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A bad credit score can stop you getting financial help from any financial institution such as banks as they all check your credit score to find the capability of borrower to repay. Many lenders don't consider anything if you have a bad credit score and will not lend to you if you have credit score a specified number. Fortunately, there are strategies to help you get financial help even when you are suffering with bad credit.
Most loans need 20 per cent down payment of the loan amount. Try to provide a larger down payment; as this will show your seriousness to the lender.
Look for the different short term loans like payday loans which can provide you small amounts of cash until your next payday. You can easily get these loans if you are a permanent employee or have a permanent income source without any credit check and collateral involvement. These are fast loans which can provide you immediate financial help within 48 hours. After approval of the loan, the amount will be directly credited in your bank account.
If you have a black mark on your credit report because of the some reason like unexpected medical crisis, you can explain that in your credit file. It might be possible that some lenders take it into consideration while measuring your capability of repayment and loan risk.
You can request someone from your family or a friend with good credit to co-sign a loan application. Makes sure that you repay the loan as if you fail to repay your cosigner have to pay off your loan amount.
Providing collateral as the security against the loan amount boosts your chances of getting loan as it reduces the risk for the lender. If you fail to repay the loan amount within the maturity period, the lender has the right to possess your collateral and sell it to get back the loan amount. The value of the asset provided as collateral has to be equal or more than the loan amount.
Conclusion: the bad credit score stops you from getting any traditional loan or refinancing an existing loan. However, some lenders consider your financial situation and predict your repayment ability and lending risk; for which they may charge you a high rate of interest. Moreover, for great advice on IVA visit the experts at www.debtfreedirect.co.uk, wherein seasoned professionals who have plenty of experience in the industry are sure to the have the right advice for you.
Providing collateral seems quite risky to me. And I don't really fancy payday loans that much so I will have to opt on giving creditors a valid reason for my bad credit score. People with bad credit scores should attempt this first before they jump into other options. If you are truly sincere with your reason, they might give you a chance at financial help.
Do a background check on your prospective lender. Be sure they have a clean and good lending reputation. You should list down all the lending businesses that you know and trust and if you think their interest rates are too high then do some lending firm research and perform a thorough check. You do not want to get involved in a pay day loan fraud, that is the worst thing that could happen.
I wouldn't want to fall into a trap and become a cosigner for somebody who I don't really like. I'm not so sure about becoming a cosigner even for my family. They got themselves into debt, they need to get themselves out of it themselves.


John Dornback - or just Johnny to his staff - always seems to be smiling, and it's infectious. I guess you'd be smiling too if you owned the terrific Basi Italia - one of the best and most intimate Italian restaurants in Columbus.
John Dornback - or just Johnny to his staff - always seems to be smiling, and it's infectious. I guess you'd be smiling too if you owned the terrific Basi Italia - one ofthe best and most intimate Italian restaurants in Columbus.
The always-bubbly Basi, which sits in picturesque Victorian Village, delivers its charm and modern cuisine with gusto and verve and it's got plenty of fine wine deals of its own, too.
Before converting an old pizzeria into one of the city's most romantic restaurants, Cleveland native Dornback lived and cooked for 14 years in New York City, where he attended the prestigious French Culinary Institute and studied under the legendary Jacques Pepin.
Chef Dornback went the route of an artfully composed four-course meal flaunting the kind of eye appeal that could've been ripped from the pages of the late Gourmet magazine. He attractively stacked two of his beauties into impressive sculptural-type works, he served up individual pots of braised cabbage and beans in upscale-rustic style and even made souffles!
While Dornback displayed a liberal hand on the cheffy aromatic accents (lemon zest, greens and lots of fresh herbs) and rich dairy-grounded ballast (heavy cream is one of a chef's best friends), those ingredients are fairly cheap and besides, he (hilariously) seemed most proud of his carefully guarded "proprietary blend" top-secret ratio of ramen seasoning to mac-and-cheese flavoring pouch.
Man, I'd eat his deliciously silky and crunchy "Inside-out chicken pot pie" or his surprisingly clean-tasting and light tuna and beet tartare right now.


Well, it's only been two damn years since my last book came out in hardback, so it's good to know the release of SURVIVAL GAME, the sequel to EXTINCTION GAME is just a very few months away. I just got the full wraparound cover from the publisher, and here it is in all it's glory. You can click on it to see the small print, as it were.
Got to be said, a very nice collection of reviews there, and it behooves me to remind you that the one from Publisher's Weekly is the much-covered starred review.
Anyway, a truly stupid amount of work went into this book, and I really hope you like it. It'll be hitting your bookshops, e-readers and tablet-like objects of your choice some time in August.


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The body consumes carbs initially as a source of energy. If there are more carbs taken in, the body stores the surplus as fat. If there are less carbohydrates taken it, the body is forced to use the saved fat for its energy requirement. The principle of these low carb diet plans is to take in food low in carbs so that the body is required to utilize its kept fat.
By considerably lowering carbohydrates to a little portion of a person's diet plan, the body enters into "ketosis". The body burns its own fat to convert into energy An individual in ketosis is getting energy from ketones. Ketones are little carbon fragments that are created by the breakdown of stored fat. One feels less starving when his or her body remains in ketosis. The end outcome is that she or he is likely to consume less even if permitted to do so. In effect, the body is changed from a carbohydrate-burning maker into a fat-burning one, therefore making fat the primary energy source. This brings us to the most basic truth of dieting: the less fat you have, the lighter you weigh. Completion outcome is the wanted weight-loss.
There are diet plans like Atkins that seem to be a dream come to life. It originates from its style that a person could consume as much as he or she desires from a wide array of food that other diets steer away from. Steaks, meat, crab, eggs, all kinds of protein based food are enabled because the body will burn carbs first and not protein or fats. Basically, it follows the very same low carb principle of lowering carbohydrate consumption and forcing the body to utilize fat towards weight-loss.
But professionals are concerned about the long term safety of the diet. By contemporary medical standards, the danger of heart problem, stroke, cancer, liver and kidney issues are really extremely high. These dangers have actually been explained duplicated by a number of health researches on high fat diets.
Other low carb diets are cleansing in nature such as the detox diet plan. It helps in the health reassessment of one's way of life, eating patterns and concentrate on foods. Here, one becomes more knowledgeable about one's food intake. There are people, such as diabetics, people with low blood sugar or consuming conditions have to remain clear of it. They will find themselves more in trouble than they are already.
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Y.A. Erskine, Yvette, is another ex-cop who will be appearing in print next year. Random House will be publishing her first novel, THE BROTHERHOOD. File that name away for future reference.
And, if you are travelling this month then keep your eyes peeled - Penguin tell me that there are 11 of these lightboxes at airports around the country. See it, snap it and send it in!
That's so exciting, Pam! How great does that feel?


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The Board of Directors at Continental Outdoor Media Holdings are pleased to announce the following appointments: Barry Sayer will assume the role of Executive Chairman from Mark Hartmann of Helios Investment Partners, in an executive capacity. Mr Hartmann will remain a Non-Executive Director.
Bazil Lauryssen will be appointed to the position of Chief Executive Officer with day to day responsibility for the running of the business, reporting to the Executive Chairman.
Adelaide McKelvey remains Managing Director of the company's Rest of Africa business outside of South Africa with James Scott as Chief Financial Officer, both reporting to the CEO.
The changes take place with immediate effect.
Barry Sayer, doyen of Out of Home media (OOH) and president of FEPE international (the Federation European Publicite Exterieur) has been promoted from his previous position as CEO, which he took up upon returning United Kingdom to South Africa. This was after a four year sojourn in the UK, where he served as CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor United Kingdom and as Regional President for the United Kingdom, Ireland and the Middle East of Clear Channel Inc., the world's largest outdoor advertising company. Whilst in the United Kingdom he also served as a Director of Postar, the outdoor research company, and as a Council Member of the Outdoor Advertising Association of the UK. Outside of the advertising industry, he served as a board director of the City of Westminster, Heart of London Business Alliance. Sayer was unanimously elected as President at the 52nd annual General Assembly of FEPE International in May 2011 in Madrid.
Lauryssen has been promoted from Managing Director, a position that he has held since the company's inception. Lauryssen, a certified Charted Accountant in South Africa, has steered the Continental Outdoor Media brand with distinction and grown it into the rest of Africa during his tenure as MD, having worked for the company's predecessor companies since 1993.
Bazil Lauryssen started as a Financial Director at Primesite Outdoor Advertising and worked his way up to General Manager, prior to the company's consolidation into Primedia. CorpCom's then CEO, Sayer, recruited Lauryssen to be the Operations Director of its subsidiary company, Rent-A-Sign, which was at that time the biggest company in its sector. Within 18 months, Lauryssen restructured the business and played a critical role in CorpCom's listing on the JSE. In September 2000, he was appointed Managing Director of the South African operation and by 2001 he was appointed as a main Board Director. After the company was sold to a joint venture partnership between Clear Channel Communications Inc. and INM SA, Lauryssen ran the South Africa business interests, constituting 75% of the Group's turnover and profits. In 2006, he became Managing Director of INM Outdoor, overseeing operations in 14 African countries.
Adelaide McKelvey, previously Sales & Marketing Director at Continental Outdoor Media since 2005, was appointed as Managing Director Rest of Africa in October 2012. Continental Outdoor Media now operates in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Prior to her role as Sales & Marketing Director, McKelvey was Divisional Sales Director from 2001 to 2005 and General Sales Manager from 2000 to 2001. Since 2007, she has also served as an alternate Director to the main Board of the Company. She worked at the Company and its predecessor company, CorpCom, for a combined 11 years, having first joined CorpCom as a Sales Executive in 1997.


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by Annie Lord
Aug 1 2018, 2:10pm
sustainable fashion shouldn't just be for rich people
Waste is a design flaw and one that those with the least amount of money pay for.
Stella McCartney AW 18, photography Mitchell Sams.
Sustainable fashion shouldn't just be for those with lots of money. But, as it stands, all your average consumer can afford is fast fashion -- an industry that we know has an extensive human and natural cost. Those making the clothes we wear work in awful conditions for long hours, often for much less than minimum wage, traveling vast distances to get to work. The factories are often incredibly dangerous for workers -- the highly publicized collapse of the Rana Plaza complex in Bangladesh back in 2013, resulted in the death of 1,134 garment workers.
The culture of transient trends rather than personal style leaves vast quantities of clothes quickly outdated. Around 80 pounds of clothes per person is thrown away every year in America alone, a figure that has doubled in the last 20 years. And free returns? Most of that ends up in landfill too, not back on store shelves.
Much of fast fashion is made out of polyester, which produces harmful microfibers that run into water when washed. After sinking into the ocean, these pollutants are then swallowed by plankton and shellfish, which are then consumed by humans, posing a serious threat to our health. Toxic chemicals used in agriculture for growing cotton have caused brain tumors in the farmers that grow them and birth defects in their children.
In a nutshell, fast fashion is bad. But, is luxury fashion any better? Not only that, but what do we do about the fact that high street clothing is the only affordable option for most people?
Photo via Wikimedia Commons.
Most ethical clothing brands are expensive. Stella McCartney is largely seen as the forerunner in sustainable fashion. While it's highly admirable that she integrates recycled nylon into her designs and sources viscose in a way that protects ancient forests, her clothes aren't priced for the average consumer. Even sustainable clothing brands that are meant to be affordable far surpass the majority of the population's budget. LA based label Reformation follows ethical business practices: In exchange for the emissions and water they generate, they help plant forests to naturally capture CO2 from the air, invest in clean water solutions, and purchase landfill gas offsets. Ethical clothing brand Birdsong focuses on manufacturing clothes in the UK with women who are paid a living wage. But with dresses from Reformation costing around $200 and trousers from Birdsong costing around £125 -- while a great option -- it's an investment few can make.
According to financial expert Pete Dunn, we tend to spend up to around 5% of our wages on clothes. So, if you earn around $30k a year, you can spend $1,500 annually on clothes. Or, if your monthly salary amounts to $2,500, that's $125 you can spare each month. For most people this out rules any possibility of purchasing sustainably sourced clothing.
It is easy to tell people to shop in charity shops and mend clothes, but when 18% of clothes are thrown in the trash because of wearing out and 26% because they went out of fashion, what are people expected to find in charity shops that would be worth keeping? And it's also a time-consuming practice. We should be able to follow Joan Crawford's advice and "care for clothes like the good friends they are", but when they're manufactured to rip and tear, that's easier said than done.
The pressure to stop buying fast fashion is difficult to stomach when CEOs of high street chains are raking in literal billions a year -- money that could be used to make affordable sustainable clothing. Last year, Philip Green, Chairman of the company that owns Topshop and a slew of other high street brands, was valued at £3.8 billion. While Arthur Peck, the CEO of GAP Inc., earned $15.6 million last year. If just 10% of that money went towards paying garment workers more and sourcing materials that don't harm the planet, it would make a huge difference to the industry.
It's clear that fast fashion is bad, but many seem to forget that luxury fashion often has a similarly damaging impact on the environment. "It's a myth that fast fashion and the high street is solely responsible," explained Orsola de Castro, co-founder and creative director of Fashion Revolution, "in the luxury market, jewelery, cashmere, the amount of leather being produced, it all harms the environment. Designer clothes might be more expensive but they are still not paying supply chain workers correctly or even the minimum wage. The whole industry has to be addressed, not just fast fashion."
Even if we could afford to spend more on clothes, it would not necessarily reduce harm to the planet. Toxic chemicals are used by luxury fashion houses to mine gold, and their diamond-mining practices contribute to soil erosion in countries like Sierra Leone. It's a process which removes the nutrients from the upper soil, leaving areas unsuitable for farming, prone to flooding and deforestation. The goats which cashmere comes from have grazed Chinese grasslands down to a moonscape, unleashing some of the worst dust storms on record and fueling a plume of pollution heavy enough to reach America.
While in terms of transparency -- how open businesses are about their practices -- from supply chains to wages and wastage, high street retailers are outperforming most designer labels: "If you look at Fashion Revolution's transparency index, many high streets shops are vastly exceeding designer labels, with H&M, GAP and ASOS becoming over 50% transparent. This isn't the end goal but it is a good start as it will enable brands to become more accountable for their supply chains," explained Orsola.
Image via ASOS Instagram.
Progress on the high street is slow, but sustainable practices are becoming more widespread. Many big retailers such as ASOS are mobilizing circularity in the way they manufacture their clothes. This mode of production focuses on the minimization of waste and the regeneration of old products to ensure all clothes are worn for entire lifetimes. H&M and GAP have also installed large clothing bins into their stores where you can recycle old clothes. This does have its limitations: It would take H&M 12 years to recycle 1000 tonnes of clothing waste, roughly the same amount it produces in 48 hours. But it does at least show a small commitment to improvement. So too do H&M's and Zara's ethical ranges which use like organic linen, cotton, silk and Tencel, or recycled materials like polyester and silver to craft more sustainable clothing.
We are far from having an 100% sustainable fashion industry. High street CEOs and designers need to make sure they manufacture clothes that are built to last both in terms of style and durability, so that they last a lifetime and don't disintegrate after a few wears and washes. The people who make our clothes need to realize that waste is a design flaw, one that those with the least money people pay for. And the planet can no longer afford it.


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Kudlow pushes back on UN warning: Climate change modeling has not been successful
by Megan Keller - 10/14/18 10:04 AM ET
Top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday that he is skeptical of a United Nations climate change report that predicted catastrophic consequences if current trends are not reversed, citing past errors in U.N. modeling.
"The issue here … is magnitudes and timing," Kudlow told ABC's "This Week" when asked about the study, which was released last Sunday. "Personally, I think the U.N. study…is…way, way too difficult. I won't say it's a scare tactic, but I think they overestimate."
Kudlow pointed to past U.N. modeling, saying the models "have not been very successful in the last 20 years."
Kudlow also mentioned the work of economist Bill Nordhaus, who has argued that holding temperatures below 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit over preindustrial levels, as the U.N. study recommends, is impossible.
"Bill Nordhaus from Yale got a Nobel Prize on his own economic work with respect to climate change," he said. "I respect that he's a really brilliant guy."
Kudlow added, however, that officials need to be "cognizant of the work that needs to be done."
"I'm not denying any climate change issues George, I'm just saying do we know precisely, and I mean worth modeling, how much of it is man-made, how much of it is solar, how much of it is oceanic, how much of it is rainforest and other issues. I think we're still exploring all of that."
"I don't think we should panic," Kudlow said. "I don't think there's an imminent disaster coming, but I think we should look at this in a level headed and analytic way."
The U.N. report warned that the world might be on a path toward catastrophic climate change if greenhouse gas emissions aren't cut dramatically by 2030.
The report said the world needs to decrease emissions by 45 percent by 2030, or the atmosphere could hit 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming by then.
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As the Winter Season rolls into 2018, it seems timely to share empirical insight on what $1M can buy. There has never been a better time than the current real estate market to purchase a home in Barbados.
So, that said, what can $1M get you? Luxury. West Coast Living and yes… Beachfront property!
Waterside is a fantastic beachfront option.
Located on Paynes Bay Beach, you can stroll white sand beaches from your very own strip of beach all the way to the exclusive Sandy Lane Estate and beyond, every day. You can pick up a 2 bedroom unit for under $1M and the 3 bedroom unit is priced just above $1M. For a quick trade this season, this could be yours! Waterside is also one of our properties that offers a great return from holiday rentals. My clients that recently bought at Waterside were pleasantly surprised by the returns they received within their first year of ownership, so Waterside certainly gets my stamp of approval!
In the market to construct your own perfect home?
What about a lot on the prestigious Apes Hill Golf Course with amazing views of a world-class, rolling golf course overlooking the sparkling Caribbean Sea? Apes Hill Polo Club is also right next door – it's hosted the most elite polo teams of the Western Hemisphere and once welcomed Prince Harry himself to their pitch! There are only a few prized lots left on Holders Meadows within the Apes Hill Golf Course Development. You can benefit from duty-free concessions on your build and even have Apes Hill manage the process for you.
Have an appetite for an off plan development?
Westmoreland Hills promises stunning West Coast views and eco-friendly living with relatively low running costs. Emerald Villa is a luxurious, well appointed 4 bedroom home available for $975,000. You can even throw in some extra upgrades and be right on budget.
Or is your heart set on owning on the vivacious South Coast?
How about a penthouse in the heart of St. Lawrence Gap? The Penthouse at St. Lawrence Beach Apartments has a large wrap around patio with some of the most spectacular, uninterrupted views of the dazzling blue water for which Barbados is famous. This unit has an excellent history in terms of short term rentals and guarantees a good return on investment.
I asked my colleague at our partner firm in the UK, Knight Frank, to provide me with two properties that you can buy in London for $1M, just to compare.
$1M can get you about 900 sq. ft. of a well-appointed but not exactly spacious 2 bedroom flat near Canary Wharf. While there is a view of the dock, with its occasional bursts of activity and commercial boats, the views certainly don't compare to the warm beaches of the Caribbean.
A 2 bedroom, 2 bathroom apartment located on the fourth floor within Boardwalk Place. The property provides views towards the O2 and Poplar Dock.
You could also purchase in the crowd pleasing Notting Hill neighbourhood but $1M will only get you a 1 bedroom flat in a period conversion with a bright, welcoming feel straight through its total 404 sq. ft.
A 1 bedroom flat arranged over the second floor of a period conversion in a prime Notting Hill location; positioned to enjoy all that Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove has to offer.
We understand that you've worked hard to earn your $1M and we want you to have a property that reflects your years of diligence, but also your great taste; a property that allows you the opulent lifestyle and grand holiday home that you deserve.


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Report Shows Poor Rates of Grad Student Loan Repayment at HBCUs, For-Profits
By Andrew Kreighbaum
The Obama administration for years battled with the for-profit sector over a rule that would hold higher ed programs accountable for graduating students with debt they couldn't repay.
That rule, known as gainful employment, applied to all career education and certificate programs, and the first set of ratings last year found most failing programs clustered in the for-profit sector.
But among graduate and professional schools — which had few programs outside of for-profits subject to the rule — a new report finds historically black colleges and universities have the highest shares of student borrowers who haven't paid down any of their loan principal within a few years of entering repayment.
The report by Jason Delisle, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, examines federal data on graduate students who entered repayment in 2009 and tracks their progress on student loans through 2014. Notably, private nonprofit and for-profit institutions were heavily represented among grad schools with poor performance on loan repayment when adjusting for total student loan debt.
The findings reveal that the type of sector of a higher ed institution — public, private or for-profit — doesn't necessarily determine whether graduates will have success paying down loan debt after leaving.
The data reflect institutional results only, meaning they don't show how particular programs perform. And they exclude institutions with fewer than 100 students entering repayment. But the report is the first examination of graduate student progress on student loans.
Delisle said it's important to note that because the federal government has made little data available on graduate student loan repayment, the information would be new to many institutions themselves.
"If policy makers want better outcomes, they've got to get better information to the schools," he said. "This is probably news to them."
Delisle found that among alumni of all graduate and professional schools, the median share of borrowers who had made no progress paying down their loan principal was 20 percent.
Graduate schools with a high proportion of borrowers whose loan debt grew faster than they could repay it — known as negative amortization — could present a consumer risk to students, Delisle said. But graduate institutions with high dollar amounts of student loan debt not being paid down could present a bigger risk to taxpayers even if they perform well on the negative amortization metric, he argued.
Eleven institutions in the data had 50 percent or more of borrowers fail to reduce their loan principal; seven were public historically black institutions. Those institutions included Mississippi Valley State University (where 65 percent of borrowers hadn't reduced their loan principal by 2014), Southern University at New Orleans (62 percent) and Grambling State University (59 percent). Others with high shares of such borrowers included private for-profit Everest University (58 percent), nonprofit Metropolitan College of New York (53 percent) and the University of Texas at Brownsville (55 percent).
Harry L. Williams, president and CEO of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which represents public HBCUs, said those institutions have educated many students with significant financial need, including many first-generation college students. And he said the organization has taken steps such as supporting financial aid literacy education and building talent pipelines to employers so graduates can find well-paying jobs.
"The AEI report data is eye-opening and we support all efforts to make improvements in the lives of the nearly 300,000 students on our public HBCU campuses," Williams said. "We will work with AEI and other partners to reduce all barriers to opportunity for success and financial independence so they can expeditiously pay back their loans and stay in the black."
Among the institutions where the negative amortization rate outpaced the median for graduate schools and the 2009 graduate cohort's debt was $100 million or more were private nonprofit New York University and for-profit Strayer University.
The report comes as the Department of Education prepares to issue a new gainful-employment rule after Secretary Betsy DeVos last year opted to overhaul the Obama regulation. The latest department proposal in a series of negotiated rule-making sessions would turn gainful employment — a potentially high-stakes accountability metric before — into a disclosure rule affecting all higher ed programs. But the proposal excluded graduate programs from disclosure requirements.
Delisle said the data in the report showed that's a big mistake.
"Let's get good, reliable information there," he said. "That's a great first step."
But he said he was skeptical that accountability rules could effectively take account of risks to both students and the federal government.
Barmak Nassirian, director of federal relations and policy analysis at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, said the report made clear that loan repayment for graduate students is not just a problem at for-profit institutions. But he said repayment outcomes won't necessarily reflect the same underlying reasons for those outcomes.
"It could be that one group of students was ripped off and another was just weighed down by lack of resources for the undertaking," he said.
He said the report showed the risk in choosing to exclude graduate programs from disclosure requirements.
Michael Itzkowitz, a former department official in the Obama administration and now a senior fellow at the think tank Third Way, said if the department expands gainful employment to cover more programs, graduate schools would be a good place to start.
"However, it's also important that we hold these programs accountable for their outcomes," he said. "If a graduate program is leaving most of its students owing more on their original loan even years after entering repayment, it may be too risky of a bet for students and taxpayers, alike."
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Welcome to Everest Awakening - Prayer for Nepal and Beyond. Here we will be giving updates on the situation in Nepal and the neighboring regions of the Himalaya - Tibet, India, Bangladesh. This site is a portal to find ways to connect with the culture of the Himalaya and donate help and funds for Earthquake relief, whether it is through our initiatives, recommendations for the most effective relief organizations working on site, or the initiatives of musicians, artists, activists, and others in our community. Please send us any information you wish to post here via the contact page.
Today we launched the Bandcamp page! All tracks were donated by the artists on the page. You can download individual tracks or the full album for a donation. Thank you so much to everyone who donated a track, and to everyone who helped to make this possible.
#nepalearthquake dear friends can someone suggest which wholesalers of the following items might be able to give supplies on credit with an IOU? Rice. Dal. Cooking oil. Soyabean (maseura), chiura, salt, sugar, candles, blankets, torchlights, noodles and biscuits. Thanks for your help!


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Make Your Next Trip to Montreal a Magnificent Experience at Le Mount Stephen and Barroco
By	Jared Paul Stern Aug. 20th, 2018
Le Mount Stephen
Montreal has always been a cool destination for those in the know, but if you've never been there, now there's even more reason to plan a visit this instant. That's thanks to the city's newest and coolest luxury hotel, Le Mount Stephen, in fact a stunning blend of contemporary and historic architecture. Located in the heart of Montreal's Golden Square Mile, the hotel's main Italian Renaissance structure is one of Montreal's most beautiful mansions, and was originally built in 1880 for Scottish-born financier and industrialist Lord George Stephen, who was President of both the Bank of Montreal and the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1926 it became a private club for gentlemen of means.
Painstakingly restored to its original opulence, the mansion is now attached to a contemporary glass and steel structure that rises up behind it and contains 90 gorgeously-designed guest rooms and suites, and the hotel lobby. It is one of the only three Canadian hotels among the select ranks of the Leading Hotels of the World. The original club quarters, filled with rich wood paneling, 10 elaborately carved fireplaces; lamps, door handles, ceiling fixtures and hinges made of 22-karat gold; ancient stained and hand-painted glass; and elegant molding, are home to one of the world's most beautiful hotel bar / restaurants, named Bar George in honor of Lord Stephen.
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Chefs Anthony Walsh and Kevin Ramasawmy cook up contemporary takes on classic British dishes with a "dash of signature Québécois humor," while the bar pours perfect cocktails and delectable wines and champagnes. Each of the guest accommodations features floor-to-ceiling windows, lavish bathrooms with chromotherapy rainforest shower heads, heated floors and exclusive bath amenities, and custom-designed Harlequin divine beds. Also worth a visit is the MBIOSPA prestige spa, offering a range of body treatments including therapeutic massages, facial care, rain shower, and sensory escapes.
The hotel is also an easy walk to our favorite part of the city, Old Montreal. Its cobbled streets are home to many beautiful boutiques and restaurants, and one of the finest is Barroco. An artful combination of rustic and baroque, it's an extremely warm and inviting space with a cool vibe and European flavor. Mirrors, lanterns, candelabra, taxidermy, a fireplace, comfortable banquettes and bar and exposed stonework all lend it an air of romance and Old World charm. The menu is presented French bistro style. Standouts include mackerel crudo with summer vegetable and herb salad, fleur de see and leche de tigre; smoked guinea fowl breast with summer truffle, stuffed zucchini blossom, butter glazed sucrine lettuce and jus reduction; and a section of steaks cooked to perfection.
Begin with raw oysters and champagne if you're so inclined; we did. As Barroco's owner Roberto Porres says the idea for the space was "daring to be more cozy, without necessarily altering the haute cuisine. Plating that's too fancy doesn't speak to me. It's a lot of work for nothing and I think we really need to present our meals clearly; they are of course healthy and appetizing, but it's still just a plate. We don't need to stray too far from our basic human instincts, eating is very natural. You have to respect food, not manipulate it too much." Hear hear.
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Furious is definitely not your everyday session beer (well I suppose there are some out there crazy enough that it is). But when you are in the mood for an overly hopped beer than it definitely fits the bill. First thing when popping a can of this is to take in the smell as its a big one. Though it has loads of hop flavor Surly manages a way to also make it not overly harsh on your tongue.
The one thing I'm most impressed with Surly is the way they have managed their branding, from the name, tying themselves into a strong bike culture in the area, going with the pint sized cans, the logos and names of the beers, just all the little things that have really catapulted this brand to the top of the craft brewing industry.
This is one of my favorite hop heavy beers and I'll give it a score to show that.
I love that you mention the branding, because that is such an important part of Surly's success. Sure the beer is great, but you don't form the kind of following that Surly has without a strong brand. Also, it's worth mentioning that they've used great custom artwork too, like this poster by my friend Adam Turman.
BTW, if you ever want to see folks employing Furious as their session beer of choice, stop by the Blue Nile during happy hour.


The young boy was treated at Leicester Royal Infirmary by doctor Bawa-Garba before tragically dying of sepsis. Initially following her conviction she was suspended for a period of 12 months, but the GMC (General medical council – a body which regulates doctors in the UK) challenged this decision and succeeded in striking Dr Bawa-Garba from the medical register, meaning she will not be able to practice in the UK. This has prompted outrage in the medical community, with over £300000 being raised by crowdfunding for Dr Bawa-Garba's appeal.
Why has the medical community reacted this way?
It is a scary fact that most doctors at one time or another have, or most certainly will, underestimate how sick a patient is. It is easy to empathise with Dr. Bawa-Garba on this point, sepsis after all is the silent killer.
It raises the question, to what extent can doctors be held accountable after a mistake? They are, after all, all human, and certainly Dr. Bawa-Garba had no intention to commit harm and was at the time doing her best to do a good job on the day in question. But was it the best she could have done for Jack?
The above leads to a scary realisation for doctors, no matter how hard you work, how good you are, one mistake can bring you down.
But what about Jack, and his family, are they not entitled to some justice? After all, there were plenty of signs that Jack was indeed, very ill, and these weren't acted upon.
For starters, Jack was brought in requiring a small amount of oxygen to help with his breathing. Now this can be easily missed, but points to an underlying issue that requires further scrutiny. Dr. Bawa-Garba did ask for a chest x-ray but due to pressures this was not performed for a few hours, and the results seen a few hours after that. Some doctors, however, seeing a child requiring oxygen, a mother who is convinced that the child is sick, with a background of Down's Syndrome and clinical signs of infection would have started antibiotics right away. This could have saved Jack's life.
There were many other errors attributed to Dr Bawa-Garba, however these in my mind were smaller and not what could have been turning points for her – though others might disagree. The above I feel are the biggest areas which could have triggered the commencement of antibiotics and possible subsequent survival of Jack.
Jeremy Hunt has said that he is perplexed by The GMC taking upon itself to appeal Dr Bawa-Garba's suspension. In a way I would say that I agree. The GMC has an inconsistent history in how it treats doctors and there are some allegations of racism, which though I am sure are unconscious I believe may be true.
Doctor's should feel that they are protected legally when they make what during a long career, will be inevitable errors. Some of these may lead to deaths but I am afraid that this is a hazard of the industry. The question here is whether this truly was negligence as opposed to mistakes that any other doctor could have made.
On this point I am not so sure, I would like to think that most doctors seeing a lactate of greater than ten would know that this requires immediate action, whether you are busy or not. If you are too busy to address this then it would require drafting in of help, of which there are other teams in the hospital. However, it is true that Dr. Bawa-Garba was truly swamped and may have been overloaded with information sufficiently to miss the significance of the test. I would argue however, that if you are working under these extremes you have to notify a senior. Patients in this scenario are being placed at unacceptable risk.
So in conclusion, do I feel that Dr Bawa-Garba should be struck off from the medical register? The GMC maintains that the public would lose faith in the profession were she not to be. Nicola Adcock, Jack's mother, asks the simple question – "would you want this doctor treating your child?" Regrettably, my answer is no, I would not.


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KRWG-TV, virtual channel 22 (UHF digital channel 23), is a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) member television station licensed to Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States. The station is owned by the Regents of New Mexico State University. KRWG-TV's studios are located at Milton Hall on the NMSU campus in Las Cruces, and its transmitter is located atop Tortugas Mountain in central Doña Ana County (east of the Las Cruces city limits). On cable, the station is available on Comcast Xfinity channel 2 in Las Cruces and Charter Spectrum channel 4 in El Paso, Texas (El Paso-based CBS affiliate KDBC-TV, which broadcasts on virtual channel 4, is instead carried on channel 3), and in high definition on Xfinity digital channel 220 and Spectrum digital channel 886.

KRWG-TV's signal is relayed on low-power translator stations across southwestern New Mexico.

History
The station first signed on the air on June 29, 1973; its call letters were named after Ralph Willis Goddard, an educator and pioneer broadcaster in Las Cruces, who was employed as an instructor at the college; Goddard founded Albuquerque AM radio station KOB (now KKOB). The KRWG call letters were first used by the sister radio station at 90.7 FM that signed on in 1964.

KRWG was the only public television station to serve the El Paso–Las Cruces media market until 1978, when KCOS-TV signed on as the PBS member station for El Paso. Prior to that date, viewers in the eastern portion of the market (which corresponds to the city of El Paso) would have to view most PBS programming on cable by way of out-of-market member station KNME or KRWG. Some PBS programs, including Sesame Street, were carried in El Paso by KTSM-TV (channel 9).

The station produces a weeknight newscast titled News22, which is one of the few student-produced broadcasts among the journalism schools in the United States, as well as the weekly newsmagazine Newsmakers.

Digital television

Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Translators

Analog-to-digital conversion
KRWG-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 22, on June 10, 2009 (two days before most full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate on June 12). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 22.

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External links
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The Choose to Teach event will take place on Wednesday, 31 October 2018 from 4-7pm in the Harrison Library at the University's Wolverhampton Campus.
There will be expert advice on the best routes into Early Years, Primary, Secondary and Post Compulsory Education.
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Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society (대한수학회지)
Pages.357-378
Korean Mathematical Society (대한수학회)
THE EXISTENCE OF GLOBAL ATTRACTOR FOR CONVECTIVE CAHN-HILLIARD EQUATION
Zhao, Xiaopeng ;
Liu, Bo
Received : 2010.12.04
https://doi.org/10.4134/JKMS.2012.49.2.357
In this paper, we consider the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation. Based on the regularity estimates for the semigroups, iteration technique and the classical existence theorem of global attractors, we prove that the convective Cahn-Hilliard equation possesses a global attractor in $H^k$($k\geq0$) space, which attracts any bounded subset of $H^k({\Omega})$ in the $H^k$-norm.
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"How can I improve my game?" is a perennial question facing chess-players. While there are no easy answers, Grandmaster Alex Yermolinsky is better qualified than most to offer advice. Having found the famed 'Soviet School of Chess' wanting, he trained himself, slowly but surely raising his game to top-class grandmaster standard. In this book he passes on many of the insights he has gained over the years, steering the reader away from 'quick-fix' approaches and focusing on the critical areas of chess understanding and over-the-board decision-making.
Topics covered include: trend-breaking tools; the burden of small advantages; what exchanges are for; classics revisited; and computer chess. A large part of the book discusses a variety of important opening set-ups, including methods for opposing offbeat but dangerous lines, such as the Grand Prix Attack.
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This June, join a playful and creative dance workshop at IWM London led by Matthew Bourne's New Adventures. You will have the chance to learn choreography from Matthew Bourne's current show Cinderella, a thrilling and evocative love story set during the Second World War, now touring the UK.
The workshop is part of Cinderella: A Museum Adventure, an exciting day of performances, talks, and workshops for all the family. Inspired by this unique retelling of the classic story, New Adventures' dance artists have been working with primary schoolchildren and older people to create a brand-new piece of dance, which they'll perform in addition to the workshops. The creation will bring local heritage, histories and artefacts to life in pop-up performances in IWM London's Main Atrium. The performances will respond to the wartime stories and photographs in the museum's collection that evoke themes of family, evacuation and community.
Alternating with the dance performances will be conversations with eyewitnesses, who will share their experiences of being evacuated as a young child during the Second World War.
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Tickets to the workshops are free, but booking through this page is required, as spaces are limited. The performances and talks, however, are free and drop-in on a first come, first served basis.
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In the know: Women in the news 12/2-12/6
Know Your Value's weekly roundup of women in the news.
Actress Sally Field, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, and Senator Kamala Harris.Invision/AP, WireImage, Getty Images
By Halley Bondy
Women writers dominate Amazon's 2019 bestsellers list
Former First Lady Michelle Obama and J.K. Rowling are among several female authors who outsold all men on Amazon this year, according to the website's latest bestsellers book list. The list features the highest-selling fiction and non-fiction titles. Other women who topped the lists included Heather Morris ("The Tattoist of Auschwitz"), and Catherine Allinson, Kate Allinson, and Kay Featherstone for their recipe book "Pinch of Nom."
After Misty comes Marie: breaking barriers in 'The Nutcracker'
Charlotte Nebres, 11, will be the first black girl ever to play Marie, the heroine of George Ballantine's "The Nutcracker" at New York City ballet. Growing up, Charlotte looked up to the groundbreaking African-American ballerina Misty Copeland, and she currently attends the prestigious School of American Ballet. "The Nutcracker" has been an annual tradition since 1954. This year, the production will also feature a half-Chinese prince, a bi-racial Korean princess, and a half-South Asian prince.
Misty Copeland on being a role model: 'It's not me. It's what I represent'
Sally Field's relentless quest for respect: 'The roles I cared about deeply I had to fight for'
Actress Sally Field is a recipient of the Kennedy Centers Honors this year, and recently reflected on her career with New York Times columnist Karen Heller. Field told Heller she had to fight for the role of Mary Todd in "Lincoln" across from Daniel Day-Lewis. She said that, for most of her career, she has had to fight for respect in the wake of playing sitcom characters and "adorable" roles. She told "Lincoln" director Stephen Spielberg that the role was hers, and he ultimately agreed. She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance.
Hair dyes and straighteners may raise breast cancer risk in black women
A new study by the International Journal of Cancer found that black women who regularly use dyes are 60 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than black women who do not use dye. White women who used dyes did not see an increase. Black women who regularly straighten their hair were 30 percent more likely to develop breast cancer than women of any race who did not use straighteners. The data, however, was weak and based on only a small sample of black women. Further studies are required to prove a direct link, according to experts.
The working mom's Guide to taking the holiday stress down a notch
Know Your Value invited Jennifer Folsom, author of the upcoming guide to modern working motherhood, "The Ringmaster," to impart tips for quelling holiday stress. Folsom advised working mothers to order gifts to their office, so they can avoid secrecy. She also advised not getting individual gifts for everyone and instead buying many people the same gift. Furthermore, don't over plan, she suggested. Moms will have a better shot at relaxing during the holiday season if they go the impromptu route.
Jenn Folsom on working motherhood, leveraging career value
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Women gaining ground in the NHL
USA Today highlighted women who are up-and-coming in the National Hockey League, not as players, but as anchors, agents, senior managers and more. However, men still hold about 96 percent of NHL jobs, according to a study from The Athletic, even though women comprise 40 percent of NHL fans, and women's hockey is growing three times faster than men's hockey. The league created a female advisory board to discuss attracting and retaining female employees.
How Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's new public approach to royal life has affected their relationships with the rest of the family
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have taken a new approach to royal family life. In October, Markle and Prince Harry spoke candidly about the extreme stresses of fame and being in the royal family, particularly during and after Markle's pregnancy with their son Archie. The rare interview aired in October, potentially creating tension within the royal family, according to royal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams. The interview is a departure from the Queen's "don't complain, don't explain" policy, and marks
Kamala's campaign had a strong start, and a weak finish
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) dropped out of the 2020 presidential race this week. Slate writer Julia Craven wrote about Harris's campaign, which rose sharply last year, floundered and fell off completely. She was the first prominent black female candidate to run for president since Shirley Chisholm in 1972, and Harris garnered plenty of support out of the gate. However, her political inconsistencies would be her downfall, according to Craven, and she "failed to stick her landing."


Some exonerees remain legally guilty due to 'Alford' pleas | Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C.
On behalf of Buting, Williams & Stilling, S.C. posted in Wrongful Convictions on Thursday, February 15, 2018.
When evidence of a convicted person's actual innocence comes forward, we imagine that prosecutors immediately ask a judge to void the conviction and release the defendant. We imagine the judge apologizing on behalf of the state. Later, depending on the circumstances, the defendant might be compensated for the time they spent imprisoned unjustly.
The reality is often quite different. According to a recent report by Reporter Megan Rose, the nonprofit investigative journalism outfit ProPublica, prosecutors across the country are working to keep such convictions intact. This occurs even when -- or perhaps especially when -- there is evidence that police or prosecutorial misconduct led to a wrongful conviction.
Take the case of Fred Steese. He was convicted of murder in Nevada and spent two decades behind bars. Then, evidence that he was innocent was found in the prosecution's files. Prosecutors are required by law to turn over all exonerating evidence to the defense, but they had not done so. The evidence? Steese had been hundreds of miles away on the day the murder reportedly took place.
Although there was clear reasonable doubt in his case, the prosecutor didn't apologize and let the wrongfully convicted man go free. Instead, they offered him the chance to get out of prison immediately if he would accept an "Alford" or no-contest plea. Otherwise, the prosecutor said they would retry the case and Steese would risk another conviction.
The result is extremely troubling in cases where a wrongful conviction seems to have occurred. Both offers leave the underlying conviction intact, leaving someone who may be entirely innocent with a serious felony conviction on their record.
That conviction means losing the right to vote or own firearms. It affects what jobs you can get and what housing will be available. It prevents them from claiming compensation for their wrongful conviction. It changes virtually everything in the defendant's life.
According to ProPublica, many prosecutors insist they offer these deals because they are sure the defendant is actually guilty. They realize that retrying the case would be difficult after so much time has passed, and often enough, newly discovered evidence provides reasonable doubt. The subtext is that they know they could not obtain a new conviction.
Ethically, prosecutors should not be prosecuting people when there is clearly reasonable doubt -- and certainly not to avoid questions about police or prosecution misconduct. Yet judges usually endorse these pleas in order to let the innocent defendants go free immediately.
There appears to be a conflict of interest in letting the same prosecution office that wrongfully convicted the defendant in the first instance decide the fate of their innocence claim. States should consider having a third party, such as an independent miscarriage of justice commission, decide what should be done in each case.


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Trying to Hack the iHack Shooting Drill
Shooting challenging drills is an essential part of recognizing where we need to improve. The iHack will push most to the limit.
by Nate Parker
in Articles, Concealed Carry, General Firearm, Training
Ken Hackathorn is one of the godfathers of modern firearms training. If you take shooting seriously, you should know his name, and be paying attention to what he says. Ken has a set of standards, called the 3-second Hackathorn Headshot Standards. In its original guise, the drill calls for three separate targets, set 2 feet apart from each other. The shooter draws and engages the targets as appropriate within the PAR time. It is a fun drill if you get to shoot on ranges that allow multiple targets and drawing from the holster.
The reality for some of us though is that we do not have regular access to that sort of range, if at all. What do we do then? The late Todd Green understood this, and he adapted the Hackathorn Headshot Standards to an indoor range friendly version and called it the iHack.
The iHack calls for three separate strings of fire, engaging three 2″ circles with one round each, with a 3 second PAR. The order changes for each iteration. On the first string, the targets are engaged from left to right. String two is from right to left. The third and final string starts with the center target, then pick up the other two in whatever order is preferred. It is a very straightforward drill, and only requires nine rounds, but the difficulty level is pretty well up there. In order to "pass" the drill, all shots must be fired within the PAR time, with seven hits out of nine shots fired. Of course, for some of us that is never good enough, we want all hits.
While the drill is simple, pulling off a clean run is really a challenge. It combines two things that people typically think of working against each other, a higher level accuracy standard, and going fast. It throws the whole "balance of speed and precision" paradigm out the window and demands shooters both go fast and shoot accurately, all at the same time. It is a real eye-opener for people (like myself), who think they are decent shooters, and is good at putting people back where they belong.
My stumbling point tends to be a lack of patience and feeling the time pressure a bit too much. I can hit 2″ circles at 5 yards all day long without time constraints, but force me to do it quickly, and I fall to pieces. In a perfect world, I think the draw to first shot would happen around 1.75 seconds, and each succeeding shot would happen at 0.50-0.60 intervals or splits. The half-second splits I believe to be quite doable, but a 1.75-second draw to a 2″ circle at 5 yards is really a push.
Fortunately for guys like me, the easy version and coincidentally more indoor range friendly version is shot from the ready position. That makes the first shot easier, but somehow I still manage to screw it up. Any ready position will do, just don't have the gun pointed at the target. I tend to use muzzle elevated compressed ready position, which is probably where I make myself fail. Other ready positions may be a bit quicker.
The iHack drill isn't a drill for the novice shooter. It will likely challenge even the best among us if shot from concealment. From a ready position, it is still a very difficult drill, but certainly more achievable. If you aren't quite to the point you can pass this drill (like me, still), keep after it. Someday, maybe even before me, you will be able to pass it. Being challenged and pushing our skill level by shooting drills just outside of our reach is what helps to push us forward. If you decide to take a swing at it, be sure to let us know how you do in the comments.
Tags: drillsihackpractice
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Don't Let Concealed Carry Go to Your Head
Nate Parker
Nate spends his days trying to find ways to afford more ammo. Nate is a performance driven shooter with over 400 hours of formal firearms instruction, dabbles in local handgun matches, and teaches the occasional shotgun class.
Don't Let Concealed Carry Go to Your Head


I subscribe to a webzine called Boundless. It's for single people, and so dealing with single people, talks a lot about relationships and marriage. Today while reading the blog, I came across one of the webzine's old posts on qualities that would make one marriable.
I realize that contentment does not mean complacency. I imagine complacency as a little kid on a parkbench who somehow got so taken up by the magnificence of the bench grains that when his father comes to take him away, he refuses. He doesn't trust that his father, who actually wanted to take him to the playground, has funner plans in mind.
Contentment also doesn't mean impatience. Impatience is like the little kid who heard that his father had a surprise for him, but instead of waiting, runs off to find the surprise on his own. He gets lost, the father gets worried, and in the end, because no one is in the mood any longer, the surprise doesn't happen or fails.
So what is contentment? Contentment is but like the little kid who is on the bench who knows his father has a surprise, but is willing to wait for his daddy to come show the way. Meanwhile, he might as well feed the birds and watch the ripples in the pond. But when his father comes, he's ever ready to follow.
I wonder if I make sense to you. But this is the only analogy I can think of now.
Am I contented? Honestly, I have a tendency to be the impatient kid. I keep wanting to run off ahead of my daddy. This year, when I feel finally ready to be involved in love again, God says, "Give 6 months to Me". I'm then like, "But I'm going to be 22... That's OLD!"
But I've really grown a lot this year. Through His pruning, I can finally say, "You know what? My desire for marriage is still as strong as ever. But I've finally learned what it means to trust God with my love life. I finally see that His timing and the person He's chosen - can only be the best."
So contentment is trust. Am I contented, then? I can sincerely say - I am.
Hey this is totally awesome stuff!


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Why is this interesting? - The Pop Art Edition
On art, auctions, and the mainstreaming of expensive art
Noah Brier
Felix Salmon (FMS) joins us for a second WITI today. He previously wrote about the Sackler family and philanthropy for WITI 5/17. You can find him regularly over at Axios and his Sunday business and finance email Axios Edge. - Noah (NRB)
Felix here. A few auction records have been shattered recently. In April, "The Kaws Album" by KAWS sold for HK$116 million at Sotheby's in Hong Kong, or $14.7 million. Then "Devolved Parliament" by Banksy sold for £9.9 million, or $12.2 million, a few days ago at Sotheby's in London. Finally Yoshitomo Nara's "Knife Behind Back" sold for HK$196 million, or $25 million, again at Sotheby's in Hong Kong. (The previous auction records for KAWS, Banksy, and Nara: $2.7 million, $1.9 million, and $4.5 million, respectively; what's more, the Banksy was a collaboration with Damien Hirst.)
Art-world types will immediately notice that all three sales happened at Sotheby's, which has in recent years been playing second fiddle to its archrival Christie's. What's more, they took place not in New York, the center of the art-auction world, but in Hong Kong and London.
Art-world types will also generally sneer at the people paying these record prices, saying that these paintings barely count as art in the first place, let alone art worth 8-figure sums. "The Kaws Album" and "Devolved Parliament" are not-very-funny one-note jokes, while "Knife Behind Back" is an oversized cartoon figure.
So, what's going on? Why are these artworks so expensive? Part of the reason is relatively mundane: All 3 canvases are old-fashioned paintings, and all of them are unusually large. In the art world, size matters, and paintings have had primacy for centuries. (They're relatively easy to store and display, they meet your walls' need to be filled, and works on paper are fragile, discoloring in the sun.)
At the same time, collectors have always collected the art that they love. These artists have large fan bases, and the top 0.01% of those fan bases will want to own strikingly large unique works. All you need is 2 rich collectors duking it out in an auction room for a single piece, and a crazy new record is set.
There's something else going on, though, which is the way in which the collectors are surely congratulating themselves right now for being ahead of the curve. For well over 100 years, art collectors have embraced the tradition of the "avant-garde"—the idea that their ahead-of-the-curve eye can identify artists doing something dangerously new, something that's hard for the old guard to understand and appreciate. Didn't the academicians sneer at Duchamp and Basquiat, just as the self-proclaimed art-world elite are sneering at KAWS?
The irony is that each successive generation of artists has in many ways become easier to understand and appreciate. Try to unpack the layers and craftmanship in "Las Meninas" by Velazquez, then look at, say, "The Dance" by Matisse. The "difficulty level" has clearly gone down, not up. Then fast forward to Pollock's drip paintings, Warhol's Marilyns, and finally the cartoonish stylings of Koons and Murakami. Each is simpler, more universal, more easily grokked, more exportable than the last. You need less and less specific cultural context or connoisseurship to appreciate these works.
Not all art has gone pop, of course: There's a strong countertrend of art becoming ever more hermetic and accessible only to the cognoscenti, that goes back at least as far as Duchamp and Beuys. But the minimum level of sophistication that an artwork needs in order to fetch 8 figures at auction has clearly been falling as the world of art collectors has expanded and globalized. (FMS)
Comic of the Day:
XKCD's map of mobile phone functionality. True story: A few years ago I was on a plane and I saw a guy open a briefcase only to pull out a tape player, map, book, notebook, and pen. I was impressed. (NRB)
David Foster Wallace partisans be damned. There is only one good commencement speech, and it's this one, from Yale Law School professor Daniel Markovits. He recently turned it into a very long book, but the substance of the book is all here. (FMS)
The Christmas Sermon 2012 – "On Not Believing In Canada" (FMS)
Since Felix is our guest today it seems worth pointing to one of his favorite pieces in case you've never read it. Money is Memory basically posits that "from a technological point of view, money is equivalent to a primitive form of memory." (NRB)
Noah (NRB) & Colin (CJN) & Felix (FMS)


Many years ago, I made this applique quilt top, inspired by a picture in a magazine. I tried to draw out each flower as they looked, and somehow this quilt came into being. It is now quilted!!!
I am so tickled that is in the almost finished catagory! It is a very early quilt for me...so I am so glad that is is nearly completion. Do you have any like that, quilts I mean, that are not perfect, but represent a period in your life? I say, drag 'em out and get 'em done!!
Paulette! You were chosen by random number to win the house quilt kit from last post...I will send you an e-mail and post it off to you!!
Thank you, each one of you, for your comments. I wish I had a ton of kits to give to each one of you...so stay tuned! I am going through stuff, and will be giving away some more things soon!!
Sister Choice is a Flimsy!
Happy Tuesday! I finished the pieced border on my sister's choice quilt, and here it is, being modeled by the lovely Miss Rosie Posie Pudding Pie. She finds it quite scrappy, and though not quilted nor as cuddly soft as she requires, she thinks this finished quilt top has potential!!
I think the flash hurts her eyes...she always turns away.
Another shot... This did use lots of my scraps!! I truly enjoyed this piecing...thanks Bonnie Hunter for providing the inspiration!!
Focusing is really paying off here, folks. If I can just stop thinking of the next quilt, and cutting out pieces and parts for quilts in the far future...I can make real progress...see above!! Yippee Skippy, I have the Sister's choice blocks all done and sewn together! I have a pieced border planned, and cut out...just need some more time to get it all together. I love scraps, don't you? There sure are some ZINGER blocks in there, don't you think? I love those that don't fit!
I have a birthday coming up...and received the most beautiful package from my dear friend Lyn. It was all in a Parisian theme!! The little pink key ring is an Eiffel tower...so cute! There are lots of little wrapped packages in there...and I am to take one out every once in a while and open it! What fun!! Thank you, Lyn!!
The first gift? The Timecula quilt! At least that is what I call it...each block has an increasing number of pieces. It is so pretty!!
Have you seen these pendants? There are the artistic work of Julie, at Me and My Stitches, and I ordered one in her heart pineapple pattern, to wear at work in the heart hospital. It is the tiniest quilt block ever!! And so precise! She also has bracelets that she is making, with many different charms that you can order through the year. Fun, fun!!
Have a great day all! Thank you all for the huge response to last post...the drawing will be next week.
Leaders and Enders Spool quilt!
A couple years ago, I made this spool quilt. Honestly, I had the best intentions of making a leader and ender quilt...but!
You know how those leaders and enders take hold and make noise and want to be the life of the party!! LOL! The main focus!! I enjoyed hand quilting this quilt, and it is displayed in my living room. A dear friend exchanged some of these little spool blocks with me...thanks Joan!
I ended up with a plain border on my Lisa's flower garden quilt. I made several attempts at a pieced border, and fussed and fretted...and this fabric won out. I plan on hand quilting this one too.
Do you like these little houses? This pattern is by Pam Buda. I love her designs!!
To celebrate this day (it is Wednesday...and there is no other reason! Seize the day!), I am giving away this kit to make this pretty house quilt. Just leave me a comment, and I will draw for it next week.
Hi Everyone!! I am off today from working at the hospital. I was supposed to work, but they called at 05:30 and put me on call. So far, I have not been called in. So that means there are not many sick patients, and that is a good thing! The bad thing is, I do not get paid unless I use my PTO hours...but that is OK. I have enjoyed the day off!!
Above is my progress on my current focus, my Sister's choice quilt. Scraps, all of it!! A few of the star points have had to be substitutions, because the strip I was cutting from just was not long enough. That is the fun of scrapping!! These are 10 inch finished blocks, so they are big, and will make a good sized quilt soon. I am making a total of 42 blocks, and plus a pieced border, which is already cut out. FOCUS!! It is helping me a lot!!
Well...I got to thinking about this quilt, and looking at it last night. About 11 PM last night, I UN-sewed all those pink triangles and the pink border from last post. I just thought it made the whole quilt dark, and it is busy enough without adding any more drama to it! So I replaced the pink with muslin setting triangles, and walla! there it the lightness I was looking for again. Now...I am at a loss for what to do with the border!! I am thinking about it...I don't want to have to do any more frog stitching...RIPPIT!!!
The next quilt I am focusing on is the sister's choice quilt that is entirely cut out from earlier in the year. I am GOING FOR IT!!! FOCUS!!!! (note to self...) By the way, my new mind set feels really good. I am really happy about focusing on just one project at a time...it helps my not feel so scattered, and to not be looking for new projects all the time is refreshing!! I know I will start new things, but for now, it is important for me to finish a few of these quilts all cut out and looking at me...somewhat accusingly!! They really do take a life of their own at times, don't you think?!!
Last time I worked was a challenge at the hospital. I had a tummy ache all day, due to stressing about one patient. She hit, kicked, punched all of us when we got within reach, and finally we had to call security and eventually the city police. She was violent and dangerous, and a stout young lady. She was also in her right mind...and knew exactly the damage she was doing to people. Scary stuff....but the doctors could not let her leave, due to her condition...she very well could have died. When she was stable, she walked out in the middle of the night, against medical advice.
Next door...an angel!! Another young lady, she had her internal defibrillator going off for an hour. Poor thing, she was terrified, and just prayed out loud that God did not take her now, but rather let her live to raise her adopted baby...I prayed with her, while we were getting drips and meds to help her stabilize her heart rhythm stat. We got her stabilized, and her husband came to the room, and he was as precious and sweet as she was. So my tummy ache melted away in that room!! Just tension, I guess!!
Happy Monday to all of you! It means a day off for me; but I know for many of you, it is the start of a work week. Sooo...I worked on this!! Finished all the applique, and then set the blocks together. Here is where I am so far.
A few of my favorite blocks.
And a few more!! These little applique flower blocks finish at 3 inches...little!!
All the blocks when the applique was finished.
And a few, a little closer up!!
I am so very glad to have found this focus...it feels so wonderful to get a long term project together, in one piece!!! Now to decide on the next focus!!!
I decided that after reading my own last post, that is was essential that I FOCUS on something! I couldn't keep lamenting about a lack of focus; I just had to find my DISCIPLINE and DO IT!! I can be pretty headstrong at times, and I decided that if I wanted to make real progress on anything, I had to just buckle down and DO IT! So, I went looking through my UFO's. And found this one! This is Lisa's Garden, a block of the week from some years ago, from Lisa Bongean at Primitive Gatherings. I have had all the nine patches cut out, and all the applique prepped, for years now. What on earth was I procrastinating about? I sat myself down after house cleaning and pieced all those tiny nine patches yesterday.
Today, I am working on the applique. I sometimes think I have to save handwork for a road trip, or waiting times in a doctor's office or something, so I fall woefully behind on some projects I really want to finish. No more waiting!! Time's a wastin'!!
The original background was a dark muslin, in a primitive style. I wanted to infuse some light into the piece, so I used a light muslin instead. Now I have a pretty piece of primitive dark muslin to use in something else!! Above are a couple of my favorite blocks. They finish at 3 inches, so they are pretty tiny!! I am hand blanket stitching them with ordinary thread.
Best of all? An empty basket, from the cut out nine patches. HURRAH!!!
Have a great fourth of July, everyone!!!
Good morning! I have been hand quilting lately, so I do not have too much new piecing to show. Cutting out projects too...that is what is going on around here! Above is my leftover plaid triangle table runner. I hand quilted it, with big stitches and Perle cotton. It was just pure joy to hand quilt this one!!
And the back. I think what attracts me most to quilts is the texture. I love quilted softness, and this little table runner fits that bill! It will be fun for my autumn time table setting.
I finished hand quilting this one too. About a year ago, a young man came in to the hospital where I work with extreme shortness of breath. I thought he must have a PE (blood clot in his lungs), but it turned out that he had ruptured his Chordae (tiny strings that hold the heart valves in place and help to open them). I learned so much from him and his disease process, and was so honored to help him through surgery and recovery. So the above quilt is a heart string quilt, remembering him, and the great docs who fixed him up! You know, I don't remember his face, except for his extreme shortness of breath and anxiety...poor guy! When he left the hospital, he was 100 times better!!
I am steadily working on the applique for this quilt. I love working on it!! Thank you again, Lori and Randy, for this wonderful project!!
I am at a loss of what to work on, to really concentrate on. I know this comes from having too many ideas and projects floating thought my brain like flotsam and jetsam in the ocean...do you have this problem? And what do you do to fix it?? I want to able to concentrate on one thing to the end, but the BOM's mess that up, LOL!!!! What do you do to help concentrate on one thing??? Any ideas....?


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Q: Pass html form input as argument for python function (recommender system) I have built a recommender system using a Keras CNN. I am deploying it with Flask as a web application. Currently it displays images in the form of a gallery. I want to use html form to click the image and then generate recommendations from the image clicked.
I am using PIL to pass into the model. So far everything works fine, I'm a bit stuck on how to make it pass into the function and return the results. Thank you!  I'm new and this is my first go around with Flask.
Tried several ways to pass the form, however not sure if I have been doing it the correct way.
Also have tried several variations on the function.
I want to pass the image clicked into my python function, then return back the related images. So far I have this for index.html:
<form action="{{ url_for('predict')}}" method="POST">

        {% for image in images %}
            <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary"> </button>
        {% endfor %}

</form>
#Here is my recommender function:

@app.route('/predict', methods=['POST'])
def predict():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        product = request.form['product']

        # compute cosine similarities between images
        cosine = cosine_similarity(imgs_features)

        # creates a dataframe of the cosine similarites
        cosine_df = pd.DataFrame(cosine, columns=products,
        index=products)

        sim_images = 5

        p_name = os.path.basename(str(product))
        image = load_img(product, target_size=(img_size, img_size))
        plt.imshow(image)
        plt.show()
        recommend_imgs = cosine_df[product].sort_values(ascending=False)
        [1:sim_images + 1].index
        for i in range(0, len(recommend_imgs)):
            image = load_img(recommend_imgs[i], target_size=(img_size,
            img_size))
            # plt.imshow(image)
            # plt.show()
            rec_name = os.path.basename(str(recommend_imgs[i]))
        return render_template('results.html', name=product,
        res=rec_name, pred_imgs=plt.imshow(image))

I get this error mostly:

werkzeug.exceptions.HTTPException.wrap..newcls: 400 Bad Request: KeyError: 'product'

Along with:
return self.wsgi_app(environ, start_response)

A: This is one way to start the function. I am not sure how to pass the image value that you need to the form, unless each image as a specific value name you can pass it to the function.
Html:
{% for image in images %}

<form action="{{ url_for('predict')}}" method="POST">

    <button type="submit" name="submit" value="{{ image.value}}">

    </button>

</form>

{% endfor %}

python:
@app.route('/predict', methods=['POST'])
def predict():
    if request.method == 'POST':
        if request.form['submit'] == '<image.value_1>':
            # do something
            ...

        elif request.form['submit'] == '<image.value_2>':
            # do something
            ...
        ...

well, that's all.

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