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April 6, 2017 by Bob Hudgins
Why Ferguson Fails
I am fed up with the simplistic analysis, and concomitant disparagement of the people by commentators from afar peering in on Ferguson, MO. It is my great wish that this post will dispel misinformation about what is going on here, and that it becomes the definitive narrative of where we are now, and where we can go.
In 1970, Ferguson was 97% white. Since then, African-Americans on the North Side of St. Louis began to move west to the suburbs, to enjoy a slightly slower pace, just as whites have done since about the 1950's. Moving west meant Ferguson. Ferguson is directly to the west of the North Side of St. Louis.
An address "kept white" at the interface of Wards 1 and 2. It is in Ward 2.
As the pace of blacks moving into Ferguson picked up, the pace of whites moving out of Ferguson accelerated. Where did they go? West, across the Missouri River, into St. Charles County. One of the most notable demographic changes in the last generation or so in St. Louis history was the exodus of whites from North St. Louis County to St. Charles County in the 1980's and 1990's. This is a commonly known fact here.
Today, Ferguson is 70% black. That is an almost complete turnover of the white/black populations of the City, and it took place over the course of 47 years. (That is an arbitrary marker).
Ferguson was incorporated in 1894, as an all-white town. Blacks were not allowed to live here. There were racial covenants in place in Ward 2 Ferguson (my ward), as late as 1979. They broke those up, and where the covenants were in place, those neighborhoods are now mostly comprised of black folks.
The town, which was founded by whites, for whites, and with its government emanating from whites, was fundamentally unprepared institutionally to address this turnover of its population when it happened. It had no framework on hand to deal with these changes. It had no way to conceive of how to integrate African-Americans into the mainstream of the life of Ferguson.
This is generally where things stood when Darren Wilson shot Michael Brown to death in Canfield in the late summer of 2014. The city council had one African-American, of six seats. The police chief, and much of his force, were white. The city manager was white. There had never been a black mayor. Not even a woman mayor. White men ran the town from time immemorial.
The whites who are left in Ferguson have deep roots here. They have a history of having, and knowing how to use, the levers of power. They have stayed here, and persisted in the face of the changes. There are some racists, and reactionaries, but they are few, mostly impoverished, and disconnected from the mainstream of public life. The majority of whites remaining in Ferguson are moderate, center- to center-right Democrats, who like diversity, but are unprepared, or not committed, to examining and adjusting how they conduct politics in this new context.
Most of the whites want to make it work with their black neighbors, but they don't know how. They won't commit to learning about the realities of black life in North County in the 21st century.
This is due to what I now call "white primacy". I don't call it "white supremacy". I think of white supremacy as the KKK in the 1920's. White racial domination–its expression–morphs over time. It evolves to suit new circumstances. What white primacy involves in Ferguson today is white privilege. White moderates in Ferguson do not understand their privilege. Despite everything that has happened since 2014, they have yet to interrogate this privilege.
Who can blame them, when you look at how things have gone economically since black folks started moving in in sizable numbers? Most of us here are downwardly mobile–we have lost ground since I was a child. Ferguson is a lower middle-class town. Most of us are far from wealthy, though we do have a small number of rich people.
Look at the Republican and Democratic parties in America. The Republican Party today is a white nationalist party. It is the home for whites. On the ground, it is an unchanging monolith, where race is concerned.
The Democratic Party is a loose coalition of all of the groups and forces that are trying to figure out how to work together in the larger society. What I am saying is, is that the Democratic Party embodies and symbolizes society at large. On the ground, it is very representative of America, and represents this rest of America.
Locally, that means blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, gays, transgenders, upper middle-class, middle class, and poor. Some want pro soccer. Others don't want pro soccer. We didn't vote on that in Ferguson. (Again, the racial story here has blacks and whites at its center).
You get the idea. If we are having difficulties in the larger society, those competing interests will be represented within the local, on-the-ground, Democratic Party.
But this is a "non-partisan" election. We, literally, are not supposed to know, or care, what party our prospective politicians belong to. That muddies the waters.
Further, holding elections in April was a conscious, deliberate impediment to participation in the electoral process. Ferguson was founded by those who held the "stake in society" theory, which states that only those with property, and the proper knowledge, should be active in the public life of the City.
America today has two viable political parties: Republican and Democratic. Elections are conducted through these conduits. We may be non-partisan, but everyone knows that sides are picked, and they are funneled into one party or the other.
James Knowles is a Republican. He is one of few Republicans here. He is not a right-wing politician. He is not a social conservative. I suspect that he voted for Trump, but that he is not pleased with what our new president has done so far. That is my best hunch. Recently, he has complimented the protesters on what they have forced him to do, basically.
Ella Jones is what we call "bourgie". She is from New Orleans. She is 62. She was a Mary Kay cosmetics rep. She has deep ties in the church. She is a centrist Democrat who threw her campaign manager overboard (that manager detailed it yesterday on Twitter), because Ella thought Patricia Bynes was too closely associated with the protesting, and protesters. She told Patricia she didn't need her help, and that she was going it alone, in 2015. I was sitting right there. I saw, and heard, her say it at a meeting.
Ella won her contest that year. She learned the wrong lesson from it. I don't see how she could have fixed it for this race.
My sister is a Democrat. She lives down the street from me. She considers herself to be a compassionate person, and she is, to an extent. We are not very close. She was perfectly uninvolved in the events of #Ferguson. Zero participation. I guarantee you that she did not vote for Ella Jones. I have not confirmed it, but my best friend, my campaign consigliere, Tony Rice, saw her at the polls on Tuesday.
We vote at the same place, First Baptist Church, on Florissant Road. It is a historically white congregation. I lived with Chrissy, my sister, for a few years. I now live in my own apartment, three blocks north of her. Our lives could not be more different.
I am a unique duck around here. I was raised in an upper middle-class, all-white, neighborhood 12 miles or so southwest of Ferguson in the 1970's. The racial makeup of that neighborhood, Berkeley Manor, in Des Peres, has not changed a bit since my parents built their house and moved us in in 1969.
I identify with black people for my own personal reasons, and I have been representing them here for two years. I am their avatar. When I discuss black people in the context of Ferguson politics I say "us", and "we"; I do not say "them", or "they". I am not black. I do not tell people that I am black. The way I move in the world is my own conception of hybridity. I am a hybrid.
I am also highly privileged, highly educated, and came up in a family culture that emphasized voting, and discussed the issues of the day at the dinner table every night. I took to the family culture. My parents were liberal Democrats. I am to the left of them.
Our messages in 2015.
In the aftermath of #Ferguson, it held its first municipal elections in April of 2015. Brian Fletcher was the former two-time mayor, and head of "I Love Ferguson", the philanthropic organization that became known around the world for passing out yard signs. He wished to win a city council seat representing Ward 2. Brian Fletcher was a white, moderate Democrat with deep roots in the City.
Brian Fletcher was the mayor who instituted the biased, illegal, unconstitutional fines and fees revenue scheme called out in the Department of Justice Report on Ferguson in 2015. He was days away from running unopposed in this ward. He would have run unopposed, if not for me. Patricia Bynes, the Ferguson Township Democratic Committeewoman, through Tony Rice, asked me to run. I said, Let's do it.
This was a big election. This was the first one after Mike Brown. Ferment was high. Media coverage saturated our little town. Tensions here bubbled over in any public space during this time.
The mayor is a symbol, as Ella liked to say a lot recently, and so is the city council. To us– the protesters, the activists, the rebels–local public officials represented an obsolete, irredeemable, reactionary lot. We must sweep them all away, now, we thought.
Locals got my message, and knew I meant business. The idea of their leaders being swept away was wrenching, and symbolic of what they had maintained for so long. Their symbols would not go down without a fight.
I was new. Nobody knew me. I do not have deep roots in the community. Some even caricatured me as a carpetbagger, horning in where I didn't need to stick my nose.
I don't have connections. I don't have money. But, I have always voted. Most of the people I have voted for in my life have lost. It is very frustrating. Still, I look at voting as the most noble way to express my citizenship, and I consider it a solemn duty. It is important to vote, that's how I look at it.
I know how the system works. It's a rotten one, but I understand how local, state, and national systems mesh and interact. I would know how to use the levers of power available to me, were I to win office. So did Patricia Bynes, my campaign manager, who Ella Jones had dismissed.
How's this election gonna be run? Through the parties. BUT. BUT. BUT. We are talking about City Council, and Brian Fletcher, and Bob Hudgins, and #Ferguson. MAJOR SYMBOLISM, for both sides. MAJOR CHANGES loomed if I won, because two black men with similar positions were running in Ward 3. We would automatically get the change we needed out of Ward 3. (Mostly. Wesley Bell beat my slate mate Lee Smith, and he can be hard to figure).
So, what do we have? On one side is the mayor, the incumbent moderate Republican James Knowles, who puts his imprimatur on Brian Fletcher in Ward 2. He is backing Brian Fletcher, the moderate Democrat, who represents the status quo, and a bulwark against the hordes–us.
In this environment of extreme–even for the United States–racial tension, and with the unknown on the horizon, the whites, regardless of party, and most of whom were Democrats, rushed to support the upholder of the status quo. That was the Democrat Brian Fletcher.
Who was I? A disconnected, inexperienced novice with no organic connections in the community. A rabble rouser. A traitor. A loser.
Remember, I am a Democrat. Most people in Ferguson are Democrats. But what was left to run this election was the rump of the local Democratic Party. We were the leftists, the blacks, the outcasts that were left after most conventional Democrats flooded to Fletcher.
We were ragtag newbies who didn't know what we were doing, and we wound up getting very little institutional support from the Democratic Party. I will give an example of what I am talking about. I will break it down on the granular level.
We got union money. The union was most interested in blacks winning their elections in Ferguson. To them, I was a good guy, but I was white. When it doled out money for our campaigns, they gave $7,000 to Ella Jones, who was running in a four-way race in Ward 1 against two white men, and another black woman. They handed a check for $5,000 to Lee Smith. (I don't know why. Again, a black was going to win that seat. Further, Wesley had a serious operation. It was not like money alone would get it done for Lee Smith, who ran a poor campaign). I got $1,000, in late March. It was almost too late anyway. It was worthless.
Mine was the marquee match-up. If I could win, there was a chance that we could have voted on, and enacted, a strict consent decree quickly. It would tip the ideological scales on the council. This contest in Ward 2 really was the whole ball of wax. Nobody was putting this all together like we were, when we sat around and discussed it at the end of each day. This would be me, Tony, and Alicia Street.
I worked my ass off to win that race. I knocked on every door more than once. I reshaped my body, and have kept it that way. I got a reputation for beating the bushes.
Mr. Fletcher did not campaign. He sat at the Corner Coffee House, which he part-owned, kibitzing with friends. He had heart problems. He depended on his good standing in the community to win. He died last year.
I sat at the nexus of all this during this time. After everything that has gone on, I have had a succession of light bulb moments, where all these memories, forces, events, and stages have coalesced in my mind in a way that I could grasp what has happened here.
I lost in 2015, and I lost again in 2016. We were in disarray, in comparison with what we were up against. We had no institutional base. Patricia was gone.
I'm not going to go into what happened in 2016, other than to say that was when I finished canvassing to get signatures on a petition to get a proposition on the ballot in this year's municipal election. The proposition put before the people last Tuesday was that police must wear body cameras at all times, and that the video would be reviewable by the public. That proposition passed, by a margin of 71 to 29. It took me six months of going to every door in Ferguson, by myself, to get the required names, in order that we could place the proposition on the ballot.
I hope it is clear now, the political dynamics of Ferguson. Most of the politicians, black or white, Democrat or Republican, are centrists under the sway of white primacy, or pay obeisance to it. The people in charge do not address the needs of its mostly black population. The people who run the town are not organically in touch with its residents, even when they are black.
We have a poor, black town, that needs progressive representation. We, the people, need someone to stick up for us. We look around and see that we are Democrats, and we can't make any progress. We have a new, conservative governor, Eric Greitens. He is joined by a movement right-winger in the attorney general's office, Josh Hawley. Missouri is already backward. And then there's Donald Trump. Who is sticking up for us? Who?
Our people are stressed by racism and discrimination. They feel under siege. They are operating under Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: This theory, well-known and validated in the field of education, says that immediate needs of food and shelter, along with ancillary needs such as health care and jobs, take priority over things like math homework, city council meetings, and even elections.
Need I describe what it is like for black folks in Ferguson these days? Do I really have to go any further in this vein? My people can be desperate. They may be food insecure. They may not know where the rent money is coming from. They have a busted up car that is unreliable. They don't have the money to fix it, or get a new one. Work is 20 miles away. Bus routes are not good. A child may be sick. Someone they know got shot, or killed. Their hours were cut at work. A mother needs more help in the house.
I forget this sometimes, because of my own privilege. I forget that folks are moving in and out all the time.
I am aware of it. I told somebody on Facebook yesterday that if you go over on Dade Avenue, three blocks from here, to the west, you will find 100 different living arrangements. They jus' tryna hold it down, knowhumsayin'? They jus' tryna hold it down.
Newell Avenue facing south in 2016.
Who is sticking up for us? Some folks say it wasn't Obama. We know it's not Trump. We know it's not Greitens. We knew it wasn't Francis Slay, the outgoing mayor of St. Louis. It won't be Lyda Krewson, his replacement. (The last two are Democrats). It hasn't been James Knowles. And we weren't sold on Ella Jones.
If I have to hold my nose to vote for Ella Jones, you know that we are doomed.
The lesser of two evils will not get it done anymore. We need politicians who come from us, are of us, and their campaigns are run by us. We need politicians who are committed to progressive politics that addresses the needs of the people, and they can see what they can actually get. What we see around here–everywhere, for that matter–is that the people who already have, get the stuff.
There was an enthusiasm gap here. People didn't see a difference between Knowles and Jones. Sure, there is a symbolic difference, but black folks look around at the world in the context of white primacy. All they see is that white folks get what they want.
We, ourselves, are working with an outdated mindset. We see white primacy, when we could focus on black power. It's sitting right there waiting for us to take it. Black folks in Ferguson, at the local level–which is where the opposition has been racking it up for 35 years–could have it any way "they" want it. (You get where I'm going :)).
Blacks know they comprise most of the town, but they have not enjoyed a history of getting what they want out of politics. History is active in people's lives. My life especially. It affects my relationships, or lack thereof. (Some folks might know what I'm talking about!)
We need to inculcate our kids in deep citizenship, so that they know that April 4 is more important in their lives than November 8. I'm serious. We need to flip the script. It must be understood that Ferguson municipal elections are right there with the quadrennial vote for President of the United States. That should be manifest by now.
What will it take to get over the top? What would it take to get a good, black mayor in Ferguson?
It would take a Bobby Rush-type from the 1970's. Someone with deep roots in the black working class. A history of fighting for civil rights. Fiery, combative, knowledgeable, and connected. A real liberal. A real Democrat. Someone built for the age we are in. That's who, and what, we need in Ferguson.
Whoever that is, we haven't found them, and they haven't stepped forward. It has certainly been the right time. Perhaps he, or she, is not here. Likely, we will have to make do, with who is here.
Look what we have already achieved. We have a black police chief with a history of being a conciliator. We have a black city manager who knows the area well. We have body cameras. We still have a consent decree. And voting participation is up, a little.
You know who got that done? Massive, prolonged, sustained protesting by mostly young black folks. Our leaders were often gay women of color. Think of that. My sistas–Ashley, and Brittany, and Alexis, and Alicia Garza and Patrisse Khan-Cullors, from the west, who helped us out. Protesting, by my friends Jamell, and Dhoruba, and Phil, and on and on.
When that settled down into something else, what was left was me, Tony, Alicia, Emily Davis, and Mildred Clines. There are so many others, all over the place, but down here, on the ground, that is as close to the truth as I can force on you in this moment. Those five people–one white man, one black man, one white woman, one black woman, and one black woman who's mother is white. We are the point of the spear, and we are INTEGRATED. We all happen to be liberal Democrats, too. We do our best work together. We are most effective when we blacks and whites work together.
A hybrid machine.
That's how to get it done. That's who will get it done. We can do it.
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13 thoughts on "Why Ferguson Fails"
Bob Hudgins says:
Dwayne James, an African-American, was on the Ferguson City Council in 2015. I believe that is the only factual error in my post. Watch this space, and thank you.
I didn't say the council was all white, what I said was that if I could have beaten Fletcher the ideological balance could be tipped in favor of getting an agreement done with the DOJ faster, with more strict guidelines.
I fixed it! I would like to fix these comments!
Nick Kasoff says:
You didn't need more money from the union. You didn't need more money at all. The $5,200 you carried over from your old committee was more than anybody had spent on a city council race in Ferguson history. In fact, in his 8 days before the election report, Knowles had only raised a bit more than $11,000 for his hotly contested race. You had more than that during the first round, if I remember correctly.
You lost your election first and foremost because you were sabotaged by your campaign manager. Whether she was motivated by the money she would later attempt to grab, I do not know. But if she had her eyes on the prize, your victory wasn't the prize she had in mind. I don't know why you give her a pass in your essay here, because she has done more than anybody to set back the cause of reform in Ferguson.
You didn't say anything about the piece, Nick! Essentially, I gave her a pass because the piece is 3,500 words long, I don't think she's the reason I lost, and some folks think I was too hard on her on Twitter yesterday. You should watch Twitter more. I caught up with her while she was commenting on Ella Jones, and this year's contest.
It's a touchy subject. I do not disagree with you, in the main, but, having observed what goes on around here in elections, I really question whether I could have beaten Fletcher in 2015. I don't know. I don't want to feel bad after dealing with someone. Patricia has paid her price, and is somewhere else.
I was peeved, the way they had a pecking order with the union money. I thought, Can't they see that I could have used the same help, earlier? The money you are talking about came too late. There was no way to use it when we got it. You are confused. That was my first run. You are thinking about last year. How could I have carryover before I ever ran?
Gary Kreie says:
You say the white flight took 47 years. Over that length of time, I'm not sure its flight as much as residents getting old and dying or retiring to Florida, and their kids choose to buy newer homes further west. And similarly, African Americans probably did not move to Ferguson, but their kids did since the houses in Ferguson were an upgrade from the small homes of the city. So in some ways, even though racial discrimination in housing is illegal, the legacy of the old North City segregation just translated West as the next generation sought better houses. So that makes it a little less overt than most folks want portray white flight. It's more a subtle holdover from old segregation patterns than an overt head-for-the-hills exodus. And I understand St. Charles County isn't showing any overt race separation housing pattern, implying race isn't a driving factor in home purchase decisions for newer homes anymore.
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Two things: The white flight was dramatic; there is no doubt about it. Their exodus has had major implications for our public policies here for a generation. For example: they had to completely re-do the bridge over the Missouri River due to accelerated, increased volume of traffic. Also, many who need jobs would like the option of light rail to get into St. Charles and St. Peters. We can't get light rail out there, essentially because white people do not want blacks, who want to take those jobs, to have easy access.
Number two: I used to date a black woman who lives in Bel-Ridge, near Natural Bridge Road and Highway 170. She raised her daughter and son in St. Charles for about a decade. She wanted to avail herself of the quiet, and the schools. Her daughter, who was older, got a very good education in a small school district.
They had to return to an inner-ring suburb because they felt so isolated; they looked around and found it inhospitable to them, and others like them. They were almost miserable. They had to leave, and come back to where the schools are not as good, and the crime is higher, but they feel it is home. All of this has caused social dislocations in their lives. It has meant periodic upheavals. It has hurt her financially. It turned out to be a mistake.
I lived in St. Charles County as a single person for 13 years also, and felt pretty much the same as your friend. I also moved back to St. Louis County after I got married. So I think you're saying that self-segregation is rampant among all races.
I believe a bigger problem is lax enforcement of EEOC rules for fair hiring and layoffs race, gender, and age. From my observations, companies and the government did a lot more to spread the wealth and opportunities in the 1980's and 1990's than they do now, And with large corporations and manufacturing jobs moving to the distant suburbs, it makes it harder for folks from the old inner cities to get good paying jobs.
Wow, Gary, with that, I am so glad you commented again! I think you must be correct about enforcement, and how that has played out in this century.
I feel like we have had a meeting of the minds. I look forward to hearing from you again. Your comments have provoked me to think, and that's what we are supposed to be doing.
Thank you very much. I hope you enjoy this weekend.
St. Charles County residents (voters) have repeatedly voted down propositions to fund light rail over the Missouri River; to extend Metrolink into St. Charles.
My sister, who lives in Ferguson, must drive 20 miles to work every day to get to her job in New Town, in St. Charles. She needs a reliable car because mass transit across the bridge is almost non-existent, and very inconvenient. She works at a business there. New Town is comprised by religious white people, who voted en masse, for Donald Trump. How about that?
My sister, who is white, was raised upper middle class. She is working class, as a middle aged person. She has the privilege of having a well-off, elderly mother, who helps her financially. She helps her when she has car trouble. My black friends do not have wealthy parents. They do not get help from their parents when their car goes bad. You follow? Gary? Are you there?


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'They don't realise the dangers'
Hundreds of people still die every year on Britain's roads each year because they ignore safety warnings and do not wear seatbelts, says the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Two people who have been in car crashes tell us why they will always remember their seatbelts:
LORD ROBERTSON: SEATBELT SAVED MY LIFE
Lord Robertson always carries a picture of the car crash
Lord Robertson, the former defence secretary and head of NATO was badly injured in a car crash in 1976.
I was driving through the Drumochter Pass near Inverness when a Land Rover was blown into the path of my Ford Cortina and we collided head-on.
I spent three weeks in hospital and three months off work.
I lost my right knee cap and damaged my other knee and my jaw. I lived to tell the tale simply because I was wearing a seatbelt.
It's because of this experience that I have become so passionate about road safety. Wearing a seat-belt can reduce the risk of death in a road crash by up to 50%. Yet in many countries seat belt use is still not required or enforced.
Through the Make Roads Safe campaign, we've been calling for a global plan to tackle the unacceptable toll of death and injury on the world's roads.
It was just a seatbelt which saved my life - we cannot allow people to die because such simple measures have not been taken.
DEBORAH GIBSON: I WAS SO LUCKY TO SURVIVE
Deborah Gibson will always regret undoing her seatbelt
Deborah Gibson was working in Saudi Arabia eight years ago when she was involved in an accident.
I was a passenger in an SUV and I was feeling unwell so I undid my seatbelt and went to sleep across the back seats.
The first thing I remember is the screech of the brakes as we ploughed into a stationary vehicle.
I was thrown across the car and into the back of the front seats.
The pain was awful but everyone else in the car was OK. They'd been wearing seatbelts.
By the time I got to hospital I was in a lot of pain, the doctor did a scan and found that I was bleeding internally.
If I had stayed out on that road I would have bled to death.
I was so lucky - I felt like I had nine lives.
I am still angry with myself for not wearing a seatbelt, it nearly killed me. I wouldn't get in a car for years afterwards.
Now I refuse to get into a car with people who don't wear a seatbelt. If a passenger refuses to buckle up in my car I tell them to get out.
Despite all the warnings I still see children in cars, jumping up and down, totally unrestrained by their parents.
It makes me so cross, they are putting their children's lives at risk.
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There's more: Until September 2013, the FBI director was Robert Mueller — who's now the special counsel probing Russian meddling in the 2016 election. It's hard to see how he can be trusted in that job unless he explains what he knew about this Obama-era coverup.
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Pamlico Capital today announced a strategic growth investment in AVANT, a platform for IT decision-making and the nation's premier distributor for next generation technology. The investment will drive further expansion and scale for the business. Co-founder and CEO Ian Kieninger, Co-founder and President Drew Lydecker, and the management team will maintain significant ownership in AVANT and continue to manage the growth of the company. Further transaction details were not disclosed.
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Pamlico Capital, a private equity firm based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1988 and invests in growing middle market companies. The firm provides capital and trusted partnership to the companies in which it invests within the business & technology services, communications, and healthcare industries.
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On September 15, 2011 September 15, 2011 By CapMetro WebmasterIn Uncategorized
People queued up for the short shuttle ride to ACL, in 2010.
Each day this week, we've been entertained by Marketing Manager Cynthia Lucas' 2011 ACL playlist, which has added some audio flair to the Marketing/PR office over here at Capital Metro headquarters. If you've ridden with us on the Austin City Limits Music Festival shuttle before, you know about Cynthia's playlist that she creates each year to entertain you during your short wait for a shuttle at Republic Square.
Beginning tomorrow through Sunday, you'll be able to hear the 2011 iteration, when the shuttle buses start rolling at 10 a.m. from Republic Square Park at 5th and Guadalupe to Zilker Park.
The last bus leaves Republic Square Park for ACL at 8 p.m. The last returning bus back to Republic Square heads out about 30 minutes after the final band leaves the stage each night.
The shuttle is free, and it's the best way to get to Zilker Park (aside from biking!), as there is no parking at the festival.
With just a tiny bit of planning, you can skip parking altogether and ride one of Capital Metro's regular bus routes to Republic Square. (Remember the new parking meter hours have gone into effect downtown!) Many of Capital Metro's regular routes will get you within a block or two of the shuttle bus loading zone, and it only costs a dollar. Check out the map here.
If your good times continue well past the last band leaves the stage, no worries. On Friday and Saturday nights, Capital Metro's Night Owl and E-Bus routes run until about 3 a.m. between downtown and neighborhoods throughout the city. (Plan ahead on Sunday night as there is no late night service—Capital Metro buses run until about 10-11 p.m. on Sunday.)
We hope to see you on the bus, whether it's a regular route or the free ACL shuttle. Let us know how you like the tunes!
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Will the shuttle have its own lane (and if so, where/how far), or will it be stuck behind the thousands of cars of the people who park near the festival?
During the ten years of providing this service we have not had any problems reaching the park, especially with special access from Mopac. We provide an average of 30,000 trips each day of the festival.
I haven't gone to ACL myself but have had to skirt the grounds on the way home from work for many years now – including crossing the river on Mopac – and have seen lots and lots of completely stopped traffic. I have a hard time believing this statement of yours.
I've confronted the same thing as M1EK. Traffic around Barton Springs and Lamar (Riverside and Lamar too) either crawls or is completely stopped during ACL Weekend. Perhaps, it gets better after 7pm on Friday.
Capmetro, could you consider not bringing detoured Local and Crosstown routes straight through the middle of that area in future years? For example, I'm thinking you could have the 30-NB stay on Caeser Chavez until it gets Downtown and have the 30-SB take Caeser Chavez to Mopac. That way you could still let people who want to go to ACL off those buses close enough to Zilker, but still provide timely service to those passengers that aren't going to ACL. What do you think?
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We rode the bus back and forth from ACL this year. Didn't encounter any issues.
Cap Metro is pretty stupid to provide a free shuttle from the heart of downtown where there is NO parking!!!


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Once upon a time the gods wandered upon upon the earth and lived among the people. Taranis, the thunderer, the god who made the earth fertile with his rain and spring thunderstorms, was riding around in his chariot and checked if everything was in order. On his tour he rested in a wide valley. The air was sweet, the fields were green – Taranis was pleased.
Suddenly thunder was to be heard – and it wasn't him! Surprised and a little bit irritated he looked around.
Far away, where the mountains stood against the sky, a huge brownish wave rose from the river's bed. She roared downwards and took everything along the river with her. When she was gone she left a muddy swamp behind that reached far into the land. At the same time a hurricane started and the sky went black.
Taranis frowned. Where did that come from? And who dared to bring such chaos to his peacefully ordered world? He jumped into his chariot and headed through the hurricane towards the sky. From up there he would have a better view, and, what with being a storm god himself, the bad weather couldn't really hurt him.
The flood had been wandered on and had destroyed other parts of land. Taranis saw that she originated up in the mountains, where snow and glaciers were melting too fast and filled rivers and lakes. And he saw, who had to be responsible for that, too. Up, where the humans didn't have any fields, where not even small mountain huts stood, there was his old friend Cernunnos, and drummed with his feet on the ground so hard that the ground shook.
Taranis shook his head. Was it that time again? Cernunnos was the lord of the untamed nature, he always had been slightly chaotic and erratic. He ruled the underworld and her realms of death as well. And at the same time he was the one people prayed to for fruitfulness and wealth. This was true for the better part of the time, but sometimes Cernunnos showed his other side. Like many of the animals that surrounded him, he had times where he went through a transformation and renewed. And until the change was done the threatening parts of his person became stronger and he became a danger, being restless, unrestrained and destructive in his doings.
The thunder god nodded to himself. It was his job to help Cernunnos through his phase and keep his forces in check. He grabbed his thunderbolt and got on the way.
Cernunnos heard the thunder, when Taranis's chariot came closer. He shape-shifted into a stag and escaped into the forest. Between the high pine trees it was difficult for Taranis to navigate his chariot. So he freed his horse, jumped on its back and pursued Cernunnos. He threw his thunderbolt, but Cernunnos already was too far away, and the thunderbolt missed his target.
Cernunnos thought he was safe. His antlers were itching badly, so he scraped on a big tree trunk. But Taranis was very persistent. He had followed the tracks and indeed found his prey.
Cernunnos shape-shifted again, now into a snake. This way, he thought, he might be able to fight better.
Taranis's horse rose when the huge snake surrounded it. A few times the thunder god tried to hit his opponent, but every time Cernunnos was able to evade. Finally Taranis threw a thunderbolt again, but this time he went into the opposite direction immediately – and Cernunnos had done the same. Several times Taranis rode over his old friend's mighty snake body with all his force. Cernunnos bended, but the horse's hoofs had found their target and he was almost stunned.
With his last power reserves he peeled off his snakeskin and glided into a hole in the ground.
The hurricane faded and changed into a light rain. At the same time the sun showed himself behind a few clouds and sent some shy sunbeams down to earth.
Taranis took the snakeskin Cernunnos had left behind and held her triumphantly over his head. The scales were glittering in all colors, red, blue, green and golden. The thunder god threw the skin into the air, where she stayed and formed a big arch. Taranis watched his work and he liked what he saw.
"Stay where you are until you have gathered your senses again!", he called at Cernunnos. "There is no place for your chaos in this world."
The rivers returned to their beds at last, and in many places they left unexpected treasures: In some places the ground was much more enriched with nutrients, in other places shipping wrecks with all their freight were all of a sudden accessible and a other places gold veins could be found where only stone had been before. So Cernunnos had proven to be the wealth-bringing god at last.
The snakeskin remained a the sky as a rainbow and a sign that order had been restored.
Taranis returned to the sky and he was as happy and pleased with the situation as can be.
This story is just that – a story and free creation on my part. Many cultures have this myth abouth the storm god fighting a snake or dragon or something similar. Thor against the Midgard snake, Perún against Veles – and with the Gauls probably Taranis against somebody unknown. To make Cernunnos his counterpart is my own version, and it works for me only because I wanted to show them as friends caring for each other basically rather than a fight for life or death, like a man taking home his drunken friend and making sure he finds his bed.
It's true that there are pillars that show a god who could be identified as Taranis/Jupiter, who is riding down a gigantic snake. True as well is that Cernunnos can bee seen as an ambivalent god. Ceisiwr Serith has written a good analysis of this theme. There are stories that connect Cernunnos via the antlers with a stag shape. But there is nothing about Cernunnos being able to shape-shift into a snake. He only holds a snake in his hand. I used elements of the slavic version for this part.
It was important for me that Cernunnos didn't result in the ultimate bad boy. Instead chaos simply is a part of his personality from time to time. So one can still worship and respect him, and he can still be a friend of Taranis.
Regarding the rainbow – well, the Norse have their Bifröst, and I imagined that such a symbol must have been of some importance to the Gauls as well.


Brokers have to pay bonuses back.
We've previously discussed the lucrative compensation packages wire houses use to attract high producing FAs. The mechanics of those packages usually include a signing bonus, but it's not an up front bonus like the 1st round draft choice in the NFL draft receives. In many instances it is a forgivable promissory note conditioned on the broker staying a certain time period. If they leave early the broker must pay it back.
Recently, Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York dismissed a group of former Citigroup brokers' lawsuit who left employment early and refused to pay off their loans. Typically, breach of a promissory notes is almost impossible to defend. It's a simple proposition, I loan you money you have to pay it back.
These plaintiffs all received substantial interest-free advances when they joined Smith Barney . . . They all promised to repay Smith Barney over terms of years out of their compensation and to repay any unpaid balance if they left the firm 'for any reason or no reason.' Having left the firm without repaying everything they owed, they brought this baseless lawsuit in what quite plainly was a studied effort to prevent collection of the debts they owed through the arbitration process.
Brokers should assume that if they are going to sign a note like this, they are going to have to pay it back unless they stay the term of their agreement.


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The game is set in the Kowloon Walled City in the 80s (on the verge of demolition).
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We tried to deliver the feelings of the 80s Hong Kong to the players in an emmersive way.
We are in aware of the retro genre in video game industry, yet we refer retro in our game to the theme and the environment of old Hong Kong instead of the 'retro games'.


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According to a Christian Newswire Press Release, Calvin Theological Seminary is launching "a research center devoted to developing digital tools, resources, and scholarship focused on the religious reformations of the early modern era, particularly arising out of the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century." The Junius Institute for Digital Reformation Research "is conceived as a forum to promote research into the Reformation and post-Reformation periods, covering the 16th to the 18th centuries, through the use of digital tools, skills, and resources."
In the latest issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL), is "A predictive study of student satisfaction in online education programs." In this research the authors used regression analysis to determine that "learner-instructor interaction, learner-content interaction, and Internet self-efficacy were good predictors of student satisfaction while interactions among students and self-regulated learning did not contribute to student satisfaction."
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For each college student, textbook costs garner a sizable portion of education related expenses. Whether the student enrolls in an online learning courses or a traditional classroom environment, each student must acquire the textbook to complete the course successfully. Decreases in financial aide and other funding may affect how many students can afford their textbooks which could lead to a decline in students' success in the classroom. According to a case study conducted by John Hilton III and David Wiley entitled Open Access Textbooks and Financial Sustainability:A Case Study of Flat World Knowledge, Hilton and Wiley researched this open source textbook company in its beta phase to see if students would welcome open source e-textbooks and if this model could be sustained.


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Jay has carefully selected some of his favourite t-shirts and compiled this list for week nine of our #TshirtTuesday series. His love of skateboarding, fixie bikes and birds (news to us) is represented in his t-shirt choices, which also show his eye for good t-shirt design and quality printing. The t-shirts make up a good selection of printing techniques, which range from screen printing to DTG, creating different styles and textures on the final print. The vintage-style designs on the Black Lagoon and Quiet Life t-shirts are achieved by reducing the artwork to small dots and screen printing it onto the garment. This style of printing is called half tone.
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Today, justice was partially served with the conviction of George Floyd's uniformed killer and is a first step toward racial justice and equality in this country. OPEIU expresses condolences to the family and friends of Mr. Floyd, whose life was stolen from him by a police officer enabled by an unjust set of systems and institutions that will continue to claim the lives of our neighbors and loved ones -- until we put a stop to it.
The labor movement is a valuable ally in the multifaceted fight against racism in all of its forms, both in the workplace and in our communities. It's incumbent upon the trade union movement to agitate, educate and organize to eradicate the systems and structures that left George Floyd -- and countless others -- dead at the hands of those whose duty is to serve and protect. Another Black life claimed by police brutality is one too many.


Beginning in mid-March, census takers will be visiting every home on the Flathead Reservation. More than 300 area residents have already tested and qualified for census jobs, but there are still plenty of the temporary positions available, U.S. Census Bureau recruiting assistant Etta Moore said.
Flathead Reservation residents have the opportunity to join what the Census Bureau calls the "largest domestic mobilization our nation undertakes," with jobs as census takers/enumerators, crew leaders, crew leader assistants, census clerks and couriers. The positions are all paid at an hourly rate, and workers receive mileage compensation at 55 cents per mile. To qualify for a census job, an applicant must be a U.S. citizen 18 or older; have a valid Social Security number and driver's license; pass a written test of basic skills and a background check; and be able to attend four days of paid training.
While the employment testing is not rigorous, and merely asks applicants to demonstrate their clerical, reading, number, organizational and interpretive/evaluative skills, hiring reliable people is crucial to carrying out the nation's 23rd census, Moore emphasized.
"The main focus is that we want qualified, conscientious people that will really do a good job," she explained.
For this census, all surveys on the Flathead Reservation will be done door-to-door, face-to-face with respondents, Moore said. the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council chose this method in hopes that it will be more effective than mail-in responses in getting an accurate count of the Reservation's population, CSKT spokesman Rob McDonald noted. the Tribe has also hired a census liaison to help familiarize tribal members with the census-taking process and prepare people for the door-to-door visits. An accurate census is important for a number of reasons, Moore said, not the least of which is the allocation of federal dollars to states and communities based in part on census population data.
Of course, the fundamental reason the U.S. census was created is to empower the people — U.S. House seats are allocated among the 50 states based on census data, and states like Montana that have only one seat could find that they've grown in population enough to gain more representation.
"(With an accurate count,) we could potentially get our congressman back," Moore said.
Several census job fairs will be held around Lake County during the next few weeks.
Moore encouraged anyone who's interested in the census jobs to attend a fair and take the employment test. Even if you think you can't pass the test or might have a problem on the background check, "do the test anyway, because it depends case by case," Moore said.
One major concern potential applicants have is whether taking a census job will affect their ability to receive federal benefits such as TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families), Social Security, SSI (Supplemental Security Income), unemployment or food stamps, Moore noted.
Working for the census will not affect TANF and probably will not impact food stamps, but will affect SSI and SSD benefits, Moore said.
"The recommendation is that people check with case workers or whoever their contact is (to see if their benefits will be affected by census income)," Moore said.
For more information on census jobs and local testing sites and times, call 406-214-3174.


The company told the Jerusalem Post it will develop a cancer cure "within a year's time" — but the company has only tested the treatment in mice so far.
The Food and Drug Administration, which declined to comment on the company's treatment, has an extensive review process for drug approval in the United States: "Before a drug can be tested in people, the drug company or sponsor performs laboratory and animal tests to discover how the drug works and whether it's likely to be safe and work well in humans. Next, a series of tests in people is begun to determine whether the drug is safe when used to treat a disease and whether it provides a real health benefit," FDA says on its site .


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Thursday, Mar 25 2004 • 10 a.m. (ET)
Kristol & Shields
Commentator and syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Bill Kristol, editor of "The Weekly Standard," join Diane to talk about their take on the presidential campaign and other major current events.
Mark Shields Columnist with Creators Syndicate, author, political analyst on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and host of CNN's "The Capitol Gang"
Bill Kristol Editor of "The Weekly Standard" and "The Weekly Standard : A Reader: 1995-2005."
The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
CNN's The Capital Gang


in the production and design of bathroom washbasins and interior decoration furnishings.
the Borsellini family, further to a long tradition in manufacturing artistic glass.
Both by using technologically advanced materials, such as Silicone or stainless steel, and by working in an artistic way with traditional materials, like the formed 24%pb crystal and the artisan glass, the company Glass Design contributes to the creation of a new style, where even the accessory is addressed in all details,becoming the main subject of the environment, a true "fashion" product, highly appreciated in the world and exported to more than 60 countries.
Over 200 Tuscan artisans and more than 15 glassmakers of Murano work within the company's production chain, enabling the customization of each product to suit individual needs and specific requirements, in order to create unique and exclusive products.


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Kuumba Academy Charter School's Board of Directors has accumulated nearly 15 years of experience in school governance and oversight. Our governing body provides critical leadership in urban education, early learning, business, finance, human resources, law, nonprofit management, facilities management, operations, healthcare, and parent/community engagement.
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Kenneth Brown – Mr. Brown is KACS' Interventionist and Assistant to the Dean. He is a seasoned professional with experience in teacher training, behavioral classroom management, arts integration, and curriculum development, and his diversity in the arts, behavior management, and leadership in many areas of educational programming has earned him respect among the educational and cultural community. Mr. Brown earned a B.A. in Political Science from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, and an M.Ed. from Cabrini College in Pennsylvania.
Dr. Joan Coker – Through her private practice, Dr. Coker provides medical services to a diverse patient population, including children, adolescents, and adults. Her work serves children, youth, and their families in ways that address a broad range of medical issues and require the leveraging of multiple resources and services.
Samantha Connell – Ms. Connell is a Teach For America (TFA) alumna with a track record of demonstrated success in the classroom. As a Delaware-certified teacher and KACS teacher since 2009, Ms. Connell has made significant progress in closing the achievement gap for our students. She serves as the ELA coach and is a member of the KACS Instructional Leadership Team. She also provides professional development and curriculum support for teachers in grades 3–5. Ms. Connell has a B.S. in History from the University of Pittsburgh, and an M.Ed. in Elementary Education from Wilmington University.
Douglas Cuffy – Mr. Cuffy is a Delaware-certified teacher and has served as the fifth-grade math and science teacher at KACS for the past three years. Throughout this time, he has played a significant role in narrowing the achievement gap for our fifth-grade students. Mr. Cuffy is a member of the KACS Instructional Leadership Team and has provided professional development for staff in areas like technology integration and the Common Core State Standards. Mr. Cuffy is a graduate of Delaware State University where he earned a B.A. in English.
Bernard Fisher – Mr. Fisher is a certified public accountant with extensive experience in private industry, public accounting, municipal government, and not-for-profit organizations. He is an active member of KACS' Citizen Budget Oversight Committee and provides KACS with hands-on financial oversight. As former Board President of the Christina Cultural Arts Center, Mr. Fisher is experienced in nonprofit oversight and has completed the State of Delaware Board Finance training.
H. Raye Jones-Avery – Ms. Jones-Avery has 25 years of experience with all operational aspects of not-for-profit business organizations. She has demonstrated her leadership skills by using cutting-edge development strategies in turn-around initiatives for under-performing operations. In her current role as Executive Director of the Christina Cultural Arts Center (CCAC), she has earned a reputation as a visionary leader in the Delaware arts, human services, and community development sectors. She successfully executed two capital campaigns that allowed vacant historic properties to become the sites of KACS and the CCAC. Ms. Jones-Avery has 30 Doctoral Credit Hours in Urban Affairs & Public Policy from the University of Delaware, and an M.A. in Health Services from West Chester University.
Sally Maldonado, Head of School – Mrs. Maldonado is an experienced school leader and former Delaware-certified teacher who has provided academic leadership to KACS for more than ten years. She has dedicated her career to at-risk students—serving as a classroom teacher, instructional leader, and Head of School for KACS—and has a proven track record in improving their academic outcomes. Mrs. Maldonado has expertise in data-driven instruction and decision making and participated in extensive training in these areas as an original member of the first cohort of the Vision Network schools. Mrs. Maldonado has a B.S. in Elementary and Special Education from the University of Delaware and an M.Ed. in School Leadership from Wilmington University.
Darren Moore – Mr. Moore is a private business owner and former KACS Treasurer. He has participated in board finance training with the state and provided fiscal oversight to KACS since 2008. As a private business owner and operator, Mr. Moore has more than 15 years of experience managing all aspects of his business, including his staff of fully licensed employees. He received a B.S. in Business and Accounting from Delaware State University and a Chartered Financial Consultant Designation from American College in 2010.
Sheri Marina Robinson – Ms. Marina Robinson is the 2016–2017 KACS Parent Teacher Association President. She began volunteering in the classroom when her daughter started at KACS and is still an active school volunteer in many areas. Ms. Marina Robinson has worked, trained, and studied as a Litigation Paralegal in the tri-state area for over 20 years, and now works as a Claims Coordinator at Nuclear Electric Insurance Company. She has an Associate's and Bachelor's Degree in Paralegal Studies from Widener University.
Dr. Susan Thomas-Holder – Dr. Thomas-Holder is a retired Delaware-certified high school teacher with more than 30 years of experience teaching chemistry and physics, developing curriculum, and providing professional development. She is also a founding board member who holds a Doctorate in Psychology, and has worked with students in the arts as a former drama club director and served as a Cathedral Choir School Board Member.


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Air Djibouti reveals expansion plans
Having re-started commercial services in 2015, after more than a dozen years in the airline wilderness, Air Djibouti is embarking on ambitious plans to expand both freight and passenger services regionally and internationally.
Based at Djibouti-Ambouli International Airport, the airline is a member of the African Airlines Association (AFRAA) and it is now aiming for International Air Transport Association (IATA) operational safety audit (IOSA) certification.
The tiny Red Sea coastal country of Djibouti, with a population of fewer than a million, is strategically located in the Horn of Africa, bordered by Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Its privileged geographical position places it at the centre of trade between Europe, Asia, Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Currently serving Somalia (Mogadishu, Garoowe), Somaliland (Hargeisa), Ethiopia (Addis Ababa), Yemen (Aden), and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), the airline's general manager (GM), Abdourahman Ali Abdillahi, says it hopes soon to open routes to Dubai in the UAE and Cairo in Egypt.
The company is also eying code-share agreements to Paris and London in conjunction with carriers like KLM and Kenya Airways.
The GM claims these goals are achievable, saying: "The market opportunity is there, so now it's up to us to deliver."
This year Air Djibouti aims to carry 240,000 passengers and is targeting a load factor of 85-90% – impressive figures when compared to 74% in 2019 and 40% the previous year.
The airline currently operates two Embraer E145s, a Boeing 737-500, and a recently leased Airbus A320-200. There are plans to acquire a second A320 by the year end.
Gulf Air has added an additional daily flight from London Heathrow (LHR) to Bahrain during the Formula One Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix weekend.
Egypt ready for extra C130s
Bell Boeing improve maintainability of V-22


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There are many different types of fajitas that you may want to try, so here are a variety of fajita recipes sure to satisfy.
1. Grate the orange and lemon rinds to make a zest.
2. Combine zests with water, pineapple juice and soy sauce.
3. Add spices except black pepper and stir until well combined.
4. Pour mixture into a large baking dish.
5. Remove any membrane from the skirt steak.
6. Place skirt steak in pineapple juice mixture. Turn steak over to make sure that it is well coated.
7. Cover pan with plastic wrap and let sit for two hours.
8. Soak wooden skewers in cold water for 30 minutes.
9. Meanwhile, cut the onion into 1/4-inch slices.
10. Seed and cut peppers into quarters.
11. Place onion and pepper pieces onto skewers.
12. Place olive oil in a shallow bowl.
14. Prepare grill for cooking over hot charcoal or gas per manufacturer's directions.
15. Put onions and peppers on the grill. Cook for two minutes.
16. Add steak to grill and cook for six minutes.
17. Flip skewers and steak over.
18. Cook all ingredients until done. The steak will take about six minutes.
19. Remove meat from grill and cut crosswise into 1/2 inch wide strips.
20. Remove onions and peppers from skewers.
21. Assemble fajitas and enjoy.
While beef round steak is one of the cheapest cuts of beef you will find at the grocery store, you will never know it when you make Sobroso Beef Fajitas.
1. Slice round steak, peppers and onion 1/4 inch thick.
2. Put all ingredients in a large plastic bag and shake vigorously.
3. Let sit flat for two hours in the refrigerator.
4. Remove from refrigerator and let return to room temperature.
5. Place mixture in skillet and cook until meat is no longer pink.
6. Serve sizzling hot with flour tortillas.
If your family is already yelling that they are hungry, you have not even had time to think about what's for supper, then make Enérgico Chicken Fajitas and have supper on the table less than 30 minutes.
2. Cover top of the cooking sheet with aluminum foil.
3. Slice chicken, peppers and onion 1/4 inch thick.
4. Place chicken, peppers on cookie sheet.
5. Cover with jerk seasoning and sugar.
6. Sprinkle on pineapple chunks spacing evenly.
7. Wrap tortillas in aluminum foil. Place cookie sheet and tortillas in oven.
8. Bake for 20 minutes until chicken is no longer pink.
The secret to making delicious Tequila Shrimp Fajitas is marinating them for at least four hours.
1. Place shrimp in large plastic bag.
2. Thinly slice and add peppers and onion.
3. Add remaining ingredients reserving 1 tablespoon olive oil.
4. Lay flat in the refrigerator for at least four hours up to overnight.
5. Remove from refrigerator and let come to room temperature.
6. Put reserved tablespoon olive oil in skillet.
7. Drain shrimp mixture and add to skillet.
8. Cook over medium heat stirring frequently until the shrimp are no longer pink and cooked through.
9. Assemble fajitas and enjoy.
Portobello mushrooms combine with chipotle seasoning to give this recipe a unique flavor that your family will adore eating this meatless meal.
2. Slice mushrooms, peppers and onions thinly.
3. Combine and place on a baking dish with a rim.
4. Combine fajita seasoning, chipotle seasoning and sugar in a small bowl.
5. Pour olive oil over vegetable mixture.
6. Sprinkle seasoning mix over mushroom mixture.
7. Toss to coat with seasonings.
8. Place baking sheet in oven to roast for 20 minutes.
9. Remove from oven and stir. Return to oven and cook for another 20 minutes.
10. Wrap tortillas in aluminum foil and warm in the oven for last 10 minutes.
11. Remove baking sheet and tortillas from oven. Cut lime in half and squeeze juice over mushroom mixture.
12. Assemble fajitas and enjoy.
You will enjoy eating fajitas often because of the many ways that they can be prepared. Serve them often as they are a great upscale meal that can easily be prepared at home.


So a few months ago I was asked to be part of Seagate's Creative Professional Program, essentially using their product in storing my work and making it more portable when am working off site.
The first one I tried was last weekend at the and it was the Slim Portable hardrive. Like the name it was so slim and portable! The stack of business cards I have in my wallet is thicker than that drive. It holds 500 gigs, and it had all my animation and illustration work that I have done over the past 5 years. I was also playing my show reel on a loop directly from the drive too and it was very quick and responsive. All in all, my new favourite drive to take around with me when am working outside of the studio.
Some still shots from the actual animation Dukes of Broxstonia...the show where I did some of the backgrounds and props on!
Pretty cool!!!! This was a really fun project to work on and I really am glad I was able to be a part of it.
Here are some pics of me and David Blumenstein at the Entertainment Biz Expo last Saturday. It was a good day though not much of the public showed up. It was good making contacts with the other stallholders though. It was good to chill and draw for a bit.
I got sick on Saturday night though and I haven't quite recovered. Day off from the studio tomorrow methinks!
Hi! Well, woke up with a sore throat this morning which wasn't good. Then spent most of the morning working on my bacteria animation job and have submitted that. Fingers crossed that the client loves it! Off to enjoy what's left of the day. Something that involves chilling out with friends I think! Am enjoying the little boy series is a bit of fun.
Something I drew up without pencils today at the Entertainment Biz Expo. I will write a separate post about that shortly. It's been fun just drawing loosely and cute characters. I've been doing quite a bit of magic in Photoshop though to make it look somewhat decent.
Today was quite crazy, needing to be at a premiere screening at 7:30am this morning at one of the old studios I used to work at: Viskatoons for Jar Dwellers screening on Channel 11. I did not work on this project but I was invited to see it at any case! Then David Blumenstein and I rushed off to the Entertainment Biz Expo where we were until 4pm today. During this time, I lost my Myki card ( monthly train ticket) which was rather expensive but some kind citizen returned it to the station I last used the card, so Dave and I had to get there before it shut at 5pm. Traffic in the city was pretty icky too. Didn't look like we were going to make it either but we did! Got my card back and all is well.
This was fun to do. I was thinking of the little girl series I did so I thought I'd try doing some little boy ones....no pencil, straight pen and then coloured in Photoshop.
A very busy weekend ahead with work and expos!
Male for today! I drew him up at the cafe while having breakfast. I had to pick up stuff from the local cafe today. It's also a day when I don't have to get up early to train. Not really keeping up with the male drawing a day. Bit difficult when I have other things I rather be drawing or sometimes I really don't have a chance to draw. However, I will make it a point to draw guys as much as I can. Properly, too.
Drew this up at work using ToonBoom and after making quota. I actually created a tumblr blog where I can put all my fitness posts involving the pink bunny. I haven't been able to put much up there yet. Been too busy but I am still doing my best to post every day.
I have fitness on the brain and want to put up more on my tumblr soon.
This is my friend David Pereira again. He just has a lot of interesting photos on facebook.
My new bio picture taken by Justin Foo. One of the few pics he took. This is my favourite one though.
Hello again! I know, double post. I couldn't post yesterday as I was away and this is to make up for it. If people are counting, you should know am about 5 males off. I should be at Male 17 today but am not. I need to catch up soon before the month ends. This week is going to be very busy getting a job after working hours done though. Hoping I can draw stuff up before gym or during lunch break or something.
This is also another entry to the Mepxy Movember competition. Check them out!
Hiked up today with Rob at Mt Piper. Was amazing and the views were gorgeous. That said, we cam across a poisonous snake on our way back. Rob spotted it. We're fine but it is a reminder that nature is very unpredictable and things like that should be expected. I am happy that we made it down in one piece.
Another one of my entries to Mepxy Movember. Enter if you have markers and live in Australia! They will give $3 to the charity for every entry and you can be eligible for prizes! I drew this up late last night with Rob while we were watching Walking Dead. This has no fineliner and I went straight to colouring it with Mepxy. I wanted a softer look and I felt that I achieved that. It wasn't working for a while though and this piece came very close to being ripped up but Rob calmed me down and I managed to save it. Hurrah! I really do get a bit angry at myself when my own personal pieces aren't going the way I like.
Hello, hello! Here are a few illustrations I did for a job months ago for a prep book. I had to mimic someone elses style. It took a while but I did get there!
Looking forward to a pretty chilled weekend and it begins all over again come Monday!
Hello, hello! Check out what I inked and coloured at work today? Got my male and a competition entry while making footage and fix ups. Hurrah! I also put this through Photoshop for some background love and FX. The was used using Mepxy Markers for their Movember Competition.
My chin is a bit wonky but other than that am happy with the study.
Some of the concept work I sent through to the client weeks ago, am now actually animating all these element's and needing to get it done before end of the month. I wanted to submit something else tonight but I couldn't finish the piece. Am exhausted. Long days do take their toll and as much as I love keeping busy and doing all these projects, I do need a proper re-charge. Will take the time to chill during the Christmas Break. Mostly anyway.
More studies......so what do folks think of these muscles? Am a bit behind with my one male a day thing..still not feeling too inspired. Though I am enjoying drawing up cartoons though.
So the Venus Rising exhibition has been cancelled due to the venue not being consistent with their instructions. A shame, but that means I can work on my pieces more instead of rushing it.
My male drawing for the evening. I kept trying and trying to sketch something that was even halfway decent and came up with this. Sigh. All done with Mepxy markers.
Drawings guys is a bit uninspiring for me. I know it's a comfort zone thing but am finding it rather frustrating. Am sure it will be better if I am not trying to force something out.
The Venus Rising exhibition has fallen through due to venue problems. A pain but not much else can be done about it. Hopefully a new venue will be sorted out. If not, am going to just continue with my current series so I have something new to display next year.
Still going....inking feathers is tedious but fun. Of course it may be taking longer since am watching the Walking Dead while inking it. Sketched out another piece today too and am hoping to ink it tomorrow. I am enjoying the new series. I wish I knew how to title it though: contains fish, fauna, feathers and females. A lot of "F's" I wish my hand was steadier with inking though. You can always tell when I've made a mistake. Ah well.
Hallo! Here's my male for today. The challenge is to start drawing them full body and not just the head. Not really that keen though I must admit. I doodled this guy on the couch, no pencil again and post in Photoshop.
Been working on my Venus Rising pieces tonight so had no time to draw any dudes. Ooopsie! Feeling the pressure to get enough pieces done so I can pick the best ones to go in the exhibition. Feeling rather intimidated displaying next to all these artists. They're really good and I just want to stay on par.
There are a lot of art pages on facebook and one thing I've noticed with all of them is that they have the same style and subject matter pretty much all the time. I have series of work (like the fishbones) but I don't necessarily stick to one subject matter or style constantly. I wonder if this is detrimental to me as an artist. Certainly isn't as a freelancer since I have been hired several times to copy the style of somebody else....based on the fact that I can draw differently. That said, I do like shading in fineliner a certain way and I have a hard time with hands still.
Based this on a ref pic but it didn't quite turned out the way I wanted. Kept trying to make it look like he was puckering his lips like in the photo but he just ended up looking scarred when I did that so I had to change it a bit. Bleh! Try again I guess. Puckered lips is difficult to get drawing realistically!
Hi! Just made this guy up while watching the Walking Dead. Pretty good series though the characters and their actions do irritate me quite a bit. Another one done without a pencil and coloured in Photoshop.
Hi! So this is an exhibition I am a part of and the opening is December 07, Saturday. Do come down if you're in Melbourne and are free! Should be fun. All new pieces from me at this show!


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PM sends congratulations to U23 Vietnam
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has congratulated the U23 Vietnam on their success at the Asian Football Confederation U23 Championship, going through to the quarter-finals.
VNA Thursday, January 18, 2018 10:16
Vietnam draw Syria, entering AFC U23 Championship quarterfinals
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 21:30
U23 team to write new page in Vietnam's football history
Vietnam beat Thailand, take third place in M-150 Cup
U23 Vietnam to compete in Thailand
U23 Vietnam to convene for friendly match
Thursday, January 19, 2017 09:02
Football players of U23 Vietnam (in white) and Syria on January 17 (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has congratulated the U23 Vietnam on their success at the Asian Football Confederation U23 Championship, going through to the quarter-finals.
Vietnamese footballers drew their Syrian rivals in the last group match on January 17 in China, earning a slot in the quarterfinals of the tournament for the first time in history.
With four points after three games, Vietnam ranked second behind the Republic of Korea and became one of the eight strongest teams in the continental competition.
In his congratulatory letter, the Prime Minister said he was very glad to hear from the U23 Vietnam team. They gave good performance at the continental tournament to enter the quarterfinals for the first time, bringing pride to the nation, and showing the young Vietnamese generation's will.
He praised the effort of head coach Park Hang-seo and the whole team. He hoped that they will continue shining in the next match.
Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Nguyen Ngoc Thien also sent a letter of congratulations to the U23 squad.
The Minister announced a bonus of 200 million VND (9,000 USD) to the U23s. At the same time the Vietnam Football Federation also delivered a 1.4 billion VND (63,000 USD) bonus for their miracle in China. - VNA
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc U23 Vietnam congratulations Asian Football Confederation U23 Syria Championship Vietnamplus Vietnam News Vietnam News Agency
Popular Japanese singer Ueno Yuuka, who was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the Hoi An-Japan Cultural Exchange, will perform with singer Kawamura Yui and the Kolme band from Japan on Lunar New Year's eve at the Sculpture Park in the ancient city on January 24.
Vietnamese culture to be introduced in tiny French town
A one-day event featuring Vietnamese customs for the Lunar New Year will be held on January 25 in Saint Herblain, France, by ART SPACE, a private centre run by Hoang Thu Trang.
Exhibition spotlights Japanese installation art
Japanese installation art on Vietnamese silk is being introduced at an exhibition that opened in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue on January 17.
The Vietnamese traditional New Year (Tet) festival actually begins on the 23rd of the last month of the lunar year, which falls on January 17 this year, with the "Ong Cong - Ong Tao" (Land Genie and Kitchen Gods) ritual.
Vietnam lose to DPRK, out of AFC U23 Championship
Vietnam lost to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) 1-2 in their last group game on January 16, thus out of the ongoing 2020 AFC U23 Championship.