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Kaieteur News celebrates Indigenous Heritage Month with works of fiction that focus on the myths of our First People. This excerpt is from a supernatural novel, Kamarang, by Michael Jordan, to be published next year
THE CROWD WAS SPARSE WHEN he entered the Ritz. He hesitated at the top of the stairs. No sign of Lucille. The tall man with the Kangol cap stood nursing a beer by the step-rail. He nodded as his eyes caught Michael's. Desmond the barman was talking to a middle-aged woman who Michael had seen a few times behind the bar. He looked up and saw Michael, and, again, Michael sensed a wariness in the man's eyes, an insincerity in his smile.
"You early tonight, youth-man."
"Yeah," Michael said. Automatically, his eyes again shifted to the corner near the bar.
"She up in she room."
Michael smile ruefully. Was he that obvious?
"Well, what you getting, partner?" the barman asked, and before Michael could answer, turned to the woman beside him. "Give the customer a beer."
And why not, he thought. He felt tense. He knew that part of it was the guilt that he felt at skipping his studies. He had tried, but images of the girl had kept jumping into his thoughts. He'd finally shut his books, taken a bath, put on his wind-breaker and slipped out of the house while his parents listened to the seven o'clock news in the bedroom.
Guilt surged through him as he thought of his parents. He decided that he'd wait for Lucille to come downstairs, rather than yield to the temptation of going to her bedroom. Then he'd just sit with her for an hour or two…
Tonight, somehow, she seemed different; somehow younger, somehow less pale. She raised her head slightly, and he watched as the pendant swung on the gold chain that he'd given her. He stared at her for a moment, then glanced at his watch. Eight-thirty already…
It had been so easy, when the girl hadn't been around, to think about staying just a few hours. But now, with Lucille close-by, he wondered how he could ever have imagined coming here and not going to her room. It felt so good, so right, sitting in this corner, gazing at her, while an old tune named Let Them Talk came from the punch-box.
As if she had read his thoughts, the girl squeezed his hand, smiling at him. "You need to relax." She smiled again, that secret smile that touched her eyes. "I have a surprise for you tonight."
Again, a tiny smile of suppressed, secret amusement. "It's upstairs."
And though something in him seemed to scream a warning, he followed her.
She entered her room, then rapped softly on the southern wall. Almost immediately, someone rapped on the girl's door. She opened it, and a tiny, limping woman peered inside. She was carrying a tray, and Michael caught the smell of wood-smoke and saw that the woman was carrying a tray with cassava bread, and two steaming bowls. The woman looked past Lucille at Michael and said something in a soft, fluting dialect. Lucille laughed, shook her head, and answered in the dialect. The old woman gave a little bow to Lucille, handed her the tray, then seemed to stare longingly at the meal before she shuffled outside.
Smiling, Lucille headed to the bed with the tray, and Michael felt water spring to his mouth as he caught the smell of pepper-pot and smoked meat. The girl gave him one of the steaming, meat-filled bowls. Smiling, she dipped a hand in her bowl. She plucked out a small, fatty-looking morsel and placed it in his mouth.
He had never tasted any meat like that before; so succulent that he bit his tongue in his eagerness. She fed him another piece, then broke a piece of cassava bread and began to attack her bowl greedily. He followed suit, eating and thinking that he had often boasted that no one could make a tastier pepper pot than his grandmother. Now here he was, devouring this meal that made grandmother's seem ordinary; tears streaming down his face as he bit into a piece of bird-pepper.
Besides him, the girl was making murmuring sounds. At one point she give a cry of delight as her fingers closed around a small morsel like the one she had fed him.
He tried to slow down, wanting to make the meal last as long as he could, but too soon he was staring at his empty bowl. She caught his forlorn look and laughed. She stared into her own bowl, which held one last piece. She tore it in two and fed him, then ate the other piece.
He finished, then licked his fingers.
"Wow," he said.
"You liked it?"
"What meat is this…labba?"
She shook her head, smiling.
"Deer…wild hog?"
Again that suppressed laughter. "You could say it was wild. It had to be hunted and caught."
"Monkey," he said, joining in the joke.
He joined in her laughter, looking at her and thinking again how much younger she looked. Finally, she composed herself. "I will tell my aunt how much you enjoy her cooking." She held his hands. "You need to wash up and then I have another surprise for you."
She led him to a table with a large basin. The water appeared to contain some sort of scented perfume that reminded him of the girl's smell. They dried their hands on a towel on the table. He undressed, thinking that now they would make love, but when the girl came back to the bed she was holding a small earthenware bottle. She uncorked it, and a strong, fermented odour came to him. Sitting with knees beneath her, she put the bottle to her lips and tilted her head back for a moment. She lowered the bottle and he saw that some sort of colourless liquid had trickled down the edges of her mouth. Smiling, she gave him the bottle. Again, he smelt the strong, fermented odour. He hesitated. He had been drinking a lot lately.
"What's it?" he said, in what he hoped was a casual tone. He suddenly felt extremely immature; out of his depth. The girl sitting on the bed with her hair loose and in unselfconscious nakedness suddenly seemed light years ahead of him in maturity.
"It's cassiri. I made it."
"Oh," he said. He tried to recall whether this was the Amerindian wine that was made with cassava that was chewed and spat into a pot. The thought that the wine might have been made from Lucille's juices caused a stirring within him. He raised the bottle to his lips. The taste was not unlike the homemade wines that his mother made at Christmas. A little stronger, though. He swallowed, and felt the liquid burning a warm path to his stomach. He took another sip, and another, before passing the bottle back. His lips felt numb. The warmth in his stomach seemed to have travelled to his groin.
She switched off the light and returned to the bed. He reached for her. He felt lightheaded and strangely reckless. She laughed in his face; her voice seeming to come from a distance. He gave a startled yelp as she gave him a sudden nip on the chest. He felt her gloriously smooth thighs encircle him; felt himself sinking …
He had been sleeping, and now he was awake, and the bedroom light was on and the girl was not in the bed. He felt light-headed, and strangely listless, and he was wondering where the girl had gone to when he saw her standing by the mirror. She was too preoccupied to notice that he had awoken. He thought of calling to her, but didn't because his limbs and tongue felt heavy, and because a little voice within him told him not to.
She stood close to the mirror, as if short-sighted. She ran her hands through her hair. She caressed her face, touched her breasts. Now, she bent to stare at her thighs, examining them in that same short—sighted, careful manner.
Suddenly she straightened and stared into the mirror again. Her body shook, and he was puzzled until he realized that she was laughing. He watched her, feeling suddenly cold. He wanted to cover with the sheet but that little voice told him to remain still. Around him was a heavy silence as if he and the girl were the only people left in the world.
She turned to him suddenly, and instinctively, he shut his eyes, breathing shallowly like someone asleep. He felt a throbbing in the centre of his forehead, as if someone was watching him. Eventually, he heard a click, and the light that was seeping beneath his eyelids receded. He sensed her standing beside the bed. Then her lips closed around him, bringing him to life, despite the unease he felt….
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Research & Commentary: Regressive Carbon-Dioxide Tax Proposals Are Bad News for Hawaii Families and Businesses
By Tim Benson
Multiple Proposals Introduced Ranging From $6.25 Per Ton To $55 Per Ton
Multiple proposals in the Hawaii State Legislature would establish carbon-dioxide taxes on all fossil fuels emitted or sold by distributors in the Aloha State.
Matching proposals in the Senate and House of Representatives would set up a $6.25-per-ton tax on "fossil fuels sold by a distributor to any retail dealer or end user of the fuel, other than a refiner." These include a 5.5 cent per gallon tax on gasoline. Another House proposal would establish a flat $15-per-ton tax starting in 2020, while yet another House bill would establish a $20-per-ton tax in 2020 that will increase by $5 per ton until 2034, when it caps at $55 per ton. Fifty percent of the revenue collected under this bill would be "refunded to every taxpayer who files an income tax return with the department of taxation."
These rebates are necessary because carbon-dioxide taxes are inherently regressive and disproportionally harm low-income families. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found a $28-per-ton carbon tax would result in energy costs being 250 percent higher for the poorest one-fifth of households than the richest one-fifth of households.
CBO reports the reason for cost discrepancy is "a carbon tax would increase the prices of fossil fuels in direct proportion to their carbon content. Higher fuel prices, in turn, would raise production costs and ultimately drive up prices for goods and services throughout the economy … Low-income households spend a larger share of their income on goods and services whose prices would increase the most, such as electricity and transportation."
A 2013 report by the National Association of Manufacturers estimates a $20-per-ton carbon-dioxide tax in Hawaii would result in a 5.3 percent increase in household electricity rates. Additionally, the tax would raise gasoline prices by more than 20 cents per gallon in just the first year alone. In July 2012, Australia established a nation-wide carbon-dioxide tax set at $23 (Australian dollars) per ton and repealed it just two years later after it produced the highest quarterly increase in household electricity prices in the country's history.
One other substantial problem with the carbon-dioxide tax is that it would produce an insignificant environmental benefit, as a country-wide carbon tax that completely reduces U.S. emissions to zero by 2050 would only avert global temperature by just 0.2 degrees Celsius by 2100. A state-based carbon tax would have even less impact on global temperature. As Oren Cass, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, noted in National Affairs, "The effectiveness of a carbon tax as a matter of environmental policy [depends] not only on how it would directly alter the trajectory of [local] emissions but also on its ability to affect global emissions by driving globally applicable technological innovation or by influencing the behavior of foreign governments," wrote Cass. "On each of these dimensions, the carbon tax fails."
At 26.05 cents per kilowatt hour, retail electricity prices in Hawaii are already 148 percent higher than the national average and are by far the highest of any state in the country. A carbon-dioxide tax would make everything more expensive for working families in Hawaii, drive up costs for businesses, and have an insignificant effect on global carbon dioxide emissions.
The following documents provide more information about carbon-dioxide taxes and fossil fuels.
The Carbon Tax: Analysis of Six Potential Scenarios
https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The-Carbon-Tax-Analysis-of-Six-Potential-Scenarios_Final.pdf
This study commissioned by the Institute for Energy Research and conducted by Capital Alpha Partners uses standard scoring conventions to evaluate and model the economic impacts of carbon taxes set at a variety of dollar figures, with different phase-in durations, and with an array of revenue-recycling strategies. It finds a carbon-dioxide tax will not be pro-growth, is not an efficient revenue raiser for tax reform, depresses GDP and introduces with long-term fiscal challenges playing particular stress on the states, and is inconsistent with meeting the long-term Paris Agreement emissions reduction goals.
Carbon Taxes: Bad for the People, the Economy, Government Revenues (Guest: Jordan McGillis)
https://www.heartland.org/multimedia/podcasts/carbon-taxes-bad-for-the-people-the-economy-government-revenues-guest-jordan-mcgillis
In this edition of the Heartland Daily Podcast, Jordan McGillis of the Institute for Energy Research (IER) discusses an economic analysis produced for IER of six different possible versions of a tax on carbon dioxide. The study found none of the of the six versions of the tax considered would be revenue neutral or satisfy the requirements of the Paris Climate Agreement, but each of them would reduce economic growth, impede infrastructure development, and limit the government's ability to meet fiscal obligations and operations. People would stripped of choice and made poorer for no environmental gain.
Does a Carbon Tax Support Prosperity?
https://files.texaspolicy.com/uploads/2018/08/16104452/2018-04-PP-CarbonTaxSupportProsperity-ACEE-CEP-IngramGinn.pdf
This study from the Texas Public Policy Foundation finds that research supporting the imposition of a carbon-dioxide tax are based on modeling with flawed assumptions and the tax itself would cause crippling economic costs. Two real life examples of a carbon-dioxide tax gone wrong in British Columbia and in Australia show that its potential effects include skyrocketing household electricity prices and increasing unemployment.
The Deeply Flawed Conservative Case for a Carbon Tax
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/the-deeply-flawed-conservative-case-for-a-carbon-tax
In this paper published by the American Enterprise Institute, Benjamin Zycher says the "conservative" Climate Leadership Council's (CLC) much-hyped carbon-dioxide tax proposal is "naïve" and "virtually all of the … assertions in support of its proposal are incorrect or implausible." The CLC's plan is "poor conceptually and deeply unserious," wrote Zycher.
Legislating Energy Poverty: A Case Study of How California's and New York's Climate Change Policies Are Increasing Energy Costs and Hurting the Economy
https://www.pacificresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/LegislatingEnergy_F_Web.pdf
This analysis from Wayne Winegarden of the Pacific Research Institute shows the big government approach to fighting climate change taken by California and New York hits working class and minority communities the hardest. The paper reviews the impact of global warming policies adopted in California and New York, such as unrealistic renewable energy goals, strict low carbon fuel standards, and costly subsidies for buying higher-priced electric cars and installing solar panels. The report finds that, collectively, these expensive and burdensome policies are dramatically increasing the energy burdens of their respective state residents.
The U.S. Leads the World in Clean Air: The Case for Environmental Optimism
https://files.texaspolicy.com/uploads/2018/11/27165514/2018-11-RR-US-Leads-the-World-in-Clean-Air-ACEE-White.pdf
This paper from the Texas Public Policy Foundation examines how the United States achieved robust economic growth while dramatically reducing emissions of air pollutants. The paper states that these achievements should be celebrated as a public policy success story, but instead the prevailing narrative among political and environmental leaders is one of environmental decline that can only be reversed with a more stringent regulatory approach. Instead, the paper urges for the data to be considered and applied to the narrative.
The Case Against a U.S. Carbon Tax
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/the-case-against-a-us-carbon-tax
In this paper from the Cato Institute, Robert P. Murphy, Patrick J. Michaels, and Paul C. Knappenberger examine carbon-dioxide tax programs in place in Australia and British Columbia and consider whether similar programs would be successful in the United States. They conclude, "In theory and in practice, economic analysis shows that the case for a U.S. carbon tax is weaker than its most vocal supporters have led the public to believe."
Economic Outcomes of a U.S. Carbon Tax
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/economic-outcomes-of-a--us-carbon-tax
This report from the National Association of Manufacturers evaluates the potential impacts carbon-dioxide taxes whose revenues would be devoted to a combination of debt and tax rate reduction would have on the U.S. economy. The results consider the varied economic effects of fossil-fuel cost increases caused by carbon taxes, as well as the positive economic effects of the assumption that carbon-dioxide tax revenues would be used to reduce government debt and federal taxes.
Ten State Solutions to Emerging Issues
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/ten-state-solutions-to-emerging-issues-2018
This Heartland Institute booklet explores solutions to the top public policy issues facing the states in 2018 and beyond in the areas of budget and taxes, education, energy and environment, health care, and constitutional reform. The solutions identified are proven reform ideas that have garnered significant support among the states and with legislators.
The Carbon Tax Shell Game
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/the-carbon-tax-shell-game
Oren Cass of the Manhattan Institute argues the carbon-dioxide tax is a shell game. The range of designs, prices, rationales, and claimed benefits varies so widely that assessing the validity of most proposals is nearly impossible to accomplish. In this article for National Affairs, Cass says the effect of carbon-dioxide taxes on emissions has proven to be insubstantial, a fact he says is ignored by the tax's proponents when promoting its purported benefits.
The Social Benefits of Fossil Fuels
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/the-social-benefits-of-fossil-fuels
This Heartland Policy Brief by Joseph Bast and Peter Ferrara documents the many benefits from the historic and still ongoing use of fossil fuels. Fossil fuels are lifting billions of people out of poverty, reducing all the negative effects of poverty on human health, and vastly improving human well-being and safety by powering labor-saving and life-protecting technologies, such as air conditioning, modern medicine, and cars and trucks. They are dramatically increasing the quantity of food humans produce and improving the reliability of the food supply, directly benefiting human health. Further, fossil fuel emissions are possibly contributing to a "Greening of the Earth," benefiting all the plants and wildlife on the planet.
Climate Change Reconsidered II: Fossil Fuels – Summary for Policymakers
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/climate-change-reconsidered-ii-fossil-fuels---summary-for-policymakers
In this fifth volume of the Climate Change Reconsidered series, 117 scientists, economists, and other experts assess the costs and benefits of the use of fossil fuels by reviewing scientific and economic literature on organic chemistry, climate science, public health, economic history, human security, and theoretical studies based on integrated assessment models (IAMs) and cost-benefit analysis (CBA).
Less Carbon, Higher Prices: How California's Climate Policies Affect Lower-Income Residents
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/less-carbon-higher-prices-how-californias-climate-policies-affect-lower-income-residents
This study from Jonathan Lesser of the Manhattan Institute argues California's clean power regulations, including the state's renewable power mandate, is a regressive tax that harms impoverished Californians more than any other group.
Nothing in this Research & Commentary is intended to influence the passage of legislation, and it does not necessarily represent the views of The Heartland Institute. For further information on this subject, visit Environment & Climate News, The Heartland Institute's website, and PolicyBot, Heartland's free online research database.
The Heartland Institute can send an expert to your state to testify or brief your caucus; host an event in your state; or send you further information on a topic. Please don't hesitate to contact us if we can be of assistance! If you have any questions or comments, contact Lindsey Stroud, a state government relations manager at The Heartland Institute, at lstroud@heartland.org or 312/377-4000.
Energy Environment Climate Change Taxes
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Dionne Warwick to team with Chance the Rapper, The Weeknd for charity single
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What happens on Twitter doesn't stay on Twitter. After Dionne Warwick went viral for questioning Chance The Rapper and The Weeknd's stage names, the trio are now all working together to help feed the hungry.
Speaking with Chicago's Windy City LIVE, Chance, 27, dished about a new project in the works with the legendary singer, 71.
Recalling a phone conversation he had with Warwick, the rapper explained, "She told me about this homeless initiative that she's working on… like a food initiative for homeless and homeless youth…. and so I was all down."
"There's also like a song component. So, I'm going to have a phone with Dionne Warwick too," he added excitedly.
As for how The Weeknd got involved, Warwick's son, Damon Elliott told TMZ that the "Blinding Lights" singer hopped on board after a phone call with Warwick, where he expressed how food insecurity is personal for him as he was once homeless himself.
Elliot also shared that he will be writing and producing the song, which is called "Nothing's Impossible."
According to the outlet, proceeds will benefit Hunger Not Impossible, a service that connects kids and families in need with prepaid, nutritious, to-go meals from nearby restaurants.
By Danielle Long
The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir participating in Clean Energy for America Inaugural Ball virtual bash on Wednesday
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Mary Wilson says "it's up to Diana" if there will ever be a Supremes reunion
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Eron Kelly talks at the Technet Edge stage at TechEd in Berlin to talk with me about Office 365 -- Microsoft's recently announced cloud productivity offering. Office 365 is the replacement for BPOS, and includes the Office productivity suite, in addition to Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. Questions include what Office 365 means to customers, what it includes, how much it costs, how it stacks up against the competition, and what it means to the IT professionals who currently administer those products.


This is always one of the most fun things to post: The floorplan for our event! Click on the small image below to bring up a bigger one.
A limited number of tickets are still available as of the time of this post.


Govt. College, Ajmer is located in Rajasthan. The education institution was established in the year 1967. The College was affiliated to Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati University. Govt. College offers various courses like BA.LLB. The college has a well developed infrastructure and facilities like computer lab, Auditorium, Sports and more. The college has well trained and experienced faculty members. Govt. College address, contact number is provided in contact details.
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BOSTON – LIHC Investment Group, one the country's largest investors in affordable housing, and Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh together with the Boston Housing Authority, Mass Alliance of HUD Tenants (MAHT), and Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS), announced HUD approval of a creative plan to keep Concord Houses in the South End affordable for at least the next 40 years, with the support of the building's tenants.
"This agreement is the culmination of a multi-year effort to establish a new HUD program that will protect current and future residents of Concord Houses while providing funds for repairs and upgrades throughout the property," said Charlie Gendron, Principal, LIHC Investment Group. "We appreciate the support we received from the tenants; Congress, especially the efforts of Sen. Susan Collins; HUD; the City of Boston; BHA; MAHT; and GBLS in our drive to preserve this property for future generations." LIHC was instrumental in passing a key amendment to the FY 2018 HUD Appropriations Bill and securing HUD approval to fully finance the Concord Houses preservation plan.
Spanning two buildings located at 705-715 Tremont Street in the heat of the South End, Concord Houses has served as an important source of income-restricted housing in the South End for decades. In 2017, the HUD subsidy provisions governing the property expired, putting it at risk of losing its long-term affordability.
Of the 181 households at Concord Houses, 171—or 95 percent of households—chose to sign a waiver to convert their Enhanced Vouchers (EVs) to a new project-based rental assistance (PBRA) contract to make the plan work. The new HUD contract ensures homes at Concord Houses will be reserved for individuals earning no more than 80 percent area median income (AMI) and is renewable for a total of 40 years.
The agreement also guarantees that current and future tenants pay no more than 30 percent of their income toward rent, which will actually reduce the rent burden for 30 existing households at the property. The remaining ten households will receive rent protections in the form of EVs administered by BHA.
"This is an historic victory," commented Michael Kane, Director of MAHT, which helped the tenants organize. Since 1983, MAHT has saved more than 12,450 homes like Concord Houses as affordable housing, one building at a time, through tenant organizing. "Saving affordable housing in the heart of the South End will help maintain the neighborhood's racial and economic diversity well into the future. The 171 tenants who signed up to preserve their apartments are to be commended for making this possible." Kane also lauded LIHC and the City of Boston for supporting the tenants' preservation plan and working creatively with Congress and HUD to make it work.
LIHC Investment Group is undertaking a $7 million repair and capital improvement campaign at the property, which includes a new entry system and security cameras; flooring and ceiling replacement; lighting upgrades in the building's common areas; and exterior work ranging from masonry repair to new fencing and landscaping. Under LIHC's ownership, apartments in the building have already received new kitchen cabinets, granite countertops and appliances; upgraded bathroom fixtures, tubs, and tiles; and vinyl plank flooring.


Need to learn something quickly? Here's a trick: pretend you're going to have to explain it to someone later.
A study published in Memory & Cognition has found that people learn material better if they think they're about to teach it when compared to those who think they're about to be tested on it. Researchers split fifty undergraduates into two groups. Both had ten minutes to study a 1,500 word article on the "Charge of the Light Brigade", and they couldn't take notes. However, one group was under the impression that they'd have to teach another student what they'd learned, while the other was told that they'd have to take a test on the article's content.
In fact, both groups had to take a test, although it was twenty-five minutes after the students had a chance to study. The group who thought they'd be teaching did better: they recalled more key points, they did so more quickly, and their answers were better organized, reflecting the article they'd studied.
So, the next time you're out to learn something—a new language, how to drive stick, or whatever—imagine having to teach it to someone else. Chances are, you'll do better.
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No longer just for deflecting mind-reading waves from outer space, aluminum foil was allegedly used in an attempt to conceal a firearm on a flight from SFO to Europe. Kerry Lee Bobo, 53, was at SFO last Thursday afternoon to catch a flight to Amsterdam when Transportation Safety Administration screeners apparently "noticed what appeared to be a handgun" in his luggage.
When federal agents opened Bobo's luggage they found a loaded Sig Sauer .45-caliber handgun "wrapped in aluminum foil" and a taser. They then boarded Bobo's KLM flight and escorted the Atwater, California resident from the aircraft.
According to officials, he had wrapped the gun in aluminum foil in an attempt thwart x-ray screening devices. In the written complaint, a Homeland Security agent points out, "I know that some people believe--incorrectly--that aluminum foil can somehow block x-ray and other security screening devices."
Saddest of all, Bobo, traveling to Nairobi from Amsterdam, allegedly claimed that he packed the gun for protection from animals. Investigators, however, didn't buy his excuse and arrested him. Bobo was charged with trying to bring a loaded firearm on to an aircraft, a charge that can carry a 10-year maximum prison sentence. He posted $50,000 and was released on Friday.


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The 3 Families Behind Grain To Glass
FAMILY TIES THAT BIND BUSINESSES
The phrase, "family business," evokes a broad range of meanings: pride in heritage, dedication to a longstanding craft, and the adherence to core values that direct how the business, and the family behind it, operate.
Those shared principles also lead family businesses to partner with each other. It's how Heaven Hill Distillery connected with Beck's Hybrids and Peterson Farms when it launched its Grain to Glass project. Wanting customized grains for the creation of new whiskeys, the distillery sought the advice of one of Heaven Hill's longtime grain suppliers, Bernard Peterson of Peterson Farms. The 13th-generation farmer and partner in the business knew exactly who to call.
"One of our employees was a former Beck's employee, and he thought highly of them," said Peterson, whose business is based in Loretto, KY. "I knew they could create what Heaven Hill was looking for."
Founded in 1937, Beck's creates hybrid grains that yield targeted results – like nutrient content in animal feed or improved yield in distilling. As Heaven Hill and Beck's began collaborating on the Grain to Glass project, the natural fit in the partnership became clear.
Each company was fiercely independent, having resisted decades of industry consolidation
Each business was family founded, owned and led over multiple generations
Each was a respected leader in its field
Each worked from a long-term perspective that put customers first
Each firm was a stickler for details
It's why our team at Heaven Hill is spending huge amounts of time with your team," said Heaven Hill President Max Shapira during a conversation with Sonny Beck, CEO of Beck's Hybrids. "Paying that much attention to detail, to quality, to the way seed grains are put together by you guys—that gives us the chance to put our magic to it and develop it into a great whiskey."
Struggle, Adapt, Innovate
In 1935, Max Shapira's father, Ed, entered into distilling just as an investor, but when his partners couldn't run the business profitably, the Shapira family bought them out and took over. Though successful as department-store retailers, the Shapira family realized they had much to learn about selling whiskey. But over time, Heaven Hill Bottled-In-Bond Bourbon became Kentucky's top-selling Bourbon.
"My dad told me this business takes a lot of patience and perseverance to move forward," Shapira said. "He told me to create a strategic direction that meets opportunities as they arise, and then persevere along that path."
The Beck family faced a similar learning curve, evolving from a small farming operation to one that helps today's farmers keep up with 21st century demands. In addition to their high-performing products, Beck's helps farmers succeed by providing value-added programs that increase profitability.
And just as whiskey aging requires patience, so too does grain development.
"When we breed hybrids, we don't know how they'll perform at the beginning of their lifecycle," Beck said. "We might not know for as long as seven or eight years. That's why we put the products through various testing each year before we release them to sell."
Add up the time required to create a new hybrid seed to the years needed to make whiskey from it, and you have a product whose beginning and bottling bridges generations. That's the investment these companies are making in Grain to Glass.
"Sonny has seven to eight years invested in it, and then we've got to put seven or more years into it," Shapira said. "All I can say is when you have that much effort invested into one product, you're going to get an unbelievably fantastic whiskey!"
Innovation such as this, Shapira said, is always a gamble in the spirits business for distillers researching what products customers will want five, 10, and even 20 years into the future. "It is the toughest part of the business," Shapira said. "But we have the freedom to make decisions without concerns of shareholder opinions."
Beck said that long-range estimates are equally challenging in farming due to rapid changes in technology. When his family began farming a century ago, horses did most of the work. Now, he said, computerization influences every part of his business, from understanding the ground, to synching grain harvesters, to geo-positioning satellites.
"The world is doubling its shared knowledge every two to three years now," he said. "And I have to say, in order for us to continue helping farmers succeed, we feel it's our responsibility to stay ahead of the latest advancements to ensure farmers have what they need in the future."
The proliferation of technology has introduced a variety of unforeseen risks and rewards, but family-owned companies, like Peterson Farms, are perfectly positioned to adapt and overcome future obstacles.
"Having the independence and flexibility to change direction when needed is both a blessing and a curse," Peterson said. "If the decision is good, everyone's happy. But if it's the wrong choice, it's all on the owners."
"Being able to conceptualize new ideas and put them into action happens much more easily than you'd see in the corporate world," said Peterson. "It's one reason we like to work with other family-owned businesses."
Trust Over Time
Peterson said family businesses like his, Beck's, and Heaven Hill network constantly to share ideas that benefit all companies and their customers. In industries dominated by large, publicly-held conglomerates, he said such banding together creates solid camaraderie.
"You gain trust over time working with the same companies and getting to know those people," Peterson said. "Being able to rely on those long-term relationships with companies like yours is really important."
When asked if being involved in the Grain to Glass project held any special significance for Peterson Farms, he immediately affirmed it did.
"It's very exciting for us, a real sense of pride to see a product you helped create go to the consumer," Peterson said. "When we see those first bottles on the shelf and get to think, 'Yeah, we were part of that project,' that will be pretty special."
Celebrate Bourbon Heritage Month
Kentucky Bourbon Festival 2018


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Born To Play Guitar (2015)
On the cusp of turning 80, finally he admitted that he came into the world with a guitar –a Fender in his case- for an umbilical cord and that his first cries as a baby were in fact a blues ditty. Even his own website has trouble listing the immense discography Guy built up over the course of a career so long that he can boast of being one of Jimi Hendrix's mentors and of having shared a stage with him. It makes sense then to recall the obvious with the title to both a song and his new album (apparently studio release number 28 as a solo artist). That is especially true if someone receives the special Lifetime Achievement Award Grammy –never a good omen-, which Guy surely placed in the display case alongside the seven Grammy trophies he has won previously.
Age, of course, still hasn't made a mark on the leading luminary of Chicago blues still alive. Not in his fingers or his voice, not in the intensity with which he pays tribute to his colleague B.B. King, whose death still remains too fresh in the memory. None other than Van Morrison accompanies him on one of the climactic moments of the album.
Fittingly in an album full of personal references, Guy reserves a spot for Muddy Waters, who was something more than just a musical influence at the start of his career. Come back Muddy is the pinnacle, a closing lament played on piano and acoustic guitar that reeks of nightclubs and cheap alcohol. Pure blues.
Besides the Irish singer, the bearded guitarist from ZZ Top, Billy Gibbons, is another special guest whose contribution adds greatly to the album from the opening chord of Wear you out. That is hardly a surprise. Buddy Guy has always been surrounded by a group of rocker admirers, starting with Eric Clapton, and the Texas axeslinger is almost one of the family, not to mention the principal supporter of the Delta Blues Museum.
The list of friends is completed by the marvellous British vocalist Joss Stone, barely 30 years old and already a model soul singer, and Kim Wilson, the frontman for The Fabulous Thunderbirds, on hand to ensure the sound of harmonica is not missing from the album.
That is as essential an instrument as the Stratocaster, because Born to Play Guitar has all the necessary ingredients for understanding the Chicago blues just as Buddy himself learned it from the masters 50 years ago. And now it's his turn to pass along the legacy.
Buddy Guy - Discusses 'Born to Play Guitar'
Buddy Guy - Discusses Blues Today
Buddy Guy - Discusses His Biggest Achievement
Buddy Guy - Born To Play Guitar (Audio)
Mike Bloomfield, the American Clapton
Johnny Winter - The Texan gunslinger
B.B. King: Because Lucille always wants more


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Sailor - Shipwright
Background Summary
Sailing Around North America Through the Northwest Passage
We're thrilled to have Edward join us on S/V Celebrate on our North America Circumnavigation! Not only is he a great, experienced sailor, but he's a delight to have on board!
Celebrating the completion of a circumnavigation aboard S/V Adela as crew on the final legs.
Sailing Highlights
Edward grew up in Germany and has always been involved in sailing, starting in dinghies on the many lakes surrounding his home town Berlin. Many holidays were spent sailing the Baltic Sea and Scandinavian coasts venturing as far up north as the Norwegian Arctic Lofots.
After graduating from year twelve in Berlin, Edward moved to New Zealand where he was working for the traditional shipwright Marco Scuderi (mcnshipwrights.com) and started his apprenticeship in wooden boatbuilding. New Zealand is where he got started crewing on traditional boats for racing and began crewing on all kind of yachts for deliveries and cruising as well . The first real ocean crossing for Edward was from New Zealand to Australia on a 30footer, took 12 days and really kindled a passion for long passages and the awaiting landfalls.
Professional Highlights
Back in Europe Edward started professional nautical training with a German ship management company, working on merchant vessels operating worldwide. While at sea he simultaneously finished the last parts of his boatbuilding qualification. In march, the apprenticeship as nautical officers assistant will be finished too, just in time to join the crew of S/V Celebrate for their arctic expedition. After that, a 3 year university course awaits in order to gain the full officers license.
Licenses: RYA Day-skipper, German recreational skippering licenses for 1. Inland waters 2. Costal waters and 3. Offshore waters, Medical certificate for sea service, STCW Basic Safety, STCW Security Awareness, German Seaman's ID, Luxembourg Seaman's Book, STCW Watch-keeping Certificate, SSI Open Water Diver.
On the Bridge.
Iceboat Sailing!
Travel/Adventure Highlights
In late 2013 he moved to Australia, volunteering on tall ships as crew and shipwright, then in several wooden boatbuilding yards to acquire more skill, knowledge and experience. A trip which only was supposed to be a yacht relocation from northern Japan down to Hong Kong, ended up becoming one and a half year's sailing most legs of a circumnavigation and back to Europe on several different sailing yachts, seeing many amazing places on the way and meeting hugely interesting people of all sorts of characters.
In New Zealand!


When a baby boy is young, his mother and father will look after him. The baby is attached to its mum and dad.
When the baby grows up then it is time to let go the attachments and as an adult the young man needs to be free to live out his life doing what he wants to do.
The role has changed and now Mum and Dad is not so much a parent but a good friend to their son.
Mum and Dad now walks behind their son. If he ever falls they will be there to help him and pick him up. But only if he falls.
As parents we should need to be able to let go as well as to love fully. We try not to over reach and suffocate or under do and neglect. This is the fine line of life. Balance.


One thing seems prevalent today; we seem to be more concerned with the form of people than the fact that many are lost and need navigation. Do we embrace before the confession or wait to evaluate before we embrace?
You may have traveled this path I was on before the Holy Spirit began to work with me on this. At the first glance of someone, I could come up with a story about the person even without getting to know as much as the person's name. This is the scenario my dear Gracy found herself in.
Gracy was called on the podium to demonstrate her gifts to over 2 million people. The young lady pulled herself to the stage, dressed in tattered, worn out clothes dapped with every kind of grime you can imagine.
Each tear on her clothes represented a wrong choice she had made!
Each dirt highlighted the abuse and violence society has dumped on them!
Her worn out clothes signified the negative devastating circumstances life had brought her way!
Each filth stood for the judgmental glares thrown at her daily!
Is your judgment keeping someone away from being home? Know the need not being met; help in whatever way you can. Respond in love, not Judgement.
If you are the one not at home, come! There is a hug, acceptance, and restoration waiting for you.
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Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina
(University of Goettingen)
Pieters, Janneke
(Wageningen University)
Sparrow, Robert
Krisztina Kis-Katos
Janneke Pieters
Robert Sparrow
We analyse the gender-specific effects of trade liberalization on work participation and hours of work and primary participation in domestic duties in Indonesia. We show that female work participation increased in relative terms in regions that were more exposed to input tariff reductions, whereas the effects of output tariff changes were much less pronounced. When looking at the potential channels for these effects, we find that in Indonesia the structure of initial protection was considerably more female-biased than skill-biased and hence reductions in input tariffs have especially benefited sectors with a larger initial concentration of female workers. This has led to a relative expansion of more female intensive sectors as well as to a decrease in gender segregation of occupation, especially among the low skilled. We also find that labour markets are a key channel through which trade liberalization affects marriage decisions. Delayed marriage among both sexes is related to input tariff liberalization, especially in the younger cohorts, as the improved labour opportunities for women reduce the returns to marriage.
Kis-Katos, Krisztina & Pieters, Janneke & Sparrow, Robert, 2017. "Globalization and Social Change: Gender-Specific Effects of Trade Liberalization in Indonesia," IZA Discussion Papers 10552, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
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Abstract: 在諸多公共工程爭議中,逾期完工之案件佔有相當之比例。因公共工程金額龐大,該類案件之逾期罰款動輒數千萬至數億元,除對廠商權益影響甚大外,對工程主辦機關而言,亦是工程是否順利完工結案之關鍵之一。 近年來公共工程發生爭議之後,公部門在調解及仲裁部份履履皆以敗訴結案,賠償金額又常遠高出公部門所預期,除造成公部門業務承辦人員執行契約上之重大負擔外,更擔心承受敗訴後之考核及懲處,故承辦人員多傾向以訴訟方式解決爭議。而國內工程爭議之判決在各地方法院已達至相當之數量,如能將其判決內容彙整分析,整理出工程逾期罰款在法院判決之習慣比例,則工程相關人員在制定或執行契約時較能提出相關之依據,進而順利執行契約而完成工程。 本研究搜集過去七年,臺灣地區二十個地方法院有關公共工程逾期罰款之判決共73件。在建立此爭議類型之案例資料庫後,針對爭議之發生原因、工程規模、工程種類、工期計算等特性進行探討,並進行專家訪談以確定描述判決案例之因素,進而分析此諸特性與逾期罰款間之比例關係,歸納分析出公共工程逾期罰款在法院判決之態樣,最後建立一案例式推理輔助系統,以提供相關人員之參考。 Liquidated damages are not rare cases in construction disputes, especially for public construction projects. Since these projects are relatively large in scope, their liquidated damages are always in huge amount of monetary values. Thus, liquidated damages have become an important issue if the project is not completed within the contractual period. Recent public construction disputes, resolved by mediation or arbitration, were found to be very disappointed to the public agencies responsible for the project. The huge amount of compensations paid to the contractors put even more pressures to the personnel who were in charge of the projects. As a consequence, litigation has become a popular means to resolve any construction dispute that may occur. For the issue of liquidated damage, there are many cases, sentenced by district courts, electronically available from Internet. A frequent used ratio, i.e., liquidated damages to project size, determined by the judges would provide help in making decisions to the personnel who are dealing with this issue. This research collects 73 cases that involved liquidated damages from twenty district courts in Taiwan for the past seven years. A case base was established by storing various fields, such as causes of disputes, project sizes, project duration, types of projects, amount of damages, etc.; for each litigation case. A statistic analysis was then performed against the case base to investigate the relationships between the amount of damages/ratios and those fields. Finally, a prototype system using Case-Based Reasoning technology is implemented to retrieve similar litigation cases for a particular case. Reasoning results form the similar cases is able to provide assistance in decision-making to the personnel who are involved in such cases.


These projects constitute about 80,000 barrels of oil equivalent to 100,000 barrels of oil equivalent at peak production.
The investment, however, hinges on the extension of the production-sharing contract (PSC) of the Barmer oil and gas block in Rajasthan.
State-run Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is a partner in the block with 30% stake. Cairn India holds the rest (70%) in the block.
"Much as we believe that we should get it very soon now, but the projects cannot be viable till 2020, any one of these projects. So that's the only marker that stands in between," Mathur added.
The Delhi high court had in November had directed the government to take a decision regarding extension of the (PSC) with Cairn India, to produce oil from a Rajasthan block till 2020.
"The government is supposed to come back on February 28, but the hearing subsequent to that is planned for March 31, if required," Mathur told analysts.
Cairn is also scouting for oilfield service providers who could bring in technology as well as and provide an end-to-end solution or service in order to develop these fields.
"This will help Cairn optimize costs further by attracting a larger number of global oil field service companies with their niche expertise and technologies; provide a better coordination between vendor partners allowing efficient and time bound project execution and targeting a large number of projects simultaneously. The business opportunity is immense," said Mathur.
The gestation of these projects would range between 16 and 24 months. "So to kick start, we could—possibly all of them at the same time, you could see peak production levels of 70,000 barrels from day one within about 18 months to 19 months," he added.
An analyst with a Mumbai-based domestic brokerage said financing these projects would not be an issue for Cairn India as the company is sitting on an impressive cash pile. Cairn's free cash flow for the third quarter stood at ₹ 15 billion.
Cairn's revenue for the quarter increased 5% sequentially to ₹ 21 billion on account of pickup in the Brent crude prices and improved discount to Brent for Rajasthan crude.
Average Brent price was up 8% over the quarter to $49.3 per barrel, resulting into 10% increase in our overall realization to $46 per barrel.
Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (Ebitda) stood at ₹ 11 billion, highest in past six quarters with a 50% margin. Ebitda is an indication of a company's profitability.
Net profit after tax stood at ₹ 6 billion, a drop of 22% quarter-on-quarter. "The decline was largely due to foreign exchange and higher effective tax rate, which is only partially offset by the higher ebitda and lower depreciation," the company said on the analyst call.


Pecha Kucha is a night of by presentations in which each presenter shows 20 slides, and is allowed 20 seconds to talk about each. It's rapidly growing popularity called called for 2 nights of presentations, which I was asked to highlight. I designed an energetic poster that could be cut in half and hung separately, or left as one piece. In a semi-successful attempt to drive myself mad, I rearranged the riboons for facebook covers, intro slides, and a program.


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Last night's episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon took to the streets of Puerto Rico and had itself a glorious parade party lead by burgeoning superstar, Bad Bunny.
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11 or 12 steps allowed for the man who delivered the ball in for what I presume was St Marys third goal.
It was like a soccer match the whole way through with the chanting.
I can understand the idea of amalgamations taking part in "A" Ulster Colleges competitions if you want to try and help ensure that as many good players as possible in those age groups played at the highest level in the colleges sector - though you'd want to ensure that a fair limit is imposed on the size and catchment of such amalgamations to ensure single-school teams can still compete well e.g. amalgamations limited to no more than four post-primary schools with a combined male enrolment total of no more than about 1200 students. It sounds similar to the set up of the Kerry County Championship where Senior club teams and divisional teams made up from Intermediate, Junior & Novice clubs play against each other.
St Michael's through to the quarter finals today.
Any Craic, good work. I could use a bit of help here. What are the following competitions?
Don't forget to say if they're hurling or football. I want to add them to that wikipedia page I mentioned elsewhere, the list of GAA competitions. In each case, who competes, when does it run, and who is the cup named after? (Casement is obvious enough).
Corn na nOg - schools football 3rd year.
Ranafast - schools football 5th year.
McCormick - schools football 7th year. McCrory warm-up competition.
Is Mageean the hurling equivalent of the McCrory?
When you say schools, is that secondary schools?
It those schools that are affiliated with the Ulster Colleges GAA Council. Just to expand, Corn na nÓg is the "A" Competition for U14.5 football teams in Ulster, Rannafast Cup is the "A" Competition for U16.5 football teams, the Mageean Cup I'm 99% certain is the "A" competition for U18.5 hurling teams with the Casement Cup being the "B" competition in the same age group. There are nominally three grades of competition at each age group - for example while the MacRory Cup is the "A" Competition for U18.5 football teams, the "B" competition is the MacLaron Cup while the "C" competition is the Nolan Cup.
The McCormick Cup is a cup played within the confines of the MacRory Cup group stage - the top two teams after the group stages of the MacRory cup is completed play for the McCormick Cup. Normally it is played for between the two group winners, but on occasions where there has been only one group the top two teams played for the trophy.
Heard the Ulster Colleges GAA All Stars team were picked yesterday. Has anyone got the details?
St Pats Maghera got 3 footballers and 1 Hurler. Connor Carville (CHB), James Kearney (MF) and Stephen O'Hara (FF) in the football and Gerald Bradley in the Hurling.


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Sheinbaum, in the middle of the perfect storm
The head of government, Claudia Sheinbaum, it is in the middle of the perfect storm, because wherever it is done it runs into a severe problem. Half of the Metro lines are paralyzed due to the fire last weekend and serious mobility problems have been generated. Hospitals are at their historical maximum occupancy, with 90% and, if this week the admissions do not drop, the hospital system will be overwhelmed, something that was not wanted. As if that were not enough, now the restaurateurs opened their doors in a clear challenge to authority and with the risk that other sectors will imitate what they have done. They make us see that, of the characters who are considered presidential, Dona Claudia is the one who has the greatest challenge, but at the same time, if she comes out well off the storm, she will have shown that she has presidential size. This storm, they say, will define the political future of the head of the capital government.
Delfina Gómez refuses to leave Edomex
Despite having a new assignment in the Ministry of Public Education (SEP), the teacher Delfina Gomez It does not stop having interference in the State of Mexico, as they assure us that it continues to attend security meetings and make decisions on political matters. The argument he gives is that, so far, the president Andrés Manuel López Obrador It has not appointed a delegate for the Mexican entity and, in the meantime, it will continue to operate. As will be seen, the teacher has done remarkably well, since she has command in two areas that are transcendental.
They go for free oxygen in the city halls
They tell us that in the CDMX Congress, the president of the Political Coordination Board (Jucopo), Victor Hugo Lobo Roman and his colleague from the PRD bench, Gabriela Quiroga Anguiano, will propose to make it mandatory for the 16 municipalities of this City to install free recharging stations for oxygen tanks, to support families with Covid-19 patients, in addition to urging the federal government to support the CDMX with more care beds medical. The idea of tank refueling centers does not sound bad, but it remains to be seen that Morena lets them pass.
PRD raises his hand
With alliances being forged in the State of Mexico, they tell us that between the PRD and PRI something can be put together in the municipality of Calimaya, where the PRD leader has already raised his hand. Antonio Otheo, who has been working in the municipality for a long time. However, they tell us that Don Antonio should not be overtaken by the thirst for a bullfighter and he must wait for political times, so that things happen naturally, lest, no matter how close to the bull of candidacies, he takes a tremendous tumble.
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Draft European Commission report pushes more disastrous austerity
Unemployed now clearly in sights of Troika Same report downgrades growth forecasts
Unemployed now clearly in sights of Troika
Same report downgrades growth forecasts
The reports of those who have seen the latest draft report by the European Commission about Ireland make chilling reading. It is clear that the Commission now has unemployed people and the social welfare system in its sights. The suggestion that having unemployment benefits that do not diminish over time represents an 'unemployment trap' is clearly nonsense. The reason there are so many people unemployed is simple – there are very few jobs out there as a result of cuts to the public sector and a collapse of private investment and consumer demand that has seen around five small businesses closing every day.
At the same time, the Commission reportedly is cutting its growth projections for 2013 from 1.9% to 1.4%, and its projections for this year from 0.5% to 0.4%. This is ascribed to the decline in external demand. In reality it is due to the impact of austerity in Ireland and across Europe. The EU is heading for its second recession within three years, with Germany itself now facing difficulties. Austerity has failed dramatically to bring any economic growth. Yet the prescription from the Commission is to apply yet more austerity.
The Troika will be demanding more cuts in what will be one of the harshest budgets of the crisis. Fine Gael and Labour will undoubtedly comply. An attack on social welfare will bring immense increased suffering for tens of thousands. What is needed is to prepare for a struggle to oppose yet more attacks that will destroy lives and the economy. It is radical socialist policies, rather than a continuation of austerity, that are necessary to exit from the crisis.
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€nough! Referendum campaign: How can we defeat austerity?
With billions more going into the banks and the privatisation of semi states combined with cuts in the number of public sector jobs on the agenda, it is clear that this government is starting where Fianna Fail and the Greens left off. During the recent election while there was much talk of re-negotiating the EU/IMF deal it is evident now that both Fine Gael and Labour are committed to its implementation.
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I have this Hilo my sis got me. It seems pretty messed up. It looks fine but the strings touch the frets and the action isn't great. Anyone know how to fix this kind of problem?
hmm well sounds like the neck got warped back, this might be a good resource for it.
I don't think it warped back. Now that I look closer, the strings are closer to the frets on the first three frets. So how do I solve that? Idon't have the money to get the tools. Anyone have any DIY?
Try to take it to a music store and see what they say. can you post a pic of it? someone must know what to do.
Your action needs to be adjusted. You need to replace the nut at at the top of the fretboard.
Cool! If you need to replace the nut and saddle, you can use Tusq material (http://www.graphtech.com/prodtusq.htm)! They make nuts and saddles for KoAloha and they sell these to the public too.
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I had this same problem with my saprano Ukulele.
It turned out that the 10th fret bar was too high.
My Ukulele Construction Manual says that the height of the strings at the 12 fret should be 5/32''.
First get a ruler that has 32nds of an inch, and check the height of the stings at the 12th fret.
If the srtings are too close, here is what you could do.
You could get some 220 grit sandpaper, and sand down the nut and saddle until the height is 5/32" above the 12th fret.
If the height of the strings at the 12th fret is good, but those fret bars are just too high you can do this.
This is what I did with my saprano.
First loosen the strings so that they can come about 1 1/2" off of the fret board.
and slip it under the strings.
File down the fret bars that are too tall SLOWLY.
Make sure that you are filing parallel to the fret board.
After a few strokes with the file, tighten the strings and check the height.
if still not good, repeat the process.
Hope this helps, if you have any questions, I'll do my best to help.
oops, I forgot to say that if you are going to use the sand paper method, you need to get a new nut and saddle, an put them on first.
THEN, you can sand down to the right height.
ha. i think i just got the idea for my next tutorial.
first thing you wanna do is inspect how the thing looks in different angles. hold the uke up to your face and look down the fretboard. kinda like holding a rifle. or how you would look down a sword to make sure it is straight. see if there is any forward (concaved fretboard) or backward (convexed) curvature. if it is concaved, you will want to start working on the saddle first. if it is convexed, then you would want to work on the nut first.
basically, if the nut or saddle is too low, then you will have to make a new one to raise it up. if it is too hight, you can shave parts down, or cut deeper notches.
i should be able to hold a med guitar pick between the first fret wire and the strings without it falling out.
strings higher up on the neck dont exceed .5cm from the fret wires.
now, obviously if the neck is warped, you will not be able to get these same tolerances. but if you work on the right thing first, nut or saddle, and just work slowly and see what needs adjustment, and how, you will be able to fix it at least enough to play it.
My hilo used to be warped and the strings created alot of buzz on the frets, but somehow the buzz went away and it plays great.
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