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We’re here! We’re finally here to test out the meatball craze that Auckland has been on since Baduzzi opened a few weeks ago. The restaurant name, surprise! means ‘meatballs’ in Sicilian. Of course, the Italian inspired restaurant also serves other authentic dishes.

Obviously the gusty wind and rain kept no hungry Aucklander at home, the wait for tables easily reached the hour mark. Unless you’re dining in a large group, be prepared to sit at the corners of the restaurant where space could be quite minimal. It’s also a mission to get the staff’s attention if you’ve been tucked away.

To start we ordered the Shaved waygu tongue with salsa rossa ($9) and the Insalata of white beans and squid ($13). Roasted potato cubes were paired with tangy salsa and wrapped in a fresh slice of waygu – we were told to roll up the tongue in order to get all the goodness in one mouthful, even if it meant getting your hands dirty. The flavours were amazing. The salad on the other hand was a little less exciting. It was refreshing but nothing extraordinary.

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Under the Polpette menu you will find a wide range of meatball flavours. To share, we got the Crayfish ($16) and Deer and mushroom ($12). The crayfish won both our hearts. The deer was a lot bolder in taste but tended towards the salty side.

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Dessert was no doubt the famous Tiramisu ($12). It truly lived up to its reviews. It was silky and creamy, and amazing with some sprinkled coffee crunch. The biscuit around it provided the perfect sweetness and crunch.

I would definitely return for dessert and the delicious waygu tongue. The staff are very friendly, although most of them have not personally tried the dishes so recommendations are a bit limited – it’s okay, we have you covered!

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    • It was definitely one of the stand-out dishes! Just curious as to when you’ll be sending out the tickets Genie? We can’t wait to go to the show at the end of the year!

  1. thinking about tongue gives me slight shudders, but that appetiser looks fantastic!

    I wonder if a meatball craze will ever catch on here..

  2. Looks so good! I’ve been meaning to head down to Baduzzi too, you’ve convinced me I definitely need to go now 🙂

    • Great! I like it how our blogs inspire each other of our next food destinations 😛

  3. amythlf said:

    I’m going next week and will try the wagyu tongue! Great photos 🙂

  4. Ruby said:

    Pastry Head Chef Juan is an amazing guy,his dessert will never let you down 🙂

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Sweet Cuisine

New beginnings are always very exciting. Brian Campbell recently left the narrow, honeycomb-walled sweet house, Milse, to start his own dessert pop-up all over town. I made it to the very first one last Monday at Meredith’s.

The first three dishes cost $45 in total, and an extra $9 could bring you to a sugar high with a fourth dessert.IMG_2469

Each plate was delicately presented and visually appealing. You can expect no less from Brian with a CV as impressive as his (stalk here). The first dessert was Tonka Bean Vanilla Hyssop Panna Cotta served with strawberries, cherries and lemon curd. As you dig through the dish, the sourness from the lemon curd and the hint of hyssop in the panna cotta makes the dish surprisingly refreshing and delicious.IMG_2417 IMG_2440

I wasn’t a big fan of the second course. A true beetroot supporter would enjoy this one but beetroot and I are not the best of friends. The beetroot mousse was topped with raspberries and yoghurt cake. On the side there were beetroot meringues, raspberry puree and a slice of fresh beetroot. I loved the freeze-dried meringues and fresh raspberry the most. IMG_2454IMG_2456

The third course was divine. The dish came out with a chocolate globe on top of a pile of chocolate soil and hidden inside was a very rich orange flavoured chocolate mousse. The soil was a mix of macadamia nuts, cacao nibs, chocolate coated rice puffs, mint leaves and chewy caramel nugget with a swirl of caramel. The combination was one crunchy gooey mess.IMG_2525 IMG_2498IMG_2527

Now most people would stop here, but you know, it’s all or nothing. So to end the night we finished off with a plum dish. Sour plums were accompanied with sweet sable breton. The popcorn though was a little stale.IMG_2554

There are positive and negative things about pop-ups. They’re of course exciting and mysterious, and due to the limited time only feature, they induce high levels of FOMO aka fear of missing out. The downside is the set menu which cannot be catered to any dietary requirements. You can keep up with the news on where the next pop-up is on Instagram @briancampbell80.img_2410-2Untitled-1

  1. amythlf said:

    I’m attending the second Meredith sitting next month! Thanks for sharing the photos, I can’t wait!!

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This poem was mentioned when Michelle commented on Ruth’s Post, “Be a Writer,” yesterday evening.

Miracle Workers
by Taylor Mali

Sunday nights I lie awake—
as all teachers do—
and wait for sleep to come
like the last student in my class to arrive.
My grading is done, my lesson plans are in order,
and still sleep wanders the hallways like Lower School music.
I’m a teacher. This is what I do.

Like a painter paints, or a sculptor sculpts,
a preacher preaches, and a teacher teaches.
This is what we do.
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  1. Then he entred in to a shippe and passed over and came in to his awne cite.
  2. And lo they brought to him a ma sicke of ye palsie lyinge in his bed. And when Jesus sawe ye faith of the he sayd to the sicke of ye palsie: sonne be of good chere thy sinnes be forgeve the.
  3. And beholde certeyne of ye scribes sayd in the selves this ma blasphemeth.
  4. And whe Jesus sawe their thoughtes he sayd: wherfore thinke ye evill in youre hertes?
  5. Whether ys esyer to saye thy synnes be forgeven ye or to saye: arise and walke?
  6. That ye maye knowe that ye sonne of ma hath power to forgeve sinnes in erth then sayd he vnto ye sicke of ye palsye: arise take vp thy beed and go home to thine housse.
  7. And he arose and departed to his awne housse.
  8. And when ye people sawe it they marveyled and glorified god which had geve suche power to me.
  9. And as Jesus passed forth fro thence he sawe a ma syt a receyuinge of custome named Mathew and sayd to him: folowe me.And he arose and folowed him.
  10. And it came to passe as he sat at meate in the housse: beholde many publicans and synners came and sate downe also with Jesus and hys disciples.
  11. When the Pharises sawe that they sayd to hys disciples: why eateth youre master wt publicans and synners?
  12. When Jesus herde that he sayde vnto them: The whole neade not the phisicion but they that are sicke.
  13. Goo and learne what that meaneth: I have pleasure in mercy and not in offerynge. For I am not come to call the rightewes but the synners to repentaunce.
  14. Then came ye disciples of Jhon to hym sayinge: why do we and the Pharises fast ofte: but thy disciples fast not?
  15. And Jesus sayde vnto them: Can ye weddynge chyldren morne as longe as ye bridegrome is wt them? The tyme will come whe the bridegrome shalbe take fro them and then shall they faste.
  16. Noo man peceth and olde garment with a pece of newe cloothe. For then taketh he awaye ye pece agayne from the garmet and the rent ys made greater.
  17. Nether do men put newe wyne into olde vessels for then the vessels breake and the wyne runneth oute and the vessels perysshe. But they powre newe wyne into newe vessels and so are both saved togeder.
  18. Whyls he thus spake vnto the beholde ther came a certayne ruler and worshipped him sayinge: my doghter is euen now deceased but come and lay thy honde on her and she shall live.
  19. And Jesus arose and folowed hym with hys disciples.
  20. And beholde a woman which was diseased wt an yssue of bloude .xii. yeres came behynde hym and toched ye hem of hys vesture.
  21. For she sayd in her silfe: yf I maye toche but even his vesture only I shalbe safe.
  22. Then Jesus tourned him about and behelde her sayinge: Doughter be of good conforte thy faith hath made the safe. And she was made whole even that same houre.
  23. And when Jesus came into ye rulers housse and sawe the minstrels and the people raginge
  24. he sayde vnto them: Get you hence for ye mayde is not deed but slepeth. And they laughed hym to scorne.
  25. Assone as ye people were put forthe he went in and toke her by ye hond and the mayde arose.
  26. And this was noysed through out all that lande.
  27. And as Jesus departed thence two blynde men folowed hym crying and saying: O thou sonne of David have mercy on vs.
  28. And when he was come to housse the blynd came to hym And Jesus sayde vnto them: Beleve ye that I am able to do thys? And they sayde vnto hym: ye Lorde.
  29. Then touched he their eyes saying: acordynge to youre faythe be it vnto you.
  30. And their eyes were opened. And Jesus charged the saying: Se yt no man knowe of it.
  31. But they assone as they were departed spreed abroade his name through oute all the londe.
  32. As they went out beholde they brought to hym a dome ma possessed af a devyll.
  33. And as sone as the devyll was cast oute the domme spake: And the people merveled sayinge: it was never so sene in Israel.
  34. But the Pharises sayde: he casteth oute devyls by the power of the chefe devyll.
  35. And Jesus went about all cities and tounes teachynge in their synagoges and preachyng the glad tidinges of ye kyngdome and healinge all maner sicknes and desease amoge ye people.
  36. But when he sawe the people he had copassion on the because they were pyned awaye and scattered abroade eve as shepe havige no shepherd.
  37. Then sayde he to hys disciples: the hervest is greate but the laborers are feawe.
  38. Wherfore praye the Lorde of the harvest to sende forthe laborers into hys harvest.
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Walk outside in the sun and look down -- wherever you go, you'll see your shadow. That same principle applies to shadowing in hockey. The вЂњshadowвЂќ is a player -- typically a forward -- who's assigned to defend the opposing team's high scorer. Wherever the big scorer travels on the ice, the shadow always follows. Indeed, numerous hockey coaches have famously told players that if the man they're shadowing walks to a concession stand to buy popcorn during the game, they should walk into the stands right behind him.

Shadowing a Man Without the Puck

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Shadowing a Man With the Puck

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Shadowing typically occurs when both teams are at even strength. But it's not unheard of for a team to employ a shadow while killing a penalty, using hockey's version of a basketball вЂњbox-and-oneвЂќ defense. For example, if your team is playing one man short, the opponents have five skaters on the ice to your team's four. If you're assigned to shadow an opposing forward, your three remaining teammates will play a triangular zone defense while you skate across the ice, following your assigned man wherever he goes.

Physical Play

When shadowing a particularly talented scorer, some defensive players resort to physical tactics, bumping or slashing the offensive star even when he doesn't have the puck. If this occurs within a referee's sight the defender will likely draw a penalty because it's illegal to hit a man who's not in possession of the puck. Sometimes, however, the extra physical attention may throw the scorer off his game. Alternatively, the scorer may retaliate and be called for a penalty himself.


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A lost soul once found the light

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Instantly, it made her calm…

But tears fell down her eyes

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“Every time I look at Tyler [Blackburn]’s face, I start laughing,” a giggling Benson added. “And then Shay [Mitchell] too. We are actually the hardest people to work with to get through a scene because once you start it’s really hard to stop. Especially with us three in one scene.”

King then took the discussion onto the next and final chapter of the show, calling the last season a “love letter to the fans.” “I’m very excited for the show to air and to see the fans’ reactions. I won’t have to hold in any secrets anymore,” she said. “The fans can expect to be completely shocked, but happy that all their questions will be answered.”

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Postby dazzleship » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:52 pm

hi all. just need to share something with you and get a bit of advice please.

hubby and I went swimming last night for the first time in a couple of weeks (we've only started a month or so ago). we had a great time in the pool for just over an hour, I swam little bits (resting in-between) with my 'swim noodle' and was really enjoying myself, almost pain free as I always am in the water.

as soon as I got out of the water the pain returned (as I expected) and once we'd changed we walked to the car, I was in pain all over but nothing that I hadn't expected.

when we got home and I got out of the car, I was standing there for a second and suddenly my legs just collapsed and I almost fell to the ground. hubby helped get my crutches and we got inside but it took ages to walk from the car to the front door as I was pretty much holding myself up just with my arms, my legs were just collapsing and felt like jelly.

I rested for a bit in the living room but later I needed help from hubby to get undressed and into bed (not to mention going up the stairs which took an eternity - we're seriously considering moving the bedroom downstairs now).

I was so scared when my legs collapsed like that and I've never experienced anything that bad before :shock: :cry: not to mention I felt so embarrassed that hubby had to help me so much (although he didnt mind bless him).

did I just overdo the swimming do you think? has anyone else experienced this?

this morning when I woke up I was sore but thankfully my legs seemed to be working a bit better. I'm a bit more wobbly than normal at work here but trying to take it easy.
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Postby yorkshirelass » Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:38 pm

I call them my 'jelly legs' or 'flu legs' - total loss of co-ordination, cannot keep my balance and no strength in them. :-? I find it usually happens when I have done too much and that with rest they recover. Not that they are ever brill. :!: Unfortunately I think it is just another part of Fibro and that if you are pain free in the swimming pool then you probably did too much without realising it. Sorry it was such a shock but now you are aware it can happen you will be able to manage it. Hope you recover soon. :-)
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Re: legs collapsed.. :(

Postby teamonster » Wed Sep 10, 2014 1:54 pm

I definitely get the jelly legs, iv gone over in some spectacular fashions in supermarkets, even at work all post work out. I call it my wobbly moments.

Now let me share you a secret I have trained ( long story) some amazing martial arts and socialized with many weight lifting people who all get jelly legs too once they have done too much ! They don't have fibro however it is my experience ( im no doctor ) that fibro because of the pain leads to weakness ( because lets face it we can't lift that 40k squat !! when making a cup of tea can be a chore ). So if they get it its not just another bit of our fibro

now the hard part .. do not be put off by your jelly legs maby not do as much but don't let it put you off all together because you keep it up eventually the jelly legs (shouldn't) happen anymore once you build up your strength.

keep going hun :)
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Re: legs collapsed.. :(

Postby nogginpodge » Wed Sep 10, 2014 2:11 pm

Oh I get jelly-legs a lot and they always take me by surprise! I think you did a little bit too much in the swimming pool because you were feeling so good and perhaps over-tired your leg muscles.

This happens to me when I've overdone things, usually in the garden and usually on a good day. I am hopeless at "pacing" myself; I have so many bad days that when I have a good day I take full advantage of it even if it means suffering the consequences.

I will be absolutely fine whilst overdoing it, then I will come in and sit down. Then I will try to stand up and my legs won't hold me! It can be highly embarrassing because its so unexpected!

Then I begin the silly walk, my kids used to call it "Pinnochio" because I look like a puppet on strings. So just think to myself, "Oh, I've got Pinnochio again!"

Don't let it stop you enjoying yourself; so what if you have to shuffle upstairs on your bottom? You enjoyed your swim didn't you? Hahahaha!
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Re: legs collapsed.. :(

Postby TracyJ72 » Wed Sep 10, 2014 3:01 pm

This happened to me and my GP said if it happened again I was to be tested for MS. There are so many secondary conditions to keep our Fibro company :-( Have a chat with your GP xxx
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Re: legs collapsed.. :(

Postby mandiw » Wed Sep 10, 2014 6:54 pm

I get this too. if I am shopping or walking for too long I get jelly legs and it feels as if, if I go on they will just give up altogether. I have to walk slowly back to the car and come home because I an very unsteady on my feet then.
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Re: legs collapsed.. :(

Postby iblinkin » Wed Sep 10, 2014 8:35 pm

Yes i get this as well, and one thing i found out that helps is to make sure you eat plenty of protein before doing anything that requires stamina ie: swimming even cycling, walking or whatever! I usually eat a peanutbutter sandwich before doing anything and last week i forgot and nearly collapsed and then realised i didnt consume any protein, what a difference it makes. Just thought i would share this tidbit with you. So remember before excertion make sure you have protein in you or it will get worse as we're tapping our energy supply and we run out a lot faster than normal folks do and require more protein than normal folks. If you don't believe me please read up on it as education is our strongest weapon in this war on fibro.
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Re: legs collapsed.. :(

Postby denys » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:04 pm

Its more than likely you over exerted but as has been suggested go to the docs and explain what happened, iblinkin I believe you as my youngest is into fitness and always has a protein shake before doing any of his workouts

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Re: legs collapsed.. :(

Postby iblinkin » Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:17 pm

Thank you Denys, I try my best to be as imformed as possible but with fibro the mind sometimes can be cruel and deceiving and absorbing info can be very difficult and conveying even harder. :-D
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Postby Zia2014 » Thu Sep 11, 2014 5:23 pm

I haven't actually fallen over (yet!) but my legs did go completely the other day, I was extremely lucky that I was in the lounge, and held on for dear life to the tv table while my partner, who was on the sofa, leapt to my rescue. It's scary and I am just waiting for it to happen.

I agree that you may have overdone it with the swimming. I'm doing less than I could because I'm worried about the same thing. I do a lot of floating so I have the feeling of weightlessness/no pain without using the energy :-D
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Postby MPSGuy » Sat Sep 13, 2014 3:51 pm

It sounds like 'jelly legs' from overexertion. Quite easy to over do things in the swimming pool because everything feels easier as the water supports your body, takes pressure off the joints and so on.

I think shaky and twitchy muscles are very common after really strenuous exercise and of course many people with fibro have a lower tolerance for exercise anyway.
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Learn how to make this colorful and nutritious beetroot salad. It tastes as stunning as it looks. The recipe for vinegret features such healthy ingredients as carrot, potato, and onion. Here boiled vegetables are perfectly combined with pickled cucumber, sour cabbage, and marinated mushrooms, which adds savoriness to the salad.

You can enjoy this sophisticated salad on its own or you may serve it with some meat/fish dish.

  • 1 carrot
  • 1 potato
  • 1/2 bulb onion
  • 1 medium beetroot
  • 1 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1-2 tbsp sour cabbage
  • 1/2 pickled cucumber
  • 10 marinated mushrooms
  • salt – to taste

Wash a potato, carrot, and beetroot. Boil, peel, and cube the vegetables. Chop a pickled cucumber. Peel and slice a bulb onion. Cut sour cabbage finely. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl. Dress the salad with vegetable oil and season it with salt. Top the vinegret with marinated mushrooms before serving.

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Project Blue Beam: Still Crazy After All These Years/Part Two

Project Blue Beam: Still Crazy After All These Years

Part Two: “We Have The Technology”

By Martin Harris

On September 28, 1981, President Reagan received a letter from Major Ret. Colman VonKeviczky. VonKeviczky was the Director of the International UFO Galactic Spacecraft Research and Analytic Network (ICUFON). This group held that UFOs “represented an intergalactic task force that will destroy earth unless world leaders band together to end their hostile actions against UFOs.”
VonKeviczky began his career by working for the United Nations staff audio-visual department. In 1966, he wrote to United Nations Secretary U Thant recommending a UFO authority be installed to act as a World Authority for Spatial Affairs. U Thant was interested in the UFO mystery and commissioned VonKeviczky “to work on a preliminary memo on how the UFO problem could be inserted in the U.N. agenda.”

Was the Blue Beam memo that “preliminary memo”?

Are we all taking Blue Beam a little more seriously now…?

Comparison: Star Trek’s United Federation Of Planets And The United Nations.

A Huge space craft hovers above the Earth. It has disabled all planetary defences. It spits out balls of plasma that encircle the globe, poised to strike.

Trapped within this huge alien vessel is humanity’s last hope: The USS Enterprise and her valiant crew. In a visually stunning sequence, Mr. Spock discovers that this vessel has no crew. It is a living machine of awesome power coupled with childlike emotional development and insatiable curiousity, driven by it’s prime directive: To accumulate and store information, and return that information to it’s creator. For this purpose, V’ger, as the vessel calls itself, is equipped with the aforementioned plasma weapons that break down physical objects into “electronic data”, a gigantic holographic storage and display system, and in a scene deleted from the final movie cut, a “memory wall” that stores trillions of terrabytes of data within crystals.

What is to become of humanity? “You are to be patterned for data storage“. In other words, V’ger intends to reduce human beings to holographically stored, electronic data.

Star trek even foresaw hack attacks: V’Ger accesses the Enterprise computer, steals data on Earth’s defences, and later uses that information to remotely render planetary defences useless: a cyber-attack!

Cracking good science fiction, and of course Captain Kirk and crew save the day and the Earth, while simultaneously assisting V’ger in “joining with the Creator” in the ultimate transhumanist propaganda scene!

Project Blue Beam has been linked, quite correctly, to Star Trek, but for all the wrong reasons, by debunkers who suggest Serge Monast got the idea from Gene Roddenberry’s original screenplay, later novelised as The God Thing:

After an alien entity declaring itself to be God destroys spacecraft en route to Earth, the Enterprise is launched under the command of Admiral Kirk to engage the vessel. He re-assembles the former crew, including Spock, and sets out to intercept the alien. As they approach the entity, it transports a humanoid probe on board the Enterprise that takes a variety of forms—including that of Jesus. The crew determine that the being and its craft are from an alternate dimension and have been responsible for the creation of religion of numerous planets to teach their inhabitants its laws in a manner understandable at their points in development. The being is malfunctioning; the crew repair it and send it back to its own dimension.[3][4]”

And the plot does indeed have very similar elements to Monast’s claims about the NWO agenda. However, the movie finally released on the big screen almost four decades ago bore little resemblance to this screenplay. The ever-more ambitious ideas and concepts for the production kept the schedule in a constant state of flux and almost bankrupted Paramount.

Part of the problem lay with the insistence on as much scientific accuracy and prescience as possible. One of the pre production crew had visited Livermore Labs where flat screen and touch screen technologies were being developed. The effects team laiased very closely with NASA, who eagerly provided consultants and advice. And as it now turns out, NASA were very busy collating information and research on Holographic display, imaging, data storage and retrieval systems and in fact every possible application for holography, as this document from 1974 indicates.

Four decades ago, the science-military-industrial complex was hard at work developing technology that was being portrayed publicly as science fiction! And now, in the early 21st century, that technology is being used to the full: Everywhere you go, surveillance cameras are watching and recording. Your cellphone (itself an offshoot of Star Trek technology!), your television, and your PC are watching, listening, tracking and data gathering constantly. While you are browsing the internet, the internet is browsing you. Search engines and social media platforms are constantly finding new ways to profile the user. Voice recognition. Facial recognition. Fingerprint recognition. Retina scans. DNA sampling.

Your online preferences and movements are tracked. Your store purchases. Now they want to track your car. Human microchipping is just around the corner.

Why? The most obvious and mundane answer, of course, is for sales and marketing purposes. To figure out who we are and what we like in order to target us individually and try to sell us something.

But it goes much deeper than that.

No, I’m not suggesting the NWO elites are literally intending to blast us into electrons with plasma bolts. I do suggest though, looking at the big picture, that a holographic image of each and every civilised individual is being constructed and electronically stored. Not just a 3-d image, but a close approximation of who we are. Way beyond knowing our tastes for targeted marketing, this electronic data-construct could be used to predict one’s likelihood of disease, of criminal behaviour,  and potentially pre-judge them. Sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel. How far could this go? Potential scenarios include 3d printed replacement body parts tailored to the individual, and having your memories stored as data; a form of immortality. No doubt many readers have seen mainstream news stories about these evolving technologies. Going back briefly to Star Trek: The Motion Picture, V’Ger used the stored “data patterns” of Lieutenant Ilia to recreate her as an android in such perfect detail that even her memories and emotions were reproduced. Seemed far fetched in 1978, but now…? As part of the 2030 Agenda, the UN has stated that it wants to “ID” every living person on Earth.

An important component of this holographic technology is the ability to store, project and retrieve data using crystals. These crystals need to have outstanding dielectric properties; the ability to retain an electrical charge.

Strontium Barium Nobiate Hologram

SBN Dielectric

Hang on to your hats chemtrail officionados. No doubt you’ve already made the connection.

Can it be any coincidence that SBN is one of the nanoparticulates being touted for stratospheric geoengineering schemes, and allegedly being used clandestinely in spraying schemes right now. Along with another combination, Aluminum-Barium Titanate that holds even greater promise.

I first researched and made connections on this back in 2011, and even then plenty of others had made the connection earlier than this. And there IS evidence in the form of this now-famous US Army document:

Strontium Barium Nobiate

And this:

Nice documentation, nice theoretical stuff, but it’s all so much words.

Has such sky-hologram technology ever been field-tested?

I believe that it has. A strange and compelling photo has been appearing on the internet over the past six or seven years. One of the first to use it was Norio Hayakawa, who I tried to contact to no avail. Finally, in researching for this blog and after several Image/History searches, I found the source and some valuable analysis.

Atmospheric Geoengineering, Weather Manipulation,Contrails vs Chemtrails… Project Blue Beam…?!?

“Scott Stevens said…
If any photoshop guys want the raw 3072×2304 jpeg image mailed to you just drop me a note.
But, I’d ask that you share your findings and some of your better excerpts of this image with the rest of us here.
I lost a notebook hard drive last winter, and the email that contained this image.. The reader who mailed this to me did so Feb 10th 2008, this person had stated that it was taken the weekend prior. He did say that he got out of his car and took this solitary image and did not see the anomaly until looking a the photo later when back home.”

Here is the raw image uncropped. The observer thought they were taking pictures of intense chemtrailling, and note that the pic was taken outside, so assuming they’re being honest, not a window reflection:

Here’s an enhanced closer look at the indistinct image and “line of fire” effect:

It becomes apparent that the character is a double image. They appear to be projected from the two “fire” lines, and projected onto the two intersecting aircraft trails. There is a web-like lattice of triangulated lines linking the trails, as if (I speculate) some sort of electro-chemical interaction were taking place, creating a screen. This is especially noticeable in the negative enhancement. Could this be an experimental “fog screen” projector in testing?

Someone took the trouble to take away the double, with this result:

And an interesting discussion of the photo can be found here:

Why the double image? Again I can only speculate, but the 3d effect seems to rely on the image being a composite of two shots of the same object at slightly different angles. Outside of the desired field of view (30 degrees), a double image like this might result. There is also mention of an “annoying bright line” in the Army document, as well as attempts to use a “scattering liquid” which was not entirely successful, resulting in loss of the 3d effect:

The tracking and data-gathering components of the Blue Beam plan have turned out to have a strong basis in fact, as has a connection to Star trek. The infamous holographic light-show component also turns out to be feasible, and there are plenty of examples of various holographic techniques and technologies either in use or in development right now that would work well with a “Blue Beam” alien simulation.

Fog Projection Combined with Gestural Interface to Create “Hologram Touchscreen”

Princess Leia “Hologram” Vapor Display

“We present a new method to render aerial images using aerosol-based fog screens. Conventional fog screens are easily affected by air flow, and their fog generators occupy large areas. In this study, we propose to add new tradeoffs between the display time and the payloads. We employ aerosol distribution from off-the-shelf sprays as a fog screen that can resist wind and has high portability. Results showed that the minimum weight of the entire system is approximately 600 g including all components, the screen raise time is approximately 0.5 s, the disappearance time is approximately 0.4 s, and the maximum wind speed at which we can project images is approximately 10 m/s. We conducted user studies on wearable applications, aerial imaging with a drone or radio-controlled model car, multi-viewpoint display, and a display embedded in the environment. This study will contribute to the exploration of new application areas for fog displays, and will augment expressions of entertainment and interactivity.” (My emphasis)

Third and final part of this blog coming soon, thanks for reading!

Missed Part One?

Martin Harris

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No. 10 Men's Soccer Looks To End Five-Game Losing Streak To No. 19 Rutgers In Pivotal BIG EAST Road Test

Sept. 28, 2002

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THE RUTGERS GAME – The Notre Dame men’s soccer team will look to rebound from its tough 1-0 loss on Thursday night at No. 2 St. John’s as they Irish continue their two-game road swing against Rutgers on Sun., Sept. 26 at 2:00 p.m. Notre Dame is ranked in both the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) and Soccer America polls, standing 10th and 16th, respectively. Rutgers is ranked 19th in this week’s NSCAA poll.

SCOUTING THE IRISH – Notre Dame heads into its game with Rutgers with a 4-2-2 overall record and 2-1-0 mark in BIG EAST play. Notre Dame has outscored its opponents 18-10 on the season and 9-2 in league contests. The Irish defense has recorded one shutout and held its opponents to one goal or less on six occasions. Senior Erich Braun (Frankfurt, Germany) has three multiple-goal games which have accounted for all six of his goals this season. His most recent came in Notre Dame’s victory over the Friars; he also had multiple-goal games against Southwest Missouri State and Seton Hall. Chad Riley (Houston, Texas) has been one of the team’s most consistent performers of late as he has registered two goals and four assists in Notre Dame’s last four games. Riley dished off a career-best three assists in the win over Providence and stands second in scoring column with two goals and six assists (10 points). Justin Detter (White Lake, Mich.) has two goals and three assists, while Greg Martin (Plano, Texas) and Luke Boughen (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.) each have scored a pair of goals. Devon Prescod (Marietta, Ga.) rounds out the scoring for the Irish with 18 goals. Goalkeeper Chris Sawyer (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) has played 752:21 of a possible 777:29 minutes. He has allowed nine goals and made 26 saves for a 1.08 goals against average and .743 save percentage.

SCOUTING THE SCARLET KNIGHTS – Rutgers improved to 3-2-1 and 3-1-0 in the BIG EAST with its 5-0 win on Wednesday against Villanova. Sherif El Bjaly scored twice in the contest to lead the Scarlet Knights. Rutgers two losses this season have been to Butler (3-0) and Georgetown (1-0). Like the Irish, the Scarlet Knights have displayed a tenacious defense and have allowed just four goals all season registered four shutouts.

RECAPPING THE ST. JOHN’S GAME – Notre Dame dropped a 1-0 heartbreaker to St. John’s on the road as Jean Camere’s goal from 18 yards out with 1:48 to play lifted the Red Storm to the victory. The loss marked the continuation of frustration for the Irish against the Red Storm on the road. With the setback, Notre Dame is now winless in its five appearances in Jamaica, N.Y. and has been outscored 14-1. The Irish were outshot 11-8 in the contest, but had two scoring chances late in the game. The first came when Luke Boughen’s shot went wide with 8:45 remaining and then Erich Braun followed with a shot from 12 yards out with 7:49 remaining. Chris Sawyer made two saves in goal.

HEAD COACH BOBBY CLARK – Bobby Clark is in his second season at Notre Dame after being named the fifth head coach in the program’s history on Jan., 19, 2001. In his 16th season as a collegiate coach, Clark has an overall record of 169-72-27 for an overall winning percentage of .681 and is 16-9-2 (.629) at Notre Dame. Heading into the 2002 campaign, he ranked 16th all-time among active Division I coaches in terms of winning percentage. Last season, he guided the Irish to a 12-7 mark and their first NCAA tournament appearance since 1996. Prior to coming to Notre Dame, he spent five seasons guiding the Stanford Cardinal to a 71-21-12 mark and .740 winning percentage from 1996-2000. Clark also was head coach at Dartmouth from 1985-93 where he led the Big Green to an 82-242-13 record (.646). Seven of Clark’s teams have advanced to NCAA tournament play with his ’98 Stanford squad finishing as the NCAA runnerup that season. In between his coaching stints at Dartmouth and Stanford, he was head coach of the New Zealand National Team (1994-95).

CLARK LEADS THREE DIFFERENT TEAMS INTO NCAAs – As a head coach, Bobby Clark is certainly NCAA tournament tested. With Notre Dame’s appearance in the 2001 championship, he has now guided three different schools to the NCAA postseason. At Dartmouth, he led the Big Green to two appearances in nine years, while his Cardinal teams at Stanford earned four berths in the five seasons he spent on Palo Alto, Calif., campus. Clark is the first Notre Dame coach to lead the Irish to the NCAAs in his first season.

SERIES RECORD VS. RUTGERS – Notre Dame has lost five straight to the Scarlet Knights and is just 1-6 playing Rutgers on its home field. The Irish have been outscored 10-1 in the last five games, including last year’s 3-0 setback at Alumni Field. Notre Dame’s last victory was a 1-0 win at Alumni Field during the 1997 campaign and its lone win at Yurcak field was a 1-0 decision in the final game of the 1996 BIG EAST Championship.

FURMAN WIN SIGNIFICANT – Notre Dame’s 2-1 victory over Furman proved to be significant because it marked the highest ranked opponent that an Irish team had beaten since a 1-0 victory over second-ranked UNC Greensboro in the first round of the 1996 NCAA Tournament and was the last win over a top-10 team at home since a 1-0 victory over 10th-ranked St. John’s during the 2000 campaign. In its 25-plus seasons of varsity competition, Notre Dame has nine wins over teams that have been ranked in the top 10 of either the NSCAA or Soccer America polls.

TOUGH STRETCH – Notre Dame’s is in the midst of a touch stretch in which the Irish are playing four of five games on the road, Following this weekend’s road swing, Coach Clark’s squad faces Pittsburgh at home on Fri., Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m. and then travels to Akron (Oct. 6) and Boston College (Oct. 12). Notre Dame concludes the regular season by playing four of its six games at home.

THE CAPTAINS – Seniors Erich Braun and Justin Ratcliffe and junior Greg Martin are serving as captains for the 2002 men’s soccer team. Braun and Ratcliffe will be serving as captains for the first time in their career, while Martin has been selected as one of the Irish leaders for the second consecutive year. In 2001, Martin was the first sophomore in the 25-year history of the program to serve as a captain and becomes just the 10th player ever to serve as a two-time captain.

BRAUN MOVING UP THE CHARTS – With his eight goals this season, Erich Braun has moved to 10th on the all-time Irish goals scored list with 31. His 74 points (31goals, 12 assists) places him 12th on the all-time scoring list.

THREE CHEERS FOR CHAD – Chad Riley’s three assists against Providence marked a single-game career-best for the junior who has led the Irish in that category during his two-plus seasons. He leads the team with six assists this season and registered six assists in both of his first two campaigns. In 44 career games, Riley has dished off 18 assists. The second-leading scorer on the Irish team with two goals and six assists, he has been Notre Dame’s most consistent performer of late as he has scored two goals and dished off four goals in the Irish’s last three games.

BIG EAST PLAY BRINGS OUT THE BEST IN SAWYER – Chris Sawyer has a knack for playing well in BIG EAST games. In Notre Dame’s three BIG EAST contests, he has surrendered just one goal a goal in 244:52 minutes of action. In 11 career league games, he has registered five complete-game shutouts. Sawyer has played 975:15 minutes in those 11 conference games and allowed just five goals for a 0.46 goals against average. In addition, he has made 36 saves and owns a .878 save percentage.

BOUGHEN HAS CAREER DAY AGAINST FRIARS – Sophomore Luke Boughen registered the first two goals of his collegiate career against Providence 1:12 apart. It also marked his first career points in an Irish uniform. Boughen scored his first goal at the 51:19 mark and then followed with his second score at 52:31.

RAFAEL IS COMING UP BIG – No Irish player has stepped up his level of play this season more than senior forward Rafael Garcia. He has two goals and three assists on the season and stands fourth in the scoring column with seven points. Garcia registered goals in both the Creighton and Seton Hall contests and is credited with assists in Southwest Missouri State and Furman matches. Garcia has started all eight games. Heading into the 2002 campaign, he had made 13 starts in 38 games and had scored two goals and dished off two assists.

PRESCOD POWER – Junior forward Devon Prescod has been slowed by nagging injuries this season that has limited his playing time during the game. Prescod is slowly regaining the form of a year ago, and last Sunday against Providence, tallied his first goal of the season. He has played in all eight games this season, and in addition to the goal, has dished off one assist.

IRISH MAINSTAYS – Four Irish veterans have started 90.0 percent or better of Notre Dame’s games during their careers: Erich Braun (Sr.) – 58 of 60 (.966); Justin Ratcliffe (Sr.) – 57 of 63 (.905); Justin Detter (Jr.) – 43 of 44 (.977); and Chad Riley (Jr.) – 41 of 44 (.932).

QUICK FLICKS – Notre Dame has wasted little time in getting on the scoreboard in four of its first eight games. Erich Braun tallied the season’s first goal 17 seconds into the contest in the season opener against Southwest Missouri State, while Rafael Garcia put in the Irish’s lone goal versus Creighton at the 7:12 mark. Against Seton Hall, Garcia scored Notre Dame’s initial goal 23:28 into the contest and Braun gave the Irish a 1-0 lead at the 11:04 mark of the match against Providence.

GETTING HIS STARTS – Freshman Dale Rellas (Plano, Texas) has been in the starting lineup for Notre Dame’s first eight games. He was the only Irish rookie to see action against Southwest Missouri State in the season opener.

PLAYING THE BEST – The ’02 men’s soccer schedule features nine teams that advanced to NCAA tournament play a year ago. Those teams featured on the 18-game slate include: Akron, Boston College, Connecticut, Creighton, Furman, Michigan State, Rutgers, St. John’s and Seton Hall.

IRISH TABBED THIRD IN BIG EAST PRESEASON POLL – The Notre Dame men’s soccer team has been chosen to finish third in the Preseason BIG EAST Coaches Poll. Connecticut, the 2001 regular-season champion, has been chosen first by a vote of the league’s head coaches, while St. John’s, last year’s tournament champion, has been chosen second. Chris Sawyer has been selected as the Preseason Goalkeeper of the Year, while he, Erich Braun and Justin Detter were named to the Preseason All-BIG EAST squad.

25 AND COUNTING – The 2001 campaign marked the 25th season of varsity competition for the Notre Dame men’s soccer program. Since its inaugural season in 1977, Irish teams have compiled a 331-167-44 record for a .651 winning percentage. Notre Dame has won 20-plus games on three occasions and 15 or more contests 11 times. In the program’s history, only five teams have had a losing season.

ALL IN THE FAMILY – Freshman defender John Stephens (Woodbridge, Ill.) is no stranger to athletics at Notre Dame. His grandfather, Colonel John Stephens, served as Notre Dame’s longtime associate athletics director until the mid-80’s. His father, John, is a graduate of Notre Dame and received a law degree from the University.

HOME SWEET HOME – Notre Dame will play nine of its 18 regular season contests at the friendly confines of Alumni Field during the 2002 season. The Irish finished 7-1 last year at home (its only loss was to Rutgers). The Irish own a 78-28-8 mark all-time for a .719 winning percentage. The ’02 campaign will mark the 12th for Notre Dame at Alumni Field. Notre Dame owns a 10-1-1 mark (.875) at Alumni Field under Clark with its only loss coming to Rutgers (3-0 on Sept. 22, 2001).

LEADER OF THE PACK – For the first time in the history of the BIG EAST Conference, six teams represented the league in the 2001 NCAA Men’s Soccer Championship. The BIG EAST led all conferences with six selections. In addition to Notre Dame, Boston College, Connecticut, Rutgers, St. John’s and Seton Hall earned spots in the 48-team field.

BIG EAST FORMAT – With the addition of Virginia Tech at the start of the 2001 campaign, the BIG EAST created a change in its regular-season format with a 10-game conference format instituted. Notre Dame will not play West Virginia and Syracuse this season.

DIADORA CHALLENGE ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM – Notre Dame had four players named to the all-tournament team at the Diadora Challenge – Erich Braun, Greg Martin, Jack Stewart (Torrance, Calif.) and Luke Boughen (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.). In addition, Braun was selected as the tournament’s MVP as the Irish also won the tournament crown.

MIKE BERTICELLI CLASSIC ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM – Three Notre Dame players – Justin Ratcliffe (Miami, Fla.), Devon Prescod (Marietta, Ga.) and Kevin Goldthwaite – were named to the all-tournament team. Bradley had four players selected, including goalkeeper Chris Dunsheath who also earned MVP honors. Furman and Cornell each placed two players on the squad.

LIGHTENING STRIKES TWICE – Notre Dame has had two games this season delayed by lightening – Creighton and Bradley. Against Creighton, there was a 30-minute lightening delay, while the Bradley contest was delayed 20 minutes in the 16th minute of the contest.

SCOTTISH CORNER KICKS – The Notre Dame men’s soccer team reported back to campus on July 21 to begin an intense 10 days of workouts in preparation for their 14-day trip to Scotland. The squad left for the native homeland of head coach Bobby Clark on Aug. 2 and returned back to Indiana on Aug. 16. The Irish made their headquarters on the University of Aberdeen and Edinburgh University campuses. Junior midfielder Greg Martin recorded the events of the trip in a diary which appeared on Notre Dame’s website ( during the trip. Former Notre Dame men’s soccer player Thomas Crotty (1977-79) who contributed $50,000 – the entire amount needed for the cost of the trip. The Irish finished 4-0-1 while playing five games in 11 days.

Game #1 (August 4) – Notre Dame 6, Formatine United 1 Notre Dame opened its Scotland Tour with a 6-1 victory over Formatine United. Erich Braun scored two first-half goals and Paul Rodriguez added another as the Irish built a 3-1 halftime advantage. Devon Prescod gave the Irish a 4-1 lead early into the second, while Rafael Garcia and Justin Ratcliffe also added scores. Chris Sawyer started and played the entire first half, while Greg Tait played the entire second half.

Game #2 (August 6) – Notre Dame 8, Banks of Dee 1 Notre Dame was impressive in its second game as the Irish registered an 8-1 win victory over the Banks of Dee. The Irish claimed a 3-0 halftime advantage on goals by Kevin Goldthwaite, Rafael Garcia and Erich Braun. Second-half scores from Chad Riley, Justin Ratcliffe and Devon Prescod pushed the Irish lead to 6-0. After the Banks of Dee scored its lone goal of the contest, Justin Detter and Prescod added the contest’s final two scores.

Game #3 (August 8) – Notre Dame 1, Ross County 0 Notre Dame improved to 3-0 with a 1-0 win in Dingwall over the Ross County under-21 squad. The game-winning Irish score came from Filippo Chillemi 10 minutes into the second half. The opposition nearly tied the game with three minutes remaining in the contest on a questionable call that resulted in a penalty kick, but Greg Tait’s save preserved the win.

Game #4 (August 12) – Notre Dame 2, Aberdeen FC Under-21 0 Notre Dame posted its most noteworthy victory of its two-week summer tour and improved to 4-0 with a 2-0 shutout over the Aberdeen under-21 squad. Erich Braun scored his fourth goal of the trip early in the second half with Filippo Chillemi adding the second goal midway through the half. Devon Prescod set up both goals in the game. Goalkeeper Chris Sawyer played the entire 90 minutes of the contest. The victory marked the first time in four games that one of Clark’s teams had produced a win over that squad. Previously, he had brought to Scotland two of his Dartmouth and one of his Stanford teams.

Game #5 (August 14) – Notre Dame 1, Dundee United 1 Playing its fifth game in 11 days, Notre Dame tied Dundee United 1-1 in its fifth and final game of its Scotland tour. Erich Braun netted the contest’s lone goal off an assist from Devon Prescod. Dundee United tallied the equalizer with three minutes left in the contest.


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Too Many Communications Apps Causing Employee Stress

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A new report from global enterprise cloud communications and collaboration solutions provider, RingCentral, revealed workplace apps cause immense unnecessary stress for employees. The report entitled From Workplace Chaos to Zen: How App Overload Is Reshaping the Digital Workplace surveyed 2,000 international knowledge workers to compile the findings.

When it comes to communications apps, employees use around four apps; 20 percent are using more than six. The apps, more specifically, are designated for phone calls, texting, web and video conferencing, team messaging, etc. Every day, 69 percent of staff waste an average of an hour trying steer themselves around these apps, equaling 32 wasted days per work year.

That being said, 66 percent of employees are seeking a singular communications platform. The belief is it will enhance workplace productivity. Having to navigate all of these apps is detrimental to both employees and businesses.

Research from RingCentral’s report found this:

  • More than 70 percent of workers say their communications volume is a challenge to getting work done.
  • Sixty-eight percent of workers toggle between apps up to 10 times an hour, and 31 percent of workers said toggling causes them to lose their train of thought.
  • Workers find navigating between apps more annoying than doing household chores (53 percent), paying bills (52 percent), and trying to lose weight (50 percent).

Despite the prevailing feeling of app overload, workers find team messaging to be the least disruptive to their workdays.

“Today’s workforce is under siege by a flood of communications apps. More than ever, our attention is scattered across a wide array of different apps and communications channels,” said Riadh Dridi, CMO of RingCentral. “These apps are meant to bolster our productivity, but managing myriad apps is proving difficult—with serious repercussions for businesses. This new research reveals workers demand a unified experience that brings together all modes of communications into a single platform that promotes better collaboration and seamlessly integrates with their other business applications.”

Employees shared that a singular communications platform would be beneficial for several reasons:

  • 67 percent feel it would help them achieve a better workflow,
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  • 62 percent think work would be less chaotic,
  • 61 percent say telecommuting would be easier,
  • 51 percent of employees 45 and over prefer email, and
  • 43 percent of employees 18-44 prefer team messaging.

“This report confirms what we’re seeing in the workplace — employees prefer a singular, real-time communications platform that increases their productivity and workflow on a day-to-day basis,” said David Smith, Founder and Principal at InFlow Analysis. “It maps back to the trend toward ‘conversational workspaces.’ Enterprises are striving to enable collaboration combined with real-time communications. As more businesses adopt these platforms, it will encourage workers to use these tools to get more work done with less effort.”

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90-day delay in Electronic Logging Device mandate

WASHINGTON — Editor’s note: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued a 90-day delay to the Electronic Logging Device mandate for those who transport agricultural commodities. The below statements are from the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, respectively.

FMCSA Issues Additional 90-day Waiver of ELD Mandate for Ag

Yesterday, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) issued an additional 90-day waiver of the ELD Mandate for all transporters of agricultural commodities. The initial 90-day waiver that FMCSA issued in November 2017 was set to expire on March 18th.

Director of the Office of Enforcement and Compliance, Joe DeLorenzo, and FMCSA Deputy Administrator, Cathy Gautreaux, also announced that further guidance related to the “personal conveyance” provision and the 150-air miles exemption will be released soon.

USCA Executive Vice President Kelly Fogarty issued the following statement:

“The 90-day waiver issued by FMCSA for all haulers of agricultural commodities was set to expire by the end of this week, on Sunday, March 18th. Though we’re pleased with the additional 90-day waiver, this does not alleviate the underlying Hours-of-Services concerns that the livestock industry has brought forth to FMCSA. We look forward to working with FMCSA, Congress, and other stakeholders groups in the days ahead to continue pushing for a viable solution to the restrictive Hours of Service rules.”

—U.S. Cattlemen’s Association

NCBA Applauds Another 90-Day Delay in Electronic Logging Device Mandate

National Cattlemen’s Beef Association President Kevin Kester today issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Transportation’s announcement that the Electronic Logging Device (ELD) mandate will be delayed another 90 days for agricultural haulers:

“This is obviously good news for America’s cattle haulers and producers, and it will provide FMCSA (the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration) more time to educate our livestock haulers on the ELDs while industry works on solutions to the current Hours of Service rules that simply do not work for those hauling live animals.

“We would like to thank Transportation Secretary Elaine L. Chao and FMCSA Administrator Ray Martinez for listening to our concerns and working with us to find a permanent, workable solution.”


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The Cluster System

A UN review  of the global humanitarian system was conducted in 2005 and highlighted a number of gaps in humanitarian response. It recommended that the humanitarian coordinator system be strengthened; that a central emergency response fund be set up to provide timely, adequate and flexible funding; and that UN agencies and partners adopt a ‘lead organization concept’ to cover critical gaps in providing protection and assistance to those affected by conflict or natural disasters. In response to this last recommendation, the UN’s Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) established nine ‘clusters’ in 2005. This consisted of groupings of UN agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other international organizations around a sector or service provided during a humanitarian crisis. Each of the nine clusters (Protection, Camp Coordination and Management, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, Health, Emergency Shelter, Nutrition, Emergency Telecommunications, Logistics, and Early Recovery) is led by a designated agency. Two additional clusters, Education and Agriculture, were later added.

The cluster system was officially rolled-out in Timor-Leste on 31 March 2009 with the formation of 11 clusters, reflecting the global humanitarian structure and lead by both non-governmental organizations as well as UN agencies. The clusters are particularly focusing on recovery activities in support of the National Recovery Strategy  and assisting the Government towards natural disaster preparedness, emergency response and contingency planning.

The humanitarian and early recovery community meets regularly under the Humanitarian Country Team (HCT) and the Inter-Cluster Coordination Group (ICCG).

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Weird Review: NOS4A2 by, Joe Hill

NOS4A2_coverTitle: NOS4A2

Author: Joe Hill

Publisher: William Morrow (An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers) 2013

Number of Pages: 704

Format: Print (Hardcover)

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars aligned

What would you do for a lifetime pass to a place where every morning is Christmas and unhappiness is against the law?

Don’t give up on wonder! Don’t give up on dreams!

We’re looking for go-getters who love children and aren’t afraid of adventure!

“NOS4A2 is a fast-paced, wind through your hair, stomach-flipping roller-coaster ride that will make you white-knuckle the binding and refuse to let go. We follow Victoria McQueen, a Brat (as her father lovingly calls her) with enough snotty attitude to earn the name. However, Vic has a quality that will make you fall in love with her: imagination. Through the power of her mind and her Raleigh Tuff Burner bicycle, she is able to dream up ‘bridges’ that allow her to find things. Whether it be a family heirloom, a photograph, or just looking for trouble, Vic is able to find it with the help of her Shorter Way Bridge – a long-destroyed covered bridge that fell into the water. Unfortunately it is this same bridge, and Vic’s adolescent rebellion, that inevitably send her to Charles Talent Manx.”

That is an excerpt from my review of NOS4A2, for Haunt of Horrors Press. As you can probably tell by reading the above passage I am absolutely in love with this book. Hill has accomplished something special with this novel which officially places him in the running with the rest of the worlds best horror writers. Though most already know that he is an offspring of the King himself, he has done a damn good job of writing under his pseudonym, earning his way with the absence of his family name.

Hill utilizes an excellent tool within this horror/fantasy and that is the use of a portal. Both Manx, and Vic find there way through Hill’s “inscape’s” that he has mentioned in his other great novel, Horns. Through these inscapes, Vic, with the help of her Shorter Way Bridge, finds Maggie, a junkie who loves scrabble. She helps explain to Vic how her bike and bridge are part of these inscapes; “Big old hole in reality… I am reaching into my inscape to get the tiles I need. Not into a bag. when I say your bike or my tiles are a knife to open a s-s-slit in reality, I’m not being like, metaphorical.”

These inscapes are an excellent adaptation to the use of the portal tool. Hill has begun to create and expand a new universe that I wish I could join. Whether it be ‘The Treehouse of the Mind,” the Crooked Alley, a sack of scrabble tiles, or a bike, these “knives,” as Maggie calls them, are used to poke a hole in reality allowing the user to manipulate or alter it to there choosing. This opens up so many opportunities for Hill’s characters, and increases anticipation and cravings to see him continue to play around in this realm of thought.

This is a novel that every reader, casual or avid, horror fan or not, should have on their book shelf!

Check out the whole review HERE!

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Sketchy Facebook Ads Are Attempting To Influence The Alabama Special Election

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2016 was a bad year for Facebook as it struggled to keep up with a tidal wave of fake news and sketchy political advertising. And as it’s tried to contain the problem, mostly what’s happened is revelations that it’s much worse than we thought. Now, problems Facebook claimed were addressed are cropping up again, and clearly haven’t been fixed at all.

Among other solutions, Facebook promised to make it easier for users to find and call out sketchy advertisers of all stripes, including their physical locations. Turns out, according to the Daily Beast, that Facebook hasn’t implemented those features yet, and shadowy political action groups are acting anonymously while they still can:

The Facebook CEO promised to “roll this out over the coming months, and we will work with others to create a new standard for transparency in online political ads.” None of those features are currently accessible to Alabamians being served ads by both pro-Roy Moore PACs, like America First Action, and, ostensibly, groups backing Democratic candidate Doug Jones, such as one called Alabama Values.

Apparently, Facebook is still testing these features; a spokesman pointed the Daily Beast to a blog post detailing that, currently, this is being tried out in Canada:

We know how important it is to our community that we get this feature just right — and so we’re first rolling it out in only one country. Testing in one market allows us to learn the various ways an entire population uses the feature at a scale that allows us to learn and iterate. Starting in Canada was a natural choice as this effort aligns with our election integrity work already underway there.

To be fair, there’s only so far Facebook can go, here. It can tell you the name and address on the check that bought the ad, but there are plenty of legal ways for foreign donors to put money into an election. That said, the Daily Beast does note that the pro-Roy-Moore PAC that it themes the article around is getting obliterated by a far more direct form of democracy: Alabamians showing up on its Facebook page and raking it over the coals.

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British R&B Singer Nao’s Latest Single ‘Nostalgia’ Catapults Her Into The Future

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Nao‘s criminally underrated vocals would’ve fit right in with the synth-heavy jams of ’80’s R&B. Gifted with a voice that is distinctive and arresting, the British singer-songwriter has crafted a number of tailor-made slow grooves for late nights, cruising by your lonesome down a major stretch of highway or pitching woo to the love you truly want. Most of this fell right in line with her 2016 debut For All We Know, which we hailed as the year’s best R&B album.

“Nostalgia,” her latest effort bounces off the walls with slinky synth arrangements and her voice cascading off spastic drum programming. “Ain’t nobody better than you,” she sings. “It’s just the way nostalgia makes me feel.”

“I’m in hiding writing my next album but I’m gonna drop some new music for you in the meantime whilst we wait, starting this Friday,” she wrote on Twitter in anticipation of “Nostalgia.” In the interim, For All We Know has only grown on more people, securing a a remix EP featuring Kaytranada, SBTRKT and more.

Expect Nao’s profile to rise even more in the latter stages of 2017. Her “Feels Like” single, which was the closer to For All We Know got spotlighted on HBO’s hit-series Insecure and also appears on the soundtrack for the show’s R&B driven second season along with Lion Babe, Jorja Smith, SZA, Bryson Tiller and Jazmine Sullivan.

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As a follow-up to my piece in The Chronicle of Higher Education, I was recently a guest on the Navigating Change podcast, where I talked more lessons for college and university leaders from the Sandusky scandal at Penn State University and the Nassar scandal at Michigan State University.

Sandusky, Nassar, and our responsibility as university leaders

I spent much time the last couple of weeks following the sentencing hearing of former Michigan State University professor and doctor Larry Nassar.  I was watching from the perspective of having been associated with now a second university embroiled in a sexual abuse scandal, having worked at Michigan State before coming to USF, and before that, at Penn State University when the Sandusky scandal broke there.  This week I wrote an op-ed in The Chronicle of Higher Education about my experience at these two institutions, and what it tells us about the responsibility of university leaders.


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The UT System Office of Federal Relations provides assistance to faculty and staff at UT System institutions to identify new and emerging funding opportunities, coordinate research priorities, and serve as a liaison between institutions and various federal agencies.

The Office of Federal Relations also provides targeted resources for UT System Principal Investigators (PIs) seeking funding from the National Institutes of Health and Department of Defense. Additional OFR-produced resources related to these agences are made available to individuals with a UT System or campus log-in through the Office of Federal Relations Sharepoint site. To request access to the Sharepoint site, please contact Michelle Atchison at for DOD resources and Tom Jacobs at for NIH resources.

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Many federal and private websites track federal grants and can be used to monitor the status of emerging opportunities. The main source for federal grant opportunities is, which allows users to search for funding announcements across agencies and submit and manage applications online. Several other resources are listed below. In addition, UT System OFR staff collaborate with researchers and faculty from each institution to help identify and pursue federal grants.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance - The online Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance gives you access to a database of all Federal programs available to State and local governments (including the District of Columbia); federally -recognized Indian tribal governments; Territories (and possessions) of the United States; domestic public, quasi-public, and private profit and nonprofit organizations and institutions; specialized groups; and individuals. After you find the program you want, contact the office that administers the program and find out how to apply.

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