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Shields of Strength Case
Anti-religion group is twisting the law in a cruel attempt to deprive service members from having Shields of Strength
Kenny and Tammie Vaughan started their company, Shields of Strength, with a specific mission in mind – to encourage the men and women of our armed forces by providing them with a tangible reminder of Divine protection and strength. Shields of Strength replica dog tags bear various symbols, emblems, and logos from each branch of service (Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marines) on one side and an inspirational scripture verse or reference on the other. Each branch of the armed forces licenses the use of their trademarks for private or commercial use, and Shields of Strength received licenses from the Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force. But after a complaint by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, the Vaughans now face the prospect of losing the right to continue making these inspirational items. First Liberty Institute has contacted the Pentagon to resolve the matter and protect the Vaughans from religious discrimination.
Personal Inspiration
For over 20 years Kenny Vaughan and his wife Tammie have been making Shields of Strength replica dog tags with encouraging Bible verses on them for members of the armed forces and first responders. Kenny got the idea after Tammie wrote a bible verse on his waterski rope before a competition in 1996. The verse gave him courage during the competition, so he began making these dog tags hoping to encourage others who may be facing fear.
In 2001 one of the tags caught Army Colonel David Dodd's eye, commander of the 86th Signal Battalion. Colonel Dodd and his troops were headed into Afghanistan for the start of Operation Enduring Freedom when he inquired about purchasing some of the dog tags. Instead, Kenny and Tammie donated 500 Shields of Strength to encourage the troops.
In 2003, while serving in Iraq, Captain Russell Rippetoe was killed in action while wearing a Shields of Strength dog tag. At the 2003 Memorial Day Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, President George Bush referenced the dog tag on Rippetoe, and read the scripture. Thousands reached out afterward wanting dog tags.
To date, the Vaughan's have made over 4 million dog tags and given hundreds of thousands to the U.S. military and other ministries. During the Iraq War, they donated over 50,000 pieces a month and even fulfilled a single request for 30,000 pieces.
In 2012, the U.S. Army granted a trademark license to Shields of Strength to feature Army trademarks on its products.
In July 2019, a news article once again spoke of the distribution of 4 million Shields of Strength dog tags. Shortly after the article ran, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) sent a complaint to the Department of Defense regarding the use of military logos with religious symbols. MRFF demanded an investigation even though Kenny had trademark licenses to use the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps logos.
"I was shocked that there are groups in America that would go on the attack against Shields of Strength that have inspired so many of our fighting men and women," said Kenny Vaughan, owner of Shields of Strength. "I hope the Army sees that the very freedom our soldiers fight for is at stake."
However, after receiving the letter, the Army sent Mr. Vaughan an email informing him that he was not authorized to put biblical verses on Army products, and that he needed to remove all biblical references from all army products, and from product descriptions on the Shields of Strength Website.
That's when First Liberty reached out to Kenny and offered to represent him. First Liberty sent a letter to the United States Army Trademark Licensing Office urging it to reinstate licenses. The letter explained that, once the government has created a limited public forum via a trademark licensing regime, it cannot 'discriminate against speech on the basis of its viewpoint.'
"It's a cruel insult to our fighting men and women to deny them inspirational jewelry simply because it has a religious message," said Mike Berry, Chief of Staff for First Liberty Institute. "The MRFF is twisting the law in its cruel attempt to deny inspirational Shields of Strength to military personnel. Army officials should just ignore the message of those who make their living by being offended."
Then, in January 2020, First Liberty sent a similar letter to the United States Marine Corp Licensing Office after the USMC denied to license Kenny's Shields because of their religious nature. Added Berry, "Events of the past several weeks make clear that our military personnel are constantly exposed to danger. And yet the MRFF seeks to deny them the freedom to wear Shields of Strength. Denying our troops a source of inspiration, hope, and encouragement simply because it contains a religious message is an outrage. The Marine Corps should tell the MRFF to support our troops, not punish them."
For Immediate Release: 1.14.20
Marine Corps Bans Inspirational Replica Dog Tags After Complaint by Activist Group
Religious liberty law firm urges Marine Corps to allow replica dog tags, other inspirational jewelry
Washington, DC—First Liberty Institute today sent a letter to the United States Marine Corps Trademark Licensing Office urging it to allow Shields of Strength ("Shields"), a private, faith-based, business to continue producing military-themed items such as replica "dog tags" and jewelry. The USMC banned Shields from making replica dog tags with inspirational Bible verses after it received a complaint from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation ("MRFF").
You can read the letter here.
"Events of the past several weeks make clear that our military personnel are constantly exposed to danger. And yet the MRFF seeks to deny them the freedom to wear Shields of Strength," said Mike Berry, Chief of Staff for First Liberty Institute. "Denying our troops a source of inspiration, hope, and encouragement simply because it contains a religious message is an outrage. The Marine Corps should tell the MRFF to support our troops, not punish them."
Because of the USMC's decision, Shields of Strength had to decline a recent request for 2,000 replica dog tags made by a Marine Corps unit to be distributed upon request to individual Marines, many of whom could soon be deployed to the Middle East during rising tensions.
"It's frustrating that those who are fighting for our freedom can't have a Shield simply because the military is afraid of an outside activist group," said Kenny Vaughan, owner of Shields of Strength. "I hope the Marine Corps reverses course and restores the ability of our brave military members to own a Shield of Strength."
In its letter to the Marine Corps, First Liberty argues that, "Once the government has created a limited public forum via a trademark licensing regime, it cannot 'discriminate against speech on the basis of its viewpoint.' The Marine Corps is therefore prohibited from discriminating against [Shields] because of its inclusion of biblical references on its products, in its advertisements, or on its website."
For over 20 years Kenny Vaughan and his wife Tammie have been making Shields of Strength replica dog tags with encouraging Bible verses or references on them for service members and first responders. Shields of Strength replica dog tags bear various military-themed emblems, logos, or insignia on one side and various faith-based messages such as Scripture verses or references on the other side. To date, the Vaughn's have made over 4 million dog tags and given hundreds of thousands to the U.S. military and other ministries. During the Iraq War, they donated over 50,000 pieces a month and even fulfilled a single request for 30,000 pieces. Each branch of the military grants licenses to vendors to feature military trademarks on products.
Last year, MRFF sent a letter to the Army threatening "administrative and litigation complaints" to "compel compliance" unless the SoS stopped including religious references on its licensed products.
12/3/19 – News Release
1.14.20 – Letter to U.S. Marine Corps
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"A woman is most beautiful when she smiles. Other than that, the most valuable tip I've learned is always use a skin moisturizer!"
"A good eye cream is really important when you are traveling, busy and stressed-that's when the dark puffy circles can get you."
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Another Work in Progress
First, thank you to everyone who read my last book, released in early May 2021. What a firestorm that little novel created. There seems to be no middle ground. It is either loved - or reviled. As much as I dislike receiving negative reviews, I will never begrudge anyone their opinion. If they did not like the story, that is good. We all can't like everything. Maybe I can recapture their regard with my next novel.
I will admit. I am not writing this as fast as the last two. At first, I was worried to offend my readers again because there is a compromise at the beginning of this story - but not the same kind. It is your typical "Oh my goodness, you were found with Mr. Darcy's arms around you!" kind of compromise. And, given Mr. Darcy's temperament, you know he will not be happy with how it all came about. His pride will be extremely stiff and it's my job to soften him up so Elizabeth can fall in love with him.
Pfffttt.... how hard could that be????
I took my time with the beginning of the story and thought I'd share the first chapter with you.
Compromise & Consequence
Good gracious! Lord bless me! only think! dear me! Mr. Darcy! Who would have thought it! And is it really true? Oh! my sweetest Lizzy! how rich and how great you will be! What pin-money, what jewels, what carriages you will have!
Pride & Prejudice, Chapter XVII of Volume III (Chapter 59)
Four of the Bennet sisters from Longbourn walked a familiar laneway to the closest village of Meryton. In their midst, desperately attempting to keep up, was their out of shape cousin whom they had met for the first time yesterday. Between trying to take hold of Miss Elizabeth Bennet's arm, which she conveniently kept out of his reach by various means, and doing a funny hop skip step as he was not used to walking so far, he kept up a steady, if labored one-sided conversation.
"My esteemed patroness, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, would be well pleased to know how you keep fit by walking, Cousin Elizabeth." He paused to suck in a breath and then hurried to catch up with her and the eldest Miss Bennet, Jane. "Do you always walk so quickly?"
Elizabeth glanced at Mr. Collins over her shoulder and then looked straight ahead so he wouldn't notice the wide smile she could not hold back any longer.
"Oh no, Mr. Collins. We have slowed down our pace in deference to you. Normally, we walk much faster."
"Faster?" he panted out, finally coming to a halt and bent low over his knees. "I must catch my breath."
"Lizzy," Jane said beneath her breath. "We are now bordering on cruel behavior."
"I know," she whispered back. "I shall stay with Mr. Collins. I see Charlotte down the lane, we will accompany her. You go ahead and keep an eye on Lydia and Kitty. I do not trust what they are up to. They were too insistent on walking to Meryton today."
Jane would have hesitated, but she saw Charlotte Lucas coming toward them, so with a friendly wave, she hurried to catch up to their two youngest sisters.
"Charlotte, good timing on your part. Mr. Collins and I are walking into Meryton. Are you by chance also going into the village?"
By this time, Miss Lucas had come alongside. "I am. Mama has asked me to post a letter to our uncle."
"Mr. Collins, may I present to you Miss Charlotte Lucas of Lucas Lodge?"
Her cousin had finally caught his breath and offered Charlotte an awkward bow.
"Miss Lucas, this is my cousin, Mr. Collins of Hunsford, Kent."
"You should introduce me properly cousin. I am the Reverend Mr. William Collins of Hunsford parsonage, of Rosings Park, Kent."
"I stand corrected."
"A pleasure to meet you, Mr. Collins. Are you here for an extended stay?"
Lizzy almost rolled her eyes, knowing what was coming next. Mr. Collins did not disappoint.
"I have been so fortunate as to be distinguished by the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Catherine de Bourgh, widow of Sir Lewis de Bourgh, whose bounty and beneficence has preferred me to the valuable rectory of the Hunsford parish. With her blessing, I intend to trespass upon the hospitality of my esteemed cousin Bennet till Saturday next, which I can do without any inconvenience, as Lady Catherine is far from objecting to my occasional absence on a Sunday, provided that some other clergyman is engaged to do the duty of the day."
"Your patroness sounds like a fine woman," Charlotte said, a twinkle in her eye. "It is well that she can spare you for so long."
"Oh yes, she is the one who urged me to heal the breach in our families. My father did not like Mr. Bennet and refused to even speak his name, but now that he has passed, God rest his soul, I felt the time had come for me to extend the olive branch and make amends."
"Yes, Charlotte. Lady Catherine de Bourgh takes prodigious care of our cousin. There is nothing that escapes her notice." Lizzy faced Mr. Collins. "You must tell her about the shelves in the closet."
Mr. Collins, as expected, launched into a rapturous soliloquy about his patroness and her various recommendations to the parsonage and adjacent garden.
"I dare say she is a very knowledgeable woman," Charlotte murmured when he finally finished speaking. "It is a pity that great ladies, in general, are not more like her. Does she live near you, sir?"
"The garden in which stands my humble abode is separated only by a lane from Rosings Park, her ladyship's residence." Mr. Collins practically beamed from the attention Charlotte paid him, which set Lizzy to think and plot a new direction for her verbose cousin.
"Mr. Collins, when we reach Meryton, would you be so kind as to escort Miss Lucas to the post office. I fear the gentleman there might charge her too much for her letter and having you there will keep him honest."
"But I had intended to stay by your side, cousin Elizabeth."
"Dear Mr. Collins, I have three sisters with me, I am not without company. Plus, I have need to visit a lady's shop, and you cannot enter the establishment." He looked as though he would argue. "No, my mind is made up. You must be the dashing gentleman and provide protection for Miss Lucas."
Charlotte raised an eyebrow at her obvious meddling but said nothing – just as Lizzy expected. Her best friend always said she was not looking for romance in marriage, seeking instead security and a good man. Lizzy may not look to her cousin in that way, but Charlotte would make a wonderful mistress of Hunsford parsonage and in the future, Longbourn. She just had to make sure the officious donkey followed the carrot of Miss Lucas. Also, she had plans for when she reached her majority in May, and they did not include marriage.
By the time Elizabeth had finished the little bit of shopping required for her needs, Jane waited outside sporting a bright smile, while Kitty and Lydia appeared quite disgruntled.
"Are we ready to walk home?" she asked them.
"We may as well, Denny and Wickham have gone back to the encampment. There is nothing to do now."
"Denny and Wickham?" Lizzy queried.
"Kitty and Lydia introduced us to some officers from the ____shire Militia. A Captain Denny and a Lieutenant Wickham. I did not speak with them for very long as Mr. Bingley and Mr. Darcy were on their way to Longbourn and when they saw us, stopped to query about my health."
Jane had fallen ill while visiting Mr. Bingley's sisters and ended up staying six days at Netherfield Park, along with Elizabeth while she recovered. It seemed promising that Mr. Bingley made the attempt to visit Jane before two full days passed since they last saw him.
"Mr. Bingley stopped, but Mr. Darcy took off as though his horse had a burr in its saddle," Lydia laughed out. "Wickham was well pleased by that."
"Why is that, Lydia?"
"I do not know all the details, but he did say in passing he and Mr. Darcy do not get along."
"I am not sure there are many people who do," Lizzy mused out loud, thinking of Mr. Darcy's behavior and manner whenever he was out among the citizens of Meryton. "Well, I am glad Jane saw Mr. Bingley. At least one of us had a bright moment."
"Where is Mr. Collins, Lizzy?" Jane's head had come out of the clouds long enough for her to see her sister was quite alone.
"I asked him to escort Charlotte to the postmaster. Should we check and see if they are still there?"
The Bennet ladies had not gone far when Charlotte and Mr. Collins exited the building and joined them for the walk home. The younger sisters spoke of nothing but officers, Jane daydreamed about Mr. Bingley and Lizzy walked with Mr. Collins between her and Charlotte. If she lagged behind them every now and then, he did not seem to notice as Charlotte gave him much attention. For which both he and Lizzy were grateful.
That evening, after dinner, Mr. Collins solicited a request to sit next to her in the parlor. About to excuse herself from the room, she was stopped by Mama.
"Of course, you may sit with Lizzy, Mr. Collins. I am sure she will not object to your company."
Although Mrs. Bennet could not technically decide whom she would marry, it was better to not tip the cart at this juncture. Therefore, Lizzy determined to use this time for a better, far-reaching purpose.
"How did you like my friend, Mr. Collins?"
"She is a very pleasant lady. Well refined, soft-spoken. I know Lady Catherine would find her an acceptable friend."
"I am glad you think Lady Catherine would like my friend, Miss Lucas. I do worry about what she would think of me."
"Mama has always told me I am too opinionated and is forever lamenting the fact that my skirts are always six inches deep in mud. I do so like to walk no matter what the weather."
"She says you are opinionated?"
"Most definitely. Ask any of my sisters. I think that is why I walk so much; Mama and I tend to have small arguments over my perceived behavior. She thinks I am too headstrong for my own good and blames it on all the books Papa allows me to read."
"Your father allows you to read his books?"
"Oh, yes. He has not curtailed what I have read at all. Why the other week I started reading Mrs. Wollstonecraft's book. Miss Lucas warned me I should not. She would never dare, but I found I agreed with a lot of what Mrs. Wollstonecraft had to say."
Mr. Collins partially leaned away from her; his mouth dropped open.
"Oh, this will never do. Lady Catherine would never approve."
"Mr. Collins, I tell you these things because you are such an honorable gentleman and you have made your intentions quite clear. I cannot in good conscience allow you to engage your heart when you deserve a lady who will match you in equal temperament and manners. Someone like my friend, Miss Lucas."
"Thank you for your consideration, cousin Elizabeth. I had been thinking of you as my future companion but Lady Catherine would never approve of a woman who read such radical books. I think I will speak with your father about this. It is quite distressing."
"Please do, Mr. Collins. Papa will tell you I returned the book and told him to hide it as I do not think my younger sisters are ready for such far-reaching ideas. The only thing I would ask is that you do not speak to Mama about this. It distresses her that we sometimes rub the wrong way, and I do not want to add to her burden. We may have our moments, but I love her dearly and would like to think she would be happy about you and I having an amicable relationship as cousins and friends."
"Consider it done, cousin Elizabeth and I look forward to a long friendship."
"Will you be calling on my good friend, Miss Lucas? As you know, we had a few moments of sharing confidences when you stopped to fix your shoe during our walk from Meryton, and she expressed an interest in your situation and made mention of how lucky you were to have such an attentive patroness. I do not think I would be remiss in directing your attention toward her."
"I will think about this very carefully."
"Yes, you must do that. Fortunately, we are all going to my aunt Phillips for cards tomorrow evening and I know Miss Lucas has been invited as well. This would be an excellent time for you to see how well she behaves in a social situation. You will not be disappointed. Sir William and Lady Lucas have raised a very well-mannered lady."
"Oh, her father was knighted?"
"Yes, Mr. Collins." Lizzy peeked through her lashes to see if Mama still watched them. Given that Mr. Collins was quite engaged in their conversation and she was smiling, the scene was set for what Mrs. Bennet would perceive as a courtship. Never had she acted so foolish in her entire life. Pray that he does not ask Uncle about Mrs. Wollstonecraft. He had no such book in his library. "Sir William delights in telling new acquaintances of how he was presented at St. James's court. No other person in Meryton can claim that honor."
"I will indeed make myself known the gentleman."
Satisfied her prodding had planted the seed, she left it at that, confident that tomorrow the watering could be taken over by Charlotte.
The next evening was the card party at their Aunt Phillips. As no objection was made to the young people's engagement with their aunt, and all Mr. Collins's scruples of leaving Mr. and Mrs. Bennet for a single evening during his visit were most steadily resisted, the coach conveyed him and his five cousins at a suitable hour to Meryton. Lydia and Kitty were well pleased to hear, upon entering the drawing-room, that Mr. Wickham had accepted their uncle's invitation and was also in attendance. Lizzy herself had not been introduced to the gentleman, but she could see why her sisters were in such a tither. He indeed was a handsome man and from what she could tell, his manners were quite engaging.
At one time in the evening, he sought her introduction, but Charlotte and her brother Jonathan had just entered the room and Lizzy was anxious to affix her to Mr. Collins's side.
"Pray excuse me, Mr. Wickham. My friend has arrived and I have some important news to impart. Please do not think me rude, I have enjoyed our conversation."
"I would never think you rude, Miss Elizabeth but I will request, in order to make up for our shortened visit, that next we meet if there is dancing, you would grant me a set."
"I would be more than pleased to dance with you, Mr. Wickham." She caught Charlotte's eye and acknowledged her. "It has been a pleasure, sir."
She then took her leave and crossed the room to where Charlotte stood.
"I am so glad you came tonight, Charlotte. I have much to relay and not much time."
"You sound almost frantic. Whatever is the matter?"
"Nothing is the matter, but I have laid the cornerstone for the foundation of your marriage."
"Yes. Mr. Collins was making much noise about choosing me as a future wife, but I cannot abide the man – at least not as a husband. With subtle nudges, I have set him on a path that hopefully leads to you."
"But, if you married him, your family could remain at Longbourn when your father passes."
"True, but as you well know, I am already well situated and my cousins need not worry about where they will lay their heads when Uncle Thomas passes." She had at one time, confided in Charlotte a little of her family history. "Also, marriage is for life and I cannot see myself making him happy. I know he would not make me happy. If I could have pushed him in Mary's direction, I would have, but he is very much under the thumb of his patroness and Mary would only sermonize, making it worse. Oh! Here he comes." Lizzy and Charlotte both turned to greet him with pleasant smiles. "Mr. Collins. I was just complimenting Miss Lucas on the minced pies she brought over the other day."
"You cook, Miss Lucas?"
"Cook? Miss Lucas not only makes mince pies but Sir William has been heard to proclaim her dinner rolls are the best he has ever tasted." Charlotte reached between them and pinched her arm. Lizzy smiled and took a small step away. "I know she will deny all this because she is a modest Christian woman, but it is true."
By this time, Mr. Collins had turned his undivided attention to Charlotte and when Aunt Phillips called her guests to the card tables, he asked if she would partner him for a round of whist. With a small skip in her step, Lizzy found Jane and filled her in on her successful evening.
"You are lucky Mama is not here."
"Truer words were never spoken. It is a good thing they let us come alone. At this rate, he will probably make an offer to Charlotte by the end of this week."
"You are that confident?"
"Jane, the poor man wants to marry so badly. He thinks it is his duty and dares not fail in the one task his patroness set for him before coming to Longbourn. And we are all aware that Charlotte also longs for marriage. Mr. Collins is not a horrible man, but he is someone I could never marry. I want to marry only for the deepest of love, as do you."
~~~ooo0ooo~~~
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J. W. Garrett June 20, 2021
You have hinted at several things and I am curious. Collins mentioned her father, and she mentioned mama, but then thought about Uncle Thomas, so what is up with that? Also, she mentions her situation and her future plans ... what have you done? I also noticed that she didn't fall head-over-heels at Wickham's story. With half information perhaps she doesn't hate Darcy too awfully much. I am SO looking forward to seeing more of this story. Thanks for sharing this chapter with us. Blessings...
Sue Barr June 21, 2021
You caught the subtle hints. It will be revealed - by Chapter Three, I believe - that Elizabeth is the daughter of Mr. Bennet's younger brother, James (deceased) She came to them when she was four and thinks of them as Mama and Papa, although she is quite aware they are her aunt and uncle. Thank you for popping by :)


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the effect of leverage and the ability to speculate, or hedge, interest rate risk exposure. Clearly the forward contract is trading at a discount, so why does the calculation give a negative roll yield? See also edit Further reading edit References edit External links edit. The buyer hedges against the risk of rising interest rates, while the seller hedges against the risk of falling interest rates. A FRA transaction is a contract between two parties to exchange payments on a deposit, called the.
My roll yield should then be calculated as: roll yield (1.50 -.25 or -25. A company that seeks to hedge against a possible increase in interest rates would purchase FRAs, whereas a company that seeks an interest hedge against a possible decline of the rates would sell FRAs. 1 This text goes on to specify the additional property of a FRA's 'roll-day' which describes which day of the month (from 1 to 31) that the FRA's value start date is effective from. This adjustment is called futures convexity adjustment (FCA) and is usually expressed in basis points. Contents, general Description edit 1, a forward rate agreement's (FRA's) effective description is a cash for difference derivative contract, between two parties, benchmarked against an interest rate index. US 3x9 -.25/3.50p.a - means deposit interest starting 3 months from now for 6 month.25 and borrowing interest rate starting 3 months from now for 6 month.50 (see also bidoffer spread ).
Because stir futures settle against the same index as a subset of FRAs, IMM FRAs, their pricing is related. In other words, a forward rate agreement (FRA) is a tailor-made, over-the-counter financial futures contract on short-term deposits. quot;tion and Market-Making edit FRA Descriptive Notation and Interpretation Notation Effective Date from now Termination Date from now Underlying Rate 1 x 4 1 month 4 months 4-1 3 months libor 1 x 7 1 month 7 months 7-1 6 months libor 0. 1, interest rate swaps (IRSs) are often considered a series of FRAs but this view is technically incorrect due to differences in calculation methodologies in cash payments and this results in very small pricing differences. Suppose then, that a base currency is trading for.00 P (ie price currency) on the spot market, and.50 on the forward market. Hi all, on page 257 of SS15, the formula for Roll yield is provided as roll yield (F -.


Puerto Penasco bulk foods store-WOW! | It's not a slow car, it's a fast house!
In Rocky Point (aka Puerto Penasco, Sonora, Mexico) there is a bulk foods store. When the store is open the roll-up doors expose rows and rows of bright blue, metal bins. The store sells natural products such as whole leaf teas and herbs.
They also sell dried beans, peas and lentils.
On top of the bins are vanilla extract and other flavorings for baking as well as sauces, honey, seasonings and cooking products. A few bins contain consommé or soup bases in bright colors.
Some of the bins are rolled outside to be on display on the sidewalk in front of the store. These bins contain spices, teas and powdered dyes for baking.
Most of the bins are inside the cool, tiled store, organized in long rows.
as well as cat food and various types of birdseed. And for the vendors who sell mango on a stick and corn on a stick, they can purchase the sticks!
, which can be slow-cooked into delicious meat dishes!
The bins give off amazing smells; the colors are brilliant and the sounds of a busy street whiz by outside. This store is a treat for the senses.
Great post, thanks for sharing! I love bulk food stores, if only we had more of them.


*H&M top, charity shop, 50p *Primark floral skirt, mum's *Leather belt, charity shop, 50p. Well, this is what I wore today to the V&A quilts conference, I thought I better put on some bright clothing to try and counteract my sad, grey mood. It didn't work. I'm feeling rather better now, and you'll find out why in my next two posts! The conference was pretty good, some parts where completely boring, but I have definately learned many new things. The only thing what I am disappointed about is the refreshments, we had tea and coffee, but not biscuits. Shocking, right? Hahaha. After the conference I decide to visit some exhibitions and galleries I hadn't yet explored. I wondered around The Fairyland of Flowers, The Glory Years of British Rock, and Modern Masters exhibitions. The Andy Warhol and Picasso pieces are amazing, as were the artists themselves. I also had a look around the Theatre and Performance gallery, they are exhibiting Kylie Minogue's dressing room, which was first shown at Kylie: The Exhibition in 2007. Did any of you visit the exhibition? Oh my goodness, it was amazing, definately one of my top four major V&A exhibitions, with the others being Quilts 1700-2010, Grace Kelly: Style Icon and Telling Tales. Yes, yes, I know. I'm obsessed with the V&A, If I was to ever get married I would just adore to have my reception in there, hehe. Anyway, this new layout design thing is really confusing me. It keeps uploading my photographs really weird, and I want to make my layout wider but I just don't know how to. Some help and suggestions would be so appreciated. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, my dears. What have you all got planned? Love, Jazzabelle.
I'm horrified on your behalf that there were no biscuits!
In here we never have biscuits in coffee brake.:)) We should make a petiton to force the others to serve biscuits and cookies.:D Lovely skirt!
Lovely outfit, as usual. All those exhibitions sound fantastic!
You look fab in that super pretty outfit!
I love both the top and the skirt!!
I've put "visit the V&A" in my list of "things to do when I don't know what to do when I live in London".
And I'm crazy about that top. Beautiful, beautiful. As always.
Firstly I love this outfit, the skirts floral print is so pretty.
Secondly I think the Quilts exhibition sounds fantastic. I visited a quilt art 20 exhibition a few years back in a local gallery and remembering being inspired. I love textiles.


Happy to have Luc Junior Tam following up Vincent Van De Wael in the APS creative category.
Luc is the artistic director at Mosaert, the Belgian creative label created by Stromae.
Mosaert was founded 6 years ago, simultaneously with Stromae's first album, 'Cheese' where Luc ( Stromae's brother) was already acting as the creative director in charge.
Ever since Stromae 's debut album, the team around 'Jacques Brel on steroids' managed to have full creative control, mainly because Stromae is linked to Universal with a licence deal for promotion and distribution only. This means Stromae's team (something Luc emphasised me that it's really important to understand that they work as a team and a close family) are one hundred procent in charge of all the content you see appearing on your time line. From the music, to the videos, to the live shows and their production, the in-house clothing line and ditto store, it's all from the hands of team Stromae.
It's good to see a Belgian artist and crew taking the art of performance, entertainment and branding extremely seriously and setting a global example while doing so.
Watch the following performance to understand what I mean.
"Many people see my job as a guy who just has to find some new ideas, but that's a misconception. We, as a team (Paul, the graphic designers, the executive producer, the stylist, the manager, the sound engineer, etc…) we àll find the ideas, whether it's in the shower or in a brainstorming. However, my real job is to make everything coherent and consistent. In what we do, art and communication can not be separated and the challenge is to create a symbiosis between the two.
Stromae's latest stunning 'Carmen' video is perhaps the best curriculum display of that statement so far.
Besides travelling the world with his brother and team, Luc is currently working on finishing his master in advertising and commercial communication.
Now. The story behind this Polaroid is rather funny.
I met Luc super randomly at Bloody Louis in Brussels a while back where I was invited by party concept #NWSAFE to provide a small selection of Polaroid portraits from the guests at their nightlife concept. I was instructed to take 'strong, interesting faces' and what can I say, I always take my job seriously. Luc ended up being one of the dozen people I portrayed that night. It was only months later that I randomly and somewhat awkwardly had to realise that Luc was Stromae's brother when we accidentally met again at Les Ardentes Festival where Stromae was performing. I had no clue. I mean… I don't know everybody, what can I say?
Special thanks to Luc for working with me on this feature during his busy schedule. Much appreciated.
If you are wondering if I will every portray Stromae on Polaroid, keep on wondering, because I honestly don't know. When Stromae did his first appearance at The Gala of the Golden Shoe (yes, yes) a football event hosted by the Casino in my hometown Ostend, Belgium almost 5 years ago, Paul was walking around solo dolo in 'De Langestraat' in Ostend. At that moment I was sitting at bar Copador watching him walk by (fighting the wind, real talk) and I remember telling the owner of the bar: "Look! That's Stromae from the 'Alors On Danse' track. Stromae was still relatively unknown at the time and this was right before the song réally hit off on a global scale. I was contemplating to run after him and ask for a Polaroid, but I didn't have my Polaroid camera on me, it was windy and rainy and he was clearly on his way back to the Casino Of Ostend so I would've just come across as a crazy person (again) so I decided to let it go.
See what happens when you don't execute your ideas?
Many years later, Stromae is one of Belgium's biggest and most critically acclaimed export products and has grown into an amazing artist. But also extremely unreachable in a way. I requested the legit way to portray Stromae at Les Ardentes Festival in Liège last year but I was briefed by his management that he was extremely exhausted from a 40 concert tour stop (makes sense) and that another time in the future might be better. Since then, our paths never really crossed again.
Word is that Stromae and his supposedly break from music is definitely going to happen right after his much anticipated performance October 1st at Madison Square Garden. After that, Stromae would look forward to be just Paul and spend a few years focusing on life, love and family. Or might he be focusing on that acting career he is aiming for? Rumours or Facts? Time will tell.
Either way, if he really is going to slow down a notch, maybe, just maybe, he will have time for a Polaroid with Ouni. Who knows?


Mwanaisha Chidzuga is seemingly relishing being a mother for the fourth time.
The K24 news anchor and her husband, former Garsen MP Danson Mungatana, welcomed their bundle of joy about three months ago. Unlike Citizen TV's Lillian Muli, the charming Swahili news anchor managed to keep her pregnancy and delivery tucked away from the public limelight.
It was not until earlier this month that Mwanaisha Chidzuga broke the news to her fans and wellwishers.
And now, the mother of four has finally unveiled baby Amal to the world in a series of Instagram pictures last night.


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Govt voices opposition against plan to increase interest rate
As per the Monetary and Fiscal Policies Coordination Board, there was still room for fiscal consolidation after budget deficit soared to 2.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the first half of FY18-19, far over the limit required to achieve the target of 5.1% of GDP
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ISLAMABAD: The Monetary and Fiscal Policies Coordination Board on Monday was presented with a plan by the government to stiffen loose fiscal policies that are injuring economic stabilization efforts.
According to sources, the central bank wanted to further raise the key interest by a 100 basis points in the forthcoming monetary policy despite a remission in all inflationary indicators, reports Express Tribune.
The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) called for a further tightening of the interest rate, however, independent members of the board, Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Finance were against the recommendation, as per sources.
Also, any further hikes in the interest rate would raise the governments borrowing cost, which is already touching Rs2 trillion by the end of this financial year 2018-19.
Moreover, the borrowing cost of the finance ministry has also surged up nearly Rs500 billion annually due to the spike in the interest rate.
As per the Monetary and Fiscal Policies Coordination Board, there was still room for fiscal consolidation after budget deficit soared to 2.8% of gross domestic product (GDP) in the first half of FY18-19, far over the limit required to achieve the target of 5.1% of GDP.
And the ministry said the board while reviewing the fiscal policy said there was a further sphere for tightening the fiscal stance.
During the meeting, the corrective measures taken by the government linked to fiscal and quasi-fiscal deficit were deliberated.
In the meeting it was observed that fiscal consolidation was a key part of the adjustment plan and was important to ensure macroeconomic stability, it added.
The fiscal plan envisages keeping the budget deficit below 6% of GDP by end of FY19 in June.
And the board highlighted the importance of meeting revenue targets, both on tax and non-tax sides and called for expenditure controls in place to be continued.
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Govt to allocate Rs55b for CPEC
Govt likely to reappoint Shauzab Ali as SECP commissioner
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Q: Boot from USB drive on Chromebook Acer C721 I have set my Chromebook Acer C721 in developer mode, and permitted USB booting via sudo crossystem dev_boot_usb=1 dev_boot_legacy=1. Then, after the next reboot, at the developer mode warning, I type CTRL-L, and I'm presented with two boot loader options: U-Boot and TianoCore. The latter one does nothing (TianoCore does not load, need to reboot after selecting it), while the former one takes me to the U-Boot prompt.
I have plugged in a USB stick with Ubuntu 20.04.3 for amd64. I had pulled that image from the Ubuntu web site and dd'ed it to the USB stick. It now has two partitions:
Disk /dev/sdd: 7.2 GiB, 7776239616 bytes, 15187968 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x....

Device     Boot   Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type
/dev/sdd1  *          0 5999871 5999872  2.9G  0 Empty
/dev/sdd2       5271500 5279499    8000  3.9M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

When U-Boot starts up, it says
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scanning bus 0 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
scanning bus 1 for devices... 4 USB Device(s) found
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When I leave it to autoboot, it says
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0
Error: Invalid Boot Flag (found 0x0000, expected 0xaa55)

However, the first 512 bytes on the stick (sector 1) end with this boot signature.
U-Boot detects the USB stick as per the output of usb storage and usb tree.
But how can I boot from it?
I tried usbboot 0700 0:0 (assuming 0700 is the start address for the first-level boot loader on the USB drive), which results in
Loading from usb device 0, partition 0, Name: While Disk  Type: U-Boot
** Unknown image type

usbboot 0700 0:1 results in
** Invalid partition 1 **

And usbboot 0700 0:2 results in
Loading from usb device 0, partition 2, Name: usbda2  Type: U-Boot
** Unknown image type

A: Solved it. I had forgotten to apply Mr. Chromebox's firmware scripts
to set the RW_LEGACY flag. After doing that, I could load TianoCore, which presented me with a boot menu to boot from USB stick, SD card (provided a medium was in the slot), or eMMC. Selecting USB or SD then loaded the boot loader from that medium, and everything from there was golden.

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Who doesn't want a great deal on siding? Purchasing siding wholesale and hiring a local installation contractor is one option, or look for a deal that includes installation. Take your time and do some research. Stop by a supplier and actually look at siding. What type do you want and what colors appeal to you? Determine how many square feet you need (there are calculators online to help) and find out what price they can offer. This will give you a good idea what your favorite siding costs. Industry averages for installed siding run from $2 per square foot for vinyl up to $11 or more for fiber cement siding--even a few dollars difference per square foot can really add up.
Once you have a general idea about the general cost of the siding you want, you're ready to shop for the best deal.
Online. You may be able to save up to 50 percent off the retail price when purchasing online. Be aware that some online sites charge shipping, and some require a minimum order.
Home improvement center. Stores like Lowe's and The Home Depot carry name brand siding in the store but usually only the most popular styles and colors.
Local wholesaler or siding supplier. Local businesses may have unadvertised deals if they have overstocked merchandise. Ask for their best price.
Manufacturer's retail store. If you are looking for a specific brand of siding, you can usually find a local retail stores on the manufacturer's website. However, many top siding manufacturers only sell their products wholesale to building industry professionals.
Get three or four specific estimates before you make a final choice. With a plan, a little research and some determination, you can get the siding you want at the best price possible. Don't succumb to sales pressure; make a decision based on the numbers.


The loss prevention team at National Stores, Inc. was looking for a case management program sophisticated enough to customize every aspect of their system, but still simple enough for the end user to help maximize productivity. The Los Angeles-based discount retailer also sought new audit software to handle its more than 320 store locations. After comparing various options, National Stores decided on LP Software's Loss Prevention Management System (LPMS) and their Compliance Audit Management System (CAMS) as well.
The team at National Stores found benefits in LP Software's new system outside of Loss Prevention, too. For instance, they found the audit module to be a great tool not only for LP audits but to document any visit conducted by just about anyone in the company.
With LP Software's Alert Module, National Stores is able to send an email alert based on any specific answer - or on the entire audit in general. When a piece of equipment stops functioning, information is immediately sent to a repair vendor. And when a key item is out of stock, the proper allocator is quickly notified.
"This is truly a system designed for Loss Prevention that we've been able to expand to our business partners," Nichols said. The chains operated by National Stores include Factory 2-U, Fallas Paredes, Fallas Discount Stores and the recently acquired Conway Stores.


Superior quality is the key that keeps people coming back for more! What exactly makes one pizza superior to another you might ask? Or what makes one say, "That is the best pizza I have ever had"!? The answer is as simple as the foundation. It lies within the recipe. You see, the recipe must be so unique that it cannot be duplicated. After 5 whole years of research and tweaking a 60 year old family recipe that originated in Brescia, Italy, Adam Cantoni assembled his signature pizza sauce. This mouth watering sauce is made with a special blend of freshly-picked, vine-ripened tomatoes, seasoned with Italian spices, secret ingredients, and topped with our special blend of 100% Real provolone and low-fat mozzarella cheeses. Each pizza is then finished with our market-fresh toppings. We use only the freshest vegetable cuts in our stores daily! Fresh cut tomatoes, crisp green peppers, pepperoni, and savory chicken are just a few of the many toppings available.
Just over a year after the 1st store was created Adam's vision grew. He called on his brother Jason to help with the company expansion. Together they have created a partnership dedicated to quality, growth and developing the Cantoni's brand.
Adam Cantoni oversees workers mixing Cantoni's Pizza Sauce.
Our family name "Cantoni" represents our highest quality products, including a wide variety of specialty pizzas made to our signature taste standards. Fresh, made-to-order calzones, subs, and appetizers complete Cantoni's menu. Adam and Jason Cantoni started a tradition of taste that is recognized as one of the best pizzerias on West Virginia University and Ohio State's campuses. Founded in 2005, the Cantoni brothers continually focus on their brand of great taste, which defines them against all other pizza products. The Cantoni's also care about making their product available to as many people as possible, and as a result, they decided to make their pizza more affordable! It would not be fair to have a superior product that most people could not afford. Cantoni's Pizza believes in selling more pizzas at a reasonable price than just selling a few high priced pizzas per day. All of our stores are as unique as the people that work there, every store has different food specials.To view our specials, click on the store in your area and check out the menu.
Cantoni's Pizza takes a very fun and relaxed approach to marketing it's brand. Here are just a couple of examples of what we mean.
These lovely ladies represent Cantoni's Pizza in the kind of way that only lovely ladies could. Look for them at various locations and of course they will be at Cantoni's Pizza every once and a while looking for a fresh piece.
Start with great pizza, add superior service and a fun environment, and you are bound to have people knocking at your door. Everyone loves Cantoni's Pizza. Sometimes the celebrities come in. Check out who's been inside your local Cantoni's lately.
Cantoni's Pizza supports a local relief fund.
News article about our Fairmont store opening!
Here is a copy of an article we were featured in from a local paper published in Morgantown, WV.


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THE "DAYS OF RAGE" FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: A CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING EVALUATION OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONISM
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THE "DAYS OF RAGE" FOR PUBLIC EMPLOYEES: A CATHOLIC
SOCIAL TEACHING EVALUATION OF PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONISM
With the "Battle of Madison" that has flashed before the American public since mid-February, and the lesser struggles heating up in such places as Ohio and Indiana, two questions present themselves: Are these situations comparable to the plight of workers in the earlier days of harsh industrialization in the context of social Darwinist economic liberalism? Do public employees have the rights to unionize, engage in collective bargaining, and even strike—and should they make the monetary demands that they do?
Clearly, the answer to the first question is no. While there may once have been a time when public employees lagged behind the private sector in compensation, that is not the case today. Even though some dispute that public employees on average do better financially than those in the private sector, the fact is that state and local employees in 2009 received total compensation of over $12 per hour more than the latter ($39.60 to $27.42). This represented 35% higher wages and 69% greater benefits. In 2008, federal employees received over $7,600 more in salary and nearly $30,000 more in benefits than private sector employees in similar-type jobs (all these statistics are from the U.S. Labor Department). This is not the "stuff" of slave labor or Hitler-like oppression that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who wants to curtail public employee compensation and collective bargaining rights, has been accused of by some. It is not even at question that public employees are receiving a just wage compared to others.
Almost certainly, despite the fact that the much greater job security in the public sector harkened way back to the implementation of civil service, these public employee advantages are due in part to unionization (it is the only sector of the economy in which union membership has grown). Still, we must confront the second question. While Catholic social teaching makes no distinction between public and private sector employees when it addresses the right to form unions (with the right to collective bargaining that is implied with it), it is also clear that through much of its history the labor problem was in private industry. The Church is aware that businesses produce things and make profits, and so workers should have a just return for their efforts. Government does not produce much of anything, and must rely on taxation, mandatory fees, and deficit spending to compensate its employees. The Church is not oblivious to economic realities and this different situation of business and government. This is a mere matter of the obvious, and as Pope John Paul II said the ultimate standard must be what is reasonable.
Since sustaining large numbers of public employees and sizable compensation packages typically means higher taxes—most government spending goes for personnel costs— there is a possible moral problem, suggested by Catholic social teaching, that is seldom mentioned. The great Pope Leo XIII said that taxation must be fair and excessive taxation indirectly violates the natural right of private property. With the average American paying perhaps as much as a third of his income in direct and indirect taxes, we may be at that point. Are public employees prospering on the backs of many less advantaged people in the population?
Perhaps it was an awareness of all this that, despite the Church's traditional support for the cause of workers, motivated the Wisconsin bishops to take an essentially a neutral stance in the standoff there. Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee has publicly stated what the social teaching has consistently held: that unions, like other entities, must work for the common good. He has stressed that they too must make sacrifices when necessary and "adjust to new economic realities." This echoes what John Paul said in Laborem Exercens: "Union demands cannot be turned into a kind of group or class 'egoism.'"
While most public employees around the country do not have the right to strike, the teacher "sick-outs" and the like in Wisconsin are akin to this. The Church upholds the right to strike in general and, again, does not distinguish between the private and public sectors. Nevertheless, Laborem Exercens is reticent about any workers using the strike, calling it merely "one method" and an "extreme means." It suggests an even more restrained view for public employee strikes in saying, "essential community services" must always be maintained and strikes may not be used for "political purposes." One might argue that the strike-like confrontations in Madison, which seek to stop the state from adopting a certain set of public policies to deal with serious budget problems, have a "political purpose."
The very confrontational, uncompromising attitude that public sector unions have been exhibiting opposes another basic teaching of the Church in labor-management affairs: the need to work cooperatively.
The other moral question—again, almost never thought of as such—presented by the current public employee budgetary controversies concerns the very size and role of government. The principle of subsidiarity, the Church's condemnation of socialism, and her rejection of the welfare state all indicate that big, bloated government is unacceptable. The basic solution for the problems of large public payrolls and budget deficits—while at the same time not causing more unemployment problems and social dislocation—is for decisionmakers to firmly set themselves on what a previous column called a policy of gradual disengagement. It also requires a changed attitude on the part of Americans generally about expecting government to provide and manage so much for them—and about assuming more responsibility for themselves.
Stephen M. Krason is Professor of Political Science and Legal Studies at Franciscan University of Steubenville and Co-founder and President of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists.
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At the front and center in all we do are our priorities: to nurture each student's independence and to inspire intellectual and personal growth. Our mission ensures that when our students graduate they remain passionately curious and whole.
If great potential exists in every child, how will it be unleashed and honored?
Our mission is summarized in three words:
"Education for Life"
The mission of Marin Montessori School, in adherence to the principles of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI) as envisioned by Dr. Maria Montessori, is to nurture the development of each child in our diverse community to his or her fullest potential – an independent, responsible, compassionate, learned individual who thinks critically and realizes clearly his or her role in the world. Thus, our mission is to provide education for life.
Marin Montessori School is a private, non-profit, AMI (Association Montessori Internationale) accredited school serving the diverse needs of children from toddler age through adolescence. The school is a community of families, faculty, staff, administration, and a volunteer board of trustees. Collectively, we nurture the development of each child to their fullest potential – intellectually, physically, socially, creatively, emotionally, and spiritually. Therefore, we strive to provide more than an academic education alone; our goal is to provide education for life.
We accomplish this by preparing a stimulating classroom with beautiful tactile materials where our children, with the guidance of our specially trained faculty, follow their natural tendencies to master skills. We are dedicated to maintaining a warm, nurturing, joyful environment where each child:
Receives a quality education that supports their individual development;
Has the freedom to choose, balanced by the responsibility to be productive;
Learns according to his/her personal learning styles and timelines;
Can reach his/her academic potential without grade level limits; and
Enjoys beautiful, orderly, harmonious surroundings.
This program fosters self-motivation, self-discipline, compassion, independence, critical thinking, social and personal responsibility, and respect for others and the environment. It is our vision that our children and adolescents gain a strong sense of self and realize a life-long satisfaction and joy in learning, working, and exploring life. We believe this will enable our children to contribute happily and productively their unique talents to the world.
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How do local school fees compare?
As students prepare to return to school, parents are examining the necessary fees that they will have to pay in extracurriculars and registration for each of their students.
As parents and students prepare for the start of the 2018-19 school year, many families are closely examining the required registration fees.
Much has been made in recent months about increasing fees, especially in SD308, where the district is trying to rein in a deficit budget, but a look at fees across Kendall County and Sandwich shows consistently similar numbers – with a few exceptions.
When looking strictly at student registration fees, meaning the dollar amount set by the district to enroll a student, fees generally fall in line, differing by less than $50 in most cases.
In Yorkville CUSD 115, the cost of early childhood education is $58, which covers services like walk-in speech and hearing therapy; in Sandwich CUSD 430, the cost of early childhood is $75. However, the outlier in that area is SD308, which recently approved an increase in tuition fees at Brokaw Early Learning Center in Oswego, bringing the cost to $320 a month for nine months.
For kindergarten, the numbers show the same consistency, thanks to the decision to group half-day kindergarten under the umbrella of kindergarten.
Over in Newark, the cost of kindergarten is $105, while it's $120 in Sandwich. Plano CUSD 88 also offers kindergarten for $120, while Yorkville comes in at a cost of $70. Plano, Sandwich and Newark also differ from Yorkville and Oswego by providing the same cost for kindergarten registration as other elementary-school grades. SD308 again stands alone, with a separate cost of $60 for half-day kindergarten – the lowest in the county. Full-day kindergarten, another fee increased by the district's recent budget cuts, went up to $300, the most expensive in the county.
In districts across the county and Sandwich, elementary school registration fees are mostly the same. SD308, Plano and Sandwich each cost $120, while Yorkville and Sandwich divide up their grades differently. For grades one through three, Yorkville charges $110; it's $144 for grades four and five. In Newark, the cost is $105 for first- through fourth-graders, and $130 for fifth-graders.
In junior high, numbers cover about a $60 window, with Newark coming in at the lowest with $130. Yorkville, which separates the grade six fee from that for grades seven and eight, costs $143 for grade six and $182 for grades seven and eight. Plano also splits grade costs, with sixth grade at $120, and seventh and eighth grades at $160. Sandwich is chalked up as the highest in the area, with a cost of $195, while SD308 falls in the middle ground at $165.
Excluding course fees, the costs to register students in high school are the most similar, with a difference of only $10 between the highest and lowest fees. SD308 and Yorkville are the lowest, both coming in at $195, while both Newark and Plano cost $200. Sandwich is – barely – the highest at $205.
While student registration fees are applicable to all students in all districts, some fees – class fees, activity fees, club fees and intramural fees – are additional costs that vary from district to district. One fee, representative across all districts, is driver's education. The cost of driver's education is one of the most varied fees. SD308 is currently the highest at $400. Yorkville follows at $315, Plano and Sandwich at $250, and Newark is the lowest at $150.
Athletic fees also cover a wide range across the districts. As the numbers for junior highs are not readily available for some areas, high school fees are easier to compare. Again, SD308 comes in at the highest at $300 per student per sport, thanks to decisions made as part of the district's recent budget cuts and revenue increases. All other districts fall drastically below SD308, with Yorkville, Sandwich and Plano at $80 per student per sport, while Newark costs only $50 per sport, with the exception of golf at $100.


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Happy birthday to the essential, award-winning Suzy McKee Charnas
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Hugo, Nebula, and Tiptree award–winning author Suzy McKee Charnas is best known for her groundbreaking Holdfast Chronicles, a four-volume story written over the course of almost thirty years (1974-1999) which addressed the oft-controversial topics of feminist dystopia, separatist societies, war, and reintegration, and her critically acclaimed exploration of the vampire mythos, The Vampire Tapestry.
The first and second volumes of the Holdfast Chronicles, Walk to the End of the World (1974) and Motherlines (1978), each won a 1996 Retrospective James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The final volume The Conqueror's Child (1999) won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The series as a whole which also included The Furies (1994) was given the 2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Hall of Fame Award. Her young adult novel The Kingdom of Kevin Malone earned the Aslan Award for Best Children's Book of 1993. The novella "The Unicorn Tapestry," that was part of The Vampire Tapestry, won a 1980 Nebula.
Other works include The Sorcery Hall trilogy (The Bronze King [1985], The Silver Glove [1988], and The Golden Thread [1989]), the short story collections Moonstone and the Tiger-Eye (1992), Music of the Night (2001), the memoir My Father's Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and Other Second Chances (2002), and STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS (2004). Charnas adapted The Vampire Tapestry into the two-act play Vampire Dreams. It enjoyed runs in both San Francisco and New York, debuting as part of Springfest in San Francisco in 1990.
All of us at Tachyon wish the sensational Suzy a happy birthday!
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Other works include The Sorcery Hall trilogy (The Bronze King [1985], The Silver Glove [1988], and The Golden Thread [1989]), the short story collections Moonstone and the Tiger-Eye (1992), Music of the Night (2001), and STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS (2004), the memoir My Father's Ghost: The Return of My Old Man and Other Second Chances (2002). Charnas adapted The Vampire Tapestry into the two-act play Vampire Dreams. It enjoyed runs in both San Francisco and New York, debuting as part of Springfest in San Francisco in 1990.
Aqueduct Press recently announced the e-book editions of STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS, The Bronze King, The Silver Glove, The Golden Thread, The Vampire Tapestry, The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, The Ruby Tear, Music of the Night, and My Father's Ghost.
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Other works include The Sorcery Hall trilogy– the Bronze King (1985), The Silver Glove (1988), and The Golden Thread (1989) – and the short story collections Moonstone and the Tiger-Eye (1992), Music of the Night (2001), and STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS (2004). Charnas adapted The Vampire Tapestry into the two-act play Vampire Dreams. It enjoyed runs in both San Francisco and New York, debuting as part of Springfest in San Francisco in 1990.
For more information on STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS, visit the Tachyon page.
Tachyon tidbits featuring Nalo Hopkinson, Nancy Springer, Michael Blumlein, and Suzy McKee Charnas
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Nalo Hopkinson (photo: David Findlay), Nancy Springer (Bob O'Leary), Michael Blumlein, and Suzy Mckee Charnas
At ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, Neil Gaiman announces four new comics set in the Sandman universe including one written by Nalo Hopkinson.
EW can exclusively announce that DC Comics is launching a Sandman Universe line of four new comic series. The books will be overseen by Gaiman but written and drawn by brand new creative teams. They will pick up story threads and themes from The Sandman while also adding new characters and concepts.
The project kicks off this August with The Sandman Universe one-shot special, which will catch readers up on what's been happening in Dream's realm. The most salient fact is that Dream has now gone missing, leaving chaos in his wake. Other important developments include the opening of a rift between worlds, revealing a space beyond the Dreaming. Dream's official librarian Lucien is still in charge of all the books that were dreamed and never written, but now, one of those books has wound up in the waking world, to be discovered by a group of children. The Dreaming also has an important new resident, now that a House of Whispers has appeared alongside Cain's House of Mystery and Abel's House of Secrets.
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Hopkinson will write House of Whispers and explore how the voodoo deity Erzulie ended up in the Dreaming with her titular house. It might have something to do with a comatose woman named Latoya, whose girlfriend and sisters used the Book of Whispers to try and heal her. Now out of her coma, Latoya is suffering from the Cotard's Delusion belief that she's already dead, and is transmitting her belief to others, catalyzing them to become guardians of the gap that has opened in the Dreaming.
WAY TOO FANTASY loves Nancy Springer's forthcoming novel THE ODDLING PRINCE.
I'm struggling with a way to begin this review that won't sound like I'm incoherently babbling about how much I loved reading this because, for me, it's just that great a book.
To start off, the immediate thing that grabbed me about this book was the prose. I was hooked from the first page because I fell in love with the way in which this book was written. It's a very stylistic prose, and at times may feel a bit archaic to some, but this wasn't a barrier for me and instead felt like an invitation to another time and place. This is just the type of touch that draws me in to a story.
I was so emotionally involved with this book and its characters. There are certain types of stories, or parts of stories, that I empathize with more than others. The thing that makes me weep, that pierces my heart, is when a character, innocently, naively, is yearning to be loved. And then is cruelly denied that love and doesn't always understand why–why are they not able to be loved? This book has a lot of that, with Albaric having no one, except Aric, who accepts him in this new mortal world.
I know it's only February, it's early yet and there are a lot of books ahead of me, but this very well could end up being my favorite book of the year. Rated 5/5 stars on goodreads.
Ian Sales on IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE RIGHT… is very pleased with his recent acquisitions.
Some other books by, er, authors I collect. I've been a big fan of Blumlein since first reading one of hs stories in Interzone back in the 1980s. Charnas's 'Beauty and the Opera, or the Phantom Beast' is one of my favourite genre stories and it appears in STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS. It and THE ROBERTS I ordered direct from Tachyon Publications… and was delighted to discover on arrival they were both signed.
For more info on THE ODDLING PRINCE, visit the Tachyon page.
Cover art by Brian Giberson
For more info on STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS, visit the Tachyon page.
For more info on THE ROBERTS, visit the Tachyon page.
Happy birthday to the groundbreaking, award-winning Suzy McKee Charnas
Other works include THE SORCERY HALL trilogy – THE BRONZE KING (1985), THE SILVER GLOVE (1988) and THE GOLDEN THREAD (1989) – and the short story collections MOONSTONE AND TIGER-EYE (1992), MUSIC OF THE NIGHT (2001), and STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS (2004). Charnas adapted THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY into the two-act play VAMPIRE DREAMS. It enjoyed runs in both San Francisco and New York, debuting as part of Springfest in San Francisco in 1990.
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Other works include THE SORCERY HALL trilogy – THE BRONZE KING (1985), THE SILVER GLOVE (1988) and THE GOLDEN THREAD (1989) – and the short story collections MOONSTONE AND TIGER-EYE (1992), MUSIC OF THE NIGHT (2001), and STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER PHANTASMS(2004). Charnas adapted THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY into the two-act play VAMPIRE DREAMS. It enjoyed runs in both San Francisco and New York, debuting as part of Springfest in San Francisco in 1990.
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Hugo, Nebula, and
Tiptree award–winning author Suzy McKee Charnas is best known for
her groundbreaking HOLDFAST CHRONICLES, a four-volume story written
over the course of almost thirty years (1974-1999) which addressed
the oft-controversial topics of feminist dystopia, separatist
societies, war, and reintegration, and her critically acclaimed
exploration of the vampire mythos, THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY.
The first and second
volumes of the HOLDFAST CHRONICLES, WALK TO THE END OF THE WORLD
(1974) and MOTHERLINES (1978), each won a 1996 Retrospective James
Tiptree, Jr. Award. The final volume THE CONQUEROR'S CHILD (1999) won
the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The series as a whole which also
included THE FURIES (1994) was given the 2003 Gaylactic Spectrum Hall
of Fame Award. Her young adult novel THE KINGDOM OF KEVIN MALONE
earned the Aslan Award for Best Children's Book of 1993. The novella
"The Unicorn Tapestry," that was part of THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY,
won a 1980 Nebula.
Other works include
THE SORCERY HALL trilogy – THE BRONZE KING (1985), THE SILVER GLOVE
(1988) and THE GOLDEN THREAD (1989) – and the short story
collections MOONSTONE AND TIGER-EYE
(1992), MUSIC OF THE NIGHT (2001), and STAGESTRUCK VAMPIRES AND OTHER
PHANTASMS (2004). Charnas adapted THE VAMPIRE TAPESTRY into the
two-act play VAMPIRE DREAMS. It enjoyed runs in both San Francisco
and New York, debuting as part of Springfest in San Francisco in
All of us at Tachyon
wish the sensational Suzy a happy birthday!


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We build storage boxes for SUV and various auto body parts from fiberglass.


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Gulliver's Valley Resort – Planning Application Approved
Following Smith Jenkins' submission of a planning application on behalf of Gulliver's Valley Limited for a major leisure and tourist development on 98 hectares of land north of Rother Valley Country Park, Aston, Rotherham, RMBC have granted planning permission for the scheme following referral to the Secretary of State. The proposed Rother Valley Resort will be the first Gulliver's in the UK to encompass all of the company's major family entertainment elements in one location, with the addition of more attractions exclusive to this proposed site.
The planning applications include: a theme park, three hotels, a 300 pitch camp site, 100 pitch glamping area, a spa and fitness centre, ecology and outdoor education centre, a 40m observation tower, associated landscape, car parking and infrastructure.
The planning applications have been co-ordinated and submitted by Smith Jenkins together with an Environmental Statement.
Details of the scheme can be found here.
⇐ Planning Permission granted for New Contemporary Dwelling in Mursley
Planning Permission granted for new dwelling in Conservation Area ⇒


Today's homily reminds us that we are called to live generously because we have been generously blessed by God. Fr. Michael points out the challenge of being generous without needing recognition or accolades. Can you live generously out of simple gratitude for God's generous blessings?


"We have almost finalised the scrapping policy for vehicles with NITI Aayog," the road and transport minister said.
Gadkari said India is bound to become the hub for the automobile industry and the prices were bound to be cheaper as scrap could be used for the production of auto parts among other things.
"Raw material for vehicles will be cheap … plastic, rubber, aluminium and copper – all generated from scrap will be used for auto parts generation besides other things," the minister said.
As per an earlier proposal, a relief of about Rs 5 lakh was to be provided to people who purchase a new commercial vehicle of about Rs 15 lakh, if they surrender their over 15-year old commercial vehicles.
It`s will be good move to ban 15 years old vehicles from city to scrape yard in it to recycle factories., this policy most needed much earlier.
Yes, very true, I agree with this good move, but the Govt should stick to only Public Commercial vehicles. Scrapping of private vehicles above 15 years will render thousands of lower middle class as well as the poor classes who own small old cars, motorbikes and scooters without any transport, especially in small towns & villages.
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Pete, looks awesome. You can't mistake the contour of the nose and the shape of the eye. I love the tones you used. It feels both like a drawing, but especially like rubbed oil. Also feels very old. I can see people at your one man show at a gallery standing before your work and looking in different ways, as if calibrating their mind and eyes to grab your work.
I presume that the painting "technical" word sfumato was adopted also by English then , like for chiaroscuro, velatura etc.
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Pete!...I checked out your original, like the effect you put on it!
Also Like, where you going with your continuation of yourself!
Sfumato, Chiaroscuro and Velatura?...After looking up the definitions, decided to edit myself.
Only been painting for about six months or so!..I'll learn these words eventually, and what they mean and how, if any do they pertain to the way I find myself painting.
Always enjoy seeing your work!
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Dear D Akey, You're funny as usual. Thanks! Smoke gets in Your Eyes was one of my preferred song since I started chewing a little English, as a secondary school boy, and I must add that it was a song I was able to sing quite well, also because of the later tone of my voice (a sort of low baritono down to basso; I guess these Italian terms are still familiar in today musical slang).
As for the above painting words I guess I should check with the Oxford Dictionary or so, since I see that Steve didn't hear them before and Pete is an American with a Sino-Italian mix of genes and cultures (I understand), thus a too uncommon and rich melting pot of languages and international knowledge to check on.
The "chiaruscuro" means "light-and-dark" where the motif comes out of a dark background but is melted in to or broken up into the dark. The light parts stands out like hit by a spotlight while the rest is more or less obscured in the darkness. Like in this painting by Joseph Wright.
Velatura is the term for mor or less covering the motif using opaque paint, not like the case is in "sfumato", where the motif always is visible because of the use of transparent paint. In "velatura" you better use Titanium White (opaque) and in sfumato Zink White (transparent) or Mixing White (also transparent), probably mixed with other pigments. Velatura is more of a wall-painting, decoratif technique, that I know of. You use a cloth or veil and rub or stamp on the wall to get a texture or to soften or break the underlying pattern not to look too repeating. Usually it is a good technique to use with egg tempera or caseine tempera. Velatura is not in my book "History of Art" by H.W. Janson that I studied for my BA exam, so it is not regarded as a classical art tech I guess.
Sprezzatura is not an art term that I kow of. Sprezzatura is not in the book that Janson wrote and not in my other book I had to study for my BA degree: "Art and Illusion" by E.H. Gombrich. I find sprezzatura is more of a cultural term, related to snobbism and posing...or something like that.
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Thank You, dear Pete and Henry for Your most interesting discussion (You are right and really competent, dear mates) from where I can understand how these terms passed into English with possibly some slight meaning difference. I think I'd rather say something too about their origin (in language and art). In Italian they are obviously used both as painting technical terms and also for their general or alternative meanings.
Sfumato, a substantive from an adjective, actually means here that there's a tonal gradient (of either darkness, more frequently, or hue), as Pete said, like that of an upward decreasing smoke density (fumo=smoke). It may be even a progressive toning down of a color and a toning up of another one, a smooth color transition (as for a sunset sky in watercolors), but more usually it refers to smothly toning down of darkness as for (finger) smoothing in drawing, especially with charcoal or sanguine. We may sfumare (the verb) even a musical note (let it slowly or gracefully fade away) or a meaning (understate). The true substantive sfumatura is more or less like "nuance" in French, but also the variable hair lenght of a barber from Your head top down to the neck.
As for velatura, apart for its marine technical meaning (the set of the sails of a sailing ship), it's inserting a veil, something not completely transparent, but across which You may still see through to a certain extent. For painting, a thin layer that let the underneath layers be seen (not an opaque cover), which was used to finely tune or trim the hue tone and help simulating the reflective power of surfaces like human skin, fabrics etc.
I guess a reasonably corrsponding English term in painting may be glaze. Classical paintings could have quite a lot of subtle velature over the base painting, even 40 or fifty, thus making them look bright and impressively realistic (at least when they were painted, because old oil paints used to get progressively darker, alas). It may also be used to harmonize a whole painting from a palette standpoint and turning it from a warm to a cold feeling or viceversa (sorry another Italianism).
Finally chiaroscuro (literally light-dark) is the use of the tone ranges to define volumes and make objects pop-out as 3d by an appropriate use of highlights, shades and shadows. You may get such effect also somehow chromatically, with complementry colors, or use a mix of the two, like in the ancient Venitian painting school where drawings and darkness tones were a more subdued with reference to the importance of the colors, usually having more vibrations and vivid contrasts (to simplify). It has also different meaning when we talk, for instance, of a speech "in chiaroscuro", i.e. containing a mix of positive and negative elements, like the picture of an uncertain economical situation where elements contrast, or we may be referring to a somehow not neat and clearly defined picture (picture as a general term).
OK. I stop it here and apologize if I was boring explaining all this about how we use them here.
BTW, dear Pete, as for sprezzatura You found a really unusual, specific term and a quite obsolete one I'm afraid and Italians wouldn't understand it anymor since two or three centuries.
Neither i am too familiar with it, because I know too little about music, its history, melodramma ancestors etc.
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During the conference breaks, poster sessions will take place. Please send your poster abstract to secretariat@worldvet.org by 1th April 2015 (click here for the abstract instructions).
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Of course he's angry. The fact that other people exist who don't have influence and yet can be affected by external decisions doesn't mesh well with his twisted "two hands to clap" worldview.
There's always some chucklefuck who thinks that if you're affected by something, it means you're involved. And if you're involved, it means you get to shoulder the blame, for all the good that does.
It's far easier to blame everyone else so he can eat all the paint chips he wants.


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Damian Tambini is a senior lecturer at the London School of Economics, and an associate fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and the Oxford Internet Institute. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and serves on the advisory Groups of the Oxford Media Convention and Polis. He also teaches for the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program, an alliance of NYU Stern, the London School of Economics and HEC School of Management. Damian Tambini is on the Advisory Board of the Center for International Media Ethics.

Academic career
From June 2002 to August 2006 he served as Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Oxford University. Before that he was at Nuffield College, Oxford (Postdoctoral Fellow, 1998); Humboldt University, Berlin (Lecturer, 1997); and the European University Institute, Florence, Italy (PhD, 1996). His research interests include media and telecommunications policy and democratic communication.

Personal life
Tambini is married to Helen Mountfield.

Works

 "Padania's Virtual Nationalism". Telos 109 (Fall 1996). New York: Telos Press.

References

External links
Damian Tambini's departmental profile at the LSE
TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Academic staff of the European University Institute
Academics of the London School of Economics
Academics of the University of Oxford
Fellows of Nuffield College, Oxford
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin


On 28 and 29 September Anziplast will be present on the Plastics fair in Veldhoven.
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One of New York's longest-running shows, the Blue Man Group is a little hard to describe, but we'll give it a go! Take a healthy dose of percussion, mix it in with some vaudeville, a pinch of cutting edge technology, and half a teaspoon of comedy, and you've got... well, the Blue Man Group! Guiding you through this multi-sensory, alternatively amazing and hilarious show are three blue-painted performers, who don't seem to have too much knowledge about life on earth. Through a mixture of stunt, sketches and LOTS of drumming, they'll try and learn about these strange things called 'humans', and might just ask you up on the stage to aid in their research.
A show unlike any other, it's no surprise that the Blue Man Group have become a world-famous act, with permanent productions here in New York, as well as Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago, Boston and Berlin.
A show unlike any other, it's no surprise that the Blue Man Group have become a world-famous act, with permanent productions here in New York, as well as Las Vegas, Orlando, Chicago, Boston and Berlin. It all began in the late eighties, when trio of friends Chris Wink, Phil Stanton and Matt Goldman took to the streets of New York in Blue make-up as a piece of performance art. Their appearence eventually led to an Off-Broadway show at Astor Palace, and the gorup have been a resident fixture of the New York theater scene ever since.
The Blue Men take an hour before each performance to get into costume and coat themselves in that famous blue paint!
Opening night: 8 April 1991
Blue Man Group is appropriate for children aged 8 and over. Children under 4 years of age will not be admitted into the Astor Place Theater.
One hour and 45 minutes without intermission
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Creators & Authors - Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton and Chris Wink
Scenic Design - Kevin Joseph Roach
Lighting Design - Brian Aldous
Costume Design - Lydia Tanji and Patricia Murphy
Music - Matt Goldman, Phil Stanton, and Chris Wink
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