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Q: Add colour outline to section of image map when clicked (jQuery) I have an image map with four sections, and in essence I want to:

*

*When a section is clicked, add a colour outline to the selected section.

*When a new section is clicked, remove outline from previous chosen section, and add the colour outline to the new section.

This is what I've tried:
In the style block I included
.act{
    outline: purple solid thick;
}

Then, the jQuery,
$('area').click(function(){

            choice = $(this).attr('alt');
            $('#choice').html(choice);
            $(this).addClass('act');

        });

In mind mind, the last line would add the class "act" but would not remove the class when a new section is clicked. Again, in my mind, $(this).siblings().removeClass('act'); should do that trick???
 Finally, the html,

            <map name="map">
                <area shape="rect" coords="58,26,373,274" alt="1"  nohref="nohref" />
                <area shape="rect" coords="427,28,742,272" alt="2"  nohref="nohref" />
                <area shape="rect" coords="60,325,380,571" alt="3"  nohref="nohref" />
                <area shape="rect" coords="426,325,747,571" alt="4"  nohref="nohref" />
            </map>

Thank you all for your contributions.
Best regards,

A: maybe this will help you.
Reference

A: Well, after some investigation, I managed to solve the problem -thanks to HP's 411 for his suggestion on plug-ins.
The relevant code to do this is (with maphighlight) is:

$(document).ready(function() {

    $('.map').maphilight({

        fillColor: '00ff00',
        fillOpacity: 0.4,
        neverOn: true
    });

    $('img[usemap]').rwdImageMaps(); // Used to resize image maps.

    $('area').click(function() {
        choice = $(this).attr('alt');
        $('#choice').text(choice);

        var data = $(this).data('maphilight') || {};
        data.alwaysOn = true;
        $(this).data('maphilight', data).trigger('alwaysOn.maphilight');;

    }); });

You have to add the plugins jquery.maphilight.js and jquery.rwdImageMaps.min.js.
In the HTML,

        <map name="map">
            <area shape="rect" coords="58,26,373,274" alt="1" href="#"/>
            <area shape="rect" coords="427,28,742,272" alt="2" href="#"/>
            <area shape="rect" coords="60,325,380,571" alt="3" href="#"/>
            <area shape="rect" coords="426,325,747,571" alt="4" href="#"/>
        </map>

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The Longest-Lasting Conspiracy Theory
by Denis MacEoin
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14412/conspiracy-theory
"To try to defeat an irrational supposition – especially when it is firmly held by its proponents – with a rational explanation is virtually impossible. Any information that does not correspond with the conspiracy theorists' preferred social, political, or ethnic narrative is ipso facto false. Social scientists have described such theories as having a "self-sealing quality" that makes them "particularly immune to challenge." — Deborah Lipstadt, Antisemitism Here and Now, 2019 pp 7-8.
The lies about the State of Israel are amplified in the West through the "mainstream media", such as: The New York Times, The New Yorker, the BBC, The Guardian, MSNBC, and CNN. Churches join in, and of course the United Nations, as well as so-called human rights organizations where pretty well anything goes: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch.
This bias is well monitored by a number of websites that work to identify their inaccuracies and deliberate distortions about Israel, the IDF, or Palestinian terrorism. CAMERA, Honest Reporting, UK Media Watch, and BBC Watch all dissect bad reportage, and contact editors to request corrections.
How often have we seen commentaries concerning the situation in Gaza, the West Bank and Israel, made with intensity, even passion, which purport to tell readers the "facts" about Israel? They often narrate falsehoods that might put to shame a string of fraudsters, conmen and conspiracy theorists.
It seems, at times, that there is no limit to anti-Semitic modern fantasies about the Jewish state of Israel that overwhelm the even older libels about Jews controlling world affairs, as in the totally fraudulent forgery of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Today, we are given to believe that it is Muslim Palestinian children who are slain by sneering Zionists and that the government of Israel works hand in hand with a global network of Christians and Jewish bankers, politicians, and media bosses.
It is not surprising to see ordinary folk taken in by anti-Semitic meanderings and anti-Israel fiction. A 2015 study by Chicago political scientists, J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, provided evidence that belief in conspiracies and other falsehoods is widespread even in the United States:
Using four nationally representative surveys, sampled between 2006 and 2011, we find that half of the American public consistently endorses at least one conspiracy theory and that many popular conspiracy theories are differentiated along ideological and anomic dimensions. In contrast with many theoretical speculations, we do not find conspiracism to be a product of greater authoritarianism, ignorance, or political conservatism. Rather, the likelihood of supporting conspiracy theories is strongly predicted by a willingness to believe in other unseen, intentional forces and an attraction to Manichean narratives. These findings both demonstrate the widespread allure of conspiracy theories as political explanations and offer new perspectives on the forces that shape mass opinion and American political culture.
As shown frequently (for instance, here, here and here), human beings are by nature gullible and willing to take on board all manner of bunkum before breakfast. How else to explain the popularity of arch-conspiracists such as Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin? Of course, dictators like Hitler and Stalin can enforce their twisted notions by threats and force. In democracies, however, regardless of the open availability of verifiable information from libraries, universities, colleges, and government agencies, large numbers of people fall for any number of fantasies promulgated by internet trolls, the tabloid press, and, not infrequently, politicians with axes to grind.
The multiple-award winning British journalist, Will Storr, has written one of the most thorough investigations of people with controversial or outright bizarre ideas -- believers in past lives, anti-evolution fundamentalists, and all forms of self-delusion. The Heretics (published in the US as The Unpersuadables: Adventures with the Enemies of Science) describes a wide range of believers who cannot be convinced by any contrary evidence that their convictions have no foundation in observable fact.
It would be a mistake to assume that everyone who takes unconventional ideas on board must be uneducated or unintelligent. Many highly educated people, including physicians and scientists, take seriously leading forms of alternative medicine and carry out extensive research into them. The US National Institutes for Health has a branch known as the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, which funds and engages in such research. These are all controversial forms of healthcare, but at least are capable of being scientifically tested.
This willingness to listen to alternative viewpoints while retaining a critical stance serves well in such contexts and is a fundamental part of original scientific and general rational method. All great scientific breakthroughs have been achieved by thinkers willing to challenge the received wisdom of their day -- giants such as Giordano Bruno, Galileo, Darwin, and Freud, to name but a few.
One of the worst examples of a presumably intelligent individual persisting in a much-discredited conviction is the Holocaust-denying historian David Irving, whose reputation underwent severe humiliation during a high-profile libel trial in 2000. Cambridge historian Richard Evans, as the chief expert witness in the trial, tore apart Irving's claims to be a credible historian at all.[1] It is possibly worth adding that Irving had no formal training in history; his two failed attempts to gain a university degree were in physics and political economy.
After such a public disparagement, most people would shrink into embarrassed oblivion. Yet Irving, now 80, continues his Holocaust denial, his anti-Semitism, and his general defiance of official historiography. He writes books, manages a constantly updated website in which he supports the Maduro regime in Venezuela, and links to a series of private meetings he holds. He has many followers in Europe and the United States. His impact may not be great, but in an era of rising anti-Semitism, his persistence in whitewashing Nazism sits well.
It is not surprising that Professor Deborah Lipstadt, the author whom Irving tried unsuccessfully to ruin in that trial, writes in her latest book, Antisemitism Here and Now (London, 2019), about the power of conspiracy theories:
Conspiracy theories give events that may seem inexplicable to some people an intentional explanation. If we were to provide these conspiracy theorists with evidence that the landing was indeed on the moon, they will a priori dismiss what we say and assume we are part of the conspiracy. To try to defeat an irrational supposition – especially when it is firmly held by its proponents – with a rational explanation is virtually impossible. Any information that does not correspond with the conspiracy theorists' preferred social, political, or ethnic narrative is ipso facto false. Social scientists have described such theories as having a "self-sealing quality" that makes them "particularly immune to challenge." (pp. 7-8)
Holocaust denial is, thankfully, an obsession for only a tiny number of bitter die-hards. Lipstadt, however, is writing about something beyond that. Anti-Semitism, in its various forms, is the longest-lasting conspiracy theory across much of the globe. It consists of an assumption of innate Jewish wickedness and has led to millions of deaths, expulsions, and wars, not least in the progressive 20th and 21st centuries when we were all supposed to have become rationalists.
Within the broad range of anti-Semitism, there is one controversial subject in which innumerable educated and intelligent people abandon any willingness to listen to the other side, to investigate the full facts, or to reach conclusions wherever those facts lead them: the dispute between Israel and the Palestinians.
The link between traditional anti-Semitism, irrational thinking, and hatred of Israel has been summed up in an article by Dr. Asaf Romirowsky, the executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
"Anti-Israelism is the modern face of anti-Semitism and just as toxic. Anti-Israelism is a modern-day religion in that it demands unquestioning adherence to a dogmatic doctrine and rejects non-believers as morally inferior."
The anti-Israel dogmatists of whom I speak are not the denizens of the Arab, Iranian, and wider Muslim world, where hatred of Israel and support of the Palestinians is enforced by governments and clerics. They may possibly be excused because they lack the freedom to learn or speak freely about the issue or even board a plane for Israel to see reality on the ground.
The lies about the State of Israel are increasingly amplified in the West through the "mainstream media", such as:
The New York Times: In April, the New York Times published what Amb. Dani Dayan called "the correction of the year" after the Gray Lady wrote that Palestinian Authority payments to terrorists and their families are a "far-right conspiracy theory." – CAMERA.org, January 2, 2019.
The New Yorker: "Raja Shehadeh's 'Letter from Ramallah' is filled with misrepresentations that don't belong in a respected publication like The New Yorker – even in an opinion piece." – CAMERA.org. January 7, 2018.
The New York Times: "NYT Issues Correction after Labeling Palestinian Support for Terrorists Fake News" – National Review, Jack Crowe, April 24, 2018.
The Guardian: "The Guardian Delegitimizes Israel in Lying Editorial: The Guardian crosses the line with an editorial replete with lies, distortions and delegitimization of Israel." – Honest Reporting January 23, 2019.
BBC: "Another Gaza maritime smuggling story ignored by the BBC" – BBC Watch, June 11, 2019.
CNN: "CNN Sanitizes Mahmoud Abbas' Speech, Expunges Antisemitic Statements" – CAMERA.org. January 17, 2018.
MSNBC: "MSNBC's Chris Hayes Presents Hamas Propaganda as Fact" – CAMERA.org. April 8, 2018.
Social media trends follow suit, and in general.
Churches join in:
"Uncovered: United Church of Christ charged with faking anti-Israel boycott" – JNS, January 6, 2019.
"Episcopal bishop sorry for making up Israeli atrocities" – The Times of Israel, August 22, 2018.
"EAPPI: The World Council of Churches' Training Camp for Anti-Israel Advocacy" - NGO Monitor, January 14, 2019.
And, of course, the United Nations, as well as so-called human rights organizations where pretty well anything goes:
Amnesty International:
"Although AI claims that it does not "accept any funds for human rights research from governments or political parties," it has received governmental funding, including from the UK Department for International Development (DFID), the European Commission, the Netherlands, the United States, and Norway....
Disproportionately singles out Israel for condemnation, focusing solely on the conflict with the Palestinians, misrepresenting the complexity of the conflict, and ignoring more severe human rights violations in the region" --
Human Rights Watch (HRW):
Systematic NGO Monitor analyses demonstrate that HRW disproportionately focuses on condemnations of Israel and that publications related to Israel often lack credibility. HRW also promotes an agenda based solely on the Palestinian narrative of victimization and Israeli aggression.
"Uses distorted legal rhetoric to repeatedly accuses Israel of 'war crimes,' '[s]erious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law,' 'collective punishment,' and fostering a 'culture of impunity.' Applies unique standards to Israel as part of its broader delegitimization campaign.
"Promotes a Palestinian 'right of return,' which, if implemented, would effectually mean the elimination of Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people."
Ironically, many of the media involved, notably sections of the print and online press, are among the most articulate of our sources and are read by the best-educated sections of society. If one can leave aside for a moment their political bias in general, there is no doubt that newspapers such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Independent, The Guardian and others stand apart from the tabloid press in how they report on and debate about a range of serious topics. That they are all left-wing does not usually detract from the quality of what they write. But they are by far the most inaccurate and bigoted when it comes to reporting and debate about Israel, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Palestinian Authority.
To read most of their reports and articles on these topics, one might well believe that Israel is the most hideous and cruel state on earth -- a position held widely in the United Nations and its agencies, which are not left-wing or socialist, but which contain a majority of Arab-bloc members and their supporters.
This bias is well monitored by a number of websites that work to identify their inaccuracies and deliberate distortions about Israel, the IDF, or Palestinian terrorism. CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), Honest Reporting, Honest Reporting Canada, UK Media Watch, and BBC Watch all dissect bad reportage, and contact editors to request corrections.[2]
One form of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic speech that is often overlooked can be found in the comments sections that follow many articles, regardless of whether or not the piece itself has those qualities. Even a mild pro-Israel comment can unleash a storm of untruths, distortions of fact and rawness of language.
Two comments were recently in The Independent. On February 1, 2019, Independent staff and agencies published a reasonably accurate report entitled, "US cuts all aid to Palestinians in occupied West Bank and Gaza". The report begins: "The US has ended all financial aid for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, government officials have said."
This might well be interpreted by readers to mean that both the West Bank and Gaza are currently occupied by Israel; so this author posted the following comment:
"When will it sink in that Gaza has not been occupied since 2005, when all Israeli military and civilians finally pulled out? And when will people on the left wake up to the fact that millions from aid money to the PA are given to support terrorist murderers in Israeli jails and the families of 'martyrs' who have died while attacking innocent civilians, with payments increasing in proportion to however many an individual terrorist has killed. You don't have to be a Tory (I am not) to see how support for terrorism undermines genuine left-wing values."
It was not long before Deanna 12 left the following response:
"Quite a disgraceful, uneducated and foolish comment. Has not been occupied since 2005? What nonsense. Do you live on this Planet? The PA is democratically elected organization. As far as murdering innocent civilans (sic) go, your comments are laughable. It isn't (sic) the PA shooting inncocent (sic) medics and diabled (sic) protestors on border fences - with explosive dumdum bullets. It isn't (sic) the PA running an apartheid (sic) system. And it isn't (sic) the PA shooting inncocent (sic) children for fun. Its (sic) well documented. "Children have been shot in other countries I have covered - death squads gunned them down in El Salvador and Guatemala, mothers with infants were lined up and massacred in Algeria - but I have never before watched Israeli soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport like in Gaza". Chris Hedges - 2002 Pultizer (sic) Prize Winner."
There is much one could reply to this claim; however Deanna 12's infatuation with a series of fantasies regarding Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and Hamas clearly seem so deeply ingrained that no amount of substantiation is likely to induce her to find any facts -- including about Chris Hedges -- for herself.
Dr. Denis MacEoin taught Arabic and Islamic Studies at a British university and for a time Arabic to English translation at a university in Fez, Morocco. Resident in the UK, he is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute.
[1] For a shorter account, see Richard Evans, Telling Lies about Hitler: The Holocaust, History and the David Irving Trial, here.
[2] On these see Manfred Gerstenfeld and Ben Green, "Watching the Pro-Israeli Media Watchers", Jewish Political Studies Review, 16:3/4, Fall 2004, pp. 33-58; available on subscription online here.
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So I was just asked to play bass in a country ( :( ) and blues ( :D ) cover band. It's my first "real" band, unless you want to count a couple of punk bands I played with... which could hardly be counted as "professional" or even "good." My bass amp didn't weather these punk bands very well, and was at one point left by a friend on my front porch while I was on vacation. For a few days. In the weather. Now it has a loose wire and I have to beat it to get it to work right. I'm going to try to fix it, but it's in such rough shape I'm thinking this is the excuse I've been wanting to upgrade.
I'm looking at a Hartke B600. What I have now is a Marshall 60 watt combo. I definitely want another combo. the guy at the local store tells me that if 60 watts works with my current amp, then 60 watts would work with any amp (even though the Hartke has less in the way of speakers). The band tells me that my amp is big enough. The guy from Sweetwater when I called for another opinion wanted me to buy a 400 watt head and a cabinet with at least two 15" speakers, and I'm inclined to think he was full of it.
I really love it, and it's plenty loud enough to handle most small live situations-- and it also has an output for hooking up to the house, so it really can handle it all for being only 100w.
It's 200w for not too much money, and it only weighs 33 lbs... craziness. There are a few other models they make of that amp for a little more money with better speaker options, but one 15" speaker would satisfy me for getting the lower price.
I've never played through a combo that I thought sounded "right" with a band, but I know there are some good ones. I personally like to have plenty of "headroom", power-wise. That lets the AMP do the work and I can play softer and with more expression, and still get loud if I need to. But then, most of the bands I have played with haven't run the bass through the PA, so I am dependent on my rig to fill the room and let me hear what I am doing (which can be tricky even when you're pretty loud). So usually I run an Ampeg 4x10 cabinet with an Ampeg SVT III head. I can add a 2x10 cab for slightly bigger rooms. When I played a lot with a country/rock band a few years ago, I used an Ampeg 8x10 cabinet which lived in the band trailer when it wasn't on stage. I don't use that if I have to move it back and forth from gig to my house though. The 8x10 and my Ampeg head could fill a room nicely. The other nice thing about it was it sounded humungous even at low volume, and I could always hear myself because the speakers weren't down by my waist. Hmm... I might have to drag that thing out of storage again! I have tried some Ampeg combos that were pretty nice sounding on their own, but I don't know how they would work in a band setting. I think Ampeg is tough to beat. When you look at how many bands in all sorts of styes use Ampeg, and then consider the fact that they were making bass amps like 5 or 6 years before there were even electric basses (it's TRUE! "Ampeg" is short for "Amplified Peg", which was a peg with a pick-up for upright basses invented in the '40s), they're kind of the benchmark.
The guy from Sweetwater when I called for another opinion wanted me to buy a 400 watt head and a cabinet with at least two 15" speakers, and I'm inclined to think he was full of it.
I think he was just recommending a Koaloha over a Lanikai, so to speak. You won't go wrong by getting more power. It gets the speaker moving quicker at the leading edge of the notes, giving you a cleaner, punchier tone. Going from 60 to 600 watts only gives a 10 db increase in volume, but is really noticable in the attack and clarity.
One choice would be a single 15" cabinet and add another if you find you need it in certain rooms.
that's actually a good idea. Well it could be, first you'd have to make sure that the speaker could handle the wattage of the amp, secondlt, rating the impedance is important too, but it's probably 8 ohms, most 15" are. That is definitely an option though, I have made a speaker cabinet before though, a 110 cab that pairs with my warwick head, kinda makes a case for it, just leave it in my bedroom for practicing. I barely use it, it probably helps though that the speaker is an old radioshack speaker and the cab is made from particle board. I'd seggest using plywood, or MDF maybe even. I know a lot of high end companies boast making them out of "void-free" birch plywood, that'd probable be a good thing to look for, but I know Behringer makes good ones out of MDF, their heads aren't terribly versatile, but the cabs are pretty good.
I have a 120 watt combo amp that I started gigging with. My experience was that I couldn't compete sonically against the electric guitar amps and the drums. I now have a 350 watt amp with a 2x12 cabinet and that's much better than 120, but sometimes it's not quite enough in some situations. The nice thing about the latter amp / cab combination is that I do have a much better bass presence, a much better match for the other instruments also. Now I just sit down there with the bass drum like I should. The rest of the band here's me much better also, and it doesn't even have to be that loud. Actually I'd love a 1200 watt amp with 8 x 10 cab, but my back can't handle it.
I generally play a Fender Bassman 250 combo. its a solid little thing that puts out alot of sound for the size. My only little complaint is that it has 2x10's instead of 1x15 i think it would have better punch to it if was there. but that being said, look at where you will be playing and if its possible to line out of your amp into the PA. if its good enough for Geddy Lee its good enough for me.
I would go for that Acoustic. A 115 combo would be the most bang for the buck.
If you have extra coin, go for something like the markbass Jeff Berlin combo- light! and great sound.
If you can find a B-stock Ampeg B200R combo, I would recommend that. its like 220 watts and has a tube pre and looks and sound to die for. I have seen them go cheap on muscians friend on occasion.
Some people also liek the carvin amps. You really want the most watts you can afford. I would stay away from the hartke for tonal reasons, personally speaking.


Starting to build an emergency fund is one of the best things you can do for your finances. Having an emergency fund is an awesome way to save money, use less credit, and be prepared for those nasty unexpected expenses that creep up at the worst possible times.
Unfortunately, most people in North America don't have enough cash to even cover a $500 emergency. This means that when bad things happen most people turn to credit to cover these small expenses. The scary thing is, what would happen to those same people if they lose their job? Or had a medical emergency? That's why starting to build an emergency fund is so important to protect yourself.
I'm a huge fan of having an emergency fund so that you don't have to use a credit card when these things happen! So, let's cut to the good stuff and learn what an emergency fund is and how to build an emergency fund!
Having an emergency fund is an amazing way to eliminate a ton of financial stress that pops up when something bad happens. It also keeps you from spending your savings because it's placed in an entirely separate account.
In the long term, it's probably best to have around 12 months of expenses in your emergency fund just in case you have a serious illness/injury or you lose your job and can't seem to find a new one. This is especially important if you have children and a spouse because you have so many people to feed and need as much back-up money as possible.
I know that 12 months of expenses is a lot, but just start small by making one or two months of expenses your goal and in a few years you'll have so much emergency money you'll be prepared for anything.
If you're a single person with no children, it's probably okay that you have around 3 months of expenses because you can cut your expenses further than if you had children to feed.
I suggest putting your emergency fund in a savings account with no fees that you can access whenever you need it.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make no matter what you're doing is try and go 0-100 real quick. Just like how most diets fail if you cut out everything you love, completely cutting back your expenses drastically right away is probably going to lead to failure.
You can start by saving $5-10 a week and slowly build up to bigger amounts when you're most used to saving money. Cut back on one or two of your unnecessary expenses and transfer that money to start to build an emergency fund. You'll start to see progress in no time!
At the end of every pay period, chances are you have some money left over that you haven't spent yet. What should you do with that money? Well, this is a post on how to build an emergency fund, so I think you should put your extra money towards your emergency savings!
Even if it's only $10-20, it can add up over the year and you'll end up with a nice little nest egg! The key to doing this is that you shouldn't do it until you're about to be paid again. If you get paid on the 5th of the month, transfer all money you have leftover on the 4th into your emergency savings.
You should never have your emergency fund money in your regular bank account. Why? Well, when you take the time to build an emergency fund, isn't it a bad idea to have it with your regular money so you have more temptation to spend it every day?
You should make sure to have your emergency fund money in a completely separate account with a completely separate bank card that you leave at home. Don't let the temptation grow to spend your newly built emergency fund!
If you're expecting to get a decent amount of money back from your tax refund, a great idea is to use this money to build an emergency fund. I know that a lot of people like to spend their tax refunds on things they want but I'm a huge fan of using it to build my future!
Try it this year! When you get your tax refund, add that money to your emergency fund and see how good it feels.
One of the silliest things you can do to your newly built emergency fund is paying bank fees on that money. Wouldn't it be silly to spend $15 a month just to have your emergency fund SHRINK? If you're going to start to build an emergency fund, it's important that you find a bank account that you can get for free!
If you're Canadian, I have the solution for you! If you sign up for a Tangerine no-fee bank account you can get $50 for free when you deposit your first $100 if you use my orange code 50681730S1 when you sign up!
Unfortunately, I don't have a bank recommendation for my American friends, but I have heard that Ally is a great option!
One of my favourite ways to save money is to cut down on monthly subscriptions. It seems like every single website has a subscription these days. Personally, I have subscriptions for Just Fab, Fabletics, Fab Fit Fun, Netflix, and more. It's getting a little out of hand.
Thankfully, many of these give you the option to skip the month and save the money. Just doing this for a single month can save me a few hundred dollars to put in my emergency fund.
Do you have any monthly subscriptions that you don't necessarily need? Imagine if you cancelled them or skipped the month and were able to throw that money in your emergency fund each month! It would grow so quickly.
Sometimes we spend all of our money before we ever have a chance to put any towards our savings. It's a never ending cycle! I've been there.
It's important to automate your savings to make sure you're able to build an emergency fund relatively quickly. Even if you only transfer $25 a month, you're still making progress towards a more secure financial life!
A great way to make sure you're saving money each month is to try out the Backwards Budgeting method, it's essentially just a way to pay yourself first and to cover expenses after. It works really well for building an emergency fund, or paying off debt!
A huge strategy I used to save money so I could build an emergency fund was going through my closet and selling all the things I didn't want. There was a day where I made $400 by selling things that I hadn't touched in years.
This is seriously easier than ever with the invention of Facebook Marketplace, you can post things and within hours have someone at your door handing you cold hard cash.
It can jumpstart your efforts to build an emergency fund and get a few hundreds dollars in your account FAST.
Some people find it really hard to get rid of things they don't actually need but it can totally change your outlook on possessions. If you need help in this area, I highly suggest you read the book The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up.
One of the biggest wastes of money in most people's budgets is eating out and convenience foods. A great way to cut costs so you have more money to build an emergency fund is to start meal planning!
You can save hundreds of dollars a month by just eating out less and cooking your own meals at home.
If you're anything like me, you can probably fall into a food rut and make the same things week after week. That's why I LOVE $5 Meal Plan. This website sends me a meal plan, and a grocery list every week for only $5 a month, what? How is that only $5! If you think you might wanna try it too, you can get your first two weeks free!
When all else fails it's always a great idea to start cutting your expenses to better your future and start to build an emergency fund. I know we talked about cutting your food expenses by meal planning, but I know that there are other places where you can cut your monthly expenses!
One of the best things you can do for all aspects of your finances is to build a side hustle that you can make decent money with. I was able to build most of my emergency fund with side hustle income because in a way it's just free money (not really, but like, work with me here).
Let's say you make $3,000 a month from your regular 9-5 job but you need all of it to cover your expenses. If you start to make an extra $500 each month on the side, you can devote all of that money to growing an emergency fund!
I really hope that this blog post could help you learn how to build an emergency fund and get your finances off on the right track. If you start to build an emergency fund you'll see tons of benefits like saving money, using less credit, and so much more.


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Hurricane Harvey Closes Courts in Texas and Louisiana
Hurricane Harvey Closes Courts in…
Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn (Last Updated September 18, 2017)
Along with tragic deaths, catastrophic flooding, and widespread damage caused by Hurricane Harvey – a Category 4 hurricane that made landfall near Corpus Christi, Texas, on August 25, 2017 – courts affected by the tropical storm in Texas and Louisiana were closed for several days but all have now reopened, according to a notice from the USCourts.gov website.
Here is the final USCourts.gov notice regarding Hurricane Harvey that was updated on September 18, 2017:
Final update: September 18, 2017 at 1:25 p.m.
The Beaumont division of the Northern District of Texas reopened on September 18.
Updated: September 5, 2017 at 11:10 a.m. ET
Four of five federal courthouses have reopened, after being shut down more than a week because of Tropical Storm Harvey. A fifth courthouse, in Beaumont, Texas, will be closed at least until Monday, September 11, because the city's water system is not functioning.
Three Southern District of Texas courthouses—Galveston, Houston and Victoria—reopened on Tuesday, September 5, as did the Lufkin courthouse in the Eastern District of Texas.
People who need to be at one of the reopened courthouses, but cannot get there because of transportation or other issues, should contact their court. Contact information is available at the Southern District of Texas and Eastern District of Texas websites.
A list of state courthouse closings and delays due to Hurricane Harvey are available on the Texas Judicial Branch Court Closures and Delays webpage which states that multiple Texas courts and clerks' offices are closed due to Hurricane Harvey. Some county courts in Aransas, Hardin, Harris, Jasper, Orange, and Refugio counties are closed until further notice due to recovery from Hurricane Harvey.
According to the Hurricane Harvey Wikipedia page, the storm has brought more than 40 inches of rain to many parts of southeast Texas and the resulting floods displaced more than 30,000 people and inundated hundreds of thousands of homes. Hurricane Harvey has caused at least 71 confirmed deaths and economic losses ranging from $70 billion to $200 billion.
As reported by ESR News in October 2012, many courts from North Carolina to New England were closed in preparation for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy, a "superstorm" that battered the Atlantic Coast of the United States with flooding, high winds, and downed trees that left more than 30 people dead and approximately six million without power.
How To Help Victims of Hurricane Harvey
Among the many charities accepting donations to help the victims of Hurricane Harvey are the American Red Cross, Salvation Army, and the United Way of Greater Houston. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has also established the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund that will accept tax deductible flood relief donations for victims affected by recent floods.
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The 67th Annual Portland Roadster Show is March 17th - 19th, 2023. Three halls of classic cars, trucks, and automotive art. Featuring the, "talent and vision of the future with the High School Challenge." Lots to see and do, you can be sure you won't see it all in one day.
Eagles Lodge 2006 W 6th St, The Dalles, OR
The 2023 Columbia Gorge Car Club Swap Meet will be held this year at The Dalles Eagles & Elks Lodge on April 29th. Browse through vendors with various car parts, accessories, and collectibles, and take a look at some classic cars as well. There will be food, music, a beer garden, and raffle prizes. All proceeds go to charity. If you wish to be a vendor and have a booth, the cost is $15.00. Call 541-980-5940 for more information.
September 9 @ 11:00 am - 4:00 pm
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The Tygh Valley Classic Car Show will be held on Saturday, September 9th, 2023 at the Barnwood Barber Shop in Tygh Valley, OR from 11AM - 4PM. All proceeds from the car show benefit the Tygh School Community Center. To register or sign up as a vendor or sponsor, call 541-483-0902.
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October is Women-Owned Small Business month, and we would love to highlight some of our outstanding, local women-owned businesses in The Dalles. Each week, we'll be featuring one or two women-owned small businesses here on our website as well as our social media. We can't cover them all (at last count we found 45 women-owned small businesses in The Dalles alone!), but we want to give awareness and recognition to these businesses who provide products and services to our communities, and who we value as neighbors and friends. We encourage everyone to shop local and support small businesses in your own communities as well. Every dollar spent locally is a dollar that stays in that community.


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Ronda Rousey Blames 'Ungrateful Fans' For Her Departure From WWE
Posted on : April 12, 2020
Wrestler-turned-actress Ronda Rousey has just spoken out about her decision to leave WWE, and how a full-time return to the ring probably isn't likely any time soon. In an interview on the Wild Ride! With Steve-O podcast, Rousey said that she felt unappreciated by "ungrateful fans" who weren't cognizant of the heavy workload and hectic schedule placed on her and her fellow wrestlers.
""If I did all of the live shows, I was only home a day and a half a week," she said. "It was just not worth it for my family because we were eliminating all of our expenses and living this lifestyle, we didn't need it. We didn't need the money. So it's just like… what am I doing it for if I'm not being able to spend my time and energy on my family, but instead spending my time and my energy on a bunch of f*cking ungrateful fans that don't even appreciate me?"
"I love performing. I love the girls. I love being out there," she continued. "But, at the end of the day, I was just like, 'F*ck these fans, dude.' My family loves me and they appreciate me and I want all my energy to go into them. So that was my decision at the end of the day. It's like, 'Hey girls. Love what you're doing. I'm gonna try and take all my momentum and push you guys as far as I can … fly little birds, fly! I'm going f*cking home!' And that was basically it."
Rousey added, however, that she still has a huge amount of love and respect for WWE as an institution, and that she might have continued wrestling had it not been for the non-stop slate of matches. "I had such a great time. I love all the girls in the locker room," she said. Running out there and having fake fights for fun is just the best thing. I love choreography. I love acting. I love theatre… But, I was doing basically part-time and I was away from home 200 days out of the year. And when I did get home, I was so sleep deprived because you just don't have time to lay down."
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Since the interview, Rousey has come under fire from some of those "ungrateful fans," who criticized her comments about "fake fights" and accused her of tearing down the kayfabe artifice that has surrounded the wrestling world for decades. She simply tweeted that wrestling and fighting are both respectable but incredibly different disciplines, saying: "Do you know what would happen if you got in 300 REAL fights in a year? You would be dead."
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This activity is intended for medical oncologists, hematologists and other healthcare providers involved in the treatment of multiple myeloma (MM).
MM is a plasma cell neoplasm that accounts for approximately 10% of all hematologic cancers and carries with it the worst death to new cases ratio (3:4). In addition, the disease course for advanced myeloma is uniformly aggressive. However, the introduction of new agents with substantial activity has improved outcomes and allowed patients to experience longer periods of remission. Both novel proteasome inhibitors and immunomodulatory agents have effectively transformed standard care for patients with newly diagnosed and relapsed/refractory MM. Therefore, the current challenge facing the oncology community is identification of those patients who will enjoy the greatest benefit from a specific regimen while incurring the least toxicity. In this regard, hematologic oncologists must be apprised of the unique risks and benefits accompanying each evidence-based treatment strategy, as well as the acceptable monitoring and supportive management techniques that enable early recognition of safety concerns and effective interventions to address side effects. Several consensus- and evidence-based treatment guidelines are available and aim to assist clinicians with making clinical management decisions related to these diseases. But despite the existence of these tools, many areas of controversy persist within academic and community settings.
To bridge the gap between research and patient care, this video presentation by Dr Noopur Raje uses a review of recent relevant publications and presentations, ongoing clinical trials and clinical investigator treatment preferences to assist medical oncologists, hematologists and other healthcare providers involved in the treatment of MM with the formulation of up-to-date clinical management strategies.
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Advisory Committee: ImClone Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Eli Lilly and Company, Pharmacyclics LLC, an AbbVie Company; Consulting Agreement: Celgene Corporation.
Contracted Research: AbbVie Inc, Celgene Corporation, Onyx Pharmaceuticals, an Amgen subsidiary, Sanofi.
Advisory Committee: Celgene Corporation; Consulting Agreements: Celgene Corporation, Merck, Pfizer Inc, Takeda Oncology; Ownership Interest: OncoPep.
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On Academic Loneliness and Its Counterparts
My purpose was to write a blog text about affects and experiences of a young researcher and approach this more in the form of a scientific essay but the process of trying to make this happen led me to think about the writing process itself through the lens of affects and self-reflection. Why is it that it feels so difficult to start writing a text?
One obvious reason seemed to be the fatigue that seems to permeate the everyday of many researchers and students' lives, especially during the current pandemic situation. Another reason seems to be the constant sense of urgency when you are managing your projects while at the same time and trying to find some peace of mind for more contemplative work that writing and indulging in mapping out theoretical underpinnings and debates would require. Through the process of chasing these thoughts I figured I would try and write a text about something that felt like it moved me and felt meaningful and easier to approach at that very moment.
Around the time of this thought process I was about to participate in a discussion group where we talked about a song that is was important to us at that time. This made me shuffle through some tracks I have listened to a lot recently. The process lulled me back into realizing the yearning I had towards living in, and with, the melodies, melancholy, imaginary landscapes that music and art bring to one's life.
The fulfillment one feels through music can often be dampened and forgotten in moments when I sense that I sink too deeply into the endless and ravenous stream that flows through the current day academia and also society on a broader level. In these instances, you feel that you are never enough and that you can and must always improve and prove yourself in order to exist as a legitimate person.
I shuffled through some tracks that I had listened to recently and one that strongly resonated with me at that moment was the Finnish solo artist Peura's song Funeral. The song is written with beautiful minimalist melodies and lyrics that channel a tangible and permeating sense of loneliness – a personal experience of loneliness which forms also in the face of others' indifference towards knowing of its existence.
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Whilst listening to the song I realized that the lyrics could very well transfer the experiences of academic loneliness. This led me to the decision to write about unpacking some of the weave of thoughts and feelings present within this interpretation.
When taking this stance towards the lyrics, the chorus feels like it manages to capture something about personal experiences that can often be difficult to vocalize or address in practice:
When I was losing heart, you knew
When I was giving up, you knew
That I had fallen far, you knew
But where were you?
When considering the construction of loneliness in these lyrics from a point of view that is based upon Sara Ahmed's (2014) work on seeing affects as shaped by cultural and social meaning-making, it comes into being via the deprivation of needed contact with another. In this setting the other can be another person, a group or a more abstract body consisting of values, structures and constructs that shape what is deemed as important and worthy of care.
The other that is needed, but which leaves the subject of these lyrics neglected, could very well be a wider combination of institutional structures and practices within which the deprivation of the subject is formed. To me, the loneliness present in these lyrics seems to form also through affective circulation where the 'I' of the song is drifting. They are drifting, by 'losing heart', 'giving up' and 'falling far', from something that is constructed as cardinal to existential meaningfulness, to belonging and being heard, accepted and supported.
In relation to this, the object, that the text is speaking to, seems to be stationary and passive, while the subject of the song would expect – or at least hope – that they would care enough to support them in some way. While the object of the song is passive, they, however, are at the same time also constructed as an active agent who knows how the song's subject is drifting but chooses to be out of reach and indifferent towards it.
When applying this line of thought to the context of academic labor and the observations we have made during our project's data formation that we finished this week, the indifferent object of the song could very well be the institutional settings and system that frame it. While many researchers from students and doctoral researchers to academic leaders love doing research, teaching or shaping the future of higher education institutions, they are at the same time pressed by the constant expectations towards impactfulness, high productivity and excellence. At the same time they are dealing with limited resources, insecurity, fixed-term basis of employment, societal underappreciation of higher education and ensuring funding for enabling research in the first place.
This complex bundle of contradicting values, expectations, lack of time, lack of money, high competitiveness as well as precious collegiality paints an uncertain, but at the same time even alluring, picture that simultaneously seems to push one to build backdoors and plan Bs, but also draws one in to give their all for this career choice that also easily becomes, or is, more of a way of life than a 'mere job'.
Some of the most valuable aspects of doing research seem to be the fruitful collaboration, support, learning and even friendships that we can have with one another while working towards a deeper understanding of both the world around us and also ourselves in this process. Things that gnaw at this are, however, also major questions to consider when weighing if this is worth it after all.
The downsides present in this career path can be seen to include e.g. instances of arbitrary show of power, deliberate humiliation, gatekeeping from relevant scientific forums, continuous hurry and precariousness over the continuation of work, neglect of humane ways of encountering one another, being pushed to dedicate a disproportionate amount of one's personal resources to work at the expense of personal wellbeing and reducing science to a race towards 'being the best' while others are left to bite the dust. Tackling these issues also becomes increasingly difficult the more the focus is shifted from system level weaknesses to individualistic questions such as 'having the right type of personality', 'being lazy' or having the 'morally correct' amount of self-restrain and dedication.
All in all, the ambivalence of academic labor can make it a career path filled with contrasting experiences and continuous existential questioning. In this line of work, we are constantly putting ourselves under evaluation and we need to be able to withstand recurring rejections, critique, and shame. This is also accompanied by having to contest the right to do research and receive funding for it.
Given this starting point, it seems even more important that intersectional (Carbado & Williams Crenshaw & Mays & Tomlinson 2013) obstacles, which deepen this trial for some but make it easier for others, should be paid closer attention to also on the level of policy making. Class background, racialization, able-bodiedness and gender, for example, affect people's access, perceived career opportunities and experiences of belonging or being excluded from higher education and academic career. In addition, the way in which these points of view are considered or excluded also shapes the contents and viewpoints of research itself (see e.g. Williams Crenshaw 2019; Rastas & Poelman 2021 for Finnish context). Even though this is a systemic level question, it also includes the grassroots actions that we take in our everyday lives.
Thus, as a concluding note I could present a couple of questions that are also related to discussions we have had at our project's Affect Café discussion workshops:
How would you characterize an emotionally sustainable academia?
And how could you and your work community take part in building such an environment?
Written by Elisa Kurtti (Doctoral Researcher)
Song: Peura (2019) Funeral.
Ahmed, Sara (2014) The cultural politics of emotion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Carbado, Devon W. & Williams Crenshaw, Kimberlé & Mays, Vickie M., & Tomlinson, Barbara (2013) Intersectionality: Mapping the movements of a theory. Du Bois Review 10(2), 303-312. doi: 10.1017/S1742058X13000349
Rastas, Anna & Poelman, Sanna (2021) Suomalaisen sosiologian värisokea piste. Sosiologia 58(1).
Williams Crenshaw, Kimberlé (2019) Seeing race again: Countering colorblindness across the disciplines. University of California Press.
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Ok, I promised a contest on my blog when I reached 10,000 hits. That magic number just popped up in my stats! So, here is what I am going to do to celebrate all my fun friends in blogland. Everyone that comments on THIS post will be entered into a drawing. The prize will be FABRIC!!! I will raid my stash for a nice selection to send to the lucky winner. I can't believe I have faithful readers, but I do, and I appreciate you! I enjoy sharing with y'all and reading up on your blogs. Thanks for coming to visit me!
I will keep the the contest open til noon on Saturday to give everyone a chance to pop in and not miss out on the fun! Good luck!
Hi Randi, just popping in! Congratulations on reaching the 10,000 mark. I always enjoy reading your blog.
Of course you have faithful readers!! You do beautiful work, and I always enjoy what you write!! Congrats on your milestone!
Congratulations Randi! I always enjoy your blog!
Count me in! Congrats on 10000 hits! I enjoy reading your blog.
Congratulations! And sign me up!
Faithful reader number 6 checking in 😉 Congrats on the hits!! That sounds strange doesn't it?!!
Congrats on a big milestone! Of course, you have readers – you have a great blog!
Congratulations!!! I am still dabbling in my quilting but your pics always make me want to dabble more.
Okay…I'm # 9. I really enjoy reading and seeing what you are working on. YOu make some beautiful quilts!
Congratulations Randi and I check for your posts everyday.
WOW! Congats Randi!! I am one of your 'faithful readers' and I wouldn't miss a day of reading your blog for anything!!
Congrats Randi!! I'm always checking out the blog for new critters or quilts. You are on my daily trip through blogs.
Well, look at all of your faithful readers! LOL! Funny how a prize always brings us out of the woodwork…..
Fabric? Did someone say Fabric? Great blog, Randi – congratulations!!
Congratulations! You are one of my frequent stops for a good visit in blogland. And, I am always up for a chance at more fabric. Have a great day of celebration!
HEY!! Good idea!! LOvin it! Count me in da hat!
Congrats on stats, I guess we are now REAL BLOGGERS!
Hey Randi! Great blog and congrats on 10,000. That's awesome! I was happy to get past 1400 on mine. I am getting there though. I really enjoy your blog. Here's to 10,000 more!
Congradulations on your 10,000th blog reader!!! Isn't it great when you find out that people are reading and commenting on what you are doing. I just love to hear from people as well as enjoying their advice. Happy blogging………..
Congratulations on the 10,000 hits! You shouldn't be surprised, it's a great blog! Keep it up.
Seriously, you have come a long way baby! Your quilting has developed a style all it's own. I miss you, let's chat soon!
Congratulations on 10,000! I found your blog months ago and have popped on very couple of days to see your work, your advice, etc! I am so happy to have found you! Keep up the great blogging!


As 1/4 of a project, it's hard to call this the newest from former I Have A Knife guitarist Greg Livingston, but it's equally hard not to hear his influence on the compositional work. More like Chime Hours than his former project, Daeodon channels Touch and Go classics like The Jesus Lizard or Killdozer, with a southern edge. Still, this is less Mule and more a mid-western take on Tomahawk, a wide range of vocals and superlative guitar playing merged with an angular indie sensibility. This is lithe and muscular music with more than a little bite. The compositional work here is heavy, moving from one multi-rhythm to another, more often than not the vehicle for the guitar to solo and the vocalist to soar, but always a cohesive unit. This is visceral and engaging, the kind of noise rock that put Louisville on the map in the mid-90s.
Listen below and flip a table or two.
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Celtic Fantasy - from Alaska. Interview with author Lela Markham.
Lela Markham is the author of The Willow Branch, Book One of the Daermad Cycle. The book is available now as an ebook but comes out in paperback on 25th of November (though you might actually be able to get it a bit earlier than that). Follow the links given at the end of the article.
The Willow Branch is the story of a Celtic people who have escaped the Roman occupation of Europe by Druid magic, and have come to live in a land occupied by an Elfish people. The Elvan belief in one true God is not in-line with that of the newcomers. I was lucky enough to read this book as a beta reader and enjoyed every minute of it. The trouble is, now I'm hooked and have to hang out for the next book to come out.
Lela lives in Alaska, anyone who lives in Alaska and writes about Celtic/Christian mythology has got to be an interesting person, so I thought I'd ask her some questions for my BLOG.
Lela, can you tell us about your book, The Willow Branch?
The Celts have been in Daermad (what they call the land they live in) for about a thousand years and they've built up a lovely society on the ruins of the Kin (elven) civilization that had existed there before the Celdryans drove them into the mountains. Needless to say, there are some old animosities between these two races.
There are dark forces at work in Celdrya that destroyed the royal family. I have a thread of the story that occurs in that time 100 years in the past, showing how a vengeful Celtic goddesses and black mages dismantled the kingdom. The main part of the story follows the restoration. Padraig, a part-Kin healer, is tasked with finding the One's True King. He's joined in his quest by Tamys, a soldier with a shadowy past, and (remotely) Ryanna, a Kin woman who is both psychically gifted and physically talented. They are opposed by that same vengeful Celtic goddess and the society of black mages, but they are also unaware of an impending invasion by a more powerful neighbor. If the Kin and the Celdryans don't decide to work together, they're going to regret it.
Because this is a first in the series, I resisted the temptation to tie things up at the end and instead set up cliff-hangers that I hope will have readers as intrigued as you are.
What was your inspiration for writing the book? Have you been writing for a while?
 The Daermad Cycle is 22 years in the making, inspired by some research I did when we were naming our daughter an unusual family name. That sent me researching Celtic mythology. I wrote the book following Padraig and Tamys. The local critique group liked it, but most of the writers there at the time were focused on writing Alaskana and they thought a fantasy not based in Alaska was just plain weird. The Willow Branch sort of stayed on my computer without an audience until I discovered Authonomy four years ago and got some actually useful critique from people who write fantasy. Believe or not, the best critique I got was from the chronic troll Absolution/Surtsey Krakatoa, Emily whatsit. I broke a very long book into segments, discovered they weren't adequate as stand-alone stories and that the action didn't start until the third or fourth book. So I went back and brought in the historical thread and more of the bad guys to make a much better book and ultimately a better series.
I think you've captured the essence of a feudalistic Celtic society in your book. Where does the Celtic background come from? Did you have to do a lot of research for this?
I did a lot of research into Celtic mythology and Medieval society. The Celtic background has always been an interest of mine – some of my mother's ancestry is Irish. So is my husband's family ... they're REALLY Irish. About 15 years ago, when I was writing the rough-rough draft of the original Willow Branch, I was reading a lot of Morgan Llewellyn and Katharine Kerr, so they definitely influenced the culture depicted in the book. Ultimately, though, the Celdryans left Gaul a thousand years ago, so there has been cultural drift which means, as a writer, I have lots of leeway.
You have a strong Christian ethos amongst the Elven population of The Willow Branch, can you tell us a bit about this?
The Celts left Gaul in the 5th century AD, which was the early Christian era. A few Christians were in that group. The Kin (the elves) believed in a single god they called The One. When they interacted with the Christians, they formed a type of syncretism. Christianity or Belief, call it what you will, the Celdyrans don't like it and it's going to cause problems since the One has sent Padraig to find His king.
I tried to give equal footing to the Celtic religion because I was not seeking to write a strictly "Christian" novel.
Living in Alaska must influence you as a writer. Do we see this in your book?
In The Willow Branch, there are a couple of descriptions that reflect places in Alaska. Later in the series, when there is more action in the province of Denygal, you will see a lot of Alaskan references.
What is life in Alaska like?
In some ways it's just like everywhere else in America. We have electricity and running water, jobs, movie theaters, Netflix. On the surface, we're anywhere American with long, dark winters. But the culture here is different. We tend to be more independent, more willing to do things by ourselves for ourselves. We're outspoken. We debate politics and religion in polite society and it works out okay. We also have two very distinct seasons – summer which has nearly 24 hours of daylight, so we spend it out of doors when we're not working or sleeping (and we don't sleep much) and winter which has two hours of sunlight (about six hours of daylight) and we spend indoors as much as possible. It's the best possible world for a writer because you have all these adventures in the summer and all this time to create in the winter.
Can you tell us anything about the rest of the books in the Daermad series? Are there any other books on the horizon?
I am working on Mirklin Wood, the second book in the series, which will follow the survivors of all those cliff-hangers. The excerpt at the end of The Willow Branch gives you some idea of who that might be. Padraig and Ryanna will continue their search for the True King, Gil will continue his quest to subjugate the people of Daermad and .... well, you'll have to read the other books.
Finally, can you tell us a little about Lela Markham, the author and person?
Lela Markham is a pen name because I didn't enjoy having drunks call me at 3 am when I worked as a reporter under my real name and I promised my husband to protect his privacy. I grew up in Alaska and chose to live here as an adult because it's an adventure just getting to work in the morning and I can't imagine fitting in anywhere else. When I'm not writing, I'm a wife, a mom, an employee, a hiker, a quilter, a Sunday School teacher and kind of an anarchist.
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A healer must mend a fractured kingdom and bring two enemy races together before a greater enemy destroys them both.
Fate took Prince Maryn by surprise, leaving Celdrya to tear itself apart. A century later an army amasses against the warring remains of the kingdom as prophesy sends a half-elven healer on a journey to find the nameless True King. Padraig lacks the power to put the True King on the throne, yet compelled by forces greater than himself, Padraig contends with dark mages, Celtic goddesses, human factions and the ancient animosities of two peoples while seeking a myth. With all that distraction, a man might meet the True King and not recognize him.
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Sailing Yacht A Remains World's Most Beautiful, Biggest Sail-Assisted Yacht
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When you're the 91st richest man in the world and the 8th richest in Russia, as Andrey Melnichenko is (as of April 2020), you can afford to have a superyacht that is the sum of a lot of firsts.
Sailing Yacht A is all that and probably a bunch more, but we don't know it all yet, because it's private property and Melnichenko isn't exactly a media-friendly type of oligarch. Commissioned in 2015 and delivered to the owner in 2017, ahead of extensive sea trials, Sailing Yacht A remains today one of the most beautiful, elegant and sophisticated yachts of the type in the world.
At 143 meters (469 feet) and a gross tonnage of 12,600, A is also the largest sailing yachts in the world, three years after delivery. A stands out for a groundbreaking and visually-arresting design and a focus on being environmentally-friendly.
As noted above, it's probably just as stunning on the inside as it's on the outside, but that we'll probably never know. Melnichenko is unlikely to invite photographers on board or, for that matter, offer too many details about A to the media.
This explains why not much is known about the A, except for some general details regarding performance and exterior design. This, despite the fact that it's one of the most stalked (but rarely photographed out in the wild) superyachts in the world.
With a naval design by Dykstra Naval Architects, and exterior and interior design by Philippe Starck, Sailing Yacht A was built on commission by the Nobiskrug shipyard in Germany. It looked like a vessel from the future back in 2017, and it still looks like one today, in 2020: that's mostly due to the unique shape, made possible through the use of composite fashion plates that don't sacrifice strength or fluidity in the name of aesthetics.
"Steel hull and steel superstructure with high-tech composite fashion plates that can be formed into any shape or size, a technology Nobiskrug has developed during the past 15 years in co-operation with classification societies and special subcontractors," the German shipyard says of the proprietary technology in a brief description of A on the official website.
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The most interesting feature on the A superyacht are the three, slightly bent carbon fiber masts: they are the tallest freestanding masts in the world, each measuring about 100 meters (328 feet) above water. Each mast hosts sails bigger than a football field.
Nobiskrug calls Sailing Yacht A "one of the world's largest and most advanced superyachts," featuring hybrid propulsion system and state-of-the-art navigation systems. Two MTU 20V 4000 M73L 2,050 rpm 3,600 kW lineshaft engines and four 14,050–24,050 rpm 2,800 kW hotel generators that power two additional Vacon 4,300 kW lineshaft motors take Sailing Yacht A to a top speed of 21 knots. Range is not known, as neither are any other performance-related details.
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After two district courts struck down the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) regulations for calculating hospice caps, CMS issued an unprecedented rule that allowed all hospices with appropriately filed hospice cap repayment demand appeals to avoid going to court.
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"This ruling is a big deal," says Carel T. Hedlund, principal, Ober Kaler Attorneys at Law, in Baltimore, MD. "If a hospice has a repayment demand based on exceeding the cap and has taken the appropriate steps to file an appeal, the cases go back to the CMS Intermediaries to be recalculated using the patient-by-patient proportional methodology," she explains. Losing judgments in two different district courts was a major blow to CMS and suggested that as other cases reached district courts, similar decisions would be made to enjoin CMS from calculating hospice caps with the methodology currently used, she says. CMS has also included a proposal included in the 2012 Wage Index that allows a hospice to choose between the patient-by-patient proportional methodology and the current methodology to calculate their hospice cap, she adds.
The hospice cap was introduced in 1983, but appeals of the repayment demands did not occur regularly until about 5 years ago, points out Hedlund. The cap was established to limit the amount of Medicare payments a hospice receives in a fiscal year. Simply described, the cap is determined by multiplying the number of beneficiaries in an individual hospice by the fiscal year's cap amount, which is adjusted each year by CMS, she explains. "I don't know if the repayment demands were not high enough to justify appeals prior to the 2005 fiscal year, or if hospices just did not consider it worthwhile to appeal," she says. "I do know that around 2005 we saw lengths of stay increasing as hospices provided care for longer term patients with a wide range of diagnoses, rather than the typical short-stay cancer patients," she explains. A longer length of stay does increase a hospice's risk of exceeding the hospice cap, especially if the hospice's case mix does not include enough short-term patients to offset the long-term stays, she adds.
Kyle Terry, MBA, consultant and principal at Hospice CAP Consultants in Owasso, OK, learned everything he knows about hospice cap repayment demands the hard way. When working as an administrator for two different hospices, he faced hospice cap deficits of $1.5 million and $800,000. Although the hospices were responsible for repayment demands for previous years, Terry was able to implement business strategies that prevented the hospices from continuing to accrue cap deficits on an ongoing basis. "I was able to eliminate the $1.5 million deficit in 12 months and the $800,000 deficit in 9 months," says Terry.
Even with the CMS ruling, hospices must pay close attention to their hospice cap exposure and hospice managers need to understand how the cap works, says Terry. "I hate to tell clients that if they've received one repayment demand letter, they will get a second and it will probably be for more money," he says. Because the repayment demands are for fiscal years that ended 2 years earlier, it is likely that the hospice did nothing to adjust the case-mix to address cap deficits for the year between the year addressed in the first repayment demand and the current year, he says. For example, a hospice manager won't receive a repayment demand letter for FY2009 until FY2011, he explains. "If the hospice manager wasn't monitoring cap exposure in FY2010 and addressing issues contributing to the cap deficit, the hospice will almost always receive a repayment demand for FY2010," he says.
Although the key to reducing hospice cap deficits is to monitor cap deficit exposure on a monthly basis, the first step is to understand the issues that can increase your hospice's risk, suggests Terry. "The larger the number of hospices in a single market, the greater the risk of exceeding the cap amount," he says. Competition increases awareness of the hospice benefit, improves education about the benefits of earlier admission to hospice, and encourages longer lengths of stay as hospices seek patients who have a wide range of diagnoses, he explains.
The first step to take when a repayment demand letter is received is to compare the list of beneficiaries included in the calculation to your own information, says Terry. Sometimes a patient whose benefit period started in one fiscal year but continued into the next year is counted as a full patient for the first year, he says. In other cases, a hospice may not realize that a patient received care from another hospice during the year and that adjusts how the cap is calculated, he adds. "I've had clients who immediately ask about the lawsuits filed by other hospices challenging the calculation methodology, but I've found that for most hospices the repayment amount is usually accurate, and if it's based on incorrect information, the intermediaries are willing to listen and adjust if needed," he says.
If you do believe your repayment demand is not accurate, you have 180 days to file an appeal, says Hedlund. "The CMS ruling automatically sends any appeals back to intermediaries for recalculation if the appeal was filed appropriately," she says. For that reason, hospices that receive repayment demands should make sure they file their appeals in a timely manner to ensure their cap is calculated in a proportionate manner, she adds. "However, before you file the appeal, make sure the new calculation is appropriate for your hospice," she says. "Some hospices, based on case-mix, may prefer the current calculation," she adds. The only way to know which method is best is to evaluate your data and conduct your own calculation, she says.
Once you've addressed the immediate concern of the first repayment demand letter, take a look at the fiscal year following the year addressed by the letter, suggests Terry. "There's nothing you can do to change the hospice cap deficit for that year because it is in the past, but you can get an idea of how much you might be asked to repay," he says. "Some of my clients were able to plan ahead to set aside extra funds or make financial arrangements for loans to repay CMS when the demand letter arrived," he says. The analysis also gives hospice managers a good picture of the issues that contributed to the hospice cap deficit, he adds. This analysis enables the hospice management team to make changes to their business strategy to avoid or minimize cap deficits in the current and future years, he adds.
In addition to making sure the hospice cap and each hospice's individual risk of exceeding the cap is understood, managers also should review the proposed changes to hospice cap calculation carefully, suggests Hedlund. She adds, "Comment on the proposed changes included in the proposed Hospice Wage Index during the 60-day comment period so CMS has your input on cap calculations."
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For more information about the hospice cap, contact:
Carel T. Hedlund, Principal, Ober Kaler Attorneys at Law, 100 Light Street Baltimore, MD 21202. Telephone: (410) 347-7366; fax: (443) 263-7566; e-mail: [email protected].
Kyle Terry, MBA, Principal, Hospice CAP Consultants, 9607 N. 100th E. Avenue, Owasso, OK 74055. Telephone: (918) 695-4433; e-mail: [email protected].
To see the April 14, 2011 CMS Ruling related to hospice cap appeals based on validity of calculation methodology, go to www.cms.gov/Rulings/downloads/CMS1355R.pdf.
To see the proposed Hospice Wage Index for 2012, which includes changes to the hospice cap calculation methodology, go to www.cms.hhs.gov/hospice, select "Hospice Regulations and Notices" on the left navigational bar, then choose "CMS-1355-P." Comments can be made until early July.
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U.S. Considers Conditioning Foreign Aid on Religious Freedom Grounds
This is a solid proposal for concrete action that could make a real difference for the world's persecuted Christians. We see that Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world in the news items we post daily here at ChristianPersecution.com. What we do not see up to now is any sustained or concerted effort by government authorities or international human rights organizations to stop this persecution. This policy could change that. And change is urgently needed: there is no country in the world today that we can point to and say that while Christians were once persecuted there, now they live in safety and security. The international indifference to the persecution of Christians is a scandal of monstrous proportions.
Please continue to pray that the hearts of world leaders would be softened, and that they would finally be moved to act to end this scourge.
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"U.S. Considers Conditioning Foreign Aid on Religious Freedom Grounds," International Christian Concern, November 19, 2019:
11/19/2019 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – Two White House officials indicate that U.S. foreign assistance may become dependent on the state of religious freedom in the recipient country, according to recent reports by Politico. This potential development comes as the United States has taken an increasingly public stance against the abuse of religious minorities around the world, making the issue of religious persecution the primary policy issue pushed at the recent UN General Assembly, hosting consecutive Ministerials to Advance Religious Freedom in 2018 and 2019, and pledging $25 million to an international fund designed to protect religious minorities.
According to the Politico report, aides in the White House are drafting an executive order which would require that the United States condition its foreign humanitarian and development assistance on the treatment of religious minorities in the recipient country. It is not clear at this point whether military aid would be impacted by the executive order as well.
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), a U.S. government body dedicated to promoting religious freedom all around the world, issues an annual report on the state of religious freedom. In the report, USCIRF analyzes religious freedom on a country-by-country basis and ranks individual countries on a tiered system, with Tier 1 representing the most severe violators and Tier 2 representing countries with significant but less severe violations. It is the USCIRF annual report, the White House officials suggested, that may form the basis for this new conditional aid initiative….