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EXCLUSIVE: IAB Launches Multicultural Hub to Establish Industry Best Practices
By Gretchen Gardner @gardnergretchen 08/01/2016
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and its Multicultural Council have launched a "multicultural hub" to establish best practices across all multicultural considerations and segments. Portada spoke to Joe Laszlo, VP, Industry Initiatives at the IAB, to discuss the significance of this initiative and how the hub hopes to foment more thoughtful, effective multicultural campaigns.
Helping Digital Advertisers Thrive in a Multicultural, Digital World
A simple glance at recent statistics on the American population provide more than enough justification for an increased focus on reaching diverse, multicultural audiences: over 50% of the U.S. population is diverse, non-white Americans. In fact, just the numbers about Hispanics alone are impressive as well: Hispanics are the fastest growing population segment in the United States, and the population of Hispanics is expected to exceed 58 million by the end of 2016.
Joe Laszlo, VP, Industry Initiatives
"We needed to establish best practices on how to navigate challenges, develop authentic creative and be more effective in our approach as marketers," Laszlo explains. So with the aid of the 60+ companies within the Council, and under the leadership of Co-Chairs Diego Antista, U.S. Multicultural Agency Head, Google, and Liz Blacker, EVP, Multicultural Strategy and Sales, iHeartMedia, the organization created an initiative to establish best practices that will support buy-side agency and brand partners in navigating multicultural advertising in the "new America."
The Multicultural Council was created about five years ago, Laszlo says: "Members of the Hispanic community came to us and said, 'We care about the Latinos in the US, but our titles cover a much broader group than that.'" As the IAB puts great effort into conducting research and producing resources like white papers, infographics and reports for those in the industry, it follows that the organization would create a group dedicated solely to promoting the growth and strength of the multicultural marketplace with regards to content, marketing, and corporate culture both in their initiatives and employee diversity.
The goal is to develop downloadable, single-page sheets on topics like multicultural programmatic, U.S. Hispanic search and strategies for LGBTQ audiences.
The goal is to develop downloadable, single-page sheets on topics like multicultural programmatic, U.S. Hispanic search and strategies for LGBTQ audiences to "help digital advertisers thrive in this digital world we live in," says Laszlo.
Multicultural More than Hispanic
It is not unusual for people to equate "multicultural" with simply "Hispanic," but other demographics are growing at significant paces as well. Asia is projected to replace Latin America (including Mexico) as the minority-majority source of new U.S. immigrants. And African Americans have unprecedented buying power, reaching $1.2 trillion as of 2015 (up 275 percent from 1990).
But it is undeniable that the Hispanic community has contributed to raising awareness of the importance of speaking to each demographic and developing personalized messages for not just Hispanics, but also Asian Americans, African Americans, Latinos, Blacks, LGBTQ individuals, Veterans, as well as addressing Body Positivity and Gender Equality. The Multicultural Council started as a Hispanic Council, but it didn't take long for it to evolve.
Multicultural needs to be more than just a checked box. That won't resonate with audiences. Multicultural is much more about a strategy that can be adapted and transformed.
Laszlo agrees that many advertisers and marketers' introductions to multicultural occurred through their Hispanic targeting efforts. In their efforts to better comprehend today's Hispanic, they realized that each demographic has its own nuances and sets of values. "In the past, marketers and brands would say, 'We have our mainstream marketing message, we'd better do it in Spanish too.' Then they realized just translating wasn't the most authentic way to speak to that audience. As that realization hit, they realized that the way to speak authentically to other audiences and demographics requires subtlety and nuance and expertise as well."
The industry's journey with Hispanic audiences has taught it "how to listen and understand an audience," Laszlo asserts.
Best Practices for the "New America"
When asked to elaborate on the concept of establishing best practices for the "new American," Laszlo says, "Multicultural needs to be more than just a checked box. That won't resonate with audiences. Multicultural is much more about a strategy that can be adapted and transformed."
"Everyone has radar for inauthentic messages. Smart brands and agencies want to do the right thing, and the fallout for being clumsy or insensitive with strategies will backfire."
"It's the death of media mass communication," Laszlo continues. Platforms and tools for making practical use of Big Data for analytics and targeting mean that there is no excuse for failing to speak to consumers as individuals.
"It's about a subtle shift in the balance of 'we're all Americans, and there are certain values that resonate with all of us' versus 'we are unique individuals that identify with many communities,' and in terms of the way that marketers strategize, that shift is reflected in their planning," Laszlo explains.
Laszlo believes that multicultural tactics will become general marketing tactics with time, as the industry moves "from mass undifferentiated communication to sensitivity to different interests," because "everyone wants to be spoken to in a way that is authentic and meaningful to them."
The conversation has gradually shifted from advertising buyers outside of multicultural specialist agencies asking "why would I need to do more than just translate" to "how can I build a multicultural tool kit that's going to work."
IAB's Multicultural Hub is showcased through this link, accessible to anyone on the website. The organization will also be distributing copies at multicultural related events. The goal is to show the industry that the IAB takes multicultural audiences very seriously, and imply that other industry professionals should as well.
"Everyone has radar for inauthentic messages," Laszlo says. "Smart brands and agencies want to do the right thing, and the fallout for being clumsy or insensitive with strategies will backfire."
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Author Gretchen Gardner @gardnergretchen
Gretchen is a communications specialist and owner of GMG Strategic Communications. She currently lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she works with Argentine and international ventures on shaping their content, branding and marketing strategies to position them for success in global markets. She is also a lover of all things information and has worked consistently in journalism since college, most recently as a writer at Portada and as the deputy editor of The Bubble, the first informal, English-language news portal in Buenos Aires. She hails from Washington, D.C. and has a bachelor's degree in history and Hispanic studies from Hamilton College as well as a master's in international relations from the Argentine university Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
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Palin's Troubling Trooper Gate
By Clarence Page - September 21, 2008
Enough about Sarah Palin. What about John McCain? What does McCain think of Palin?
There's no question that the Alaska governor has been a huge energizing asset to McCain's presidential bid. Conservatives, in particular, who sounded pretty ho-hum about McCain until she came along, now sound willing to stroll over hot coals to help send the Arizona senator to the White House -- as long as he has Palin with him.
But, I wonder, how well does McCain know his running mate? Does he really think she is the open-government, let-the-sunshine-in reformer that he says she is? If so, does that delight him and his campaign advisors, or does it make them nervous?
These questions are provoked by the way his campaign has been helping her to throw a cloak of silence over the Alaska investigation now known to the world as "Troopergate."
The probe, initiated with Palin's blessing and a unanimous vote by Alaska lawmakers, is trying to find out whether the governor abused her power in trying to remove Mike Wooten, who divorced Palin's sister, as a state trooper.
The details are about as sordid as any other messy divorce case, although enriched with a dramatic blend of "Northern Exposure" and "Smokey and the Bandit." Palin's former brother-in-law is alleged to have threatened her father, used a Taser on his stepson, drank alcohol in his patrol car and illegally shot a moose. Palin, herself a famous moose hunter, is alleged to have wanted Wooten fired so badly that she dismissed Walt Monegan, the state's public safety commissioner, after he refused to do it. Both Palin and Wooten, as the old saying goes, deny the allegations and the alligators.
Without raking any deeper into the personal muck, what's most important to the rest of us are two questions:
1.) Did Palin force out the public safety commissioner because he would not fire her ex-brother-in-law?
2.) Did the governor, her husband, Todd Palin, or her staff improperly obtain confidential information about Trooper Wooten along the way?
To her credit, Palin welcomed the inquiry, at first. But things changed after she became McCain's running mate.
At first Palin told reporters, "We have absolutely nothing to hide" and "we would never prohibit or be less than enthusiastic about any kind of investigation." But, after McCain's campaign took over her damage control, the probe suddenly bore the "taint" of political motivation, even though Alaska lawmakers had voted unanimously to investigate Monegan's dismissal.
Haven't we heard this soap opera before? Suddenly Troopergate is taking on echoes of stonewalling by the current White House. Suddenly we are reminded of President Bush's unexplained dismissal and replacement of seven U. S. attorneys in late 2006 -- and repeated refusals by Bush political advisor Karl Rove and others to honor congressional subpoenas.
McCain's campaign last week announced that Palin similarly was "unlikely" to cooperate with the Troopergate investigation. Her husband, Todd Palin, announced that he would refuse to honor his subpoena to testify. The matter appears to be headed for a court fight that will push it well past Election Day. That's a break for the McCain campaign, which fears a self-inflicted October-surprise wound. But it leaves the rest of us in the dark.
As the Anchorage Daily News editorialized about Palin, "Whatever happened to the 'open and transparent' administration she promised Alaskans?" Similarly we in the lower 49 states might ask what this sudden stonewalling tells us about the reform-minded, house cleaning "mavericks" that the McCain-Palin team vows to bring to Washington?
Yes, campaign 2008 needs to be about McCain versus his Democratic opponent Barack Obama, not their running mates. That means these questions about Palin are really questions about McCain and his judgment. Either way, McCain's campaign is not answering the questions.
We can only wonder what the McCain campaign would be saying if Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, were ignoring subpoenas in either of their home states.
Or how much more Republicans would want to know about Obama's wife if she was as deeply involved in his decision-making as Governor Palin's "First Dude" Todd is involved with hers.
For those of us who live outside Alaska, the Troopergate saga is less about the scandal than about what appears to be a convenient cover-up by the McCain-Palin campaign. It makes me wonder what kind of "change" we can expect from a candidate whose campaign is offering us so much of what's wrong with Washington now.
Page is a Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist specializing in urban issues. He is based in Washington, D.C. E-mail: cptime@aol.com
Copyright 2008, Tribune Media Services Inc.
Clarence Page

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rwselling Difficult buyer to deal with as is very slow to reply. Reads my messages but never answers back. Although in the end she was able to make a transaction and I sent out her purchases- which was a very slow process.
Bought off depop. Quite snugly and warm. Only worn once, size S/M.
Brand new never worn, size 8. Grey acid wash, distressed and frayed ends, a real edgy look just not my style of jeans.
Low rise, embroidery detailing. Worn once, size small.
Adidas sportswear top, bought off depop!Been worn once or twice by myself. Size small.
White slightly cropped top with underwiring. Bought off depop so been worn before but not by myself. Good condition, size small.
Padded strappy crop top, really nice stretchy thick material. A size M but will also fit a small and possibly a large.
Padded rounded v neck crop top, really nice stretchy thick material. Worn this a bit but still in great condition, size small.
Turtleneck long sleeve top, thin and lightweight. Size small.
Thin knit material. Size small, worn a bit.
Ideally a size M. Never been worn.
Champagne/rose gold velvet feel high neck top. Such a pretty top but i don't see myself ever wearing it. Size small and never worn.
Black silk pj set size small. Not sure of the brand as it was handed down to me by a cousin. Both well worn, top is in better condition than the shorts as seen in the last pic the stitching has come undone on the seam and theres a slight rip on the side.


Most organizations hate DNS and hate to see it done properly. That is why they buy enterprise DNS management kludge and do not allow correct hierarchical subdomains.
Once I did run a proper DNS server. Unfortunately I left my original notes from 2006 back with the people for whom I managed it. Here are some minor note on the topic.
List of DNS Record Types.
CNAME = Canonical Name, basically an alias. DNS continues trying the lookup with the new name.
DNAME = Like CNAME but alias for entire domains and subdomains.
PTR = Pointer record. Like CNAME but processing stops. SOA = Start of Authority. Where to find the most true information.
TXT = Could be a message for humans. Could be something else.
subdomains names for this domain.
SSHFP = SSH host key fingerprints to help with this problem.
How to set up a DNS name server.


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It's been four days since an ice storm hit New Hampshire and what a crazy ride it's been. President Bush even declared a state of emergency here in the Granite State. Trees and power lines are down, roads are blocked and electricity has been cut off. Many people still don't have power. PSNH, our electric company, says that this storm has created the worst damage they've ever had to deal with in the history of the company.
Oh, lovely.
What's Yours Is Mine?
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The other day, I went on Yahoo! to check my email and saw a news article featuring J. K. Rowling, well-known author of the Harry Potter books (not to be confused with the lesser known J. K. Rowling who wrote about The Mating Habits of the African Shrew). Of course I had to read the article. I'll read anything related to the world of fantasy, plus I'm a bit of a snoop that way. This particular article was about a lawsuit between Rowling and a middle school librarian named Steven Vander Ark. Vander Ark recently snagged a book deal to publish the elaborate Harry Potter lexicon he created, via the website the Harry Potter Lexicon (HPL). J. K. Rowling does not want him to publish it, noting that she has plans for publishing a lexicon herself.
Should he be allowed to publish his work, or not? What do you think? Unsure? Don't care? Not to worry, I've got enough opinions for both of us.
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Carl Jung on the Second Half of Life.
Question 3. In what respect, if any, does the treatment of neurosis in the second half of life—that means after thirty—differ from that in the first half of life?
Dr. Jung: This is also a question which you could discuss for several hours.
It is quite impossible for me to go into details; I only can give you a few hints.
The first half of life, which I reckon lasts for the first 35 or 36 years, is the time when the individual usually expands into the world.
It is just like an exploding celestial body, and the fragments travel out into space, covering ever greater distances.
So our mental horizon widens out, and our wishes and expectation, our ambition, our will to conquer the world and live, go on expanding, until you come to the middle of life.
A man who after forty years has not reached that position in life which he had dreamed of is easily the prey of disappointment.
Hence the extraordinary frequency of depressions after the fortieth year.
It is the decisive moment; and when you study the productivity of great artists—for instance, Nietzsche—you find that at the beginning of the second half of life their modes of creativeness often change.
For instance, Nietzsche began to write Zarathustra, which is his outstanding work, quite different from everything he did before and after, when he was between 37 and 38.
That is the critical time. In the second part of life you begin to question yourself.
The goal seems to be quite visible.
Suppose they have reached it; then comes another question: "And now what?
Then the answer is: "Well, there is nothing ahead.
That is disagreeable, you see; that is most disagreeable.
So it looks as if the second part of life has no goal whatever.
Now you know the answer to that.
The religions, you see, the great religions, are systems for preparing the second half of life for the end, the goal, of the second part of life.
Once, through the help of friends, I sent a questionnaire to people who did not know that I was the originator of the questionnaire.
Now I doubted whether it was really true that people prefer a doctor, and I wanted to know what the general public was going to say.
You see, that characterizes the difference: when you are young, you live expansively, you conquer the world; and when you grow old, you begin to reflect.
You naturally begin to think of what you have done.
There a moment comes, between 36 and 40—certain people take a bit longer—when perhaps, on an uninteresting Sunday morning, instead of going to church, you suddenly think, "Now what have I lived last year?" or something like that; and then it begins to dawn, and usually you catch your breath and don't go on thinking because it is disagreeable.
Now, you see, there is a resistance against the widening out in the first part of life—that great sexual adventure.
When young people have resistance against risking their life, or against their social career, because it needs some concentration, some exertion, they are apt to get neurotic.
In the second part of life those people who funk the natural development of the mind—reflection, preparation for the end—they get neurotic too.
Those are the neuroses of the second part of life.
When you speak of a repression of sexuality in the second part of life, you often have a repression of this, and these people are just as neurotic as those who resist life during the first part.
As a matter of fact it is the same people: first they don't want to get into life, they are afraid to risk their life, to risk their health, perhaps, or their life for the sake of life, and in the second part of life they have no time.
So, you see, when I speak of the goal which marks the end of the second half of life, you get an idea of how far the treatment in the first half of life, and in the second halfi of life, must needs be different.
You get a problem to deal with which has not been talked of before.
Therefore I strongly advocate schools for adult people.
You know, you were fabulously well prepared for life.
We have very decent schools, we have fine universities and that is all preparation for the expansion of life.
But where have you got the schools for adult people? for people who are 40, 45, about the second part of life?
That is taboo; you must not talk of it; it is not healthy.
And that is how they get into these nice climacteric neuroses and psychoses. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 106-108.


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Supreme Court halts disclosure of Trump's tax returns
Former President Donald Trump pauses while speaking at a rally at the Minden Tahoe Airport in Minden, Nev., on Oct. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, Pool) **FILE** more >
By Alex Swoyer and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times - Tuesday, November 1, 2022
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has temporarily halted the disclosure of former President Donald Trump's tax returns to House Democrats.
Tuesday's order puts the disclosure on hold while the court considers Mr. Trump's case. Chief Justice Roberts ordered the House lawmakers to respond to Mr. Trump's filing by Nov. 10.
Mr. Trump on Monday asked the court to block a Democrat-led House committee from accessing six years of his tax returns.
Mr. Trump filed an emergency request with the high court after a federal appeals court last week ordered the tax returns to be turned over to the House Ways and Means Committee this week.
Mr. Trump's legal team said in their court filing that the committee is not interested in the former president's taxes for legitimate investigative purposes, but rather a partisan probe to embarrass him.
"The committee's purpose in requesting President Trump's tax returns has nothing to do with funding or staffing issues at the IRS and everything to do with releasing the president's tax information to the public," they wrote.
Democratic lawmakers have insisted the tax returns are necessary for their investigation into the IRS' audit processes. They say the request is a "plainly legitimate area for congressional inquiry and possible legislation.
Mr. Trump's lawyers said Congress doesn't wield the power to demand his tax returns, warning of "far-reaching implications" if the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit's ruling stands.
"This case raises important questions about the separation of powers that will affect every future president," they wrote.
The emergency appeal is a culmination of a long-running legal battle between Mr. Trump and House Democrats that began in April 2019.
At that time, committee Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts asked the IRS for Mr. Trump's tax returns along with those of his business entities. Mr. Neal said the returns were necessary for the committee's review of how the IRS processes presidents' tax returns.
The window for Democrats to access Mr. Trump's tax returns may be closing. If the GOP retakes the House in Nov. 8's midterm elections and the legal fight is not resolved by the time the Congress convenes, it is all but assured that Republicans would drop the request.
Mr. Trump has fought to block the release of his returns at every step in the process with the dispute landing at the D.C. Circuit. In August, a three-judge panel ruled that Democrats could obtain the tax returns. The former president appealed that decision to the full court, which upheld the panel's ruling.
Under federal law, tax returns are confidential, but there are some exceptions to the rule, including one that allows the Ways and Means chairman to request the documents.
Mr. Trump, unlike other recent presidents, has refused to make his tax returns public.
In 2020, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mr. Trump, who had challenged the subpoena by another Democrat-led committee for his tax records through his accounting firm.


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Invasion from Inner Earth
Entry updated 28 December 2020. Tagged: Film.
Film (1974; vt Hell Fire; vt They). Rebane Productions. Produced by Bill Rebane. Directed by Rebane (credited as Ito). Written by Barbara J Rebane. Cast includes Robert Arkens, Paul Bentzen, Nick Holt, Debbi Pick and Karl Wallace. 94 minutes. Colour.
After a prologue in which officials are told the situation is extremely grim and widespread, the action switches to Jake Anderson (Holt), who with his sister Sarah (Pick) runs an air transport service from Bear Creek Lodge deep in the wilderness of Manitoba, Canada. Their current passengers are three ecological researchers, Andy (Arkens), Eric (Wallace), and Stan (Bentzen), returning to the town of Hightower some miles away. Radio reports tell of a quickly-spreading Pandemic (see Medicine), now rapidly killing people worldwide. Disbelieving this as a hoax, Jake flies the three to Hightower, but is warned against landing at the airport by a man obviously seriously ill. Running low on fuel, Jake lands at a lodge where fuel is stored; the group returns to Bear Creek, briefly encountering a UFO along the way. From increasingly distressing radio news fragments, it seems that an Alien Invasion is under way, with the plague being one of its Weapons. Andy tries to escape on an old snowmobile, but vanishes; likewise Jake while trying to reach help on foot. Nevertheless the three survivors decide to walk to Hightower; only Sarah and Stan survive. In a surreal conclusion, they are transformed by the unseen aliens into loincloth-wearing children, with the implication that they are to repopulate the Earth as a new Adam and Eve.
Bill Rebane was one of a number of regional filmmakers who flourished in the US from the late 1940s to the mid-1980s, producing films which mainly played to a local audience and might then with luck be sold to television or, later, the home video market. Rising production costs mostly killed this film-making model in the 1980s. Rebane here attempted to exploit reviving interest in UFOs; though his aliens have apparently lived for millennia in the Hollow Earth, guiding humanity but finally giving up hope for a positive outcome and deciding to start over. Rebane soon produced the better-known films The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) and The Alpha Incident (1978), plus several later horror productions. The obscure Invasion from Inner Earth is interesting in its way, though badly let down by a near-zero budget. [GSt/DRL]
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IARC moved quickly after learning that Ahlbom is a director of his brother's consulting firm, Gunnar Ahlbom AB. The company, which is based in Brussels, the European capital and a center for lobbyists, was established to help clients on telecom issues, with an emphasis on environmental and energy regulations. Ahlbom failed to mention this sideline in his "Declaration of Interests" that is required of all those who participate in IARC cancer assessments.
Apparently, IARC offered to allow Ahlbom to attend this week's meeting but only as a non-voting "invited specialist." Ahlbom declined to attend under those terms. He recently filed an amended declaration of his potential conflicts.
Mona Nilsson, a Swedish journalist who has written two books on mobile phones and health, unearthed Ahlbom's connection to his brother's company. She was about to post a press release on what she had found out when Ahlbom announced he would not be going to the IARC meeting after all. Nilsson says that this is good news. "Ahlbom absolutely should not be on the IARC expert group," she told Microwave News.
Two American scientists, who work on RF issues and had heard the news, said in separate interviews that they agree with Nilsson. "I am glad that IARC is abiding by the standards for conflicts of interest," said one. Both asked that they not be identified by name.
Ahlbom did not respond for a request for comment. IARC officials also did not reply to e-mails from Microwave News.
Anders Ahlbom, the head of the Karolinska's Institute of Environmental Medicine in Stockholm, is arguably the most important epidemiologist studying mobile phone radiation in Europe. He has spent much of his professional career on the effects of various types of electromagnetic fields and played a key role in establishing that power line EMFs are associated with childhood leukemia. Ahlbom chairs or sits on a variety of important committees that set research priorities and distribute research funding, both in Sweden and in the European Community. He was a member of ICNIRP for 12 years and continues to be one of its consulting experts.
Ahlbom and his protégée, Maria Feychting, work on the ongoing Interphone project, which is coordinated by IARC, as well as the COSMOS project, a prospective study of mobile phones users. Ahlbom also chairs a committee that issues annual EMF/EMR status reports for the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority.
For some years, Ahlbom has been saying that cell phones are unlikely to lead to tumors. "We have no reason to believe that there would be such risks," he declared in a recent interview. Such statements have made him a favorite among those in industry and government that seek to appease an anxious public and a lightning rod for those who see the published literature —including work by Ahlbom himself— as pointing to a cancer risk.
"Anders Ahlbom's links to the telecom industry through his brother and their common company is a straightforward explanation of his systematic denial of health risks from mobile phones," Nilsson states in her press release.
Lennart Hardell, a Swedish researcher who has published a number of studies pointing to higher rates of tumor among users of mobile phones and who has crossed swords with Ahlbom many times over the years, said that he was not surprised by Ahlbom's link to industry, only that it was so obvious. "Ahlbom has denied or ignored brain tumor risks from mobile phones and more or less acted as a spokesman for industry," Hardell said in an interview. Hardell is a member of the IARC panel and will be in Lyon this week.
Ahlbom was widely rumored to have been selected to be the head of IARC's epidemiology subgroup at the cancer assessment. Jack Siemiatycki is now said to have that position. Siemiatycki is with the University of Montreal and is also a member of the Interphone project.
As a measure of Ahlbom's low standing among European activists, last week a U.K. group, circulated a simulated movie poster putting Ahlbom in "Hannibal Lechter land" to mock his views on cell phone health risks.


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Q: Is the new Firebase messaging server key restricted to messaging? Is the new server key restricted to messaging only?
explanation:
In firebase project settings, I can get "old" and new server keys(cloud messaging tab).
The old ones don't work to send push notifications via https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send because the response says that it is a legacy server key. But it can be restricted to certain google apis here https://console.developers.google.com/apis.
The new is not listed in google apis console, but works.
We want to share the server key with partners, but won't allow to do other stuff. The new HTTP API V1 with OAuth2 is not an option unfortunately.
According to docs:

Server key (for legacy protocols): A server key that authorizes your app server for access to Google services, including sending messages via the Firebase Cloud Messaging legacy protocols.

Which services are here meant?

A: Got response from Google: Yes, the new server key is restricted to cloud messaging only.

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fishermen's cottages here. Others claim the name is derived from the Dutch "struisvogel" or ostrich. According to legend, Struisbaai is named for the size of its beach - an Old Dutch word for "huge".
Struisbaai is a popular holiday destination for those in the know. It has excellent fishing as well as one of the best beaches for swimming or walking in the Overberg - boasting the longest continuous beach in South Africa, a mere 14km. It is well worth a visit, particularly during the annual Geelstert Fees (Yellowtail Festival) in March which puts one of the Cape's finest eating fish on the menu.


There are tasks around town which, although mundane, are absolutely essential to the smooth and happy running of a community: one of these is garbage collection. When this activity is performed properly, nobody notices, but if it is neglected or poorly done, all hell breaks loose. Think Naples.
Similarly, managing business papers well is essential for Local Government. A small Council can get by using nothing more than Word templates, but as soon as the demands increase with the size and complexity of Council's activities, inefficient, unreliable and error-prone agendas and minutes can lead to endless and unnecessary difficulties and electronic crashes.
At the start of the new millennium Penrith Council found the management of its business papers in a total mess. A satellite city in the Sydney basin, Penrith is close to the foothills of the Blue Mountains, and is the seventh largest Local Government Area in NSW. Council is responsible for the administration of 35 suburbs.
Council's original business papers process, designed by a software company to utilise macros in MS Word, was a disaster from day one. Cristy Stevens, the Administration Officer – Policy and Council Support, in charge of business papers, says the initial program was supported but unreliable, and "every compilation crashed, with much yelling and screaming." Before long, she says, the supplier refused further support, "and we had to cobble it all together, with the human element always causing errors."
Penrith Council takes the whole business papers process seriously, recognising that errors in agendas flow right through the organisation and take much time and labour to reverse. Ms Stevens says Council took one look at their problems, "and said, in effect, here's the money, go and fix it." No-one was hanging out for the retention of the status quo. Ms Stevens says: "Everyone was behind a change because we all hated the old system so much."
Some time previously, Council had installed a well known electronic document records management system (EDRMS). There had been some pressure within Council, from outside the relevant administrative sections, to purchase that supplier's business papers module, but in the event this was strongly resisted by the users. The agendas and minutes module was not highly regarded in its own right, and staff found the EDRMS rather confusing to use for most purposes. As for Infocouncil, Ms Stevens says its main attraction for Councillors was that "the new system was customised so the business papers looked exactly the same as before."
The introduction of Infocouncil in 2004 completely transformed the entire process of agenda and minutes compilation and publishing at Penrith. The users could not be happier with Infocouncil. Reliability problems are a thing of the past, and, according to Cristy Stevens, the system is so simple to operate, "our users don't need training or paper work." To get a business paper out by Wednesday evening they used to start work on it at midday on the prior Monday. "Now", she says, "we can start at midday Wednesday if needs be."
Furthermore, although some Councils feel business papers must integrate with the existing data management system, this was found to be completely unnecessary at Penrith. Since its introduction there, Infocouncil has been used as a stand-alone system within Council's administration. Managers have simply adopted the system as it is, and even those who have avoided getting involved with the process use it occasionally. [Please see the footnote relating to this topic].
Ms Stevens has greatly improved her own work efficiency by developing, in each department, a system champion, to whom report writers and others can turn if they find themselves in difficulty. She says "they show the new people how to do it and there's no problem." She can leave it to them.
On the occasions where pressing issues arise, Council is particularly appreciative of the service offered by Infocouncil in support of Infocouncil. Ms Stevens and Infocouncil's technical team have worked out a system of priorities, whereby pressing issues are dealt with immediately, while others wait their turn. An example of the latter was where a (false) error signal on compiling indicated that the agenda had failed to save, when in fact it had. Cancelling the error statement was a small action, but the event was an irritation. This was, with agreement between Ms Stevens and Infocouncil's technical officer, adjusted by email within a few days.
Ms Stevens says: "If I've had any problems we've had instant help over the phone, or a new version. We've never been held up in getting a business paper out."
When asked to summarise how Infocouncil has changed things overall, Cristy Stevens said: "We don't yet use all the functions, but of those we are using it would have to be a 9 or a 10 out of 10."
In 2014 Penrith City Council became the first council to start using the Infocouncil export to TechnologyOne ECM.


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Head of Transformation & Delivery
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Head of Propositions, Strategy & Data Analytics
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Senior Medical Director
Cigna Europe's Strategic Advisory Board
The strategic advisory board provides non-binding strategic advice to the senior leadership team of Cigna Europe.
Angela Kane
Angela has enjoyed a long and distinguished career at the United Nations and held positions such as UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs and Under-Secretary-General for Management. Angela had several postings in Asia, Africa, in addition to living in the United States. She now teaches at university in Paris and Beijing, and is a Chair or member of advisory boards in Europe, North America and Asia.
Jamie was an international public servant and a member of the International Staff of NATO for 38 years. He served as Spokesman, Director of Policy Planning, and his last position was Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Emerging Security Challenges. Outside NATO, Jamie has been involved with several prominent academic institutions. He is a regular writer, lecturer and conference speaker on NATO and European security affairs, public diplomacy and many other areas of contemporary international relations.
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Ilana is a strategic adviser, writer, historian, and former UN official. She has many years of experience working with both governments and clients in the private sector on geostrategic and policy issues related to the EU and NATO. She holds a number of senior fellowships and is a member of the Advisory Board of Women in International Security (WIIS), Brussels.


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The smart of the deal
Kate Ryan
Worldwide merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. totaled $1.9 trillion in 2004, a 41% jump from the year before and the highest level since 2000, according to Thomson Financial. Can that level be sustained in 2005? We put that question, among others, to five of Chicago's top deal jockeys.
Chris Coetzee
Director of Chicago investment banking office, Robert W. Baird & Co.
How does a company know when it needs to make an acquisition?
If you need to expand geographically, that might take a significant amount of time. Broadening a product line is another reason, or developing a technology that cannot be maximized internally. The problem of greater scale to compete is increasingly important — both in terms of access to markets and access to customers and having a broader resource scale internally. But it's not without risk. For smaller companies, the approach to an acquisition has to be very carefully thought through because it takes a big toll on management time and resources.
Will U.S. interest rates impact M&A?
More important from a lending standpoint is whether banks will continue to lend at the levels that they lent in 2004 in terms of multiples of (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.) That multiple is a much bigger driver in how much businesses can pay (for an acquisition.)
Private equity acquisition volume was up 60% in 2004, making up 15% of total volume. Why has private equity become more active in M&A?
It has become a much larger driver of liquidity to both private companies and public companies looking to divest parts of their businesses. Private equity has provided liquidity for small companies that in the past may have tapped into the IPO market. It has become an increasingly attractive exit for companies who have a management team looking for (private equity people) to help them grow.
Principal and group head, mergers and acquisitions group, William Blair & Co. LLC
Will any regulatory or legal changes affect M&A activity?
A lot of these big public companies are spending a lot more time complying with regulatory things than they were a few years ago. If a company has $15 million in earnings, it now has another $2 million in costs because of Sarbanes-Oxley. So all of a sudden their market cap is lower because of these outside costs. A lot of these small-cap public companies are looking at either going private or selling because the costs of staying public don't make a lot of sense for them.
Are big companies viewing M&A as the only way to compete?
If GDP growth is 3% to 4% and your earnings growth expectations are in the mid-teens, as a large corporation, you've either got to be increasing your marketshare or you've got to look at bolting on some external growth. I think as long as we are in this environment, more and more large corporations are looking at (deals). We're seeing it when we represent sellers — you have more interest among strategic buyers and large players than you had a few years ago. They are under pressure to build their earnings stream and keep stock prices up.
Professor of entrepreneurship and finance, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business
Do you think hedge funds are going to become more active in M&A?
There's too much money in hedge funds. Some of them are doing private equity, which they shouldn't. Private equity is very competitive and it is very hard and I think even the people who do that for a living have a hard time doing it well.
When is it a good idea to pay a significant premium for an acquisition?
You generally have to increase cash flow somewhere. Maybe the company you're buying is poorly managed, and you just manage it better. What if it was already managed decently? The acquisitions that are the most successful are those where there is some overlap and you take out the overlap, or there is some asset that one of the companies is underutilizing. What you have to do as an acquirer is create value over and above what's priced in. It has to be an acquisition where you are the logical buyer, so it's worth more to you than to anyone else. Otherwise all the value goes to the seller.
Mark Swords
Chair of North American M&A practice group, Baker & McKenzie Global Services LLC
Any storm clouds in your M&A forecast?
My concern is that if we continue running these huge current-account and budget deficits, there is pressure on interest rates and downward pressure on the dollar. We have to continue to rely on (foreign investors) picking up our debt, and the only way they will continue to do that is if we increase interest rates. That could lead to a general slowdown in the economy. Sooner or later we'll have to pay the piper with respect to those deficits.
What Chicago industries are ripe for consolidation?
There are still way too many tier-one and tier-two suppliers to the auto manufacturers. There are thousands of them out there and their margins are razor-thin. I would expect to see a tremendous amount of consolidation.
Is diversification still cited as a reason for acquisitions?
I think companies are being much more selective and concentrating on their core competencies. In fact I wouldn't be surprised to see quite a few folks who have tried the diversification strategy divesting some of those businesses. They've been a real drag.
Byron Trott
Head of Midwest investment banking, Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
How will exchange rates affect M&A activity this year?
There is a theory that a weaker U.S. dollar will cause more cross-border consolidation, where European companies decide they have a valuable currency and decide to make acquisitions. In theory that sounds right, but in practicality I would be a little surprised if that happened. I think globalization is truly what's driving cross-border activity. It's not necessarily that one country's currency is stronger than another's, but that the leaders of most industries realize they need a global footprint.
Has deal-making topped out?
We're still 45% off the (all-time) high for global announced deals. It's not necessarily stagnation; it's the very thoughtful deliberation of industry players on how to improve their companies, and whether they continue to grow just organically or through acquisition.
Has Midwestern deal activity tracked with the national increase?
I think the Midwest is a very good proxy for the world — there are some great global companies in the Midwest, and there is a good representation of a very broad group of industry sectors in the Midwest. I think when you see the worldwide merger business up, you'll see the Midwest business up.
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Celebrated Kenyan-Norwegian music artiste Stella Mwangi new single 'No Games' has scored another major collaboration slot in the Hollywood hit series 'Hit The Floor'. 'No Games' is Stella Mwangi's 2nd single off her 2018 HollyWoodEP Album. The album dubbed #NotYOurOrdinary is set to drop later this year.
'No Games' was also featured on Hollywood TV Series – Black Lightning. In February 2018 during a private album pre-listening party in L.A, Hollywood music supervisors working on the new 2018 TV series for The CW got hooked to 'No Games' and immediately picked a suitable part for the record to be used for theatrical performance in one of the seasons' premier episodes.
The single also scored big as Samsung used her song "No Games" in the promotion of their new Galaxy S9 and S9+. She was not however the first rapper they use. In previous campaigns, the company has used music by international stars like Jay-Z and Lil Wayne.
After initial few songs at the debut of her career, she finally broke out in 2006 with 'Take It Back' and another record dubbed 'Happy' ft. Kantai. With her debut album 'Living For Music' released in 2007. Her work then being used in films such as American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile and Save the Last Dance 2, and also in TV-series such as CSI: NY and Scrubs. She represented Norway at Eurovision 2011. The same year her hit 'Haba Haba' topped official Norwegian singles charts. She's commutes between Nairobi and Oslo.
The year 2017 saw StellaMwangi's self titled EP become a favorite in the Hollywood TV series and movie production scene featuring on FOX TV's series Rosewood, BET's Being MaryJane, HBO's Insecure created by actress, writer, director, producer, web series creator Issa Rae . The EP features as soundtrack and theatrical score on SONY COLOMBIA'S Movie Rough Night 2017 and STX FILM'S A Bad Moms Christmas 2017.


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Demi Lovato Finds Real Love with Max Ehrich
Published September 12th, 2020 - 07:52 GMT
Demi Lovato with Max Ehrich (Twitter)
Demi also opened up on her life in quarantine with the 29-year-old actor, whom she has been staying with ever since the US went into lockdown.
Demi Lovato feels "really blessed" to have found love with Max Ehrich.
The 28-year-old singer began dating Max in March before the pair got engaged just four months later, and has said that spending lockdown with him "accelerated" the speed in which their bond grew.
She said: "We were able to share this time together that we wouldn't have normally gotten to spend. And that accelerated our relationship on a level that, you know, you can't really explain to people, but quarantine either makes or breaks deal. And it really made that. So I'm really, I'm really blessed, really fortunate and continuing to count my blessings every day."
She gushed: "We started dating. We immediately went into quarantine. I knew I loved him the night I met him. So a week later we went into quarantine. I was like, 'Look, we're quarantining together. Um, cause I love you.'
"We were sleeping on a futon, so we weren't really doing a bunch of cooking or anything like that. We were Postmate-ing and wiping down all the packages."
The 'OK Not To Be OK' singer admitted she isn't a great cook, but said she knows Max is the one for her because he's the "first person" in her life that she's "every really wanted to cook for".
She added: "I did just get a house and I will have a good cooking space for that. But he's the first person in my life that I've ever really wanted to cook for.
"[Rice is all] I know how to cook and I'm not even very good at that yet. So we're mastering that, but he's like a pesca-vegan. So he eats fish, but has certain dietary restrictions. It's really funny cause we work so well together - I'll order my Taco Bell and he'll get his like healthy food."
And Max has even been helping his fiancée stay grounded with guided meditation exercises.
Speaking to SiriusXM, the 'Anyone' hitmaker said: "No matter where we are, what we're doing, he'll either pull out, a meditation guided meditation music thing, or he'll just be like, 'Hey babe, like, hold my hand, let's breathe.' And we do breathwork, where you breathe in one nostril, breathe out the other it's like Kundalini breathwork.
"Whether it's us falling asleep to a guided meditation or waking up to a guided prayer meditation, it's just like those little things that are implemented in my life every day are really making a difference."
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Pelosi smacks lectern, makes two demands of the president: Who is she kidding?
Posted on April 5, 2019 by JCscuba
By Jim Campbell
Here is an obvious solution for "Madam Pelosi."
Heat seeking "Bad Karma Edition"
First you pull out your taxes combined with husband Paul's of StarKist Tuna Fame.
Both Pelosi's were involved in price-fixing when she was in a position to arrange for lower wages to be paid to Samoan workers. (Source)
Trump addresses request for his tax returns
President Trump spoke to reporters, and said he's not 'inclined' to provide his tax returns.
President Trump responded with a dismissive taunt on Wednesday after a House committee chairman formally requested the IRS provide several years of his personal and business tax returns, in a move that prompted congressional Republicans to warn that Democrats had "weaponized" tax law.
Told by a reporter at the White House that Democrats wanted six years of his tax returns, Trump replied:
"Is that all?
Usually it's 10.
So I guess they're giving up. We're under audit, despite what people said, and we're working that out — I'm always under audit, it seems, but I've been under audit for many years, because the numbers are big, and I guess when you have a name, you're audited.
But until such time as I'm not under audit, I would not be inclined to do that."
The request Wednesday by Massachusetts Rep. Richard Neal, who heads the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, is the first such demand for a sitting president's tax information in 45 years.
That of course was President Richard Nixon as part of the process of avoiding impeachment. (Source)
The move sets up a virtually certain legal showdown with the White House.
Pelosi's Tuna Surprise
Economists of every political stripe agree that a higher minimum wage will cost some low-skill workers their jobs.
But don't believe us; just ask Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The House last week whooped through an increase in the minimum wage to $7.25, by a vote of 315-116.
But, lo, included as part of this boon to the working man was a loophole: The new, higher wage floor applied to all of these United States and its territories – save for the Pacific outpost of American Samoa.
In the immortal words of Congressman Patrick McHenry (R., N.C.), "There's something fishy going on here."
It turns out that American Samoa has a big fish and tuna canning industry, specifically operations run by StarKist and Chicken of the Sea.
Both companies are headquartered in California, and StarKist's parent is located in none other than Ms. Pelosi's own San Francisco district.
So faster than you can say "middle class squeeze," Democrats rediscovered the eternal economic truth that a higher minimum wage can cost jobs and granted Samoa its reprieve.
They have a good point.
In 2004, according to the Department of Labor, Samoan canneries directly employed some 4,800 people, or nearly 40% of the work force.
StarKist and Chicken of the Sea would have plenty of other low-wage locations to do their canning.
The average hourly wage for the American Samoan canneries in 2004 was about $3.60. In contrast, the average cannery wage in Thailand was 67 cents an hour and in the Philippines 66 cents.
H/T The American Thinker
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3 Responses to Pelosi smacks lectern, makes two demands of the president: Who is she kidding?
oPINION says:
The age old self-interest and conflict of interest of the corrupt Congress. As I recall the Pelosi family also have a big financial interest in these two companies!
Rule of Law says:
interesting THAT THE MAIN STREAM MEDIA STAYS IN FULL ATTACK MODE OF PREIDENT TRUMP!
The Mueller Report cleared Trump – not exceptions. NO evidence of collusion or obstruction. The Rule of Law is so very clear. The Prosecution must prove the crime. Trump does not need to prove he is not guilty. The Burden of Proof is on the Prosecution. Further, no investigation can even take place if there is not some evidence that a crime was committed. That is the Rule of Law.
To actually have an Investigation of President Trump there must be some evidence of a crime. There is not any such evidence. Once the so-called Steele Dossier was proven, by admission of Christopher Steele in the UK while under oath, then the President Trumkp Investigation should have stopped and that is the LAW!
When Mueller continued with the Investigation he was committing SEDITION!
Absolutely no arguments her Ms. Brown, you naile it, Thanks, J.C.


Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc can pay "substantially" more for Allergan Inc and should get a fair shot at buying it, William Ackman, the Botox maker's biggest shareholder, said on Friday. Ackman said this in a letter to Allergan's board the day after the company said it was discussing a merger with another company, widely reported to be Actavis, to fend off hostile bidder Valeant.Ackman, whose hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owns nearly 10 percent of Allergan, asked the board to see which suitor comes up with the best offer.He urged the board to run an auction "where neither party is the favored bidder, and both are encouraged to offer maximum value - before any obligation to pay a breakup fee is incurred."Valeant shares fell nearly 1 percent in early trading on Friday amid talk that the company's proposed plan to purchase Allergan might collapse. Allergan stock was down 1.6 percent.
Allergan, Inc. is a multi-specialty health care Company focused on developing and commercializing pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices and over-the-counter products. Shares of AGN fell by 1.68% or $-3.315/share to $194.08. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $88.41 and as high as $200.99. On average, 2349100 shares of AGN exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 698030.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., formerly Biovail Corporation, is a multinational, specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets a range of pharmaceutical products. Shares of VRX fell by 0.96% or $-1.239/share to $127.53. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $103.03 and as high as $153.10. On average, 2612460 shares of VRX exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 341757.
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc., formerly Biovail Corporation, is a multinational, specialty pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets a range of pharmaceutical products. Shares of VRX fell by 1.6% or $-2.35/share to $144.83. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $107.76 and as high as $170.45. On average, 472203 shares of VRX.TO exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 78216.


This is a real top notch recording. These reworkings of familiar Bach concertos by Alexei Utkin and his Hermitage Chamber Orchestra are fresh, full of vigor and excellent playing, and near perfect sound balance and quality. The recording was made by the Pentatone team, and is the equal, if not better, than new Pentatone releases.
But it's the playing of Alexei Utkin and his Hermitage Chamber Orchestra that really stands out. Everything is just so well done.
This is really first SACD recorded in Russia and produced by Russian company!
I got this SACD in Moscow, Russia on September 24.
It is piece of art outside and inside.


deep into the redwood forest. shafts of sunlight making their way down through the dark nest of trees.
i was supposed to leave on saturday morn, but i left moss cottage and the cat posse on friday night instead. i wanted to be on the road, getting a 4-5 hour headstart on the long journey to northern california.
out the door i hurried, climbed into my chariot, and began the drive. every cell in my body was humming with delicious excitement.
oh to be going somewhere in the dark of night. hours of driving ahead. my perfect adventure and one i had been waiting for.
it's been so long since i left on a road trip without making hotel reservations or even knowing where my final stop would be. i decided to drive until 10 pm and then find a hotel. easier said than done. the 5 is a desolate interstate where there can be 30-40 miles between service outposts, but at last i found something in los banos way up in merced county.
i wanted to spend a little time in santa rosa, about an hour north of san francisco, driving around, looking at houses on my redfin app. i'm unfamiliar with santa rosa, but it had a great vibe and plenty of housing options.
lately i've developed an obsession with finding my future retirement community. northern california and southern oregon are at the very top of the list. i need to be within an hour or so of the ocean, dark skies, less population density, more rain, a cooler climate, affordable housing, and plenty of quirky, arty, liberal-minded peeps around. i'm headed to the eureka area in the spring to explore, and maybe brookings, oregon this summer. naturally i'll count on hearing from you about santa rosa and anywhere else you want to tell me about that's on the west coast.
after an hour or 2 in santa rosa i headed further north, then started westwards towards the coast on hwy 128 straight through the gorgeous anderson valley and boonville. sublimely beautiful.
now i am here in caspar. my little cottage is dreamy and as i type this i am sitting in front of an open window from which i can see the white caps of the pacific through a meadow, picket fence, and coastal pine.
yesterday upon arriving, i quickly unpacked and hurried out across the street onto the headlands.
nothing but the sounds of blowing grass and the great heartbeat of the ocean.
i have settled in for lots of blogging, sketching, reading, walking, and dreaming. my days will be punctuated by strolls along the headlands and rambles into mendocino and fort bragg. breathing deep. happy to be alive. right here.
let me know what you're getting up to in your worlds. you know i'm always curious.
Mary Ann – maybe check out Sebastopol and/or Graton (Sonoma County)? Gualala also comes to mind.
I too would love to relocate in Northern California but, the cost of living is soooo high!
Last year my husband and I decided to "age in place" because we have owned our house for thirty years and it is in a nice enough area and close to SF, but I still dream of places where I would want to live (the problem for me is that there is no access to Kaiser Health Centers which after having it for forty-five years I am reluctant to give up for something else.) My two favorite choices would be Morro Bay (even though I grew up in Pasadena, my parents had a small cabin in Cayucos where we spent all vacations and I went to college in SLO. It always feels like a second home. Luckily in Jan. I get a week's stay there.) My other place is Healdsburg…would love a town with a central plaza in it and little Victorian cottages. Have lovely treks making your decision!
so many things to consider when relocating. where are you again lois? i've been in healdsburg and agree it's lovely! i gotta get somewhere quieter with darker skies.
You def have to let me know when you'll be in Humboldt County!!
my friend pam and i have said for years we need a retirement village on the coast with little paths joining our cottages. we can enjoy solitude and people when we want. a tiny community of perhaps 20. sounds good right?
Happy to be alive. That is itself is SO GOOD. Enjoy.
I hope you find your Shangri-la. Southern Oregon might just be the place. No income tax! Just saying. Have a nice trip.
I'm daydreaming of your trip, some of it so familiar from our vacation years ago. And what a cute cottage you've rented. I'm sure you'll mosey into Gallery Books in Mendocino – I love that shop. Here, we're preparing for a big snowstorm, expecting 8-14″ of snow the next few days followed the end the week by a Canadian cold front, dropping high temps to around 7 degrees and lows below zero. Might need to get more bird seed. Relax and enjoy, MAM! P.S. Your perfect retirement town sounds like a place I'd love, too. Hope you find it. San Juan Island is sunny and lovely, but probably "spendy" as the locals here say.
i don't understand how the little birds can survive such cold temps!
Have fun along the "Lost Coast"!
I love Sonoma County but am so glad I bought my property 41 years ago when it was affordable. Not so anymore. But maybe coming from Los Angeles it would seem affordable? I know these things can be relative. Have a great time in Caspar!
Have fun-Mendocino is incredible! If you go to the corner of Little Lake St. and Carlson St., you will see a spacious corner with a green house-my great-grandfather built that house in 1881, and my mother was born there in 1913. The two families lived there and grew vegetables and sold them. There is a "miracle story" to the house-a friend had been attending my monthly SoulCollage workshops for ten years—last November when I showed a picture of the house to the ladies, she told me that she knew the house and had once lived in it, working for the family that has owned it for a long time. I was dumbfounded-then, another friend was up there on vacation, saw people going into the house and asked if she could see it. She was able to go inside and take a few pictures to send me! It was the first I had ever seen inside.
Yep, Mendocino is a special place!!!!! You have fun and say hello to the village for me!
oh that is a lovely story sandy! i will drive by the green house and tip my hat to your GG and mom.
Mary Ann–First, I must ask: Were those giant pine cones real? Holy moly!
Your comment about the distance between stops reminds me of all those signs in movies. You know, "50 miles until next gas station." I don't think I've ever driven anywhere like that.
What am I up to? Working the last Sunday before Christmas break starts. Addressing my cards. Trying to finish a Blurb book of my trip to London. Rewatching some of the Stitchbookery videos, trying to decide on what style of journal for my next trip.
Preparing for Christmas here in Stockton with family coming from Santa Rosa, San Francisco and Novato THEN I get to go to my little cabin in Cazadero (just west of Guerneville and about 5 Miles East of Jenner)…heaven. I live here, taking care of my mom, but plan to retire to Caz someday. The redwoods, the cool climate (San Francisco weather), short jaunt to the ocean, river fun in the summer and lots of great people. Have a GREAT time here in Northern California!
Mary Ann! You just described the retirement community known as greater Seattle (or Portland). It fits all your requirements, as long as you don't try to live right in Seattle. Arty, liberal, close to mountains, water all around, seasonal, rain, perfect summers, within an hour easily of culture and much to do. Give us a chance!


Nuka-Lixir - The Vault Fallout Wiki - Everything you need to know about Fallout 76, Fallout 4, New Vegas and more!
Nuka-Lixir is a consumable item in the Fallout 4 add-on Nuka-World.
A mixture of Nuka-Cola and Nuka-Cola Orange that has been spiked with Med-X, this bottle of soda provides 100 hit points, in addition to raising damage and radiation resistance by 35 and 25, respectively, for eight minutes.
Nuka-Lixir cannot be found anywhere; it must be crafted using a Nuka-Mixer station.
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Sutherland Reid & Farrar (SRF) are a mid-sized Accounting Firm who have operated in Moree NSW for over 80 years. With two directors and a team of long serving staff, SRF pride themselves on providing pro-active, quality services to their clients.
Initially SRF enlisted the help of Strategic Group to provide on-site servers and manage their infrastructure. Over the 12 year partnership their needs changed and they made the decision to move to Strategic Group's private cloud platform VAULT.
We have had a wonderful working relationship with Strategic Group for over a decade. We find their advice and insight to new technology that we can incorporate into our office is great. The service has been so reliable over many years, right from the first installation of on-site servers, to the switch to VAULT and any issues are dealt with promptly.
As Moree is prone to seasonal flooding is was important to SRF that they could keep their data safe and secure while remaining accessible. Moving to VAULT also meant that SRF no longer had to worry about daily backups and now have built in Disaster Recovery and much more effective redundancy.
Having SRF as a long term client has meant that Strategic Group are able to tailor their recommendations and solutions to SRF as they grow and change and their business goals evolve. Conducting regular meetings and IT reviews allow Strategic Group to give relevant advice and build upon their trusted partnership. Back when they both started working together, on-site servers were the right solution for SRF, but as technology advanced and internet became more reliable in regional areas, the cloud made sense.
As Ben puts it, it's about "having the finger on the pulse" in terms of access to information that SRF can use to assist and advise their clients, and the cloud means they visit their clients onsite, wherever they are.


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Chaka Demus Undergoes Major Life Saving Surgery
October 15, 2010 Carbon The Element
International recording artiste Chaka Demus – one half of the most successful deejay-singer recording duo in reggae history, Chaka Demus and Pliers – is recovering in hospital after a major life-saving surgical operation.
The deejay had gone to the Andrews Memorial Hospital last Tuesday for a routine check-up to prepare for an upcoming European tour. However, the attending physician immediately realised that the deejay was bleeding internally and arranged to have a team of specialists perform emergency surgery.
"I was rushed into surgery, and I looked up and a team of specialists surrounded me and then I was out," said Chaka, whose real name is John Taylor.
DJ thankful
He is now recuperating after the gruelling four and a half hour operation that successfully stopped the bleeding. It is not clear when the deejay will be released to recuperate at home, but he is thankful to members of the reggae industry and his fans for lending their support in his time of need.
Last month, Chaka reunited with his long-time friend and musical partner Pliers to record a new single called California One Night Stand on the Free People Entertainment label. He apologised for "scaring" his fans and promised that he would be completing his album once he regains his strength.
Chaka admitted the health scare has strengthened his belief in a higher power.
"I knew there was a God from ever since, but now God ah show me some signs fi take care of myself," he said. "Over the years, I have not taken the best care of myself or done regular check-ups but now I have learnt my lesson, I am going to change my lifestyle."
Top hits in uk
The duo was the first Jamaican act to have three consecutive top-five hits on the United Kingdom (UK) Singles Chart. The duo's first hit, Tease Me, stayed in the top-five of the UK Singles Chart for three months in 1993, reaching number three in July of that year. They followed that up with the number one hit, Twist and Shout, a cover of the Isley Brothers' single that topped the UK Singles Chart in early 1994. The duo also scored major hits on the UK top 20 charts with She Don't Let Nobody(UK number four), I Wanna Be Your Man (UK number 19), and Gal Wine (UK number 20).
Earlier this year, the duo filed a US$10-million lawsuit against Universal Music for trademark infringement and unpaid royalties.
Original article can be read here.
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