for all year groups as part of a new programme of summative assessment to monitor student performance.
The introduction of these for students reflects the significant adjustment now taking place in GCSE examinations. With the demise of coursework and controlled assessment the academy is determined to help all its students prepare more successfully for exam only GCSEs.
Part of this is to adjust students from Year 7 onwards to formal exam conditions so that when they reach their GCSE year the process will feel perfectly normal and routine with no undue concerns.
With the end of early entry for GCSEs and the phasing out of 'controlled conditions' coursework, students will now need to achieve all marks from a final examination. In the case of English and Maths this will mean three separate papers for each qualification as opposed to two currently.
The most important thing is that students are well prepared and understand how to revise effectively. Being organised about this revision and seeing it as a continuous process not just a last minute exercise will be essential if they are to manage the new demands of courses.
With the changes to GCSE specifications we have also invested in access to www.GCSEpod.com for all students. GCSEPod is a website which enable students to revise exam board specific content as short podcasts. Students will find it easy to access via a computer mobile phone and enables revision to take place anywhere.
Watch the pupil walkthrough here.


Symbiotic: The Art of Relationships is an exhibition of local illustrators, featuring the work of Peter Bergamo Jr., Paul Demakes, Ewelina Kara, Jordan Pomazon, and Corinne Reid. The exhibit explores various kinds of relationships created through and within art, revolving around the common themes of interaction and conversation. Each artist examines a different kind of relationship in their work, expressing their unique perspective to create ultimate harmony throughout the exhibit.


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By Jayson MacLean Published on August 20, 2020 Last Updated on August 20, 2020 Filed under: All posts Stock: abx brk.b
Why is Berkshire Hathaway buying gold?
It's official, Warren Buffett has finally turned the page on gold.
Where once the "Oracle of Omaha" chided it as the investment that "produces nothing," Berkshire Hathaway's (Berkshire Hathaway Stock Quote, Chart, News NYSE:BRK.B) new position in Canadian gold and copper miner Barrick Gold (Barrick Gold Stock Quote, Chart, News TSX:ABX) seems to signal a new direction for Buffett and, potentially, a more tepid view of the equities market going forward.
So says Cathy Seifert, director at CFRA Research.
"If you look back on some of the comments that Buffett has made regarding gold or gold shares it certainly is an interesting selection and I think that also speaks to the changing of the guard at Berkshire," said Seifert, who spoke on BNN Bloomberg on Tuesday.
"My sense is that this purchase is a hedge against some of the higher beta stocks that he has an even more significant position in, specifically Apple and then some of the bank stocks. If you look at his equity portfolio it's sort of a barbell between technology and financial shares and the Barrett purchase represents an interesting hedge, in my opinion," Seifert said.
Barrick bounced earlier this week on news that Berkshire had taken a $562-million position in the mining company, leaving investors wondering if now's the time to buy gold, even at it tops the $2,000 mark for the first time.
But Seifert said with such a small position in gold relative to Berkshire's total portfolio, the move isn't all that eventful. More important is the faith that Buffett seems to be placing in his two investment deputies Todd Combs and Ted Weschler, who have transformed Berkshire's holdings via the company's large stake in Apple, which has served Berkshire well in recent years.
"This is sort of a little bit of testing the water," says Seifert. "It'll be interesting to see if
Buffett increases his stake in this holding or buys some similar names. He's done this before and then kept the position sort of at this weighting."
"I think the Apple purchase was certainly representative of a change [for Berkshire], and it's worked out, so my sense is that at this point the two investment deputies probably have a longer leash than they may have had before. My sense is that Buffett is still well aware of what's going on here and implicitly or explicitly signed off on [the Barrick] transaction partly because his the deputies have done a very good job, and I think they're taking a much more proactive stance as it relates certainly to the equity portfolio," Seifert added.
As for Berkshire's own share price, Seifert said the stock seems fairly valued at its current levels, but while the company has some potential growth areas in its portfolio, it's also weighed down by holdings in some secular soft spots.
"I think their insurance business is poised to do reasonably well this year. The market for insurance pricing is hardening and that's a positive, but literally every other business has got some economic-related issues," Seifert said.
"The other thing that investors should be looking for is some of their industrials, some of the energy, rail and transportation or the industrial group within Berkshire. If we start to see an increase in economic activity, that group should do reasonably well. Berkshire has a lot of consumer discretionary consumer staples related names and the outlook there is sort of mixed," Seifert said.


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Did You Notice What Was Happening, Truth, Behold The Power – Episode 1943
The [CB] the elite are trying to do everything in their power to stop the BREXIT, this will fail. They are not in charge any longer the people are. Trump and Boris are positioning a new free trade deal which will back the [CB] into the corner and they will trapped. Trump is continually calling out the Fed, he just accelerated the agenda. More and more people are entering the Presidential race, the latest Al Sharpton is thinking about it. Nadler impeachment is denied by a judge. The wall is being built on the border and it is working to keep undocumented immigrants out of the US. Trump just made a major push towards voter id. The gun control debate is about tracking all weapons, doing away with the 2nd Amendment. Strange pics surfaced, BC in a dress with heels. The [DS] is being exposed with truth, as the facts come out the people will see who and what they are, there will be no need to expose them because they will expose themselves.
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No-deal Brexit will be stopped, former finance minister Hammond says
Parliament will block a no-deal Brexit if unelected people behind Prime Minister Boris Johnson try to wrench Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 without agreement, former finance minister Philip Hammond said on Wednesday.
"Parliament is clearly opposed to a no-deal exit, and the prime minister must respect that."
Hammond said he was confident parliament, where a majority oppose a no-deal Brexit, would find a way to block that outcome.
Brexit supporters say there may be short-term disruption from a no-deal exit but that the economy will thrive if cut free from what they cast as a doomed experiment in integration that has led to Europe falling behind China and the United States.
Brilliant – President Trump and PM Johnson Structuring Trade Deal to Commence November 1st…
Wow, who didn't see this coming, I guess all those who are part of the establishment never thought she would be pushed out and the people would not accept her deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson are walking their respective trade teams through a process to deliver a U.S-U.K trade deal on the day after a no-deal Brexit is scheduled to happen October 31st. An interim trade agreement that goes into effect November 1st 2019 is pure Donald Trump win/win deal-making.
The DS, CB, non elected leaders have been shutdown President Trump and PM Johnson will counter all those concerns with the announcement of an agreement for an interim bilateral trade deal ahead of Brexit.
This strategic approach, a deal that delivers both the Brexit result and the economic stability to offset any Brexit downside concerns d more)
What Trump and Johnson could construct is a bilateral trade deal between the U.S. and the U.K that has genuine reciprocity and negligible trade barriers. Like a trade freeway between the U.K and the U.S, but only between the U.K. and U.S.
With the EU no longer able to influence trade agreements involving the U.K. European companies, and countries (Poland, Hungary etc.) could get tariff-free access to the U.S. market by operating out of Britain, or using transnational shipping through Britain.
Simultaneously, the U.S. could ship tariff free into the EU (to a receiving EU corporation, or EU subsidiary of a U.S. corporation) by exporting to Britain. The UK would be the hub for massive economic activity between North America and Europe.
Eventually all corporations in the EU, who wanted to do business with North America, would start operations in the U.K….. OR, the EU would have to drop it's one-way tariff policy (ie. the Marshall plan is ended). Think about the leverage this creates.
Source: theconservativetreehouse.com
U.S. Delays and Modifies "Next Step" Tariffs on Chinese Products…
Early on Tuesday United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer announced the modification of "next step" tariffs on Chinese products. [See Here] "Products in this group include, for example, cell phones, laptop computers, video game consoles, certain toys, computer monitors, and certain items of footwear and clothing."
the decision to postpone and modify looks political from the perspective of timing. Additionally the use of the term "next step tariffs" by USTR Lighthizer implies a sense of inevitability to a pre-determined process of increasing tariffs.
It would appear that President Trump has made a move based on a statement by Liu He about China making good on a prior promise to purchase significant agricultural products. Whether or not Vice-Premier Liu He is being misled (or used) by Beijing's strong-arm and duplicitous Commerce Minister Zhong Shan is yet to be determined.
Trump has delayed the Sept. 1st tariffs to see if Liu He will deliver on the agriculture promise, or if Zhon Shan is manipulating a lie to gain breathing room. While the latter seems more likely; it would make sense for President Trump to see of a multi-billion Ag purchase will take place. The benefit to the U.S. would mean a pending farm subsidy wouldn't be needed; and based on the timing of the phone contact and message from China, this scenario appears to be the most likely background.
Lets put the economic free trade deal plan together
1.Trump is positioning the U.K. trade deal to be the ultimate leverage to force the EU into negotiation.
2. Trudeau is trouble, elections coming up and when the Canadian election concludes, the USMCA ratification will be a primary focus….
3. Then Trump announces the U.S. and Japan deal….
4. Then China (and/or possibly now including Hong Kong)….
Source: conservativetreehouse.com
We are winning, big time, against China. Companies & jobs are fleeing. Prices to us have not gone up, and in some cases, have come down. China is not our problem, though Hong Kong is not helping. Our problem is with the Fed. Raised too much & too fast. Now too slow to cut….
..Spread is way too much as other countries say THANK YOU to clueless Jay Powell and the Federal Reserve. Germany, and many others, are playing the game! CRAZY INVERTED YIELD CURVE! We should easily be reaping big Rewards & Gains, but the Fed is holding us back. We will Win!
The clock is ticking down for the DS, we are now seeing more individuals enter the presidential race and those MSM hosts who have been the loudest, they have the most to lose. The patriot plan is moving ahead at lightning speed, I do believe we are going to see alot happen in the next couple of months, we will be talking about that a little later in this report but first
No, Really: Al Sharpton Considering 2020 Presidential Bid
Rev. Al Sharpton might be thinking about entering the race. he said the following
"I never rule anything out," said Sharpton, adding that he isn't currently exploring a run for the nomination.
Sharpton's feeling about where the Democratic Party is in relation to Trump is no secret. This year, on a recent visit to the United Kingdom, Sharpton told the Guardian Trump would likely Keep America Great because Democrats are "too tame to deal with an untamed opponent." And he's run before, citing among other things, a need to insert his voice at a time where the party had seemed insincere about its declared direction. That year, he also gave one of the more memorable speeches at the 2004 Democratic convention, saying he ran in part to show poor children who grew up like he did that they can also run for president of the United States.
I wonder what crimes he committed remember, just because you are a candidate it will not protect you.
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 98088e No.3093784
Sep 19 2018 19:08:00 (EST)
Sexual misconduct is the 'public shelter' to accept resignation.
Watch those announcing 2020 P running.
"You cannot attack a political opponent"
None are protected.
None are safe.
Source: pjmedia.com
NADLER DENIED: Judge Strikes Down Key Aspect of Democrats' Impeachment Probe
A federal judge in Washington, DC slapped-down a legal gambit launched by House Democrats to propel their impeachment inquiry against President Trump; calling the effort "superficial."
"[A]t first blush, the House Judiciary Committee's view that the related case rule applies is understandable," D.C. District Court Chief Judge Beryl Howell wrote in her order rejecting the bid. "Nonetheless, closer examination demonstrates that these connections between the two cases are too superficial and attenuated for the instant McGahn Subpoena Case to qualify[.]"
"This later-filed, subpoena-enforcement suit involves no issues of fact or law common to the earlier Grand Jury application, nor does it focus on a common event or transaction such that the matters would be 'related,'" the DOJ argued.
Source: hannity.com
ANALYSIS: Who and what the Horowitz report is likely to cover
The 448-page report detailing special counsel Robert Mueller's two-year Trump-Russia investigation is public. Next is the Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz's report into how that investigation started.
But what Horowitz's report, which is expected to delve into alleged abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and the FBI's use of the salacious and unverified dossier compiled by British ex-spy Christopher Steele, contains has been held close.
Still, recent developments have offered a sneak preview of the cast of characters who could make appearances when Horowitz explains what his team uncovered.
Horowitz is likely scrutinizing every aspect of the FISA approval process, and the head of the FBI plays an integral role. Comey signed three of the four FISA warrant applications and renewals targeting former
The FISA filings required approval from top members of the FBI and the Justice Department, so other possible targets of Horowitz's inquiry likely included the approvers of the four applications and renewals: Comey; Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates; Dana Boente, the only signatory in active government service and currently Trump's top lawyer at the FBI; then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe; and then-Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who appointed Mueller to be special counsel the month before.
, FBI interview notes with top DOJ official Bruce Ohr shed light on his role as a conduit between Steele and the FBI in 2016 and 2017, after the bureau says it cut Steele off as a source for leaking to the media. Ohr told the FBI that Steele was desperate Trump not win and suggested some of Steele's information may have stemmed from "Russian conspiracy theories." Bruce Ohr's wife, Nellie, worked at Fusion GPS, and Bruce Ohr passed her research along to the FBI.
Horowitz is also likely looking into the FBI's use of an article by Michael Isikoff to bolster its FISA filings. The FBI told the court it didn't think the piece was connected to the dossier, even though Isikoff only wrote it after meeting with Steele.
The Justice Department inspector general said when he launched the investigation last year at the behest of then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions he would "examine the Justice Department's and the FBI's compliance with legal requirements" related to FISA filings against Page and review the DOJ's and the FBI's dealings with Steele. But while Horowitz said he would consider including other issues that arose during the investigation, Attorney General William Barr has since suggested the inquiry is narrow.
Former FBI General Counsel James Baker is also likely to be among those scrutinized, since he admitted he inserted himself into the FISA approval process and reviewed the first FISA application.
Meanwhile, Barr, along with U.S. Attorney John Durham, launched his own inquiry into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation after Trump gave him broad declassification authority to look into it.
Source: washingtonexaminer.com
Lets head down to the border, the white house put out a video showing the wall being built
We are building the wall! pic.twitter.com/5CU4xZm34f
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 13, 2019
Since the wall went up in parts of the southern border there are reports that apprehensions are way down
Fox News reports that 14 miles of new wall along the U.S. southern border were built just last week, and apprehensions are since down 43%. The WALL is being built…and it's working! pic.twitter.com/Csfu2wNQYR
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) August 13, 2019
The push is on, we all knew it what going to happen, Trump is now pushing hard for voter id
Trump: Voter ID must play 'very strong part' in deal on election security
President Trump on Tuesday said Congress should not consider any "final agreement" on election security that does not include provisions mandating voters present identification while casting ballots.
No debate on Election Security should go forward without first agreeing that Voter ID (Identification) must play a very strong part in any final agreement. Without Voter ID, it is all so meaningless!
Tom fitton tweeted out the following
Nationally, there are about 3.5 million EXTRA names on voting rolls. LA County began process of removing 1.59 million of them. Thanks to @JudicialWatch federal lawsuit and legal settlement. https://t.co/oeUt9Mc7BL pic.twitter.com/5RBSugGZxG
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) August 14, 2019
Voter fraud is real:
Los Angeles county has a registration rate of 112% its adult population
The entire state of California has a registration rate of 101%
11 of 58 counties in CA have registration rates above 100%
Is this why California is solid Blue?
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) April 28, 2019
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Dec 12 2018 19:10:18 (EST)
Anonymous ID: 1bd9f2 No.4281387
Will voter fraud in CA ever be brought to light?
"Watch CA" was deliberate.
Geopolitical/Police State
Lets talk about gun control, yes the MSM is trying to make it seem that something is about to happen, but we know that congress has a very difficult time agreeing on anything, and I do believe Trump is betting on this, optics. The DS is pushing Universal background checks the question is why?
Pelosi knocks 'Moscow Mitch' for blocking gun, election interference bills
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday slammed Mitch McConnell — for blocking bills aimed at preventing gun violence and foreign election interference.
"We all want to invest in building our democracy and saving it from any enemies foreign and domestic, so we've sent our legislation to the Senate," Pelosi said at an Illinois Democrats' "Democrat Day" event in Springfield. "'Moscow Mitch' says that he is the 'Grim Reaper" … that he's going to bury all this legislation. Well, we have news for him. All this legislation is alive and well in the general public."
Source: nbcnews.com
Like I said, congress has to many agendas and these agendas do not benefit the people
Hawkins: Universal Background Checks Unenforceable Without Gun Registry
While universal background checks are pushed as a response to the El Paso and Dayton shooting attacks, it should be remembered that such checks are unenforceable without a gun registry.
Think about it — universal background checks presume that the government knows about every gun sale, everywhere, at every time. That is the very meaning of the "universal" system — that all sales are covered by one background check.
The problem is that the government does not know where the vast majority of guns are at this very moment. Thus, as mass public attacks and/or high-profile shootings continue, they will claim we need a registry so the government knows where every gun is and can, therefore, know if any gun is changing hands without a background check.
Another important point is that universal background checks will not stop mass public attacks. After all, Democrats pushed such checks in the wake of the Orlando Pulse shooting, but that shooter passed a background check for his guns. Gun controllers made the same push after the Las Vegas shooting, but that shooter passed a check for all his firearms as well. And the same goes for the Aurora movie theater attacker, the Parkland high school attacker, the Virginia Beach shooter, the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooter, and on and on.
So universal background checks may sound emotionally satisfying, but they will not stop attacks. However, they will lead to more gun control and lots of it.
Think about what they are doing, very slowly, methodically, convincing everyone that this will keep you safe and this is all we need to do, then another shooting happens, you know we need, we need this, and this will keep you safe, and so on until you wake up one day and you realize that all of this was to create a database of all weapons so they can round them up when the time is right.
Project Veritas – Google Whistleblower Goes Public: 'I Saw Something Dark and Nefarious Going On'
A Google whistleblower has gone public with claims of election manipulation and political bias, according to investigative journalism group Project Veritas, which posted a trove of over 950 documents provided by Google insider Zachary Vorhies, who says he has come forward because he "saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I realized that they were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States."
Vorhies told Project Veritas:
I gave the documents to Project Veritas, I had been collecting the documents for over a year. And the reason why I collected these documents was because I saw something dark and nefarious going on with the company and I realized that there were going to not only tamper with the elections, but use that tampering with the elections to essentially overthrow the United States.
Project Veritas leaked a number of internal Google documents in June which revealed "algorithmic unfairness" in search rankings, now Vorhies is claiming that these documents were widely available to Google employees:
These documents were available to every single employee within the company that was full-time. And so as a fulltime employee at the company, I just searched for some keywords and these documents started to pop up. And so once I started finding one document and started finding keywords for other documents and I would enter that in and continue this cycle until I had a treasure trove and archive of documents that clearly spelled out the system, what they're attempting to do in very clear language.
The documents provided by Vorhies contain a number of files of concern for conservatives, one of which is called "news black list site for Google Now" which Vorhies alleges is a "blacklist" that restricts certain websites from appearing on news feeds for some Android Google products. The list includes a number of both conservative and leftist websites including newsbusters.org and mediamatters.org. The document states that some sites are added to the list because of a "high user block rate."
Another document titled "Fringe ranking/classifier: Defining channel quality" compiles a ranking of various news sites by their level of trustworthiness. In the sample ranking showed, the most trusted site appears to the Wall Street Journal while the Next News Network is the least trustworthy ranking just below Alex Jones. Breitbart News is ranked above YouTube commentator Philip DeFranco, the Huffington Post, and The Young Turks, but below Russia Today America and CNN.
Another document titled "Fake news & other fringe: Trashy recap" claims that videos on Google's platforms are rated by multiple "human raters." Another internal document labeled "coffee beans" allegedly shows Google employees discussing diversity hiring practices at the firm. An internal thread of communications including with the firm appears to show a discussion about the document between employees, one of whom worries that the document appears to "misrepresent Google's hiring practices in a way that could raise legal questions…"
My message to those that are on the fence is I released the documents. They can go in, they can see everything that Google is doing and then they can see the scale of it. Because I think that there's a lot of engineers that have a hint that things are wrong, but they don't understand the colossal scale that it's at. And so for those people, I say, look at the documents, take the pulse of America, see what's happening and come and tell the world you know what you already know to be true.
Lets talk about what is happening with the MSM, Breaking911 tweeted out the following
JUST IN: Viacom, CBS have entered into definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger, creating a combined company with more than $28 billion in revenue – Reuters
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 13, 2019
5 Companies would control the news
Fake News and Social Media are the Propaganda Arm of the Dem Party
Q!!mG7VJxZNCI 11 Aug 2018 – 12:51:36 PM
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FAKE NEWS consolidation [propaganda arm of the D party].
Define Antitrust Law(s).
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws/antitrust-laws📁
The Sherman Act outlaws "every contract, combination, or conspiracy in restraint of trade," and any "monopolization, attempted monopolization, or conspiracy or combination to monopolize."
https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/competition-guidance/guide-antitrust-laws📁
"The FTC's competition mission is to enforce the rules of the competitive marketplace — the antitrust laws. These laws promote vigorous competition and protect consumers from anticompetitive mergers and business practices."
Reconcile.
+GOOG
+TWITTER
[CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN]
Now in Canada we know elections are going to happen in Oct, and it doesn't look good for Justin Trudeau
BREAKING: New report from Ethics Commissioner finds Justin Trudeau inappropriately pressured Jody Wilson-Raybould
A shocking new report from the Office of the Conflicts of Interests and Ethics Commissioner concludes that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did, in fact, inappropriately pressure former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould and sought to "influence her decision on whether she should overrule the Director of Public Prosecutions' decision not to invite SNC-Lavalin to enter into negotiations towards a remediation agreement."
The report goes on to say
For these reasons, I found that Mr. Trudeau used his position of authority over Ms. Wilson‑Raybould to seek to influence, both directly and indirectly, her decision on whether she should overrule the Director of Public Prosecutions' decision not to invite SNC-Lavalin to enter into negotiations towards a remediation agreement.
Office of the Conflicts of Interests and Ethics commissioner report, August 2019
Furthermore, Ethics Commission Mario Dion wrote that "The Prime Minister, directly and through his senior officials, used various means to exert influence over Ms. Wilson‑Raybould. The authority of the Prime Minister and his office was used to circumvent, undermine and ultimately attempt to discredit the decision of the Director of Public Prosecutions as well as the authority of Ms. Wilson‑Raybould as the Crown's chief law officer."
Source: thepostmillennial.com
Rusty Shackelford is up to it again, he is flying his drone all over Epsteins island and he is catching quite a bit.
More FBI agents on Epstein island.
Courtesy of Rusty Shackleford
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Maxwell said the island had been completely wired for video; the friend thought that she and Epstein were videotaping everyone on the island as an insurance policy, as blackmail. A source close to Maxwell says she spoke glibly and confidently about getting girls to sexually service Epstein, saying this was simply what he wanted, and describing the way she'd drive around to spas and trailer parks in Florida to recruit them. She would claim she had a phone job for them, "and you'll make lots of money, meet everyone, and I'll change your life."
Maxwell had one other thing to tell this woman: "When I asked what she thought of the underage girls, she looked at me and said, 'they're nothing, these girls. They are trash.'"
Source: hotair.com
It seems the story with the guards continues to get stranger and stranger, it seem someone can'g get their story straight.
NEW: Epstein Prison Guards Suspected of Falsifying Log Entries to Show They Were Checking on Him Every 30 Minutes
prison guards fell asleep, they were called away, one wasn't a prison guard, the latest prison guards falsified log entries to make it look like they were checking on inmates in Epstein's cell every 30 minutes, when they actually weren't.
The New York City medical examiner has not released Epstein's autopsy report so we still do not know the exact cause of death nor the time of his death.
Warden Shirley Skipper-Scott Sued Holder for Racism – Then Got Promoted to NY City's MCC Where Epstein Died
Shirley Skipper-Scott, a graduate from Alabama State, was warden of the Metro Correctional Center in New York City.
Now what is interesting about her is that Shirley Skipper-Scott sued Eric Holder in 2013.
Shirley Skipper-Scott, worked as a "social scientist" in the federal system for several years at the GS-12 level (source: https://www.federalpay.org/employees/bureau-of-prisons-federal-prison-system/skipper-scott-shirley-v ).
Then, she sued AG Eric Holder for employment discrimination in 2013 (Mississippi SD, # 3:13-cv-00017 ), resolved the case in 2016, and saw her career blossom into federal prison administration at the GS-14 level, i.e., in the top 10% of federal payscale, thereafter.
Oh by the way Skipper-Scott was removed as warden this week.
EXCLUSIVE: Ghislaine Maxwell's respectable new life: Jeffrey Epstein's long-time consort and the alleged procurer of his underage victims has been living with 43-year-old tech CEO at his secluded $3M oceanfront mansion outside of Boston
Ghislaine Maxwell, 57, has been hiding out at a secluded $3M oceanfront property in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal
The property is owned by her tech CEO boyfriend Scott Borgerson, 43,
Maxwell hasn't been seen publicly in three years and hasn't left the home amid new focus on Epstein's alleged co-conspirators following his apparent suicide on Saturday
Source: dailymail.co.uk
EXCLUSIVE: Did Jeffrey Epstein have painting of Bill Clinton wearing a blue DRESS and red heels and lounging in the Oval Office inside his Manhattan mansion? Visitor reveals bizarre image inside pedophile's $56m lair
Jeffrey Epstein had a painting which appeared to be Bill Clinton wearing a blue dress and red heels hanging inside his Manhattan home
Source who saw it during a business meeting
The blue dress seemed to be a pointed reference to Clinton's former intern Monica Lewinsky who wore a blue dress during their tryst in the White House
The painting was snapped inside the pedophile's mansion in 2012, seven years before he was accused of running a sex trafficking ring of underage girls
The source, who asked to remain anonymous, was visiting Epstein to present a business proposal
She told DailyMailTV: 'It was absolutely Bill Clinton. It was shocking… it was a very provocative, sexual picture'
Jeffrey Epstein had a bizarre portrait which appears to be of Bill Clinton hanging in his Manhattan mansion, depicting the former president lounging on a chair in the Oval Office wearing red heels and a telling blue dress, a source exclusively told DailyMailTV
The color of the dress seemed to be a pointed reference to Clinton's former intern Monica Lewinsky who a blue dress during their infamous sexual encounter in the White House. The painting seemed to show Clinton in the Oval Office, with the presidential seal on display
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Booksellers' Picks: 15 Soaring Summer Reads Susan Stamberg gathers recommendations from booksellers Rona Brinlee, Lucia Silva and Daniel Goldin. Their selections for summertime reading include books about small-town America, a polygamist father in over his head, and a postmistress in New England during World War II.
As days get longer and the sun's rays get stronger, books that are lighter and brighter stand a better chance of squeezing into packed beach bags and suitcases. But that doesn't mean summer books need to be weightless. Finding the perfect balance in a single bound edition can seem impossible, but it's a challenge that's just right for independent booksellers like Rona Brinlee of The BookMark in Atlantic Beach, Fla., Daniel Goldin of Boswell Book Co. in Milwaukee, and Lucia Silva of Studio City, Calif.'s Portrait of a Bookstore. Among the three of them, they've managed to find 16 books that fit the bill. Showoffs!
This summer's rays of literary sunshine come from 15 authors whose topics range from loaves of bread to small-town life in the Texas Hill Country. There's fiction from Sarah Blake, Hilary Thayer Hamann and Brady Udall, whose 600-page novel, The Lonely Polygamist, about a man with four wives who finds himself drawn to a fifth woman, was picked by two of our booksellers. There's also poetry (and a memoir) from quadriplegic writer Paul Guest, the story behind the making of the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's, and a first-person, nonfiction book from Ander Monson that's definitely Not a Memoir. The title even says so.
Recommendations from Lucia Silva, the book buyer at Portrait of a Bookstore in Studio City, Calif.
Ricky Rice is a sort-of ex-junkie working as a janitor at a bus depot in Utica, N.Y., when he's summoned to join a group of "Unlikely Scholars" at the mysterious Washburn Library in the backwoods of Vermont. A motley crew of mostly tender souls with shady pasts, the Scholars are faced with baffling protocols and cryptic assignments to investigate paranormal activity in service of some larger scheme.
Flawed, but beautifully, and perhaps purposefully so, Anthropology of An American Girl is an emotionally haunting novel, entrancing from the first to the last of its 600-plus pages. The arrestingly intimate first-person narration follows Eveline, a townie from East Hampton, from her senior year in high school in 1979 through the next five years of her life into a fast-lane, moneyed life in 1980s Manhattan.
Ander Monson is one of my favorite writers and thinkers, and this is his "not a memoir" -- a series of explorations and meditations on the very idea of memoir, of self-representation, vanity, and memory. A piece on jury duty digresses into ideas about "truth" and "facts," Monson's own petty-criminal past, and the very nature and impossibility of justice. Another chapter takes us into the now-common obsession with "self-Googling," as Monson explores all of the other Anders he finds online. Other sections are assemblages pieced together from lines from other people's memoirs, both famous and infamous.
On assignment for Entertainment Weekly to find an American town untouched by popular culture, Karen Valby happened upon Utopia, Texas -- a town with "no stoplights, one constable, six real estate offices, and seven churches," no chain stores or fast-food restaurants, no movie theaters, bookstores, or video stores.
I lived with the opening poem from My Index of Slightly Horrifying Knowledge pinned to my wall for a year before learning that its author had typed it with his mouth. When he was 12 years old, Paul Guest broke his neck when the brakes gave out on a borrowed bicycle, leaving him paralyzed.
Recommendations from Rona Brinlee at The BookMark in Atlantic Beach, Fla.
William Alexander has such a fond memory of the perfect bread he once ate that he's now embarked on a quest to re-create this loaf, starting from scratch. When he says "from scratch," he means it. This journey begins with planting wheat.
52 Loaves, by the author of The $64 Tomato, is a yearlong log of Alexander's personal and obsessive journey back to that perfect loaf. He starts the project at a weight of 196 pounds; his shelf of bread books weighs a mere 2 pounds. At the end of the year, the author tips the scales at just 201 pounds (not bad considering all the bread he consumed), while the books have expanded to 60 pounds.
In this novel, 80-year-old Alice Liddell Hargreaves muses about her life, her relationship with Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson), and what it's meant to be his Alice from Wonderland. She remembers meeting the muse for Peter Pan and offering him advice on how to deal with such notoriety.
As a young laborer helping to build the New York subway tunnels in 1900, Peter Force encounters a beautiful but tattered-looking woman who claims to be from a different time and place. Their growing friendship -- and ultimately love for each other -- lead the two on a path to save the world from the effects of time travel if a machine that makes it possible falls into the wrong hands. Flaming casts Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison as rivals eager to claim this scientific invention, while financier J.P. Morgan covets its potential moneymaking possibilities.
"To put it as simply as possible: this is the story of a polygamist who has an affair." This first sentence sends your mind racing in so many directions. Apparently, a family with one husband, four wives, and 28 children has the same dysfunctional issues as a family with two parents and two kids. There are more issues -- but more people to help resolve them.
We expect the mailman to deliver the mail and the reporter to tell the story, especially when fulfilling these obligations helps provide order in a world gone awry. What if the decision to not comply with professional norms derives from compassion and a sense that not doing the expected is the kinder act? What if the postmistress decides not to deliver a letter, and the reporter decides not to turn in a story?
The thread of this novel connects people on both sides of the ocean during World War II -- those waiting at home and those fighting abroad. What they all share is a search for order and reasons -- explanations for horrific events and seemingly random acts.
Although new to the U.S., The Prince of Mist is actually the first book written by the best-selling author of The Shadow of the Wind. Technically a young adult book, it really is for readers "ages 12 & up" (emphasis on the "& up"), and it has all the fantastical and spellbinding elements of Zafon's adult novels.
Recommendations from Daniel Goldin at Boswell Book Co. in Milwaukee.
A few of the characters who bounce through the pages of Frederick Reiken's novel Day for Night: Forty-something doctor Beverly accompanies her scientist boyfriend, David, and his son on a trip to swim with manatees. David has leukemia and they are talking about Beverly adopting his son, but she hits it off with their guide, Timmy, and agrees to see his band, featuring the mesmerizing lead singer Dee. Jump to Dee and Timmy traveling on a plane to rescue Dee's brother Dillon, who is in a coma after a motorcycling accident in the Negev desert. Dee is panicked that evil family members are going to harm Dillon. Timmy -- not her boyfriend but sleeping with her nonetheless -- is there for her; his only distraction is the mysterious woman seated next to them, who is reluctant to engage them in conversation. Jump to an FBI report on the whereabouts of Katherine Clay Goldman, a radical '60s fugitive.
With four wives and 28 kids, Golden Richards has more than he can handle. Financial pressures have led him to take a job doing construction work on a brothel, and it's best not to mention it to the rest of the family. Brady Udall's sprawling story is told through Golden, one of his wives (the most distant one, yet to have a child with Golden) and one of his 28 kids, Rusty.
Though Elizabeth Jenkins has written 12 novels and a notable biography of Jane Austen -- she's one of the founders of the Jane Austen Society -- most American readers remain unaware of her work. The Tortoise and the Hare is a delicious tale of life in suburban London in the early 1950s. The heroine, Imogen Gresham, is married to an older man, a barrister, and life with him and her somewhat sullen child is a bit unpleasant.
Imogen almost expects her husband to find comfort in a younger woman, the way she pines after an old beau, a doctor who married a woman far younger than she, but instead, her rival for his affection winds up being Blanche Silcox, an older woman prone to fishing and fast cars. The results are both sharp satire and poignant character study -- just who exactly is the tortoise and who is the hare? Jenkins is Barbara Pym with more bite, a more playful variation on Anita Brookner. And yes, you can see the Jane Austen influence as well.
After leaving her family in Japan, alienated from her father, brother, and stepmother, Kyoko Mori made a new life for herself in the United States. Settling into the small city of Green Bay, Wis., she found herself one of the few foreigners in town, with little comfort from her husband. The hook to Mori's memoir, Yarn, is that she organizes the episodes in the book around knitting projects, some original and others taken from Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Without Tears.


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Q: Can't extend redux connected class, getting super expression either be null what i wanna do is to make a component and connect it to redux(to bring some of redux store props to component), then extend this component and make those redux props available to child component as well(cause they have exactly same props). but i faced a problem:
This is parent class
import * as React from 'react'
import { connect } from 'react-redux'
import { View } from 'react-native'

class UnConnectedManageProductBaseScene extends React.Component {
    public render(){
        return (
            <View/>
        )
    }
}

const mapStateToProps = (state) => {
    return {

    }
}
const mapDispatchToProps = (dispatch) => {
    return {

    }
}
export const ManageProductBaseScene = connect(
        mapStateToProps,
        mapDispatchToProps
    )(UnConnectedManageProductBaseScene)

and this is child class
import {   ManageProductBaseScene} from '../ManageProductBaseScene'

export class OwnerManageAuctionScene extends ManageProductBaseScene {
    constructor(props) {
        super()
    }
}

when i try to extend OwnerManageAuctionScene from redux connected component (ManageProductBaseScene) i get error: Super expression must either be null or a function

A: Pass the props as a parameter in super() like this
import {   ManageProductBaseScene} from '../ManageProductBaseScene'

export class OwnerManageAuctionScene extends ManageProductBaseScene {
    constructor(props) {
        super(props);
    }
}

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Video: Two women rescued by the US Navy said they were never lost at sea and fishing vessel tried to kill them
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Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava said in an interview that they weren't lost at sea and the Taiwanese trawler who spotted them weren't trying to rescue them but kill them instead
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Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava, the two women rescued by the US Navy after spending five months lost have sea trying to sail from Hawaii to Haiti, have given an interview to NBC Today programme claiming that in fact they were never lost in the first place.
They also said that the Taiwanese commercial fishing vessel that spotted them in the waters posed a danger to them.
"We were never 'lost at sea.' We knew where we were the entire time," Jennifer Appel said.
"While the media portrayed a rescue with the Taiwanese fishing vessel, they were actually the reason why we called for help.
"The Taiwanese fishing vessel was not planning to rescue us," she added. "They tried to kill us during the night.". They pair that the boat purposely rammed against their 50ft yacht, the Sea Nymph.
It was only at this stage that the two felt in danger and decided to alert the US Coast Guard. However, despite fearing the Taiwanese sailors meant them harm, the two women didn't use their EPIRB but a satellite phone on the trawler.
"I was able to get on a surfboard and get on their boat, make an actual phone call. Because no one spoke English, it was easier and safer for me to relay the information to the U.S. Coast Guard-Guam sector that we were in danger without them realizing what we were saying. If I had thrown the EPIRB at that point, he [the captain] would have known." claimed Houston born Appel, 46.
Presenter Matt Lauer questioned them about two other claims that they had made. The first was that they had lost their engine and damaged the mast during a strong storm, which was never recorded by the National Weather Service.
"…I believe that the storm advisory that the U.S. Coast Guard did say that they put out … was anticipated to be smaller than some of the downdrafts that we saw," former landscape architect Appel told Lauter "If you were there, you would say the same thing I did. It really felt a lot bigger."
Despite the weather conditions and the fact that Appel said 'Tasha if I make a mistake we are gonna die tonight", Fuiava, 26, who did not have sailing experience before, said she is a heavy sleeper and slept throughout the ordeal. "That didn't phase me" she added.
When asked about their statement that their sailing boat was attacked by tiger sharks in another incident, a behaviour that experts say is unusual for the fish, Jennifer Appel replied: "The sharks had been telling us, you're in our living room, and you're not leaving fast enough. And we didn't realize that was what we were being told until too late,".
When presenter Matt Lauer pointed out that there's been criticism surrounding the series of event, Appel hit back saying that it was the US Navy who had come to their rescue that had contacted the media, not them but that they "were enjoying the ride".
Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava spoke to reporters about being rescued by USS Ashland on Wednesday (25 October) after spending five months lost at sea with their two dogs, Zeus and Valentine.
They were supposed to sail for 18 days from Hawaii to Haiti when they lost their engine and the mast was damaged during a storm.
They also said that in another incident their boat was attacked by tiger sharks.
The women tried to make distress calls but they claim they were too far out to sea for the signal to be picked up on land. They also claim that they saw no passing vessel during the five months, until they were spotted by a Taiwanese commercial fishing boat.
The US Navy said that Appel, Fuiava and their dogs were in remarkable conditions when they were found, despite their ordeal.
On Friday (27 October) the pair spoke to reporters from a US Navy base in southern Japan.
"We knew we weren't going to make it," Jennifer Appel said. "So that's when we started making distress calls. We were hoping that one of our friends who likes to go deep sea fishing and taking people out might have gone past the 400-mile mark and might have cruised near where we would be."
Appel and Fuiava said they survived for five months thanks to the extra supplies of food and water they had taken with them. However, they shared them with their two dogs and soon they found themselves running out of things to eat and drink.
"When I saw the gray ship on the horizon, I was just shaking," said Appel "I was ready to cry, I was so happy. I knew we were going to live."
Appel's yacht, 50 foot Sea Nymph, has been abandoned at sea but she hopes it will be found and she will be able to repair it.
The woman has been sailing around the Hawaiian Islands for 10 years, however Tasha Fuiava had no sailing experience prior to their ill-fated trip.
The incident seems to have left the women undeterred and according to Appel they plan to do the same sailing trip again next year.
"We still never got to see the 20,000 islands, so I think that would be the most fantastic trip for May of next spring," she said.
Jennifer Appel and Tasha Fuiava from Honolulu were sailing from Hawaii to Tahiti with their dogs Zeus and Valentine, when they lost their engine. The two women tried to carry on sailing, but ended up getting lost at sea for 5 months
They were rescued by the US Navy on Wednesday (25 October) after a Taiwanese trawler spotted them about 900 miles south-east of Japan and alerted the US coast guard. USS Ashland were on the scene the next day.
Appel and Fuiava had been lost at sea since 30 May. They had tried to make distress calls but they were too far out to sea and the signals were not picked up on land. There were no nearby craft to detect the calls at sea either.
The two women survived thanks to the water and supplies they had packed, which were intended to last a year.
Appel said, upon being rescued: "They saved our lives, the pride and smiles we had when we saw [USS Ashland] on the horizon was pure relief."
Appel and Fuiava were given medical treatment, food and a place to sleep aboard USS Ashland.
"The US navy is postured to assist any distressed mariner of any nationality during any type of situation," Cmdr Steven Wasson, the commanding officer of the USS Ashland, saying.
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On Thursday morning Jennifer Appel called her mother, after not speaking to her for the entirety her five months ordeal, The Guardian reports.
Jennifer Appel left for her trip on her yacht Sea Nymph on 3 May, her mother said, but soon after the two women weren't able to speak because Jennifer Appel's phone was lost overboard the first day she was at sea.
"Various things on her boat broke, the mast broke and the engine wouldn't start when she needed power. So she had several problems that caused her to end up drifting in the ocean," Jennifer Appel's mother Joyce said.
Joyce alerted the authorities 10 days after her daughter left for Tahiti. "The Coast Guard, in Hawaii, did a search and rescue effort," she said.
The Guardian says that during that time Joyce Appel moved house and had a new phone number and worried her daughter may not be able to reach her. "I waited and waited and waited to see when I would hear from her. I knew she didn't even know the phone number here," she said.
"I had hope all along, she is very resourceful and she's curious and as things break she tries to repair them, she doesn't sit and wait for the repairman to get there, so I knew the same thing would be true of the boat."
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