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Tama Janowitz
Tama Janowitz is an American
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ist and a short story writer. The 2005 September/October issue of Pages
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magazine listed her as one of the four "brat pack"
Brat Pack (literary)
The expression "literary Brat Pack" refers to the three young, East-coast American authors, Bret Easton Ellis, Tama Janowitz and Jay McInerney, who emerged in USA in the 1980s...
authors, along with Bret Easton Ellis
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, Mark Lindquist
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and Jay McInerney
Jay McInerney
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Her parents, a psychiatrist
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father, Julian Janowitz, and literature professor mother, Phyllis Janowitz, divorced when she was ten. She grew up with her mother in Massachusetts
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She graduated from Barnard College
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with a B.A. in 1977, and from Hollins College with a M.A. in 1979.
She studied at the Columbia University School of the Arts
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and started writing about life in New York City
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, where she had settled down.
She socialized with Andy Warhol
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and became well-known in New York's literary and social circles.
Her 1986
1986 in literature
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, Slaves of New York brought her wider fame. Slaves of New York
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was adapted into a 1989
-Events:* Batman is released on June 23, and goes on to gross over $410 million worldwide.* Actress Kim Basinger and her brother Mick purchase Braselton, Georgia, for $20 million...
film directed by James Ivory
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and starring Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters
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. Janowitz wrote the screenplay and also appeared, playing Peters' friend.
Janowitz has published seven novels, one collection of stories and one work of non-fiction.
She lives in Brooklyn
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with her husband, Tim Hunt, and their daughter.
1975 Bread Loaf Writers fellowship
1976; 1977 Janoway Fiction prize
1982 National Endowment award
American Dad, Crown, 1981, ISBN 9780517565735; Picador, 1988, ISBN 9780330302678
Slaves of New York Crown Publishers, 1986
, ISBN 9780517561072
A Cannibal in Manhattan Washington Square Press, July 1988, ISBN 9780671665982
The Male Cross-Dresser Support Group, Crown Publishers, 1992, ISBN 9780517586983; Simon and Schuster, 1994, ISBN 9780671871505
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee
By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee is a satirical novel by Tama Janowitz about the Slivenowiczes, a trailer park trash family who are forced to leave their home in a polluted swamp area in upstate New York By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee (1996) is a satirical novel by Tama Janowitz about the...
Crown Publishers, 1996, ISBN 9780517702987
A Certain Age Doubleday, 1999; Anchor Books, 2000, ISBN 9780385496117
Hear that?, Illustrator Tracy Dockray, SeaStar Books, 2001, ISBN 9781587170744
Peyton Amberg, Bloomsbury, 2003, ISBN 9780747561385; Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 9780312318451
They Is Us, The Friday Project Limited, 2008, ISBN 9781906321123
Area Code 212, Bloomsbury, 2002, ISBN 9780747558286; Macmillan, 2005, ISBN 9780312320638
"My Lunch with Tama", Random House Bold Type, 08 1999, Laura L. Buchwald
"She'll Take Manhattan", New York Magazine, July 14, 1986
Audio Interview with Tama Janowitz
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In a major boost for local industry, nine Victorian wineries, including the Northern Melbourne Institute of TAFE (NMIT), will join forces to export a new premium-blend Ararat shiraz to China.
The Grampians-Pyrenees Wine Cooperative will export approximately $1 million worth of premium quality shiraz to Guangdong province this year, to meet growing demand for quality Australian wine in an increasingly affluent market.
The cooperative will use NMIT's 300-tonne winery at Aradale to produce five container loads of wine (about 40,000 litres) for export to Ararat's sister city of Taishan.
The deal was finalised on Tuesday, February 9, thanks to the efforts of Ararat City Council, which has a longstanding relationship with China. Ararat Rural City Council's economic development manager Clyde Humphries says he expects the cooperative to expand operations to other parts of China in the future. "Ararat is the only Victorian town founded by Chinese and that carries a lot of kudos in China. We probably have about 10 to 15 government delegations through here in a year," he says. "NMIT's Aradale winery was the key link because none of the smaller wineries had capacity to process that amount of wine," he said.
Ararat Rural City, Northern Grampians and Pyrenees Shire councils organised the funding through Regional Development Victoria's Regional Inward Buyers Missions program, which is designed to leverage investment and attract interest in Victorian business. The Victorian Employers' Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VECCI) has been appointed to oversee a $20,000 scoping study to set up the wine cluster.
The next steps for the cooperative will involve the selection of a winemaker to create the Ararat Gold blend, and a trade mission by the council to begin the education and tasting phase of the project.
John Higgins (chairman, Eurabbie Estate, Avoca), Simon Clayfield (Winemaker, Clayfield Wines, Moyston), Kym Ludvigsen (Treasurer, The Ludvigsen Partnership, Great Western), Michael Unwin (Michael Unwin Wines, Beaufort), Graeme Bertuch (Mount Cole Wineworks, Warrak), Neil Billett (NSP Winery, Armstrong via Ararat), Paul Chandler (Chandler's Vineyard, Redbank), Garry Rice Concongella Vineyards, Concongella) and Drew Coulthard (NMIT, Ararat).


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The Hurt Locker Wins, But Maybe It Shouldn't
Although Kathryn Bigelow's sweep at the Oscars makes my little feminist heart beat a little faster in recognition of a historical mile marker that's been a long time coming, the critic in me has been cringing all night. Last night, when The Hurt Locker took home the big win, it finally solidified the Oscars as a meaningless popularity contest (not that there's anything wrong with that). And while scores of women are rejoicing this epic win, I'm going to sit here an be the cranky one that may very well be stripped of her feminist credentials.
In high school, I was a high ranking member of one of the most prestigious orchestras in my state. During freshmen year, each new member was excited to be a part of something creatively engaging and important, a great place to showcase their talent and move up in the ranks, gaining solo responsibilities and a piece of fluff to add to a college application. It all seemed merit based, and as a result freeing and meaningful, a place to gain true validation for your work. But as the years progressed, politics started to play a huge role as reality set in. There were people who deserved to be first chair but didn't get it because they were younger, there were people who deserved to move back but didn't because they'd always sat there and it would look bad if they did. And there were people that were rewarded just because it was something different, even if they didn't deserve it. Suddenly, it all seemed rather pointless and practicing became even more arduous. When Mo'Nique thanked the Academy for cutting out the politics and concentrating on the performances, I thought back to those high school orchestra days and desperately hoped that she was right. Too bad she was wrong.
Here's the thing. The Hurt Locker is a very solid movie, very neatly and correctly put together. It deserves the awards it received in Editing and for Bigelow as Best Director. It is a tense, exciting experience. But it is also just another war movie that does little, outside of building a constant anxiety in the audience, to move beyond those confines. It is not a best picture, not even close.
A best picture should or can be a number of things, but over all, it should do something incredible. Maybe it's truly innovative in its use of the medium (Avatar), or maybe it captures something powerful that can only be felt, not described (A Serious Man). This is the highest award a film can receive, and it better be damn good, above and beyond just being well put together.
But tonight, the Academy got caught up in the politics, as they've done since the beginning all 82 years ago. Avatar was the expected win, and oh gosh, it is a sci-fi movie, just like District 9, we can't have that. It would also be just another notch on James Cameron's Oscar bed post and another reason for his smug smile to float around the talk circuit. Let's face it, The Blind Side isn't really an Oscar movie, we all know I think Up in the Air was the most overrated movie ever marketed, and Up already took home its golden statue in the animated category. Like Cameron, Oscar wins are old hat to the Coen Bros., and Inglourious Basterds is a film that everyone loves, but seems afraid to love too much. Really, seniority, dues, and genre issues all considered, that just leaves Hurt Locker, even if it's not the most deserving. And An Education? Apparently everyone forgot that that was also, like Bigelow, directed by a female, Lone Scherfig.
It's interesting to note the difference. Bigelow, as every news media source keeps trying to tell us, made a male movie, about war and violence, her gender in relation to the subject matter making her some sort of alien anomaly, and perhaps feeding the power leading up to this win and reports that she's the new "transvestite of directors." Scherfig's gender on the other hand, goes unnoticed by the masses, perhaps because An Education is a female movie. It's rather ironic that both films are the same in that they tell their story very effectively, but that neither does anything we haven't seen before, and no, those films aren't, nor should they be, categorized by gender.
It's all getting tiresome. While I don't think that The Hurt Locker won because of Bigelow's gender, it's hard not to see how the obsession with gender and how it put her film into the spotlight didn't influence the decision and didn't place it into the minds of the Academy because of the controversy. While it's nice to see somebody finally caring about the representation of women, this feels a little like me having to choose between Hillary and Barack. And although the New York Times may be correct in asserting that a gender neutral acting category is best, doing so would not only cut out a good thirty minutes of programming and limit the nominees, it's also not something our country is ready for if we're still mentioning that Bigelow is a lady and getting all worked up because she made a war movie. I just get the feeling that had Bigelow been a guy, Avatar would have won.
Because of their presumed weight and importance as a mark of excellence, I wish that the Oscars would cut the politics once in a while and concentrate on the art. I know that in our current system that that automatically cuts a good portion of the people I want to have a voice. So I also wish that they would actively foster the right environment where a woman or an African American win would be normal and based entirely on the product, and not an occasional pat on the back for the Academy, which often feels something akin to a large corporation requiring diversity training to make themselves look better. I wish we could go back to 2009 and give Mickey Rourke the Oscar for The Wrestler and give Colin Firth the award for this year. I wish we could go back and acknowledge all the other female directors, Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Mira Nair, Agnes Varda, and the countless others, in addition to all the minority actors that have been ignored. I wish that film was open to anyone with the talent and drive, regardless of who they were and the money they have. I wish that in the future, the pinnacle of film awards would mean something again.
But I know what you're thinking; this is the Oscars, what did you expect?
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Trump unannounced trip to honor the returning remains of a U.S. Navy SEAL killed during a weekend raid on an al-Qaida base in Yemen.
He just loves government-trained killers.
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Q: Is it feasible to use publish-subscribe pattern with one publisher and one subscriber? I don't know if I should use publish-subscribe (seems sexy to me now, but later..), observer or DI and call methods.
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*(B) one class calls a method form another class and needs to run code when something happens within the called method after the called method returned (execute this code when you finish part of a task because I need to modify my internal state)

Options:

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*Create some kind of event bus, one class subscribes to a topic, another class publishes something to it. There is one publisher, one subscriber. Things are decoupled. Harder to navigate and figure out what calls what when.

*Create a list of observers (with one observer) in the "event" class and notify it. The list contains interfaces (or is something like an event in C#). The class being notified needs to know where to add itself (as an observer). Not as decoupled as previous, no need for any event bus.

*Use DI to inject the instance which needs to be notified directly into the "publisher" and call some method. Simple, slightly more coupled?

*A callback is passed from one class to another either during some kind of initialization (A) or during method call (B) (is passing a callback to another method to be called when needed ok?)
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Cricket Launches Data Roaming In Mexico and Canada Plus New ALCATEL ONETOUCH® IDOL™ 3 4G LTE
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Cricket has expanded its international offerings and phone portfolio once again. Now, customers on Cricket Smart ($50/mo) and Pro ($60/mo) plans can use their rate plan data in Mexico and Canada at no extra charge. This new data roaming feature complements Cricket's existing "roundtrip" feature which gives customers unlimited calling, texting, and messaging in between Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. Primary usage must still be in the U.S.
Plus Cricket will be adding the IDOL 3 to our smartphone line up — from one of the most popular mobile phone manufacturers in Latin America and now the U.S., ALCATEL ONETOUCH. Available in stores and online, starting November 6, the IDOL 3 is a Cricket exclusive and features the ALCATEL ONETOUCH Mix app – giving users an immersive music experience on a 4G LTE network that has more coverage nationwide than T-Mobile, MetroPCS, Sprint, and Boost. Customers can stream music from any source directly from the app and add effects, transition songs, sync, mix, scratch or insert samples just like a DJ!
"Our customers don't want limits – they want to be able to call relatives, send selfies or listen to the latest hits when traveling across North America*. They want a seamless experience and Cricket delivers," said Janna Ducich, chief marketing officer, Cricket Wireless. "Our new data roaming feature is another in a long line of benefits that makes Cricket a smart choice for consumers who want great service, flexibility and value."
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In addition to our "roundtrip" calling features, Cricket offers international add-ons to countries in Latin America and the Caribbean such as Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Haiti. Plus customers on the Smart ($50/mo) and Pro ($60/mo) plans already have unlimited texting to 38 countries.
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More about the ALCATEL ONETOUCH IDOL 3
This feature-packed 5.5-inch smartphone, available for $149.99 with activation, is exclusive to Cricket and includes awesome experiences like:
Technicolor® Color Enhance Full-HD display for a crisp picture and clear viewing from any angle – even in direct sunlight
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The only smartphone with a fully reversible user experience, so no matter if you're browsing through social media, reading emails or watching movies, the display will always be right side up, even if you're holding the phone upside down
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Cricket is bringing consumers more value with a simple, friendly, and reliable nationwide wireless experience with no annual contract. The power of Cricket is our nationwide 4G LTE network that covers more than 300 million people; easy and affordable plans prices that include taxes and fees – no surprises; and a great selection of phones customers love. Cricket, Something to Smile About. To check out the new Cricket or find a store near you, visit www.cricketwireless.com. And connect with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/cricketnation and Twitter at www.twitter.com/cricketnation.
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One of China's most influential contemporary artists, surrealist visionary Maleonn, has recently become aware that his father, an accomplished Peking Opera director, has begun to suffer from Alzheimer's disease. Knowing that time is beginning to run out and having always had a complex relationship with his father, Maleonn invites him to collaborate on his latest art project. As Maleonn struggles to determine what will be the most valuable way to confront the challenges of aging and memory, he zeros in on what will be a magical autobiographical stage performance called Papa's Time Machine featuring inventive life-size mechanical puppets and a dreamy steampunk time machine. It is through this joint creation that father and son face their shared love and their own mortality.
Shanghai-based director and cameraman Yang Sun was on staff at China's Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio, making documentaries for broadcasters including CCTV, Youku, and the Travel Channel. He has directed several short documentaries. Our Time Machine is his feature-length debut. S. Leo Chiang is a filmmaker based in San Francisco and Taipei. His previous film, Emmy® -nominated A Village Called Versailles, won several awards and aired on the American PBS series, Independent Lens. He co-founded the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc) and is a documentary branch member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.


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MONTREAL, QUEBEC – (NEWSFILE – July 22, 2020) – Peak Positioning Technologies Inc. (CSE: PKK; OTCQB: PKKFF) ("Peak" or the "Company") today announced that it has sold 50,000,000 units ("Units") for gross proceeds of $1,000,000, representing the first tranche of a non-brokered private placement where the Company will sell a total of up to 100,000,000 Units for gross proceeds of $2,000,000 ("Offering"). Each Unit is priced at $0.02 and is composed of one common share and one common share purchase warrant ("Warrant"), each Warrant entitling the holder to acquire one common share at a price of $0.025 for a period of 24 months following the closing date.
The common shares issued in connection with the private placement are subject to a hold period of four months and one day after the closing date. The proceeds of the Offering will be used for working capital purposes and to help fuel the Company's expansion plan.
Pursuant to Multilateral Instrument 61-101 respecting protection of minority security holders in special transactions ("MI 61-101"), the Financing constitutes a "related party transaction" as certain directors and officers of Peak (the "Related Party") subscribed to securities. In reviewing the applicable valuation requirements under MI 61-101, Peak has determined that the exemption set out in subsection 5.5 (a) of MI 61-101 is applicable since the aggregate consideration to be paid by the Related Party does not exceed 25% of the market capitalization of Peak at the date hereof. In addition, subsection 5.7(a) provides that a transaction meeting such criteria is also exempt from the minority shareholder approval requirement. The board of directors of Peak has unanimously approved the Financing. Peak has not filed a material change report 21 days prior to the closing of the Financing as participation of insiders had not been established at that time.
About Peak Positioning Technologies Inc.:
Peak Positioning Technologies Inc. is the parent company of a group of innovative financial technology (Fintech) subsidiaries operating in China's commercial lending industry. Peak's subsidiaries use technology, analytics and artificial intelligence to create an ecosystem of lenders, borrowers and other participants in China's commercial lending space where lending operations are conducted rapidly, safely, efficiently and with the utmost transparency. For more information: http://www.peakpositioning.com
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Phoebe Robinson Is on a Roll
Shondaland catches up with the author, actor, and producer on the eve of her HBO Max special and the release of her third book, "Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes."
By L'Oreal Thompson Payton
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While some of us were busy trying new bread recipes and binge-watching Ted Lasso last year, Phoebe Robinson was building a multimedia empire with her book imprint, Tiny Reparations Books; preparing for an HBO Max special; working on a TV pilot inspired by her first book, Everything's Trash, but It's Okay; and writing her third book, Please Don't Sit on My Bed in Your Outside Clothes.
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"[This book] was really inspired by the fact that I was inside during Covid, so I had a lot of time to think about the topics I touch on in the book, such as the decision my boyfriend and I made not to have kids, running a business, the performative allyship we saw last summer, and self-care," the former co-host of 2 Dope Queens shares. "Even though these were topics we were thinking about during quarantine, it feels very evergreen in a lot of ways. I think it's the best writing I've done. It's hopeful, it's very funny, but there are points I want to make. It's a good mix of what I've done previously but elevated in a way to show my growth as a person."
Recently, Shondaland spoke with the author, actor, and producer about the creative process, being a boss, and, of course, #ThirstyThursday.
L'OREAL THOMPSON PAYTON: What do you hope readers will take away from your third book?
PHOEBE ROBINSON: The world is pretty much a dumpster fire everywhere — there's climate change, the pandemic, what's going on in our own personal lives. So, I really want people to feel a little lighter, relax a little bit, learn a little bit, and then perhaps be inspired to do something different in their lives, whether it's going after a dream they want to achieve or spending more time with their families.
I feel we're all really disconnected, especially with quarantine and Covid. Everyone has their own problems that they're dealing with, and I think sometimes that connectedness is forgotten about. So, I hope that the book inspires people to remember that we're all in this together. We're all on this planet, and things are only going to change if we work together.
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LTP: How have the last 18 months impacted your creative process?
PR: I don't know if my creativity has necessarily changed, but my mission statement is more clearly defined, and I'm in a position now with a little bit of power to make sure that those around me are stepping up to the plate and putting their money where their mouth is. It's not just about me having whatever success people perceive me to have, but it's really about making space for other people to do the work that they want to do.
That's probably most evident with my imprint right now. We have 11 books on the slate, including mine, and they're all debut authors, which is really important. It was really hard for me to sell my first book because people were saying nobody wants to read a book by a Black woman, which is so ignorant considering that college-educated Black women are the biggest readers in the country.
Because of Covid, I want to be even more intentional and not only make sure there's a platform for people that I see standing on either side of me, but I also want to create this incubator system where I'm bringing along people who are younger than me, whether that's in publishing, stand-up comedy, or producing, and making sure they have a space to work.
LTP: You've referenced Shonda Rhimes as your model for being a "Black lady boss." What advice do you have for Black women who want to be the bosses of their own lives?
PR: The one thing I've been thinking about lately is the process. I think it's a fantasy people project that when you're going into business that you're just going to be inspired and everything is going to flow out of you effortlessly. At some point, you're going to encounter a pitfall, a low, or some sort of hardship and think, "I should stop." So the biggest thing I would tell people going into business is that it's going to require a lot of hard work and dedication.
The second thing I'd say is get a lawyer, even in the beginning. I didn't have a lawyer on retainer then, and I was struggling so much, but it was important to have a lawyer to walk me through contracts. As women, we're not taught or encouraged to be super-business savvy and protect ourselves or know a lot about finances. If you want to be in business and protect yourself, you have to have someone looking out for you.
My third piece is to have someone who can help you think long-term because you'll be so caught up in the day-to-day, it's good to have another person there who can help you stay on track and pivot when something's not working.
A lot of times in business, people will look up instead of looking across at the people who are in the trenches with you. As you advance, you'll want to have people you trust and who trust you as you're working together. It's important to have sisters or brothers in arms to talk about everything — the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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LTP: Shifting gears a bit to your popular Instagram series, #ThirstyThursday: How do the features come about?
PR: My social team and the people who put together the videos are amazing. If I watch it three times on a loop, we know it's thirsty enough. We sit down and talk about who we think is hot. We all know my taste is all over the place.
We have so much fun and try to choose people who would be good sports about it. We did Michael B. Jordan, and he commented, which was fun. As for the captions, if I'm in the zone, I can really go for it. What I've learned is I can't wake up in the morning and go straight into writing about that. My brain can't turn on the thirst that quickly.
LTP: I know you're a fellow Pelotoner, so I have to ask: Who's your favorite Peloton instructor?
PR: I really love Adrian Williams, the super-hot Black dude who does strength training. I love taking his classes. I mean, my hamstrings are sore because I took one of his full-body classes yesterday. There were dead lifts, and I was like, "I got this." I woke up this morning like, "I don't got it."
I also love Cody Rigsby, who's doing Dancing With the Stars this season. I try to do a little bit of yoga because I sit so much, so I enjoy Chelsea Jackson Roberts. I also like Denis Morton a lot because he's so great. He's like, "You make the choice of how hard you want to take this. I'm just here to guide you," and I like that approach. I'm not into the people who are yelling. I'm not an athlete. I'm not Serena Williams. I'm working out so I can go to Trader Joe's; it's not that deep.
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
L'Oreal Thompson Payton is a Baltimore-bred, Columbus, Ohio-based writer whose work has appeared inZORA, Self, Bustle, and HelloGiggles, among others. Follow her on Twitter @LTintheCity.
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Why transport stocks need to get back on the rails
Thursday 21 Nov 2019
Regular readers of this column will be well aware that it is a bit of a trainspotter – and for that matter a ship, truck and planespotter, too. This is because it is a great adherent of Richard Russell's Dow Theory, which argues that if the Dow Jones Transportation index is thriving then the better...
Why US equities need a trade deal
The US stock market safely negotiated October this year, as the S&P 500 index gained 2% in the month and reached a fresh all-time high in early November. The Dow Jones Industrials and NASDAQ Composite have also surged to new peaks. Market accidents are usually caused by the combination of...
Will UK banks struggle like their Japanese counterparts?
The third quarter results from the FTSE 100's 'big five' banks generally got a cool reception, not least because of fresh payment protection insurance (PPI) compensation claims and other assorted legal and conduct costs of £4.6bn. As a result, the FTSE All-Share Banks sector is down by 0.4% in 2019...
Why a sectoral shift raises big questions
Thursday 31 Oct 2019
The agricultural revolution introduced by 18th century British statesman Charles 'Turnip' Townshend may, at first glance, have no bearing at all on how investors could think about their portfolios and any tactical or strategic asset allocation decisions. Townshend argued that crop rotation was a...
Higher quality of earnings failing to support FTSE 100
Last week's column looked at the quantity of FTSE 100 revenue, profit and dividends and drew comfort from how all three were expected to reach record levels in 2020, according to analysts' consensus forecasts. Better still, those forecasts did not seem unduly aggressive, with the sales expected to...
FTSE 100 loses earnings momentum again
Brexit continues to dominate the headlines as the 31 October deadline for a withdrawal by the UK draws near and equity, bond and currency markets are becoming more volatile as a result. The dangers of second-guessing the outcome of the talks between Britain and the EU are clear from how the FTSE...
What is the repo market and why is it behaving oddly?
Real film buffs will remember Repo Man , a 1984 science fiction film directed by the UK's Alex Cox but it is the repo rate that investors need to be watching closely right now. The repo rate is the level at which banks lend to each other overnight, or central banks lend to the banks. It provides...
Can Japan tackle global trade concerns?
Investors with exposure to Japanese equities are enjoying the 'Abenomics' area, which dates back to Prime Minster Shinzō Abe's general election victory in December 2012. Since then, the Nikkei 225 index has soared by 125% in local currency terms and 126% in sterling, compared to a 30% gain in the...
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American football may not be everyone's cup of tea but no less a figure than former Manchester United manager Alex Ferguson drew inspiration from a biography of the legendary Green Bay Packers coach Vince Lombardi. He shaped a small club in Wisconsin into the National Football League's dominant...
Is the EU turning Japanese?
Outgoing European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi talked a big game over the summer that only served to ratchet up the expectations of financial markets greedy for more cheap cash. In the end, Draghi provided a 10 basis point (0.1%) cut in the deposit rate to -0.5%, charging banks more to...
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I want to travel from Xiamen City, Fujian Province to Tai'an City, Shandong Province.
I want to travel from Xiamen City, Fujian Province to Tai'an City, Shandong Province. How much is the average airfare?
If I take the train, How many hours? and the cost of the ticket?
There is no direct trains or flights to reach your destination city from Xiamen, so it is suggested to fly to reach Jinan and then change to take a bus to reach TA.
For the flight tickets, I am afraid that it is hard to tell. It is very easy to get a large discount if you buy in advance. It is suggested to look at the official website of the airline companies. Shandong and Xiamen Airlines operate that routes.


I have posted a few times on other peoples sites, but this is the first of my own. I hope you like these pictures.
It's a good job I don't have the space, skill or budget for 7mm modelling, otherwise I might find it a compelling choice! Excellent modelling.
This is fantastic proper modelling - more please !
I do like the dumb buffer wagons - presumably mostly private owner. The semi-dumb-buffered 1-plank wagon, with 'early' buffers at the other end, looks to be LNWR - what are your prototypes?
Many thanks for the kind comments. All the low sided wagons are L.N.W.R. made from photographs in my own collection. I will try and put some more pictures with more details on later in the week.
Just a few more snaps of wagons with some simple jigs to ease construction. I think they are self explanatory. The jig for scribing plank line for wagon floors is set for a scale 7 inch that the L.N.W.R use. This jig gives consistency without marking out with a pencil and ruler on any other method.
Where do you get such wonderfully fine brake levers and brake lever guides from? They look so much neater than the normal trade offering.
Thank you for all the interest. Most of the brake racks are from Ambis etches. I think they are available from Hobby Holidays. They also do brake handles, but most of mine are cut from nickel sheet. I was lucky to buy a small industrial guillotine about 30 years which has paid for it's many times over.
Forgot to post these photos.
I love the delicacy you have achieved with these models. So easy to get the "chunky" effect exaggerated in this scale. Especially with certain kits that had better not be named, but produce wagons that look as if they were fabricated from armour plate. You have "sold" me on trying scratch-building.
A little more progress on a couple of wagons. The first is a private owner wagon belonging to Richard Evans & co from Haydock Colliery. This is from a photo in National Library of Wales collection taken in Ysgol Glan-y-pwll Ffestiniog which shows 3 dumb buffer wagons outside a newly build school. The second wagon is based on a wagon belonging to John G Morris from Wigan. Both these wagons have cast plates on the sides which will require some custom etched plates making. Has anybody had any experience with custom etches, recommendations etc.
ive always got plates from narrowplanet, good quality and they will do special one-off orders but you will need to make a drawing of the plate for them to work from.
Just a bit more progress on this wagon which will be for John G Morris from Wigan. I have cut the bracket for the brake handle from a small piece of nickel. The first attempt was rejected as not being good enough. The position for the cast plate has been drawn on the side.
A start of a new wagon, a loco coal wagon for the L.N.W.R . Also a bit more work done on brake levers on a couple of the other wagons.
All the L.N.W.R wagons are scribed with a Olfa P-Cutter 450 but with twin blades. This gives the twin groves that are so characteristic of the L.N.W.R wagons. It will be over scale but it looks right to my eyes. The blades if put together will give a to wide a gap to look right so I removed a small amount from both. The blades were laid out on small piece brass and stuck down with double sided sellotape. They were then sanded on a belt sander to reduce there thickness. I spot welded them together when I was still at work, but I am sure superglue would work just as well. I retired a year ago and don't miss work at all, but I do miss all the wonderful equipment I then had at my disposal.
Great to see Scratchbuilding of this quality and of less common prototypes. A breath of fresh air among all the rtr sameness. Keep up the good work.
Many thanks Ian for your kind comments. That is such a complement coming from a multi award winning scratch builder. A couple more shots of the different brake gear on these early wagons. One benefit of scratch building is if you make a mistake it doesn't cost a great deal of money, only time. I think these wagons cost me about £11 or £12 each plus my time and I have plenty of that.
I should add to why I quoted £11or £12 per wagon is because I have had the wheels and etched w-irons in stock for over 20 years or bought items from the Trustees and Executive stand at Telford. But you do not need to spend a lot of money to scratch build. I do have a good workshop at home but these wagons were made with the basic set of tools I have had for many years. The Moore and Wright square and dividers were bought way back in 1969 or 1970.
Quite correct, decent tools last a lifetime and even the raw materials cost very little compared to the cost of kits or rtr. However the biggest plus of building from scratch is the satisfaction of having something unique and personal to oneself. More power to your elbow!
One question, in your photo two above, how do the brakes work? I assume some sort of lever device behind the solebars but I have never seen that type before.
In the answer to your question about the brake gear, there would be a parallel bar running behind the brake handle pushing down on the centre of the push rods. If you have not seen this before then the are a couple of very good books to get hold of. They were not expensive and well worth seeking out. They were written and published by L.Tavender and contain many fine 7mm drawings.
One aspect not mentioned is the weight of the wagons for the best performance for good running. Plastic wagons tend to be very light and need additional weight adding. As I intend to run some of these wagons empty I need some sort of weight underneath. Lead is the obvious answer but how do you fix this in place. I don't have any lead shot handy, so I settled on a large piece of brass 3mm thick. I sank a 12 BA brass nut into a length of Evergreen 125 X 125 with my soldering iron after first drilling a hole just a few thou smaller than the nut. This was then glued to the wagon floor so that I can place the weight inside and screw a cover to hold it in place. I just need to finish the detail inside these wagons and get some paint on them.
A few photos to explain the procedure in pictures.


"Tenor setting" is how Vogue describes these flared jeans, the new style for fall. I witnessed them in full effect the other day while shopping at Decades with a vintage-loving friend. In walked a chic woman, clad in head-to-toe denim. Her jeans, however, were far from ordinary. They were cropped, yet not so much to be considered culottes and were flared and hugged the waist. They also featured what seemed like a crease from an undone hem. In other words: tenor setting. To the point where my vintage-collecting friend--who does not own a single pair of jeans--shifted her anti-denim stance and announced that she was thoroughly obsessed. So, I tracked down these new blues by Rachel Comey (above), Sister Jane, Citizens of Humanity, and MiH.
Oooh. I love this style! How best to wear these while doing a lot of walking (Venice and Florence) this fall?
Love your blog!! Can you tell me who makes the blouse?
They have some similar pants on the clearance rack at Urban Outfitters. Thought you should know!


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If you are undertaking any real estate venture, then you need to undertake some excavation activity first before anything else. That is the best and only way to have a building friendly, and that is parallel. In fact, excavation is very important to every constructor, and you should never miss a thing. Therefore, you need to make arrangements on how you will find the best excavation company that will be reliable. Again, you would rather be saving time before you hire the constructors because they would still ask for the excavation services. Below are some steps you can follow to get the right excavation services that you will love.
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There are various reasons why people want to buy white strips or other types of teeth whitening systems from other brands, there are various things that people must know before they can utilize these products. These whitestrips would only get to whiten natural teeth, it would not whiten caps, crowns, veneers, fillings and also dentures but it can easily whiten natural teeth of individuals that want to have good looking teeth. These whitestrips are not intended to be used by children under the age of 12 years old, the pulp chamber or nerve of the teeth is enlarged until this age and it can irritate the pulp or cause it to be sensitive.
The bleaching effects works truly well on yellow stains, if their stains are because of tetracycline which can be an antibiotic grey stains on the band of their teeth and their strips would not work efficiently. The right thing that people can do is to have a dentist whiten their teeth in the clinic for two sessions then they can use white strips to help them continue the bleaching process of their teeth to make it white.
The strips can only get to cover the front of their teeth, so only their front teeth can be bleached but this is not a big deal because most people could only notice the front six teeth first when they get to smile. The strips that can get to be provided for their upper and lower teeth are mostly designed to fit the front teeth only, it can efficiently get to whiten their teeth when they use these whitestrips efficiently.
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The devastating consequences of the Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi, which led to the deaths of over 1 million people, has left deep scars in Rwandan society.
Working with survivors, ex-prisoners and ex-combatants of the genocide, helping them to rebuild their lives together, showed that the trauma and narratives of the genocide were being transferred to the next generation. For some young people the trauma comes from the guilt of what their parents did. Others struggle with the grief of what happened to their family.
"I was frightened to approach people before because of my background. When a Tutsi family looked at me, without knowing me, they assumed I was a bad person because of my heritage," Evariste, son of an ex-prisoner tells us.
International Alert started to work with young people. With local partners, we ran peace clubs in communities and schools to address the psychosocial wounds caused by transgenerational trauma. The peace clubs provide a space for healing through dialogue and exchange – helping to improve social cohesion and prevent further violent conflict.
"I think the future of this country is great. The peace clubs helped us develop new skills and change the way we look at things. The club connected us to people we wouldn't have spoken to in the past. There was a lot that we shared, which brought us closer and we are all still in touch with each other," says Evariste.
When we first met Evariste three years ago, he was the president of the peace club at his school – dealing with his father's actions and preparing to enter adult life determined to build a better future.
"I was in fifth grade of primary when I had to drop out of school because my father was in jail. When my dad came out of prison and was doing community service, I went back to school. That is when I joined the peace club … by accident.
My friend told me that the club had given him the responsibility of staging a play and asked, "can you help me with this?" But when he told me that the play was about reconciliation I didn't want to work on it, because of my family background I did not want to talk about these issues."
My friend continued telling me that I should be part of the club – I was very hesitant but after I joined, I realised I should have been part of it all along. What they were telling us in the club really touched me in my heart and my family.
We went back to catch up with Evariste on the 25th anniversary of the genocide, to find out what lasting effect the peace club had on him.
When I finished high school, I continued working with the club but not as closely as before. I began training people in social cohesion based on the skills I picked up from the peace club.
During the project, the number of peace clubs almost doubled because graduates from the schools replicated the approach and created new clubs by themselves in another 18 villages. This created more spaces for exchange between people affected by the genocide and helping to build bridges.
"When I look at my parents and their generation, I would say they had a lot of negative anger. Anger which I don't feel and do not want to continue.
I think for me the biggest lesson has been to live with everyone without discrimination. There will always be some kind of conflict, but once you appreciate that every person is equal, then living with everyone in a society becomes easier.
Explore more stories to see how our work has helped to rebuild lives in Rwanda.


Medik8 just released their range of starter kits and this time I looked to focus on Blemish Starter Kit which features four products made to clear the skin and eliminate further blemishes...more below.
The Blemish Starter Kit by Medik8 looks to combat further blemishes and it removes any impurities, oil and dirt from the skin. Looking to achieve clearer and healthier skin starts with a skincare routine that is followed through every morning and night. Occasionally, I would have acne pop up randomly on my skin (and this is due to many factors being diet, hormone, weather, etc..). So by looking to incorporate the Blemish Starter Kit by Medik8 into my skincare routine, I thought I'd give it a go to see what it could do for my skin.
In the Blemish Starter Kit, you receive four skincare samples (and a make-up bag which fits everything quite nicely as well as a travel-mirror) and essentially it's a great way to try out the products from the Medik8 range and see what works for your skin.
Step 1 - Look to cleanse by using the beta Cleanse Exfoliating Foaming cleanser (40ml). I would use this cleanse morning and night and massage this onto my face using circular motions. The cleanser provides for a deep cleansing suitable for blemished and oily skin. It really is made for those with blemish skin as it contains acid-salicylic acid, tea tree oil and chlorhexidine which assists your skin in preventing further breakouts. I found this cleanser to be quite gentle for my skin and it did not look to strip its natural oils which was great. This product certainly helped to cleanse my skin from any impurities and it's a great start in looking to reduce further blemishes.
Step 2 - After cleansing, apply a few drops of the Hydr8 B5 Skin Rehydration Serum (15ml). Essentially you're looking to apply on an oil-free, lightweight and easily absorbed product that contains Vitamin B5 and Hyaluronic acid. As you look to apply on this serum, it works to build antibodies which leaves your skin feeling so hydrated and luminous. This serum definitely looked to leave my skin feeling hydrated all day long and it doesn't look to leave your skin looking oily which is ideal when you have blemish prone skin.
Step 3 - After applying on the Hydr8, look to moisturise with the betaMoisturiser a Skin Balancing Mattifying Moisturiser (3 x 5ml). This hydrator is oil-free and does not look to block the pores on your skin. The finishing effect is matte and it's a great way to balance the skin whilst controlling your skin's shine and oil production. This product also looks to eliminate bacteria which can potentially be a cause for further breakouts. As I have been trying out the smaller samples, the product does look to make my skin feel more balanced. As for the random breakouts, I've started to see a reduction which I've so far been impressed with.
Step 4 - At night, look to apply the Retinol 3TR (3ml) just before bed. This is a really lightweight and fast absorbing serum containing Vitamin A at 0.3%. It definitely is made for blemish prone skin and it allows your skin to feel more rejuvenated whilst you sleep. It also helps with reducing fine lines and wrinkles which is perfect for those trying to work on anti-ageing of their skin.
Overall, it's a nice starter kit to try out if you have oily and blemish prone skin. The samples are also perfect for travelling as they come in smaller sizes. The range has certainly helped to clear up my skin and with regular and continued use, I can expect to see brighter and clearer results.
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What are your thoughts on the Blemish Starter Kit by Medik8?
Thank you to Medik8 for supporting me for this review. My reviews are based on my own experiences and I only recommend products that I truly believe in.
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If you have to file for bankruptcy because the downturns in the global economic climate have hit you harder than you can manage, you should reach out to a bankruptcy attorney in Salem today so that you can have the legal counsel that you need to make the best decisions possible during your proceedings. A good bankruptcy lawyer in salem will have plenty of experience dealing with bankruptcy proceedings, and they will know how to best guide you as you make choices that could have a profound impact on the lives of you and your family members for many years to come.
Another benefit of working with an experienced bankruptcy attorney in salem is that they will be able to help you come up with a plan to get back on your feet again after your proceedings have concluded. After all, some people have been able to regain their good credit and financial stability in just a few years after bankruptcy, so make sure that you have a good bankruptcy attorney in salem working with you to help you get the results that you are looking for.


Settling your estate is a highly emotive thing to do but, truth be told, it is something that every person needs to do. However, before you begin the process of completing a will, you need to make sure that you have enlisted the legal services of a tried and trusted team that you can fully count on.
At Johnson Law Group International, PLLC, we do just that. Our dedicated team of legal experts know exactly what they are doing and can guide you through the entire will process effortlessly. Our skill and experience in this respect is what sets us apart from many of our competitors in the local area and is one of the main reasons why have become the first number most people call when they need to create a will in Washington.
You Decide How Your Estate Will Be Distributed: Unlike an informal arrangement, the benefits of a will are that it is a legally binding document that lets you decide how your estate will be handled once you die. If you die without a will, there is no guarantee that your intended desires will be carried out as you wish. Having a will also helps reduce and family fights about your estate should they arise.
You Decide Who Will Take Care of Your Minor Children: Another advantage of creating a will is that it allows you to make a deliberate and informed decision about who should take care of your children in the untimely event of your death. This also makes sure that you do not end up with someone raising your children that you don't want.
To Avoid a Lengthy Probate Process: Unlike what many people think, all estates must go through the probate process. This is the case whether you have a will or not. However, having a will speeds up this process and makes it easier for your family to sort things out after you die.
Self-Made Wills: Are They Risky?
Many people wonder if they can just make a will themselves. If they make the will themselves, how can it be disputed or contested by someone? Isn't a document with an official signature enough? Self-made wills can be valid. However, if you create your will without the guidance of an attorney, you leave yourself vulnerable to many grave errors.
When reviewing a self-made will, one of the most common mistakes we see is the exclusion of a residual clause. What is a residual clause? A residual or residuary clause refers to the potential portion of your estate that remains after all claims of the estate have been satisfied. Without a residual clause all the 'residue' of the estate will be distributed according to DC's intestacy laws. These laws would ensure property is given to your closest relatives, beginning with your spouse and then children. However, you might have other wishes for how to distribute your personal assets. That is why a residual clause is important.
If you feel confident in the creation of your will, you should not hesitate to contact Johnson Law Group International, PLLC. We will make sure that your will is valid. In the event of your last will and testament is not clear in its claims, you could wind up leaving your family with a huge burden. If your estate has gone to probate, there could be many delays and additional legal expenses. These legal fees will likely be paid for by your estate.
If you have recently lost a loved one, they likely left behind a will. In most cases, you simply cannot be granted immediate access to this loved one's assets, regardless of what the will says. The executor of the will often has to go through the process of probate before assets can be accessed and appropriately distributed.
• The authenticity of the will is in question, or no existing will has been found.
• A large sum of funds or many assets has been left behind by the deceased.
• The deceased does not have a surviving spouse.
Johnson Law Group International, PLLC is here to help you handle your loved one's estate. If their estate has entered the probate process, you should have the best legal counsel available in the Washington area. Probating an estate can be quite time-consuming and complicated. The work involved can be too great of a burden for some people to handle on their own, especially during a time of grieving.
Let's face it, nobody likes to think about dying. The loss and sense of sadness that accompanies death is very hard to deal with and something that most people don't want to consider. However, the reality of the situation is that death is an inevitability for every one of us and if you want to make this transition as smooth as possible for the friends and family left behind then the mature and responsible thing to do is to create and write a will in advance.


I'm sure you can guess that I spend 90% of the weekend watching and or snuggling goats (that is when I wasn't dripping sweat from our triple digit heat index, BLECH. IT'S FALL. WHERE IS SWEATER WEATHER?). So I don't have much in the way of things to write about the horses or media of them, but what I do have is a PLETHORA OF CUTE GOAT PICTURES (#sorrynotsorry).
Roja (momma goat) with her little spotty boy (left) and girl (right) -- Sam (our future herd sire) in the back.
Blanca and her little girl kid.
Blanca's girl -- her face stripe is THE CUTEST THING EVER.
A good shot of the little boy kid's spotty leg!
She's a keeper for our breeding stock.
He is for sale (although hopefully spoken for already!).
Spotty boy in the front, with his sister (who we're retaining as breeding stock) in the back).
Goats on goats on goats guys. That's all that's going on in my life.... haha.
Look what we have! Baby goats!!!! Born Friday during the day and discovered during evening chores :) two girls and a boy.
Sleeping bebe goats tucked into their straw bed while mommas stuff their faces haha.
EventingSaddlebredStyle did a fun post on Friday about her current hauling rig, and I'm making the executive decision to turn it into an (unofficial) blog hop! I feel like pictures of my rig make it on here on a pretty regular basis, but in case you haven't seen it….
Lookin' sharp at Von Holten Ranch.
The truck is a 1999 Ford F250 Superduty with the coveted 7.3L engine – it's also diesel with a standard transmission (my two least favorite parts about it, haha). Extended cab, long bed, 4WD, the works.
We bought it when it became clear that my towing needs had outstripped the capacities of my beloved 2000 Chevy Silverado 1500 (although it's still rolling right along as our hay/miscellaneous farm chores truck).
Picking up the trailer 7 years ago.
The first time I drove the diesel with the trailer -- ack! It was nerve-wracking.
Learning to drive a manual came with a pretty steep learning curve for me, but I have finally gotten to the point where I'm pretty comfortable driving it on the regular (well ya know, except for that time we put a new clutch pedal in and I had to relearn how to drive it!). The truck isn't the prettiest (in fact, I call it Brienne. Props if you get the reference), but it runs like a top with TLC and regular maintenance. This particular engine is well known to last FOR.EV.ER so I imagine I'll be driving this truck for the rest of my natural life (I'm only sort of joking -- these engines can easily get over 400K). I think the next project will be doing something about the incredibly rusted out cab corners, yikes!
Earning it's keep hauling hay -- 50 bales in the bed? No sweat!
Brienne is currently sporting some sweet truck magnets that were a Christmas gift from my dad a few years back.
The trailer is a 1999 4-Star gooseneck 3-horse slant load with a collapsible back tack room. We are the second owners of this trailer, and even though it's older, it's still in really great shape! A few years ago the roof was badly dented in a nasty hailstorm, but thankfully my insurance company had no problem replacing it (to the tune of like $7K, yikes!).
That time when I finally got around to acid washing the trailer and it looked brand new again haha.
4-Star makes a super quality product, even though there are a few features of the trailer I don't love. Honestly what I'd really love is a 4-Star 2+1 (and of course I literally saw one for sale last week), but this trailer is perfectly serviceable and meets my needs. It also has the added bonus of being fully paid for ;) so probably won't be changing it anytime soon (unless anyone out there has a 2+1 and is dying for my trailer instead? No? Didn't think so… haha).
Topaz and Ruby hanging out at the trailer at a clinic I went to a few years back.
The tack room is spacious and I love the gooseneck for storing lots of things that are convenient to have in a trailer, but that take up a lot of space (like 5-6 folding chairs, a canopy, several Rubbermaid totes, etc). There is a rack for 3 saddles, copious bridle hooks, and another hook for hanging clothes. I've never had a horse not fit into the slants, from Topaz (16 hands and 1350 lbs) to Jasper (much, much smaller haha). Although I really wanted a ramp when I was trailer shopping, the step up is a reasonable height and most horses load into it quite well.
We recently installed Kensington trailer screens (LOVE) to increase airflow to the horses, and I'm still eyeballing fans and a camera as ideas for long-term upgrades.
How about you – what's your current hauling set up? What do you love about it? Are there things you'd like to change about it?
August and September are typically my busiest months at work, and this year is no exception -- some long days and late nights, combined with juggling the rigors of helping to organize my GMO's fall schooling show tomorrow, means I haven't had very much time to keep up here. What's new, right? But I figured I could check in, and share some snapshots from my week!
I rode my horse. With tack. She was excellent (if a little stiff on her right lead canter). But it was a pleasant ride with lots of stretchy trot, sharing the arena with a fellow boarder. Afterwards, we went on a brief walkabout to cool the horses down!
I might be biased, but she's pretty pretty.


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Web only: Why Matt Damon supports public schools, but sends his kids to private school
Actor Matt Damon has spoken out about teachers' unions and public schools, rallying teachers at a march in Washington in 2011 decrying the widespread use of standardized testing to judge how well teachers, students and schools are performing. At that event, he also challenged a reporter who questioned a teacher's incentive to put in work on the job, and went after a cameraman who proposed that 10 percent of teachers are bad.
Inevitably, he has critics – some conservatives take issue with Damon's involvement in this contentious issue, and have attacked him for sending his daughters to private school.
"The private school that I send my kids to is the thing closest to the public school that I went to that I could find. And that's why I send my kids to private school," said Damon.
"I wish I didn't have to, it's expensive, and I also want my kids to be part of their local community, and not have to commute to somewhere else to go to school," said Damon.
"That was a criticism I think it was Jeb Bush tweeted that, and then he retracted it pretty quickly," said Damon.
In August, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush sent a tweet that read, "Matt Damon Refuses to Enroll Kids in Los Angeles Public Schools. Choice ok for Damon, why not everyone else?"
Bush sent his sons to Florida private schools, Gulliver Preparatory School in Miami, and Bolles School in Jacksonville, according to The Washington Post.
The former governor then sent a second tweet, noting, "(Education reform advocate) @kevinpchavous challenges Matt Damon to join him in making sure low-income families have #schoolchoice."
"Although I'd eat my shoe if he could name a Bush that ever even walked into a public school, but that's another story," said Damon. "Maybe I will. Billy Bush, maybe he'll call me up, 'Man, I went to public school.'"
For more of our interview with Matt Damon, click here.
Posted by Jake Tapper, Sherisse Pham
Filed under: Pop Lead


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Beautiful, gripping story. It's six different points in history and the future that overlap and influence each other, you might find the first one kind of dull but keep going! Also, don't watch the movie first, the book is much richer.
No highlights for some reason, maybe I lost them… Go read it!