Last week, I began a series on recognizing God's response to your prayers. Because of the fact that He frequently works gradually and in ordinary ways, we often miss the signs that He is responding to our prayers. I recommended that you imitate the prophet Elijah in 1 Kings 17 and look for the "little clouds" that signify that your prayers are being heard and the drought is ending.
A second way to recognize that God is responding to your prayers is to look for change. Last week we focused on the small, positive changes that are taking place in your life, but this week I urge you to look for any changes that have taken place since you began praying. Specifically (and here's where you'll probably think that Gary has lost his mind), look for the negative changes! Yes, you heard me correctly. When you pray for something and things get worse, it is a sign that the Lord is working in your life. Crazy, right? Nope. It's the absolute truth.
Let's turn to the Bible for an example. In Exodus 3:7-8, we are told that God heard the cry of the Israelites who are enslaved in Egypt. The Lord goes on to say that He has "come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey". Sounds like a done deal, right? The people cry out to the Lord and He fixes the problem. Well, yes and no.
Even though God did indeed deliver the Israelites from slavery, things got worse before they got better. When Moses and Aaron first obeyed the Lord and went to Pharaoh to request some time off for worship, his initial response was to restrict the straw that was given to the people for brick building. Now, in addition to being forced to build the same number of bricks each day, the Israelites now had to first gather their own straw! Is this an example of the power of prayer? You bet! Although it took 40 years and lots of suffering, the Lord delivered on His promise and the slaves were set free. Moses stumbled and complained, but he never stopped praying and being obedient.
If things have gotten worse since you've started praying, don't give up. God's ways are not our ways. He really does know what He's doing. By all means, ask Him what He's trying to teach you and plead with Him to make things better, but never stop praying. He operates on His own schedule. Give Him a chance!


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All About Oliver Stone's Platoon — Assembled Thoughts, Ramblings & Curiosities
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Foreword to Platoon Script by Oliver Stone
So I bought the book edition of Platoon's and Salvador's scripts for a good price, the first edition costs up to $100. 😯
The book looks slightly used and someone obviously worked with the Platoon script, comparing it to the movie, as the scenes are numbered and changes marked. There are also one or two small notes scribbled on the pages, but I haven't deciphered them yet.
I think I somehow hoped to find the initial version of the script, but it's still the same version as the one that can be found online. Some new information can be found in the foreword written by Stone.
SCAN 1 SCAN 2 SCAN 3 SCAN 4
Still there was nothing about Break, or THE Platoon, or the development of the script as I hoped. 😦 Nor any details about the first run of scouting and casting… But there is more about the real sergeants than I expected.
Some of the lines were quoted in different reviews, now I can read them inside the right context, and from OS himself, so indeed I saw what Barnes was meant to be — a wounded human being, not a "cardboard satan" as many saw him.
Tom Berenger is Sergeant Barnes, the Captain Ahab of the platoon. (…) Here I want him to play someone with evil in his heart, but play him with an understanding that will shed light on Melville's line, 'O this lovely light that shineth not on me…' (read the whole piece) and from watching his coiled performance, I think many people at the end of the film will think he has been wronged by Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe, and destiny.
This sadly didn't come true, maybe it's some flaw to the story that makes it visible only to few viewers as it seems. Or maybe it is hard to accept the humanity of the ultimate means, the humanity within a murderer…
Sergeant Barnes was (…) Achilles, a warrior king in his own time. And I – this modern New York City boy who'd never really believed all that Homer stuff in school – was actually hauling his radio, the equivalent, I suppose, of driving his chariot. (…)
He never yelled at me but his cold, quiet stare withered and terrified me as no man has ever done since. He was the best soldier I ever saw, except, possibly, for Elias. One day he snuck up on two 'gooks' having breakfast and killed them, quick, before the fish heads hit their lips: they died surprised. But, unlike Elias, there was a sickness in him, he wanted to kill too much. (…)
The gooks had shot him right above his left eye in '66, and the bullet somehow lodged in there and he spent a year in a hospital in Japan. The resulting scar ran the whole left side of his face in a large, sickle-shaped pattern, layered with grafted skin from the indentation above his eye to his lower jaw. It was a massive job, indicative of equally massive damage to the nerves and possibly the brain.
Does it mean they ruined Barnes' face in the hospital trying to extract the bullet? Jesus….
But why the grafted skin then? And I wonder why they decided to change the side in the movie, in script the scar is still on the left. Then there is that discrepance between the book and the script: in the book it was 1964 (which actually must have been a goof as the war hadn't really started until 1965)
I like the way the tidbits appear "out of nowhere" once we've had discussed them. Like the possible Barnes' brain damage, that stayed below my radar for 20 years, until recently.
When Barnes looked you in the eye, you felt it all the way down to your balls. But there was a tenderness and sensuality in the man's quietude that made him fascinating, equally handsome in a snub-nosed way as Elias, and I found out in time he was married to a Japanese girl he'd met in the hospital. He'd been wounded some six or seven times, though he never talked about it, or the woman, or himself. He'd get drunk at poker and occasionally crack a country smile, but never let you in. The only vulnerability in the man was the scar, and such a massive thing it was that it provoked the deepest empathy.
It sounds so much like the quotation from Moby Dick posted yesterday, doesn't it? "And somehow, at the time, I felt a sympathy and a sorrow for him, but for I don't know what(…)"
About Elias
The real Elias was about twenty-three In 1968 when I met him during a brief stint in the First Cavalry's Long Range Reconnaissance patrol (…) Dashingly handsome, with thick black hair, a flashing white smile, and Apache blood, Elias was everything we were later going to recognize in Jim Morrison and Joplin and Hendrix, he was a rock star but played it out as a soldier; real danger turned him on. Everybody seemed to love him except the 'lifers' and the juicers, with their six and seven stripes(…)
I heard Elias died on some hill in the Ashau when one of our grenades went off and killed him. It was unlike Elias; he was too smart to get wasted like that, yet how symbolic of this frustrating war – many of our best troops killed by our own side in accidents. There was even the whispered thought that Elias had been done in by one of our lifers.
Stone uses the names Barnes and Elias, not the Barnes/Elias character as he often does in the commentary — does this indicate Barnes was the man's real name?
There is also a nice piece about Charlie Sheen, unluckily Stone's prediction about him becoming a big star didn't really came true.
[Sheen] arrived a bit of a nerd from the teen films he'd done – Malibu in his soul, hot wings at Hamburger Hamlet, tightly cut hair, with a hundred pounds of provisions his mother sent that he would never use. Over the weeks, he's become tougher, sharper, a jungle vet who can hump sixty pounds and walk right up on a deer in the bush without being heard. The changes exactly mirror those in his character in the script
An interesting behind-the-scenes tidbit: they actually built the church ruins, which later were used for For the Boys in 1990 or 1991, so it was a solid construction. And I wonder if Stone, more or less consciously copies the church from Apocalypse Now from the scene where Willard meets Kilgore for the first time.
The other thing we've discussed already is that the movie is a result of…
…just plain luck and the coming together of so many live elements in the proper framework.
There are some words about editing that I liked:
Editing always seems to me like a calculated rout from my grand plan of attack, but in the end the essence seems to survive in a reduced form, like amoebae in a dish ready to grow again with the audience.
And those lines that are filled with a certain sadness about the impossibility of putting the vision on screen completely.
I know that although I finished the film, a part of it will never be there, any more than the faces of the gawky boys we left behind in the dust. As close as I came to Charlie Sheen, he would never be me and Platoon would never be what I saw in my mind when I wrote it and which was just a fragment, really, of what happened years ago.
I wonder how Platoon would look like if Stone had more time and money, how his vision actually looked like. Reading the script now one automatically see the movie and the actors… Although since reading Break, I started to see Elias in a different light, as if the image of a rebellious Indian kid blended into the final form of Dafoe's performance.
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As a working mom who has a job in corporate America and also runs a homebased business, I understand how hard it is to find the motivation to forego all the sweet treats they bring to work every day or take a break from work to go for a brisk walk. One way I've began to get my steps in, is by thinking about my future. Yes, my goals for the future. For instance once of my goals is a vacation in Hawaii. I want to walk on the beach in a nice bathing suit and I want to look good in it. When I think about this it makes me get up and step away from my desk. This gets my blood flowing and my heart pumping a bit faster. Now I can use the S Health app on my phone to track how many steps I've taken. For some of you the Fitbit wrist band may be what you have. If so, make good use of it and start a competition with your friends. What ever you do, get moving with your future health in mind.
Get started first thing every morning. While the children are getting ready for school, make your smoothie. Walk the kids to the bus stop. Once their bus drives away, take a walk for 30 minutes. You'll be finished by 8:30. Time to get back home, take a cool down shower and get ready for your work day. Prioritize your online day and make your money. Here's the recipe to the basic Smoothie that I like to drink every morning.
Blended till smooth. There is no ice needed because the kale/Spinach Blend and the banana are frozen.
I love it because it actually helps me with my digestive system. Walking 23 minutes a day on the treadmill at work and having this Smoothie as my breakfast replacement has allowed me to lose weight and keep it off. Though I still have a ways to go, I'm well on my way to a healthy lifestyle and I've loving it.


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Супервулкан — вулкан, извержение которого может спровоцировать изменение климата на планете (8 баллов по VEI). На Земле существует около 20 известных науке супервулканов. В среднем извержения происходят раз в 100 000 лет.

Происхождение термина
Термин «Супервулкан» не является строго научным. Понятие впервые было использовано в 2000 году в научно-популярном документальном телесериале «Горизонт» (Horizon) на телеканале BBC для обозначения очень мощных вулканических извержений. С 2003 года извержения, достигающие 8 баллов по шкале вулканического эксплозивного индекса (VEI), иногда классифицируются вулканологами как «суперизвержения» (магматические провинции и массивные извержения). Понятие «мегакальдера» иногда используется для обозначения очень больших кальдер, подобных кальдере , находящейся в Абитибском поясе (канадские провинции Онтарио и Квебек). Супервулканы отличаются от обычных стратовулканов отсутствием ясно выраженных конусов. Так, крупнейший из известных и наиболее «созревший» для извержения Йеллоустонский супервулкан, кальдера которого имеет размеры 55×75 км, географически может быть описан как слабо всхолмлённая местность, окружённая горами.

Примеры

На Земле последнее такое извержение, по данным вулканологов, произошло 27 тысяч лет назад на Северном острове Новой Зеландии. Оно сформировало озеро Таупо. Было выброшено 1170 км3 пепла.

Исследуя потухший вулкан в районе озера Тоба на острове Суматра, геолог Майкл Рампино из Нью-Йоркского университета восстановил картину его катастрофического извержения 73 тыс. лет назад (выброшено было почти 3 тыс. км3 пепла). По его расчётам, из кратера вместе с тучами пыли и пепла было выброшено тогда до трёх миллиардов тонн сернистого ангидрида. В результате губящие растительность сернокислые дожди лились на Землю в течение шести лет (это показали образцы из глубинных слоёв ледяного щита Гренландии). Если добавить к этому пылевые тучи, надолго сокрывшие Солнце, то получается нечто похожее на картину ядерной зимы. Рампино считает, что это «мега-извержение» и явилось причиной зафиксированного антропологами именно в ту эпоху демографического кризиса, когда, как считают учёные, на всей Земле осталось не больше десяти тысяч человек.

Йеллоустонский супервулкан (на территории Йеллоустонского национального парка, США) не извергается уже шестьсот тысяч лет. Установлено, что за последний миллион лет вулкан извергался лишь дважды.

В районе чилийских Анд формируется супервулкан.

Последствия
Мощность извержений может варьироваться. Однако объём продуктов извержения достаточен, чтобы радикально изменить ландшафт и значительно повлиять на глобальный климат планеты, вызывая катастрофические последствия для жизни (например, вулканическую зиму).

Например, извержение Йеллоустонского супервулкана (произошло около 640 тыс. лет назад), привело, по оценкам, к выбросу в атмосферу более 1000 км³ пыли и лавы. Такого количества материала достаточно, чтобы покрыть крупный город слоем в несколько километров.

Существует мнение, что опасность извержения супервулканов сравнима с ударом астероида: вероятность события мала, но возможны катастрофические последствия.

В зависимости от того, находится супервулкан на суше, или на дне океана, следует ожидать различные климатические последствия в результате его извержения.

Извержение супервулкана на суше будет сопровождаться выбросами в атмосферу огромного количества вулканического пепла и вулканических газов — H2S, SO2, HCl, CO2, CO и др. Отличие извержения супервулкана от извержений рядовых вулканов заключается в том, что основная масса вулканических продуктов представлена не жидкими, текучими лавами, образующими вулканические конусы (Ключевская сопка, Фудзияма, Везувий) и щиты (Килауэа), а тучами горячих газов и «пепла», состоящего из мелких частичек обсидиана. Попавшая в стратосферу пыль и смесь газов создадут слабопроницаемый для солнечного света экран, что изначально приведёт к охлаждению нашей планеты по эффекту «ядерной зимы» на годы и, может быть, на десятилетия. Затем, после осаждения пыли и просветления атмосферы, из-за огромного количества углекислого газа, попавшего в атмосферу при извержении супервулкана, начнёт доминировать парниковый эффект и продолжится нагрев планеты — вулканическая зима сменится вулканическим летом. Извержение супервулкана, расположенного на дне океана, будет сопровождаться мощными цунами, которые могут вызвать обширные разрушения на суше, а также выбросами большого количества водяного пара в атмосферу, что впоследствии (в близкой перспективе) может привести к аномально сильным ливням и обширным локальным суперпотопам на суше. Огромное количество выброшенного супервулканом углекислого газа попадёт в атмосферу и надолго усилит парниковый эффект и нагрев планеты.

Последствия суперизвержения могут стать катастрофическими для континента: взрывное извержение супервулканов приведёт к возникновению супермощных пирокластических потоков — «ураганов» из вулканических газов, камней и пепла, которые покроют территории в тысячи и десятки тысяч квадратных километров, — ни одно живое существо, попавшее в такой поток, не выживает. За пределами этих областей извержение может привести к серьёзным последствиям для сельского хозяйства: покрытие почвы вулканическим пеплом толщиной всего в один сантиметр приведёт к гибели агрокультур. Кислотными дождями суперизвержение приведёт к загрязнению источников водоёмов в ещё большем радиусе вокруг извергающегося супервулкана.

Суперизвержение может быть губительным для всего населения планеты в результате длительного снижения температуры на всей планете, гибели растительности и изменения состава атмосферы.

Механизм
Экспериментальные исследования, проведённые в 2013 году на ускорительном комплексе в Гренобле (ESRF) показали, что извержения происходят из-за «всплывания» жидкой магмы через земную кору. При «всплывании» с глубины более 10 км происходит резкое расширение магмы, приводящее к взрыву.

Понимание механизма извержений позволяет уточнить методы прогноза. По мнению исследователей, признаком опасности может служить значительное, — на сотни метров, — поднятие поверхности в районе возможного извержения.

На других планетах
Супервулканы были также замечены на спутнике Юпитера Ио и спутниках Сатурна автоматической межпланетной станцией «Вояджер-2». Однако вулканы за пределами Главного пояса астероидов являются преимущественно криогенными, а не магматическими. Также кратеры супервулканов обнаружены на Марсе.

См. также
 2012 (фильм)
 Список крупнейших вулканических извержений

Примечания

Ссылки
 Майкл Рампино. Супервулканизм и другие катастрофические геофизические процессы
 Супервулкан. В ожидании конца света
 Rampino, M. R., and S. Self. Climate-volcanism feedback and the Toba eruption of ~74,000 years ago, 1993

Вулканические формы рельефа

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This Video Of The 'Call Me By Your Name' 2018 Oscars Performance Is So, So Emotional
While the Best Picture race is wide open for the Oscars 2018 ceremony, the musical performances have been set since the nominations were announced. That is, the songs were set, not who would perform them. But a chance to perform at Hollywood's biggest night is hard to pass up, which is why it was a relief to hear that Sufjan Stevens had agreed to perform "Mystery of Love." And Call Me By Your Name's 2018 Oscars performance has been one of the most highly anticipated of the evening.
To be fair, all the evening's performances were highly anticipated, including legendary R&B diva Mary J. Blige, who is nominated for both Supporting Actress and Best Song for Mudbound. Miguel, Common, and Andra Day were also slated to perform music from nominated films Coco, Marshall, and The Greatest Showman, respectively.
"Mystery of Love" was the song featured most prominently in Call Me By Your Name's advertising campaign, in the original trailer, and in two of the film's climatic scenes. The whisper-y indie track has been earworming itself into fans' heads since the movie's release, and a live performance by the legendary artist Stevens is a rare treat for the Oscar stage.
Stevens has been on the indie folk scene since 2000 and was one of those who pioneered the indie sound of the early aughts that most associate with the genre. Originally from Detroit, Michigan, he co-founded his own label, Asthmatic Kitty, with his step-father in order to start his musical career.
Call Me By Your Name is currently nominated in four categories, including Best Picture, Best Original Song, Actor in a Leading Role for actor Timothée Chalamet, and Best Writing in an Adapted Screenplay. Fans were blown away by the touching coming-of-age portrait of the beginning of a relationship between Chalamet as Elio Perlman and Armie Hammer as Oliver when it was first released at Sundance a year ago, in 2017. When the film was finally released in full to theaters in October in the UK and November in the U.S., it was seen as a shoo-in for this year's Oscars.
But since then, its fortune has not been so favorable. The film was nominated for several Golden Globes as well as Screen Actors Guild Awards in January, as well as the BAFTAs last month in February. But except for a rare win here and there, including at the Independent Spirit Awards last night, March 3, for Chalamet for Best Actor and Sayombhu Mukdeeprom for Best Cinematography, it's been mainly shutout for most accolades.
That doesn't bode well going into March 4's Oscar Sunday, especially in a race where the main contenders (The Shape of Water and Three Billboards In Ebbing, Missouri) find themselves having their heels nipped at by popular fare like Get Out and Lady Bird. That hasn't left a lot of oxygen for Call Me By Your Name to gain much traction.
But that hasn't kept the makers of the film from considering it a triumph to get to the Oscars in the first place. Sufjan Stevens was overwhelmed by the way his song was used in the film — and at the opportunity just to be nominated. Talking to Variety, he said,
It's an incredible performance. For Timmy to be positioned in that way and for the camera to be unchanging and unflinching, with his spectrum of emotions being displayed like that, it's so insane, and beautiful and profound. And all the while, there's the clatter of cutlery and plates being set for dinner in the background! Which is also really beautiful.
Even if the film does not take home anything tonight, they've given us a beautiful performance to enjoy for years to come.
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No Single Struggle (And Five Questions For Activists and Corporations)
Reflecting on Pride month raises two questions: where is the celebration and fight during the rest of the year? And is it but a dream to represent many critical political agendas at once?
This article is an edited version of a keynote speech originally held by Michaela Moua at the Helsinki Pride week event "Faces of LGBTQ+ activism", on June 26, 2018. Moua is an activist and the vice chair of Anti-Racist Forum Finland. She is also a therapist specialized in the trauma of racism and a project manager at the ministry of Justice.
An African proverb says: "Until the Story of the hunt is told by the Lion, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter."
Alas, until the story of the Pride movement is told by the most oppressed, the story of greatness will always glorify the imperialist, the colonizer. The Pride narrative told today has been whitewashed, middle-classed and commodified. Erasing Black and Brown bodies from brave heroic stories has been historically done in the western hemisphere, in all fields of public discourse. Pride is no exception.
Pride month has come and gone and so have all the gimmicky rainbow flags in different corporate storefronts around Helsinki. Has Pride turned into feel good, low threshold, single issue social activism far removed from its radical, intersectional beginnings? Is celebrating Pride a costume we can comfortably wear once a year and then throw in the attic and forget about until next year?
To gain the truest and most accurate understanding of where the Pride movement is today, one must begin at the root. History is a piece often missing when it comes to understanding what narrative is being told and why.
Before Pride went corporate, it was about radical activism. The word "radical" seems to have a negative connotation attached to it in order to pacify us and to see being radical as something bad and extreme. However, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, it is defined as departure from tradition and has synonyms like "revolutionary" and "progressive".
Let's start from this radical history of the LGBTIQ+ liberation with talking about the Stonewall riots, and Marsha P. Johnson.
Johnson remains one of the bravest and most progressive people in the fight for LGBTIQ+ rights. She was an activist, a sex worker, a drag performer and, for nearly three decades, a fixture of street life in Greenwich Village, New York City. She was a central figure in the pride movement, yet rarely mentioned. Until recently, her story remained unknown to the mainstream. However, with the release of the Netflix documentary The Death and Life Of Marsha P. Johnson in late 2017, awareness has been raised and the documentary attempts to shed light to the mysterious circumstances around her death through the people closest to her.
The letter "P" in Johnson's name stands for "pay it no mind". People would ask about her gender and that's what she would reply. Johnson was around five years old when she began to wear dresses but felt pressure to stop because of bullying. She left home at the age of eighteen with $15 and a bag of clothes and began life as Marsha. She identified as gay, transgender and a drag queen, and used female pronouns. Her signature headdresses were made from flowers she found sleeping under tables at the Manhattan flower market.
Marsha was a regular at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York. It is where the infamous Stonewall riots started on July 28th, 1969. These riots, which were a series of violent demonstrations by members of the LGBTIQ+ community against police raids, are thought of as the starting point of the Pride movement. As the police raided the building, Marsha was in the front lines fighting back against injustice and discrimination. She then joined the Gay Liberation Front and was a pivotal part of protests across New York. Alongside her was friend Sylvia Rivera, a seventeen-year-old Latina trans woman and activist who is credited with "throwing the first heel", or rather, throwing the first bottle in the riots of Stonewall. Together they founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) organization and STAR house. It was the first shelter of its kind, taking in homeless gay and trans children ostracized by their families for being gay or gender non-conforming.
Her story is still a wakeup call,
in 2018, into supporting marginalized members
of our community, rather than assuming that because
some of us are fine all of us are.
Johnson and Rivera did all this while facing tremendous adversity from society and law enforcement, but also from CIS gender gay, lesbian and bi people. In 1973, drag queens were banned by lesbian and gay societies from attending pride marches, but Marsha and Silvia went anyway. Marsha was found dead in the Hudson river in 1992, and although the police claimed her death was a suicide, her family and friends believed otherwise.
Marsha's story needs to be told, again and again, for two reasons:
1) for a long time, she was neatly erased from being a main character in the history of the pride movement; and
2) she was the epitome of solidarity or intersectionality in activism.
In Marsha, race, gender, class and sexuality all came together – and in her activism, she fought all these systems of oppression racism, sexism, capitalism and heterosexism long before the feminist and sociological concept of intersectionality was coined by Critical Legal and Black Feminist Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw in 1989. Marsha understood that to eradicate these systems we must work collectively. Thus, the origins of Pride loudly and proudly claimed the value of the lives of marginalized and oppressed peoples by centering their experiences.
Her story is still a wakeup call, in 2018, into supporting marginalized members of our community, rather than assuming that because some of us are fine all of us are.
How are we still at this point? Why are we at a point in LGBTIQ+ liberation and the Pride movement where the accepted way of expressing one's rainbow identity is closer to the oppressor than the oppressed? How is it so far removed from the most marginalized and especially Black and Brown bodies? How has it become a movement where gay, White, affluent CIS gender men are afforded the luxury of safety? Why is whiteness at the center of the LGBTIQ+ liberation narrative that was kickstarted by a Black and Latina trans woman who stood up for the rights of all people in the rainbow family?
The way I see it, the main reason that the LGBTIQ+ movement is at this point is due to respectability politics. The term respectability politics was coined by a Black woman Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham in 1993, and it refers to attempts by marginalized groups to police their own members to be more respectable and assimilate to mainstream values and norms rather than to challenge society to accept them as they are. This suggests that people who are marginalized are at least in part responsible for their own oppression and the reason society does not accept them.
The phenomenon of pink washing or corporations using "the struggle" for economic gain is also a recent development. Helsinki was showered with rainbow colors during Pride month in June, but as fast as they went up, they were taken down when the party was over. Corporations using Pride as a marketing tool do not fully grasp the history or put their money where their mouths are in terms of actually supporting intersectional LGBTIQ+ issues.
Under the guise of exceptionalism, Finland's national identity clings hard to the illusion that equality has been achieved, as if it was static and unchangeable to begin with.
A prime example of pinkwashing X respectability politics X homonationalism in one big bowl of opression potpourri is some gay clubs in Helsinki, as previously explained by HeSeta chairman Hassen Hnini (in Finnish) . They gladly use the rainbow flag for economic gain, yet are blatantly racist and xenophobic with their bouncer politics. They reinforce the message that the rainbow flag means a safer space for a specific type of "respectable", CIS gender, White, and affluent person. These policies as well as homonationalism mimic the forms of oppression used against the LGBTIQ+ community historically, but now with a few victories such as the equal marriage act and mainstreming of especially the L, the G and the B, the most privileged of the community use their gained power to actively work against the well-being of the most vulnerable members of the community.
Nordic exceptionalism and being a shining beacon of equality has been Finland's main export. Under the guise of exceptionalism, Finland's national identity clings hard to the illusion that equality has been achieved, as if it was static and unchangeable to begin with. However, there is still work to do. ILGA Europe publishes the Rainbow Europe index each year. It gives each country a rating based on the The Annual Review of the Human Rights Situation of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex People in each respective country. This year Finland is ranked fifth, which was a slight improvement to the previous year (7th).
There are three main issues bringing down the overall score of Finland. The first one is the inhumane treatment of trans people. Finland's current legislation violates the basic human rights of transgender people with sterilisation as a requirement for legal gender recognition.
The second one is intersex chidren. There is no legal prohibition of medical intervention, hormonal or surgical, on intersex minors when intervention has no medical reason and can be avoided or postponed until the person is old enough to provide consent.
The third issue is concerns raised about the treatment of LGBTIQ+ asylum seekers, in the asylum seeking process with authorities. Persons seeking asylum based on sexual orientation or gender identity form a particularly vulnerable asylum seeker group. Human rights organizations Seta and HeSeta have repeatedly raised the problems faced by the LHBTIQ+ asylum seekers. The process is marked by the lack of LHBTIQ+ sensitive support which manifests for example when assessing the credibility of the applicant's identity. Several asylum seekers and NGO representatives have experienced that during the process the threat that poses candidates belonging to sexual and gender minorities from certain countries is not recognized.
The Ministry of Justice's Rainbow Rights project, for which I work, has conducted a first of its kind research in Finland on multiple discrimination. This is a form of discrimination where an individual is discriminated against on several grounds either as 'cumulative discrimination', where discrimination takes place on the basis of several grounds operating separately or as 'intersectional discrimination', where two or more grounds interact simultaneously and inextricably.
The research focus was on people that are LGBTIQ+ and belong to one or more other protected characteristic under the non-discrimination law. From the pool of interviewees the protected characteristics were ethnicity, religious minority, ability and age. The aim of the research (which will be published in the fall of 2018) was to analyze and make visible how multiple discrimination manifests both in the reference group as well as in society at large.
The best way to evaluate and reflect on one's activism is by looking in the mirror.
One of the main findings of the research was that multiple discrimination indeed exists and is a specific type of discrimination. Once again ethnicity and especially skin color, is highlighted in relation to sexual or gender identity. The results of the research are hardly surprising when comparing them to the EU-MIDIS II report, a survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) on discrimination in the EU countries. The survey shows that Finland is one of most discriminatory countries in the EU and that discrimination against people of African descent is particularly common. Almost half (45 per cent) of the respondents reported that they have experienced discrimination over the past year and well over a half (60 per cent) that they have experienced discrimination over the past five years.
Now we come to the question about intersectional activism. Is it possible to "do activism right", meaning inclusively and intersectionally instead of with a single-issue lens? The best way to evaluate and reflect on one's activism is by looking in the mirror. Here are five concrete questions, for private individuals as well as corporations, that we at Anti-Racist Forum, the first PoC led critical, intersectional, feminist, anti-racist organization in Finland use to reflect on our work:
1. Representation = visibility + voice. Visibility without voice is not re-presenting something new. Instead, it is tokenism. As Audre Lorde so eloquently put it: "Black Feminism is not a white feminist with blackface".
Do you centralize the most marginalized voices? Who is representing your movement? If you are in a position of privilege vis-à-vis your community, you should avoid acting as a savior of any kind and make sure that the most marginalized within your reference group are also in positions of real power and in leading roles like in your board and management where they can be seen and heard.
2. Do you actively seek out communities who have not been previously involved? Knowing who is missing from the room is not enough. Invite those folks to create the space with you. For instance, a majority of anti-racist work in Finland focuses on migrant communities and integration. There is nothing wrong with that, but what about racialized Finns, the Roma and the Sámi, or undocumented people, who are too often ignored in these conversations.
3. Do you recognize the varied expertise of marginalized, discriminated against persons beyond being objects of discrimination? It is important to consider whether your own actions maintain the status quo of power relations. Realize when it is time to step aside and give room to the expertise of others.
4. Do you regularly reflect on your practices? Before trying to change people around you, think carefully about your attitudes and motives for action. If your activism only makes you feel good, then you are doing it wrong. Shaking structures is always an uncomfortable process.
5. And in regards to Pride, do you raise your rainbow flag comfortably only once a year to show everyone you are one of the good folks? Or do you actually move beyond pride month and authentically celebrate and support the LGBTIQ+ community year round by doing all of the above?
In addition to asking these questions, one must find people who embody the issues discussed without fetishizing them, tokenizing them, sexualizing them or eroticizing them. One must think critically about topics chosen and how debates are framed to ensure one does not privilege one oppression over another by way of oppression olympics. Self-reflection is at its best when one actually questions and is insightful about the limitations of one's own identities.
Put your critical thinking glasses on and look at the ways in which race, class, gender, ability, immigration status, and religion affect our communities. Every day we should breathe life into the true narrative of pride by saying the names of Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera and remember that the movement was kick-started by a Black and Latina trans woman. With these concrete tools towards intersectional advocacy, free of respectability politics and a single-issue lens I challenge us all to go back to the roots of the LGBTIQ+ liberation movement and to move away from moment-in-time activism to year-round activism. Let's all be radical innovative, progressive and revolutionary.
Text: Michaela Moua
Illustration: Caroline Suinner
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Dana Milbank: GOP's no-fact zone
From Obamacare to IRS scandal, the Republican Party is ignoring the facts, Dana Milbank says..
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Sen. Marco Rubio was a day late and $8 billion short.
As part of his political comeback since his lenient position on immigration antagonized the conservative base, the Florida Republican introduced the "Obamacare Taxpayer Bailout Prevention Act."
The idea, a back-door way to repeal the health care law, was to get rid of the "risk corridors" and reinsurance that protect health insurers from big losses. The idea caught on: House Republican leaders floated the possibility of linking it to this month's debt-limit talks (which means they would again threaten a U.S. debt default if Obamacare isn't dismantled), and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee made Rubio the featured witness at a hearing on the matter Wednesday.
But the day before Rubio's star turn, the Congressional Budget Office reported the "bailout" actually would be a bonanza for the government. In a report that was otherwise unhelpful to the health care law, it said risk corridors would bring the Treasury net proceeds of $8 billion over the three years they are in existence.
Meanwhile, health insurers warned that Rubio's legislation would lead to the government-run health care system that most alarms conservatives. And there was the awkward fact that the risk corridors were the same mechanism Republicans used in the 2006 prescription-drug legislation.
Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., had a solution to such problems: He would not have Rubio face questions. There had been a plan for Rubio to field questions from Issa and his Democratic counterpart, Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, but Issa announced that Rubio would leave after making his statement.
Cummings had planned to ask Rubio about his claim on CBS' "Face the Nation" last month that he opposed expanding Medicaid coverage to 850,000 Floridians under Obamacare because the state would "get stuck with the unfunded liability."
Unfunded? In fact, the federal government pays 100 percent of the Medicaid expansion cost in the first three years, and 90 percent after that.
Rubio's fact-free approach to Obamacare is puzzling because plenty of damning things can be said about the health care law that are accurate: It does little to curb entitlements, it disrupts insurance plans for millions, it leaves 31 million Americans without coverage and, as the CBO forecast, it would take the equivalent of 2.3 million full-time workers out of the workforce.
Yet the law's opponents seem to have an uncontrollable urge to make stuff up. Issa, a frequent offender, began Wednesday's hearings by claiming, falsely, that the CBO had said 2.5 million jobs would be lost.
I went from Issa's hearing to a Ways and Means subcommittee hearing. The topic was different — this one was about the IRS targeting conservative groups — but the no-fact zone was still in force.
There is ample evidence of mismanagement at the IRS that led conservative groups' tax-exempt applications to be delayed. It's disturbing that the overwhelming number of groups targeted were conservatives, and emails from some IRS workers indicate an inappropriate concern about public perception.
But Charles Boustany, R-La., the subcommittee chairman, went well beyond that, disputing President Obama's claim that no corruption has been found at the IRS. "Now this committee has actually investigated the matter to a significant degree and found otherwise," he said.
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When Michigan's Sandy Levin. the ranking Democrat on the panel, complained no evidence of corruption or political influence has been found, Boustany replied, "I want to emphasize that this committee's investigation is not complete."
Perhaps he should have kept that in mind before accusing the administration of a crime.
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Advances in Pure Mathematics > Vol.1 No.3, May 2011
A Study on the Conversion of a Semigroup to a Semilattice ()
Bahman Tabatabaie, Seyed Mostafa Zebarjad
DOI: 10.4236/apm.2011.13016 PDF HTML 5,096 Downloads 9,984 Views Citations
The main aim of the current research has been concentrated to clarify the condition for converting the inverse semigroups such as S to a semilattice. For this purpose a property the so-called has been de-fined and it has been tried to prove that each inverse semigroups limited with show the specification of a semilattice.
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Great ride position, fast and smooth.
I use the splice as a commuter around 14 miles round trip up hill and down dale, it was perfect for my budget and having owned an old Lava Dome I went for the brand i knew. Although the drivetrain is not great it hasn't skipped a beat thus far, I had to remove the crank to tighten the bb but that wasn't difficult with the correct tools, the mechanical disks work as they should and i find them easy to adjust, saddles nearly broke in and works fine the pedals are a little weak so wouls swap them out when you're ready, but most importantly get rid of yhe p*** poor tyres, had so many flats that i have slung them into some poor farmers field. I have put schwalbe marathons on and up to now no more flats wahey!!
Been years since I rode a mountain bike and thought I would get back to into it by buying an entry level bike. I found the Kona Splice at my LBS and I couldn't pass up the deal that was offered to me. I ride roughly 2-3 moderately difficult singletrack miles a day and 12 of the same miles on the weekend. Just like anything, you get what you pay for. I enjoy how light it is for being 100% stock from the LBS floor, the frame is great in esthetics and function, the tires wear well and grab decently, the front brake works like a brake should, and the rims are holding their own. It shifts effortlessly and the granny gear is a real granny gear. The front shock is an 80mm Suntour where the average elsewhere is 100mm. I'm not the smallest guy on a bike, 6'0" 270 and I have a tendency to break thinks that aren't meant to be broken. The front shock is lockout capable and its very handy. It also has an adjustable preload like most other shocks. I've run into 2 instances where my forward momentum has been stopped dead and my front shock compress all the way. After that happening it appears to have lost all its preload, and the preload knob spins with ease and can't be adjusted for a heavier rider. I dont have a problem with linear disc brakes, yet, but it's taking a lot more energy and pull to get the rear brake to grab where it slows me down. The seat is a little rough on the taint, kind of like going 10 rounds with Tyson.
The budget conscious beginner just getting into bike riding or the guy who hasn't been riding in a awhile should purchase this bike. If you have the extra money I would purchase the model just up from this, I believe it's the Mahuna.
As soon as I took this out and let it eat up potholes like they were cupcakes I was convinced. Super comfortable geometry thats suited for the work commute or hitting the trail for hours at a time. I have the tires it came with for off roading and then swap them out for 700c x 40 tires for the city. Super versatile bike. My favorite is the top speed this bike can reach, it's intense .
The brakes and possibly the saddle. They cheaped out on the mechanical disc brakes. They are finicky as hell. I have since gotten use to the saddle but I believe most would probably like to upgrade.
If you want to feel like Godzilla with your power to crush the city underneath your giant wheels, this bike is for you. Did I mention you can get it for 650$? Great price for an amazingly fun comfortable ride.
great frame geometry, very comfortable to ride whether you are bumping along on fire roads with the shock locked out or climbing and weaving on single track. Good stand over height to get behind the seat for the down hills. This comes with mechanical brakes whitch i still prefer over hydralics, just a preferance.
The Kona site says this comes with a wtb saddle but thats wrong. It comes with a Velo saddle, which is embossed with the kona 29er trademark. So its worth swapping it out just to keep the saddle nice. I did put a WTB Speed V on it. The pedals should also be swapped. It comes with basic wellgo platforms, i prefer platform pedals with the steel studs like the Wellgo WAM-B25. Over all very minor changes.
This is an excellent Hardtail 29er for under $700. I definitely any one wanting to make the swap to the bigger wheel of the 29er with out spending a ton. It is a hardtail so any one that wants to have a super smooth right will still want a FS. The bike is still a hog but lighter than either of my other 2 hardtails. I dont race so the components are good for me, the weekender that likes to hit the trail. The Sales staff at Little Ades really know what they are talking about and were extremely helpful with helping me decide between the Kona Splice and the Kona Mahuna and the Specialized Rock Hopper.


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Good news for people working and living in Cyberjaya! Direct bus services from Kuala Lumpur to Cyberjaya are starting soon.
Cyberjaya will get better in terms of transportation and connectivity with the introduction of bus services direct from Kuala Lumpur to Cyberjaya.
In addition, there will be a direct bus service from Cyberjaya to KLIA and KLIA2 as well.
Within Cyberjaya, a few bus stops have been identified to be used before the bus terminates at the bus terminal next to D'Pulze Shopping Centre.
Nadi Putra will be the service provider for the new routes. Currently the ticket price hasn't been confirmed.
The services are expected to begin right after Hari Raya which should be by July or early August 2017.
Meanwhile, 4 electric buses are planned to be deployed in Cyberjaya. The EV buses are assembled in Japan and will be based at Putrajaya Sentral station where the rapid chargers are installed.
The chargers are capable of charging the buses within 15 minutes. They are able to run up to 70km on a single charge.
These buses are currently being tested in Cyberjaya and Putrajaya areas.
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Wake up to this bright and fresh Acqua di Parma Blu Mediterraneo Mandorlo di Sicilia Eau de Toilette featuring Chinese star anise and orange blend.
Blu Mediterraneo Mandorlo di Sicilia has base tones of vanilla, white musk and cedar wood which mingle to create this lightly woody scent. Mediterranean almonds and ylang-ylang help to provide a soft scent that lasts all day long. This is part of a collection dedicated to the energy, sun and colours of the Italian Mediterranean.


Toronto police have racked up $27 million worth of settlements in civil lawsuits since 2000, including dozens for false arrest and use of force, a database obtained by the Toronto Star shows.
The most common settlement causes include 66 cases of allegations of use of force, 62 claims of false arrest, and 58 allegations of negligent investigations, eight of which involved sexual assaults.
The information, which the Star obtained through a Freedom of Information request, was contained in a larger database showing the settlements in civil cases. The city did not release details of any of the 3,062 settlements contained in the database. Many of the cases are covered by confidentiality agreements. In total, the city has spent more than $200 million to settle civil lawsuits since 2000.
Four settlements stemmed from the action of a police dog.
<bullet>Fifteen settlements involved car chases. The biggest was for nearly $2 million. In 1990, a cab driver named Ali Adaba Ghomi was broadsided by a stolen white Oldsmobile fleeing a police cruiser at Dufferin and Dupont Sts. He was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Nearly 12 years later, in 2002, the city settled for $1,858,811.81.
<bullet>Assault while in custody led to two settlements; bodily injury in custody produced another three.
<bullet>Injuries or property damage during an arrest led to 11 settlements, including one for $220,638.32.
<bullet>Search-and-seizure cases led to 12 settlements worth about $500,000.
<bullet>Nine cases that appear to be related to policing during the G20 have already been settled: five for use of force, three Charter violations, one for "crowd/riot control," all stemming from the weekend of June 26-27, 2010.
Police spokesman Mark Pugash noted that settlements don't mean the city is admitting liability in a given case.
Pugash added that 250 settlements was not a particularly high number given that, according to police estimates, the force has had about 15 million contacts with Toronto residents since 2000.
"We've seen an astonishing growth in Canada in civil litigation. I'm not complaining about that, but it's a fact. It's easier than it's ever been to sue," he said.
Davin Charney, a Toronto lawyer who has represented several people who sued police, argues that the number of settlements doesn't tell the full story.
"These kinds of things are largely unreported and uninvestigated. It's a very small percentage of cases that actually are litigated," he said.


This is the ninth day of my raw food challenge and yes, it's Christmas Eve. Got about 8 hours of sleep last night, which was surprising after yesterday's three hour nap. I guess I needed it.
Dinner – I fixed myself a bowl of raw chili (pictured above) but I didn't like it so I had a large Grapefruit and a Banana instead.
40 minutes on the treadmill at the Y (30 min walking / 10 min running). I'm hoping to gradually build my running mileage back up. I've been trying to let a foot injury heal (thank you, TaeKwonDo) and it's been a slow process. My foot didn't hurt on the treadmill today.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE eating all this fruit!!
I was a little sore from sledding yesterday but it's mostly the left side of my body. I slammed pretty hard into the ground on my left side on one of the runs down the hill.
That raw chili stressed me out. I was trying to mimic our normal Christmas Eve dinner but it didn't work out the way I had hoped. I could smell the family's cooked chili and mine wasn't anything like it (taste, temperature or texture). I held back the gag reflex for the first few bites before deciding that it just wasn't working for me. I was much happier eating fruit. When I went back to eating what tasted better, I didn't feel left out at all.
I forgot to mention in Sunday's post that we had communion at church. I am not about to turn down communion in the name of this raw challenge. I am reminded of this because it was served again tonight at the Christmas Eve service. So, I have had two itty bitty pieces of cracker and a tiny bit of grape juice that was not raw.


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Vietnam, a land of staggering natural beauty and cultural complexities, of dynamic megacities and hill-tribe villages, Vietnam is both exotic and compelling. A once torn world and now thriving modern high tech cities cover its lands. There's the sublime: gazing over a surreal seascape of limestone islands from the deck of a traditional junk in Halong Bay. The inspirational: exploring the world's most spectacular cave systems in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.
Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country on the South China Sea known for its mind-boggling shorelines and conduits, delightful shorelines, Buddhist pagodas and clamoring urban regions. Hanoi, the capital, pays acclaim to the nation's popular Communist-time frame pioneer, Ho Chi Minh, by methods for a colossal marble tomb. Ho Chi Minh City (once in the past Saigon) has French wilderness purposes of enthusiasm, notwithstanding Vietnamese War history display lobbies and the Củ Chi tunnels, used by Viet Cong officers.Antiquated sanctuaries show unmistakably Chinese impacts in the north and Hindu causes in the south. In the meantime, the expansive, tree-lined lanes and fabulous state structures that beautify the capital, date back from the French pilgrim time frame. Furthermore, it's difficult to overlook Vietnam's crucial position near the epicenter of East Asian power and success, for its urban areas' horizons are characterized by groups of glass-and-steel corporate HQs and smooth lavish inns.
Thailand foods may challenge the best spot, however in Vietnam, it is a foodies heaven, as nothing truly approaches: Vietnamese nourishment is that good. Unbelievably unpretentious in its flavors and remarkable in its decent variety, Vietnamese cooking is an intriguing draw for voyagers – a myriad of road sustenance visits and cooking schools are a demonstration of this.
Adventures are abundant, with kitesurfing the tropical maritime waters off Mui Ne or climbing the evergreen slopes around Bac Ha or Sapa. What's more, when you're finished with all that adrenaline stuff, there's a lot of flat 'personal' time to savor. Vietnam has lovely, unwinding shorelines and extraordinary spas – from marble sanctuaries of medications to straightforward family-run knead salons with hikers well-disposed rates.


A Central of New Jersey Railroad survivor - built in 1894, this station is located in Elizabeth, NJ and was once host to the Central of New Jersey Railroad, the Reading and B&O trains but saw its last train on August 6, 1978. A long abandoned 4 tracked right of way was located on the opposite side and saw traffic running a near parallel route to the Pennsylvania Railroad between Baltimore and New York City, though it stopped short at Jersey City where passengers were forced to take a ferry the rest of the way. The mighty PRR had a direct connection via the Hudson Tunnels. That PRR line, now better known as Amtrak's NorthEast Corridor, traveled over the CNJ main at this site and would be visible to passengers exiting the station - perhaps making a transfer to the PRR itself.


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Working for a mission, not a boss: Interview with Suresh Shankar
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The Village has improved its Underdevelopment progress from Economical state with the help of new Political Party (Tehreek-e-Insaf) after previous Initiatives taken by (PMLN).

This Village would be a medium for Railways Network of CPEC (China Pakistan Economic Corridor) along with expected (Havelian DryPort Project)  being built in the vicinity of Baldhair Railway Station about five kilometres from Haripur city and is designed to meet the demand of the containerized future freight traffic between China and Pakistan under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)

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[EXCLUSIVE] Restaurant Offering Cookie Dough Hummus and Chickpea Shake Coming to Dunwoody
A New York-based quick-serve Mediterranean franchise specializing in pita sandwiches is opening its first Atlanta area outpost in Dunwoody. The new restaurant, The Hummus & Pita Co., will open in the 2,800 square foot corner space in Perimeter Place left vacant since last December when longtime tenant Boneheads closed. The Hummus & Pita Co. serves what it sounds like: stuffed pita sandwiches, laffa wraps, bowls, and platters of meats, grains, and vegetables. The fast-casual restaurant has taken some liberties with its hummus recipes, liberties that is hopes will set it apart from other similar options.
Hummus & Pita Co., you see, offers not only traditional savory hummus but also sweet varieties such as chocolate, cookie dough, and cake batter. There's even a vegan hummus shake, made from chickpeas, tahini, banana, dates, and almond milk, plus other flavors like pistachio, butter pecan and strawberry.
The chain started in New York in 2011 and began franchising in 2017. Today there are six locations open: New York (3), Connecticut, New Jersey & Michigan. A seventh location is listed as "coming soon" to Los Angeles, the first of 100 units planned for The Golden State.
In Atlanta, brother-in-law franchisees Patrick Sidhu and Jay Gill earlier this year signed on for a five unit development deal. The duo, already franchisees of more than 170 Burger King and 14 Popeyes restaurants, plan to open their five Hummus & Pita Co. locations in metro Atlanta over the next 24 months. The Montgomery, Alabama-based franchisees also inked a deal to bring burrito chain Qdoba Mexican Grill to Georgia and Alabama with plans to open 20 locations between the two states.
At 2,800 square feet, the Atlanta Hummus & Pita will be significantly larger than the roughly 1,000 to 2,000 square foot size that the company describes as typical of its restaurants in marketing materials.
We at ToNeTo Atlanta LOVE Mediterranean food and are cautiously optimistic about Hummus & Pita's upcoming Atlanta debut. A franchised location of Hummus & Pita Co. opened earlier this past January in Denver, but by early October was closed. Yelp reviews seem to suggest high prices and poor service likely contributed to the closure.
With so many restaurants opening in metro Atlanta, attracting and retaining courteous and dependable help is becoming increasingly difficult, according to several local restaurant owners who spoke with ToNeTo Atlanta.
Franchises are attractive to entrepreneurs as they come with an established brand and often, a dedicated marketing team. That said, franchises are not always a sure thing and new to market franchises with little to no brand awareness can be quite risky.
One of our favorite Mediterranean eateries, Garbanzo Mediterranean Fresh, opened in Boca Raton in late 2013 but by late 2014 had closed.
Pancheros Mexican Grill, Pieology, Barbacoa Mexican Grill, Mojo Burrito, Smashburger, Baja Fresh, Blue Coast Burrito, El Pollo Loco, BurgerIM, Boardwalk Burgers & Fries and Bruegger's Bagels, among others, are all franchises that have entered the Atlanta market and subsequently closed some or all of their locations in the area.
Fransmart, a franchise development company, is assisting Hummus & Pita in their franchising efforts. The firm also sells franchises for The Halal Guys, Taffer's Tavern, Curry Up Now and Mamoun's Falafel - all of which have locations open or in development in metro Atlanta - among other concepts.
Dan Rowe, founder of Fransmart, is bullish on the concepts he represents but the numbers he envisions for Hummus & Pita are astronomical.
Dan Rowe of Fransmart
"By the end of the year, there will be 200-plus locations in development. Over the next few years, we will have at least 500 locations in development, with flags planted in the 40 largest media markets in North America and key international markets on our way to 2,000-plus locations."
Chick-fil-A, by comparison, which dates from 1946, has about 2,400 locations.
Uncle Maddio's Pizza, an Atlanta-based quick-serve franchise, said in 2015 that it was "on track to have 300 restaurants open in five years with 1,000 units in development." Today, after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this past April, there are 22 locations open and none known to be "in development."
Have you ever been to The Hummus & Pita Co.? Does the idea of chocolate hummus and a chickpea shake sound appealing to you? What is your favorite quick-serve franchise that is not yet present in metro Atlanta?
Publix sells chocolate hummus in its cold case. The main turn off seems to the high prices.
Culver's known for their great custard.
well, at least these guys are experienced in the franchise game. I'll give them a try as I like Mediterranean food too!
You are right about their projections - those number are ridiculous.
Tough location and the traffic around there is horrible!


Last week, I talked about mixing and matching fabrics to create one-of-a-kind rooms. This week, I want to share a fabulous resource with you: Spoonflower.
Spoonflower is a website where you can buy fabric. They have thousands of prints to choose from in all colors. That is just the beginning though! The best part of Spoonflower is that if you cannot find exactly what you are looking for from their inventory, you can create your own fabric and have them print it for you!
Their prices start at just $18 / yard, and they have 9 different fabric types to choose from.
Spoonflower is based in Raleigh, NC and all of the fabric is digitally printed in Raleigh by their employees.
The digital printing method they use to print the fabrics is eco-friendly and uses water-based inks on natural fiber textiles.
I recently ordered a swatch of this blue and white fabric to see if it would coordinate with our peacock blue dining room make-over.
I was hoping to use it in the family room as pillows to pull the peacock blue into that room. The blue, though, is more turquoise than peacock, so I'm going to keep looking.
Here are a few other fabrics I saw while exploring their website.
They even have patterns that you can order and sew yourself.
I'm excited to have found Spoonflower and have enjoyed looking at all of their fun fabrics. Who knows, maybe I'll even submit my own design!
I'll share more photos and updates as we make progress.
º Are you freshening any rooms in your house with a new paint color?
The right mix of fabrics can take a room from ordinary to extraordinary.
the feeling the room should convey – casual, elegant, sophisticated, relaxed, etc.
Once these items are determined, I find my design inspiration through fabrics and let the room evolve from there. I love to mix and match fabrics to create the perfect combination for the room. Depending on the room, there can be anywhere from 3-4 fabrics, all the way up to 10-12 fabrics.
I recently helped my mom choose fabrics for their family room.
She knew she wanted to use shades of blue in the room to play off the blue and yellow color scheme she has in the adjoining kitchen. We both fell in love with the beautiful floral embroidered fabric and used that as our starting point. From there, we chose a polka dot, a stripe, and a French blue chenille.
We determined where to use each fabric based on their patterns and durability.
The fabrics coordinate perfectly with their neutral couch and soft wall color. By updating a few pieces in the room with beautiful fabrics, we were able to refresh the space and give them a room they love!
To put together a few more fabric combinations, I headed to the Designers Market (a wholesale showroom to the trade) for their wide selection of fabrics.
I always pick one fabric to be the starting point. In this combination, the striped fabric caught my eye. I (of course ;)! ) was drawn to the purple in the color palate, but the other colors, and the stripe pattern keep it from feeling too feminine.
After choosing the striped fabric, I wanted to find fabrics that would pull in the colors of the pattern. The paisley fabric was the perfect, soft shade of yellow to coordinate with the stripes. Next, I found the purple geometric pattern, and completing the combination is a solid purple glazed linen.
A perfect location for this combination would be a sunroom.
Add a neutral couch and a light aqua color on the walls, and voilà , a cheerful sunroom!
For the next combination, I wanted to create an elegant and neutral palate.
I started with the taupe and cream damask print (bottom right). The embroidery on this fabric was absolutely beautiful! To complement the damask, I chose the cream and taupe scalloped design. Next, I found a silk stripe to balance the two embroidered prints. As an unexpected touch to round out the combination, I chose a shimmery cream fabric, with a subtle geometric texture.
Although neutral, this combination of fabrics is anything but boring! I envision this as an elegant and sophisticated dining room, yet one that is chic and timeless.
A neutral wall color and a lovely chandelier would complete this stylish dining room.
For the last combination, I wanted to choose fabrics that could be used in a child's room.
I first saw the striped fabric and liked the modern color palate. The white and coral lattice work fabric brings in a bigger scale to the combination. The lime green dotted ikat print is fun and playful. Lastly, the blue and tan mini chevron pattern adds a touch of sophistication.
This combination of fabrics could be used for a boy or a girl, and would grow with the child from infancy through the teenage years.
Painted furniture and a fun rug would make any child happy with this room!
When working with fabrics it is important to keep in mind the scale of the pattern, what the fabric is made of, and the texture of the fabric. Creating a unique mix of fabrics will make your room beautiful and memorable. Start with a pattern you love and grow your palate from there.
If you don't know where to start, or get stuck in the process, call me to help you create a room that you will love!
º What is your favorite fabric combination from the 4 above? º Do you have a fabric in your home that you love & created a room around?


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