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Community Development Initiatives
Fusion Microfinance introduced the innovative 'Water on Wheels' project in ten villages of Rajasthan and benefiting 100 women in Rajasthan.
Satin Creditcare organised Financial Literacy workshops in Moga and Barnala districts of Punjab in October 2020. LDMs, Bank managers, a reputed surgeon and Asha workers were invited as chief guests.
Centrum Microcredit: providing 1700 families across Mumbai and Greater Mumbai, 31.82 tonnes of food grains & other essentials since April 2020.
Adhikar Microfinance, in association with Water.Org, has taken up Water and Sanitation development work in Koraput and Malkangiri Districts in Odisha.
MFIN Membership is open to all RBI regulated NBFC-MFIs.
The application for becoming a Member of MFIN goes through a defined procedure including submission of requisite documents, on-site due diligence and the Board review.
The Fees and Procedure are detailed below:
Application Fee: One-time Application Fee of INR 1,000
Initial Membership Fee: One-time Fee of INR 1,00,000
Annual Subscription Fee: Payable upon approval of Membership, as follows:
An amount equivalent to 0.0275% of Total Gross Loan Portfolio (including managed portfolio), after adjusting for loan portfolios that are 180 days overdue on prorated basis.
Subject to a cap of INR 65,00,000 and a floor of INR 1,50,000.
*Note: Calculation of fee for new Members will be on a prorate basis for the quarter in which they have joined and the remaining quarters of the financial year. Annual Subscription Fee will be charged from all members, each year, as decided by the Board from time to time and ratified by the General Body in an AGM/EGM.
Membership Procedure
Documents* Required for Membership include
MFIN's Application Form, duly filled
Memorandum and Articles of Association
RBI Registration Certificate
Copy of Board resolution for MFIN membership and adoption of Industry Code of Conduct
Copy of RBI inspection report, if any
Sample Loan Cards
Self-certification that the Company is in full compliance with RBI and other regulatory norms and guidelines
*Note: After receiving the above documentation, a due diligence will be done by MFIN staff. Following this the Board approves the membership, and the applicant organisation will be required to pay the annual subscription fee. Membership will become effective only after payment of full fee.
Submission of Application and Payment
A new applicant for membership is required to pay a sum of Rs. 1,01,000 (One Lakh One Thousand Only) including the one-time Application Fee of Rs 1,000 and the initial Membership Fee of Rs 1,00,000. The Annual Subscription is to be paid upon approval of membership.
The cheque/draft is to be drawn in the favour of 'Micro Finance Institutions Network' payable at Gurgaon, Haryana.
The duly completed Application Form along with fees and other supporting documents should be sent to:
MicroFinance Institutions Network
4003-4004, EMAAR Palm Spring Plaza,
Near Sector 53-54 Rapid Metro Station,
Golf Course Road,
Gurgaon 122002, Haryana
In-case of any support and queries, kindly contact:
Amit Mathur
VP - Advocacy and Development
: amitmathur@mfinindia.org
Mr. Manoj Kumar Nambiar
Chairperson/MD
Arohan Financial Services Ltd
An XLRI postgraduate with an experience of over 19 years in varied sectors of Banking, Logistics and Microfinance, Devesh co-founded Fusion Microfinance in 2010. Under his leadership, Fusion has grown to a client base of 1.85 MN clients with a portfolio size of 3,600 Cr across 18 states of India. Devesh's long term vision and executing strategy is validated by the marquee PE firm Warbug Pincus's decision to choose Fusion to make its first investment in the Indian Microfinance arena in 2018. His unwavering conviction on upholding organizational value system has enabled Fusion to strive despite of volatile and turbulent environment which sector has faced intermittently over the last one decade.
Devesh has served various Boards since 2008 including being elected as Vice President of MFIN in 2017. He has represented the sector in diverse forums and platforms to create a healthy and positive outlook. He got awarded as the '50 Fastest Growing CEOs of India' by 'The CEO Magazine' in 2018. He is a strong advocate of agile transformation and digital innovation for employee centric seamless operations which made Fusion the "Best Workplaces in MFI" in its debut year of GPTW certification with 66th position in top 100 workplaces in India."
Lenders & Investors Meet
MFIN has been continuously taking several steps to build investors' confidence within the sector and facilitate equity investment for MFIs (both Debt & Equity). The Lenders & Investors Meet, which MFIN organizes every year, is one such endeavour to connect the MFIs with lenders & investors and built a mutual relationship for a better understanding of different institutions operating within the sector. In 2019, MFIN organised the seventh 'Lenders and Investors Meet' in New Delhi on 4th December in association with Access Assist at their 'Inclusive Finance Summit'. The Meet was structured to facilitate one-to-one discussions providing a platform for the Member MFIs, Lenders and Investors to interact, with a focus on small and medium sized MFIs (portfolios below Rs 500 Cr). A total of 54 meetings was organised.
Livestock | Cultivation
Entrepreneur Venture
Police Conclave
Police Conclaves in Bihar & Uttar Pradesh
MFIN in association with Uttar Pradesh Microfinance Association (UPMA) - a state level association of microfinance institutions in UP organized a special interface event 'Strengthening Financial Inclusion: Role of Microfinance' on 13th February 2019 in Lucknow. The session was organized with an aim to sensitize about the operational model of regulated microfinance providers. The event was presided over by DG (EoW) and senior officers from the police department including ADGP (EoW), representatives from NABARD, SIDBI, SFBs, NBFC-MFIs, NBFCs etc The second State-level Police Interface was organised in Patna on 25th February. The conclave was presided over by Director General of Police, Ex-DGP, ADGP (EOU), SP (EOU) amongst others.
RBI's Depositor Education Workshops
RBI entrusted MFIN with the task of conducting 2250 workshops to educate the depositors on the various financial aspects of banking under the aegis of its Depositor Education and Awareness (DEA) Fund Cell. The project comprised of three phases (i) Pilot, (ii) Training of Trainers (ToTs) and (iii) Delivery of workshops in selected districts by various partner MFIs of MFIN. Based on the Pilot experience, MFIN successfully conducted the 8 Training of Trainers (TOTs) of partner MFIs in 8 TOTs in Patna, Mumbai, Chennai, Bhubaneshwar, New Delhi, Lucknow, Kolkata & Ranchi where 230 trainers of 41 MFIs were trained as master trainers. The final stage of executing 2,250 workshops involves an agreement with 40 Members that will commence soon.
CGRM Highlights
MFIN Industry Association
MFIN as an SRO
Benefits of Microfinance
Industry Portfolio and Outreach
Strengthening the Ecosystem
Support to Members
MFIN Information Hub
Press Releases and Coverage
Print and Electronic
Opinions that Count
Interviews (Q&A)
MFIN Toll Free Helpline :
for Customers of Member NBFC-MFIs
Our Work /
India and International Forums
Infrastructure Support
Positive Media Perception
MFIN strives to create a favourable environment for the industry to deliver microfinance services with ease. To do this, MFIN invests in building strong relationships with all its stakeholders to ensure that the contribution of microfinance in the national agenda of financial inclusion is well established.
MFIN has established Task Forces for focused action on specific areas of activities that, from an overall industry standpoint, are deemed critical. The Task Forces comprise of representatives of member institutions who help drive specific initiatives with the support of the MFIN Secretariat. The Advocacy & PR Task Force is responsible for steering and guiding the advocacy agenda within MFIN. The Task Force engages with key policy makers and sector participants to create a conducive policy and business environment for the industry. MFIN engages with the key stakeholders of the microfinance industry including Reserve Bank of India (RBI), National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), Ministry of Finance (MoF), Micro Units Development & Refinance Agency (MUDRA), Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA), Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) and Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI). MFIN is also a part of various think tanks and discussion forums including the RBI's Financial Inclusion Advisory Committee, the MUDRA Board, PSIG Think Tank, and the Access Assist Advisory Group.
National Level Advocacy
Dr Alok Misra speaking in a close-door Roundtable on 'Bridging the Gap: Banks and NBFC' organised by Council for International Economic Understanding.
MFIN representing the sector at the Meeting of the Finance Minister with Private Sector Banks and Financial Institutions, organized by the Department of Financial Services,
Ministry of Finance.
CEO & Director, MFIN with Former Vice-Chairperson - NITI Aayog.
State and District Level
MFIN's objective of creating an enabling ecosystem is met by the team's active engagement with State Governments which is driven by the Task Force on State Initiatives where MFIN engages with diverse set of external stakeholders at the regional, state, district level ranging from Law Makers, Bureaucracy, Administration, Law and Order, Regulators, Inter Institutional Formal structures to create a positive understanding of mission, objective, implementation and impact of microfinance.
State Level Advocacy
Police Conclaves
To further strengthen the microfinance universe and leverage from the combined learnings of various organizations in the sector, MFIN closely works with Associations and Forums in the space.
South Asian Micro Entrepreneurs Network (SAMN) is a regional network aiming at enhancing capacity, financing, and regional dialogue in the microfinance sector of South Asia. It is represented by leading apex institutions from the countries of the region along with the Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED). Current SAMN Members include Afghanistan Microfinance Association (AMA), Credit Development Forum (CDF), Bangladesh, Centre for Microfinance (CMF), Nepal, Lanka Microfinance Practitioner's Association (LMFPA), Sri Lanka, Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN) and Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) in India.
MFIN has a long-standing association with SAMN where together they have organised the SAMN Conclave, a platform that has, over the years, brought together various practitioners, policy makers and relevant stakeholders to brainstorm policy issues and exchange best practices. The Secretariat has curated customised research papers on Client Protection, Credit Bureaus etc.
Micro Units Development and Refinance Agency Bank (MUDRA) and the Governing Council of BFSI Sector Skill Council of India: MFIN CEO is currently on the Board of MUDRA & BFSI Sector Skill Council of India, engaging and steering support towards developments within the microfinance industry.
Sa-Dhan: MFIN enjoys a strong relationship with Sa-Dhan, also an SRO. Both the industry associations have been collaborating and putting their combined learning and efforts into crisis management, exemplified in their joint working during field stress in Assam and Covid 2019. The third edition of Code of Conduct and the Code for Responsible Lending was jointly revised and released during the Sa-Dhan National Conference held in September 2019.
Access Assist Development Services: MFIN has collaborated with Access Assist over the years by associating with the Inclusive Finance Summit. The Secretariat has been assisting Access in providing support services, knowledge resources and interaction across various forums to ensure that the contribution of microfinance within financial inclusion is well established.
Latest SAMN Newsletter
Muhammad Yunus for SAMN Conclave 2016
Employee Bureau
The micro-credit industry prides itself on creating employment for more than 2 lac youth to reach out to its base of 6.1 Cr customers. The Employee Bureau serves as a database of non-financial information of these employees and plays an important role in streamlining recruitment processes at MFIs, minimizing hiring costs as well as highlighting incorrect information/frauds.
MFIN and Equifax jointly created and launched Employee Bureau in 2017 to address the various manpower issues faced by the industry. To catalyse the existing efforts and post wide consultations with Members, in 2019 MFIN mandated members to sign-up with the Employee Bureau by submitting data.
Today, employee data from MFIN Members and Associates forms a substantial part of the Employee Bureau database and contributes towards the development of the lending ecosystem.
As of October 31, 2022
MFIN Members and Associates
Number of institutions signed up
Number of employees registered
Number of queries raised from Oct'21 – Oct'22
% Match from Oct'21 – Oct'22
Growth in Enquiries as on 2021-2022 vs 2020-2021
Credit Bureau Ecosystem
By 2010 as microfinance industry in India began to scale-up and a few localized episodes of defaults, ghost lending, concentration and high leverage emerged, the need for a credit bureau ecosystem was evident. However, the poor-quality identification documents and personal information, absence of foolproof national ID, non-standard data collection by lenders and lack of interest from a credit bureau in the low-income market posed immense challenges in creating such a credit bureau. Fortunately, the period coincided with RBI licensing three new Credit Information Companies (CICs) and micro-credit industry under MFIN immediately capitalized on this development.
MFIN facilitated the formation of the first credit bureau focused on low-income markets (Crif HighMark). Shortly afterwards, Equifax also entered the space fostering innovations and competition.
The credit bureau activities of MFIN aimed at: broadening coverage of the Credit Bureaus, raising awareness about the credit bureau and improving the credit bureau data quality. In addition to encouraging a larger number of MFIs to join the Credit Bureau initiative, MFIN monitors the credit bureau compliance across its membership and ensures that data is shared by members.
MFIN has also been engaging with the regulator to widen the scope of credit bureaus and necessary changes for robust and comprehensive credit bureau ecosystem such as mandatory use of credit bureau report for lending, on-boarding of data from SHGs, data parity amongst all CICs and a comprehensive Credit Information Report.
MFIN is in constant engagement with the media at the national, state and district level to build a positive and informed perception about theindustry with a focus on the sector'simage, dispelling common myths around thenature of the business and emphasising the role ofthe sector in achieving financial inclusion. MFIN also attempts to establish how microfinance has helped build scale and meet the needs of the unserved population of India besides promoting an entrepreneurial mindset among micro-enterprises.
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How To Fuck: The Sex-Project.com Chronicles
Blogged in Techno Porn	by Mike Duckett on February 2, 2006
You need to know things about your penis and other boys' penises and buttholes. But you're not going to learn it from the heteros, are you? You'll thank your gay Buddha that Sex-Project.com in out there in the etherweb. The wordy little site lays it all on the line, with verbose hints on a laundry list of techniques that will get you a second booty call.
There's tips on giving head — "The sad fact is that most people, men and women, do not have the slightest idea of how to suck cock. Most seem to think that simply by making a cunt of their mouth, closing it around a man's penis, and bobbing their heads lustily up and down until he climaxes automatically makes them expert cocksuckers. Au contraire!"–and fun quotes from celebs on sex: "It's the good girls that keep the diaries; the bad girls never have the time," the immortal Tallulah Bankhead once said. Circumcision, positions, toys, the gay double standard, anal…it's all in how-to guides and forum discussions, ready for you to digest. Now get sucking!
Sex-Project.com: Further Your Understanding
Dildos Make Good Citizens
Blogged in Techno Porn	by Mike Duckett on January 10, 2006
Sex stores get hassled even in major cities–which is why Waybig's happy to read that Adam & Eve, our favorite source of leather whips, see-through dildos, man-on-man fuck videos and free catalogs shipped in discreet brown-paper envelopes, has been named by Orange County (N.C.)'s business of the year. The sex-toy company, also known as PHE Inc., is one of the top taxpayers in the county, a suburb of the Chapel Hill-Durham area, and contributes to local animal shelters and family violence prevention centers along with selling some of the area's finest buttplugs.
Even though the business has been picketed by religious groups over its products–which also include sugar-free lube for diabetic fuckbuddies–it's more than welcome in the Triangle area of North Carolina so long as they don't talk too much about what they do. Chamber president Robbin Taylor-Hall admits "we don't look at some of the items they sell." Uh, sure you don't.
Adam & Eve [Straight]
AdamMale [Gay]
Heads Up!: CruisingForSex Has Your Back
Blogged in Techno Porn	by Mike Duckett on January 6, 2006
Public sex in parks, parking lots, restrooms and the like is definitely a gay thing. And the straights don't like it–which is why they send in the cops to bust our favorite play places. And that, buttfuckers, is why CruisingForSex has maintained one of the most vitally important pages on the Web–the Heads Up! Page where you can find out the latest on where stings might catch you with your pants down. Here you'll find peer-to-peer networking of the cautionary kind, like the reader alert from Hawaii's Honokohau Beach: "You don't want to use this beach for nude sunbathing or cruising. There are signs everywhere warning how they'll arrest and fine you for nudity, with a mandatory court appearance. It's sad, but aside from all that bullshit about 'aloha' and hippie culture, Hawaii is extremely puritanical about nudity and sex." Or the recent advice that due to city boundaries changing, one of Atlanta's great glory hole scenes has literally dried up. "TV and print news reported today that all booths/arcades in Inserection and Love Shack stores [in suburban Roswell] will be removed effective January 1, 2006." Don't say you weren't warned!
Don't get caught: CruisingForSex.com – Heads Up!
Celebrity Fit Club 3: Flabby Homos Unite!
VH1's Celebrity Fit Club may go down in history as the one reality show where no one wants to go down on any contestants – at least not in weigh-in form. The show takes D-listers and makes them lose weight, and in this year's installment, the show is literally heavy with gay talent. Hm, is talent the word for Chastity Bono and Bruce Vilanch? Cher's daughter checks in at more than 200 pounds, while the lovely and talented he-man Vilanch tips the scales at 315 pounds. VH1 promises we'll see the gay stars — along with Taxi's Jeff Conaway, Tempestt Bledsoe (nee Cosby) and Young MC (can he still bust a move?) — try to jump hurdles, stay on a diet and subject themselves to the ultimate horror of seeing themselves on VH1. You just know you'll be seeing manboobies every time you turn on the TiVo.
AltPenis.com
We're not sure if it's funded by a sinister cabal of companies who want you to buy their penis-extending devices and pills–or if there's some cockhound with mad HTML skilz and a yen for blogging about dicks aplenty. But what we do like about AltPenis.com is that we found the answers to a bunch of questions we had. Like, how do you take a piss when your cock's in traction? What pills do you take for a longer penis? (Zinc, vitamin E and saw palmetto, it turns out.) Are anabolic steroids addictive? (Sure are!) Read along regularly with Paul's Penis Ponderings–like this week's blog about putting your John Thomas in places it doesn't belong, like the vacuum–or just get the latest info on erectile dysfunction, STDs, or penis conditions. You'll come for the penises; you'll stay, well, for the penises.
Get sprung: http://www.altpenis.com/
PlanetOut Picks Your Coming-Out Bars
Blogged in Techno Porn	by Mike Duckett on December 29, 2005
If you're reading this at home with the door locked and the curtains closed, you're either not out yet or you're in the Bible Belt. (Or maybe you're Ricky Martin.) You're looking for a way to break out of your straight jacket–and you're looking for the right place to debut your all-out, cock-loving, fully self-actualized homoman self.
Good thing for you there's a useful travel guide on PlanetOut this week. The gay megaportal picked the best bars that help you transition from sports-swilling straight boy to diva-loving dickhound. Their choices, the editors say, are places that are "particularly welcoming for newly-minted queers." Making the cut: Chicago's Roscoe's, New Orleans' Bourbon Pub (home of the $500 lap dance, in our experience) and Atlanta's Bulldogs, where men of all races come to vet out all the stereotypes about penis size and top/bottom preferences. There's no Faultline or Eagle to be found; the message being, we guess, to leave those places to the pros.
Like a virgin: A first-timer's guide to great "coming-out" bars [Planetout.com]
ErectionPhotos.com Reviewed: I Kinsey Nasty Cocks
Porno dicks are chosen for their star quality. But what's it like out there in the field, where non-huge, non-pretty cocks are potentially lying in wait under a nice pair of Calvin briefs?
You need to be prepared–and you might know what to expect after you study up at ErectionPhotos.com, the Kinseyesque site that attempts to document diversity among schlongs. It's something akin to a field guide to penises, not always the best-looking ones but certainly more representative than the average Hot House or Raging Stallion meat swinging at your face from the DVD.
"This site tries to give reality to all the diversity that gets compressed into the concept of the 'average penile erection,'" the authors say. And while most of the content is mainstream dick, there are some frightening ends of the bell curve here: a barely visible prick 1.5 inches long soft, all the way up to 9 inches hard. And along with the vaguely creepy clinical observations, soft-hard comparison shots, and senior cock shots, there are some unintentionally hilarious animated cock motion shots–and a whole page of discussions about implants and corresponding pictures of dicks so tiny they have their own subdivision in Oz.
Size queens and pretty-dick discriminators beware–don't say you haven't been warned.
ErectionPhotos.com [Source ThePeculiarOne]
Flash Fridays: Craigslist Gets Freaky
Maybe your city's one of those with its own Craiglist page–and maybe you've bought a cell phone off it, found a job on it, or laughed at some asshat's M4W missed connection there.
But when it comes to Fridays, we know what you're looking at. For some reason, the Web site's spawned "Flash Fridays," a random-acts-of-porno online gathering that you definitely won't find on other city Web pages. And while Flash Fridays may have started out with large-titted women, we've noticed the number of hung, fun guys coming out for FF is growing–and not just those guys who are advertising "for ladies only."
All you have to do is check in at Craigslist in your city, send in a picture and activate it by confirming an email. Now, some cities don't get into the exhibitionism so much. Houston has a problem, San Diego earns its "Blandiego" nickname and Chicago refuses to give up some of its hottest. But Atlanta keeps it hot, New York checks in with some hot Latino guys each week, and D.C. kicks in for the bi guys in sometimes staggering amounts.
A word of warning: while Craigslisters are a notoriously open-minded bunch, they're equally opinionated. And fast typers, too. Sport a small schlong and send it in and you might get flamed like the poor bastard in D.C. who got this: "What the hell is going on? We LOOOOOOOOOVe seeing the pics of the beautiful penises, but the last few dick pics have been pretty pathetic. If your penis is fair to middling or below…..DON'T BOTHER. Nobody wants to see your itty bitty pee pee. Let's get back on track here fellas. I really enjoy seeing the amazingly large and gorgeous penis pics. No more itty bittys please."
List your lizard:
http://atlanta.craigslist.org/rnr/120178765.html
"For ladies only"
When flash Friday goes wrong:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/rnr/120106578.html
Hot enough to show only half-naked:
http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/rnr/120094376.html
QueerPalm Puts It In Your Hands
Blogged in BadPuppy, Techno Porn	by Mike Duckett on December 14, 2005
Be proud of yourself: you'd do anything to acquire the latest techno gadgets and for the simple price of a sloppy BJ behind the 7-Eleven, you scored a new iPod video. After you've toweled off and gargled, you might want to make tracks for QueerPalm.com, the new site from Badpuppy.com. There, you'll find a budding catalogue of video made expressly for portable devices like your hard-earned iPod, the Sony PSP or a PocketPC.
Unlike the trailers you get from the big studios, this is hardcore stuff – and at an average length of 30 minutes, it's just bigger than the other guys, too. Hiding under the covers and watching TV late never was so much fun–or so handy.
QueerPalm
Group Action: Yahoo! Firemen Rule!
What is it about firemen? The savior iconography? The selfless devotion to society? Or is it hot, huge hoses that can barely control their spray? We're guessing the latter reason is why Yahoo! Groups has a whole area devoted to firemen. The Firemen Rule! Group lets users share stories and pics of their favorite hot guys: the founder says the group "is aimed at a gay male audience…dedicated to sharing images of firefighters, preferably undressed, but hot shots of male firemen in gear, or models in firefighter gear are welcomed as well." We're so there, for all the shots borrowed from the New York Firefighters calendars, amateur shots, and some guys who are only firefighters for pay in porno stills and Colt captures.
Burning love: Groups.Yahoo.com
Hot House Hardcover of Hotties
They call them hardcovers because that's what happens to your bedspread after you read one of Bruno Gmunder's photo books. This year we expect cum-starched linens again along with a copy of HOT: The Men of Hot House under our tree.
The bound book covers twelve years' worth of nakedness, 150 photos in all with all your friends from the online realm and the DVD world: Alex Collack and his big friend, muy caliente Alex Fuerte, the impish Dick Wolf, and the all-time tag trio of Shane Rollins, Arpad Miklos and Kent Larson. A steal at $39.95, dry cleaning not included.
The Men of Hot House [Hothouse.com]
Dudes Pissing…Everywhere
Blogged in Techno Porn	by WAYBIG on December 11, 2005
Dudes Pissing comes to us via The Peculiar One. This site touts over 240 pictures, and 20 clips of dudes relieving their bladders. If URINE to guys pissing than this site has everything you'd ever want. And we saved the best part for last; It's free!
Dudes Pissing …Welcome
Happy Birthday Boyfunk.com
Blogged in Gay Porn Report, Techno Porn	by WAYBIG on December 11, 2005
Boyfunk.com, a popular Web destination featuring youthfully attractive gay men, is celebrating its birthday with a facelift. The 3-year-old site, which launched initially during the first week of December 2002, has undergone a complete site redesign. The new-and-improved site went live last weekend.
According to A.J. Braden, the president of Media Resource Communications (which owns both Boyfunk and its affiliate program, GayBucks.com), the site re-launch was long in the making. "[The site] was severely out of date, and we just wanted to have a better experience for our members," Braden says. "We want to be on the forefront of having the best technology and entertainment online for adult content for our members."
With a laugh, he adds, "Plus, we're all kind of geeky over here, so we were looking for a new project."
Members of the site can expect the same amenities to choose from, including scores of photo galleries; hours of solo and multiple-partner, boy-on-boy video clips; nightly webcam shows and regular updates. It's the look that has changed.
"I think it's a great reflection of what we are trying to do," Braden says. "It's extremely user-friendly and extremely flexible with the search options. There's a lot of content, and a lot of different ways to view the content."
There are also lots of boys, he adds – the kinds of boys that Boyfunk.com members have become accustomed to fawning over.
"We're a popular site because of the models, and we are very, very picky about our models," Braden notes. "We pick a very specific look, so our customers know exactly what they're getting every time."
Braden says he hopes the sleeker look and feel of the site with lure previous members back to the fold.
"The old Boyfunk was very, very popular, and I think with the new site we are going to reclaim all of our old members," he says. "I think our customers are going to enjoy it. We've laid it out in a way that they can enjoy and look at it, and it's not complex at all. It's very intuitive.
"We just want our customers to have the best experience possible," Braden continues. "Even if they're getting more value than they are paying for, we want them to walk away happy."
Boyfunk.com Celebrates Birthday with Site Re-Launch [AVN]
BoyFunk.com Reviewed [WayBig]
Bring your own yoga mat!
Blogged in Techno Porn	by Frank on December 6, 2005
You really can find anything in New York City, including "naked gay men exploring Tantra" in their Hot Nude Yoga class. Check out the hotnudeyoga.com blog for the latest news and information on how to pay to have your ass touched while stretching by a man who is probably not a prostitute.
If you don't live in New York, or the idea of doing the "child's pose" with a bunch of other naked homos makes you uncomfortable, you can just watch this preview video at home and "participate" in your own way. (via Naked City Boys)
Trucker Love
Blogged in Random Porn, Techno Porn	by Mike Duckett on November 30, 2005
Truck-stop sex is one of those Holy Grails of gay life–many seek it but few have even seen it. It sounds naughty, dangerous and a little sleazy. And that's probably why you're reading more, right?
The truth is, it's tough to actually land some real trucker sex — and that's what real truckers tell us even. But men will be men, and a host of 'Net sites are out there so you can help out a brother on the road with a little rest and relaxation–or spend a lot of time trying.
But before you go cruising the likes of Nudesville's Truckstop or BigRigMen, you need a little primer on how to sidle up to the over-the-road guys without getting arrested or worse, rejected. A couple of friends offer up this advice from years of tackling the "pickle parks" in Texas and the Northeastern Interstates:
"Most truckers pre-plan online anymore with laptops and all," our northeast road warrior tells us. "They cruise online at home and try to get phone numbers. "Rest areas still happen but not like it used to be, with undercover cops and all. Graffiti in the bathroom is a sign, as is a truck stop with an adult bookstore nearby."
Once you get to the right place, play it cool, warns trucker-fucker number two. "Well, there's lots of techniques, but mainly try to catch the eye of some trucker at a truck stop or rest area, start a conversation and see where it goes. They usually give the signal if you're paying attention," says our southern bud. "It's pretty fun when it works out. Takes a lot of patience and tact. I figure that if I have a good conversation and it goes nowhere else, then I've still had a good time. But more often than not, I bag 'em if I'm able to chat with 'em."
Need more advice before you go haunting the 76 outpost near the freeway? There's CruisingforSex.com's oldie-but-goodie posting on how to tackle a truckdriver and get into his…cab. It's written in the Queen's English, so know going in that "lorry" means "truck" and generally, the same rules apply here in the vast unwashed colonies. Patience is a key virtue, and the rewards are great if you like the straight and unavailable kind: "What you get is the man next door, or the father of the man next door. Ordinary blokes, with wives, kids and mortgages. You also get no sexual politics, no bullshit, no attitude, and no condoms (bring your own)."
Just be warned: "Anything is a gamble any more. It's definitly not like it used to be, but it happens—and yes, there are gay truckers and closet ones."
CruisingforSex: Guide to Trucker Sex
Nudesville's Truckstop
Gay Truckers – BigRigMen.com
BoyTV's Mardi Gras: Where Y'At?
Blogged in Techno Porn	by Mike Duckett on November 30, 2005
New Orleans is finally starting to shake off the effects of Hurricane Katrina. So while you make your plans for the biggest, best Mardi Gras in history next February, take a look back at the festivities from the Eighties and Nineties through the lens of boyTV, a renegade Web-only archive now up at TonyHayden.com, that "weekly ME-ality series" blog we adore (you know, the one with the hot stud at the helm.) Tony's friend, the delicious host Thomas Hauser, took boyTV to Mardi Gras to capture the gay and hetero abandon that revelers used to crank to legendary heights.
Over the course of the first ten-chapter flick, you'll watch the requisite Atlanta boys in their underwear, drag queens in evening wear, and everyone else a little worse for wear after days of nonstop partying. The beads only grow in numbers as the outrageous outfits get more complex: Michael the Archangel is our hunky favorite, but you have to be amazed by the bitch who built an entire Creole townhouse on her head, complete with Barbies showing their tits.
There's lots of grainy, lowbrow footage with aerobicized asses, wieners of epic proportions and of course, the oddly charming David Spade-like host. And at the end, maybe you too will have a tear in your eye for what's happened since to the City that Care Forgot. Watch it all, then click over to MardiGras.com and make sure you sign up for your patriotic duty to life, liberty and the pursuit of beads.
BOYTV AND MARDI GRAS [TonyHayden.com]
iPorn for Gays: The Colt Primer
Last week we told you about the hesitation for porno providers to latch on to the trick new Apple iPod Video. But all isn't lost for cockhounds on the go: Colt is one of the first gay studios to churn out high-quality, small-screen clips for your portable player. As the nifties over at Fleshbot point out, the videos have blurry genitals — that's to keep videos from the hands of teen queers who don't make the 18-year-old cutoff for X-rated material — and the videos are merely previews for the heavily muscled full-length features we were practically raised on. (Raised in one way or another). But the future has never looked better for iPorn — or hotter, or hairier. Available preview vids include this year's crop: Wide Strokes, Leather Bound and Muscle Up!–all of which will be the titles of songs for our all-boy band one day, we swear.
Colt iPod: New Movies
How TO Hire a Legit Masseur (If That's What You Really Want)
Rubdowns are one of the great gay pleasures in life. You get to lie face down without judgment, have a hunky dude — possibly "straight" — grease you up like the centerpiece at a NAMBLA holiday dinner and let him rub on you until he's sweaty and exhausted. Who needs cum? But finding a legitimate masseur can be time-consuming and — oops! — dollar-consuming, if you realize at the end of the hour he's long been planning your happy ending.
For our money, there are two places to go in a strange city when you're in need of a rubdown without leaving a long white trail behind. Our favorite place? Massage M4M, which lets you choose by city, and offers up mini-reviews from clients as well as plenty of information should you change your mind about that whole ejaculation thing. Their listings are fairly widespread, include lots of good-looking guys with good credentials, and offer click-throughs from the homepage to major cities.
Then there's Masseur.net, a long-live site that's only gotten more cantankerous with age. It's a kludgy, frames-based site with lots of dead links for masseurs who probably have gone legit and back long ago. But many links are still active, the guys offer a wide range of massage and holistic services, and the listings are pretty widespread across the country.
Of course, if all you want is a major wad job, there's always Men4RentNow. Don't say we didn't warn you when the bill comes due.
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iPorno Hits Hurdles
You're all set: you bought a new video iPod, got it all charged up, and now you're ready to stuff it with hot bukkake for that 10-hour trip to Tokyo. But wait — where's all the video porn you were virtually guaranteed by your slutty geek AIM buddies? Maybe stillborn, according to Wired magazine. The print mag says that when it comes to portable porn, the makers and suppliers of sex flicks are scared of what regulators and parents might think of putting their stuff in kid-friendly formats. Since most parents wouldn't know a click wheel from a dirty Sanchez, video producers say they'll wait and see if the risks are worth the profits. "There's already a public perception that we (in the industry) are preying on youth," L.R. Clinton Feyling, a mobile-phone porn producer, told Wired. "Without safeguards you open yourself up to more scrutiny from government and parents' groups." He expects iPorn will get some pretty stiff safeguards like credit-card-verified ages of downloaders, copy protection and the biggest letdown, no freebies.
Visit: Wired News: No Porn for You, Video IPod!

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Initially released in 1999 in Snapper case. A direct copy of Elite's 1995 Laserdisc release.
Comes in a slimline case.
Only available inside "Mario Bava Collection Volume 2" boxset, containing "Bay Of Blood", "Roy Colt and Winchester Jack", "Rabid Dogs", "Five Dolls For An August Moon", "Four Times That Night", "Lisa And The Devil"/"House Of Exorcism" and "Baron Blood".
Clips from the "Mario Bava Collection"
Bonus trailers for "On The Run", "Happy Accidents", "Un 32 Août sur Terre", "La Faute à Voltaire", "Les Petites Couleurs"
Also available in the "Série Mario Bava" box set, with "Hatchet for the Honeymoon" and "Lisa and the Devil (Original version)".
Bonus trailers for "The Blob", "Castle of the Walking Dead AKA Die Schlangengrube und das Pendel", and "Blood And Black Lace AKA Sei Donne Per L'Assassino"
Elke Sommer introduction and inteview are in German, while the featurette is in Italian with optional German subtitles.
Only available as a Blu-ray+DVD combo in a 3-Disc keep case.
The Export version has the original Stelvio Cipriani score, while the AIP release has a new score by Les Baxter.
The interview is in Italian with burnt-in subtitles and all other extras are in English without any subtitles.
R2 Arrow Video release has two versions of the film, English and Italian audio (with optional English subtitles), the audio commentary, and an exclusive interview. The German Koch edition has some additional extras but some extras are not German-friendly.
Do note that the R0 Italian has offers both English and Italian audio, with optional English subtitles. It has also an English friendly featurette.
The R2 German also offers both English and Italian audio, but it has no English subtitles. It offers different extras, which are not English friendly.
Whichever you choose, yoou should stay away from R0 US and R2 France, which are not Anamorphic.
- The US theatrical version (~91min): when the film was released in the US by American International Pictures, some takes of violent scenes (e.g. the killing of the doctor) have been softened, the order of some scenes shuffled, and music rescored by Les Baxter.
R0 America- Image Entertainment - No cuts - export version.
R0 Italy- Raro Video/Horror Club - No cuts - Italian version.
R1 Mario Bava Collection Volume 2 America- Anchor Bay Entertainment - No cuts - export version (97:39 NTSC).
R2 France- One Plus One/Mad Movies - No cuts - export version.
R2 Germany- E-M-S - No cuts - export version (93:43 PAL).
R2 United Kingdom- Arrow Films - No cuts - includes both Italian/export version (93:50 PAL) and US theatrical version (86:49 PAL).
02/05/13: Added Arrow Video specs.
17/11/14: Added further detail regarding the different versions (running times mostly) and slightly updated UK disc specifications (running times also).


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16S rRNA Methyltransferases in Clinical Gram-negative Bacilli from a Tertiary Care Hospital in the Caribbean
16S rRNA methyltransferase enzymes pose an iminent threat to the availability of aminoglycosides as an emipiric therapeutic option for Gram negative bacterial infections. Their presence in the Caribbean therfore further burdens this resource limited region.
Objective: 16S rRNA methyltransferase enzymes or RMT confer pan-resistance to the aminoglycoside class of antibiotics. Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli with these methyltransferase genes have been identified from clinical settings in Europe, Asia and the Americas. This study reports their detection and characterization in Jamaican Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli.
reynolds-campbell_et_al_-_16s_rrna_methyltransferases_in_clinical_gram-negative_bacilli.pdf
Aminoglycoside
multidrug-resistance
16S rRNA Methyltransferases
G Reynolds Campbell
N Christian
B Willey
T Mazzulli
e-Published: 08 Mar, 2019
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Manuscripts that are Published Ahead of Print have been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by the Editorial Board of the West Indian Medical Journal. They may appear in their original format and may not be copy edited or formatted in the style guide of this Journal. While accepted manuscripts are not yet assigned a volume, issue or page numbers, they can be cited using the DOI and date of e-publication. See our Instructions for Authors on how to properly cite manuscripts at this stage. The contents of the manuscript may change before it is published in its final form. Manuscripts in this section will be removed once they have been issued to a volume and issue, but will still retain the DOI and date of e-publication.
A Review of Clostridium difficile Infection at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica
Vol 64, Issue 4: September (2015)
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) per total stool samples and per total admissions increased at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica. Although most cases were nosocomial, there was a greater than expected frequency of community acquired CDI. Ceftazidime was the most common antibiotic associated with CDI.
Objectives: This study examined the frequency of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) among hospital admission and diarrhoeal stool samples over a six-year period.
wimjsep2015_413_418.pdf
C difficile infection
ceftazidime
N Clare-Pascoe
MG Lee
T Murphy
TS Ferguson
e-Published: 04 May, 2015
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Aminoglycoside Resistance in Clinical Isolates of Gram Negative Bacilli at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica: Comparison of Two Time Periods
Vol 64, Issue 2: March (2015)
Aminoglycosides have been in use at the University Hospital of The West Indies for over 30 years. This report answers the question of their continued usefulness by comparing current resistance rates with previously collected data.
wimjmar2015_87_91.pdf
Amikacin
gentamicin
G Reynolds-Campbell
R Hardie
J Cook
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Febrile Neutropaenia in Cancer Patients
Gram-negative organisms are the predominant isolates in febrile neutropaenic episodes in this cohort of patients. Non-neutropaenic patients had an increased mortality with an increase in Acinetobacter infections and multiple infections.
Backgrounds: Febrile neutropaenia is a common complication of chemotherapy in cancer patients.
Empirical antibiotic regimes are based on the epidemiological characteristics of bacterial isolates globally and locally.
dr_m_walwyn_wimj.qxd_.pdf
febrile neutropaenia
M Walwyn
G Wharfe
MA Frankson
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A Survey of Physicians' Knowledge and Attitudes Regarding Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Prescribing Practices at the University Hospital of the West Indies
Most physicians considered antibiotic resistance an extremely important problem globally, but less so nationally. Contributory factors were correctly identified, but antibiotic prescribing practice did not incorporate measures to reduce resistance. Hand-washing was not considered to be important in reducing resistance and de-escalation to narrow spectrum antibiotics when appropriate was not a regular practice.
Objective: To identify physicians' knowledge and attitudes regarding antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic prescribing practices at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI).
Methods: A cross-sectional survey of physicians at the UHWI was conducted between September 2008 and April 2009 using a 28-item, self-administered questionnaire. Eligible physicians from several specialities were identified from departmental rotas.
dr_i_tennant_wimj.qxd_.pdf
antibiotic prescribing practice
I Tennant
GM Gordon-Strachan
C Thoms
V Chin
MA Didier
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The Epidemiology of Fungaemia at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Candida species are an important cause of fungaemia internationally. At the University Hospital of the West Indies, non-albicans Candida spp were found to be more commonly isolated than Candida albicans as a cause of fungaemia. Cryptococcus spp was also identified as a causative agent of infection. Systematic surveillance is necessary to detect emerging trends and guide empirical antifungal therapy.
Objectives: To determine the epidemiology of fungaemia at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) as well as the incidence of fungaemia at the UHWI over a four-year period.
dr_nicholson_special_issue_december.qxd_.pdf
Fungaemia
L Rainford
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Urinary Tract Infection in Neonates with Serious Bacterial Infections Admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies
Urinary tract infection is an important cause of serious bacterial infection in neonates affecting 1 in 3 babies with proven bacterial infection and may be the first indicator of underlying structural abnormalities. The absence of specific distinguishing clinical features makes it necessary to include urine cultures in the sepsis evaluation of neonates presenting with symptoms suggestive of sepsis.
Objective: The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of urinary tract infection in neonates, with serious bacterial infections, admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies.
barton_urinary_tract_infection_in_neonates_with_serious_bacterial_infections.pdf
Urinary Tract Infection in Neonates
M Barton
Y Bell
M Thame
H Trotman
e-Published: 18 Jul, 2013
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A firefighter died Thursday while battling the Thomas fire as authorities braced for new powerful winds that could pose threats to homes in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.
Officials said a combination of Santa Ana and sundowner winds will hit the area from Thursday through Sunday, bringing new dangers to a fire that now ranks as the fourth-largest in the state's modern history.
As they prepare for the new battle, firefighters were also grappling with loss.
Pimlott identified the firefighter as fire apparatus engineer Cory Iverson, 32.
Iverson was assigned to the fire as a part of a strike team from Cal Fire's San Diego unit. He started with Cal Fire in 2009. He is survived by his wife, Ashley, and their 2-year-old daughter Evie. The family is expecting a second daughter this spring.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with Cory's family and all of his friends and co-workers throughout the department and the fire service," he said.
He said an accident review team would investigate the circumstances of Iverson's death.
At 4 p.m., the body of the firefighter was loaded into a hearse and taken away, with firefighters lining the road in tribute.
Just hours before Iverson's death, Pimlott appeared at a morning briefing where he emphasized safety over complacency. It's during what seems like the least dangerous times — while mopping up hot spots, cutting burned trees or striding though charred rubble — that most injuries occur, he said.
While strategy was discussed as usual, there was an emphasis on staying vigilant as the fire's eastern flank winds down. A retiring corrections officer warned firefighters not to become complacent during this incident, and said that should they find themselves relaxing, they should think about their colleagues who have been injured or lost their lives in seemingly low-risk situations.
Despite a couple of days of reduced winds and feverish efforts by firefighters to establish new containment lines, the 249,500-acre Thomas fire has surpassed the size of the Zaca fire, which scorched Santa Barbara County in 2007, according to Dave Zaniboni, a spokesman for the Santa Barbara County Fire Department.
Firefighters hope the 240,207-acre Zaca fire burn scar, as well as the younger vegetation it contains, will help them fight the Thomas fire's growth along its western edge.
Firefighters have taken advantage of a two-day lull in winds to increase fire containment to 35%. Those efforts could be tested soon, however, as forecasters predict a new blast of Santa Ana winds Thursday, and sundowner winds over Santa Barbara County on Friday.
In Thursday's incident report, fire officials said they didn't expect to reach full containment of the blaze until Jan. 7 — more than three weeks from now.
The state of California began keeping records of wildfire acreage in 1932. While other large fires raged on the West Coast prior to that year, those records are less reliable, according to Cal Fire.
At the morning briefing Thursday, fire commanders said another day of extremely low humidity and moderate winds would greet firefighters as they continued to build containment lines above Carpinteria, Montecito and Santa Barbara.
The mountains north of the coast produce notoriously unpredictable and dangerous conditions for firefighters, said fire behavior analyst Tim Chavez. In the Matilija wilderness, which straddles the border between the two counties, observers saw 50-foot flames backing down a hillside overnight, he said. It's unusual to see flames that tall working their way down a mountain, officials said.
Gusty Santa Ana winds are expected for Los Angeles and Ventura counties Thursday, said Stuart Seto, a weather specialist with the National Weather Service. In the mountains, gusts of 55 mph are possible.
In the valleys, 15 to 25 mph gusts are predicted, with some gusts of up to 40 mph, Seto said. Over the past few days, a break in the weather has allowed firefighters to increase containment.
Winds will be north to northeast, and usually the Ventura side is more affected than the Santa Barbara side, Seto said.
"But it's still going to have an effect up in the mountain areas of Santa Barbara," he added. Winds up there will be up to 25 mph and a little gusty, "so there's still going to be a big concern up in that area," he said.
Throughout mountain areas on Thursday there's a greater risk for large fire plumes, which can cause erratic fire behavior.
Sundowner winds are expected Friday into Saturday in the Santa Barbara area. On Sunday, winds are expected to return to offshore conditions, Seto said.
The fire has destroyed more than 900 homes in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties since it began Dec. 4 near Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula. In its first day, the fire spread southwest, toward Ventura, and northwest, eventually hugging Ojai before pushing to the Central Coast.


On November 13th, EMI will finally release the remasters of The Beatles catalog on vinyl. Available on CD and digitally since 2009, the remasters cover all 12 of the band's studio albums as well as the Magical Mystery Tour soundtrack and the rarities compilationPast Masters. According to RollingStone.com, stereo versions of each album will be issued on vinyl individually and released together in an expansive box set. The mono versions will follow in 2013.
Limited to 50,000 copies worldwide, the box set contains the 14 releases across 16 LPs and includes original features like the Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band cutouts and a reproduction of the poster that accompanied "The White Album". The set will also include new hardbound book by radio producer Kevin Howlett, filled with photographs and chapters dedicated to each records.
At the start of the restoration process, engineers conducted extensive tests before copying the analog master tapes into the digital realm using 24-bit/192 kHz resolution and a Prism A-D converter. Dust build-ups were removed from tape machine heads after the completion of each title. Artifacts such as electrical clicks, microphone vocal pops, excessive sibilance, and poor edits were improved upon as long as it was determined that doing so didn't at all damage the integrity of the songs. Similarly, de-noising technology was applied in only a few necessary spots and on a sum total of less than five of the entire 525 minutes of Beatles music. Compression was also used sparingly and only on the stereo versions to preserve the sanctity of the dynamics.
A rigorous string of checks and balances ensured that the results exceeded expectations. Subject to numerous playback tests, songs were auditioned by the remastering team to determine if any lingering mistakes needed correction. The restored versions were also compared side-by-side against the original vinyl pressings (loaded into Pro Tools), and then again auditioned in the same studio where all recent Beatles projects, including Love, were mixed. Once all EQ issues had been addressed, another round of listening litmus tests occurred in still another location. Finalization required the approval of everyone involved in the remastering process. For this project, there was no such thing as too many cooks in the kitchen. Yes, it took a village to get it right.


My earliest food memories are when we lived in Chatham Village in Maryland Heights, in St. Louis. I'm the youngest of nine. That was when most of us were together, a very short period when we were almost all together around the dinner table. We weren't all together, because my oldest brother was already off to Vietnam, fighting in Vietnam.
We're very much mutt. My grandmother on my father's side was one-hundred percent Polish. And her husband was Irish, pretty Irish but I think there was some other stuff. Then, on my mom's side, there's all kinds of stuff. Very mixed.
Growing up, food was huge. It was a huge part. We loved food, we made food, we ate it. But it was also a chore too, because there were so many kids.
These are just impressions of my earliest memories because I was little. But they're a piece of meat, whether it's a roast pork or roast beef or roast something. That's Sunday dinner. Lots of potatoes for all those kids. Loaves of bread. And milk. And probably canned vegetables. The meal was defined by the meat. "What are we having for dinner?" "We're having chicken, we're having pork." Meat defined the meal. It was a big table full of people. But my dad kept it pretty quiet. We weren't a rambunctious group around the table.
We spent a lot of weekends at my Aunt G's house. That was always a big food event. In the summertime it was barbecues in the back yard. Pork steaks and German potato salad. Salad and cream bread that she got from this bakery. The winter meals were, again, some kind of a roast. We spent a lot of time there eating. My Aunt G's home played a role in our whole family life up until recently when she passed. That was a center for coming together and eating food. We always had Easter dinner there. The ham, the lamb-shaped cake covered in cocoanut, the breadbasket made out of bread full of bread rolls. And German potato salad. I never had German potato salad anywhere else. That was something that was part of my Aunt G and my grandmother and my dad. They made it a lot. And I love it today.
That was always fun growing up because there was the grown-ups' table and there was the kids' table in the kitchen. The kids got to be pretty rambunctious then. The kids could just go eat in there and – out of sight, out of mind.
Easter was a treat. My grandmother made these beautiful Easter eggs, the marbled ones that you put the oil in. They were gorgeous and shiny. And they always got gelt, which I didn't know what that was. My cousin calling and saying she was so lucky because she got this gelt in her basket. And beautiful chocolate bunnies that were solid! They weren't hollow. My mom did splurge on those. She splurged on the Easter Bunny.
And for Christmas one of my fondest memories is making Christmas cookies with my mom. We would make four batches of everything. Four batches of sugar cookies, and icebox cookies, which I hated. They were too grown up. We wanted the sugar cookies. She always got these big tins out. The dining room table was stacked with tins of Christmas cookies.
As I grew up we moved to the city. We lived in South City, on Grand and Utah. I went to Catholic school there, Saint Pius V. I just remember food being in different buckets. Like there was a food bucket that was You Got To Feed Nine Kids, or eight kids or seven kids. That was my mother's daily job of coming up with these meals that could sustain five boys and four girls. So it was a lot of potatoes. I remember she made this thing called graveyard stew. "We're having graveyard stew!" The kids loved it. It was hamburger and potatoes and peas and a gravy. It was a big mess of food that we all ate. There was a lot of pasta. This is the during the week meals. Fill 'em up. Lots of bread, lots of bread.
But Sunday meals . . . there was always a Sunday dinner. There was a Sunday breakfast, too, which was bacon and eggs. Always bacon and eggs and really strong coffee. I remember my dad drinking really strong coffee. My mom used to have her cup of really strong tea. The breakfast table was another big thing.
We ate a lot of biscuits and gravy. That was a big treat on a Sunday morning. Sausage and sausage gravy and biscuits. I remember my dad introducing me to grits, later on, with red-eye gravy. But I don't think it was part of who we were. It was my dad's exploring, because he liked to try new things.
Mostly on the weekends there'd be a dessert, but dessert was not a given during the week. My mom would make a cake. She'd make a pie. So we'd never need dessert, but it would be homemade. We didn't buy cookies. We didn't buy sweets.
You had to eat what was on your plate. I think about how we do with our daughter compared to how our family did it. You didn't get to decide. One time there was horrible canned spinach with barley, aww! There was a big plop of it on my plate. I was not allowed to get up until I ate every bite of it. It was hours later. All the kids were up and gone. My brothers were taunting me and laughing. Yeah, I had to eat it.
I loved lasagne. I loved the meat lasagne. That was always a big treat. But other than that, I don't remember it being about whether or not I liked the food. Grilled cheese was a big one, Velveeta and Wonder Bread. I loved making popcorn at night and watching TV with my dad, Barney Miller or whatever. The big bowl of popcorn.
When we lived in St. Louis, my dad – who was a jazz musician – actually bought a bar and restaurant. In Hermann, Missouri, which was about an hour-plus drive from where we lived in the city. He would go there for the week to work, then he'd come home Sunday morning, like 3 in the morning after he closed the bar on Saturday night. And he always, without fail, on Sunday morning, came home and would wake me up at 3 in the morning and my mom and dad and I would go and sit at the kitchen table and eat White Castle hamburgers. He would get a bag of White Castles on his way home as a treat. I don't remember any conversations. I don't remember anything other than sitting with them and munching. It was kind of a special thing. It was just a middle-of-the-night thing. I was probably in first, second, third grade, I don't know. It was a treat. I got to see my dad after he'd gone for the week. I was literally up for like 20 minutes — having a couple White Castle hamburgers and going back to bed.
It got to be too much for him to be that far away, so we moved out to the country. We moved to an 18-acre farm at the end of a 7-mile gravel road, which was quite a culture shock from South City to an 18-acre farm in a little town half way between St. Louis and Columbia, right on Highway 70.
Running the restaurant was hard. It was a hard life. I think it was just to facilitate his jazz musician situation. And that was kind of a nice package around it. It was really a great place. It was really interesting. But it was hard. It took a toll.
I started to mention buckets earlier. So one bucket was the sustenance bucket, one bucket was the family gathering, like the Sunday meals, in particular with my Aunt G. And my grandmother was there too. She did a lot of the cooking then. And this other bucket . . . my dad was actually very interested in cooking. He actually loved food, exploring food. I can remember going down in the city, in South St. Louis, to a Mexican or Latin American food store. Those were not common back in the 70s and early 80s. And he would make tamales or we'd have sopapillas or we'd have all these different things. He was interested in food and he would explore different cultures' food.
And then the other bucket was the restaurant. So the restaurant served steak and crab legs and lobster tails and salad. My mom cooked. When I got a little older, when I became like 12 or 13, I got to waitress. So I made really good money on Friday and Saturday night, working in the restaurant.
My dad was an interesting character. He was a musician, he was a creative but not by training. Nobody called it that back then. He was just always reading about things, he was always trying new things. After my mother passed when I was 15 he took up painting. He became a beautiful painter. He was just an artist, he really was, in his heart. And food was a way to explore that, I think, for him. Funny thing is, he never traveled anywhere and never had any desire to. But he liked to travel in the food world. He definitely explored that.
And when we lived on the farm there's a lot of memories. I have some great pictures, us together on the farm, with barbecues out in the back. Big barbecues. Pork steaks. There were lots of ribs, and pork steaks, and chicken. Salad. We also had a big garden when we lived in the country, we'd have a big, big garden – which I was forced to work in, much to my chagrin, because it was pretty grueling work. It was a big garden. We planted potatoes and corn and everything, you name it.
An interesting thing was that my dad – at night he played jazz. The guy across the street, the chiropractor, was an old friend of his. He played keyboard. He just had a group of friends that got together and played jazz. But, during the day, when the bar first opened, like at 3 o'clock or between 3 and 6, a lot of the farmers would come in, after they got done in the fields and they would drink. The story was that a lot of them had tabs and then they would pay their tabs with farm animals. Here we were, city people, living on this farm, and one day he brought home two pigs. And another he brought home a whole bunch of chickens. And another day he brought home a lamb. So we always had some kind of an animal situation going on. We ate them! I did not know that at the time. I would have been devastated because I loved these animals, but . . . So that was interesting!
I also remember my dad really liked pie. And my mother passed away when I was 15, and I lived with my dad for a year after that. I remember making him pie. He wanted to know if we could make pie. He really liked pie.
We entertained a lot. We had people over and barbecues in the back yard. Mostly family, mostly my Aunt G. And the neighbors would come over for a meal here and there. Because we were a large family and we were not wealthy, my memories of snacks were a bowl of popcorn. It was a big bowl of popcorn. We didn't have Doritos and Cheetos and fancy snacks like I got to have over at my friend's house, which was so exciting. And cereal was Cream of Wheat and puffed wheat and oatmeal and Cheerios. But we didn't have Froot Loops and all the fancy cereals. It was a real treat when we got to have soda. Soda was a big holiday thing. But mostly we had Kool Aid.
We used Maull's [barbecue sauce], but it always had to be doctored. Because my brother and my dad, they put beer in it or some Worcestershire sauce in it, or something. They always had to make it their own. They were masters. I remember my brother, my brother F (he just passed away about a month ago). He was just an amazing barbecue guy. We had so many pictures of him at the grill. He was the guy. He would talk about how you'd have the hot coals over here, the cool coals were here and you'd sear the pork steaks and after you get them nice and brown, then you bring them over here to the cool side and you keep basting them, let them caramelize and caramelize. Leave them on there for hours, and they're falling off the bone. He just loved to talk about it. It was a real art!
My husband used to be a chef. So food has carried on in my life. He said he used to break down animals, and cook lots of different kinds of meat. And he had never heard of a pork steak. So when we went to St. Louis, the first thing he wanted to do was to go to the grocery store and see these pork steaks. He said let's go to Whole Foods, because I want to see what a Whole Foods here looks like compared to a Whole Foods in Boston or here, California, where we lived then. And sure enough, there they were, these big beautiful pork steaks.
I remember the first time I brought him home. It was Thanksgiving and there were I think 27 people around the table, with my sisters and brothers and nieces and . . . yeah, big family! Prime rib, that was another big one. At Christmas there would be a prime rib. Food was important. Those were the occasions. During the week it was a whole different story.
We really didn't go to restaurants. I remember my sisters and brothers saying I was the lucky one because I did get to go, when it was just me and everyone was gone. I remember when my mom and dad went out for dinner my mom would always bring me home the little package of crackers that would come with the salad course. We would go out every now and again, but I never ate at MacDonalds. Part of food being an important part of my life, and not having money, we actually ate pretty well. Because we ate food that was basic. And we prepared it. We didn't have processed foods. We didn't go out to MacDonalds.
I also remember when we lived in the city, in South City, my mom and I and sometimes the next door neighbor would go to Soulard Market on Saturday morning. And, oh, I loved that, loved Soulard Market. It's funny – we went back there a few years ago and I hadn't been since I was a little girl and it looked so small. But I remember it being huge. And we'd go to the butcher, get all the produce at Soulard Market and we'd go to the butcher, in South St. Louis, and get all of our meat. Braunschweiger and bologna. And then we'd go to Aldi for canned goods. I remember, more so in St. Louis, canned goods being a part of our existence. When we lived in the country, because we had the big garden, my mom actually canned stuff. We'd have real food canned.
I would say that my husband and I, that's how we came together. I loved that he cooked. That was so exciting to me because I also love to cook and entertain. That's how we kind of give. That's what we do. We cook for friends. So, on a daily basis, we've always got food projects. Right now we've got kombucha brewing. I've got fire cider in the basement. I've got my sour dough starter that I'm caring for and feeding. I'm just starting to take an interest in herbs and herbalism. So I just made some elderberry syrup for colds and things like that. I just bought a book called The Herb Book and it covers culinary to medicinal. There's a lot of overlap there. And just the history of herbs and how they've been used. That's kind of my newest foray.
About three years ago a friend of mine and I started a supper club. My husband and I had started one when we first moved here and started getting to know people. We basically get together every few months and there are six couples. We choose a cuisine and everyone brings a course. The only rule it to make the course small, so that people are enjoying the last course as much the first course. We had a mistake early on of just being stuffed three courses in. We've really jelled and it's really, really fun. We just look for people who are also really into food. We kind of had to go down the path of omnivores so we can all just cook and eat.
Even with that supper club, my husband and I still host just impromptus of that kind of thing. Like we just had five couples over for a French night, like a small French course and a wine to pair with it. And that was really fun. Our daughter has grown up with food projects. She's been making pasta since she was a little girl. She loves pasta. So we'd have the kids over on Sunday and the kids would make the homemade pasta and then they'd fill the pasta and make rustic homemade ravioli. We've done making Thai spring rolls. We've done that as a project. We've also done tamales where we have a bunch of friends over and you spent the day cooking tamales and then at night the spouses and the kids all came and we had a big fiesta.
This morning we had our coffee in bed and my husband brought a whole armful of cookbooks in. We were just looking in the fermenting book. He's interested and he's really learning. He got this great fermentation cookbook for Christmas and he's been really into his kombucha and perfecting it and exploring it and what to do with it.
Something that brought my husband and I together was the love of travel. And food has become a big part of that. When we got married, we didn't have a traditional wedding. We got married with just a few people. My sister stood up for me, my husband's mother stood up for him, and we had our friend marry us at dawn in a wildlife sanctuary. And then we took, basically, the equivalent of what the average American wedding cost, and we traveled around the world for a year. We backpacked. And we ate our way around the world, for sure! After we got married we visited the man who married us, who my husband traveled with earlier. They spent a lot of time in Eastern Europe, so we went to his house and he made us this sort of Eastern European fish and brown bread and what they ate on their travels. And then we went to my mother-in-law's house and my husband and I cooked for the wedding reception. We made all the food, Greek food. And then we went to my Aunt G's, in St. Louis, and then we went to some friends in California for the night before we took off for Japan.
I guess the biggest food adventure was when we were in Singapore. Oh my god, the food there is incredible! The hawker centers! Nepal! We were trekking up in the Himalayas and really interested in how they ate. Making bread, and putting bread into the fire, literally putting it into the fire in the coals and then shaking off the ashes and passing it out. Thai food, amazing! Street food, we loved the street food. Same in Vietnam, though when we were flying from Thailand to Vietnam there was an article about being careful about eating the noodles because they had found there was a company that was putting formaldehyde in the noodles to make them last forever. We did eat some questionable things for sure when we were there. In fact, when we were in Nepal my husband got very, very, very sick. It was scary. We were staying in this Korean guest house with these lovely guys and we went out. When we came back it was festival time and they were partying. They said come and party with us, we've got this pork. He ate it and he got really, really sick.
We both love food so much, and we talk about how much we love food, and why aren't we doing something in food? But, he was a chef and I worked in my dad's restaurant, and all through college I was a waitress and a bartender. We know how hard a life it is. It's a young person's project. We would love to open a restaurant, but we don't want to run a restaurant. We just like to open them. Maybe after retirement, maybe we'll figure out something to do.


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Sundance is a residential neighbourhood in the southeast quadrant of Calgary, Alberta. It is located east of Macleod Trail, is bounded to the north and east by Midnapore and Fish Creek Provincial Park and to the south by Stoney Trail. The  man-made Sundance Lake was constructed in the middle of the community, and residents have easy access to the public beach of Sikome Lake.

Sundance was established in 1982. It is represented in the Calgary City Council by the Ward 14 councillor.

Demographics
In the City of Calgary's 2012 municipal census, Sundance had a population of  living in  dwellings, a 1.2% decrease from its 2011 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2012.

Residents in this community had a median household income of $91,623 in 2000, and there were 5% low income residents living in the neighbourhood. As of 2000, 14.6% of the residents were immigrants. A proportion of 3.1% of the buildings were condominiums or apartments, and 6.5% of the housing was used for renting.

Education

Schools in Sundance

There are two public elementary schools; Fish Creek Elementary School, and Sundance Elementary School.

There is one public junior high; MidSun Junior High.

There is one public high school; Centennial High School.

There is one Catholic (Separate) School; Father James Whelihan School (kindergarten to Grade 9).

See also
List of neighbourhoods in Calgary

References

External links
Midnapore-Sundance Community Association

Neighbourhoods in Calgary

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The Murdoch Non-Apology
The day the New York Post sleazed its op-ed section with the vile, vicious, and veiled urge to violence cartoon against President Barack Obama this writer demanded that Post boss Rupert Murdoch issue this statement.
"The News Corporation pledges that the Post's offensive cartoon will not be circulated, or reprinted, or syndicated. Further, we have zero tolerance toward racially insensitive and inflammatory cartoons or editorial depictions of African-Americans and other ethnic groups. Finally, we apologize for the Obama cartoon and pledge in the future that the Post and other Murdoch entities will hold to the highest standard of editorial sensitivity in our cartoons."
Though it took a firestorm week of massive demonstrations, threats of a boycott, and an FCC license challenge (the Murdoch owned Fox Network), and a Mt. Everest sized stack of emails, letters, and faxes demanding the firing of Post management, Murdoch pretty much issued a statement that came close to what this writer demanded.
But that by no means closes the book on the sorry Post-Murdoch-Fox saga. It can, and probably will happen again. Start with Murdoch's apology. There were three escape clauses buried in it. One is the self-serving, lame Post defense that the cartoon was just fun and games spoofery of Obama's stimulus plan. The other is a rehash of the other Post editor's fall back line that the cartoon was not meant to be racist. Murdoch's final give the paper a pass defense was his declaration that the cartoon was "interpreted" as racist by "others."
That's not a whole heck of a lot better than the non-apology, apology Post editors issued a day after their public shellacking.
But even if Murdoch had made a sincere bare-the-chest heartfelt apology it wouldn't amount to much. That's the standard ploy that shock jocks, GOP big wigs, and assorted public personalities employ when they get caught with their racial pants down.
On a few occasions the offenders have been reprimanded, suspended, and even dumped. That won't happen with the Post editors, or the offending cartoonist, and Murdoch gave absolutely no hint that anyone would be disciplined for the racial slander. There are two reasons why. They tell much about why the Post, Murdoch's media empire, and shock jocks can get away with demeaning gays, blacks, Latinos Asians, Muslims, and women and skip away with a caressing hand slap.
One is that these guys ramp up ratings and that make media syndicates such as Fox and the Post's cash registers jingle.
The other reason is that it's virtually impossible to effectively muzzle cartoonists such as Sean Delonas and others that draw or talk race trash is the sphinx like silence of top politicians, broadcast industry leaders, and corporate sponsors.
Sharpton, Spike Lee, and a handful of local New York politicians led the charge against the Post, but that's pretty much where it ended. The problem of the silence or perfunctory belated criticism by higher ups to racial taunts surfaced a few years ago following then Senate Majority leader designate Trent Lott's veiled tout of segregation. It touched off a furor, and ultimately Lott stepped down from the post, but it took nearly a week for Bush to make a stumbling, and weak sounding disavowal of him. The silence from top politicians and industry leaders to public racism was even more deafening a few of years ago when former Reagan Secretary of Education William Bennett made his weird taunt that aborting black babies could reduce crime. Even as calls were made from the usual circles almost always blacks and liberal Democrats for an apology, or his firing from his syndicated national radio show, neither Bush or any other top GOP leader said a mumbling word about Bennett.
There's another reason for their silence. The last two decades many Americans have become much too comfortable using code language to bash and denigrate blacks. In the 1970s, the vocabulary of covert racially loaded terms included terms such as "law and order," "crime in the streets," "permissive society," "welfare cheats," "subculture of violence," "subculture of poverty," "culturally deprived" and "lack of family values" seeped into the American lexicon about blacks. Some politicians seeking to exploit white racial fears routinely tossed about these terms.
In the 1980s new terms such as "crime prone," "war zone," "gang infested," "crack plagued," "drug turfs," "drug zombies," "violence scarred," "ghetto outcasts" and "ghetto poverty syndrome" were shoved into public discourse. These were covert racial code terms for blacks and they further reinforced the negative image of young black males as dope dealers, drive by shooters, and educational cripples. And the image of young black women as a dysfunctional collection of B's and "hos," welfare queens, and baby makers.
Obama is hardly exempt from this irresponsible race tinged character assault. The non-stop whisper and slander campaign against President Obama by packs of bloggers, talk jocks, and even a senator on the legitimacy of his US citizenship is a case in point.
The loud demands will continue that Murdoch back up his kind of sort of apology with real action. But he won't. There's simply too much money in racial trash talk (and cartooning), and too much silence from the higher ups that send a tacit signal condoning it. That silence is Murdoch's ultimate trump card.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson is an author and political analyst. His new book is How Obama Won (Middle Passage Press, January 2009).
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Canadian Millennials Can't Get Enough of Asia
The rise of Asia and Canada-Asia relations are no longer topics that only interest diplomats and investors.
Recently, The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada released a National Opinion Poll on Canadian Millennial views on Asia. An overwhelming response showed a positive view of Asia by this young generation.
Millennials is a word used to describe the age group of people aged 18 to 34 years old. This generation of Canadians is not homogenous in terms of their views on Asia; however, their views are quite different from those of older generations. This national poll found that distinct views are held by millennials aged 18-24, 25-34, and Canadians aged 35+. Younger millennials are more positive and engaged with Asia than Canadians aged 35+. Interestingly enough, the views of each millennial group were connected to the way in which they receive information about Asia.
The study also found that all generations have a China-centric mental image of Asia. 7 in 10 Canadians think of China when hearing the word "Asia" (Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 2017).
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The study also found that millennials are also more economically and global minded with respect to Canada's foreign relations with Asia. In total, 64% of all Canadians express a desire to learn more about Asia.
Here is a breakdown of how increasingly involved Canadian millennials are involved with Asia:
67% of millennials are willing to work in Asia for career advancement
39% of the engaged generation have frequent interaction with people from Asia
32% of millennials travelled to Asia in the last decade
23% of the learning generation can speak an Asian language
Media platforms also play a big role in how Canadian millennials view Asia. For young millennials, those aged 35 and under, social media and websites are the primary sources of information about Asia. As for Canadians aged 35+, they rely more on traditional media such as print media, television, and radio.
At Choice Communication, we're not surprised that there is so much enthusiasm about Asia and specifically China by Canadian millennials. As a public relations firm connecting Chinese companies with Western markets and Western companies with Chinese markets for more than 20 years, we're excited to hear that young Canadians are incredibly open with Canada's foreign relations with Asia.
To read the full National Opinion Poll on Canadian Millennial views on Asia, click here.


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September 4th, 2018 – Following the release of the Highlights album in July, which included 40 minutes of favorite musical moments hand-picked by composer Dave Porter, Spacelab9, in conjunction with Madison Gate Records, presents the BREAKING BAD: Original Score From The Television Series (Deluxe Edition Four LP Box Set), coming September 28th. Featuring 46 tracks clocking in at over 150 minutes, this monumental set is the ultimate vinyl collection of score music from BREAKING BAD. The comprehensive collection, commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Emmy® Award-winning series, features every score track previously released from the series and is a must-have for all die-hard fans.
The packaging for the BREAKING BAD: Original Score From The Television Series (Deluxe Edition Four LP Box Set) includes stunning original comic book-style artwork on a quad-fold jacket, plus a full-color insert featuring detailed track-by-track commentary from series composer Dave Porter, all housed in a hard-bound slip cover. Hitting store shelves on September 14th and available exclusively from FYE, this set is sure to be as in-demand as its namesake as the pressing is limited to 1,000 units on "Blue Sky" meth blue vinyl. Fans will want to visit their local FYE or pre-order online HERE to ensure that they get their copy while supplies last!
Considered by many to be one of the greatest television series of all time, BREAKING BAD saw its viewership continually increase over the series' run thanks in part to overwhelming positive word of mouth, culminating with the series finale which was watched by over ten million viewers. BREAKING BAD also won numerous awards, including 16 Primetime Emmy® Awards and two Golden Globes®, and was named one of the best-written TV series of all time by the Writers Guild of America.
The track listing for BREAKING BAD: Original Score From The Television Series (Deluxe Edition Four LP Box Set) is as follows:
1. Breaking Bad Main Title Theme (Extended) (1:15)
2. Matches in the Pool (2:06)
3. Smoking Jesse's Pot (2:00)
4. The Bike Lock (1:50)
5. Gray Matter (3:08)
6. The Missing Piece (1:37)
7. The Morning After (2:23)
8. Breaking Bad Season One End Credits (0:33)
9. Walt Bandages His Leg (1:36)
10. You're All They Talk About (2:21)
11. Follicles (1:25)
12. Vent (1:33)
13. Three Days Out (3:01)
14. Baby's Coming (4:08)
15. Jane's Demise (2:18)
16. The Cousins (3:25)
17. Hank in Pursuit (3:49)
18. 308 Negra Arroyo Lane (1:23)
19. The Long Walk Alone (Heisenberg's Theme) (3:13)
20. Eyeball in the Drawer (1:43)
21. Searching for Jesse (2:21)
22. Aztek (2:38)
23. Four Corners / Waiting for the End (4:11)
24. Jesse in Mexico (3:52)
25. Salud (2:58)
26. Crawl Space (3:32)
27. Breaking Bad "Sunset" End Credits (1:41)
28. Building a Bomb (1:30)
29. Parking Garage Standoff (3:23)
30. Cleaning House (1:46)
31. Magnets (2:12)
32. Dead Freight (9:02)
33. Disassemble (3:22)
34. Radiator (2:20)
35. White House Visit (2:07)
36. Almost Alaska (1:42)
37. Fumes (3:14)
38. Gas Can Rage (3:29)
39. Circling the Square (4:14)
40. To'hajiilee (3:56)
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41. Breaking Bad Main Title Theme (10th Anniversary Remix) (5:00)
42. Hank's Last Stand (2:26)
43. Chained Dog (3:14)
44. We're a Family (1:39)
45. The Final Hat (2:12)
46. Dimple Pinch Neat (2:24)
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Pulling into The Forresters on Friday night, the place was rammed. Luckily my intention was traipsing up the stairs to Queenie's, their Jamaican-inspired domain. Cute-as-a-button waitresses wearing eclectic combinations of braids, hair wraps and tropical shorts were quick to make us feel at home.


Dickens Towers is a charming condo community located south of Ventura Boulevard and within walking distance of stores and restaurants in the heart of Sherman Oaks, California. Built in 1965, Dickens Towers is comprised of 29 luxury units. This community offers floor plans that feature engineered wood floors, plantation shutters, walk-in closets, spacious balconies, and gourmet kitchens. Residents are drawn to Dickens Towers because of the fantastic amenities, the prime location, and the low HOA dues. It's also a short distance to public schools, grocery stores, banks, public transportation, farmer's markets, fitness clubs, and freeway access. This complex offers a community swimming pool, pet friendly policies, and earthquake insurance.
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Originally built in 1965, this 1-story home sits on a 21,565 square foot lot.


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Municipal-election
City of Wetaskiwin Municipal Election results finalized
Councillors were sworn into council Monday Oct. 25, 2021.
by Shaela Dansereau
New County of Wetaskiwin Council is sworn in
County of Wetaskiwin Municipal Election results were finalized on Oct. 22, 2o21.
Incumbent Tyler Gandam elected to second term as City of Wetaskiwin Mayor
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But He Looked Good on Paper
Out of necessity, tech startups are changing the way workers are screened and hired.
By Jill Priluck
Aug 27, 20103:34 PM
Web start-ups are having a hard time hiring good programmers.
When Michael Glukhovsky and Slava Akhmechet, the founders of RethinkDB, a database technology startup that changes how people store and access data, received $1.2 million in funding earlier this year, they began looking for their first employee. They turned to job boards. They recruited from their site. They tried to poach talent. They even wrote a blog post on their hiring woes and entered the how-to fray.
Their efforts didn't end there. They briefed a recruiter on their complex technology, but ultimately that was a waste of time—and dollars. And in four months, the hundreds of resumes, dozens of phone screens, and numerous four-hour meetings with viable candidates yielded no one who fit their criteria. So they started their company with students and post-grads eager to tackle a computer-science problem rather than become founding members at a startup.
Unemployment is chronic in much of the country, but in Silicon Valley, employees have their pick of jobs. In an economic climate that is the near converse of a recession, talent is scarce and star programmers have the upper hand. Pressured to solve the dull hiring puzzle, founders have started reconfiguring the way people get jobs. The result? Americans, more and more, will find work not via recruiters, job boards, and resumes, but by showcasing themselves online and undergoing less subjective automated assessments.
After funding, hiring is by far the biggest headache for startups. Ironically, despite a glut of skilled and unskilled workers, in northern California, available developers who know what they are doing are as rare as mosquitoes in winter. When companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook drain the field, startups can't compete. At the same, young businesses are central to creating many of the nation's jobs. But when an entity like Craigslist employs just 30 people, compared with the thousands of employees at any Fortune 500 company, it's clear that, as the economy shifts to computer screens and more people are hired at startups, the new methods they introduce will stick.
Recruiters, who have transformed the corporate hiring landscape for the past 20 years, are touted for their ability to sift through candidates. But as more jobs require sitting in front of a screen, many recruiters are in a technology fog, which alienates gifted candidates. While they can ask potential hires whether they know certain programs, recruiters in the technology space often can't assess what the applicants know. "They can't tell the difference between the competent ones and the stars," said Paul Graham, founder of Y Combinator, an early stage venture firm in Mountain View, Calif.
In a hiring climate in which companies find talented workers by seeing how they already perform, the RethinkDB founders turned to sites like Github.com and stackoverflow.com, where programmers collaborate and work on special projects. "You can see the code being written and how technically accurate they are," said Glukhovsky, who inhabits a world where 95 percent of coders can't complete basic computer-science tasks. Now, a few months from releasing their first product, RethinkDB is up to six people, a mix of full-timers and interns, both senior and junior.
Video is another underused tool. Screening candidates between the resume and the interview can help solve the "looks good on paper" problem, in which someone appears for an interview and it is clear that the candidate isn't right for the job. A handful of Bay Area startups, such as Airbnb, a person-to-person site for finding a place to stay while traveling, have started using HireHive, a Y Combinator-funded company that offers monthly plans to pre-screen applicants on video. Another startup, RoundPegg, funded by TechStars, a seed-stage investment firm, assesses how a candidate will fit into the culture of a workplace. A series of short surveys and analysis by an organizational psychologist can tell the hirer whether an applicant will have a problem with the manager or team.
Some of the intricacies of hiring in Silicon Valley are unique to the coding world, but companies increasingly rely on tools beyond the resume and interview. Job seekers are already told to create SEO-friendly resumes, but when established firms like Manpower use video to assess a candidate's bilingual skills, it suggests that these new models will proliferate.
Ultimately, while large companies can afford to hire someone who isn't quite right, even if it can be a nuisance, it usually isn't a catastrophe for the entity. Startups can't. The existence of the entity is riding on the people they bring into the fold. And because startups will be the employers who help drive the recovery, it also means that as more stringent tests for who is suitable become mainstream, candidates who can't pass the rigors will be left behind.
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