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Neil Young, The Who, & More Shows To Catch This Week

Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Patti Smith, Everest: Barclays Center, December 3, $69.35
There are more benefits to having a new Brooklyn stadium than a winning basketball team, and tonight's show with Neil Young and Patti Smith is one of them. The two artists should have no problem filling the arena, and it should be especially thrilling to hear Neil Young's voice drift out of that massive PA. Get your lighters ready.
Monday, December 3, 7:30 p.m. Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Avenue (at Flatbush Avenue); Brooklyn; 212-359-6387.
Japandroids, DIIV: Webster Hall, December 4 and 5, $15
If you haven't yet experienced the hour-long sing-along that is Japandroids' live set, you're missing out on one of the most life-affirming experiences in music. Fear not: The Vancouver pop-punk duo will be playing two nights this week at Webster Hall, giving you more than enough chances to fist pump and spill beer on your friends. Also, don't miss opening act DIIV — their always-great live set just keeps getting better. Tuesday and Wednesday, December 4 and 5, 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East 11th Street (between 3rd and 4th avenues); 212-353-1600.
Marina & The Diamonds, Icona Pop: Terminal 5, December 1, $27
Marina Diamandis has exploded over the past year with the release of her new album, Electra Heart, and her live show is the best possible way to get a sense of her beatifully realized pop. Openers Icona Pop don't have "pop" in their name for nothing, and their explosive live set is chock of searing synths and killer choruses. If you can't make it thursday, both bands are also playing again at The Paramount the following night.
Thursday, December 6, 7 p.m., Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street (between 11th and 12th avenues); 212-582-6600.
Up for more? Here are some bonus shows:
December 3: Diamond Rings plays Bowery Ballroom.
December 4: Trinidad Jame$ plays Santos Party House.
December 5: Star Slinger plays Glasslands.
December 5 :The Who play Madison Square Garden.
December 5: Bear in Heaven and Small Black play Music Hall of Williamsburg.
December 6: The Immaculates, The Numerators, Habibi, The Neighbors play Big Snow.
December 6: Simian Mobile Disco play Webster Hall.
December 7: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert at the Wellmont Theatre.
December 7: Mykki Blanco, Autre Ne Veut, Oneohtrix Point Never (DJ Set) play 285 Kent.
December 7: Hurricane Sandy Benefit: Tom Scharpling, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Chris Elliot, John Hodgman, Jon Benjamin, Julie Klausner, Andrew W.K. play the Bell House.
December 8: Hurricane Sandy Benefit: Yeah Yeah Yeahs play Union Pool.
December 8: The Rolling Stones play Barclays Center.
December 8: 2 Chainz plays Roseland Ballroom.
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Lorenzo Martone's (AKA Mr. Marc Jacobs) Fashion Week Snaps

Why are the good ones always hitched? Sadly, Lorenzo Martone isn't ours for keeps, but we did get him to share his fave moments from fall '10 New York Fashion Week. The Brazilian ad exec seemed to be everywhere, hanging with the Ruffian boys, sitting front row at Yigal Azrouel, and mingling backstage at Fashion For Relief. There's no pictures of husband Marc Jacobs, but that's okay. We don't want to share him anyways.

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Join us for a casual evening of networking with active professionals in the OT field on November 9th from 5:30 - 6:30 pm. Enjoy drinks and appetizers while learning about various OT careers, available specialties and employment organizations in the area. This event is well-suited for aspiring students curious about the field and current students preparing for graduation ready to launch their careers.


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Cataloguing and the monster under the bed

Oh, hi! I didn’t see you there. Imagine me peering over a mountain of works of art, many on paper, many framed, many on canvases of a range of sizes. That was how it was. Is. Won’t be soon.

I have a monster under my bed – perhaps I can even write that as past tense now – I had a monster under my bed. The monster is my own art work and it grew and grew with every piece I completed until it terrified me day and night, ate some of its own (we’ll call that “storage related damage”), and generally became the most ignored part of my working life. Well, that and my bookkeeping, but that’s for another post entirely.

This monster has been made smaller, teeth filed down, claws trimmed and buffed to a presentable sheen. In fact, the monster who scared me so for so long is almost not a monster at all anymore, but rather an increasingly organised series of stored works of art, ready and catalogued for sale.

I have a serious aversion to spreadsheets, data, numbers, and the like. Hardcore anxiety ensues when I am in proximity of anything resembling accounting. I am a creative, dammit, not an accountant. Well, I’m becoming a little of both through the painful exercise of getting my shit together and I couldn’t have done it without my best friend, Pete. See, where I fall down, he stands tall. Numbers, spreadsheets, graphs… he eats it up. It feeds his brain and data in his hands becomes a purring kitten rather than that monster I see.

Through a stressful few sessions involving hours of properly preserving and storing, thumbnail snapping, measuring, and data entry of my art, I now have the beginnings of a proper business. Oh, I was and am a selling artist and teacher/tutor already, but now?
Now I can do business.
I have not managed this level of proactive business organisation in my life, let alone the last nearly two years of ramping up my body of work.

Turns out, I have a shocking number of good, saleable pieces. I have stuff I forgot about. I have tens of thousands of pounds of viable merchandise. Who knew?! I sure didn’t. And how does one market and sell what one doesn’t know about? Yeah, doesn’t work, y’all. But now I have a fighting chance.

I’m still cataloguing work today, unaided, and without managerial prodding. Feels good. I am not a cowering ball of anxiety in the corner about my mountain of work anymore. You have no idea how liberating that feels and how confident I’ve become in just a few days. Also interesting to me is the way I can now see on a graph the price curve of my portfolio and where I might want to target when creating future works. That’s useful. I never knew I could have that kind of information available to me. I was too busy seeing the sharp teeth of that monster.

Thanks, Pete. I couldn’t have done it without you. I would’ve exploded with anxiety in this process on my own. In fact, I have in the past. A few times. Hence, my giving it up and drowning in my own work and fear.
I promise I’ll make it up to you. How about in sales?

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The Refugee Opportunity

Robin Low • 8 July 2017

Recently, I was in NYC to meet up with several friends from the UN and since it was World Refugee Day, I visited a friend who hosted an event on Refugees. At the event, I met several other people whom I've met before at World Economic Forum in Davos, and they invited me to Speak at the Klosters Forum.

NYC Event

I've met many Syrian Refugees and I have many Syrian friends who have families in these Refugee camps all over Europe and the Middle East. I've worked with Disaster Survivors and they too are forms of refugees and this whole refugee situation is getting to be one of the top problems on my radar to work on.

Who are refugees?

A refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. A refugee has a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group.

There are also refugees who have left their homes as the environment became hostile due to natural or man made disasters. They are also known as Internally Displaced People (IDP).

The UN estimates that more than 1 billion people globally are refugees due to conflict, environmental degradation, and lack of economic opportunity. Factors as varied as conflict in Syria, civil strife in Burundi and El Salvador, rising sea levels in Louisiana, and droughts in India all have contributed to this total.

Six million people have been displaced in the last twenty-four months alone. The EU has allocated $6 billion this year in charitable aid to meet the basic needs of displaced people both within, and outside of, its borders. The US spends an additional $5-10 billion per year resettling refugees and asylum seekers, providing temporary assistance, medical care, housing, and more.

Change is constant. The sea level is rising, weather patterns are changing and the most vulnerable people who are already living in poverty are affected most.

On top of that, conflicts seem to be increasing, and economic discrimination leaves victim with no opportunities. This situation is not just going to go away. In fact, it will only get worse.

The current system is not working and our apathy may create a situation when we realize that we need to act but the problem will become so bad that we ourselves get affected.

I've engaged with survivors from the various disasters I've been to and I've met the Syrian refugees in Europe. One common theme that I've experience is the "Curse of Exclusion" -- the skilled human capacities of these survivors are wasted. This is not about giving or donating. This is not about aid or resettlement.

When are constantly talk about disruption, people spend their ideas and funds to create the next billion dollar company. Others will speculate their savings on stocks or even cryptocurrencies. However, I feel strongly that the crisis of wasted human capacities is costing the world more than what we can afford.

The Refugee Opportunity

We should lift the curse and look at refugees in a different light. Many of these people are survivors. They have survived despite all odds and can contribute their skills and abilities to humanity.

Here are some facts:

  • Refugees are a diverse group. (They have different skills, experiences and cultures)
  • Refugees are escaping a variety of hardships.
  • Conflict is the largest cause of displacement
  • Environmental degradation is an emerging threat for 50 million people.
  • Economic discrimination leaves victims with no opportunities
  • Becoming a refugee cripples dignity and prosperity. (Most of them lost all their physical belongings to escape their fate, but their capacities remain)

If we can utilize human capacities and maximize their potential, there are great opportunities to be found, but the current system is failing us, there is not enough resettlement options, "refugees" become a political point where many unethical politicians leverage on it to create a climate of fear -- and fear sells. Lastly, aid and nonprofits are not able to generate enough revenue to create sustainable economic activities for all the refugees.

The current situation is rather bleak. I've spoken to several Syrian friends and many of them had family or friends in these camps who had suicidal thoughts. Syrians are proud people, and culturally, they work for everything they own and are not used to receiving aid. Being in the camp with no economic activities is making many professionals who were middle class very depressed. Being labeled "Refugees" does not help either.

Perhaps it is time for us to work on solutions or to change the "refugee" labels. Many Syrian refugees actually have a lot to contribute if given the chance. There is a great opportunity to use these spare human capacities if we could be creative, and not doing so is a crisis of imagination.

With all the talk about disruptive technologies and crowdsourcing and the maker/DIY movement, the failure to find solutions for the broken system is a crisis of imagination. It is important to empower the refugees some options for them to learn new skills and work on solutions. They can work on solutions to create startups to support others or learn skills to find jobs to support themselves, and when it is possible for them to leave the camps, they can act on these opportunities immediately.

The technology and tools are probably all present. We need bold ideas and a change in mindset to view the refugees as an opportunity to work with them and partner them to build a better future for all.

-- Robin Low

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Gager stated, "Nothing creates good permanent jobs like the remanufacturing industry. So, as you (Congress) begin to deal with job creation in today's economy, we would encourage you to seriously look at how public policy may be used to help the remanufacturing industry expand here in the United States." APRA estimates that there are more than 500,000 jobs in the remanufacturing industry, for a diverse range of products such as automotive and truck parts, toner cartridges, electronic equipment, cell phones, office furniture, locomotive, electrical transformers, air conditioning compressor units for office buildings, off-road construction equipment, agriculture and mining equipment, hydraulic pumps for all types of applications and more. Gager added, "Just about anything that is manufactured can be remanufactured, adding a second or third life to capital goods." Gager concluded, "Trade promotion, tax credits, job creation incentives and targeted grants are some ways to help the remanufacturing industry expand. We ask all members of Congress to join us in our mission of job creation."

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Chuck Baldwin
January 1, 2015
Where will 2015 take us?
By Chuck Baldwin

Every year about this time, we are inundated with self-proclaimed prognosticators telling us (with great certainty) what the New Year will bring. The vast majority of the time they are wrong; but, somehow, that doesn't keep people from listening to these pseudo-prophets or from buying their publications and videos. So, let me say upfront: I am not a prophet, nor the son of a prophet. I have no crystal ball; and the Almighty has not privileged me with special revelation regarding future events. However, I can predict with confidence that most of the predictions WON'T come to pass – especially the ones that deal with eschatology.

However, what I can report is the things that are ALREADY happening and the momentum that is driving them. It is an immutable law that, absent a significant force to the contrary, things in motion tend to stay in motion. Therefore, here are a few things that are already in motion as we go into 2015.

*Amnesty For Illegals And Obamacare

Let's take Obamacare first: It is here to stay. Both major parties in Washington, D.C., overwhelmingly support national health insurance. Had Mitt Romney been elected in 2012, we would be calling it Romneycare instead of Obamacare. In fact, Mitt Romney's state health insurance plan was the model for what we now call Obamacare. So, if any of you are still harboring any hope that somehow the new GOP Congress will pull a rabbit out of the hat and reverse Obamacare, it's time to admit reality. Obamacare isn't going anywhere. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, who was selected by President G.W. Bush, forever sealed Obamacare into the legal and political bone marrow of America.

And, like Obamacare, both major parties in Washington, D.C., support amnesty for illegals. Oh, I know that the vast majority of grassroots Republicans oppose amnesty, but since when has that mattered to a tinker's dam to the GOP ruling class? John Boehner and Company has already orchestrated the funding for amnesty with the $1.1 trillion "Cromnibus" bill that recently passed. Another vote that could potentially defund amnesty is expected in Congress by February. But already the GOP leadership is positioning the new Republican majority to provide amnesty with permanent status. The fact that it was mostly anti-amnesty anger that swept Republicans into the majority in both houses of Congress means nothing to the GOP leadership. NOTHING!

Here is the most concise summary I've seen to date on what GOP leaders are doing regarding solidifying Obama's (unconstitutional) amnesty order:

"The plan by GOP leaders to sell out and back up Obama's executive amnesty is already coming together.

"'Here's the architecture of the coming sellout: there will be a show vote on defunding exec amnesty – either as a stand alone or part of the DHS bill,' a congressional GOP aide told Breitbart News:

"'But once they've let members vote on it, it will fall away. Instead, they'll attach the McCaul "border securit" bill – what we'll call free rides for illegal aliens to a city near you. The McCaul bill will follow the Pete Sessions' rule: no illegal aliens will be deported. No e-verify, no welfare stoppage, a free pass for the 12 million here to stay here. It will just be more money for King Obama to use to help illegals enter the country and get a free education. The White House will play along, pretend it's a tough bill, and then eagerly sign it – locking in the amnesty and taking real enforcement off the table (they'll say it's all done now). Then will come the gifts for the corporate sponsors.'"

The report also quotes George Rasley, the executive editor of Richard Viguerie's ConservativeHQ, as correctly saying, "Looking at what the Republican Party's Capitol Hill leaders did in the CRomnibus it's hard for conservatives to figure out who's worse: Obama or the GOP leaders who apparently plan to overturn the results of the 2014 midterms by allowing the president's unconstitutional amnesty to stand and, adding insult to injury, passing the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wishlist of more spending and more visas to displace American workers."

See the report at:

'Rain Dance': GOP Leadership May Be Developing Plan To Solidify Obama's Executive Amnesty

Folks, please understand that GOP leaders in Congress are not GOING to solidify Obama's amnesty deal, they are ALREADY solidifying it. Therefore, this is not a prediction; it is simply an accurate reporting of what is already taking place. Republican leaders in Washington, D.C., are going to do what they always do: give grassroots conservative Republicans the royal shaft. But since conservatives seem to suffer from Stockholm Syndrome every election year, it is doubtful that much of anything will change in 2016 either.

The newest NAFTA-style trade agreement, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), has been in the works for some time. However, with the Democrats in charge of the Senate, President Obama was not able to push the jobs-killing agreement through Congress. But with the GOP now in charge of both houses of Congress, passage of TPP will be a breeze.

As Rasley observed, Republican congressional leaders are mostly in the pocket of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the TPP trade agreement is perhaps priority number one for the Chamber – and they are already pushing hard for its passage.

The Washington Post noted that "President Obama is preparing a major push on a vast free-trade zone that seeks to enlist Republicans as partners."

See the report here:

Obama Hopes To Enlist GOP In Push For Trade Pact, Despite Democratic Resistance

With the GOP controlling Congress, globalist-minded Barack Obama is now able to bypass his own party and partner with internationalist-business-friendly Republicans to pass TPP. Like amnesty, the TPP trade agreement is ALREADY being positioned for passage within the GOP Congress.

The Chamber of Commerce spent millions in this last election helping to elect pro-Big Business Republicans to office. They expect payback.

A Breitbart.com report begins, "Not only does the U.S. Chamber of Commerce think it is the only reason the GOP won in November, it is now threatening Republicans with opposition next go round if they don't lay down and give the Chamber precisely what it wants, including on immigration, increased spending on transportation, and economic deals that sweeten the pot for big business."

See the report here:

US Chamber Of Commerce Threatens GOP On Immigration, Spending

*The American Police State

The American Police State saw a banner year in 2014. The militarization of local and State police, along with the instances of police-bullying, grew to record heights last year – and there is absolutely no sign of a let-up.

Excerpts from Joel Skousen's December 26, 2014 World Affairs Brief (WAB) are relevant:

"This year we saw government further arrogate to itself broad new power through executive action that went unchecked thanks to a Congress coopted by globalist republican leaders and a neutered Supreme Court, which refuses to declare any of the president's unilateral actions unconstitutional."

Skousen continues, "We now live in a surveillance state and its purpose has nothing to do with terrorism: Domestic dissidents are the target; terrorism is just the excuse. The NSA records every type of electronic communication. Despite the initial public outrage over Edward Snowden's revelation, government hasn't stopped anything. They've made deceptive legislative proposals that claim to limit government's ability to see content, but those claims are as much a sham and a lie as the government insistence that they only collect metadata. The content comes right along with the metadata, so there's no way to collect only the metadata."

Pertaining specifically to domestic police abuse, Skousen notes, "Police aggressiveness and brutality . . . is a precursor to a Police state. It reached a head this year with the Ferguson riots, but sadly the issue was falsely framed as one of racial prejudice and profiling, rather than the danger to all of us from thuggish police behavior. There is a steady increase in the percentage of macho, pushy law enforcement personnel, many of which have a military background. They bring with them their foul-mouthed habits and thuggish behavior. Coupled with police training that talks incessantly about 'getting killed if you don't react fast enough' police are developing a shoot-first-and-ask-question-later mentality.

"Just as bad is their attitude that 'you need to do what I say, no questions asked.' This is not right. Police are not allowed by law to demand the public follow their every order. It has to be a lawful order. Sadly, neither the police chiefs nor the courts are willing to sanction police with strong penalties when they abuse this power."

To subscribe (paid only) to Skousen's excellent WAB, go here:

Joel Skousen.com

Unfortunately, there are only a precious few who seem to understand this burgeoning Police State and who actively oppose it. A majority of Democrats and Republicans, liberals and conservatives, unbelievers and Christians, all seem to, not only tolerate the police-state mentality, but enthusiastically support it. And there is no momentum whatsoever to stopping it. It will only get worse in 2015.

*Christ And Caesar

True Christianity has never been associated with, supported by, or underneath Caesar's (civil government's) auspices or benevolence. For most of the 2,000+ years of Church history, true believers met in non-state-sanctioned or even underground churches and fellowships. In fact, the Early Church was birthed in a baptism of persecution from both the civil government (Rome) and established religion (Judaism) at the time. Not until the unholy union of the Church and State under Theodosius I (almost 400 years after Christ) did Christians accept official sanction from government. And for many centuries to follow, the official merger of Church and state led to the persecutions and deaths of untold thousands of believers deemed heretics and outlaws because their religious beliefs contradicted those of the official state-sanctioned church.

Even in early America, state-approved denominations and churches were guilty of horrific persecutions against independent-minded Christians who refused to submit to the doctrines and liturgies of state-sanctioned churches. These state-church persecutions ultimately led Roger Williams to found the colony of Rhode Island and John Leland to convince James Madison that religious liberty must be the first in our Constitution's Bill of Rights.

After the acceptance of our Bill of Rights, America's churches enjoyed complete independent status, being answerable only to their Creator and their own conscience. All of that changed in 1954 when then-Senator Lyndon Johnson (D-Texas) successfully introduced the Johnson Amendment to the code of the Internal Revenue Service: the now-infamous 501c3 nonprofit organization status for churches. This designation made churches a creature of the state – answerable to the direct dictates of government – even regarding speech and activity.

By accepting 501c3 status, America's churches have effectively become state-licensed or state-sanctioned organizations. In much the same way that churches in Communist China risk vindictive state sanctions for not complying to state control, so, too, churches in the United States risk vindictive IRS sanctions for not complying to state control.

What is more than interesting is the comparison between the churches in China and the churches in America. In China, Christianity is growing exponentially. In fact, there are now more Christians in China than there are communists. Please carefully read this report:

"Though the Chinese Communist Party is the largest explicitly atheist organization in the world, with 85 million official members, it is now overshadowed by an estimated 100 million Christians in China. It is no wonder Beijing is nervous and authorities are cracking down on Christian groups.

"Christianity is growing so fast in China that some predict that it will be the most Christian nation in the world in only another 15 years. By far, the greatest growth is coming outside the official state-sanctioned churches, which are rightly considered subservient to the Communist Party. Numbers are increasing, rather, in unofficial Protestant 'house churches' and in the underground Catholic church."

See the report here:

Christians Now Outnumber Communists In China

Did you get that? Let me repeat it: "By far, the greatest growth is coming OUTSIDE [emphasis added] the official state-sanctioned churches, which are rightly considered subservient to the Communist Party [state]. Numbers are increasing, rather, in UNOFFICIAL [emphasis added] Protestant 'house churches' and in the UNDERGROUND [emphasis added] Catholic church."

But what do we see happening in the United States? Christianity is waning BIG TIME. On the whole, churches are in steep decline. For the most part, only the entertainment-oriented, circus variety churches are growing. The numbers of Americans professing Christianity in general and expressing loyalty to a specific church or denomination are at historic lows. And the trend for 2015 and beyond is more of the same.

So, what is the difference? Why is Christianity proliferating in China and declining in America? China has an openly atheistic government. For all intents and purposes, the government in Washington, D.C., is equally atheistic. The federal government in D.C. is responsible for virtually every single attack against the expression of the Christian faith at every level of society. It is the federal government that attacks Christian expression in our local public schools. It is the federal government that attacks Christian expression in local governing bodies. It is the federal government that has all but permanently dismantled the expression of Christianity throughout our country's public institutions. But so does the government in Beijing. Yet, in China, the Church is mushrooming, while in America, the Church is dying. What's the difference?

The difference is, in China, Christians understand that to be loyal to Christ, they MUST NOT SUBMIT to state-sanction or license. And they are willing to defy Beijing authorities in order to be faithful to that conviction. However, in America, pastors and churches insist that they MUST SUBMIT to state control – even using Romans 13 to justify this preposterous position. Bottom line: state-sanctioned churches in America are withering, while non-state-sanctioned churches in China are mushrooming. There is no doubt that the trend in both countries will continue into and beyond 2015.

Until America's pastors and churches "see the light" and consciously withdraw themselves from Caesar's grasp (at whatever cost), Christianity in this country will continue to evaporate.

Toward the end of 2014, I launched the Liberty Church Project, in which I am traveling the country helping pastors and churches withdraw from the tentacles of 501c3 government sanction and/or helping people start brand new non-501c3 churches and fellowships. So far, we are batting a perfect five-for-five. And I believe that the momentum of establishing "unofficial" or "underground" churches in this country has only begun.

I am absolutely convinced that very soon every pastor and Christian in America will have to make the conscious decision to either deny Christ and remain part of the apostate government-church or be faithful to Christ and become part of the "unofficial" or "underground" church – just as Christians have had to do in China. One will not be able to do both.

I also believe that what we are seeing happening via the Liberty Church Project is just the beginning raindrops of what will one day be a deluge. I am quite confident that I will be very busy in 2015 as we continue to help believers establish non-501c3 churches and fellowships. To learn more about the Liberty Church Project, go here:

Liberty Church Project

Let me say it plainly: the ONLY way America's Christians and churches are going to experience a true spiritual renewal is to withdraw themselves from state sanction. For all intents and purposes, the establishment Church in America is DEAD. It has forgotten the lessons of history. It would rather please Caesar; it relishes the endorsement of Caesar. By action, our church leaders are saying the same thing Jewish leaders said at the time of Christ: "We have no king but Caesar."

So, while I am not a prognosticator or a prophet, I can easily see the trends listed above. There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that these trends will continue into 2015 and beyond.

© Chuck Baldwin

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Man Spends 35 Years Working As A Baker Until He Steps In Front Of Crowd And Sings

Martin Hurkens always had a dream of being an opera singer, but he did not have the money to stay in music school. Instead, became a baker to make a living and for 32 years he baked, but his singing was mostly reserved for when he was home with his family.

When he lost his job, the Dutch baker’s daughters wanted to help him realize his lifelong dream and entered him in the reality TV talent show “Holland Has Talent” back in 2010. The 58-year-old “paparotti” won legions of fans and the competition!

In the video below, Martin takes to the streets of Holland like a simple busker would, places down his hat, and sings “You Raise Me Up”. Soon a crowd gathers round to listen to the humble baker with the incredible voice!

If you want to see the performance that got Hurkens’ singing career started take a look at the video below. You’ll understand why he’s gone on to become a huge success!

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Happy Birthday, MTV!

Thirty-three years ago today, on August 1, 1981, MTV was born.

colorful-logosAnd where were Alan, Mark, Nina, Martha, and J.J. on that fateful night? They were in a basement in Fort Lee, New Jersey, huddled around a television set probably no larger than the one that was in your own home in 1981. According to the fantastic book VJ: The Unplugged Adventures of MTV’s First Wave, Mark Goodman recounted that the launch party took place in an old restaurant called The Loft. Ironically, the cast and crew of MTV had to head over the Hudson to watch their debut because Manhattan cable didn’t carry the channel!

Alan Hunter said: “We bonded that night. The rocket blasted off, and we looked at each other and realized we were the only five people on the planet doing what we were doing.”

We all know that the first video played on the station was The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”, but what other videos helped to round out that first hour of broadcasting? Thanks to the VJ’s book we can list the first 15 videos that aired on the network.
1. The Buggles, “Video Killed the Radio Star”
2. Pat Benatar, “You Better Run”
3. Rod Stewart, “She Won’t Dance With Me”
4. The Who, “You Better You Bet”
5. Ph.D., “Little Susie’s on the Top”
6. Cliff Richard, “We Don’t Talk Anymore”
7. The Prentenders, “Brass In Pocket”
8. Todd Rundgren, “Time Heals”
9. REO Speedwagon, “Take It On The Run”
10. Styx, “Rockin’ the Paradise”
11. Robin Lane and the Chartbusters, “When Things Go Wrong”
12. Splitz Enz, “History Never Repeats”
13. .38 Special, “Hold On Loosely”
14. April Wine, “Just Between You and Me”
15. Rod Stewart, “Sailing”

Man, TWO Rod Stewart videos in the same block. The ‘80s were a magical time!

Of course I know I’m not the only individual to ever look back upon that special day, and thankfully someone more enterprising that I has already grouped all of these videos together for our collective consumption on Youtube. So thank you, Youtube user Ronnie Forscgeb! You’ve made my life about half and hour easier and more entertaining than if I went and did this myself.

I notice that two videos were removed or unplayable from the playlist: Rod Stewart’s “She Won’t Dance With Me” and Cliff Richard’s “We Don’t Talk Anymore”; if you feel it necessary to see them in order to fully relive the first hour of MTV, I found them, separately, for you:

Rod is really rocking that asymmetrical pantsuit! Honestly, if I wasn’t wearing my glasses, I would wonder when Kathy Lee Crosby took a detour into rock and roll.

This is definitely not the official video for the Cliff Richard tune, but it’s such a good song, that I thought you should listen to it. Plus, the sound quality is really good.

Finally, here’s Rod again, who is “Sailing”…in the Hudson River? Dressed like Popeye, this video is either an homage to “New York, New York” from On the Town, or maybe Rod was on his way to the MTV launch party.

I-want-my-mtv-mtv-logoFor even more awesome footage from the first day of MTV, including the pre-recorded clips of the VJ’s throwing to a new video or coming back from an old video, head over to Platypuscomix, which has amazing-quality clips from the first day, including the original commercials that aired between the videos (I always love to see old commercials on the VHS tapes that I kept from when I was a kid), and the original slight technical gaffes that the MTV crew experienced during the broadcast.

These days you can still hear Alan, Martha, Mark, and Nina on Sirius XM’s “80s on 8” channel.


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For those nights when you're feeling health-conscious, but just need a sweet, little "something."

  • 4 tbsps whole wheat white flour

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  3. Allow cake to cool a bit then enjoy!

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The AIDS Memorial

There is a new (to me) Instagram account called The AIDS Memorial (@theaidsmemorial) and this  is my reaction to following them on Instagram.
I can't even explain what reading all of the posts on Instagram has done for me. I've been living with HIV/AIDS now for over 29 years and I had forgotten. I had forgotten what the 80's and 90's were like when I watched so many friends die. I can't even begin to name them all but little by little I am having memories return because of the stories you are sharing on Instagram. Finally, with some of the memories I can actually smile. I am remembering a lot of things and not just the death of ones I cared for.

Why am I still here? God only knows. After being diagnosed I got clean and sober and that completely changed my life. I was able to care for others whose parents/families had abandoned them.  We had an AIDS hospice where I lived and I worked there. I cared for men, woman and children from just months old to 80 years old, learning something from each of them.

I guess you could say I am one of the lucky ones. I am a white male and I  understand what it means to have unearned privilege.  I've add access to medications and the best healthcare possible. I now work in research and hope to help in some small way in finding a cure for this disease.

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Klingenschmitt: ‘ENDA Is the End of the World for Christian Employers’

A few weeks ago, a bipartisan group of legislators once again introduced the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in both the House and the Senate, which will prohibit “employers, employment agencies, and labor unions from using an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity as the basis for employment decisions, such as hiring, firing, promotion, or compensation”; such protections are already provided based on things like race, religion, gender, national origin, age and disability.

But “Chaps” Gordon Klingenschmitt is not buying it because he knows that ENDA is really all about driving Christian businesses right out of existence.

“ENDA is the end of the world for Christian employers,” Klingenschmitt claimed, saying that ENDA is not about equality but rather “bankrupting Christian business owners.” Even more frightening, ENDA is also apparently about forcing major corporations “to give homosexual bonus pay to your gay or lesbian lover” … whatever that means.

Saying that ENDA “will be the end of Christian business as we know it,” Klingenschmitt asserted that there is a demonic spirit at work behind the push for this legislation before asking why gays and lesbians should be entitled to employment protections when they are not going to Heaven.

“If the Bible will not give eternal benefits to homosexuals, if they cannot inherit the kingdom of God, why,” Klingenschmitt asked, “on this world, should they get bonus pay or employment benefits?”


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This week, we announced the biggest changes to parking in Long Beach in more than 30 years.

Starting Monday, March 21, we will begin changing street sweeping times and signs throughout our most parking impacted neighborhoods. We are eliminating all 4 am street sweeping, and reducing no parking hours from four hours to two in parking impacted neighborhoods.

The shortage of parking in neighborhoods like Alamitos Beach, Willmore, Rose Park, Downtown, and many others is a real quality of life issue for our residents. That’s why I promised during my campaign for Mayor that I would address this issue. Sweeping streets later in the day, and doing it faster, is going to help ease parking and improve quality of life.

Phase one, starting next week, is focused on Alamitos Beach, Rose Park, Bluff Heights and surrounding neighborhoods. Phase two will expand to Downtown. Over the coming months, the changes will cover the entire city.

You can see maps and get more information here.

I want to thank Vice Mayor Lowenthal for her many years of advocacy on this issue. This project could not have happened without her leadership. I also want to thank our city staff, especially our Public Works Department, for their hard work in managing this very complex transition.

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Problem of Evil (2013) – By Christian Nelson

Two things you should probably know before investing your time in Problem of Evil. One: The first few seconds of the film tell the audience there is no God. Two: the film is presented in a faux-documentary, “found footage” format. The first thing’s no big issue with me, as long as the story’s good. It’s the second thing I usually have a problem with. Thankfully, the filmmakers have produced this one with a fair amount of quality.

We open on our hero Jason (Ethan Kogan), a struggling filmmaker and widower. After getting dumped by his therapist, Jason’s friend Pete (Jeffy Branion) calls him up with a last minute job. This is where we’re introduced to an unnamed cult, as Jason and Pete interview various followers of a mysterious man who claims to be an angel. “Jason falls down a rabbit hole of doubt, distress and paranoia, while seeking answers about how this group knows who he is and what they want from him.” We meet spiritual leaders, ex members, and various other characters along the way.

First-time director Ethan Kogan teams up with Jessica Silvetti as they set their sights pretty high with this movie, assisted by a cast of talented actors. The writers describe Problem of Evil as “contemplative cinema,” appealing to a niche market, but available to a wide audience with its themes of loss of love and faith.

Kogan and Silvetti crowd-funded the film’s sound design on Kickstarter, which seems to have really paid off. Every aspect of the movie embodies the term “micro,” even with its somewhat large narrative scope. But the talent involved here results in a polished and well-made piece of filmmaking.

Problem of Evil sounds great on paper, but it suffers in its scenes. Particularly, the “down the rabbit hole” part of the story, which I can’t help but see as an excuse for a disconnected and random second act. It deals with some hefty themes, but the drama never escalates, making any of the brief scenes of suspense somewhat lackluster. What’s missing is a genuine journey of Jason connecting the dots. Even real documentaries have journeys, they aren’t just information, and Problem of Evil suffers from a lot of “just information,” no matter how many flashback scenes of Jason’s wife are interspersed throughout.

It probably has the best rating on IMDb I’ve ever seen, though. Does that make me a nonbeliever?


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Avoid Forearm Imbalances By Working You Wrists Extensors

by Rusi
Many people believe that the only thing you need to do to develop balanced forearm are gripping exercises. It's true that most of the exercises such as pull-ups, deadlifts, snatches, curls and so on test your grip and hit your entire forearm but still the muscles that do most of the work are the wrist flexors - the wrists flexors are the muscles that curl your fingers when you form a fist. They are the strong part of your forearm mainly due to the fact that they are tested during various daily activities especially if you have physical job.

At the same time the muscles that extend your fingers and flex the back of your wrists are usually quite weak and underdeveloped. They work during compound but sometimes you may won't to hit the directly.
As you know your body does not like muscle imbalances and sooner or later you may have problems from having neglected wrists extensors. Of course not everybody will experience similar problems but I would rather be safe than sorry.  On top of that it does not take that much effort to get them in tone.

Exercise That Develop Strong Wrists Extensors

Number 1: Reverse Biceps Curl

The reverse biceps curl is my favorite exercise for developing the wrists extensors. The exercise is just a regular barbell curl but instead of gripping the bar with your palm facing the ceiling you grip the bar with your palm facing the floor. That way the wrists extensors have to stabilize the whole weight and are worked quite hard in an isometric fashion. Technically they do not contract but they really get worked as long as you keep your forearms straight. Also that exercise allows you to lifts relatively heavy weight compared to other Barbie like movements such as reverse wrists curls which I will explain in a second. Another great benefit from doing this exercise is that your brachioradialis will get stronger too and this muscle is also neglected due to its stronger and bigger brother - the biceps.
Number 2: Reverse Wrist Curl
The reverse wrist curl will hit your extensors directly. The movement is extremely simple. You can perform it on your knees like Arnold in the above picture or on a bench. Just put your elbows on a  stable surface in order to isolate the forearms completely. Grip a barbell or a pair of dumbbells with an overhand grip (palms facing the floor) and in controlled motion curl your wrists upward. Go slow on this exercise. This is not a power movement. You also want to minimize the stress placed on your wrists tendons by using a weight you can handle for at least 6 reps.
Number 3: Hammer Curls
Hammer curls are another great exercise for developing balanced forearms. Due to the fact that you have to use a neutral grip on this exercise the wrists extensors are worked really hard in an isometric fashion. This exercise is similar to the reverse curl and also hits the brachioradialis. The form of the exercise is quite simple. Just grip a pair of dumbbell using a neutral grip - palms and knuckles facing to the sides and curl the weight up.
Number 4: Finger Extensions
Another great way to work your wrists extensors is to perform finger extensions with an elastic band. Just put some kind of elastic band around your fingers and forcefully extend your fingers to an open fist position.
This is it. Those are the main exercises you can perform for hitting your wrists extensors and developing a strong and balanced forearm.
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Wrists push-ups are an advanced exercise that will develop some strong wrists and wrists extensors. Consult the video and the link below for more information on the exercise.

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Kuridrani hat-trick helps Wallabies win

Subtle kick pass creates lovely try

Owen Farrell dump tackle sparks scuffle

Nikola Matawalu brilliance sets up try

Maori All Blacks dominate Canada

Christian Scotland-Williamson huge hit!

Christian Lealiifano on leukaemia

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South Africa 'clear leader' for RWC 2019

Friday, August 17, 2012

Paul Jordaan and Craig Burden spark Sharks win over Western Province

The Sharks came from behind to beat Western Province 25-23 in the opening round of the 2012 Currie Cup at Newlands. The try of the game came from young Paul Jordaan, and there were also two great efforts from hooker Craig Burden.

It was effectively a rematch of the Super Rugby semi final game between the Stormers and the Sharks, although both sides were missing some big players due to Springbok duty.

The Sharks came away from Cape Town with the points despite trailing 13-3 at half time. The game changed within minutes of the restart as Jordaan, the Sevens star that finished well against the Reds a few weeks back, dashed away for a stunning try.

It was a tense win in trying conditions, but the Sharks took their chances well, including two opportunistic tries from speedy hooker Craig Burden.

"Any win here is special but we were a bit lucky tonight, we had a couple of nice bounces and we weren't very accurate but we took a few opportunities that were presented to us," said coach John Plumtree, referring to the fact that all three tries came from kicks.

Burden, who will start most games while Bismarck Du Plessis is busy with the Springboks, scored two quick tries after good chases. The former wingers speed was impressive, but Plumtree wants him to work harder on his main duties.

"His core skills need to tidy up a little bit, we weren't very good with our scrummaging tonight and obviously there were a few line-outs that didn't go our way as well," said Plumtree.

"In phase play he is outstanding, like you saw if the bounce of the ball goes his way in space he is quick and that is what we saw tonight but he is not entirely happy with his game and nor am I, but he will get some opportunities," he added.

Flyhalf Riaan Viljoen, who put in the delicate chip for Jordaan's try, struck the decisive blow as he landed a drop goal with a few minutes left on the clock.

All three tries are included below, with Jordaan's first, then Burden's two featured in the second

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Igniting Spirit

Hi. I'm Tracy.

I am expressive artist curious about the world around and within me. I create pieces based upon my observational and intuitive response to experiencing landscape and nature.

I often think that Nature's ephemeral beauty is so amazing and perfect that for me to replicate it exactly as it is, represents not the Truth for me. The Truth for me is to show how I am affected by it.

Ancient communities that once inhabited our land, leaving behind them a legacy of mystery and spirit, intrigue me. This, coupled with our own native powers, is what propels me into creating. When engaged directly with 'process', I feel alive; the soul is happily conscious.

My approach is experimental and playful and maybe a bit scientific and serious! But I generally acknowledge a need to explore and understand. What emerges in form comes from this observation and experience of landscape, its cycles and the passage of time.

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Winair announces reduction of fares

All passengers travelling on Windward Islands Airways International Winair are benefiting from lower ticket prices as of March 1 with the elimination of all fuel charges on flights operated by the airline. With world fuel prices at record lows, the company will eliminate fuel charges for passengers and cargo on its network.

Winair reduced fuel charges six months ago in accordance with lower fuel cost for the airline. With current fuel prices, the airline no longer will be required to collect fuel surcharges to cover these additional expenses. This will reduce cost for the airline’s customers as they no longer will incur these additional expenses.

The Daily Herald contacted the airline’s offices and requested information about the cost-cutting announcement. A reservation agent stated that fares to Saba have decreased by NAf. 1 and to St. Eustatius NAf. 2.

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  1. Haha, that shouldn’t read March 1 rather April 1 (April fools). Are they kidding us? This is not even worth to publish it since they are now close to 200US per ticket. Not sure how many times they have increased their fare in 2015 but I guess several times. Sad story!

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• Sacred books

    Since the dawn of time, and whatever the name given to them - prophets, initiates or visionaries - inspired individuals have experienced transcendent states giving them the capacity to receive information and revelations stemming from superior dimensions. Throughout centuries, these messengers transmitted the principles of a unique fundamental tradition, which they adapted according to the characteristics of the time in which they lived, with always the same eternal wisdom as the common denominator and sacred basis of all religions. Those books can be read at different levels of understanding. For the largest mass of believers, teachings are displayed under the shape of parables, rituals and myths. But in most of these texts there is some hidden truth which only initiates can understand.

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    The spiritual source of Hinduism can be found in the Vedas, ancient scriptures written in Sanskrit, the most important of which is the Rig Veda containing a thousand and twenty-eight hymns. The first Vedas were hymns and prayers in three books: Yajur Veda, Sâma Veda and Atharva Veda.

    Stemming from Divine revelation, Veda is made of poems forming a book of extraordinary rich esoteric symbols. Century after century these scriptures were transmitted my means of a very specific oral tradition since the XIII° century B.C.

    The Upanishads represent the most important part of Indian teachings, and are esoteric complements to Veda. The composition of those sacred texts took place over numerous centuries, forming the Vedanta : the accomplishment of Veda.

    "The Upanishads were written in order to establish the science of the Brahman, so that ignorance would be rejected forever and the course of lives would stop."

    This guide for spiritual life is the sixth book in the Mahâbhârata, an Hindu epic telling about conflicts that occurred between two clans of the same family: the Kaurava representing dark forces, and the Pândava stemming from the gods. The Bhagavad-Gita is a poem divided into eighteen songs; it elevates the disciple from the human plane into the divine plane in three steps.

    If history begins with writing, the cradle of the West can be found in Sumer. Thousands of clay tablets reveal the fact that the Bible's stories about the Creation in seven days, the Flood, and the Babel tower in fact were transcripts of tales which Sumerian scribes had written in Mesopotamia, more than 6,000 years ago.

    Polytheist Egypt displayed its knowledge through the hieroglyphic scriptures found in pyramids and tombs, and on papyrus scrolls such as 'the Book of the Dead'. Those scriptures had three meanings :- an exoteric meaning, meant to teach the mass.- a mesoteric meaning, meant for priests initiated to lower mysteries. - an esoteric meaning, meant for priests initiated to higher mysteries.

    In Egyptian temples, Moses received initiatory teachings, which were at the origin of Hebraic esotericism under the name of the Kabbalah. With the Kabbalah it is possible to interpret the secret meaning of divine mysteries hidden in the Bible.

    The Kabbalah is not just theoretical teachings, it is also a spiritual experience based upon the various names of the Divine. It culminated in the XIII° century with the Zohar (Book of Splendour).

    The Bible is the most distributed and most translated book in the world. It is a compilation of sacred texts that codified the life of the Hebrew people, and it tells about experiences and teachings of the Prophets who followed one another throughout centuries since Abraham, all of them announcing the coming of the Messiah. For the Jews, the Bible is the Law of the Hebrews: the Thorah, God's revelation to Moses. For the Christians, it is the Old Testament.

    Christians consider Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah announced in the Bible; his life and accomplishments are told in the Gospels. At the origin, the Christian tradition was told on three levels, which gave birth to three Churches. The Church of Peter transmits its exoteric teachings under the form of parables in the Gospels. The Church of John gives mesoteric teachings in an hermetic language in St-John's Book of Revelation. The Church of James the Elder provides esoteric teachings given by word of mouth to adepts.

    In year 610 A.D., when prophet Muhammed was forty years old, after a time of fasting, prayer and meditation, he heard a voice calling him and saw a beam of light 'of unbearable splendour'. A man-shaped angel unfolded a silken cloth covered with scriptures in front of him; and Muhammad was told to recite this revelation, which was to become the Qur'an, a book of 114 chapters containing 6,226 verses called suras. Like the Christian and Jewish religions, Islam possesses an esoteric core, which is the Sufi tradition, giving absolute priority to personal experience of the Divine presence.

    Taoism was born around 3,000 years B.C. Lao-Tzu is considered the author of the Tao Te Qing, sacred book of the Tao. Through poetical, often paradoxical or enigmatic aphorisms, it offers an intuitive observation of the Universe. The Tao Te Qing or 'Book of the Path and Virtue' is divided into two books of respectively 37 and 44 chapters.

    The Chuang-Tzu Taoist Texts were written by Master Chuang-Tzu in the III° and IV° centuries A.D. They give out the full clarity of the Taoist thought about the world and man. They are divided into three books and 33 chapters. The Writings of Chuang-Tzu imprinted their mark upon Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism.

    Buddhism was introduced in Tibet during the VII° century, where it started growing very fast under the influence of several great masters. The Bardo Thödol, also called the 'Tibetan Book of the Dead', is a guidebook to go beyond the death by transforming its process into an act of liberation.

    In our current time of mutation and renewal, some people try to draw a synthesis between science and religion in order to bring answers to an always moving society in which references of the past are no longer effective. During the previous millennium it was in the secret shrine of initiatory brotherhoods (Rose-Cross, Freemasonry, Martinism, etc.) that the most evolved minds of their time could share and transmit gnostic and hermetic trends linked to the original tradition.

    In the XIX° century, as a reaction against growing materialism, new trends emerged. Saint-Yves d'Alveydre produced a concept of traditional political and social organisation coined with the term 'Synarchy'. His book, 'L'Archeometre', offers a synthesis from numbers, alphabets, architectural patterns and sacred music.

    In the same period of time, initiates appeared and left significant written works. Alan Kardec wrote 'The Spirit's Book'. Helena Blavatsky wrote 'The Secret Doctrine', 'Isis Unveiled', etc., and is at the origin of the spiritualist trend of Theosophy. At the beginning of the XX° century, Peter Deunov founded the Universal White Brotherhood; his lectures were typed and published by his disciples.

    In the 1930's, a group of American people who later chose to remain anonymous received the dictation of 'The Urantia Book', more than 2,000 pages in which the history and structure of the Universe are explained, along with the life of Jesus and the evolution of our planet. 'Urantia' is the name given to our planet by beings who are at the origin of this transmission.

    Jim Hurtak's book 'The Keys of Enoch' draws a synthesis between spiritual understanding and scientific understanding, as both are to converge if the human race can manage to take a quantum leap. In January 1973, the author experienced inner illumination during which, amongst other things, he saw a flaming cylinder-shaped manuscript from which a light was projected into his third eye, implanting the blueprints of the 'Key of Enoch' scenario in his mind.

    After long preparation during many years, trans-dimensional contact with super-terrestrial consciousness-beings from the Intra-universal Internal Unity was established upon the person of Appel Guery.

    The consequence of this was the elaboration of the 'Intra-universal Unitary Science', a book containing two hundred chapter in which original answers are given to the questions we ask ourselves about the origin of incarnation and life, and the nature of love, sleep, dreaming, illness, death, etc.


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Tuesday, 15 October 2013 11:29

'Who's Gone Bust?' report makes for sobering reading

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The Centre for Retail Research has published its latest Who's Gone Bust? report, giving an insight into how retail companies have been affected by five years of economic turbulence.

Worryingly for all involved in the sector, it appears that conditions are getting worse; 2012 saw 54 companies fail, matching the previous highest total set in 2008, and with 39 brands failing by the end of August alone, 2013 is on track to be even worse.

On a human scale, 2008 is still the worst year, as almost 75,000 employees were affected by company failures in the retail sector, compared with less than 50,000 in 2012 - an indication that 2008 saw several bigger brands vanish from the high street.

So, as the title asks, who has gone bust over the past few years?

The Centre for Retail Research lists:

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  • Adams Childrenswear
    Allied Carpets
    Clinton Cards
    Ethel Austin
    Faith Shoes
    Focus DIY
    Jane Norman
    JJB Sports
    Officer's Club
    Sofa Workshop
    Thirst Quench
    TJ Hughes
    Virgin Megastore/Zavvi

But xxx still exists??

Well, yes, some of the brands listed above entered administration and were sold or restructured, allowing them to survive despite the economic conditions - for example Clinton Cards, which has repositioned itself as more of a budget greetings brand.

Others have gone forever, fundamentally altering decades of shopping habits overnight, and for those born even as far back as the 1980s and earlier, brands like Comet, MFI and Woolworths had been around since childhood.

What next?

The thing most of these major insolvencies have in common is that nobody sees them coming - one day a familiar high street brand is trading as normal, the next they're having an 'everything must go' sale.

"As we all know these days, failure is often a temporary inconvenience; we are not suggesting that these businesses no longer survive," says the Centre for Retail Research in its Who's Gone Bust? report.

But it adds that 2013 "looks to be even worse" than even the worst of the years that have preceded it - which comes as sobering reading to all involved in the retail sector supply chain.

Time to act?

As long as your finances are in order, you should be reasonably well insulated against any upcoming retail shocks; however, it is important not to become complacent, even in a climate of increasing consumer sales and spending figures.

Some retailers are clearly still struggling, so be sure that you can retrieve your funds from those who owe you money.

This means carrying out regular credit checks - even on existing customers whose circumstances may have changed - and enforcing your payment terms, with prompt action to recover funds from anyone who goes overdue with good reason, and whose non-payment could be an indicator of an inability to pay, and not just an unwillingness.

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Favorite Passages from On The Origin of Species

August 14, 2010

The Times has a special feature about On the Origin of Species, including annotations from various Scientists commenting on favorite passages. The first annotation is by the famous primatologist Frans de Waal, who comments one of the passages that struck my interest when I read the book earlier this year:

I should premise that I use the term Struggle for Existence in a large and metaphorical sense, including dependence of one being on another, and including (which is more important) not only the life of the individual, but success in leaving progeny

Darwin, in the course of his opus, did not merely lay out the voluminous evidence for natural selection, he also frequently dropped hints of further research to come: for instance, the topic of cooperation. As de Waal notes, we're generally taught to think of Darwinianism as survival of the strongest individual competitors. Look at so-called "social Darwinism," and you'll see something that Darwin would likely have hated. Because he clearly believed that cooperation and education (an extension of "leaving progeny") were key components of the general competition between traits (evolution) in a population — that evolution is more than just my biceps are bigger than yours, my brain case has more volume than yours, etc.


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As the 1978-79 Gears season drew near, things looked bright in the world of Gears fans. In fact, things were looking pretty terrific for the entire Saginaw Valley. All of the local industries were working around the clock, jobs were easy to find and hockey games were well attended. Student success of the Gears, the Saginaw Civic Center was well on the route to paying off the bonds used to finance its construction in advance. So good was the economic and business outlook that the nationwide hotel chain Radisson Inns where the process securing property in order to construct the newest in their chain of hotels right across the street from Wendler Arena. The new hotel was slated to open in the summer of 1980.

Although the team had failed to repeat their championship season of 1976-77, many of the same faces remained with team. Players such as, Marcel Comeau, Stu Irving, Dave Webster and Dennis Desrosiers, all of whom were championship rings were back for another season. Veterans from the previous season included Randy Rudayk, Dan Eastman, Kevin Howe and Bob Gladney. There was also a crop of new faces joining the team. That fresh blood included Bill Stephenson, Paul McIntosh, Neil Smith and Larry Hopkins. The range of experience among the new players stretched from the CHL, the OHA, the AHL, college teams and even the Canadian Olympic team. There were also some IHL trades in the mix of new players Mark Toffolo had come from Grand Rapids and Mel Hewitt had come from the Flint Generals. As if to replace the original, there was a “new” Paul Evans this season. Being the cousin of ex-Gear Jimmy Johnston, this Paul Evans, (not to be mistaken with the original Paul Evans- who gone up to play with the Philadelphia Flyers,) the new one came down from the Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL. Topping off the new season's roster were three goaltenders. Doug Keans was fresh out of the juniors as was Bob Parent. Bob Froese had a bit more experience coming out of the juniors because he attended the training camp for the St. Louis Blues. He had also dressed for the Gears, but hadn't gotten any game time during the previous season. So, although the hockey savvy Saginaw fans may have been uplifted by their returning veterans anyone could see that Saginaw's true weakness this season would be in goaltending.

The 1978-79 exhibition season for the Gears began on October 11th when the Port Huron Flags handed them 6 to 3 loss. Things got better as the pre-season went on and eventually the Gears walked away with two losses, two wind and one tie. The final pre-season game was played at McMorran Place Arena in Port Huron. In that contest, Marcel Comeau demonstrated that he was fully prepared for the upcoming season. At 5:17 of the first period Dave Westner put a shot on goal that was turned aside by the Flags goaltender. Larry Hopkins, however, got the rebound and put the puck in the net. Then, at 8:58 of the first, veteran defenseman Bob Gladney slammed a blistering shot from the point that found the back of the net and the Gears went up the stairs at the end of the first period up 2 to 0. As the second stanza got under way, Comeau went to work early. Positioned in front of the Port Huron net he picked up a Dennis Desrosiers pass and scored at 8:07. Then, after the clock ticked off just 39 seconds more Comeau picked up his own rebound and scored his second goal of the evening. Finally, with only a half dozen seconds remaining on the clock, Jon Fontas ended the second period by scoring the evening’s fifth unanswered goal for the Gears with assists to Westner and Hopkins. When the third period began the Gears onslaught continued as Hopkins scored his second goal of the game just 47 seconds into the period. Shortly thereafter Comeau earned himself a hat trick on a short-handed goal and the Gears scoring finished with Mel Hewitt getting the team’s final tally for the night. Somewhere in there the flags got goals from Rick Simpson and prior to that Stan Gulutzan. Considering that the Gears were headed home down M-43 with an 8 to 2 win in their final game of the pre-season and that same win was against the Port Huron Flags, whom they would meet in their home opener- everyone on the bus was pretty confident for that first game and for the season ahead. Everyone was wrong.

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FY2012 Budget Highlights Brochure

The FY 2012 Annual Adopted Operating and Capital Budget document along with the Adopted Budget Highlight Brochure is now available.

The FY 2012 Budget is balanced and invests additional resources in City Council priorities including Police, Fire, Streets, Libraries, Animal Care and Economic Development. The FY 2012 Budget includes no City property tax rate increase and maintains the budgeted financial reserves at 9 percent of General Fund Expenditures.

The FY 2011 Operating and Capital Budget is available online and copies are available at the Central Library, each Branch Library, and Community Link Centers for public reference. Copies of the City’s Budget document have been submitted to the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) to be considered for the Distinguished Budget Presentation Award. This award recognizes budget documents of the very highest quality that reflect GFOA’s recommended best practices.

The FY 2012 Budget Highlights brochure provides a high level summary of the Adopted Budget and the program changes that will impact the community. This brochure is in both English and Spanish.

Copies of this brochure are available at all Libraries and City Offices.

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Byfuglien scores 3; Blackhawks take 2-1 lead

Chicago forward Dustin Byfulgien was all over the Vancouver Canucks, creating havoc in the crease and on the score sheet.

Byfuglien banged in a pair of power-play rebounds and completed his hat trick in the third period to lift the Blackhawks to a 5-2 win over the Canucks and a 2-1 lead in the Western Conference semifinal series on Wednesday night.

"He was in the middle of everything," said Marian Hossa, who scored 7:45 into the third period to give Chicago a 4-2 lead. "He's dominating in the corners, in the physical department and I think he was frustrating their team."

Dismissed by the Canucks before the series as a non-factor despite scoring two of his three career playoff goals against them last season, Byfulgien was the biggest factor in putting Chicago ahead in the series for the first time.

Moved back up front and onto the top line after playing defense in Game 2, the 6-foot-4, 257-pound Byfuglien went hard to the net all night, tucking in power-play rebounds in the first and second periods. He was credited with his third goal with 6:02 left after pushing Roberto Luongo into his net, leaving the goalie upset and the Canucks pledging retaliation.

"I think so," Byfulgien said when asked if he was throwing the Canucks off their game. "They've got to worry about me coming and worry about getting hit."

The Canucks seemed most worried about clearing Byfuglien out of Luongo's face. Byfuglien doesn't expect that to happen.

"No, I don't think so," he said.

If not, Luongo would like to see his teammates at least make life just as difficult for his Chicago counterpart. Antti Niemi made 16 of his 31 saves in the first period, but didn't have to fight through nearly as much traffic.

"If they do it on us and its not being called, we have to do the same thing on the other side to at least get it even up as far as advantages are concerned," said Luongo, who finished with 30 saves. "We have to get some traffic."

Kris Versteeg opened the scoring 5:19 in as the Blackhawks picked up where they left off with a third-period comeback in Game 2.

"We built a lot of confidence in Game 2, but we knew it didn't mean much if we didn't come and keep playing the same way," said Chicago captain Jonathan Toews, who had three assists. "We did a lot of good things and put them on their heels for the most part."

Jannik Hansen and Alex Burrows scored for the Canucks, who will try to even the series when they host Game 4 on Friday night. Vancouver will have to do a better job on special teams and against Byfuglien.

"We're going to have to do a better job of protecting the front of our net," Canucks coach Alain Vigneault said. "At the same time, we know what's being allowed and permitted on the ice in front of the nets and we have to do the same thing."

Byfuglien started the series on the fourth line and moved to defense in Game 2, but he shifted to the top line with Toews and Patrick Kane. But as he did in last year's series against Vancouver, Byfuglien took his usual position in front of the net on the power play and made the Canucks pay.

Pointless in his first eight playoff games, he lifted in a power-play rebound with 3:13 left in the first period after Toews won a faceoff cleanly and Luongo bobbled Duncan Keith's unscreened shot from the point.

Hansen pulled the Canucks within a goal midway through the second, but Burrows took an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty 2 minutes later. Byfuglien then lifted in another rebound after Toews drove to the net along the goal line.

"Big Buff, he's doing what he's got to do, he's crashing," Toews said. "When there is a puck race or a battle, their players definitely know he's there and give him a little more respect, so its good for whoever is playing with him. Just try to make plays and get pucks to the net and you saw what happens."

Burrows made up for the undisciplined penalty by snapping a wrist shot from the slot under Niemi's blocker off the rush with 54 seconds left in the period. But any hope of Vancouver adding to an NHL-leading 13 third-period comebacks ended when Hossa beat Shane O'Brien to a rebound for an easy goal at 7:45.

Byfuglien, who skated along the end boards taunting the crowd after his second goal, was back in the spotlight - and on top of Luongo - for the third. Luongo was in position to make the save before Byfuglien pushed him into the net, but the goal - orginally given to Kane - was upheld after a video review.

Byfuglien doesn't think he is getting Luongo off his game, but he admitted that seeing the goalie talking to the officials could mean he is getting close.

"He doesn't like to talk too much, but he's not afraid to," Byfuglien said. "When he does, I think it means you are getting into his head, I guess," he said.

NOTES: To make room for Byfuglien, Chicago scratched Vancouver native Troy Brouwer, who scored 22 goals in the regular season but was pointless in eight playoff games. D Jordan Hendry, who played Game 1 but sat out Game 2, took Byfuglien's place on the third defense pairing alongside Brent Sopel. ... Fourth line Vancouver C Ryan Johnson returned after missing a month because of a broken foot, but the shot-blocking, penalty-killing specialist was on the ice for the first goal. He also lost the faceoff cleanly to Toews on the second. Speedy rookie Michael Grabner, who scored in Game 1 but played just 4:19 in Game 2, was scratched to make room for Johnson.

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