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National War Tax Resistance Coordinating
Seattle, Washington ē Sunday, May 7, 2006
Thanks so much to the Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia Ė Erica, Carolyn, Geov, Eddie, Scott, Vivien Ė our hosts in Seattle, and to Pablo for the great food! It was an excellent program, an excellent turnout, and a beautiful setting too. A write-up on the Friday and Saturday events will be forthcoming.
Present for CC Meeting: Pam Allee (Portland, OR), Susan Balzer (Hesston, KS), Ruth Benn (Brooklyn, NY), Eszter Freeman (Sonoma County, CA), Clark Hanjian (Vineyard Haven, MA), Larry Harper (Sonoma County, CA), Tana Hastings (Portland, OR), Celeste Howard (Hillsboro, OR), Erica Kay (Seattle, WA), Alice Liu (San Francisco, CA), Joe Maizlish (Los Angeles, CA), Scott McClay (Seattle, WA), Peg Morton (Eugene, OR), Geov Parrish (Seattle, WA), Ruby Phillips (Seattle, WA), Lincoln Rice (Milwaukee, WI), Peter Smith (South Bend, IN)), Jay Sordean (Berkeley, CA), Carolyn Stevens (Seattle, WA), Jim Stockwell (Micaville, NC), Eddie Tews (Seattle, WA), David Waters (Birmingham, AL), Daniel Woodham (Greensboro, NC)
Lincoln explained the Coordinating Committee process.
AdComm = Administrative Committee
1. Consultantís Report (written - http://www.nwtrcc.org/consultreport306.htm)
††††††††††† Additional report from Ruth: Tax day press release announced actions around the country. John Miller sent out to huge email media list. Carol Moore and Tim Godshall from NCPTF in DC were listed in the Institute for Public Accuracy press release and got quite a few radio interviews from it. About 30-40 calls came from USA Today article about Peter Smith that had bumper sticker with our phone # on it. Christian Science Monitor did good article. Tax day report on our website. Cleveland Plains Dealer ethics article distinguishes wtrs from other resisters.
††††††††††† Comments/Questions: Peter Smith added that there is a bulletin board on the HangUpOnWar website but it is not very active. Clark noted that the Coordinator Evaluation process needs to get back on track.
2. Strategy Conference Follow-up
††††††††††† A. Video/DVD: A committee formed at the strategy conference, and there was a round of emails back and forth discussing how to get going on this. Questions were raised as to what exactly we want Ė an real introductory video or short clips on the web. Susan Quinlan has suggested we create some short chapters on specific topics that might eventually be expanded to a full introductory film/DVD/video. Making sure it appeals to youth is important.
††††††††††† †The AdComm noted that a coordinator is needed for the committee and Daniel Woodham volunteered. So far other members are: Steve Hise, Tom Jackson, Carol Coney, Larry Dansinger, Ed Hedemann, Susan Quinlan, Mel Reslor, Sherill Crosby, Ruth Benn, Lincoln Rice, Peter Smith. Volunteers welcome. Daniel noted that in creating a longer film, one job is to develop budget, raise funds, so grant writing and video experience welcome.
††††††††††† This meeting expressed strong interest in getting short clips on the web, even using a site like MySpace; people liked the idea of chapters that may be combined into a longer piece.
††††††††††† The interviews done at the strategy conference are on DVD now. Ed Hedemann has the copies and plans to pull out some short bits for the website; a volunteer is also transcribing them to make it easier to find the desired sections. Itís a long project and time consuming. These interviews will be available for whatever project develops.
††††††††††† There was a strong sense that a good introductory film is needed, and people emphasized having DVD, not video form.
††††††††††† How soon do we need it? Some said ďbefore next tax dayĒ Ė at least for some short bits, but itís important to have a really good video rather than push the timing. We saw a 45-min. documentary this weekend about the Plowshares action of 3 nuns in Colorado, which participant Jackie Hudson brought. She said it takes about 3 years to make something like that.
††††††††††† We definitely need a specific proposal developed by the committee or individuals who are interested. It would be great to have a proposal for the longer film at our November meeting. Meanwhile, we hope the committee will figure out how to get some of the short clips on the website between now and the November meeting.
††††††††††† Ruth will get the emails to Daniel for the committee and he will help to push along the discussion. We felt there wasnít much we could do until a more formal proposal for a longer video is developed, with some outline of a plan and budget.
††††††††††† B. Survey (written summary attached below)
††††††††††† The committee coordinated by Bill Ramsey in St. Louis pretty much met the goals set out at the October conference. They did a pilot survey Ė available this weekend and are in the process of making adjustments based on that pilot. Billís report (see end of minutes) was available at the meeting, as was the survey, and some people said theyíd get comments/edits directly to Bill. The survey was used on NWTRCCís table at the April 29 demonstration in NYC and proved a good way to engage people.
††††††††††† Timeline: revise and get final version that will be sent out to us soon. Use at SOA as end date for survey then start second part, which is one year of resisting. Ruth will mail paper to those who need it and request it, and we will have it on the web.
††††††††††† Comments: good idea--will get out to all peace communities and people who havenít had interest in wtr; how do I fill it out if below taxable?; needs something about retirement; might need more options under religion as Quakers didnít seem to fit anywhere; some felt that the race question wasnít necessary but others felt strongly itís important we get that information Ė leave it in; good job committee!
††††††††††† Survey Committee Members Ė Ed Hedemann; Eszter Freeman; Mary Loehr; Veronica Fellerath; Bob Bady; Leslie Schultz; Betty Winkler; Susan Silver. Coordinator Bill Ramsey, firstname.lastname@example.com
††††††††††† C. Young Adult outreach
††††††††††† ē Lincoln reported that we have established a youth review committee to look at literature to see if good for under 30s; Lincoln and Alice and 3 others are on the committee. Will send them the W-4 flyer draft.
††††††††††† ē Draft of W-4 flyer presented. We would like comments and an ok from the CC to proceed with this flyer before the next meeting. Comments included: have done by July 1; back is intended for single people starting first job; Legal consequences information needs to be softened since there isnít that much risk Ė others argue to maintain it as is; Daniel noted that the Continental airlines magazine has article about reduced withholding with W-4 Ė much the same information that we give out!; add enough to make it useable for more than just young adults.
††††††††††† Consensus: Itís basically ok. No objections allowing the group to complete without another CC review.
††††††††††† ē Counter recruitment --add wtr to presentations. Susan Quinlan has 16-page packet with games, role plays to teach CO. We will have a link on our website soon. There is some mention on wtr.
††††††††††† D. Intentional Communities
††††††††††† Jim Stockwell has agreed to coordinate this committee and will get in touch with Bob Bady and Karl Meyer. Geov suggested we put something in Community Magazine.
3. Handbook
††††††††††† At the strategy conference, Clark handed out a draft of a policy handbook for NWTRCC. We were to review it and then decided whether to make it official at this meeting. Clark would continue to update it.
††††††††††† Clark reported that a few years ago a survey found lack of clarity on current decisions, so for the sake of institutional memory the handbook gets all decisions down in one place. It could be an informal restatement of whatís in the minutes as easy to read quick reference rather than verbatim of minutes.
††††††††††† Lincoln said that the AdComm recommended to make it the official handbook. For the next meeting there are a few things that need to be changed or updated, like the information on the no longer existing working groups.
††††††††††† Questions/Comments: How would we change this document? - Follow the usual decision making process; this is way weíve done things, but not necessarily the way we could do things. Keep flexible. I wouldnít want a lot of trouble to make some temporary changes.
††††††††††† Consensus: Accepted as official handbook for NWTRCC. Thanks Clark!
4. Next meeting
††††††††††† We have a choice between Las Vegas or Newton, Kansas
††††††††††† Gary Cavalier and Julia Occhiogrosso at Las Vegas Catholic Worker are contacts on our list. They host actions such as the Nevada Desert Experience, and on a request from Ruth said that they would be happy to host us, having not been able to do much for NWTRCC. It might not† cost anything for space to meet, and they have plenty of space for people to stay.
††††††††††† Susan Balzer talked with the Heartland Peace Tax Fund folks around Hesston/Newton and they also agreed to host us. NWTRCC last met there in 1998.††
††††††††††† We had also asked Austin, TX, again but they are not able to host us. Birmingham, AL is an option. Albuquerque might be willing in a year or so.
††††††††††† AdComm did not have a recommendation between Las Vegas or Kansas.
††††††††††† Proposed: Las Vegas this year and KS in Nov. 2007.
††††††††††† Consensus on proposal. Ruth will get in touch with Gary and Julia about details.
††††††††††† May 2007 Ė ďCall Austin and say weíre coming.Ē J David offered Birmingham, but New England hasnít hosted for a long time, so we might check with one of the groups there as an alternate. No decision on location for May 2007.
5. Proposals
††††††††††† A. Traveling Secretary†
††††††††††† At strategizing conference Karl Meyer introduced the traveling secretary idea. †† Recommendation by AdComm that with our limited resources the emphasis be on the video project for now and instead we promote a speakersí bureau on the website, travel to be paid by inviting groups.
††††††††††† Comments: Geov recalls 1993 national speaking tour for NWTRCC he did, which came close to breaking even, but what happened required active outreach Ė takes a lot to set things up, but the expert from out of town does seem to have more credibility than does a local person!; local/regional speakers would be best; the examples Karl gave were of people already famous Ė if we had someone like that it would be easier to support; itís hard to ďrecruitĒ for wtr, unlike some other movements or actions; Peg and Erica volunteer for regional in NW, Jim for SE, although we havenít decided on such a project as yet.
††††††††††† Consensus: No to the proposal at this time.
††††††††††† Susan proposes a regional speaking system. Geov suggests we follow regular procedures and prepare a proposal for November CC. Volunteers: Pam Allee, Erica, Geov, Peg assisting Pam.
††††††††††† B. Coordinator pay proposal
††††††††††† Only one formal raise for Coordinator since Ruth took the position in í03, with one more plan approved in October. This proposal adds $108 to our current budge, detailed in the written proposal. AdComm recommended approval.
††††††††††† Consensus: Approved†
††††††††††† C. Personnel Policy amendment proposal
††††††††††† Introduced by Clark, especially to remind AdComm to look at coordinator pay annually.
††††††††††† AdComm recommended approval.
††††††††††† Consensus: Approved
6. Fundraising Clerk Review
††††††††††† AdComm recommends we continue to have this position and seek a new volunteer as† Jim S. is now stepping down.
††††††††††† Comments: Fundraising clerk might focus on specific projects in seeking grants; Clerk needed for other than grant-seeking, asks about what has been done in the past; Jim reported that† he wasnít connected electronically, this hindered his connection with Ruth and with funding prospects, and he also had to take a time out due to personal circumstances; perhaps we should create a committee on fundraising; Ruth noted that a Fundraising Clerk is good for doing follow-up calls to affiliates and contact with other kinds of groups such as religious groups; a clerk among other things could help shape a fundraising plan;
††††††††††† Consensus: Maintain the position. Seek a volunteer during the next month.
††††††††††† Tana suggests we recruit actively for the position, she has a couple of possible names. Jim has offered to stay on if no one new is found. We can post in June newsletter. †† Contact Ruth (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you are interested in this position! Travel is paid to the 2 CC meetings per year and phone/mail expenses reimbursed.
7. Administrative Committee Members
††††††††††† Current members: Lincoln and Eszter are completing their two year full-time terms: Daniel and Susan stay on one more year; Alice has been an alternate for a year. One full position open and two alternate positions.
††††††††††† AdComm recommends we add Clark Hanjian as a full member and move Alice Liu into a full position now. As alternates, Pam Allee and Robert Randall. We thanked Jerome Witschger for throwing his name in the hat too, but he might move to Mexico next year so AdComm felt we should hold off on adding him at this point.
††††††††††† Consensus: Plan approved as recommended with thanks to the retiring AdComm members.
8. International Conference
††††††††††† A. Representation
††††††††††† The meeting will be in Waltersdorf, Gmany in October. We pay for our NWTRCC official representativeís travel and expenses. Candidates are Jim Stockwell (NC), Larry Rosenwald (MA), and Don Kaufman (KS)..
††††††††††† AdComm recommended having two reps, with Larry as one since he has offered to pay his own way, then sponsor Jim or Don, but AdComm couldnít figure out how to choose. They are all strong candidates who would be great reps for NWTRCC.
††††††††††† Tana suggests there are a couple of other paths: accept Larryís offer and use NWTRCC money to sponsor a third world person as we have in the past (usually out of special fundraising); or use some of our money for a second person but ask that person to raise the rest of their costs; we tossed around strengths of each candidate; another idea - send them all, splitting the money between the two and assuming they will raise funds to cover any balance; send Larry and save the money (but we donít want to select a person just because they might have finances that others donít). This turned into a lengthy and circular discussion, until a small committee went off to go over it all and come back with a proposal.
††††††††††† Proposed: Send Larry Rosenwald as the NWTRCC representative, and use our budgeted funds to send a person from the third world who would not otherwise be able to go.
††††††††††† Consensus: Approved
††††††††††† Larry added that the committee suggested that we consider in the future adding a ďthird world person conference attendance supportĒ item to future budgets.
††††††††††† B. Request for Financial Support
††††††††††† The German organizing committee needs some help to prepare for the conference. AdComm suggested we sent $100.
††††††††††† Consensus: Approved
9. Literature
††††††††††† Practical #7 is nearly done - on aging, Social Security, inheritance, health insurance, etc. In its almost done final layout stage. Offers to show to others for suggestions. Funding for it has been set aside. The work on #7 led to consider a #8 on ďmoney.Ē† The difficulty it poses for peopleís decisions about wtr, how people respond to large inheritances, and such.
††††††††††† #5 - Low income/simple living seems somewhat out of date now. David Gross in CA has offered to update this one, and had a editable version on the web. If there are volunteers who would like to help, please contact Ruth for the details
††††††††††† A few of us have been working on a flyer specifically about the Iraq War and WTR to hand out at demonstrations, etc. Rick Bickhart, Joe Maizlish, and Ruth have circulated a draft. Help welcome Ė contact Ruth if youíd like to help get this done!
10. Budget Review
††††††††††† Eszter asked about being over budget on grants. Ruth responded it was from a fund which sent a higher grant than in the past, a donor-directed grant of $3,000.
††††††††††† Joe: observation/question about postage and phone being less in recent years due to internet email use?† Ruth thought probably so as regards phone bill.
††††††††††† Adjustments: Tana suggested we add $108 to grants income (becomes $2608 Ė we are over-budget on that line anyway) to take care of the $108 from the coordinator budget change and take $100 from miscellaneous expenses item and give to the international conference.
††††††††††† Consensus: Approved
Conference evaluation
††††††††††† Liked the weather; one who hated meetings liked this; Appreciated panelists and workshops; Thanks to Seattle group and all they did; Great space to have it in; Listening to the comments of several folks who were completely new to wtr, prompts Clark to suggest we make sure wtr is introduced earlier in the program than 2 pm on Saturday afternoon!; AdComm and Coordinatorís work preparing the agenda and each topic was very helpful; Wanted a little more self-introduction at beginning of conference Friday evening; One questions the idea of having a musical show, favoring more of a social evening, informal party.
SURVEY REPORT (see #2B above)
Dear Survey Committee and Coordinating Committee members and SLCCWTR members:
We have tested the survey at an April 1 St. Louis Charlie King Concert in St. Louis (before, intermission, and after) and at the April 29th NWTRCC Table at the Festival at the end of the march (two-three hours).
Here are some general comments:
Here are general results: (this is not base on a complete tabulation, but simply looking over the completed forms for frequent responses)
Have others tested the questionnaire? If so, please share your results and ideas.
On the basis of these results, I would recommend we:
Thanks for your consideration of all this.
Bill Ramsey, email@example.com
National War Tax Resistance Coordinating


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HOUSTON (Reuters) - Many controversies surround hydraulic fracturing of underground shale deposits in the quest for oil and gas, but a small Canadian oilfield services company has pioneered a way around one of them: the use of prodigious amounts of water in the process.
"Fracking" generally involves blasting millions of gallons of water down a shale well to free up oil and natural gas, and then the water needs to be disposed of because it may contain toxic drilling byproducts like heavy metals.
Much of the water required for a so-called frack job is sourced from lakes, rivers or city water systems, and water is in short supply in some drilling areas, such as drought-plagued Texas.
GasFrac Energy Services Inc is winning customers, including Chevron Corp, by using a flammable propane gel instead of the water, chemicals and sand typically blasted into rock or tight sand formations to release trapped oil and gas.
One benefit of the growing technology is that no water is used.
"The disposal situation is basically eliminated," said Zeke Zeringue, the new chief executive officer of GasFrac. "Usually, it's a lot of water in and a lot of water out."
The gelled propane turns into a gas and exits the well with the natural gas or oil stream produced, eliminating the use of millions of gallons of water pumped into a well, Zeringue said.
Richard Spears, a leading oilfield services adviser to the petroleum industry and a former Halliburton Co engineer, said using liquefied petroleum gas, or propane, makes perfect sense from a technical point of view.
"It's an ideal liquid to crack the rock open with because it does not damage the rock like water would," Spears said. "Water may cause the rock to swell."
Still, the potential for the propane to ignite is a danger that can't be ignored, Spears said.
"As a former frack engineer, I get the willies when I think about getting anywhere near a frack that is flammable," he said. "When it catches fire, it doesn't burn nicely."
Two fires have broken out at sites in Canada where a propane fracture was under way or about to take place, causing burns to some workers.
GasFrac CEO Zeringue said the process is safe.
"We've actually exceeded the capabilities to deliver this technology and in an environmentally sound manner," he said.
The Calgary, Alberta company said it recently signed multi-year contract with a major production company.
The process has received clearances from regulators in Canada. Various state regulators in the United States have reviewed the technology, including the Oil and Gas Division of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
Oklahoma inspector Gayland Darity wrote in a technical report that the safety precautions taken by GasFrac at the job he witnessed were "the best" he had ever seen.
Still, according to his report, three firefighters were on hand, including one trained as an emergency medical technician. The firefighters had water, foam and chemicals at the ready to battle any potential blazes, a departure from a frack job using water.
A commission spokesman said the opinions in Darity's report were personal, not those of the commission.
The technology is so new that it has yet to catch the attention of U.S. environmentalists who track fracturing issues.
Emily Wurth, program director at the public interest group Food & Water Watch, said new fracturing technologies are not subject to enough oversight.
"People across the country are the guinea pigs for the industry," Wurth said. "My concern is a lot of these new technologies are adopted before we ensure that they are safe."
Most of GasFrac's frack jobs have been performed in western Canada, but the company is fracking more and more wells in North America. Their largest customer is Canadian oil and gas company Husky Energy. Now some of the world's largest companies are giving the technology a look, including Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell, the company's CEO said.
GasFrac said it has so far performed more than 1,000 propane fracks on 400 wells, it said.
The company began operations in Texas this summer, using its technology to frack a well in the Eagle Ford Shale for a small Canadian company called Jadela Oil Corp
The well was fracked using propane, butane and sand instead of water. Texas is experiencing one of the worst droughts on record, and water use in the state has been an issue.
The company is also operating in the Marcellus Shale covering parts of the U.S. Northeast, where opposition to drilling has been the most fierce.
"This is the market that is booming," Zeringue said a day ahead of a trip to Houston to see potential customers. "I think this could be a game changer for the industry."
Editing by Derek Caney

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text: Kindergarten made pinch pots inspired by Indian diyas. We painted them with Chromatemp paints which are awesome! They have a sheen to them so the colors look metallic. Today, the students got to make their diyas extra special by adding silver or gold glitter to the rim. The best part though was when they went "shopping" in Mrs. Vanni's gem store to search for that perfect gem to hide inside their pinch pots.


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Things to do in the Myrtle Beach area on Dec. 22s
Locals' day at park
Residents of Brunswick County, N.C., and Horry, Georgetown, Florence and Williamsburg counties who show a photo ID receive a three-hour unlimited ride wristband for $9.99 plus tax, along with family activities such as face painting, character appearances and a prize wheel. Details at 918-8725 or www.pavilionnostalgiapark.com.
Details | noon-3 p.m. at Pavilion Nostalgia Park, at Broadway at the Beach, near Grissom Parkway and 29th Avenue North.
Santa's final diving days
Santa Claus will dive two more days through Sunday with Ripley's Mermaids, during the aquarium's Festival of Trees through Dec. 31. Details at 916-0888, 800-734-8888 or www.ripleysaquarium.com.
Details | Noon, 2 and 4 p.m. at Ripley's Aquarium, at Broadway at the Beach, off 29th Avenue North in Myrtle Beach (open 9 a.m. daily); free with admission: $21.99 ages 12 and older, $10.99 ages 6-11, $3.99 ages 3-5, free ages 2 and younger.
Ranch marks holiday
"Christmas at TilluRide" will include visits with Santa, horse riding and mingling with other local families who have a family member with special health-care needs. Register at 556-5010. Details at 485-1871 or www.tilluride.com.
Details | 1-4 p.m. (rain date Sunday at TilluRide Ranch, 242 Stephanie Loop, Hemingway.
'Holidays on Boardwalk'
"Holidays on the Boardwalk" continues for two more Saturdays through Dec. 29 on the Myrtle Beach Boardwalk, all for free. Details at 704-604-7868 or www.boardwalkchristmas.com.
Details | Events include Santa sharing cookies and milk noon-5 p.m. at Boardwalk Coffee House, 104 Ninth Ave. N. "A Blue Christmas with Elvis" by David Chaney 6-8 p.m. on Ninth Avenue North stage, and "Ugly Holiday Sweater Contest" party 7 p.m. at Ocean Front Bar and Grill.
Theater show concludes
Theatre of the Republic concludes its run of "Holiday on Main Street: 'Twas the Night Before Christmas." Details at 488-0821 or www.theatreoftherepublic.com.
Details | 3 and 8 p.m. at Main Street Theatre, 337 Main. St., Conway, for $18 each.
For a complete list of upcoming events, festivals and shows visit MyrtleBeach


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LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- FOX has extended yet another one of its comedies, this time asking for two additional episodes of its Tuesday tentpole "New Girl."
The Zooey Deschanel-led half-hour will produce 24 episodes this season, matching its output from last season. On Friday, FOX asked for two extra installments of "Raising Hope" and "The Mindy Project," likewise bringing their season totals to 24 episodes.
Meanwhile, The CW has commissioned three additional scripts of its newly launched dramas "Beauty and the Beast" and "Emily Owens, M.D." With the late starts for both series, said orders will keep their respective scribes busy while the netlet mulls their back orders.
Both networks' moves were first reported by Deadline.com.


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Lobster Macaroni and Cheese
3 cups elbow macaroni
1/2 cup diced onions
1 tablespoon canola oil
Pinch ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 bay leaf
1/4 cup cornstarch
1 quart 2 percent milk
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1 1/2 teaspoons sea salt
1/2 teaspoon white distilled vinegar
2 cups shredded cheddar cheese, about 8 ounces
1/4 cup Parmesan cheese
12 ounces cooked lobster meat, chopped
1/2 cup whole-wheat bread crumbs
1. Cook macaroni according to package instructions.
2. Preheat oven to 375?. Lightly coat a 9 x 13-inch baking pan with canola oil.
3. In a large saucepan, saut? onions in canola oil until translucent. Add cloves, black pepper and bay leaf.
4. Mix cornstarch with milk in a large bowl. Add to onion mixture and bring to a simmer. Simmer for 2 to 3 minutes or until thickened. Add Worcestershire sauce, garlic powder, salt, pepper and vinegar. Add cheeses and stir until melted. Remove bay leaf. Stir in lobster and macaroni and mix gently.
5. Pour into baking pan and top with bread crumbs. Bake for 25 to 20 minutes or until bread crumbs are golden brown. Cut into 12 squares.
Makes 12 servings, each containing approximately:
275 calories
28 gm. carbohydrate
10 gm. fat
48 mg. cholesterol
18 gm. protein
541 mg. sodium
1 gm. fiber
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Chelsea's search for a striker has come to a conclusion after their not-so-secret deal for Gonzalo Higuain was finalised on Wednesday.
Higuain, who spent the first half of the season at AC Milan, moves to Stamford Bridge initially on loan from Juventus, with Chelsea having the option to extend that deal for a fee of €18million next term or pay €36m to sign the player permanently.
With wantaway striker Alvaro Morata having struggled for form and Olivier Giroud seemingly out of favour, Maurizio Sarri has turned to a player whose qualities he knows all about from their time together at Napoli.
The former Real Madrid star has been one of the most prolific strikers in European football for over a decade so, with the help of Opta, we take a look at his scoring feats.
Welcome to London and welcome to Chelsea, @G_Higuain! #HiguaIN pic.twitter.com/DMJN7z8YOL
— Chelsea FC (@ChelseaFC) January 23, 2019
Welcome to London and welcome to Chelsea, @G_Higuain! #HiguaIN pic.twitter.com/DMJN7z8YOL
- Since the beginning of the 2006-07 season, Higuain has scored a hefty 224 goals - the sixth most across Europe's top five leagues.
- Only Barcelona's Lionel Messi (20.94 per cent) has a better shot-conversion rate than Higuain's 19.96 per cent of the six strikers to have 200-plus goals in that same period.
- Cristiano Ronaldo, Messi and Robert Lewandowski are the only players to have scored 20-plus goals in a season more times than Higuain's five since the start of the 2006-07 campaign.
- Higuain is one of just three players, alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani, to have scored 100-plus goals in more than one of Europe's big five leagues this century.
- Under Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri, Higuain scored 36 league goals for Napoli in the 2015-16 term. That is the most by a player in a single season in Serie A.
- That campaign saw him play 29 times with new Chelsea team-mate Jorginho, who provided Higuain with two assists.
- Higuain has 34 goals in major European competitions, 22 in the Champions League and 12 in the Europa League.


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The EIRM Online Course in Risk Management is an introduction to enterprise risk management (ERM). The course targets individuals, who wish to learn more about ERM and how it is practiced; and also companies who wish to develop a common risk language among employees and a common understanding of the company's approach to risk management.
You will be introduced to the most important terms within ERM and to practical tools and strategies to the implementation of ERM. The course is developed in accordance with the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission's (COSO) principles for enterprise risk management. COSO is an international recognized standard.
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The Pakistan Super League witnessed a bit of the physical aspect of the sport -- one that is not tolerated -- when two Pakistan teammates -- Wahab Riaz and Ahmed Shehzad -- got involved in a fracas, forcing the other players and umpires to intervene.
The incident occurred during the all-important match between table toppers Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi on Sunday. The ugly incident took place in the fifth over of the match, when Quetta batsman Shehzad was cleverly bowled by Peshawar's Riaz, who was hit for a mammoth six over midwicket the previous ball.
Riaz, after dismissing the player for 21 runs, celebrated, staring at the batsman's face and Shehzad also stared back. A few things were said between the two players, before it started to get physical. Things could have turned ugly, had Asad Shafiq, the Quetta opener, not pulled his teammate. Other players on the field had to come in between the players and Peshawar skipper Afridi tried his best to cool down his star bowler.
Even when Shehzad was heading back to the pavilion, he was staring at Riaz and saying a few things to the bowler.
As a result of the clash, the match referee fined both the players. As reported by Daily Pakistan, 40% and 30% of the match fees will be deducted from Riaz and Shezhad respectively.
However, this incident bagged headlines in a match, which witnessed some quality cricket. Peshawar, who won the match by eight wickets, are tied on points with Quetta with 10 points. Things have become fairly interesting in the PSL with just three matches to go before the Playoff stage.
The PSL has been a huge success so far, but such kind of incidents also brings the competition into the limelight for the wrong reasons.


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Ways to stay connected have increased over the past few years. It is easier to connect with students through student email, through announcements in Brightspace, through texting, even through a Facebook group.
It would follow that it is easy to stay connected as faculty. My focus for this totidem verbis – in these words – is just that, the connection between you and us, between the adjunct in the field and the university. The more connected you are to us the stronger your position will be in the classroom to connect with students and to help students connect to us.
By nature, connection is two-way. Below are a few thoughts to maintain and strengthen our connection:
- Review our mission often and ask yourself how you walk it out in the classroom.How do you model a way of thought, a way of life, and a way of faith grounded in our pillars (the primacy of Christ, the priority of Scripture, the pursuit of truth, and the practice of wisdom)?
- How do you engage your students critically?
- How is your faith integrated within your content?
- Read the newsletter Connect:Ed to hear our heartbeat, to learn tips, and to stay informed.
- Visit our website often for more updates and resources, http://faculty.okwu.edu/.
- Review the 4-C Quality Faculty Model and implement Competence, Caring, Commitment, and Connection in your teaching.
- Study the Integrated Model to enrich your teaching.
- Use your university email for university work (email@example.com).
- It is evidence of your connection to the university.
- We require it for faculty just as we require student email for students.
- Communication from our offices will go only to @okwu.edu addresses, including requests to teach and contracts.
- Attend a commencement event if possible. Our students look for you at the ceremony. If you cannot attend in person, watch the live stream and follow up with a note of congratulations to students you have taught.
- Represent OKWU-AGS with integrity.
- Post attendance timely for Week 1.
- Post final grades within 1 week of the end of the course.
- Provide timely, helpful feedback to students.
- Create community in your courses, intentionally. Arrive early to welcome each student and leave last. Learn students' names. Share your passion and find out more about theirs.
- Communicate proactively with advisement and/or administration if a student is struggling.
- Expect APA for paper formatting and for citations. If you are weak here, ask for APA help. Consult apastyle.org and https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/.
- Communicate with us ways that we can help you serve our students better.
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adidas to partner Bosnia and Herzegovina ahead of 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™
adidas plans to work closely with the Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina to leverage the growing international appeal of the team. Highly regarded as an up-and-coming nation in world football, Bosnia and Herzegovina recently rose to 17th in the FIFA World Rankings after winning its 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ qualifying group ahead of Greece.
Bosnia and Herzegovina will wear the new kits for the first time on June 3rd in Chicago when the team take on fellow adidas federation Mexico in a friendly match, while the kits will go on sale two days earlier on June 1st.
adidas already possesses close links with Bosnian football, with existing partnership deals with high profile Bosnian players including: Edin Džeko of Manchester City; Miralem Pjanić of Roma and national team captain Emir Spahić of Bayer Leverkusen.
Claus-Peter Mayer, VP Global Sports Marketing Football at adidas, said of the announcement: "This is a great deal for adidas to have signed with an emerging football nation of huge potential and demonstrates our continued investment in football around the world. As the global leader in football, the 2014 World Cup in Brazil will see our cutting edge technology displayed on a world stage, including the latest adidas federation kits - the most advanced and lightest we have ever produced."
Elvedin Begić, president of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Football Federation said: "This is a landmark moment for our nation – making our first appearance in a major tournament and partnering with adidas. We are proud to be working with such a historic and prestigious brand. The proven performance and continuous innovation of adidas gives an extra lift to Bosnian football."
Manchester City striker and Vice-captain Edin Džeko added: "I'm excited that adidas has partnered with our national team. adidas always produce great boots for me that deliver top performance, so I'm looking forward to seeing and wearing the new kits. I hope they inspire us to a great performance this summer in Brazil."
adidas are the global leaders in football and will have an unrivaled presence at this summer's 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™ centered around the Official Match Ball brazuca, nine competing federations - including four of the five top federations in the World, and some of the best players including Leo Messi, Luis Suarez, Dani Alves, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Robin van Persie.
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Ronan and Rowan went out last night and broke a few rules. Now they have hangovers and a scene to get through. However, they're both young, in need of cash, and horny – a trifecta that will help them get through this scene.
Rowan rips off his jeans and with very little warning, straddles Ronan's face. Ronan takes it in stride and puts the cock dangling in his face into his mouth. He suckles on it while pulling his own cock out of his pants and playing with it. As Rowan cock grows in Ronan's mouth, Ronan's beast of a prick grows behind his back, just waiting to pounce. The boys switch places and Rowan comes face to face with the monster. He tries to swallow it whole and almost chokes on it. Ronan doesn't care, he just begins to face fuck him with no mercy.
Ready to get fucked, Ronan eases his tight ass onto Rowan's raw cock. Once he's settled he begins to ride him hard. He straight up uses Rowan's prick as his own personal plaything. He doesn't get to have things his way for too long. Rowan puts him on his back and drills his hole over and over until Ronan cums, shooting a huge load all over his chest. Rowan pulls out and paints Ronan's face with his own special sauce. See, not even a hangover can stop to broke and horny boys.


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Upgrade Fusion 3.0.0 to 3.0.1
The steps below describe how to upgrade Fusion 3.0 to a more recent release. The
kazoo Python library must be installed before you begin.
|A migration tool will be available soon for upgrading to Fusion 3.1 from versions 3.0.x
Extract the zip file to the same parent
fusionfolder as your earlier 3.0 release.
For example, if Fusion 3.0.0 is installed in
/opt/fusion/3.0.0, then place the downloaded
fusion-3.0.1.tar.gzfile in the
/opt/folder and run:
tar -xf fusion-3.0.1.tar.gz
Set the
FUSION_OLD_HOMEenvironment variable to the full path of the version-numbered folder below the
fusiondirectory for the older version of Fusion:
export FUSION_OLD_HOME=/path/to/fusion/3.0.0
Set the
FUSION_HOMEenvironment variable to the full path of the version-numbered folder below the
fusiondirectory for the new version of Fusion:
export FUSION_HOME=/path/to/fusion/3.0.1
Copy data from the old Fusion instance to the new instance:
cp -R $FUSION_OLD_HOME/data/ $FUSION_HOME/
Copy configurations from the old Fusion instance to the new instance:
mv $FUSION_HOME/conf/ $FUSION_HOME/conf_backup/ cp -R $FUSION_OLD_HOME/conf/ $FUSION_HOME/
If you are running distributed Fusion, then perform this step on all the Fusion nodes.Note
If you are running external Solr or Zookeeper, then modify the
group.defaultproperty in
fusion.propertiesto reflect the services that should be started when the
bin/fusionscript is executed.
Update links to point to the new Fusion instance:
cd $FUSION_HOME/.. unlink latest ln -s 3.0.1 latest
Start the Zookeeper server which will be used by the new Fusion installation.
If you are using the Zookeeper bundled within Fusion, that would be:
cd $FUSION_HOME ./bin/zookeeper start
Clone the fusion-upgrade-scripts repository, if you haven't already:
git clone https://github.com/lucidworks/fusion-upgrade-scripts
Run the upgrade script:
cd fusion-upgrade-scripts/src python upgrade-3.0.x.py
Run the new version of Fusion (all services defined in
fusion.properties) and validate via the Fusion UI:
cd $FUSION_HOME ./bin/fusion startTip
Before accessing the Fusion UI, clear your browser's cache. Otherwise, you may inadvertently access a cached version of the old Fusion UI and see inconsistent behavior.


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These plaster provide fast and painless removal of hard skin ( callues that form under the ball of the foot ). They have been dermatologically tested for their effectiveness and durability. Different option are available for hard corns, soft corns, with fastening adhesive tabs or as fabric you can cut to the required size. Also suitable for hands.
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Take a footbath using Timodore Oxysalts. Apply the removal disc over the hard skin and protect it with the special felt pad. Gently press down to properly fasten the plater. Leave the plaster on for 48 hours. Take another footbath so you can remove the plaster and callus easily and without any pain. Repeat this procedure if necessary. Protect the affected area with a Timodore Corn Pad Plaster for hard skin to prevent the hard skin from coming back.


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The Center for Domain-Specific Computing
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The current Center for Domain-Specific Computing (CDSC) is a collaboration between UCLA, Rice University, Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU), and Intel Research. The scope of its efforts includes leveraging the research results from our past work, but significantly expanding and extending the research along the following research areas: 1. Accelerator-centric architectures (ACAs) in which novel methodologies and algorithms to automatically extract accelerator building blocks (ABBs) in new application domains 2. Compilation and runtime support for ACAs The work continues to address key issues within medical image processing, developing and implementing the idea of "adaptive compressive sensing" for image re-construction and near-real time image processing. This research also expands its application domain scope to personalized cancer treatment.


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The Q&A below is transcribed from a phone interview with Dr. Alison Swigart, psychiatrist on the Intensive Treatment Unit at Butler Hospital, for Honest Conversations.
What do you do at Butler Hospital?
When I was in medical training I really enjoyed working with patients with severe mental illness, who were more ill than our average patient. So when I joined the staff in 2013, I took the opportunity to become part of the intensive treatment unit.
We treat a variety of different types of illnesses, but the main focus of our work is on people who have severe and persistent mental illness. We primarily work with people who have diagnoses of schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and major depression as well as severe personality disorders. We also do sometimes work with adults who have serious developmental disabilities and associated behavioral problems such as aggression, or self-injury. I work as part of a multi disciplinary team including social workers, nurses, activity therapist, occupational therapists, and mental health workers to do a complete evaluation of people who are admitted to our unit and start a course of treatment that is often then continued in the outpatient setting.
What drew you to work with severe mental illness?
When I did my psychiatry rotation in medical school, I rotated at a state hospital in New York where I saw people who had very severe and chronic psychotic illnesses. I think I was really drawn to those people because they're vulnerable in so many ways and if you can just imagine yourself in their shoes, the world suddenly seems like a very terrifying place. So I think I was drawn to that because I wanted to help make the world seem less scary to these people. And the other reason is that, I think it's an area where psychiatric treatment can really make a huge difference, both in the short-term, in terms of days or weeks, but also in the long-term, potentially impacting the trajectory of a person's whole life.
Can you define schizophrenia, personality disorders, and bipolar disorders, in a way so that the average person would understand what's happening?
The interesting thing about these illnesses is that I use different terms when referring to them, depending on who I'm speaking with. I usually use one term when speaking with a fellow medical provider, but different terms when speaking with a family member or with a patient.
For many patients with these types of disorders, part of their illness is a lack of awareness of their illness. So with patients, I try to use terminology or the descriptive terms that the patient themselves use. For example, someone with schizophrenia that has paranoia might say they have anxiety or fear, and so it's often not really useful to try to force that person to accept a diagnostic label of paranoia because it's something that they're not really going to identify with. So I try to use whatever terms they use.
In terms of defining these illnesses for a family member, I would define schizophrenia, for example, as a neuro-developmental disorder: so it really is a disorder of the brain that we think starts before people are born. I explain that it takes some time for the symptoms to show themselves, which usually is in later adolescence or early adulthood. It's a disorder where people typically have a break from reality where they often exhibit delusions and hallucinatory experiences—like hearing voices, or seeing things that other people can't. I think that the piece that many people are unaware of is that in addition to those sort of glaring psychotic symptoms, these people have significant cognitive problems. So they're simultaneously experiencing problems with their ability to think, with their memory, and with their ability to plan and organize. This makes it very difficult for them to function in the same way that someone without this illness does. And those tend to be fairly persistent symptoms.
Is there a test for predisposition to schizophrenia?
There is not a definitive test at this point in time. We know that there's a significant genetic risk component, so if you have a first degree relative, meaning a parent, or a sibling with schizophrenia, your risk is increased about ten fold. Still, there are certainly plenty of people whose parents or brothers or sisters have schizophrenia yet they themselves do not ever develop it. We think that most likely you're born with a significant genetic predisposition to having it, then through a series of events or environmental influences that are not understood, that predisposition in the brain is sort of activated and you develop psychotic symptoms. It could be from traumatic experiences, or substance abuse, for example.
How is bipolar disorder different?
Bipolar disorder is what we call a mood disorder, and includes periods of depression, where people have a very low mood, low energy, often difficulties with sleep and motivation, and they have thoughts of suicide; alternating with periods of what we call mania, which is a period of days to weeks of an abnormally elevated mood with abnormally high energy. People sometimes describe mania as being driven by a motor. They don't need very much sleep, and often engage in risky or impulsive behaviors that they wouldn't normally do.
How do you define personality disorder?
That's probably the most complicated to explain. Personality disorders are a group of illnesses where people have persistent difficulty managing their emotional states, forming and maintaining interpersonal relationships, and functioning in terms of maintaining their abilities as a student or in a job. It's really a disordered way of how people view themselves and their identity, and how they view the world and other people. There's a wide range of personality disorders. Many people who have a personality disorder seem to have more difficulty regulating their emotions than other people. Perhaps they haven't learned that as a child, and that leads them to have unstable personal relationships, and view the world as menacing or unfair, or somehow against them.
How do you treat chronic psychiatric illnesses?
Typically the gold standard for treatment is a combination of medication and therapy, though each individual's treatment is tailored to their needs. The focus of treatment in the hospital setting is usually getting people stabilized on an effective medicine so that they can be safe enough to be discharged and be back in the community and engage more in outpatient services, where the focus is on both medication and therapy. We do offer group therapy on the unit, but there isn't really intensive individual therapy. We're primarily focused on getting people started on the right regimen of medicines that helps get the severe symptoms of their illness under control and helps get them to a point where they're safe to leave the hospital.
How do those medicines work and how do you see them affecting the person?
We have many different categories of medicines, depending on the type of illness that we're treating. Many of our medications and treatments are useful for different diagnoses. As an example, an anti-psychotic medicine may be effective not only for schizophrenia but also for bipolar disorder, major depression, and anxiety. A lot of these medicines have been studied across a range of diagnoses. Most psychiatric medicines do take up to three months for the full effect of the medication to be seen. So unfortunately we don't often get to see the full effect of the medicine but we may start to see effects within about a week if the medicine is going to work.
What's the greatest cause of relapse?
I would say, among the population that I treat, the biggest relapse has to do with the lack of insight into having an illness. People might accept medicine in the hospital setting because they know it's a way to get out of the hospital. But once they leave, and they don't have a nurse bringing them their medicine everyday and the doctor educating them everyday, and reminding them of the need to take the medicine, I think many of them don't believe that they need it.Not necessarily that they think they're better, but that they might think that there was nothing wrong with them to begin with. And then I think there's a whole bunch of other factors that intervene, and that are often hard to predict, like, how much does the medicine cost? Does their insurance cover it? Does it require a prior authorization? Will they make it to an appointment with an outpatient provider who can continue the prescription for the medicine? Do they have transportation to the pharmacy to pick up the medicine? The infrastructure and support can really influence the trajectory of a patient's success after discharge.
Do you think we need more support systems for this population of patients?
In my opinion the goal should be to treat people for mental illness and have them live in the least restrictive setting that they can. For most people that's being in the community. But I think there's definitely a subset of patients with severe mental illness who don't respond completely to treatment with medicine or don't comply with treatment because they don't think they have a problem. These people are not able to function on their own in the community and many of them have burned bridges with family, so they have very few supports and often little financial means. I think we have seen, even over the seven years that I've been here as a psychiatrist in Rhode Island, that the safety net in the community has been defunded, and it's making it more difficult for those people with severe mental illness to live successfully in a community. We do have patients who we are attempting to get into group home facilities, and the number of beds have been cut so much that those people can be stable and ready for discharge from the hospital, but there's no place for them to go and they have to wait three, four, six months.
In the time you've been in psychiatry, how have things changed for the better?
I think stigma around treatment for mental illness has been reduced over the last ten years or so; it's more acceptable for people to seek out treatment and to talk more openly about seeking out treatment.


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love your face: Dara
This week, a long time friend and former co-working, Dara is featured on Love Your Face.
After a few months of summer craziness I'm back shooting portraits for Love Your Face, which is exciting to me. On a geeky strobist side of things, I now have two 12×72 inch softboxes which I will be using instead of the two medium sized boxes. I haven't shot with them yet, but I'm assuming it'll create a more contrasty image. Should be interesting.
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One-of-its-kind - Majuli amidst the mighty yet turbulent Brahmaputra happens to be the World's largest riverine island. Make a point to visit their islands of Majuli, all of which happens to be the bird watchers paradise. Besides, it is known for its sataras, the Hindu Vaishnavite monasteries, and centers for art. Do visit the satras of Assam, especially the Dakhinpat Satra, Garamurh Satra, and Auniati Satra to see the well nourished Assamese dance forms, music, and dance drama. Majuli is located at a distance of around 200km east from Guwahati. And there are no hotels yet there are homestays.
Majuli, in the state of Assam is the biggest river island of the world, situated on River Bramhaputra. The total area of this island district, which is also the first of its kind in the country, was once spread in an area of 1256 square kilometer, but now it has reduced to only 875 square kilometers, as the result of soil erosion. It is one of the famous travel destinations of North East India, especially during the time of the Majuli Bihu, a traditional dance festival. This island has been the cultural capital of Assam from as early as the 16th century, and is the home of people from the Missing tribe who had migrated from Arunachal Pradesh. Therefore, the locals can be seen speak Missing and Assamese language mainly.
The island has been a home for Neo Vaishnavaite tradition for a long time. In Majuli, there are about 22 Vaishnava Satras which are well known attractions of the place. Among the Satras, the first one was built by Sankaradeva, who is reckoned to be the father of the Neo Vaishnavism. Some of the important Satras of the area are Dakshinpath, Garamur, Auniati and Kamlabari. These count as the must visit tourism places of Assam too.
If you are planning a tour to Majuli, you must include these Satras, which are ancient repositories of cultural traditions like the "borgeet," "Jumora dance," "Chali dance" etc. For sightseeing places, there are a number of spots here like Garmur, Tengapaniya, and so on.
Among the top things to do in this island includes taking a peak of the cultures and traditions of the tribes of the island; and the best time to do it would be during the Bihu festival as you can see soak in all the excitements of the fairs. Bird watching in the lush greenery is another top thing to do on the tour as well. Planning your holidays around the festival will let the visitors enjoy a number of adventure sports. There are other tourism places near the Majuli Island, which you would like to visit during your stay, like Jorhat, Kaziranga National Park, Dhemaji, Lilabari, Sibsagar etc.
We at Tour My India, as your travel guide offer best holiday packages that make your vacation a perfect one. Count on us for best travel packages in North East India that not only suit your interest but your budget as well.
Majuli is the cultural heartbeat so over a trip to this quirky place, which happens to be the largest river island in the world, visit satras to see the iconic Assamese play, drama, and dance forms. Also, take an island detour to see some spectacular birds.
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re:SOUND is a professional chamber orchestra focused on small orchestra repertoire. Like the chamber music we play and love, we celebrate intimacy and the coming together of musicians and audiences to experience and explore classical music in a big way but on a small scale.
Whether you are a musician looking to be part of something new and exciting, or a music lover with questions or suggestions — we look forward to hearing from you!


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Point Richmond CERT is currently developing a list of needs our neighborhood might require if we're every cut off from city services.
Because we're a very unique area of Richmond, our needs are different than any other neighborhood.
We want your input! What resources or services would you like PR-CERT to develop in the future? Should we help create a neighborhood emergency tool cache? Do we need search-and-rescue tools? Do we want to help build a amateur emergency radio squad? We want to know your thoughts.
These suggestions will be part of our discussion as we prioritize our emergency plan and get Point Richmond ready for the big one.


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Scheme's variables have lexical scope, ie, they are visible only to forms within a certain contiguous stretch of program text. The global variables we have seen thus far are no exception: Their scope is all program text, which is certainly contiguous.
We have also seen some examples of local
variables. These were the
lambda parameters, which
get bound each time the procedure is called, and
whose scope is that procedure's body. Eg,
(define x 9) (define add2 (lambda (x) (+ x 2))) x => 9 (add2 3) => 5 (add2 x) => 11 x => 9
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x, and there is also a
x, the latter introduced by procedure
add2. The global
x is always
9. The local
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3 in the
first call to
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9, in the second call to
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The form
set! modifies the lexical binding of a
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modifies the global binding of
x from
9 to
20, because that is the binding of
x that is
visible to
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set! was inside
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set! here adds
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20, not
set! inside
add2 affects only the local
variable used by
add2. Although the local variable
x got its binding from the global
the latter is unaffected by the
set! to the local
x => 20
Note that we had all this discussion because we used
the same identifier for a local variable and a global
variable. In any text, an identifier named
x refers
to the lexically closest variable named
x. This
will shadow any outer or global
x's. Eg,
add2, the parameter
x shadows the global
A procedure's body can access and modify variables in its surrounding scope provided the procedure's parameters don't shadow them. This can give some interesting programs. Eg,
(define counter 0) (define bump-counter (lambda () (set! counter (+ counter 1)) counter))
The procedure
bump‑counter is a zero-argument
procedure (also called a thunk). It introduces
no local variables, and thus cannot shadow anything.
Each time it is called, it modifies the global
counter — it increments it by 1 — and returns
its current value. Here are some successive calls to
(bump-counter) => 1 (bump-counter) => 2 (bump-counter) => 3
let and
Local variables can be introduced without explicitly
creating a procedure. The special form
introduces a list of local variables for use within its
(let ((x 1) (y 2) (z 3)) (list x y z)) => (1 2 3)
As with
lambda, within the
let-body, the local
x (bound to
1) shadows the global
x (which
is bound to
The local variable initializations —
x to
y to
z to
3 — are not considered
part of the
let body. Therefore, a reference to
x in the initialization will refer to the global,
not the local
(let ((x 1) (y x)) (+ x y)) => 21
This is because
x is bound to
1, and
y is
bound to the global
x, which is
Sometimes, it is convenient to have
let's list of
lexical variables be introduced in sequence, so that
the initialization of a later variable occurs in the
lexical scope of earlier variables. The form
let* does this:
(let* ((x 1) (y x)) (+ x y)) => 2
x in
y's initialization refers to the
just above. The example is entirely equivalent to —
and is in fact intended to be a convenient abbreviation
for — the following program with nested
(let ((x 1)) (let ((y x)) (+ x y))) => 2
The values bound to lexical variables can be procedures:
(let ((cons (lambda (x y) (+ x y)))) (cons 1 2)) => 3
Inside this
let body, the lexical variable
adds its arguments. Outside,
cons continues to
create dotted pairs.
A lexical variable is visible throughout its scope,
provided it isn't shadowed. Sometimes, it is helpful
to temporarily set a lexical variable to a
certain value. For this, we use the form
(fluid-let ((counter 99)) (display (bump-counter)) (newline) (display (bump-counter)) (newline) (display (bump-counter)) (newline))
This looks similar to a
let, but instead of
shadowing the global variable
counter, it
temporarily sets it to
99 before continuing with
fluid‑let body. Thus the
displays in the body
100 101 102
After the
fluid‑let expression has evaluated,
the global
counter reverts to the value it had
before the
counter => 3
Note that
fluid‑let has an entirely different
effect from
fluid‑let does not introduce
new lexical variables like
let does. It modifies
the bindings of existing lexical variables, and
the modification ceases as soon as the
fluid‑let does.
To drive home this point, consider the program
(let ((counter 99)) (display (bump-counter)) (newline) (display (bump-counter)) (newline) (display (bump-counter)) (newline))
which substitutes
let for
fluid‑let in
the previous example. The output is now
4 5 6
Ie, the global
counter, which is initially
3, is updated by each call to
The new lexical variable
counter, with its
initialization of
99, has no impact on the calls to
bump‑counter, because although the calls to
bump‑counter are within the scope of this local
counter, the body of
bump‑counter isn't. The
latter continues to refer to the global
counter, whose final value is
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We are very proud to announce that 2019 will mark Anacortes Yacht Charters' 40th anniversary. We are blessed and thankful to be on this journey with so many of you. In 1979, Jim Shea started Anacortes Yacht Charters, which was then purchased by Dan and Sherrie Meyer. In 2005, we bought AYC from Kristin's parents, the Meyers, and carried on the family business to the second generation. Along the way, our employees, charter customers and boat owners have been incredibly supportive, loyal and dedicated. It is such a pleasure to enjoy boating, the beautiful San Juan Islands and beyond, with so many amazing people over the years. We hope to see you in 2019 as we celebrate 40 years of making lasting memories.
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Due to the perpetual rain that seems to be plaguing the city again, my new photographer, Tessa and I decided to duck into a corner store on Main to snap some pics and investigate its run-of-the-mill sketch sugary/savory convenient treats. Luckily for me I left empty handed which meant no guilty pleasures were indulged (…that time).
I'm pretty proud of this outfit, because minus the bag and shoes it cost me a whopping 7 dollars. I've been looking for khaki anything for ages now and stumbled upon this loose shirt in the mens section of Value Village. The shorts were originally this really heinous pair of mommy-cut jeans–think high waist and really unflattering taper around the ankles, but I fixed that by just lopping off the legs. To be honest, I'm kinda shitty at cutting stuff. You'd think that because I can sew (a little), I'd be able to eye-ball this thing no problem, but no. I have an embarrassing amount of 'shorts' that I have cut on my own that are either too short (butt hanging out) or too tight. I've learned now that you gotta buy a pair that are a little looser and have minimal stretch. Anything that is too spandexy will look beyond unflattering.
Oh and my new baby. My precious. Preeeccciiioooousssss. I've been in love with the diego since I first laid eyes on it. I told myself to exercise some self control because I already had an Alex Wang bag. Why would I need a second?! But when it came out in LEOPARD (and you all know how I feel about feline print) I just knew I had to have it. It was all I could think of. 'what can I wear it with?' 'ohhh! it'll look good with this outfit'. So after much delirious day dreaming and a handy 20% discount incentive at Opening Ceremony, I took the plunge and bought it. Needless to say, I'm beyond happy with it and have been toting it around like a proud mamma.
I've been feeling like I'm in a rut lately. Is it the weather? Is it because I haven't been going to yoga religiously? Is it because I've been sleeping less than normal human hours every night for almost 2 weeks?? Is it because I've been single for too long? Whatever it is. I feel like I've been sucked into this black hole of null. This post has gotten unintentionally un-happy. Oh my! But really, what do you guys do to pull yourself out of a rut? I need ideas!
Wearing second hand khaki shirt, DIY shorts, BCBG Mendel boots, Alexander Wang bag, Talula (by Aritzia) belt
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Conway picks candidates for new trees
CONWAY | City officials on Monday narrowed to five their list of tree types that potentially could replace the honey locust trees that now line sections of Main Street and Third and Fourth Avenues.
That list will get shorter in two weeks, after officials walk through the city with a map of all trees downtown and decide what kinds will replace the honey locust and at which locations.
On Monday, city leaders decided they want shade for the downtown sidewalks and parking areas as well as some color and evergreen quality.
Officials have budgeted $17,500 in addition to $800 in grant money for the removal and replacement of the trees, which they hope to get started before the end of the 2006-07 fiscal year.
Trees currently in the downtown area were installed about 20 years ago.
Officials say they are ready to remove about 30 honey locust trees because of complaints about pods on sidewalks and in front of downtown businesses.
On the short list for consideration are a new kind of live oak tree called a highrise, more crepe myrtles, a flowering kousa dogwood tree, lace bark elm and river birch trees.
"You have to keep in mind do you want shape or the flowers _ what characteristic do you want?" City Arborist Wanda Lilly said during a slideshow presentation of various trees.
City Council members Vivian Chestnut, Alys Lawson and Jean Timbes attended the meeting with Mayor Greg Martin and several city staffers. Lawson said she would like to see blooming or green foliage at a different time of the year than other area trees to give the city some color.
"I think that canopy shape is what I had in mind where you can walk under it, cars can park under it and you don't have that cone shape you see so often," Lawson said of the lace bark elm tree.
"I think a row of dogwood would be nice too. It's a nice, Southern tree."
Ashley Davies, director of Conway Main Street USA, said business owners she spoke to before Monday's meeting like the idea of crepe myrtles, which already exist on Laurel and Elm Streets.
"September through December are really profitable months, and I think it makes sense to have something green in the downtown for that time," Davies said. "
City officials will meet with the group again on July 9 to do a walking tour of the downtown trees to decide where to put what kind of new trees.


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The world remembers its biggest superstar... and three children mourn the father they adored.
Nearly one year on from the death of Michael Jackson, his mother Katherine talks today for the first time about bringing up his daughter and two sons - and how the family still struggle with their private grief.
His daughter Paris, 12, has turned her bedroom into a shrine to her "Daddy", where she is surrounded by his photographs.
And his boys Prince, 13, and eightyear-old Blanket bravely talk about wanting to make him proud - and then lapse into silent moments, when they are missing him. All three spend hours listening to their father's hits.
Katherine says: "They don't have any friends. They don't go to school, they have private lessons at home - but that will change in September, when they are due to enrol at private college. But they have their cousins and aunts and uncles around them constantly, and that's helped them immensely.
"To them, it's normal, it's the life they have known. They have a certain time to go to bed, then they get up and get dressed for lessons. They practise karate and swim, which they love.
It is 80-year-old Katherine's first interview since her son died of suspected cardiac arrest at his Beverly Hills home on June 25 last year. "Each one of them is like Michael in a certain way," she says. "It has been a daily battle to cope with our huge loss."
The children moved in with their grandmother, when she was appointed their legal guardian.
Now, with the anniversary of his death looming, she tells how they are slowly coming to terms with what happened.
It is his daughter, she reveals, who is showing real musical talent - and who expresses her sadness in the most poignant way.
"I wanted to hang pictures of flowers or ballerinas in Paris's room, the sort of things I expected a girl would like," Katherine says.
"But she went into a closet and she brought out seven or eight pictures of Michael, and she told me, 'No, I want daddy hanging in my room'. So she goes to bed looking at him and wakes up looking at him. She said, 'I always want to be able to see him'.
"Paris has that lovely way, just like him, and I see his talent in her. Whatever she does, she is very good at it. She's a good artist, she plays the piano and she wants to be an actress.
"Prince is serious about a lot of things. He wants to be a camera-man or produce movies.
"He is dedicated to that, like Michael was. And Blanket is very playful, like Michael was."
It was always thought the children had a bizarre upbringing with their father. Shielded from the world in masks or under umbrellas, it sometimes seemed like they were all part of some freakish circus show.
In fact, Katherine insists, Michael never wanted them exposed to his pressurised showbiz world. He never told them he was a huge star and they didn't realise he was, until the day he took them to the show celebrating his 30 years as an entertainer, in 2001. "He said, 'I never told them what I do'," she recalls. "He didn't want them to know... He didn't want them walking around with egos! So when they went to the 30th show, the two little ones were in the audience. Michael got backstage and they said, 'You're a big star! When I grow up, I want to be like you!' Michael said that gave him the biggest chuckle."
In the turmoil after his death, it seemed the Jackson family was being torn apart by bitter accusations.
Only recently Katherine's husband Joe - accused of being a brutal father - claimed that she was to blame for Michael's death, because she refused to tell him to change his lifestyle. Michael would have listened to her if she had intervened, Joe complained, because he was a mummy's boy. Katherine always kept her own counsel, but she has compiled a book of family pictures and anecdotes that, she says, will tell the truth about Michael and, hopefully, silence the malicious gossip.
As part of her research, she returned to their hometown of Gary, Indiana, to the house where the children grew up, on a road now called Jackson Street.
She says: "It was such an emotional visit. I saw fans taking pictures in front of the house - I know Michael would have been happy to see them."
The tears well up, as she recalls days long gone and the way fame and success tormented her son in his later years.
"Michael was so misunderstood," she says. "I treasure my memories of him and wanted to share them with his fans in my book. I remember when he brought gifts for me - a watch, a necklace and a ring. I'll never forget how he smiled when I opened each one. He was so generous. I want the world to know that real Michael Jackson - a loving person.
"Many doubt that, because of the child molestation accusation falsely laid on him, but in truth it was just greedy people after money. The first child, Jordan Chandler, whose father accused Michael, ended up saying he regretted not getting a chance to say sorry to Michael. Then the father committed suicide - I think his conscience was bothering him."
One year on, with Michael's doctor Conrad Murray facing charges of involuntary manslaughter, Katherine also says she has never accepted that her son died of natural causes. "He was too young for that. I heard from people that he was taking prescription drugs but I never saw my son in any way drugged... he was always himself. If I could see him again, I would want to know one thing, 'Who did this to you?'" She recalls the last big family gathering - three weeks before Michael's death - at a dinner to celebrate Katherine and Joe's 60th wedding anniversary, in his favourite Indian restaurant Chakra, in Beverly Hills. It was, she says, the happiest occasion you could imagine.
Now, they are preparing to gather again - this time sombrely at Michael's grave, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Los Angeles, for his own poignant anniversary. It has been, Katherine says, a year of such sorrow, demanding extraordinary strength from the family.
Only last week there was yet another crisis, when Michael's younger brother Randy was rushed to hospital with a suspected heart attack, from which he is currently recovering.
As Katherine says: "I hope that the next year will be better for us all. Michael's death brought us closer and I want us to be even closer still. I know Michael would have wanted that, too."
Never Can Say Goodbye: The Katherine Jackson Archives, containing unseen photos of Michael, can be ordered now from Jacksonsecretvault.com. Sunday Mirror readers can claim a 35% discount before June 30 by quoting the code MJMirror. Proceeds to be split between Katherine, Michael's children and the Voices Against Brain Cancer charity.


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Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel Meeting
The Joint Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council's and the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission's Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Advisory Panel will hold public meetings to discuss recreational management measures for the upcoming fishing year(s). Summer flounder recreational measures will be discussed from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., scup measures from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m., and black sea bass measures from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
The meeting will be held via webinar at http://mafmc.adobeconnect.com/sfscbsb-advisors/ (enter as a guest).
The meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to M. Jan Saunders at the Mid-Atlantic Council Office (302) 526-5251 at least five days prior to the meeting date.


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Talk of unity - a far cry from the slander and rivalry
Why should we encourage what in fact is a circle of hypocrisy
Impulsive jealosy
Where;s the so-called harmony?
Internally untrusting
Externally inspiring
Assume your place above the rest
The wisest of the less
The knowledge you'll never possess
Compensated for with single-mindedness
Bored with life you turn to test
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Many of the academic books I read this year were for the Foucault and Shakespeare work, and few were published this year. This alphabetical list is of the twenty books published this year which I read and liked the most.
- Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Roger Establet, Pierre Macherey and Jacques Rancière, Reading Capital: The Complete Edition (Verso) – short blog piece on this here
- Judith Butler, Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly (Harvard University Press)
- Patrick Cockburn, The Rise of Islamic State (Verso)
- Claire Colebrook and Jason Maxwell, Agamben (Polity)
- Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall, The Scramble for the Poles: The Geopolitics of the Arctic and Antarctic (Polity)
- Eugen Fink, Play as Symbol of the World (Indiana University Press) – my review here
- Jennifer Gabrys, Program Earth: Environmental Sensing Technology and the Making of a Computational Planet (University of Minnesota Press)
- Stephen Graham, Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers (Verso)
- Harriet Hawkins, Creativity (Routledge)
- Bob Jessop, The State: Past, Present, Future (Polity)
- Razmig Keucheyan, Nature is a Battlefield: Towards a Political Ecology (Polity)
- Jesse Lecavalier, The Rule of Logistics: Walmart and the Architecture of Fulfillment (University of Minnesota Press)
- Dotan Leshem, The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault (Columbia University Press)
- Debbie Lisle, Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism (University of Minnesota Press)
- William Rankin, After the Map: Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press)
- Sverre Raffnsøe, Morten S. Thaning, and Marius Gudmand-Hoyer, Michel Foucault: A Research Companion (Palgrave) – which I endorsed
- Tiphanie Samayoult, Barthes: A Biography (Polity)
- Mark Neocleous, The Universal Adversary: Security, Capital and the 'Enemies of All Mankind' (Routledge) – see my brief thoughts here
- Alexander Vasudevan, Metropolitan Preoccupations: The Spatial Politics of Squatting in Berlin (Wiley-Blackwell)
- Aoileann Ní Mhurchú and Reiko Shindo (eds.) Critical Imaginations in International Relations (Routledge)
In addition there are a few other books I'd like to mention in which I had some involvement:
- Maayan Amir and Ruti Sela (eds.) Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds (Punctum) – chapter author
- Dan Bulley, Migration, Ethics and Power: Spaces Of Hospitality In International Politics (Sage) – series editor
- Mark Carrigan, Social Media for Academics (Sage) – one of the academics interviewed
- Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca (eds.) Hitler's Geographies: The Spatialities of the Third Reich (University of Chicago Press) – reprints an article of mine
- Francisco Klauser, Surveillance and Space (Sage) – series editor
- Henri Lefebvre, Marxist Thought and the City (University of Minnesota Press) – writer of foreword


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Promoting Democracy One Glass at a Time
Gooding Drinking Liberally has invited Representative Nicole LaFavour (District #19) as a "special guest" at this week's gathering on Friday night, April 21 at 7:30 p.m. at Rowdy's, 227 Main Street.
Representative LaFavour has been a small business owner and educator, in addition to her works involvements in open space preservation, human rights, education, and health care. She was a recipient of the 2001 United Nations Human Rights Day Award from Idaho Voices of Faith for Human Rights as well as named as a "Woman Making History" by the Boise State University Women's Center that year. The citizens who went to Boise to testify in support of the moratorium regarding coal-plants should remember her as the legislator who requested the individual speaking against the moratorium go on record as being paid by SEMPRA for his testimony.
Gooding Drinking Liberally is an open club consisting of weekly guests and regulars including local politicians and their staffers, political organizers, activists, would-be volunteers and newly interested chit-chatters— all in a casual, inclusive environment. They welcome anyone who wishes to participate in discussion about progressive, liberal topics and concerns. Agreement isn't required, only respect.
For more information about Gooding Drinking Liberally, visit http://www.drinkingliberally.org/ or contact Diana Rowe Pauls at email@example.com.
NOTE: I sent this out as a News Release (along with a more general release)... if you happen to catch any publicity whether in print or broadcast, would you please let me know? I'm curious to see how many will actually run anything because we have two barriers: being liberal AND being in Gooding. I bet 90% of Idaho is trying to figure out where the h*** is Gooding as they hear about the flooding!!


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This is the most colourful pic ive ever seen of Fremantle. With the lights shining on that sculpture really makes the image with the lights. Really enjoying your work Shaun.


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