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After death of pigeons was reported, Kozhikode District Hotel and Restaurants Association president T V Muhammed Suhail said the false campaign has seen workers returning to their native place. Piyush Goyal.

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Manager alpha: does active management add value?

October 2019

The purpose of this paper is to measure and analyze the historical outperformance of actively managed funds compared to market benchmarks.

This topic has been discussed before in numerous platforms and contexts, but this paper aims to clear as much bias as possible to create an accurate historical and quantitative picture of outperformance over time.

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University of Yangon website

The University of Yangon is now online, and its website includes information on the Law Department:

“The Department of Law came into existence in 1920 together with the Rangoon University, what is today the University of Yangon (YU). It was one of seven original affiliated faculties of the Rangoon University. During the early years, the Law Department only offered a law degree known as Bachelor of Laws (BL) degree as a part-time post graduate degree course. The BL Degree consisted of a two year course of study…

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MWC 2018

Between instruction sets and hardware designs, Arm influences 99.9% of the smartphone industry. So the company’s views are key to understanding where the industry at large is going next.

For one, the mobile industry is pushing for ever smaller smartphone chip designs, which will yield greater efficiency and thus better battery life. Top-end phones are all packing 10 nanometre (nm) chip designs — a strand of human DNA is roughly 2.5 nanometres by comparison.

Meanwhile, in the budget space, we’ve seen 14nm chips from the likes of Qualcomm (e.g. Snapdragon 625, 630, 660) while Mediatek‘s new Helio P60 (announced at MWC) will offer an even smaller 12nm design.

So what can we expect later this year? Jem Davies, fellow and general manager of the machine learning group at Arm, filled us in at MWC.

Can we expect tiny 10nm chips in cheap phones soon?

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Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845 chip.

“I think 16nm will actually have a very long life. It seems to sort of be quite a sweet spot — equally 28nm. 28 will just go on forever. It’ll be one of those where people will still make it in ten years’ time, I’m sure. The leading edge guys will go to seven (nanometres) — no question. The economic benefits are just so compelling.”

The Arm representative adds that machine learning capabilities will become an increasingly important trend for the rest of the year.

A new machine learning chip next year

Last month saw Arm launch its first AI silicon, dubbed the ML processor. But Davies says we can expect this to be a regular upgrade, driven by high-end phones.

“…for the machine learning processor, we’ll produce one this year, we’ll produce another one next year and so on. There’s a very strong demand from the premium mobile guys, they want a new thing. New GPU, new CPU and we believe a new ML processor, every year. Down in the mid-range and entry level, that demand isn’t really there and it’s more about getting huge volume wins.”

Smart speaker tech in 2019

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The proliferation of smart speakers has been one of the biggest trends of 2017 and 2018, as Apple, Google and Amazon all compete for a slice of the pie. But what can we expect in the near future from the sector? Davies reckons that the core smart speaker technology will branch out in a massive way.

“The interesting thing about smart speakers is that functionality of an actual smart speaker box, can be embedded in all sorts of other things. So I think one of the changes you’re going to see is that smart speaker capability in all sorts of other consumer electronics devices,” the Arm executive explains.

“So will it be in DTV, will it be in fridges, will it be in a microwave, that sort of thing. I think you’re going to see much more of that. And I think you’re just going to see the development of voice as a communiciations medium in very large part powered by ML (machine learning)…”

Will budget CPU cores get an annual refresh?

It’s not very often that we see an upgrade to ARM’s low-power cores, with the A55 replacing the venerable A53, which was first introduced over four years ago. The expected result is that we will see a notable performance leap in budget smartphones. But what are the odds that, like the ancient A7 CPU core (first seen in 2011), the A53 will be around for a long time?

“That’s difficult to predict… There’s so many different motivations for why people would stick with something or why they would replace it. The economic benefits and the efficiency benefits of putting a new processor in, it’s genuinely hard to predict. We are still occasionally licensing processors much much older than A7…”

Read more: Expect budget smartphones to get AI chips soon

The UK chip designer issues new high-end CPU cores on an annual basis, more or less, but what are the odds of the low-powered cores switching to a similar schedule?

“We’re not announcing anything in that, but I think you could be reasonably confident it won’t.”

On Intel stepping back into the mobile game

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The Intel-powered Leagoo T5C.

Last year saw Intel return to mobile phones in partnership with chipmaker Spreadtrum. The deal saw Spreadtrum release a mobile chip that uses eight of Intel’s Airmont cores — these cores were the basis for Intel’s later Atom processors.

Back in December, Qualcomm’s Keith Kressin told us that he couldn’t see any reason to opt for the x86 architecture (the desktop architecture used by Intel and AMD processors). But what does Davies make of this? Are there any advantages to this platform?

“No, I can’t see any advantages, I can only see disadvantages,” the executive answers, saying that “anybody is allowed to play” in the Android arena if they have a “proposition that is good enough”.

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Termite capitalism: the menace of private equity

Terrific essay in open Democracy on one of the most pernicious manifestations of capitalism.

The problem is that the private equity model of takeover and ownership is akin to inviting termites into your house. The basic model is as follows: private equity acquires a company using loans, usually from banks but also increasingly from pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds etc. The old management is replaced, the workforce cut, and assets such as land and buildings are sold, often to an entity registered in an offshore tax haven. The new company must pay interest on the debt, repay the debt over time, pay rent for the premises, management fees to the private equity owners.

Costs will also include payment to linked third-party suppliers, at prices which are not arm’s length. The taxable capacity of the new company is thereby reduced, and tax liabilities are shifted towards capital gains tax away from corporation tax. The company can only be financially viable in a booming market or where revenue streams continue to rise.

In general, private equity does not actually create anything – it engages instead in extracting resources from previously existing assets. Eventually, by excessive extraction of revenue flows, the companies are bound to fail. The termites eat away at the foundations until the house falls down.

If ever one wanted a demonstration of the extent to which neoliberal ideology is suffused through our ruling elites, then tolerance of private equity provides it. The argument that it’s really a way of ensuring the survival of the fittest in corporate life is specious — at least in its present manifestations.

The Long Shadow Of The Future

Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the death of Max Weber, the patron saint of the administrative state. Wolfgang Drechsler has a nice essay to mark the occasion.

“Weberian public administration in the wider sense”, he writes,

has been, and is, much maligned; bureaucracy is an easy target, and whining about it is a steady feature of complex human societies which always need and automatically generate it. And Weberian public administration has its systemic faults — slowness, process-orientation, a slippery slope to authoritarian, mindless hierarchization and shirking. However, this bureaucracy is in its optimal form ethics-based, high-capacity, and motivation-driven. It is meant to be both responsible — to a state that is above and beyond particular interests — as well as responsive — to groups and citizens, but not at the cost of the commonweal.

However we decide to manage the transition to a CO2-neutral world — via Green Growth or Post-Growth — that process will have to be implemented by competent, motivated, and yes, Weberian civil servants.

Yep. And the problem was that neoliberal ideology never believed that this kind of civil service was valuable. (One of its more fanatical American devotees used to say that his ambition was “to shrink the state until it was small enough to be drowned in a bathtub”.) So its devotees (including Margaret Thatcher) imported economic principles and management theories into the administrative state without recognizing the crucial, fundamental differences between public and private, not least as regards value creation.

As a result, writes Drechsler, “We still stand in front of the smoldering ruins of a capable, responsible state … and we are still paying a high price for it.”

And how! The pandemic has vividly demonstrated this — especially in the cases of the US and the UK. We have discovered that these states lacked the capacity to deal with the crisis because, over preceding decades, that capacity had been eroded or (in the case of the US) actively destroyed, especially during the Trump presidency — as Michael Lewis described in his sobering book, The Fifth Risk.

Which brings us to a remarkable long essay by Nils Gilman and Steven Weber on how different kinds of states have responded to the challenge of the virus. They focus particularly on Taiwan (which did well) but draw some really interesting general conclusions from their survey.

Poor policy reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic aren’t the result of a failure of imagination; the pandemic was not a black swan event, and it was not unpredictable. It was entirely foreseeable — and foreseen — by a wide variety of government, business, medical and other foresight professionals. For years, the World Economic Forum hosted pandemic preparedness planning events. Even if we didn’t know when and precisely how, we knew something like COVID-19 was coming.

The real challenge is not foresight itself but how to turn foresight into action — specifically, into operational readiness supported by competent operators. The inability to contain the COVID-19 outbreak signals a failure to take seriously the outputs of our own foresight models by acting to create contingency arrangements, manage risks and secure back-up plans in advance, in a sustained manner and without a precise target date or endpoint.

This failure has taken place in Italy, Iran, Spain, England, Sweden, the U.S. and elsewhere; authoritarian, conservative and social democratic governments alike have been overwhelmed. And because we live in a time of rapid and intensive global flows of people and products, multiple national failures compound inexorably into a global failure. In the words of President Eisenhower: “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”

And why have a small number of countries, like Taiwan, been able to manage the crisis better than others?

Nils and Weber identify a “distinctive mix of governance attributes” —

at once vigorously participatory, highly trustworthy, competent and with careful plans. In 2004, the year after the SARS epidemic, which was widely seen to have been mishandled, the Taiwanese government established the National Health Command Center as “a disaster management center that focuses on large-outbreak response and acts as the operational command point for direct communications among central, regional and local authorities.” Five years later, Taiwanese health officials staged simulated drills as a capability exercise. Simulations revealed the tensions and miscommunications between different levels of government and agencies during a crisis, allowing officials to develop heuristics for overcoming such problems in advance.

One of the most intriguing ideas in this marvellous essay is the way it highlights the difference between ideas and delivery. “One of the less-positive effects of digital social media over the last decade”, they write,

has been to contribute to a set of mythologies about the special value of ideas. Ideas are of course powerful and ultimately the source of innovation and social change, but the pandemic is revealing a sharp difference between power and value. In a landscape where there are plenty of ideas — good and bad and mixed in terms of quality, and often hard to distinguish — value tends to migrate toward what is relatively scarce. And what’s been shown to be relatively scarce right now is competent operational expertise.

Put simply, ideas are cheap and easy to create and distribute — never more so than on social media platforms. But really knowing how to get things done effectively requires a set of capabilities that are difficult to create, expensive to maintain and improve, and not something you describe in 280 characters. Pandemics and other mass emergencies and mobilizations like wars demonstrate the difference in sharp relief. The ability to execute becomes visibly more important than the ability to ideate. What’s more, the best ideas are rarely discovered in isolation from practical implementation. Improvement depends on concrete feedback from what happens when ideas are put into practice in the world. What works and what doesn’t reveals itself to operators before (and often more clearly than) it reveals itself to idea generators.

Wow! This summary has just scratched the surface of an extraordinary essay. Which is why it’s worth reading in full.

29-hour reading of Ulysses to air on RTÉ radio tomorrow!

If you’re an admirer of James Joyce (like me), tomorrow — June 16 (Bloomsday) — is the most important day of the year.

For over 20 years I’ve hosted a lunch to celebrate the writer and his wonderful novel. We gather, drink burgundy and eat gorgonzola sandwiches — just as Leopold Bloom did in Davy Byrne’s pub — at lunchtime in the novel. And read from the book.

Sadly, this year the virus has put paid to that event. I had pondered trying to do a virtual Bloomsday lunch over Zoom, but decided it was too ridiculous and depressing to contemplate.

But — here’s some good news. RTE, the Irish national broadcasting station, is going to broadcast a marathon reading of the novel, starting at 8am tomorrow, the moment when the novel opens in the Martello Tower in Sandycove, south of Dublin.

Here’s the link. Use it wisely. Hope you enjoy the day.

Quarantine diary — Day 86

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Memory Alpha
Memory Alpha
Multiple realities
(covers information from several alternate timelines)

For additional meanings of "Lieutenant", please see Lieutenant.
"Do you think it would cause a complete breakdown of discipline if a lowly lieutenant kissed a Starship Captain on the bridge of his ship?"
"Let's try... See? No change. Discipline goes on."
"I see the Federation insults us by sending a Lieutenant to greet us."
– 'Koloth, regarding Jadzia Dax', 2370 ("Blood Oath")

Lieutenant (US: /luːˈtɛnənt/ loo-TEN-ənt, UK: /lɛfˈtɛnənt/ lef-TEN-ənt) was a junior officer military rank, the equivalent of which was used by the service organizations of many civilizations. The German word for "lieutenant" was "Leutnant". (TNG: "Tapestry") The British pronunciation was "lef-tenant". (TNG: "Ship in a Bottle")

Interestingly, while "Dr." Q refers to "Leutnant Picard", in the German language dub of the episode he uses the English word, which is how it is actually scripted.

Military rank

Naval ranks

As a traditional naval ranks, lieutenant was the grade between ensign and lieutenant commander. It was used on Earth in the Royal Navy of Old Britain. (ENT: "Minefield")

The Andorian Imperial Guard in the 22nd century used the rank of lieutenant. (Star Trek: Enterprise)

From the 22nd through the 24th centuries, the Klingon Defense Force used the rank of lieutenant. (Star Trek: The Original Series; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) When Lieutenant Commander Worf, who was posing as the Klingon Commander Sorval, was confronted by an inquisitive officer aboard the IKS Drovana, he rebuffed the officer, threatening that he "will not be questioned by a Lieutenant who should be cleaning my quarters. Leave us, or I shall have you stripped of rank and sent home in a transport!" (DS9: "Sons of Mogh")

In Starfleet, during the 22nd century, the rank of lieutenant was directly between ensign and commander. (Star Trek: Enterprise) By the 23rd century, the Federation used additional grades in this transition, adding lieutenant junior grade before lieutenant, and lieutenant commander before commander. (Star Trek: The Original Series; Star Trek: The Animated Series; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Star Trek: Voyager; Star Trek: Discovery)

When Lieutenant Commander Michael Eddington left Lieutenant Reese in command of the Deep Space 9 until Sisko's return in 2372, the confused Reese felt "that it's unusual for a junior officer to be left in [charge]." Eddington then told Reese that "if you're not up to the job, I'll find someone else who is. The safety of this station may depend on you and I need to know if you can handle it." (DS9: "For the Cause")

After the USS Defiant had time travelled back to 2268 from 2373, the Defiant crew dressed in period attire in order to infiltrate the USS Enterprise. As the crew emerged from their quarters, Julian Bashir address Sisko by his original rank of Captain, but Sisko corrected him, showing his two sleeve stripes, and explained that it was "Lieutenant, actually. I didn't want to push my luck." Bashir later took this knowledge into consideration when he questioned Miles O'Brien why he thought the man that was supposedly Captain James T. Kirk was wearing lieutenant's stripes? (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")

Army ranks

In army ranks on Earth, notably the United States Army, a lieutenant was the lowest officer grade, which fell below captain. (VOY: "The Killing Game")

In Earth terms, such as the United States armed forces, infantry lieutenants were divided as first lieutenant and second lieutenant, equivalent to naval ensigns and lieutenants junior grade.
Additionally, "lieutenant" also qualified other grades to create lower grades, such as lieutenant colonel (to colonel) and lieutenant general (to general) for example.

Military lieutenants

Police rank

Seven's ID card

The New York City Police Department used the rank of lieutenant. Gary Seven had identification stating he was a lieutenant in the NYPD Homicide Squad when he was sent to Earth in 1968. (TOS: "Assignment: Earth")

Additionally, the New Sydney Police also used the rank. Fuchida was a lieutenant in 2375. (DS9: "Prodigal Daughter")

Police lieutenants

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History of Wonder Woman

Aside from Batman, Superman and Spider-Man, Wonder Woman is one of the oldest comic-book superhero character who is still making noise in the entertainment history today. In fact, she is the most popular comic-book superhero of all time. The DC Comics character first appeared in All Star Comics in 1941. And like every other superhero, she has a secret identity and a secret history.

Diana princeAs one of the longest continually published comic book character, Wonder Woman’s origins have changed over the years. However, few elements remained consistent in all her depictions like being the princess of the Amazons – a matriarchal, all-women society of Paradise Island or Themyscira – and being persuaded by a man named Steve Trevor to join him in a man’s world on a mission of diplomacy and peace. She was known as Princess Diana by the Amazonians.

A Wonder Woman film adaptation by Warner Bros. Pictures is being shown in theaters worldwide as of this writing. DC Comics Entertainment chief Diane Nelson said in a 2013 interview with The Hollywood Reporter that Wonder Woman hadn’t been featured in a high-profile adaptation in decades because her character was tricky, stating that “she doesn’t have the single, clear, compelling story that everyone knows and recognizes,” unlike Superman and Batman. But the creator of Wonder Woman had a very clear intention.

Here’s what that intention was. Wonder Woman was a brainchild of an American psychologist and writer William Moulton Marston. In 1940, comics were criticized as a “national disgrace” because it was widely read despite having depictions of violence, even sexual violence, at a time when war was damaging Europe. Maxwell Charles Gaines, inventor of comic books and founder of All-American Comics, hired Marston as a consultant to ask for expert opinion about his comics and to defend himself against the critics.

Marston has also been a professor, a lawyer and a scientist. He was the creator of the systolic blood pressure test and the lie detector test. Being a psychologist, his experiments led him to believe that women were more honest than men. Working with Gaines, he decided to create a comic book hero that would represent feminine values of kindness, honesty and compassion, without being shown as weak or submissive. He designed Wonder Woman to be a symbol of an ideal leader. Marston once wrote, “Wonder Woman is psychological propaganda for the new type of woman who should, I believe, rule the world.”  You can’t deny the popular of these tests and can find the best lie detector test uk prices.

Wonder Woman’s main weapon, the Lasso of Truth, was chosen for her as it is related to elements of Marston’s own character. As the psychologist-inventor loved learning other people’s secrets, motivating him to create the lie detector test; Wonder Woman binds her opponents with the Lasso, forcing them to reveal their innermost secrets.

Marston drew a great deal of inspiration for Wonder Woman’s character from early feminists, especially Margaret Sanger, a pioneering activist on birth control. However, he wanted to keep this inspiration as a secret. Interestingly, Marston was also a bit of a character himself. Despite being a feminist who preached virtues of womankind, he lived with two women – one of them his wife, Elizabeth Holloway; and the other his lover, Olive Byrne. Both women were apparently fine with this situation, and both provided inspiration for Wonder Woman.

Byrne met Marston when she was a senior at Tufts University in 1925. He was her psychology professor. That time, he was already married to Holloway, a lawyer. Marston and Byrne fell in love, and he asked her to move in with them, with consent from his wife. They had a polyamorous relationship. Each woman bore two children with him between 1928 and 1933, and they lived together as a family. They told census takers and other people that Byrne was Marston’s widowed sister-in-law. Holloway worked and Byrne stayed home to raise the children. Byrne’s sons didn’t know that Marston was their father until 1963, when Holloway finally admitted the truth.

Gaines didn’t know any of this when he met Marston, or else he wouldn’t have hired him. It was Marston’s wife, Holloway, who suggested to create a female heroine. Meanwhile, Wonder Woman’s Amazon bracelets were inspired by those worn by Byrne.

In 1941, Marston submitted a final draft of his first script, with explanations about Wonder Woman’s Amazonian origins where they broke free and escaped bondage from men. Wonder Woman debuted in All-Star Comics that same year, and then, on the cover of a new comic book, Sensation Comics in 1942. That time, the character was drawn by an artist named Harry Peter. Wonder Woman wore red bustier, blue underpants, knee-high red leather boots and a golden tiara. She was portrayed as a supernatural woman who left Paradise to fight fascism with feminism.

Wonder Woman’s original backstory was this: In her homeland, her official title is Princess Diana of Themyscira. According to the original creation of Marston, she was the daughter of Queen Hippolyta, who created her out of clay, and the Greek gods gave her life. She grew up among the Amazons who taught her the skills of a warrior and the lessons of love and peace.

When Steve Trevor, a US intelligence officer whose plane crashed on the Amazon’s isolated island, Wonder Woman won the right to return him and join him to the “man’s world.” She left Paradise to fight crime and the evil of the Nazis. She adopted the name Diana Prince as her civilian identity.

As Wonder Woman, she can fly and has superhuman strength like that of Superman. She was depicted as a fighter and strategist, acrobat and masterful athlete. She has different mental and psychic abilities such as telepathy, ESP, mental control over electricity in her body and ability to turn brain energy to muscle power. Her Amazon bracelets can stop bullets and wield her golden Lasso. Anyone she ropes has to tell the truth. She was also able to heal faster than a human being because she has consumed water from the Fountain of Eternal Youth in Paradise Island. She joined the Justice Society (later called Justice League) as their secretary.

Wonder Woman’s greatest weakness was to be tied up by a man. Her superpowers would be gone if she allowed her bracelets to be bound or chained by a male, in accordance with “Aphrodite’s Law.” Themes of domination and restraint was ever-present through the original adventures of the superheroine.

The story seemed good and super patriotic to Gaines. However, the National Organization for Decent Literature put Sensation Comics on its blacklist of “Publications Disapproved for Youth” in March 1942, just because Wonder Woman is scantily dressed. The comics was also accused of hints of lewdness and salaciousness, but Marston defended, “You can’t have a real woman character in any form of fiction without touching off a great many readers’ erotic fancies.”

In 1944, Gaines and Marston signed a contract for Wonder Woman to become a newspaper strip syndicated by King Features. While Marston was working with the newspaper strips, he hired an 18-year-old student Jove Hummel (now Jove Kelly) to help him write scripts for the comic books. She actually helped with Marston’s editorial problem because her stories were more innocent than his.

Marston died in 1947 due to skin cancer, keeping his family secrets with his grave. Her wife and lover continued to live together until Byrne died in 1985.

After Marston’s death, other writers had continued writing Wonder Woman, and most of them changed some aspects the character. During the Silver Age of comics books in 1958, Wonder Woman was revamped by All-American Comics writer Robert Kanigher. He increased Wonder Woman’s Hellenic and mythological roots, revising her origin as having received the blessing of gods in her crib and making her destined to be as “beautiful as Aphrodite, as wise as Athena, as strong as Hercules, and as swift as Hermes.”

In the end of the 1960s, the story was changed again by DC Comics writer and artist Mike Sekowsky. According to his version, Wonder Woman surrendered her Amazonian powers to remain in Man’s World. She used the name Diana Prince and opened a mod boutique. She hired a Chinese mentor to teach her martial arts and weapon skills.

Lynda Carter Wonder WomanWonder Woman got back her powers in 1973, and that time, her first television movie adaptation was being produced. Blonde actress Cathy Lee Crosby was casted for the title role. A year later, the Wonder Woman TV series debuted on ABC, starring Lynda Carter, who popularized the character. The series kept Wonder Woman at the forefront of popular culture until the series ended in 1979.

The Wonder Woman comic book, however, struggled to stay relevant in the 1980s. With sales continuing to decline in 1985, the book series was canceled and ended in 1986, depicting Wonder Woman’s marriage to Steve Trevor.

As the writers were having a hard time to find a firm identity for the character, DC writers tried to rewrite Wonder Woman’s identity from scratch. The character starred in the comic book crossover series, The Crisis on Infinite Earths, was released in the mid-1980s, and was written by George Perez, Len Wein and Greg Potter. Her origin was rewritten, depicting Wonder Woman as an ambassador from Themyscira to the man’s world, with a mission of bringing peace. The relaunch of the character was a critical and commercial success.

Her female oriented-origin – being formed out of clay by a woman, given life and power by women – contradicted the notion that heroism originates from tragedy and pain. The version of Wonder Woman seen from The Crisis on Infinite Earths is an example of how feminine power does not have to replicate the bloodthirsty revenge of male superhero counterparts to be sensible.

Hippolyta ComicsUnder Perez, Wonder Woman had an active body that is constantly involved in battle, as she was redressed to avoid sexual representation. But when Perez’s tenure at the comic ended in 1992, artists and authors reverted the drawing of Wonder Woman for a male audience. Under Mike Deodato, Wonder Woman’s body was the physical ideal that time. She acquired muscular arms and legs, small torso, large round breasts and flowing raven hair. The lower half of her costume was changed into a high-cut thong bottom exposing her hipbones.

In 2011, DC Comics relaunched its entire line of publications to attract a new generation of readers, launching a brand known as the New 52. Writers Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang were assigned on writing and art duties. In their version, Wonder Woman’s costume was similar to the original Marston-designed costume, and she uses a sword and shield. They also completely changed Wonder Woman’s history. In the series, Diana discovers that she wasn’t made from clay but a daughter of Zeus, making her an actual demigoddess. They portrayed the Amazonians not as powerful immortals, but as man-hating murderers. This obliterated the feminist origins of Wonder Woman and demonstrated a great misunderstanding of the character. The writers also made her romantically involved with Superman, which stirred some controversy in the DC fans community.

Wonder Woman DC RebirthAzzarello’s tenure lasted for only three years. DC’s latest revamp of their brand launched in 2016, the Rebirth, was created by writer Greg Rucka and artists Liam Sharp and Nicola Scott. Wonder Woman was returned to her original history, and the Amazons were portrayed as a complex, peace-loving sisterhood.

Wonder Woman

It seems DC made a real effort to honor Wonder Woman’s noble, feminist roots. The character is still famous until today. The debut of the 2017 Wonder Woman film has been received with far more enthusiasm than Superman and Batman, thanks to Gal Gadot’s remarkable performance.


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“Hey, watch it son!” It was a little too late when Mariam warned her then eight-year-old son who was playing with his ball outside their home. The damage had been done. Now there was no telling what she was going to do to tame the chap. It was up to Mariam and her husband to face the music. They had to approach their neighbour, apologise and explain to them that their son didn’t mean to break their car’s windscreen.

Growing up in Uganda, Mariam Mell’Osiime Mpaata knew what she wanted to become, a renowned writer, a path she is still pursuing. But that little incident of her son breaking their neighbour’s car windscreen, was her detour. Instead of taming her son, Mariam embarked on a journey that has since shaped the woman she is today. She went out looking for a safe space where her son could still keep chasing after the ball with his feet. After she got her son a playing ground, she found herself drawn to the game. It was not long before she started the Junior Stars Football Academy in Mombasa 13 years ago, to help nurture young talents like her son.

“Do men think you are crazy for wanting a share of their pie?” I engage with Mariam over a phone call.

She chuckles. “In the beginning, there were those that perceived me as inexperienced with nothing to bring to the table. They viewed my love for football as a waste of time and that it would be short-lived. Years later, I have proved a majority of them wrong, gone on to pursue a Masters in Sports Management which has allowed me to speak from an informed background. Football is such a big pie and everyone has their share and contribution to make the sport better.”

Mariam moved to Kenya, following her husband’s new posting in Mombasa city. She is a mother of four and together with her family, they have lived in Mombasa for the last 19 years. It was here that she started the Junior Stars Football Academy and also started playing football herself.

Mariam plays for the Soccer Divas Club. She ensures her head is continually covered as this is customary for a Muslim woman. She is the goalkeeper of her team. Whenever she dons her football jersey; a pair of black pants, a luminous green long-sleeved top, and a pair of those big gloves that goalkeepers put on, heads turn as she graces the pitch.

“Has your religion ever been an impeding factor to your love for football because you are a woman who must cover her body?”

“There are many conservative religions and cultures that I believe are still not comfortable with their girls playing sports, yet sports is a beautiful thing and the benefits outweigh its challenges. Sports in this era has become flexible that anyone can take part in. We have sports for the physically challenged persons who play at professional levels like the Olympics. We have seen many Muslim women and girls playing different sports in their hijab. Sports companies like Adidas started making a special hijab for Muslim women. This just shows that there is nothing impossible to workaround. I intentionally keep my hijab on during training and matches to remind young Muslim girls that the hijab can never limit them from achieving their dreams.”

When Mariam is not mentoring young girls and boys through her Junior Stars Football Academy and other initiatives, she is a sports columnist with New Vision Uganda. She uses this platform to create awareness on sports issues like management, gender equality among others. She is also authoring her sports memoir.

As a way of giving back to her community back in Uganda, Mariam started Afrika Sports Foundation Center. As the Founder and CEO of the company, she envisions that the institution will advocate and lead the revolution on sports education within the sports industry within East Africa and the rest of Africa.

“Through the Afrika Sports Foundation Centre, I hope to set up the first sports institution that will offer sports courses that can narrow the wide gap between passion and knowledge. As a woman who represents sports personalities who have endured to empower themselves, I know how costly yet relevant knowledge is. I am playing my part to have those who need access to quality, yet affordable knowledge acquire it. This is a vision I hold dearly.”

They say mothers have a special bond with their sons. Mariam attests to this. But more than having this special bond with her son who might I remind you, inspired her to get into this field, is now his mother’s biggest fan. He is no longer the eight-year-old who broke windscreens and windows. Now at 21 years, mother and son sit to discuss football like mates. The son gives his mother tips on how to be a great goalkeeper. Why not, after all, he plays at a more professional level than his mother, and he is also pursuing football studies. These two make the perfect duo.

“So, given you are Ugandan who works and lives in Kenya, which of the two countries would you say has more football fanatics?”

“Hahaha… This question is like shooting myself in the foot. But seriously, both Kenya and Uganda have the potential to have more fans, which also means more revenue for clubs. Maybe Uganda could be slightly better in this area, especially in supporting their national team. I have seen how the Ugandan National jersey is worn easily by local fans, even deep down in the villages people wear them freely. It shows some level of patriotism and love for the team. But that is not to say that Kenyan fans don’t or support their own. I think that Kenya being a bigger economy, there is a lot of potential in strengthening its football industry. This can of course be done through improved leadership and corruption-free systems. East African governments are trying but there are always gaps to be filled. In fact, the lack of collaborations and coordination between governments and federations could be a hindering block. Heavy and strategic investments in the industry will eventually result in major transformation, performances and revenue generation. There is still hope.”

As I listen to Mariam, I think to myself, there is no one who claims to love football and not be a fan of an international football club. So out of curiosity, I ask her which club she cheers for then I cross my fingers and hope she doesn’t say, Chelsea.

“Over the years I have had to settle down on a few teams, I don’t have a favourite but my heart belongs to teams for sentimental reasons. I am such an emotional supporter. If a team is losing I find myself on that side. But my heart belongs to the following teams: Chelsea is my International go-to-team (my heart sinks upon hearing this. Chelsea reminds me of a guy… I will tell you about him some other time). I am not a fanatic per se but I came to love the team because of Drogba. He is my old-time favourite player, I followed his team. I took more interest in the team before he moved. I still follow their updates from time to time. Locally, I am a fan of Bandari FC because I reside at the coast, and we have worked together in many ways to uplift coastal youth in football. In Uganda, my favourite team is KCCA FC. Somehow it is because when I dated my husband 23 years ago, he was a fanatic of this team, he took me to watch a heated match between KCCA FC and Express Villa. Somehow, I followed them because he did. But my love for the team grew to leaps after they agreed to host the first Ugandan edition of the Global Goals World Cup in 2020, a tournament for women to advocate for Sustainable development goals. Since then I have been a true fan. I also love the young players of Junior Stars Football Academy. They are my favourite little champs.”

I try to dazzle Mariam with my knowledge of football because I am also a fan of the game and also because I know a few English football clubs like Man-U (haters go on and hate). Even though my love for football doesn’t match hers, I give it up to Mariam for taking her love to the next level and inspire so many young people in the field of sports. A field she is turning heads every time she walks into a pitch either as a player or a mentor. A field she uses to give young girls and boys hope that once you have a dream, you become unstoppable. A field that allows her to bring her seat at the table and have men listen to her because she has something to contribute.

As we celebrate Women’s Day, Mariam is a reminder that the world needs more women who dare to shift the narrative and chase after unthinkable dreams.

“The world is yours to take, go on and win that golden boot someday”, I say to Mariam.

Have you ever thought of how the world would be without women? Incomplete, right? Why don’t you take time today if you forgot to do so yesterday, and celebrate the women in your life.

Happy Women’s Day!

  1. Wow, this is beautifully written Mercy!

    Mariam keep up the great work.

    1. Thank you for the story. Much appreciated. Wishing every woman, a wonderful happy women's day and month. Let us continue to challenge our comfort zones.

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Traffic Stop: An officer conducted a traffic stop and issued three citations. The driver had three traffic warrants out of Las Vegas. The driver was placed into custody and booked on the traffic citations.

Trespassing: Officer responded to a local business regarding a trespassed subject. Officer confirmed the subject had in fact been trespassed from the property and was taken into custody.

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Suspicious Person/Circumstance: An officer responded to a report of a suspicious circumstance in a W. Mesquite Blvd. casino parking lot. Two subjects were identified and issued citations for drug paraphernalia.

Traffic accident W/O injury: Officer responded to the area of Sandhill Boulevard and Hillside Drive on a report of a two car collision. Both drivers refused medical treatment and one citation was issued.

Traffic accident W/O injury: Police responded to a single vehicle non-injury traffic accident. A report was taken.

Wanted person: Officer observed an adult male with an outstanding warrant entering a local casino. Officer took the male into custody.

Trespassing: Officers responded to an E. Pioneer Blvd. casino for a belligerent female who was arguing with security and refused to leave. The female was read the trespass warning and shortly after arrested for trespassing.

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Theft: Officer responded to an Admiral Benbow Way neighborhood on a report of item removed from a house under construction. Report was taken.

Theft: Officer responded to a W. Mesquite Blvd. casino on a report of theft from the gift shop. Officer obtained all surveillance and documentation and a report was generated.

Found Property: Officer responded to the court house on a report of found property. Officer took possession of two cell phones.

Found Property: An officer responded to the lobby in reference to found property.

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Battery on Person: Officers responded to a W. Mesquite Blvd. casino reference a battered adult patron; a report was taken.

Traffic Stop: Officer observed vehicle driving at a high rate of speed. Upon conducting a traffic stop, the officer smelled marijuana in the vehicle. The driver admitted he had less than an ounce of marijuana and didn’t have a medical marijuana card. The driver stated he had left work and was heading home. The driver was cited and released.

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Traffic accident W/O injury: Mesquite Officers responded to Marilyn Pkwy in reference to a single vehicle traffic accident. The driver was released with a citation.

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Fraud: An Officer took a report of an attempted fraud by a telephone call. Information was received and a report completed.

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Released on June 1, 2018, Prequelle debuted at #3 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart, #2 Top Current Album, #1 Rock, and #1 Vinyl, with over 65,700 albums sold. The fastest selling, highest charting album of the band’s career also debuted at #1 in Sweden, Norway, and Finland, #2 in Germany, #3 in France, #1 at Rock in the UK, and in the Top 10 overall in the UK, Australia, and Mexico.

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Tabascan poet Carlos Pellicer, Pinocchio and the Paralympians were all given an airing

The president must have woken slightly jaded in his room at the National Palace. A turbulent seven days had seen him avoid hurricanes, negotiate a political spat and narrowly avoid a hostage situation. He’d arrived back to tranquility on Sunday.

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Hurricanes were proving hard to shake: this time Hurricane Nora had hit the Pacific. Civil Protection chief Laura Velázquez Alzúa informed that the gales had affected six states and 355,000 electricity users. She reported the death of one minor in Puerto Vallarta on August 29 where a hotel partially collapsed.

The customary whistlestop tour of infrastructure projects, by video presentation, featured a far-flung entry. A short clip detailed the military’s folkloric ballet appearance at the International Festival of Military Music from Red Square, Moscow.

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He added there had been 32 homicides in the state over the weekend.

To inaugurate the return to classes, Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum appeared on screen to announce 90% of the capital’s schools had successfully reopened their doors. A chain of presentations came in from around the country to indicate the smooth success of the academic return. Unfortunately, the transmissions themselves belied that smooth impression, and a virtual tour around the nation’s governors and educational authorities rather resembled a comedy of errors.

During the health rounds on Tuesday COVID point man Hugo López-Gatell said estimated cases had been declining for a month and that the trend was set to continue, while 65% of the adult population had received a first shot.

Gas Bienestar, the new state LP gas company, was launching in Iztapalapa, Mexico City. Mayor Sheinbaum, Iztapalapa Mayor Clara Brugada and Pemex CEO Octavio Romero Oropeza all lent their voices to the launch over video link.

Pemex chief Octavio Romero.
Pemex chief Octavio Romero.

Later in the conference, the president offered a teaser from his new book A la mitad del camino, or Halfway There. In an old conversation with his predecessor Enrique Peña Nieto, his rival had expressed his dismay at the disloyalty of those in elite circles: “In an exchange with president Peña … he told me he felt betrayed because he’d given them so much, he’d attended so well to those at the top and they had acted to betray him,” AMLO said.

But for now, the president had another guest to attend to. The former governor of Tabasco, Adán Augusto, recently promoted to interior minister, was meeting AMLO for breakfast. “Some chanchamitos and chocolate with cacao from Tabasco, because we are from the republic of cacao. That’s what [Tabascan poet] Pellicer said: ‘I’m from the republic of cacao, first day of Cortés, last night of Cuauhtémoc.’ At some point, I’ll explain what all that means,” said the president, shortly before striding away to attend to the nation.

Some observers were left to a lonely morning coffee on Wednesday when no mañanera was broadcast. Instead, AMLO offered his third annual report to the nation later in the day from the National Palace.

He opened the address by attacking the “neoliberal farce” and privatization of state assets that had accompanied it. He touted success in infrastructure projects and energy, the vaccine program, the return to classes, and pointed to positive economic indicators.

On crime, where the administration has had mixed results, he highlighted a massive 95% drop in the theft of fuels, but could only boast a 0.5% fall in homicides.

Austerity, he said, was a flagship achievement of the administration: “We have saved 1.4 trillion pesos in purchases and contracts,” he said, and repeated his claim that 98 of his 100 promises made when entering office had been fulfilled. Only decentralizing government institutions and definitively solving the Ayotzinapa massacre remained.

AMLO added that he could already leave office with his conscience in check, but still urged voters to support the continuation of his mandate at the polls in March.

In fact, he said he felt so comfortable with his work so far that when he eventually wraps up, he expects to say: “Mission accomplished! I’m going to Palenque, I leave you my heart.”

In an early announcement, legal counsel Julio Scherer Ibarra would step back from public service. “He’s like my brother,” the president said. In Scherer’s place would come another ally, Estela Ríos.

Congratulations flowed for the Paralympians in Tokyo, who had achieved a 14th medal. And then, to the lies of the week with Ana Elizabeth García Vilchis: “Let’s see the pinocchios,” summoned the president.

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Contrary to reports, García said, a new hospital in Guerrero would be fully equipped; Ricardo Anaya was not being unfairly persecuted; Spaniards were not in fear of an invasion by AMLO despite a Vicente Fox tweet to that effect; Gas Bienestar cylinders were all ship shape.

Is dialogue with the CNTE teacher’s union broken? a journalist asked: union members had refused AMLO passage to his morning news conference in Chiapas on Friday.

“We don’t have disagreements with anyone,” replied AMLO, “but we don’t accept blackmail.”

Before Scherer’s departure from public view, a journalist had a plea. “I wanted to request to Mr. Scherer that from his private practice, wherever he goes, he helps us with the Mechanism for the Protection of Journalists, because they are killing three colleagues every month.”

“I’m going to continue supporting in any way I can, always serving the president and always serving this government in which I wholly trust,” the lawyer affirmed.

Representatives from Red Cross México were in attendance on Friday. They requested help in their “battle” on the fronts of natural disasters and COVID-19. Mexico City Mayor Sheinbaum offered her presence for the third time of the week — this time in person — to support the drive.

The president nearly moved on the conference a little too hastily: “What’s missing … Oh, the collection,” before taking out a well concealed bill and popping it in a Red Cross purse.

A journalist called foul on public projects. The Toluca-Mexico City train had cost 94 billion pesos and should have cost 30; the Guadalajara train had cost 34 billion pesos, double what was estimated, he said.

“We’re going to investigate it,” replied the president.

Later in the conference, AMLO revealed the presence of far-right Spanish politicians: “Yesterday some extremists came from [the Spanish political party] Vox. They met with the National Action Party … a hand kissing in the Senate, really shameful,” he declared.

The president left in a hurry, this time to his homeland of Tabasco. He’d then move on to other states but left journalists guessing on the details.

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We are proud of the Japanese heritage and financial strength our parent company gives us. We are focused on providing mobility solutions for the European market and MHC Mobility is backed by the decades of experience our people and operations have in this sector.

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So to start this out, I need to establish some context: Over the past three or four days, I've been having internet issues at home. Particularly, with the upload connection.

With that in mind, early Sunday evening I was messing around and testing some off-site streaming decoders. I needed to send out a stream to test with, but quickly realized that wasn't a very feasible option with my internet in the state that it was.

However, out of curiosity, turning to my recent experience with the SRT protocol, I decided to try something just to see if it would work, and the results shocked me.

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I would recommend that you check out the videos in full-screen for clarity.

Also please mind that the controls don't block anything on screen, as there's a few points in the videos where information is displayed at the very bottom of the screen.

So to start out, lets take a look at my upload-speed prior to this little experiment, taken just minutes before on the same PC, same connection.

There's one additional thing to note, I'll be using a lot of latency with SRT. SRT allows you to define latency, and I'm taking advantage of that here. I'm not an expert, but it seems like the latency relates to some sort of buffer.

You can adjust the latency as shown in the video, the latency is measured in micro-seconds.

Update: Someone in a Facebook group that I shared this article in mentioned that the max supported latency of SRT, per the specification, is 8 seconds. Based on some quick Googling, this seems right. 20ms minimum, 8000 ms maximum. I haven't checked in any technical sheets. But it's what every manufacturer and developer has listed on their site, so I'm going with it. Keep things at 8 seconds or less. I used 10 seconds in this test, and 12 in others, but this was just a test, better safe than sorry in a production.

And of course, we'll want to discuss the encoding settings. They'll be the same for both the SRT and RTMP tests: H.264, Superfast, 2.3 Mbps, 1280x720p, 96 kbps audio. Pretty standard stuff. Part of the reason I used OBS for this test is that it allows more precise tuning of encoding for SRT.

The encoding settings look like this

So with that out of the way, lets get to the experiment: Streaming on this connection, reliably, with two different protocols: RTMP, and SRT.

And now on to the show, first up RTMP, lets see how it performs

RTMP Streaming Test

It's...not good. In fact it's unusable, over 90% of the frames sent to the CDN were dropped, as expected, we're trying to push 2.3 Mbps down a connection that's fluctuating between 400 and 900 Kbps, and God only knows what the packet-loss and jitter is like.

But, just for laughs, we're going to try the test again with SRT, and as discussed previously, we're going to give it a bunch of latency, 10 seconds in this instance.

SRT Streaming Test

It's kind of night and day isn't it? One works and one...doesn't. But more than that, the SRT stream is actually pretty flawless. There's very little quality degradation and, aside from the increased latency, it looks just like a regular RTMP stream would in this instance.

I can't explain how this works; how I was able to effectively push 2.3 Mbps through a pipe that was being throttled down to 400 Kbps at times. I guess it's a combination of the latency, buffer, and error-correction.

I likewise cannot guarantee this will be the case for you, or be replicable over time. But I've had similar experiences with SRT previously, and as someone that deals with a lot of customers broadcasting from rural areas, this is very encouraging. I'll continue experimenting with what can be accomplished with this protocol in relation to bandwidth-challenged situations.

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Now that’s a different matter, if I believe Yah created me, intending that I live according to His laws and in harmony with His creation, If I believe that Yah made an investment in me, then who am I to refuse the return on His investment, I owe, and I should pay, and therefore the denial of that payment is theft.

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A good servant is on hand when needed, in the right place at the right time with the right tools and the knowledge to use them.   He does not ask his master why? He does what is required to the best of his ability and is thankful for his compensation when it arrives.

The world teaches us to demand, to question and to interpret.   Yah does not need our opinions, He knows this world and this life somewhat better than we do; he made it lock, stock and bible.

When we treat Yah with contempt, and when we treat his possessions and people with distain and his scriptures with scorn then we are stealing from Him that essence of Him that has given us this whole life.   That essence which gives us a body and a consiousness with which we can enjoy it, and a life that we can give back to Him because it was never ours to begin with.

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Month: July 2021

Blackberry Festival Family Date Night

Are you trying to squeeze the last bit of family fun into the remaining days of summer?  Why not plan a family date night?  Our family headed out to Wild Blackberry Farms for the inaugural Blackberry Festival.   While it can be difficult (but oh so worth it!) to find a night that works in everyone’s schedule, this was so worth the planning of our Blackberry Festival family date night!

I’ve had many people ask me how we knew about this particular festival.  I agree that it is hard to know about every fun event around you, but it led me to look into festival informational sites.  Each state has many local resources, but I also found a couple of sites that you can search all 50 states….

Blackberry Festival Family Date Night Activities ~

U-Pick Blackberries ~

This particular festival was a smaller fare, but not short on fun family activities.  We started out with the U-pick blackberries.  I wasn’t sure how much the younger ones would enjoy this part, but they loved it!  We had a quick lesson on which berries were ready to pick and everyone headed out with their buckets.  They had so much fun searching the rows for the ripest berries!  Also important here is that it kept them entertained for quite a long time!

What was even better was they could pick down low on their own while also enjoying a little help up from the family members.

Face Painting ~

This is the part of the festival that the littles were looking forward to the most.  In fact, it was so much fun that kids AND adults got in on the fun.  Aunt Karleigh and Pappy had their faces painted to match the kids, which made them so happy!

Food Trucks, Family Games, Petting Zoo, Photo Opps ~

Whether you are on a diet or not, you HAVE to eat the festival food!  Am I right?   So many yummy choices from lemon shakeups to bbq sandwiches of all kinds!  Of course, if you look closely at this picture you will see that some blackberries were definitely enjoyed along the way as well!

Other Family Date Night Ideas ~

While I definitely recommend festivals for a fun family date night, don’t let that keep you from planning other fun activities.  Plan a family date night once a month.  This a routine that will defnitely help to forge strong family bonds.  **On these special nights, be sure to put those phones out of place and concentrate on the family unit!

Family Date Night Ideas ~
  • Park Hopping – take a bit of time to map out local parks and go to several of them in one day.  It’s so much fun to see what equipment each park has to offer and discover which is each child’s favorite.
  • Splash Party – Put those bathing suits on…you too parents…and have some good old water fun.  Have plenty of squirt guns, water balloons, maybe a slip and slide and a small kids pool (for both swimming and refilling those water guns) on hand.
  • Bowling – Have you done this in a while?  For some reason we had ventured away from bowling and recently got back to it….the kids LOVE to bowl!
  • Scavenger Hunt – You can plan a scavenger hunt in your own house or yard or better yet, break off into teams and run around the neighborhood looking for items.
  • Glow in the Dark Fun – Purchase some glow sticks and glow jewelry (they almost always have them at the Dollar Store) and turn out all the lights for some fun family glow in the dark fun!  Add in some dancing or hide and seek!
  • Backyard Movies – There is a large assortment of video projectors available.  I do suggest going ahead and purchasing one with a screen as well.  I tried the cheaper route at first and tried to use a white sheet…the image wasn’t sharp enough with that.  Check out this video projector with screen for outdoor family fun!

  • Family Cooking – Plan, Cook and Eat the meal together.  Be sure to let the little ones help with the cooking…they will love it.  For extra fun, add some fun candles and pick some flowers from the yard for a beautifully set table.
  • Dance Party – You guys, this is a win-win here!  Not only will there be lots of giggles, but it’s a good workout too!
  • Family Puzzle – My all-time favorite puzzles are the ones that have different size pieces so everyone can take part in the puzzle.  Check out this fun family puzzle with small, medium, and large sized pieces!

  •  Family Room Sleepover – Gather ALL of the blankets and pillows and make a big living room fort…but you also ALL have to sleep in it!  Have fun!

These are just a few fun ideas to create family fun.  The most important part of all of it is that everyone engages, you add in some good munchies and put down those phones.  Have some laugh until your belly aches fun with those kids!

Back To Those Yummy Blackberries ~

The fun continues as we decide what yummy recipes we are going to make with our buckets of blackberries.  Of course, we head straight to Pinterest!  Wow!  Seriously, do a quick search on blackberry recipes!  How do you decide on what you want to make?  I think I may have to figure out how to succesfully plant our own blackberry patch because I want to make SO MANY of these recipes!

This time around we are going with the Old Fashioned Blackberry Cobbler.  I prefer the cobblers where you cook the berries like this recipe from Saving Room for Dessert…Old Fasioned Blackberry Cobbler by Saving Room for Dessert.  I will be sure to let you know how it turns out!

Cheeres to each of you enjoying the rest of your summer and some good family fun!

From Our Family to Yours ~

Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes that are Ahhh…mazing!

You may already have a scalloped potato recipe that you love.  However, do yourself and your family a favor and give this recipe a try!  Then once you try it, please come back and let me know if it is the new family favorite.  This recipe has been handed down through my family for years, and I decided to be very nice and share.  These, my friends, are cheesy scalloped potatoes that are ahhh…mazing!

It’s been a family debate over whether we should share special recipes.  One common belief is that if you keep the recipe secret everyone looks forward to you  bringing that special dish to family gatherings, right?  While this is indeed true, I am here to attest that your are still thought of when someone else makes your recipes.  I can’t tell you how many times I have made a special dish and stated to everyone, “Now you guys are going to love this because it is so and so’s famous recipe!”

Helpful Tips ~

There are a couple of different secrets I am going to share with you.  Mainly, just because I’m a nice gal! 😏

  1. This recipe is best if you cut the potato slices thicker.  You may be asking yourself, “If I make them thick, how can I ensure they will get done all the way when baking?”  There, my friend, is the first secret.  You need to parboil your slices.  Parboiling can be tricky because if you overcook them they will get too soft.  I truly can’t give you a specific amount of time needed because it depends on how many potatoes you are using.  I use the old fashioned fork test.  After about 5 minutes of boiling, I consistently and gently poke one of the potatoes with the fork to see if it is slightly soft.
  2. You are going to cook the sauce over the stove and then pour it over the potatoes in 2 layers.  Many people just layer cold cheese, however, by making a sauce you are creating a much more flavorful and saucy potato dish.
  3. Timing everything while cooking is one of the hardest things to learn for new cooks.  Once you put your potatoes on to parboil, you should start your cheese sauce.

How to Make Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes ~

Ingredients ~
  • 10-15 Medium Sized Russet Potatoes – sliced thick
  • 32 Ounce Block (2 lb) Colby Cheese -cubed
  • 2 Cans of Cream of Mushroom Soup
  • 2 Cans Milk (using cream of mushroom soup can)
  • Salt & Pepper – to taste
Directions ~
  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. Peel and slice potatoes.
  3. Parboil sliced potatoes for 10-15 minutes.  Check for softness with fork starting at about 5 minutes.  The time needed will vary according to thickness of potatoes.  You want them to be slightly soft.
  4. While potatoes are boiling cut cheese into cubes.
  5. Mix cheese cubes, soup and milk in pan.  Cook over medium heat until completely melted, stirring occasionally so mixture doesn’t burn.
  6. Spray a 9 X 13 casserole dish with cooking spray.
  7. Drain potatoes.  Place half of cooked potatoes in casserole dish.
  8. Top with half of cheese mixture and salt and pepper to taste.
  9. Layer remaining potatoes on top of cheese mixture and then top with remaining cheese.  Sprinkle again with salt and pepper to taste.
  10. Bake for 45 minutes to an hour.  We like ours with the cheese browned quite a bit so I bake it for the longer amount of time.
More Tips for those Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes that are Ahhh…mazing ~
  • If your casserole dish is filled to the top, place it on a foil lined baking sheet to catch spillage of cheese as it melts.
  • Since parboiling potatoes can be tricky to get the perfect consistency, I always insert a fork into my casserole when done to ensure they are completely cooked through.  If they still seem a bit hard but your top is browned, put foil over them and bake for 15 minutes or so longer.
  • Since you are parboiling the potatoes, there is no reason to cover with foil when first baking.  However, see bullet above for example of when you may need foil.

I get requests to make this recipe ALL THE TIME.  I sometimes feel like I should stop making them for awhile because I don’t want people to get bored with the side dishes.  However, they just keep requesting them.  This alone tells you how awesome they really are!

Also, if you are thinking that your family may not like them because it is Cream of Mushroom soup, stop thinking that right now.  If it is that big of an issue just don’t let them know what is in it.  I promise you that once you make that cheese sauce, they will have NO idea!

What’s even better is that these potatoes can be paired with so many different meat items.  In fact, they would go awesome with the Smoked Poor Man Burnt Ends that I wrote about…see that by clicking here!  Heck, there are times we warm them up the next day (that is IF there are any leftovers) and have just potatoes for dinner!

As always, good food keeps people coming back….so be sure to give this one a try!

Printable Version of Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes that are Ahhh…mazing ~

Happy Cooking ~

Shark Week 2021

It’s almost here guys!  Shark Week 2021 begins July 11 and we are pumped!!!  Are you ready for an exciting week filled with new reasearch on the  amazing world of sharks?  For the 33rd year, Discovery Channel will be airing programs hosted by many celebrities to help us better understand the behavior of sharks and respect the “fin-tastic” world they live in!

It was a bit of a struggle for me to find a schedule of all the programs to be aired in a nice little chart format.  I’ve finally decided that I have looked so hard for it on the Discovery channel that at this point I am staring right at it and not seeing it.  I’m sure you understand what I am saying, right?  Further search led me to the TV Insider website where I found a layout by days of the week that I felt is easy to follow.  Click here to see the TV Insider nicely laid out Shark Week schedule…

Of course, how do we completely enjoy this special week without some fun food and crafts to go along with it???  We started a few crafts early so we could share with everyone.  Read through some of the old posts as well as this new one to bring some jaw-some fun to Shark Week 2021!

Shark Week 2021 Crafts ~

Starting with the old posts first, “dive in” to some of these below to start gathering ideas for fun food and crafts:

Now, let’s move forward to the first of this year’s crafts.  The paper plate shark puppet made a real “splash” with the kiddos.  One of the things I learned while doing these is you need to think ahead when painting anything so that you leave time for them to dry (especially because kids tend to paint very thick).  Keep this in mind when working on the one!

Items Needed ~

  • Paper Plate
  • Hole Punch
  • Paint (colors of your choice)
  • Paint Brushes
  • Yarn
  • Marker
  • Googly Eyes
  • Scissors
  • Tape
  • Wax Paper or Newspaper
  • Hot Glue
  • Popsicle Stick or Tongue DepressorHot

Instructions for Paper Plate Shark ~

  1. Cut the middle ring of the paper plate out.  Save this piece as you will be using it to make parts of the shark.
  2. Draw lines as shown in this figure below.  All sections will be used to complete the craft.  As always, don’t worry about perfection here.  They will turn out adorable, I promise!
  3. Cut along all lines.  The bottom curved section be used for the mouth (which you will cut teeth into).  The other 3 sections will be used for pectoral and dorsal fins.   This is why I stress perfection is not key.  Let the kids do the cutting!
  4. Spread out a long sheet of wax paper (or newspaper) for this next step.  We used another paper plate and squirted colors of choice on the plates for kids to work from.  Lay each of the sections of the paper plate across the wax paper and let the kids start painting.  Encourage them to get creative!
  5. Let all painted pieces dry.  We moved on to another craft (shown below) while we “patiently” waited for our works of art to dry.
  6. Once dry, punch holes along the inside rim of the paper plate.   Make at least 8 to 10 holes.
  7. Cut long strands of yarn of choice.  You don’t want these to be too long or it will be hard for the kids to work with.  We cut them about 12 to 18″.
  8. String yarn up through one hole in the plate.  Pull completely through until you have a small section (about 1/2″) left on the underside of the plate.  Tape that section down to the bottom of the plate to hold yarn in place.
  9. It is very helpful if you tie a knot in the end of the yarn that the kids are holding and pulling through the holes.  This helps their little fingers to get it through the holes better and also helps with the yarn fraying.
  10. Have them continue to pull the yarn up and down through the holes (working from inside the plate) until they have a small section of yarn left.  Tape that section to the bottom of the plate too.  You can then stop there or if they want to “sew” some more, cut them another piece of yarn and let them continue to fill the inside of the plate with yarn.
  11. Hot glue the fins to the underside of the plate and the googly eyes and shark teeth to the yarn sections of the plate.
  12. Hot glue a tongue depressor to the bottom of the plate.  It is helpful to write their names on the tongue depressor for future arguments of which one belongs to whom.  This also makes it into a very fun shark puppet!

Fun Variations ~

You can also let the kids paint the entire paper plate before you do any cutting.  This allows for them to not get paint scattered more when painting the smaller pieces.  They can also use stampers and such to make fun designs on their sharks.  In the first picture of this blog, the stick part of the paint brush was used to make fun polka dots!

Let the children mix two colors of yarn to “sew” with to make a more colorful shark.  We stuck with blue and gray but you can, of course, get as colorful as you would like.

If you don’t have googly eyes, cut circles out of another paper plate or some paper and let the kids create their own shark eyes.

We used colored tongue depressors, but you can also use plain and paint them yourselves.

Stay tuned for the second sharky post this week for directions on another exciting Shark Week 2021 craft!  I hope you enjoy learning about these fantastic creatures as much as we do!

I will leave you with these fun jokes to share ~

Q:  What did the shark say after he was accused of eating a human?

A:  Not gill-ty!

Q:  What do you get when you cross a shark with a snowman?

A:  Frostbite!

Have a Fin-tastic week guys!

Much Love~

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April 19, 2019 | Published by Matej Pacan

Great plugin, but I don’t think there’s support for BungeePerms. The Prefixes and Suffixes don’t show up, so the entire chat shows up white if the chat plugin controls chat. Are you able to add support for BP?

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Fried Sea Scallops Recipe From The 'School Of Fish' CookbookWinter is coming and along with it scallop season. Try Ben Pollinger's recipe for fried sea scallops.
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