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Singer-Songwriter Tim Heidecker (You Heard Right) Messes With David Crosby
Tim Heidecker discusses writing about his life, the joys of Randy Newman, and his unexpected feud with Diplo.
Cara Robbins
It's now been well over a decade since Tim Heidecker first appeared in the middle of the night on Cartoon Network, painting gruesome images of rancid small-town sauce buffets and soon after, cable-access-marketed devices to help you poop standing up, with his college friend and committed partner-in-crime, Eric Wareheim.
Music was always a touchstone of the duo's comedy, from Jefferton's Bassfest and the seductive saxman of Tom Goes to the Mayor, to the Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!'s "Jazz Sessions,", Zwei Dunkel Jungen, Pusswhip Banggang and so much more. Heidecker often co-composed the bits with friend and multi-instrumentalist Davin Wood, with whom he released two slightly farcical, retro-minded rock albums in 2011 or 2013 as Heidecker and Wood.
Much has been made of the newfound "serious"-ness of the now-40-year-old Heidecker's new full-length solo jaunt on Foxygen member Jonathan Rado's record label, In Glendale. There's still plenty of humor and tongue-in-cheek references on the album, but most fans are used to the comedian posting compilations of Herman Cain campaign songs or drinking urine; scroll a few entries back on his Soundcloud, you'll find a "Mary Jane's Last Dance"-like dirge mourning the fact that Wild Hogs never got a sequel.
On In Glendale, on the other hand, Heidecker details the subtler idiosyncrasies of human relationships ("Good Looking Babies") and lying around the house ("Work from Home"), while interspersing some some pangs of existential dread ("I Saw Nicolas Cage") and murder ("Ghost in my Bed").
But Heidecker's contemplative, 1970s-indebted folk-pop project is just another experiment among so many in his prolific career — he's now five major TV shows, countless more films, web series and one-off video/music projects in — not the hairpin turn it might appear to be at first listen. Inverse met with Heidecker during a recent trip to New York City to talk about how the album fits into his trajectory, and why he's been comfortable Rango'ing the world a little less lately.
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I watched your new episode of "What's in My Bag?" for Amoeba Records, after spending some time with the album, and it seems we share a favorite Randy Newman record [1974's Good Old Boys] and song ["A Wedding in Cherokee County"]. What speaks to you about that music?
For a long time, I just knew The Natural soundtrack, "I Love L.A.," "Short People," that stuff. I always felt bad that I hadnt dug deep enough. I was reading this memoir that E from the Eels wrote — great fucking book — and he talks about listening to Good Old Boys every day. When a guy that you respect drops something like that you're like, "Alright, I'm going in."
That takes you down the rabbit hole. I think [Harry Nilsson's Newman cover album] Nilsson Sings Newman gets you in too; that's a little more ear-friendly at first. But Good Old Boys is the perfect blend. The playing is so choice, some songs are funny, the concept is perfect. It's hard to put into words.
On In Glendale — or your song from the perspective of Trump's private pilot — there are some Newman-esque narrators: unreliable, with an ambiguous backstory. The album seems to be a give and take between that and things in your real life.
Putting those kind of contrasts in there was important to me. But I dont think too hard about it. I heard Rivers Cuomo in an interview the other day — and I thought he took it a little too far — saying that doesn't know what his songs are about, and the journey of learning what they are about later on. That's kind of a cop-out for some of his later works. But my stuff can really be stream-of-consciousness, and then you jigger it a little bit to the place where you're happy with. Just having fun with language and misdirection — that can all happen in songs, just like it does in comedy.
I just realized, like [on the title track], "The air in the mountains of Colorado is fine." I definitely didn't think of it, but that's clever, because its like thin air; it's "fine." It's just luck, but I'll take it.
You've described the album as dealing with "the less talked-about parts of life." How is that different than what you've done before musically, or in comedy, and why does it speak to you right now? Why is that new?
Eric and I would both probably say this for a long time, we made a very clear decision to not really talk about our personal lives and be kind of in character in the way we present ourselves. Over the past few years, that's been chipping away naturally, because maybe it's not as amusing to us anymore, or we're just doing press for things where it's not relevant. When I was promoting [Rich Alverson's Heidecker-starring black-comedic drama] The Comedy, it was like, I'm just going to be straightforward here. I'm not going to put one over on you.
I also felt for years like I didn't really have anything that I wanted to say that was connected to my personal life. But with my baby, and getting a little older and more reflective, there were ideas that felt valuable, worthwhile to share.
I got these three tweets from this guy who was like "My wife just had a baby, and I went home, and In Glendale was waiting for me in my email. And I went to the backyard to clean up the dog shit, literally, and that song comes on ["Cleaning Up the Dog Shit"], and I was like "Fuck!" So maybe my audience to some degree is getting a little older, and going through the same kinds of things.
So how did you get from working on demos with Jonathan Rado, to assembling that big [10-piece] band?
The Heidecker and Wood records were all overdubs, just two guys, Davin playing mostly everything… I was like "I don't want to do that again. I don't want to be hunched over somebody's shoulder at a laptop for months.
I was listening to this box set of Van Morrisons Moondance, which was a record that was very meaningful for me as a kid, but it gets like… you've played it too many times. It's hard to hear it with fresh ears, but I could with the different takes and different versions. It blew me away that that was five guys in a room, playing the same instruments the whole time — a little horn section, a couple backing singers. It sounds like one band — same players, same instincts. That's what I wanted to do.
Were there particular touchstones for the production — that big, strummy '70s Los Angeles sound?
Warren Zevon's first couple records — even more so his first record — are just beautiful. Fleetwood Mac, probably — the way those records sound, you don't get better than that. We probably listened to Randy, Nilsson. Double-track the acoustic guitars, always.
Speaking of L.A. musicians, can you explain your relationship with David Crosby?
I love Crosby, Stills and Nash. I love Déjà Vu; I think those are great records. But Crosby's songs were never my favorites, out of those. I really like Stephen Stills; Graham Nash's songs are classic. But like, "Guinevere?" Skip. "Wooden Ships? Skip. "Almost Cut my Hair"? Skip.
I think he's obviously a big old dick. I think he's always been a big old dick, from what I understand. But then on Twitter, he's hilarious, because he's bashing stuff we always hated. He's like, "The Doors always sucked." I was like, thats pretty neat to hear. "Mike Love is the worst guy Ive ever met," you know.
Vic Berger and I started hassling him, and then once somebody starts to react to that, you're like, "Oh well, now this is going to be my new favorite pastime." It's all in good fun, but I enjoy sending him inane, stupid questions. He gets so pissed. It's become this weird relationship. We tried to get him on Decker, but he was unavailable.
It's funny that Crosby and Gene Simmons have started inhabiting this kind of a similar corner, going on record bashing Kanye and hip-hop and stuff.
You can just picture him up in his mansion or wherever it is — probably Santa Barbara. He's got probably a glass of wine and a joint, and he's on his laptop, and his wife's gone to bed, and it's like, "This is what David Crosby's up to now."
Seems like he just doesn't like modern music.
I mean, I can relate to that. I don't like much modern music.
Are there any artists who inspire you, or is it all just not for you?
I'm mostly not into it. I don't like electronic music. I really figured out it just makes me feel bad, or it's annoying. I like the organic sounds of real instruments, and I've come to accept that. I've tried to embrace certain things. I like the Talking Heads, and they certainly went into that dance music area. But for the most part, just that aggressive drum and bass… there's never a place in my life where I am looking for that, you know?
I guess some of it's in fun…good for dancing, and doing drugs, you know. Can't get into hip-hop, can't get into… dream-pop [laughs].
Speaking of pop music, what was the joke you Tweeted that started a feud with Diplo?
"The Three Stooges."
It started because of that New York Times interview video with Bieber, Skrillex, and him, right?
I opened up Twitter [and saw the video] and was like, "Oh, look, it's the Three Stooges." It was very pretentious, as maybe they didn't intend. But [Diplo] is a little bitch; he got so uptight about it. Weirdly I was sitting with Eric, who knows him, and Eric was getting texts from him, like, "What's with Tim? Why is he being a dick about this?" And Eric's like, "Dude, of course he's going to make fun of you. Who do you think he is? If you're gonna be that guy, you gotta know thats coming."
And he's like tweeting pictures of himself in a stadium at me, like "Look at me, bitch!" I don't get it, but who am I to say what's good?
Some of those responses were like real life Jim and Derrick stuff.
Hopefully some of my general audience is going to feel empowered by that exchange. Somebody might be watching and being like, "Is this what's cool now? Is this okay?" If I chime in and say, "This is lame," maybe this makes [them] feel less alone or something.
You've mentioned that you're working on an album of breakup songs.
I'll play you a couple of these. Here are the titles [reads off of a playlist on his phone] I Don't Think About You Much Anymore," "I'm Not Good Enough," Insomnia," "Life's Too Long," "Sometimes It Happens This Way," "What the Broken-Hearted Do," "When I Get Up, All I Want to Do is Go to Bed Again," "When the Angels Come For Me."
[Heidecker plays a piano-and-vocal demo: Burt Bacharach-y, with a lot of high, soulful vocal flourishes. "I'll drink whatever you're drinking/I'll do whatever you're thinking," he wails on the chorus. "I think I could fall in love with someone like you."]
Jonathan and I were thinking, let's literally get ['70s-famous L.A. studio musicians], like, Jim Keltner and Leland Sklar, and make it a really minimal piano, drum, bass, a little guitar. Intimate.
Leland Sklar, recently
I put a little work into the production on this one, kinda like the way it sounds.
["When I Get Up, All I Want to Do is Go to Bed Again" is folk-rock driven by a deft falsetto and Heidecker's own simple, lo-fi drum part.]
[as the song ends] Fade out, of course.
A great device not in use enough anymore.
If you listen to Pet Sounds, almost every song on that record fades out.
Is your wife like, "Why are you writing all these breakup songs?"
I took a week and was like, "I'm just going to tell her about this now," and was like, "Look, I'm writing all these songs. It's not about us." She said, "I get it, it's cool."
This interview has been edited for brevity and clarity.
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The Penn State community participated in a 24-hour long marathon reading of Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, co-sponsored by CALS.
On Thursday, September 13, the Center for American Literary Studies co-sponsored a Marathon Read of Joseph Heller's Catch 22 (other co-sponsors included the College of the Liberal Arts, the University Libraries, the Department of English, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Paterno Fellows Program, and the Center for Democratic Deliberation). For twenty-four hours, students, faculty, staff, and community members took turns reading five-minute sections of the book aloud. The tent filled for the kickoff reader, Sue Paterno, and a devoted crowd remained throughout the night.
Catch 22 was a fitting subject for the Marathon Read, as Joseph Heller began writing the book while he was an instructor at Penn State. A sign celebrating his work, along with the work of Penn State novelist John Barth, can be found outside of Burrowes building on campus.
Part of the event's purpose was to unite two parts of the campus not always viewed as working in harmony--athletics and academics. "Proud to Celebrate Penn State Academics" signs hung alongside the already present "Proud to Support Penn State Football" signs," reminding viewers that the university is both academic and athletic, a site of many great things.
The event opened with an illustrious group of Penn State readers--after Sue Paterno kicked the event off, she was closely followed by Dean Susan Welch and Penn State women's volleyball coach Russ Rose. Throughout the event's two days, the reading continued to feature an eclectic mix of professors, administrators, coaches, graduate students, student athletes (including members of the men's and women's basketball teams, as well as the women's volleyball team), undergraduates, and community members. This variety of voices propelled the event forward for twenty-four hours of readings.
Upon hearing about the event, the first reaction of many people I spoke to was to ask, "Why?" Why on earth would you set up a tent in the middle of campus for two days to read Joseph Heller aloud? But the event--the hundreds of readers, the much larger number of passersby and listeners, the people walking through town during the event and after wearing "I read, Did you?" commemorative t-shirts, the space in which indeed we could celebrate literature and academics out loud--seemed to speak for itself. The Marathon Reading served to remind us of the power of public literature, of the moment in which an audience members asks "What is this?" and then "Can I read?." Now, the only question is what to read next year...
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Q: rChartsCalendar: Setting programmatically the nested json attributes to configure the calendar chart The standard example of the rChartsCalendar works with defaults of the JS calendar as shown in http://kamisama.github.io/cal-heatmap/
The example code below works fine:
dat <- read.csv('http://t.co/mN2RgcyQFc')[,c('date', 'pts')]

library(rChartsCalendar)
r1 <- plotCalMap(x = 'date', y = 'pts',
             data = dat,
             domain = 'month',
             start = "2012-10-27",
             legend = seq(10, 50, 10),
             itemName = 'point',
             range = 7
)

The problem comes when I try to set nested attributes in R, for example to define the position and the offset of the label. In HTML / JS it would be as easy as writing following code, but how can I define from R the values for the offset for the label?
var cal = new CalHeatMap();
cal.init({
    itemSelector: "#label-d",
    domain: "day",
    range: 2,
    displayLegend: false,
    label: {
        position: "right",
        width: 46,
        offset: {x: 10, y: 30}
    }
});

I tried using the method set and passing the json piece as string, but then it gets rendered with the quotes in HTML/JS, which obviously doesn't work
r1$set(label="{position: 'left', width: 110, offset: { x: 20, y: 12  }   }")

A: Update: I got it working using a combination of "c" and "list" as follows:
label= c( list(position = 'left'),list( width = 110),list(offset = list (x=20,y=30))),

It's not very straight away, but I felt like sharing it because it took me a lot of time

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SLIDESHOW (from left): Ryan and Diana with the Pioneers, Rinisa and Anthony; Ryan and Diana taking turns enjoying the abandoned bench seat at the studio; Diana's first time sitting in the food truck; the winning team with the panel of judges (Steak, Alpana and Drew).
When Ryan and I first got married in 2012, we never thought that a year later we would be competing on a Cooking Channel TV show to win a food truck (and actually win it!). Food has always been our shared passion and it's been our dream to someday open up our own restaurant. The Peaches' food truck is kind of like our little restaurant on wheels!
Filming Food Truck Face Off truly was a fantastic experience, and we came out not only with our own business, but with some great friends. What they didn't show in the final, edited version of the show was how well we got along with our competitors. In fact, we are still in touch with Rinisa and Anthony and are planning a trip to visit them in Lancaster for a reunion cook-out!
Looking back, in the short time that we filmed Food Truck Face Off, we learned a lot about working together and about the food truck business-- stuff that we'll need in order to be successful. We can't be grateful enough to the folks who have tuned in to support us and the show! The encouraging messages you've sent us are much-needed as we embark on this next adventure of being food truck owners!
In fact, we officially launched Peaches' Smokehouse and Southern Kitchen last week and sold out of food at the Way Over Yonder festival on the Santa Monica Pier! Even after we ran out of bread, folks were asking for pulled pork on a plate.... and then when we ran out of plates, they asked us to serve them BBQ on sheets of bakery paper!
Ryan and I want to continue to make you all (or, as he would say, y'all) happy with the food that we love and enjoy preparing for you guys. We hope you can come visit us soon! Don't forget to follow us @peachestruck on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, where we post our location, news and fun giveaways!


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…as a kid we lived 2800 miles from the nearest relative therefore Thanksgiving was not about gathering with extended family, however my parents always had house full for the meal. My dad served as the Academic Dean of a small college in California. The staff and students were from various parts of the country or other countries, which made it impossible for them to travel to their family homes in a short period of time.
Each year leading up to Thanksgiving my parents would survey the staff and students to discover who had no place to spend the day. It was then the invitations were communicated and many accepted for Thanksgiving dinner at our home.
Today's Thanksgiving was different and revolved around extended family. But from my parents example of generosity I learned the true spirit of the holiday.


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Barr Memo Clearing Trump Shows the Mainstream Media to be Hysterical Ninnies
Two senior Justice Department officials wrote a memo to Attorney General William Barr in March 2019 stating why the former president of the United States should not be charged with obstruction.
This memo, which was never released before, shows that all of the hysterical speculation and all the confident predictions about Trump's being frog-marched off into prison, all the completely off-base "analysis" about the obstruction case against Donald Trump is just cow manure.
Although Trump's decision to remove him from obstruction is well documented, the memo that was recently disclosed provides additional information about how the two department's top-most leaders came to this conclusion. This was notable because Robert Mueller, the special counsel who led the Russia investigation declined to determine whether Trump had obstructed justice in his 448-page report, but pointed out that he did not absolve Trump.
Mueller would have been in trouble if Trump had absolved him. He decided to pass the ball to the AG knowing that it would be viewed as a partisan act to clear Trump.
Mueller's report only cited 10 cases of obstruction. One of these instances was surely prosecutable.
The Mueller Report examined 10 instances where Trump reacted or injected himself in the Russia investigation. These include Trump's May 2017 firing as FBI director James Comey, his request three months prior to Comey to end an investigation into Michael Flynn, his subsequent attempts to fire Mueller.
The memo was signed by Steven Engel and Edward O'Callaghan. They stated that none of the acts constitutes criminal obstruction of justice. They also said that evidence suggests that Trump took these steps "not for an illicit purpose" but because they believed that the investigation was politically motivated, and that it would hinder his ability to govern.
Trump saw the events surrounding him as a political witch-hunt. This was cited as the primary reason Trump should not be charged for a crime in the memo.
The memo states that "after the President gave his direction in each instance, the orders weren't carried out." "Officially, an act can be considered an attempt or an effort, even if it fails. The fact that the President could have issued these instructions himself and didn't remove any subordinates for failing to follow his directions is a strong argument against the notion of intent to obstruct justice.
They claimed that Trump's facts were not consistent with previous obstruction cases. They stated that Mueller cited most obstruction cases in which there was an inherently wrong effort to conceal or destroy evidence or to hinder an investigation into an underlying crime. They wrote that such factors are not present here.
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Biden Picks Secretary Of State, People For Top Cabinet, White House Posts
WILMINGTON, DE - SEPTEMBER 24: Democratic candidate for president, former Vice President Joe Biden makes remarks about the DNI Whistleblower Report as well as President Trumps ongoing abuse of power at the Hotel DuPont on September 24, 2019 in Wilmington, Delaware. (Photo by William Thomas Cain/Getty Images)
Joe Biden also nominated the first Latino ever, Cuba-born lawyer Alejandro Mayorkas, to lead the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration.
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US President-elect Joe Biden announced on Monday key figures for his cabinet, picking longtime foreign policy advisor Antony Blinken to be his secretary of state and former US chief diplomat John Kerry as his special climate envoy.
Biden also nominated the first Latino ever, Cuba-born lawyer Alejandro Mayorkas, to lead the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees immigration.
He picked Avril Haines, the former deputy CIA director, as his director of national intelligence, the first woman to ever hold that position.
Biden also said that long-time diplomat Linda Thomas-Greenfield will be nominated to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations, with status as a cabinet member.
And Jake Sullivan, who was a security aide to Biden when he was vice president, was appointed white House national security advisor.
All are veterans of the former 2009-2017 Obama-Biden administration, and deeply experienced in their fields.
Kerry, who was secretary of state from 2013 to 2017 and signed the Paris climate accord in 2015 on behalf of the United States — only to see President Donald Trump withdraw from it — will be made a member of the national security council, the first time the council has had a specialist on climate change, Biden's office said.
Mayorkas, a former federal prosecutor, was director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services and then DHS deputy secretary under president Barack Obama.
Sullivan was director of the Policy Planning Staff at the State department and deputy chief of staff to secretary of state Hillary Clinton, and was a lead negotiator in the early talks for the Iran nuclear deal that Trump withdrew from.
"We have no time to lose when it comes to our national security and foreign policy," Biden said in a statement."These individuals are equally as experienced and crisis-tested as they are innovative and imaginative," he said.
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Capita in exclusive talks to sell education unit
Outsourcing giant Capita has revealed it is in exclusive talks with private equity house Montagu over a possible sale of its education platform division.
Capita announced in the summer that it wants to sell its Education Software Solutions (ESS) arm to reduce its debts but has so far failed to attract a high enough bid.
The company said on Friday: "Capita confirms it has entered into exclusive talks with Montagu over the potential sale of ESS.
"There can be no certainty that a sale will be concluded nor any certainty over the terms of any such sale."
The firm's Sims (School Information Management System) platform is used in 21,000 schools across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and speculation had initially suggested it could be valued at £700 million.
However, the entire Capita business is currently only worth around £750 million, based on current share prices.
According to reports last month, Capita received interest from investment firms Bain Capital, TPG and CVC Capital Partners but all three balked at the high price being asked for ESS.
Capita is best-known for overseeing licence fee collections for the BBC and running the Government's universal benefits systems.


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Caricature Types
By: Mel Candea Updated September 15, 2017
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List of Modern Art Styles
Caricatures have been a part of humor and a reflection of human behavior for centuries. The simple lines manage to capture personalities into easily recognizable drawings. They've been used to mock, to tease, to compliment and to entertain. Here are the different types of caricatures used through the years.
The Original Caricature
The first caricatures were created by Italian artists. According to the Gombrich Archive, amateur artists challenged each other to take what was considered to be beautiful art, such as Renaissance portraiture, and show the personality with just a few pen strokes. The idea was inspired by the Italian artists, the Carracis, after whom the word caricature is named.
Satirical Caricatures
Satirical caricatures were inspired by from politics. The posters and fliers mock the opposing viewpoint, make political statements and are crude or impolite. Satirical caricatures exaggerate either the strongest or the weakest features of the person, typically a politician.
Grotesque Caricatures
Grotesque caricatures make fun of abstract ideas and abstract art. The idea behind "the grotesque" is to over-complicate the simplified. The images are often tongue-in-cheek, or very ironic. They take iconic ideas that are dream-like standards, and twist the images. An easily recognizable painting gets either reversed or slightly modified to create humor.
Modern Caricature
Modern caricature started in the 1940s and went into a new direction: It was tasteful and sometimes not just artistic but beautiful. The function of the latest caricatures aren't just as humor, but as an art movement in their own right. The ISCA (International Society of Caricature Artists) was created by Wallace "Buddy" Rose in 1989. Many of today's caricature artists do impromtu art on the street or for gatherings.
The Principles of Caricature
International Society of Caricature Artists
Mel Candea has been writing for 15 years, with a B.L.A. acquired in-between. She has been published in several magazines, including "Harriet" and "Everyguys." Her online work has been extensive, with experience in copywriting, creative writing and researching.
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Bartering (A True Story from my Book, "Rescue the Stories Book Two"
Trade, exchange, negotiate, haggle these are words used to explain that bartering is simply giving and receiving.
We had a friend, from our church, named John, who would often ask my husband to help him in his enterprises. John had two brothers and two sisters. Their mother was a widow, so the five young children gained work after school and week end jobs to help the family budget. The boys in their teens would take on painting work, the girls baby sitting, or selling products.
John later became a baker working in a bakery at night. This gave him freedom to earn money in other ways during the day.
One day John asked my husband to help him purchase small trailers and fix them up. I had some drapery remnants and sewed some curtains for the windows, and Robert painted the insides. John would place the trailers in a friend's mobile home park, and rent them out. World War II military men were especially happy to have a reasonable priced place to house their family as they were shipped out over seas.
John began to save his money and purchase houses in his neighborhood for low down payments, and the rent would pay for the mortgage. Some of the houses were from Estate sales, and often there was furniture or other items left in the homes. John asked Robert to help him paint inside the homes prior to renting them.
One year John sold Christmas trees and asked my hubby to lend a hand. For all the labor, we did during several years; we did not receive any monetary gain. However during that time, John helped us paint inside our home that was for sale; he gave us a Christmas tree, an older Cadillac car, an upright piano, and a 30 year old dining room table and six matching chairs.
John noticed that we were using a picnic table and benches for our dining room, and I suppose that is why he decided to give us the beautiful table made from maple wood.
While at first I did not appreciate my table, I learned to be rather fond of it, and to enjoy the fact that the two end extensions would enable us to serve a large group of family and friends.
Bartering is often something done between club members, or between friends. There are bartering groups that trade professional services for a variety of other services.
God was the Apex of bartering, when He proclaimed, I will give the World my Son to save them from their Sins, and I will ask in return that they will give me their life. That is quite an exchange; our old sinful life in exchange for His new Eternal Life.
John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
I smiled reading this Aunt Hazel. Life is not all about doing things for monetary gains! It is a blessing reading this because I shared with my husband a similar experience I had early this morning. It is good to help others out not necessarily because we have something to gain but because we really want to help those people out.
I appreciate you dear Aunt Hazel.
What a beautiful story. I like the idea of bartering and of blessing those around us with what we are able to give. I am thankful for a group of friends that gives freely of their time and talents. I think a lot of bloggers do an informal type of bartering too. We don't negotiate a trade, but we do freely give and receive from each-other. I think this is one reason I enjoy these blogging communities so much.
Thank you for another great link-up. What a great story too!
I kinda miss that old bartering system. It speaks to me of a time when neighbors and friends helped each other out more. In this current culture, it seems that we're all seeking to accumulate things, but not always as cognizant of giving our time and energies to help others.
Couldn't agree more that the "Deal of a Lifetime" is what God made happen. The Son, the Cross, for our salvation. Our lives, our surrender, for eternity.
Yup, we are definitely the winners in that trade!!
I remember this story. I love it! Great experience for you guys and wisdom of the reminder of the greatest Barterer of all.


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Fugitive Slave (1)
Open Section Society and Social Change (7)
Open Section Civics and Philanthropy (5)
Open Section Political Activism and Reform Movements (2)
Temperance Movement Leader (1)
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1400–1774: The Age of Exploration and the Colonial Era (7)
1866–1876: Reconstruction (2)
1877–1928: The Age of Segregation and the Progressive Era (2)
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Artrell, William Middleton
David M. Fahey
temperance reformer, federal customs official, and educator, was born William Middleton Artrell, of one quarter African and three quarters European ancestry, at Nassau in the Bahamas. There Artrell benefited from a basic education on the British model, acquired experience as a schoolteacher, and became a staunch Episcopalian.
During the American Civil War the Bahamas prospered as a result of services to blockade runners, who transported British cargo in the short but dangerous voyage between the Bahamas and the Confederate coast. When the war ended, however, economic depression forced many Bahamians to seek work in the United States. In 1870 Artrell migrated to Key West, at that time a major port in Florida. Unlike most African Americans in the South, he had never been a slave. In 1870 Key West opened the Douglass School for African American children Artrell became its first principal and as a result he was sometimes ...
Bruce, Henry Clay
Diane Mutti Burke
author of a slave narrative, was born to slave parents in Prince Edward County, Virginia. The Lemuel Bruce family, including Pettis and Rebecca (Bruce) Perkinson, owned Henry Bruce and his mother and siblings. Bruce's many siblings included his younger brother, Blanche Kelso Bruce, the senator from Mississippi from 1875 to 1881.
Bruce spent most of his early childhood years on plantations and farms in Virginia, Missouri, and—briefly—Mississippi. Pettis Perkinson brought Bruce, his mother, and siblings back to Chariton County, Missouri, where he permanently settled in 1850 From the age of nine Bruce was frequently hired out to other employers in the community and worked at a variety of occupations including brick making tobacco manufacturing and general farm labor Bruce had a self described desire to learn and was taught to read by his young owner and playmate William Perkinson The older Bruce children taught their younger siblings ...
Dillet, Stephen, Sr.
Patricia Glinton-Meicholas
was born in 1797 in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (renamed Haiti following its revolution). He was the son of Mary Catherine Esther Argo (also "Hester Argeaux"), a free woman of African descent. His father was purportedly Etienne Dillet, a French army officer. Naturalized as a British subject of The Bahamas in 1828, Stephen Dillet became a member of one of the earliest organized civil rights pressure groups in The Bahamas, and he was the first Bahamian of color to win election to the colony's Parliament.
Dillet was a man whose character and social and political pursuits were deeply influenced by events of international import, which supplied the context for his life. His birth in 1797 six years after the outbreak of the Haitian revolution was attended by bloody conflict The chief combatants were the free people of color and enslaved blacks who had rebelled to free themselves ...
Fillmore, Charles W.
Stephen L. Harris
soldier, politician, civil servant, and a guiding force in the establishment of the 369th U.S. Infantry Regiment, was born in Springfield, Ohio. Educated in that state, he also studied law in Ohio.
Early in his career Fillmore allied himself with Asa Bushnell, who succeeded William McKinley as governor of Ohio. Following a lynching in Urbana in 1897 Bushnell then running for reelection as governor failed to send state troops to protect a black man accused of rape Bushnell s failure to save the defenseless man outraged African Americans who believed the governor allowed the lynching fearing a backlash by white voters if he intervened At the time of the lynching Fillmore worked for Bushnell in the office of the secretary of state He was also a major in the Ninth Ohio Battalion of the Ohio National Guard then one of four black military units in ...
Hunter, Charles Norfleet
David H. Anthony
North Carolinapolitical activist, journalist, civil servant, and publicist, was born into slavery in Raleigh, North Carolina, around 1851, the son of enslaved artisan Osborne Hunter and Mary Hunter, also enslaved. From about age four, Charles Hunter was trained to be a house servant in the home of their slave master, William D. Haywood. Somewhat later Hunter became a servant for Richard H. Battle. However, his intimate relationship with the Haywood family remained a feature of his life well after slavery.
When freedom came, Hunter and many fellow former North Carolina slaves faced profound changes. By 1867, young Hunter allied himself with prominent black Union League politicians George W. Brodie and James H. Harris and like them was gradually able to gain clout through affiliation with the Republican Party He worked as a temperance advocate in the late 1860s and ...
Toussaint, Pierre
Richard S. Newman
leading citizen of color in nineteenth-century New York City, was born enslaved in 1766 in French colonial Saint Domingue Pierre was owned by Jean Berard a sugar planter who resided outside of Saint Marc in the western section of the prosperous French colony Pierre came of age in a colony dominated by bondage and death with masters importing as many as 30 000 enslaved people each year by the second half of the eighteenth century to replenish depleted plantations However Pierre was utilized predominantly as a household servant A talented and precocious lad he acquired literacy skills as well as a courtly sensibility which he maintained for the rest of his life in and out of slavery Though Berard family lore claims credit for encouraging Pierre s talents it may have been his enslaved grandmother Zenobie a wet nurse and household servant who had accompanied Bernard s eldest son ...
Thomas J. Shelley
Toussaint, Pierre (1766–30 June 1853), businessman and philanthropist, was born a slave in the French colony of Saint Domingue (Haiti). Little is known of his early life except that, like his mother and maternal grandmother, he spent his youth as a house slave on a plantation in the Artibonite Valley in central Haiti near the port of Saint Marc. In the library of the plantation owner, Pierre Bérard, young Toussaint discovered the works of classical French preachers such as Bossuet and Massillon. Apparently it was from his reading of these sermons, rather than from any contact with the notoriously corrupt local clergy, that Toussaint developed his deep devotion to the Catholic faith.
In 1787 as political conditions on the island deteriorated Jean Jacques Bérard who had inherited his father s estate left Saint Domingue for New York accompanied by his wife Pierre Toussaint and four other slaves ...
Lisa Clayton Robinson
Born in Haiti, Pierre Toussaint was a slave until 1809. After his owners moved from Haiti to New York City in 1787 he was apprenticed to a New York hairdresser Toussaint eventually developed his own thriving career and supported his widowed mistress and her daughter with his ...
hairdresser, businessman, and philanthropist, was born a slave in the French colony of Saint Domingue (later Haiti). The names of his parents are unknown. Little is known of his early life except that, like his mother and maternal grandmother, he spent his youth as a house slave on a plantation in the Artibonite Valley near the port of Saint Marc. In the library of the plantation owner, Pierre Bérard, young Toussaint discovered the works of classical French preachers such as Bossuet and Massillon. Apparently it was from his reading of these sermons, rather than from any contact with the notoriously corrupt local clergy, that Toussaint developed his deep devotion to the Catholic faith. The main source for information on Toussaint's life is his autobiography, Memoir of Pierre Toussaint, Born a Slave in Saint Domingo, which was published anonymously by Hannah Lee Sawyer a contemporary ...
David N. Gellman
Pierre Toussaint was a singular, yet elusive figure. The quality of his life moved some to call for his beatification as a Catholic saint in the twentieth century. His motivations and commitments as a historical figure—including his place in the history of free black life in antebellum New York City—are harder to pin down. Although he made monetary contributions to African American causes in New York and elsewhere, many of the most noteworthy beneficiaries of his assistance and sympathy were whites, with whom he forged unusually cordial connections during an era of increasing segregation and racial hostility.
Toussaint was born a slave in the French sugar colony of Saint Domingue; his year of birth has traditionally been listed as 1766, but a 1995 reassessment estimates 1778 as a more likely date, while another biographer proposes 1781 as Toussaint s birth year His mother and grandmother were house slaves ...


Start your bicycle tour in Salzburg with the panorama of the Alps at your back, cycling through the spectacular Salzkammergut, to the great European city of Linz, and then up into the hills to medieval Cesky Krumlov.
From there it's on to Prague, city of a thousand spires. On this trip you will bike through country that epitomizes what most people think of when they hear the word "Europe" - small towns watched over by ancient castles, deep green forests and rolling hills, little villages with church steeples dotting the countryside.
Enjoy an original Budweiser in Ceske Budejovice, then go with the flow of the Vltava River until you reach magnificent Prague. This features a superb combination of landscapes, chateaux, and three fabulous cities.
Note: this tour begins with a day of cycling. We recommend arriving at least a day in advance of your tour to acclimate.
Start in Salzburg. This impressive town, situated on the banks of the Salzach River, is where the composer Mozart was born and raised. On this first day cycle along the Mozart cycling path. This winds its way through beautiful Alpine countryside, the Salzkammergut, along the Mondsee and Wolfgangsee lakes to St. Gilgen.
Today you will cycle to Bad Ischl at the foot of the 1450m high Katrin Mountain. Here you can visit the Imperial Villa, the summer residence of the Austrian Emperor. Continue along the river Traun to Lake Traunsee where you will see the major highlight of the day, chateau Orth, situated on an island in the middle of the lake. Transfer by train from Gmunden to Linz.
Cycle from the Danube river valley up into the hills that form the border of the Czech Republic and Austria. In Vyssi Brod is one of the most venerable monasteries in the Czech Republic, built in the late 13th century. Transfer by car from Vyssi Brod to Cesky Krumlov.
Cesky Krumlov has an unparalleled medieval town center, and an ornate chateau and tower overlooking the town. From here cycle to Ceske Budejovice, home of the real Budweiser beer where it has been brewed for the past 700 years. Finish by cycling to Hluboka nad Vltavou. The Tudor Gothic chateau in Hluboka nad Vltavou is one of the most beautiful chateaux in Bohemia.
Overnight in Hluboka nad Vltavou.
Today you start out by cycling from Hluboka through Tyn nad Vltavou to the historical town of Pisek. The oldest bridge in Bohemia, built in the 13th century (older than Charles Bridge in Prague), crosses the river at Pisek.
The highlight of this cycling day is Zvikov Castle on a rocky hill overlooking the confluence of the Otava and Vltava rivers. It is known as the "Queen of Bohemian castles" due to its majestic position. Next stop is Castle Orlik, on Orlik Reservoir. At Vysoka u Pribrame there is the memorial to the Czech composer Dvorak. Continue on to Pribram, which has a longstanding legacy of mining. Silver, lead and other metals were mined here from the 12th Century.
The cycle from Pribram to Prague first takes you to the town of Horovice and its Baroque chateau, and then to the Gothic castle of Karlstejn atop a wooded hill. This sturdy castle, founded by Czech King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV, once guarded the Czech crown jewels. Afternoon transfer by car to Prague.
Prague is the "city of a thousand spires." The Charles Bridge, the Old Town square and Prague Castle, the largest castle complex in Europe, are great places to visit.
This tour follows paved backroads that connect small towns and villages. There are a few short sections on busier roads when entering and leaving larger towns or on a few connecting sections. The route notes warn you of any sections that will be on busier roads. There are also some short stretches on forest and field trails of compacted dirt and gravel.
This tour is rated as moderately difficult (level 3). The average daily mileage is 39 miles per day.


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India & China To Soon Be Top 3 Economies of the World Says This Financial Advisor
India-born serial entrepreneur Sandy Mehta has built three robust businesses in the financial services space in Asia
Aashika Jain
Entrepreneur Staff
Associate Editor, Entrepreneur India
December 6, 2018 5 min read
The need for independent company research is greater than ever before as brokerage firms and traditional sell-side research firms continue to shrink around the world specifically in the non-investment banking-focused bulge bracket brokerage category.
This has led India-born serial entrepreneur Sandy Mehta to build three robust businesses in the financial services space in Asia Pacific.
His 30 years of investment experience includes him launching a $200 million international hedge fund. He embarked on his entrepreneurial foray in the financial services space with Acumen Capital Management LLC in 2004. Four years later, he launched his Hong Kong-based investment advisory firm Value Investment Principals, which sought unique deep value equity opportunities globally for clients primarily from the US and Europe.
His current interest lies in the Singapore-based research firm Evaluate Research, which provides institutional quality research on mid and small cap equities globally.
In an interview to Entrepreneur Asia Pacific, Mehta divulged insight into the APAC market, which he thinks is the most interesting globally at this stage.
India & China Hottest Globally
Mehta believes there is abundant turmoil in brokerage commissions as well as research and that's impacting the coverage of mid and small cap stocks. This has led to a huge opportunity.
"In our investment style, we look for cash flows and what attracts valuation today," says Mehta who finds India and China the hottest in Asia for active investments.
He believes clearly looking down ten years on, India and China will be among one of the top three economies, so the growth is definitely there.
Mehta finds opportunity in the developed market too, particularly in the US. He believes that global investors and the Government of India and China should not just rest on the demographics of growth. "I think the world investment opportunity grows with US on one side and then we have India and China on the other," says Mehta.
Clearly foreign companies, whether it is SoftBank, Amazon or Alibaba; they have much more risk appetite and deeper knowledge. For example, if you notice, in India the top three retailers – Walmart owns Flipkart, Amazon and then Alibaba – it is an interesting paradox that Indian e-commerce way is just foreign companies now.
Mehta is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization, which is a global leadership organization for more than 27,000 chief executives in over 130 countries.
To my style of investing, we are so focused on cash flows and valuation that we do not invest in e-commerce companies that are unprofitable tells Mehta.
"I think with Walmart, you also have this interesting dilemma that they are large buyers of Chinese products in the US. So there we see more and more knock of cheap Chinese products in India with Walmart's acquisition of Flipkart," says Mehta.
Mehta has been the first analyst ever hired by legendary value manager John Rogers at Ariel, and also worked with Arnie Schneider and John Neff at Wellington Management Company. He is a Wharton MBA and a CFA.
Mehta believes starting a business is a huge challenge as there are many opportunities and risk. He outlines a few for our readers.
Opportunities in Broad Global Industry
The industry is very large and operates on a truly global landscape. The financial services industry is perhaps the poster child of an increasingly digital world where information is a commodity and borders are shrinking.
Challenges are Rising
But it's tough to make a name as a newly minted entrepreneur because competition can be fierce, and one always has to compete with big industry leaders and established firms. Perhaps unlike in any other industry, one must have relevant work experience and ideally a reputation before he/she can branch out on their own.
Positives: Ideas Trump Capital
There are many positives aspects of the financial services industry. One doesn't need much brick and mortar capital at all, but the cost of human resources can be quite steep. You don't need to invest in a lot of staff and that is why it's easier to breakeven and attain a high RoE, although each professional employee will likely command a premium wage.
Headwinds Despite Robust Markets
Despite stock and bond indices being at all-time highs, the industry has several headwinds. Increasing competition from index funds and compression of returns has made active management tougher. There is pressure on both management fees and brokerage commissions. Thus for both money managers/hedge funds and investment advisors, getting incremental customers is more challenging than ever.
A Hobby as a Career
The financial services industry is filled with opportunities, and anyone with the right mind set and hard work can become a successful entrepreneur. Mehta recommends a value-added strategy in the beginning to attract clients and getting higher exposure for one's entrepreneurial venture.
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There are 20,181 supermarket refrigerated display suppliers, mainly located in Asia. The top supplying country is China (Mainland), which supply 100% of supermarket refrigerated display respectively.
Supermarket refrigerated display products are most popular in Mid East, North America, and Domestic Market.
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처음이 호텔에 머무르면서 내가 읽은 다른 리뷰에 달려 있습니다. 책상에서의 릭은 매우 도움이되었다. 뜨거운 욕조는 뜨겁지 않았다. 두 번째 날에 우리는 그 여자를 책상에 알렸다. 그녀는 바쁜 주말을 보낸 그날 그날 청소를했고 기온이 조정되기를 바랬다. 그렇지 않았습니다. 호텔 자체는 매우 깨끗하고 조용했습니다. 우리가 원했던 것입니다.
나는 몇 개의 학교를 방문하기 위해 중급 지점이 필요했고 Ithaca Courtyard는 편리하게 위치해있었습니다. 시내 이타카 (Ithaca)에서 몇 분 거리에 공항 옆에 있으며 고속도로에서 가깝습니다. 침대는 편안했고 방은 깨끗했고 아침에는 좋은 아침 식사 옵션이 있습니다.
간편한 전문 친절한 체크인. 클린 룸. 매진했지만 조용한 호텔. 저녁 식사와 아침 식사를 위해 식당에서 먹었고, 음식은 좋았고 합리적으로 가격이 책정되었습니다. 직원들은 세심하고 친절했습니다. 밤 체류를 위해 많은 돈을 지불했지만 많은 이타카 호텔은 매진되었습니다. 권장 사항.
Hi, is there a shuttle service to downtown or to Cornell? If so, how frequently? If not, how much is a taxi roughly to Cornell? Thanks!
We had our personal car with us, so I do not know how much a taxi would be. I think there was a shuttle to the airport. if you call the front desk, I am sure they will be able to let you know.
We did see one small dog while staying there. I believe there is a non refundable pet fee associated with a pet stay.
How many floors are there, and do you have elevators?
Thank you for your question. We have 4 floors that are serviced by 2 elevators.
I am checking into the hotel April 10. Is threre a free breakfast? If not can I buy breakfast?
Hi Gary, While we do not offer a complimentary breakfast our Bistro is open for breakfast on the weekends from 7 a.m. - 10:30. You can purchase freshly made breakfast sandwiches, French toast, Starbucks coffee, etc. See you April 10th!


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69% viscose, 25% polyamide, 6% elastane.
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To preserve the genetic variability and enhance the population size of the depressed spring Chinook salmon populations in Catherine Creek and the Upper Grande Ronde River using a hatchery program based on the indigenous stock.
The ceded lands and usual and accustomed fishing sites in northeast Oregon of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) include areas where fish and wildlife populations have been negatively affected by the construction and operation of mainstem Columbia and Snake River dams. CTUIR is seeking restoration of these populations.
The CTUIR, Nez Perce Tribe (NPT), and Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) are cooperating in a Grande Ronde Endemic Spring Chinook Salmon Supplementation Program (GRESCSP) to increase natural production and eventually allow harvest of spring Chinook salmon in the Grande Ronde River basin. This integrated salmon program uses captive and conventional broodstock artificial propagation components in order to prevent extinction, supplement natural production and restore productive fisheries in currently underutilized habitat in the Grande Ronde River basin. A comprehensive plan developed by comanagers to more functionally combine and integrate the captive brood and conventional components of the program was completed in 1998. All aspects of the GRESCSP are fully integrated with the Lower Snake River Compensation Plan (LSRCP). Project activities are incorporated into the LSRCP/BPA Annual Operations Plan.
The GRESCSP is an extension of the LSRCP which has temporarily changed the emphasis of its spring Chinook programs from mitigation to conservation. Grande Ronde Basin tributaries currently being targeted for spring Chinook supplementation under LSRCP include the upper Grande Ronde River, Catherine Creek and the Lostine River. The primary focus of this project is the programs directed at Catherine Creek and the upper Grande Ronde River which lie within the ceded lands boundary of CTUIR.
The captive broodstock component of the program was initiated by NPT and ODFW in 1995 under initial funding from LSRCP. CTUIR became involved in the program in late 1996. Naturally-produced juvenile salmon are captured from three tributaries of the Grande Ronde River (Catherine Creek, upper Grande Ronde, and Lostine rivers) and then reared to maturity and spawned in captivity. Spawning of mature captive brood fish began in 1998. Final rearing of these captive broodstock progeny occurs at Lookingglass Hatchery. Smolts are then transferred back to their stream of origin for acclimation and release.
The conventional broodstock component of the program began in 1997 on the same three Grande Ronde tributaries. Naturally-produced adult spring Chinook salmon are captured at weirs on these tributaries and taken to Lookingglass Hatchery for spawning. CTUIR operates the adult collection weirs in the upper Grande Ronde River and Catherine Creek for population monitoring and collection of conventional broodstock. Due to low numbers of returning adults, no conventional broodstock were spawned from either Catherine Creek or the upper Grande Ronde River until 2001. As with the captive brood portion of the program, final rearing of the conventional progeny is expected to occur at Lookingglass Hatchery. Smolts will then be transferred back to their stream of origin for acclimation and release.
CTUIR operates juvenile acclimation facilities for spring Chinook salmon in the upper Grande Ronde River and Catherine Creek. The first juveniles produced from the program were1998 brood captive brood progeny which were acclimated and released in 2000. From 2000 to 2009 we have released 1,210,601 juvenile spring Chinook salmon into the Upper Grande Ronde River and 1,233,257 into Catherine Creek from our acclimation sites.
Upper Grande Ronde acclimation facility.
Photo of the Catherine Creek adult broodstock collection facility.
Photo of the Upper Grande Ronde adult broodstock collection facility.
High flow event at Upper Grande Ronde adult collection facility 15 May 2011.
High flow event at Catherine Creek adult collection facility 15 May 2011.
Implement with conditions through 2016: Sponsor to address ISRP qualifications in 2012 contract. Implementation subject to Lower Snake Comp Review process and the hatchery effects evaluation process described in programmatic recommendation #4.
Qualification 1: The proponents should better describe their overall objectives for the fishery, not just operational, in-facility objectives.
Qualification 2: They should coordinate and integrate with CRHEET and show that they are implementing consistent protocols and metrics.
These qualifications can be addressed in contracting and discussed in progress reports and future proposals.
This project is intended to support a supplementation and captive broodstock program for spring Chinook in the Grande Ronde basin, in particular, the upper Grande Ronde River and Catherine Creek. It is related to several other projects in the Grande Ronde system and is consistent with the Lower Snake River Compensation Plan.
Included are an acclimation facility (for smolts prior to release) and an adult broodstock capture facility on each tributary. Broodstock are to be collected from local stocks in the Upper Grande Ronde and Catherine Creek. The project's captive brood component is intended to minimize demographic risk of extinction, and its conventional hatchery production component is intended to balance the captive component and increase production while reducing the genetic risk of artificial selection. The stated objectives pertain straight-forwardly to fish production, but they should be accompanied by objectives that encompass the desired outcomes for the river system's fish population abundance.
The sliding scale used for dealing with wild and hatchery adults in the operation is a particularly beneficial feature. In future review cycles, it would be helpful to show and discuss statistics indicating the degree of conformance to and progress in that scheme.
No specific methods or metrics were given. The ISRP assumes that standard hatchery practices will be employed. The proposal would have been improved, however, if more information were presented about the acclimation facility and procedures.
ISRP overall comments on the present proposal are similar to those of the previous ISRP 2007-2009 review. In that review it was stated that this project's future proposals should summarize the quantitative results in tables or graphs, and should devote the project history narrative mainly to interpreting the biological significance of those results to date. The ISRP cannot see that this recommendation was followed.
Although this sizeable project has continued for over a decade, there does not seem to be a clear table or section of the report showing progress on the goals. The proponents do not show whether the supplemented stock is progressing toward the stage at which the program can be ended, as is the goal in supplementation. There also do not seem to be many meaningful reports resulting from this work. The project is summarized as routine fisheries work, but its fishery objectives should be stated and the results toward fulfilling them should be discussed. As the ISRP commented previously, "the desired outcome(s) should form the project's biological objectives." Once again, the proponents did not write this year's proposal to remedy the problems with biological objectives.
The ISRP previously pointed out that the proposal should include the objective of terminating the project when M&E determines that supplementation either is not working or has been successful enough that the wild stock is recovered to the point that supplementation is no longer needed. The project is designed to provide emergency risk management of spring/summer Chinook in the subbasin and ultimately to recover self-sustaining populations if out-of-subbasin stressors are remedied. If those stressors are not remedied, the long-term viability of the spring/summer Chinook is uncertain. The ISRP commented in the previous review that a response was needed, in coordination with the other GRESCSP proposals, showing a decision tree detailing criteria for termination based on results, whether positive or negative.
The proposal lists annual fish production since 1997, but no quantitative results regarding the stock were reported and no management changes were shown. Therefore, meaningful accomplishments to date cannot be assessed on the basis of this proposal.
The Proponents state that: "The captive brood component was implemented to minimize the imminent demographic risk of extinction. The conventional component exists as a long-term strategy to balance the captive component and increase production while reducing the genetic risk of artificial selection. The GRESCSP has produced substantial adult spring Chinook returns to the target tributaries beginning in 2002. As returns increase, reliance on the captive component will diminish and as the demographic risk of extinction decreases, we will increase the conventional component until the captive brood component is expected to be phased out." This paragraph would have much more meaning if data were presented to show how substantial those returns have been, how far along toward objectives those returns are, and, at the current rate of progress, when the existing captive brood program would be phased out. These data and projections do not seem to exist in the proposal. To include and discuss them could provide a useful description of success and status related to objectives. The ISRP requests that this be done in the next proposal.
See ISRP comments on the set of NEOH projects under proposal 198805301.
As one of several projects that compose the Grande Ronde Endemic Spring Chinook Supplementation Program (GRESCSP), this project covers the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Nation's role through operating adult capture facilities and juvenile acclimation and release facilities in the upper Grande Ronde River and Catherine Creek. The project will provide side benefits to other species such as steelhead through monitoring at weirs.
The proposal presents a strong case for continuation and funding as part of the GRESCSP. The project appears to be well integrated with the ODFW proposal 199800704 on spring Chinook in the Grande Ronde, both of which are needed to meet program goals. The proposal clarifies objectives and methods more than in the submissions of previous years. Methods were described in detail. Design was reasonable.
The proposal relates clearly to priorities and objectives outlined in the GRESCSP. As a "conservation" project, it meets ISRP review criteria. The requested funds are solidly matched with cost-shared funds from other sources. The stated objectives are operational.
A history of project activities, budgets, and results is presented in detail. In the narrative, unnecessarily repetitive data shown in the accompanying tables created confusion. Tables enable better overview of statistics than does narrative text. Moreover, many of the statistics stated in the narrative do not seem to match the values shown in the tables. This project's future proposals should summarize the quantitative results in tables or graphs, and should devote the project history narrative mainly to interpreting the biological significance of those results.
This sizeable project has continued for several years, but the data shown on returns indicate only modest success to date, especially with regard to natural production. As captive brood fish have returned in higher numbers, natural fish have responded much less dramatically, and dropped in 2005. The sponsors express little concern about this. Although the overall program may be under much internal NEOH scrutiny, there is little indication from the proposal or the response that it is.
The ISRP commented that some of the proposal's "biological objectives" are just tasks (activity objectives), and that, overall, the project is being run just as performances of operations, without its organization as a strategy directed toward reaching an outcome being explicitly set forth. The desired outcome(s) should form the project's biological objectives. The sponsors did not revise their proposal to remedy the problems with biological objectives; however, some of their response discussion indicates their strategy.
The ISRP pointed out that the proposal should include the objective of terminating the project when M&E determines that its supplementation either is not working or has been successful enough that it is no longer needed. The project is designed to provide emergency risk management of spring/summer Chinook in the subbasin and ultimately to recover self-sustaining populations if out-of-subbasin stressors are remedied. If those stressors are not remedied, the long-term viability of the spring/summer Chinook is uncertain. The ISRP commented that a response was needed, in coordination with the other GRESCSP proposals, showing a decision tree detailing criteria for termination based on results, whether positive or negative (see item 2, below).
(1) Scientific justification for the project depends on the funding of the M&E proposal 200713200.
Some of the data presented in the response are unclear. For example, some of the abbreviated column headings in Table 3a are not explained, so the material beneath them is not interpretable.
Assume in mitigation for FCRPS.


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5 worst right-wing moments of the week: Bill O'Reilly instructs black people to hate Black Lives Matter
Joe Walsh made a despicable threat toward Obama, while Bill O'Reilly railed against BLM
Janet Allon
July 11, 2016 1:00PM (UTC)
This article originally appeared on AlterNet.
This truly sad and horrifying week produced two types of reactions. There was President Obama calming a frightened nation, expressing sorrow over all the lives lost. There was Hillary Clinton speaking of respect, love and kindness, and calling on, "white people to understand how African Americans feel every day." There was one of the organizers of the peaceful protest in Dallas saying, yes, blue lives matter and we grieve for their loss.
Then there was a slew of divisive, hate-filled rhetoric emerging from, you guessed it, the lovely rightward flank of our hurting nation.
1. Bill O'Reilly instructs black people to hate Black Lives Matter.
Like the rest of the Fox News organization, Bill O'Reilly insists that everyone must hate and fear Black Lives Matter immediately. He and other Fox Newsians spent a good deal of their post-Dallas airtime this week whipping up as much hysteria and anger as possible against a group that has a name and a message no sane person can argue with. But sane people do not sit at Fox roundtables, as an episode of "Outnumbered" clearly shows. Meanwhile, colleagues Megyn Kelly and racist ex-cop Mark Fuhrman took it upon themselves to lecture black people to stop exaggerating about problems with police. You got that, Philando Castile, Eric Garner and Alton Sterling?
But O'Reilly is just so sick and tired of black people not listening to him when he tells them what is good for them. Speaking to his guest, NAACP director Hilary Shelton on Friday, O'Reilly said, "So, you know what I think? I think that if you really want, if African Americans really want to bring the country together and have good racial relations, they have to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter. Am I wrong?"
Yeah, you're wrong, Shelton said, explaining that the Black Lives Matter marches are occurring for a very good reason. And lots of people understand that.
But white people hate Black Lives Matter, O'Reilly whined, mistaking the echo chamber in his head for reality once again. "White Americans despise this crew. And if black Americans don't understand that, we're just going to grow further apart."
Shelton carried on saying reasonable things that are in the spirit of bringing people together, among other things pointing out that people of all races join Black Lives Matter marches and believe in the movement and in justice for all Americans.
All on deaf ears. O'Reilly was just too busy breaking the douchebag-o-meter.
2. Lt. Governor of Texas rails against peaceful protesters.
It took about a nanosecond for the right wing to coalesce around the view that the violence in Dallas was the fault of peaceful Black Lives Matters protesters and activists. (Unless they were blaming Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.) Texas Republican Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick jumped aboard the anti-BLM bandwagon lickety-split, adding his own rhetorical flourish.
"What hypocrites," he told Fox News. "All those protesters last night, they ran the other way, expecting the men and women in blue to turn around and protect them."
Continuing his extremely subtle understanding of the nature of the Black Lives Matter movement, "I understand the First Amendment. I understand freedom of speech, and I defend it. It is in our constitution and is in our soul, but you can't go out on social media and mainstream media and everywhere else and say that the police are racist or police are hateful or the police are killers."
Well, technically, you can. That is precisely what the First Amendment means.
Other people Patrick blames for the shootings include Jesse Jackson. The concern about police violence has to stop, he argued, because he as a white man, who has never had to deal with police profiling, is "sick and tired" of it.
3. Former Republican rep makes a despicable threat.
Former Tea Party congressman, current far-right radio host Joe Walsh expressed his deep and abiding love for law and order as events were unfolding in Dallas...by tweeting a threat. His exact words (at about midnight the night of the shooting): "This is now war. Watch out Obama. Watch out black lives matter punks. Real America is coming after you." (Real America is the name of his radio show, for the lucky uninitiated.)
The next day, he claimed not to be calling for any violence. Odd, the phrase "coming after you" must carry a different meaning in his addled right-wing brain than it does to other sentient beings.
To show what a peaceable man he is, he tweeted: "You did this Obama. You did this liberals. You did this #BLM."
So, he's just spreading the love all around.
4. Donald Trump tried to seduce but reminded us of his horribleness.
Someone clearly helped Trump with his post-Dallas statement. Uncharacteristically, it contained no crowing about how he had predicted such events would happen. Unlike in the past, he did not say that rhetoric against police brutality had caused the shootings. Nor did he blame the deaths of five police officers on Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton.
He even called the deaths of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge and Philando Castile in Minnesota "senseless," horrifying some of his right-wing constituents.
Was he feeling all right?
We trust that the Donald will be back to his old self soon. He showed some of his usual flair when he cynically asked for a photo op with the NYPD in the wake of the tragedy and was roundly rebuffed. And lest we forget, he began his week by praising Saddam Hussein for being so very adept at killing terrorists. "He did that so good," Donald kvelled. "They didn't read them the rights. They didn't talk."
Truly, his kind of guy.
5. Mitt Romney's former spokesman weighs in with insane Hillary Clinton comparison.
After Hillary Clinton was exonerated by the FBI and the Justice Department for her use of a private email server, every Republican in the land immediately set about trying to find a way to keep the scandal alive in perpetuity. One thing we can promise you is that it will never ever die.
Eric Fehrnstrom, Mitt Romney's 2012 communications director, best known for his inane and cynical theory that everything Romney had said during the primary season could be erased like an Etch-a-Sketch during the general election, swung his nimble tongue into action this week to comment on the matter.
In an op-ed penned for the Boston Globe, Fehrnstrom began: "Hillary Clinton is the new O.J. Simpson. She may have gotten off, but everyone knows what she did was wrong."
Oddly, he proceeds not to justify that attention-grabbing hyperbole, or in any way explain how using a private e-mail server is at all comparable to being accused of a horrific double murder. In fact, he never mentions it again.
His work is done. No doubt the attack ad is already underway.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The presidents of Serbia and Kosovo abruptly called off a face-to-face meeting in Brussels on Friday, deflating hopes of a deal involving a land swap that could allow both nations to move towards EU membership.
Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci was due to discuss the swap plan with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic for the first time in talks brokered by the EU's top diplomat Federica Mogherini.
But both men refused to speak to each other moments before their meeting was due to start at the EU's headquarters in Brussels, diplomats said, leaving Mogherini to meet them separately several times during the day to keep talks alive.
"It went wrong today, they did not meet, they indulged in some drama instead," said one EU diplomat briefed on the talks, although it was not immediately clear what caused the breakdown.
"Difficulties remain," Mogherini said in a statement, although she said she would seek another meeting with the two presidents later this month.
In an address to the nation on Friday evening, Serbia's Vucic said he would visit Kosovo this weekend as planned. On Sunday he is due to hold a rally in the northern Kosovan city of Mitrovica, which is mostly populated by Serbs.
The failure to meet in person partly reflects a backlash in both Kosovo and Serbia to the land swap plan, as well as some resistance in Germany, the EU diplomat said.
Belgrade and Pristina have both raised the idea of redrawing their border.
Kosovo, which has a population of 1.8 million is mainly ethnic Albanian, declared independence from Belgrade in 2008, almost a decade after NATO air strikes ousted Serbian forces and halted a crackdown on ethnic Albanians during a counter-insurgency.
Politicians and analysts in Belgrade say that an agreement allowing Serbia to maintain control over northern Kosovo, in exchange for the Presevo Valley, an ethnic Albanian-populated area in Serbia's south, could be acceptable to both sides.
But Germany warned last week that redrawing Serbia's border with Kosovo would fan ethnic tensions, although the European Union and the United States have said they would abide by a deal if it respected international law.
Kosovo's Thaci had told Reuters on Aug. 14 that he would present his plan to Serbia's Vucic at their meeting in Brussels.


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UP housing dept sets eyes on illegal constructions, moots affordable housing for FY2018
The department held its first progress review meeting on June 8 under the new principal secretary- Mukul Singhal in UP Housing and Development Board (UPHDB) office.Priyanka Singh | TNN | June 09, 2017, 11:00 IST
LUCKNOW: The housing and urban planning department of state government has set a new agenda for FY 2018 with focus on three important tasks- crackdown on illegal constructions, building maximum affordable housing units under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna (PMAY) and ensuring implementation of Real Estate Regulation Act (RERA) in all development authorities.
The department held its first progress review meeting on June 8 under the new principal secretary- Mukul Singhal in UP Housing and Development Board (UPHDB) office. Officials from all 28 development authorities of UP, five special development authorities of Siddhartha Nagar, Mirzapur, Vindhyachal, Bhadohi, Chitrakoot and the UPHDB attended the meeting.
Sources privy to the development told TOI, "We have been asked to prepare an action plan for the entire year on all these parameters- illegal constructions, affordable housing and implementation of RERA across state. Though earlier state government had made certain amendments in the RERA, the new government wants the Act to be implemented in its original spirit as notified by the Centre."
RERA will help allottees get possession in scheduled time as it will make it binding on the part of development authorities to complete their projects within deadline. Also, they would also have to bring an effective control on illegal constructions while also take action on the offenders.
For this, there has been a long pending proposal with the government to implement online map approval system in all development authorities. Singhal will review progress of the software which has to be adopted by the authorities to allow online approval of maps. This will check any flouting of building bylaws as the system would be timely vetted by all senior officials.
Under PMAY, the Centre has given a target to build around 5 lakh houses in UP but due to cash crunch, the state government targets to build only 2 lakh affordable units. The officials have to suggest plan as to how would they build cost effective flats within range of Rs 8 lakh, given there is land scarcity in state.
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Once in a Great City: A Detroit Story
David Maraniss
Central Library - Community Rooms 301 & 302
It's 1963 and Detroit is on top of the world. The city's leaders are among the most visionary in America: Grandson of the first Ford; Henry Ford II; influential labor leader Walter Reuther; Motown's founder Berry Gordy; the Reverend C.L. Franklin and his daughter, the amazing Aretha; Governor George Romney, Mormon and Civil Rights advocate; super car salesman Lee Iacocca; Mayor Jerome Cavanagh, a Kennedy acolyte; Police Commissioner George Edwards; Martin Luther King, Jr. It was the American auto makers' best year; the revolution in music and politics was underway. Reuther's United Auto Workers had helped lift the middle class.
The time was full of promise. The auto industry was selling more cars than ever before and inventing the Mustang. Motown was capturing the world with its amazing artists. The progressive labor movement was rooted in Detroit with the UAW. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech there two months before he made it famous in the Washington march. Once in a Great City shows that the shadows of collapse were evident even then. Before the devastating riot. Before the decades of civic corruption and neglect and white flight. Before people trotted out the grab bag of rust belt infirmities—from harsh weather to high labor costs—and competition from abroad to explain Detroit's collapse, one could see the signs of a city's ruin. Detroit at its peak was threatened by its own design. It was being abandoned by the new world. Yet so much of what Detroit gave America lasts.
About Presenter David Maraniss
David Maraniss is an associate editor at The Washington Post and a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism and was a finalist three other times. Among his bestselling books are biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente, and Vince Lombardi, and a trilogy about the 1960s—Rome 1960; Once in a Great City (winner of the RFK Book Prize); and They Marched into Sunlight (winner of the J. Anthony Lucas Prize and Pulitzer Finalist in History). A Good American Family is his twelfth book.