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The Equifax Hack Is The Most Disastrous Data Breach In History Because Now Hackers Have The Credit Information Of 143 Million Americans
September 17, 2017 September 17, 2017 by Michael Snyder
Talk about a nightmare. It is being reported that criminals were able to hack into Equifax and make off with the credit information of 143 million Americans. We are talking about names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, home addresses and even driver's license numbers. If this data breach was an earthquake, we would be talking about a magnitude-10.0 on the identity theft scale. We have never seen anything like this before, and to say that this will be "disastrous" for the credit industry would be a massive understatement.
What really disturbed me about this story is that this hack reportedly occurred between "mid-May and July of this year"…
Credit monitoring company Equifax has been hit by a high-tech heist that exposed the Social Security numbers and other sensitive information about 143 million Americans. Now the unwitting victims have to worry about the threat of having their identities stolen.
The Atlanta-based company, one of three major U.S. credit bureaus, said Thursday that "criminals" exploited a U.S. website application to access files between mid-May and July of this year.
So why didn't we learn about this until September?
Somebody out there really needs to answer that question for us.
And even though the "143 million" number is being thrown around constantly, according to USA Today we may never know the true number of victims…
When asked if there's a way to quantify how many people have been harmed, John Ulzheimer, a credit expert and former employee at Equifax and credit score firm FICO, said: "There's no way to know, and there may never be a way to know."
Personally, I don't see how Equifax can possibly survive after this. Their stock price is already crashing, and now it has come out that they had put a "music major" in charge of data security…
When Congress hauls in Equifax CEO Richard Smith to grill him, it can start by asking why he put someone with degrees in music in charge of the company's data security.
And then they might also ask him if anyone at the company has been involved in efforts to cover up Susan Mauldin's lack of educational qualifications since the data breach became public.
It would be fascinating to hear Smith try to explain both of those extraordinary items.
Also, we are now finding out that Equifax has not just had security problems here in the United States.
According to the New York Post, data breaches have been taking place all over the globe…
Hackers had access to the names, dates of birth and e-mail addresses of nearly 400,000 people in the United Kingdom, said Equifax's British subsidiary in a statement last week.
In Canada, sensitive data belonging to 10,000 consumers may have been hacked in the breach, said a statement from the Canadian Automobile Association.
In Argentina, one of the company's portals was so easily accessible that it allowed quick exposure to the personal information of more than 14,000 people.
As noted above, the public didn't learn about any of this until September.
But once top Equifax officials learned what had happened, some of them started dumping their shares of Equifax very rapidly…
Three Equifax executives — not the ones who are departing — sold shares worth a combined $1.8 million just a few days after the company discovered the breach, according to documents filed with securities regulators.
Equifax shares have lost a third of their value since it announced the breach.
Needless to say, the SEC is going to be looking into this very closely.
As we move forward, there is a tremendous amount of concern as to how much this data breach will affect the U.S. economy.
Only time will tell, but without a doubt it will have an impact. For example, according to Bloomberg this data breach could potentially have an absolutely disastrous impact on store-branded credit cards…
Equifax Inc.'s massive data breach could make an already tough market outlook even more daunting for the firms behind Gap Inc.'s and Ann Taylor's store-branded credit cards.
Those retailers' banking partners, including Synchrony Financial and Alliance Data Systems Corp., could see fewer account originations as more consumers freeze their credit to avoid hack-related fraud. Consumers have to take extra steps — including calling the credit bureau, going online or paying fees — to lift a block and get a new card.
"If people are defaulting to credit freezes, then if you're a Macy's retailer trying to sell credit cards, you can't get that done at the point of sale," said Vincent Caintic, an analyst at Stephens Inc. "It could become a regular thing, these freezes. It does slow down the origination process and it's probably going to increase acquisition costs."
If you believe that your data may have been compromised in this breach, there are some things that you can do right away to help protect against identity theft. You can sign up for 24 hour a day credit monitoring, you can request fraud alerts, you can enable "two factor authentication" and beyond all of that you could go as far as to freeze your credit.
But if everybody in America suddenly started freezing their credit, that would slow down economic activity dramatically. So needless to say authorities are hoping that does not happen.
In this case, Equifax needs to step up and do the right thing. They need to inform all of the victims (even if that means reaching out to 143 million different people), and they should automatically provide free credit monitoring for all of those that were affected.
I seriously doubt that Equifax will take these measures, and I also seriously doubt that Equifax will be able to survive much longer.
When you bungle something as badly as Equifax has done, it is nearly impossible to restore faith in an organization. The credit information of 143 million Americans is now in the hands of criminals, and the potential damage that could be done is absolutely off the charts.
Michael Snyder is a Republican candidate for Congress in Idaho's First Congressional District, and you can learn how you can get involved in the campaign on his official website. His new book entitled "Living A Life That Really Matters" is available in paperback and for the Kindle on Amazon.com.
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27 Signs That The Standard Of Living For America's Middle Class Is Dropping Like A Rock
October 7, 2010 October 7, 2010 by Michael Snyder
If you still have a job and you can put food on the table and you still have a warm house to come home to, then you should consider yourself to be very fortunate. The truth is that every single month hundreds of thousands more Americans fall out of the middle class and into poverty. The statistics that you are about to read are incredibly sobering. Household incomes are down from coast to coast. Enrollment in government anti-poverty programs sets new records month after month after month. Home ownership is down, personal bankruptcies are way up and there are not nearly enough jobs to go around. Meanwhile, the price of basics such as food and health care continue to skyrocket. Don't be fooled by a rising stock market or by record bonuses on Wall Street. The U.S. economy is not getting better. After World War II, the great American economic machine built the largest and most vigorous middle class in the history of the world, but now America's middle class is disintegrating at a blinding pace.
Most of those who write about the plight of the American middle class believe that things can be turned around and that the middle class will eventually be stronger than it ever has been. But unfortunately, that is just not the case. As a society, we have lived far, far beyond our means for decades. Now the bills are coming due and none of our leaders seem to know what to do.
Meanwhile, the U.S. economy is being rapidly assimilated into the emerging one world economy. Middle class American workers now find themselves in direct competition for jobs with the cheapest labor on the other side of the globe. Of course many multinational corporations have taken advantage of this by moving factories and jobs to countries like China where blue collar workers make about a dollar an hour. This has helped raise the standard of living for workers in those nations by a nominal amount, but it has been absolutely devastating for the standard of living of America's middle class.
So what does all of this mean?
It means that the U.S. economy is headed for collapse and middle class Americans are in for some really, really hard times.
The following are 27 signs that the standard of living for America's middle class is dropping like a rock….
#1 Household spending for the middle fifth of all U.S. income earners was down 3.5% in 2009. That was the steepest one year decline since records began being kept back in 1984.
#2 Median household income in the United States fell from $51,726 in 2008 to $50,221 in 2009.
#3 According to one new report, in 2009 residents of New York state experienced their first full-year decline in income in more than 70 years.
#4 Of the 52 largest metro areas in the United States, only the city of San Antonio did not see a decline in median household income in 2009.
#5 Home ownership in the United States declined for the third year in a row in 2009.
#6 In 2009, approximately 4 million Americans fell out of the middle class and now live below the federal poverty line.
#7 The number of Americans enrolled in the food stamp program has set a new all-time record for 20 consecutive months.
#8 In July (the last month for which data is available), 41.8 million Americans were on food stamps.
#9 The number of Americans in the food stamp program skyrocketed more than 55 percent between December 2007 and July 2010.
#10 In 2009, more than 48 million Americans were enrolled in the Medicaid program.
#11 One out of every six Americans is now enrolled in at least one anti-poverty program run by the U.S. government.
#12 According to one recent study, approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010.
#13 According to the Cato Institute, anti-poverty spending by the U.S. government has increased 89 percent over the past decade.
#14 The cost of health care increased a staggering 9.6% for all U.S. households from 2007 to 2009.
#15 It turns out that only the top 5 percent of all U.S. households have earned enough additional income to match the rise in housing costs since 1975.
#16 35 percent of all U.S. households now live on $35,000 or less.
#17 New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says that Wall Street bonuses for 2009 were up 17 percent when compared with 2008.
#18 According to a poll taken in 2009, 61 percent of Americans "always or usually" live paycheck to paycheck. That was up substantially from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007.
#19 Today, 28% of all American households have at least one member that is searching for a full-time job.
#20 Nearly 10 million Americans now receive unemployment insurance, which is almost four times as many that were receiving it back in 2007.
#21 A recent Pew Research survey found that 55 percent of the U.S. labor force has experienced either unemployment, a pay decrease, a reduction in hours or an involuntary move to part-time work since the recession began.
#22 In 2009, 43.6 million Americans were living in poverty. Sadly, the number of Americans living in poverty has increased for three consecutive years, and the 43.6 million poor Americans in 2009 was the highest number that the U.S. Census Bureau has ever recorded in 51 years of record-keeping.
#23 A staggering 25 percent of all American adults now have a credit score below 599.
#24 It is estimated that nearly a third of all Americans cannot qualify for a mortgage because of low credit scores.
#25 For the first time in U.S. history, banks own a greater share of residential housing net worth in the United States than all American households put together.
#26 Over 1.4 million Americans filed for personal bankruptcy in 2009, which represented a stunning 32 percent increase over 2008.
#27 According to a new report by the U.S. Census Bureau, the bottom fifth of all U.S. income earners brought in just 3.4 percent of all income in 2009 while the top fifth brought in a whopping 49.4 percent of all income.
So is there any hope that things will turn around soon?
At this point, even some of the top economic authorities in the nation are admitting that we are headed for very difficult times.
Goldman Sachs recently announced that the U.S. economy is likely to be either "fairly bad" or "very bad" over the next 6 to 9 months.
Not only that, but Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke now says that the U.S. economy is in a situation that is dire and "unsustainable".
Not that Goldman Sachs or Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke should be trusted when it comes to the economy.
When it comes to the problems we are facing, the truth can be found in the long-term trends. If you have not done so already, please read "11 Long-Term Trends That Are Absolutely Destroying The U.S. Economy". It will open your eyes to the true horrors that our economy is now facing.
But statistics alone do not tell the real story.
Sometimes what gets lost in the endless economic statistics is the very real pain of the millions of Americans who are trying to live through this. The following story from the Unemployed Friends website is from a woman named Leetah who is desperately hoping to be able to get through this upcoming winter….
The place I live in right now has no jobs and no places to live. My fiance, Lloyd, and I have been looking for anything but he lost his job from McDonald's and the factories (the only jobs to make a living off of) consider him an insurance liability. I can't get hired to a factory because of I was fired from our major factory for attendance (I had to miss 3 days of work because I was sick). So we are moving to the Edmond/OKC region where we are hoping to find a job and a place with running water and heating. We've spent the last few years without heat and running water and so having a place with water and heat would be heaven.
Winter is coming up fast and I am so afraid. Last winter we almost died from the cold and now the thought of cold makes my throat close up and my heart pound. But it isn't just ourselves we are looking out for, we have our dog too. Our wonderful APBT Maggie who is 2-years-old and has been with us since she was 5-months-old. She's our baby girl and we can't lose her. We almost lost her to the cold too and it scared me so much. We are going to be living in our car soon with our dog.
I am hoping to be able to keep our food stamps in the new city so we can still eat. I have already applied for ten+ jobs and nothing yet but I am keeping my hopes up. Hopefully it will get easier to find a job once we get there. Then we just have to save up and then we can afford an apartment. Now finding an apartment with my awesome dog is another story.
Please say a prayer for those who are out of work and on the verge of being forced out on the street.
You never know, you might be next.
Categories The Next Great DepressionTags Credit Score, Debt, Debts, Economy, Health Insurance, Income, Jobs, Middle Class, Mortgage, Mortgages55 Comments


For most of my life I have been lucky to work just 3 km from home, so I have not been exposed too much to the commuting woes. For example, when I arrived in the Silicon Valley, the 101 freeway had two lanes in each direction separated by a wide median strip planted with oleanders. Over the years, the median strip has disappeared and 101 became a freeway with four crowded lanes in each direction. For the last two or three years, a fifth auxiliary lane is being added in each direction in the portion between Marsh Road (Facebook) and 85 (Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft), so I have heard a lot of yammer from my coworkers.
For the past year I have been a commuter myself, barreling down 23 km to the San Jose airport every day. Unfortunately there is no usable public transportation, so I am condemned to this daily freeway maltreatment. It starts after 2 km, when I enter 101 on Embarcadero, where about 20% of the drivers illegally cross two double lines at a 90º angle to force themselves in a passing lane before the actual freeway entrance, while pushy Gbusses force themselves from the high occupancy vehicle lane to the exit lane and a few 100 m later a slew of cars try to make a –90º turn from the leftmost lane to the San Antonio Road exit.
During the past year I have tried to develop a driving model that would reduce my stress, but not very successfully. Last Saturday finally was able to see a sophisticated model in action and it was an eye-opener: I got to ride a Google Car from the Googleplex down 101 to the 280 interchange and back.
Sitting behind the "driver" I had a good view of the laptop on the lap of the lady in the front passenger seat, displaying the car's model of the surroundings based on the lidar spinning on top of the car and also a radar in the front of the car, an inertial sensor in the rear wheel axis and last but not least on countless hours of tweaking the model based on the feedback of skilled professional drivers like Anja—our pilot on this trip—who rides full-time for her work.
On the console we see the freeway lanes, our projected route, and the surrounding vehicles. When a vehicle creates a dangerous situation, it is marked with a danger sign. The model recognizes the lights of emergency vehicles and can pull over according to the law. However, it ignores other car's blinkers. In fact, the American driving culture is that the other drivers are your enemies and you do not want to warn them by letting your intentions to be known: the blinker is either never turned on or left blinking.
While as a human I can model a few cars around me, Google's algorithm can model many cars around our self-driving car, in all directions. When our car gets in the blind spot of another car, the icon of that car is flagged with a danger sign. With a surprising frequency, the flagged cars cut us off at a dangerously close distance. Since I am not driving, I can look in the offending cars and can never see those drivers turning their heads to check the clearance. Therefore, they are all driving erratically without looking, resulting in the car being cut off, breaking and propagating this backwards to the following cars.
Like computers can beat humans at chess because they can predict a larger number of steps, Google's car is better than human drivers because it can by far model more vehicles than a human can. Yet, humans are too stupid and reckless for Google's algorithm to be completely foolproof. For example, at one point in Santa Clara we were in the right lane and a big truck tried to pass us driving above the speed limit and on the shoulder. Our pilot Anja recognized, maybe from the truck's exhaust fumes, that he did not have enough torque to pass us and the shoulder turned into a ditch a few meters further ahead. This would have left the truck driver to either go full speed into the ditch or ramming us, so she floored our brakes.
Those reckless drivers are in part professional drivers who spend their working day on the freeway driving trucks, taxis, limos, etc. This indicates that most humans are unfit to drive cars.
But are driver-less cars the answer? When I was a teenager, I thought that by 2014 I could fly to the moon with TWA or PanAm and get to Paris in a couple of hours on a Trans Europ Express (TEE). It would never have crossed my mind that in 2014 I would be driving a car on a freeway full of incompetent erratic drivers.
The mistake being made by the Caltrans agency is to build those auxiliary lanes. Instead, they should have built a train like the S-Bahn on that old median strip. A skilled professional train driver could get me to work in a few minutes, safely and without stress.


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The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, located directly in front of San Francisco City Hall, currently has a special Bali exhibit that runs till September 11, 2011. I checked it out with a friend last weekend and was pretty impressed. Like a lot of people, when I think of Bali (I've never been), I think of sandy beaches with a great party scene that attracts hordes of Western tourists. This exhibit promised to explore Bali's history through its art, performances and rituals. I was particularly excited to learn more about the Dutch's colonization of Indonesia and how this affected Bali's culture and society.
1. Bali is predominately Hindu, which sets it apart from the rest of the country which is predominately Muslim. Many of the artwork, especially the religious works obviously, looks very much like what you see in some Indian exhibits.
2. "Puputan" means fight to the death. The Dutch (or more precisely the Dutch East India Company backed by the Dutch military), began colonizing Indonesia starting all the way back in 17th century. They initially left Bali alone but then took action against Bali in 1906 in order to gain greater control of the country. At that time, Bali was split into several kingdoms. As the Dutch advanced to some of the palaces, some of them were already deserted and in flames. Other palaces, such as the one in Denpasar, greeted the Dutch soldiers by marching out and killing themselves and others. Some of the women threw their jewelry at the soldiers. A final act of defiance and control in the face of impending doom. The Dutch proceeded to loot the bodies and palaces.
As most of the works of art in the exhibit are from museums in The Netherlands, such as the Tropenmuseum, it was a weird feeling to learn about Bali through artifacts probably looted from the country by the colonizers. The night ended with a fully belly after enjoying an Indonesian dinner at a friend's place. Tonight, after much badgering, I'm going to an Indonesian restaurant for my first ever rijsttafel. It's a prelude to the fancier one that we'll be going to in Holland come May.


As in peanut butter and jelly?
Is it based on our "need" that God answers…or simply because we ask in faith?
This is the Scripture that came to me as I stood at my kitchen counter making my granddaughter a peanut butter and jelly sandwich this morning. And this is why.
This morning as I reclined in my recliner watching the news, my husband Freddie kissed me goodbye and left for work around 5:45. We had been up since about 3:30 and shortly after he left I began to drift off to sleep. So I turned off the TV and the lamp, got all comfy under my afghan and went sound asleep. At 6:45 the phone woke me from what seemed to be a very lengthy and tiring dream. Normally, if someone wakes me from sleep I come to my senses immediately, but this morning I had trouble concentrating. It was my daughter, Amy. She needed a favor. She was out of bread and asked if I would make my granddaughter Lindsay a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for her lunchbox. I told her I was glad to do so, and she said that she would pick it up on their way to school around 7:15. When I hung up I was still very groggy. I looked at the clock and saw that I had thirty minutes, and within seconds sensed myself drifting back to sleep. I said, "Lord, don't let me fail to wake up in time to make that sandwich." And with that, I immediately fell asleep again.
The phone rang again, but this time it didn't startle me. When I answered it my daughter Amy politely said, "I just wanted to be sure that you hadn't forgotten to make the sandwich." As soon as I heard these words I opened my eyes and realized that I wasn't actually on the telephone with my daughter…I was dreaming all of this. Once again I sensed the awesome presence of God. I looked at the clock. It was 7:05. I still had at least 10 minutes to make the sandwich. No, I wasn't surprised that God woke me this way. I cannot begin to testify of all the many times God has done such as this for me throughout the years, but it never fails to be very humbling when He manifests Himself to me in such a personal way. His awesome love and care for even the most trivial matters in my life still blows me away. All I could think when this happened was what I always think…..Lord, You are so very faithful! Each and every time, I not only stand in awe, but it causes me to see my own lack of faithfulness to Him. It causes me to desire to be even more faithful and to please Him more.
Wide awake and refreshed, I immediately got up and went to the kitchen. As I was standing there making my granddaughters sandwich and pondering on these things, the words "consider the lilies" came to my mind. I remembered this Biblical story of Jesus teaching His disciples to trust God, and I realized how what had happened this morning was such a picture of this teaching. I was reminded again how much God loves me and cares for every detail of my life. I was reminded again of the faithfulness of God, and how that as I've learned to trust Him in the little things, it's made it easier for me to trust Him in the big ones.
So I say to you what Jesus said some two thousand years ago…look at nature. Does not nature itself declare the handiwork of God? God has seen to it that the lilies of the field and the birds of the air are cared for….then oh my friend, how much greater is His love toward you. He knows your every daily need, every desire, and so desires that you trust Him for even the smallest of things. He is able to do abundantly above anything we could ever think or ask. He desires that we come to trust Him so, that our main focus in life is on His kingdom and not so much on our own. As we do this, we will experience His awesome presence in our lives each and every day.
P.S. On a very personal note: I couldn't help but notice that today is the 5th day of the 5th month. 5 is the scriptural number that represents GRACE. So for me, today, 5-5 is a day of double grace. Grace is that undeserved, unmerited favor given to us by God that empowers us to do what Truth demands. What a glorious way to start the day! Thank You Jesus!
Father, I pray that my precious friends, my brothers and sisters in Christ, receive a double portion of Your awesome grace today. May they experience Your manifest Presence as they walk with You in faith and trust…as they seek Your kingdom and Your will.


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Great ape gestures: Studying the behavior of bonobos in Congo can offer insight into human evolution. | GETTY IMAGES
National / Science & Health | NATURAL SELECTIONS
There's so much that bonobos and chimps can teach humans
by Rowan Hooper
About 6 million years ago in Africa there was an ape species that would change the world. We don't know much about that animal — we assume it was similar to the modern-day chimpanzee — but we do know that one population separated from the rest and would eventually evolve into our species, Homo sapiens. The rest of the species stayed together for another few million years.
Then, between 1 million and 2 million years ago, this group again split in two — separated by the physical barrier of the Congo River. The formerly single species would go on to evolve into chimpanzees on one side of the river, and bonobos on the other.
Six million years sounds like a long time, but in evolutionary terms it's rather short. We are still closely related to both of those cousin ape species, and slightly more closely to bonobos than to chimps. Understanding them, therefore, is hugely important to learning about our own biology and behavior, and work at the Primate Research Institute at Kyoto University has been vital.
Decades of study in the wild has told us that chimps tend toward violence, and bonobos tend toward love and peace. There are exceptions, and we'll come back to a shockingly gruesome finding that has just been reported by the Kyoto group, but in general chimps use violence to settle disputes, whereas bonobos, where females dominate society, use sex.
Humans can't be so easily categorized. We are both violent and peaceful; we seem to have blended characteristics of both chimps and bonobos. I've been thinking about this recently, reading primatologist Richard Wrangham's new book "The Goodness Paradox." Wrangham is a professor of anthropology at Harvard University, and argues that since we split from chimps and bonobos, humans domesticated themselves. A species becomes domesticated, Wrangham says, if it changes genetically and becomes tame.
The key was when sophisticated language evolved, which enabled conspiracies and cooperation to flourish. This change in our ability to communicate seems to have occurred between 500,000 and 300,000 years ago. It meant, Wrangham argues, that weaker individuals could join forces and plan to attack and remove — kill — violent, stronger leaders. As the ferocious and violent males were gradually removed from the population over hundreds of thousands of years, our species as a whole become less violent. We became tame.
Incidentally this gradual reduction in the use of violence against members of our own species has continued in modern times, as documented brilliantly by another Harvard professor, Steven Pinker, in his book "The Better Angels of Our Nature."
Like everything, language itself evolved from simple forms. A recent analysis of the gestural language used by chimps and bonobos shows that there are many similarities — if the two apes ever met up, they would probably be able to understand each other.
Takeshi Furuichi of Kyoto University, and a team of international colleagues, recorded 33 different gestures made by bonobos and compared them with those made by chimps. "Bonobos and chimpanzees share not only the physical form of the gestures, but also many gesture meanings," the scientists say.
For example, an arm extended in front of another animal means "climb on me" in both bonobo and chimpanzee language; scratching of the arms means "groom me," and stroking the mouth means "fetch that object." Some gestures were different, however. If a bonobo stands up it means "let's have sex" — but the signal doesn't exist for chimps. You might expect that there are more signals designed to encourage sex in a species where sex is used socially.
Lest we get carried away with the idea that bonobos are completely loving and that their society is some sort of sexual utopia, let's just review some more of Furuichi's work with wild bonobos in Congo. Be warned this is quite stomach churning.
Furuichi's team observed two cases of female bonobos eating their own offspring. Maternal cannibalism is very rare in apes, but the observations by Furuichi and another case in Congo suggest it is a normal part of bonobo behavior. It's not known whether the mothers killed their own children first.
Kirsty Graham from the University of York, U.K., is one of Furuichi's collaborators. "In future, we hope to learn more about how gestures develop through the apes' lifetimes. We are also starting to examine whether humans share any of these great ape gestures and understand the gesture meanings, so watch this space."
It's worth noting that both bonobos and chimpanzees are endangered species, with populations declining toward extinction in the wild. We can't let this happen. It's wrong in its own right to let these animals go extinct and, if we do, we will lose the opportunity to gain huge insight into our own evolution.
Rowan Hooper is managing editor of New Scientist magazine. He tweets at @rowhoop and his book, "Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Our Capacity," is out now, published by Simon & Schuster.
evolution, animals, primates, chimpanzees, monkeys, bonobos, bonobo
Chimps chomp on crabs: In world first, Kyoto professor and team observe apes eating aquatic animals

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'He loved anything with wheels': emotional tributes paid at candlelit vigil for tragic motorcyclist Jordan Brown
Scores of family and friends gathered on Wigan Road to pay their respects to Jordan
Liam Soutar
Published: 09:30 Friday 22 February 2019
Family and friends of Jordan Brown, who died in a tragic motorbike accident this week, have held a poignant vigil in his memory.
Jordan, 24, died after being involved in a collision with a car on Wigan Road on Monday.
Related: Biker, 24, dies after crash in Leigh
Jordan, who was an engineer, was riding his black Honda motorbike when he collided with a white Renault Megane on Wigan Road at the junction with Hulme Road.
Emergency services attended and he was taken to hospital, but he died of his injuries after a brave battle.
Family and friends gathered last night (Friday) near the crash site, to pay their respects.
A chorus of motorbike engines became a fitting background noise as dozens of people came to lay flowers, pictures and messages for Jordan.
A tree on Wigan Road was adorned with flowers, pictures and messages
His sister Jenna said: "It was a really good turnout. He's been on bikes since he was three years old. He loved anything with wheels, whether it was a skateboard or a BMX. And the bike's just got bigger as he got older."
A Just Giving page has also been set up to cover the costs of his funeral by kindhearted residents who knew Jordan, who was from Tyldesley.
A statement on the page said: "We know Jordan was a loved and popular young man and we ask kindly for people to support the funds needed to celebrate his life properly."
You can donate to the fund-raiser here
'Son, brother' uncle', a poignant tribute to the 24-year-old
Police enquiries ongoing
Two women – aged 42 and 64 – who had been in the Renault were also taken to hospital for treatment for neck injuries. They have since been released and are recovering at home.
No arrests have been made and enquiries are ongoing.
Police are continuing to appeal for information on the collision.
Police Constable Jo Worsley of GMP's Serious Collision Investigation Unit, said: "Sadly, this collision has resulted in the death of a young man.
"Our thoughts are with his family at this unimaginably difficult time and we are working hard to piece together the circumstances that led to this collision so we can give them the answers they deserve.
"It happened at a relatively busy time of the evening, so we believe there may be several potential witnesses.
"I'd also like to appeal to anyone who may dash-cam footage to please get in touch."
Anyone with information should call GMP's Serious Collision Investigation Unit on 0161 856 4741 or the independent charity Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555 111.
A heartrending reminder of Jordan's biggest passion in life, a silhouette of a motorcycle was affixed to the tree
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 M37 (Fernstraße), eine Fernstraße durch Turkmenistan und Usbekistan
 Messier 37, ein offener Sternhaufen im Sternbild Fuhrmann
 Dodge M37, ein US-amerikanisches Militärfahrzeug
 Ithaca M37, eine US-amerikanische Flinte
 Feldkochgerät M37, ein  US-amerikanischer Feldkochherd

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This centerpiece-worthy lamb is marinated in a pomegranate molasses, rosemary, garlic, and mint mixture. Glaze with more pomegranate molasses after roasting.
A pork tenderloin covered with an aromatic fennel rub is wrapped in bacon and roasted to perfection in this Italian-inspired recipe.
Pork shoulder roasted with plenty of garlic is sliced, pan-fried, and served over white beans with romaine and tomato salad for a gourmet take on a budget cut.


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Happy 100th Birthday to the Ford Pickup Truck
TSC Ford Specialist loves a great celebration, and we are proud to say Happy 100th Birthday to the Ford pickup truck which has been America's top selling truck. Most people know just how great these trucks are, but in honor of turning 100, we want to remind people why the Ford pickup truck is hands down, one of the best!
In 1917, the first Model TT truck was rolled out, compliments of Henry Ford. This rugged truck was meant to assist farmers mostly, but he would have never predicted how everyday Americans would fall in love with this style of vehicle, and the love affair continues today. It's hard to believe that this truck cost only $600 back then.
The Ford F series truck has been a best seller for over 35 years and is still climbing.
The F-series pickup truck emerged in 1948, arriving at a crucial time as Ford introduced the first all-new vehicles developed after the war. This vehicle was modern and stylish, and this is also where the F-series name was born, including the F1 and F-100 that would remain in use for decades. In 1975, the F-150 arrived. In 1999, the Super Duty truck made its way into the hearts of Americans, and although intended for heavy jobs around the farm or work site, people started using them for pleasure use as well, and they account for about 1/3 of the F-series truck sales.
Throughout this period, Ford trucks started looking less utilitarian, it had two-tone paint, automatic transmissions, and improved on the heater and radio options. The F-11 in 1953 debuted new standard features including armrests, dome lights, and sun visors. The shape was longer with a wider cab, and the new truck featured integrated front fenders with a more aerodynamic design.
Fords innovation is unbeatable without a doubt, and let's not forget about the Twin I-beam front suspension, which began in 1961, followed by the SuperCab in 1974, and the well-loved F-150 a year later. Ford trucks come with all sorts of extras like EcoBoost engines, 10-speed automatic, Drive Mode selector and so much more. And remember the Ford F-150 Raptor and Ranger Wildtrak? These were considered the biggest and baddest trucks on our roads today.
As the sayings go, "Ford is responsible for putting the world on wheels," "built Ford tough," "helped build America," "keep on truckin," and that is why people love their Ford trucks. These vehicles have moved more people, families, loads, and equipment than we will ever know!
So, what does the future hold for these trucks? Well, there is no doubt we will probably see some hybrid technology coming our way soon. And Fords unique cutting edge innovative designs are always brewing up something even more sleek, powerful and sexy for all who adore the Ford truck… we just have to wait and see!
From TSC Ford Specialist and all the happy Ford families out there, Happy 100th Birthday to the Ford pickup truck, may you have even more longevity and happy customers in the next 100 years. And be sure to visit us at TSC Ford Specialist for all your repair and maintenance needs when you purchase one of these trucks because as our name states, we are the specialists in everything Ford.
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Fruit stands are Manhattan's new hot dog vendor, minus the mustard and ketchup.
Their street corner takeover has sparked some New Yorkers, like Upper East Sider Jamie Kayam, to carp that their neighborhood is oversaturated with apples, bananas and overly ripe white cherries.
"In NYC, buying fruits and vegetables has never been easier!" Kayam wrote in an e-mail to Gotham Gazette and The Huffington Post. "When recently discussing life in the city with some friends, a key complaint that came up was that there are too many fruit stands in Manhattan!"
Across the river, Kayam's plight might be a blessing.
The Upper East Side has one of the highest concentrations of food retailers in the city, according to the Department of City Planning. The neighborhood ranks third in the number of grocery stores per capita, boasting more than 22,000 square feet of strictly supermarket space per 10,000 residents, according to the department.
But out of Manhattan, greens get elusive. In the South Bronx, residents have about half of that supermarket space. In Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant, 82 percent of retailers are unlikely to sell fresh fruits and vegetables, and in some areas of Upper Manhattan that number increases to 90 percent, according to city planning.
The Huffington Post and Gotham Gazette asked you how far you travel to get fresh fruits and vegetables. Many of you said veggies are ripe for the taking in your neighborhoods. But a majority of those of you who responded, almost two thirds, live in Manhattan, brownstone Brooklyn or other affluent areas of the five boroughs.
Those outside of these areas may not find a fruit flood, but a produce desert.
This map uses data from the city's Going to Market report released last year. Rollover a district to find out how many supermarkets there are and how that compares to the number of residents.
Chelsea is an agricultural Atlantis, says resident Steve Panepinto.
About 100 blocks north it's another story.
"I live in the West Harlem area, and it is incredibly difficult to find quality fruits and vegetables," writes Erin Barker. "It's a big problem. Even when stores have this stuff, it's usually not in good shape -- bruised or not usable. I think it is more difficult in my neighborhood than it is in wealthier areas of Manhattan that have more upscale grocery stores."
The discrepancy, according to Ben Thomases, the Bloomberg administration's food policy coordinator, explains why the city is targeting areas in Upper Manhattan, central Brooklyn and the Bronx to grow (pun intended) access to fruits and vegetables. It's pushing for produce on the shelves of corner bodegas, has issued 1,000 green cart permits for specific neighborhoods and is now working on financial and zoning incentives to get more supermarkets into certain areas.
"A lot of low-income communities in Upper Manhattan and the outer boroughs were decimated in the '70s and early '80s," said Thomases. "At that time, naturally, a lot of supermarkets left. When the communities were rebuilt, for a mixture of reasons, the supermarkets didn't really come back."
The administration has already kicked off its financial package, which includes tax abatements for new supermarkets and for those that want to renovate or expand. The city will provide a sales tax exemption for anything related to expanding or constructing a grocery store, from cash registers to two by fours. It also is offering a mortgage recording tax waiver.
To root even more supermarkets in needy neighborhoods, the city's Planning Commission proposes to allow developers to build bigger spaces if they include a supermarket in their plans. If a large mixed-use development has a supermarket on its bottom floor, the city will support the addition of the same amount of square feet of residential space, in effect adding thousands of square feet to the structure. City officials say they will also lower the amount of parking spaces required for supermarkets and are allowing larger grocery stores in manufacturing areas. Currently, these zoning proposals are under review and should be voted on by the City Council by the end of the summer.
So far, the city is aiming low. A success to Barry Dinerstein, a senior planner at the city's Department of Planning, would be another 15 supermarkets sprinkled throughout the city's highest need areas in the next few years.
That goal is unlikely to alter Keri Roberts's two-mile bike ride from her Windsor Terrace apartment to the "local" Costco.
"My biggest complaint about living in New York is how hard it is to get fresh produce," Roberts, a technical writer and 16-year Brooklyn resident, said.
For many like Roberts, it's not just about proximity, but cost. If you're on a fixed income, the corner bodega's fruits, while close to home, come with an inflated price tag. "It's just so expensive," said Roberts.
So, some New Yorkers walk (a.k.a. wince and make like it's an added health bonus). Oliver Noble, who is on fixed income, travels 25 blocks from his Park Slope apartment to a vegetable market. Last week, he told us, those blocks cut his produce cost at least in half. He got green peppers for 69 cents a pound -- a bargain from the usual $1.99 a pound.
At least for the next few months, the city's green markets can be a summer savior. The Council on the Environment of New York City, a city-affiliated nonprofit, is running 49 greenmarkets this year across the five boroughs, bringing fresh vegetables (at least temporarily) a lot closer to home for scores of neighborhoods, said Sabine Hrechdakian, the council's special projects and publicity manager. Of those, 23 accept food stamps.
But only 18 of the markets are open year-round, seriously depleting the fresh food supply come the colder months.
Hence, the city's new pro-supermarket campaign.
"We recognize a farmer's market does not take an area that is really underserved by fresh produce and make it all better," said Thomases. "They generally operate one or two days a week. People need to shop seven days a week."
People like Michael Paone, a Crown Heights resident who heads to Park Slope's food cooperative for affordable veggies via bike or two subway transfers. Fresh Direct or a quick and accessible purchase at the local bodega is out of his price range, leaving him with little options.
"It's a shame to me that the main place I can afford (monetarily and biologically) to patronize is not in my neighborhood," Paone told us. "One day, soon, I hope this will not be so."


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Q: Pure CSS Rounded Corners in IE6-8 (JQuery Accepted) There are a lot of JQuery plugins to give rounded corners to browsers that dont support CSS3. They either don't work or have an ugly effect where you see it unstyled, and then the JS kicks in and finally makes them rounded.
I am looking for a solution that renders rounded corners before visibility, looking for a seamless, or near seamless solution.
The best match I have come to so far if the use of .htc files with www.css3pie.com. There is still that delay (Not sure if it can even be solved).
css3pie is around 26k compressed, the owner stated that if you have JQuery there could be scripts that would be less. (I plan on using JQuery throughout anyways).
Ideally, I'd like it to support gradients, border-radius, and box-shadow. Currently css3pie does all of this how I need, except for box-shadowing. It messes up if the background is transparent as indicated here: http://github.com/lojjic/PIE/issues#issue/12
I am willing to accept inability of any of these features in IE6.
I guess maybe I just can't have one's cake and eat it too. For now, I will be sticking with css3pie.com and putting up with annoying delay, and not allowing for box-shadow in IE. Not a huge deal because IE9 is suppose to fix that -crossing fingers-

A: The CSS3 PIE library handles a lot of things for IE6/7/8 including:

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*Border Radius (rounded corner)

*Box Shadow

*Border Image

*Gradient Backgrounds

Its pretty handy.

A: If you must support rounded corners for IE6, than maybe you could have a look at Curved Corner.
I would call the behavior:url(border-radius.htc) via a conditional IE6 CSS file.
Personally, I would just ignore curved corners in IE6 altogether.

A: Use jquery rounded corner plugin
http://jquery.malsup.com/corner/
And trigger the plugin in every possible events to ensure its loaded
<script>
   $(this).corner(); //This will trigger the function as soon as this line loads
   $(document).ready(function() { $(this).corner(); }); //not necessary
   $(window).load(function() { $(this).corner(); });//not necessary
</script>

A: IMO you shouldn't care about such unimportant things like rounded corners or shadows under IE. The times when the page was supposed to look the same under every possible browser finally gone. You, as a developer, are responsible for correct display of page skeleton, but eye-candy is a browse job. If some browsers doesn't support some CSS3 elements - then it's a problem of its users. They use crappy browser - they see crappy site (well... maybe not crappy but a bit uglier).
Thus I, as a Opera user, won't see a pretty gradients on buttons on YouTube while Firefox users will. But I still see a nice-looking page!
In other words: don't care about such a details under IE. Don't care about such a details under Opera/Firefox/Safari/Chrome. If some of them doesn't support something - leave this if cross-browser solution requires more than a double/triple CSS entry:
box-shadow: 0 0 5px #333;
-moz-box-shadow: 0 0 5px #333;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 5px #333;

A: I think you may find this closely-related question interesting:
Creating rounded corners using CSS
Also closely related, but inviting more JQuery-related responses is:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/521432/best-jquery-rounded-corners-script

A: if you are looking for very smooth round corner and valid in all browser then there is simple javascript called curvycorners
just need to include js file in
in in your html use class=rounded any where you want.
http://www.curvycorners.net/instructions/

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Android's potential anti-trust practices
Recently, the European Commission (EC) has sent a formal statement of objections to Google based on the company's practices in the EU, particularly how Google promotes its own shopping results above its rivals. The EC is also launching a separate anti-trust investigation into Google's Android operating system. Although Android is usually thought of as a single OS, Google's Android OS is different from the Android Open Source Project (ASOP).
Google Android is the base, freely available Android software (ASOP) but with added Google services and apps. Google's hardware partners generally choose the former version to avoid creating their own ecosystem of Android compatible apps. There are some exceptions, however, including Samsung who has built (or bought) music services, has its own Apps store, and created its S-Voice software for phone voice command.
Anti-trust suspicions have been raised over this licensing agreement between Google and it's hardware partners from three main issues:
Whether Google has illegally hindered the development and market access of rival mobile applications or services by requiring or incentivising smartphone and tablet manufacturers to exclusively pre-install Google's own applications or services;
Whether Google has prevented smartphone and tablet manufacturers who wish to install Google's applications and services on some of their Android devices from developing and marketing modified and potentially competing versions of Android (so-called "Android forks") on other devices, thereby illegally hindering the development and market access of rival mobile operating systems and mobile applications or services;
Whether Google has illegally hindered the development and market access of rival applications and services by tying or bundling certain Google applications and services distributed on Android devices with other Google applications, services and/or application programming interfaces of Google
There is some precedent to these claims. In 2007, Microsoft was fined by the EU for abusing it's dominant market position by requiring hardware partners to bundle certain software with Windows.
The second claim will depend on the presence of exclusivity in the language of Google's licenses with hardware partners. This exclusivity is evident by the benefit Android-compatible devices gain from the Android ecosystem, and the agreement that hardware partners contribute to one Android platform, rather than developing their own versions from AOSP. For example, in 2012 Acer was reportedly under pressure from Google to cease development of a phone using ASOP software because it had already agreed to Google Android terms.
Kevin Tofel believes that the third claim is the weakest because, currently, a cohesive mobile system requires bundling some apps and services and is a strategy openly practiced by Apple.
Regardless of the outcome of what is sure to be a lengthy investigation, the EC's anti-trust probe will hopefully reveal more details about the licenses Google provides to its hardware partners.
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Transport union RMT confirmed today that members on the SERCO Docklands Light Railway will take industrial action having voted by massive majorities of more than nine to one for both strike action and action short of a strike in a dispute over a wide range of issues which amount to a total breakdown in industrial relations between the union and the employer.
04:30 hours on Wednesday 29th January 2014 until 04:29 hours on Friday 31st January 2014.
12:00 hours on Tuesday 4th February 2014 until 11:59 hours on Thursday 6th February 2014.
Not to work any rest days or overtime from 04:30 hours on Friday 31st January 2014 until 04:29 hours on Saturday 1st February 2014.
"It is solely down to the actions of the Serco DLR management that RMT has had to announce industrial action across Docklands Light Railway to try and force the issues at the heart of this dispute to be both addressed and resolved.
"Our members have now shown the level of anger across the railway in an overwhelming mandate for action.
"RMT will not tolerate the cavalier abuse of procedures, agreements and pay negotiations which has led to the complete breakdown of industrial relations on this vital section of the London transport operation.


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Building better HTML5 banner ads with consumer partners
Every year, millions of viewers tune in to the Super Bowl for two reasons:
The ads
Consumers have come to expect quality ads during the Super Bowl, and they reward advertisers with their attention.
So, we have a question for you.
Why don't you build an HTML5 banner ad for the Super Bowl?
Sure, it's a rhetorical question. But, what would happen if you approached digital production and every single piece of advertising creative with the same fervor you would a Super Bowl ad?
"It's not even the same thing!" you might say. "The Super Bowl is a guaranteed captive audience of millions of people. It makes sense to invest the resources in building a great ad."
But, people don't watch Super Bowl ads because they're a captive audience. They watch the ads because the bar has been set high. They know they'll be entertained.
Every day, you have access to a captive audience of hundreds or thousands of people. They're scrolling through feeds, content, apps and more. And they're not so much banner blind as they're banner bored.
The best way to engage someone? Treat them like a partner (and person), not a statistic.
Create conversations, not campaigns
HTML5 Banner Ads – create Conversations
Pre-Internet advertising was a broadcast system. Brands talked to, instead of talking with, their target audience.
But times have changed. Brands live and die by the conversations they're creating, directly or indirectly.
So, how do you start a good conversation? By listening.
First, look to social media for inspiration. What are your customers talking about? What are their unmet needs and frustrations? And how does your offering address those?
Then, go beyond social media. Ask other departments – customer-facing and internal teams – for their feedback. What are customers saying to your customer service team? Your sales team? Account managers?
Use the insights you uncover to empower your digital production team. The seeds for your next great HTML5 banner ad campaign might just come from accounting, not your creative department.
Go out – far out – for inspiration
There's a lot you can learn from looking at brands inside and outside your industry. Don't just focus on direct competitors. Look to brands that provide similar benefits (save time, save money, have fun) with completely different products and services. What are their customers saying on social media? What campaign angles are they pursuing?
A great example of the road less taken is Panadol and their headache pain-relief tablets.
Anyone who's suffered from headaches and congestion knows how terrible the pressure and pounding can feel. But, instead of building an HTML5 banner ad around the usual pain-relief product storyline of a suffering-then-happy before and after, Panadol built a great ad around the image of what a headache really feels like to sufferers: a non-stop disco party.
Know your destination
HTML5 digital display ads
Part of building consumer-centered HTML5 banner ads is creating a great ad experience.
And that doesn't end with digital production. It depends, in part, on where an ad will display.
Advertisers (and their agents) have a responsibility to vet their ads' destinations.
In his shake-up-the-industry speech, P&G exec Marc Pritchard talked about the murky world of digital advertising, where standards can be haphazard and contracts are fuzzy. The rise of fake news has added gasoline to the fire: sites are made profitable by advertising and there's incentive to drive traffic with content that doesn't meet journalistic standards.
Every site that's exposed as fake erodes consumer trust even further. Advertisers are scrutinized for their part in bankrolling the lies.
It may not be the most interesting part of launching a campaign, but where your ads display does matter. Stellar digital production and all the traffic in the world can't compensate for a reputation downgrade. Look for platforms that serve quality content and use 3rd party verification systems to measure performance.
Reinforce trust
Why is word of mouth considered the most powerful form of marketing?
Trust.
Friends, family, acquaintances – when they make a recommendation to us, we know (or hope) that it's based on their own experience, not an affiliate commission.
Adding to the trust bank: most word of mouth recommendations are prompted by conversation.
Someone talks about a problem they're having, the other person listens and asks questions, then makes a recommendation.
Advertisers can build that same trust by listening to their target audience and incorporating that understanding into compelling HTML5 banner ad campaigns.
Which leads us to our final tip.
Ditch the tricks
There's a world of difference between explaining your offering and tricking your customers into clicking or buying.
Every time someone interacts with your ad, they're taking a leap of faith. They're trusting that your ad won't infect or lock up their device. And they're trusting that the ad's 'punchline' or landing page will be relevant, that it will somehow makes their life better.
Look no further than Kellogg's for inspiration.
Kellogg's All-Bran ad does a great job of weaving relevance, education and interactivity together into a streamlined piece of creative. It's a perfect example of "show, don't tell," with no tricks required. The viewer is left with a smile and a reminder of the importance of fiber.
Don't trick your audience. Because they'll never forgive (or forget) it.
The more we treat our target audiences like partners, the faster we can save the world of digital display advertising.


My Anniversary Month trip to Canada with my husband (of 19 years 💝) was a culinary experience to remember!
One of the highlights from our time in Vancouver BC was the discovery and visit to this plant based cafe in North Van. It was also our very first time boarding the Sea Bus for a fun 20 minute ride over. We didn't have to go far from the water, which was great since we were on foot. The 'port', or so it seemed to be one to me, had a buzzing with activity boardwalk and mall, jam packed with a wide variety of shops, cafes, including a Kombucha growler refilling hang out and a farmers market stand. The Plaza outside had great views over the water looking back out at Downtown Vancouver.
I got goosebumps as soon as we walked through the doors of Cafe by Tao. I was jumping out of my skin with excitement and sheer bliss looking at the products on the shelves and in the cooler, already dreaming of how much I could carry away with me.
Not to mention reading the menu…Ahhhhhh.
If you think I'm exaggerating, just ask Kerwin. He was right there watching me and laughing.
Who knew 2 years ago that I'd be so excited over (non pasta, non pastry, non potato chips, non cheesecake) food?! I certainly didn't.
Here's a video flashback to afterwards, as we were leaving.
Now that the stage is set…the reason for 'this' blog LOL is to share a raw food win – I made the 'to die for' Dill Nut Cheese for the first time today and am in heaven!
It tastes almost exactly as I remember it!
I spread it, nice and thick, on the matching 'to die for' raw onion bread I had a freshly made batch of. Pictured ⬇. Needing a tasty topping for the bread is what actually triggered me to finally pull up this recipe and give it a go.
It's food like this that makes me laugh when I tell people I eat raw and they say "oh. Don't you get tired of eating salads?" Nope. lol.
Part of this life journey I'm on is about celebrating the joys, wins, and delicious food, so instead of simply sharing a picture on Facebook, I am choosing to savor this moment with an intentional post.
For this Dill Cheese recipe and more check out Cafe by Tao!
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It's fun to be able to say that. I almost thought the Winter season was over but the snow, winds and below freezing temps (just barely mind you 😉) have done their sneaky thing, as is often the case in February.
Out comes the tea and 'pastries', or in my world, these yummy snacks that are better known as Joie Bites. This creamy, sweet, richness that, until yesterday I'd forgotten how to make, is the perfect compliment to my Cinnamon Roobois Chai tea from David's Tea.
I'm not a big fan of chotzky souvenirs when traveling, instead I like to get things that we'll use. This lovely tea cup with lid and loose tea brewing insert (I'm sure it has a more proper name than that lol) is the perfect memory of cozy mornings in our condo sipping tea as we journaled.
It makes me happy to think back on our trip. It's the reason we do what we do – to travel, explore and create amazing memories together! Having items out and visible to serve as these reminders is a wonderful thing – it keeps me focused and on track building my side gig.
Mel Robbins calls these visible reminders Positive Triggers in her Mindset Reset program. Check it out here! It's available on demand replay and is incredibly beneficial. Best thing I did to kick off 2019 was signing up for her free program!
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Blend nuts and water till smooth then add the remaining ingredients and blend to combine. Adjust flavors to your palette and enjoy!
It will keep for 3 days in a cold fridge.
*add cacao or carbo powder to make a yummy hot chocolate drink.
Heat two cups of water in a saucepan till warm about 110°, NOT hot. Place the dates in a bowl and submerge them with the warm water. Allow them to sit for 15-20 minutes to soften.
Drain the dates, reserving the soak water. Place them into a blender with ¾ cup of the soak water, the vanilla, coconut oil and the salt. Blend on high till very smooth and saucey. Add more water as needed, until the sauce is pourable but still thick.
•Be careful not to be generous with the coconut oil, otherwise it will overpower the caramel flavor.
•Sauce will keep in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 5 days.
•For additional maple flavor, try adding some Lucuma Powder.
• Place the nuts, salt, and dates into a food processor. Process for 2-3 minutes, or until the nuts are totally broken down and the mixture is uniform and sticking together. When you squeeze a small amount in your hand and it sticks together, you're good. You'll still see bits of nuts, not a fine powder, that's fine.
• Press the mixture into an 13 x 9 baking dish that has been lined with parchment or wax paper. Make sure it's distributed evenly through the pan. It'll be sticky and take some smooshing around so be patient. 1/4 inch or so deep is perfect. The oils will start to release from the nuts and you'll be able to "polish" it into smoothness.
If you want thicker bars simply use a smaller dish.
• Place the apples in a mixing bowl and cover them with the sauce. Make sure that all of the pieces are evenly coated. Arrange them in 4 layers on top of the base. For each layer, you can line up the apple slices in crisscrossing rows.
• If you don't have a dehydrator, transfer the bars to the refrigerator and allow them to cool for an hour. Cut them into squares and serve. The apples will still be a bit juicy and crisp, so use a pizza cutter for slicing them. If you do have a dehydrator, place the baking dish into the machine and dehydrate at 115 for 6 hours. This is best!
Allow the bars to cool so the base will be more solid, then cut them into squares, serve and Enjoy! ?
•Un-dehydrated bars will keep, refrigerated, for 3-4 days. Dehydrated bars will keep in the fridge for up to one week.
•You "could" even cook them in an oven to soften the apples. Be gentle, go slow. It won't be raw anymore but it'll still be healthy!


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Articles > Iranian Silence on Chemical Attack Speaks Volumes
Iranian Silence on Chemical Attack Speaks Volumes
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NCRI-US Staff, 13 April 2018
The Assad regime's recent chemical attack against innocent civilians marks another atrocity in Syria's multi-year human catastrophe. Hospital reports indicate that the victims all showed signs of chemical exposure. In total, there were over 500 casualties and at least 42 confirmed deaths, two of them small children brought into the hospital cold, limp, and foaming at the mouth.
The attack sparked widespread condemnation from the international community. U.S. President Donald Trump called the act "mindless" and a "humanitarian disaster." British Prime Minister Theresa May said the Assad government must be "held to account." Predictably, the Iranian regime was one of the few silent voices, due to its steadfast support of the Assad regime. Alluding to Iran's inhuman complacency, French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron said that Assad's allies "bore particular responsibility in this massacre."
The Iranian regime's alliance with Syria was born following the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Iran has been granted Syrian construction contracts and generally supported all actions taken by the Assad regime.
Direct Iranian involvement in the attack has not been confirmed, but its silence underscores the absence of moral leadership in the Middle East. Iran is the world's number-one state sponsor of terrorism and systematically violates the human rights of its own citizens. By proxy, this gives all Iranian allies a green light to commit their own atrocities. Conversely, an Iran committed to international law could dramatically reshape the inter-state accountability dynamics within the Middle East.
During the uprising in Iran that engulfed as many as 142 cities, one of the key chants of Iranians in the street was, "Leave Syria Alone, Think About us," a clear popular rejection of the Iranian regime's nefarious involvement in the violence in Syria. If the international community seriously wants to prevent further Syrian atrocities, it must support the Iranian people strive for regime change, in favor of a secular, democratic, non-nuclear form of government. This is a key step in bringing peace to the Middle East.
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Destruction Of Syrian Dictator's Chemical Facilities Is An Indispensable Step To End The Tragedy In Syria


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Romanian PM Emil Boc says Environment minister will stay despite inquiry - financiare.ro
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Romanian PM Emil Boc says Environment minister will stay despite inquiry
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Prime minister Emil Boc said on Thursday that Environment minister Laszlo Borbely stays as a member of the Romanian Government as no official inquiry has been launched against him, news agency Agerpres reports. His statement comes as suspicions of Borbely's involvement in a traffic of influence case emerged earlier this week.
Asked about a possible replacement of the Environment minister, PM Boc said that as no official investigation has been launched against him he remains a member of the Government.
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Another ship is due at Sandbank this evening to load timber. This view shows the latest cargo being stacked prior to the arrival of RED DUCHESS on her second visit to Sandbank this week. At the east end of the pier (left hand side in this picture) is the recently acquired MultiDocker loader used to load the ships calling for timber. Previously, the ships were loaded using the Hiab cranes mounted on the back of the timber lorries such as the one visible on the pier.
Also at the Holy Loch Marina today was the 'smertest boat in the trade', otherwise known as the Inveraray Maritime Museum's diesel puffer VITAL SPARK of GLASGOW.
This vessel, built in 1944 as VIC 72 by Richard Dunston at Hull, was purchased in 2005 by local businessman, and puffer enthusiast, Archie MacArthur. At that time she was named EILEAN EISDEAL, and until just four years previously, had been the last working example of her type, once a common sight in western Scottish waters. Mr MacArthur decided that a more appropriate name for her would be VITAL SPARK, and she was duly renamed at the Glasgow River Festival in July 2006.


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By TBA on	 March 18, 2014 2 - FILM NEWS, Attachments (Film)
By: Ghenghis Turngood
Barkhad Abdi, Mike Birbiglia, Jon Glaser, Vanessa Bayer, John Cena, Ezra Miller, and Tilda Swinton are all in talks or negotiations to join Judd Apatow's TRAINWRECK.
Apataow will be directing Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, and any number of the above names from a script penned by Shumer. Although the plot is being kept under wraps we know that it is about a basket case (Schumer, if you'll allow me an educated guess) who is trying to rebuild her life.
This will be Abdi's first major role since receiving his Oscar nomination for "Captain Phillips." Bayer is still a cast member "Saturday Night Live." Birbiglia will be making appearances in "The Fault in Our Stars," "Annie" and "Sleepwalk With Me." Miller can be seen next in "Madame Bovary." While Glaser will be showing up on "Girls" and "Parks and Recreation." Swinton can currently be seen in "The Grand Budapest Hotel."
Abdi is repped by SMS Talent.
Bayer is repped by WME.
Birbiglia is repped by UTA.
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Ron Di Orio was thrilled he could put his woodworking skills to use when he landed a job and later owned a small furniture restoration shop near Green Bay, Wisconsin. The building dated to the Civil War and was filled with projects that needed attention. Unfortunately, the decorated U.S. Navy Veteran soon would learn the historic structure was home to more than just old furniture. ... "What Really Happened at Cormier Station" is the true story of one man's terrifying efforts to build a successful business while unlocking the secrets of Cormier Station. In the process of freeing the spirits trapped within the building's walls, Di Orio would have to win a supernatural battle against his own internal demons and protect his wife from the powerful alter ego who possessed his very being.


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