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Nov 07, 2019 11:46 AM|srinivas_1969|LINK
Hi Team,
working on to fix the issue of Cross Side Scripting in asp.net with c# application and team is trying to inject the CSS as %uff1cscript%uff1ealert%uff08123456%uff09%uff1c/script%uff1e. but I am facing issue to encode the text to html format but its not updating.
please help me how to encode the above input to html and fix the issue
Nov 08, 2019 02:39 AM|Yang Shen|LINK
Hi srinivas_1969,
srinivas_1969team is trying to inject the CSS as %uff1cscript%uff1ealert%uff08123456%uff09%uff1c/script%uff1e.
XSS is supposed to protect your website, thus the js written will be encoded to above format.
Can you explain in which scenario you want to inject a js function as above which will make your website very insecure?
And why not use the ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript Method like below?
ScriptManager.RegisterStartupScript(this,this.GetType(), "aa", "<script>alert(123456)</script>", false);
Best Regard,
Yang Shen
Nov 08, 2019 06:48 AM|srinivas_1969|LINK
Hi Yang,
Thanks for your response, but the pen test team would like to inject the script using burp interceptor and the script is inserting at text box control and description boxes.
and I am trying to handle this from the C# server side, but not able to convert the above Unicode entities to html text.
let us know how to resolve this.
thanks in advance
Nov 08, 2019 08:11 AM|Yang Shen|LINK
Hi srinivas_1969,
srinivas_1969inject the script using burp interceptor and the script is inserting at text box control and description boxes.
According to your description, you will input <script>alert(123456)</script> into this textbox and the burp interceptor will encode this to %uff1cscript%uff1ealert%uff08123456%uff09%uff1c/script%uff1e?
I built this demo here with c# and HttpUtility.UrlDecode( since we don't know how you encode the script) to decode it.
And this string can be decoded but not int the right way, you can refer to below demo:
protected void btn2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string a = "%uff1cscript%uff1ealert%uff08123456%uff09%uff1c/script%uff1e"; a = HttpUtility.UrlDecode(a); txt1.Value = a; string b = "<script>alert(123456)</script>"; b = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(b); txt2.Value = b; }
Below is the result:
As you can see from above img, the %uff1c will be encoded to < which can't be recongnized as html code(<) and < will be encoded to%3c.
I think HttpUtility.UrlDecode is not what you want but meybe you can try use HttpUtility.UrlEncode to encode your script which will make it easier to decode.
Best Regard,
Yang Shen
Nov 08, 2019 11:18 AM|srinivas_1969|LINK
Hi Yang Shen,
Thank you again, and I would like to explain actually what we doing
there is a one control on the aspx form which will be used collect some data and the end user will enter the normal text only in one text box . e.g., test by Srinivas
but to validate the application security we using the burp interceptor and once the above text entered in text box and saved then the data will come in burp interceptor
there we will replace the text "test by Srinivas" with the %uff1cscript%uff1ealert%uff08123456%uff09%uff1c/script%uff1e then its saving in the DB
when we open the same data for the view then the script is executing showing alert. but when we doing validation the how to encode the "%uff1cscript%uff1ealert%uff08123456%
uff09%uff1c/script%uff1e" to html I am not finding any methods in C# to encode because its Unicode.
Thanks in advance
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Nov 08, 2019 12:07 PM|mgebhard|LINK
What is you question?
How to unescape Unicode characters in C#? JavaScript?
I'm guessing that you are serializing a string on the server which is causing the escaped characters. Is there any way you can share code that reproduces this issue?
Nov 08, 2019 05:47 PM|srinivas_1969|LINK
Hi Mgebhard,
Thank you for your reply, I am encoding the text box value once the buttonsave_click and once the process is started the data is coming in burp suite tool and at the backend they modifying the text and replacing with the script and would like to handle that in the back end in server side pleae let me know how to encode handle it
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Nov 08, 2019 06:01 PM|mgebhard|LINK
srinivas_1969I am encoding the text box value once the buttonsave_click
Yang Shan provided a clear example of HTML encoding and decoding. If HTML encode and decode is not what you are looking for then share code that reproduces this issue rather than making the community guess what problem you are trying to solve. Are you receiving an error in the burp tool that recommends encoding text input? Have you tried burp support?


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Adi Shankara, an Indian sage (788–820 CE) declared that "the one unchanging entity (Brahman) alone is real, while changing entities do not have absolute existence".
That's a pretty tough standard for determing what is, and what isn't real. But Shankara was a wise man, and his definition has stood the test of time because it points the way from the world of changing phenomena to the unchanging reality from which all phenomena arise.
In discussing nonduality then, it is useful to make a distinction between absolute, and relative truth. This at least forgoes the need to put the word "apparent" before everything!
For instance if you look around you, nothing you see could be said to have absolute reality, as everything in the phenomenal world is in a constant state of change. Even if you look up at the stars, they all were born, and even if they are among the longest lived stars, will eventually die (some five billion years hence in the case of our own local star, the sun).
But relative, or provisional reality is useful, for example when Samuel Johnson refuted Berkleys immaterialism by kicking a rock and (possibly hopping around) exclaimed "I refute it thus!".
So, while by Shankara's definition neither Johnsons foot nor the rock were real, it would be common sense to say they both had "relative" reality. Otherwise we slip into a nonsense where every object has annoying quotation marks wrapped around it.

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A Dangerous Dynasty: House Of Assad is essential if harrowing television. We spoke exclusively to the series' director, Nick Green, about the challenges and dangers he and his small team faced while putting together this documentary series, as well as Green's views on Syria's prospects for the future
A Dangerous Dynasty: House Of Assad, the second episode of which will be shown on BBC Two at 9pm this evening, is essential if harrowing television, not least when it comes to trying to understand how a peaceful uprising against the president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, seven years ago turned into a civil war that left up to 500,000 people dead, a landscape of devastated cities and has seen some of the worst human atrocities committed in recent years. The three-part series has achieved, with intellect and rigour, that rare thing: a considered, clear-headed investigation into the Assad family in an effort to try to comprehend why Syria's monstrous president went from mild-mannered, London-based eye doctor to a man who could order chemical attacks on innocent women and children. The Assad family have always been obsessively private and, up until this series, few sources have been willing to share their stories and their insight. In this next episode we find Bashar al-Assad has taken over from his father, the cold, iron-fisted Hafez al-Assad, and soon enough he will face pressure both at home – via his opinionated, controlling mother – and also from international forces such as the United States, who have accused Syria of being part of the axis of evil. We spoke exclusively to the series' director, Nick Green, about the challenges and dangers he and his small team faced while putting together this documentary series, as well as Green's views on Syria's prospects for the future.
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GQ: A Dangerous Dynasty: House Of Assad is a fascinating insight into the dark roots of Bashar al-Assad's warmongering regime. Have you been surprised by the excellent response to such a difficult subject?
Nick Green: We were very proud of what we were doing as we were making it, but there is sometimes a sense of fatigue around this subject; the war in Syria has been relentless and such intense hardship can be hard to comprehend. Yet this series seems to have really captured people's imagination, perhaps because the family, the Assads, are so extreme and so little was known about their inner workings. We've been thankful to be able to give a bit of understanding behind those in the seats of power and how the past has influenced Bashar al-Assad.
When did you start putting the documentary together and what were some of the greatest challenges faced?
Some of the team started in the middle of last year; I started work on it at the end of the year. The key consideration for all of us really was that the Assads are such a famously private family, and getting anything out of them, or on them, was incredibly difficult. I'll give you an example: when Bashar al-Assad got married in 2000 to Asma, there wasn't a public announcement – at all. For Bashar al-Assad, there's always been the public-facing stuff, the strong-man stuff, and then there is the private stuff, the family. The struggle was always going to try to get under the skin of that family in a different way and understand that unusual family dynamic. If the first episode saw how the modern regime came to power, the next episodes are about how a family problem has somehow become the world's problem. The Syrian regime, it is all about family. Getting underneath that was always going to be the challenge.
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You have many people on the record and on film. Was that a challenge to get those sources on tape?
Yes, it was. I mean, a lot of sources are out there and it took some persuasion and some interesting trips and meetings to visit people. The people who made the decision to talk really wanted to talk. We interviewed a lot of people who were part of the inner circle, witnesses to things over many years from a close perspective. Then there's always those contributors such as John Sawers, the former head of MI6 who offered invaluable insight. In episode three, next week, we get to interview Leon Panetta, a man who was President Barack Obama's defence secretary and he was far more candid than I thought. There's an amazing moment in episode three: after getting 45 minutes' interview time with Panetta – we initially went to talk about "the red line crisis" [in August 2013] and the use of chemical weapons and he was fantastic. As he was getting up to go – he was dashing off to do a live interview with CNN – he said to me that the weird thing that he'd found was that his security officers and intelligence around at that time told him that Bashar al-Assad had had enough. He wanted to quit. With all the pressure and all the stress of it all, he wanted to go. And it was his mother who said to him, "Think about what your father would do. Your father would not walk away." And it was that moment that you realise how strong, or how intense the family ties are. At this critical moment in Syrian history, Bashar was on the cusp of quitting, but his mother gets in his ear and says, essentially, "Man up!" He had been president of Syria, for 12 years, and yet his mother could still slap him round the back of his legs and tell him how to behave. Extraordinary.
Do you think Bashar al-Assad and his wife wanted to be part of the international group of diplomats, respected and courted? The documentary seems to paint a picture of a man uneasy with the regime he's inherited.
It's a complicated issue; he wasn't supposed to be the man who would take the crown, obviously. And I think when his father died, in 2000, the state of Syria was just an absolute mess: no infrastructure, terrible problems with Israel, no money coming in. And you had this guy, Bashar al-Assad, who the Western world looked at as, let's say, an interesting prospect. He was a London-educated eye doctor, had a British-Syrian wife, he likes Phil Collins, and people think, "Well, he's a little bit like us, right?" Yet he was anything but like us. There's all sorts of different takes as to when Bashar got stuck on the monstrous trajectory that he is on now and away from the genial, almost effeminate, geek. It's hard to pin down. There were lots of challenges for him along the way, and to have his family around him meant, when it came down to it, he would just defer to his father's playbook. His father survived in power for years and had a great belief that, if you dug your heels in and let time pass, there will be a new president in the White House, there will be new prime minister in the UK. So long as the regime pull their horns in or ducked when necessary, time will move on. All they had to do is hang on. Regime survival, that's all they needed to focus on and soon enough the international eyes will move on to something else. Bashar, right up until now, is using his father's playbook.
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It sounded like Bashar dealt with the uprising in 2012 in precisely the same way his father dealt with the uprising in 1982 at Hama? Was he simply mimicking his father's brutal tactics?
Yes, we felt there were exactly those parallels. He simply resorted to the playbook. What did his father do back then? The Brotherhood rose up in Hama and his father surrounded it and bombed the hell out of it and crushed it. And I think Bashar al-Assad, and both his brothers and the generals around them, must have thought, "As unpleasant as that is for us to think about, just to stick to what worked before." You know, it's not just about military influence, however. That's why the way the family works is more like the mafia; it's about where the money is coming from to support the family and the regime. It's about exploitation, about holding on to power above all else.
As we have seen recently with the alleged death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, it can be very dangerous to face up to certain regimes. Did you ever fear for you own safety during the making of the series?
We have a very small team. And worked very privately. We used passwords and didn't have call sheets. We were very respectful of our safety and the safety of the people we were talking to. There are some pretty dangerous people attached to the regime and it's such an important story we didn't want to duck anything, and I don't think we did. But we did have a couple of incidents when we met certain contributors in a neutral city. They hired a house, and it's not their house, and they turn up with minders and then they give you the interview. They are pleasant and then they shake hands and then the minders put them in a waiting car and then they disappear. And it's exciting, but everyone you talk to is equally aware of the sensitivities of the subject matter here. It's a much greater risk for someone who still lives in Syria or has family there. We were acutely aware of this fact.
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Are you optimistic about what is left for Syria? And what happens next for the regime?
I think it is such a hard question to answer, and this is something we deal with in the third and final episode next week. The war is in the end game and it seems highly unlikely that the last corner occupied by the rebels won't fall in the foreseeable future. There are so many invested interests now in the region, with the Russians where they are and the Americans who still have a base there, it's not going to be business as we know it for a long time. But remember I spoke to a great number of people, and I am not sure I endorse these views, but a lot of very high-ranking British and Americans feel, in a way, that, despite the appalling conduct, Bashar now is the best chance for the country. That if your priority is saving civilian life, then the sooner things settle down again there the better. Unfortunately, [most experts] are fully expecting an Assad regime for the next decade or two. Although his wife won't be able to travel to London and shop in Harrods ever again, and it will be summer holidays in Pyongyang, or around Moscow. But, in a way, no one has got away with this [war] really. But I expect the likelihood is he remains in power. Sadly, it is unlikely Bashar al-Assad will ever be tried in The Hague.
Episode two of A Dangerous Dynasty: House Of Assad is on BBC Two at 9pm tonight.
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The first time I pushed my son Wyatt in our beat-up used BOB jogging stroller we purchased from a neighbor, I was completely unprepared. First of all, it was summer, which in Colorado can mean a nice cool 65 degree day, massive thunderstorms and lightening or a sizzling 95 + degrees. I am sorry to say that this day was the latter. I left in the middle of the day, in the heat of the day and decided I was going to attempt a 4 mile loop that I had been doing without the stroller. BIG MISTAKE! First of all, I underestimated how much more effort it would take to push that stroller on the hilly course. The quick 4 mile run I had envisioned slowly progressed into a long, painful "wog" (walk/jog) and poor little Wyatt was getting overheated. And to make things worse, I didn't even think ahead to bring a bottle, diapers or wipes!
After that first pitiful stroller run, I vowed to be more prepared next time. I would not let the stroller get the best of me. Now, 3 years, another kid and hundreds of stroller runs later I am here to share everything I learned so that you can make the best out of your stroller running experiences. You and your kids are going to love it!
TIP #1: Be prepared!
Always have a back-up plan and make sure if you are going on a longer run you choose a route that has road access, cell phone service and a back up plan in case something happens or the kids have a meltdown. I've been caught in downpours, duststorms, had side cramps that left me walking until after dark and blowouts without a diaper in sight. Believe me when I say that being prepared is definitely #1 on the list.
A couple of necessities for any run over 4 miles:
– At least 3 extra diapers
– Pack of wipes
– Some kind of changing pad
– Blanket (can be used for changing pad)
– 2 extra sets of clothing (including hats, gloves, jackets if winter/cold)
– Extra snacks and drinks for you and the kids
– Cell phone!
– Cash
TIP #2: Do your homework:
On one of my more recent runs I forgot to check the tires before I left. About 5 minutes into the run I noticed the stroller was pulling hard to the left. Of course I ignored it and kept going. After another 5 minutes I noticed that it was getting harder and harder to push the stroller on the straightaways. I finally stopped to take a look at the tires and the right tire was completely flat! I was running on rims baby!
Did that stop me from completing my planned 4 mile run. No sirree!
I just kept running on those rims because all moms know that when they finally get the kids ready, get to the trail, get the massive 60lb stroller out of the car and actually had the motivation and time to get out and run in the first place nothing is going to stop you from doing that run. Not a flat tire, the sound of metal grinding into the concrete or the occasional spark (okay exaggerating on this last one).
The real lesson came when I returned home and had the daunting task of changing that flat tire on my own. My husband was out of town or else I'd usually have him do that sort of thing.
After a quick trip to REI and learning the correct size of inner tube to purchase (note to self, next time look at the tire to see what size you need instead of running around the store looking for someone to ask like an idiot) I was ready.
Wait. Where is our pump and those little black stick thingies that you use to get the tire off? Wow. This little adventure has made me realize how out of the loop I really am. I mean I used to race in triathlons and could change a bike tire in no time flat before kids. Where did my skills go and for that matter my brain?
So this post is not meant to be a tutorial on how to change a flat on a stroller. I will let the below links teach you that. Let's just say the best advice I can give you is, a) do not let the baby get a hold of the pump. You will never get it back and b) probably a more useful tip: do not overfill the tube before putting it back into the tire. Yeah, it took me about 30 minutes and burning out my forearms and biceps to figure out this one.
Finally, finally, after trial and error I changed that tire. All by myself with 2 little kids trying their best to distract and sabotage my efforts. And it was the best feeling in the world.
So moral of the story: Don't leave the house without checking your tires and don't let your husband leave town without changing the tire
Click HERE for a great resource for changing a stroller tire.
TIP #3: Watch your form:
While pushing a stroller, your running form takes some hits. You are unable to pump your arms which actually gives you a lot of power sans stroller. Your stride changes depending on the terrain and your upper body gets one heck of a workout too.
However, many of the tips for running with better form with a stroller actually translate pretty well to running solo as well:
1. Shorten your stride: Take short, quick steps, ensuring that your feet fall right below your hips, not in front of your body. This prevents you from over-striding, a common cause of injury for runners.
2. Lean forward slightly: Keeping your back flat and shoulders back, lean forward slightly, leading with your chest. I like to imagine that there is a wall in-front of my chest that I need to push through, great metaphor too since every time I run with the double stroller I literally feel like I am pushing against a wall!
3. Push down! This is the one that is stroller specific and actually provides some great benefits that our non-stroller running friends will never realize. As you run, put pressure into the handlebars, pressing directly down.
The amount of pressure or weight you displace will depend on how heavy your stroller and kid(s) are.
Since I run with almost 110lbs in front of me, I am able to really push down into those bars, displacing a lot of my body weight and thus lowering the impact my lower body absorbs when my feet hit the ground.
Dr. Jeffery Wight, an exercise science and biomechanics professor at the University of North Florida, terms this the "stroller cheat". For new moms, this is a great secondary benefit to running with a stroller as we lose a ton of muscle during pregnancy and recovery, our ligaments are lax and so we don't have the protection for our joints we did pre-kids. Using this "stroller cheat" strategy we take a lot of pressure off our joints which allows us to get a great cardio workout and build back muscle while reducing the risk for injury.
Check out Dr. Jeff's post on the Fitness Center page of the BOB website for more tips and great resources for new stroller runners:
TIP #4: Don't have a plan:
It is great to have a general plan of how many miles you'd like to accomplish or a certain route you'd like to cover but remember, you are at the mercy of your children's well-being, needs and cooperation.
Kids getting fussy? First try some snacks. This always seems to work, even if it is a temporary fix.
Not working?
Map the closest playground or park and make a stop so the kiddos can have some play time.
This is a great opportunity to try out of of my playground workouts! No excuses. If the kids are playing you can play too. Time to get on those monkey bars and those park benches look like the perfect height for some dips and step ups. Sometimes a little play break is what we all need and most of us tend to neglect the strength training when taking care of kiddos full time.
Hope you enjoyed these tips, you are well on your way to becoming a stroller running pro, now you just have to get outside and run (and don't forget the kids!).
– Lauren Jones
Mother of 2 amazing boys and founder of RWK


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Written: 26th April, 2019
For foreign nationals currently within Sri Lanka, as well as those with existing plans to travel to the island, find out the latest travel advice following recent events.
What is the situation?
Security has been stepped up across Sri Lanka, an island country in South Asia, following the bombings on the 21 April 2019. The security situation is still evolving, with security operations still ongoing. Night-time curfew remains in place.
What are governments advising?
The United States
Following the attacks, on the 21st of April the Bureau of Consular Affairs raised the travel advisory alert in Sri Lanka from a level 1 to a level 2. This alert is still ongoing on 26/04/19.
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If you require urgent consular assistance, call the U.S. Embassy in Columbo on +94 11 249-8500
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Following the attacks, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office are advising against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka. This alert is remains ongoing on 26/04/19.
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Australia: Australia is asking citizens to seriously consider whether you need to travel to Sri Lanka due to high risk level.
China: Chinese nationals are currently being advised not to travel to Sri Lanka.
Hong Kong: Hong Kong is suggesting travel plans be adjusted, and avoid non-essential travel (the second-highest level).
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"The goal of delivering 'any content on any device' has been an industry vision for many years and we are now showing a major step towards this vision of the ultimate connected home," said Laurent Remont, Group Vice President and General Manager of ST's Unified Platform Division "The addition of PacketVideo's Twonky technology on top of a powerful device such as Orly extends the end user's entertainment experience to any device. Any multimedia content, and live television in particular, can therefore be streamed with the best-in-class user experience."
"Our collaboration with ST has demonstrated that the two key building blocks of the connected home -- a high performance home gateway chip with built-in transcoding and a robust, versatile and standards-compliant media server technology -- are not only available now but work perfectly together," said Frank LaBarbera, Vice President Market Development, PacketVideo.
Please stop by the STMicroelectronics booth at IBC 2012 (Amsterdam, September 7-11), Hall 1/F40 to see the demonstration of sharing broadcast TV content on mobile devices or any DLNA client, including set-top boxes and Smart TVs.
About STMicroelectronics
ST is a global leader in the semiconductor market serving customers across the spectrum of sense and power technologies and multimedia convergence applications. From energy management and savings to trust and data security, from healthcare and wellness to smart consumer devices, in the home, car and office, at work and at play, ST is found everywhere microelectronics make a positive and innovative contribution to people's life. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented.
In 2011, the Company's net revenues were $9.73 billion. Further information on ST can be found at www.st.com.
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by a short ride on a Ferry Boat.
From the ferry on our short trip from Mukilteo to Clinton on Whidbey Island.
I waved hello to my Mennonite Girlfriends in British Columbia on the other side of these mountains.
We were in for a rain filled weekend. We knew ahead of time so we had the proper gear on board.
It's hard to stop for a photo op when exiting a ferry boat. You have to keep going with the flow. That is my excuse for this blurry photo.
Whidbey Island is the largest island in Washington's Puget Sound, forming the Sound's northern boundary. At 168.67 square miles, it's the fifth-largest island in the continental United States.
The island was named for Joseph Whidbey, a member of the Royal Navy who accompanied Peter Puget as one of the first explorers of the area in 1792. The first permanent European settler was Colonel Isaac N. Ebey, in 1850. In 1857 Ebey was killed and beheaded by Haida Indians.
I'll be sharing more photos from our Northwest Island Adventure in the next couple of days. I don't have a lot of photos because we were in the middle of a Pineapple express with lots of precipitation.
Photobucket replaced all my photos with ugly black and grey boxes and they are holding my photos hostage until I pay them lots of money. I'm slowly going through all my posts and trying to clean them up and replacing some photos. Such a bother.


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Mark and Kathi Eckerich
Mark '73 & Kathi '71 met each other as students at Eastern and are still active in campus activities. They feel that Eastern provided them the tools to be successful throughout their professional careers. Mark made his living as an industrial products salesman and Kathi in the medical field. With a strong affinity towards EWU, Mark and Kathi agree that giving back to Eastern was an easy decision.
"Kathi and I both feel that Eastern provided us some of the tools we used throughout our professional careers. Our hope is that this gift to the Scholarship Fund will help students reach their goal of earning a degree from EWU and that the gift to the Athletic Fund will aid many Student Athletes and the EWU Athletic Program as a whole. We would encourage anyone to consider including a charitable bequest in some form to EWU in their will."
The Eckerich estate provision provides two generous gifts, one to the Athletic Director's Excellence Fund and another to enhance Existing Endowed Scholarship Support.


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Through all her troubles, one blind little girl always had her cat by her side. The pair were the best of friends. So, when the animal ran away, it understandably devastated the youngster. Then, to make matters worse, her mom saw their pet in the arms of another family.
Charley Howell, four, lives with her mom, Heather, and their family in Pensacola, Florida. When she was born, her parents thought that Charley was the most perfect little girl possible. But at that moment, they could never have known just how ill their little bundle of joy would become.
Charley's family had noticed that she was smaller than other babies her age when she was just two months old. At first, doctors thought nothing of it. Her mother continued to be concerned, however, and another check-up revealed that Charley was losing weight. As a result, she was referred for further tests.
Following numerous scans and examinations, doctors diagnosed Charley with pilocytic astrocytoma, a form of brain cancer. They also discovered that the tumors in her head had caused the child to develop diencephalic syndrome.
Diencephalic syndrome is a rare disorder that affects some children. The condition can cause dangerous levels of weight loss. And although the syndrome is uncommon, it can still potentially be fatal for those who suffer from it.
As a result of her illnesses, Charley has had plenty of visits to the hospital during her young life. Matters eventually came to a head in December 2014 when the youngster underwent a life-or-death procedure to remove more than half of her brain tumor.
Sadly, however, the surgery not only removed half of Charley's cancer, but it also stole her vision. So, at the age of just one, the youngster became completely blind. Naturally, that development would have presented difficulties for the family. Nonetheless, her parents were just glad to still have their little girl at all.
Speaking to Inside Edition in December 2017, Charley's mom Heather said, "It's not easy, but we do the best we can do. She's a happy little girl. When we first found out about it, I wasn't even sure she was going to make it to four years old. We just take it as it comes."
Yet despite her family's positivity, the years following her surgery would still have presented challenges for Charley. But thankfully for her, in 2015 she received the best friend that she could have ever wished for. That's when her mom Heather found a kitten in their apartment block's parking lot.
The Howells subsequently adopted the cat and named her Angel. And before long, she and Charley had hit it off. "Angel was just a few weeks old, and she immediately clung to Charley," Heather told the Pensacola News Journal in December 2017. "She slept with her, she would get in the bathtub with her."
Most importantly, Angel was always there for Charley when she needed her the most. "Anytime Charley is having a bad day from chemo and just laid up on the couch, Angel is there," Howell explained to Inside Edition. "She's right by her side."
So, it's easy to imagine how traumatizing it may have been for Charley when Angel escaped from the family home in September 2017. Heather had left the door open while she unpacked groceries and the then two-year-old cat made a bolt for it.
The Howells may well have hoped that Angel would find her own way home. As the days passed, however, that didn't come to pass. Heather already had a Facebook page on which she documented Charley's health issues. So, she turned to the social media site for help.
The mom thought that the 47,000 followers on the Smiles for Baby Charley page may be able to help her to locate Angel. However, her missing cat posts came to no avail. So, as the months passed, Heather resigned herself to the fact that she might never see the cat again.
"Charley doesn't really comprehend things like an average four-year-old does. So there wasn't really a way to explain it to her," Heather said. "She would just call for her, and we thought to just buy her another kitten because we were all bummed."
"Dusty's cute and funny, but he's not Angel at all," Heather said of the new kitten. Meanwhile, people sent her photos of cats who they thought may be the missing Angel. And after many false alarms, Heather eventually saw a photograph of a cat that she thought may indeed be Angel.
It turned out that, in the 15 weeks that she was missing, Angel had wound up at the Escambia County Animal Shelter. That was where the Hilliard family had spotted her and become smitten. They were so smitten with the kitten, in fact, that they'd adopted her and then posted a celebratory photograph online.
And it seems that at around the same time that Heather had spotted this photo, the brother-in-law of Vanessa Hilliard had seen Heather's Facebook post about Angel. He subsequently contacted Vanessa to inform her.
Vanessa Hilliard consequently returned Angel to Charley just days before Christmas. In the emotional footage of their reunion, Charley tenderly kissed her cat on the head. It looked as if she was very happy to be meeting her best friend once again.
Even though Vanessa had originally adopted the cat as a festive surprise for her daughter, she was nonetheless happy to return Charley's little Angel. Moreover, she and her family even refused to let the Howells cover their adoption costs. "They said it was their Christmas gift to Charley," Heather told the Pensacola News Journal.


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House Bill 2048 killed the notorious Driver Responsibility Program (DRP) in Texas. Governor Abbott signed this bill on June 14, 2019 and it becomes effective September 1, 2019. DRP required that Texas drivers who were convicted of certain offenses were required to pay hefty annual surcharges on top of fines and court costs in order to maintain a valid license. The following is a list of the offenses that obligated the convicted individual to pay surcharges every year for three years:
These financial obligations snow-balled for over a million Texans, which resulted in their driver's licenses being suspended. We all know the necessity of a driver's license in Texas, a state that lacks reliable and frequent rides on public transit, especially in suburban and rural areas. Texans whose licenses were suspended under the DRP were left with an unfair choice: drive to work to take care of your financial responsibilities (including the DRP surcharges) with a suspended license thereby risking additional charges (a Class C misdemeanor which is enhanced to a Class B for the second offense) or not driving to work and losing out on the income necessary to live and to pay surcharges, fines, etc. to the government.
Thanks to House Bill 2048, Texas Department of Public Safety will reinstate all licenses that were suspended solely due to unpaid surcharges on September 1, 2019. Drivers who licenses were suspended for other reasons and/or who owe fines will still need to satisfy those obligations. The repeal of DRP, however, does not mean you should expect a refund for any surcharges previously paid. Also, until September 1, 2019, drivers who owe surcharges are still obligated to make payments or risk license suspension.
While historically expressed as a "fee," the surcharge was nothing more than a penalty. For many low-income Texans, a simple traffic ticket resulted in an endless cycle of insurmountable debt. It is estimated that the new law will impact approximately 1.5 million Texans.
About the Author
Attorney Ryan Hardy graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a BS in
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Grooming the dog is a top priority for many dog owners but one area that is sometimes not given sufficient attention is the mouth – specifically the dog's teeth. We all know that if we don't look after our own teeth we can develop cavities, dental decay and other health issues. Dogs are exactly the same in this regard and, just as in humans, dental decay can cause pain, tooth loss, and can negatively impact the health of other organs such as the heart, lungs, and kidneys.
Ideally, brushing your dog's teeth should be part of your daily routine just like your own. You'll want to use a specially formulated doggy toothpaste as human toothpaste contains fluoride which is toxic to dogs. One thing for humans you can use is a regular, soft bristle toothbrush. If your dog cannot tolerate the use of a normal toothbrush, using a small finger brush can be a good option. Ensure that you brush all tooth surfaces and gums using light circular motions as you would when brushing your own teeth.
In the real world, no matter how much we love our pets and want the best for their health, incorporating daily brushing of their teeth into our hectic schedules often doesn't happen. There are other ways to keep your dog's teeth clean and breath fresher in between brushing. One way is to give your dog raw bones (but not chicken bones or cooked bones that can splinter easily), which can be excellent for a dog's teeth. However, giving a dog a bone is controversial as demonstrated in an article by T. J. Dunn, Jr., DVM on PetMD,1 which highlights the other health dangers to your pet that can outweigh the dental health benefits. Dental treats can be used as an alternative to regular treats. Be careful of weight gain in your pet if using these, as some are quite high in calories.
60% of a dog's tooth lies below the gum line so even with care at home your dog may still require professional dental care. If your dog's breath smells especially bad, there is plaque still building up around the gums, your dog has bleeding gums or lumps or bumps in the mouth (which could indicate oral cancer), or you have other concerns with your dog's oral health, you should turn to a veterinarian for assistance.
- http://www.petmd.com/dog/nutrition/evr_dg_raw_bones_or_cooked_bones
Information given in this article is not a substitute for advice from a qualified medical professional. Please consult a veterinarian for advice specific to your dog.


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Welcome! This week we are tackling HDR Photography. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range, which is the range of the lowest to the highest luminosity. To simplify it, let's think of it in terms of highlights and shadows.
The human eye has a wide Higher Dynamic Range than your camera. Calculating the eye's DR and how it all works, has filled numerous books on the subject. So, let's just say that our Dynamic Range changes depending on light conditions. (If it's too bright, our range diminishes so we seem to do better in lower light conditions – up to a point).
Think about it this way. You're standing in front of a beautiful beach. The sky is sunny and blue, the rocky beach with its wet rocks is just gorgeous. The perfectly still water like a mirror is reflecting that amazing sky. You marvel at the range of colors of the wet rocks, the color of the water and that amazing sky perfectly reflected in the still turquoise waters. Can you "picture" it? Good.
Thinking how incredibly lucky you are to be in such a fabulous place – I'm already jealous of you by the way, you decide you must capture the moment. Armed with your camera in one hand and a Mai Tai on the other (wait, what are you doing? Put that drink aside and focus!). That's better, now you take a shot, you pixel peep aaaaand… you're disappointed.
The picture simply doesn't look quite the way you see it. Hmmm, you're going to play with your settings a bit. You really want to get that blue sky, but when you do, the rocks are dark and under exposed. You take another shot, this time you expose for the darker rocks. Great, now your sky is completely washed out and your water has lost its pretty turquoise green. One more click and this time you expose for the water. Gosh, you like the features you exposed for in each picture, but absolutely hate the other parts of the pictures – if only you could take the sky from one, the water from the other and the rocks from the third one and combine them into one picture, you would have the perfect picture! You take another sip of your Mai Tai as you ponder your dilemma. Fortunately you don't have to ponder too long and risk letting your Mai Tai get warm because The good news is that you can.
This is precisely what HDR does. It takes the area that is properly exposed in each picture and combines it into one photo so that in theory you get the best of each photo into one. Let's take a look at two Examples. First we have Luna. I had to set the shutter to high speed continuous to manage to get three photos before she moved. Let's just say that HDR was not made for moving subjects - remind me to tell you about Ghosting.
The example above shows Luna's three bracketed shots and the merged file (bottom left) - I could have adjusted each photo individually before merging, but for purposes of this blog, I merged them exactly the way they came out of camera (except that I cropped my husband out). He's camera shy - not a good trait for a photographer's husband to have! Wait, weren't we on a beautiful sunny beach? Yeah, sorry!
The second example below is a more appropriate use of HDR. Non moving subjects and challenging lighting situations.
I know what you're thinking. Why go through all the trouble of combining these photos, buying additional software. Why can't you just take one photo, middle of the road then recover the highlights and the shadows and call it a day? The truth is you can, we as photographers do that all the time. However, in challenging situations and depending on your camera, sometimes you won't get as good a result. If you take photo and your shadows are very underexposed, your sensor may not have recorded much information for you to recover and the area could be very ugly and noisy. Let's take a look.
Both photos have had their shadows and black areas recovered as far as lightroom will allow (100%). The picture on the left is significantly noisier than the HDR one on the right. Note: Normally I wouldn't push the highlights or the shadows 100%, but for illustration purposes, I'm breaking some of my rules.
The same thing happens with the highlights on the picture below. The highlights and whites have been pushed down as far as lightroom will allow, but since these areas are so over exposed in the original picture in the beginning, the camera didn't record any information in these areas, they are pure white. Therefore there is nothing to recover. If we apply a filter and duplicate the effect, we will just get gray areas.)
HDR has its limitations. It's normally not used for moving subjects because you need to line up the three images to avoid ghosting. It's also not good on windy days, because your subjects keep shifting with the wind or are in essence moving. You also want to avoid it in portraits, especially of women. In men's portraiture, depending on the effect you're going for, HDR can enhance a look and ruggedness of the subject as it would enhance every wrinkle, shadow and fold - something we women do not appreciate to have enhanced. If you're photographing a building, a car, landscape or other stationary object HDR can be your friend. Where I like to use HDR is in Architectural or Real Estate photography.
When it comes to HDR less is more. Shadows and Highlights add dimension to our photos. Years ago, HDR got a bad rap due to its artificial results.
So what happens when you use HDR to photograph moving objects? Well, you get this little thing called Ghosting. When you're merging your photos, the software will warn you about Ghosting because the image of the moving object appears as a faded semi transparent object in your photo.
In the picture below, a friend of mine her dog and I were talking when we came across this house. I took 3 shots of this building so I could combine them. While looking through the viewfinder, I completely forgot about my friend's dog. He was in three different locations in every single photo. I removed him from the photo during the merge, but I missed one instance of him. There isn't much you can do about Ghosting when you take multiple shots other than correcting in post-processing. There are one shot HDR techniques I've heard about but I haven't tried. Can you find the ghost of Mr. Zinc in the photo?
If you want to give HDR a try. Here's a simple way to get started if your camera doesn't have a built-in feature and all you have is Lightroom.
On the back of your camera adjust your dial until you get your bracketed exposures where you want them. On mine, I can increase in increments of 1/3 stop, but you will get more dramatic effects the higher your bracketing stops, (+1, -1; +2, -2 or more). It will depend on your lighting situation. After you've taken your photos upload them into lightroom.
Select the three photos you want to combine then from the top menu bar select Photos, Photo Merge, HDR and be patient. When Lightroom gets done, you will have one file three times the size of your original and it will be a raw file. Now when you go to make additional adjustments there will actually be data you can recover and you will not get all that noise you got when you tried to recover before.
Just be careful. One of the reasons HDR got a bad rap is because in our attempt to replicate what our eye sees (we do see in HDR) sometimes we adjust those shadows too much. After all, shadows and highlights are what give our images that 3D dimmension. If you make your highlights and shadows just as bright as the rest of the photo, you will get an artificial look
The photo below shows where to access the HDR functions of Lightroom. After you have merged your files, feel free to adjust them just as you would have adjusted a single photo. After all, the camera doesn't have your vision - your creative vision that is.
Here's Luna's final HDR picture.
Now for some adorable puppies not photographed in HDR (Believe me, they woulnd't sit still even in their sleep) because this is a pet photography blog after all and they are just so darn cute!
I hope you enjoyed this week's blog. Maybe you will want to venture into the world of HDR. This blog was created as part of a weekly challenge. Each subject encompassing a new focus or photographic technique or subject.
To see more examples of HDR photography, by some awesome photographers please visit:
Tracy Allard of Penny Whistle Photography fetching portraits in Coppell and surrounding communities in Dallas - Fort Worth Texas.
This is a blog circle so keep on clicking those links to keep on seeing some pretty amazing photos. When you get back to this site, you'll know you made it all the way around.
This week's theme is about Blue. Did you know that blue is by far the most popular color out there? - according to the website "Empower with Color Psychology.com", "Blue color is one of trust, responsibility, honesty and loyalty...". No wonder it is frequently used in presentations and marketing.
But wait a minute, you say, what about the expression, "Feeling Blue"? Well, yes, sometimes, we use the word "blue" to describe a state of mind. That's because blue is a cool color and it creates a cold mood - especially in photography. Blue gives a picture a "cold" feel. Just take a look at the two pictures of Blue (That's the name of this Teddy) which I happened to find at the New Thrift Store of the Chequamegon Humane Association which opens today. I was helping with the merchandise when I came across this beautiful little guy. I also came across a set of knives, a brand new shower curtain/rug set, and other miscellaneous stuff - I tell you, that's a dangerous place for me to visit. I probably picked up more stuff than I dropped off, but back to Blue - given this week's subject, I just had to get him.
As you can below, the picture on the left, feels much colder. If you use Lightroom, try changing the Temp or Tint in your photos to create a specific mood. You can change the The entire photo or be more selective by using a brush to affect only those areas you want to change. The photo on the right seems warmer because it's not so blue - both were taken within seconds of each other. You be the judge, which one makes you feel more warm and cozy?
Next, just because they're so darn adorable are Remi, in Remi's World and Mocha as a Cowboy.
I hope you enjoyed this week's very short blog. This blog was created as part of a weekly challenge. Each subject encompassing a new focus or photographic technique or subject.
To see more examples of this week's theme, please visit: Kim with BARKography based in Charlotte NC and traveling the US and Canada.
Remember, this is a circle so keep on clicking to the next photographer. When you land on this page again, you'll know you made it all the way around.
Black and White
I love black and white photography, but I must admit, I don't do enough of it. It seems like color is all around us and is the natural way to photograph, but there was a time when that wasn't the case.
Black and white photography is all about the message, as you do not have the benefit, or the "distraction" of color to carry your photo. As such, you must rely on a strong subject matter, contrasts, shadows & shapes to define your image.
If you're shooting in color and converting to black and white. Don't just stop at the conversion. Play with the color saturation. Push those shadows down as much as you can, make those whites and highlights bright. You may be surprised at how much depth you can achieve by moving those little saturation sliders. Let's take a look at some examples.
I hope you enjoyed this week's blog. This blog was created as part of a weekly challenge. Each subject encompassing a new focus or photographic technique.
To see more examples of this week's theme, please visit:
Elaine Tweedy of I Got The Shot Photography, Northeastern PA Pet Photographer http://www.igottheshotphotography.com/blog/black-and-white
Remember, this is a circle so keep on clicking to the next photographer. When you land on this page again, you'll know you made it all the way around.
Ursula M. Garrison is a freelance photographer based on the South Shore of Lake Superior in Northern Wisconsin.
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The remote Rwenzori mountains, on the Uganda/ DRC frontier, volunteer treks through run and stunning sceneries and a satisfying but objection summit, with none of the crowds are available at Kilimanjaro
Claudius Ptolemy, the Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer and father-god of geography, "ve called the" Rwenzori range the Mountains of the Moon, and I think he got it about right. Starlight beamed down on the convex glaciers circumventing our camp near Uganda's western mete, causing them to glow like remaining lunar crescents.
I should have been sleeping the nighttime before my assault on the Rwenzori's loftiest crest, 5,109 -metre Mount Stanley's summit, Africa's third-highest mountain, but altitude headaches prevented me awake. I pondered back to a similar sleepless darknes at Kilimanjaro some years earlier. I remembered then find sure I would supplant, and when elevation period started, I duly trudged along in a torchlight procession to the meridian, one of 50, 000 climbers who attempt Kilimanjaro each year.
Yet this endeavour whisked self-doubt. Little-known and less frequently clambered, the 120 km-long Rwenzori range, on their own borders of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo( DRC ), isn't as high-pitched as Kilimanjaro but involves greater technical knowledge and an tenacity I wondered if I owned. The name Rwenzori makes "rainmaker" and the mountain can be notoriously muddied and tiring to climb, though this was the relatively dry season, from December to February.
Rwenzori national park, nine hours' drive west of Kampala, offers crowd-free hiking and a sense of wilderness absent-minded on Kilimanjaro. Official statistics show that between January and October 2017, simply 693 beings trekked its higher reaches. During this eight-day trek with a pal, we assembled precisely 10 other hikers- and not one tearful luminary doing their bit for charity.


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Does council wants to sell our centre for luxury flats?
PUBLISHED: 21:11 28 March 2008 | UPDATED: 13:09 05 October 2010
Dear Editor, BRINGING schoolchildren into the equation in the debate over the future of the Bethnal Green Centre is a cynical, transparent and futile attempt by Tower Hamlets council at diversionary tactics
Dear Editor,
BRINGING schoolchildren into the equation in the debate over the future of the Bethnal Green Centre is a cynical, transparent and futile attempt by Tower Hamlets council at diversionary tactics.
Council property development officers get paid £56,000 a year. For this, we can expect them to come up with some clever ideas of how to get their hands on a site worth millions.
To say we need to close classes to make way for a school for two years is a bit like saying we need to close the fire station to make way for the ambulance depot.
Our centre provides people with learning, mental and physical disabilities with equality, empowerment and skill. Pensioners who remember Spitfires in dog fights over East London during the Battle of Britain in 1941 mix in workshops with pregnant mums and people from all races and classes in a safe environment. It occupies their hands and minds and encourages community and unity.
Councillor Clair Hawkins visited the centre on March 20. She cannot possibly have expected the tirade of furious anger that met her from the packed canteen of 120 tutors and students.
One student told her she couldn't read before she came to the centre. Wheelchair-bound biker 'Spike' brought along a beautiful carved wooden motorcycle as an example of his humbling skill and staggering patience.
Students asked Cllr Hawkins why the schoolchildren couldn't be housed in the Rich Mix arts centre further along Bethnal Green-road. She replied that there were 'management problems.'
Funny that she feels the management of Rich Mix are more important than the people who have made the Bethnal Green centre their 'home.'
She said there were no firm plans for Bethnal Green Centre once the schoolchildren had moved out.
This smacks of either incompetence or fiction, as the building has 'loft apartments' written all over it.
Anyone under 19 can come here free, to harness their creative rather than destructive talents.
Would we rather they were in the centre learning car maintenance, stained glass making and weight lifting?
Or rather on the streets stealing cars, smashing glass and weighing out crack?
Meanwhile, management at the centre have warned tutors they face disciplinary action if they talk to the press without going through the Town Hall press office!
But the press office, of course, will only give the council's side of the story and keep secret from students the planned class closures in September.
Tutors are on temporary contracts which say we mustn't "bring the council into disrepute" - that's tantamount to intimidation! It restricts freedom of speech.
Security people have been told not to admit the press - which is why I have put pen to paper and forwarded photos from students.
Tony Blair told us, "Things can only get better." Yeah, right! They take the carrot and we take the stick.
Member, support group
Bethnal Green Centre, Bethnal Green-rd, Bethnal Green
(Name and address supplied)
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My complaint is that you're using a definition of Otaku that assumes that the movie "Dragon Inn" falls under anime for purposes of what the fandom covers.Otaku had got a pejorative sense in the past, but now it is not alway like this. At least otaku lacks of pejorative sense in Spanish community who love manga and anime.
There isn't really an overall term for "fantasy manga" - particularly since there are a whole bunch of sub-categories - like "isekai" anime and manga which are portal fantasies where characters from our world are whisked to a fantasy world (usually after getting hit by a truck or getting trapped in an MMO, but not always). However, often those fantasy worlds are explicitly based on Dragon Quest - which is in turn heavily inspired by Ultima and Wizardry, which take their cues from D&D.
There are still fantasy works set in feudal Japan in various periods (the Shogunate like with Blade of the Immortal, the Warring States period like with Inuyasha, the Heian period like the Onmyoji films), but there isn't really a particular catch-all term for those works - oh, and you also have fantasy works set in periods that are inspired by feudal Japan but don't entirely fit (Shin Megami Tensei IV, the Utawarerumono series),
Xena and Hercules aren't Wuxia. They're a sort of modern campy sword and sandal series. Wuxia has some specific cultural tones to it - and I don't just mean "oh, it's Chinese, is in live-action, and has special effects", I also mean how the community of martial artists and warriors are depicted within the setting.* I remember the series Xena: the warrior princess and Hercules: the Legendary Journies with some pieces of "wuxia".


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You've purchased the multitasker from the Savvy Minerals by Young Living line and now you're not sure what to do with it? This video will walk you through three ways to use the multitasker.
Multitasker as an eyeshadow, multitasker used to darken your eyebrows, and multitasker as an eyeliner.
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Everything McLaren makes – from road-going supercars to its F1 racers – has to date been manufactured in Woking. But this week it officially inaugurated its first off-site production facility.
The new McLaren Composites Technology Centre is where the racing team turned supercar manufacturer will now be manufacturing the carbon-fiber monocoques that underpin all its road cars.
The facility is located in Sheffield, way up in the north of England (near Manchester) – over three hours from the company's headquarters in Woking (near London). McLaren already has a foothold in the area, where 40 of its engineers are based at the University of Sheffield's Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. The new facility will serve as the home base for 200 employees.
The company christened the new facility in the truest of McLaren style, with a new Senna supercar laying down donuts of fresh Pirelli rubber on the floor. The new track-focused hypercar was joined by Ayrton Senna's 1989 MP4/5 single-seater.
McLaren's been a leader in carbon-fiber construction from the get go. It was the first to use it on a Formula One racing car, and the first to put it on the road with the legendary McLaren F1. Today all of its road and racing cars use a carbon monocoque chassis, and the new facility only stands to further cement its leadership in the use of the lightweight material.


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U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice William Cushing; Soviet dictator Josef Stalin; "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely-Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles, the DOORS featuring Jim Morrison, King Crimson featuring Michael Rex Giles, "Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd, and the Who featuring Roger Daltrey:
- 492: St. Felix I ends his reign as Catholic Pope; St. Gelasius I succeeds him as ruler of the Catholic Church.
- 705: John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope on this date.
- 743: The Catholic Church prohibits the exportation of slaves to heathen areas by Christians on this date.
- 1260: Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquers Damascus on this date.
- 1420: Pope Martinus I calls for a crusade against the Hussite Protestants.
- 1562: In Vassy, France, Catholics massacred over 1,000 Huguenots. The tragic event commenced the First War of Religion.
- 1565: On this date in history, Portuguese knight Estacio de Sa founded the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro.
- 1591: Pope Gregory XIV threatens to excommunicate French King Henry IV.
- 1692: The Salem Witch crisis gets underway as authorities arrest Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and the slave, Tituba, on grounds of participating in witchcraft.
- 1732: In Scituate, Massachusetts, future 3rdS. Supreme Court Associate Justice William Cushing is born. President George Washington nominated Cushing. He served from 02-02-1790 to 09-13-1810 (died in office).
- 1780: Pennsylvania becomes the first state to abolish slavery (only for newborns).
- 1781: The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation on this date.
- 1784: In Great Britain, E. Kidner opened the first culinary academy.
- 1790: President George Washington signed a measure authorizing the first Census of the United States.
- 1803: Ohio becomes the 17th state of the Union.
- 1811: Egyptian King Muhammad Ali Pasha oversees the ceremonial murder of 500 subjects.
- 1815: Napoleon returned to France from the island of Elba. The people who vanquished him on the field of battle forced him to abdicate in April of 1814.
- 1845: President John Tyler signs a resolution annexing Texas into the Union.
- 1854: The SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool Harbor, a ship that disappeared into lore and one that no one has ever seen again or uncovered its grave.
- 1864: Rebecca Lee becomes the first black woman in the United States to receive a medical degree. Elsewhere, Louis Ducos de Hauron patented a machine for taking and projecting motion pictures; however, he never built the machine.
- 1867: Nebraska became the Union's 37th state on this date.
- 1869: The U.S. Post Office issues stamps featuring scenes for the first time.
- 1872: President Ulysses S. Grant signed an act creating Yellowstone National Park—it was the world's first national park.
- 1873: E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, N.Y., began manufacturing the first practical typewriter on this date.
- 1875: The Republican-controlled U.S. Congress passes the Civil Rights Act; however, in 1883, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) invalidates it.
- 1893: Inventor Nikola Tesla first publicly demonstrated radio during a meeting of the National Electric Light Association in St. Louis by transmitting electromagnetic energy without wires.
- 1896: At the Battle of Aduwa, 80,000 Ethiopians destroy an Italian army numbering some 20,000. Elsewhere, Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
- 1909: The University of Minnesota establishes the first U.S. university school of nursing.
- 1910: In the worst snow slide in U.S. history, three passenger trains passing through the Cascade Mountain Range disappear beneath a mountain of snow and debris, killing 118 people in the mishap.
- 1912: In New York City, the first female detective, Isabella Goodwin, receives her badge. Elsewhere, Captain Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
- 1913: The 16th Amendment goes into effect, making the Income Tax law.
- 1916: The German High Seas Fleet begins attacking all shipping in the Atlantic Ocean during World War I.
- 1924: Germany's government ends the prohibition of the Communist Party.
- 1932: Charles A. Lindbergh Jr., the 20-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh, disappeared from the family's home near Hopewell, New Jersey, in what turned out to be a sensational kidnapping. His remains were found the following May.
- 1934: Primo Carnera beats Tommy Loughran in 10 rounds to win the heavyweight boxing title of the world.
- 1936: The construction of the Hoover Dam ends on this date.
- 1937: U.S. Steel raised workers wages to $5 per day.
- 1941: The first U.S. commercial FM radio station goes on the air in Nashville, Tennessee. The station was W47NY.
- 1942: Josef Tito establishes the 2nd Proletariat Brigade in Nazi-occupied Bosnia-Herzegovina. The purpose of the group was to fight against the Axis occupiers. Meanwhile, in Great Britain, future original drummer with the English progressive-rock band, King Crimson[i], Michael Rex Giles, is born.
- 1943: Under a point system, wartime rationing of processed foods commenced in the United States during World War II.
- 1944: Future rock vocalist with the Who[ii], Roger Daltrey, was born in Great Britain on this date. Meanwhile, in northern Italy, communists stir up workers to go on strike against the Fascist government.
- 1947: The International Monetary Fund begins operation.
- 1953: Josef Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. Lavrentiy Beria will assume his position until being overthrown by his fellow communists.
- 1954: Opening fire from the Gallery of the U.S. House of Representatives, Puerto Rican nationalists wounded five members of Congress. Elsewhere, the U.S. explodes Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb at Bikini Atoll, the most powerful nuclear device ever detonated by the United States.
- 1961: President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps on this date.
- 1962: The first K-Mart store opened in Garden City, Michigan, on this date.
- 1969: After 88 weeks on the rock music charts, "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely-Hearts Club Band" by the Beatles[iii] finally drops off them. Elsewhere, in Florida at the Dinner Key Auditorium, vocalist Jim Morrison of the Doors[iv] undergoes arrest for having exposed himself to the audience at a concert.
- 1971: Inside a men's room at the U.S. Capitol, a pre-dawn bomb exploded for which the radical group, the Weathermen claimed responsibility. (This group contained President Barack Obama's future friend, Bill Ayres).
- 1973: Pink Floyd[v] releases one of the biggest selling albums of all time, "Dark Side of the Moon." It would sell more than 45 million copies. Elsewhere, Robyn Smith becomes the first female jockey to win a major race.
- 1974: The Watergate Grand Jury indicts seven presidential aides of President Richard M. Nixon. Meanwhile, following the release of "Dark Horse[vi]" by George Harrison, the former Beatle announces a U.S. tour that would not fare well.
- 1988: Wayne Gretzky passes Gordie Howell 1,050th NHL assist.
- 1993: The new NHL expansion team owned by Disney chooses the name the Anaheim Mighty Ducks.
- 2003: In the U.S., approximately 180,000 personnel from 22 organizations around the government became part of the Department of Homeland Security. Meanwhile, near Islamabad, Pakistan, CIA and Pakistani ISI captured Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The scumbag still resides in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba's prison camp. Execute the bastard.
- 2005: The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) rules that the death penalty for all persons aged 18 or younger at the time of their crimes is unconstitutional.
- 2007: Tornadoes swarm across the South killing at least 20 people; either of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
- 2012: The Euro Zone announces that unemployment has hit a record 10.7 percent.
- 2013: According to a report issued by the U.S. Treasury Department, in June 2012, Japan passed the Peoples' Republic of China as the largest holder of U.S. Treasury securities.
- 2014: Penang, Malaysia officially opens the Penang Second Bridge, the longest bridge over water in Southeast Asia; it stretches for 15 miles, with 10.5 miles over the water.
- 2015: According to Brainy History, astronauts at the International Space Station complete a tricky cable installation project to prepare for addition of docking ports; the ports will be able to receive manned commercial space capsules such as those launched by Space X and Boeing.
- 2016: In the GOP primary race, Donald Trump wins seven as do his eventual opponent, Hillary Clinton, in the Democratic Party primaries.
- 2017: Latin singer-entertainer-boob-shaker Charo will appear on Season 24 of "Dancing with the Stars."
- 2018: Sounding like Soviet thug-dictators of old, Vladimir Putin- in his annual state of the country address- announces that Russia has an 'invincible" intercontinental ballistic missile. Meanwhile, White House communications specialist Hope Hicks announces her resignation. Finally, President Donald J. Trump stirs up fears of a trade war with Communist China when he announces tariffs of 25% on steel and 10% on aluminum imports. Directed at China, it also affects some of the country's other trading partners. Two years later, the tariffs worked.
- 2019: Famed Panamanian boxer Eusebio Pedroza- WBA featherweight champion 1978-1985- dies of pancreatic carcinoma at age 62.
- 2020: Following the results of the Democratic Party's Primary results from South Carolina the previous day, Mayor Pete Buttigieg throws in the towel, whining he cannot see a way forward. Son, you NEVER had a way forward, minorities are not going to vote for you. Stay in South Bend, Indiana, and make it great again. Meanwhile, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, announces that 'no matter what, she is going to fight all the way to the convention in the summertime.' We have heard other politicians say stuff like this before; once the money dries up, you are as good as gone but maybe if you change that nasty black leotard you wear every flipping day, maybe people will look at you anew.
This artwork is #0025 a 20" x 16" original oil painting by Beverly Carrick, which, she entitled, "Gulls and Shells." It is among her more beautiful works and is available for sale. You can see much more of her work at her Website, found at beverlycarrick.com, or at the blog's Facebook page. At her Website, you will see not only more original oil paintings but also lithographs, giclees, prints, miniatures, photographs, and even her award-winning instructional video entitled, "Painting the Southwest with Beverly Carrick." Beverly has been painting for more than 60 years and known around the world for both the beauty and timelessness of her artworks. Hanging in private and public galleries and followed by many fans encircling the globe—her works instill awe because of her artistic brilliance and personal beauty. We urge you to go to her Website NOW and view her work. It is possible that you will find something you like and will want to buy it for yourself, a friend, a loved one, or a neighbor! You will not be disappointed so please: do yourself a favor and go there IMMEDIATELY! Thank you, the American Institute of Culinary Politics-Elemental News of the Day!
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In 1986, Roxy Music released a 'best of' package entitled, "Street Life—20 Greatest Hits," which includes "Avalon" and the live LP that followed it. Hence, if you have failed to get in the ground floor of the band and its memorable music, this is one hell of a way in which, to do it which is why we say you need to buy it ASAP as it ranks as one of the top 10 live albums of the 1980s. We hope you will check it out and enjoy it for years to come. You will be glad you did.
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[i] We presented the music of this British prog-rock band, the amazing King Crimson, beginning on Monday, 20-October-2014 through Sunday, 21-December-2014. We hope you will check them out and add them to your collection.
[ii] We promoted the music of the Who and of its individual band members beginning on Monday, 03-August-2015 through Sunday, 29-November-2015. We hope you will seek out the music of this veteran British band as well as of Pete Townsend, John Entwistle, Keith Moon, and Roger Daltrey. We know you will enjoy them.
[iii] We began promoting the music of both the Beatles and the band's individual components on Friday, 04-November-2016 through Sunday, 11-June-2018. Besides the Beatles, we also promoted the music of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison as well as the Traveling Wilburys. "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" appeared on Tuesday, 22-November-2016. Please seek out this massive offering by visiting the blog posts between those dates. You will be glad you did.
[iv] We promoted the music of the Doors, the famed Los Angeles, California, hard rocking psychedelic band beginning on Saturday, 18-February-2012 through 02-April-2012. We hope you will seek this legendary band out and consider adding it to your ever-growing collection.
[v] We look forward to sharing the music of Pink Floyd- as well as the band's members- sometime within the next 5-6 years.
[vi] We began promoting the music of both the Beatles and the band's individual components on Friday, 04-November-2016 through Sunday, 11-June-2018. Besides the Beatles, we also promoted the music of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and George Harrison as well as the Traveling Wilburys. "Dark Horse" appeared on Tuesday, 27-December-2016. Please seek out this massive offering of music by visiting the blog posts between those dates. You will be glad you did.


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Dear Reader,
We are on the road. Two concerts down already, tonight we're on our way to Flensburg to play the Volksbad.
It's incredibly fun to be on stage with Julius, Commie and Gunnar! I do have the feeling, we have a good thing going here.
The first two shows were beautiful evenings in two completely different but nevertheless unique locations.
Here are some photos from Beierstedt:
Ain't this beautiful!!??
So, here are the next dates, come by and enjoy a wonderful evening and night with us.
11.05.18 FLENSBURG – Volksbad
12.05.18 BREMEN – Weserterrassen
13.05.18 WORPSWEDE – Galerie Schott
We are looking forward to everything! But now we're enjoying an ice cream in Kiel!
Peace and love,
Zeki Min


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Data: Special Session puts a focus on single issues
COLUMBIA - Governor Mike Parson's special session on motor vehicle sales tax starts Monday and data, from Google Trends, shows sales tax has been googled more in Missouri compared to other political issues.
The session, which starts Monday, purpose is to reverse a Missouri Supreme Court ruling in June that said sales proceeds of only one vehicle may be used as a credit against the sales tax owed on the purchase of another vehicle.
Since the special session was announced on August 21, people in Missouri have googled sales tax more than abortion, gun violence and medical marijuana.
Democrats have critiqued the governor's decision to call a special session because they believe other issues are more important.
In August, House Minority Leader Crystal Quade, D-Springfield, said it would be a better use of resources to call a special session to discuss issues like gun violence and health care.
"There are several issues that demand immediate legislative attention and would justify the cost of a special session," Quade said. "Creating another unnecessary tax break for a handful of people isn't one of them."
State Auditor Nicole Galloway, who is now running for the Democratic Nomination for Governor, made a similar request in a campaign email to supporters on Friday, September 6th.
Republicans are more supportive to reverse the Missouri Supreme Court ruling with this special session.
Rep. Sara Walsh, R-Ashland, at the annual Cattleman Days Rodeo Parade in August 2019, told KOMU 8 News that any time is a good time to save people's tax dollars.


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Dear Parents and Community Members,
In the 2016-2017 school year, Baker High School received a rating of Level 4 on four of the five Performance indicators. Although the state is not assigning overall school ratings, the marks we received in those indicator areas are encouraging.
Our assessment scores in English Language Arts, Mathematics and Science are all well above the state average. In addition, our graduation rate continues to be far above the state average, and our dropout rate continues to decrease, now falling to 1.3%. However, while our academic performance encourages us, we recognize that there is room for improvement, and we will continue to focus on targeted areas of growth.
Math scores continue to be an area of emphasis towards improvement. To address this concern, we are implementing a new blended curriculum with online diagnostic tools in our lowest level math courses. We piloted this program last Spring and found some positive effects on student performance and engagement.
Please feel free to stop by Baker High School or call and schedule an appointment if you would like to discuss the contents of the report card further. It is our goal to increase parent participation, and we welcome parent feedback regarding school.
Thank you,
Principal | Greg Mitchell


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US: Eddie Ray Routh sentenced to life for murdering 'American Sniper' Chris Kyle
February 25 , 2015
Eddie Ray Routh has been found guilty of the murder of Chris Kyle, who wrote 'American Sniper', and another man.
Director Clint Eastwood later made a popular film based on Kyle's memoir that got a best picture nomination at this year's Oscars.
The Texas judge sentenced Routh, 27, to life imprisonment minus parole.
Routh's defense said he was psychotic during the time of the shootings in 2013. But prosecutors argued he knew what he was doing.
Tagged as: Eddie Ray Routh, Chris Kyle, US Navy Seal, American Sniper, Clint Eastwood, Oscar, life imprisonment, world news


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Photography is both art and science. Photography allows us to express our feeling and emotions, but to do so we need to master the scientific part of the medium. Unlike a painter, who is in direct contact with his subject and his canvas, a photographer is separated from his subject by the camera and from his "canvas" by computers and printers today and by darkroom equipment previously.
The scientific aspects of photography can be both overwhelming and fascinating, so much so that for some photographers photography comes to be just that: a scientific process that they attempt to master over their lifetime. However, to achieve mastery of the technical side of photography is to address only one of the two aspects of photography. The result is often technically excellent photographs that lack emotion and "seeing" qualities. In this regard, I share the opinion of Ansel Adams who said, and I paraphrase, that there is nothing more boring that a technically perfect rendering of a fuzzy visual concept. In other words, an artistic photograph is created when technique is used to express a vision and an emotion, not when technique is used for it's own sake.
Countless articles are written daily about the many scientific aspects of photography. From equipment reviews, to image processing techniques, to tips on how to be a more efficient photographer, to stories about what works and what doesn't, there is no shortage of material on the subject. Again, the scientific aspect of photography is very important and learning as much as you can about it is certainly worth your time and efforts.
However, learning about the artistic aspect of photography is just as important. Unfortunately, there is a much lesser amount of information on photography as art. Far fewer essays are being written, far fewer discussions are taking place, and far less information, help and tips are available. It is as if photographers, for the most part, discovered how much they have to learn about photographic science and, overwhelmed and enchanted by equipment and technique, stopped there and looked no further. It may also be that some photographers, or photographic instructors, are uncomfortable writing about photography as art, or lack the practice and knowledge to do so.
The goal of this post is to remedy this situation in two ways: first, by providing you with a source of help and information about the artistic aspect of photography. Second, by making use of my personal experience in this field. From day one I approached photography as an art form just as capable of expressing what I see and feel as any other artistic medium. My training, combined with my practice and knowledge of many artistic medium, provides me with a unique perspective on photography. For example, I often draw comparisons between photography and other arts. I also look at art from both a historical and a contemporary perspective. Finally, I make my living by capturing moments. In short, I am not just an observer. I am an active practitioner, of both aspects of photography. I am also an art , an enthusiastic admirer……
Photography is the art of making permanent the images perceived in the camera obscura, by means other than those of manual drawing.As a matter of fact, the main instrument of the photographic process is not the camera but the photosensitive layer; the specific rules and methods of photography accord with how this layer responds to lighting effects produced by different materials according to their light or dark, smooth or rough characteristics
Photography is about capturing light reflected off objects. It is, therefore, not a branch of drawing, nor even of art: it is a making manifest of the physics of the world and tells us about the creation of volumes and appearances. The miracle of photography lies not in its iconicity, but in its indexicality.Photography is a celebration of light, and of the spaces that light measures, and by which light is fulfilled. This already suggests that the camera is more indispensable


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Monday, February 8, 2010
Easy Polenta Pizza Appetizer Bakes
While at the supermarket shopping for necessary ingredients such as milk and eggs to brace the second snow storm in a week, I stumbled upon polenta. It's been a while since I ate this delicious treat, so I was compelled to pick it up and create something I believe polenta tastes great as: pizza.
Polenta can be used in place of starches like rice and potatoes, so why can't it be used to replace another important food group like pizza. OK, so it's not a food group, it's just tasty and can showcase your creativity using other food group items anywhere from pepperoni to pineapples.
I decided to pair not my ordinary pizza toppings for this polenta pizza appetizer, something a bit fancier than your average sausage crumbles. I simply enjoy the saltiness of anchovies and cheese when paired with the complexity of olives and rosemary. I hope you enjoy.
Easy Polenta Pizza Appetizer Bakes
Serving Size: 4 appetizer slices
What You'll Need:
4 Slices Polenta- Sliced 1/2 inch thick
Olive oil for brushing
4 anchovy filets in olive oil- roughly chopped
8 Gaeta olives - roughly sliced
1 sprig rosemary
4 tbsp pizza sauce
Grated Locatelli Cheese
Heat oven to 450 degrees
Slice 4 slices of Polenta 1/2 inch thick
Brush both sides with olive oil and place on baking sheet
Add 1 tbsp pizza sauce to each slice
Evenly distribute rosemary, over polenta slices
Evenly distribute anchovies and olives
Sprinkle top with grated locatelli cheese
Bake for 12 minutes
Serve hot
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Located in the North / East of France, Champagne-Ardenne will surprise you with its nature and parks, not that far from Paris. If you love outdoor sports such as hiking, horse riding or mountain biking, you will just have to choose your tourist route and enjoy.
You'll also discover several cities of art and history as the Fortress of Sedan and its medieval festival, the prestigious Cathedral of Reims. The province of Champagne-Ardenne is also an inescapable area for all wine lovers. The tour and tasting of the wineries and vineyards of Champagne will help you discover all the secrets of this prestigious drink. Do not miss a visit of the Avenue of Champagne, home of the most important wineries of Champagne.
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