There was a time in America where all politics were local; only presidential elections were considered national elections, but times have changed. Today, all votes are national, and media outlets across America cover mayoral, gubernatorial, and congressional races as if the outcomes are a matter of life or death, but their coverage lacks complete, accurate, sober analysis. Texans are well aware that all elections are national and domestic economic migrants are capable of transforming a state.
The campaign for U.S. Senate between incumbent Senator Ted Cruz and Robert Francis O-Rourke, aka Beto (fake Mexican), received an inordinate amount of attention from national, media organizations leading up to election day and even more attention after the race was decided because of Cruz's narrow margin of victory. Unfortunately, every news outlet and every political pundit failed to accurately explain why Cruz won by only 2.6 percentage points or approximately 223,000 votes.
Talking heads on the Left and Right tell their audiences that Cruz's narrow victory is evidence that Texans are turning Democrat, but nothing could be further from the truth. It is intellectually lazy to conclude that O'Rourke's solid showing against Cruz is evidence that Texans are morphing into progressives. Any analysis of the election results must include an in-depth investigation of Texas's ongoing population explosion.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, every year this decade Texas' population grew by the most significant number of any state in the country. In fact, more than 1,000 people move to Texas every day. Since April 1, 2010, 3 million people have moved to Texas, the overwhelming majority of these people are economic migrants from California and other blue states such as New York, Illinois, and New Jersey. In 2015, 490,036 domestic migrants made their way to Texas. From July 2016 to July 2017, another 399,734 blue state migrants drove into Texas to take up permanent residence. Do you suppose there were a lot of Democrats in the hundreds of thousands of Californians who packed up their belongings along with their defunct political ideology and headed to Texas?
During the last decade, high taxes, tyrannical regulations, crime, and rising housing costs have sent California residents in search of economic opportunity. Domestic economic migrants are pursuing their financial dreams in red states like Texas that are booming due to low taxes and pro-growth policies. Unfortunately, Texas has become a haven for Democrats who are fleeing the wastelands they created because they voted for progressive politicians.
It is undeniable that O'Rourke came very close to defeating Cruz, but not because Texans couldn't resist his bumper sticker slogans and promises of utopia. The blue state, economic migrants who flooded Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Frisco in the past ten years didn't just load up their furniture, they packed their allegiance to the Democrat Party, and they voted for O'Rourke.
The point made is, I believe, entirely valid — and it is precisely this point that signals a very serious shift left! These migrants move here, bring their foolish attitudes and left-leaning politics with them and hence INCREASE the number count for democrats. As such; future voting contests will skew more and more left and Texas will, unforunately, become a blue State at some point down the road. I am glad I am probably too old to witness this inevitable evenuality. i am glad I partook of Texas while in her prime.
I'm a middle-aged Texan who also fears that Texas will soon turn into California. Californians move to Texas, not because they want to be Texans, but rather because they are looking for work; they want to be in Texas, not be Texans. There is very little difference between Californians fleeing CA and Hondurans fleeing Honduras.


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THE WEATHER CHANNEL INTERACTIVE and VANTRIX to launch firstT ad-supported video weather forecasts on mobile web
WEBWIRE – Tuesday, October 30, 2007
* Atlanta . - The Weather Channel Interactive and Vantrix, a leading provider of mobile video solutions, today announced plans to launch a new mobile video service available through The Weather Channel mobile Web site. Wireless users who visit weather.com on virtually any video-enabled handset can watch weather reports for 100 different US cities, along with regional and national video forecasts, travel weather reports and weather-related news stories. During the CTIA Wireless conference, the companies will offer a pilot featuring forecasts for San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta.
With the use of industry-leading technology developed by Vantrix, the service can ensure that anyone with a multimedia-capable phone can access the content and have a video experience that is optimized for their specific phone without the need to download any additional software. Forecasts for the 100 metropolitan areas covered will be refreshed every thirty minutes, to ensure that they capture the latest information available, resulting in nearly 5,000 new videos every day.
The Weather Channel Mobile is consistently one of the top 5 mobile Web sites in the US, attracting approximately 6 million unique visitors each month, according to Telephia. The company has its own mobile advertising staff, which will manage the future sales of the available advertising inventory on the new video service.
"For people on the go, whether they are business travelers, skiers or little league parents, up-to-date weather information is incredibly important," said Louis Gump, vice president of mobile for The Weather Channel Interactive. "We believe that this service will showcase the value of an integrated mobile Web and video experience, and are proud to be the first weather provider in the industry to make it available", Gump continued.
Manish Jha, CEO of Vantrix, commented, "There are over 80 million people in the US with mobile phones that can play video, yet only a small fraction of them currently consume video on their phones. Innovative, relevant, easy-to-use and broadband-quality services like The Weather Channel Interactive's mobile video portal will serve as a catalyst for mobile multimedia, and will go a long way towards educating consumers about the potential of today's mobile phones," he added. "By leveraging existing online consumer behavior when it comes to video and replicating it on mobile phones, we will greatly stimulate the adoption of mobile media in general, which will help carriers sign up more users on their unlimited data plans. We are delighted to be working with The Weather Channel Interactive to launch this first-of-a-kind wireless service offering."

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Below you will find a list of the martial arts schools in Alameda, CA. These 96 martial arts schools are organized by their distance from Alameda. The closest businesses to Alameda are West-Wind Karate School on Park St (Alameda), Alameda Taekwondo Academy on Santa Clara Ave (Alameda), USA Kung Fu Studio on Park St (Alameda), Elite Kicks Martial Art Acamedy on Blanding Ave (Alameda) and In Motion A Center for Moving Healing & Martial Arts on Calcot Pl (Oakland) in the category Martial Arts.


We all had our favourite piece of clothing in vibrant colours, which we remember from childhood. It is exactly this memory that is the concept behind Molo, founded in 2003. The Danish brand observed that children's clothing mainly consisted of wardrobe classics and items that were a bit bland, and so it decided to mix things up a bit. Since then, Molo has defined itself as a creator of children's "favourite clothes".
The first Molo collection, launched in Spring 2003, was exclusively for the 2-8 years age range and was only available in Scandinavian and Northern European countries. Building on its success, Molo launched its baby collection for 0-2 years in 2005, followed by a children's skiwear collection in 2009. Since then, the brand has extended its range to boys and girls collections up to the age of 16, as well as a swimwear line.
Molo is now an internationally renowned Scandinavian children's clothing brand, which goes to show, its initial intuition was right. It also has a philosophy that has been copied by other clothing brands. "We believe that children's clothes should be designed so that they can express their personality and creativity. We believe in clothing designed for real life, not just special occasions. Children need clothing that allows them to move around freely, express themselves openly and fearlessly explore a world of delightful possibilities - not clothing that restricts their movements" assert the marketing team.
Molo's design concept feeds a child's imagination with strong colours, fun prints, exciting shapes and bold combinations. Instantly recognisable, Molo is crazy about prints: the majority of its girls, boys and baby clothes are emblazoned with stunning serigraphic or digital prints, which add character to even the smallest personalities.
Urbanwear is the key style in Molo collections. What makes this brand so special is that Molo dresses, sweatshirts, t-shirts or jackets feature funky, colourful motifs that often have a humorous twist or are just quirky enough to get noticed. Original children's clothing pieces, they are not mass-produced and are designed with functional details in mind. And because it is a Northern European brand, Molo blends a fun Scandinavian style with perfection.


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The day started with a quick intro from Mark Robinson, providing an update of Ellandi, 12 months on.
Ellandi's research and analytics director, Andrew Buckley was up next, presenting Real Shoppers in Real Locations, a summary of our research piece in conjunction with Savills.
Following a short comfort break, Morgan Garfield introduced the investor panel which was compared by David Hatcher of Estates Gazette. The session consisted of Allan Lockhart (NewRiver REIT), Bob Mogford (M&G), Simon Martin (Tristan Capital Partners) and Simon Travis (Hammerson).
Morgan Garfield did his usual job of pulling together the final thoughts from the afternoon, urging those in the audience to move away from sweeping all shopping centres with one broad brush and instead encouraging others to distinguish between asset classes.


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Die George White's Scandals waren jährlich wiederkehrende Revue-Produktionen am Broadway, die von 1919 bis 1931 – ausgenommen 1927 und 1930 – herausgebracht wurden. Die 1932er Ausgabe erschien unter dem Titel George White's Music Hall Varieties; 1936 wieder unter dem alten Titel und letztmals 1939.

Die Revuen entstanden unter der geschäftlichen Leitung von George White, der zudem als Autor, Choreograf und Regisseur, aber auch als Schauspieler und Tänzer, tätig wurde. White, der zuvor in einigen Ziegfeld-Follies-Revuen als Tänzer aufgetreten war, gestaltete die "Scandals" nach dem Vorbild der "Follies", für die sie sich bald zu einer Konkurrenz entwickelten.

Die Gründung der "Scandals" fiel in den Beginn des "Jazz-Zeitalters". Die Revuen waren bekannt für ihre temporeichen und jazzigen Musik- und Tanznummern; die Sketche für ihre Aktualität. Die Revue des Jahres 1926 wurde mit 432 Vorstellungen zur erfolgreichsten Ausgabe; sie lief bis Anfang Juni des folgenden Jahres.

Whites erster Star wurde Ann Pennington, die 1919 ebenfalls von den Ziegfeld Follies herübergewechselt war. Von 1920 bis 1925 engagierte White George Gershwin als Hauskomponist – Gershwin arbeitete dort u. a. mit den Textdichtern Arthur Jackson, B. G. DeSylva und Lew Brown zusammen. Paul Whiteman und seine Big Band begleiteten die Shows von 1920 bis 1928 musikalisch. Ray Henderson komponierte für die "Scandals" von 1925, 1926, 1928 zusammen mit den Textdichtern DeSylva und Brown; für die 1931er Ausgabe noch einmal mit Brown und mit dem Texter Jack Yellen für die 1936er. Für die letzte Revue 1939 komponierte Sammy Fain zusammen mit Yellen.Berühmt sind die Kostüm- und Bühnenbilder des Art-Déco-Künstlers Erté, die der Russe von 1922 bis 1929 für die "Scandals" gestaltete.

Für viele bekannte Unterhaltungskünstler standen die "Scandals" am Beginn ihrer Karriere: Helen Morgan, Alice Faye, Rudy Vallee, Louise Brooks, Sally Starr, Alice White, Dolores Costello, The Three Stooges, Ray Bolger, W. C. Fields, Ethel Merman, Eleanor Powell, Bert Lahr, Ann Miller.

Bekannte Musiknummern
 1921 "Drifting Along with the Tide", George Gershwin (Musik), Arthur Jackson (Text)
 1922
 "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise", George Gershwin (Musik), B. G. DeSylva und Arthur Francis alias Ira Gershwin (Text)
 "Blue Monday (Blues)", George Gershwin (Musik), B. G. DeSylva (Libretto) – Die Oper wurde als Zwischenaktmusik nach nur einer Vorstellung abgesetzt
 1924 "Somebody Loves Me", George Gershwin (Musik), Ballard MacDonald und B.G. DeSylva (Text)
 1926
 "Black Bottom", Ray Henderson (Musik), B. G. DeSylva und Lew Brown (Text)
 "Birth of the Blues", Ray Henderson (Musik), B. G. DeSylva und Lew Brown (Text)
 1931
 "Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries", Ray Henderson (Musik), Lew Brown (Text)
 "The Thrill Is Gone", Ray Henderson (Musik), Lew Brown (Text)

Verfilmungen
George White brachte den Namen seiner erfolgreichen Jahresrevue in den 1930ern nach Hollywood. White produzierte zwei Filme, bei denen er sich auch am Drehbuch, an der Regie und als Schauspieler beteiligte: George White's Scandals im Jahr 1934 und George White's 1935 Scandals. Einen weiteren Musikfilm unter dem Titel George White's Scandals, brachte RKO Pictures 1945 heraus.

Literatur
 Ken Bloom: Broadway: An Encyclopedia. Taylor & Francis, 2004, ISBN 0-415-93704-3.
 Gerald Bordman: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 3. Auflage. Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-516986-7.

Weblinks

 www.georgewhitesscandals.com

Revue

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Bali has long been equated with an exotic paradise, a picturesque vision of green rice fields and plantations, soaring volcanoes, cool lakes and rushing rivers, lush forests and palm fringed beaches. It is Indonesia's number one tourist destination and as a result suffers from commercialisation and overcrowding, but this is confined to a few main areas. The original charm of the 'Island of the Gods' and its smiling people is still very much in evidence, especially in the many small rural villages and fascinating places of the fertile interior.
Art is an integral part of daily life and every village has its artists, from internationally acclaimed painters to aspirational young cow herders. Ubud, the cultural centre, with its streets lined with art and crafts shops, also offers regular performances of traditional Balinese dance and music. Art, together with tourism, is an important source of revenue for the island.
With its fine beach, the popular resort of Kuta is the most visited destination, but there are numerous other beach resorts around the island, with more peaceful settings on the east coast at Candidasa, Sanur, and the fishing village of Padang Bai, and on the northern coast at Lovina. There are a number of good scuba diving sites and reef snorkeling spots close by.


When a nine-year-old girl fails to arrive home after climbing off the school bus, a community is galvanized into action. Daisy Green, a lawyer at Sydney Legal, has a daughter who travels on the same bus. Daisy is beyond grateful Emma is safe, but feels for the mother of the girl who has disappeared.
Christian Grayson is also a lawyer at Sydney Legal and he's closer to the awful incident than anyone might think. His uncle is the bus driver and Christian is currently staying in his uncle's house. Christian and Daisy bond over their combined efforts to find the missing girl.


The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is our basic national charter for the protection and restoration of the environment. NEPA includes a requirement to prepare a detailed statement, either an Environmental Assessment (EA) and Finding of No Significant Impact, or an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) of major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment and Record of Decision.
As part of the preparation of the EIS, NEPA requires that there be an early and open process for determining the scope of the issues to be addressed by a study. This process is commonly known as "NEPA scoping," during which an agency will solicit your input.
During NEPA scoping, the Chicago District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) sought input on GLMRIS from affected federal agencies, Native American tribes, state agencies, local governments and non-governmental organizations, stakeholders, and the general public. Using input obtained during the scoping period, USACE will refine GLMRIS to focus on significant issues, as well as eliminate issues that are not significant from further detailed study.
Statutory and legal responsibilities relative to the lakes and waterways.
Comments on issues that you consider significant or not significant are important contributions to scoping process.


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Blog: Articles to Help You Navigate Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico Incentives Code (Act 60–2019) Signed into Law
Posted by: Travis Lynk
SAN JUAN, PR, November 8, 2019 – Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Rosselló, signed Act 60–2019, commonly known as the Puerto Rico Incentives Code, into law on July 1, 2019, with an effective date of January 1, 2020.The Incentives Code consolidates various tax decrees, incentives, subsidies, and benefits, including Act 20, the Promotion of Export Services Act, and Act 22, the Act to Promote the Relocation of Individual Investors to Puerto Rico.
Chapter 3 of the Incentives Code replaces Act 20 and governs the exportation of goods and services. It introduces significant changes relating to employment, oversight, eligible businesses, tax exemptions, and municipal contributions.
Under the new law, exempt businesses with actual or projected total revenue of more than $3 million must directly employ at least one full-time employee, which may be the business owner. Moreover, the Office of Industrial Tax Exemption (OITE) will perform an independent audit of exempt businesses at least every two years. Whether this applies to business established before the implementation of the Incentives Code remains unclear. Additionally, blockchain-related services are specifically included as an eligible business activity.
Exempt businesses will enjoy a 75% exemption on the municipal and state property taxes during the validity of the decree, and they will enjoy a 50% exception on municipal contributions or municipal patents applicable to eligible services provided by the businesses during the validity of the decree.Qualifying small and medium businesses will also enjoy 100% exemption on municipal and state property taxes during their first five years of operation.
Chapter 2, "Individuals," replaces Act 22 and changes regulations relating to annual charitable donations, the purchase of real estate, and crypto assets, among others. The required annual charitable donation will double from $5,000 to $10,000, with half payable to a government-approved charity and half to any Puerto Rican charity of the grantees' choice.Within two years of obtaining the decree, grantees must purchase property in Puerto Rico. This property will be the grantees' primary residences throughout the validity of the decree, and grantees cannot rent out these properties. Finally, cryptocurrencies and other cryptoassets are explicitly included as eligible for tax exemption.
From January 2020, the initial decree will be granted for a term of 15 years, compared to the current 20 years, and may be extended for an additional 15 years, compared to the current 10.Furthermore, the Department of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico, also known by the Spanish acronymDDEC, will publish a yearly report on all the incentives requested and granted. The report will include the name of the business and principal shareholders, the date the decree was granted, the name of the municipality in which the business operates, and the number of jobs created by the business.
While the consolidation of the decrees, incentives, subsidies, and benefits governing taxation in Puerto Rico improves transparency, it introduces more rigid, restrictive, and expensive requirements.According to Pilar Rivera, operations manager atPRelocate, "The changes to Acts 20 and 22 will apply only to applications submitted after December 31, 2019. Prospective applicants who are planning to begin their residency and business operations in the 2020 tax year should apply now to make the most of the current rules." She further urged those who are interested in the program to consult an attorney for advice on specific legal and tax issues.
To benefit from the current program requirements, such as the lower donation amount, those who want to apply for Act 20 and Act 22 decrees should contact the PRelocate team today to begin their applications.
About PRelocate: PRelocate provides individuals and small businesses the knowledge and services they need to relocate to Puerto Rico. The company believes that living and working in Puerto Rico is a tremendous opportunity that shouldnot be overlooked due to cost, disjointed information, and an overall lack of clarity.Its goal is to enable and empower its clients to make a sound decision about whether Puerto Rico is right for them. If it is, PRelocate makes it happen for them in a straightforward, accurate, and economical way.
To view the official press release please click here.
Disclaimer: Neither PRelocate, LLC, nor any of its affiliates (together "PRelocate") are law firms, and this is not legal advice. You should use common sense and rely on your own legal counsel for a formal legal opinion on Puerto Rico's tax incentives, maintaining bona fide residence in Puerto Rico, and any other issues related to taxes or residency in Puerto Rico. PRelocate does not assume any responsibility for the contents of, or the consequences of using, any version of any real estate or other document templates or any spreadsheets found on our website (together, the "Materials"). Before using any Materials, you should consult with legal counsel licensed to practice in the relevant jurisdiction.
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Attention to Women's Diseases Should Reach beyond Angelina Jolie
|In Blog, Essays, Essays Millennials, Opinion Essays, Women
Published on the Melissa Harris-Perry Blog, MSNBC
Angelina Jolie's medical condition is rare and few women could benefit from the genetic testing she received, but her New York Times op-ed has ignited a national conversation about barriers to care for breast cancer. In America today, white women are most likely to receive a breast cancer diagnosis, Asian women are least likely to screen for it, and black women are most likely to die from it.
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to women's health in America.
Millions more women suffer in silence from diseases less visible than breast cancer. Endometriosis is one of many life-altering diseases that have not benefitted from widespread multi-million dollar campaigns and are absent from women's health movements. The lack of attention to "invisible illnesses" results in poor quality of care, worsened outcomes, and minimal social support. If we want a world where all women, including women of color, are empowered to make their own healthcare decisions as Jolie did, we must challenge the social, economic and cultural barriers to care—for all diseases.
We are two South Asian American women living with advanced endometriosis, an excruciating disorder where cells similar to the uterine lining exist in other parts of a woman's body. Endometriosis can lead to organ dysfunction and anatomic distortion, debilitating chronic pain, pregnancy complications, and infertility. Although it afflicts 8.5 million women and girls in North America, comparatively little research and development has been devoted to its awareness and treatment. Our personal experiences expose factors leading to its neglect.
It took us both years to be diagnosed, and the first barrier to care was overcoming cultural shame. Our society causes young women to feel ashamed of their bodies and their bodies' dysfunctions around menstrual cycles. In many South Asian American households, girls rarely discuss menstruation or sexuality with their mothers, and grow up with stories about infertile women in India who were abandoned or even burned alive by their in-laws.
As young women, we were forced to "to cover" for missing school, work or family functions due to stabbing, knife-like pain during and outside of our periods. Endometriosis costs women 10.8 hours of lost work productivity/week. As adults, when we became activists working with marginalized communities with survival histories of mass shootings and genocide, it became even more difficult to prioritize our own suffering as worthy of attention.
Surprisingly, medical doctors did not take our suffering seriously either. Endometriosis can only be diagnosed surgically, and physicians' lack of awareness delays treatment. We each saw numerous doctors and provided detailed accounts of our symptoms, but they dismissed our pain as "all in our head" while the disease continued to destroy our insides. Like so many women, we were offered birth control pills as our sole defense–without being told of their limited, temporary relief. On average, women with endometriosis must wait eight to 11 years and see an average of five doctors before receiving a confirmed diagnosis.
We finally both underwent surgery, one of us many times, with some of the surgeries lasting up to six hours and requiring the expertise of gynecologic, colorectal, and urological surgeons. Unlike diseases in the public eye, endometriosis lacks a well-organized continuum of care, such as advanced imaging, in-person support groups at hospitals, or case managers to help us and our families cope with its impacts. We also did not benefit from time tested management plans, since rigorous long-term follow-up data on even the most highly regarded surgical approaches are non-existent. And short of more surgery, no definitive means exist to detect whether endometriosis persists after treatment.
We still had more resources than many. We both have supportive husbands who have held our hands going into surgery and made major life decisions with us. We can afford health insurance plans, however inadequate they may be. Millions of other women do not have this access to care.
To be sure, all women with endometriosis suffer from poor care, regardless of race/ethnicity, or class, but lower income women and women of color face the most pronounced economic barriers to health. Many health plans will not cover pre-existing conditions or deep excision surgery, which is considered gold standard treatment of endometriosis, but only practiced by a handful of surgeons.
We have the opportunity to proactively break this trajectory seen in so many other diseases, like breast cancer, by integrating the concerns of low-income women and women of color from the start.
We can look to other health movements for inspiration. As told in the documentary film How to Survive a Plague, early AIDS activists fought pharmaceutical companies to gain access to life-saving medicines—and won. Their struggle shows how a committed group of people can organize and strategically tell their stories to break down access barriers for all people. We can use our stories so all women have the opportunity to make courageous health decisions, not just those who can afford it. In the process, we can expand the scope beyond traditional reproductive health issues to include "invisible" illnesses like endometriosis.
In a popular culture that often frames women's bodies as either sex symbols or babymakers, Jolie claims the independent worth of her own body–and inspires us to do the same. As many brave women have learned before us, we can all be heroes of our own stories.
J. Gupta is a health professional at a leading academic health center. As an indicator of the misconceptions surrounding endometriosis, she has opted not to publish this article under her full name.
Sindhura Kodali, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public Health (MPH) and a 4th year medical student at the University of Michigan, contributed to this article.
For more information about endometriosis, visit Endometriosis Foundation of America atwww.endofound.org and Endometriosis Research Center at www.endocenter.org. See a portion of Saturday's discussion about disparities in women's health below.


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Jeff's Weekly Pick: Frightened Rabbit @ House of Blues Thursday October 14, 2010
Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit have been growing up a lot lately. By this I mean as a a band, which currently numbers five members, and musically as well. The group is touring after releasing its third studio LP, The Winter of Mixed Drinks. With the addition of Andy Monaghan (guitar, keyboards) and Gordon Skene (guitar, keyboards), the band has created a much fuller and less raw sound. The immediacy that lies within the songs remains intact. This is what makes Frightened Rabbit such a great live band. Many of their songs start in a softer mode and build to a crescendo during the chorus. It is easy to work up a sweat just watching the band perform. However it is nearly impossible to not sense the passion the band has and join in on what is happening. I cannot think of a band that works any harder while on stage, yet seems to enjoy the whole experience. This marks the band's fifth visit (at least) to San Diego but the first in front of a larger audience. Brothers Scott and Grant (Hutchison) have carved a nice path to this point in their career. It was only inevitable that their signature sound would become available to a growing fan base. If you have not seen Frightened Rabbit, this Thursday is your chance to do so. They will be headlining the House of Blues downtown. A can't miss show to be sure.
Plants and Animals and Bad Veins set the stage.
Watch a video of Swim Until You Can't See Land below.
Here's a video from the band's performance earlier this year at the Casbah (evidence that you should prepare yourself for some singalongs):
Posted by Jeff S at Sunday, October 10, 2010
Labels: bad veins, casbah, frightened rabbit, House of Blues
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Reality shows are everywhere nowadays. Take your pick. There are a few I will have to admit that I watch. Generally, I find them entertaining to watch when there is no one else around and I am overthinking (once I have woken up in the night). They help me to distract myself from my thoughts. Once I have watched a programme, I can go to sleep and the noisy thinking has generally stopped.
The other night I was watching a certain American reality show based on a group of housewives. Suddenly, right before my eyes I had the perfect example of how everyone has their own version of reality (Even funnier when you consider the genre of the show) I was watching these 'friends' interacting with each other. Sharing information that maybe they should be keeping to themselves and then saying that they never told anyone else in the group.
I wasn't sure if it was editing, not telling the truth because they were worried, or whether it was the perfect example of how we can filter, delete and distort in order to create our own version of our experiences.
Obviously, one can say it is orchestrated and created for entertainment purposes but watching this I am aware how easy it is as an outsider to see how people can experience patterns of thinking.
Our thinking creates our experiences and our feelings are a reflection of our thinking in the moment. Our thoughts about things cannot be relied upon to be real, especially if we are in a low state of consciousness (we know when this occurs because we are in a low state emotionally) – it is our perspective/perception, and then we act accordingly.
It is good to be aware of this and increase our awareness of ourselves and learn which thoughts and feelings to act on and which to let go and pay no attention to. The more we develop awareness of this the better we will see it in others too and the stronger our relationships will become.


A/B testing is an important tactic that helps you improve the results of your campaigns. A/B testing means testing two or more options of one campaign variable at the same time. The goal of A/B testing is to find which option(s) leads to better performance.
Some campaign variables you can test are titles, thumbnails, and landing pages.
After testing different variables and finding out what works best for your campaigns, you can spend your budget as wisely as possible by only allocating budget to what drives the best performance.
Choose which campaign variable you want to test. It's recommended to test one variable at a time.
Create two or more campaigns with the different options for the variable you are testing. For example, if you are testing three different landing pages for the same product, we recommend setting up three different campaigns with all of the same settings (budget, CPC, targeting, titles, thumbnails, etc.) except the landing pages.
At a minimum, run the campaigns for 7-14 days.
Analyze the results using Backstage reporting.
Optimize and allocate budget accordingly.
If you'd like to A/B test all campaign items in one campaign, consider using the Even option in the Campaign Traffic Allocation section of your campaign settings. You can find more info here.
Even without A/B testing, you can analyze how different variables of your campaigns are working and optimize to improve results.


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"FREE MUSIC" IS THE MISSING LINK
May 11, 2017 by Matthew King Kaufman
Free Music sounds like a simple concept, but why exactly is "FREE MUSIC so important?"
For simplicity sake let's call it, music delivered free to the user, paid for by someone else.
This concept is at the crux of music marketing.
For decades, Curated Recorded Music Content was the "killer app" for the earlier technological advance we know as radio. The technologies of the period were advanced vinyl recordings, plus the phonograph, a device that allowed this recorded music to be heard, and the jukebox allowing for payments.
Music "free to the user" fueled the spread of this hardware: radios, vinyl, and turntables. It was supported by advertisers using music to sell their wares.
"Free music" on the radio has been responsible for sales of hundreds of millions of varying vinyl configurations as well as the advertiser's product. Radio "free music," and the "free listen" (where you could hear music someone else paid for) were responsible for my love of music. Most of the music I purchased, I had heard before at a friend's, and most of the music I liked and eventually paid for in a jukebox, but didn't buy, I heard on a favorite radio station. I might have never appreciated Patsy Kline without being stuck in a diner during a snowstorm with a huge Patsy Kline fan who fed the jukebox and played her music all night.
All music needs to start "free" for exposure to build or reach an audience. The more you can give away your music, the more you can sell.
Michael Jackson and the Beatles are top music sellers and their songs are among the most played on radio.
Exposure and discovery of music are based on "FREE."
"FREE MUSIC" IS ESSENTIAL TO THE MUSIC ECOSYSTEM.
It's important to note radio only played these artists BEST songs, made and paid for by record companies. These artists sold millions of CDs, albums and singles, making the investment by the recording companies worth tons of $.
While today's free music opportunities are confusing:
Radio, a dying media, has tried it's best to salvage its role as an indispensable tool for mass marketing of popular songs. There is no discovery, only exposure for corporate music possibilities. Music radio is a corrupt shell of it's former self, so it can't be counted on for creating "music love" any more. Radio has become a full-on marketing tool for major labels.
This monopolistic hold on "Free Music" by business interests is dumbing down the users of this language and harming music. Streaming services and Internet radio are equally as guilty in neglecting this human language and art form. It seems cultivating a dumb audience is the goal of all the corporate business interests involved in the "music business."
These subscription services are using "Free Music" to entice users to their premium services. Today's corporate greedy( both major labels and technology companies) are perverting the "Free Music Concept" to diminish any payments to the music creator for exposure for their latest product. If this was the only perversion, I wouldn't waste time over it. It's a common business practice for the costs of marketing to be paid back to the business from the creation's income before any payment or royalties are due to the creator .
But what really concerns me is that the free music experience has been de-valuated for the public as well. The "Free Music" uses in the current music subscription services, are designed to be a lesser-value use (free access ad supported) to the subscription service, to supposedly entice you to use their premium service without ads and more features.
HERE'S WHERE THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD. One of those paid for features is the unlimited ability to fast forward through songs you don't like. Radios in cars had this feature (to exit a playlist) and it was essential to have this skip-ability. While these digital services treat mediocre songs (known as album cuts) included on long playing recordings for fan consumption, the same as they treat the best songs of an artist. Plus the bogus bonus tracks used to add value to the some CD sale or one hundred remixes of a hit are treated with equal value to the BEST version of a song or an artist's recording. This may be good for these rental services, but not gr8 for nurturing love for a language and an art form. Even the subjectively created playlist have a limited ability to fast forward.
Radio thrived by only featuring these BEST songs, and there was a healthy demand for ownership of this music, ergo a thriving music business.
With all this FILLER music in subscription services intentionally skewing the music pool, and the limited ability to fast-forward, the "Free Music Experience" has been DIMINISHED considerably.
Historically, deejays, music lovers, and other HUMAN music curators, created free music experiences, by selecting songs they SUBJECTIVELY valued as worthy. These humans passed on their music love, competing over the ability to find music you might love is sorely lacking in the corporate approaches I see so far.
So I created the FREE MUSIC LIST to improve the quality of, and draw attention to the value of FREE MUSIC. I can't allow a language and an art form I love denied information because of corporate greed.
I NEED HELP SPREADING THE WORD, FINDING AND ADDING VALUE TO THE FREE MUSIC LIST!!
Until then I'm going it alone. I have compiled music since 1999 when I felt the lights go out in the subjective selection of music world.
I'm offering the music I control for Free to listen to and use non commercially.
We've found music for Free in the Public Domain.
I designed web-sites, and with the help of many, found some GR8 music available for Free offered by the music creators who needed exposure.
Ergo the FREE MUSIC LIST @ Opensourcemusic.com.
I hope you enjoy the experience.
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If you have or have had a Broadneck High School student in the past few years, you may be aware of the Broadneck High School National Honor Society.Broadneck has always had a chapter of this organization, but over the past few years, under the deft leadership of advisor Tammy Dronberger, who is a social studies teacher at BHS, they have stepped up their community outreach. Membership requires not just high academic standards, but a true commitment to service; both during the school year and over summer break.
NHS has donated thousands of dollars, in-kind donations, and service hours to many non-profit organizations such as the Polar Bear Plunge, Out of the Darkness Anti-Suicide Walk, Lighthouse Shelter, Kinder Park Farm, countless community 5k runs, local animal shelters, and events at the local elementary and middle schools . In addition, at almost every Broadneck HS event there are NHS students involved in setup, cleanup, and behind-the-scenes support. The members help teachers set up their classrooms over the summer, incoming ninth graders are thrilled to be ushered around their new school by NHS upperclassmen on their first day of high school; and parents are guided through the hallways to their students' classrooms on Back to School Night.
This year, along with everything else, service opportunities are somewhat limited. However, to meet the challenges of online learning, the group is offering free virtual tutoring to elementary and middle school students in the Broadneck feeder system. It will be held via Google Meets up to 2 times a week for 30 minutes at dates and times decided by the family and the tutor. In addition, tutoring is also available from a new tutoring club where non-NHS or aspiring NHS members can add to their service resume.
Community groups of non-profit agencies who are looking for volunteers can find more information here.
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In a recent article from Trends eMagazine entitled "China's Day Never Came" editors there make the point that, despite a 2017 report from PwC projecting that China will become the world's largest economy "by a significant margin" by 2050, it all depends on how you measure.
PwC uses a measure called "DGP at PPP," or Gross Domestic Product at Purchasing Power Parity to adjust for price level differences across countries, thus providing what they believe to be a better measure of the volume of goods and services produced. But Trends argues that according to a different measure that includes market exchange rates, the U.S. economy will still be twice as large as China's by 2050.
China's key advantages – the size of its population and low cost of labor – will erode by the end of the next decade. Thanks in part to the one-child edict of the 1970s, population will begin to decline in 2030. Meanwhile, wages will continue to rise, and China's low-cost-leader position will become ever more difficult to maintain. Already wages in China average about five times those in India, and more elsewhere, according to a recent report by CNBC.
Automation will accelerate the return of the U.S. manufacturing industry while causing the decline of China's manufacturing. This is a big one, according to Trends' editors. Robotics and additive (or 3-D) manufacturing are making the U.S. competitive in high-value goods. Lower costs of distribution from shorter transportation distances and cheap fuel means U.S. companies can now manufacture products for domestic consumption at prices competitive to imports.
China's birth rate will fall while its elderly population will expand. By 2030, one-fifth of Chinese will be over 65. Consumer spending will lack its expected potential given only one child to support both elderly parents as well as their own families, even with rising wages, putting increased competitive pressure on the Chinese economy.
The wealthiest Chinese won't boost their homeland's economy, but will move assets to other countries instead. It's already happening. In fact, The Wall Street Journal reported in 2014 that nearly two-thirds of 'high net worth individuals' polled were already emigrating or planning to do so.
These trends bode well for the strength of the U.S. economy and particularly our manufacturing sector in a global competitive environment. Once again, automation is helping to lead the way, and if history is any guide, that will only open up still more jobs, not fewer, in the decades ahead.
… of jobs being lost to the new wave of automation, robots and artificial intelligence, total aggregate employment in our nation continues to increase relentlessly, even with bumps along the way. In other words, robots are not going to steal all our jobs.
With Elon Musk recently warning that robots will "do everything better than us," and a 2013 paper from the Oxford Martin School claiming that 47% of all jobs are at high risk of falling to computerization in the coming decades, the fact is that jobs are constantly changing, shifting and evolving. It's nothing new, and it's nothing that we – especially those involved in U.S. manufacturing – need panic over.
A recent analysis by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation quantified the rate of job destruction and creation for every decade going back to 1850, based on census data. Among other things the report showed that 57% of jobs that workers did as recently as 1960 no longer exist today (adjusted for workforce size). The largest losses were suffered among office clerks, secretaries and telephone operators. That's a lot of Mad Men era folks out of work, right? And let's not forget elevator operations, bowling pin setters and gas station attendants.
The point is, we have a long tradition of losing jobs due to automation, but invariably we see new jobs take their places. More often than not today, robots, artificial intelligence (AI) and the like are often automating discrete tasks more than they are jobs. By 2055, McKinsey predicts, more than 50% of all work-related tasks will be subject to automation.
So why, with this long history of job attrition, do some continue to insist that the sky is falling, or that this time is different… that we are headed to some jobless future of mass unemployment?
The gist of the doomsayers' argument voiced by many futurists and experts, according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal (7-22-17) seems to be that the new wave of AI computers and robots can "do virtually any job that humans can do, so everyone's job is on the chopping block." AI is getting so intelligent, the logic goes, that it's smart enough to recognize cats, drive cars, identify cancers and translate across languages, notes the Journal. So won't it soon be capable of doing anything a person can?
And that means: plenty of jobs. After all, once over 90% of us were farmers; today it's 3%. And unemployment is near an all-time low, while employment is at an all-time high. Meanwhile, standards of living around the world continue to improve as we shuffle jobs from one category to another in the familiar cycle of creation and destruction.
In our prior post we suggested how additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, will be a major consideration in the customized world of the factory of the future. We'll wrap up the line of thought today with a few observations on why, and the economic impact, with some help from editors at The Economist (7-1-17).
Manufacturers often start production either by building small runs of prototypes, or sometimes by making small numbers of high-value items for special applications or markets, before tooling up to larger production runs on more mass-market items.
One British company called Domin Fluid Power is using 3D printing to change the equation. When this design service company decided to start making its own products, they picked high-performance hydraulic pumps and servo-valves, devices that control fluids in a variety of applications from aviation and aerospace to factory plant floors. The question they faced was which market to go after. The answers are revealing.
While aerospace offers good profits from high margins, it's a low-volume business, fraught with time delays, layers of prototyping and costly risks. The industrial and general equipment markets are generally broader and arguably easier to enter, and they can help companies get up to volume production quickly; however, they're price sensitive, with inherently lower profits and margins.
Domin had acquired a 3D metal printer from a German firm, and realized that economies of scale were different with 3D. Changing designs meant only software modifications, not wholesale shop floor retooling. Operationally then, unit costs were roughly the same whether they made five of an item, or 500 or 5,000.
And importantly, manufacturing with 3D requires less material. Unlike traditional methods that require removing excess materials, as well as burnishing, abrading, cutting and drilling… 3D products can emerge fully formed with little or no waste. Over time – and production volumes – that adds up to significant savings, and a reduced cost of goods.
An analysis done by Domin revealed that, as always, reduced product weights held value to varying degrees across applications. For instance, saving a couple pounds of weight when building a Formula One racecar might be worth over $100,000 relative to the value of a win in a world of tight tolerances. ("A kilo saved is a trophy won.") In spacecraft, they calculated the value at about $25,000, in aircraft, from $1,200 to $13,000, in automotive from $20 to $600, and finally, in factory equipment, from zero to perhaps $6 per two pounds of weigh saved.
All this makes for lighter, less expensive (i.e., less material) and often more valuable end products. And with 3D printing, the costs per unit were essentially the same across any size product run. In Domin's case, the analysis led them to decide to enter the low-end of the market first with a competitively priced servo-valve. But since essentially the same valve could be used in mobile hydraulics in tractors and trucks, they can move up the profit scale at little added cost. And in fact, they've found aerospace applications for which they hope to qualify, and with some modification, they say they can crack the racecar market too, thus opening the way to automotive.
3D printing opened all these markets to them, and is making them competitive on the low-end and capable at the high end, all while managing production at lower costs very effectively.
The benefits of 3D will spread throughout industry, as Domin illustrates. And weight reduction and cost reduction will always have the manufacturing marketplace advantage.
We return again to the growing importance of additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3-D printing, as its impact upon our country's industrial base continues to expand.
3-D printing will prove to be one of those "manufacturing revolutions" that, like others before, take time to be transformed – and transformational. As The Economist notes in a recent (7-1-17) article on the matter, way back in 1733 a fellow by the name of John Kay, a British weaver, invented the "flying shuttle" which allowed for the production of wider pieces of cloth than previously possible. Because it could be mechanized, it was one of those innovations that displaced workers and gradually paved the way for the Industrial Revolution. In the early 1900s Ransom Olds came up with the idea of an assembly line to speed up production of the Olds Curved Dash – a decade ahead of Henry Ford.
Fast forward to the 1980s and Taiichi Ohno's Toyota Production System had a similarly profound effect on modern automotive production, with its "curious methods," (to quote The Economist), like just-in-time parts delivery and continuous material flow procedures that presaged today's lean thinking.
In 1983, a fellow named Chuck Hull invented something called stereo lithography. He's the founder of 3D Systems, a producer of 3D printers. We've written of these machines' capabilities before. They allow a product to be designed CAD-like on a computer screen, and then "printed" as solid objects by building up successive layers of material. Hull's invention is just one of many approaches to additive manufacturing.
3D print technology has become popular for producing one-off prototypes since users can tweak their software to create new prototypes, rather than fuss with expensive tooling on the shop floor. 3D printing has proven great at making lightweight, complex shapes in high-value products like planes and autos. It's worth noting that GE has spent $1.5 billion on the technology to make jet parts.
To date, 3D printing has been ideal for low-volume production, but less for high-volume, where the technology has been deemed too slow to compete at higher volumes. Except that's going to change too.
Recently, shoe manufacturer Adidas has started to use a form of 3D printing called "digital light synthesis" to produce shoe soles, pulling them fully formed from a vat of liquid polymer, note the authors. Adidas plans to use the technology in two highly-automated new factories to bring a million pairs of shoes to market annually. So much for low-volume production.
Metal printing is also being affected. A new technique called "bound-metal deposition" can build metal objects at a rate of 500 cubic inches per hour, compared to the 1 or 2 cubic inches using a typical laser-based metal printer today.
The rise of this technology is only a matter of time. With increasing wage pressures even in China, the demand from factories is already there. 3D printing is spreading to production lines around the world. As global supply chains shorten, additive printing a la 3D will be used to customize and tailor a range of products to local tastes and customer demands. And Mr. Hull and others like him are likely to get a lot better known in the not too distant future.
According to Deloitte and the U.S. Council on Competitiveness this is due largely to America's investments "in research, technology and innovation." "Manufacturing competitiveness, increasingly propelled by advanced technologies, is converging the digital and physical worlds, within and beyond the factory to both customers and suppliers, creating a highly responsive, innovative, and competitive global manufacturing landscape," says Craig Giffi, co-author of the report.
United States – Research, technology and innovation. Not to mention, access to capital.
China – But of course, although slipping to number 2.
Germany – Industrial production, research & development… a growing lead in advanced mfg.
It's a bold prediction, and to make it happen will require continued innovation here in the U.S., along with advanced manufacturing, access to broad capital markets, access to world trade markets, and the continued research and developments efforts that have long ensured America's place in the top tier of global manufacturing.
But others are not standing still, and nothing is ever assured.
Are Robots Really So Bad After All?
In our prior post, we pointed out that China is on the verge of becoming the world leader in the production, sale and implementation of robots, with a stated goal of producing at least half the nation's own robots for manufacturing by 2025. The takeaway from that view, outlined recently in Bloomberg BusinessWeek might be that the world has much to fear from the ascendance of this wave of Chinese bots.
But a recent counterpoint to such a robot apocalypse offered by Greg Ip of the Wall Street Journal suggests that in fact, robots aren't destroying enough jobs, fast enough.
In short, Ip points out that by enabling society to produce more with the same workers, automation like robots becomes a major driver of rising standards of living – in effect, a productivity boost. While some say that "this time is different" because the technological change is so profound they fear that millions of workers will be out of work or at best consigned to more menial tasks… Ip says the evidence shows we're moving in exactly the opposite direction.
He notes that while the U.S. "has many problems, job creation isn't one of them." Job creation has averaged 185,000 per month this year and unemployment is down to a ten year low. Wage gains are even up, slightly. Ip says that "if automation were rapidly displacing workers the productivity of the remaining workers ought to be growing rapidly." Instead, worker output per hour has been dismal in most sectors, including manufacturing.
When slow-growing occupations are compared to fast-growing ones in data going back to 1850 (a proxy for job creation and destruction driven by 'technology'), they find that churn relative to total employment today is the lowest on record.
Ip's point is that the past was, in fact, much more 'convulsive' than today's job churn. American consumption he notes is gravitating toward goods and services whose production is not easily automated. Societies increasingly are devoting "a growing share of their income to consumption in sectors where productivity [is] stagnant." The idea is that robots can replace fewer things that go into GDP than we think.
As examples he cites medical breakthroughs in new, more expensive treatments rather than cheaper existing treatments, and that child-care work has soared because parents won't leave kids in the care of a robot. Over the past decade, "low productivity sectors" including education, health care, social assistance, leisure and hospitality have added nearly 7 million jobs, whereas information and finance, where value added per worker is 5 to 10 times higher, have cut or barely added jobs.


O n Friday, August 7, former Sagamore Farm owner Alfred G. Vanderbilt was formally inducted into the National Museum of Racing's Hall of Fame as a Pillar of the Turf.
The Pillars of the Turf category is designated to honor individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to Thoroughbred racing at the highest national level. Candidates must be deemed to have represented the sport with indisputable standards of integrity and commitment through disciplines such as breeding and ownership, leadership, innovation, philanthropy, promotion and education.
Vanderbilt was joined in induction by fellow Pillar of the Turf honoree John Hay Whitney, along with racehorses Billy Kelly, Lava Man and Xtra Heat; jockeys Chris Antley and Vincent Powers; and trainer King Leatherbury.
Vanderbilt took ownership of Sagamore Farm when it was bequeathed to him for his 21st birthday in 1933.
Under Vanderbilt's legendary guidance the farm was internationally recognized as a premier training and breeding facility for the next half century.
Sagamore's Hall of Fame roster of horses includes Native Dancer, Discovery and Bed o' Roses.
The Hall of Famers are buried on the grounds at Sagamore Farm.


Apple today released MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.1 which improves the performance and reliability of Intel Core 2 Duo processors and fixes issues with Boot Camp for MacBook computers.
You can confirm the version of the BootROM installed on your computer using System Profiler.
To complete the firmware update process, please follow the instructions in the updater application (/Applications/Utilities/MacBook EFI Firmware Update.app). The updater will launch automatically when the Installer closes.
MacBook EFI Firmware Update 1.1 is available via Software Update and also as a standalone installer.
More info and download link (1.7MB) here.
I just installed, but I didn't have a smooth experience. It kept asking me about "where is system event?"which I don't understand. I thought I almost failed the installation, but the system profiler indicates the correct version. So maybe it is.
Wow. What a day for updates. Maybe someday they'll release an update to Rosetta so I can run Quicken and Bejeweled again. Perhaps in 10.4.11?
tclash your snap is blahier.
When updates like this are issued I wish we new more information on them.
Eg what is performance and reliability of Intel Core 2 Duo processors?
Can we know exactly what was the issues are?
I know most people don't care and all they want is there comp to work, but what about the folks that are interested in the inner workings.
Hanna, I had the same problem several months ago. I don't remember the specific update, but I do remember thinking how "un-Maclike" that was for a Mac installer. It seemed so PC-ish. I couldn't locate a "system event" file anywhere, but the installation seemed to work anyway.
my MacBook is far snappier than before – no, really it is!
I can't believe anyone still uses Quicken on Macs. use iBank instead. You'll thank me. Oh, and the FW upgrade worked perfectly.
This update allows Apple to spy on you! Don't install it!


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'Sequestration' Hypocrisy – Gov Still Hiring as Services are Cut
Editor's Note – The height of hypocrisy is on full display by the Obama White House as tours are closed, FAA personnel and towers are cut, Blue Angels training is postponed, soldier tuition assistance is cut, and the list just keeps getting longer, all cited as cuts due to 'sequestration', yet many departments are hiring.
Not only that, but so much waste, duplicity, fraud, and abuse still goes on, despite Obama's pledge to go line by line over the budget to cut such egregious spending. But, "we have to keep releasing illegal aliens…!"
Government Advertises for Nearly 2,600 New Jobs Since Sequestration
This includes 107 new positions at the Department of Homeland Security, which has freed illegal immigrants citing budgetary constraints.
By Bridget Johnson – PJ Media
With Office of Management and Budget fact sheets in hand, President Obama warned of dire cutbacks and consequences should sequestration go into effect March 1. The cuts happened, White House tours have been halted, and the administration swears it's not overreacting to the bare-bones budget directive.
But in the days since the hammer of sequestration fell, the federal government is hiring anew. A search tonight of the USA Jobs federal employment website, filtered to positions in the United States and posted over the past 10 days, yielded 2,596 results.
This includes 107 positions at the Department of Homeland Security, which has claimed cutbacks have resulted in everything from a more taxing security line at airports to the need to free illegal immigrant detainees.
Jobs included transportation security officers in rural areas, a library technician in Baltimore, a recreational boating safety specialist in Cleveland, natural hazards program specialists in Denton, Texas, and various program analyst positions in the D.C. area. Various six-figure supervisory jobs are also open.
One hundred and fifteen jobs have been posted since sequestration began for the Agriculture Department, which warned of Americans falling ill from tainted food due to short staffing should sequestration go into effect.
Jobs posted included soil technicians, a recreation forestry technician in Sedona, Ariz., a dairy grader in Winnsboro, Texas, an archaeologist in McCall, Idaho, and a social science analyst.
The highest number of job postings since sequestration went into effect is at the Department of Veterans Affairs, with 909 new openings at the time of publication. The OMB painted a grim picture of tens of thousands of homeless vets being returned to the streets due to the budget cuts.
As the OMB warned Indian tribes would lose nearly $130 million in funding from the Interior Department, 115 new jobs have been posted in the sequestration era including multiple park guides to stock up for the summer, a museum aide, plant technicians, and more.
And while the White House warned of hundreds of furloughed federal prosecutors and a thousand fewer criminal cases being brought to court each year, the Justice Department has 46 new job postings including a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Attorneys, a law librarian, a trial attorney, and a deputy chief for the civil rights division.
New job postings at random agencies include a six-figure IT specialist at the Railroad Retirement Board, an exhibition aid for the National Gallery of Art, an Albanian-language broadcaster, and a space-assignment technician at the National Archives.
The office of the president is advertising for a management analyst, with a salary of $51,630 to $97,333 per year, to provide "assistance, research, advice and consultation on a full scope of administrative, managerial and financial projects in support of the Office of Administration." Relocation assistance is not included.
If anyone does want to complain about sequestration job losses, though, the Office of Personnel Management is hiring a customer service specialist for its call center.
Last week, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) wrote to Acting OMB Director Jeffrey Zients, noting that many nonessential federal job postings were still going up despite pressure on the office to warn agencies that hiring activity should be scrutinized in the face of sequestration.
On the first business day after sequestration, 606 new jobs were posted on the USA Jobs site.
"While some of these positions may be essential to the mission of the agency, others plainly are not," Coburn wrote. "…According to OMB, the average annual salary for a government employee is around $76,000. This means that the average new hire equates to a one week furlough for 52 current government employees."
Jobs found by Coburn on March 4 and highlighted in the letter to Zients included 23 openings that included "recreation" in the title and a historian for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
"While the Air Force may need leadership for its museums and history programs, and the USDA may need to keep its literature in order, those needs should take a back seat to the dire threat to public health and safety that some have claimed will result from sequestration," Coburn wrote. "Canceling the opening for the librarian position at USDA could offset one week of furloughs for as many as 104 to 156 food inspectors."
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Q: Need install Laravel-ide-helper for VS Code I use VS Code, not use PHP Storm. Should I install 'laravel-ide-helper'?

A: You can require this package with composer using the following command:
composer require --dev barryvdh/laravel-ide-helper

Then if you are using Laravel versions older than 5.5, add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php:
Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider::class

In Laravel, instead of adding the service provider in the config/app.php file, you can add the following code to your app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php file, within the register() method:
public function register(){
    if ($this->app->environment() !== 'production') {
      $this->app->register(\Barryvdh\LaravelIdeHelper\IdeHelperServiceProvider::class);
    }
    // ...
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This basically  allow your application to load the Laravel IDE Helper on non-production environments.

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ObamAA-s Response
Posted by JeremyR at 7:33 AM No comments:
I'm bad
I called the Riley County Police department and told them I had seen on CNN where all the bridges in and out of Manhattan were closed because of Hurricane Sandy. They said yes, that was indeed true. I then asked them the best route to take to get to Wamego in the morning..... Oops, Sirens, gotta go.
Posted by JeremyR at 8:29 PM 2 comments:
Shamelessly stolen borrowed from Denny These men did not get where they are by being foolish or stupid. None of them are affirmative action implants. All of them are heros.
My feelings on immigration remain unchanged
A sad story. Two members of a group of immigrants from Guatamala were killed when they chose to run rather then stop. It was a bad decision on the part of the driver. the Texas officer did not know if he had a truck load of refugees, a load of drugs or a terrorist bent on destruction. His decision, a wise one, will haunt him for many years. He is now being vilified by too many people.
I want a secure border. One that is closed as tight as the Iron curtain. I do not want to see imigrants risking life and limb to get here. We want to keep the drugs and criminals out, and offer our hospitality to those seeking a chance at a better life. Not so much welfare bumbs and slackers.
As soon as Congress reconvenes, the republicans need to introduce legislation containing a simple plan.
1. Secure the border.
2. identify illegals who are here.
3. Clasify them into five groups,
a. Those who want to become productive citizens
b. Those who want to work here but eventually return to thier home country
c. Legitimate refugees
d. Criminals
e. Freeloaders.
4. Deport the criminals and the freeloaders. Ensure the criminals serve prison time in their home land, and give them a strong incentive to not return, I would castrate them. Make the home land of the freeloaders pay us for supporting them. We could send several of our own with them back to Mexico or where ever.
5. Punish employers who knowingly hire illegals.
6. Get the ones who want to make The USA their home started on becoming citizens, and the ones who want to eventually return home documented so they can benefit our nation and live a good life while they are here.
7. devise a simple immigration system for people who are coming here looking for a better life. Lets not limit it to those with higher educations. Frankly, I want our doctors schooled in the United States, not Cuba, and engineers from oOur universities as well. The strength of America is built on hte backs of hard working immigrants, lets not give up what we worked so hard for, and lets not squander our future with foreign educated marxists, the ones churned out by our failed universities are bad enough.
We don't need our cops feeling guilty because they killed a few who acted like terrorists.
Posted by JeremyR at 7:37 PM No comments:
Dear John Franklin Stephens
Thank you for the note to Ann Coulter. Thank you for showing us how stupid some one must be to be called a retard. Since you asked, ObamAA- makes you look like a genius. You aint though.
Did your feeling get hurt? Thats your right. Suck it up and hopefully live with it. Its a dumb thing to die over, being butt hurt that ObamAA- got lumped in with people like you, or rather that you got lumped in with assholes like ObamAA- aint fair but its life.
I know a lot of folks get all up in arms about the word retard. Well, its just that, a W-O-R-D. Why not get upset about something that matters? You wrote "Finally, I wondered if you meant to degrade him as someone who is likely to receive bad health care, live in low grade housing with very little income and still manages to see life as a wonderful gift." well, I don't know how you could be more wrong, but you are wrong. ObamAA- does not see life as a wonderful gift, if he did, he would not have sponsored legislation in Illinois to allow the slaughter of children who survive the abortion process and are born still breathing. ObamAA- and his minions support killing people like you. Sure they dress their language and sugar coat it, but they want all women who carry a child with downs syndrom to murder it and not be like your mother.
Yes John, words hurt. When we choose our words in describing some one like you, we attempt to use language less unsensative, words that are politically correct. The word retard is reserved for people like the marxist in chief who choose to be denser than dirt, duller than a spoon, and flat out lie.
So John, with all your handicaps, with all the struggles you have in life, quit acting like a retard, and leave the utter stupidity to ObamAA- and Nancy P. Lousy.
Posted by JeremyR at 6:59 PM 1 comment:
New Slogans Fer the State of Florida
New Slogans Fer the State of Florida for 2012
If you think we can't vote, wait 'til you see us drive.
Home of electile dysfunction.
We count more than you do.
If you don't like the way we count then take I-95 and visit one of the other 56 states.
Relax, Retire, Re-Vote.
Viagra voters do it again!
Where your vote counts and counts and counts.
We don't just cheat in football.
We're number one! Wait! Recount!
Palm Beach County: So nice, we let you vote twice.
Palm Beach County: We put the "duh" in Florida.
Sign on I-95: Florida this way. No that way. Five miles. Wait...ten miles.
What comes after 17,311?
This isn't good when Alabama counts faster than us!
Once is never enough!
We would do a recount but we've run out of fingers and toes!
Don't blame me, my vote didn't count.
We're retired --no wait-- we're retarded!
Don't count on us!
Bumbling better than ever!
Gonna miss her
After a lot of heart tugs, I traded my .243. When I purchased it, I noted that availability of ammo and cost were the two down sides of the .243, and they are what tipped me over to the .308. Yes, I already had one Ar in .308, but it was a bull barrel, stainless job and heavy as heck.
The .243 is a great round. availability is the key factor though, and right now its scarce as an honest democrat, not a one to be bought. Walmart is out of both rounds. The reloaders aren't punching out .243 either, not enough demand.
Sorry for not posting pictures, my internet connection is acting weird, and uploads are failing.
Labels: guns
What is Trump up to
Donald the hair (brain) says he has a "big announcement" which he will reveal via twitter on Wednesday. We can only guess. My hope is he bribed away a copy of ObamAA-s college transcripts. Please Don, show us what a SCoaMF on drugs does on college exams. Was he an above average student? Well, we have four years of anecdotal evidence to show us he was probably an utter failure, some one who got a degree because he was dark skinned and sounded better then a street thug.
I'm not saying ObamAA- was a street thug, its clear he was not. A candy ass like him would have been pounded down the first grated manhole, and washed into the ocean.
We know he's been a muslim since he started college. there are questions about what he was doing in Pakistan in the early 80's, an answer to that would be nice.
If its more showman shit, Trump can dump it. he will never top Clint Eastwood, so don't waste our time. If the Donald does not have something of substance, we need to give him a ratings beat down and shove his show off the air. Both Apprentice, and the Miss UN-a-verse.
Show or fold Donald, this is no time for cheap games.
Libya aint going away
Folks are comparing Libya to Watergate. Others are comparing it to Monica-gate, the Bay of Pigs, Carter's 444 days of stupid, and a host of other things. While we can compare all we want, this is a national disgrace, an international disaster, and ammunition for our enemy islam.
This administration claimed it would be the most transparent administration ever, yet we have a continuous succession of scandals. At the outset, we called it Chicago politics. Its far worse.
We have had laughs as he bowed and groveled before the Saudi King. We all felt a nasty taste as he sucked up to Hugo Chavez, and Amalama ding dong. We all felt shock at the murder of Officer Terry, and disbelief at his actions leading up to the Arab Horror show in Libya and Egypt, and the continuing cycle of stupidity as the happenings in the middle east went from bad to beyond worse. Side issues such as the various energy scandals and Moochelles many vacations barely rate mention in the list of acts we have endured from this band of petty scum. We can only hope that another three weeks will mark the end of this national disgrace.
I don't know what you want to call it, Me? I call it treason.
A good reason
An old man was critically ill. Feeling that death was near, he
called his lawyer. "I want to become a lawyer. How much is
it or the express degree you told me about?"
"It's $50,000," the lawyer said. "But why? You'll be dead soon,
why do you want to become a lawyer?"
"That's my business! Get me the course!"
Four days later, the old man got his law degree. His lawyer
was at his bedside, making sure his bill would be paid.
Suddenly the old man was racked with fits of coughing and
it was clear that this would be the end. Still curious, the
lawyer leaned over and said, "please, before it's too late,
tell me why you wanted to to get a law degree so badly before
you died?"
In a faint whisper, as he breathed his last, the old man said,
"One less lawyer . . ."
FEMA grads
Our nation is swiftly sinking into Tyranny. Oct. 7th saw the graduation of the first class of Fucking Evil Maniac's Asshats. Ask yourself why we needed another para military force in government. We already have the best military in the world, World class police in the FBI and marshal's service, and a cross section of Americans who step up to the plate in time of emergency or national disaster.
Our state Police are not lacking in man power. if anything, the one hindrance for them is a court which at times is too soft on crime.
After 9-11-01 Bush screwed up and created a monster. We do not need to become a police state. We need to protect our freedom, not repress it! We should not treat terrorists like the latest fed bomber as criminals, we should treat them like saboteurs, like enemy spies, like vermin. If they perpetuate an attack, and are not in a military uniform and following lawful orders from a leader of a nation, they need to hang or worse. in this case, worse should include being sewn into a pig carcass and slow roasted.
As for FEMA, the second thing congress needs to do is disband it and out law it. the first of course is a full and swift investigation of the crimes of ObamAA- and removal of his cronies from offices.
Why do we need another organization as powerful as our military?
Which bird would you pick
Even his father couldn't put up with him for long.
yup, mean as shit, but not near as bad as what he has done to America.
Spotters on overpasses?
It seems that Connecticut and Massachusetts have received funds from the feral err federal government to place spotters on overpasses for our safety. They will be looking for people who text while driving.
I do not like people who text and drive. I hate getting texts from people all the time, and I despise those who can't communicate with the spoken word in an articulate manner. That said, this is not the answer to the problem. Combating texting while driving is a simple fix. With the advent of smarter phones, the fix is easy, modify the software in all devices so that if the device is moving at a speed greater then ten MPH, the texting and browse features are disabled.
I know a lot of folks like to use their droid on the bus or the train, and they are gonna be UPSET. thats easy to solve as well, a hot spot device installed in busses and train cars to over ride the function.
Most of this can be done with software updates. design the software, then inform the user that his ability to test will be terminated if he does not update his software.
if any one in government was one lick serious about this, the fix would be in by January. All they care about though is revenue for two bit radar traps and scum bag dictator wannabe's, so a simple fix will not happen.
Incidently, I've been involved in two crashes that were caused by texting.
The other fix is to get the cops out of our lives regarding this, and seat belts. I wear them BTW. Only allow tiickets when it is a factor in a crash.
Just a tune
Don't know why, but I found myself singing this over the weekend. Haven't heard it in years.
Time to quit
Not blogging, that I'll continue to do as a means to vent and mock. There are certainly a long list of things I should quit but won't. I quit smoking thirty years ago. I quit drinking twenty years ago. There are a lot of vices I continue to cling to like my guns. What I am quitting for now is attempting to understand liberal kids. Its a long story. A friend and I journeyed to Wichita for the gun show this weekend. The Chisholm Trail Antique Gun Association Annual Gun Show was a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon, and we got a few good deals. When we got tired of the show and hit the road, we stopped for fuel and feed at the nearest gas station which had a Wendy's right behind it. I got my meal and sat down, but my friend tok a very long time. I'd sat all the way in back, so couldn't hear what transpired except for a couple of blurbs, "attitude like that.... Fired..... crappy burger..." and a few others. A biker and his rider came in at some point, and I heard him clearly say, "I'll take one of your crappy cheese burgers if you don't mind." Well, that really got me curious. Whne my friend finally joined me, I asked what it was all about. Seems that while he was waiting for his baked potato, one of the kids there said he wished people would quit coming in, and that the food was just crappy burgers like McDonalds. My friend started his work life in a Wendys, and is a big fan of the chain though, and he told the kid that with out customers, he would be out of a job, and tried to explain how capitalism works. Thats was when the biker who had heard it all asked for a crappy cheese burger. That biker btw is a highly successful business man, and he told the snot that with an attitude like that, he would fire the dumbass. My choice of words, not his. So what we had there was a dumb ass in dead end job, no desire for advancement who wanted the reason for him even having a job to just go away. He thinks he will continue to get paid if there is nothing for him to do. My real bet is that the main reason he was there was to hit on the attractive gal who was manning the register. She seemed to have a brain though so i give him the same odds in that department as I give the Jay Hawks of winning the big twelve.
Posted by JeremyR at 10:18 PM 1 comment:
October suprise?
I just heard mention of a possible October suprise by ObamAA- and his gang of thugs to steal the election. Sources in Iran claim a deal has been struck where in iran will anounce a halt to uranium enrichment in time for it to fuel Obozo's campaign and win him points with fools. That does not mean they will halt, slow, or in any way change what they are doing, just a press conference to bolster the mad muslim in the White House and keep alive plans by the mad mulahs to destroy GODs chosen, Israel.
Replay 2008
Any one remember some of hte racist BS that happened in the 2008 election cycle? There were several attacks on ObamAA- campaign officeswhere windows were shot out. I'm notgonna waste time googling it this morning, I just remember them happening. After a little investigation during the 2008 campaign it was determined that the shots were fired by demoncrap operaties, not angry tea party types. Well, it deja vue all over again. The communist party office in denver had a window shot out while people were inside. When you got absolutely nothing to run on you do stupid stuff for your October suprise. Any one taking bets?
Posted by JeremyR at 5:41 AM 1 comment:
Where this nation has fallen to in the last decade.
Stolen from gopthinking.
Is Joe the better liar?
It would certainly appear so to me. Ryan didn't even try. Joe carried the torch with his ability to lie out both sides of his mouth and keep a straight face. Heck, he could even smile at the camera while he fucks America, or maybe its that he is so stupid he really believes the BS he is carping. That could indeed be the case. he sure aint no Mensa. Hell he could walk into one of their conventions and drag the average IQ below the level of Moron.
He only knows what his handlers tell him, and probably remembers that for only a minute or three. Give him credit though he don't need no teleprompter. Or maybe its that he couldn't read it if he had it.
For my two cents, Ryan won the debate. he presented facts and a strong case. Joe just spouted the same old lies and tired crap the fools bought in 2008. but then, if Obozo and Biden didn't get any smarter, what hope is there that 53% of Americans did?
Dear Scott Brown
Thank yo ufor dropping the issue of Elisabeth Warren's afilliation with American Indians. it has been confirmed that she is a member in good standing of the Wah Knobbian Indians. Hope I was able to clear that up for you.
PS, Moochelle ObamAA- is also native to America, she is at least 100% Sasquach, which according to the late Johnny carson is the sound Big Foot makes when she tramples on a tipi.
He got off easy
Child rapist Jerry Sandusky got a mere slap on the wrist today. Yesterday he was claiming he did nothing perverted. Well, if thats how he feels, thirty years, eight months per assault, is entirely too light a sentence. Sure, he will die in prison, but less then 1/10th of what he could have received is a slap on the wrist.
Then again, thirty years on the receiving end of the hell he put his victims through is a good start. Hope he dies choking on a dick.
ObamAA-s hero is reelected
Hugo Chavez gets another six years as votes in Venezula went to the polls today in what I would bet was a seriously rigged election.
Like ObamAA- Hugo has used the public purse to finance his reelection bid. Like ObamAA- hugp has tossed public money to the poor and lazy to cement support for his rule.
One change that would switch our political landscape would be to remove people who accept public assistance from the voter rolls for three years from the date they last accept a dime of public money. I'm not talking about Social Security RETIREMENT, if the person is over age 62, it would change nothing. I'm talking about people who are on SS disability who have not been an active participant in the work force. FWIW, I oppose the present disability system. When welfare was gutted, the lazy and shiftless walked from welfare onto the disability rolls. Disability should not be paid from the public chest. If a person is disabled in a work accident, they should be eligible for workers compensation. if it was an accident at home, home owners insurance, or if a vehicle, car insurance should foot the bill. Poor insurance companies? Not hardly. They ferret out frauds, so if some one milked the system, they would likely get nailed. If a person does not have some kind of insurance to protect them, their family can decide whether to support them or nominate them for a Darwin Award.
So while Barry celebrates the continuation of evil in South America, I feel sorry for the folks who are stuck living under it.
The problem with ObamAA-
Is that he does not yet have a firm grasp of the obvious.
Question for any liberals
When you got your Obama phone, you felt good. How does it feel to know that the cartels in Mexico got Obama Guns?
Ryans challenge
Romney smacked ObamAA- last night, no question. Will the same be true in the Veep debate? I have my fears. You see, its dang hard to argue wit ha fool and not look like a fool. I certainly hope Ryan can rise to the challenge and let gaffer Joe look like his usual stupid self.
My advice, hand on tight to the podium. it looks bad to fall down laughing at your opponent no matter how dumb they are.
My advice to Joe? Wouldn't matter, he's too stupid to figure out he is stupid.
Fear not Big Bird
ObamAA- will defend you. Since the SCoaMF fared so poorly in hte debates he is attempting to save face and is attacking Romney for threatening to cut funding for PBS the liberal swill pot of worthless. When I heard aboutthe comments, my honest reaction was "They are still around?"
As has been the case for the last nine months, since Barry has to run away from his record instead of on it, he has to dredge up some tidbit to attack Romney on.
Libs attack Romney by calling him mittens, and so far its accurate, he needs to put on gloves and come out swinging. This race could be a land slide if he just points out what a failure the ScoaMF has been.
Romney fail to excite me. Sure, he is far supperior to McInsane in every way, he is a sould business leader and has the cred to prove it, but he also does not light a fire the way Reagan could, or people like Herman Cain can. He is no failure though and will hopefully move America back toward financial stability, the anti ObamAA-.
Tonights choices are Sons of Guns or Sons of Bitches Well, I don't think Will Hayden has ever lied as much as POS ObamAA- has. Took me about three minutes to decide to change stations, and Mitt spoke for two of those.
I cannot stomach that liar not for a moment. His plan won't raise taxes on 97% of small businesses? Probably so, it will destroy then so they will pay no taxes.
The only upside of the democrap party is that a huge percentage of them do not reproduce. many of the ones who would, slaughter them rather then give birth to them. That is thier biggest down side.
Was turned down by the bank today
All I wanted to do was finance a tank of gas for deer season, but they said I didn't have enough assets for it.
Are you mad? I mean really mad? Why Not? I am sick and tired fo the ever soaring costs of fuel in America. Libtards will scream that prices wer high under Bush, and as a matter of fact, they did get up there after the communists err democrats took control of congress and Bush did nothing to stop their insanity.
All through the Clinton error We had relatively stable prices in the buck fifty range, and when George took the reins in 2001 it was at $1.49. Things didn't start to get bad until 2004 as the republican congress failed to control spending and inflation loomed. Yes, we have inflation. We have SERIOUS inflation even though the government won't admit it. They have factored fuel costs and food costs out of the equation. WHAT THE HECK for? Fuel and food are the largest expenses for many families. Those are what are eating our paychecks, not mortgages or rent. Fuel and food! the things most important! With out fuel, we don't get to work, and with out food, we don't have the energy to work.
Denny posted a great pic, its a photo shop because no station would waste margue space for it in this politically charged time. I wish some of them would dare to do it.
Last musing, will ObamAA- steal the election outright, or use an executive declaration to prevent Romney from being sworn in ala his hero Chavez? Think about THAT!
What were they expecting?
Well, it seems a Chinese restaurant in Williamsburg, Ky won't be getting many repeat customers. Authorities were called when staff wheeled in a garbage can containing a road kill deer. Every one has heard stories about Chinese restaurants and various pets. It is part of the culture, and road kill deer are edible...And dang good too...
These squeemish folks missed out on good dining, General Taos Bambi!
Too bad, so sad, rednecks aint the only ones who eat like that, granny on The Beverly Hillbillies was a roll model for my generation as was Jed... We all dreamed of a girl like Ellie Mae as a date, but feared she would whoop our ass if we made a pass... Or if we didn't.


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Inside No. 9 (2014)
Directed by: David Kerr, Guillem Morales, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Dan Zeff, Graeme Harper, Jim O'Hanlon
213 (on 18 Apr '1818 April 2018)
David Kerr, Guillem Morales, Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, Dan Zeff, Graeme Harper, Jim O'Hanlon
0 hours 30 minutes (30 minutes)
The history of the IMDb Top 250 for the movie Inside No. 9
Titles from UK


Willow Tree Golf Course first opened for play in 1967.
Willow Tree is a flat course with small and fast greens. Water that comes into play throughout the course, and as would be expected by the course's name, trees line most fairways. Willow Tree Golf Course measures 6,329 yards from the tips. The course plays to a par of 72. The course rating is 70.1with a slope rating of 121.