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This week in ass-grabbing journalism (Part II): Wild horse lies, and the media that spreads them.Featured
Despite the media's present war on "fake news," it fluorishes, particularly on the wild horse issue, a red-meat topic that trends quickly, necessitating fast turnaround by reporters with no experience on the topic (and no editors who have it, either); no multiple sourcing; no independent fact-finding or research; and zero accountability. They just grab other similar articles, edit them to avoid the whiff of plagiarism, slap their name on it, and hit "publish."
I call it ass-grabbing journalism. Here's my second piece on it: a letter I wrote to Snopes (below), asking it to factcheck errors in wild horse media coverage, much of it originating with the Associated Press but also including The Washington Post, Smithsonian, The New York Times and National Geographic, among many others.
Does Snopes debunk false information spread by the media, or only internet schemes spread by trolls on Facebook? Let's find out.
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Dear Snopes,
I'd like you to fact-check a false story about wild horses destroying western public rangelands put out by the Bureau of Land Management, the agency that oversees wild horses and commercial livestock grazing leases on federal lands.
For years, this lie has been picked up and spread, primarily by the Associated Press, but also by other media. It is now being used to gin up support for an upcoming Senate Appropriations Committee vote to destroy wild horses in holding and also clear the way for more wild horse removals on public lands, just as it was used to help the same amendment pass the House subcommittee in July.
Interior secretary Ryan Zinke and Chris Stewart of Utah are the main proponents of the budget amendment, which purports to save taxpayers $10 million but is really a cover for continuing to fund the subsidized federal lease grazing program, estimated by numerous environmental groups to waste up to $1 billion of taxpayer funds a year.
Western public grass and forest lands are overgrazed; but they are being overgrazed by domestic livestock grazed under this wasteful leasing program — not wild horses. Cattle on public lands outnumber wild horses by anywhere from 50:1 to 60:1, depending on the specific BLM data used and method of calculation.
The BLM freely distributes wild horse estimates, but withholds livestock figures from reporters, keeping livestock grazing data safely hidden and the grazing program protected for numerous billionaires (Koch brothers, Walton heirs) and corporations (JR Simplot Co.) that hold the majority of leased lands.
Fact-checking by Snopes could expose the number of cattle and sheep vs. wild horses that are out there and how many hundreds of millions acres of public lands cattle graze compared to continually shrinking wild horse territory. Publish those ratios. They'll show who's destroying public rangelands: it ain't the horses.
I, along with a handful of reporters, environmental groups and wild horse advocacy groups have done the hard work to collect this data and tell this story. If you want to save yourselves some time, and talk to me about it, I'll share my data with you, or direct you to others working to educate the public.
These include the journalist Christopher Ketcham, the environmental writer Steve Nash (whose book on public lands was just published by University of California Press), and environmental groups like Western Watersheds Project, The Center for Biological Diversity, Wildearth Guardians, and PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility), all of whom devote considerable resources to protecting western public lands — for the public's use.
I've reported on this complex and misunderstood policy issue for Forbes, Alternet, Salon and The Daily Pitchfork. Please let me know if I can help.
Vickery Eckhoff
New York, NY
A year ago, in the wake of Donald Trump's election, I vowed to quit consuming news content, disgusted by the mainstream media's fondness for ass-grabbing anything that looks ratings-worthy, and squeezing it hard.
Despite all that, I really like how a trending story this week about Brazil's "Miss Bumbum" contest is showing how fake the news media's war on fake news — and especially sexual harassment — really is.
The contest to find "Brazil's best ass" — which was reported on by the Washington Post, Newsweek, the HuffPost, and a host of other media outlets — features thong-clad contestants bending over before a panel of judges to win cash prizes, modeling jobs and a chance at celebrity.
No mainstream news outlets would have picked up on Miss Bumbum were it not for the words "Fora Temer" ("Out Temer"), which were appropriated from a protest against Brazil's president and then scrawled on a flag held aloft by a 28-year old self-described "model and reporter" from Amazonas who strutted and squatted her way to victory. And that's how an ass contest was repurposed — as empowerment for the ladies!
The Miss Bumbum story started trending on November 7 in the Sun, known for its page 3 photos of scantily-clad women and female-friendly headlines like, "A stunnah with whoppas."
By, 3:19 p.m., Miss Bumbum had been rebranded a political event by the HuffPost's Newly Crowned Miss Bumbum Brazil Demands President Step Down, by David Moye.
Less than eight hours later, at 10:25 p.m., Newsweek's Robert Valencia ass-grabbed it, publishing Woman who won best butt contest in Brazil demands President Temer resign. You'd never guess from that headline that he'd cut and pasted most of it, would you?
Not to be outdone, the next day, 11/8/17, the Washington Post's "Morning Mix" team of Kyle Swenson and Samantha Schmidt took a more serious swipe at it, publishing First Miss Peru, now Brazil's Miss Bumbum: In South America, the beauty pageant is the new political platform.
Wow! Deep. But still a wolf-whistle in sheep's clothing.
A day later, on November 10, Alabama Judge Roy Moore and comedian Louis CK were thrust into the company of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, James Toback, Brett Rattner, and, the pussy-grabber in chief we elected a year ago. There were other names: so many they're hard to recall.
Kudos, though, to the three WaPo reporters (Stephanie McCrummen, Beth Reinhard and Alice Crites) who broke the story "Woman says Roy Moore initiated sexual encounter when she was 14, he was 32", putting Moore's candidacy in jeopardy. Great job, WaPo. Mean it.
But did the Miss Bumbum story published a day earlier merit coverage by two reporters who appear to have aggregated it — the essence of fake news reporting — from the internet? Couldn't an intern have done that, on their lunch break?
This is the essence of "trending" content, the bread and butter of every news outlet, for which there is no accountability; no independent research or analysis; no original interviewing; no multiple or independent sources, or even sourcing one can fact check, in this case, to see if the winner, Rosie Oliveira, really is a reporter herself or, as WaPo reporters Swenson and Schmidt call her, a "journalist."
Is she one? Did anyone care enough to check?
For that, you'd have to click the link to the contestant's page that the Morning Mix reporters cut and pasted into their "reporting". There, you'll find videos of Ms. Oliveira, posing in thong and high heels, as well as her ass measurements (100 cm) — all of it in Portuguese, not English. How's that for effort?
Fortunately, the HuffPost provided other details that Swenson and Schmidt (as well as Newsweek's Robert Valencia) lifted, including this deep-but-not-political thought from Oliveira herself:
"My biggest dream is that politics in Brazil improves, that we can have peace of mind and guarantee health, education and security to all. I want to live to see a political reform. I have no children and the country we live in keeps me from this dream. I wish I had children and that they live in a better Brazil than we live today."
What the Morning Mix duo missed, however, was Oliveira's aspiration to use international media to get more modeling jobs — not to fix what's wrong with politics. This may be a dream of hers, the way "world peace" was, for a generation of beauty queens before her. But an aspiration is not an occupation, and Ms. Oliveira's occupation happens to be — well, you be the judge:
"I decided to participate [in Miss Bumbum] because I'm a model," Oliveira confirms in her contestant profile. "I already participated in the Gatas do Brasil contest and I was runner-up. Since then I have been accompanying Miss Bumbum and every year it grows more and has international media. I have seen opportunities to expand my career, do some catalog work and magazines outside Brazil."
No mention of schooling or studying journalism; no mention of reporting she's done or wants to do.
A subsequent Google search confirmed what I suspected: tons of ass photos, but no traceable work online for Oliveira as a journalist other than TV interviews with Sabrina Sato, a television personality, and TV-cosmetic surgeon Dr. Robert Rey.
Does that make her a reporter? It may. But as a journalist who has spent anywhere from a month to a full year researching a story, I'd thoroughly question any winner of Brazil's best ass contest about her interests in politics and journalism before welcoming her to the club.
The audience for this piece (and most of the writers) were, however, men; the photo gallery of Miss Bumbum contestants that the HuffPost published unapologetically just another perk of being male and harassment-free. Why even bother with an article? It's like that joke about Playboy. No one bought if for the literary content.
No wonder that harassment has become normalized; that the hand of sexual predation keeps grabbing victims. The media's making money off exposing women and condemning their exploitation (as well as fake news) all at the same time.
But back to Swenson and Schmidt: I'm still curious why two reporters both contributed to a cut and paste job, with minor editing?
Did "Morning Mix" editors decide that a male/female byline showed balance, making it more legit?
I"ll note that Swenson (the male reporter) posted the article on his Twitter feed. Schmidt (the female reporter) did not; so perhaps there's your answer.
I have no quarrel, though, with the Washington Post putting three women on the Roy Moore piece. Besides enabling a faster route to publication for a story requiring significant investigative work, it obviously prevented potential rape and death threats from falling heavily on one person. If there's anything all the #metoo reports of sexual harassment can teach us, it's that there really is safety in numbers.
That said, the entertainment industry for years has set up young women as prey for powerful men. The media has capitalized on this behavior as well, publishing article after article on how to put the brakes on sexual harassment, abuse and assault. It is also constantly wringing its hands over fake news, while putting more and more of it in our news feeds by the hour.
Here's an idea. Pay reporters more. Hire fact checkers. And stop grabbing at every piece of ass story that walks by, just to get ratings. It's not just women who deserve a break from this. Men do, too.
Forever Wild: Notes from an Adirondack Camp
August 18, 2013
Vickery Eckhoff
The wild turkey walked down the slope behind our house this morning, right up to the kitchen windows, and peered in. I first noted him while lying in bed, staring out the back window of our camp on Tongue Mountain from the second floor, warm under an ancient wool blanket and wondering what I might glimpse in the woods at that hour. I was looking for signs of wildlife and the turkey appeared to be doing the same.
I'd been rewarded on the Fourth of July with a glimpse of my first bald eagle flying past our front porch overlooking Lake George. Bald eagles had built a nest in Deer Leap further north of our place on Tongue Mountain point, I'd been told years earlier. But I had yet to see one. I'd heard, too, of a return of bob cats and even mountain lions. I wanted to see those, as well as moose, of which there had been several sightings.
Strangely, I'd discovered that Tongue Mountain was a favorite of deer hunters, without ever once seeing a deer at camp. Raccoons fed off the corn cobs we tossed under the trees; chipmunks, squirrels, muskrats; crows, seagulls, swallows, and hummingbirds.
I'd seen my first bear cub in the fall—all critters you could see in the suburbs near New York City, where I live. But there was something different about seeing them here.
Here, there are no roads. There is occasional boat traffic. There are a few other camps like ours, but where our property ends, and it does not extend far, the land is forever wild.
I don't know what my great grandfather had in mind when he bought this place and built our cottage in 1904. Photographs from that time show the mountain was nothing but stumps, the lake brown from run-off caused by over logging. Somehow, he envisioned an escape from the paint and varnish business. He'd founded the Brooklyn Paint and Varnish Company; traveled the West, collecting rugs and objects from Indian reservations and somehow found this property, bought it, and built the camp. He named it Tongue Eyrie.
The materials were hauled across the frozen lake in winter by a team of horses. The furnishings came from a Sears catalogue and his guests, judging by photos, were mostly chorus girls. He built a small cottage off to the side for his servants, Max and Emma. He brought over a piano, long since gone.
Two weeks ago, I swam the small bay next to our dock. I went to check out what looked to be a muskrat swimming in the water, but was really just a fallen tree sticking out of the water, and examined a large rock with six map turtles sunning themselves. I met three mergansers that had stopped by the island where my great-grandfather built a gazebo and, to access it, a small stone arched footbridge that had since fallen into the water and had been reformed by tree roots into a natural bridge between the island and the shore.
As I sat high on the rocks, I noticed two kayakers in the bay and asked them, when they were close to shore, to not disturb the turtles. They said they were only in the bay, picking up garbage blown or tossed overboard by boaters who anchor there on hot summer days. I invited them up for a visit. What I heard during our hour-long conversation cheered me.
They'd been camping on Lake George for decades, and traveled the U.S. as well. The waters of Lake George, they said, were unsurpassed in terms of clarity. You could see the rocks deep down, but in other noted lakes, you couldn't see the bottom. There was too much sediment in the water, or invasive plant growth, or species like Zebra mussels.
They went on to tell me of watching a rattlesnake eating a chipmunk on a recent hike. The subject of rattlers always came up when discussing Tongue Mountain. The dens were down the mountain from our house and I'd seen maybe 15 in my life, mostly on the path to the house, in several woodpiles, and one under our gazebo (and long since removed by a local biologist), just feet from where I sunned on the rocks with guests and small children.
I'd since, though, stopped being afraid of them, as I had been of the many spiders that lived in our house. I knew they were doing their part; the spiders ate the mosquitos and other bugs. The snakes ate the mice.
My two visitors who arrived by kayak told me of a hiker that had recently been reported for shooting rattlers he found along the Tongue Mountain trail—using a revolver.
Isn't the purpose of forever wild to walk softly, at most to carry a stick—and nothing but a stick? Frankly, I prefer a rattler than that alternative.
I knew my Uncle Bennett by small mementos: the photo of him in uniform in the library of our summer cottage; letters my mom received when his plane was shot down; my grandmother's poetry when he died; his purple heart; a fraternity mug from Williams college, which he attended before enlisting.
I also knew him from a photo album that showed him, horsing around as a teenager in summer, swimming in the lake and his tombstone in the local cemetery, on which my grandparents had inscribed a few lines from a Robert Louis Stevenson poem:
Here he lies where he longed to be, home is the sailor, home from the sea and the hunter home from the hill.
My dad said Bennett was the co-pilot of a plane with 16 guys on it shot down over Marcus Island on May 9, 1945, just before the end of World War II.
My grandparents found out on their anniversary. Everyone on the plane died and no one was found. The plane was seen going down and is now likely disintegrated on the ocean floor. It was so long ago. I wasn't born then.
Nina, my older sister, dug up that his squadron was called the Reluctant Dragons and that he flew a Liberator. Here is a photo she found, too.
I like to think of the reluctant dragon that was my uncle and not the one who got lost at sea and became a phantom to me and my four sisters. But the latter is sharper in that way that absences have.
My mother never spoke about Bennett to me. I don't know why. I'd like to replace my memory of him with something living, not just a photo or small objects and lines of verse. But I don't know how.
The Statesman
December 11, 2011
Vickery Eckhoff
Original post from March 27, 2010
My sister became a widow yesterday, for the second time. Her husband, David, was very shy in person, so I guess this would be a shock to him, to become the subject of a blog a day after passing on.
He really did his best to remain out of sight, though he was extremely talkative over the phone, happy to discuss recipes, slow cooking and his fondness for making art. He was a big man with a big heart, but he had a tiny footprint. In fact, for the last year of his life, he left basically no footprints at all—not in the outside world. Beside his recent trip to St. Vincent's, where he passed away yesterday morning, he had not set foot outside at all. Not even into the hallway of their fourth floor walk-up in the West Village.
She said he was like the third Collyer brother. Indeed, in the time they were married (17 years) their small apartment filled up with stuff to the point that there were boxes piled on top of other boxes with cookbooks and vintage comic books and two small dogs (beagle and dachshund) competing for a very small amount of available floor space. You might wonder how one average-sized woman and a plus-sized man managed this in a 400 square-foot apartment, but that, I think, is a measure of their modesty and also a skill that some New Yorkers have for living within their means, but many do not. Neither ever called much attention to themselves; they just quietly went about their business, which is something I aspire to do but have yet to achieve. Read more
Last Days at Nirvana Farm
May 2, 2010
Vickery Eckhoff
In the end, it wasn't moving out of our home of more than 30 years that got me. It wasn't packing up and selling off the last of our family belongings or even sweeping the house when it was empty, locking the doors and driving away. It was two photographs that arrived in my e-mail box from someone I barely knew, after returning to my studio apartment in New York City.
Like many townspeople in Bolton Landing, NY, she had came to the two-day tag sale we'd staged the weekend before closing. It was an opportunity, for some, to pick up cheap armchairs and rugs and wicker porch furniture. For others, it was a time to see the inside of the house for the first time, one of the great ones built on Millionaire's Row on Lake George. And for several who'd actually worked on the property, it was a time to come back, sit on the porch, and reflect on what Nirvana Farm had meant to them.
"I'm sure it is with mixed feelings that you close up shop at the farm and move on," my new friend wrote eloquently in her e-mail. "What a beautiful, peaceful spot it is." Read more
Meet Ouchy
November 11, 2009
Vickery Eckhoff
Dear Fellow Spinster:
What does "the premier provider of adult clown services" have to do with the Stupak amendment in the health care bill—and why should you care?
Before I answer that, a caveat. Ouchy the Clown and I aren't "friends." I don't use his services or contribute to how he makes a living. How does he do that? Besides being a DJ and doing "straight razor shaving," he offers this rather unusual service to clients. Are you ready?
"I am a trained, certified meeting facilitator. Oh, and I am a clown. Did ya miss that part? I specialize in:
- Brainstorming sessions
- Conflict resolution
- Organizational development"
Ouchy, whose tagline is "Happy to Beat You," is well aware of the irony. " Sure, it's weird to have a clown facilitator," his web site admits, "but you've seen stranger things, I'm sure." Read more


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Originally the "Cheops Pyramid" was 147 m high, about 10 m higher than today. The construction of the "Great Pyramid" started in 2589 BC. It is the oldest Pyramid at Giza.
The Sphinx was carved 2500 B.C. from a rock, the Sphinx is guarding the pyramids. The lion's body of the Sphinx is 20 meters high and 73 meters long. It is believed that the head of the Sphinx represents the Pharaoh Khafre.
The "Pyramid of Chephren" is slightly smaller, but it is a little bit higher than the "Great Pyramid". The top of the Pyramid of Chephren is still covered with pale limestone. The grave chamber is located in the pyramid's base.
The Step Pyramid of "King Djoser" was the first of its kind, it was created about 2,700 B.C. The Djoser Pyramid in Saqqara was the model of the later built Pyramids of Giza. Saggara is situated about 10 km south of Giza.

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If done correctly, the combination of loans will clarify debt repayment and can lead to significant savings. However, it is good to remember that combining loans always means taking a new loan. For this reason, careful comparison of loan offers is extremely important.
When the loans are combined, one larger loan is taken to pay off the previous loans in one go. After that, the new loan will be repaid under the new loan terms.
What are the benefits of loan consolidation?
- You can get rid of the extra loan management costs. If you pay off more than one loan or consumer loan at the same time, the cost of servicing the loan may go unnoticed in the long run. By combining the loans, you only pay one loan for the loan management costs.
- Get clarity on payment arrangements. Repaying more than one loan at a time puts tough demands on monthly finances. Due dates and repayments are overwhelming and, in the hurry of everyday life, payments can easily be forgotten. Forgetting is in turn punished by default interest and payment reminders. Combining loans simplifies planning as there is only one due date and one installment to remember.
- You will receive lower monthly installments and interest costs. If you pay off several short-term loans at once, the mere cost of interest will cause a huge budget cut. With one bigger loan, you can get rid of high interest rates and repay the loan in smaller monthly installments. However, a lower interest rate may mean an extended payment period. This is where you should be extra careful and make sure that the new interest cost will not subtly rise above the original interest cost. However, a longer payment time will provide relief if you are experiencing temporary payment difficulties.
What to consider when combining loans?
- Economic Planning – Just take what you need. Although a combination of loans means taking a new loan, it is not intended to increase the amount of debt. For this reason, it is important to take out a new loan only to the extent that the older loans can be repaid in one go.
- The cornerstone of a successful loan consolidation is a careful payment plan. Make a careful payment plan and make sure you survive the new loan.
- Find out all the costs, not just the interest rate. When comparing loans, you should consider the total cost of loans and not just look at interest rates. Consolidated loans may also have high opening fees and other charges that should be settled before accepting a loan offer.
How can loans be combined?
Banks and private finance companies offer the opportunity to combine loans.
- Banks usually require collateral or collateral to combine loans. It is also not easy for banks to get a combined loan, banks are concerned about the borrower's repayment ability.
- Private finance companies generally offer unsecured loan consolidation. Consolidation loans can be obtained from finance companies for really large sums. Then you should be extra careful and carefully compare the offers of different lenders.
Combine your loans if:
- You pay off several loans or loans at the same time.
- You are sure that you will be paying off your new loan repayment plan and that you do not need any more loan.
- You will find a compound loan that is cheaper in total than your current loan.
Use the credit counter to determine if you have the ability to consolidate your loans and catch significant savings. Compare consolidation loans here.


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This was a brand new expo to the area, being launched on Friday 8th December and open to the public for two consecutive days. The Your Goals Your Way team was glad to exhibit at the first SWDE event which was hugely successful for all organisations involved and visitors who attended.
The event was held at The Whitlam Leisure Centre in Liverpool and involved a number of guest speakers including well-known Australian comedian, Tim Ferguson, who is not only known for making people laugh but also for helping and encouraging others living with Multiple Sclerosis.
Other presentations and Q&A sessions involved NDIA, Para Mobility and Benevolent Society.
It was our genuine pleasure to meet so many other enthusiastic and caring NDIS providers and of course the hundreds of people who visited our exhibit over Friday and Saturday.
We will continue to build our networks within the NDIS and look forward to assisting many of you in 2018 and beyond.
A big thank you to all the organisers of the South West Sydney Disability Expo!
Jess, Filip, Tarik, Jordan, Michelle, Tim, Jo and Libby.


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Breaks Interstate Park
Quick Facts
Breaks Interstate Park
(276) 865-4413Map Directions
Things To Do
Breaks Interstate Park is located in the rugged Appalachian Mountains on the border of Virginia and Kentucky on State Route 80. The park is more than 4,600 acres in size, and contains a 5-mile gorge, plunging to 1650 feet, often called the "Grand Canyon of the South." While Virginia and Kentucky State Parks are sister organizations of Breaks, Breaks is operated independently by the Breaks Interstate Park Commission.
180 million years ago, in this area now lying across Kentucky and Virginia, a vast inland sea receded, leaving in its wake a veritable cradle of botany. Meanwhile, the river that is now Russell Fork got about the work of carving out an immense, spectacular gorge, renowned as the largest east of the Mississippi. Visitors will find delicate landscapes, timeless mountains, hidden ponds, craggy rock faces, and vibrant flora and fauna. Biking, hiking, riding, rafting...no matter how you choose to move through The Breaks Interstate Park, you will find yourself exploring, just like John Swift, Daniel Boone, and others who came here first.
Pedal boats, canoes and a Johnboat are available seasonally for rental by the hour or half hour on beautiful Laurel Lake. Visitors may use these boats as a means to explore, or for fishing. Our boat dock is open daily from 10 am to 8 pm from Memorial Day to August 15. The boat dock is open from 10 am - 6 pm on weekends from April 1 to Memorial Day weekend, and from August 15 to October 31.
Bird Watching
As a part of the Virginia Birding and wildlife trail, Breaks Interstate Park is home to a wide variety of birds. Some of those include the Swainson's Warbler, Hooded Warbler, Black and White Warbler, Yellow Rumped Warbler, Turkey Vulture, Red Tail Hawk and Osprey.
The Mountain Bike Trail offers breathtaking scenery. The trail is a stack loop trail system offering up to nearly 12 miles of riding, from moderate to difficult. Depending on the route chosen, bikers may plan rides of varying length, with the possibilities of good climbs and long downhill runs. Positive reviews for this trail are posted regularly on the websites for hiking enthusiasts.
The heart of an authentic Breaks Interstate Park explorer's experience! Our 138 sites range from a great place to pitch your tent to full RV hook-ups. Most of these sites are wooded but if you prefer, grassy areas are available in C Bottom. Playgrounds, a basketball court, a well-stocked store and a laundry facility are available. And to make fetching and carrying way more fun, golf carts* can be rented by the hour or the day at the campground store. If you wish to bring a group, please contact the park for details on our overflow area. The campground is open each year from April 1 through October 31. Campsites may not be reserved in advance and are available on a first-come, first served basis.
Laurel Lake, Beaver Pond, and the Russell Fork River offer a variety of fishing experiences, and the promise of a good catch. Laurel Lake, a twelve-acre man-made lake, and our two-acre Beaver Pond are stocked with bluegill and bass. The Russell Fork River is stocked with Rainbow Trout by Virginia Game and Inland Fisheries officials.
Breaks Park has partnered with beautiful Willowbrook Country Club to offer our overnight lodging guests a great golfing opportunity! Located on State Route 609 only one and a half miles from the Breaks Park entrance, this private course offers a challenging game of golf for any skill level. But along with a great game of golf, you'll enjoy the scenic value of the course as well, surrounded by the beautiful Appalachian Mountains, and dotted with Willow trees. Nine holes of golf, cart included:$15 Eighteen holes of golf, cart included:$30 Prices do not include tax. Exclusions may apply. Offer not valid on tournament dates.
More than 25 miles of hiking trails lace the park, varying from easy to difficult. Most are less than one mile long, but interconnected trails offer the more ambitious hiker a good choice of routes over varying terrain. Maps with descriptions of each trail are available at the Visitor Center. Trail names give clues to the outstanding physical features of each: Cold Spring, Geological, Grassy Creek, Grassy Overlook, Lake, Loop, Overlook, Prospectors' Ridge, River, Towers, and Tower Tunnel. Both the Ridge and Geological trails are self-guided, with booklets available at the Visitor Center that detail points and notes of interest. But if you would prefer, guided hikes are scheduled throughout the summer. Additionally, if you call ahead, the Visitor Center staff will be happy to plan a guided hike to meet your family's or group's schedule.
Horseback Riding
While the earliest travelers may have risked all on their boots alone, some had the beloved companionship and sure-footed support of their four-legged friends. The horse was--and still is--a trusted partner and a grand way to explore the park. A private stable inside the park offers trail rides for every level of rider. Hours of operation and pricing are set by this concessionaire and subject to change. Please contact the park for more details.
Water Sports
A public, Olympic-sized swimming pool provides hours of fun to park guests and area residents. Located near Laurel Lake, the main pool area offers a diving board and slide, while an adjacent kiddie pool allows toddlers to enjoy the water as well. When hunger hits, a snack bar is located handily inside the pool house. Admission is $5. The pool is open daily from June 15 to August 15; and on weekends from Memorial Day weekend through June 15, and from August 15 through Labor Day. Hours of operation may vary. For the serious adventurer, whitewater rafting is available on the raging rapids of the Russell Fork River. Each Saturday and Sunday during the first four full weekends in October, water is released from the John Flannagan Dam and Reservoir, creating world class rapids on the Russell Fork through the Breaks Gorge. Different sections of the river provide varying levels of difficulty. Rafters will find Class Two and Three rapids closer to the Flannagan Dam area, and rapids up to Class Six through the Breaks Park area on sections of the river where names like "twenty stitches," "broken nose," and "triple drop," give some sense of the adventure to be had here. The gradient of the Russell Fork ranges from five feet per mile to an unbelievable 180 feet per mile. One violent 75-foot stretch, aptly named "El Horrendo," is considered one of the most difficult in the East.
The park is open year-round to visitors, but the restaurant and some activities aren't available during a portion of time in the off-season. Hours of operation vary depending on the season. Call for specific times.
Take US-460 W / US-19 S / US-21 W. Continue to follow US-460 W, crossing into Virginia - 73.3 miles At Vansant, turn left onto Lover's Gap Rd / VA-83. Continue to follow VA-83 - 13.8 miles Turn right onto Breaks Park Rd / VA-80. Continue to follow Breaks Park Rd / VA-80 approximately 7 miles to park entrance on left.
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text: Dar, the Beastmaster and last survivor of his tribe, wanders the ancient lands, seeking out his beloved Kira, defending the animals he controls, and pitting his might against various sorcerers and tyrants. Beastmaster is currently showing on the Sci-Fi channel twice a month in mini-marathons. Check the schedule on www.scifi.com.


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Has anyone taken a good look at Beyonce lately? Doesn't she look amazing btw? She just dropped her new video with Nicki Minaj 'Feeling Myself' and boyyyy is she really 'feelin' herself'. This song is already my summer hit for this year, its bound to go viral!
Images from the 'Feeling Myself' video:
Not only is she the classiest/fiercest songtress on stage, Queen Bey also knows how to step out in style… Miss Bey has just went on vacation to Italy and check out this vibrant outfit!
Look at this colourful skirt with the 'African Mama' detailing on it. Her top looks like a Football jersey and here she definitely made a "Home Run". Here are some more images of Mrs Carter looking a lot like Sasha Fierce.
She was definitely one of the Queens that reigned at this years Met Gala Ball.
Queen Bey's style fiery and sassy, kinda like a BOSS. What do you think?
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Surfcamp Gran Canaria is located at the Playa de Las Canteras: The best place for surf holidays on the Canary Islands
The base of our Surfcamp Gran Canaria is at the beach Playa de Las Canteras. Our guests who come to learn surfing at our Surf School Gran Canaria or to do a surf trip Gran Canaria will stay at our studios or ocean apartments .
Las Palmas is a bustling city which is lively all year long. The entire beach Playa de Las Canteras is skirted by an attractive promenade that is frequented by the residents of Las Palmas. Being an aterial walkingway the "paseo" humms with life.
The Playa de Las Canteras, the home of our Surf Camp in Gran Canaria, is the local holiday area of Las Palmas.
The pleasent mild climate allows an active life style that takes place outside. At the beach Playa de Las Canteras you will see a lot of joggers, friends playing football, beachtennis, volleyball, kids building sand castles, and tourists sunbathing.
Las Canteras: The hub of life
There is a great variety of activities and events that take place at the beach Playa de Las Canteras throughout the year. Among those there are sport competitions, dive trips, open air events and concerts organised by the Playa Viva every saturday night. For further information, news, events, and pictures visit the web page of Playa de Las Canteras.
What is the beach Playa de Las Canteras like?
Extending from east to west, the 3,5 km long beach Playa de Las Canteras reaches from La Puntilla to the concert hall Auditorio Alfredo Kraus .
In general there are 3 sections: the Northern Arc, the Centre Arc, and the Southern Arc.
The waters are calm. There are some hotels and shops. The beach is wide and the sand golden. This is probably the most touristy area of the beach Las Canteras. However, there are excellent restaurants, too. And in this area there are public volleyball courts.
The atmosphere at the centre of the beach Las Canteras is very friendly. The tranquil waters invite swimmers. The midpoint of Las Canteras, the emblematic Playa Chica, is shaped like a shell. In this area you will find a lot of reastaurants and shops. Another point of attraction is Peña de la Vieja, a rocky part of the beach that reveals its beautiful reef at low tide.
This area is better known as La Cicer. The sand is mainly black and the reef stays deep beneath the surface. Therefore, the waves and the swell make their way into the bay of the beach Playa de Las Canteras. There are various quality waves for each level of difficulty.
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-Rental of sun chairs, and parasols.
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"Publishers say Apple News growth has been significant," Christian Zibreg reports for iDownloadBlog.
"According to Business Insider, the service has seen some significant growth after the Cupertino technology giant gave publishers more ad sales control, with NBCUniversal now selling ads on the platform as part of its digital-media-focused Code team," Zibreg reports. "Last fall, Apple began letting publishers implement DoubleClick, Google's ad technology."
"'The awareness for Apple News is still building, for consumers and advertisers,' said Trevor Fellows, NBCUniversal's executive vice president, digital sales and strategy. However, 'the traffic growth we've seen is really strong,' he added," Zibreg reports. "They've learned that once people start using the app, 'they use it all the time.'"
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by Susanne Maziarz, Music Director at Neighbourhood
Love … the inspiration for so much great music! At Neighbourhood this month we will have the chance to hear and sing some of our favourites.
The Spirit Band will be featuring some beautiful love songs by Paul McCartney and The Beach Boys. Our Spirit Choir will sing Ziggy Marley and The Beatles. Allison will share a beautiful love song by Stevie Wonder, and Steve plays Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Our hymn of the month for February is #129 in Singing the Living Tradition, Let Love Continue Long, a Unitarian Universalist text to an old hymn tune:
Let love continue long,
and show to us the way,
and if that love be strong,
no hurt can have a say;
and if that love remain but strong,
no hurt can ever have a say.
If love cannot be found,
though common faith prevails,
when love does not abound,
a common faith will fail.
When human love does not abound,
a common faith will always fail.
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Man Suspected Of Killing 'Growing Up Hip Hop' Star Angela Simmons' Ex-Fiancé Turns Himself In
Michael Williams has been charged with the murder of Sutton Tennyson, who police say was shot dead following an argument In Atlanta.
A man suspected of killing the former fiancé of "Growing Up Hip Hop" star Angela Simmons turned himself in Wednesday and has been charged with murder.
Atlanta resident Michael Williams, 44, surrendered to police and was also charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and possession of a firearm during commission of a felony in the shooting death of Sutton Tennyson, People reports.
Williams denies the charges and will be "fighting this case vigorously, all the way to a jury trial," said attorney Jackie Patterson, according to People.
Tennyson, 37, was shot to death in the garage of an Atlanta home on Saturday afternoon during an argument with another man that turned violent. The suspect "sped from the scene" in a car following the shooting, a police statement obtained by USA Today states.
Tennyson and Simmons, one of the daughters of Run DMC's Rev. Run, got engaged in 2016 and had a son, Sutton Tennyson Jr., before parting ways last year. Following news of her ex's death, Simmons shared a series of heartfelt social media posts in remembrance of her child's father.
"Thank you for leaving behind my greatest gift. I'm hurting. I'm numb," she wrote in the caption of a photo of Tennyson holding their infant son. She also posted a video of the child watching footage of his father on a cellphone, writing alongside it, "Reflecting. He keeps replaying it. RIP Sutton."
Williams' first court date is scheduled for Thursday, according to People.
[Photo: Instagram/Angela Simmons]
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I Am Denver is a partnership that brings City & County of Denver entities together with sister agencies, nonprofits, foundations and businesses to foster conversations among residents, and open the hearts, minds and doors of everyone who calls Denver home.
We highlight and celebrate our residents, neighborhoods and history while allowing for high-level discussions around topics affecting Denver. Because of the partnerships established, we nurture individual efforts and group collaborations.
Rowena Alegría
Rowena Alegría holds a masters of Fine Arts in fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She has won fellowships at the Vermont Studio Center and Writing by Writers. Alegría was awarded residencies from the Ragdale Foundation and Sundance Academy for the Arts and attended Macondo Writers Workshop. A journalist, communications executive and speech writer, she is writing a novel that plays with form and the history of the Southwest.
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Roxana A. Soto is an Emmy award-winning bilingual journalist with a dynamic career that spans 20 years, which includes print, television and digital media. Soto is a Peruvian immigrant who moved to the U.S. as a teenager after living in Mexico, Argentina and South Africa, and has called Denver home since 2006. She co-founded the popular parenting website SpanglishBaby.com and is the co-author of Bilingual is Better. She's passionate about telling stories, especially those of overlooked communities.
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Amanda Zitzman has spent close to 13 years as a broadcast journalist, connecting communities through informative storytelling and research. Her television news career has taken her from the east coast at WJXT and WTLV/WJXX, to the Pacific Northwest at KVAL and KMTR, before she landed in Denver, Colorado – having reported for two the four local news stations, KMGH Denver7 and KDVR FOX31. It's her passion for creative storytelling and documentary filmmaking that led Amanda to join the talented "I Am Denver" team.
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In the 1970s, Denver's historic structures faced demolition in epic numbers. In true pioneer spirit, a group of citizens created Historic Denver Inc. in time to save one of our city's most celebrated historic homes – the Molly Brown House. Since then Historic Denver has been the leading voice for local preservation. We work with property owners, neighborhoods and communities to safeguard the places that make our city unique.
The Denver Center for the Performing Arts (DCPA) is one of the largest non-profit theatre organizations in the nation, presenting Broadway tours and producing theatre, cabaret, musicals, and innovative, multimedia plays. Last season the DCPA entertained more than 1.1 million visitors, generating a $115 million economic impact in Colorado.
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Peonies are large-headed flowers that grow on shrublike plants. Ants have long been thought to be responsible for helping the peony open its buds. Certainly ants can be found on many peonies in the spring, but the reason has nothing to do with helping the flower open.
Peony Flowers
Peony blossoms have tiny glands along the scales that cover the closed buds. These glands produce sweet nectar.
Ants are drawn to the sweet nectar, a mixture of water, sugar and amino acids. As they swarm over the buds, it appears as if they are in a feeding frenzy and may actually be contributing to the bloom of the bud. However, they are simply collecting food.
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The ants do not have any effect on the opening of the peony bud. It would open in the same time frame whether the ants were present or not. The ants do provide protection for the peony against other pests that might feed on the bud, but they are simply protecting their food supply.


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Newsweek Cover on Sexism Draws Outrage
It's the wrong thing to get angry about
Newsweek's latest cover is pissing off a lot of people. It's a startling image, and the Twitter universe let loose on it. One called the cover "garbage." Another said it was "horrid." A few mentioned that the cover ruined whatever the cover story happened to be.
Of course, if anyone bothered to read the accompanying article, they'd see that the cover is almost perfect. Sure, it's a little dumbed down for the subject it's addressing. However, it definitely conveys that Silicon Valley sees women as objects, and that's a big problem. Which is exactly what the Newsweek cover story explains.
Newsweek's could've been a little smarter, but there's no reason for outrage. Critics should save that for the real issue — which is detailed in the article that they refused to read.


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Emmanuel Jimenez is guest blogging for the Forum. He is Director, Human Development, East Asia and Pacific Region, World Bank and a member of the Global Agenda Council on Population Growth.
Much as they might hate to admit it at the time, young people learn from older people. Can relatively younger countries do the same relative to their older counterparts? They can and should do so.
Even as many countries are aging, world population has been growing very rapidly. The most recent figures from the United Nations indicate that the population has increased from 3 to 7 billion within the past 50 years, compared to an increase of just 1 billion the century before. While decreasing average fertility will slow this growth rate, world population is expected to rise to 8 to 10.5 billion by 2050. Moreover, almost all of this growth will occur in countries that are much poorer than those where population growth has stopped and which are now aging rapidly.
As the poorer countries get bigger, they can use the demographic gift of a high proportion of relatively young productive people to boost economic growth. This is what many of the now richer (and aging) countries have done. But this boost is not automatic. The lessons learned are that countries need to
- Educate the young well so that they enter the labor force – and remain productive because they will likely be retiring at a later age than those who do so today.
- Prepare both young and middle-aged to save and invest today (both through general education and more specific financial literacy programs) so that they have enough to live on to supplement public pensions which are likely to be less in real terms than they are today, when dependency rates are low.
- Encourage younger generations to adopt healthy lifestyles to reduce the incidence of non-communicable diseases such as lung cancer and cardiovascular diseases that can threaten to bankrupt health systems.


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Memory's a peculiar thing, would it say it isn't? Your mind records each minute in your life and locks it away until the end of time. And after that all of a sudden, a sound, a scent, a bit of beige plastic can send you tumbling back to an alternate time. Sitting on the floor of my office, unpacking the C64 Mini, I wasn't 33 any longer yet eight, sitting at the blue formica table toward the side of my room. Before me was a rummage Commodore from my neighbor, a designer who showed himself BASIC in his semi-retirement. He chain-smoked stogies and was never without a tin of strong in his grasp, notices that saturated the skin of this PC, never to be washed away.
It's these strings of sentimentality that British organization Retro Games Ltd. is hoping to exploit to offer a "scaled down" adaptation of the Commodore 64. For the uninitiated, the microcomputer was the PC of the '80s and the main machine that numerous people at any point got their hands on. Indeed, even in Great Britain, which had been the cauldron of the Sinclair versus Oak seed fight, Commodore holds an uncommon place in a large number of hearts.
My own particular Commodore 64 was snared to a 10-inch, high contrast compact TV with a bowed aeronautical. White-out which was painted on to Rat Race simply on the grounds that I have this cartridge, which stacked quicker than diversions on tape. I utilized that battered, beige machine for so long on that TV that, when I completed the process of unpacking and turned the C64 Mini on, I was really astounded to see it yield video in shading.
The C64 Mini is a valiant endeavor to join the present fever for little retro consoles that look back to our childhoods. Tragically, an awful controller, flawed programming outline and the poor list of recreations on offer harsh the bundle here. While it's plainly been assembled with a measure of affection, this is one wistfulness trip you can manage without taking.
The C64 Mini is a contracted down form of the first, in spite of the fact that its console and packaging is only for appear. Essentially, it's a hunk of plastic that has been sliced and painted to resemble the genuine article, regardless of whether the symbols on the underside of the keys are missing. In the event that you aren't anticipating utilizing it as a working machine, it could undoubtedly pull twofold obligation as a paperweight.
Underneath that outside, I think, is a dinky miniboard, similar to a Raspberry Pi, that is running an emulator. That would clarify the closeness of the two USB ports that run where the C64's serial ports initially sat and the miniaturized scale USB (power) and HDMI-out ports. The first model had the power and video-out connectors far further away, so plainly there's an explanation behind the change.
Likewise inside the container is a miniaturized scale USB-to-USB link and a HDMI lead, and I'm certain some will be vexed that there's no power connector. All things considered, most HDTVs have a fueled USB port, and you likely have an old cell phone connector laying around some place. A pleasant touch is that the manual's cover is styled to reflect that of the first CPC 64 documentation.
Balancing the package is a redo of the Commodore 64 joystick, with additional catches and a USB association. It is, tragically, firm and frequently questionable, with gameplay enduring as a result of it. I expected to slam the palm of my hand into the stick, hard, in the event that I needed even an expectation of my character going the correct way. I won't share my notes here, however there were in excess of a couple of interjections included. It might release after some time, without a doubt, however I question the exactness will enhance much.
The C64 Mini's OS is planned like a merry go round, and it takes not as much as a moment to boot up from frosty. Basically, the lower half of the screen is the crate workmanship for each amusement that you can move left and directly between. Above it, the left side keeps a still as well as film from the amusement while the correct offers a concise outline of the diversion.
There are 64 titles on the framework, despite the fact that you might be astounded and disillusioned to discover that a lot of eminent diversions are truant. I presume authorizing issues blocked the incorporation of titles from significant distributers like Lucasfilm Games, EA and Origin. On the off chance that you were planning to play Zak McKracken, Pirates, Maniac Mansion, Ultima, Skate, Wasteland, or Die or Elite, you're up the creek without a paddle.
I need to be straightforward and conclude my mind that your use may differ and that the titles which was loaded on the device could be foundations of your adolescence. Before now, to the web and solid amusements distributers, it was significantly less demanding to miss such titles that did not fly up in a store around you. In any case, all things being equal, it is like the diversion choice here is the remains from a dumpster jump as opposed to a curated experience of the "best" titles the stage brought to the table.
The greatest names in the list incorporate Impossible Mission and its continuation, Speedball, and, uh, its spin-off, and Paradroid. Games fans may likewise get a tickle out of Summer Games II, Winter Games and World Games, which I faintly review being compelled to sit through as a child. Memory plays traps on every one of us, in any case: My thought was that I'd affectionate recollections of a title Who Dares the Wins II, which is another added title here. In the wake of playing it and doing some exploration, things being what they are I'd really played Commando, of which Who Dares Wins was a genuinely improper duplicate.
Retro Games obviously realizes this is an issue and overplays the way that you can sideload different titles onto the framework. The typical copyright provisos apply, yet the main thing between the Mini and downloading a group of .D64 ROMs onto a glimmer drive is your soul. Despite the fact that it's important that you can just load one title at any given moment, and you need to do it in BASIC.
In reality, it's harder than that, on the grounds that my non specific Windows USB console wouldn't explore the C64 Mini's merry go round menu. You have to utilize the joystick to enact BASIC and after that change to the console to type the summons important to stack the amusement. But the C64 Mini just has two USB ports ... So you haul out the joystick to account for the blaze drive, isn't that so?
When I hauled out the joystick, the comfort reset itself back to the merry go round, so the best way to do it was to type with the virtual console. The answer for this is to utilize a console with basic USB ports or an independent USB center, however now I thought about whether it was justified regardless of the exertion. Retro Games has guaranteed that a refresh will make this procedure less demanding later on, yet when that will happen is impossible to say.
The diversions don't dispatch with documentation, and the short ad spot clarifying the amusement's fundamental introduce is all the data you get. As a result, the expectation to learn and adapt for most recreations is steep, and not one that you're probably going to need to persevere with. Relearning the gameplay and controls for Impossible Mission is made all the harder on the grounds that most recreations simply aren't assembled right.
There's a video of Shigeru Miyamoto clarifying the level outline of the main Super Mario Bros. world skimming around the web. In it, he clarifies how those initial couple of minutes are a delicate presentation into the gameplay mechanics without the need of a long, dull manual. In the pre-NES period, diversions sent with long, regularly unnecessarily complex manuals. Also, it's difficult to correct to titles where you're simply dropped into the activity.
Of the 64 amusements in the list, there are a great deal of titles that offer comparative gameplay in an alternate bundle. There are side-looking over space shooters like Armalyte, Uridium, Cybernoid, IO, Mega Apocalypse, Cybernoid 2, Hunter's Moon and Netherworld. There are confuse platformers like Creatures, Warrior, Mission AD, Heartland, Everyone's a Wally, Firelord, Jumpman, Gribbly's Day Out, Hawkeye, Hysteria, Nodes of Yesod, Nobby the Aardvark, Rubicon, Robin of the Wood you get the thought.
The fact of the matter is that one should not stroll in and hope to have the capacity to appreciate a wide range of diversions. Retro Games' more-will be more rationality guarantees that as opposed to facilitating in to a curated and particular experience, you're getting everything tossed at you. It's a disgrace, since a portion of the titles above are superior to others, and, maybe, 30 conventional recreations would have been desirable over 64.
I should include that in a few circumstances, the framework really figured out how to crash. That is most likely an aftereffect of the way that the first code is running on an emulator, with all the first bugs still present. Once more, it'll rely upon your age and disposition on the off chance that you figure the organization ought to have settled this for less demanding use or that it ought to have allowed it well to sit unbothered for a more legitimate ordeal.
One thing that the C64 gets right is spare expresses, a component plainly cribbed from other retro "small scale" supports. Much like its adversaries, the C64 gives you a chance to spare states up to four times for each title you play and after that hit the fly up menu to reload it. You'll exploit that component frequently, on account of how out of reach and troublesome a portion of these recreations truly are.
Here's the rub: This thing exists not on the grounds that there's a ton of interest for it but since Nintendo began a pattern.
Sentimentality is an incredible channel, on the grounds that your cerebrum dumps the terrible stuff and abandons you with fluffy, warm, erroneous records of what has actually happened. Whatever truly occurred might have been pushed through your memory likeness an Instagram channel called Romance Pro. The Retro consoles must be worked in light of that and can't just imitate the experience of the '70s and mid '80s. In the event that things are as awful as they really were, your mind clacks up against reality, and that damages.
Organizations entering this space need to make sure to smooth out a portion of the rougher edges. The equipment needs to look somewhat shinier, work somewhat better, feel somewhat more pleasant than it completed an age back. This is precisely what Nintendo put-out with its SNES and NES restorations, however it hasn't occurred here, and therefore the curation of these ventures require just isn't there. In case you're as of now an individual from the popular retro gaming group, you don't need to spend the money, or time, on some item. Furthermore, on the off chance that you were hoping to dunk a toe into this world, there are other, better approaches to do it.
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The Supply Chain AI is based on how real world companies do it. While there is supply on demand companies such as UPS and FedEx. There are transportation companies that have supply built into their networks. For example, companies can rent rail cars and place goods on them, even before those goods have buyers. In this case, the rail car is rented until all the goods are removed. Almost like a warehouse on wheels. Similarly, gas producers will have supply in the pipelines to meet customer demands, they only turn on or turn off gas pumps as supply in some fuel diminishes.
This technique is called caching, and this means that the game can simulate the cache mathematically without having to simulate it. It means that supply yards don't have to keep tanks and tanks of supply, rather they just have to have source supplies meet ultimate demands.
This means the AI will identify the rate that units can be added to the system at all of the mining sites, and as units are used, the units can be added from the mineral sites into the system to satisfy the temporary shortfall. It means I do not have to simulate the infrastructure to do this, instead it can be just a simple calculation.


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We learned a lot just this morning and we don't officially start working till Wednesday next week!
After breakfast, we decided to take a walk over to the deer check station. While we were there, a hunter brought in his kill.
Since I've never been through a deer check station when hunting, I didn't know what really goes on. I had no idea actually of a lot of the things that they do when they check the deer. They check for fat, weight, male or female, age, rank and serial number.
I never knew how they checked to see how healthy the deer was. That is where checking for fat comes in. When they do this, they pinch the body at the base of the tail, just like you would do if you were trying to emphasis you or someone had a roll of fat around the middle…only this is at the base of the tail. Depending on how much vertebrae they can feel, will tell them how healthy that deer is.
One person is doing the measuring and another is writing it all down. Since they don't want to insult the hunter, they don't yell out "POOR!" if there isn't much fat…they just call it good.
Then Carolyn took a couple of pairs of something that reminded me of what Grandma use to put socks on to stretch them out and dry them. If this particular deer had been a doe instead of an 8 point buck, the next step would not have been necessary, they could have easily have gotten the jaw bone without going through all of this. But to preserve the head for a mount, this next step is used to extract the jaw so they can then age the buck.
There isn't an easy way to explain what Carolyn did with these "tools", other than to tell you she ran one down the mouth on the jaw line of this buck while another officer was holding his rack to keep his head turned away from where she was pushing this tool in his mouth. (I DO mean the buck!) She finally got down to the point where she needed to be, which was at the base of the jaw or a little beyond.
It seems to me, if I can remember correctly, that then she used this "tool" to twist and turn to loosen the facia and muscle in the area so she could then get in with the loppers to cut the jaw out.
When she managed to work the loppers down inside the jaw (after removing the other tool), she had to use a LOT of force to cut that jaw bone and extract it…and she's not a very big gal.
Once the jaw was out, then she could age the deer. This part IS too complicated to go into, but it was interesting. It has to do with molars, how many molars there are in front, and then the back ones, how much enamel is on the teeth vs. how much dentin is on the teeth.
Then they weigh the deer. This one dressed out at 125. They check the hooves for sluff for some kind of a fungus disease that deer can get.
Some of the people that do the job that she just did end up with poison ivy if the deer happened to have been eating poison ivy recently. This deer apparently had been finding plenty of acorns as there was no greenery in his teeth.
As of this a.m. they had a total of 91 deer brought in so far on this particular 3 day refuge hunt. We know the deer are a LOT smaller here than at home, and a couple more that we saw were about the size of large diaper bags! And it is legal to shoot them here during this by draw hunt.
Our hunt is around November 11-13 as I recall. Dan is looking forward to it. I'm just glad he isn't one of those crack of dawn hunters. I USE to be the one going out in the woods in the dark and trying to get where I was going before the deer started moving. Now, I enjoy sleep too much! Sometimes, I'd be heading back to camp as Dan was finally coming out!
We also found out that the coyote frequent this area a lot at night and that they really don't seem to be afraid of people. And there are deer out here at night too…but they are safe in this area because there isn't any hunting in this section and of course, come sun down, ya better not be hunting.
BUT, we do have excellent well water!!!!
I don't know when I'll actually get this posted since my Verizon is so limited. I think I'm going to try to find a booster. I just need that little bit extra oomph that I don't have at this location. I've got a few photos I'd like to put up too, but I know it would be a waste of time to try with this thing being so iffy.
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The first Lady Ship of Virgin Voyages fleet, Scarlet Lady, is here, and she's shaping up to be quite a beauty. If the leading lady image on the livery seems recognisable, it might be because she's made appearances on Virgin entities before. Designed by artist Toby Tinsley, her likeness appears on Virgin Atlantic and Australia aircrafts as well as the Virgin Galactic spaceline.
The second Lady Ship, Valiant Lady, will launch in May 2021 and sail to the Mediterranean from Barcelona on three different cruise itineraries.
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Disagreements Behind an Agreement
This case focuses on the complex political structure of managing a riparian resource in developing countries. The case asks students to identify the political problem or problems threatening a technically sound environmental plan for the Zambezi River, which flows through eight African nations. Some class time should be spent on mapping the complex protocols and decision-making authority under a United Nations-sponsored environmental initiative. A large map of Southern Africa will help focus the discussion, as well as a concise description of how difficult it was to punitively isolate apartheid South Africa in such an underdeveloped region of the world. It is appropriate for advanced graduate students in international development and resource management courses.
Miki, a hydrologist for the United Nations Environment Program, serves on the Secretariat staff of the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Environmental Management of the Common Zambezi River System. The aim of the conference is to ratify the Zambezi Action Plan, developed by a working group of water experts from the Zambezi River Basin countries and the UN. But the plenipotentiaries in attendance fail to agree to the Plan as is, and propose controversial changes. The specter of South Africa may be affecting behind-the-scenes negotiations. Another organization of African nations regards the Secretariat as redundant to its own water resource management body. An environmental law expert remarks that '[f]or the first time throughout this process, we are confronted with the real decision makers.' On the last day of the conference, Miki and his colleagues must find a way to save the Plan. The plenipotentiaries in attendance, after long discussion, adopt the Plan, but with conditions that render it ineffective.
This case was sponsored by the Foundation for Advanced Studies on International Development.


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LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are calling it quits, according to People.com.
After seven years of marriage, the duo announced Friday that they decided to end their marriage.
In a statement released to People Magazine, Lopez, 41, and Anthony, 42, said, "This is a very difficult decision. We have come to an amicable conclusion on all matters. It is a painful time for all involved and we appreciate the respect of our privacy at this time."
The couple wed in June 2004 and has 3-year-old twins, Emme and Max.
I was wondering what she was doing with him in the first place..
Ditch the $pic and let me eat your corn hole and munch on your carpet. Then I would give it to her fast and hard.
She's just a crazy woman that can't keep a man, just like Jennifer Aniston.
It's the 7 year itch" Rich people tend to get bored with each other….nothing new here…
The marriage was just for PR on both sides. Anyway I think that guy is gay like Ricky Martin.
was never IF, just WHEN
They found each other to be too stupid.
After awhile they just can't stand that stupid latino across the room anymore.
It's funny at first but after awhile it's just sad.
You you seem to be the only stupid person around…stupid, ignorant, and apparently a bit racist. What are ya, Nazi Alexis?
Poor Old J Lo, she sure doesn't seem to have very much sucess with men, now that Prop 8 is coming around maybe she should switch sides.
You misspoke. If Prop 8 was "coming around" then J Lo COULD NOT marry another woman. I think everyone will figure out what you meant though.
very surprised…
Maybe She recieved her new lasik treatment. He is so Ugly, but then again maybe she thought no other gal would want him
After seeing the little bit we got to see of Marc on American Idol, I would bet that he A) has been riding her coattails of fame and success and she finally got sick of it, OR B) he's way too controlling and inserts himself in every aspect of her life and she finally got sick of it.
no. this is kharma. he was married to a beautiful beauty queen from PR, Dayanara and he "f'd up on her with J HO. It as simple as that. That which starts on tarnished footing ends on tarnished footing. I only feel sorry for those children.
at least they won't be making ugly kids, because those kids are so DAMN UGLY!
That means that J Lo is back on the market..all that bootyful Ass…He couldnt get it all…she got tired of getttin short stroked…
it last to long, what can i said, sorry x the twins, but maybe they don't see them to oftem,
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While it seems that Nawaz Sharif and his party members are trying to exploit every legal loophole they can find to get out of the Panama mess, the accountability system is not far behind trying to cover every gap through which Nawaz could escape unscathed.
Attorney General Ashtar Ausaf informed the SC that a law was pending before the Senate that sought to amend the National Accountability Ordinance (NAO) 1999 by granting the relevant courts the authority to approve "voluntary return". Article 25(a) authorises the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman to allow a person found guilty of corruption to pay certain portions of the embezzled money and be released.
The Attorney General's reply to the Court comes after the SC judges asked the government for a comprehensive policy on this provision, with Justice Azmat Sheikh calling the provision a confession of guilt and a way to pay off the crime.
The development is still pending so it would be difficult to predict the likelihood of a more severe NAO. However, taking NAB chief, Javed Iqbal's statements in consideration and of the fast actions of the accountability court, it is evident that the process is geared to be as swift as possible. Though he named no names, Javed Iqbal emphasised that the cases would be followed as per law and no delay would be tolerated. It is unclear where his sympathies lie but his statement on judging politicians only on merit indicate that he would not like to be implicated in a case where Nawaz, if found guilty, might be released on the Article 25(a) loophole.
From a legal point of view, a change in the law is a good move. The NAO was promulgated to deal with mega-corruption cases mostly, and in such cases, voluntary return would do little benefit. Money laundered in mega corruption scandals is unlikely to even be partially recovered and given back . Such provisions should only stand for small cases of corruption.
It is interesting to note that a discussion of change to Article 25(a) of NAO had been going on since January, where in a twist of fate, it was none other than Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, who purported bringing changes in the law was to make the accountability process more stringent. It is not the first time that a political figure has fallen into a trap, he himself set up.


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1983 Porsche 911 SC Targa
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Hellbronze Metallic Finish on Brown Leather, don't miss out on this opportunity to experience the classic air-cooled Porsche charm. Hand built in Germany at the Stuttgart plant, the 911 SC dates back to a special time in Porsche's history, when independence and individualism ruled the day. No other sports car at the time, or even now, delivered such a unique experience; it's no wonder that so many have fallen in love with these timeless sports cars. The Targa body-style was conceived by Porsche's design studio head Butzi Porsche, a legendary name in both automotive as well as industrial design. Responsible for numerous Porsche shapes, Butzi's Targa provided a creative solution to safety for open-top sports cars.
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The other week, this absolutely gorgeous white lace bodysuit arrived, and I was so excited to add it to my wardrobe.
See the thing is, sure it might look quite 'Spring', with it's white lace detailing and a low, cut out back style. But due to it's long sleeve finish and intricate, evening styling, I knew I could get lots of wear out of this while we're still in the Winter months.
The top itself is the Lottie Long Sleeve Keyhole Back Bodysuit in White, from Caris Closet, retailing at £29.99.
It's quite a thick, high quality material, and with it being very fitted, it kind of sculpts my body as soon as I slip it on.
If you check it out online, you'll see that it has a lovely keyhole cut out back, giving it that party feel.
But if you want to dress this up for work, shopping, a day out in town, brunch, lunch (or just whatever you wish…) then the bodysuit looks amazing with a casual oversized blazer thrown over it.
I gave it two looks: one with a grey blazer and skinny black jeans, and one with some sassy khaki wet look leggings, ready for an evening on the cocktails with the girls.
I love a good versatile bodysuit – especially one that can take me through from the colder months, into the Spring.
Once again, Caris Closet has impressed me!