Happy birthday to my darling daughter! You are unbelievably precious to me, and I hope you realize that you are my everything. May your birthday be filled with splendor and love.
You are such a positive, charming, and absolutely adorable daughter. I am so proud that I get to call you my daughter because no other person could ever hope to compare to you.
The day you were born was the greatest moment of my life. I am so grateful that I have a daughter as honest, beautiful, and intelligent as you.
You renew my faith in the world because any world that has as incredible a person as you in it is one that can only be good. You are such an inspiration to me, and I hope you feel surrounded by love and warmth on your birthday.
It will only take a sec.
Do you say any of those sayings?
Of course you do, everyone does but we all know nothing takes that short a period of time.
So when someone stops you by saying do you have a minute, do you inwardly roll your eyes and think I don't have time to talk to you then take a breath smile and say of course I do.
How do you feel when someone says to you I'll be back in a moment and you are left waiting for 15-30 minutes, getting mader by the minute because how bloody long is a moment.
Good morning all, when was the last time you spoke to your children or they spoke to you?
I speak to my children all the time, Natasha I see and speak to daily, Jessica I talk to maybe once or twice a week and I see and talk to Kathy-Lee every Saturday when she brings over my shopping.
What I cannot imagine is going weeks, months or years not talking and seeing my children, however, I have a couple of penpals who have not spoken to their child in months or years. I feel this is so sad but what is really sad is one penpal has no idea why her child isn't talking to her. When she asked what the problem was she was told she should know what she did.
This is the woman who gave birth to you, raised you the best way she knew how to do. Maybe she wasn't the best mother at times or let you down at times but she tried her best. At least you can do is tell her what she did to upset you.
How would you feel if your child treated you like you treat your mother?
Your child would see how you treat your mother and think if you can treat your mother that way they can treat you the same way.


As a business professional, you want to make the best impression on your potential customers. As digital marketing is becoming more and more important, your online presence is one of the first places your customers may see you.
You know what that means? Your grammar needs to be top-notch! No one is perfect and occasional mistakes aren't the end of the world, but your business should try to be as grammatically correct as possible.
Think of it this way — if you see a Facebook post by a business you wanted to potentially shop at, but they made some obvious grammar mistakes, would you still want to shop with them?
Like I said, grammar isn't make or break for everyone, but it's an important aspect that your business needs to watch.
Keep reading to learn how to avoid the most common grammar mistakes.
I see this grammar mistake all the time, so let's talk about the difference.
They're going to the meeting room.
I heard their marketing is great!
We are going there tomorrow.
This one can be a little confusing and even I get them mixed up on occasion.
I can't believe it's only Monday!
The customer left his jacket here. We should return the jacket to its owner.
Did you realize that there was a difference between complement and compliment? Surprise!
Although these words are pronounced the same, they are quite different. Compliment is used as a form of praise, such as complimenting someone's new coffee mug.
I will never judge you if you use the wrong form of this word because it can be complicated.
Jack is in a restaurant and wants to order dinner, which affects what his server is doing. After Jack eats his dinner, the effect is that his stomach is full.
When you finish updating the menu, can you send it to Mallory and me?
Believe it or not, that sentence is correct! If you take out the name Mallory from the sentence, using me instead of I makes much more sense.
If you need help catching some of your grammar mistakes, you can always use the free version of Grammarly or pay for the premium version.
Back when people were learning to type on typewriters, they were instructed to put two spaces after a period. Why? Because typewriters used monospace typesetting, meaning that every letter was given the same amount of space.
Once they got to the end of their sentence, people would double space after the period to make it clear a new sentence was starting.
Guess what? You don't have to double space after a period anymore (unless you're still using a typewriter)! Offenders of this simple grammar mistake are typically ones that learned how to type on a typewriter.
I see this grammar mistake far too often, so pay attention to learn how you can avoid it!
When you're writing a sentence, you will add a comma after an introductory word, phrase or clause (exactly what I did in this sentence). This comma allows you to slightly pause and adds clarity to your sentence.
In case you haven't heard I talked to the boss yesterday.
Without a comma, you will read the incorrect sentence all together rather than separating it with a comma to give you that slight pause.
In case you haven't heard, I talked to the boss yesterday.
Grammar errors can drastically change the meaning of your sentence if you're not careful!
Whether you're writing a social post or a blog for your business, it's always a good idea to have someone else read over your work to help catch any errors.
There are also several online resources that can help if you're struggling with grammar. Check out Grammar Girl for some quick tips or Purdue Owl for more in-depth explanations.
Bonus Tip: Read your sentences out loud! You will catch so many more errors reading your sentences out loud because they will sound weird if something is wrong. If you read them in your head, you will read what you think you wrote and not what you actually wrote.
Lauren - Your grammar tips are all spot-on and ones that I've been preaching about for years. But why is two spaces after the end of a sentence an "error"? It might not be the current style but, unlike the other grammar tips mentioned, doing so doesn't affect the readability or interpretation of the prose. I learned to type on a typewriter and would find it nearly impossible to change at this point in my life. Every sentence in this response has two spaces after the period and it looks good to me.
Please send me an email at lsnyder@revlocal.com if you have any questions! Thank you!


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We're currently looking for interested volunteers in actively participating in these two programs!!
Have fun getting to know our community members while saving the lives of cats across our county!!!!
The Morgan County Community Cat program is all about helping the cats in our community. Spay/Neuter is the cornerstone of this vital program. But sometimes a cat needs medical intervention, and this little girl needed every ounce of help we could give her.
She arrived in a carrier at the Morgan County Humane Society on a Saturday morning, brought in by a Good Samaritan, found in the road. She had been hit by a car, and was unable to move her hind legs or tail.
But she was bright and alert, and just wouldn't stop purring! We named her "Biscuit", and called the TNR program for help. We rushed her to the vet, and she was diagnosed with a crushed pelvis. She went to foster, and was subsequently rushed to surgery when she had complications from her injuries.
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Please think of Biscuit, and second chances for cats, when you support the Morgan County TNR/SNR Community Cat program. Biscuit says thank you so much for giving her the necessary medical care to become a happy, healthy, joyful kitten!


At times, you might feel that life has taken its toll on you and that the weight of the world has been placed on your shoulders. You begin to contemplate the difficulties of life, the complexity of problems, and the forces acting against you. Yet, no matter what, it is important to remember that life has its own way of teaching us valuable lessons. In essence, it is our values and traits that determine the outcomes of the concepts we are taught. With this in mind, it is crucial to acknowledge certain situations that life imposes, when things are not so easy, and problems don't have an instant solution. There will be situations that do not always turn out the way we want them to or the way they should. This does not mean we should stop and give up, though. In fact, we should continue moving forward. Often, we possess the overlooked elements that the ambitious among us seek: courage, which consists of bravery and resilience, and faith in God and in oneself. These elements are driving forces. Their presence is essential in making change. History has shown us how courage and faith have moved mountains. We can also be given a chance to move our own mountains and concretize our goals and dreams. We can get through thick and thin. We can be true to ourselves and work on bettering who we are and what we do. It takes courage and faith to replace thoughts of anxiety, problems, and pessimism with those of confidence, harmony, and optimism. With positive values comes hope. With hope comes a brighter outlook on life. Always have hope in new beginnings, new opportunities, and new endeavors, and, most importantly, always have hope and believe in yourself. As the New Year approaches us with its own challenges, Beyond Magazine and I wish you and your loved ones a wonderful year ahead full of infinite hope, love, peace, new chances, and fresh starts.


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High and Dry and On the Sly :: Paula Plum on ASP and Lyric Stage's Co-Production of 'Twelfth Night'
by Kilian Melloy
Thursday Mar 21, 2019
Paula Plum
Paula Plum, a founding member of Actors' Shakespeare Project, has graced the Boston stage in productions from many of the area's theater companies, taking roles both on the boards and behind the scenes. For the upcoming ASP and Lyric Stage Company of Boston co-production of the Shakespeare comedy "Twelfth Night," Plum assumes directorial duties with confidence, having helmed productions in and around Boston wince 1985.
The play — written right at the dawn of the 17th century and named for the end of the Christmas holiday season — finds a pair of twins, Viola and Sebastian, separated from one another after a shipwreck on the shores of the kingdom of Illyria. Disguising herself as a young man and taking the name Cesario, Viola enters the employ of a nobleman named Duke Orsino. The Duke is heartsick with love for the lady Olivia, who refuses him and all other suitors because she is in mourning for her father and her brother, but Duke Orsino dispatches Viola to plead his case to Oliva. This being Shakespeare, you can guess what happens next... Olivia falls in love with "Cesario," leading to hilarious complications, especially when it turns out that Sebastian hasn't drowned after all and he makes his way to Illyria in the company of Antonio, an old enemy of Orsino's.
Meantime, things within the microcosm of Olivia's household are just as complicated, with her Uncle, Sir Toby, joining forces with another frustrated suitor, Andrew Aguecheek, as well as Olivia's servants Maria, Fabian, and Feste, to torment Olivia's steward, a starchy fellow named Malvolio — who, like just about every other man in Illyria, harbors a flame for Olivia. Making Malvolio into a huge fool in front of Olivia becomes the pet project of this household conspiracy, and the arrows of love and infatuation fly everywhere.
The cast is a lively meshing of veteran actors from both companies and some new faces, including Hayley Spivey as Viola, Samantha Richert as Olivia, Dominic Carter as Sebastian, Alejandro Simoes playing both Orsino and Andrew Aguecheek, Bobbie Steinbach playing Sir Toby Belch, Michael Forden Walker as Antonio and Fabian, Rachel Belleman as Feste, and — wait for it — Paula Plum's husband Richard Snee as Malvolio. (Yes!!)
EDGE caught up with Paula Plum to find out more about the co-production, which brings two of Boston's best-beloved midsized companies together for the first time.
EDGE: You've done lots of directing for the Boston stage...
Paula Plum: I mean, relative to other directors, not as much, My focus has always been acting, But I love to direct because it gives me an opportunity to influence the entire production, and that's really thrilling.
EDGE: Are there still projects you take on that make you feel like a novice or give you that rush of figuring things out for the first time? Or is that true of every directing assignment?
Paula Plum: The thing about Shakespeare is that he is so malleable, it's always like you're directing it for the first time. Shakespeare's in the public domain, and so we can shape and bend him as we will, and I've shaped this one into a comedy set in the 1920s in New Orleans. It always feels with Shakespeare that I'm starting with a brand-new playwright -ironically, since he's been around for 400 years.
EDGE: It's true — and the poster art suggests there's kind of a Bob Fosse thing going on with this production. Could you say a bit about that?
Paula Plum: I think that was the artist rendering that does that. We don't have that feel in the show. New Orleans is the center where jazz was born, and the height of the Jazz Age was in the '20s, but Fosse is much later, and we were really trying to stay authentic to the '20s as an era.
EDGE: What brought you to the Lyric Stage for this production of "Twelfth Night?"
Paula Plum: Chris [Christopher V. Edwards, Artistic Director of Actors' Shakespeare Project] and [Lyric Stage Company of Boston Producing Artistic Director] Spiro [Veloudos] were chatting about co-producing. Spiro has always maintained that the future of Boston theater lies in all of us working together because our audiences are the same. I mean, we try to develop our audiences, but at the same time, many of Boston's theatergoers are going to all the theaters. So, Chris and Spiro decided to do a co-production of Shakespeare. Spiro has a long history of Shakespeare, and it's sort of a natural choice for him, but the Lyric isn't known for Shakespeare.
It was a good opportunity for us to work with the Lyric, also, because we're a site-specific theater, but we are moving, I think, as a company closer towards performing in theaters.
EDGE: As opposed to churches and other spaces all around town.
Paula Plum: Yeah, but I think we'll probably still do one of those each year. But we can't do five. It's just so exhausting to try to re-create an entire environment, including box office and dressing rooms and everything, every time we do a play. It's so lovely to walk into a theater and have everything in place.
Richard Snee, Samantha Richert, and Hayley Spivey star in 'Twelfth Night' (Source:Provided)
EDGE: You're working with a number of Actor's Shakespeare Project regulars, including Jennie Israel, Michael Forden Walker, and the always-wonderful Bobbie Steinbach. Do you have a sort of mutual vocabulary or shorthand you've evolved from working together for so long?
Paula Plum: That is one of the great things, actually, about Boston theater — many of us see each other over and over again in the various theaters in Boston, and I think there's almost a sense of repertory, especially since we've been working together in the same company for 15 years now. We know each other so well, and we know each other's tricks and habits. We understand each other, and there's a shorthand that obviously developed, and also there are many shortcuts that you can take that you couldn't really do in the company of people who are just starting from square one.
EDGE: You're also working with notable actors with a long history at the Lyric like Samantha Richert and Alejandro Simoes — though they have also had some experience with ASP. I recall when you directed "Romeo & Juliet" for Happy Medium it was billed as "building a bridge" between Boston's large and small theater communities — does this production similarly feel like bridge-building between the two companies?
Paula Plum: Yeah, it is a first for us as a mid-sized theater. Lyric is one of the larger mid-sized theaters, and so it's an opportunity for us to share resources and practices, which is great because we learn from each other. Lyric also has a really super production manager - her name is Stephanie Hettrick. They have a system, and we have been able to plug into their system, and it's working like a well-greased machine.
We have incredibly talented actors who are really steeped in Shakespeare. We also have brilliant clowns! Richard Snee is in this.
EDGE: It's always wonderful when you and your husband Richard Snee work together. You won't both be on stage in this case, but he's playing Malvolio, which is a terrific role. It must be great fun for you!
Paula Plum: Yes, it's always fun. First of all, Richard in any rehearsal room is always like a cool breeze. He's easy, he's fun, he just brings all his humor into the dynamic of a group. But he also — you wouldn't know it to look at him, but he'd the most outrageous clown I have ever met!
[Laughter]
EDGE: I think I believe that.
Paula Plum: I let him go because it may not be there at the beginning of rehearsal, as he gets more and more comfortable with the cast, if I allow the freedom that a director should allow an actor, he just keeps finding more and more outrageously funny choices. It's kind of like, the less I direct and more I let him go, the better off we are. That's sort of true in life, too!
EDGE: "Twelfth Night" is one of those Shakespearean chestnuts that are always welcome — it's so funny and charming, and it also features a smart, wily woman taking on the mostly male-driven powers that be. It feels like we need that right now.
Paula Plum: It's a good play for that reason, and also because the story of Viola is the story of an immigrant if you will, or a refugee washed ashore. She finds herself in a strange land, and the question at the heart of Viola's journey is, "Do I belong here?" In order to find her way and to survive, she has to cover herself up and become something that she isn't; and in order to be loved, she has to reveal who she is, but she's asking, "Can I be who I am, and still be loved?" That question is answered only at the end of the play.
EDGE We won't spoil it for Shakespeare neophytes!
Paula Plum: Yes.
Paula Plum: "Twelfth Night" is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays because it has everything. The character of Malvolio is known as the big clown turn, but at the heart of Malvolio, there's a deep sadness. And they treat him quite brutally in this play — Shakespeare treats him quite brutally. It's a play that has multiple dimensions, and it isn't "just a comedy." There's an underbelly of sadness. It's bittersweet. It's a story of unrequited love.
EDGE: And sometimes requited.
Paula Plum: But the women all wind up with the wrong person! And that's the interesting thing about the play. Oliva fell in love with Viola, and with who Viola is; she's eloquent, intelligent, articulate, poetic. And then Shakespeare turns it on its head; Olivia recognized Viola in Sebastian, but it's not the person she fell in love with. And Viola is in love with Orsino who, as drawn by Shakespeare, is a narcissist. We're not so happy that she winds up with Orsino, because, really, the truly rich relationship is with Olivia! And then Maria, who's the third woman in the play, has a long-term relationship with Sir Toby, who is actually a drunkard. Sir Toby marries Maria at the end of the play, we're told by Fabian at the last minute, as a reward for gulling Malvolio. So, the women are actually are not with the people they were meant to be with. How the play ends is giving us a little bit of truth mixed in with this comedy. The darkness is there.
EDGE: So... we are going to spoil it for Shakespeare neophytes! But let's get back to a happier pairing: You and Richard are going to appear on stage together later this season, in "Barefoot in the Park" at Gloucester Stage. Can you say a little about that?
Paula Plum: I know the play, and I honestly can't talk very much about it because I haven't had a minute to think. This project ["Twelfth Night"] is huge! I'm aware that I'm playing two roles [in "Barefoot in the Park"]. I have a long history with Gloucester Stage and I've been working there since 1989, directing and acting, and I'm always thrilled to go back there. It's another home.
"Twelfth Night" runs March 29 — April 28. Post-performance talk-backs will take place every Sunday matinee: March 31, April 7, 14, 21, and 28. For tickets and more information please go to https://www.lyricstage.com or to actorsshakespeareproject.org
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Assistant Arts Editor. He also reviews theater for WBUR. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
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An article by Christopher Carson in the April 27 edition of Daily Mailer.FrontPage, titled, A Mad Max Nation with No Electrical Grid, is enough to scare the bejabbers out of anyone.
In predicting what America would be like during a major outage of our electrical grid, Carson tells us: "It's been one year since a white-hot study by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was leaked to the Wall Street Journal. The government study concluded that coordinated attacks on only nine electrical transmission substations in the United States could bring down the entire trinity of grids (called interconnections) that supply electricity to America. Terrorists would have to physically destroy only four in the East, three in the West, and two in Texas, plus one large transformer production plant, and 'the entire United States grid would be down for at least 18 months, probably longer.'
"Imagine what that would mean for a nation entirely dependent upon electricity for its very survival. Almost all large transformers are constructed overseas, including China, and the typical lag time from order to delivery and installation is two years. Forget no iPhones. Try no working sewer systems, no heating, no cars (because no gasoline pumps), no transportation, no garbage collection, no hospitals, no medicine kept in cold storage, no working government, and no civilization. It wouldn't even be a medieval society because Europe in the Middle Ages had functioning governments, currencies, and a trading system. The USA would be more like the world of Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome – for the lucky survivors."
This was preceded by an April 23 article by Discovery Communications and the Washington Post, describing a University of Utah geophysical study published in the current edition of the journal Science. The University of Utah study, titled, Yellowstone Supervolcano Much Bigger Than Thought, reports that a giant reservoir of magma and hot rock beneath the Yellowstone supervolcano has been found and imaged. The newly found reservoir lies 12-28 miles below the surface, and is four-and-a-half times larger than the shallower, hot melted rock zone that powers current Yellowstone geysers and caused the caldera's last eruption some 70,000 years ago.
"The volume of the newly imaged, deeper reservoir is a whopping 11,000 cubic-miles (46,000 cubic kilometers), which is about the volume of Long Island with 9 miles of hot rock piled on it, or 300 Lake Tahoes…"
According to the Washington Post, the Yellowstone supervolcano is "one of the world's largest volcanoes, one that is quiescent for the moment but is capable of erupting with catastrophic violence at a scale never before witnessed by human beings. In a big eruption, Yellowstone would eject 1,000 times as much material as the 1980 Mount St. Helens eruption. This would be a disaster felt on a global scale, which is why scientists are looking at this thing closely…
"The newly discovered reservoir is 4.5 times larger than the chamber above it. There's enough magna there to fill the Grand Canyon. The reservoir is on top of a long plume of manga that emerges from deep within the Earth's mantle… This system has been in place for roughly 17 million years… The last time Yellowstone had a calderic eruption was 640,000 years ago, and the misshapen hole it created was about 25 miles by 37 miles across. This caldera has since been filled in by lava flows and natural erosion, and Yellowstone Lake covers a portion of the area. The main visual evidence of the old caldera is the striking absence of mountains at the heart of the park: They were literally blown away in the last eruption."
But the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission study on the likely impact of a terrorist attack on our national electric grid, and the University of Utah study on the Yellowstone supervolcano, are only speculative… forecasts of what might happen "if and when." That's the good news; now for some bad news.
In an October 23, 2013 study by respected writer and researcher Michael Snyder, titled, 28 Signs That The West Coast Is Being Absolutely Fried With Nuclear Radiation From Fukushima, Snyder paints a grim picture of the impact of the March 11, 2011 nuclear meltdown at Japan's Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The failure occurred when the plant was inundated by a tsunami following the magnitude 9.0 Tohoku earthquake, resulting in the meltdown of three of the plant's six nuclear reactors.
As Snyder prefaces his study he points to a map provided by the Nuclear Emergency Tracking Center which shows that "…radiation levels at radiation monitoring stations across the country are elevated… this is particularly true along the west coast of the United States. Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean. That means that the total amount of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain."
As evidence of his assertion, Snyder notes a U.S. Geological Survey statement stating that some of the thirty-three polar bears found along the Alaska coastline showed evidence of "alopecia (loss of hair) and other skin diseases."
Snyder quotes National Marine Fisheries Service wildlife biologist, Sharon Melin, as saying that, at island rookeries off the Southern California coast, 45 percent of sea lion pups born in June 2013 were dead by October of that year. The normal mortality rate among sea lion pups is less than one-third.
Among the findings in his research, Snyder notes that:
Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low.
Scientists have found that something is causing the fish along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies, and eyeballs. One test in California found that all 15 of the blue fin tuna examined in a test were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima. .
A vast field of radioactive debris from Fukushima that is approximately the size of California has crossed the Pacific Ocean and is starting to collide with the west coast. It is estimated that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the west coast could double over the next five to six years.
The California coastline is being transformed into a "dead zone." Coastal rocks are unnaturally free of kelp, barnacles, and sea urchins and tidal pools are eerily devoid of crabs, snails, and other scurrying creatures. Snyder reports that there are days in which he is hard-pressed to find even a half dozen seagulls and/or terns on the beach, compared to 10-15 years ago when the skies and all the beaches were filled with seagulls.
Up to 100 times as much nuclear radiation from Fukushima has been released into the Pacific Ocean than was released during the entire 1986 Chernobyl disaster in Ukraine. It is projected that the entire ocean will soon have radioactive Cesium levels 5 to 10 times higher than during the era of heavy atomic testing in the Pacific during the 1940s and '50s.
In 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that Cesium-137 was being found in 73% of mackerel, 91% of halibut, 92% of sardines, 93% of tuna and eel, 94% of cod and anchovies, and 100% of the carp, seaweed, shark, and monkfish sold by Japan to Canadian markets. Some experts expect high levels of cancer among west coast residents from eating contaminated fish.
The BBC has reported that radiation levels around Fukushima are 18 times greater than previously believed. Atmospheric radiation from Fukushima reached the west coast of the U.S. in just a few days in 2011.
The Iodine-131, Cesium-137, and Strontium-90 that are constantly emanating from Fukushima will affect the health of those living in the northern hemisphere for generations to come. Iodine-131 can be ingested into the thyroid where it emits beta particles that damage tissue… Cesium-137 from Fukushima has been found in fish caught as far away as California. It spreads throughout the body, but tends to accumulate in muscle tissue. Strontium-90, which mimics Calcium and accumulates in the bones, has a half-life of around 29 years.
According to the Wall Street Journal, it is projected that the Fukushima cleanup may take up to 40 years. Yale professor Charles Perrow warns that, if the Fukushima cleanup is not handled with 100% precision, humanity could be threatened for thousands of years.
To consider the impact of these tragedies… one politically preventable and two dictated by the laws of nature… tends to make issues such as global warming, the Middle East conflict, and an $18 trillion national debt pale by comparison. Since it is impossible to say anything remotely positive about the fates that might await us, a few wise words on fatalism appear to be in order.
Samuel Butler once said, "Let us eat and drink, neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better."
Finally, George Bernard Shaw once said, "Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world." At age 81, I find that to be a very comforting thought. | May 9, 2015
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An increase in cross-border traffic by Washington State residents to Idaho and Oregon following Washington's privatization of liquor stores resulted in significant revenue for the two bordering states according to a new study from the Alcohol Research Group, a program of the Public Health Institute, published online this week in the journal Addiction.
However, researchers found that while Idaho and Oregon saw an increase in liquor sales, Washington's sales declined by only a quarter of one percent which represented a small proportion of overall revenue. This means that government efforts to deter residents from purchasing in neighboring states by reducing liquor tax and fee rates would result in a significant loss of tax revenues to Washington, as well as to Oregon and Idaho.
Washington State's Initiative 1183 called for closing state-run liquor stores and allowing state licensing of private retailers. The measure came into effect in July of 2012 and included both a large increase in the number of stores selling spirits as well as new taxes and fees that resulted in increased prices.
The study also provides evidence that per capita spirits' sales to Washington residents, including cross-border shopping, did not change in the year following privatization and decreased slightly in the year after that.
"This shows that the effects of increased prices and availability, working in opposite directions, appear to have been of about the same magnitude in the years following privatization," said senior scientist and co-author, William C. Kerr, Ph.D.
The situation in Washington was also complicated by a substantial reduction in the beer tax in July of 2013 and marijuana legalization in the 2012 election. There is now evidence that there was a shift to increased beer consumption in 2014 indicating that prices have played an important role in beverage-specific trends in Washington. The general US trend has been a shift away from beer towards wine and spirits.
Research was supported by National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health under award number R01AA021742.
If you are interested in arranging an interview with lead author Yu Ye, M.A., or William C., Kerr, Ph.D., contact Diane Schmidt at (510) 898-5819 or dschmidt@arg.org.


On a map you will find Sejerø in the very centre of Denmark, yet you have to travel an hour by ferry to get to the island. Boats were once the preferred means of transport when travelling in Denmark. Today many of the country's larger islands are connected by bridges, but with 7200 kilometres of coastline and 72 inhabited islands, many parts of Denmark still depend on ferries. This photo project is about the slow poetry of ferries, approaching Sejerø or any other island.


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Hublot – An extraordinary breed of watches
calendar 08/06/2011 | ic_dehaze_black_24px By Martin Green | ic_query_builder_black_24px 5 minute read |
Hublot has yet to make its first ordinary watch. When introduced to the world in 1980 by creator and founder Carlo Crocco it might as well had come from a different planet.
A golden watch with a unusual yet distinctive port hole design on a vanilla scented rubber strap. As hot as this combo is nowadays, so not it was in the early 1980's. But this creation was not lost for the world because it was embraced by a group of early adaptors. This group included the King of Spain, Juan Carlos, who became an avid fan of Hublot. This is also one of the reasons why Spain is still one of Hublot's premier markets and it is rumored that their sales figures there even beat Rolex.
Over the next two and a half decades Hublot evolved slowly but certainly, creating watches that stayed loyal to the original design but added their own flavor to the Hublot-mix. Amongst them where watches like the Elegant, a model in which the lines of the original design where softened, and many models enhanced with the sparkling beauty of diamonds in Hublot's Joaillerie line-up. But also models like the Classic Regulateur, where the term classic refers to Hublot's original design since the watch itself has a rather industrial look to it, and the unsual " Classic Cover" where a steel or golden cover had to be opened before you where allowed to see the dial.
Being a relatively small brand in a niche of the market has Hublot never prevented from also creating some serious sports watches. Amongst them was a full range of chronographs, ranking from a Mecaquartz-model (based on Frederic Piguet caliber 1270) to automatic chrono's powered by an ETA 2892 with Dubuis Depraz module and Frederic Piguets famous calibre 1185.
Another field in which Hublot was a serious contender was with divers watches. Starting with the 450 meter water resistant Super Professional Sport (those not afraid of a statement would order it with fuchsia!! dial) and ending with the very serious Subaquaneus Sport, a divers watch modest in size (40mm) but big on performance with a 2000 meter water resistant and an innovative turn lock system to set and secure the diving bezel.
All these accomplishments, more or less outside the limelight of the watch making world, where magnified to a grand scale when Hublot got a new CEO in 2004; Jean-Claude Biver. The big question back then was if Biver could do for Hublot what it had previously done for Blancpain? The answer was yes, and much faster than anybody could even imagine. Within six years Biver did not only octadrupled Hublot's revenue, from an estimated 25 milion USD to over 200 million USD, but also let the evolution from Hublot's original philosophy into the next level, which he called "The Art of Fusion".
This new impulse to Hublot's original design language resulted in a range of interesting, original and often innovative timepieces. It started in 2005 with the introduction of a watch, appropriately named Big Bang. With a diameter slightly over 44mm it was in a way a further evolution of the previous sport chronographs made by Hublot. This time the innovation was not just in the fusion of gold and rubber, by then embraced by watch manufacturers and consumer alike, but in the fusion of a wide variety of innovative materials, some that where even never combined in one watch. The Big Bang was an instant hit, grossing in prizes, amongst which the prize for best watch design in the 2005 edition of the Geneva Gran Prix d'Horlogerie, the watch worlds equivalent for the Oscars.
The first Big Bang made the way for a range of chronographs that feature a wide variety of "fusions" using materials like tungsten, ceramic, carbon, kevlar, steel, titanium, and the materials where it all started with; rubber and (matted) gold. But Hublot would not be Hublot if they didn't pushed the envelope even further, and so they also incorporated grass in one of their watches. Not just any grass, but a few pieces from Manchester United's Old Trafford football stadium. Hublot preserved this grass and uses them as hour markers in their King Power Red Devil Chronograph tailored and dedicated to the Manchester United soccer team.
Chronographs are not the only watches that Hublot offers today in their fusion-concept. Also divers watches are available. The Big Bang King Diver offers the same innovative mix of materials of the chronograph-range but then in a time only model with divers bezel. More extreme is it with the newly introduced Oceanographic 4000, which doubles the water resistant of the Subaquaneus Sport to a whopping 4000 meters. Whopping also goes for the dimensions of the watch; the movement is protected by a case which is 48mm in diameter. Titanium and Carbon Fiber are the only options for the case, in order to keep the weight light enough for comfortable wear.
photo source: Hodinkee
On the completely other end of the Hublot universe is the also recently introduced Big Bang 2 Million Euros. It is clear that the name indicates its value and that this is the successor of the previously introduced Big Bang 1 Million Euros. The fusion recipe for this watch is rather simple; you take a white gold case, with a white gold bracelet, fit it with a tourbillion movement and adorn it with 637 baguette cut diamonds and one rose cut diamont with a total carat weight of 143,48 carats. As simple as the recipe may sound, so difficult and time-consuming is the execution. Not only do all the diamonds need to be cut and polished, which took 45 gem cutters one month to do so, there is also the precise and dedicated work of actual setting the diamonds in the bracelet, case and dial of the watch which took another 2.000 hours. The result is sparkling, breathtaking and fusion in a whole other dimension.
Taking all these development into account make it hard to believe that Hublot is barely 30 years old. Yet the brand has proved that it has tremendious staying power by being true to its original idea; Fusion with the future, since 1980.
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Dixie Youngers Receives One-Year Appointment to NKC School Board
Posted by jwmartinez ⋅ April 25, 2012 ⋅ Leave a comment
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Dixie Youngers will take the oath of office during the next meeting of the North Kansas City Board of Education.
Last night the board appointed Youngers to a one-year term. She will fill the seat vacated by Tammy Henderson, who resigned too late for her position to be filled by election earlier this month.
Youngers served a previous one-year term and had to run again to remain on the school board. She came in fourth in the election. Three positions were on the ballot, and the winners were incumbent Melissa Roberts plus newcomers Jeffrey "Chip" Luerding and Jay Wilson.
Three candidates applied for the appointment. However, former board member Chace Ramey withdrew his name from consideration. The other candidate was veteran educator Shirley Fessel.
Henderson resigned to take a job as the district's chief communications and community affairs officer.
The next board meeting, which will be open to the public, will take place Tuesday, May 8, at the district's Doolin Center; 1900 N.E. 46th St.; Kansas City, MO 64116.
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On Saturday, 26 May 1759, Samuel Johnson wrote an untitled essay in The Idler. It begins: "Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought." This reminded me of hearing a joke for the second time, one told by someone else, but one you knew by heart. It is true that you might still laugh, as much humor arises from the way the pleasantry is told, not just the joke itself. But if you know the joke, it cannot be as funny as when you do not know it but "get it" when you do. "He that has anticipated the conversation of a wit, will wonder to what prejudice he owes his reputation," as Johnson later put it.
This "pleasure" passage reminded me of something that Josef Pieper once wrote. "Joy" is always a "by-product." We do not set out to find "joy." We must set out to do what causes joy, namely, what is right, what is true. We even pursue our vices for the good that is in them, distorted as it may be. Joy is a result, not a direct object, of right choice. It is true that we all prefer to be joyful rather than sad. But it is most likely that, if we set out to be joyful and not rightly to do the work at hand, we will end up sad.
Aristotle implied that a pleasure is intrinsic to knowing. But it is not the knowing itself. The pleasure only comes indirectly. It only comes when we seek and find the truth of things. It is indeed a "by-product." While it is the "truth that makes us free," it is its surprise that makes us glad. The passage from not knowing to knowing is often a long one. But the passage from knowing the truth to being elated by it is instantaneous, again as Aristotle implied.
Yet is not this very endeavor to cause laughter what the entertainment business thinks it is doing? No doubt it is. And this is probably why it is closer to "bread and circuses" than it is to merriment, to true joy. C. S. Lewis talked of being "surprised by joy," surprised that reality can fill us with gladness. None the less, we can laugh at what "ain't funny," as Molly McGee used to tell Fibber. The Psalms speak of the Lord laughing to "scorn" those who delight in what is evil.
"Merriment is always the effect of a sudden impression. The jest which is expressed is already destroyed." Humor has to do with seeing the relation in things. But its real source is seeing, at the same time, how our words and ideas could mean something else besides their present contextual meaning. This is why Aristotle thought that our capacity to see the humor of things was a sign of intelligence. For to see the relation of things to each other is also to see how other unexpected relations might also be meant, but, if they were, the whole meaning would be absurd.
The main theme in the latter half of Johnson's short essay on merriment reverts to the implication of intending to be merry. When we set out to do so, we quickly find out, in carrying out our intentions, that all sorts of things go wrong.
Finally, the man returns to his native city. He expects his old school mates will welcome him and be ready to converse with him. But alas, the first man he looks up barely recognizes his name till he tells him what it is.
"It is seldom that we find either men or places such as we expect them." And this fact is really the best thing that could happen to us. The reality of the person or place we meet or visit is little like the person or place that we expected. If every person and place were exactly as we imagined them to be, we would not need to meet anyone at all. We would already know them. Each man or woman is embodied and en-spirited differently, even while being this man or this woman. This mystery in the other is the beginning of our glory and gladness. We can only be comforted by the realization that we did not create the world.
That passage is truly remarkable. The loss of hope is the most dreadful thing we can experience as human beings. Thus, "hope itself is happiness." Without it, we are left with "extinction." We are left with our own imagination that thinks it pictures others exactly as they are but leaves no room for the real person we encounter to enter our souls. Hope implies the laughter and merriment that exist when we see relations we did not anticipate, when we see that the world still makes sense when things go wrong.
We set out to enjoy ourselves and everything goes wrong. Ultimately, we have to laugh at ourselves for ever thinking that our plans "had" to go our way. Hope is happiness. It finally means that a better way exists than our way and it keeps breaking into our world. Joy is a "by-product." It arrives when we realize that, in the order of things, the relation of what is right and what is true were intended to surprise us. This surprise, again, is joy, merriment.
"Pleasure is seldom found where it is sought." The conclusion is not that there is no pleasure, but that we look for it in the wrong places. "Hope itself is happiness." We cannot but be delighted that nothing that we can concoct by ourselves can really satisfy us, really give us the merriment that does not cease because its source is the surprise that we are not gods.
Father Schall reflects on an essay by Dr. Johnson on pleasure, joy, and humor.


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Volea (în ) este un sat în comuna Marînivka din raionul Domanivka, regiunea Mîkolaiiv, Ucraina.

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Conform recensământului din 2001, majoritatea populației localității Volea era vorbitoare de ucraineană (%), existând în minoritate și vorbitori de rusă (%).

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NAME: ROB BOYD
OCCUPATION: COACH AT LARGE, REAL ESTATE ADVISOR
MY WHISTLER
CELEBRATED SKI RACER SHIFTS GEARS
TRAVELLER I RAVES & FAVES
Rob Boyd's World Cup downhill victory in 1989 has been hailed by many as the greatest sporting moment in Whistler's history — even surpassing the Olympic gold medals won by locals Ross Rebagliati, Maelle Ricker and Ashley McIvor DeMerit, because it happened right here in town. By all accounts, the post-Boyd World Cup victory celebration also ranks among the best Whistler parties ever, in a town known for great soirées.
Boyd, now 53, is still reminded of that day almost everywhere he goes — including at this past winter's 30th anniversary celebration, attended by more than 200 people at Dusty's in Creekside, the same venue as the original shindig.
"I would call it [the 30th anniversary gathering] a reunion of folks who, in a lot of cases, I hadn't seen for many years," Boyd said. "It brought some of the good ol' heart and soul of Whistler back together again. Anytime someone brings up that day, I go into, 'Where were you, what part of the course were you on?' So, with all the witnesses who were there, I think I've managed to populate the whole course."
PHOTOS: ROB BOYD
In 2018, Boyd — who had been coaching skiing in various capacities since he retired from the Canadian team in 1997 — made a big career move, stepping down as the Whistler Mountain Ski Club's head coach for a position in real estate. While he continues to coach at various camps, Boyd says he won't miss having to upload the gondola at
7 a.m. and sometimes working well into the evening. It has given him more time with his wife Sherry and their sons Dylan, 13, and Evan, 12.
"I love ski racing and giving back to the sport, but there are a lot of long hours," he said of full-time ski coaching. "My boys are skiing, and I was really limited in what I could do with them. With this job I can make up my own schedule a little bit more."


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Celebrated architect Zaha Hadid dies from heart attack, aged 65
World renowned Iraqi-British architect, Zaha Hadid, has died from a heart attack aged 65. New of her death has shocked and saddened the world of architecture and design. Her death in Miami follows a brief hospital stay where she was being treated for bronchitis.
A lengthy statement released by her company said: "It is with great sadness that Zaha Hadid Architects have confirmed that Dame Zaha Hadid DBE died suddenly in Miami in the early hours of this morning.
"She had contracted bronchitis earlier this week and suffered a sudden heart attack while being treated in hospital. Zaha Hadid was widely regarded to be the greatest female architect in the world today."
Baghdad-born Hadid was arguably the world's most prominent female architect in the world, and was considered by many to be an outspoken critic of the gender equality debate within her profession.
She studied mathematics at the American university of Beirut before launching her architectural career in London, although she struggled to win commission in the UK for many years.
Her work was distinguished by her futuristic and often dramatic designs, with her buildings commissioned all around the world. In 2004, she became the first woman to win the Pritzker Prize – the highest accolade within the architecture industry. She was also the first woman to receive the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) gold medal.
Jane Duncan, RIBA's president, said: "Dame Zaha Hadid was an inspirational woman, and the kind of architect one can only dream of being. Visionary and highly experimental, her legacy, despite her young age, is formidable.
"She leaves behind a body of work from buildings to furniture, footwear and cars that delight and astound people all around the world. The world of architecture has lost a star today."
Some of her most famous designs include the Aquatics Centre for the 2012 Olympics in London, rhe Louis and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, the Messner Mountan Museum Corones in the Italian Alpines, the stadium for the 2022 football World Cup in Qatar, and the Heydar Aliyev centre in Baku.


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Top Four Finish For St Pats At Nationals
Bryan Dickinson
From fifth in Wellington to fourth in New Zealand, the rollercoaster ride of the St Patrick's College, Wellington (Town) First XI football team is one of the more remarkable stories in college sport in 2018.
Had the ball bounced in a different direction and some greater administrative empathy been applied, it's quite conceivable Town could have successfully defended their Premier Youth Wellington title and won the Nationals. Captain Samuel Mitrakas was convinced his team would perform strongly at Nationals, despite a disappointing conclusion to the Wellington Trevor Rigby Cup.
"I always had a feeling we'd do alright. Our luck had to change sometime. Our management prepared us really well both mentally and physically," Mitrakas acclaims.
Town are coached by Harry Rickus (a young Englishman with a UEFA B badge) and Luc Townsend, a respected teacher. July 28, is the last round of Premier Youth Wellington competition before the teams are divided into a top four/bottom four section – a change in format from the previous season where the top two teams automatically qualified for the final.
Town only needed a solitary point to absolutely guarantee their place in the top four, but lost 1-2 to Wellington College leaving three teams tied on the same number of points. Despite beating Rongotai College and St Patrick's College, Silverstream, the other schools involved, Town was demoted to the bottom four because of an inferior goal difference.
Law 16.1 of the College Sport Wellington Football handbook states:
"The process for differentiating two teams tied on round robin competition points shall be: a. The team who won the most recent competition match between those two teams shall be afforded the higher rank."
However Law 20 relating to semis and finals is applied. That rule states.
"In the case of teams being equal on competition points they will be differentiated firstly on goal difference in all competition games."
"We thought we were through," Mitrakas admits.
"We found out at Wednesday practice we were in the bottom four. We were absolutely gutted, but we don't control the rules so we had no choice but to pick ourselves up," he continued.
The top four teams played each other in a round-robin series before the top two advanced to the final. The absence of a one-off semi-final was the source of the confusion. Given the choice would Mitrakas have structured the competition differently?
"I don't know. I don't mind the top four. I guess there's lots of way you can structure a competition," Mitrakas answered.
There was nothing confusing about Town's response. In the bottom four they defeated Tawa College (4-0), Scots College (2-1) and Wairarapa College (8-1) with Mitrakas scoring in all three games. Ironically Silverstream, the team with the worst record against Rongotai and Town in the earlier round, lost to Hutt International Boys' School in the final having beaten HIBS twice previously. HIBS were the lowest finishing Wellington team at Nationals coming in 24th place.
Town was grouped in Pool B at Nationals alongside New Plymouth Boys' High School, Lincoln High School and perennial contenders Sacred Heart College. The first two fixtures were identified as a 'must-win.'
A heavy downpour played a major role in the New Plymouth match.
"It was played on grass which made the pitch really muddy. We scored an early goal and were able to sit back a bit more because it was hard to create chances. We scored another goal and won 2-0," Mitrakas reflects.
There would be no sitting back against Lincoln High School.
"I thought Lincoln would do a lot better than what they ended up doing. We beat them 1-0 and had to really work for it," Mitrakas shared.
Both Town and Sacred Heart were through to the Round of 16 by the time they met which allowed both sides to rest some key players. However Town were eager to show they could compete against the 2016 champions.
"We didn't want to roll over. We had to show we could compete against a very strong Auckland team. A 1-1 draw gave us a lot of confidence," Mitrakas asserted.
St Andrew's College (1-0) and King's College, Auckland (2-0) were dispatched in the Round of 16 and quarter final respectively establishing a rematch with Sacred Heart in the semi.
An even battle was locked up at 0-0 approaching the end of regulation. Mitrakas captures what happened next.
"We won a penalty in referee's time. If I scored with the last kick of the game we would've won, but the keeper made a great save. The game went to a shootout and I was always going to be the first shooter for us. I missed again," Mitrakas morns.
Sacred Heart prevailed 5-3 and went onto win the final against Mount Albert Grammar School.
In the playoff for third Town faced St Kentigern College who had beaten Sacred Heart twice and romped to the Premier League title in Auckland. More anguish was to follow.
"St Kent's were a really good possession side, but we gave as good as we got. They won by scoring a goal with the last play of the game," Mitrakas rues.
Year 11 striker Nathan Simes, goalkeeper Themba Clarke and defender Lachlan O'Connor were among Town's standouts.
Regular Wellington Phoenix starter Liberato Cacace was absent.
"Liberato is a class player and there's no doubt he would've made a difference, but we've played most of the season without him so I'm not sure how much we could of changed things," Mitrakas observers.
Town's finish is the best by a Wellington school since St Patrick's College, Silverstream lost the final to Sacred Heart in 2011.
"I'm really proud of the boys. There's lots of leaders in the team and we could have fell apart after Wellington," Mitrakas concluded.
Mitrakas plays for senior football for Wellington Olympic in the Central and Capital leagues. In 2019 he intends to work, play and study with the goal of earning a scholarship to the USA in 2020.
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26 After the plague the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, 2 "Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families—all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel." 3 So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said, 4 "Take a census of the men twenty years old or more, as the Lord commanded Moses."
8 The son of Pallu was Eliab, 9 and the sons of Eliab were Nemuel, Dathan and Abiram. The same Dathan and Abiram were the community officials who rebelled against Moses and Aaron and were among Korah's followers when they rebelled against the Lord. 10 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them along with Korah, whose followers died when the fire devoured the 250 men. And they served as a warning sign. 11 The line of Korah, however, did not die out.
52 The Lord said to Moses, 53 "The land is to be allotted to them as an inheritance based on the number of names. 54 To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one; each is to receive its inheritance according to the number of those listed. 55 Be sure that the land is distributed by lot. What each group inherits will be according to the names for its ancestral tribe. 56 Each inheritance is to be distributed by lot among the larger and smaller groups."
27 The daughters of Zelophehad son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Makir, the son of Manasseh, belonged to the clans of Manasseh son of Joseph. The names of the daughters were Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milkah and Tirzah. They came forward 2 and stood before Moses, Eleazar the priest, the leaders and the whole assembly at the entrance to the tent of meeting and said, 3 "Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among Korah's followers, who banded together against the Lord, but he died for his own sin and left no sons. 4 Why should our father's name disappear from his clan because he had no son? Give us property among our father's relatives."
5 So Moses brought their case before the Lord, 6 and the Lord said to him, 7 "What Zelophehad's daughters are saying is right. You must certainly give them property as an inheritance among their father's relatives and give their father's inheritance to them.
8 "Say to the Israelites, 'If a man dies and leaves no son, give his inheritance to his daughter. 9 If he has no daughter, give his inheritance to his brothers. 10 If he has no brothers, give his inheritance to his father's brothers. 11 If his father had no brothers, give his inheritance to the nearest relative in his clan, that he may possess it. This is to have the force of law for the Israelites, as the Lord commanded Moses.'"
15 Moses said to the Lord, 16 "May the Lord, the God who gives breath to all living things, appoint someone over this community 17 to go out and come in before them, one who will lead them out and bring them in, so the Lord's people will not be like sheep without a shepherd."
18 So the Lord said to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit of leadership, and lay your hand on him. 19 Have him stand before Eleazar the priest and the entire assembly and commission him in their presence. 20 Give him some of your authority so the whole Israelite community will obey him. 21 He is to stand before Eleazar the priest, who will obtain decisions for him by inquiring of the Urim before the Lord. At his command he and the entire community of the Israelites will go out, and at his command they will come in."
28 The Lord said to Moses, 2 "Give this command to the Israelites and say to them: 'Make sure that you present to me at the appointed time my food offerings, as an aroma pleasing to me.' 3 Say to them: 'This is the food offering you are to present to the Lord: two lambs a year old without defect, as a regular burnt offering each day. 4 Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight, 5 together with a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil from pressed olives. 6 This is the regular burnt offering instituted at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord. 7 The accompanying drink offering is to be a quarter of a hin of fermented drink with each lamb. Pour out the drink offering to the Lord at the sanctuary. 8 Offer the second lamb at twilight, along with the same kind of grain offering and drink offering that you offer in the morning. This is a food offering, an aroma pleasing to the Lord.
9 "'On the Sabbath day, make an offering of two lambs a year old without defect, together with its drink offering and a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with olive oil. 10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
11 "'On the first of every month, present to the Lord a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. 12 With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; 13 and with each lamb, a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil. This is for a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering presented to the Lord. 14 With each bull there is to be a drink offering of half a hin of wine; with the ram, a third of a hin; and with each lamb, a quarter of a hin. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon during the year. 15 Besides the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the Lord as a sin offering.
16 "'On the fourteenth day of the first month the Lord's Passover is to be held. 17 On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven days eat bread made without yeast. 18 On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 19 Present to the Lord a food offering consisting of a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect. 20 With each bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths; 21 and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth. 22 Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. 23 Offer these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering. 24 In this way present the food offering every day for seven days as an aroma pleasing to the Lord; it is to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. 25 On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.
26 "'On the day of firstfruits, when you present to the Lord an offering of new grain during the Festival of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work. 27 Present a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old as an aroma pleasing to the Lord. 28 With each bull there is to be a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths; 29 and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth. 30 Include one male goat to make atonement for you. 31 Offer these together with their drink offerings, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. Be sure the animals are without defect.
8 During those days another large crowd gathered. Since they had nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples to him and said, 2 "I have compassion for these people; they have already been with me three days and have nothing to eat. 3 If I send them home hungry, they will collapse on the way, because some of them have come a long distance."
5 "How many loaves do you have?" Jesus asked.
11 The Pharisees came and began to question Jesus. To test him, they asked him for a sign from heaven. 12 He sighed deeply and said, "Why does this generation ask for a sign? Truly I tell you, no sign will be given to it." 13 Then he left them, got back into the boat and crossed to the other side.
14 The disciples had forgotten to bring bread, except for one loaf they had with them in the boat. 15 "Be careful," Jesus warned them. "Watch out for the yeast of the Pharisees and that of Herod."
17 Aware of their discussion, Jesus asked them: "Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Are your hearts hardened? 18 Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? And don't you remember? 19 When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?"
20 "And when I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand, how many basketfuls of pieces did you pick up?"
22 They came to Bethsaida, and some people brought a blind man and begged Jesus to touch him. 23 He took the blind man by the hand and led him outside the village. When he had spit on the man's eyes and put his hands on him, Jesus asked, "Do you see anything?"
25 Once more Jesus put his hands on the man's eyes. Then his eyes were opened, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly. 26 Jesus sent him home, saying, "Don't even go into the village."
29 "But what about you?" he asked. "Who do you say I am?"
33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. "Get behind me, Satan!" he said. "You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns."


It is one of those moments you will never forget, for as long as you live, the day that our President, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated and the day the terrorists attacked us from inside our own borders. They are both etched deep into my mind and heart to remain, for life. The day President Kennedy was shot, I was young and suddenly it felt like the whole world was crashing to a halt. I was sitting at my own desk, my first job, when a man came and said, "My wife just called, she was watching "Days of Our Life" and they made an announcement that President Kennedy has been shot!" How was it possible that the charismatic young man and his beautiful wife in the pink suit and our country, had been violated?
At least for this one-day let us unite and pray for the families of the ones that died and say God Bless America, Land that I love, Stand beside her and guide her thru the night with the light from above. From the mountains to the prairies to the ocean white with foam, God Bless America My Home Sweet Home, God Bless America My HOME SWEET HOME! (Lyrics by Irving Berlin) Pray for America to return to God, Amen!


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Kenneth Halliwell, Prick Up Your Ears The whole point about irrational behavior is that it IS irrational!
Kenneth Halliwell, Prick Up Your Ears I can't remember when you last touched my cock. Well, I can actually. It was about two years ago. Only I can't remember the actual date. Pity. I could have put it in my diary. "The last time Joe touched my cock. Grouse shooting begins."
Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930) Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
Kyle Broflovski, South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut You are all just a bunch of ass-ramming uncle fuckers!
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Leo Rosten Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller.
Leonie Orton & Peggy Ramsay, Prick Up Your Ears Leonie: I think I'm putting in more of Joe than I am of Kenneth.
Peggy: Its a gesture dear not a recipe.
Lester Burnham, American Beauty This isn't life, it's just stuff. And it's become more important to you than living. Well, honey, that's just nuts.
Lester Burnham, American Beauty Janie, today I quit my job. And then I told my boss to go fuck himself, and then I blackmailed him for almost sixty thousand dollars. Pass the asparagus.
Lester Burnham, American Beauty I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.
Lester Burnham, American Beauty It's a great thing when you realize you still have the ability to surprise yourself.
Lester Burnham, American Beauty Oh, all right! So shoot me, I was whacking off! That's right, I was choking the bishop, chafing the carrot, you know, saying "hi" to my monster!
Lester Burnham, American Beauty Look at me, jerking off in the shower...This will be the high point of my day it's all down hill from here.
Librarian & Andrew Beckett, Philadelphia Librarian: Sir, wouldn't you be more comfortable in a study room?
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Andrew: No. Would it make you more comfortable?
Linda Thompson You don't know what a man is until you have to please one.
Lloyd Jones The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try nothing and succeed.
Lord Bertrand Russell Hatred of enemies is easier and more intense than love of friends. But from men who are more anxious to injure opponents than to benefit the world at large no great good is to be expected.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973) If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
Lynn Lavner The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.
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Gold and Silver Poised to Surge on Ticking Debt Bombs
By: Midas_Letter
Gold and silver are threatening to break new ground driven by one simple fact: Nearly all wealthy nations are labouring under one form of debt/monetary inflation issue or another. Ireland and Greek bonds have now been reduced to junk, Japanese bonds became safer than Chinese as reports of China's massive deficits internally offset the rosy picture supported by 9.5% performance in the Chinese economy. Italy is looming large as the next bailout candidate, and the United States prioritize political brinkmanship over problem solving. Gold and silver are seeking new highs and threaten to break out strongly – especially now that the Fed has acknowledged a willingness to launch QE3.
The ridiculous posturing by Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. over the imminent rise in so-called borrowing makes it almost embarrassing to be human. They can't even get out of the way of their own political agendas to solve a problem threatening to make politics obsolete. Certainly, I'd be embarrassed to be American. But on that point, I'd be embarrassed to be English, Irish, German, French, Swiss, Portuguese and especially Greek, Italian or Spanish. Stand close to any of the Davos men who constitute these nations' finance ministers and you are immediately struck by the impression that you're in the presence of the best-dressed con artists walking the globe.
But the creative rhetoric that has resulted in 2 + 2 equalling -4 since the deficit spending party got underway with the end of the Bretton Woods Agreement by the hand of Richard Milhouse Nixon is starting to disintegrate under its own inertia. The novelty and creativity of the formulas and structures, and subsequently, new language, required to continue funelling artificial dollars into broken down debt vehicles is yet insufficient and the charade is reaching its unavoidable and imminent end. Is it a coincidence that the debts, currencies, and economies of the top European, Asian and North American countries are all accelerating towards the brick wall of default at the exact same point in history? I smell a rat, or rather, a whole pack of rats. I think the ruling class, which is without a shadow of doubt corrupt beyond redemption, have figured out that if you bury your theft in a mountain of debt, it will never be found and you can ride off into the sunset undiscovered. Its time for the politicos and their brainwashed over-educated economists to disclose publicly both the amount of taxes paid on their sources of worldwide income.
But that's another story. It amazes me, and then again it doesn't, that there are no culprits in this grand global forum of doublespeak. The Greeks are guilty, but not a single Greek person has been named as responsible for anything that might constitute a transgression of fiduciary duty. The American president blames the Republicans, who blame the democrats. Again, nobody is fingered as the leader or treasury secretary or central bank chairman who is guilty of a crime, or even of towering stupidity. Greenpspan's taking some heat, but he rode off into the sunset, and so in his dotage is a safe target. If corporations are the beard for the unsavoury acts of businessmen, then government is certainly the place to hide for leaders who seek to enrich themselves at the expense of the general public.
SELF DELUSION AS DESIRABLE SKILL-SET
It's true that People tend to embrace the convictions that serve their circumstantial requirements. A cancer patient believes unequivocally he will beat the disease. A gambler believes just as forcefully that he can beat the house. An athlete believes he will win, and a judge believes he is qualified to pass judgment and sentence on the lives of others. In the United States, the President and Congress believe it is both their right and their obligation to pretend that the inevitable will only occur according to their political conditions, and fail to recognize that the inevitable will happen because its inevitable. Both sides know that there is absolutely zero chance of a compromise not being reached, and both sides plan to hold out for their respective demands until the very last possible second. Obama promises the Biggest Deal Possible, and Republicans are obliged to proclaim a Little Tiny Deal.
That means the solution will be the equivalent of little tiny band-aid on a gaping wound in a rain storm. It might slow the tide of the larger inevitability – the collapse of the U.S. dollar and the U.S. financial apparatus – but only temporarily. And then, maybe not at all. Where the boundaries of reason have long ago been surpassed by the astonishing ridiculousness of the economic ruling class, the average intellect is at a loss to opine where the relentless plunge into the apparently bottomless abyss of debt might end. Can we really keep 'refinancing' and 'rolling over' and 'reinsuring' our way into infinity? Is the next debt ceiling measured in quadrillions, and then quintillions, and so on?
At the end of the day, these vast sums being loaned into existence by the collusional participation of elected officials and their appointees is a smokescreen for skimming the national take and paying the minimum tax.
But the scheme has evolved into a scam, and the scam has gotten so mature, that like any Ponzi scheme it needs to replace old investors with new ones to keep the balls in the air. It looks like the principle product of our globalized pyramid economy – indebtedness – is about to collapse, because all the participants are maxed out; there are no new investors to keep the scam going. The central banks can't create money fast enough to make even the interest payments on these colossal debts. We could theoretically amp up the rate of money issuance, but even with zero interest rates, that's too much for the already over-inflated financial system. The value of national currencies is in terminal decline relative to real goods, and we are witnessing the birth of the first global hyperinflation in history. Which brings us back to the main thrust of this story, which is that we are on the verge of a major chronic meltdown.
The acuteness of the self-inflicted austerity measures that Obama has as his only bargaining chip, versus the depth of relinquished tax breaks which is the only bargaining chip of the Republicans, is all that remains to be negotiated in America. That and the numerical name of the next debt ceiling. In Europe, the game is slightly different. On multiple fronts, the banks and the governments are negotiating austerity measures as if they were carbon credits. And just as carbon credits are easily counterfeited, or cancelled, or fraudulently re-sold, the promises will be modified by political expediency, the CDO spreads and interest rates will be adjusted to suit the reality required by all the vested interests, and the numerical names of the next bailouts, puny in comparison with America's, established.
CHINA AND JAPAN
The news yesterday that China grew by 9.5% in the second quarter of 2011 appears to have allayed fears that the Chinese Tiger was growing a little bit tired and threatening to lie down for a while. But not before the Chinese bad news triggered a warning from Moody's.
According to the Wall Street Journal:
"China on Monday failed to sell some of the 50 billion yuan ($7.73 billion) in local bonds offered at a regular auction. It was the first time one of these Ministry of Finance auctions failed to sell out since they began in 2009. Local governments can't issue bonds directly so the ministry auctions the bonds on their behalf.
Ratings firm Moody's Investors Service warned last week that local-government debt posed an increased risk to the central government and the banking system, and said a National Audit Office estimate putting the debt at 10.7 trillion yuan understated the actual amount by some 3.5 trillion yuan.
With Europe squabbling over where to meet next, and Obama sticking to his guns for concessions on tax breaks, the bigger picture is looking an awful lot like gold and silver will be the ultimate beneficiaries of all this debt stupidity.
When the bombs go off and the delusion can no longer be supported, we'll wake up and understand that defaults on all fronts have been ongoing for quite some time. Then the stampede will really begin into gold and silver.
James West is the publisher of the highly influential and widely respected Midas Letter at midasletter.com. MidasLetter specializes in identifying emerging companies in gold and silver exploration at the beginning of their share price appreication curves, and regularly delivers 10 baggers (stocks that increase in value by at least a factor of 10) to his premium subscribers. Subscribe at http://www.midasletter.com/subscribe.php.
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