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Old Settlement Week Is Here The "Old Settlement Showdown" is here, the yearly regular-season game between Ste. Genevieve and Valle Catholic. It's the most anticipated game of the year. Fans, parents and even the football players themselves circle the date on their calendars. Valle Catholic has a 31-26 edge in one of the longest-running game series in the Show-Me State. "This week's ball game is all about the players," said Valle Catholic head coach Judd Naeger. "All of these young men on both teams have worked very hard to play football." Naeger said of the commitment to practice, and how this sport is filled with delayed gratification, the community should equally celebrate the Warriors and Dragons. Especially since both teams are coming off convincing Week One victories, with Ste. Genevieve earning a hard-fought 36-31 victory over Festus and Valle Catholic pasting Skyline, 50-14, a four-hour drive away in Urbana. "It provides another test against a great opponent," said Jay Pope, in his first year as the Dragons' skipper. "Valle was able to beat (Class 3 state champion) Blair Oaks last season and proved they can compete at the highest level — regardless of classification." Pope said the Dragons are eagerly awaiting the litmus test the game versus Valle Catholic will provide. "Valle is Valle," Pope continued," they'll run whatever they need to in order to win the game, which makes it hard to prepare for them. You never know what you're going to get." Naeger said he expects the Dragons to run a spread offense and multiple formations on defense out of an odd-man front. "They are very good at both of these, and played a great game versus Festus in all aspects," Naeger explained. Both coaches chimed in on the keys to victory. "The keys to the game will be turnovers and just making big plays," Naeger said. "Whichever team can execute the best and make the big plays will come out on top." "I think the key for this game is always just going out an executing," Pope said. "This match-up always has an extra layer of excitement and expectations." Pope said some players — and even coaches — may push too hard to do too much instead of staying on task with a specific assignment.

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How the Premier Lacrosse League is using social media, gameplay innovation to gain traction Josh Schafer July 22, 2019, 9:54 p.m. UTC LOS ANGELES — Players strutted down a red carpet entrance flaunting swaggy attire for the cameras. Matt Rambo, the namesake of one of the evening's All-Star teams, arrived with a green apron which read "Chef Rambo," to accompany his jeans, slip-on sneakers and sunglasses. In a few hours, he'd slide on a pair of cleats that also included his nickname, and a custom black tie-dyed jersey with "@rattmambo," his Instagram handle, printed on the back. It was quite the production, one often expected of an NBA event rather than a newly created league such as the Premier Lacrosse League. But that's the point. "You know the saying, dress for the job you want not the job you have," said PLL player Myles Jones. "And we want this sport to be really big, and we want this league to be really big, and the PLL did a really good job treating us as is, red carpet, first-class weekend through and through." Players came through in STYLE on the Red Carpet 💧 #PLLASG pic.twitter.com/IKfYVFN314 — Premier Lacrosse League (@PremierLacrosse) July 21, 2019 The PLL is building a brand around its players. It flaunts an aggressive social media presence (the official PLL account tweeted more than 100 times on Sunday) and creates drama through strong characters that fans care about, regardless of their team. That's why the league is tour-based, eliminating geographical ties to teams to encourage fandoms sparked by the athletes and not the cities they represent. Their jerseys are T-shirt style, like European soccer jerseys, in the hopes that repping a Paul Rabil Atlas LC jersey becomes as common as a Lionel Messi Barcelona FC kit. The idea of the brand, and what it takes to build it, is what brought PLL to Banc of California Stadium for its inaugural All-Star Game. The PLL wants to expand lacrosse, so it chose the west coast where the sport is growing faster than anywhere else in the country. It wants to play in innovative stadiums, like Banc of California which opened in 2018 with free wifi, a pool, and a field level luxury club. And it wants fit into Los Angeles, a sports-rich market where you're either famous or pretending to be famous long enough for it to be real. "It's no secret to people all over the world that LA is full of celebrities and stars," PLL co-founder Paul Rabil told Yahoo Sports. "So if you're going to have your All-Star Game somewhere, then do it in the city of stars." Will Manny (#4) of Team Baptiste scores a goal past Kyle Berniohr (#35) of Team Rambo, for a 6-6 tie, during the Premier Lacrosse League All Star game between Team Baptiste and Team Rambo. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) What's different about the Premier Lacrosse League? Rabil and his older brother, Mike, founded the league. Rabil's been a lacrosse star since winning his second National Championship with Johns Hopkins University in 2007 and becoming the first millionaire lacrosse player less than a decade later. Mike started two fitness franchises and most recently helped build the sales and partnerships at Funding Circle in Silicon Valley. Through financing investors such as the Raine Group and the Chernin Group, the league launched in October 2018 with a three-year NBC broadcasting contract. The goal of the league is to make lacrosse a true professional sport. Since starting the new league Rabil's heard horror stories from players about the incumbent league, Major League Lacrosse. Players recalled Ubering to games, and pizza and beer for postgame meals. The old league functioned with a "weekend warrior," mindset Rabil said, noting most players worked other jobs outside of professional lacrosse. Rabil changed that for himself, by creating content across various social media platforms to boost his popularity, he signed sponsorships with Under Armour and Red Bull. Over the last decade, he's become the sports most popular player and is trying to teach his methods to the players of his new league, some of whom work on the business side of the company alongside Rabil. "We want full-time lacrosse players," said Kyle Harrison, a player in the league who doubles as the director of player relations as well as diversity and inclusion. "Obviously social media, the support role of our media team, and understanding how to build a brand and teaching folks that, that's all the s - - - that's going to get this to the next level." PLL provides its athletes with a healthcare package, an average wage of $35,000 (more than four times the 2018 average of the MLL) and stock options in the league. Rabil wants this league to be different, and that starts with treating the players better. But that can only happen if the league is successful, which hinges on tapping into a larger market than lacrosse has previously reached. It's a fine line to balance between, satisfying long-time fans while still bringing in new ones. Mike uses the phrase, "Net new fans" and says it's often a topic of discussion in meetings. During the All-Star Game, the PLL attempted to appease both crowds. The NCAA has changed minor points in the faceoff multiple times in the last five years, and it's a point of contention among the sport's fanatics. Since faceoffs come after goals, some view it as a way of player "winners" in pickup basketball. If a team's faceoff man is spectacular, the other team will struggle to possess the ball and the game becomes lopsided. Uncompetitive games are not ideal for a new league, nor is the confusion associated with the faceoff rules. So the PLL experimented. For the second quarter, they eliminated the faceoff and played the ball out of the goal, similar to basketball when play continues after a made shot. In the third quarter, the PLL related its game to hockey, opting for a "ball drop," which played similar to dropping the puck for a faceoff in hockey. While the views came back mixed on social media, it didn't matter. People tuned into the All-Star Game to see the new rules and tweeted about them. The league's Twitter account promised fans two free tickets to a future PLL event if they convinced a bartender to turn on the game and tweeted a photo of it with #PLLASG. In the second quarter, Rabil had the game's most viral moment, with a behind-the-back feed on the run. The play ended in a goal and more than 200,000 views of the highlight on Twitter: No cap ⭐️🥍 https://t.co/0yTCKuBq6r — Paul Rabil (@PaulRabil) July 22, 2019 Sunday's All-Star event ended with a skills competition. The lacrosse mini-games were comparable to those seen in other sports. The Freestyle Contest provided players 30 seconds to score a goal while judges gave out points for creativity. Think Slam Dunk Contest or Shootout Challenge. In the Goalie Challenge, goalies had 12 opportunities for saves. Whoever stopped the most shots won — think penalty kicks. Some of the competitions were even sponsored like the Adidas Fastest Player Challenge, which is also the sponsor of the league's apparel, and the Vineyard Vines Accuracy Challenge. Partnerships are important for the league, PLL CEO Mike Rabil said, perhaps none more so than the broadcast partnership with NBC. In June, the PLL announced a game at Red Bull Arena had 412,000 viewers across NBC platforms, making it the most watched outdoor professional lacrosse game ever. Players swung through the PLL headquarters in Manhattan Beach throughout All-Star week. Some attended Sports Illustrated's fashion show. They also made an appearance at Twitter headquarters. Rabil announced on Sunday every player in the league was verified on Twitter. For a league that announces its total social interactions after each weekend, that's a big deal. This week's All-Star Game wasn't the huge production seen in other sports. At least, not publicly. But that's OK for now. Los Angeles is also the home of those rising to stardom. And that's where the PLL players believe they are. Maybe, they'll make it, and be the group that finally monetized professional lacrosse. If they do, it'll be with their video cameras in hand, ensuring none of us miss a moment. "I believe in what we're doing," Paul Rabil said. 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Many fanatic music listeners feel an artist's greatest works are accomplished when they are young, and would thus go backward toward an early Sir Douglas Quintet record in order to capture the best of this legendary Texas artist. This release on an independent label hardly made a ripple in the late '90s, although musically there is enough here to create a tidal wave. Everything comes together beautifully in the proposed combination of tracks by Sahm and some of his old-time cohorts from both the quintet and the Texas Tornados and a collaboration with a younger bunch of dudes, namely the Gourds. Highlights there are, galore. No Sahm record would be this good unless Augie Meyers was on hand, and the man gets lots of solo space on all his axes. Pedal steel guitar player Tommy Detamore has some nice moments on the country material, of which there is lots. Rhythm section partners from the past -- such as bassist Speedy Sparks and the fine drummer Ernie Durawa -- are around to give the tunes a solid feel. One of the great things about the CD is the way it suddenly takes on a whole new life as a historical, political project through the sequence of songs, starting with the wonderful Sahm-panned "Louis Riel," going through the hysterical version of "The Ballad of Davy Crockett," and winding up with "Sooner or Later." On a more romantic note, there is a new version of an older Sahm song, "Give Back the Key to My Heart," certainly welcome since the original recorded version had such an unfinished feel to it. "Goodbye San Francisco, Hello Amsterdam" is another Sahm classic and surely a song with the potential to become a favorite. There is also a rollicking rhythm & blues bonus track tossed in at the end for added fun.

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(Redirected from 14 November) Quotes of the day from previous years: The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ~ George Eliot selected by Kalki If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact. ~ J. Krishnamurti The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (born 14 November 1889) proposed by Kalki Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (date of birth) To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru proposed by Zarbon Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick ~ (published that day in the United States in 1851; but first published on October 18 in England). proposed by MosheZadka The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people. It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving truth. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru ~ Most of us seldom take the trouble to think. It is a troublesome and fatiguing process and often leads to uncomfortable conclusions. But crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think. Even if God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him, so Voltaire said … Perhaps that is true, and indeed the mind of man has always been fashioning some such mental image or conception which grew with the mind's growth. But there is something also in the reverse proposition: even if God exist, it may be desirable not to look up to Him or to rely upon Him. Too much dependence on supernatural forces may lead, and has often led, to loss of self-reliance in man, and to a blunting of his capacity and creative ability. And yet some faith seems necessary in things of the spirit which are beyond the scope of our physical world, some reliance on moral, spiritual, and idealistic conceptions, or else we have no anchorage, no objectives or purpose in life. Whether we believe in God or not, it is impossible not to believe in something, whether we call it a creative life-giving force, or vital energy inherent in matter which gives it its capacity for self-movement and change and growth, or by some other name, something that is as real, though elusive, as life is real when contrasted with death. The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then get elected and prove it. ~ P. J. O'Rourke ~ Great causes and little men go ill together. Killing innocent people by surprise is not called "a thousand points of light." But, as frightening as terrorism is, it's the weapon of losers. The minute somebody sets off a suicide bomb, you can be sure that person doesn't have "career prospects." And no matter how horrendous a terrorist attack is, it's still conducted by losers. We talk about a secular state in India. It is perhaps not very easy even to find a good word in Hindi for "secular". Some people think it means something opposed to religion. That obviously is not correct. What it means is that it is state which honours all faiths equally and gives them equal opportunities; that, as a state, it does not allow itself to be attached to one faith or religion, which then becomes the state religion. One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. We are, the great spiritual writers insist, most fully ourselves when we give ourselves away, and it is egotism that holds us back from that transcendent experience that has been called God, Nirvana, Brahman, or the Tao. What I now realize, from my study of the different religious traditions, is that a disciplined attempt to go beyond the ego brings about a state of ecstasy. Indeed, it is in itself ekstasis. Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, or self-emptying, is found in the life of God itself. They do not do this because it sounds edifying, but because this is the way that human nature seems to work. We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind. ~ Karen Armstrong ~ Rank or add further suggestions… The Quote of the Day (QOTD) is a prominent feature of the Wikiquote Main Page. Thank you for submitting, reviewing, and ranking suggestions! 4 : Excellent – should definitely be used. (This is the utmost ranking and should be used by any editor for only one quote at a time for each date.) 3 : Very Good – strong desire to see it used. 2 : Good – some desire to see it used. 1 : Acceptable – but with no particular desire to see it used. 0 : Not acceptable – not appropriate for use as a quote of the day. An averaging of the rankings provided to each suggestion produces it's general ranking in considerations for selection of Quote of the Day. 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Used 14 August 2015, in relation to anniversary celebrations of the independence of India, proposed (originally, on this date) by Nvvchar SuggestionsEdit It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work. ~ Condoleezza Rice, born this day Suggested by MurielMary (talk) 09:37, 20 August 2016 (UTC) There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. ~ P. J. O'Rourke (born 14 November 1947) 3 Kalki 16:07, 28 February 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. 2 Zarbon 06:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC) 3 InvisibleSun 21:16, 13 November 2008 (UTC) The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru 2 because the polar opposite of existence is destruction, both done simultaneously by man. Zarbon 05:19, 3 May 2008 (UTC) 3 Kalki 15:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4. You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru 4 because history remains a stagnant reminder of the past, imperfect and perfect, a cognitive construct that can never be erased, especially not by trying to conceal the truth. Zarbon 05:19, 3 May 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 00:17, 13 November 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 15:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC) Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming. 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:07, 14 November 2017 (UTC) When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible, he didn't have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. 14Edit I say that religion isn't about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It's about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness. 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 13 November 2020 (UTC) Human beings are the only animals who have the capacity to envisage something that is not present or something that does not yet exist but which is merely possible. The imagination has thus been the cause of our major achievements in science and technology as well as in art and religion. All truly creative thought is in some sense intuitive; it demands a leap forward into the dark world of uncreated reality. Seen in this way, intuition is not the abdication of reason but rather reason speeded up, encapsulated in an instant, so that a solution appears without the usual laborious logical preparations. A creative genius comes back from this undiscovered country like ones of the the heroes of antiquity, who has wrested something back from the gods and brought it to mankind. 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College journalists reporting in the Information Age in Latest News, Uncategorized A free one-day conference on the ethics and responsibilities of reporting is open to all college students and instructors. The conference, being held at Colby College on Oct. 27, is hosted by Goldfish Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement, along with the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting. For more information and the brochure, please click here. Boston Globe announces 2014 internship program deadline in Blog, News, Uncategorized The Boston Globe runs one of the top internship programs in the nation, giving 10 interns the opportunity to work as reporters, as well as photographer, designer or copy editor. The 12-week paid internship places reporter-interns in our Metro, Business, Living/Arts, and Sports departments; the photo intern shoots stills and video for all sections, the design intern creates sections fronts and information graphics for print and online, and the copy editing intern works on local, national, foreign and business copy. We provide guidance and direction, as well as a writing coach dedicated to the interns. Globe interns produce every day and finely polish their journalism skills over the summer. The application deadline is Nov. 1. More information on the program and an application can be accessed from our website:www.bostonglobe.com/newsintern. How Connecticut Media Responded To Newtown Shooting A collection of reflections and articles on how news organizations in Connecticut have covered the school shooting in Newtown Dec. 14. Newtown Bee Coverage CTMirror: At the Newtown Bee: Reporting While Grieving Poynter: How The Newtown Bee Is covering Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting Slate: Newtown Bee: "Please Stay Away From The Victims" Journalists Reflect Matt DeRienzo: A newspaper company comes together to cover Newtown CJR: A laurel to the Hartford Courant Michael Bellmore: Last night I wasn't happy Dwight Silverman: A journey to Newtown If you know of other reflections from Connecticut journalists, please send a link to CTSPJ Vice President of Communications, Jamie DeLoma, at [email protected]. Letter to our members: Chapter conducts independent review into Paresh Jha's contest entries Dear Connecticut SPJ members: As current officers representing the Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, we are writing to inform you of recent actions taken concerning possible fabrications in entries to the 2011 Excellence in Journalism contest. As you may know, former New Canaan News reporter Paresh Jha was dismissed from his job. The action followed the discovery that he had fabricated sources and quotes in published reports. Upon learning of these developments, the Connecticut SPJ Board of Directors realized that Jha was recently selected for two awards in the 2011 Excellence in Journalism contest sponsored by the chapter. Jha won a third place award for feature writing and a first place award for in-depth reporting. We immediately contacted Hearst Connecticut Newspapers, owner of the New Canaan News, asking if any portion of these award-winning entries were fabricated. David McCumber, editorial director for Hearst Connecticut Newspapers, who responded within half an hour, said that their investigation verified facts and sources in the feature story. Their investigation, however, found fabrications in one of the three stories in the series. Meanwhile, the Connecticut SPJ board began deliberations on whether to rescind the award(s) and/or to conduct our own independent investigation of the entries. On Thursday, June 28, the board voted 10-1, with one member not voting, to conduct an independent investigation of these entries. Today, the board further voted 10-1, with one member not voting, to authorize Roy S. Gutterman, a media lawyer and Syracuse professor, to conduct the independent investigation. Gutterman, a member of SPJ, is authorized to contact any individuals or organizations necessary to complete the investigation and make recommendations to the board on possible actions on the awards. We expect the investigation to be completed and a report completed by July 31. After that, we will consider whether to act on the awards. Connecticut SPJ is dedicated to preserving the integrity of our long-time contest, and to ensuring the continued confidence of journalists in our future contests. We condemn all unethical practices and continue to applaud all media organizations for their swift action on ridding the industry of any violators. Over the past year, we have been increasingly dismayed to see the on-going lapse in good journalistic practices. This is the third journalist to lose their job in the state over plagiarism or fabrication. (See Middletown Press and Fairfield Minuteman.) We are so concerned about these matters that we are considering professional programs on this topic. Your input on this matter, changes to our contest and any other SPJ- or journalism-related matter is valued by the Connecticut SPJ board. Please take time to give your feedback on these issues. You may email us at [email protected]. We will inform you of any future action taken on this matter. We hope see you at a future program. Please check the chapter website at ctspj.org for updates on all future programming and news. Cindy Simoneau, president Don Stacom, vice president Jamie DeLoma, vice president/communications Jodie Mozdzer, treasurer (and president-elect) Cara Baruzzi, secretary Jerry Dunklee, past president Edward Cotter Edward Cotter Jr., was photographer for the Evening Sentinel and the New Haven Register for more than 55 years, before his death in January 2012. He was 91. Eddie Cotter set the standard for journalists in the lower Naugatuck Valley. And, he paved the way to make sure the public always got to see what was happening in their communities – including with emergency services. Several newspaper reporters and editors recalled their time working with Cotter in news articles about his death. Former New Haven Register editor Michael Foley said when Cotter walked into the newsroom late in the day with a photo, it meant one thing ― tear up whatever the editors had planned for the front page. Cotter's photos were up close and dramatic. On more than one occasion the editors at the Register had to meet to discuss whether to publish Cotter's photos. "It could be raw stuff," said Foley. John Ferraro, the state editor at The Hartford Courant, worked with Cotter in the early 1990s at the Register's Valley bureau. Ferraro said he and Cotter would often run out to cover crashes and fires. At times Cotter would take photos, hand Ferraro the camera to take back to the office, then either step in to fight a fire or drive an ambulance. "He thought that people had the right to see what was going on in their communities," Ferraro said. "Part of that was showing what rescue people did." The Naugatuck Valley press corps and the community have benefited from the access to emergency services. First responders in the Valley have an expectation that what they do is public, and should be shared with the community. That is a result of Cotter's influence. Edward Cotter contributed immensely to journalism and to the public in Connecticut. We are honored to induct him into the Connecticut Journalism Hall of Fame. John Mongillo Jr. John Mongillo Jr. was an extraordinary newsman. Following his father, John Sr. who was also a news photographer, he shot photos of most major news events in Connecticut during a 40-year career. Hurricane Gloria, the collapse of the Mianus River Bridge, the Stratford Toll Plaza fire are a few examples. He seemed to be everywhere at once. His contacts were legendary. He knew everyone from beat cops, to major public officials, to regular citizens. And they all called John with stories. He often was at crime scenes before any other reporter or photographer, and in 1980 was credited with negotiating a hostage situation at the East Street branch of the former First Bank in New Haven when a would-be robber wanted to relay his demands through the media. As a result, Mongillo received the police chief's Citizen Meritorious Service Award. Former New Haven Register Editor Jack Kramer, who worked with Mongillo for about 30 years, said, "Nobody was more plugged in, nobody knew more cops or firefighters, nobody was faster with information than John Mongillo. He made sure we had the most up-to-date and best information and photographs." He also shot thousands of images of less well-known stories and portraits of everyday people in the news. Mongillo worked at the New Haven Register for 30 years and then became a free lancer. He provided still pictures and video to news outlets around the state and beyond for the rest of his life. He was only 64 when he died. John Mongillo Jr. was the complete news photographer. We are proud to induct him into the Connecticut Journalism Hall of Fame. Meet Cindy Simoneau Cindy Simoneau is the immediate past president of our chapter. She is an associate professor of Journalism at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the former assistant managing editor of the Connecticut Post where she is currently a consulting editor and internship coordinator. She is in her 15th year as adviser to CTTeens, the only high school newspaper journalism project in Connecticut. She was editor of the daily "Woman Wise" section and a bureau chief reporter at the Post before that. After receiving a B.A. degree at the University of Rhode Island, Simoneau began her career as a reporter for the Newtown Bee. She is a freelance writer and editor. For news writing she has received the Society of Professional Journalists' regional award. She has been an active member of the Connecticut SPJ chapter, she is currently serving as immediate past president and was a longtime treasurer and member of the Board of Directors since 1983. You may reach her at [email protected]. Citizen Journalism Event — Live Chat by lglagowski CT Journalism Hall of Fame: Pat Child Pat Child was a news photographer for New Haven's WTNH-TV, CH. 8 for almost 40 years. He covered most major news stories in the state during his remarkable career. Child worked with dozens of reporters over his many years, often knowing as much or more about the personalities and the politics as they did. Child knew the state of Connecticut extraordinarily well. He guided many young reporters and videographers toward more complete coverage of events. His brother, Bob, also a news photographer, worked for the Associated Press. When an important news event occurred members of the press referred to it as a "two Child" story because both would be at the scene. Pat covered everything. Hurricanes, blizzards, political conventions and day-to-day news stories. He retired, moved to Florida and died in 2004 at the age of 69.

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It's all about the greens, cut-outs and head-scarfs. The wildness captured in the background brings the shades of green into focus. Pairing a maxi with different accessories gives unique looks every time. Head scarf and long shrug are my weapons for this look-book apart from the usual maxi look.The contrast color of the head scarf gave a bohemian vibe while the shrug seemed to add a semi-formal touch to the outfit.Each of these accessories accentuated the look of the maxi.As you know, when I try western wear,I prefer statement jewellery. In this case, I picked statement earrings and kept it simple with no neck-piece. Hey folks, I am back with another new post as a part of the Modern Indian Woman series.I can say that this look is more skewed towards ethnicity rather than Indo-western fusion. To everyone who wants to start trying Indian ethnic wear, I strongly recommend owning certain wardrobe staples- a plain black kurti and a plain white kurti , solid black and solid white colored leggings, and a beautiful dupatta. With these staples, you can easily flaunt two gorgeous ethnic looks. For this post, I choose a black kurti along with black leggings and added a pop of color with a beautiful handmade dupatta. If you have been following my blog, then you must have noticed this dupatta in my Kolkata shopping experience post.Beautifully crafted by local tribals, this dupatta depicts kantha work on a thappa (combination of different pieces of clothes).I accentuated the look with afghani earrings, a hand-bag prepared by Rann of Kutch artisans and kolhapuris. In continuation to my Modern Indian Woman series for this month, it's time to talk about the second look. This look is going to be about how you could use your modern tops or crop-tops over ethnic bottoms to give an Indo-western/fusion look. This look helps in bringing out the boldness of a Indian Woman along with the creative aspect. Maroon shade of the crochet top, being one of the main Indian ethnic colors accentuated the look.The tassel earrings and thread jewellery are this season must-haves and I could completely count on these to complete the look with a bohemian vibe.I have used one of the coral chains which I purchased in Andaman as a bracelet. Are you thinking of abandoning those winter clothes and restocking your wardrobe with a new set of summer clothes??? Just hold on, you don't have to do that.All those winter outfits could be put to good use even during summer without looking awkward.You can use those leather jackets just to tie around your waist or make it stand on one of your shoulders to make your jeans-tshirt combo look different and interesting.How can you use your winter boots?!! Well, use those boots when you wear those pretty denim shorts and a cool graphic tee. I have tried to create one such winter-summer look for this post.This lookbook is going to show you how you can use those winter boots, leather jacket, and dress to suit the current season.I will definitely post more looks on this front on my Instagram in the coming days ( You can follow me on Instagram here ).

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The whistle -blower, who helped the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission recover the $ 43 m, N 23.2 m and £27,800 ( N 13 bn ) from an Ikoyi apartment on April 12, 2017, has finally been paid his commission. Reports say the whistle -blower travelled out of the country less than 24 hours after receiving part of the N 421 m reward. The whistle- blower's lawyer, Mr. Yakubu Galadima, confirmed the development on Wednesday. Galadima said the Federal Government 's decision to pay his client was an evidence that his client was the real whistle - blower out of the others that had been laying claim to the money. At least three persons have laid claim to the commission including one Abdulmumumuni Musa , who has sued the Minister of Finance and the Attorney General of the Federation. The money, which was recovered from Flat 7 B, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, led to the suspension and eventual sacking of the Director General of the NIA, Ambassador Ayo Oke. The N13 bn recovered from the Osborne Towers was said to have been part of the $ 289,202,382 the NIA received from the Central Bank of Nigeria in February 2015. The transaction was purportedly approved by former President Goodluck Jonathan through the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).

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Free Emporium & Gift Exchange was designed for the gallery space Cuchifritos located in the Essex Street Market on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The project presented an interactive installation that took place during the holiday season. A gift shop among many merchants, Free Emporium offered a gift swap service, inviting customers to bring in an unwanted, unused holiday gift to trade for another. Many participated, resulting in a display of gifts that rotated daily. Participants could also browse products and ephemera from the Global Free Store, a previous project.

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Forums > Stock Traders and Investors Sharing Ideas > Trading news and analysis (syndicated content) > Get Paid To Play Defense -- The Easy Way Discussion in 'Trading news and analysis (syndicated content)' started by StreetAuthority, Jan 7, 2019. StreetAuthority Active Member Official Contributor In turbulent times like these, investors are understandably skittish about depositing hard-earned assets into brokerage and 401(K) retirement accounts. But letting your cash languish in low-yielding instruments won't do much to help build a comfortable nest egg either. ---Recommended Link--- Is Your Portfolio Missing Something? Legendary investment analyst Jimmy Butts reveals the 10 stocks he believes will crush the market in 2019. Be one of the first to get your hands on this report to make sure you're not missing out on a windfall stock pick. Click here to discover all 10 now. If only there were a door number three: a way to stay invested and protected. A way to earn dependable income (beyond dividends), even if the market stalls out or retreats... Actually, there is. As I explained in this piece, covered call options are a great way for investors to not only enhance their income -- but also to reduce risk by lowering their cost basis (every premium you earn lowers your breakeven price). But not everyone is comfortable trading individual options. That's OK. For those of you who'd rather leave this strategy to the pros, there's still a way to participate. I recently told my High-Yield Investing subscribers about a group of funds that were specifically created to take this concept and apply it on a much larger scale. The Hands-Off Approach Using my example of Pfizer in my last piece, if 100 shares can generate about $200 in yearly premium income, then 1,000 shares can give us $2,000 and 10,000 shares can net $20,000. So, imagine the income potential for a closed-end fund that holds hundreds of thousands or even millions of shares. Take the Nuveen Dow 30 Dynamic Overwrite (NYSE: DIAX). The fund invests in the 30 members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and collects dividends on each. But unlike a plain vanilla index fund, it also sells covered call options to generate additional income and enhance risk-adjusted returns. The fund holds 180,000 shares each of Boeing (NYSE: BA), Cisco (Nasdaq: CSCO), Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), and Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT), among others. And it sells options on roughly 50% of the fund's holdings, sweetening the dividends with premium income that allows for a robust distribution of 7.3%. Keep in mind, while the underlying premise is the same, there are different applications of this strategy. Within the options section of the portfolio, three factors you'll want to consider are the average strike/spot price ratio (102% for DIAX), weighted average number of days to maturity, and average call option overlay as a percentage of total fund assets. This will yield some insight on how much potential appreciation the fund manager is willing to trade away for current income. It's common for these covered call funds (also known as "buy-write" funds) to have an options overlay representing between 30% and 60% of assets. That's enough to enhance income and be an effective risk management tool, while still leaving the rest of the portfolio unencumbered to participate in a rising market. These funds will usually lag in a runaway bull market, but that's to be expected. They perform best when those bull markets begin to stall out and cool. To demonstrate, just look back a few years to 2015. The S&P 500 inched up just 1.4% that year. But as advertised, the PowerShares S&P 500 BuyWrite Portfolio (NYSE: PBP) delivered a much stronger return of 4.5%. Current conditions favor this strategy. And the extreme price swings we've been seeing make it even more compelling. Remember the $0.50 per share option premium I cited earlier. It's not set in stone. Premiums can vary wildly from a few pennies to several dollars per share, depending on certain variables. The more a stock price fluctuates, the more profitable a call option can be -- and the more buyers are willing to pay. That's always a good thing when you're the one on the selling end of the transaction. In other words, this market volatility could be an ally. As one final incentive, consider that covered-call funds can support outsized distributions without the aid of leverage. Most do NOT borrow money, making them less vulnerable to rising rates than other closed-end funds. URGENT NEWS: Experts Warn Your Pension Is 'A Disaster Waiting To Happen' Save your retirement from miserly interest rates and an overstretched stock market with our special "Executive Dividends" Program... Learn more inside. Want To Know My Favorite? Of course, not all of these funds are created equal. DIAX and PBP are certainly worthy of consideration, but neither one of these if my favorite. Instead, I recently recommended a well-managed fund that has a portfolio of some of the best value stocks on the market. As I told my High-Yield Investing subscribers back in November, I think we're about to see value stocks come back into favor in a big way very soon. The fund currently yields about 7% -- and pays monthly. Unfortunately, if you'd like to get the name of this pick, you'll have to be a High-Yield Investing subscriber. (You can learn more here.) Either way, covered call funds will shine in this environment, acting as a hedge against a directionless market. So if you're looking for some protection and a little extra income, it would be wise to look into them. Street Authority Less than 0.01% of all traders have this advantage.. this is your invitation to join them. 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Community Groups Demand Justice for the Lennon-Griffin Family; Lennon Livid Over Fannie Mae "Offer" Rochester 29 Apr 2011 07:46 GMT On April 21, 2011 a press conference was held at 9 Ravenwood Ave. announcing that a growing list of community organizations and individuals have joined a new alliance to fight for justice for Catherine Lennon and her family, the Rochester grandmother who was evicted by over 20 Rochester police officers late last month. Mary Adams gave a statement on behalf of the Community Education Task Force and Ryan Acuff gave a statement on behalf of Take Back the Land - Rochester. On March 28, Rochester police executed the eviction arresting seven people, including a 70 year old neighbor, still in her pajamas. Charges against those arrested are being dropped in exchange for 8 hours of community service. The coalition is calling for the Lennon-Griffin family to be returned to their home and an end to the practices which provide banks with financial incentives to evict families in foreclosure. In addition, documents will be revealed which point to irregularities, and possible fraud, in the foreclosure process handled by notorious foreclosure mill of Steven J. Baum. The Baum firm is under investigation by the state of New York for fraud. Video: Justice for the Lennon-Griffin Family Campaign Formed; Lennon Livid Over Fannie Mae "Offer" Additional Information: 'This Is Not America': SWAT Team Evicts Grandmother, Community Fights Back (Video) | 7 Arrested in Eviction Defense at 9 Ravenwood Ave. | Cathy Lennon is Still in Her House! Nearly 2-Week Old Eviction Blockade Working! The Struggle Continues! | Local Family and Take Back the Land Announce Eviction Defense | "We got sold out; they got bailed out!" Anti-Eviction Rally on S. Goodman Street homepage:: http://rochester.indymedia.org/ read more: http://rochester.indymedia.org/feature/display/20073/index.php

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Betsy is a bubbly and friendly Miniature Goldendoodle puppy. This curious gal is ready for her new life filled with lots of adventures with you! She has been vet checked and is up to date on all shots and wormer. The breeder will provide a one year genetic health guarantee. Contact Marian Hoover today for more information and to set up a time to meet this happy pup! This puppy is a first-generation Miniature Goldendoodle, where one parent is a Golden Retriever and the other is a Miniature Poodle. Due to this fact, please be advised that sizes can vary and there may be puppies that fall above or below the projected full-grown weight within any litter. Puppies can favor either parent in weight, looks and stature and it is important to remember that the projected full-grown weight is only an estimate and not a guarantee. The breeder provides a one year genetic health guarantee. Marian Hoover is a breeder from Ephrata PA with a good looking litter of Mini Goldendoodle puppies currently available for sale. These beautiful pups are waiting for their new families to take them home! Contact Marian today for more information.

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Try This At Home: Pumpkin Pie Milkshake | Four All Ice Cream. Pumpkin pie is perfect for so many fall festivities/every day enjoyment. Here's another way to enjoy it: in a milkshake! We are so fortunate to have Just Love Pie in Waterloo who makes us the perfect pumpkin pies for our Pumpkin Pie ice cream. We want to honour them with this simple yet incredible DIY recipe. Blend blend blend! Blend together your scoops of ice cream and milk and ta-da! The perfect fall milkshake. Watch the blog next week for another DIY recipe using #fourallicecream!

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Do you have an instrument just collecting dust in your home, garage or closet? You can help save your local Milpitas school music programs by donating that instrument while also getting a tax-deductible receipt for your donation! Your donated instruments will be used to enhance our 4th – 12th grade band and orchestra classes. We are currently accepting all wind, string, pianos, and percussion instruments. Sumida, between 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM. The address is 1285 Escuela Pkwy., Milpitas, CA 95035. Please include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address with each donation so we can send you a receipt for your tax-deductible donation. We would appreciate it if you could include a brief history of the instrument and why you decided to donate it to us. Please email or give us a call if you have any questions.

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The Evil That Men Do (Part 2) 1001 The Evil That Men Do (Part 2) /index.php/content_page/item/1001-the-evil-that-men-do-part-2 Gen 1, Year 2 | Kayda | Tansy | E. E. Nalley | ElrodW | Loophole The Evil That Men Do E. Nalley I wouldn't if I were you I know what she can do She's deadly man, she could really rip your world apart Ooh, the beauty is there but a beast is in the heart Hall & Oates, Maneater The Crystal Hall (Breakfast) "I just don't see how you eat that!" Marty announced with a smile as she took a sip of her orange juice and shook her head at her lover's foibles. Across the table from her Stephen was dashing salt into the thick, white concoction he was making in a bowl. He took his hand off the spoon and it stayed upright on its own. "Ah, perfect," he observed with a smile and popped a spoonful into his mouth. "Grits, my dear Marty," he continued, happily munching. "Are but one of the many proofs of the existence and love of God. Cream of Wheat, on the other hand, is the work of the Devil." Marty giggled as she smeared the butter on her toast. "Hey, no argument from me, not a fan of wheat paste, but how do you...? So gritty and... Just, yuck!" The red head looked pained. "Yes, I know, instant grits won't ever live up to the real thing, but out here in the savage wastelands of..." "Ok, ok, Johnny Reb, the War's over!" Marty teased him with a playful bit of footsie under the table. "I'm not complaining," Stronghold replied as he prepared another mouthful. "I'm the one with the war spoils, so..." "Hush, you Rhett Butler wanna be...!" "Frankly, my dear..." A rainbow striped cloth fell on the table, knocking over Marty's Orange Juice down the front of her blouse. A trio of boys in raucous laughter drowned out her surprised cry of outrage as the tallest leaned into Stephen's face to shout, "Hey Fag Man! Congratulations! I hear you and Fake Girl got it on so I got you a new cape!" Stephen's alabaster complexion flushed scarlet as his chair skidding back was loud in the hall. He stood, nose to nose with the other boy who made no move to back down. "What's your name, friend?" he asked surprisingly softly as he handed Marty the napkin dispenser to aid her in trying to salvage her uniform. Marty had heard him use that tone once before and looked up, tears streaming from her eyes. It was the tone he had used towards Mrs Turner, right after she had broken his arm and he still had to be restrained from attacking her again. Some part of her knew that Stephen was about to launch an all out attack on Eruption. Knew that she should try to do something to stop him, but she felt so warm that her man was going to fight to defend her honor and her emotions welled up and the absolute worst thing she could say popped out of her mouth. "David Archer, you god damned asshole!" she shouted, her voice thick with emotion and her face wet with tears. Eruption just grinned. "Shut up, you freak," he sneered before turning back to Stronghold. "I was gonna say 'None of your business, Fag Man,' but I guess now we're introduced! What are you gonna do about it?" Stephen's smile was evil. "Ah just wanted to know what to carve into your tomb stone, you fucking dead man!" he shouted as he balled a fist and swung. The punch connected right where David's jaw hinged and attached to his skull. His head was snapped around and his body was picked up and launched over the table and would likely have traveled some distance, but his foot caught the lip and he tumbled over the other side into a heap. Stronghold vaulted over the table like an action movie hero, his free hand still in a fist. Around them, the other kids began to leap up and form a ring around the combatants, chanting, "Fight! Fight!" over and over. "Yeah! Let's get this fag lover!" shouted Dump Truck as he made to jump into the fight and attack Stronghold in the back, but a blur shot from the crowd and punched him. Matthew was knocked sideways, nearly ten feet and knocking over another table, much to the loud complaints of its occupants. Standing in his dress shirt and slacks only, Sayyid clenched a fist and shouted, "Coward! Attack a man with his back turned! You want a fight with a gay man, come to me!" Dump Truck scrambled to his feet as he began to glow, one hand wiping away the blood from his split lip. "Ok, Sand Nigger, you're on!" he shouted, leaping to close the distance and feinting a right that Sayyid went to block before a massive left hit the Iraqi boy like a freight train. Eruption rolled up into a kick that landed on Stephen's chest, leaving muddy boot prints on the oxford shirt and staggered him back. On his feet and snarling, he shouted, "You think I can't take a hit you goddamned fudge packer!" With an exaggerated throwing motion, a beam of energy shot from David's open palm right into Stephen's breast bone. The red headed young man from Georgia folded around the beam like it was a solid object and was thrown back into a concrete planter, much to its ruin and the unhappy scattering of the ficus bush planted in it. Stronghold stood from the ruined planter, reaching up and ripping off the remnants of his oxford shirt and suit jacket, one half in each hand revealing his perfectly sculpted torso, each muscle group defined like a Greek Statue. "It's on, son!" he shouted and launched himself forward. Saladin and Dump Truck were trading blows like Holyfield and Tyson, while shouting obscenities at each other. Sayyid's nose was obviously broken, but the boy continued to take and throw punches. Matthew wasn't unscathed either, as he left eye was swelling closed and that ear was also swelling into a cauliflower. Thud, who had been waiting for an opening, launched himself at Sayyid's unprotected back, but as he passed the last table, which was full of girls, one jumped up, locked up both his arms in a full nelson, then picked him up and over her head to slam him head first into the floor. "Oh no you don't, bigot!" shouted Hippolyta. "Come get beaten by a girl!" Thud stood, shaking his head to clear it, his face flushed in a rage. "What girl? You're just a fag in a dress!" Hippy snarled as she threw a punch to retaliate, but Thud dodged under it and landed a painful looking kick into her armpit that cartwheeled her into the reflecting pool of the obelisk. Hippolyta screamed in a rage as her soaked uniform clung to her, leaving her without a trace of modesty. Stronghold managed to duck around Eruption's punch, entwining his right arm to Eruption's at the shoulder. Stephen then planted his hip into David's buttock and hip tossed him to the floor. Stephen followed him down, leading with his knee that landed in the small of David's back. Eruption yelled with pain as Stronghold threw a massive blow to the back of his neck, driving his head into floor so hard it cracked the concrete. "You want to take some hits?" Stephen shouted as he rained blows down. "Anything to oblige!" Hippolyta leapt out of the pool and launched herself at Thud, however just then Mr Donner fell from the sky from having leapt off the Teacher's Dias from the top tier, he landed with a tremendous thud and caught the two of them in his massive hands. Next to him flew Mr. Paulson who forcibly removed Stronghold from Eruption's back, and, in a show of unadulterated bravery, the normal human Mr. Filbert separated Sayyid and Dump Truck. "That's enough!" Mr. Paulson shouted, taking a hold of each boy by the scruff of the neck. "Mr. Nalley, I thought better of you! And Mr Archer I see you and I need to have another discussion about your personal beliefs and how you inappropriately choose to share them!" "Ah'm gonna rip off your head and shit down your neck!" Stronghold shouted, trying in vain to free himself from the hulking teacher's hold and lay hands on his adversary. The two teachers and the house father frog marched the combatants out of the hall onto the Fixer's Patio as they continued to abrade the lot of them. From the crowd, Kayda separated herself and came over to Marty who was staring after them, completely uncaring about her blouse now. "Marty, are you ok?" she asked, setting down her tray on the table. "Did you see him?" Marty asked breathlessly. "Did you see him? My boyfriend kicked his ass!" "Ok, June Cleaver, welcome to the twenty first century!" Kayda told her as she took her elbow and began to guide her to the water fall and it's hidden bathrooms. "Let me see if I can get that stain out before it sets." National Weather Service Regional Head Quarters, Gray, Maine "Hey Tom, look at this!" Tom Davenport had graduated with his meteorological degree last June. His dreams of riches and fame as a TV weather man had thus far failed to achieve fruition, but at least working for the National Weather Service was paying his bills and in his field. He had several friends from college who couldn't say that much. "What's up?" he asked, wandering over to Gina's monitor. Not that he needed an excuse to be closer to Gina. Being partnered with the prettiest girl in the office was another stroke of luck he was thankful for. She had accessed a series of reporting stations in the Lancaster area that had tripped alarms. "What the hell?" he exclaimed as he saw the numbers. The temperature at three fire stations had dropped fifteen degrees in as many minutes and the airport station was reading a similar drop. Even the one out on the reservation was dropping, and it was the worst at twenty degrees. "Switch to Doppler," he ordered and she called up the display. Clouds began to form practically out of nowhere inside of fifteen minutes. "I'll put out an alert, keep an eye on this," he said as he went over to the little table that held the radio broadcasting equipment. He tripped the alarm and after a second to gather his thoughts spoke into the microphone. "The National Weather Service in Gray, Maine is issuing a Winter Storm Advisory for the following counties. Temperatures have sharply dropped and snow and ice may make travel conditions difficult, especially on bridges and overpasses. This advisory will expire at five pm eastern daylight time tonight. Affected counties in the Advisory area are..." The Crystal Hall "Hey Tansy!" The blonde exemplar turned from pulling off her coat to find Elaine and Wyatt entering the Crystal Hall behind her. The trio shared a hug of greeting before hanging coats on hooks. "Morning Lanie, Wyatt," Tansy said as she laid her scarf over her jacket's hook. "Hey beautiful," Wyatt rumbled as he yawned and hung his stocking cap, his usual only concession to the cold, on a hook. "Smells like the weather's changing." He turned and looked at Elaine sidelong. "You smell it?" "That crisp, kind of wintergreen smell?" she asked to which he nodded. "I was wondering. Oh! Tansy, I've been meaning to apologize to you about the Wor...uh, well, that shouting match we got into last year." Tansy looked puzzled. "You mean that day of pranks and you calling me out? Honey, you don't owe me anything from that. If you hadn't, I never would have been saddled with the three little pests and, dear lord, still being that bitch I was..." Elaine took the other girl by the shoulders. "Well, none of that excuses me for what Ah said." Walcutt felt Wyatt's eyes on her, and so brought her hands up to Lanie's wrists. "Oh, and here I thought you liked being all dominating." She stepped back, raising her hands over her head and taking Elaine's with her, pulling the other girl off balance. Elaine half leaned, half fell into Tansy, pinning them both against the wall that held the coat hooks, breast to breast and nose to nose. "Are you sure you don't want to put me in my place some more?" Tansy cooed. Wyatt grunted and adjusted himself as he walked by towards the food line. "Some things never change," he rumbled as Elaine and Tansy broke out into a giggle fit. "What are you looking at?" he demanded of a freshman boy who was staring, slack jawed and wide eyed at what he had accidentally seen. Wyatt's heavy hand landed on his shoulder. "Son, why don't you and I go have a chat about discretion and not lurking in nooks and crannies..." "Well, looks like we have a starring role in his fantasy life from now on," Elaine said as she rolled her eyes and stuffed her gloves into the pocket of the leather bomber she had worn. Tansy sniffed as she rummaged in her purse for her ID. "If I got weirded out by the thought of guys having dates with Rosy Palm and my picture I would never have lasted in Venus, Inc. Still, I don't have to face them. I don't see how you can be so 'out and proud' around campus. It surprised me after..." Elaine shrugged and turned to face her. "It's how Ah deal with it," she admitted. She sighed. "Southern Belles don't cry in public." Tansy reached out and gently took the Red Head's elbow and with her head indicated the restrooms on the other side of the Hall. "Walk with me?" Elaine nodded and the two girls set out. "There's something I want to ask you, but not where there are prying ears." "Why not just think at me?" Elaine asked. Tansy winked at her and her voice was in Elaine's mind even though her lips didn't move. As easily distracted as we are? Just containing a giggle, Elaine nodded and followed her into the women's room. She paused for a moment, then walked over to the sinks and mirror. "You can speak freely, we're alone." Elaine opened her purse and removed her tricorder to consult the device before she returned it. "And no bugs Ah can find, so, what's up?" she asked as she checked her make up in the mirror. Lanie didn't wear much, but on Tansy's advise had begun to use a UV blocker that was also a good foundation for her complexion that evened out her skin tone and hid the little spatter of tiny freckles over her nose that embarrassed her. From her own purse, Tansy removed a lipstick and touched herself up. "I...well, I was thinking about telling my mother...about...me, uh, well, us, and I don't know how she'll take it." Tansy sighed. "To be completely honest, I don't know that much about her at all. Daddy had her committed when I was seven. I hadn't really seen her for ten years." She sniffed and quickly produced a tissue and daubed the corners of her eyes. Elaine put down her own lipstick and wrapped her lover up in a firm, but gentle hug of encouragement. Over her mental link, Tansy felt Lanie's concern and love, and intense desire to try and help. "God, I love you!" she admitted as Tansy hugged her back. "You, you just love without any reservations!" After a long moment of hugging, Lanie stepped back, but maintained her touch with Tansy and asked, "How can Ah help?" "You're out to your parents, aren't you?" Tansy asked. "H..how did that go?" Elaine shrugged as she leaned back against the sink counter top and sighed. "Ah'm out to mah mom. Ah don't know if she told Dad. At least, he didn't act any different over summer and it never came up. Ah haven't told mom about you and me or how we both share Wyatt. As far as Ah know, she thinks Ah'm just Bi and picked Wyatt." "Yeah, I guess telling her last summer would have been awkward," Tansy admitted. "Especially with us sharing a room." Lanie chuckled. "That honestly surprised me. Mom can be downright old fashioned at times, and after you left Wyatt and Ah had to be very discrete. Dad gave him the talk." "The Talk?" Walcutt asked, arching an eyebrow. Lanie blushed. "Yes the, 'there's more than one body in that lake' while cleaning his guns and 'just what are your intentions towards mah daughter' talk." The blonde rolled her eyes in amusement. "Oh, that one." She sniffed. "I doubt my dad could be bothered to give two shits if I were to get married. The only one he would give is can he still make use of my powers for him." She crossed her arms in annoyance. "That's why I want to be careful with my mom." "She seemed like a nice lady," Lanie told her. "Ah didn't get the vibe that she was a hater or anything." Satisfied her lips were presentable, Tansy put the lipstick back in her purse. "Oh, I'm sure you two will hit it off. I mean, she is a lawyer after all..." "Hey now!" The two girls shared a laugh and Elaine put her hand on Tansy's arm. "If you want me to be there when you tell her, Ah'll be glad to!" The two girls hugged and touched their foreheads together, looking into each others eyes. "Thanks, my love. Knowing you're here for me really helps." Lecture Hall One, Schuster Hall, Whateley Academy Stephen Nalley thrust his hands in his pockets and winced in pain. He had split open the knuckles on his right hand and they were bandaged, but still quite painful. He missed Banned Aides and the instant healing the senior had provided, but he had graduated last year and now the brawlers had to live with their lumps. Truth be told, his hand didn't hurt anywhere near as much as his pride and conscience. The icy stare the Headmistress had administered made him feel worse than any minor case of skinned knuckles. What hurt was the feeling he had let her down on purpose. She hadn't raised her voice at him, Sayyid or Anosha, nor had she needed to. The stare and the quiet disapproval made things much, much worse. "Miss Ibrahimi, in your years here, have you suffered under the delusion that your actions at breakfast this morning were allowed?" Mrs Carson had demanded as they all stood before her, hang dog expressions all around, in her office. "No, ma'am," Hippolyte admitted, with a fair helping of begrudging. "I could excuse Mr. Thatcher due to his being a freshman," and when Dump Truck had the bravado to smile, her frown crushed it like a grape under heel. "I won't," she amended strongly, "but I could. He is young and foolish and chooses not to know better, but you are a senior, Anosha! You are a leader on this campus and a role model to the lower classmen." For the first time Hippolyte winced, as if being addressed by her first name made the infraction worse. "I expect better of you," Mrs Carson finished with another wilting glare. "Yes ma'am." "Since you and Mr. Assim are so quick to leap to the defense of Mr. Nalley," and she turned her glare on him. "Who also should know better, despite being a mere sophomore, then you may assist him in his detention. Mr. Archer, you and your two friends like making messes, you can help clean them up. Two weeks detention assisting Mr. Lipscowycz and Mr. Goldberg in the sewers. You brought a foul stench to your reputations, so you may enjoy savoring it. Dismissed." Eruption and his henchmen ambled out silently, knowing better than to back talk the Headmistress. Once they were gone, she turned to the remaining three. "As I said, you may assist Mr. Nalley in his punishment. For the next week, the three of you will assist Mr Harrington at the stables, as the odor clinging to you is as pungent. Mr. Nalley, you are due at the sophomore assembly, Mr Assim and Miss Ibrahimi are dismissed. Report to Mr. Harrington after class this evening." It had not been a long walk from administration to Lecture Hall One, it was one of the holdovers of the building, the traditional, amphitheater-like classic lecture hall. It could seat nearly two hundred, all with a fairly excellent view of the professor and the black board behind him. The room smelled of old wood, chalk dust and learning. As Stephen joined the crowd of sophomore's filing in, he caught sight of his sister's friend Kayda and walked over to her. "Hey, Kayda," he greeted, indicating the place next to her. "This seat taken?" Her pause was only long enough to be noticed by someone who knew her. "No," she said. "Please, sit down." Sinking next to her he made a point to give her plenty of space on the bench and laid his back pack on the floor between them to make a psychological barrier. "I thought this was just for sophomores?" Kayda rolled her eyes and forced a smile. "Like you, I arrived late last year." Stephen started to answer but was stopped by the arrival of Mrs Carson, her Prada pumps loud on the hard wood floor. "Welcome, Sophomores," she greeted, laying a bundle of yellow slips on the lectern, then leaning back against the table it rested on. It was a very casual gesture, but it struck Stephen suddenly just how attractive Mrs Carson was. "Last year, I spoiled your Thanksgiving Break by informing you of the requirement of a Mutant Identity Card for you to return. Some of you were very vocal about your displeasure of that requirement. The more literary among you made references to 'Scarlet Letters...'" Kayda leaned over and whispered, "Oh, Lanie had to be in that camp!" "Some of you," the headmistress continued, "muttered about fascists and 'America spelled with a K.'" Her attention locked on someone and she said, "Yes, dear, my hearing is that good." A nervous laugh fluttered through the hall. "Unfortunately, students, it is my job to open your eyes to the world and today I have to show you an ugly side of it. To show you what the other side wanted in the compromise that produced the MID. Oh, not our speaker directly, the MID was already around, but that side that has real fascists are still out there. And they don't wear those obvious uniforms anymore." Kayda paled and gasped, loud enough to draw Steven's attention. "I ... I think I saw this," she stammered softly. The way she spoke, fear radiating through her every word, was enough to unnerve Steve. "Is it that bad?" Kayda simply nodded, her lips grimly pressed together, her eyes wide and fixed on Mrs. Carson. Steve gulped, steeling himself for something really unpleasant. He wondered why Lanie had never told him about this if it was as bad as Kayda feared. Unless she knew it would shatter his naive young worldview, and she was trying to be a good big sister, trying to let him enjoy just a bit more innocence before he was forced to face a cruel reality. He gulped again, starting to wonder if he really could prepare for something bad enough to make Lanie do that. Mrs Carson pressed a button and the blackboard slid aside revealing a television the size of a small movie screen. "What you are about to hear is unpleasant, but it is important that you all hear it. As such," and she held up the bundle of yellow slips. "Anyone cat calling, back talking the video or otherwise disrupting this presentation will get a lovely little yellow slip. It grants the bearer a month of detention and the loss of your privileges to go off campus for any reason for the rest of this year." A gasp flowed across the bleachers. "Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am that serious and I am not joking. So, without further introduction, I give you Dr Helen Cassandra Hilton-Goodkind, M.D., Ph.D." The lights went down in the amphitheater and the screen brightened with a simple logo and the declaration of 'Ideas Worth Spreading'. Then the camera showed a young woman, lithe, beautiful, wearing a dress obviously tailored to her measure with hair and makeup that had been expertly done by professionals. As she began to speak, behind her, slides were projected onto a large screen depicting the horrors she spoke of. "In 1347, an outbreak of the bacterium Yersinia pestis in Asia marched through India, into the Middle East, then Africa and Europe. Fifty million people would die by what history has called the Black Death. One third of the human population of this planet were wiped out." On the screen behind her, a picture of a child so covered in blisters and sores her features could not be made out caused a gasp to run through both audiences, live and in the recording. "Before it was exterminated by a coordinated, global effort, the viruses Variola major or Variola minor commonly know as Small Pox maimed, deformed and killed uncounted millions of humanity throughout history. And at the turn of the last century the Typhoid and Influenza pandemics are estimated to have killed nearly one hundred million people." The images changed to what at first glance were war torn images from World War Two, of cities in ruin, but soon it became apparent these images were not restricted to war and things quickly became too modern to have been from World War Two. "Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a new plague marching across the globe. A plague whose carriers destroy not individual lives, but entire cities, who deprive us of the feeling of safety and security that is the right of every human being. But it is not a mindless bacteria or virus of which I speak, innocent in its lack of will, no the plague I speak of is the distorted, mutation of the human genome itself. It is given a pretty and scientific name; the Meta-Gene Complex, and we speak of it in clinical terms of being 'active' or 'inactive' but its results are just as devastating as those plagues of old." "The carriers of this horrible affliction are not treated, and there are many who try now to make research into the cure of this disease a crime. Instead they don brightly colored clothing and are lauded as 'heroes' while they destroy everything and everyone around them. But they are not heroes, they are sick; patients in need of treatment that more and more our own governments tie the hands of physicians like myself to keep us from helping them. These poor victims insist they aren't sick, that this is a natural course of evolution and I and those who share my opinion are as evil as Hitler, or Stalin or Mao." "Well, there have been people before who insisted they weren't sick, who scoffed at the scientific facts and who spread disease and contagion. Allow me to introduce you to Mary Mallon," and a new slide showed an old black and white photograph of a young woman in a hospital bed. "She doesn't look nefarious, does she? She doesn't look evil, she doesn't even look sick, but if you think she looks like a patient, in a hospital you would be right. She is in that hospital because she was sick. Mary Mallon was directly responsible for the deaths of at least fifty one people that we know of for certain, making her, not including so-called paranormals, the second highest serial killer in the history of the United States! "You don't recognize her, do you? Well you would if I told you the name she killed under, the name history has given her, you see Mary Mallon is better known as Typhoid Mary. She spread Typhoid knowing she was infected, knowing she could spread that horrific disease. Was she evil? No. She just didn't believe in germ theory, didn't believe she could have a disease and not have symptoms. In the medical field we call that an asymptomatic carrier. And while some Mutants have obvious abilities far in excess of normal humanity, ladies and gentlemen, there are asymptomatic carriers of this disease. Mutants are not just those who put on costume and destroy our cities without a second thought to the rest of us. Mutants are also everyone who possesses the Meta-Gene Complex and pass this illness down to their children and risk them mutating into destructive monsters. They are sick, and their illness is killing all of us." While the MCO maintains a list of Schedule A Threats to Humanity, they are relatively rare. Victims, driven mad by their disease and acting on their basest emotions to dominate the rest of us. Far more common is the Rager. Imagine your neighbor's son or daughter, over night turning into some grotesque monster who, like a rabid animal, goes on a rampage in a frenzied, mindless blood lust." Behind her, on a screen visible to her audience, an image straight from a Disney movie appeared, a gentle, familiar yellow dog. That image morphed into the same dog, now smitten with rabies, trying to mindlessly attack his owner. "That happens somewhere on this planet once every twelve days. Stop and think about that. Every two weeks some one has their lives destroyed by a rabid, deformed monster that kills ten, or fifty, or a thousand. You wouldn't hesitate to put down the family dog that has been bitten by a rabid animal before it could harm your family, but our governments allow them to roam our streets and kill at will!" Another series of images appeared - horrific pictures taken straight from news articles, showing victims of various rager attacks, highlighting the dead innocents, especially women and children, showing their wounds in gruesome and deliberate detail to evoke shock and outrage in her audience. "Every. Twelve. Days. Children are murdered. Every twelve days, wives are mutilated. Every twelve days husbands, fathers, brothers and sisters are forever lost while our police are ill equipped to protect us from this danger, lurking in our midst." A Mercator projection of the world appeared with a bold label 'Rager Attacks Since 1945', and on the world's continents, dot-by-dot, each with a number, a creeping plague began to stain the map, repetitively, incessantly marking areas where death had come, while on one side of the map, a running body count ticked upward in time with the red dots, a rising casualty count. "We can't predict which of those afflicted with this illness will turn into ragers. We can't predict when and where they will break, losing touch with their humanity and turning into vicious killers. All we can predict is that the number of innocent victims will continue to rise, the number of attacks will increase, until we stop this plague." "We have a solution, until we can find a cure. It's an old solution, but just like for Mary Mallon it worked, you see Mary Mallon spent the rest of her life in quarantine at Riverside Hospital in New York. And while that is a tragedy, Mary Mallon did not kill anyone else in that quarantine. And we need to quarantine those who carry the Meta Gene Complex. For their safety and ours, until a cure can be found." The screen went dark and Helen looked directly into the camera. "There are those who will call me a NAZI for saying this. That I am heartless and cruel for championing this point of view, but nothing could be further from the truth. I care very deeply for these sick people. But I can't cure them while they are spreading the disease. And I can't halt the spread of their disease while they are killing us and destroying our cities. I urge all of you to write your senators, congressmen and the President. Tell them that you support the scientific and humane solution to this plague. That you support Mutant Quarantine." A new image appeared - a peaceful, clean sanitarium in a lovely mountain setting, with medical staff caring for quarantined patients, a soothing tranquil image selected to make her proposed quarantine look like an idyllic vacation rather than the Nazi concentration camp that should have come to mind. Everyone was smiling and happy. It was masterful use of imagery for propaganda, which was to be expected given the vast public-relations resources the Goodkinds could throw behind such a heinous suggestion. "My name is Helen Goodkind, and I implore you as a doctor, a wife and a mother to do so today." The screen went dark and the clicks of Mrs Carson's heels were loud on the floor in the silence that followed as she walked back to the lectern. The blackboard hummed closed over the screen and she gazed sadly at her students. "This isn't something we caught on hidden camera. This isn't something Dr. Goodkind hides, on the contrary, she's proud of it. You can find this on YouTube on the Goodkind Research Labs Channel. She believes everything she just said with every fiber of her being." "That bitch!" someone shouted, but before the room could descend into a shouting match, Mrs. Carson held up the slips. Silence fell like a thunderclap. Placing them back on the lectern, she calmly said, "I don't hold Dr. Goodkind in any kind of contempt for what she believes. I have and will oppose her with every avenue at my disposal, but I can appreciate her honesty and acknowledge that she feels very strongly that her views are correct. She's wrong, but nothing I can say or do will convince her of that. You will find, my students, after you leave here, some before, that some people cannot be dissuaded of their beliefs, no matter how persuasive or perfect your argument. You cannot reach the zealot with facts. I want you to discuss what you've seen, amongst yourselves, and with your councilors, house parents or anyone else of my staff as you need. No matter what career you pursue when you leave here, my students," and she pointed at the hidden screen behind her. "People like that are always out there, and your actions affect more than just yourself. You have until the next period free, you can stay here, or go and study in the Crystal Hall. Assembly dismissed." Next to him, Stephen heard Kayda whisper, "Even though I've seen this before, I think I'm going to be sick." "I know how you feel," he said quietly. "When Lanie came home for Christmas break last year she went on a tirade about some video she had seen. I guess it was this one. Mom and Dad made me leave the room because Lanie told them to." Near them, someone made the acerbic comment, "The truth is her camps would have electric fences, razor wire, and guard towers." "Yeah," another agreed. "And a sign over the gate saying 'Arbeit Macht Frei'." Kayda turned to look at the group talking, knowing the reference from studying history. She wondered if anyone else understood it. Kayda couldn't manage to suppress a shiver as she leaned a bit closer to Stephen to be heard over the general hubbub of students talking or heading out to the Crystal Hall. "She and Tansy told me about it on the trip home for the summer, but I almost didn't have the guts to watch it. Even kinda already knowing what it was about I nearly chickened out. I almost wish I had, because after watching it I had to hug my mom for an hour. It's hard to believe there are people like that in the world. Hell I wish mom was here so I could hug her now." Stephen opened his arm and the Lakota girl smiled weakly and patted his shoulder as she stood. "And risk having Marty mad at me? Not a chance!" Stephen stood as well and handed her her things before gathering his own. "Marty's not the jealous type," he assured her. "And if we feel bad, imagine how Ayla feels." "I can't imagine," Kayda whispered. "Oh, look," Stephen exclaimed, pointing to the windows that no longer had shades blocking them. "It's snowing." General Classroom 214, Schuster Hall, Whateley Academy Danny sat down at his desk and frowned. He had not had a particularly good night. Wihinape had drawn him into his Dream Space, interrupting a lovely dream he had been having, only to scold him for having it. She had upbraided him for the better part of the night for being a fool just because he was smitten with Tansy Walcutt.And honestly, he thought to himself. Who isn't smitten with Tansy? While the debate over who was the prettiest girl on campus had settled along the lines of those who preferred blondes or those who preferred red heads, either way Tansy was one of the two most beautiful girls at Whateley. And, more to the point, she was the girl who was nice and friendly towards him. In his mind, Wihinape sniffed in disdain. You are a child in her eyes, the spirit snarled. The cub mate of her friend and that is why she is nice to you. "I can dream, can't I?" he muttered to himself sullenly. "You think I don't know she's out of my league?" The room blurred and suddenly Danny was at the fire pit in the idolized Lakota village of his sister's dream space. Wihinape was dressed as a native woman, but the buck skin leather was tight and left nothing to the imagination. "Turning your nose up to rabbit because you want buffalo is foolish!" the spirit snapped. "Why hunger in vain when you could hunt successfully?" "I have a class to attend!" Danny snapped at her and forced his eyes open to be in Mrs. Bell's class once more. The pretty little blonde girl, Peggy, who sat behind him was just walking by, smiling shyly. Danny smiled back with a stomach full of butterflies as he did so. "Hi, Danny," she said, not quite able to meet his eyes. "Hi, Peggy," he replied, turning in his seat to watch her sit down. "How...uh...how is your day going?" She blushed and clumsily played with her books. "Oh...it's ok. I followed Mrs Bell's advice and checked out that book she was talking about yesterday. It's...it's kind of interesting. Do you want to read it?" She offered up an old looking book, its pages yellowed with age and its dust jacket covered in clear cellophane to protect it and on the spine the cataloging sticker for the Dewey Decimal System the Library used. The front proclaimed 'The Last Ride of 'Black' Jack Kingston, US Marshall,' by James Hallowell. Danny frowned, turning the book over he was graced with an amber colored Daguerreotype photograph of a collection of interesting looking people. The tallest man in the group was a craggy faced fellow with dark skin in a bib fronted shirt, holding a rifle of some kind in the crook of his arm. A pair of black feathers were in his long, flowing hair and he wore a bone necklace around his neck that was made in the Lakota style. Next to him, nearly as tall, was a somber looking man with broad shoulders, a massive handlebar mustache and a beat up looking cavalry hat. He wore a dark suit with a silver, five-pointed star in a circle on his lapel. The last man of the group was obviously better dressed in a lighter colored suit and a patterned cravat style tie. His vest was made of a brocade fabric that came through the photograph with a heavy looking watch chain going from one vest pocket to the other. One hand was on his hip, drawing his coat back to show a handgun in a holster below his left armpit, with his right hand he was holding the hand of the only woman in the photograph in a stilted, formally posed way. She was seated in an uncomfortable looking chair as if it was a throne, and she were a queen with the men who were standing around it like her courtiers. She was a remarkable looking woman who stared defiantly into the camera whereas the men all gazed off in different directions. Most interestingly, she was of African decent, but her eyes were clear, not dark practically glowing out of a leonine face with strong cheekbones framed by black hair that fell in ringlets and curls about her bare shoulders and decolletage. She was wearing a dress of silk and lace that made everyone aware of her considerable beauty, despite the modesty of her elbow length gloves. Danny frowned as Peggy made a gesture about the book. "Weird, isn't it? The Indian is Lakota, you're part Lakota, right?" "Yes," Danny said as he stared at the picture and rubbed his chin. "I swear I've seen this picture before, but I can't for the life of me remember where. A mathematician wrote this?" Peggy smiled a warm, friendly smile that made Danny feel warm himself. "Well, kinda. It's..." "Good morning everyone!" Mrs Bell greeted as the final bell rang and she closed her classroom door. Reluctantly, Danny turned around and opened his text book. Maybe Tansy was out of his league, but Peggy on the other hand... The Voice of Reason, W.A.R.S. 105.7FM "...So we approach the first anniversary of the execution of Saddam Hussein and no matter your personal opinion on capital punishment, or the involvement of the United States played in that moment in history, I think we can all agree that the world is a better place without the inclusion of the former dictator of Iraq in it. But, and here is where I get into the details, was it really our business to go and liberate or punish Iraq? I mean, no matter how you look at this, we invaded a sovereign nation, delivered its leader to an arguably sketchy tribunal and it doesn't matter if our relations with Iraq improve, or we made it 'better' for the Iraqi people. I think Shakespeare said it best when he asked through the lips of a common soldier, "How can they charitably dispose of anything, if blood is their argument?" "It's ten eighteen on 105.7FM W.A.R.S. And that sound means we have a weather alert. Let's see, the National Weather Service in Gray, Maine is issuing a Winter Storm Warning for north central New Hampshire. Doppler weather radar indicates a cold front stalled over the central Presidential Mountains with temperatures in the affected area now below freezing. Temperatures continue to fall north of a line from Lancaster to Berlin with sleet and freezing rain giving way to snow, now expected to crest one foot in some elevations. People in the warning area should stay indoors as travel conditions will be exceptionally dangerous, especially on bridges or overpasses. Blizzard conditions may be likely if conditions continue to worsen. Outside animals should be brought indoors or have preparations with shelter. Continue to monitor this radio station for further updates as they are given. My name is Zenith and you are listening to The Voice of Reason on 105.7 FM the Whateley Academy Radio Station. Action Tactical, Inc. headquarters, Blue Ridge Mountains The phone had picked up on the second ring to the terse voice of Combat Vet. Computer Expert was glad of his head set that let him continue finishing what he was doing while giving his co-worker the good news. "I'm a Greek, bearing gifts," Computer Expert told him with a smile. "The Koybashi Maru has set sail for the Promised Land." Combat Vet grunted, his most verbose sound of approval. "Sorry, wrong number." The line disengaged and Computer Expert popped a piece of candy into his mouth as he watched the logs of his write changes to Oedipus's computer change to the new values he had entered that showed all the commands had been generated locally, rather than his own deposit of the files onto the computer. There was now no trace of any of his tinkering and everything was as it had been, with the slight addition of a fair amount of new files, all bearing the stamps that they had been put there by the computer's owner, not some highly interested third party. Combat Vet would be on a plane back up here within the hour and it was all over but the perp walk and the tear-filled cries of innocence. Pleas that no one would believe, of course, but that didn't matter. Oedipus had made his bed, now he had to lie in it. Computer Expert saw the Trojan he had almost missed find the files he had added and saw it send out a squawk of discovery to its master. Expert wished for a fleeting moment to be a fly on the wall of the data center when they got that email, then carefully backed out of the system leaving no trace he had ever been there. One piece of justice for sale delivered, and he wondered for a brief moment how he would spend the bonus. Maybe I'll buy a boat, he thought to himself. Now, on to the next job. Arena 99, Whateley Academy Tunnel System Good Morning, You are in the Mexican State of Campeche; local time is 04:15. As soon as Kayda opened her eyes she invoked her ghost walking charm and began to trot towards the compound. She, Lanie and Tansy had made a point to enter the prep room silently and now were trying to act as fast as possible so Ms Hartford and whoever she had running the sim would have as little time to react as possible. She had discovered last night in her research that the ward she had found was an alarm ward, and while simple enough to cast, it did require essence, which meant a magician with a lit well. Over the phone, and after lights out, the girls had agreed the only possible reason it would be there was that Hartford was gaming the group and trying to nullify Kayda's magic edge. Well, if Hartford was going to cheat, so could they. Reaching the building, and making sure she didn't touch the salt line that defined the ward, she sang a welcoming chant as quietly as she could. Finally, a little field mouse cautiously approached, pausing every so often to be sure Kayda was not a threat. Kayda changed her chant slightly to be more receptive to the little mouse who ambled over, sure now he was in no danger and listened to the request in its ancient tongue. It looked between her and the line of salt and finally, hesitantly went to the ward and began to dig a new burrow at the base of the wall. In her Astral sight, Kayda saw the flow of essence flash and then dissipate as the circle was broken. And since the ward had been damaged by a creature not wanting to access what it protected, the alarm was not triggered. From her medicine bag around her neck, she removed a long, bright red strand of hair that she drew through her lips as though straightening a thread to put through a needle. High above, Elaine hung onto Tansy as her girlfriend hovered not quite above the compound. They had made elaborate plans to be careful that the moon did not illuminate them, but through some luck or perhaps Ms. Hartford toying with them, the sky was overcast and the two girls were invisible to those on the ground. A shiver ran down Elaine's spine and she knew the ward was down. She tapped Tansy twice with a finger and the blonde nodded and dove. One of the great advantages of the GE Monopole 7 was it was an extremely quiet unit and only hummed noticeably under a load greater than half its rating. Since the Magnetic Lift Drive was rated for six hundred pounds and both girls and their gear were well under half of that, it was absolutely silent. Elaine wrapped her legs around Tansy's waist and locked her feet before she let go with her hands to hang upside down, facing the ground by her legs. She drew the arrow back to her cheek, paused in her breathing and let the string slip between her fingers. The fiberglass shaft zipped through the air, and its stainless steel tri-bladed hunting blade passed through the larynx of the guard, nicked his carotid artery and severed his spine between the second and third cranial vertebrae before lodging into the wood of the hut he stood against. He was dead almost instantly, held up by locked knees and the arrow itself. The two girls landed and Tansy quickly screwed a silencer to her Colt Wolverine as Lanie guarded her back while she examined the lock. On an inspiration she looked over to the dead man next to her, and took a ring of keys from a keeper on his belt. She found the one key that would fit the lock and unlocked the door. Her thumb moved the safety on the pistol to 'fire' and she opened the door, bringing the pistol up as she did so. The slide made a growling sound against the main spring as it spat three round bursts twice, one making a horrible mess of the guard's face at the table as he was in the process of turning to see why the door was opening. The other peppered the lower face and neck of his partner, asleep in his chair in the corner who would never wake again. The noise was not particularly loud, but was just enough to wake the girl on her cot. As she stirred, Tansy crossed the room and clamped a hand over her mouth as her eyes went wide with terror. "Don't make a sound," she whispered urgently, sending waves of calm and security into the girl. Her eyes narrowed and she relaxed. "I am Solange and I'm here to rescue you. The code phrase your father gave me was 'Pikachu cheats'." The girl nodded frantically, obviously relieved and her eyes went wider again as she saw the bodies of the dead men. Tansy upped the feelings of safety and she got a bit more calm. The serrated teeth of her Spyderco Delica 4 made short work of the ropes tying the girl down so Tansy could help her to her feet and to the door of the block house. Looking out she saw that Lanie was in the process of pushing a tired looking World War II era jeep over to the block house. Tansy scanned the guard towers, but none of them were manned. Elaine's arrows had been finding their marks. She got the girl in the jeep and then helped Lanie push it to the main gate. More dead men were here, but the arrows that had killed them had been retrieved. The gate opened itself, then Kayda became visible next to it. The girls clamored aboard as Elaine coasted the jeep down the hill, away from the fort, waiting nearly a mile before starting the jeep and driving away shortly after which the world went black. Good morning, Tansy, you are in Arena 99 and it is 11:23am. You are victorious. The cover on the sim-bed opened as Tansy took off the helmet and took a moment to get her bearings. Ms Hartford was waiting on them, her hands on her hips and a crooked smile on her face. "Well, color me surprised. I didn't know 'hardened killers' was in you three girl's repertoire. Miss Walcutt, you were a bit mediocre with only two on your body count, and Miss Franks, or should I call you 'Dances With Mice,' dear? You didn't have any, but Miss Nalley! Aren't you a Charlie Manson in the making! Nine murders in as many minutes?" "Charles Manson didn't actually kill anyone," the red head muttered sullenly. Ms Hartford's eyes narrowed. "I would laud your obvious talent as a future defense attorney, Miss Nalley, if nine cold-blooded murders would not disqualify you!" "It's just a game," Lanie shot back, angrily, waving an arm at Tansy. "We got the girl out...!" "Briefing room," the assistant head mistress commanded. "Now." The girls filed sullenly into the room and sat down in a group for mutual support as Ms. Hartford shut the door and glared at them. "If you three will not understand and treat these simulations as real there is no point in conducting them," she declared finally. "We got the girl!" Tansy tried after a moment of silence from all three. "They were going to kill her! That justifies deadly force..." "You are not a military commando team!" Hartford thundered. "None of you have licenses to kill! Miss Nalley should I make sessions with Dr Bellows mandatory for you? This was almost as blood thirsty as your spring combat final! What you have just done could arguably considered an act of war! Did any of you stop to think about what a horrific international incident this will be?" "Oh, screw it!" shouted Elaine, who as red in the face and shaking with rage. "That's horse shit and you fucking know it! The Mexican Government's complete inability to control the Sinaloa cartel makes them practically responsible for the ambassadors daughter being kidnapped! Hell, Ah wouldn't be surprised if somebody in the government helped the cartel nab her! And they'll rattle their sabers at the United States? When we could send a division of Reservists and conquer their whole mud pit country in a week? They'll hang medals around our necks for getting their necks out of that noose!" Tansy was shocked when Ms Hartford let Elaine rant at her and more so when the Assistant Head Mistress actually smiled at the end of it. "That could have been much more politely put, Miss Nalley, but the gist is true. And I'm glad to see you have the back bone to argue it. Work on your presentation to be more diplomatic and in future, I want to see what you are actually capable of doing. Don't ever let me hear the words, 'it's just a game' leave your mouth again. This is deadly serious." Elaine blinked in shock, her thunder stolen. "Uh...yes ma'am." "Miss Franks, my congratulations on finding a way to break the ward without meeting its alarm condition. Take that lesson to heart, no matter your attachment to your own tradition of magic, know the others to exploit their weaknesses." "Uh, thank you, Ms Hartford." "You're not mad?" Tansy asked softly, but Amelia smiled her off putting smile again. "Why would I be? You got the girl. Results aren't the only thing, Miss Walcutt, but they are a great deal of it. You worked together brilliantly, solved a complex problem with, despite my previous statements, an acceptable amount of inflicted casualties, with zero collateral damage in a strike that can only be described as surgical. And, more to the point, Miss Nalley's rant proves you did in fact pay attention to the larger implications. Excellent leadership indeed, Miss Walcutt, I am very pleased. Get changed and enjoy your lunch ladies. Tomorrow, things will become more...interesting." She favored the girls with her smile again and strolled out, obviously pleased. The girls looked at each other in bewilderment, then headed to the locker rooms to change. Stephen laid down his tray on the table and winced slightly as it caught his bandaged hand. He saw the worried expression on Marty's face and waved off her concern with a smile and hardened the muscles of his hands. He didn't care if someone took a hammer to his abused knuckles, his pride would not let him show the injury bothered him again. He popped open his bottle of coke and began to drown his fries in ketchup. "Are you ok, baby?" Marty asked in a tone that promised wonderful things later. "It's nothing," he insisted, puffing his chest out a bit. "A minor price to pay for the privilege of pounding a bigot's face into concrete." Marty chuckled a bit at his euphemism. "Funny you put it quite that way, they're calling it the 'Bigot Brawl'. What did you draw for detention?" "Hippy, Sal and I have to help clean the stables for a week. The creep and his buddies drew the sewers." Marty pulled her fist down in victory. "Yes! And I'm twenty bucks richer thanks to Hazard's long odds!" He popped a fry into his mouth as he checked that his burger was without tomato as he'd ordered it. "One thing bugs me, though. Why did that asshole Archer call you Fake Girl?" Marty instantly became uneasy, but Steve was ready, taking her hand and squeezing it while presenting her with a little stuffed teddy bear he'd gotten from the school store. Her apprehension lessened noticeably and she managed to smile at him. "My Freshman year, I had a lot of trouble keeping my shell up. It would drop when I fell asleep, or got knocked out. That happened in BMA and David was there. Within a day it was all over campus and I was damn near fair game. It's one of the reasons I joined FSA. Arthur came down on David like a ton of bricks and let him know in no uncertain terms he would be happy to spend the year in detention if he had to so as to teach David not to mess with me. Kody, his room mate, cracked his knuckles and said he'd beat up David for free. Well, Arthur is gone and Kody is busy, its only natural that asshole would start seeing what he could get away with." "Well, I'll be happy to dish him up as many new helpings of ass kicking he needs to figure out nothing changed but the waiter." "Steve, I...I can't tell you what it means to me that you..." "That I love you?" he finished for her with a wink that made her blush. "Honey, you did that all on your own being you. The rest is easy. And pounding on bad guys is what I got into this business for, so gravy." "Mom?" Tansy' voice squeaked a bit when she walked onto the faculty dais with her tray in her hands. Marissa looked up from her mostly spinach salad, delighted to see her daughter and tried to wave her down to the little table she was eating at while trying to clear her mouth of it's current bite. "Tansy!" she managed with a quick drink of water. "How are you baby? Sit..." "Well, we're not supposed to sit here, its for the teachers, but Elaine and I were wondering if you would join us?" Marissa looked past her daughter's shoulder to see a lovely young red head she had seen with her daughter more than once and wondered about. She stood at once and picked up her tray again. "I'd be delighted," she said with a smile as Tansy led the way back over to the table Elaine was already sitting at, one of a line of tables that ringed the transparent wall of the dome. It had a not terrible view of the roof of the kitchens of the Crystal Hall, already covered by a dusting of snow, and sprawling away the boys Cottages of Twain and Emerson. The two blonds got settled and Marissa extended her hand across the table to Elaine. "And you are Elaine?" she asked. Lanie blushed and shook the lawyer's hand "Yes, ma'am. Elaine Nalley, uh, please call me Lanie." Ms Dawson's face brightened at once and she smiled. "Would you be the Elaine Nalley Mrs Carson told me so much about? How you believed in Tansy when no one else would? I can't tell you how thrilled I am to meet you, young lady! I don't think I will ever be able to say how grateful I am..." "Mom," Tansy interrupted with a grin seeing how red the cheeks of her friend had become. "You're embarrassing her!" "Oh, oh, I'm sorry...!" Marissa apologized at once. "It's nothing," Lanie told her as she generously applied thousand island dressing to her own salad and Marissa fought to keep her jealousy off her face. "Truth be told, Tansy didn't need me to believe in her, she just needed to believe in herself." A wave of genuine approval of her daughter's choice of friends helped Marissa hide her diet misery. To her daughter, she said, "You have a very good friend, here, my little flower." Walcutt blushed again and ground a little pepper on her salad. "I know, mom," she said quietly and stole a shy glance at her best friend. She sighed and took a drink of her soda water to bolster her nerves. "Mom, I...I have to tell you something, because I don't want you to just hear some of the nasty gossip on this campus. I...I know Bishop Titus says..." Marissa blinked in confusion. "Who, baby?" "Bishop Titus? He, he is the head of our church? The Manhattan New Anglican..." "Anglican?" demanded the lawyer with considerable heat. "Tansy, were you not confirmed?" "Confirmed?" Tansy asked in confusion. "I don't..." Marissa's face flushed and an expression of considerable anger set on it. "I...that...beast..." She closed her eyes and counted to ten and slowly her complexion calmed. "Tansy, sweet heart, I am not angry with you, alright? It is important you understand that, alright?" Tansy looked at Elaine and back at her mother. "Uh, sure, mom." Seeing her daughter's trepidation, Marissa reached out and took her hand. "Sweetheart, when I married your father, we agreed he would convert to Catholicism and that you would be raised Roman Catholic regardless, as all of the Dawsons have been. It's just one more of his lies I have to unravel." "Mom, I don't even remember grandma or grandpa," Tansy said softly. "They never sent presents, or Christmas cards or..." "Yes, they did, sweetheart," Marissa told her quickly. "Your father returned them out of spite. Isolating and controlling women seems to be what your father is best at..." "You don't know the half of it," Tansy said woodenly. "We...we can talk about religion some other time, sweetheart," Dawson told her brightly. "I have to get myself right with God, I...I have a lot of missed confessions to make up for." Elaine looked between mother and daughter and swallowed to get her courage up. "May...maybe Ah should go...?" "No, please!" Tansy said quickly, then sighed. "Mom, I don't want you to be mad, but I have to tell you..." "Tansy," she interrupted softly. "I love you. You are my daughter and the bright light of my life and nothing you can say will change that." She reached across the table and gathered her daughter into a hug. "I am so sorry to have been gone, but I am here now, my little flower and nothing will take me away, alright?" Walcutt sniffed mightily and hugged her mother as tightly as she dared. "I love you, mommy!" she whispered adamantly. "Now, what is it you want to tell me?" she asked as the two women sat up a bit straighter in their chairs and both dabbed at their eyes in an uncannily similar way. "You and Miss, um, Lanie are... more... than friends, aren't you?" Tansy stared, open mouthed, looking first at her mother, then over to Elaine who was as equally shocked and aback before she remembered herself and managed to close it. "You...how...?" Marissa smiled as she chased a crouton around her plate with her fork. "Sweetheart, I grew up in the the sixties and seventies. I was in my twenties in the roaring eighties; I'm Catholic, not a prude. I've seen the both of you around the school and your affection is a bit more than platonic. Though, I have also seen you both with a rather large young man." She put down her fork and looked at both girls. "As an officer of the court I must advise you both that bigamy is still very much against the law in all fifty states." "Laws change," Lanie and Tansy said softly in tandem. Marissa looked at both of them, and finally shook her head. "Well, you can't do any worse in marriage than I did, so I can't really be too disapproving." She sighed and extended a hand to each girl and took their arms. "This could be a passing phase for either of you, or I could be completely wrong and you will all be the envy of what ever retirement home you end your days in. Either way, Lanie...Elaine, I owe you a debt I can't discharge for standing by my Tansy. I don't care what the law might have to say, but as far as I am concerned, you are my daughter." Elaine blushed fiercely and couldn't meet the other woman's gaze. "Ah...Ah am deeply honored, ma'am." Marissa smiled and squeezed the girls arms. "So! Now I have two daughters to get to know! Lanie, tell me about yourself!" "You'll like her, mom," Tansy said with a grin. "She's a lawyer too..." "Tansy!" Lanie exclaimed and the table broke out in good natured laughter. Central Heating Plant, The Shed, Whateley Academy The master alarm began to blare, heralding the flashing strobes that caused Mr. Duncan to come out of his office like a rifle shot into the main control room. "What do we have, Vince?" he asked of engineer that was already rapidly working the controls. "Complete loss of pressure from the supply main," Vince replied as he threw the master dampeners on the boilers and began to decrease the steam outflow so the boilers wouldn't burst as they cooled. "Jesus," swore Duncan as he got a radio from the charger stand and turned it on. "Stan, Morrie are either of you near the supply main?" "Yeah, Mr. Duncan," Morrie's voice came back. "I'm in the pump house. One second." The time stretched out as even though the siren was silenced, the flashing strobes threatened to give Duncan a migraine. "Supply main reads zero pressure, air warning is active and the window is dry. Request permission to open inspection hatch." "What's the pressure on that two-foot main..." started Duncan, but Vince waved at him while he was still bringing down the boilers. "Window is dry, there's no pressure," he told him. With a dull groaning wail that ran through the shed the remaining steam in the boilers was vented. The sound would echo all over campus and shortly every building would be calling wanting to know what happened to their heat. "Permission granted," Duncan told the radio and finally the strobes kicked off. Vince had the boilers below danger and while still hot, there was no longer an explosion risk. The speaker of the radio squawked. "Supply main is stone dry," Morrie's voice crackled out of the speaker. "I say again, supply main is stone dry. No trickle, no sound or sight of water as far as I can see down the pipe." Vince was already on the phone to the emergency line for the State Water Commission. "Secure the hatch and open the air evacuation valve," Duncan ordered. "Implement emergency plan four." "Plan Four, roger." "Yes this Whateley Academy Plant Operations, reporting complete loss of flow in service main, 1274A." Duncan grabbed his jacket on his way to the door with the radio. "I'm headed for admin, keep me informed!" Vince waved as he wheeled his swivel chair over to the book case behind him and removed a red three ring binder with Plan Four marked down the spine. Head Mistress' Office, Schuster Hall, Whateley Academy "How bad is it, Mike?" Mrs Carson wanted to know, having heard the summary from her head of operations. "The reactor...?" Duncan shook his head, "No, no, the reactor's water supply is a closed system, we add to it once a quarter, it's fine. The problem is the boiler plant. With our usage reservoir, water to drink and cook with is fine for a week, maybe more, but the steam plant needs a constant inflow which now we don't have. We used the emergency reservoir to bring the boilers down and since most of the old buildings require steam to heat..." Elizabeth pinched the bridge of her nose. "And what happened to the supply?" "Evidently a gas truck lost control out on Stark Highway, its pretty icy as I understand it. The Truck slid right into the pumping station that feeds us and exploded. It's a mess. It may be a week or more before they can restore service. They don't know yet, they're still fighting the fire." Mrs Carson felt that tension in the back of her neck that usually heralded a bad headache. "Wonderful. What is the current temperature?" "Seventeen," Ms Hartford told her. "And falling." "Alright, cancel all classes and have the kids gather in the Crystal Hall. We'll have maintenance bring blankets and pillows and have them bed there since its will stay warm, yes?" Duncan nodded. "The Crystal Hall and the kitchens are both on heat pump units that are electric. They'll stay warm so long as there is power. However, Poe and Melville are also heat pumps..." "No, I don't want rumors of favorites," Carson replied. "Also I don't want them in the tunnels without steam heat and certainly not out in the weather. They all have to eat, so we'll bed them down in the Crystal Hall. Amelia, make the announcement, please." "Yes, ma'am." Coos County Water Commission Pumping Station 48, 378 Stark Hwy, New Hampshire Russ Maithers sat on the bumper of a fire truck, wrapped in a blanket and sipping coffee from someone's thermos. The snow was really coming down, now, and temperatures were falling, but that is not what had Russ bewildered. One hand was holding a gauze pad to the wound on his head as the coffee kept him warm and he tried desperately to remember. He remembered picking up nine thousand gallons of regular gasoline from the depot yard in Berlin and heading into the mountains to deliver it to a relatively remote gas station. He remembered how remarkably fast the weather had turned, with a flurry, becoming a snow shower, then a blizzard and now this almost full on white out. If it weren't for the horrific fire of his smoldering wrecked truck and the destroyed little building it had come to rest in, you couldn't see five feet. Russ took another sip of coffee and stared at the blaze the fire fighters were desperately trying to fight and fought the pounding in his head. Some part of him realized he should be dead, that the fire he was watching should be his funeral pyre, but it wasn't. Somehow he had ended up on the side of the road, right where the first responder, a Coos County Sheriff's deputy found him, close enough to the blaze its heat kept him from hypothermia, far enough it didn't harm him. Russ Maithers should be dead and for the life of him he couldn't figure out why he wasn't. He turned, feeling a tingle go up the back of his head and looked into the treeline on the opposite side of the road. There, near the sign warning of Medawihla Tribal Lands, he thought he saw a wolf or a dog get up from watching him and wander deeper into the forest. Then he wondered if he truly had seen it and went back to wondering why he was still alive. All Radio and Television Frequencies in New Hampshire This is the Emergency Alert Broadcast System. The National Weather Service in Gray, Maine, has issued a Severe Blizzard Warning for Northern New Hampshire. A cold front, bringing arctic air has stalled over the Presidential Mountains, north of a line from Lancaster to Berlin. Blizzard conditions will be prevalent for next several hours with some elevations seeing three to five feet of snow combined with dangerous winds and sub zero temperatures. Citizens are advised to stay in their homes due to wide spread road closures in the region. Use extra layers in your home and drink hot beverages. Avoid even brief exposure to the storm. This is the Emergency Alert Broadcast System. Stay tuned to this, or other channels for further information concerning this Emergency. # E. E. Nalley 2018-03-06 01:10 Leave me a comment here or in the forums! +4 # MadTechOne 2018-03-06 06:13 The build up has me scratching my head where this is going? But this is only part 2, A lot of moving part with all the cast members and there parts. Interesting, Enjoyable, Amusing, and a lot of other interested emotions, but I can not yet see where you are going with it. The planned story length might help, If this will be a long story, it feels like you are just in the warm-up; If it is a small number of chapters maybe a little more gas on the peddle of story speed to not drive off the readers who need it cast and quick every time. Me I love reading a 1000+ page novel. +5 # Club 2018-03-06 20:35 First - they don't have backup heaters? with the incident frequency on campus and known weather patterns, a couple backups just seems common sense. 2 - There's a nearby lake, and labs full of gadgeteers and devisors. They've got a source of water. Heck, the plumbers might be able to do it alone. 3 - assuming that they've updated the boiler in the last decade, the controls and sensors should be digital and remoted to the control center. Also, the safeties on them are seriously redundant - a modern setup should have alerted them to lack of supply pressure long before boiler pressure became a problem. four - they've got a bunch of students capable of creating thermal effects, a few of them working shifts should be able to handle the problem. five - please tell me they aren't evacuating the 'thornies too? +3 # riking 2018-03-07 04:10 Wow. That speech was powerful. Well done on the writing for Helen Goodkind's video, it shows excellent propaganda and appeal to emotion to advocate for genocide, something we should all be prepared to recognize. This reminds me of the story arc involving a gigantic storm coming to Whateley along with an invasion of the Voodoo Wolves. I know that E. E. never recycles the work of others but I find myself worrying about an attack upon the Crystal Hall while all the students are pretty much forced to gather there. Another way this could go is the close quarters in the Crystal Hall might exacerbate the friction between the sizable contingent of prejudiced students and those who are LGBT, or nonwhite, or practice religions other than Christianity. The Thornies are also often targets for these creeps. You are juggling a lot of different story arcs, E. E., and entertaining me with all of them. TYVM I feel I owe you so much for the pleasure your writing gives me.

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2020 was a lost year for many, including the Evansville Otters, as Coronavirus wiped out all of minor league baseball. However the team used the time wisely making several upgrades to the franchise, including giving the team a face lift. Posted: Mar 16, 2021 9:34 PM Updated: Mar 16, 2021 9:40 PM Posted By: Joe Downs This afternoon on the front lawn of the Old National Bank building, the team unveiled it's new logo, which includes a more kid-friendly otter, as well as a different color scheme, that now features a lighter blue which pays homage to Evansville being the River City. There's also a new script "E", which will be worn on the Otters' home and away hats, as well as a new script which will be worn across the chest of the jersey. "We're really excited about it," said Otters team owner. "We love the color scheme. We tried to keep it fresh. We've got to keep it fan friendly. Related to baseball. We're proud of where we came from, where we're going. We're proud of our fans. So I think it's a really good fit." "We had a great design team," said Otters team and Frontier League president John Stanley. "And it was great that they were able to spend a lot of time on it. Went through a lot of different looks on it. But we always liked the color. We wanted to keep the tradition. So to me it's just a fresh look." The team was supposed to reveal a new logo last season, before the shutdown. However that gave them extra time to make these new changes. The Otters will be debuting their new uniforms during the exhibition season in mid-May. And this is only the beginning of the changes as Bosse Field has been completely remodeled, as well, with a new video scoreboard and LED lights. The Otters open the regular season on May 27th.

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MSU Researchers to Send Computer Prototype to the Moon July 10, 2019 July 9, 2019 Doug Messier News Leave a comment A MSU computer prototype that was tested aboard the space station, shown here on Oct. 24, 2016, resembles the new version that will go to the moon. (Credit: MSU Photo by Adrian Sanchez-Gonzalez) by Marshall Swearingen MSU News Service BOZEMAN, Mont. — In their quest to develop an improved computer that could one day be used in NASA spacecraft, Montana State University researchers have tinkered with their creation on the laboratory bench, dangled it from high-altitude helium balloons, sent it to the International Space Station and launched it into Earth's orbit on a bread loaf-sized satellite. Now it will go to the moon. NASA announced earlier this month that an MSU team led by Brock LaMeres has won a coveted spot on a 2020-2021 lunar mission that will be the biggest trial yet for the radiation-tolerant computing concept LaMeres conceived more than a decade ago. "Talk about a moonshot," said LaMeres, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in MSU's Norm Asbjornson College of Engineering. "The dream has always been to get (this technology) that far out into space." The Rubik's Cube-sized computer prototype, called RadPC, is one of 12 science and technology payloads selected to journey to the lunar surface as part of NASA's Artemis lunar program. NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services project, which involves multiple landers developed by private companies, will provide the flights for the payloads. In a self-contained unit on one of the landers, RadPC's task will be to show that it can withstand high-energy radiation particles emitted by the sun and other celestial bodies. If it can do that, "it would mean it's a proven technology that could be used in future lunar missions as the primary flight computer," LaMeres said. Traditionally, space computers have used oversized circuitry made of special materials to fortify against the radiation that bombards outer space. (Earth's atmosphere and magnetic field block that radiation from reaching the planet's surface.) RadPC instead uses multiple inexpensive processors like those found in personal computers. The processors are programmed to operate in parallel, so that when a radiation particle disrupts one, the others recognize the fault, continue the computation and re-program any damaged computer memory. "The idea is that we're able to provide the same level of reliability at significantly lower costs," LaMeres said. "And because we're using off-the-shelf parts, we get the high performance and low power consumption of consumer electronics." The latest prototype will draw from everything LaMeres' team has learned while testing and refining the concept with $2.5 million in NASA funding over the past several years. Following a successful test aboard the space station in 2017, a small satellite housing the computer was launched from the space station in 2018 and continues to orbit Earth. LaMeres' team is currently wrapping up the design of a second satellite to demonstrate the computer that will be launched in late 2019. As part of the current mission, LaMeres's team will receive an additional NASA grant of $1.2 million. Partners on the grant are John Sample, assistant professor in the Department of Physics in MSU's College of Letters and Sciences, David Klumpar, director of MSU's Space Science & Engineering Laboratory, and Larry Springer, the lab's director. The new funding will support four full-time graduate students and several undergraduates while they work on the project in the Space Science & Engineering Laboratory, LaMeres said. Since its inception, the project has involved more than 130 MSU students, including about 110 undergraduates, he said. According to NASA spokesman Grey Hautaluoma, although RadPC has been selected for the mission, the agency doesn't yet know which lander it will ride on or when that lander will be launched. The mission is major step in NASA's goal of establishing a human presence on the moon in 2024 as a steppingstone for a manned mission to Mars. The RadPC unit will also include sensors for measuring radiation levels on the moon, producing data that could benefit future, long-term human missions there, LaMeres said. LaMeres said he was thrilled after receiving the call from NASA late last week. "It's really surreal," he said, "to think that we're going to put a computer, one that MSU students built, onto the surface of the moon." CLPS, Commercial Lunar Payload Services, Montana State Bozeman, Montana State University, moon, NASA When CubeSats Meet Asteroid Virgin Orbit to Drop Rocket Over Mojave Desert Today

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Representatives of the so-called Ministry of Housing, Ministry of Agriculture and the Israel Land Fund held a special session last week to discuss the establishment of a new settlement plan to double the number of settlers in the Valley and imposing occupation control over the area. The plan includes the establishment of 3 settlements named Giv'at Salait, Petronot and Givat Eden, besides the expansion of existing settlements with 14 new settlements to juadize the valley and to benefit from Trump's consent on that. It is clear that this plan was prepared by the Israeli Minister of Housing, Galant, in its early stages that mainly aimed at strengthening the settlement project in the Valley, where some 6,000 settlers live there, doubling the number of settlers and attract Israelis to settle in the area. Moreover, budgets, privileges and facilities will be allocated by any settlement willing to absorb new families. The National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Settlements considered the Israeli declaration on the construction of new settlements as defiance to the world and the International Legitimacy's resolutions. It was disclosed that a special plan was prepared by Regev, Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports in cooperation with the so-called Israeli Antiquities Authority to allocate NIS 250,000,000 for excavation of the alleged foundations of the Temple and other works near ​​the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of Jerusalem. Knowing that such plans were secret and not as they claim conservative and development works. Moreover, Regev has allocated NIS 10,000,000 for those dangerous excavations, expected to get more NIS 250,000,000 for that following Trump's decision that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. As part of the construction of the synagogue, information was revealed about an Israeli plan to build a large synagogue on the slopes of the Mount of Olives in occupied Jerusalem, within the settlement of Maaleh Zeitim. The synagogue area will be 2,000 sqm2 with a cost of NIS 10,000,000. At the same time, the Israeli occupation authorities began building a section of the Separation Wall on the land north of the Teqoa town east of Bethlehem. The Israeli company Adi crews began construction, specifically on the southern border of the settlement "Tqoa", to maintain the security of the settlers. In the Nablus governorate, the Israeli occupation forces bulldozed approximately 500 donums of land belonging to a number of Palestinian families, namely Al Asmar, Dar Khalil and Dar Jabr in the Urif town near the Yitzhar settlement. This is likely to be an introduction to expand the Yitzhar settlement. US used veto against the Security Council resolution on Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of the occupying State, its representative also criticized the UN resolution on settlement, and considered the UN resolutions as the obstacle to achieving peace, but not settlement. The State of Palestine achieved a great diplomatic victory with the support of the Non-Aligned Movement and the Islamic, Arab and friendly countries by adopting a resolution with overwhelming majority at the UN General Assembly under the title "united for Peace" that rejects any change in the legal status of Jerusalem, opposed only by 9 countries and 35 abstained. The meeting was held to discuss the repercussions of the Trump Declaration and a draft resolution rejecting any change in the legal status of Jerusalem, especially after the United States vetoed the Security Council, Jerusalem in light of the Trump Declaration. Thus, the Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu rejected the UN General Assembly vote on the occupied city of Jerusalem. "The State of Israel explicitly rejects this vote even before it was taken and pledges to continue settlement construction in the city and the embassies to start shifting to Jerusalem. Performing prayers and rituals in the traditional Talmudic dress in front of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, beside the Qatanin Gate. Installing cameras in the Damascus Gate and in many parts of the occupied Jerusalem, especially in the Masarara area, the Damascus Gate, Nablus St., Sultan Sulaiman St., Al-Sahera Gate, Salah Al-Din, Rashid and Zahra St. Uprooting and cutting down scores of almonds, oak and hawthorn trees near the Karmei Tsur settlement. Closing roads leading to the Masafer Yatta villages with soil blocks, preventing citizens passing to their villages. Injuring child, Ameen Ibrahim Ramadan, 9 at the Shalala Street. Breaking into the Khader town under a march organized by the settlers of Gush Etzion south of Bethlehem to escalate the atmosphere in light of the widespread protests against the American decision to consider Jerusalem as the capital of the Israel. Notifying citizen, Moh'd Ahmed Abu Samar to evacuate his 3-donum land in the Fahm area. Building a section of the Separation Wall on the land north of the Taqoa town east of Bethlehem. Injuring 9 Palestinians and many others suffocated after breaking into the Yosif Tomb east of Nablus. Hundreds of settlers stormed the place under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces. Cutting down 20 olive trees from the Madama village lands belonging to Qasim Najar, demolished an agricultural well belonging to Idris Sadiq Qat. Storming the Kefl Haris town north of Salfit under the pretext of ensuring settlers' visits to perform Talmudic prayers. Thus, harassed the residents with their shouting. Seizing a bulldozer belonging to Khalid Bani Oudeh, who was opening a road in the Atov area, south of Tubas. The Israeli occupation forces took the bulldozer to the Hamra checkpoint, north of the Jordan Valley.

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I answered your fall fashion and beauty questions! Thank you to everyone who sent questions in! PS - I already have another question. Hair... how do your curls survive the Vancouver rain & humidity?! Love it! I too love those little lip pencils. They are GREAT!

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A Dry Area Covered With Sand And Thorny Plants Sand poses different problems. Water drains through it rapidly, so it's quick to dry in the spring, but it doesn't hold enough moisture for most plants in hot, dry weather. Sandy soil can be improved by adding large quantities of organic material year after year, but this is usually practical only for small areas, such as flower or vegetable 10 Best Drought Tolerant Plants for Dry Climates | Redfin Sep 01, 2021 Drought tolerant plants, also known as drought resistant plants, are plants that can withstand long periods of dryness. They are typically found in areas in the US with drier climates such as Phoenix, AZ, or in the prairie provinces of Canada in cities such as Edmonton, AB Invasive Weed Field Guide - NPS fields; common in open, dry areas with wind-blown sand deposits. This plant is found in a few small areas near Pt. Dume. Larger populations are established to the north and south of the region, particularly in the desert areas of Palm Springs and Anza-Borrego. Why worry? Sahara Mustard grows early in the season, monopolizing Best Plants to Grow in Shady Areas With Dry Soil - The Spruce Dec 18, 2020 David Beaulieu. Epimedium grandiflorum 'Rose Queen' offers both interesting flowers and nice foliage in zones 5 to 8. Its mature size is 12 to 18 inches tall and wide. But its rhizomes allow it to spread and fill in that problematic area in dry shade on your land where so many other plants Top 5 Plants for Sandy Soil - Gardening Know How's Blog Dec 02, 2017 Here are the top 5 plants for sandy soil areas. 1. Ground cover plants. One of the best ways to secure soil in erosion prone areas is with ground covers. These need to be chosen with care and an eye to moisture needs, exposure and adaptability to occasionally dry conditions Drought-Tolerant Plants | The Best Plants For Dry Soil | HGTV Happy Trails 'Pink Passion Mix'. Also known as moss rose, portulaca is a go-to annual for sunny spots where heat and dry soil reign. Stems on this moss rose trail from 14 to 18 inches long, making it a great choice for a flowering ground cover. Blossoms open in shades of Best Plants for Sandy Soil - American Meadows Aug 24, 2017 Plants for Sandy Soil in Hot, Dry Areas. No need to give supplemental water to these dry loving plants! They will perform well in the heat and drought unlike others. Joe Pye Weed – Zone 4-8; Lavender (Lavandula angustifolia) – Zone 6-9; Phlox – Zone 4-8; Salvia (Salvia nemorosa) – Zone 4-9; Sedum – Zone 3-9 List of Plants With Thorns | Hunker Mar 15, 2019 Thorny plants come in many different types, including perennials, shrubs and trees with both deciduous and evergreen options to choose. Being aware of thorns helps you choose plants that best fit your space, especially in areas of your landscape where people or pets spend a lot of time Thorny Plants | Prickly Bushes for Security Oct 30, 2020 Nobody's climbing this tree, which can grow 60 to 90 feet tall, because the rough bark of the honey locust is often covered with 6-inch dagger-like thorns—it's the Freddy Krueger of plants Perennial Drought-Tolerant Ground Covers for Dry Ground Apr 12, 2021 The fact that some drought-tolerant ground covers are at least mildly invasive should not surprise us very much. After all, plants such as Vinca minor and Japanese pachysandra need to be tough to survive in dry soils. And they do not turn that toughness on and off to please us 25 Desert Plants (With Pictures and Names) Jul 17, 2020 An iconic desert cactus is the prickly pear with green, pad-like succulent leaves that are covered in spines. These are some of the most common desert plants found in the Southwestern United States. The thick, fleshy leaves store a lot of moisture, which helps the plant survive the desert 10 Drought-Tolerant Ground Covers - Full Sun | Install-It 6. Ice Plant. Low-growing ice plant (aka iceplant) is a low-water ground cover that Californians are accustomed to seeing all along the coast. It is so ubiquitous near our beaches that most of us already know that ice plant is a great choice for seaside homes and can thrive in full sun further inland as well. Depending on the variety you choose, your ice plant may bloom in white, yellow Thar Desert - Wikipedia The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is a large arid region in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of 200,000 km 2 (77,000 sq mi) and forms a natural boundary between India and Pakistan.It is the world's 20th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-largest hot subtropical desert.. About 85% of the Thar Desert is in India, and about 15% is in words used to describe dry barren and empty areas of land Words used to describe areas of land with plants growing on them On land and away from the sea Free thesaurus definition of words used to describe dry barren and empty areas of land from the Macmillan English Dictionary - a free English dictionary online with thesaurus and This technique turns desert sand into fertile soil Jul 10, 2018 This technique turns desert sand into fertile soil. The clay nanoparticles technology changes the soil in seven hours and reduces water demand by 50%. Clay, water – and that's it. The easy formula was developed by the Norwegian scientist Kristian Morten Olesen, has revolutionized agriculture in dry regions and has the potential to be used 11 Best Plants For Covering Slopes and Hillsides Select plants and combinations that are an extension of your landscape and gardens. Low growing ground hugging plants work nicely with taller woody perennials, ornamental grasses, and low growing shrubs. For a basic look that will solve erosion issues, use one variety of ground cover and buy in bulk to save money. Creeping ground covers are What Are The Special Adaptations Of Desert Plants Jul 30, 2019 Some plants have a limited number of stomata, while others have stomata that close during the day. Such adaptations allow plants to reduce water loss. Leaves with Waxy Surfaces. 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This 2 bedroom 1 bath home has vinyl siding and chain link for your outside pets. Includes cook stove, refrigerator, washer and dryer. Extra bonus room that would make a great office. Screened porch for early mornings to sit and enjoy. Corner lot and partially furnished.

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This large 3 bedroom split-level villa in Torrox has one double bedroom, two twin bedrooms and two bathrooms with capacity for 6 guests. It is an attractive and spacious villa with partial air conditioning and a private pool, set on a large plot of land in a quiet, rural location with wonderful, panoramic views of surrounding countryside and the mountains in the distance. Outside: Private swimming pool, shaded terrace with patio furniture and table tennis table, fenced garden, barbecue, private parking area for 3 cars. Inside: Air conditioning in master bedroom and lounge, Internet (Wi-Fi), fireplace, iron, hair dryer, TV with satellite channels (languages: Spanish, English, German, French), DVD player, cot and high chair. The pool at this villa is a generous size and measures 9 meters x 4 meters. It has a depth of 1.1 meters at the shallow end and 1.7 meters at the deep end. In the kitchen the facilities include fridge freezer, microwave, oven, dishwasher, washing machine, dishes/cutlery, kitchen utensils, coffee machine, toaster, kettle and juicer. The property has two bathrooms, one with a bath/shower and wc and the other with shower cubicle and wc. Villa Al Andaluz is located 73 km from Malaga airport, 123 km from Granada airport, 14 km from Torrox beach with a wide selection of shops, bars, restaurants and supermarkets in the vicinity, 6km from the village of Competa with a good selection of restaurants and a supermarket too, 27 km from Aquavelis water park, 20 km from the famous Balcon de Europa in Nerja, 23 km from the famous Nerja caves, 22 km from the pretty hillside village of Frigiliana, 30 km from Baviera Golf course, 85 km from Tivoli world amusement park / theme park, 112 km from the world famous Alhambra Palace in Granada. The villa is situated in an elevated, secluded, rural setting and is a popular choice for families with children and couples seeking peace and tranquility. A car really is essential for visitors to this villa for getting around. 1 TV, TV Satellite (Languages: Spanish, English, German), Stereo, DVD, garden, garden furniture, fenced garden, terrace, barbecue, fireplace, iron, safe, internet (Wi-Fi), hair dryer, 100 m² property, pet-friendly (Dangerous breed dogs not allowed), electric heating, air conditioning in the living room and in some bedrooms, private swimming pool ( max depth 5.6 ft, min depth 3.6 ft, opening date 1/1, closing date 31/12), Open-air parking (3 places) in the same building, 2 fans.

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The first two times I went, the food wasn't impressive at all. It was actually quite underwhelming, considering the amazing setting. But this time, the service and food was anything but lacklustre. I'm still stuck in post-holiday blues mood. It's such a bad feeling, honestly, when you've gone on holiday, and it's been absolutely blissful – though how can a holiday not be blissful, really? You're away from everything that makes real and actual life mundane, you don't have to think about bills, boyfriends or deadlines, and someone else is doing all the cooking. Lol! It sounds perfect to me. Anyway, this apocalyptic weather isn't helping either. What's with the grey damp skies? What is this, the UK? Sigh. And writing this isn't making me feel better, seeing as I have to now recall and write about the said blissful holiday while enjoying 16-degree weather (pulls on socks). Enough whingeing. On this article, anyway. On one of the nights while we were in Diani, we decided it would be a crime to not go down to Ali Barbour's Cave Restaurant. Or rather, the people I was with decided and I was outnumbered and outvoted. You see, I've been to the restaurant twice before, because each group of people I was with insisted that they must go see the restaurant. It's an inescapable part of the 'We're in Diani' experience, and I always end up caving in to it, because everyone else is usually so enthusiastic, and I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer. Why is it inescapable? It's quite grand, to be honest. Ali Barbour's Cave Restaurant, as the name implies, is hewn out of actual cave/rock formations that have been winnowed and weathered over thousands of years into naturally made grottos, big enough to be whittled – only slightly – into an open air restaurant. The gloriousness comes in when you go to Ali Barbour's around sunset, when it opens, and you can watch the night sky come over you like a supernatural curtain. The ambience is quite nice too – they put in limited lighting to maintain a bit of a dusky, romantic feel, clearly trying to take you back to the days when the possibility of pirates was a very real and imminent danger. But in a nice, swashbuckling kind of way, I guess? The reason I was grudgingly going over there is simply because the first two times I went, the food wasn't impressive at all. It was actually quite underwhelming, particularly when you consider that you're coming into this amazingly atmospheric setting – you expect a lot more than sub-standard food. But I guess the third time's a charm, because on this trip, the service and food was anything but lacklustre. Our waitress, Nyambura, was present and effective – which is my favourite type of wait-staff, in that she is there, but not smothering you with undivided devotion – and the food was so much better than what I've eaten there before. I recommend the chilli crab, because it's exciting and tasty. I had the lemon chicken, also tasty, and obviously tasted everyone else's food as well, including their surf platter – which is huge – and a vegetarian friend's falafel. I'm not the biggest fan of falafel, but theirs was decent. All the seafood around me – which I ironically didn't order at a seaside restaurant, you would think – was fresh and well-flavoured. I'm glad I was proved wrong, or this review would have gone a completely different way. I had initially wanted to swing by Swahili Beach Hotel as well. Now that's a gorgeous group of buildings. The last time I paid a quick visit, the décor was awesome and the infinity pools blew my mind, for some reason. The food, as I recall, was ok, and I wanted to confirm that perception with this visit, seeing as clearly I like to give chances. But I ran out of time and money. The best laid plans, etc. You know what they say.

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Road Trip: The Main Line in a Day. Mother's Day Dining Guide Around the Main Line 2017. Every meal we put out is an autograph of who we are. Opening Cornerstone & Working Together. Cornerstone Cheese & Charcuterie to Open in Wayne.

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Well, we made it to the last day of October and Halloween finally. After dealing with the wrath of Hurricane Sandy, I can deal with any ghost and goblins that the day has in-store for me. My prayers go out to those greatly affected by this devastating storm. I hope everyone has a Happy and Safe Halloween. May your day be full of sweet treats and wonderful memories. Boo! Did I scare you with these Bloody Cyclops Cupcakes? I made these over the weekend for my kids and they went crazy for them. I hope you all like them as much as we did. One more day and it's Halloween! Yay! Bake cupcakes as directed by box mix. Cool and frost. Apply a small dot of jell icing in the center of a marshmallow and adhere chocolate chip. Place "eye" marshmallow on cupcakes as shown. Ice blood if desired. Enjoy. Halloween is on my mind.. can you tell? I love finding cute ideas to make Halloween fun for my kids. I found this idea on the internet and I knew I had to make these Mummy Pizzas. They looked so fun and easy so I knew it would be a great treat to make with my kids. They loved making their own mummies and it was as much a "krafting" project as it was a recipe/meal. I don't know if I can wait until next Halloween to make these muffins again.... we may just have to make them throughout the year. Split muffins in half and toast in toaster. Then spread pizza sauce on top. Place olives for eyes and then place pieces of string cheese to look like bandages. Bake in oven until cheese melts and muffin gets toasted. Enjoy. Halloween week is finally here! We may be in for more of a fright than I wanted with Hurricane Sandy on her way to the East Coast. Let's hope she decides to give us a treat instead and heads out to sea. I had more sweet treats this week than my normal savory fare. Of course that's all in honor of the sweetest holiday of the year... Halloween! My husband is still talking about the Pumpkin Pie Milkshake that I surprised him with... he's so easily pleased. I'm sure I will make it for him again soon since it was so quick and easy to make. I'm also glad that pumpkin season gets carried into November so I still have some more pumpkin recipes heading your way. I have a few more "spooky" treats planned for you this week as well and then as we enter November.... it's time to give thanks. I think November is all about gearing up for that wonderful food-coma filled day... Thanksgiving. As we all know what follows Thanksgiving... Black Friday Store Sales. You thought I was going to say Christmas, right? Well of course... but I'm very excited to shop and find great deals too. I hope November does not fly by as fast as October flew by. Then again... I can't wait for Christmas! Bubble, Bubble Toil and Trouble....Witches are such an iconic symbol of Halloween and things that go bump in the night. Now that Halloween is soon approaching, my kids and I are getting more and more excited. So I was browsing the web in search of Halloween goodie ideas when I saw these cute witch's hat cookies. I knew immediately they would be a fun recipe project to do with the kids. Actually it's really not a recipe, but more of a gathering of ingredients and assembling them together. The kids had so much fun making them... I think they also enjoyed taste-testing the Hershey's Kisses. When we put them out on the cookie plate, they were the disappearing like Casper the ghost. If you have kids or you are just a big kid at heart, have some fun this Halloween and make these cute cookies. Note: Since it's Halloween orange colored frosting is available. If you can't find orange, then buy white frosting and add food coloring (yellow and red) to to make your own orange frosting. Sprinkles (optional) They came with the can of frosting so I used them. Turn you fudge strip cookie upside down so the chocolate coated side is facing up. Then put a dollop of orange frosting in the center. Then top with your Hershey's Kiss on the top and sprinkles. Allow to set for a while and Enjoy. Makes 25-30 Witches Hat Cookies. I made this dish almost a month ago when I had a surplus of lemons in my life. It's a bright and fragrant dish that makes a wonderful side dish for any meal or can be eaten with a rice and curry meal. First wash rice well and allow to drain dry. Then heat a large pan and melt butter. Next add curry leaves, pandan leaves, lemongrass, mustard seeds, cardamoms and cloves and fry for 1 minute. Then add chopped onion, salt and turmeric powder and fry until until they become softened. Add washed rice and lemon rind into pan and saute with all ingredients for 2-3 minutes. Transfer to a rice cooker and add lemon juice and water or chicken broth. Taste water for salt and lemon flavor. Adjust to taste. Cook in rice cooker until rice is tender. Fluff with a fork and serve. Note: If you do not have a rice cooker, cook in a pot with a lid. Bring rice and liquid to a boil on high heat. Then lower the heat to a low setting on your stove and simmer rice for about 20 minutes with lid on. Then turn stove off and leave cover for 5-10 minutes undisturbed. Fluff and serve. I am starting to enjoy experimenting with Rice Krispies Treats. I bought a box of Reese's Chocolate and Peanut Butter Puffs cereal and thought they would be fun to try in a rice krispies treat. I also wanted to try frosting the treats this time and it turned a regular treat into a very decadent dessert. My son had one after school with a glass of milk and he gushed how good it was with every bite. Even my daughter who can be hot and cold when it comes to sweets loved this one. If you cannot find the Reese's Puff, just substitute all rice cereal instead and it will be just as good. On medium low heat, melt butter, peanut butter and marshmallows (reserve 1 cup mini marshmallows). Once fully melted add the rice cereal and Reeses' cereal and mix well. Then add the remaining cup of mini marshmallows and mix together with the rice krispies. Pour mixture into a buttered baking dish and press down. Top with frosting and allow rice krispies to set for 2 hours. Cut into squares and serve. Enjoy. Frosting: In microwave (or double boiler) melt chocolate with milk and peanut butter until smooth. My kids both agree they love broccoli. I always buy a big 3lb bag of broccoli crowns from Costco every week. So we do eat a lot of broccoli and this is one of my favorite ways to cook it. It cooks pretty fast and goes great with rice and lentils. You can make it as spicy as you like. I made it pretty spicy because my kids are requesting me to cook spicier since they are old enough to develop their palette for spicy food. Of course we always have a glass of milk waiting for them in case they have to put any fires out. Heat 2Tbs of canola oil on medium heat in a large frying pan (preferably with a lid). Once the oil is heated add cumin seeds, cinnamon stick, mustard seeds, fennugreek seeds and curry leaves and fry for 30 seconds. Then add the onion and peppers and fry for another minute. Then add chopped broccoli and some salt and fry with the onions and spices. Next add the turmeric, red chili flakes and powder. Lower heat to medium-low and put lid on pan so broccoli can steam to soften. If your ingredients are too dry sprinkle 1-2 Tbs of water over the broccoli. Once broccoli is cooked to your desired tenderness, taste for salt and seasoning an serve with rice and other curries. Enjoy.

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Maria Hutchings - Conservative - VIDEO Maria Hutchings Conservative Eastleigh by-election candidate Maria Hutchings pledged to win Eastleigh residents' hearts and prove she is worthy of being their MP. The 51-year-old said she would be focusing on the economy and its effect on people's everyday lives. The mother-of-four, from West End, lost to Chris Huhne at the last General Election, but has been the Conservative party spokesperson in Eastleigh for several years. On a local level, she continues to oppose the gravel pits, such as in Hamble, and questions the scale of the Liberal Democrat controlled borough council's plan to build 9,400 homes in the borough over the next 17 years, describing it as "overdevelopment". She said an overriding issue was the economy and told the Daily Echo that people in Eastleigh were worried about whether they had enough money for food, heating and petrol. Mrs Hutchings, who works in new business development and advertising, wants to help small to medium sized businesses and said, with her 31 years' business experience, she understood what was needed to help businesses grow.

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Dean Martin Dinocalendar Dinopix for March 2008 Dylan Jones on Dino: the true leader of the Rat Pack HISTORY OF DINOSONG "THAT'S AMORE" Hey pallies, Dylan Jones, editor or GQ has written this wonderful tribute to our Dino in UK's Daily Mail. If you wanna read it in it's orginal form, just click on the link to this Dinopost. Loves to find others who loves our Dino like we do!!!! By DYLAN JONES Dylan Jones says Dean Martin's cool was born of sheer indifference The ultimate lounge lizard, Dean Martin eclipses both Frank and Elvis if only because his cool was born of sheer indifference Now, you might think you're cool. You might be standing there in front of your full-length, bulb-framed, lava-lamp-shaped mirror, in your one-button, peak-lapel, rope-shouldered mohair midnight-blue two-piece feeling enormously pleased with yourself. You might be admiring your brand spanking new patent-leather loafers, high-collared Harry Hill/Dylan Jones-style shirt and skinny matt-black tie and feeling enormously smug. You may have just been given a pair of Thomas Pink gold-bullion cuff-links by your significant girlfriend, managed to approximate a fairly convincing spotted pocket handkerchief (the right way up this time) and treated yourself to a new watch with a face the size of Belgium, and therefore be thinking all is well with the world. But let me tell you, my friend – you have nothing on Debonair Dino. He might not have been The Voice (he was never as ambitious as Sinatra) and he might not have been The King (although Elvis copied his singing style wholesale), but he was the coolest man to ever wear a tux, and compared to him you look about as cool as Nick Clegg in a hoodie. Or a shell suit. Or anything worn by John McCririck. Dean Martin invented cool. For 20 years, from the late Forties to the end of the Sixties, he was the epitome of louche sang-froid, a singer, actor and genuine star who conquered Hollywood, television and Tin Pan Alley. He was the first man to ever enjoy stardom on all four fronts of stage, records, television and film. He liked a drink – indeed, towards the end of his career it was his defining characteristic, and he was rarely seen on television without a drink of some sort in his hand (his personalised numberplate read DRUNKY). And he liked his women. But most of all, he liked breezing through life without a care in the world. He was a star not just because he could sing well or act appealingly, but also because he was the embodiment of relaxed, funny sexiness. In a word that first came into vogue during his rise, he was Cool. With a capital C. He dropped out of school because he thought he was smarter than the teachers. He delivered bootleg booze, served as a blackjack dealer, worked in a steel mill and boxed as a welterweight. And then he became one of the biggest stars in the world. Other Italian-style singers of the time worked hard to seduce the women in the audience. To him, that came naturally – sometimes too naturally. He worked to seduce the men, winning them over, gaining their approval through the illusion of camaraderie. Scratch his flip, insouciant exterior… and you found a flip, insouciant interior. Which is probably why he felt so at ease with the way he dressed. His cool wasn't born out of arrogance; it was born out of indifference. And his uncaring air of romance reflected the flash and breezy sweet seductions of a world in which everything came down to broads, booze and money, with plenty of Amarone and linguine on the side – living high in the dirty business of dreams. During the Sixties he refused to rehearse at all for his ridiculous TV show, instead showing up for the taping after a round of golf and winging his way through it, reading off cue cards and pretending to be drunk (sipping apple juice instead of JD). Happy days indeed. I suppose my infatuation with Dino stems from the fact that I grew up in an environment in which he was rarely off the turntable. From England's 1966 World Cup victory through to the first Moon landing, my early memories revolve around listening to Return To Me, Volare, Under The Bridges Of Paris, You Belong To Me and In Napoli on the American air force bases of East Anglia. For me, these songs still define a certain kind of imported homespun sophistication, however ersatz it may be. Also, while the whole Rat Pack ethos endures because it represents adolescence in perpetuity, Martin was more adolescent than most. Among his Rat Pack buddies, Martin was always the joker, the Martini-drinking lounge lizard with the laissez-faire attitude and an ever-ready excuse. What's more, he was the author of some of the best-remembered Hollywood bon mots. "I've got seven kids, and the three words you hear most around my house are 'Hello', 'Goodbye' and 'I'm pregnant'." "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day." "It was a woman who drove me to drink, and come to think of it, I never did hang around to thank her for that." "Hey, lady! Do I look all blurry to you? 'Cause you sure look blurry to me." So next time you go shooting your cuffs, rolling your shoulders or pumping out your chest, think again. Don't get above yourself, buddy, because in the grand scheme of things you're about as 'hip' as a Kula Shaker tribute band. And when you're next about to venture out on the town, be sure to do the decent thing and put on some Dino before you leave the house. You might never look like Dino, you might never have his luck with wine, women and song, but at least you can brush up on your karaoke. After all, if it was good enough for Elvis, then it's certainly good enough for you. Dylan Jones is the editor of GQ Posted by dino martin peters at 4:29 PM Dino in the UK's Daily Mail? Wonderful! I left a comment (I'm a blogger, after all) and hope that the paper publishes my little tribute. As you know, Dino was beloved in England. They knew talent and good time when they saw those qualities! Not mentioned in the article...Dino was a staunch American patriot. He felt blest to live in America, even though he started out in the rough town of Steubenvill and grew up during the Great Depression. Thanks for alerting us Dean Martin fans to this article in the UK press. Hey pallie AOW, no problem Dinogal...I left some Dinopatter like yesterday which has not been Dinoposted yet...hope perhaps you have more Dinosuccess... Rogue Spy 007 said... I left some Dinopatter of my own there. I loved this article. Dean Martin is the King of Cool. No debate on that. He oozes more cool in his little finger than most dudes in their entire bodies. Women wanted to be with him and men wanted to be him. He was all that is cool, hip, and randy. We would benefit from following his words of wisdom, living our lives like he did his. What an amazing fella! He is truly beloved around the world. Pallies all over the globe recognize how awesome Dino truly is. Hey pallie Keith, dude I loves, really loves the way you express your like total Dinopassion...indeed we all do benefit from followin' the life and teachin' of our King of Cool...thanks for your faithfulness to our Dino and to this blog devoted to him. Hello. 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Chris Beardshaw Joe Swift Charlie Dimmock Carol Klein Back to Gardeners Award-winning garden designer, lecturer and writer Chris Beardshaw is the Founder of his own thriving garden-design business. A trained horticulturalist, Chris came to the public's attention as a presenter on such programmes as Gardeners' World, Hidden Gardens, Flying Gardener and The Great Garden Detectives. Other credits include; Deep, Down & Dirty:The Science of Soil, British Gardens in Time and Beechgrove Garden. Chris's presentations are lively, entertaining and hugely educational. Chris was brought up in rural Worcestershire and from the age of four had developed a deep fascination for plants. Throughout his childhood he worked on nearby farms, ultimately making the acquaintance of a local nurseryman who was to become his mentor and supporter. Chris went on to train at Pershore College and began his career in commercial horticulture in research and development. With a passion for art and design, Chris then studied for a Post Graduate degree in Landscape and Architecture affording him to become one of the country's few designers and presenters to combine both disciplines. For some time, Chris lectured in horticulture garden design and garden history before being spotted by a television company and so his TV career began. Chris continued to present and teach until 2001 when he founded his own landscape and design consultancy business. This gave him the freedom to work creatively with private and commercial clients worldwide. Today his work sees him film television projects as well as write and speak at corporate seminars, conferences and major gardening events. Award-winning, he is without doubt, a designer, plantsman, broadcaster, speaker and author of great repute. Chris's television credits include; Gardeners' World, Hidden Gardens, The Flying Gardener, The Great Garden Detectives, Wild About Your Garden, Great British Garden Revival, Deep, Down & Dirty:The Science of Soil, British Gardens in Time, The Chelsea Flower Show, Heaven and Earth, Country Lives and Beechgrove Garden to name but a few. The author of a number of books, his publications include; The Natural Gardener, Hidden Gardens, More Hidden Gardens and 100 Plants That Almost Changed the World. He also has been a regular columnist for The English Garden Magazine, Garden News, The Daily Mail, Ideal Home Magazine and many more. Chris's presentations are lively, entertaining and hugely educational.

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URGENT: Mission Free Iran's Ali Azari Balsi to be Illegally Deported by the Swedish Government on 9 MARCH 2012 – TAKE ACTION! به دوستان عزیزمان در سراسر فضای مجازی، بویژه به دوستان بالاترین! در چند هفته گذشته سازمان ما " ایران آزاد" چند بار به شما عزیزان مراجعه کرده و از شما در ارتباط با پناهجویان سیاسی در شرف دیپورت به جمهوری چاقو کش‌های اسلامی درخواست حمایت کرده است. واکنش شما باعث افتخار و غرور ما بوده است. در این مورد اخیر، با خوش حالی‌ به اطلاع شما عزیزان میرسانیم که جاسبی را نتوانستند دیپورت کنند، و این گام اول و مهمترین قدم در راه وادار کردن دولت سوئد به باز کردن مجدد پرونده جاسبی و تجدید نظر در حکم غیر معقول و غیر قابل قبول دیپورت اجباری بوده است. جاسبی ۲ وکیل مدافع دارد که در ۲ سطح ، سطح دادگاه اروپا و سطح دادگاه‌های سوئد فعالیت میکنند. تمام اهمیت عدم موفقیت دولت سوئد در انتقال اجباری جاسبی به فرودگاه امام خمینی در معیت ۲ پلیس سوئدی و در غل و زنجیر در این است که اولا وکلای جاسبی قادر خواهند بود که پرونده وی را به مراجع حقوقی بالاتر که هنوز به آنها مراجعه نشده است ارجاع کنند، و دوما سازمان مسول پیگیری کمپین سیاسی در حمایت از حق جاسبی، سازمان بی‌مرز بتواند نیروها و امکانات خود را به میدان بکشد.سازمان ما به خواست سازمان سراسری پناهندگان( بی‌مرز) به روال معمول و در ارتباط مستمر با دوستان بی‌مرز از کمپین آنها و در دفاع از حق پناهندگی جاسبی پشتیبانی می‌کند. می‌ خواهیم بگوییم که اهمیت کارتان ، آن چند دقیقه‌ای را که صرف ارسال نامه به آقای وزیر و سکرترش کردید را، دقایقی را که صرف کامنت گذاشتن در پستها کردید، و زمانی‌ را که صرف جلب توجه دوستانتان و اطلاع رسانی کردید را دست کم نگیرید. این یک فعالیت سیاسی بسیار با ارزش است که هم تاثیر روانی‌ دارد و هم سیاسی و هم این که اگر زبانمان لال موفق به جلوگیری از یک دیپورت غیر قانونی نشویم، این نامه‌ها ضامن عواقب حقوقی برای دولت سوئد هستند.. در مورد حسین ما میدانیم که بیش از ۲۰۰ نامه توسط دوستان عزیز بالاترین ارسال شد. اینک میخواهند علی‌ آذری را هم دیپورت کنند. علی‌ آذری عضو فعال سازمان ماست، صرف نظر از پرونده سابقش ، علی‌ در تمام فعالیت‌های ۸-۹ ماه گذشته ما، در دفاع از زندانیان سیاسی و بر علیه اعدام‌ها شرکت فعال و در نقش سازمانده داشته است. علی‌ را نباید دیپورت کنند. هیچ پناهجوی ایرانی را نباید دیپورت کنند. ما در کمال فروتنی یکبار دیگر از شما عزیزان میخواهیم که آستین‌ها را بالا بزنید. ما در مقابل ظلم رژیم اسلامی سر فرود نیاوردیم، وزیر مهاجرت دولت سوئد که جای خود دارد. دستتان درد نکند! امضا کنید و بفرستید. اگر منت بگذارید و نامه را به لیست دریافت کنندگان دیگر(در پست ما یک لیست گسترده ارائه شده است)هم بفرستید نور علی‌ نور خواهد بود. Ali Azari Balsi is a political activist, a blogger, and a political asylum-seeker born in Rasht, Iran, in 1984. Ali himself participated in the 2009 Iranian uprising against the Islamic Republic. He was involved in clashes with security forces, and arrested and detained on one of the largest days of protest during the uprising, 29th of Khordad (19 June 2009). Ali was subjected to torture and beatings for a short time, but was ultimately released on very heavy bail: his family was forced to sign over their home to the regime in exchange for Ali's release. Immediately after his release, Ali fled the Iran and chose to go to Sweden to seek asylum. He has lived in Sweden now for 3 years, continuing his anti-regime activities: he has participated in and arranged anti-Islamic Republic protest demonstrations on behalf of a known anti-regime organization, Mission Free Iran; and he has been active in blogging. As a result of his activities, Ali reports that his blogs have been filtered, he has received death threats, and his family's home in Iran, which they were forced to put up for his bail, has been confiscated by the regime. Shokhrollah Azari, father of Ali Azari Balsi. Shokhrollah was a communist worker activist at the Lamp Pars Shahaab factory. As a result of his activism, he was executed by the Islamic Republic of Iran when Ali was just 14 years old. Despite all of this, the Swedish government still intends to deport Ali back to Iran on 9 March 2012, where he is certain to face arrest, detention, torture, and possibly execution, like his father. Even leaving aside the persecution he faced in Iran, Ali's anti-regime activities in Sweden are more than enough grounds for him to claim his right to political asylum. It is illegal under international law for any government to deport an asylum-seeker to a country where there is legitimate fear of persecution. The Swedish Migration Office has already issued a statement admitting that the Islamic Republic has the interest and ability to monitor Iranian political activists in Sweden, and we have shown in the case of Peyman Najafi that the regime in Iran keeps a very close eye on the status of individual asylum cases that have been denied by the government of Sweden. The Islamic Republic has already made it clear that it will prosecute returned political asylum seekers under Article 7 of its penal code for propagating against the regime. The Swedish government is well-aware of all of this, yet remains intent on illegally sending this young man back to more detention and torture in Iran, in contravention of Swedish, EU, and international law. There is no question that Ali Azari Balsi, a politically active member of a family targeted for political execution by the Islamic Republic in Iran, will be detained, tortured, and possibly executed like his father. Yet the Swedish government has scheduled his deportation to Iran for 9 March 2012. We will not allow Ali to suffer the same fate as his brother & sister. It is up to us to do all in our power to stop this crime by the Swedish government. TAKE ACTION: A sample letter is provided below. Please act quickly as there are only a few days left until Ali's deportation date of 9 March 2012. لطفا نامه زیر را کپی کرده و پس از امضا و گذاردن تاریخ با کلیک کردن روی نام و آدرس آقای وزیر و سکرتر وی که به رنگ آبی‌ در این جان لینک شده اند آن نامه اعتراضی را در پست اینترنتی ایشان بچسبانید. کلّ این کار ۳۰ ثانیه هم طول نمیکشد اما میتواند علی‌ آذری را از دیپورت نجات دهد. I am writing to you to demand an immediate halt to the deportation of Ali Azari Balsi, an Iranian asylum-seeker who has sought refuge in Sweden from persecution by the Islamic Republic of Iran (case no. 11.420.529). Hossein should be immediately released from detention and granted political asylum as is his right under international law. 1) Ali Azari Balsi has been visibly active in publicly protesting against the regime both inside Iran during the 2009 uprising, as well as in Sweden as activist with an established anti-Islamic Republic organization, Mission Free Iran. Anti-regime activists are usually charged by the Islamic Republic with "propagating against the regime" and "moharebeh," which carries the death sentence in Iran. The case of Mohammad Amin Valian – sentenced to death for participating in the 2009 post-election protests (not to mention the thousands killed and raped in regime prisons during that period) underscores the threat to Hossein's life (see: http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/02/valian-student-sentenced-to-death). It is obviously illegal under international law to return such an anti-regime political activist to Iran. Notably, Ali's father was executed by the regime for his political views and his activism for workers' rights. Ali himself has been detained and tortured. It is thus based on a reasonable fear of persecution that Ali fled for his life to Sweden, seeking asylum, which is his right. Yet the Swedish government has decided to detain him in preparation for an illegal refoulement on 9 March 2012. I do not accept this. 2) The Islamic Republic considers all Iranian political asylum-seekers to be criminals, deeming their quest for asylum as propagating against the regime. The Islamic Republic has on several occasions declared and applied its intent to prosecute returned political asylum-seekers, on the basis of Article 7 of the Islamic Republic's Penal Code. Rahim Rostami, a teenaged Kurdish asylum-seeker returned to Iran by Norway and immediately imprisoned is only one such example. Ali Azari Balsi has sought political asylum and therefore, under the Islamic Republic, is subject to prosecution by the regime. 3) The Migration Office's own Director for Legal Affairs "concludes that the Iranian regime has both a strong desire and the ability to monitor its citizens in Sweden." Ali Azari Balsi's anti-regime protest actions have been widely disseminated via Facebook, blogs, twitter, and other social media. Under the Migration Office's own admission, the Islamic Republic's monitoring of activists has required a change in policy with regard to asylum-seekers who are active against the regime while in Sweden. Both the Swedish government's own policies and Article 94 of international refugee law ("sur place") require that Ali Azari Balsi be granted asylum in Sweden. 4) It is illegal under international law for any country including Sweden to deport a person who has a legitimate fear of persecution in their home country. It is therefore undeniably illegal under the same international law for the Swedish government to participate in the crime of deporting Ali Azari Balsi to Iran, where he will be detained, tortured, and possibly executed if he is returned to the blood-soaked hands of the Islamic Republic. Despite this finding, the Swedish government continues to illegally attempt to deport Iranian activists like Mohammadreza Hamedian Esfahani, Hossein Jafar Ali Jasbi, Marzieh Kamangar, Mehdi Maleki, Keivan Soufastaei, and others, all of whom are clearly and undeniably at risk not only of detention and torture by the Islamic Republic of Iran, but at unquestionable risk of execution. We demand an urgent, immediate halt to Sweden's intended illegal refoulement of Ali Azari Balsi, who is at clear risk of persecution if returned to the Islamic Republic. Given the the Migration Office's blatant, incessantly repeated violations of international law regarding refugee rights, risking the lives of Iranian and other asylum-seekers, we demand that Sweden must not only immediately halt the illegal deportation of Ali Azari Balsi, but must immediately cease all deportations to Iran. « کلّ این کار ۳۰ ثانیه هم طول نمیکشد اما میتواند حسین را از دیپورت نجات دهد. Ali free nu nu nu. Please do not put back Ali Azari Balsi in hands of criminels. Om han hade inte problem, vad skulle han göra här. Hoppas han få att stanna i säkerhet, i Sverige. نابود باد حکومت خون اخوندی…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………. برگرداندن علی و هر پناهنده ای که از بی پناهی به کشوری پناه اورده جنایتیست که با همکاری جلادان حکومت خون خامنه ای انجام خواهد گرفت چون بازگشت علی به مرگ او پایان خواهد گرفت و در حقیقت شراکت در قتل یک ایرانیست مسئله ای که هیچگاه نه بخشیده خواهد شد ونه فراموش ………………. never diport Ali to Iran.He must be free. Ali's deportation = give him in hand of criminals. Please Stop it. Do not deport him please.His life is going to be in danger in Iran.Do u accept this responsibility with deporting a human to a danger place? Deportation is against the law Please do not give this young man to hands of Iranian criminal GOV. لطفا حسین را ریپورت نکنید. Please do not deport Ali to Iran thise barberian people will kill him . Please do not deport my landsman Ali to Iran. We all know what will await Ali when he arrives in Iran, prison and maybe hanging order. Please support our people of Iran against the craziness of this dictator and animalistic regime of Iran. please help ali azari and keep him in sweden …… if sweden deport him this mean rhe sweden intentionally kill him .. Please support and stop deporting this young man to Iran. As soon as he get there the govement police will arrest him and he will end up to Evin prison. He will be tortured and will be dead there……… He came out of his own country (Iran)to be safe and stay alive so please stop deporting him. Nobody wants to be a refugee to another country, he did that for his own safety and he is telling that he is NOT SAFE IN HIS OWN COUNTRY…. Do not send this gentleman back to criminals ie the current government in Islamic R IRAN. iran is big jail for all . death for the government. do not deport us to the hell. please don't deport him. he needs your help. Please donot deport Mr Ali Azad to Iran.Oranien goverment will put ihm in jale.you will Response this Crime. bebakhshid man nemidonam bayad chikar konam,yani nemidonam bayad kojaro emza konam,lotfan mano rahnamaee konid.. I just agree, never deportee to a country that even could be a threath to a human beeing that just expressed an opinion. Stoppa utvisningen av iranska flyktingar. Skicka inte utvisa Ali Azari. Stop udvisning af iranske flygtninge. Vær venlig ikke at deportere Ali Azari. Stop deportation of iranian refugees. Please do not deport Ali Azari. Arrêtez la déportation des réfugiés iraniens. S'il vous plaît ne pas expulser Ali Azari. Stoppen Sie Deportation von iranischen Flüchtlingen. Bitte nicht abzuschieben Ali Azari. Stop the deportation of refugees. To swedish government, Ali needs all the help he can get, but NOT in Iran. What's their problem. Every Iranian which finally can leave Iran should be recognized as a refugee in every European country. Iran has a dictatorial, brutal and murderous regime. Sweden must stop sending back political asylum seekers to a death row in contravention of the Geneva 1951 convention to which it's a signatory.

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SPORTING HIGHLIGHTS Boys Track Team Champs 2022 Celebration Highlights Excelsior's Lady Eagles regains their Corporate Area title Championships The Lady Eagles retained the corporate area title at the 2022 Champs staging amassing 132 points. They won 18 finals and took their sixth hold on this title. Some of the Eagles victory highlights were Shelly-Ann Taylor erasing the Girl's Class Three 80m Hurdles title, the sprint medley and the 4x400m relay open. Excelsior have regained the ISSA Grace Shield Under-19 title after dethroning Innswood by a massive 305 runs on Thursday's last day of their 3-day final at the Melbourne Oval. Innswood, who resumed the final day on 9-1 chasing an improbable 546 for victory, were dismissed for 240. Lacrosse girls' final, Excelsior ,Amanda Graham-Golding-coached team, was able to stave off the challenge from Wolmer's to retain the title they won for the first time last year. The champions, who had beaten Wolmer's quite easily earlier this season, found their opponents a much more difficult nut to crack in the final. Excelsior returned a much different team in the second half and their obvious quality shun through, as they who took control of the game in the latter half to ensure the trophy returned to 137 Mountain View Avenue. (BY DWAYNE RICHARDS-Observer writer-Adapted) http://dashathletics.blogspot.com/

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Sir Karl Popper made a sharp distinction between subjective and objective knowledge. Subjective knowledge is, he thought, deficient. It is expressive of our concrete mental dispositions and expectations; it consists of concrete world 2 thought processes. Objective knowledge is far superior. But how do we get from subjective to objective knowledge? Knowledge stored in libraries and in our notes is much more important than knowledge stored in our heads; it leads to the growth of knowledge in the objective sense of the word because it allows of and enables serious criticism. That is one of the reason why I consider it so important to take notes. 1. See Bryan Magee, Modern British Philosophy. Dialogues with A.J. Ayers, Stuart Hampshire, Alisdair MacIntyre, Alan Montefiore, David Pears, Karl Popper, Anthony Quinton, Gilbert Ryle, Ninian Smart, Peter Strawson, Geoffrey Warnock, Bernard Williams, Richard Wollheim. (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1971), p. 74. Gracias, or... Thanks a lot!

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From Zen Buddhism to Preying on Vulnerable Women The chilling story of Eido Shimano—a new ebook from The Atlantic Mark Oppenheimer Eido Shimano, the Japanese Zen Buddhist monk whose exploitative relationships with female followers over a fifty-year period were to tear apart the American Buddhist community, arrived in the United States in August 1960, at the age of 27, to study at the University of Hawaii. He moved in with Bob Aitken, a Zen teacher who had first been exposed to Zen as a prisoner of war in a Japanese camp, afterwards studying with leading Japanese masters. Shimano stayed in Hawaii for four years, then left for New York City, promptly to organize one of the country's great sanghas, or Zen communities. Until the women he serially abused finally began to speak out, in the last two years or so, Shimano was a pillar—the pillar—of the New York City community of Zen Buddhists. Bob Aitken, Shimano's first host in America, is now dead. But in a handwritten note dated May 4, 1964, apparently for his own records, he recorded the reason for Shimano's departure from Hawaii. This note, haunting in retrospect, foreshadows all the abuse that was to come. Aitken and Shimano had jointly decided to volunteer at Queen's Medical Center, hoping to learn a bit about mental illness. Two female Zen students from their sangha had recently been hospitalized there for "mental breakdowns." That's when a psychiatric social worker noticed something curious: a name from their case records—Shimano's—was the same as one of the hospital's volunteers. This coincidence was passed along to Dr. Linus Pauling Jr., a psychiatrist at the hospital, who investigated the matter, then reported back to Aitken that Shimano had played a role in the women's breakdowns. Aitken claimed that he made his own inquiries; he was vague about what he found, but he became convinced that Shimano "had indeed played such a role" in the women's breakdowns and was guilty of "ruthless ... exploitation" of the women. "I felt," Aitken wrote, "that if I confronted him with the evidence, he would deny everything, and the Sangha members generally would support him. Further, I was concerned about protecting the two women." Aitken asked the advice of senior members of the Buddhist community. He even flew to Japan to consult with his own teachers, the legendary Nakagawa and Yasutani—neither of whom, it turns out, doubted that Shimano was capable of sleeping around, but both of whom seemed unwilling to accept that this behavior was really a problem. Aitken never went public with what he knew about Shimano, not in 1964, and not for the next half century until his death. Tormented, Robert Aitken saved his correspondence with and about Shimano. He must have made it known that he was keeping the definitive dossier on Shimano, because over the years insiders leaked to him copies of private letters to the Zen Studies Society board, minutes of board deliberations, and other documents that helped complete the story of Shimano's predations. In 2003, Aitken gave the papers to the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and in 2008, just after his 90th birthday, he agreed to allow public access to the papers he had been saving for 45 years. The papers might have just sat in boxes at the university archives in Manoa had not a former Shimano follower, a Zen priest named Kobutsu Malone, requested that photocopies of the entire archive be sent to his home in rural Maine. By 2008, when he was able to get the papers, Malone had developed an obsessive grudge against Shimano. An engineer by trade, Kevin Malone—he would take his dharma name, Kobutsu, as his legal name in 2010—had begun in 1977 to sit, or meditate, at Shimano's New York Zendo, where he was soon volunteering his handyman skills, doing carpentry, electrical wiring, and other tasks. In 1979, he moved to Dai Bosatsu, Shimano's country monastery, with his future wife. They took up residence in the gatehouse, from which Malone superintended the campus, "running the buildings, all the vehicles, logging, everything," he told me last year. He got married there in July of 1979, and had a son, Sean, in 1980. The next year, the family left for California, where Malone had a job offer. He and his wife divorced in 1990, and many years later he learned that his ex-wife, who had slept with Shimano before marrying Malone, had continued a casual affair with their teacher during their marriage—as his ex-wife confirmed for me. I heard this story in October 2012, when I visited Malone at his one-bedroom apartment in a forgettable development in coastal Maine. When I arrived, I was greeted at the door by Malone, a short, blunt, white-haired, heavy-lidded, chain-smoking, double-wide bruiser of a man—and by his enormous Newfoundland, Harley-Bear. Malone's small living room was crowded with files and a large computer—tools in his daily fight to expose Shimano, a task to which he says he has dedicated tens of thousands of hours. "I'm on disability," Malone said when I asked how he supported himself. He unbuttoned his shirt so that I could see his surgical scars. "I've had five heart attacks, two strokes, and a triple bypass," he told me as he took a puff on a hand-rolled cigarette, which between drags rested in a large glass ashtray. Buy the Full Story on Kindle What finally brought the wrath of Malone down on Shimano was not the revelation that Shimano had cuckolded him, but rather a letter that Shimano wrote, or perhaps only signed off on, to one William Van Gordon, an English Buddhist whose mother was the subject of a 2007 story for the Daily Mail called "The Cult Guru Who Stole My Son." Malone, who already had an avocation raking muck in Buddhist circles, began his own investigation into what he saw as the fraudulent practices of Van Gordon and his mentor, Edo Shonin. Wondering who this self-appointed American P.I. was, Van Gordon wrote to Shimano, asking whether it was true that Malone was a Zen priest, as he had claimed in correspondence. The e-mail Shimano sent back, likely written by his secretary, was painfully dismissive. "He came to Dai Bosatsu Zendo in the early eighties," Shimano wrote. "He then attended a few sesshins with me and expressed his interest to become our caretaker ... As a caretaker, he did not do any formal practice with the sangha. After a few years, he left [Dai Bosatsu] and I would see him sporadically, when he would offer to help with the maintenance of our city temple ... He was living in New Jersey, with his two boys, separated from his wife ... He begged me to ordain him, telling me that he needed some kind of credential to support his chaplaincy work in prisons. I finally agreed ..." One can imagine Malone's feelings on reading this e-mail, after a friend at a Buddhist publication, which had received a copy from Van Gordon, sent it on to him. In his own mind, he is a proud, if exiled, Buddhist. In 1993, the Buddhist chaplaincy he ran at Sing Sing was covered by The New York Times. He is the only Buddhist I have met—besides Shimano himself, that is—who legally adopted his dharma name, going from Kevin to Kobutsu. So it was Shimano's insult that drove Malone to put Aitken's files—which are, according to an archivist at the University of Hawaii, still "being processed"—on the Internet. Malone bought the domain ShimanoArchive.com and spent two years transcribing handwritten letters, and imploring friends and acquaintances to translate any documents in Japanese. He added to Aitken's files his own collection of just about anything pertaining to Shimano. The full archive comprises more than 6,000 pages so far, and it includes Aitken's earliest notes on Shimano, accusing letters to the board of Zen Studies Society from the 1970s onward, anguished missives from disillusioned monks, private correspondence among board members—often confused, befuddled, or in denial—and painful testimonials from women whom Shimano had, they said, groped, made passes at, seduced, romanced, and in many cases dumped. This was the information that became available online in March 2010. It would take days to read the archive from beginning to end. For the casual inquisitor, the curious browser, the Peeping Tom, there is no need to read it that way: you can dip into it most anywhere and find something shocking, horrifying, or compellingly smutty. For the more serious student—of Buddhism, of sexual abuse, of Eido Shimano—the archive does reward a thorough examination, because it contains within it all the explanations for why Shimano lasted as long as he did. To begin, there is evidence of his modus operandi, which seems always to have involved finding the needy woman, the unstable one, the one who could not stand up for herself. Then, throughout the archive, you can find the excuses others gave for enabling him: the desire to protect Buddhism, the gratitude to Shimano, the confusion about what Buddhism permits or does not permit. It's all there, a case study in a community's inability to protect itself. At the very beginning of the archive are Aitken's anguished letters about the women in Hawaii. On August 24, 1964, Aitken wrote to Nakagawa, the Japanese teacher, "The whole thing hinges on the matter of mental health. If the girls had come to their priest in search of sex, and had found sex, then surely there would have been no mental breakdown afterward. But, the way Dr. Smith expresses it, they came in search of Zen and found sex, and therefore broke down." A year later, on August 5, 1965, Aitken was again writing to Nakagawa; Shimano had gone to New York, but Aitken was unable to get the two women off his mind: Shimano, he wrote, had seduced one of the two women "within a few days of her arrival, and they were lovers thereafter. She was surprised at this turn of affairs, but accepted it, thinking that it could be a means for her kensho"—her moment of enlightenment. "He had told her that he would locate permanently in Hawaii, so when he left for the extended trip with Yasutani Roshi, she was very upset. Upon his return early in 1964, he resumed their relationship, not mentioning his engagement [to be married] until a month or so later. This coincides with his affair with [the other woman], which also began after his engagement and after his return from his world tour." Scroll through more of the archives, and more than a decade later you come to a letter of January 30, 1979, by anonymous authors who called themselves "Your Friends in the Dharma." In their letter, to the whole sangha, they again point to Shimano's preference for unstable women: "Eido Roshi has beyond doubt disgracefully abused his role as teacher and betrayed the trust of his students by continuing to commit acts with the females of our sangha ... Eido Roshi knowingly takes advantage of girls in [a] mentally unstable condition and with emotional vulnerability who come to him seeking spiritual help and guidance. In face of these deplorable actions and the concern of our sangha, Eido Roshi has continually denied his involvement, and maintained an attitude that he is beyond questioning. We feel it's time to question." One particularly poignant letter in the archive, dated February 20, 1979, is from one former student, Merry Benezra, to another. I have interviewed both students in the past year; they stand by their stories. Benezra herself—who later wrote a roman à clef about Shimano—never had sex with Shimano, although, as she writes, she "experienced quite a bit of sexual 'harassment' from Eido Roshi (from innuendo to proposition)" during two stays at Dai Bosatsu. During the first stay, the harassment was "just a barrage." For months she spoke of the incidents to no one. "I wanted to be thought of as a student, and not one of Roshi's women," she wrote. "I did not want to rock the boat. After I left I found out, in correspondence with [another woman], that Roshi had also propositioned her ... We had been very close friends and yet we had kept a silence on something that was disturbing us every day, in order to protect the sangha, the kessei"—a three-month training period—"and the Roshi." The letter continues in a key of gratitude: "When I left [after my first stay], I seriously thought of 'blowing the whistle.' But I was grateful for the opportunity I'd had to practice at Dai Bosatsu, and I thought that if I said anything it would be the end of everything at Dai Bosatsu. I really thought it would fold the place ... One of the problems of Dai Bosatsu is that to warn a new female student that she is likely to be propositioned by her teacher is to risk every new female student leaving in a very big hurry and telling the world." As far as we know, Shimano has never taken a sexual interest in men. But, as Kobutsu Malone could testify, Shimano's activities harmed men, too. One of the most pained documents in the archive is titled "An Open Letter to My Teacher, Eido Tai Shimano," and it was written March 29, 1979, by the student Adam Fisher. Infuriated by the same revelations of Shimano's affairs that prompted the letters above, also from 1979, Fisher ultimately decided against sending his letter to Shimano; it seems that just getting his feelings down on paper was enough for him, at the time. In 2011, the letter finally became public, when Fisher sent it to Malone for the archive. The letter begins with Fisher's fond memories of what drew him to Zen practice. "What a lot of silence," Fisher wrote. "No preachments, convincings, argumentations—just the silence to which we all return. I loved it." The idyll quickly ended, however. But then came 1975 and what later was humorously referred to as the "Fuck Follies" ... The Teacher had taken a series of bed partners from the sangha and had made passes at others. For a while, I didn't believe it. You were married, you were the teacher, you had submitted yourself to the precept of moral conduct ... But then I talked with some of your paramours ... Each had thought of herself as "the only one." Each had been unceremoniously ditched. I heard about the confrontation between you, your teacher, your wife and one of the sangha members. Yet Fisher remained at Dai Bosatsu. "I stayed," he wrote, "because I was afraid to leave." He decided not to concern himself with his teacher's ethics. "Time came and went. There were stories. About the student who tried to commit ritual suicide at Dai Bosatsu. About other women you were involved with. But after the first upset, I shut the door on the Fuck Follies. I was going to sit on [the] cushion and let the world take care of itself." But by 1979, Fisher had encountered new accusations that he was unwilling to ignore: "So now it has begun again. First Peter and Dave sent a letter to the board of trustees. They sent it together with the diary that included love letters addressed to you from a woman member. Do you know what Peter said to me? He said, æWe ... were naive. We thought Eido Roshi would be out in a week. We thought the board of directors would have to take action ... '" As for the board of directors, they are in some ways the second villain of the archives. Friendly with Shimano, loyal to him, unable to hear criticism of their beloved roshi, they were so uniformly committed to Shimano that in 1982, when the board president, George Zournas, finally decided to do something, he found that he had no support at all. He wrote to his fellow board members: I am sure you have been aware of the undercurrent of disease that has been running through the zendo over the past several months. Some of you have learned that this has been caused by the latest in a long series of accusations against Eido Roshi by young women who say they have been seduced by him in the dokusan room ... This is but the most recent of a long series of such seductions, dating back to Eido Roshi's time in Hawaii in the 1960s. Over the past sixteen years as [a] member of the Board of Trustees of the Zen Studies Society and more recently as president of that Society, I have attempted to make excuses for Eido Roshi and to cover up the scandals as best I could. Now, however, sickened by this latest outrage ... I have resigned from the presidency of the Board of Trustees and from the Board itself. The archive is thus a record of two contradictory impulses. On the one hand this is a Buddhist community of great vigor and activity: daily zazen, weeklong sesshins, large growth in membership, successful building projects, fawning attention from the media. Yet at the same time there is a peculiar timidity, a fear that to speak about Shimano's sexual life would snip the spine of the whole sangha, would paralyze the life force that had come to animate it all. It was a fear that would continue to paralyze members of the community for several decades to come. Mark Oppenheimer writes the Beliefs column for The New York Times and is the author of Dan Savage: The First Gay Celebrity. He can be found at markoppenheimer.com.

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West: Win the "trust" of people who hate us? What? February 21, 2009 sheikyermami 1 Comment Appalling Stupidity and Cluelessness  from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: American success is not measured  on the ability of U.S. forces to execute their missions, but on the emotional reaction of the average, illiterate, infidel-hostile, modernity-challenged Afghan to those missions. The always perspicacious Diana West discusses the wrongheadedness of American policy toward the jihadists in Afghanistan: "Win the 'Trust' of People Who Hate Us? What?," by Diana West, February 19. via JW The buzzword on Afghanistan is "trust."Having routed the Taliban, liberated millions, midwived a (Sharia-supreme) constitution, assisted in elections, propped up a government and routed the Taliban some more, all the United States needs now to win victory in Afghanistan is to win the "trust" of the Afghan people. So, cockamamiely, wrote Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, in a column appearing in the Washington Post just days before President Obama ordered 17,000 new troops to Afghanistan, nearly doubling the American presence there. The president's top military adviser explained the policy this way: "We have learned, after seven years of war, that trust is the coin of the realm — that building it takes time, losing it take mere seconds, and maintaining it may be our most important and most difficult objective." Sorry, admiral, but if that is what we have "learned" in a war that has claimed more than 600 American lives, wounded and maimed thousands more, and cost billions of pre-bailout dollars, we are practically done for. Why? The short answer is that in making a primary objective out of winning the "trust" of the Afghan people, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs has, by definition, abandoned all rational war policy. Indeed, he has placed the marker for American success not on the ability of U.S. forces to execute their missions, but on the emotional reaction of the average, illiterate, infidel-hostile, modernity-challenged Afghan to those missions. "Lose the (Afghan) people's trust," Mullen writes, "and we lose the war." I wish I could say I've never heard such fatuous counsel, but the entire so-called war on terror, from start to non-finish, reverberates with this same sort of line. It tends to turn profound Islamic differences from the West into profound Western failings toward Islam. Rather than walk our nation up to the cultural chasm between Islam and the West and show us what it looks like, our leaders have, in effect, made that chasm into their own personal responsibility, something to fill in, paper over and, above all, never, ever mention…. Taliban: Afghanistan Will Be 'Graveyard' For U.S. Winning trust is going to be tough! "Taliban: Afghanistan Will Be 'Graveyard' For U.S.," from CBS News, February 19 (thanks to Jeffrey Imm): A former government minister from the Taliban regime that ruled Afghanistan says the United States can throw as many soldiers into the country as it wants, they will just meet the same fate as all previous "foreign invaders."A day after President Obama announced a massive increase in the U.S. troop presence — an additional 17,000 pairs of boots on the ground, coming soon — the former minister told CBS News he couldn't understand, "why the U.S. relies on figures and the number of troops in a country such as Afghanistan, where the number of foreign invaders has never made any difference, and the winners have always been the freedom fighters." […] "The more troops that the U.S. and NATO send, the more they will get deeper stuck in Afghanistan," said the former minister, who spoke to CBS on condition that he not be identified. He still has ties to the militant group, which was toppled from power by the 2001 U.S. invasion, and he claims the number of armed of Taliban fighters in Afghanistan is set to grow by at least a third this year, to 10,000. He said last year they had 5,000 fighters and another 3,000 Kuwa Zarbati (reserves). The largest concentration of militants, he said, was in the southern Helmand and Kandahar provinces. He said the increase was not related to the influx of new U.S. troops, but had already been decided due to a change in tactic; moving the fight from the countryside to do battle in settled areas. "The numbers aren't significant, what's important is the new strategy and tactics," he said. The former government minister boasted of suicide bombers in waiting. "Bombers are our main assets, and still we have a number of suicide bombers." The compassion of Muslims worldwide toward the Taliban's cause has increased significantly in the wake of "Israel's Zionist attack in Gaza," he said, claiming that donors from many nations have been sending cash to buy cars and explosives, which would be used in bombs aimed at the soon-to-arrive American forces…. Previous PostUK: That Warsi ConundrumNext PostJohn Kerry, a mailman for Hamas? One thought on "West: Win the "trust" of people who hate us? What?" kaw says: What rot – the battlelines are clear for those who can see – trust brings NOTHING!!!!!

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The Cover Artist for Chapter 3 of Law Novel will be Kim Lung Gi​, Korean Artist ! And the Vol.6 of OP: Magazine will be about Wano Country, in Manga & Anime with some features ! will the content be the same?of other version have different content?

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Fan-Demonium: The X-Factor Gameday is finally here. A Sunday without Eagles football lasts forever. As frustrating as the wait is, a Monday night game against Dallas is worth it. You get the national spotlight. Players and coaches from 30 other NFL teams will be watching. This is a chance to make a major statement. I know it is only Week 2, but an early-season game can set a tone for the season. The Eagles can show the Cowboys and everyone watching that the road to the NFC East title goes through Philadelphia. Both the Eagles and Cowboys are very talented teams that won impressively in the season opener. You can make an argument for each team as the better of the two and the team to beat in the NFC. The Cowboys have the bigger names, but the Eagles have plenty of guys who have Pro Bowl and/or Super Bowl experience. You can talk about the matchups and choose a player or an area to focus on. The smartest thing is to look back to last season to see who won and why. Put simply, the team that won the line of scrimmage won the game. Focus on the lines and you'll have a good idea of who is in control of the game. There is one interesting X-factor for the Eagles … Donovan McNabb's scrambling ability. In last December's win at Texas Stadium, McNabb had season-highs in rushes (9) and yards (53). One of those runs went for 28 yards. Dallas played a lot of man coverage. That forced the defensive backs to turn and run with receivers. Their backs were turned to the line of scrimmage. That means that McNabb had a chance for a big play if he got beyond the line. The defensive backs were focused on the receivers and didn't see that McNabb had taken off running until he was already downfield. The Cowboys can play this one of two ways. They can use a defender to ""spy"" on McNabb. That means he basically shadows McNabb on each passing play. Rather than rush the passer or drop back he just stays a couple of yards off the ball and goes wherever McNabb goes. This strategy can work with the right defensive player. The Cowboys could also play more zone. Defensive backs keep their eyes on the quarterback when playing zone. Should McNabb take off running, they will be quicker to react and come up to make the tackle. The problem with playing zone is that the Cowboys defensive backs are better suited to playing man coverage. In the December game, the Cowboys' tight man coverage limited the Eagles passing attack. The longest pass play to a wide receiver was a 16-yard pass to Reggie Brown. McNabb only completed 10 passes to wide receivers for the whole game. Running backs and tight ends caught 13 passes. Dallas kept the passing game under control, but had no answer for McNabb's legs. It will be interesting to see what they decide to do in this game. As I mentioned earlier the real key to the game is winning the battle up front. The Eagles feel better about the offensive and defensive lines this year than they did in 2007. The Rams got dominated on the line of scrimmage last week. The Cowboys will be a much stiffer test. Their offensive line is massive and equally adept at run blocking or protecting Tony Romo. Their front seven on defense can shut down running backs or get after the quarterback. The biggest test for the Eagles blockers will be controlling linebacker DeMarcus Ware. He is explosive off the ball and also makes plays based on sheer effort. He's a game-changing kind of defender. You can block him 30 times and then let up on the next play and he'll make you pay. Left tackle Tra Thomas will face him the most. Jon Runyan will see him a bit. Tight ends L.J. Smith and Brent Celek will help on him. Even the running backs will factor in. They'll chip block on him. That is when a runner goes up to a defender that is being blocked and hits him in the midsection with his shoulder. This is a legal, clean play. Brian Westbrook is one of the best chip blockers in the entire NFL. The Eagles defensive line has a simple task – hit Tony Romo. Hit him early and often. The front four has to get pressure in order to throw Romo off rhythm and to slow down the Dallas passing game. Cleveland didn't sack Romo once last week. He was able to sit in the pocket and shred their secondary. The Eagles have a much better set of defensive backs, but if you don't get to Romo he will find open receivers. This game will give us a much better feel for how good the backup defensive linemen are. Darren Howard played well last week. Another good game would be huge for him and the team. Chris Clemons got limited snaps last week at end. This is the kind of game he was brought in here for. Romo averaged just under 33 passes a game last year. The best way to get after him is by rotating defensive linemen so that guys always have fresh legs. Clemons needs to bring the heat from the left end spot. Backup tackles Trevor Laws and Dan Klecko looked good last week. They need to match that showing. This should be a good game. Both teams are healthy, talented, and hungry. The Cowboys feel pressure because of last year's playoff meltdown. The Eagles feel pressure from having missed the playoffs two of the last three years. I know it's only Week 2, but this sure does feel like a big game. Should be a lot of fun. The Eagles and Cowboys have played in some interesting Monday night games in the last 15-20 years. Here are some memories: • 1992 – The Eagles won an early season showdown, 31-7, and got to 4-0. There were times before the snap when you just knew Troy Aikman had no chance. The front seven pressured him all night long. • 1993 – Bubby Brister threw for 248 yards and almost pulled off the upset in Dallas. Linebacker Britt Hager and cornerback Eric Allen each dropped interceptions and Matt Bahr missed a field goal in the 23-17 loss. • 1996 – Rodney Peete suffered a knee injury while dropping back to pass. Ty Detmer took his place and kept the team close, but couldn't pull off the win. He got knocked silly late in the game and at one point was calling BYU plays in the huddle, much to the chagrin of the 10 other guys in the huddle who didn't go to BYU. Defensive tackle Rhett Hall ran back an interception 32 yards for a touchdown. • 1997 – I think all Eagles fans remember the nightmare bobble by Tommy Hutton. The thing I think most forget is that the game should have been over. Dallas had a fourth-down play on their go-ahead drive which resulted in pass interference. Mike Mamula tipped the ball at the line, meaning interference shouldn't have been called. The officials didn't see the tip. This was the game where Ray Rhodes and Emmitt Thomas utilized cornerback Bobby Taylor as a blitzer. He had two sacks and two forced fumbles, one of which William Thomas scooped up and ran back for a score. • 2004 – Coming off a loss to Pittsburgh, the Eagles played with real purpose. They destroyed Dallas 49-21. McNabb had his famous 14-second scramble and pass to Freddie Mitchell. Lawlor: Is a Sunday Funday in store against Washington? Tommy Lawlor's preview of the season opener highlights all of the key offseason storylines that finally get to unfold. Lawlor: The most memorable season openers On the anniversary of the Pickle Juice Game, relive the most iconic games to start the season from the past 30 years. Lawlor: The need for speed Although size and strength play a big role in the NFL, nothing compares to the swiftness of quick feet. Lawlor: Roster puzzle starting to come together The win over Jacksonville showcased the Eagles' depth at defensive line, offensive line, and running back. Plus, the Josh McCown move fortifies the quarterback depth chart. Lawlor: Learn why the future is bright for the Eagles Recap the first preseason game and what the Eagles learned about the young talent they have in their locker room. Lawlor: Thursday night marks the next step in finding the right 53 From established veterans to wide-eyed rookies, the Eagles have a challenging task ahead to narrow down the roster. Lawlor: Remembering the legendary Jim Johnson Ten years ago, Eagles Hall of Fame defensive coordinator Jim Johnson passed away. Tommy Lawlor looks at the incredible track record of success that helped define a transformative era in franchise history. Lawlor: Eagles must 'bring the juice' The players report to the NovaCare Complex on Wednesday for the start of Training Camp. Tommy Lawlor explains why there is a different vibe this season. Lawlor: Who poses the biggest threat in the NFC East? The Eagles' first goal is to make the playoffs. The easiest way to do that? Win the NFC East. Tommy Lawlor previews the Eagles' division rivals entering Training Camp. Lawlor: Stability remains a hallmark of Eagles organization Jeffrey Lurie, Howie Roseman, Doug Pederson, and Carson Wentz will all be together through at least the 2022 season. Lawlor: On and off the field, change remains constant in the NFL Twenty years ago, Doug Pederson was a quarterback for the Eagles. Would Pederson the player recognize the game that Pederson the head coach is involved with today? Lawlor: Winning starts up front The Eagles can have all of the weapons at the skill positions on offense but it won't take flight without a strong offensive line. And thanks to some wise investments, the Eagles have a deep, talented group.

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Demi has worked at Links for the past six years as an Orthodontic Nurse. She qualified as an Orthodontic Therapist 18 months ago and now works as a Therapist which she really enjoys. In her spare time, she enjoys socialising with friends and family.

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Dance at Buffalo State delivers a liberal arts education and embraces a philosophy of civic and community engagement in all aspects of the program. In addition to rigorous studio training that enhances the physical experience of the art form, the curricula is designed to deepen students understanding of the cultural, historical, and aesthetic value of dance to our world. Our community-based program fulfills our dance students' distinct aspirations while addressing local and global societal needs. The bachelor of arts degree in arts and letters with a concentration in dance is an interdisciplinary major that allows students to pursue their particular interests whether that be performance, education, therapy, or community work with dance as the primary course of study. Excellent learning experiences in and out of the classroom develop dance leaders for an increasingly global society. The dance program also offers a 21-credit-hour minor. The program focuses on the study of dance as art, science, education, and culture. Through studio techniques, theory, history, and composition, students reflect on their own creativity and its aesthetic value, which leads to considering how dance enhances their major, is an expression of culture, and helps to build community. In addition, the dance program offers a course of study for the dance enthusiast and advocate. This series satisfies Buffalo State's mission to provide quality liberal arts study through the Intellectual Foundations program. The Buffalo State Dance Association is the student voice to the Buffalo State Dance Program and provides students, interested in the many facets of dance, a forum for intellectual and creative exchange. Founded as the administrating organization for Buffalo State's Chapter of the National Honor Society for Dance Arts (NHSDA), we organize numerous events such as hosting professional workshops, volunteering within the community, raising money to benefit dance education, and inviting professionals from many backgrounds to share their expertise and passion for dance. These events assist students with meeting the honors criteria established by the National Dance Education Organization and also provide a wide variety of opportunities for students who simply love to dance. It does not matter if a student has one year of dance or ten years of dance, all are always welcome! It is our hope that more students become aware of our association and get involved. We continue to look forward to new faces every week! The NHSDA is administered through the Buffalo State Dance Association. Inductees are recognized for their artistic merit, leadership, and academic achievement. To be inducted a student must maintain a 3.5 GPA in dance, earn a minimum of 45 points, and provide a letter of support. To Graduate with Honors in the senior year, a student must earn an additional 15 points, secure another letter of support, and submit a personal research essay to the NHSDA Chapter Adviser. Buffalo State Dance Theater is a performance-based student group that performs throughout the academic year. Built on the foundation of diversity and creativity, we accept and appreciate all dance forms. Students are invited into the company by audition. Acceptance indicates committing to the company for the full academic year, registering for a dance technique course each semester, and rehearsing for and performing in the annual spring dance concert. Buffalo State Dance Company provides audiences with engaging and time relevant concerts that sparks change. Our wide range of choreography has been presented by Buffalo State faculty, students, and guest artists. Each year we look forward to new members joining our dance family!

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Birth Control Pill Promoted With Trashcan Babies We've all heard the horror stories of young girls or women, overwhelmed by the thought of giving birth, who've chosen, instead, to dump their baby in the nearest bathroom stall or trashcan. Drug company Schering has co-opted the horror and turned it into an ad campaign for its birth control pill. The ad is an outdoor installation in the form of trashcans - placed near universities in Bankok - with motion sensors that, upon sensing the motion of a passerby, deliver the sound of a baby crying. Once the top of the trashcan is opened, the passerby is presented with Schering's message. OgilvyOne did the work. Hmm. We're not sure whether to say, "Damn, that's great advertising" or "That's disgusting. What the hell were you thinking?" See additional images here. Topic: Good, Outdoor Mac Intel Ad Gets Twist Ending While this sort of Windows/Mac joke has been played out a billion times before, this time it just seems to have a bit more humor. Someone has altered the ending of the Mac/Intel ad - the one everyone claimed copied a Postal Service video - to illustrate a scenario Windows users have, unfortunately, become all to familiar with. Topic: Brands, Commercials, Online, Spoofs Hilton, GM, Sprint Say 'Yes' Unanimously In Wall Street Journal Adrants reader Jamie wonders what's up today with the word "yes" in the Wall Street Journal today, writing, "What's the deal with pgs A10, A11 & A13 of today's Wall Street Journal? Hilton, GM and Sprint. All 1/2 or full page ads with the word 'yes' big and bold in the headline. Is there something I should be reading into here? Is 'yes' the new "it" word in advertising?" Pure coincidence? Anyone from the WSJ, Hilton, GM or Sprint care to comment? Topic: Newspaper, Strange Unicorn, Crab, One-Legged Girl Promote Newport Beach Film Fest Here's one of those promotions that makes you ask, "WTF???" In a nod to certain movies which have surprise endings, the surprise ending in this clip is twisted. An idyllic day at the beach goes horribly wrong when a crab and a unicorn cross paths. Be sure to check out the girl who becomes randomly one-legged at the end of the clip. Oh, before we forget, the whole thing promotes the Newport Beach Film Festival and was created by Y&R Southern California. Topic: Online, Promotions, Strange VW My Fast Similar to Honda Speedy Demon We really ought to create a new category here for the increasing number of look-a-like, rip off and knowing nod ad campaign. Ben Popken from The Consumerist sends us a comparison of Volkswagen's My Fast character and Honda's Speedy Demon. Granted, they are different but there are similarities conceptually. No bid deal. We already know all the good ideas have been taken. Topic: Brands, Strange Canada Encourages All American Gays to Marry In Canada OK so it's not really a great spot, in fact, it's really cheesy but it does strive to let all Americans know Canada welcomes, with open arms, all gays and lesbians who want to get married without the hassle of state and federal anti-gay marriage laws. Oddly the spot is 42 seconds long which, actually, is a very good thing because 12 seconds of this spot could be cut and nothing would be lost. Topic: Bad, Commercials Kooky SIte Trys to Get College Kids to Eat Mac And Cheese FCBi has created a site called University of St. Arvin to promote Kraft's Easy Mac Cups. At the college student-directed site, people can create a message that will be sent to their Mom asking her to send a care package full of Easy mac Cups. There's a Subservient Chicken-like area of the site where you can click around a guy's dorm room and make him do stuff. There's a weird roomate-films-roomate-making out thing and a couple of videos, one that's kinda funny. But does anyone older that ten eat this crap? Topic: Online Southern Film Festival Gets Southern Stereotype Treatment Adding a southern twist to ads promoting the Carolina Independent Film Festival, BooneOakley "re-worked" movies posters from Breakfast At Tiffany's, Moonstruck, Red October and Scareface. See all the redneck action here. Topic: Campaigns, Good Hair Curlers And Cereal Used to Promote World Men's Curling Championships To promote the 2006 World Men's Curling Championships, a sport we still don't completely understand, Conover Tuttle Pace created a couple of spots promoting the event at the Paul Tsongas Arena in Lowell, MA. The agency is proud to point out the spots contain no beer, bikini-clad models or farting animals. Topic: Commercials Cannes And AKQA Host Ad Competition For Students Listen up all you advertising students. This your chance to the advertising industry's biggest boondoggle, the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival. Ad agency AKQA has organized the first ever Future Lions Competition for all you global ad students. The competition is now open and accepting entries. The goal of the competition is to "showcase forward-thinking ideas and concepts created by the next generation of global advertising superstars." The Future Lions site provides you a creative brief, FAQs, winning tips from AKQA's creative geniuses, downloadable posters and an online submission form.

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As I woke up this morning…I really felt like, so what, it's Mother's Day…just another day. I know, that is a bad attitude to have and it sounds worse than what I meant by it. I guess I just felt like, I am a mom every day and today isn't any different. I am still going to have to do laundry, cook dinner, argue with kids to take their showers and all the other things that I have to do on a daily basis. So when I thought about writing a Mother's Day post, I thought, I don't feel very encouraging today! So I looked back to what I wrote last year. It is amazing how God uses our own words sometimes to speak to us. I have said it a lot of times, I truly believe that God had me write this blog to talk to myself as much as to try and help others. So since I know I needed to re-read this, I thought perhaps, this will encourage another single-mom as well again today! Happy Mother's Day! One of the greatest gifts that God has ever given me is the gift of being a mom. If you knew me back in my 20's that statement would probably shock you. You see for years, I swore I would never have kids. Honestly, I thought that I would make a terrible mother. But thankfully, God knows us far better than we know ourselves. I can't imagine my life without my kids and I certainly never want to. Being a single mom takes a lot of bravery. Whether it is dealing with spiders, mice, or bumps in the night, you are there. You handle it because you have to. You take those "man" jobs and you own them. While your own heart is pounding you check everything so that your daughter who has super sonic hearing can go back to sleep knowing everything is ok. No matter how many nights you cry yourself to sleep, the next morning you get up, hold your head high and do it all over again. You are BRAVE! I love Psalm 139. So much of this passage in The Psalms reminds us that God knows everything about us. He has known us before we were even born, before the creation of the world. He knows every word we say before we say it, every thought we have. No matter where we go, He is there. He also knows about all our hurts and holds all our tears. " You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. Sometimes as single-moms we feel like nobody knows what we are going through, nobody sees our hurt, but the truth is, we are fully Known and Seen by the God who created us and knew every page of our story before it was written. He knew that we would go through this season in our lives and He gives us the strength we need to not only get through it, but to be a light to others in the process. I think one thing that many of us feel as single-moms is unloved. Many of us have been either betrayed, abandoned, or abused by the person we were meant to spend our lives, by the person who was called to love us as Christ loved the church. And often times, we may be the one that our children yell at because they can't yell at their dad. We may take the blame and be the ones who have to hear the "I hate yous and you're the worst mom ever" and even though we know where those hurtful words come from, we always worry that they are true. But I am here to remind you today that You Are LOVED! Not only are you loved by those precious gifts that call you mom, but you are loved by the God of the universe. The One who created you and all that you see. The One who has unlimited power loves YOU intimately and He will NEVER EVER hurt you, abandon you, or betray you! Today I want you to remember that you are Amazing! You may be walking a difficult path right now, but you are crushing it! Regardless of what your past held for you, your future is bright and God has a great plan for you and for your children. Focus your attention on Him today and celebrate! Celebrate the woman He is leading you to become, celebrate the beautiful children He gave you that made you a mom, and celebrate all the moms you know by letting them know how awesome they are!

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Changing to a new computer has a certain cathartic aspect. In going through years of e-mails recently, I was taken by the periodic crazes and manias in both the secular and ecclesiastical world. When it comes to the Church, I never cease to be intrigued or, perhaps stunned and amazed, by the "next best thing" ("NBT"). The NBT always arrives accompanied by "enthusiasts"-folks who wholeheartedly support and avidly even rabidly cheer on all of the benefits of the NBT, whilst declaring the last best thing "dead" or "dying". Nowhere has this been more prevalent than in the Anglican expression, particularly Anglo-Catholicism, in the last decade. There have been waves of NBTs, and the account that follows is by no means comprehensive. . There was the Anglican Mission in America seeking, post l'Affaire de Vicki Robinson, to lure Episcopalians and Anglicans of the evangelical variety to "legitimacy" gained through the leadership of African bishops. At roughly the same time, the Traditional Anglican Communion sought to entice with claims of corporate reunification of the continuers with the Roman Catholic Church. This effort was replete with a solemn service in England during which a host of bishops solemnly signed the Catechism of the Catholic Church and presented it with a loud thud one the doorstep of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (formerly known by its less-than-user-friendly name as the Inquisition). Despite loud hoopla, fanfare and a wave of apologists, the continuing Church marched on along retaining a number of signatories to the CCC who found the Tiber too wide and deep to cross. Next, we saw the creation of the Roman Catholic Ordinariate to sweep in traditional Anglicans of the Anglo-Catholic variety who had variously grown weary of the apostasy of the Episcopal Church and the bat-craziness of the continuing Church movement. Waves of enthusiasts fanned out for this NBT. Conferences were held. Social media sites saturated. We all learned that we could have the "legitimacy" of the Roman Catholic Church whilst retaining our "rich Anglican liturgical tradition." While the enthusiasts still troll the net verse, they seem to be maturing and the Ordinariate has settled in at about 45 parishes and missions. Meanwhile, the continuing Church soldiers on, diminishing in many places, failing to address the problems that have existed for 40 years, albeit finally showing some signs of much-needed unity in the Joint Synods of October 2017. Roughly 300 parishes and missions are accounted for in this effort. Now, there seems to be yet another NBT-Western Rite Orthodoxy. While this has been around for a while amongst the Antiochian Orthodox parishes, it has taken on an aggressive recruiting effort in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). This pace has stepped up markedly in the several months following the Joint Synod among four parts of the continuing Church. Again, the enthusiasts are peppering social media, sending out breathless announcements of converts gained and numbers increased, and even ringing up folks to get them to do the backstroke across the Volga. Mixed in with this "outreach" by the NBT from the East is a measure of triumphalism and disparagement of other bodies. Social media has included comments effervescing over the closure of Roman Catholic parishes and touting the gains made by the East. Most recently, a colleague of many years who has joined this NBT advised that he no longer felt "comfortable" posting on Anglican blogs such as this and refusing to engage in a minor public discourse and debate on the matter of East, West or in the Middle. Perhaps it is a function of having been a continuer for so many years, or being a lawyer for nearly 36 years or being simply a combative sort (an admixture of Welsh and Irish should have a warning label). However, when the ability to debate and discuss gets defenestrated, generally an absolute truth claim follows. (Hint: This is the case for both liberals and conservatives, traditionalists and revisionists, and so on.) Further, when a claimant to the truth begins to denigrate and disparage the other side, then one must wonder what is behind the curtain (or dossal). Mix all of that together and layer in crass triumphalism, then there is cause for real and probing inquiry. I understand the assertion that triumphalists make concerning the NBT. It is the one true Church, and they love everyone so much that they cannot stand to see them anywhere else. After all, the NBT is the "one, true Church." Roman Catholics would disagree. Even other Orthodox groups would disagree. Even continuing Anglicans, doomed and damned though we may be, would disagree. Does the continuing Church have problems? There are, in fact, many ranging from poorly or un-educated clergy, questionable administrative practices, disregard of canons, to utterly incoherent theologies attempting domestic bliss under the same roof. These need to be honestly and openly discussed, and there will be an attempt to do so here in a forthcoming series of articles aimed at addressing the pachyderms in the parlor. However, the answer is not necessarily to abandon the leaky longboat and run to the NBT. It surely is not in making a different truth claim, or claim of authority while decrying other Christians who remain unsold on the NBT. In an excellent brief article on the Patheos blog teasing out this thought, Rebecca Hamilton aptly observed that, Triumphalism, the joy in winning, is part of our national psyche. We are, in our own way, very sure of ourselves and our ability to overcome whatever difficulties lie in front of us." This can skew our Christian understanding of the Gospels. At a basic level, the Cross is still part of this world. We all have our crosses, and if we want to be worthy of Him, we must pick them up and carry them. "[T]his triumph is not triumph according to the world's understanding." It is not an aggressive and competitive victory that elevates us in other people's eyes and gives us a particular status. Following Christ means embracing the supreme humility of the Cross. The triumph of the cross is defeat for the Kingdom's sake and not for the sake of denominationalism. If ever there were a palliative to the triumphalism of the adherents of the NBT, this passage is fairly straightforward. Writing some ten years ago on The Continuum blog, Fr. Robert Hart addressed the larger issue in an article entitled "The Odd Couple". It was written during a period in which there was an eructation of enthusiasm and triumphalism for a purported NBT. In speaking of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox branches of the Church, Fr. Hart observed, "…we love and honor both of them, which is more than they usually say for each other. In our ecclesiology there is room for them both as part of the Church in its fullness, unlike the respective ecclesiology of each of them concerning the other (let alone everybody else). If the Two One True Churches were no longer twain but one, then they might have some credibility to their exclusivist claim. Their mutual exclusion still bears witness to the fact that they too have erred at different times, and have yet to work out their differences." Indeed, the fractiousness of the various Eastern Orthodox bodies amplifies this last thought. This is not to say that there are not legitimate differences and a need for theological discourse. Indeed, there is a desperate need for this within the continuing Anglican movement. For example, can committed Calvinists embrace the Affirmation of St. Louis, a document fundamental to the appellation "Continuing Churchmen"? Of course not, yet this is a question for some would-be continuing Anglicans. This is but one of the elephants in the doctrinal room. However, sheep stealing, sewing discord, denigrating others particularly the jurisdictions one comes from and like behaviors are not merely unseemly, they are un-Scriptural. They must stop. Now.

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\section{Introduction} The explanation of the accelerated expansion of the Universe is one of the most challenging problems in modern cosmology \cite{Perlmutter:1998np,Riess:1998cb}. From the mathematical point of view, the simplest way to treat this problem is to consider the cosmological constant term \cite{Carroll:2000fy}. Nonetheless, this model faces some difficulties such as the coincidence problem and the cosmological constant problem. The latter dictates a huge discrepancy between the observed values of the vacuum energy density and the theoretical large value of the zero-point energy suggested by quantum field theory \cite{Carroll:2000fy}. There are some alternative models proposed to overcome these problems such as modified gravity \cite{Nojiri:2010wj,Sotiriou:2008rp,Capozziello:2011et,Avelino:2016lpj,Lobo:2008sg,Bamba:2015uma,Nojiri:2017ncd}, mysterious energy-momentum sources \cite{Copeland:2006wr,Horndeski:1974wa,Deffayet:2011gz}, such as quintessence \cite{Wetterich:1987fm,Ratra:1987rm,Caldwell:1997ii,Zlatev:1998tr} and $k$-essence \cite{ArmendarizPicon:1999rj,ArmendarizPicon:2000dh,ArmendarizPicon:2000ah} fields, and complex equations of state storing the missing energy of the dark side of the Universe \cite{Bento:2002ps,Arun:2017uaw}. In general, models with varying dark energy candidates may be capable of overcoming all the mathematical and theoretical difficulties, however, the main underlying question is the origin of these terms. One proposal is to relate this behavior to the energy of quantum fields in vacuum through the holographic principle which allows us to reconcile infrared (IR) and ultraviolet (UV) cutoffs \cite{Cohen:1998zx} (see Ref.~\cite{Tawfik:2019dda} for a review on various attempts to model the dark side of the Universe). However, an alternative to these dark energy models, as mentioned above, is modified gravity \cite{Nojiri:2010wj,Sotiriou:2008rp,Capozziello:2011et,Avelino:2016lpj,Lobo:2008sg,Bamba:2015uma,Nojiri:2017ncd}. Here, one considers generalizations of the Hilbert-Einstein Lagrangian specific curvature invariants such as $R^{2}$, $R_{\mu \nu }R^{\mu \nu }$, $R_{\alpha \beta \mu \nu }R^{\alpha \beta \mu \nu }$, $\varepsilon ^{\alpha \beta \mu \nu }R_{\alpha \beta \gamma \delta }R_{\mu \nu }^{\gamma \delta }$, etc. A popular theory that has attracted much attention is $f(R)$ gravity, where one may tackle the problem through several approaches, namely, the metric formalism \cite{Nojiri:2010wj,Sotiriou:2008rp,Capozziello:2011et,Avelino:2016lpj,Lobo:2008sg,Bamba:2015uma,Nojiri:2017ncd}, which considers that the metric is the fundamental field, or the Palatini formalism \cite{Olmo:2011uz}, where here one varies the action with respect to the metric and an independent connection. However, one may also consider a hybrid combination of these approaches that has recently been proposed, namely, the hybrid metric-Palatini gravitational theory \cite{Harko:2011nh}, where the metric Einstein-Hilbert action is supplemented with a metric-affine (Palatini) correction term. The hybrid metric-Palatini theory has the ability to avoid several of the problematic issues that arise in the pure metric and Palatini formalisms. For instance, metric $f(R)$ gravity introduces an additional scalar degree of freedom, which must possess a low mass in order to be relevant for the large scale cosmic dynamics. However, the presence of such a low mass scalar field would influence the dynamics on smaller scales, such as at the level of the Solar System, and since these small scale effects remain undetected, one must resort to screening mechanisms \cite{Capozziello:2007eu,Khoury:2003rn}. Relative to the Palatini formalism, no additional degrees of freedom are introduced, as the scalar field is an algebraic function of the trace of the energy-momentum tensor. It has been shown that this fact entails serious consequences for the theory, leading to the presence of infinite tidal forces on the surface of massive astrophysical type objects \cite{Olmo:2011uz}. In this context, the hybrid metric-Palatini gravity theories were proposed initially in \cite{Harko:2011nh} in order to circumvent the above shorcomings in the metric and Palatini formalisms of $f(R)$ gravity. One of the main advantages of the hybrid metric-Palatini theory is that in its scalar-tensor representation a long-range force is introduced that automatically passes the Solar System tests, and thus no contradiction between the theory and the local measurements arise. In a cosmological context, it has also been shown that hybrid metric-Palatini gravity may also explain the cosmological epochs \cite{Lima:2014aza,Lima:2015nma} (we refer the reader to \cite{Capozziello:2015lza,Harko:2018ayt,Harko:2020ibn} for more details). In fact, hybrid metric-Palatini gravity has attracted much attention recently, and has a plethora of applications, namely, in the galactic context \cite{Capozziello:2012qt,Capozziello:2013yha,Capozziello:2013uya}, in cosmology \cite{Capozziello:2012ny,Carloni:2015bua,Capozziello:2013wq,Boehmer:2013oxa,Lima:2014aza,Lima:2015nma}, in braneworlds \cite{Fu:2016szo,Rosa:2020uli}, black holes \cite{Bronnikov:2019ugl,Chen:2020evr,Rosa:2020uoi,Bronnikov:2020vgg}, stellar solutions \cite{Danila:2016lqx}, cosmic strings \cite{Bronnikov:2020zob,Harko:2020oxq}, tests of binary pulsars \cite{Avdeev:2020jqo}, and wormholes \cite{Rosa:2018jwp,Capozziello:2012hr}, amongst others. Here, we explore the possibility that evolving wormhole geometries may be supported by hybrid metric-Palatini gravity. These compact objects, which are theoretical shortcuts in spacetime, have been shown to be threaded by an exotic fluid that violates the null energy condition (NEC), at least for the static case \cite{Morris:1988cz,Morris:1988tu}. However, it has been shown that evolving wormholes are able to satisfy the energy conditions in arbitrary but finite intervals of time \cite{Kar:1994tz,Kar:1995ss}, contrary to their static counterparts \cite{Visser:1995cc,Lobo:2017oab}. One way to study this subject is to embed a wormhole in a Friedmann–Lema\^{i}tre–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric, which permits the geometry to evolve in a cosmological background \cite{Roman:1992xj,Anchordoqui:1997du,Arellano:2006ex,Ebrahimi:2009ih,Ebrahimi:2009rv,Bordbar:2010zz,Sajadi:2012zz,Cataldo:2013sma,Setare:2015iqa, Bhattacharya:2015oma,Ovgun:2018uin,Zangeneh:2014noa,Cataldo:2008pm,Cataldo:2008ku,Cataldo:2012pw,Maeda:2009tk,KordZangeneh:2020jio}. Due to the somewhat problematic nature of the energy condition violations, an important issue is whether traversable wormholes can be constructed from normal matter throughout the spacetime, or at least partially. Different wormhole structures have been explored from this point of view \cite{Zangeneh:2014noa,Mehdizadeh:2015jra,Mehdizadeh:2015dta,Zangeneh:2015jda,KordZangeneh:2020jio,Parsaei:2019utg}. Indeed, it has been shown that in modified gravity, it is possible to impose that the matter threading the wormhole throat satisfies the energy conditions \cite{Capozziello:2013vna,Capozziello:2014bqa}, and it is the higher order curvature terms that support these nonstandard wormhole geometries \cite{Lobo:2007qi,Lobo:2009ip,Garcia:2010xb,MontelongoGarcia:2010xd,Harko:2013yb,Korolev:2020ohi}. Furthermore, different wormhole structures have been studied extensively in the context of alternative theories of gravity \cite{Antoniou:2019awm, Tangphati:2019pxh, Papantonopoulos:2019ugr, Godani:2019kgy, Banerjee:2020uyi, Fayyaz:2020jzh, Restuccia:2020wls,Tangphati:2020mir,Singh:2020rai,Ibadov:2020btp,Richarte:2009zz} and also from different aspects \cite{Lazov:2017tjs, Savelova:2019lye, Bak:2019nnu, Xu:2020wfm, Jusufi:2020rpw, Berry:2020tky, Fallows:2020ugr, Maldacena:2020sxe,Lobo:2020kxn,Parsaei:2020hke,DeFalco:2020afv,Moti:2020whf,Wielgus:2020uqz}. In this paper, we study the evolution of traversable wormholes in a FLRW universe background in the scalar-tensor representation of hybrid metric-Palatini gravity. Furthermore, we explore the energy conditions for matter which threads these wormhole geometries. The paper is organized in the following manner: In Sec. \ref{secII}, we briefly present the action and field equations of hybrid metric-Palatini gravity, we consider the spacetime metric and explore a barotropic equation of state for the background fluid. In Sec. \ref{secIII}, we analyse evolving traversable wormhole geometries for specific values of the barotropic equation of state parameter, as well as evolving wormholes with a traceless energy-momentum tensor (EMT), and study the energy conditions for the solutions obtained. Finally, in Sec. \ref{conclusion}, we summary our results and conclude. \section{Evolving wormholes in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity} \label{secII} \subsection{Action and field equations} Here, we briefly present the hybrid metric-Palatini gravitational theory. The action is given by \begin{equation} \label{eq:S_hybrid} S= \frac{1}{2\kappa^2}\int d^4 x \sqrt{-g} \left[ R + f(\mathcal{R})\right] +S_m \ , \end{equation} where $\kappa^2\equiv 8\pi G$, $R$ is the metric Ricci scalar, and the Palatini curvature is $\mathcal{R} \equiv g^{\mu\nu}\mathcal{R}_{\mu\nu} $, with the Palatini Ricci tensor, $\mathcal{R}_{\mu\nu}$, defined in terms of an independent connection, $\hat{\Gamma}^\alpha_{\mu\nu}$, given by \begin{equation} \mathcal{R}_{\mu\nu} \equiv \hat{\Gamma}^\alpha_{\mu\nu ,\alpha} - \hat{% \Gamma}^\alpha_{\mu\alpha , \nu} + \hat{\Gamma}^\alpha_{\alpha\lambda}\hat{% \Gamma}^\lambda_{\mu\nu} -\hat{\Gamma}^\alpha_{\mu\lambda}\hat{\Gamma}% ^\lambda_{\alpha\nu}\,, \end{equation} and $S_m$ is the matter action. However, the scalar-tensor representation of hybrid metric-Palatini gravity provides a theoretical framework which is easier to handle from a computational point of view \cite{Harko:2011nh}, where the equivalent action to (\ref{eq:S_hybrid}) is provided by \begin{equation} \label{eq:S_scalar2} S=\int \frac{d^4 x \sqrt{-g} }{2\kappa^2}\left[ (1+\phi)R +\frac{3}{2\phi}% \partial_\mu \phi \partial^\mu \phi -V(\phi)\right]+S_m . \end{equation} Note a similarity with the the action of the $w=-3/2$ Brans-Dicke theory version of the Palatini approach to $f(R)$ gravity. However, the hybrid theory exhibits an important and subtle difference appearing in the scalar field-curvature coupling, which in the $w=-3/2$ Brans-Dicke theory is of the form $\phi R$ \cite{Harko:2011nh}. By varying the action (\ref{eq:S_scalar2}) with respect to the metric provides the following gravitational field equation \begin{equation} G_{\mu \nu }=\kappa ^{2}\left( \frac{1}{1+\phi }T_{\mu \nu }+T_{\mu \nu }^{(\phi )}\right) , \label{einstein_phi} \end{equation}% where $T_{\mu \nu }$ is the standard matter energy-momentum tensor, and \begin{eqnarray} T_{\mu \nu }^{(\phi )} &=&\frac{1}{\kappa ^{2}}\frac{1}{1+\phi }\Bigg[\nabla _{\mu }\nabla _{\nu }\phi -\frac{3}{2\phi }\nabla _{\mu }\phi \nabla _{\nu }\phi \notag \\ &&\text{\hskip0.75cm}+\Bigg(\frac{3}{4\phi }\nabla _{\lambda }\phi \nabla ^{\lambda }\phi -\square \phi -\frac{1}{2}V\Bigg)g_{\mu \nu }\Bigg] , \label{tens_perfect} \end{eqnarray}% is the energy-momentum tensor of the scalar field of the theory. Varying the action with the scalar field yields the following second-order differential equation, \begin{equation} \label{eq:evol-phi} -\square \phi+\frac{1}{2\phi}\partial_\mu \phi \partial^\mu \phi +\frac{\phi[% 2V-(1+\phi)V_\phi]} {3}=\frac{\phi\kappa^2}{3}T \ . \end{equation} The above equation shows that in hybrid metric-Palatini gravity the scalar field is dynamical. This represents an important and interesting difference with respect to the standard Palatini case \cite{Olmo:2011uz}. \subsection{Spacetime metric} The metric of a time-dependent wormhole geometry is given by \begin{equation} ds^{2}=-e^{2\Phi \left( r\right) }dt^{2}+a^2\left( t\right)\left[ \frac{% dr^{2}}{1-b\left( r\right) /r}+r^{2}d\Omega ^{2}\right] , \label{met} \end{equation}% where $\Phi \left( r\right)$ and $b\left(r\right) $, respectively, are the redshift and shape functions, which are $r$-dependent, and $a\left( t\right) $ is the time-dependent scale factor, and $d\Omega ^{2}=d\theta ^{2}+\sin^{2} \theta d\varphi ^{2}$ is the linear element of the unit sphere. To correspond to a wormhole solution, the shape function has the following restrictions \cite{Morris:1988cz}: (i) $b(r_{0})=r_{0}$, where $r_{0}$ is the wormhole throat, corresponding to a minimum radial coordinate, (ii) $b(r)\leq r$, and (iii) the flaring-out condition given in the form $rb^{\prime }(r)-b\left( r\right) <0$. The latter condition is the fundamental ingredient in wormhole physics, as taking into account the Einstein field equation, one verifies that this flaring-out condition imposes the violation of the NEC. In fact, it violates all of the pointwise energy conditions \cite{Morris:1988cz,Morris:1988tu,Visser:1995cc,Lobo:2017oab,Lobo:2004wq}. In order to avoid the presence of event horizons, so that the wormhole is traversable, one also imposes that the redshift function, $\Phi(r)$, be finite everywhere. However, throughout this work, we consider a zero redshift function, $\Phi =0$, which simplifies the calculations significantly. \subsection{Evolving embedding analysis} It is also interesting to explore how the time evolution of the scale factor affects the wormhole itself. To this effect, in the following analysis, we will follow closely the analysis outlined in Refs. \cite{Morris:1988cz,Roman:1992xj,KordZangeneh:2020jio}, and analyse how the (effective) radius of the throat or length of the wormhole changes it time. As mentioned above, throughout this paper, we consider $\Phi =0$ for simplicity. Thus, in order to analyse the time-dependent dynamic wormhole geometry, we need to choose a specific $b(r)$ to provide a reasonable wormhole at $t=0$, which is assumed to be the onset of the evolution. Note that the radial proper length between any two points $A$ and $B$, through the wormhole, at any $t={\rm const}$ is given by $l(t)=\pm \, a(t) \int_{r_A}^{r_B} {(1-b/r)^{-1/2}}\,dr$, which is merely the initial radial proper separation multiplied by the scale factor. Now, to analyse how the ``wormhole'' form of the metric is maintained throughout the evolution, we consider a $t={\rm const}$ and $\theta=\pi/2$ slice of the spacetime (\ref{met}). Thus, the metric reduces to \begin{equation}\label{slice} ds^2=\frac{a^2(t)\,dr^2}{1-b(r)/r} + a^2(t)\,r^2\,d\varphi^2\,, \end{equation} and is embedded in a flat 3-dimensional Euclidean space given by \begin{equation} ds^2=d{\bar{z}}^2+d{\bar{r}}^2+{\bar{r}}^2\,{d\varphi}^2\,. \label{barredslice} \end{equation} Comparing the angular coefficients, yields \begin{eqnarray} \bar{r}&=&{a(t)\,r}\big|_{t={\rm const}} \,, \label{coef1:phi} \\ {d\bar{r}}^2&=&a^2(t)\,{dr}^2\big|_{t={\rm const}} \,. \label{coef2:phi} \end{eqnarray} Note, that when considering derivatives, these relations do not represent a ``coordinate transformation'', but a ``rescaling'' of the radial coordinate $r$ along each $t={\rm constant}$ slice. The ``wormhole'' form of the metric will be preserved, with respect to the ${\bar{z}},{\bar{r}},\varphi$ coordinates, if the embedded slice has the following metric \begin{equation}\label{WHslice} ds^2=\frac{d{\bar{r}}^2}{1-\bar{b}(\bar{r})/\bar{r}} + {\bar{r}}^2{d\varphi}^2\,, \end{equation} and the shape functions $\bar{b}(\bar{r})$ has a minimum at a specific $\bar{b}(\bar{r}_0)=\bar{r}_0$. Now, the embedded slice (\ref{slice}) can be readily rewritten in the form of Eq. (\ref{WHslice}) by using Eqs. (\ref{coef1:phi}) and (\ref{coef2:phi}), and the following relation \begin{equation} \bar{b}(\bar{r})=a(t)\,b(r). \label{bar:b} \end{equation} Thus, the evolving wormhole will have the same overall shape and size and relative to the ${\bar{z}},{\bar{r}},\varphi$ coordinate system, as the initial wormhole had relative to the initial $z,r,\varphi$ embedding space coordinate system. In addition to this, using Eqs. (\ref{barredslice}) and (\ref{WHslice}), one deduces that \begin{equation} {{d{\bar{z}}}\over{d{\bar{r}}}} =\pm\left({{\bar{r}}\over{\bar{b}(\bar{r})}}-1\right)^{-1/2} ={{dz}\over{dr}} \,, \label{barredembedding} \end{equation} which implies \begin{eqnarray} \bar{z}(\bar{r})&=&\pm\int{{d\bar{r}}\over{(\bar{r}/{\bar{b}(\bar{r})}-1)^{1/2}}} \nonumber \\ &=& \pm \, a(t)\,\int{\left(\frac{r-b}{b}\right)^{-1/2}} \,dr \nonumber \\ &=&\pm \, a(t)\,z(r)\,. \label{embed:relation} \end{eqnarray} Thus, the relation between the initial embedding space at $t=0$ and the embedding space at any time $t$ is, from Eqs. (\ref{coef2:phi}) and (\ref{embed:relation}) \begin{equation} ds^2=d{\bar{z}}^2+d{\bar{r}}^2+{\bar{r}}^2\,{d\varphi}^2 =a^2(t)\,[dz^2+dr^2+r^2{d\varphi}^2]\,. \end{equation} The wormhole will always remain the same size, relative to the ${\bar{z}},{\bar{r}},\phi$ coordinate system, as the scaling of the embedding space compensates for the evolution of the wormhole. Nevertheless, the wormhole will change size relative to the initial $t=0$ embedding space. We also note that the ``flaring out condition'' for the evolving wormhole is given by \begin{equation} {{d\,^2{\bar{r}(\bar{z})}}\over{d{\bar{z}}^2}}>0\,, \end{equation} at or near the throat, so that taking into account Eqs. (\ref{coef1:phi}), (\ref{coef2:phi}), (\ref{bar:b}), and (\ref{barredembedding}), it follows that \begin{equation} {{d\,^2{\bar{r}(\bar{z})}}\over{d{\bar{z}}^2}} =\frac{1}{a(t)}\,{{b-b'r}\over{2b^2}} =\frac{1}{a(t)}\,{{d\,^2r(z)}\over{dz^2}}>0\,, \label{barred:flareout} \end{equation} at or near the throat. Using Eqs. (\ref{coef1:phi}), (\ref{bar:b}), and \begin{equation} {\bar{b}}'(\bar{r})={{d\bar{b}}\over{d\bar{r}}} =b'(r)={{db}\over{dr}}\,, \end{equation} the right-hand side of Eq. (\ref{barred:flareout}), relative to the ${\bar{z}},{\bar{r}},\phi$ coordinate system, may be written as \begin{equation} {{d\,^2{\bar{r}(\bar{z})}}\over{d{\bar{z}}^2}} =\left({{\bar{b}-{\bar{b}}'\bar{r}}\over{2{\bar{b}}^2}}\right)>0\,, \label{barred:flareout2} \end{equation} at or near the throat. Thus, we have verified that the flaring out condition (\ref{barred:flareout2}), using the barred coordinates, has the same form as for the static wormhole. \subsection{Gravitational field equations} We also consider an anisotropic matter energy-momentum tensor given by $T_{\nu }^{\mu }={\rm diag}(-\rho,-\tau, p, p)$, where $\rho $, $\tau $ and $p$ are the energy density, the radial tension (which is equivalent to a negative radial pressure) and the tangential pressure, respectively. Using the metric (\ref{met}), the gravitational field equations (\ref{einstein_phi}) provide the following energy-momentum profile: \begin{equation} \rho (t,r) =\left( 3H^{2} +\frac{b^{\prime }}{r^{2}a^{2}}% \right) \left( 1+\phi \right) +3\dot{\phi}H+\frac{3\dot{\phi}^{2}}{4\phi }-% \frac{1}{2}V(\phi ), ~ \label{rhoeq} \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} \tau \left( t,r\right) &=&\left( H^{2}+2\frac{\ddot{a}}{a} +\frac{b}{% r^{3}a^{2}}\right) \left( 1+\phi \right) \notag \\ &&+2\dot{\phi}H-\frac{3\dot{\phi}^{2}}{4\phi }+\ddot{\phi}% -\frac{1}{2}V(\phi ), \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} p\left( t,r\right) &=&\left( -H^{2}-2\frac{\ddot{a}}{a} -\frac{rb^{\prime}-b}{% 2r^{3}a^{2}}\right) \left( 1+\phi \right) \notag \\ &&-2\dot{\phi}H+\frac{3\dot{\phi}^{2}}{4\phi }-\ddot{\phi}% +\frac{1}{2}V(\phi ), \label{pteq} \end{eqnarray} respectively, where $H=\dot{a}/a$ and $\phi =\phi \left( t\right) $, the overdot and prime denote derivatives with respect to $t$ and $r$, respectively, and for notational simplicity, we have considered $\kappa =1$. One recovers the standard field equations of the Morris-Thorne wormhole \cite{Morris:1988cz}, by fixing the scale factor $a$ to unity and excluding the background time-dependent evolution and the scalar field $\phi $ contribution. Furthermore, we will also analyse the null and weak energy conditions for the solutions obtained below. The weak energy condition (WEC) is defined as $T_{\mu \nu } u^{\mu }u^{\nu }\geq 0$, where $u^{\mu }$ is a timelike vector, and is expressed in terms of the energy density $\rho $, radial tension $\tau $ and tangential pressure $p$ as $\rho \geq 0$, $\rho -\tau \geq 0$ and $\rho +p\geq 0$, respectively. The last two inequalities, i.e., $\rho -\tau \geq 0$ and $\rho +p\geq 0$ correspond to the NEC, which is defined as $T_{\mu \nu }k^{\mu }k^{\nu }\geq 0$, where $k^{\mu }$ is \textit{any} null vector. The scalar field equation of motion (\ref{eq:evol-phi}) yields \begin{equation} \ddot{\phi}+3\dot{\phi}H-\frac{\dot{\phi}^{2}}{2\phi }-\frac{1}{3}\phi \left[ T +\left( 1+\phi \right) \frac{dV}{d\phi }-2V(\phi )\right] =0, \label{phieom} \end{equation}% where the trace of the energy-momentum tensor $T=T\left( t,r\right) =T_{\mu }^{\mu }=-\rho -\tau +2p$ is given by \begin{eqnarray} T\left( t,r\right) = -2\left( \frac{b^{\prime }}{a^{2}r^{2}}+3H^{2}+3\frac{% \ddot{a}}{a}\right) (1+\phi ) \notag \\ -3\ddot{\phi}+\frac{3\dot{\phi}^{2}}{2\phi }-9\dot{\phi}% H+2V(\phi ). \label{trace} \end{eqnarray}% In order to solve the differential equation (\ref{phieom}) for $\phi \left( t\right) $, the trace $T\left( t,r\right) $, given by Eq. (\ref{trace}), should be independent of $r$. This condition leads to $b^{\prime }/r^{2}=CH_{0}^{2}$ where $H_{0}$ is the present value of the Hubble parameter and{\ $C$ is an arbitrary dimensionless constant. Thus, the shape function is given by $b(r)=r_{0}+C{H_{0}^{2}}% (r^{3}-r_{0}^{3})/3$, which satisfies $b(r_{0})=r_{0}$, and the flaring-out condition at the throat imposes $C H_{0}^{2} r_{0}^{2} < 1$. To solve Eq. (\ref{phieom}) numerically for $\phi$, it is useful to rewrite it in terms of dimensionless functions of the scale factor $a$. Thus, we consider the definitions: \begin{eqnarray} \ddot{\phi}=\ddot{a}\phi ^{\prime }(a)+\dot{a}^{2}\phi ^{\prime \prime }(a), \qquad \dot{\phi}=\dot{a}\phi ^{\prime }(a), \nonumber \\ \ddot{a}=H\dot{a}+\dot{H}a, \qquad \dot{H}=\dot{a}H^{\prime }(a), \qquad \dot{a}=Ha \,. \nonumber \end{eqnarray} Note that in the above definitions, the prime denotes a derivative with respect to the scale factor. In addition to this, consider $U=V/3H_{0}^{2}$ and $E=H/H_{0}$, so that Eq. (\ref{phieom}) finally takes the following form \begin{eqnarray} \phi ^{\prime \prime }(a)-\frac{\phi ^{\prime 2}}{2\phi (a)}+\frac{% 4(a\phi ^{\prime }(a) + \phi(a))}{a^2}+\frac{E^{\prime }(a)\phi ^{\prime }(a)}{E(a)} \notag \\ +\frac{2C\phi (a)}{3a^{4}E(a)^{2}}+\frac{2\phi (a)E^{\prime }(a)}{aE(a)}-\frac{\phi (a)}{a^{2}E(a)^{2}}\frac{dU}{d\phi } =0. \label{phidleom} \end{eqnarray} \subsection{Barotropic equation of state} To solve the differential equation (\ref{phidleom}) for $\phi \left( a\right) $, we need to deduce $E$. To this effect, it is also useful to define the following background quantities: \begin{equation} \rho _{b}\left( t\right) =3H^{2}, \qquad \tau _{b}\left( t\right) =H^{2}+2\frac{\ddot{a}}{a}\,, \end{equation} and consider a background barotropic equation of state given by $\tau _{b}=-\omega _{b}\rho_{b} $. From this condition, we find $E=a^{-3\left( \omega _{b}+1\right) /2}$. One could solve this equation of state for scale factor as a function of the time coordinate $t$, which yields $a(t) \propto t^{2/3(1+\omega_{b})}$. For $\omega_{b} = -1$, the scale factor takes the exponential form in terms of $t$. Furthermore, we set $C=0$ which satisfies the flaring-out condition at the throat (see discussion below Eq. (\ref{trace})), and in addition simplifies the solution, so that $b(r)=r_{0}$. Thus, taking into these conditions and using the dimensionless definitions given above, Eqs. (\ref{rhoeq})-(\ref{pteq}) lead to the following relations \begin{equation} \frac{\rho }{3H_{0}^{2}} = \frac{ 1+\phi (a)}{a^{3\left( \omega _{b}+1\right) }} +\frac{\phi ^{\prime }(a)% }{a^{3\omega _{b}+2}} +\frac{\phi ^{\prime 2}(a)}{4a^{3\omega _{b}+1}\phi (a)}-\frac{1}{2}U(\phi ), \label{rho} \end{equation} \begin{eqnarray} &&\frac{\rho -\tau }{3H_{0}^{2}} = \left( \frac{\omega _{b}+1}{a^{3\left(\omega _{b}+1\right) }}-\frac{r_{0}}{3a^{2}H_{0}^{2}r^{3}}\right) \left( 1+\phi(a)\right) \nonumber \\ &&\qquad +\frac{\left(\omega _{b}+1 \right) \phi ^{\prime }(a)}{2a^{3\omega _{b}+2}}% +\frac{\phi ^{\prime 2}(a)}{2a^{3\omega _{b}+1}\phi (a)}-\frac{\phi ^{\prime \prime }(a)}{3a^{3\omega _{b}+1}}, \label{rhotau} \end{eqnarray} \begin{eqnarray} &&\frac{\rho +p}{3H_{0}^{2}} = \left( \frac{\omega _{b}+1}{a^{3\left( \omega_{b}+1\right) }}+\frac{r_{0}}{6a^{2}H_{0}^{2}r^{3}}\right) \left( 1+\phi (a)\right) \nonumber \\ && \qquad +\frac{\left(\omega _{b}+1 \right) \phi ^{\prime }(a)}{2a^{3\omega _{b}+2}}% +\frac{\phi ^{\prime 2}(a)}{2a^{3\omega _{b}+1}\phi (a)}-\frac{\phi ^{\prime \prime }(a)}{3a^{3\omega _{b}+1}}, \label{rhop} \end{eqnarray}% respectively. It is interesting to note that $\rho$ is independent of the radial coordinate $r$. To keep the terms dimensionless, we will consider the wormhole throat as $r_{0}= A H_{0}^{-1}$, where $A$ is a dimensionless constant. In what follows, we set $A$ to unity. In the following, we shall consider specific solutions for the parameters $\omega _{b}=(-1, 1/3,0)$, respectively. These parameters range tentatively correspond to the inflationary, radiation and matter epochs. \section{Specific evolving wormhole solutions and the energy conditions}\label{secIII} \begin{figure*}[htb!] \centering% \subfigure[~Specific case of $\omega_b=-1$ with $U(\phi)=\phi^{0.5}$] {\label{fig1a}% \includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig1a.eps} } \subfigure[~Specific case of $\omega_b=1/3$ with $U(\phi)=\phi^{2}$] {\label{fig1b}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig1b.eps} } \subfigure[~Specific case of $\omega_b=0$ with $U(\phi)=\phi^{2}$] {\label{fig1c}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig1c.eps}} \caption{The behaviors of $\phi$ and $\phi'(a)$ vs $z$ for the specific case of $\omega_b=-1$, $\omega_b=1/3$, and $\omega_b=0$, respectively. Note that both horizontal and vertical axes are logarithmic.} \label{fig1} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*}[htb!] \centering\subfigure[~$\rho/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig2a}% \includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig2a.eps} } \subfigure[~$ \abs{\rho-\tau}/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig2b}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig2b.eps}} \subfigure[~$(\rho+p)/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig2c}% \includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig2c.eps} } \caption{The behaviors of $\protect\rho $, $\protect\rho -\protect\tau $ (which is negative) and $\protect\rho +p$, respectively, versus $z$ for different values of $r$ for $\protect\omega_b=-1$ with $U(\protect\phi)=\protect\phi^{0.5}$. Note that both horizontal and vertical axes are logarithmic, except for the vertical axis of Fig. \ref{fig2a}.} \label{fig2} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*}[htb!] \centering \subfigure[~$\rho/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig3a} \includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig3a.eps}} \subfigure[~$(\rho-\tau)/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig3b}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig3b.eps} } \subfigure[~$(\rho+p)/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig3c}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig3c.eps} } \caption{The behaviors of $\protect\rho $, $\protect\rho -\protect\tau $ and $\protect\rho +p$, respectively, versus $z$ for different values of $r$ in the specific case of $\protect\omega_b=1/3$ with $U(\protect\phi)=% \protect\phi^{2}$. Note that both the horizontal and vertical axes are logarithmic.} \label{fig3} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*}[htb!] \centering\subfigure[~$\rho/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig4a}% \includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig4a.eps} } \subfigure[~$(\rho-\tau)/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig4b}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig4b.eps} } \subfigure[~$(\rho+p)/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig4c}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig4c.eps} } \caption{The behaviors of $\protect\rho $, $\protect\rho -\protect\tau $ and $\protect\rho +p$, respectively, versus $z$ for different values of $r$ in the specific case of $\protect\omega_b=0$ with $U(\protect\phi)=% \protect\phi^{2}$. Both horizontal and vertical axes are logarithmic.} \label{fig4} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*}[htb!] \centering \subfigure[~$\phi$ vs $z$] {\label{fig5a}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig5a.eps}} \subfigure[~$\phi'(a)$ vs $z$] {\label{fig5b}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig5b.eps}} \subfigure[~$E$ vs $z$] {\label{fig5c}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig5c.eps}} \caption{The behaviors of $\phi$, $\phi'(a)$ and $E$ vs $z$ for the traceless EMT case with $U(\protect\phi)=\protect\phi^{2}$. Note that both horizontal and vertical axes are logarithmic, except for the vertical axis of Fig. \ref{fig5a}. See the text for more details.} \label{fig5} \end{figure*} \begin{figure*}[htb!] \centering\subfigure[~$\rho/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig6a}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig6a.eps} } \subfigure[~$(\rho-\tau)/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig6b}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig6b.eps} } \subfigure[~$(\rho+p)/3H_0^2$ vs $z$] {\label{fig6c}\includegraphics[width=.32\textwidth]{fig6c.eps} } \caption{The behaviors of $\protect\rho $, $\protect\rho -\protect\tau $ and $\protect\rho +p$, respectively, versus $z$ for different values of $r$ for a wormhole with traceless EMT with $U(\protect\phi)=\protect\phi^{2}$. Both horizontal and vertical axes are logarithmic.} \label{fig6} \end{figure*} In this section, we analyse evolving traversable wormhole geometries for the specific parameters $\omega _{b}=(-1, 1/3,0)$ considered above, as well as evolving wormholes with a traceless EMT, and study the NEC and WEC for the solutions obtained. Before going on further, we would like to comment on the potential for the scalar field $U(\phi)$ and its effects on the results. As Eqs. (\ref{rhotau}) and (\ref{rhop}) (and (\ref{rhoeq})-(\ref{pteq})) show, the quantities $\rho-\tau$ and $\rho+p$ (and consequently the NEC) are independent of the scalar field potential. However, it affects the behavior of $\rho$. We will consider a power law potential for scalar field $U(\phi)=\phi^\alpha$. There are some reasonable choice for $\alpha$, such as $\alpha=2$ and $\alpha=4$, inspired by a mass term and the Higgs potential, respectively. In fact, we emphasize that all the results below hold qualitatively for potentials of the form $\phi^2$ and $\phi^4$. For the sake of economy, we will present the results for the quadratic case, $U(\phi)=\phi^2$. In addition to this, to verify that other choices for $\alpha$ could also present reliable results, we consider the specific choice $\alpha=0.5$ in one of the cases. \subsection{Specific case: $\omega _{b}=-1$} Here, we consider the specific case $\omega _{b}=-\tau _{b}/\rho _{b}=-1$ with $U\left( \phi \right) =V\left(\phi \right) /3H_{0}^{2}=\phi^{0.5}$. Figure \ref{fig1a} depicts the behaviors of $\phi$ and $\phi^{\prime}$ with respect to the redshift $z$ $(=1/a-1)$. In Fig. \ref{fig2}, the behaviors of $\rho $, $\rho -\tau $ and $\rho +p$ versus $z$ for different values of $r$ are shown. As one can see, $\rho - \tau$ is negative throughout the entire evolution. We emphasize that we have imposed different possible initial values and obtained the same result. Note that one may justify this outcome in the following manner. For this case with $\omega _{b}=-1$, Eq. (\ref{rhotau}) reduces to \begin{equation} \frac{\rho -\tau }{3H_{0}^{2}} = - \frac{\left( 1+\phi (a)\right)r_{0}}{3a^{2}H_{0}^{2}r^{3}} +a^{2}\left( \frac{\phi ^{\prime 2}(a)}{2\phi (a)}-\frac{\phi ^{\prime \prime }(a)}{3}\right). \end{equation} Since $a\leq 1$, the term with a coefficient $1/a^2$ is dominant. This term is therefore negative, rendering $\rho -\tau $ negative. Thus, for this specific case, both the NEC and the WEC are violated. \subsection{Specific case: $\omega _{b}=1/3$} Figure \ref{fig1b} illustrates the behavior of $\phi$ and $\phi^{\prime}$ versus $z$ for the specific case $\omega _{b}=1/3$. For this case, $E=a^{-2}$, $a(t) \propto t^{1/2}$ and we consider $U\left( \phi \right)=\phi^{2}$. The behaviors of $\rho $, $\rho -\tau $ and $\rho +p$ with respect to the redshift $z$ for different values of $r$ are displayed in Fig. \ref{fig3}, which shows explicitly that these quantities decrease as time evolves. However, they remain positive at all times and consequently the NEC and WEC are always satisfied. This occurs for the wormhole throat as well as for other wormhole radii. It is interesting to note that at a specified time/redshift, the quantity $\rho -\tau $ increases for increasing values of the radius, and the minimum value corresponds to the throat, as depicted by Fig. \ref{fig3b}. On the other hand, $\rho+p$ decreases for increasing values of the radius, and has a maximum at the throat (Fig. \ref{fig3c}).} \subsection{Specific case: $\omega _{b}=0$} Here we intend to study the energy conditions for the case $\omega _{b}=0$, for which $E=a^{-3/2}$ and $a(t)\propto t^{2/3}$. One can verify the behaviors of the scalar field $\phi$ and its derivative with respect to $a$ as functions of the redshift $z$ in Fig. \ref{fig1c}, where we consider the power law potential corresponding to scalar field as $U\left( \phi \right) =\phi ^{2}$. The energy conditions are depicted in Fig. \ref{fig4}, where one verifies that $\rho $, $\rho -\tau $ and $\rho +p$ are positive at all times and for different values of spatial coordinate $r$. These quantities are also decreasing (increasing) functions with respect to time (redshift). Thus, the NEC and WEC are always satisfied for all wormhole radii including the wormhole throat. The behaviors of $\rho -\tau $ and $\rho + p $ at a specified time/redshift are analogous to the previous case with $\omega _{b}=1/3$, namely, the quantity $\rho -\tau $ ($\rho + p $) increases (decreases) for increasing values of the radius (see Figs. \ref{fig4b} and \ref{fig4c}). \subsection{Wormholes with traceless EMT} In this subsection, we consider the traceless energy-momentum tensor, with $T= -\rho -\tau +2p=0$, which taking into account the dimensionless quantities defined above, provides the following differential equation \begin{eqnarray} \label{tracelessEMTb} -3 a^2 E(a)^2 \left[\phi ^{\prime \prime }(a)-\frac{\phi ^{\prime}(a)^{2}}{2 \phi (a)}\right] -3 a E(a) \big[ a E^{\prime }(a) \notag \\ +4 E(a) \big] \phi^{\prime}(a) -6 E(a) \left[ a E^{\prime }(a)+2 E(a)\right] \notag \\ \times \left[1+\phi (a) \right] +6 U(\phi)=0. \end{eqnarray} Here, we solve the system of coupled differential equations (\ref{phidleom}) and (\ref% {tracelessEMTb}), for $\phi $ and $E$, numerically. The behaviors of $\phi$, $\phi^{\prime}$ and $E$ versus $z$, taking into account the choice $U\left( \phi \right) =\phi^{2}$, are shown in Fig. \ref{fig5}. Note that $E$ tends to unity at the present time ($z \rightarrow 0$), as expected (Fig. \ref{fig5c}). In Fig. \ref{fig6}, the behaviors of $\rho $, $\rho -\tau $ and $\rho +p$, with respect to $z$ for different values of $r$ are displayed. Note that $\rho $, $\rho -\tau $ and $\rho +p$ are decreasing (increasing) functions of time (redshift) and are positive for all radii, as time evolves. Thus, the NEC and WEC are satisfied at all times. Moreover, as shown in Figs. \ref{fig6b} and \ref{fig6c}, the qualitative behaviors of $\rho -\tau $ and $\rho + p$ with respect to $r$ is analogous to the previous two cases, namely, $\omega _{b}=1/3$ and $\omega _{b}=0$, where the quantity $\rho -\tau $ ($\rho+p$) has a minimum (maximum) value at throat. \section{Discussion and Conclusion}\label{conclusion} In the present paper, we have studied the evolution of dynamic traversable wormhole geometries in a FLRW background in the context of hybrid metric-Palatini gravity. This theory, which recently attracted much attention, consists of a hybrid combination of metric and Palatini terms and is capable of avoiding several of the problematic issues associated to each of the metric or Palatini formalisms (for more details, we refer the reader to Refs. \cite{Capozziello:2015lza,Harko:2018ayt,Harko:2020ibn}). For the evolving wormholes, we presented the components of the energy-momentum tensor that supports these geometries in terms of the model's functions, namely, the scalar field, the scale factor and the shape function (we considered a zero redshift function, for simplicity). Furthermore, we found specific wormhole solutions by considering a barotropic equation of state for the background matter, i.e., $\tau _{b} = - \omega _{b} \rho _{b}$, and considered particular equation of state parameters. More specifically, we showed that for the specific cases of $\omega _{b}=1/3$ and $\omega _{b}=0$, the entire wormhole matter satisfies the NEC and WEC for all times. The latter cases are similar to the wormhole geometries analysed in the presence of pole dark energy \cite{KordZangeneh:2020jio}, however, there the WEC is violated at late times, i.e., the energy density becomes negative. Thus, the present results outlined in this work strengthen the varying dark energy models and may suggest that hybrid metric-Palatini gravity is a rather more promising model to explore. In addition to the barotropic equation of state, we also studied evolving wormhole geometries supported by the matter with a traceless EMT. For this specific geometry, we discovered that both the NEC and the WEC are satisfied at all times as well. These results are extremely promising as they build on previous work that consider that the energy conditions may be satisfied in specific flashes of time \cite{Kar:1994tz,Kar:1995ss}. An interesting astrophysical observational aspect on how to detect these wormholes would be to analyse the physical properties and characteristics of matter forming thin accretion disks around the wormhole geometries analysed in this work, much in the spirit of the analysis carried out in Refs. \cite{Harko:2008vy,Harko:2009xf,Harko:2009gc,Harko:2017fra}. In fact, specific signatures could appear in the electromagnetic spectrum, thus leading to the possibility of distinguishing these wormhole geometries by using astrophysical observations of the emission spectra from accretion disks. This would be an interesting avenue of research to explore. \begin{acknowledgements} We thank the referees for the constructive comments that helped us to significantly improve the paper. MKZ would like to thank Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Iran for supporting this work. FSNL acknowledges support from the Funda\c{c}\~{a}o para a Ci\^{e}ncia e a Tecnologia (FCT) Scientific Employment Stimulus contract with reference CEECIND/04057/2017, and thanks funding from the research grants No. PTDC/FIS-OUT/29048/2017, No. CERN/FIS-PAR/0037/2019 and No. UID/FIS/04434/2020. \end{acknowledgements}

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Grant Park Candlelight Tour of Homes SATURDAY, DEC. 14-SUNDAY, DEC. 15, 6-10 PM Tour Stop 1 327 Saint Paul Avenue The L.P. Grant Mansion / Atlanta Preservation Center (Tour Note: Closes at 9:00 PM) Built: 1854-1856, by Lemuel P. Grant Style: Italianate Don't miss: Photos of the house "before" restoration In December 2001, the Atlanta Preservation Center (APC) purchased the antebellum Lemuel P. Grant Mansion, saving it from demolition.The stucco Italianate mansion once stood three-stories high. It was built between 1854 and 1856 by Lemuel Pratt Grant (1817-1893), a city pioneer, railroad magnate, and philanthropist, who donated 100 acres to the city for Grant Park. After surviving the Civil War, the house was the birthplace of golf legend Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones and was at one time stewarded by Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind. Beginning in the 1940s, neglect began to take its toll. Parts of the once grand mansion, with its two-foot thick walls, 10-foot windows, nine fireplaces and a ballroom, were left open to the elements. In 1941, Margaret Mitchell loaned money to Boyd Taylor to buy the Grant Mansion for $3,000 and turn it into an Atlanta museum in order to preserve it. Six years later she sued Taylor, who was supposed to be the caretaker of the house, for letting it deteriorate further. However, she lost the suit. In the ensuing years, a series of fires caused further deterioration. After the APC purchased the house in 2001, they made it suitable for offices and moved their headquarters here. In 2006, they completed the stabilization of the historic walls and in 2007 purchased an adjoining lot to return the property to its 1906 boundaries. Since 2008, APC has reinstalled the floor and roof of the exposed east and west wings and repaired the historic windows. In 2011 the organization rebuilt the front and back porches. Restoration of and improvements to the house and grounds are ongoing. With generosity from many dedicated individuals and assistance from many skilled craftspeople, the house is being returned as an anchor of historic importance to the Grant Park neighborhood. 501 Grant St. SE Saturday, Dec. 14 | 6-10PM Sunday, Dec. 15 | 6-10PM

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Up in the Air Somewhere is a collection of ceramic and papier-mâché vases, votives and planters handcrafted by artist and designer Susan Dwyer. Three years after graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she focused in sculpture, Susan began creating a home decor line inspired by the clean, minimal lines found in industrial architecture. The silos, warehouses and water towers that dot the Chicago landscape are transformed into elegant pieces. Because they are individually hand-built without the use of molds, every vessel has its own organic, one-of-a-kind character. Up in the Air Somewhere is based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Polish students designed a 'smart sensor' dressing which tells doctors how well a wound is healing Lab technician holds the SmartHEAL bandage, a device that can monitor how a wound is healing without removing the dressing. - Copyright Reuters By Reuters • Updated: 29/11/2022 Three students from Poland have been awarded this year's prestigious James Dyson Award for design for developing a smart sensor for dressings which indicates how well a patient's wound is healing. The SmartHEAL device is a dressing that monitors the condition of chronic wounds and can detect infection without being removed and disrupting the tissue. "Every time you take off the band-aid dressing, you're introducing new pathogens, you risk infections, you disrupt the tissue, slowing the healing process and most importantly, it's very uncomfortable for the patients. It's painful," explained Tomasz Raczynski, one of three PhD students from the Warsaw University of Technology behind the invention. "With SmartHeal you can see beneath the dressing without taking it off," he added. SmartHEAL provides doctors and patients with a key piece of data - the pH level of a wound - that can tell them how a wound is healing. This simple blood test can detect different cancers before symptoms appear The team says that when they heard about the link between the pH of a wound and the healing process, they realised they could solve a problem that affects around 2 per cent of people in developed countries, according to the US' National Center for Biotechnology Information. "Our invention is based on a pH sensor that is integrated within the plaster and this pH sensor allows us to check the state of the chronic wound and informs the user whether he's supposed to change the dressing or keep the dressing on the wound," Dominik Baraniecki, another member of the team, told Reuters. Anxious about mammograms? This device may help you self-check for breast cancer Each dressing has an electronic pH monitor printed on fabric and a radio-frequency identification (RFID) antenna which can communicate with a mobile phone or tablet placed near it. The team say the system they have built can be mass produced with current textile industry processes at a cost of just a few cents each. "The best part of all of it is that even with our prototypes, we are using the same manufacturing technology that is used in the textile industry, in mass producing," Piotr Walter, an electrochemist and one of its creators, said. Unlike wounds that heal at a normal rate, chronic wounds need to be kept covered which makes it difficult to ascertain if they need attention without disturbing it to examine its condition. The most common mistake in wound healing is changing the dressing too often, which can lead to severe illness or death, the team says. They plan to use the $35,000 (€33,751) prize money to begin clinical trials and hope to complete the certification process in time to start selling SmartHEAL dressings in 2025. For more on this story, watch the video in the media player above. Video editor • Aisling Ní Chúláin MEDICAL RESEARCH HEALTH AID HEALTHCARE NEW TECHNOLOGIES INNOVATION MEDICAL SCIENCES COVID, flu and RSV: How to prepare for this winter's triple threat New 3D probe can help doctors better repair babies' hearts What to know about the radioactive capsule missing in Australia

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Scottish Butter Tablet, gluten and salt free, is what we make – not fudge. Although similar in appearance, fudge and tablet are completely different products made with different ingredients, cooked in a different way, with different properties, texture and taste. The traditional tablet mix (The Original) is the basis for all of our products. We strive to use the finest natural ingredients. No essences or flavourings. No additives. No preservatives. Nothing artificial. We use Fair-trade ingredients wherever possible. All products are gluten and salt free and suitable for vegetarians and coeliacs. We strive to use the finest natural ingredients. We strive to achieve first class customer service as standard.

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Home > Projects > Seeds of Hope Children's Home > Meet Reta: our Talent Sponsorship program's third candidate! We are very proud to announce that we can help our third candidate through the EFFA Talent Sponsorship program. After Surya (Seeds of Hope), who finished his Food & Beverage degree and Boy (Im Jai House) whom we helped selling his handmade bags, wallets and dresses, we chose our third talented candidate to support on top of the general English lessons that are set up at the various Children's Homes. Reta from Seeds of Hope Children's Home on Bali is a very positive, ambitious and clever girl. She already made a big impression on Remco and Daniel when they were setting up the first project of EFFA at the Children's Home. She finished her high school education with exceptional grades and besides that she was always happy to help her brothers and sisters at SoH with their homework or any other tasks. We truly believe that with the right support Reta can achieve great things in her life. She always told us that she wishes to continue studying after high school but without a sponsor this would never be possible. We are therefore very grateful that we can support Reta in making this next big step in her life by sponsoring her entire English Bachelor degree. Besides that we have donated a motorbike so that she has the possibility to travel back and forth from home to school. We want to wish Reta all the luck in the world and we are sure she will do very well in University. We will keep you updated about the progress that Reta will maken over the coming years.

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Pirate Radio USA wins Grand Jury Prize at STIFF! Hooray! It was great to get such a swell turnout at both screenings, so winning this prize was certainly icing on the cake. We will be screening Pirate Radio USA when it gets dark at the Slant House. Some snacks will be available, but feel free to bring food and beverages for yourself or to share.

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Hodl Hodl Wants You to Clone Its P2P Bitcoin Exchange makemoney Crypto Currency September 14, 2019 Bitcoin Trading, Hodl Hodl, News 0 Comment Hodl Hodl plans to make its software freely available so anyone can launch their own version of the peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange. Announced Saturday at the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga, Latvia, the plan is, in part, a recognition that Hodl Hodl's business model is vulnerable to regulatory crackdowns. "History teaches us that if a government wants to shut you down, it will," Hodl Hodl CEO Max Keydun told CoinDesk. Open-sourcing the code for its smart contracts, which Hodl Hodl intends to do sometime next year, is a way to deal with the threat, Keydun said, explaining: "Let's imagine, our domain gets blocked — some activist would be able to just take the code from Github, fork it and launch something new." Already, people in Africa, Asia and Latin America have reached out to the company, asking about such an opportunity, he said. "Peer-to-peer is something emerging markets, in particular, are interested in." Rare breed Hodl Hodl is a rare animal in the 2019 crypto world: as a matter of principle, it focuses on bitcoin (the only cryptocurrency that the company's founders trust), it doesn't do know-your-customer (KYC) checks and it has no plan to start. Why not? "Because we don't like three-letter abbreviations," Hodl Hodl's CTO, Roman Snitko, joked in a slide for his presentation to the Riga conference. In all seriousness, Hodl Hodl is averse to holding the sensitive personal information that financial institutions are mandated to collect from customers under global anti-money-laundering (AML) regulations. "We think KYC/AML does more harm by exposing law-abiding users to fraudsters and criminals," Snitko told CoinDesk. "The information and documents users upload to exchanges has been stolen many times in the past. It also does very little to prevent actual money laundering and criminals from using those services. They always find ways." Yet regulators across the globe are tightening the screws on the industry to identify the parties to transactions. Most notably, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), an intergovernmental body, has directed its member countries to make exchanges collect and store information about who their customers trade with. Hodl Hodl's founders believe they don't have to identify customers because the exchange never takes custody of users' funds. Rather, it lists offers to buy or sell bitcoin and provides an escrow service in which the seller locks bitcoin in a multi-signature smart contract until the buyer sends fiat. Releasing the bitcoin requires 2 out of 3 signatures, belonging to the buyer, seller, and Hodl Hodl (which steps in as a referee when there's a dispute). "We don't touch the crypto, don't match users automatically and don't keep funds in our wallets," Keydun said. "We create multisigs in a public blockchain," In the same June guidance, the FATF said even peer-to-peer platforms may be subject to such regulations in cases "where the platform facilitates the exchange." It's unclear whether Hodl Hodl's escrow service counts as "facilitating." But the founders see the way the wind is blowing. "We're not switching to the open-source model exclusively because of the regulatory pressure," Snitko told CoinDesk. "In fact, we haven't experienced any due to the fact that we're a non-custodial exchange. However, we do foresee regulators becoming more desperate in their attempts to contain the spread of bitcoin and we refuse to be the victims of desperate actions." Passing the reins At some point, Keydun and Snitko might hand management of Hodl Hodl to others so they can focus entirely on supporting and upgrading the code. (The exchange says it has no head office; employees work remotely, serving 10,000 users worldwide.) "We want to create a community around us, so that at some point we could pass the reins to other people," Keydun said. There is no timeframe for that yet. In his Riga presentation, Snitko also announced Hodl Hodl's intention to open "a bitcoin smart contract app store." Another way people can utilize the code is payments for e-commerce, and in the coming months, the team will focus on making the technology plug-and-play, so people who are not proficient coders can easily deploy it in their online store and accept bitcoin. "We want to launch a platform for bitcoin smart contracts, so that anyone who wants to sell homes online or do [over-the-counter] trades could use it," Keydun said, adding that it might be a multi-sig with more than three signatures and it can be used for multiple use cases. Aside from bitcoin-to-fiat trades, Hodl Hodl's multi-sig escrow is used in a peer-to-peer predictions market when people bet on things like the price of bitcoin or publicly traded stock, sports results and other measurable outcomes. A real estate platform is also in the works, with a launch tentatively scheduled for 2020, Keydun said. Image of Roman Snitkoon the stage of the Baltic Honeybadger conference by Anna Baydakova for CoinDesk ← You Can Now Prove a Whole Blockchain With One Math Problem – Really How Prime Brokerage Will Affect Crypto Markets →

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Two Little Boys, Sittin' in the Mud. . . There's nothing Chris Matthews likes better than a good fight. That's not my observation alone-- every now and then he has to laugh at himself when he slyly admits that he loves a good verbal battle so much he's been known to instigate one just to keep his addiction going. Maybe that's why he didn't come to classy, smart Joan Walsh's defense last night when that crude, boorish anachronism known as Dick Armey went after her--I guess for being so far ahead of him he couldn't keep up. Watch Dick Armey as Joan Walsh speaks, but watch Matthews, too. They're like two little boys listening to the smart lady who's talking way over their heads. They squirm, they wiggle, they grin. . .Matthews because he's sitting right across from Armey, watching his every move, and he knows there's going to be fireworks when Walsh stops. But keep watching, because toward the end you'll see Bob Herbert stop "Hardball" dead in it's tracks in order to say what Matthews himself should have said the second Armey launched his nutty, sexist attack. (I'm crazy about Bob Herbert, and this is just one reason why.) And, finally, watch as Matthews realizes that he should have been the grownup there, and only after Bob Herbert brings it to his attention does he then reluctantly admit that Armey was out of line. I haven't forgotten Matthews' goofy explanation of why Hillary Clinton got where she was. But in case you have, here it is: Let's face it, "Hardball" is a train wreck and Chris Matthews is the man-child engineer. My only excuse for watching it is. . .that I have no excuse. But if Joan Walsh and Bob Herbert can stomach him long enough to spend a few minutes on his show, the least I can do is watch. Labels: Bob Herbert, Chris Matthews, Dick Armey, Hardball, Hillary Clinton, Joan Walsh, Ramona's Voices Nancy January 30, 2009 at 8:38 PM With the mentality Dick Armey exhibited, I truly am amazed he's still around in today's political playing field. Chris Matthews just says stupid things because he wants to stir the pot, perform to keep his ratings. Armey is way out there. His poisonous tongue, coupled with a 19th century mentality brings us back to the suffragette days. Like American blacks, women also trekked a hard and cruel journey to be respected in today's political world. You titled this blog perfectly, it made me laugh out loud! Ramona Grigg January 31, 2009 at 5:37 PM I'm always surprised to see Dick Armey surface anywhere. Only someone like Matthews would give him the time of day. He's hoping the old man will perform as expected--and he always does. I'm sure Armey thought he came out ahead, but classy Joan was the winner of the day. Thanks for your comments. Perfect! Claire, You Had Me at "Idiots" Tightening the Belts of 80-year-olds Toward a More Perfect Musicale Two new beginnings - One VERY important

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Fine Art Photography – Is It Still Viable? Fine Art Photography – Is It Still Viable? Share: Fine Art Photography – Is It Still Viable? When Does (or Should) Your Photography Hobby Become a Profession? Share: When Does (or Should) Your Photography Hobby Become a Profession? Is It Real or Is It Photoshop – and Who Cares? Is It Real or Is It Photoshop – and Who Cares? Share: Is It Real or Is It Photoshop – and Who Cares? Visionaries: Are There Any Visionaries Left in Photography? Share: Visionaries: Are There Any Visionaries Left in Photography? Episode 34: Photography Is All About… SQUIRREL! Episode 34: Photography Is All About… SQUIRREL! Share: Episode 34: Photography Is All About… SQUIRREL! Inspiration – Episode 32, How Do We Deal With a Lack of Inspiration? Inspiration – Episode 32, How Do We Deal With a Lack of Inspiration? Share: Inspiration – Episode 32, How Do We Deal With a Lack of Inspiration? Art or Photograph? When Does One Become the Other? Share: Art or Photograph? When Does One Become the Other? No show this week – we screwed up our timing and released the live show a week early. See you next week! Hey everyone, we finally can announce the PI Con 12 event! See www.PolarizingImages.com for more info. Budget? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Budget! What's Your Fantasy? Budget? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Budget! What's Your Fantasy? Share: Budget? We Don't Need No Stinkin' Budget! What's Your Fantasy? Can You Teach Anyone To Become a Great Photographer? Share: Can You Teach Anyone To Become a Great Photographer? Vision – Photographers, What Do You See? Vision – Photographers, What Do You See? Share: Vision – Photographers, What Do You See? Like it? But I Don't Like It! Like it? But I Don't Like It! Share: Like it? But I Don't Like It! Rants and opinions on post-production (especially poorly done post), several tangents, and what it means to be a professional podcaster – or not. Four episodes later and Tony finally drops an f-bomb while, somewhere in the episode, we mention Brian and TAI. Hey, whatever it takes to get listeners! Our Second Episode – Are We Legit Yet? Share: Our Second Episode – Are We Legit Yet?

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Avocados are packed with many nutrients and healthy fats which makes them an ideal part of our daily diet. Avocados are very high in fiber (14 grams per serving!) and antioxidants and contain anti-inflammatory properties. This means that they can promote cardiovascular health, blood sugar regulation, prevent chronic disease, and help with inflammatory conditions. Avocados are tasty in salads and shakes, on sandwiches, as guacamole with rice crackers or blue/red corn chips and can even be baked into muffins as a substitute for butter or oil. We've also made them into a pie - they are really versatile! Avocados are ripe when they are darker on the outside and slightly soft. It is good to leave them out on the counter in your fruit bowl as they will ripen more quickly from green to black. Once ripe the best way to cut an avocado is to cut lengthwise or vertically around the whole avocado. Be careful as there is a large pit in the middle which can then be removed. At this point you will have two halves which can be sliced or cubed right in their skin and then scooped out with a spoon. Once cut it is best to eat the avocado right away as the flesh goes brown. We have stored a half in the fridge in a tight container for one day and it is okay, but not recommended. Rubbing lemon juice on the flesh helps prevent the browning. Cut avocado and scoop out flesh into a bowl. Mash with a fork until desired consistency. Add garlic, lemon or lime and pepper and mix. Can mix in sliced green onion and tomatoes if desired. Enjoy! Preheat oven 350 F. Combine all ingredients except avocado into a bowl. Prepare avocados by cutting straight down longitudinally (from top to bottom) and turn avocado to slice into two halves and remove pits. Slice each of the halves into 4-5 longitudinal slices depending on how large your avocado is. Gently spoon out avocado from skin. Coat each slice singly in the spice mixture and place on a baking sheet lined with foil. Bake for 10 minutes and then turn and bake an additional 10 minutes. If you like it crunchier bake longer, if you like it softer bake for a shorter amount of time. Serve with organic ketchup. Thanks for giving this information fiber is a essential part of the nutrition that we required helps in various activity inside the body.

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Yeah.. that's a weird thing to say. But! It's true!! We just got done our appointment earlier this afternoon. This one was the "2 week check on the cervix" appointment that we scheduled after our anatomy scan. I wasn't really sure what to expect from this appointment cause I didn't know how they would measure my cervix, but I assumed it would be some combination of me in stirrups and something being poked up inside of me. Luckily though, I was wrong, and my streak of appointments with my pants on continued! Woo hoo! Turns out they just use abdominal ultrasound and can see the length of your cervix using that! Which also meant.... a surprise peek at our baby boy!!! I almost cried when the nurse said "wait here we are getting the sonogram room ready for you" ... uh YAY! I felt jipped at our last sonogram, so getting another one so soon was super exciting!!!! The doctor we had this time did a MUCH better job of pointing everything out to us. Baby's heartbeat was still perfect, he was measuring OVER A POUND(!!), and he was definitely still a boy :) My cervix was still closed and measuring long which is GREAT news!!!!! My deformed uterus is doing a pretty good job so far :) The placenta was still covering the bottom of my uterus (the placenta previa I learned about at the last appointment), but I learned it was only "marginal placenta previa" which means it's not completely covering my cervix - so at least that's better I think. I got a much better feeling from this appointment that they are in fact monitoring me closer than I thought and paying attention to my uterus, so that made me feel better. The doctor is having me come back again in 2 weeks for another sonogram (YAY!) to check my cervix again. Depending on how it looks then, they will decide if they need to keep monitoring it or not. So, that appointment is on Aug 21, then I have another appointment scheduled for Sept 5 - this will be either a regular check up OR sonogram to check my cervix, and then two weeks after that (28 weeks) I'll do my sugar/glucose check to make sure I don't have gestational diabetes. So we got a good road map of what the next several weeks will entail. By then I'll be into the third trimester, so it looks like we will be doing appointments every two weeks from here until closer to my due date. I feel super happy with how today went, and like I said, pretty proud of my uterus :) We are SO close to the 25 week viability mark which will be a huge relief for me. I can't believe how quickly the weeks are flying by! In other news, we painted the nursery on Saturday (huge thanks to my grandma for coming and helping us with that!!). We also got the crib put together and a shelf in the closet. I'm doing some more updates to it this Sunday and then maybe I'll post some sneak peek pictures! Also I mentioned on my last post that we had our hospital tour on Sunday. That deserves a post all on it's own, so maybe I'll save that for later, but whew, that was an overwhelming trip. Long story short though, I did leave LOVING the Shady Grove Hospital and I think we are super lucky to be delivering there! I think that's it for today! I just ate dinner so I'm off to lay down and feel this little boy wiggle around (SO much movement lately!!).

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Words by: Felicity Martin The 10 Best Chicano Anthems, according to Cuco "Tequila shots and sadness make this song hit different..." With the current global music industry tuned into the sounds of Latin trap, reggaeton and even flamenco, Omar Banos, better known as Cuco, represents the softer side of sounds from the Spanish-speaking world. Today he drops his debut album, 'Para Mí', packed with the dreamy cosmic sounds he's become a fan favourite for. Written entirely in the garage of the 21-year-old's Hawthorne, California home, it finds themes of love and drugs innocently transmitted through a Toro y Moi-meets-Tame Impala vibe. Throughout his career of music-making, Cuco's heritage has informed the music he makes. Below he shares some of his favourite anthems of Chicanos – Mexican Americans in the United States – that are integral to his own musical identity as well as shaping his own productions. Read on to discover some of the best Texas-born cuts. 1. Enanitos Verdes – 'Lamento Boliviano' "This song gets me and my homies going but I think I just really want to cover this." 2. Selena – 'Amor Prohibido' "Selena made an impact on culture and anytime 'Amor Prohibido' comes on everyone will know it. 3. Los Angeles Azules – 'Cómo Te Voy A Olvidar' "Tequila shots and sadness make this song hit different." 4. Los Socios Del Ritmo – 'Llorar' "This is the song that takes me back to my uncles DJing at the birthday parties and blasting this." 5. La Sonara Dinamita – 'Mi Cucu' "I think most people within the culture know this song but it's funny 'cause it's reminiscent to my name so I've heard people say 'no te metas con mi cuco'." 6. Hechizeros Band – 'El Sonidito' "'El Sonidito' is just so lit, everyone goes crazy when this comes on." 7. Los Tucanes de Tijuana – 'La Chona' "When I'm DJing and I queue this song seeing everyone dance to it is so sick." 8. Café Tacvba – 'Eres' "I saw Cafe Tacvba play this in 2017 and seeing a song that was always in my life played live was such a life-changer." 9. Maná – 'Mariposa Traicionera' "My mom and dad would always play this when I was younger." 10. Los Panchos – 'Sin Ti' "Boleros are a huge part of what I grew up with and 'Sin Ti' was one of the first songs I ever learned on guitar." Cuco's 'Para Mí' album is out today via Interscope/Polydor – stream or buy it here. He plays a headline show at XOYO on October 23rd – find tickets here. Pirate launch 'The Project Fund' giving artists free studio time in 2022 View more related articles

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As a lover of shark movies, I can't wait for this summer's The Meg, starring Jason Statham. That said, there will never be a more iconic shark flick than Jaws, Steven Spielberg's tale of adventure and horror on the high seas. Of course, since Jaws is that well-known, any new shark movie will inevitably be compared to it. Knowing that the comparison can't be avoided, the people behind The Meg have decided to make it themselves, via a cool new poster. Check it out below. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see that the above poster is a clear parody/tribute to the classic original poster for Jaws, only this time, the Great White isn't the biggest threat the person up top has to worry about. As fun as I think The Meg looks though, I do wonder how anyone could possibly defeat something that gigantic, short of dropping a nuke on it from above. Of course, I haven't read the acclaimed Steve Alten novel The Meg is based on, so maybe that explains things. Directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure), The Meg stars Statham as a badass rescue diver enlisted to save an undersea crew. Other notable names in the cast include Rainn Wilson (The Office), Ruby Rose (John Wick: Chapter 2), and Cliff Curtis (Fear the Walking Dead).

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Motorists are advised to "drive with extreme caution and to be prepared for rapidly changing visibilities​." The advisory is for Knox, Stark, Peoria, Marshall, Woodford, Fulton, Tazewell, McLean, Schuyler, Mason, Logan, De Witt, Piatt, Champaign, Cass, Menard, Morgan, Sangamon, Christian, Macon, Moultrie and Shelby counties. A possibility of freezing drizzle is forecast for tonight. Warmer temperatures are expected Tuesday morning. "A weather system will move across central Illinois late Wednesday night through Thursday with a mix of freezing rain and snow becoming a mix of rain and snow in the afternoon," the weather service said. "We have a different type of storm developing, but there is enough agreement across the models to suggest that a low will move into southern Illinois, which usually puts up into some type of wintry precipitation at this time of the year," said Ed Shimon, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Lincoln. It is still too early to tell, he added, but some models suggest a winter storm event that could rival, in some ways, this past weekend's storm. ​The fog comes after Central Illinois digs out from heavy snow over the weekend. Springfield's State Journal-Register reports the state capital broke a 55-year record for daily snowfall on Saturday. It cited the National Weather Service as saying the 8.4 inches of snow that day in Springfield broke the previous record for a Jan. 12 in 1964 of 6.6 inches. Some 11.5 inches (29 centimeters) of snow fell on Springfield over three days. Pedestrians found a walkway through the street as some downtown Bloomington sidewalks earlier this week after close to 10 inches of snow last weekend. Fearing that sheets of ice could fly off his pickup truck at highway speeds, Austin Chase of Decatur scrapes snow and ice off the top of the truck parked near Westgate Drive and Illinois 9 in Bloomington on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, before returning home after a visit with his parents in Bloomington. Fog mixed with cold air left a thin coat of ice across pavements and everything else exposed to the elements on Monday morning. U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Kelly Gillis of Lovington walks her snow-covered route late Saturday morning along Lafayette Avenue in Mattoon. Robert and Sharon Godwin and their son Nick, in the center, shovel their driveway late Saturday morning along Lafayette Avenue in Mattoon. Jeff Derixson of Mattoon builds an igloo early Sunday afternoon along Lafayette Avenue. Property owner Mark Coleman of Mattoon plows the parking lot behind the Trinity Tower apartment building, 1613 Charleston Ave., late Saturday morning in Mattoon. Jeff Derixson of Mattoon builds an igloo while his 4-year-old daughter, Lux, builds a snowman early Sunday afternoon along Lafayette Avenue. A bicycle soaks in the snow-covered sidewalk Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, near the McLean County Museum of History in downtown Bloomington. The "Convergence of Purpose" sculpture, featuring Jesse Fell, Abraham Lincoln and David Davis, takes in a snowstorm Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, in front of the Bloomington Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Bloomington. Locals enjoyed the snow, cross-country skiing to sledding down hills, around Decatur. A young sledder coasts down Jersey Hill on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2019, at Ewing Park III in Bloomington. The storm zeroed in on the East Coast on Sunday.

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The longing for the past, not only in fashion hair model also prohibited. Especially the 60 – 70s influence is also reflected in this year's hairstyle . This year, the popular hairstyle stylish clothes vintage hairstyles . Particularly romantic , vintage coarse wavy hairstyles this year is preferred . Curly or straight hair with tongs to you by large waves can reach the natural and voluminous hair . Huge vintage wavy hairstyles how is it done? Quite easy to construct . This entry was posted in 1950s, how to vintage, huge vintage hairstyles, popular vintage hairstyles, wavy hairstyle on May 26, 2014 by admin.

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A referendum on increasing the budget of the Legislature was held in the Northern Mariana Islands on 4 November 1995. The proposal was rejected by voters. Background The proposal had been approved by a three-quarter majority in both houses of the Legislature, and required only a simple majority of votes in the referendum to be approved. It would have amended Chapter II, article 16 of the constitution, raising the Legislature's budget from $6 million to $8 million. References Referendums in the Northern Mariana Islands 1995 in the Northern Mariana Islands 1995 referendums

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Spectrum Bridge Partners With MELD Technology to Offer First HD Video Delivery Using TV White Spaces Spectrum Bridge, Inc. today announced a partnership with MELD Technology, a leading provider of personal digital broadcasting equipment, to provide the underlying technology platform for the world's first low power portable device capable of utilizing TV White Space bands. "We are pleased to be working with MELD Technology to introduce the first low power personal portable broadcast system over TV White Space," said Rod Dir, CEO of Spectrum Bridge. "This innovation represents the type of new wireless product and the commercial service opportunities the industry has long envisioned for this new shared spectrum." Spectrum Bridge continues to lead the way in building the TV White Space ecosystem by working with innovative partners to bring unique applications to market across many vertical industries. MELD Technology will be utilizing Spectrum Bridge services to guide them through the FCC certification process for the company's TV White Spaces enabled low power personal portable device, as well as integrating with their spectrum sharing technology platform. This solution for the rapidly growing digital signage market further exemplifies the forward thinking and commercial opportunities for White Space technology. "We are thrilled to work with Spectrum Bridge, a true market leader and visionary in white space solutions," said Jordan DuVal, President and CEO of MELD Technology, Inc. "Spectrum Bridge's efforts have helped us move closer to bringing new products from concept to reality as we certify our solution and continue to see the TV white space market expand." MELD Technology will be introducing the MT300 Personal Broadcast™ station as the first wireless multi-channel HD video distribution system over White Space. Customers will benefit from the ease of deployment and lower cost of content distribution in applications including digital signage for a variety of venues like hotels, airports and office buildings. MELD Technology will be showcasing the MT300 at the BrightSign® booth during the Digital Signage Expo this week in Las Vegas. About Spectrum Bridge, Inc. Spectrum Bridge, Inc. (SBI) develops technology and intellectual property that virtualizes spectrum by giving wireless devices access to available bandwidth more efficiently. SBI's cloud-based platform provides customers with greater network capacity, coverage and utilization through efficient allocation of spectrum resources. The company's platform also enhances service providers and radio manufacturer's solutions by utilizing a database-driven cognitive networking technology designed to promote co-existence. SBI was named a top innovator in the area of technology for its TV White Spaces network by the Andrew Seybold 2010 Choice Awards. The company is privately held and headquartered in Lake Mary, Florida. For more information, contact us at (866) 598-7426 or visit SpectrumBridge.com. About MELD Technology, Inc. MELD Technology is a privately held company founded in 2009, incorporated in Delaware, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, California. Meldtech's mission is to revolutionize the way devices send HD content to over a half billion DTVs and expand our packet-based protocol to connected Machine-to-Machine (M2M) devices in various markets. Meldtech also believes our technology can be applied to solve media distribution problems in the set-top box, home automation, smartphone and tablet computing markets. Source: Spectrum Tags: HD video MELD Technology Spectrum Bridge TV White Spaces Previous Cisco Transforms Digital Signs into Highly Interactive Experiences, Creating New Ways to Increase Engagement Next WEGENER Partner, SSL, Expands Network Across Mexico

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Many people don't understand the scope and range of music licensing law, and because of that, they are putting themselves in a position to be sued by copyright holders, which can cost anywhere between a few hundred dollars, to a few THOUSAND dollars, PER SONG. And when the licensing companies sue, they don't lose. United States copyright law defines "public performance" as any music played "in a place open to the public or at any place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances is gathered." By that definition, not only your normal business operations require licensing, but so do all company holiday parties, conferences, grand openings, and other gatherings. Nonprofits aren't exempt, either. Artists and music are represented by three main organizations — BMI, the largest music rights organization, ASCAP, and SESAC. Together, BMI and ASCAP hold the "public performance" rights to 97% of the music played in the U.S. It is their job to collect the fees from organizations that use music and to distribute that to the artists. For small business owners, this often means letters, phone calls, or in-person visits demanding licensing fees for public performances. They often target small businesses in the retail, food service, and entertainment industries. These businesses often assume their small size or remote locations exempt them from license and copyright, and host live musicians without holding a license. If you have live music at your businesses, you need to get licensed by at least one of the top two organizations, but should have all 3 to ensure you have paid proper licensing for any songs that are performed. Different licensing organizations own different songs, and it would be a miserable experience to take a band's or artist's set list and look up every song. Some people mistakenly assume that musicians and entertainers must get their own licenses to perform copyrighted music. You can't shift your responsibility to musicians or entertainers. Entertainers couldn't get the license even if they wanted to – the license must be held in the organization's name. Since it's the business or organization that's benefiting from the performance of music, management is responsible for ensuring that the organization is properly licensed. This responsibility cannot be passed on to anyone else even if the musicians hired are independent contractors. The law says all who participate in, or are responsible for, performances of music are legally responsible. What happens if you don't have a license? By not obtaining one, organizations can be penalized for copyright infringement, risking very large fines — the ASCAP fine is a minimum of $750 per song, plus attorney fees and court costs. Once you come to an understanding that you do, in fact, need to get a license, the good news is they are fairly easy to obtain. Each organization's website offers the ability to apply for the appropriate license. Oh, and copyright law isn't just for live music: if you hire a DJ you need a license. If you host karaoke, you need another license. And don't assume you are clear if all you do is play recorded music while your customers dine or shop. There are specific exemptions for when you don't need a license for radio or recorded music, so make sure you meet those exemptions before you decide you don't need to comply because you "only" play recorded music at your business. Don't gamble your entire business by hoping you won't get caught. The licensing companies are dead serious about protecting the rights of their artists and works, and in ensuring the owners of copyright get paid for the use of their work. Get your licenses, or don't host live music. Contact BMI, ASCAP, SESAC, or a reputable copyright attorney for more information.

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Thinking about visiting Genesis? We would love to have you as a guest! Each weekend at Genesis you can expect a relaxed and welcoming environment for you and your family. Attending a new church can be a little daunting, but don't worry...our goal is to help you feel right at home. Every Sunday, we offer free bagels and coffee in our café and we don't have a dress code to worry about. In fact, we want to encourage you to come exactly as you are so that you can experience how much God loves you, right where you're at. We also provide engaging environments for your kids (birth – 5th grade) where our goal is to partner with parents to help them discover how much God loves them and have them grow in their own relationship with Jesus! Join us for one of our services at 9 & 10:30 am. Whether you come to our Noblesville or Carmel campus, you'll experience the same great worship, live teaching, and free coffee and bagels! + What's a service like? Services at Genesis are relaxed, friendly, energetic and engaging. Expect to be welcomed at the door by a friendly face who will hand you a page for taking notes (or doodling!) during the message. We usually sing a few songs together to start the service. Generally, the music is just loud enough so you can sing along without distracting anyone! After we sing together, one of teaching pastors will share an engaging and practical message from the Bible (hint: it usually involves Jesus and how much He loves you). Our services are around 60-70 minutes, but you can stay after the service and meet some new people in the lobby! + Where do I go? After you park (see instructions below) we'd love to meet you! Stop by the Info Hub in the lobby (look for the big white sign on the wall). We'll show you where the coffee and restrooms are and where to drop your kids off. Your kids are welcome to sit with you in the auditorium they would feel more comfortable for their first visit. Carmel Campus: Our building sits on the northwest corner of a roundabout at Main Street and Old Meridian, just east of highway 31. If you hit the roundabout, go west and use the south entrance. Or, if you're traveling south on Old Meridian, you can easily pull in to the east end of the parking lot. You can park anywhere you like! Noblesville Campus: We worship in the west portion of the industrial building across the street from the humane society. There are two parking lots you can use on Pleasant Street. The bigger parking lot is on the west end and you can enter near the sign by the road. You'll see some friendly folks who will help you find a spot! We believe that God created us to be in a loving relationship with Him, and that our sin has created separation–but through Jesus, we have the choice to reconcile our relationship with God and re-enter the original relationship that He always wanted to have with us. Check out what we believe. Wear what's comfortable! In the summer, you'll see shorts and sandals, and during football season you'll probably see some Colt's jerseys. From time-to-time, for promotional purposes, videos and photographs are taken at services and events. Your attendance constitutes permission for Genesis Church to use you, or your family members', likeness in promotional materials. By attending a Genesis service or event, you are agreeing to the photography/video release.

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Collaborative Planning Committee Members: Alden Landry, M.D. (Harvard Medical School), Norma Poll, Ph.D. (Association of American Medical Colleges), Alan Rawls, Ph.D. (Arizona State University), Kameron Matthews, M.D. (Tour for Diversity in Medicine); and Andrew Sanderson, M.D. (Department of Health and Human Services). This summit is designed to encourage a national conversation on current challenges and future solutions by involving a national group of stakeholders in exploring the current state of the access pathway for underrepresented students in medical education. Participants will engage in deconstructing the MD/MD-PhD pathway to identify ways to increase diversity in medicine. Provide a forum for review and exploration of evidence that defines the diversity pathway for physicians and physician scientists. Identify and share best practices for engorging the medical education pathway while also exploring novel strategies that aim to prepare students to pursue these careers. Engage a multitude of stakeholders in a national conversation on the identified challenges and potential solutions necessary to enhance access to pathways that will increase diversity in medicine. Develop proceedings from the conference presentations and discussion inclusive of identified goals, targets and an ongoing mechanism for monitoring and reporting outcomes. Develop plans for a national consortium to collaborate with furthering diversity in the medical education pathway. Course format will offer didactic lectures, panel discussions and Q&A. Active audience participation is strongly encouraged. This course offers the unique opportunity for commercial companies to interact with health care providers and highlight their products and services. If you are interested in exhibiting at this course, please submit Exhibitor Documents to Kristy Badder. This course is designed for Physicians and Administrators, including Nursing. The conference is designed to attract a wide range of professionals, including Physicians and Administrators, including Nursing; Academic (e.g. Academic Medical School Deans, Counselors, Teachers from the Community College and High School level) and community organizations working on diversity pipelines. Conveniently located on the Mayo Clinic Hospital Campus, the Residence Inn Phoenix Desert View at Mayo Clinic offers spacious suites, complimentary hot buffet breakfast, high-speed internet access, fitness facilities, swimming pool, business center, and free parking. Check-in time starts at 3 p.m.; check-out time is noon. Hotel rooms are limited. You are urged to make reservations early. A limited block of Studio King guestrooms have been reserved for attendees with a special course rate of $259 single or double occupancy, per room, per night (plus applicable state and local taxes). Group rates will be honored three days prior and three days following the course dates, based upon space availability. To receive the special rate, you must make reservations before the room block is filled or by the cut-off date of January 8, 2018. Reservations will be taken following this date, based upon room block availability, at the contracted meeting rate. The standard hotel reservation cancellation policy will apply to individual reservations, unless otherwise specified. To reserve a room, call (866) 754-5927 or (480) 563-1500 and identify yourself as a participant of the Mayo Clinic Diversity Summit room block to receive the special group rate. Or you may book online by clicking: Book your group rate for Diversity Summit Note: Loding and travel arrangements are the sole responsibility of the individual registrant. Hertz is offering a reduced daily rate for course registrants. Visit Hertz online (CV# 03NR0013). Special rates include unlimited mileage and are subject to availability. Advance reservations are recommended; blackout dates may apply. SuperShuttle vans offer airport transportation to and from area hotels and businesses. To make reservations, call (800) 258-3826 or (602) 244-9000. Go to the Visit Phoenix website or Experience Scottsdale website for leisure activities. In support of improving patient care, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Educaiton (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. The "Pathways to Physician Diversity: A National Summit" will receive 12.75 AOA Category 2-A CME credits.

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Prof Sebastian Maimako is a Nigerian academic and professor of accounting and finance. He was the 9th substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jos. He was appointed by the Governing Council of the university to succeed Professor Hayward Mafuyai and was in office from 23 June 2016, until 23 June 2021, after finishing five years as a Vice-Chancellor. He was regarded as one of the best Vice-Chancellor the University Community will ever have. Education Maimako obtained a Bachelor of Science in Management Science in 1987 from the University of Jos, following the completion of a compulsory one year youth service program in 1988. He later earned a master's degree in Business Administration (1992), and a doctorate in management (2006). Career Maimako began his academic career in January 1989 as a graduate assistant in the Faculty of Management Science at the University of Jos. He became a full professor of Accounting and Finance in 2010. Maimako contributed to the development of the curriculum for the teaching of Accounting and Finance in Nigerian universities. He has served as Head and Acting Head of the Department of Management Science, Dean and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Management Science, and Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Jos. Maimako is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. References Living people Year of birth missing (living people)

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March 22, 2018 robertjchase Current Events, Reflections Two Trains Running Back in the 1970's there was an R&B song by the Blues Project that I often listened to called "Two Trains Running." The lyrics describe someone in love with another man's wife. The song builds to climax, but does not end well. You can listen to it here. There seem to be two trains running in the news today, two trains along seemingly unrelated tracks, but both of which particularly unnerve the President. It troubles me as I ponder what may happen if these two trains should converge at a moment in time when the President is particularly vulnerable. It is at such moments when he is least predictable and our country is most at risk. First, setting aside the salacious headlines and late-night comic fascination with the subject, the President of the United States is in court defending himself against allegations from multiple women who claim to have had compromising sexual relations with him. We will learn more this weekend when the 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels is broadcast, but apparently Donald Trump has employed every legal device he knows (and, rumors abound, some that are illegal) to keep her silent. The President denies these allegations, of course; but his bar for truth is not exactly known to be the highest ever recorded. Second, the recent congratulatory phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, against the counsel of his security advisers, reveals yet again how the President steadfastly refuses to say anything negative about the Russian President. This, in light of Russia's annexation of Crimea, support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the poisoning of a Russian national on British soil and the meddling in our elections. It boggles the mind to think about why Mr. Trump is so afraid to criticize his Russian counterpart, and what Putin must know about the American President that Mr. Trump wants so much to silence. My fear is that as these two vectors develop, they clash at a moment in time that is dangerous for the American people. One can imagine all kinds of scenarios. Follow my thread: since long before being in office, Donald Trump has demonstrated volatility when he is challenged or crossed. Like a schoolyard bully, he lashes out to justify his understanding of the truth, "proving" he is the manliest man on the playground. Being in office has only exacerbated this tendency. From Katie Tur to Kim Jung-un, the President has been willing to go to extraordinary lengths to show the world that he is ALWAYS the brightest, always the best, that his crowds are always the largest. Only this time, the sticks and stones on the playground consist of dehumanizing governmental regulations, short-sighted policy decisions and nuclear weapons. So, what if these forces converge at a particularly vulnerable moment for the President? It's probably not a good idea for emotional health, but I am reading Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury as I watch the unfolding Presidential drama. Even if the book is only half-true, one thing the author makes abundantly clear is the total unpredictability and sheer volatility in the White House's decision-making process. What if the President's button is pushed (you know, the one that's bigger than Kim Jong-un's?) by the adult film actress? What if, on the same day, Special Counsel Robert Mueller unleashes a subpoena that exposes Trump business dealings in Russia? What if there is a leak from the White House about contact with Russian oligarchs? Or emails and photos are uncovered of the President in compromised positions? None of these scenarios seem that far-fetched anymore. Throw into the mix the possible impact that a salacious, sex-tinged scandal may have on the President and his family and one can only begin to imagine the collision of these two trains hurtling down tracks and gathering speed. Unable to stop their momentum, we are all in the path, and we are all vulnerable. 2 thoughts on "Two Trains Running" Randy Varcho says: Your worries are our worries but they cannot simply remain worries. As long as we reside in a democracy the voice for change is the ballot box. Arthur L Cribbs, Jr says: Bob, thank you for your insightful concern about the current tenuous condition of the POTUS. Randy shares wise counsel as it pertains to a participatory democracy. The potential collision course presented in the "Two Trains Running" column is very real. Equally concerning is the "bystander" posture assumed by those of us "waiting" to see the outcome. Just as Randy suggests "change" comes through the ballot box. The unfortunate reality is too many of us are simply watching while others of us are more engaged with "March Madness" than the threat to the world. This slide into the pits of immorality has been in process before the election of the 45th POTUS. Sins without repentance cannot be erased by wishing, willing, or watching. As Matthew 25 reminds us nations are judged by their treatment of the poor, vulnerable, and least recognized members of society. The unfortunate truth is that the 45th POTUS embodies the reality of our society and mirrors who we are as a people. Fired on Twitter I Love You, Emma Gonzalez A clear and clarion call for building a just and compassionate society coming from deep religious pathos, Chase's gentle yet passionate voice is a much needed charge leading us in the footsteps of prophets and poets. This book raises all the crucial questions and answers with bold exclamation points! ― Rabbi Naamah Kelman

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/ The Most Loving Marriage In History: Master Mu's Pampered Wife / Chapter 2140 - The Love of Chuan Rong (21) The Most Loving Marriage In History: Master Mu's Pampered Wife Chapter 2140: The Love of Chuan Rong (21) When Zhuang Shurong said this, her eyes were filled with anticipation as she looked at Mu Tangchuan in a daze. Mu Tangchuan lowered his eyes and stared at her for a moment. He did not miss the glimmer of hope in her eyes. After thinking about it, he could only say helplessly, "As you wish. However, I will only allow you to leave the hospital after I personally hear from the doctor that you are fine." The tone she had was one that could not be rejected. Zhuang Shurong could only nod her head. The bodyguard called the doctor over again. The doctor examined Zhuang Shurong and confirmed that she was in a good condition. Only then did Mu Tangchuan feel at ease and let the bodyguard, Ah Wen, go and handle the procedure for discharge. When the two of them finished the procedures and left the hospital, the storm outside was still ongoing. The bodyguards had already washed the car. Zhuang Shurong instructed the bodyguards to move all the things in the car to Mu Tangchuan's car and then got into the car. It was already afternoon, so the two of them did not have time to eat and rushed straight to the village. The atmosphere of the new year in the countryside seemed to be even denser than in the city. This large area was a densely populated area of the villages. On the way here, there were villages on both sides of the road. There were burning firecrackers and the continuous sound of firecrackers everywhere. At this time of the year, the villagers would be paying respects to their ancestors. It was always the same at every New Year, so it was quite lively when it came to the holidays. When the car arrived at the village entrance, they could see the villagers who were bringing in the new year all over the place from afar. There were Spring Festival couplets posted outside the doors of each household. In such stormy weather, the sky would get dark earlier and it would be a little cold, so everyone prepared early so that the whole family could have a reunion dinner together and watch the spring festival gala on the small television. Zhuang Shurong's hometown was in the middle of the village. The village was not very big, but there were also quite a number of people. When Zhuang Shurong and her group drove the car in, there were quite a lot of people who came to watch until the car drove into the Zhuang family's courtyard. The Zhuang family's courtyard was nothing more than a two-and-a-half-story house. The empty space in front was surrounded by a wall. The interior was paved and could be used as a large parking lot. Zhuang Shurong and Mu Tangchuan had just gotten out of the car when the Zhuang couple came out to welcome them. The old couple's hair had already turned white and they were already past their 70s. However, they looked quite energetic, especially with Elder master Zhuang's tall body. His walking posture was still straight and he looked full of energy, it was not difficult to capture a hint of the demeanor of a soldier from his body. "Grandfather, Grandmother!" Zhuang Shurong quickly released Mu Tangchuan when she saw the two old elderly and walked up to them. "You're finally back! Just now, I called to ask when your parents would arrive. They said that you left yesterday and did not see them. We were worried that your grandfather was going to send people out to look for you." Elder Madam Zhuang welcomed them warmly. When she saw the two children, her heart was finally relieved and the smile on her face was very kind. "I was delayed on the way, so I came back late," Zhuang Shurong replied. "It's good that you're back safely. Tangchuan, this is your first time in the countryside, right? The people in the countryside are simple and crude, don't mind them. It's cold outside in the wind and rain. Come in and sit down and warm yourself." Elder Zhuang's eyes were filled with satisfaction as he looked at Mu Tangchuan. As he spoke, he invited them inside. "I used to stay in the countryside when I went out. I'm not too unfamiliar," Mu Tangchuan said humbly. He still respected Elder Zhuang a lot, Elder Zhuang was a very upright person. He had a good reputation in the military, even Zhou Zhenjun had praised him. "Good, I've always respected the way your Mu family teaches your children. However, our Ah Rong has been spoiled by me. She's been lawless and comes back to visit her grandmother and me once a year, this ungrateful little thing." Elder Zhuang glared at Zhuang Shurong and walked in with his hands behind his back. "Grandfather, I'm not. I'm just too busy with work, I have to work overtime almost every weekend. If I didn't have a few more days off for the New Year, I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to come back." Zhuang Shurong shrugged innocently and said. "It hasn't been long since we last met, but you're much more eloquent now. You're the same as your father, and you rarely come back. Your grandmother misses you so much that she has called so many times." The Zhuang family's old master did not intend to let Zhuang Shurong off so quickly. He went to the living room and sat down on the sofa. After scolding Zhuang Shurong again, he turned to look at Mu Tangchuan beside him and said, "Tangchuan, when you and Ah Rong were engaged the last time, Grandfather was very satisfied to see you. Ah Rong is lucky to have found a husband like you. She's more serious, so you have to bear with her more in the future, understand?" As the Zhuang family's old master spoke, he poured tea for the two of them while Elder Madam Zhuang went down to prepare dinner. The room was very warm, especially since there was a brazier by the side. It was filled with burning charcoal. Zhuang Shurong sat beside the brazier and started a fire. She felt much warmer. "Grandfather, don't worry, I will." Mu Tangchuan lowered his head and sipped his tea before replying. "Grandfather, don't talk about me as if I'm unbearable. It's his fortune to be able to marry me." Zhuang Shurong glanced at the Zhuang family's old master unhappily and protested. "How can I not understand your missy's temper? She's already spoiled, her parents spoiled her. They should have let you sign up for the Military Academy in the first place. How good would it be to be a soldier, right? Her spirit and appearance would be much more upright. Look at you now, you're neither standing nor sitting." The old man was very straightforward. He said this because he wanted Zhuang Shurong to reflect on herself. Only then would she know where her shortcomings were and correct them. Zhuang Shurong looked at her grandfather helplessly. Every time she went home, he would do the same. He would give her a lecture first. However, she also knew the old man's good intentions, so she still had to listen. "Alright, you two have some tea to warm yourselves. I'll go check on your grandmother's cooking." Elder Zhuang did not know how to cook at all, but it was one thing if he did not know how to cook. He just liked to stand at the side and point at others, teaching them how to cook. Because of this, Elder Madam Zhuang had always despised him. "Grandfather, don't bother Grandmother. Don't you remember the last time Grandmother chased you out of the kitchen with a spatula?" "What nonsense are you spouting? Her culinary skills are terrible. If it weren't for my guidance, would she have the skills she has today?" Elder Master Zhuang was unconvinced. He glanced at Zhuang Shurong unhappily and strode toward the kitchen without caring about Zhuang Shurong rolling her eyes. Zhuang Shurong shrugged and looked at Mu Tangchuan helplessly. "Grandfather and Grandmother are a couple introduced to each other by the organization. Their way of getting along is a little unique, don't take offense later…"

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Lieutenant as he paused in his search for the medicine. glass of water from the replicator. help me feel more confident in Sickbay. rendered the normally talkative Lieutenant speechless. Tom mused. water, which he immediately swallowed. hand and a regenerator in the other," he joked. "You know, I think I'd like to see that," the Commander chuckled. his best guards stood at the door. last two, to get McAfee and his friends to change their minds. as they had been those long years ago. again to get McAfee to open up. him, bent down, and kissed him on the cheek. good measure, she started to unfastened the front of his uniform. Her fingers itched to feel his chest hair. medical tricorder laying on the nearby table. "And is Fred okay?" he asked pointing to her teddy bear. expecting me," moaned the little girl's mother. "You don't mind Naomi?" asked her mother. stay in Sickbay with the pilot. "Thanks again, Tom." Sam said and she kissed her little girl. blanket over her and he went to get some anti-nausea medicine. reputation to uphold," he joked. "Really?" she sensed that he was serious underneath the grin. "Deal," he relented giving her a little peck on the lips. certainly had a lot to look forward to. particularly the future bride and groom. party is fantastic," Tom said enthusiastically. amusement park, it's a little unorthodox. bed," joined in Janeway with a grin on her face. her ear, just where she liked it. and almost choked on the popcorn. "What are you laughing at?" Janeway asked her first officer. the direction of the ferris wheel. coming tonight to celebrate Tom and B'Elanna's engagement. "Thanks Captain, Chakotay," said Tom. "Yes thank you this party was very special," echoed B'Elanna. some Jeffries tubes with your name on them." Everyone laughed. seemed so happy together, he seemed so content, it wasn't fair. small smile forming on her lips. night" she said placing her hand on the Talaxian's arm. find a place to sit down. acknowledgment and headed over to join him, tray in hand. was…a…well…" Harry stammered as his face reddened. "Ah…thanks…I guess I'm pretty transparent," Harry blushed. a middle name, let alone a first name. accessible to anyone. she thought. that they were being joined by the Delaney sisters. with anyone with the same name. agreement as she rolled her eyes to the ceiling. didn't care who his father was," Meagan finished. returning to the original query. determined, Paris was going to get what was coming to him. B'Elanna as the conversation continued at her table. like your the prey just waiting to be pounced on," said Tom. "So what happened to R.C. after that? she asked. "Do you know what happened to R.C.?" B'Elanna asked the Delaneys. the shuttlebay to join the rest of the away team. creating spare parts for shuttlecraft, ship repairs, etc. didn't need any confrontations arising between him and Paris. out, teams of two, we should meet back here in say three hours. awhile occasionally phasering out some promising pieces of ore. wasn't responding, his mind was obviously on other things. he thought as he sprinted toward Paris' location. some trees, bushes, and dirt. sprinted for the other hill. go?" grumbled Tom as he attempted to find the young ensign. shoulders, with a green tone to their skin. heard arguing about who had acquired the most material. "In your dreams Wilson, in your dreams," Matthews countered. over the control panel, after a few minutes he had his answer. "Did you hear that Commander?" she asked. trail blood dripping down his face from where he had been struck. "What?" said Paris still disorientated. open mesh enclosure above that. 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"Why should I believe you?" he said becoming a little unsure. apparently the universal translators had finally stopped working. known location of Paris and McAfee. "Go ahead Commander," answered Janeway. "Very good, I'll get back to you shortly," Chakotay out. he could hear him mumbling, apparently still asleep. "Stop, don't, please stop …not that, no…not again…ohhh…. bruises, and scrapes many of which were still seeping blood. dust on the enclosure's floor. over, but only ended up dropping back down on the earth. "How do you know all about that?" McAfee asked. but in his present state he really didn't care. "Take it easy," Ken admonished. puddle he had been laying in. team, they had come to rescue them! "Tom, wake up, help is here! with Chakotay just behind him. and the Chamberlain as they approached. "Here they are now. "Very good. I look forward to your report when you return. able to contact Voyager for transport. me help you," offered the engineer. 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"Naomi, you didn't need to do that," he said as he took the bear. scooted over and made room for the little girl. across the room for him to join them. incredulously, still not believing what he had been told. came by the check up on the pilot. "In the past, I never would have thought so," Ken admitted. "I'll look forward to it," Paris said sincerely. The door to the Sickbay slide open and B'Elanna came through. "Yes Ensign," replied the engineer warily. straightened things out," she said.

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Home > Uncategorized > Bullpen brings heat during stellar April Bullpen brings heat during stellar April May 8, 2014 Jordan Schelling He's not quite the K-Rod of old, but Francisco Rodriguez is as dominant as ever. And so is the Brewers' bullpen. Over 16 appearances, the 32-year-old closer has converted all 13 of his save opportunities, giving up just seven hits and four walks over 16 innings with 23 strikeouts. This week, he made four appearances, picking up four more saves while striking out five batters and allowing three to reach base. Rodriguez has been the team's best pitcher this month and the best closer in baseball. But he's not the only Brewer dominating in relief. Milwaukee's bullpen is fourth in the league with a 2.45 ERA and 1.08 WHIP through 28 games. Opponents are hitting just .205 against Brewers relievers, with a .268 on-base percentage, numbers that are good for third and second in the league. Joining Rodriguez in delivering spectacular results so far has been 25-year-old right-hander Tyler Thornburg and 24-year-old lefty Will Smith. The two have formed one of the most dominant young pitching duos in baseball, combining to allow just two runs on 13 hits over 27 innings. Thornburg has struck out 17 batters with five walks, while Smith has 18 strikeouts against eight walks. Putting together a good bullpen is far from an exact science. What may look like a good bullpen on Opening Day could fall apart by June 1. This year, Brewers general manager Doug Melvin appears to have gotten it right. And it's paying huge dividends in Milwaukee. Underrated Lucroy key for battered Brewers Lack of depth an issue for Brewers

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Crime/ CIA Thwarts Another Al-Qaeda Underwear Bomb Plot Mytheos Holt Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri WASHINGTON (AP/The Blaze) — The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned. The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passenger's underwear, but this time al-Qaeda developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said. The FBI is examining the latest bomb to see whether it could have passed through airport security and brought down an airplane, officials said. They said the device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it. The would-be suicide bomber, based in Yemen, had not yet picked a target or bought his plane tickets when the CIA stepped in and seized the bomb, officials said. It's not immediately clear what happened to the alleged bomber. The operation unfolded even as the White House and Department of Homeland Security assured the American public that they knew of no al-Qaida plots against the U.S. around the anniversary of bin Laden's death. The AP learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way. Once those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday. U.S. officials, who were briefed on the operation, insisted on anonymity to discuss the case. It's not clear who built the bomb, but, because of its sophistication and its similarity to the Christmas bomb, authorities suspected it was the work of master bomb maker Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri. Al-Asiri constructed the first underwear bomb and two others that al-Qaeda built into printer cartridges and shipped to the U.S. on cargo planes in 2010. Both of those bombs used a powerful industrial explosive. Both were nearly successful. The operation is an intelligence victory for the United States and a reminder of al-Qaeda's ambitions, despite the death of bin Laden and other senior leaders. Because of instability in the Yemeni government, the terrorist group's branch there has gained territory and strength. It has set up terrorist camps and, in some areas, even operates as a de facto government. But along with the gains there also have been losses. The group has suffered significant setbacks as the CIA and the U.S. military focus more on Yemen. On Sunday, Fahd al-Quso, a senior al-Qaeda leader, was hit by a missile as he stepped out of his vehicle along with another operative in the southern Shabwa province of Yemen. Al-Quso, 37, was on the FBI's most wanted list, with a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture. He was indicted in the U.S. for his role in the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen, in which 17 American sailors were killed and 39 injured. Al-Quso was believed to have replaced Anwar al-Awlaki as the group's head of external operations. Like 'pitting a child against' big tech: Surgeon General says 13 is 'too early' for kids to be on social media Watch a 5-year-old preacher go viral by baptizing his toys, singing with Grammy Award-winning singer: 'You have lifted us all up' Bill Maher pushes back when Bryan Cranston declares critical race theory 'essential' to be taught in schools NHL team skips 'Pride Night' warmup jerseys: 'We support everyone's individual right to respectfully express their beliefs' 'If you need to arrest me, I understand': US Marine allegedly flew from Louisiana to Florida to have sex with 14-year-old girl he met online Florida mother suing school district for banning her from volunteering because she's an OnlyFans model Treasured artifact from 2,800 years ago reveals written references to the biblical King David Video: BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales exposes family-friendly drag show where children collect tips, performer toasts those who 'lick us where we pee'

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Telecommunications in Puerto Rico includes radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet. Broadcasting in Puerto Rico is regulated by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC). History The Puerto Rico Communications Authority () was created with Law No. 212, on May 12, 1942. Five years later, the department was located at 1314 Juan Ponce de León Avenue in Santurce. Radio Stations: 140 radio stations (as of January 2015). Television WIPR-TV ("Wonderful Island of Puerto Rico") was inaugurated on January 26, 1949. Stations: more than 30 TV stations operating; three stations of the US Armed Forces Radio and Television Service; cable TV subscription services are available (2007). Television sets: 1.0 million sets (1997). Telephones Calling code-area codes: +1-787, +1-939 International call prefix: 00 Main lines: 780,200 lines in use, 87th in the world (2012). Mobile cellular: 3.1 million lines, 130th in the world (2012). System: modern digital system integrated with that of the United States (2011). Satellite earth stations: Intelsat with high-speed data capability (2011). Communications cables: provide connectivity to the US, Caribbean, Central and South America (2011). Internet Hurricane Maria destroyed the internet systems in Puerto Rico in September 2017. Then in 2019, the US Federal Communications Commission stated $950 million had been approved for the rebuilding and strengthening of Puerto Rico's and the Virgin Island's internet infrastructure. Top-level domain: .pr Internet users: 1.9 million users, 92nd in the world; 51.4% of the population, 83rd in the world (2012). Fixed broadband: available to 65% of Puerto Ricans (2012). Wireless broadband: available to 98.7% of Puerto Ricans (2012). Available broadband technologies as a percentage of population: 48.2% DSL, 0.1% Fiber, 59.6% cable, 84.7% wireless (2012). Internet hosts: 469 hosts, 184th in the world (2012). IPv4: 1 million addresses allocated, less than 0.05% of the world total, 250.2 addresses per 1000 people (2012). Internet Service Providers: 19 ISPs (1999). Internet censorship and surveillance See also Economy of Puerto Rico Internet Exchange of Puerto Rico, no longer operating as of 2011. Media of Puerto Rico References External links About NIC.pr, the registrar for the .pr top-level domain name. Internet Society Puerto Rico Federal government grants to expand broadband Internet access in Puerto Rico, Broadband USA. Puerto Rico summary, National Broadband Map, 31 December 2012. Radio Puerto Rico El Nuevo Dia WIPR-TV 6 & WIPM-TV 3 Puerto Rico

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As soon as I landed in Rome, the goal of my experiences became to travel, explore, enjoy, see myself grow, and in the process, to document it all via photography. The very first night consisted of walking through several of Rome's famous monuments with my housemates. Arriving in Italy also meant a lot of surprises and accomplishing the unexpected. One of the few places that I had researched beforehand and was looking forward to seeing was the Trevi Fountain due to its many popular legends such as tossing a coin into the fountain and being guaranteed a return trip back to Rome. I was not in the least bit anticipating seeing the Trevi Fountain on my very first night, but thanks to a stroke of good luck and our curiosity to wander around the city, I was able to fulfill my desire. This stroke of luck was one of many, many good occurrences to follow in the future. Before I arrived abroad I knew that I wanted to travel to nearby cities such as Florence. However, not even in my dreams did I imagine the possibility of exploring a total of 26 cities, towns, villages, and islands throughout Italy, Greece, and Ireland while studying in Rome. It all started with my first trip to Venice the second weekend in Rome. Four of my housemates, a friend, and I, set off on a three-day weekend trip to experience the first day of Venice's Carnevale. I deeply enjoyed the experience, though I did end up briefly getting lost on the small island of Burano that we visited from Venice. Had I let that experience get me down, I would not have attempted to navigate ever again. I was in a new country, though, with a growing desire to see and do as much as possible. Three weeks after Venice, I joined my roommate and a couple of friends and housemates in going to the second trip that she had been organizing. As my time in Rome progressed, I discovered cities that I really wished to see that nobody else took much interest in. At first, I tried my best to persuade my housemates and classmates to go on the trips with me, but I ended up sometimes traveling alone. But going through the experience, I wouldn't prefer it any other way. I had the best time of my life executing a total of six different trips by myself, all in the last five weeks of the program. I created both detailed and flexible itineraries and did all of the planning and organizing without having to care or worry about what someone else thought about my interests. If this didn't feel liberating enough, I was so proud of myself every time I came back from a trip because I had formed incredible memories, had tons of fun, stayed safe, and got myself to every place that I needed to be. I told myself I would not go anywhere by myself when I first came to Rome, but with a matter of time and step-by-step experiences, I had a beautiful five-day trip to Ireland all by myself. Seeing myself progress from not trusting my capacity to travel anywhere alone to becoming totally confident in my ability to comfortably and successfully go anywhere in the world has been the highlight of my overall study abroad experience. I figured a lot of things out for myself and did a lot of problem solving while gaining practical life experiences. As great as it is traveling in groups, going by yourself is a whole new level of fun. I'm glad that I didn't have the choice but to go out and be brave if I wanted to see it all, because that led to my new level of confidence, self-awareness, and discovery of a much higher potential. So, in conclusion, whether or not tossing that coin into the Trevi Fountain did its trick, needless to say, I will definitely be returning to Europe one day, visiting Italy again, and probably also going back to Rome to toss another coin into the Trevi Fountain. Did this post inspire you to embark upon the life-changing experience of study abroad for yourself? Research your study abroad options at http://accentintl.com/find-a-program/.

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Cynon Valley When are you going to get to grips with Transport for Wales which is failing the people of Wales?" Paul Davies AM says: "Transport for Wales is not delivering for this country". The Leader of the Opposition took Mark Drakeford to task over Welsh transport woes during First Minister's Questions today (January 7). His questions followed news over Christmas that pre-tax losses at state-owned Cardiff Airport had TREBLED since last year while its value is now just a THIRD (£15 million) of what the Welsh Labour Government paid for it only six years ago. There were also further problems with rail services provided by state-run Transport for Wales (TfW). In the last week, trains were cancelled, postponed, arrived late or – unusually – left early, leaving commuters and holidaymakers stranded, and looking forward to a grim new year. A leaked report showed, too, that TfW had broken the law nine times by failing to meet Welsh language standards. Mr Davies continued to question an evasive First Minister, and said: "This time Transport for Wales blamed staff shortages and training for the delays, but First Minister it's the same problems just a different excuse every time. "Like Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board, when are you going to get to grips with Transport for Wales which is failing the people of Wales?" Speaking later, Mr Davies added: "It's understandable that the First Minister was evasive and reluctant to answer any questions. He is embarrassed, and should be. Under his failing Welsh Labour administration, transport – just like health and education – are letting down the people and businesses of Wales." An Unhappy New Year for Welsh rail users. TfW broke the law over Welsh language. Darren Millar: 'The Finance Minister's draft budget fails to deliver on the people's priorities' Tuesday, 7 January, 2020 Draft Budget is a litany of failed opportunities. Penderyn Community Historical History Society. This site is the showcase for, and maintained by, Penderyn Community Historical Society - based in the Brecon Beacons National Park, South Wales.

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Westside Cremation and Burial Plant a Tree for Dr. Robert Dr. Robert Martin Bennett November 30, 1940 ~ May 22, 2020 (age 79) We are saddened to announce that Dr. Robert Martin Bennett peacefully passed May 22, 2020. Robert was a distinguished professor of medicine, a founder and head of the Rheumatology Department at OHSU. He lectured around the world, was a pioneer in Fibromyalgia research, had 4 research patents, and was a prolific writer and cited expert in his field. Robert grew up in Berkhamsted, England, served in the Royal Air Force in Cyprus, and immigrated to the U.S in 1972. Robert was an avid mountain climber, marathon runner and track athlete in his youth. He is survived by his loving wife, Dr. Sharon Clark Bennett; three children, Emma, Jeremy and Katie; and five grandchildren. He will be greatly missed and our memories of him will be held in our hearts forever. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Dr. Robert Martin Bennett, please visit our floral store. You can still show your support by sending flowers directly to the family, or by planting a memorial tree in the memory of Dr. Robert Martin Bennett © 2021 Westside Cremation and Burial. All Rights Reserved. Funeral Home website by CFS & TA | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy

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