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How Markets Are Rigged Against You

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    December 12, 2013

    Well, the idea of markets being rigged is pretty much coming out of the woodwork now, and the fact that it is indicative of too much power being concentrated into the hands of too few people, especially moral people, is gaining acceptance.

    You know, historically we’ve seen this over and over again, and many times it has not ended all that well for the ‘money changers.’

    Here’s the ‘meme’ being presented in Canada by CBC.

    How markets are rigged against you

    Dec 9, 2013

    Every day, trillions of dollars are exchanged by buyers and sellers on trading floors across the world. The places where that happens are colloquially known by the faceless moniker of “the markets” but every time somebody buys a barrel of oil, a shipment of potash, a Royal Bank share or a Japanese yen, there’s a real person behind that transaction.

    Historically, the system works because people have confidence in the rules and believe they are treated the same as anybody else.

    But it’s getting harder and harder to ignore the stories of powerful people cheating the systemfor their own gain. As the bad apples add up, it gets harder and harder to ignore a troubling realization — “everything is rigged.”

    That’s what financial journalist Matt Taibbi says in an interview with Amanda Lang airing on Monday night’s The National. After years of reporting on some of the best examples of Wall Street stacking the deck in its favour, Taibbi has concluded that the entire system underpinning the global economy is rigged in some form or another. And it’s not just financial markets that are at stake.

    The real economy, with factories, services, goods and jobs for real people, is under threat.

    Again, we have a system that is largely built on confidence. It has to be because it is only the belief that debts will be honored in the future that keeps the whole game moving along.

    Without that belief our currency comes into question and once that happens and a critical mass of people understand that it has no intrinsic value but is merely a claim on real wealth, then the scramble to get out of paper and into real wealth will begin.

    As it has many times before.

    The article is very good and walks through several of the more well-publicized cases of market rigging and Wall Street excess, including the LIBOR scandal, Goldman Sachs’ overt manipulation of the physical aluminum market, and the insider trading case involving the Galleon hedge fund that I have excerpted below:

    What was so shocking about Galleon was the brazenness — how employees were caught on tape rigging the system, and not seeming to care. Rajaratnam was eventually found guilty of insider trading and sentenced to 11 years in prison but even today, some people involved still don’t seem to quite see the problem.

    “The bottom line was to make money … and if you weren’t adding to the end goal you were kind of useless,” says Turney Duff, a former trader at Galleon who’s written a book about his experiences there.

    “I’m not making excuses for my behaviour,” he says in the piece. “I made a lot of mistakes and a lot of the decisions that I made … [weren’t] based on right or wrong it was based on [lack of] consequences.

    “I didn’t feel like we were going to get caught. You know, it felt like jaywalking.”

    That mentality may be part of the problem — that there’s insiders at the top of a pyramid who feel they have the right to set prices and profit wherever they see fit, Taibbi and others say.

    “The basis of all these problems that we’ve had in the last decade or so is that it’s a very insular community, this financial community. It’s a very small group of people making very, very weighty decisions and I think these guys, to them, it’s not real. It’s just a bunch of numbers on a paper,” Taibbi said.

    Yes, it’s very easy to understand.  There’s a lot of money involved and very, very few consequences.  If power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, then the current environment makes all the sense in the world.

    What it is not doing, however, is distributing capital either effectively or fairly.  The very same mistakes that led to the prior financial crisis are being sown even more liberally this time than last.

    All of this is in line with my prior report about the bad behaviors by corporations spying on non-profits up to and including full-blown felonies that were not being prosecuted by the government.

    The very same lack of attention to the financial powerhouse  side of the story while vigorously prosecuting relative trivia that involve citizens is patently obvious to anybody paying the slighted bit of attention.

    I found the final paragraphs of the linked article to be especially telling in this regard:

    There’s a sense among the general public that nobody seems to be maintaining the integrity of the system. Bart Chilton, the head of U.S. regulator the Commodities and Future Trading Commission, says his office is committed to maintaining the system’s integrity. But, he says his office isn’t given the tools he needs to properly do the job.

    “They don’t have enough people to do this stuff,” Chilton says. “[Washington] doesn’t care about this, and unfortunately Congress and government is very reactive.”

    He notes that his office has 158 agents to police more than $5 trillion worth of financial contracts per year.

    In contrast, the more well-known Securities and Exchange Commission has more than 100 agents assigned to its investigation of baseball pitcher Roger Clemens alone.

    100 SEC agents tasked to the Roger Clemens case involving a single baseball player using steroids and virtually dead silence every day on the overt shenanigans we see in various equity and commodity markets.

    It’s hard to persist in the illusion that our markets in any way shape or form can be trusted with our hard earned savings.

    While all of this sounds depressing, and parts of it truly are, the silver lining is thick.  What all of these market distortions add up to is opportunity.

    Because these market players are so focused on the moving prices around they are doing so without any regard to fundamental value or with an eye on the future.

    I could imagine these same players trading passenger pigeon futures a hundred years ago never noticing that the poor creature was spiraling towards extinction.  They would trade these futures up and down, buying and selling, with huge volatility never noticing that the very thing they were fighting over was about to entirely disappear.

    I feel the same way about the price of equities trading for over 200 times earnings and gold and silver being bought and sold (but mainly sold) as if there was not a single concern about the monetary and fiscal risks that we all face.

    That is, these Wall Street sharks know the price of everything but the value of nothing.

    Strangely enough, this creates excellent opportunities for those who possess a wide angle lens and a bit of patience.

    In the meantime, it’s best to know that playing the price game means you are playing a rigged game.  Better to play the value game.  That one still belongs to those with vision and patience, two things Wall Street sorely lacks.

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    About the Author

    Executive summary: Father of three young children; author; obsessive financial observer; trained as a scientist; experienced in business; has made profound changes in his lifestyle because of what he sees coming.

    First of all, I am not an economist. I am trained as a scientist, having completed both a PhD and a post-doctoral program at Duke University, where I specialized in neurotoxicology. I tell you this because my extensive training as a scientist informs and guides how I think. I gather data, I develop hypotheses, and I continually seek to accept or reject my hypotheses based on the evidence at hand. I let the data tell me the story.

    It is also important for you to know that I entered the profession of science with the intention of teaching at the college level. I love teaching, and I especially enjoy the challenge of explaining difficult or complicated subjects to people with limited or no background in those subjects. Over the years I’ve gotten pretty good at it.

    Once I figured out that most of the (so-called) better colleges place “effective teacher” pretty much near the bottom of their list of characteristics that factor into tenure review, I switched gears, obtained an MBA from Cornell (in Finance), and spent the next ten years working my way through positions in both corporate finance and strategic consulting. From these experiences I gather my comfort with numbers and finance.

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Norcross campaign spokesman Ken Shuttleworth told Business Insider the ad was made by Olivia Ayscue, 12, of Haddon Heights, New Jersey. Olivia's father is the veteran Garden State political operative Steve Ayscue.

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Wendy’s Chili

I was eating Wendy’s chili for lunch today and was thinking to myself, “You know, this chili is quite delicious.”  It was then that I noticed a giant chunk of beef which resembled the corner of a beef patty.  It was also then that I remembered someone telling me that Wendy’s chili is made from unused beef patties from the day before.  I decided to find out for myself.

According to employees who are quicker to throw their employer under the bus than Mike Vanderjagt, here is how chili is made at Wendy’s:

  1. All burger patties that were not sold, are broken, or burnt are collected and deposited into a bag.  The bag is dated and put into a cooler.
  2. The next morning employees collect the oldest bag,  rinse the meat in hot water, put meat in large pot of water and boil until it becomes granules.
  3. Meat is then drained and cooled.
  4. Employees then add a can of pre-made chili sauce from the warehouse, cans of beans, pre-made spice packets, and frozen veggies
  5. Scary part.  According to most of the employees, that mixture is combined with yesterday’s chili.  Most call it the “Eternal Chili Pot.”

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Epistasis and evolvability in experimentally evolved populations of Escherichia coli

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Epistatic interactions between mutations play a prominent role in many evolutionary theories. Many studies have found that epistasis is widespread, but direct analyses of epistasis can be technically difficult and has not generally considered beneficial mutations. We analyse the effects of epistasis on fitness in a set of genotypes including all combinations of the first five beneficial mutations to fix in an experimental population of Escherichia coli. We show that epistasis depends strongly on the fitness effects of the combined mutations – the larger the expected benefit, the more negative the effect of epistasis on fitness. A similar pattern of interactions is also seen among a set of seven mutations that substituted in a population that was selected in an environment containing a combination of two sugars. Epistasis thus tended to follow a simple relationship of diminishing returns with genotype fitness. This observation supports a model that predicts negative epistasis explains a decelerating rate of adaptation as populations approach a fitness peak. Preliminary experiments are consistent with this prediction, finding that the effective size, but not rate, of beneficial mutations declines across a series of replay populations started from genotypes of progressively higher fitness.

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Kane (Blackhawks - RW): Goals: 1, Assists: 1

Saad (Blackhawks - LW): Goals: 1, Assists: 1

Toews (Blackhawks - C): Goals: 1, Assists: 1

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Saad, Kane, Toews lead Blackhawks past Blue Jackets

CHICAGO -- The Blackhawks and their marquee players are starting the season in high gear.

Brandon Saad, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews each had a goal and assist to lead Chicago over the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 on Saturday night.

Richard Panik also scored and Jan Rutta got his first NHL goal as the Blackhawks followed up on a season-opening 10-1 rout of Pittsburgh with another overwhelming performance.

Saad, one of four players to open the season with a hat trick this week, has four goals and an assist in his first two games. Kane boosted his totals to two goals and four assists.

"I thought we did some good things offensively," Kane said. "But two big wins. Hopefully we can build off this."

Saad returned to Chicago in an offseason deal that sent Artemi Panarin to the Blue Jackets, and he looks better than ever.

The rugged 24-year-old forward spent his first three seasons with the Blackhawks before he was traded to Columbus in 2015 in a salary cap squeeze -- and just before he became a restricted free agent.

"We're saying he's not a man-child anymore," Kane said. "He's just a man."

Coach Joel Quenneville was more specific about Saad.

"His quickness has been very noticeable" Quenneville said. "Quick to pucks, quick to beating a guy to the net. That line (Saad-Toews-Panik) was excellent again tonight."

Chicago center Nick Schmaltz was hit hard by two defensemen as Kane scored the opening goal 1:33 in. He later left the game with an upper-body injury and is expected to miss at least two games, Quenneville said.

Sonny Milano scored for the Blue Jackets, who blanked the New York Islanders 5-0 in their opener Friday in Columbus.

Corey Crawford made 32 saves for Chicago, while Joonas Korpisalo blocked 24 shots.

Panarin got a loud ovation during a first-period video tribute in his return to the United Center, but the Blue Jackets weren't able to make much noise or sustain pressure offensively.

"Were going to face teams like that and we've got to find a way to stop the momentum and try to chip away," coach John Tortorella said. "I don't think we were sharp, right on through our lineup."

The Blackhawks were on target for second straight game.

"It's unique team and you've got to play against them with respect," Korpisalo said.

The Blackhawks jumped ahead 2-0 with a dominant first period.

Kane scored on the Blackhawks' first shot when he was left open at the low edge of the right circle.

Jack Johnson and Gabriel Carlsson leveled Schmaltz on the left side of the crease during the play. Schmaltz took a minute to get up, then skated slowly to the bench with help from trainer Mike Gapski.

Saad made it 2-0 at 6:04 with a power-play goal when he converted a rebound from a goalmouth scrum.

Chicago extended its lead to 4-1 after 40 minutes.

Set up by Saad, Toews one-timed in his first goal this season from the left circle at 10:14 of the second. The play was set up when Panik knocked Seth Jones off the puck behind the Columbus net.

Milano cut it to 3-1 31 seconds later when he poked in Nick Foligno's feed that slid along the goal line behind Crawford.

Rutta pinched in to the right circle and scored on a shot that deflected in off Korpisalo's glove at 12:51 of the second to make it 4-1.

Saad narrowly missed connecting again during a power-play midway through the third. Panik completed the scoring with 5:55 left when he whipped in a loose puck after a face-off.

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NBC and Blackhawks TV analyst Eddie Olczyk visited the United Center press box after having surgery for colon cancer 11 weeks ago. Some in the crowd of 21,264, chanted "Eddie, Eddie," when a live shot of Olczyk, who played 16 seasons in the NHL, was shown on the scoreboard. ... Schmaltz had hobbled off the ice in the third period of Thursday's game, but was back on a line with Kane and Ryan Hartman for his first shift Saturday before being injured again. ... RW Tommy Wingels made his Blackhawks debut as C Tanner Kero sat out. Wingels, who signed a one-year free agent deal, is from Chicago's north suburbs. ... The Blackhawks had a pregame video tribute and moment of silence for Pierre Pilote, their captain from 1961 to 1968, who died last month at age 85.

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First I would like to give a shout out to Ms. Bhatt who graciously allowed me to spend the night at her place so I will be able to get school today at 9 a.m.  Saturday school is amazing.  Seriously, it is going really well.  Helen, who works at Phildelphia Academies, did an amazing job running a workshop to get us think about what we are doing right and what we are doing wrong.  It is hard (I think) for the students to talk freely about these things because we are in the room with them, and they really don't get many opportunities to do this.  We want them to tell us what they are thinking, because we are always telling them what we think.  I think it's good for them to know how hard Ann and Simon work.  But they have to meet us half way.  I think it is good that Helen had them talking and getting them thinking about how they can start taking more ownership.  They did a really good job.

We should go to school on Saturdays.  Seriously.  We could just do so many things.  My favorite part about all of this was how seniors not a part of the team came in for community service hours and worked so well with the EVX team.  I really liked how they were talking about everything.  Roger said that he is an aethist and then Aaron and Javonne were debating with him.  It was great.  It was really respectful.  And then the girls talked about what was going on with the school and some of the students.

They are very observant.  I was impressed by how much they pick up on things.  Seniors, when you are not yelling at them about not making deadlines, are enjoyable.

I really enjoyed this.  They work better on Saturdays.  Their speeches for Tuesday are great.  The President of the United Auto Workers is coming after school on Tuesday to hear the students speak about how we relate to green jobs.

I am looking forward to it.

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

1890's Ball Gown Bodice

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“"used vintage wear" Purchased at an estate auction with a lot of decommission antique clothing. Not sure of any dating. Ribbons hanging down have some water stains I did with a steamer trying to straighten out the bows for display (dumb,I know). Original hooks, no tears, or open seams except a very small area on the neckline (easy to repair, but after the steaming incident, I didn't touch the dainty thing). Sewing construction appears to be machine and hand stitching. Looks like there was lace at one time.”
UP FOR AUCTION: This vintage corset item. Approximate measurements: 13 1/2" from underarm seam across front to other underarm seam, 12 1/2" across the front bust line, 6" sleeve hole, 12" from neckline to bottom where it V's at waist, the waist is 22", the ribbon hanging down from the waist goes down 38". The material appears to be a nice ribbed satin, the bows appear satin, it closes in the back with hook and eyes, little velvet ribbons come off the shoulder (tied in bows). The color is taupe. See description above.

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Here are some other examples of 1890's dress. The big bows on the shoulders are a giveaway that this is 1890's. My guess is that there used to be sheer sleeves of some sort that got taken out over time.

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One of the ways manufacturers coerce users not to modify or even open hardware they’ve purchased is through warranty-void-if-removed stickers. These stickers are common on electronics equipment — Microsoft uses them on the Xbox One, Sony has them on the PS4, and you’ve probably owned a phone that had at least one somewhere.

These stickers are almost certainly illegal, as Motherboard points out in relation to the new Xbox One S. The problem with the stickers is that they run afoul of the FCC’s rules on tying repair services to specific products. This issue is also probably why Apple agreed to change its practices regarding iPhones, when devices that had been repaired by third-party shops would then suddenly fail when upgraded to Apple’s latest operating system.

“The stickers could be deceptive by implying consumers can’t use parts the warrantor doesn’t pre-approve, which violates the anti-tying provisions of MMWA,” FTC spokesperson Frank Dorman told Vice.

This practice isn’t remotely unique to Microsoft. The PS4 does the same thing.  Image by iFixit

Companies don’t like to talk about these policies, most likely because they don’t want to admit they’ve been doing something illegal for decades. Laws like the 1975 Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act were passed to prevent companies from tying customers to expensive repair contracts, or requiring customers to use only approved hardware installed by “authorized” resellers. The common example for this is with cars, where it’s illegal for a manufacturer to try and force you to only install their own parts.

There are, of course, limits to these laws. If you destroy your transmission or engine while servicing them, the manufacturer is under no obligation to repair the vehicle. What manufacturers aren’t allowed to do is refuse to honor a warranty on your engine just because you installed a different set of speakers or an aftermarket radio. The obligation is on the manufacturer to demonstrate that your third-party repairs or modifications caused the failure, not the other way around.

Modern electronics are tightly integrated, but the concept is the same. Microsoft isn’t allowed to prevent you from opening your own hardware, and neither is any other manufacturer. So why do they?

The answer is simple: Because they know you won’t do anything about it. It’s a nifty example of how companies get away with doing illegal things — the cost of taking them to court and forcing them to comply with the law is higher than the value of the product. A car is expensive enough to repair that companies can’t get away with telling you to pony up thousands of dollars for their own parts and repair shops. On the other hand, a smartphone can cost $500 to $700, but that doesn’t begin to cover the cost of a lawyer to litigate the issue, and Apple, Microsoft, and other companies know it.

In Microsoft’s case, its warranty states that it ceases to apply if the Xbox One is “opened, modified, or tampered with.” It’s flatly illegal. But until someone brings a case against the company and litigates it out, electronics companies will continue to put these stickers on their products, and consumers will continue to believe the manufacturers are legally allowed to do.

The situation is also playing out in new ways thanks to the advent of DRM. Tractor manufacturer John Deere and the Library of Congress have both resisted any attempt to require manufacturers to share data on firmware or other DRM’d blocks of information, because it could conceivably allow for piracy or alter the function of the vehicle. John Deere has gone so far as to claim that by purchasing a tractor, farmers gain “an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle.” It’s the concept of software licensing, except applied to hardware, and the fact that it’s illegal doesn’t seem to concern anyone much.


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Introducing Eyking Farms Green Atlantic Romaine Hearts

This summer Eyking Farms ventures into the value added market to bring packaged romaine hearts to convenience minded consumers. The farm's new 4,500 square foot building houses specialized equipment that prepares and packages romaine hearts into bags of three under their new Green Atlantic label. Look for our romaine hearts in Sobeys stores throughout Atlantic Canada.


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BREAKING: Conservative Leader Promotes 3RD PARTY Candidate To Beat Trump, Hillary

May 31, 2016May 31, 2016

Bill Kristol — conservative magazine editor, political commentator, and former chief of staff to Vice President Dan Quayle — says he has a plan for a America, and it doesn't include Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton.

After suggesting on Sunday that he had a third party candidate in mind to give voters an alternative to voting for Trump or Hillary, Kristol is eying constitutional lawyer and Iraq war veteran for president. According to Bloomberg, he believes Bronze Star recipient David French could be the alternate candidate voters are looking for.

French, of Columbia, Tennessee, is a New York Times bestselling author and a staff writer for National Review.

When asked about supporting French late Tuesday afternoon, Kristol refused to comment. Sources say French doesn't have the financial support needed to run yet but is catching the eye of some donors.

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Lawsuit: Christian School Banned From Delivering Pregame Prayer

September 28, 2016Sep 28, 2016

Last December the Florida High School Athletic Association refused to allow a private Christian school to deliver a pregame prayer over a loudspeaker before a championship football game.

On Sept. 27 Cambridge Christian School filed a federal lawsuit alleging the FHSAA unlawfully censored the prayer and violated the players’ religious freedoms.

Click here to join Todd’s American Dispatch: a must-read for Conservatives!

“This is a case about the restriction of a Christian school’s private speech through a policy and a practice that discriminates between religious and secular speech,” attorney Adam Foslid, with the law firm of Greenberg Traurig, said in a prepared statement.

First Liberty Institute is also representing the Christian school.

The case stems from a Dec. 4th game between Cambridge Christian and University Christian School. The game was played at Camping World Stadium in Orlando.


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THIS Is The Man Who Could Beat Usain Bolt In A Sprint

January 17, 2016Jan 17, 2016

Meet Garret Doherty, the man who could beat world record-holding sprinter Usain Bolt in a sprint. Just as long as they were running entirely...backwards.

Doherty of Dublin, Ireland could never hope to beat the Jamaican's 100 meter time of 9.58 seconds in a traditional race, but he's the world's fastest human at running in reverse. If you think that would look as ridiculous as it sounds, just watch the video below to see for yourself:

And apparently this is actually a sport — retro running — and Doherty is the world champion in it.


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U.S. Department of State Confirms Major Change After Otto Warmbier’s Death

July 21, 2017Jul 21, 2017

In June of 2017, U.S. student Otto Warmbier passed away after being held captive in a North Korean prison. In a response to Warmbier’s suspicious death shortly after he was released, President Trump called it a “total disgrace” and blamed the student’s death on the cruelty of North Korea.

Following the death of Warmbier, there has been much discussion on placing a travel ban to prevent citizens from traveling to the country. The major change was confirmed on Friday July 21st, 2017.

The U.S. Department of State released a statement. It begins, “The safety and security of U.S. citizens overseas is one of our highest priorities.”

The statement continues, “Due to mounting concerns over the serious risk of arrest and long-term detention under North Korea’s system of law enforcement, the Secretary has authorized a Geographical Travel Restriction on all U.S. citizen nationals’ use of a passport to travel in, through, or to North Korea.”

According to The Daily Beast, the restriction will take effect in late August. When in effect, U.S. passports will be not be valid for any type of travel in North Korea.

The statement does clarify, “Individuals seeking to travel to North Korea for certain limited humanitarian or other purposes may apply to the Department of State for a special validation passport.” Read the full statement below.”

What are your thoughts on the travel ban? Read more on the heartbreaking situation with Otto Warmbier on our website. Thank you!


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Google Seeks Volunteers for Accessibility Research Studies

Date Posted: 12/19/2017

Google’s Accessibility team recently won an AFB Helen Keller Achievement Award for their commitment to ensuring that everyone can access and enjoy the web. To continue making progress toward that goal, the company’s User Research team has announced that they’re recruiting blind and vision-impaired people to participate in accessibility research studies.

If you sign up and you’re asked to join a study, you might try out a new product or tell Google what you think about the technology products you use now. Studies can take place in a Google office, your home, or even online via a computer, smartphone, or tablet. And once your study participation is complete, you’ll get a reward like a gift card for shopping or a donation to a charity.

Learn more about the studies and sign up to participate.

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You can always make a booking at Farm Fun - Fun for the entire family

Admission includes free parking and access to all animals and activities.*

Farm Fun has plenty of delicious eating and drinking options (including a vegetarian menu) in our rustic cafeteria and dining area. Guests are also welcome to bring their own food and drinks into the park free of charge.

We provide toilet facilities to meet the needs of our disabled guests.** All toilet facilites are equipped with baby change stations.

* Admission price includes one free tractor ride per person (additional tours can be purchased for a small fee). Barbecues and some sporting equipment requires a refundable security deposit.

** Helpers free admission

Our disabled guests pay admission on equal terms with other guests, but if you require a helper, a maximum of one helper is allowed free access to the park with either the Danish State Railways (DSB) companion card or a similar card from the Danish Association for the Disabled (DHF). Foreign guests must show a foreign, officially issued disabled companion card at the ticket office.

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Beauty and the Beach

Fashion & Invites was thrilled to attend last night’s Beach Side Fashion Show.  The  show was held at the fantastic Faustini Wines in beautiful Pier Village located on the picturesque New Jersey Coast in Long Branch, NJ. Models from the ages of 2 through teen strutted their stuff on the red carpet. Although Fashion & Invites presents women’s fashion almost exclusively, there are several reasons why we were excited about the opportunity to attend this show that featured fashion for young boys, girls, and teens.

Show Highlights

The first reason for our attendance was the event’s cause – to promote self-esteem and positivity among girls. The show featured a local group, BE THAT GIRL. The group was created for girls by girls. BE THAT GIRL presents a monthly series of cool-happenings for girls, ages 8-16, who are seeking a positive outlook, self-love and, most importantly, to find their inner voice and share it with the world! Co-Founder, Michela O’Doherty Morello shared her experiences in a moving talk.

The second reason was, of course, the fashion! The fashion was  provided by two fantastic stores located in Pier Village.  Molly & Zoey features trendy women’s apparel at affordable prices. Sundaze specializes  in children’s, men’s and women’s clothing and beach essentials. The joy that the models experienced while wearing these items was apparent.  The models proudly glided, and even cartwheeled :),  down the red carpet.  A few of the items shown include: a beautiful backpack, fashionable sunglasses, a bell-sleeved off-the-shoulder white blouse paired with a short skirt, and a sequenced midriff baring shirt and long skirt.  The fashion was on point and the models looked amazing while having fun.

Beautiful makeup was also an integral part of the evening.  Danielle Beyer, professional makeup artist and owner of Beyer Beauty, attended.  Danielle provided makeup & skincare tips and the latest beauty trends to carry you through winter.  Products from the award-winning line, Motives by Loren Ridinger, were featured.

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Fashion & Invites had a wonderful time at the Fashion Show while supporting a extremely important cause.  The featured fashion provided perfect gift ideas for the upcoming holiday season.  Before shopping, make sure to check our Fashion Sale Codes, so you can save while purchasing the best fashion available.

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AdBlock: Only 9.5% Of All Ad Whitelist Applications Are Accepted

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AdBlock: Only 9.5% Of All Ad Whitelist Applications Are AcceptedResults are better than expected.

In its first release of statistics on the Acceptable Ads, AdBlock has revealed some interesting numbers that are worth mentioning.

According to a post by Ben Williams, they have rejected over 50% of all whitelist applicants (777) because their ads were not acceptable. In addition to that, they have only accepted 9.5% of all applicants, although the number is misleading due to the fake applications and/or communication breakdowns.

Lastly, for people wondering whether or not AdBlock is corrupt and will only whitelist advertisers that have “contributed” to the project, 90% of 148 whitelisted applicants were accepted for free, which means that they did not have to pay a thing. However, as stated in the blog post, “all whitelisted ads must at all times conform to Acceptable Ads criteria, regardless of whether the advertisers behind them pay or not.”, so you also have that.

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Sat 6th May 2017 – Stuc A' Chroin 5000

Race details

  • Date & time: Sat 6th May 2017 at 13:00
  • Country: Scotland
  • Region: North
  • Category: AL
  • Website: www.stucachroin5000.org.uk
  • Distance: 22km / 13.7m
  • Climb: 1524m / 5000ft
  • Venue: Strathyre, Perthshire, FK18 8NA.
  • Grid ref: NN561172
  • Skills & experience: PM
  • Minimum age: 18

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  • Entry on day? Entry on day allowed
  • Entry on day fee: £10.00
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  • Pre-entry fee: £10.00
  • Entry info:

    Link on website from 1st April. Limit 500. Registration opens at 10am on race day. Please allow plenty of time for travel due to frequent hold ups on route.

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  • Steve Respinger
  • Tigh na fiadh, Auchtubh, Lochearnhead, FK19 8NZ
  • 07977 014474
  • stuc5000@gmail.com

  • Teams allowed: Teams not allowed

  • Male: H Hains – 02:08:33 – 2015
  • Female: J Paris – 02:40:43 – 2015

  • Junior races: Juniors not allowed

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FGP Cattle

Quality Hereford Cattle  for Quality Cattlemen

About Us

We would like to welcome you to our virtual 'farm'.  Please take the time to get to know us and learn about our operation.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.  We are always more than willing to talk with our fellow producers.

We both come from farming families with roots in the Hereford breed.  In 1999, we began our foray into farming with the purchase of some of Ross Pritchard's herd.  We purchased the cattle with our brother and sister-in-law, Floyd and Pam Price of Triangle Acres.  Until the spring of 2006, our cattle were custom raised by Floyd and Pam.  We helped out as much as we could when jobs and time allowed us time off.  At the time, we were living in Winnipeg and our neighbours were not too keen about our oversized 'pets'!

In the spring of 2006, we decided it was time to move out of the city.  We had one son already and another on the way and knew that we did not want to raise them in the city.  After living in Westbourne for a year, we purchased a small farm at Elm Creek, Manitoba.

Through careful selection and patience, we have built our herd up to 45 registered cows.  In the spring of 2014, we decided to expand our cattle operation with a commercial herd - just before prices started to take off.  It was the first time that we hit the market right!  The commercial cows are Angus-influenced.  We are breeding them all back to Hereford bulls and are looking forward to our first crop of bladies and brockles.  Our intent is to replace the Angus cows with Hereford cows as we call and as the economics of the industry dictate.

As we both work off the farm (Glen with a local farmer and Faye with Manitoba Agriculture Services Corporation), we try to follow a strict culling program.  We are trying to target a medium-framed cow with good udder development who will bring in a large calf in the fall and rebreed easily.  We ask a lot from our cows!  The cows have to be sound, good mothers, even tempered, and healthy.  We do not have time to be treating cows constantly and to be babying calves.  As the boys are usually not far away when we are out working with the cattle, the cows have to be quiet.  We also want cows that we can work with without hurting ourselves, them, or our facilities.  We follow a spring and fall vaccination program developed with input from our vet that includes IBR/BVD, blackleg, vitamins, and ivermectin.

We target a January/February calving season for the registered Herefords and a March/April calving season for the commercial cows.  Taking out the yardsite, we have about 30 acres to run the cows on.  This makes up our winter pasture, and short-term spring and fall pastures as needed.  We are currently renting pasture and using the local community pasture for the summer.

In the past, we purchased all of our hay and straw every year.  It is getting harder to find hay every year so we decided to buy a disc bine and baler this year to make our own.  Now we are in search of some hay land and/or crop land  to make feed on.  To help reduce our feeding costs and winter chores, we have adopted alternative winter feeding strategies to feed the cows and any calves we retain.  We have used bale grazing in the past and are currently grazing standing corn in the fall and early winter before moving to hay pre- and post- calving.  The cows are then fed a combination of alfalfa hay, grass hay, greenfeed, and two year old oat straw based on a recommended mix (from CowBytes).  We test the feed value of the hay and straw to ensure all nutrient requirements are met.  The added cost is easily made up feeding the right amounts to the cows, with minimal waste.

Our land is definitely seeing the benefit of winter grazing.  There is a difference in crop growth from where we have grazed in the past to where we have only started to graze during the winter.

We have done some showing in the past at summer fairs and the Manitoba Hereford  Association Summer MOE Show.  We have been away from it for the past couple of years because of work commitments but hope to return in the near future as the boys get older and more active.  For us, it is part of our summer holidays.  We enjoy getting out to work with the cattle and spend time with fellow cattle enthusiasts.  Hopefully we will see you on the road somewhere next summer!

We have been annual consignors to the Lundar Bull Show and Sale (in April) but have moved mainly to marketing replacement females and bulls out of the yard.  Our steer calves are usually sold through Gladstone Auction Services as backgrounders.  A few are retained every year for freezer sales to friends and neighbours.


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Artist in Residence / Distinguished Services to the Arts Awards

2018 Artist-in-Residence and Nancy Coumoundouros Distinguished Service to the Arts Award 2018 Nominations.
The Cultural Arts Division works closely with the Farmington Area Arts Commission to promote the arts in our community. The Farmington Area Artist in Residence and the Distinguished Service to the Arts Awards are given annually to an artist, organization or individual who have made significant contributions to the arts in the community.

Awardees must be residents of Farmington Hills or Farmington. Applications may be obtained at the Costick Activities Center or by clicking on the links above.

Farmington Area Arts Commission
Artists in Residence

Past honorees:
Year Name Medium
2017 Stephen Mack Jones Writer
2016 Matt Watroba Musician
2015 Ara Topouzian Musician
2014 James & Susan Nuckolls Piano Instructors
2013 Robert Aikins Painter
2012 Dr. William Allen Brown  Basket weaver
2011 Robbie Best Painter
2010 Andrea Anderson Weaver
2009 Janice Jacobs Quilter
2008 Kendra Anderson Embroiderer
2007 Patri O'Connor Artist
2006 Joe Dzenowagis Videographer
2005 Gail Eisner Artist
2004 Stas Wisniach Musician
2003 Jeri Fellwock Artist
2002 Bernadette Zachara-Marcos Sculptor
2001 Junebug Clark Photographer
2000 Marjorie Chellstorp Artist
1999 Robert Piepenburg Potter
1998 Danguole Jurgutis Painter
1997 Barbara Selinger Dancer (Modern)
1996 Howard Weingarden Painter
1995 Kegham Tazian Artist/Sculptor
1994 Elaine Grohman Calligraphy Artist
1993 Karen Nixon Lane Conductor
1992 Evanthia Samra Artist
1991 Donna Vogelheim Artist
1990 Lena Massara Artist
1989 Frank Lohan Illustrator
1988 Gwen Tomkow Artist
1987 Monte Nagler Photographer
1986 Larry Hayden Wildlife Artist
1985 Lois Bro Sculptor
1984 Walter Reddig Architect
1983 Tom Hale Artist
1982 Alice Nichols Artist
1981 Charlene Slabey Composer
1980 Gail Yurasek Piepenburg Artist
1979 George Theodore Still Conductor
1978 Edee Joppich Artist
1977 John Glick Potter
1976 Joe Clark Photographer

Farmington Area Arts Commission
Nancy Coumoundouros Distinguished Service to the Arts Awards

Year Name
2017 Farmington Public Schools Art and Music Department Chairs: Jennifer Bailey, Stefanie Borysiak and David Drake
2016 John Glick
2015 kickstART Farmington
2014 Bella Vino
2013 Farmington Art Foundation
2012 Cynthia and Brian Tupper
2011 Mercedes Benz Financial Services
2010 Farmington Musicale
2009 Lisa Muscio, Youth Theatre
2008 Mel Rookus, Music Teacher, Musical Director, Nardin Park
2007 Larry Hutchinson, DSO, P & R Board
2006 The Farmington Community Band (FCB)
2005 Farmington Players Barn
2004 Larry Hutchinson, DSO, P & R Board
2003 Farmington Community Musical Theater Group
2002 Fern Barber, Music Teacher, Farmington Area Arts Commission
1999 May D. Arvo, Farmington Musicale
1996 Betty Walker, Farmington Musicale


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LAPD cover-up, lies, exposed in police murder of Jose Mendez

By Carlos Montes |
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Arnoldo Casillas speaking at press conference.
Arnoldo Casillas speaking at press conference. Left to right sitting: Juan Mendez, Josefina Rizo. and Carlos Montes. (Fight Back! News / Staff)

Los Angeles, CA - The Mendez family and their attorney Arnold Casillas held a press conference, Jan. 11, to announce the filing of a federal lawsuit for the Feb. 6, 2016 killing of their 16-year-old son Jose Mendez by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Juan Mendez spoke of his murdered son Jose, saying that he loved soccer and hamburgers. Juan Mendez displayed an urn with the ashes of Jose saying, “This is all I have left of my son. I want justice - these police who assassinated my son must go to jail.”

Attorney Arnold Casillas gave specific facts and showed a video of the Boyle Heights killing. A video from across the street on apartment building shows Jose Mendez pulling over into drive way and the LAPD quickly exiting police car and start firing at Mendez, who was still sitting and strapped with seat belt in car. The police officers are Josue Merida and Jeremy Wagner.

A witness said he heard no orders to exit the car or for raised hands, only the loud burst of multiple gunshots. Jose Mendez was instantly killed, with 19 bullet wounds to his body, mostly to the left side shoulder and face. Part of his face was destroyed. The video shows the police taking the dead body out of the driver seat. The police report states that they cut the seat belt and dragged the lifeless body about 30 feet way from car onto the side walk and handcuffed him. Police then stood over body about 10 minutes. Later medical vehicle arrives but no aid was ever given.

The police version is that Jose was stopped for driving a reported stolen car, and that he “brandished” a shotgun. In 2014 these same two officers killed someone with the same story, that he “brandished” a gun.

Josue Merida and Jeremy Wagner must be taken off the street, fired and prosecuted - they are killers. The two policemen turned off their body video cameras before the shooting. These two cops are killers and they are now back on the street patrolling our community.

At an LAPD Police Commission hearing of Jan. 10, on the agenda was an Officer Involved Shooting report from Chief Charlie Beck. During the public comment period, Sol Marquez with Centro CSO called for the prosecution of the police. During the closed hearing they determined that the shooting was “within policy.” The commission bought into the lies of the two police officers and Chief Beck fed them their lies to consider a shooting “within policy.”

The Los Angeles District Attorney Jackey Lacey has also not prosecuted these killer cops or the many others. There were 19 killings by police in Los Angeles in 2016; six in Boyle Heights/East Los Angeles alone. The Mendez family and Attorney Arnoldo Casillas are in unity with Centro CSO are now calling for the U.S. federal government to intervene and conduct a federal investigation on the Jose Mendez killing, and the others, in Boyle Heights.

Centro CSO has organized with the families of Jose Mendez; Edwin Rodriguez, who was killed Feb. 14, 2016; Arturo Valdez, killed April 6; and Jessie Romero, killed August 9, to demand justice, and that the killer cops be fired and prosecuted.

Centro CSO is calling for a mass march on Jan. 20, to fight the coming Trump attacks. Demands include “Legalization, No Deportations and Jail the Killer Cops.” The rally will assemble at 11 a.m. at Mariachi Plaza and will march to LA City Hall.

Chicanos have a long history of organizing resistance to police killing and abuse. Since the 1848 Mexican American war - when the now-U.S. Southwest was occupied, we faced lynching and killings of the native indigenous and Chicano population. We have and will continue to fight back!


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Ultra Torrent Downloader Free is designed to download files from torrents & more easily and faster than ever. It puts torrent file sharing in a new light by downloading various torrent files including video, music, document, software and many others. You can get access to a most efficient downloading optimized by the latest P2P technology and architecture.

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It is 100% free and completely safe for users that it contains no ad or other malicious components to disturb your operation. his free torrent downloader has been created to provide a straightforward process to finish torrent downloading with only 2 steps. What you need to do is just open torrent files and start download. It makes even the most inexperienced user a pro in torrent downloading.

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Learn Spanish while enjoying a simplified version of the classic story Don Quixote. Includes a series of activities and exercises to support novice learners through the story, allowing them to learn grammatical constructions and new vocabulary along the way.

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4 Tricks You Must Know While Promoting Your Blog on Facebook

Are you a beginner in blogosphere? Once you set up your blog and start posting on it, the very next thing you look forward to is blog marketing. Don’t you? In case you don’t, you should; for adequate marketing is very necessary for the success of your blog. While there are many ways of promoting your blog, social media sites like Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are considered to be the best.

Today, I am going to share some useful tips which can help you in promoting your blog on Facebook. Before I start, I want you to make sure that you have already built up the Facebook Page for your blog. Even if your blog is personal and is aimed to share only your life experiences, you don’t have any excuse not to have a Facebook Page for promoting your blog. Go get it now!

Now, it’s time to share the useful tips I was talking about.

1. Post Scheduling: Once you build up a Facebook Page, you need to post on it regularly. While there’s no actual limit on the number of posts each day, you must make it sure that you post updates on regular time intervals. I know that’s simply impossible for anyone of us. We can’t just log on to Facebook every second hour just to post a status update or share a picture on the Facebook Page. Can we?

Because of that particular reason, you’ve an option to schedule your Facebook posts. I am sure many of you would have been doing that already. For the ones who don’t, start it NOW!

promoting your blog

Also, make sure the posts on your Facebook Page are interactive. People should comment and share your posts.

Tip: Don’t just talk about yourself or your own blog. Share content which your audience would like.

 2. Use @ and #: The at sign (@) and the hash tag (#) are the ones which are usually ignored by people who are working on promotion of their business/blog through Facebook. Don’t you dare to make this mistake!

Through @ sign you can easily mention or tag a famous personality. For example, I posted a review about a book written by Agatha Christie who is a very famous author. I tagged her in the post while sharing the link to my blog. Similarly, you can tag popular people or interests using @. While this doesn’t have a direct effect on your post’s visibility to your audience, this certainly makes a difference. I am telling this from my own personal experience.

Promoting your blog

 The use of hashtag (#) serves the same purpose on Facebook as it does on Twitter. This allows you to search for similar posts and add your own post to that search data.

3. Facebook Groups: Just when I started getting satisfied with the audience from my Facebook Page, I came across the concept of Facebook Groups. I know, it has been there since like years but as a blogger, you need to discover how to use it effectively.

You cannot make your blog popular by posting on any Facebook Group that allows you to share the updates. You need to pick up some good blogging related Facebook groups. This has dual benefits. You not only share your post with like minded people but also get to increase your blogging network.

Isn’t that amazing?

Tip: Also, find out some active Facebook Groups related to your blog genre. They would work too.

4. Message to Pages: There are many more pages which have a much larger audience than yours. Right? What if you could use the audience of those ‘popular’ pages with thousands and millions of likes? What if you could promote your blog post in front of those people?

Is that possible? Of course, yes. All you need is a small amount of hard work and a smart & strong convincing power. What exactly would you need to do?

Start messaging those popular pages about your blog post. Beware! Don’t SPAM. A short message describing about you and your post is enough. Make sure the post which you’re sharing and expecting them to share is relevant to their readers. See the example where I messaged a very popular and active page on Facebook telling them about my post.

Hi there

I hope The Times of India is doing great. My name is Manpreet and I am a student and part time blogger by profession.. I have a blog where I share my thoughts about Technology, Lifestyle, Entertainment and very important – our country India. I have always been quite worried about what keeps going on in our country, in the media. And all such worries come out as words and that’s why I write articles like these. I recently published: Do we want gender equality or women rule in India? You can check out the article here http://www.finixpost.com/want-gender-equality-women-rule-india/. Feel free to place a link or the entire article at your page.

I am a regular reader of your newspaper and a subscriber to TOI app as well and I hope to publish more articles soon, and your support would really mean a lot to me.

All the best, Manpreet

 While you cannot always be sure that this would work, a good effort would really pay you well in the long run. That reminds me of a book review on my blog that was shared by the writer of the book itself – Paulo Coelho. Just one share brought me 800+ unique visitors in 3 days.

Marketing is one area where no one can teach you enough. Each day you need to explore and learn new things. To do that, you need to know the things which are already working so as to devote more time to figure out new things. I shared the things which work with me. Hope they help you out!

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Finnish Consulate opened in São Paulo, Brazil

Press release 188/2017
1 November 2017

The Finnish Consulate in São Paulo started operations on 1 September. From now on, the Consulate will be responsible for all citizen services, including passport and residence permit matters, which were formerly handled at the Embassy of Finland in Brazil. Before that, Finland had an Honorary Consulate General in São Paulo.

Finland has tried to concentrate its resources on countries whose political and economic significance for Finland is growing. Finnish companies are specifically interested in the forest, mining, energy, paper and telecommunications sectors of Brazil as well as in education export.

Now that all citizen services are handled in São Paulo, it will be easier for both Brazilian people travelling to Finland and for Finns living in Brazil to handle official matters with the authorities.

The activities of the Finnish Consulate in São Paulo will focus on Team Finland and consular services. The multipurpose design of the premises serves as a meeting place for stakeholders representing business, the academia and culture. The design of the premises is based on the spirit inspired by the Finland House of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro: the heart of the premises is reserved for comfortable meeting and conference space emphasising the Finnish background.

The Consulate was officially opened on 31 October 2017 by Minister of Economic Affairs Mika Lintilä, who was visiting Brazil.

Inquiries: Tommi Vuorinen, Consul, tel. +55 11 306 110 87.

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Posted by Jay Wilkinson

Have you ever asked people in your target audience, “If we were to build the perfect nonprofit website, what would it look like?” It’s crucial that we understand what the end user is looking for in our website. After all, we’re building it for them, not for us.

Over the next five posts, I’m going to talk about the five required elements when building websites for nonprofits, something every organization needs to consider as they evaluate their own website.

As we’ve worked with countless numbers of constituents, donors and volunteers over the years, these are, universally, the things they want to see in a nonprofit’s website.

The first element is structure, which is basically how a website is put together. Our sites should be built so the end users can easily find their way around—it shouldn’t feel like they’re solving a puzzle. The information, content, resources and tools on our website should be organized so that it’s easy and intuitive for people to interact with us.

Far too often, nonprofits put a site together from the point of view of an insider. They structure their website according to how they see their organization internally. The problem with this is that the target audience may approach the website differently. If it’s not designed with the end user in mind, they’ll get confused or frustrated and leave.

Well designed websites for nonprofits will contain options, including several ways to navigate your site. Helpful navigation tools include a pull-down menu, a search tool and a site map.

The key to good structure and navigation is this: Any user on your site should be able to get where they want to go in three or fewer clicks. Test this out on your organization’s site. More than three clicks, and your site’s navigation needs work.

Be sure to check back for the next four required elements when building websites for nonprofits, or check out this video on creating the perfect nonprofit website.


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  21 0 0 185
36   fl. oz.
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24   fl. oz.
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