Switching from crib to toddler bed is a big event for parents and for the little one. However, there are a few important pieces of information that you should know before this transition occurs. What should you know when it is time to make the switch to the toddler bed chicago?
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Slow transition and introduction to the toddler bed is best for most babies coming out of a crib. They'll need to adjust to the barless design of their new big boy or girl bed. While most kids transition well, some need time to adjust. If there are other major events going on in life, perhaps reschedule the transition, since it can make it a bit harder to move to the toddler bed when there is so much excitement around you.


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The Philadelphia Eagles were victorious in Super Bowl LII against the New England Patriots.
Philadelphia Eagles Triumphant In Super Bowl LII!
MINNEAPOLIS, MN—It's the one day of year where it seems all Americans get along and party till the wee hours of the night to celebrate the event that happens only ONCE a year: the Super Bowl. We have a repeat team back in the big dance yet again with Tom Brady and the New England Patriots, going against Nick Foles and the underdog Philadelphia Eagles.
Going into the game the biggest question was rather we'd see a good game? I ask myself this each year, because we always have these Super Bowls where the game is so lopsided it becomes too boring to even watch. As much as I'm not the biggest fan of the New England Patriots, I do respect stellar athleticism and the Patriots have that covered on multiple fronts, not just with Brady, but with Rob Gronkowski, Julian Edelman and Danny Amendola.
After performances for America the Beautiful by Leslie Odom Jr., and the National Anthem by P!nk, it was time for the big game to get underway. I have to say, for a woman who was battling the flu, P!nk certainly belted out what many consider to be one of the most difficult songs ever. The Patriots won the coin toss deciding to defer to Philadelphia to showcase their defense. The first quarter was quite interesting because the Eagles offense was on fire, while I was slightly surprised with New England's defense because the Eagles drove right into a field goal that should have been a touchdown.
With the ball in their possession, the Patriots easily made their way down the field playing at a much faster pace than what the Eagles are used to. However, New England also settled for a field goal. Gotta say this first quarter is leaving me thrilled that we might have a competitive game after all. With just under 2 minutes in the first quarter, Nick Foles threw a Hail Mary to Alshon Jeffery for a touchdown giving the team a 9-3 lead, after missing that extra point with the kick.
The second quarter got underway with Brady and company just mere yards from scoring a touchdown, but it was that tackle that was a moment, where the Eagles defense literally tackled the opponent. Wow, that field goal attempt by the Patriots that was an utter disaster proves the Eagles might be rattling the Patriots people. Malcolm Jenkins (Eagles) delivered a devastating blow to Patriots receiver Brandin Cooks, who would not return to the game after a head injury. Alright people, it looks like LeGarrette Blount is the star for the Eagles because this center is an unstoppable force adding to the Eagles momentum with a touchdown.
After losing that extra point last time, the Eagles went for an extra two points, but couldn't complete the pass. However, the Eagles lead the second quarter 15-3. I'm seriously stunned with the Patriots and Tom Brady; it just seems the team cannot make a pass if their life depended on it. However, a field goal put New England within 9 points of the Eagles. However, Jeffery's inability to maintain his grip on the football allowed New England to intercept the ball, giving them a shot to get back into the game. Now this is the Brady that I've been looking to see, back in top form. James White helped put this game in closer reach to the Patriots with a touchdown to put the score 15-12 with less than 2 minutes in the second quarter. Yeah, those constant field goal kicks by Patriots kicker Stephen Gostowski should raise red flags.
With just mere seconds left in the first half, the Philadelphia Eagles were just mere inches from scoring a touchdown, which was very risky on a fourth down. To be honest, the team should have gone for a field goal to add the extra three points, still giving them a 6-point lead over their opponent. However, the risk absolutely paid off for Nick Foles and the Eagles went into halftime up 10 points over the Patriots, 22-12.
Now we get a breather from football, for the Pepsi Halftime Show courtesy of Justin Timberlake. For those hoping for an N'SYNC reunion, it didn't happen, nor did an appearance by Janet Jackson. Timberlake took to the stage to sing some of his greatest hits including "Rock Your Body," "Senorita," "Sexy Back," "My Love," and his inescapable ballad "Cry Me a River." Timberlake can certainly dance, but I feel the energy from his performance was not as contagious as past acts that have hit the stage.
He also slowed things down for "Suit and Tie," "Til the End of Time" before transitioning into a tribute to icon Prince. He ended things with a performance of his hit "Mirrors," full of participants holding mirrors into the air, before the crowd-pleaser "Can't Stop the Feeling." Overall Timberlake entertained, but it didn't knock my socks off.
The third quarter kicked off with the Patriots looking to get themselves back into the game, but getting those passes to go has not been great for Brady. However, it looks like the synergy between Brady and Rob Gronkowski is working as the Patriots was able deliver a touchdown cutting the Eagles lead to only 3, 22-19. The Eagles responded with a touchdown of their own courtesy of an amazing pass by Foles, but an even bigger catch by Corey Clement. However, that touchdown was under review by officials, but it was ruled a victory for the Eagles, who extended a 10-point lead, 29-19. With less than 3 minutes left in the third quarter, Brady was able to convert a pass to Chris Hogan for a touchdown to cut the Eagles lead to only 3 points, 29-26.
So the fourth quarter kicks off with the Eagles a field goal to extend their lead to 32-26. With about 9 minutes left in the game, Brady was able to connect with Gronkowski again to score a touchdown, putting New England in the driver seat, 33-32. Things are really getting interesting America, because New England needs not only a touchdown, put a 2-point conversion to force overtime if the Patriots happen to score another touchdown before regulation ends.
Man this is a nail-bitter; just over 5 minutes, and the Eagles finding a way to inch a first down just when they needed it most. This might be one of the closet Super Bowl games I've witnessed in quite some time; the only other game that I found exhilarating was when the New York Giants delivered the comeback of a lifetime against the New England Patriots in 2007. Nick Foles is throwing some stellar passes; when the team is under immense pressure, this quarterback is NOT afraid of taking risk and he's not caving in to any pressure.
With less than 3 minutes in the game, the Eagles moved down the field in their attempt to score a touchdown putting more pressure on Tom Brady and the Patriots. Man, this game is so riveting, edge of your seat, cause Zack Eatz had an unbelievable catch for the Eagles, but that ball bouncing out of his hands is a very questionable, but the officials gave the Eagles the clearance.
So with a score of 38-33, the Eagles went for a 2-point conversion, but it was a no go. A 5-point game, all the Patriots needs is a TD to seal the deal, and with over 2 minutes still in play, Brady can make it happen. The Eagles needed to halt the Patriots or force a turnover
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It's been such a busy end-of-year/new year period that there's a whole lot to catch up on.
1. Our Caribbean travels - Antigua, Barbados, Grenada and St. Vincent were on our schedule. Only one BIG rain this time causing a delayed departure via Trinidad - really scary in a tiny aircraft, but more on that soon.
2. Our final trip to Montego Bay for 2010 for the Jamaica Assn. of Guidance Counsellors in Education Conference where CHOICES presented a workshop on "Professionalism".
Four issues of CHOICES Career & Education Magazine will appear during the year reflecting various themes such as "Subject Options"; "Entrepreneurship Possibilities"; "Preparing For Career, Education & Life"; "Getting Ready For the World of Work" and many more.
3rd STOP – AUGUST 2011 – BACK-TO-THE-BOOKS – In a Kingston-location for the general public. This will be our biggest event with back-to-school planning in mind for both adults and children.
4TH STOP – October 27, 2011 – "CHOICES Get On Track For Career, Education & Life Seminar" - MONTEGO BAY - For schools in St, James, Hanover, St. Ann, Trelawny and Westmoreland.


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In Myanmar, people prefer having tea or coffee for breakfast. Only 5% respondents in an interview said they hang out at nightclubs sometimes and another 95% said they have never been there. Some drinks that they prefer to consume once or twice a week are soya milk (16.5%), vegetable/fruit juice (24.
8%), soft drinks with gas (28.5%), soft drinks without gas (23.3%), and energy drinks (17.7%). Burmese also live a fairly healthy lifestyle with low rate of alcohol consumption and smoking. Young people used to gather at temples but now they prefer shopping malls and coffee shops where they could find their first time job and create a first time jobbers' group. 99% respondents watch TV regularly or sometimes and 65% of them like watching sports instead of playing sports.
After a long time under military control and the US's sanction program, Myanmar is now actively open to foreign businesses. The passing of the new Myanmar Investment Law, effect on April 1, 2017, has attracted more investment from both foreign and domestic businesses. However, there has been no formal advertising law issued so far. Generally, marketing activities must comply with both the Consumer Protection Law and the Competition Law.
These laws control both the substance and form of business advertising and marketing. Myanmar's long-term political risk scores at 42.9 out of 100, ranking it 177th out of 204 countries globally. Its low score is a result of persistent ethnic tensions as well as the dominant position the military will continue to hold as Myanmar slowly transitions towards a democracy. The United States is discussing Myanmar's mistreatment of its Rohingya Muslim minority and may put into effect a range of further actions, including targeted sanctions under its Global Magnitsky law.
Myanmar frequently experiences power shortages, unstable telecoms services and limited transport coverage. Foreign businesses may have to prepare their own investments in order to ensure smooth daily operations. The country's transportation infrastructure has not caught up with the market growth yet. Only 30 percent of the country's population has access to electricity. However, they still have to deal with frequent outages. During summer, businesses in Myanmar usually experience electricity cut, reportedly there hours of electricity a day, which negatively affects their production.
Myanmar's roads are the most underdeveloped compared to those of Southeast Asian countries. Only 39% of the network is paved and 61% is unpaved, with the secondary and local road network generally in poor condition and not passable during the monsoon season. Consumer buying power will continue to be centered in Yangon and Mandalay.The retail sector ratio is 90:10 where 90% accounts for traditional trade. However, modern trade channels such as modern retail outles are increasing rapidly according to the Myanmar Retail Association.
As a rule, 90% of the households still go to traditional markets to buy fresh meat and vegetables. However, as lifestyles and trends are changing, consumers choose to visit traditional markets less frequently and instead, spend time at supermarkets and convenience stores especially during weekends. Top-end office rents in Yangon used to go for about $90 per square meter, more than rents in Bangkok, Singapore and even parts of New York, according to the Bangkok Post. The high price of real estate resulted from a shortage of modern office and buildings in Yangon to serve waves of international businesses and investors.
However, rental prices have fallen for the second year in a row and are expected to keep drop¬ping in 2017, according to a new market snapshot by real estate firm Colliers International. More than 95,000 square meters of leasable space are expected to become avail¬able this year and businesses now pay an average of $46 per square meter.According to a government's report, there are more than 200 weekly news journals are licensed in Burma, as well as more than 200 magazines whose majority are entertainment or sports oriented. Most television channels in the country are broadcast from Yangon.
TV Myanmar and Myawaddy TV are the two main channels, providing Burmese-language programming in news and entertainment. MRTV-4 focuses on non-formal education programs and movies. The broadcasting hours also have increased to 18 hours from 10 hours previously. There are 7 radio channels in broadcasting in English and Burmese. Given the population of Burma, impact from radio and television has not been significant with only 10% reach due to poor living conditions and power shortage. At the same time print media are becoming more dynamic and attractive to readers, generating better response and better value to advertisers despite the low purchasing power of most residents and inefficient distribution networks.
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How to Help Your Tween Through Delayed Puberty
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Jennifer O'Donnell
Jennifer O'Donnell holds a BA in English and has training in specific areas regarding tweens, covering parenting for over 8 years.
Medically reviewed by Lindsey Waldman, MD, RD on December 04, 2019
Lindsey Waldman, MD, RD, is a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric endocrinologist.
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Puberty is a tough time for tweens, but it can be even more upsetting for a tween when all of his or her friends have developed, but they haven't. Delayed puberty presents a variety of challenges to both children and parents, but it's a challenge that can be tackled together.
A tween who is experiencing delayed puberty may feel like something is wrong with them. Even worse, a classmate who makes a negative comment could cause additional stress and concern. If your tween is going through puberty later than their peers, or if their physical development is slow to start, the most important thing you can do is be supportive.
What Is Delayed Puberty?
Delayed puberty is when people pass through the typical "puberty years" without showing any signs of bodily changes. It is puberty that occurs later in a child's development than what is defined as "normal." Puberty doesn't happen overnight. It's a years-long process. For girls, puberty typically begins between ages 8 and 13. For boys, it starts between 9 and 15. It's a wide age range for a reason: people develop at different rates. It's not uncommon for girls and boys to develop as late as 13, 14 or 15.
But if your child hasn't yet shown the signs of puberty by age 14 for girls or 15 for boys, delayed puberty could be to blame. Keep in mind that delayed puberty is nothing to be overly concerned about. Everyone develops differently. Delayed puberty also tends to run in families. If you or other members of your family developed later, chances are your tween will, too. This is known as a constitutional delay, or being a "late bloomer."
Still, it's important to recognize that delayed puberty can be caused by a variety of physical conditions:
Malnutrition: If your child is not getting proper nutrients, their body may not be equipped for puberty.
Hormonal issues: Conditions that affect the pituitary and thyroid glands prevent these glands from producing the hormones necessary for development.
Chronic conditions: Illnesses such as diabetes, cystic fibrosis, and kidney disease make it harder for the body to develop.
How Parents Can Help
Patience is a virtue, and in cases of delayed puberty, it is exactly what you and your tween need. If your son or daughter is stressing about puberty, reassure them that everyone develops on their own time and that their body will change when it's ready.
Certain things are hallmarks of growing up: using deodorant, shaving your legs, going shopping for your first bra, etc. These are things tweens look forward to doing. Allow your child to do these things, even if they don't necessarily need to. Allowing them to engage in normal tween behaviors will help them feel like they fit in and be prepared when puberty comes.
More importantly, remind your tween that puberty — and the frustrations of delayed puberty — is just a phase. Like all phases, this will eventually pass, and when it does your teen will forget all about their present concerns and anxieties.
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Or so the title says as I found it at YouTube earlier today. Now,it's done pretty and almost accurately in some ways just as the recent animated adaption we got treated to.
AwesOme...Batman looks scary in this one. Those guys really nailed the look an feel of the Miller comic book.
I give a thumbs UP on this production.
thanks for finding this link.
Fascinating watch! It gives me some ideas on my projects, for sure.


Yesterday was Joey's 2nd birthday...where on earth have those 2 years gone! It only feels like he was born 5 minutes ago. Here's a little look at how we celebrated his birthday.
This year we opted not to have a party for him, only because we planned 2 party's last year and not many people turned up. He doesn't go to nursery and have any little friends aswell so we planned a day out to Southport instead. The day before Joey's birthday I was running round making sure we had baloons and banners ready for his big day. We've also been trying to build his Little Tikes car for 2 days now and it's the hardest thing I've ever had to put together.
Anyway, so on the morning of his birthday we had breakfast as normal...he was really distracted by the baloons and wrapped presents.
Once breakfast had been eaten it was time for the carnage to commence. The present unwrapping wasn't half as interesting as the massive number 2 balloon, he'd been playing with it all the time. Once we'd tidied up the wrapping paper mess I got him dressed into his birthday outfit. We left home pretty late but Southport isn't too far away so we got their for about 1pm. Had a run around on the beach and our flyaway football flew into the sea...hubby was devasted and even contemplated risking life and limb to save it but decided not to.
We then went for lunch at Guelder Rose which is a lovely pub overlooking Southport pier and the beach, you can even see Blackpool across the water on a clear day. We always get a carvery, it's £4.95 for a small one which is plenty for us. We didn't bother getting Joey his own meal as he wouldn't eat it anyway, instead mummy got him a rather large yorkshire pudding and some roast potato. Joey went into meltdown mode after we'd finished our meal so we swiftly left just as it started raining.
We went for a walk over to the amusement arcades, Joey had yet another meltdown so back in the pram he went and walked into the town centre where he finally went down for a nap. We started to walk back to the car, we picked up a Terrys Chocolate Orange and strawberry ice cream (I know...weird concoction). When we finally got back to the car we were dripping wet.
Once back at home it was chill out time, Joey playing with his toys and his fave new balloon. I made Joey some tea and then it was time to light his birthday cake. After cake it was time to get Joey ready for bed, he finally fell asleep just before 8pm.
I know I keep saying it but i really cant believe that our baby is now two! It really does go so fast. Thank you to anyone that has messaged or commented wishing Joey a happy birthday.


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Once an application has been built it still has to go through ongoing maintenance to make sure it still serves the purpose for which it was built, sometimes that may mean ongoing support from the person or company that developed it.
You may already have an application but need to extend it's functionality, this can be tricky and costly if the code is not clearly implemented or if the correct documentation isn't provided, this can lead to issues when you are upgrading or rewriting that code.
Let's say you have a cleaning company that needs a custom diary for the day to running of the company but you cant find a reliable application to do exactly what you need, no problem you can have one built to your exact specifications.
Just look at companies like QuickBooks for example, they exist because people like us were looking for a better way to complete and store invoices, they solved that problem by providing a digital invoice creation and storage solution.
This can vary from as little as £100 to £50000 and beyond, there is a lot to consider when pricing for application development, you should think about things like what is the purpose of the application? how many people will be using it? How much will data will be consumed by it? the more in-depth the application the higher the cost will be.
So you start off with a small cheap app but haven't thought about how the app will be extended in the future, This is something that may have serious consequences if you do not consider it before the project starts.
Let's say you want to design a small app, you don't think it will go out to more than 100 users, you have a small database that saves the data on shared hosting which gives you 1gb ram and 1 core processor, the requirements will probably be able to handle passing this small amount of data with no issues.
Then one day a some famous you tuber or social media guru promotes your application and you get 500 signups in one day, this is almost certain to crash your application because of data overload.
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There are a number of cloud providers that will give you this flexibility.
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Tufts men's track and field opened their season at the Tufts Invitational on Saturday. The Jumbos hosted a number of regional schools at the Gantcher Center in this non-scoring meet.
While this meet represented an important starting point for the season, senior Benji Wallace maintained that the team did not place too much stock in its performances.
The Jumbos know that they should see the season as the marathon that it is and not get overly caught up in early results. Nonetheless, they put forth a number of impressive marks on Saturday.
Senior Anthony Kardonsky claimed victory in the 200-meter. His 22.64-second finish is currently ranked 12th nationally in the 2018-19 season. Kardonsky also came in second in the 60-meter dash, finishing in 7.05 seconds, good for 35th in the nation.
Kardonsky was pleased with his performance, but remained focused on an ultimate goal of being one of the top eight finishers at the Tufts National Qualifying Meet in March.
Wallace also enjoyed an excellent season debut in the pole vault. He cleared 14'5 ¼" (4.40 m), placing second at the meet and 22nd nationally. Wallace saw his performance as a strong mark to build on.
A number of first-years made their collegiate debuts for the Jumbos. Collin O'Sullivan came in second in the 1,000-meter with a time of 2:36.91. Two other first-years also registered third-place finishes for Tufts: Ben Stein recorded a mark of 20'10" (6.35 m) in the long jump, while Alexander Zsikla went 42'5 ½" (12.94 m) in the triple jump.
Wallace was proud of the first-years' performances and also recognized team members who missed the meet.
Two juniors were also successful. Dylan McEniry placed 3rd in the 1,000-meter with a time of 2:37.65, while Kevin Quisumbing took fourth in the shotput with a 47'3 ¼" (14.42 m), achieving a national ranking of 40th.
Wallace also touched on the "bigger picture," making the Jumbos' goals for the season very clear.
The promising squad will compete this Saturday at the Bowdoin Invitational.


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Whats it like to play bass in one of the world's biggest rock bands? Nate Mendel tells it like it is to Joel McIver.
The power of rock compels thee is a phrase that we use a lot around Bags secret command bunker. partly because it makes us chuckle as we boil our strings but also because there's a certain truth hidden in there for bassists of the loud persuasion.
Take Nate Mendel of the Foo Fighters for instance, an affable chap who has called us up to talk about his band's new album, Concrete And Gold. their ninth in the 23 years since sometime Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl formed the group. If you're familiar with the Foos' big hits - 'Monkey Wrench', 'Learn To Fly', 'Times Like These', 'Breakout' and so on - you'll know that they specialise in Rock with a capital R, designed for stadiums and beloved of crowds worldwide.
Who's bigger than the Foo Fighters in this second half of the 2010s, in terms of numbers of gigs played at truly huge venues? No-one in rock apart from U2 and Guns N'Roses, although Metallica and Iron Maiden equal them in the heavy metal world. and Taylor Swift. Justin Bieber, Adele. Ed Sheeran and the rest of the pop contingent probably outdo them all.
This makes it pretty amusing that all the rock bombast in the world can't stop a chap from quailing before a producer with a jazz background, like Mendel did earlier this year. (Be assured. I'm not criticising him here I'm including all of us non-jazzers in the 'fear of jazz' demographic...)
"If you're in the rock world, jazz seems to have a little bit of wizardry, whereas our rules and norms are quite a bit simpler." chuckles Mendel. "I was definitely a little nervous going into this album, because our producer Greg Kurstin is such a schooled jazz musician, but I was looking forward to it at the same time, because I want to collaborate with people and come out a better player at the end of it."
Mendel and Kurstin bonded despite their differing backgrounds, with the producer keen to give the bass a prominent spot in the music. "I would come in with my ideas and Greg would roll with those for a while, before saying 'Well, if you really want to make it good. try this!'" recalls Mendel. "I was coming off two records with [production legend] Butch Vig. who is very particular about timing and making sure that the bass isn't more complicated than it needs to be. His thing is about making the bass simple, solid and heavy without dragging things out, he does a lot of things in one take."
Concrete And Gold, on which Mendel and Grohl are joined by guitarist Chris Shiflett and drummer Taylor Hawkins, is a refined bit of work, loaded with Beatles and Queen-influenced textures and the odd acoustic ballad here and there. very pleased with it, it's one of my favourites." says Mendel. "I stretched out a bit on this one, and switched things up, we got a great sound that I'm really pleased with?
One of the songs. 'La Dee Da' begins with a slick fuzzed-up bass part, magicked up by Kurstin and his engineering team. "That's not a pedal, it's Greg using Logic." says the bassist. "We recorded the dry part in Pro Tools and then they had a second rig set up with Logic for tweaking things and adding effects. It's funny, because I just got a JHS Four Wheeler pedal, which is a distortion pedal that has a noise gate built in. The effect that Greg put on there more or less does the same thing. It's a great pedal, we just played 10 dates in Europe. and we didn't get a soundcheck for a single one of them. so I just plugged that pedal in and off we went."
The bass tone on the album. Logic-ed parts aside, has a bottom-heavy thud that suits the wall of guitars delivered by Grohl and Shiflett. thanks to a switch in strings. al ended up playing flatwounds in the studio a lot - that was Greg's thing," explains Mendel. "I've always liked a live sound on the bass guitar. and I like the notes to ring out fully, but for this record I had a darker, more woody tone and actually it worked out great. Greg was really into that sound. and I came to like it too."
As is usually the case when big bands on a big budget go into big studios, there was an enviable choice of gear for Mendel to choose from. "In the studio there were six or seven instruments." he recalls, "and for the first two or three songs you go through all six or seven. but then you end up picking the one and going with that, because it sounds the best. On this record I mostly used custom shop P-Basses that were made for me in the late 90's, they're basically what my signature bass turned into."
Ah yes. the Fender Nate Mendel Precision. available now at £949 and reviewed in these pages in 2013. Which of the instrument's specs is uniquely his, we ask? "It's a pretty typical P•Bass." he explains. "but I had different pickups put in. and a thicker bridge The main thing was frying to get the shaped the neck right In the belch of 1971 basses that mine came from. I think that they were trying to split the difference between the feel of a Precision neck and a Jazz neck. It's a little wider than a Jazz neck. which for me feels a little crowded."
Four years ago, our tester Mike Hine reckoned, "despite the simplicity of the passive circuitry, the Nate Mendel P-Bass is no one-trick pony. The Badass II bridge, larger and more robust than Fender bridges of old, coupled with the modem Seymour Duncan pickup, help pay tribute to the 71 Precision, while adding a refreshing modern edge. By Mendel's own admission, the new technology makes this bass sound better than its archetype." We relay this to Mendel and he says, 'Obviously I'm biased, but if you're not going to buy a super high-end version of a Precision, or a vintage one, I think it's a good way to go. I love the cosmetics of it: the headstock is very bleached-out blonde and new-looking. I don't like relic-ed instruments, it just seems like cheating to me! I wanted to find the middle ground between a relic-ed bass and a bass that looks like it was just made last week."
Apart from his own Fenders, what else does he have lying around? "I'm mixing it up right now he tells us. "I've been shopping a bit, because I haven't actually bought any new basses in a long time - I'm not much of a gear collector. I played guitar in my solo band for a long time, and then when I came back to bass I really started paying attention to tone and so on, which is why I've been shopping for basses lately."
For amps, Mendel has headed to our side of the pond, he tells us. "I use Ashdown BTA amps. the solid-state/tube hybrid ones. When I was growing up in the 70s I played Ampeg SVTs like everyone else back then there wasn't much option. As soon as you could get $1200 together for a P-Bass and an SVT you were ready to go. right? But I don't tour with my SVTs because they're old and finicky, so that's why I moved to Ashdown, which are readily available and the closest replica to that sound. I also have an awesome distortion pedal with Ashdown. the NM2."
Tasty gear all round, then. Does Mendel ever fancy a touch of amp-modelling, now that the tech is affordable and ubiquitous? "I just modelled my SVT sound with a Kemper, actually," he tells us. "We used the same cab. the same ink and the same control room as we record in to do it. I'm interested to know if it'll come out the same as the actual rig. I know that for guitars it's pretty spot-on. but getting the low end might be a little more difficult to replicate."
It's all a long way from Mendel's youth as a punk kid from Richland, Washington. "I just wanted to be in a band," he remembers, "and there was a guy I was hanging out with at the time who played guitar. I was listening to the Ghost In The Machine album by the Police at the time, and I was hugely into Sting, so when my friend suggested I should play bass I thought it sounded like an awesome idea."
It certainly was - so what was that first bass? "I got a Steinberger copy by Colt, because it was the 80s, and that was what you did when you were 13 back then. ha ha!" he laughs. "I got a little practice amp and we messed around a bit. but that band didn't last long. After that I got into punk rock and moved on to an Ibanez Roadstar and a black Kramer, a kind of Travis Bean-style bass. I joined this band called Christ On A Crutch and I bought a P-Bass for $200 from the singer. That's the one I modelled my signature Precision on."
And the rest is history. Has Mendel ever gone down into five-string territory? "No, ha ha!" he chuckles, before pausing to explain. "In our little camp. five-strings are pretty illegal. It's funny, because I totally understand the value of that fifth string. but it's just one of those lines that you don't cross."
We get it. It's the 'punk rules' right?
"Probably. yeah. I know. I'm nearly 50 years old, and seriously. I'm still thinking like a teenager." he sighs, "Sorry man, some things are just built in."
He needn't worry: this is a recurring theme here at BGM. We often interview bassists. particularly Americans aged between around 35 and 50, who grew up on punk, and in that environment there were three unbreakable rules for the bass player. One, do not play more than four strings: two, do not play fretless; three, never - ever - play slap bass. "Oh my gosh... I sort of wish I could slap." says Mendel. "Its time is back, I think. The other day Taylor. Chris and I were jamming in the rehearsal room on an old U2 tune which has a slap part. It was fun, and the song was better for it. Maybe its time to reassess. What's the opposite of the slap. when you pull up? A pop? Maybe I could do one of those here and there' If the next Foo Fighters album has some slap on it. you know where he got the idea.
The Foos will be off on tour again in 2018: what basses will he be taking out with him? "On tour its been a bit of a grab-bag recently." he tells us. "I've got a bunch of my P-Basses, a Jazz, an old Gibson Ripper, an Epiphone Jack Casady and a Rickenbacker. which I think must be a 4001. When I bought the Ricky I didn't know the difference between a 4001 and a 4003. but our drummer Taylor Hawkins called me from a guitar store and said 'Hey man, there's a beautiful white Rickenbacker here and you should come and get it He's been trying to get me to buy a Rickenbacker for ever. I'm curious to see which one I actually have!"
The Foo Fighters' music, designed for arenas as it is. must be too bottom-heavy for a Ricky, surely? "I plugged it in for a few songs in rehearsal recently, and it wasn't really appropriate for what were doing." he nods, "but it still sounded awesome! I've never really sat down and figured out which basses sound best for which songs, so I'm really looking forward to doing that. I'll have some time to really think about it when we get together to rehearse for the next tour. I have a rack of old basses that I think might sound good. I'll try them out for different songs. Maybe 'Learn To Fly' will sound best with a Guild Starfire. who knows?"
He concludes "Thankfully my bass tech Geoff Templeton is willing to nerd out on this as much as I am. He's going to fly out here in a couple of weeks and were going to go through everything - pickups, strings. amps - and just dive into it for a couple of days. Were going to get real geeky with it" Sounds like BGM's ideal day out - anyone fancy a trip to Washington...?
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Q: How do I get sleep and hibernate working on an Asus K53z? Help!
New ASUS K53z laptop that has a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install...
However, sleep doesn't work...
Tried to follow the manual process in this thread...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1460790
The dropbox package was a 404, and my results are working...
closing the lid of the computer shuts the wireless off, and the screen remains lit up.
I'm a relative novice, but have been trying to work in terminal and follow instructions, but with this one I'm having little success.

A:
Before enabling hibernation, please try to test whether it works
  correctly by running pm-hibernate in a terminal. The system will try
  to hibernate. If you are able to start the system again then you are
  more or less safe to add an override.
To do so, start editing
sudo nano /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla

Fill it with this
[Re-enable hibernate by default]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
ResultActive=yes

Save by pressing Ctrl-O and exit nano by pressing Ctrl-X
Restart and hibernation is back!
Some users will then need to run sudo update-grub to get the hibernate
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Punk Rockers Crowdfund to Fight Foreclosure
Published on August 3rd, 2017 by Christian
This post by AHP founder Jorge Newbery originally appeared on The Huffington Post
My history with punk rock began on Christmas 1979, when my dad gave me a copy of The Clash's London Calling. My musical tastes had been somewhat mainstream, with LPs from Foreigner, Styx, and Toto occupying my turntable. The Clash cracked a door open into a new frontier: bands with lyrics that had a message.
I learned a lot from punk. The DIY attitude taught me that with hard work, I could achieve anything I wanted in life. The Straight Edge lifestyle taught me to keep my head clear by abstaining from drugs and alcohol: I haven't had an alcoholic beverage since half a beer at age 16.
I wrote about some of my punk rock history in Burn Zones. Since publishing it, several punks-turned-businesspeople have invested in my company, American Homeowner Preservation, and have contacted me to reminisce about the old days. I wanted to find out what they'd learned from punk rock, and how they've applied it to their lives today. I spoke with AHP investors Rik Kwan, Jeff Block, and Mark Wolgin, as well as Leta McLaughlin, a rep at one of our largest vendors, about the one thing aside from business that unites us all: punk rock.
"Punk is an attitude," said Rik, who had his own tiny record label back in the day. He shared that he'd been bullied in school for being different: for being Asian, for not wearing name-brand clothes, for not liking the same type of music as his peers. "It's more than just the music. It's about having a place where you're accepted, where people don't judge you for being anti-establishment, or counterculture. That's what attracted me to punk."
This non-conformist attitude was a common theme for everyone. Punk rock is "being open to different lifestyles," said Leta, who does business development for Single Source Property Solutions, which provides property preservation, title and other services to AHP. She grew up going to gigs at the Cuckoo's Nest and other venues in Southern California. "It's about understanding that people have choices, and other people's choices aren't directed 'at me.' They're free to live their lives."
Mark, a surgeon from Los Angeles, spoke about how this punk attitude shaped who he is today: "More than anything, punk informs my politics. Not everyone fits into our society's narrative, but that doesn't mean they don't have anything to contribute. If you're a square peg and everything's a round hole, you won't think you're worth anything."
"My life in punk allowed me to be ready, to be fully invested in and focused on physics," said Jeff, the former guitarist for the band Caustic Notions and a successful scientist today. Caustic Notions "played shows with most of the really big bands of the time," Jeff shared. "We 'little punks' annoyed the likes of the Circle Jerks, Social Distortion, and just about everyone else we played with."
Jeff credits his time in the band for helping him to gain the skills that would allow him to work in the semiconductor industry developing new technologies. "I would never have been able to do that if I'd taken the traditional high school to college to career path. Music had to be a part of it."
Rik, the former punk record label owner, shared that his punk past still helps him today, with his investments. "I'm no longer in the scene. I trade stocks and futures and other stuff."
"But that punk attitude allows me to think differently. In investing, you have to be willing to be a contrarian, to question the established belief. I never felt like I fit in anyways. So I apply that attitude to everything I do, and it helps."
Rik Kwan in his youth
When asked about the seemingly unusual picture of a rebellious young punk growing up to be a respectable stock trader, Rik laughed. He had an answer ready. "Punk is about freedom, and trading stocks and investing allows me the freedom to control my financial destiny." This also helps to explain why all of these people are attracted to AHP's crowdfunded investment model. "Crowdfunding allows a large group of people to share in prosperity, to take pride in owning something," Rik said. That, ultimately, is what we have striven for with AHP.
The most important lesson I learned from punk is this: Question Authority. Government and big business by and large will do what's best for them and couldn't care less about the majority of Americans. With AHP, we are building something different: a business that is for the people, by the people and truly benefits all Americans.
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Living with Joy - Keys to Personal Power and Spiritual Transformation
by Sanaya Roman
Great overall
Outstanding content
Outstanding writing
Channel Sanaya Roman portrays a eternal being of love and light, Living with Joy. You can radiate love; you can be caring and forgiving; you can find inner peace; you can be open to receiving; you can take a quantum leap; and you can live better. You can feel more happiness as you improve self-respect, self-esteem, and self-worth; experience more harmony, prosperity, and security; welcome the new; and discover the greater purpose you have. Orin…
Channel Sanaya Roman portrays a eternal being of love and light, Living with Joy. You can radiate love; you can be caring and forgiving; you can find inner peace; you can be open to receiving; you can take a quantum leap; and you can live better. You can feel more happiness as you improve self-respect, self-esteem, and self-worth; experience more harmony, prosperity, and security; welcome the new; and discover the greater purpose you have. Orin leads you into the practice of self-esteem, where you can embrace yourself as you are now, relieve shame, explore how your truth values build your life, and expose yourself to the love that others have for you. The essence and strength of love to change your life are explored by Orin. You must look at ways to maintain harmony, stability, and security; obtain clarity; welcome the new; and find your greater meaning and bring it to you. You're going to connect with your soul's strength and devotion, your innermost self. Orin leads you in understanding who you are, in creating meaningful images of yourself, and in drawing out the greater intelligence, compassion, and essence of the real self within you. In this book Orin speaks about wanting better, realizing you can build what you want, opening up to accept much more than you've ever accepted into your life, and finding the power of love, gratitude, and the law of growth. Orin teaches you to have more inner peace by communicating with your higher selves, and how to avoid being affected by the world and affect it with your love in a constructive way. You will lead a life doing what you want to do, be good, and bring joy to those around you as you do.
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
by Sri Swami Satchidananda
Decent content
This book includes a comprehensive guide on the direction of focus and meditation for the study and practice of Raja Yoga. The ancient Sutras include teachings on morality, mindfulness, and physical postures. The Sutras are described here in the purest form, with the original Sanskrit and Sri Swami Satchidananda, one of the most known and admired contemporary yoga masters, with translation, transliteration, and commentary. Sri Swamiji gives pragmatic guidance to master the mind and attain physical, cognitive and emotional equilibrium based on his own experience.
How to Relax (Mindfulness Essentials)
by Thich Nhat Hanh
Outstanding overall
How to Relax, part of book series by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, teaches beginners and remindes experienced practitioners of the basics of the practice of mindfulness. Pocket-sized, with Jason DeAntonis' original two-color drawings, How to Relax reveals how important it is to disrupt our life's hub-bub and routine frequently. Relaxation is necessary to obtain access to the tranquility and satisfaction that contributes to improved well-being. Including chapters on recovery, nonstop thought ease, changing disturbing sounds, isolation, harmony, and more, How to Relax provides meditations you can use to help…
How to Relax, part of book series by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh, teaches beginners and remindes experienced practitioners of the basics of the practice of mindfulness. Pocket-sized, with Jason DeAntonis' original two-color drawings, How to Relax reveals how important it is to disrupt our life's hub-bub and routine frequently. Relaxation is necessary to obtain access to the tranquility and satisfaction that contributes to improved well-being. Including chapters on recovery, nonstop thought ease, changing disturbing sounds, isolation, harmony, and more, How to Relax provides meditations you can use to help you attain the effects of relaxing anywhere anytime. Scientific findings indicate that mindfulness makes a significant difference to well-being, good wellbeing and lifespan. How to Relax is a special gift to anyone who need a clear guide to gain deep relaxation, tension reduction, and psychological freshness and awareness restoration.
Real Happiness at Work - Meditations for Accomplishment, Achievement, and Peace
by Sharon Salzberg
Decent overall
Real Happiness at Work takes the fundamental advantages of mindfulness to an environment where people can make the most of it at work. And it's written by one of the top practitioners of mindfulness in the world. A follow-up to Real Happiness, the bestseller of the New York Times, Sharon Salzberg's Real Happiness at Work is a realistic roadmap to changing work life through knowledge, empathy, and naivety. to counterbalance pressure and anger, it's about…
Real Happiness at Work takes the fundamental advantages of mindfulness to an environment where people can make the most of it at work. And it's written by one of the top practitioners of mindfulness in the world. A follow-up to Real Happiness, the bestseller of the New York Times, Sharon Salzberg's Real Happiness at Work is a realistic roadmap to changing work life through knowledge, empathy, and naivety. to counterbalance pressure and anger, it's about being committed without being absorbed, aggressive without being mean, balancing time and emotions. To do good, more successful job, it teaches readers how to be more imaginative, coordinated, and achieved. Dividing the concept of job happiness into eight principles, Real Happiness at Work is packed with biblical wisdom; key meditations on specific topics such as inspiration, empathy, and finding the best in others; and more than a dozen activities, like Moving from Me to We and When Things Go Wrong. The book is packed with brief tactical meditations, easy and actionnable in any situation. Let the phone ring three times, focus on your pulse, then pick it up; or during your next convesation try to listen more than you talk. Against workplace unhappiness meditaion and mindfulness are the cure.
What Now? - Meditation for Your Twenties and Beyond
by Yael Shy
Buddhist teachings and meditation include a guide to help early adulthood college students and others integrate consciousness into their lives as a way of overcoming the various challenges that are special to this period of life. Intense feelings and fear occupy early adulthood. You're caught in the chaos of thoughts about the way you should be living and worrying about wasting the best years of your life. Share conscientiousness activities to help twenty-somethings learn to understand and embrace these emotions and to not respond to unpleasant and strong sensations without…
Buddhist teachings and meditation include a guide to help early adulthood college students and others integrate consciousness into their lives as a way of overcoming the various challenges that are special to this period of life. Intense feelings and fear occupy early adulthood. You're caught in the chaos of thoughts about the way you should be living and worrying about wasting the best years of your life. Share conscientiousness activities to help twenty-somethings learn to understand and embrace these emotions and to not respond to unpleasant and strong sensations without driving them back and destroying them. Practices that help us wake up to this reality. A particular turbulent era of creation is a time where many move away from home for the first time and participate in all sorts of experimenting with thoughts, drugs, friendships, and where we think we are and what to be in the world. Yael Shy tells her own experience to initiate a practice and gives simple meditation guides.
From Anxiety to Love - A Radical New Approach for Letting Go of Fear and Finding Lasting Peace
by Corinne Zupko
Writer Corinne Zupko conducted her study of psychology out of desperation as she began to ruin her life by crippling anxiety. In pursuit for ways to do more than simply ease her problems, Corinne started reading A Course in Miracles, meditation, and the modern clinical approaches to anxiety management. She shares what she has experienced in From Anxiety to Love and subtly walks you through the process, helping you to reverse anxiety-based behavior and encourage…
Writer Corinne Zupko conducted her study of psychology out of desperation as she began to ruin her life by crippling anxiety. In pursuit for ways to do more than simply ease her problems, Corinne started reading A Course in Miracles, meditation, and the modern clinical approaches to anxiety management. She shares what she has experienced in From Anxiety to Love and subtly walks you through the process, helping you to reverse anxiety-based behavior and encourage mindful changes in your thoughts and actions. If you're dealing with everyday tension and debilitating pain, you'll find in Corinne's solution a new path to recovery and healing.
Shift into Freedom - The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
by Loch Kelly
In order to lead a life of peace, wellness and happiness, mindfulness is one of the most valuable things to grasp. It is a remarkable book of meditation which provides easy to follow advanced meditations. Loch provides us with the idea that the next normal phase of human evolution may be awakening. The groundbreaking psychotherapist and mindfulness teacher has been helping people of all backgrounds learn how to awaken.
A Lamp in the Darkness - Illuminating the Path Through Difficult Times
by Jack Kornfield Ph.D.
You've already hit tough times if you're reading these words. You may have lost a loved one, or you may have lost your work, or you may have been hospitalized with disability, or someone close to you. Perhaps daily life itself has been too complicated and not enough for you. Yet there's much to think about even in the best of days: almost limitless conflicts and terrorism, sexism, the accelerating deterioration of the planet. In…
You've already hit tough times if you're reading these words. You may have lost a loved one, or you may have lost your work, or you may have been hospitalized with disability, or someone close to you. Perhaps daily life itself has been too complicated and not enough for you. Yet there's much to think about even in the best of days: almost limitless conflicts and terrorism, sexism, the accelerating deterioration of the planet. In challenging moments, individually and socially, we sometimes start thinking not just how we can get through this tough patch; we start contemplating life.
Mindfulness in Plain English
by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
This has been one of the bestselling books in the area of mindfulness since Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994. Bhante Gunaratana, explains us gradually the myths, truths, and benefits of practicing meditation and mindfulness. The book highlights the simplicity and wit of Bhante's signature as he discusses the mindfulness method, what it does, and how it works. The revised version contains her predecessor's full text along with a new section on fostering compassionate kindness, a subject of great significance in today's world. It is a good…
This has been one of the bestselling books in the area of mindfulness since Mindfulness in Plain English was first published in 1994. Bhante Gunaratana, explains us gradually the myths, truths, and benefits of practicing meditation and mindfulness. The book highlights the simplicity and wit of Bhante's signature as he discusses the mindfulness method, what it does, and how it works. The revised version contains her predecessor's full text along with a new section on fostering compassionate kindness, a subject of great significance in today's world. It is a good tool for those new to meditation to learn how to achieve inner peace in life.
The Art of Taking Action - Lessons from Japanese Psychology
by Gregg Krech
Decent writing
In his novel, Naikan: Gratitude, Grace and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection., Gregg Krech opened new windows to self-reflection. Today he's focusing on Eastern psychology, Buddhism, Japanese Mindset, Zen, and Martial Arts to deliver an approach that goes beyond performance and time management. Weaving an impressive set of teachings together, Krech discusses pragmatic concerns such as procrastination, tension, depression, and indecision, all through a prism of ancient Eastern insight. Buddhism, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and Japanese…
In his novel, Naikan: Gratitude, Grace and the Japanese Art of Self-Reflection., Gregg Krech opened new windows to self-reflection. Today he's focusing on Eastern psychology, Buddhism, Japanese Mindset, Zen, and Martial Arts to deliver an approach that goes beyond performance and time management. Weaving an impressive set of teachings together, Krech discusses pragmatic concerns such as procrastination, tension, depression, and indecision, all through a prism of ancient Eastern insight. Buddhism, yoga, meditation, mindfulness, and Japanese culture students should identify with the concepts provided by Krech and come up with both encouragement and concrete advice to translate those ideas into ACTION. It's not only about getting stuff finished, it's about how you're doing, why you're doing something, or the action's effect on the environment around you.
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The reason you might soon pay more than $8 for one oyster
Fiona CarruthersTravel editor
When the posh Sydney Harbour venue Otto Ristorante started charging $8 for a single Sydney rock oyster in March 2019, it made headlines.
Fine diners be warned: your bivalves bill could rise yet again, given distributors of Sydney rock oysters recently upped the wholesale price for restaurants, bars and markets from $15 to $18 for one dozen, and the increase is likely to be passed on to consumers.
Third-generation oyster farmer Brad Verdich, of Wallis Lake on the NSW Mid North Coast, says increased rainfall and floods mean farmers of Sydney rock oysters are struggling more than ever. Oscar Colman
East 33, Australia's largest vertically integrated Sydney rock oyster producer, supplier and exporter, raised its prices in October in response to oyster farmers' increasing struggle to realise a viable harvest, mainly due to more intense rainfall and increased flooding over the past few years, along with outdated infrastructure.
"Wetter and changed weather patterns have resulted in higher mortality and a slower growth rate for oysters," third-generation oyster farmer and East 33 member Brad Verdich said.
"That's particularly difficult on farmers who grow Sydney rock oysters, which take at least 3.5 years to mature versus 12 months for Pacific oysters.
"East 33 is passing that $3 increase onto the farmers," he said, adding that the wholesale price paid to oyster farmers had not truly reflected the cost of production for the past three decades.
"We really hope it doesn't lead to dramatic price increases for consumers. Equally, I don't want to pick on restaurants as they're our partners in what we do.
"At the end of the day, we hope consumers can understand what a tough time the industry is having, and will continue to go through for another three years at least."
"Don't pay $8 for an oyster," says Jason Petch, owner of Blu Oyster Co seafood restaurant in St Kilda, Melbourne.
In Melbourne, Jason Petch, the owner of Blu Oyster Co restaurant at St Kilda, quips it is a good time for seafood lovers to switch from Sydney rock to Pacific oysters, given the latter are cheaper.
"To be honest, price gouging around the Sydney rock oysters has been going on for years now," Mr Petch said, adding: "Don't pay $8 for an oyster; that's highway robbery.
"They can't go to $10 each, that would be completely ridiculous. Fancy restaurants around Sydney and Melbourne in particular need to stop robbing their customers."
Sydney rock oysters have traded on their reputation and relative rarity for decades. In 1976, NSW produced about 200 million Sydney rock oysters. Today, that figure was closer to 50 to 70 million, and would be lower again next year, Mr Verdich said.
'Lipstick effect'
Pacific oysters dominate crops from South Australia to Tasmania, and Mr Petch stopped trading in Sydney rocks years ago. He has recently upped his price for one dozen Pacific oysters plated and served with lemon and sauces from $29 to $30 to reflect a smaller price rise in wholesale Pacifics: "That's our first price rise in two years, so not too bad.
"Us southerners tend to prefer the Pacifics anyway as they are a cleaner, bigger oyster that's more presentable on the plate than the small, ugly Sydney rocks."
As for consumers, the well-documented "lipstick effect" of continuing to reward yourself with small discretionary items during periods of economic pain continues.
Hip pockets might have been dented by the Reserve Bank's recent seventh consecutive interest rate increase, but belt tightening has not hit our bellies yet, it would seem.
Over the past 10 months, household spending has increased in all nine spending categories, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The largest increases were in clothing and footwear (up 73.1 per cent), followed by hotels, cafes and restaurants (+60.6 per cent), then transport (+53 per cent).
A 2021 survey of Australian adults who like to eat out, conducted by restaurant marketing and booking app OpenTable, found 70 per cent had returned to their pre-COVID dining habits, with 67 per cent of respondents eating at restaurants at least once a week.
Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com
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So we have really been abandoned. How long has it been since any real action, a year?
Not quite, May was last real update. Just little drop feed of content now.
Why did you remove all the pictures of the characters, their class, their affinity and their passives?


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Good news ! I want to see that ! Thanks.
Nice. However I did not see any sort of knitted picture frame saying "families are forever". And !! not even a picture of the bishopric. Other than that this was way cool.
That's one mighty fine man cave you have there Mr Shadow.
Looking forward to hearing the new album.


A final raucous farewell to electro's best ever behemoths.
Live albums are curious creatures. They tend to fall into one of two camps. Either they are shameless cash-ins, the last promotional refuge of corporate, contractually-bound artists or else, they are genuine one-offs, career-defining artefacts which serve to pull in the naysayer and the interested outsider. LCD Soundsystem's The Long Goodbye, thankfully, falls into the latter camp. Twenty eight songs over two hours plus. You get a decent share from each album and also the natural ebb and flow of a real concert, making you feel like you were there and really part of the event. Uptempo, poppy numbers such as "Us Vs. Them" and "Drunk Girls" pepper the set with staccato rhythm patterns, uppercuts of lead guitar parts and swooping bass playing. In between, more reflective and stately pieces such as the 45:33 intro and "All My Friends" provide welcome lightness and breathing space. This gives those new to LCD Soundsystem an idea of the true breadth and range of the band's talent and reminds those of us who are long term fans why we liked them in the first place. They know when to come at you with a full-on sonic attack and they know also when to ease back on the gas, allow the rhythm to settle the mind and let you really get into their sound.
This is due in no small part to the workings of mainman James Murphy. Murphy has proved himself a thoughtful and witty lyricist over the course of his career. It's only really on this album, though, that he appears truly comfortable in the role of showman and frontman, having great fun barking out lyrics like short sharp commands (check out "Drunk Girls") which band and audience both respond to with great gusto. The crowd roars the lyrics back at him, wowing and goading him into even greater displays of showmanship and the band, always tight throughout the set, really step up to the plate, each member fighting for their own little moment in the sun and creating a true sonic force to be reckoned with in doing so. One imagines fingers being bled down to the bone on fretboards and limbs flying out from behind synths and drum kits as desire and pure naked sonic joy took over during the course of this concert.
The strong funk muscle at the heart of LCD Soundsystem comes across particularly well on "Daft Punk Is Playing at My House" and "Bye Bye Bayou". Both these tracks have real elastic-y, head-banging bass lines which are given full reign here. This is also true of what is arguably LCD Soundsystem's best known song, "Someone Great". A triumph in its original recorded form, it sounds even sharper and better here. It has been sped up slightly and, therefore, the bass and treble are even stronger and more resonant here, a fact which the audience is very quick to pick up on. Just hear them roar the central refrain back at James Murphy – that's clearly not dubbed on applause!
If it would be possible to make one minor criticism, there are some songs, such as "Get Innocuous", which are too tenderly handled and not changed enough from their original studio incarnations. Surely the whole idea of playing your songs live is to breathe new life into them, make them stand on their own two sonic feet in brand new contexts, not simply reproduce them as they already were? "Movement", too, is another good example of this. Yes guys, you may well be there to Shut Up and Play the Hits, but don't be too faithful to them, or else people will Stay at Home and Play the Albums. A bit more minimalism and checking out of new directions would not go amiss for any future revivals.
The one trump card throughout all the songs, though, is James Murphy. He really pours himself into every song, bringing out true humour, irony empathy and pathos in the words. Murphy quite clearly wants to be David Byrne, Iggy Pop, James Brown and Freddie Mercury all rolled into one. A scream from Pop here, a sonically arched eyebrow from Byrne there and several well-placed Mercury-esque trumpet blasts of sound speckled throughout the set all make for a very compelling frontman, who knows his place and his role within the band. Nowhere is this brought better to the core than in "Yeah". The synths sound like they are having a nervous breakdown, the drummer and bassist to into an epileptic rage and James Murphy sits atop it all, goading and finessing the audience, like some kind of sonic king of the castle.
The subtle, insistent bass throb of "Someone Great" straight after comes as almost a relief. It sums up the album's (and the band's) true heart of heavy electro pop. By far the most textured and personal song in the LCD Soundsystem canon, slow and insistent in original album form, here the band runs riot over its every note and nuance and the end effect is superb. The sarcastic, almost nursery-rhyme like way in which Murphy infants the lyrics serves as a subtle counterfoil to the tragic meaning behind them. Is this about the death of a relationship? The death -- stillborn or through miscarriage -- of a child? Regardless of either, this song sounds as close to Murphy's (and LCD Soundsystem's) heart here as "Tears in Heaven" did to Eric Clapton on his Unplugged album. In closing, then, this is a band who are (or were) there to play strictly AT you and to go down raging at the dying embers of their own sonic light. True, some songs such as "Out in Space" go on a little too long, but this is a small price to pay for two and a half hours of joyous sonic mayhem.


A private hospital has been closed as West Yorkshire Police investigate an incident outside the building.
A spokesman for BMI The Huddersfield Hospital said: "We can confirm that the hospital is temporarily closed while the police investigate an incident which took place outside the hospital.
"We hope to reopen again tomorrow and have been in touch with patients who were due to attend."
Callers to the hospital's reception are being directed to a recorded message which says: "Due to a major incident, the BMI Huddersfield Hospital will be closed until seven o'clock Thursday the 23rd of August.
"If you have an urgent clinical query, please phone this number to speak to our clinical on-call team - 07824 450975."


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German home-school family won't be deported
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Associated Press• March 5, 2014
FILE -- This March 13, 2009, file photo shows Uwe Romeike, top left, and his wife Hannelore, second from right, teaching their children at their home in Morristown, Tenn. An attorney for a German couple who lost their bid for U.S. asylum in order to home-school their seven children says deportation proceedings against the family have been deferred indefinitely, Tuesday, March 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Wade Payne, File)
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) — An attorney for a German couple who lost their bid for U.S. asylum in order to home-school their seven children says deportation proceedings against the family have been deferred indefinitely.
The news comes only a day after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Uwe Romeike's asylum appeal.
Michael Donnelly, an attorney with the Home School Legal Defense Association, said the group received a call from the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday morning.
"This is a great, great victory," he said. "We're all very grateful and pleased."
Romeike had claimed in court that his family faced persecution in Germany, where almost all children are required to attend state-approved schools. Those include some private Christian schools.
The German government allows a few exceptions to the compulsory attendance law for parents who face logistical hurdles, for instance if they have to travel constantly for work. But children whose parents keep them home because of ideological objections to the state-approved schools are treated as truants.
The Romeikes moved from Bissingen an der Teck, in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, to Morristown, Tennessee, in 2008 after pulling their children out of school and facing an escalating series of confrontations with German officials that led to fines totaling 7,000 euros, or more than $9,000. They said they feared that if they continued to home-school in Germany they could be sent to jail or lose custody of their children.
They initially were granted asylum by a Memphis immigration judge, but that decision was overturned on appeal.
As it worked its way through the courts, the family's case won the support of many in the Christian home-school community, and an online petition asking President Barack Obama to grant asylum for the family was signed by more than 127,000 people.
Donnelly said on Tuesday that Romeike was declining interview requests, but he did issue a statement. It said the family — which includes Romeike, his wife and their seven children ages 1-17 — is "happy" to have indefinite status, even if that means they won't get American citizenship any time soon.
"As long as we can live at peace here we are happy," Romeike states. "We have always been ready to go wherever the Lord would lead us."
Donnelly said the deferred status is revocable, but he doesn't expect it to be revoked as long as the family stays out of trouble.
Donnelly said the news from Homeland Security was unexpected. The Romeikes' attorneys had been planning to ask friendly members of Congress to introduce a special bill allowing the family to stay.
The Home School Legal Defense Association still is pursuing legislation that would recognize people who come to the U.S. to home-school their children with some sort of refugee or asylum status, Donnelly said. He said there are a handful of other German home-school families seeking asylum in the U.S.
"We don't know how the government will handle their cases," he said. "They are still in the early stages."


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Kids are awesome. They are so open and full of good will.
Art is extraordinary, yet so natural way of finding solutions, and that is something I love to amplify and support within kiddos. I hold this educational art society for children, where we find creative solutions for ocean conservation issues.
It is so inspirational to see, how kids brainstorm together, find their personal solution for problem, and make a meditative state to make it concrete by form of art. When you practice see solutions instead of problems, you can bring your creativity to all branches of life it self.
This is my pro bono thing to do for our oceans, and I get a lot out of it just by hanging with unselfish, creative people -kids. Every time we meet, we focus on one issue our oceans are struggling with. Like today it was bottom trawling, and all the threats it does to ecosystem. We found inspirational bycatch organisms, and talked about what we would invent to protect them and our environment. And this is my favorite part – Kids get the most craziest ideas without limits, so we paint them out with different techniques I'm teaching to kids at the same time. That kind of thinking intensifies your wiring inside of growing brain for finding unexpected answers. It is like multilayer math, different formulas will lead to the right answer, or existing several right answers.
One of the most coolest part of doing art, is how these kids are learning how making mistakes is actually an option: Every thing has at least two sides -good and bad-, and the perspective is just up on us. Do we choose to see it as a major fail, or do we see there a chance to some new, more creative paths? It is all about our ability to change our pre-programmed thinking and need for control.
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July 1994 was the inception of Wholeness Ministries as an official independent Non-profit organization. We are excited to celebrate this month our 21st Year Anniversary. It hardly seems real to me that we have been at this for 21 Years. I went back to look at that first newsletter that I mailed out and decided to quote some of it for you so you can see what I was thinking and expecting God to do with Wholeness Ministries 21 years ago.
"God made very clear to me what I see as the Mandate for Wholeness Ministries. That mandate being Luke 4:18-19.."The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
As you can tell from this quote we have tried to stay true to what I saw God doing 21 years ago. We continue training people, we provide a place for people to receive deep-level and long-term prayer ministry. We have traveled extensively nationally and internationally to equip people for ministry through conducting healing conferences.
Interestingly enough about half of my monthly salary is still provided by monthly commitments. Not much has changed. The summer months are always a tough time for us financially so if you are able to send a little extra it would be much appreciated. If you would consider coming alongside us as a monthly donor that can be easily done by direct deposit through our Website. Simply click on Donate or send a check to Wholeness Ministries, P.O. Box 80503, Bakersfield, CA 93380.
In July I was part of a speaking team at the IGNITE Conference held in Cromwell, Ct. This is a yearly event put on by Christian Healing Ministries in Jacksonville, Fl. by my friends Francis & Judith MacNutt. This event is designed to equip and empower the body of Christ through powerful teachings, spirit-led worship, healing prayer, and group fellowship.
Two of the speakers were Judith MacNutt and R.T. Kendall who is the author of over 80 books and an international speaker. It was an exciting time as we watched God move powerfully healing people physically, emotionally and radically changing lives in the process. I've stayed in touch with some of the young men that were attending the conference who worship at a Messianic Jewish Synagogue. They are still talking about how much they learned about healing and the changes that are taking place in their lives because of what God started at this conference.