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If the president didn’t want to be judged on the first three months of his presidency, why did he promise to get so much done in that period?
The tweet is the latest whiff of panic wafting from the White House ahead of April 29, which marks the hundredth day of Trump’s presidency. Another one came on Thursday, with the administration mounting a renewed effort to repeal and replace Obamacare, despite no indication that the politics in the House of Representatives have moved far enough to make the latest push any less Quixotic than the last catastrophic attempt.
But Trump has been eyeing the 100-day mark with dread for some time, as Shane Goldmacher reported in Politico on April 10.
Spoiler alert: They’re not going to make it. This tweet aside, Trump has little to show for his first three months in office. The one exception that he cites, Neil Gorsuch, is indeed a notable one. By placing a young and strongly conservative justice on the Supreme Court bench, Trump can solidify a long legacy of conservative jurisprudence (though there’s little to suggest he has much personal interest in this, outside of the political win). The rest of Trump’s ambitious political agenda is largely stalled: defeated in Congress, obstructed in Congress, blocked by the courts, or caught up in the bureaucratic machine—which, thanks to the president’s slow pace of appointments, is working well below peak capacity.
The Friday morning tweet shows Trump’s obsession with press coverage of his administration. He is right that the 100-day mark is arbitrary—or at least little more than a historical artifact bequeathed to future presidents, willing or not, from Franklin Roosevelt. Perhaps, as Jeff Greenfield recently wrote, it ought to be ignored. Given that arbitrariness, press coverage matters more than real accomplishments. That’s a truth that Trump has grasped well, from his business career through his presidential campaign, when messaging often triumphed over substance. But that hasn’t worked well for him since coming to the White House.
Trump can complain about the tone of the coverage, and he can complain that the press it out to get him, but he can’t blame anyone else for the emphasis on the 100-day standard: It’s an unforced error that candidate Trump made. On October 22, 2016, Trump appeared in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he unrolled a “Contract with the American Voter,” hearkening back to the 1994 GOP “Contract With America.” The document, helpfully still posted on his website, lays out precisely the steps that Trump promised to take by the same 100-day deadline he now ridicules.
It’s a mixed bag. Trump has ticked off some of the items on the list, like instituting rules about lobbying activities by former members of his administration, or imposing a hiring freeze on the federal government. He has announced U.S. withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, okayed construction on the Keystone XL pipeline, and begun deportation of undocumented immigrants.
But far more of the big-ticket items remain unfulfilled. Trump attempted to institute a ban on Muslim immigration but was slapped down by federal courts; a second, far narrower, order has also hit legal roadblocks. Trump has not begun the formal process of renegotiating NAFTA. He has publicly announced his change of heart on a promise to label China a currency manipulator, and left the nation out of a list of countries to be so labeled.
Trump’s first three months have been underwhelming by the standard of any president in the modern era. No recent predecessor has seen his first major legislative push collapse so dramatically, and although Trump has signed a raft of executive orders, the major goals remain unfulfilled. But never mind that: With eight days left, Trump is well short of the standard that he set for himself, which his Twitter missive only serves to underscore.


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North Shore Fish / by Israel Horovitz.
Publisher: [Venice, Calif.] : L.A. Theatre Works, 2012.
Creation/Production Credits: Directed by Grey Johnson.
Participant or Performer: Full-cast performance featuring Kristin Ace, Karen Caplan, Laura Sigrid Crook, Heidi J. Dallin, John Fiore, Melissa Fitzgerald, Mary Klug, Marina Re and M.H. Rogers.
Recorded live at the Guest Quarters Suite Hotel, Waltham, Mass., in March 1993.
Summary: Presents a drama set in a fish-stick packing line at a plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Rumors of the plant closing, a lecherous foreman, and domestic troubles are among the problems faced by women fish-packers at the plant.
Authors: Ace, Kristin. (Added Author). Caplan, Karen. (Added Author). Crook, Laura Sigrid. (Added Author). Dallin, Heidi J. (Added Author). Fiore, John. (Added Author). Fitzgerald, Melissa. (Added Author). Klug, Mary. (Added Author). Re, Marina. (Added Author). Rogers, M. H. (Added Author). Johnson, Grey. (Added Author). L.A. Theatre Works, (Added Author).
Citation: Horovitz, Israel. "North Shore Fish." Venice, Calif. : L.A. Theatre Works, 2012.

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text: J.H. Williams III Reveals Cover Art for New Blondie Album Creator of all things beautiful and trippy, Sandman: Overture and (formerly) Batwoman’s J.H. Williams III, made a predictably beautiful and trippy image for the cover of a new Blondie album. Also, yes, Blondie still puts out albums: a surprise to us all!


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While looking at pictures of puppies and eating copious amounts of chocolate is what we usually associate with increased happiness, research has found another way to put a smile on your dial more often.
Results of a recent study out of the Department of Economics at the University of Zurich show a strong link between generosity and happiness.
In the study, 48 people were given a sum of money on a weekly basis, half were tasked with spending it on themselves while the others were told to perform acts of generosity toward others. Before and after the four week period, all participants were asked to report their level of happiness.
They found that the people who had performed acts of generosity – no matter how small – rated themselves as happier after the experiment. Researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine the brain mechanisms that link this behaviour with happiness, concluding that altruistic acts activated an area of the brain associated with the reward cycle.
So let this be a little inspiration to pay it forward today.

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Niles, IL, (September 5, 2018) – The Recruit™ wall mount security fixture kit from A.L.P.’s LexaLite® brand, was recognized as a more sustainable approach to lighting systems in a new report by Eneref Institute (www.eneref.org). The report was part of Eneref’s campaign to increase the recyclability of LED luminaires. Eneref Institute is a research and advocacy organization for sustainable development with an initiative to inspire solutions that promise an earth-friendly economy through socially responsible sustainable development.
The Recruit LED wall mount security fixture kit is an attractive, contemporary looking system with a thermally conductive polymer housing. The 8”x 8” footprint can accommodate customer supplied LED arrays, several driver options, and a photocell, putting it in the “small” size class.
As part of Eneref’s campaign to inspire solutions that promise an earth-friendly economy, Eneref Institute’s report examined opportunities to replace aluminum component parts in LED luminaires with polycarbonate, with the overarching goal of reducing the environmental footprint of the lighting industry. According to the Eneref report, thermoplastic heat sinks have environmental advantages over aluminum because the energy needed to recycle thermoplastics is one-fourth that of aluminum.
The report goes on to explain that, compared to the same volume of aluminum, polycarbonate requires less energy to ship, because it is less dense and therefore weighs less, as exemplified by the lightweight Recruit.
“It’s not surprising that an innovative industry leader, like A.L.P., would be an early adopter of polycarbonate heat sinks,” explained Seth Warren Rose, Founding Director of Eneref Institute. “Done responsibly, drilling for petrochemical hydrocarbons—the raw material of plastics—can be less destructive to the environment than mining for aluminum,” Rose explains.
According to the Eneref report, optimizing the design by consolidating components of the same material streamlines both the manufacturing and recycling of luminaires. With fewer components made from fewer materials, the purchasing, shipping, and warehousing processes are simplified. Polycarbonate, a thermoplastic, can be economically recycled into secondary, post-industry applications.
A.L.P. is an international leader in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of lighting components and components for other technical industries. We offer the industry’s most comprehensive line of products for OEMs and the aftermarket. For proprietary projects, our unique “360° Solutions” suite of custom services enables us to collaborate with customers at every stage of a product’s life cycle. Our core commitment is to provide superior service and product performance to every customer.

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Fashion Women Printing Strap Underwear Cotton Sports Bra Vest Crop Top Set.
Look at This is chic product. Fashion Women Printing Strap Underwear Cotton Sports Bra Vest Crop Top Set is a good decision which you are unable to skip it. Highly recommend.

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Chef Corbin’s session was all about what he called “pantry raid cooking” – taking whatever you have laying around in your pantry or fridge and flipping the script by making something unexpected with it. Then, for the next 90 minutes, he did exactly that.
He started with leftover mashed potatoes, he added an egg as a binder, and fried them up on a griddle as little potato cakes. He threw some shrimp into a pan to cook – always take them off the heat before they’re done cooking because the shrimp won’t realize they’re off the heat yet – and topped the potato cakes with them as well as some tomato chutney and mascarpone. Chef Corbin told us that this recipe (like all he showed us during the session) is easily adjusted depending on what you have on hand. Don’t have potato? Use rice! Or roasted vegetables! If you happen to overcook pasta, mash it up and use that! Don’t have shrimp? Use chicken! Or bacon! Or even tofu! Take the bones of this recipe and make it your own.
Chef Corbin then applied this same principle to his next dish – he fried some parmesan reggiano, then pressed it into a silicon muffin tray to make little cheese bowls. Don’t have parmesan? Use asiago! Or cheddar! Or even shredded potato! Once the cheese bowls set, he filled them with fried mushrooms and sundried tomato to make a simple, one-bite hors d’oeuvres. Don’t have mushrooms or sundried tomato kicking around in your kitchen? Use bell peppers! Or corn succotash! Or even olive tapenade! This is the idea behind pantry raid cooking.
Next, Chef Corbin asked the audience how many people thought eating lamb was the absolute worst and he proclaimed that he would “heal them with lamb!” He seared a lamb rack and crusted it with a fennel and pistachio mixture – Don’t have pistachios? Use macadamia nuts! Have a nut allergy? Use cornflakes! – and sent it to the kitchen to bake. Once the lamb was returned to the room, he called those lamb-loathing audience members up to the stage for a taste test and, sure enough, they all agreed it was the best lamb they had ever tasted.
Chef Corbin’s Fennel and Pistachio Crusted Lamb Loin Recipe.
Chef Corbin capped off the session with a chocolate mousse and a “stiff peak” whisking competition between 2 audience participants – one whisking cream, the other whisking egg whites – and the winner was promised a bottle of wine for their table at dinner. The race was on – Tracy was whipping the cream and Alfred was whipping the egg whites – and the competition was tight. There were no electric mixers here and both participants had to call up reinforcements when their arms got tired – Alfred called his wife up to help him “make it stiff”, which got a big laugh from the audience and Chef Corbin – but Tracy came out the victor (Full Disclosure: we were at Tracy’s table for dinner and the wine was fantastic!).
Chef Corbin’s Dark Chocolate Chocolate Mouse Recipe.
Chef Corbin told the room that he cooks so he can connect with people because we all share experiences around food, and you can see that in the way that he doesn’t just interact with his audience, but has them come up on stage and participate in the cooking. He had fun with all of the participants, sharing plenty of laughs, as well as being very encouraging to each one. Chef Corbin truly fostered his philosophy of food = connection because we all left that session with an easy camaraderie, and a new excitement to try something new with the leftovers waiting in our fridges at home.

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The King of Pop was on to something here. Every leader must learn to lead themselves first. This often means having the courage to realize when you’re ineffective and what adjustments you might need to make. As leaders we are always changing, as are the environments in which we lead. Constant self-assessment and feedback are critical to understanding that man (or woman) in the mirror. The best leaders make this a consistent practice in their lives.
While Eminem might be far from your idea of a model leader, in “I’m Not Afraid,” a more mature voice emerges as he raps about the struggles of overcoming drug/alcohol addiction and fully owning his responsibilities as a parent. The main chorus in particular elicits a theme that is reoccurring in many of his songs — I understand your pain, I am willing to sacrifice for you, join me and together we shall overcome. This is the same call to action that every leader must make if they are to recruit and maintain followers. Great leaders communicate their empathy for follower’s needs, embody a philosophy of selfless-service, and align the team in a common purpose.
In this celebrated song, John Lennon asks the listener to imagine a world freed from class, religious, or political boundaries. He also encourages people to focus less on material possessions. Ultimately, the song is a passionate call for world peace. Could there be a better example of how to create and express a vision? Lennon does a masterful job of understanding the current situation (written in 1971 during the Vietnam War), envisioning a different future, and communicating a path in a succinct and powerful way that challenges others to act. The real testament to his genius is that his call for more tolerance and equality is no less relevant today.
If you don’t yet know the story of Rodriquez, I highly recommend you watch this amazing 60 minutes special on his music and life story (http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/rodriguez-the-rock-icon-who-didnt-know-it/). “This is not a Song it’s an Outburst: The Establishment Blues” was a call to action that no one heard in the US. It sold very little copies and Rodriguez’s career essentially flopped. Yet years later, the song became an anthem for South Africans to rise up against the evil of Apartheid and sold millions of records. The leadership message is clear. Not everyone is fit to lead in every environment. Hone your abilities, hold to your values, and practice authentically bringing your leadership gifts to the world. Ultimately, with enough patience, those who you need your leadership most will find you.
This iconic reggae song was conceived while Marley was touring Haiti. He was so extremely moved both by the lives of the Haitians and the extreme poverty they faced; that he called for all to “Get Up Stand Up” and fight for greater equality in the world. Leadership is often about fighting the status quo and sustaining yourself in such battles requires tremendous energy. This can be difficult to sustain over time. A leader who cannot passionately advocate for a mission will never attract and retain followers. Thus, wise leaders prudently take on the issues that give them a strongest sense of meaning and purpose. Figure out what makes you “Get Up Stand Up” and lead the change you most desire.
In Western corporate culture, there can be a tendency to overly value the warrior/hero archetype of leadership and then falsely attribute those qualities more frequently to men. Craig Morgan’s country hit “Tough” reminds us that real toughness, like leadership, can come from anywhere. The warrior/hero in this song is his wife who manages the challenges of their day-to day lives with ease. Then when she struggles through a bout with cancer, he marvels at her will and resiliency. Leaders should be mindful of their own assessments of what a leader is and isn’t. Know that leadership can come from anyone in your organization and make a point to recognize the often overlooked leadership that is being exhibited all around you.
Pretty much any classic jazz track would suffice here, I chose Coltrane’s “Blue Train” for its mix of catchy riffs and universal appeal. Rather than providing a message that relates to leadership, performing Jazz in itself is an act of leadership. In fact, leadership guru Max DePree wrote a book about the links between jazz and leadership called “Leadership Jazz” back in 1993 (http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Jazz-Essential-Elements-Leader/dp/0440505186). In essence, DePree writes that leaders, like jazz musicians, must stay attuned to the needs and ideas of their followers and even step aside at times to be followers themselves. Listen to “Blue Train” and you can hear this philosophy come to light. Coltrane asserts himself when appropriate while also bringing out the best in those around him. It’s masterful.
What could the Bee Gees possibly teach us about leadership you might ask? While their 1977 Grammy award winning hit might not have been intended to have anything to do with leadership — it might as well be every true leader’s personal anthem. Whenever you choose to exhibit leadership, you are moving against a norm and often against authority whose job it is to maintain those norms. Move too fast or without proper support and your’e likely to experience what Harvard Leadership professors Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky call “getting assassinated” (a.k.a. getting fired or marginalized to the extent where you are no longer effective) Surfacing conflict and challenging the status quo will cause people to experience pain. Savvy leaders understand this and raise and lower the heat accordingly, moving the needle while simultaneously keeping themselves in the game. Leadership is risky business and it’s all about staying alive!
So there you have it. Eight songs that will hopefully inspire you to think about your own leadership and how you can be more effective as a leader. I also realize this list is far from all-encompassing so if you have a favorite to add, I’d love to hear from you!
1. Heifetz, R., & Linsky, M. (2002). Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading Boston: Harvard Business Review Press.
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The latest deaths began overnight in the Darling River near the township of Menindee in western New South Wales state.
Canberra, Australia – Hundreds of thousands of fish died on Monday in the third mass death in recent weeks on a stretch of a major Australian river that local officials blamed on drought but critics said at least partly stemmed from water mismanagement.
Minister for Regional Water Niall Blair said his department knew weather conditions were “terrible” and had deployed two solar-powered aerators in the Menindee region. The government bought 16 aerators to deploy in waterways around the state after the last mass fish death on Jan. 6-7.
“Unfortunately, there’s nothing that anyone has been able to point to – no scientist, no locals, no one has been able to point to anything else that could prevent something like this other than freshwater coming into the system and we just don’t have that,” Blair told reporters.

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text: " I Really Do Love You (Freak On)" by DJ Dangerous Raj Desai is a total banger. What an incredible party starter! Freak On the electrifying energy, and dance floor will packed! . The track includes moving string elements and when this song is dropped, the whole crowd will be dancing.


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Micromeritics Instrument Corp. Acquires Process Integral Development S.L.
Norcross, GA – August 1, 2018 - Micromeritics Instrument Corporation, a leading global manufacturer of premium products for advanced material characterization, today announced the acquisition of Process Integral Development S.L. (PID Tech & Eng). PID Eng & Tech provides modular laboratory microreactor systems for the measurement of catalytic activity and for the study of yield and kinetics of chemical reactions.
specializes in providing instruments for the measurement of powder flow properties and other behavioral properties of powders.

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Public sector ICT and digital advisor Socitm Advisory has extended its congratulations to all the winners at this year’s prestigious Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards.
The awards are the largest celebration of healthcare excellence in the UK, attracting around 1,500 entries across more than 20 categories.
The East Sussex Better Together (ESBT) alliance won the Improved Partnerships between Health and Local Government category, proudly sponsored by Socitm Advisory.
ESBT brings together prevention work, primary and community care, social care, mental health, acute and specialist care across East Sussex. By working together, the alliance has made significant improvements in care pathways across health and social care.
Socitm Advisory provides consultancy support and strategic advice to the public sector, helping to transform organisations’ IT services and assisting with the delivery and implementation of programmes and projects.
Further information about its services is available on the Socitm Advisory website.
ESBT is made up of five local partners: Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG; Hastings and Rother CCG; East Sussex County Council; East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust (ESHT); and associate partner Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (SPFT).
For a full list of this year’s winners of the HSJ Awards, please visit the website.

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A fish and chip shop in Cumbria has been damaged after a fire on Tuesday.
A fire brigade spokesperson revealed the blaze affected both the first and ground floors in the building, causing a partial collapse of the floor.
Fire crews were initially called to the scene at 10.26am after a chip pan caught on fire.
Police had to cordon off the surrounding area while eight appliances from Windermere, Kendal, Ambleside, Staveley, Patterdale and Coniston attended the incident.
Under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 a "suitable and sufficient" fire risk assessment must be completed on commercial properties.
If it is deemed that fire risk provisions were insufficient, then the responsible person can face a prison sentence of up to two years or an unlimited fine.


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The notion that mens rea is an indicia of culpability runs deep in the American criminal law psyche. For most defendants, a finding that they had the requisite legal intent may be all we need to know to pronounce them morally culpable. This is because most defendants – those of average intelligence – enjoy a level of socialization, rationality, and agency sufficient to be aware of social norms, make a choice to violate them or not, and to control their own impulses in doing so. But for defendants with mental retardation, the state-of-mind element fails to accurately signify a “guilty mind.” Social science research makes clear (and existing neuroscience research seems to support) that these presumptions of consciousness, choice, and control do not apply to people with mental retardation. In essence, then, for this population, all offenses become strict liability offenses, where an intent inquiry is all but meaningless.
While the criminal law does make some allowances for differences in cognitive capacity, it does so only in very limited circumstances, through the doctrines of competency, insanity, and diminished capacity. As a result, litigants must resort to crude perversions of justice to introduce evidence of mental retardation. Finding no valid policy or theoretical justification (apart from incapacitation) for this failure to adequately address the disjuncture between actual culpability and criminal liability, this article offers a new, comprehensive approach to cases charging defendants with mental retardation. Specifically, it proposes a new default rule, where non-violent cases against them would be presumptively dismissed. More serious cases charging violent crimes could proceed to trial with the standard mens rea requirements, but would require that any sentence imposed be the least restrictive alternative necessary to accomplish an articulable sentencing goal. This proposal redresses a major flaw in current criminal law doctrine, one which unjustly permits a finding of guilty minds among defendants whose true culpability may not be presumed.

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Who should Andre Ward fight next?
At no point this week has Andre Ward sounded particularly enthused about fighting Adonis Stevenson. You can see his point. The Haitian-Canadian has spent years taking soft defences and there was no doubt the Ward-Kovalev fight was to decide the number one light-heavyweight. But Stevenson remains the WBC champion and the thought of unifying all four belts is a tantalising prospect.
They will be sick of the sight of one another, fuelled by disdain, making a trilogy all the more enthralling for us. Their fights are good, even if the rematch was scrappy at times. Kovalev laid all the blame for his defeat with the referee’s intervention rather than acknowledging Ward. In other words there is still a point to be proved.
A fantastic prospect in the division, Beterbiev is a heavy puncher and could well be even more dangerous than Kovalev.
Ward is known and respected in Europe after his victories over Carl Froch and Mikkel Kessler. Fighting in front of Britain’s enthusiastic boxing fans at Wembley or the O2 appeals to him and DeGale could step up to light-heavy and make this a clash of Olympic gold medallists.
Ward has a crazy dream, of moving up to cruiserweight for a world title in a third weight division. His trainer Virgil Hunter went one further, declaring his man could beat Anthony Joshua. That is too far fetched but in a land of giants Joseph Parker is the most diminutive and potentially the most vulnerable heavyweight world titlist.

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text: Mr P was charged with four counts of theft between December 2016 and January 2017. On 16 January 2017 Mr P attended Court where he pled guilty to all charges. Mr P was sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment in total. He was remanded into custody following sentencing on 16 January 2017.


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"Issachah Savage, a promising young dramatic tenor, sang Narraboth’s lines with shining bronze tones. Reports of his Otello in Mexico make him a tenor to watch."
DIE WALKURE "When Savage sang the opening line of yesterday’s Die Walküre, we immediately knew that we were in store for something quite different. Instead of the usual tenor with baritone colouration and vocal heft, we had a lyric, unforced dramatic tenor, lighter in colour and yet powerful. Savage was careful to pace the first two acts in which he appears – building from strength-to-strength...The roaring ovation that greeted him when he walked out on stage for his curtain call was of a quality and pitch usually reserved for only the greatest of singers."
DIE WALKURE "So, when it was announced at noon Saturday that he [Issachah Savage] would be singing, it really piqued my interest. The first voice in the opera belongs to Siegmund, and right away I was impressed by his warm, hall-filling, rich sound, accurate of pitch and used with a surfeit of musicality. Undoubtedly there were some nervous tension, but he hid it well. He grew in confidence as the performance continued, and the voice sounded splendid in the Four Seasons Centre. At his final curtain call, the roar of approval from the house was among the most impressive I've heard in my 43 years of attending COC performances.
This performance clearly demonstrated that Savage's tenor is ideal as Siegmund. He managed the unusually low tessitura well. When the vocal line rises, his tenor is in its glory. Unlike many Wagnerian tenors who are basically pushed-up baritones, Savage is a genuine tenor, with a bright, forwardly placed sound, one that defines the term Jugendlich dramatischer Tenor. The gleaming yet warm sound is lovely, and it has the heft for the dramatic outbursts like the "Walse, walse" passage."
LOHENGRIN ...Dramatic tenor Issachah Savage proved a tremendous, heroic Lohengrin. The line of his gorgeous voice in “Mein lieber Schwann” was seamless, the energy unflagging. Having previously thrilled the loyal Merola audience with his Otello in the Schwabacher Summer Concert, it is easy to imagine Savage, who also has a delightful comic sensibility, following in the footsteps of Domingo and Botha."
LOHENGRIN "Tenor Issachah Savage made a thrilling Lohengrin, bringing grace and ardor to "Mein lieber Schwann" from Wagner's opera"
LOHEGRIN "Issachah Savage brought the house down with his personal best for all his impressive appearances this summer: "Mein lieber Schwann" from "Lohengrin" was heldentenor par excellence - trumpetlike, clear, open-throated, powerful."
OTELLO "For the other shoe to drop, the audience had to wait all the way until the end of the evening, when tenor Issachah Savage gave a phenomenal glimpse of his abilities as Otello in the final scene from Verdi's opera. Merola is supposed to be a training program, yet here was a vocal showing as sure-footed and commanding as anything you might encounter on a professional stage. From his opening notes - impeccably shaded and coiled with repressed fury - to the opera's final explosion of grief and shame, Savage sang with a combination of power and finesse that is rare to observe. The only disappointment was that we didn't get to hear more from him - though that will surely be corrected soon."
AIDA "The men were quite impressive, starting with tenor Issachah Savage’s Egyptian commander Radames. His middle-range voice was extremely beautiful and clear, while his high notes rang out brightly."
AIDA "Radames was sung by Issachah Savage, who produces a bright, clear and potent sound, consistent throughout, and his power and presence were welcomed with loud ovations after his very first aria."
AIDA "Mr. Savage was phenomenal as Radames, starting with his beautiful timbre, and continuing through great projection and Italianate phrasing, all the way to excellent pitch control both on the top and the bottom of his range. This was a superb Radames, which is already a third of what is needed for a beautiful Aida. And it's the young singer's role debut!"
DIE MEISTERSINGER "There was an extra thrill in the final selection, most of the last two scenes of “Meistersinger,” with tenor Issachah Savage singing the famous Prize Song. Savage is a Catholic University alum who’s been winning competitions for a few years and singing in the Washington area as well as around the country, but I wasn’t prepared for the easy, rich, warm sound that poured out of him in one of the most beautiful arias in the repertory...a world-class voice."
DIE MEISTERSINGER "Yet still, the most moving moment of the evening did not come necessarily in the singing. It was in that very moment that tenor Issachah Savage walked unassumedly on stage for the first time, that an intense sense of trepidation seemed to be in the air. It was midway through the orchestra's playing that Savage came onstage and sat down. When tenor Isachaah Savage stood and opened his mouth, for many it was an unexpected gem of royal worth. His voice was like a wall of glorious sound and he commanded every note. After the performance, noted music educator, conductor and organist Peter Krasinski remarked to the D. C. Performing Arts Examiner on that special moment. " A voice that has the power and strength to sing this repertoire is rare indeed, one with such beauty that it reaches onto the heart is a true gift, to hear a single voice that can do both might be called a voice heard once in a century. When Mr. Savage began to sing "The Prize Song," the tears began to flow, and to my left and right I could plainly see that I was not alone. Couples became closer; the very walls resonated with a silent"yes. We all became one in the realization that we were witnessing history in the making." he said."
"It is not often that a singer can meet the challenges of both arias meant for opera's expansive spaces and songs conceived for a parlor-size room. Tenor Issachah Savage more than succeeded, aided by pianist Katerina Souvorova's responsive accompaniment. Savage's recital at Grace Lutheran Church Sunday was part of the Hines-Lee Opera Ensemble's support program for promising young singers, one of several such projects in Washington. Savage gave an impressive performance last summer as Martin in Aaron Copland's gentle opera "The Tender Land" at Catholic University. On Sunday, he offered even more samples of his success on the big stage. But he did so after beautiful accounts of Cesar Franck's familiar "Panis Angelicus," well-known lieder of Hugo Wolf and chansons of Maurice Ravel. By the time Savage had finished the Franck, it was already evident that the tenor is a winner in both dramatic and lyrical styles. In the Wolf, his voice radiated shades of gleaming silver while tackling the composer's settings of hyper-syllabic German with seeming ease and maintaining the intimate bearing and gestures of a veteran lieder singer. Given Wolf's wordiness and Ravel's exotic colors, Savage deserves high marks for the full vocal control and tapered phrases that allow the melodic line to grow to the peak of a song's emotional heights. In Italian arias of Giuseppe Verdi, Stefano Donaudy and Francesco Tosti, Savage turned actor, one capable of both florid bel canto and touches of humor. Spirituals and gospel songs -- plus three encores -- gave a heartwarming and uplifting finish to the recital."


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Leeks, lettuce, lemon juice, lamb, loaves of bread and lovingly made mozzarella. The Dargle Valley is home to many small producers of good food. Most homesteads have a vegetable garden to supply their kitchens and often share the surplus with neighbours.
Dargle Local Living is an initiative aimed at building a better future for our community, starting by listing as much of the food which is locally produced in a small, sustainable way as possible.
At the market held beside ilPostinoResturant, you will find handmade cheese, mixed greens, pickles, jams, quiches, gooseberries, tomato plants, compost, farm yard eggs (duck, quail and chicken), pumpkins, homemade muesli and natural yoghurt too!
The latest eat in magazine is now on the shelf and worth laying your hands on to drool over the winning foods that include Earthshine's range of Kale Chips (innovation award), Croft Chickens (best organic or free-range producer), Oude Bank Bakkery (best small producer: Bakery) and Boon Hill Salad Leaves (best small producer: Earth).
This edition is labelled the ultimate green shopping guide and lists farmers' markets, organic vegetables, sustainable seafood and free-range beef etc.
Get your copy at a stockist near you.
Climate-smart agriculture must target the short-term needs of the smallholder farmer to be effective in combating climate change.
Encouraging climate-smart agriculture can lead to climate change adaptation practices in a partnership where the farmer’s needs are addressed.
“Climate-smart agriculture has the potential to increase sustainable productivity, increase the resilience of farming systems to climate impacts and mitigate climate change through greenhouse gas emission reductions and carbon sequestration,” says Henry Neufeldt the lead expert on climate change at the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF).
gaia food market, a 'plant-based' food sensation!
Despite the recent freaky weather, spring is most definitely in the air and the time is perfect for markets, of which Cape Town has many. One of the most fabulous is the new Gaia food market in the leafy suburb of Constantia. Gaia is another name for ‘mother earth’, and so echoes the natural ethos of the market: natural, organic, healthy, yum and fun!
Perfect for those with gourmet taste-buds and a tendency to sup on nought but vegetables, as well as a great day out for those new to the ‘organic-and-natural’ food scene, this Sunday event is a must for all Cape Townians and tourists alike.
This Guy Fawkes marked the first anarchist book fair in Africa, a trend that has taken off all around the world. These events are a great opportunity for existing anarchists to come together and the common public to learn more about anarchism.
Located at Observatory’s quirky café Ganesh, the anarchist book fair on the 5th November had a revolutionary atmosphere, and you could almost feel the genius as it bred in small groups, big ideas swished around by foreigners and locals alike.
A refreshing perspective on the local green-scene, the Hout Bay Green Faire is the perfect opportunity to network with like-minded people as well as support businesses that have their ethical heads on straight.
For people like me, who relish the idea of a zero-waste, creatively-inspired society living close to and in harmony with nature, this was a piece of paradise. Overwhelming even, to have so much of what you normally have to hunt for in the same place for one day. Almost makes those high ideals feel within reach.
hout bay green faire this saturday!
One of our favourite events on the green calendar. The Hout Bay Green Faire 2011 has something for everyone. You'll be able to find information and products for greening your lifestyle and lowering your ecological footprint, gifts and entertainment for the kids and yummy local and organic food, plus a whole lot more. An authentic green exhibition in the open air! (remember sunscreen, depending on weather).
There is a REALLY COOL line up of talks on the day, view the Hout Bay Green Faire Programme here.
Sue Visser showing you how to make and use probiotics for garden and human health.
Anthea Torr providing insight into living in peace and harmony to heal ourselves and the planet.
I am a fan of the Earth Fair Market. It's location in Tokai makes it a really easy 'pop in and grab' place to stock up on fresh, organic and local food on a Wednesday evening and Saturday morning.
And now, the indoor market is getting an outdoor equivalent in the city bowl, St George's Mall, just opposite the cathedral (what a setting).
Jacci Simpson, the market's organiser is very excited. As she says, it's been eight months of getting approval and permits and it is the closest we will have in this country to a European style street market.
Rosemary Hill Farm Market has been around for two years. They're trying something slightly new as of this weekend, with a focus on family and food. They're also moving the market to Friday evenings in order to accommodate this.
Rosemary Hill is just that, a hill on a stretch of gorgeous organic farmland only 10 minutes outside Pretoria, or 45 minutes from Sandton (considering it takes at least that to get across Jo'burg, it isn't far).
The farm has been organic since 1978 and grows African potato, sutherlandia, rosemary, lavender, artemisia, lippia, spearmint, eucalyptus and other plants from which they distill essential oils. They have a herd of Nguni cattle and grow other crops like pecan nuts, as well as vegetables. Next door to them is the Max Stibbe Waldorf School.


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The number of underinsured adults - those with health insurance all year, but also with very high medical expenses relative to their incomes - rose by 80 percent between 2003-2010, from 16 million to 29 million, according to a new Commonwealth Fund study published in the September issue of Health Affairs. Nearly half (44%) of U.S. adults - 81 million people - were either underinsured or uninsured in 2010, up from 75 million in 2007 and 61 million in 2003.
The study finds that in addition to covering the uninsured, Affordable Care Act (ACA) reforms will also provide significant relief for those who are underinsured, potentially reducing their numbers by as much as 70 percent once the law is fully implemented.
"Under-insured families are at nearly as high risk as the uninsured because, while they have health insurance, holes or limits in their plans expose them to often unaffordable medical costs," said lead study author and Commonwealth Fund Senior Vice President Cathy Schoen. "To reduce the number of under-insured, it will be critical for the plans offered under the Affordable Care Act reforms to keep deductibles and out-of-pocket costs low for essential, effective health care."
Although insured all year, underinsured adults reported high rates of access concerns and financial stress. The study finds that the underinsured go without needed health care and struggle to pay medical bills or medical debt at rates at times similar to those without health insurance. Nearly half (46%) of underinsured and 63 percent of uninsured adults didn't fill a prescription, see a doctor when sick, or went without a recommended medical test or treatment, compared with 28 percent of people who had more adequate health insurance. Half (52%) of underinsured and 58 percent of uninsured adults had trouble paying medical bills, were contacted by a collections agency over unpaid bills, had to change their way of life to pay medical bills, or were paying off medical debt over time. In contrast, about one fourth (27%) of adults with adequate health insurance reported such medical bill stress and debt.
The study finds that Affordable Care Act reforms like premium assistance and reduced cost-sharing for lower and modest income families will provide significant support to those most likely to be underinsured - people with incomes below 250 percent of the federal poverty level, or $56,000 a year for a family of four. Seven out of 10 of the underinsured, and a similar share of those uninsured during the year, had incomes this low in the study.
The new law will also provide sliding scale premium assistance to families making up to 400 percent of poverty or $88,000 a year for a family of four. However, the study notes that those with incomes above 250 percent of poverty ($56,000 for a family of four) could face out-of-pocket costs that are high relative to their incomes if plan designs permit high deductibles or high cost-sharing for essential care.
"Inadequate health insurance puts families' health and financial security at risk," said Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis. "The good news is that the Affordable Care Act includes provision to improve coverage for everyone. If plans are well-designed to cover high-value care, in the future families won't have to live in fear of paying for health insurance that won't protect them when sick - families, especially low and middle income families, will have the greater security of knowing they can afford the health care they need."
Low-income families were most at risk: three quarters of those with incomes below $20,000 were either under-insured (26%) or uninsured (52%).
However, coverage has also eroded for middle income families. By 2010, nearly one out of six (16%) of adults with incomes between $40,000 and $60,000 a year were under-insured and another 19 percent were uninsured. In contrast, in 2003, only 5 percent of adults with incomes in this range were under-insured.
Under-insured adults often pay premiums that are high relative to their incomes in addition to facing high deductibles, limits on the number of visits and caps on what the plan will pay in a year. One-third (33%) of underinsured adults reported deductibles of $1,000 or more; 19 percent spent 10 percent or more of their income on premiums.
The authors note that the high rates of under-insured are the result of insurance plan designs. They conclude that "to minimize the risk that newly insured could become underinsured, designs will need to take a value-based approach that ensures access and financial protection for essential care."
Study data come from the Commonwealth Fund 2010 Health Insurance Survey, a nationally representative telephone survey of 4,005 adults age nineteen and older living in the continental United States. Conducted by Princeton Survey Research Associates International, interviews took place from July 14 to November 30, 2010. We also present trend data from our analyses of the 2003 and 2007 Biennial Health Insurance Surveys (also conducted by the Princeton group).
The final sample consisted of 2,550 interviews conducted by landline phone and 1,455 interviews by cell phone, including 637 in households with no land lines. In this study we restricted the analysis to the sample of 3,033 people ages 19 who participated in the survey. The resulting weighted sample represents 184 million adults in this age group.
Fund, Commonwealth. "Under-Insured Adults Skip Needed Care, Struggle With Medical Debt: Affordable Care Act Reforms Could Have Substantial Impact." Medical News Today. MediLexicon, Intl., 10 Sep. 2011. Web.


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Sea trips between Vladivostok, Russia and isolated North Korea have resumed after a two-month break, with the transport of cargo, the RIA news agency reported on Monday, quoting the head of the company operating the route. The North Korean-flagged Mangyonbong left the Russian port for North Korea’s Rajin on Sunday, RIA said, citing the company’s director general, Vladimir Baranov. The ferry line, the only one between the two countries, was opened in May to carry cargo and passengers, predominantly Chinese tourists. It stopped operating in August, however, because the port in Vladivostok refused to provide services to the vessel after the company failed to pay for them, RIA reported citing a port official. The ferry service was launched in May in spite of calls by the United States for countries to curtail relations with Pyongyang over its nuclear and missile programs.
Though Puerto Rican law prohibits ownership and bearing of most long-guns and especially semiautomatic weapons, the streets of the stricken US colony now throng with mercenaries in tactical gear bearing such arms, their faces masked. They wear no insignia or nametags and won't say who they work for, apart from vague statements in broken Spanish: "We work with the government. It’s a humanitarian mission, we’re helping Puerto Rico." Rosa Emilia Rodríguez, head of Puerto Rico's Federal Prosecutor’s Office, initially dismissed reports of the mercenaries, then, after reporters from the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo pressed her she said she'd "check it out." After Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, Erik Prince's Blackwater mercenaries flooded the city again, turning it into an "armed camp", after Brigadier Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force announced "This place is going to look like Little Somalia. We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control." Erik Prince is now reportedly considering a senate run as a Trumpist candidate in Wyoming. His sister, Betsy Devos, has used millions from her husband's pyramid-scheme fortunes to fund efforts to destroy public education, and now serves as Trump's Secretary of Education. Though the mercenaries in Puerto Rico won't identify their employers, there's good evidence that Blackwater (now called Academi) is or will soon be operating there, as well as other notorious mercenary gangs like Ranger America and the Whitestone Group.
Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is designed to stop phishing. One of the most phished domain names in the world is the UK tax office, HMRC. HMRC has implemented DMARC to counter this phishing, and in November 2016 it announced, "We have already managed to reduce phishing emails by 300 million this year through spearheading the use of DMARC. It allows us and email service providers to identify fraudulent emails purporting to be from genuine HMRC domains and prevent their delivery to customers." But DMARC is clearly no silver bullet. On October 13, 2017, Trustwave's SpiderLabs described a very recent, albeit short-lived, HMRC-based phishing campaign. "On 6th September, 2017, scammers launched a phishing attack using spoofed e-mail messages appearing to come from a HMRC support service domain and containing links to the infamous JRAT malware disguised as a VAT return document." On that same day, the scammers registered the HMRC-lookalike domain from the LCN registrar. The phishing messages sent to targets were sent from this domain. They were from 'HMRC Business Help and Support Email' with the subject 'VAT Return Query'. The content says, "Thank you for sending you VAT Return Online but there some queries about your submission. Kindly review the outlined errors in the attached document, correct and resubmit." It contains just two easily missed typographical/grammatical errors. In reality, there is no attachment to the email. "The illusion of the attachment that can be seen in the message body," writes SpiderLabs, "is achieved using an embedded HTML image that is rigged with a URL pointing to the Microsoft OneDrive file sharing service." Attempting to access the non-existent attachment points the user to the OneDrive service and automatically downloads a file labeled 'VAT RETURN QUERY.ZIP'.

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Hughes, a 21-year-old right-hander, hasnât talked with team officials in Tampa about the trade possibility since his named surfaced in talks in November.
Hughes is focused on the one thing he can control: preparing for the 2008 season. He started a throwing program four weeks ago.
Two other pitching prospects, Humberto Sanchez and Andrew Brackman, are taking part in throwing programs after elbow ligament replacement surgery last year.
Sanchez, one of three pitchers obtained from Detroit for outfielder Gary Sheffield, expects to throw off a mound by late next month.
Brackman, the Yankeesâ first round pick in the 2007 amateur draft, is scheduled to start throwing from 90 feet next week. The 6-foot-10, 240-pound right-hander from North Carolina State had surgery on Aug. 24 and was expected to be sidelined 12-to-18 months.


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To date he has contested sixteen 24 Hour races including Le Mans, Daytona, Nürburgring, Zolder and Silverstone. In 2014 he contested the Daytona 24 Hours, the Aston Martin GT4 Championship, the Goodwood Members Meeting in a TWR Mazda, the Goodwood Revival and various VSCC meetings in a Maserati 6CM Grand Prix car and the Britcar Endurance Championship in a Ferrari 458GTC.
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text: A small-time pot dealer is forced to become a big-time drug smuggler after his stolen stash leaves him neck-deep in debt to his devious supplier in this outrageous comedy. His only way out: retrieve a massive weed shipment from a dealer in Mexico. Jennifer Aniston and Jason Sudeikis head up a hilarious cast in this hit film that finds Sudeikis recruiting a "family" (stripper-neighbor Aniston and a pair of misfit teens) to serve as his cover as they cross the border in an RV. Co-starring Emma Roberts, Nick Offerman, Kathryn Hahn and Ed Helms. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber; screenplay by Bob Fisher & Steve Faber and Sean Anders & John Morris, story by Bob Fisher and Steve Faber.


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(RAINY RIVER, ON) – Members of the Rainy River District are requesting the public’s assistance in locating a stolen vehicle.
Sometime between 11:00 pm on November 9th, 2018 and 6:40 am on November 10th, 2018, unknown culprit(s) attended a residence on Third Street, in Rainy River and stole a vehicle parked in the driveway.
The stolen vehicle is described as a light blue 2009 Chrysler Sebring with a bent fuel door. The car is bearing Ontario licence plate # CACJ 112.
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This net dating thing is new to me but figured its worth a shot.
not really looking for a new relationship, because its online and you never know how you might meet..


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President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
President Donald Trump sowed confusion after saying he would walk back new Treasury Department sanctions aimed at hurting North Korea.
The penalties were enacted against two China-based companies on Thursday.
In a tweet on Friday, Trump said he would order "the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions."
But the White House later suggested the Treasury Department's penalties were still in place, and that no additional sanctions are being pursued at this time.
The White House explained the move by saying Trump "likes" North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, adding that the president doesn't think the sanctions are necessary.
The sanctions, which national security adviser John Bolton described as "important actions," had been announced by the Treasury just a day earlier.
The US government's new policy toward North Korea is apparently that President Donald Trump "likes" Kim Jong Un and is willing to let him slide on potential sanctions in the future, a move that seemed to take his own administration by surprise.
Trump prompted confusion on Friday when he appeared to overturn new Treasury Department penalties against North Korea. The White House cited the president's affinity for the North Korean leader as the reasoning.
The sanctions, which were imposed on Chinese shipping companies accused of helping North Korea evade sanctions, were announced by the Treasury Department on Thursday.
National security adviser John Bolton described the sanctions as "important actions" in a tweet that day.
"The maritime industry must do more to stop North Korea's illicit shipping practices," Bolton said. "Everyone should take notice and review their own activities to ensure they are not involved in North Korea's sanctions evasion."
Less than 24 hours later, Trump tweeted, "It was announced today by the U.S. Treasury that additional large scale Sanctions would be added to those already existing Sanctions on North Korea. I have today ordered the withdrawal of those additional Sanctions!"
Subsequently, in an apparent attempt to clarify Trump's tweet, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, "President Trump likes Chairman Kim and he doesn't think these sanctions will be necessary."
Bruce Klingner, an expert on North Korea at the conservative Heritage Foundation, on Friday told a VOA News reporter this move from Trump "sends a signal that 'maximum pressure,' which was never maximum to begin with, isn't going to get any stronger...Congress will not react well to this."
"Maximum pressure" refers to the Trump administration's strategy of squeezing North Korea economically with sanctions in an effort to get Pyongyang, the country's capital, to agree to denuclearization.
When asked for his thoughts on Trump's abrupt shift, James Carafano, a leading national-security expert at Heritage, told INSIDER, "My experience is wait for things to settle and see what is really up and not to jump off the roof at the first tweet."
Responding to Trump's announcement, Mark Dubowitz, the CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, tweeted, "I've been working on sanctions policy for 15+ years. Don't recall ever seeing a president overrule a Treasury announcement AFTER it was announced."
"The United States needs to decide on one policy and stick to it," Jon Wolfsthal, who served as the nuclear expert for the National Security Council under former President Barack Obama, told INSIDER.
"The factions and continued infighting show the US does not have its act together. Any good President or national security advisor would demand a normal process to determine and implement policy. What we have is chaos," Wolfsthal, who is now director of the Nuclear Crisis Group, added.
Meanwhile, Democrats are going after Trump on the back-and-forth in his administration.
Democratic Sen. Cory Booker, who is running for president in 2020, in a tweet accused Trump of "embracing authoritarian dictators, one tweet at a time."
Booker added, "America deserves so much better than this."
Another Democratic senator said Trump's abrupt reversal "defies logic" and called for congressional action.
"There is no question that Trump is being played by Kim Jong Un — one of the world's most vicious dictators. Sidestepping his own Treasury Dept. and withdrawing sanctions against North Korea the same day they were announced defies logic. Congress must step in," Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen tweeted.
There are also reports that suggest Trump's tweet and the White House's subsquent statement did not relate to Thursday's sanctions but other large-scale sanctions the Treasury Department was poised to announce and the president decided against.
In short, there's a fair amount of confusion about this development and no clear picture of where US policy toward North Korea really stands.
This all comes on the heels of Trump's second summit with Kim, which took place in Hanoi, Vietnam, on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
Many experts characterized the summit as a massive failure because Trump walked away without a deal, but his supporters presented it as part of ongoing negotiations.
North Korea has since shown signs of increased military activity and threatened last week to scrap talks with the US altogether.
Choe Son-hui, North Korea's vice foreign minister, said last Friday that the relationship between Trump and Kim was "still good and the chemistry is mysteriously wonderful." But she then added that Bolton and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo were fostering an "atmosphere of hostility and mistrust."

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Answer to the last quesiton. – Common Money Principles and Practice.
But first, the positive stuff: give yourself a pat on the back formaking the first step and communicating! That’s major progress!
Second, I’m not so sure it’s a bad idea to scare him with fearful numbers and show him he spent twice what was budgeted. If you do this in a kind and loving way, it might get through. I’ve learned that with some people (namely, my dear spouse) the nice, subtle messages just don’t work. Saying very bluntly “I’m worried about our expenses from last month–we spent double what we made, and I’ve got a real problem with that” might actually work.
Again, I really really empathize with you on this. We are going through similar struggles and it’s very frustrating. I’ll reiterate my plea to the group: if anyone knows the magic formula to getting one’s spouse on the same financial page, please tell us! Scare him to death, before reality and life does it for you.
I was studying for a class and must have been thinking about your situation in the back of my mind. Lately I’ve been trying to consider each purchase in the terms of how many hours I have to work to earn the money. Like my car bought a month ago is equal to what I earned by working 341 hours. Compare your husband’s purchases in terms of how many hours he works to pay for them.
For example, say he earns $10 per hour. He buys tools worth $1,500. He must work 150 hours or 3.75 weeks (40 hour work week) to pay for them. Or say the rent is $1,000 a month. That’s 100 hours or 2.5 weeks.
Don’t know if this helps you but it’s been helping me when I want to buy things. There’s a book I want to buy that is equal to 2.5 hoursof my pay. It’s the only thing keeping me from buying that book; thinking how long I’d have to work to earn the money to pay for it.

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This is the first time i have written such a post. I think it is a good idea that I note down my resolutions for the coming year and what i had achieved the previous year.
1. Finished my long, time consuming, and tedious project that acts as my backup plan.
2. Started active investment again after 2 year hiatus partly because item 1 required my fullest focus.
1. Achieved realistically at least 10% ROI for my investments.
2. Lose a few more kilos to achieve my ideal weight. In the same time, try to lower my cholestrol levels to NORMAL levels. (5 Kilos more off to lose for 2011 is good number). Take care of health in a better way.
4. Spend more times with family, friends, etc.
5.Plan to start-up something that can get me out of being being a pencil/keyboard pusher all my life on a part-time basis.
It is not wrong or bad being a pencil/keyboard pusher, where a fixed stream incomes comes in very month into my wallet, but that income is somehow very very capped and very much does not skew favorably in terms of the hours/effort you put in compare to the monetary terms.


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L'Enfant Gallery at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and P Street NW.
In 2000, when Peter Colasante decided to move in, the once-elegant storefront on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and P Street, formerly an Italian men’s shop, was boarded up. The art gallery he was relocating from Connecticut Avenue was named for architect and engineer Pierre Charles L’Enfant (Colasante didn’t consider the 1960s office complex—L’Enfant Plaza—a fitting tribute to the designer of the District of Columbia).
Colasante, 67, is still pleased with his choice of location, calling Georgetown — outside of New York, which he says is “a different universe” — “the best place in the best city in the country to be.” The gallery’s window displays, meant to be “visual out-of-the-box experiences,” draw in the avenue’s enviable foot traffic. “I find out who they are later,” he says.
By now, the gallery has an international network of clients, a “nuclear family.” Dealers look to L’Enfant Gallery for Chinese art and Asian ceramics, and the Civil War is a focus (Colasante lent items to a major Lincoln exhibition recently), but the overall mix is eclectic in genre, origin and price.
Stepping inside, visitors face a red wall of paintings hung salon-style, assorted chandeliers above. That sense of rich surprise extends throughout the gallery’s four levels.
In November, after a volunteer archivist went through what was in storage, Colasante opened the gallery’s basement to the public. It is now set up to resemble a Victorian viewing parlor, complete with a carved chief’s throne from Borneo.
Having decamped for Vienna, Virginia, Colasante no longer gets up at 3 in the morning to move paintings around. But he and his business partner (and former spouse) Maureen Taylor rearrange the display and host special exhibitions every few months. From total holdings of roughly 4,000 objects, he says they sell 200 to 300 per year.
Colasante’s eyes twinkle behind stylish frames when he recalls starting out with a much smaller inventory. In December of 1973, he opened Calvert Gallery in an English basement on Connecticut Avenue, putting four things purchased at apartment sales in the window. The gallery grew as it moved from one location to another in the vicinity of Connecticut and Calvert, becoming L’Enfant Gallery in 1990.
Raised in Cliffside Park, New Jersey, Colasante attended Catholic University, where he failed to shine, as he tells it, either as an actor or a philosopher. He learned about art working in Oxon Hill, Maryland, as an eccentric collector’s cataloguer, then curator. His boss’s advice: Never specialize.
Colasante can remember three recessions, but calls the last five years “the worst it’s ever been.” The threshold for bread-and-butter purchases, formerly $10,000, has dropped to $3,000, he says. The good news is that he owns his building, having finally been able to purchase it from a trust in 2012. He also does appraisal work and counsels owners of art and antiques (he advises those wishing to hang on to treasured possessions to avoid the three Ds: death, divorce and downsizing).


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Prolactin blood test is showing high, I am hypothyroid, is it because of my thyroid problem or any other reason?
Hyperprolactinemia. Hypothyroidism ( low thyroid) can elevate prolactin.. When thyroid is replaced well , prolactin should be normal.. If prolactin remains high, prolactinoma ( pituitary tumor producing prolactin) should be considered.
Feeling unwell, Blood Tests T3 (liothyronine) 1.13, T4 11.18, T4 Free1.63, TSH <0.005, Prolactin 25.37 Luteinizing hormone 4.72.I am hypothyroid, so why low TSH??
Period finally came after being 14 days late, but my prolactin level was at 52, hypothyroidism were good even though I had a negative blood pregnancy.
Thyroid ultrasound results showed hyperthyroidism but blood tests came back saying hypothyroidism TSH 11.4 antibodies teat also came back high?
3 days after taking a Plan B pill I had blood work done to test my thyroid, estrogen and prolactin levels. Will my test results be inaccurate?
I am hypothyroid patient on thyronorm 100 daily. I am also having OSA. Is it due to thyroid problem or some other reason. Without CPAP OSA can be cured?
Will prometrium (micronized progesterone) have an impact on thyroid panel and prolactin level blood test results if last dose was 36 hours prior to test?
Can PCOS happen suddenly after years of regular periods? Now three months without one? Sent off for thyroid and prolactin blood tests Friday.
Do atkins diet affect hormones test results? Fsh, prolactin, and tsh? Atkins affect metabolism, so can affect thyroid tests? Can give wrong blood results?
Could a thyroid blood test miss a hypothyroid issue?


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According to local reports, the Hannibal, Missouri city council has approved a 20-year ground lease agreement with Viking River Cruises ahead of the brand's planned launch on the Mississippi River.
Viking will pay the city $1 per passenger in exchange for berth rights in the town, according to the report.
Another report said that Viking is expected to start calling in 2021 or 2022, and that its ships would carry up to 338 guests.
It is another step in Viking's ambitious growth plan, as the company has 14 ocean-going ships on its orderbook, and major plans to expand its presence into the U.S. river market.


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Dodge-Chrome offers machine prints, proofs and reprints from film or digital files, in sizes ranging from wallets to 12×18 at our retail location.
All machine prints are individually corrected for color and density balance and are printed on Fuji Crystal Archive photo paper.
Our kiosk prints, available at our retail location, are an economical photo print service solution. Select and crop your prints on our easy-to-use kiosk stations. You can expect quality results every time.


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Schurter is excited to announce that the piezo switch PSE EX has attained approval according to ATEX class II 2 G Ex ib IIB T4. The new rating enables the switch to be utilized in potentially explosive facilities above ground. Such environments can be found in oil/gas production systems, in the petrochemistry industry, as well as in paint and varnish mixing facilities. The protection level of the PSE EX permits its application in areas where an explosive atmosphere can arise from a mix of air and gases, vapors or mists.
Preparations for extending the approval to include dust-Ex applications are underway.
The standard design is available for a mounting diameter of 16mm. Switching action is normally open. Voltage and current maximums are 24 VDC/VAC and 40 mA respectively. The housing is offered in both aluminium and stainless steel. Color variations are available with the aluminium version. Lettering is also possible.
The PSE EX is equipped with standard pin terminals. Additional mounting diameters and connection options are available with sufficient order quantities. The switches for Ex applications are labeled with the type of approval and an identification number. In accordance with the ATEX guidelines, an installation manual is provided with each PSE EX shipment.
More information on the new PSE EX can be found on Schurter’s website www.schurterinc.com/new_switches.

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How to open RD2 file extension?
RD2 files are incessantly popular. However, a file name containing RD2 file extension is problematic for some of the users. They have problems with correct opening of a file with RD2 extension. However, it should be remembered that RD2 file extension can match one or more types of files. The most popular is TOCA Race Driver 2 Saved Game but if there are others, you will find information concerning them below.
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If RD2 file does not open, firstly, it is worth using files associations built in the Windows system with application that can support them. In order to do it, you should double-click a RD2 file icon. A list of programs that probably support such a file will appear. It is enough to choose one of them so that Windows would open a given extension with it. Incorrect file’s association will result in Windows trying to open RD2 file with a wrong program all the time even if there is an appropriate application supporting this format on a drive. In this case, it is necessary to perform the above mentioned registry scanning and associations’ repair.
If associations are correct and Windows still cannot open the file, most probably the computer does not have appropriate software supporting files with name containing RD2 in their extension. The solution to this problem is very simple. You should buy or download a free (if they exist) application that will allow you to open, browse and edit RD2 format. It is no risk because many paid programs have free test versions enabling to check their functionality.


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Austrian Airlines heist, Albanian police as raiders flee in van.
An armed gang have stolen millions of euros from a passenger jet preparing for take-off in Albania, in a deadly heist in which one of the robbers was shot dead by police.
Local media reported that four armed men “posing as tax investigators” pulled up in a van on the tarmac at Tirana International Airport as the money was loaded onto an Austrian Airlines plane for transportation to a bank in Vienna, says Euronews.
The robbers threatened airport staff at gunpoint and “forced their way into the cargo hold”, where they grabbed the bundles of cash, reports the Daily Mail.
But as the gang made their getaway in the van, they were fired upon by police called to the scene. One of the gunmen was killed in the ensuing shoot-out but after throwing his body out of the vehicle, the others got away.
It is unclear exactly how much the men stole, with estimates ranging from €2.5m (£2m) to as much as €10m (£8.5m).
All of the passengers booked onto the flight were on board during the heist, on Tuesday. An Austrian Airlines spokesperson insisted that there was “never any danger for crew and passengers”.
The flight still went ahead, with the plane landing in Vienna around three hours late.
A burnt-out van believed to be that used by the gang was found during a subsequent search of the surrounding area that involved some 500 police and special forces officers, along with helicopter support.
Aaccording to The Guardian, Albanian police have arrested four people and questioned 40 others over the raid.
The newspaper explains that foreign banks operating in Albania “send their hard currency to Vienna because Albania’s central bank does not accept such deposits”.
Austrian Airlines has announced that there will be no further cash transfers from Tirana to the Austrian capital.


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SGL Carbon developed a new graphitized textile yarn based on polyacrylonitrile to complement its material portfolio of SIGRAFLEX® yarns. The new yarn, called SIGRAFLEX OXR, is characterized by a unique combination of properties, making it particularly suitable for use in high-temperature processes.
SIGRAFLEX OXR is produced with a special coating based on the proven APX2 technology. Due to its considerably improved oxidation resistance the yarn can be used also in high process temperatures with minimum weight loss. In addition, it fulfills the end users demands for low friction and high thermal conductivity. With a carbon content of ≥99.5% and low sulfur, fluoride and chloride contents, SIGRAFLEX OXR features a very high degree of purity and is the only coated textile yarn currently on the market that meets the graphite requirements of the Shell specification MESC SPE 85/204.
"With our diverse SIGRAFLEX carbon and graphite packing yarns, we offer our customers optimum solutions for a wide variety of applications. With the new SIGRAFLEX OXR yarn, we are now closing an existing market gap in the field of high-temperature resistant and simultaneously high-purity packaging yarns," says Olympia Riehl, Director of the Product Carbon Expanded Graphite at SGL Carbon.
SGL Carbon has many and various possible combinations in the manufacture of SIGRAFLEX yarns, e.g. base material, carbon content, number of plies and filaments, twist, coating and yarn weight etc. This allows the optimum steering of the yarns’ properties resulting in a comprehensive carbon and graphite yarn portfolio which fulfills the most diverse demands of the customers.
At this year's ACHEMA, the leading trade fair for the process industries, taking place from June 11-15, 2018 in Frankfurt am Main, the new oxidation-resistant SIGRAFLEX OXR yarns will be presented for the first time and will be ready and available from then on.
We look forward to seeing you at our booth in Hall 8.0, Stand L81.


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AT FIRST GLANCE IT MAY NOT LOOK MUCH LIKE A SHIP, perched high and dry on a hill overlooking Devon’s beautiful Dart estuary but this is the Britannia Royal Naval College (BRNC) the initial officer training establishment of the Royal Navy and before it was a building, it was a ship, one of the wooden walls of England.
This was in 1863 when the first ‘college’, the wooden hulk HMS Britannia was towed from Portland and moored in the river. A year later, after an influx of new recruits, Britannia was supplemented by HMS Hindostan. Thus Dartmouth can lay claim to its training role for more than 150 years.
Sir Aston Webb (1849-1930) who designed the shore-based college was one of the greatest architects of his era. In addition to the BRNC he also designed the Victoria & Albert Museum, Admiralty Arch as well as the Mall, opening up to present the imposing re-modelled facade of Buckingham Palace itself.
He was aware that the bricks-and-mortar college needed to maintain the excellence inherited from the spirit and traditions that had shaped the men of the nation’s senior service in the cradle of the old warships that had preceded it.
So he studied the plans of the old wooden-walls-turned-places-of-learning, their layouts, uses and functions as he created the new BRNC at Dartmouth as it provided classrooms, drill halls, work shops, mess decks, a quarterdeck and sleeping quarters for generations of naval officers.
His building – opened in 1905, 100 years after Trafalgar – is a remarkable structure, and contains what is almost certainly the most extraordinary ‘secret’ design built into a piece of architecture anywhere in Britain – so certainly since Stonehenge – and further afield, most probably since the Temple of Ramesses the Great at Abu Simbel.
Like the College, each of those places is aligned by their architects in such a way that at a given time of day and at specific time of year, heaven itself, in the form of the sun, is harnessed to bring illumination to a precise spot and for a particular reason.
At Stonehenge it is the sunrise on midsummer morning kissing the altar stone.
In Dartmouth it is Nelson, of immortal memory, whose untimely death at the Battle of Trafalgar is honoured in this way: and the man who made the calculations and designed the entire structure around that single event was the magician, Aston Webb.
Once a year, on Trafalgar Day, 21st October, in the half-light of the chapel a beam of sunlight travels down and onto the altar from a small round window high above the west door. (see triptych panel).
This year’s October 21 will be the same as last year. Those who have come to remember all the Royal Navy’s fallen remain silent, facing the altar, their minds taken back particularly to the deck of Victory, 211 years ago this month: this hour: this minute.
Nelson’s flagship, Victory, is locked in a deadly struggle alongside the French battleship Redoubtable. It is almost 1.15 in the afternoon. Captain Hardy and Nelson, in full uniform, are walking on the upper deck through the midst of the intense fighting, both ships shaking with the intensity of broadside after broadside. Suddenly Hardy realises that Nelson is not by his side. He turns to see him kneeling on the deck, supporting himself with his hand, before falling onto his side.
He has been hit by a marksman from the fighting top of the French ship and his spine is shattered. Nelson is carried below by sergeant-major of Marines, Robert Adair and two seamen. As he is lifted he has them drape a handkerchief over his face so that any crew who see him will not be alarmed.
He will die, below decks some three hours later but it is at this point – and at this time – as he leaves the deck and sees daylight for the last time that is commemorated in the very fabric of the chapel where today’s Royal Navy trains its officers, “to deliver courageous leaders with the spirit to fight and win”.
Leave the chapel and here again, is Webb’s guiding hand, seen once more here in the long corridor that serves as the backbone of the main building. He uses it to make distinct the two important aspects of a cadet’s life in service. At one end is the chapel (the spiritual), at the other the so-called gunroom (the temporal). But if you are looking for guns in the gun room you will be disappointed.
A gunroom is the junior officers’ mess on a naval vessel and was originally the quarters of the gunner. The senior officers’ equivalent is the wardroom where traditionally naval etiquette demanded that the three subjects of politics, religion and ladies were taboo.
Quite how this works in practice in wardrooms (or gunrooms) in today’s Royal Navy is unclear, where more than ten percent of all officers nowadays are female: so too are all ratings.
Officer training for the Women’s Royal Naval Service – the WRNS – moved from Greenwich to Dartmouth in the 1970s and became fully integrated with the men in the early 1990s.
But there were many Wrens in service at Dartmouth during WW2, one of whom, Petty Officer Ellen Whittal lost her life in an air raid – but not before she had been instrumental in saving the lives of hundreds of cadets and officers who had routinely arrived as the new intake in early September.
WPO Ellen Whittal outside her billet at Townstal Pathfields, Dartmouth, 1942. PHOTO Twojays.
Mrs Ellen Victoria Whittal, ‘Nella’ to her family, had been instructed to send letters and telegrams to each of these men ordering them to delay their arrival by a week.
Why the change of plan? In the years following the war the official line was – and remains – that putting off the date of starting the term was simply a means of adjusting the end of term to coincide with Christmas leave.
But inevitably, speculation and controversy remain. This start date for the arrival of the new intake was a tradition – only adjusted marginally by leap years and calendar adjustments.
Had Ellen Whittal not carried out her orders to the letter, how many lives would have been lost when the great gathering place at the College, called the Quarterdeck, directly under a roof of several hundreds of tons of Delabole slate, came crashing down?
Six Focke-Wulf 190s launched their attack at about 11.30 am on Friday, 18th September 1942, out of the sun and at low level. They hit shipping in the river, the shipyard on the opposite bank and the College itself. Although 25 people died that day and more than 40 were injured, Ellen Whittal was the only person to lose her life in the College itself.
She was cremated at Plymouth City Crematorium, and her name appears on the memorial in Plymouth (Efford) Cemetery. It reads: These Members of His Majesty’s Service Who Died in the Service of their Country.
Staff and students were moved to Eaton Hall in Cheshire for the rest of the war, the damage was repaired and BRNC taken over by the US Navy as its HQ in the run-up to the invasion of Europe in 1944.
Today’s officer cadets can join between the ages of 18 and 32 and spend between 30 and 49 weeks at the College, depending on specialisation. A large contingent of foreign and Commonwealth students from no fewer than 20 navies can be part of the student body at Britannia at any one time.
Public tours of the BRNC last about two and a quarter hours and pre-booking as well as photographic identity is essential (Passport, Driving License or Senior Citizen Bus Pass). Tours start at a pick-up point in Dartmouth town and visitors are taken to and fro by bus. Book through Dartmouth TIC 01803 834224 or for further information the Britannia Association Tours office is most helpful 01803 677565.
FOOTNOTE: Nelson is buried in the crypt of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, but Devon honoured Nelson too in its own way and on Thursday 21st January 1801 made him a Freeman of the City of Exeter.
First he dined at the Royal Clarence Hotel and then walked from Cathedral Square, to stand proudly beneath the civic clock just inside the entrance of the city’s Guildhall, there to be so proclaimed and presented with a commemorative sword. But that’s another story.

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Bazodee stars Machel Montano & Natalie Perera.
Soca superstar Machel Montano jumps in to acting in new Triniadadian movie Bazodee.
The movie premièred recently at the Trinidad & Tobago Film Festival with a lot of rave reviews.
Bazodee is written by Bajen born Claire Ince, produced by her Tobagonian husband, Ancil McKain and directed by Todd Kessler who describes the movie as Triniwood and not Bollywood.
Bazodee is musical drama about a young soca singer Lee played by Machel who who falls for a beautiful young East Indian woman Anita, played by the beautiful London-born newcomer Natalie Perera. Anita is engaged to a man she doesn’t love and falls for Lee and that is where the drama starts.
We can’t wait till it gets on the Jamaican screens and applaud everyone involved as we need to see more movies coming out of the Caribbean.


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What do you think of when you think of Savannah, Georgia?
Do you conjure mental images of the cobblestone streets, dotted with towering lamps, beautiful cypress trees, and wrought-iron rest benches? Does your mind wander to the historic Southern homes and Savannah museums?
Savannah is actually the oldest city in Georgia, with adventures and historic facts around every corner; making it one of the best places for loads of family fun and educational entertainment. From the ever-popular River Street, to the gracious hospitality and honey-drenched accents, Savannah GA offers an eclectic blend of genuine Southern charm that is sure to please.
Known for its charm and old-world atmosphere, Savannah is the kind of place where nostalgia and contemporary coolness intermingle. While many of the Georgian must-dos and need-to-sees are historic, there are hundreds of entertaining and educational options available for travelers of all ages.
Foodies can sip a mint julep or indulge in classic fried chicken, biscuits, and a pitcher of sweet tea. Sweet treat lovers will rejoice at Savannah’s Candy Kitchen. Pop in for a sample taste of famous Savannah’s Original Pralines, saltwater taffy, or hand stretched peanut brittle.
Historians that love a good spook will find fun and mystery in one of the revered ghost tours of Bonaventure Cemetery, where ivy-laden tombs and old crypts are rumored to house all manner of ghosts and ghoulish creepers. The cemetery became famous when it was featured in the 1994 novel Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.
The Port of Savannah is ginormous, with well-over 50 piers and docks stretched across the Savannah River. The port bumps against Georgia Ports Authority and the historic Savannah Riverfront, and hundreds of ships and terminals are in operation. This Savannah Port boat tour takes history buffs on a 90-minute tour across the water to learn about the Port.
This 3-hour on-the-water tour takes guests upriver to explore 29,000 acres of creeks, marshlands, and historic 18th century rice fields and old plantations. Guests will definitely see the beauty of the Savannah River, inclusive of diverse wildlife and a self-sufficient ecosystem.
Described as luxurious and sophisticated, the Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa is an upscale waterfront resort, where visitors can relax their senses, entertain their minds, and soothe their souls. In other words, this resort offers all of the makings of an amazing vacation.
The convenient location alongside the banks of the mighty Savannah River, makes it even easier for guests to enjoy outdoor activities offered through Outside Savannah. All tours and programs meet and depart from our desk in the lobby of the The Westin Savannah Harbor Resort.
A view from The Westin Savannah Harbor Resort facing River Street.
Visiting Savannah is an impactful, positive experience in and of itself, but Outside Savannah offers new perspectives. And why is that a great thing? Because a unique perspective allows you to learn more about Savannah, regardless of how many times you’ve visited in the past.
We look forward to sharing our passion for the outdoors with you. For reservations, please call 800.686.6996. If you are a guest staying at The Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, you can book reservations at the our Outside Savannah desk in the lobby. The resort property is located at 1 Resort Drive, Savannah, Georgia 31421.


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