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Update 2:20 pm: The New York Daily News is reporting that Sayfullo Saipov followed instructions from an ISIS propaganda magazine "almost to the letter" in the runup to Tuesday's attack. This appears to support investigators' claims that the Halloween massacre has all the hallmarks of a lone-wolf operation, and that they haven't found any evidence that he had direct links to a terror group.
The piece, published in ISIS's Rumiyah magazine last year, was titled "Just Terror Tactics" and lays out in chilling detail how to use a truck to maximize casualties.
"Vehicles are like knives, as they are extremely easy to acquire," the article says. "But unlike knives, which if found in one's possession can be a cause for suspicion, vehicles arouse absolutely no doubts due to their widespread use throughout the world. It is for this obvious reason that using a vehicle is one of the most comprehensive methods of attack."
The story, which features a photo of a Hertz rental truck, advises would-be terrorists to use a load-bearing truck, to target areas that draw large crowds, to bring with them a secondary weapon, to announce allegiance to Allah and to leave behind a note pledging support for the Islamic State.
Saipov even left behind a note that was strikingly similar to the language suggested in the article.
The note read: "The Islamic State will remain."
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Update 12:50 pm: The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that Sayfullo Saipov, the suspect in last night's gruesome terror attack, did indeed gain legal entry to the US through the diversity visa program. Saipov's participation in the program had been reported earlier, but was called into question by New York Senator Chuck Schumer after Trump blamed him for supporting the program.
We now await a response from the president, who has said he now wants to shutter the program in favor of a "merit-based" system.
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Update 12:30 pm: Trump's vanishingly brief alliance with "Chuck and Nancy" has officially been broken (though it's been effectively dead for weeks) now that Trump and Chuck Schumer have traded barbs on Twitter in the aftermath of last night's terror attack, which Trump claimed was enabled by a "diversity visa" program championed by Schumer and the Democrats. Schumer promptly responded by accusing Trump of politicizing the tragedy.
But those criticisms haven't deterred Trump, who yesterday declared that now was not the time to be politically correct, from calling for the diversity visa program to be dismantled – even as Schumer claimed that it hasn't been definitively deteremined whether Saipov received his legal status through the program.
Trump also said that he'd consider sending Saipov to the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where high-profile terrorism targets, including 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad, are being held. If Trump follows through, Saipov would be the first terrorist captured domestically to be imprisoned in Guantanamo, which has so far been used primarily to detain suspected terrorists captured on foreign soil.
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Meanwhile, those killed in yesterday's attack continue to be identified. A Belgian mother of 3-year-old and 3-month-old boys was identified Wednesday as one of the eight people killed in the terror attack in lower Manhattan, according to the New York Post.
Ann-Laure Decadt, 31, from the town of Staden, was in the Big Apple with her mom and two sisters when she was run over by a truck driven by an ISIS sympathizer. Her husband, Alexander Naessens, told Belgium's HLN newspaper that she was riding a bike when she was struck from behind by the Home Depot truck.
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Update: Reports of the details of investigators' conversations with Saipov are beginning to leak. While it's unclear what, if anything, investigators learned from him, one official told ABC News the suspect seemed "proud" of the attack.
Investigators spent the overnight hours collecting video and still images from traffic and surveillance cameras along the route of the attack, sources said. Those images show that Saipov drove carefully and at moderate speed until he entered the jogging path and accelerated; investigators believe that suggests the suspect knew where he wanted to begin the attack. Authorities are pouring through toll records and other digital records to see if Saipov had scoped out the location beforehand, according to ABC.
Saipov also reportedly entered the US through what is called the "Diversity Visa Lottery Program." In an early morning tweet, President Donald Trump criticized Sen. Chuck Schumer, whom he blamed for supporting the program, and his fellow Democrats, adding that he favors a "merit-based" immigration system instead.
Saipov has come up in prior counterterror investigations as a "possible associate" of a suspect in an investigation, but he was not the focus and there was never any proof to open a case file on him so he was not under surveillance, sources said. Saipov entered the U.S. legally through New York's JFK Airport in March 2010, according to law enforcement sources. He had a green card that allowed him permanent legal residence in the country, sources said.
The green card came via a government program called the Diversity Visa Lottery, which hands out about 55,000 visas per year.
CBS reported that Saipov bragged about his attack in the hospital and seemed pleased with its "success." Also, he told police that he didn't intend to crash into the school bus – and that he had hoped to run over more people. Police also revealed that they had found knives and ten to fifteen peices of paper explaining his allegiance to ISIS.
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New details about Sayfullo Saipov, the 29-year-old Uzbek national who allegedly carried out yesterday's Halloween terror attack in NYC, are starting to emerge.
WaPo writes that Saipov moved to the US from Uzbekistan about six years ago, according to Dilnoza Abdusamatova, 24, who said Saipov stayed with her family in Cincinnati for his first two weeks in the country because their fathers were friends. Abdusamatova said Saipov then moved to Florida to start a trucking company. Her family members think he got married about a year after arriving in the United States and may now have two children. Around that time, she said, he cut off contact with them. Yesterday, it was reported that Saipov had three children, and had been living with a girlfriend in New Jersey.
"He stopped talking to us when he got married," Abdusamatova said.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that Saipov arrived in Ohio in 2010 – a date that was also given by police. He reportedly arried from Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, knowing little English. He spent his early days in the country learning English and looking for a job. He eventually moved to Fort Myers, Fla. where he met Kobiljon Matkarov, a friend and fellow Uzbek national who was interviewed by the New York Post.
Saipov was reportedly working as a truck driver at the time. "He was a very good person when I knew him," Matkarov said. "He liked the US. He seemed very lucky, and all the time he was happy and talking like everything is OK. He did not seem like a terrorist, but I did not know him from the inside."
He eventually moved to New Jersey, settling in Paterson, where he began driving for Uber. By the time of the attack, he had earned a green card, granting him permanent residence in the US. An Uber official told the NYT that Saipov had passed its background checks.
"We have been in contact with the FBI and have offered out assistance," the Uber official told the Times. "We will remain in close contact with law enforcement and the FBI to assist with their investigation."
"We are aggressively and quickly reviewing this partner's history with Uber and at this time we have not identified any related concerning safety reports."
In a report that echos some of the vagaries surrounding last month's mass shooting in Las Vegas, officials say they are working to determine what motivated Saipov, who rented the Home Depot rental truck in Passaic, NJ only an hour before the attack began. He also had two facsimile firearms – a paintball gun and a pellet gun, according to reports.
Last night, authorities converged on an apartment building near Genessee and Getty Avenues in Paterson that was believed to be Saipov's residence.
At one point, Saipov had lived in Heritage at Tampa, an apartment complex near the Hillsborough River. On Tuesday evening, two plainclothes investigators were seen departing the community, WaPo reported, after interviewing several residents and others in the surrounding neighborhood. The investigators declined to answer any questions.
"Four FBI agents came and told me he used to live here," said Venessa Jones, who said she lives in an apartment above the one Saipov rented. Neighbors at the complex said they didn't know Saipov.
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Meanwhile, in a gesture of cooperation, Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev sent his condolences to US President Donald Trump and offered his country's assistance in investigating Tuesday's Halloween attack in New York City after Saipov was taken into custody at the scene. Saipov is suspected of killing eight people and injuring nearly a dozen more when a truck he was driving plowed down a riverfront bike path along the West Side Highway in Lower Manhattan before colliding with a school bus leaving Stuyvesant High School five blocks away from the World Trade Center memorial.
Officials who weren't authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke to the Associated Press on the condition of anonymity identified 29-year-old as the attacker. They say he came to the U.S. legally from Uzbekistan in 2010.
President Shavkat Mirziyoyev also offered condolences to families of the victims in a statement Wednesday.
Uzbekistan borders Afghanistan and is one of the most closed off post-Soviet republics. Previously, Uzbek officially never commented or acknowledged any security incidents abroad involving Uzbek nationals.
Meanwhile, the Argentine foreign ministry has released the names of the five Argentinian citizens killed during Tuesday's attack. They are: Hernan Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damian Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij, and Hernan Ferruchi. Another Argentine national, Martin Ludovico Marro, is recovering from injuries at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital. The victims were part of a group of friends celebrating the 30th anniversary of their graduation from the Polytechnic School of Rosario, Argentina. The government gave its condolences and said that all Argentines are sharing in this terrible moment of profound sadness.
Saipov jumped a barrier and turned his truck onto the West Side Highway bike path at 3:05 pm Tuesday and began a vicious 20-block run that saw him mow down unsuspecting cyclists and pedestrians. The sunny fall day along the Hudson River erupted in chaos just around the time students at nearby Stuyvesant High School were finishing up for the day. Saipov collided with a school bus carrying children home from the school. Witnesses say the speeding truck struck unsuspecting bicyclists and pedestrians while onlookers screamed and scattered. The truck then veered left toward Chambers Street, where it collided with the small bus, injuring two adults and two children.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said during yesterday's press conference that there was no evidence of a wider plot. Elaine Duke, the acting head of DHS, released a statement to WaPo: "We have recently seen attacks like this one throughout the world," said acting homeland security secretary Elaine Duke. "DHS and its law enforcement partners remain vigilant and committed to safeguarding the American people."
Saipov is expected to survive, meaning investigators will soon interrogate him about his motive for the attack, but so far, they said, he appears to have been a "lone wolf'' suspect: someone who acted alone after being inspired, but not directly instructed, by ISIS. The investigation is being led by the FBI with the participation of the NYPD.


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According to the bastion of journalistic honesty, the Sun .
MEN of Weatherfield watch out – Rosie Webster has her sights on ALL of you.
Coronation Street's tarty teen is set to become a "right slut", according to the actress who plays her.
Helen Flanagan – who took on the role of Rosie in 2000 – says the fun and games begin when her character escapes the clutches of ex-lover John Stape, who is currently holding her hostage.
Helen, 18, told a newspaper: "Rosie was always feisty but this has made her skin a bit thicker and there will be hell to pay later on.
"Rosie is a right minx and that side of her is going to come out even more.
"Honestly, Rosie turns into a right slut!"

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Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has revoked the credentials for two ESPN reporters who cover the team — throwing a tantrum just as his struggling team was slipping from NBA relevance.
The volatile billionaire said Sunday night that Tim MacMahon and Marc Stein weren't banned from the American Airlines Center, but wouldn't be allowed to cover games there. The reporters could buy tickets if they wanted to attend, he said. He declined to elaborate.
"It's between us and ESPN," said Cuban, 58, who made his name as an owner by flaunting (and getting fined for flaunting) NBA regulations.
Cuban also has been an outspoken critic of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has been rebuked for angry rhetoric blasting what he perceives as negative media coverage and for revoking the credentials of the Washington Post (and threatening to do the same to the New York Times).
MacMahon has covered the Mavericks primarily for several years, but has spent more time in other cities this season. Stein joined ESPN as a national NBA writer in 2000 after previously covering the Mavericks for the Dallas Morning News. Both reporters are based in Dallas.
The Mavericks are 1-5.
The Professional Basketball Writers Association put out a statement Monday condemning the decision: "We are deeply troubled by the Dallas Mavericks' move to revoke the credentials of two respected, longtime NBA journalists. The Mavericks' move is without merit. We call on the Mavericks to reverse their decision or for NBA officials to intervene to allow Tim MacMahon and Marc Stein to continue their work."
ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said the network is "committed to thoroughly covering the Mavs and the NBA."
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A day after Huawei's CEO and founder Ren Zhengfei told reporters his company could miss its revenue numbers for 2019 by as much as $30 billion given smartphone sales plummeting as much as 40%, the first warranty program has appeared that promises to fully refund the price of a Huawei smartphone if popular apps including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube and Gmail cease to function within two years of purchase.
"Huawei will give you a full refund if its device can't run Google and Facebook Apps," reported Huawei Central, although this first "special warranty" is only in the Philippines for now. The offer is a clear response to a softening sales market and an attempt to shore up consumer confidence. Local media reported that dealers are offering the warranty on Huawei devices purchased until August. Huawei confirmed the offer, telling one local outlet that "it's an initiative of our distributors with our dealers."
With media reports now emerging of "consumers are walking into retailers and carriers demanding refunds on Huawei models they have already purchased," there will likely be replicas of this initiative in other markets around the world. Dealers and carriers will need to offset the "40% to 60% drop in international smartphone shipments" that Bloomberg reported the company is now expecting. There was even speculation that Huawei might "pull the latest model of its marquee overseas label, the Honor 20," if sales are poor, although that has been denied by company sources.
Huawei held onto its number two spot for global smartphone sales in the first quarter of 2019 but is now losing ground to Apple and Samsung. "We did not expect that the U.S. would attack us with such determination and on such a large scale," Ren said.
Last year, Huawei continued a flawless decade of growth and broke the $100 billion revenue mark for the first time. That growth record has now been brought to an end, not only will the U.S. action wipe out any growth aspirations this year and next, but it will see the fast-growth consumer business decline sharply bringing the overall topline down as well.
Huawei "will see new life in 2021," Ren said, after explaining that revenues would fall short this year and next. And it is maintaining consumer reach that will be critical for the company through this period. It does not want to cede hard-won customers and brand advocates back to Samsung or Apple.
Smartphone growth was the driver of Huawei's overall growth last year, and this had seemed relatively secure against U.S. action until the blacklisting saw supply chain dominoes tumbling down. This is now unchartered territory for Huawei. And while there are claims that the new proprietary Hongmeng OS has been in the works for seven years, no-one expected this much to be riding on its launch.
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TroopiePete Wrote:Welcome Fishdog, Troy
Sundown can be heaps of fun and we hope to be able to get some driving in after having the real fun of clearing one of the tracks.
Some of us are heading up Friday but for me this means after work at 6:15pm so I will not be getting to camp until quite late.
Others are heading up early Saturday morning so take your choice, either way would love to meet up with you a what an introduction a working bee at one of the nicest parks close to Brisbane..
Oh well back to dodging waves while traveling on the East coast of Fraser... bummer :lol:
Narelle and I are here camping until the 4th of November, it's been windy as hell for the past two days but today is beautiful, just been for a swim in Eli Creek and apart from siting here typing this (in a spot with good 3G reception) we are about to head back to camp for yet another beautiful night under the stars..


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After 37 years as the Mother Seton School Carnival "Pizza Man," John Dowling proudly passes on his legendary recipe and title to his grandson, Brandon Keeney.
For almost four decades now, John Dowling has been known to members of the Mother Seton School (MSS) community and surrounding towns as "The Pizza Man." On May 24, 2019, he passed his sauce-stained apron and legendary moniker over to the next generation. Brandon Keeney, John's grandson, is the new carnival "Pizza Man."
"I'm honored to be named the Pizza Man," said Brandon. "This man is my idol and has taught me everything I know."
John is proud to pass on his pizza-making knowledge and love for the community to his grandson. "I've been making pizza since the first day of the first carnival," shared John. "It's time for a changing of the guard, and I know Brandon will do a great job."
It all began in 1981, when John and Kathryn, along with friends Rob and Barbara Boone, met with then-principal Sister Patricia Ann Bossle to find ways to raise money for the school. The bingos were a popular event, and John's pizza was a draw for people. So, when they came upon the idea of hosting a carnival, it only seemed natural John would head up the pizza tent.
For his generous contributions to Mother Seton School and his years of service, John received the Seton Values Award this past October.
John expressed that it feels like the Mother Seton School Carnival has always been a part of his and his wife, Kathryn's, life. "We have put so much of ourselves into its being, because we believe in helping MSS and we love the community. It has been a joy to be able to give back to the school for the great education our three children received here at Mother Seton."
Brandon promises he will uphold the tradition with pride. "Over the years, I've observed the entire community speak so highly of him [John] and his pizza. They are big shoes to fill, but I will not let him or Mother Seton School down. I will give my all to keep the tradition alive for as long as I can."
You can meet Brandon and taste the famous Dowling pizza at next year's Mother Seton School Carnival, which will be held May 18-23, 2020.


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Former executive director of Zero Population Growth Roy Morgan (he's talking about what abortion was legalized and shortly afterwards) Zero Population Growth was instrumental in the fight to legalize abortion prior to Roe V. Wade.
"There were some people in ZPG in the early years, at the local chapter level for sure… who hopped on the ZPG bandwagon because they were rather draconian about what they wanted to do to bring down the population. Some of them were racist – there's no doubt about it – some of them were restrictionist; they didn't want any more people in.… So they're very hard lined about population growth. It was a lot of that. It was mostly in the early years."
Suzanne Staggenborg The Pro-Choice Movement: Organization and Activism In the Abortion Conflict (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991) 163
These were people who were involved in making abortion illegal. So it shows that racism was a motive – more documentation of this is in the section on "Racism and Sexism".Share on Facebook


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Sustainability is about to go out of fashion, and for fundamentally good reasons.
Fast becoming a bogus ethical term, "sustainability" is used by companies in their Corporate Social Responsibility propaganda (insurance policies against loss of social license to operate).
The industrial system that is the foundation of our economy, of continuous extraction without replenishment, is limited. Instead, we need to maintain the capital of the land and live off the income, but that requires investment in that capital: "You can't run a linear system on a finite planet".
Sustainability is not sufficient; it implies that what we have is intact. Rather than aiming to be less bad, in contrast, a regenerative model focuses on doing good.
Industrial agriculture mines the soil. Farmers once built the soil without external inputs, using manure, surplus organic matter and the power of an army of billions of bacteria. These bacteria are switched on as and when needed by plants. Their function is to transform nutrients in the soil into a form that plants can uptake. Fertilisers used in industrial agriculture are mostly derived from fossil fuels; they are chemical solutions, not part of the natural eco-system, and destroy the web of the soil and leach out in water.
Ruminants grazed and rotated on pastures is an example of a regenerative model. Such animals are important in the cycle of building organic matter and soil, sequestering carbon and regenerating the land. The increasing microbiology of the soil works on both the manure and vegetable organic matter that is continually regenerated as live-stock is moved around the farm. In this way, ruminants inoculate, fertilise, trample and graze the land which is then rested for a couple of months on rotation. The proportion of organic matter (carbon) in the soil increases and roots sink deeper into the substrate, increasing biodiversity of the soil and fungi. This network of organic matter in the soil holds more water – for one additional unit of organic matter, 8 additional units of water can be held. The virtuosity of this cycle is apparent.
Feed-lots, on the other hand, are abominations. Industrial meat production degrades the land to dust bowls, and animals are fattened up quickly on corn and fed water which is transported in. Tonnes of manure – which should be a resource – is managed as waste, producing methane, the dreaded green-house gas.
Meat is only unsustainable in an industrialised system of production, and why it gets a bad environmental rap. So, go meat-free? Yes, by all means go industrialized feed-lot meat free, but locally grown grass-fed meat without external inputs, actually improves the environment. Not all meat is equal, so beware the dictates of ignorant ideology, selective information and green-washed PR.
Be also sceptical of publicised Corporatized Sustainability Indexes, for their focus is less about the environment and more about the interests of competitive advantage and investor relations. The write-up about the Corporate Sustainability Assessment utilised by Dow Jones makes it clear that the environment is not the main objective: "The CSA helps companies to understand which sustainability factors are important from an investor's perspective, and which in turn, are most likely to have an impact on the company's financial performance. Thus, the CSA serves as a sustainability roadmap helping participating companies to prioritize corporate sustainability initiatives that are most likely to enhance the company's competitiveness." Not One Mention of the environment.
By utilising such corporatised risk-management roadmaps to measure environmental impact, companies outsource and pay lip-service to their true responsibilities in the local environment, putting faith in the precise industrial system that brought the environment to its knees.
The leaders in regenerative business models will not be about reducing their carbon footprint but about finding ways – such as the grass-grazed model of meat production – to sequester carbon: From carbon neutrality as a goal to a negative carbon footprint.


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I look at our team and see four guys and one girl who have won before. I look at the other team and see one lying slut, some weird, creepy goth chick, and Casey. —Kenny
If I lose to Casey I should just crawl into the fetal position and die. —Susie
The week off last Wednesday certainly wasn't pleasant, especially given the cliffhanger the last episode ended on, but it definitely paid off with a great show last night. The two elimination challenges that MTV decided not to show us two weeks ago opened this week with a bang: The tug-of-war between Susie and Kimberly—in the rain—seemed to go on forever, with both of them bloody and worn out (and yet still oddly attractive), until finally Susie (as I predicted) pulled the rope away from Kim.
The challenge between Dunbar and Johnny was slightly less epic, and more disconcerting to the Challengers, as Johnny sent Dunbar home (as I did not predict). This, of course, left the Challengers with the less-than-intimidating roster that Kenny described heading into the last challenge before the final.
KellyAnne smartly realized that, as this team is probably not going to win any challenges, her best chance at adding to her own bank account is to beat Susie and get her money, so she volunteered to go into the Ruins—if, that is, it's up to her.You might think, with a team of a four guys and a relatively strong girl against KellyAnne, Sarah,and Casey, that the Champions would just chill out with the machinations for the final challenge. But not Johnny. Apparently Johnny still has some resentment for Susie from The Inferno III, and he wanted her sent home.
Now, I should say here that I do see Johnny's point. For one, Susie was kind of a bitch in The Inferno III: She was nominated for elimination three times and EACH TIME she managed to win the "Life Shield" by getting other girls to throw the challenge. Also, keeping Casey on the Challengers essentially guarantees the Champions a win in the final challenge, even if multiple players suffer some sort of paralysis: As The Gauntlet III showed us, a team is often only as strong asits weakest link in final challenges.
Having Said That, the Champions are probably going to have an easy time in the final challenge no matter who goes home in the Ruins, and it seems mean to throw a challenge at this point in the game for such a petty reason. Johnny's insinuation that Susie has been "slacking off" so far in this challenge is also ridiculous: Susie had already been in the Ruins twice, while Johnny/Derrick/Evan/Kenny have combined to go in once. She hasn't been as integral to the team as them, but that doesn't mean she's slacking, or a Casey-level albatross.
Thankfully, Derrick, Kenny and Evan have some goodness in their hearts, and decided not to throw the last challenge, which was basically made up of running up an inclined plank and grabbing flowers perched off the edge of a building. The Champions won, thanks to a slip by KellyAnne and Casey's general suckitude.* With her choice of competitor for the final Ruins, Susie picked Casey, and disposed of her easily.
*Casey is such a bad competitor that now even TJ Lavin is openly mocking her when it's her turn to go. Although TJ has been a lot meaner this year.
With the teams for the final challenge set—to recap, it's Evan/Kenny/Johnny/Derrick/Susie against KellyAnne/Sarah—a power ranking seems pointless. In lieu of that, I'll revisit a how this season played out against my expectations:
Things I Expected:
- I fully expected Kenny and Evan to get to the final more or less untested (neither of them got a whiff of the Ruins), and for Johnny to get there without much of a fight (only one Ruins).
- I expected Wes to be gone by this point. You can only alienate your teammates and rely on your ability to win every elimination challenge for so long.
- I expected the team to slowly but surely eliminate almost all its girls. I didn't think they'd be able to trim it down to only Susie; this may have been the best example of "trimming the fat" on any challenge ever.
Things I Did Not Expect:
- I did not expect Dunbar to be such an atrocious competitor. He wasn't as bad as KellyAnne claimed—does she really think the Challengers are better without him?—but he was a pretty big disappointment.
- I did not expect Sarah to still be around. I figured she'd be slightly better than Casey, but she won twice in the Ruins.
- I did not expect Darrell and Brad to be the ones sent home for fighting. I figured there would be a fight, but I definitely didn't think Brad would be the one to provoke it. And I figured that if Darrell were going to fight, it was going to be against Wes.
One Last Prediction:
I'm not really going out on a limb here, but I expect the Champions to cruise to victory over KellyAnne and Sarah.


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I've installed Oracle 10g R2 on CentOS 4.4. When I go to create a db using DBCA I get the following error:
oracle.sysman.emcp.exception.EMConfigException: Failed to allocate port(s) in the specified range(s) for the following process(es): JMS [5540-5559],RMI [5520-5539],Database Control [5500-5519],EM Agent [3938] | [1830-1849]
I've checked /etc/services and there are no port conflicts.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Failed to allocate ports using DBCA
Installation and support for Oracle DB on CentOS.
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GOP convictions parade through Windsor
September 9, 2004
THE FRONT-PAGE Tribune story on Sept. 7 covered the actions of a FamilyLife Marriage Conference volunteer (later identified as Russell Laughlin) who was arrested following the assault of a member of a small group of Kerry supporters in Windsor's Harvest Festival Parade.
After interfering with the Kerry supporters' constitutional right of free speech and obstructing their path, this volunteer started to throw punches, landing one on a woman in the group.
Now, bullying Democrats in solidly Republican Weld County is an established tradition here (recall the activities at the Greeley Stampede Parade two years ago), though punching a woman is a new wrinkle. Tellingly, another member of the volunteer's group was quoted as saying that the guy who threw the punch probably had "strong Republican convictions."
Given the climate of the current political debate — indeed, the threat to the very physical safety of declared Democrats — we are well within our rights in asking what "Republican convictions" actually are.
Locally, we note that no one registers any concern about the muzzling of the Democratic minority, not even those professors who constantly complain that Republicans are marginalized at the University of Northern Colorado. Nationally, the character of proven war hero Sen. John Kerry is attacked by the supporters of not only a president but virtually an entire administration who avoided service: President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney ("I had other priorities"), Attorney General John Ashcroft; Rep. Tom DeLay; R-Texas; Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and Eliot Abrams all had deferments of various kinds. The administration's attempts to distance itself from the so-called Swift Boat veterans have been late and muted, which is not surprising (its support for slander as a political tactic is made abundantly clear in Eleanor Clift's Aug. 27 column for MSNBC/Newsweek).
Earlier, the Bush team politically assassinated two Vietnam War heroes — the triple-amputee Max Clelland and prisoner-of-war Sen. John McCain — in precisely the same way.
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Space considerations prevent discussion of the war in Iraq, but suffice it to say that American servicemen and women, lacking adequate resources, face death while Cheney's Halliburton corporation is making a huge profit. Is "hypocrisy" a value?
One assumes that those who preach American patriotism the most shrilly might respect the institution of democracy itself. To the contrary, when the presidential vote recounts in Florida's Miami-Dade County four years ago were disrupted by a violent mob, it was thanks to Bush-Cheney team members such as John Bolton, who later found themselves rewarded with lucrative jobs (as reported by the Miami Herald). Moreover, the New York Times reports that Republican officials in Florida have continued to work toward disenfranchising voters by "purging" voter lists through intimidation — sending armed law enforcement officers to question elderly African-American voters about alleged election irregularities. Last year in Philadelphia, voters in African-American areas of the city were challenged by men carrying clipboards and driving sedans with magnetic signs made to look like law enforcement insignia. File all this under "subversion of democracy."
In this light, Mr. Laughlin's demonstration of "strong Republican convictions" at the Windsor parade are consistent with the Republican administration: Preach patriotism, love, morality, and the Constitution; do the exact opposite. Yet, American citizenry is now so passive that any false accusation, any unfair (or even violent) tactic will have its desired effect because we simply aren't paying attention from one day to the next.
The grim fact is this: If we haven't the discernment to identify the candidate of real character and integrity in this election, we deserve neither him nor democracy itself.
It was Benjamin Franklin who said, when asked if we would have a monarchy or a Republic, "A Republic, if you can keep it." I hope he's not watching.
Jonathan Bellman is a professor at the University of Northern Colorado.


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Seminar attendees consisted of about 40 senior officers, including Masters, Chief Officers, Chief Engineers, and Second Engineers.
Capt John Sideris and Capt Theodore Lalas, International Registries, Inc. (IRI), presented to the group on the topic of port State control (PSC) inspections and the role of the flag State, as well as on how to avoid or rectify common deficiencies.


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What better day than a day dedicated to all things scary to offer up a new find on one of the most consistently, frighteningly awful labels out there, the tiny and mysterious Noval Records label.
First up is a song with an absolutely quintessential song-poem title, "Thoughts", sung by Noval's resident female - as always, not credited on the label (that's the songwriters' names you see in the scans). There are at least a few other obvious titles that could have been given to this lyric, but no, the song-poet with "Thoughts".
A lugubrious pace and somnambulistic setting by the combo drag this one down, as they do on about 80% of Noval's releases. The singer - as this singer always does - sounds like a hometown girl performing in an amateur hour at the local church, although I am head over heels for the spectacularly incompetent swooping in her voice at 1:26 - It borders on self-parody, and it's worth the price of admission.
The flip side, "Following Around With You", features the same vocalist, but the band, as heard here, is about the peppiest that I've ever heard on a Noval release, and it's sort of led by a plucked guitar, another rarity on this label. The whole thing (except the typically awful vocal) sounds more like a Globe production than the typical Noval output.
That doesn't make any of it very good at all. Lyrically, it's actually a close relative to "Thoughts" - a woman pining for someone who has likely been untrue - although the specifics are different (the reference to the Army seems to fly in from another song entirely). Musically, despite the peppier beat (it's not actually peppy, but it's a rock and roll stomper compared to most Noval records), nothing of interest happens, aside from a few badly played moments. And is it just me, or does this seem to go on forever.


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Hillside Silver Spirit, silver dapple and white yearling colt to make 14hh +. Very heavy colt with excellent breeding. Sire is Hermits Silver Cloud a son of Hermits Silver Fortune.
Pictures don't do him justice, this colt is definitely one for the future. Passported and microchipped.
Price: £1,250
Location: Bradford
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Stunning registered Welsh section D mare (green passport). We are reluctantly selling Ringinglow Mayflower (Missy) due to her being bullied by other mares in the field. Missy is 15hh and 3 years old. She has excellent bloodlines (sire Abergavenny Yahoo, dam Caebryn My Way).
She was lightly backed last year and is currently being brought back into work. She has a fantastic temperament and is well mannered both in and out of the stable, she is good in traffic and hasn't spooked, bucked or reared whilst being worked.
Missy has no vices and doesn't have a bad bone in her body. She is good to catch. First person to see her will buy her.
Price: £1,850 ovno
Location: West Yorkshire
Contact: Wendy
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Percy Jackson, stunning 4 year old quality cob, 14.2hh. He has just turned 4 years old and is up to date with vaccinations, worming and teeth and is passported. Top show quality with superb movement. He is a super friendly, easy going lad who just wants to be your mate, he loves people and horses and easy going.
Used to travelling on our trailer with our competition horses. We bridled and sat on and long reined him around our village last year and took him to some in hand shows to give him a bit of life experience and he takes everything in his stride.
He is just currently standing short of 14.2hh but both parents were 15hh, his mum was our turbo hunting cob and he has inherited her massive jump. We have left him to grow and mature as he has been our old TBs quiet friend but he it too good to be just left in a field and is bored and wants a new home now. Image 2 is dam.
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Hillside Silver Shadow, silver blagdon yearling colt to make 14hh+, one of the heaviest colts we've bred, 3" of hair off his hocks already.
Unusual colour, definitely has stallion potential. His sire is Hermits Silver Cloud son of Hermits Silver Fortune.
His pictures don't do him justice, he's a tremendous colt that needs to be seen to appreciate his full potential.
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Ellie Mae, she is a tri coloured 13.2hh heavyweight gypsy cob mare. Aas wide as she is tall with a lot of feather and bone.
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She is a very quiet, easy little mare.Looking for her new forever home.
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Blue Boy, stepping stallion at stud, blue and white with masses of silky feather, mane and tail. Excellent shape and conformation and small head.
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Fact and Fiction: Creation, Forms, Boundaries
Friday, May 19 - Saturday, May 20
Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society
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This symposium takes the contested and porous border between fact and fiction as the point of departure for a wide-ranging cross-disciplinary dialogue. Understanding fiction not as a literary genre but as an operative category in various modes, disciplines, and discourses, we aim to identify the general features that define imaginary worlds, while also considering the historical and cultural variability of practices, the specificity of media, and the blurring of distinctions. Why and how do we create fictions, and what kinds of truths can these fictions convey? Should fiction be defined in ontological, logical, or pragmatic terms? How do human minds distinguish between factual and fictional narratives, actual and virtual realities? Can we identify "signposts" of fictionality and factuality? Bringing together perspectives from the humanities, social sciences, cognitive sciences, and art practice, we offer an exploratory approach to these questions, with an emphasis on collective discussion.
This conference is free and open to the public. While no advance reading is required, primary source documents and other related materials will be made available in advance on the conference website, and are intended to facilitate understanding and debate.
This event is organized by the Fact and Fiction research project at the Neubauer Collegium. Other institutional partners include the France Chicago Center, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Cinema and Media Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Pre-circulated materials are available here. Please e-mail Isabela Fraga (email@example.com) to get the password.
Friday, May 19
8:30–9:00 a.m.
9:00–9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks: Alison James (University of Chicago)
9:15–11:00 a.m.
Worlds and Representations
Moderator: Bei Qiu (SISU/University of Chicago)
Thomas Pavel (University of Chicago):"Fictional Worlds, Thirty Years Later"
Andrei Pop (University of Chicago): "From Make-Believe to Platonism"
11:00–11:15 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:15 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
Perceiving Boundaries
Moderator: Alison James (University of Chicago)
Anna Abraham (Leeds Beckett University, UK): "How the Brain Tells Reality from Fiction: A Neurocognitive Perspective"
Françoise Lavocat (Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3/Neubauer Visiting Fellow, University of Chicago): "Do Signposts of Factuality Exist? The Puzzling Case of Literary Hoaxes"
1:00–2:30 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:30–5:00 p.m.
Modes and Transformations of Fictionality
Moderator: Daisy Delogu (University of Chicago)
Julie Orlemanski (University of Chicago): "Medieval Fictionality"
Alison James (University of Chicago): "From Human Documents to Fiction as Alibi: Modes of Reference in the French Novel"
Maria Anna Mariani (University of Chicago): "Primo Levi's Evil Wet Nurse and the Sin of Fiction"
Saturday, May 20
8:30–9:00 a.m.
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Cinematic Facts and Visual Absorption
Moderator: Jennifer Wild (University of Chicago)
James Cahill (University of Toronto): "Big Toes and Other Beasts"
Salomé Aguilera Skvirsky (University of Chicago): "The Process Genre, or On Being Absorbed in Work"
10:45–11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m.
Documentary Practices
Moderator: Joel Snyder (University of Chicago)
Christian Raby (Photographer): "When Photography Constructs Identity"
Paola Iovene (University of Chicago): "Collective Reportage in 1930s China"
12:45–2:00 p.m.
Lunch Break
2:00 - 3:45 p.m.
Mimetic Models
Moderator: Edgar Garcia (University of Chicago)
Victoria Saramago (University of Chicago): "The Backlands in the Mirror: Environmental Mimesis in João Guimarães Rosa's Work"
Françoise Lavocat (Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 /Neubauer Visiting Fellow, University of Chicago) and Meredith Reiches (University of Massachusetts Boston): "A Comparative Demography of Characters"
3:45–4:00 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:00–5:45 p.m.
Play, Performance, Participation
Moderator: Julianne Grasso (University of Chicago)
Patrick Jagoda (University of Chicago): "Alternate Reality Games and Political Fictions in the Era of Fake News."
Olivier Caïra (Université d'Évry/EHESS): "Interactivity: The Final Frontier between Fact and Fiction?"
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The Sooner Someone Gets Up to Speed, the Better for Everyone.
By Steve Schumacher
So, you have spent a lot of time and energy trying to get a new position filled. You get the requisition opened, approved, worked with your recruiter, did way too many interviews, and finally made an offer to someone and it was accepted.
You are confident that this new employee will be successful and a good team player. You have a lot of choices about how to make this person productive as soon as possible. Attitude usually comes in the door with the person, but it is your responsibility to keep that attitude at a high level while giving the new employee the specific tools they need for success.
There are three stages employees go through on their way to excellence – Novice, Getting There and Expert. What you do, as the manager, at each stage will play a big part in whether or not the employee succeeds. Keep in mind that their success means your success, so take your role seriously and commit to it.
Novice Stage. At this point the employee is clueless about the job and what it takes to be successful. Hopefully, they will be fired up to do the job well and exceed your expectations. One of the first things you should do is try to determine the employee's preferred learning style.
I have seen way too much money, time and energy spent on training new employees in a style that does not resonate with them. Some people learn best by hearing, some by seeing examples, and some by trying it themselves. Training new employees is not a "one size fits all" process. In this stage, you will need to spend a lot of time explaining, modeling, quizzing, and giving specific timely feedback.
You might consider teaming the new employee up with a more experienced, successful employee. Do not just team them up with somebody who has the time. Make sure the partner has a great attitude and knows something about training people.
If you do your part well in the Novice Stage, the employee will show signs that they have moved into the second stage.
Getting There Stage. In this stage, the employee is showing you that they are understanding what the job entails and are having some successes. Yes, they are making mistakes, but they are human and mistakes are vital to learning. Hopefully, the successes outnumber the mistakes at this point.
They have shown you that their learning curve is shortening. When this becomes apparent, you can back off a bit and take more of a coaching approach, as opposed to the directing approach in the Novice Stage. Have regular face-to-face discussions about progress and give specific feedback.
These discussions do not have to be long, but it is imperative that the employee see and hear you versus getting texts about progress. Something to remember when coaching an employee: It is easier for humans to repeat what they were told they do well than it is to correct what they were told they do poorly. So, pay a lot of attention to what they are doing right.
If you do the coaching and discussion pieces of the Getting There Stage well, the employee will move to the third stage.
Expert Stage. By now, you have invested a lot of time and energy in this new employee. You may have even enlisted the time of other employees to move the development along. If you have done all these things well, the new employee should be showing signs that they have become an Expert at the job.
As much as we would like to just throw people in the mix right away and have them succeed, human development does not work that way. It moves along a continuum of three stages. Movement along that continuum depends on you as a manager, making all the correct development moves.
Your goal as a manager should be to have all of your employees at the Expert Stage, not just your new ones. Experts not only do the technical parts of the job extremely well, they have stellar attitudes about the job, you and the company. When you get all your employees at the Expert Stage, you can kick back and play golf all the time. Just kidding on that one. Whenever you throw people in the mix, there is always opportunity for managers.
One of the challenges to overcome as a manager is the urge to train your employees in the manner you were trained. Walk five miles in the snow uphill to school kind of stuff. Fight that urge and focus on employee learning styles and moving them along a continuum of development.


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A spin on Women's Day.
Category: Commentary
Recently Anant Ambani's speech at Reliance Industries' 40th anniversary sparked a series of trolls and articles (some taken down already) mocking the same. While it is funny to look at at first sight, here's why we need to stop this online bullying and give the likes of him, privilege or no privilege, a chance.
A video of the actress having suffered molestation in the flight has been doing the rounds of late. When it comes to sexual harassment, where do facts end, and fiction/assumption begins? Read on to know more about it!


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We usually say that hindsight is 20-20 when it comes to bad decisions. But one could argue that you don't always need to wait for the repercussions to know that something is a mistake. Unfortunately for some NFL teams, they didn't realize that the moves they made this past off-season were so foolish. Even before they officially blow up in the faces of these teams, here are the five most regrettable moves of the NFL off-season.
49ers Draft Punter in 4th Round
Among the many poor draft choices, the 49ers spending a 4th-round pick on Utah Mitch Wishnowsky got a little lost in the mix. You can't possibly be that desperate for a punter to draft one so early (or draft one at all), especially when he led the nation with three blocked punts last year. Unless Wishnowsky is a top-5 punter for the next 15 years, this is a horrible decision.
Bills Sign Frank Gore
Only in Buffalo is the running back position an old man's game. Just in case it wasn't enough to have an aging LeSean McCoy on the roster, the Bills added 35-year-old Frank Gore to their backfield. It boggles the mind why the Bills think that was a wise choice. Every year, there are countless undrafted running backs who could probably replicate Gore's productivity. Why not take a chance on a couple of those guys rather than spend money on an aging running back on a team that's going nowhere in 2019.
Chiefs Trade Away Dee Ford
The Chiefs were a mess defensively last season, so their solution was to trade away Ford and his 13 sacks. They also parted ways with veteran pass rusher Justin Houston. Sure, maybe the two didn't fit the new 4-3 scheme that's coming to Kansas City. But is a complete overhaul of the defense the smartest thing for a team with a quarterback and offense that's good enough to win a Super Bowl?
Steelers Get Little for Antonio Brown
Seriously? A 3rd-round pick and 5th-round pick are all you could get for Brown? No matter how bad the relationship was between player and team or how outspoken Brown was for a trade, you had to do better than that. In the long run, the extra draft picks are nothing compared to one of the elite wide receivers in the game.
Giants Draft Daniel Jones 6th Overall
Odds are, the Giants are never going to hear the end of this for the next 20 years. Jones was in no way worthy of the 6th overall pick, and he was not the best quarterback available at that point. Moreover, he would have still been available when the Giants were at the podium for the 17th overall pick. Yes, the Giants needed a young quarterback, but not Jones and not 6th overall. This could end up being one of the worst draft picks of all-time this side of Ryan Leaf.


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For over a year, Gwen has been traveling between dimensions for various stories but remained the only superhero in her "Earth-65" universe. All of that changed with last month's Radioactive Spider-Gwen #1, as we got hints about her benefactor Janet VanDyne (The Wasp) and witnessed the dramatic surprise revelation of Captain America.
I realize that I inadvertently sounded a bit harsh in last month's review when I mentioned issue #1's cliffhanger. I should clarify that my reaction wasn't about Cap showing up or even the idea of Cap as a black woman (more of my thoughts on that sort of thing here), but rather the plot point linking SHIELD to the Lizard men. That didn't strike me as particularly interesting, as I'd seen "major organization attempts to create super-beings with botched results" done very well in Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man and not so well in All-New Ultimates. Spider-Gwen has otherwise been forging exciting new territory, so I was much more interested to see Gwen meet one of "her" heroes.
My first grin reading this book happened when I saw the creative team adapt their origin montage from Edge of Spider-Verse #2 to great success with the introduction of Earth-65's Samantha Wilson. The precision of Latour's dialogue and Rodriguez's artwork is practically surgical in this sequence, with great things happening in each panel. Every single frame in this two-page spread feels like it could become an entire issue's worth of story on their own. I love this narrative technique, as giving me room to imagine parts of the story for myself makes for a much more interactive reading experience.
While the idea of Cap and Gwen having to fight before teaming up may have been a bit predictable, the execution of the sequence was anything but that. Rodriguez and Renzi deliver a fresh take on the motion of Cap's shield in battle, with TRON-like geometric patterns that convey speed and precision. There's an incredible sense of flow that happens with the fight choreography and character design, with Spider-Woman looking particularly effective as her figure is slightly warped to deliver a knockout kick and later take a brutal punch to the head. All of this is anchored by classic Spidey-style quipping, which makes for an action scene right out of the movies. You can practically hear the soundtrack!
However, while it was fast and exciting, it was also a bit confusing between the inclusion of Dr. Connors, a reference to something called S.I.L.K. (hmm!), the number of Lizards involved in the melee, and the sudden introduction of Cap's junior clone as the Falcon. Normally I get caught up in the ride but the fast pacing and number of new elements made things a little tricky to keep up with.
Fortunately there's more to this issue than a battle royale, as Latour and Rodriguez bookend the action with a quieter conversation between George Stacy and Ben Parker. This is a welcome effort to develop Gwen's supporting cast, and I'd love see more. While I'm not yet particularly invested in further exploring the conspiracy behind Peter as the Lizard, I'm more intrigued by the emotional fallout, particularly how George navigates proving his daughter innocent while trying to provide grieving friends with closure.
This is a book that moves like a rollercoaster, but it's worth going back to catch fun details in the art and dialogue. There are great touches like Gwen protecting the rescued guinea pig while negotiating Cap's handcuffs (and the rather sweet payoff), plus the incredible depiction of the sound effects throughout the issue. Seriously, take some time to look at them closely; I'm hard-pressed to think of another series where the lettering is so vibrant and entertaining. Plus if you know your Marvel history, there are easter egg references waiting for you as well as another must-read character profile, this time on Samantha Wilson as Captain America.
Radioactive Spider-Gwen #2 is not shy about throwing a lot at the reader. It can be overwhelming and sometimes confusing, but it's vibrant and exciting with plenty to enjoy.
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Arranging a trip can appear to be intimidatingly costly. Truth be told, the absolute most prominent U.S. destinations are exceedingly terrible for your wallet. In any case, regardless of whether your destiny in New York or Los Angeles, Paris or Thailand, there are a lot of approaches to extend your dollar.
Actually, you can trim the cost of your get-away down to $100 multi-day or less in case if you're adaptable with your movement dates and research, especially all the free activities on your bucket list at your destination.
Choose the place wisely, where you want to go
It can be exceptionally hard to visit marquee places like New York, Miami, and Los Angeles without spending more than $100 in a day — Although even Las Vegas offers a couple of spending privileged insights to insiders but still on and off you have to spend $100 all at once. On the off chance that you have your heart set on a major city or shoreline get-away, yet don't have any desire to strike your life investment funds to go, investigate comparative and more moderate options where the everyday costs are less expensive.
Choose a country where your dollar goes further
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Once upon a particular time, two kids found a box full of glowing plush toys. Then some of the toys came to life. The kids and the plush toys played hide and seek all day!
As they were playing they found magical binoculars. They looked through the binoculars and saw an old cottage.
They went into the little house and saw Dr Wong holding a weird looking map. They asked him if they can keep it. He said that only pure-hearted ones can take the map of the ancients. Still they tried to take the map but no one succeeded except the bear called Tristan.
The kids and the plush toys followed the bear Tristan and came to a forest of magical self-cutting trees. There they saw a really depressed fox that was sad because the trees were all tired of cutting themselves down and growing again.
The kids and the plush toys helped the trees rest by giving every tree a relaxing hour in the spa and a free massage. When the trees recuperated, they started cutting themselves and growing again.
The trees and the fox thanked the kids and the plush toys and gave them a gift - "the wand of eternal growth". The party happily accepted. By using the wand, they fixed all the World's mistakes except one: The Scientists of Unstoppable Evil. The evil scientists made monster animal machines whose purpose was to eliminate every good thing in the known Universe. The friends wanted to stop them - but how?
They dressed up in costumes so they wouldn't be recognised, and walked in to their lab, where they saw a weird-looking waffle machine.
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Every Time I Die were banned from House of Blues Orlando
Seriously? House of Blues in Orlando banned Every Time I Die from performing at their venue. Obviously these people don't know how to party.
The venue pulled the band from their upcoming show on June 20th without any explanation. The guys were supposed to play there on their upcoming tour with Taking Back Sunday, Modern Chemistry, and All Get Out.
please redirect all questions as to why we aren't aren't allowed to play July 20th in Orlando FL to @hoborlando, then explain it to us.
— Every Time I Die (@everytimeidie) March 22, 2017
Interestingly, this isn't the first time HOB Orlando has put a damper on things. In 2015 the venue banned letlive. from playing there — who coincidentally were also on tour with TBS.
Whatever the case, ETID will carry on as planned. The tour with Taking Back Sunday kicks off on July 14 in New York City and will run through mid-August.
They'll be out supporting their latest album Low Teens.
Every Time I Die tour dates w/ Taking Back Sunday:
Jul 14 New York, NY @ Webster Hall
Jul 16 Boston, MA @ House of Blues
Jul 19 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade – Heaven Stage
Jul 20 Orlando, FL @ House of Blues (no ETID)
Jul 21 St. Petersburg, FL @ Jannus Live
Jul 22 Jacksonville, FL @ Mavericks (no ETID)
Jul 24 Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Live!
Jul 25 El Paso, TX @ Tricky Falls
Jul 26 Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre
Jul 27 Las Vegas, NV @ Hard Rock At The Pool
Jul 28 San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park
Jul 29 Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
Jul 31 Santa Cruz, CA @ The Catalyst
Aug 01 Sacramento, CA @ Ace Of Spades
Aug 03 Portland, OR @ Crystal Ballroom
Aug 04 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
Aug 06 Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory
Aug 07 Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
Aug 08 Denver, CO @ Summit Music Hall
Aug 09 Lincoln, NE @ Bourbon Theatre
Aug 10 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Aug 12 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
Aug 13 Pontiac, MI @ Crofoot Ballroom
Aug 14 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
Aug 15 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
Aug 16 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
Aug 18 Utica, NY @ Sarnac Brewery
Aug 19 Buffalo, NY @ Waiting Room Summer Stage
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Jun 24, 2018
|Bonjour mes amis,
I feel a little bonjour-ed out at the moment. I went for my walk a little later this morning as I wanted to be alone in my green paradise. However, while I knew that the local school was having a fun walk and ride today I didn't know what time it started nor its route. Well, I know now. I met so many walkers with their dogs and riders on the path and was happy at first to exchange pleasantries. Then I became a little tired of the constant "bonjour" and smiles. (How terrible must I sound to be tired of friendliness?) But I did get to pat some friendly dogs.
I have settled into my village life nicely. It always feels very familiar here. One of the first things I always do when I arrive (after cleaning) is go to the nursery and buy flowers for my balconettes. It cheers me. Soon after, I saw a couple of tourists taking photos of my house and pointing to the balconettes. It's an odd feeling to be on the other side.
As soon as I arrived I phoned friends and arranged to meet with them which was so good. We caught each other up on our news and just settled back into an easy companionship.
I also visited the Abbaye to see the new artwork that has been installed and found that restoration of the frescos and columns has almost been completed. It is looking beautiful. There was a film crew in there when I arrived.
One of my challenges this summer was sorting out my internet connection after Orange, my provider, had stopped offering a service that could be suspended and reconnected. The very short version of this saga is that I had to enter into a yearly contract. I resent having to pay for this service for most of the year when I'm not here but it was the lesser of two evils at the time.
For the first week and a half I didn't have wifi at home so I had to go out every day to use that of the Hotel de l'Abbaye, Le Saint Savin and at times, the Orange hotspot that I'd discovered. I'd been at Betty's and found that I had a connection to the hotspot as I am an Orange customer. I also discovered that I could pick it up on the hill above the cemetery near me. This came in handy a couple of times when I didn't want to go to one of the bars to steal their internet. On the way home after being at Betty's one night I walked up the hill and sat in the gutter in the pitch black for quite a while, checking and writing emails. I would have looked suspicious if anyone had seen me.
You may remember that I've arrived here in the past to find demanding letters from debt collectors regarding a water bill from years ago that I never received. This time I had letters from Orange demanding 100 euros for the cost of the modem I hadn't returned because I didn't know they didn't provide my service any longer. Also there were letters from a debt collector on behalf of Orange saying that I owed 30 euros. This turned out to be a miscalculation by Orange who automatically deduct from my account. I was surprisingly calm about this familiar situation and took a few days before sorting it out. All's good now.
I've taken a couple of bus trips to Poitiers and Le Blanc to do some shopping for things I can't get in the village. I had an awkward moment on the bus back from the commercial area. The Poitiers bus company has changed their ticketing system. I was okay on the trip out but I was not able to get my ticket to work on the way back. They used to last for 2.5 hours but it turns out now that they are single use only. I was trying to validate it when the driver spoke very quickly and pointed his finger. I thought he meant that I had to put the ticket that way but no, it turned out that he was telling me to press the information button. Duh! A frustrated passenger took over and did it for me. I think she wasn't being kind, she just wanted to get moving. I felt a little foolish but what the heck? No one knew me so I could just slink off and look out the window for the rest of the trip.
My tense moment coming back from Le Blanc happened because I discovered that I'd dropped my SNCF card before I got on the bus. My driver was the grumpy one who was very angry with the "vomit boy" last year. (Regular readers may remember that incident.) I got up from my seat just as he was starting the bus. I asked him to wait one minute so I could get off and pick up my card which I could see on the ground. He gave me such a look but another male passenger took pity and said "d'accord" (okay) to the driver. I ran there and back because if he'd gone without me I would have had to stay the night as there wasn't another bus that day.
Socially, I've been to Betty's for aperos (drinks and finger food) with Molly, Hilary, Keith and Betty's family, Mark and Mary. They came from England to visit her because she's about to have a cataract operation in a few days. Mary is a lovely doctor who was born in Melbourne to English parents and spent the first few years of her life in Australia so she was interested to talk to me. The company was lively and the evening was warm then mild after the sun set around 10:30pm. It takes me a while to adjust to this when I first arrive.
I've been back to Betty's to help her with some issues she'd had setting up her email on her phone and attaching photos. She thinks I'm a whiz but expertise is all relative, isn't it?
Hilary and Keith have once again been there for me. I've used their washing line to dry my sheets and towels that take too long inside my house, since I don't have a dryer any more. When I needed to use a secure network to check my bank, I used theirs. They are away at the moment so I was very pleased when they texted me yesterday to ask me to do them a favour. It's nice that they can rely on me too.
We've all been out to Le Passe Temps, Le Saint Savin and Hotel de l'Abbaye to socialise with mutual friends such as Chris and Dan, Dick and Helen and some other unremarkable man. On Thursday night we enjoyed the music together at Le Saint Savin under the stars with another Chris and Peter. Tonight I'll join Philippe and others for Sunday evening drinks at the bar. It's a good life but I've been pacing myself and having some alcohol free days.
I hope you are well and not suffering too much this winter. Take care.
Jude x


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PARIS (AP) — The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Thursday that France violated the rights of three asylum-seekers who lived for months on the streets with no means to meet basic needs such as food, housing and health care.
The court considered that the three migrants — an Afghan, a Russian, and an Iranian — "have been victims of a degrading treatment reflecting a lack of respect for their dignity."
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The court ordered France to pay fines ranging from 10,000 to 12,400 euros ($11,280 to $13,986) to each of the three migrants.
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You know you're a teacher when...
- Your weekend planning begins on the ride home from school on Friday mentally calculating how much "school time" you need to reserve to get ready for the Monday morning bell.
You know you're a teacher when...
- Even trips to the antique mall for relaxation wind up including purchases for that "special project" for one student or another.
- You gather supplies from your house for next week's lessons -- books, legos, and other trinkets that you are convinced will be better used/served by your students than your own family.
You know you're a teacher when...
- You know that to stay balanced on the weekend you give up sleep instead of family time.
I'm nearing the end of the Te@chthought #reflectiveteacher challenge. So far, I haven't missed a day! I'm a bit confused and flattered by the followers of this blog, but feel I must tell my teacher friends how much the process of forced reflective blogging (as opposed to talking about what I want to talk about) has been to my teaching. I encourage you to try it -- even if the every day model doesn't work. The reality is, this takes less than 30 minutes a day. (Maybe that will help you excuse the grammar and punctuation mistakes!)
On to today's challenge!
Day 27
What role do weekends and holidays play in your teaching?
The chart to the right isn't mine, but it certainly reflects the thought process of many teachers. For a TOG (Teacher of the Gifted), the number of independent projects happening with my students at any given time is so varied, that my weekends are filled with post it notes on my computer screen to share with the project managers the following week.
Perhaps it's a book I discover, or the perfect pin found in the antique mall for the National History Day project, or somebody in the community who casually mentions a passion or interest or expertise in the EXACT topic currently on the radar for one of my kids.
I've nearly perfected the "I'm truly interested in what you're saying" look while inside screaming "THIS GUY IS PERFECT TO TALK TO (insert student name here) !" Often it is a resource that I find browsing the databases at UCONN, who still hasn't kicked me out of the library access system, even though I finished my masters a year ago. (Please don't rat me out!)
Our lesson plans are due in the system by 8 am on Monday for the entire week. We have a template to complete for each lesson which, we are told, we must need more training on because it is the PERFECT template to use to teach, but none of us agrees with this. Yet we fill it in, and then do whatever we need to do to draft plans that actually can function as a worthwhile tool for us in front of students. It is a giant blessing and curse that our district has access to our online network and can work from home with access to all of our files. The reality is that having semi-interrupted time to plan a week's worth of lessons is so much more worthwhile than the smidgins of time between parent phone calls, meetings with colleagues and administrators, and photocopying required makes the weekend seem like a blessing of time, even if I do often treat Sunday as the first day of my work week.
Our district uses most of the legal holidays, excluding the family holidays like Thanksgiving and Christmas, as inservice days. The kids are off for Columbus Day, we are analyzing data and in in-service training.
In short, to be a teacher, you can't turn off the fascination in learning new things on the weekend. We certainly don't want our students to shut down from Friday to Monday, and the same applies to teachers. I can't imagine how difficult the reboot to my brain would be on Monday morning if I were not engaged and focused on my job -- albeit at a slower and more relaxed pace -- during the weekends. We all fear the blue screen of death on our computers -- and in our brains. D-L-R-O-W. (Or should it be D-E-L-R-I-H-W?)
The weekends, by design, are there for sanity. And sometimes sanity means keeping your brain booted up with the job in the forefront.
Happy Weekend!
The weekends, by design, are there for sanity. And sometimes sanity means keeping your brain booted up with the job in the forefront.
Happy Weekend!


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|An Example
From the Boulder paper, the Daily Camera,
The conservative columnist George Will said Thursday "the city's valiant efforts to reduce its carbon footprint are a gesture designed to make the good people of Boulder feel virtuous."
"The answer is, 'I don't know,'" he said. "What distinguishes me is that I know I don't know. Lots of other people don't know, but they don't know they don't know."
Mr Will is an intelligent man. He speaks with authority. He is a voice for the conservatives.
It is obvious Mr Will was trying to ruffle some feathers and he succeeded. He gains readers by being controversial. The people "for" him, read to gain fodder for their arguments and the people 'against' him, read to have something to be mad about.
I believe the answers to both of his statements are true, but his stance is not the answer.
If Boulder was the only city in the United States that reduced it's carbon footprint, then it would be a mere gesture. But, there is more to this story. If you owed $10,000 and you could only pay back one dollar right now; then should you claim bankruptcy or should you start repaying the loan and budgeting for future payments. If, by Boulder being an example, other individuals, families, communities, cities, counties, states, and nations began to also repay their debts, then there would be a change in the co2 levels. Boulder alone cannot make a difference in the world's co2 levels, but they can be one of the leaders, examples in proving that "zeroing" can be done.
No one knows what the future holds. In weather, one hurricane might be said to be an impending disaster, but then misses. The second might be forecast to be benign yet is disastrous. And a third hurricane might be predicted to be catastrophic and is just that. The same weather personnel predicted all three hurricanes and their potential consequences. Should the people living along the coast, not have taken the warnings seriously because, when it comes down to it, they were inaccurate?
To continue with the same analogy, Mr Will, if there is a hurricane forecast to hit your home... Are you going to board up, secure your house, and evacuate; or go sit on the beach as the storm surge comes ashore?
Everyone is an example. We can be good examples or bad examples. The citizens of Boulder by trying to lower their carbon footprint are trying to be an example. Whether it helps to prevent global warming or not, no one can be certain. What is certain is the forecasters are warning us of what is coming our way. The ice cap is melting and the seas are rising. It is time to be examples. It is time to convert the world. Of course we could also choose to sit on the beach, not believing the forecasters as the storm surges closer and closer.
Happy trails.


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In the recent episode of Swarajyarakshak Sambhaji, Raje calls for a morning meeting with his ministers. He asks them about Kondaji Baba's whereabouts. Every minister has a different answer and Sambhaji realises that no one knows about his location. As he smiles to himself, a fisherman tells Raje that Kondaji Baba was seen going to Murud Janjira. Sambhaji, then, sends a lawyer to get Kondaji Baba back. But, Siddi arrests that lawyer, too.
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Sambhaji and his ministers are worried about the lawyer as there is no communication from the other end. He doesn't know how to get in touch with Kondaji Baba who is stuck with Siddi. Abdullah tries to convince Siddi to meet Kondaji Baba but he refuses to do so.
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After hitting the slopes we went over to visit and have lunch with the Wasaga Dunton's. Joseph let me ride around in his pedal car 'Pedally'. I think I'll put one of these on my wish list. I would love to rip up and down Minto street on one of these.
Isabella got a bit out of hand, so Dad had to tie her to a pole.
Joseph doing his best Fu Manchu!
I spent a lot of time watching baby Madeline, Mom didn't take any photos, but she is so beautiful. Thanks for the amazing visit and we hope to see you again soon!