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River Monsters is back and in your life. The 6th Season of River Monsters featuring Jeremy Wade will begin Sunday, April 6th at 9 pm with a 2 hour premiere episode. Once a preview is available on YouTube I will post a video but for now you can click this link to a preview video on Facebook.
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As always the show will air on Discovery Channel, so make sure your DVR is set to record. The 6th season will surely feature some impressive catches. The premiere episode is titled "Amazon Apocalypse" but I can't say what kind of fish he will be searching for as you can't tell in the preview video. If you have any ideas please leave a comment below. As always we'll be posting episode recaps and summaries so check back often for plenty of River Monsters clips and information.
All episodes this season will be based in the Amazon, so anyone hoping for a European or American monster fish are out of luck. There are at least 6 episodes announced currently, which was about what we estimated this season would consist of. You can check out descriptions below. Episode 4 will feature the massive Piraiba Catfish, they only mention the "Lau Lau" in the description but I know that in the Amazon that means a Piraiba.
Episode 1 – "Amazon Apocalypse" — April 6th 9pm ET/PT. The 2 hour Season 6 premiere will investigate one of the Amazon's largest maritime disasters, the sinking of the Sobra Santos. Eye witnesses and surviving passengers will retell their story of the event. An estimated 200 passengers lost their lives in this tragic disaster. They blame something in the water for many of the deaths and Jeremy Wade wants to figure out what could have possibly caused it.
Episode 2 – "Jungle Terminator" — April 13 at 9pm ET/PT. Three mysterious deaths in three countries lead Wade on an adventure where he must team up with a remote and secretive tribe that has a unique and death-defying way of catching these culprits.
Episode 3 – "River of Blood" — April 20 at 9pm ET/PT. A brutal underwater mutilation of a young man leads Wade to a face-to-face confrontation with one of South America's greatest freshwater fighting fish that slashes and stalks its prey while living in one of Argentina's most dangerous waterways.
Episode 4 – "Man Eating Monster" — April 27 at 9pm ET/PT. Locals call it the lau-lau (Piraiba Catfish), a creature so huge it's said to swallow men whole, and Wade sets his sight on a specimen that is colossal in size and strength.
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Fundraising school ideas are plentiful and easy to come by. In fact, if you are looking for fundraising ideas for your school, which I assume you are since you found us, you may find that there are way too many fundraising programs to pick from. For most schools, the main criteria they are looking for in school fundraisers are things like high profits, low minimums, and low start up costs.
The trick is to narrow down the school fundraising ideas to those that have the best chance of being successful. Many factors go into these considerations such as what time of year the fundraiser will be done, what kinds of products are currently in vogue, does the school want fundraisers that are free to start or ones that offer high profits, what kinds of prices the economic environment will sponsor, and even what fundraisers other schools are doing so as to gauge the amount of competition your student fundraisers will face. And while all of that may sound difficult, it is actually fairly easy to find out before hand just which fundraising idea will work best for your school.
Some fundraisers are affected by the weather while others are not. Obviously a car wash is not going to do very well during a thunderstorm. But on a larger scale, some fundraisers are seasonal. For example, our flower fundraiser is available during the spring and the fall but is not available during the summer or for a month during the winter to ensure that the bulbs are planted in their growing seasons. Just make sure that the fundraising school ideas that you look at are available when you want to do them. If not, you may want to consider rescheduling.
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I ran across a review by John Cottingham–Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Reading and an Honorary Fellow of St John's College, Oxford–over at Standpoint entitled: "It's Not God Who Needs Saving–It's Us," that adds to the long line of arguments and counter-arguments about the verticality of Dostoyevsky's operating thesis: If God does not exist, then everything is permitted. He reviews two books from self-proclaimed atheists who are trying to incorporate what we would call a "spirituality of the cross" into their naturalistic worldviews. Hmmm… Adding to the ongoing discussion about the Pope's recent comments at Westminster Hall, comments that build upon his Gespräch with Jürgen Habermas, Dr. Cottingham's essay is both provocative and timely, particularly as the Western world (following most church bodies, sadly) moves closer and closer to "thus says the Lord" being synonymous with 51%. It doesn't really lend itself to a digest version, but hopefully these quotes will whet your appetite:
The "undergraduate atheists" have had their day. The spiritually deaf onslaught of Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens and their ilk has presented such an unfair and one-sided picture of religion that not only has it won few converts, but it may even have aided the cause of faith. If such crude tactics are the best the militant atheists can come up with (many open-minded readers must have thought) then perhaps religion is worth a second look after all.
Of much greater interest, and vastly more intellectual sophistication, are two books, one by the Princeton philosopher Mark Johnston, the other by the French best-selling author André Comte-Sponville, formerly of the Sorbonne. Both are inspired by the achievements of modern science, both firmly reject the traditional idea of a transcendent creator and yet both are sympathetic to our long heritage of spirituality, whose riches they would like to preserve if humanly possible…
… And now comes the distinctive twist. There is, Johnston argues, "a religious argument…that we should hope that ontological naturalism is true. For ontological naturalism would be a complete defense against…our tendency to servile idolatry and spiritual materialism." Spiritual materialism involves retaining our ordinary selfish desires (for security, comfort, success, etc) and trying to get them satisfied by manipulating supposed supernatural forces. Idolatry is similar, placating the gods to get what we want. Authentic spirituality, by contrast, must address the "large-scale structural defects in human life" — arbitrary suffering, aging, our and our loved ones' vulnerability to time and chance and, ultimately, death. The religious or redeemed life, Johnston argues, is one where we are reconciled to these large-scale defects.
Johnston's achievement here is to grasp the crucial difference that authentic religion makes to ethics — to the whole question of how we should live. The ordinary secular virtues (self-confidence, fairness, good judgment, etc) "take life on its own unredeemed terms and make the most of it". By contrast, the theological virtues (faith, hope, love) are "not merely intensifications of ordinary virtue, but conditions of a transformed or redeemed life". Johnston, unlike the "undergraduate atheists" (the aptly pejorative label is his own coinage), is deeply sympathetic to the resonant insights of Scripture — for example, the story of the Fall, which shows how we are by our nature caught in an oscillation between self-will and the "false righteousness" which conforms to the good out of fear or self-interest.
What Johnston does is to take the authentic moral message of religion to what he sees as its logical extreme. To truly abandon our selfish nature, he argues, would be to give up the specious promise of an afterlife in which our faithfulness is rewarded. For a truly redeemed human being would no longer need an "illusory" arena, in which "we can imagine our acquisitive desires being comprehensively slaked, even after death". Such supernatural rewards, in Johnston's eyes, make a mockery of the true sacrifice of Christ. For the salvation Christ proclaimed (and something similar might be said about the message of the best of the Old Testament prophets) was not about placating a supernatural God or about "making it all better", but rather was about "the grace of finding a way to live that keeps faith with the importance of goodness and love even in the face of everything that can happen to you".
Johnston is surely right that much of the resonance of the Judaeo-Christian worldview lies in its luminous moral insights and its power to change our lives here and now. But it is surely wishful thinking to suppose that this power can be retained while bracketing off, or deleting, the traditional faith in a loving creator God. Johnston constantly helps himself to terms like "holy", "grace" and "gift", to which, as a naturalist, he is not properly entitled. In the end, his naturalism must mean that, despite his sympathy for true religion, and despite his frequent use of the word "God", and phrases like "The Highest One", he cannot really believe in anything like the personal God of the traditional Abrahamic faiths. Instead, drawing on Alfred North Whitehead's "process theology", he identifies God with "a universal process understood as outpouring and self-disclosure". Here, God is "no longer in the category of substance, as in traditional theology, but in the category of activity". Traditional theology (for example in Thomas Aquinas) described the Creator in terms of "pure activity". But Johnston means something very different; for when his own religious-sounding language is deciphered, all he can really mean by "God" is the natural process itself — the whole flux of activity that is the universe. He asks, perhaps a little wistfully, whether the holiness of the world, instead of deriving from its being the work of a transcendent divine Creator, might not consist instead "just in the sheer givenness of the world — that is, in its existence and disclosure".
Unfortunately, the short answer, so it seems to me, must be no. . . . . . The spiritual praxis that has enriched so much of our collective history, the practices of prayer, meditation, lectio divina and the whole structure of private and public worship, has been, in the Western tradition, inextricably linked to the Judaeo-Christian idea of our creatureliness — the notion that our very existence is shaped by a creative power, source of all goodness, truth and beauty. This theistic framework is not the only possible framework for spirituality: both the writers under discussion flirt intermittently with the Buddhist notion of anatta — the idea that the self is an illusion and that there is nothing beyond a constant flow of impermanent conditions that arise and pass away. But it is no easy task to graft such ideas on to the ethical rootstock of Western spirituality. For one thing, it is far from clear how a worldview based on detachment and oceanic merging into the impersonal void could support anything like a morality of unconditional requirements that calls us to orient our lives towards the Good.


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From the female Democratic delegates wearing white in support of the suffragettes, to Nancy Pelosi's meme-able clap, to the First Lady's fashion choices, there were a lot of take-aways from this week's State of the Union address and none of them had to do with President Trump's speech. We just muted that part. As for his better half, viewers were confused when Melania Trump opted for the one-glove look. Same.
Is this a thing, now? Melania has made questionable fashion choices in the past (naked pants, anyone?) and this one is just as confusing. People online had theories about the inspiration for Melania's look, including Luke Skywalker…
@FLOTUS looks like Luke Skywalker in RotJ with that 1 black glove.
— My Lord and Savior, Goose the Cat. (@hawkguy87) February 6, 2019
…and Michael Jackson…
Is Melania only wearing one glove to honor Michael Jackson? #SOTU
— Anushay Hossain (@AnushayHossain) February 6, 2019
…and for the real sci-fi fans, Dr. Strangelove.
everyone is making Michael Jackson jokes about @FLOTUS 's glove but uhhhh i think you guys are missing the reference… pic.twitter.com/htd0C5wKMr
— Taco Bell Skills Challenge (@KilroyStephen) February 6, 2019
It appears that Melania may have just been slow to remove both gloves, but again, we're confused. This isn't her first SOTU. She knows she needs to walk down the stairs, smile, and wave. Did she think this year wasn't going to be televised? Maybe she was just hoping that was the case. We could all do with a lot less Donald Trump on TV.
The State of the Union Glovegate is the latest instance of the FLOTUS being photographed indoors with only one glove on. Maybe she has poor circulation, or is scared of germs (it is flu season), or is partial to nail polish chipping right before a big event.
Scary looking glove @FLOTUS 😈 pic.twitter.com/4v9YCJUj9d
— Mike Graham 🍾 (@Iromg) November 8, 2018
There were those who saw the one-glove look as a sign of respect. It just seems odd that with a team of people whose job it is to make sure the First Family is always dressed according to tradition, that no one would either hold her gloves or remind her to remove both.
I love how @FLOTUS took off one glove so she could shake hands with people. She truly cares
— ᏘMᎽ 🇺🇸💋🛑 (@evers_oak) February 6, 2019
Then again, this is the same team of people who thought it was fine for the First Lady to be photographed in the infamous "I Don't Care, Do U?" jacket while visiting a centre for families who had been separated at the border thanks to her husband's inhumane ruling. And while the State of the Union seems like an ideal place to make a statement about the strength of the US, Trump's stylist Hervé Pierre doesn't give much thought to how he's dressing the First Lady, aside from what looks good. Speaking with Yahoo, Pierre said he didn't make the connection between Trump wearing a navy Burberry trench to the SOTU and Brexit.
"As long as I find the right outfit, the designer is almost irrelevant. The designer, well, is Burberry, but it could have been anybody else. It has nothing to do with England or Brexit. If I would have to think of all these things when I look at dresses and outfits, I would lose my mind," said Pierre. "Afterward, social media will go on about Brexit or whatever. They have to do their own version of this. On my side, believe me I don't think of it. Because I don't have time to do that."
The moral of the story is, take your expectations of Melania Trump's fashion choices, lower them, and then completely throw them out the window.


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Get ready to anoint your partner with coconut oil–ChristianMingle is getting a little more tingly. A Californian court ruling last week will require ChristianMingle.com to allow LGBTQ members into its congregation of single, God-loving horndogs. The ruling could affect all websites under defendant Spark Networks' ownership, including JDate and LDSSingles.com (for the Jewish and Mormon persuasion, respectively).
The lawsuit, filed in 2013, alleged that ChristianMingle forbade same-sex searches from its website, thereby violating California's anti-discrimination law. Under the judge's ruling, the site will now simply ask for a Mingler's sex, without the presumption that they're seeking opposite sex partners.
While bigots may find it an inconvenient truth, gay Christians have been in existence since Jesus first revealed his vulnerable set of abs. No amount of cherry-picking from Leviticus can explicitly forbid the laying on of same-sex hands, just like no amount of Bible-beating can justify discriminating against an entire subsection of people for a dating app. For their part, Spark Networks seemed happy with the ruling, with a representative saying that they were "pleased to resolve this litigation."
".. We have a God equally as diverse!" https://t.co/h55qjmMgjw #FaithfullyLGBT pic.twitter.com/8TAptXvHOw
— FaithfullyLGBT (@faithfullylgbt) June 23, 2016
The judgment is a big win for those who are both LGBT and faithful. A 2015 Pew Research Center poll shows that nearly 50% of Americans who self-identified as gay, lesbian or bisexual also identified as Christian. Annually, around 1,500 people flock to the Gay Christian Network Conference, the largest group supporting LGBT Christians.
As the LGBTQ flag flies high during this past month of tragedy and celebration, it's a great time to take the opportunity to revisit any instances of homophobic legislation and stamp them out in the name of capital-L Love. Gay-men.
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text: When historians of the future will look back at our time, there will be one key binding characteristic of our generation to be found: the password. Well, in real life, it's not just one but many passwords. And that's the problem: Due to the codes and passwords required for credit cards, cellphone, tablets, computers, dozens of apps and programs we are tempted to use the same password all over again. And I'm talking from my own experience as my close ones must have realized by using many of my access points. The SonntagsZeitung has conducted a research of a huge number of hacked passwords to find out whether there are any national or gender-specific differences in the choice of such passwords. The result of this research? Women are neither more imaginative nor more cautious than men when it comes to choosing the "magic words" that are supposed to secure personal information. In addition to this, the most popular passwords are still 123456 and 1234 (for both genders) despite long-lasting warnings against the use of numerical sequences. As simple as this sounds that is how most of us actually work.


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2012 Ch. Lafite Rothschild, Pauillac
Red | For laying down | Chateau Lafite Rothschild | Code: 17273 | 2012 | France > Bordeaux > Pauillac | Cab.Sauvignon Blend | Full Bodied, Dry | 12.5 % alcohol
A return to elegance and precision is backed-up by a commendably low ABV of 12.6%. Charles Chevallier was more relaxed than ever when he showed us the wine; one senses this is very much his preferred style of Lafite and there was a deftness of touch that only comes with experience, the finest terroir and a non-interventionist approach. With seamless purity and a fine texture, this is a very handsome Lafite.
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The Wine Advocate - The 2012 Lafite Rothschild, representing only 38% of their total production, is a blend of 91% Cabernet Sauvignon and the balance mostly Merlot. It is a very stylish, elegant, yet concentrated Lafite Rothschild with an opaque ruby/purple color, soft well-integrated tannins, nice integrated oak, acidity and alcohol. Lafitess 2012 reveals good, opaque, ruby/purple color and plenty of lead pencil and blackcurrant fruit. The wine is medium-bodied and should hit its prime 2020-2035.
Robert M. Parker, Jr. - 30/04/2015
Jancis - 91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8.5% Merlot, 0.5% Petit Verdot. Very dense and lustrous. Unusually (for Lafite) intense and creamy; it's almost as though Carruades has assumed Lafite character and Lafite is more Moutonish, almost flamboyant! Dry edge but very savoury and rather lords it over us – see how ripe our Cabernets were…! Perhaps the tannins are not the ripest but the fruit certainly is. Classic Pauillac if not exactly classic Lafite. Not quite as 'whole' as Haut-Brion perhaps.
Jancis Robinson MW, jancisrobinson.com, 24 Apr 2013
Wine Spectator - Tightly drawn, with a firm, toasty edge framing the core of plum skin, red currant and black cherry fruit. A taut mix of beet, anise and bay chimes in on the finish, showing a touch of astringency. The ample flesh and length should fill this out in time. Tasted non-blind.
James Molesworth, Wine Spectator, April 8 2013
Parker - The classically styled 2012 exhibits attractive elegance, medium body and outstanding concentration, but not the complexity and depth or prodigious qualities of many other recent Lafites. It is a relatively soft, spicy effort displaying notes of crushed rocks, white chocolate, black currants and graphite. It should be drinkable in 5-8 years and last for two decades.
Charles Chevalier was candid in saying that the tropical heat wave, along with the poor flowering resulted in intense labor in the vineyard and during the harvest where triage was the operative word, and had to be done thoroughly and consistently. The 2012 Lafite Rothschild, a blend of 91% Cabernet Sauvignon, 8.5% Merlot and 0.5% Petit Verdot, was the result of a harvest that took place between September 28 and October 9 for the Merlot, October 9-16 for the Cabernet Sauvignon. The small amount of Cabernet Franc included in the Carruades de Lafite was harvested on October 11 - 12. Only 38% of the production made it into the grand vin. If the 2012 fills out completely it could turn out similar to the 1998 Lafite.
Robert Parker - Wine Advocate - Apr 2013
Decanter - Vibrant fruit from 91% Cabernet, not yet expressive but all the firm elegance of Lafite for a very good future.
Steven Spurrier, Decanter, April 2013
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The Producer
Château Lafite Rothschild is one of the most renowned wine properties in the Médoc. Owned by Baron Eric de Rothschild and Lafite Rothschild is also one of the largest Médoc estates.
The vineyards of Ch. Lafite are found at the northern tip of the Pauillac appellation, just below the boundary with St. Estephe. There is evidence of an estate on this site as far back as the 14th century, and of exports of wine to the UK in the early 17th century. The current owners, the Rothschilds of the famous banking dynasty, bought the property in 1866, but this is a different brand of the family from that which purchased Ch. Mouton-Rothschild. For many years the Rothschilds' control of Lafite was very much exercised at a distance, compared to the hands-on influence of Baron Philippe at Mouton, but since the Second World War this has changed somewhat, with the current owner, Eric de Rothschild, presiding over an extensive programme of investment in both vineyard and cellar.
With a base largely of gravel the vineyard is unsurprisingly dominated by Cabernet Sauvignon (71%) with the balance comprising Merlot (25%) Cabernet Franc (3%) and Petit Verdot (1%). Grapes are hand-harvested, and vinified parcel by parcel. Fermentation takes place in stainless steel vats, after which the wine is run off into barrels, 100% new for Lafite itself, a mixture of new and one-year-old barrels for the second wine.
The Grand Vin volume varies greatly according to the vintage, but is frequently less than half the total crop, and is usually no more than 20,000 cases. The second wine, Carruades de Lafite, has a slightly higher percentage of Merlot than Lafite and is in consequence more approachable in youth. Up to 30,000 cases are made. Wine deemed not worthy of inclusion in Carruades is sold off as generic Pauillac.
Throughout the 20th century Lafite was dogged by periods of inconsistency, often producing sublime wines but also failing to live up to its billing in other years. Since 1994, however the estate has been under the control of Charles Chevallier, and he has brought about not just an admirable level of consistency but has also been responsible for some truly brilliant wines often vying for the title of "Wine of the Vintage".
In style the wines of Lafite are often described as having a perfumed elegance and finesse, to contrast with the more masculine power and structure of Latour or the more exotic and intense flavours of Mouton. What is sure, however, is that at its best it represents a hedonistic experience for the consumer, and has the ability to age, in great years, for minimally 50 years and often for longer.
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The Grape
Cabernet Sauvignon lends itself particularly well in blends with Merlot. This is actually the archetypal Bordeaux blend, though in different proportions in the sub-regions and sometimes topped up with Cabernet Franc, Malbec, and Petit Verdot.
In the Médoc and Graves the percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon in the blend can range from 95% (Mouton-Rothschild) to as low as 40%. It is particularly suited to the dry, warm, free- draining, gravel-rich soils and is responsible for the redolent cassis characteristics as well as the depth of colour, tannic structure and pronounced acidity of Médoc wines. However 100% Cabernet Sauvignon wines can be slightly hollow-tasting in the middle palate and Merlot with its generous, fleshy fruit flavours acts as a perfect foil by filling in this cavity.
In St-Emilion and Pomerol, the blends are Merlot dominated as Cabernet Sauvignon can struggle to ripen there - when it is included, it adds structure and body to the wine. Sassicaia is the most famous Bordeaux blend in Italy and has spawned many imitations, whereby the blend is now firmly established in the New World and particularly in California and Australia.
The Region
Pauillac is the aristocrat of the Médoc boasting boasting 75 percent of the region's First Growths and with Grand Cru Classés representing 84 percent of Pauillac's production.
For a small town, surrounded by so many familiar and regal names, Pauillac imparts a slightly seedy impression. There are no grand hotels or restaurants – with the honourable exception of the establishments owned by Jean-Michel Cazes – rather a small port and yacht harbour, and a dominant petrochemical plant.
Yet outside the town, , there is arguably the greatest concentration of fabulous vineyards throughout all Bordeaux, including three of the five First Growths. Bordering St Estèphe to the north and St Julien to the south, Pauillac has fine, deep gravel soils with important iron and marl deposits, and a subtle, softly-rolling landscape, cut by a series of small streams running into the Gironde. The vineyards are located on two gravel-rich plateaux, one to the northwest of the town of Pauillac and the other to the south, with the vines reaching a greater depth than anywhere else in the Médoc.
Pauillac's first growths each have their own unique characteristics; Lafite Rothschild, tucked in the northern part of Pauillac on the St Estèphe border, produces Pauillac's most aromatically complex and subtly-flavoured wine. Mouton Rothschild's vineyards lie on a well-drained gravel ridge and - with its high percentage of Cabernet Sauvignon - can produce (in its best years) Pauillac's most decadently rich, fleshy and exotic wine.
Latour, arguably Bordeaux's most consistent First Growth, is located in southern Pauillac next to St Julien. Its soil is gravel-rich with superb drainage, and Latour's vines penetrate as far as five metres into the soil. It produces perhaps the most long-lived wines of the Médoc.
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Regan Smith ended Saturday's Great Clips 250 at Michigan International Speedway with an 11th-place showing. It was a disappointing finish for the Suave Men team, who spent much of the day racing among the top 10.
From the outset of the race, Smith and the No. 7 team wrestled with a loose condition on their Chevrolet. The team worked to seventh before a competition caution flew on lap 25 and brought Smith to pit road. After a strategic call for two right-side tires, Smith pulled out of the pit stall and into heavy traffic, which resulted in contact with the No. 90 of Martin Roy. The damage was minimal, but crew chief Jason Burdett took the cautionary measure of bringing Smith back down pit road to assess the damage and take on two left-side tires.
When the field returned to racing, Smith wasted little time climbing back inside the top 10 from the 22nd spot, even driving to fourth as green-flag pit stops cycled through. In an impressive restart on lap 96, Smith made a brazen move to the outside and took away the third position, a race high for the No. 7.
But as the race wore on, handling deteriorated and the loose condition on the Suave Men Chevy dropped the team outside the top 10. The team salvaged an 11th-place finish by the time they took the checkered flag.
Kyle Busch won the race and was followed across the line by JRM teammate Chase Elliott, Kyle Larson, Chris Buescher and Elliott Sadler.
Regan Smith, driver No. 7 Suave Men team
"It was a frustrating day for the Suave Men team. We felt like we had a solid car for the race today, but the longer we ran, the harder it was to get a handle on it. It certainly wasn't for a lack of effort. Jason [Burdett, crew chief] and the guys did a great job, just collectively we need to do better and get the finishes we're capable of. We'll focus on doing that for Chicagoland next week."


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David Boren. [Source: University of Oklahoma]CIA Director George Tenet is told of the first WTC crash while he is eating breakfast with his mentor, former Senator David Boren (D-OK), at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, DC. They are interrupted when CIA bodyguards converge on the table to hand Tenet a cell phone. Tenet is told that the WTC has been attacked by an airplane. Boren later says, "I was struck by the fact that [the messenger] used the word 'attacked.'" Tenet then hands the cell phone back to an aide and says to Boren, "You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it." "'He was very collected,' Boren recalls. 'He said he would be at the CIA in 15 minutes, what people he needed in the room and what he needed to talk about.'" [USA Today, 9/24/2001; ABC News, 9/14/2002] According to other accounts, Tenet responds to the caller, "They steered the plane directly into the building?" Tenet then says to Boren, "That looks like bin Laden." Tenet muses aloud, "I wonder if this has something to do with the guy [Zacarias Moussaoui] who trained for a pilot's license." (Moussaoui had been arrested several weeks earlier.) [St. Paul Pioneer Press, 5/29/2002; Stern, 8/13/2003] According to another account, Tenet pauses while on the phone to tell Boren, "The World Trade Center has been hit. We're pretty sure it wasn't an accident. It looks like a terrorist act," then returns to the phone to identify who should be summoned to the CIA situation room. [Time, 9/14/2001] Tenet later tells author Ronald Kessler, "There was no doubt that al-Qaeda was going to come here eventually, and that something spectacular was planned. I knew immediately who it was [behind the attack]." [Kessler, 2003, pp. 196] In his own 2007 book, Tenet will largely confirm the above accounts. He will add, "Most people, I understand, assumed that the first crash was a tragic accident. It took the second plane hitting the second tower to show them that something far worse was going on. That wasn't the case for me. We had been living too intimately with the possibility of a terrorist attack on the United States. I instantly thought that this had to be al-Qaeda." He also mentions thinking aloud about Moussaoui. [Tenet, 2007, pp. 161] Tenet will subsequently hurry back to CIA headquarters in his car (see (8:55 a.m.-9:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001).
Entity Tags: David Boren, Osama bin Laden, Zacarias Moussaoui, George J. Tenet, Central Intelligence Agency, World Trade Center
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline
CIA Director George Tenet has just learned of the first attack on the WTC while having breakfast with former Senator David Boren (D-OK) at the St. Regis Hotel in Washington, DC. He later says, "It was obvious to us both that I had to leave immediately." Along with Tim Ward, the head of his security detail, he gets into his car and, with lights flashing, hurries back to the CIA headquarters in Langley. Tenet later recalls that in these first minutes after the attack, "All the random dots we had been looking at started to fit into a pattern.… [M]y head was exploding with connections. I immediately thought about the 'Bojinka' plot to blow up twelve US airliners over the Pacific and a subsequent plan to fly a small airplane into CIA headquarters, which was broken up in 1994." During his journey, he calls John Moseman, his chief of staff, and instructs him to assemble the senior CIA staff and key people from the Counterterrorist Center in the conference room next to his office. However, Tenet claims, it is difficult for him to get calls through on the secure phone, meaning he is "Essentially… in a communications blackout between the St. Regis and Langley, the longest twelve minutes of my life." He only learns that a second plane hit the World Trade Center when he arrives at CIA headquarters. Tenet enters the conference room at around 9:15 a.m. By that time, he says, "I don't think there was a person in the room who had the least doubt that we were in the middle of a full-scale assault orchestrated by al-Qaeda." [Tenet, 2007, pp. 161-163]
Entity Tags: George J. Tenet, Central Intelligence Agency
In the Washington, DC, area, members of the public, emergency responders, and government officials experience serious communications problems. Telephone and cell phone services around the capital remain unavailable to members of the public for most of the day. [Verton, 2003, pp. 149] Particular problems are experienced around the Pentagon. Reportedly, cellular and landline telephone communications there are "virtually unreliable or inaccessible during the first few hours of the response," after it is hit at 9:37 (see After 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [US Department of Health and Human Services, 7/2002, pp. C36 ] Some senior government officials also experience communications difficulties: CIA Director George Tenet has problems using his secure phone while heading from a Washington hotel back to CIA headquarters, located about eight miles outside Washington (see (8:55 a.m.-9:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Independent, 11/6/2002; Tenet, 2007, pp. 161-162] Secretary of State Colin Powell has to take a seven-hour flight from Peru, to get back to the capital. He later complains that, during this flight, "because of the communications problems that existed during that day, I couldn't talk to anybody in Washington" (see (12:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [ABC News, 9/11/2002] Between the time of the second WTC attack and about 9:45 a.m., Vice President Dick Cheney, who is at the White House, has problems reaching Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert at the US Capitol by secure telephone (see (9:04 a.m.-9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Daily Herald (Arlington Heights), 9/11/2002; Hayes, 2007, pp. 336-337] Even President Bush experiences difficulties communicating with Washington after leaving a school in Florida, and subsequently while flying on Air Force One (see (9:34 a.m.-9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 9/10/2006] A classified after-action report will later be produced, based on observations from a National Airborne Operations Center plane launched near Washington shortly before the time of the Pentagon attack (see (9:27 a.m.) September 11, 2001). According to one government official, the report indicates that the nation was "deaf, dumb, and blind" for much of the day. [Verton, 2003, pp. 150-151] Members of the public in New York City also experience communications problems throughout the day, particularly with cell phones (see (After 10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001).
Entity Tags: Colin Powell, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Dennis Hastert, George J. Tenet, George W. Bush
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice tries to gather together the principals of the National Security Council (NSC), but is unable to get in touch with key officials. Rice realized the US was under terrorist attack during a staff meeting, when her assistant informed her of the second plane striking the World Trade Center (see (9:04 a.m.) September 11, 2001). She had then headed to the White House Situation Room's operations center. [Newsweek, 12/30/2001; Bumiller, 2007, pp. xii] Here she intends to assemble the principals of the NSC for a crisis meeting. [O, the Oprah Magazine, 2/1/2002] Along with the national security adviser, the principal members of the NSC are the president, the vice president, the secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, and the secretary of defense; additionally, the CIA director and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are statutory advisers to the NSC. [US President, 2/13/2001; Felix, 2002, pp. 226] However, Rice remembers that Secretary of State Colin Powell is currently away in Peru (see (8:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [MSNBC, 9/11/2002] Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill is away in Japan. [US Department of the Treasury, 11/29/2001; US Department of the Treasury, 1/23/2002] And Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Henry Shelton is on his way to Europe for a NATO meeting there. [CNN, 10/1/2001] Rice tries calling Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who is in his office at the Pentagon (see (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001), but cannot reach him. [PBS Frontline, 7/12/2002; Clarke, 2006, pp. 218-219; Cockburn, 2007, pp. 1] She is also unable to get a call through to CIA Director George Tenet. [Bumiller, 2007, pp. xii] (Tenet will later claim that, around this time, he is having trouble using his secure phone while being driven out to CIA headquarters (see (8:55 a.m.-9:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Tenet, 2007, pp. 161-162] ) Also around this time, in the Secure Video Conferencing Center just off the main floor of the Situation Room, counterterrorism "tsar" Richard Clarke is trying to convene a video teleconference with other top officials (see (9:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Bumiller, 2007, pp. xii]
Entity Tags: Donald Rumsfeld, George J. Tenet, Henry Hugh Shelton, Paul O'Neill, Colin Powell, National Security Council, Condoleezza Rice
Gordon England. [Source: US Department of Defense]Secretary of the Navy Gordon England is unable to communicate with colleagues on the ground while he is being flown from Texas to Washington, DC. England, the Navy's top civilian official, traveled to Fort Worth, Texas, the previous evening to give a speech to the Navy League. When the terrorist attacks began this morning, he was getting ready to fly back to Washington. Initially, however, the Navy plane he was going to travel on was grounded. [CNN, 10/16/2001; American Forces Press Service, 9/7/2006] (The FAA ordered a ground stop to prevent any aircraft taking off across the US at around 9:26 a.m. (see (9:26 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [US Congress. House. Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure, 9/21/2001; 9/11 Commission, 7/24/2004, pp. 25] ) But after a "short period," England will later recall, the Navy secretary and his companions "got clearance to come back to Washington." While they are flying to the capital, however, they are unable to communicate with their colleagues on the ground. When he is asked about the flight, England will recall, "Well, of course, we didn't have any communications." England and his companions consequently have little knowledge of what the attacks involved. "We didn't know what was happening," England will say. "Literally just knew some of the things that happened, knew that something had been hit in Washington, but didn't know until we were airborne that it had been the Pentagon." England only learns more about what has happened when his plane lands. "I really didn't hear much until we got on the ground," he will say. Why England and those with him have these communication problems is unknown. After arriving in Washington, England joins colleagues of his at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service headquarters, where the Navy has set up a temporary headquarters (see After 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [CNN, 10/16/2001; Goldberg et al., 2007, pp. 133] Other senior US government officials also have trouble making and receiving communications while the attacks are taking place this morning, and in the following hours (see (After 8:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001). These officials include President Bush (see (9:34 a.m.-9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001), Secretary of State Colin Powell (see (12:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001), CIA Director George Tenet (see (8:55 a.m.-9:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001), and House Speaker Dennis Hastert (see (9:04 a.m.-9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Telecom News, 2002 ; Hastert, 2004, pp. 6; Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 9/10/2006; Tenet, 2007, pp. 162]
Entity Tags: Gordon England
By 9:50 a.m., CIA Director George Tenet is in his office on the seventh floor of the agency's Langley headquarters. He later describes: "[E]veryone was wondering, what next? Reports came in of several airplanes that were not responding to communications from the ground and perhaps heading toward Washington. Several [Counterterrorist Center] officers reminded us that al-Qaeda members had once discussed flying an airplane into CIA headquarters, the top floor of which we were presently occupying." Tenet himself later recalls that, in the minutes after he'd learned of the first attack, he'd "thought about the 'Bojinka' plot to blow up twelve US airliners over the Pacific and a subsequent plan to fly a small airplane into CIA headquarters" (see (8:55 a.m.-9:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Woodward, 2002, pp. 7-8; Tenet, 2007, pp. 162 and 164] According to CIA contractor Billy Waugh, people at the headquarters are aware that Flight 93 is currently unaccounted for, and it is "a widespread assumption within the building that this flight [is] headed straight for us in the CIA headquarters" (see (Before 10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [Waugh and Keown, 2004, pp. 293-294] Tenet asks Mike Hohlfelder, the chief of his security detail, for his recommendation, and is advised, "Let's evacuate." Though he later claims he was "reluctant" about this, Tenet tells his senior leadership: "We have to save our people. We have to evacuate the building." Therefore, at about 10 a.m., the word goes out for a large number of the CIA's thousands of employees to go home. Initially, the senior leadership team moves from Tenet's seventh-floor conference room to another room on the first floor, but it then exits the headquarters building and heads across the campus to the CIA's printing plant, where a crude operational capability has been set up. However, due to the objections of CIA counterterrorism chief Cofer Black, those in the Counterterrorist Center and the Global Response Center are allowed to stay in place in the headquarters (see (10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001). Tenet and his staff will leave the printing plant and return to the headquarters at around 1 p.m., by which time they will consider the danger to be over. [Woodward, 2002, pp. 8-9; Tenet, 2007, pp. 164-165 and 168] The CIA headquarters evacuation is aided by the fact that a fire had occurred there just over a month earlier. Consequently, new evacuation procedures had been laid out, which Tenet follows on this day (see August 7-September 10, 2001). [Kessler, 2003, pp. 222-223]
Entity Tags: George J. Tenet, Central Intelligence Agency, Mike Hohlfelder, Billy Waugh
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Volkswagen has officially announced the Golf GTI TCR, a brawny 286bhp version of the seventh-generation Golf GTI built to celebrate the brand's participation in touring car racing.
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Huge Dust Cloud heading to NZ after Covering Parts of Australia
The big dust cloud that has been causing visibility and air quality problems in parts of Australia is expected to arrive in New Zealand today.
MetService said it would be blown across the South Island and may affect parts of the central North Island on Friday.
A large dust storm swept parts of New South Wales and Canberra this week as a cold front pushed strong winds ahead of it across the south east of the country. The storm brought wind damage and power cuts in the Canberra area, and thick dust was moving into southern Queensland.
The west coast of the South Island is forecast to be affected by some of this dust from this morning through until tonight, and western parts of the North Island tonight and into Friday morning.
Duty forecaster Heath Gullery said it would most likely cause redness in the sky at dusk and dawn.
"It's most likely to be seen as an extra redness in the sky during sunrise and sunset. There may be an extra bit of haziness in the sky," he said.
He said it was a fairly rare event likely caused by dust and smoke from fires in Australia. Most of the dust will be in the upper atmosphere.
MetService forecasters were not sure about the density and amount of dust that would eventually reach New Zealand but expected the cold front to make landfall over Fiordland this morning.
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New picnic tables unveiled at Wanstead Park
On Wednesday 28 June, brand new benches and picnic tables were unveiled at Heronry Pond near the Tea Hut in Wanstead Park, Epping Forest.
Through a joint partnership between the City of London Corporation, the Friends of Wanstead Park, Groundwork and Tesco, families will now be able to enjoy improved lakeside seating by the pond.
The seating consists of three picnic table areas and six brand new benches along the pond providing picturesque views underneath the shade of nearby trees.
A grant of £8,000 was awarded to the Friends of Wanstead Park by Tesco Bags for Help scheme for the project.
The City Corporation supplied and installed the benches and tables with the work completing in mid June.
Philip Woodhouse, chairman of the City Corporation's Epping Forest and City Commons Committee said: "I hope that the new facilities encourage more families and the local community to visit Wanstead Park and enjoy this sanctuary in east London. By working together with the community, we have been able to enhance and improve the experience enjoyed by our visitors."
John Meehan, chair of the Friends of Wanstead Park said: "This was a great example of the Friends of Wanstead Park working in partnership with the City of London Corporation. We applied for the Tesco's funding for the benefit of local people and received a 1,000 strong petition in support from local park users.
"If people want to help improve Wanstead Park more than they can join the Friends on www.wansteadpark.org.uk and join the current 500 Friends. We look forward to many more improvements in Wanstead Park arising from the forthcoming Parkland Plan and the possible Heritage Lottery Bid."
The City of London Corporation manages 18 major green spaces in London and south east England, including Epping Forest, Hampstead Heath, and over 200 smaller ones in the Square Mile.
They include important wildlife habitats, sites of scientific interest and national nature reserves and they are protected from being built on by special legislation.
These green spaces, most of which are charitable trusts, are funded by over £28 million a year from the City Corporation, and are run at little or no cost to the communities that they serve.


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"Feed the deer spice" was one facetious remark from an attendee at Sheridan City Council's meeting Monday night. The comment was referring to two of the big issues on the table at the meeting. One had to do with controlling the growing deer population within Sheridan city limits.
The Johnson County Commissioners will meet in Kaycee on Tuesday at the Harold Jarrard Park Building Conference Room. Johnson County News Director for Sheridan Media, Aaron Palmer, with more.
The City of Buffalo meets this evening and Johnson County News Director for Sheridan Media, Aaron Palmer, brings us a preview.
The 67-foot spruce from Wyoming's Bridger-Teton National Forest that will be a gift for the US Capitol from the residents of Wyoming made an overnight stop in Buffalo Monday.
We've been anticipating its visit since June, when it was first announced that Wyoming would be providing the Capitol Christmas Tree. The tree made a stop in Sheridan Monday afternoon, Sheridan Media's Mary Jo Johnson was there.
On 4th down with 5:30 to go in the 1st quarter
The Buffalo Bison passed the Wind Farm
A panel of 52 potential jurors were on hand in 4th Judicial District Court Monday morning as part of the jury selection process for the 1st Degree Murder Trial of Sheridan resident Shawn Osborne.
$83 million is the amount Governor Dave Freudenthal is proposing for his supplemental budget to be allocated for energy research, student stipends, and the construction of a Science Technology Engineering and Math facility, or STEM, at the University of Wyoming.
The Sheridan Broncs, in their away uniforms, take the field at War Memorial Stadium
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ShanghAI II
The initial ideas that we started out with were worked upon, implemented on WebBots and along the way got modified slightly. The end result, I believe is full of better ideas and implementations. Robotics derives a lot of inspiration from animal behaviour and this iteration of ShanghAI is all about how robotics is coupled with animal behaviour. The act of evolution has perfected almost every task and we just need to learn from it[1].
Initial Ideas
- Machine learning to calculate the optimum numerical values of all parameters viz. pitch, yaw.
- Adaptive boosting for finding the best values of the parameters and their appropriate weightage.
- Grid Search CV for hyper parameter optimization.
- Neural networks
- Find and mark cubes and use neural networks to inform other robots to collect cubes.
- Robots tell other robots if cubes have been collected or have already been marked by communication.
- Global Position System node to model a Global Positioning Sensor (GPS)
- Supervisor controller obtains information about robots' and cubes' absolute position from the controller program and transmits this information to the robot. Hence, it keeps track of several robots simultaneously.
- This communication enables the robots to understand how they should manoeuvre their movement to get to the appropriate cube at the right location.
Swiss Robots
Each robot has its own coordinate system where the origin is the position of the first cube found. The current position is relative to the cluster point and is calculated using a method called path integration. Swiss robots are extremely simple robots and no not rely heavily on communication. The robots develop themselves to understand how to move and in which direction to move. They need to distinguish between other robots, walls and cubes. The wall is distinguished from cubes and robots by its width. The walls have a greater width. Now, to differentiate between cubes and robots the ability of communication comes into place. Only the robots can communicate, so, if communication is carried out successfully then it is a robot, else a cube.
Distance Sensors
These sensors are used for communication and help in determining the distance.
- Proximity Sensors
- These are distributed over the front half of the bot and each one is connected to a node in the neural network.
- Collision Sensors
- These are based on binary threshold, so transmit only when the total signal is above some threshold limit. These transmit the signal when a collision takes place.
- Light Sensors
- These direct the bot to move in the direction in which light falls.
Infrared Sensors
Touch Sensors
- Using Wheels
- Wheels are driven by electrical motors.
- If both wheels turn at equal speed, the robot moves straight.
- If the right wheel is stopped and only the left wheel moves, the robot will turn to the right side.
- If both wheels move in opposite direction with equal speed, hence the left wheel moves forward and right moves backward or vice versa, the robot turns on spot.
- Using Infrared Sensors
- The age of the cluster point is exchanged while communicating. After evaluation of this cluster point the robot with the older cluster point sends its current coordinates to the other bots which adopt the older ones coordinates. Finally, this procedure leads to one oldest and global cluster point.
All the experiments were done with my team mate Elena Okhapkina and primary teaching assistant Martin F. Stoelen along with secondary TA Yijiang Ren.
Robots and animal behaviour[1]
- Evolution has perfected the task and we just need to learn from it
- Cognition and behavior are a function of the environment, the body, and the brain.
- We need to find how the swiss robots resemble an animal in some specific environment
- Swiss robots may be treated as ants and the cubes as the ants food.
[1] Send in the Bots by Jef Akst, The Scientist Magazine, October 1, 2013.
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- You have underage driver :Majority of the states don't permit drivers below 18 to drive cars and so, if you have teen driver in your household who drives car occasionally but doesn't have valid driver's license, you can consider buying an unlicensed driver's car insurance cover. Although the premium charged will be substantially high, you can inquire about various student's auto insurance discounts. A discounted package may enable you to save some precious dollars on premium.
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Buying car insurance for non licensed drivers could be easier after you have determined your exact reason. Most of the buyers think of purchasing unlicensed driver's auto insurance policies for one of the following reasons.
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DevDays Europe 2020 / Full ticket
The goal of DevDays Europe is to bring together internationally recognized speakers and developers to encourage excellence and innovation in the software development community. At this conference, we cover the emerging technologies and best practices in the software industry – regardless of technological platform or language – without commercial hype.
Workshop day - 5 May. Workshops will be held at Crowne Plaza, M. K. Čiurlionio str. 84, Vilnius.
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Due to the limited availability of seats, early registration to the workshop is strongly recommended to ensure your participation - we rely on a first-come, first-served basis.
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Experts feared that malicious websites would multiply after the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation began to thwart one of the most effective techniques of tracing their owners. But security intelligence firm Recorded Future sees some evidence that the boom may not have happened.
Why it matters: The GDPR bans companies from storing personal information without an E.U. citizen's permission — including so-called "WHOIS" data that companies use to track down the owners of criminal or spam websites. With those GDPR rules in place, experts expected a sudden boom of sketchy sites. The rules still make current forensic investigations more difficult, but they did not appear to trigger an explosion of malicious activity online.


text: The best way to weigh the validity of any friendship is to subject it to a test of time. You have those friends who call on you just to make sure you are alive and well; true friends. You have those friends who are always there for you no matter what the circumstances may be; loyal friends. You have those who humbly let you know when you're right or wrong for your own good; real friends. Then you have those who only call on you when they need something from you, when you can be of some sort of service to them, when they envy you, when they're in dire despair, and when they have absolutely no one else; those who place a heavy weight on you; fake friends. Be true to yourself at least by losing the dead weight, dust your shoulders off, kick your heels, say goodbye and keep it moving.


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Parque Nacional de Basaseachic - Chihuahua, Mexico
Photos by Peter Baumeister, Dierk Sittner, Bert van Lint, Patrick Matos, Mike Brumbaugh, Rob Pizem, Chris Turiano and Luke Laeser compiled from four trips to the area - Being about the size and depth of Colorado's Black Canyon, the immense and expansive area of Candamenia Canyon/Basaseachic hosts very few climbing routes. El Gigante, the major wall of the area, is up to 3000 feet tall and has seen only a few ascents since it's first in the early 90s. The Cascade Wall with Cascada de Basaseachic also only has a few routes despite it's convenient access. Shown in this gallery are photos of the ten pitch Subiendo el Arcoiris (5.13b/c), the monster 28 pitch Logical Progression (5.13) plus a few sport climbs and boulder problems in and around the park.


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HEAT Ministry Signup
October 24, 2018
An event every week that begins at 12:00 am on Sunday and Wednesday, repeating until October 31, 2018
High School students are encouraged to sign up for this exciting ministry for opportunities to go on campus tours, participate in college preparation workshops, seminars and more!
Note: Seniors must be in HEAT to apply for OCBF end-of-year scholarships.


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Date and Place of birth
Hon. Joe Kwashie Gidisu was born on February 22 , 1952 at Bakpa Old Town in the Volta region
Hon. Joe Kwashie Gidisu had his primary education at the Bakpa Alabonu L.A. Primary between 1959 and 1963. He proceeded to Mafi Devime L.A. Middle (MSLC) between 1964-1967. Between 1967 and 1971, Hon. Joe Kwashie Gidisu attended Kibi Men's Training College and obtained Teachers' Certificate 'A'.
He enrolled at the Advanced Teacher Training College, Winneba for his Specialist Certificate between 1975-1977.
He did post-graduate studies at the Institute of Social Studies, Hague, and Holland, where he obtained M.A. Development Studies.
He has attended conferences including the International Conference for National Co-ordinators for Teachers' Union in Africa (Kaka-mega-Kenya) in October, 1990, International Conference for Teachers-Educators (Ibadan-Nigeria) in March, 1995, Alumni Conference of the I.S.S. (The Hague, Holland) Addis Ababa – Ethiopia.
"IMF and the changing trends in the third world" May-1997 and Study Tour of South Africa on the Polytechnic Bill – October, 2006.
Hon. Joe Kwashie Gidisu became a class teacher at Bontibor L.A. Primary School between 1971 and 1973. He later joined Dormaa Secondary School in 1977 and taught until 1978. In 1981, Hon. Joe Kwashie Gidisu was the Regional GNAT Secretary (Volta Regional Secretariat) until 1986. Between 1988 and 2000, he became the National Co-ordinator (Membership Education Department GNAT National Secretariat).
Hon. Joe Kwashie Gidisu was sworn in as a Minister of Roads and Highways in February, 2009 by H.E. Professor John Evans Atta Mills, President of the Republic of Ghana.
In the year 2000, he was elected a Member of Parliament for the North Tongu Constituency on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). In December 2004, Hon. Joe Kwashie Gidisu contested the Central Tongu Constituency seat on the ticket of the NDC and won. He was re-elected a Member of Parliament for second term in 2009.
He obtained 16,598 votes out of the 22,861 valid votes cast = 72.6% in the last elections
Whiles in Parliament, he served as a Ranking Member of the Parliamentary Sub-Committee on Employment, Social Welfare and State Enterprise between 2001 and 2005. In the year 2001, Hon. Joe Kwashie Gidisu also served on the Office of Profit Sub-Committee until 2008. Between 2005 and 2008 he served as a Ranking Member on Education and a member of the Poverty Reduction Committee.
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Married with three children and a Christian (Evangelical Presbyterian).
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With 2018 coming to a close, Origin Storage is reflecting on an eventful year. With the launch of our own encrypted flash drive (the SC100) and DataLockers advanced K300, we have continued to ensure that we are at the front of the pack in driving innovation throughout the industry. We also expanded our team across the UK this year; and celebrated the company's milestones with a late summer trip to Barcelona (we're still on the high from that one).
Office Move Signals New Chapter For Origin Storage
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Hackathon: A hackathon (for most purposes) is a 2–3 day competition where multi-disciplinary teams come together to solve a problem. At best, they can produce a prototype ready for VC funding, at worst they're a stressful, unorganised event with minimal outcomes.
These eight (8) little-known secrets were collated by our Bourne Digital Hackathon Alumni.
People like to know what they will be doing. Sending out a running sheet a week ahead outlines expectations and prepares attendees. It also highlights the fast-pace of the event and suggests prompt attendance (people will show up on time and avoid leaving early when they know the day is mapped out minute by minute). Good Hackathons generate a focused and productive environment, GREAT Hackathons push people to their limits to produce the impossible.
Although it's tempting to ask a friend to act as the official Hackathon SME (subject matter expert), actually paying for an SME is a worthwhile upgrade. You'll receive expertise specifically tailored to the design challenge and avoid squirrelling away time. Additionally, you 'purchase' the power to solicit pre-reading from your SME and can expect them to possess a thorough understanding of the Hackathon challenge. This 'investment' will force you to carefully plan the day-maximising their time to achieve a return on investment. You'll work harder to glean value and they'll work harder to earn their keep. Ensure their presence at key validation stages throughout the day to confirm or disprove the teams' industry assumptions.
Make sure you organise rapid design activities. The more you can divide the processes into micro time-frames the better. Short activities generate energy and a sense of pressure to push the teams creatively. Use a timer, make it loud and proud.
There's nothing more challenging for a Hackathon facilitator than stopping people when they're on a roll. If you activate a timer from the get-go you'll jumpstart a respect for the schedule. At @bourne_digital we like to use Bessie, our one-eyed Bad Baby. She keeps the teams on track and takes the tricky job of interrupting participants out of your hands. "It sounds like you are getting some excellent insights here, I'd like you to continue, but unfortunately Bad Baby says Times-Up!"
Nothing like an outsider to keep teams on their toes. Inviting unexpected 'intruders' to attend early pitch sessions will push attendees to create a clear, succinct message. They'll need to work harder to sway a newcomer, someone who hasn't been subject the infamous Hackathon 'groupthink'.
Ever stay back late working on a deadline with The-Sad-Vending-Machine as the only viable food source? Providing a mix of healthy (and some sugary) snacks will keep teams fuelled up and able to stay focused on the task. Leave the alcohol for later, you want your teams to be as sharp as possible, 'beer-brainstorm-breakthroughs' don't sound nearly as good the next day on stage during your pitch.
Never underestimate the power of a change of scene. Einstein credited many of his discoveries to his daily walk. If he was stuck on a problem, he'd write it down, then head out on a walk. When he returned, the answer would be apparent.
Hackathon headquarters get hot and heavy with participants harried and hurried. Plan for an official 'blockie', set the timer and ensure everyone gets out the door. You'll find 'idea blockers' will subside and the energy in room will regenerate.
Make sure all teams interview at least 1 person/user to confirm their concept. At best- a real user, at worst- a family member. Yes, this takes time. Yes, people will need to leave the building. But feedback comes fast and furious and can be a turning point in the Hackathon process. It's always better done earlier than later. Get teams to collate a set of assumptions for validation, and encourage them to start ringing.
Taking the time to plan out the schedule, materials, resources and activities is integral to a hackathon's success. Using these eight secrets will ensure you'll get better results for your design sprint.
Good luck!
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The new liver is not your own. The body's immune system treats it like a foreign body and attacks it. If this immune attack is significant we call it ' Rejection .'To prevent this happening, you will need anti-rejection medicines or 'Immunosuppresants'. These will be started immediately after your transplant ,and at least one of them will continue lifelong.
Common immunosuppressants that you may be given are :
- Tacrolimus ( Prograf ©) capsules, which usually continue lifelong
- Mycophenolate ( Cellcept© or Myfortic ©) tablets, which you need to take for a few years
- Prednisolone ( Wysolone © or Omnacortil © )tablets, which are usually stopped in 3 – 4 months
- Occasionally these may be changed to Cyclosporin ( Neoral ©)capsules or to Sirolimus or Everolimus .
Tacrolimus & Mycophenolate are available as oral pills which need to be swallowed twice a day. The dose of Tacrolimus depends on the level of the medicine in your blood. Once you have recovered well from a transplant , you will be asked to do some simple blood tests and also the blood Tacrolimus level ( TAC level ) every 3 – 6 months ; these will help in adjusting the dose of Tacrolimus that you need to take.
Tacrolimus ( Prograf ©)
Prograf / Tacrolimus is usually given as a pill taken orally twice a day : either 1 hr before or 2 hrs after breakfast & dinner . This medicine inhibits certain types of white blood cells, called lymphocytes, that are involved in rejection. Side effects may include increased blood sugar, headache, body aches, hand tremors, increased potassium levels and increased blood pressure. In high doses, it can also be harmful to your kidneys. Blood levels of this medicine will be monitored to try to avoid this effect. When you are advised to check your Tac level ( level of the drug Tacrolimus in your blood ) , you need to reach a hospital to give your blood sample 15 mins before the time of the morning dose of Prograf . Do not take the morning dose of Prograf till you have given the blood sample. So if you are used to having Prograf at 10 am and 10 pm every day, your blood sample for Tac level should be drawn between 9.30 am and 10 am. Once your blood sample has been withdrawn, you can have your morning dose.
Cyclosporine ( Neoral© )
Neoral / Cyclosporine also works on the lymphocytes. This medicine reduces the number of these cells your body produces. It can be used to help prevent rejection or to treat rejection. Cyclosporine is usually given as a pill taken twice a day .It is given as an alternative to tacrolimus for the prevention of rejection. Side effects may include increased blood pressure, increased potassium levels, hand tremors, increased cholesterol, increased gum growth and increased hair growth. In high doses, it can also be harmful to your kidneys. Blood levels of this medicine will be monitored to try to avoid this effect.
Prednisolone ( Wysolone © or Omnacortil © )
Prednisolone are steroids which are usually given as oral tablets taken once daily to reduce inflammation and antibody production. By reducing antibodies, prednisone helps prevent rejection or control rejection if it has already started. Side effects may include upset stomach, stomach ulcers, acne, mood swings, increased appetite, weight gain, fluid retention, increased blood pressure, cataracts, muscle wasting, brittle bones and high blood sugar. Many of these side effects will disappear as your prednisone dose is lowered. Typically you will be advised to take Pantoprazole 40 mg tablets in the mornings on empty stomach every day so long as you are also on Prednisolone to reduce the chances of stomach ulcers caused by Prednisolone.
Myocophenolate (CellCept©or Myfortic©or Mofecon© or Renodapt © )
CellCept is usually given as a pill taken twice a day. This medicine inhibits Lymphocytes which take part in the rejection process. Side effects may include stomach upset, diarrhea, decreased blood counts and lowered resistance to infection.
Other medicines :
- Tablet Septran SS (sulfamethoxazole and trimethoprim): This is an antibiotic which helps prevent upper respiratory infections and urinary tract infections.
Let your doctor know if you are allergic to sulfa medicines. Take this medicine with a full glass of water. Side effects may include stomach upset and sensitivity to sunlight. Wear protective clothing and sunscreen with an SPF of 30 or greater when outdoors. You will be on this medicine for 3 – 6 months after your transplant.
- Tab Pantoprazole: This helps prevent stomach and duodenal ulcers. They reduce the amount of acid in your stomach.Side effects are not common but could include headache
Continue to follow these rules after your liver transplant:
- Keep a record of all the medicines you take, including the dose and frequency.
- Take all your medicines exactly as directed.
- Report any side effects .
- Do not take any over-the-counter medicines without talking with your doctor first.
- Some medicines can interact with your immunosuppressants and could harm your liver. If a doctor prescribes a medicine, check with your transplant doctor or transplant coordinator to make sure that it is okay to take.
Do not change the dose or stop taking Tacrolimus or Mycophenolate unless you have talked to your transplant physician or transplant nurse coordinator. All immunosuppressants lower your ability to fight infection. They also have the potential to make you more prone to cancer. You will be closely monitored after transplant. The goal is to give you just enough medicine to prevent rejection so these side effects can be avoided.


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With over 20,000 new homes earmarked for the District over the duration of the Local Plan, Cherwell is moving into a period of growth which can attract new opportunities for investment and employment creation. But what role can the supply chain and logistics industry play in the District's future? What are the industry's growth prospects? And what types of jobs can it create? In this one-off event, industry specialist and local stakeholders discuss the future of the supply chain and logistics sector and explore what kind of future it can have in Cherwell. Our panel also shared their views on how the District could overcome some major challenges over the coming years and build a more prosperous economy.
Please click here to watch the video online.