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"Homosexuals have gifts and qualities to offer to the Christian community.....Often they wish to encounter a Church that offers them a welcoming home."
"While the document in question purports to report only the discussion which took place among the Synod Fathers, it, in fact, advances positions which many Synod Fathers do not accept and, I would say, as faithful shepherds of the flock cannot accept. Clearly, the response to the document in the discussion which immediately followed its presentation manifested that a great number of the Synod Fathers found it objectionable."


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An Old Estate Sterling Silver. Rare Christmas Ornament - weighs 63.9 grams. 1986 Village Scene / with box and paper - no. 436 of a limited edition of 500.4 1/4" by 3 1/4". Any dark spots are only shadows from taking the pictures.
This would make a fine addition to ones collection or a wonderful gift. Get Supersized Images & Free Image Hosting. Attention Sellers - Get Templates Image Hosting, Scheduling at Auctiva. The item "Rare Sterling Silver BUCCELLATI Christmas Ornament VILLAGE SCENE 1986 with box" is in sale since Thursday, August 10, 2017.
This item is in the category "Collectibles\Holiday & Seasonal\Christmas\ Modern (1946-90)\Ornaments\Metal". The seller is "925pa" and is located in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. This item can be shipped worldwide.

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Ignoring sound advice once can be a big mistake. Ignoring it twice can have dire consequences!
Take the aptly named Doncaster solvents company Solvents with Safety Ltd, which was recently fined after an "unsafe" procedure led to a huge fire that engulfed its Harworth base.
Earlier this month Doncaster Magistrates' Court heard how employees of the company were transferring a "highly flammable" liquid from a bulk container into a smaller drum in June 2010. They were trying to fill the drum using a pipe that was too short. This meant dropping the liquid from the pipe into the drum, a process called "splash filling" that is known to generate static electricity.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said a build up of static electricity in the drum was thought to have ignited the vapour and sparked a fire that quickly spread to other containers of flammable and dangerous solvent mixtures at the site, some of which exploded.
All seven workers present at the time managed to escape unhurt after a quick-thinking supervisor ordered them to evacuate the site and called the emergency services. The initial blaze was described as "escalating to a raging inferno within minutes."
However, what also emerged in court was that the HSE had written twice to Solvents With Safety – in May 2006 and December 2007 – to warn of the dangers of splash filling containers.
The company pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations and was fined £20,000 and ordered to pay £6,860 in costs. I imagine these costs were probably insignificant compared to the losses incurred following the destruction of its main premises.
With this story comes a simple lesson for all employers. You can't really afford to ignore even the first warning sign when it comes to health and safety, never mind the second. Always act!


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Dr. Barry Asmus is a Senior Economist with the National Center for Policy Analysis. Dr. Asmus has been named by USA Today as one of the five most requested speakers in the United States. Over the last twenty-five years, Dr. Asmus has spoken to thousands of companies and associations throughout the United States. He has testified before the House Ways and Means Committee regarding our income tax system and was a featured speaker in a privatizing Social Security conference for Western European leaders. On recent trips to Romania, Albania, China and Peru, Dr. Asmus has encouraged government leaders to pass free-market, low tax, protected property rights and free trade policies.
Dr. Asmus is the author of nine books. His book, Crossroads: The Great American Experiment was nominated for a H.L. Mencken Award. As a Professor of Economics, he was twice voted University Professor of the Year and was honored with the Freedom Foundation Award at Valley Forge for Private Enterprise Education. He co-anchored a syndicated radio called "Perspectives on the Economy." Dr. Asmus is an effective advocate of free-market economics.
What will the 21st century look like for America? What are America's biggest challenges and opportunities? Can we retain the fundamental characteristics that have defined America's greatness? Dr. Asmus describes the three inviolable drivers of a free market economy as well as the three economic freedoms that produce remarkable prosperity.
Dr. Asmus has 25 years experience with research organizations that economically monitor 180 countries for economic freedom and trade. Worldwide markets and sourcing opportunities make for an exciting future. His new 2013 book with Wayne Grudem, The Poverty of Nations, describes sustainable solutions for poor nations seeking growth and a new beginning.
The Stone Age didn't end for lack of stones and neither will the fossil fuel age end for lack of energy. The economic implications of America's discovery of the four largest gas fields in the world through vertical and horizontal drilling and fracking are causing many economists to call it the game changer of the century. The U.S. is now the fastest growing energy producer on the planet. Add the positive geopolitical and wealth producing consequences and our economic future has brightened considerably.
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Palm Sunday, 1 April 2012, featured the Union United Church
Gospel Choir, in celebration of their member, Rolanda Taylor,
who has been interning at Summerlea since September and will
finish her internship April 15, to become a United Church minister.
The Gospel choir sang several hymns during the service and ended with a postlude that brought the congregation to its feet in a clapping, rocking celebration.
The service also featured a skit re-enacting the palm sunday theme, featuring:
at the beginning of the service, but only one photo of the Summerlea choir was useable.
where Bonnie MacLeod took the following photos.
Marion Golden and Paul Weijers made the very chic signs.
The cakes came from IGA, but Marion made the wee pianos for Connie's BD cake,
What a team!
and a couple of shots of the choir members.
Music Director Connie Osborne,
and a couple of shots of Connie, seen expresssing her astonishment, and with Mary Guynan.


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A popular asthma pill linked to cases of suicidal thoughts and depression in children will now be sold with "Black Box Warning," the most serious of FDA warnings about prescription drugs.
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text: Margaret Espinosa aka Margaret Pievitz aka Margaret Kingsbury is a liar and a thief. She wants the good life, but only gets high everyday and lives off her hard working husband . She wrote me a bad check that bounced. She lied to her brother to break up his marriage. She a loose s*** that had a child at 15. Don't trust her, she will only let you down. She only thinks of herself.


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Alarm signals
A month before my diagnosis I said to my wife, "I'm certain that at some point I felt well, but I can't remember when."
Alarming changes told me that something was wrong. An increasing decline for over a year in my physical strength and endurance, an increasing slurring of speech, shortness of breath, and a general overall angst now had a known cause–ALS.
- Attempting to play horse shoes in May 2012 at a party celebrating a grandson's high school graduation, I could not reach the stake at the other end.
- I was bench pressing 200 lbs — suddenly I could hardly lift the bar.
- While hiking with my family up an easy "old lady's" incline, I had to stop repeatedly to catch my breath–previously my wife and I had hiked many difficult climbs in the Rocky Mountains.
- I developed a slurring of speech.
- During a long bicycle ride I labored to raise my head above the handle bars to see where I was going.
- Climbing into my boat or Ford F-150 became inceasingly difficult.
ALS has brought about major changes in my life.
Five years ago I was riding a bicycle 24 miles a day. Today I spend my waking hours in an electric wheelchair. Five years ago I was teaching high school history classes. Today no one understands my speech. Five years ago I was very self-reliant. Today I cannot bathe myself, clothe myself, open a door by myself, or turn pages in a book very well. I breathe, aided by a ventilator.
ALS is a terminal disease, but I do not fear death.
I am a Christian, so I do not fear death. When I die physically I will enter heaven, not because I deserve it or have earned it. Jesus Christ, through his death and resurrection, has, as my substitute, paid the penalty that hung over my head, and God the Father has accepted Christ's death as total payment for my sinful arrogance, self-will, and disobedience.
Since my diagnosis, things I had previously given much attention to (e.g.football scores, the latest smart phones, the daily news and politics) now seem non essential. And things which I thought were "down the road awhile" are suddenly "here and now."
In the New Testament (Colossians 1:22) is found an astounding declaration that I recite to myself at least once daily.
"Once you were alienated from God and were an enemy in your mind because of your evil behavior. But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation."
Personal information
Name: Ken Wackes
Home: Crystal River, Florida, U.S.A.
ALS Diagnosis:
- Onset of Symptoms: June 2012 — slurring speech, loss of muscle strength
- Initial diagnosis: January 4, 2014, North Florida Medical Center, Jacksonville
- Confirmation of diagnosis: March 10, 2014, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville
- Current support: ALS Clinic, University of South Florida, Tampa
Married: Ruth (1960-present)
Adult Children: 3
Grandchildren: 10
- Christian missionary living with Ekari tribe in West Papua (New Guinea) – 1964-1969
- Associate minister, Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, FL – 1973-2004
- Headmaster, Westminster Academy, Fort Lauderdale, FL – 1973-2004
- Executive Director, Christian Schools of Florida – 2005-2015
- Chief Executive Director, Christian Schools of Florida – 2015-present
Education: Fort Lauderdale High School, Nyack College, Manhattan School of Music, Jaffray School of Missions, Columbia Theological Seminary, Vanderbilt University


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As FEMA aid increases, experts warn of financial crisis
Posted Oct 3, 2011
Media Outlet:
Philadelphia Inquirer
FEMA aid a disaster in the making?
In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has worked diligently to encourage people to apply for assistance. So far, more than 35,000 in the region have done so. But some economists and risk experts wonder whether the nation is spending its way toward a disaster of another type — financial. J. David Cummins and his colleagues at Temple's Fox School of Business estimate that by the end of the century, the cumulative federal disaster price tag could spiral into the trillions.


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A Home in the Digital World
October 17, 2018
So you're a journalism student. This is a tough time to do what you're doing. No question. According to Data USA, American colleges grant well over 10,000 journalism degrees a year. And sure, some of those are graduate degrees; so not all of those diplomas are going to newly minted journalists. Only most of them. But according to the Pew Research Center, the number of newsroom jobs dropped by 23 percent between 2008 and 2017—from 114,000 to 88,000. A loss of over 26,000 "reporters, editors, photographers and videographers" who "worked in five industries that produce news: newspaper, radio, broadcast television, cable and 'other information services' (the best match for digital-native news publishers)."
Many of the journalists who lost their jobs in that period are trying to hang on in a swiftly shrinking news industry. And those who have jobs are desperate to keep them.
Yet colleges keep pumping out trained journalists.
Here in the Boston area, we continue to have a reasonably strong news sector. But it's taken some serious hits in the last couple of decades. The region's flagship daily newspaper, the Boston Globe, has downsized its staff repeatedly over the years through buyouts and occasional layoffs, and its main competitor, the Boston Herald, was recently bought by a venture capital firm and has become a shadow of its former self in short order. Radio news outlets like WBUR and TV news outlets like WCVB have been somewhat more stable, if smaller, employers of journalists. The biggest weekly newspaper, the Boston Phoenix, folded outright in 2013. And an array of community newspapers have suffered from waves of mergers and consolidations—leaving fewer jobs in that part of the market, as well.
Meaning that students like you keep getting degrees in journalism—and related majors like communications, English, and literature. And you keep fighting to wedge your foot in newsroom doors in hopes of grabbing any of the declining number of full-time reporter jobs while the grabbing's still decent. Despite the lack of anywhere near enough of said jobs to go around in cities like this one.
Why? Well, from my frequent conversations with aspiring journalists from schools around the area, near as I can figure, you all uniformly think that being a journalist is an important job and you're very keen to do it. I'm sure journalism's enduring popularity with students is also partially due to the surprising tenacity with which an air of romance and adventure hangs around the profession—helped along by an array of books and movies from All the President's Men to The Year of Living Dangerously that remain touchstones in popular culture. Even as journalism's reputation continues to take a beating from right-wing politicians and their followers.
The one explanation for your collective ardor for jobs in a waning profession that I've never heard from any journalism student is that you all are somehow doing it for the money. And how could you? Journalism is one of the worst-paying professions out there—with an average annual wage of $51,550 for full-timers in the US last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Though more and more working journalists are freelancers without a steady gig… rendering even that figure functionally fantastical.
Nevertheless, such passion is precisely what motivates my colleagues and me at DigBoston. We're certainly trying to make a living as working journalists… and trying to make it possible for as many of our peers as we can to do the same. But we're mainly in the news game to provide our readers with the information they need to be engaged citizens (and residents) in our still relatively democratic society—while covering all the stuff that makes life worth living. And to have fun doing it.
For us, money isn't the most important consideration. Not because we don't need money to survive like (almost) everyone else. We totally do. Rather because if that were all we were focused on, we wouldn't be able to practice journalism in this era of uncertainty. Since we know that nobody has yet hit upon a new economic model to fund news production anywhere near as successful as the failing old models once were.
Despite that fairly grim reality, we really like to help train other people to be journalists. Especially young people who have decided to take the leap and devote their lives to the trade. To pass the torch and all that. So, periodically, we like to write notes like this one to let journalism students know that if you're serious about risking everything—your future economic security, your love life, and your sanity (on occasion)—to speak truth to power, or simply for the joy of writing solid copy about any subject that you're really passionate about, then we want to talk to you.
We have an increasingly robust internship program at DigBoston. We've been attracting a growing number of fantastic and talented students to spend 6-8 hours a week working with us for a semester (or two). And we haven't reached our capacity. We even accept recent graduates in some cases.
It's a competitive application process, and we don't pick everyone. But if you're a journalism (or photography or multimedia or visual arts or design) student interested in working with a crew that does what we do first and foremost in the service of democracy, drop us a line at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Jason Pramas is executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston.
September 26, 2018
Many people have taken to loudly bemoaning the supposedly sudden arrival of "fake news" since the 2016 presidential election… while becoming belatedly aware of the accompanying slow decline of print newspapers that are—whatever else one might say about them—the beating heart of American journalism.
Every other kind of news media owes its existence to these "dead tree" publications. Traditional radio and TV news outlets, and every form of digital news operation on the internet, are all possible because print newspapers—most commercial, some nonprofit—have been fielding thousands of reporters in hundreds of cities for decades. Doing the kind of deep ground-level reporting that makes all the hot (and more often shallow) takes on other media possible.
Advertising has been the main source of income for commercial print newspapers since the mid-19th century, and the advent of web-based online advertising blew a vast hole in that revenue stream. Precipitating, in no small part, the downward spiral in their fortunes over the last quarter century.
One result of newspapers shrinking and all too often ceasing to exist has been what one might call the rise of the marketers. With fewer and fewer full-time reporters doing their jobs, marketing firms have leapt to the fore. Offering a flood of "free" content to every conceivable type of news operation. Ceaselessly expanding the empire of the original fake news in the process. A fake news that, make no mistake, has existed for as long as there has been news.
Because rich and powerful institutions have always hired marketers or their equivalents. And marketers—in thrall to whichever institution hires them—are paid to lie to the public. And are therefore the polar opposites of (most) journalists. Especially journalists at an independent metro newsweekly like DigBoston.
As a journalist-owned, journalist-run newspaper, we send reporters out into the communities we cover every week in search of information that's as close to whatever truth may be happening as it can be. We then do our damnedest to faithfully report what we observe to our audience.
So, we can say with certainty that no human organization is good all of the time. Least of all the big corporations that run our society. But big corporations are the very institutions that spend the most money on paying marketers to spew propaganda at every level of news media.
And increasingly, understaffed and underfunded news outlets take even this worst of free marketing copy—this disinformation, this fake news—and run it. Day in and day out. The public, for their part, can be forgiven for having trouble discerning reasonably honest reporting from unreasonably dishonest marketing copy. There's nothing new about that either. Some people are critical about any news they encounter. Some are not. But marketing has gotten so sophisticated and so pernicious that even the wary have trouble telling the difference between journalism and propaganda.
At DigBoston, our audience doesn't have to worry about that quandary. We exist to report the news in the public interest. In our own way, and with our own unique broadly left-leaning voice, to be sure. But we take our job very seriously, and we work very hard week in and week out to do it to the best of our collective ability. For 20 years and counting.
Given that, if you know nothing else about us, know this: We do not run the propaganda that paid marketers fill our email inboxes with 24/7. Like this morning's stupid, stupid example entitled "Wondering about a sponsored post." That is, "wondering if you all are brainless enough to run this marketing copy for free and pretend it's a real article by an independent journalist." To which my colleague Chris Faraone gave our standard mocking reply, "$2,000 a post"—a price we know no marketer will ever pay.
However, we're a free newspaper. As such, even more than those bigs that have a number of different ways to make money, we rely almost completely on advertising to keep publishing.
We offer advertisers a lot for their money, even in today's viciously competitive media market. Our ads are obviously cheaper than larger publications. More importantly, though, they reach people who read, who support music and the arts, who are tastemakers, and who… patronize our advertisers.
Because of that fact, our existing advertisers love us. And we love them back.
But we need more of them. We need to grow our news operation if we're going to give the many communities in Boston and environs that we cover the constant attention they deserve. To do that we need to be able to pay more full-time reporters, and part-time ones, too. To do that, we need a bigger business staff and more salespeople.
All of which is only possible if more institutions that could advertise with us—all the local businesses and charities who serve the communities we cover—step up and do so.
Rather than spend advertising dollars on marketers who straight-out lie to people and harm our struggling democracy rather than help it.
Folks interested in advertising with DigBoston can email our sales staff at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Jason Pramas is executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston.
May 16, 2018
In this edition of DigBoston, our Editor-in-Chief Chris Faraone has already written at some length about how Medium—which is essentially a glorified blog farm with a puzzlingly opaque social media component—screwed our nonprofit, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ), a few days back by precipitously terminating the paid subscriptions of dozens of our monthly supporters on the platform.
After we questioned the company's action, a low-level flunky claimed we had been given a whole entire week's advance notice in an email that we subsequently explained we never received. After we very publicly cried bloody murder, and got our plight written up in Nieman Lab and Columbia Journalism Review, Medium leadership offered us, and a number of other small publishers, four months of the income we would have made had they not kicked us to the digital curb.
There are many problems with the way events transpired, but the worst one is the fact that mere mortals such as ourselves do not control our presences on corporate social media bigs in any way, shape, or form. The billionaires that own them—that became rich by creating "walled gardens" under their micromanagement and have stubbornly resisted the creation of public and nonprofit social media alternatives—are the only people that could reasonably be said to control them. Even though many of them have built their fortunes on technology originally created by publicly funded basic scientific research that they were allowed to essentially steal. Not dissimilar from leaders of the former Soviet Union that were allowed to privatize once-public industries and become billionaires themselves. Distorting the politics of various successor states toward oligarchy in the process.
And, under today's robber baron capitalism, billionaires of any provenance are extremely difficult to bring to heel with any kind of public regulation or taxation. Let alone criminal charges.
Medium is hardly the worst, or anywhere near the largest, of the social media scofflaws in question. Its founder, Ev Williams, seems to be a thoughtful and genial enough fellow for someone in his position. But, as F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. … Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different."
Truer words were never spoken. Especially when it comes to a person who has used his power and privilege to change the business model of Medium—a corporation that's been valued in the hundreds of millions—on more than one occasion.
So, BINJ and the other affected publishers are the latest victims of the caprices of a billionaire. Who ironically wants to help improve media with the selfsame company that just made life more difficult for a group of struggling media outlets.
It is precisely for this reason that both the nonprofit side (BINJ) and for-profit side (DigBoston) of this operation that I half-jokingly call the "Greater BINJ-DigBoston Mediaplex" are working to help build alternatives to corporate social media. As we announced in an editorial a couple months ago.
We believe that digital media can only move forward by returning to the most promising visionary thinking of the earliest internet pioneers. Including the idea that only a decentralized communication network can be truly democratic. And that the ethos of democracy must be baked so deeply into its architecture that it can never be displaced.
Our enterprise can only play a small part in this "strategic retreat." But we are pursuing that initiative with vigor. Both by moves we are making to change how BINJ and DigBoston use the internet and by trying to organize our peers in the news industry to change our collective digital lot for the better.
The former effort involves transitioning away from Facebook—which we adjudge to be the worst of the social media giants—and toward first Twitter then other more democratic social media as it emerges. The latter effort—to which we're dedicating a small conference this weekend—involves helping construct the democratic social media alternatives we hope to ultimately focus on.
But even if such voluntarist endeavors succeed in scaling up to control some reasonable percentage of the relevant markets, they will not stop huge social media corporations and the billionaires that control them from continuing to have far more political, economic, and social power than is healthy for a democratic society.
So what will stop them? Not breaking them up into smaller companies. As economist Gar Alperovitz points out in his book, What Then Must We Do? Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution, old-fashioned trust busting always ends up with the smaller companies reforming into new giants. Thanks largely to "regulatory capture": Big corporations colonizing regulatory agencies with insiders and then doing what they want—as we've seen most clearly of late with former telecom exec Ajit Pai getting the top seat at the FCC, then killing net neutrality.
Which way forward then? Alperowitz says that even the libertarian economists of the Chicago school—most famously Milton Friedman—identified the futility of breaking up huge companies. Leading Friedman's mentor Henry C. Simons to quip, "Every industry should be effectively competitive or socialized." Failing to do so, he and other Chicago economists thought, would lead to an ongoing series of societal crises. Which would certainly include the new kinds of crises that corporate social media has sparked. Notably "surveillance capitalism" where consumers' every move is being monitored and thought anticipated in the service of maximizing profit in ways never before seen. With all the resulting negative outcomes—like social media addiction and political chaos—externalized to a failing democratic system largely controlled by an ever-shrinking number of multinationals and financial concerns.
And how best to socialize corporate social media? Alperowitz suggests turning the companies controlling the commanding heights of any sector of the economy into public utilities. So it must go with major social media companies. They must be converted into a heavily regulated and government-managed utility in such a way as to maximize democratic decentralized digital communication and provide it as cheaply as possible for the good of all. While, I would add, activists on the ground continue to develop a constellation of independent social media projects run by nonprofits, cooperatives, and social benefit corporations around the new government-funded network to allow for maximum information and technological diversity—and keep a future public social media utility honest.
Some kind of national security state panopticon is not what we're aiming for here. Rather, the new utility could be run by elected regional boards with mandated seats for key community constituencies and space for lots of meaningful grassroots input.
Doing all that—plus related work to socialize telecoms and cable companies—will take a massive protest movement. Like most everything that involves uprooting entrenched institutions and replacing them with new, more popular institutions. And that movement will have to be international. It's the only way to go. Because social media corporations are multinational, and most governments—corporate-dominated as they are—won't do the job on their own. Not without a protracted struggle.
Going forward, DigBoston (and BINJ) will be looking to ally with good organizations willing to fight hard on these issues. And we'll be sure to let readers know which groups we think are doing the best work as they emerge on the political stage.
So, stay tuned to these pages. We'll be doing our damnedest to guide you through what is sure to be a wild ride.
Jason Pramas is the executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston, and the network director of the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
April 19, 2018
What does it mean to support a news outlet? Clearly the answer to that question varies widely depending on whether the outlet is big or small, nonprofit or for profit, subscription- or advertising-based.
But in an era when news organizations of all sizes are having a great deal of difficulty keeping their doors open, it's an important one to consider.
For DigBoston, the answer to that question must be based on how we organize our operation. As we've said in past editorials, our organization is very porous to the world around us. We don't cut ourselves off from the communities we serve. Quite the reverse. We're always working to connect more strongly to those communities. To serve them better.
In fact, we are part of many Boston-area communities. You can view our staff, freelance talent, interns, contractors, and advertisers as a network of personal networks—all of which pay close attention to the news we produce together. Everyone in this primary network then connects to the broad spectrum of local communities that make up our overall audience.
The better a job we do as journalists, the more that audience becomes part of our primary network—becomes, in short, directly connected to us.
The more that happens, the better our news is. Because people who know us personally, naturally come to trust us. We then hear about community developments faster and faster, and the information we communicate gets concomitantly more accurate and more relevant.
So to support DigBoston, the most important thing that you can do as an audience member is to reach out to us the way we're reaching out to you. To become part of our primary network.
And here are eight ways you can do that.
Read the paper
This seems like the most obvious suggestion, but it is not. Because reading us doesn't mean reading us every now and then. It means actively looking for us every week. Making it a habit to check out every issue we produce… and making Dig a part of your life, and therefore more strongly part of the culture that makes our city unique. Which is easy enough to do—especially for people living in and around Boston. We typically start putting new articles online on digboston.com every Tuesday, and our print edition hits the stands in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and busy parts of Brookline on Thursdays.
Show it to your friends
Don't keep us to yourself. Pass around our articles on email and social media. And, more importantly, keep a paper copy on hand and physically pass it around to friends and family. Remember that stuff about networks above? By reading us often and sharing our work with your personal network, you're helping build a fan base that interacts more strongly with us over the long term. Which is a recipe for ensuring DigBoston continues to produce good journalism for many years to come.
Use our information
We like it when we make people think about issues of the day. That's definitely part of why we do what we do. But we love it when people act on the news we put out. If we write about a concert or play or art show, go check it out. If we introduce you to a political activist campaign that you agree with, plug in. Get involved. There's little point in outlets like DigBoston producing news if no one acts on the stories we report.
Talk to us
We say this regularly, but we'll say it again: You like one of our articles? Don't like one? A fan of one of our writers, photographers, or artists? Drop us a line. Say hi. It might take us a day or three to get back to you, but we do our best to talk to readers that want to talk to us. For most purposes, emailing us at firstname.lastname@example.com is the best way to connect.
Frequent our advertisers
Another seemingly obvious thing, but we make the money that enables us to put out our newsweekly through advertising. And what's the best way to keep the ad money flowing? Giving your business to institutions that advertise with us. And making it known that you heard about them from DigBoston. Know a similar enterprise? Spread the word that we're a great place to advertise and that we're helping a number of industries grow locally. Consider yourself part of our sales force. Like seriously, because we're actually hiring a salesperson. Interested in selling for us? Send us a resume and cover letter by email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Advertise with us
Are you a decision maker who's looking to drum up business in Boston? Then how about buying an ad? You can start with a four- to six-week run, see how your campaign does, and if you're happy then make it a long-term contract. Drop us an email to firstname.lastname@example.com to get started. Mention that you read this editorial, and we'll give you a nice discount. Because of course we will.
Donate?! Yeah, we know it's kind of counterintuitive. A for-profit company asking for donations through crowdfunding or at least simple, unobtrusive pop-ups on the new website we're building this year. But even large news outlets like the Guardian are doing it. Because news production is expensive and profit margins for newspapers like DigBoston are razor-thin. We put out a fine product every week with a handful of (shall we say) modestly paid regular staffers and dozens of "stringers" (freelancers). No one is making big bucks. We're all doing it because we believe in the importance of good community journalism to the democratic society we're trying to help save. If you'd like to see us expanding our news operation and bringing you more and more news you can't find anywhere else, definitely toss us a few bucks when we ask for it. Because donations help us pay for the kind of longer-form hard news that a weekly paper like ours couldn't afford to produce regularly without some extra cash.
Give us credit
This one applies to a very specific subset of our audience. We understand our role in the metro news ecology includes acting as an early warning system for larger outlets like the Boston Globe. But that doesn't mean we think it's cool when our colleagues at the "bigs" get "inspired" by our work and basically replicate it without granting us the simple courtesy of listing us as a source. We may kick such outlets around from time to time on political and journalistic grounds, but we still mention them as sources all the time. Some reciprocity would be nice. For real.
So that's our list. What's the takeaway? It's not "data" or "algorithms" or certainly not robots that are going to keep journalism relevant in 21st-century America.
It's people. Working together to make sure that DigBoston, and other news outlets like us all over the nation, can keep doing what we're doing… in the public interest.
And it all starts with each of you, taking the time to read our work. Every week.
Thank you.
Jason Pramas is executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston.
March 21, 2018
A decade back it seemed only natural for news publications like DigBoston to stake out turf on Facebook. After all, it provided an easy way for us to reach our audience on a regular basis—via a social media platform that was well on its way to becoming the ubiquitous global behemoth it is today.
But now it seems like a particularly good moment to discuss this publication's evolving thinking on our use of corporate social media. In the wake of the huge and growing Cambridge Analytica scandal that cost Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg $6 billion of his net worth after that story broke last week, according to Fortune.
Because Facebook is not working for us anymore—as individuals and as the staff of a metro news weekly.
What was once a fun way to keep in touch with friends and co-workers has turned into a huge drag. Every moment of our time on the social network is completely controlled by Zuckerberg's minions. Who work to make it ever more addictive. To keep users like us on Facebook for more and more of our time—thus spending less and less of our time on any possible competitor's network.
Yet the company also carefully limits users' access to our own connections. And it continues to make repeated changes to its "algorithm" (the code that governs, among other things, what content users see) and other structural changes that are seriously damaging individuals'—and to our point, news outlets'—ability to reach our own audiences.
It is now no more possible for individuals to communicate with even a fraction of their connections on the platform than it is for DigBoston to reach more than a handful of our 24,000 followers. Even if we pay a bunch of money for the privilege, which page managers like us are forced to do. On our two branded pages that Facebook refuses to let us merge… because one page has a blue check mark and one page has a gray check mark, you see. And blue check mark pages may not be merged with gray check mark pages. Facebook "help desk" has spoken. And once Facebook makes a pronouncement, however cryptically and episodically, it cannot be challenged. By conventional means, at least.
Not that we're surprised that Facebook has its own agenda. Like many reasonably technologically savvy journalists, we understand how the company works. Digital marketer Mitch Joel explained it succinctly in a helpful Maclean's piece on the Cambridge Analytica affair: "Facebook's business model is not based on content, marketing or advertising. You—the consumer—are the product and the money that Facebook generates is based on how well they can monetize your data and target you to their brand partners."
The problem is that we understand all too well that Facebook does what's best for Facebook—first, last, and always. And my DigBoston colleagues and I have had enough.
Like the staff of tens of thousands of other news organizations around the planet, we know that we have been complicit in Facebook's rise to power.
We have posted all our content to Facebook. Which has provided free high-quality information that helped attract our existing audience and many others besides to Facebook's "walled garden" social network. The vast conglomerate then monetized that audience as described above. Used the vast array of personal data at their command to steal the entire news industry's digital advertising base away—including ours. And has the temerity to charge us to reach the audience we helped bring to them.
Adding insult to injury, according to the Guardian, companies like Cambridge Analytica have found ways to acquire and weaponize that personal data at the behest of operatives like Steve Bannon. Who then use it to help throw elections like the 2016 presidential contest to the political faction of their choice. To name but one of a myriad number of ways that rich and powerful interests—including Facebook itself—are using this "surveillance capitalism," as it has come to be called, to attempt to control the behavior of entire populations for their own gain.
Given that state of affairs, DigBoston has no choice but to start to move away from Facebook. As our editor-in-chief Chris Faraone so colorfully put it in a related context a couple of months back, "… fuck Facebook. With a big, blue middle finger."
But move away to what? All the major social networks are owned by big companies doing basically the same thing Facebook is doing. Though none have its reach and market share. Some, like Instagram, are even owned by Facebook.
In the short term, we're starting to focus more on Twitter—a social media giant that's slightly less mercenary and slightly more responsive to public pressure. The Lyft to Facebook's Uber, if you will.
In the longer term, we see no ideal alternative on the horizon.
So we've resolved to help create that alternative.
Think this through with us: DigBoston, like legions of other news outlets, has to find a social media solution that meets our need to control and monetize our own data in a platform that our audience is willing to use on a regular basis. Our audience needs a social network that won't exploit them.
There have been numerous attempts to start standalone "less evil" social media platforms in opposition to Facebook et al—Diaspora, Ello, and Minds to name but three. None of them have succeeded. Why? Because no one knows exactly what causes people to abandon existing social networks for new ones. Sometimes people just bail. Friendster, Orkut, and MySpace were once hot, and now are not. So every prediction of Facebook's demise at the hands of a new entrant over the last many years has proved to be premature. And every claim to have the magic solution that will cause millions of users to jump ship from Facebook and other major social media has proved to be a pipe dream.
It is true that Facebook's audience growth is slowing. Usage in the key US and Canadian markets is dropping, according to the LA Times. And the current scandal has already caused the company to lose more than 6 percent of its value on Monday—over $35 billion—according to Fortune. Yet it could easily bounce back. It remains an immensely powerful multinational. And if it convinces its shareholders to stay the course, it can weather almost any conceivable political storm.
What will it take to essentially pull the rug out from under Facebook and companies like it? Returning to the promise of the early internet to democratize global communication, and giving more control over the means of that communication to individuals and the full array of human institutions alike.
There are interesting experiments going on in new grassroots social networks that DigBoston is keeping an eye on. Decentralized federated microblogging systems (think an agglomeration of Twitter-like networks that talk to each other) like Mastodon. Fully decentralized social media projects like IndieWeb—a network of "creators" who have developed tools that allow the owners of independent personal websites to interact with each other. Like a Facebook without the Facebook. Without a central control hub of any kind, really.
Projects like these are great ideas. But they rely on volunteers, and sometimes a handful of low-paid staff, to function. Meaning they can achieve an initial burst of success, only to suffer a long decline to irrelevance as their evangelists move on to other ventures. Plus you typically need to be someone in or around the tech scene and affiliated subcultures to know about their existence. And they tend to require a fair amount of technical expertise to use.
Which is to say that these carefully thought out super democratic social media experiments are not likely to provide the alternative DigBoston and like-minded folks the world over are seeking to build. Not anytime soon. Mastodon had just over a million users last month, according to Mastodon User Count—largely due its community deploying functioning phone apps like the nifty Amaroq for iOS. But that's obviously a drop in the bucket compared to the 1.4 billion active daily users that Facebook reported in Q4 of 2017. Even allowing for the fact that a nonzero percentage of those accounts are fake, according to Yahoo Finance. And not including many more inactive accounts.
Still, we can but soldier on. For our part, we're calling a meeting of journalists and techies later this year. Specifically, editors and publishers of Boston area news outlets and high-level coders associated with thoughtful social media projects like Mastodon and IndieWeb. We're going to compare notes and see if we can start working together to provide better communications solutions for our news organizations and our audiences that will go at least some small fraction of the way to providing a democratic alternative to Facebook and other corporate networks.
We'll definitely let you all know how that meeting goes. But those of you who think you need to be there, drop me a line at email@example.com and tell me why.
Jason Pramas is executive editor and associate publisher of DigBoston. His sad and lonely Mastodon account is @email@example.com. Sign up for a free account at mastodon.social and say hi.


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Favorite Food Spots
Pacific Sourdough Breads and Pastries – only open Thursdays and Saturdays from 10 to 3 but worth the wait and trip! Blog spot
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Hilltop Cafe & Bistro, Waldport – great family owned and operated spot just south of Waldport's downtown (yes, at the top of the hill).
Love the gourmet burgers and organic produce options. This is self-serve restaurant so place your order at the counter.
On a sunny day sit at the outside picnic tables at Luna Sea in Yachats for some great lunchtime fish & chips (combo basket with tuna, salmon, and cod – Yum!)
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Drift Inn, Yachats – family-friendly restaurant serving breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day
Ona, Yachats – casual atmosphere where you can explore coastal cuisine, overlooking the Yachats River and the Pacific Ocean and right in the heart of Yachats' downtown corridor.
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Local Ocean, Newport – located at the east end of Newport's Historic Bayfront. Tip: sit upstairs and try their famous fish tacos or fresh crab. Cooking at the house? They also have a great fish market with catches straight off the local fishing boats.
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Nana's Irish Pub in Nye Beach – outdoor patio seating good if you've got your dog with you.
Sorella in Nye Beach, Newport – handmade Italian, casual dining
Fresh Oysters from Oregon Oyster Farms in Newport
Saffron Salmon, Newport – panoramic bay views and showcases northwest cuisine utilizing local and fresh ingredients
Depoe Bay
Restaurant Beck at Little Whaler Cove Inn, Depoe Bay – a great place for special occasions
Our vote for best salt water taffy – Ainslee's in Depoe Bay
What were your favorites?
Use the contact form on the right and let us know.
If you want to take advantage of the fully equipped kitchens here a few places to grab groceries.
- Newport: Fred Meyers, Safeway, Walmart, JC Thriftway
- Waldport: Ray's
- Yachats: C&K Market


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Microsoft Office 365 users have been warned to check their privacy settings after it emerged some files uploaded to the company's document-sharing platform were publicly accessible.
File-sharing service docs.com is part of the firm's Office 365 cloud platform and enables users to upload and share files with anyone they wish.
However, it has now been discovered – initially by Buzzfeed – that the site stores files publicly by default, resulting in some users unintentionally sharing sensitive information, including passwords and health data, to the database which can also be publicly searched by anyone.
National insurance documents, pension forms and lists of passwords were found among search results, which can be accessed without a log-in.
Cyber security experts have now warned it serves as the latest example of web-users not fully understanding where files can go when they are uploaded.
Security specialist Mark James from ESET said: "One of the problems with words like 'Cloud' is people's perception of exactly what it means.
"We need to understand that ultimately, you're just storing your information on someone else's computer.
"Companies have an obligation to protect our privacy and in most cases, they can always do better, but usually the final decision of where we store our data is ours and one that we should review regularly."
Cloud computing services work by housing data on remote servers rather than in one place, with users then able to log in and access their files on any device.
Microsoft confirmed it was aware of the problem and was working with any users who may have been affected.
"Docs.com lets customers showcase and share their documents with the world," a company spokesman said.
"As part of our commitment to protect customers, we're taking steps to help those who may have inadvertently published documents with sensitive information. Customers can review and update their settings by logging into their account at www.docs.com."
When uploading files to docs.com, users are shown a message that warns them that by default their files are "public on the web", however some have criticised the inclusion of a "do not show me this message again" option in the window, which stops any future reminders when uploading more files.
Javvad Malik, from security firm AlienVault, criticised Microsoft for not making it clearer to consumers how data was being stored.
"It highlights the need for cloud service providers to be clear in communicating how users' data is used, shared, and stored, but also the need for users of services to be wary of the risks that come with such activities," he said.


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End the Christmas suspensions: Hundreds of bus
drivers to protest at Auckland
Source: First Union
Hundreds of NZ Bus drivers suspended by their employer over Christmas for a non-disruptive free fares protest will be demonstrating outside Auckland Transport's office, calling for an intervention to fix Auckland's broken bus system and get drivers back on the road.
Outside Auckland Transport, 20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue (off Halsey Street & Fanshawe Street), Westhaven, Auckland
08:30am, Monday 9th December 2019
Over 800 FIRST Union and Tramways Union members have been taking partial strike action over the last week by refusing to collect passenger fares, which drivers had chosen as a non-disruptive protest after rejecting NZ Bus's last offer.
On Friday, drivers delivered notice of their intention to continue the free fares protest through to Christmas Eve, similarly to their colleagues at Go Bus, who are also locked in a long-running dispute over wages and conditions with their employer.
NZ Bus's response, received on Friday, was to suspend their entire unionised workforce, cancel all major bus services during the Christmas rush, and attempt to blame drivers for the suspension and thus the cancelled services.
Jared Abbott, FIRST Union Secretary for Transport, Logistics and Manufacturing, said that while drivers are frustrated and shocked by the heavy-handed suspensions, they would not be cowed and were taking their protest to Auckland Transport, who contract NZ Bus as service provider for urban bus routes:
"Let me be absolutely clear: drivers opted for a clean protest that kept the buses running and the public informed on why they were striking - NZ Bus and Auckland Transport are the ones who've made the decision to cancel services during the busiest period of the year," said Mr Abbott.
"Auckland Transport have been aware of the crisis occurring in the bus industry for years - the issues in dispute are not new. It seems like the wheels of bureaucracy only start moving when we are taking industrial action of some sort, and as soon as we take our foot off the pedal, nothing happens."
"Despite what the company are saying, we are seeking a fair pay rate for all hours worked and a reduction of the unpaid book-off time. Currently drivers start work in the morning and can finish 12 hours later having not even made the equivalent of minimum wage - that's not fair."
"The public are welcome to join us - these are your buses."


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Sorry to make our three readers stare for more than a week at that hideous picture of the three pounds of meatloaf I ate at Logan's Roadhouse. Husbear's still in Killeen, plugging away on this commercial 15 hours a day 7 days a week, while I have undertaken the job of finding us a place to live.
I've had an awful lot of conversations in the past week that have gone something like this:
me: "Yes, I saw an ad on Craigslist for a 1/1 apartment in North Central Austin - where exactly is the apartment?"
agent: "Well, how familiar are you with the area just south of Dallas?"
me: ....
And when I've finally gotten in to see a couple of apartment locators, they've been dismissive of our insistence on a 1/1 within 5 miles north of downtown for under $800 a month, so they've been repeatedly taking me to 165-unit Godzilla complexes in bumfuck nowhere that cost... wait for it... $800 a month!
I actually looked at an apartment in an INDUSTRIAL PARK, between UPS and the USPS processing facility! Half of our rent would have gone towards maintaining the three "sparkling" pools, the 30-piece fitness center, and the indoor basketball court!
I finally made contact yesterday with a locating company that works with smaller properties (Igloo Hunters, and they've been great), and the agent showed me four places out of six that I could really see working for us. I've had to give up on the dream of bringing our washer and dryer with us, but that's workable, as long as we have a dishwasher again.
Hopefully, we'll have this worked out by the end of the week, and I can go back to posts about how much we miss the wondrous food of Southeast Asia, especially when we find ourselves in Killeen eating 1. room service or 2. Papa John's. I kid you not.


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The German medical staff conducts inoculations of French prisoners of war in a hospital ward at the prison camp at Meschede. Typhus became the scourge of POW camps and the disease could spread like wild fire in the cramped conditions of the enlisted men's barracks. Prisoners of war from Russia and Romania carried typhus and other infectious diseases into captivity and after the contagion at Wittenberg, German authorities went to great lengths to prevent another outbreak.
Germany, Meschede, Medical, Vaccinations, French POWs, German Doctors, Hospital Ward, World War 1914-1918


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Thank you both. I tried the drag and drop, thought that would work great as I was to understand it, but ended up with doubles, triples, etc. of almost everyone.
John, you understood me correctly and if I could insert a screen shot here I could show you two my dilemma. At this point I am deleting all databases and backups that are over a year old, as well as extra databases of the same families. I've been focused on one particular tree this past week and entered a LOT of info. As far as connecting with Ancestry and Family Search, I'll pass. As I thought, it only adds to the confusion.
I thought keeping each side of the family within their own database would be less confusing, but, as you said, John, that is not the case.
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I have ended up with 3+ files/databases for each of the four different family trees plus I've added even more since incorporating Ancestry. I'm finding I've entered information into one or another of the files/databases basically scattering the info. I am so confused!!!!
How do I keep and merge the info from all of them into one main database, one for each family tree? (Does this make sense?) How to best prevent choosing the wrong database and causing this problem again? Do I delete old rmgc "duplicate" databases?
I've read through the book as well as watched several webinars and this particular problem of mine doesn't seem to be addressed.
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It's extremely fitting that Harry Potter's Fred and George Weasley were born on April Fools' Day. To say the twins had a mischievous side would be a bit of an understatement. They were masters of jokes and pranks. The brothers managed to get into all sorts of trouble and never loose their prankster spirit while also being essential wizards in the fight against Voldemort and his Death Eaters.
The legend of Fred and George will not only live on in the many inventions they created, but in the memory of the numerous pranks they played on others. Whether it was family or schoolmate, a group or an individual, those who experienced and witnessed the pranks of the Weasley twins would not soon forget them.
To honor the twins' April Fools' Day birthday, we look back at their most memorable pranks and count down to the very best!
Turning Neville into a Canary
This was a bit unintentional, but nevertheless one of the most unforgettable results of a joke item created by the twins. In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Harry is celebrating completing the first task of the Triwizard Tournament with everyone in the Gryffindor common room. Fred offers Hermione a jam tart, but she looks at it suspiciously. Fred assures her that he hasn't done anything to them and it's the custard creams she should be careful around, which Neville isn't happy to hear since he was biting into one! He spits it out only to have Fred tell him that was a joke. Neville goes back to eating them only to suddenly turn into a large canary! Fred realizes it was the custard creams after all, and they watch as Neville quickly molts and, after losing his feathers, returns to normal. He joins the others in laughing as it's revealed this is one of Fred and George's inventions: a Canary Cream! While the invention itself isn't one of their top bests, the unintentional prank and how Neville is able to recognize and join in the hilarity of the moment is quite impressive! Who can forget a large canary appearing during such a celebration?
Harry Potter Order of the PHoenix - video game - portable swamp
A Hogwarts Swamp
One of the most brilliant inventions of the Weasley twins is the portable swamp that appeared in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. They use it in a wonderful prank before leaving Hogwarts for good. Basically, Fred and George use it to create a swamp in a fifth-floor corridor. Dolores Umbridge asks them if they found it amusing after cornering the twins with the Inquisitorial Squad, to which Fred replies "pretty amusing, yeah." In the books, this is what finally makes Fred and George say goodbye to Hogwarts and they fly off telling Peeves to "give her hell from us." The two did not tell anyone how to remove the swamp of course, though Professor Flitwick was able to get rid of most of it eventually. It was a perfect final prank from the twins for messing with Umbridge!
Harry Potter Prisoner of Azkaban~ Marauders Map scene
Stealing the Marauder's Map
When Fred and George pass the Marauder's Map on to Harry in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, we learn how exactly the secret to their success as they call it came to be in their possession. It was all the result of a common prank, setting a Dungbomb off in the corridor during their first year. Filch took them to his office where they saw a filing cabinet marked "Confiscated and Highly Dangerous." Unable to resist, they continued their Dungbomb themed fun by setting off another, heading to the cabinet, and grabbing what turned out to be the map. What started as a small prank turned into a masterful one that ended with them stealing an item that would help them immensely in their troublemaking ways for years to come.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Fred and George Weasley Apparate
By the time of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Fred and George are 17 and no longer have to worry about being punished for using underage magic. That opens the door to many different prank possibilities, especially once they receive their license to apparate! This leads to so many chances for them to cause trouble as they can appear anywhere with a loud pop and scare those around them. In the beginning of the film we see this in action at Grimmauld Place when they suddenly appear and interrupt a conversation between Harry, Ron, and Hermione and then again when they unfortunately give their mother a fright as they head downstairs. I bet that was far from the last time Molly Weasley found herself surprised by the twins apparating!
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Trying to enter the Triwizard Tournament
While this idea didn't exactly work, it's still notable as one of their most ambitious acts and one with quite interesting consequences! In Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Fred and George decide to try and enter their names into the goblet so they can participate in the Triwizard Tournament. The twins decide they can fool the age line by taking an aging potion and it appears to work at first. Unfortunately, the triumph doesn't last long and they are soon flung away from the goblet and immediately grow white beards. Even though it didn't work, it was an admirable effort from these the brothers. We would expect nothing less!
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone - Fred and George Weasley
Switching Names
This is a simple and yet classic prank that twins everywhere probably pull at least once, but it never gets old! We see Fred and George first try this in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone at King's Cross station. The twins confuse their mother with the joke when she calls Fred Fred. Of course, she has it right all along but they just can't resist! While the twins would develop much more complex jokes through the years, sometimes you can't argue with something so classic working so well.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - Fireworks Fred and George Weasley
Setting off fireworks in Hogwarts
I believe Weasleys' Wildfire Whiz-bangs are the twins' greatest invention and the prank they used them for in order to say goodbye to Hogwarts in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is one of the best they ever performed. The fireworks gave Umbridge a huge headache as they are very difficult to get rid of and they quickly spread throughout the school. In the book, the other professors acted like they couldn't get rid of them without the new headmistress so she was running around everywhere to deal with them. While being cornered about the swamp is what made the twins leave in the novel, in the film it's these fireworks that give the twins their big send off in a truly spectacular fashion. In both uses though, it is an amazing prank the likes of which Hogwarts probably never saw again once the two left!
Bewitching snowballs to hit Professor Quirrell
This is a prank that's brilliant mostly for a reason that the twins didn't even realize! In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Fred and George get into a little bit of trouble in December. Apparently they "were punished for bewitching several snowballs so that they followed Quirrell around, bouncing off the back of his turban." Now the twins probably bothered a lot of professors with various pranks over the years, but there are few that can top this because it wasn't just Quirrell they were bothering. During Harry's first year at Hogwarts, Quirrell was never alone because Voldemort was always with him—and his face was in the back of his head covered by the turban! Yes, the twins managed to prank Voldemort himself by repeatedly hitting him with snowballs. Nothing can beat that!
Which Weasley twin prank is your favorite? Tell us in the comments!


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BOSTON - One day after Aaron Hernandez's family donated the convicted murderer's brain to science, Ursula Ward, the mother of his victim, issued a "friendly challenge" to the New England Patriots and the NFL players association.
Ward has been pursuing a wrongful death lawsuit against Hernandez since 2013. He was a Patriot readying for his fourth season at the time that he killed Lloyd by firing six bullets into Lloyd's body. The Patriots cut Hernandez immediately after he was arrested on June 26, 2013, but Ward's attorney, Douglas Sheff, urged the team and the union to voluntarily pay damages to the Ward family.
Hernandez was convicted of killing Lloyd on April 15, 2015. Hernandez was acquitted of a double homicide across the street from Sheff's office last Friday.
"We want to provide the Patriots with an opportunity to become something more," Sheff said, "not just champions of football, to become champions of justice."
Earlier in the week, Hernandez hanged himself in prison. An archaic law regarding abatement may allow Hernandez to be considered innocent in death because he did not exhaust his appeals process before taking his life.
Sheff noted that the civil case is at the stage where a determination of damages will be reached. He insisted that a vacated verdict in criminal court would not affect his civil case.
"I can't speak to what the Patriots will do," Sheff said. "We issued them a friendly challenge. It sure would be nice if they took us up on our invitation."
Hernandez signed a five-year contract worth up to $40 million with the Patriots in 2012 after his second season. He was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole when he was found dead in his prison cell Wednesday morning. The Chief Medical Examiner ruled Hernandez's death a suicide Thursday afternoon.
Sheff labeled his request of $6 million that he believes Ward is owed "of little consequence to the team" but of "tremendous assistance" to the grieving families.
"That would be the right thing to do," Sheff said.
Hernandez's old house in North Attleborough, Mass., is on the market for $1.3 million. It has five bedrooms and seven bathrooms. It spans over 5,000 square feet.
Ward maintained that she was simply seeking justice after losing her only son. She has daughters and noted that she continued to think about Hernandez in light of this week's suicide.
"I pray to God he finds comfort and God will forgive him," Ward said.
Hernandez, like Lloyd, was 27 when he died. Hernandez pumped six .45-caliber bullets into Lloyd after driving Lloyd to an undeveloped section of an industrial park by Hernandez's manse.
Hernandez's brain was donated to Boston University's research center for Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy or CTE on Thursday.


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Faulty Breathalyzers Render DUI Cases Useless
The credibility of the famous breathalyzer device has come under new light due to the drunk driving case in Pennsylvania. This device is deployed to measure the content of alcohol in the driver's blood and is thought to have a significant impact on cases involving impaired driving across the country. However, there are two important reasons as seen within this case that have considerably reduced the reliability of these devices for use as evidence against drunk drivers.
Refusing a Breathalyzer in Pennsylvania
Firstly, in the case of breathalyzer use in Pennsylvania, Judge Lawrence F. Clark Jr. of the Dauphin County Court of Common Pleas ruled that the readings from a breathalyzer can be used as evidence within the state only if they fall between the range 0.05 and 0.15. The police calibrate blood alcohol content within these levels, therefore, only the evidence falling within this range will be taken into consideration. According to the decision of Judge Clark, these devices cannot provide a reading that is admissible in court from the defendant's breath outside the range of 0.05 % to 0.15%. The acceptable BAC limit for those operating a vehicle is .08%.
Secondly, it has been reported that the internal testing conditions of the devices go against the Pennsylvania law. This fact has been brought forward in the testimony of an employee from CMI, a company that makes breathalyzers, thus reducing the reliability of the devices as evidence in Pennsylvania DUI cases and across the country. The trial also included the testimony of Brian T. Faulkner, an engineer at CMI, according to which the initial test for device to measure the DUI suspect's breath was conducted in house. This is a clear violation of the Pennsylvania law which requires testing to be conducted at an independent, third-party laboratory. Faulker's testimony brought up an odd way in which CMI used a zero reading when making initial calibrations that could potentially distort the results when matching device readings to different levels of blood alcohol content. This further puts a question mark on the state use of these devices for DUI cases.
Testing for Breath Devices
On the issue, the analysis of the devices by Steven Epstein is important to consider. Epstein has compared the testing of devices by CMI to the movie The Wizard of Oz where "Toto pulls open the curtain". In his opinion, CMI is forcing "data through the zero point on their data chart, making it forensically unreliable." In the process, the testimony of Mr. Faulkner greatly puts the credibility of CMI into doubt. However, the concern remains that DUI defense attorneys in states without similar laws can use the inadequate independent verification of these devices to dispute the reliability of the manufacturer.
The flaws that have been pointed out in CMI testing can be brought about by defense attorney in other states within United States as well because the scientific laws are not dependent on geographic boundaries according to Epstein. The judge in Pennsylvania could have considered the results of the breathalyzer as the local range of 0.05 to 0.15 without accounting for the fact that the device had manufacturing defects. Defense attorneys states outside of Pennsylvania can make use of this argument and can get the breathalyzer checked from the law enforcement agencies.
The most practical thing to do right now is to shift back to the blood test methods for DUI suspects that are caught in the period of time waiting for an appeal to the high court against flawed devices. In the long run, law enforcement agencies around the country will have to let go of the breathalyzer and shift back to the old school methods unless all flaws from the devices are removed and the technology is updated.
Commonwealth v. "H" (DUI case)
Client was charged with three separate DUI cases calling for mandatory minimum imprisonment of 90 days on each case. Client was advised to seek immediate intensive alcohol counseling. Client was sentenced to 1 year of house arrest after serving 3 days in the county prison.
Commonwealth v. "C" (Felony drug/Firearms case)
Client was charged with felony Delivery of drugs and illegal gun possession and was facing a mandatory 3-6 year prison sentence in the State prison system. Client was sentenced to one year of house arrest.
Commonwealth v. "S"
Client was charged with simple assault, domestic. After a hearing where evidence and testimony was presented, the entire case was dismissed by Judge Leonard Brown.
State of New Jersey v. "H"
Charges for young man charged with second degree aggravated assault were downgraded to third degree and he was accepted into the County Pretrial Intervention program with charges to be dismissed and record expunged after one year of misconduct free behavior.
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MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) — Karin Housley has enough votes to be declared the winner of the Republican primary for Minnesota's U.S. Senate seat up for special election later this year.
As Sen. Tina Smith was also named the winner on the DFL side means that's who Housley will face off against in the general election in November.
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Smith has served in this Senate seat since it was vacated by Al Franken, who resigned amid a number of sexual misconduct allegations last year. Prior to that, Smith was Gov. Mark Dayton's lieutenant governor.
Housley faced no major challengers when launching her campaign in the days after Franken announced his resignation over allegations of sexual misconduct.
His departure unexpectedly put a Democrat-held seat in play, complicating the party's hopes of retaking the Senate. But Minnesota hasn't yet appeared as a top pick-up target for Republican groups.
Sen. Tina Smith was appointed by Gov. Mark Dayton to replace Franken in January. She won Tuesday's Democratic primary for the seat.
The Secretary of State's office said as of last week, early voting was up nearly 200 percent from the 2016 general election.
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From Homestar Runner Wiki
Fretmagic is a music magazine in Free Country, USA. Homestar tried selling Fretmagic, Teen Fretmagic, and Fretmagic Kids! to raise money for a trip to Acapulco in the Strong Bad Email privileges, but the magazines ended up getting torched by The Cheat with the BMW Lighter.
The guitar on the cover is the Gibson Flying V. There is an article inside about Gary Palaroncini from Limozeen, and how he mastered the hardest chord ever on an Ibanez G800-XV. This chord is a combination of a diminished 9th and a demonished 10th and requires eleven fingers. According to the article, his mother is very proud.
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Spanish red thyme traditionally grows in the southern most regions of Spain. It's a small aromatic herb from the mint family mostly used for culinary purposes. Harvesting takes place during the summer months, between late June and August. In recent years, Spanish annual production of red thyme oil has varied between 12-15 tonnes.
Red thyme oil has a sweet, green odour and is used throughout the flavour and fragrance industry. It is also commonly used for many medicinal and aromatherapy purposes. Thyme contains large amounts of thymol and is one of the strongest antioxidants known in the market.
Some of the documented benefits of thyme oil is that it supports the immune, respiratory, digestive, nervous, and other body systems.
It is early to predict the production of thyme oil. Earliest harvest will be next June. At the moment the climatic conditions have favoured the crop. Farmers are confident of a good production year due to the quantity of water retained on the soil during winter. The demand continues to be strong and the price would remain stable.
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To amend the Controlled Substances Act to exclude cannabidiol and cannabidiol-rich plants from the definition of marihuana, and for other purposes.
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Scott Perry
Sponsor. Representative for Pennsylvania's 4th congressional district. Republican.
Last Updated: May 1, 2017
Length: 3 pages
115th Congress (2017–2019)
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Forsee Power expands electric bus battery portfolio
French battery maker Forsee Power is at the Transports Publics show in Paris and put the latest additions to their Zen and Pulse ranges on display. The new battery packs aim at electric buses and come with different chemistries for either range or charging speed.
While the li-ion battery Zen 35 is made with NMC cell technology for long ranges, the other battery, the Pulse 15 uses LTO, that is prismatic cells for extra fast charging. The Zen 35 uses air cooling while the Pulse 15 is liquid-cooled. All packs are connected in parallel.
Both batteries will be produced at Forsee Power's factory in Poitier that is being expanded as you read reportedly. The site is located near the Futuroscope and will enable the Group to start mass production and increase capacity to 2,500 batteries for heavy vehicles per year by the end of 2018.
And they are hiring, also at their Paris HQ.
Forsee Power counts international bus manufacturers among their clients, including CNHI (Iveco, Heuliez), CaetanoBus in Portugal and Wrightbus in the United Kingdom.


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In the article "Goin' Back ta Da Islan", Ian Strachan wrote on the factors affecting the representation of the Bahamian landscape in art. He went on to explain the three forms of artistic expressions, poetry, music and painting. It was discussed within these three artistic forms, the way the artists has pride in their work and the ways in which tourists sees it. Also, it expressed different events that happened throughout The Bahamas such as Regatta, Burma Road Riot and more. In addition, this article also expressed some of the African heritage that was passed down through these same song and artwork.
Within time, everything started to change and what was seen as culture was drop from the ole days. Throughout this article, I've found three interesting statements that were made by Ian Strachan. These three statements are about the ole days seen as being better than the present, the dramatic change into the present day and the island artists. "We must remember that many people often think the present day is worse than the Good Ole Days and that things will get worse before they get better. People thought it was safer and "better" then, than now, saying that doors could have been left unlock, children were scold if they were rude, everyone work together, there were no noise, no garbage and little to no crime. Although this maybe in some cases, should it be said that the present day is worse than the "good ole days". There were several advantages as well disadvantages in the "good ole days". Some of these disadvantages in the ole days were replaced by advantages in the present day such as better health care, the upgrades on technology for education and other uses.
Perhaps some of these factors were over exaggerated. Ironically, some of these same people, especially Nassauians, who talked about the good ole days and "Da Islan', could not bear to return tomorrow to live. People from the "ole days" just focus on the positive things from then, not pointing out the negative things from back then and the positive things that are present today. From my first statement, I explained why the present day isn't as bad as people see it to be.
However in the article, Strachan also stated that "Upon leapfrogging into the modern, urban, capitalist, democratic world, a good of trouble has come into Bahamian homes". Here lie the disadvantages of the present day. Many guys have turned to violence and drugs because of how they were raised. Some maybe brought up in an abusive home and some may have not been raised by parents but by foster parents who might have neglected them. Although, these cases may have happen in the past, it has increased in the present day.
Of course, there is the influence of the American media, which also encourage violence, inappropriate language and appearance. It is indeed a dramatic change from the past into the present. This is also overwhelming for those who live their young years in the past. These people are the ones who saw shoes as privilege and a toilet a luxury. Now in the present, it's all about what brand of shoes and the latest products. Similar to music that attracts tourist to The Bahamas, there are also artworks displayed that makes The Bahamas appealing.
Ian Strachan had stated that, "visual artists have plugged into the romanticisation of life in the Family Islands, and being cognizant of the appeal of the quaint among people of the more developed world who are searching for relics of the pre-industrial world, they had crafted images which simultaneously appeal to the Bahamian longing for a return home and the tourist wish for an Eden. " Like Strachan goes to write in his article, many artists paints sunshine, coconut trees, hibiscus, lovely wooden homes bordered by bougainvillea and quaint little harbour.
Very rarely or never will you see the water rough, the sky gray or black sailors poising by the regatta sloops. Because tourists like the "island look", there isn't any modern time painting where you see "women in poom poom shorts and drunken men" like in the article. The representation of The Bahamas is indeed seen differently from a tourists view. One could imagine the things that go on in a tourist mind when they reach to an island like New Providence, where everything isn't wooden home covered in bougainvillea or anything of the island things portrayed in those artwork.
Although the Bahamian people isn't seen as having an identity, the cultural of The Bahamas changes and Ian Strachan suggest that in order to maintain the things of the past, it has to be proven to be of good use within the present day. Such aspects that are not useful will indeed fade away. In addition, our artists must show more than the flowers, trees and sun in their artwork. There are more inspirations to the islands than beaches and sunset. I would think it's a form of acceptance than to lean on this one perceptive of islands of The Bahamas.


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Rehabilitation Psychology Residency Training by Year
Year 1
The first year is spent between the Neuro-Rehabilitation Unit (NRU) and the Barrow Neuro-Rehabilitation BRIDGE program. The NRU is a 52-bed acute inpatient neuro-rehabilitation unit. People served include those with stroke, traumatic brain injury, brain tumor, and related neurological disorders and spinal cord injury. The resident participates in brief assessment, intervention, psychoeducation, staff education as appropriate, and interdisciplinary team collaboration.
The BRIDGE is a comprehensive outpatient partial-day treatment program for patients with acquired or traumatic brain injury. This specialized program is targeted for patients who require more intensive services than traditional rehabilitation programming but who do not require or cannot tolerate an intensive full-day holistic milieu treatment program. Patients participating in the BRIDGE program will receive services from: physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, rehabilitation psychology and neuropsychology, and social work.
Resident responsibilities during this experience include involvement in providing weekly individual rehabilitation psychological intervention, co-leading weekly group rehabilitation psychological intervention, providing input to team members from other disciplines in best approaches to optimize patient engagement, and potentially providing periodic educational outreach in the community about acquired and traumatic brain injuries.
Year 2
The second-year training site is the Center for Transitional Neuro-Rehabilitation (CTN). CTN offers intensive, day-long treatment for older adolescents and adults with brain dysfunction (e.g., traumatic brain injury, cerebrovascular accident, arteriovenous malformation, epilepsy, anoxic injury). As the last step in the Barrow continuum, this program is designed to transition patients to their homes, communities, schools, and work environments.
The program features a holistic milieu approach for the treatment of cognitive, language, physical, emotional, interpersonal, and vocational needs; family involvement is also an integral component to CTN's treatment model. Treatment occurs in an interdisciplinary team setting (e.g., physical, occupational, and speech therapists; dietician; psychiatrist; physiatrist; and recreation therapist).
The resident is able to participate in a variety of activities including neuropsychological assessment, cognitive retraining, individual and group psychotherapy, job placement, a therapeutic milieu, family therapy, psychoeducation and skills groups, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary team collaboration, and research.


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Blue Palm Ting Bundle
Let the height and beauty of Blue Palm Ting Bundle bring a welcoming touch of nature into your home! This adorable arrangement features a dazzling mixture of natural colors such as cream, brown, and green with bright blue accents and a variety of textures and swirling, layered shapes.
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Thank you to all those villagers who supported our Christmas festivities and chanced their luck on the gambling tables at the Flintham Casino Evening. A brilliant time was had by all and, after the shrieks of delight had died down we had our first ever Trillionaire in the village.
The light buffet sustained our stamina, the bar did brisk business and generous prizes were auctioned off to successful punters. You will be delighted to know that almost £500 profit was banked and we are now waiting to find out the cost of a defibrillator.
We have invested considerable time and money into setting up the D-I-Y Casino Kit which is now available for hire to local community groups. The aim is to recoup the costs and hopefully, in the future, to generate a small income from the Casino Kit Hire. We estimate that the five tables comfortably cater for 80 people, who can each be given £200 in Bank of Flintham banknotes.
Thank you again.
Flintham Sports and Social Association