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Family friendly condo w/ an enclosed yard & ocean views - walk to the beach!
Walk down to the beach from this spacious condo that's conveniently close to all the shops and attractions in Oxnard. Enjoy ocean breezes and views from the third story balcony off the master bedroom. After a day of playing on the beach, come back and relax on the enclosed patio and enjoy the ambiance of a crackling fire in the outdoor, gas-fueled firepit.
This condo is located in a quiet neighborhood with beach access right at the end of the block. From kayaking through the Channel Islands Harbor, only two miles away, to whale watching excursions, boating, fishing, and building sand castles on the beach, there's an activity for everyone close by! Head into downtown Oxnard for great dining options, shops, and the Gull Wings Children Museum. Play a round of golf at the River Ridge Golf Club, only five miles away. And consider a day trip to some other famous coastal cities like Malibu or Santa Barbara, both located about 30 miles from this rental.
Parking Notes: Driveway is behind the building - Channel Way - Two car garage parking in front of the garage - no garage access is permitted - first driveway attached to the building - two cars only - street parking on Driftwood for a third vehicle.
3612O Hollywood Beach Inboard home Pet Friendly!
3500O Ocean View Cottage "The Lighthouse"
Charming Silverstrand Beach Cottage Just Steps to the Sand!
Oxnard Beach house two lots from sand!
Kitty's Beach Cottage- 1/2 block from beautiful Silver Strand Beach.


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Can use MEDLINE on ProQuest (http://library.wlu.ca/research-materials/databases/medline), containing most, but not all the information within PubMed.
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Should use ERIC on ProQuest (http://library.wlu.ca/research-materials/databases/eric), however this links to the full text in the free version so it can only be used as an index during the shutdown.
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August 26, 2012 in "clean" remark, "Holiday Inn", "It's a Wonderful Life", A Dad's Responsibility, Accountability, Amy Dudley, Ben Bernanke, Bob Woodward, Britney Spears, Buddy Roemer, Chrissie Hynde, Christine O'Donnell, Colin Powell, David Anderson, David Plouffe, David Walker, Delaware Bloggers, Delaware Liberal, Delaware Libertarian, Delaware Lobbyists, Delaware photography, Delaware Politics.Net, Delaware Talk Radio, Delaware Watch, Delaware Way, Delaware wind power, delaware's finest, Delawarean Curmudgeon, Donvitti, Frank Ingram, Gary Simpson, good teachers, Greg Hastings, Harry Gravell, Helene Keeley, Howard Dean, Hube, In God We Trust, individual responsibility, intelligence sharing, Jerry Northington, Jessica Simpson, Joan Deaver, John Kowalko, Jud Bennett, Kilroy of Delaware, Laura Ingram, Lawrence Hamermesh, Liberal Geek, Liz Allen, Love You All, Maria Evans, Marylin Monroe, Mayor Baker, Merit Bound Alley, Michelle Malkin, Michio Kaku, Mike Protack, Mother Nature, Mourning Constitution, Mr. Pam Scott, Nancy Pelosi, Numbers Don't Lie, Organized Labor, Pamela Thornburg, Pandora, Paris Hilton, Pat Fish, Paul Wellstone, Rick Jensen, rsmitty, Russ Larson, Sam Latham, Sarah Palin, Seabiscuit, Senator Jay Rockerfeller, Senator Joe Biden, Senator Ted Kaufman, Senator Tom Carper, Steve Newton, Ted Kaufman, The Colossus of Rhody, The Dark Knight, The Pretenders, Think123, Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle | 3 comments
This is post number 2000.
The only real significance is it is 150 posts more than where Tommywonk stopped exactly one year and fifteen days ago…
If some future historian looks back, I can only guess they may kindly make some note of the quality of thought that underlies these efforts, but my guess, is no one will ever notice…
Irregardless, as long as the urge to put thoughts down for others continues, we will go on. As usual, with no goal, no direction, and no ulterior motive. Probably upon reflection, my biggest surprise, right here, right now … is that I still enjoy it so much, and can't wait to jot my thoughts down, click the button, and send them off to where ever cyberspace and the vast internet ocean, lets them drift….
For each of you who have become regular over the years, … thank you friend…
WTF is CRI? A New Disease?
August 2, 2009 in "It's a Wonderful Life", Accountability, Alan Levin, Arnette McRae, Bill Lee, Blue Water Wind, breast feeding, Bush, Charlie Copeland, Cleavage Shots, Delaware, Delaware Bloggers, Delaware legislature, Delaware Public Service Commission, Delaware wind power, Delaware's energy needs, Delaware's Insurance Commissioner, Democratic pro tempre, Do Something!, Dumbing of America, early childhood development, Economic collapse, economic fallout, ethics, fact checkers, fiscal responsibility, FOIA, Gary Stockbridge, getting to know you, High Speed Rail, In God We Trust, Incumbant Party of Delaware, inflated gasoline prices, Jokers To The Right, Life and Death, manipulation of youth, money in politics, moving on, Much Ado About Nothing, Numbers Don't Lie, Offshore Drilling, oil futures, Ooga Ooga Ooga, open government, Pamela Thornburg, political favors, Randell Speck, republican ineptitude, Republican intimidation, Republican Majority Leader, Republican soul, Republicans are Gay, rich get richer, Russ Larson, Senator Adams, sex should be private, Socialist Republicans, Spying on American Citizens, The Pretenders, Thurman Adams, wind power | 30 comments
I know a women who once when the doors of her train opened accidentally, got up and pulled her husband off the train… In doing so, she stepped out on the platform in Vienna, and thereby escaped Communist suppression for the rest of her life…
Four years ago, she had polyps in her breast. She immediately underwent radiation and beat it. Until now.
If today's experimental treatment does not work, she will undergo a mastectomy next month and reconstructive surgery. It will be a shame for she has some of the most beautiful breasts … They're truly a natural wonder.
But the point I'm making is…. when dealing with cancer… you nip it in the bud… You don't play around.. You take necessary corrective action…
There is a deadly cancer in Delaware's blogworld today. You may have read something about the Caesar Rodney Institute. It too is a cancer; it too needs excised before it spreads its spores and contaminates our General Assembly and local idiots like Ron Williams…
WTF is a Caesar Rodney Institute?
The answer is two words: Garrett Wozniak…
WTF is Garrett Wozniak?
Hmmmmmmm… let's take a look together… shall we?
If we pull up Linkaden's page, we see his prime qualification is:
Campaign Manager at Citizens for Copeland
Oh.. so that's what makes him an expert in all things political… But wait… who is that guy Copeland? Isn't he that guy that just disappeared after last November 4th?.. Vanished into thin air? …
Sounds familiar… Hmmmm… Copeland…..Copeland…. Copeland…. Where have we heard that name before… hmmph..
Wasn't he that silly politician who insisted we should put oil rigs off of Rehoboth Beach? No couldn't be, for no one here in this state is that stupid… Oil Rigs off Delaware's number one tourist site… Oil rigs off Delaware's premier money making site? Never? There's a no brainer…
Wasn't he that silly politician who stalled the wind deal so Delmarva Power could charge us 60% more for our electricity? Wasn't he that person whose approval was required before our state paid out $35,000 so Richard Speck could lynch Arnette McRae on the public stand; she of course being the one in charge of Delaware's Public Service Commission, and therefore the one responsible for running the best open aired RPS this state has ever seen? So open, in fact, that Delmarva Power's lies were exposed for all to see for what they truly were? lies?
Wasn't he that silly politician who said he founded the Challenge Program, only to have Tommywonk say… uhn uhn… wasn't so?
Wasn't he that silly republican who begged Bill Lee to run for governor and then handed out flyers telling Wilmington blacks to vote for Obama, Markell, and himself? Selling his own friend down the river? lol.
Wasn't he that silly republican who spent lavishly at Wilmington's black churches thinking their votes could be so readily and cheaply bought? lol
Wasn't he that silly republican who gave his support to Thurman Adams, delivering to him in January 2007, the entire Republican caucus in his favor, and only after that deed was done, did he begin championing the cause of open government once he knew it could never happen? lol
Wasn't he that silly republican who believes even when proven wrong, that resolute determination can undermine actual facts proving the contrary? lol
If that's the same Copeland, that Garrett Wozniak supported, then it is hard to take him seriously… is it not? Oil rigs off of Rehoboth… What a card… lol
So what is it that makes Garrett Wozniak an expert? What is it that gives him credibility? Shall we take a look together?
* Campaign Manager at Citizens for Copeland
* Policy Director at Delaware House of 'Representatives
* Executive Director at Delaware Republican Party
Obviously his view are a little one sided.. Results are thus. These are facts now… not some policy dribble… Hard solid evidence…
As campaign chair, he barely mustered 38% of the vote for his candidate…. as my little kindergardener often says of his elders:FAIL
Even outspokenly gay John Brady received 41% of the vote… Wozniak's candidate couldn't even muster that amount…
Policy Director of Delaware's Majority Party at Delaware's House of Representatives. That means Republican caucus of the House of Representatives… As policy director of the majority party, nothing of importance was passed in two years that could get by the Senate. As they say at that other state blog: FAIL Consequently, voters rejected Republican candidates in November giving Democrats a plurality, (until Thornberg's friends threw out Paradee's win).
Executive Director of Delaware's Republican Party: As echoed across the tabulations of every voting booth across this state: FAIL
They lost by the largest margin ever in recent memory of anyone living or dead… Sort of like trusting the manager of the Cincinnati Reds to write a book outlining the strategy of winning a baseball game… lol
So we see under the profile of Gary Wozniak, what he is familiar with:
Extensive experience in all aspects of project management including supervising, fundraising, developing marketing strategies, organization/time management and researching federal and state laws.
I'll let you be the judge of whether he was successful at any of these?
And he sums up his credentials here…
Thorough knowledge of fundraising techniques, managing donor relations, and database management
Was this their most successful year ever? The results are in: you be the judge.
He goes on…
Able to work independently and collaboratively on multiple projects
• Have established positive relationships with most members of Delaware's General Assembly regardless of political affiliation
Again was this their most successful year ever? The results are in? You be the judge.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT/FUNDRAISING EXPERIENCE
• Responsible for statewide communications, fundraising, strategy, policy research, and general management/operations
• Successfully raised between $700,000 in a six month period
• Managed a budget of $800,000
• Supervised a staff of three employees and coordinated over 100 volunteers
• Created and implemented a district operations plan to allow legislators to more effectively and efficiently communicate with constituents
• Coordinated local campaigns, consulting on policy, budgeting, and strategy for over 30 candidates
• Served as Operations Manager responsible for budgeting, directing all fundraising efforts, developing finance plans and initiatives to grow the organization, and strategic planning
• Drafted press releases, legislation, and speeches; responded to constituent concerns; and planned events in a highly competitive non-partisan internship
• Developed comprehensive plans for municipalities
So how's he doin' now?
So why should we even listen to Garrett Wosniak and the Caesar Rodney Institute's ramblings?
Garrett Wozniak's Education
MPA , Financial Management & State and Local Management , 2004 — 2006
B.S. , Economics and Political Science , 2002 — 2004
Montgomery College
A.A. , Business Administration , 2000 — 2002
Because since high school graduation, his entire adulthood has only lived through the Republican era… He was only a baby of ten when Clinton cleaned up the former Republican's mess and barely 18 when he turned it over to the new generation of Republicanism to squander it away to nothingness…
He can't help it… He simply not old enough to know any better…..
But wait a second… His entire age group overwhelmingly voted for change. Most of his age group does indeed know better…. What's up with that?
Below are some wise words which should be applied to the Ceasar Rodney Institute the next time they meddle with state policy. For instead of being a thoughtful, introspective, outreaching organization that was dedicated to examining complicated issues to help educate the rest of us, we have a close-minded attempt by a failing philosophy to masquerade a voter rejected policy as intellectual fact….
"A cancer must be removed as soon as possible before it spreads and infects surrounding healthy tissue".
We Bloggers Dropped The Ball
June 6, 2008 in Bloggers, Blogroll, Blue Water Wind, Controller General, D Day, Delaware, Delaware Bloggers, Delaware Growth, Delaware New Jobs, Delaware wind power, Delaware's energy needs, delaware's finest, General Assembly, Russ Larson, wind farms | 4 comments
Part of it was due to a funeral that came up, but if you remember well, this was supposed to be the official Russ Larson Day…
Of course it was planned in short notice, and with Delmarva announcement of their signing the onshore wind deal, this day of honoring Russ Larson never got off the ground.
So although it is not much, here is what I could accomplish in quick order….
PROCLAIMING JUNE 6, 2008 "CONTROLLER GENERAL RUSS LARSON DAY"
WHEREAS all acknowledge that as Controller General, Russ Larson wanted to do the right thing and vote for approval of the working agreement between Delmarva and Bluewater Wind,
WHEREAS all sympathize with Russ Larson for having his job and salary threaten by said Tony DeLuca, current Senate Majority Leader.
WHEREAS all understand that instead of voting NO on December 18th, against orders from Senate leadership, with considerable bravery he agreed instead to table the decision until a future time when passage was assured.
WHEREAS all acknowledge that even though no vote has yet taken place within the Senate, the passage was so overwhelming within the House, that over a majority of all legislators have either voted for or sponsored HCR 38, and that Russ Larson is therefore within his rights to vote his conscience knowing that he speaks for the majority of all legislators.
WHEREAS all of Delaware acknowledges the tough spot Russ Larson was put into by the leadership of the Senate, most particularly Thurman Adams, the aforementioned Tony DeLuca, the squirrelly Charlie Copeland, and the buffoon Harris McDowell, and certainly feels for him…
BE IT RESOLVED by all the bloggers following the 144th General Assembly of the State of Delaware, that June 6, 2008, is designated as "Controller General Russ Larson Day" and it is requested that citizens throughout the State join in recognizing the work, effort and contribution that this individual made to improve the quality of life for all families in Delaware.
Controller General Russ Larson Day". Russ Larson has showed considerable loyalty to Delaware's citizens, quick thinking, and a steady resolve in supporting Blue Water Wind in Delaware…..
Russ, when this whole thing is over……we are throwing you a party. Sorry we couldn't get it together in time for the actual date itself

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Indian Colonization and a $45 Trillion Fake-Narration.
December-11-2018
We"'ve done this all over the world and some don"t seem worthy of such gifts. We brought roads and infrastructure to India and they are still using them as toilets. Our criminals built nice roads in Australia but aboriginals keep using them as a bed. The next time someone bitches about colonization, the correct response is "You"re welcome."
While New York Times Gave a megaphone to this narrative for people who don't have the understanding of the History of India, essentially putting an Indian on the streets of the USA at risk. As an Indian, I would like to de-mystify those ignorant claims by some imposter who has no clue who he is posturing to be.
Below is solely to break some cultural myths and open a window to look at the other side when people are turning too far right or left and turning too proud.
I tried contacting the New York Times editorial on the article which had this quote without pointing out that it's a wrong statement owing to the historical facts that India was a rich economy with overall prosperity owing to 23% of the world's GDP before British came in the 1700s and recent claims by prominent Columbia economists that — British Colonization siphoned off close to $45 Trillion during their 173 years in India.
Another fact before British came in - India was one country demarcated by the natural barriers as Indus river (where the name India comes from) to the west, the Himalayas to the North, the Indian Ocean to the south and Brahmaputra Range to the east.
When they left they got it divided into three countries with man-made walls, wires, and barriers.
New York Times did report some facts but not all the facts which created an alternate truth, which is not a responsible thing to do.
My belief system —
I'm a firm believer in Karma which both Jesus Christ and Krishna preached about, in their own time and space. The karma theory got validated recently when after fretting about Google, Facebook, and Twitter ripping India apart for years, the miracle of 2016 happened in the USA.
And based on that theory I think it would be better to refrain in claiming any part in the misery spread by certain criminals standing at the wrong side of the world history.
Now My Quick response
Before they came to India in 1700 CE we were one of the richest countries in the world with 23% of the global GDP, where poverty was unknown and when they left in 1947 India was one of the poorest, so I have no idea what are you talking about.
Indians never asked "them" to build roads on the lands they don't understand. They were illegals and they forced those roads on us. Also, Indians don't shit on the roads, they like to shit on their fields. Shitting in close boxes vs the opens is connected to local climate and its harshness and a very spiritual debate and needs deep understanding, like wiping vs washing – Another cultural demystification article on it soon.
Meanwhile - Try using your scientific skills to find why European Pre-Digest their milk for cheese and Why Easterners can drink milk directly - Hint- Hump, feed and the intestine.
*Above - Sahiwal breed of the indigenous cow whose milk can be consumed directly and no need to predigest with rennet (as the calf's intestine will do) and make cheese before consumption. Look for A1 vs A2 Milk.
Why Indians can eat the produce of the land directly while the west needs a host animal to convert Sun's energy from the grass or the commodity crop to something digestible - Hint - Monsoon and the Ganges. Read about how the food habits are totally messed up by food processing industry which is unique to some lands and not needed in India - Food Processing Industry in America and the Lessons for India
When you said Hamburgers, investigate why people eat leavened bread and meat this way - Hint - Glutton content.
I heard you initiate new frat boys with breakfast cereal, hope you don't push corn syrup next, there is enough cancer in the USA already from commodity crops, processed in factories which comes in fancy boxes or frozen wraps. Try finding out why the yogurt here has so much TAR in it - Hint machines and mastitis.
I see western cultures as tenacious, strong and very brave people who can do amazing things with limited resources. The people who shape harsh lands and rivers to make way for mankind with steel and sheer grit. But that never holds any kind of supremacy over the culture where there is no need to do a lot many things including reshaping nature, the way people from across the Indus or West have to do. Or give any kind of divine rights to enslave those who don't want to build mass killing swords, having seen enough of that.
By the way you mentioned creeks, open lands, sitting on tree etc i.e. Freedom and nature. Gandhi was the best Scholar on the subject of Freedom and its definition. Read his views on "your shit" and freedom, it might change you, Gandhi normally does change people.
Also, by the way of your philosophy and rule of the strongest- he was the victor in 1947 so his words do matter. Maybe if you pay more attention to your shit, it will tell you to eat fewer hamburgers lowering your healthcare bills.
Coming back to the roads- Those lands had water systems with battery of ponds, lakes and channels built over thousands of years with way advance science, statistics and understanding of the land and natural water flow, which "they" blocked with these "Roads" which they needed to push "Their" products and tanks to and from the "Ports" pushing our farmers and country into the mess we are still dealing with.
Wish "They" were smart than just "proud" with guns.
*Above - Better guns meant supremacy then, but now everyone has got one. - Source - Granger [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Them vs You
You call "them"="you" is "your thing" but I don't understand why a Canadian living in New York City born in England 33 Years after "they" were pushed out of India is claiming their vices all yours. You are "McInnes" a Scottish for Christ's sake, who is also a wannabe British Criminal now? I gather you are a Christian; do you think of lord with accepting you into his kingdom with all the vises of those "nabobs" you just claimed to be fully "Yours". Even if you are Robert Clive's incarnation, I find it tough putting the blame on you just by the way you look, simply because of the spirituality and philosophy of the East of Indus i.e India. Do you have something good to give back to the country which is giving you shelter now, maybe from sweet home Scottland?
Always remember we are all pilgrims to this land, serving her to flourish humanity in the service of the lord. Any exercise to push just some weird form of supremacy argument by a Scottish dude to take over the accumulated world's assets from the last century is like a land grab purported by a few with un-quantified contributions over the land built over African Steel and muscle, in Chinese Factories running cheap Oil and Raw materials from all over the world and countries whose names and passport stamps are forbidden, controlled by Indian software, brokered by Europeans, and of course over the sacrifices of Bangladeshis or Maldivians who might go under the ocean within the next few decades.
Another thing you better note that now there is figure put out by prominent economists amounting to $45 Trillion looted from India by "Them". If I would you, better stay away from any such claims on the wrong side of the history.
Now you will push the marshal race argument - Indians didn't fight well, or we don't have the fighting spirit or some Geronimo macho things.
My Response – India the subcontinent has seen so much war, debauchery and fights for supremacy of clans way before CE started that lord himself had to come to the lands to teach people when to fight, why to fight, how to behave. Check out the concept of "Aham Brahmasmi" i.e. I'm the God and so are the others to demystify all your confusions.
When Lord Rama the highest of the Aryans from the Sat-Yuga (Epoch of Truth) taught us through his life on the earth about family values, duty of the rulers, his sense of detachment not just from the materialism but power and supremacy and always fight for the highest causes of the humanity and that too after much deliberations, talks and giving adversary enough chances to repent.
He taught Indians about the true meaning of War as only the last resort when everything fails then only an Aryan raises his weapon. When we deal with nature, rivers, flora, and fauna with love we always remember Rama and Krishna how they believed in co-existence of meek and bold, and always fought the demons with the vengeance worthy of the lord but tended to fallen birds. He crossed the mountains and oceans to defeat the demon while caring enough to stop at humble folk huts to share a morsel with them with love and respect.
We never could have thought Robert Clive's ways, the Criminal "they" sent to our lands.
When the emperor of Awadh gave his throne without an ounce of bloodshed all he said was - dude you were my friend, you could have just asked for it than riding with your Army and humiliate me, Guess what, he didn't build an army but a culture. Read about him someday and visit Lucknow and have some Galauti Kababs, while listening to the music he made while sitting in one of his castles.
*Above - Pre-British Architecture in Lucknow — A King's townhall with climate control, 100s of people able to listen to even the king's whisper from 350+ft, without acoustics or echo. All of this made without an ounce of steel or concrete in it with superior architecture and design, and it uses zero electricity. Wonders like this are spread across India from pre-British era. Imagine if the world builds as this, would we be worried about climate change right now? All British could build was blocks of iron and cement, hauled by energy-guzzling machines. The same energy and oil which a Saudi prince uses to take the world to hostage after dismembering an opposing journalist. Thank you for all your wars, we paid for and paying for.
Where do you think Buddha came from in 600 BCE?
he was a product of such debauchery, supremacy, and segregation in the society of an era where some ordinary became too proud that they wanted to deny the rest basic rights. The same debaucheries MLK saw and rose after more than 2000 years on this land.
In the Mahabharata around 2500 BCE after taking in all the troubles of being on the right side of "Dharma" or Good behavior, Pandavas were faced with Kaurava's hell-bent on waging the war and usurp all they had, only because they had a bigger army and were too proud of their supremacy.
When In the battlefield of Kurukshetra the biggest Pandav warrior of the age Arjuna was ready to relinquish his arms to stop the war and give Kaurvas what was rightfully his to save innocent lives, Lord Krishna had to come in his divine form, like Jesus did for Peter and give the world Geeta the book of supreme moral code we Indians abide by.
*Above - Sounds like the Jesus Christ only 2500 years early and at a different part of Asia.
World War 2 wouldn't have happened, only if Hitler has read the first page of Geeta where the highest Aryan of "Dwapara Epoch" Sri Krishna around 2500 BCE said: being Aryan to not by birth or Race but tied to noble behavior, failing which lead you to degradation unworthy of the heaven.
कुतस्त्वा कश्मलमिदं विषमे समुपस्थितम् |अनार्यजुष्टमस्वर्ग्यमकीर्तिकरमर्जुन
kutastvā kaśhmalamidaṁ viṣhame samupasthitam
anārya-juṣhṭamaswargyam akīrti-karam Arjuna
In such a strait, whence comes upon thee, O Arjuna, this dejection, un-Aryan-like, disgraceful, and contrary to the attainment of heaven?
So trust me when "they" came Indians couldn't understand why "Their Criminals" were behaving as they did. What's the point of the aggression when not protecting their motherland? Our people were waiting for a proper protocol of war to be followed than just attacked from all around and tricked with means considered way low of our behavior.
We never had this creative idea of alcoholic soldiers and delinquents to charge in the war and prove their marshal race. We could never have thought that not the love of their land, but stock markets and profits can fund an army.
All this was the legacy of "them" for India and guess what, India today is forced to raise one of the largest professional armies in the world and secure ICBMs and Nuclear warhead just in the remembrance of "them" who came to our lands to buy some of our products and acted nobly to our liking, but built roads where they had no idea or permission off. They were the real illegals.
We Indians when we see a British or a European never see them as some adversaries from the past colonized world but people who we can work together looking forward to building a better world. But we do remember Robert Clive who came to our lands illegally and literally messed our lawns.
We do sparsely know of Hitler ignorant enough to have messed with our Swastika and our definition of Aryan for his own debauched reasons and making it tough for us to use them when we cross the Indus.
Don't put your face on these few hazy figures of the history claiming their deeds as yours- the reasons why Indians need to take budget off city sanitation, health and education to quickly build the next aircraft carrier.
Trust me, we just want the freedom to shit in the open and fertile lands of ours and see the dung Beatles rolling them over, overlooking the creeks of our rivers and the red rising sun, only if some "Proud" boy isn't trying to roll in tanks on some road across the border, forcing us to build the roads to rush our tanks out, not to claim supremacy of "our" people on someone else produce of the land and the people, but just protect our lands.
While you try to push "your" name with "them" for some political reason of yours, always remember Gandhi and the Sons of the Sindhu, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Narmada, and Kaveri who rose with him for the higher cause of the humanity.
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1 - Well apparently I'm the only one who didn't go see the Wizard of Oz ballet. And everyone I know who went loved it. Darn, my little dancers will have to wait and hope it comes back again.
2 - As for the Nutcracker. Don't take her to the full show her first time. It's long and she will never last. But usually around Christmas lots of local places put on just Act II ( the one with the candy and animals). That is what I took my kids to last year. This year I think I'll take the girls to the full production.


What causes artists to gather in one location or another?
How did Athens in the 4th century BCE become a center of cultural activity? What made Florence so appealing to artists in 15th century Italy? What brought artists to Paris or St. Petersburg in the 19th century, and why did so many artists gravitate to fin de siecle Vienna to sip from the "Sacred Spring"? Was it because of the quality of the light in these locations? The economic opportunity? Pixie dust in the tapwater?
Whatever the secret ingredient, it similarly lured hundreds of artists-- mostly cartoonists and illustrators-- to Westport, Connecticut.
Westport was an artist's community for much of the 20th century but it became the supernova of American illustration in the "Madmen" era of the 1950s and 60s. Lights blazed all night long in art studios around Westport where some of the hottest and most talented illustrators and cartoonists in the world worked long hours to satisfy the great demand for their art. It was not uncommon for an artist to climb into his (yes, almost always "his") fancy sports car at two in the morning to visit another artist's studio where they drank, compared notes and worked until dawn.
Westport became the home of the Famous Artists School where illustrators such as Norman Rockwell, Albert Dorne, Stevan Dohanos, Robert Fawcett, Ben Stahl, Harold Von Schmidt, Al Parker, Austin Briggs, Jon Whitcomb, Peter Helck, Fred Ludekens, and later Bernie Fuchs and Bob Peak performed a consulting role.
Records show that at least 160 illustrators have lived and worked here. In the 1940s an influx of cartoonists from the Disney Studios migrated here, as did other illustrators from Chicago, Detroit and Cleveland. Later, the Famous Artists School brought a group of young artists to act as instructors.
Westport was also the home of Walt Reed, founder of the modern discipline of illustration art history. Unlike other public libraries, the Westport Public Library offered massive filing cabinets of reference pictures for illustrators and cartoonists to use in their assignments.
And of course Westport also had Max's Art Supplies, the local art shop that sold the raw materials for those fabulous pictures, beginning in 1956.
The creative energy and talent that these artists and their peers poured into thousands of pictures for all the top accounts was truly astounding-- the challenges, the craftsmanship, the fierce competitions, the innovations. This was a remarkable site. And now the moving finger, having writ, moves on.
When Bernie Fuchs died in 2009 I was contacted by a young reporter working for the Westport newspaper, looking for background information for an obituary. As I described Bernie's era the reporter said, "Oh, yeah... I remember now. Somebody once said that some artists lived around here."
In the salad days: Fuchs with Porsche, beautiful wife and large home with studio.
And today we received the word that Max's Art Supplies is closing for good.
A very sad day, David. One could objectively point to many reasons why Westport became the place to be. But eventually, a critical mass became self-causal: that's where everybody was. I've been trying to find the earliest colonizers. It turns out NOT to have been George Wright and Sherwood Anderson's brother Karl Anderson in the early 1910s. There was a Puck cartoonist named Gallaway who died in Westport in 1911, so it might go much further back than we tend to think. In the 1920s, two of the wealthiest artists in the world lived there: Held and O'Neill. Sure the guys were in the majority, but there were probably more women artists there than anywhere else, too, even Carmel. Last thought: it's OK to cheat a little bit and include Wilton, Silvermine, and Ridgefield (Fawcett and Sendak) -- it was all one community. I think Howard's count is too low.
Can't say I was familiar with Max's, but if it can happen to Manny's Music then all bets are off.
Westport got artists by being close to New York City publishing and a beautiful place to live. In the future it will be remembered for its artists. They should make the studios historic monuments.
And then there were the micro-colonies such as Arlington, Vermont's crowd -- the Terrific Trio of John Atherton, Meade Schaeffer, and Himself, Norman Rockwell (whose works can auction at eight digit sums).
Anonymous / Roger Reed-- Roger, your background and erudition were unmistakeable, even if you hadn't returned to identify yourself. I agree that the process became self-causal after a while. So much of art-making is a solitary process, it must have been rewarding to live in a community where artists could compare notes with each other. One hears multiple stories about artists in small town America in the 50's whose ambition was to "make it to Westport," that mythological place where all the children were above average.
Etc, etc-- Yes, the fall of Manny's Music was another tocsin for the demise of something important, and a cue for us to look around and take note of what we have lost and what is replacing it. There was a music store in Westport as well (although nothing could compare with Manny's) and several of the great illustrators were serious musicians on the side. Someone wrote me privately that "it shouldn't be forgotten that Westport was at least as important in the theatre and music worlds.... There was a serious summer theatre, and a number of famous actors lived in Westport." They reminded me that F.Scott Fitzgerald and J.D. Salinger also lived in Westport, and likened it to "Paris in the 20's."
MORAN-- Yes, some of those studios are haunted up there. But I fear that many of them have been transformed or demolished by new, wealthier occupants.
Donald Pittenger-- Very true. Old Lyme was another such micro-colony, although none of them seemed to have the critical mass or staying power of Westport. Remember, Himself spent part of his career in New Rochelle, a few stops before Westport on the commuter train. History records more than one trip where Rockwell and Dorne shared that train ride together.
And the hotspot now is in LA, right? Or was it San Diego?
Yes, Rockwell, after leaving New York City itself, spent a good deal of time in New Rochelle, where the Leyendecker brothers were based. Another micro-colony?
Years ago when I was doing my back-and-forths between NYC and New Rochelle (Ft. Slocum), I usually rode the New Haven line's Stamford Local that didn't go as far as Westport. I suppose Rockwell took whichever train suited his schedule.
And apologies for not naming Schaffer "Mead." Maybe that's because I spent a chunk of my army days at Ft. Meade, MD working at the public relation office and can't get that final "e" out of my mind..
The internet is changing this. Illustrators don't need to be where other illustrators are. They can stay in the woods and share their ideas.
>>"Illustrators don't need to be where other illustrators are. They can stay in the woods and share their ideas."
But something is lost, obviously.
Donald Pittenger-- I think Ft. Meade could use your public relations skills right now, given the battering that the NSA is taking on capitol hill.
JSL and Richard-- I am second to none in my respect for the transformative power of the internet but I agree with Richard, it's not the same. Artists gain plenty from digital tools (for one thing, no one will ever have to go to the Westport Public Library to find reference images again) but you lose a lot of bisociative thinking when you don't have a warm blooded human being in front of you with a drink in his or her hand (especially when the rest of the world is asleep).
Pearl Paint on Canal Street, NYC closed in April.
The internet is advantageous, but also strange. In the last 12 years I've spoken to an art director face to face just once and that was 10 years ago.
Recently I took a tally and noticed that I've spent far more on computers and programs than the $1,000 a year I used to spend on art supplies.
Pearl's pricing just wasn't competitive at all; I used to jokingly refer to it as "the Pearl of great price". Still sad to see it go, though.
HELLO DAVID, CAN YOU PLEASE GIVE THE READERS AN UPDATE ON THE FORTHCOMING BOOK ON BERNIE?
hello friend, okay? really liked your blog, you are a great art collector,,, you have pictures of a French cartoonist named Mulatier??
him and a great cartoonist, best in the world ..
but it is very difficult to find pictures of his caricatures ... if you have sent me email, please ..
Luciano araujo-- Thanks for writing. I had no problem googling Mulatier. He does some nice work.
The great Harry Anderson should be on the list -- he actually bought Fawcett's house and studio. Steve Rude, who idolized Harry, and I visited him in '88 or '89. Gracious, humble guy.
Comparing the storefronts from 1981 and 2006, it's telling that "FRAMING" was added above "ART MATERIALS" during the interim. Perhaps, over time, they had to cater more heavily to art-consumers, to compensate for a dwindling market of art-creators.
Paul Chadwick-- I had no idea that Harry Anderson bought Fawcett's house and studio. Add that to a number of other Westport studios that were handed down from one generation of great illustrators to another. Then finally there came a day when Bernie Fuchs' home and studio were bought by Martha Stewart.
I envy your visit with Anderson. He was really a superb painter. It's nice to hear he was a good person too.
Jesse Hamm-- Very observant. I watched a video interview with the owner and she said that the framing business kept them alive in later years.


Bodega cat in New York City, July 2015.
New York City, January 2015.
New York City, during the blizzard of 2015 (26-Jan-2015).
New York City, January 2013.
This were the photos exposed in my first photography exhibition.
The exhibition was in New York City, with 10 photos that I took in New York.
It was in PUNTO space, just a few minutes away from Times Square, during a kick-off event of the Marketing Week NYC on June 13, 2016.


The U.S. Navy has posted a video showing one of its aircraft being intercepted by a Russian jet in international airspace over the Black Sea.
France Urges 'European Army' To Defend Against Russia, U.S.
French President Emmanuel Macron is calling for a "real European army" to allow the European Union to defend itself against Russia and even the United States.
Control of the U.S. Congress is up for grabs as Americans prepare to vote in one of the most bitterly fought midterm elections in a generation.
The United States has told the UN Human Rights Council that a "thorough, conclusive, and transparent" investigation into what it called the "premeditated killing" of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi is "essential."
U.S. President Donald Trump has said he "probably" won't be meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin when he travels to the French capital later this week.
Kateryna Handzyuk, a Ukrainian civic activist and adviser to the mayor of the Black Sea port city of Kherson, has died from wounds she suffered from an acid attack three months ago.


I recently had the opportunity to spend five days with my wife vacationing on a sunny beach in Mexico. Now that my children are grown-up, vacations afford me many opportunities to observe children and their parents. On our second day, I sat on the beach and had the opportunity to watch two, very different three-year-olds. Their patterns of behavior and the responses of their parents reminded me of the critically important task parents face to understand and accept their children's temperaments.
The little, dark-eyed, dark-haired boy ran up and down the beach, stopping and babbling in Italian to everyone who walked along. I am not certain that people understood him but many answered back in a variety of languages. He wore those inflatable "floaties" on his arms. He periodically would run into the water up to his knees, jump up and down and then run back to the beach as small waves broke along the shore. I looked for his parents and eventually noticed they were sitting a bit further back on the beach. Far enough away that it was not readily discernable that he was with them but not so far that they couldn't continue to watch him. At one point he ran out along an inflated pontoon that had been placed along the waters edge in an effort to recapture some of the beach lost from a recent hurricane. This inflated pontoon was quite wide and extended some ten feet out into the water. I wondered if his parents would come after him or call to him as he ventured out on this pontoon. I turned to watch. They watched him but said nothing. He ran along the pontoon, stopped at one point and looked into the water. I thought he was going to jump but then he must have thought otherwise and ran back onto the beach. At a later point I watched this adventuresome child with his father frolicking in the water. His parents' patience and acceptance of his exploratory, vivacious and outgoing temperament allowed him to learn about the world without being smothered by a worried, over-protective parent as might have been the case for such a child with some parents.
At the same time a bit further up the beach, a cute, blond haired three-year-old stood holding her mother's hand. From the accent of her parents, I decided they were from the British Isles. This little girl wasn't very convinced that the beach and ocean fun. She hesitated to walk to the water's edge. Though she took her mother's hand and touched the edge of the water with her toes, she quickly pulled away and ran back to the middle of a blanket. I wondered how her parents might respond. To my pleasure they didn't admonish, criticize or force her back to the water. They talked to her about doing new things. They patiently brought her back to the water's edge again and again until she eventually walked into the water with them up to her knees before again pulling away. I was impressed by their patience and willingness to accept this girl's shy, slow to warm up temperament.
As my dear friend and co-author, Dr. Robert Brooks, and I have written in many of our volumes, all parents share a basic goal for their children. We want our children to possess the inner strength to deal competently and successfully day after day with the challenges and demands they encounter. We wish happiness, success in school, satisfaction in their lives and solid friendships for them. In our writing and presentations about resilience, we have repeatedly pointed out that for parents to experience success in raising their children they must accept children for who they are and not necessarily what they want them to be. We have written that we must love and accept our children unconditionally. We have encouraged parents to accept children in part by fostering an understanding and appreciation of their temperament.
It is of interest to note that the word temperament finds its origin from the Latin temperamentum or "correct mixture." Temperament consists of the inborn qualities that children bring to the world. Just as children possess different physical and cognitive features, they also possess different temperaments. These inborn qualities determine how children will respond to the world and in many ways shape and influence the way the world responds to them. Temperament impacts children's style of learning, their strengths and vulnerabilities. Each child's temperament is unique although researchers have identified certain patterns of temperament that appear to present consistently in some groups of children. Some children are typically easy and delightful to raise. As children with easy temperament grow and mature, parents experience their role as caretakers with pleasure and satisfaction. Although being blessed with an easy temperament does not guarantee success, children with such a temperamental style, regardless of their other abilities, typically have an easier time relating to others, developing friendships, functioning at school and coping with adversity.
Some children are slow to warm up. They require additional time to acclimate to new situations. They are shy or cautious. They display a certain hesitancy when confronted with new situations. In our book, Raising Resilient Children, Dr. Brooks and I pointed out that these children are likely to remain physically close and hold on to a parent when entering a store with which they are not familiar. The little girl I just described on the beachl clearly possessed a slow to warm up temperament. Such children are apt to be fearful of strangers and new activities. They can be anxious in social situations and may spend time watching others handle situations before undertaking it themselves. Such children also are rarely risk takers. Because of their low emotional threshold in the face of even minor stresses, these children are prone to experience anxiety and worry in many situations.
Some children are much more outgoing and adventuresome. As the little boy I described, they are not only easy going in their temperaments but they are independent and love to take on new activities and explore new challenges. When their parents understand this process, this style of temperament works to the child's advantage. When parents do not, they may become overly protective leading to conflicts.
Finally, as we have written many times before, some children's temperament is simply difficult. These children are a challenge for even the best parents. They may be moody or intense in their reactions. They may overreact to many situations. They may experience little pleasure, struggle developing consistent sleep and eating habits, can be impulsive, inattentive and at times insatiable.
In our first joint book, Raising Resilient Children, Dr. Brooks and I described four steps to help parents understand and accept the child's temperament. It is worth re-visiting these steps.
If you are unable to understand and/or accept your child's innate temperament, you are likely to expect behaviors from your children for which they are incapable. In such circumstances your child's inability to accomplish certain tasks will be interpreted as willful or manipulative and your response will be punitive. There are many good resources about children's temperament. Among my favorites are Dr. William Carey's book, Understanding Your Child's Temperament (Xlibris Corporation), Jan Kristal's book, The Temperament Perspective (Brookes Publishing) and an older book by Helen Nevell and colleagues, Temperament Tools (Parenting Press).
It is important to be aware of your mindset. What do you expect from your children? How do you respond when they don't meet those expectations? What kind of parent did you promise yourself you would be? What kind of parent are you currently? Take a measure of your mindset. Consider the behaviors and feelings you hope to view in your child and then consider the behaviors and feelings that have emerged. In some cases what you have hoped for and what you observe may be similar. But in others you may discover large differences. You may have expected an outgoing, spirited child but perceive your child as shy and quick to be unhappy. Consider how you thought you would respond and react to your child. Consider how you actually respond and then decide how you want to respond.
If there is a good match between your expectations and what your children can do, then you don't need to proceed any further. When our children behave in ways that match our expectations, it is easy for us to feel good and accept them. On the other hand, if there is a mismatch you must initiate the change. I am not suggesting that you give up your dreams and wishes for your children, however, I am encouraging you to not allow your dreams to foster unrealistic expectations leading you to the perception of false hopes and broken promises. It is important to step back and modify your expectations relative to what is realistic for your children to do. It is important to separate our dreams for our children from who they are as individuals.
The responsibility for closing the gap between your dreams for your children and reality falls on your shoulders. But it is equally important for you to work with your child. While the previous step emphasized the need for you to initiate changes, your children shouldn't be bystanders. Once you have come to a level of acceptance of your children for who they are, have gained a clear picture of their child's unique temperament and style and begin to make changes in your relationship, it will be easier for you to engage with your children in problem solving discussions of appropriate goals and expectations.
British politician and author, Benjamin Disraeli, once wrote that a person's fate is their own temperament. However, I also believe that biology is not destiny. As with the example of the two children on the beach, parents can and do play a powerful role in helping their children find happiness, joy and success in life. This process is enhanced when parents understand and work with each child's unique temperament.


Forget the old question about whether it rains in Southern California. Does it snow? Terry d. Chacon is here to tell you "yes," and she has the plein air painting to prove it.
The Redlands, California, artist heard that snow was on the ground in the hills beyond her town. She sought it out, braved the cool temperatures, and painted it.
"SoCal Driver," by Terry d. Chacon, 2016, oil on canvas board, 9 x 12 in.


Home/Real Estate/New Notre Dame Education Center Building Planned for 200 Old Colony Avenue.
Notre Dame Education Center and All Saints LLC have an agreement to build a new education facility and 55 units of housing at 200 Old Colony Ave., the present site of the education center today that is directly across from the Washington Village Development site in South Boston.
A majority of the Center's students walk from the surrounding neighborhoods and/or take public transportation. Once construction is completed Notre Dame Education Center Inc. will own and operate this nearly 10,000 sq. ft. ground level facility.


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More than 5 million Americans are living with AD.
Alzheimer's diagnosis is on the rise.
1 in 8 of people over the age of 65 have Alzheimer's.
NIH says it is third highest cause of death in US.
If you live to 85 you have a 50% of having AD, so if you don't have it your best friend will.
My sister died of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) at age 58. In hindsight her Minor Cognitive Impairment (MCI) started in her early 40's. Since my sister had early onset AD that means I most likely have one or two ApoE4 genes and have potentially a 70% chance of getting Alzheimer's. I considered being tested for the genes, but what would I do about it? Physicians would tell me that there is no cure and there is nothing I can do to prevent it. There are no pharmaceuticals to cure the disease… there is no drug protocol. Of the nation's top 10 most common causes of death, AD is the only one without an effective treatment.
That's the old paradigm. Now there are a handful of medical professionals making strides to slow the onset, prevent, and even reverse AD. The new science is focused on functional medicine which involves lifestyle changes, not just drug intervention. However, it is a complex equation and there is only empirical evidence to support the positive research results at this time.
Research by the Alzheimer's Research and Prevention Foundation through National Institute of Health indicates that Kirtan Kriya Meditation can help improve memory.
Work by Dr Amen is using SPECT brain scans to show reversal of brain deterioration through nutrition with supplements, exercise, meditation, stress relieving practices and other healthy lifestyle choices.
David Asprey has shown increased brain performance results with his bulletproof diet and lifestyle.
The "Awakening from Alzheimer's" tele summit interviews the groundbreaking work of over 20 medical professions researching cognitive impairment.
The good news is that major components of the research reinforce each other and indicate MCI, dementia, and AD can be slowed, prevented and possibly reversed.
Restorative yoga stress reducing poses to down-regulate the nervous system moving from a sympathetic to a parasympathetic response.
Practice pranayama for increasing lung capacity since the brain needs oxygen.
Mindful now-based practices such as balance poses and coordinated movements.
Cross body movements to get the hemispheres of the brain communicating.
Intermittent increasing and slowing of heart rate.
Yogically being aware and conscious of your nutrition choices.
So… If you are concerned about contracting Minor Cognitive Impairment, dementia or Alzheimer's Disease look into Memory Maintenance Yoga (MMY). Out of our careful digestion of the new functional medicine research results we've created a memory focused yoga program for you. We've already implemented MMY classes at Better Living Yoga in Orange County California. An on-line Yoga Alliance 20 hour continuing education MMY Teacher Training course has been developed to empower yoga teachers worldwide to impart the knowledge of the groundbreaking research and teach MMY classes for the brain health of their community. The first MMYTT course launching March 19, 2019 is near capacity with only a few spots left. Join the movement to help slow the progression of cognitive impairment through yoga.


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Universal Emancipation
Race beyond Badiou
Elisabeth Paquette
BOOK PREVIEW—We've provided a sample of the full-text here for review purposes.
Is inattention to questions of race more than just incidental to Alain Badiou's philosophical system? Universal Emancipation reveals a crucial weakness in the approach to (in)difference in political life of this increasingly influential French thinker. With white nationalist movements on the rise, the tensions between commitments to universal principles and attention to difference and identity are even more pressing.
Elisabeth Paquette's powerful critical analysis demonstrates that Badiou's theory of emancipation fails to account for racial and racialized subjects, thus attenuating its utility in thinking about freedom and justice. The crux of the argument relies on a distinction he makes between culture and politics, whereby freedom only pertains to the political and not the cultural. The implications of this distinction become evident when she turns to two examples within Badiou's theory: the Négritude movement and the Haitian Revolution. According to Badiou's 2017 book Black, while Négritude is an important cultural movement, it cannot be considered a political movement because Négritude writers and artists were too focused on particularities such as racial identity. Paquette argues that Badiou's discussion of Négritude mirrors that of Jean-Paul Sartre in his 1948 essay "Black Orpheus" that has been critiqued by leading critical race theorists. Second, prominent Badiou scholar Nick Nesbitt claims that the Haitian Revolution could only be considered political if its adherents had shifted their focus away from race. However, Paquette argues that not only was race a central feature of this revolution but also that the revolution ought to be understood as a political emancipation movement.
Paquette also moves beyond Badiou, drawing on the groundbreaking work of Sylvia Wynter to offer an alternative framework for emancipation. She juxtaposes Badiou's use of universality as indifference to difference with Wynter's pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, emphasizing solidarity over indifference. Paquette then develops her view of a pluri-conceptual theory of emancipation, wherein particular identities, such as race, need not be subtracted from a theory of emancipation.
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5. Sylvia Wynter's Theory of Emancipation
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Daily Turismo: DT Success: Monday's Roadkill Volvo 1800ES Has a New Home!
DT Success: Monday's Roadkill Volvo 1800ES Has a New Home!
We should be thanking Bill because he was the one who put so much sweat value into this car and offered it for a fair price. Rumor has it the new owner drove the car back up to the LA area this evening and hope to have more to report later. We are just happy to see this car off to a new home and wish Bill the best with future Volvo sales.


It isn't the tint that creates the mirror effect it's the metals in the glass coating or inter-layer or the film that reflect light and heat. In the daylight hours thyere would be privacy . At night the opposite unless you shine lighting diirectly at the glass from the exterior.


A life-size realistic model of the scrotum and testes, made from a flexible lifelike plastic. The testes are mobile within the scrotum and there are four embedded tumours for teaching and practicing testicular self examination (TSE).
The TSE model is supplied in a carry case with talc and with an informative booklet included.
TSE Model dimensions: 20 x 1 5x 15 cm.


Bobbi Ann Campbell was a 24 year old from Draper, UT. She had a daughter but had also given a son up for adoption, keeping in contact with his new family through letters. On December 27, 1994, Bobbi left her daughter with a friend so she could run some errands, including picking up her paycheck. She never came home. She was never seen again.
If you have any information regarding the disappearance of Bobbi Campbell, please contact the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Office at 801-743-5826.


As far as I know, there is no official Galifreyan alphabet.
At least, not one that has been published. That may change in the future, but thus far the only officially published Gallifreyan text has consisted of a few small phrases seen on screen in episodes like "A Good Man Goes to War" and also the BBC Books "New Series Adventures" novel releases for the Ninth and Tenth Doctors (the hardcovers) devised a Gallifreyan numbering system for the covers which has not been continued for the Eleventh Doctor novels. The Gallifreyan numbers are the symbols above the titles on the spines of the books.


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It was during 1972, when I decided that I had had enough of the industrial revolution and decided that it would be more fun and rewarding running my own business.
I had spent the first years of my life working as an industrial chemist in the West Riding of Yorkshire's laboratories based in Ossett, analysing bituminous and thermoplastic materials used in road construction. I was then head hunted and joined a small independent company as a chemist and materials developer. During those early years, part of my time was embroiled in the design and development of plastic coffins no less and we all know what happened to that idea!
Over succeeding years and a few takeovers later, I migrated into production and managed material coating plants and quarries throughout the North-East of England. That tiny insignificant company I first joined ten years previously metamorphosed into the now mighty Tarmac!
I was always an avid supporter of most types of music and owned many different hi-fi systems, some good, some not so good. I was greatly excited by changing the equipment within a system to drive the performance to a new and higher (although I have to say it did not always work out that way) level.
So it was, that I decided to leave the comfort of a monthly salary and the promise of an excellent future, for a dubious business venture in hi-fi. I opened Lintone Audio during the August of 1974 from the same premises that Lintone trades from today. Granted the premises have grown six fold over those years and the responsibilities even more so.
All of my industruial colleagues said I was absolutely mad, but I drew some comfort from my immediate boss who said "if it does not work out, give me a call".
Hi-fi was still pretty much in its infancy and there were a tremendous number of "build it yourself" kits around at that time, but I felt I had spotted a niche within the North East for a specialist store.
As finances were constrained at the time, it was a modest beginning and a search for an even more modest monthly rental. After much retail property therapy, I found 60 sq metres in Gateshead for an affordable £8.00 a week! You have to remember this was 1974.
It was of course quite a difficult and traumatic time, fortunately my wife at the time ran her own business in distribution which brought in the daily bread, so our basic daily requirement was assured until the company turned a profit which took 12 months.
You might be interested to learn that the name of Lintone was the amalgam of my wife's name "Lynne" and my name "Tony". So simple, but it took a good friend to come up with it.
Agencies stocked at the outset included Rega, Revox, Era, Thorens, Harmon Kardon, Martin, Acoustic Research, IMF, Goodmans, Cambridge, Alpha, Shure and others which I fail to recall some thirty four years on. Of course, many of these names have now vanished from the planet for various reasons.
The opening launch of the store was arranged for a Sunday, supported by much local advertising. As I recall, it was quite a busy day, not St. James Park busy, but very satisfying. People that I met on that first day were very enthusiastic toward music and hi-fi systems and it was all very encouraging.
Over the following years agencies came and went but the most significant development was in my introduction to Linn Products and the infamous LP12 turntable and of course its designer, Ivor Tiefenbrun, who came along with new and radical ideas. To quote "All turntables sound different, but ours sounds the best". Back in those days it was never viewed this way, you were buying rumble and wow and flutter factors as well as decent engineering.
Many dealers thought the guy was a loon at the time, for those that understood Glaswegian. In today's parlance it would have been "snake oil" or "smoke and mirrors". However, he was right and it did sound better than other decks.
Another bar raising experience was listening to Naim Audio electronics for the first time. Talk about the 'wow' factor, I just could not get enough and used it for most demonstrations along with the LP12, the sum of parts created this seamless sound.
I have to thank Ivor for that again. He rang me one day and said "you must listen to Naim amplifiers" which i had never heard of up to that point. He went on to say that he would send a pre and power amplifier for me to try. Some days later, a couple of musty boxes arrived containing a Naim 12/160 and covered in coffee cup stains! I have to say that until switch on, I was far from impressed, but on switch on, WOW!
I had not heard such dynamics, details, imagery and weight. It was a sheer joy to listen to. It could make speakers at sub one hundred pounds sound like speakers at five or six times their price. My thanks go to Julian Vereker, the founder of Naim Audio, who sadly passed away in January 2000.
Naim Audio had arrived and the rest is history as they say. They have continued to be a dominant force both at Lintone and the market place in general.
The company expanded into other towns and cities around the North East - Newcastle, Durham, Whitley Bay and finally the Metrocentre, whilst simultaneously developing the main Gateshead store. As fashions changed within the industry one had to adapt and single speaker demonstration rooms became multi-functional rooms as audio visual systems developed. Now it is Audio/Visual which often is the driving force behind a purchase. Although there has been a large resurgence of two channel systems within recent years, particularly at the high end of the market.
Technology today is moving forward at an accelarating pace and presents an exciting challenge for our staff to be up to speed, with almost constant ongoing product training. From advising on and installing a high end hi-fi system to a home cinema to a multiple room Sonos system and networked audio we have the ability to create wonderful sounding and looking systems that have kept people coming back for more and more over the years.
You can draw comfort in the knowledge that staff have been with the company for anything up to thirty years and collectively have well in excess of 100 years experience within the industry. Not many retailers around today can boast anywhere near that figure.
For your convenience we take in part exchange equipment against new product and we offer generous trade in allowances, this has now become a substantial part of the business. We also have many exclusive special offers listed, so don't forget to check them out.
All of the staff at Lintone Audio look forward to hearing from you.....
We hope you enjoy our new website!
Tony Gascoigne


If you have had your Ford (Focus, Fiesta or Transit) stolen in most cases even the police are confused to how it has happened. We reveal the methods car criminals are using everyday to defeat the standard Thatcham security currently on your ford as standard.
The common problem with today's cars is the OBD port is used for Diagnostics and for programming new remote controls. The issue has got worse since China started producing tools which plug into the OBD to only program new keys into the vehicles ECU. These start from as little as £30 and anyone can buy one online.
To steal the Ford they will simply pick the drivers door lock using the Ford turbo decoder above and unlock the door, Most Fords don't have any form of security so they simply open the drivers door and plug in there key OBD programmer. If it's an ST they will normally lower the drivers window glass or smash it to disarm the alarm via the OBD port before opening the door, otherwise the standard Ford alarm will sound.
When they are sitting in the drivers seat they can simply turn the ignition to the second stage and plug in there programmer, 15 seconds later they will have a new working key programmed and they can drive away. Which is scary because this can all be done within 45 seconds from start to finish.
You will now be asking what can I do to protect my Ford (Focus, Transit or Fiesta). We can offer a fully aftermarket alarm and immobiliser upgrade which will prevent the OBD port from working meaning a new key can't be programmed. We can offer performance car alarm systems from Cobra, Clifford and Viper meaning we give a large choice in terms of features and protection.
You can view our range on Car Alarms or Contact us to get your Ford protected today!


The universe provides steady reminders of love, and those who pay attention know that this emotion is everywhere - there's so much to joyfully celebrate! Noticing this is a simple route to happiness.
Today, make it a point to observe examples of caring ... someone's helpfulness, for instance, or a child's affection. As you see these reminders, drink in the delicious energy being created, and nourish yourself with its warmth.
Love is all around you, today and every day.
I notice love everywhere, seeing expressions of this nurturing force between people and in nature. I revel in these experiences and am a grateful recipient of this emotion.


I would love to have seen the bed put down to see how compact, or how far it sticks out. Looks like it would go almost against the door, which could actually act as a safety stop at night.
$75,000.00 is way to much for this tiny home. It's nice, but would be nicer to have a loaf bed instead of a so called pull out bed. It would be perfect for one person & a small dog & that would be it.
You can't go wrong if you design it & build it yourself. Check him out.
Wow!! She's trying to sell her home, not pitching for your friend Randy!!
stilcrazychris Agreed. It's a lovely home, but wildly overpriced for what you're getting. You could purchase a new, and much larger tiny home for $75,000. Good luck to her.
As soon as I saw the purple door, I was sold.
For $75K? They can keep it. If it were anywhere else but CA, it would be less than half that.
To much clutter!! Doesn't show well!
Are people still doing purple doors to flaunt their alternative gender ?
Is that what it means? I thought it was like these beautiful white estate homes with the red doors.
It ranges from the purple like this door .. to a more magenta tone. Often just on some trim.
Personally, it's far from my ideal THOW and is way overpriced at $75k.
I'm in agreement with you because I'm pretty sure even a new one can be built for about 50K.
It's in CA, that's why. You can buy a full size house in my area for that.
Tiny, yes. Minimalist, not so much. Lots of clutter. Otherwise quite nice tiny home.
It's perfect for a single person I could make do but prefer a sleeping loft to the bench/bed. It's def livable. Bathroom with the tub is great…ok with convection oven too. Didn't see a fridge though? Maybe she has a mini and forgot to show it..


15 Million Children and Teens are Struggling. Can't We do More?
15 Million Children and Teens are Struggling. Can't We do More?
Depression and anxiety are never easy things to come to terms with. It doesn't matter if you are fourteen or forty-one, you will struggle if you are affected with feelings of helplessness. You try to find your way on your own before reaching out for help, and when and if you do find the words, it can feel incredibly scary.
Depression and anxiety affect so many and yet there is still a stigma attached to it. I know when I like I'm in a dark place, it's extremely hard to ask for help simply because I don't know how to form the words, or I'm afraid I will be bothering someone.
Lately, I've been watching my teenager struggle with anxiety. I can tell how hard it is for him to articulate his feelings as he doesn't fully understand what is happening to him or why he is acting the way he is.
But it's important we continue to have a dialogue around the subject, especially for our kids. They need to know they can reach out to someone they trust, they won't be judged, and there is help for them.
I believe the best way to reassure them it is to continue talking about it and spreading knowledge on the subject– the more we know and the more comfortable people are, the less scary it feels to ask for what you need.
It can be hard for the parents and child to know if they are just moody teenagers, or if something more serious is going on.
Such was the case with Alex Crotty, a very brave 16-year-old who spoke to the Today Show in hopes of getting a message out there: There is no shame a depression diagnosis. It's vital if you are feeling like you can't crawl out of a dark place that you get help.
Crotty and her family talk openly about her struggle with depression during their interview and it's sure to help other teens and families who are going through the same thing.
She talks about starting to feel different around age 11 and explains she could "feel nothing." Crotty kept it to herself for three years and finally talked to her mother about what was going on and began to get the help she needed.
She's doing fine now but talks about how she was scared to reach out and ask for help because she felt ashamed– and that is the huge problem we are facing.
This is why we need to hear stories like Alex's. This is why we need to check in with our kids all the time and not be afraid to get an expert's opinion is something feels off. This is why we need to break down the feeling of shame attached to such a serious diagnosis.
Koplewicz says," Teenagers have a different kind of depression. The don't seem sad. They seem irritable." He goes on to say it will affect everything in their life; friendship, and how they do in school, and their sleep habits.
A good rule of thumb for parents to follow is if you see your teen "experiencing moodiness and irritability for more than two weeks and it's occurring every day, for most of the day, and if you see a change in sleep patterns and a change in desire to work and socialize," Koplewicz says.
The family wanted to talk about it to break the shame and stigma that clouds depression. So many feel too embarrassed to reach out and it's about the time that changes.
If you or someone you know are suffering, there are places to get help. No one should have to suffer in silence.


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Category: Application (E-mail Client) > Microsoft Outlook Vendors: Microsoft
Microsoft Outlook Email Processing Flaw Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code
CVE Reference: CVE-2017-0106, CVE-2017-0204 (Links to External Site)
Date: Apr 11 2017
Version(s): 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, 2013 SP1, 2016; Outlook for Mac 2011
Description: Two vulnerabilities were reported in Microsoft Outlook. A remote user can cause arbitrary code to be executed on the target user's system.
A remote user can create a specially crafted email message that, when loaded or previewed by the target user, will execute arbitrary code on the target system [CVE-2017-0106, CVE-2017-0204].
Ryan Hanson (@Ryhanson) of Optiv reported these vulnerabilities.
Impact: A remote user can create an email message that, when loaded or previewed by the target user, will execute arbitrary code on the target user's system.
The vendor advisories are available at:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3172519/description-of-the-security-update-for-outlook-2013-april-11-2017
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3212218/description-of-the-security-update-for-office-for-mac-2011-14-7-3-apri
Vendor URL: support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3178664/description-of-the-security-update-for-outlook-2016-april-11-2017 (Links to External Site)
Cause: Not specified
Underlying OS: UNIX (macOS/OS X), Windows (Any)