What if Money Was About the Possibility and Not the Problem?
Most of us tend to look for the problem rather than the possibility, whether it's about money or anything else. We have a tendency to think, "I've got to handle this problem." But what if everything was about the possibility and nothing was about the problem?
With money, everything has to be about possibility, never about problem, because when you look for the problem, you will always create the problem in order to create the possibility. You keep trying to avoid that which will actually work in order to prove that your life doesn't work.
If you would like to change this, if would like to make money about the possibility rather than the problem, here are 7 questions to consider.
1. Do you have a definition of you that defines you by the level of money you currently have?
The reason you have a problem with spending money, the reason you have a problem with having money, the reason you have a problem with anything to do with money is that you have decided you are stupid with money. Isn't it interesting that you like eliminating money from your life? That you like not having it?
2. If you had no monetary problems, what would you create?
If you had to create your reality beyond anybody else's reality, what would occur? You'd have to get to a place where your brain goes out to lunch, and possibility begins to eat at the limitations of your reality so you start to create a reality that works for you. Are you willing to be the awareness of those possibilities?
3. What do I need to do or what do I need to be that would bring this to actualization with total ease?
4. As long as money is more valuable than you, can you choose consciousness?
The universe has your back when you ask it to send you what you need. You have to ask it to contribute to you. Do you ever ask the consciousness of the universe to contribute to you? You ask for everything except the consciousness, which knows more than you do in every respect, to actually deliver what you are asking for.
5. What would happen if you were willing to have the consciousness of the universe contribute to you?
Money is something you use to change people's reality. What amount of money can you use that would change somebody's reality? In every moment, you've got to ask "How can I use the money I have to create a different reality for someone right now?" You've got to be willing to look at that, because the purpose of money is not about having more of the stuff you think you need to own.
6. What question do I have to be to create a different reality with total ease?
7. What question do I have to be to create a different reality with total ease?
You have to create beyond this reality. Conclusion works only as long as you are not willing to expand your life beyond anybody else's reality. Let's say you've got a million dollars. That's nice. What is it going to change? Is $10 million going to change much? Not if you hold on to it. Is a different point of view going to change reality?
For money to be about possibility rather than problem requires you to ask questions. It requires you to look from a different place. As you change your point of view about money and begin to live from the space of 'what else is possible?' everything in your life is going to start to change.


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A no-nonsense Swedish hard rock and roll/thrash quartet that splits the difference between your blue-collar swagger of Motörhead as well as the noxious fury of Venom, Gehennah was founded in 1992. The music group released its debut studio room recording, Hardrocker, via Primitive Artwork Information in 1995, and obtained a loyal local following before departing the label for Osmose Productions and liberating its sophomore long-player, Ruler from the Sidewalk. Decibel Rebel adopted in 1998, as well as the music group spent the first area of the fresh century exploring different strategies of debauchery before liberating the aptly called a decade of Fucked Up Behavior EP in 2003. By 2014 the music group settled for the lineup of vocalist Mr. Assault, guitarist Rob Stringburner, drummer Hellcop, and bass participant Charley Knuckleduster, and released a fresh EP/single called Metallic Police, which eventually got the group a cope with Metallic Blade. A fresh full-length release from the same name, which presented these EP, two reward tracks through the Metallic Police classes, and six re-recorded tracks through the group's '90s heyday, lowered in 2015. The next year saw the discharge from the self-described street-metalers' 1st collection of new materials for the label, As well Noisy to Live, As well Drunk to Die.


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Calif. nonutility players have major role in state's quest for 60% renewables
Author Jeff Stanfield
As California's investor-owned utilities lose customers to nonutility electric service providers and community choice aggregators, the latter in particular is expected to shoulder increasing responsibility for meeting California's renewable energy goals over the next 10 years.
However, the California Public Utilities Commission has expressed concern that many of those aggregators, or CCAs, have not disclosed how they will meet the state's renewable portfolio standard, which requires all retail electricity sellers to get 60% of their power from renewable resources such as solar and wind by 2030. State law requires that CCAs and nonutility electric service providers, or ESPs, participate in the RPS program subject to the same terms and conditions as investor-owned utilities.
Increased renewable procurement by CCAs and ESPs must occur in the near term to meet the RPS requirements, the CPUC told the state Legislature in a November annual report.
Despite the state regulators' somewhat gloomy assessment, the California Community Choice Association announced that as of Nov. 7, a total of 13 CCAs have signed 3,195 MW of power purchase agreements with terms ranging from 10 years to 25 years for new renewable energy projects. Approximately 1,000 MW of that total was added in the past 12 months, and five of those CCAs have only been serving customers since 2018 or later. In addition, more than 239 MW of long-term battery energy storage contracts have been signed.
But to put those numbers into perspective, more than 27 GW of new renewable generation capacity is needed to reach the 2030 RPS goal, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence estimates.
Currently, the CCAs' total annual load stands at about 45,000 GWh, which is approximately 25% of the combined load in the service territories of the big three utilities, said Beth Vaughan, executive director of the California Community Choice Association.
Publicly owned utilities, including municipal utilities and cooperatives, serve about 22% of customer load in California, according to figures compiled by the California Energy Commission. Just as the CPUC is responsible for overseeing RPS compliance by investor-owned utilities, CCAs and ESPs, the California Energy Commission does the same with respect to publicly owned utilities.
Noting that 30% of the power collectively delivered by the state's publicly owned utilities in 2018 was produced by renewable resources, California Municipal Utilities Association spokesperson Matt Williams said those utilities "are well on track to meet or exceed" California's RPS.
Investor-owned utilities still account for more than half of the electricity sold in the state. In 2018, the three biggest of those utilities — PG&E Corp. subsidiary Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Edison International subsidiary Southern California Edison Co., and Sempra Energy subsidiary San Diego Gas & Electric Co. — sold 181,000 GWh, according to the California Energy Commission.
Big utilities can coast without buying more renewables
As the investor-owned utilities lose customers to CCAs and ESPs, their existing renewable capacity stretches further to cover additional customer loads. Accordingly, the utilities have not had to procure renewables for the last five years and still have surpluses of such capacity relative to their RPS requirements.
In 2018, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed S.B. 100, which elevated the state's existing renewable portfolio standard from 50% in 2030 to 60% in 2030. The law also establishes a statewide planning goal of zero emissions from power by 2045.
The three large investor-owned utilities are forecast to continue to surpass RPS requirements and have excess procurement for the next six years. The investor-owned utilities may choose to apply excess renewable electricity procured in prior years to meet their RPS requirements in future compliance periods, according to the CPUC's proposed decision to accept their RPS plans.
Included in the RPS is a requirement that all load-serving entities must have 65% of their renewables under long-term contracts with terms of at least 10 years for a compliance period that begins in 2021. That requirement was set in Senate Bill 350, which was passed in 2015. In accordance with that law, the CPUC in early 2018 ordered CCAs to submit plans for acquiring sufficient energy resources to meet reliability and greenhouse gas reduction requirements as well as the RPS.
The CPUC already is fretting over how nonutility load-serving entities under its jurisdiction will get there.
Nearly all RPS contracts executed by the three investor-owned utilities for the purposes of complying with the RPS program have contract term lengths of 10 or more years. In contrast, only 40% of the CCAs' RPS contracting to date for the 2021-to-2024 compliance period meet the 65% long-term contracting requirement, the CPUC told the state Legislature.
Out of the 26 CCAs that plan to serve load in 2020, 11 have procured long-term contracts at or above the 65% requirement, and two have procured some long-term contracts. Thirteen CCAs have not procured any long-term contracts, and while six of those have procured some short-term contracts, the remaining seven have not procured any RPS energy at all, the CPUC said.
ESPs — namely entities that serve large commercial and industrial customers with direct access energy contracts — also need to make more progress in meeting the 65% long-term contracting requirement, the CPUC said. Of the 13 ESPs that will be serving load in the 2021-through-2024 period, 10 have procured enough long-term energy to meet the 65% long-term contracting requirement. One ESP procured some long-term renewable energy but needs to procure more to meet the requirement, and two have not procured any long-term RPS energy.
"The CCAs' and ESPs' forecasted shortfalls in meeting the 65% long-term contracting requirement raises concerns for potential failure in meeting overall RPS requirements," the CPUC said. "Long-term contracts are often associated with new facilities which often take several years to be developed."
Also, new renewable project development may be delayed or terminated as a result of permitting or transmission delays, project failure or contract default, the commission said.
CPUC says it may impose fines
Many CCAs and ESPs continue to provide minimal information in their RPS plans. Some of those plans have improved immensely over time, but many others rely on limited, superficial information using generic boilerplate language, the CPUC said. By comparison, the investor-owned utilities have filed highly detailed investor-owned utility procurement plans that provide the state with a clear picture of how they will secure energy and address risk and reliability in their RPS portfolios.
Noting that it has collected about $4.1 million in penalties from retail sellers for failure to comply with a long-term contracting requirement for an earlier period, the CPUC said it can continue to seek penalties if inadequate filings persist.
"[G]iven some CCAs' and ESPs' views that they provide information to the CPUC only on a voluntary basis, enforcement and penalties for deficient filings may be necessary," the commission told the Legislature.
California Community Choice Association's Vaughan acknowledged that the CPUC is following the letter of the law but said the requirement that all CCAs disclose long-term contracts to meet the RPS is unrealistic since many aggregators have not yet launched and therefore have not been able to sign up any customers. Without customers and revenue streams, the CCAs cannot sign long-term contracts, Vaughan said in an interview.
"They don't even know what their load is going to be, so they can't make long-term commitments for their communities," Vaughan said.
Since those CCAs have not yet procured renewable energy supplies, they have no information to report, Vaughan continued. In 2013, the CPUC decided to exempt ESPs from procurement plan compliance if they were not yet serving load. The same exemption should apply to CCAs that have not yet launched their services, Vaughan said. While 10 CCAs launched in 2018, they did so in phases and therefore did not roll out services to residential customers until more recently, she continued.
"I totally understand the CPUC is complying based on statutory requirements," Vaughan said. "I'm just saying that [the law] wasn't designed for new entrants."
In joint comments to the commission, seven CCAs, including Marin Clean Energy, the oldest and largest of the group, said numerous such entities are in the process of securing long-term procurement of energy supplies, and two CCAs the CPUC named in its noncompliance list have executed long-term contracts since the submission of their 2019 RPS procurement plans.
"By the time that the CCAs file their 2020 RPS procurement plans, there will be significant additional long-term procurement that should reduce concerns regarding the likelihood of non-compliance," the CCAs said.
Jeff Stanfield

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Q: How to apply CSS on texte label beside an input? I have this small code contains a text (label) and a text input
What I am looking for is to have text + input take 100% of the div (i.e 20% for text and 80% for input) and the text should be in the middle of its zone with a background has the same height as the input.
I tried with span, with applying background-color: blue; on the div but It didn't have any impact.
Do you know ho to do it?
Thank you in advance.

#zoneFiltre {
    width: 100%;
}

.champs {
    width:20%;
    background-color: blue;
    text-align: middle;
    color: white;
}

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    width:80%;
    float:right;
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      filter:
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A: This is because  tag is an inline element so it cannot take width/height. Display it as inline-block.

body{
  margin: 0;
}

#zoneFiltre {
    width: 100%;
}

.champs {
    display: inline-block;
    width:20%;
    background-color: blue;
    color: white;
}

#filtreMultiAptitudes{
    display: inline-block;
    width:79.3%;
    float:right;
}

      filter:
      <input type="text" id="filtreMultiAptitudes" />

The space between both elements is because the <input> tag has a default border. You can use a lower percentage (as shown above) or use calc function to rest the width that occupy the border.

body{
  margin: 0;
}

#zoneFiltre {
    width: 100%;
}

.champs {
    display: inline-block;
    width:20%;
    background-color: blue;
    color: white;
}

#filtreMultiAptitudes{
    display: inline-block;
    width: calc(80% - 4px);
    float:right;
}

      filter:
      <input type="text" id="filtreMultiAptitudes" />

Another solution and the best in my opinion is to use box-sizing: border-box which calculates the width taking as part of the width the borders and paddings of an element.

body{
  margin: 0;
}

#zoneFiltre {
    width: 100%;
}

.champs {
    display: inline-block;
    width:20%;
    background-color: blue;
    color: white;
}

#filtreMultiAptitudes{
    display: inline-block;
    width: 80%;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    float:right;
}

      filter:
      <input type="text" id="filtreMultiAptitudes" />

A: If you want to use Flexbox you can use flex: 0 0 80% on input and flex: 1 on label also its text-align: center

.zoneFiltre {
  display: flex;
}
.champs {
  flex: 1;
  background-color: blue;
  text-align: center;
  color: white;
}
#filtreMultiAptitudes {
  flex: 0 0 80%;
}

    filter:
    <input type="text" id="filtreMultiAptitudes" />

A: You can use display:table if you fancy this.

form {
    display:table;
    border:1px dotted black;
    width:100%;
}
form p {
    display:table-row;
}
label, form span {
    display:table-cell;
    padding:0.5em 0;
}
label {
    background:blue;
    color:white;
    vertical-align:top;
}
span input, span textarea {
    box-sizing:border-box;
    width:100%;
}
textarea {
    display:block;
}
<form>

        A label:
        <input type="text" id="input1" />

        A longer label:
        <input type="text" id="input2" />

        Textarea:
        <textarea id="txt" rows="5" cols="15"></textarea>

</form>

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C.V. Gunther, J.A. Nye, R.S. Bryner, B.J. Graves, "Sequence-specific DNA binding of the proto-oncoprotein ets-1 defines a transcriptional activator sequence within the long terminal repeat of the Moloney murine sarcoma virus," Genes & Development, 4:667-79, 1990. Barbara J. Graves (University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City): "This paper reported our laboratory's serendipitous discovery that ets-1 encodes a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein. Our results implicated this proto-onc
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C.V. Gunther, J.A. Nye, R.S. Bryner, B.J. Graves, "Sequence-specific DNA binding of the proto-oncoprotein ets-1 defines a transcriptional activator sequence within the long terminal repeat of the Moloney murine sarcoma virus," Genes & Development, 4:667-79, 1990.
Barbara J. Graves (University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City): "This paper reported our laboratory's serendipitous discovery that ets-1 encodes a sequence-specific DNA-binding protein. Our results implicated this proto-oncoprotein as a transcriptional regulator. Or findings, in conjunction with published information, had implications in three areas. First, our discovery provides a basis for proposing that ets-1-dependent cell transformation involves alterations in the gene expression of cells in erythroid and myeloid lineages. Second, the ets-1 protein had previously been shown to be phosphorylated in response to activation in T lymphocytes. A possible role for the ets-1 protein is as a transcription factor linking extracellular signals to gene regulation. Finally, the primary sequence of the...
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Congrats to Tanner Willford for making the Zone 1 and Roan Crowe for making the Zone 2 teams in the Alberta Winter Games from February 16-19. That is a huge accomplishment boys! Roan's team won gold in the tournament as well. Way to go!


Get Ready—The Year 5778 Will Be a Season of Transition, Worship and Surprises!
God has the perfect new things waiting for you. It's a season to not rush ahead of Him through just any door, but to wait for Him to move you through the right door into the new things you're anticipating. It will be worth the wait!
Many are calling the Hebraic year of 5778 we've recently entered the year of the door. It will be a year of transition, renewed worship and divine surprises. In Deuteronomy 2:2-3, the Israelites began to transition out of their wilderness wanderings when the Lord spoke to Moses that it was time for a shift and a change—to begin to move into a season to take possession.
Transition could be defined as a process or period of changing from one particular condition or state to another. In other words, transition doesn't happen overnight but involves increments or stages. Before any movement of transition begins there has usually been some waiting. Many believers, myself included, have been in some type of holding pattern in recent months. I've had several dreams that shed some light on this.
In one dream I saw several military personnel sitting with arms crossed and legs outstretched, just waiting and waiting to get some more orders. Many in the Army of the Lord have been waiting to get more orders—marching orders—that will give them new assignments enabling them to possess new kingdom territory. The release of military orders involves timing and strategy—it takes the time that it takes. If they were released prematurely, especially when on the offense, the enemy would know what you're doing!
Another dream focused on the furniture in a particular room. The house itself was extremely well built and other rooms were perfectly appointed and exactly to my taste. But for some reason I had not been able to find the right furniture for this particular room, so I accepted hand-me down furniture donated from someone else. It was outdated and threadbare, and not even in colors I liked. But rather than invest time and money in pursuit of something I ultimately wouldn't be satisfied with or want to keep, I accepted hand-me-downs. I knew it was only temporary, and would be well worth the wait.
Friends, God has the perfect new things waiting for you. It's a season to not rush ahead of Him through just any door, but to wait for Him to move you through the right door into the new things you're anticipating. It will be worth the wait!
After receiving a word several months ago to slow down, I've been required to put this belief into practice. During this time I've also felt led to turn down several opportunities, and in the process am learning that busyness does not equal godliness. I'm confident the waiting is temporary, and that the right door will lead to amazing God surprises.
These surprises have several aspects. One, as illustrated by the dream of people waiting for orders to be released, involves the bigger picture in which timing and strategy are key. Their release will bring change quickly, and the perfect timing ensures the enemy will also be surprised!
It's interesting that the Hebrew word-picture for eight, Chet—in addition to looking like a door (or gate), also resembles a bridal canopy. I see the passage from Matthew 25 of the virgins and oil as key. Notice in verse 5 the bridegroom was delayed, so the virgins slumbered and slept—they had grown weary as they waited and waited. Those who ran out of oil were surprised by the lengthy delay and unprepared to transition. This is an element of surprise to avoid!
And shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to Him, though He bears long with them? I tell you that He will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?
We are entering a season of "speedily," in which suddenly and to our great surprise we will see the Lord perform the things we have been appealing Him for—if we do not lose heart.
The Lord is looking for us to engage. I was shown a ring of old fashioned keys—keys to strategy, which will take us through the right door. These were new keys, which is ironic, since they looked old-fashioned. It's ironic also that the door isn't locked. I saw that "worship" was identified as the primary key; the next key was "rejoicing," and the one after that was "die to self." While these aren't new concepts, there's a new grace on these practices to unlock strategies, preparing us to shift into the new things of God.
– Worship Him anew. There is fresh anointing on Isaiah 40:31. As you worship and wait on Him, you will receive new strength, encouragement and energy.
– Rejoice in the Lord (Hab. 3:17-19; Phil. 4:4). Our circumstances may not produce rejoicing, but we can rejoice in Him.
– Ask the Lord in what areas He'd have you die to self. Fresh strategy will flow from it.
– Don't rush ahead of the Lord. Be sure to inquire of the Lord concerning every door of opportunity. Remember the examples of Abraham and Sarah when they got ahead of God, and Joshua when he forgot to seek counsel from the Lord (Josh. 9:14).
– Stay vigilant in the Word and prayer. Praying in the Spirit is a great way to go when you aren't sure how to pray, and praying the Lord's Prayer is also very powerful (Jude 20; Matt. 6:9-13).
Finally, and also from Matthew 25 (vs. 10), I believe getting (or being) ready for the wedding in today's context means… we should get ready for the biggest move of God ever seen!
Merry Christmas: God's in the Package!


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Monstercat reveals 'Best of 2019' list, voted on by fans
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After a few days of hard-fought voting, Monstercat fans have selected their top 40 songs of 2019. The Canadian label revealed that fans picked RIOT's "Blackwater" as their No. 1 song of 2019, followed by Bossfight's "Overdose" and Grant's "Wishes." This is the second year in a row that RIOT has topped the Monstercat charts, […]
Pegboard Nerds unleash 'Heart of the Universe' EP, featuring NERVO, Ragga Twins
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What happens when a Grammy-winning producer combines forces with a kingpin of the Demoscene in the Norwegian underground? Pegboard Nerds prevails, and the Scandinavian duo has unleashed yet another extended play, Heart of the Universe, from the Monstercat netherworld. The project comes after their 2018 effort with their Full Hearts EP featuring Knife Party and Dion Timmer. […]
Pegboard Nerds, Morgan Page, and more lend tunes to new Beat Saber soundtrack
By DancingAstronaut.com on August 29, 2019 in beat saber, boom kitty, General, jan ilavsky, jaroslav beck, morgan page, Music, mutrix, pegboard nerds, pixl, slippy
VR rhythm game Beat Saber received an upgrade on Aug. 29 with the addition of six new artists to volume three of its original soundtrack. Players can now slash blocks to the tune of artists like Morgan Page, Pegboard Nerds, PIXL, Slippy, Boom Kitty, Jaroslav Beck, Jan Ilavsky, and Mutrix. Game composer Jaroslav Beck and […]
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NMF Roundup: REZZ and Deathpact link up, Wave Racer unveils new single + more
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It's most important day of the week: New Music Friday. With the overwhelming amount of tunes hitting the airwaves today, Dancing Astronaut has you covered with the latest edition of The Hot 25. REZZ and Deathpact take no prisoners in their new collaboration, "Kiss of Death," and Wave Racer follows up recent single, "Auto," with the soothing "Summer […]
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Lunar Lunes: Kaskade proves third time's a charm with 'Redux 003,' Com Truise remixes Hermitude + more
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Each week, New Music Friday sweeps through with torrential force, showering streaming platforms with immeasurable amounts of new tunes. Just like Dancing Astronaut rounds up 25 of the biggest songs of the week for the Hot 25 Spotify playlist each New Music Friday, Lunar Lunes serves as a landing pad for SoundCloud users who want a whole new dose of tunes to […]
NMF Roundup: Gesaffelstein reveals 'Hyperion' in full, Seven Lions remixes Above & Beyond, Rinzen releases new mau5trap EP + more
By DancingAstronaut.com on March 8, 2019 in Above & Beyond, ac slater, alesso, Area21, ashley wallbridge, Audien, Boombox Cartel, brohug, crywolf, dabin, David Guetta, Dion Timmer, Don Diablo, echosmith, flynn, Gareth Emery, General, Gesaffelstein, Hardwell, inukshuk, KARRA, lost frequencies, Micah Martin, Mike Williams, Music, Nevve, Nicky Romero, OFFSET, Oliver Nelson, pegboard nerds, Rinzen, Rosie Darling, Seven Lions, shadient, the chemical brothers, Tom Staar, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Tritonal, tyDi
It's most important day of the week: New Music Friday. With the overwhelming amount of tunes hitting the airwaves today, Dancing Astronaut has you covered with the latest edition of The Hot 25. This Friday's slew of releases is highlighted by the much-anticipated release of Gesaffelstein's Hyperion. We're also welcoming yet another Gareth Emery and Ashley Wallbridge release, along with a […]
Pegboard Nerds re-join Knife Party for new collaboration
By DancingAstronaut.com on December 10, 2018 in Amsterdam, General, Knife Party, Music, News, pegboard nerds, Preview
It's looking like the next year is about to see a bountiful release harvest from illustrious Australian outfit Knife Party. They certainly know how to stir a frenzy among their fan base, slowly teasing out a variety of raucous new music through their Knifecast show and other platforms. It seems they've enlisted a tried-and-true partner […]
Monstercat announces stacked ADE lineup
By DancingAstronaut.com on August 6, 2018 in ADE, amsterdam dance event, Feed Me, Gammer, General, going quantum, Modestep, Monstercat, Music, Muzzy, News, Noisia, orri + friends, pegboard nerds, Tokyo machine, uncaged
As 2018's edition of Amsterdam Dance Event draws near, Monstercat has announced a stacked lineup of talent for their third year. On Oct. 18, Monstercat artists of the Uncaged persuasion will descend on Melkweg's ADE for an unforgettable series of performances. The array of talent includes Noisia, Feed Me, Modestep, Pegboard Nerds, Gammer, Muzzy, Going Quantum, […]
Producer Sessions 005: Pegboard Nerds 'Full Hearts' EP + sample pack + interview
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'We were a great family': Dad now lives to honor his wife and two kids killed in 107 mph crash [Sun Sentinel]
Posted on 06/09/2019 by Tribune Content Agency Posted in Trucking News
Jun. 10—Gilberto Martinez says he lives each day to honor the wife, young son and daughter he lost in a catastrophic car crash a year ago in Delray Beach.
For the 42-year-old Mexico City lawyer, this means helping run a new charity for disadvantaged children in his country, named in memory of his loved ones. But Martinez, despite suffering a devastating tragedy, refuses to dwell on what becomes of the driver criminally charged with killing his family.
"To be honest with you, I don't want to get involved and worry about what happens to him," Martinez told the South Florida Sun Sentinel. "Of course I want that guy to pay for what he did. But that will never bring back my family."
Killed instantly in the April 28, 2018, wreck on South Federal Highway were Veronica Mariel Raschiotto, 42, an accountant, Diego Martinez Raschiotto, 8, a third-grader, Mia Martinez Raschiotto, 6, a first-grader; and Veronica's brother, Jorge Claudio Raschiotto, 50, a university professor from Argentina.
They were in South Florida for a family reunion; Gilberto Martinez was not with them due to work commitments.
Paul Wilson Streater, the driver of the pickup that rear-ended the victims' minivan, is from Broward. Prosecutors allege he was impaired — from huffing chemicals in his system — when he slammed his 2010 Chevrolet Silverado at 107 mph into a 2018 Dodge Caravan carrying the victims. The road has a 45 mph speed limit.
Martinez says he gets occasional updates about the prosecution, but has no plans to attend the trial, which could happen before the end of the year.
"I don't want to be in court with this guy. I don't need that," said Martinez, an attorney who specializes in intellectual property law, with a focus on trademark and copyright cases.
Martinez says he's not out for vengeance or a particular punishment. "He killed four persons so I guess that's like the biggest sentence he will always have. His life is destroyed, and I'm sure today he's worse off than me."
Was driver high on Dust-off?
The defense claims Streater, 22, was speeding uncontrollably because of a malfunction that caused the pickup to experience sudden acceleration that night. A witness said he swerved from one of the southbound lanes into a left-turn lane, where the Caravan was waiting to go east on Lamat Avenue.
"The car was accelerating through no fault of Paul," said attorney Samuel Halpern, who plans to argue the Silverado couldn't be stopped after Streater hit the brakes.
He contends Streater — who was unharmed aside from some bruises and scrapes — showed no signs of intoxication right after the crash, despite a blood sample including Difluoroethane, the main ingredient in Dust-Off, a brand name of compressed air canisters for cleaning computers and electronics.
Streater is charged with four felony counts of DUI manslaughter, four felony counts of vehicular homicide, and three misdemeanor charges of DUI causing or contributing to injury to person or property. The felonies are altogether punishable by up to 120 years in prison.
After pleading not guilty, Streater has remained in Palm Beach County Jail for nearly a year because he's been unable to afford a $400,000 bond.
A native of Texas and the son of commercial airline pilots, Streater's resume includes less than a year of working on charter boats and as a cook.
On May 17, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge Glenn Kelley agreed to reduce the bond to $115,000, which should enable Streater to go on house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor. Halpern said he expects his client to be released soon.
Court battles heat up
In a major victory for the prosecution, Judge Kelley on May 13 ruled prosecutors may tell the jury that Difluoroethane, the chemical known to produce a high by huffing, was detected in Streater's blood.
Also, the prosecution can tell the jury that Streater and Tyler Fowler, his front-seat passenger and roommate, bought Dust-off at a Walmart less than four hours before the crash. There is store surveillance video and a receipt in evidence.
Halpern fears once the jury learns about the Dust-off, a guilty verdict is all but assured.
"Put another way, you can throw a skunk into the jury box and ask them not to smell it, but really, what good does that do?" he argued.
Streater's lawyer argued that the inhalant produces only a short-term high of five to 20 minutes, yet stays in the blood for up to 22 hours. No cans of Dust-off were found in Streater's truck.
Halpern says there is no indication the chemical in Streater's blood had any role in the crash, and it is impossible to prove otherwise. He said the state's toxicologist was unable to determine when or how the chemical was absorbed in Streater's body.
The lawyer also pointed out Streater didn't appear impaired when he spoke with officers and other witnesses. Halpern said Streater was wearing his seat belt and driving at proper speeds until less than a mile before the crash, when the Silverado suddenly raced out of control. Streater told police that his accelerator was stuck.
Streater has had some wins in court before his trial. That includes the judge's decision to forbid witnesses from testifying that it was "the worst crash they have ever seen" or any other "hyperbole." Also, among other details, jurors won't be told that police found drug items, such as rolling papers and a spoon, inside Streater's truck.
Gilberto Martinez, meanwhile, is doing his best to recover from losing his wife and kids in a flash. To help overcome his grief, he pictures his family in heaven looking down at him.
"I always think, how do they want to see me? I'm living, I'm working, I'm smiling, and I'm spending every day honoring their memory and making them be proud of me. They will never see me sad or destroyed or in a deep depression because I know the three of them are close to me."
Martinez agreed with his therapist that he would honor his wife and children by going on a planned family vacation to Russia, to watch World Cup soccer games including teams from Mexico and Argentina. He went with two friends. The trip last June made international news and attracted the attention of the players.
Martinez wore a T-shirt with the words "Vero, Diego, Mia, always with me."
Martinez also has established the Vero, Diego & Mia Foundation in Mexico City. The organization runs sports and health programs to help girls and boys ages 6 to 12 who are "in situations of social vulnerability." So far, it has raised money to serve 80 kids.
Martinez says it's taken longer for him to accept the loss of his own children. "They died quite young, I miss them," he said of Diego, who played on three soccer teams, and Mia, who loved to dance and sing. "Now a lot of people all over the world know about them, how we were a great family."
Not long after the crash, Martinez hired a personal injury law firm to explore the possibility of a wrongful death civil lawsuit against Streater, the truck manufacturer and possibly others.
But Martinez says the matter was dropped after an investigation concluded there was no way to recover money.
Attorney Scott B. Smith of West Palm Beach, who had represented Martinez, called it "one of the worst tragedies I've ever come across. It's just so hard to comprehend. Four human beings are not supposed to die in a motor vehicle crash."
For that reason, Streater's side doesn't want jurors to see "gruesome" photos from the crash scene.
Judge Kelley said he will rule later after reviewing the images that Assistant State Attorney Danielle Sherriff plans to use.
"I know that this is a very emotional case, and we're all human," Halpern said. "Let's just try to keep it to the facts, and not inflame people."
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Rhys Williams is a songwriter and composer hailing from Christchurch, New Zealand who performs under the guise, Progressivenz. Since the city suffered an earthquake in 2010, his music has been related to this tragic event. However not exclusively, Rhys writes songs in support of people who struggle with personal drama.
He operates within a few different styles of music, so don't be surprised when a song fitting the Blues vibe is followed by a track with a touch of Electronica.
"To The Wolf" could fall under the category of Experimental Sound Design, but includes heavy guitar riffs. It's not arranged in a classic song structure. Instead you'll hear a 7 minute long composition, filled with multiple themes.
The track begins with gentle synths and modified vocals giving it an Electro/Pop motif, then followed by various sound effects. Rhys creates a mood of fear, with the feeling of a chase. There's a story coming out of it. You'll hear screaming kids, a howling wolf and a scared woman's heavy breathing. These topics repeat until a heartbeat effect appears.
Later, the 'wolf's' theme is replaced with a new part of the composition. Initially the keyboards dictate the rhythm, but after a while they're joined by Heavy Metal guitar riffs, bass and drums. These give the track a new and aggressive energy with tight dynamics. A synthesizer that steals a listener's attention for a moment accompanies the riffs, then the opening Electronica phrase and vocals return to end the composition along with the voices of howling wolves.
There are a few interesting ideas presented within "To The Wolf" but the entire composition hasn't been arranged terribly well. Rather than presenting a truly exhilarating song, it sounds more like a tutorial on how to utilize various sound effects and accompaniments. While guitars stay as the focal point of the track, the unstructured composition is missing a spine. It's too drawn out and too loose, despite repetitive motifs. Therefore it may leave a listener confused, as their attention hasn't been drawn enough. A solid rhythm rolling throughout the entire composition could glue these seemingly separated parts.
A final note, it should be underlined that Rhys sounds like a skillful guitar player. Real Metal will never die nor lose fans, and yet Metal doesn't need any conceptual changes either. It'd be great if Rhys focused entirely on making heavy guitar driven tracks but avoided mismatching a few styles of music within a song.


Does anyone know how to deter bandicoots from the garden?
It's usually rats and possums that cause troubles to gardeners @Flo54. Where are you based to have bandicoots in your garden? Hopefully there will be some community members who can share some advice with you.
Let me also extend a very warm welcome to the Workshop community. It's fantastic to have you join us. I hope you find plenty of helpful advice, information and inspiration here. Feel free to post anytime you need a hand. You might also like to share some of your projects and plans with the community.
You are lucky to have bandicoots in the garden! They keep pests at bay like cockroaches, spiders, ants, moths, termites etc. If they are leaving holes in your lawn they are often eating pests that will harm your lawn, plus they are helping to aerate the soil.
But if you do really want to get rid of them then use lights and dynamic lifter or chicken manure in the garden. The combination of lights and unpleasant smell will deter them and is easier than fencing. Just don't use any pesticides and be careful if you have pets to keep them inside at night.
Yes, be careful as bandicoots are endangered and a protected species in many parts of Australia.
Thanks Jason, live in Alstonville NSW.
Thanks everyone. The problem I have is digging out my plants. Yes Isobel I know their endangered I just want to keep them at bay.
You live in a lovely area of Australia @Flo54. Do you have a large property?
I can understand that it would be frustrating if they were digging out your plants. I would start with the dynamic lifter or chicken poo on your garden beds. If that's not enough to deter them then I would install the lights.
Good luck, please let us know how you go.
I live on a house block in a semi rural area between Ballina & Lismore. We also have problems with rabbits.


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King of the Cage Returns to Citizens Business Bank Arena on June 22 "GOLDEN ERA"
RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA. (May 16, 2019) – King of the Cage returns to Citizens Business Bank Arena in Ontario, California on Saturday, June 22, 2019 with a nationally broadcast event headlined by three World Title bouts. The main event for the Flyweight belt will be headlined by Drako Rodriguez vs. undefeated Johnny Munoz. The co-main events will feature Matt Lagler vs. David Gomez for the Middleweight title and Travis Williams vs. Edson Gomez for the Welterweight belt.
Main Event – KOTC Flyweight World Title (135 lbs.)
Drako "The Great Drakolini" Rodriguez (5-1), Sioux City, Iowa (One Combat Academy) vs. Johnny "Kid Kvenbo" Munoz (8-0), Norco, California (C-Quence MMA). Rodriguez is one of top fighters in the division and is coming off and impressive first-round victory. He was also the former amateur World Champion. Munoz has never lost in both his professional and amateur career and six of his eight pro fights have been won is the first round.
Co-Main Event – KOTC Middleweight World Title (185 lbs.)
Matt "Berzerk" Lagler, San Diego, California (San Diego Combat Academy) vs. David Gomez, Rancho Cucamonga, California (Body Shop). Lagler is a veteran fighter who has 12 wins and has tremendous knockout power. Gomez has 17 wins in his professional career and is top ranked.
Co-Main Event – KOTC Welterweight World Title (170 lbs.)
Travis Williams (2-2), San Pedro, CA. (Elite Training Center) vs. Edson Gomez (4-1), Upland, CA. (Combined Martial Science). Williams, who has had a successful professional and amateur career, won his last out with a first-round knockout. Gomez has only one loss and is top ranked in the welterweight division.
Featured Event – Bantamweight (145 lbs.)
Anthony Jimenez (3-0), San Bernardino, CA. (Adrenaline MMA) vs. Albert Veloz (2-1), Victorville, CA. (Cage Combat). Both fighters are top ranked.
Other Fights Include:
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• Jay Pinto vs. Richie Palomino
• Kevin Villarreal vs. Roberto Hernandez
• Gibran Alvarez vs. Johnathan Noriega
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This event will be broadcast in over 50 million U.S. households on MAVTV. MAVTV is currently available on DIRECTV (channel 214), Verizon Fios (channel 810), Comcast, Google Fiber, Time Warner Cable, Charter and hundreds of regional distributors.
Doors open at 5:00 pm. and fights start at 6:00 pm. Reserve seating and Ringside tickets are on sale now. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit Ticketmaster.com. All ages. Event card subject to change. Official Hashtag: #GoldenEra
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Personalized Device Could Support Multiple COVID-19 Patients From Single Ventilator
3D printing fuels U-M efforts to rapidly increase ventilator capacity while providing each patient on vent support with individually tailored gas pressures and pressure monitoring.
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As the pandemic swept across the nation in March, so did urgent questions about the virus' potential strain on the healthcare system.
Among top concerns: whether the nation's hospitals had enough ventilators to provide breathing support to critically ill patients with the disease COVID-19, which mainly attacks the lungs.
As experts predicted a surge in coronavirus cases and a possible shortage in intensive care unit equipment, University of Michigan teams immediately got to work on a solution. The mission: to quickly develop an efficient, affordable and more controlled way to expand ventilator capacity.
And within weeks, U-M and Michigan Medicine researchers had invented an individualized vent-splitter that could allow multiple patients to receive customized pressures while sharing a single ventilator. U-M filed for patent protection on the technology, and a local start-up, MakeMedical LLC, licensed the technology and developed it into the VentMI device.
The device was able to provide ventilation to two different animals at the same time with very different settings, according to findings in PLOS ONE, a scientific journal published by the Public Library of Science. One animal could also be operated on while ventilation was maintained on the other.
The VentMI device received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in April, 2020. MakeMedical, which U-M inventors have equity in, will provide the device at cost to other institutions without any profit for U-M or the company.
"It has taken relentless positive action by a large number of individuals all motivated by the common good to make this happen," says Glenn Green, M.D., a pediatric otolaryngologist at Michigan Medicine C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and co-developer of the technology.
In spring, the team spent weeks using in-house 3D printing to rapidly develop multiple prototypes, test them on machines in a hospital operating room and evaluate how the technology worked on pigs. The FDA's emergency authorization allows their device to be used on humans if needed.
The team has spent the last few weeks using in-house 3D printing to rapidly develop multiple prototypes, test them on machines in a hospital operating room and evaluate how the technology worked on pigs. The FDA's emergency authorization now allows their device to be used on humans if needed.
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"We have been working 24/7 to develop a system that could at least double ventilator capacity," says otolaryngologist Kyle VanKoevering, M.D., of the department of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery at Michigan Medicine and an associate faculty member in the department of biomedical engineering at Michigan Engineering.
"We were looking for innovative ways to potentially help hospitals that were preparing for a ventilator shortage during the pandemic."
The device is being manufactured in partnership with Grand Rapids facility Autocam Medical, with hundreds of devices available for public distribution before the end of April. MakeMedical, LLC will market the product domestically and internationally and is in the process of partnering with distributors.
MakeMedical cofounders include Green, VanKoevering, Mott pediatric head and neck surgeon David Zopf, M.D. and local business owner Owen Tien.
Quick collaboration to quickly solve a problem
SARS-CoV-2, a respiratory virus, can cause complications like pneumonia and respiratory distress. In severe cases, patients will require a ventilator, a device that is attached to the windpipe and supports a patient's lungs while their body fights the infection.
Ventilators are also used for other types of conditions, including brain and spinal cord injuries that interfere with breathing and muscle, lung and sleep disorders.
"Our goal is to help provide lifesaving care to every critically ill patient who needs it during this pandemic. "
Kyle VanKoevering, M.D.
Currently, there are significant limitations to more than one patient using the same ventilator at once. One of the biggest barriers is that, without individualized controls, shared ventilator circuits will deliver only one pre-set pressure to all patients sharing the same ventilator.
Patients sharing a ventilator need to have similarly-sized lungs with equal stiffness – or ability to stretch and expand.
"The problem is that for patients to share a ventilator using a currently available vent-splitter, they must have the same ventilator needs," VanKoevering says. "Otherwise one person may receive excessive volume or pressure on their lungs, which can cause lung trauma."
"Our design would have much broader use because it solves the problem of different ventilatory requirements and monitoring for people that have different lung sizes and degrees of disease."
The system mimics a scuba tank regulator. A scuba tank contains compressed air at a very high pressure, but the regulator delivers it slowly at the pressure the lungs need to breathe.
U-M researchers have invented an individualized vent-splitter that may allow multiple patients to share a ventilator.
"Every innovative idea that comes from our group starts from powerful inspiration; in this case, Dr. Vankoevering's ideas on how to tailor lifesaving shared ventilation," says Zopf, assistant professor of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery at Michigan Medicine and Mott and an affiliate professor in the department of biomedical engineering at Michigan Engineering.
"The idea propels forward from relentless effort and encouragement from the team."
Researchers say because VentMI is inexpensive, light, mobile and readily deployable, it can be delivered quickly to any place that could use it. The individualized pressure regulator system for vent splitting is expected to cost up to a hundredth of the cost of a new ventilator.
"The speed with which our team developed, tested and verified this technology was incredible," says Tien, co-developer of the technology and founder of Ann Arbor-based 3D printing company Thingsmiths.
"We couldn't have done it without great industry partners and our access to, and knowledge of, 3D Printing, CAD design, and the best of rapid healthcare innovation."
Tien especially credited Autocam's versatility and capacity to mobilize a precision-manufactured device in less than a week as being critical to the team's success.
U-M teams have spent the last few weeks using 3D printing to rapidly develop prototypes and test them in an OR.
"They have been an enormous asset in this process," he says.
Researchers represent teams from Michigan Medicine otolaryngology, anesthesia and intensive care and University of Michigan biomedical engineering. While Michigan Medicine is among hospitals that currently have adequate ventilator capacity, researchers wanted to make the device available to any hospitals anticipating a shortage.
"We plan to make the devices available to be used across the world," VanKoevering says. "Our goal is to help provide lifesaving care to every critically ill patient who needs it during this pandemic."
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I was a total slacker this year on making and feeding my family real foods. I am determined to change that and I am not waiting until the new year to make these changes. Until recently, I had no idea how to make homemade mayonnaise. I enjoy making homemade condiments a lot but have always been intimidated to take on the homemade mayo challenge.
I had never made homemade mayo before and honestly had no idea HOW to make homemade mayonnaise, Then I realized it was time to give it a try. A friend posted her recipe on Facebook and it seemed to good to be true…easy and yummy.
All of the ingredients were in my kitchen so I gave it a go and whipped it up. It was so darn easy and tasty too!
This homemade mayonnaise has 6 ingredients. Avocado oil, eggs, apple cider vinegar, Dijon mustard, lemon juice and salt. Super easy.
Store-bought mayo can have a lot more ingredients. Seriously, a lot more.
Some of these ingredients can be: soybean oil, water, eggs, sugar, salt, monosodium glutamate, xantham gum, carageenan, corn starch, guar guar, locust bean gum, maltodextrin, calcium disodium, and many more. I am not saying that all of these ingredients are bad but they (some really are) but they are totally unnecessary.
If you are ready to get real and make your own mayonnaise let's do it. I promise you it is easy, fast, and delicious.
First, place all of your ingredients (I use organic) in a jar or dish.
Ingredients: 1 cup of avocado oil, 1 raw egg + 1 yolk, 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar, 2 teaspoons of Dijon mustard, 1/2 teaspoon of lemon juice, a big pinch of salt.
Seriously, that's it. You end up with this creamy, yummy mayonnaise.
I have read in several places that it is necessary to add the oil slowly to the other ingredients. With this recipe, using avocado oil, I have not experienced that at all.
This will last in your fridge for up to a week. If it grows mold, it's no longer good. I find the key is in making small batches when I need it so none goes to waste.
Making homemade mayonnaise is easy and delicious. With only 6 ingredients you can whip this condiment up in a flash. It is easy to replace store-bought mayo with this recipe!
Place ingredients in a bowl or jar.
Use immersion blender to mix for 30-60 seconds.
I hope that you enjoy this recipe and the yummy homemade mayonnaise you are about to make!
I have made my own mayo a couple times lately too. We are eating local so that's a requirement! I can't believe how much difference using the immersion blender makes. The traditional way of drizzling oil into the blender a drop at a time is too tedious!
The immersion blender is perfect for this! I was incredibly surprised at how easy this is to make. I'm working on sour cream currently, I think you suggested that years ago!


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MV TSgt John A. Chapman (T-AK-323) was a Buffalo Soldier-class container ship. She was one of Military Sealift Command's Prepositioning Program.

Built in 1978 by Chantier naval de La Ciotat in la Ciotat, France, she was originally named Merlin. On 8 April 2005, she was renamed for Pope Air Force Base combat controller Technical Sergeant John A. Chapman, a posthumous Air Force Cross recipient. He was awarded the Air Force Cross for his actions during the Battle of Takur Ghar. In 2018, Chapman's Air Force Cross was upgraded to the Medal of Honor.

TSgt John A. Chapman carried Air Force munitions. She featured climate-controlled cocoons on her weather decks which protect additional cargo from the marine environment. She was owned and operated by Sealift Incorporated under charter to MSC.

She was scrapped on 4 September 2014 at Alang.

See also
 Operation Anaconda

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Cindy Logsdon, Thursday, March 28, 2019.
For the past six years, I have had the privilege of working with a fabulous team here at the Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation. During my time here I have seen first-hand the effort Cindy Logsdon puts into all she does for Indian Country not only locally but on the regional and national levels as well. Many of you have met Cindy either through her work as a lender here at the CPCDC or behind the scenes with the various organizations she works with advocating for Indian Country. Today I would like to spotlight our CDFI heroine and brag on her just for a moment. Please feel free to show Cindy some love by leaving a "shout out" to her on our social media pages.
Cindy has worked for the Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation for 15 years, promoting through the ranks from Community Development Specialist to Chief Compliance and Finance Officer. Her commitment to the CPCDC and its mission to promote entrepreneurial growth, economic opportunity and the financial well-being of the Native community is inspiring.
During her time at the CPCDC Cindy has been instrumental in helping raise over $77 million in operating and loan capital, from 28 different funding sources. These funds have allowed the CPCDC to deploy more loans to Native owned businesses across Indian Country than ever before. As of 2018 Fiscal Year End the organization reached self-sufficiency and is the only Native CDFI to receive funds from the U.S. Treasury CDFI Bond Guarantee program and participate in the Community Facilities Lending program through the USDA.
Realizing the significant power of the advocate's voice on Capitol Hill, Cindy's advocacy journey on a national level begin in earnest with her involvement with the Native CDFI Network. NCN was formed in 2009 to unify Native CDFIs serving Native trust land communities and America's Indigenous people. Cindy became involved with the NCN very early on in its development and has done her part to support its advocacy initiatives throughout the years. Cindy has served as the Treasurer of the Board of Directors for the NCN for the past 6 years and has worked tirelessly through a recent change in leadership to help ensure a smooth transition of power.
On the Regional level, Cindy is heavily involved with, and has served as the Secretary of the Board for the Oklahoma Native Asset Coalition for the last several years. A nonprofit Native asset building coalition, ONAC works with tribes and other partners to establish asset-building initiatives and programs in Native communities across the state. ONAC strives to create greater opportunities for the economic self-sufficiency of tribal citizens and Cindy takes every opportunity not only to support those initiatives across the state but to also bring them back home to her own Native community. Through her involvement with ONAC, Logsdon spearheaded Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) and Child Savings Account (CSAs) programs through the CPCDC making a difference for around 300 families in her Native community.
Speaking of her experience working with these programs Cindy said, "It was time intensive and took a lot of effort, but it fills your heart up when you see lightbulbs going off and people making changes in their lives. That's the feel good stuff." IDA participant Angela Franklin had this to say "When I started I was a stay-at-home mom with no credit, last year we were able to buy a home. I wouldn't have been able to do that without this program and CPCDC's guidance. Cindy has an open door. You can call and ask her anything. She is very helpful and very friendly, your success is her success."
Cindy also serves her local community as the Secretary of the Local Tecumseh FFA and 4-H Booster Clubs, and she is very proud of the work those organizations have done at their local levels. More than one morning has seen her sliding into work for the morning shift having already put in time caring for the animals or various other tasks at the FFA barn as her children participated in various FFA activities throughout the years.
Cindy has been married for twenty-seven years to William "Billy" Logsdon, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. Billy's mother, Mary Ruth Madole Deathrage, is a tribal elder of the Anderson family. Cindy has raised three children in the Native community and has seen first-hand the impact programs focused on building and advocating for Indian Country can have on a tribal community. For Cindy it is personal, she has a vested interest in seeing her community not only survive but to see it thrive, so she throws herself into everything she does for Indian Country.
Continuing her advocacy role over the next few years, Cindy hopes to be able to influence policy around Native issues. She would also like to see more partnerships happen between Native CDFIs, training together and learning from each other. A mentor at heart she hopes to help other Native CDFIs build capacity through sharing her experience and expertise in the industry. Cindy has nothing but the best at heart for all of Indian Country and we are honored to have her on our team here at the CPCDC.
To find out more about her work here in the heart of Indian Country and what we do at the Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation contact us at (405) 878-4697 or visit www.cpcdc.org .
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Judge for a day: The "Big Show" and its "Refusés"
August 14th, 2016	| Published in Summer 2016
To be an artist is to be a perpetual reject. That is why we are constantly trying to find ways to "hack" submissions, to catch juries red-handed rejecting something good for bad reasons. Stories abound nowadays of a writer submitting with both female and male names to see which gets accepted first, or submitting already-published renowned stories to the New Yorker slush pile to gauge whether the submission process is actually based upon merit, or, more nefariously, white people submitting with an ethnic name to "hack" "affirmative action." Me, I'll leave the lying to more bitter writers and get my giggles pretending to be a juror at the Salon des Refusés.
Jurors: I see right through you! "Way leads to way—or so I'm told—after Frost" by Chris Bakay at the Big Show.
As a relatively new Houston transplant, I found out about the Salon des Refusés before the Lawndale Art Center's "Big Show," an annual juried exhibition inaugurated in 1984 open to artists within a hundred-mile radius of their building in Houston's museum district. With so many artists in the nation's fourth-largest city, that makes space for a heap of rejection letters. Emily Sloan founded the Houston Salon des Refusés in 2010 to honor the leftovers; the only criteria for inclusion are to drop off the artwork at the gallery with a rejection email. This year, the Salon changed hands to Stäcy Smith and Claire Richards, gallery curators at Hardy & Nance Studios.
Sure, there's a rich tradition behind the Salon—it's inspired by the 1863 Paris event of the same name, which included rejected artists like Édouard Manet—but god, how titillating for the viewer, getting to play judge. To self-righteously decide which pieces are in the wrong exhibit—to perhaps see justice in plain sight, when juries are typically so hidden! Needless to say, I set myself up for disappointment with this false authority—but damn if it didn't make things more interesting.
I went to the Big Show first, on opening night. Guest jurors Apsara DiQuinzio of the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive and Tina Kukielski of New York's ART21 reviewed 1,389 works by 517 artists, from which they selected 105 works by 87 artists. Lawndale can be commended for nixing their usual submission fee this year to make submitting more accessible; they set a record for number of submissions this year. The value, it seems, comes in these 87 artists bringing all their friends to opening night. And bring them they did; there was barely enough room to squeeze past each piece, let alone ruminate.
"Escaping Her Norm" by Kwanzaa Edwards, "Marie" by Alphonse Argieard, "Serratus-anterior Obliques Internus Abdominis Implosion" by Isela Aguirre
"Pizza" by Wyatt Little and "Cup of Soup" by Adrienne Duncan
If I were a snide bitch, I might call the theme of the Big Show "elevated Etsy": bright pop ready to be co-opted by Urban Outfitters. Though that label's unfair to many of the thoughtful and dazzlingly pieces, and is certainly inaccurate in terms of the artists' skills, one would struggle to find a piece in the Big Show that's truly subversive or inordinately challenging. I'm not sure if that denotes a trend among Houston artists, or a necessary move by the curators: what are they supposed to do with 1,389 submissions? They have to be definitive about a vibe; they were, and it's a success.\
Though the bulk of the exhibition can hang on a wall, the large sculptures made a particularly strong showing, and not just because of their size. Kelly O'Brien's "Self-Made" depicts a life-sized manikin hacking himself out of a stump with an axe, with several smaller versions taunting him from the bits of wood. James Kerley's "Agility Test (Difficulty Level 5)" made me swoon; while its shape suggests a type of dog-show agility test, the fact that it's made of crocheted yarn and lies flat on the floor mocks any idea we may have had of a meaningful victory.
"Self-Made" by Kelly O'Brian
"Broke, Please Advise" by Iva Kinnaird (foreground) and "Judge Dred Scott" by Dominic Clay
Iva Kinnaird's "Broke, Please Advise," a Wal-Mart shopping cart loaded up with bricks to the point of collapse, is one of the pieces that feels most quintessentially Houston. Although homeless populations in all cities use shopping carts for their earthly possessions, Houston breeds veritable shopping cart caravans in some areas; with so much pavement, so many big-box stores and so few pedestrians, it's no wonder. Another telltale Houston piece: I actually thought Patti Lennon's watercolor, "The Gentrification of Freedman's Town," was a photograph at first, so common is the sight of luxury apartment buildings towering above weathered shotgun houses these days. But, hardship and gentrification are not the only aspects of Houston reflected in the Big Show. I love David P. Gray's almost photorealistic good ol' boys in "The Calder," and Daniela Antelo and Clay Zapalac's video loop "Hanging"—several panels of people in various Houston locations, holding on to various buildings, swinging their hips and legs in midair—shows not only Houston itself, but a wide array of "hangers" in one of the country's most diverse cities.
"The Calder" by David P. Gray
"The Gentrification of Freedman's Town" by Patti Lennon
I thought, walking through, that'd I'd try to pick out pieces I wouldn't have included. Sure, there were some I didn't like, some that were either over-simplistic or like something out of a blurry "Starship Troopers" concept art portfolio. I thought for sure there would be some Refusés I'd add instead. I am, after all, the judge here—"here" being my weird power-trip fantasy.
On to the Salon des Refusés. Curator Noah Edmundson has a unique perspective—he'd been rejected from the Big Show in the past, but his pencil and ink drawing "Creator Dreamer" appeared in it this year. Remember that to appear in the salon, refuses only had to drop off their work with a copy of their rejection email—so, not much flexibility for a curator. Like the Big Show, the Salon's energy was palpable, and I loved the homey feeling: you walk by artists' studio spaces and communal kitchen to reach the airy gallery of so-called rejects. Alas, my high hopes of sticking it to the man by preferring the refusés didn't quite work out. You know how DVDs often come with deleted scenes as a special feature? And we sometimes watch them, thinking we'll find a hidden gem that just didn't make the final cut because of time restrictions? Yeah, they were usually just boring, and you wish you hadn't watched them.
"I wish I hadn't seen that" is a rough criticism for visual art, one that even a snide bitch doesn't throw around lightly. Ultimately, the Big Show was more "art I'd hang in my house," while most of the refusés are more "hotel art." Nothing wrong with that, especially when I'm certain I'm not the only one feeling like I stuck it to the man by (gasp) preferring at least a few of the refusés to Big Show entrants. I enjoyed both shows, but for the Salon des Refusés, I think it's safe to admit that the context of the work—not just as an art show, but art that has been explicitly rejected—is the draw. And, the supportive, open-minded Houston community is the root of both brilliant angles.
— Joelle Jameson is a writer living in Houston, Texas.