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Themebook Administrative reports (x) Stone, Dary (x) Dean, David A. (David Allen), 1948- ‎ (x) Criminal Justice Reform (x) Field TitleDescriptionCreatorContributorSubject NameSubject GenreSubject TopicDocument Text (OCR) Clements, William P., 1917-2011 (16) + - Clements, William P., 1917-2011 (123) + - White, Mark, 1940- (10) + - Armstrong, Tobin (6) + - Dean, David A. (David Allen), 1948- ‎ (6) + - Subject Name United States. Department of the Interior (8) + - Clements, William P., 1917-2011 (6) + - National Governor's Association (6) + - Texas. Department of Corrections (6) + - White, Mark, 1940- (6) + - United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (5) + - Subject Topic Parole (8) + - Appointment to office (7) + - Offshore oil industry (7) + - Election districts (6) + - Criminal Justice, Administration of (5) + - Prisons (5) + - Physical Description Genre Memorandums (134) + - Letters (correspondence) (64) + - Texas (5) + - Themebook Term(s) Mark White (20) + - Ruiz v Estelle (10) + - Appointments (8) + - View My Bookmarks e_cle_005005 Group of documents regarding the study of parole and probation, May 16-20, 1980 Group of documents regarding the study of parole and probation, May 16-20, 1980. Attached is a report regarding parole and probation in Texas, as well as crimes rates for violent crime. Dean, David A. (David Allen), 1948- ‎ Clements, William P., 1917-2011 Parole, Crime Memos from Paul T. Wrotenbery and David A. Dean to Governor William P. Clements, Jr., regarding Special Audit Group Activity for North Texas State University, August 9 and August 15, 1979 Memos from Paul T. Wrotenbery and David A. Dean to Governor William P. Clements, Jr., regarding Special Audit Group Activity for North Texas State University, August 9 and August 15, 1979. Memos address questions about the financial activities of the North Texas State University Education Foundation, Inc. Wrotenbery, Paul T., Dean, David A. (David Allen), 1948- ‎ North Texas state University State universities and colleges, Auditing "Texas Governor Term 1, 1979-1982" Memo from David Dean to Bill Clements, December 21, 1979 Memo from David Dean to Bill Clements, December 21, 1979, regarding the Ozarks Regional Commission Membership Ozarks Regional Commission (U.S.) Memo from David Dean to Tobin Armstrong, regarding West Texas State University Regent Appointment, August 9, 1979 Memo from David Dean to Tobin Armstrong, regarding West Texas State University Regent Appointment, August 9, 1979. Armstrong, Tobin Appointment to office Memo from David A. Dean, to Allen Clark, thru Doug Brown, regarding management review, March 31, 1981 Memo from David A. Dean, to Allen Clark, thru Doug Brown, regarding management review, March 31, 1981. Memo reviews progress of projects including obtaining state control of Matagora Island; updating Ruiz v. Estelle lawsuit, and listing bills in the governor's anti-crime package. Brown, Doug, Clark, Allen B. State governments, Crime, Prisons--Overcrowding--Law and legislation memo from David Dean to William P. Clements, April 7, 1980 memo from David Dean to William P. Clements, April 7, 1980, regarding the "TDHR Lawsuit" and Mark White's take on the lawsuit Memo from David A. Dean to William P. Clements, May 2, 1980 Memo from David A. Dean to William P. Clements, May 2, 1980. Regarding Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Program (LEAA). United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Letter from David A. Dean to William P. Clements, Jr., February 10, 1982 Letter from David A. Dean to William P. Clements, Jr., February 10, 1982. Regarding filing of financial statement with the Elections Division of the Office of the Secretary of State. Clements forwards the letter to David Herndon and asks him to take care of the matter for him. Herndon, David, Bayoud, George, Rhodes, Tom B. Political campaigns, Political campaigns--Law and legislation, Election Law Letter from David A. Dean to W. J. Estelle regarding parole for several inmates with meritorious conduct, January 21, 1981 Letter from David A. Dean to W. J. Estelle regarding parole for several inmates with meritorious conduct. For the recommended review of inmates Don Hallett, Jeff Weeks, Michael Arnold, Raymond Hafti, and Bobby J. Reickenbacker. Connie Jackson notified David Dean of the following actions: the cases of Jeff Weeks and Bobby J. Reickenbacker were placed in Special Review for parole considerations; no action in the case of Raymond Hafti; and, Michael Arnold received a commutation of sentence. Don Hallett was previously released on parole. Estelle, Ward James, Jr. Memo from David Dean to Tobin Armstrong September 7, 1979 regarding Dedication of JFK Library in Boston Memo from David Dean to William P. Clements March 21, 1979 Memo from David Dean to William P. Clements March 21, 1979, regarding Texas energy consumption and the Energy Advisory Board Advisory Committee on Energy Conservation Memo from David Dean to William P. Clements, Jr., June 26-27, 1980 Memos from David Dean to William P. Clements, Jr., June 26-27, 1980. Memos are in regards to capital punishment. Correspondence between David A. Dean and Colonel James B. Adams with attachment, September 10, 1981 Correspondence between David A. Dean and Colonel James B. Adams regarding the Executive Order organizing the Emergency Management Council with attachment. The correspondence includes a memo with recommended changes from Robert A. Lansford, State Coordinator for the Texas Department of Public Safety, Division of Disaster Emergency Services. Adams, James B., Lansford, Robert A. Governor's Division of Disaster Emergency Services Subject Genre Memo from David A. Dean, to William P. Clements regarding Windfall Profit Tax Lawsuit, January 9, 1981 Memo from David A. Dean, to William P. Clements regarding Windfall Profit Tax Lawsuit. Dean advises Governor Williams that the amicus brief Mark White filed, Independent Petroleum Association of America, et al. v. United States of America, was far less than what the Governor had requested since it will not have "much of an effect on the outcome of the litigation." Attached is Governor Clements response to Mark White urging him to "consider actual intervention." Memo from David Dean to J.E. "Buster" Brown, March 6, 1981 Memo from David Dean to J.E. "Buster" Brown, March 6, 1981, concerning Senate Bill 122 Brown, Buster Parole, Alternatives to imprisonment Memo from David Dean to William P. Clements, Jr. regarding John Holmes, D.A. Designate of Harris County, August 9, 1979 Memo from David Dean to William P. Clements, Jr. regarding John Holmes, D.A. Designate of Harris County, August 9, 1979. Holmes, John B. Memo from David Dean to William French Smith regarding redistricting, November 30, 1981 Memo from David Dean to William French Smith regarding redistricting, November 30, 1981. Regarding Submission under Section 5, Voting Rights Act, of Legislative Redistricting Board Plan No. 1 (state senatorial districts), 1981. Smith, William French, 1917- Election districts Correspondence between David Dean and Mark White, February 23, 1982 Correspondence between David Dean and Mark White, February 23, 1982, regarding disagreements between Governor Clements and Attorney General White White, Mark, 1940- Memo from David A. Dean to William P. Clements, Jr., Forwarded to Tobin, May 30, 1979 Memo from David A. Dean to William P. Clements, Jr., Forwarded to Tobin, May 30, 1979. Memo is in regards to establishing the Texas Distinguished Service Awards Committee. Also attached is a photocopy of a report regarding corresponding documentation about the purpose of the Texas Distinguished Service Awards Committee. Memo from David A. Dean to William P. Clements, September 22, 1981 Memo from David A. Dean to William P. Clements, September 22, 1981. Regarding David Hiller apologizing for remarks reported in the press. Metadata Tutorial Metadata Style Guide Content Selection Guide Item Identifier Guide Usage Statement © The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History The University of Texas at Austin. 2016.

Judge OKs $354M settlement of cardboard price-fixing class action; lawyers get 30 percent By Jonathan Bilyk | Oct 18, 2017 A federal judge has signed off on a $354 million settlement deal to box up a years-long class action against some of the country's largest makers of cardboard, accusing the companies of violating federal antitrust law by conspiring to fix prices for their product. And the attorneys who represented the plaintiffs in the action are set to take in nearly $100 million under the deal, or roughly 30 percent of the settlement fund. On Oct. 17, U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber granted final approval to the deal between the cardboard makers and a group of plaintiff companies who purchased and used the cardboard products, for which they said they were overcharged. Companies serving as lead plaintiffs in the action included Kleen Products LLC; R.P.R. Enterprises Inc.; Mighty Pac Inc.; Ferraro Foods Inc.; Ferraro Foods of North Carolina LLC; MTM Packaging Solutions of Texas LLC; RHE Hatco Inc; and Chandler Packaging Inc. The plaintiffs were represented in the action by lead counsel Michael J. Freed and Robert J. Wozniak, of the firm of Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC, of suburban Bannockburn, and Daniel J. Mogin and Jodie Williams, of the firm of MoginRubin LLP, of San Diego. Defendants in the action included Packaging Corporation of America; International Paper; Norampac Industries; Cascades Inc.; Weyerhauser Company; Temple-Inland; Georgia Pacific; and WestRock. The legal action, first filed in federal court in 2010, centered accusations the defendant companies conspired to fix prices for containerboard from February 2004 to November 2010, by allegedly raising prices in "lockstep" and cutting back production. Containerboard is the industry term for the product used to make corrugated cardboard boxes, which are used to package and ship a huge range of consumer and business goods. In their court filings, plaintiffs accused the defendant companies of collectively announcing 15 price hikes and scaling back production over that six year period. The lawsuit accused the plaintiffs of roughly mirroring each others' price hikes and production cuts, and said the increases all came around the time of trade association meetings, telephone calls and other communications among the defendants. The plaintiffs asserted the defendants' actions violated federal antitrust law. Rather than take the lawsuits to trial, most of the defendants opted to settle. Early in 2017, plaintiffs settled with defendant companies Norampac and PCA for $22.4 million. But in July, plaintiffs' lawyers asked the judge to approve the big prize, a settlement to end the action against three of the defendants – International Paper, Temple-Inland and Weyerhauser. Under the terms of that deal, the three companies agreed to collectively pay $354 million into a settlement fund. The plaintiffs' lawyers then separately asked the judge to grant them 30 percent of the total payout as fees. The remainder of the settlement funds, minus $200,000 for administration, would be paid to the lead plaintiff companies and more than 158,000 class members. A month later in August, Judge Leinenweber granted summary judgment on Georgia Pacific and WestRock, saying he did not believe their conduct or the evidence could "support an inference of antitrust conspiracy." In that ruling, Leinenweber said he believed a company could raise prices and count on its rivals to follow suit, but without communicating about it. "The law thus only requires Defendants to gamble on the consequences of trusting their competitors. The gamble paid off in this case," the judge wrote Nonetheless, the judge granted final approval to the settlement deal with the other three defendants, saying he believed the $354 million payment represented a fair deal for the plaintiffs and class members. "The $354 million Settlement represents a substantial recovery for the Class," the judge said. And he said the amount of the settlement, coupled with the amount of effort the attorneys put into the case – including what the attorneys, in a motion for approval of their fee request, said were "tens of millions of dollars in time and expenses litigating the case purely on a contingent basis" – justified the sizable fee request. "The Court finds that the request for an interim award of attorneys' fees is fair, adequate and reasonable," Leinenweber wrote. "The relevant factors used to determine the reasonableness of the requested fee award in common fund cases such as this are the market rate, fee awards in similar matters, the nature of this case – including the risk of non-recovery, and amount and quality of Class Counsel's work. "The Court finds that all of these factors support awarding the interim fee request of 30 percent of the Settlement Funds." Class members would have until Feb. 6, 2018, to submit a claim, the judge ruled. International Paper was represented in the action by attorneys with the firms of Foley & Lardner LLP, of Milwaukee and Chicago; McDonnell, Boyd, Smith and Solmson, of Memphis, Tenn.; Eimer Stahl LLP, of Chicago; and Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP, of Memphis, Tenn. Weyerhauser was represented by the firm of McDermott Will & Emery, of Chicago. Temple-Inland was represented by the firm of Mayer Brown LLP, of Chicago. Foley & Lardner LLP • Eimer Stahl LLP • Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC • McDermott, Will & Emery LLP • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois • Mayer Brown Appeals panel: Private investigator's $25M defamation suit OK vs filmmakers, writers, others over Alstory Simon case Thyssenkrupp Crankshaft hit with class action over worker fingerprint scans at Danville plant Circuit Court of Cook County: Actions Taken on Jan. 3 Thank you for signing up for Cook County Record Alerts! Please select the organizations you wish to subscribe to. Foley & Lardner LLP Eimer Stahl LLP Freed Kanner London & Millen LLC McDermott, Will & Emery LLP U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Charity begins at home!? In my social media feed today there was a link to an article titled "Reclaiming Jesus: How Confessing Faith Can Respond to a Moral and Constitutional Crisis". It begins: "On Ash Wednesday, a group of church leaders, all old enough to be called "elders," met in a private retreat. We prayed. We experienced a deep sense of lament for the political and moral crisis we are in and for the ways it unfolded. We confessed on behalf of the churches and for our own complicity in the situation in which we now find ourselves. And we strongly sensed the need for repentance, realizing that word means much more than guilt and shame, but a "turning around" and moving in a new direction. We agreed to write a declaration together — something that would be much more than just another statement to sign and then file away. Rather, with a shared humble spirit, we felt called to act as elders for a time such as this and to commend our message to the churches for a process of prayer, study, reflection, and action." What follows is the declaration, which broadly I agree with, even though those involved would identify more with Christians on the Left than the Right and I would expect to the person they be unsympathetic to President Trump and his "America First" ideas. Later I tuned into a Day of Prayer live broadcast led by David Hathaway ministries. The purpose was to intercede on behalf of the UK, calling upon God to work in the nation that has desperately gone astray and when only God can deliver. While I dipped in and out of the broadcast while doing other stuff, and while I suspect I am not entirely in the same theological stable as the organizers, I concurred with what went on and added my Amen to most prayers. They too made a declaration including the notion that the UK has been hitherto united in its adherence of its Judaeo-Christian heritage and calling for biblical standards to be reinstated in public life. It also recognized the ineptitude of the Church and is part reason why our society is in a malaise. While I don't wish to start comparing apples and oranges, I suspect the Christians in the two groups will be different in their theological outlooks as well as their priorities and pre-occupations, but one thing they had in common was their belief that Christians needed to repent. Besides being challenged by both as to the need to personally repent I couldn't help noting the differences in preoccupations. The former struck me as treating the notion of national pride with antipathy whereas the latter manifested a patriotic fervour. So what is the right view and how does it relate to the notion of "charity begins at home" (or to relate the first story the America (or Britain) First ideal)? It seems to me that the first job of government is to protect its citizens and seek its welfare, which is why I broadly welcome Trump's latest Executive Order to impose tariffs on China who he rightly views as having screwed America and why I decidedly do not welcome the latest UK capitulation to the EU in its Brexit negotiations. Yet underlying all this is the command for us to Love our Neighbour, leaving no room for racism, xenophobia etc., and that neighbour includes anyone, anywhere, regardless of differences. As I have argued in previous blogs, we have in recent years seen a move toward globalism but this has been challenged with the Brexit decision, the rise of Trump and the popularity of the Far Right in many European countries. Even Putin's Russia is a reaction in part against globalism. It also seems to me that Christians, particularly the more zealous and thoughtful types, have split in terms of whether to align more with globalism or nationalism. While I am suspicious of excessive national fervor and agree it is a perversion of biblical teaching, having come to that view reading the accounts of the Tower of Babel in Genesis and of the AntiChrist in Revelation, I have no doubt national identity is better than globalism, with the former lending itself more likely to accountability to the people and the latter to the tyranny of the elite and more ungodliness, and is why unlike a number of my Christian friends, I support Brexit and Trump. We do need to honor the interests of the people represented (UK and US) and things like national security, immigration control, curbing the rise of Islam and preserving cultural identity matter. I have raised in previous blog posts that what we are seeing now among Christians is a polarization in their views and a lack of unity, which I see as harmful to the Church and its witness to the world. As both aforementioned groups recognize, we need to repent, which is a good place to begin, for the thing that matters more than anything else is that the name of the Lord is honoured and glorified. And as for charity, it does begin at home, but it does not end there. → Jeremy Corbyn and Anti-Semitism in the Labour Party ← Off the streets

Us geeks love our gadgets. I had heard just bits and pieces about something called a Raspberry Pi. I hadn't given much thought to it at first. A brief glance at a web page or two but it didn't interest me at that time. I was having a hard time picturing what I could do with it. What peaked my interest was a re-introduction to the Pi, and other similar devices, at Ruby Conf 2013 (Miami.) The gadgets like the Raspberry Pi were used in some of the conference talks. I also got hooked on the Sphero, but is another story. I watched some of the videos on the element14 site and my brain was invigorated. The wheels started spinning. So I ordered one of the Raspberry Pi Starter Pack. In addition to the Pi, it came with a memory card, jumpers, USB WiFi, bread board, etc. I grabbed mine from a site I found on the element14 page - http://www.adafruit.com/category/105 I added on the USB Wifi and a cool ruler. I've only just begun to tinker with it, but so far it has been fun. Using the NOOB tool, I loaded up a 4GB card with the Pi version of the XBMC. I plan on doing some more experimentation. I picked up 4 new SD cards, two 8GB and two 16GB so I can try different loads and setups. Plus I'm getting the kids involved so they can learn a little bit of geeky stuff. Recommendation - grab a slice of pie, Raspberry Pi!

Battlefield: Bad Company is a war-themed first person shooter and the second in the series developed exclusively for the console platforms. The title refers to a a group of the 222nd Army battalion of soldiers considered hard to steer and incompetent troublemakers. As such, they do not receive much respect in battle and squad of four decides to desert to pursue their own goals. The war takes places in fictional countries in the Middle East and the US squad takes on Russians, soldiers of the Middle East coalition and Legionnaire mercenaries. The player controls protagonist Preston Marlowe. His squad members are Terrence Sweetwater, George Gordon Haggard Jr. and the leader Samuel Redford. Marlowe has a health injector he can use as many times as he desires to restore his health. When dying, he also respawns immediately at the last location. Players can only carry a maximum of four weapons at any given time. There are many vehicles to drive, such as hummers, buggies, boats, tanks, boats and even helicopters to control. The storyline takes the characters through different fictional countries with mission where their background and motivation is gradually revealed. The new Frostbite DX engine makes it possible to destroy many objects and buildings, almost to completely demolishing them. This changes the way the environment can be used as a cover, as everything can be destroyed. The multiplayer portion features games with a ranking system where items and weapons are gradually unlocked. The base game includes only one mode, Gold Rush, with teams of attackers and defenders. Through five events such as describing to the newsletter, pre-ordering the game or reaching a certain rank in the demo, players could receive player codes to unlock five new weapons: F2000 assault rifle, USAS-12 semi-automatic shotgun, M60 light machine gun, QBU-88 sniper rifle and the silenced UZI submachine gun. The PS3 version of Battlefield: Bad Company appears in the book 1001 Video Games You Must Play Before You Die by General Editor Tony Mott. This game looks a dead rip off of "Kelly's Heroes" movie from 1970. Although the setting in the movie is World War II, a group of soldiers who accidentally stumble upon a gold bar take it on their own to go behind enemy lines and steal the gold. Even the four main characters in the game draw close analogy with some of the main characters from the movie. Sergeant is reluctant to go for the gold but cares for his soldiers and other allied soldier, same as Master Sergeant Big Joe from Kelly's Heroes played by Telly Savalas. Haggard plays a bit of an eccentric who does things on his own and constantly acts weird, much like Oddball from Kelly's Heroes played by Donald Sutherland. Sweetwater is constantly complaining about everything just like Crapgame from Kelly's Heroes played by Don Rickles. Preston, the player character, is constantly cool with everything and does most of the action, like Kelly in Kelly's Heroes played by Clint Eastwood. There are even some references to the movie, like when Haggard tells Sweetwater that something happened because of his negative thinking. In the movie Oddball used to tell his comrade the same think only used to say "always the negative waves" instead of "always the negative thinking". To promote the game, EA Games released a bevy of trailers, but three in particular spoofed three other gaming franchises. One entitled "Rainbow Sprinkles" was spoofing the Tom Clancy Rainbow Six series. In it, Sgt. Redford and Preston Marlowe are about to take an enemy stronghold through stealth tactics when Sweetwater and Haggard are heard discussing rainbow sprinkles on donuts. Redford tells them they are on a stealth mission and to breach a door in the distance, but instead of doing it quietly Haggard throws a grenade and then he and Sweetwater walk out into the open, blasting away at anything that moves. "Bad World" spoofs the Gears of War Mad World trailer. In it, Sweetwater can be heard singing the song as Haggard runs through a bombed out street, almost in similar fashion to the Mad World trailer. Just before the end of the song, Haggard stops and turns to see Sweetwater telling him repeatedly to shut up and comments that he doesn't understand that last part of the song. And last "Snake Eyes" spoofs the Metal Gear series. In it, Sweetwater is seen aiming his weapon at a barrel with the rest of the squad asking him what the problem is. He proceeds to tell them that he saw a man with a eye patch (presumably Solid Snake) in the drum barrel. The squad seems to brush it off just as the barrel moves with the trademark "!" appearing overhead. At this point Haggard grabs a grenade launcher and fires at the barrel launching the occupant (off camera) through the air. Afterwards Haggard finds an eye patch on the ground. The Bad World trailer can be seen here, The Snake Eyes trailer here and the Rainbow Sprinkles trailer here.

Understanding one syllable mapping to one character promotes reading development in Chinese Dan LIN, Ling-Po SHIU Purpose. Extent research has demonstrated the importance of morphological awareness (e.g., McBride-Chang, et al., 2003), phonological awareness (e.g., Lin et al., 2010) and orthographic awareness (e.g., Siok, Fletcher, 2001) in Chinese reading development in young children. However, little is known about the fundamental mapping process between sound units (phonology) and visual symbols (visual-orthography) in Chinese. The present study aimed to investigate the role of syllable mapping, defined as the ability of mapping syllable (sound unit) to character (visual unit), in Chinese word reading development with the traditional well-documented reading predictors of visual skills and syllable awareness controlled. Method. Children participated in the study were 96 Hong Kong Chinese kindergartners. All children were native Cantonese speakers. In the syllable mapping task, children were asked to point out a particular character in a card with three-character word visually printed on and uttered by the examiner. Other tasks administered included syllable awareness, visual spatial relationship, and Chinese word reading. Results. Results showed that Chinese word reading was strongly associated with syllable awareness, r = .58 (p < .001), and syllable mapping, r = .75 (p < .001) Further hierarchical regression analyses found that with children's age, visual spatial relationship, and syllable awareness statistically controlled, syllable mapping explained 16% unique variance of Chinese word reading, and it emerged as a significant predictor in the final Beta weight, t = 6.40, p < .001. Conclusions. The results underscored the importance of the cross-modality ability of mapping syllable to character in Chinese reading development among preschoolers. Lin, D., & Shiu, L.-P. (2012, July). Understanding one syllable mapping to one character promotes reading development in Chinese. Paper presented at the Nineteenth Annual Meeting Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Montreal, Canada.

Europe and Middle East, Italy, Newsletter, Sardinia, Trip Reviews Insider guide to north west Sardinia 05/04/2018 by Rupert Parker. North-west Sardinia is a popular summer destination with tourists attracted by its coastline and glorious sandy beaches. Out of season, however, it offers other rewards, not least its glorious food and drink, interesting archaeology, hillside castles and deserted seashores. Now direct flights between London Luton and Alghero make it accessible all year round. Alghero is the main resort in the North but also one of the best preserved medieval cities. It was once completely walled but all that remains are the imposing sea bastions, built to protect the citizens from marauding pirates. Wander the historic centre through its cobbled lanes, lined with imposing palaces, and sample an aperitivo in one of the many the cafes in the piazzas. Red coral is big here and you'll find many boutiques selling jewellery made from the stuff. Porto Conte Regional Park The coastline north of Alghero is famous for its beaches and much of it is a protected area, forming the Porto Conte regional park. Capo Caccia juts out into the sea and 656 steps lead down to the Grotta di Nettuno, a popular attraction also accessible by boat from Alghero. This was once a prison colony and the buildings have been transformed into a museum and arts centre. Visit Cantina Santa Maria La Palma and sample their famous Akenta sparkling wine made from the Vermentino grape. Every year they bury 700 bottles under the sea where the pressure increases the size of the bubbles and improves the ageing process. Once the biggest port in Sardinia, founded by Julius Caesar to trade with Africa and Spain, it has some imposing ruins. As well as the remains of the Roman baths there are some rather well-preserved mosaics from a house built on the site. Nearby is the Basilica San Gavino, the largest Romanesque church in Sardinia, which reuses some of the Roman columns and has a double apse. Stintino and Asinara The finger-shaped peninsular jutting from the north west of the island has fine sandy beaches with shallow shimmering deep blue waters. Stintino is a small fishing village, once famous for its Tuna, and these days has a small museum dedicated to the catch. The island of Asinara, just opposite, housed high-security prisoners but now is a protected nature resort. There's rudimentary accommodation and you can explore on foot or horseback Popular for day trips, the narrow alleyways of its medieval centre are topped by its impressive 12th-century fortress, built by a Genovese family. Inside is a museum of local handicrafts but it's worth climbing up to the battlement for fine views over the cliffs and you can see Corsica on a clear day. Below is Castelsardo's cathedral with its fifteenth-century altarpiece and a crypt with a museum of religious art. Just outside the town is the Roccia dell'Elefante, or Elephant Rock, its shape a result of natural erosion. Inside are two Neolithic tombs with carvings of animals and plants. Nuraghe Long before the Romans came here, Sardinia was home to the Nuragic civilization, now completely disappeared. Between 1900 and 730 BC they built tower-like structures, known as Nuraghe and 7000 of these are scattered throughout the island. The most impressive is the Nuraghe Santu Antine, a 25m tower, now reduced to 17m, with a diameter of 15m. It's built from huge perfectly shaped basalt blocks which gradually get smaller from the base towards the top of the building and is enclosed by a circular wall with three smaller towers. Around the tower was a sizeable settlement and archaeologists have uncovered 14 circular huts plus a large collection of artefacts. Sardinia's second largest city is not a tourist resort but a university town, complete with an imposing cathedral. Its ornate 18th-century baroque façade is stuffed with friezes, reliefs, statues and busts, but the interior is 15th century Catalan Gothic. If you're interested in the Nuragic culture then the Sanna Museum has finds from sites in the area, including ceramics, household items and pottery. Don't miss the sophisticated bronzeware, including tools, jewellery and figurines. Sassari is also the place to find excellent local cheese and charcuterie. Tell me more about north-west Sardinia Sardegna Turismo has information about the region. Hotel Catalunya makes a comfortable base in the centre of Alghero Ristorante Mirador, Alghero, is good for fish. La Botteghina Alghero, has excellent pasta and pizza. Il Portico, Stintino, serves the freshest of shellfish. Ristorante Da Ugo, Castelsardo, is also good for fish. Winery Tenute Delogu, Sassari-Fertilia, has traditional Sardinian dishes. Agriturismo Sa Mandra, just outside Alghero, makes its own cheese and roasts suckling pig on the fire. Ristorante La Torre Ozieri, is good for meat and pasta. EasyJet flies direct from London Luton to Alghero, in Sardinia, twice a week. ThamesLink connects St Pancras with Luton Parkway. Insider Guide to Sardinia's Gallura Region Golf in North West Florida Resort Valle dell'Erica Thalasso & SPA, Sardinia

Great opportunity to purchase this spacious townhouse in the exclusive area of Valdelagrana, in Puerto Santa Maria, which is only 400m walking distance to the beach. The property is divided over two floors, and comprises of 5 bedrooms, two on the ground floor, and 3 on the top floor. There are also 4 bathrooms, 2 on the ground floor, and two on the top floor. The ground floor also accomodates the living room, large fitted kitchen, and rear terrace/patio area suitable for al fresco dining. There is also a store room. The front patio is tiled, and serves as an internal parking area. With the beach just a short walk away, and the old town just a short drive away, the house is ideally located for all year round living. Contact us today for a viewing, and to purchase and own a part of this historic town. El Puerto de Santa María is a municipality located on the banks of the Guadalete River in the province of Cádiz, Andalusia. As of 2009, the city has a population of c. 88,000, of which some 50,000 live in the urban center, and the remainder in the surrounding areas.The town of El Puerto de Santa María is 10 kilometres (6 miles) north east of Cádiz across the bay of Cádiz and is best known for having been the port from which Columbus sailed on his second voyage to the Americas.

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Presented by: Sounds from Africa Listen to Time Bomb Samini - Time Bomb EMMANUEL ANDREWS SAMINI was born in Accra, Ghana, West Africa with his parents hailing from the northern town of Wa in Ghana"s Upper West region. As arecording and performing artist, he initially adopted the stage name BATMAN (Best of All Times MAN) but reverted to his last name SAMINI in 2006. Samini is Ghana"s most prolific and versatile contemporary musician. His smooth mix of musical genres is a melodious interface of Ghanaian Highlife, Jamaican Dancehall and Reggae as well as American Hip-Hop and R&B. He dubs his multigenre world music presentation, African Dancehall! Samini"s introduction to music was through his church choir. At age 18, Samini collaborated with renowned Ghanaian Highlife musician Mary Agyapong on a single released in 2001. After 3 years of collaborating with various accomplished Ghanaian musicians, Samini released his maiden solo album Dankwasere in 2004, which topped the music charts in Ghana... Show the rest Samini"s introduction to music was through his church choir. At age 18, Samini collaborated with renowned Ghanaian Highlife musician Mary Agyapong on a single released in 2001. After 3 years of collaborating with various accomplished Ghanaian musicians, Samini released his maiden solo album Dankwasere in 2004, which topped the music charts in Ghana for several months. He won Best New Artist and Hiplife Artist of the Year awards at the 2005 Ghana Music Awards (GMA.) For his self-titled sophomore album, Samini, released in 2006, he won four awards at the 2007 GMA. Samini received international recognition as the Best African Musical Act at the 2006Music Of Black Origin (MOBO) Awards in the U.K. Also in 2006, he was nominated for MTV"s Europe Music Awards (EMA) in Germany,Channel "O" Awards in South Africa, and the Radiophonie Prize in France. Samini won the Best African Artist Award at the Hip-Hop World Awards in Nigeria. In 2008, Samini was nominated for Best Live Performer at the inaugural MTV Africa Music Awards (MAMA) and for Best Artist from West Africa at the KORA Awards, also known as Africa"s Grammys. In 2009, he released his third album Dagaati ("Know Your Roots"),which included collaborations with international artists Etana (Jamaica), Steel Pulse (Jamaica), Sway (U.K.), and Nameless, and toured worldwide with live performances at the 2009 Afrofest and Caribana festivals in Toronto, Canada. In 2010, Samini released his fourth solo album C. E. O. (Crucial Entertainment Outlaw) which won Album of the Year award at the 2010 GMA. He also won the Best African Entertainer award at the 2010 International Reggae & World Music Awards (IRAWMA) in New York. In 2011, he won the Channel "O" Best African Reggae Dancehall Artist award in South Africa. He recently released his fifth solo album titled Next Page. Three of his latest songs, "Body Flame" featuring Kaakie , "Time Bomb" featuring Wizkid, and "Masters" are receiving mainstream commercial radio and video airplay across the world. Samini has shared the stage performing alongside world-renown artists such as Sean Paul, Game, Akon, Kelvin Little, Wayne Wonder, Shaggy, Ja-Rule, Damien Marley, Bennie Man, Jay-Z, Chaka Demus and Pliers, Culture, Steel Pulse, Mavado, Etana, Busy Signal, 2Face, PopCaan and Rita Marley in Ghana, U.K., Nigeria, Germany, Italy, Canada, U.S., Holland, and at the 2010 World Cup Soccer Fiesta in South Africa. Samini was selected by African telecommunications giant MTN as a spokesperson and the wholesome, family-friendly personality on its phone cards and billboards across Ghana, a country of more than 25 million people! Samini recognizes the importance of using his talent and positive public profile to carry messages of togetherness, love, peace, development, and hope across the African continent and beyond. The United Nations Children"s Fund, UNICEF, in Ghana selected Samini to perform the song "Clean Water" alongside Ghanaian musician Rocky Dawuni to promote good sanitation and hygiene. Samini was also selected as "Ambassador for Children" by the largest philanthropic agency in Ghana, Plan Ghana. Furthermore, the British Council in Ghana selected Samini as an advocate for its programme Debate to Action (DTA), a capacity-building programme aimed at young leaders of youth organizations. Samini"s role in the DTA programme is to use his strong positive personality and profile across Ghana to assist in projecting the DTA"s agenda and help in encouraging discussions about issues concerning the youth. Hide the rest http://facebook.com/pages/SAMINI/42745334460 Music Badge, Platinum Badge, Music Festival Wristband, Artist Wristband Age Policy: 21+ The show at Palm Door on Sixth on Friday, March 20 ⋆ 12:00PM UMG Experience ⋆ 8:00PM Emma Nyra 8:45PM Samini ⋆ 9:30PM Sarkodie ⋆ 10:10PM Ice Prince ⋆ 11:00PM Serge Beynaud ⋆ 11:45PM R2bees ⋆ 12:25AM Davido

Every man has all he needs; within you is your strength, resources whether natural or human. Independence can never be juxtaposed to provision. You can't collect and provide, you can't be a refugee and still a ruler, you can't live on people and still be their leader, you either collect or you provide. If only we could look deeply right within us, we have all we need to survive. Singapore was so scared of letting all their allied countries to leave, but the countries were ready to leave anyway. Despite Singapore appeals, they left, and Singapore had to face life alone. Their main problem was the lack of natural resources like crude oil, gold, diamond and the likes whereby they can sell in the international market and use the proceeds to fund their economy. However, this didn't stop them. They became a developed country from nothing, just by looking within themselves through the help of Lee Yuan Kew. They knew they had something despite no natural resources. They harnessed their human resources and that was all they needed to succeed. Who is Lee Yuan Kew? Lee Yuan Kew, who lived from 16 September 1923 to 23 March 2015 was popularly known by his initials as LKY. Lee Yuan Kew served as the first Prime Minister of Singapore and governed for three decades (30 years). Lee, as fondly called is recognized as the founding father of Singapore because the country was able to transit from a third world country to a first world country in a single generation under his leadership. Lee attended the London School of Economics and later studied at the Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University where he graduated with double starred-first-class honours in law. Lee practiced law for nine years before he started the People's Action Party (PAP) in 1954 and served as the first secretary general till 1952 after securing eight consecutive victories. Lee then decided to step down in 1990 as a Prime Minister but remained as a Senior Minister under Goh Chok Tong, his successor until 2004. He later served as Minister Mentor under his son Lee Hsien Loong till 2011 which sum his ministerial years to 56. He also continued to serve his constituency, Tanjong Pagar constituency close to 60 years as a member in the parliament before he died in 2015. Lee fought for the independence of Singapore from colonial rule of Britain and after a successful pull out through national referendum, the state decided to merge with other states that were under the British rule to form Malaysia in 1963. Due to racism and differences in ideology, the merger couldn't stand a test of time and after two years, they parted ways making Singapore a sovereign state controlled by the parliament. Under Lee, Singapore significantly transformed from a stagnant British colony to an Asian Tiger economy. To achieve this, Lee developed a government based on meritocracy (deserving of post based on what you can offer and if you fit in), and as well highly effective and incorrupt civil service and government. Currently, many policies of Lee Yuan Kew are taught at the Lee Yuan Kew School of Public Policy. Instead of a normal politician following the populist policies to aid corruption and stealing of public funds for personal purpose, Lee Yuan Kew rather focused and utilized Long-term social and economic measures. With concentration on multiracialism and meritocracy as the basis of the government, Lee made sure English was the common language in order to accommodate and integrate its immigrant society, improve trade with the west and as well mandated bilingualism in schools in order to keep the mother tongue and preserve ethnic identity. Though criticized for limiting civil liberties, he argued that it was necessary in order to stabilize the polity and aid economic progress. Lee Yuan Kew died at 91 of pneumonia. Up to 1.7 million paid him a tribute at his lying-in-state at the Parliament House. Lee Yuan Kew, a fourth-generation Singaporean was born in 1923 at Kampong, Java Road, Singapore. He had three younger brothers; Dennis Lee Kim Yew, Freddy Lee Thiam Yew and Dr Lee Suan Yew. He also had a younger sister named Monica Lee Kim Mon. Lee's parents were English-educated and they named him 'Kuan Yew' which means 'light and brightness' along with an alternative meaning 'bringing great glory to one's ancestors'. Lee got married to Kwa Geok Choo on 30 September 1950. The both of them learned and spoke English as their first language. Lee was deficient in the Chinese language and started to learn in 1955 at the age of 32. He later learned the Japanese language. Lee Yuan Kew started at the Telo Kurau English School in Singapore in 1931. In one of his accounts, he described the students of the school as poor and unbright. He then proceeded to Raffles Institution in 1935 where he also struggled because he met the best 150 students from all of Singapore. Lee later joined the Scouts where he featured for three years playing cricket, chess and tennis and also participated in debates for the school. He won scholarships and was the best in the School Certificate examinations in 1940, which made him win the John Anderson Scholarship to study at Raffles Institution Junior College. Lee's wife to be then, Kwa Geok Choo was in the same class with Lee and was the only girl at the institution. Kwa was also known to be brilliant and was the only one who beat Lee in English and Economics subjects.

Industry body Assocham says the government ignored warnings thrown up by worsening economic indicators, particularly trade deficit, which rose by a staggering 49% during 2011-12, leading to the present crisis of unsustainable current account deficit. "The trade deficit between 2010-11 and 2011-12 increased by as much as 49%, still there was no sign of concern visible either in the commerce ministry or in the finance ministry at that point of time," says a study conducted by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham).. The tell-tale signs were clear that the situation would not be sustainable but certainly the early warnings given by the data were brushed aside, it adds. The unsustainable deficit in merchandise trade in FY 2012 threw a strong early warning about India's deteriorating current account deficit (CAD) as early as 15 months before the current crisis, but obviously the warning about widening import-export gap was overlooked, says the study. The data clearly shows the damage to the macro situation was done in 2011-12 and not as much in 2012-13. The study found that if only the data was taken seriously and damage control was done in the subsequent years by way of import compression and push up in exports, the country would not have faced the present current account deficit (CAD). The study, which drew comparisons between the data of the last three fiscals, also found that in 2011-12, the export-import of goods widened as much as 10 percentage points with trade deficit ballooning to $189 billion against $127 billion in 2010-11. "It was the comfort zone of the inflows from the invisibles, particularly software services, which made the policy makers in the government complacent in 2011-12, placing misplaced optimism about the continuity of the trend, which did not happen," said Assocham secretary general DS Rawat. Inflows from software services rose to $62 billion in 2011-12 from $53 billion in the previous fiscal. Though the gap between trade deficit of the 2012 and 2013 financial years was just about $7 billion, in absolute terms the numbers for both the years were alarming, reveals the study. Looking ahead, export finance must be made available at much lesser rates while exporters need not be made to run in the corridors of the commerce and the finance ministry for getting their legitimate tax refunds in the form of duty drawbacks, it says.

Home » Health News » Coronavirus models do not give us what we desperately want: A crystal ball on the pandemic Coronavirus models do not give us what we desperately want: A crystal ball on the pandemic Most inhabitants of the U.S. spent the month of April abiding by economically devastating stay-at-home orders, hoping that would crush the coronavirus epidemic. It hasn't. Not even close. While the daily toll has leveled off, the numbers remain staggeringly high. On Monday, the nation had about 23,000 new cases, and 1,200 more deaths, according to the Coronavirus Tracker. And a draft government report forecasts a sharp upward trend beginning in eight days. This defies what little experts thought they knew about the life cycle of COVID-19. It also means the many models that have been developed to inform decisions about reopening are, at best, educated guesses, and at worst, dead wrong. "While models can be important tools, their approaches and assumptions vary widely, and can give widely divergent results," says a Kaiser Family Foundation review. Science journalist David Wallace-Wells has pointed out the fallacy of models that predict COVID-19 will taper off now that it has stopped its early phase of exponential growth. The White House touted such a simulation, developed at the University of Washington. Another one, from Rutgers University, forecasted that deaths would end by late June and the cumulative toll would be 63,249—a number the country has already exceeded. "Seeing a flattening in the number of cases or deaths, the models project a decline, even if the flattening is not a function of the disease itself but of the extraordinary social conditions we have imposed on it," Wallace-Wells wrote in New York magazine. Fallible as they are, mathematical models serve many purposes. They can estimate characteristics of an infection, such as its incubation period—the time between getting infected and showing symptoms. Models can help predict hospital capacity needs. And they can guide reopening strategies. Pennsylvania, for example, is using Carnegie Mellon University's "risk-based decision support tool" to gradually lift restrictions, starting with the least densely populated counties. The thing is, the new virus has turned out to be far more infectious and insidious than originally thought. The maximum incubation period was believed to be two weeks, so that's how long people exposed to a confirmed case are told to "self-quarantine" at home. Now, however, it's clear that transmission can occur before any symptoms appear, that many infected people have no symptoms, and some people who have recovered can still spread the virus for weeks. This evolving understanding, experts say, helps explain why, despite lockdowns, daily COVID-19 counts have plateaued but not plummeted. While some models have been overly rosy, a few have been overly bleak. The University of Pennsylvania Health System, for example, projected its three Philadelphia hospitals would have 3,131 to 12,650 patients with COVID-19 at the peak—a terrifying possibility that prompted extraordinary surge preparations. In reality, health system data shows, the combined daily COVID census has been below 1,000 in those hospitals and is now declining slightly. Other models show that tweaking a variable can dramatically improve the theoretical outlook. Consider the model developed by PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. It uses real-time data on population density, shutdown policies, and weather temperatures from 260 counties across the U.S. to predict the impact of reopening in each community. If Philadelphia reopened a quarter of nonessential businesses on May 15, the model originally predicted a disastrous spike to 2,000 new cases a day in July – three times more than the peak seen in April—followed by an equally dramatic decline to almost no transmission just a few weeks later. Then the CHOP researchers, led by pediatrician David Rubin, updated the model to strengthen the effect of seasonal temperatures, based on what they've seen across the country. Most experts say hot weather will not offset our lack of immunity to the coronavirus, but the updated CHOP model differs. It foresees no spike of cases in Philadelphia, and predicts cases will peter out by mid-August—unless the city reopens half of nonessential business instead of 25%. The original and updated scenarios "both share the same message: Opening quickly and without caution is very risky," Rubin said. "However, like Southeast Asia, if we stay vigilant and protect each other, there is a new normal where we can get back a lot of functioning to our community by the summer." Chinese coronavirus Q&A: What do we know about the virus so far? Thinking like a Buddhist about coronavirus can calm the mind and help us focus Antibody tests: To get a grip on coronavirus, we need to know who's already had it

Human Organ Transplant Centre HOTC Ministry of Health Successful Completion of 2nd international Transplant Conference, Nepal- 2022 Successful Completion of 2nd INTERNATIONAL TRANSPLANT CONFERENCE, NEPAL-2022 It is our pleasure to draw your kind attention that this year we had successfully completed 2nd International Transplant Conference, Nepal-2022 with the theme Deceased Donor Transplantation for Developing World on 12th & 13th Nov.2022 in the capital city at The Everest Hotel, New Baneshwor, Kathmandu. The conference was jointly organized by Ministry of Health & Population, Shahid Dharmabhakta National Transplant Center (SDNTC), Bhaktapur and Nepalese Society of Organ Transplantation (NESOT). Experts from India, America, Japan, Bangladesh, Holland, Belgium, Slovenia participated in the conference. Experts have emphasized that organ donation after brain death should be encouraged in Nepal. At the conference held on Saturday & Sunday in Kathmandu, the experts also emphasized organ transplantation after brain death. The experts pointed out that the problem of organ donation will be solved when organ donation and transplantation would be easily carried out in the developing countries. On the occasion Mr. Shankar Das Bairagi, Chief Secretary of the government, said that the patients are benefited by the government investment in kidney disease. Mr. Bairagi informed that according to the plan of the government preparations are being made to expand the transplant service to all the seven provinces of the country. He also added that the proposal to develop Shahid Dharmabhakta National Transplant Center, as an expert institution for producing transplant related specialists has been forwarded. Dr. Pukar Chandra Shrestha, Chairman of Organizing Committee & Executive Director of Shahid Dharmabhakta National transplant center, said that there has been a significant improvement in the transplant law in Nepal. Dr. Shrestha said that the treatment center is providing world class transplant services and informed that the government plans to expand the kidney transplant services in all the seven provinces of the country with the initiative of the national transplant center. According to the same plan, the transplantation services are currently being conducted at the Pokhara Institute of health Science with the technical support of centre, he said. Dr. Shrestha said that the organ transplant service was going to begin in Surkhet Provincial Hospital soon. The government has provided free transplant and Dialysis for kidney patients in the listed hospitals of Nepal. In the conferences, 16 working papers were presented by Nepali experts, and 12 working papers by the foreign experts including Prof. Sandeep Guleria, Prof Dr. Vivek Kute, Prof. M. Kasahara, Prof Dr. Mohammad Rela, Prof Dr. Akinari Fukuda, Prof Dr. Subash Gupta, Prof Dr. Illankumaran Kaliamoorthy, Prof. Dr. Md. Kamrul Islam, Dr. Danica Avsec, Prof Dr. Eric Hoste, Prof Jacques Pirenne, Dr Shweta A. Singh, Prof Damiano Rondelli .They informed about the achievements made in the field of organ transplantation in their countries. In the conference we have masterclass on Deceased Donor Transplantation Conducted by Miss Pallavi Kumar. We have guest lecture and interactive sessions also. The conference focused on the problems related to organ donation in the developing countries and the need for widespread use of post-mortem organ donation. Renowned transplant experts from America, Japan, India, Bangladesh, The Netherlands, Belgium, Slovenia and Nepal, experts related to Nepal's Health, Artists, Lawyers and District Hospital Chiefs and Nursing Chiefs participated in the conference. News Syllabus Notices Press Cuttings Testimonials Events Gallery TRANSPLANT ACT 2055 TRANSPLANT ACT 2072 TRANSPLANT LEGISLATION 2073 Download Organ Donation Form Latest Notices Pharmacy Assistant (5th level) written exam Result Published! Notice of written exam (medical officer, transplant coordinator) Notice regarding souvenir!! Copyright © - SDNTC - 2023 | Developed by Awecode | Check email

In 1944, the Red Army was pushing back and closing in on Bauska. On July 28 of the same year, I joined the volunteer force. I was finally eighteen. But there were people who were as young as fifteen and as old as eighty years old, and everyone wanted to fight the Russians. No one wanted another Soviet occupation. We waged guerrilla war for several weeks. I was injured on September 14, 1944. That's where the war ended for me. I was injured in the fight where twenty-eight Soviet T-34 tanks went up against two hundred Latvian conscripts. We were trying to cross a river, but the Russians came at us from all sides. There were planes flying over, tanks on the ground, artillery fire. It was hell. Many men died trying to swim across the river. We had six mine throwers and all the men that knew how to use them were dead. I tried to use one from a rooftop, but a tank fired at the building and everything caved in beneath me. I was brought to a German hospital. My right arm was only attached by skin, so they cut it off. My left was completely smashed. The doctor there told me I had twenty-eight injuries total. By February 1, 1945, the Americans had invaded Germany. The soldiers put signs on hospital doors that forbade patients to leave the area. After a few days, all the Latvians there got together and literally cried, not because the war was ending, but because they knew Latvia will be once again occupied by the Russians. On April 9, we were free to go. I knew a Latvian woman who had married a German. I went to see them and they gave me a room, but they were short on food. I stayed there until the Americans handed that territory over to the Russians. I no longer remember the name of the town we were in. Eventually I was arrested for taking part in the resistance. I was moved across different concentration camps in Germany, Poland and Russia. Most of the people held alongside me ended up in Siberia, where they would remain for decades. I was the only one that didn't go. I hadn't done anything wrong. I told them if they thought I had, I wanted them to shoot me right away. When I was free, I returned to my home, only to be mistaken for a vagrant by my mother before she realized who I was. After three days back in Bauska, I tried to get my documents. But I was arrested and jailed for two weeks. They asked me for a list of names of all the people I worked with during the war. I gave them one and was set free. I still didn't have any documents, so I couldn't find work. I yielded to failure and left Bauska. I married a woman in Riga. I found a job there as a security guard for different shops. When my boss discovered that I hadn't served in the Red Army, he fired me after only three months of employment. I couldn't find another job. I started my own business and that's how I earned money to raise my children. Arturs Vidners, Liepaja, LatviaMORE... My name is Arturs Vidners. I was born on August 14, 1925. I went to school here. My father was in the army, an infantry commander. In June of 1940, the Russians came. They took my father to the garden and shot him in front of me. In 1943, I turned 18 and volunteered for the army. I wanted to avenge my father's death. I was sent to Germany for training, we were initially trained to fight Americans, but we refused because we wanted to fight the Russians. Soon, we were sent to Denmark for more training. Then to Czechoslovakia, then back to Latvia. I could have stayed in Germany, to fight there. But I wanted to return to my country and help gain freedom. I returned in 1944. When I got back, I participated in major battles. I was awarded six medals. In 1944, on December 23, we knew a fight was going to take place. We knew how big the Russian army was. They thought we were going to celebrate Christmas. But the fight was very bloody, because there were 23 Russians for every 1 Latvian. There was no moment in that battle when Latvians wanted to run. We stayed and fought because we knew how much each person counted. There were soldiers on the field that couldn't move. Some went to the field to try and help them, and they shot at us, and the soldiers weren't because of that. During the Christmas fights, we needed to get ahead of the Russians. There was a moment when a Russian man was below me with a gun in his hand. I thought I was going to get shot. There were shots from elsewhere and the man fell dead in front of me. I never saw the guy who saved me. Not far from where we are, there's a special cemetery for Legion soldiers. In 1944, the Germans were helping because the Russians had tanks and they could shoot us from farther away than we could hit back. One time, another soldier and I were in the woods, surrounded by Russians. We understood that if we approached them head-on, we would be killed easily. So we ran out in a zigzag in different directions and together killed over two hundred men with our guns, over 4km. We got medals for that fight. But we didn't feel courageous, because it had been necessary, because had we not done that, we'd have been killed. One of the last episodes I remember from the war took place in 1944, on March 22. The Latvian Legion had to retreat, and I remember that I couldn't sleep. I was at a house and the Russians found us and surrounded the place with tanks. There were eighteen men inside. We proceeded to destroy five of the seven tanks and the other two fled. We won that fight. After that, on March 23, I was badly injured on an ammunition run when I was hit with shrapnel, and that was the end of the war for me. I was in a hospital when I heard the war was over. We were happy the war had ended, but we were upset also because the Russians had won. After the war, I was stuck at home, without documents, but fortunately I had a classmate who was a policeman and he helped me get documentation. Afterwards, I attended music school. It was hard after the war, because no one had money. Food was scarce. I tried to earn money by playing accordion. I didn't finish the education. The director of the school was Russian and he didn't allow me to take the exams. After that, I went on to work odd jobs. Like fishing. Pyotr Alaev, Riga, LatviaMORE... My name is Pyotr Alaev, and I was born to the family of workers in 1922 in Biysk, which is in Altay. Funny enough, when I was in primary school, a teacher asked us what we wanted to be in the future, and I remember writing on a piece of paper that I wanted to be a pilot. And so it happened. When I was in the seventh grade, a man from a local flying club came to our school. You know, there were these flying clubs that belonged to the Union of Societies of Assistance of Defense and Aviation-Chemical Construction of the USSR, an organization that trained military staff in peace time. So that man came to our school to talk to us kids and tell us more about the club. I remember that he was rather well-dressed, wearing a suit, a coat and felt boots. I think it was in March of 1937 or 1938. It didn't take me long to decide to join that club, and I immediately signed in for the medical check-up. When I told my mother about this decision, she got surprised and asked me what was to become of me in the future then. What kind of question was that? A pilot of course! I studied in the flying club for about two years, without giving up secondary school. In 1939, I finished my training in the club, when a representative from Omsk Aviation School came to our club recruiting student pilots for their school. So I accepted that offer. I got enrolled in February 1941, and in June the war broke out. We had already had some training before that, on small agricultural biplanes. Besides, we used to have those R-5 planes, similar to the modern An-12. Having finished the obligatory course, we went on to training on SB planes, which were the most advanced modern bombers for the time, as well as I-16 fighter planes, which had a nickname "ishak" (Russian for "donkey"). When we were finishing our training, things got pretty tough. A lot of other pilot schools from western regions were being evacuated to Omsk. For example, the one from Rogan, which is near Kharkov. So, instead of four training squadrons in our school, we had 12. The overall situation in the country was very complicated. We were attacked from three different sides: Berlin, Rome and Tokyo. So after graduating from the aviation school, I as well as my 120 other fellow students were sent to the Far East. That was in 1942. They gave us the military ranks of sergeants. In fact, we were supposed to become lieutenants, but I guess the economic situation in the country was too tough to make it happen. Because if they make you an officer, you should be given higher wages, a new uniform - this sort of thing. But as long as we were sergeants, we could go to the war wearing the same clothes as we did when we were in the pilot school. However, the wages were a bit higher, as we were pilots, after all. It wasn't until 1943 when Stalin issued a decree saying that military school graduates should be promoted to the rank of officers, that we finally became junior lieutenants. We were doing pretty well in the Far East. I and some other guys from my regiment were given special assignments. Once, it was the first day when hostilities started on the border with Manchuria, near Bikin and Khabarovsk, we were given the assignment to destroy all the communication lines of the enemy, which basically meant hitting the wires from above. They even organized some training for us, so that we could practice hitting such narrow targets. You can't imagine how patriotic we were at that time, but it's hard to expect anything else from 19 to 20-year olds, right? We even thought of raising some funds and buying our own plane. A small biplane could cost say, 47 thousand. By that time we had already bought some clothes, boots, etc. So the plan was to club together and buy another plane. And if we didn't have enough money, we could always cut the wood in taiga where we were staying and sell it. Our political supervisor (deputy commander in charge of propaganda) kind of liked the idea, but then his superior officer came from Khabarovsk and criticized us, saying that it wasn't good for a fighting unit to engage in that sort of trading. Interestingly, three months later, somewhere in April 1944, we found out that our commander had gone away to headquarters and was expected to bring some news. When he was coming back on an SB plane whizzing low above the ground, he made a special stunt in the air, and our officers understood that we were about to set off to get some new planes. So two weeks later we flew to the west, to Zaporozhye, where we were trained to fly on the Bi-2, which is an experimental dive bomber. There we finally received our planes, straight from the Kazan aircraft plant. In fact, those planes came as a gift from Lozova, a small place in the Kharkiv region. Kolkhoz farmers from that area gathered money to buy us those planes, so our squadron was called Lozovskiy kolkhoznik. Another squadron received planes from Kegichevka, which is another small town in the Khakov region. In 1943, we had our bases on airfields which were literally fields, or agricultural fields leveled with rollers. You can imagine having to land on this! Once we had a flying mission to bomb the Vistula. There were nine of us in the group of bombers. Usually there were 12 planes in a squadron of fighters, and nine in a squadron of bombers. A usual bomber plane crew consisted of a pilot, a navigator and a gunner who was also a radio man. The latter was sitting in the third cabin, the so-called F3. The battery was also located there. So when we were already coming back, the gunner told me that the battery was boiling. I told him to switch it off; but once he did it, the communication ceased as well. I was about to land, but noticed that the previous plane had not yet exited the runway. So I took another circle around when I understood that the plane was in complete disorder. I had to land it as soon as possible, but that field was a complete mess. You know, snow mixed with earth and god knows what. Before too long I realized that I had lost the right course, and my airfield remained somewhere aside. Luckily I saw an IL-2 attack plane flying ahead of me. I guessed that it was heading for its airfield, so I followed him. I got a warm welcome there. Planes that had a forced landing were usually received well. Then they checked my plane and found out that there was an oil leakage in one of the two engines, and the anti-freezing liquid was leaking in the other. They wired to my unit so that they could send a car to get us home. It turned out that it was 30 km away. On the next morning I came back to get the plane. You should understand that being a pilot you don't really have time to look around. Your main job is to fly the plane and keep up with the rest of the group. If you lag somewhere behind, you'll definitely get hit. Besides, there were usually four fighters escorting us - two on either side. It felt safer that way. I remember one assignment when we flew out to bomb some crossing. The problem was that one of our pilots was not allowed to fly that morning, because he had got loaded up on the previous night. As our group was incomplete, they gave us a new guy. Well, he wasn't really new, he even seemed to have more experience than us. All his chest was covered with medals. So he was in the leading group of three planes, flying on the right-hand side in front of me. We were about to make a turn and fly back home when he suddenly started to fall back on me. I naturally fell back on the one behind me, and the whole formation got disrupted. To make things worse, my radio man reported that there was a strange plane approaching us from behind with an unusually long body. German planes, Messerschmitt for example, had just this kind of long body. So I told the radio guy to give it a burst from his machinegun. We actually had two of them: a large-caliber 12.7 mm short-range machinegun and a Shkas, but the former one got stuck. Some sand grain must have gotten inside. That was a hot battle, I should say. Luckily we survived it. Then I found my partner, the one who used to fly on my right, and we returned to our base together. There was another case when we suddenly noticed that we have a problem with our fuel tank. At first I thought that it was my partner who had a problem, but then I realized that the fuel was evaporating from our tank! I remember looking at the gauge and watching the pointer moving fast towards zero. We only had 150 liters left when I saw an airfield with a special sign saying that we could land there. I landed, and people came running to us to help. After they fixed the tank and filled it with 500 liters, I went to their headquarters - a mere dug-out in fact - to ask for permission to leave. The commander, however, told me to bring a reference from the weather forecasters to make sure that the weather was good enough to fly. It turned out that it wasn't. I went back to my crew who was standing beside the plane waiting for me. I can't help mentioning that my navigator was the father of Gennagiy Troshev, the one who commanded the 58th Army in Checnhya in the 90s. So I came up to my crew and suggested a way to leave. So guess what? An escape ensued! How? Very simple! We told the guardsman that we were about to check the engines, then removed the braking clamps and took off! As simple as that. And the weather was just fine, by the way. You know, when you take off from a field, you find yourself in such a thick cloud of dust, that you virtually can't see anything. I was the last one to take off, so I told my navigator to watch carefully so that we didn't lose our group. When I finally reached the necessary altitude I saw a group of planes in the distance, but when I came closer they turned out to be our neighbors! My mates had already flown away while I was circling in the dust. We radioed to our base asking them if we could land with bombs on board. Luckily they allowed us to do so and didn't even scold us for that. It's a dangerous thing to land a heavy plane full of bombs, but I managed to do it very smoothly. Later, in September 1944, we were sent to the 1st Belorussian front. Brest-Litovsk, Brest, and then Warsaw. We made flights with all sorts of missions. Once we even bombed the ice on the Vistula River, so that the retreating German troops could not cross the frozen river. We also attacked groups of tanks, mostly at some crossroads where they were most visible. Our regiment bombed Finsterwalde, Frankfurt an der Oder, and some other German towns. Not long before the war ended we had a flying mission near Werneuchen, which is a big air field. They had a major crossing of roads there with a large gathering of machines. I also took part in three air raids in Berlin. We bombed the railway stations where most German troops were located. First Silesian and then Stettin railway stations. Besides, we had some flying missions in Seelower Hohen, as well. I have already told you that if you are a bomber pilot you don't really see anything in particular. All you have to do is to operate the plane and follow your group. However, one thing I remember very well is Berlin. It really struck me to see its gray dim buildings, which were very unpleasant to look at. At least this is how they seemed to me from above. It was very different from Zaporozhzhye, for example, with its pretty white houses and tile roofs. Once we flew to Steszew, and our task was to bomb a road there. However, when we arrived there we saw a huge number of German troops, so the commander of our squadron told us to attack them, forgetting the initial assignment was completely different! So we did hit them, and quite successfully, I should say, but none of us got awarded for that, because we were not authorized to change the task. Discipline should always come first. We were staying near Landsberg, a town on the Warta River, which is now known as Gorzow Wielkopolski, when we learnt about the victory. They told us about it at night, and our guys started to make a great noise firing their arms to celebrate the happy news. There in Poland, I continued my military service after the war was over. In December 1949 there was rotation, and I found myself in Vilnius. Because of my deteriorating eyesight I couldn't fly anymore, so they transferred me to the command post. The Cold War started. Our job was to send our fighters to patrol the air space, so that everybody could see that we were not sleeping there and the border was being guarded. Once in a while the Americans would send out their planes flying along the Baltic border, so we had to send ours too as a warning. We had 24-hour shifts, and sometimes we had to send as many as 20 to 25 planes during one single shift. Then I was transferred to the Far East, and then back to the west, to Germany. In 1956 I was sent to Sakhalin, where I served for three years as an aircraft controller. It was already Khrushchyov's time when a lot of people in the army were made redundant. Some people had only one year left before their legal retirement after 25 years of service, and they were made redundant all the same. I was lucky to survive those redundancies. In fact, I was sent again to Germany - me and three other men from my command post - where I stayed until 1967. I was even promoted to the rank of a major, and I served as a deputy commander of a unit. In Kaliningrad I used to work with one major Ryabov, who was a very good navigator. People said that during the war his regimental commander would always take him in his crew, because he was that good. Once they had some young pilots joining their nine-plane squadron, and the task was to bomb the German battlefront. You know when they dug trenches, our troops on the one side and the enemy on the other, they would always mark the first row of trenches so that the planes would not drop bombs on their own troops. So their squadron did the task well and came back with good photos. There were several photo cameras in a squadron that used to take a record of our performance. After each mission we would take out the cassette and analyze our work. So everything seemed to be all right with Ryabov's squadron, but some time later they received a complaint from the infantry. It turned out that some bombs did hit our fortifications. Certainly they made an investigation trying to find the one who "dropped the ball." As Ryabov was the main navigator of the group, he had a hard time proving that he was not the one to blame. Later, it turned out that it was the fault of a young pilot. The thing is that a bomber carries bombs inside the plane's body, and it is the navigator's job to open the bomb door. So that guy was watching his partners flying ahead of him and opened up the doors when he was still above our battlefront. The tribunal sentenced him to serve in a penal company, the one which was in the very front line followed by anti-retreat detachments. Later, he told us about his experience. Their task was to distract the Germans in order to gain some advantage for our leading units so that they could easily win the battle. Everybody understood that it was sheer suicide, but they had no choice. Luckily, he and seven other people from his company managed to accomplish the task and stayed alive. Five days later they let him leave the penal company saying that he had done enough to atone for his guilt. And he returned to his former regiment. What else can I say? It was a war, after all, so it wasn't much fun. However, have you ever watched that old Soviet movie "Only Old Men Are Going to Battle"? Where Bykov's character organizes an amateur music band in his squadron? We also had something like that. There was that talented guy - Sasha was his name - who wrote poetry and music. We even had our own small orchestra! You know, bottles with different levels of water in them to make different notes. One would make a melody on this makeshift xylophone and somebody else would accompany him on the accordion.

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What it looks like when people say YES to being taken to an undisclosed location in an unmarked white van to do undisclosed things This past weekend I participated in one of my favorite things to do, both as a participant and as a facilitator. Husband and I ran one of our Life of Yes! Sleepaway Camps (LOYSC). A group of people go to an undisclosed location sans phones, tablets, and laptops and sans anyone they know to do very vaguely described activities. Basically all you know is the name of the gathering, what you need to pack, and when you need to be at the pickup location. So it can take a bit (a lot) of courage to apply. Reasons people give for attending an LOYSC are varied — to unplug to get away to be in nature to play and laugh and let go of being serious all the time to not have to think and to have others tell me where to be when and what to do when I get there to meet others and make new friends to be a part of a community to challenge myself to find grounding to figure out what I want to do in/want out of life to get out of a funk/to recharge to have me-time As with all LOYSCs, this weekend's campers were also varied — Single, married, divorced City dweller, suburb dweller Has kids, doesn't have kids; wants kids, doesn't want kids Gimme MEAT!, vegetarian American, from outside of America Financial Analyst to Holistic Health Coach, Theater Director to Nurse Three extroverts, five introverts Three morning people, two night people, three "doesn't matter what time it is, I'm always ready to go!" people As the ten of us journeyed through silly and serious, alone and together, laughter and tears, inside and outside, warmth and cold, noise and silence, we got to know not only each other but ourselves as well. I love that at age thirty-six I am still uncovering and discovering myself. It's scary but scary-good. Even when it's scary-bad. And to see others have a-ha moments about themselves? Simply beautiful. It is a truly wondrous thing to witness connections and openness blossom in such a short amount of time. During and after every LOYSC, I feel such appreciation. For people who say YES. For Husband-Best Friend. For everything and everyone who helped create the person I am today and thus helped create Mac & Cheese and the environments that allow for such blossoming. Adults letting go, surprising themselves, and being present are beings whom inspire and fill you up… If you think this sounds like an experience you'd to like to gift yourself or someone else, the application for the January LOYSC is here. Husband and I would love to have you on our next journey to Somewhere Magical. A lovely way to start 2015, indeed… Oh and males, this is for you too. Don't let the estrogen-heavy photos of this LOYSC make you think otherwise. Males have also been campers.

Are you planning to rest? How much? When and Why? We need 7-9 hours of quality sleep per night to maintain a general state of health and fitness. Sleep. It's just as essential to life as food and water. We might be able to go for longer periods of time without adequate sleep, but eventually it will catch up with us, and there will be a price to pay for it. We all live busy lives, but it's important to make time for sufficient hours and quality of sleep. In this series of articles on sleep, we will look at why the body needs sleep, the dangers of failing to get enough sleep, and ways to diagnose and mitigate sleep disorders. The body uses sleep to restore energy supplies and perform critical maintenance to keep its systems functioning properly. During these rest periods, muscle damage and connecting tissue is repaired, and certain hormones are released that assist in recovery and building and repair of muscles. If you are crushing it in the gym and just don't seem to see the results you think you should be seeing, take a look at your sleep. Exercise without adequate recovery time in the form of quality sleep will not produce results. So what is adequate sleep? The general guideline for all adults is 7-9 hours of sleep. Research has shown that those who are engaged in physically demanding work need more sleep than those performing intellectual work. It is important to stick to a sleep routine as much as possible, going to bed and getting up at the same time each day (even on days off). This helps the body establish natural recovery and activity patterns. The environment you create to sleep in is just as important as the number of hours you devote to sleeping. Your sleeping area should be quiet and dark. Studies have shown that even small amounts of light, like those from an alarm clock, can be enough to disrupt sleep. Put your phone or other electronics in a different room where they won't disturb you or tempt you to answer or use them. You want your sleep area to be clear of children and pets if at all possible. Use thick curtains to block out light if you are forced to sleep during non-standard hours due to things like shift work. What happens if I don't get adequate sleep? This is somewhat tough to answer completely because we don't yet know all the effects sleep deprivation has on the body. We do know that lack of sleep causes high blood pressure, obesity, and an increased risk of development of heart disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and some cancers. Lack of sleep can also cause you to be more susceptible to illness and take longer for you to recover from being sick. You are also more likely to injure yourself and you will take longer to recover from the injury without adequate rest. Studies have shown that after being awake for just 17 hours your actions and reactions are akin to those of someone with a 0.05 blood alcohol content. States like New Jersey have enacted laws making it illegal to knowingly drive while tired. Numerous studies with military personnel showed rapidly decreasing ability to make sound decisions and to be effective on the battlefield as sleep deprivation increases and lack of adequate recovery and sleep time decreases. Lack of sleep impacts your ability to remember things, can make you feel more negative, and can make you less productive and act less ethically at work. With all this evidence, you may be convinced that you need to sleep more, but what about those who try to sleep but have physical impairments like sleep apnea that prevent them from getting quality sleep? In part two of this topic, I will detail my own experiences with sleep apnea and why it is so important to get checked out and treat it if you think you may have it. But for now, rest up and we'll tackle that topic next week.

Authors Talk: Paula Izydorek We listed the wrong URL for Sunny Nestler in our newsletter. Please view her author's talk here. Today we are pleased to feature artist Paula Izydorek as our Authors Talk series contributor. In this short video, Paula discusses five paintings from her series titled (Self) Worth, as well as her overall artistic proclivities. Paula declares that one thing she truly enjoys about (Self) Worth is that "the image itself repeats, but the composition changes based on the wood grain," or the materials of production. While each painting is a self-portrait, they are not exclusively portraits of Paula alone; as she states, "I like to have the viewer put themselves in the place of the face that's in the abstract composition, and to review your own self-worth." That way, she emphasizes, viewers can identify with the story being expressed, and "connect with the image based on their own personal experience." As she concludes, Paula expresses her desire that each viewer will be able to "identify with the energy around the subject, rather than get lost in the subject as a portrait." That way, she stresses, viewers will be able to use the work as a gauge to "evaluate…where you want to be with regards to your self worth." You can view five paintings from Paula's (Self) Worth series in Issue 21 of Superstition Review. Authors Talk (Self) Worth, Abstract, abstract composition, energy, Issue 21, paintings, Paula Izydorek, portrait, self-portrait, wood grain panel Leave a comment Lucid Dreams: New Work from Rafeal Francisco Salas January 30, 2012 January 30, 2018 Rafael Salas Lucid Dreams, photo courtesy of Rafael Salas If you are in Milwaukee, take time to stop by Rafael Francisco Salas' new exhibit, Lucid Dreams. Salas describes his inspiration for the new exhibit as an exploration of "the intersection of portraiture, representation, landscape, and architecture." He feels that "historically these traditions elicit specific contextual and also visceral responses from viewers, and in combining or exploring them in oblique ways, new responses might arise." Lucid Dreams builds on Salas' past work, which was created from an "emotional or atmospheric place […] that evoked a sense of dreams or nostalgia." Salas worked to discover how adding new elements to his paintings would change how others reflect on them. Drawing from ideas and elements seen in small towns of the Midwest (Salas's current home), Salas felt that "our current economic climate and position in the world has created an emotional [and] psychological key that complements themes I have previously explored." Presented by Portrait Society Gallery, you can see Rafael Francisco Salas' newest creations January 20 through March 10, 2012. You can see more of Salas' artwork in Issue 8. Contributor Updates architecture, Art, dreams, Issue 8, landscape, Lucid Dreams, Midwest, nostalgia, paintings, Portrait Society Gallery, portraiture, Rafael Salas, representation 4 Comments A Visit to the Barnhart Studio October 30, 2011 February 19, 2018 Superstition Review Barnhart Studio, a castle of metal and cinderblock, is tucked into a Mesa residential area. When I ring the doorbell, an unassuming man in a t-shirt opens the door: William Barnhart. After a brief introduction, I am given a tour of the studio. William starts from the foundation of the building. From the tile work on the bathroom walls to the welding on the doors, most of the fixtures in the building are made from recycled materials, and they are all William Barnhart's handiwork. The very studio where William works is a reminder that art sometimes requires more than a table and chisel or paintbrush. The studio resembles a mechanic's garage, a zone under construction, where a plaster sculpture waits to be completed. When I ask how long it takes to finish a project, William says, "It takes as long as it takes." He shows me the swinging cranes that lift heavy materials, the giant fan he traded a painting for, and a room he is working on. We walk and talk, and then we sit down in his office and talk about his work and about art in general. The following is a recreation of part of our conversation: Superstition Review: Have you worked with art galleries? William Barnhart: I did for a time, but not anymore. Art galleries insulate the artist from the clients, because if the client and the artist are communicating, there really is no need for the art gallery. I like the communication with my clients. I can put my studio down anywhere, and my clients will come to me. SR: That's true, you have an actual client-artist relationship. What kind of mediums and materials do you work with? WB: I do prints, paintings, sculpture. I like working with bronze, making sculptures. You know, bronze, it'll be around for generations. SR: I read that the sculpture you recently finished has gold on it. Do you think the value of the materials you use adds something to your work? WB: I definitely want to use quality materials in my work. It's not necessarily the value of the materials but the quality of them. SR: I know some artists try to make social commentary with their art. What would you say is the message you are trying to convey with your art? WB: Social commentary is definitely not the focus of my work. I want my art to be universal, to transcend the bounds of time. It's more about relationship issues, about human emotions and the drama of the figure. It's about the human experience. We discuss other things, such as his creative process and why he chose that particular area to place his studio. But when I take leave of William Barnhart, print-maker, designer, painter, sculptor—with "more stripes than the tigers," to use his words—what lingers most in my mind is the image of the high-domed building, the living space, the vibrant place of craft that is itself a work of art. For more information about William Barnhart's studio and his work, visit his website. Literary Partners Art, art galleries, bronze, emotion, gold, Interviews, paintings, prints, recycling, relationships, sculpture, social commentary, studio, William Barnhart 3 Comments Launch of Issue 7: Art May 5, 2011 April 21, 2013 Superstition Review Superstition Review Issue 7 has launched and to celebrate we will be featuring blog posts about our artists and authors. To kick off launch week we will be highlighting a few of the talented artists who are featured in Issue 7. Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 15-year-old artist and photographer who won the National Geographic Kids Photography Contest and the World Photography Organization's Photomonth Youth award in 2010. She was the only person from the UK to be placed in National Geographic's See The Bigger Picture Photography Competition and the youngest person to be exhibited with Charnwood Art's Vision 09 exhibition. She has had her photography exhibited around the world in galleries in Europe, Asia and America and has been showcased in many magazines including the most popular children's magazine in the world, NG Kids. View her photography featured in issue 7. Eleanor Bennett's Website Christy Puetz uses beadwork as her main medium. Her 3-dimensional beaded forms have surfaces covered with colorful, organic patterns. Her current work focuses on shape-shifting. The work subtly addresses the issues of the different faces we each put forth given our current surroundings and the eventual effect it has on who we become as a whole – a conglomeration of parts of different creatures. She uses taxidermy animal forms and transforms them into creatures, not yet in existence, but in the process of changing form, color, and purpose. View her creations in issue 7. Christy Puetz's Website Cyndy Carstens' paintings of expansive skies & infinite distances represent an ultimate freedom of the soul grounded by images beckoning sensations of breath & struggles, rest & trials. Subject matter fluctuates between the recognizable & the abstract using color & texture to move the eye across a horizon of musical notes singing of peace and harmony. Carstens' paintings can be found in private & corporate collections across the U.S. & Canada. Her work has been featured in many exhibitions including Manhattan Arts International's "The Healing Power of Art" (New York, NY) and most recently has been honored with an Artist of Distinction Award & representation from Stillpoint Gallery of Brunswick, ME. View her painting, "Solitude" in issue 7. Cyndy Carstens's Website Sabrina Peros is an emerging artist in Phoenix, AZ. Ms. Peros began drawing and painting at a young age, eventually studying and graduating from The School of Visual Arts (New York) with a BFA in 2002. Some of her highlights include Featured Artist of the Month at The Paper Heart Gallery, Phoenix, Mills Pond House Gallery, St. James, NY, and resident artist at Space 55, Phoenix. View her four paintings featured in issue 7. Sabrina Peros's Website William D. Hicks is a writer who lives in Chicago, Illinois. His poetry appears in LITSNACK, Amaranthine Muses, Highland Park Poetry, Cannoli Pie Magazine, Outburst Magazine, The Legendary, Horizon Magazine, Breadcrumb Sins, Inwood Indiana Literary Magazine, The Short Humour Site (UK), The Four Cornered Universe, Save the Last Stall for Me and Mosaic. Cover art is on The Blank Page Handbook and Anti-Poetry. View his photographs in issue 7. The full magazine with featured art and artists can be found here. Check back tomorrow to read about the fiction authors featured in Issue 7. News Art, BFA, Christy Puetz, Cyndy Carstens, Eleanor Bennett, highlights, Issue 7, Issue 7 Launch, National Geographic, New York, NYC, paintings, photography, Poetry, Sabrina Peros, sculpture, Superstition Review, William D. Hicks, Writing Leave a comment

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TORONTO, Oct. 5, 2017 /CNW/ - Global growth is strengthening as policy stimulus in some advanced economies is unwound. This is a confirmation of the narrative building throughout the year, in which the sources of growth have been broadening across and within countries. "For the first time since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), all 45 industrialised OECD countries are set to expand," said Jean-François Perrault, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist at Scotiabank. "Given the breadth of growth geographically and its increasing diversity within countries, the foundation remains for solid global performance through at least 2018, though geopolitical risks continue to dominate." There are now tangible signs that firms have joined households in contributing to the recovery in most countries, and capital spending in the more advanced OECD countries is expanding at a pace not seen in over three years. This is a welcome development given the general weakness of business investment in companies globally since the GFC. This turnaround in investment appears to reflect a number of powerful factors, such as a rise in confidence as ISM indicators are at multi-year records, the still low cost of capital, and the general increase in trading partner activity. Canada: Growth is expected to hit 3.1% during 2017 before slowing to 2.0% in 2018 and 1.5% in 2019 as tailwinds from busy Canadian consumers begin to wane. United States: The U.S. economy is forecast to hit 2.2% y/y in 2017, before plateauing in 2018 at 2.3% and decelerating to 1.7% y/y in 2019. Mexico: It is too early to determine the likely effects of terrible September earthquakes on the Mexican macroeconomic landscape, but they are expected to be relatively small. United Kingdom: The Bank of England will likely deliver a rate hike in November. Moderate tightening is expected to be delivered during 2018, helped by accelerating growth and wage inflation in the new year. Latin America: As political situations improve in some countries within the LatAm region, such as Brazil, Colombia, and Chile, the economic performances suggest a gradual recovery. China: China is set to remain among global engines of growth, yet real GDP gains will likely decelerate to 6% y/y by the end of 2019.

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[1:07] <anthesterion> i am in my nightshift and want to watch a classic movie. i have chosen three candidates: sneakers, the net and enemy of the state. [1:08] <anthesterion> but which one should i watch first? [1:08] <ball> It has Arthur Askey in it! [1:09] <anthesterion> i think i'll give it a chance. [1:14] <delinquentme> anyone done something like this? [1:15] <ball> delinquentme: That's going to be a noisy room, RF-wise. [1:16] <ball> delinquentme: How talkative are they going to be? [1:17] <ball> delinquentme: ...are they Raspberry Pi 3 boards? [1:20] <delinquentme> ethernet cables seem like overkill. [1:20] <delinquentme> but running a single wire to each machine feels a lil jank. [1:20] <delinquentme> I suppose I could do some zigbee protocll stuff ... but wifi seems more straight forward. [1:20] <ball> Raspberry Pi seems like overkill but then I don't know what local processing you had in mind. [1:21] <delinquentme> this is true. [1:21] <delinquentme> is there some standard wired thing thats not quite as beef as ethernet? [1:22] <ball> Not sure MIDI supports 30 devices though. [1:24] <ball> Sounds like a reasonable application for RS-485, depending on the length of run you would need. [1:25] <ball> Oh wait, you could do two 16-node runs. [1:25] <ball> ...save some driver circuitry. [1:46] <ball> ...or you know, you could try WiFi. [2:04] <ball> BurtyB: Is that a Linux thing or a Pi thing? [2:33] <Abbott> does ssh work out of the box? like is sshd running right after installation or do I have to connect a keyboard and monitor to it first to configure it? [2:33] <ball> Abbott: For which OS? [2:36] <Abbott> so just a blank file in boot named ssh? [2:53] <maicod> Hi I boot my Pi from an SDcard and have the ext4 partition on a flash drive (I edited the commandline.txt in the boot partition and fstab in the ext4 partition on the flash drive) and that works flawlessly UNTIL I add another usb-drive to one of the USB sockets of the Pi, then it 'steals' /dev/sda and linux is doomed. How can I prevent /dev/sda from being stolen ? [4:15] * ball thinks about diodes. [7:28] <kihis> hi. any compact and reliable idea how to convert 12v to 5v for pi? [7:31] <exo-squad> a step down regulator? [9:21] <ejay> Hi all. Is it possible to use external HDD (5200RPM) with Pi3 without extra power cable for HDD? [9:24] <ejay> Lartza: ok, thanks. [12:27] <gordonDrogon> MasterPrenium, 28 in total. [12:28] <gordonDrogon> MasterPrenium, but you sacrifice all other functions for that - SPI, I2C, Serial... Also note that the 2 I2C pins are tied to 3.3v bia 1K8 resistors. [13:25] <Hix> so yesterday I asked about dd with OS X taking forever. I was using raspbian jessie lite and it was iro 2500s. Discovered using of=/dev/rdisk2 is waaaaay quicker. bro 74s.. [14:21] <Gadgetoid_Pim> gordonDrogon, also, hi! [14:26] <sa0bgh> anyone who knows if zerow is supported by uboot? [15:20] <Gadgetoid_Pim> gordonDrogon, oooh nice! [15:28] <Lartza> Particle sensors are bad though, I'm sure you can get one of the ionising ones too?? [15:36] <gordonDrogon> it's now pastry time. laterz. [15:50] <MaekSo> can I expect any trouble when I plug the sd card from my Pi2 in to a Pi3? [15:51] <ShorTie> is it up to date ?? [16:00] <MaekSo> hmm, so that appears to be a firmware updater, eh? [16:05] <MaekSo> let's see if it boots up and finds the right IP again! [16:27] <MaekSo> Mar 13 08:26:37 pi systemd: Dependency failed for Reboot. [16:27] <MaekSo> -- Unit reboot.target has failed. [16:27] <MaekSo> -- The result is dependency. [16:27] <MaekSo> Mar 13 08:26:37 pi systemd: Unit systemd-reboot.service entered failed state. [16:29] <MaekSo> welp, guess I'm re-installing anyway! [16:40] <plum> anyone have experience with psad? [16:50] <MaekSo> welp, I'm pi-less today, lesson learned! [16:50] <petn-randall> Is it somehow possible to attach *two* camera modules to a RPi3? [16:52] <wonderer> will this "sudo apt-get install plexmediaserver-installer" update pelx to latets version? [16:54] <petn-randall> wonderer: That will likely just install or update the installer. [17:35] <cambazz> hello, how can i power my pi zero from the hat? do i need to provide both 5V and 3.3V? [17:36] <cambazz> i will be powering this pi externally, and when and if usb is plugged in, what will happen? [17:48] <shiftplusone> 5v only and keep in mind you're bypassing input protection. [17:58] <svideo> is there a set voltage level the rpi is expecting? why would i be getting an insufficient power notification when i'm over 5V (usb spec) and i am using less than 1amp from a 12amp supply? [17:59] <shiftplusone> where are you measuring the 5v? [18:00] <plum> does anyone know how to remove an iptables command? [18:01] <plum> or wait. maybe it will work and i just need to reboot? [18:02] <shiftplusone> svideo: if you're seeing over 5v over the load at full load, then it might be that the power is 'dirty'. The multimeter would not show that, but a scope would. [18:02] <plum> so if it was working already, it would be there without rebooting, no? [18:03] <shiftplusone> the under-voltage warning is reliable, since it comes straight from a voltage monitor chip. There are ways to accidentally trigger it, but you'd need to be doing things you shouldn't be doing with i2c_vc, for example. [18:07] <shiftplusone> The charger does seem a little dodgy. 12A for 8 ports, up to 2.4A per port? That doesn't maths. I guess they mean up to 2.4A per port, if you don't use them all at the same time, but that omission is enough to make me question how stable the voltage is over that range. [18:10] <shiftplusone> I'd just trust the undervoltage warning. [18:11] <svideo> shiftplusone you fixed it! [18:12] <shiftplusone> You'll typically see it during boot up, when the load is higher, and then have it disappear, but ideally you wouldn't see it at all. [18:13] <plum> does anyone have any thoughts on if it would make sense to change ServerKeyBits to 16384 instead of 1024/2048/4096 for futureproofing? [18:17] <Phischi> anyone around who wants to help me setting up a Pi3 to use the builtin Wifi and a USB-wifidongle? [18:18] <teclo-> svideo: generation of the key ? [18:18] <Phischi> svideo: let's lower security because it is more convinient? [18:21] <Phischi> btw. anything to switch to beside using the last version? [18:24] <svideo> you can trust MS not to give the feds all your keys, right? [18:24] <Lartza> Bitlocker keys are stored on your device though not ms servers? [18:34] <Phischi> can somebody tell me how to start dhcpd with 2 config-files for 2 APs? [18:37] <hmoney-> wait.. crap is now a bad word? [18:40] <svideo> taken away by the IRC police? [18:40] <plum> we want to keep it that way, no? [18:41] <hmoney> the no curse words is good for children in the channel, but i would say 'crap' in front of a child and not think twice about it.. [18:43] <plum> person a: "please don't say that word" [18:43] <hmoney> person c: word. [18:44] <hmoney> so back to pi stuffs: anyone running a docker swarm? [18:45] <svideo> run it on your local PC? [18:48] <Abbott> is there a way to mount the rpi partition of the microsd using cygwin? [19:00] <gordonDrogon> svideo, can we keep it a btt more family friendly please? [19:02] <Phischi> really, this goes down the ridiculesroad slowly. [19:08] <petn-randall> Ah, thanks for the info. [19:09] <shiftplusone> plum: what are you doing with it? [19:11] <shiftplusone> Yeah, there was a batch with faulty sensors, but there is now a check during manufacturing to make sure that all reported values are within a plausible range. [19:12] <shiftplusone> svideo: I don't trust those usb power meters are all. [19:14] <shiftplusone> svideo: the circuitry for that warning is simple. It's a dedicated voltage monitor chip directly on the power rail, after the input protection. Have you measured the voltage across the 5v-GND GPIO pins? [19:18] <shiftplusone> a DMM might be quicker as a first step. [19:21] <shiftplusone> I think we had a case where a monitor would make the pi earth reference grounded which caused some damage. [19:21] <mfa298> some usb cables really are incredibly bad. [19:21] <shiftplusone> I have some cables which look quite nice and thick and were a little expensive, but it's mostly rubber and braiding. The resistance across them is still high. [19:24] <shiftplusone> it's reporting 5.3v, but I don't get a lightning bolt, although I was expecting one. [19:26] <shiftplusone> Yup.... got it to show up while the power meter is showing 5.25v while I know for a fact it's below that. [19:27] <shiftplusone> throwing in a hard drive in the mix to get a constant under-voltage warning and it's showing 5.25 still. [19:30] <shiftplusone> yup removing the power meter removes the under-voltage warning entirely, although everything else is still plugged in. [19:35] * shiftplusone disconnects the electrical rube goldberg machine. [19:41] <shiftplusone> wouldn't there be components which must be in series? [19:46] <shiftplusone> right, I get the measurements, but I wouldn't expect the display to be responsible for a big chunk of the drop. [19:51] <shiftplusone> any luck with the GPIO measurements? [19:52] <svideo> once i move it off my desk back onto the bench i'll wire it up and report back. [19:54] <leftyfb> how is it this company was able to get 314 pi zero w's if everyone is only allowed to purchase 1 at a time? [19:56] <mfa298> presumably by talking to the foundation and because they're giving them away. [19:58] <shiftplusone> svideo: why the USB webcam instead of the CSI camera? [19:59] <shiftplusone> have you tried throwing a self-powered hub in the mix just to check if power has anything to do with it? [20:04] <shiftplusone> All things being equal, does it work 100% of the time after a fresh deployment and then stop working 100% of the time after you access it in some specific way? Is the sample size here greater than one? [20:04] <shiftplusone> If that's the case, then the only thing that changes is the content of the SD card. [20:06] <shiftplusone> Yeah, I was just going to say that the pi is not necessarily the right answer to everything. [20:08] <shiftplusone> I would use a pi, but mainly because I am fairly confident that I have the tools and time to find and fix whatever problems arise and would find it interesting. If I was doing something strictly for the utility of the thing itself rather than for the sake of tinkering, I'd probably skip the pi. [20:08] <shiftplusone> but your USB camera issue doesn't sound too difficult to isolate. [20:11] <shiftplusone> A windows machine? Well now, that's just heathen talk. [20:11] <svideo> could be this POS camera? [20:12] <shiftplusone> Yeah, doesn't sound like the camera is great. [20:16] <shiftplusone> Is this on Linux in both cases? Maybe the drivers are just bad? [20:20] <redrabbit> have you tried to make it work for a while ? [20:21] <redrabbit> for no reason? [20:39] <funkster> anyone recommend a rgb led strip? need about 2 meters, see very mixed reviews about types of strips. [20:49] <Chillum> funkster: you want addressable like the WS2812s? [20:49] <Chillum> or do you want to drive the PWM yourself? [20:50] <funkster> Chillum: im not exactly sure of the prons/cons of either, but yes individually addressable leds would be ideals. [20:52] <funkster> thats all my setup can handle for power at moment 5v/2.4a and to light up a 12x12x4 box. [20:53] <funkster> Rickta59: that power is based off.. 1m you are estimating? [20:54] <funkster> sweet, so where can i get specifics of what mosefst//capactiers/etc. that part i am lost on. i understand the basic wiring and code. [20:55] <Rickta59> rpi or rpi 2 or rpi 3 or zero? [20:55] <funkster> oh, for me ill use pi 3. [20:56] <funkster> maybe usb a teensy to my pi and go from there? [20:58] <funkster> gotcha, yah just one simple animation or blinking probably is needed. [20:59] <funkster> Chillum: yah im thinking of doing that also. need linux as its wifi connected with custom scripts. [20:59] <funkster> and the apa102 has issues with 3.3v pins as well? [21:00] <funkster> whats the lowest end arduino i should get to hook the leds and pi up? nano? [21:01] <funkster> little learning curve, but seems tons of docs out there to learn. [21:02] <Chillum> iron, hot air station, power supply etc? [21:15] <brainzap> a flux capacitor from china? [21:16] <gordonDrogon> you shouldn't need flux for through-hole stuff. [21:16] <gordonDrogon> just use multi-core solder - pre-fluxed. [21:24] <plum> raspberry pi is 32-bit right? [21:25] <shiftplusone> plum: some pi models have 64bit cpus, but there's no official support for a 64bit kernel. [21:26] <shiftplusone> there are still issues being ironed out with the kernel. Once everything works, there might be a case for making an official 64bit debian image. [21:26] <shiftplusone> Why do you ask? [21:29] * shiftplusone makes a mental note of never getting any PCBs from redrabbit. [21:31] <plum> you guys use rkhunter? [21:33] <shiftplusone> is that a rootkit detection thing? I occasionally use such things, but I have never had an antivirus or any other kind of security tool find a legitimate issue. [21:37] <redrabbit> rkhunter is for linux systems ? [21:38] <shiftplusone> 99% of attacks you'll see will be scripted scans for known vulnerabilities which are easily thwarted. If you're a known and interesting target then you might get some crafty personalized phishing attacks. Nobody is going to put much effort into attacking something if you've taken the basic precautions and don't have anything worth getting access to. They tend to go for the low hanging fruit. [21:39] <shiftplusone> I learned the most while browsing some hacking forums and looking at real successful attack payloads from compromised servers. [21:42] <shiftplusone> plum: there's a quite popular and easily accessible forum through which a website I was a mod on was hacked. It's likely to be the first one you find with google, I think. [21:44] <shiftplusone> plum: he got a the password of one of the admins from a password leak of another website. He used the same password on both sites. They posted the hashed password on the forum and had it cracked. Then they installed a shell by adding an plugin to the phpbb forum the site was running. Then through that shell he connected to the server and got access to everything else. [21:45] <redrabbit> i send with ./sms.sh "message $var message" [21:45] <shiftplusone> Which goes to show that humans are often the weakest link, although forced 2FA would've been the easiest way to prevent that. [21:46] <shiftplusone> and you know... don't give unnecessary access rights to forum admins. [21:47] <shiftplusone> shouldn't expect people to require facebook, but openid is alright. [21:48] <shiftplusone> *shouldn't require people to have a facebook account. [21:48] <plum> you can use multiple sites to log in with that right? [21:50] <plum> shiftplusone: that's with openid you can use your google account? [21:50] <shiftplusone> yes, if I understand openid correctly. [21:51] <plum> thanks for the heads-up! [22:17] <funkster> anyone use a sort of inline usb battery pack. power cable -> usb battery -> raspberry. have it always run like that so if power disconnects its still up and running. [22:17] <lopta> funkster: I'd be tempted to do that with a capacitor and relay but a diode might suffice. [22:19] <funkster> eumel: thats perfect solution! thanks. [22:20] <NineChickens> Can python run console commands? [22:20] <NineChickens> ie, can it go "sudo reboot" [22:20] <shiftplusone> The simplest way is os.system, but I believe that's deprecated. [22:21] <funkster> mfa298: interesting. ill give small small ones a test as well. [22:22] <shiftplusone> eumel: thanks. Not a python person myself. [22:24] <[Saint]> shiftplusone don't do no snek. [22:27] <funkster> eumel: sweet, i will order one to test. also looking for a powered usb hub that will do multiple ports at 5v/2a AND have a battery backup power. [22:28] <[Saint]> I asked my distributor about the Pi Zero W and he threw his hands in the air and (sarcastically) declared them to be a myth, folklore, and/or a conspiracy theory. [22:28] <lopta> [Saint]: They're powered by unicorn farts. [22:29] <lopta> funkster: What sort of battery are they using? [22:29] <[Saint]> New Zealand, specifically. [22:30] <plum> New Zealand ROCKS!!! [22:30] <[Saint]> It's really not as great as the rest of the world seems to think it is. [22:30] <[Saint]> Our public face of nature and clenliness is mostly a farce. [22:31] <NineChickens> Would the Zero W likely to be more available in 2-odd months? [22:33] <[Saint]> NineChickens: re: availability, no. [22:34] <[Saint]> By that time the interest may have dropped a little, but so will the available number of units. [22:35] <[Saint]> I've resorted to buying at 50~100% markup from gouging resellers on our local Amazon/Craigslist-esque clone. [22:41] <NineChickens> http://pastebin.com/Jyc52WrT This commenting more or less right? [22:41] <plum> bramble cluster hat? [22:43] <plum> what do you do with a cluster hat like that? [22:44] <NineChickens> One would have to have the client code and the other the server, right? [22:45] <lopta> NineChickens: Why TCP and not UDP? [22:45] <lopta> NineChickens: Presumably you're going to poll for status afterwards. [22:45] <plum> cromulent: do tell! [22:46] <NineChickens> lopta: How do I do that? [22:46] <lopta> NineChickens: Depends on your programming language, probably. [22:48] <NineChickens> though I could have it ping the 3B every now and then and basically go "you there?" [22:48] <lopta> NineChickens: Seems like you're overthinking it. [22:49] <plum> what does one do with a cluster? [22:49] <lopta> plum: Take over the world. [22:50] <lopta> Is Docker even an option on ARM yet? [22:50] <lopta> Does Docker use OpenStack? [22:51] <[Saint]> IIRC there's a compile time flag to allow for it. [22:51] <lopta> Does OpenStack support other container systems and hypervisors? [22:53] <[Saint]> Incidentally, my little cluster of Zeros is a docker swarm. I also have a cluster of 8 Pi 3s run by a Hardkernel ODROID XU4 that does provides a distributed ARM build box. [22:54] <[Saint]> And a couple of other decommissioned clusters of Pi3s I've been slowly robbing for bits. [22:54] <[Saint]> You can use it for whatever you're using a pi for now. [22:54] <vavincavent> hi, i've tested to put my pi zero w as access point but it failed, can someone help me? [22:54] <[Saint]> Just throwing more threads at it. [22:55] <b3h3m0th> Is it just me? [22:55] <[Saint]> eumel: they're basically what the Pi should be, IMO. [22:55] <[Saint]> eumel: major benefits being USB3, and gigeE. [22:56] <[Saint]> That's why I use it as the master for the Pi 3 cluster, since it's gigE and the Pis are all 10/100, I don't have to worry about network bottleneck. [22:56] <eumel> [Saint]: okay, are usb and ethernet on the same bus like on the pi? [22:59] <b3h3m0th> Can I paste here? [22:59] <b3h3m0th> What is the recommended pastebin? [23:01] <b3h3m0th> It's stuck here and there's no AP I can see on my phone. It used to be there when I tried a few hours back. [23:01] <eumel> b3h3m0th: can you paste hostapd.conf? [23:06] <b3h3m0th> I don't need to specify driver if I'm using the internal adapter right? [23:07] <eumel> b3h3m0th: at least i never did, you're running a pi 3? [23:08] <b3h3m0th> Is there any more reliable AP? [23:09] <eumel> b3h3m0th: never had problems with hostapd, are you running the latest version? system is up-to-date? [23:09] <b3h3m0th> how can I check system version? [23:12] <NineChickens> What's the correct way to have an endlessly looping bit of python? [23:12] <NineChickens> while 1: ? [23:13] <eumel> b3h3m0th: can you reinstall from the repo? [23:14] <b3h3m0th> actually I used repo version first when I first ran into these issues. Thought of building latest in hope of fixing it. [23:15] <eumel> b3h3m0th: ah okay, strange, the repo version works without any issues for me. can't compile it my self right now unfortunately .. [23:20] <b3h3m0th> what are the bare minimum requirements? [23:22] <wenxs> what could be causing it? [23:23] <eumel> wenxs: do you have enough power for the pi and all of you're drives? [23:25] <Dr-007> wenxs, when i had this, my USB power supply to the PI was "broken" [23:25] <b3h3m0th> eumel: if auth_algs is set to 2, does it mean that it's open AP? [23:27] <b3h3m0th> Is the "1489444034.796137: Failed to create interface mon.wlan0: -95 (Operation not supported)" normal? [23:27] <b3h3m0th> What does itmean? [23:27] <wenxs> Oh, and I had to add the "nofail" in the fstab entries for the three hard drives, otherwise when one of them was not available on boot, the rpi would enter the emergency mode. [23:30] <eumel> wenxs: what does dmesg show you when the drives fail to mount? [23:30] <eumel> wenxs: any errors? [23:30] <b3h3m0th> what about "1489444034.824642: wlan0: Could not connect to kernel driver" ? [23:31] <eumel> b3h3m0th: have you tried specifying the driver for the wifi adapter in hostapd.conf? [23:31] <wenxs> and basically the PI was waiting for the disk to be available, with problems such as "/dev/sda does not contain a filesystem or disklabel" [23:33] <b3h3m0th> eumel: but what should I specify as driver? [23:34] <b3h3m0th> btw. would "hw_mode=g" be an issue? [23:34] <b3h3m0th> should I be setting that to n or ac? [23:35] <b3h3m0th> so is there a superset? [23:37] <eumel> b3h3m0th: any luck with the driver option yet? [23:38] <b3h3m0th> could hw_mode be the issue? [23:38] <eumel> b3h3m0th: have you installed the nesessary drivers? you've compiled from source, are kernel modules loaded? [23:38] <b3h3m0th> Is it possible to support both n and ac? [23:39] <b3h3m0th> and won't the drivers be pre installed?

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December 21, 2022 by Steve Mentz The last stop on my Europe '22 tour brought me back to Venice, where I sang my blue humanities song to the very lively students and community at NiCHE, the New Institute Centre for the Environmental Humanities at Ca' Foscari University that my fellow Shakespearean Shaul Bassi has been deeply involved with since its founding. It was great to see Shaul again and co-conspire about future watery possibilities. I also loved meeting Francesca Tarocco, the director of the program, as well as a pair of marine biologists from Cal Tech who were there to present their research about symbiosis in a small squid-like creature that lives in the Pacific. (Similar creatures, they assured me, are also present in the Mediterranean.) We all had lunch together at the Ca' Foscari café, and the conversation reminded me how much I enjoy the company of marine scientists. Lots of people love the water! Light on the water Giving my talk, which relies on what feels now like a familiar contrast between green terrestrial ideas and blue watery dynamism, I felt a twinge of uncertainty. What is Venice, after all, but a human environment built on the refusal of the distinction between land and sea? Walking through the city's narrow alleys and crossing water over its curving bridges, I kept noticing moments of intersection that challenge any simple contrast between the blue and the green. It's not just that the water of Venice's canals is itself green, as green is also the color that Shakespeare most often uses to describe the sea. More than that, It's the portal-like qualities of so many points of access in the city – steps that lead directly down into the canal, or small framed doorways that open from buildings straight onto water. One noticeable opening framed, at this time of year at least, a lovely Christmas tree. 'Tis the season to be … close to water? 'Tis the watery season So much has been written about Venice's paradoxical history, its function as gateway between Europe and the Ottoman Empire and Byzantium, its ongoing struggle with high water, even its modern function as a center of experimental contemporary art. The last time I visited, in November, I saw Anselm Keifer's overwhelmingly brilliant installation at the Palazzo Ducale. Beyond the genius of the art itself, I was amazed by the willingness of Venice to give over two of the galleries inside its Renaissance palace to a contemporary figure whose aggression and iconoclasm contrast sharply with the allegorical celebrations of the city that populate the palace. But thinking again about it as I wandered the bridges, alleys, and campos of Venice, I wonder if the city's combination of ancient and modern, which in the Ducal Palace mean combining the gorgeous allegories of Tintoretto and Veronese alongside Keifer's towering but opaque symbolic register, might indicate a kind of belief in itself. The juxtaposition seems to say – we've been doing allegorical art that celebrates a floating city for centuries. The city's wet feet speak of perpetual evanescence, a way of living in constant contact with dynamism and dissolution. I had not been to Venice in more than 30 years since this fall. Now I've been twice in two months. And I can't wait to go back! Ocean Space in Campo San Lorenzo It would take a lifetime, or perhaps generations, to know Venice. I spent my few December days wandering through an idiosyncratic lineup of places, including the soccer stadium on the far end of the island, the Naval Museum, the statue of the Monument to the Partisan Woman that lies prone in the water near the edge of the Biennale Garden, the currently-empty Ocean Space gallery which was formerly the church of San Lorenzo, and the lovely Querini Stampalia, a small museum near my hotel in the Campo Santa Maria Formosa. What has it felt like to live so close to water for so long? What does Venice mean, in time and in tempest? Monument to the Partisan Woman In addition to a toy gondola for my nephew, I'm taking away the hitideVenice app, which gives me a daily read of the ebbs and floods of the city's fluid substrate. It'll be reassuring, as I think about the city from far-away Connecticut or elsewhere, to be able to open the app and see what that water's up to. I'm looking forward to my next visit already! Working on water

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Dr. Luke Now Suing Kesha's Lawyer Over Lady Gaga Rape Allegations Gabrielle Bluestone Filed to: Celebrity justice Celebrity justice dr. luke mark geragos Everyone's just suing and countersuing all willy-nilly now in the Dr. Luke/Kesha sex abuse standoff, with Lady Gaga dragged into the mess as a potential witness in at least two civil suits. Hope she likes depositions :( The legal battle began in October when Kesha sued Dr. Luke, alleging the star producer had been verbally, physically, and sexually abusive to her for almost a decade. Kesha Says Star Producer Dr. Luke Sexually, Physically Abused Her The music producer Dr. Luke—pictured above second from right—has been the engine behind inescapable … Dr. Luke promptly countersued, alleging defamation and breach of contract. Last week, Lady Gaga confessed on Howard Stern's show that she had been raped by a producer when she was a teenager. The same day, Kesha's lawyer, Mark Geragos, posted a series of tweets identifying Dr. Luke as Gaga's abuser. He also told reporters he intended to subpoena and depose Lady Gaga as part of Kesha's lawsuit. Lady Gaga Claims She Was Raped By a Record Producer As a Teen In an interview on the Howard Stern Show today, Lady Gaga claims to have been raped by a record… This week, Dr. Luke sued Geragos in a defamation suit. It's also the second lawsuit between the parties that would potentially require Gaga to testify. Luke's seeking unspecified damages for Geragos' tweets, which included the hashtag "#namethepervert." But it's not bad news for everyone—someone's logging a ton of billable hours, and right before bonuses!!! [images via AP]

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The student must be a resident of the State of North Carolina at the time application is made to qualify to attend a North Carolina public charter school. County boundaries or school attendance areas do not affect the student's eligibility to attend Torchlight Academy. Torchlight Academy does not limit Admission to students on the basis of intellectual ability, measures of achievement or aptitude, athletic ability, disability, race, creed, gender, national origin, religion, or ancestry. Torchlight Academy is authorized to give enrollment priority to certain students as provided by North Carolina General Statutes. The enrollment priorities recognized by Torchlight Academy at this time include the following: In the first year of operation only, children of the initial members of the charter school's board of directors and children of the schools full-time employees not to exceed 15% of student enrollment. After the first year of operation, children of the schools full-time employees not to exceed 15% of student enrollment. Siblings of currently enrolled students who are admitted to the charter school in a previous year and siblings of students who have completed the highest grade level offered by the school who were enrolled in at least four grade levels offered by the charter school. A student who was enrolled in the charter school within the two previous years but left the school to participate in an academic study abroad program or a competitive admission residential program or because of vocational opportunities of the student's parents. These priorities are followed in order and are provided only when space is available for the students in question. During each period of enrollment, Torchlight Academy shall accept applications for new students. Once admitted, students are not required to enroll in subsequent enrollment periods. 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You are here: Home » News » Happy Anniversary : BRL Turns 14 Years Old Today! ©2005-2019 Blue Ridge Life Magazine : Above top it was just Tommy & Yvette Stafford as they prepared to launch our charter publication, Nelson County Life that eventually became Blue Ridge Life Magazine some years later. Above bottom, the BRL crew grew to now include Junior Publishers Peyton & Adam. We started as a mom & pop operation and have remained a that same locally owned publication to this day. The year was 2005. The date, April 1st. That's when it all started. Nelson County Life Magazine was our charter publication that eventually expanded into Blue Ridge Life, and these days covers the Central VA Blue Ridge area. We've been copied. Imitated, and on and on. We haven't changed. It's still just us. Mom and pop. Yvette and I started this magazine as a family operation a dozen years ago today. Fast forward to 2017 it's still a family operation joined now by our son Adam in 2008 and daughter Peyton in 2010. We still live, work and play right here in the Blue Ridge, based in Nelson County. Click on our Facebook album above to see more photos from the year it all began! We couldn't have made any of this possible without your support. The readers. And we definitely couldn't have done it without the support of our advertisers. Many of them that started on day one are still with us 14 years later to this very day. We thank you greatly for your continued confidence and friendship. Lots has changed in this past 14 years. We haven't. Though we've updated with the times like ou new fancy smartphone app for Iphone or Android, we're the same people you got to know way back then. We love you all and look forward to the next 14!

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Chinese New Year around the world 12 January 2017 By db_staff The dbHK team have rounded up some of the most popular food and drink pairings around the world in celebration of the upcoming Year of the Rooster. In about two weeks' time, cities from Hong Kong to Ho Chi Minh to London to Sydney will revel in a food-coma-guaranteed feasting of steaming dumplings, dim sum, Pun Choi and Yusheng for Chinese New Year. Celebrations in different cities are marked with a wide variety of food and beverage choices: Koreans love rice cake soup; the Vietnamese, Banh Chung and we've rounded up the most typical food and drinks enjoyed during lunar new year celebrations around the world. Click through the slides to discover Chinese New Year food and drink pairings. Pun Choi, a smorgasbord of seafood and meat Hong Kong's most eagerly anticipated holiday usually involves three or four days off work and lengthy, raucous family gatherings involving mountains of food. Various dishes include: pun choi, a hodgepodge of abalone, dried mushroom, prawns and chicken; turnip cake and neen go, a sweet snack made from glutinous rice flour and brown sugar. Neen go has the same pronunciation as 'year' and high' and so it signifies success for adults and growth for children in the coming year. Alcohol is not traditionally consumed at Chinese New Year but most Hong Kong families have now cottoned onto the idea and plump for a light, fruity red such as Beaujolais, or some of the older generation might have a nip of Cognac. Soho's Chinatown lights up over Chinese New Year and many Londoners cram into the narrow, winding streets in pursuit of hotpot and good dim sum. Much-loved dim sum options include steamed har gow (shrimp dumplings); cha siu bao, a white fluffy steamed bun with barbecued pork filling and cheong fun, rice noodle rolls. Best consumed on a weekend when diners can happily while away the hours, dim sum is generally teamed with yum cha, traditional Chinese tea. Approach with caution: the famously fiery bul dak from Korea Sydney's sizeable Chinese population will flock to Chinatown to indulge in a riot of dishes influenced by a blend of different cuisines such as Korean, Chinese and Vietnamese. As it's Year of the Red Fire Rooster, a sensible choice would be to tuck into a hearty dish of bul dak – a Korean dish which literally translates to 'fire chicken'. Unsurprisingly red in colour and famously hot, we're sure that it'll be the most auspicious way to kick off the new year and this being Australia, a refreshing beer will surely help take away the heat. Osechi ryori (Photo credit: Savvy Tokyo) The ultimate new year food for Japanese is osechi ryōri, a collection of traditional Japanese food usually prepared in bento boxes and can go a long way with various crisp and savoury white wines, due to the dominant seafood ingredients. Osechi ryōri is pre-cooked in soy sauce and eaten cold over the first three days of the new year and while many variations exist, each item put into the set should symbolise a particular wish – herring roe, for instance, is believed to represent fertility and shrimp for longevity. An aromatic Alsace Pinot Gris or Mosel Riesling would match nicely with shrimp, fish and vegetables but the really authentic and Japanese way of celebrating Chinese New Year would surely be sake. From 28 January, the Vietnamese will all be in a festive mood celebrating what the locals call Tet, the lunar new year and it wouldn't be a new year celebration without banh chung, a square-shaped rice cake made from glutinous rice, mung bean and pork. Wrapped in green banana leaves, the cake is a timeless favourite among adults and children and can be enjoyed with a dab of fish sauce or pickled scallions and can also be fried. Most Vietnamese are not privy to drinking during meals, but beer is always the exception with Bia Hanoi and Saigon Green being popular brands. Tossing every ingredient in Yusheng is said to bring prosperity Similar to Chinese New Year celebrations in Hong Kong, dumplings, sweet rice cakes and yusheng – raw fish salad mixed with finely sliced vegetables – are staples found on Chinese Malaysians' new year dinner tables. Eating yusheng starts with every diner on the table tossing every ingredient together – known as lao qi – to symblise rising prosperity in the coming year. A fresh and fruity Sauvignon Blanc or an elegant Chablis can nicely balance off the sweet and sour taste in yusheng but as far as new year celebration drinks go, high-alcohol level liquor, beer and wines are all in the mix. Photo credit: Korea Times Korea's lunar new year, Solnal, is greeted with a bowl of steamy and hearty rice cake soup, known as tteokguk. Eating a bowl of the soup is believed to symbolise growing a year older and health and longevity. Cooked in thick broth, the soup is rich and clear and is often served with garnishes such as thinly sliced cooked eggs, seaweed, scallions and beef. The go-to drinking choices for new year celebration are sikhye, a sweet fermented rice beverage and a sweet fruit punch called sujeonggwa, which is made with persimmon, cinnamon and ginger. Dubbed as the largest Chinatown outside of Asia, folks at San Francisco's Chinatown surely know how to crank up the new year celebrations. Its annual parade will be chock-full of floats, elaborate costumes, raucous street vendors and – last but not least – the traditional Chinese dragon dance. Hot and steamy dumplings, dim sum, yusheng or even Peking duck are usually the most often-ordered dishes during new year holidays. When it comes to drinking though, Baijiu, China's grain liquor, dominates often accompanied by the ferocious ganbei game that encourages drinkers to guzzle down glasses of Baijiu in one sitting. For more liquor-shy diners, go for wine to toast the new year. Singaporeans love steamboat – a large, communal soup where seafood and meat is generally lobbed in along with spicy stock and vegetables. Other delights include mushrooms with roast pork and fat choy – a moss similar to seaweed – chilli shrimp spring rolls and bakkwa, a Chinese salty-sweet dried meat originating from Fujian Province. With Singapore's hot and humid weather, refreshing white wines would be a good idea such as Moscato d' Asti, Riesling or Lambrusco. fo tiao qiang – so good, even Buddha would jump over a wall to eat it The Taiwanese commemorate ancestors and departed love ones around Chinese New Year and so many dishes are created for worshipping rituals. Mullet roe, mustard greens, daikon cake, and fish are popular choices, as well as fo tiao qiang – meaning 'Buddha jumps over the wall' which is a meat-based consommé and thick stew. Rice wine, Shaoxing wine and Kaoliang (unflavoured Baijiu) are also considered essential at the table.

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Green Left Weekly asked unionists why they are in a union and what unions mean to them. The purpose of the Turnbull government is to clear every obstacle it can to help big business maximise its profits. No environmental protection or social good is too important to be sacrificed for this goal. No surprise then that they are trying to cripple freedom of expression. For them, the more people are ignorant, confused and in fear the better. Take these three assaults on our ability to analyse and criticise their actions. The Port Kembla Coal Terminal (PKCT), south of Wollongong, locked out its 58 permanent employees without pay for five days from January 7. The move is part of the company's ongoing drive to force workers to accept cuts to their wages and conditions. PKCT has been in negotiations with the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) for a new agreement since 2015, when the previous enterprise agreement expired. This month we celebrate the 163rd anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. It is important to celebrate and mark historical anniversaries, especially one such as the Eureka Stockade, whose legacy has played such a pivotal role in the struggles of Australia's working people for a fair, just and democratic society. The Maritime Union of Australia Sydney Branch will be hosting a family fun day on Saturday, 7th April from midday to mark the 20th anniversary of the Patrick dispute. This will be a day for the whole family with food, music, entertainment and kids activities. Let's come together to reflect on our historic victory and show the bosses that the workers united will never be defeated. MUA here to stay!

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Gambling Debate in Russ-Vegas Facebook group Pope County Majority informs county citizens about recent developments of a potential casino in Russellville, AR in the U.S. as of June 2019. The group encourages citizen participation at Pope County Quorum Court meetings to discuss their comments and concerns. National Turmoil Inspires Peace Rally at Lyon College A student united her college campus and community through a Peace Rally on September 29, 2016 in Batesville, Arkansas. Taylor Donnerson felt that the tragic events were dividing the United States so she wanted to set a peaceful atmosphere in the community. Gang Violence in Little Rock '92 In 1992, the murder rate climbed to 76 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The murders primarily sparked from the gang and drug violence in low-income African American communities. As a result, community activists and philanthropists rose to defend the communities. 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In a new study by the well-respected Heritage Foundation, a comparison of Barack Obama's and John McCain's tax plans show that California would create over 144,000 fewer jobs between 2009 and 2018 under Obama's plan. According to the study condcuted by Shanea Watkins, with all other factors being equal, during this time with Barack Obama's plan in effect our state will create 109,320 new jobs. Under John McCain's tax plan, 253,762 new jobs will be created. In other words, while Barack Obama would be busy "spreading the wealth around," under John McCain's plan our state would do far better in creating new wealth and job opportunities for Californians.

A Satisfying Criticism Of "The Scarlet Letter" Massachusetts College Of Liberal Arts, 2018 Essay Paige Hudson Midterm Exam English 349 Draft 1 Professor Mark Miller A Satisfying Criticism of The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is a staple in American literature that is taught in almost every high school English classroom. It is important because it opens a discourse about actions with consequences, sin, and guilt—as well as the trials and troubles of the human heart. The novel is discussed widely throughout the country by scholars, pupils, and critics alike, all of whom have a different perspective on the novels successes and failures, based on varying points of view. Our classroom deliberated six of these perspectives, and some made more sense than others. In my opinion, the most successful reading was done by Michael Ragussis in his deconstructive essay, "Silence, Family Discourse, and Fiction in The Scarlet Letter," and the least successful was Lora Romero's combined perspectives essay, "Homosocial Romance: Nathaniel Hawthorne." I believe these essays' success depended on the reading of the novels rather than the author himself, because the impact a novel has on me hinges on more on content than context. These essays will be rated in order from most successful to least successful, in some form of subjective hierarchy. Ragussis's essay was particularly convincing to me because of the way he considers the story, evaluates the characters, and the reasons they performed the actions they did. Ragussis studied these components very successfully through the lenses of silence and obscurity. The power of deconstruction lies in the relationship between the text of the source and its meaning, and its examination of that which is often overlooked, which was very well conveyed in this essay. Ragussis was the only critic in the group that we read that addresses Hester denying Pearl's existence as her child, as well as the fact that the 'A' could have stood for "Arthur" just as well as it could have stood for "adultery," which gives away the point of the book: the whodunnit question. In fact, he comments that the first two letters of the word "adultery" were Dimmesdale's initials. Ragussis also argues the oedipal relationship between Hester, Dimmesdale and Chillingworth far more successfully than Joanne Feit Diehl in her psychoanalytic essay, because not only did he compare Dimmesdale to Oedipus because he was in love with the mother figure (Hester), but because Dimmesdale was also a knowing "criminal and a hypocrite" (Ragussis, 325). Dimmesdale was compared to a child because of his inability to speak using his own voice—either someone must speak for him (Hester), or he would speak for someone else. The only time he breaks this pattern is when confesses at the end, and even then, he does not confess in a straightforward manner: "But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered! ... It was on him!" (Hawthorne, 195). This use of third person only confirms the... Other Essays On A Satisfying Criticism of "The Scarlet Letter" - Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, 2018 - Essay Liberal idea of liberal candidates - ESL 190 - Essay 527 words - 3 pages Liberal Ideas of a Liberal Candidate The second paragraph in the Declaration of Independence says, "…all men are created equal by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness." To my mind, the liberal philosophy has quite similar values. 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Van Halen, Foo Fighters, Iggy Pop Lead Humorous Tour Rider List . Band's tour riders can be just as much fun as the shows themselves. There have been many infamous tour riders over the years and Gibson posted their 10 favorites. Here are the top 3: 3. Foo Fighters: Foo Fighters riders are notoriously entertaining to read. The band once famously requested a variety of 'stinky cheeses.' They also request Gatorade in 'wacky colors,' and their taste in DVDs is relatively broad - with the exception of no Jamie Kennedy, Martin Lawrence or sports movies. A vegetarian soup of the day is requested because "meaty soups make roadies fart." Moreover, the Foo Fighters rider sums up the importance of the document in maintaining a sense of continuity for the band: "The silly items like gum and candy bars make a difference to these boys that are far from their families and friends." 2. Iggy Pop: For an Iggy And The Stooges tour, requirements included a monitor engineer who is "not afraid of death," as well as instructions from backline/stage manager Jos Grain for camera crews filming the show as unobtrusively as possible: "At a wet festival somewhere I once saw a guitarist being followed all over the stage by a cameraman and sidekick all covered, in bright fluorescent plastic sheeting, including the camera It looked like he was being stalked by a demented pantomime horse! I personally thought it looked absolutely terrible, and I speak as someone who believes that most rock and roll bands would be improved by the introduction of a pantomime horse." Grain goes on to warn that "Iggy adores breaking cameras, so really it's best not to get too close to him. Of course, I will be on hand to try and prevent him from destroying your equipment; unfortunately, there is only one person I can think of who likes to break cameras more than he does, and that's me." 1. Van Halen: By far and away the most legendary concert rider requirement was Van Halen's 1982 request for a bowl of M&Ms with the brown ones removed. Far from a mere flaunting of ego, this was actually a clever trick planted within the rider to raise a red flag if the staging requirements had been ignored by local crew. As David Lee Roth explained in his autobiography Crazy From The Heat, if brown M&Ms were found in the backstage area, it would be a good bet that some important technical aspect of the contract had also been overlooked (although a glance at the actual document casts doubt on Dave's story that the M&M requirement was placed amongst the staging schematics - it was actually within the catering menu between the pretzels and the Reese's Peanut Butter Cups). See who else made the list Gibson.com is an official news provider for the Day in Rock. Preview and Purchase Van Halen CDs Van Halen T-shirts and Posters

Police's Shifting Account of Black Man's Death Raises Questions in Savannah Jameillah Smiley at her home in Savannah, Ga. Her 20-year-old son, Ricky Boyd, was shot and killed by the police just outside the front door. SAVANNAH, Ga. — The official story of Ricky Boyd's fatal encounter with law enforcement officers changed, then changed again. Savannah's interim police chief, Mark Revenew, initially said that Mr. Boyd, a murder suspect, had fired on officers while they were trying to arrest him in front of his home in a workaday suburb far from the fountains and oak-shaded squares of the city's historic core. Hours later, the police released a statement that did not mention Mr. Boyd doing any shooting, though it did say that he "confronted officers with a gun." Then the Georgia Bureau of Investigation stated that Mr. Boyd had been armed with a BB pistol. Now the family is insisting that Mr. Boyd, 20, an African-American restaurant worker, was not armed at all. Their lawyer has accused the police of lying, and he claims that a photo taken by a neighbor just after the January shooting shows the BB pistol on the ground, a puzzling 43 feet from where Mr. Boyd fell. On Thursday, Mr. Boyd's mother, Jameillah Smiley, went before the Savannah City Council and asked the city to release a police body-camera video that she says shows that her son was unarmed. State Senator Lester G. Jackson III, the head of Georgia's Legislative Black Caucus, has sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, asking the Justice Department to take over the investigation from local authorities to "help avoid potential bias." And Savannah — the elegant, troubled jewel of the Georgia coast — found itself confronting, yet again, the question of whether its police force can be trusted. The question has dominated the public conversation in many American cities at a time when technology can make the most obscure police encounter combustible. But it comes at a particularly sensitive moment for Savannah — a city of 147,000 people famous for its fine old buildings and Southern charm, but burdened with an outsize violent crime problem, a 25 percent poverty rate, and a police force stained by the 2014 conviction of its former chief, Willie Lovett, on federal extortion, gambling and obstruction charges. Mr. Lovett's well-regarded replacement, Joseph Lumpkin, reinstilled some public confidence in the police force. But Mr. Lumpkin moved to a new job in January, and the city is on a nationwide hunt for a new police chief. Alicia Blakely, an activist with the Savannah chapter of the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, said that if evidence of a cover-up emerges in the Boyd case, "just imagine — if that happened, that means the trust is completely out of the window." Savannah has long been a city starkly divided between rich and poor, black and white. Its growing success as a magnet for tourists, wealthy retirees and film and television productions has thrown its pervasive problems into even sharper relief. Its restaurants are more sophisticated, its airport has expanded to accommodate more visitors — "The numbers are just exploding," Mayor Eddie DeLoach says — and its historic downtown, which once evinced a tatty charm, has been burnished to a high gloss. In recent years, the Savannah metropolitan area has also suffered some of the highest murder rates in the United States. There were 50 homicides in Savannah in 2016; in proportion to its population, that was more than twice the rate of metropolitan Atlanta. The figure fell to 35 last year, which city officials cite as a sign of progress. "We think we've turned the corner," the city manager, Rob Hernandez, said, "and the data is supporting that." Black mistrust of the Savannah police has deep roots — some of them typical for a Deep South city, some of them complicated (Mr. Lovett was the city's first black chief), and some stemming from the late 1980s and early 1990s, when a crack cocaine boss named Ricky Jivens Jr., who was black, led a criminal gang that was linked to about 20 killings before his eventual arrest. Geoffrey A. Alls, 35, a black lawyer who was raised in the city, said that from that point on, the disparate treatment of blacks by the police became even more pronounced. "Bad experiences with police as a black man growing up in Savannah are somewhat of a rite of passage," he said. Ms. Smiley, 36, said that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation showed her and other family members the body-camera video a few days after Mr. Boyd was shot. That day, she said, a state detective told her that her son had been armed, and had "wanted to die." Ms. Smiley said the video shows Mr. Boyd taking a few steps out of his front door, then falling as the officers shoot. But she and others who have seen the video said they could not make out any weapon in Mr. Boyd's hands. "I said, 'This is the crap y'all brought me up here to see?' " Ms. Smiley recalled in a recent interview. Her anger turned to tears. "They didn't have to kill my son," she said. The Chatham County district attorney, Meg Heap, who is white, calls that description of the video "inaccurate," and said that a grand jury will rely on the results of the bureau's investigation to determine whether charges are warranted against the officers. Police and city officials, citing the continuing investigation, declined to comment. Mr. Boyd's family said he had dreamed of joining the Marines — an idea his mother disapproved of — or of becoming a police detective. Records show that he was arrested in November 2016 for fleeing the police after riding in a stolen truck with a friend. At the time, Mr. Boyd told the police he did not know the truck was stolen. So an officer asked him why he ran. "He began explaining how he runs from the police every time the police make a stop on him, because you know something is wrong and that is how he was trained," the officer wrote in a report. Mr. Boyd would soon be caught up in, and dashed by, Savannah's vicious cycles of violence. Officers went to his house on the morning of Jan. 23 to arrest him on suspicion of murdering a 24-year-old man named Balil Whitfield, who had been found shot and bleeding in the front seat of a Hyundai Accent two days before. Violence struck even at Mr. Boyd's funeral, when his 12-year-old cousin, John Cooksey Jr., was fatally shot. Mr. Boyd's family has theories about the motive for this slaying, but did not wish to share them publicly. A 15-year-old was eventually arrested in connection with that killing. Mr. Boyd's family, meanwhile, has hired a local civil rights lawyer, William R. Claiborne, 40, a white Atlanta native who has emerged as a chief critic of Savannah's law enforcement culture. There are good officers on the force, Mr. Claiborne said, but over all, he believes the department has not fully reformed or scrubbed its ranks of bad actors. "Ethical and honest policing protects everyone," he said. "We haven't had that historically, and I don't think we have that now." In 2016, Mr. Claiborne won a settlement from the city over a case in which a white officer used a stun gun on a black man whom the police had misidentified while executing a warrant. In another stun-gun case, Mr. Claiborne and other lawyers are representing the family of Matthew Ajibade, a mentally ill black man who died after a violent confrontation with Chatham County sheriff's deputies at a local jail. Their lawsuit in federal court alleges that Mr. Ajibade, 21, was shocked four times with the device while strapped to a restraint chair, and then was denied medical attention. Mr. Claiborne has also filed a state civil racketeering lawsuit that names Mr. Lovett and others and alleges a "takeover" of the police department by corrupt officers who controlled a drug distribution network. (The suit was filed before the department split into separate city and county departments earlier this year.) The suit describes a continuum of corruption, arguing that the network included members of a police-controlled cocaine smuggling ring who had evaded punishment during a 1990s-era federal probe that led to the arrest of 11 officers. Earlier this month, Mr. Claiborne released a video on behalf of Mr. Boyd's family in which he introduces the neighbor's photo. It appears to show a pistol lying on the ground near a pine tree, more than 40 feet from the front door. Mr. Claiborne believes it is the same BB pistol shown in photos released by the state bureau of investigation. Mr. Claiborne said the family members who watched the police body-camera video did not see Mr. Boyd make any throwing motion before he was shot. "So how does the gun that he supposedly had move from A to B?" he said. Ms. Smiley said that a Savannah detective has told her that the police do not believe her son killed Balil Whitfield. Mr. Claiborne said he is frustrated that after three months, the authorities have released the name of only one officer involved in the raid — a sergeant who was shot that morning, apparently by friendly fire. Mr. DeLoach, the mayor, is a white conservative who defeated a black incumbent in 2015 with a campaign focused squarely on fighting crime. In an interview, he praised the Police Department's progress, noting that its staffing is now above full strength after being short more than 100 officers a few years ago. Other city officials pointed out that the department has overhauled its internal affairs division, parted ways with problem officers and raised its success rate in solving homicides to 80 percent in 2017, from 54 percent in 2015 — evidence, they say, that public trust is on the rise. But skepticism lingers about the Boyd shooting. Lloyd A. Johnson, a former Maryland prosecutor and president of a local youth support group, is among the black Savannah residents who want the police to release the video that Mr. Boyd's family was shown. "If they feel they didn't show excessive force, then let's look at the tape," he said. At the council meeting, a tearful Ms. Smiley asked the members to say whether they supported releasing the video. But the city attorney advised them not to speak, and said that the district attorney had said that the video would not be released while it was under investigation by the grand jury. "And ma'am," the mayor said at one point. "We are truly sorry." 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Soros/CIA Plan to Destabilize Europe October 4, 2015 Richard Presser Uncategorized No comments Just as the dark forces of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and George Soros's multi-billion dollar network of non-governmental organizations plotted to destabilize the Middle East and North Africa through the use of social media to bring about the so-called "Arab Spring", these same forces have opened a new chapter in their book of global dysfunctionality by facilitating the mass movement of refugees and economic migrants from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa to Europe. In March 2011, Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi predicted what would happen to Europe if the stability of his country was undermined by the Western powers. In an interview with "France 24", Qaddafi correctly predicted, "There are millions of blacks who could come to the Mediterranean to cross to France and Italy, and Libya plays a role in security in the Mediterranean". Where's that Qaddafi character when you need him? Nurse's Aide Awarded $11.6 Million for Being Paralyzed by Mandatory Flu Vaccine Nothing to see here. Move along… Secrets of the Pyramids and the Sphinx (True Age 12,500 years ago) Thank you, Graham, for the reminder of this remarkable video you, Robert Bauval and John Anthony West created 20 years ago (you all look so young!!!), demonstrating that the sphinx, an equinoctial marker, and the pyramids were created some 12,500 years ago, when the constellation of Leo was heliacal rising at the vernal equinox of the northern hemisphere. And now you have Gobekli Tepi confirming humanity was creating advanced astrological markers in that timeframe. May your new book Magicians of the Gods awaken more people to this truth. You have worked so hard for so long to demonstrate this truth to the world. Perth electrical engineer's discovery will change climate change debate A MATHEMATICAL discovery by Perth-based electrical engineer Dr David Evans may change everything about the climate debate, on the eve of the UN climate change conference in Paris next month. A former climate modeller for the Government's Australian Greenhouse Office, with six degrees in applied mathematics, Dr Evans has unpacked the architecture of the basic climate model which underpins all climate science. He has found that, while the underlying physics of the model is correct, it had been applied incorrectly. He has fixed two errors and the new corrected model finds the climate's sensitivity to carbon dioxide (CO2) is much lower than was thought. Of course, this will not change anything. Those driving the climate nonsense through the IPCC have never let the facts interfere with a good story and they're not going to change, with The 2030 Agenda about to be rolled out and with every major country stitched in before the end of the year. No wiggle room like Kyoto. The thing that surprises me about this article is it's in Murdoch's press. Could cost someone their job. Mind you, the evidence is that not one of the current "official" climate models is even close to reality, but that isn't getting in their road, either. It's all a stepping stone to transforming the world we live in, as they return the declining global population to serfdom. Doctors against vaccines – These physicians actually did the research This article is self-explanatory. Mind you, I doubt most of my Aussie friends and family who receive this post will read this or want to read this, since their kind government and the well informed (by Big Pharma and their agents, of course) medical profession is carefully protecting them all through compulsory vaccination these days. How dare these doctors who've done their homework and whose practical experience points to the risks suggest otherwise? But Aussies are safe, thank goodness. The government's got their back, so they can ignore this, yet further piece of evidence of the Big Pharma lies. How could I possibly suggest their agenda is anything but the best health outcomes for the public? Just ridiculous and so thoughtless. Just go back to sleep and ignore this inconsiderate disruption. Relates to my last post. What it means to be spiritual Than you, Sean, for this quote. There are many elements to walking a truly spiritual path, but this quote is certainly an important part of it. It also includes being willing to have your beliefs challenged by the evidence. It is my experience that when beliefs are powerful enough, regardless of who you are, you will simply avoid the evidence that will threaten your strongly held beliefs, and often seek out "evidence" to reinforce or defend your beliefs. You cannot be truly authentic if you are not willing to expose your strongly held beliefs to contrary evidence. This takes courage and a willingness to be shown that you have misunderstood or been misled, in whatever manner. Indeed, no belief is worthy of NOT exposing it to an alternative explanation. But few are willing, including most reading this. Unless you have built a true inner sense of who and what you are, when your beliefs are seriously challenged, you feel as if who and what you are is being challenged or even destroyed. Those who run religions or use propaganda rely on this, and it works like a charm. We are NOT our beliefs, but that is a truth that few are truly willing to embrace. When you are conscious and aware, you can hold your beliefs up to the light and be willing to re-evaluate them in the light of the evidence. It is rare to find people truly willing to do this, in my experience. There is a fundamental drive within all of us to believe in our own "rightness". The mistake we make is that, because most of us have not built a true sense of who and what we are, we unconsciously take on that our beliefs are a fundamental part of that "rightness", when they are not. To return to the above quote, when we become truly conscious and aware, our beliefs are like the clothes we wear , and whilst they are useful, we are able to discard them when the weather changes or they wear out. Most people never learn this in our current world. If you don't learn this and apply it rigorously in your life, you can never be free. Russia threatens to shoot down Israeli jets over Syria An interesting article, translated from the French original: EXCLUSIVE-Strategika 51: Six Russian fighter jets type Multirole Sukhoi SU – 30 SM have intercepted 4 Israeli McDonnell Douglas F-15's fighter bombers attempting to infiltrate the Syrian coast. The Israeli F 15 warplanes have been flying over Syrian airspace for months and in particular the coast of Latakia, which is now the bridgehead of the Russian forces in Syria. The Israeli jets would generally follow a fairly complex flight plan and approach Latakia from the sea. On the night of 1 October 02, 2015, six Sukhoi SU-30 Russian SM fighters took off from the Syrian Hmimim airbase in the direction of Cyprus, before changing course and intercepting the four Israeli F-15 fighters off the coast of Syria, that were flying in attack formation. Surprised by a situation as unexpected and probably not prepared for a dogfight with one of the best Russian multipurpose fighters, Israeli pilots have quickly turned back South at high speed over the Lebanon. The Lebanese army has officially announced at 2313 Z (local time) that four "enemy aircraft" (Israeli) had crossed the airspace of the Lebanon. This 'incident' between the Russian and Israeli combat aircraft struck with amazement the command of the Israeli air force, which has estimated that a possible dogfight between F-15 Israelis and the Russian Su-30 would have led to the destruction of the four aircraft Israelis. You can read the rest here.

MATTHEWS: Sending mixed messages on gatherings, social distancing is a really bad look for state officials June 10, 2020 Stacey Matthews Article, Opinion N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Mandy Cohen briefs media at the Emergency Operations Center. Photo via NC Dept. of Public Safety At its highest point, there were crowd estimates of between 6,000 and 15,000 in one day for the protest marches in Charlotte that took place last week in the aftermath of the death of North Carolina native George Floyd. Floyd died in police custody on May 25 after Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin had his knee on Floyd's neck for nearly 9 minutes, according to the criminal complaint. For nearly three of those minutes, Floyd became unresponsive. Floyd's death provoked understandable outrage across the country from people of all colors and political persuasions. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper (D) even got in on the marching at one point, walking outside the Executive Mansion in Raleigh along with protesters. His protective mask was pulled well away from his face as he smiled for the cameras and commiserated with marchers in a group of more than 25 people, some of whom were standing less than 6 feet away from him. Under Phase 2 of the governor's reopening plan, outdoor gatherings are limited to no more than 25 people. There are First Amendment exceptions to that, which protests like we saw last week clearly would fall under. But even with those allowances, it states plainly in the Phase 2 FAQ that protesters are "strongly encouraged to follow the Three Ws, and should avoid congregating in groups." The "three Ws" are wearing a face mask, "waiting" 6 feet apart (social distancing) and washing hands frequently. Masks are being worn at protests to varying degrees but the social distancing guidelines are most definitely not being observed. While state officials have mildly expressed "concern" about the possibility that we could see a coronavirus outbreak from these protests, it's a far cry from how Reopen protesters were treated in late April and early May when they marched in support of reopening the state so people could get back to work to support their families. State officials like Cooper and NCDHHS Secretary Mandy Cohen treated the Reopen marchers as though they were a dangerous public health threat, and irresponsible with what they were advocating. Some Reopen marchers were arrested, too — for disobeying Cooper's executive order, which called for social distancing in group settings. Pro-life counselors in Charlotte were also arrested outside of abortion clinics — for failure to social distance and for gathering in an outdoor setting in a group of more than 10, which was the outdoor gathering limit at the time. Now, it's suddenly "legal" to march again in North Carolina, and to do so in close quarters. Marchers can hold hands, share a bullhorn, form close prayer circles, embrace each other, and even stand inches (not 6 feet) away from a police officer in defiance. Apparently, there are no longer serious concerns about the spread of the virus. State health officials say they are prepared to handle an outbreak should one come from all the marches over the last week. Judging by the information available on the NCDHHS website in late April, they would have been able to handle an outbreak that came from the much smaller Reopen protests, but that's not how they presented it to the public. People exercising their First Amendment rights at the time were subjected to ridicule and scolding from these same people. The mixed messaging — including Gov. Cooper marching without wearing a mask and standing less than 6 feet away from protesters — is really not a good look. Because of all of these inconsistencies, it will be really hard for a lot of people to trust state officials the next time around. Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym Sister Toldjah and is a regular contributor to RedState and Legal Insurrection. Gov. Roy Cooper NC Supreme Court revives Racial Justice Act in limited cases HILL: The spiritual connection between Americans and property ownership State lawmakers take step toward blocking records provision July 7, 2020 The Associated Press News RALEIGH — The North Carolina General Assembly took a step on Monday toward canceling a provision that addresses the confidentiality of death investigation records. The item has served for days as a rallying cry for […] China didn't warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days April 15, 2020 The Associated Press News In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for […] How much further can COVID-19 restrictions go? April 15, 2020 A.P. Dillon Article, News RALEIGH — Dramatic stories and incidents related to COVID-19 stay-at-home orders are popping up all over the country. In Elizabeth, New Jersey, the mayor has deployed drones that have sirens and an automated message telling […]

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The 2022 Nissan Maxima: We See Exciting Times Ahead May 31st, 2022 by Fabian Mayers Share this Post: Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The New Nissan Maxima isn't just a regular car offering luxury and comfort. With its advanced safety features, it's also perfect for active lifestyles. You can drive it to work in the morning and then switch to a race car at the touch of a button. Feel like a confident driver while you cruise the highway or take a winding road through the mountains, thanks to available intelligent safety features. It's definitely a ride that inspires excitement every time you hit the road. A Class of Its Own The Maxima competes well in the large sedan class, with bold styling and a mostly upscale interior, both improvements from the previous model. It comes with a 300-hp V-6 engine and a responsive CVT that lets you select the transmission mode. It handles well, and the brakes let you safely come to a complete stop in 34 meters from 60 mph. The Maxima SR One of the Maxima trim levels is the Maxima SR, which is more performance-oriented than other models. The SR comes with upgraded features such as a sport-tuned suspension with retuned dampers and larger stabilizer bars. It also comes with 19-inch sport-specific wheels, LED foglights, and several trim-specific upgrades, including an Alcantara steering wheel with paddle shifters, sport pedals, and Sport and Technology packages. Driving Safe Is the Default The Nissan Maxima earned a 2021 Top Safety Pick+ award from the IIHS, while The NHTSA gave the 2022 Maxima a five-star overall safety rating, the highest possible rating for safety. Every 2022 Maxima comes with adaptive cruise control, blind-spot monitoring, front and rear automatic emergency braking, lane departure warning and traffic sign recognition. The Maxima SR and Platinum trims also get lane centring. The 2022 Maxima provides ample space in the interior. Legroom for the first row is at a nice 114.3cm, while the second row also has an ample 86.87cm. Cargo space isn't half bad either, with 14.3 cubic feet of space to fill with whatever you can think of! Maximum Tech The base Nissan Maxima comes equipped with standard automatic headlights with automatic high beams and a 7.0-inch display in the instrument panel, as well as keyless entry, push-button start, heated side mirrors, and a dual-zone climate control system. For the entertainment system, you get to enjoy an eight-inch touchscreen with navigation, Android Auto and Apple Carplay compatibility, and eight speakers. The SR trim adds LED foglights, parking sensors, and side mirrors that tilt down when the car is put in reverse. It also features ventilated front seats and a heated steering wheel, as well as an 11-speaker premium Bose audio system. Other features that come standard on the SR model include a 360-degree camera system, a six-way power-adjustable passenger seat, and active noise cancellation. Take it one step further with the Maxima Platinum, the top of the 2022 Maxima line. With this trim, you get a power tilting and telescoping steering column, heated rear seats, rain-sensing windshield wipers, and a rear power window sunshade. The 2022 Nissan Maxima has a lot to offer you, from its spacious interior to its advanced technology features. It is a safe and reliable ride that provides an exhilarating yet luxurious drive. The SR model is built for performance enthusiasts, and the Platinum model is the best of the best. Choose the model that meets your needs and live your life to the fullest with one of the best rides you can get your hands on! Experience the ride of your life every day with the 2022 Nissan Maxima. Get yours by coming down to your local Nissan Dealership in Unionville. Schedule a test drive today! 0 comment(s) so far on The 2022 Nissan Maxima: We See Exciting Times Ahead Fri - Sat9:00 AM - 6:00 PM

GMP issue warning after driver ignores cones and tries to drive through floods People were quick to call out the driver for their 'stupidity' GMP Trafford North / Facebook GMP has issued a warning to drivers after someone was spotted trying to make their way through flood water. Police urged everyone to adhere to road closures, following the sighting of a vehicle which ignored cones and decided to drive through the water. They released a still from CCTV footage which appears to show the motorist stranded in water. gmpolice / Twitter GMP Trafford North shared a photo of the stranded car on the B5158 'Mile Road' between Carrington and Flixton, taken this morning, Thursday January 21st. It appears to show two figures emerging from the vehicle to wade through the water to dry land after getting caught out. The road was shut today due to flood water from the nearby River Mersey, which rose to dangerously high levels yesterday following torrential rain from Storm Christoph. This meant drivers had to take a longer route, via the M60, if they wanted to travel between Carrington and Flixton. The police took to Facebook to share their warning to motorists who might consider ignoring the closure. They said: "We've received reports of people moving road closure signage and attempting to drive through standing water "Road closures are in place to keep you safe, please observe them and don't end up stranded like this person did." And people were quick to call out the driver for their 'stupidity' when it comes to trying to save time on their journey. Bernadette wrote: "Rescue them and charge them double just stupidity", while Dafydd added: "Let them do it then leave them to rescue themselves. The price for stupidity". Amanda said: "I'd leave them there! I live in Carrington and work 5mins away in Flixton, it didn't take that long to go round". Related Topics:driverflood Woman reveals how to make perfect Wetherspoons cocktail pitchers at home 'Hero' Asda delivery driver goes extra mile to make sure customer gets their order in snowstorm More than 25,000 people sign petition to reinstate female bus driver sacked for being 'too short' BMW drivers are most likely to be psychopaths, new survey says 'Hero' taxi driver who survived Liverpool terror attack releases first official update Wife of 'hero' taxi driver David Perry releases update on her husband Hero taxi driver 'locked bomber in car' moments before Liverpool hospital explosion Tesco offers lorry drivers £1,000 joining bonus amid HGV crisis The RSPCA is looking for people to cuddle rabbits and cats here in Manchester The dream job! RSPCA Manchester & Salford Branch / Facebook The RSPCA is on the lookout for kindhearted Mancunians to help with the care of their cats and rabbits across Greater Manchester. If you dream of cuddling and caring for vulnerable animals while they wait for their forever homes, this could be the opportunity for you as several volunteer roles have become available at the Manchester and Salford branches of the RSPCA. In 2021, the teams had a total of 624 animals admitted into their care, and saw 503 of these animals rehomed – 259 cats, 117 rabbits, and 127 'smalls'. However, the Eccles Road-based RSPCA centre is required to raise all of its own funds to operate, so relies heavily on the help of volunteers in order to keep things running smoothly. Volunteers are responsible for jobs such as cleaning the enclosures and spending quality time with the rescued animals in order to socialise them ahead of their adoptions. And now, the branch has posted an advertisement for these positions, which reads: "Join our wonderful team of volunteers at our small animal centre in Salford. "We are looking for folks who can commit to a weekly slot (a couple of roles are available fortnightly) for at least the next three months, and this is because a lot of time is taken training volunteers and so temporary placements are not manageable for us." For insurance reasons, RSPCA Manchester & Salford says it is looking for volunteers who are over eighteen years of age, and said that any applicant who has cats, dogs, rabbits or ferrets in their home must be up to date with their vaccinations. The roles on offer are as follows: Cattery Cleaning: 8:30am/9am start on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, either weekly or fortnightly. Small Animal Room Cleaning: Start between 8:30am – 10am on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. Cat Socialising: Anytime from 1pm until 4pm on Mondays – Fridays. Rabbit Socialising: Anytime from 12:30pm until 4pm, seven days a week. If you think you're up to joining the volunteer team at RSPCA Manchester & Salford and have plenty of cuddles to give, then you can email [email protected] for more information. Visit the RSPCA website for more information. Morrisons has become the latest retailer to announce the controversial policy Jim Barton / Geograph & @morrisons / Instagram Morrisons has confirmed it has cut sick pay for unvaccinated staff members who have to self-isolate after being exposed to Covid. Following Ikea's decision to lower the sick pay rate for unvaccinated staff members last week, the supermarket chain has made a similar announcement as their staff absences continue to rise. Much like those employed by the Swedish furniture retailer, unjabbed Morrisons workers – who usually get paid at least £10 an hour – will now get statutory sick pay of £96.35 a week if they are told to isolate but test negative. @morrisons / Instagram Covid-positive staff will get full sick pay regardless of vaccination status, however. According to The Guardian, Morrisons executive Dave Potts first mentioned the policy in a conference call with investors in September 2021 as part of a plan to tackle the 'biblical costs' of dealing with the Covid pandemic. Potts said Morrison's had been on the 'front foot' in helping workers stay safe during the pandemic, saying: "We are normalising some of those policies." The newspaper reported that this move was the supermarket's way of encouraging their staff to take the vaccine. The requirement for fully-vaccinated people to isolate when exposed to Covid was dropped in England in August, meaning unvaccinated workers were more likely to take time off than their vaccinated colleagues as a Covid contact. And just one week ago, the health secretary announced that the Covid isolation period had been reduced from seven days to five. Sajid Javid revealed the move in a Commons statement to MPs last week, citing data from the UK Health Security Agency and saying: "Two-thirds of positive cases are no longer infectious by the end of day five." This means people will be able to leave isolation if they test negative on days five and six regardless of vaccination status. The tea has been praised by a number of sleep-deprived Aldi customers Debbie Blayney / Facebook Insomniacs, rejoice; Aldi customers have been hailing one of the supermarket's teas as 'better than sleeping pills'. And, better yet, a box of the tea itself costs just 69p for twenty teabags. Aldi's Diplomat Night Time tea was brought to the attention of fans of the budget supermarket in the Aldi UK Shoppers Facebook group courtesy of a shopper called Debbie. Debbie shared a photo of the tea, which is passionfruit flower, camomile and apple flavoured, and revealed that she was trying it for the first time 'to see if it works'. Debbie's post was inundated with comments from other satisfied customers, with one writing: "I tried for the first time last night and slept so well!! "It could of [sic] been the 16,000 steps I did as well and my lavender pillow mist spray or just being knackered. It tasted lovely and would highly recommend it." Another even said the tea helped with their anxiety, writing: "I've been taking the sleep one since 2 days ago and honestly it works better than sleeping pills and also works on my anxiety levels so I drink a cup here and then during the day…. And the taste is lovely too!!" Sadly, Debbie didn't quite get the experience she was hoping for with the tea, saying in a follow up post that while it made her feel more relaxed, it made her 'want to wee twice'. Another person agreed that while the tea tastes lovely, it didn't have the desired knock-out effect they'd hoped for, writing: "Soooo tired this morning. But I will give it the benefit of doubt and stick with it! "I will either be a walking zombie by next weekend or I will be full of beans! Time will tell! On a plus note, it tastes lovely!" Visit the Aldi website for more information on the tea. Every Covid restriction including self-isolation 'to end in March'

Championship side Bournemouth are reportedly looking at Callum Wilson as Lewis Grabban's replacement as he heads towards a move to Cardiff City. Recently relegated Cardiff last week triggered a release clause in Grabban's contract and The Cherries are acting quickly to bring in his replacement. Wilson, 22, who only signed a new two-year contract with The Sky Blues in October, scored 21 goals in League One in 2013/2014 and was named in the League One Team of the Year. Both Wilson, and City manager Steven Pressley have spoken publicly about how they expect Wilson to be in a City shirt next season but it's unclear with Financial Fair Play rules how tempted the club would be to cash in on it's prized asset if Bournemouth tabled a significant bid. If Wilson was to leave, it would leave Pressley without both of his main striker from last season, with Leon Clarke having jumped ship to Wolves in January after forming a deadly partnership with Wilson. « Jack Finch signs first professional contract.

The retreat for Nia Brown Belts began when I (Helen) was preparing to lead my first solo Brown Belt at Soma Ranch. I invited some brown belt friends to accompany me on a "test drive" into an experience to unknown territory. The experience was a hit, and has now evolved into an annual event. Once a year we offer a 7 day retreat especially for Nia Brown and Black belts. It's a wonderful week of balance between teaching and taking classes, weaved with individualized coaching from Helen to help upper level Nia belt teachers boost themselves to their next level AND have a great time. We're super excited and TICKLED to realize this is the 4th year to offer a coaching retreat for Brown Belts! First year was Team AWSM, then Team Bold, then Team Compassion. This year will be something with D... any suggestions? Teresa D'Angelo As part of Team Awesome, I gained more ease in my body and teaching after this Retreat. No doubt, Helen has super powers and talent for coaching. 🙅🏻‍♀️Creating new friendships and bonds with other attendees was a very special gift. ❤️. Highly recommend! Maria Whitley And I third Lori Lynn and Teresa- being part of Team Awesome was transformational and as Ray Wooten commented at out Black Belt "tee'd us up" perfectly! With 2 places left Brown and Black belt Nia teachers are invited to dive in. Every year this experience is Feb 1 -7, feel free to mark your calendar for 2019!

One man's battle to save a Perth Amboy shul PERTH AMBOY – Hershel Chomsky is holding onto tradition with both hands. The Perth Amboy man prays alone in the all-... One man's battle to save a Perth Amboy shul PERTH AMBOY – Hershel Chomsky is holding onto tradition with both hands. The Perth Amboy man prays alone in the all-... Check out this story on mycentraljersey.com: http://mycj.co/1njrsmO Cheryl Makin, @CherylMakin Published 12:00 a.m. ET April 13, 2014 | Updated 12:07 a.m. ET April 13, 2014 Members of Congregation Shaarey Tifiloh in its heyday with one of the Torah scrolls, now reported missing from the sanctuary. (Photo: Courtesy of The Committee To Save Shaarey Tifiloh ) PERTH AMBOY – Hershel Chomsky is holding onto tradition with both hands. The Perth Amboy man prays alone in the all-but-closed Congregation Shaarey Tefiloh on Market Street as he continues to challenge the building's sale by the congregation board. On April 5, Chomsky discovered that six Torahs, including one from the Holocaust, were missing from the 110-year-old Orthodox synagogue. Shaarey Tefiloh was founded as an Orthodox synagogue in 1903. It had a thriving congregation in its heyday, with more than 1,000 people cramming into the sanctuary on the High Holy Days during the 1950s. That structure was destroyed in a fire in 1975, after which the current building on Market Street was built. As the city's demographics shifted over the years, the congregation slowly dwindled. Regular minyanim (traditionally, a group of 10 men required for prayer) continued until a few years ago. In 2010, in light of the drastic decline in membership, the congregation board voted to sell the synagogue to Science of Spirituality, an organization that follows leader Sant Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj and is committed to a spiritual way of life based on meditation and service to others. Chomsky opposed the move and took the matter to court. Throughout the trials and appeals, Chomsky continued to tend to the synagogue, materially and spiritually, the committee's letter said. In a letter from the Beth Din of Elizabeth (the local religious court that governs Jewish people and organizations), the members of the board that voted to sell the synagogue and continue a secular court battle were chastised and sanctioned. "Unfortunately, you have chosen to disregard the requirements of Jewish Law, and have refused to have the matter in dispute — the sale of Shaarey Tefiloh synagogue — resolved by this or any other beth din, but have continued your action in secular court," Rabbi Elazar M. Teitz wrote in a letter dated Dec. 21. 2011. "As a result, we herewith issue a seiruv (writ of refusal) against you." That "seiruv" renders the men disqualified, under the synagogue's constitution, from serving as officers of the synagogue. Further, the Beth Din letter noted that the constitution of Shaarey Tefiloh calls "for all its matters to be conducted in accordance with Orthodox Jewish Law." That stipulates that the matter should have been reviewed by a Beth Din and not a secular court, Teitz said. "No one has the authority to take any steps toward the sale of the synagogue," the rabbi said in the letter. In July, 2013, a state Appellate Court panel ruled that Congregation Shaarey Tefiloh didn't violate its bylaws by selling its Perth Amboy building to the international spirituality and meditation group. The $925,000 garnered in the sale was intended to maintain upkeep on the synagogues' three cemeteries. The sale was challenged by Chomsky and his sister, Zephyr Chomsky of Edison, and Dr. Alan Goldsmith. The Chomskys are the children of Rabbi Aaron Chomsky, who served as religious leader at the synagogue from 1983 to 1992. Goldsmith grew up in Perth Amboy and is founder and president of the Jewish Renaissance Medical Center there. In response, the three members who tried to block the sale took the case to the state Supreme Court and asked for certification, said attorney Larry Loigman of Middletown. While the Supreme Court did not grant certification, Loigman said, Chomsky filed another suit in trial court. "We have been heard several times but have not been granted relief," Loigman said. Loigman said he expects a decision in that case shortly and will appeal if necessary. "We are continuing on religious grounds that this is the right thing to do and we will continue to do so," he said. "We are also proceeding with further action before the Beth Din, a religious tribunal, to ask that additional sanctions be imposed for that proceeding." The Police Department investigated the case and located the missing Torahs. "The Torahs had been moved by one of the parties involved with the legal proceedings," said Police Chief Benjamin Ruiz. "All parties involved have now been notified of the new location. It continues to be a legal issue at this point." "I am shocked and heartbroken that someone would remove the Sifrei Torah from the sanctuary," Chomsky said. Staff Writer Cheryl Makin: 732-565-7256; [email protected] Read or Share this story: http://mycj.co/1njrsmO Franklin cop pleads guilty to heroin possession Old Bridge community mourns Sarah Aziz and Krystal Diaz at services Raccoon allegedly set on fire in Plainfield Lyndsay Ruotolo named acting Union County Prosecutor Woman, 29, critically injured in Linden crash Woman, 62, found dead on street bench in New Brunswick

Wisconsin Theater Game Center Workshops in Chicago, Los Angeles & New York Story Theater Sills/Spolin Theater Works Workshops in Los Angeles, Chicago & The Bay Area Explore the improvisational acting method of Viola Spolin to enhance your training as an actor, improviser, educator, writer, or director. Named "one of the most prominent acting techniques" by Backstage, Viola Spolin's Theater Games release the intuition through focus, spontaneity, and play, opening up new avenues of expression and communication in your work and in your daily life. FALL 2018 WORKSHOPS: Chicago Weekend Intensive Oct 27 & 28 — wait list only Los Angeles Weekend Intensive Nov 10 & 11 No Expectations Improvisation: Theater Games to Inspire Mindfulness and Communication, Saturday Dec 1 in LA Bay Area Intensive January 12 & 13, 2019 Viola Spolin's Theater Games launched the American improvisational theater movement and changed the way acting is taught. Her work has influenced generations of actors and educators. In the workshops with sidecoach Aretha Sills, we'll explore the groundbreaking exercises and theatrical concepts found in her seminal book Improvisation for the Theater, with an emphasis on the philosophies of legendary improvisation innovators Viola Spolin and Paul Sills, and on applying Spolin's meditative methods to your work in any artistic discipline. Weekend Intensive in Chicago October 27 & 28 — wait list only Designed to introduce the key principles of Spolin's revolutionary acting, directing, and teaching methods in two days, the weekend intensive will help players be more fully present onstage and off. Beginners and experienced players are welcome. We'll meet: Saturday and Sunday, Oct 27 & 28, 2018, from 10am to 4pm, with an hour lunch break at 1pm. Location: Foxhole Creative, 2444 W Montrose Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60618 Tuition: $265. A few sliding-scale spots are available. Payment plans ok. Tuition is refundable minus $50 deposit if you cancel by Sept 27. Registration: Email with questions if needed, then please fill out the registration form found here for a spot on the wait list. I will reply to confirm. Los Angeles Weekend Intensive November 10 & 11 (North Hollywood Location) We'll meet: Saturday and Sunday, November 10 & 11, 2018, from 11am to 5pm, with an hour lunch break at 2pm. Location: New Musicals Inc., 5628 Vineland Avenue, North Hollywood, CA 91601 Tuition: $265. A few sliding-scale spots are available. Payment plans ok. Tuition is refundable minus $50 deposit if you cancel by Oct 10. Registration: Email with questions if needed, then please fill out the registration form found here. I will reply with payment instructions. Enter the holiday season refreshed and inspired! In this three-hour workshop, we'll explore the theater games and exercises that inspire theatrical improvisers to get out of the head and into the present time, but without any expectation of performing or being "on." Our goal is to experience the many benefits of spontaneity and group play, with no pressure to create scenes or act. We'll play a combination of meditative warm ups, sensory-awareness exercises, and traditional children's games to release the intuition and open up new avenues of personal expression and communication. No experience needed, just a willingness to play! We'll meet: Saturday, Dec 1st, from 2 to 5pm Location: Subud L.A., 5828 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 Tuition: $60. for new players, $50 for returning players. A few sliding-scale spots are still available. Tuition is refundable minus a $10 registration fee if you cancel by Nov 1. Registration: Email with questions if needed, then please fill out the registration form found here. I will reply with payment info. Bay Area Spolin Improvisation Intensive Jan 12 & 13, 2019 Designed to introduce the key principles of Viola Spolin's revolutionary acting, directing, and teaching methods in two days, the weekend intensive will help players be more fully present onstage and off. Beginners and experienced players are welcome. We'll meet: Saturday and Sunday, Jan 12 & 13, from 11am to 5pm each day, with an hour break for lunch at 2pm. Location: Shotgun Studios, 1201 University Ave, Studio B, Berkeley, CA 94702 Tuition: $250. A few sliding-scale spots are available. Payment plans ok. Tuition is refundable minus a $50 registration fee if you cancel by Dec 12. Aretha Sills is the granddaughter of Viola Spolin. She studied theater games for many years with her father, director Paul Sills (creator/director of The Second City and Story Theater), and has conducted workshops for Paul Sills' Wisconsin Theater Game Center, Bard College, Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Stockholm International School, Sarah Lawrence College, and Northwestern University. She has worked with Tony- and Emmy-Award winning actors and has trained faculty from Northwestern, DePaul, Columbia College, The Second City, The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science, LAUSD, CETA, and many other institutions and schools. She is the Associate Director of Sills/Spolin Theater Works and she directs The Predicament Players. To be notified about upcoming workshops, or to inquire about private coaching or workshops for your school or group, please email. Quotes about the workshop: "Aretha is dedicated to preserving the pureness of this technique, which from my point of view assists the actor to find the courage to find themself and then to fly. I believe she has, innately and amazingly, all the elements of the technique of both Viola Spolin and Viola's son, the extraordinary director, Paul Sills. I have studied with Aretha, and believe me, the thrill lives on." – Paul Sand, Tony Award winner, Paul Sills' Story Theater; Original Second City cast member "Aretha Sills, carrying on the work of Spolin and Sills, is an amazing, insightful side-coach and teacher. We were fortunate enough to take a workshop in L.A. with her and it helped us reconnect with theater game work on a deeper level. She knows her stuff. Can't wait to work with her again!" – Deb Lacusta & Dan Castellaneta, The Simpsons, actor & writers "As an educator and instructor of acting and directing, I was eager to learn about the American theater improvisation developed by Viola Spolin and expounded by Paul Sills. Aretha Sills provides an insight into the authentic roots of the system that has been utilized for years by theatre training programs. The workshop will provide you with an excellent opportunity to explore various games and exercises to enrich your view of performance and acting." -Norma Saldivar, professor and chair, UNLV Department of Theatre, and executive director of the Nevada Conservatory Theatre "Aretha is one of the century's best improvisation teachers. Like her grandmother before her, she understands people, theater, and improvisation in an intuitive and deep way. As someone who has studied with some of the top teachers in the country and has performed for over 15 years, I can honestly say Aretha's work opened my eyes. I understood improv on a deeper level. I was refreshed and returned to beginner's mind." -David Alger, founder Pan Theater To be notified about upcoming workshops, or to inquire about workshops for your school or group, please email. Learn about youth theater workshops in Los Angeles here. 5-Day Spolin Improvisation Intensive in Los Angeles July 23-27, 2018! Upcoming 2019 Workshops in L.A. & The Bay Area [email protected] 2397 Old Lime Kiln Rd. Baileys Harbor, WI 54202 No part of this Website, including text, graphics, sounds or images, may be reproduced or retransmitted in any way, or by any means, without the prior express written permission of the Paul Sills Estate Get news:

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What are your travels plans for the summer holidays? Are you planning to remain back home or take your family along with you to some overseas locales? You might be tired of the same routine that takes place every year. It is just visiting some country, visit the cities, enjoy a bit of architecture and other normal tourist stuff like shopping, visiting the museums, and at the end of the day returning to the hotel. Chances are that your family likes this type of trips, but have they been provided with an alternative? Chances are bright that they have been not. It is high time that you took them on a special hiking trip in Germany. Each country is famous for one aspect or the other. Switzerland is famous for its Alps, Egypt for its pyramids… but as far as nature and tranquility is concerned, there is nothing to beat Germany. The pristine mountain paths, the scenic parks, the lovely lakes… all of them make Germany a different tourist locale from the rest. It is not for nothing that Germany is often referred to as the `lung of Europe.' The vast swathes of greenery that you will find over there will please your heart to no end. Once you have completed the above, it is time to hike from one heritage site to the other as you begin your journey in Bingen. There are various tourist attractions in this place including the Mouse Tower. The start of the trail is from the Drusus Bridge across River Nahe. Keep on hiking through the Hunsruck hills that take you back in the past to the Roman Empire. Your ultimate destination in this route is Trier. There are countless things to discover in this route including Roman games at the Ausoniushutte where you can find a section of the original Roman road. When in this area check out the flower filled summer meadows of the Hunsruck hills which is one of the best abodes of Mother Nature. Those who prefer architectural structures like massive circular towers and medieval castles should opt for the Burgenwanderwerg/Naturpark Hoher Flaming path. This will permit you to take a 122 kilometer circular path that are chock full of historical and cultural highlights like magnificent palaces and exquisite churches. Check out the dry valleys that have been created by the glaciers of the ice age. These all are just the tip and there is much more for those who are interested in hiking in Germany.

Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, briefs the Human Rights Council on Monday 12 March. A former foreign minister of the Maldives, Dr. Shaheed was appointed to his post last June after a period of some nine years during which no one had held that position. UN Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré. GENEVA, Switzerland — The United Nations investigator into human rights in Iran has sharply criticized the country's system of justice and human rights record. UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed told a meeting of the Human Rights Council here that he had received testimony from more than 141 witnesses which highlighted "multifarious and systematic deficits in the Government's capacity to ensure respect for human rights." And in his formal written report to the Council, Dr. Shaheed focused to an extent not previously seen in UN investigations of Iran on the overall failure of the country's justice system. Violations of due process were chronic, he said, and "vaguely defined security provisions" are applied in ways that "unduly limit freedom of expression, association and assembly." "In many cases, witnesses reported that they were arrested for activities protected by international law, and that they were detained in solitary confinement for prolonged periods with no access to legal counsel or family members, and in the absence of formal charges," Dr. Shaheed told the meeting. The Special Rapporteur reported a dramatic increase in the number of executions carried out in the Islamic Republic – more than 600 during the year 2011, many for crimes not considered serious under international law. Iranian authorities have also stepped up their detention of journalists and lawyers, he said, and continued their persecution of ethnic and religious minorities. Country and NGO representatives at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland, participating in an interactive dialog with the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran, 12 March 2012. Baha'is continue to be arbitrarily arrested and detained for their beliefs, noted Dr. Shaheed, in violation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. Baha'is are also subjected to "severe socio-economic pressure," facing deprivations of "property, employment and education." Monday's session offered an interactive dialogue between the Special Rapporteur and Human Rights Council members. His concerns were promptly echoed by a majority of the nations addressing the session. Some 15 countries specifically highlighted the situation of Iran's Baha'is. Brazil's delegate – João Genésio de Almeida Filho – said his government had a "particular concern" about "allegations of the systematic persecution of members of unrecognized religious communities, particularly the Baha'i community." Referring to Iran's state-sponsored campaign of demonizing Baha'is in the media, Veronika Stromsikova – delegate of the Czech Republic – said her country concurred with Dr. Shaheed's observation that "the government's tolerance of an intensive defamation campaign against members of the Baha'i community incites discrimination" in breach of international treaties. Bani Dugal – the principal representative of the Baha'i International Community to the United Nations – reported that Baha'is in Iran today face "multiple violations, across the entire spectrum of civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights" running "literally from kindergarten to the grave." "We also agree with your presentation of the underlying obstacles," she told Dr. Shaheed, "including elements of the legal framework and lack of adherence to the rule of law – none of which are being addressed by the government." "As you clearly state, impunity continues to prevail in Iran, and certain individuals are exempted from laws and regulations meant to restrain the abuse of power," said Ms. Dugal. A Special Section includes detailed information about Iran's campaign to deny higher education to Baha'is. Another Special Report offers articles about the seven Iranian Baha'i leaders – their lives, their imprisonment, trial and sentencing. The International Reaction page is regularly updated with responses from governments, nongovernmental organizations, and prominent individuals, to actions taken against the Baha'is of Iran. The Media Reports page presents a digest of media coverage from around the world. Annual Commission on the Status of Women explores role of rural women in poverty and hunger eradication. UK government-sponsored project encourages people of all beliefs to improve neighborhoods. Educators, academics and theologians discuss how young people can better address contemporary issues.

Submit a guest opinion The Post's View The impeachment of Philadelphia's DA is misguided and a bad precedent November 23, 2022 at 3:23 p.m. EST District Attorney Larry Krasner speaks in Philadelphia on May 14, 2021. (Claudia Lauer/AP) The Pennsylvania House has impeached liberal Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, setting up a possible trial in the state Senate that could lead to his removal from office. Though Mr. Krasner's approach to law enforcement raises genuine concerns, especially in light of the peril that crime poses in Philadelphia, the effort to oust him is misguided, an affront to local control and democratic choice. If successful, the recall would set a dangerous precedent. Sign up for a weekly roundup of thought-provoking ideas and debatesArrowRight Mr. Krasner, first elected in 2017 as the city's top prosecutor, was overwhelmingly reelected last year in a city with a large African American population. Many Black leaders have supported his progressive policies, which have included reducing sentences and prison time and treating drug use as a public health issue. But as Philadelphia's murder rate has risen, taking a high toll in minority neighborhoods, he has also become a growing target of criticism. When Mr. Krasner declared last December that there was no "crisis of crime" in the city, former mayor Michael Nutter, a Democrat who is Black, wrote a scorching op-ed in the Philadelphia Inquirer. "It takes a certain audacity of ignorance and white privilege to say that right now," Mr. Nutter wrote. (The district attorney subsequently apologized for what he said were ill-chosen words that "did not acknowledge the pain and the hurt that people feel in the city of Philadelphia.") All of this is something for the Philadelphia voters who elected Mr. Krasner to judge. Instead, despite the fact that he has committed no crime or misconduct, the state legislature has stepped in. The Republican-controlled House last week voted 107-85, largely along party lines, to impeach Mr. Krasner, blaming his policies for the city's rise in violent crime. Republicans rushed the vote during a lame-duck session, a day before the final results of the midterm elections showed that Democrats have won control of the chamber. It will now be up to the Senate to decide whether and when to hold a trial. A two-thirds vote would be needed to remove Mr. Krasner; Republicans have a majority but not enough to convict without support from some Democrats. Impeachment of an official elected by voters is extremely rare in Pennsylvania, employed only twice in 235 years in cases involving judges. That lawmakers didn't impeach prosecutors who had been accused of actual crimes — including a predecessor of Mr. Krasner who was indicted on corruption charges while in office and ended up sentenced to five years for bribery — makes the move against Mr. Krasner all the more misbegotten. Mr. Krasner is part of a wave of prosecutors elected in recent years who have pushed communities to move away from indiscriminate application of long sentences and toward policies that seek to divert nonviolent offenders from the criminal justice system to drug treatment, mental health care or other programs. Prosecutions have been reserved for the most serious crimes. These progressive prosecutors have faced pushback from conservatives and traditional law enforcement officials who allege policies such as no cash bail or not trying juveniles as adults have caused the surge in violent crime since the start of the pandemic in 2020. It is too soon to conclude that there is a linkage between progressive reforms and spikes in crime. Some communities with more traditional prosecutors have seen a rise in violent crime, and one study found that homicides rose by lower amounts in places with progressive ones in place. Other studies have reached similar conclusions. It's noteworthy that in the recent midterms, progressive prosecutors still managed to prevail in both red and blue states — even as Republicans sought to double down on crime as an issue. The election of prosecutors is premised on the principle that voters should have the power to set the criminal justice agenda they think is best suited for their communities. Voters, right or wrong, have twice chosen Mr. Krasner. That lawmakers in Harrisburg want to substitute their views not only subverts the will of the voters but also potentially makes any local elected official a political target. The Post's View | About the Editorial Board Editorials represent the views of The Post as an institution, as determined through debate among members of the Editorial Board, based in the Opinions section and separate from the newsroom. 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There is always something happening at the Trail City Bed and Breakfast! Trail City Bed and Breakfast is pleased to provide you another quality facility. We now have two log cabins ready for occupancy. Please follow the reservation link to reserve your stay today! Welcome to Trail City Bed and Breakfast and Coolidge, Kansas! We're glad you stopped by. Our goal is to provide you a one-of-a-kind vacation experience. We're proud of our town, historic sites, history and attractions which all add up to make Coolidge Kansas a great vacation destination. Whether your visit is for business or relaxation you will find our rooms and amenities just what you need for a peaceful nights rest. We can help you identify local attractions to showoff the area and provide you a full Coolidge visit. If you enjoy bird watching – we have birds. If you enjoy fishing – we have fish. If you enjoy historic sites – we have them a plenty. If you enjoy Geocaching – then stay with us and get ready to have some fun! One of the best overnight experiences ever. The evening snack was delicious and the breakfast outstanding! The room was clean and with excellent facilities. The bonus was several hours of exchanging stories about the unique 19th and early 20th century history of the area. By the way, we couldn't find any of the bullet holes in the ceiling from that 19th century bar fight. Mary and I wanted to let you know how much we enjoyed our stay at Trail City B & B. We were very impressed with the cleanliness and the wonderful breakfasts. We will surely try to stay there again and hopefully take advantage of the bicycles. Thanks again for being such a great hostess. I see you are interested in the history of Trail City. I am president of the Dodge City Trail of Fame in Dodge City and we, too, have a strong interest in preserving that history, especially as it relates to "Print" Olive who is interred in Maple Grove cemetery. Today I happened to meet Mr. Vic Fisher who apparently owns the land the city occupies. In talking with him we discovered that he would like to see the site/history preserved as well. I will be contacting the Kansas State Historical Society (whom we have worked with in the past) in an effort to find a way to curate and preserve the site and its history. I would be very interested in any information you might have including pictures, drawings, legal property descriptions…etc. I believe we can also bring the Wichita State Anthropology department on board at some point to do excavation and preservation. State and Federal funds are often available for well documented and prepared projects like this. I am a retired meteorologist living in Dodge City and my wife, Carolyn, is an archaeologist. Please feel free to contact us at your convenience and lets see what we can come up with. Dodge City Trail of Fame, Inc. This is a wonderful place to relax and not to mention out of this world hospitality. We were truly blessed to be able to stay the night here. Thanks to Lori & LaRue Lennen! My great grandfather was Stephen N. Canfield and he owned a hotel in Trail City that I have been told was later moved Coolidge. I was wondering if you knew who the owner of your building was when it was still in Trail City? Staying at the Trail City B&B was such a comfortable experience. Great room with private bath and great breakfast, especially the homemade french toast covered with corn flake-coating, strawberries, powdered sugar! Lori knows when to visit, when to let you be and her passion for Coolidge helps you get to know this small town. I highly recommend a stay here!

There was no doubt that Henrietta Janes was overweight. Her parents knew it, her schoolmates knew it, and of course she knew it when she looked at herself in the long hallway mirror; but this self-awareness – one which would have let her face facts, trim down, get healthy, and be more attractive – was so tamped down and squelched by well-meaning parents, teachers, pastors, and relatives that she came to not only accept her weight as normal but beautiful. Henrietta's era was far from the 'inclusive' one of today where no shape, feature, stature, or skin coloring is ever marginal; where there is no such thing as overweight, underweight, short, too tall, or ungainly; where self-image is never measured against norms and standards; and where fatness or a bad complexion are nothing more than the distorted perceptions of others. This canon worked well enough until Henrietta got to middle school where bitchiness is born and nurtured. The in-crowd – a group of svelte rich girls from the West End who wintered in Palm Beach and Gstaad and summered on Nantucket – were merciless and bloody when it came to those who did not fit in. Anyone who was not made in their image – slender, blonde, blemish-free, tall, alluring, and athletic – was relegated to the margins of the 8th grade. Noses had to be fine and straight. Lips full and sensuous. Breasts small, pert, and cute. Hair could never be thin, stringy, or frizzy. It had to be full and lustrous, thick and luxuriant. All the girls bought their clothes at the same shop – Maggie Parsons' in West Hartford. Maggie had studied under Betsy Johnson, had apprenticed at her stores in Manhattan and Los Angeles, and had come out with her own line in the late Sixties – not quite as severe as Betsy's, nor cut in the same bold lines that matched Vidal Sassoon's equally radical haircuts. Her creations were more suited to old Connecticut which appreciated tradition and quality but was not unwilling to turn a hem or neckline. The girls did look remarkably alike but there was no Village of the Damned spookiness. In fact, they had been formed in the image of success. Everyone in America wanted to look like them and be as gracefully agile on the dance floor, smooth and silky down the slopes of Aspen. Tanned and fit after a summer at the Vineyard. They embodied classic American beauty, more the California healthy good looks beauty and far from anything New York classic or Main Line Victorian elegance; but it was the look for Middle America in the days before ethnic pluralism, and the stunning mixed race beauty of the New multicultural age. They as a group would look different now – skin tones on a broader spectrum, hair of all textures and lengths Lips, noses, and cheekbones reflecting different national origins. Today objective judgments of beauty, elegance, allure, and attractiveness are dismissed entirely, beauty is redefined as an inner resources, and the idea of the 'human composite' current. According to this theory, we are all genetic composites of our parents and ancestors. Given the quirks and strange turnings of Mendelian genetic theory, parents can never be sure whom their new baby will resemble. It might have the brilliance of Great Grandfather Elvin who worked with Oppenheimer and Fermi, or the ne'er-do-well carelessness of Boulvardier Frank of the Liggett side of the family. It might come out pudgy and good-humored, or dark and sour. Who could predict? Especially given the permissive sexual mores of the day, the potpourri of races and ethnicities in America, and increased importance placed on DNA, such tolerance is to be expected, but up to a point. No matter how inclusive campus societies are configured to be, young girls still follow the leads of Hollywood. No matter how campus progressives choose to demean physical beauty and promote the Bernal Heights look (flannel shirts, jeans, and work boots), girls still would rather look like Amy Adams, Jennifer Lawrence, Scarlett Johansson, or the models on the covers of Vogue, Elle, and Cosmopolitan. This normative standard of beauty is seen not only on women's magazines, but men's as well. There is no difference at all between the models. There is one and only one standard of beauty in America. The problem is, of course, than only one in many thousands of young girls are going to end up on the cover of women's magazines and far fewer will ever come close to the normative idea of American beauty. Progressive reformers deal with this issue by pretending that it does not exist. Regardless of Hollywood, New York fashion magazines, the runways of Los Angeles, Paris, and Milan, they say; or the boutiques of San Francisco and New Orleans, they insist that physical beauty is a chimera, an artificial construct devised out of sales. These social reformers have created safe, unthreatening, if not congenial environments for all women where the very nature of a woman but never her body alone, is to be admired. The reality, however, is far from this idealistic view. Would that 'the very nature of a woman' be celebrated and elusive femininity sought. Savvy men have always desired complex, indefinable women who may or may not have physical beauty but have, like Shakespeare's women, complexity, will, and ambition. Yes, they are attracted first to Cleopatra, but fall for Rosalind and even Goneril as well. Promoting such sophisticated feminine traits is of course just whistlin' Dixie. Most American women will always fall far short of the average let alone the high margins of Hedda Gabler, Miss Julie, or Lady Macbeth. In short, the attempt to create safe interior spaces for women does them an injustice. Coddled and protected from reality results in apathy; and the perpetual war between the sexes, let alone the struggle for reproductive supremacy are such than hiding in parlors with the curtains drawn will help no one. Facing facts is another word for it. Taking stock of one's abilities, traits, and points, and figuring out ways to negotiate for traction and mobility in a world where the deck has already been stacked is essential. The West Enders, the models on Vogue, and Cosmo, and the starlets of Hollywood will always be the norm; and given the hyper-competitive society of America today, savvy women figure out how to approach the ideal and complement it with other seductive attractions. All of the above goes for men as well who are given to the same envies, jealousies, and desires for physical conformity as women. There is no way that an American man can watch but ignore the attractive, virile, able leading men on the screen. Safe spaces are no less folly when provided for those whose 'otherness' is threatened. From early primary school on, students are taught the theory of multiple intelligences. Some children can do math problems, others color, dance, or run well. Such 'inclusivity' distorts the intellectual marketplace as it does for other normative behavior. Students with less math ability cannot afford to give it up for origami or kite-making, but must achieve the highest level possible within their limitations. Racial stereotyping and prejudice are functions of otherness. When African Americans' social and intellectual norms become no different from those of whites, they will be easily integrated and welcomed. As long as they retreat to safe spaces – whether in college or in the ghetto where street creds remain the isolating norm – they will remain disadvantaged and delayed. Gay men and women understand that they are a distinct and small minority; and negotiating their way in a profoundly heterosexual culture is not easy; but made harder if free expression of criticism, doubt, and suspicion about their lifestyle and sexual preference is stifled. Full integration in to society – American or other – will never be accomplished by self-image, safe spaces, or identity politics. If there is one pervasive and historical American trait, it is duking it out in the marketplace. The ethnic minorities of the early 20th century – Italians, Jews, Irish – fought for territory, power, and social hegemony the hard way – in the streets, defending their turf and their women. Integration happened quickly – the result of accommodation to the norm and fighting adversaries. There was no hiding either from others or oneself. 'Get over it' does not mean acquiescence; but a realistic reaction to majority opinion. Minorities as groups and as individuals need to face facts, decide how much they want to achieve and adhere to the norm, and then act. Protection, no matter how well-meaning, is counter productive.

YA Books for Your Stuck-At-Home TBR Pile Photo by Andrea Piacquadio from Pexels Prices subject to change. Stuck inside? YA books to the rescue! The Miss Peregine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. If you haven't read the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, now is the perfect chance to start! While this book isn't currently discounted, we think you'll love jumping into the world of Jacob and the gang. Enjoy! Get the e-book: Amazon | Apple Books | Barnes & Noble | Books A Million | Google Play Store | Kobo Hollow City by Ransom Riggs September 3, 1940. Ten peculiar children flee an army of deadly monsters. And only one person can help them—but she's trapped in the body of a bird. Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he's diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children. Geekerella by Ashley Poston Cinderella goes to the con in this fandom-fueled twist on the classic fairy tale romance. Who doesn't love a geeky fairy tale—especially one that's only $2.99 right now? Sign us up! The Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston The Prince and the Pauper gets a Geekerella-style makeover in this witty and heartfelt novel for those who believe in the magic of fandom. Garrison Girl by Rachel Aaron This original YA novel features all-new characters and a new story set in the world of Attack on Titan, the pop culture phenomenon and manga mega-hit. by Ransom Riggs The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs The Third Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children by Ashley Poston A Fangirl Fairy Tale Garrison Girl by Rachel Aaron An Attack on Titan Novel BOOK Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Movie Tie-In Edition) BOOK Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

TPG has called for the competition watchdog to regulate wholesale ADSL, claiming that the customers it lost when Telstra jacked up its wholesale DSL prices had overwhelmingly jumped to Telstra as a result. In a submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) inquiry on whether to regulate the wholesale ADSL market, TPG said that Telstra had brought about a "technical barrier" to competition by using pair gains and remote-integrated multiplexers in suburbs and regional and rural Australia, meaning that rival telcos could not install their own DSLAM equipment and faced wholesaling through Telstra directly at a much higher cost. The company noted that between April and September 2010, when Telstra began raising prices for wholesale DSL in June, the churn of customers from TPG to Telstra rose from 35.04 per cent to 72.55 per cent. By securing the highest number of customers through the price squeeze, Telstra is gearing up to increase its profits on the National Broadband Network (NBN), TPG stated. "TPG believes that Telstra's strategy with the price squeeze is to secure increased market share in the regions which will have the result, post-NBN, of increasing Telstra's profits." Armed with the $11 billion from its deal with NBN Co, Telstra would also seek to lock customers into 24-month contracts on the NBN, TPG said. The telco said that it is unlikely to invest in more DSLAM infrastructure ahead of the NBN roll-out, but added that should wholesale ADSL be regulated, TPG would be able to offer more competitive services in those areas. In its submission, Optus said that while telcos would invest in more DSLAMs where it is efficient, it is unlikely that there would be widespread DSLAM investment. This only increases the importance of regulating the wholesale ADSL market, Optus said. "DSLAM investment costs are significant, and the impending NBN deployment reduces the expected return from a DSLAM investment since it reduces the time available to earn revenue and recoup the investment costs." Law firm Herbert Geer, on behalf of iiNet, Internode, TransACT, Primus and Adam Internet, said that Telstra had used wholesale ADSL pricing to "attack" its facilities-based competitors, which were forced to wholesale in regional Australia. "Telstra's wholesale-pricing structure, which attacks competitors that own infrastructure in metro and CBD-exchange service areas, has in regional and rural markets resulted in Telstra's infrastructure-based competitors either providing retail ADSL services over Telstra's WDSL network at a loss, or having retail rates higher than Telstra Retail, and in effect itself pricing themselves out of the market." In arguing against regulation for wholesale ADSL, Telstra argued that it would have a profound impact on facilities-based competition, because telcos wouldn't install more DSLAMs. "The broadband market is already highly competitive. There is substantial facilities-based competition, particularly in CBD and metropolitan areas," Telstra said in its submission. "Declaration of the wholesale ADSL service would only serve to limit the incentives for access seekers to invest in DSLAMs and other alternative infrastructure." The company also strongly rejected suggestions that it is anti-competitive in wholesale DSL pricing. "[C]ustomers negotiate wholesale ADSL prices with Telstra in the context of a competitive market, and the relative efficiency of the wholesale customer pursuing alternative-supply opportunities. This is a competitive market at work. It is both commercially rational and economically efficient." AAPT welcomed the possibility of wholesale ADSL regulation, but said that it should only apply to Telstra, as all of the competition concerns are related to Telstra as a vertically integrated network company. Submissions to the inquiry closed on 19 January.

Writers on the ethnology of Italy have been hitherto content with the first, namely, the broad distinction. 1 The study of Oriental ethnology in the light of history is still very incomplete, but the regular trend of events points to a mixture of races from the south (the home of the Semites) and the north. He has brought together, in the Bureau of American Ethnology in Washington, many hundreds of manuscripts, written by travellers, traders, missionaries, and scholars; and, better still, in response to circulars, carefully prepared vocabularies, texts and long native stories have been written out by trained collectors. See publications of the Bureau of American Ethnology, by F. The reports of the Bureau of American Ethnology in Washington cover the Eskimo, east and west, and all the tribes of the United States. He travelled in Finland and Lapland in 1873-4, and in 1875 made a special study of archaeology and ethnology in the Balkan States. Keane, Ethnology of the Egyptian Sudan (1884). Ethnology.-The population of Caucasia is increasing rapidly. Interesting conclusions as to the early ethnology of Egypt have been derived from the systematic examination of the necropolises of Nubia, necessitated by the heightening of the Aswan dam, as a consequence of which the northern portion of the valley S. Hoffman in the Fourteenth Report (Washington, 1896) of the Bureau of American Ethnology and A. Hoffmann, "Midewiwin of the Ojibwa," in 7th Report of Bureau of American Ethnology (1891); W. Its causes and results are fundamental for the study of ethnology (formation and mixture of races), of political and social history (formation of states and survival of institutions), and of political economy (mobility of labour and utilization of productive forces). Austin, With Macdonald in Uganda (1903) and Among Swamps and Giants in Equatorial Africa (1902); Winston Churchill, My African Journey (1908); Bishop Tucker, Eighteen Years in Uganda and East Africa (1908); articles on ethnology by the Rev. H. There is no dividing line between first-contact ethnology and -s y g gY gy Th J o pre-contact archaeology. In North America the sites have been examined by the Peabody Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology, and others, with the result that only the Trenton gravels have any standing. The most comprehensive work on North America is the Handbook of American Indians (prepared by the Bureau of American Ethnology, under W. Fewkes, A Journal of American Ethnology and Archaeology, vols. Keane, Ethnology (Cambridge, 1896); and Man, Past and Present (Cambridge, 1899); A. Powell, "Indian Linguistic Families," 7th Report Bureau of American Ethnology (1891); H. For ethnology consult Coutumes indigenes de la Cote d'Ivoire (Paris, 1902) by F. Waclaw Sieroszewski has written Twelve Years in the Land of the Jakuts, a contribution to the literature of folk-lore and ethnology such as only a real artist could produce. The art museum, in Eden Park, contains paintings by celebrated European and American artists, statuary, engravings, etchings, metal work, wood carving, textile fabrics, pottery, and an excellent collection in American ethnology and archaeology. In Swanston Street there is a large building where under one roof are found the public library of over ioo,000 volumes, the museum of sculpture, the art gallery, and the museums of ethnology and technology. 239; Fergusson, Tree and Serpent Worship; Mahly, Die Schlange im Mythus; Staniland Wake, Serpent Worship, &c.; 16th Annual Report of the American Bureau of Ethnology, p. 273, and bibliography, p. 312. He therefore endeavours to give a general sketch of the character, physical peculiarities and natural productions of each country, and consequently gives us much valuable information respecting ethnology, trade and metallurgy. They contain valuable information on the superstitions, ethnology and religion of Tibet. Asiatic Soc. (1891); Notes on the Ethnology of Tibet (Washington, 1895); Chandra Das, Journey to Lhasa and Central Tibet (London, 1899); G. Among societies of general utility are the Society for Public Welfare (Maatschappij tot nut van't algemeen, 1785), whose efforts have been mainly in the direction of educational reform; the Geographical Society at Amsterdam (1873); Teyler's Stichting or foundation at Haarlem (1778), and the societies for the promotion of industry (1777), and of sciences (1752) in the same town; the Institute of Languages, Geography and Ethnology of the Dutch Indies (1851), and the Indian Society at the Hague, the Royal Institute of Engineers at Delft (1848), the Association for the Encouragement of Music at Amsterdam, &c. A national institution at Leiden for the study of languages, geography and ethnology of the Dutch Indies has given place to communal institutions of the same nature as Delft and at Leiden, founded in 1864 and 1877. S.) Ethnology Asia, including its outlying islands, has become the dwelling-place of all the great families into which the races of men have been divided. The most important and imposing among the more modern architectural additions to the city are the handsome Gothic exchange, completed in 1867, the municipal theatre, the municipal library, the post office (1878), the law courts (1891-1895), the wool exchange, the German bank, the municipal museum for natural science, ethnology and commerce, and the fine railway station (1888). He settled in Berlin, where he was made professor of ethnology at the university and keeper of the ethnological museum. In the vicinity are the Governor's Mansion, the Supreme Court Building, the State Library, the building of the State Department of Agriculture, housing the State Museum (of geology, mineralogy, agriculture and horticulture, botany, zoology, ethnology, &c.), and the Post Office. 55 (1897); C. Thomas, "Report on the Mound Explorations of the Bureau of Ethnology" (Twelfth Annual Report for 1890-1891, Washington, 1894.) (J. (I) General descriptions, zoology, ethnology, economics, &c.: A. See Holmes, "Art in Shell of the Ancient Americans" in Annual Report of Bureau of Ethnology, Washington, for 1880-1881; W. Of the three regions of India thus briefly surveyed, the first, or the Himalayas, lies for the most part beyond the British frontier, but a knowledge of it supplies the key to the ethnology and history of India. Gomme, Ethnology in Folklore , 71 sqq., 77 seq.). She studied the remains of Indian civilization in the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, became a member of the Archaeological Institute of America in 1879, and worked and lived with the Omahas as a representative of the Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. Museums of aboriginal culture are without number; in Washington the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum, the Bureau of American Ethnology and the American Anthropologist issue publications on every division of the subject, lists of their publications and general bibliographies. Next to it comes the national museum, founded in 1807 through the donations of Count Stephan Szechenyi, which contains extensive collections of antiquities, natural history and ethnology, and a rich library which, in its manuscript department of over 20,000 MSS., contains the oldest specimens of the Hungarian language. Keane's Ethnology (1896); Darwin's Descent of Man (1871; pop. ed., 1901); Haeckgs Anthropogeny (Leipzig, 1874, 1903; Paris, 1877; Eng.

Nat King Cole (Actors' Summit) Audience likes Nat King Cole tribute at Actors' Summit What do the songs "Pretend," "Route 66," "Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire," "Rambling Rose," "It's Only a Paper Moon," "Nature Boy," "Mona Lisa" and "Too Young" all have in common? They are all hit songs recorded by Nathaniel Adams Cole, better known as Nat King Cole whose life is showcased in Actors' Studio's 'NAT "KING" COLE' by Kent LeMar & A. Neil Thackberry. Most think of Cole as a singer, but he was actually trained to be a classical pianist and never considered himself to be a singer, but as a jazz musician. In 1943, Cole recorded "Straighten Up and Fly Right," which was based on one of his preacher father's sermons. It became a smash hit and changed his musical life. Cole had many firsts. He was the first black jazz musician to have his own weekly radio show and the first black to have a weekly network television show. A heavy smoker, he died of lung cancer in 1965, but his music lives on. Based on audience reactions, and the need to extend the show several times due to positive reviews and comments, 'NAT "KING" COLE' is a hit. It is indeed a very pleasant evening of musical reminiscences for those brought up during the 50s and 60s. Do not go, however, expecting to see or hear Cole. What LeMar does is give a Cole impression, not a recreation. Though he has a nice voice, LeMar isn't a Cole duplicate. We've seen duplicates on the Actors' Summit stage. In past seasons Thackaberry transformed himself into Clarence Darrow and Wayne Turney morphed into Harry Truman. LeMar feigns Cole facial expressions, attempts to articulate the Cole speaking sound and give the deep jazz based sounds of the great singer. He is inconsistent in those attempts. Cole prided himself on his diction. He held his consonants and breathed life into his words. LeMar, though he tries, just doesn't give us the sound that allows us to close our eyes and hear Cole. His most Cole-esque interpretations were: "A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square, " "Sweet Embraceable You," "Christmas Song" and "When I Fall In Love." The script, though it does fill us with details of Cole's life, isn't well structured. Many of the songs are dropped in, they don't help develop the story as in a well integrated reviews. "Let There Be Love," "Too Young," "When I Fall in Love," "Wild Root Cream Oil" and "Smile" fit in. Most of the other songs don't. The script is being rewritten and it can only be hoped that more effort will be made to integrate the songs into the story. Because Cole was noted for sitting at the piano and singing, the fact that pianist David Williams plays most of the music, is off-setting. Williams is wonderful , but if this is supposed to be the real Cole performing for us, then Williams' presence doesn't make sense. This aspect is confusing as LeMar is an excellent pianist. CAPSULE JUDGEMENT: 'NAT "KING" COLE' is an audience pleaser. Due to its appeal, the show will be reprised on September 7 and run until the 24th on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday matinees, with some rewriting, including the addition of more musicians to emulate The King Cole Trio Pointe of Departure (Cain Park) Is Pointe of Departure the answer to the area's ballet void? With the apparent demise of Ohio Ballet, the Cleveland area is left without a major ballet company. Yes, there is Ohio Ballet Theatre, Denise Gula's Oberlin based group, but it mainly performs in Lorain County, though it is expanding into the Cuyahoga County area, and has only a small company of dancers. A void exists. Can that void be filled by Pointe of Departure? Pointe of Departure, which originated in 1998 as a collaboration between Lev Polyakin, Karen Gabay and Raymond Rodriguez, recently performed at Cain Park to a fair-sized house. The program notes state, "The future of the company is to expand the length of the season and to offer more performances throughout the year." It can only be hoped that this is true. Gabay and Rodriguez are best known as the wunderkinds of the now-departed Cleveland-San Jose Ballet. For years, their local performances were met with critical and public adulation The duo still performs with the company which now makes San Jose its home. They are getting rather old to continue to dance full time, and their emotional fan base is in the Cleveland area, so it is an obvious place for the duo to put down their choreographic and teaching roots. Making the company into a permanent resident company will take lots of money. With corporations abandoning the local area, some of the financial fund raising base is gone. However, if the county commissioners' proposed cigarette tax is enacted, and some local donors, who gave heavily to the previous professional company, can be convinced that this group will not lavishly over spend, like the previous artistic director did, then the purse strings may loosen. Pointe of Departure, as it is presently constituted, is not a world class, nor even a high-level dance company. Since it performs only sporadically, the dancers have little time to meld together. This was obvious in their Cain Park performance, where uneven timing of corps movements was the general case. In addition, the professional dance level of the performers is also questionable. Yes, Gabay and Rodriguez were superb, especially in their pas-de-deux 'MOON REFLECTION OVER CRYSTAL SPRING,' which got a spontaneous and well-deserved screaming standing ovation, but there was weakness among the others. The women, especially lovely and sprightly Jim Zhang, DeAnn Petrushke and Erena Ishii, were quite good; but the males were generally weak. Travis Walker, though rather stone-faced, was the most consistent of the gentlemen. He performed some fine jumps, did a good job of partnering and had an air of confidence. Jurijs Safanovs performed a competent Zorba-inspired segment, but was awkward in other roles. Peter Kozak seems comfortable with the contemporary moves, but was lacking in the classical segments. Maximo Califano was all affect, feigning hand movements and facial expressions and doing a great deal of posing, but was short on partnering skills and dance style. Karen Gabay has good choreographic instincts. Her 'HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD,' though a little long, had many highlight segments. Rodriguez and Gabay's 'NAPOLI' staging was innovative. With strong modern and contemporary companies, such as Verb Ballets, Groundworks and Inlet Dance that segment of the local dance scene seems well covered. It will be interesting to see what develops on the classical dance scene. Hopefully, Pointe of Departure, or some similar group, will come along and fill the void. It would be a shame that an area with such a strong arts reputation should be lacking in this performance area. Labels: Pointe of Departure, Reviews

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Paralympic Hopefuls Kick-Off Thursday Time Trials by Sarah Marshall, [email protected] | Apr 21, 2016 With anticipation hanging in the air, time trials for the 2016 U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials began this morning at Nathan Benderson Park, as athletes from across the country made their way down the course in their first step toward making the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic teams here at trials. Results | Friday Heat Sheet | Flickr Gallery SARASOTA, Fla. - With anticipation hanging in the air, time trials for the 2016 U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials began this morning at Nathan Benderson Park, as athletes from across the country made their way down the course in their first step toward making the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic teams here at trials. Men's Arms and Shoulders Single Sculls All advance to Sunday final Blake Haxton (Columbus, Ohio) started off the morning posting a time of 4:38.67 over Robbie Blevins (Oklahoma City, Okla.), who crossed the finish line in a time of 5:09.73. Haxton and Blevins will go head-to-head one more time this weekend, competing in the 1,000-meter final on Sunday morning at 9:00 a.m. for a spot on the 2016 Paralympic Team. Women's Arms and Shoulders Single Sculls After qualifying the boat at the 2015 World Rowing Championships, Treasure Boat Rowing Club, Inc.'s Jacqui Kapinowski (Tequesta, Fla.) moved one step closer to achieving her dream to compete at her final Paralympic Games, as she finished the time trial more than 15 seconds ahead of her competitor with a time of 5:17.34. "We train so hard for this moment," said Kapinowski before her time trial. "If I make it, this would be my last Paralympics. It's a dream come true for anyone to be an Olympian or Paralympian." Community Rowing, Inc.'s Katelynne Steinke (East Falmouth, Mass.) posted a time of 5:33.50. Both women advance to the final on Sunday at 9:15 a.m., for the chance to represent the U.S. in Rio de Janeiro. Men's Single Sculls 14 move on the Friday heats, rest eliminated In the most registered event of the trials, 21 athletes from around the country lined up to put their Olympic dreams on the line. First to take his chance was Potomac Boat Club's Greg Ansolabehere (Bakersfield, Calif.) who knew just how high the stakes were. "Everybody knew what was on the line for this race," said Ansolabehere. "You have to lay down the most firm and competitive piece that you possibly can out there. That is what I knew I wanted to do and was thinking right before the start." First down the course and first on the results list, Ansolabehere finished with a time of 6:40.00, two full seconds in front of Penn A.C. Rowing Association's Justin Keen (Philadelphia, Pa.). Craftsbury Sculling Center's Thomas Graves (Cincinnati, Ohio) and two-time Olympian Ken Jurkowski (New Fairfield, Conn.) came in third and fourth, respectively. Women's Single Sculls All advance to heats In one of the closest margins of the morning, Southern California Scullers Club's Stesha Carle (Longbeach, Calif.) narrowly beat Cambridge Boat Club's Gevvie Stone (Newton, Mass.) for the top nod with a time of 7:14.60 to 7:15.73. Following close behind was Vesper Boat Club's Lindsay Meyer (Seattle, Wash.), a Beijing Olympian in the women's quad, who rounded out the top-three with a time of 7:23.01. Men's Double Sculls With six crews racing in the men's double sculls event, Craftsbury Sculling Center's Willy Cowles (Farmington, Conn.) and Stephen Whelpley (Mequon, Wis.) finished in 6:08.31. A little more than two seconds behind the Craftsbury crew, Vesper Boat Club's Leonard Futterman (New York, N.Y.) and Jonathan Kirkegaard (Philadelphia, Pa.) finished second with 6:10.66. Women's Double Sculls The lineup that qualified the women's double sculls event at the 2015 World Rowing Championship, composite crew of USRowing Training Center – Princeton and New York Athletic Club's Meghan O'Leary (Baton Rouge, La.) and Ellen Tomek (Flushing, Mich.), topped the field of seven with a time of 6:39.39. Vesper Boat Club came in a close second place as Nicole Ritchie (Dummerston, Vt.) and Mary Jones (Huntsville, Ala.) finished with the second fastest trial time of 6:41.89. Lightweight Men's Double Sculls Similar to the women's double sculls trial, the lineup that qualified the boat also took the top time in the trial as Cambridge Boat Club's Andrew Campbell, Jr. (New Canaan, Conn.) and Joshua Konieczny (Millbury, Ohio) finished almost 10 seconds ahead of the next crew with a time of 5:57.95. Lightweight Women's Double Sculls Vesper Boat Club's Kate Bertko (Oakland, Calif.) and Devery Karz (Park City, Utah) posted a commanding lead over the field of eight. They finished more than 10 seconds up the next crew with a time of 6:38.30. The duo are both veteran national team members that competed at the 2015 World Rowing Championships last year. Bertko won bronze in the lightweight single sculls; Karz finished 11th in the lightweight double. Heats for the men's and women's single sculls, men's and women's double sculls and lightweight men's and women's double sculls begin on Friday morning at 8:00 a.m. All media covering the 2016 U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Team Trials must apply for a media credential here and comply with the Trials News Access Guidelines 2016 - Rowing and USRowing Code of Conduct for Representatives of Media. For more information or specific questions, please contact USRowing Director of Communications Allison Müller.

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Nothing makes a woman happier than diamonds; they're her best friend after all. And while choosing a diamond you need to be meticulous and clever. Here we list 10 steps to get the perfect diamond for you. A woman's happiness knows no bounds, especially when you slip on a diamond ring on her ring finger; you reserve a permanent place in her heart. But with so much variety in diamond rings for women it's hard to pick the right one. There are many vendors available online who have an array of options that you can choose from. Just go online and check out as many designs as possible, get an idea about the pricing and other essential details. But don't rush! In such delicate matters, it is wise to visit a store and then make a purchase after careful consideration. Now that you're through with the basic research it's time to visit stores to make a selection that you can stick with. Browse through as many designs as possible and pester the attendants to fill you up with all the necessary details. Make sure you choose the right metal for your band. You can choose gold, silver, platinum or even white gold. It mostly depends on how much you can spend and what kind of design you want your diamond ring to have. The 4 very important Cs in selecting the right diamond are Colour, Cut, Carat and Clarity. Make sure you do not compromise on the quality of your diamond while making a choice. Always check the diamond's grading report before making a decision. The diamond will be available in multiple shapes. Heart, square, triangle, circle or hexagon, there are many options that you can choose from. You can also choose from various designs like flowers etc. But make sure that you choose the right shape that will suit the bone structure of your fingers. You might be afraid or shy but don't be, ask for advice. Ask the attendant and other customers if the ring you've liked looks good on you. Honest advice might really help you in making the right decision. After you've made sure that the ring you've chosen is the one you want to buy, make sure that it fits your budget. As much as you like the ring, you have to see to it that it does not cross your budget. And if it does, get ready to make another choice that you had in the back of your mind all along while selecting rings. You've made your choice, checked and double checked and everything seems good. If you get a thumbs up on all the above points, you can make that beautiful ring yours and enjoy the extra attention it will get for you.

A Slow-Motion Disaster in Ghost Town Aylmer, North Dakota April 20, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 10 comments If you didn't know better, it would be easy to look at these photos and assume this place was struck by a powerful prairie tornado. Grain bins are ripped open, the roof of the former bar has caved-in, and the building leans at a precarious angle. Pieces of several structures have blown down and lie decaying in the grass some distance away with their rusty nails pointed skyward, waiting for an unsuspecting explorer to test their tetanus shots with an… Bethel Lutheran Awaits Just One More Potluck The cornerstone for this church along County Road 5 reads "Bethel Hauges Norsk E.V. Luth. Kirke, 1915". Put more plainly, that's Bethel Hauges Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church. The building is located in northern Wells County, about 10 miles east of Harvey, and although the cemetery is still active, the building stands abandoned and boarded-up. In the place where the Lord's word could once be heard on Sunday mornings by 80 or 100 parishioners at a time, Bethel Lutheran awaits just… The Abandoned Kincaid Power Plant Kincaid Power Plant is about four miles south of Columbus, North Dakota, in Burke County, about seventeen miles southwest of Flaxton. It reached the end of its journey and was abandoned in 1966. The 1971 Burke County and White Earth Valley Historical Society book describes this plant as follows. Grassy Butte, North Dakota April 6, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 42 comments Grassy Butte, ND is in a very sparsely populated area of western North Dakota, in southern McKenzie County. It does not appear in any of the census records back as far as 1960, but it reportedly harbored 100 citizens at one time. Monica Hardy contributed these photos in 2010 with the following comments: The building that looks like a church in the background of the post office/museum pictures are of a private home. Someone renovated the home. There were other bldgs… The Story of How Ghosts of North Dakota Began March 28, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 22 comments It occurred to me the other day that we've told the story about how Ghosts of North Dakota began in countless interviews over the years, but we've never posted it here, so for those who might be interested in how this project began, this is the tale. In 2003, myself and Terry Hinnenkamp, my roadtrip friend and fellow adventurer, were working at the same Fargo Top 40 radio station, Y94. Halloween was coming up and we had this goofy idea… Built from the Earth: The Hutmacher Farmstead The Hutmacher farm is on the National Register of Historic Places. It is considered the midwest's finest still-standing example of the earthen abodes built by Germans from Russia. Believe it or not, Alex Hutmacher lived here until 1979. The Hutmacher farm has been undergoing restoration. You can get more information here. These photos contributed by Kim Dvorak. More reading on the Hutmacher farm here and here. True Ghost Town: Stady, North Dakota Stady was founded in 1907 and was a stopping point on old highway 85. The peak population of 60 had dropped to 11 by 1940, after the highway moved. Stady is now a true ghost town — totally abandoned. MJ Masilko contributed these photos with the following comments: I'm sending you some pictures I took in May of 2006 of a ghost town called Stady. It's in Divide County, 16 miles SSW of Fortuna. There didn't seem to be any… The Quiet of Forbes, North Dakota February 14, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 81 comments Forbes, North Dakota is in Dickey County, about thirty miles southeast of Ashley, right on the South Dakota border. On nearly every trip, we go out looking forward to seeing a certain town, but on the way home, we realize another town was better or more fun. In this adventure in June of 2011, Forbes was that town — the pleasant surprise. Argusville High School February 9, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 38 comments Argusville is located right off I29 about fifteen minutes north of Fargo. It was founded in 1880 and dwindled to around 100 residents by the 1980's, but experienced a population boom after the turn of the millennium. Argusville now has a population of 475. So this abandoned high school is a rare spot in an otherwise budding town. The last class graduated from this school in 1997 when it was known as Cass Valley North High School. Postcards from the Edge of North Dakota February 8, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 6 comments This is a simple truth. There is no greater pleasure per penny than searching through a box of old postcards in an antique store. A little hard on the lower back if you're wearing the wrong pair of shoes, but pleasurable none-the-less. Here are a few old postcards featuring scenes from Marmarth. Year of the above photo is unknown but I'm guessing early 1930s. Look closely — on the left, behind the grassy median, several black sedans are parked. And on the… The Remains of Minot Air Force Station When we ran our Kickstarter campaign to fund the printing of our first book, we offered supporters the opportunity to name a location they would like us to photograph in exchange for their support. One of our supporters asked us to visit and photograph the former Minot Air Force Station, about 14 miles south of Minot. Minot Air Force Station was the first major Air Force installation in North Dakota, predating the other Minot and Grand Forks bases. It was… A Solitary Haynes Township School February 1, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 1 comment We photographed this solitary Haynes Township school back in 2013, and although we featured it in a video, we never posted the actual photographs until now. It is in Kidder County, Haynes Township, just off Highway 3, about 11 miles north of Steele, North Dakota. A little further north are a few other places we've photographed, including the Tuttle School, two Clear Lake Township schools (here, and here) and true ghost town Arena, North Dakota is about 15 minutes northwest… Ghost Town Lincoln Valley Revisited January 25, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 23 comments If we could magically travel back in time to photograph some North Dakota places, Lincoln Valley is one of the places we would choose to visit. We would go back to 1966, when Joe Leintz became the last resident of town. A church, store (really, an entire main street) and nine vacant residences still stood in Lincoln Valley at that time, and we would spend considerable time photographing it all. We would visit Joe and listen, enraptured, as he told… The Western Intrigue of Gascoyne, North Dakota Gascoyne is in Bowman County along Highway 12 in southwestern North Dakota, about 15 minutes east of Bowman. It was founded in 1907 as a Milwaukee Road railroad townsite, originally known as Fischbein, named after an early settler. The former school is the most prominent abandoned structure in Gascoyne. It rests on top of a hill on the west edge of town, right alongside Highway 12. Update: a visitor to our Facebook page tells us this school was demolished in… San Haven Sanatorium in the 1930s January 6, 2017 Troy Larson Tuberculosis, frequently referred to as "consumption" in historical documents, was arguably the most serious endemic disease and health concern of the 19th and early 20th centuries. With no "cure" to come until 1946, those afflicted with TB were prescribed rest and fresh air as a treatment, and sanatoriums like San Haven were constructed to meet the need. Susan (Thingvold) Sande of Kalispell, Montana contributed these photos of San Haven in the tuberculosis era. The photos were taken by her aunt,… Sanish Rises from Beneath the Waves January 5, 2017 Troy Larson Comments 82 comments Sanish was a thriving North Dakota town until 1953, when residents began to evacuate to higher ground. The construction of Garrison Dam, a project to provide hydroelectric power and flood control, would turn the Missouri River Valley in this part of North Dakota into a large reservoir to be named Lake Sakakawea. Sanish succumbed to the rising waters soon after the Garrison Dam embankments were closed in April of 1953, and the townsite disappeared beneath the waves of Lake Sakakawea. Lonetree's Ghost Cathedral November 29, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 2 comments Australian adventurer and photographer Gavin Parker sent us these photos of Lonetree, North Dakota, a place that just barely came to be. A settlement known as Lone Tree (two words) came into being in 1888 in the area that would become Ward County, Foxholm Township, in 1888, when this was still the Dakota Territory. A post office was to be founded that same year, but with Lone Tree's fledgling status, officials thought better of it and canceled the plans. In… Little Muddy Creek Power House Angel Laws recently sent us some photos of a place outside Williston that we had never heard of. We asked visitors to our Facebook page for information, and we received a photo and some useful links that helped to reveal the history of this place. Someone sent us this photo of the place we'll refer to as the Little Muddy Creek Power House and Irrigation Plant (if anyone knows the official name of this place, please comment below). The State… Ruso: Smallest Incorporated Town in North Dakota November 18, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 64 comments Ruso, North Dakota is in McLean County and had a reported population of 4 in the 2010 Census. A claim from an unknown source that we've seen around the web says Ruso is the smallest incorporated town in North Dakota. Several unincorporated towns are even smaller, like Hanks (pop. 1), and Merricourt, and ghost towns with zero residents. Kelsey Rusch visited Ruso in 2010 and contributed these photos with the following comments: Right off highway 41, south of Velva, you… A Look Back in Time in Berlin, North Dakota We recently received an interesting batch of photos from Paul Ensign regarding Berlin, North Dakota. It's a place we first became aware of when Sabrina Hornung sent us some photos back in 2011, and which we visited for ourselves in 2012. Paul's Great Grandfather was Wilhelm G. Lentz, proprietor of the Berlin Blacksmith & Wagon Shop around 1912, and the photos Paul sent along from his collection are very interesting. All That Remains of Grand Harbor November 4, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 5 comments This school house still stands, right off Highway 2, between Devils Lake and Rugby. If you make that drive, you'll see it just north of the highway. To our knowledge, it is the only remaining original structure from the town that once was Grand Harbor, ND Fort Abercrombie: Gateway to the Dakotas October 20, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 15 comments The original Fort Abercrombie was constructed in 1858, and it was the first military settlement in what would become North Dakota. Fort Abercrombie was a relic of the first transportation boom in the Dakota Territory — riverboats. Before the railroads, riverboats were one of the most efficient means of hauling cargo, and the Red River became a highway between Fort Abercrombie and Winnipeg. Due to flooding concerns, the fort was rebuilt in 1860 on higher ground, at its present location. Lonely High Cliff Country School October 17, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 4 comments Don Collings sent us these photos of High Cliff School with the following comments: These are views of High Cliff School in Cow Creek Township, about 20 miles northwest of Williston. I attended this school with my brothers and sister (the Collings' kids, along with the Haven's, Barkie's, Benth, Kjos and Brothers kids. The school reopened in 1953 and closed in 1961. To my knowledge it is still standing. Ghosts of North Dakota is a wonderful web site. Keep up… A Lonely Outpost: Hanks, North Dakota Hanks, North Dakota, in Williams County, about 33 miles northwest of Williston, is a lonely outpost on the prairie, just one resident away from being a ghost town. Hanks was the subject of some national media in 2008 when National Geographic published The Emptied Prairie (available at the link only with a subscription) by Charles Bowden, a polarizing piece roundly denounced by many North Dakotans in letters to editors, in the Dickinson Press for example, or the Bismarck Tribune. In the… Lost Bridge of the Badlands October 5, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 6 comments Lost Bridge was on the Little Missouri River, about 23 miles north of Killdeer in Dunn County. The name "Lost Bridge" holds a coincidental double meaning in this case, since the bridge no longer exists. Above: An image from Google Earth. You can still see the missing swath of trees leading to the river's edge, where the old Lost Bridge once stood. The Haunting and Deserted Tyner Cemetery October 3, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 42 comments Tyner's derelict pioneer cemetery is all that remains of a rural settlement in Pembina County once known as Tyner. Cemeteries are not something we usually feature as an entity all their own, primarily because there are plenty of websites out there which focus on cemeteries and family history already. However, Terry visited Tyner Cemetery in August of 2012 to photograph the headstones for some of his wife's family — the McCurdy's — and was moved by the solitude of the… Werner, North Dakota and a Bridge to Nowhere September 30, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 4 comments Werner, North Dakota is in Dunn County, about 13 miles east of Killdeer. We're unsure of the exact population, but in 1971, when residents voted to dissolve the town, the vote count was 7-2 in favor of dissolution, so the headcount is quite likely in the single digits these days. Although we were really a couple decades late in photographing the town as it once was, we decided to visit and shoot Werner, North Dakota and a bridge to nowhere…. Abandoned Wabek, North Dakota Saloon September 28, 2016 Troy Larson Comments 24 comments This is Wabek, North Dakota, in Mountrail County, about 35 miles southwest of Minot. Wabek was founded in 1914 and we visited and captured these photos 100 years later, in 2014. According to North Dakota Place Names by Doug Wick, Wabek even had a radio station once, broadcasting with the call letters WABK. Wabek's all-time high population was 46 in the 1930 Census, but today there appears to be only one occupied property on the town site. This saloon was the last… Driscoll Church… Like They Just Left Yesterday It's always amazing when you run across a place like this rural Driscoll Church… like they just left yesterday. We were on our way to visit Arena, North Dakota in September, 2016, when we drove right past this place and decided to stop for a visit. Zion Lutheran Church is in Burleigh County, Harriet-Lein Township, and is described as "rural Driscoll." In reality, it is about ten miles north of Driscoll, or eleven miles southeast of Wing, North Dakota. How Much Longer for Ghost Town Arena? We first visited Arena, North Dakota, a ghost town in Burleigh County, about 35 miles northeast of Bismarck, in 2004, and we've been keeping our eyes on it ever since, with the assistance of some kindred spirit adventurers who check-in from time to time to let us know what's happening. We've been told the tiny one-room school shown above was originally somewhere else, and that it was moved to this location. A different building, Arena Public School, was torn down…

Michael Tarm And Todd Richmond Published: October 28, 2021, 1:54 PM Updated: October 29, 2021, 2:47 PM Tags: Jacob Blake Legal experts see strong self-defense claim for Rittenhouse Published: October 28, 2021, 1:54 PM Updated: October 29, 2021, 2:47 PM Kyle Rittenhouse attends a pre-trial hearing at the Kenosha County Courthouse in Kenosha, Wis., on Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. A Wisconsin judge laid out the final ground rules Monday on what evidence will be allowed when Rittenhouse goes on trial next week for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in August 2020. (Mark Hertzberg/Pool Photo via AP) When Kyle Rittenhouse goes on trial Monday for shooting three men during street protests in Wisconsin that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake last summer, he'll argue that he fired in self-defense. Legal experts say under Wisconsin law he has a strong case. What's less clear is whether prosecutors will be able to persuade the jury that Rittenhouse created a deadly situation by showing up in Kenosha with an AR-style semiautomatic rifle — and that in doing so he forfeited his claim to self-defense. Rittenhouse, 18, of Antioch, Illinois, faces six counts including homicide charges in the Aug. 25, 2020, deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber, and he could face life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge. Rittenhouse, then 17, was among people who traveled to Kenosha after calls went out on social media to come bearing weapons to protect the city from damaging protests that followed a white police officer shooting Blake, a Black man, in the back on Aug. 23. (A prosecutor later cleared the officer, ruling that Blake was turning toward the officer with a knife.) Rittenhouse and all three men he shot are white. Here's a look at the legal issues in the Rittenhouse case: The Rittenhouse case isn't a whodunit. Bystander video captured most of the shootings. It shows an unarmed Rosenbaum chasing Rittenhouse into the parking lot of a used car dealership. At one point, Rosenbaum throws a plastic bag at Rittenhouse before the two move off-camera and Rittenhouse fires the fatal shots at around 11:45 p.m. Soon after, Rittenhouse is seen running down a street away from the scene with several protesters on his heels. He falls. Huber appears to strike him in the head and neck area with a skateboard; Rittenhouse shoots Huber, striking him in the heart. Seconds later, Gaige Grosskreutz steps toward Rittenhouse holding a pistol. Rittenhouse shoots him, badly injuring Grosskreutz's arm. Rittenhouse then gets to his feet and leaves the scene. WHAT DOES THE DEFENSE CLAIM? Self-defense, pure and simple. Rittenhouse's attorneys say he came to Kenosha not to hurt anyone but to protect businesses from damage and looting. And they say the people he shot left him no choice. They're expected to highlight Rosenbaum's pursuit of Rittenhouse, and Huber and Grosskreutz subsequently coming at him. The defense has said Rosenbaum and Huber tried to wrest Rittenhouse's rifle away, leading Rittenhouse to fear he would be shot with his own weapon. The defense also wants to introduce evidence that police handed water to Rittenhouse and other rifle-carrying citizens, and said, "We appreciate you guys, we really do." They argue that the friendly greeting contributed to Rittenhouse thinking there was nothing wrong with his presence on the streets that night — and that it undermines any argument that he acted recklessly. WHAT DO PROSECUTORS SAY? Rittenhouse's trip to Kenosha will be a key part of their case. They portray him as a wannabe cop who came looking for trouble and fame, and that by bringing a rifle to the late-night protest, he was the primary cause of the deadly encounters. They also argue that Rittenhouse wasn't there to protect businesses but to join other armed counterprotesters with whom he sympathized. Rittenhouse "was the aggressor, there with the intent to violently clash with those opposed to his beliefs," prosecutors have said. Prosecutors had hoped to bolster their case by introducing as evidence a brief video taken 15 days before the protest shootings that shows Rittenhouse watching some men exit a CVS pharmacy and commenting that he wished he had his rifle so he could shoot them because prosecutors say he baselessly thought they were shoplifters. Thomas Binger, the lead prosecutor, said it showed Rittenhouse's mindset as "a teenage vigilante, involving himself in things that don't concern him." But Judge Bruce Schroeder questioned the relevance of the video to the charges. He ruled it wouldn't be allowed, though he suggested he could reassess that ruling later. Schroeder has also blocked prosecutors from connecting Rittenhouse to the far-right extremist group the Proud Boys. Rittenhouse was photographed in January in a Wisconsin bar with some Proud Boys members, but his attorneys say Rittenhouse had no affiliation or involvement with the group. WHAT DOES WISCONSIN LAW SAY ABOUT SELF-DEFENSE? It allows someone to use deadly force only if "necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm." And it sets a two-part test for jurors. First, they have to decide if Rittenhouse really believed he was in peril. Hindsight may show he was wrong. But did he sincerely believe it at the time? Next, they must determine if Rittenhouse's belief was objectively "reasonable." To make that call, jurors will be instructed to consider whether any reasonable person in Rittenhouse's shoes would have also felt they had no choice but to shoot. WHAT OTHER LEGAL FACTORS COME INTO PLAY? Wisconsin law doesn't require someone whose life is in danger to flee before shooting. But jurors can consider whether someone tried to move away from danger as they assess the reasonableness of a self-defense claim. Self-defense can't be invoked by someone if they were an aggressor. Wisconsin doesn't have a so-called stand-your-ground law that grants wide-ranging rights for a person to stay put and fend off an attack no matter where it occurs. Rittenhouse faces two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, and two counts of recklessly endangering safety for firing his gun near people adjacent to those he shot. A successful self-defense argument would seem to apply to all five of counts. Rittenhouse faces a sixth count, possession of a dangerous weapon by a person under 18, that the defense unsuccessfully tried to get dismissed. Andrew Branca, a Colorado lawyer who wrote the book "The Law of Self Defense: Principles," said whether Rittenhouse was legally carrying the gun or not that night shouldn't factor into his right to self-defense. WHAT ARE THE CHANCES OF RITTENHOUSE TESTIFYING? Defense lawyers normally oppose putting clients on the stand and typically only do so in last-resort bids for acquittals because the risks are too high. But some legal experts say defense calculations change when self-defense is claimed. Paul Bucher, a Milwaukee-area lawyer and former Waukesha County district attorney, said once jurors hear from the defense that a client feared for his life, they expect to hear straight from the defendant about his or her mindset at the time of the shooting. Prosecutors would surely welcome the chance to try and rattle Rittenhouse on cross-examination in front of jurors. HOW DO LEGAL EXPERTS SEE THE CASE? Under self-defense law and precedent, Rittenhouse's motives for being in Kenosha are irrelevant to whether he had a legal right to shoot when threatened, some legal experts say. What matters is what happened in the minutes surrounding the shooting, Branca said. "If I had a 17-year-old-son, I would not encourage him to engage in this kind of behavior. But poor judgment is not a crime," said Branca, who thinks Rittenhouse has a strong case for self-defense. Even if it isn't directly relevant to the self-defense claim, legal experts agreed that the question of why Rittenhouse was in Kenosha will loom over the trial. "Everybody in that courtroom is going to be thinking he deserved what he got because he put himself in a hostile situation. … 'What are you doing down there with a gun?'" said Bucher. Branca said the law and facts should lead to Rittenhouse's acquittal, but said he's not sure that will happen. "Trials are dangerous and unpredictable … and innocent people get convicted all the time," he said. "So it's quite possible that Kyle Rittenhouse could be convicted in this case based on that kind of rhetoric, despite the legal merits of the charges." Follow Michael Tarm on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mtarm

The extra condiment to have with this soup would be sambal belachan (fermented shrimp paste chilli). We would dip the meatballs into the sambal that goes extremely well, mixed with a little bit of dark soya sauce and lime, for the extra appetizing kick! - Blanch the fish maw in hot water, soak till soften. This also helps to rid the excess oil. Once soften, remove from water and slice into pieces. Set aside. - Soak the black fungus till soften and cut into small pieces. - Mix the minced meat, black fungus and fish paste together. Add the light soya sauce and pepper. Mix well and set aside. - Bring the chicken stock + water to a boil. - Scoop out the meat with a spoon and shape into a round ball, slightly larger than a fishball size. Or use your hand to form the meatball. Place it into the soup stock. - Then add the cabbage, fish maw and fishballs. - Let it cook for 20-25 minutes, or till the cabbage softens. - Add some fish sauce to taste. - Garnish with spring onions, fried onions and serve with sambal belachan.

Government and Markets Introduction; Part I. Beyond Market Failure: 1. Government failure vs. market failure: principles of regulation Joseph E. Stiglitz; 2. Effective regulation through credible cost-benefit analysis: the opportunity costs of superfund Michael Greenstone; 3. From 'state interference' to the 'return to the market': the rhetoric of economic regulation from the old Gilded Age to the new Mary O. Furner; 4. Lessons from Europe: some reflections on the European Union and the regulation of business Neil Fligstein; 5. Confidence games: how does regulation constitute markets? Daniel Carpenter; Part II. Beyond the Economic Theory of Politics: 6. The end of special interests theory and the beginning of a more positive view of democratic politics Donald Wittman; 7. Public choice: a critical reassessment Jessica Leight; 8. The paranoid style in the study of American politics David A. Moss and Mary Oey; 9. Law, policy, and cooperation Yochai Benkler; Part III. Beyond Command and Control: 10. What opportunity is knocking? Regulating corporate governance in the United States Mary A. O'Sullivan; 11. Taxation as a regulatory tool: lessons from environmental taxes in Europe Monica Prasad; 12. Redesigning regulation: a case study from the consumer credit market Elizabeth Warren; 13. Origins and regulatory consequences of the subprime crisis Barry Eichengreen; 14. Prospects for economic 'self-regulation' in the United States: an historian's view from the early twenty-first century Edward J. Balleisen; 15. Deregulation theories in a litigious society: American antitrust and tort Tony Freyer; 16. Markets in the shadow of the state: an appraisal of deregulation and implications for future research Marc Allen Eisner; Conclusion. This interdisciplinary volume points the way toward the modernization of regulatory theory. Edward J. Balleisen is Associate Professor of History at Duke University, where he teaches American business history and American legal history. He specializes in the evolving 'culture of American capitalism' - the institutions, values and practices that have both structured and constrained commercial activity. The author of Navigating Failure: Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America and Scenes from a Corporate Makeover: Columbia/HCA and Heathcare Fraud, 1992-2001, he has also published in numerous journals, including Business History Review, Australian Journal of Legal History and Reviews in American History. In 2005, he was awarded the Howard D. Johnson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He received his PhD in history from Yale University. He is currently working on a history of commercial fraud in the United States, focusing on organizational fraud against consumers and investors, from the early nineteenth century to the present. David A. Moss is the John G. McLean Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the business, government and international economy area. Professor Moss's research focuses on economic policy and especially the government's role as a risk manager. He has published three books on these subjects: Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy (1996), When All Else Fails: Government as the Ultimate Risk Manager (2002) and A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know (2007). Professor Moss is the founder of the Tobin Project, a non-profit research organization, and a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance. Recent honors include the Robert F. Greenhill Award, the Editors' Prize from the American Bankruptcy Law Journal, the Student Association Faculty Award for outstanding teaching at the Harvard Business School and the American Risk and Insurance Association's Annual Kulp-Wright Book Award for the 'most influential text published on the economics of risk management and insurance'. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1992. Review of the hardback: 'The heritage of James Tobin is well represented by this outstanding volume. The authors analyze the relations of government and the market from many different angles, showing the fallacies of simple critiques on the basis of deep scholarship.' Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University Review of the hardback: 'Pointing the way beyond simplistic capture theories of regulation, these essays illustrate how institutionally informed analysis can help to rebuild a constructive relationship between governments and markets.' Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School Review of the hardback: 'A deeply distinguished multidisciplinary gathering lays out new directions and bold challenges for regulatory theory and practice. The hope and promise of this work is for a more civilized and creative capitalism.' John Braithwaite, Australian National University Review of the hardback: 'A crisis has rekindled widespread interest in regulation. This collection of articles by outstanding social scientists and historians offers striking insights and fresh perspectives. Scholars and policymakers alike will benefit from their insightful and incisive discussions.' Bruce Carruthers, North Western University Review of the hardback: 'Governments and Markets is an engaging and ambitious rethinking of the role of regulation in the twenty-first century. The range of ideas and arguments throughout this volume will push readers to revisit their assumptions about regulatory activity and will push fellow scholars to refocus their research agendas to topics such as regulatory decision making and design. Combining strong research with contemporary relevance, the book will be of interest to both new students of public policy and long-standing experts.' Mark Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver "The heritage of James Tobin is well represented by this outstanding volume. The authors analyze the relations of government and the market from many different angles, showing the fallacies of simple critiques on the basis of deep scholarship." - Kenneth J. Arrow, Stanford University "Pointing the way beyond simplistic capture theories of regulation, these essays illustrate how institutionally informed analysis can help to rebuild a constructive relationship between governments and markets." - Tom Baker, University of Pennsylvania Law School "A deeply distinguished multidisciplinary gathering lays out new directions and bold challenges for regulatory theory and practice. The hope and promise of this work is for a more civilized and creative capitalism." - John Braithwaite, Australian National University "A crisis has rekindled widespread interest in regulation. This collection of articles by outstanding social scientists and historians offers striking insights and fresh perspectives. Scholars and policymakers alike will benefit from their insightful and incisive discussions." - Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University "Governments and Markets is an engaging and ambitious rethinking of the role of regulation in the twenty-first century. The range of ideas and arguments throughout this volume will push readers to revisit their assumptions about regulatory activity and will push fellow scholars to refocus their research agendas to topics such as regulatory decision making and design. Combining strong research with contemporary relevance, the book will be of interest to both new students of public policy and long-standing experts." - Mark Stephan, Washington State University, Vancouver Home » Books » Business » Economics » General Home » Books » Business » Commerce Home » Books » Nonfiction » Politics » Public Policy » Economic Policy Theory Of Regulation Books Regulation Theory Books

Anti-collision alarm with SmartCPA system StarNavPilot connectivity NMEA Settings Magnetic compensation of the compass and pilot Extended display on multiple screens Use on a tablet Operation stability Data export and import Day / night display mode Technical specifications and minimum configuration All questions about StarNavPilot Subscribe to our newsletter : valid on the entire catalog. The anti-collision alarm service warns you of any risk of collision with another vessel by continuously calculating the course forecasts of your boat and of all the vessels in the area. StarNavPilot's collision warning service uses the SmartCPA system to adapt the minimum distance you can approach a boat depending on the speed and size of the vessel. Because we can afford to pass closer to a 12-meter pleasure sailboat moving at 6 knots than a 300-meter tanker moving at 25 knots. You can turn the alarm on or off. You can activate or deactivate the SmartCPA system You can exclude all vessels stopped. Ships that are stationary generally present less risk of collision. Being able to exclude them from the alarm allows you to get the most out of the alarm in congested port areas. You can adjust the Basic Approach Distance (CPA) and Maximum Lookout Time (TCPA). If SmartCPA is active, the CPA used will vary depending on the settings of the vessels on your route and their speed. An AIS alarm risk of collision in 5 minutes: If enabled, the voice synthesizer will say: 'Attention risk of collision in 5 minutes'. StarNavPilot allows the decoding and display of informations received by an AIS receiver. The receiver (AIS transponder, AIS receiver, VHF with AIS receiver included ...) must be connected to the PC via a serial or USB port. The detection of the AIS receiver is automatic. AIS during a Channel crossing: A situation requiring a diversion. Le radar A.I.S. : The A.I.S. radar type display allows to have a precise view of the vessels in the VHF range. It allows to calculate and display the projection of the position of the boat and of each A.I.S. up to 10 minutes using each vessel's course and heading data. This provides a clear view of the evolution of the situation and the risk of collision. The eventual decision to change course or speed will be made on the basis of this projection and the effect of the change in course or speed can be immediately assessed. It is possible to launch an animation of the projection of the situation for the next 6 minutes. This animation allows a quick assessment of the risk of collision. The animation can be displayed once or in a loop. The radar has a decentering function. The range is adjustable from 0.1 to 10 Miles per circle. The size of the icons is adjustable. The simple flight over an A.I.S. with the cursor displays the basic data of the vessel. Clicking on an A.I.S. gives access to the detailed characteristics of the vessel. See an overview of the operating principle.

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Commentary: Telework could lead to environmental solutions Aug 7th, 2020 · Comments: 0 EDITOR'S NOTE: On July 29, the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing, "Lessons Learned from Remote Working during COVID-19: Can the Government Save Money Through Maximizing Efficient Use of Leased Space?" Below is ranking member Sen. Carper's opening statement. By Sen. Thomas Carper Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this hearing to focus on some of the impacts of telework. I would also like to welcome and thank our witnesses for joining us this morning. Sen. Tom Carper It goes without saying that just about every aspect of our lives has radically changed over the last six months. As individuals and as a country, we have been forced to adapt to the "new normal" in our lives, from wearing masks and coughing in our sleeves, to practicing safe social distancing and much more. For millions of Americans, one of the biggest changes and challenges has been adjusting to the "new normal" of telework. When it comes to finding solutions for tough problems, I often say that we should find out what works and do more of that. The sudden shift to implementing flexible work strategies like telework across the federal government has given us an opportunity to examine how those alternative methods actually work — or do not work. This is our opportunity to find out what works and do more of that. What we learn about telework today will fundamentally shape how we view and implement telework as a country, from now into the future. One of the agencies under the jurisdiction of our committee is the General Services Administration, which operates federal building space. I hope that the testimony we hear today will shed some light about the use of private space, like people's homes, during telework, which could provide new insights about how we operate federal buildings. With more than 350,000 buildings, the federal government is the nation's largest consumer of energy. What we learn about telework today could help us figure out how to occupy and operate federal building space more efficiently and, ultimately, reduce our nation's carbon footprint. Another area of concern for this committee is the impact of telework on our environment — specifically on air quality. As our witness from California will describe in greater detail, across the country communities that are normally cloaked in smog are now breathing cleaner air and experiencing the positive effects of widely reduced travel. For too long, we have witnessed the harmful effects of air pollution on public health and quality of life for so many Americans, especially those in our most vulnerable communities. I believe we should be doing whatever we can, as soon as we can, to reduce emissions associated with how we travel. That can include reducing travel demand during rush hour, through telework policies. It also includes reducing vehicle emissions through fuel economy standards and through the electrification of the cars, trucks and vans that we drive, the largest sources of global warming pollution in our country. Another important way to reduce travel-related emissions is by investing in multimodal, low-emission transportation choices, such as transit, biking and walking. Put together, these policies of telework, transit, Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, and electrification can make a major difference in alleviating smog, easing congestion and reducing climate-changing emissions, both during a pandemic and later on, when this scourge is a fading memory. As you know, Mr. Chairman, I often like to quote Albert Einstein, who once said, "In adversity lies opportunity." I have been thinking about that quote a lot over the last few months, because our nation is facing tremendous adversity. While extremely challenging and tragic, this pandemic has also provided us with a real-life case study on the effects of reduced travel-related emissions. I look forward to learning more about how we can translate those successes into long-term strategies to help us address climate change. Finally, Mr. Chairman, the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which has jurisdiction over federal workforce issues, held a hearing yesterday on issues very similar to the ones we're taking up today. I look forward to drilling down on it again today with you, members of this committee, and members of the HSGAC Committee as we continue adjusting to this "new normal." Working together, I hope we can identify best practices that will maximize the use of federal building space, improve worker morale and productivity, and reduce harmful air pollution. Thomas Carper, a Democrat, is the senior U.S. senator from Delaware. The Opinion page is populated with letters from you, our readers. 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volnepal Volunteer Nepal National Group (Vol-Nepal, VNNG) is a local, independent, non-profit organization. VNNG was founded in 2000 and registered with the Chief District Administration Office and the Social Welfare Council, Kathmandu in 2004. Registration number 380- 061/062 and social welfare council 18342. VNNG was created to implement new initiatives and platforms that could better answer the need for communication between volunteers and community groups with NGOs operating both locally and internationally, VNNG partners with organizations to support community leaders and youth workers in Community Building, Rural Development, Education and Sustainability efforts. Our model, which forms the basis for much of our work, is an adaptable approach to community building in which youths and adults work as partners to examine community resources, develop a community vision, and take action to create meaningful change. We work to assist and improve the welfare of the minority in our society. Our work includes community rural sustainability development, education and capacity building, information communication, technology, literacy, economically self-sustaining activities, women and children gender issues, and consultancy.

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Please read this leaflet carefully before you start using Arixtra. You may wish to keep it to read again. This leaflet answers some common questions about Arixtra. All medicines have risks and benefits. Your doctor or pharmacist has weighed the risks of you using Arixtra against the benefits they expect it will have for you. Arixtra is used to prevent blood clots forming in patients who are recovering from orthopaedic or abdominal surgery. Arixtra is also used to treat blood clots once they have formed. Arixtra contains the medication fondaparinux sodium, a synthetic compound which helps prevent blood clots forming in blood vessels. This type of blood clot, also called deep venous thrombosis, or DVT, can occur in patients who are confined to bed after hip or knee surgery. Your doctor may have prescribed Arixtra for another reason. Ask your doctor if you have any questions about why Arixtra has been prescribed for you. Do not use Arixtra if you have an allergy to it or any of the ingredients listed at the end of this leaflet. Symptoms of an allergic reaction to Arixtra may include skin rash, itchiness, shortness of breath, or difficulty breathing. Do not use Arixtra if you are pregnant or intend to become pregnant. Arixtra is not recommended for use during pregnancy, unless you and your doctor or pharmacist have discussed the risks and benefits involved. Do not use Arixtra if you are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. It is not known whether Arixtra passes into human breast milk. Do not use Arixtra after the expiry date (EXP) printed on the pack. If you use this medicine after the expiry date has passed, it may not work as well as it should. Do not use Arixtra if the packaging is torn or shows signs of tampering. If you are not sure whether you should start using Arixtra, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are pregnant or intend to become pregnant. Your doctor or pharmacist will discuss the possible risks and benefits of using Arixtra during pregnancy. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are breast-feeding or plan to breast-feed. Your doctor or pharmacist will discuss the possible risks and benefits of using Arixtra during breast-feeding. heparin induced thrombocytopenia (low platelet count). Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are elderly or have a low body weight (less than 50 kg) as you may be at increased risk of bleeding if you are given Arixtra. It is recommended that your doctor monitor's your blood platelets at the beginning and end of your treatment with Arixtra. If you have not told your doctor or pharmacist about any of the above, tell them before you start using Arixtra. Tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are taking/using any other medicines, including any that you buy without a prescription from your pharmacy, supermarket or health food shop. Some medicines and Arixtra may interfere with each other. Your doctor or pharmacist may have more information on medicines to be careful with or to avoid while using Arixtra. The usual dose of Arixtra is 2.5 mg given once a day, starting after your operation. Arixtra may be given for up to 31 days. Arixtra is given to you as a subcutaneous injection (an injection just under the skin). Arixtra should not be given as an intramuscular injection (an injection into the muscle). The injections can be given by a doctor or nurse, or you may be taught how to give the injections to yourself. Instructions on how to use the Arixtra syringe are contained in the package insert in each Arixtra carton. If you think that you or anyone else may have been given too much Arixtra, immediately telephone your doctor or contact the Poisons Information Centre (telephone 13 11 26) for advice on overdose management or go to accident and emergency at your nearest hospital. Tell any other doctors, dentists, and pharmacists who are treating you that you are using Arixtra. If you are about to be started on any new medicine, tell your doctor, dentist or pharmacist that you are using Arixtra. These may be signs that a blood clot has formed. If you have epidural or spinal anaesthesia (a pain killing injection around the spinal cord), tell your doctor or nurse immediately if you have back pain, numbness or weakness in the legs, or problems with bowel or bladder function. Do not give Arixtra to anyone else, even if they have the same condition as you. Do not use Arixtra to treat any other complaints unless your doctor or pharmacist tells you to. Tell your doctor or pharmacist as soon as possible if you do not feel well while you are using Arixtra. Arixtra helps most people at risk of blood clots following surgery, but it may have unwanted side effects in some people. All medicines can have side effects. Sometimes they are serious, most of the time they are not. You may need medical treatment if you get some of the side effects. If you get any side effects, do not stop using Arixtra without first talking to your doctor or pharmacist. These side effects of Arixtra are usually mild. Arixtra will normally be stored in the pharmacy or on the hospital ward. The injection should be kept at room temperature (less than 25 degrees C). If your doctor or pharmacist tells you to stop using Arixtra or the injections have passed their expiry date, ask your pharmacist what to do with any that are left over. Arixtra comes as a pre-filled safety syringe, in pack sizes of 2 pre-filled syringes. This leaflet was prepared on 30 July 2014.

HEALTH PACKS SPORT DRINKS FOR TAILS ONLY BIOMETRICS BEYOND ORGANIC BLOOD/SUGAR PROBIOTICS DETOX EFA's MULTI VITAMINS MINERALS JUST VITAMINS INTEGRIS SHAKES SOZO PRODUCTS FREELIFE COLDS/FLU GOOD HERBS Searching for Glacial Milk that you originally bought at Costco and now is no longer available there. It was promoted by Doctor Joel Wallach in Florida and elsewhere and is similar if the same as our Tangy Tangerine Ultimate. 32 ounce liquid supplement for $38.00 wholesale Tangy Tangerine Item #: 13221-$44.95 Plant derived colloidal minerals "GLACIAL MILK" Many people are aware today that they need nutrient supplementation to augment their daily diets to assure their intake of the 90 essential nutrients but are frustrated in the results they get from the huge variety of multiple vitamin/mineral programs avail able. Vitamins are pretty much the same, there are fat-soluble and water soluble vitamins and they are about equally available in just about any multiple tablet; minerals, however, are a different story - there are three basic types of minerals: 1. Metallic Minerals Metallic minerals include egg shell, oyster shell, calcium carbonate, lime stone, dolomite, mineral salt, sea water and Great Salt Lake Water, mineral oxides (i.e. - iron oxide, copper oxide, etc.), vortex waters, sea bed minerals, "soils"(which are usually ,lay), sea bed clays and clays, "rock flours" and various antacids such as Rolaids and Tums Typically metallic minerals are found in tablets and powders as gluconate (calcium gluconate, zinc gluconate,etc,), lactate, sulfates, carbonates and oxides (iron oxide = rust!!!) Metallic minerals despite wild claims to the contrary are only eight to 12 % biologically available to animals and humans; after attaining the age of 35 to 40 Years the availability of metallic minerals to humans drops to three to five percent We know of a man with a "Porta Potty" business in Grand Rapids, Michigan who finds literally thousands of multiple vitamin/mineral tablets in the bottom screens when the "Porta potty" is pressure cleaned after a public event. We asked, "how do you know they are multiple vitamin/mineral tablets?" and he replied,"because the names are still on the coatings (i.e.- One-A-Day, Theragram M, Centrum, etc.)!! Over the years he has accumulated a literal mountain of these tablets!!! A typical metallic mineral supplement either alone or as part of a multiple is calcium lactate. Calcium lactate can be obtained in 2,000 mg tablets which breaks down to 140 mg of metallic calcium and 860 mg of milk sugar or lactose. Two 1000 mg calcium lactate tablets do not give you 2,000 mg of calcium they only give you 280 mg of metallic calcium - at a 10 %bioavailabiIity rate, Table 10 - 3. Amounts of Metallic Calcium in a 1000 mg Tablet Calcium gluconate ....................... 90 mg Calcium carbonate ......................400 mg Calcium acetate ...........................230 mg Calcium citrate ........................... 210 mg Calcium lactate ............................140 mg Cows milk (1000 mg fluid)...........10 mg Majestic Earth Tangy Tangerine Ultimate - 32 oz.- Item #: 13221-$44.95 Majestic Earth Tangy Tangerine from Youngevityy is the most complete full spectrum, dietary supplement ever offered in liquid form. Meet The Colloidal Mineral Doctor Ask the Colloidal Mineral Doctor Glacial Milk Salt Rich Clays Salt is a Blend... Our Earth is Anemic Anemic Earth Pica and Cribbing Copper Deficiencies Soils are Critically Deficient in Minerals What is a Colloid? Colloidal Suspension Humic Shale? Tin Cans? Colloidal Mineral Mine Source you get 28 mg of biologically available calcium, therefore to get enough calcium from these tablets to meet your needs, you would have to take 30 tablets with each meal or 90 tablets a day and you have 59 more minerals to go (Table 10 -3 above) 2. Chelated Minerals Chelated (Key-late) minerals were created by the livestock industry in the 1960's to ensure maximum availability of dietary minerals to animals being fed and fattened for market. The original chelating agent used was calcium EDTA, a man made amino acid that was invented by the Germans just Prior to WW II to antidote arsenic and lead exposure in chemical warfare attacks (calcium EDTA is used today for intravenous chelation therapy to clean out arterial obstructions). The term chelated literally means "claw," but is used to describe the process by which an amino acid, protein or enzyme (enzymes are proteins that do work) is wrapped around the mineral molecule which enhances the bio-availability of the metallic mineral. Chelated minerals are approximately 40 % bio available, a significant improvement over the original metallic minerals your septic tank in the back yard gets the other 60 % (Table 10 - 4). Chelated minerals are easily recognized on the label of a multiple vitamin/mineral supplement by the amino acid suffix such as selenium aspartate, chromium picolinate, or sometimes as an "amino acid chelate." Table 10-4. Absorption Comparison of Chelated and Metallic Minerals. Amino Acid Chelate vs. Sulphates Oxides 5.8:1 4.1:1 3.0:1 1.8:1 2.6:1 - - 2.3:1 3.9:1

Oregon's Debbie Dennis and Shannon Ryan Receive NASCA's National Distinguished Deputy Award Oct 28, 2021 | Business Debbie Dennis and Shannon Ryan, from the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, were jointly awarded the Distinguished Deputy Award from the National Association of State Chief Administrators (NASC LEXINGTON, KY, October 28, 2021 /24-7PressRelease/ — Debbie Dennis, Enterprise Goods and Services Administrator, and Shannon Ryan, Enterprise Asset Management Administrator , from the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, were jointly awarded the Distinguished Deputy Award from the National Association of State Chief Administrators (NASCA). NASCA, an association devoted to state Chief Administrative Officers and their senior leadership teams, presents the annual award to honor administrators for a career of accomplishments in state government operations. Dennis and Ryan received the honor October 27th during NASCA's annual award ceremony at the 2021 Institute on Management and Leadership in Rochester, New York. "Debbie and Shannon are the epitome of outstanding public servants," said Katy Coba, state Chief Operating Officer and DAS Director for the State of Oregon. "They are innovative, creative, tireless and committed to serving Oregonians. I could not ask for any better state employees," noted Coba. "Oregon is proud to call them their own and I am doubly proud to have them as DAS employees." Dennis, Enterprise Goods and Services Administrator, is responsible for all major procurements and contracts for the state. Dennis' leadership has increased the quality and quantity of procurements and contracts while also taking reductions due to budgetary constraints. During 2020, Dennis and her team also implemented a new enterprise-wide procurement system called OregonBuys. Debbie is recognized nationally as a leader and expert in state procurement. She is also a past president and board member of the National Association of State Procurement Officials (NASPO). Ryan, as the Administrator for Enterprise Asset Management, manages fleet, facilities, construction, maintenance and operations. Ryan's staff manages over six million square feet of owned and leased properties. The vast majority of owned properties are 60-150 years old. New construction is rare and is much smaller in scale. Not a single building is fully earthquake resilient even though Oregon sits in the heart of the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Ryan made it her mission to change that statistic and begin constructing or retrofitting existing structures for immediate occupancy following a 9.0 earthquake event. "Debbie and Shannon exemplify exceptional performance in their roles with substantial accomplishments that have made positive impacts on the state of Oregon," said Pam Goins, NASCA's Executive Director. "This award recognizes the most talented professionals in the state government operations industry who have demonstrated success in their careers and made significant contributions to the communities they serve. NASCA is thrilled to bestow this prestigious honor for their combined service." The National Distinguished Deputy Award was established to recognize deputies of state Chief Administrators for outstanding contributions to the work of state government operations. ABOUT NASCA The National Association of State Chief Administrators (NASCA) is the leading organization advancing professional development and best management solutions for the administrative functions of state government. The association provides state Chief Administrators with the opportunity to increase their knowledge of state government administration through education, networking and information exchange on state government trends, leading edge innovations, standards and best practices. NASCA's mission is to help state Chief Administrators and their teams strategically transform state government operations through the power of shared knowledge and thought leadership. PreviousGladstone Global Advisory Announces 2nd Quarter Financial Results and Statement of Financial Condition NextMYSTERY: New Album From Seán Johnson & The Wild Lotus Band Set For October 29th Release Via Be Still Records 'ICT Convergence Expo Korea 2022 & World AI Fair' opening at EXCO on the 9th… Participation of 700 booths from 170 companies participating! Take The Lead to Launch "Power to Change Conversations" Webinar Series on Women's Equality Day, August 26 Award-Winning Exclucity Founder Trent Out Loud Recounts his Entrepreneurial Journey in Best-selling Book Series Nao Group Set to Benefit from Post-Pandemic Expansion of Co-Working Sector Globally

Portugal suspends flights with the United Kingdom from Saturday That way, no flight would take off from Portugal to the UK, and vice versa, according to Costa, which is the intended procedure. "Reducing the risk of British virus transmission from the virus" Which has already been adopted by most of the countries of the world. "There will only be flights of a humanitarian nature and to bring Portuguese or English back home," he said. Costa proposes that the Community Bloc decided to keep all internal borders of the European Union open, Despite the "application of pandemic control measures". Portugal has suspended flights with the United Kingdom. The Portuguese Prime Minister also confirmed that the possibility of issuing it was discussed in the Council of the European Union. Certificates of vaccination for European citizens. "All vaccinated people will obtain a document proving this. " Costa said it would have medicinal effects, although, at present, there is no decision on the mentioned document for other uses in the future, he explained. The grafting process The council also evaluated the vaccination process in the European Union, added Costa, who stressed the importance of the production companies 'commitment to the contracts and the planned schedule so that" there are no further cuts in distribution. " In the case of Portugal, the prime minister explained that 202,000 vaccinations have already been given and that they are planning to end vaccination in nursing homes next week. The Portuguese Prime Minister indicated that the Council insisted on the importance of all member states respecting the principle of unity "There are no parallel negotiations on vaccines.", To ensure arrival as quickly as possible and to ensure that 70% of the adult population across the European Union has been vaccinated by the end of the summer. See also Step by step guide to your personal injury claim In addition, during the meeting, the importance of the European Union's joint efforts to support countries in Africa or Latin America was recognized in order to ensure the elimination of the epidemic globally. The TC must know the background of the non-applicability claimed by the Metropolitan University of Educational Sciences in relation to the rule preventing it from appealing to a CNA decision granting fewer years of accreditation. China will deepen its fight against corruption in 2021

Home Washington & Politics US report: Allies of El Salvador's president deemed corrupt US report: Allies of El Salvador's president deemed corrupt MIAMI — Allies of Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele, including his Cabinet chief, have been included in a list of senior officials in Central America deemed corrupt by the U.S. State Department, according to a copy of a report obtained by The Associated Press. The emergence of the list of purportedly five corrupt officials is likely to heighten tensions with Bukele, who is facing intense pressure from the Biden administration over the removal of several Supreme Court justices and El Salvador's attorney general. The U.S. has made strengthening democracy one of the pillars of its policy toward Central America, saying that rampant corruption is one of the root causes of illegal immigration. A copy of the report, which was sent Monday to members of the U.S. Congress, was provided to The Associated Press by a Democrat staffer on the condition of anonymity because it has not been made public. The list was originally included as a classified annex of a report sent to Congress in April in response to an appropriations request last year pushed by Rep. Norma Torres, a California Democrat who chairs the Central America caucus. That larger list contained the names of 12 Honduran and Guatemalan politicians accused of corruption or believed to have ties to drug trafficking organizations. The list of five Salvadoran officials deemed to have "engaged in significant acts of corruption" during their terms in offices was declassified May 4, according to the new report. Unlike the bulk of Guatemalans and Hondurans on the list, none of the Salvadorans have been indicted or sanctioned in the U.S. and their inclusion on the list would appear to have no immediate legal consequences. It nonetheless is likely to further strain relations between the Biden administration and Bukele, who has shown no willingness to back away from his consolidation of power that has drawn condemnation from senior U.S. officials and lawmakers of both parties. Bukele's fledgling New Ideas party swept February legislative elections by a landslide, taking control of the unicameral congress and immediately voting this month to remove the corruption-fighting top prosecutor and several high court magistrates who had blocked the president's agenda. While Bukele remains wildly popular at home after decades of corrupt rule that followed the end of the country's bloody civil war, his critics in the U.S. say that in concentrating power he is undermining already fragile institutions. "El Salvador is a sovereign country and President Bukele was democratically elected. He makes his own decisions," Sen. Patrick Leahy, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said Monday in a lengthy statement. "But the choices he and his allies in the Salvadoran Congress make, that are eviscerating El Salvador's democratic civilian institutions and empowering the armed forces, have consequences for U.S.–Salvadoran relations." The most prominent official on the list is Bukele's Cabinet chief, Carolina Recinos, who has worked alongside the president since his entry into politics as a small town mayor for the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front created by leftist guerrillas following the end of the civil war. There were no details of Recinos' alleged wrongdoing. Also named is Rogelio Rivas, who last month was replaced as minister of security and justice. The State Department said Rivas allegedly awarded his own construction company several noncompetitive, unadvertised contracts to build police stations and other buildings that fell under his official capacity and then inflated the cost of materials. Also included is lawmaker Guillermo Gallegos, a founder of the GANA party that broke with El Salvador's bipartisan system to support Bukele's presidential run in 2019. Two former FMLN lawmakers — Sigfrido Reyes and Jose Luis Merino, the latter a former vice minister of foreign relations in the FMLN government that preceded Bukele's administration — are also included. Fourteen members of the U.S. Congress, both Democrats and Republicans, wrote letters to the State and Treasury departments in 2017 requesting that Merino be investigated and sanctioned for ties to regional criminal groups. El Salvador's presidential office didn't respond to a request for comment from Bukele and said Recinos was not available. Rivas didn't respond to a request for comment and it was impossible to locate Merino. Bukele, who has accused the U.S. of heavy handedness, used irony to dismiss the report, a copy of which circulated earlier Monday on social media. He said he was shocked that El Salvador's "friends" after checking their archives could not find a single instance of corruption inside the conservative ARENA party — a favorite target of his. "Maybe they think they are all saints," he wrote on Twitter. "That's why they insist we return them to power." Reyes, an opponent of Bukele who has sought exile in Mexico after being criminally charged in El Salvador for corruption from his time in the legislature, called the accusations "baseless and ridiculous." The State Department "frequently lies to the world to meet its objectives. 18 years ago they swore that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. They are still searching for them!" he said on Twitter. A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on the non-public report but said that fighting corruption is at the center of the Biden administration's approach to the so-called Northern Triangle countries of Central America since corruption inhibits democratic governances, undermines security and stifles economic growth. Joshua Goodman on Twitter: @APJoshGoodman Associated Press writer Marcos Aleman in San Salvador, El Salvador, contributed to this report. National courts National governments Political corruption Supreme courts Previous articleMinneapolis mayor says police changes will increase safety Next articleColumbus Magazine May | June 2021 Executive privilege is killing checks and balances How conservatives attempted to refute Trump's version of the 'steal' Two announce they are seeking GOP nomination for District 73

Peak horticulture organisation Growcom today reminded Queenslanders and the state government that repercussions of Queensland's floods will echo beyond the immediate losses, with disastrous weather since November seriously hitting a number of other horticultural growing regions in the state, and that urgent action was needed to assist all growers who had lost their livelihoods. "Growcom offers our deepest condolences to families who have lost loved ones, homes and livelihoods in Queensland as a result of the floods," said Chief Executive Officer, Alex Livingstone. Livingstone said damage bills were likely to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars and it would be many months before production could return to normal. * Loss of skilled workers due to cessation of work for extended periods. "Many of these losses were similarly faced by growers following the devastation wrought by Cyclone Larry in 2006, although this time over a far greater area," said Mr Livingstone. "The industry recovery and support operation after Cyclone Larry lasted for two years and included up to three Industry Support Officers (ISO) working with horticulture growers to ensure that they were aware of and could access the appropriate government, social and health assistance," he said. Livingstone said that Growcom would continue to impress on government the need for industry based assistance officers who understood the needs of horticulture in affected regions as an efficient conduit between government and those growers who needed to access assistance and emotional support.

Bunnik, the Netherlands, 25 April 2018 – The Supervisory Board of Royal BAM Group nv has decided to nominate Mr L.F. (Frans) den Houter RC for appointment by the general meeting as member of the Executive Board of the Group in the role of Chief Financial Officer as of 1 August 2018, for a period of approximately four years until the general meeting in 2022. This nomination will be submitted to shareholders for approval at an extraordinary general meeting to be convened on Tuesday 26 June 2018. The proposed appointment of Mr Den Houter relates to Mrs T. Menssen MBA stepping down as Chief Financial Officer effective 1 July 2018. Frans den Houter (43) comes from Heerema Marine Contractors (HMC), where he has worked since 2010; from September 2012 as Chief Financial Officer. In this capacity he was responsible for all financial disciplines, as well as for legal affairs, compliance, human resources and information management. Mr Den Houter started his career at Exxon Mobil in 2000, where he worked as financial analyst and controller for the Benelux retail operating company. In 2005 he moved to Shell, where he worked as controller at Shell Global Real Estate, project manager at Shell Energy Europe and financial manager for joint ventures at Shell Upstream International. He joined HMC in 2010 as Finance and Control Manager and then held the position of Senior Vice President Finance before being appointed as CFO in 2012. Frans den Houter was trained as a hydrographic surveyor at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, he earned a degree in business economics at the University of Amsterdam and an international master's degree in Finance and Control and is a Register Controller. The nomination of Mr Den Houter by the Supervisory Board relies in particular on his vast knowledge and experience in the financial profession, his experience with corporate finance, change management and with risk and contract management of (large) projects. He has operated internationally throughout his career, has a broad orientation and, in the opinion of the Supervisory Board, fits in very well with the team of the Executive Board. The nomination of Mr Den Houter is supported by the Central Works Council.

No explanation is given as to where Clinton is, but Slough and Eton are nowhere near the Cotswolds - unless my geographic knowledge is even worse than I thought - and if Clinton was on a little branch line to Eton/Slough, then it must be near those places. Anyone able to tell me what is the nearest Cotswold town to Slough? We learn that her uncle is called Frank, but is there ever, anywhere, a reference to her aunt's name? She's referred to in the text only as Mrs Grayson. I wonder if EBD mixed up the Cotswolds and the Chilterns? There isn't a station caled Eton and Slough, there's Windsor and Eton Riverside and Windsor and Eton Central. To get to Windsor and Eton Central you have to change at Slough. Maybe that's what she was thnking of, There's a place caled Aston Clinton about 25 miles from Slough - it may have had a railway link to Slough once but not now. Slough is on the line to Paddington. Nowhere near Cotswolds, she might indeed be thnking of Chilterns! She does make it sound very real, don't think using real placenames is a good idea unless yiou are using them correctly! Better to change them slightly like Medbury (Ledbury) and Armiford (Hereford) then it doesn't matter if they are not quite right! Now if only her aunt's name appeared somewhere. I thought I'd seen somewhere that she had been called after the aunt? But maybe that's in a drabble or a fill-in?? She was named after her mum, who was also Kathleen. I don't think the aunt's name is mentioned. I shall check in the encyclopaedia ... which just says "Uncle Frank and Auntie". Yes, I knew she was named after her mum, and like Alison I checked in the encyclopaedia about her aunt's name. But she can't remain nameless, not in the situation I'm envisaging, so will have to produce something. Her husband can hardly refer to her as auntie, when speaking to another adult! That means you have your choice of names, so you can just choose something you like and no-one will be able to argue with you . I'll be able to argue with myself, though, Alison, because once I've chosen a name, and it's set in stone, I'll regret choosing that particular one! Think her mother and aunt were twins?? If so, maybe a name that fits well with Kathleen, though I don't have a suggestionj. Almost certainly not anything that EBD had already used for anyone major, or she'd have had Kathie saying that was her aunt's name ... so not Bridget, probably not Josephine or Margaret - might have been Mary as that was in such common use at the time it probably wouldn't be remarked on, but more likely a second name - unlikely to be Helena or Constance either! Think her mother and aunt were twins?? If so, maybe a name that fits well with Kathleen, though I don't have a suggestion. I always wondered if her aunt, and therefore also her mother, were Irish, with a name like Kathleen. Never thought of them being twins, though, ivohenry. I really think you can please yourself, Mary - perhaps check if the name that comes to you is in Charlotte Mary Yonge's History of Christian Names here as EMBD seems to have been so fond of it. Thanks, Noreen. I've chosen so many names for my own characters that I'm wondering why this particular name bothers me. It's odd because I now see that most of the names I've chosen are from folk known to me in my school years in the fifties and early sixties, the latter being when ND is set, so another one should be easy, no?!? Many thanks to all for getting involved. In my drabble, she's from Winchcombe (just outside Cheltenham) and just in the Cotswolds - and would be on a branch line to the main Bristol-Paddington line. Is the relationship between Kathleen and Mrs Grayson? I mean, are they supposed to be sisters? I didn't think it was clear from the books...... that could be annoying (and will involve re-writing). I'd decided Frank and Kathleen were brother and sister. Train from Cheltenham - Paddington would either be direct (several a day) , or change at Swindon. However, depending when your drabble is set, there was a local railway line with a station at Winchcombe, which closed in 1960. I think it was Jacynth whose mum and auntie were twins. It's not specified with Kathie. Mrs Grayson refers to Mrs Ferrars as "little Kitten" or something like that, and I took that to mean that Kathie's mum was her younger sister, but I suppose there's no reason she couldn't have been her sister-in-law and that she was using her husband's affectionate nickname for his younger sister - especially if there was a big age gap and Mrs F had only been young when Mr and Mrs G got together. It definitely doesn't say specifically, so I'd just use whichever family relationship works, for either of you .

Have you been looking for real musical conversation? The kind you can feel a part of and have your own thoughts? Well, look no further. The Music Challenge Podcast has you covered. This is the epitome of music nerdery. Feel a part of the improv conversation as the panel breaks down awesome music and reveals the greatness inside some of your favorite albums. Come for the music, stay for the conversation. Available anywhere you get your podcasts. The Music Challenge Podcast Andrew Keefe Jason Isbell - Southeastern Jason Isbell - Southeastern is the subject of The Music Challenge podcast as we salute thye Americana genre. Isbell is one of the master's of contemporary songwriting and his album Southeastern is a prime example. Born out of rock, folk, and country, Americana has found a solid listenership amongst huge amounts of fans. Come for the music. Stay for the conversation. Kid A by Radiohead is the subject of The Music Challenge Podcast as we plunge into this smash hit that changed the musical landscape for good. Radiohead had become big stadium rock, so listen at how they achieved such an intimate and personal album. Come for the music, Stay for the conversation! Tame Impala - Innerspeaker Tame Impala - Innerspeaker is the subject of this BONUS episode of The Music Challenge Podcast recorded in the summer of 2021. Listen as our crew analyzes the Australian superstar Kevin Parker and his first groundbreaking, blissed out album "Innerspeaker. Come for the music. Stay for the conversation of four dudes who just love music and presenting these albums to you. Phish - A Live One Phish's - A Live One is the special subject of this extended The Music Challenge Podcast. Listen to the enthusiasm of our hosts as we investigate Phish's first live release. Lot's of music and Phish lore as our hosts relate what this album meant to them. Come for the music, and stay for the conversation! Lee "Scratch" Perry Retrospective Reggae pioneer Lee "Scratch" Perry's career is the subject of this week's The Music Challenge Podcast. Hear some great music from the man who shaped the reggae's original sound, invented sampling, and the mixing board. He's worked with the Beastie Boys and The Clash just to name a few acts. You don't want to miss the story of Jamaica's "Disrupter". Beastie Boys - Check Your Head The Beastie Boy's album Check Your Head is the subject of this episode of The Music Challenge Podcast. Delve into these groundbreaking beats and rhymes while checking out some of the most timeless music in hip hop. With the addition of keyboardist Money Mark, The Beastie Boys unleashed their new sound on an unsuspecting public in 1992 with an album that holds up extremely well after thirty years. © 2021 Andrew Keefe Phillyb420 , 03/23/2021 Music talk in a SUPER FUN way! If I were to describe this podcast to a stranger, it would be "Some buddies who love music talking about great/favorite albums." Always a SUPER fun listen and min many ways informative. If you LOVE music, this is for you! Keep up the awesome work, guys! \mm/ Ferrispicoli , 03/28/2020 A few buds talking about music Entertaining and real because they'll go off on funny, non-music related tangents, but they always circle back to the music. The conversations are casual and it's easy to see why these guys are friends. Add to that their different ages and musical tastes, and it makes for a great podcast about the music that influenced their lives.

Socialists Are Stealing Elections and Destroying the Republic November 19, 2018 Kelleigh Nelson Politics & Government Comments Off on Socialists Are Stealing Elections and Destroying the Republic By Kelleigh Nelson: Kelleigh Nelson It's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the votes. — Communist leader Joseph Stalin Just as feudalism was an advance over slavery, and capitalism was the next step after feudalism, socialism is the next step after capitalism. Socialism in America will come through the ballot box. — American Communist Gus Hall The Christians are always singing about the blood. Let us give them enough of it. Let us cut their throats and drag them over the altar! And let them drown in their own blood! I dream of the day when the last priest is strangled on the guts of the last preacher. — American Communist Gus Hall Communist Control Our Department of Justice (DOJ) is thoroughly corrupt. There is no justice for the lawbreakers but plenty of injustice for the innocent. One need only look at the cast of characters in both politics and the DOJ who should have long ago been indicted, tried and convicted, all of whom are Democrats, with a sprinkling of Trotskyite Republicans. We call Democrats liberals (bleeding hearts is a total fallacy, they bleed for no one), and progressives…another euphemistic term as though they are moving toward progress. Progress into what… an oligarchy or totalitarianism with complete subservience to the state? They used these ambiguous terms and many others in order to appeal to the ignorant. Back when this started had they called themselves Marxists, which is what they truly are, it may have gotten them shot or hung. Marxist doesn't fully define them today. I would call them Leninists or Stalinists because the violence and oppression they are pushing for is right along the lines of Stalin's purges and Lenin's "Red Terror." Hillary Clinton said, "Civility can start again when democrats take control of the House and/or the Senate." Sounds a lot like National Socialist Hitler who said, "We shall only talk of peace when we have won the war." The Democrats turn to Socialism is an ominous sign for the party and for the country. Bernie Sanders, newly elected Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Palestinian Muslim Rashida Tlaib are not the only communists in our Congress. Since November 2016, nationwide membership of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) jumped from 5,000 to 40,000 and before the midterms to 52,000. There are now at least 77 DSA members in the 115th Congress, and back in the 111th Congress, eleven of them sat on the Judiciary Committee. More will be on the Committee in 2019, and most of them are funded by George Soros' MoveOn.org. The political left has been known as Marxists for many years. The infamous Weather Underground terrorist organization of the 1970's held the political ideology of Marxist Socialism, not liberalism. The 44th American President was great friends with unrepentant lying terrorist, Bill Ayers, who now calls himself a communist with a small "c." Ayers is a retired professor in the College of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, formerly holding the titles of Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University Scholar. Snowflake Universities Core values, traditions, the American family and the ideas of accomplishment and achievement are being destroyed, not just in our universities, but now in our high schools and middle schools. Creative writing, creative thinking, reason, logic, all of these things are being weeded out as destructive and threatening to the objective of sameness and equality and equity. The core of today's college and university doctrine is socialism. Academic education has been destroyed in every educational establishment that has accepted federal tax dollars. The rising popularity of socialism is threatening America's future. Our children are molded from kindergarten through high school with the socialist indoctrination found in common core! When they reach the university level, they have been primed to accept socialism. An extensive study of 8,688 tenure-track professors at 51 of the 66 top-ranked liberal arts colleges in the U.S. published by the National Association of Scholars found that the ratio of faculty members registered as Democrats (read that socialists) compared to those registered Republican is now a stunning 12.7 to 1. It's no wonder these propagandized and brainwashed young people vote for Democrats. Since the late 1800s, this has been the plan of the ruling elite. We saw the results in our recent midterm elections. American Communists In the 1940s and early 1950s, the Communists really did a number on Senator Joe McCarthy and destroyed his reputation, but the truth is out there. Sen. McCarthy was absolutely right that communists had infiltrated our State Department and Hollywood. Former State Department employee Alger Hiss was convicted of perjury in January 1950 for testimony dealing with accusations that he spied for the Soviet Union during the 1930s. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department official and as a UN official. "Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy" by M. Stanton Evans will change forever how you think about Sen. McCarthy and the Soviet penetration of the U.S. government and society. That was then, this is now and communists are even more prevalent today. The Communist Party U.S.A. (its name varied in the early years) was founded in Chicago in 1919 and opened its national headquarters in that city in 1921. But the bulk of the movement's members were in New York, and in 1927 Communist headquarters were shifted to a party-owned building in Manhattan two blocks south of Union Square. New York would remain the capital city of American Communism from then on, and today, who really can deny that both Chicago and New York are led by those who favor communism. Leading communists such as William Z. Foster, Marxist Politician and General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1945 to 1957, and Earl Browder, leader of the Communist Party USA and General Secretary during the 1930s and 40s, had their offices on the top floor of the 12th Street building. It became the custom to refer to party leadership as the "ninth floor." (And, for some reason, even in non- and anti-Communist left-wing circles, "the party" was always understood to refer to the Communists, rather than any rival organizations.) No one wants to call today's Democrats what they really are…full-fledged hardcore Communists, the same ones Joe McCarthy warned us about. Just take a gander at the 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx in 1848. Read again the quotes by Gus Hall, former leader of the Communist Party USA, and four-time Presidential candidate, and note that John Brennan, the former CIA Director under President Obama, actually voted for Gus Hall in 1976. In 1980 he was hired by the CIA. In 2013, Obama hired John Brennan as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the corrupt justice department. He held that position until January of 2017, and thankfully, President Trump finally pulled Brennan's security clearance. Is he a Communist? Well, he certainly isn't a patriot. 2018 Mid-Terms Trump supporters are bereft over the latest election, they are apoplectic over these phony recounts which seem to happen every time a Republican wins the election by a narrow margin. Every new mysteriously found batch of uncounted votes always supports the Socialist Democrat and destroys the Republican winner. When Department of Homeland Security Director Kirstjen Nielsen reported that there was no vote fraud in this election and it was the most secure in history, I laughed out loud because vote fraud has been going on for decades. One need only remember John F. Kennedy's election in 1960 where his father, old Joe Kennedy had Mayor Daley's Illinois Democrats make sure enough dead voters cast their ballots for his son. And he won by just 8,800 votes, largely due to margins in Chicago where Mayor Daley tightly controlled the Cook County organization. In Texas, home of Kennedy's running mate Lyndon Johnson, he won by a margin of 46,000. Had Nixon carried both states, he would have won the electoral college, 270 to 252. Mobsters Frank Costello and Meyer Lansky both confirmed late in their lives that Joe Kennedy Sr. was a gangster. He made his millions on illegal booze. Sam Giancana, mob boss of the criminal Chicago Outfit from 1957–1966 said, "Joe Kennedy is one of the biggest crooks who ever lived." Lyndon Baines Johnson made sure he won a 1948 Texas election for Senator which he'd lost. He overcame a 20,000-vote deficit to achieve his famous 87-vote victory in the 1948 Democratic runoff primary against a former Governor, Coke Stevenson. A South Texas political boss, George Parr, had manufactured thousands of votes for him, just as has happened in our recent 2018 midterm election, overturning several victories for Republicans. President Trump and other Republicans are crying foul and accusing Democrats of trying to "steal" the election. Given the history of voter fraud in this country and the heavily Democratic makeup of Florida's Broward and Palm Beach counties, their suspicions are probably justified. The corruption in Broward is infamous. The election supervisor, Brenda Snipes, even mixed bad provisional ballots with good. Snipes has a history of allowing illegal aliens and felons to vote. Florida Department of State officials have asked federal prosecutors to investigate possible election fraud in Broward County and three others where Florida Democratic Party volunteers are accused of sending voters altered state election documents with incorrect information. Federal Prosecutors also discovered altered election documents in Broward County tied to Florida Democrats. Senator Rubio was right when he tweeted, "Bay County was hit by a Cat 4 Hurricane just 4 weeks ago, yet managed to count votes and submit timely results. Yet over 41 hours after polls closed Broward elections office is still counting votes?" Slim margins trigger automatic recounts, and ultimately the Democrat wins by a few hundred votes. In the 2008 Minnesota Senate race, Republican incumbent Norm Coleman was 215 votes ahead of Democrat Al Franken. The recount put Franken ahead by 225 votes, but a later investigation showed that 1,099 felons, all of them ineligible, had voted. A recount in Arizona took the Senate race from Martha McSally and gave it to Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. Republican Brian Kemp won the gubernatorial race in Georgia after a recount battle. Democrat Stacey Abrams says the voting laws in Georgia are too restrictive and she plans to change them. Most likely she'd like felons and illegal aliens to cast votes. As John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky note in their book "Who's Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk," most felons favor Democrats when they can vote. Thankfully Rick Scott won the Senate seat over Bill Nelson, and Ron DeSantis won the gubernatorial race over Soros trained socialist, Andrew Gillum. Election day doesn't mean anything anymore when the Democrats can magically find thousands of uncounted votes that are for the losing Democrat, who then automatically asks for a recount and wins. Devvy Kidd, a friend and fellow columnist for NewsWithViews, has written numerous articles on vote fraud. It exists across America and is one of the weapons used by the socialists to install their fellow democrats. The Gateway Pundit reported that since election day, Democrats picked off over a dozen House seats and two Senate seats. Senator Marco Rubio said, "Democrat lawyers came to Florida to get judges to change Florida elections laws, after the election. That isn't a strategy to win an election, that is a strategy to steal an election." The indoctrinated elitists on both coasts think of us in the "fly over" area of America as the knuckle dragging, gun toting, Bible reading uneducated masses who shouldn't count. They want our votes eliminated and they'll go to any lengths to do just that. Do the Republicans care? Since the majority of them lean left, why would they? © Copyright by Kelleigh Nelson, 2017. All rights reserved. Email Kelleigh: [email protected] Read More Articles by Kelleigh Nelson Brenda Snipes Communist Party USA George Soros interferes in American politics voter fraud in Broward County About Kelleigh Nelson 386 Articles Kelleigh Nelson has been researching the Christian right and their connections to the left, the new age, and cults since 1975. Formerly an executive producer for three different national radio talk show hosts, she was adept at finding and scheduling a variety of wonderful guests for her radio hosts. She and her husband live in Knoxville, TN, and she has owned her own wholesale commercial bakery since 1990. Prior to moving to Tennessee, Kelleigh was marketing communications and advertising manager for a fortune 100 company in Ohio. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she was a Goldwater girl with high school classmate, Hillary Rodham, in Park Ridge, Illinois. Kelleigh is well acquainted with Chicago politics and was working in downtown Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention riots. Kelleigh is presently the secretary for Rocky Top Freedom Campaign, a strong freedom advocate group. Email Kelleigh: [email protected] California Governor Jerry Brown OK's Voting Rights For Illegal Aliens November 1, 2016 Rev. Austin Miles Politics & Government 1 Millions of illegals who have no right to be here in the first place must NOT be able to vote and have those votes counted. [Continue Reading] Unreported-Black Panthers' Voter Intimidation! November 8, 2018 Rev. Austin Miles Elections, The Loony Left Comments Off on Unreported-Black Panthers' Voter Intimidation! By Rev. Austin Miles: Voters however walked past the Panthers and into the voting area and voted for Brian Kemp, who is now the governor elect. Stacy Abrams still refuses to concede that she lost… [Continue Reading] Dems Rig Machines to Route Votes to Obama! November 4, 2012 Rev. Austin Miles Politics & Government Comments Off on Dems Rig Machines to Route Votes to Obama! By Rev. Austin Miles: U.S. military personnel out of the country were anxious to get their absentee ballots in. Then the puzzling news came out that the military vote was much lower than expected. Islam and Dogs: What's the Beef?

More than one in five of all Teach for America corps members in Philadelphia schools this year – 46 out of 213 – are in special education classrooms. By definition, these teachers are inexperienced and have received minimal training – seven to eight weeks over the summer. Is this good for special education instruction? TFA was set up to provide top recent college graduates to serve in classrooms in hard-to-staff schools where no certified personnel wanted to work, rather than suffering through a succession of unqualified substitutes. The shortage in special education has not abated, according to District officials. While the District's priority is to "hire highly qualified teachers in every subject," this school year "special education teaching positions continue to be one of the most difficult positions to fill," according to spokesman Fernando Gallard. The 46 TFA members in public schools today represent less than 3 percent of the District's 1,687 special education teachers. Gallard said certified teachers were not available. Conventionally certified special education teachers in Pennsylvania must complete a comprehensive course of study combining a degree program at an accredited university and field experience in a special-education classroom. For Joseph Ciesielski, a fully certified, third-year special education teacher at Olney Elementary, his studies helped him understand the laws governing special education as well as specific skills like writing an Individualized Education Plan (IEP). Ciesielski went through five years of schooling, 190 hours of classroom observation, and 12 weeks of student teaching. He said he regrets that his training at St. Joseph's University didn't include "more outreach from the District and a mindset of 'Let's make it easier for you to come work here.'" Absent that push, many of his classmates headed for jobs in the suburbs, he explained. TFA corps member Julia Cadwallender, now a second-year special education teacher at Spring Garden Elementary, had her advance training crammed into one summer. Between their acceptance into TFA and the start of the school year, corps members receive training materials, attend a summer institute aimed at becoming effective teachers, and do student teaching during summer school. During the school year, TFA provides its corps members in special education positions with extensive resources beyond those provided by the District. These include information-packed websites and online communities, access to experienced special education teachers in Philadelphia and elsewhere, interaction with other corps members in Philadelphia, and graduate coursework in special education at Chestnut Hill College. Cadwallender said she benefits most from the interaction with other teachers. "It is that collaborative, problem-solving community that I have really enjoyed being a part of," she said. "I have built a similar community with general education teachers" at Spring Garden. At the end of her two-year TFA stint this spring, Cadwallender will lose some of these resources, but maintain the online connection to other TFA special education teachers and alumni nationwide. She said that this and other resources will allow her to continue to be successful as she stays on for a third year at her school. Both teachers agreed that regardless of what disability affects a student, a prerequisite for special education teachers is to approach their work with a focus on identifying and emphasizing each individual's strengths.

Can the Hurricanes Pick Themselves Up? Home/NHL East/Carolina Hurricanes/Can the Hurricanes Pick Themselves Up? RALEIGH, NC – DECEMBER 01: Ryan Kesler #17 of the Vancouver Canucks scores a first period goal during an NHL game against the Carolina Hurricanes at PNC Arena on December 1, 2013 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Due to the physical appearance of the Ethiopian Wolf it is often mistaken for either a fox or a jackal. They are a medium sized wolf with very long legs and a muzzle that is more pointed and elongated than other species. They can have a variety of colors including reds, browns, and some white. The color often gets darker with age. This particular species of wolf is only found around the areas of Africa, namely Ethiopia which is where their namesake comes from. Sadly, there are only about seven locations in the area that are believed to still be home to them. Most of them reside in the mountain terrain but they have also been identified on the plains. They also feature ears that are very pointed. They also have a tail that is shorter and thicker at the end than other types of wolves. The aggressive nature of these wolves is less than of others. While they are still territorial it isn't to the extreme of other types when it comes to getting along with other wolf packs. The fact that there are fewer of them and the packs are more spread out could have a great deal to do with that fact. However, they are more dependent socially upon their pack than other types of wolves. They seem to thrive on the social interactions that take place within a pack. They have groups that usually have about six adults and then a group of pups which varies with every litter. Rodents make up the largest part of the diet for the Ethiopian Wolf. While they do live in packs, they don't hunt together. Therefore they stick to animals they should be able to capture on their own. The rivalry among the packs can increase when it is time to mate. It is estimated that more than half of all successful conceptions are from a male outside of the pack. This is very different than in other species of wolves. The females will give birth to a litter of up to six young at a time. What is unique is that the males born into a pack of Ethiopian Wolves will remain with it for the rest of its life. It is the females that leave when they are about two years old so that they can find another to mate in. They are generally accepted into another pack for breeding purposes. This is one of the few species of wolves where other pairs besides the alpha and the beta are allowed to mate. The Ethiopian Wolf is in dire need of protection with about 550 adult wolves remaining. However, it is very hard to accurately count them due to their movements so this is an educated guess based upon careful research. While they are protected by law, it is very hard to enforce those laws in Ethiopia. Due to the number of individuals there that now possess guns, the killing of Ethiopian Wolves for food is easier than before. Some villagers take part in it because they have no other way to feed their families. In 1990 there was a serious outbreak of rabies among the Ethiopian Wolves along Bale Mountain National Park. This scared many people and it is believed that over 400 wolves died from it or were killed due to being positive for it. The efforts of the Born Free Foundation stepped in to help by offering free rabies vaccinations for others so that the problem wouldn't continue. This helped to reduce the number of cases reported since then drastically.

Greenlight Partners with Angaza to Launch PAYG Consumer Platform New customers purchase their Pay-As-You-Go Eco Easy Buy kits © Angaza Design Greenlight Planet has launched a pay-as-you-go (PAYG) platform, the Sun King™ Eco Easy Buy, to enable low-income customers purchase its solar lamps in instalments over a period of 10 weeks. Greenlight Planet is using a mobile payments platform developed by Angaza Design to enable customers who cannot purchase solar lights upfront, pay a modest deposit of $2.75 towards the purchase price, and thereafter pay one dollar every week for a period of 10 weeks in order to fully own the product. "Most of our customers earn less than $2 a day and have very little disposable income. Some are dependent on daily wages that are used to purchase basic necessities including kerosene, mobile phone airtime and food in small increments. We needed to find an alternative to up-front payments that fit this purchasing pattern," says Anish Thakkar, CEO and co-founder of Greenlight Planet. Greenlight Planet begun piloting the Sun King™ Eco Easy Buy lights using the PAYG model in January 2015. According to Lesley Silverthorn Marincola, CEO of Angaza Design, the company's PAYG platform capitalizes on trends in mobile phone and mobile banking infrastructure to remove the upfront price barrier to solar and other modern sources of energy. Angaza enables customers to access clean energy by making pre-payments using 'mobile money' in much the same way prepaid airtime tokens are used. This removes the dreaded burden of taking and servicing traditional bank loans in purchasing goods. The customer takes home the product ready for use upon making the down payment. But they must make their weekly payments to keep the product activated. Late payments result in the lamp being automatically deactivated. On completion of all due payments, the product is "unlocked" and fully released to the customer, making subsequent use completely free. Greenlight Planet says more than 3 million households in low-income communities in areas not connected to grid electricity use its Sun King™ line of solar home lighting solutions which range in price from $10-$100. The Greenlight Planet solar lighting products all meet the Lighting Global Quality Standards.

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