I thought that Thursday's Living Like Little House post opened up a good topic of discussion. Regardless of whether or not we want the progression that we are seeing, it's still here. However, you and I both know how unreliable it can be. My electricity blinks on and off all the time, regardless of whether or not there is a storm. And when there is a storm it usually goes out and I have no idea how long it will take to come back on.
I know there are all kinds of machines and things that you can buy to help you be able to do things without electricity, I haven't purchased any of them yet but I'm curious…have you? What kind of things do you do differently to prepare for the days when you may not have electricity? Or do you even worry about that?
We put a wood stove in our house last year to prepare for being without power in the winter. And it did happen. It was the middle of a horrible storm, it was something like -40F outside and the power went out. It was already fairly cold in the house because of the wind but when the power went out and we could still sit in front of what fireplace, I was so grateful. The power stayed off for hours and the house got very cold, but we had the fire to keep us warm. I was glad we had thought ahead and prepared for that time.
Another time was in the spring. It was raining so hard and something happened with the rain flooding around our electrical box. The power went out and I had no way to make food. It stayed off for a long time. This time I didn't have to worry about keeping the house warm, just prepping food. Thankfully, I had prepared for this as well and I had food in my pantry that didn't need to be cooked or warmed up, it was ready. And I was glad that I had prepared for that.
So I think preparing to have times without electricity doesn't have to be a big deal. I don't think you need fancy appliances or equipment. But I think it does make sense to be prepared for those times.
So let's chat..what do you do to be prepared to go without electricity? What do you wish you did more of? What (if any) non-electric products do you recommend?
It sounds like you are really trying to deal with any situation. Where we live, it gets cold and snows and rains and we have wind storms. And the electric will go out. We have always had a nice gas grill with a side burner. You can cook anything on that. It has really saved us alot. You don't need electricity for that. You could also just get a charcoal grill too.
The old house, now a rental, had a woodstove – and I miss it. This house has a fireplace insert – which is not as good, but helps. Both put heat out, the stove way more than the insert. Both are flattops – by my choice… I am able to cook on top of them in my cast iron pans and dutch over, and on a trivet, keep water going. So… Heat, Cooking, Hot water, and a little light from the glassfronts.
I am thinking of getting a sun cooker, as well as the BBQ, but as we have so few days of sunshine, I'm not sure that would help in the winter. Also, thinking of getting a wind generator, now that they are getting in the $400-$500 range – just in case! We get plenty of wind here!
We live completely off-grid, so we don't usually get power outages, but we do have to prepare 'just in case'! We own not one, but two propane back-up generators in case the normally high wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine.
I'd love to chat some time Amanda! We are planning on building our new home next year and going off the grid as well!
My biggest concern with power outages is my fridge and freezer. I have a lot of money invested in the food in them, and would hate to lose it to a power outage. I know that my chest freezer will keep cold for quite some time, but only so long. In the winter I could just load all the stuff outside, but in the summer there's nothing I could do.
Crank flashlights and crank cell phone chargers along with the previous suggestion about grills (propane or charcoal) are my top suggestions.
We live on a farm and will be celebrating our one year anniversary in October.
We've had power go out here often in the spring and so far in the summer. My biggest concern is the water. Our water pump is electric. So when it doesn't work we only have access to the water in the cold water tank and the hot water tank. Which should be enough, but what if the power was out for 2 days or more? I have filled several 2L bottles with filtered water and dated them so I can change them in 6 months as was recommended by this site: http://www.grandpappy.info/indexhar.htm There is a lot of information on this site and helpful hints. We also have a wood burning source of heat in the house for winter. So my only real concern for when the power goes out is the possible lack of easy potable water.
If you have a soda processing plant near you see if you can purchase some containers from the syrup they use. I got 2 13.5 gal barrels that had Dr. Pepper syrup in them. I hosed them out and they are in my garden shed ready to go should the need arise. They have a twist plug on top so now I have to hunt up some type of hand pump for them.
Ann, Walmart sells 5 gal water bottles and there is a hand pump that goes in the top of the bottle. I don't know if one of these could be adapted to use on your 13.5 gal barrels. The pump costs about $10. This might help. I hope so.
There are many little things that I have done to prepare for loss of power. I installed a hand pump for the well. The one I have is installed in the basement, where it is warm and dry. 🙂 It will charge our pressure tank so we can use taps and toilets. I also have hand crank blender, food processors, and other items. We have oil lamps, kerosene heaters, crank flashlights and radios. We have canned heat ready, which is made with alcohol and gives heat, light, and a cooking fuel. I have a gas stove and a percolator. I even got an air pot so I can make it in the evening and have it ready when I wake up. Most of these items were second hand finds. The well pump was from a small mom and pop shop in Canada, and is American made. We try to have two or three ways to do anything we might need to do.
There are many great ideas here for being without electricity. I also lived through three hurrincanes, back to back. Without power for 7-10 days with each, on maybe a week, off again. Didn't fill freezer, but refilled fridge; lost fridge stuff again. We lived on sandwiches, cereal, cans, and milk. Cooler of foood, another of drinks. BBQ was big help. There was nothing available in stores, gas stations ran out of gas, couldnt get money out of bank. We all learned (us and neighbors) a lot during these emergencies.
We then stored gallons of water, cans, flashlights and batteries, candles in plastic bins labeled hurricane supplies. First aid kit and over counter meds also.
This just reminded me to pick up some wicks for my oil lamps after my dentist appointment today! I wouldn't make it in the dark, my one year old leaves his cars & Legos everywhere & they HURT! We're not in the direct path of Sandy, but we will get some wind & rain from her.
Ouch! Yes, it sounds like those are needed!
Living in a condo in the city, some options are limited. But in cold weather (under 40 degrees), I can put food in the car in a shady spot. Before storms, I freeze as much of the refrigerated food as possible so it'll last a a little longer. Then I feast on that stuff until it's time to move on to the canned goods. I'm lucky that my stove is gas (one with no pilot light), so to cook or boil water I just light up a burner. If that becomes not useable, I have small grill for outside. There's plenty of fuel for fire in the woods along the property. In case of not being able to make fire at all, I keep bleach on-hand for sterilizing water. I fill the tub and a bunch of 5-gallon bladders with water. For keeping warm — layers and lots of cuddling with the dogs. For keeping cool — water and not moving much.
Good idea to freeze food ahead of time to make it last longer!
Well last summer (2011) we had 3 major storms roll in within a 3 week span, lost power 3 times. 1st time was for a day, 2nd time was for 3 days and the 3rd time was for an entire week. For us here in IL that is pretty unusual, usually it's a day at the most and we are done. But we had such bad damage it just wasn't possible.
A few things we did was cook on our grill (lots of burgers, hotdogs and mac nc cheese, etc), we also have a 7 day cooler that i loaded all of our refridgerator stuff in with ice, the fridge freezer we loaded as a one time load in our big standup that was downstairs, we also added bags of ice in there to help keep it cold. We also used our solar outdoor lights that lined our deck as lighting in the house at night, so we didn't waste our flashlights/batteries and have to keep candles burning all the time. That helped tremendously! The kids loved it, they each had a light. I also would take their Nintendo DS games to work to charge during the day so they had something to keep them occupied at night.
By the 3rd storm when we realized that we weren't going to get power for quite a few days we did buy a generator, with 3 kids and an elderly grandparent we knew we had to do something, so we got one (took FOREVER too find one!), drove an hour and half to get it and hooked up the basic essentials, fridge/freezer, 1 lamp, and whatever else we could that it allowed, like a tv/satellite box. But we still cooked on the grill and husband and I sat on our deck in the evenings as it was cooler outside and just enjoyed our time. 🙂 It all worked out just fine for us!
Living in New Jersey right now, and with Hurricane Sandy to show up this afternoon, we have our bath tubs filled with water, big storage tubs filled with water, flash lights, candles, canned food, baked bread, and cell phones ready to be charged… Bring it on!
That's the best thing you can do, have a good attitude about it!
When we lived at the farm, I'd fill all the stock tanks and buckets. I'd put buckets in the bathtub and cover water vessels in the barn with a tarp and straw if it was freezing. I kept kerosene heaters, propane and a butane stove for heat and cooking. I put 5 gal Igloo coolers on the sinks for hand washing and one in the kitchen for fresh drinking water. Plenty of non perishable food, board games, flashlights and blankets. Bring it on! Living in the city now has only change the water storage. We have city water so it's not necessary to store so much for livestock. I live with a Scoutmaster, Eagle Scout, and a Life Scout – why worry?
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Keep in mind, you all have 30-50 gallons of potable water in your hot water heater. You will have to open a faucet and open the water heater drain valve to tap it, but it's safe and available. Be sure to turn the water heater OFF if your power is out so it doesn't come back on empty.
We lived for three years without electricity or running water. It can be done and it isn't difficult. We also didn't get cell phone service. With three small children. I cooked on a 2 burner camp stove or outdoor grill in the warmer months and the woodstove and camp stove during the winter months. I would have a big pan of water on the wood stove all day to use for dishes, or cleaning/bathing (in a rubbermaid container). Used portta potty down stairs and an easily portable empty coffee can for upstairs. We used propane lanterns and candles for light. Or flashlights if just going upstairs to sleep. We would use ice chests for our food that needed to be kept cool or a snow bank during the winter. We had to travel six miles to a spring to collect water in five gallon water containers. We had several that we would fill every week. We actually look back at that time with smiles and wish we could do it again. You realize how little you DON'T really need in order to live comfortably.
I live in a rural area and am trying to become self reliant. We have a wood burning cook stove in the kitchen and a air tight wood stove in the living room. Our hobby farm is on the side of a hill and we have gravity feed water to the bathroom; therefore, we can flush the toilet and wash. I have a water cooler in the kitchen and we try to have two or three large bottles of water set aside to drink and cook with. If I know a storm is coming in I fill several large pails with water for our animals. If the power does go off, we put old large blankets over the freezers to keep them cold. There are lots of ways to prepare for power outages, we just have to think ahead. My kids like it when we loose power because it makes them feel like the Little House on the Prarie.
We live at the end of the old electric line, are all electric, and often have our power go out, usually not very long. We have two generators, since my hubby HAS to have his TV. We only use our wood stove for heat in the winter and that has a cooking top, but use the BBQ if needed. The hubs is an easy keeper, so food is never an issue. We have two 2500 gallon water tanks on the side of our hill, that we keep filled and so our water is gravity fed.
We took out our land line and only use our cell phones , even tho we are isolated, we still get service.
In a pinch, if we had to, we could use our RV trailer which is packed and ready to go.
We live off-grid, and have for three years now.
We live in a 31ft. travel trailer on ten acres.
We have a generator for times of need, and we haul our water. Our fridge, and stove are propane.
We enjoy our life, and my husband, and I will be 60 this year.
We raise chickens, and rabbits right now, and have dogs, and cat.
It's so possible, and enjoyable.
We got a camp stove and a few extra bottle of propane for power outage cooking, a stovetop coffeepot, I gotta have my morning coffee :), and we put in an extra well that has a hand pump and a working windmill. Just last Saturday our electric water pump went out and needed replacing so we just pumped water into buckets from our hand pump well and life went on. By noon the well guys had the electric repaired but it sure was nice to have the backup. The dog and chickens were happy too.
Hi there! I've lived in an apartment with my husband and two kids for the last four years and we just bought a house a ways north where we will get snow. Our home has propane but the electric runs the kitchen and heater/a.c. I can a ton of food (thanks to our local farmer's market) and will be able to garden and can more when we move in. I also have a Sun Oven that I LOVE!! Our apartment faced full west and the evening meal cooking could be brutal with the a.c. trying to counter it. I solved that problem with the Sun Oven and we used so much less electricity! I can even use it in the winter since it's not based on outside heat but the angle of the sun.
I also have a French press for coffee so all I will have to do is boil water on our little grill.
I love your blog! I know everyone here has said it before, but I really do. It's incredibly inspiring and now I don't feel so silly wanting a simpler lifestyle and to be able to live in content.
I too, live off-the-grid, and have for 15 years now. Over the years, the only time we had a power outage is if one of our components needed to be repaired. That happens. The thing about living this way, means when it does happen, life goes on. We do not live dependent on electric at all. So even the electric we generate ourselves, from the sun and wind, if nothing comes in, we can still get by. We lived for over 6 years without a refrigerator and just got a solar one last year. That….. I would miss, but could get by without it for a period of time.
We live in the country and when a winter storm comes, we can lose power for days. The one thing that concerns me the most with this is water. Anyone who lives in the country knows, when the power goes out, the pump doesn't work for the well. When I know a bad storm is headed our way, I turn the heat up a little so it is a little warmer to begin with in the house. I fill all the pitchers, buckets and tubs with water, just in case. As the storm comes in, I keep a big pot of water boiling on the stove so I can cook with already hot water, make a pot of coffee or tea or anything else that I need warmed. One thing I totally didn't think about until this last winter was the drains freezing. You think about your pipes freezing (keep them dripping), but it can be just as dangerous if your drains freeze shut. I've learned to put a little water in the toilet to flush it about once an hour when it's -30 to keep the drain open. The minute the power goes out, we open a drain on the pipes to drain the fresh water out so it can't freeze.
Great advice about the drains! Do you have a non-electric well pump you can use for back up? We've considered getting one but then realized our well pump has actually been converted to electric so we could simply "un-convert" it.
I learnt everything about Baking without an oven from the only school that counts – "The school of Hard Knocks". Thanks to the epileptic power supply and also being a typical Nigerian, learning to be innovative with ideas wasn't a difficult task.
Now this method of baking without an oven is a method I've used over a gazillion times especially in the village where electricity and gas are scarce. The good thing about this method is, you wouldn't have to be bothered about power failure or having to open the electric oven door while the baking is going on in event of Nepa/Phcn magic as it could spell doom for the cake. Plus, it's a very good way to save gas wink. The difference between this new pot baking method and the conventional Pot baking method with sand is there isn't any sand involved. I don't know if it's just me but sand makes whatever is being baked have a funny dusty taste.
-Turn the aluminum plate upside down and place in the pot if you are making large "whole" cakes. If you want to make cupcakes like in the pictures, you would have to substitute the Aluminum plate for a clean baking pan to get a larger surface area.
-Line your Queen cup cake pans with Baking Sheets. If you don't have baking sheets, you can simply grease the cup cake pans with little margarine and dust with flour. This would make the cakes come out easily once done.
-While baking, DON'T open the pot as this would make the cakes collapse. Only open when the baking time elapses (One sure way to know if the cake is ready is when the aroma starts filtering out).
We had a bad ice storm last year and were without electricity for several days. We were able to stay warm with our fireplace but if we knew we were going to have to do it again I would want a wood stove and a well with a hand pump.


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Welcome to Park Street Camera Club
We are a friendly club founded in 1962 comprised of members of all abilities and styles. Whether your preference be serious competition photography, holiday snaps or images taken on your mobile phone you will feel comfortable – we cover it all.
The annual programme includes regular competition nights for both projected images and prints as well as talks from external speakers and members covering all genres. We also have occasional practical evenings at the club when we might for example, hire a model, indulge in some table top photography or in the summer go out for walks. The Club aims to provide all those interested in photography with an opportunity to improve their knowledge, skill and enjoyment of the art.
We are affiliated to the Photographic Alliance of Great Britain (PAGB) and also the Chiltern Association of Camera Clubs (CACC) which allows us to compete regularly with other clubs in the area. We ourselves stage one of the most prestigious of these events where each year a selected dozen clubs, including us, compete for the Landscape Cup. There are also a number of other season-long events that bring us into contact with all the clubs in the CACC.
The Club year runs from the start of September to the end of July, with short breaks for Christmas and Easter. We meet on Thursday evenings 7:45 for 8pm at St Stephens Parish Centre. Station Road, Bricket Wood AL2 3PJ. This is a long, single storey, cream building just south of the junction of Station Road and Smug Oak Lane. It has ample car parking to the rear.
We are always keen to include new members and you will receive a warm welcome and be under no obligation to join if you visit us on a club evening
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It's been 10 years since the Great Recession: Is Lansing housing market back to normal?
A decade after the Great Recession hit in 2007, bank foreclosures in Greater Lansing are back to pre-recession levels.
LANSING - The Great Recession, sparked by a series of banking failures and marked by block after block of homes in foreclosure, officially began in December 2007.
Greater Lansing was no exception, with thousands of homes foreclosed upon each of the peak years of the recession because their owners couldn't make their mortgage payments.
A decade later, however, the city has returned to pre-recession levels, according to data from the industry monitoring firm RealtyTrac.
Related: "In Greater Lansing, housing subdivisions make a comeback 10 years after crash"
In 2006, banks foreclosed on 642 homes in the ZIP codes found in Ingham, Eaton and Clinton counties. In 2007, that figure shot up to 2,306 and stayed above 2,000 a year until 2014, according to RealtyTrac data. The peak year was 2009, when nearly 3,300 homes were foreclosed.
In 2014, bank foreclosures dipped below 1,000 for the first time since the Great Recession. Last year, there were 646 foreclosures, according to RealtyTrac.
This year was on track to fall below 600, according to the 274 foreclosures reported in July.
In a sign of the turnaround, new or expanded housing subdivisions are either under construction or planned in Okemos, East Lansing, Delta and Delhi townships, DeWitt, and Grand Ledge.


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Home 'with no smoke alarms' caught fire as unsuspecting tenants drank wine in the garden
Everything in the bedrooms was destroyed with damage running to £18,000, according to one of the affected residents who said she and her housemate could have been 'burned alive'
Two housemates narrowly escaped being "burned alive" after a fire destroyed their rented home which allegedly had no fire alarms fitted.
Alice Beal, a Cardiff singer and songwriter, was in the garden of the rented property when it went up in flames.
She had been celebrating a friend's birthday with housemate Michaela and all three were completely unaware of the fire spreading through the upstairs as they sipped wine out the back.
The blaze completely destroyed their two bedrooms and everything inside with damage amounting to almost £20,000, Alice claimed.
It was only when Alice went to investigate a bang which came from inside the house, in Arabella Street in Roath, that she realised the building was alight in the middle of the night on June 3.
She alleged there were no fire alarms fitted in the house which meant she and her friends had no warning about what was happening – a claim supported by a fire report from the incident seen by WalesOnline.
Alice, Michaela and friend Hannah in the garden celebrating Hannah's birthday before the fire broke out (Image: Alice Beal)
"I hadn't realised that we didn't have any alarms," Alice said, speaking from her family home in rural France where she fled to after ending up with nowhere else to go.
"We were sat in the garden and the house was fully on fire. First of all we heard a bang and I thought someone was breaking in. So I ran inside and there were flames coming down from the stairs."
The fire destroyed everything in the bedroom including Alice's recording equipment (Image: Alice Beal)
Alice said the fire started in Michaela's bedroom from one of the electric sockets (Image: Alice Beal)
The fire had started in Michaela's bedroom in the early hours of a Wednesday morning when the flatmates would have usually been in bed. It was "lucky" they had been celebrating, Alice added, saying: "Thank goodness we were outside – we came very close to burning alive."
Both of the bedrooms were completely gutted and the two women were left with nothing apart from their kitchenware which remained undamaged downstairs.
"Everything was destroyed, including the recording equipment in my room," said Alice, 29. "We've estimated there must be at least £18,000-worth of damage to our possessions."
Firefighters put out the blaze at the property, which was rented for £750 per month, in less than two hours. A spokesman for the South Wales Fire and Rescue Service said: "At approximately 3.03am on June 3, 2020, we received reports of a fire at a property on Arabella Street in Roath, Cardiff.
"Crews attended the scene and worked to extinguish the fire using a range of specialist equipment."
The subsequent fire report noted: "Responsible person informed that no smoke alarms were fitted." It was signed by the fire incident commander and Zulf Ahmed, who was the letting agent for the property at the time of the fire.
Alice, a singer/songwriter, with boyfriend and fellow musician Jack Ellis (Image: Alice Beal)
Alice briefly returned to the house to collect what she could and alleged the letting agency had denied any responsibility despite the fact there were no fire alarms present.
Alice said the initial tenancy agreement had been arranged through Velvet Chase Lettings but on May 1 this was swapped to Cardiff Properties Management Limited, which is registered to an address in Beatty Avenue, Cardiff.
Cardiff Properties Management was contacted by WalesOnline for comment about the missing fire alarms. A man, who would not give his name over the telephone, said: "I don't know what you are talking about, I'm not comfortable talking about this at all." He then hung up.
In a subsequent email Zulf Ahmed said: "We have a firm policy of not engaging with reporters. Please do not contact us again."
Alice, who worked at the NosDa backpacker hostel and live music venue in Cardiff city centre, said she was able to spend a few nights at the hostel, which had been closed due to lockdown, and with neighbours. But she eventually decided to return to the family home in France, where she grew up, after lockdown rules were relaxed and travel restrictions were lifted.
Alice released her debut single on August 28 (Image: Alice Beal)
Born in Wales, Alice moved to France as a baby but returned to the Welsh capital to study and pursue her musical ambitions. The fire has forced her back to the continent where she has recorded her debut single from a "shed in the forest" at her parents' home.
Released on Friday, August 28, Alice is hoping to build her solo career with the help of her boyfriend Jack Ellis, a fellow musician.
She has gained quite a following in the Welsh music scene after hosting a number of open-mic events at NosDa. Describing her style as "indie folk rock", Alice performs as Alcie Bela. Alice said: "I've always loved to sing but I never braved the stage until now."
She is staying in France for now until things settle down but she added: "I'm still technically based in Cardiff but I won't let the fire stop me releasing my single."
You can find Alice's single via her Facebook page or at soundcloud.com/alciebela.
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Lawrence County sees 13 new COVID-19 cases in less than two weeks
By Mark Shaffer
Published 6:46 pm Thursday, June 18, 2020
In less than two weeks, Lawrence County has seen the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases go up from 30 to 43 cases.
On Thursday, the Lawrence County Health Department announced that there were 43 cases, although the Ohio Department of Health numbers indicated the number of cases was at 40. The health department said the numbers would be updated by ODH on Friday.
"Of the 40 shown, 20 are male, 20 are female," the Lawrence County Health Department posted on Facebook. "The youngest is less than 2 years old, the oldest is 81. There were four brief hospitalizations (no recent hospitalizations)."
The health department said "there are 10 zip codes in Lawrence County, and pretty much every one of them has been affected. The Ohio Department of Health is working on zip code data and that will be released soon. Please know that anyone listed as a contact of a confirmed case is contacted, as are any businesses or places the confirmed case might have been."
Of the 43 cases, 30 are out of isolation, 13 are being followed by the health department and they are monitoring 38 contacts. 2,631 tests have been done by the health department.
Thirty-nine confirmed cases were reported on Wednesday, up from 35 on Tuesday. On June 10, there were 32 cases. There were 30 cases from May 29-June 9. The first case in the county was on March 25.
The health department said they understood the worry and concern of the public as they see a rise in the number of confirmed cases. They said that as more things open up and as people travel more, the chance of contracting COVID-19 increases. There were 700 new cases in the state on Thursday and cases across the U.S. went up by nearly 28,000 on Wednesday.
"So we MUST assume it's everywhere," the health department wrote. "We have to do what we can to protect ourselves and our families, and today that means going back to the basics."
The basic includes washing hands often with soap and water, using hand sanitizer when soap and water isn't available, wear a mask when in public, avoid crowded areas and practice social distancing.
"If you are having symptoms or if you're worried that you've been exposed, your physician can arrange testing," the health department said.
There will be a free testing event at Southern Ohio Medical Center in Portsmouth next Wednesday from 9 a.m.–4 p.m.
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Free Crisis Counseling Now Available for People Struggling during COVID-19 Pandemic
February 3, 2021, 3:53 PM HST
Kū Makani, the Hawaiʻi Resiliency Project, is providing a free crisis counseling line for people faced with challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Logo Courtesy: Kū Makani
Kū Makani, the Hawai'i Resiliency Project, has received federal funding to provide free and anonymous crisis counseling to help people work through challenges faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Crisis Counseling Line: 1-800-753-6879. Group and individual counseling sessions also are available via Zoom.
Funding for the new crisis outreach counseling comes from FEMA and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Trained counselors will provide people impacted by COVID-19 with emotional support and connections to many local resources and opportunities, according to an informational email from Kū Makani.
Kū Makani's flyer states: "Crisis counselors are here for you. We provide a judgment-free space to help you through these difficult times, as well as pursue opportunities for coping and wellness. Our staff are here to support you."
Kū Makani means "stand strong in the wind" in Hawaiian.
The counseling is for the entire Hawaiian islands and likely will continue for at least a year. When people call the toll free number, they can ask for a counselor with specific knowledge about agencies and opportunities on Maui or another island.
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Serendipity Brands adds sundae cups and ice cream cakes
The offerings are the company's first 'novelty' products.
KEYWORDS ice cream cake / ice cream flavors / ice cream sundae
Serendipity Brands, New York, announced two new additions to its product lineup — superpremium ice cream cakes and Serendipity sundae cups. These are the first of many planned "novelty" product line expansions, Serendipity said.
Serendipity's ice cream cakes are available in two of the brand's most popular flavors currently offered in pints — Frrrozen Hot Chocolate and Birthday Cake. The Frrrozen Hot Chocolate is hot chocolate-flavored ice cream, a whipped cream swirl and chocolate shavings. Meanwhile, the Birthday Cake flavor is cake-flavored ice cream, swirls of pink frosting, cake pieces and sprinkles. Each 8-inch cake is 56 ounces and is filled with Serendipity's superpremium ice cream; it has a suggested retail price of $24.99, the company said.
Serendipity Brands said its sundae cups are ready-to-eat and come in four flavors, including Frrrozen Hot Chocolate and Birthday Cake and new flavors Cookie Dough and Salted Caramel. An individual Serendipity sundae cup has a suggested retail price of $2.99.
"The two new products are just the beginning, as we look to the future to continue expanding the reach of the brand," said Sal Pesce, president of Serendipity Brands.
In addition to the new products, Serendipity also unveiled three new flavors available in pints — Very Cherry Chunk, Dulce de Leche and Salty Caramel Pretzel. These new flavor options join the company's original eight pint flavors, which can now be found at participating retailers nationwide.
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Palo Alto's California Avenue has a new dining option: Kali Greek Kitchen, a fast-casual Greek restaurant.
The owner of neighboring French restaurant Cafe Brioche, Caglar Vural, is behind Kali Greek Kitchen. The restaurant will open at 451 California Ave. in the next week or two, said Christie Perego, director of operations. The space has been inactive since Uzumaki Sushi closed three years ago.
Kali Greek Kitchen is a new fast-casual Greek restaurant opening soon at 451 California Ave. in Palo Alto. Photo by Elena Kadvany.
Kali Greek Kitchen serves pita sandwiches, salads and rice bowls made with high-quality, locally sourced ingredients. Perego described it as a "farm-to-counter concept."
A jobs posting on Craigslist says the restaurant's focus is on "a simple Greek menu featuring fresh, regional ingredients and slow-roasted locally farmed meat and poultry."
A rotisserie is churning out roasted meats like Marys Free Range Chicken, lamb from Superior Farms and tri tip from Niman Ranch. For vegetarians, there is a zucchini fritter option. Sides include pita chips, dips, Greek salad, rice, French fries and potatoes cooked in the juices of the rotisserie meats. The restaurant will also sell whole roasted chickens. Perego said they plan to do a lot of takeout and catering.
Above: The chicken salad ($12) at Kali Greek Kitchen with roasted beets, orange and greens topped with mizithra cheese and a lemon-oregano vinaigrette. Photo by Elena Kadvany.
For dessert, Kali Greek Kitchen serves Greek frozen yogurt from Palo Alto's Fraiche with toppings like honey and candied walnuts, olive oil and sea salt or Amarena cherries.
Drinks-wise, expect all-Greek beer and wine. Kali Greek Kitchen serves both lunch and dinner. Perego said they plan to be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily.


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Beto raised $6.1 Million in 1st 24 hours, slightly topping Bernie and leaving female candidates in the dust
Fundraising numbers make clear Democrats don't really support their female candidates
Posted by Mary Chastain Monday, March 18, 2019 at 11:00am 22 Comments
Robert O'Rourke's campaign has announced that he raised $6.1 million in the first 24 hours of his candidacy for president, which is the most out of the 2020 candidates.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had the top spot at $5.9 million until now.
The campaign stated O'Rourke raised the money online and from all 50 states. From The New York Times:
Mr. O'Rourke's early burst of fund-raising illustrates how much he has captured the imagination of many Democratic activists around the country, who propelled him to break financial records last year in his ultimately losing bid to unseat Senator Ted Cruz of Texas. There were some doubts as to whether those same grass-roots donors would also contribute to him when he was not facing Mr. Cruz — a detested figure on the left — but rather was one more entrant in a sprawling presidential primary.
Mr. O'Rourke's money will, at least for now, quiet some of those skeptics: In a single day online, he raised nearly a quarter of what Barack Obama, then a senator, did in the entire first quarter of 2007.
We have to take the word of the campaign since the candidates do not have to fill out fundraising reports until the end of the month. The public will receive those findings on April 15.
This has to worry the Democrat Party, which prides itself on the minority factor. First off, poll after poll has shown the most support for former Vice President Joe Biden and Sanders. Now O'Rourke and Sanders have the best fundraising.
It has to terrify them that so many people, as of right now, favor the white men.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) raised $1.5 million, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) raised $1 million, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren raised $300,000 in their first 24 hours.
Considering Bernie and Beto big numbers, clear Democrats don't really support female candidates — "Beto O'Rourke raised $6.1 million in first 24 hours of presidential campaign" https://t.co/CeQb7Uc5SW pic.twitter.com/a0Becooi6K
— Legal Insurrection (@LegInsurrection) March 18, 2019
Question is, how long will the Democrat Party have to tolerate O'Rourke? Politico noted that O'Rourke drew in large crowds, but it didn't go smoothly:
Four days into his presidential campaign, O'Rourke's supporters are still stuffing themselves into coffee shops and living rooms across the Midwest to see the Democratic sensation as he motors east from Iowa to New Hampshire in a Dodge Grand Caravan. And O'Rourke by the weekend was moving deliberately to speak more specifically about policy, to hold more organized events and to mend his relationship with the media.
But for all the charisma and fundraising that could carry him far into the Democratic primary, a series of missteps in his campaign's earliest days served as a reminder of how uncertain a prospect his star remains.
"For all the fanfare, the band was playing a pretty flat tune," Dave Nagle, a former congressman and Iowa state Democratic Party chairman, said after watching O'Rourke address a large rally from the bed of a red Ford Ranger in Waterloo, Iowa. "There's just no substance to it."
O'Rourke couldn't give many straight answers when it came to policy. He also offended some when he said that he sometimes helps his wife raise their three kids. That led to an apology and him admitting he has "white privilege."
It doesn't help that O'Rourke's website is filled with merchandise and lacks his position on issues. I looked it up this weekend and found his website bland. I had to navigate news websites in order to find where he stands on issues. Those in Iowa noticed his lack of answers:
Some voters made it clear they wanted more from O'Rourke when it came to specifics — a dynamic that could become more pronounced later in Democratic debates later this summer.
In Independence, one voter opened his question to O'Rourke by noting that Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who is also running for the nomination, "is the gold standard of policy." O'Rourke, the voter said, had been "doing a good job identifying the issues — but I don't think any of us have heard any particular policies."
Greg Batenhorst, the superintendent of schools in Mount Vernon, came to the Sing-A-Long Bar armed with a tough, specific question he had prepared for O'Rourke — about what he would do on immigration issues, a topic where he has struggled in the past on policy details. O'Rourke told Batenhorst he would immediately legalize DACA recipients and highlighted the bipartisan support for immigration reform — an answer that wasn't enough for Batenhorst and his wife, Mary Lou.
Then came issues with the press:
And the media was there to see the exchange — after O'Rourke infuriated network and print reporters at the start of the campaign. His staff initially refused to provide basic information to many outlets about events, and they told some reporters that events were closed to the press — or forced them to leave — while allowing others in.
The campaign left a crush of press in the dark even about O'Rourke's first stop in Iowa — the first public appearance of his campaign.
Who knows what will happen, but it seems like O'Rourke is learning as he goes. As his campaign continues, it will be interesting to see if his fundraising remains strong.
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bear | March 18, 2019 at 11:30 am
This money thing is fascinating.
So many candidates are rich, already. That they are having a fund-raising race speaks volumes. They understand that the money tree has only so much fruit, and when it's gone, it's gone. Too bad for the under-funded. Campaign free-speech is finite, and expensive.
Money is power and influence. A candidate's perceived strength is now being determined by the size of their initial cannonball into the pool.
It looks like the folks with the least money will never even have a chance to garner name recognition, and are being all but ignored by the msm already.
If the dems are looking to spend big bucks this early, they may not have enough of other peoples' cash left to fight the main event.
healthguyfsu in reply to bear. | March 18, 2019 at 4:26 pm
The DNC is broke, that's why.
Plus, this is their slush fund. They try to accuse Trump of the same because they know the dirtiest tricks in the book.
rdm | March 18, 2019 at 11:42 am
Fundraising seems to be disconnecting itself from viability more and more. It's much easier to raise money than to be a viable candidate.
Petrushka | March 18, 2019 at 11:58 am
So we have Bernie the socialist, Joe the groper, and Beto the Ted Kennedy clone.
This year it will be women who find out what it was like for Bernie.
Colonel Travis | March 18, 2019 at 12:04 pm
Bad publicity dumped all over this hacker, child-murder-fantasy weirdo and guess what? No one on the left cares.
A lot of stupid people want this doofus as their leader. He is a legit threat.
JBourque in reply to Colonel Travis. | March 18, 2019 at 12:29 pm
I'm amused at the desperation of the bad publicity – all of which is coming from the left. Beto's suddenly not so adorable and harmless to them anymore.
Colonel Travis in reply to JBourque. | March 18, 2019 at 1:39 pm
Of course you will find (D)s trying to take him down. Primary season is coming up. Same thing happens on the (R) side.
He raised more money in 24 hours than any other (D). I do not understand why anyone blows this guy off.
CDR D in reply to Colonel Travis. | March 18, 2019 at 6:02 pm
No, I agree… this guy with Bobby Kennedy's teeth is like Christ come to cleanse the temple for these whacked out Democrats, many of them dope addled, and hoping for a return to the "Age of Aquarius".
TX-rifraph | March 18, 2019 at 12:15 pm
Could it be that the globalists are simply choosing (buying) their candidate? The others can't "compete" against the big bucks. Nothing is uncontrolled by a leftist.
Trump is in office because the leftists were arrogant and obviously over confident. I suspect they are calculating carefully.
They bought soulless HRC. They like Beto, now. I wonder why? Because he will be a soulless puppet?
Watch the process carefully. His fundraising is not "by chance."
TX-rifraph in reply to TX-rifraph. | March 18, 2019 at 12:16 pm
There is a script.
n.n | March 18, 2019 at 12:46 pm
An economic quickfix (e.g. Obamacare), the diversity of another (i.e. color or race), preserving the wicked solution (i.e. selective-child or planned parenthood), redistributive change (e.g. tax deductible commerce and exchanges), social justice wars and immigration reform, and a viable replacement for the "boyfriend" Obama are in demand.
venril | March 18, 2019 at 1:54 pm
He can't play a sax, so a skateboard is all he's got. Wow, that's soooo sexy. I mean I guess it's better than sitting in a tank, right?
Beta, what a doofus.
Observer in reply to venril. | March 19, 2019 at 9:42 am
What is it with this guy and his skateboard? Are voters supposed to be impressed that he has a skill most of us had mastered by the age of 8? What's next, his pogo stick, his slip-n'-slide?
When someone becomes a man, they are supposed to put away childish things. Apparently, Robert Francis didn't get the message — or perhaps he just hasn't become a man yet.
Notanymore | March 18, 2019 at 1:57 pm
Just proves the Democrats is the white male party no female candidates welcome.
healthguyfsu | March 18, 2019 at 4:16 pm
This proves the wage gap!
2nd Ammendment Mother | March 18, 2019 at 4:46 pm
I smell a rat. Beta is Obama's chosen, is most likely the beneficiary of his campaign machinery and is running a campaign with much the same vacant rhetoric as his benefactor. Since November, 3 Silicon Valley tech firms have chosen the very unlikely location of El Paso to relocate to. Having lived there, it's just not a great place for tech.
I'm hoping Beta's "small dollar grass roots" donors get more attention than Obama's did:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-illegal-donor-loophole
"In the age of digital contributions, fraudsters can deploy so-called robo-donations, computer programs that use false names to spew hundreds of donations a day in small increments, in order to evade reporting requirements. According to an October 2008 Washington Post article, Mary Biskup of Missouri appeared to give more than $170,000 in small donations to the 2008 Obama campaign. Yet Biskup said she never gave any money to the campaign. Some other contributor gave the donations using her name, without her knowledge. (The Obama campaign explained to the Post that it caught the donations and returned them.)
This makes it all the more surprising that the Obama campaign does not use a standard security tool, the card verification value (CVV) system—the three- or four-digit number often imprinted on the back of a credit card, whose purpose is to verify that the person executing the purchase (or, in this case, donation) physically possesses the card. The Romney campaign, by contrast, does use the CVV—as has almost every other candidate who has run for president in recent years, from Hillary Clinton in 2008 to Ron Paul this year. (The Obama campaign says it doesn't use the CVV because it can be an inhibiting factor for some small donors.) Interestingly, the Obama campaign's online store requires the CVV to purchase items like hats or hoodies (the campaign points out that its merchandise vendor requires the tool)."
The article also gets into the means with which lots of overseas donations were able to slide through the pipeline with no scrutiny. Beta could easily run a campaign with all the cartel money sitting around El Paso needing to be laundered.
tom_swift | March 18, 2019 at 5:51 pm
All this means is that whoever is shoveling money to the D'rats this time prefers these particular candidates. Maybe they think the women are useless, or unreliable, or whatever. But obviously I don't credit that crap about "how much he has captured the imagination of many Democratic activists around the country" any more than I did the story about Chinatown dishwashers of no fixed abode throwing millions of small donations at Hillary, or the Obama campaign's "inadvertent" lack of records about his "small donations". Somebody somewhere in the world wants to D'rats to win the White House, and they're certainly not going to tell us who. Shoot, it could even be Vlad.
MJN1957 | March 18, 2019 at 6:32 pm
Simply reaffirming the concept that fools and their money are soon parted.
CKYoung | March 18, 2019 at 9:40 pm
Watching beta o'rourke speak is painful. He's a whiny dunce.
DouglasJBender | March 18, 2019 at 11:22 pm
Can he legally change his last name to "Kennedy", or at least self-identify as a Kennedy?
Concise | March 19, 2019 at 12:13 pm
Ok, how about breaking down this $6.1 million. How many donors? A few elite billionaires from CA or a broad section of supporters?
TimothyJ | March 19, 2019 at 1:10 pm
Whiter than white rice seems to be the requirement for Democrat voters. Sorry about that all you wanna be President people of color.


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Japan and the Unification Church: The Case Before the UN Human Rights Committee
The assault on the Unification Church after the Abe assassination is incompatible with several articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Thierry Valle, President of CAP-LC, at the United Nations.
The United Nations Human Rights Committee is the body that monitors the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) by the states parties. From October 10 to November 4, 2022, it will hold its 136th session in Geneva. Among the countries whose compliance with the ICCPR will be examined in this session will be Japan.
Among the documents submitted by NGOs in consultative status with the ECOSOC, the United Nations Economic and Social Council, which will be discussed in the session, one has been filed by CAP-LC (Coordination des Associations et des Particuliers pour la Liberté de Conscience, Coordination of Associations and Individuals for Freedom of Conscience).
It deals with the violations of the ICCPR in Japan perpetrated against the Unification Church, now known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification—although CAP-LC has kept the name "Unification Church" as it is the one mostly used in the media. After the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, both the corporate rights of the Unification Church/Family Federation and the individual rights of its members and those who attend events of related organizations have been violated in Japan.
As discussed in a series of Bitter Winter articles, Abe was killed by a man who had never been a member of the Unification Church. His mother went bankrupt twenty years ago, and he blamed it on her excessive donations to that church. He decided to punish Abe since the former Prime Minister had attended via video an event of an organization connected with the Unification Church, and sent a message to another. The assassin had also planned to kill the leader of the Unification Church, which was clearly the victim in this incident, together with Abe.
However, there is an organized opposition to the Unification Church in Japan, and it managed to persuade the public opinion that the religious group was somewhat responsible for the homicide. The twisted logic was that, had his mother not donated to the Unification Church and gone bankrupt (in 2002), the assassin would not have killed Abe (in 2022).
Within a context of media ready to believe almost every slanderous charge against groups labeled as "cults," this faulty argument was taken seriously, and serious breaches of the rights guaranteed to the Unification Church and its members under the ICCPR followed.
CAP-LC denounces, first, a violation of Articles 17 and 19.3.a ICCPR, which protect privacy, honor, and reputation. CAP-LC noted that the Unification Church was mostly slandered by attorneys who are members of the "National Network of Lawyers Against Spiritual Sales," an organization created with the specific purpose of fighting the Unification Church. It includes lawyers who were previously involved in defending deprogrammers, i.e., "faith breakers" who tried to "deconvert" from the Unification Church adult members kidnapped and illegally detained by or on behalf of their parents. Japanese courts have finally agreed with their Western counterparts that deprogramming is illegal, but the lawyers in the Network continue both to slander and to attack the Unification Church through legal actions, accusing it of fraudulently collecting donations through what they call "spiritual sales."
At a rally in Seoul, South Korea, protesting discrimination and slander against the Unification Church in Japan, a protester shows a picture of Toru Goto, a Japanese Unification Church devotee who was detained by deprogrammers for 12 years. When he was liberated, he was malnourished and unable to move.
CAP-LC notes that the story of the so-called "spiritual sales" is told in a defamatory and tendentious way by the Network. When examined more closely, Unification Church practices about donations are not very much different from those of many other religions.
The Network is a private group but, CAP-LC notes, "It is a cause for great concern that lawyers from the Network, which is certainly not an unbiased organization, nor one friendly to religious liberty, are currently participating in official 'commissions of experts,' including one convened by the Consumer Affairs Agency and the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, which are suggesting further measures against the Unification Church."
By aligning itself with a group hostile to religious liberty, the Japanese government clearly violates its ICCPR commitments, argues CAP-LC. "We are deeply concerned, it writes, by the fact that proposals in Japan that the already restrictive 2000 law [on door-to-door sales] should be amended to prohibit soliciting donations as well are seriously considered, including by the above-mentioned official commission, where voices are heard that clearly state that the aim is to prevent donations to the Unification Church." Obviously, "this would violate a number of ICCPR provisions, including freedom of religion or belief (Article 18), non-discrimination (Article 26), and unreasonable limitations of rights and freedoms of associations to self-organize themselves and obtain the necessary resources for their operations (Article 22). Donations to one particular religion would be treated differently from donations to other religions, based on the idea that this religion practices something called 'psychic marketing,' a bizarre label unknown to international scholars of religion that hides the discredited and pseudo-scientific idea of 'brainwashing.'"
Another reason for concern, CAP-LC continues, is "the inauguration on September 5, 2022, of a government-operated 'telephone consultation service,' through which officers will direct those who are 'experiencing trouble' with the Unification Church to 'professional consultation entities including those offering legal help,' by which they presumably mean anti-Unification-Church lawyers. The fact that this service is offered only with respect to the Unification Church and not to countless other religious (and non-religious) groups whose members may be 'experiencing trouble' is a clear case of discrimination prohibited by the ICCPR."
Local and international media covered the Unification Church protests in Seoul against slander and discrimination in Japan.
Article 25 ICCPR guarantees the right of political participation to all citizens irrespective of their gender, ethnicity, or religion. This article is also violated in Japan by proposals that political parties should be prevented from including members of the Unification Church among their electoral volunteers, and politicians should be forbidden from attending events of organizations connected with the same church. CAP-LC adds that "The actions of political parties that, scared by media campaigns, ask their members not to cooperate with the Universal Peace Federation [the Unification-Church-connected organization to which Abe had sent a video and a written message] or the Unification Church, also violate Article 25 ICCPR. In a democratic system, political parties should also respect the ICCPR in their activities and statements."
Individual Japanese members of the Unification Church, CAP-LC continues, have "experienced violations of their rights to personal security (article 9 ICCPR) and not to be discriminated because of their belief in the workplace and in schools and other educational establishments (article 18.3 ICCPR)." This is a consequence of the hate speech liberally disseminated against them, and the situation is getting every day worse. CAP-LC reports that "In the period from Abe's assassination to the end of August 2022, the Unification Church in Japan had documented more than 400 hate incidents against its churches, organizations, and individual members. But they continue, and the number is probably higher, since not all local incidents are necessarily reported to the headquarters."
In addition to attacks against Unification Church's places of worship, individual believers are also suffering. CAP-LC offers some examples. "On July 18, a female believer in Gunma Prefecture was physically assaulted by her son and reported to the hospital with a broken rib. On July 23 in Aichi, a husband entered the premises of the Unification Church and beat his wife there. On August 16, in Nagano, a believer was badly beaten by her husband because she refused to leave the Unification Church. In several cases, believers were threatened with divorce by spouses who are not members of the Church. In some cases, divorce proceedings have indeed started. A couple in Gunma Prefecture who lived with their son and daughter-in-law was expelled from the latter's home on July 15, because they refused to leave the Unification Church. Many believers reported their spouses or other relatives had destroyed their Unification Church literature and, in some cases, even their cell phones, trying to prevent them from communicating with the Church."
At the protest in Seoul, a Unification Church believer reads a list of acts of discrimination and persecution perpetrated against the Church in Japan.
The broader context of this persecution is a widespread violation in Japan of Article 18 ICCPR, on freedom of religion or belief, by claiming that "cults" such as the Unification Church are not genuine "religions" and are not entitled to religious liberty. There are proposals that Japan should introduce an anti-cult law similar to the widely criticized 2001 About-Picard law in France, and as France did, tax donations to "cults" as revenue rather than gifts. Those who make such proposals ignore that France consistently lost cases where it tried to tax donations to "cults" at the European Court of Human Rights. It had to give back to three different movements the money of the tax bills they had already paid, plus interests and legal fees.
"All this, CAP-LC concludes, is not allowed by the ICCPR, and Japan should be reminded that the commitments it assumed when it signed the ICCPR cannot be held hostage to the shifting winds of public opinion. While respecting freedom of expression, Japan should also regulate its media, taking into account documents from the U.N. and other international institutions about hate speech and media discrimination against minority religions."
CAP-LC expressed the "hope that in view of the ongoing suffering of the members of the Unification Church/Family Federation in Japan, these matters may be addressed urgently" by the Human Rights Committee.
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Stephen Drew Free-Agent Outlook: Drew Represents Best Shortstop Option in Thin Infield Market
by Ricky Doyle on Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 12:11PM
Stephen Drew needed a good bounce-back season to not only help the Red Sox, but to also help his stock in free agency this winter. Drew was up to the challenge.
Drew, who signed a one-year, $9.5 million deal with the Red Sox last offseason following two injury-plagued seasons split between Arizona and Oakland, played in 124 regular-season games — his most since 2010. He was also very productive in those games, making him the best shortstop available on the open market this offseason.
The Red Sox seemingly have a replacement lined up for Drew in Xander Bogaerts, and the club also has high expectations for third baseman Will Middlebrooks despite his down year in 2013, so it appears that the left side of Boston's infield could be set for 2014. The Red Sox offered Drew a $14.1 million qualifying offer, though, and John Farrell said Wednesday that he'd welcome the depth that would come with re-signing Drew.
There's a chance that Drew could receive a multiyear offer that's just too good for him to pass up, in which case his days in Boston could be numbered. But Drew might instead decide that a one-year, $14.1 million contract with the Red Sox is the best deal for him.
Let's dive a little deeper into Drew's free agency.
Age/DOB: 30 (March 16, 1983)
Acquired: via free agency (Dec. 26, 2012)
Height/weight: 6-foot, 190 pounds
Bats: Left
Resides: Valdosta, Ga.
2013 season in review
G: 124
HR: 13
RBI: 67
AVG: .253 (112-for-442)
OBP/SLG/OPS: .333/.443/.777
SO/BB: 124/54
WAR: 3.1
Drew arrived in Boston amid plenty of skepticism. He had only played a total of 165 games combined in 2010 and 2011, and was forced to deal with the inherent cynicism evoked by his last name — his brother, J.D. Drew, had a rather polarizing five-year stint in Boston.
Things started off on the wrong foot initially, as Drew missed the beginning of the season with a concussion and later struggled upon returning. But he eventually turned his season around and became a very valuable contributor.
Drew's 67 RBIs matched a career-high and ranked second among American League shortstops behind Baltimore's J.J. Hardy (76). His 13 home runs were tied for third among AL shortstops, and his .443 slugging percentage was the best mark by a Red Sox shortstop since Nomar Garciaparra slugged .524 in 2003.
Drew's solid offensive production came to a screeching halt in the postseason, as he hit just .111 (6-for-54) with 19 strikeouts. But the veteran's nifty glove work — which was on display all season — caused Farrell to stick with him, even when times got tough at the dish.
Drew is a very well-rounded player. He provides a solid bat at a position not known for offense, and he's extremely sure-handed defensively.
Drew is a patient hitter who really got hot in the second half of 2013 — playoffs, notwithstanding. Drew led all major league shortstops after July 27 in slugging percentage (.513) and OPS (.879), and he hit .292 and compiled 35 RBIs in that span.
This package should bode well for the 30-year-old on the open market, where you could argue that he's the best middle infielder available not named Robinson Cano.
Drew's most glaring weakness is his durability. While he played in 124 regular-season games and all 16 of the Red Sox' playoff games, he did miss time with a concussion and a hamstring issue. Plus, there's still the injury-plagued 2010 and 2011 campaigns hanging over his head.
Drew also struggled against left-handers in 2013, which caused Farrell to switch up his lineup a bit at times during the middle of the year. Drew hit .196 (30-for-153) with a .246 on-base percentage against lefties in 2013, and is a career .235 hitter versus southpaws.
Market/alternatives
Drew's dismal 2013 postseason could be looked at as his downfall, but it probably won't linger too much in the minds of MLB executives. He did enough throughout the regular season and in the years prior to 2010 to prove that he's a very good shortstop in a league thin on such players.
The Red Sox, as mentioned, have Bogaerts and Middlebrooks firmly implanted on the left side of the infield, so Drew is a bit redundant. At the same time, his return would go a long way toward giving Boston the depth that became a hallmark of its World Series season.
In Drew's words
"Do I want to be back here? That would be great. I've enjoyed my time here. We'll see what happens. There's a time to talk. But looking back over the year, have I enjoyed it? Yeah. I would love to finish out my career here. We'll see how it happens. We'll see how the cards fall. I definitely love playing with the Red Sox and this team." (Oct. 6)
Off-the-cuff prediction
Drew will sign a three-year, $33 million contract with the Cardinals.
Drew's potential return to the Red Sox ultimately hinges on whether he gets a worthwhile multiyear deal from another team. The draft-pick compensation attached to Drew by virtue of Boston's qualifying offer could be a hindrance in his effort to secure a long-term deal, but he's too good a player in a thin market for someone to not pony up the pick and the dough.
Plenty of teams could use a good shortstop, but the Cardinals are a good fit. They could use an offensive upgrade at the position, and Drew has a history with the organization dating back to his brother's days there. St. Louis also has the luxury of knowing that it'll receive a draft pick when Carlos Beltran signs elsewhere, which seems likely.
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Q: Where's the bottleneck? Not bad configuration, bad performance I recently bought a new computer.
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*Intel Core i7 3820 (not overclocked, so 3.6 GGHz) on a 2011 socket

*2x4GiB Corsair DDR3 RAM (1866MHz) 1x8GB HyperX Fury DDR3 RAM (1866MHz)

*1x nVidia GeForce 660 GTX 2GB

*1x 256 GB SSD

*1x 2 TB HDD (5400 RPM, Seagate Desktop HDD)

So, it's a sort of mid-performance low-budget machine, but it should run way better than it does.
System it's ok (Win10 Fast Ring builds) and works fine but when it cames to gaming...
I know I cant play Witcher 3 on high graphics but I have FPS drops also on Assassin's Creed Brotherhood at max graphics, sometimes also at mid graphics!
I optimized everything. I used Process Lasso Pro (very useful but didnt solve it all), updated drivers, very few processes in background...
I just can't understand why performances are so poor...

A: The Windows 10 Creators Update 1703/Build 15063 has fps drop issues which is fixed in the latest Windows 10 Insider Builds:

Thank you everyone for providing feedback and submitting traces. We
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With new technology, archaeologists uncover the shocking size of Calakmul
recent surveys by archaeologists have uncovered that Calakmul is in fact even larger than previously thought.
Choo Ba'ak, Campeche's Day of the Dead bone-cleaning tradition
To the eyes of outsiders traditional bone cleaning may seem strange or even macabre, but for the people of Pomuch, it is a way to reconnect with their dearly departed and celebrate their ancient ancestry.
Archaeology Monday
The beauty of Xcalumkín, a lonely Maya city in the hills
Xcalumkín attracts very few visitors, making it a perfect spot to explore and photograph ancient ruins at one's own pace and without worrying about people swerving into your shots.
Kankí, the Maya city where the stone eyes of ancient gods...
Kankí may be only 10 miles or so from the Mérida-Campeche highway, but feels a world away.
The ruins of ancient Tohcok, hiding in plain sight
There are literally thousands of archaeological sites of varying sizes dotting the Yucatán Peninsula, several being very hard to get to, but as it happens Tohcok lay right on the side of the highway.
Exploring Campeche, the colonial bastion on the Gulf of Mexico
Established in 1540 by Francisco de Montejo and León "El Mozo," son of the elder Francisco de Montejo, Campeche was founded two years before Mérida — making it the first major Spanish settlement on the Peninsula.
Calakmul is an ancient Mayan city found deep in the jungle of the southeastern Mexican state of Campeche, near the border with Guatemala.
The untamed beauty of Hormiguero and its exotic wilderness
Part of its appeal likely has to do with the fact that it is rarely visited by tourists because of how poor the roads needed to access it are
Xpujil, gateway to the Calakmul biosphere
Xpujil is an archaeological site in the south of the Mexican state of Campeche, within the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve, and within the limits of the contemporary town of the same name.
Balamkú, the great city of the sacred jaguar lords
Balamkú is an archaeological site in the south of the Mexican state of Campeche, within the Calakmul Biosphere, near the entrance to Calakmul national park.
The small but beautiful ancient city of Chicanná
Chicanná gets its name from its most famous building, the House of the Serpent Mouth.
The grand ancient city of Becán — a microcosm of Maya...
Because of Becán's longevity, in its history, we can see evidence of a microcosm of Mayan chronology packed into a single site.
The (almost) forgotten city of El Tabasqueño
Because El Tabasqueño is located in a fairly remote area that is jam-packed with archaeological sites, it is visited by only the most adamant lovers of Mayan archaeology.
Hochob, the mysterious Maya city on the hill
Hochob was founded in the 3rd century CE, but it is likely that the area had already been settled by Maya farmers centuries before.
Xtampak, the enigmatic capital of the Chenes region
The name Xtampak comes from the Yucatec-Maya language and is usually translated as meaning old walls
The ancient city of Dzibilnocac and its great towers
Dzibilnocac is a Mayan archaeological site on the outskirts of the Vicente Guerrero community in Hopelchén, Campeche.
Harsh restrictions return in Campeche as COVID cases rise
Mexico's first state to reach the epidemiological green light, and later to open schools, has slipped backward on the road to recovery. Campeche announced a...
Once luxurious homes in Campeche being used as drug dens
Beach homes in Campeche's Playa Palmeras are being robbed, vandalized, and turned into drug dens. The once luxury homes were part of a multi-million dollar...
Over 1,000 people in Campeche inoculated with fake COVID-19 vaccines
More than 1,000 people in Campeche were inoculated with fake Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccines, authorities said. The vaccines were administered to workers at Grupo Karim's, a...
Campeche 1st state in Mexico allowed to resume normal activity
While Yucatan remains under a fairly restrictive "orange" level of coronavirus alert, neighboring Campeche was the first state in Mexico to be given a...
Campeche is 1st state in Mexico to reach a coronavirus 'yellow...
Mexico's Ministry of Health reported that for the first time since the pandemic began, one state has reached the "yellow light." Yucatan's neighboring state, Campeche,...
For 200 communities between Campeche and Yucatan, no way in or...
It is Mexico, but at the same time, it is an independent territory, and locals have decided not to grant access to anyone. Just over...
Campeche sees 1st coronavirus death, a 49-year-old male
A 49-year-old man living in Ciudad de Carmen became Campeche state's first COVID-19 fatality, according to the state health secretariat. The unnamed victim had a...
European tourists help drive handicraft sales by 80%
Campeche — Shantal Tun Baeza, an artisan installed in the Parque Principal for the holiday season, said that recent sales rose by up to...


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Coriander (avec Boutchou, le spectacle de variété double bill)
30 minutes
Thu 14th Sep 18:30 - 19:30
Fri 15th Sep 18:30 - 19:30
It's yoga with spice. It's yoga with flavour. It's yoga with Coriander (but you can call her Randi for short!) She tried to be your typical 21st century yoga instructor, however the Universe was calling her and the spice suddenly took over!
Coriander (you can call her Randi for short!) invites you to join her for an hour of spiritual enlightenment and a journey like no other with her very special yoga(ish) show.
Coriander has been found guiding students through their Randi yoga(ish) practises at The Dunedin Fringe Festival, The Old 505 Theatre (Sydney Fringe Festival), The Common Room (Fringe in the Stings), BATS Theatre (Wellington), The World Buskers Festival (Christchurch), and CupaDupa (Wellington) - with the spiritual highlight being Venice Beach (Los Angeles). She knows her heart chakra from her third eye and her favourite yoga(ish) pose would have to be the cat and cow sequence, "but you, like, really have to connect with the animals by mooing and meowing…"
All levels welcome, in fact, the less you know about yoga the better!
"From start to finish, Brien engages her audience with consummate ease in what is a highly innovative and original show." - The Dominion Post
"I literally had to massage my cheeks from laughing so hard!" - A Real Life Yoga Teacher
Written and Performed by real-life yoga instructor Jess Brien.
Directed by Imogen 'I-once-thought-downward-facing-dog-was-a-sex-position' Prossor.
Jess Brien
A graduate of the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art (Christchurch, NZ) and Francine Cote's Clown and Comedy School (Montreal) Jess Brien is an Auckland based clown, storyteller and yoga instructor.
Jess has been performing around NZ and internationally since 2014 with highlights including Spring Awakening (NASDA), Love Is... A Modern Cabaret (The Body Festival, Christchurch), Dare To Indulge - A Guilty Pleasure Cabaret (NZ Fringe 2015), The World Buskers Festival (Christchurch), Yarn (Montreal), Coffs Harbour Busking and Comedy Festival (Australia), and writing and performing her debut solo show Coriander at BATS Theatre (Wellington), The Old 505 Theatre (Sydney Fringe Festival, Australia), the inaugural Fringe in the 'Stings Festival (Hastings, NZ), The Dunedin Fringe Festival (Dunedin, NZ) and most recently XCHC - Christchurch (So Keen Productions, Christchurch) to a sold out crowd.
When Jess isn't performing or festival hopping she is the Official Blogger for the New Zealand Fringe Festival, Co-Produces a monthly musical theatre showcase Broadway Studio at BATS Theatre, and dreams up new and exciting ideas for clown and juggling acts.
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High intake of tomatoes and lycopene-rich foods may reduce the likelihood of developing stomach cancer.
This study examined the role of regular consumption of diets high in tomatoes and lycopenes in the prevention of gastric (stomach) cancer. Researchers conducted a meticulous meta-analysis on data obtained from 21 published studies. They discovered that subjects who consistently consumed diets rich in tomatoes and lycopenes had lower stomach cancer odds than those who seldomly or did not eat these types of diets. The results of this meta-analysis show that generous intake of tomatoes and lycopene-rich foods may decrease an individual's susceptibility to stomach cancer.


According to the experts, car interiors are actually toxic all year round. However, there are two times when the chemicals are at their highest levels: when the car is brand new, and in the summer. It makes sense that freshly manufactured materials would still carry some residue from their production, and that compounds would get released as the car's parts start to get used (seats being sat in, dashboard controls being touched, carpet being rubbed).
These chemicals are what cause the "new car smell" that some people love and others can't stand.
Over time, the excess levels of chemicals start to wear off. They're still there, but they're being released in much lower doses. This process is called "offgassing." That is, until the summer. When it gets hot outside, some of these toxic fumes start to get stirred up and released again. That's because exposure to heat speeds up offgassing, and so does exposure to ultraviolet light from the sun's rays.


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Ravaged gets a New, Explosive Trailer
Reverb Publishing and 2 Dawn Games are proud to reveal the definitive Ravaged trailer, an explosive demonstration of the highly-anticipated multiplayer online game, due October 17, 2012 on PC. Vicious and devastating, Ravaged's combat skyrockets it into the stratosphere of being 2012's most compelling PC shooter.
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Created by indie developer 2 Dawn Games — a team comprised of veterans who worked on Desert Combat, Battlefield 2, and Frontlines: Fuel of War — this brutal online vehicular shooter already is receiving wild enthusiasm from critics.
Built with PC multiplayer gamers in mind, Ravaged boasts hard-hitting post-apocalyptic first-person combat for up to 32 players, including crazy ground- and air-based vehicular action, dedicated servers, clan support, and cheat-preventative measures.
Ravaged will be available October 17, 2012 for Windows PC for $24.99 at Steam, Rain, 2DawnGames, GameStop, Gamers Gate, Origin, and GameFly.
Ravaged is rated "M" for mature due to the violent subject matter, and is not intended for younger audiences. For more information on Ravaged, please visit: http://www.2dawn.com/. Be sure to follow 2 Dawn Games on Twitter and Facebook.