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As in other countries born out of 19th-century uprisings against imperial power, the literary roots of the Philippines run deep. Executed by the Spanish in 1896, the novelist, poet and physician José Rizal remains the adored hero of his archipelago'...Read more...
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In the 1960s, we had the theatre of commitment; today we have an attitude of non-committal. Once, political playwrights could be guaranteed to tell you what to think, to describe what was wrong with society – and what to do about it. Now, as Chilean...Read more...
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For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity…" Jeremiah 29:11-14
We are now a little over a week into our 40 Days of Prayer.
I wonder what God has in store for us? Scripture tells us God's plans are to prosper us and not to harm us, plans for a hope and a future. But sometimes we forget the rest of the passage. The part where we respond to the plans of God by coming into agreement with what God already desires to do. That is one of the great purposes of prayer and an often-overlooked part of seeing His good plans come to pass in our lives.
Mark Batterson in his book on prayer, The Circle Maker, says, "Prayers are prophecies. They are the best predictor of your spiritual future. Who you become is determined by how you pray. Ultimately the transcript of your prayers becomes the transcript of your life."
What if I told you God had great victory and breakthrough appointed for you in this next season? Who wouldn't want that?
There is a strange story at the very end of Elisha's life that underscores the necessity of responding to God wholeheartedly in moments where "our victory" in the next season is tied to our obedience in the moment we are in. I believe we may be in such a moment.
Chariots of Fire and Israel's Source of Victory
"Now when Elisha had fallen sick with the illness of which he was to die, Joash king of Israel went down to him and wept before him, crying, 'My father, my father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen!'" (2 Kings 13:14)
What kind of impact must you have had, that a king comes to see you at the end of your life weeping and calling you father? There was a profound recognition in the king that the "real" horses and chariots didn't reside with his army but in the unseen realm.
Proverbs 21:31 says, "The horse is made ready for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD."
Some years before, when Elijah informed Elisha he was going to be taken into heaven, instead of preparing to take over as the next prophet, Elisha followed Elijah on a lengthy and challenging journey to the very end. Finally, when the chariot of fire took Elijah up in a whirlwind, Elijah's mantle fell to Elisha and he yelled "My father! My father! The chariots of Israel and its horsemen."
Elisha in that moment acknowledged that the real "chariots of Israel, and its horsemen" resided not with the king's army, but with the man of God who was calling a nation back to obedience.
But remember, "Elijah was a man just like us…" For an Elisha, who's willing to obey God's leading, there's always a means of transfer to tap into the same victories of others who have gone before us.
As we see in the unfolding story of Elisha, these chariots of fire would accompany him in ways that would cause the people of God to inherit victory even against incredible odds.
Remember the story when he and his servant were completely surrounded by an army? When panic arose from his servant, Elisha calmly said, "…more are with us than are with them." As his servant's eyes were opened, he saw chariots of fire all around them. Or how four lepers marched and they enemy fled as they "heard the sound of horses and chariots."
Back to King Joash. Facing a battle ahead with the man of God dying, he realizes he may be in trouble. But there is no need to worry, the chariots of fire responsible for the king's victories don't belong to Elisha—they are the "chariots and horses of Israel."
Elisha instructs him to take a bow and some arrows and aim out the window toward his adversaries. "Shoot!" he exclaims, "the Lord's arrow of victory over Syria, for you must strike the Syrians at Aphek until you have destroyed them."
"Then he said, 'Take the arrows,' and the king took them." Elisha told him, "Strike the ground." He struck it three times and stopped. The man of God was angry with him and said, "You should have struck the ground five or six times; then you would have defeated Syria and completely destroyed it. But now you will defeat it only three times." 2 Kings 13:18-19
King Joash regarded Elisha as a prophet, even one who released the horses and chariots of Israel, and yet did not regard his word enough to fully enter into a moment that could have brought total victory.
Often times when God asks us to do something, He doesn't announce all the implications of our willingness to obey. God is so good that He still released partial victory for King Joash, even in his halfhearted obedience. But when Joash stopped short he left something on the table.
I believe God is so good that He is responding to all His children who will call on Him in truth. I also believe that GREAT VICTORIES lie ahead for those who will show the persistence in this hour of follow-through.
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It's TWG's turn on 'The Secret Child' blog tour – many thanks to MidasPR for the blog tour invite and review copy. Here is my review:
DI Amy Winter knows evil. She's lived through it.
Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She's been expecting it for years . . .
According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned. Nicole is given a deadly challenge: if she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the police of Ellen's location. The sender claims to be Luka Volkov but Luka is supposed to be dead, killed long ago in a fire that haunts all those involved.
DI Amy Winter is still reeling from the discovery that she is the daughter of a serial killer, and her childhood trauma only makes her more determined to bring Ellen home. When another child is taken, Amy finds herself in a race against time. To rescue the children, must she seek help from the one person she wants to forget?
What does TWG think?
Caroline Mitchell is back with the latest instalment in the 'DI Amy Winter' series. 'The Secret Child' is book two and whilst the storyline does go over past events to keep readers in the loop in case they haven't read book one, I would still recommend reading the books in order so that you can get a real feel for the storyline and each event as it happens.
I adored the first book so when I had the option to read book two, I grabbed it with both hands. Amy Winter is as feisty as ever, and when she finds herself trying to get to the bottom of a new case that is so close to the bone, her own personal life gets put into the firing line.
The whole situation involving the young girl was enough to make my toes curl. I had everything crossed for a good outcome, but as the storyline progressed and the kidnapper ups the ante, I couldn't help but feel a sense of dread wash over me.
Caroline Mitchell sets the scene brilliantly, incorporating Amy Winter's situation with her mother and ex into the overall storyline as though it was the norm, which I guess it was.
'The Secret Child' gripped me from the very beginning and kept me hostage until the very end. I thought that the storyline of this book wasn't as strong as the previous book, but I thoroughly enjoyed it nonetheless as it seemed to have more of an emotional undercurrent than the first.
A rollercoaster ride of a read, 'The Secret Child' may have made my feelings change like the weather, but it's a book which I highly recommend and would urge anyone to read. I hope we catch up with DI Winter again soon!!


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About The Author, Chong Sheau Ching
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Born and bred in Ipoh, the third largest town in Malaysia, Chong Sheau Ching attained her bachelor's degrees in Food Science and Nutrition in Canada and a master's degree in International Administration in the United States. She spent ten years working in international organizations on community empowerment through health and informal education, poverty alleviation and sustainable development programs.
She returned to Kuala Lumpur for the birth of her daughter in 1994. From her home, she then began to write "stories for My Mother", a weekly column in Malaysia's most popular English-language newspaper, The Star, from where she soon gained a large following. More recently, she established projects designed to open up new opportunities for mothers and homemakers. She edited and co-authored "Working @ Home – A Guidebook for Working Women and Homemakers" published in 2000. She also founded the "Mothers for Mothers" network and so continues to maintain her long-standing interest in community empowerment.
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nice indo g2 is so broken and annoying. hope they nerf him whenever the update comes out. we have been waiting forever for this update to come out since you told us that it was coming out. but it is also a big one so…
nice indo g2 is so broken and annoying. hope they nerf him whenever the update comes out. we have been waiting forever for this update to come out since you told us that it was coming out. but it is also a big one so…
Its cool if you wanna make it the perfect jack of all trades, i think it should be more like 20 for balance.
yeah i agree
That's fair. This thing still goes down against all the unique chompers tho so idk if I see it as a major issue
Nah 30% doesn't have much against Thor, Tenonto, Tryko, Indo Twins, Mammoth Monstrosities, IDGT's secodonto, or the twin towers. Not to mention bleed
true. i can be bled and so can indo g2
Oooooh. Is that an agujaceratops or something else?
My sources say it is Agujaceratops. It seems likely as few other ceratopsians have brow horns that point upward. The horns seems too long fpr either Mojoceratops, Judiceratops or Chasmosaurus Russelli, and the frill is too round for any of those. It also isn't Diabloceratops either for obvious reasons.
Actually yeah I saw that the plaque in the movie says agujaceratops
You have to admit: having that as a component to an Indoraptor killer would have a gratifying level of canonical reference.
Yeah it is Agujaceratops. Very interesting reference, @Acerglyn. Never thought about this skull before
If I had known about this beforehand I would have definitely put this as a component. Dang
How about this @Acerglyn and @Gem_Aqua:
1200 ATK (#MakeCeratopsiansStrongAgain)
20% Amour
117 Speed
Long Decel Strike
Dig In or IC (Does every Ceratopsian have to have Dig In?)
(Notice how most of these are very much like the stats Sino used to have)
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Skoolasaurus + Ajugaceratops
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Distract Impact
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Dig In
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I havent run any matchups so it might not be polished
Lol I don't think Ludia checks matchups either when they make hybrids. I can't remember the last time they released one and didn't immediately change it in the next update bc it was too op or practically worthless. Except testa but like .5% of the players have it so it doesn't really matter
I want it to have superior Vulnerability tho to make sure it can one shot indo on turn 2. 3600 damage
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Do either of you want to get in on this? I know you haven't done anything using a creature that's not in the game yet, but your designs are always great.
If you give me the dinos, I will give you the silliest possible version of it!
It love a unique ceratopsian
Yeah I want one in the game really bad. Even if it's not that good. The only good ceratopsian we ha e is monostego!


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Twenty years after the priceless paintings were heisted from one of Boston's premier art museums, most think the art is lost forever—buried deep, sold overseas, or destroyed as incriminating evidence. But when paint chips from the Spanish masterpiece Gentlemen in Black arrive at the desk of a Boston journalist, the museum enlists Spenser's help.
A $5 million reward offered by the museum's top benefactor, an unlikable Boston socialite, sets Spenser and pals Vinnie Morris and Hawk on a trail of secrets, lies, jailhouse confessions, and decades-old murders. The cold case thrusts Spenser into Boston's high-society art scene and low-life back alleys, a shady world of black-market art dealers, aged Mafia bosses, and old vendettas.
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CHURCHILL, Man. – The formation of an "Arctic Bridge" between the Port of Churchill and Russia has taken another step towards fruition.
OmniTRAX representatives headed to Russia last month to meet with key Russian business and government officials. OmniTRAX owns the Port of Churchill and the Hudson Bay Railway.
Provincial and federal officials from Canada joined OmniTRAX representatives on the trade mission to assist with negotiations aimed at opening up the trade route linking Churchill with the Russian port of Murmansk.
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During a Sunday interview with the Associated Press, the former White House Chief Strategist for Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, argued that the Republican Party needs to change its strategy as soon as possible, in order to beat Democrats in this fall's midterms.
According to Bannon, if elections were held today, the Republicans would lose. And since the Democrats would win, Donald Trump's impeachment would be on the table, and actively pursued. There is still time for the GOP to turn the situation around, but Republicans need to act quick, he said.
"You can't look at this as a midterm and you can't run it out of the traditional Republican playbook. If you do that, you're going to get smoked."
Instead of approaching the midterms in a traditional way, the Republicans should focus on turning out Trump supporters, and since it is "too late" to persuade, and campaign, turnout should be the main objective.
"This is not about persuasion. It's too late to persuade anybody. We're 90 days away from this election. This is all about turnout and what I call base-plus."
In an effort to aid the Republican Party in achieving this goal, Bannon launched Citizens of the American Republic, an initiative also meant to protect Donald Trump from impeachment. Bannon, as AP noted, was fired from his White House post, and his relationship with the president seems to have deteriorated, but, clearly, Bannon remains loyal to Trump.
As the Inquisitr recently reported, the former executive chairman of Breitbart News slammed the Koch Brothers' network, telling the Kochs to "shut up and get with the program," defending his former boss from criticism the influential mega-donors have lately been showering him with.
AP Interview: Here's how Steve Bannon wants to rally GOP voters to help save Republican House majority. https://t.co/yPG5w2ovvY— The Associated Press (@AP) August 20, 2018
In June, as BBC reported, the billionaire brothers launched a multi-year campaign meant to combat Donald Trump's tariffs, via lobbying, and grassroots campaigns. For Bannon, however, the tariffs Donald Trump has imposed, and the trade wars he continues to escalate, are a given, if America wants to stay number one.
"We don't have a choice. We either win the economic war with China or we're going to be a secondary, a tertiary power," he told AP.
When asked about Donald Trump's so-called "culture wars," the president's attacks on women, and minorities, Bannon responded that the American people should "separate out the signal from the noise," describing Trump's antics as his "house style."
According to Bannon, Donald Trump should have shut down the government when he had the chance to, since the maneuver would "galvanize the populist right," ensuring a midterm victory for the Republican Party.


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Mata Vaishno Devi Temple - travel guide and personal experience of journey.Are you planning for a trip to Vaishno Devi temple? Mata Vaishno devi temple is is situated in the state of Jammu & Kashmir and it is a holy place of Hindu Religion. In this article, I am going to share my personal experience with you and hope it will help in planning your visit to this holy place.
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Mata Vaishno Devi temple, Katra - A Travel Experience to The Holy Place in JammuJammu and Kashmir state is situated in the great Himalayan mountains (mostly). It is surrounded by Himachal Pradesh and Punjab in the South. Here I want you to join me as I take you through our story of traveling to Mata Vaishno Devi Temple,Katra which is located in the Reasi district of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Report by the High Commissioner on National Minorities, Ambassador Lamberto Zannier. Address by the Co-Chairs of the Minsk Group. Address by the Personal Representative of the Chairperson-in-Office on the Conflict Dealt with by the OSCE Minsk Conference, Ambassador Andrzej Kasprzyk. Report by the Head of the High-Level Planning Group, Colonel Vladimir Minarik. Russia's ongoing aggression against Ukraine and illegal occupation of Crimea. Situation in Ukraine and the need to implement the Minsk agreements. Political persecution in Lithuania. General election in the United Kingdom, to be held on 12 December 2019.


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Qatar Airways has announced fare offers for its customers in a global promotion to celebrate 20 years of operation.
The airline, which is a member of the Oneworld Airline Alliance said the deals are available in economy and business classes for the next 12 months.
"We are delighted to be launching this global promotion in celebration of our 20th anniversary.
"This is a very special year of giving back to our loyal passengers, and so we are pleased to offer fantastic fares across our economy and business class cabins, to ensure they too can join us in celebrating 20 successful years of going places together," said Qatar Airways chief executive Ehab Amin.
Between November 1-10, the airline will be offering two business class tickets for the price of one, and three economy class tickets for a price of two.
In addition, it is offering 20 customers a chance to win a privilege club gold membership and discounts of up to 50 per cent on redemption tickets to select destinations to privilege club members across its global network.
Mr Amin said passengers can take advantage of these offers as they plan their next trips to more than 150 destinations.
The State of Qatar national carrier, which has a fleet of more than 200 aircraft this year added Auckland, New Zealand; Dublin Ireland), Nice (France) and Prague in the Czech Republic to its list of destinations.
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Aims: This event is to support Teachers and Co-ordinators with the development of Computing in KS1 & KS2. This event is particularly suited to teachers/co-ordinators of Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 2 Computing. It will provide teachers with examples of freely available resources as well as curriculum planning and assessment tools to support the development of Computing in their schools while networking with teachers from their local area.
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Participants of Tropentag 2014, I hope you feel accomplished. With the wealth of excellent and groundbreaking work presented this year, it looks like we're indeed one step forward in "bridging the gap between increasing knowledge and decreasing resources". As we settle back in our home universities and institutes to catch up on work and resume our routines, it's also perhaps a good time to reflect on what happens next. Conferences are great, but why end at the conference?
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Dr. Hall is working to equip researchers with tools for action. As the Scientific Programme Coordinator for the
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The next generation of action researchers
When talking about creating change, it would be remiss to ignore the contribution of youth. Dr. Hall alluded to young researchers' "missionary zeal to change the world", which is needed more than ever with today's daunting challenges. Nowhere was this drive more apparent than in the hallways and auditoriums at Tropentag, where a significant proportion of the presenters were graduate students. Dr. Hall cautioned that now is a "critical time to support them… otherwise they become lost to science." The IFS plays a role by advising PhD and master's students from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean who are embarking on their research careers. Tropentag itself traditionally gives particular attention to introducing young scientists to the workings of the research community. The fervent discussions I observed in some sessions, and the constructive criticism I received for my own work, left an impression on me of the community's collective dedication to mentoring and peer-review.
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Tropentag may be wrapped up, but our work is nowhere near done. As researchers, it is frighteningly easy to get lost in the drive to do good science that sometimes we forget that it doesn't – and shouldn't – end at the conference presentation or the published journal article. Dr. Hall demonstrated that we don't have to wait for the policy makers, or hope that someone else will take our advice. We can make sure that our work reaches the hands that matter, whether by taking the extra step to reach out to stakeholders, or by mentoring budding action researchers. So, participants of Tropentag 2014, I'd like to leave you a challenge: What is one step you can take today to make sure that your research makes the difference it has the potential to make?
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Ali Saren is an artist out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. She grew up in New Hampshire and later moved to the Boston area where she resided for 15 years before relocating to Raleigh-Durham. It was in Boston that Ali embarked on an artistic expedition to rekindle her love of making art.
Ali's work was featured in 2014 in the "Inside Out" Salon 21 show at the Nave Gallery in Somerville, MA and she has participated in Somerville's Open Art Studios just before moving to NC. In 2016, Ali's encaustic work was featured in the New London Gallery, in New London, NH. In October 2018 she was the featured artist of the month at "This and That" Gallery in Carrborro, NC.
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Ali is also represented by Laguna Art Gallery in Laguna Beach California at www.lagunaart.com
As cliché as it is, art really does imitate life. In life and in art you have to be 'ok' with two main concepts; Risk and Temporary Beauty.
In my practice I have learned to appreciate a moment of beauty, a moment of perfection, with a small realization that this may not last, it may change, grow, morph into something even more beautiful or something, well, quite less beautiful.
My practice has also taught me to take risks. Experiment and be ok with an outcome. Be ok with failure. Be ok with mistakes. Be ok with success. Move on. Move up. Just move. Just grow. Just learn. Just live.
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Tigerpaw509 wrote the following post at Sat, Oct 22 2016 11:44 AM:
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If you want to really see what your computer is doing and how it's handling Flash, as well as what exactly Flash is doing when running?
Download and configure Adobe Scout on your PC.
I mentioned this about 2 years ago, it's actually designed to do exactly that. Far better than the 'window box test'.
I have still problems like meter freeze , wrong club distance, wind sometimes afect shot totaly wrong, flash player loading problems, sometimes flash player stop work and write only: unexpected error.
This is what I find in your post: Any score above 18,000 is rated Awesome!!
and this is my result: 19,177
How can I make the game behave again smoothly? Like two or three years ago when it was pleasure play it.
Because this year it's more about bugs than fun. Especially last two weeks It's terrible af.
(edit) btw, I play it at past with totaly *** pc and now i7, 16gb ram and 2gb graphic card, connection cant be problem too, because Im play fps game too and never I dont know what is lag in fps. Or I join random stroke match where are in lobby 3guys from USA and Im load at server first still. and if this happens while solo play in tournament...
proof that I dont lie:
(with bad connection I wont be able do shots like you can see. and I have many video at my chanel...)
Hi all I am on the main screen and logged in on my laptop , just need help where is pLAY button ???
Hi all I am on the main screen and logged in on my laptop , just need help where is pLAY button ???
Wow . GR8 1st post . I can see you are serious . First go to
Your home page .
Then click the PLAY NOW . That will take you to
Where you will find a plethora of choices . Courses and game formats to keep you challenged and happy .
Have fun .
If the play button is missing, you likely need to install or enable flash player on your browser.
If you are using edge, internet explorer, or chrome, you need to enable flash player.
If you are using a browser from Mozilla, you will need to download and install Adobe Flash player.
You can find it here: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
I hope this helps you out.
Just tested on Brave Browser, laptop is Lenovo P52- 32 gb Ram, I7 CPU and SSD disk.
Internet 100/100 mbps fiber.
Result Awesome all tests passed score is 20592.
21,000 back in the day . Never reached " Infinity " though .
Currently 6237 . Couldn't even pass the Medium test .
I know this " Snails Animation " " Flash Benchmark Test " . Is not supposed to be a good judge of WGT flash play . But according to these recent results . It likely explains some of my inabilities currently .
I keep getting click to enable flash player. terrible lag and meter. Used to be fun to play.
any fix please.
TeeOffTimeAt9:I keep getting click to enable flash player
That is a Browser filter . It is in preparation for if and when " Flash Play " is eliminated .
TeeOffTimeAt9:terrible lag and meter
Keep your computer clean . Nothing new .


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Woman accused of mailing pot to inmate
ST. CHARLES (AP) - A St. Charles woman is facing charges after she allegedly mailed a greeting card to a jail inmate - a card that included marijuana and a prescription drug.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 22-year-old Kimberly Leann McNamara is charged with delivery of a controlled substance at a county jail, along with possession of marijuana.
No attorney for McNamara is listed in online court records.
Police say McNamara sent a card to an inmate jailed on a forgery charge. A corrections officer intercepted it Tuesday and allegedly discovered marijuana and a white powder later determined to be the pain killer Tramadol.
McNamara's address was the letter's return address. Police say a search of her car found more marijuana and Tramadol.
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Forget the booze bus, soon your own car will stop you from drink driving.
Volvo has announced plans to introduce in-car cameras and sensors to monitor the state of the driver and stop the car if it believes they are distracted or have been drinking.
According to the company's statement the system will be able to detect if the driver is driving erratically, veering or not looking at the road. It will then limit the car's speed, alert the Volvo On Call assistances service and even stop the car completely.
The roll-out of this new technology is scheduled for the brand's next-generation 'SPA2' vehicle architecture which is due in the "early 2020s".
"There are many accidents that occur as a result of intoxicated drivers," says Trent Victor, Professor of Driver Behaviour at Volvo Cars. "Some people still believe that they can drive after having had a drink, and that this will not affect their capabilities. We want to ensure that people are not put in danger as a result of intoxication."
The move is part of a wider initiative from the Swedish brand to eliminate all fatal accidents in its cars. It comes just weeks after it announced it would introduce a 180km/h speed limit on all its vehicles starting in 2021.
While traditionally car companies have avoided interfering with the behaviour of drivers, Volvo says it wants to "start a conversation about whether car makers have the right, or maybe even the obligation, to install technology in cars that changes their drivers' behaviour. "
Volvo also announced the introduction of "Care Key" from 2021 models, which will allow owners to limit the top speed of their car before lending it to other drivers; similar to Ford's MyKey technology.
The only place for ethanol in a car is in the tank.


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about the farm
Star Thrower Farm is located in Paola, Kansas. A lavender field and a small orchard of naturally grown fruit and nut trees was planted in 2016. The farm's herb garden supplies fresh herbs throughout the summer and dried/frozen herbs for use throughout Kansas winters.
We operate Star Thrower Farm in a sustainable manner with sheep naturally fertilizing pastures and garden waste contributing to compost to build healthy soil.
We enjoy a diverse animal population on the farm. Coyotes, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, pheasant, hawks, raccoons, songbirds, owls, ducks, herons, rabbits, field mice and ground squirrels are abundant. Coyotes and dogs are the only predators we need to be concerned with. Our guard llamas and extensive high tensile electric fence around the pastures have allowed us to pasture the sheep 24 hours a day, year round.
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Catharine Riggs New Book Signing Events
Santa Barbara local Catharine Manset Morreale, writing as Catharine Riggs, has announced the upcoming release of her new thriller, What She Never Said. Thomas & Mercer is set to launch the second novel in her loosely linked Santa Barbara Suspense series on September 10, 2019. The work of psychological suspense revolves around a series of unusual deaths in a wealthy retirement community, raising doubts and revealing old secrets.
The public is invited to meet Riggs at book signings for What She Never Said, 3-5:00 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 22 at The Book Den in downtown Santa Barbara.
On Thursday, September 26 from 5-7 PM at the Santa Barbara Public Library's Faulkner Gallery, the author will do a reading and also be interviewed by another local author, Mark Patton. Publisher Thomas & Mercer has donated fifty copies of What She Never Said and one hundred percent of the sales from the Faulkner Gallery event will benefit The Friends of the Santa Barbara Public Library.


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A comic exploring the culture, history, and folklore of Baritaria.
By Lawrence Gullo and Fyodor Pavlov - Updates Every Monday
I have not yet expressed my mighty love of this page, and in fact, all of these film/reality pages. It's something only you could have come up with, and it's brilliant. There's a delicacy and devotion expressed between these two that's heartbreakingly lovely. Also, I have a tremendous boner for Annibale.


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Volume 785
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My Lords, I should like to notify the House of the retirement, with effect from today, of the noble Lord, Lord Lloyd-Webber, pursuant to Section 1 of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014. On behalf of the House, I should like to thank the noble Lord for his much-valued service.


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Cornell University produces audited financial statements annually with a lot of information that is very important to a number of constituencies: rating agencies, the State of New York, the Board of Trustees, federal funding agencies, students and the public.
To help readers understand the information in the financial statements, the guide presents the data in a format that uses language accessible to non-accountants, and utilizes charts for the visual reader.
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We believe in transparency and want all of our stakeholders to understand the information we are providing. Through this website you will get our latest financial statements, as well as an explanation of all the key terms and ratios critical to managing the finances of the University.
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One of the first instances of a vigilance committee was in the Nevada County gold town of Rough and Ready, first settled in 1849. Because of the rich finds in the area there were soon thousands of men working there and in short order the number of thefts, robberies, violence and other outrages made the need for some form of government painfully apparent, but at that time there was no Alcalde, justice of the peace, mayor or any other peace officer any closer than Marysville, or Nye's Landing as it was called in those days. And the residents of the gold country were not about to travel that far for a little justice that they figured was their business anyway and that they could likely do a better job at it than the residents of the valley would.
A mass meeting of the miners was called and three men, H. L. Roberts, James S. Dunleavy, and Emmanuel Smith were appointed as a committee of vigilance and safety to assume the reins of government. They were charged with looking after the public order and the administration of justice, and from their decisions there would be no appeal. They took up their duties at once and ruled, it was said, with a fair and equitable hand. They laid out a plan for the town, marked off each man's claims, appointed a constable, issued writs, heard and decided all disputes of any kind calling a jury together when required, and punished those convicted of crimes. On one occasion they had a thief flogged thirty-nine times before he was escorted to the lower edge of the settlement where, with a parting kick, he was warned never to return on pain of death.
The success of the three-man committee of vigilance and safety was so great that it put an idea into the head of a miner named E. F. Brundage who proposed to form an independent sovereignty called the State of Rough and Ready. Brundage had enthusiasm aplenty for his idea though perhaps not the intelligence to carry it out, but he called a meeting of the miners that was attended by a large number of men. Here he proposed his scheme and argued that since neither he nor the great majority of the men in the room had voted for the recently ratified state constitution they were not bound by it. Whether anyone was truly persuaded by Brundage or if it was the influence of too much liquor that held sway but some men, about a hundred it was said, went along with his idea and therefore Brundage continued to agitate for his plan's adoption. Still, the more it was discussed the more ludicrous it seemed. But in every cabin or beside each rocker and long tom for miles up and down the Yuba Rivers, men could be heard discussing Brundage's State of Rough and Ready, although to a man each one of them was willing and able to shed the last drop of his blood in support of the United States. When Independence Day approached and the good citizens of Rough and Ready realized they would no longer be able to celebrate they quickly voted to return to the United States.


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Key question / Key goal: On behalf of NOBIS two meetings were organised with experts in the field of hydrogeochemical characterisa-tion methods in relation to biodegradation. The aim of the meetings was to demonstrate how hydrogeochemi-cal characterisation methods may contribute to a more effective application of natural attenuation and in situ bioremediation on locations that are contaminated with BTEX-compounds and/or chlorinated hydrocarbons.
Kind of study: expert meetings
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LISBON, Nov 20, 2010 (AFP) - US President Barack Obama and his NATO allies agreed on Friday to shield Europe's peoples from rogue rocket attacks with a screen of interceptor missiles, and to invite Russia to take part.
The deal commits NATO members to deploy a phalanx of anti-missile batteries to shoot down incoming missiles from any future enemy and urges Moscow to link its own defensive systems to the grid.
Winning agreement on the shield also gave the NATO leaders a boost as they prepared for the second day of their Lisbon summit on Saturday, when they will try to agree a plan to end the Afghan war.
|AFP - Demonstrators gather in Camoes square in dowtown Lisbon for a anti-Nato protest on November 19, 2010.
"For the first time, we have agreed to develop a missile defence capability that's strong enough to cover all NATO European territory and populations, as well as the United States," Obama said at the summit.
Russia had been fiercely critical of former US missile defence plans, seeing them as a direct threat to the credibility of its nuclear deterrent, and Moscow demanded that a previous blueprint be withdrawn.
But the 28 NATO powers hope President Dmitry Medvedev can be won over in talks with the alliance on Saturday, the first such meeting between NATO and the Kremlin chief since Moscow waged a war in Georgia in 2008.
"Rather than being an issue for conflict, it is now an issue for cooperation," said Ivo Daalder, the US ambassador to NATO.
NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he expects Russia and the Allies to begin a joint study of how Russia could be included in the missile defence system, which would be a significant softening of Moscow's position.
In a "strategic concept" setting priorities for the next decade, NATO agreed to "develop the capability to defend our populations and territories against ballistic missile attack as a core element of our collective defence."
"We will actively seek cooperation on missile defence with Russia and other Euro-Atlantic partners," the alliance statement said. Leaders were to discuss the plan in more detail over dinner.
Obama also won support from his European allies in his showdown with the US Senate over the ratification of a key nuclear pact with Russia.
"The message that I've received since I arrived from my fellow leaders here at NATO could not be clearer: new START will strengthen our alliance and it will strengthen European security," the US leader told reporters.
Rasmussen warned that any delay "would be damaging to security in Europe."
The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (START) -- signed by Medvedev and Obama in April -- restricts each nation to a maximum of 1,550 deployed warheads, a cut of about 30 percent from a limit set in 2002.
The allies also enshrined in black and white Obama's ambition of ridding the world of nuclear weapons, but agreed to maintain their own arsenals as long as there are atomic bombs in the world.
Agreement on the missile shield marks a significant advance for Obama's scheme, first announced in November 2009 when he ditched plans for a missile shield in Eastern Europe, the cause of a Cold War-style row with Russia.
Obama decided to replace the shield, the brainchild of US former president George W. Bush, with a more mobile system targeting Iranian short-range and medium-range missiles, initially using sea-based interceptors.
Before leaving Moscow, the Russian party said it was keen to share ideas about common missile defence but played down the chances of a major decision realigning the continent's security.
In addition to wooing the Russians, the NATO allies have tiptoed around Turkey's concerns about its sensitive relations with neighbour Iran.
Diplomats here had been discussing publicly identifying Iran as an emerging missile threat but Turkey had refused to countenance this possibility and Tehran did not figure in the document released here.
The next challenge on the NATO agenda is Afghanistan. On Saturday, the 28 allies will join Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the 20 other members of the global military coalition supporting the war effort.
As another NATO soldier Friday fell to an Afghan bomb attack, taking the toll for the year to 654, Obama outlined a proposed timetable for pulling the bulk of US forces out from Afghanistan and handing control to local commanders.
"I look forward to working with our ... partners as we move towards a new phase, transition to Afghan responsibility, which begins in 2011, with Afghan forces taking the lead on security across Afghanistan by 2014," Obama said.
More than 2,200 Allied troops have been killed in the nine-year-old war launched by the United States after the September 11, 2001 attacks to root out Al-Qaeda leaders and overthrow their Taliban protectors.


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The Yankees dropped two of three in Boston over the weekend, the Jets decided to see what they have in Christian Hackenberg, and, in case you haven't heard, a solar eclipse is coming.
Boomer and Craig opened Monday's show talking about all of those topics and also offered some reflection of Friday night's 10th anniversary celebration at the Borgata in Atlantic City.
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One Colliery, Two Sunrises and a Firing Range
Northumberland is one of those places that just calls me back again and again. I could spend no end of time exploring this most sparsely populated of England's counties – with or without the camera. But with so much to take in and ever changing light there's always a different shot to be had.
So in the company of one of my photographer friends and in the wake of a pleasant new year in Newcastle, we set off up the A1 towards the remote and beautiful north.
First on the list of places I wanted to visit was the Woodhorn Colliery Museum. A previous drive around Durham and Northumberland had enlightened me as to just how little of the area's mining heritage is actually still evident (see 'Nothing to See Here'; May 2014), so it came as no surprise to learn that this hidden gem is the most complete and well preserved example of a late Victorian colliery in the north east.
The sky was perfectly blue and the wind biting, but the warm and striking new visitor centre offered up an engaging exhibition of life through the decades of an industry that once dominated the skyline everywhere you looked. Woodhorn's headstocks are now only just about visible above the treetops of the new QEII Country Park that masks the old coalfield, its winding houses and blacksmiths among the other deservedly listed buildings that you can also have a nose around. Definitely worth stopping by and it's free to get in, if you don't count the stealth car parking fee…
A few stops later and we arrived at the Lindisfarne Inn, base for a few days and conveniently situated for access to Holy island and two very different sunrises. I can't praise this place enough, and having stopped there in the past for a drink this was the first time I'd actually checked in. The rooms were great, the food fantastic and the staff really friendly and accommodating. My kind of place and somewhere I'll be sure to return to.
Now with such perfect weather there was the small matter of what to do between sunrise and sunset that made the most of the days and satisfied my slightly off-centre interests. Our attention was drawn to the Northumberland National Park – as beautiful a place as any and with the added bonus of a military firing range right in the middle of it – complete with wrecked military vehicles bearing the battle scars of relentless target practice. The problem comes in actually finding them, the ranges being such a maze of narrow roads that it's easy to get lost, go round in circles and leave them without seeing anything. We'd tried before and come face to face with the smoking guns of a rocket launcher primed and ready to fire – but nothing else.
This time we made sure in advance that the red flags were safely put away and that there was no firing scheduled. After poring over the Google maps at breakfast we eventually located the wrecks, programmed the satnav and drove straight upto… a gate. There was an unmapped compound blocking the road. A quick detour ensued and we finally arrived at the subject of the day's pictures. Perfectly desolate, perfectly lit by the bright southern sun and perfectly set against a backdrop of rough moorland and deep blue skies. Job done, and save for a few walkers and the odd parked car, we didn't see a soul. Time for coffee and cake in a near-deserted Alnwick and a drink in Bamburgh on the way back.
But there was still the small matter of the perfect sunrise over Holy Island and that came on the last morning. The dawn drive across the causeway presented an eastern promise in the form of vibrant red skies behind the silhouette of the distant Bamburgh Castle – but it was Lindisfarne Castle itself that was my target as I waded into the gently lapping North Sea and set up a tripod. The skies began to turn pink and a golden glow hit the stone. I think I'm happy with the shot I got (main picture, top) but it will look different next time. It always does…


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It will not be pretty
The only way the Browns have a chance to knock off the Indianapolis Colts Sunday at home is by taking the infantry route as often as possible.
Run the ball. Then run it some more. Maximize the importance of winning first down. Stay away from third-and-longs. Sustain drives that bleed minutes off the clock. Give the defense a chance to rest.
Keep quarterback Andrew Luck, the abundantly talented linchpin of the Indianapolis offense, off the field as long as possible. Minimize his opportunities to put points on the board, something he does with astonishing speed.
That's the formula a good team uses as a weapon to beat the highest scoring team in the National Football League. Right now, though, the Browns are not a good team, their 7-5 record notwithstanding.
Last season, that formula would not have worked because the Browns did not have a ground game and a defense that couldn't stop the run. The overwhelming portion of the offense featured the forward pass.
With Brian Hoyer at quarterback, the Browns (4-2 at home) must rely on running the ball. Pound away at the Indianapolis front seven with relentless monotony. Limit his throws to slants, shallow crosses and an occasional seam route, throws designed to get the ball out of the his hands quickly.
Do not even think about trying a screen pass. The Browns haven't been able to run a successful screen for years now. Outside of the naked wide receiver screen that works on occasion, the Browns have failed time and again to run a fundamental screen. Rip them out of the playbook and burn them.
As for Hoyer, it's even more important for the offensive staff to dumb down the game for the embattled quarterback since he seems to have fallen into an interception trap in the last five games
Losing veteran receiver Miles Austin to a kidney injury doesn't help, which means rookie Taylor Gabriel, who lost reps with the return of Josh Gordon, will get them back.
It also looks as though the ground game will take a hit with Isaiah Crowell highly questionable for the game with a hip injury. If he can't go, the Browns' running corps will be reduced to Terrance West, whose costly fumble contributed to the loss in Buffalo, Glenn Winston and Shaun Draughn, signed just a few days ago. Yikes!
The Colts probably will eschew coverage of deep throws because Hoyer doesn't have the arm to stretch a field. It wouldn't surprise to see them stack the box with eight and sometimes nine men at the snap, daring Hoyer to throw.
If the Browns fail to establish a running game – the Colts surrender just 108 ground yards a game – and force Hoyer to put the ball up, they are in trouble. That's when coach Mike Pettine might have to yank Hoyer's short leash and summon Johnny Manziel.
Once the Colts go on offense, the Cleveland defense will see the best quarterback they'll face all season in Luck. He is as talented from the neck up as he is from the neck down. His cerebral approach to the game is mindful of a young Peyton Manning.
Under his guidance, Indianapolis averages 24.6 first downs, 438 yards on offense and 6.2 yards a play, converts 45% of its third downs and leads the National Football League in scoring.
Luck has completed 63.7% of his passes and thrown for 34 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. He has been sacked a modest 21 times, but has developed a knack of extending plays and at 6-4, 240 pounds is just as dangerous a runner as Pittsburgh's Ben Roethlisberger.
In other words, the Browns' defense will rely heavily on their offense to keep Luck pinned to the sidelines as long as possible.
The Colts quarterback has a wide array of receivers at his disposal, but seems to have fallen in love with tight ends Coby Fleener and Dwayne Allen, who have combined for 13 touchdown passes.
Throw in wide receivers T. Y. Hilton, who has caught 68 passes this season for 1,145 yards and five scores, veteran Reggie Wayne (54-626-2 TD) and Donte Moncrief (24-390-3 TD, two last week against Washington) and you have all kinds of trouble for the Cleveland secondary.
Where the Colts are relatively weak on offense is at running back, where Trent Richardson has sustained the mediocrity he reached in 17 games with the Browns after being selected with the No. 3 pick of the 2012 college draft.
Richardson leads the Colts with 445 yards and three touchdowns, but still averages 3.3 yards a carry. With Ahmad Bradshaw out the rest of the year with a broken leg, former Ohio State running back Boom Herron has stepped in and performed well.
The Colts' defense is not among the league leaders in any statistical category, but it doesn't need to be because the offense covers up many of the defense's inefficiencies.
Former Brown D'Qwell Jackson, as he did most of the time with the Browns, leads the Colts in tackles with 101, but only 59 of the solo variety, The best way to neutralize him is to run right at him. He is not as strong at the point of attack as an inside linebacker should be.
Jackson also has four of the club's 34 sacks. Fellow inside backer Erik Walden leads the club in that department with just five. In the secondary, former Browns safety Mike Adams has four of the club's nine thefts and is third on the team in tackles with 66 and second in solo tackles with 54.
On paper, this one favors the Colts even though oddsmakers surprisingly give Cleveland just 3½ points. The Browns are not good enough on offense to outscore the visitors and the defense, which has played well in the last six games, might find themselves on the field for long periods due to the ineptitude of the offense.
This one will be over quickly as the Colts strike suddenly and often in the first half. Luck plays pitch and catch with his receivers as the Cleveland pass rush flails futilely to corral the son of former St. Ignatius quarterback Oliver Luck, playing in his father's hometown for the first time.
He will record his first 400-yard plus game (he threw for 400 yards in a loss against Pittsburgh) this season and connect on four touchdown passes, one each to Hilton, Wayne, Allen and Fleener. Richardson will gain his normal 45 yards on 15 carries and score a touchdown from a yard out at the Dawg Pound end of the field and attempt to get up close and personal with the fans. He'll be sorry he did.
The game will be over at the half with the Colts defending against Manziel by the beginning of the second quarter. Hoyer will throw two interceptions trying to hit Gordon and the Indianapolis defense will reduce the Cleveland ground game to rubble.
It will be ugly from the outset as the Colts toy with the Browns, handing them their worst loss of the season and crushing any hopes they had for the postseason. It will also mark the beginning of the Johnny Manziel era in Cleveland. He'll begin it by throwing scoring passes to Gordon and Travis Benjamin in the second half. Make it:
Colts 41, Browns 17
Update: Vontae Davis, the Colts' best cornerback, is out with a concussion. No change in the prediction.
Update: Vontae Davis, the Colts' best cornerback, is out with a concussion. No change in the prediction.


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Make a bold statement in your bathroom or powder room by adding a final touch with the Aeri Collection. The AELM085N is a dual shelf, Natural Birchwood wall mount vanity and is the perfect structure for a bathroom that isn't large enough to accommodate a full floor-length vanity. Combined with the convenience of the wall mount installation and the dual shelf feature, the AELM085N will provide functionality with plenty of storage space. The contemporary design of this vanity will complement the fixtures and accessories in the rest of the Aeri Collection and will be a focal point in your bathroom for years to come.
Aeri dual shelf wall mount wood structure.
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