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Inglewood receives 1,275 COVID-19 Debit Card, and 275 Rent Relief Program applications
2UrbanGirls 1 year ago
Inglewood Assistant City Manager/CFO David Esparza is requesting city council allocate additional funding for the COVID-19 Debit Card Program. Esparza is seeking an additional $275,000 from the city's reserves while the city awaits reimbursement from the CARES Act Treasury's Coronavirus Relief Fund.
On August 11, 2020, Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts presented an initiative to create two COVID-19 Relief Programs to assist low-income, unemployed and underemployed Inglewood residents. The programs were designed to assist with paying back owed rent and other basic needs from funds tied to the Corona Virus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
The initiative requested $2 million from the city's reserves and the request has now grown to $2,275,000 in order to increase the benefits being offered to the city's most vulnerable.
The program established a Debit Card Program which would be lottery based and provide a debit card with $500 to the recipient. Esparza is seeking to increase the amount to $1,000 per recipient. With 1,275 applications received the total cost of the Debit Card Program is $1.275 million.
The other program was designed for Rent Relief. The program originally provided for two months of rental arrears payments for residents behind on their rent. Esparza is now seeking to increase the arrears payments to cover three months of back owed rent. According to the August 11, 2020 staff report, the city received $827, 507 in funding from the CDBG CV fund and supplement an additional $172,493 totaling $1 million.
The increased rental assistance funding is due to additional funding being made available to Inglewood in the amount of $1,035,671 from the same CDBG CV funding source.
According to the city only 275 applications were received for the rent relief program.
Related: LA Received 221,000 Applications For Rent Relief
According to Councilman Alex Padilla every effort would be made to promote the programs to the residents, to ensure helping as many residents as possible, however, based on these numbers, those who applied are guaranteed funding since there was no overwhelming demand for the program.
The city has since removed all mentions of the aforementioned programs from the city's website.
Did you know about either the Debit Card or Rent Relief programs offered by the city? Were you able to apply? Drop us an email at 2urbangirls@protonmail.com to share your story.
7 thoughts on "Inglewood receives 1,275 COVID-19 Debit Card, and 275 Rent Relief Program applications"
Inglewood Resident says:
This program is complete rip off of tax payers. James Butts, Alex Padilla and others at the city are once again mismanaging public funds. James Butts and the entire City of Inglewood management bring shame to our city.
To those who need help, lobby Maxine Waters. She (and others in her party) are preventing the administration from moving forward on projects that get you help. Regardless of who the president is and your views on the matter, our Country needs a real intervention to help people. Not this fraud. Go out and vote for change this year.
walter albert says:
i would like to know if i am qualified for this program
2urbangirls says:
Here is the number to the housing department 310-412-5221
Luisa says:
the progrma has been closed it opened sep 14 to 23 of sep.
Just like the Housing program, this is only for those who will give James Butts it's a kickback. James Butts, Alex Padilla and the rest of the city management bring shame to our City.
Sheila f scott says:
I applied for both and so far I'm on pins and needles hoping something breaks soon,I'm a senior
And live on 871.00 and my rent is 790.00 ,and being disabled also is a draw back .I signed up with the senior employment program ,but COVID has stopped me in my tracks.I was calling the one stop office so much I was being a pan in the but ,I qualified for all the programs in my city but as we know my case is the norm, and we are all in the same boat.so it would probably take a miracle to get picked, but I trust god that he will make way.
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Introducing Goldieslive.com
Call Grenville Jones on 0777 828 2934
Thousands of older isolated people looked forward to their regular daytime SINGALONG sessions from the Goldies (Golden-Oldies) Charity. The FUN memory-evoking sessions using the popular songs of the 60s onwards took place at 220 church halls, community rooms and Libraries across England and Wales.
These included the West of England, the Midlands, Essex, East London, Yorkshire and across South Wales. They were led by 70 dedicated local leaders.
For England session venues – see https://www.golden-oldies.org.uk/where.html
For Wales session venues – see https://www.goldiescymru.org.uk/eng/where
Forced by Coronavirus to cancel all sessions in March, the Goldies Charity then introduced a short Thursday afternoon weekly session on YouTube led by session leaders, Rachel Parry and Cheryl Davies from their front rooms.
Such was the success of these Online sessions with people joining in their homes, that the charity is now going to introduce TWO thirty-minute sessions each week from the end of June and the first week in July. These will go out on YouTube every Tuesday and Thursday on www.goldieslive.com at 11.00am.
Starting next Tuesday June 30th at 11.00am.
The sessions are supported by the Cardiff-based Moondance Foundation, The People's Postcode Lottery, the Garfield Weston Foundation, Sovereign Housing Association, Swindon Borough Council, the Charles Hayward Foundation and the Medlock Charitable Trust.
They will continue to be led by Rachel and Cheryl but also with input 'appearances' from the Goldies session leaders across England and Wales. There will also be specific sessions with Welsh songs, as well as sessions particularly for those living with Dementia and sessions featuring Bollywood music and dance.
Grenville Jones is the founder of the Golden-Oldies Charity which he started back in 2007 with just four daytime sessions in and around Bath and Bristol. He said;
"Goldies reaches out to older isolated people who, prior to Lockdown could get out and attend luncheon clubs, worship, the company of their friends and families and Goldies! This has dramatically changed as people are housebound and so the need for our work is even greater."
The sessions prior to Lockdown, feature the popular memory-evoking songs of the 60s onwards, many chosen by the attendees. Goldieslive online sessions will feature all the favourites with song words on the screen and 'viewers' encouraged to contact the charity with their birthday and anniversary choices.
All UK Age-Support organisations will be able to stream the weekly sessions in their community rooms and Libraries.
"We have become known as the Sing and Smile charity and we hope that through goldieslive.com we can bring joy and fun into thousands of front rooms across the UK," said Grenville.
Press enquiries to Grenville Jones on 07778 282934.

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This post is for the Miniature Writing Challenge run by An Artist At Heart. This challenge gives a picture and a short story prompt and asks that you write either a mini short story (50 – 150 words), a poem or a haiku (3 lines, 17 syllables). To read the full rules, go here. This week's prompt is music.
This poem was inspired by a group of drummers who performed at Alchemy, a grassroots festival in Lincolnshire that I like to attend each year. Gathering to listen around the bonfire, surrounded by a host of like minded people laughing and dancing and enjoying themselves, gave such a wonderful sense of community that I had to capture it in a poem. Unfortunately I've since mislaid the notepad that the original poem was written in but the emotions engendered remained to be recaptured today.
I did want to include a picture of the drummers but I don't seem to have any. I never take my good camera along to festivals as I don't want to risk damaging it and last year was the first time I tried to use my phone camera. I only took a handful of shots and most of them are unusable. There is one picture that I took, however, that I'm quite fond of despite the noise and the blur – I like to think that it looks quite arty! The fire display on the Saturday evening is always one of my favourite parts of the festival and this performer was the most impressive of the group.
Lovely! I can feel the carefree emotions as the drummers play. I'm not sure I've read a poem by you before.
Thanks, Ali. I'm glad you like it. I used to write a lot more poetry before I discovered flash fiction!
I love listening to drums – at least when they're played well. There was someone in a tent near us one year who kept practising his drums (at all hours of the day) and he couldn't keep a rhythm going at all!
Especially when you're trying to get to sleep!
Beautiful poem! Love the photo of the drummer! It looks very intriguing!


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As part of my grand clear out, I have decided to sell all my CDs. They have been in boxes in the loft for five years, never used, so it's time to lighten my load. Every purchase of a CD from my ebay store also comes with a free copy of Growing Wild.
So really this is just a cunning ploy to get more people listening to my music!
hey would it be possible if i could get a copy of growing wild, im willing to pay for postage.
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Watersports Day is the flip side of the team competition coin. Challenge day is held in the early part of the summer and Watersports day is held in the later part. Due to it's timing (during this more "mellow" time of the summer) the feel of the event is considerably different… but the fun is the same. Team competitions will occur all over camp and will have a water theme. Sometimes the activity takes place in the lake or pool, sometimes on the blob or giant slide, and sometimes on the front lawn with squirt guns or musical water buckets.
We stroll around from activity to activity, cheering and chatting. It is a wonderful day spent in the sun, rest hour feels glorious after such a morning. This evening, weather permitting, we will enjoy the Syncronized Ballet Water Show. There is a high probability of rain… just a matter of timing. We think that we will "thread the needle" and enjoy a glorious show.
One of the charming aspects of a 99 year old camp is that some activities are plucked right out of a bygone era.
Syncronized Swimming is one of those activities. It is not taught at other camps (as far as I know) because it is very difficult to teach, difficult to learn, and difficult to provide a suitable venue. The moves require significant core body strength and a high level of swimming ability; finding instructors is very difficult and the movements requires a very deep and large pool. Program directors would say that there is no burning interest to learn such a sport and the cost, even if a lot of campers wanted to learn, would be prohibitive. Well… Syncronized Swimming was a big camp activity 99 years ago and it remains so today.
About two hundred campers took syncronized swimming this summer (a record). The girls who take it RAVE about how great it is. They enjoy the exercise, enjoy the "dance moves" in the water, enjoy the music (our sound system is amazing), and enjoy their friends. The net effect is one of the best EP's of the summer!
We will file into the Pool Complex (we built in bleachers big enough for the whole camp just for this EP) after shoppe, enjoying the golden light of the early evening. The setting is wonderful. Golden sunlight filtering through the large sycamore trees by the lake as the sun slowly sets behind the mountains, as much a part of the show as the campers. The sky will turn a dozen shades of red and purple as the production ends. We will go back to our cabins in the dark; the first stars of the evening coming out as the fireflies rise from the lawn.
Moments like this will shine in our memories fifty years from now. We are in a great place with great people; the very definition of "the good old days". Thank you for making this possible. The Watershow will be posted on our Livestream this evening around 7:30.
We hope you are enjoying your last weekend "of freedom". I, for one, wish that we had another month. Camp is so much fun, so good… it is a shame it has to end.


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One of the Ten Best Books of The New York Times Book Review Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize Now a miniseries from Hulu starring James FrancoON NOVEMBER 22, 1963, THREE SHOTS RANG OUT IN DALLAS, PRESIDENT KENNEDY DIED, AND THE WORLD CHANGED. WHAT IF YOU COULD CHANGE IT BACK? In this brilliantly conceived tour de force, Stephen King—who has absorbed the social, political, and popular culture of his generation more imaginatively and thoroughly than any other writer—takes readers on an incredible journey into the past and the possibility of altering it. It begins with Jake Epping, a thirty-five-year-old English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching GED classes. He asks his students to write about an event that changed their lives, and one essay blows him away—a gruesome, harrowing story about the night more than fifty years ago when Harry Dunning's father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a sledgehammer. Reading the essay is a watershed moment for Jake, his life—like Harry's, like America's in 1963—turning on a dime. Not much later his friend Al, who owns the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to the past, a particular day in 1958. And Al enlists Jake to take over the mission that has become his obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jake's new life as George Amberson, in a different world of Ike and JFK and Elvis, of big American cars and sock hops and cigarette smoke everywhere. From the dank little city of Derry, Maine (where there's Dunning business to conduct), to the warmhearted small town of Jodie, Texas, where Jake falls dangerously in love, every turn is leading eventually, of course, to a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and to Dallas, where the past becomes heart-stoppingly suspenseful, and where history might not be history anymore. Time-travel has never been so believable. Or so terrifying.
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Judge Reggie B. Walton (D.D.C.) yesterday dismissed an action by True the Vote against the IRS for politicized foot-dragging on its 501(c)(3), not-for-profit application. The ruling ends True the Vote's case against the IRS, with very little chance of a successful appeal.
True the Vote sued the IRS after the agency took a long time with its 501(c)(3) application and requested additional information from the organization before granting not-for-profit status. True the Vote argued that the IRS did this because True the Vote was a politically conservative organization aligned with the Tea Party, in violation of the First Amendment, the IRC, and the APA.
But Judge Walton dismissed the organization's claims for declaratory and injunctive relief as moot, after the IRS ultimately granted 501(c)(3) status, leaving nothing more for the court to order in terms of relief. The court also ruled that the "voluntary cessation" exception didn't apply, because the IRS, by the plaintiff's own reckoning (and the court's judicial notice), "suspended" its "targeting scheme" on June 30, 2013, and wouldn't re-engage in the footdragging.
Finally, Judge Walton dismissed the plaintiff's statutory claim that the IRS requested and inspected more information than necessary from True the Vote, because the IRC allows it to do that.
True the Vote can appeal, but Judge Walton's ruling is likely to be upheld.
Press reports, including a segment on Democracy Now, make clear that the statute is directed at Mumia Abu-Jamal (pictured right). Before signing the bill, the Governor reportedly visited a plaque commemorating the police officer Abu-Jamal was convicted of killing; the Governor was accompanied by the police officer's widow. The Governor's remarks stated that "convicted felons in prison" have "surrendered their rights" and further that "nobody has a right to continually taunt the victims of their violent crimes in the public square."
Whether any injunction against Mumia Abul-Jamal for making a speech to a graduating class - - - seemingly the incident that provoked this law - - - could survive a First Amendment challenge is doubtful. Recall that the United States Supreme Court held unconstitutional the so-called "Son of Sam" law in Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board (1991). More recently, the Court decided Snyder v. Phelps (2011) essentially holding that free speech trumped the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress. As for prisoners, the applicable standard under Turner v. Safley (1987) interrogates the curtailment of First Amendment rights in relation to "legitimate penological interests." Here, it seems, the government interest is far removed from penological interests, but instead focuses upon the interests of preventing "revictimization."
This might make an excellent in-class exercise for ConLawProfs. Or perhaps it is so easy?
It's sure to be challenged.
UPDATE: And here's the challenge.
the complaint plausibly alleges that the plaintiffs are subject to a regulatory permitting scheme that grants an official unbridled discretion over the licensing of their expressive conduct and poses a real and substantial threat of censorship. No more is exigible to give the plaintiffs standing to proceed with their challenge.
The First Circuit largely relied on City of Lakewood v. Plain Dealer Publishing Co., 486 U.S. 750 (1988) in which the Court held unconstitutional a municipal scheme giving the mayor the power to grant or deny applications for annual permits to publishers to place their newsracks on public property; the Court allowed the publishers to proceed with the facial challenge although they had not yet applied for a permit. The First Circuit thus rejected Massachusetts' claim that the company could not show injury in fact because the company "had applied for over seventy permits without having a single application denied." For the court, it was "too optimistic" to think that the "censorship risks are only theoretical." Instead, it noted that the company "is a large, repeat player in the world of outdoor advertising" and "it may plausibly fear incurring the Director's ire any time an existing or potential client seeks to display what might be deemed a controversial message."
The factual premise of the Commonwealth's thesis is simply wrong. It confuses a recognized category of First Amendment analysis — commercial speech simpliciter — with something quite different: those who have a commercial interest in protected expression.
The court ends its opinion with the statement that it expresses "no opinion on the merits of Van Wagner's First Amendment claim."
To say more about standing would be supererogatory. The short of it is that Van Wagner has plausibly alleged that it is subject to a regulatory permitting scheme that chills protected expression by granting a state official unbridled discretion over the licensing of its expressive conduct. It follows — as night follows day — that Van Wagner has standing to mount a facial challenge to that regulatory permitting scheme.
The court mentioned but stated it was not considering Massachusetts' argument that the scheme's numerous factors howed that the discretion was not unbridled but properly cabined. The district judge will now be taking up this very question under First Amendment doctrine.
Judge John Sedwick's opinion in Connolly v. Jeanes is a mere four pages, noting that the requirement of a "lengthy and detailed opinion" is now obviated because as the district court is bound by the Ninth Circuit's opinion in Latta v. Otter. As to a stay, an "appeal to the Ninth Circuit would be futile" and given the Supreme Court's denial of petitions for writs of certiorari, it is "also clear" that the "High Court will turn a deaf ear on any request for relief from the Ninth Circuit's decision."
Despite the recent activity by Justice Kennedy including the stay and modified stay and vacated stay of the Ninth Circuit's decision, the Attorney General Tom Horne (pictured) agreed in a statement (video here) and cited his ethical duties under Rule 11 and not to "waste the taxpayers' money." He issued a letter to the clerks "effective immediately."
The Fifth Circuit this week stayed an earlier district court judgment and injunction against Texas's voter ID law, SB 14. Unless the Supreme Court steps in, this means that SB 14 will apply to November's elections.
The Fifth Circuit action is not a ruling on the merits, however. Instead, it preserves the status quo under SB 14, pending appeal of the district court judgment to the Fifth Circuit.
The case is now before the Supreme Court, where the government and others have filed emergency applications to vacate the Fifth Circuit's stay.
This is just the latest of four cases challenging state elections laws that has gone to the Supreme Court this fall, just before the elections, all on emergency applications related to lower court injunctions, and not on the merits. The Court halted Wisconsin's voter ID law; it allowed restrictions on early voting in Ohio; and it allowed restrictions on same-day voter registration and voting in the wrong precinct in North Carolina.
The controversial Texas law limiting abortion access known as HB 2, which began law despite a well-publicized filibuster by state senator Wendy Davis, is now effectively enjoined - - - in part - - -by the United States Supreme Court in its Order in Whole Woman's Health Center v. Lakey.
The application to vacate stay of final judgment pending appeal presented to Justice Scalia and by him referred to the court is granted in part and denied in part. The Court of Appeals' stay order with reference to the district court's order enjoining the admitting-privileges requirement as applied to the McAllen and El Paso clinics is vacated. The Court of Appeals' stay order with reference to the district court's order enjoining the ambulatory surgical center requirement is vacated. The application is denied in all other respects.
Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas, and Justice Alito would deny the application in its entirety.
To recap: the United States Supreme Court is vacating the Fifth Circuit stay of the district judge's injunction against portions of the law, thus reinstating the district judge's injunction at least in part.Recall also that this is an as-applied challenge. A panel of the Fifth Circuit in March upheld the admitting privileges provision after it had issued a stay of Judge Yeakel's decision enjoining the provision as unconstitutional.
Judge Nelva Gonzales Ramos (S.D. Tex.) ruled today that Texas's new voter ID law violated the Constitution and entered "a permanent and final injunction against enforcement of the voter identification provisions . . . of SB 14." Judge Ramos concluded that "SB 14 creates an unconstitutional burden on the right to vote, has an impermissible discriminatory effect against Hispanics and African-Americans, and was imposed with an unconstitutional discriminatory purpose." Judge Ramos also held that "SB 14 constitutes an unconstitutional poll tax."
Judge Ramos ordered Texas to "return to enforcing the voter identification requirements for in-person voting in effect immediately prior to the enactment and implementation of SB 14."
We posted on Texas's move to implement its new voter ID law immediately in the wake of Shelby County.
The ruling comes the same day as the Supreme Court vacated an earlier Seventh Circuit stay of a district court injunction against Wisconsin's voter ID law.
The Supreme Court this evening vacated the Seventh Circuit stay of an earlier district court injunction halting Wisconsin's voter ID law. (The Seventh Circuit upheld the state's voter ID law earlier this week.) This latest chapter in this dizzying case means that Wisconsin will almost surely not have voter ID in the upcoming elections. It also means that the Court may once again take up voter ID.
The Supreme Court order was brief, just one page, and said only that "the Seventh Circuit's stay of the district court's permanent injunction injunction is vacated pending the timely filing and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari . . . ." The stay will terminate if the Court denies cert.
Justice Alito dissented, joined by Justices Scalia and Thomas. Justice Alito wrote that the Seventh Circuit's ruling wasn't unreasonable, or "demonstrably" erroneous. Justice Alito alluded to the problem of absentee ballots going out without a notice of the voter ID requirement, suggesting that these problems may have driven the Court to intervene.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (D.D.C.) this week rejected a non-profit's challenge to the disclosure provisions in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. The ruling was unsurprising, even if the case may be noteworthy, as it represents a next wave of challenges to campaign finance regulation.
The Independence Institute, a Colorado non-profit, sought declaratory and injunctive relief against FEC enforcement of BCRA's disclosure requirement as applied to a specific radio ad that the Institute planned to run before the fall elections. The Institute argued that the requirement was overbroad as applied, because the planned ad was genuine issue advocacy, and not express advocacy.
This dispute can be distilled to the application of the Supreme Court's clear instructions in Citizens United: in no uncertain terms, the Supreme Court rejected the attempt to limit BCRA's disclosure requirements to express advocacy and its functional equivalent. Plaintiff in this case seeks the same relief that has already been foreclosed by Citizens United.
Judge Kollar-Kotelly then rejected the Institute's attempts to distinguish Citizens United, ruled in favor of the FEC, and upheld the disclosure requirement.
This ruling was hardly surprising: if a court is going to overturn disclosure requirements, it'll have to be the Supreme Court. Still, the case should get our attention as a next-wave challenge to campaign speech regulation--the challenge to disclosure requirements.
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Let's skip to the end of Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett's speech to the Halls Business and Professional Association last Tuesday.
"If you need anything, 215-2005. Ask for Tim," he said.
I've heard Burchett speak more times than you can shake a stick at, starting before he was mayor, back when he was a state senator. Even though he's nearing the end of his eight years in office and seeking election to Congress, his talks haven't changed a bit.
Here are some numbers, but he won't bore you with them. Here are some things he's doing, things he's working on. Here's a heartwarming anecdote about his parents.
And here's his phone number in case you need something done.
If he gets elected to Congress, I sure hope he keeps that part in his talks.
This time, he addressed issues Halls folks have been talking about. Plans for streetlights at Maynardville Highway and Norris Freeway have been drafted and approved, but KUB and TDOT haven't decided what type of light to install, he said. And Clayton Park is probably too small for a dog park.
For the aging Adrian Burnett Elementary School, Burchett said there's no "silver bullet," and he's waiting for Knox County Schools to add a solution to their capital plan.
Former HBPA president Carl Tindell asked what all that county debt is, anyway. Burchett said it was a "spending spree" by past administrations, building libraries, senior centers and new schools.
Burchett wrapped things up with his support of a stabilization unit, also known as the Safety Center for Knox County Sheriff's Office, a place for mentally ill people to receive treatment instead of joining a jail's general population. Back in his state senator days, an old friend of Burchett's was in need of those services.
"If he hadn't had the professional interaction with the Sheriff's Office, he would have been dead or out on the street," Burchett said. "We have mentally ill folks who are not criminals who will be able to get treatment and not go into our jail population.


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2013 AIA Top Honor Award- Acido Dorado and Rosa Muerta
Photography – Saint Laurent campaign
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Video shot by Nathalie Canguilhem and Anthony Vaccarello with Travis Scott, Vittoria Ceretti, Steffy Argelich
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Photography – Steven Klein / Vogue
Steven Klein shot Karlie Kloss for Vogue
Photography – Mert & Marcus / Cavalli
Mert & Marcus shot Mariacarla Boscono, Heidi Klum, and Angela Lindval at Acido Dorado for Roberto Cavalli.
Photography – Mona Kuhn /Acido Dorado book
Photographer Mona Kuhn's book "She Disappeared into Compete Silence" is 104 pages of art photography shot at Acido Dorado over a few summers. Available from Steidl books.
Photography – Mariano Vivianco for Harpers Bazaar
Mariano Vivianco shot Joan Smalls for Harpers Bazaar at Acido Dorado
Photography – Michele Laurita / Sorbet / Saint Laurent 2017
Michele Laurita shot Celia Becker for Sorbet in Yves Saint Laurent 2017
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Photography – Camilla Akrans / Bazaar
Camilla Akrans fashion editorial for Harpers Bazaar with Karlina Caune
Photography – Melina Matsoukas / Beyonce & JayZ
Melina Matsoukas project at Rosa Muerta with Beyonce and Jay Z
Photography – Jack Pierson / Another
Jack Pierson for Another Magazine – Dior Editorial
Taschen Architecture Now book
The Unseasonal Magazine
Three Shades of Gold.
We had a year-long dialogue with American artist-turned-architect and punk modernist Robert Stone about his unique approaches and perfect backdrops for the fashion world's upper crust.
Words: Ger Ger & Julia Koerner / Images: Ger Ger
"At some point during his Vogue shoot, Steven Klein asked me if they could put the tiger in the house. And I was like, 'Go ahead, but be ready to shoot if it starts tearing everything up. I want that picture."'
Robert Stone is one of the most unconventional living artists-turned-architects one can meet today. His projects have been on the cover of Architectural Digest, have been named among the 25 most beautiful houses in the world, and have been part of countless international fashion spreads. The creme de Ia creme of designers like Cavalli and Dior – and most recently Anthony Vaccarello with Saint Laurent SS17 muse Travis Scott – have produced their campaigns in his constructions. We sat down with Stone in his Los Angeles atelier and spent a night at his famed houses Acido Dorado and Rosa Muerta in the California desert. We continued the conversation over a period of 12 months.
"I think one of the most interesting things about our time is that our relationship to nature is totally different than it was in the modernist era. It is not romantic any more. We are at war with nature. I wanted to put something out there that is unmistakably unnatural. It is like if you go on a hike and you find an old aluminum can that is so bleached out by the sun you can barely read the printing- That kind of object says more about our relationship to nature than anything that pretends to be in harmony. I'm not looking for harmony. I'm looking for interesting tension and complexity. I admit that relationship to nature and then let it play out."
"I was looking for a way to make architecture that felt more meaningful. I'm building houses, I'm not building airports, I'm not building museums. I think they can work just like a really nice song. They can be strange, they can be mysterious, and they can feel like they are yours alone."
"I don't design the perimeter for something and then put holes in it. I design intersections of planes and then figure out how to enclose it. It is a modernist approach, but one that I have tried to push much further. The natural state of the building is continuous with that abundant space all around it. The natural state of those houses is open"
"One of the turning points for me was '90s Miu Miu. Miuccia Prada has a way of using materials and shapes that pointed far beyond architecture's abstract purity. She wasn't asking you to shut off the part of your brain that has a memory. She made things that looked entirely new but also brought in connotations and memories. It was more strange because it was vaguely familiar. It was more alive because each piece connected to things beyond itself. It gave me a different understanding of materials than I had learned in the architecture world."
"At that time, everything could be understood as Prada versus Miu Miu. All the cool architects were wearing Prada Sport- which was the conservative black stuff with the little red tag. But at the same time, Miu Miu had this secret key that unlocked a whole different way of thinking about materials and ideas. So while I was obsessed with Miu Miu, all the architects were wearing black and their little fancy eyeglasses and all of that. I was so out of step. I was tattooed to the point that nobody would hire me and I used to go and sketch in the Miu Miu store until someone would kick me out. They would get uncomfortable because I was looking so carefully. "
"Abstraction is a false fantasy in the architecture world. I don't want to sound so negative but I have to push back because it is so ubiquitous. My understanding of it comes from the art world: abstraction is like an imaginary contract between the viewer and the object that says we are going to agree to only think about these things as abstract shapes, forms and light. That contract can be valuable, but it isn't real- It leaves out everything else architecture can be."
"I have always been much more interested in fashion and photography than in empty architecture. I want the houses to be portrayed in the way bodies connect to them and the way people bring poetic ideas to them- not just as empty abstract sculptures. So it is almost natural that it is also a perfect stage for fashion. Architecture is only part of the equation. Movements of a tiger can complete it as much as the life anyone brings to it."
"Growing up in Palm Springs felt more Larry Clark than Julius Shulman. It was about actually living in these modernist houses, using them and sometimes destroying them. "
"There is this strange historical overlay between skateboarding and the decline of modernism. In the '80s, they didn't put transitions in pools anymore: they built pools square and you can't skate them. So we would search for pools by looking at the architecture. You would know from the street that a mid-century modernist house was going to have a rounded pool in the backyard. So, I was looking at modernism before I knew anything about architecture. I saw it lived in, used, and abandoned. I think it gave me a more complicated understanding of how the modernist project overlaid with real life. "
"I learned that you have to let in some negatives to make things more interesting. There has to be some awkwardness to re-define beauty for our time. So, not everything is positive in my work. It's not just about "nice". The two-way mirrors, for example, come from this idea of engaging in a dialogue with the corruption of late-modernism, the part where it got dark, corporate, like us, like our world. I mean, simplistic mid-century nostalgia is boring, but I love the end of the sixties where the ideals started to turn on us and got interesting."
"If all my roofs cave in and my houses burn down, they still are going to look really good. I'm designing architecture that I want to look good in ruins."
"Am i a dreamer?-All the time. It is like air for me, it is like the water for the fish."
Los Angeles Times – Acido Dorado
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ALL THAT GLITTERS- Robert Stone conjures a golden mirage in the high-desert landscape of Joshua Tree
by Mayer Rus
Forget midcentury modern. Forget deconstructivism, expressionism and all the other convenient "isms" that have traditionally been applied to the discussion of architecture. Robert Stone is far more interested in the stories buildings tell, the personal and cultural iconography they manifest and, yes, even the feelings they evoke. "I'm proposing something a little more demanding than a new aesthetic. I'm not saying, 'This shape is cool' or 'Stacked boxes are in, and slanty walls are out.' I'm asking people to think about how architecture works and what makes it meaningful," says the LA-based Stone.
Acido Dorado is a trippy place. With its gold-mirrored ceiling and walls, heart-shape concrete-block cutout and gilded cage of twisted metal rods strung with wrought-iron flowers, the house seems an alien-albeit strangely congruous-presence in the parched high-desert panorama of Joshua Tree. Think Guns N' Roses and Lost in Space…or 2001: A Cocaine Odyssey…or Zeus visiting desert Danae in a shower of gold. Think golden showers.
In fact, think whatever comes to mind. Stone eschews fixed meanings and revels in multiple interpretations and gut reactions. "Architecture should support what people bring to it," he insists. "My work asks viewers to look inward. I'm telling people that they already get it-they just need to be open to it." Acido Dorado-"golden acid" in Spanish-is Stone's second rental house in the Coachella Valley, a short distance from Rosa Muerta, his black-shrouded groovy-Gucci-goth fantasy. The architect gave these seriously alluring follies Spanish names both as an earnest nod to the pervasive Latino culture of Southern California and a tongue-in-cheek riff on the common practice among developers of using foreign names to ennoble their often shabby properties with a gloss of romance and mystery.
When pressed to describe the physical form of Acido Dorado and the materials he employed, Stone instead weaves a tapestry of personal inspirations: military hardware, burned-out houses, Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion, preppy, BMX, Versace fall 2009, Gordon Matta-Clark, Ed Ruscha, Hedi Slimane, lowriders, sandstorms, macrame, drugs, roadside death shrines, classic desert modernism, evil corporate modernism, Robert Smithson's Mirror Displacements, Robert Morris' brutal minimalism and empty pools.
"Everyone has their own obsessions. I admit mine and try to incorporate them into my architecture rather than dressing them up in abstract language," Stone says.
While many architects disparage fashion as a frivolous discipline lacking the gravitas of the heroic builder, Stone celebrates couture without apology. "I think that capturing a moment in time and transforming it into something profound is the hardest thing to do. Fashion designers talk about their work as a personal response to the world around them. Down the road, we see some of the things they create as era-defining," he avers. "Architecture is a person's life-a lens that opens up new possibilities. And yet architects aren't trained to trust their gut."
If Stone sounds skeptical about traditional architectural education and discourse, it's because he is. Rather than taking the established path of internship and enslavement in a professional office, followed by the opening of an independent practice and the requisite hat-in-hand courting of clients to build a portfolio, he decided simply to go to the desert and make architecture-with his own two hands. "I appreciate the directness of building by hand," he says, "whether it be digging ditches or fashioning metal roses. The DIY thing raises the stakes. If I'm going to take three years and put in my own money, then I have to ask myself, What is it going to be?'
This, of course, begs the question, Exactly what is it? Manifesto? Pleasure dome? Provocation? Stone believes it's all of these things, plus whatever anybody else decides to bring to the glossy, mirror-topped table.
Architectural Digest Special Edition
Cover of the 25 most beautiful houses in the world issue!
A Machine for Dreaming In by Greg Goldin
The environs of Palm Springs, California, can cause architects to abandon structural rigor in favor of insouciant fantasy- picture the buxom assassins Bambi and Thumper pouncing on James Bond in Diamonds Are Forever, under a daisy-wheel John Lautner dome. Now drive half an hour north to the wind-whipped high desert of Joshua Tree, and the fantasy becomes an acid trip. Imagine a golden house, both sharply angular and wildly ornamented, and what you've got is Acido Dorado. Built by Robert Stone, a desert native, it's swankily modern yet suggestively operatic, with 900 gold-painted iron roses, 1,200 mirrored tiles, and a concrete screen with a heart-shape cutout. Mad Men, meet the Ring des Nibelungen.
"Architects see composition and space. Designers see surfaces and textures. I see all of that and more, like cultural connections such as roadside death shrines made out of flowers and Mercedes-Benz parts," Stone adds. And business opportunities. Acido Dorado is Robert Stone Design's second Joshua Tree house for Stone's own vacation-rentaI initiative, Pretty Vacant Properties. Each house begins with its name. Rosa Muerta, his first one, is a dark homage to punks partying in burned-out houses in the 1980's. At Acido Dorado, those two words are neatly stenciled in white block letters on one of the sloped concrete-block walls that serves as a bulwark against the Mojave Desert's sandstorms and searing sunlight. Besides being an unabashed reference to an acid trip, a desert rite of passage, Acido Dorado is a send-up of the names chosen to lend cheesy real-estate developments a romantic grandeur. There's also the literaI meaning of dorado. Inside and out, the house is awash in three shades of gold automotive paint. The sensibility is lowrider.
A single story with a rocky hill rising behind, the structure is surrounded by elaborate steel grilles interrupted by a concrete-block screen. Most of the actual exterior is composed of sliding doors in the gold-coated glass found on anonymous office buildings. Opening these doors creates a pavilion under a flat canopy. It's held aloft on nine pencil-thin poles of polished stainless steel partially wrapped in gold-glitter vinyl, the kind that BMX riders use on their handlebars. Though the reference is almost comically sexual, ifs undermined by the way the shiny steel disappears into the sandy earth.
Alternate interpretations and optical illusions abound. At first, the gold color overwhelms. After the eyes adjust, it becomes just another shade of the surrounding desert. Much depends on the sliding grilles and doors as well. When they're closed, the house becomes a solid glittering object.
When they're open, the line between indoors and out doesn't just blur. It inverts. Since the floor is sunken nearly 4 feet below grade, and 12-inch mirrored squares cover a large portion of the ceiling and the huge overhangs, the desert becomes a bodily presence hovering above.
The flowers on the grilles have a split personality, too. Obviously, they are phony-metallic gold roses appear in dreams, not nature. But welding wedding-cake decorations onto a strict grid, as Stone did with his own torch, "somehow, irrationally, conveys life," he says. "In the same way that fashion is not afraid of exploring high and low, neither am I. Something that looks tacky today can look Gucci tomorrow if done right. And after that, who knows? Maybe it will look tacky again." Of the 10 butterflies welded onto the grilles, amid the roses, one is situated perfectly on the building's center axis. Stone is wrestling with the ghost of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Modernism exemplified, the floor plan is a 1,400-square-foot rectangle divided into two squares: an all-in-one living area, dining area, and kitchen and a pair of bedrooms. The latter two rooms, in turn, are twin rectangles sparsely decorated with platform beds and mirrored built-ins. Of course, to butterfly is to split something symmetrically in two. The literaI and the figurative converge.
Wallpaper magazine
Mark magazine – Rosa Muerta
Photography – Jaime Nelson / Vogue
Architectural Digest France
Abitare Magazine
Fabrik magazine
Palm Springs Life magazine
Photography – Galdo & Cloud / The Lab
Elle Decor – Acido Dorado
Luxury Home magazine
Mark magazine – Acido Dorado
Photography – Sanchez & Mongiello / Bergdorf
Monument magazine
Design Bureau magazine
Designboom- Rosa Muerta
Photography – Joshua Jordan / Elle
Pools book by Kelly Klein
BG magazine – Rosa Muerta
Elle Decor – Rosa Muerta
Designboom – Acido Dorado
Eigenhuis magazine
Billionaire magazine
Los Angeles Times – Rosa Muerta
Photography – GT Zhang / Marie Claire HK
Photography – Uli Heckmann / Porsche Design magazine
Photography – Boo George / St. John
Photography – Hunter and Gatti / Marciano
Photography – Brewer / Dum Dum Girls
Vogue Germany – Acido Dorado
Figaro magazine – Acido Dorado
Architecture magazine – Vacancy Motel
Metropolis magazine – fitted shirt
Declaration of Independents book – parking block
Smithsonian Design Museum exhibition catalog – fitted shirt
Hammer Museum exhibition catalog – Snapshot
Los Angeles Times – Hammer Museum
Heckler Magazine- parking block
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Sauteur à ski suisse
Naissance en juillet 1911
Sauteur à ski aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 1936
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Q: 13.04: Opening ubuntu one GUI I am having trouble syncing files in Ubuntu One. I was going to connect and disconnect using the interface in previous versions but I can no longer access this.
I have a cloud in the top right of my monitor and this has "Open Ubuntu One" as the first option but nothing happens when I click that.

A: When you click on the cloud, you should see the following menu

To activate/deactivate cloud, you should be able to click the top menu item. If this does not work, go to the System Settings and Click on the Ubuntu One icon

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Great painters are incredibly talented. But every painter had to start somewhere. Here The Studio at Zippi have put together a cheat sheet that covers all the materials you need to begin your journey to becoming a great artist. It will show you how to build an essential painter's kit, from a color mixing guide to the basic knowledge behind applicators, applicants and surfaces to ensure you next go into the world ready to interpret the world in your own personal and expressive way.


Just a note: nothing says "moribund leftist movement" like folks walking around trying to sell newspapers. I'm off occupying Boston this weekend, but I hope we can come up with a distribution model that doesn't look like that.
The work you all did to get this done in time for tomorrow is beyond amazing! Thanks so much.
We need to set up outreach teams to distribute this tomorrow.
2. At 2pm we need volunteers to gather to be around the 3pm march to hand out the paper. About 12-15 people for this would be great .
3. Sunday teams and turf should be handed out at some point Saturday as well.
Please make an effort to "sign out" bulk papers so we can see what we are covering.
On Monday we will have a couple organizing meetings where we will distribute bulk papers to go out to schools, cafes, streets, workplaces, etc.
> wanting to support the NYGA and the occupywallstreet community.
> to be set up to make sure that the $$ is used towards these means.
> with the money that has been raised.
> points for outreach in NYC.
> printed media and outreach.


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stop storrington sprawl - simon
Key representatives will be joining together with the local community to debate the growing concern of green field developments in Storrington.
Thursday, 27th June 2013, 2:24 pm
JPCT 240613 Members of Stop Storrington Sprawl, Richard Evea left and Howard Brunt with field in background which may be built on. Photo by Derek Martin
South Downs and Arundel MP Nick Herbert, district councillor Barbara Childs, county councillor Frank Wilkinson and the County Times editor-in-chief Gary Shipton are just some of the officials in attendance at the 'Stop Storrington Sprawl' public meeting to be held this Friday, June 28.
The gathering, which will be taking place at Rydon Community College in Storrington at 7pm, will give the opportunity for residents to speak out about their views on the escalating number of development sites in the village and how it will affect traffic, pollution and medical facilities, amongst other factors.
Members of the action group 'Stop Storrington Sprawl,' which includes residents directly affected, will make a plea to the movers and shakers of West Sussex to enforce tougher measures against corporations like Wates Developments from saturating the village with homes.
Some of the areas affected include Melton Drive, Water Lane and Gerston Farm.
Stop Storrington Sprawl member and Melton Drive resident, Richard Evea, is living in the shadow of a site which could be developed.
He said: "The public meeting is to allow people to raise a number of issues and concerns with key people about building on green field sites.
"Developers are getting planning permission from Horsham District Council for large numbers of homes in really inappropriate places.
"We've had a lot of support. Particularly, Storrington parish council have put in a strong opposition to the developments and show a very comprehensive view.
"The district's National Planning Policy Framework is what's letting it happen - the district needs a new strategic plan."
Also attending the meeting, South Downs and Arundel MP Nick Herbert has made public his views on protecting the rural landscape.
He said: "Development is a huge ongoing issue of public concern.
"I think we need to take great care that West Sussex doesn't turn into a suburban sprawl."
But, Mr Herbert does not want to rule out developments all together as homes are becoming 'less affordable' for younger people.
"That does not mean to say that we should say no to every single development. I think there is a general recognition in my constituency that there is some need for new housing.
"Homes have become less and less affordable and people are having to stay at home for longer and save up for years before buying a house. Rents are also high and people are being driven out of the constituency.
"There are hard economic realities that we have to provide for that.
"Yes, we can accept some new housing at sustainable levels, but there's got to be adequate infrastructure to support it in terms of our roads, water, our availability of school places and our ability to see our GP within a reasonable time.
"But it mustn't unnecessarily damage the character of our villages and suddenly turn them into towns, or lose the essence of my constituencies, which is there are discreet villages and small towns with a very strong sense of their own community.
As more ambitious plans are being proposed across West Sussex, Mr Herbert is worried that the planning applications' size and lack of sustainability will transform areas into a 'new suburbia'.
"Some of the proposals that we are seeing are absurdly grandiose. Proposals for things called garden cities are going to be bombed onto our constituencies - one at Barnham, one at Angmering and a proposal for a new town at Sayers Common are completely the opposite of organic, sensible, sustainable developments, they would transform the area into a new suburbia.
"What I'm arguing for is a sensible balance. The original housing targets were set too high. We want a reasonable level of provision that we can accommodate."


Stories about near-death experiences... OK that's too dramatic. Stories about successful companies that survived by making tough decisions after having a couple months of cash to keep going are always inspiring. They motivate us entrepreneurs. Pandora's Tim Westergren's keynote about maxing out 12 credit cards and not paying employees for a couple years is probably the topmost example of a start-up bearing down to survive. But running out of money, or getting close to running out of money is something most start-ups experience. Start-ups: You know who you are.
It was the same with Stubhub, the popular marketplace for tickets that sold to eBay for $310 million in 2007.
In this keynote at Splash SF this past February, Jeff Fluhr, co-founder and former CEO of Stubhub, shared his lessons and advice about starting his company back in 2000 and his rollercoaster ride. Fluhr has since founded a new start-up, called Spreecast.
At one point, the company had about two months of cash left in the bank. Fortunately, Fluhr didn't let anyone go, but the entire senior team had to defer salaries (something many founders and start-ups CEOs don't like to do, to their detriment). The result: the team was able to survive long enough before Fluhr eventually raised $1.5 million from Ed Scott, one of the founders of BEA Systems.
Fluhr also shares other great lessons, such as 1) Trust your own instincts 2) Challenge the status quo.
Watch the presentation to hear more from Fluhr. You can also read Krystal Peak's piece on his presentation titled, Stubhub founder: have a stomach for the roller coaster.
Spreecast is the social video platform that brings people together for shared experiences.
Jeff is Founder and CEO of Spreecast, social video platform lets people broadcast together.He is also a co-founder of StubHub,where he served as CEO from inception until its acquisition by eBay.


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Eager to change subject, Obama touts healthy energy progress
President Obama toured a steel plant in Cleveland to highlight job growth in the auto industry and pointed to one area where the US is making advances: energy.
President Obama tours the ArcelorMittal steel mill in Cleveland Thursday. In a speech at the factory, Mr. Obama pointed to energy efficiency and energy independence as areas where the US has made progress.
By David J. Unger Staff writer
@dungerdunger
President Obama's signature health-care program is stumbling out of the gate. Lawmakers are scrutinizing overseas spying operations. A deal on Iran's nuclear plan has yet to materialize.
After weeks of discussing glitches and setbacks, Mr. Obama tried to change the subject in Cleveland Thursday. He toured a steel plant to highlight job growth in the auto industry, which just five years ago was on the verge of collapse. And he pointed to one area where the United States has seen some progress: energy.
"We [have] invested in new American technologies to reverse our addiction to foreign oil, double wind power, double solar power, produce more oil, produce more natural gas, and do it all in a way that is actually bringing down some of our pollution, making our entire economy more energy-efficient," the president said in a speech at the factory.
The energy intensity of the US economy – total energy consumption per unit of gross domestic product – has been dropping for some time: 58 percent per real dollar of GDP between 1950 and 2011, according to the US Energy Information Administration. And it's projected to continue to decline over the coming decades. Energy consumption per person began a steady decline in 2007, in part because of new appliance and fuel-economy standards passed during the Obama administration.
Houses are 30 percent larger today than those built prior to 2000 and contain about 18 percent more appliances, electronics, and lighting. Nevertheless, they consume only 2 percent more energy on average because energy-hogging appliances like refrigerators and washing machines have gotten dramatically more efficient. Better windows, walls, and thermostats are using less energy to keep occupants cool in the summer and warm in the winter.
The average US car could drive 23.8 miles on a single gallon of gas in 2012, according to projections from the Environmental Protection Agency. That's up 1.4 miles from 2011 – the single largest increase since the EPA started keeping records in 1975. Back then, the average US car could get 13.1 miles on a gallon, less than half of today's fuel economy.
ArcelorMittal, the steelmaker that Obama toured Thursday, has played a role in automotive efficiency. The Luxemborg-based company makes advanced high-strength steels to build lighter cars. The company says its energy-efficient Cleveland factory is one of the most productive steelmaking facilities in the world, based on employee hours per ton of steel produced.
"[T]his plant, if it's located in Germany, energy costs are double, maybe triple; same in Japan," Obama said. "So this gives us a big edge."
The Obama administration has toughened decades-old fuel efficiency standards, increasing fuel economy targets to the equivalent of 54.5 mpg for cars and light-duty trucks by model year 2025. In August, the Department of Energy proposed two new efficiency rules on commercial refrigeration equipment and walk-in coolers and freezers. Those rules could cut energy bills by up to $28 billion and cut emissions by over 350 million metric tons of carbon dioxide over 30 years, according to government estimates.
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Home » Mexico » Pemex's Akal-H oil platform catches fire, explodes
Pemex's Akal-H oil platform catches fire, explodes
June 23, 2015 |
Mexico, D.F. – Not more than two months after a disastrous fire at the Abkatun platform where hundreds of people were injured and several died, Pemex is dealing with a new accident.
The company has reported that their Akal-H platform in Campeche Bay has exploded. According to Pemex, a fire broke out Monday around 2:00 p.m. on the usually unmanned platform. The fire, and eventual explosion, was the result of a gas leak.
Pemex said that the three men who were performing a routine inspection of the platform at the time of the explosion were safely evacuated without injuries. The oil company said they extinguished the fire using four emergency response vessels.
This is the third time Pemex has experienced an offshore accident in 2015.
In April, the Abkatun Alpha platform exploded killing workers, while in May, the Troll solution jack-up rig tilted, killing two and spilling diesel into the Gulf of Mexico.
The first two accidents of the year were cause for Gustavo Hernandez, who was appointed exploration and production director last year, to request a 40-day reassignment and move to a role where he could focus on forming Pemex partnerships with private companies seeking to enter Mexico's oil industry. His former role of E&P will be temporarily taken over by former chief of staff, Javier Hinojosa.
The platform at Akal-H is part of the Akal complex within the Cantarell field in the Gulf of Mexico. The platform is operating at a shallow depth of between 33 and 55 meters. The Akal complex is one of the most productive within the Cantarell field.


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I won't rant for too long about the great Sham that is Comcast, but remember the big HD TV transition? With Comcast you "didn't need to do anything", right – nothing except get some set top boxes for each TV in your home if you wanted to retain the same programming. Oh – and you only get one for free with most cable plans.
Long story short, I found out with this set top box I didn't get HD channels, yet my other tv with no set top box did get HD channels. THE COMCAST BOXES BLOCK HD CHANNELS BY DEFAULT! Why? So they can up-charge you $$$ to upgrade, essentially, pay extra money to remove a filter on their boxes.
The Antenna I bought was cheap, outdoor, and had a nice swivel mount for direct mounting to the side of a house, on top of something, or pole mounting. Turns out 1 1/2″ EMT conduit is really cheap, light, and sturdy. I decided to go big and get it just above my power service mast. Location was chosen based on the existing cable entering the house at that location, easy to mount by getting onto the garage roof, and it will be with all the other tall stuff attached to my house. As soon as you try to home run your own cable more than once, you'll desire good tools, so you can be slick like the Comcast man. That Paladin set has been worth every penny, because did you know you can use Coax for signal cable too? Now you're a home theater master.
In a passing conversation about HD Antennas, someone at work clued me into the fact I want to make sure I ground it properly. Something I figured the coax cable would take care of, but once you bolt a 8′ pole to your house that is now the highest point of your roof, its a good, easy idea. I just bought a length of 14AWG bare copper wire that runs from the top of the pole with the cable to the house, then takes the most direct route to my existing home electrical ground conveniently placed near where my cable enters the house.
The Comcast cable already had a single ground block for the coax, which had a ground wire also connected to the home ground. This was an easy swap out for a dual ground block. From there the cable enters the garage to where it gets Amped and distributed through the house.
Comcast also installed a signal amp to help with my internet and TV signal. This is also helpful and usually recommended for HD Antenna installs. So now in the garage, I have a Comcast line, and my Antenna line coming in the same spot. This makes it really easy to plug and play between the two for troubleshooting, and whenever else in the future.
The results were OK, most channels come in fine, however a few don't come in well at all. I have a feeling some alignment is probably necessary, that and getting my wife sold on the nuances of OTA cable. Overall, its a success and if I had more time id figure out the alignment, or buy a better antenna. Also, http://www.antennaweb.org/ is actually an awesome resource with the information you'd need and want about OTA Stations, strengths, and locations in order to determine optimal antenna, placement, and alignment.
we used some of your tips, along with the site kickoutcable.com to get our antenna up and working. The picture is way better than what the cable company could deliver! We are so happy, and saving money!!!


Friday, April 7, 2017 5:00 PM Clinton Prairie Jr/Sr High School AWAY 0 Frontier High School HOME 10 Game Recap The Frontier Falcon softball team was finally able to open up their season at home. Even with windy conditions, the Falcons offense was able to explode. The team had 15 hits from 9 different players.
Junior Varsity Softball, Varsity Softball · Jun 8 STATE BOUND!
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 7:00 PM Faith Christian School AWAY 0 Frontier High School HOME 2 Game Recap A superb effort by Savanna Harrison carried Frontier Falcons Varsity to a 2-0 win in seven innings over Faith Christian on Wednesday. Frontier Falcons Varsity got the win thanks in large part to Harrison's dominant, 12-strikeout performance.


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package cc.ly.mc.core.client.io;

import cc.ly.mc.core.data.Data;
import cc.ly.mc.core.data.impl.Unsigned16;
import cc.ly.mc.core.io.ConnectedListener;
import cc.ly.mc.core.message.MessageFactory;
import cc.ly.mc.core.message.RelayMessage;
import cc.ly.mc.core.message.Message;
import io.netty.bootstrap.Bootstrap;
import io.netty.channel.Channel;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelOption;
import io.netty.channel.oio.OioEventLoopGroup;
import io.netty.channel.socket.oio.OioSocketChannel;
import io.netty.util.concurrent.Future;
import io.netty.util.concurrent.GenericFutureListener;

import java.util.LinkedList;
import java.util.List;

import cc.ly.mc.core.attribute.Attribute;
import cc.ly.mc.core.io.DisconnectedListener;

/**
 * Echoes back any received data from a client.
 */
public class SocketClient extends Thread {

    private final String host;
    private final int port;

    private List<ConnectedListener> connectedListeners;

    private List<DisconnectedListener> disconnectedListeners;

    private static final MessageFactory factory = MessageFactory.getInstance();

    private OioEventLoopGroup worker;

    private Channel channel;

    public SocketClient(String host, int port) {
        this.host = host;
        this.port = port;
        this.connectedListeners = new LinkedList<>();
        this.disconnectedListeners = new LinkedList<>();
        init();
    }

    private void init() {
        try {
            factory.initMessages();
            factory.initAttributes();
        } catch (Exception e) {
            throw new RuntimeException("init error");
        }
    }

    public static void register(Class<? extends Message> clazz) {
        factory.register(clazz);
    }

    public static void register(Unsigned16 code, Class<? extends Message> clazz) {
        factory.register(code, clazz);
    }

    public static void registerAttribute(Unsigned16 code,
                                         Class<? extends Attribute<? extends Data<?>>> clazz) {
        factory.registerAttribute(code, clazz);
    }

    public void run() {
        // Configure the server.
        worker = new OioEventLoopGroup();
        Bootstrap b = new Bootstrap();
        b.group(worker)
                .channel(OioSocketChannel.class)
                .option(ChannelOption.SO_KEEPALIVE, true)
                .option(ChannelOption.SO_REUSEADDR, true)
                .handler(
                        new SocketClientInitializer(connectedListeners,
                                disconnectedListeners));
        // Start the client.
        channel = b.connect(host, port).channel();
    }

    public void addConnectedListener(ConnectedListener listener) {
        this.connectedListeners.add(listener);
    }

    public void addDisconnectedListener(DisconnectedListener listener) {
        this.disconnectedListeners.add(listener);
    }

    public void close() {
        channel.close();
        worker.shutdownGracefully();
    }

}

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We've enjoyed another great week of love, learning and laughter with our Healing Earth Foundation beneficiaries. On Monday we conducted a Magic Mat yoga workshop for the little ones at Vision Child & Youth Care Centre, and a Heal Your Life session on gratitude with the teens. On Wednesday we did more yoga and songs of affirmation with the children at IHATA Shelter, and then explored the concepts of forgiveness and positive affirmation with the gentlemen at Young in Prison. Last but certainly not least was a lovely day of yoga, songs of affirmation, and gratitude games at Holy Cross Child & Youth Care Centre yesterday. We can't wait until next week's adventures!
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Sometimes I just venture out in the woods and take some pictures of the forest, the trees or sometimes myself. Some of these spontaneous pictures never get published, they just dissapear in some folder on my computer. I decided to take a look at some of these unpublished pictures, and publish some of them.
These pictures were taken at some point back in August 2016, when I decided to take a walk in our backyard take some pictures. I tried some funny things with different backgrounds and even did a behind the scenes video, but I never published these pictures for some reason.
The following pictures are from a different shoot in August, where I was feeling extremely tired and stressed out. These are maybe the most 'honest' pictures I have ever published, because I think you can really see my exhaustion. The point of these pictures was actually to take a new profile picture for facebook, but I could not really make myself look happy enough.
These pictures were taken in October in a nearby forest. It was actually a good day, because I finally took action to deal with some problems that have led to much of my previous exhaustion.
I hope you enjoyed reading this post. I would be super happy if you left a comment if you want more of these kind of posts. I really have a lot of pictures I could show you!
Ich finde es cool, dass du diese Selbstportraits von dir veröffentlicht hast, weil sie ehrlicher sind, als vielleicht konzeptuierte Bilder. Vor allem die zweite Bilderstrecke mag ich sehr.
Definitv wünsche ich mir mehr solche Posts! Ich mag auch die im Wald entstandenen Bilder sehr.