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'Tis the season of goodwill and festive cheer, so let me brighten up your railway with this quick and cheap way of adding lights to your layout.
In the past I've written about wiring up LEDs. As discussed, these little lights are normally powered by a suitable DC supply and with appropriate circuitry (such asTrain Tech's marvellous mini LED controllers mentioned in the article) can create a pleasing glow or flicker in your buildings.
They do require a power supply and wiring however and while I use them in various places on my layout I'm always on the look out for easier and cheaper options.
It was while admiring the festive decorations Mrs. MRE was putting out, and some imitation candles she'd picked up in a local shop in particular, that a thought dawned on me.
Basically, these are just an LED, battery and perhaps a few other bits and wires encased in a tea-light style package dressed up to look like a candle.
Discarding the outer casing and bury the contents inside the buildings on a layout and they produce an effective illumination for a fraction of the price it would otherwise cost. (Pending the candles you get, some have a built-in flicker effect, such as the ones I used. If you've got these, they make ideal bonfire flame effects).
They probably don't have a long life and need turning on individually* but if you're looking for a quick, simple and above all cheap way of bringing lights to your model railway buildings nothing can hold a candle to Christmas decorations.
Update: Thanks for @passengeraction for the following extra tip:
hook up a pair of AA to them though and they run for an absolute age!
— Passenger Action (@passengeraction) December 21, 2016
Now to explain to my wife why we don't have as many Christmas decorations as before…
* You can get remote control versions but these cost more which defeats the point of this tip.
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Snow: Forgive us our typos and our trespasses
In Latin class at Carolina, I sat next to the son of the prominent opera singer Lauritz Melchior. During our classroom friendship, he shared an amusing anecdote involving his father.
During a New York performance, the opera's heroine rides across the stage on a horse. As the diva ascends to the aria's climax, the almost incredible but ultimately inevitable occurs. The horse answers the call of nature – on stage before a packed audience.
As the audience sat in stunned silence, Melchior cried, "There's always a critic!"
The audience roared with laughter and applause.
Journalists in particular can appreciate Melchior's comments. We have legions of eagle-eyed and opinionated critics. And that's as it should be.
On a recent Sunday, an Ayden reader forwarded a letter to the editor from another Eastern North Carolina newspaper. He had circled eight grammatical errors.
On that same Sunday, I received my own comeuppance from reader Allen Spalt. "I liked your notes on the hummingbirds," he wrote. "But they can't get to South America in 500 miles, as you stated. That would barely take them to the Gulf of Mexico which they have to cross.
"However, your error was minor compared to the Sports section headline that read: 'Coleman leads No. 2 Baylor past West Vaginia.' I didn't know you could report on such games in a family newspaper. But it's a good week that begins with a smile," he concluded.
Some errors are made out of ignorance; others out of carelessness. I meant Central America, of course, not South America. But readers know only what we wrote, not what we meant in such cases.
Nevertheless, I'm amazed at how few errors appear on our newspaper's pages and pages of copy, much of it written and edited under the pressure of deadlines.
Still, accuracy is the newspaper's watchword.
When a journalism professor once quoted Joseph Pulitzer's comment that "Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman," a student's hand went up.
"Oh, no, it's not the same," she said. "After all, a newspaper can always print a retraction."
NCSU 'stomped?'
As President Bill Clinton said during his Congressional impeachment hearing into his Monica Lewinsky affair, "It all depends on what your definition of 'is' is."
I thought of that when I read a sports page headline, "Clemson stomps State."
First, let me commend our Sports staff for their expertise in coming up with a plethora of different headlines to describe the results of the dozens of sports events played in a single weekend.
I just feel that losing by 15 points to powerhouse Clemson in a high-scoring 56-41 game doesn't deserve such a demeaning verb as "stomps."
Perhaps it does. What is the point spread breaking point between, for example, "stomped" as opposed to "defeated?"
I salute our sports guys and gals on their colorful vocabularies as well as their imaginative and colorful writing.
Check out their skills some Sunday morning and enjoy their panorama of action verbs used in sports pages headlines. Here are a few examples: edges, survives, tops, holds off, beats, hands loss, crushes, slaughters, smashes, bashes, embarrasses and many others.
Reader Jim Richmond, who also was given the three-word memory test during a recent visit to his doctor, explains that the test is a requirement by Medicare and the Affordable Care Act.
"When I got home, I realized the doctor had forgotten to ask me about the three words at the end of the visit," Jim said. "When I e-mailed them to him, the doctor got a kick out of it and said, 'I must be slipping.'"
Set out a maple
If you're thinking of upgrading your landscaping or are just starting a new lawn, I implore you: Include a maple tree or two.
We have two. During this autumn's dreary monsoon season, they actually illuminated the lawn and for a month or longer even spread their cheerful, golden glow through the windows.
For years, we mailed maple leaves to the Florida grandchildren for "Show and Tell."
Palm tree fronds have nothing to say.
As I write, the maples, shimmering in the dusk, bring to mind lines from Rudyard Kipling's, "When Earth's Last Picture is Painted":
And those that were good will be happy;
They shall sit in a golden chair
They shall splash at a ten league canvas
With brushes of comets' hair ...
We're grateful for the maples that brighten our small part of Nature's ten league canvas.
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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a local Medicare fraud case that challenges the federal government's freezing of a defendant's assets before trial even if they are not traceable to criminal activity.
The petition, brought by Miami criminal defense attorneys Howard and Scott Srebnick, asserts that the government violated the constitutional rights of their client, home healthcare operator Sila Luis, when Justice Department prosecutors froze her "untainted" — or substitute —assets.
Luis was charged with conspiring to defraud the Medicare program of $45 million. But her criminal prosecution was put on hold while she contested the government's seizure of her untainted assets, which prevented Luis from hiring the criminal defense attorney of her choice.
In 2013, U.S. District Judge Paul Huck allowed prosecutors to take such action against her, a ruling that was upheld by a federal appeals court in Atlanta. The Supreme Court will now review the case during its next term.
Last year, the Supreme Court ruled against Howard Srebnick's petition challenging the government's pre-trial seizure of a defendant's "tainted" assets derived from criminal conduct.


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A collaboration with Something and Son.
We worked with Something and Son to help create an aquaponics system to farm fish and chips. This project explores potential food production techniques; the greenhouse provides growing conditions, including light, temperature and nourishment for potato plants, pea plants, and fish in specially adapted tanks creating a zero waste energy cycle and miniature ecosystem. Our role focused on developing the lighting control and sensors for the project. The fish and chips were grown in a polly-tunnel, situated on the roof of Folkestone Academy school, during Folkestone Triennial festival 2014.
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July 2, 2007
Thomas Mennecke
AllofMP3.com was perhaps the only online music store where hardcore members of the file-sharing community would spend money - other than newsgroup access. For a few cents per track, customers could download songs from a catalog of millions without any type of DRM (Digital Rights Management). Additionally, AllofMP3.com offered alternative file types such as OGG, FLAC, WMA, and AAC. AllofMP3.com claimed this was legal, as a portion of their income went to the Russian royalty collection agency ROMs. The music industry claimed otherwise.
This began a lineage of assaults on AllofMP3.com which slowly chipped away at this Russian music store. The key word is "slowly" as it took nearly three years to wind up where we are today - the final closure of AllofMP3.com.
The IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) tried to convince Russian prosecutors to pursue AllofMP3's parent company, Media Services, in 2005 with little success. At the time, Russia's copyright laws were antiquated as to not even address digital infringement. Because of this, the IFPI was
they "don't have much chance of succeeding" if they attacked the Russian digital music retailer. Charges were eventually dropped against Media Services.
While AllofMP3.com was able to skirt around the IFPI's legal pursuit, it couldn't hide from the Office of the US Trade Representative. In its annual report, the USTR singled out AllofMP3.com as a serious problem in Russia.
"Despite some improvements in IPR enforcement this year, the United States continues to have serious concerns about the continued increase in optical disc pirate production in Russian plants and the growth of Internet piracy on Russian websites such as www.allofmp3.com."
The importance of the USTR's report weighed heavily on the Russian Federation's accession into the World Trade Organization. A country with a favorable reputation on copyright enforcement would more likely become a member of the WTO than one that does not. And the Russian Federation, with its booming energy economy, wants few other things than to be a member of the WTO. Even if it means shutting down a site that may or may not be legal.
With the USTR standing against AllofMP3.com, the IFPI struck again. In October of 2006, the IFPI lobbied credit card companies Visa and MasterCard to reject payments to AllofMP3.com. The tactic
, as AllofMP3.com's customers lost their mainstream method to purchase music.
"IFPI drew to Visa's attention the fact that allofmp3.com was not licensed by its members," an IFPI spokesman told Ars Technica. "Visa has a policy position of not supporting such sites and had its facilities removed accordingly. In fact, the facility was removed in early September."
With a convenient method of payment stripped away, AllofMP3.com's situation deteriorated. The RIAA sued AllofMP3.com in December of 2006 for $150,000 per violation. The RIAA pointed out there were 11 million songs offered - which would equate to a 1.65 trillion dollar lawsuit.
"AllofMP3 understands that several U.S. record label companies filed a lawsuit against Media Services in New York," an unnamed AllofMP3.com "senior company official" stated. "This suit is unjustified as AllofMP3 does not operate in New York. Certainly the labels are free to file any suit they wish, despite knowing full well that AllofMP3 operates legally in Russia. In the mean time, AllofMP3 plans to continue to operate legally and comply with all Russian laws."
One constant through the latter part of 2006 was that AllofMP3.com was quick to respond to the IFPI's or RIAA's legal wranglings. Things went noticeably quiet in 2007, as time appears to have taken its toll on AllofMP3.com. According to Times Online in the United Kingdom, an ex-employee of AllofMP3.com stated that the Russia government has finally
shut down
Currently, the AllofMP3.com domain is off line and inaccessible. However the mirror site AllofMP3.ru displays the message, "Attention | We are sorry but the server is closed for [maintenance].
The Russian government offered no official word on AllofMP3's demise, according to
The Moscow Times
. Slyck's inquiries to Media Services and their American based legal consul have gone unanswered. Media Service's American based public relations firm Qorvis no longer has a working relationship with the company.
Interestingly enough, Media Services has started a near identical service call
. A noticable difference is in price, as tracks sell between 20 and 30 cents each. However like AllofMP3.com, this site
to be legal under Russian law.
"The availability over the Internet of the Mp3Sparks.com materials is authorized by the license 31/ZM-07 of the noncommercial partnership Rightholders Federation for Collective Copyright Management of Works Used Interactively (NP FAIR)."
If AllofMP3 is truly dead, it's the end of an online icon. AllofMP3.com was more popular than iTunes in many markets, and showed that for the right price and file compatibly, people were willing to buy music online.
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"I am interested in attending Santa Clara for the renowned academics and exceptional soccer program," said Kaashoek. "I have always aspired to attend a university in which I can compete at the Division I level as well as receive an amazing education. I also love the fact that Santa Clara is so close to home. If I am ever in need of anything, it is comforting to know that my parents are only a short drive away and they are very excited at the prospect of watching my home games. Another aspect of Santa Clara that I appreciate is the close-knit campus community. After walking around the pristine school grounds, I can definitely see myself fitting in perfectly amongst the students. I relish the smaller campus because it will be nice to see familiar faces as I go throughout my day. All in all, Santa Clara possesses all that I would need in order to have a superb college experience."
As a junior Kaashoek was named the Offensive Player of the Year and was First-Team All-League. As a sophomore she was Second-Team All-League and her team advanced to the CCS round of 16. Kaashoek was named Defender of the Year as a freshman and was Second-Team All-League while Leland advanced to the CCS quarterfinals.
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Godzilla granted Japanese citizenship
He's destroyed Tokyo more times than can be counted, but now he's also serving as their tourism mascot
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Since 1954, Godzilla, or (ゴジラ 'Gojira' as he is known in the East) has been stomping his way across Tokyo, and the world tapping into citizens fears about the threat of nuclear weaponry and also raising the profile of Japan. Now instead of fearing him, the country has decided to embrace him as the cultural icon he is.
According to Time, the Shinjuku prefecture in Tokyo has granted Godzilla honorary citizenship, with the character's birth date listed as April 9, 1954 - the day 'Gojira' premiered in Tokyo. While 'Godzilla's' days of destruction aren't over, with more Hollywood and Japanese entries on the way, it seems that the Japanese people are a little less scared of him these days.
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Last week was the joint conference of the American Ornithologist's Union, the Cooper Ornithological Society and the Society of Canadian Ornithologists in Portland, Oregon. There were many excellent presentations on a variety of topics in ornithology. Below are, in my opinion, some of the highlights from the conference representing the cutting edge of avian research in North America.
- Rosemary Grant of Princeton University presented a plenary lecture summarizing her collaborative work with her husband, Peter Grant, and numerous students and post-docs on the evolutionary biology and ecology of Darwin's Finches in the Galapagos Islands. The Grants' work on selection on bill size in Darwin's Finches is a classic work, arguably the most famous and well supported examples of Darwinian natural selection in the wild. Now the Grants are tackling speciation and presenting their ideas on how Darwin's Finch species arise over time. Whether or not many currently recognized species of Darwin's Finch are indeed true evolutionary species or complex, polymorphic populations was a hot topic of debate behind the scenes in the lobbies of the Hilton and the bars and restaurants on the streets of Portland. It remains to be seen how the Grants' ideas on speciation will stand up to the scrutiny of their ornithological peers.
- Terry Chesser of the National Museum of Natural History along with co-authors from museums around the country such as the University of Kansas and Louisiana State University presented new data on the relationships of one of the largest and most problematic groups of passerine birds, the Neotropical ovenbirds of the family Furnariidae. The woodcreepers were found to be monophyletic (meaning all the birds currently assigned to the woodcreeper group were found to share a single common ancestor). Two main groups were distinguished within the Furnariidae the woodcreepers and the "true" furnariids, or simply the rest of the furnariids.
- Townsend Peterson of the University of Kansas discussed the power of museums in understanding the spread of animal-borne diseases (aka zoonotic diseases). The "bird-flu" or H5N1 virus has the potential for a global pandemic and since 2003 has persisted as a lingering threat to human health, especially in south and south-east Asia. Peterson's group found in surveys of birds collected from south China that H5N1 is not exclusively a disease found in galliform birds (chickens, etc.) and waterfowl but is also found among passerines (i.e. songbirds) and other wild landbirds. Peterson also used bird banding databases to model the potential outbreak of zoonotic, bird-borne diseases, like H5N1, in North America and found that where the outbreak starts can have dramatics effects on the spread and geography of the subsequent spread. All of these findings can only be possible with large museum-led databases of both specimens and large scale sighting and banding records.
- John Wieczorek of the University of California at Berkeley presented an update on the ORNIS database. ORNIS is a distributed database that links together avian data from dozens of museum collections. Today the ORNIS database allows one not only to access holdings on avian specimens but also millions of sighting and banding records, digital photos and sound recordings. Wieczorek also discussed a new online tool, BioGeomancer, to add georeferencing data to existing specimen, photo, recording and sighting records. The power of these online, distributed databases and the georeferencing tools that accompany them was seen in numerous talks during this meeting. With adoption of it's new KE EMu database Cincinnati Museum Center is poised to join these other institutions in making it's collection more accessible and usable by researchers in novel and powerful ways.
- An entire session was devoted to the hot topic of subspecies in ornithology. The traditional way in which scientists name species is the binomial, the familiar genus and species names given to every organism. However, there is variation within species and to incorporate this variation into taxonomy many have adopted a trinomial system of nomenclature consisting of three names for each species, genus, species and subspecies. Kevin Winker of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks gave a good history of the use of trinomial nomclature in ornithology and discussed why divergence in phenotpyes (those characteristics of an organisms most often accessible to direct observation such as size, color, etc.) is not also equal to genetic divergence. This means that often the readily observable, physical traits used to distinguish between different subspecies of birds may not correspond to much genetic variation and thus may be of little evolutionary significance when it comes to distinguishing independent genetic lineages. Susan Haig of the USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center discussed the problems that differing species concepts and subspecies designations pose for conservation efforts. Haig believes that subspecies designations are critical for conservation and law enforcement purposes even if their biological footing is less than solid. These points were hotly debated in the session and in discussions outside the talks.
- Perhaps my favorite talk of the entire conference was by Matt Carling and Rob Brumfield of the Louisiana State University Museum of Natural History. An idea in evolutionary biology known as Haldane's Rule says that in hybrids the sex that contains two different sex chromosomes (the heterogametic sex) should be less fit than the sex that contains two of the same sex chromosomes (the homogametic sex). A bad version of a gene can be overruled by the action of a good version of the same gene on another chromosome. Therefore heterogametic hybrids will be affected by all deleterious alleles on a sex chromosome. Haldane's Rule has been shown to predict the weaker sex in hybrids in everything from insects to mammals. In humans, and most other mammals, males are the heterogametic sex by virtue of having X and Y sex chromosomes while females are the homogametic sex having two X chromosomes. However, in birds females are the heterogametic sex with W and Z chromosomes and males with two Z chromosomes. Lazuli and Indigo Buntings hybridize in the central US. Carling and Brumfield measured the change in gene frequency across a hybrid zone between Lazuli and Indigo Buntings for both nuclear genes and genes linked to the sex chromosomes. They found much smaller genetic clines for sex-linked loci than for autosomal loci (those loci on chromosomes other than sex chromosomes). This is consistent with sex linked genetic incompatibilities in the hybrids. They also identified one locus in particular that contributed very heavily to this narrow genetic cline in Lazuli and Indigo Buntings. This loci was matched to a similar sequence in the chicken genome which, in chickens, contributes to the failure to lay eggs. Essentially Carling and Brumfield have identified an important gene which contributes to the maintenance of Lazuli and Indigo Buntings as discrete species. An amazing study which I hope to hear more about in the future.
- A fantastic symposium was presented on the last day of the conference in which some of the top curators and collections managers in ornithology presented techniques on preparing and managing material in avian collections. University of Kansas curator Mark Robbins and University of Washington Professor Emeritus Sievert Rohwer presented a live demonstration of their study skin preparation techniques. With some relatively minor differences our volunteers in the ornithology collection at Cincinnati Museum Center are preparing specimens like the pros do it, however, I did pick up some useful tips that will improve our specimens. Kimberly Bostwick of the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates demonstrated her techniques for preparing skeletal material from bird specimens, again as a live demonstration. This was also very useful as here at Cincinnati Museum Center we plan on a major push towards increasing the collection's avian skeletal holdings. Also, Kevin Winker of the University of Alaska at Fairbanks presented a general overview of the tools of the trade for avian collecting from the intricacies of the permitting process to auxillary barrels for a shotgun! All of the talks in this session provided useful tips for the growing bird collection at Cincinnati Museum Center but they also reaffirmed that the changes implemented in our protocols have put us on the right track towards having a world class ornithology collection.
-Finally Irby Lovette of Cornell University presented some interesting, if not troubling, results on measuring genetic diversity using molecular genetic markers. Researchers for various reasons often want to know the genetic diversity of an individual organism. Genetic diversity in an individual is typically measured in terms of heterozygosity. At any particular location in an individual's genome (at least for sexually reproducing organisms) there will be two copies of a particular gene. If those two copies are the same the individual is homozygous at that locus if they differ then the individual is heterozygous a that locus. Researchers use different types of genetic markers to determine the degree to which an individual is heterozygous across it's entire genome. However, Lovette demonstrated that different markers do not agree with one another on genome-wide heterozygosity. A level of heterozygosity determined using one type of marker may not correspond to the same level determined by another marker. Even multiple loci of the same types of markers often do not agree. This work is consistent with previous findings showing that levels of relatedness and inbreeding were only evident using very large numbers of genetic loci and that molecular genetic markers were inferior to good pedigree data in determining genetic diversity. However, there are many correlations in birds between molecular genetic based genetic diversity and various fitness measures, such as hatching success or growth or behavioral measures. The question then is what do these correlations mean? This will be a fertile field for future research for sure!


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Allura offers a wide selection of wordless phrases in multiple keys, tempos, and time signatures, with performer Jillian Aversa bringing to the table her 10+ years of experience singing for such blockbuster video game franchises as Civilization, Halo, God of War, and Soulcalibur.
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I found this Imperia Lusso pasta maker in a charity shop for £6 and immediately bought it. I have made pasta before with a pasta machine I bought fifteen years ago but I ended up using it only for work with polymer clay so when I saw this Imperia I was excited to get back into the pasta making game.
I am addicted to podcasts and one of my favourite EVER podcasts is Ronna and Beverly, two outspoken fiftysomethings from Boston, who can be seen regularly at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA, dispense their unique brand of relationship advice while interviewing/interrogating celebrity guests. This podcast is hilarious and I particularly love lots of their little reference and phrases as I spent a large chunk of my life in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They are also huge anglophiles and even had a series on Sky and perform in London lots and I only hope they come back here soon. They are always great company and were especially so during the making of my ragu and pasta.
I love spelt flour for bread making and pasta as well. The photo above shows two eggs which Imperia suggests adding to 250g of flour but I opted to add a third egg to help bind the spelt flour which I believe was the right decision. I broke the eggs into the middle of a flour bowl and used a fork to blend and mix the flour into the middle until it was blended and then gave it a light kneading, covered it and left it to rest for an hour.
I removed a golf ball sized of dough from the rested dough and then divided the rest into three separate balls. I took the golf ball sized ball and flattened it roughly and passed it through the pasta maker several times to remove any bits of dried dough from within. This was after giving the machine a very thorough cleaning with kitchen towel and olive oil. With each of the three balls I roughly flattened it into a rectangular shape, dusted it with a little bit of flour and started with the widest setting and sent it through. I repeated these steps and decreased the width on the machine stopping at the second to thinnest setting. I then let the long sheets as seen above left to rest for 15 minutes and then I sprinkled them with flour and passed them through the tagilatelle setting and let them dry for about an hour.
I brought a big pan of very salted water to the boil and cooked the tagliatelle for 3 minutes. After checking that it was ready I drained and added 3 large serving spoons of my homemade ragu (ragu post coming soon) and mixed this into the pasta. Then I plated up the pasta and added 2 serving spoons of ragu on top of the pasta and drizzled with olive oil and grated with parmagiano. The texture and taste of the pasta combined with the proper ragu made me pledge after the first bite to put the pasta machine to use wherever and whenever possible. Sure it was a bit more effort but it was well worth it.


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As Marijuana becomes increasingly legal across America, the stigma against its use is dropping.
But in many other countries around the world, marijuana still hasn't caught on.
The marijuana map above, based on 2011 United Nations figures, reveals just how much the drug has become widespread in nearly every country worldwide.
Specifically, the map reports the annual prevalence of cannabis use by country. Annual prevalence refers to the percentage of the population who have consumed cannabis at least once in the year surveyed.
Countries like Singapore, where the punishment for merely smoking marijuana could be jail time, the rate is among the the lowest on the map.
Many countries in Southeast Asia have strict anti-drug laws: In Indonesia, there is a minimum four-year sentence for anyone caught in possession of marijuana, while in Malaysia, drug trafficking is punishable by death.
In the United States, where marijuana is only legal in four states, only 13.7% of the population use cannabis annually.
But there are some surprises on the map, too.
The Northern Mariana Islands and Papa New Guinea have two of the highest percentages on the map, with 22.2% and 29.5% respectively.
However, marijuana is illegal in Papa New Guinea — but the island is one of the world's biggest producers of the drug.
And the Netherlands, where marijuana cafes are an infamous tourist attraction, only comes in at 5.4%, compared to Italy's 14.6%.
In 2013, Uruguay became the first country to completely legalize marijuana, a resolution they called the "great experiment."
It seems as though South America is the place to go for the most relaxed marijuana laws.
In Chile, marijuana for personal use has been in legal since 2015, and in Colombia, the government recently decriminalized growing up to 20 plants for medical or personal use.
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At present there are many global environmental issues. Nepal is not exception to this problem as many of our cities or towns continue to be plagued by air pollution as well as many other environmental problems. Our rivers suffer the effects of poorly treated sewage and industrial discharges. Deterioration of environment and loss of biodiversity are linked with poverty. Moreover, a wave of concern for environment swept across the developed world in the sixties and reached its climax in 1970 with the celebration of 'The Earth Day' under the auspices of The United Nation. After that the need for environmental education was keenly felt at the national level in Nepal.
In border terms, environmental science is a multidisciplinary science that deals with the study of natural resources, their degradation, and pollution, fate of species and role of human beings for the conservation of environment. Keeping this in view, this syllabus has been designed to provide knowledge to the students about the importance of protection and conservation of our environment and the need to restrain human activities, which may lead to indiscriminate release of pollutants into the environment. This knowledge will also enable the students to evolve the best way of dealing with seriously endangered life support systems and develop skills to ensure that there will a minimum damage in development works so as to make developmental activities sustainable for a long-term. Besides these the syllabus has highlighted the necessary and essential aspects of Natural Sciences for understanding the newer environmental issues that have become focus of the environmental attention in more recent years. Emphasis has been given to topics such as air pollution, water pollution, biodiversity, forest and land degradation, hazard waste, risk assessment, global climate change, flood and drought, stratospheric ozone depletion and ecotoxicology which are among the most crucial environmental problems of this millennium.
The main objectives of the course are:
· To make the master degree programme in environmental science more relevant to the professional needs and the development of community and country.
· To provide knowledge to the students about spheres of the earth and their interrelationships that makes the suitable conditions for the existence of life.
· To provide the students an overview of the ecological principles, processes, types and functions of ecosystems, natural and man made change of the landscape.
· To familiarize and equip the students with appropriate methods used in environmental management including theoretical, practical and field based knowledge of application.
· To acquaint students with the available natural resources of the country and their conservation.
· To expose the students to environmental issues and problems.
· To provide the students the knowledge about various forms of energy, their uses and conservation.
· To develop an understanding of impacts of human activities on the environment and the mitigation measures used to reduce these effects.
· To provide knowledge about emission and transport of various pollutants in air, water and soil and their effects including the technique adopted for reducing such emissions.
· To provide knowledge about human population growth and regulation.
· To acquaint the students with international theory, the practical process and methods of performing an EIA as a tool for sustainable development.
· To make the students able to apply techniques used in interpretation of remotely sensed data.
· To provide the knowledge about environment laws from a variety of perspectives in order to protect the environment.
· To develop problem solving skills, particularly in environmental conservation and sustainable development.
· To make the students able to take up the responsibility as environmental managers, experts and teachers.
In Central department and constituent campuses of Tribhuvan University; out of total available seats 80% seats will be filled from free competition and 20% from reserved (inclusive) category.
Students who want to compete from proportional representation category must fulfilled following criteria.
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If any seats remain vacant in the inclusive/reserved category; remaining seats will be fulfilled from the merit list of free competition.
Eligibility for Admission:
The candidates who have passed B.Sc. Degree with major in environmental science with second division from Tribhuvan University or equivalent Degree from other University recognized by Tribhuvan University shall be considered eligible to apply for admission to M.Sc. Environmental Science.
The students other than BSc in environmental science in accordance with decision of Faculty Board of Institute of Science and Technology (TU-IOST) are also qualified to apply.
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An applicant seeking admission to M.Sc. Environmental Science most appear in Entrance Examination of two hour's duration conducted by a campus or the Central Department of the Environmental Science, Institute of Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University.
An applicant who does not appear in the Entrance Examination and fails to obtain a minimum qualifying score will not be allowed to get admission in M.Sc. Environmental Science. A merit list of the qualified applicants will be prepared-on the basis of the percentage of their B.Sc. Examination and the marks obtained by them in the Entrance Examination. Admission of students will be based strictly on the merit list and on the enrollment capacity of the Central Department of Environmental Science/Campus.
Fee Structure
The total amount of fee for the complete course is NRs. 84,200.00. Students have to pay equal amount as NRs 42,100.00 for both first and second year.
Currently scholarships are available for four students, which are based on the academic merit achieved in first year.
Semester: I (Compulsory Courses)
Course Code Subject Credit hrs
Env. 511 Ecology and Environmental Science 4
Env. 512 Environmental Earth Science 4
Env. 513 Environmental Pollution and Monitoring 4
Env. 514 AEcology and Environmental Science Practical 2
Env. 514 BEnvironmental Earth Science Practical2
Env. 514 CEnvironmental Pollution and Monitoring Practical
Semester: II (Compulsory Courses)
Course Code Subject Credit hrs
Env. 521Environmental Conservation and Management4
Env. 522Environmental Impacts and Management Techniques4
Env. 523Environment and Energy4
Env. 528Case Study and Field Work2
Total 14
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Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Pasta with Shrimp Recipe
Sun- Dried Tomato Pesto Shrimp Pasta Recipe
When we think of pesto, most of us think about a green sauce made predominantly with basil. While basil is the main ingredient of traditional pesto, sun dried tomatoes offer a bright, tangy twist on the classic.
The word pesto comes from the Latin word for "to pound," and it refers to any sauce made by grinding up ingredients, or pounding them in a mortar and pestle. Pesto/pestle. Get it? While you can certainly make pesto using a mortar and pestle, a food processor makes quick work of the job.
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3/4 lb. Penne Pasta
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 shallot, minced
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper - to taste
3/4 lb. shrimp, peeled & deveined
1/4 cup white wine 1/4 cup chicken stock
3-4 tablespoons Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto
Several grape or cherry tomatoes - for garnish
How To Prepare At Home
Cook the pasta in salted boiling water until al dente. (Click for great tips on cooking pasta)
In the mean time, heat a sauté pan over medium-high heat. When hot, add the oil and heat until the oil shimmers. Add the shrimp, shallot, and a pinch of salt and pepper, and sauté in olive oil until pink. Remove shrimp from the pan and keep warm.
Deglaze the pan with by adding the white wine and chicken stock. Bring to a boil and reduce by half. When finished you should have a total of ¼ cup liquid. No need to measure, but shoot for half of the original volume.
Add the Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto. Cook for 1 minute. Return the shrimp to the pan and stir. In the pan, toss the cooked, drained penne with the sauce over high heat.
Serve immediately, garnished with some halved grape or cherry tomatoes.
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I absolutely LOVE this recipe, however I cannot find the sun dried tomato pesto recipe anywhere since you updated the site. Could you kindly post it again please? I'm lost without it 🙂 Thanks
Hi Talisa, I didn't realize it didn't get moved over when I redesigned the site. I just posted it at https://www.reluctantgourmet.com/sun-dried-tomato-pesto-sauce/
Hope this helps – RG
Yeps making it for valentine tomorrow as the first time I had it it was amaazzzziiinngggg 😉 😛
Wonderful – best olive oil is a must here!
It´s delicious, but I prefer use hair angel pasta.


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I think it would be a good idea to merge the Helitours Maverick with the Maverick and just put the Helitours Maverick under a subtitle on the Maverick page.
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Agreed! Sukhoi35bm
- Personally, I'd prefer keeping things separate, such as with the Police Maverick. However, if editors feel there is too little information or relevance for this aircraft to justify a separate article, I'd be fine with merging. EganioTalk 20:41, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to see them kept separate, but as stated before, if the editors do not like it, I'll be fine with merging. If the two are kept separate, then there should be a link in the Maverick page. Playerse7en 21:48, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Yes, I would also prefer to keep them separate. Since they have different names appearing in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen, they are individual vehicles and are therefore titled to their own page. IMO :D --Aussiebushmatt 10:33, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
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I agreed with the merge until I read this dicussion. I will add the link to Maverick and delete the merge tag. Admins, if you feel that I don't have the right or duty to do this, please readd the tag, and tell me on my talk page. Biggest GTA Fan EverTalk 00:04, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
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I don't think vehicle is a special vehicle so I will remove the Category from the article. --DT-boy 13:03, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
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I had two stars and was running on foot to the helitours place to get a maverick and try to escape the cops. A cop was shooting at me so I killed him, getting three stars. I got the maverick and flew away, and no matter where I go, even if there are no cops on the ground or police mavericks anywhere close to me, the circle follows me. Can I not lose stars if I am in one? If so, that should definitely be added to the article. ShakeZula7 09:52, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
Uhh... Do you know that you can't outrun a 3+ wanted level in ANY helicopter? --Chimpso Manager of Strasky and Hutch Game Wiki 11:09, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
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The level of environmental activism in America and throughout the world runs the gamut from earnest college students who gladly spend their spring breaks laying down in the middle of logging roads to save ancient trees to inside-the-beltway lobbyists garnering support for the latest clean-air initiative or trying to add another species to the endangered list.
Much as we may sympathize with the cause — who wants to say they're in favor of dirty air or of hunting animal species to extinction? — the mere mention of "environmentalism" is enough to make most faithful Catholics raise an eyebrow in suspicion.
This suspicion is not without warrant.
"The main problem with the secular environmental movement is that the groups concentrate on animals and nature but fail to see the impact on human beings," says Sister of Charity Mary Katherine Breidt.
Sister Mary Katherine holds a degree in biological engineering from Michigan Technological University. Before joining the Brothers and Sisters of Charity, she worked in the groundwater-protection program at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources for 10 years. Now, as a sister at Little Portion Hermitage near Eureka Springs, Ark., she uses her scientific knowledge to help her religious community run their monastery as an ecologically sensitive, sustainable agrarian community.
"Mainstream environmental groups lack a healthy balance that honors all life, in every form," she says.
A casual perusal of the published literature and websites of well-known environmental organizations reveals that these groups blame the planet's woes on human overpopulation. This explains why they frequently espouse deliberately "pro-choice," pro-contraception agendas and tactics. Sierra Club and National Audubon Society, for example, promote anti-natalist strategies.
Secular, mainstream environmental groups simply do not value human life the way Catholics do. "We need to honor and protect rainforests and wild animals," says Sister Mary Katherine, "but not at the expense of people."
As Australian Cardinal George Pell observed in a February opinion column: "We have been subjected to a lot of nonsense about climate disasters, as some zealots have been presenting extreme scenarios to frighten us. … What we were seeing from the doomsayers was an induced dose of mild hysteria — semi-religious if you like, but dangerously close to superstition."
What is a faithful, conservation-minded Catholic to do, other than run from a movement that is so pro-earth that it's anti-human, anti-Catholic and anti-God?
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First, be assured that environmental concern, ecology and conservation are truly Catholic issues that good Catholics can wholeheartedly endorse. The teaching authority of the Church mandates proper stewardship of the created world.
Old Testament Scriptures declare that "the earth is the Lord's" (Psalm 24:1) and that "God looked at everything he had made, and he found it very good" (Genesis 1:31).
New Testament Scriptures proclaim that there will come a time "for the dead to be judged" and for God "to destroy those who destroy the earth" (Revelation 11:18). St. Francis of Assisi is famous for reverencing every thing God created, viewing creation as a ladder a soul uses to ascend to God.
The Catechism encourages a proper attitude toward the created world. "Man must … avoid any disordered use of things that would be in contempt of the Creator and would bring disastrous consequences for human beings and their environment," we read in No. 339.
Pope John Paul II also encouraged ecological sensitivity. "There is a growing awareness that world peace is threatened not only by the arms race, regional conflicts and continued injustice among peoples and nations, but also by a lack of due respect for nature," he said in his 1990 World Day of Peace message. "Moreover, a new ecological awareness is beginning to emerge which, rather than being downplayed, ought to be encouraged to develop into concrete programs and initiatives."
Such concrete programs and initiatives should include the two hallmarks of authentic Catholic environmental awareness: stewardship and justice.
Father Thomas Loya, pastor of Annunciation Byzantine Catholic Church in Homer Glen, Ill., says that human beings should neither take a back seat to the environment nor dominate it.
"We must strive to co-exist with nature," says Father Loya, "respecting what nature is and respecting what man is."
In accordance with this vision, the priest and his parishioners have devised a "landscape master plan" for a "green" retrofit of the parish grounds. This includes water gardens, a living prairie and a permeable-pavement parking lot.
The parish's efforts to contribute to the good of the environment have not gone unnoticed. In November of 2006, Chicago Wilderness, a regional nature reserve organization, awarded Annunciation Parish its Excellence in Conservation Award. Annunciation's plan was chosen for its "exceptional contributions in protecting biodiversity and supporting the concept of sustainable development."
Says Father Loya with a laugh: "They're awarding us for our Catholicism without even realizing it."
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St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church in Wyandotte, Mich., also has a vision — not just for its future but for the future of nothing less than the entire planet. Father Charles Morris, pastor of St. Elizabeth's, concentrates on reducing the parish's energy usage as a direct response to global warming.
Father Morris has a master's degree in urban planning and is a board member of Michigan Power and Light, a division of Interfaith Power and Light. Interfaith Power includes member congregations of all Christian denominations and also non-Christian religious groups. Unlike the secular environmental groups, Interfaith makes no statements about nor takes any position on the issues of human population or family planning. Interfaith limits its focus to helping churches and religious organizations reduce their energy usage.
"Our parish began our journey almost 10 years ago with an energy audit," says Father Morris. The audit, which took place in 1997, was an exhaustive study that examined the physical plant in detail. It cost $5,000. The result? The parish replaced its boiler at a cost of $50,000, but since the new boiler was energy-efficient, it used less energy and saved the parish $7,000 per year and paid for itself in seven years.
St. Elizabeth's is now partially "off the grid," which means they generate a lot of their own electricity. They have solar panels, a wind turbine, a solar collector for heating hot water and a solar attic fan. The parish saves $20,000 per year on utility bills and, as a result, reduces its impact on the environment.
"When you do the right thing for your budget and the right thing for your utility bill, that turns out to be the right thing for future generations and for God's creation," says Father Morris.
Any church can join Interfaith Power and Light, and begin implementing strategies similar to the ones in place at St. Elizabeth's. One of the benefits of membership is a comprehensive energy audit.
For Catholic individuals and families who want to respect and preserve God's creation, the answer is not to write a check and send it to Washington.
"The best way to help the environment is by our own efforts, not by joining a group such as Sierra Club or the World Wildlife Fund," says Sister Mary Katherine. "Act as locally as you can. You can start literally in your own back yard."
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"Real" post - the Royal Mail
The main Post Office in Cambridge is on St Andrew's Street and there are a host of smaller Post Offices, at any of which you can buy stamps or send letters or parcels to anywhere in the world.
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This morning is all rain. Grey skies and all rain. Gas powered weed wackers and leaf blowers creating and moving bits of greenery around the streets. Somewhere over there a lawn is manicured, somewhere over there a hedge of juniper is shaped. Is it wrong to value entropy instead. Unshaven beards dipping into soup bowls. Chin Noodle clouds and pesto mustaches. Overgrown doorsteps, weeds everywhere.
And that's when all the drones settle in, reserving couch spots in front of football games with freckled eyeliner and eager postures. Little rectangles of comfort dropped in perfectly built squares. Who did we inhabit this from. This is a creation. This was a creativity. Who's vision left me with expensive boxes? Stop teaching me how to navigate these realities as if they are stable/sane/logical. How do I start over? How do I feel solace in rejection? How do I feel comfort in loneliness? Who could have prepared me for how the world would make me feel alone. Walking through piles of concrete, neon signs, bent trees, watching new buildings built with the speed of the gods. What can I celebrate in a liquor store? The variety? The machine hours of glass shaping and coloring, textured prints for measurments. The credit card machines direct connection with my bank. The refrigeration systems cooling efficiency. The calories – packaged in stained cardboard and internationally sourced aluminum foil. What generation can I blame this on? What man? What a waste of time and energy. Family sized boxes of cancerous chemicals flavored for addictive consumptive patterns. I never want anything inside of any box? I find my food on the ground from a tree. I find my objects in the street. I'll eat a whole tree. I'll sleep inside a dog. I'll eat your whole car. I'll shit on your lawn. I'll tear down your box. I live in a rectangle with a round top next to a triangle dog park. Who put us in boxes? Teach your children how to be lonely. Its lonely as fuck here.


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A Sioux Falls man has been arrested on four counts of first-degree rape after two children reported they had been molested by him, police said.
Mark Justin Diede, 39, was served on a warrant from the sheriff's office, police spokesman Sam Clemens said.
The Department of Social Services began investigating when a 4-year-old relative of Diede made comments to her mother that Diede had been molesting her. The 4-year-old and another girl, a 5-year-old relative of Diede's, were both taken to Child's Voice, where they both indicated they had been molested by Diede, Clemens said. The 5-year-old girl told the interviewer the abuse started when she was 4. The interviewer asked when the last time was and the girl responded, "he's still doing it."
Argus Leader Media does not release how juvenile sexual abuse victims are related to their offender.
Child's Voice is an organization that has specially trained interviewers to ask non-leading questions to the children. Interviews with Child's Voice can also be used in court so children in these types of cases don't have to testify.
First-degree rape is a sexual act with a child under the age of 13 and is a class C felony. His bond on Thursday was set at $250,000 cash only.
Diede is a registered sex offender, according to homefacts.com, after an incident in Pennington County in August 2004. He was initially charged with first-degree and third-degree rape, but under a plea agreement, he pleaded guilty in May 2005 to one count of attempted sexual contact.
He was originally sentenced to serve five years in prison and pay a $1,000 fine.
A Muskogee man was sentenced Tuesday to 38 years in prison.
Bryan Morris, 27, was convicted of of two counts of sexual abuse of a child under 12.
Morris was arrested in February 2014 after police were contacted by area school representatives and told that they had received information that a 9-year-old had been sexually abused, according to a previous Phoenix story. School officials kept the child at the school and notified authorities.
Morris was charged on Feb. 27, 2014. He went to trial on Feb. 24, 2017 and was found guilty of both counts. The jury at that time recommended 38 years for each count, to run concurrently.
A child sexual abuse conviction requires the offender to serve at least 85 percent of the sentence, so Morris will spend a minimum of 32 years in prison
Justice has been served at last for a Tarboro man convicted this week of raping a child in 2011.
Jermain Jerome Roberson, 32, was convicted in N.C. Superior Court in Tarboro this week of one count of rape of a child under 13 and one count of sexual offense of a child under 13. The crimes which occurred between 2011 and 2014, involved two different victims. Roberson received a sentence of 25 to 35 years in state prison.
Roberson was arrested in July, 2015 after deputies were notified in June about a sexual assault that took place with an unidentified female victim in 2011. A forensic interview was done as part of the investigation at that time and detectives determined Roberson was responsible for the crime.
A 7th Ward man accused of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl twice in one day will face his second rape trial in 25 years on June 27, a New Orleans judge ruled Friday (April 7).
Criminal District Judge Paul Bonin set the trial date for Kenya McCall after a scheduled pre-trial conference failed to resolve the case. McCall, 40, has a 1992 rape conviction for an attack he committed when he was 16 and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
In the new accusation, he has been jailed since his arrest Aug. 25, 2015. Over that time, his bond was increased from $400,000 to $2.5 million following an October 2015 grand jury indictment charging him with two counts of first-degree rape of a juvenile under age 13. He faces a separate misdemeanor charge of failing for a second time to register as a sex offender.
New Orleans police said a mother allowed the 9-year-old and her younger sister to have a weekend stay with McCall and his wife in the 2700 block of St. Bernard Avenue on Nov. 15, 2014.
According to his arrest warrant affidavit, McCall is accused of entering a bathroom the older girl was using and forcing her to perform oral sex. The girl told an NOPD child abuse detective she refused, but that McCall forced himself into her mouth. The assault made the girl vomit, the report said, and McCall "whipped the child because she threw up on his shoes."
The warrant application also says the girl reported being raped by McCall later the same day at his former residence in New Orleans East, after he "put medicine and 'ashes' in her food to put her to sleep." According to the report, the girl said during a forensic interview at the Children's Hospital Child Advocacy Center that McCall "told her to keep the abuse a secret and offered her money in exchange for her silence."
The report said the girl experienced unusual bleeding in a school bathroom days after the rape, and she only disclosed the abuse to her mother after her parent was contacted by school officials.
McCall in 1992 was convicted of both a forcible rape and a simple rape, now called second- and third-degree rape, respectively. He also was convicted of a sex offender registry violation in 2007 in Tangipahoa Parish, and of failing to renew his registration as a sex offender in Orleans Parish, a charge levied five days after the new rape offenses are alleged to have occurred.
Assistant district attorneys Inga Petrovich and Taylor Anthony are slated to prosecute McCall, who is represented by defense attorney Jay Daniels. If convicted, McCall would face a mandatory life sentence on each rape charge.
7th Ward man accused of child rape to stand trial in June Ken Daley, NOLA.com The Times-Picayune April 07, 2017
SYLVA, N.C. (WLOS) — A Jackson County man is in jail on a $600,00 bond, charged with multiple felony child sex offenses.
Billy Joe Young, 54, of Snowdrift Lane in Sylva, is charged with felony first-degree rape of a child, felony child sex offense, and six counts of indecent liberties with a child.
Young is in jail on $600,000 bond.
NEWARK -- A registered nurse has agreed to temporarily surrender his license and to cease practicing nursing in the state pending the resolution of sexual assault and other charges recently brought against him, state Attorney General Christopher Porrino said in a statement Thursday.
Kevin A. Cavallaro, who served as a supervisory nurse at a Camden County rehabilitation facility, is accused of having sexual contact with a patient. He was arrested Feb. 2 and charged with four counts of criminal sexual contact, one count of sexual assault and four counts of endangering the welfare of children. Authorities did not disclose the facility where the abuse allegedly occurred, but said it happened between Oct.1 and Nov. 9.
Nurse accused of sexual assault, child endangerment surrenders license Paul Milo | NJ Advance Media NJ.com April 06, 2017
A septuagenarian, Francis Nwachukwu, on Friday appeared in a Jos High Court for rape of three minors.
Nwachukwu, 77, a resident of Angwan Gwada, Tudun Wada, Jos, is standing trial on a one-count charge of rape.
The Prosecutor, Mrs N. Mbap, a state counsel, told the court that the accused committed the offence on different dates in November 2015 at his home.
Mbap said that the accused lured the minors by giving them some clothes to take to his room and as soon as they entered the room, he would go after them and force himself on them.
"Sometimes in November 2016, the accused on different dates gave the minors aged 10, 11, and 12, some of his old clothes to take to his room.
"He did that in a bid to trap them in his room, when they entered, he would immediately follow them behind and rape them," the prosecutor said.
She said that the illicit act was discovered when the minors mentioned the accused as one of those who molested them when they were interrogated by their parents.
"It was gathered that the minors were also molested by another man who was caught right in the act.
"During interrogation, the victims mentioned the accused as one of those molesting them.
"The case was reported to the police and the accused was served a letter inviting him to report to the police station which he did," she explained.
The prosecutor added that the offence contravened Section 283 of the Penal Code of Northern Nigeria, which on conviction attracts 14 years or maximum of life imprisonment.
The accused however, pleaded not guilty.
The judge, Justice Nafisa Musa, admitted the accused to bail considering his age, ill health and his willingness to report to the station and appear before the court.
The prosecutor who did not object to the bail, urged that the accused sign an undertaking stating that he would be available in court at all times.
Musa, thereafter, adjourned the matter to May 9 for hearing.
Man in court over rape of three minors Agency report
A 43-YEAR-OLD resident of the Zambezi region was denied bail when he appeared in the Katima Mulilo Magistrate's Court this week on a rape charge involving an 11-year-old girl.
The man, who was in a relationship with his victim's mother when he committed the offence last month, appeared before magistrate Nomusa Khumalo on Tuesday.
Khumalo postponed the case to 16 May this year to allow for further investigations, and to give the accused an opportunity to apply for legal aid.
He will, however, remain in police custody.
The girl's mother wrote a letter in which she strongly objected to the possibility of the accused being granted bail. In the letter, she charged that he raped her daughter deliberately while knowing he was HIV positive.
The complainant has told the police that the man raped her three times in March – on each occasion while her mother was not at home.
She related that every time she wanted to scream while being raped, the accused would threaten to kill her.
The rape came to light at the end of last week when the girl's older sister asked her why she was limping.
She said that she had painful sores on her private parts, and after her mother had been informed, she said that she had been raped on three occasions during March.
Public prosecutor Jatiel Mudamburi represented the state in court this week.
A 43-YEAR-OLD resident of the Zambezi region was denied bail when he appeared in the Katima Mulilo Magistrate's Court this week on a rape charge involving an 11-year-old girl.
The man, who was in a relationship with his victim's mother when he committed the offence last month, appeared before magistrate Nomusa Khumalo on Tuesday.
Khumalo postponed the case to 16 May this year to allow for further investigations, and to give the accused an opportunity to apply for legal aid.
He will, however, remain in police custody.
The girl's mother wrote a letter in which she strongly objected to the possibility of the accused being granted bail. In the letter, she charged that he raped her daughter deliberately while knowing he was HIV positive.
The complainant has told the police that the man raped her three times in March – on each occasion while her mother was not at home.
She related that every time she wanted to scream while being raped, the accused would threaten to kill her.
The rape came to light at the end of last week when the girl's older sister asked her why she was limping.
She said that she had painful sores on her private parts, and after her mother had been informed, she said that she had been raped on three occasions during March.
Public prosecutor Jatiel Mudamburi represented the state in court this week.
The sentence, which formed part of a plea agreement, was handed down in the Benoni Regional Court.
According to the court, the man was found guilty of raping a girl under the age of 12, as well as conspiracy to commit a sexual offence with a woman in her 20s.
He was sentenced to 15 years for the rape, of which five years is suspended.
The conspiracy charge resulted in a five year sentence, which will run concurrently with the rape sentence.
The Benoni resident's name will be placed in the sexual offences register.
His identity could not be disclosed as that would identify the victims.
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French publication Canal+ analyses Florian Thauvin's time at Newcastle United so far.
French publication Canal+ believes a managerial change at Newcastle United could hand Florian Thauvin a lifeline on Tyneside as the youngster continues to drastically fail to live up to expectation.
The report questions the 22-year-old's motives behind joining Newcastle in the summer and comments on his disappointing progress as a footballer since he shot to fame at SC Bastia as a teenager, commenting: 'he is no longer a shadow of the player he was promising to be at Sporting Club de Bastia'.
It also adds that a managerial change, which could see Harry Redknapp or Brendan Rodgers come in, could save his career at Newcastle and offer him a second chance, but only if he is willing to work at it.
Can Thauvin still be a success at Newcastle?
It's worth remembering that Thauvin has spent his entire career playing in France and it will take a little bit of time for him to adapt and adjust to the Premier League.
At 22, there shouldn't have been much pressure and expectation on him to come in and hit the ground running. However, with the situation Newcastle currently find themselves in, it's completely natural for people to get frustrated with his development.
Thauvin has a lot of ability, which he has only been able to show in patches so far this season, and should be backed to come good.
He may not be the saviour to Newcastle's season, but he could become an important player for the club in the future. For now, the emphasis should be on the more experienced players to get the club out of the rut it finds itself in.
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10 Questions with Ellie Dehn
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Soprano Ellie Dehn was last with us in 2015 as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni and was a favorite in town as Mimi in La Boheme back in 2010. Ellie easily avoids the diva stereotype in rehearsals and has already been a joy to be around this week. Did I mention she sounds incredible to boot? You'll get to hear her sing the role of Alice Ford in a few weeks (Falstaff opens on February 18th, 2017) but here are ten questions she answered for us where she speaks about her love of teaching, Bryn Terfel, and Sufjan Stevens.
1. What was your last gig before coming to San Diego?
I was just in Napoli singing Musetta in La Boheme. The theater was stunningly beautiful, and it's always fun to perform Puccini to an audience that knows every word of the score
2. Can you tell us a little about your role in Falstaff?
This is my first Alice Ford. Falstaff is based on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor. It's a very interesting and demanding role, although not in the usual way one would think of as a Verdi heroine. She doesn't get an official aria, and her daughter Nannetta gets most of the fluid, floaty lines that most people associate with Verdi. However, it's an absolutely refreshingly delicious role to learn and to sing. When I first cracked the score, I was working with my favorite coach, Laurent Philippe, in San Francisco and as I put my score on the music stand, he sternly shook his head and gestured to the couch. "Sit down. We're not going to sing a note all week!" We got out the metronome and painstakingly repeated the rhythm and text for not only my lines, but for everyone else's in any given scene. It's the only way to lock in the spirit and to give the tongue twisting Italian some life. After the rhythms were solidified, we added the music, and it all came together. Verdi was a genius in the way this opera is crafted, and Alice still gets some fabulous tunes, they're just gone before you know it! I also love that it's such an ensemble piece, and we get a chance to communicate and play with each other.
3. How do you relate/feel about your character or their personality?
Alice is a woman that I aspire to be. She doesn't take herself too seriously. She is charming, pragmatic, and multi-dimensional. She's quick on her feet, coy, and takes the bull by the horns if there's any problem that needs to be solved. I feel like she has a bubbling energy that I can only achieve through large vats of coffee, so in that regard, it's good for me to get up there and get to live with her onstage.
4. Are there any dream roles that you would love to sing and why? And since we're dreaming it doesn't even need to be in your face.
I've been fortunate enough to have gotten to sing my two previous favorites, Rusalka and Violetta. When I started out in the business, I sang a lot of the Mozart ladies, but now I'm ready to graduate into Strauss territory. My happy place is listening to the soaring ethereal lines and gorgeous harmonies that Strauss has given us. I'm working on learning Arabella now and I get goose-bumps about new phrases each time I dig into the score.
5. What was your introduction to opera and how did you decide this was the path you wanted to pursue?
I was in the children's chorus of Carmen and Tosca in a local community company. I didn't think much of it at the time, but still absolutely loved choir and musical theater and loved to sing. I also started listening to Kathleen Battle and Cecilia Bartoli in high school and was amazed with what they could do with coloratura. I started taking voice lessons my senior year. It wasn't until college, and after I was already a voice major (a sort of rebellion, I suppose) that I started nerding out and getting the opera bug in earnest. I would stay in Oberlin's music library until it closed, listening to all of the different historical performances and legendary divas. It wasn't a path that I would have expected growing up, but now I wouldn't have it any other way.
6. Who is your favorite opera singer in the game right now?
There are so many incredible singers out there right now. For this show, I'm going to have to say Bryn Terfel. I love that he's a chameleon who excels in many different fachs and styles, and no matter what he sings, he still sings with incredible artistry and beauty of tone. He may not remember me, but we did a Giovanni at the Met a few years back and I was singing Donna Elvira to his Leporello. After our recit in the second act, we get up and run off the stage with a little twirling pick up move, and we spun right into a lighting post stage left, fell down, and started laughing. Those are the moments that make this career worthwhile!
7. Fill in the blank: "If I was not an opera singer, I would be ____."
This is a tough one. For years I thought that I would want to get as far away from the industry as possible if I ever stopped singing, but I've found a lot of joy doing masterclasses and toying with the idea of teaching. It took many years to actually be able to speak intelligently about technique and style, but I finally think I'd actually have some great things to offer the next generation of singers, just be being out there and being able to navigate vocal changes as they come.
8. Do you have a book next to your bed? What is it? If you're not a reader, how about a video game or NETFLIX series?
I usually love trashy escapism and memoirs while I'm on the road, but I'm trying to get back into the Artist's Way by Julia Cameron. It's a book, but it's also a really helpful tool to get people out of their heads and to try to unlock some of the creativity. There's some homework involved, including morning journaling and taking yourself on an artist date every week, but it has helped me and other colleagues who aren't in the business to get "unstuck" and to reground themselves for the new year.
9. Name three bands or artists on your iPod that aren't opera related.
Let's see: Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Nicks, and Sufjan Stevens.
10. What are you most looking forward to doing in San Diego while you're in town?
I'm hoping to take some flamenco classes, as I have a great friend who introduced me to it the last time I was in town (I have two left feet!) and would love to try it again.


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One of my promiscuous former co-workers, much my senior, told me, "Don't you dare ever make him breakfast. That effs with your emotions. That is you f*ing with your own head. You have just crossed that fine line right there when you start cooking breakfast." This also applies to going out for breakfast or any sort of lingering after a sleepover. It's called "hit it and quit it" for a reason. Don't even cuddle. In, out, done and done.
Those were more or less my rules. Detachment. But one day, I just felt like cooking him breakfast. And here we are, three months later, committed. Early on, I created this recipe, and since he raved about it, I thought I'd share:
Click below for the recipe…
Please Note: *It came out a little sloppy when I tried to remake it for the picture, but trust me, it's good.*
(Serves 2)
6 large eggs
6 slices turkey bacon (or any type)
2 square ciabatta rolls sliced in half (again, any type is fine)
1 cup shredded cheddar/ monterey jack mix
1 roma tomato, sliced
1/4 cup white onion
1/2 cup pepper strips (the more colors, the better)
1/4 stick butter
1/4 cup of milk
2 tsp. salt, divided
4 tsp. pepper, divided
Sriracha sauce (optional)
1. Place the chopped onion and peppers on medium heat in a non-stick skillet.
2. In the meantime, wisk together eggs, 1 tsp. salt, 2 tsp. pepper, and milk in a bowl. Set aside.
3. In a separate non-stick skillet, place the bacon and cook on medium heat.
4. Add the tomatoes to the onion and peppers. Cook 1 minute, then add the egg mixture to that pan and turn down to low.
5. Coat ciabatta rolls on the outside with 1/8 stick butter each
6. Half-way through the eggs being done (roughly two minutes), remove the bacon. Set aside.
7. Place ciabatta rolls in bacon pan, keeping the heat off (to soak up remaining flavor).
8. When the eggs look mostly finished, divide amongst each roll, add bacon and cheese atop each, as well as the rest of the salt and pepper before replacing top buns. Turn on pan to low heat.
9. Use a spatula to pressure the melding together of everything, cooking for a minute or less. Serve immediately. And add the Sriracha to your sandwich if you're a spicy gal like me.