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Review: A Look at the Diamondback Sidekick 22 Diamondback's new rimfire Sidekick, a nine-shot, single and double-action rimfire revolver with a swing-out, interchangeable cylinder, certainly is interesting. Set to start shipping later this month, we have been looking at the Sidekick up close for the past couple of weeks. First off, the specs and stats. The Sidekick is initially offered with a 4.5-inch barrel having a 1:16 RH twist and six-groove rifling. The alloy-framed revolver weighs in at 32.5 ounces and has an overall length of 9.875 inches. (Photos: Chris Eger/Guns.com) The Sidekick gets its name from its swing-out cylinder, which belays the impression it gives as just another rimfire clone of the old Single Action Army. Despite the styling, it is a DA/SA revolver with a star-extractor in the cylinder. It comes chambered in .22 rimfire and includes both .22 LR and .22 WMR cylinders, each capable of holding nine rounds. Note the cutout in the cylinder to accommodate the rimfire firing pin, making the gun safe to dry fire. The cylinders swap out easily by depressing the release plunger, inside the port on the front of the frame, with a small screwdriver or punch then lifting the empty cylinder assembly out and inserting the other. Note the hammer block that prevents the hammer from contacting the firing pin when at rest. The faux ejector rod assembly is spring-loaded, but only in the respect that it can be used to release the cylinder. You can also pull out the knurled knob at the end of the cylinder to release it, akin to an old-school Colt Detective. The cylinder itself has an integral star extractor that works very well in our tests. Sights are rudimentary, with a notch groove to the rear and a fixed front blade. This is a plinker, not an Olympic competition gun. The Sidekick is black-on-black, with a thick Cerakote finish. The gun wears branded checkered glass-filled nylon grips, and it is not clear if you can replace them with, say, those used on the Ruger Wrangler or Single-Six, although the pattern looks similar. The trigger is seriously heavy and exceedingly long in double action, running around 14-15 pounds (our trigger pull scale didn't go high enough to read it accurately). About the closest thing I can compare it to is the DAO trigger on a British Enfield No. 2 Mk. 1* "Tanker" or a Russian M1895 Nagant revolver. In single action, it breaks cleanly at around 3.5 pounds. Double Action: Single Action: So far, we have run a 333-round box of Winchester's 36-grain copper-plated hollow-point bulk pack through the little Sidekick in .22 LR and it has proved both accurate and dependable, with two rounds failing to fire likely due to issues with the ammo rather than the gun as they had nice hard strikes on the rim. The MSRP on the Sidekick is $320, which will likely put it under the $299 mark or less. Release is currently set for Nov. 22, just in time for Christmas. At that price, it will likely prove popular as both a plinker and for use in pest control around the ponderosa. The new Diamondback reminds me a bit of the old H&R (NEF) 929 Sidekick, a neat little 9-shot DA/SA .22LR with a 4-inch barrel that ended production over 20 years ago. As that gun had an MSRP in 1999 of $175, which works out to about $290 in today's dollars, that is about right. Plus the 929 didn't have a .22 Mag cylinder included. Stay tuned for a more extensive review as we continue to hit the range with this interesting revolver.

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Adam Driver talks Star Wars: Episode VII and the humanity of the saga. There was never a time where someone sat me down and was like, "People are going to do this or say this or ask this." They never had that conversation with me. Instead, they kind of trusted that I wouldn't say anything. I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything. I don't think they felt the need to tell me [to stay quiet]. I haven't seen him. I don't know. How great is that to get to work on something that has so much humanity in the midst of it? I feel like that's everyone's goal, to balance those two. Again, surreal seems to be the word of this interview. It's exciting to get that to be part of your life. Now you have to contribute something to it—and that's not something you, personally, or anyone on set takes lightly. I feel like everybody wants to make it good. Head over to EW and read the full interview.

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PM Narendra Modi to attend 16th ASEAN-India summit in Singapore today India, China hold 9th Annual Defence & Security Dialogue after one-year gap At the talks both sides agreed on enhancing defence exchanges and interactions at different levels between the two militaries, a press release by the Indian Embassy here said on Thursday Press Trust of India | Beijing Last Updated at November 15, 2018 12:11 IST https://mybs.in/2VrWU32 Solution lies in dialogue, not disputes: Sitharaman on Indo-China relations India and China: A new phase? Despite 'Wuhan spirit', India still guarding border with China: Sitharaman A China-India-Pakistan trilateral: Both a red herring and wake-up call Top officials of India and China held the ninth Annual Defence and Security Dialogue here after a one-year gap due to the Doklam standoff, as both countries agreed to enhance military exchanges and interactions. The dialogue on November 13 was held between the two defence delegations headed by Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra and China's Deputy Chief of Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission. At the talks both sides agreed on enhancing defence exchanges and interactions at different levels between the two militaries, a press release by the Indian Embassy here said on Thursday. After the talks, Mitra called on Chinese State Councillor and Defence Minister General Wei Fenghe on Wednesday, the release said. Mitra was accompanied by senior officials of the ministry of defence and Indian Army, Navy and Air Force. The annual dialogue did not take place last year following the 73-day tense standoff between the two militaries at Doklam, which was triggered by the Chinese PLA's plan to build a road close to the narrow Chicken's Neck corridor connecting India's northeastern states in an area also claimed by Bhutan besides China. ALSO READ: India, China sent highest number of students to American institutions:report The standoff ended when Chinese troops stopped the road construction after which both countries stepped up efforts to normalise relations leading to the informal summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping at Wuhan in April this year. The defence dialogue was also held ahead of the 21st round of border talks between the Special Representatives of the two countries in the Chinese city of Dujiangyan on November 23-24. National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi are the designated Special Representatives for the border talks. Besides efforts to work out a solution to resolve the boundary dispute spanning 3,488 km, the border talks also focussed on discussions on other aspects of India-China relations. Also, the two militaries are due to hold the annual 'Hand-in-Hand' drills next month in China after a gap of one year. During the dialogue, both sides also agreed on specific defence exchanges for 2019. ALSO READ: Iran oil waivers: How India, China are lining up after US exemptions "Both sides agreed to enhance exchanges and interactions through reciprocal high-level visits between the two ministries of defence as well as between military commands, joint training exercises, mutual visits by defence personnel including mid-level and cadet officers were also agreed upon," the Indian Embassy's press release said. Both sides reiterated the importance of maintaining peace and tranquillity in the border areas, implementing the consensus reached between Modi and Xi and specific additional confidence-building measures at the operational level, it said. The two sides also had an exchange of views on regional and global issues. "Both sides underlined the importance of this dialogue as an important mechanism between the two countries for consultations on defence and security matters. They emphasised the need to further strengthen military-to-military ties in order to strengthen political and strategic mutual trust between the two countries," it said. Both sides agreed to hold the next round of the dialogue at a mutually convenient time in India in 2019. India-china India-china Relations

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The Comic Critic's Movie Review "The Stranger" (1946) The crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis during WWII were so heinous that some Americans didn't believe the reports. That is why it was so important that the Allied War Crimes Commission collected and presented as much audio and visual documentation as possible. The reels of footage showing the horror of the Final Solution at concentration camps were instrumental in pulling back the veil of disbelief. The Stranger was the first commercial movie to show it. The Stranger was a success at the box office, pulling in over double its production costs. Film historians in the know decry the heavy editing at the beginning of the film. Gone is most of the footage establishing the ruthlessness of a lead Nazi as he escapes the continent and embeds himself in the heart of America. Some say that after such hacking, The Stranger was reduced to a small town murder movie and that it was less of a movie as a result. I like to see the editing as having left a clearer message for the audience of the time: That your preconceived notions of how things were—were wrong. That any person with an understanding of what is right and just would have to admit —by the horrific evidence before them—that truly evil people exist in the world. And that, as difficult as it must be to admit, you need to acknowledge such evil and stand against it. Yes, I would have loved to have seen the additional footage. It would have made The Stranger a truly grand Nazi-hunting movie. But its role in opening the eyes of 1940s America should not be disregarded. Labels: #moviereview, MarkMonlux, Orsen Wells, The Stranger, War Crimes The Comic Critic's Movie Review "The Stranger" (19...

McDonald Gets Butterflies in First Spring Outing Kristy Robinson DUNEDIN, Fla. — Butterflies. Nerves. Anticipation. That's how right-hander James McDonald felt when he took the mound for his first Spring Training game on Saturday afternoon against the Toronto Blue Jays. After going through two weeks of Spring Training workouts, conditioning, and bullpens, McDonald was anxious for his first start this morning. "It's good to feel those nerves again, just to feel that anticipation. The nerves when you get to the mound," McDonald said. "Just that feeling [when] I woke up this morning knowing I was going to pitch. Butterflies. To me, I like the feeling…It was exciting to feel all that." After throwing a 1-2-3 first inning, striking out All-Star slugger Jose Bautista, McDonald gave up two runs in his second inning of work. "The first inning was very clean and efficient," Manager Clint Hurdle said. "I thought he still threw some good off-speed pitches in the second inning. The one thing with Mac, he's got to trust his front side. When the front gets in a hurry and pulls, he misses high and wide…That's all part of that –getting the adrenaline out, getting out on the field…His arm looked healthy. His velocity looked sound. He spun some good pitches." McDonald started the second frame by issuing a leadoff four-pitch walk to Adam Lind. Edwin Encarnacion followed with a broken bat single to left field. With two outs, Brett Lawrie hit a two-run double into left center field, before being able to end the inning. In his first start, McDonald allowed two runs on two hits with a walk and a strikeout over two innings. McDonald threw 33 pitches, 19 for strikes. "It was good," McDonald said of his first outing. "I wanted to throw strikes, throw strikes with all my pitches. So it was pretty good. It wasn't more or less me trying to go out there and, I got to get this guy out with this. This is how I get this guy out. I think the first couple starts for me, throw what I need to work on." The bats were quiet for the Bucs, only being able to answer with one run off the Blue Jays arms in the 7-1 loss in Dunedin. After going four hitless innings, the Pirates put a run on the board in the 5th. With two outs, Gorkys Hernandez hit a single to right field, then swipped second base and scored on a RBI single by Michael McKenry. Relief outings by Chris Leroux, Tony Watson and Daniel McCutchen combined for five runs over their three innings of work. But Hurdle said you've got to use your eyes more during Spring Training, more so then the stats sometimes. "Leroux's inning, a fastball just up over the plate. The guy drills it, then he cuts up thee hitters," Hurdle said. In Watson's outing, after giving up a single to Bautista and hitting Encarnacion by a pitch, Brett Lawrie hit a two-out double into center field when Starling Marte misreading the ball in the strong winds at Florida Auto Exchange Stadium. "Watson's, I think [was] a clean break by Marte away from getting out of that inning," Hurdle said. "There's a lot of different ways to look at this," Hurdle said. "When you play in an environment such as this one, as in Arizona, I think you've got to use a filter. The ground always hard. The wind usually blows. You look at hard hit balls that get smoked for outs, then get balls that are dumped in for hits. You just got to use your eyes. You got to use your eyes as much as you got to use the numbers." Right hander Brad Lincoln followed McDonald in relief allowing two deep fly balls to right, and struck out Bautista; Chris Resop: IP, BB; Tony Watson: IP, 4H, 3R, K, HBP; Daniel McCutchen: IP, 2H, R, K; Ryota Igarashi: IP, 2K Chris Leroux gave up a leadoff home run to left fielder Eric Thames, then struck out the side in his inning of work. Final line: IP, H, R, 3K. Despite losing 7-1 in Dunedin, the Pirates still played the bottom of the 9th inning to get reliever Juan Cruz some work. Although his outing wasn't recorded, Cruz allowed one hit over his one frame. In the 6th inning, Josh Harrison was hit by pitch on his left elbow, but remained in the game. In the clubhouse, Harrison said that the elbow felt sore and was swollen, but is okay. Hurdle also confirmed after the game that everything was fine with Harrison. For the second straight game, the Pirates saw speed on the base paths. Today both Gorkys Hernandez and Josh Harrison stole a bag. Sunday Game Info: Lefty Erik Bedard will start for the Pirates in the Spring opener at McKechnie Field against Toronto. He will face fellow south paw Aaron Laffey. Following Bedard in relief are: Shairon Martis (2 innings), Joel Hanrahan, Jason Grilli, Doug Slaten, Evan Meek and Daniel Moskos. James McDonald, Pittsburgh Pirates News Ian Rothermund March 3, 2012 11:18 pm And this start of McDonald's matters what? Absolutely nothing, that's what. If you have any negative feelings towards the two innings he pitched today, it's probably because you have no idea what Spring Training is about or what its purpose is. James McDonald still has the best stuff on the staff, I don't care if he gave up 3 grand slams today, that's still what's up……period. John Lease It's competition against another team. If it didn't matter, they wouldn't schedule any games, would they? I suggest de-caf coffee. It's glorified practice. They've been in Florida for 2 weeks. Realistically, they're only looking for a couple back-up guys for the infield and seeing who's making the cut to start the season in the bullpen. If it was during the season, what happens if McDonald goes on to pitch 5 or 6 innings and doesn't give up anymore runs. It's about players like this getting their work in and getting in shape. It's about Walker, McCutchen, and Alvarez getting swings in and working out their approach, not hitting .350 with 10 HRs in a month. I can tell you right now that even if Cutch were to hit .150 with 2 HR in Spring Training, he'd still be starting in CF and hitting 3rd opening day. Yes, I'd like to see the guys hit the ground running, but ultimately Spring Training is meaningless because it has no bearing on anything but who's going to end up on the "Reserves" list. and last night was a result of Rum, not caffeine….FYI, lol. Well, the Blue Jays pitchers pitched in the same conditions. Not too good of a start. That's true….as commentary on that game, I'm more concerned by the lack of offense in the first game than McDonald's pitching.

© RIA Novosti. Vera Kostamo Northern Sea Route's annual cargo for 2020 could exceed 30 million tons Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev reported to President of Russia Vladimir Putin that last year the volume of cargo on the Northern Sea Route was 5.5 million tons and this year it could exceed 30 million tons. Likhachev also said that Rosatom was actively moving toward year-round use of the Northern Sea Route. "In the eastern direction, this year we worked together with NOVATEK and Sovcomflot to convoy two LNG tankers, Vladimir Voronin and Christophe de Margerie, very early in the season, in May, when the ice is still very thick, and we did this at a commercial speed of nearly 12 knots an hour," Likhachev said and thanked his colleagues for organising this effort. He also added the performance tests of the first universal nuclear icebreaker Arktika would begin in the last ten days of June, so that the icebreaker would be handed over to Atomflot in September or October, at the latest. Rosatom also plans to convert four chemical weapons elimination plants into powerful ecology and technology parks by 2023 and to launch three new plants in Russia. "At the same time, we are establishing an integrated system for recycling waste in the first and second industrial-safety categories. This waste includes the most harmful substances that can irreparably damage nature. We have the technology to recycle them to the greatest possible extent without burying them. But we need a system for monitoring and recording their circulation. We have reached complete consensus with the Government, and we are working on schedule," Alexei Likhachev noted. Vladimir Putin orders Northern Sea Route traffic assessment study State Commission for Arctic Development: regional development strategy until 2035, expanding the Northern Sea Route and renovating Norilsk

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Five Best Wednesday Columns Charlie Stile on how Chris Christie won over Democrats, Jonathan Chait on Christie's flaws, Nate Cohn on what Virginia means for Democrats, Elizabeth Kolbert on the real threat of climate change, and David Dayen on Wall Street's new scheme. By Allie Jones Charlie Stile at The Record on how Chris Christie won over Democrats. "Christie discreetly and methodically courted Democrats with every lever of power at his disposal. By the end, many of those Democrats would supply the manpower, money or simply the photo ops for his campaign," Stile explains. Christie's leadership during Superstorm Sandy helped him keep the governorship, but it was his Democratic support that really propelled him to victory. For example, "Christie won the unofficial support — and admiration — of George Norcross, the South Jersey insurance executive and the state's most powerful Democrat, by carrying out an overhaul of the state's higher education system that poured more money into that region." At base, "Christie revived the transactional, political dynamic that vanished during the rocky tenure of [Democrat Jon] Corzine, his predecessor." By working out deals with certain Democratic mayors, Christie won the support of some of the more liberal towns in New Jersey. Ryan Lizza, The New Yorker's Washington correspondent, tweets, "@PoliticalStile has the best piece I've read on how Christie won." Jonathan Chait at Daily Intelligencer on why Christie won't go to the White House. Republicans "now see the enticing chance, in the form of Christie's all-but-declared presidential candidacy, to right their course without veering left," Chait explains. But don't "measure the drapes" in the White House just yet. For one, Christie will fall to the left of other Republican primary candidates: He's "openly endorsed gun control, called for a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants, and conceded the legitimacy of climate science" as well as participated in Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. And he's already been vetted once: "Mitt Romney wanted to make Christie his vice-presidential nominee, but took a close look at what the vetters came up with and ... promptly changed his mind." Huffington Post political reporter Sabrina Siddiqui tweets, "[Christie] faces uphill battle, especially in primary. Chait has good points here." Nate Cohn at The New Republic on what Terry McAuliffe's win means for Democrats in 2014. A narrow victory in Virginia's gubernatorial race "doesn't bode well for Democrats in 2014," Cohn argues. "[Ken] Cuccinelli was relatively competitive in race where everything went wrong. He was decidedly outspent. His party never unified around his candidacy and a libertarian candidate was there to take advantage. The government shutdown probably didn't help. And, of course, Cuccinneli was a pretty flawed candidate in his own right." Most importantly, "McAuliffe did as bad as President Obama in coal country and western Virginia, the exact sort of places where Democrats need to rebound to retake the House." Matt O'Brien, an economics writer at The Atlantic, is skeptical: "I'm not sure the inability of a horribly flawed candidate to win big augurs poorly for Democrats in '14." Elizabeth Kolbert at The New Yorker on the real threat of climate change. A new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change "reads like a laundry list of the apocalypse — flood, drought, disease, starvation," Kolbert explains. "Climate change, the group noted, will reduce yields of major crops by up to two per cent each decade for the remainder of this century." Things look worse for animals: "Under the most likely scenarios, many species 'will not be able to move fast enough during the 21st century to track suitable climates,' and there is a chance that some ecosystems, including the Arctic tundra and the Amazon rainforest, will undergo 'abrupt and irreversible change.'" So what's to be done? "Any genuine 'preparedness' strategy must include averting those eventualities for which preparation is impossible," Kolbert argues. "This is not something that the President can do by executive order, but it's something he ought to be pursuing with every other tool." MSNBC reporter Ned Resnikoff darkly jokes, "Regardless of what happens [in the elections], we're still on track for global, civilization-wide catastrophe." David Dayen at Salon says Wall Street slumlords are back. Investors are "flocking to the latest product peddled by large banking interests, even though they look almost exactly like the mortgage-backed securities that were a primary driver of the financial crisis. These new securities, backed by rental payments, also have real-world implications for millions of renters, who could end up turning in their monthly checks to Wall Street-based absentee slumlords," Dayen argues. While these securities have secured a AAA rating from ratings agencies, "you'll remember that mortgage-backed securities were bestowed triple-A ratings during the housing bubble, and that this spurred massive purchases, fueling demand for more and more home loans to create more securities." Dayen concludes, "if Americans weren't seduced by the mythical dream of homeownership and turned to renting, that could certainly be positive. But it's hard to trust that the same financial titans who blew up the economy won't distort and pervert the rental market ..." 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I don't really know what possessed me to get baby goats. I just knew I wanted to get in on the dairy goat business. How cool is it that you can wake up in the morning and go get your eggs and milk? Heck, if I could somehow make my own bread I'd never have to go to the grocery store before a snowstorm ever again! Anyways, back to the goats. Finding baby dairy goats for a reasonable price, especially a doe, is difficult. I finally found a reasonably priced trio and man, I was so excited! I had no idea what I was in for though. How could I? Well, baby goats are something else entirely. They're rambunctious toddlers with Pica. They. Eat. Everything. Except the food you want them to eat. Newspaper and dust filters? Yum! Water and grain? Gross! Never! But I mean, just look at those cute faces? Could you stay mad? I sure can't. Even when they're chewing on my fingers or knocking the milk bottle out of my hand, they're still cute as buttons. When you think of chickens, what do you think of? Most people think of the commercial white hen, known as a Leghorn, with a floppy red comb and yellow beak. In reality, however, there are thirty-nine varieties of chickens that are recognized. These breeds range from the fluffy Silkie, to the ginormous Brahma. They come in hundreds of colors and each bird seems to have its own personality. This can be a little overwhelming for anyone looking to get into chickens, so lets dive in to some simpler classification. Choosing the right chicken breed for you depends on why you want chickens in the first place. EGG LAYERS: all chicken breeds lay eggs. The hen takes approximately 24 hours to lay one egg. However, some breeds lay more eggs than the others. Usually bantams and oriental breeds lay less than commercial laying hens. Commercial hens include Rhode Island Reds, Leghorns, and Plymouth Rocks. These breeds produce up to 300 eggs a year and are found at most hatcheries (such as Meyer and Cackle, they both have websites to order from) at a very reasonable price. If you're looking to wake up in the morning and make your breakfast from delicious fresh eggs then look no further than these breeds! MEAT CHICKENS: Some people like to take it a step further and raise their chickens for eatin'! Any chicken is a good meat chicken if they're old enough, but a few breeds stand out as meat birds. The most prevalent meat bird is the Cornish Cross. These chickens are ready to process at 7 weeks old and grow at a significantly faster rate than other breeds. They make an excellent table bird and are super healthy compared to store-bought meat. COMPANIONS: Have you ever wanted to cuddle a chicken? Is your son or daughter young and you want to teach them all about farming? I recommend buying a sweet-tempered chicken like the following breeds. These breeds are usually the most tame and don't get very big. They're also adorable, so that is a huge plus! Silkies, in particular, stand out in my mind. They're beautiful, with large, floofy hair that feels like satin. They're usually sweet as pie and make awesome mothers. Another breed is the Cochin, a very stocky breed. They're extremely docile and also make awesome moms. These birds are usually a little bit more on the expensive side, but they make amazing pets. Bella is a sixteen year old high school student who has always loved animals. Growing up in the beautiful hills of Eastern Kentucky sparked that love for nature and now she owns chickens, goats, and loves every minute of it. Here, she writes a little bit about her backyard farm, life, and the occasional devotional.

Gainor: CNN 'Didn't Need' Chris Cuomo After His Brother's Fall Dan Gainor of the Media Research Center told Breitbart News on Sunday that CNN's firing of blowhard anchor Chris Cuomo was due to the collapsed political future of his brother, lethally incompetent and corrupt former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. "It was long overdue," Gainor said of Chris Cuomo's termination. "They should have done this a long time ago, but CNN not just allowed, they encouraged Chris Cuomo to promote Andrew Cuomo. The whole network got behind this false … propaganda narrative that Andrew Cuomo was somehow competent while he was killing New Yorkers by sending COVID patients into retirement homes… "[CNN was] trying to build up Andrew Cuomo as a fallback in case Joe Biden couldn't make it across the finish line," Gainor continued, "and that's what most American media were doing, but particularly CNN, and they figured, 'Oh, we're going to have the brother of a potential presidential candidate,' and so that's what they did, that meant all the media ignored all the talk about COVID, and how [Andrew Cuomo] was failing, and they built him up like he was actually competent." He added, "[CNN] buried the sexual harassment allegations — all of it — until, of course, they didn't need [Andrew Cuomo] anymore. Then the sexual harassment allegations came out, and then, of course, from that we see now Chris Cuomo crashing and burning, too." Gainor concluded, "What's interesting is Andrew Cuomo didn't lose his job because he killed thousands of New Yorkers. He lost his job for being a scumbag, sex harasser, allegedly, and Chris Cuomo is sort of collateral damage because they don't need him anymore [at CNN]."

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About Argentina & Buenos Aires Located in South America, and thus, in the southern hemisphere, Argentina has an area of almost 3.8 million square kilometers, 2.8 on the continent - approximately 54% are plains (grasslands and savannahs), 23%, plateaus, and the other 23%, mountains - and the remainder in the Antarctic. It is 3,800 Km. long and is located between latitude 22º and 55º. Its border with Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Chile has a perimeter of 9,376 Km, while the territory bordered by the Atlantic Ocean is 4,725 Km long. Argentina is a land of contrasts with several tourist attractions; kilometers of beaches, the Patagonia, Perito Moreno Glaciar, Iguazu falls, the wine, the meat, and other attractions. Buenos Aires - Host city Buenos Aires is a city with 11 million habitants that gathers the best of classical Europe and the most modern advantages of the end of the century. The city's museums, art galleries and theaters bear witness to its reputation as one of the most important cities in the Americas for its cultural and artistic activities. Although it is a modern city with imposing turn-of-the-century European style buildings, it also has some well-preserved districts of typical colonial architecture. Buenos Aires has everything to turn your visit into an unforgettable experience. The well-known warmth of its people, its groovy tangos and the exciting Sunday football afternoons are marvellous. Buenos Aires is also a safe city. Lastly, its cosmopolitan atmosphere, unique in South America, will probably surprise you. Access by air and getting into the city All airlines flying to Argentina arrive mainly at Ezeiza International Airport ("Ministro Pistarini"), which is 37 Km away from the City of Buenos Aires. You can reach the city by Teniente General Ricchieri freeway (Information: Tel. 4480-9538). Please note that when leaving the country, a US$ 18 tax must be paid. Company Manuel Tienda León (Av. Madero and San Martín, Tel. 4315-5115) and Transfer Express (Florida 1045, Tel. 4312-8883) offer a bus service from their offices in Buenos Aires to Ezeiza airport from 5.00 a.m. to 8.30 p.m. These services cost $ 14 and $ 11 (Argentine Pesos) respectively, and the trip takes approximately 40 minutes. There are also taxis and chauffeur-driven rented cars at a price between $ 35 and $ 38. Documents and formalities Valid passport with or without visa depending on your nationality. Inquire at the closest Embassy or Consulate. Visitors coming from countries not bordering Argentina are exempt from all taxes on traveling articles and new articles up to US$ 300 and an additional US$ 300, if purchased at duty free shops within the national territory. No vaccination certificate is required to enter the country. Information about visas in the website www.mrecic.gov.ar/consulares.htm Transportation within the city The Buenos Aires public transportation system allows on easy traveling within the city. All official taxis in the city are black and yellow, and can be called by phone. Currency - Banks - Exchange The official Argentine currency is the Peso. There are bills of 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 pesos, and coins of 1 peso and 5, 10, 25, and 50 cents. Currency exchange is provided by banks and exchange agencies with restrictions. Banks are open Monday to Friday from 10.00 to 16.00 h. Travelers cheques are almost exclusively exchanged at hotels and banks. ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) ATMs are located all around the city. You can withdraw only pesos. They can also be used for cash advances on major credit cards such as MasterCard or VISA. Major credit cards are accepted. Check it prior to your trip. Electrical Current The electrical current in Argentina is 220 volts, 50 Cycles. The country's territory offers a wide variety of climates: subtropical in the North, Sub-Antarctic in the southern Patagonia, and mild and humid in the Pampas. The average temperature in June in Buenos Aires is about 18º C (64.4º F), although the range may be wide. Pay phones work with cards that may be purchased in kiosks, telephone companies' offices, or with legal tender coins. There are also stores with pay phones (open 24 hours a day) where you can pay in cash and you can also use internet. Calling to Argentina from abroad, dial the country code (54) and then the area code of the place you want to call. For domestic calls, dial 0 before the area code. For international calls, dial 00, the country code and city code. Buenos Aires time zone is -3 hours ahead The official language of the country is Spanish, but English is spoken in most hotels, restaurants and shops. Buenos Aires is famous for its chic boutiques. Alvear, Florida and Santa Fe, and shopping centers as Galerías Pacífico and Patio Bullrich that are near the hotel, gives the visitor a wealth of experiences. The best buys in Argentina are leather goods, silver crafts, local semi-precious stones and souvenirs related to the Gaucho and the Pampas. There is an excellent outdoor market in historic San Telmo Square open on weekends. VAT return At the airport you may obtain a VAT reimbursement corresponding to any purchases made within the country for an amount over $70 (per invoice) and in shops operating with the "Global Refund" system. Payment methods Although US Dollars and Euros are generally taken everywhere, foreign currencies can be exchanged in banks and authorized bureaus. American Express, VISA, Diners and Master Card are widely accepted. There may be difficulties in changing traveler's check outside Buenos Aires. Banks and Exchange Bureaus: Mondays to Fridays from 10.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. Business Offices: from 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. and from 2.00 p.m. to 7.00 p.m. Stores: from 9.00 a.m. to 8.00 p.m. Saturdays, from 9.00 a.m. to 1.00 p.m. Cafés, cake shops and pizzerias: open most of the time except between 2.00 and 6.00 a.m. Restaurants: lunch is served as from 12.30 p.m. and dinner as from 8.30 hours. Fast-food menus are served in many restaurants at all times. 10% of the amount of the check is usually left in cafeterias and restaurants. Doormen, porters, and ushers in cinemas and theatres are also generally tipped About Buenos Aires Buenos Aires is a singular, open and integrating destination that allows the visitor not only to view the city but also to live an exceptional urban adventure. Buenos Aires also retains relics of its colonial past and beautiful "Belle Époque" buildings amidst the rhythm of refinement. American amenities and native charm amazes all first time visitors. The never closed sidewalk "cafés", the vivid vegetation, broad avenues, theaters and restaurants give this fascinating town its unique atmosphere. Buenos Aires has always been an open-door city. Its inhabitants are called porteños, which makes reference to the fact that the city is a port. Porteños usually invite tourists for lunch or dinner at their homes and prepare typical food such as the famous Argentinean meat. Buenos Aires was founded twice: The first foundation was in 1536. Don Pedro de Mendoza, a Spanish colonizer, established the first settlement. He named it Ciudad Del Espíritu Santo y Puerto Santa María Del Buen Ayre. The second, and final, foundation was in 1580. Juan de Garay called the site Ciudad de Trinidad, finally was called Buenos Aires. In the 19th Century, the port was the arrival point for the great migratory wave promoted by the Argentine State to receive citizen all over the world. Spanish, Italian, Syrian-Lebanese, Polish, Chinese, Russian and other immigrants provided Buenos Aires with the cultural eclecticism that is so characteristic of the city. During the 20th century, successive immigrations - from the provinces, other Latin American countries and Eastern countries - completed the picture of Buenos Aires as a cosmopolitan city in which people with different cultures and religions live together. In Buenos Aires you can enjoy food from different regions. The city has specific areas where you can choose from a wide range of restaurants. Costanera Norte and Puerto Madero (barbecues) and Avenida de Mayo is the place to taste Spanish food. The most traditional pizzas can be found in Corrientes Street. Plaza Cortázar, Palermo Hollywood, Recoleta and Las Cañitas neighborhoods offer gourmet specialties. The city has a temperate climate with average temperatures of 18º Celsius, making it perfect for sightseeing all year round. July is the coldest month, and although freezing temperatures are not common, it is advisable to wear a woolen coat, a jacket and a scarf. Temperatures in winter are quite moderate during the day, dropping considerably at night. Summertime brings wet heat. There is very hot weather during the day, with temperatures dropping slightly at night so light clothes are recommendable. The rainiest seasons are fall and spring (from March to June and from September to December). As it generally drizzles, only a raincoat and an umbrella are required. Mornings are generally fresh during the sunny autumn days and springtime, with temperatures rising gently towards midday and dropping at night. Sanitary conditions There is no need to get vaccinated before travelling to Buenos Aires as this is a hygienic city with running water. Public hospitals are open to tourists free of charge all day round. Health care professionals are renowned and of an excellent level. The emergency ambulance system (SAME) is also free of charge. There is a transport system with a wide array of alternatives in the city: five subway lines (subtes), more than a hundred bus lines (colectivos) and trains (trenes). Taxis and "remises" are a very common means of transport as they are quite safe and rather more convenient than in other cities. There are also many alternatives to get to Buenos Aires: airlines and ship lines from abroad and bus lines and trains from the interior part of the country. 10 Things to See & Do 1. Become a Boca Juniors fan Buenos Aires loves football, and no fans are more fanatical than those of Boca Juniors. The Bombonera stadium on match day is a cauldron of excitement with the singing and energy on the terraces matching the entertainment on the pitch. If you can't make the game, the next best thing is a stadium tour where you can visit the trophy room, stand on a terrace and discover the thrilling history of this famous club. You might even be tempted to buy a fluffy blue and yellow hat. 2. Take a day trip to the Tigre River Delta Less than an hour from the bustle of downtown Buenos Aires is an almost unspoilt subtropical delta of densely forested islands and shining waterways. This is the place to get away from it all and enjoy outdoor pursuits such as hiking, horse riding and fishing. There is a naval museum to visit and restaurants for lunch, or you might prefer to take a picnic and just lie back and enjoy the beauty of the landscape. 3. Spend some time with the rich and famous Cementerio de la Recoleta is widely acknowledged as one of the most beautiful and interesting cemeteries in the world. Stepping into this necropolis of Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Baroque tombs and mausoleums is like traveling back in time. Located in one of the most exclusive areas of Buenos Aires, it is the permanent resting place for some of Argentina's most famous people including Eva Perón, presidents of Argentina, Nobel Prize winners, the founder of the Argentine Navy and a granddaughter of Napoleon. The cemetery is free to enter and once inside you can wander down tree-lined walkways and soak up the atmosphere of bygone times and people. 4. Experience the sensuality of a tango show You can't visit Buenos Aires without seeing the tango and there are many venues to visit around the city. Esquina Carlos Gardel Tango Show is a revival of tango's sophistication, luxury, and style of the Golden Decade of Buenos Aires. It is located on the site of a restaurant that was once the gathering place for the colorful characters of the popular market of Buenos Aires. You can enjoy the culinary delights of the VIP menu while listening to and watching the sensual artistry of some of Argentina's finest tango dancers. It is the height of decadence and we think you will enjoy every minute of it. 5. A night at the opera? The Teatro Colón is regarded as one of the best theaters in the world and is a must-see place in Buenos Aires. Built in 1908 it is famed for its exceptional acoustics and architectural elegance and is the natural home for classical music, opera and ballet in the capital. If you are able to catch a show you will undoubtedly experience a night to remember. Alternatively there are tours of the theater running throughout the day so that you can savor the atmosphere and learn about the history of this iconic building. 6. Discover Latin American modern art at the MALBA Opened in 2001, the gallery is home to permanent and temporary exhibitions of contemporary Latin American art. Works by Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Tarsila do Amaral share the walls with lesser-known Argentine modern masters. The gallery design showcases the paintings and sculptures wonderfully with an abundance of natural light. It is also a great place to have lunch with a café and terrace restaurant. If you looking for an unusual gift to take home, then you may find just what you're looking for in the high quality gallery gift shop. 7. Dine in style There are so many good restaurants in Buenos Aires, it is difficult to know where to start. If you prefer brunch to lunch, then the Scandinavian Olsen restaurant is regarded by many as best place in town. For high tea you could try the Alvear Palace Hotel which offers a glimpse into the past wealth and grandeur of the city. Café Tortoni is the most famous café in Argentina and perfect place for morning coffee. You might even recognize the interior as it has featured in many movies and it has been patronized by celebrities since 1858. In the evening you could visit the Philippe Starck-designed El Bistro within the Faena Hotel + Universe. The menu is inspired by molecular gastronomy and has been known to feature such delights as 'spherifications' of olives and 'foams' of lettuce. 8. La Boca - Experience the color of Argentina Look for images of Buenos Aires and you'll soon find pictures of the brightly colored houses from Caminito, a pedestrian walk in La Boca. The area was originally a working class enclave for Italian dock workers who received donations of paint for their houses. Each donation was different hence the wide range of colors maintained. Today the neighborhood is a center for art with lots of restaurants and colorful metal houses. The art museum of Bellas Artes features the work of world famous Benito Quinquela Martín who painted stunning scenes of everyday dock life. A must see collection. 9. Learn to dance the tango in San Telmo If you have the time and inclination, San Telmo's tango bars are the place to learn and dance the tango. If you would rather watch, then pop along to the San Telmo flea market on Sunday where couples perform in the open air. You might even be tempted to have an impromptu lesson. The district's old world character is derived from its colonial past with narrow streets, low buildings, restaurants, market stalls and antique shops. The place has a real buzz about it. 10. Visit the boutique shops of local designers in Palermo Viejo If you are into fashion but are looking for something a little different from the major brands, then you'll find the district of Palermo Viejo a real treasure. Once a run-down area of warehouses, factories and tiny stucco houses, it is now home to many of Argentina's chicest designers with lots of independent boutique shops. As you would expect there are also many restaurants for lunch and there is a great deal of pleasure to be had from just wandering around the tree-lined cobblestone streets and taking in the charm of the district. 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← Media Mix, Dec. 6, 2015 January 2016 albums → January 2016 movies Posted on December 29, 2015 by philipbrasor Here are the movie reviews I wrote for the January issue of EL Magazine, which was distributed in Tokyo on Christmas Day. Gaby Dellal's bittersweet comedy assumes so many edgy POVs that it feels drained of meaning, with the resulting vacuum filled by a rush of barbed jokes and conventional domestic drama. The titular adolescent (Elle Fanning) is hoping to transition from a girl to a boy but needs both parents' permission. Her put-upon single mom (Naomi Watts) is hard pressed to locate, much less contact, Ray's father (Tate Donavan), who is cosily ensconced in the suburbs with a new family, so the kid's impatience turns into the usual caustic teenage truculence, exacerbated by her and her mother's material situation. They live with Ray's grandmoter (Susan Sarandon) and the grandmother's female lover (Linda Emond) in a stylish Manhattan town house. This purposely challenging clash of social dynamics becomes almost too much, and while the dialogue is often rich and Watts transcends her thankless role as enabler-in-charge with a portrait of desperation that's much more effective than Fanning's, the viewer never really empathizes with anyone's situation because there's nothing much to identify with. I mean, where do they get their money? (photo: Big Beach LLC) The first ten minutes of Steven Spielberg's new Cold War thriller contain almost no dialogue, but for some reason you don't note it until someone actually opens their mouth to talk. It's the late 50s, at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge, and the seemingly unemployed gentleman under scrutiny, whose name we later learn is Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), does little more than paint, and pictures of himself, for that matter. After he receives a phone call he goes out and runs an errand that has something to do with a hollowed-out nickel and involves lots of walking and catching glances. It's a measure of Spielberg's mastery of cinematic space that you know what Abel is doing even if you can't quite work out the logistics. But obviously, someone else has, because as soon as he returns to his apartment it's raided by half a dozen men in identical suits and hats—the FBI. Silence will essentially be the leitmotif of the rest of the film, even though it is filled with a lot of talk; that's because spies aren't supposed to talk. They're supposed to keep quiet, watch, and report only when called upon to do so. Nevertheless, the U.S. government has to put Abel on trial, even if they get nothing out of him, and hire ace insurance lawyer James Donovan (Tom Hanks) to defend him, mostly out of courtesy to the Constitution. The public would prefer Abel hang, and part of Donovan's remuneration presumably covers the cost of being seen to be a near traitor by a good portion of the American people. Justice is, of course, served, and Abel doesn't hang because he may prove valuable later down the line, though the people don't know that. This legal drama is only half the film, and while it's the better half it isn't the exciting half, because several years later the U-2 spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell) is shot down over the USSR and doesn't have the courtesy to off himself as he was ordered to do under such circumstances. The game now is to get Powers out of Russia before he cracks and says something the U.S. will regret, and they use Abel as a bargaining chip. Donovan, who has come to know and, to a certain extent, respect the Communist spy (a German), acts as liaison, without his family or too many other people knowing about it. The intrigue happens in Berlin, of course, the postwar physical embodiment of an ethical gray area, and as in the opening sequence Spielberg charts the complicated and delicate machinations that Donovan has to carry out, sometimes improvisationally, and which leads to an outcome that can satisfy everyone…or, almost everyone. While realists might gripe the movie is too neat, sometimes neatness is really, really impressive. (photo: Dreamworks II Distribution Co. LLC and Twentieth Century Fox Corp.) Closer to God It's difficult to get a handle on director Billy Senese's views about the applications of genetic manipulation. His low-budget speculative feature doesn't know if it wants to be a cautionary tale or a horror movie, and his protagonist, biologist Victor Reed (Jeremy Childs), is so boring that you struggle to understand his reasoning. Reed has successfully cloned a baby girl, and the news leaks to the media and then the public, which camps out in front of his spooky, strangely baronial home accusing him of playing God and throwing burning doll parts over his fence. Inside, Reed's wife (Shannon Hoppe) feels as if she and her two biological daughters are under siege, but what she doesn't know is that the baby girl is Reed's second attempt, and that his first, a little boy named Ethan, is still alive and locked away in another house on the property. When Ethan escapes and starts knocking off the help, the cautionary stuff comes to the fore, as if to say cloning is arrogant and dangerous, but only if you do it wrong. (photo: Closer To God LLC) Rocky was the heavyweight spoiler of American 1970s cinema, a crowd-pleasing, old-fashioned melodrama that slew the storied competition at the 1976 Oscars, and one of the great things about the seventh installment in the series is how it reminds us what a unique accomplishment the original was. Creed shows how Philadelphia in 2015 hasn't changed that much in forty years, except now it's the black working class that has to fight out of the circumstances that keep it down. The title refers to the paternity of Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan), namely, Apollo Creed, the man Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) fought in that first movie, and who became Rocky's best friend before he died in the ring. Donnie is the product of a sexual liaison and never knew his father. He grows up in foster care and juvenile centers, spoiling for a fight with anyone who looks sideways at him, and then Creed's widow, Mary Anne (Phylicia Rashad), adopts the boy and installs him in her Los Angeles mansion, even gets him a job with a finance company. But the scrapper remains. Donny spends his weekends in Tijuana boxing locals for the hell of it. Attempting something more substantial, the gym where his father trained refuses to work with him because Mary Anne disapproves, understanding what a boxing career does to the body and mind. So he packs up and moves to Philadelphia to confront the legendary Italian Stallion, who still runs that restaurant and lives in a world of ghosts. From here, writer-director Ryan Coogler does as he's told, and overlays Donnie's story with that of Rocky. After Rocky reluctantly agrees to train him, much to the chagrin of old boxing hands who don't trust this restless black man, Donny repeats the grueling regimen that Rocky carried out in the first movie. He also falls in love with his own version of Adrian, but instead of Talia Shire's painful insecurity, Tessa Thompson's singer Bianca has to overcome a hearing defect and unease with Donnie's over-sensitive nature before she can return his love. What makes the movie so affecting is the way Coogler honors the original's purpose by improving on its themes and the way they're delivered. As a young, disaffected black man, Donny is more highstrung than the chickens he chases, and the emotional payoffs are that much more satisfying. Just as Rocky's date with destiny was secured by a weird twist of fate, Donny's is confirmed by his pedigree, which attracts the notice of the world's light heavyweight champion, an English pug named Conlan (Tony Bellew), who needs a payday badly. The boxing scenes are cut and staged with less visceral power than those in Raging Bull, but they're more athletic and dramatic than any others I can remember, and the actors know exactly how to get the audience revved up, but it's Stallone who carries the picture with the most intense, self-effacing performance of his life. He's an old man, and acts like one. (photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.) Regardless of narrative missteps, Guillermo del Toro's movies always start from a rigorous attention to production design, which makes sense for someone whose vision of cinema is indistinguishable from fantasy. This ghost story from an original script by the director and Matthew Robbins is so visually engaging that it's often difficult to see the thematic forest for the art directed trees. After an intriguing setup in late 19th century Buffalo where young Edith (Mia Wasikowska) is plagued by a feverish imagination and wooed by the mysterious British entrepreneur, Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), the action moves to England and a haunted house in horrendous disrepair. The setting is so rich with humorous and terrible detail that the ghost-derived shocks don't always have the intended effect, but in any case the real horror is Sharpe's sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain), who has evil designs on her new sister-in-law. Even when these designs are explained and the blood flows freely, the gothic cast of the diabolical scheming dampens their impact. Del Toro luxuriates in decrepitude, and the effect is numbing. (photo: Universal Studios) Unlike his Joy Division movie, Anton Corbijn's take on the mystique of James Dean derives its power by focusing on a circumscribed period in the artist's development. This is Dean even before he had released a film. Waiting for East of Eden to premiere and fishing for the lead in Rebel, the young actor (Dane Dehaan) attracts the attention of photographer Dennis Stock (Robert Pattinson), who senses greatness and wants to do a magazine feature, though his agent back in New York would rather he just cover red carpet events. Dean's artistic iconoclasm poisons his view of publicity, which he wants nothing to do with, and at first he rejects Stock's entreaties; that is, until a long night of debauchery in New York and a subsequent visit to Dean's hometown in Iowa. Corbijn, perhaps inadvertently, demonstrates how these episodes sealed Dean's image as moody genius and Stock's career as an artist, but as history the movie is lazy. Sideshows like Eartha Kitt, Piers Angeli, and Jack Warner come across as 2-dimensional cliches, and Stock's unhappy domestic situation is a non-starter. (photo: Caitlin Cronenberg/See-Saw Films) Kim Ki-duk has never been averse to criticizing social systems and attitudes, though he usually does it from a skewed angle that exploits his aesthetic reputation as a visual and not just cultural provocateur. One on One starts out as a polemic, and proceeds to reduce its "message" about current Korean politics to white noise. Centered on an outlaw organization that kidnaps corporate men for crimes against humanity, the script is so bogged down in metaphors (the victims are accused of being responsible for the death of a girl name "Min-ju"—Korean for "democracy") that it rarely breaks through as drama, despite the endless scenes of torture and righteous indignation. Kim gets more mileage out of the set design—the dungeon would be the envy of Eli Roth—than he does the ham-fisted dialogue. Even more perplexing is the story development, as the victims shift from feelings of revenge to those of guilt and redemption, none of which are convincing. Though Kim has made bad films before, here he does something worse. One on One is boring. (photo: KIM Ki-duk Film) This CG-heavy adaptation of the Michael Bond books about a Peruvian bear living in London with a middle class family refuses to resort to the devices that modern-day kids' movie utilize to get a rise out of presumably jaded adolescents. The premise is suitably ridiculous and much is made of Paddington's (Ben Whishaw) heritage as the offspring of bears who were "civilized" in the wild by a jaunty British explorer. When his only guardian is forced to enter an assisted living facility for bears, young Paddington stows away on a freighter and makes his way to the UK, where he is adopted by the Browns, whose patriarch (Hugh Bonneville) would rather call the RSPCA while his wife (Sally Hawkins) thinks talking bears are cool and his kids have more important things to think about. The comedic qualities don't resort to snarky references about pop culture, but rather a subplot involving a sexy taxidermist (Nicole Kidman) who wants to stuff Paddington for twisted reasons. Despite some questionable grossout humor, the movie is visually compelling and highly entertaining. (photo: Studio Canal S.A. TFI Films Prod. S.A.S) For reasons that aren't fully clear this engrossing drama about the epic and politically charged 1972 chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky took more than a year to achieve a theatrical release after its favorable festival reception in 2014. Though Cold War thrillers seem all the rage right now (see Bridge of Spies above), Fischer, the hero of his particular skirmish, is not the kind of person the authorities would like to boost as a savior of all that's American. Later, he would become a virulent anti-Semite (despite being himself a Jew) and, more significantly, anti-American, and was sought for years by the FBI for breaking U.S. trade laws. He died before he could get caught. Director Edward Zwick makes a compelling case that Fischer's consuming, caustic paranoia was a product of his peculiar upbringing during a very specific period in American history. Interestingly, he was the son of a Polish emigre (Regina Fischer) who, Zwick implies, may have been a Communist sympathizer. Little Bobby is tasked with keeping an eye out for men in dark coats while mom is shtupping whichever boyfriend she favors at the moment. Without a balancing father figure, Bobby retreats into mind games, the most potent of which is chess, and cultivates a hatred for everything his mother stands for, whether it be free love or socialist theory. As the years go by and Bobby's skills as a chess player catch the attention of the world, he can't help but notice that the greatest chess players are Russians, and whether or not this knowledge pushes him further into the game he formulates a life plan that sees him eventually defeating their best players, but it will be a victory for himself, not his country. Nevertheless, his country sees the PR advantages and soon one of those guys in dark coats, a lawyer named Marshall (Michael Stuhlbarg), prods him into carrying out his life's work. He's joined by Father Bill Lombardy (Peter Sarsgaard), the only American chess master to ever beat Bobby, as coach and calming influence, because once Bobby gets into the fight he's practically Jake Lamotta. The Russians understand this, and successfully block him out of international competitions causing him to quit the game in frustration, and promising to return only when he is given the chance to play the world's number 1, Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber), who Zwick presents as a kind of cultured Superman next to Bobby's skinny, poe-faced bag of neuroses. Though Zwick's metier has always been the prevalence of the underdog, here he does something more during the epic match in Reykjavik: he makes a cerebral competition visceral. Pawn Sacrifice doesn't strive for verisimilitude as much as Bridge of Spies does, but it may be even more exciting. (photo: Tony Rivetti Jr.) Pink and Gray Though it's adapted from a bestselling novel, Isao Yukisada's feature makes the most of cinema's linearity to provide a pleasing jolt when this morality tale about fame and responsibility changes gears midway. Two high school friends (Yuto Nakajima, Masaki Suda) make do with casual modeling gigs and then get into acting, though only one of them makes a success of the latter, becoming a huge star while the other languishes in bit parts and a life of frustration. They share the affections of a woman who can't seem to decide between them, and then one of them commits suicide. Though not entirely unexpected, the death isn't what it seems, at least in terms of narrative, which, up to that point, was facile and hackneyed. As it turns out, those qualities were intended, because Yukisado is playing with the viewers' prejudices about celebrity. But the gimmick is only intriguing for a little while, and soon the film falls back on cliche and trite melodrama, which may be the fault of the cast, who take it all way too seriously. In Japanese. (photo: Pink and Gray Seisaku Iinkai) Two brothers, both sheep farmers, live next to each other on a sprawling treeless plateau in rural Iceland. They haven't spoken to each other in forty years, and while the reason is never satisfactorily explained (something to do with an inheritance), it's easy to comprehend why they've remained estranged for so long. Gummi (Sigurdur Sigurjonsson) is sober and responsible, a man who loves his livestock as if they were his children, while Kiddi (Theodor Juliusson), is a drunk misanthrope whose laziness, it's implied, has led to an infection in his flock that threatens to destroy his brother's, as well, not to mention anyone else's in the vicinity. The most pertinent point in Grimus Hakonarson's surprisingly suspenseful snow-bound pastoral is that it is Gummi who discovers the disease on Kiddi's property. Acting out of conscientiousness rather than spite, he reveals his suspicions to the local veterinary association after an annual ceremony at which Kiddi wins the award for the best ram of the year. Hakonarson plays this local celebration for all the rustic humor it's worth, so Gummi's determination to be the bearer of bad news and destroy his brother's brief moment in the sun is particularly dramatic in contrast, and, of course, Kiddi's enmity against his brother only grows larger, making matters worse between them. For a short while, the internecine feud takes on a cartoonish quality, with shots being fired clumsily through windows and people chasing each other naked through unheated structures. But then Gummi discovers his own flock is infected and he does the proper thing. After that the movie can never recover its oddly flippant tone, though it maintains its humanist theme. Hakonarson has such deep sympathy for this milieu and the people who inhabit it that his juxtaposition of wry humor and crushing remorse never feels like an emotional ploy. It's his attention to the details of a solitary life—the way Gummi passes the time with his jigsaw puzzles and his careful preparation of meals—that provokes empathy. The movie has everything—pathos, violence, tension, and laughs that are at nobody's expense—not to mention some very impressive wide-angle landscapes. And while Gummi is the hero of this tale, Kiddi's transgressions are forgiven in one of the most heartbreaking climaxes you'll see in a movie all year. In Icelandic. (photo: Netop Films, Hark Kvikmyndagerd, Profile Pictures) After her husband dies and she suffers a fall in her Paris apartment, Madeliene's (Annie Cordy) three middle-aged bald sons talk her into moving into a nursing home, which she does reluctantly. Her only support is her beloved grandson, Romain (Mathieu Spinosi), an innocent young man who wants to be a novelist except he doesn't have much in the way of experience. For that matter, neither does his newly retired father (Michel Blanc) or his bored housewife mother (Chantal Lauby). In fact, the theme of Jean-Paul Rouve's adaptation of David Foenkinos's novel is not so much staying vital right up to the end, but rather that the world must be engaged to be enjoyed. Though the movie's humor is quaint and its situations staid, the simplicity of Romain's quest for enlightenment and Madeliene's last attempt to reconnect with a past she thought she'd forgotten is conveyed with subtle assurance, so even when Romain's father sees the light near the end, it doesn't feel as hokey as it might have. It only takes a little shove. In French. (photo: Nolita cinema-TF1 Droits Audiovisuels-UGC Images-Les films du Monsieur-Exodus-Nolita) Syndromes and a Century Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2006 feature has taken a while to rate a theatrical release in Japan, despite the fact that it his most accessible film, if "accessible" can be applied to any of them. Ostensibly a veiled memoir about the director's parents, who were both physicians, the movie is divided in half, with several decades and a marked change in material circumstances differentiating the two parts. The first takes place in a rural Thailand hospital and charts the romantic situation of a young female doctor, though there are so many side trips, both quotidian and surreal, that the viewer requires a loose understanding of "reality" to get the director's point. The second takes place in the nominal present, at a modern Bangkok hospital, with the same dramatic personae though updated to a certain extent. Weerasethakul's tangential approach doesn't feel gratuitous, and whether or not you gain significance from one image to the next, the feeling of nostalgia, of the beat of time marking the evolution of a happy outlook, is never far from the surface. In Thai. (photo: Kick the Machine Films) Music plays a central role in all of Abderrahmane Sissako's films, but in his latest it serves as a measure of how far eastern Africa has changed, though this may be a blinkered Western reading of the film's themes. As an IS-inspired militia takes over the titular area, known in the region as a mostly Muslim and, more significantly, cosmopolitan city, it bans music in all forms, a proscription the residents can hardly follow since music is so integral to their everyday lives. Painfully relevant at the moment, the movie shows how the forces that endeavor to speak for God persecute those who have little choice but to treat these so-called messengers as gods, except they are painfully, almost comically human, unable to stifle desires and lifetimes of conditioning that make them part of the world they try to control. Sissako's most obvious manifestation of this dynamic is a scene showing the jihadists casually discussing European soccer stars, followed by a game on a dusty pitch by local boys who, forbidden from playing, pantomime without a ball and somehow make a real game of it. Though Timbuktu moves randomly and cautiously among different stories it spends a good deal of time with a family of cattle herders who are judged by the invaders, in particular one worldly Arab (Abel Jafri) who has no comprehension of local customs and languages and channels his frustration into clandestine cigarettes and hitting on the wife (Toulou Kiki) of the herdsman. Unsuccessful in his seductions he passive-aggressively berates her for not covering her head sufficiently. Her husband, Kidane (Ibrahim Ahmed), is also not much of a Muslim in the eyes of the interlopers, but his secular failings are illustrated with an action that, at first, destroys our sympathy for his situation, thus making the viewer more resolute in his or her understanding of what constitutes justice. The horrors of authority that carry death in its grasp are given an everyday, almost nondescript relevance, and even the persecuted are forced to do things they wouldn't countenance normally. Still, Sissako never loses sight of his own humanity, which demands he plumb the depths of the depicted oppressors who would stone a couple for the suggestion of adultery, and force a young woman to marry a stranger simply because they say the stranger is "right" in their interpretation of Allah's will, though he is only right in that he has the might. The point is that regardless of our spiritual dedications, we are at the mercy of our feelings, and if we have the upper hand we can act on those feelings. If you concentrate too much on the callousness, if you allow your anger to sway your judgment, you'll miss Sissako's point. Faith is in the eye of the beholder, and no one can claim his is greater than yours. In French, Arabic, Bambara & English. (photo: Les Films du Worso, Dune Vision) One wonders about Robert Zemeckis's reaction when James Marsh's excellent documentary, Man on Wire, was released in 2008. It's likely at the time that Zemeckis was already thinking of making a feature film about the subject of Marsh's movie—Philippe Petit's astounding walk across a high wire suspended between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center in 1974—and the doc covered everything that could possibly interest a general audience about the feat. Moreover, it included ongoing voiceover by Petit himself, thus making it the authorized chronicle of the event. Zemeckis's movie isn't nearly as fascinating as Marsh's, but it does have one thing going for it that the doc didn't: a real-time recreation of the walk itself, and therein lies all the difference in the world. At first, Zemeckis, reverting to the showman mode that created Back to the Future and Forrest Gump, takes a cartoony approach to the material, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the young Petit, sporting a Loony Tunes French accent and standing on the torch of the Statue of Liberty, talking directly to the audience as if this were a documentary, though one built purely for entertainment purposes. Apropos his calling as a man-of-all-circus-trades, Petit's narration is manic and often irritating. He elaborates on his development as a street performer, meeting cute with busker Annie (Charlotte Le Bon) as they compete for public real estate in Paris, dodging gendarme with comic aplomb, and eventually happening upon a magazine article about the proposed Twin Towers in a doctor's waiting room. With the help of his mentor, a Czech circus performer played by Ben Kingsley, he polishes his skills as a high wire performer, all the while plotting his "coup" to sneak into the still-under-construction WTC and set up his performance gear on the sly. That goal, he understands, will require the assistance of others, and he cajoles a math expert (Cesar Domboy), a photographer (Clement Sibony), and, in New York, some shady characters who just want to stick it to the man. Marsh's movie focused on this part of the story, whose comic-caper suspense elements were geared up to thrilling levels thanks to Petit's exacting descriptions. Zemeckis downplays the difficulty of actually getting all that gear through security and up to the roof, implying that Americans were more innocent in 1974 and thus easier to fool. But once the film reaches the roof it changes into something else. Of course, it's all computer graphics and filmic hocus-pocus, but that's always been Zemeckis's forte, and the challenges of Petit's walk obviously inspired the director to, pardon the expression, new heights. And for once, the knowledge of the outcome of a climax doesn't spoil the experience. Just because we know Petit survived his walk doesn't detract from the thrill of watching it. It is at once terrifying and achingly beautiful and when it's over you will feel just as the people did down below. This entry was posted in Movies and tagged Abderrahmane Sissako, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Guillermo Del Toro, James Dean, Kim Ki-duk, Michael B. 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McCaskill spars with GOP rivals over birth control vote, seeks civil Clay/Carnahan contest St. Louis Public Radio | By Jo Mannies Published July 1, 2019 at 1:34 PM CDT This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, March 4, 2012 - As U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill sees it, she was siding with workers – not employers — with her vote last week against U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt's proposal to allow employers to bar insurance coverage for certain medical procedures or services that the employer objects to, on ethical or religious grounds. "I don't think the boss should be able to decide what health care you get,'' McCaskill said in an interview Saturday with the Beacon. She contended that Blunt's proposal "affected everyone and everything." McCaskill said some employers might, for example, object to HIV testing or children's vaccinations. "And what about an employer who's a Christian Scientist,'' she said, "who believes in no medical care?" Her three chief Republican rivals, however, see McCaskill's vote as a blow against religious freedom. Two – U.S. Rep. Todd Akin and former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman – issued critical statements soon after the Senate vote. The Beacon received no statement from St. Louis businessman John Brunner. But at a weekend GOP event in Springfield, a press account reported that Brunner said, "This is a despicable vote by Claire McCaskill." Akin, R-Wildwood, is sponsoring a similar proposal in the U.S. House. "Sen. McCaskill's continued support for Obamacare and her willingness to be an accomplice in this outrageous bureaucratic mandate betrays the public trust," he said. "This is finally a display of the audacity federal bureaucracies will impose on us under the train-wreck of Obamacare." Steelman issued an equally strong statement blasting McCaskill's vote. "Once again, Sen. McCaskill has let down the people of Missouri and supported President Obama over the values of Missouri," Steelman said. "Sen. McCaskill's vote against Sen. Blunt's amendment shows how disconnected she is from Missouri values and from our nation's founding principles. Sen. McCaskill's inability to see the implications that ObamaCare has on our most basic rights is frightening." McCaskill, however, is ready to continue the debate. She said Saturday that Missouri voters deserve to know how Akin, Brunner and Steelman stand on the so-called "personhood" proposal declaring that life begins at fertilization (when an egg is fertilized by sperm) or conception (when a fertilized egg adheres to the wall of a woman's uterus). McCaskill opposes the proposal and noted that it was been rejected by voters in Colorado and Mississippi. McCaskill talks to Carnahan and Clay McCaskill also confirmed Saturday that she is concerned that U.S. Rep. Russ Carnahan, D-St. Louis, has filed against U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis, in the 1st District now represented by Clay. A new congressional redistricting map approved by the General Assembly last spring did away with Carnahan's district because Missouri has lost a congressional district. Carnahan's residence was put in Clay's district. Carnahan is hoping that the Missouri Supreme Court will toss out the map and order a new one. But in the meantime, he's challenging Clay. Clay already has snagged the endorsements of St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay and St. Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley. McCaskill declined to take sides Saturday but added that she talked last week with Clay and Carnahan. "It would be great if we could have a primary that doesn't give everyone a stomach ache," she said. McCaskill has a lot at stake. To win re-election this fall, she will have to have a strong turnout among African-American voters – and the largest bloc in the state resides in the St. Louis area, largely in the 1st District. If Carnahan ousts Clay in the August primary, African-American voters angry over Clay's loss might stay away from the polls in November – thus hurting McCaskill's re-election chances. A low black turnout could happen if President Barack Obama doesn't campaign much in the St. Louis area because many Democrats believe he has little chance of carrying Missouri in November. Even before the Clay/Carnahan matchup emerged last week, Democratic interest in igniting excitement among African-American voters is considered one reason first lady Michelle Obama is making campaign stops Monday in Kansas City and St. Louis. Government, Politics & Issues St. Louis Beacon archivesClaire McCaskillElection 2012Birth ControlLacy ClayRuss Carnahan Jo Mannies Jo Mannies has been covering Missouri politics and government for almost four decades, much of that time as a reporter and columnist at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was the first woman to cover St. Louis City Hall, was the newspaper's second woman sportswriter in its history, and spent four years in the Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau. She joined the St. Louis Beacon in 2009. She has won several local, regional and national awards, and has covered every president since Jimmy Carter. She scared fellow first-graders in the late 1950s when she showed them how close Alaska was to Russia and met Richard M. Nixon when she was in high school. She graduated from Valparaiso University in northwest Indiana, and was the daughter of a high school basketball coach. She is married and has two grown children, both lawyers. She's a history and movie buff, cultivates a massive flower garden, and bakes banana bread regularly for her colleagues. See stories by Jo Mannies

Tripp comes from a long line of accomplished stockdogs, both on the ranch and at the national competition level. He is conformationally correct, with a nice flowing sidegait. Tripp is an upright, wide-running, and moderate-eyed Australian Shepherd who will use "eye" when necessary to control his sheep and ducks. He is a confident, intent worker, who also possesses a lot of power. Tripp can think for himself and work independently hundreds of yards away from me without ever losing control of his stock. He loves working any livestock but Tripp is, most definitely, a hard-core cow dog! His athleticism allows him to gather cattle all day, drive them into the corral, then load them into a trailer without missing a step. He can move cattle through dense brush, over creeks, and along steep hillsides with ease. At the same time, he is calm in the pens and has no trouble pushing cattle through chutes and gates. Tripp can definitely be pushy at times but he will never back down from a mama cow or a bull when needed. His grip is efficient and he hits heads, heals, and front feet instinctively. Tripp will hold cattle, sheep, or other livestock anywhere he is asked, for as long as is needed. No-one is allowed near me while I am feeding, and often you will see the cattle standing thirty feet away from the feeder while Tripp watches them intently. One step over "his" imaginary line and the cattle will immediately be turned around and moved back from where they came. Tripp is a natural ranch dog whose instinct can sometimes be in conflict with what is being asked of him in the trial arena. But, as he is extremely biddable, he will always take the correction and move on, even if he doesn't really want to… He has a great temperament with other dogs and LOVES people… Tripp is extremely intelligent and loves to work. Whether he is moving livestock, or guarding the family and the ranch, he always gives a hundred and fifty percent… At night, after a hard days work, you will find Tripp curled upside-down on the couch beside me or sleeping at my feet. Tripp's sire Spur was the main ranch hand at the W Lazy J ranch in Montana. He was Betty Williams' partner on the ranch and in the trial arena. There are as many great stories about him as there are hairs on a dog, but suffice to say he was one good dog. He could handle just about any kind of cattle in any kind of terrain, and if someone ever needed a hand, suddenly Spur came out of nowhere and helped you get the job done. He was also a great trialing dog, winning many buckles and awards at the local and national level. Rook earned asca's first Stockdog Champion title, and has competed all over the USA as well as Sweden and Germany. Rook's sire Duke was also a very talented dog, who quickly learned to intuit what his handler needed from him in the trial arena. His owner says of him: Duke was my first working Aussie and covered my back every single day… He acquired 25 Silver Belt Buckles and over 160 HIT awards during his 6 years of competition. Cerise is from our very first litter here at Superfly Aussies, the "Redbug" Litter (WTCH CH Cocoa x HOF WTCH Quinn). It was clearly from a very early age that she was going to be a precocious puppy. She was always waiting for me to come play. At 3.5 weeks she would take a Q-tip from me and hold it like a tiny dumbbell, at 4.5 weeks she would fetch a toy and bring it to me. By 8 weeks she had made it clear that she would not be going anywhere else, and so she didn't. Cerise proved her worth this year competing at her first National Specialty, where she beat out 70 dogs to win The Most Versatile Aussie competition, as well as winning the high combined Non-WTCH award in both the National Specialty, and stockdog pretrial, at the young age of 3! Cerise is a very driven dog, and rarely requires external motivation to get to work. She loves to work stock, and balances her speed with bidability. She has a nice circle and sense of group on stock. She progressed a lot this year working cattle, from a started dog at the beginning of the year to my main hand moving 75 head of cow/calf pairs many miles on unfenced roads and trails to new grazing pastures. She has a great wearing style when working cows, and she never stops until the job is done. She doesn't often grip, but doesn't often need to. She can keep large groups of cattle grouped and moving, as well as locate and gather in large fields, brush, and marshland. She often moves cattle as a team with her brother Rubin, and together we have helped the local rancher make his drives quick and easy, preventing cattle from ending up all over the valley. In agility she has great obstacle commitment, and is naturally able to work at a distance from me. Weaves and contacts came easy to her (lucky for me, a novice agility trainer). In obedience she has a natural heads-up heeling style that required little training on my part, and she is very attentive to verbal and physical cues. Treats, toys, and praise/play are all acceptable rewards in her books, as long as we get to do stuff! Cerise's siblings are training and competing in herding, agility, obedience, rally, flyball and dock diving. To learn more about Cerise, visit her page.

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You're probably not going to believe this, but I really have a hard time talking about myself. Oh, I can tell you what I'm doing, or what I like to read, or what my family is up to, but that's actually a different thing. I can talk about my life; but talking about me is a different matter. I mean 'who am I' is a question I struggle with on a regular basis. Even in my fifties I'm constantly learning new things about myself. But let's take a stab at it. I'm a Believer. I'd like to tell you I'm a Christian but frankly, I've never been really comfortable with the designation. The word Christian means 'like the Christ' and I recognize that try as I might, I don't qualify for that label most of the time. But I do believe that Jesus is the Son of God and will keep trying to live up to His example and no doubt I'll write about that struggle from time to time. I'm a cyclist. It's my favourite mode of transportation. It's also my favorite form of exercise, relaxation, time-killer, and sport. I love it not just because it's economical and environmentally friendly; not just because I think it's a big part of the solution to air pollution, global warming, obesity, health care, and crumbling infrastructure; I love it because it's just plain fun! When I ride I feel 15 instead of 50! I'm a storyteller. Mostly I love to tell the stories of the Bible, by heart, just as they appear in scripture. I feel the scriptures were meant to be heard, not read. When they are heard they come alive in a way that reading will never accomplish. That why I join with others to tell these stories as they were meant to be heard. I also enjoy helping others tell their stories. It's the only way we will ever break down the walls that separate us. I'm a geek. Foremost an audio-geek, though I obsess to some degree on all kinds of technology. Computers are cool, but I'm a high end user, not a programmer. I find my talents being used in a variety of places from churches, to concerts, and one of my favorites – community theatre. Most of the time I see myself as a poor man's Montgomery Scott, struggling to jury rig something that will get the job done with less than optimal resources. I'm a writer. Not a pro by any stretch. But I love to write; poetry, drama, humour, and of course I journal. I write because I have to. I write because there's a part of me missing when I don't. I guess that's why I'm here. Now admittedly, there are time when I just don't feel I have anything to say. When that happens, I won't write. But that's not likely to happen very often. I'm a cancer survivor. Well, so far anyway. I was diagnosed with cancer in my right tonsil in November of 2010. After surgery and seven weeks of radiation therapy I was declared cancer free in March of 2011. All in all I have been most fortunate and blessed. I had a great medical team at the Juravinski Cancer Centre looking after me, wonderful help from the Canadian Cancer society, and the incredible community of Kortright Church supporting me every step of the way. Before I was diagnosed I was a the captain of Team Kortright a fundraising team in the yearly Ride To Conquer Cancer in support of the Princess Margaret Hospital's cancer research. Now I continue in this effort only now it is far more personal. Please click here and support this more than worthy cause. Basic Biographical Information. I was born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1954. Still living in the same place, not too terribly far from the neighbourhood in which I grew up. Married the lovely Roberta in 1982 and still wonder why it is she agreed to the ordeal of spending her life with me. We have no children, but one cat named Samantha. I have two brothers, Steven and Alexander, both with wonderful families of their own; all of whom I never see nearly enough. When not at work or out cycling around the area you'll likely find me at my second home – Kortright Presbyterian Church – where I have the privilege of serving as Technical Director. Thank you for subscribing to my blog. My blog has moved to my new web page. Visit the new site of my blog, read my post today, then subscribe to my blog and receive all my posts as they are published. My new site is http://claudemariottini.com. The old site, with the ending .org will not be functional after January 1, 2012.

IRS simplifies CARES Act net operating loss refund claims IRS makes it easier to claim net operating loss refunds The IRS yesterday asked taxpayers to wait for additional guidance on filing refund claims arising out of the CARES Act. For taxpayers with 2018 net operating losses, it was a brief wait. The CARES Act allows all taxpayers with 2018, 2019, and 2020 net operating losses to carry them back five years. Prior to that change, such losses, except for farmers, could only be carried forward. The change naturally made many taxpayers with losses in 2018 eager to file refund claims. Notice 2020-26 allows taxpayers to claim such refunds using the simplified "Application for Tentative Refund" under Forms 1139 (Corporations) or 1045 (other taxpayers). Taxpayers with 2018 losses now can use the simplified forms if they file by June 30, 2020. The IRS also issued Rev. Proc. 2020-24, dealing with some procedural issues. Items covered: How to elect to waive the carryback, which normally must be done when you file the tax return for the carryback year: A taxpayer within the scope of this revenue procedure may elect under § 172(b)(3) to waive the carryback period for an NOL arising in a taxable year beginning in 2018 or 2019. Such an election must be made no later than the due date, including extensions, for filing the taxpayer's Federal income tax return for the first taxable year ending after March 27, 2020. Rev. Proc. 2020-24 also provides procedures for excluding "Section 965 years" from a carryback. Sec. 965 required U.S. shareholders of controlled foreign corporations Finally, Rev. Proc. 2020-24 also allows taxpayers who had NOLs arising in fiscal years straddling January 1, 2018, to carry losses back on Forms 1045 or 1139. Related: The CARES Act Has Been Passed—What You Should Know.

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In this step, you can see Gunze´s Metal primer. I always apply this primer with a brush over the metal surfaces…. Gun barrel, PE parts …. All metal parts are covered with a thick, really thick coat of this product. This protects the metal parts from aggressive painting thinners and avoid the paint to peel off. One of the most desperate moments for the modeller is when he discover than the paint over the kit is granulated. People use to hate this, and therefore, the airbrush. There are several variables that helps the enemy to granulate your kit surfaces, lack of moisture in the air, too much dust in the environment, bad paint, bad airbrush… but even in the worst situation, you have a great ally: a fine sand paper. Use it when necessary over granulated surfaces (be careful with PE parts!), and, very important, the surface must be soft and clean as the skin of a baby!. Of course, if you´re making a big tank with rough surfaces … no matter, but a smooth surface prior painting is start playing with advantage! Now, we have to start preparing our Tiger´s skin. Here starts the challenge. Why this technique?. In my case, because I have no a clear idea about colour theory! Most of times, when I want to lighten or darken a colour (dark yellow, for example), the results are anything but harmonics. So, I´ll make the zenithal or modulation effects with a black-grey-white series with no chance of mistake as I just will use black and white colour. Of course, actually you can find a lot of colour sets that makes you life easier (Ammo Mig, Lifecolor…) and I strongly recommend them. But as I use to customize a lot my base colours and I´m a little bit poor (… :^(…), I´ve invented (¿¿??) this technique to achieve similar effects just with black and white paint (and the base color). Hope you like it!! General preshading. For me is an important step as I help to to start visualizing the final result. I can discover light effects, have a preliminary idea about the weathering and the most attractive parts of the kit (for painting). With this B&W technique not too much of this step will be seen later (just a little bit, enough to keep the future general looking). I used a 90% black 10% mix applied with my airbrush (I need a new one,,,any suggestions?), using Tamiya acrylic paint thinned with Lacquer Thinner. I´ll repeat this hundred times… use your airbrush not like a brush. To pass over a surface do not implies the surface is painted. It´ll be painted may be the 6-7…10 time you pass over it. Using first a 80% white and 20% black, I started to paint the general colour of my B&W base, As usually, the paint is heavily thinned as I also want that the preshading work can be seen under this general base colour. Adding each time more white to the mix, I start to play with the modulation and zenithal lights over the vehicle. The last step is made using pure white paint. Yes, I know, some skills with airbrush are required, but this preliminary base is a great choice to start taking confidence with one of your best weapons!. Always remember, an airbrush is not a brush. Always thinned paint, move quickly but with precision (the same precision you use to make incredible PE detailing work!). Always try on a piece of paper before painting your model. A nice base coat, even without any kind of modulation or highlights, always takes 2 or 3 sessions. In the first session, the paint should be barely visible. Do it always little by little. Due to high temperatures here in Madrid and the dry environment, I´ve problems painting. Even with care, some times the paint arrives dry to the surfaces… but remember, your friend the sandpaper is always there, supporting you! Using pure white acrylic paint from Vallejo, with a brush, I just painted some details here and there (clasp, rivets, edges…). I played with the number of coats of paint (one is never enough, like with airbrush) so, not all the details have the same white intensity. I always look for very rich bases, with several colour shades. The result by now looks strange, even the pictures seems rare (the white background does not help!), but now we have the perfect base for chipping and weathering! Stay tunned! Now, time for chipping. For many modellers, a real nightmare. Actually, it´s a really difficult step, not only making them in the right shape, but also locating them in the correct an reasonable places. And it´s also a tedious work and frustrating at times And many, many many times, a good painted kit is spoiled by a bad chipping work. And there´s no second chance with chippings, unfortunately. And another important factor: How many kits we make in a year? As the average modeller makes 2-3 kits per year, our hands are not always trained to make chipping and scratches. So, when we´re making our chipping work, it was more than 4-5 months the last time we made them. So, we have no habit, no pulse … and the first chips are … awful?. Just when we have been for a pair of hours making chips they start to look nice, just in the moment the work is finished!!. And most times, there are too much chips, or are wrongly situated, or are poorly done. Time to cry. But with this technique, you have two chances, In the first, now, let your hand get warm, do the chips without fear, with confidence, dare to risk with some of them, and, most of all, once you finish this step, stop. Stop. Stop. Look at your kit, investigate it, localize the nice chips, think about the finished tank. And think about keeping the right ones, the places where some are missing, or the places where none is necessary and you´ve already paint several chips. All these are not real problems, as when we paint the base color we can hide or enhance them at our will. I used Vallejo paints for this step, using pure white for some chips and a light grey for the chips located at the darker parts of the Tiger. General washes all over the tank. I used for this task Panel Line Accent Color from Tamiya, a great product that can be mixed with any of Tamiya´s enamel range and can be thinned with Tamiya´s thinner (blue cap). Previously, I added an generous and thick coat of Tamiya´s clear with my airbrush, a completely necessary base for washes and weathering with this tecnique. Also an important step. Here, all the details will become to live, and, something else, a completely no removed wash over a plane surface is a kind of weathering after all!, By now, you ´ll probably locate very attractive parts of your kit, which now is far from looking a toy. In 1/48 scale, this step is especially relevant due to the lack of detail of these kits comparing them with their 1/35 counterparts. Time for weathering. Not a real weathering but a kind of weathering that will help you to create a surface full of contrasts and nice looking for the future base color. Like on chipping task, you have now the perfect choice to risk and dare with the effects in this step. Start thinking about the finished tank and start looking for attractive weathering and colour effects here and there. And do not do it under pressure, just enjoy playing with your brush. Improve your skills… no matter if you fails! For this task I used Vallejo Glossy Black, which suits perfectly to this task. The procedure is simply. Make a spot, a mark, a dirty surface with the paint slightlhy thinned with water. Do not worry, do it in a rude or exquisite way, but do it and experiment your self with the shape of the spots and rain marks or any kind of effect you want. And, again, think about the actual result and the way you want to finish the tank. You have time to change, modify and improve anything you want. And, once again (apologizes if I´m repeating too much), work without pressure during these steps, preparing your hands for the following more demanding steps… do you feel your hand warm and ready? Great!! Did you think that you´d wait days to see the base coat? No no no my friends. We have been making all this work just to spend no more than 10 minutes painting the Panzer Grey base color. I just used Tamiya´s XF-63 with a little bit of pure white and I applied this extremely thinned paint mix (90% thinner) in several coats. I insisted with the mix more or less depending the place but, as can be clearly seen in the pictures, all the underneath effects can be clearly seen and look integrated with the base colour. Just at the end, I airbrushed pure white in a few parts to get the maximum light. Very important to airbrush slowly the base coat, no hurries. Just see how it covers little by little the weathered base to your taste. You can hide the awful dirt spots or the illogical and ugly chips. And most important. From this moment, you have a base color that will be really helpful in the following steps as you have a map, a guide to highlight, chip and weather your kit. From now ahead, you have your second chance. Now time to the first base coat for the accessories. Probably, once the vehicle is close to be finish, I´ll change some of the colours according to the general aspect of the vehicle. But I like to paint this base coat to the tools, accessories, so on as it really help to evaluate the general contrast and finish of the tank. I used different brown colours for the wooden parts and pure black for the metallic parts. In this step, I´ll add some light points to the tank. Using a light mix of black, white and medium blue (acrylics) and using a brush, I start to highlight rivets, edges, hinges … so on. May be the result in this step is a little bit unrealistic, but it´s the perfect base for future weathering works. This parts will suffer different treatment that will darken them to my taste, but always maintaining a subtle colour and light difference with the neighbouring tank parts. Is this colour modulation? May be, I do not know, but really works for me! Chipping, like adding mud, are the most frightening steps for modellers. Many great kits with excellent base coats, filters….are spoiled in this step. Reasons are various. The first one is that may be, the last time we made them, was 4 months ago when we made our last tank. Our hand is cold and it´s not easy to get the pulse and the perfect mix of the paint once we´re beginning our work. Thanks God, in this case, may be a pair of weeks ago, or maybe just some days ago, we´ve already made plenty of them in our B&W base color. So, our hand is ready! And now, under the base coat, we see some of the chips and scratches we have already done, so it´s not so terrifying for as, because our terrible enemy, a flat, clean surfaces, is already dirt, showing some chipping effect that we have just to decide if we increase them or not! And as we have seen the B&W weathered step, we already know which chips are right or wrong, So, as I use to say, we do not work under pressure, we know have a ready hand and a clear idea about where to put our chips and scratches. For this step, I made three different grey colours for the superficial chippings. And with a mix of black and red, the deeper ones. Washes ,,,, they always help to increase the perception of the details of the kit. 1/48 kits are not as accurate as 1/35 counterparts. And if there were the same quantity of aftermarkets available for the quarter scale, they´d be more difficult to place that in the bigger scale. 1/35 PE sets are a nightmare by them self … so, in 1/48, for not very skilled modellers like me, are just a Chimera. So, in my case, I have to hide this with the paint, showing as much as possible the details available in the kit and bring them to life. For this task, as in the previous steps, I used Tamiya Panel Line Accent color mixed with XF 52 Flat Earth, using Tamiya´s thinner (blue cap) to keep the mix fluid and easy to handle. Oils …. Modellers´s best friend without a doubt!. Easy to handle, slow dry, excellent blur … just perfect! Using different oil colours, Naples Yellow, Van Dyke Brown, natural umber, blue, white, red …. And using the well-know technique of "dots" I faded the grey color trying to reduce the contrast of the different shades of the grey and hiding a little bit the chipping aggressive effect of previous steps. After this step, I´m ready for the real heavy weathering with dust and dirt. Why not to try a new product? In this case, I used AK Interactive´s enamel Africa´s dust (AK22) instead Tamiya´s enamel because I felt that the yellowish dust of this product will suit perfectly to the Kitty. If you have not this product, you can also use Tamiya´s enamel paint to do it using buff, white and a little bit of desert yellow. This technique is used by many modellers and the results are really awesome for me. But you must be strong and have faith on your hands, as the intermediate steps of this technique are …. how to say this …. difficult to assimilate if you have not clear the final look of the tank finished. I directly airbrushed the product from the bottle without problems. Now, using AK´s thinner, I started to remove the applied dust to my taste. I just waited 15 minutes and then, using a brush, I cleaned the kit in the desired areas. Even next day I was able to do this because the enamel´s nature of the AK´s product. I must say that I´m happy this the product, easy to apply and easy to remove with a tasty colour for me. What else? Once the base dust colour shapes are OK for me, I applied a nice coat of matt varnish (Marabu) to seal the dust and to avoid any damage from further steps. Once dry, a pair of days, be patience, I add some dirt details here and there using acrylic paints. I always use the same colours for this: black, dark mud and buff. Mixing them I got a nice dirt colour series. I added water … a lot of water to the mix to ensure that the desired effects are subtle … and if I want a more intense effect, I have just to pass with the brush more times, that ´s all! So, using these colours, I made different contrast in the dust for a more attractive look. Important in this step. The dust on a kit makes it looks … how to say … diffuse, smashed potatoes …. undefined …. Excuse me for my lack of English!. The dust makes all the details to disappear. So, we have to help the kit with some washes here and there. For me, a kit without depth in the details is a fool! I made the washes using the darkest mixes of the acrylic paint. Another daring step where faith is necessary! There´re a lot of ways for simulating mud: with plaster, with acrylic resin and pigments, with specific products so on. All methods are good ways to achieve an attractive result with the mud, depending on modellers taste or affinity with the materials involved. My favorite: Tamiya´s texture paint. Why? A big bottle, can mix it with sand, pigments or acrylic paint and, most of all, fix strongly with any kind of surface. Adding some dark brown pigment and paint to the Tamiya´s paint, I achieve approximately a nice color to start adding the mud. Anyway, the color is NOT important. Just the texture IS important. Must be in scale and as heterogeneous as possible. Using a bush, I applied the mix to my taste to the wheels and the lower part of the tank. As can be seen in the pictures, the result is anything but nice!. But keep the faith! This is just the beginning! Once the texture paint is dry (a day or more, do not be impatient), using a colour mix of paints similar to the AK´s dust, I randomly applied a fine coat of dust over the wheels. Be sure that this paint do not hide all the elements or you´ll achieve a dull and unattractive surface. As usually, do it as heterogeneous as possible. Remember that this paint can´t be removed, so be carefully when applying the paint with your airbrush. And, why not, let´s start with the tracks. Use ALWAYS the same colours for dust in all the parts of the vehicle. Of course you can play a little bit with the mix proportions, but do not use different colours to simulate the same effect: dust and dirt. Using oils: Naples's Yellow, Natural Umber and Black, I made 3 mixes of this colours (like I did with acrylics) and using them as a wash, I applied them randomly on the different wheels with different intensities. Just in the tracks (where the two previous steps were also applied), I added punctually some pigments (a mix of three colours from Iraqi Sand and Russian earth ) to achieve some textures here and there. Remember that if you use a lot of pigments, you´ll spoil all the previous work as the surfaces where the pigments are used, if you´re not careful, will get dull, bored and will hide all the previous work! And it´s time to finish the work! It´s very confusing to really finish a tank, because just at the end we start to make little changes in the kit here and there using all the techniques explained before. Punctual washes, final highlighting, some pigments here and there, splashes on the wheel made with AK´s products (damp earth, mud) and an old brush, polish metal bare metal parts with a pencil (graphite), so on. I strongly recommend to work slowly and, as always, have a clear idea about the final look of your kit. It´s the only way to properly use all the techniques explained in this and many other articles. Remember, you must always have a reply once you´re thinking on any technique to two questions: why and what for?

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Djokovic to open v Verdasco; Federer, Murray in same quarter John Pye CP MELBOURNE, Australia — Six-time Australian Open champion Novak Djokovic drew a difficult first-round opponent in Fernando Verdasco, and Roger Federer's fall in the rankings complicated his chances at Melbourne Park after he ended up in same quarter as top-ranked Andy Murray, No. 5 Kei Nishikori and No. 10 Tomas Berdych. The official draw for the season's first major was held Friday and delivered an awkward opponent for second-seeded Djokovic. Verdasco had an upset win over fellow Spaniard Rafael Nadal in the first round here last year, and had five match points before losing to Djokovic in the semifinals at Doha last week. Thornhill, Ont., product Milos Raonic, seeded third, will play No. 70 Dustin Brown of Germany in the first round. Westmount, Que., native Eugenie Bouchard goes up against No. 65 Louisa Chirico of the United States. The 22-year-old Bouchard is No. 49 on the WTA rankings. Six-time women's champion Serena Williams, aiming for an Open-era record 23rd Grand Slam singles title, drew a challenging first-round opponent in Belinda Bencic and also had No. 9 Johanna Konta, No. 17 Caroline Wozniacki and No. 6 Dominika Cibulkova in her quarter. Top-ranked Angelique Kerber, who beat Williams in the final here last year to win her first Grand Slam title and also won the U.S. Open to finish the year at No. 1, will open against Lesia Tsurenko. Federer had surgery on his left knee last February after reaching the Australian Open semifinals and, after ending his record run of 65 consecutive majors by skipping the French Open, spent the second half of 2016 on the sidelines recovering after a semifinal exit at Wimbledon. The 17-time Grand Slam winner slipped to No. 16 in the year-end rankings, and dropped a further spot this week to be seeded 17th after Grigor Dimitrov beat Nishikori in the Brisbane International final last Sunday and moved up to No. 15. Federer was drawn to play qualifiers in the first two rounds, then potentially former Wimbledon finalist Berdych in the third round, 2014 U.S. Open finalist Nishikori in the fourth and five-time Australian Open runnerup Murray in the quarters. Paul Annacone, Federer's former coach, was at the draw in a commentary role and said the 35-year-old Swiss star had enough experience at Melbourne Park — where he has won four titles and reached the semifinals or better in 12 of the last 13 years — to make another charge at the title. "Very strange seeing 17 next to Roger's name," he said. "For Roger, because he's been here so often, knows how to prepare, I don't see it being a huge issue." Nishikori, speaking on the eve of the draw, said having Federer sitting lower in the list of seeds than usual was daunting for his rivals but was a promotional bonanza for the tournament. "It's not the best news for us, for sure. It's a bit tough," he said. "It's not the best if you play, but it's great for the fans." After leaving Australia quickly after a fifth final loss, Murray won nine titles in 2016 — including Wimbledon, the Olympics and the season-ending ATP Finals to replace Djokovic in the year-end No. 1 ranking. He will play Illya Marchenko in the first round and has a potential third round against No. 31 Sam Querrey, who upset Djokovic at the same stage last year at Wimbledon. U.S. Open champion Stan Wawrinka is on the bottom of the same half of the draw. No. 2-ranked Djokovic is in the other half and has No. 4 Dominic Thiem, No. 11 David Goffin and Dimitrov in his quarter. Nadal, the 14-time major winner who is returning from two months off with a left wrist injury, and Raonic are in the top quarter on that side of the draw. Djokovic and Kerber attended the draw as defending champions, carrying their trophies into the revamped entry to Melbourne Park. Djokovic equaled Roy Emerson's record of six Australian titles last year — he has won five of the last six — and Kerber won her first. "Everyone else is here, not to defend, but to chase a title, try to win it," Djokovic said. "And I put myself in that position." Kerber saved a match point in her opener against Misaki Doi of Japan last year, when she was seeded seventh, and knows better than to take the first round lightly when the Australian Open starts Monday. "It was just one point that changed everything," Kerber said. "It was an amazing two weeks, starting with the first round where I was match point down, then playing the best player in the world in Serena in the final. "To be here now, top seed, it's very special."

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Melodie Edwards Melodie Edwards graduated with an MFA from the University of Michigan on Colby Fellowship where she received two Hopwood Awards in fiction and nonfiction. Glimmer Trainpublished "Si-Si-Gwa-D" in 2002 where it was one of the winners of their New Writers fiction contest. She has published stories in S outh Dakota Quarterly, North Dakota Review, Michigan Quarterly, Prairie Schooner, Crazyhorseand others. She is the recipient of the Doubleday Wyoming Arts Council Award for Women. "The Bird Lady" aired on NPR's Selected Shorts and Prairie Schoonernominated the story for a Pushcart Prize. She has a story upcoming in an anthology of animal stories, published by Ashland Creek Press. She is the author of "Hikes Around Fort Collins," now in its third printing. She is circulating Outlawry,a novel about archeology theft in the 1930's with publishing houses. She is currently working on a young adult trilogy about a secret society of crows and ravens. Melodie Edwards lives in Laramie, Wyoming with her husband and twin daughters. She and her husband own Night Heron Books and Coffeehouse. When she's not working or writing, she's love to putz in the garden, play guitar, hike and make pilgrimages to hot springs. Wildlife Biologists Disagree On The Most Effective Way To Control Coyotes The federal government kills thousands of coyotes every year to keep them from preying on livestock and big game. But some wildlife biologists say killing coyotes isn't the best way to control them. Hundreds Of Endangered Toads Released Into Southeast Wyoming More than 900 endangered toads recently hopped onto the arid plains of southeast Wyoming. It's the only place in the world this species — the Wyoming toad — exists. The release is an effort by wildlife officials to bring back one of the most endangered amphibians in North America. Colorado, Wyoming Plan For River Water Share The Colorado River is arguably the most allocated river in the world. Drought and climate change have left less water to go around, and that has every state that relies on the river scrambling. Native Americans Turn To 'Safe Stars' For Help With Sexual Assaults One in three Native American women will be sexually assaulted during her life, and even fewer will actually report the crime, per the Justice Department. Female elders in Wyoming want to change that. Adequate Housing Hard To Find In Boom Towns For Oil, Gas When you think of oil and gas towns, most people visualize transient workers and RV parks. But plenty of oilfield workers move to towns with their families. The challenge is finding a place to stay. Oil Field Work Pays Well But The Conditions Aren't For Everyone Some of the best paying jobs in the American West are in the oil and gas industry. But only 18 percent are held by women, and many of those are office jobs which pay considerably less.

UNICEF Logo Work for UNICEF UNICEF Connect UNICEF Data UNICEF Parenting Voices of Youth Support UNICEF 13 reasons why we need to end violence in schools No child should be afraid to get an education. by Leah Selim UNICEF/UN018669/Zehbrauskas Schools should be a safe space for children to learn and grow. But for half of the world's teens, this isn't the case. Millions of children experience violence, bullying and threats in and around the classroom, which can have lifelong effects on their physical and emotional health. To protect this and future generations of children, we need to come together to demand change to end violence in schools. Here are 13 reasons why: Half of world's teens experience violence in schools. Around 150 million students between the ages of 13 and 15 have reported experiencing peer-to-peer violence in and around school. Nearly 720 million school-age children live in countries where they are not fully protected by law from corporal punishment in schools. These children are unprotected from physical punishment by teachers and other authority figures. Globally, more than 1/3 of students aged 13–15 have experienced bullying. Based on available data, bullying is one of the most common types of violence reported in schools. Children who are already marginalized are especially vulnerable to bullying. Factors that increase a young person's vulnerability to violence include disability, extreme poverty, ethnicity and sexual orientation or gender identity. In 39 countries in Europe and North America, 17 million young adolescents admitted to bullying peers at school. One in three students aged 13–15 is involved in physical fights in schools. Physical attacks by fellow students are most common among boys, while girls are more likely to become victims of psychological or relational forms of bullying. There have been at least 70 fatal school shootings over the past 27 years. Cyberbullying allows perpetrators to remain anonymous, but has tangible repercussions. Victims of cyberbullying are more likely than other students to use alcohol and drugs, skip school, get poor grades and have low self-esteem and health problems. An estimated 158 million children aged 6–17 live in conflict-affected areas where classrooms are often no safer than communities. Children going to school in conflict zones are forced to risk their lives to get an education. Globally, the cost of violence against children adds up to US$7 trillion a year. This cost undermines investments in health, early childhood development and education. Violence perpetuates violence. Children who grow up around violence are more likely to re-enact violence as young adults. Violence has lifelong consequences. Toxic stress associated with repeated exposure to violence in early childhood can interfere with healthy brain development, and can lead to aggressive and anti-social behaviours, substance abuse, risky sexual behaviour and criminal activity. Violence in schools is preventable. Students around the world are stepping up to demand the safety and education they deserve. It's time to follow their lead. Don't let violence be an everyday lesson. Find out how you can demand change to #ENDviolence in schools. UN agencies warn economic impact of COVID-19 and worsening inequalities will fuel malnutrition for billions in Asia and the Pacific — FAO-UNICEF-WFP-WHO Visit the page Routine vaccinations during COVID-19 How to safely get routine vaccinations for your child during the COVID-19 pandemic Children cannot afford another year of school disruption UNICEF, WHO, IFRC and MSF announce the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile Stories and features Partner with UNICEF Internal Audit and Investigations Global Shared Services Centre ЮНИСЕФ на Русском

WESTERN SUBURBS CHAMPIONSHIPS. Moss Christie, the former Olympic representative swimmer, has held the amateur championships of the Western Suburbs for many years past. He will be called upon to defend them at the Abbotsford Wed 11 Jan 1933 - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Page 18 - WESTERN SUBURBS CHAMPIONSHIPS. WESTERN SUBURBS CHAM- PIONSHIPS. Moss Christie, the former Olympic representative swimmer, has held the amateur championships of the Western Suburbs for many years past. He will be called upon to defend them at the Abbotsford carnival on January 21 when both the 100 yards and 440 yards events will be decided Christie will meet stern opposition in the 100 yards as C Phillips who holds the Australian junior record for 100 yards 58 4-5s, will be a competitor, as well as W French (Drummoyne), D Roberts and other first-class men The 100 yards Junior champion- ship of the Western Suburbs and the 50 yards for schoolboys attending schools In that district, will also be decided WESTERN SUBURBS CHAMPIONSHIPS. (1933, January 11). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), p. 18. Retrieved January 20, 2021, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16944396 "WESTERN SUBURBS CHAMPIONSHIPS." The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) 11 January 1933: 18. Web. 20 Jan 2021 <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16944396>. 1933 'WESTERN SUBURBS CHAMPIONSHIPS.', The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 11 January, p. 18. , viewed 20 Jan 2021, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16944396 {{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16944396 |title=WESTERN SUBURBS CHAMPIONSHIPS. |newspaper=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |issue=29,648 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=11 January 1933 |accessdate=20 January 2021 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}} The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Wed 11 Jan 1933, Page 18 - WESTERN SUBURBS CHAMPIONSHIPS.

Science fiction has promised us a whole lot of technology that it's rudely failed to deliver—jetpacks, flying cars, teleportation. The most useful one might be the robot companion, à la Rosie from The Jetsons, a machine that watches over the home. It seemed like 2018 was going to be the year when robots made a big leap in that direction. Two machines in particular surfaced to much fanfare: Kuri, an adorable R2D2 analog that can follow you around and take pictures of your dinner parties, and Jibo, a desktop robot with a screen for a face that works a bit like Alexa, only it can dance. But then, as quickly as the home robots came, they disappeared. In July, the maker of Kuri, Mayfield Robotics, said it was ceasing production of the robot, and a month later it announced it was ceasing its existence as a company altogether. In November, Jibo shuttered as well. In the spring, yet another company that was exploring home robots, TickTock, called it quits. What, then, happened to the Year of the Home Robot? For one, it was a victim of utility—or lack thereof. Kuri and Jibo didn't do much. Kuri was cute, sure, but it really just rolled around and engaged in a few simple interactions. Jibo could tell you the weather and set alarms, but it was stuck on a countertop, essentially making it a $900 personal assistant with nowhere near the smarts of Alexa. Figuring out what people actually want brings us to the second problem of social home robots: expectations. I can pretty much guarantee that what you expect of a robot isn't realistic, through no fault of your own. Science fiction has warped our ideas of how much the machines can actually do. "People are imagining Rosie from The Jetsons, whereas we are really at a primitive point where the only really useful robots that don't disappoint people's expectations are things like the Roomba, which just does one thing and does it really well," says MIT roboticist Kate Darling. This is a matter of some contention in the robotics community. It's hard to blame a manufacturer that's trying to sell a home robot for producing glitzy and perhaps overly optimistic videos showing the machine in action. But even if a company isn't trying to sell a robot, they run the risk of influencing the public's understanding of what robots are capable of at this time. Kuri never pretended to be able to do backflips like Atlas, but the danger is that people are now expecting too much of robots in general. The challenge for robotics companies, then, is to either explicitly say what their robots are capable of, or more subtly telegraph abilities with design cues. Mayfield Robotics, for example, made Kuri speak in beeps and boops instead of human language to suggest to the user that they're not dealing with an advanced intelligence that can carry out a whole conversation. No robot—much less Kuri and Jibo, which don't have arms—can both be your friend and grab you a beer from the fridge. Object manipulation remains a massive problem in robotics. Not only do robots have nowhere near the dexterity of the human hand, they have to be 100 percent accurate if they're expected to do the dishes, because an error rate of just 1 percent means one dropped glass out of 100. That's unacceptable. That someone will likely be not a small startup like Jibo or Mayfield but a massive tech company like Amazon, Apple, or Google. They already have smart personal assistants sitting in our pockets or on our countertops. Their sprawling businesses have netted them massive amounts of data and the AI needed to apply that knowledge to a robot (think using Alexa to order more diapers from Amazon). It all amounts to a formidable lead over smaller companies. Indeed, Amazon is rumored to be developing a home robot. Theoretically, it wouldn't be an eyeless device sitting on a countertop, but a robot that can watch and listen around the house. It won't be able to grab you a beer, but it will be the first step toward that kind of advanced robot. No one ever said realizing the dream of The Jetsons would be easy, after all.

Motor trader fined after car loses ill-fitted wheel at 60mph on A11 a day after sale Car Shop Norwich, which was taken to court by Norfolk Trading Standards over a car it sold with an incorrectly fitted wheel. Picture: Google A national motor trader has been fined thousands of pounds, after a car sold from its Norwich branch lost a wheel on the A11 - just a day after its sale. On Wednesday, November 14, Car Shop on Boundary Lane in Hellesdon sold a pre-owned 2016 Renault Clio to a female customer. The next day, the driver experienced a lucky escape after one of the car's front wheels came tumbling off - as it was driven at 60mph along the A11. While the motorist was left unharmed by the incident, she was shocked and shaken by her near miss - which saw a quick-thinking lorry driver reposition and slow on the road to shield her vehicle from fellow road users. Police investigations into the incident led to the discovery that the vehicle's wheel nuts were not correctly tightened. Officers found that two wheel nuts on one wheel were only tightened to two thirds of the level they should have been. After Norfolk County Council's trading standards was alerted, a full investigation was launched, and on Thursday the national car supermarket appeared before magistrates in Norwich to face prosecution. The incident left the company with a court bill of £8,713.08, with magistrates in Norwich slapping it with a £6,667 fine, also ordering it to pay the £1,308.08 cost of bringing the case to court and a £666 victim charge. After the hearing, Sophie Leney, head of the council's trading standards, said the car could have had "fatal consequences". Following the hearing, James Dunkley, commercial director of Car Shop - which opened in Norwich in July 2012 - said the matter was "brought to a mutually satisfactory conclusion" with the customer - and that the technician responsible had been placed on a final warning. He said: "We would like to reassure all our customers this was an isolated case caused by genuine human error. "We apologised to the affected customer immediately and have worked with them to address their concerns and make things right. "Following a review of this case we have added extra checks on every vehicle at the point of repair and quality control to a level that exceeds industry standards. "We have also partnered with the RAC to conduct daily independent inspections of select vehicles." The firm said the car had been bought through its preparation facility in Leighton Buzzard, which is where the error would have happened.

P. Danielle Cortez Jason B. Sims Dinsmore & Shohl LLP Boilerplate Contract Language Coming to the Forefront: Force Majeure Clauses and COVID-19 The rapid spread of COVID-19 and the swift and sweeping action from government agencies at all levels are having a ripple effect on markets. These events are causing significant disruption in most industries, including the cancellation/postponement of major conferences and events like South by Southwest, March Madness, and Facebook's F8, and Mobile World Congress. One impact is that many companies are struggling to meet their obligations under their contracts. If your company is in this situation, you may find potential relief within a "boilerplate" provision in your contracts: the Force Majeure Clause. What is a Force Majeure Clause A Force Majeure Clause is a contract provision present in most commercial contracts that excuses a party's performance of its obligations under the contract when certain circumstances arise beyond the party's control making performance inadvisable, commercially impracticable, illegal, or impossible. Force Majeure Clauses provide a list of extreme events (generally called force majeure events) that, if they occur, can excuse a party's performance under the contract. Force Majeure Clauses can vary greatly in language and length; however, many include events like epidemics or pandemics, along with war, terrorist attacks, "acts of God," famine, strikes, and fire in the list of events excusing overall performance or delay in performance. When Can a Party Obtain Relief under a Force Majeure Clause If your contract has a Force Majeure Clause, you should review it to determine if it can provide relief if your company is struggling to perform its contractual obligations. To obtain relief under a Force Majeure Clause you must show: Your particular event (in this situation the COVID-19 pandemic or the related governmental action) falls within the list of events the Force Majeure clause includes; and Your particular event is a direct cause of your company's inability to perform its contractual obligations. For a company to obtain relief from its obligations under a contract through a Force Majeure Clause, the force majeure event must be a legal or physical restraint and not just an economic restraint. Even though many Force Majeure Clauses will have "catch-all" language in the list of force majeure events (e.g., "any event that is beyond the reasonable control" of the affected party), courts have generally interpreted the Force Majeure Clauses narrowly so only an event actually listed in the Force Majeure Clause will be deemed a force majeure event.[1] If the Force Majeure Clause includes pandemic (or something similar like disease or epidemic or even, potentially, "acts of God" ) or "governmental action," then it is likely the COVID-19 pandemic and related sweeping action to combat the pandemic is a force majeure event under the Force Majeure Clause. Practical Tips When Considering Invoking a Force Majeure Clause Give timely notice to your counterparty if using COVID-19 as a basis for suspending performance or for non-performance under a Force Majeure Clause. Failure to give timely notice may result in a waiver of any ability to obtain relief for non-performance or delayed performance. Many Force Majeure Clauses have a "carve-out" for payment obligations, meaning the Force Majeure Clause cannot be used to excuse a party's breach of its payment obligations under the contract. If your company only has a payment obligation under a contract (such as a tenant in a lease or a purchaser of goods), it may need to look elsewhere in the contract for relief. Many Force Majeure Clauses allow the non-affected party to terminate the contract if your non-performance extends for a long period of time (usually 30-75 days). Before invoking a Force Majeure Clause, consider the risk it could provide the other party to the contract a right to terminate that contract. Force Majeure Clauses vary in scope, and the language must be carefully scrutinized to determine if your company can rely on it to excuse nonperformance or to delay performance. Seek out legal advice before invoking a Force Majeure Clause. Communicate often and early with the counterparty to your contract and look for business solutions to resolve the issue – such as delays in shipment, reductions in supply (without cutting supply completely off), etc. This is particularly important if you have a weak case for invoking a Force Majeure Clause. It will likely be governmental actions taken to combat COVID-19 and supply chain disruption that will provide the strongest position for your company to claim a force majeure event has occurred (e.g.,, limitations on public gatherings; closures of facilities; lack of certain materials, services, or goods due to shutdowns within the supply chain). Some key contracts may include requirements for Business Contingency Plans (BCP). If you are dealing with a contract requiring a BCP, you should review and consider whether your BCP should be implemented to mitigate the risk from COVID-19. Force majeure is temporary and only applies for the period of time the force majeure event restrains a party's performance under the contract. [1] Some Force Majeure Clauses include language like "and other similar events". Courts, when interpreting those Force Majeure Clauses, have allowed events that are similar to the events listed in the Force Majeure Clause to be considered a force majeure event. © 2020 Dinsmore & Shohl LLP. All rights reserved.National Law Review, Volume X, Number 79 Danielle is a corporate attorney and has experience serving start-ups and small businesses in need of transactional assistance. She has represented entrepreneurs and their businesses by providing legal advice on initial organization and formation, capital structure and equity issuances, tax exemption, and other corporate matters. She earned her J.D. from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law. danielle.cortez@dinsmore.com www.dinsmore.com Taking a practical, business-like approach to meeting clients' needs, Jason has extensive experience working with a wide range of companies, spanning from Fortune 500 multi-nationals to entrepreneurial ventures. He leverages his knowledge of private securities issues and mergers & acquisitions with a thorough knowledge of a wide range of industries to find efficient and cost-effective solutions for clients. Jason handles all aspects of private securities and offerings, including venture capital transactions and private debt securities, utilizing his extensive... jason.sims@dinsmore.com

Public housing was established to provide decent and safe rental housing for eligible families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities. Public housing comes in all sizes and types, from scattered single family houses to apartments for elderly families. There are approximately 1.3 million households living in public housing units, managed by some 3,300 HAs. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) administers Federal aid to local housing agencies (HAs) that manage the housing for residents at rents they can afford. HUD furnishes technical and professional assistance in planning, developing and managing these developments. Security deposit may be lower than open market rates and based upon unit size. Income and housing quality are reviewed annually, or as circumstances change, and rent adjustments are made as appropriate. Units are located at scattered sites in Chico, Oroville, Gridley, and Biggs and are well maintained by HACB in compliance with HUD Standards. Public housing is limited to income qualified families and individuals. An HA determines your eligibility based on: 1) annual gross income; 2) whether you qualify as elderly, a person with a disability, or as a family; and 3) U.S. citizenship or eligible immigration status. If you are eligible, the HA will check your references to make sure you and your family will be good tenants. The Housing Authority will deny admission to any applicant whose habits and practices may be expected to have a detrimental effect on other tenants or on the project's environment. Typical occupants in this program will not only qualify by income, but also by responsible rental history or other evidence of acceptable behavior. HAs use income limits developed by HUD. HUD sets the lower income limits at 80% and very low income limits at 50% of the median income for the county or metropolitan area in which you choose to live. Income limits vary from area to area so you may be eligible at one HA but not at another. The HA serving your community can provide you with the income levels for your area and family size, or you can also find the income limits here on the internet. HOW DO I APPLY? Applicants for this program are placed on a waiting list according to the date and time of completed application. The tenant (head of household) or co-tenants must meet eligibility requirements. Eligible applicants properly verified will be placed on a waiting list. Applicants may select to be placed on specific list. The PHA also may visit you in your home to interview you and your family members to see how you manage the upkeep of you current home. After obtaining this information, the HA will verify the above information and do a criminal background check. WILL I NEED TO PRODUCE ANY DOCUMENTATION? Yes, the HA representative will request whatever documentation is needed (e.g., birth certificates, tax returns) to verify the information given on your application. The PHA will also rely on direct verification from your employer, etc. You will be asked to sign a form to authorize release of pertinent information to the PHA. WHEN WILL I BE NOTIFIED? An HA has to provide written notification. If the HA determines that you are eligible, your name will be put on a waiting list, unless the HA is able to assist you immediately. Once your name is reached on the waiting list, the HA will contact you. If it is determined that you are ineligible, the HA must say why and, if you wish, you can request an informal hearing. WILL I HAVE TO SIGN A LEASE? The Housing Authority of the County of Butte selects participants over the full range of eligibility so that there is a broad range of incomes represented. Since the demand for housing assistance often exceeds the limited resources available to HUD and the local HAs, long waiting periods are common. In fact, an HA may close its waiting list when there are more families on the list than can be assisted in the near future. The Housing Authority of the County of Butte does not have preferences. HOW IS RENT DETERMINED? maximum rent as set by market area. An HA is responsible for the management and operation of its local public housing program. They may also operate other types of housing programs. (1) On-going functions: (a) Assure compliance with leases. The lease must be signed by both parties; (b) Set other charges (e.g., security deposit, excess utility consumption, and damages to unit); (c) Perform periodic reexaminations of the family's income at least once every 12 months; (d) Transfer families from one unit to another, in order to correct over/under crowding, repair or renovate a dwelling, or because of a resident's request to be transferred; (e) Terminate leases when necessary; and (f) maintain the development in a decent, safe, and sanitary condition. (2) Maintenance of units: the Housing Authority provides for all necessary maintenance of its public housing units. For some tasks that are not considered routine wear-and-tear, there may be a charge to the tenant, in accordance with our Schedule of Charges. The current Schedule of Charges can be found in the Reports and Public Documents section of this site. HOW LONG CAN I STAY IN PUBLIC HOUSING? In general, you may stay in public housing as long as you comply with the lease. If, at reexamination your family's income is sufficient to obtain housing on the open market, the HA may determine whether your family should stay in public housing. You will not be required to move unless there is affordable housing available for you on the open market.

Show Media Item - SENFOUR MODERN BAKERIES ASSOCIATION SENFOUR MODERN BAKERIES ASSOCIATION Sending greetings to the President and his Cabinet and the Government as a whole. We are making dua for the success of this administration and may Allah aid the President and give him successful leadership as he guides this country in a direction in which everyone will be pleased. We are a people that always make dua for the Muslim leaders, in wishing them well, especially our Gambian leaders. To the extent where the righteous predecessors used to say, "if there was a dua that Allah was to accept, they would make it for the Muslim leader. For if he is rectified, the society would indeed be rectified." The Senfour Modern Bakeries Association would like to address the general public regarding the recent price increases and bread shortages occurring in areas throughout the region. Please be aware the members of this association have worked diligently over the last few months to address a lingering economic crisis occurring in the business of bread manufacture and distribution. We have met diligently and in good faith with several government offices to address this critical matter. Our sole purpose in engaging these officials was to ensure the matter is resolved in a way that consumers will be minimally impacted. In keeping with that purpose, we look forward to continuing to work with the government as we find permanent solutions for this urgent matter. Although it is convenient to blame increased prices on bakery owners, it is crucial to comprehend the full picture. When bread is sold at D7, the average profit breakdowns are as follows; D4.50 for production, 50 butut bakery profit, D1.25 biker's profit, 75 butut shopkeeper's profit. It is also important to note that capital investments for bakery owners range from 3 million to 6 million Dalasis versus the cost of a motorcycle or bicycle for bikers. Unfortunately profit margins this low are unsustainable for bakery owners who also have to consider equipment replacement and breakdowns and other expenses involved in supporting and growing their business. Our profits have reached this level because we were forced to give in to the aggressive demands of bikers (suppliers) that deliver to the public. In fact, wholesale prices have dropped so low that it has created a major economic crisis within bakeries. Product delivery is a huge expense in this industry which can be better managed. The bikers absorb a large portion of savings that could be passed to consumers. Retailers reduce their ability to offer lower rates to consumers when they insist on using suppliers. As it stands, the bikers control both wholesale and retail rates by using harsh bargaining techniques. We encourage all customers to buy directly from their local bakeries, as it will significantly reduce the burden to both manufacturers and retailers.This will also give retailers more control over their businesses and allow them to retail at favorable rates. Some areas are experiencing bread shortages. The association is aware of this gap and are committed to filling it as promptly as possible.To that end, we are asking consumers and retailers to help us identify these areas by contacting us at 247-2445. We will direct you to your nearest bakery or make arrangements to have bread delivered in areas where bakeries are not assessible. We also ask for your patience during this transition period. Although it will require adjustments, we believe that by resorting back to a culture that is less dependent on a third party for delivery, we can ensure bread remains affordable in our communities. As mentioned at the start of this release, we remain committed to working with the government and the Gambian community to ensure the bakery industry remains healthy and beneficial for all of its stakeholders.

On 27 June 2013, the Swedenborg Society will launch The Grand Theme and Other Essays (Swedenborg Society, 2013), a new book by our esteemed President, Anders Hallengren. THE GRAND THEME AND OTHER ESSAYS collects together material written over a number of years and explores, through a prism of literature, poetic reflection and historical narrative, Hallengren's long standing interest in his fellow countryman, Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). The author will be present at the launch to sign copies of his book, which will be available to buy at a discounted price. Refreshments will also be served and visitors will be free to wander around Swedenborg House, a grade-II-listed building and home to the Swedenborg Society since 1924. Admission is free. Please RSVP to nora@swedenborg.org.uk. ANDERS HALLENGREN is a Swedish author, scholar, foreign affairs journalist, translator and composer. He has held a number of distinguished positions at Stockholm University and at Harvard, lecturing all around the world on diverse aspects of literature, music and history. Anders has published many books in English, including his study on Emerson, The Code of Concord (Almqvist & Wiksell International, 1994), a collection of essays, Gallery of Mirrors (Swedenborg Foundation, 1998) and a revision of Carl Robsahm's Memoirs of Swedenborg (Swedenborg Society, 2011). He is internationally renowned for his Nobel essay 'Nelson Mandela and the Rainbow of Culture'. In collaboration with the artist, Madlen Herrström, a volume of Anders' poems was recently published as Pentagrams | Pentagramme (Éditions Sander, 2012) and, as part of Ophir, Anders received a nomination for the Manifest Music Award in 2012 for the album Opus Operatum (Komplott, 2011). Anders is the current president of the Swedenborg Society. Further information.

We're very excited to announce that we will have our own booth at the Mining Indaba Exhibition and Conference next week. It will be the first time we as a company will be attending the mining-specific event despite it being in existence for over 20 years. The event unites investors, mining companies, governments and other stakeholders from around the world to learn and network, all toward the single goal of advancing mining on the continent. Bibby Maritime are keen to speak with individuals and organisations in need of accommodation for the workers involved in potential mining projects around Africa or indeed elsewhere and we believe that a floating accommodation barge could be an efficient solution to housing mining project workers in the future. "We have had interest in our floating accommodation solution from mining companies from as diverse locations as Canada & Africa to Papua New Guinea over the years. Where a mining operation requires an off-loading port, it lends itself ideally to our floating accommodation solution for your workforce. Attending Mining Indaba will definitely bring us closer to potential clients involved in many areas accross the Mining Industry" explained Carl McLaughlin, Commercial Director. Over 6000 professionals are expected to attend this year from over 100 countries which outlines the popularity the show has gained in recent times. Bibby Maritime will be exhibiting at booth number 619 and will look forward to meeting all visitors!

Most are trained informally on the job. Employment growth will be slowed by the increasing use of new, more efficient computerized printing presses that will facilitate movement towards printing-on-demand. Opportunities should be best for persons who qualify for formal apprenticeship training or who complete postsecondary training programs in printing. Printing machine operators prepare, operate, and maintain the printing presses in a pressroom. Duties of printing machine operators vary according to the type of press they operate—offset lithography, gravure, flexography, screen printing, letterpress, and digital. Offset lithography, which transfers an inked impression from a rubber-covered cylinder to paper or other material, is the dominant printing process. With gravure, the recesses on an etched plate or cylinder are inked and pressed to paper. Flexography is a form of rotary printing in which ink is applied to a surface by a flexible rubber printing plate with a raised image area. Use of gravure and flexography should increase over the next decade, but letterpress, in which an inked, raised surface is pressed against paper, remains in existence only as specialty printing. In addition to the major printing processes, plateless or nonimpact processes are coming into general use. Plateless processes—including digital, electrostatic, and ink-jet printing—are used for copying, duplicating, and document and specialty printing, usually by quick and in-house printing shops, and increasingly by commercial printers for short-run jobs and variable data printing. To prepare presses for printing, machine operators install and adjust the printing plate, adjust pressure, ink the presses, load paper, and adjust the press to the paper size. Press operators ensure that paper and ink meet specifications, and adjust margins and the flow of ink to the inking rollers accordingly. They then feed paper through the press cylinders and adjust feed and tension controls. While printing presses are running, press operators monitor their operation and keep the paper feeders well stocked. They make adjustments to correct uneven ink distribution, speed, and temperatures in the drying chamber, if the press has one. If paper jams or tears and the press stops, which can happen with some offset presses, operators quickly correct the problem to minimize downtime. Similarly, operators working with other high-speed presses constantly look for problems, making quick corrections to avoid expensive losses of paper and ink. Throughout the run, operators may occasionally pull sheets to check for any printing imperfections, though much of this checking for quality is now being done by computers. Machine operators' jobs differ from one shop to another because of differences in the kinds and sizes of presses. Small commercial shops are operated by one person and tend to have relatively small presses, which print only one or two colors at a time. Operators who work with large presses have assistants and helpers. Large newspaper, magazine, and book printers use giant "in-line web" presses that require a crew of several press operators and press assistants. These presses are fed paper in big rolls, called "webs," up to 50 inches or more in width. Presses print the paper on both sides; trim, assemble, score, and fold the pages; and count the finished sections as they come off the press. Printing machine operators held about 199,000 jobs in 2002. Nearly one-half of operator jobs were in the printing industry, but newspaper publishers and paper product manufacturers also were large employers, having each about 10 percent of all printing machine operator jobs. Additional jobs were in the "in-plant" section of organizations and businesses that do their own printing—such as banks, insurance companies, government agencies, and universities. The printing and newspaper publishing industries are two of the most geographically dispersed in the United States, and press operators can find jobs throughout the country. However, jobs are concentrated in large printing centers such as Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC. Although completion of a formal apprenticeship or a postsecondary program in printing equipment operation continues to be the best way to learn the trade, most printing machine operators are trained informally on the job while they work as assistants or helpers to experienced operators. Beginning press operators load, unload, and clean presses. With time, they move up to operating one-color sheet-fed presses and eventually advance to multicolor presses. Operators are likely to gain experience on many kinds of printing presses during the course of their career. Apprenticeships for press operators in commercial shops take 4 years. In addition to on-the-job instruction, apprenticeships include related classroom or correspondence school courses. Once the dominant method for preparing for this occupation, apprenticeships are becoming less prevalent. In contrast, formal postsecondary programs in printing equipment operation offered by technical and trade schools and community colleges are growing in importance. Some postsecondary school programs require 2 years of study and award an associate degree, but most programs can be completed in 1 year or less. Postsecondary courses in printing are increasingly important because they provide the theoretical knowledge needed to operate advanced equipment. Printing machine operators may advance in pay and responsibility by working on a more complex printing press. Through experience and demonstrated ability, for example, a one-color sheet-fed press operator may become a four-color sheet-fed press operator. Others may advance to pressroom supervisor and become responsible for an entire press crew. Their understanding of the prepress requirements needed to run a press smoothly allows some operators with several years of experience to transfer to jobs as prepress technicians. Employment of printing machine operators is expected to grow more slowly than the average through 2012. Despite the slow growth, looming retirements of printing machine operators and the need for workers trained on increasingly computerized printing equipment will create many job openings over the next decade. Opportunities to become printing machine operators are likely to be favorable for persons who qualify for formal apprenticeship training or who complete postsecondary training programs in printing. The demand for, and the output of, printed materials is expected to grow over the 2002-12 period. Demand for books and magazines will increase as school enrollments rise, and as substantial growth in the middle-aged and older population spurs adult education and leisure reading. Additional growth should stem from increased foreign demand for domestic trade publications, professional and scientific works, and mass-market books such as paperbacks. Demand for commercial printing also will be driven by increased expenditures for print advertising materials. New market research techniques are leading advertisers to increase spending on messages targeted to specific audiences, and should continue to require the printing of a wide variety of newspaper inserts, catalogs, direct mail enclosures, and other kinds of print advertising. Other printing, such as newspapers, books, and greeting cards, also will continue to provide jobs. Employment, however, will not grow in line with output because of the increased use of new computerized printing equipment. Also, new business practices within the publishing industry, such as printing-on-demand and electronic publishing, will cut into the production of printed materials. Printing-on-demand refers to the printing of materials as they are requested by customers, in contrast to printing thousands of publications prior to purchase, many of which are subsequently discarded. There are also expected to be fewer newspaper printing jobs as a result of mergers and consolidation within the industry. The basic wage rate for a printing machine operator depends on the type of press being run and the geographic area in which the work is located. Workers covered by union contracts usually have higher earnings. Other workers who set up and operate production machinery include machine setters, operators, and tenders—metal and plastic; bookbinders and bindery workers; and various precision machine operators. Details about apprenticeships and other training opportunities may be obtained from local employers, such as newspapers and printing shops, local offices of the Graphic Communications International Union, local affiliates of Printing Industries of America, or local offices of the State employment service.

Meridian Line Films win International Documentary Award for Second Year Running We are thrilled to have won the 'Excellence in International Broadcasting' award from China's National Radio and Television Administration for the second year in a row, this time for our production How China Made It. Meridian Line Films managed to claim the award in 2018 for our Discovery Asia series Smart China: Start-Up Revolution. Congratulations to our amazing team, both in the UK and China who worked on the production and to Series Producer Nacressa Swan and Series Director Rob Cowling. Broadcast on Youku and Discovery Asia in December 2018 and January 2019, How China Made It has since been viewed millions of times internationally. The series tells the story of the immense upheaval and growth experienced by China over the past 40 years since Deng Xiaoping initiated a period of 'reform and opening up'. The series explores how this jaw-dropping change was experienced by the people who lived through it, when personal incomes rose by 9000% and life expectancy shot up by 17 years. How China Made It was also nominated for the RTS Yorkshire Awards in 2019 in the category for Professional Excellence in a Factual Production. 'China: Time of Xi' Press Coverage Meridian Line Films selected to meet Chinese TV delegation on visit to Britain admin@meridianlinefilms.co.uk Copyright © 2020 Meridian Line Films. All Rights Reserved Website by Hey Dan Creative

Ooh. One of Zayn Malik's exes has revealed exactly what it's like to date him. No, not Perrie Edwards. Stephanie Davis! The 23-year-old actress has been chatting about the former One Direction singer while on Celebrity Big Brother. This is despite her saying before she entered the house that she wasn't 'about to spill the beans' on him. Erm. Stephanie and Zayn are believed to have had a brief tryst before he hooked up with ex-fiancée Perrie, when 1D had only just graduated from The X Factor. Describing how he called her while she was, er, picking up chips and gravy in the Hollyoaks canteen, Stephanie told her housemates: 'I wasn't bothered, it was no big deal. Despite this apparent lack of interest, Steph did decide to meet Zayn, claiming: 'I went to Leeds to meet him and I went to his hotel and we were just messing around. 'But I thought I'm not that type of girl to sleep with you straight away, so I just ended up kissing him. When I left, he was like, grrrr. He just wanted us.' Crikey. Both Zayn and Stephanie have well and truly moved on since those days. Zayn, 23, is dating American model Gigi Hadid, while Stephanie is caught up in a pretty awkward love triangle between boyfriend Sam Reece and CBB's Jeremy McConnell. Stephanie insists it was her who dumped Zayn, having found it difficult to deal with his fame as 1D's popularity grew. She continued: 'Things got really bad. Really bad. If we wanted to go the Asda and get some food we'd have to wait 'til 4am and even if we went there would be girls there. 'I ended it with him because at the time I was oblivious to that world. Blimey. Let's hope Gigi is prepared.

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Inuyama Castle, National Treasure Location and castle structure Opening hours and entrance fees Photographs and videos of the many faces of Inuyama Castle Locations of Japanese castles were strictly chosen for optimal defense. Architects also used geology at their disposal and reinforced them while designing castle structures and architectures they worked for. How did they proceed? Castle structure Inuyama Castle was constructed at the northernmost point of the Owari Province (western Aichi). This point is at the base of the alluvial fan shaped by the Kiso River. It is also the connecting point for the mountainlands upstream and plains downstream of Kiso River, and was seen as an important relay point for Kiso River wood-transportation. At the same time, Kiso River was at the border with the Mino Province (Gifu Prefecture), and Gifu Castle was built to the west-northwest and Nagoya Castle was built to the south. Therefore, Inuyama Castle was grounds for many battles due to its strategic importance. The castle is built on top of a hill (Shiroyama) at a precipice approximately 85 meters high, at the south of the Kiso River. Exterior ramparts (Sogamae) Inuyama Castle and its castle town were protected by structures called sogamae—moats and earthwork embankments that surround the area. The road was curved at the entrance ① to make intrusions difficult and easy to defend against. The street currently used to get to the castle from Inuyama Station ② cuts across the outer moat (Sotobori) ③ around the intersection right outside the station. The outer moat prevented enemies from coming in. The street then becomes a gradual slope, and leads to the main street of the castle town (Honmacho-dori) ④. The Honmachi-dori is situated at the highest level compared to the other streets in the area, is constructed on solid ground, and was part of the main road that connected Inuyama Castle and Nagoya Castle. The citadel (Nawabari) The surroundings of the castle were fortified by multiple flat areas, Kuruwa (walls), Maru (enclosures), Hori (moats), Dorui or Dote (earthen walls), Kirigishi (cliffs) made by shaving off the side of the Shiroyama, structures such as stone walls (Fushin), gates and fences, Yagura (watch towers), and donjons. This configuration is called Nawabari. Inuyama Castle, with its back (north side) protected by a cliff and Kiso River, is built longwise from north to south. To its east were Kirigishi and Mizubori, and to its west were Kirigishi, karabori, and dorui. The Honmaru ① is at the top of the hill, and Kuruwa named Sugi-no-maru ②, Momi-no-maru ③, Kiri-no-maru ④, and Matsu-no-maru ⑤ are situated to its south in consecutive tiers. The Otemichi runs through the middle of the castle territory from the base of the mountain to the Honmaru, and is made to connect to each Kuruwa from the Otemichi. The Otemichi has five gates ⑥, and are situated in a way which makes going straight impossible. The exterior of each gate was surrounded by stone walls and dorui. This series of gates (Koguchi) is called Sotomasu-gata, and is said to provide strong protection. Inuyama Kitakoken 65-2, Inuyama City, Aichi Prefecture 9:00-17:00(last admission: 16:30) © National Treasure Inuyama Castle. All Rights Reserved.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia likes to say it's "almost heaven." Less idyllic is the spot its Republican senator, Shelley Moore Capito, is in as she decides whether to back her party's effort to bulldoze Democrat Barack Obama's health care law. Capito's home state has shifted strongly toward the GOP in recent years, giving Donald Trump a runaway 42-point victory over Hillary Clinton in the November presidential election. That leaves little doubt about its fondness for him and the head start Capito should have when she runs for re-election in 2020. But it's also one of the poorest and sickest states in the U.S., relying heavily on Obama's 2010 statute, which Trump and top Senate Republicans want to repeal and replace. West Virginia is saddled with one of the country's lowest median incomes and has some of the worst rates of unemployment, drug overdose deaths, life expectancy, smoking, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and disabilities. Around 3 in 10 of the 1.8 million West Virginians are on Medicaid, making it the most dependent state on the health insurance program for the poor, disabled and nursing home residents that the GOP bill would cut. Her stance has attracted the attention of liberal, labour, patient and provider groups, who are using social media, advertising and demonstrations to pressure Capito. A recent sit-in at her Charleston office led to six arrests. Fellow Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who easily carried West Virginia's Democratic presidential primary last year, is headlining a health care rally in the state on Sunday. The Progressive Change Campaign Committee ran a TV ad featuring the mother of a grown daughter with cerebral palsy saying she "wants to cry" when she hears Capito may support Medicaid cuts, and liberal MoveOn.org, the state AFL-CIO and others are using #savemecapito on Twitter to whip up opposition to the GOP bill. And while aides say she's held numerous meetings with constituents, advocacy groups and local officials, like many Senate Republicans, she avoided this week's July 4 parades — normally a staple of politicking– and skipped town halls this year. "So far, she's been a person of ethics and morals to try to do the right thing for West Virginians," said Debrin Jenkins, executive director of the West Virginia Rural Health Association, which advocates for health care in the state's many small communities. Jenkins said the GOP bill would "gut" affordable health coverage in West Virginia. An amiable and popular moderate in Congress since 2001, Capito is a devoted coal industry defender and daughter of former three-time Gov. Arch Moore. With her most serious re-election threat perhaps posed by a conservative in the GOP primary, many consider her a team player unlikely to help derail a paramount Republican goal like toppling Obama's law. "I think she's going to vote for it eventually. I think there's going to be a few things in there that would allow her to say she's protecting West Virginia," said Simon Haeder, a political science professor at West Virginia University. Yet Capito, 63, was one reason the Senate left town last week for the July 4 recess without voting on GOP legislation scrapping the law. She was among at least a dozen Republican senators who publicly opposed or expressed qualms about it, forcing Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to avert defeat by abruptly postponing the vote. Unyielding Democratic opposition means the bill loses if just three of the 52 GOP senators vote no, and McConnell is spending the break proposing changes and gauging support. Capito said she was against the GOP bill, though she announced that after McConnell withdrew the initial measure. She said it cut Medicaid too deeply, would hurt rural providers and shortchanged efforts to combat the abuse of drugs like opioids, a deadly scourge back home. She says McConnell's plans to add $45 billion over a decade for states' drug abuse programs is a plus, and she wants the bill's federal health care subsidies geared toward helping the state's rural, poor and often older residents. And she wants some way to protect the state's Medicaid expansion, which has added 175,000 beneficiaries to the program. More than a fourth have substance abuse problems, and state officials say they got $112 million in federal money last year to provide services for them. "I'm not interested" in having them "dropped out of the system," she said. Under Obama's law, the state's percentage of uninsured people has dropped to 6 per cent, half the 2013 figure before the statute took full effect. Thanks to Medicaid expansion, West Virginia's program has around 525,000 beneficiaries overall and gets $2.8 billion in federal Medicaid assistance each year. The Senate GOP bill would phase out the extra money West Virginia and other states get for the Medicaid expansion. It also would turn the program, which currently pays states for all eligible services, into one with a dollar cap that increases only with inflation. That would be tough, according to a report by the Urban Institute and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, two nonpartisan groups. They estimated that by 2022, the measure would boost West Virginia's uninsured rate to 20 per cent and halve its Medicaid enrolment. "It will result in pockets of people with poverty and lack of access who won't be able to afford insurance but still have health problems," said Dr. Rahul Gupta, the state's public health commissioner and Democratic appointee. "I hope she's able to, and I think she will, she'll make a good decision here," said her West Virginia colleague, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin.

The Serial Killer Isn't on Trial. He's on the Jury. Eddie Flynn (Volume 3) Steve Cavanagh Thirteen is the legal thriller Lee Child, Michael Connelly, and Ruth Ware are raving about and readers can't put down. "Outstanding - an intriguing premise, a tense, gripping build-up, and a spectacular climax. This guy is the real deal. Trust me." —Lee Child "A dead bang BEAST of a book that expertly combines Cavanagh's authority on the law with an absolutely great thrill ride. Books this ingenious don't come along very often." —Michael Connelly It's the murder trial of the century. And Joshua Kane has killed to get the best seat in the house – and to be sure the wrong man goes down for the crime. Because this time, the killer isn't on trial. He's on the jury. But there's someone on his tail. Former-conman-turned-criminal-defense-attorney Eddie Flynn doesn't believe that his movie-star client killed two people. He suspects that the real killer is closer than they think – but who would guess just how close? "A brilliant, twisty, ingeniously constructed puzzle of a book. Steve Cavanagh pulls off an enviable premise with panache." —Ruth Ware Hudson Booksellers Best of the Year NO REPORTERS SAT in the courtroom benches behind me. No onlookers in the public gallery. No concerned family members. Just me, my client, the prosecutor, the judge, a stenographer, and a clerk. Oh, and a court... Praise for Thirteen Winner of the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award A Publishers Weekly Best Summer Reads of 2019 Minneapolis Star-Tribune's Best Books of the Summer "Wickedly clever courtroom drama." "A superb action-packed story that melds the legal thriller with the serial killer subgenre…Sharp dialogue, court scenes that crackle, well-devised red herrings and deeply sculpted characters make Thirteen an outstanding thriller." "A terrific hook, a thoroughly likable protagonist and more twists than a tornado… A genuine, read-in-one-sitting page-turner." —The Guardian "Outstanding - an intriguing premise, a tense, gripping build-up, and a spectacular climax. This guy is the real deal. Trust me." —Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Courtroom drama at its finest…Thirteen is an outstanding legal thriller, so original, clever and accomplished that it should not be missed. It marks out Cavanagh as the heir apparent to John Grisham." —Express (UK) "A dead bang BEAST of a book that expertly combines his authority on the law with an absolutely great thrill ride. Books this ingenious don't come along very often." —Michael Connelly, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Dazzling…One of the most accomplished legal dramas I have read this year, it reminds me of Scott Turow's stunning Presumed Innocent." —Daily Mail "A knockout legal thriller with a doozy of a twist." "Pulse-pounding...… More… "Pulse-pounding...This tightly plotted page-turner delivers as both a legal thriller and serial killer investigation." "A brilliant, twisty, ingeniously constructed puzzle of a book. Steve Cavanagh pulls off an enviable premise with panache." —Ruth Ware, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Any reader's sheer delight.... Thirteen is a thrilling blitz of a novel, for new readers or old fans. Even as the driving question is less who and more how, there is no shortage of plot twists." —Shelf Awareness "A blisteringly exciting ingenious thriller with an utterly chilling killer." —The People (UK) "An oh so clever hook for an oh so clever, gripping book. Thirteen is courtroom drama at its finest, blended with page-turning twists and characters you can't get enough of. Steve Cavanagh is the John Grisham for a new generation. Slick, thrilling and unique, Thirteen is my favorite read of the year." —Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author "Steve Cavanagh delivers Grisham-on-steroids courtroom drama." —Irish Independent "Smart and original. This is a belter of a book." —Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author "A great hook and the book lives up to it!" —Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author Steve Cavanagh is the international award-winning author of the Eddie Flynn novels. His debut novel, The Defense, was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for Thriller of the Year, and The Plea won the Prix Polar Award for Best International Novel. Steve is still a practicing lawyer (someday he'll get the hang of it) and co-host of the chart-topping podcast Two Crime Writers And A Microphone. He has been involved in several high-profile civil rights cases, his Eddie Flynn novels have been published in over twenty countries, he's married with two young children, and in his spare time he is mostly asleep. Donna-Lisa Healy

In celebration of Vietnamese Women's Day, VX Art Gallery is glad to introduce some invaluable paintings of women by renowned artist Luong Xuan Nhi. Women's images in Luong Xuan Nhi's painting are diverse. The characters include poor girls and old people who earn their living on the streets. Hanoi's women are often appeared in his paintings. He has hundreds of paintings on Hanoi's women. (from Nhan Dan Newspaper ). Congratulations on all Vietnamese women for their perseverance, bravery and beauty!

COTSWOLDS DISTILLERY DINNER AT THE CHURCHILL ARMS Two awesome Cotswolds businesses are coming together for a night of amazing food and drink. The Churchill Arms in Paxford will host a 3-course dinner on Wednesday 4th April with a menu devised by top chef and Churchill Arms proprietor Nick Deverell-Smith featuring spirits and liquors from the Cotswolds Distillery. This is going to be very good and spaces are limited so don't hesitate to call The Churchill Arms 01386 593 159 to book! BASTILLE TO HEADLINE WILDERNESS FESTIVAL The line-up for Wilderness 2018 has been announced this morning with Bastille, Nile Rodgers & Chic and Kamasi Washington all on the bill. There will also be a DJ set by Groove Armada and top chef Yotam Ottolenghi will be hosting a long table banquet. The Festival takes place from Thursday 2nd - Sunday 5th August. www.wildernessfestival.com CHELTENHAM JAZZ FESTIVAL LINE-UP ANNOUNCED The line-up for this year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival has been announced and it includes some star names from all corners of the globe. The festival runs between 2nd - 7th May 2018 and will see Van Morrison, Imelda May, Kamasi Washington, Courtney Pine and Omar, Corinne Bailey Rae, Rick Astley + many more acts embark on Montpellier Gardens over the Bank Holiday weekend. Tickets for Cheltenham Jazz Festival go on sale to Members on Wednesday 28 February, from 1pm; Public booking opens on Wednesday 7 March, from 1pm. www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/jazz NOEL GALLAGHER'S HIGH FLYING BIRDS TO PLAY AT BLENHEIM PALACE Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds will play at Blenheim Palace on Friday 15th June in a series of concerts over 4 nights. Tickets will go on general sale on Friday 16th February. The Nocturne Live Concerts in the Great Court series also include Nile Rodgers & CHIC, plus special guests Soul II Soul, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, plus special guests The Waterboys and Nick Lowe and Gary Barlow (Sold Out). Visit www.blenheimpalace.com/whats-on/events/nocturne-live.html for more information. We all know the real way to someone's heart is through their stomach and award-winning Cheltenham fish and chip shop Simpsons, has created the perfect Valentine's Day bouquet. The world's first fish and chip bouquet consists of a dozen potato roses leaf-shaped fish goujons all wrapped in traditional newspaper. This is available for one day only on February 14th (Valentine's Day) and is a snip at £15. simpsonsfishandchips.com GROW YOUR OWN WILDERNESS Wilderness Festival is one of the most anticipated weekends of the summer and the 2018 programme is being announced on Tuesday 20th February. While you wait, head over to their website and create your own Wilderness for a chance to win 4 tickets. It's harder than it looks! The festival held at Cornbury Park will take place from Thursday 2nd to Sunday 5th August. THIS COUNTRY SERIES TWO DATE CONFIRMED Fans of This Country ​enjoyed a preview of the new series in Cirencester tonight which is returning to our screens this February. A packed out Bingham Hall were treated to two episodes before a Q&A with the cast at a private viewing. This Country will be aired on Wednesday 26th February and we can't wait! IMAGE COURTESY OF STRAIGHT PR Here is what people have been saying about it. @bbccomedy @bbcthree I have just cried my makeup off with laughter tears at tonight's screening of #ThisCountry series 2! Hilarious! — Yvette Ellis (@vettybambam) February 5, 2018 Wow what an evening my sides still hurt! Still as funny as ever #ThisCountry #BBCThree bbcthree… https://t.co/folRPtmJqg — Gareth Edwards (@GarethEdwards86) February 5, 2018 @bbcthree's #thiscountry screening left me aching. Outrageously funny, superbly clever, detailed and authentic. Series out in a couple weeks! Congrats @charliecooper11 and gang .... pic.twitter.com/TLcMzoYHQU — Ben Atkinson (@BenAtkinsonUK) February 5, 2018 SHED SEVEN AND THE BEAT TO HEADLINE 2018 WYCHWOOD FESTIVAL Wychwood Festival, which returns to Cheltenham Racecourse from the 1st to the 3rd of June, has announced it's headliners for 2018 including Shed Seven, The Beat, Feeder and Baxter Dury. ​This will be the 14th year of the hugely popular festival which been nominated as 'Best Family Festival' each year at the UK Festival awards. Tickets are on sale now - wychwoodfestival.com DISTILLERY WINS TOP AWARD The Cotswolds Distillery has been awarded the title of Best Craft Producer 2018 by the highly respected Whisky Magazine in the 'Rest of the World' category. They now go up against the other winners from Scotland, the United States, Ireland, and India for the overall title. The Cotswold Distillery launched the first batch of their highly anticipated whisky in October 2017 - the first single malt to have ever been created in the Cotswolds. It is now available to buy on their website. www.cotswoldsdistillery.com/shop/spirits/cotswolds-single-malt-whisky

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As Line-Ups Grow and Resources Diminish, Local Businesses are Supporting Food Banks in their Communities SURREY, BRITISH COLUMBIA, April 27, 2020 - With food bank resources in B.C. dwindling, local businesses are stepping up to support the communities who've supported them over the years. Today, for example, 36 Toyota and Lexus dealers from across British Columbia and the Yukon Territory have joined forces with Toyota Canada to help provide food security for thousands of people with a $120,000 donation to Food Banks BC. It's estimated that, even in prosperous times, upwards of one million people across the country rely on food banks each month. Today – with many Canadians suddenly out of work – the need is even greater. Toyota's donation – $60,000 from the Toyota dealers and matching funds from Toyota Canada – will help the network of food banks on the west coast meet increased demand for their services. "During the current COVID-19 emergency, the more than 100,000 individuals who turn to our food banks for much needed support every month are being directly affected," said Laura Lansink, Executive Director, Food Banks BC. "Lineups for food are continuing to grow and resources are dwindling due to increased demand. Thanks to this significant gift from Toyota dealerships in B.C. and Yukon, we can help ensure that food bank doors stay open across the province – and that no one in BC will be at risk of hunger." Thank you @ToyotaCanada & the 36 dealerships in B.C. & Yukon for your gracious donation that benefits #BCfoodbanks & families in our local communities. We are truly grateful for the relief it will bring to communities across BC-join Toyota & donate today https://t.co/BRHIMoxDEQ pic.twitter.com/FbrlYYfZjL — Food Banks BC (@RealFoodBanksBC) April 27, 2020 Participating Toyota dealers selected Food Banks BC for this donation because it allowed them to centralize their efforts while also ensuring donations would go to the local food banks in their communities. "For most of us, this pandemic has turned trips to the grocery store into a stressful situation, but at least we can still afford to feed our families," explained David Lee, Zone Manager for Toyota Canada. "Others in our communities are not so fortunate, so our dealers saw support for Food Banks BC as an opportunity to help." Each of the 36 Toyota dealers contributed and identified the local food bank their donation would benefit. Toyota Canada then committed to match each donation, bringing the total to $120,000 for Food Banks BC. The 36 contributing Toyota and Lexus dealers are: Alberni Toyota (Port Alberni), Alpine Toyota (Cranbrook), Campbell River Toyota, Castlegar Toyota, Comox Valley Toyota (Courtenay), Destination Toyota (Burnaby), Glacier Toyota (Smithers), Granville Toyota (Vancouver), Heartland Toyota (Williams Lake), Hilltop Toyota (Salmon Arm), Jim Pattison Toyota/Lexus (Downtown Vancouver, Duncan, North Shore, Surrey, Victoria), Kelowna Toyota/Lexus, Langley Toyota, Nanaimo Toyota, Nelson Toyota, Open Road Toyota/Lexus (Abbotsford, Peace Arch, Port Moody, Richmond), Peace Country Toyota (Dawson Creek), Penticton Toyota, Prince George Toyota, Quesnel Toyota, Regency Toyota/Lexus (Vancouver), Squamish Toyota, Sun Country Toyota (Kamloops), Terrace Toyota, Valley Toyota (Chilliwack), Vernon Toyota, West Coast Toyota (Maple Ridge), Westminster Toyota and Whitehorse Toyota. Toyota Canada recently announced a donation matching program encouraging its dealers to determine how best to support their local communities during this difficult time. The company has committed up to one million dollars to the program, effectively doubling the impact of the local dealer support for a total contribution of $2 million to food banks across the country. People looking for an opportunity to support food security for those in need can connect with Food Banks BC at www.foodbanksbc.com or visit Food Banks Canada at www.foodbankscanada.ca.

Menifee man, 38, ID'd after fatally struck by vehicle following I-215 collision January 9, 2022 Trevor Montgomery 3 comments RIVERSIDE, Calif., — Authorities say a Menifee man was killed after he was struck by a vehicle just moments after an earlier collision on the southbound I-215 south of Columbia Avenue early Friday morning, Jan. 7. Witnesses later told investigating California Highway Patrol officers that following the initial crash the victim had exited his vehicle and was standing in the lanes of travel when he was struck by another oncoming vehicle. LEADING THE RCNS HEADLINES: Bicycle rider, 7, ID'd after fatally struck by truck in San Jacinto Corona private school teacher's aide arrested for lewd acts with a child younger than 14 Mecca man arrested for DUI/Murder after Moreno Valley crash that killed local woman, 52 Wanted felon & second man arrested after stolen vehicle pursuit near Perris Serious injuries reported after Lake Elsinore rollover hit and run CHP and other emergency personnel were dispatched to the scene around 2:20 a.m., after receiving reports of a multi-vehicle collision. While responding to the scene, officers received updated reports that a man who had been involved in the initial crash had been struck by another vehicle after exiting his vehicle following the first collision. CHP has said that a man who was involved in a collision on I-215 in Riverside was fatally struck by another vehicle after he exited his wrecked vehicle and was standing in the lanes of travel. Rod Arv photo When officials arrived, they found the victim down in the number one lane of the freeway with major, life-threatening injuries. He was rushed to Riverside Community Hospital where, despite extensive life-saving efforts, he succumbed to his injuries and passed away several hours later. The Riverside County Sheriff-Coroner's Office has since identified 38-year-old Spencer Smith as the man killed in the collision. a Coroner's release indicated he was pronounced deceased at 5:36 a.m. CHP's investigation is ongoing and no further details were immediately available. Contact the writer: trevor.rcns@gmail.com Trevor Montgomery, 50, moved in 2017 to the Intermountain area of Shasta County from Riverside County and runs Riverside County News Source (RCNS) and Shasta County News Source (SCNS). Additionally, he writes or has written for several other news organizations; including Riverside County based newspapers Valley News, Valley Chronicle, Anza Valley Outlook, and Hemet & San Jacinto Chronicle; the Bonsall/Fallbrook Village News in San Diego County; and Mountain Echo in Shasta County. He is also a regular contributor to Thin Blue Line TV and Law Enforcement News Network and has had his stories featured on news stations throughout the Southern California and North State regions. Trevor spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff's Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg, breaking his back, and suffering both spinal cord and brain injuries in an off-duty accident. (Click here to see segment of Discovery Channel documentary of Trevor's accident.) During his time with the sheriff's department, Trevor worked at several different stations; including Robert Presley Detention Center, Southwest Station in Temecula, Hemet/Valle Vista Station, Ben Clark Public Safety Training Center, and Lake Elsinore Station; along with other locations. Trevor's assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, and Personnel/Background Investigations. He finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator and was a court-designated expert in child abuse and child sex-related crimes. Trevor has been married for more than 30 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and his "fluid family" includes 13 children and 18 grandchildren. tagged with accident, Collision, Crash, Fatal, I-215, Killed, Menifee, Riverside, Slider, Spencer Just wanted to correct your article. The man who was fatally struck was not the driver of the Jeep. He was the driver of the van Trevor Montgomery Thank you for the correction, Questa. This article has since been updated. -TM Pingback: UPDATE: Two men arrested after Old Town Temecula shooting leaves Hemet father dead, two others injured – Riverside County News Source

>> Business Nevada's solar industry on the rebound after major changes Frank Rieger started solar panel installation company Sol-Up USA in 2009, after moving from Germany to Las Vegas in what he called a midlife crisis. By Bailey Schulz / Las Vegas Review-Journal Sol-Up employees prepare the roof for a residential solar panel installation in Henderson, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Erik Verduzco Las Vegas Review-Journal @Erik_Verduzco Sol-Up employees Zack Smith, left, general foreman, and Andrew Verdi, junior installer, prepare the roof for a residential solar panel installation in Henderson, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Erik Verduzco Las Vegas Review-Journal @Erik_Verduzco Brandon Lee, roof lead for Sol-Up, prepares the roof for a residential solar panel installation in Henderson, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Erik Verduzco Las Vegas Review-Journal @Erik_Verduzco Brandon Lee, left, roof lead, and Brandon Lee, roof lead, prepare the roof for a residential solar panel installation in Henderson, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Erik Verduzco Las Vegas Review-Journal @Erik_Verduzco Sol-Up employees from left, Andrew Verdi, junior installer, Brandon Lee, roof lead, and Zack Smith, general foreman, prepare the roof for a residential solar panel installation in Henderson, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Erik Verduzco Las Vegas Review-Journal @Erik_Verduzco Brandon Lee, roof lead for Sol-Up, carries equipment for a residential solar panel installation in Henderson, Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018. Erik Verduzco Las Vegas Review-Journal @Erik_Verduzco He loves his job, and said Las Vegas is the near-perfect place to work in solar where sun shines 85 percent of the time on average, according to financial information website NerdWallet. But state policies can make the solar industry "very frustrating," Rieger said. In December 2015, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission voted in favor of a new tariff structure that reduced so-called "net metering" rates — the rates NV Energy pays to buy back excess energy generated by those with rooftop solar. It also increased the monthly service charge for those solar customers. Following the decision, the state lost about 400 solar jobs, according to The Solar Foundation. It lost another 1,800 between 2016 and 2017. The PUC ruling was considered a major step back for the industry, but data show Nevada's solar industry is on the rebound. 'A very tough time' The Nevada Legislature has to have the right policies in place for clean energy to truly excel, said John Restrepo, principal of Las Vegas-based RCG Economics. "We lost a little ground with rooftop solar policy issues, but we're back to moving forward," he said. Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a bill that restored the state's net energy metering in 2017, but local workers in the solar industry like Rieger haven't forgotten the hundreds of solar jobs lost after the PUC decision. "It caused all of these companies to go bankrupt and leave the state," Rieger said. "We made the decision to stay on this market. … I did everything to keep this group together, but obviously, it cost a lot of money and was a very tough time." In 2017, Nevada fell from the No. 4 state for overall solar jobs to No. 10, according to The Solar Foundation. The PUC ruling also had a "fairly substantial impact" on solar installations in Nevada, said Austin Perea, senior analyst for the Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables team. He said Nevada's market dropped from seventh in solar installation in 2015 to 17th in 2017. "There were still installations that were going on, but you're talking about a market that was one-fourth of the size it was in 2015 by 2017," Perea said. Ramp up But it's not all gray skies for Nevada's solar industry. Since the 2015 PUC decision, Nevada has picked up the pace with renewable energy projects, said Jeremy Aguero, principal analyst with Las Vegas-based Applied Analysis. "We've probably seen more proposals relative to renewable energy in the last three years than the last 15," he said. Rieger's company started recovering from the decision a little over a year ago. He said Sol-Up has added more than a dozen employees in the last few months and is making about three times as much revenue compared to last year. And the industry is expected to continue to grow, according to Sean Gallagher, the vice president of state affairs for the national trade group Solar Energy Industries Association. He pointed to the abundance of solar projects being built across Nevada from companies like Switch and MGM Resorts International. "Nevada's got one of the best solar resources in the country," he said, referencing the consistent sunshine. "Over the long run, this trend is going to continue upward as more businesses and residents go forward (installing solar). Customers like to have control over their bills." Perea said installation rates have also seen a dramatic uptick in recent months. The state installed 11.7 megawatts worth of solar in the first quarter this year, a 166 percent increase from the same quarter in 2017, according to research from Wood Mackenzie. "Quarter one and quarter two of this year is really when we saw this ramp up," Perea said. "In the first half [of] the year, we've seen 30 megawatts installed in Nevada on the residential side. That's more than all of 2017 combined." Nevada is struggling to reach the top rankings in the solar industry, but it's surrounded by tough competition. California has led the nation in solar installations for the past three years, according to a 2018 report from Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables. The state had about 86,414 solar jobs in 2017, according to The Solar Foundation, compared with Nevada's 6,564. Arizona and Colorado also came in ahead in 2017 with 8,381 and 6,789 jobs, respectively. California is unlikely to relinquish the throne to Nevada any time soon; Perea said California's high electricity rates give residents more incentive to install solar panels, and its population size gives it the upper hand. "If every household (in Nevada) went solar, it would be only a fraction of the number for California," he said. But Nevada's business climate and natural geography set it apart, said Tom Polikalas, a state representative of the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, a public-interest organization promoting greater energy efficiency. "Nevada is much friendlier compared to California," Polikalas said. "We don't have coal reserves, oil refineries, gas refineries. We have solar, wind, all of this emerging stuff… that's where our advantage is." While Nevada "will never catch up to California" in solar installation rates, Perea expects the state will climb its way back up the rankings. "We see it going back to the ninth largest market in 2018 and 2019," he said. "They've taken a lot of right steps." Contact Bailey Schulz at bschulz@reviewjournal.com or 702-383-0233. Follow @bailey_schulz on Twitter. Austin Perea, senior analyst for the Wood Mackenzie Power and Renewables team, said some of the biggest benefits from a growing solar industry include job growth and savings for customers. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, Nevada had more than 6,500 solar jobs in the second quarter of 2018. And building on clean energy assets like solar could lead to a better economy within the state, bringing in new businesses and jobs in energy and construction, said Jeremy Aguero, principal analyst with Las Vegas-based Applied Analysis. "There's no doubt that there's a positive economic impact related to renewable energy in Nevada," he said. About 88 percent of the energy Nevada consumes comes from outside the state, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, and this comes at a high price. Nevada's electric utilities import about $700 million worth of fossil fuels each year, according to the environmental advocacy group Natural Resources Defense Council. "It's time we stop sending money to other states to buy their energy and invest more in home," said Kyle Roerink, communications director for Nevadans for a Clean Energy Future, the leading campaign for the ballot measure looking to raise the state's RPS. "We feel we can be in a much better position to measure up to other states and bolster our economy" with more clean energy. Posted on: Business By Bailey Schulz / RJ Former New York Gov. David Paterson is joining Las Vegas Sands to lead the casino and resort developer's push for a casino in New York City. The suit by New York resident Richard Schuster says the Everett casino is paying out less for certain winning hands at blackjack and rounding down payouts from slot machines. It was filed Monday in Middlesex County Superior Court. By Nicole Raz / RJ Encore reported $16.8 million in gross gaming revenue, more than $2 million per day, according to data released Monday by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission. By Debra J. Saunders / RJ Boulder City-based Fisher Space Pen Co. was highlighted at President Donald Trump's third annual Made in America Showcase, an annual event highlighting American-made products held at the White House. CCSD strikes 5-year deal to stay with NV Energy According to the agreement, the Clark County School District would promise not to leave NV Energy in return for cost savings. Deals, protests during 2-day Amazon Prime event By Mae Anderson The Associated Press July 15, 2019 - 12:07 pm July 15, 2019 - 12:07 pm Amazon's Prime Day is coming with a wave of deals — and protests. China's growth reaches 26-year low amid US tariff war China's economic growth sank to its lowest level in at least 26 years in the quarter ending in June, adding to pressure on Chinese leaders as they fight a tariff war with Washington. By Martin Crutsinger The Associated Press The plane was grounded in March following two deadly crashes. By Mick Akers / RJ A lawsuit filed this past week names the Oakland Raiders and the Stadium Authority among others tied to a disputed payment mount by a subcontractor. New Jersey bettors spend $3.2B in 1st year Experts say it'll take more than that for the state to overtake Nevada as the biggest sports betting destination in the country.

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OpinionCase details Bennett v. State Full title:HAROLD BENNETT APPELLANT v. STATE OF ARKANSAS APPELLEE Court:SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS Date published: Oct 1, 2020 2020 Ark. 295 (Ark. 2020) SUPREME COURT OF ARKANSAS No. CR-19-870 HAROLD BENNETT APPELLANT v. STATE OF ARKANSAS APPELLEE John H. Bradley, Chief Public Defender; and Rodney Chedister, Deputy Public Defender, for appellant. Leslie Rutledge, Att'y Gen., by: Christopher R. Warthen, Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellee. JOHN DAN KEMP, Chief Justice APPEAL FROM THE MISSISSIPPI COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT, CHICKASAWBA DISTRICT [NO. 47BCR-18-239] HONORABLE CINDY THYER, JUDGE AFFIRMED. JOHN DAN KEMP, Chief Justice Appellant Harold Bennett appeals an order of the Mississippi County Circuit Court convicting him of first-degree murder and sentencing him to life imprisonment and a fifteen-year sentencing enhancement. For reversal, Bennett argues that the circuit court (1) erred in refusing to suppress testimony about a custodial statement that was not properly recorded, and (2) abused its discretion in admitting photographs that Bennett claimed were more prejudicial than probative. We affirm. On June 20, 2018, a utility worker called 911 after discovering the body of Bianca Rainer in some brush in front of a house in Blytheville. Detectives noted that there were flies and maggots on her body and that the decomposition stage had begun. They observed that Rainer appeared to have suffered extensive injuries to her head and that a blanket was wrapped around her, a cord was around her neck, and several puzzle pieces were stuck to her body. The forensic pathologist determined that Rainer had been shot in the head three times and had at least nineteen lacerations to her face and scalp. During the police investigation, detectives interviewed Bennett in his residence across the street from where Rainer's body had been found and at the police station. In the interviews, Bennett at first denied killing Rainer but eventually admitted that he had beaten her to death with a metal bar. Bennett claimed that Rainer had attempted multiple times to attack him with a knife and that he was defending himself when he hit her with the bar. In Bennett's residence, detectives found puzzle pieces scattered on the floor and blood splatters in various rooms. There was a bleach bottle in the hallway with a toothbrush. Bennett assisted the detectives in locating the metal bar and a .32-caliber revolver, which was hidden under the sink. A firearms examiner identified the bullets recovered from Rainer's body as having been fired from that revolver. On July 10, 2018, Bennett was charged with first-degree murder, possession of a firearm by certain persons, and obstruction of governmental operations. A jury found Bennett guilty of first-degree murder. He was sentenced as a habitual offender to life imprisonment plus a fifteen-year sentencing enhancement for using a firearm in the commission of the murder. The other two offenses were nolle prossed. II. Points on Appeal A. Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 4.7 For his first point, Bennett argues that Detective Jason Simpkins's testimony about one of Bennett's interviews violated Arkansas Rule of Criminal Procedure 4.7 (2019) because the interview was not properly recorded. He contends that the circuit court erred in refusing to suppress Simpkins's trial testimony about the interview on this basis. The facts relevant to the issue are as follows. Bennett gave multiple statements to detectives. The statement at issue on appeal was given to Detective Simpkins at the Blytheville Police Department on June 21, 2018. Simpkins explained that he recorded that interview, but there were some issues with the microphone attachment. Simpkins could be heard on the recording, but many of Bennett's responses were inaudible. Simpkins did not know that there were any problems with the microphone at the time of the interview and learned about the problems only when he went back and listened to the interview. Simpkins testified that during the interview, Bennett admitted that Rainer had been at his residence and that he had paid Rainer to perform sexual acts on him. When Bennett was unable to follow through with those acts, he asked her for a portion of his money back. Bennett claimed that Rainer refused his request and attacked him with a knife. He then struck her numerous times in the head with a metal bar. He explained that he beat her into unconsciousness. Each time she regained consciousness, she would try to attack him again, and then he would start beating her again with the metal bar. After Bennett realized that Rainer had died, he brought a trashcan inside, rolled Rainer's body up in a blanket, put her inside that trashcan, and discarded her body across the street. After hearing the recording of the interview at issue, Simpkins's testimony about the interview, and arguments of counsel, the circuit court denied Bennett's motion to suppress the recording or Detective Simpkins's testimony. In so ruling, the circuit court recognized that Rule 4.7 does not mandate the recording of a custodial statement. It noted that in this case, a recording had been made and preserved, although it was of limited evidentiary value because of the poor audio quality. It further found that there was no bad faith on the part of the police. I'm certain that if there was an opportunity for them to have captured the entire exchange on video and audio, they would have. He explained the reason that the audio wasn't captured and I found his testimony to be credible in that regard. We turn to the applicable law. When this court reviews a circuit court's ruling on a motion to suppress, we make an independent determination based on the totality of the circumstances. E.g., Anderson v. State, 2011 Ark. 461, at 12, 385 S.W.3d 214, 222. We will reverse the circuit court's ruling only if it is clearly against the preponderance of the evidence. Id., 385 S.W.3d at 222. The circuit court determines the credibility of witnesses who testify at a suppression hearing about the circumstances surrounding a defendant's custodial statements, and this court defers to the circuit court in matters of credibility. Id., 385 S.W.3d at 222. Rule 4.7 states, in pertinent part: (a) Whenever practical, a custodial interrogation at a jail, police station, or other similar place, should be electronically recorded. (b)(1) In determining the admissibility of any custodial statement, the court may consider, together with all other relevant evidence and consistent with existing law, whether an electronic recording was made; if not, why not; and whether any recording is substantially accurate and not intentionally altered. (2) The lack of a recording shall not be considered in determining the admissibility of a custodial statement in the following circumstances: (B) a statement made during a custodial interrogation that was not recorded because electronic recording was not practical, . . . . Ark. R. Crim. P. 4.7(a)-(b)(1), (b)(2)(B). Additionally, this court has declined to recognize a constitutional right to the recordation of a custodial statement. See Clark v. State, 374 Ark. 292, 302-04, 287 S.W.3d 567, 574-76 (2008). We agree with the circuit court that there was no violation of Rule 4.7 for the following reasons. First, we have previously stated that Rule 4.7 does not require exclusion of an unrecorded statement. Tarver v. State, 2018 Ark. 202, at 4, 547 S.W.3d 689, 693. Second, as the circuit court stated, the statement at issue was recorded despite the microphone's malfunction. The circuit court found no bad faith on the part of police as to the malfunction and found Simpkins's explanation of the malfunction to be credible—a matter on which we must defer to the circuit court. Anderson, 2011 Ark. 461, at 12, 385 S.W.3d at 222. Third, the content of the interview, as explained through Detective Simpkins's testimony, was consistent with Bennett's two later statements, which were entered into evidence at trial. Thus, we hold that the circuit court's denial of Bennett's motion to suppress Detective Simpkins's testimony about the interview that failed to properly record was not clearly against the preponderance of the evidence. We affirm the circuit court's ruling. At trial, the State presented Detective Simpkins's testimony about the interview instead of the actual recording of the interview. The State also introduced into evidence two subsequent interviews during which Bennett admitted having beaten Rainer to death with a metal bar. -------- B. Photographs Bennett next argues that the circuit court abused its discretion by admitting sixteen photographs over his objections. He moved to exclude the photographs under Arkansas Rule of Evidence 403 (2019), alleging that they were more prejudicial than probative. Specifically, State's trial exhibits 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 were crime-scene photographs of the victim. In moving to exclude these photographs, his trial counsel described them as grotesque, grisly, and capable of being described through testimony without being shown to the jury. He made similar assertions about State's trial exhibits 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, and 85—autopsy photographs introduced during the forensic pathologist's testimony. The circuit court separately ruled on the admissibility of each photograph, giving specific reasons for its admission or exclusion. It admitted all eight of the State's proposed crime-scene photographs of the victim's body, finding that they helped explain and corroborate the investigating officer's testimony, the nature and extent of the victim's injuries, and the puzzle pieces found on the victim's body. The circuit court excluded several autopsy photographs. On the eight autopsy photographs that it admitted, it found that they supported the forensic pathologist's testimony, helped explain the autopsy process, and illustrated the victim's injuries and her manner of death. Bennett challenges the admission of the photographs under Arkansas Rule of Evidence 403, which states that relevant evidence "may be excluded if its probative value is substantially outweighed by the danger of unfair prejudice, confusion of the issues, or misleading the jury, or by considerations of undue delay, waste of time, or needless presentation of cumulative evidence." We have held that the admission of photographs is a matter left to the sound discretion of the circuit court, and we will not reverse absent an abuse of that discretion. Evans v. State, 2015 Ark. 240, at 4, 464 S.W.3d 916, 918. When photographs are helpful to explain testimony, they are ordinarily admissible. Evans, 2015 Ark. 240, at 4, 464 S.W.3d at 918. The mere fact that a photograph is inflammatory or cumulative is not, standing alone, sufficient reason to exclude it. Id., 464 S.W.3d at 918. Even the most gruesome photographs may be admissible if they assist the trier of fact in any of the following ways: (1) by shedding light on some issue; (2) by proving a necessary element of the case; (3) by enabling a witness to testify more effectively; (4) by corroborating testimony; or (5) by enabling jurors to better understand the testimony. Id., 464 S.W.3d at 919. Other acceptable purposes include showing the condition of the victim's body, the probable type or location of the injuries, and the position in which the body was discovered. Id., 464 S.W.3d at 919. If a photograph serves no valid purpose and can only result in inflaming the passions of the jury, it is inadmissible. Marcyniuk v. State, 2010 Ark. 257, at 13, 373 S.W.3d 243, 252. In Berry v. State, 290 Ark. 223, 227, 718 S.W.2d 447, 450 (1986), on which Bennett relies, we rejected a "carte blanche acceptance" by the circuit court of graphic and repetitive pictures. We stated that "[t]he analysis should firmly emphasize the need for the trial court to carefully weigh the probative value of the photographs against their prejudicial nature, rather than promoting a general rule of admissibility which essentially allows automatic acceptance of all the photographs of the victim and crime scene the prosecution can offer." Id. at 227-28, 718 S.W.2d at 450. Subsequently, in Marcyniuk, 2010 Ark. 257, at 14-15, 373 S.W.3d at 253, we affirmed the admission of seventeen crime-scene and autopsy photographs of the victim's body. There, the circuit court "carefully examined each photograph offered for admission[,] weighed the appropriate balancing test[,] exercised considerable discretion and restraint in deciding what photographs to admit[, and] individually pointed out its basis for allowing in each photograph[.]" Id., 373 S.W.3d at 253. Here, the facts are distinguishable from those in Berry because, in Berry, we rejected the circuit court's carte blanche acceptance of graphic and repetitive photographs. Instead, as in Marcyniuk, the circuit court here ruled separately on the admissibility of each photograph, giving its basis for the photograph's admission, and it excluded several photographs in the process. Thus, we hold that the circuit court did not abuse its discretion admitting these sixteen crime-scene and autopsy photographs, and we affirm. III. Rule 4-3(i) Because Bennett received a sentence of life imprisonment, this court, in compliance with Arkansas Supreme Court Rule 4-3(i), has examined the record for all objections, motions, and requests made by either party that were decided adversely to Bennett. No prejudicial error has been found. John H. Bradley, Chief Public Defender; and Rodney Chedister, Deputy Public Defender, for appellant. Leslie Rutledge, Att'y Gen., by: Christopher R. Warthen, Ass't Att'y Gen., for appellee.

« Sir Dark Invader Vs The Fanglord Jon Langford: Gold Brick » Gold Brick – Review From: http://www.neumu.net/fortyfour/ The Mekons. The Waco Brothers. Pine Valley Cosmonauts. Three Johns. Ship & Pilot Band. The common denominator is, of course, Jon Langford, a one-man roots-music phenomenon who can be in three bands before breakfast and still have a few hours for painting before his radio show. Yet though he is a busy guy, his third solo album shows all the marks of careful consideration and time well spent. Gold Brick is relaxed and excellent, the kind of record that buries its skill deep within the fabric of the music, so that hardly any of the effort shows. Part of that comes from the quality of Langford's band, which includes his Waco bass player, Alan Doughty, and more occasional collaborators like John Rice, Pat Brennan, Dan Massey and Jean Cook. Brennan's keyboard work is particularly fine, from the swell of organ and barroom piano of "Little Bit of Help" to the radiant piano trills of the title track. The string arrangements are quite good, too, adding melancholic sweetness to "Buy It Now" and vibrating tension to "Salty Dog." And the guitar work is subtly, unshowoffishly wonderful, from the Spanish drama of "Workingman's Palace" to the slashing chords of "All Roads Lead Back to Me" to the twitchy, palm-muted strut of "Gorilla & the Maiden." Gold Brick is subtitled "Or Lies of the Great Explorers or Columbus at Guantanamo Bay," slipping listeners a broad hint at the disc's backward-looking content. Nearly every song is charged with nostalgia, as Langford, born in Wales, schooled in Leeds, a traveler all his life and currently living in Chicago, ponders the pull of home in a fractured world. In "Workingman's Palace" he finds shelter in a corner bar, where an Old Style neon light shines its welcome. In "All Roads Lead Back to Me" he recognizes himself and his audience as the only constant in a life of wandering. And in the title track, even the saccharine words on a greeting card are enough to make him cry, as "You recycle some life from the past/ With attention to detail, so rigid, so futile, consuming it all." When he finishes the album with "Lost in America," telling us that "Columbus fell down on his knees/ So weak from sailing on the seas/ He thought he was in the East Indies/ But he was lost in America," we know that he is speaking not just for the famous explorer, but himself and all of us at midlife, wondering how we got here. This is a very consistent album, with every song bringing its own specific pleasures, but still, three stand out. "Workingman's Palace" draws you in immediately with its luminous guitar line, catches you with a chorus that sticks immediately and lodges permanently, and breaks your heart with its gently melancholy lyrics. It's the kind of song that makes you long for home, wherever it is, for reasons that you can't quite put your finger on, and its wonderful piano break, mid-song, just seals the deal. "Gorilla and the Maiden" is an entirely different beast, reminding you perhaps of Strummer's "Coma Girl" with its choked guitar line. It's held back, restrained, about to explode, and it finally does, leading into the longed-for release and abandon. And finally, "Lost in America," the song that Langford wrote for NPR's This American Life and which, most likely, was the seed from which Gold Brick eventually grew, ends the album in triumphant style. Skill counts. Experience matters. It takes an old pro to make the hard things seem easy… and Langford does just this in Gold Brick. by Jennifer Kelly http://www.firstcoastnews.com/life/entertainment/news-article.aspx?storyid=51821 Jon Langford's Gold Brick by Paul Zimmerman First Coast News Jon Langford is an artist, period. This guy is so busy he has his hands in practically every medium known to man. Whether it's as an artist, writer, musician,producer, member of the Mekons or being a Waco Brother, Jon Langford has just about done everything there is to do when it comes to communicating ideas. He's one busy Welshman that has truly reached beyond his home and done more and experienced more than most of us could ever hope to. For this reason, Langford has a unique perspective on the world. He's definitely a renaissance man and he's probably one of the most creative people around today. On his latest album, Gold Brick Langford takes on the role of a solo artist and never really loses a beat. It's a rootsy album that explores the blues, Americana, folk, and even bits of Caribbean music. Langford's Welsh accent meshes well over the multitude of instrumentation used throughout Gold Brick. The way he rolls certain consonants is truly amazing. For someone who isn't American by birth, this is one heck of an Americana album. After about four songs into Gold Brick its obvious that Langford is more than a talented musician he's also a brilliant wordsmith that weaves beguiling tales. Whether it's the slightly cynical "But It Now,� or the pastoral ode to age, "Tall Ships,� Gold Brick is as intriguing as it is entertaining. Along with his music career, John Langford also finds time to be a critical artist. His paintings are brilliant looks into the past w/an edge that hits at home and makes you think. In celebration of his work, Langford recently released a book entitled, Nashville Radio: Art, Words, and Music. The book reproduces 215 paintings and etchings, along with lyrics, and even has a bit about the artist himself. It's a brilliant book and shows that John Langford is an amazingly talented guy. His insights are witty and biting and his story about the death of country music is truly hilarious. The book also comes with a CD featuring 18 of the songs in the book. Whether it's art or music or the written word, John Langford is truly a talent that deserves to be a household name. His insights and ways with color, music, and words are fantastic and something everyone should at least check out. http://www.citypages.com/databank/27/1314/article14108.asp Jon Langford's American discoveries Jon Langford's 'Lofty on Charmer' At the moment, the collective unconscious of Americais the sound of her tired, huddled masses steppingback from the breakneck pace of freedom and saying,"What the fuck have we become?" From Terrence Malick's The New World to Bernard-Henry Levy's American Vertigo to the Enron crooks and their like-minded CEO in the White House pep talking the troops at the employee picnic, the mirror has been turned on you and me, and what it says is that we've got nothing to fear but us ourselves. Growing up in Wales, musician, painter, and activist Jon Langford got his impression of America primarily from the "cultural imperialism" of U.S. television, specifically the cathode-ray dreams of Bonanza and High Chaparral. While polite pre-punk Britain slumbered outside, and his mates' parents languished on the dole, Langford watched gun-toting men riding horses in the wild, wild West, making up a nation on the fly. He traveled to America with the first incarnation of his band the Mekons when he was 20 years old. The Mekons played New York just after John Lennon was murdered, and they became enamored with the liberation of punk rock and the promise of America. "The cowboy myth was sort of this weird civilian uniform you could buy into," he says. "You could come to America and buy a cowboy hat and a cowboy shirt and Western wear at a Mexican Western-wear shop in Chicago. It was kind of like going to East Berlin and buying a hammer-and-sickle hat: 'I'm not a total tourist. I've been there, and I've done that.' But it was easier to do that in America than East Berlin." Langford is 48 years old now. He moved to Chicago when he was 27, after his sophomore band, the Three Johns, played there, and he has become something of an alt-country pioneer with the Pine Valley Cosmonauts and the Waco Brothers, two more of his many projects. Actually, "alt-country" and "pioneer" low-balls it. To him, at least: In the promotional materials for his new solo album Gold Brick (or Lies of the Great Explorers or Columbus at Guantánamo Bay, Langford describes himself as "an exile and an immigrant, a fish out of water, just one of the millions who rode the wind and woke up one day in America." "When I was a kid, it was total absorption of all things America," he says from his home in Chicago, as he and his wife tuck their kids in for the night. He'd just returned from doing his radio show Eclectic Company on WXRT-FM, and was starting to prepare for this weekend's multimedia presentation at Walker Art Center, "The Executioner's Last Songs," based on the three-volume Bloodshot Records collection of the same name. Along with Mekons singer Sally Timms, violinist Jean Cook, DJ Barry Mills, bassist Tony Maimone, and drummer Dan Massey, Langford says his autobiographical benefit piece will seek to make sense out of the greed and violence that fuels his adopted country. "Sometimes you feel like you're preaching to the choir, which is why with this show I deliberately didn't do a piece of agitprop musical theater stating why the death penalty is a bad thing," he says. "I tried to do something that was more tangential, more thoughtful, that raises other issues. One of the lawyers I met who's been responsible for getting a lot of people off death row said to me that support for the death penalty is 'a mile wide and an inch deep.' "And it's true. The more you raise the issue, and talk to people, the less they like the idea of it. That goes as far as George Ryan, the [Illinois] Republican governor who cleared death row because he realized it was a broken system and he said he didn't want innocent blood on his hands." America's bloody beginnings and the roots music it spawned have been at the heart of Langford's work. The first song he learned to play was Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues." His paintings are haunted by Day of the Dead-dipped images of Cash, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, Buck Owens, and others, and his bands have made some of the most wicked-raw country-punk the land has ever known. His latest is in step with all of it, including the incendiary immigrant song "Lost in America" as well as the uncharacteristically optimistic "Anything Can Happen." "Things seem so bad now, and there's all sorts of pressure," he says. "You keep a lid on that kind of pressure and it's gonna blow at some point. Things have a habit of changing drastically very suddenly." Langford knows as much firsthand. He was there when punk rock overthrew dreary old England and gave voice to his generation. Before that, he sat in his home and watched men from America land on the moon. He stayed up all night watching the black and white images, and believed that by the early 21st century we'd be living on other planets. "There was a lot of optimism about America: cowboys and spacemen," he says. "Then I got older, and we saw Nixon as a total criminal who wanted to blow up the world or something. Then Reagan and Thatcher formed this unholy alliance. Looking back on it, the way things are now, it's all sort of quaint. We were actually shocked back then by the idea of warfare; now it's just perpetual wallpaper to your life. "When I was a student, people were very hostile to American foreign policy. I still get shit from people for living here when I go back to England. They say, 'How can you live there, especially with Bush?' They think it's a bit of a sellout for a good socialist lad. But I think people who aren't into music have a very bad view of America. Whereas for us, the explosion of music that happened in the 20th century more than makes up for all the terrible imperialism." He laughs at his Pollyanna-side summary and concludes, "It's a love-hate thing. We were fascinated by America, and the idea of regionalism that was in all those records. And then we were incredibly disappointed when we got here." First Appeared in The Music Box, February 2006, Volume 13, #2 Written by John Metzger Busy co-fronting The Waco Brothers, reuniting The Mekons, working with The Pine Valley Cosmonauts to put an end to the death penalty, and constructing a series of contemporary paintings, it took Jon Langford eight years to concoct his second (proper) solo outing All the Fame of Lofty Deeds. Emboldened by the accolades that he received for the slapdash effort, which was recorded in a week, he didn't wait nearly as long to unveil his third foray Gold Brick. On the surface, the albums are strikingly similar — right down to their tuneful melodies, populist politics, and Procol Harum covers. What's different, however, is Langford's approach. Where All the Fame of Lofty Deeds was imbued with countrified simplicity, Gold Brick — the full title of which is Gold Brick (or Lies of The Great Explorers or Columbus at Guantanamo Bay) — is adorned with lustrous, more luxuriant, and, at times, downright majestic textures. Although he avoids the employment of an actual symphony, he manages to mimic one by fusing fiddle with the plucking of mandolin and dobro to give Invisible Man an orchestrated ambience, while in E Street Band fashion, he blends the grandeur of Phil Spector with the street-corner poetry of Bob Dylan to erect the explosive All Roads Lead Back to Me. Elsewhere, the combination of snaking guitar and elegant piano on Workingman's Palace draws to mind a collaboration between Mark Knopfler and Steve Nieve, while Little Bit of Help keeps one foot firmly planted in the roadhouse, even as its backing vocals turn Beatle- or, at the very least, Costello-esque. With so much on his plate, there undoubtedly have been times when Langford's songs have been written from a formulaic perspective, but on Gold Brick, he routinely shatters his mold and ambitiously redefines himself as a purveyor of carefully crafted folk-pop rather than as a conduit for his customarily country-tinged, Clash-driven swagger. *** ½ Jim Musser (c) Copyright 2006, Iowa City Press-Citizen. All Rights Reserved. A Welshman with a fine arts degree from the University of Leeds, Jon Langford co-founded The Mekons (a spectacularly rough 'n' tumble crew dubbed "the most revolutionary group in the history of rock 'n' roll" by the estimable Lester Bangs) in 1977. Langford relocated to Chicago in 1992; since then, he's crammed 48 hours into every day, sustaining incarnations of The Mekons while fronting country-roots devotees The Pine Valley Cosmonauts as well as The Waco Brothers ("half Clash/half Cash"), collated three volumes of anti-death penalty fundraisers ("The Executioner's Last Songs"), squeezed out three brilliant solo discs, produced many other artists' works, added his singular artwork to dozens of records/projects and sat in with or promoted countless other Chi-town area artists. His splendid new "Gold Brick" (due in stores Tuesday) addresses the clash of America's historical mythology with the realities of free-swinging power grabs, exploitation of the working class, the perverse implications of consumerism on the upwardly-reaching middle class and, ultimately, how all of our souls are damaged in the process. Political? Absolutely. But this sharp-witted, cerebral artist with the honey/gruff, everyman voice presents it all with well-paced, oft-sparking rock/pop/folk arrangements (including a deft re-working of Procol Harum's "Salty Dog") to seal the deal and sell the tale. A powerful, penetrating record. – Jim Musser Posted in Disc Reviews

Anyone able to explain this part of arch/arm/os/nutinit.c to me? * WDT, we have no idea to disable but clear it. * The watchdog is enabled after processor reset. Disable it. above can be removed, right? must be configurable, because WDT_MR can be written once only.

Brief Fact Summary. Filburn, an Ohio farmer who harvested wheat for home consumption and for sale, was fined $117 for violating a federal scheme devised to limit wheat production. Filburn sued arguing that the scheme was unconstitutional insofar as it regulated wheat produced for local use. Synopsis of Rule of Law. Activities local in character that have an economic effect on interstate commerce can be regulated by Congress under the Commerce Clause. Facts. Pursuant to the Agricultural Adjustment Act (the Act), the Secretary of Agriculture set a quota of wheat production to bring the supply of wheat into balance with the demand for it. Under the quota, every farmer was given an annual allotment of wheat he could produce. Filburn, a farmer in Ohio who raised small amounts of wheat for home consumption and for commercial use, exceeded his allotment by 239 bushels and was fined $117. Thereupon, Filburn sued the government to enjoin the enforcement of the penalty. Issue. Was the quota subjecting Filburn to wheat production restrictions unconstitutional inasmuch as Congress has no power to regulate activities local in nature?

Hermitage, Pa.– In a competitive auto retailing economy, car dealerships always look for a competitive edge. Mel Grata Chevrolet/Toyota has found climate-controlled indoor air comfort greatly improves customer satisfaction especially during cold Pennsylvania winters. Instead of fighting inclement weather, Mel Grata customers now drive-through one of two new climate-controlled, service/staging areas featuring doorway air curtains. The air curtains, also referred to as "air doors," efficiently separate the indoor/outdoor environments and maintain indoor temperatures especially with perpetual door openings during morning rush hours. The newly remodeled Chevrolet three-bay service space was expanded by 2,000-square-foot. The separate 1,500-square-foot Toyota service area is a recently-built two-bay, four-door space. Both buildings adjoin the main 75,000-square-foot dealership's showroom and offices complex. Industrial Direct Drive 12 Series air curtains with three-speed motors manufactured by Berner International, New Castle, Pa., seal each of the seven 12 x 12-foot doorways with a controlled air stream to protect against outdoor air infiltration during hundreds of daily door cycles. Air Curtains not only create a comfortable environment but are also projected to pay for themselves within two years in energy costs, according to a Berner energy audit. The savings accentuate the dealership's green construction efforts that also included high-efficiency HVAC systems and recycled building materials. Enough green strategies, including the air curtains, have been instituted into the two service buildings that the project could potentially earn a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification, which is a current trend in auto retailing today, according to Grata. Berner International's sales staff was instrumental in training the HVAC contractor, General Maintenance Contractors, New Castle, Pa., and Grata's maintenance staff on a coordinated installation effort. For example, the mechanisms and rails of overhead doors common to service bay operations can be problematic by obstructing air curtain discharge. Berner wall and extension brackets resolved this issue by allowing the air curtains to be installed far enough away from the wall and past the door track as to not impede door rollups. This accessory does not impede the air curtain from creating the proper volume, velocity, and uniformity (VVU) that is critical to doorway air sealing performance. Air curtains consist of a metal cabinet that's typically mounted above the length a doorway. Air is drawn through the air intake and accelerated by a fan into a plenum and distributed along the full length of the discharge nozzle. The angle of the nozzle and their aerofoil-shaped vanes are critical for creating a uniform air stream and minimal turbulence. Proper air discharge creates a jet stream that meets the floor near the threshold where approximately 80% of the air is returned to the building. Sizing an air curtain is critical to proper performance. Sizing factors include door dimensions, type of use, climate, prevailing winds, exterior temperature, and building pressurization. Accurate manufacturer performance specifications are also critical to the effectiveness of the air curtains, therefore, General Maintenance Contractors chose air curtains certified by the Air Movement & Control Association–International, Arlington Heights, III., (AMCA), a trade association dedicated to certifying manufacturers' air performance statistics on all types of air movement devices including blowers, fans, motors, and air curtains. AMCA performance certification combined with Berner's standard in-house powder-coating with colors aesthetically matching Chevrolet and Toyota's corporate colors in the interior design helped steer Grata away from another air curtain brand, according to Arthur Arena, president, General Maintenance Contractors. HVAC and refrigeration specialists, General Maintenance Contractors, designed/built the systems that provide the heating and air conditioning environment that the air curtains help preserve. The Toyota building, which includes service, waiting area, offices, and other rooms, features four high-efficiency packaged HVAC rooftop units by the Luxaire–div. of Johnson Controls, Norman, Okla. They range from 4-7.5 tons and include 180,000-BTU gas-fired heating. For additional air comfort near doors, Arena also specified and ceiling-mounted three 100,000-BTU HeatStar tube-style radiant heaters by Enerco, Cleveland, Ohio. The Chevrolet building has a similar arrangement of packaged rooftop units and radiant heaters. A temperature controller by Honeywell, Minneapolis, Minn., controls all the equipment and maintains temperature through energy-efficient staging programmed by General Maintenance Contractors. The project has created a comfortable and very aesthetic environment to bring cars and authorize service arrangements, while also efficiently using energy. "We've had no air comfort complaints from customers or employees even on the coldest winter days, and that's good for business," said Grata.

Kerry warns over Russian plan for Syria: 'we won't wait for long' Philippe Naughton, Ben Hoyle and Catherine Philp September 10 2013, 12:44pm, The Times The United States is waiting to see a "real" and "verifiable" plan from Russia for the removal of chemical weapons from Syria but will not accept any delaying tactics, the US Secretary of State said today. "We're waiting for that proposal. But we're not waiting for long," John Kerry told a hearing of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee. "President Obama will take a hard look at it. But it has to be swift, it has to be real, it has to be verifiable. It cannot be a delaying tactic." Mr Kerry was speaking as Britain, the United States and France were set to table a new UN Security Council resolution in the wake of the Russian proposal that Syria should hand over its…

UK Government planning 'slow demise of devolution in hope no one will notice' claims report Westminster. Picture by Maurice (CC BY 2.0) The Senedd building. Holyrrod by Kim Traynor (CC BY-SA 3.0). Stormont by Robert Paul Young (CC BY 2.0). The UK Government is planning the "slow demise of devolution in the hope that no-one will notice" according to a report by the Scottish Government. Constitution Secretary Michael Russell said that the UK Government has begun re-centralising powers in Westminster under the guise of delivering Brexit. The report – After Brexit: The UK Internal Market Act & Devolution – says the UK Government and Parliament now regularly legislate in devolved policy areas. It also notes that the UK Internal Market Act allows the UK Government to impose standards in a large number of areas that are devolved. "This is not a big bang abolition – it is instead the slow demise of devolution in the hope that no-one will notice," the report says. "The UK Government has signalled its desire is to 'undo' devolution and it is now repeatedly using its majority at Westminster to impose laws in devolved policy areas." The report comes after the Welsh Government have also voiced concerns about what they see as a rolling back of devolution by the UK Government. In September of last year, First Minister Mark Drakeford slammed the Internal Market ill as an "enormous power grab" which the Welsh Government will oppose "every step of the way". "This Bill will do more to hasten the break-up of the Union than anything else since devolution began. We'll oppose it every step of the way," he added. The Senedd subsequently withheld consent on the Bill in December.

Bletchley Park screen Ada film and Sydney Padua releases iPad app Posted on September 15, 2011 September 15, 2011 by Suw More exciting news about Ada Lovelace Day! First up: Sydney Padua, who for the first ever Ada Lovelace Day created the wonderful webcomic, The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, has announced that she is releasing that very first episode as a free iPad app. You'll also have the option to buy another webisode, The Client, for, and I quote "I dunno, a pound or something, haven't decided". The app is scheduled for release in the iTunes store on Ada Lovelace Day, 7 October. Over the last two and a half years, Lovelace and Babbage has turned into one of the best web comics on the internet, attracting a loyal following. Although I may be biased, I would say that it's a webcomic well worth supporting! Secondly: The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park will be screening the film To Dream Tomorrow on Saturday 8 October, free for all visitors to the museum. To Dream Tomorrow: Ada Byron Lovelace To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day 2011 the National Museum of Computing is proud to present Flare Productions film about Ada Lovelace, followed by a discussion with the Directors John Fuegi and Jo Francis. 'To Dream Tomorrow' is the story of Ada Byron Lovelace (1815-1852) and her contribution to computing, a hundred years before the start of the computer age. Daughter of a mathematically gifted mother and the 'mad, bad, and dangerous to know' poet Lord Byron, Ada was 17 when she began studying a prototype mechanical calculator designed by mathematician Charles Babbage. By the time she was 27, she had moved beyond her famous contemporaries and predecessors such as Leibniz & Pascal, to describe universal computing much as we understand it today. Alan Turing, who also worked at Bletchley Park, was familiar with Lovelace's work. The screening is kindly made possible by a grant from the School of Humanities, Kingston University, London. To Dream Tomorrow: Ada Byron Lovelace, Color, 52 minutes. Directed and Produced by John Füegi and Jo Francis, 2003. Curated by Ele Carpenter, Goldsmiths College, University of London. Date: 8 October 2011. The Museum will be open 1pm – 5pm and the film will screened at 2.30pm Location: The National Museum of Computing, Block H, Bletchley Park, Milton Keynes, MK3 6EB Tickets: Entry to the museum costs £5 / £2.50 concessions, or £10 for an annual pass. The film screening is free once you are in the museum. There is no need to book. Find out more on The National Museum of Computing or Flare Productions websites. Remember, if you're holding an event around Ada Lovelace Day, please let me know! ← Ada Lovelace Day: Events and new website New website and Pod Delusion podcast →

HITD 028 < Back to releases ▲ THE OSCILLATION – Monographic 01. Monographic (03:05) 02. Take Us To The Moon (05:52) 03. Let It Be The End (04:23) 04. Truth In Reverse (07:19) 05. Another Attack (05:17) 06. Lonely People (08:44) 07. Alignment Zone (08:42) 07. Alignment Zone extended version (CD/DL only) (13:01) 08. Lonely People (CD/DL only) (04:51) 09. The End Of Conscious Thought (CD/DL only) (03:55) Cat #: HITD 028 1st pressing – 1000 copies (400 white / 600 black) 2nd pressing – 500 copies (red transparent) CD – 1000 copies digipack Co-release with All Time Low Release date: 11th March 2016 Written, recorded and produced by D.Castellanos Mastered by Carim Clasmann at The Fishtank Artwork by Julian Hand Layout by Floriane Miny Essentially the project of multi-instrumentalist and producer Demian Castellanos, The Oscillation was formed in London in 2006 with the release of the debut seven-inch and Rough Trade Records 'single of the week'; New Way To Feel on Bee And Smoke records. Drawing inspiration from The Cure, Loop, Can, The Durutti Column, PIL, Spacemen 3, Popol Vuh and Chrome, they've since gone on to release three critically acclaimed studio albums; Out Of Phase (2007), Veils (2011) and From Tomorrow (2013). Over the last few years The Oscillation have also appeared on several highly rated compilation albums and provided remixes for the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, Telepathe, Nick Nicely and most recently the Fat White Family. The new long player Monographic sees the multi-talented Castellanos, who sings, play bass, guitars and synths on the album, joined by Valentina Magaletti on drums in what is without doubt the band's most accomplished and outstanding set of songs to date. BRECHT AMEEL INSIGHT creative studio © Hands in the dark

According to the General Social Survey on Canadians' Safety (Victimization), there were 22 incidents of sexual assault for every 1,000 Canadians aged 15 and older in 2014. This represented approximately 636,000 self-reported incidents of sexual assault. The rate of self-reported sexual assault in 2014 remained unchanged from 2004; however, declines were noted over the same time period for all other types of violent and non-violent crime measured by the General Social Survey on Victimization. A higher risk of sexual assault was noted among those who were women, young, Aboriginal, single, and homosexual or bisexual, and those who had poorer mental health. In addition, individuals who had certain experiences—childhood abuse and homelessness—and more evening activities outside the home also had a higher risk of sexual assault. Among the three types of sexual assault measured by the General Social Survey on Victimization in 2014, seven in ten self-reported incidents were unwanted sexual touching, two in ten were sexual attacks and one in ten was sexual activity where the victim was unable to consent. Victims of sexual assault often had negative perceptions of their neighbourhood, lower levels of trust in others and less confidence in the police, compared to those who were not sexually assaulted. They were also less satisfied with their personal safety from crime and less likely to feel safe in certain situations. Overall, sexual assault offenders were most often men, acting alone and under the age of 35. Just over half of victims knew the person who sexually assaulted them. Most often, offenders were a friend, acquaintance or neighbour, then a stranger. Of all sexual assault incidents perpetrated by someone other than a spouse, one in twenty was reported to the police, compared to one in three incidents of other types of crime measured by the General Social Survey on Victimization. There were more than 635,000 incidents of sexual assault reported by Canadians in 2014. In the vast majority (87%) of these incidents, the victims were women. 1 in 10 (9%) was sexual activity where the victim was unable to consent due to, for example, drugs, intoxication or manipulation. Results show that there were approximately 22 incidents of sexual assault for every 1,000 Canadians aged 15 and older in 2014. The rate of self-reported sexual assault in 2014 was unchanged from the rate reported a decade earlier in 2004. This was a marked contrast to all other types of violent and non-violent crime measured by the GSS on Victimization over the same time period. For instance, rates of self-reported robbery and physical assault—the other violent crimes measured by the survey—declined by 39% and 35% respectively. While the rate of self-reported sexual assault was unchanged over the decade, police-reported sexual assault declined by 20% in Canada. This demonstrates that, due to a range of factors, police-reported data can underestimate the nature and extent of sexual assault. As has been the case historically, few sexual assault victims turned to the police. Specifically, 1 in 20 incidents of sexual assault was reported to the police in 2014, a pattern that was unchanged from 2004. The most common reasons for not reporting to the police were that the victim perceived the crime as minor and not worth taking the time to report (71%), that the incident was a private or personal matter and handled informally (67%), and that no one was harmed during the incident (63%). In addition, more than 4 in 10 (45%) sexual assault victims stated they did not report the incident to the police because they did not want the hassle of dealing with the police. Similar proportions did not turn to the police because the victims thought the police would not have considered the incident important enough (43%), because of a lack of evidence (43%) and because they believed the offender would not have been adequately punished (40%). Rates of self-reported sexual assault varied. Overall, men were far less likely to be sexually assaulted than women. Among women, the rate of sexual assault was highest for those who rated their mental health as 'fair or poor' (204 per 1,000 population) and those who self-identified as homosexual or bisexual (155), followed by young women aged 15 to 24 (134), and women who were students (127), Aboriginal (113) and single (108). These rates were all significantly higher than the overall rates for women (37) and for men (5). Childhood abuse—that is, physical abuse or sexual abuse experienced before the age of 15 perpetrated by an adult aged 18 or older—has been identified as a serious social issue that has the potential to affect victims into adulthood. Canadians who experienced either type of childhood abuse reported a rate of sexual assault that was over two times higher than those who had not been abused (36 versus 15 per 1,000 population). This difference was more pronounced among those who had experienced childhood sexual abuse, as those individuals had a rate that was about four times higher than those who had not been sexually abused (70 versus 17). A difference was also noted between women and men: among those who had experienced either type of childhood abuse, the rate of sexual assault was over six times higher among women than men (65 versus 10). Victims of sexual assault experience a range of negative impacts. Most commonly, victims reported feeling angry (35%), or upset, confused or frustrated (21%) after the sexual assault incident. One in four (25%) victims reported that they had difficulty carrying out everyday activities as a result of their victimization. About one in six (15%) victims of sexual assault reported experiencing three or more longer-term emotional consequences, indicating the possibility of post-traumatic stress disorder. Victims of sexual assault were, in general, less satisfied with their personal safety from crime. They were also less likely to feel safe in certain situations—when using public transportation alone after dark, when walking alone after dark and when home alone after dark—compared with those who were not sexually assaulted and those who were victims of physical assault. Sexual assault victims were also less likely to report that they lived in a welcoming community. They were more likely to report that they thought crime in their neighbourhood was higher than in other areas in Canada and that they believed crime had increased in their neighbourhood over the past five years. Victims of sexual assault had lower levels of trust in neighbours and strangers, and less confidence in the police. Nearly all (96%) incidents of self-reported sexual assault were perpetrated by someone other than a current or former spouse. Offenders in these incidents were most often identified as men (94%), acting alone (79%) and under the age of 35 (68%). In addition, sexual assault offenders were more commonly a friend, acquaintance or neighbour (52%) than a stranger (44%). This article is based on the 2014 cycle of the General Social Survey (GSS) on Canadians' Safety (Victimization). The target population was Canadians aged 15 and older living in the provinces, excluding those living full-time in institutions. In 2014, the survey was also conducted in the three territories using a different sampling design. In 2014, the total sample size for the provinces and territories was 35,167 respondents. The 2004 GSS on Victimization collected information from respondents in the provinces only, while the 2014 GSS on Victimization collected information from respondents in the provinces and territories. For comparisons over time, 2014 data from Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut are excluded where 2004 data are discussed. In 2014, nearly all (96%) incidents of self-reported sexual assault were perpetrated by someone other than a current or former spouse. Spousal violence includes incidents perpetrated by a current or former spouse or common-law partner. Information about non-spousal violence is collected by incident, whereas information about spousal violence is collected as a grouping of incidents by victim and may include incidents of non-sexual violence. Spousal violence often involves repeated victimization and it would therefore be too burdensome to ask victims to recall each incident they experienced. It is not possible to provide detail about a specific incident of spousal violence. For this reason, the characteristics of sexual assault offenders and incidents, the emotional and physical consequences of sexual assault, and reporting sexual assault incidents in the context of spousal violence are excluded from this article. Information specific to spousal violence, based on the 2014 GSS on Victimization, can be found in Section 1 "Trends in self-reported spousal violence in Canada, 2014" of the publication Family violence in Canada: A statistical profile, 2014.

Delilah Belle Hamlin Husband, Net Worth, Married, Height, Age, Bio - Delilah Belle Hamlin is a famous model and Instagram star. Delilah Belle Hamlin is also famous by her parents Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin who is a popular Hollywood actor. She has played the American television series named The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. As she is an Instagram star, she has gained 752k followers on her Instagram page by posting 241 photos. Delilah Belle Hamlin isn't married but she is dating Aidan Reilly since 2014. They are sharing and uploading their photos on the social media sites. She is the children of the Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin. Her father and mother is the popular actor of Hollywood. She is very lucky that she has a grandfather and grandmother from both sides mother and father. Born in Los Angles, she holds an American citizenship. Her star sign is Gemini and belongs to the White ethnic group. Raised up in hometown with her siblings named Dmitri Hamlin and Amelia Hamlin she hasn't shared anything related to her scholastic background and academic qualification. The gorgeous model and Instagram star Delilah Bella Hamlin stand up with an appealing height of 5 feet 7 inches with the weight of 49kg. She has a well-maintained body weight although her exact body statistics is still unknown. She looks damn beauty whatever she wears and she also knows how to dress up in the different function and ceremonies. She has a perfect body with an attractive figure which looks great in the low- cut dresses. She is timeless beauty who has a silky light blonde hair and forest like green eyes that arrest the heart of billion men. A charming girl, she is gifted with all the things that are necessary to be admired and popular. She has an hourglass physique that she has maintained by doing exercise, yoga and workouts and these activities are done with the help of her personal trainer. She is very conscious about her skin and beauty so, she regularly follows her skin- routine. She regularly posts her photos by flaunting her bodies in the bikinis on the social media sites especially on the Instagram where she has gained 752k followers. Delilah Belle Hamlin estimated net worth hasn't been revealed yet. She has a handsome salary although her exact amount of salary is still unknown. She is a young actor who has done a lot of contribution to the film industry at the younger age. She is living a luxurious life as she is also the children of the popular actor Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin. She is enjoying her parent's net worth as their net worth is estimated in million dollars. She is very famous in social media websites especially on the Instagram where has got 752k followers.

Brand name of small pipe organ made by the Austin Organ Co. of Hartford, Connecticut, 1916. The Diapason July, 1916, 2. The Austin Organ Company introduced the Chorophone in June 1916. A small organ designed for the low end of the organ market, it had two manuals and four ranks (Bourdon, Dolce, Open Diapason, and Viole; 316 pipes), which were extended to provide 27 stops ranging in pitch from 16' to 2'. The contract for the first Chorophone, opus 663, for the First Christian Church in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (OHS Database ID 11739), was signed on July 5, 1916. In all, 129 Chorophones were built. The last contract for a Chorophone was signed on January 8, 1940, opus 2031, for Our Lady of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church in Washington, Connecticut (OHS Database ID 12959); the string rank in this organ was named Salicional rather than Viole. Orpha Ochse, Austin Organs ([Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society, 2001), 185-87, 562-85 ("Opus List"; Chorophone organs are marked "C," and Special Chorophones are marked "C+"). There are no entries in the database that describe organs by Chorophone.

As we emerge from pandemic, don't expand a food delivery tax that hurts families, restaurants and drivers Adam Kovacevich Stay home, stay healthy, save lives. For the past year, we've been advised to sacrifice the joys of pre-pandemic life for the health of our families and our neighbors. That includes forgoing indoor dining at restaurants and eating at home instead. So why are lawmakers in Nevada considering a measure, SB 320, that amounts to a permanent food delivery tax on families? After all, Nevadans were and are just following officials' advice. First, some history. Some delivery-oriented restaurants (think pizza and Chinese food) employ their own delivery drivers. Other restaurants choose to instead utilize third-party delivery services such as DoorDash, Grubhub or Uber Eats. They not only manage a network of drivers, but also provide delivery-related marketing, insurance, background checks, credit card processing services and customer service—depending on what the restaurant needs. These services are funded by a combination of fees paid by the restaurant on each order—which vary based on the level of service provided—and by delivery fees paid by consumers. Last year, as restaurants saw their sales drop overnight, some local governments including Clark County capped the fees paid by restaurants. These caps may have provided some relief to restaurants' budgets at a desperate time, but they also hit families' pocketbooks—at a time when families were trying to dine safely at home and support local restaurants. That's because, even though restaurants were paying lower fees, delivery services still had to pay drivers, conduct background checks and field customer inquiries — so Nevada families made up the difference by paying even more for their delivery orders in the form of increased prices or local recovery fees. Policymakers had good intentions, but they didn't foresee the consequences. One Oakland city councilmember who championed the city's fee cap said he didn't realize it would lead to increased prices for consumers. And when prices went up, families started ordering less from restaurants. DoorDash recently reported that restaurant sales volume decreased 4 percent year over year in St. Louis, and dipped 7 percent in Philadelphia—two cities where consumer prices went up because of city-imposed restaurant fee caps. That didn't just hit restaurants in those cities; it also meant hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost wages for delivery drivers. Delivery companies have been forced to reduce service to less populated areas, and sales declines meant less local sales tax generated for cities. Imposing a permanent fee cap in Nevada—as SB320 proposes—would spread these harms across the entire state. Some state and local officials have suggested that delivery services be prohibited from taking remedial steps to recover their costs. But few of the delivery services are currently profitable businesses, and their goal is to run an economically sustainable three-sided marketplace that benefits consumers, restaurants and drivers. The war on delivery services has also obscured the lifeline those services have provided to restaurants. More than 80 percent of restaurant managers reported that delivery services kept them from having to lay off staff members or cut hours. But when policymakers inserted themselves to help one party—restaurants—through fee caps, they ended up hurting families, delivery drivers and ultimately restaurants, too. These fee caps might have felt like a reasonable band-aid a year ago. But now they're leaving a rash for consumers, drivers and even restaurants themselves. So what's a better prescription for helping restaurants rebound? Gov. Sisolak plans to relax restrictions on indoor dining as early as June 1, which will help. And Rep. Dina Titus recently announced that the Small Business Administration is administering $29 billion in grants to restaurants through the Restaurant Revitalization Fund. Thanks to that program, Nevada restaurant owners are on the path to recovery. When cities and states imposed fee caps, they did so as temporary measures to respond to the pandemic. They were well-intentioned, but the negative impact is now clear. Nevada should leave the delivery fee cap in the dumpster of 2020, alongside Zoom happy hours, distance learning, and sourdough starters. Adam Kovacevich is CEO and Founder of the Chamber of Progress (progresschamber.org), a new center-left tech industry policy coalition promoting technology's progressive future.

Hi all! Today I have a very cute art card using one of Rick St. Dennis's Christmas digital image, "Christmas Dress," available at I Brake for Stamps (IBFS). If you are one of those that just have to get your rubber stamps out to feel the thrill (I know that I am), you can also find her in a single rubber stamp or in a sheet of four amazing rubber stamps. I used Spellbinder's Holly Motifs dies and cut the motifs from Old Olive cardstock. After doing the final assembly for the whole card I added some sparkle with Red Wink of Stella brush markers. I added a few red and green crystals and I think she's ready to show off her new Christmas dress. Thanks for stopping by. I hope that you stop by our IBFSblog every day. I am sure you can pick up some inspiration from some very talented designers. Check out our IBFS Facebook page for all the happenings at IBFS. I hope everyone has a great week! Stunning work, Aletha! Your coloring is beyond amazing and your card design is pure perfection! I love the fussy cut layers! It adds such wonderful dimension! OMG Aletha this is absolutely stunning! I love everything about it. Your coloring is fantastic. I'm blown away by your artwork! Not only is your beautiful coloring sheer perfection, but to find out you fussy cut that image twice! I'm amazed. The added detail of the swirls in the background give just the right touch. You are a true artist!

About Homeplace Our Buildings and barns Recipient Goat Herd at Homeplace A Working Farm Our Story: A History of Homeplace > 2019 Review News letter Log pen barn progression photos Rent Homeplace Local Event Services Spring Plow Day Fall Heritage Festival Homesteading Conference > Homesteading Conference 2023 Review of Homesteading Conference 2022 Music in the Barn > Theater in the Barn Student field days Hours and Contact volunteer contact Homestead Conference Sponsor Fall Heritage Day Sponsorship Something is always growing at Homeplace! Looking to the New Year - Big things will be Growing On The Farm in 2023 The Program Director and Board of Directors are excited to announce our plan to make major renovations to the farm starting in 2023 through an upcoming Capital Campaign we are calling: Growing on the Farm. ​ Homeplace on Green River was established as a non-profit in 2001. It has grown each year in the 21 years that it has operated. We have added programs, events, activities, and projects one at a time through the dedication of a wonderful board of directors. Until 2020, the farm was managed solely by the board. In the two years since being joined by a program Director, Homeplace has worked to strengthen our branding, our administrative side of things, and the focus of our ambition. We believe we are well poised to take steps toward the next big adventure. As stewards of this incredible place, we are tasked with the preservation of the grounds and the wonderful historic buildings on our site. To ensure they survive through this century and are enjoyed by the community, some much needed renovations must take place. Beginning in 2023, we will be launching a multiyear capital campaign to fund a massive, multifaceted renovation and improvement project. This project will have many aspects but essentially three main phases. Phase One: Raising the Barn​ Conceptual Drawing ​We plan a renovation and expansion of the historic Tobacco Barn including A poured concrete floor with a gloss finish A shed addition which will contain: Small catering kitchen A patio space Having such a beautiful and functional facility at Homeplace for rentals and events will allow us to be more financially self-sufficient and enable other more mission-centric programs and activities on the farm. Also, we believe that a beautiful facility will be something the community will enjoy for years to come when we utilize it for our festivals, vendor events, and educational programs. Phase Two: Going to Market ​ We want to make our feedlot, with is a 6000 square foot space on an incline more useable by pouring seven 40 by 24 foot concrete terraces and improving the bottom end to showcase our pond. We will call it The Market Pavillion. This space will be more handicapped accessible and just more functional. We will use it for large vendor events, produce/farmers market style spaces as well as a performance/presentation space. Phase Three: Bring it Home The historic Tate House was built in 1802 and has been partially renovated. To make the full house a useable space will require a large investment, but one that we believe is worth while. We would love for the house to eventually see it's 300th year and we have an opportunity to help ensure that it can. We plan to renovate the rest of the home and add a few modern amenities to make it a rental space. We will rent it to visitors and Event Renters, as well as hold history-focused events and possibly even use it for artist residencies and to host visiting educators. This will preserve the home while making it a source of financial support for Homeplace. Over the next few years, we will be working on grants, holding fundraising events, and reaching out to donors big and small across our region. A successful Capital Campaign will enable us to grow the farm and protect Homeplace on Green River for generations to come. This project will benefit our region as well as it will enable us to hold events that draw visitors from a wider area, boosting tourism and local businesses. Help Get Us Started! You can plant a seed at the farm today by making a financial contribution, or by committing to lending a hand later in the campaign. Click the link to learn more: #HomeplaceForTheHolidays 2022 Fall Review - Fall Family Fun in the Farm In October, we had a series of events intended for the children and families of our area. Each Sunday, we had our corn maze open, and some additional activities were provided by a variety of student groups who partnered with us to add value to the events. Harmon Furniture sponsored the events and covered the costs of all materials! On Saturday, October 22nd, we had a Homeplace Halloween, a pumpkin carving and craft event. Unfortunately, the turnout for all the events was a little low, so next year we will reduce what we offer, but we are glad we tried something new and made some great friends along the way. We would like to say special thanks to the Campbellsville University Cheer and Dance teams, the Education Club, and the Lindsey Wilson College Bonner Scholars! 2022 Fall Review - Trail Run Coming December 17th! The Homeplace Holiday Hustle is coming! Rocketpower Brands Inc. is producing an awesome 5/10 K race on December 17th. They are having the race as a fundraiser for Homeplace, and we are so excited to have folks competing and enjoying our unique trail system. This event is a great way to rid yourself of holiday cookie guilt! Sign up today at runsignup.com. 2022 Fall Review - Trail News New Trail Signs Our agrarian trail is 100% complete now with the addition of these stylish signs! Our own trail master Darren Henson designed and installed these artful metal signs along the beautiful trail. We think they look pretty sharp! A new way to support the trail! We've placed a sign at the trailhead encouraging contributions to help us keep the trails maintained and beautiful for years to come. Donating is as easy as scanning the QR code and pressing a few buttons on your phone. No amount is too small. We appreciate your support! 2022 Fall Review - Goat Update! The Goats on the farm are thriving! A second "flush" was completed last week and we are expecting babies from the first round to be born in early December! For those who don't know, a "flush" is where an impregnated goat is anesthetized and the uterus is physically flushed of fertilized eggs. Those eggs are collected and implanted into "recipient" female goats. As many as 30 fertilized eggs can be collected in one flush allowing one purebred doe to produce a vast quantity of offspring. We are in partnership with local Boer Goat breeders Chris and Marie Anderson who keep their recipient herd here at Homeplace. We just love the life these goats bring to the farm, pun intended! So stop by for a cool weather hike and check out some adorable baby goats in just a few weeks! If you are interested in learning more about how a flush works, click the "read more" link for more information and images. Please be advised, images depict a medical procedure and may be too graphic for some viewers. 2022 Fall Review - Hitched at Homeplace! This year, we were blessed to receive a small grant from the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels to make some improvements to our barn spaces. In the Historic Bank Barn, we added darling twinkle lights, a sound system, and a few high-mounted heaters. These heaters will allow our more cold-sensitive guests to enjoy events a little earlier in the spring and a little later in the fall. We were also able to put up some lovely twinkling lights in the Tobacco barn, making the space more appealing for events of all kinds. We had several couples who were able to take advantage of the improvements to the barns when they tied the knot at Homeplace this fall! Homeplace on Green River was honored to be a part of these couples' special day and we wish them all every happiness in their lives together! We are taking bookings now for 2023 and 2024! Congratulations to the Happy Couples! Alisha and Jason Pace ​Married August 27th, 2022 Meghan and Garret Haggerty Married October 8th, 2022 Cindy and Tommy Corbin Married October 21st, 2022 Destiny and Jonathan Rakes Married October 1st, 2022 Brittany and Ryan Bartley Married October 15th, 2022 2022 Fall Review - The Heartland Homesteading Conference Early last year we were approached by members of the Homestead Preparedness Network and asked if we would be interested in partnering to host and co-produce an event focused on homesteading education. What is Homesteading you ask? Homesteading is a sometimes difficult concept to put fully into words, but in its most basic iteration, it's a lifestyle focused on self-sufficiency and subsistence agriculture. For most homesteaders, this means growing one's own food and raising one's own meat, food preservation, employing the principles of permaculture, repairing one's own tools, equipment, clothing, and other items, and practicing good stewardship of the land. We realized that not only is Homeplace the perfect facility for a homesteading conference, but that these are the very values our local culture is built upon. So when we had the opportunity to partner with the wonderful Homestead Preparedness Network, we felt like it was a match made in Heaven. Thus, the Heartland Homesteading Conference was born! This three-day family-friendly conference was from September 16th to the 18th. Attendants could come for one, two, or all three of the days and had the option of camping right on the grounds so they could mingle and build new friendships. We had guest speakers from 7 different states. They did demonstrations and spoke on all these incredible topics: Cultivating fruit trees Guide to hoof health An introduction to blacksmithing Raising and breeding milk goats A beginners guide to raising Alpacas and processing their wool How to build and use a ram pump (pumps water from source with no electricity)​ Raising and processing rabbits Processing chickens Processing pigs Managing a healthy Homestead Managing a productive and prepared Homestead Medicinal herbs and trees Edible native plants Homeplace on Green River is Proud to have found a new Partner with The Homestead Preparedness Network, now called the Mutual Assistance Group Network, to organize and host Central Kentucky's Homesteading Conference. Homeplace and the M.A.G. Network share a mission to create programming and content which promotes responsible land management and stewardship, best environmentally conscious practices, self-reliance, and foster fellowship and the sharing of knowledge and resources amongst like-minded people interested in the lifestyle of homesteading. Our event was attended by over 200 people and we believe this is just the beginning. We know that the homesteading community, especially amongst the younger generation, is strong and getting stronger. While the movement has been gathering speed for several years, the pandemic most assuredly added fuel to the fire and we feel there has never been a better time to get involved in a big way with homesteading education. The next conference has already been set for September 29th-October 1st of 2023. We can't wait! Enjoy this slide show of images from the conference! Fall 2022 Review - Our Fall Heritage Festival ​The 14th annual Fall Heritage was September 10th this year. The weather just barely held off for us and it was a lovely day. The threat of rain slightly diminished attendance, but the turnout was steady and everyone had a great time. We were blessed to have the folks from the Liberty Nature Center back after a 3-year Covid-related absence. They brought their raptors which made the experience quite a hoot! The kids from the Taylor County 4-H Livestock Club were absolute rockstars. In addition to bringing their adorable animals to delight the public, they brought kids games, and informational displays, and helped with the horse rides. Thank you 4H! We are so proud to have these amazing young people on the farm. Of course we had our craft and food vendors, and great live music. Folks also enjoyed the kiddie barrel train, hay and wagon rides. All in all it was a great day! Enjoy this slide show of the events of the day! The Heartland Homesteading Conference ​ By Lyn Stanton & Billy Joe Fudge July storm rolling across the farm. ​Summer is here in all its sweltering glory. The fields are plowed and sown. Schools are out of session, their regular wards turned to lose upon their families and yards. Sidewalks are scorching and making time to visit the lake or the pool is a weekly priority for many. Each evening, the smell of cook-outs glides through the air in our towns, and ice cream just tastes its best this time of year. Farms are busy and bustling with animals enjoying the season's bounty and the days are filled with never-ending chores. All the heat, the sun, the work, the games, the time with family and friends, all these things make the fabric of life in the summer. There is such wonder and magic to it. But for all the simple joy summer brings, there is much to cause us anxiety and unease these days. Without going into many particulars, we can say 2022 is a year of uncertainty for all of us. High fuel costs, high fertilizer costs, high costs of everything, and drought conditions in Kentucky and much of the surrounding area are contributing to that sense of uncertainty. However, in the true spirit of the American Way, we are plowing forward. And at Homeplace, we are finding ways to provide some relief from economic woes with affordable rental rates, accessible family festivals, and dynamic education programs teaching self-reliance and sustainability, subscribing to that old adage about giving a fish, versus showing how to use a pole. But before we dive into whats to come, let us share with you some highlights from the year so far as we have rounded the halfway marker. We also want to make sure to thank all the great businesses and folks who have helped us this Spring! So let's take a look back to our 2022 Plow Day Spring Festival. After missing our festivals in 2020 because of Covid and a wet 2021 Plow Day, we had an extremely successful event on the last Saturday of April. Thanks should go out to all our event sponsors, demonstrators, our hardworking and devoted board members, vendors, and those that sacrificed their time and energy to stage our many events, including folks who hauled their horses and mules from all over Kentucky and beyond. Enjoy a few snap shots of the day! Spring Plow Day 2022 Slide Show We were blessed this Spring to have received a grant from our local Campbellsville Walmart, which allowed us to design and purchase two big, bright new road signs so folks can't miss us! ​Wedding announcements! ​ Congratulations Mrs. April and Mr. Danny Berry, who were married at Homeplace on June 11th. Rental price change coming in 2023! We want to let folks know that our prices will be increasing beginning in January of 2023, but all contracts made with deposits paid before then will honor the current price, so if you want to save on your event in 2023, book now! ​Something to look forward to, we received a grant from The Honorable Kentucky Colonels to improve our barns with some bling, some bass, and some heat! We have purchased heaters, a sound system, and a ton of warm twinkle lights to install in our Bank Barn! Starting this fall, our barns will have a permanent sparkle after we wrap the interior poles in the lights and in the bank barn, guests will be able to link a play list from their phone right to the sound system via blue tooth. Plus, as the weather shifts towards winter, we will be able to keep parties going with some high mounted heaters to keep our barn in use for much more of the year. ​Looking Here at the Homeplace Farm, we have been beating the heat by keeping busy and getting ready for a very busy lineup of fabulous events coming soon for our community and region. Now saddle up your mule, hitch up your britchen' and let's ride into the future. This summer and early fall are crammed full of family-friendly activities. Our calendar has never been this intense.​ On July, 14, our Goat Recipient Program will officially be born (pardon the pun) before our eyes. I know most of you are getting ready to "Google" Goat Recipient Program right about now, so let me explain. Generally speaking, there are two commercial types of goats; milk goats and meat goats. The milk goat males, of course, do not produce milk and are sold for the meat market. Their slender body type usually produces a small and low-quality carcass for the market. Consequently, many milk goat producers are using meat goat bucks to introduce hybrid vigor into their milk goat herds which produce better carcass weight and quality. Goats typically give birth to one, two or three kids (baby goats). However, they will most often produce several more embryos that will fail to develop into fetuses. Producers of valuable meat goat breeding stock such as the Boer breed do not want to waste these valuable embryos. Therefore, they often use surrogates and harvest the extra embryos from their females and implant them into females of other breeds to act as mothers for the high value Boer goat kids. Homeplace is proud and thankful to be partnering with Chris and Marie Anderson of Boerderline Goat Farm of Campbellsville, Ky. There are currently about 40 nanny goats being lodged at Homeplace which will soon become surrogate mothers to Boerderline and other area goat farm embryos. On July 14th we will have an embryologist here on the farm who will spend the entire day flushing does and implanting them into surrogates on the farm. The goats which reside here are not just surrogate mothers, but lovely and delightful little clowns who enjoy their peaceful pasture and visits from people. Soon we will have some feeders installed so that visitors can toss cracked corn and other treats. We welcome you to stop by to see them and us! ​​Trail Run! August 20th & 21st A 12 hour trail run called The Possum! For more information and to sign up, visit our website. It is run on a 5K agrarian and wooded trail with a change of scenery around every turn, over every hill and down each valley. ​ ​Fall Heritage Festival South Central Kentucky's favorite, the 2022 Fall Heritage Festival! It will be bigger and better than ever with additional family oriented programming. Craft vendors, barrel train rides, hay rides, a hay maze, petting farm, guided hikes, pony rides, a raptor exhibit and new this year, a corn maze! And don't forget the food to go along with the fun! ​Just $20 per vehicle. Heartland Homesteading Conference September 16th-18th Whether you are new to homesteading, an old pro, or just wanting to learn how to be more self-dependent during these perilous times, there is much to be learned from the many classes, booths and presentations. From blacksmithing to raising milk goats, to medicinal herbs to processing chickens, this conference is a not to be missed. Visit with old friends and make many new ones at this special event. ​ Family Farm Day We will have a butchering demonstration, an old-fashioned corn picking event, a beekeeping lecture, and more! We'll have more details soon, but make sure you put this on your calendar! October Family Fun Every Sunday in October We have planted a HUGE corn patch right next to campus and are working on carving it out into a maze pattern. Each Sunday in October we will have the maze open for visitors. We are partnering with a series of Campbellsville University, and Lindsey Wilson College student groups and will split the proceeds from admission with these partners to continue their good works. Homeplace Halloween Saturday, October 22nd 9am-3pm eastern Bring the whole family to Homeplace for a day of fun crafts and activities. Leave the mess at home, purchase a pumpkin grown right in Campbellsville from 4E Farms to paint, or carve the Hay Maze will be open, and we'll have crafts in the bank barn, games on the field, a hay maze in the bottom of the bank barn and fairy and troll houses on the trail! We are partnering with a series of Campbellsville University, and Lindsey Wilson College student groups and will split the proceeds from admission with these partners to continue their good works. Kids are encouraged to wear and show off their costumes! ​By Billy Joe Fudge ​Near the end of the last century, my oldest daughter asked me to perform the marriage blessing and prayer at her reception. This was to be my first foray into the wonderful world of marriage blessings and prayers. Given that lack of experience, I set out immediately to petition the Lord Almighty to send Divine inspiration and soon. Well, as is His nature or should I say His Super Nature, He took what I considered to be an immoderate amount of time in downloading it to me. Thankfully it arrived just in time. You may not be in the market for a marriage blessing and prayer but just in case you are, here are the first four lines of mine. "May your springs be green with renewal, May your summers be cooled by a soft breeze, May your autumns be filled with color and May your winters be warmed by your love for each other"… ​Yes, it is March, the first month of spring, and spring is indeed a time of renewal. The first plants to go green in spring are perennials. Perennials have roots that have held sugars and nutrients all winter long while waiting patiently for spring to arrive. Sunlight, warming temperatures, and spring rains trigger the movement of sugar and nutrient ladened liquids from the roots up through the stems of plants that do not suffer winter dieback such as trees. The sap travels to the end of twigs and limbs where the buds and leaf meristems use this super juice to grow new and longer stems, leaves, and flowers. Those perennials that die back such as clovers, grasses, and plants that come back from underground stems and bulbs such as onions, crocuses, etc. will usually respond earlier in the spring than woody-stemmed plants. In our WINTER 2021 NEWSLETTER I made the following statement or promise. I said, "winter is going to be chocked full of planning and growing the Homeplace on Green River/Kentucky's Outdoor Classroom brand" and that has certainly been the case. The planning is ongoing with a couple of grants applied for, the appointment of five new energetic, talented and creative board members, and the table is set for hundreds and hundreds of students to attend educational field days this year. Also, the seeds are planted for expanding existing events like our Plow Day Spring Festival on April 30th, the Fall Heritage Festival on September 10th and Family Farm Day on November 5th. Additionally, we are working on other events for the Fall, the likes of which have yet to come to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. We are still in planning, but we look forward to sharing the particulars of these when we have them sorted and are ready to unveil our plans. We have also been increasing our outreach to get the word out about our facility for rentals, and are on track to book more events this year than ever before. Our beautiful and historic campus carries the stories of countless families from our region who have celebrated life's moments at Homeplace in Green River, and we are so proud to be an integral part of people's special days. Our rental income supports our operational expenses and our Kentucky's Outdoor Classroom programming. So, we have sap already running up the stems of perennials, and seeds are planted in good soil and will soon be germinating and producing for all to see. We are excited. The future of your Homeplace on Green River/Kentucky's Outdoor Classroom is bright. It is true that it is going to be a busy spring. It is true that we need much help. It is true that you have done much and we thank each and every individual, business, or organization that has invested time and talent, and treasure to assist us in our efforts "to protect and promote rural American culture through the sustainability of agriculture and natural resources, utilizing education, conservation and the economic opportunities of agritourism". 5807 New Columbia Rd. Campbellville, Ky 42718

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Angola - 10/28/2014 Five minutes: the length of a protest in Angola Anti-government protestors who gathered on Oct. 3, 2014 in Luanda were shut down by police after five minutes, probably because someone passed information about their planned meeting to the police. (Photo posted to Facebook by Central Angola 7311) Angolan law stipulates that anyone who organises a protest must inform the authorities, who are supposed to "provide protection" for the demonstrators. But when activists do this, authorities use the information to arrest them as soon as they arrive at the designated spot. To circumnavigate the situation, a group of young people have been organising "flash mob" protests to gain a least a few minutes of activism before being shut down. The small group of activists — non-partisan and committed to fighting for freedom of expression in Angola — text each other a time and place. On the specified day, they gather — often in front of one of the ministries in Luanda, the capital - and then citizen journalists arrive, armed with cameras. They have to move fast, as they will only have a few minutes before police or soldiers arrive. This scene has been repeated seven or eight times over the past three months. The longest protest, held in September in front of the education ministry, lasted 25 minutes. The most recent, held on October 3, only lasted 5 minutes. This video, which includes a timer, shows how the protestors were arrested within 15 minutes of launching their protest on August 4, 2014. It was filmed and edited by members of Angolan collective Central Angola 7311. Police often use tear gas, water cannons and dogs on those participating in the anti-government protests, which began in 2011, inspired by the Arab Spring. Non-violent protestors are routinely beat up by police and plain clothes thugs and at least three have been killed under suspicious circumstances. Most protestors have been arrested multiple times and are sometimes held for days on end. But for the activists, each brief protest and each photo posted to Facebook works to "erode the machine" of the Angolan state, which has been run by for the past 35 years by President José Eduardo dos Santos and his party, the MPLA [Editor's note: Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola]. While the Angolan media rarely covers the arrests of protestors, this screengrab from Portuguese television SIC NOTICIAS shows the news headline that the Angolan police arrested 12 protestors at the protest held on October 3, 2014. (photo from Central Angola 7311) 'You can't do anything without police being there in a few minutes.' Luaty Beirão is a rapper as well as an activist, human rights monitor and member of collective Central Angola 7311, a group that shares information uncensored by the regime through its network of citizen journalists. The numbers refer to March 7, 2011, the date of the first organised, non-partisan protest held in Angola for 35 years. In 1977, the state massacred a large group of dissidents. Beirão has participated in three of the recent "flash mob protests." We arrange the spontaneous protests amongst ourselves — but it's hard knowing who to trust even in a small group of people. We might text 20 people, but the 21st is a police informant. Here, you never know. In Luanda, we live in a quasi-police state. If the President goes out, heavily armed police are everywhere. There are always at least two police cars parked on Independence Square. You can't do anything without police being there in a few minutes. In the five or ten minutes before the police come, our reporters are fast enough to flood the internet with pictures ,but there are still not many people who face up to the police apparatus. Most witnesses stay in the periphery to see what happens to the first group, usually made up of the same ten or fifteen people — you can count those brave souls on your fingers and toes. The protests are often very small and only a handfull of people attend, like this protest on October 3. (Photo from Central Angola 7311.) 'Sometimes we laugh at ourselves and what we call progress' Recently, however, the crowd has started shouting when the police try to take us away. This shows tiny steps toward real change. Sometimes we laugh at ourselves and what we call progress: three years after we began to protest, we are still only about 10 people doing flash mobs and maybe 100 people see what we are doing and stand around going "Yay, yay!" But there are more and more spontaneous protests and people are encouraged by the results. Two months ago, a Luanda neighbourhood broke into protest after a power cut. And guess what? The energy company turned power back on. Post by Central Angola. At 2:50, local people began to chant "Não violência!" or "No violence" as police arrested protestors. At 5:57, a woman is pushed to the ground by police. This protest was held on September 5, 2014. (Video from the Facebook page of Central Angola 7311.) 'The government has killed protestors in the past but I don't think they'll do it again.' The police are also becoming more wary of us. When I was arrested in March, the commander of a local station refused to take us because we had filed complaints about our treatment the last time. I also don't think the government will kill protestors again. They didn't expect consequences when they killed Cassule and Kamulingue because they were just two young ghetto kids [Editor's note: The two activists were tortured and murdered after trying to organise a protest in May 2012]. But we took their names, photos and stories to human rights groups. Now, what the government fears most are international arrest warrants. One boy, Elias Batama, went missing after a larger protest on October 11, 2014. When we threatened to take to the streets, the police conceded and told us he was in a certain prison. The charges against him were false, but we raised the money for his bail. This flyer was shared online after a protestor named Elias Batama disappeared on October 11, 2014 after police arrested him. He was located days later and eventually freed from prison. 'The government sent a threat letter to my grandmother last Christmas in a pretty teddy bear bag' Of course, we are still scared, but we don't allow fear to drive our decisions. The government sent a threat letter to my grandmother last Christmas. It was wrapped in a pretty teddy bear bag and said it was from a local women's group: "We, the mothers of Sambizanga, will burn your house down if your grandson continues to protest" and seemed to say that they were worried that I would "mislead" their children. But it was obviously from the government. I published the letter instead of letting it frighten me. It's ridiculous. You can laugh. We prefer to laugh in order not to cry. This is not a serious county. No institution can be taken seriously. But our struggle for freedom of expression is serious. 'If every Angolan comes out to demonstrate, the government won't kill everyone.' vice-présidente de l'association de l'association des Droits de l'Homme Justice, Paix et Justice See profile Lucia Da Silviera is the executive director of Luanda-based human rights group Associacao Justica Paz e Democracia (AJPD). Angolans do believe in the right to protest, but they don't participate because they are afraid. They remember May 27, 1977 [Editor's note: A breakaway faction of the ruling MPLA party, led by Nito Alves, led an uprising. Most were brutally killed.] Angolan citizens need to wake up. If every Angolan comes out to demonstrate, the government won't kill everyone. We are trying to build court cases to take to the African Commission and the UN. We have also been lobbying different embassies. Some people are using social media to spread the word on human rights violations. It's helping Angolans to get connected, to understand the situation in the country. It's a process, but we're making the government uncomfortable. Post written with FRANCE 24 journalist Brenna Daldorph (@brennad87) This scuffle occurred during the protest on October 3, 2014.

Mom at Sixteen Nancey Silvers Peter Werner Theme music composer Richard Marvin Bernard Sofronski (Executive Producer) Neil Roach Tod Feuerman March 2005 (2005-03) Mom at Sixteen is a 2005 Lifetime Television film about a sixteen-year-old mother, dealing with problems at school and her decaying relationship with her mother, because of her seeing her boyfriend for the first time since before her son was born. Jacey Jeffries (Danielle Panabaker) is a 16-year-old high school student and the mother of a baby boy named Charlie. Instead of giving him up for adoption as planned, she chose to keep the baby. Her mother, Terry (Mercedes Ruehl) pretends the infant is hers to allow Jacey to finish high school and lead a relatively normal life and graduate. When Jacey attends a new school, she criticizes several of the students for their promiscuous behavior during a class discussion. Jacey's opinions lead Donna Cooper (Jane Krakowski), the Health teacher, to take a special interest in Jacey. Jacey's comments are unique in that she does not have an interest in following what her classmates say. The teacher's husband, the swim coach Bob (Colin Ferguson), convinces Jacey to join the swim team. Jacey passes out after taking tranquilizers stolen from her mother and ends up in the hospital. Donna and Bob are unable to conceive and are devastated when they discover their latest round of In-Vitro Fertilization has failed. Jacey feels that matters are unresolved with Charlie's father, Brad. It is apparent that Jacey was and still is in love with him. Jacey feels guilty because Brad is unaware that Jacey gave birth. Brad currently attends college. When Jacey attempts to call him, she becomes nervous upon hearing his voice and hangs up. Donna sees Jacey with Charlie, and asks if Jacey is his mother. Although Jacey lied, many students from the school witnessed the interrogation and believe Jacey is really the mother. She begins to get teased at school for her behavior. Her secret is found out at school, when the students were asked about how guys react to what girls wear. When other students criticize her for her hypocrisy, she goes to a mothers meeting for teen mothers. After being teased at school, she leaves abruptly to see Brad. They spend the day together, and are about to have sex, when Jacey announces that the reason she left him was because she got pregnant. Brad takes the news badly and leaves. Jacey returns home and has a huge argument with Terry who hands her Charlie and tells her to handle things on her own, angry that Jacey doesn't understand the sacrifices she has made to help Jacey have a normal life. Exhausted and confused, she turns to Donna for help and advice. Donna advocates for Jacey telling her mother that she wants to be Charlie's mom to which Terry gives a speech about the sacrifices it takes to be a 'real Mom'. A few weeks later, Brad arrives at Jacey's house to apologize and tells Terry that he will make it work between Jacey and him. However, when Jacey makes a surprise visit to his school, she finds out Brad's parents will only help if a DNA test is done to prove Brad is the father; Jacey feels betrayed and leaves him. At school, Jacey gives a speech on pregnancy and teen sex, using examples from her friends from the teen mother's meeting. She gets applause and respect from her former bullies for being honest and sensible. Afterwards, Macy, her sister, gives her a DVD she had put together for Charlie for him to watch when he is older. Watching it together with Terry, the two reconcile. Later, Donna receives a call that there is a baby waiting to be adopted. Overjoyed, Donna and Bob go to adopt the child, only to find that it is Terry and Jacey who have decided to give him up to give him his best chance. She apparently remains a part of Charlie's life, as five years later she's there at Charlie's first day at kindergarten, Donna and Bob have a new baby daughter, and Bob is shown recording Charlie and asks Charlie to talk about himself. "I'm Charlie Cooper and I'm 5 years old, I got a new baby sister." Charlie tells the camera that he has two mommies and that Jacey is his special mommy and Bob asks why. Charlie replies, "because I'm the only one who knows how her heart feels from inside her." It is indicated in one scene that this is in fact the couple that was originally going to adopt him before Jacey changed her mind. Danielle Panabaker as Jacey Jeffries Jane Krakowski as Donna Cooper Clare Stone as Macy Jeffries Tyler Hynes as Brad Colin Ferguson as Bob Cooper Mercedes Ruehl as Terry Jeffries Hollis McLaren as Marlene Rejean Cournoyer as Mr. Cheevers Dawn McKelvie Cyr as Gretchen Megan Edwards as Linda Matthew MacCaull as Dr. Hughes Sabrina Jalees as Sarah Deborah Allen as Pauline Anastasia Hill as Trea Leah Fassett as Gena Scott Smith as Charlie Mom at Sixteen on IMDb

You are currently browsing the tag archive for the 'Sauvignon Blanc' tag. I was on twitter a couple of weeks ago talking to Jayson Bryant from New Zealand (twitter: @jayson_bryant) about wine when it struck me that the selection of white wine from NZ relative to Australian white wine on our shelves had changed rather dramatically over the 3 years I have been in the store. Today, our selection ratio of NZ to Australian wine is less than 1:2. 3 years ago it would have been more like 1:5. I thought that we on Bowen might not be representative of the general Vancouver market so decided to check things out in downtown Vancouver. Much to my surprise, our ratio is not markedly different to most stores. The 5 private wine stores I visited had ratios varying from 1:1 to 1:2 and then I visited the big BCLDB flagship store on Bute and Alberni. Their selection was very much closer to 1:1 and, checking the BCLDB website, the actual listings in BC for NZ white to Australian whites is 54 to 73 or very nearly 1:1! This is a dramatic shift in market balance from years ago when the Australian powerhouse dominated the two countries white wine sales in BC. How has this come about? Firstly, although there have been an increase in NZ wine selection, the primary reason the ratio is closing is that there has been a marked reduction in Australian whites in the market here. This is reflective of the shift away from all those heavily-oaked Aussie chardonnays so popular in the late '90s and early '00s. Secondly, here in BC, New Zealand was the theme country for the Vancouver Playhouse International Wine Festival (VPIWF) this year so NZ received lots of local exposure for their increasingly diverse selection of both red and white wines. Both countries still make great wines but the trend is very much in favour of NZ at the moment. While NZ is hugely strong with their Sauvignon Blancs, I was really impressed with the Pinot Gris, Gewurztraminers and Rieslings I tasted at VPIWF plus NZ Pinot Noirs are coming on in leaps and bounds with Syrahs not far behind. There are potentially lessons for the BC wine industry here too. Although our industry is younger than NZ's, the total population of NZ is the same as BC's and their domestic wine consumption is almost the same per capita as here. NZ is growing now on the strength of its export prowess not so much on its local support. Perhaps it is time that the BC wine industry focuses more on exporting than on local marketing – after all, we should have huge advantages in being next door to the USA whereas NZ is 20ookm away from its nearest large market and major competitor – Australia. On Bowen, we have already increased our NZ selection in both reds and whites and more to come in our new store (opening January 2011) I think the white ratio will drop much closer to 1:1 then. Maybe we'll even start to see the selection ratio on the reds starting to shift too. Damilano 2004 Barolo (Italy, red) – $59.90. Our first Barolo! This is a classic Italian wine and fantastic value. Tasted this recently and it punches far above its weight. You can pay a lot more for good Barolo's but this one is worth every penny (and more).

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Monte Carlo seems to producing new growth. But a lot of it is dead and frankly, it looks ugly. Wondering if I should just get rid of it or stick with it. Ludwigia Arcuata has completely melted away, took it all out yesterday. This is the second time I have failed with this plant . Lilaeopsis B is.. kinda stuck. Some melts here and there, and no sign of growth whatsoever. Decent growth in Marsilea. The root parts are all producing new growth, and quite fast I would say. I am taking out all the top halves gradually. Stargrass looked dead in the beginning, and some of the stems are indeed dead. But the rest is producing decent new growth. Cut off some tips and replanted them today. Staurogyne looks alright, but no perceivable growth yet. Some dust type algae on the leaves, but not too bad. Alternanthera Reineckii showed good signs of growth but not much progress since then. But they look healthy. Have upped my dosing. Alternating between two pumps of Tropica Specialized and Premium every day. Will cut down if required. Photoperiod still at 5 hours. Will increase by 30 mins from tomorrow. Light at 80%, approx 30 watts. Water change every other day. Temperature varies between 27 to 29 degrees (when lights are on). Wondering whether to get a cooling fan With the low humidity, it will reduce 2-3 degrees I think. But I'll have to deal with the evaporation.

For discussion of mainstream Hip Hop or Urban music. Wow, it looks definitely promising! I got a feeling this is gonna be the album the Cole fans have been expecting since FNL. "The plan was to drink until the pain over, but what's worse, the pain or the hangover?" Then reddit, Bx & a few other people posted that supposed "tracklist" Can someone tell me all the info and possible song styles rumors/thoughts we have so far? Do you guys like Born Sinner ? Chazi wrote: Do you guys like Born Sinner ?

Home REGION South East Asia Alibaba to take on KL traffic Alibaba to take on KL traffic Traffic solution: Alibaba Cloud plans to make live traffic predictions and recommendations to increase traffic efficiency in KL by crunching data gathered from video footage, traffic bureaus, public transportation systems and mapping apps Singapore, 30 Jan 2018 – Alibaba Group will set up a traffic control system harnessing artificial intelligence for Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur, its first such service outside China, as the e-commerce giant pushes to grow its cloud computing business. Alibaba Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alibaba Group, said on Monday that it plans to make live traffic predictions and recommendations to increase traffic efficiency in Kuala Lumpur by crunching data gathered from video footage, traffic bureaus, public transportation systems and mapping apps. It is partnering state agency Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and the Kuala Lumpur city council to roll out the technology, which would be localised and integrated with 500 inner city cameras by May. The partnership comes after Alibaba founder Jack Ma and Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak launched an "e-hub" facility last year, part of an initiative aimed at removing trade barriers for smaller firms and emerging nations. Alibaba Cloud, which set up a data centre in Malaysia last year, is considering a second one to further develop a local ecosystem, its president Simon Hu said on Monday. He declined to elaborate on the company's total investments made and planned for in Malaysia, but said it was "no small amount" and that the investments would continue if there was demand for cloud computing technologies. MDEC's chief executive officer Yasmin Mahmood said there was no estimate of City Brain's impact on traffic in Kuala Lumpur yet. The traffic management system in the Chinese city of Hangzhou had resulted in reports of traffic violations with up to 92 per cent accuracy, emergency vehicles reaching their destinations in half the time and an overall increase in traffic speed by 15 per cent. Mr Najib has forged close ties with China in recent years. Last year, the Malaysian leader announced a slew of infrastructure projects, many funded by China, as he worked up momentum towards a general election that he must call by the middle of this year. Previous articleStarhill Global Reit dropped 7.1% DPU Next articleJTC launched site at Tuas South Link 3 nftadmin3 Indonesia-Japan virtual forum calls for investment in Indonesia in the new normal FERRETTI Group Leads the way in the Asia Pacific Fortune Times Presents Annual Awards to REITs Companies in Asia South East Asia stocks jump on U.S.-China trade truce Malaysian scholar calls to refrain from panic-buying toilet paper

Ferris - Meaning of Ferris, What does Ferris mean? [ 2 syll. fer-ris, fe-rr-is ] The baby boy name Ferris is pronounced as FEH-RRihS †. Ferris is an English and Irish name of Irish Gaelic and Old Greek origin. From Irish Gaelic roots, its meaning is rock - in this context, Ferris can be used in the English language. In addition, Ferris is an Irish form of the Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Scandinavian name Peter. Ferris is also a form of the English name Piers. The names Faris, Farris, Farrish, Feris, Ferrand, Ferrise, and Ferriss are forms of Ferris. Another form of the name is the diminutive Ferry. See also the related categories, rock (sand), greek, and irish. Ferris is unusual as a baby boy name. Its usage peaked modestly in 1902 with 0.007% of baby boys being named Ferris. It had a ranking of #765 then. The baby name has slipped in popularity since then, and is now of sporadic use. Among the family of boy names directly related to Ferris, Peter was the most regularly used in 2017. Baby names that sound like Ferris include Fabra, Fabrice, Fabriece, Fabryce, Faerfax, Farag, Faraj, Faraz, Farcas, Farces, Farckas, Farckus, Farcus, Fareak, Fareaq, Fareik, Fareiq, Fargo, Fargoe, and Fargoh. † Pronunciation for Ferris: F as in "fee (F.IY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; S as in "see (S.IY)"

About ÆSH Æ Publication Policy For prospective Æ Authors www.linglex.pl Dr. Agnieszka Kocel Assistant Professor at Humanitas University in Sosnowiec, linguist and sworn translator/interpreter, with specialization in legal translation and conference interpreting. Agnieszka graduated from the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw in Poland, where she obtained her Ph.D. in historical phonology and discovered her present path. She has since completed two years of post-graduate training in conference interpretation, complimented with a few years of teaching experience acquired in Poland and England – places which may now lay claim both as her home, and to her heart. Academically, her interests lie in two distinctly different disciplines; linguistics, dialectology and phonology, on the one hand; and jurislinguistics with contrastive studies, on the other. 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A Story of Each, Much, Such, and Which in Middle English Dialects. The concept of palatalization has always intrigued linguists trying to find a palatable explanation for one of the most influential processes in the English phonology. Having initiated in Old English, palatalization took Middle English by storm, introducing a variety of forms, some of which have survived well into our modern times. Contrary to the popular belief, however, the process itself was far from palatable, proving lack of consistency observed across different dialects of that period. The present monograph intends to show the true, both palatable and unpalatable, character of palatalization, examining its effects exerted on four high-frequency words: EACH, MUCH, SUCH and WHICH, all of which appear copiously in the texts of the Innsbruck Prose Corpus. 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Next Article in Software Jawbone's UP24 Makes Its Way to Android By Katherine Noyes March 11, 2014 9:10 PM PT After initially launching to an iOS-only audience late last year, Jawbone's UP24 wireless fitness tracker on Tuesday finally arrived for Android. With the UP24 wristband and accompanying app, users can wirelessly sync sleep, movement and diet data to the app via Bluetooth Smart. "Now with the launch of UP24 on Android, our entire community can enjoy the benefits in real time, with continuous feedback and in-the-moment notifications to help them achieve their goals," said Travis Bogard, vice president of product management and strategy for Jawbone. Android users already have been active participants in the UP community, Bogard added. Priced at US$149.99, the UP24 wristband features a hypoallergenic, medical-grade rubber exterior with a textural design. It is available in onyx or persimmon. The new UP by Jawbone 3.0 app for Android is now available in 12 languages as a free download on Google Play. 'Idle Alerts' The UP system tracks users' movement and sleep in the background while the app displays key data; users can add data such as meals and mood. Using the system, they can track sleep and physical activity; log food and drink to track nutritional information; and set goals, with suggestions from UP. Smart Alarm and Power Nap features can wake users at an optimal time, while Idle Alerts can be set to remind users to keep moving. Users of the app also can team up with friends for encouragement and friendly competition. In addition, the app can deliver notifications of accomplishments and milestones. Languages the app supports include English, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese/Brazilian, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The UP24 wristband's battery lasts seven days. 'There's More Investment Required' While it may seem like a significant drawback to have arrived on Android so late, Jawbone's tardy appearance actually isn't all that striking, Ross Rubin, a principal analyst with Reticle Research, told LinuxInsider. In fact, another companion app for a wearable device that lagged on Android was version 2.0 of the Pebble app, Rubin pointed out. While the Android market is clearly bigger, there is also "a much broader range of devices to support," he explained. "Some support Bluetooth 4.0, some don't, and there's a whole range of screen sizes." In short, "there's more investment required in QA to optimize the appearance for screen sizes, resolutions and capabilities," Rubin said. 'Still in the Early Adopter Stage' The delay may not be significant, Jim McGregor, founder and principal analyst with Tirias Research, told LinuxInsider. "While I think launching on the Android platform would have been optimal, it was important to introduce UP as soon as possible and then add additional support and features as quickly as possible before the market becomes too crowded or — worse — dominated by a few players," McGregor explained. "We are still in the early adopter stage," he added. "As the technology, usage models and business models around wearables evolves, so will the devices. Eventually a few key players will emerge as the industry leaders, and Jawbone is in as good a position as anyone else as long as the UP platform continues to evolve." 'Novelty Items' It may be, however, that "launching without Android support is a huge minus for any wearable device, unless the feature set, connectivity and server-side support is limited," Steve Blum, president of Tellus Venture Associates, told LinuxInsider. "That's a good description of the Jawbone UP24," he noted. "It's a simple product that's attractively designed, but it doesn't do anything particularly innovative." So far, wearables like the UP24 or Fitbit "are novelty items, not must-have accessories for serious fitness enthusiasts or breakthrough lifestyle products for average consumers," Blum pointed out. Of course, "it's early days," he added. "Soon enough, someone will find the right combination of smartphone connectivity and features, server-side processing, and wearable sensors — and create a product that makes life more enjoyable and productive, with less effort and greater convenience. That's what the iPhone did after years of proto-smartphone products that didn't exactly fail but remained in the niche category." 'Solved by a Cowboy Developer' Toward that end, "you need the flexibility and developer support that the Android platform provides, including its easy integration with Linux server-side development," Blum said. "The problem will be solved by a cowboy developer, not someone living between the lines of Apple's store policies," he added. "That's why Google is coming out with a wearable SDK — and why not putting Android at the top of wearable product development priorities is a mistake." That said, "the UP24 will perform nicely as a novelty item," Blum concluded, "but my prediction is that 95 percent of units sold will be languishing in dressing table drawers within a month." Katherine Noyes is always on duty in her role as Linux Girl, whose cape she has worn since 2007. A mild-mannered journalist by day, she spends her evenings haunting the seedy bars and watering holes of the Linux blogosphere in search of the latest gossip. You can also find her on Twitter and Google+. More by Katherine Noyes An Awesome iWatch Is Apple's Greatest Challenge Nintendo Makes Health the New Name of the Game CES 2014 Trends: The Weird and the Wonderful From the Blogosphere With Love: A FOSSy Farewell Hacking as a Service Hits the Mainstream Virtual Traffic Lights Could Revolutionize City Driving Facebook Adds Amber Alerts for Missing Kids Google's Project Ara Smartphone Puzzle Is Coming Together Loving Linux in a Touchscreen World SCOTUS Seeks DoJ Input on Google-Oracle Java Dispute Auto Insurance? Just Google It Linuxy Hopes and Dreams for an Inferno-Free 2015 Kepler-438b and 442b: Are These the Planets We're Looking For? More in Software New Cyber Bill Aims To Fix Open-Source Security in Government

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ScienceForBrazil.com celebrates the achievements of Brazilian science, identifies research opportunities and funding for foreign scientists working in Brazil, and profiles technology innovation in the academic, public policy, business development and commercial arenas. Researching In Brazil The truth behind 'Snakebite Therapy' From the dusty cowboy bars of the old American West to the modern cities of South East Asia, there's an enduring myth that a shot of rattlesnake whisky will give a man extra courage and virility. And today's macho types flashing their rattlesnake cowboy boots in the bars of New York or Lost Angeles certainly perpetuate this legend. So could there be truth in the idea that venomous reptiles could in some circumstances actually be beneficial to human health? Scientists in Brazil – whose backlands are also home to some of the world's most deadly reptiles – have discovered that compounds based on snake venom can indeed help to combat hepatitis C virus. The compounds – phospholipase and crotapotin – which are derived from the crotoxin in snake venom, can indeed block entry of the hepatitis virus into cultured human cells. Scientists carried out a series of experiments, with results published in PLOS ONE, tested the antiviral properties of three compounds isolated from the venom of Crotalus durissus terrificus, the South American rattlesnake. Rattler Whisky is hardly "hair of the dog that bit you." Yet compounds in snake venom – phospholipase and crotapotin – can indeed prevent some harmful viruses. Two articles were authored by Brazilian scientists affiliated with São Paulo State University (UNESP), the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU) and the University of São Paulo (USP). One paper describes very promising results for compounds that combat hepatitis C virus, while the second looks for plant-based compounds capable of the same task. The research was conducted at UNESP's Institute of Biosciences, Letters & Exact Sciences (IBILCE) in São José do Rio Preto, São Paulo State, by the Virology Group at the Genomic Studies Laboratory, led by Professor Paula Rahal, and at the Virology Laboratory of UFU's Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBIM), led by Professor Ana Carolina Gomes Jardim. FAPESP provided funding of various types, as did the National Council for Scientific & Technological Development (CNPq), the Minas Gerais State Agency for Research and Development (FAPEMIG) and the Royal Society's Newton Fund (UK). "By treating cells with crotapotin, an antiviral effect was observed on HCV release, the only stage inhibited by this compound. Our data demonstrated the multiple antiviral effects of toxins from animal venoms on HCV life cycle," the authors wrote. The discovery is important for public health systems not only in Brazil but around the world that carry out very costly liver transplants – many of them on hepatitis B or C. For instance, hepatitis C patients alone account for 40% of all liver transplants in São Paulo. The research originated from earlier scientific discovery that some compounds isolated from animal venom have shown activity against some viruses, such as dengue, yellow fever and measles. The compounds from rattlesnake venom were isolated at the Toxicology Laboratory of USP's School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Ribeirão Preto, led by Professor Suely Vilela Sampaio. The compounds were phospholipase A2 (PLA2-CB) and crotapotin (CP). In snake venom, they are associated with each other as subunits of the crotoxin protein complex, which the researchers also tested. In a series of in vitro experiments with cultured human cells, they tested the antiviral action of the two compounds, both separately and together in the protein complex. They observed the compounds' effects on human cells (to help prevent infection by the virus) and directly on hepatitis C virus. The hepatitis C virus's genome consists of a single strand of RNA (ribonucleic acid), which is a simple chain of nucleotides encoding the proteins in the virus. Compounds derived from snakebite can be therapetic – but probably not in this whisky served in Cambodia that's powerful enough to make a camera cross-eyed. "This virus invades the human host cell to replicate, producing new viral particles. Inside the host cell, the virus produces a complementary strand of RNA, from which molecules of viral genome will emerge to constitute the new particles," Prof. Gomes Jardim told a Brazilian reporter. "Our research showed that phospholipase can intercalate into double-stranded RNA, a virus replication intermediate, inhibiting the production of new viral particles. Intercalation reduced these by 86% compared with their production in the absence of phospholipase," she said. When the same experiment was performed using crotoxin, production of viral particles fell 58% The second stage of the research consisted of verifying whether the compounds blocked the virus's entry into cultured human cells. In this case, the results were even more satisfactory: phospholipase blocked 97% of viral cell entry, and crotoxin reduced viral infection by 85%. Lastly they tested crotapotin, another compound isolated from the same rattlesnake's venom. Crotapotin had no inhibitory effect on viral entry or replication but did affect another stage of the virus's life cycle, reducing release of new viral particles from cells by 78%. Treatment with crotoxin achieved 50% inhibition of viral release. The second paper on the hunt for plant-based remedies to hepatitis C was published in Scientific Reports. It describes the action of chemical compounds against hepatitis C and was supported by FAPESP, CNPq, FAPEMIG and the Royal Society's Newton Fund. Two plant-based flavonoids that have already been shown to have antiviral action in experiments with dengue virus, were investigated. The authors tested the antiviral potential of the sorbifolin and pedalitin flavonoids derived from Pterogyne nitens, a tree known in Portuguese as amendoim-bravo. Flavonoids are compounds found in fruit, flowers, vegetables, honey and wine. The research was conducted by Professor Luis Octávio Regasini at UNESP's Green & Medicinal Chemistry Laboratory in São José do Rio Preto. To access the PLOS article, click here To read a complete article on this topic by Brazilian journalist Peter Moon, click here Brazil's best-known scientist, the veteran nuclear physicist José Goldemberg, in September 2015 took office as the president of the São… Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action on "Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages - 2015" © 2020 Science for Brazil

History of A Better Way Major Sources of Funding Audit Statement 2018 HMIS Privacy Policy Rape Crisis Center Sexual Assault and Rape Defined Sexual Assault Brochure Telecare Program Telecare Program Application Where to Turn Directory Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Resources Domestic Violence in Indiana Children and Domestic Violence Apply to Volunteer! Volunteer Brochure Hotline Volunteer Hotline Volunteer Flyer Domestic violence is a pattern of abusive behavior directed at a former or current partner, spouse, or boyfriend or girlfriend. The abuser uses fear, manipulation, and intimidation to gain power and control over the other person. The abuse can take many forms, including physical battering, emotional abuse, economic abuse, and sexual abuse, and may involve using children, pets, threats, intimidation, and isolation. Emotional abuse means intense and repetitive degradation, creating isolation, and controlling the actions or behaviors of the spouse through intimidation or manipulation to the detriment of the individual. ("Five Year State Master Plan for the Prevention of and Service for Domestic Violence." Utah State Department of Human Services, January 1994) http://buenasalud365.com/rivotril-2mg http://buenasalud365.com/trankimazin-1mg buenasalud365.com Domestic violence affects all types of people, regardless of gender, ethnicity, race, sexual identity, socio-economic status, and religion. It is also called intimate partner abuse, family violence, battering, elder abuse, teen relationship abuse, domestic battery, and confinement. Domestic violence is the most under reported crime in America. Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States; more than car accidents, muggings, and rapes combined. ("Violence Against Women, A Majority Staff Report," Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, 102nd Congress, October 1992, p. 3) One woman is beaten by her husband or partner every 15 seconds in the United States. (Uniform Crime Reports, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1991) About 1 out of 4 women are likely to be abused by a partner in her lifetime. (Sara Glazer, "Violence, Against Women" CO Researcher, Congressional Quarterly, Inc., Volume 3, Number 8, February, 1993, p. 171.; CDC, 2000) Domestic Violence & Substance Abuse: In more than 90% of cases which report domestic violence, at least one person was abusing some substances. Learn more HERE. Approximately 85% (Bureau of Justice Statistics Crime Data Brief, Intimate Partner Violence, Feb. 2003) of the victims of domestic violence are women. (Statistics, National Clearinghouse for the Defense of Battered Women, Ruth Peachey, M.D. 1988) Abuse occurs among people of all races, ages, socio-economic classes, religious affiliations, occupations, and educational backgrounds. Fifty percent of all homeless women and children in this country are fleeing domestic violence. (Senator Joseph Biden,U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Violence Against Women: Victims of the System, 1991) A battering incident is rarely an isolated event. Battering tends to increase and become more violent over time. Many abusers learned violent behavior growing up in an abusive family. 25% – 45% of all women who are battered are battered during pregnancy. Domestic violence does not end immediately with separation. Over 70% of the women injured in domestic violence cases are injured after separation. Nearly 2.2 million people called a domestic violence crisis or hot line in 2004 to escape crisis situations, seek advice, or assist someone they thought might be victims. Studies show that access to shelter services leads to a 60-70% reduction in incidence and severity of re-assault during the 3-12 months follow up period compared to women who did not access shelter. Shelter services led to greater reduction in severe re-assault than did seeking court or law enforcement protection, or moving to a new location. (Campbell, JC, PhD, RN, FAAN. Anna D. Wolf, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, Protective Action and Re-assault: Findings from the RAVE study.) To reduce domestic abuse, sexual assault and suicide in our community through shelter services, crisis intervention and prevention initiatives. Tweets by @ABWMuncie Quick Exit and Hide History

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The way this season has been going, the Cubs were due for a pleasant surprise. The Chicago Cubs are now 1-4 early in the new season. Walt Lemon, in just his third game with Chicago, was one of seven Bulls in double figures in the matchup of teams whose seasons will end without a playoff appearance. With rain in the forecast in Chicago for almost all of Thursday, the White Sox have postponed their home opener by a day. The Atlanta Braves took advantage of six Chicago errors to beat the Cubs 8-0 on Monday night. Injury-plagued Chicago has lost five straight.

There are two stories that inform our celebration of Christmas. The first one, of course, is Santa Claus. And what's not to like about Santa? Santa Claus is cheery, indulgent, gives gifts without any expectations, and is the perfect house guest— he arrives, drops presents, and then leaves after only about 10 minutes. You don't even need a clean house for his arrival. But when he's gone, he's gone. And even a few hours later, if your house is anything like mine, the excitement of opening the presents has been displaced by fatigue from too much candy and crabby kids and adults who need a nap. The other story of Christmas, as we hear from the Gospel of Luke, is not a story meant to cheer us up in the middle of the winter blues. It's not a story of technological gifts or piled up riches or indulgence of rich foods. Instead, it speaks to the true hungers in our lives. It's a story that sticks with us long after we put the nativity away, because it tugs at the dreams we have for our world; the hopes we hold for ourselves; and it holds within it the very essence of who God is. The people of the Bible, Abraham's lineage and the Kings and the prophets all try to tell us throughout Scripture who God is. And their descriptions are vast— the Bible is truly a wonderful collage of descriptors about God— from mighty and powerful to merciful and just; from strong and loud like the wind to soft and quiet like our very breath. But here, tonight, we get to see how it is that God describes God's self. For here, in Je-sus we see how God chose to come into the world— as a vulnerable baby. It's a story that never gets told too many times, because it's about a world not so differ-ent from our own. How much of our news is filled with things we should be fearful of. Mary and Joseph live in a world like ours in many ways. It is a world that is violent, judgmental, and fearful. As with all superpowers, the Romans are afraid of losing their control, their power, so Emperor Augustus decides to make sure that everyone registers in their own hometown— after all, you can't be in control of people unless you know where they are. So Mary and Joseph set out. Not on a winter vacation, not to visit rela-tives, not even to get away before the baby is born. They set out on a mandated trip on dangerous roads in the most inconvenient time there was— right when Mary was due to have a child. There are no medical excuses or ways to get out of this edict. This is a dictatorship after all, so they go. They walk day after day after day, and when they arrive, there is no room for them anywhere— for they are just two people among all of the people who have come to register in Bethlehem. For those of you who are parents, you know that there are never convenient times to have children. But for Mary and Joseph, this must've been the most inconvenient time they could think of. And for years I have wondered, why then, Lord? Why was it neces-sary for Jesus to come right then? This year, however, it struck me that if we look at it from God's perspective, the time was never convenient either. When is it ever conven-ient to send your son into a place of such darkness? When has our world ever been at peace for more than fifteen minutes so that God could send Jesus into a different kind of world? We tend to focus on God being all powerful and mighty and strong and omnipresent. But the part of God's self that God chooses to reveal in Jesus, is quite different. Jesus comes as God's own son, not born to a military leader who will think he can keep him absolutely safe; not born into a rich family that will think they can protect him from life's troubles; not born into a famous family that will believe that their name will protect him. Jesus is born into one of the most vulnerable situations we could ever fathom— he is born to an unwed teenage mother, to a father who knows it is not his child, and as a refugee in a town where the King will soon search him out as a threat to the kingdom. In Jesus God wants us to see God's own self— humble, vulnerable, loving, dignified, honest, peaceful, patient, kind. As Jesus grows into adulthood, we will see that he is respected and loved by his followers not because he fixes all of their problems or fights all of their enemies, but precisely because he loves them for who they are; expects the best from them; treats all people with dignity; and lives a life fully grounded in sharing God's love to everyone. God's great risk is that Jesus came to earth at all— the ending is uncertain; the conse-quences great; and yet Christ came. God's great risk continuously in our lives is that vulnerability is stronger than dominance; peace is more influential than war; love is more powerful than hate. We can see it from the very beginning. The angels choose to go to the shepherds— not the high and mighty— to share the good news. God chooses Mary, a faithful peasant girl, who is young enough to be open to this grand miracle inside of her. And humble Joseph couldn't have been too prideful or he would've broken off the engagement when he found out about the pregnancy. None of them are living in a perfect world; or a peaceful world; or a safe world. And God comes anyway. God chooses to risk it all with those people willing to be vul-nerable who are open to receiving and sharing God's Word. And God didn't stop there. God risks everything each and every day with you and with me, inviting us to be part of sharing God's light. Because that's who God is. The light of God came into the world and the darkness did not overcome it. The light of God continues to come into this world, over and over again. May we be bearers of that light by sharing our own vulnerability with each other. May we be bearers of that light by sharing God's love with this world. May we risk ourselves so that we can truly bear the light of Christ tonight and tomorrow and in the new year.

136 days after we launched our Alpha Preview, I'm excited to announce the Mondo Public Beta! Over those 136 days, three thousand users have tested the app, sent their feedback, and made suggestions on our community forum, spending more than £1.5m in total across the world. What's new in the Beta? Anyone with an iPhone can now download the Mondo app from the App Store! If you're on the waiting list, you can see exactly where you are in the queue, and invite more friends to move forward in line. If you live in the UK (and are aged 18+), and manage to get to the top 1,000 of the waiting list by this Sunday evening at midnight, we promise to send you a Mondo card (our MasterCard® Prepaid Debit card) early next week. After that, we'll continue to send out a thousand Mondo cards every week, to get many more of you onboard. We're no longer London-only! If you sign up, we'll send your card directly to your home address anywhere in the UK. We've been testing this over the last few weeks and we can't wait to get many more people cards. Mondo users can now send instant P2P (person-to-person) payments to any other Mondo user with just their phone number. Split the tab, share grocery expenses, repay borrowed money – the world is your oyster and it's all secured by Touch ID. Many of the same caveats still apply to the Mondo Beta as they did to the Alpha, although we have made some huge improvements over the last few months. From day one, our philosophy has always been to focus on making something people want. To achieve that, we're committed to launching prototypes early to see how people react, before improving the product based on that feedback. It's important to note that you won't yet have access to 'full banking' features like Direct Debits or Faster Payments. As we continue to work towards our banking license later this year, we'll be looking to implement these as soon as we are able. The Beta is still iOS-only, but we are launching our Android app later this year. If you're an Android developer, come and help us! Your feedback is invaluable in helping us refine the product, so please keep it coming! You can reach us on Twitter, join our community forum, or email us with any questions or suggestions – we'd love to chat! The term "Mondo Card" refers to the Mondo MasterCard® Prepaid Debit card. MasterCard is a registered trademark of MasterCard International Incorporated. The Card is issued by Wirecard Card Solutions Ltd ("WDCS") pursuant to licence by MasterCard International Inc. WDCS is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority to conduct electronic money service activities under the Electronic Money Regulations 2011 (Ref. 900051).

There will not be school on Monday, January 18, 2021. 3 days ago, La Grande School District Eastern Oregon University Head Start is Now Enrolling! La Grande School District K-6 Grades Are Back On-Site! LGSD has an opening for a Paraeducator I at Central Elementary and for a temporary Frosh Volleyball Coach to finish the 2020-21 season only. For more information and how to apply, please see Employment Opportunities under the menu on the La Grande School District website, lagrandesd.org. LGSD has an opening for an Online School Coordinator. The position is a half-time, temporary position that requires a valid Oregon Teaching License. For information and how to apply please see our website at lagrandesd.org. 10 days ago, La Grande School District Thank you to our La Grande School District Board Members! La Grande School District has an opening for an Assistant Track Coach (Jumps and Hurdles). Please do not click the "Apply Now" button offered by Facebook, but go to our website at lagrandesd.org and select the Employment Opportunities page. School is back in session on Monday, January 4th with all grades in Comprehensive Distance Learning. Grades K-6 will be on-site, starting January 11th. We have the potential to have grades 7-12 on-site on January 27. January 4-8 - ALL Students in Comprehensive Distance Learning January 11 - Grades K-6 back On-Site! January 27 - Grades 7-12 MAY return to On-Site Learning. Hot off the press! A new La Grande Pride newsletter from the La Grande School District is now available. The newsletter features articles on student resilience, Anne March and Leslie Graham (two LGSD teachers, trauma informed care, and our school nurses. https://5il.co/o2v1 about 1 month ago, La Grande School District Please tune in tonight at 6:30 p.m. LGSD Town Hall Wednesday, December 16th 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Connect Via LGSD.TV or La Grande School District on Facebook. Submit a question by emailing reopening@lagrandesd.org. LGSD will look for trends in questions and answer those on Wednesday night. Please connect to the LGSD Town Hall via LGSD TV (lgsd.tv) or the La Grande School District Facebook page. The update will include: Current COVID-19 Data for Union County January 2021 Educational Planning Vaccine Survey and Distribution Presenters: George Mendoza, Superintendent Scott Carpenter, Director of Educational Programs Carrie Brogoitti, Center for Human Development Dr. Zachary Spoehr-Labutta, Grande Ronde Hospital Please support LHS ASB at their hot chocolate drive-thru! December 16th, 11 am - 1 pm, in front of La Grande High School. Thank you! LGSD will remain in Comprehensive Distance Learning with restricted Limited In-Person Instruction as we enter into our Winter Break period. Current data for Union County for (11/22/20 - 12/5/2020): Absolute case count: 156 Positivity Rate: 12.9% La Grande School District has an opening for its Business Director position. Please see our Employment Opportunities page on our website for more information. https://www.lagrandesd.org/page/employment-opportunities about 2 months ago, La Grande School District La Grande School District has an opening for the CTE Coordinator position at La Grande High School. Please see our Employment Opportunities page on our website for more details. https://www.lagrandesd.org/page/employment-opportunities La Grande School District has several openings for paraprofessionals. Please see our Employment Opportunities page of the lagrandesd.org website for more details. https://www.lagrandesd.org/page/employment-opportunities The Island City Elementary Poinsettia Sale! Thursday, December 3rd from 12 pm to 7 pm Island City Elementary Gymnasium Come by to select and take poinsettias home and to your loved ones. For prices and more information, please see the Island City Elementary website at https://ice.lagrandesd.org/o/ices The La Grande School District currently has openings for a Para I at Greenwood Elementary and a Para II at La Grande High School. Please see our Employment Opportunities page on our website at lagrandesd.org.

Sinkhole, after the rains came… and came… and came Feb 19, 2014 | General Blog On Saturday morning I stepped out into the street after climbing out of bed at the crack of 10.30 only to spy police cars and a small crowd at the top of the street. Asking a neighbour what the fuss was I was told that the road had been closed because of the sink hole. Now get that phrase right, it was the sink hole not a sink hole, the implication being that everybody knew about it, as should I. Scratching my head and squinting my bleary eyes I considered going back to bed but decided this was the sort of thing that I really ought to pay attention to, but not until after breakfast. If my neighbours and I were going to tumble into the Hell Mouth as seen on everything from Hollywood blockbusters to the recent documentary on Florida's sink holes, I was going to make sure I didn't have an empty stomach. Who knows what dining opportunities there are in Hell, although I imagine they are tastier than those in Heaven. (Heaven for the weather, Hell for the company as the song goes and I imagine that applies to their eateries too.) Before long there was all manner of kafuffle going on outside including a helicopter hovering in a position that seemed to be just outside my front window and, strangely, there is one again as I write my account two days later. Let's hope, then, that having spent the weekend doing more interesting things this is still early enough for me to jump on the topical bandwagon. Taking a wander up the road it turned out that the hole was really close, less-than-those-signs-on-the-motorway-that-say-it's-300-yards-to-the-junction close. I'd say the thing is 250 yards away on the corner of a street of new houses built less than five years ago. There wasn't much to see apart from some guy in hi-vis clothing apparently digging a hole, which didn't seem to be very sensible no matter how you considered it. The various nice policemen didn't really have much to say other than that they'd evacuated seventeen houses and that things were now under control. Returning home I was on the phone to a concerned relative when a neighbour came into the room and interrupted, suggesting that she'd been told that we might have to evacuate. Suddenly I found myself thinking of the vast house swallowing sink holes in Florida as described on a BBC Horizon documentary only two weeks ago. Apparently the problem in Florida is a layer of clay on top of porous, water soluble, rock, often limestone. The houses are built on the clay which remains stable while water, over thousands of years, erodes the rock beneath. Eventually the rock is no longer sufficient to support the remaining clay which collapses when it either dries and cracks or softens at times of high rain fall and drops into the void beneath. Hertfordshire is completely different to Florida in terms of landscape. Hertfordshire is hilly and temperate whereas Florida is flat and has alligators. However there are similarities in that Hertfordshire has chalk hills beneath a layer of clay instead of limestone as they have in Florida. When you begin to think about it it's surprising that Hertfordshire isn't more known for sink holes as chalk is considerably softer than limestone, more porous and, you might imagine, more easily washed away. Could there really be voids beneath us? It seems sink holes are becoming more frequent occurrences and the recent spate of them in the UK are ascribed to the extraordinary amount of rain we've had this winter. In many cases it seems that the clay itself has washed away and in some places there might have been in filled clay pits that have opened up again. With all the recent rain the culprit would seem clear but there is talk of a water leak. Judging by the size of the hole you might imagine that there would have to be a lot of water leaking for a long time. So the neighbour interrupting my phone call with the single word 'evacuation' lent an air of credible fear to what had until then been a curiosity at a safe distance. A 35ft wide hole twenty feet deep is no concern but add an official hint of further evacuation, even at this apparently safe distance, and the imagination runs wild. My mind began to visualise thoughts that I'd not had since they switched on the Large Hadron Collider with the consolation that if the world got sucked into a black hole at least France would be sucked in a few seconds before Britain. From the mention of possible evacuation my 250 yards of safety collapsed into nothingness. A few minutes later there was a knock on the door with a policeman asking me to move my car from the road because of the congestion. He could have been asking me anything but in that moment he triggered a full evacuation panic complete with thoughts of, 'What could I live without?' and, 'What should I absolutely take with me?' Strangely my physical possessions seemed unimportant and I was mostly concerned with my PC, software and data. What does that say about me? Moving the car, as I prepared to load-up never to return, I found myself encountering sinkhole tourists. Talking to the police later it turned out that there hadn't been any advice regarding further evacuations and my neighbour had merely been told by a policeman that if he was in this situation he'd have a bag packed ready to leave. Having said that even the mistaken experience of having to leave and wondering what to save brings the whole experience home to you and it makes you feel for the poor souls who have had to get out of their homes at a moment's notice. One resident told the story of not even being able to grab her purse. What must that do to your life when your home contains everything you own and is your place of refuge? Running away to Colchester until the following day I watched the excellent new Lego Movie, which interestingly turns upon the main character, Emmet, falling down a sink hole where he begins his journey to become a hero, his perceptions are challenged, he transforms, and so the world transforms with him. It's a brilliant film, you don't have to have kids, I don't and I still had a great time. If you ever had Lego as a kid, and who didn't, you'll enjoy to it even if it's recognising the colours of the original bricks. Leaving the film is was still early so we wandered around Colchester thinking about pubs and beer and soon headed for the excellent music venue The Bull. It you don't know The Bull it's a proper old fashioned live music venue with bands in the main pub and a second stage in The Soundhouse out the back. Colchester seems to have a thriving live music scene, something that Hemel Hempstead once had but that seems to have been killed after the changes in public entertainment regulations some years ago. The judgemental blue noses of Hemel have finished off the local music scene and left us with a soulless town with nothing going on other than bars that are little more than corporate run alcohol warehouses while Colchester is thriving and vibrant. impassioned The main bar in The Bull was just a little too packed so we tried out the back. Walking into the Soundhouse we found the excellent cover band The Kicks playing a truly brilliant selection of mod, punk and rock. Their performance was tight and energetic with tracks mostly taken from the seventies and early eighties with a bit of leeway for the best tracks from decades either side. When they dropped in a couple of Blur tracks or other more recent material the fit was perfect. If anything the crowd didn't seem to appreciate what they were listening too, as their response to The Kicks' impassioned rendition of All or Nothing (Small Faces) was a bit lukewarm. But perhaps I'm older than I'm prepared to admit and the rest of the audience didn't have the same association with the music. Talking to the band after, swapping stories of Steve Marriot (late lead singer of the Small Faces), I happened to mention that I'd come all the way from Hemel to see them and it seemed news of our local sink hole had reached Colchester. Okay that wasn't strictly true as I'd come over to see the film and generally have a night out, The Kicks were serendipity. Over night it had occurred to me that we used to talk of subsidence but these days we speak of sinkholes. Returning home on Sunday the house was still there, as were the police. The nice policeman sitting in the car playing with his iPhone (because he had little else to do) said that the engineers had explained that subsidence is the movement of land whereas sinkholes were already there. In this case nobody had been prepared to commit either way. I was particularly pleased, when I looked over towards the hole, to see another three policemen gingerly venturing towards the edge of the Hell Mouth to get a better view. Indeed there was a hole, and the police were looking into it. Lady Danni Morinich on February 26, 2014 at 8:24 pm Just goes to show when escaping a sink hole, the only way is Essex. jackbarrowuk on November 25, 2014 at 9:08 pm The road reopened today after nine months. If I ever find out any more about what they spent so long filling in I'll post an update. If anyone else has any information I'd be grateful if you could post it here.

Darksiders Warmastered Edition Brings The Apocalypse To PS4 Pro In 4K On Nov 18, 2016 1:00 pm, by Jack McBastard This November, return to the biblical hellscape of Darksiders Warmastered Edition, where Metroidvania meets Revelations, now in 4k on PlayStation Pro. A game that I have personally described as "Bram Stoker's Legend of Zelda", Darksiders can now be experienced on current gen consoles like never before. Deceived by the forces of evil into prematurely bringing about the end of the world, War – the first Horseman of the Apocalypse – stands accused of breaking the sacred law by inciting a war between Heaven and Hell. In the slaughter that ensued, the demonic forces defeated the heavenly hosts and laid claim to the Earth. Hunted by a vengeful group of Angels, War must take on the forces of Hell, forge uneasy alliances with the very demons he hunts, and journey across the ravaged remains of the Earth on his quest for vengeance and vindication. Unleash the wrath of War, combining brutal attacks and supernatural abilities to decimate all who stand in your way. Wield a devastating arsenal of angelic, demonic and Earthly weapons; and blaze a trail of destruction atop Ruin, War's fiery phantom steed. Battle across the wastelands and demon-infested dungeons of the decimated Earth in your quest for vengeance and redemption. Uncover powerful ancient relics, upgrade your weapons, unlock new abilities, and customize your gameplay style. Battle against all who stand in your way – from war-weary angelic forces to Hell's hideous demon hordes. Darksiders Warmastered Edition Features: 4k support for PC and PS4 Pro Native 1080p rendering resolution for other console platforms Doubled all the texture resolutions Rendering improvements and rework 60 FPS in moment to moment gameplay (30 for WiiU) On November 22, Darksiders Warmastered Edition will release on Sony's PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The PC version will release on November 29, and the Wii U version will follow at a later date. Jack McBastard is a contributor for AYBOnline. His opinions are his own. He is also somewhat of a loose cannon and was asked to turn in his badge and gun, but will still pursue the case while he's on suspension no matter what the chief says. darksiders Darksiders Warmastered Edition Jack McBastard Metroidvania THQ Nordic War

Versions: (draft-eastlake-dnsext-2929bis) 00 RFC 2929 INTERNET-DRAFT Donald E. Eastlake 3rd Bill Manning Expires: June 2000 February 2000 Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations ------ ---- ------ ----- ---- -------------- Distribution of this draft <draft-ietf-dnsext-iana-dns-00.txt>, which is intended to become a Best Current Practice, is unlimited. Comments should be sent to the DNS Working Group mailing list <namedroppers@internic.net> or to the authors. This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months. Internet-Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as a ``working draft'' or ``work in progress.'' http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt Internet Assigned Number Authority (IANA) parameter assignment considerations are given for the allocation of Domain Name System (DNS) classes, RR types, operation codes, error codes, etc. D. Eastlake 3rd, E. Brunner, B. Manning [Page 1] INTERNET-DRAFT DNS IANA Considerations February 2000 Status of This Document....................................1 Abstract...................................................1 Table of Contents..........................................2 1. Introduction............................................3 2. DNS Query/Response Headers..............................3 2.1 One Spare Bit?.........................................4 2.2 Opcode Assignment......................................4 2.3 RCODE Assignment.......................................5 3. DNS Resource Records....................................5 3.1 RR TYPE IANA Considerations............................7 3.1.1 Special Note on the OPT RR...........................8 3.2 RR CLASS IANA Considerations...........................8 3.3 RR NAME Considerations.................................9 4. Designated Expert......................................10 5. Security Considerations................................10 References................................................10 Authors Addresses.........................................12 Expiration and File Name..................................12 The Domain Name System (DNS) provides replicated distributed secure hierarchical databases which hierarchically store "resource records" (RRs) under domain names. This data is structured into CLASSes and zones which can be independently maintained. See [RFC 1034, 1035, 2136, 2181, 2535] familiarity with which is assumed. This document covers, either directly or by reference, general IANA parameter assignment considerations applying across DNS query and response headers and all RRs. There may be additional IANA considerations that apply to only a particular RR type or query/response opcode. See the specific RFC defining that RR type or query/response opcode for such considerations if they have been defined. IANA currently maintains a web page of DNS parameters at <http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/dns-parameters>. "IETF Standards Action", "IETF Consensus", "Specification Required", and "Private Use" are as defined in [RFC 2434]. 2. DNS Query/Response Headers The header for DNS queries and responses contains field/bits in the following diagram taken from [RFC 2136, 2535]: 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ | ID | |QR| Opcode |AA|TC|RD|RA| Z|AD|CD| RCODE | | QDCOUNT/ZOCOUNT | | ANCOUNT/PRCOUNT | | NSCOUNT/UPCOUNT | | ARCOUNT | The ID field identifies the query and is echoed in the response so they can be matched. The QR bit indicates whether the header is for a query or a response. The AA, TC, RD, RA, AD, and CD bits are each theoretically meaningful only in queries or only in responses, depending on the bit. However, many DNS implementations copy the query header as the initial value of the response header without clearing bits. Thus any attempt to use a "query" bit with a different meaning in a response or to define a query meaning for a "response" bit is dangerous given existing implementation. Such meanings may only be assigned by an IETF Standards Action. The unsigned fields query count (QDCOUNT), answer count (ANCOUNT), authority count (NSCOUNT), and additional information count (ARCOUNT) express the number of records in each section for all opcodes except Update. These fields have the same structure and data type for Update but are instead the counts for the zone (ZOCOUNT), prerequisite (PRCOUNT), update (UPCOUNT), and additional information (ARCOUNT) sections. 2.1 One Spare Bit? There have been ancient DNS implementations for which the Z bit being on in a query meant that only a response from the primary server for a zone is acceptable. It is believed that current DNS implementations ignore this bit. Assigning a meaning to the Z bit requires an IETF Standards Action. 2.2 Opcode Assignment New OpCode assignments require an IETF Standards Action. Currently DNS OpCodes are assigned as follows: OpCode Name Reference 0 Query [RFC 1035] 1 IQuery (Inverse Query) [RFC 1035] 2 Status [RFC 1035] 3 available for assignment 4 Notify [RFC 1996] 5 Update [RFC 2136] 6-15 available for assignment 2.3 RCODE Assignment It would appear from the DNS header above that only four bits of RCODE, or response/error code are available. However, RCODEs can appear not only at the top level of a DNS response but also inside TSIG RRs [RFC XXX3] and OPT RRs [RFC 2671]. The OPT RR provides an eight bit extension resulting in a 12 bit RCODE field and the TSIG RR has a 16 bit RCODE field. RCODE Name Description Reference 0 NoError No Error [RFC 1035] 1 FormErr Format Error [RFC 1035] 2 ServFail Server Failure [RFC 1035] 3 NXDomain Non-Existent Domain [RFC 1035] 4 NotImp Not Implemented [RFC 1035] 5 Refused Query Refused [RFC 1035] 6 YXDomain Name Exists when it should not [RFC 2136] 7 YXRRSet RR Set Exists when it should not [RFC 2136] 8 NXRRSet RR Set that should exist does not [RFC 2136] 9 NotAuth Server Not Authoritative for zone [RFC 2136] 10 NotZone Name not contained in zone [RFC 2136] 11-15 available for assignment 16 BADVERS Bad OPT Version [RFC 2671] 16 BADSIG TSIG Signature Failure [RFC XXX3] 17 BADKEY Key not recognized [RFC XXX3] 18 BADTIME Signature out of time window [RFC XXX3] 19-3840 available for assignment 0x0013-0x0F00 3841-4095 Private Use 0x0F01-0x0FFF 4096-65535 available for assignment 0x1000-0xFFFF Since it is important that RCODEs be understood for interoperability, assignment of new RCODE listed above as "available for assignment" requires an IETF Consensus. 3. DNS Resource Records All RRs have the same top level format shown in the figure below taken from [RFC 1035]: | | / / / NAME / | TYPE | | CLASS | | TTL | | RDLENGTH | +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--| / RDATA / NAME is an owner name, i.e., the name of the node to which this resource record pertains. NAMEs are specific to a CLASS as described in section 3.2. NAMEs consist of an ordered sequence of one or more labels each of which has a label type [RFC 1035, 2671]. TYPE is a two octet unsigned integer containing one of the RR TYPE codes. See section 3.1. CLASS is a two octet unsigned integer containing one of the RR CLASS TTL is a four octet (32 bit) bit unsigned integer that specifies the number of seconds that the resource record may be cached before the source of the information should again be consulted. Zero is interpreted to mean that the RR can only be used for the transaction in progress. RDLENGTH is an unsigned 16 bit integer that specifies the length in octets of the RDATA field. RDATA is a variable length string of octets that constitutes the resource. The format of this information varies according to the TYPE and in some cases the CLASS of the resource record. 3.1 RR TYPE IANA Considerations There are three subcategories of RR TYPE numbers: data TYPEs, QTYPEs, and MetaTYPEs. Data TYPEs are the primary means of storing data. QTYPES can only be used in queries. Meta-TYPEs designate transient data associated with an particular DNS message and in some cases can also be used in queries. Thus far, data TYPEs have been assigned from 1 upwards plus the block from 100 through 103 while Q and Meta Types have been assigned from 255 downwards (except for the OPT Meta-RR which is assigned TYPE 41). There have been DNS implementations which made caching decisions based on the top bit of the bottom byte of the RR TYPE. There are currently three Meta-TYPEs assigned: OPT [RFC 2671], TSIG [RFC XXX3], and TKEY [work in progress]. There are currently five QTYPEs assigned: * (all), MAILA, MAILB, AXFR, and IXFR. Considerations for the allocation of new RR TYPEs are as follows: 0x0000 - TYPE zero is used as a special indicator for the SIG RR [RFC 2535] and in other circumstances and must never be allocated for ordinary use. 0x0001 - 0x007F - remaining TYPEs in this range are assigned for data TYPEs by IETF Consensus. 0x0080 - 0x00FF - remaining TYPEs in this rage are assigned for Q and Meta TYPEs by IETF Consensus. 0x0100 - 0x7FFF - assigned for data, Q, or Meta TYPE use by IETF Consensus. 0x8000 - 0xFEFF - Specification Required as defined in [RFC 2434]. 0xFF00 - 0xFFFF - Private Use. 3.1.1 Special Note on the OPT RR The OPT (OPTion) RR, number 41, is specified in [RFC 2671]. Its primary purpose is to extend the effective field size of various DNS fields including RCODE, label type, OpCode, flag bits, and RDATA size. In particular, for resolvers and servers that recognize it, it extends the RCODE field from 4 to 12 bits. 3.2 RR CLASS IANA Considerations DNS CLASSes have been little used but constitute another dimension of the DNS distributed database. In particular, there is no necessary relationship between the name space or root servers for one CLASS and those for another CLASS. The same name can have completely different meanings in different CLASSes although the label types are the same and the null label is usable only as root in every CLASS. However, as global networking and DNS have evolved, the IN, or Internet, CLASS has dominated DNS use. There are two subcategories of DNS CLASSes: normal data containing classes and QCLASSes that are only meaningful in queries or updates. The current CLASS assignments and considerations for future assignments are as follows: 0x0000 - assignment requires an IETF Standards Action. 0x0001 - Internet (IN). 0x0002 - available for assignment by IETF Consensus as a data CLASS. 0x0003 - Chaos (CH) [Moon 81]. 0x0004 - Hesiod (HS) [Dyer 87]. 0x0005 - 0x007F - available for assignment by IETF Consensus as data CLASSes only. 0x0080 - 0x00FD - available for assignment by IETF Consensus as QCLASSes only. 0x00FE - QCLASS None [RFC 2136]. 0x00FF - QCLASS Any [RFC 1035]. 0x0100 - 0x7FFF - assigned by IETF Consensus. 0x8000 - 0xFEFF - assigned based on Specification Required as defined in [RFC 2434]. 0xFF00 - 0xFFFE - Private Use. 0xFFFF - can only be assigned by an IETF Standards Action. 3.3 RR NAME Considerations DNS NAMEs are sequences of labels [RFC 1035]. The last label in each NAME is "ROOT" which is the zero length label. By definition, the null or ROOT label can not be used for any other NAME purpose. At the present time, there are two categories of label types, data labels and compression labels. Compression labels are pointers to data labels elsewhere within an RR or DNS message and are intended to shorten the wire encoding of NAMEs. The two existing data label types are frequently referred to as ASCII and Binary. ASCII labels can, in fact, include any octet value including zero octets but most current uses involve only [US-ASCII] For retrieval ASCII labels are defined to treat upper and lower case letters the same. Binary labels are bit sequences [RFC 2673]. IANA considerations for label types are given in [RFC 2671]. NAMEs are local to a CLASS. The Hesiod [Dyer 87] and Chaos [Moon 81] CLASSes are essentially for local use. The IN or Internet CLASS is thus the only DNS CLASS in global use on the Internet at this time. A somewhat dated description of name allocation in the IN Class is given in [RFC 1591]. Some information on reserved top level domain names is in Best Current Practice 32 [RFC 2606]. 4. Designated Expert To provide additional support to IANA in the DNS area, the IESG MAY appoint a designed expert. This document addresses IANA considerations in the allocation of general DNS parameters, not security. See [RFC 2535] for secure DNS considerations. [Dyer 87] - Dyer, S., and F. Hsu, "Hesiod", Project Athena Technical Plan - Name Service, April 1987, [Moon 81] - D. Moon, "Chaosnet", A.I. Memo 628, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, June [RFC 1034] - P. Mockapetris, "Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities", STD 13, November 1987. [RFC 1035] - P. Mockapetris, "Domain Names - Implementation and Specifications", STD 13, November 1987. [RFC 1591] - J. Postel, "Domain Name System Structure and Delegation", March 1994. [RFC 1996] - P. Vixie, "A Mechanism for Prompt Notification of Zone Changes (DNS NOTIFY)", August 1996. [RFC 2136] - P. Vixie, S. Thomson, Y. Rekhter, J. Bound, "Dynamic Updates in the Domain Name System (DNS UPDATE)", 04/21/1997. [RFC 2181] - Robert Elz, Randy Bush, "Clarifications to the DNS Specification", July 1997. [RFC 2434] - "Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", T. Narten, H. Alvestrand, October 1998. [RFC 2535] - D. Eastlake, "Domain Name System Security Extensions", [RFC 2606] - D. Eastlake, A. Panitz, "Reserved Top Level DNS Names", June 1999. D. Eastlake 3rd, E. Brunner, B. Manning [Page 10] [RFC 2671] - P. Vixie, "Extension mechanisms for DNS (EDNS0)", August [RFC 2672] - M. Crawford, " Non-Terminal DNS Name Redirection", [RFC 2673] - M. Crawford, "Binary Labels in the Domain Name System", [RFC XXX3] - P. Vixie, O. Gudmundsson, D. Eastlake, B. Wellington, "Secret Key Transaction Signatures for DNS (TSIG)", xxx 2000 (draft- ietf-dnsind-tsig-*.txt). [US-ASCII] - ANSI, "USA Standard Code for Information Interchange", X3.4, American National Standards Institute: New York, Authors Addresses Donald E. Eastlake 3rd 65 Shindegan Hill Road Carmel, NY 10512 USA Telephone: +1-914-276-2668 (h) +1-508-261-5434 (w) email: dee3@torque.pothole.com 1415 Forest Avenue Portland, ME 04103 USA Telephone: +1 207-797-0525 email: brunner@world.std.com USC/ISI 4676 Admiralty Way, #1001 Marina del Rey, CA 90292 USA Telephone: +1 310 822 1511 email: bmanning@isi.edu Expiration and File Name This draft expires August 2000. Its file name is draft-ietf-dnsext-iana-dns-00.txt.

Welcome to the DFS Army NHL Game Break!! You have to start your research somewhere, and often times going game by game thinking about matchups and key players is the first step in our process. I'm your buddy @LowOwnedWR and you can find me out on Twitter talking hockey and football, even a little WNBA. But, you'll really find me in our VIP coaching forums inside coaching and detailing plays and strategic hockey maneuvers in an attempt to make our members better, more fundamentally sound players. If you are looking for it, we cover it as a team! Follow me, follow us, interact with me, interact with us, we welcome it all. The first thing I do when starting my research is to look for strong teams facing weak defenses. I want the best odds I can find to score goals. I like the old Corsi number, as it denotes any shot attempt directed towards the net. It doesn't matter if this shot attempt goes wide, gets blocked, or finds the back of the twine. You can't score if you don't shoot. I also love the "High Danger" metrics. These shots come from the slot (between the dots) and off quick passes or rebounds. They are what they say they are, and teams allowing a lot of high danger chances also tend to give up goals in bunches….perfect for the DFS player to attack. If you have questions regarding these numbers or this chart, don't hesitate to ask me on our coaching forums. Simply tag me (same name as my twitter name) and let's get on the same page. First and foremost, I'm here to teach people wanting to learn the DFS side of this glorious frozen sport. Carolina Hurricanes: If the Hurricanes can limit the penalties and not leave Ovechkin wide open when they do draw them, this is very much still a series. Washington only had 18 shots on goal and blocked almost double the number of shots than Carolina at 17 to 9, so the Hurricanes clearly gave Washington some work. The value of CAR1 makes it hard to look away from them, Niederreiter-Aho-Faulk stack is where I would go. Washington Capitals: To expect Washington to have under 20 shots again is just foolish, while I like Carolina, I also like Washington, the total of this game is just too low. Backstrom, Ovechkin, Wilson stand out once again, them with Carlson makes for a great 4 man stack. For GPPs a pivot down to WAS2 stands to give you leverage and save salary, but WAS1 is viable in all formats. Dallas Stars: I am looking to Seguin and Radulov again as I respect the total set for this game, so I am not looking outside of the studs here. Heiskanen just scored 2 goals and has been averaging over 2 shots a game over his last 10, at only $4200 on DK, he looks like a stud to me tonight. Nashville Predators: With Bishop in great form and Dallas playing sound hockey, it is hard to love Nashville tonight. Outside of Josi and Subban, I want nothing here. Toronto Maple Leafs: To what became a surprise to far too many, the Maple Leafs took a 1-0 lead in this series. The whole top 6 looks to be in play again, Tavares and Marner are coming off a hot game but with the value that comes with TOR2 you should be able to get TOR1 at low(er) ownership tonight. Boston Bruins: DeBrusk looks to be in danger of missing this one which would be a decent hit to Boston's top 6. This team lives and dies by its first line and that is as far as I like to look when rostering them tonight. Colorado Avalanche: I am not letting one Mike Smith shut out take me off of MacKinnon. For GPPs you stand to gain a lot of leverage while rostering COL1 as most people will be off of Colorado entirely after putting up a goose egg. Outside of COL1, I am not looking to stack any other line here. Calgary Flames: The forward depth we knew this team had, came out to play in game 1 and I do not expect them to stop here. Tkachuk had a great performance and his linemates Backlund and Frolik remain cheap, letting you get exposure to the heavy favorites without breaking the bank. Mike Smith (BOTH): Following a shutout and a great performance by the boys in front of him, he is the safest grab at a W on this slate. Ben Bishop (GPP): Nashville offensive production just hasn't been there lately and the goal total reflects that. Grabbing the road goalie on a game with an implied total of 5.0 is a sound GPP move.

Can we get back to Richard Blumenthal. Remember him? The DEMOCRATIC candidate for Senate whose multiple lies about serving in Vietnam over the course of multiple years dominated an entire 24 hour news cycle. The guy whose dissembling of his own words was Clintonesque in the extreme, as in "it depends upon what the meaning of 'in' is." The guy around whom DEMOCRATS are rallying so strongly you'd think he had abused an intern. The guy for whom it was not enough to be an academic and political superstar, he had to be a war hero as well. The guy who was rescued when Rand Paul discussed, quite honestly, the dilemma of balancing individual freedom of association and speech with the need for racial equality and non-discrimination. Can we please get back to talking about politicians who look you straight in the eye and lie? Randy-g May 22, 2010 at 9:34 AM Blumenthal has me nail spitting MAD! Steal the honor and bravery of those in the military to embellish your own sorely lacking personality. It's hard for most politicians not to lie when at least 3 presidents have been caught in them: 1. Bill Clinton - master of the art of aw shucks lying and of lifting consideration of the oft unappreciated word, "it" to national prominence all of which endeared him to a nation. 2. Richard Nixon - Dark and solemn practitioner of lies with deep meaning and consequences. 3. George "Baby" Bush - master of the "What? Who, me"? school for the deft handling of uncovered lies. The technique also includes a component titled, "and don't tell my mother. lies. Blumenthal is small-time and potatoes. We're accustomed to upper strata political lies now. This is a minor distraction and, oh well, he really didn't mean it to be taken that way or to go that far. If he apologizes, everything will be OK, right? It's come home, all is forgiven time. Ease up on a guy with a nice address. Beer, Bicycles and the VRWC May 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM He didn't just "lie". He lied about service to this country, claimed he was a COMBAT VETERAN. And did it for his own gain. This isn't just a "white lie". And for Dems to rally around him is even more reprehensible than their cheering of the Mexican President as he bashed Arizona. In another day, all this is treason of a high order. Teresa May 22, 2010 at 10:06 AM Blumenthal is a liar! He was trying to pull one over on the American people. He is such a disgrace and I really hope he loses the race. J. E. Burke May 22, 2010 at 10:55 AM No question Blumenthal is a repulsive liar while Rand Paul is just a nit-wit. There is a terrific scene in "NYPD Blue" (season 2, episode 17 -- "Hollie and the Blowfish") in which Andy gets furious at a loudmouth cop for lying that he was Andy's brother in arms during the Vietnam War. he drags the guy into a corner and tells him nose to nose that he can lie about everything else but not about serving in Vietnam and if he won't, Andy will beat the crap out of him. Anyone who knows how to extract this scene from the video and put it up online as an example of what most Americans would like to say to Blumenthal will have a blog post that deserbedly gets millions of hits. Antimedia May 22, 2010 at 5:13 PM Surely you don't think a lying politician is more newsworthy than a raaaaaccccciiiiiisssstttt! politician??? DINORightMarie May 23, 2010 at 8:20 AM Alinskyites and Communists are happy - Rand Paul speaking honestly gave them what they crave: a target to attack and polarize. Using the ever-popular-with-the-leftists raaacist meme. A page out of Rules for Radicals, almost a classic implementation of Rule 13. Just what the voodoo witch-doctor ordered. Why attack a "comrade" like Blumenthal when he agrees with you? Liars like to protect fellow-liars, dontcha know?! Lawler Walken May 23, 2010 at 11:36 AM If you're old enough to remember what it was like in this country during the Vietnam war you can only sit back in some kind of weird awe and fascination that it's now become a badge of honor to have been in combat in that war, so much so that politicians will mislead and lie about it. Because back when, it was fashionable to be anti-war, to have marched and demonstrated and even rioted in your opposition to the Vietnam war. It shaped the popular culture of the day and long after, the music, the movies, the books, and many a political career was made from having the right anti Vietnam war credentials. And now? Not so much I guess. It's better to be seen to have strapped it on and done your bit. Even if you didn't. Why is that? So awesome to see this cross-posted on Hot Air! Congrats! Rob Crawford May 24, 2010 at 10:39 AM Somehow, I doubt "SAMHENRY" could actually name a "lie" of President George W. Bush. Rattle off lots of things he's been told are lies? Sure. Name something that was an actual lie? No.

When you were a child, who did you want to be when you grow up? Are you grown-up? If yes, are you who you said you wanted to be? If yes then great! Does it mean you stop growing? If no, then it means you are still growing up right?! Did who you want to be change along the way and/or is it still changing? Too many questions?! I know... (Wink)! All of these questions are leading me to another question; what does it really mean when we ask children "who do you want to be when you grow up?" The question seems to imply that when you become that person you want to be, growth suddenly stops but is that really the case? Would we say there is an end point to growth or is it continuous? Would a better question be, "who would you like to be or what would you like to do asyou grow up? Does "who/what do you want to be when you grow up" sound limiting or close ended versus "what/who would you like to be or do asyou grow up?" What are your thoughts? Who are you in this moment? "Who would you say you are; tell the listeners/watchers who you are." Each time a guest on the Sitmpod is asked this question, I sometimes ask myself the same question and reflect/write it down to see if something changed from the last time I asked/answered the question. To the listeners/watchers of the Sitmpod interviews, do you ever find yourself asking/answering that question? If yes, what has been your response? Does it change over time or does it remain the same? If you have never asked yourself the question; who am I, I challenge you to ask yourself that today. Make a note of it, then ask the same question 3 months from now, 6 months and a year later. Then find someone to share what you discover. You don't necessarily have to be an entrepreneur to ask/answer that question because there might come a time during your journey in life where/when you might be faced with such a question. It is part of being self-aware and assessing self-growth. Yes, you guessed right! This is inspired by Michelle Obama's book; BECOMING. There is something about how she told her story, even better how she read it (via audible). Something about it that I can't find the right words to describe. This book gave me a renewed sense of self. It is the longest/thickest book I have listened/read thus far. I had too many 'ah ha' moments, awakening and or re-awakenings. Here with some highlights from the book that spoke to me; bold italics are words from the book. "Failure is a feeling long before it becomes actual which is escalated by... and fear."This reminded me of moments where I visualized myself failing at something before I even attempted. I would replay thoughts of what I would do if I failed. Sometimes fear kept me from even trying. I am learning to feel/acknowledge the fear, face it rather than dismiss it and still give it a try because in life we either win or we learn. We only lose if we don't approach the situation with an open mind and learn the lessons when the outcome is not what we wanted or expected. Fear can make us doubt our abilities. "Am I good enough?" There were instances where the author questioned herself; her college admission experience, during the initial presidential campaign as well as re-election and a number of times while she was first lady. I once came across an acronym for fear; Face Everything And Riseor Forget Everything And Run. "What others think of you can keep you stuck in living with other people's expectations... It is one thing to get yourself out of a stuck place, it is another to get a place unstuck." This line got me emotional because in it lies a part of my story/journey. First I would say that it is easier to get yourself unstuck than it is to get a place or group of people unstuck. I've learned in my journey thus far that at the very least, your immediate family wants what is best for you to the best of their knowledge/experience. To the extent that their expectations could either keep you stuck or propel you forward in a direction other than what you may envision for yourself or that which they may envision for you… Sounds like a mouthful; reread it again! :) Nonetheless, I have come to realize and understand that family wants the best for you which may be a different concept of what you consider 'best' for yourself. The author reported failing the bar exam, it reminded me of when I failed the Pharm Tech board exam. Like her I felt like a failure; did I fail because I wasn't smart enough or was it because I really wasn't passionate about it? Well I took the exam again and failed. It could be argued that I gave-up easily or it just wasn't my journey but I would say that the underlying reason why I was propelled in that direction meant well for me. "Find fulfillment in what you do… purpose… life is short to waste it doing that which isn't fulfilling. There's no straight line between effort and rewards." In other words, success is a rocky road, if you find purpose and fulfillment in what you are doing, you will endure the challenges but if you don't then there's a chance you'll easily give-up. There came a point when the author finally decided on what she truly wanted to do despite the pay cut, she "put herself in front of anyone who would give her advice, narrowing down the widened understanding of what's possible and how others have done it." This is how my journey to a non-traditional professionalwas. Also, this is what the Stuck in The Middle Podcast(Sitmpod) is about, bringing you stories of how people are breaking the mold and how you can go about it. About one-third through the book, I was constantly checking to see how much was left because I felt like my mind/brain wasn't grasping the information anymore. Like I previously mentioned, this was the thickest/longest book I have read/listened to thus far. I was about to switch to a different book for a couple of days when I noticed something different in the author's voice (tone) with regards to how she ended chapter seven and introduced the next... "Chapter Eight: Barack Obama was late on day one!"In the book, this line is written in all capital letters (haha!). This to me meant, it was about to get interesting! So I kept listening/reading. She took pride in being early or at least on time as she stated… "In life you control what you can...arriving early."Situations happen and it is all about communication rather than expecting the other person to magically figure it out. As individuals, we tend to expect from others the characteristics we ourselves portray. For example, if you are dependable, trustworthy, loyal, honest or…(ect) you tend to expect or at least hope that others would be same or you would draw closer to those who portray same or similar characteristics and drift away from those who don't. To be continued… but in the meantime, have you read this book; BecomingBy Michelle Obama? If so what are your thoughts? If not, what are your thoughts from the perspective(s) shared?

Britain is on course for a "decade of disruption" in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union, a report has warned. Brexit has delivered a "profound shock" to the UK's political and economic order which is likely to damage growth and living standards until 2026, according to centre-left think tank IPPR. The report said the upheaval comes at a time when Britain's rapidly ageing population threatens to put new strains on the state, with the funding gap for adult social care expected to hit £13bn by 2030-31. It said: "Brexit is the firing gun on a decade of disruption. "Even as what we do and how we work changes, the UK is likely to remain trapped in a low growth, low interest rate decade driven by demographic shifts, productivity trends, weak investment, weak labour power, high levels of debt, and the headwinds of a slowing global economy. "Without reform, our political and social system will struggle to build a more democratic, healthy society in the decades ahead, even as Brexit accelerates us towards a radically different institutional landscape." It adds that "exponential" improvements in new technologies will put two-thirds of jobs at risk of automation in the 2020s.

Mind Maps are not a new invention, they have been used for over 30 years. Tony Buzan is credited with developing the process. With the advent of software that makes it easy to create and share, mind maps have experienced a resurgence. I use them for everything, planning clients' website redesigns, project management, the works. Here is a link to a mindmap I created with a colleague to help plan a teleseminar. The great thing about mind maps is that they show you the big picture and the details at the same time. You'll note that you can see how all the pieces fit together and how revenue will be generated. They are easy to do and a paper and pencil works too. Try it and let me know how you used it to help you reach your business goals. Also, you can download my self-assessment map and refer to it as a model for creating your own Time vs. Revenue analysis. Want to hear about how to become more valuable and do amazing work to help you survive and thrive in this recession? Of course you do! So check out Mindjet's November Newsletter. My column is there (shameless plug) along with really very talented visual mappers like Chuck Frey and Brian Friedlander who give you their take on the new MindManager 8. It is chock full of MindManager 8 tips & tricks as well as information on upcoming live webinars for everyone considering an upgrade to version 8. If you want to change the way you work, visual mapping is for you! Anyone who reads this blog knows I'm an evangelist for all things Mind Mapping. I'm particularly excited about the new release of MindManager 8 by Mindjet. It's a quantum leap for mind mapping tools. The big takeaway is that you can now share working maps with anyone regardless of whether they own the software! Also in this version you can stay within the working map while you link to databases, create project tasks and search the web. You asked -what are the elements of a Mind Mapping session? I often mention Mind Mapping in this blog as a way to create and problem solve. Several of you have asked me to detail the basic elements of a mind mapping session so that you can get started. Depending on where I am, I will use software (MindManager 7 from Mindjet is my favorite) or some form of paper and pens. 2. A way to view the map as a 'big picture'— It's very important to be able to stand back and see the map as a whole. You can use a wall, computer screen, a pad or anything you can step back from and see the entire map at once. 3. A flexible way to move ideas around—This is where the tools become really important. If you write on a sheet of paper, you'll have to redraw the map to suit the structure you develop. If you use sticky notes or a computer, you can move things around at will. Being able to recognize patterns and shape the map is key to a great outcome. 4. A way to stimulate creative thinking—Here's where the use of colors, pictures and anything else you want to throw into the mix will help stimulate better ideas and help you remember what you mapped. 5. A way to document and update your map—Don't forget that part of the mapping process is to let it incubate and further your thinking over time. You'll need to come away with something that is tangible so you can review it and stimulate more ideas. If you've got lots of maps or they are large, grab your digital camera and make sure to capture all of it. Do you feel that your product or service is so unique that you just aren't sure how to find your customers? In my Mindjet newsletter column this month I present a case study about How to find the perfect customer for your product. In the article you'll find a link to a mindmap template you can use to help find your perfect customers. Check out my February column called "Create a Mailing List Building System with MindManager Pro 7" in the Mindjet.com Monthly Newsletter. It shows you how to use a mailing list to take your successful business to the next level and includes a map template you can use to build your own system. If you use Mind maps, check out my new Mindjet newsletter column where I have a free MindManager 7 dashboard template you can use to track your company's buzz. Also, if you're so inclined, fill out the form in the column to tell me about your online marketing issue. If I choose your issue, I'll create a free mind map to show you how I'd deal with it and it will be published in the newsletter. Also, let me know if you use the buzz tracking dashboard and if you have any feedback. Anyone who has read my blogs or looked at my website knows that I think mind mapping is an essential tool. BusinessWeek Online, Sept. 25th, has a short blurb called "A Mind Map From IDEO'S David Kelley." He sums up the use of mind maps perfectly when he says, "When I want to do something analytical I make a list. When I'm trying to come up with ideas or strategize, I make a mind map." Small business owners often find themselves having to strategize alone—no big staff, no input, just a blank page and a bunch of ideas. If you face this on a regular basis, a mind map will help pull out the information you need to create a plan and build an effective strategy. I have some samples on my website I call DigiMaps. Take a look at them, teach yourself the very easy process and you'll see that it can help you create a solid strategy in half the usual time.

An artist from Japan 3D prints Fujin and Raijin Kabuto 3D printing helps us create rapid prototypes of things that are likely to get into our pockets and on our tables in the nearest future. 3D printing is the most suitable way to re-create pieces of history which would otherwise be either untouchable or off-limits on museum shelves behind the glass. Sure with the development of new technologies these relics can be recreated and redesigned into completely new objects. That was the assumption of the recent competition that was held by i.materialise Japan. The task for "Kabuto Design Challenge" was to rediscover kabuto – helmets of Japanese samurais – making use of additive manufacturing. To help the competitors recreate the helmets i.materialise Japan organized Russ Ogi (mixed-media artist and competition juror) to 3D print a very special pair of kabuto, inspires by Raijin and Fujin – the gods of thunder and wind cherished in Japan. Ogi started with trying to find something in common between two sources of inspiration. Even though he clearly understood that he had to create two different objects, he wanted to make sure they could be exhibited together. Bearing this in mind, he studied everything that focused on the twins and Japanese characters to come up with the way of how to make this idea come true. He also tried not to take into account modern trends and influences on the images and concentrated on what life was like in the times when kabuto was worn. Ogi carried out some research and found out that Japanese God of Lightning and Thunder Raijin and Japanese God of Wind Fujin had been seen together. Such a string cultural connection of the pair became a suitable topic of the project. Those gods can also be seen in paintings, sculptures and even tattoos. The challenge for the creator was to recreate those figures in an unusual way and to keep the recognizable at the same time. Ogi managed to single out the distinctive features for each of the gods – drums for Raijin and the bag with wind in it for Fujin. So he started creating the ultimate designs that were then to be 3D printed. Ogi explained that the first design element for Raijin he came up with was the ring of drums with which he created thunder. He decided not to include the exact ring of drums at the back of kabuto, but to add the drums into the front chest (the maedate) and the ear-like wings (fukigaeshi) as if the drums were drifting into the arch. Additionally Ogi included the tomoe symbol to the final design. The symbol was quite common during those times. To develop the Fujin kabuto Ogi used a single horn as the central feature. The most difficult part in creating the design, according to the designer, was to decide where to include the bag of wind – the kazebukuro. From the outside the bag looked like an air-filled material bag having a soft rounded shape. But as it was a war helmet, Ogi wanted it to have elements that were solid and forceful. Wooden statues of Fujin and Raijin at Sanjūsangen-dō, Kyoto, Japan Ogi added a couple of final details to the kabuto pieces – a beard and the armor, but he found it relatively difficult to develop colorless parts. This feature is used very often to see what the pieces would really look like. Without colour he also had to determine how to tell the difference between two pieces. But he didn't want them to look completely different, he want them to create an impression of twins – not in the sense that they originated from the same world, but the sense that they were together as a pair. Now we still don't know where and when the audience will be able to witness the ready kabuto. But it's clear that there are not so many things that are more marvelous that 3D printed samurai helmets. New to 3D Printing? Check out our 3D Printing basics section, find the answer on popular question what is 3d printing or what types of 3d printers exist, and learn about many other interesting things. University of Massachusetts in Lowell Develops New Conductive Ink for Electronic Radar Parts Dentists Create Dental Materials with Form 2 SLA 3D Printer How To Print The First Road-Ready 3D Printed Car The Use of 3D Printing in Reviving the Statue of Zeus in Olympia Students from University of Arizona successfully launched 3D printed rocket 3D Printer Wanhao Duplicator 5S Mini Prototype Supply PLA 3D Printing Filament 1.75mm White 3D Printer MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop BioHybrid Robots and 3D Printed Parts 3d Stuffmaker – Mega Prusa 3d Printer Kit